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4/19/2010 - Head's Holiday!
A variety of factors came together this morning to make today a Head's Holiday, a day of rest, relaxation, and friendship that happens three times each year.
First, Team Glew is out at the Boston Marathon today, running in memory of Sean Glew (a faculty member at Holderness who passed away last summer), and to raise money for the Foundation f... View |
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4/19/2010 - Head's Holiday Baseball!
Because of the Head's Holiday today, we canceled all classes, practices, and most athletic events. The two exceptions to canceled events were varsity golf and varsity baseball.
Although Mother Nature provided us with lots of sunshine today, the temperature never got much above 50 degrees. Needless to say, that didn't keep Holderness s... View |
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4/18/2010 - Today's Picture of the Day (and write-up) come from Ms. Pfenninger, Director of Diversity at Holderness. Thank you!
"This weekend AISNE (Association of Independent Schools in New England) hosted the 17th Annual Students of Color Conference at Beaver Country Day School in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. Thirty-five schools participated in the conference which seeks to ... View |
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4/17/2010 - Getting Ready for Commencement !?
After several weeks of warm spring temperatures and glorious weather, we awoke this morning to find snow on the ground (and still coming down from the sky!).
The rule when dealing with New Hampshire weather is to "expect the unexpected," and Holderness is looking forward to Commencement 2010 with that idea in mind.
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4/16/2010 - So while the seniors were off at their special dinner, the underclassman had one of their own. Team Glew organized dinner in the dining hall around a Boston Marathon theme complete with encouragement to all to dress in their running clothes, a trivia contest about the Boston Marathon, and a raffle that featured a dozen beautiful clothing items donated by David McGillivray,... View |
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4/16/2010 - The statistics are scary.
According to a study conducted from 1998 - 2001 and reported in the Annual Review of Public Health in April 2005 (and posted on the Marin Institute's website), "More than 1,700 college students in the US are killed each year - about 4.65 a day - as a result of alcohol-related injuries."
From the Journal of Substance Abuse, 1/1998 (... View |
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4/15/2010 - Senior Alumni Dinner!
On Thursday night we surprised the seniors by treating the senior class to dinner at the Common Man Inn. It was the beginning of several special things we do for our seniors during their senior spring.
Tonight I talked briefly about the rite of passage they are experiencing as they finish high school, the importance of savoring these l... View |
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4/14/2010 - During lunch on Wednesday afternoon, Alex Francis '10 signed his letter of intent to play at Bryant University next year. The occasion was notable, and not just because of Alex's prowess on the basketball court (he holds multiple scoring records at Holderness). It was notable because of all of the students and faculty members who crowded into the Faculty Lounge in Weld to ... View |
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4/13/2010 -
Advisee Advisor Dinner!
Tonight's advisee/advisor dinner was framed by a movie that we watched in Hagerman as a whole community just before dinner.
In September, 2004, a first-year student at the University of Colorado named Gordie Bailey died of an alcohol-related hazing incident. Gordie had graduated the previous spring from a well-known independent s... View |
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4/12/2010 - Pancho Competes at Spanish National Championships!
Alvaro "Pancho" Apraiz skied very well this year and finished his season at the Spanish Senior National Championships. He finished a most impressive second place in Slalom and fourth in the Giant Slalom, ahead of Spanish Olympic team member P de la Cuesta. In addition the results earned him first place in the Slalo... View |
