A little more than a decade after the school’s founding, the Trustees hired alumnus Eli Thayer as the fourth principal. Thayer went on to be one of the Academy’s greatest alumni, but his lofty ambitions and ideals nearly put the … Read More
Fudging Cole Porter’s Age
“Cole’s elfin size and agile mind may have also helped endear him to students and faculty, especially since he was thought to be twelve and just about the youngest in his class. Actually Cole was fourteen when he enrolled at … Read More
Grade 8 English Poetry Project
Color poems, Name poems, Acrostic poems, Concrete poems, Quatrains, Diamantés, and Haikus! Try saying that three times. Mr. LaRose’s three Grade 8 English classes spent parts of several classes (in between snowstorms) writing 7 forms of poetry. This was all done … Read More