Mel Cort ’23 Poetry is believed to be older than written language itself. The genre has been celebrated for millennia, with more than fifty different forms and styles emerging over time. Mercersburg…
Day: May 11, 2022
Talkin’ on the town
Bob Hollis On Monday April 11 during family style lunch, the Academy announced that all students may now leave campus and walk to town. This change accompanied the previous week’s announcement to…
MUNday funday!
Gigi Devlin ’24 On Sunday, April 24, Mercersburg’s Model United Nations PGA hosted a conference on campus. The problems at hand? A crisis committee on the world’s rising waters and the threat…
Promises: a student council story
Bob Hollis ’24 On Friday, April 15, current Mercersburg Juniors, Lower-Middlers, and Upper-Middlers crowded into the Simon Theatre to hear their hopeful schoolmates give speeches on why they should be the student…
A family affair
Osa Iyoha ’22 Reaching the end of its hiatus, Mercersburg Academy’s family-style dinners have finally made their return. Due to the pandemic, for more than two years the student body has eaten…
Fight or flight
Finn Sipes ’22 Last Sunday, director of community engagement Emily Parsons hosted a self-defense class for senior girls taught by English teacher Chip Patterson. This class has been on hold for two…
Night of note-able music
Crystal Chiu ’25 On Friday, April 22, Strings, Band, and Chorale performed in the annual Spring Concert. The music groups have all been working nonstop on their Spring line-up since early January….
Don’t do drugs, kids!
Jelly Nguyen ’23 In any high school environment, immense pressure is inevitable for every student. For a teenager, living in this atmosphere can often be overwhelming. It can be dangerous even –…