The Sunday afternoon Founder’s Day celebration in Memorial Chapel is usually a restrained affair, with school songs and solemn speeches honoring NMH founder D.L. Moody. Until this year, faculty dancing in the aisles has never been part of the picture.
English teacher Meg Donnelly, this year’...
Ever heard of the Dorr Rebellion? Not many people have. But NMH teacher Erik Chaput is trying to change that, one U.S. history class at a time.
The Dorr Rebellion was a short-lived attempt to overthrow the Rhode Island state government in 1842. According to Chaput, the armed uprising, led by...
How to play fair: It’s a lesson we’re supposed to learn as children.
But not everyone does, according to civil rights activist Bishop Vashti McKenzie of Baltimore, Maryland, who stood in Memorial Chapel two days after Martin Luther King Jr. Day and reminded Northfield Mount Hermon students...
It was the coldest morning of the winter so far, but Northfield Mount Hermon’s next head of school, Peter Fayroian, got a warm, enthusiastic welcome when he visited campus on Monday, Jan. 16.
“I am so glad to be here,” he told students, faculty, and staff at an all-school morning meeting in...
When the Harvard and Dartmouth men’s basketball teams met on Jan. 7 in Cambridge, Mass., six Northfield Mount Hermon alumni suited up to play.
In the past four years, NMH has sent 12 graduates of its boys’ basketball program to Ivy League teams—a statistic no other high school in the country...
