This winter, several RL boys earned recognition for their visual art and writing creations. In the 2018 Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, four boys earned a combined 20 awards in categories ranging from painting and portfolio, to humor writing and critical essay. Erik Zou (II) won 12 awards for 15 art entries—earning three Gold […]
Sixteen boys in Classes VI through I tested their Classical mettle on 1 March in the David Taggart Clark Competition in Greek and Latin Declamation in Rousmaniere Hall. One of the school’s own “high holy days,” Exelauno Day is a uniquely Roxbury Latin event that allows for the singular annual pleasure of hearing from boys […]
With every new crop of sixies, Roxbury Latin is primed with potential: budding writers, actors, mathematicians, athletes, and artists. In 1975, one such sixie, Mike Kanan, expressed a passion for music from the start and was known throughout his R.L. years as an outstanding soloist. Brilliant though he was at that time, his teenage years […]
On Saturday, 24 February, eight RL boys traveled to MIT’s campus to compete in the Northeast Regional Middle School Science Bowl, joining 30 of the region’s top teams. RL’s Class V team—made up of Vishnu Emani, Teddy Glaeser, David Sullivan, and Alex Yin—went undefeated (6-0) in their preliminaries and moved on to the qualifying rounds. In […]
“We’re always fighting to come to terms with the things we see…[and] to develop a vocabulary for that.” For the poet Amaud Johnson, one of those fights is to create a framework to manage what has always been in front of him. The author of two books of poetry, Amaud Jamaul Johnson discussed his […]
Decisions of the Supreme Court can be indicators of our nation’s values, culture, and changing demographics. They can illuminate, or even move, our country’s compass. In an increasingly polarized and politicized climate, the reliability of this venerable institution is ever more important. On 13 February, Derek Ho ’92 and David Friedman, father of Class […]
On 10 February, members of the varsity wrestling team competed in the prestigious Graves-Kelsey Tournament (the ISL championship tournament), earning a competitive second place finish overall. The team achieved this accomplishment through a collective effort, with 11 of 14 wrestlers placing. Doevy Estimphile (II) earned second place in his weight class. Earning third place finishes […]
On Super Bowl Sunday, Mr. Stewart Thomsen—chair of the history department—took the four-man team of Andrew Steinberg, Marc de Fontnouvelle, Eoghan Downey, and John Philippides (all Class I) to the Kingswood Oxford School for the Forensics Union Public Speaking Tournament in West Hartford, Connecticut. The competition included four events in all—Persuasive Speaking, After-Dinner Speaking, Impromptu Speaking, […]
This year’s student production, Woody Allen’s Riverside Drive, drew a crowd to the Smith Theater stage on Saturday, 27 January. Directed by Class I’s Marc de Fontnouvelle, the one-act comedy pits the two halves of a writer’s psyche against each other. Jim, a successful but bland young writer, is waiting for his mistress when […]
Yale University ornithologist Dr. Richard Prum experiences his field as an interdisciplinary program. His research on the development and evolution of feathers, the physics and evolution of structural coloration, and the phylogenetic ethology of polygynous birds breaches the seemingly unrelated fields of physics, evolution, culture, game theory. Dr. Prum asks bold questions, challenges conventional thinking, […]