After classes on Monday, 16 October, Class IV master Jim Ryan took a group of his freshmen over to RL neighbor Deutsches Altenheim to spend time with the elderly residents there. The senior living community is accustomed to regular visits from Class IV—indeed, for years RL freshmen have been calling on the Altenheim residents, performing […]
Homecoming and Family Day on Saturday, 14 October, brought crowds—despite the threat of damp weather. Alumni, students, and their families (as well as visiting teams and guests) enjoyed a barbecue lunch under the colonade of the Gordon Field House, while cheering varsity teams in contests throughout the afternoon. Both RL soccer (vs Tabor) and cross country […]
Every year, as he’s driving home from the Annual Fund kick-off, AndyMcElaney ’96 calls his father on his cell and thanks him, again, for sending him to Roxbury Latin. The gala that inspires Mr. McElaney every October has followed the same format for years: cocktail reception followed by dinner and remarks, featuring a student […]
On 10 October, the School welcomed Ambassador Mark Storella, Class of 1977, back to campus, to deliver the fourteenth annual Jarvis International Fund lecture. A member of the Senior Foreign Service, with a long-standing commitment to human rights and human affairs, Amb. Storella joined the bureau in 2016, and today serves as deputy assistant […]
John Frates of Class II wants to bring some happiness to his grandmother and people affected by Alzheimer’s disease, and he has designed and published a book of word-search puzzles just for them. When John’s grandmother began having more difficulty with her memory and struggled with the standard word-search puzzle books she used to […]
Felix Wang ’17, currently a freshman at Stanford, was named a 2017 Davidson Fellow in mathematics for his project Functional Equations in Complex Analysis and Number Theory. The Fellowship comes with a $25,000 scholarship. At Roxbury Latin, Felix’s fascination with math led him to apply to the MIT-PRIMES program, where he began his research […]
Under the watchful and patient guidance of Habitat for Humanity site supervisors, seven boys in Classes II and I, accompanied by RL masters Mike Pojman and Myron McLaren, gave a late-September Saturday to help on a Habitat build in Dorchester. Climbing ladders and scaffolding, seniors Mahamud Hashi, Elson Ortiz, Matt Sheehan and juniors John Frates, […]
At Roxbury Latin, part of our work is to ask the bigger questions, and to consider who we are, spiritually. On the Jewish High Holy Days, as on the highest holidays of the Christian and Muslim traditions, we regularly hear from faith leaders from beyond our walls. In Hall on Thursday, we heard from three […]
As a nine-year-old, Arn Chorn-Pond was one of hundreds of Cambodian children sent to prison camps when the Khmer Rouge came to power in 1975. Under the life-saving tutelage of Youen Mek—a master artist—Arn survived by playing the flute, performing propaganda music to entertain soldiers and drown the sounds of executions. Forced into battle during […]
Curiosity, creativity, and commitment: This is the recipe that Dr. Michael McElroy—eminent scholar of environmental studies—suggests to combat the effects of climate change. The first of four Smith Visiting Scholars to discuss the science and policies of climate change this year, Dr. McElroy has been devoted to this teaching and research at Harvard for 47 […]