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“Many past Founder’s Day speakers have chosen to share stories of our founder, D.L. Moody, and the very full life he lived,” math teacher and crew coach Vicky Jenkins said to students, faculty and staff gathered to celebrate Founder’s Day last weekend. “I’ve chosen to not speak about Moody, but instead to talk about you.”
Jenkins, who has taught at NMH for 31 years, urged students to embrace an “... More
Due to today's winter storm, we have decided to cancel Friday classes and all family days' events. The safety of our students and families is our foremost concern.
Saturday's junior varsity and thirds athletics contests have been cancelled. At the moment, we still hope to run the varsity contests.
Saturday's ACT test has been rescheduled to Saturday, Feb. 16.
The school will remain open over the... More
Question: What happens when a 10-year-old girl tries to cook a turkey for her Korean family’s first American Thanksgiving dinner?
Answer: Well, initially, food poisoning. But that’s not all. The dinner also was a lesson in cultural diversity, according to Marina Lee, who made that Thanksgiving dinner decades ago and now works as an educational consultant to schools such as NMH that are navigating... More
Daryl Davis doesn’t waste time. When he, as a black man living in Maryland, started researching a book on racism, he invited the state’s Ku Klux Klan “Grand Dragon” to meet him in a hotel room and have a chat. “I wanted to talk to people who hated me without knowing me,” Davis said. “I knew where to go.”
Davis shared his story with the NMH community during a week of events honoring Rev. Martin... More
This year marks the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, legally ending slavery in the United States, but “the story of the ‘Great Emancipator’ is far from complete,” Dr. Erik Chaput said at a recent Wantman Family State of the World lecture.
Despite Steven Spielberg’s current biopic, which lauds Lincoln’s actions in ending the Civil War and freeing the... More