Homecoming Class Schedule

9-10 AM

Contemporary Literature
Louise Schwingel

What's happened in literature since you graduated from NMH? Recently, The New Yorker Magazine featured a series of short stories by 20 writers under 40. We will spend a class period considering the changes in authors, themes, and techniques in recent years.

Spiritual Life at NMH
Michael Corrigan

NMH Chaplain Rev. Michael Corrigan will present on the breadth and health of Spiritual Life at NMH today with time for discussion and Q&A.

10:15-11:15 AM

What I have Learned about Teaching English
Bill Batty ’59

Hear Bill’s reflections on a career of teaching English at Northfield Mount Hermon. What has stayed the same and what has changed over his tenure at the school.

Religious Literacy at NMH
Lara Freeman, Vaughn Allen

Learn about our innovative humanities courses. How do students today develop an identity of self and place in the world? What is a worldview and where does religion fit in?

Global Futures: Climate Change
Gary Partenheimer

“The Future: The only thing we know for sure is that it will be different than what we expect.” This is an early class in the interdisciplinary Global Futures course, taught collaboratively by a history and a religious studies teacher, which focuses on climate change from a humanities perspective.