NEWS
By Nick Gerard
The school has expanded its “use of video as a tool for communicating” with the community through increased use of its YouTube channel, Head of School Dr. Tom Kelly said. The Computing and Communications Department created the channel last year to expand the school’s online presence and “promote video sharing in electronic newsletters and other communications from the school,” Director of Technology Adam Kenner said. So far the videos on www.youtube.com/user/HoraceMannSchool include, among others, sporting events, a tour of the new facilities at John Dorr Nature Laboratory, Halloween in the Lower and Upper Divisions, and several from the Arts department, which showcase classes and performances.
Students and faculty will celebrate Thanksgiving by sharing a communal turkey meal and participating in an assembly discussing the importance of community on Tuesday. “The idea is to have a moment when the whole school can pause, enjoy each other’s company and be grateful for our school,” Upper Division Head Dr. David Schiller said. Head of School Dr. Tom Kelly originally proposed the idea of a family-style school dinner to celebrate the adoption of a dishwashing system this year. This reusable dishware initiative was implemented, in part, to create “a sense of responsibility and sustainability in the Dining Hall,” Photography teacher and event organizer Karen Johnson said.
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The school’s Junior State of America chapter journeyed to Danvers, Massachusetts for the annual Fall State conference, emerging with fourteen best speaker awards, or almost twenty percent of the total seventy-five awarded, Governor of the Northeastern State Alex Speiser (12) said.
Bills to put academic supplies in classrooms and to reinstate a student common area in Fisher Hall passed in the Governing Council this week.
Upper Division Head Dr. David Schiller approved two Governing Council bills last week, one calling for the installation of left-handed tablet arm desks in classrooms that currently contain only right-handed desks and the other providing students with an extra day to vote in all student body elections.
Since September, 33 subcommittees comprising the entire faculty, trustees, parents, seniors, and alumni, have each been exploring different segments of the school as part of a holistic self-study.
AUTUMN IN NEW YORK - The seasonal purgatory stirs a cold into the autumn air and flakes leaves into the thin, sharp snow. The old stone buildings, vibrant only weeks before, rest in darkness now at four. The hours lazed beneath the sun on Clark cease because of an annual tilling of the yards. New months of frigid air and strong wind, spent away at home, enter the fold.
briefs
By Alara Ocal
Students bopped to Arabic music and learned the first three letters of the Arabic alphabet at the Arabic Club’s first meeting Monday. Thomas Foster (9) created the club to share with the community his passion for the language.
By Jason Pak
Dr. Barbara Tischler, director of curriculum and professional development, was recently elected to a three-year term on the National Council of the American Historical Association.
By Alara Ocal
Abortion, cannibalism, and animal rights are just a few of topics discussed by members of the Center for Alternative Political Thought club at its meeting on Monday.
By Jason Pak
Amy Archer is a new addition to the English department, replacing Rebecca Bahr who recently adopted a baby and is on maternity leave. Archer teaches English 9, two English 10 classes, and a 12th grade poetry elective.
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