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Concord Academy Centennial Campaign Co-Chairs Reflect on Growing CA’s Power of Creative Engagement
CA’s continuing evolution would not be possible without the foresight and partnership of volunteer leaders and the support from the CA community for the Concord Academy Centennial Campaign. By investing in the school’s endowment and a new Centennial Arts Center, the CA community will realize a decades-long dream of expanding CA’s creative spaces and learning opportunities. The Centennial Campaign co-chairs offer personal reflections on the importance of this project.
read moreCA Alumnae/i Reunite During Reunion Weekend 2022
Around 250 alumnae/i gathered at Concord Academy for Reunion Weekend in June. At this first on-campus alumnae/i celebration since 2019, the joy of meeting again in person was pervasive.
read moreThe Story Behind CA’s Joan Shaw Herman Distinguished Service Award
On April 22, 2022—Concord Academy’s 100th birthday—the CA community will bestow the Centennial Joan Shaw Herman Distinguished Service Award. This award was first given to Joan Shaw Herman ’46 herself, posthumously, in 1976. Herman, who was paralyzed after contracting polio the summer after her graduation from CA, worked to improve the lives of other individuals with physical disabilities. Her story speaks to the power that resilience, generosity, and an enduring desire to make life better for others can have, and why this award is so important at Concord Academy.
read moreCA Celebrates Class of 2022 with Commencement Speaker Trelane Clark ’92, P’22
On June 3, Concord Academy honored the class of 2022 in the Academy Garden, celebrating the accomplishments and promise of the newest members of CA’s alumnae/i community. A damp morning didn’t subdue the spirits of the 102 members of CA’s 98th graduating class. And in her Commencement address, Trelane Clark ’92, P’22 advised them to embrace gratitude, grace, and greatness.
read moreRashaun Mitchell ’96, 2022 Centennial Hall Fellow, Exposes the Mechanics of Creation
As the 2022 Centennial Hall Fellow, Rashaun Mitchell ’96, a dancer, choreographer, educator, and mentor, shared his artistry and life story at Concord Academy this spring. “I’m not
working with narrative; I’m not working with music,” he said at a dance demonstration at CA. “We’re really trying to understand what is happening in the body when we’re dancing and how we can expose the mechanics of the creation.”
read moreA Look Back at CA’s Spring 2022 Athletic Season
CA spring teams enjoyed a joyous and successful return to a full league and NEPSAC championship format after a two year hiatus due to the pandemic.
read moreMedical Club Welcomes Dr. Michael Siegel, Joanne Oh ’23 Presents Groundbreaking Co-Authored Paper
On May 13, Concord Academy’s Medical Club hosted Dr. Michael Siegel, a professor at Tufts University School of Medicine whose research focuses on racial inequities in health as well as strategies to counteract them. Joanne Oh ’23, who worked in Siegel’s lab last summer, presented a research paper published in the Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities that they had co-authored, which for the first time demonstrated a clear association between structural racism and racial disparities in COVID-19 vaccination.
read moreNick Hiebert, 2018–2021 Katherine Carton Hammer ’68 Chair, Presents on Connection, Collaboration, and Community
On May 5, CA English teacher Nick Hiebert shared how he had benefited from holding the Katherine Carton Hammer ’68 Endowed Faculty Chair over the past three years. The support, Hiebert said, gave him time and space “to realize how much I am made, sustained, and inspired by other people.”
read moreKen Dornstein P’23, the Centennial Davidson Lecturer, Visits CA Film Class
On May 11, author and filmmaker Ken Dornstein P’23 visited a CA documentary film class taught by Ben Stumpf ’88 to share his expertise with students. As a documentary filmmaker, Dornstein has been involved in the production of over 50 films covering a wide array of...
Concord Claims the Cup in First-Ever Spring Rivalry Event
On Friday, April 29, CA hosted Bancroft in the CA/Bancroft Cup on a cool and sunny afternoon. The inaugural rivalry event included games across six sports with the winner of four contests or more earning the right to “take home” the coveted trophy. With CA earning the needed four wins to capture the Cup, following a short trophy presentation on the fieldhouse deck, the CA captains hoisted the Cup in celebration!
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