Forging Friendships and Building Lifelong Connections

Interviews by Hannah Wyrzykowski

Ateach and every Newark Academy community event, you can count on there to be an alum reminiscing about a particular teacher who impacted their life.You’re also bound to hear stories of pride from faculty as they reminisce about former students whom they’re still connected with many years after graduating.

From a former student stepping into the maid of honor role for a faculty member to an alum writing a moving letter for a former teacher’s 70th birthday, such stories and memories are shared so often that it’s almost hard to remember just how unique these relationships — which are deeply ingrained in NA culture — actually are.

LUMEN sat down with five pairs of NA faculty members and their former students to get a small taste of the many lifelong bonds that have developed in the halls of NA.