Points of Pride

Music: Sixty-six members of choral and instrumental ensembles perform at the White House in Washington, D.C., during an annual holiday open house for more than 1,000 guests.

 

Soccer: The boys varsity team wins New England Preparatory School Athletic Council championship.

 

Model United Nations: Student delegates attend conferences in Qatar and Egypt. In past years the Model UN has debated in Chicago, Russia, Brazil, China, and Jordan.

 

Ideas: NMH hosts a week-long Holocaust Colloquium, featuring an interactive exhibit of 300 World War II documents, film presentations, and a conversation with German political activist Anna Rosmus, the subject of the film The Nasty Girl.

 

Math Team: At the Worcester Polytechnic Institute Invitational Mathematics Meet, NMH places seventh out of 80 schools.

 

Debate Society: NMH wins a two-person team competition at the Parliamentary Extemporaneous Novice Debate Tournament at St. Sebastian’s School, beating 56 teams from 18 independent schools. At another tournament at The Hotchkiss School, an NMH pair took third place among 66 teams from 16 schools.

 

Books: Science teacher Rob Buyea’s first book, a youth novel titled because of mr. terupt, is selected as a New Voices Pick by the Association of Booksellers for Children.

 

Wrestling: The team places fifth nationwide in its division, and two wrestlers—Marcus Cain and Nick Kidd—win individual national championships.

 

Perspectives: Speakers include Ernest Green, one of the “Little Rock Nine” who desegregated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957; Edith Widder, a biologist, deep-sea explorer, and environmentalist who won a Macarthur “Genius” Fellowhip in 2006; and banking expert Christine Cole P ’12 , who examined the global financial crisis.