Hoping to help bring positive change and stability to turbulent parts of the world, Melissa Duffy (US’96, C’00) traveled to the Netherlands the summer after graduating from the College to attend a symposium sponsored by the International Institute for Mediation and Conflict Resolution. That experience focused her attention on law ...
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It’s commencement week at the College. Our seniors are getting ready to reap the rewards of all the sowing accomplished during the past four years. Upper School graduation follows on May 30. If you can’t make it to the metropolis of Elsah for the festivities this weekend, tune in ...
Several times now, David Lovegren (US’73, C’77) has visited the College campus to talk with students about careers in the entertainment industry. And for five years running, he has sponsored a weeklong, spring break externship to introduce current College students and recent alums to the film business and to help ...
“Storytelling: gaining compassion through understanding using the lenses of anthropology and philosophy”—that was the theme of the spring 2015 India and Nepal Abroad. Little did the 21 students who traveled with philosophy professor Chris Young, sociology and anthropology professor Dr. Sally Steindorf (US'93, C'97), and resident counselor Julie Sanderude ...
Sam and Jess (Patterson, C’09) Bell founded Kaleva Yachting Services in 2009 to service yachts visiting Vanuatu, an island nation northeast of Australia. They couldn’t have imagined, at the time, that the luxury boats their business depends on would one day double as lifesaving vessels, but that’s exactly ...
Hold on to your (Panama) hats for the trip of a lifetime, and then don your pith helmets for excavating dinosaur bones!
Tomorrow, our kindergarteners will transport parents to Panama on Market Day, sharing information about the country's rich environmental resources, culture, and traditions. The students embarked on ...
In its second appearance at the annual FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) this March, Upper School’s Optimus Prin team—and robot “Bolts”—placed fourth out of 43 participating teams totaling nearly 1,600 students. Although this placement at the regional rounds was not enough to get them into the next stage of competition, ...
Spring break is in the rearview mirror—and that always means graduation will be here before we know it. As the tree and flower buds burst open, our campuses are blossoming with activity in every direction as well.
The School’s production of Bye Bye Birdie starts this evening and ...
Reducing energy consumption. Addressing image and self-esteem concerns among girls and young women. Providing a youth role model for pre-teens. Giving a voice to teen poets and musicians . . .
The students enrolled in this year’s newly introduced WIT (Whatever It Takes) program at the Upper School ...