Author: Quinn Bumgardner

Dorian Abbot is an associate professor of climate science at the University of Chicago. He is well respected in his field—he received his PhD from Harvard, where his doctoral thesis, A high-latitude…

Homesickness comes in many forms, including late-night calls with parents, a bowl of hot porridge after a 40 hour flight, and watching your family celebrate a traditional holiday through Facetime. And if…

Being from Nigeria, I knew that it was not my mother’s traditional cooking I would be coming to at Mercersburg. Yet, when I got onto campus, upon seeing my first meal I…

Alice Hwang ’22 Nowhere are the changing fortunes of tattoos more apparent than in South Korea. Historically, in Korea, tattoos were considered to be the sole province of gangsters and other social…

Alex Cho ‘23, Matthew Taverez ‘22, and Josh Terris ‘22 The fall 2021 athletic season will be remembered for one thing: the return of interscholastic athletic competitions after COVID. At the outset,…

By now, almost everyone on Mercersburg Academy’s campus has most likely interacted with Ellie Williams ’22. She is one of the many diligent members of the community who is protecting us from…

Andrew Leibowitz ’23 On November 1, seniors in the class of 2022, submitted their first rounds of college applications. With a couple clicks of a button as the culmination of hours of…

By: Talia Cutler ‘23 On Friday, November 5, members of the Mercersburg Academy community gathered at the Irvine Memorial Chapel to begin the SO Glow run. SO Glow stands for the Special…

This year marks the final year of the German program, as Herr Peter Kempe, Mercersburg’s longtime, much-loved, and sometimes feared German teacher retired last year. In order to allow current students of…

Last weekend, the members of Mercersburg’s Dance PGA performed in the annual Fall Dance Concert. The concert was long-awaited and the seats in the Simion Theatre were almost entirely filled. The dancers…