Jake Shimmel ’10 and Harriet Manice ’08. In the play, two characters sit side-by-side reading letters to each other about their lives—the high points, the low points, the dreams and the disappointments—while they were apart. In the end they realize they were, in fact, love letters.
Author Tina Brown offers thoughts on journalism, womanhood
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Oxy Nagornuka ’10 was among a number of students to perform at the Rock Guild on Jan. 6.
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Members of the Service to SG Community section of the Community Service Council organized a special assembly announcement to honor the school’s custodial staff. All members of the Housekeeping Department were present. Will O’Connor ’08 and Anna Mack ’09 offered a few words of thanks for all of the work that the staff does for the community. Everyone present, including the entire student body then gave the staff a standing ovation. “It was moving to see!” reported Assistant Chaplain and head of the Community Service Council Lara Freeman.
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Red Key tour guides showing off King Hall have been playing up the Hogwarts reference for years. So when the Entertainment Committee sponsored its first-ever Harry Potter Dinner on Friday, Nov. 16, it was a natural. Each dorm was asked to create a dorm banner to celebrate its home base. On the menu: carved turkey, mashed potatoes, corn, stuffing, cranberry sauce and apple pie. Of course, Director of Dining Services Steve Moyer helped pull the event together.
Izzy Evans ’09 with her mom, author Tina Brown. Tina Brown, bestselling author of “The Diana Chronicles” and the former editor of Vanity Fair and the New Yorker magazines, was the featured speaker at an all-school event sponsored by the Women in Leadership Club Dec. 6. Brown, whose career in magazine publishing began in England when she took over the editorship of the British tabloid glossy The Tatler, reflected on her career in journalism and opportunities for women. Brown said she learned to take calculated risks in her career, and to hire writers and photographers whom she admired and depended upon. She also learned to expect jealously and criticism. She was once called “Stalin in high heels.” “But that one was correct,” she quipped. Young people, notably young women, need to stand up for themselves, she said. “And believing in yourself is not the same as being arrogant,” she added. At the time Brown said she was currently pondering what her next project would be, but recently her publisher, Doubleday, announced she’ll be working on a book about Hillary and Bill Clinton. Brown is the mother of Isabel “Izzy” Evans, a fifth former.
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