By Holly Dayton ’13, Lens Section Editor. This past summer I participated in the Stanford Summer Humanities Institute, which required students during the last week of the program to write a ten-page research paper. I, having written my 22-page Junior Paper only a few months ago, was not greatly fazed. But I was shocked to discover how many of my peers had never written something even a quarter as long.

Country Day alumni give Seniors invaluable accounts of their experiences which range from running the world’s largest student-run nonprofit corporation and working in Research Laboratories at Yale University, to managing, editing, and printing a literary magazine. Read on for an inside scoop of each seminar, and get a glimpse of what your own future may hold!

By Claire Heinichen ‘11, Lighter Fare Section Editor.
What do you think is going on in this picture? Submit your best caption for it and a winner will be chosen to enjoy eternal glory!

By Will Portman, ’10, Editor-in-Chief. With over a dozen events and initiatives designed to celebrate and reward seniors in their final year at Country Day, is it all just too much?

By The Scroll staff. Thirteen juniors and seniors have been inducted into the CCDS chapter of the Cum Laude Society (pictured: inductees from the Class of 2010).

By Amanda Young, ’11, News Section Editor. A world-renowned photographer’s racy lecture at CCDS on Friday, Dec. 4, and the administration’s decision to cut it short serve as a “teachable moment” for the school.

By Jayne Caron, ‘10, The Lens Section Editor

Mr. Howard Brownstein,  cookie monster and basketball coach extraordinaire, has a booming, distinctive voice that can be heard throughout the hallways as he cracks jokes, extols  the virtues of mathematics and basketball, and describes the physical similarity between Mrs. Dunn and senior Nick Bender to all [...]

Despite the recent economic downturn, many teachers enjoyed thrilling summer vacations in locales as exotic as Mexico or the Broadwell House. Some of you students may be wondering how teachers can afford to take a vacation in such difficult financial times, but when I talked to science teacher Brock Miller, he said, “How can we afford not to? You kids are terrors! I spend every single second counting down to the end of the bell, every bell counting down to the end of the day, and every day counting down to the end of the year when I can go on vacation and build sandcastles and never have to talk to students!” Then he chased me out of his office with a meter stick.