For most, riding horses is a fun activity one might do on vacation, but for competitive equestrian Sophie Griot (’13), riding is much more. Griot competes in horse shows on a regular basis and has participated in competitions with more than a thousand competitors. She rides in a category called the equitation division, which is [...]

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The school has adopted three new students from Hyogo, Japan, who have come to America to experience the culture and enhance their English. The three visitors come from the Mukogawa School in Hyogo, near Osaka. Sixty students applied for the opportunity to visit by taking exams and attending interviews. Three were chosen: tenth grader Momoko [...]

By April 3, a 9.7-inch LED screen that weighs about 1.5 pounds may be seen throughout the halls in the hands of students. Apple’s latest technology is the iPad, or the Apple tablet. The device is similar to the iPod Touch but larger and with more features. In addition to the iPod touch’s fun and [...]

We all have our hobbies, but how many of us can say these hobbies have put us on network television? At least one of us can. Sophomore Bryan Gula has been acting since third grade and will soon be appearing in “Hannah Montana” on the Disney Channel. After he gets back from the school’s Poland [...]

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Students have organized many opportunities to help the victims of the Haiti earthquake of Jan. 12. With a force of 7.0 on the Richter scale, the earthquake has left the country in ruins. Before the earthquake, Haiti was already one of the poorest and least developed nations in the world, and the disaster has made [...]

Most students coming to school around 8 a.m. have seen a woman and her dog playing fetch on the school playing field every morning. But who are they? She is Mary Hallman, mother of Ben Hallman (’16) and Hannah Hallman (’17). After dropping off her kids in the Lower School and the Upper School, she [...]

In Dec. 2009, 192 nations gathered in Copenhagen, Denmark for the Summit on Climate Change, a meeting to find ways to reduce energy use, reduce carbon emissions, and prevent global warming. This meeting follows a similar global summit held in Kyoto, Japan in 1998, which produced a binding agreement among nations, the Kyoto Protocols, to [...]