Melody Howe ’22 The 2021-22 academic schedule seeks to re-establish pre-pandemic patterns and satisfy the educational needs of the community. Designed to keep interactions between students at a minimum and avoid a…
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Opening of School
Julia Mills ’22 For all but 65 Mercersburg students, the 2021-22 school year will be like no other. The 65 are the only students of the current 445 that have experienced a…
Heaping seniors “with praise”
Cricket Tatone ’24 On April 9, Mercersburg Academy honored a group of 26 students from the Class of 2021 as they were inducted into the Cum Laude Society. Cum laude, a Latin…
Mercersburg attends the White Privilege Conference
Bube Osaji ‘22 Over the course of last week, a handful of students and faculty at Mercersburg Academy immersed themselves in a three-day conference sponsored by The Privilege Institute. Mercersburg delegates participated…
A letter to myself
Ben Rihn ’22 Adviser letters: the typical method of reflecting upon a student’s academic and extracurricular performance at Mercersburg. This year is different, however. End-of-year student reflections are now front and center,…
Asians are not the virus. Hate is.
John Xu ’22 On March 16, six Asian-American women were ruthlessly murdered in a shooting rampage across three Atlanta-area Asian spas. The perpetrator, 21-year-old Robert Aaron Long, claimed to have suffered a…
Mburgs political club
Alex Cho ‘23 News Reporter In a world characterized by an extremely divided political climate, students at Mercersburg can only look outward with apprehension and uneasiness. Never in our lives have we…
Mercersburg Class of 2020
An online edition of the annual “Blue Issue” of the Mercersburg News, featuring yearbook photos and college matriculations for the graduating class. Enjoy!
For one school meeting and one school meeting only: Rabbit Tourism Collective
By Maddie Dawson ’21 Online Editor This past Friday, January 10th, three Mercersburg Alumni gave a lively and exciting performance at the school meeting. Alex DeGrange ’17, Will Schoenberger ’17, and Nathan…