Ernesto Guerra, who teaches Spanish and history at Roxbury Latin, won the 2015 El Barco de Vapor Award for Children’s Literature with his latest children’s novel Las palabras perdidas [Lost Words]. The annual award is sponsored by Fundación SM. Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Dr. Guerra studied Comparative Literature at Brown University and holds a PhD […]
RL’s global-thinking, local-acting students spent a brisk November Saturday scouring the RL woods, cleaning up “non-organic” detritus wherever they found it. With faculty advisor Peter Hyde, members of ECOS, Environmentally Concerned Organization of Students, Noah Piou I, Brent Samuels I, Albie Giandomenico I, Adam Banks II, Mitchell Garvey II, Liam Rimas IV, Liam O’Connor V, […]
RL Varsity ran their best race of the fall, earning the 4th place plaque at the Dll Championships, defeating, among many others, strong teams from Tabor, Groton, and Hopkins. Ben Lawlor (13th) and Rafa Brantley (15th) led RL to the surprising 4th place finish. Xander Boyd (28th), Ian Kelly (35th), and Jim McCoy (52nd) were […]
Despite a chaotic start in which the entire field of runners went the wrong way on the course, the RL Junior Cross Country team kept its cool and relied on its patience and experience to take home the Jamboree title on Wednesday, 4 November. The team was missing two of its top-10 runners due to […]
Inspired by the sculpture of British earthworks artist Andy Goldsworthy, Class III students of Technology and Art produced organic sculptures for their Land Art unit, in which the boys explored form, color, texture, and ephemerality in a genre that eschews modern technological practices. See photos of their creations here.
