Three of Roxbury Latin’s most promising debaters travelled to St. Clement’s School in Toronto, Ontario, in October for the International Independent Schools’ Public Speaking Competition—a four-day tournament for 146 competitors from 46 schools in seven countries. In two preliminary rounds, Daniel Sun-Friedman (III), Avi Attar (II), and David LaFond (II) competed in three events each. […]
Over three days last week, Roxbury Latin welcomed 40 educators from across the United States and Canada for the annual International Boys’ School Coalition’s “Teachers New to Boys’ Schools” conference. Beginning Thursday, October 25, new teachers attended seminars and engaged in discussion on topics such as the mission of boys’ schools; the social-emotional development of […]
On October 23, former director of the CIA John Brennan delivered Roxbury Latin’s 15th annual Jarvis International Lecture. In his address to boys, faculty, trustees and guests, Mr. Brennan spoke about his path to the CIA and a life of public service; dispelled myths about the agency; outlined the top global concerns that young Americans […]
Roxbury Latin’s Indoor Athletic Facility and Hennessy Rink were selected for publication in American School & University magazine, as part of the 2018 Educational Interiors Showcase. An annual competition honoring excellence in educational interiors and facility planning, the Educational Interiors Showcase spotlights today’s most effective learning environments. In 2014, the school’s desire to expand […]
On October 15, Roxbury Latin boys and faculty enjoyed a performance by one of our nation’s most respected touring theater troupes, the American Shakespeare Center (ASC) on Tour. This performance, part of the troupe’s six-month national tour, was brought to RL thanks to the Claire Berman Artist-in-Residence Fund, established in 2005 by Ethan Berman ’79 […]
Over the weekend Roxbury Latin juniors Ian Richardson and Chris Zhu, along with recent graduate Robert Cunningham ‘18, participated in the Hack Umass Hackathon—36 hours of creativity, concentration, coding, and competition. Their team—which also recruited two female computer science students from UMass—won the Hackathon’s Grand Prize out of more than 250 teams—mostly comprising college students. […]
In Hall on October 9, Ms. Kory Stamper—a lexicographer who spent almost 20 years as an associate editor at Merriam-Webster—led boys and faculty along an informative and entertaining traverse through the English language. Her talk titled “Is Proper English Proper?” was a brief history of Standard English. She explained how, in England, as books became […]
The Reverend F. Washington Jarvis, III, Roxbury Latin’s 10th Headmaster, died the morning of October 7, after a long, courageous battle with cancer. On Tony’s passing, Headmaster Kerry Brennan shared the following with the RL community: Tony Jarvis was the most significant figure in the School’s fourth century. Tony arrived on the scene in 1974, […]
For his Western Civilization project last year, Conor Downey, Class III, designed and crafted a reproduction of the famed stained glass window—depicting Mary and the Christ Child—from the Cathedral at Chartres, France. The piece of artwork—a labor of love for which Conor earned RL’s informal “Best in Show”—now has a new and permanent home on […]
Last year, Lucas Zheng won first place in the Senior Historical Paper category in the state round of the National History Day competition. His essay titled Treaty of Lausanne, on the Greco-Turkish War, moved through stages of advanced rounds in the competition, reviewed by History faculty members Tim Kelly and Chris Heaton. This fall, Lucas’s […]