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On Sunday, May 26, Northfield Mount Hermon will welcome as its Commencement speaker Shabana Basij-Rasikh, co-founder of SOLA (School of Leadership, Afghanistan), a nonprofit that educates young women in Kabul and helps them gain access to schools abroad. Basij-Rasikh will deliver the school’s 130th Commencement address to 190 graduating seniors.
“The NMH community is honored to host Shabana Basij... More
Congratulations to the members of the Class of 2013 named valedictorian and salutatorian, and those inducted into the Cum Laude Society. The valedictorian for the class of 2013 is Christina Yuchen Ye, and Perry Holmes was named salutatorian.
The seniors named to the Cum Laude Society:
SungYun ChungBen CsiernikMatt DewsJacob DouglasTucker EmeryKeMeng FanJack FoxYifei GaoJessica GoodmanPhilippa... More
So Jung Lee '14 was selected as the winner in the student category of the Tenth Annual NMH Poetry Contest. She read her winning poem, "Darkest Magnolia" (printed below), at a poetry slam held Friday, April 26.
Christopher Ahn '15 received second place in the student category; Anya Buyea was selected as the winning poet from the community children category; and a poem by Orlando Hahn Min-Gyu Roof... More
“If you come out of college with a history major, you come valuable in any line of work. History helps you understand society.”
With those words, renowned historian Eric Foner sold at least a few students on the importance of history during a visit to campus in late April. The Columbia University professor delivered a Wantman State of the World lecture about Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation... More
It was, almost certainly, the first time that anyone lit a blowtorch in Memorial Chapel.
Dr. Ainissa Ramirez—scientist, inventor, former Yale professor, and NMH’s 2013 “Science in the 21st Century” speaker—did the honors. To demonstrate the heat absorption properties of ceramic material, she aimed the blowtorch at a tile like the ones on NASA’s space shuttle; in seconds, the tile grew red-hot... More