"New Hampshire Boarding School Blog"
From China to the NFL (via New Hampton)
You’ll appreciate the story of how a Chinese student came to New Hampton and then found encouragement and success from a teacher/coach.
Read MoreMaking the Case for College
A Proctor Academy graduate offers his stories, encouragement, and perspectives as part of the College Board’s “You Can Go” campaign.
Read MoreBasketball Pressure That Has Nothing to do With the Game
I’m a sports fan. But, I must say, there are times when I wish I weren’t and those times almost always have to do with the hypocrisy of intercollegiate athletics and the NCAA. Whether it’s the governing body’s insistence in some faux notion of amateurism that never existed; to a student first, athlete second assertion [...]
Read MoreNational Football Signing Day: A (Very) Rough Boarding School Report
I’ve done this in past but never found it so difficult to find press and announcements of boarding school players signing football letters of intent.
Read MoreDublin School Participates in New Hampshire Primary
During presidential primary season in New Hampshire, virtually every town, or public meeting of any kind, will receive multiple visits from candidates in the run-up to the primary. (I can’t accurately remember the number of candidates that I met during my years living and teaching in Wolfeboro and Dublin. It’s a bunch.) The best part, [...]
Read MoreWhy Elite High School Basketball Players Flock to New England Prep Schools
At a party over the holidays (in Oxford, MS mind you), boarding schools came into the conversation, then the University of Michigan (via an alumnus), then Mitch McGary; then, before you know it, I was into a quick history and explication of prep school basketball. I shared the role it fills in the pre-collegiate space, [...]
Read MoreA Small Boarding School Plays to Its Strengths
As sub-genre, small boarding schools, offer a more communal and individual boarding experience from than their large school brethren and this certainly true of athletics. If you’ve got a student body of 140 (or less), filling rosters and competing, in large team sports can prove challenging. Try filling two reasonably competitive soccer, or lacrosse, rosters- [...]
Read MoreA Glimpse into Summer Ski Training
Proctor Academy‘s Eastern Ski Program touched down in Chile for their late summer training program. Coaches and skiers chronicled their training and cultural excursions on a blog (Eastern Skiers Return to Chile!) during the week stay. Why Chile? “I’ve often been asked why we journey all the way to South America for summer skiing and [...]
Read MoreFrom Philips Exeter to “The Show”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HPplhQVqWI If not a baseball fan, you might not be aware of one of (possibly) the best feel good stories in baseball this year (Super Sam: Early success for a late bloomer - New Yorker article; subscription required). Sam Fuld, a Phillips Exeter graduate, has arrived to “the show” after nine years in the minors. He’s [...]
Read MoreStudents Bring Tilton School’s ‘The Power of Potential’ to Life
Tilton School is bringing the school’s new campaign, The Power of Potential, to life through student and faculty voices. Tilton has created a dedicated social blog called The P.O.P. Zone designed to bring student and faculty thoughts, projects, and experiences directly to audiences. Launched this past spring, The P.O.P. Zone currently features the voices of nine students [...]
Read MoreNever Underestimate the Role of Meals in a Boarding School
You can’t underestimate the role of meals in a boarding school. Cafeteria, or sit-down, meals are where the school comes together multiple times daily to slow-down, share, enjoy each other, and eat. A good dining hall can make the whole school work. Great food and great people in the dining hall mean so much and [...]
Read MoreMatt Nathanson Gives One of the Best Graduation Speeches I’ve Heard in Some Time
I seldom wax poetic about any commencement address. I’ve sat through too many. Usually in a plastic folding chair, in a plastic academic robe, in the heat- a situation not conducive to receiving the, often, banal wisdom being presented by the featured politician, or, the esteemed-in-their-field guest. Let’s just say I clicked ‘play’ on Matt [...]
Read MoreThe Lasting Power of a Boarding School Education: New Hampton Alumnus Gives $2 million
Dean Jacobson, chair of New Hampton School’s current capital campaign pledged $2 million toward the construction of a new ice hockey center. The backstory of Jacobson’s reconnection and commitment to New Hampton is testament to the lasting power, and influence, of boarding school education. After his 1968 graduation, Jacobson did not return to the New [...]
Read MoreNH Boarding School Student Earns Perfect Score
Boe Vachiraprasith (New Hampton School ’11) correctly answered every question on this year’s American Invitational Math Examination. Approximately 10,000 sit for the AIME annually with fewer than two handfuls earning a perfect score in any year. Of Vachiraprasith, New Hampton math department chair, Justin Freeman says: “Boe is in a very select group of high [...]
Read MoreCape Cod Skier Finds Success at Proctor Academy
Proctor senior Kerry Daigle was set to compete in the U.S. Alpine Championships before a season ending anterior cruciate and medial collateral ligament tears. Despite the ski racing setback, what’s most interesting from our angle is how she came to skiing and the academic and athletic success that she’s found at Proctor Academy. Jen McCaffrey [...]
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