AHEAD OF THE CURVE SEPTEMBER 2016 Several Middle School students kick off the year with a service-learning trip to Alabama. The Lower School celebrates the opening of the new Upper Learning Building on the River Campus, which receives accolades from Architectural Record. Renowned fencer Tim Morehouse ’96 shares tales of his Olympic experiences during a Middle School assembly.
Upper School English teacher Shelby Stokes discusses risk taking and the process of self-actualization in the inaugural “Why Learn?” assembly, which aims to address the purpose and meaning of education at Riverdale.
OCTOBER 2016 Poet, author, storyteller, and actor Carlos Andrés Gómez tackles this year’s theme of “Borders,” during a Middle School assembly. Sixteen students from EI Instituto Delicias in Valladolid, Spain, visit the Upper School for a week as part of a Spanish Exchange with Riverdale students.
The Year in Review
2016 2017 This year’s Drs. Donald West and Mary Elizabeth King Lecture in History and Political Science speaker, former Riverdale English teacher and current Emory University faculty member Danny LaChance, talks to the Upper School about the place of capital punishment in American culture in the late 20th century.
Middle and Upper School history and ILS teacher Jenny Eskin addresses the Upper School about her experiences working in the prison education system.
JANUARY 2017 Kip Fulbeck, an artist, spoken word performer, filmmaker, and author of several books, including Mixed: Portraits of Multiracial Kids, speaks to the Upper School about multiracial identity. Zodiac Trio performs at the annual Mark Sutton-Smith ’73 Assembly Concert for the Upper School. RCS faculty member and alumna, Emily Schorr Lesnick ’07, presents her play “How We G.L.O.W.” to the Middle School. Legendary singer and performer Vy Higginsen brings her Harlem Youth Gospel Choir to a Middle School assembly.
The Classes of 1989–2004 gathered for cocktails and conversation at the home of Jacqueline Pugh Sackler ’95.
DECEMBER 2016 Ernie Robertson ’18 sets a Riverdale and Ivy League record with his 6'2" high jump. In February, he would break that record again, jumping 6'5", and go on to win his second-straight Indoor High Jump Championship, earning First-Team All Ivy Honors.
FEBRUARY 2017 Jackson Karofsky ’17 wins the 200 freestyle in the Ivy League Swimming Championships; he also sets a new Ivy League, RCS, and Lehman College Pool record in the 500 free, placing first.
Riverdale hosts the Association of Learning Professionals Conference.
NOVEMBER 2016 The 2016-2017 Jolli Humanitarian, Lenni Benson, speaks to the Upper School community. Riverdale then teams up with Safe Passage, the organization that Benson directs, to host a field day event for refugee children seeking asylum in the U.S.
RAW, the student-organized Riverdale Arts Weekend, celebrates artists from the Bronx and RCS. The Boys Varsity Basketball team beats Horace Mann 60-49 to take home the Buzzell Games trophy.
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