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From Tutoring Inmates and Successfully Starting a Business, to Working in Television: Seniors Receive Advice from CCDS Alumni at 2012 “Senior Seminars”


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!

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Top 10 funniest Upper School teachers


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 [...]

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Eventful summer for the faculty


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.

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