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Shelby Weiss 16 sells baked goods to Jenna Thompson 16 after the assembly today as part of a fundraiser for the Freedom Schools summer enrichment program for low-income youth. Credit: Teresa Suh/Chronicle

Students promote Freedom School bake sale at assembly (video)

Lara Mikhail December 2, 2015

Freedom School student volunteers made a presentation about the summer program, where they give academic help to underprivileged children, and announced a fundraising bake sale at Wednesday's assembly. Volunteers...

Openly gay former lacrosse player and LGBT activist Andrew Goldstein speaks with students on the quad. Credit: Teresa Suh/Chronicle

Gay former lacrosse player shares story at assembly

Layla Moghavem November 17, 2015

Openly gay athlete and LGBT activist Andrew Goldstein encouraged students and faculty to be mindful of their language and to accept differences in others in his speech at the assembly Monday. "Let's try...

Fanatics announce Fanatic Fest details at assembly

Danielle Spitz October 21, 2015

With Homecoming approaching Saturday, the Head Fanatics announced the details of this week's Fanatic Fest festivities at today’s assembly, and students also made additional announcements detailing upcoming...

Prefects to initiate break talks on quad

Jesse Nadel April 29, 2015

Following an upper school assembly speech by anti-sexist activist Jackson Katz, the Prefect Council met with about a dozen students last Thursday to discuss his message to test a plan to host talks on...

Fostering community

Kelly Riopelle April 29, 2015

While the lipstick "vandalism" incident last month may have disappeared from most people’s minds, I can’t help but remember the conversations it sparked during both my seventh period Chronicle class...

Students to read ‘Moby Dick’ aloud overnight

Sammi Handler April 15, 2015

Students will stay up all night to read "Moby Dick" aloud in its entirety April 24 – 25 at the Mudd Library for the Harvard-Westlake Moby Dick Big Read, organizers announced at assembly today. Two of...

Students help provide clean water to 2200

Kamala Durairaj March 18, 2015

Students bought around 1,700 water bottles to raise money to bring filtered water to 2,200 people in Africa, Clean Water Ambassador founder Cole Kawana ’16 announced at the assembly March 18. Clean...

Little Rock Nine member to speak at assembly

Katie Plotkin January 14, 2015

Terrence Roberts, a member of the Little Rock Nine, a group of African-American students who were the first to desegregate an all-white high school in Arkansas in 1957, will speak during assembly Jan....

Little Rock Nine member to speak at assembly

Katie Plotkin January 7, 2015

Terrence Roberts, a member of the Little Rock Nine, a group of African-American students who were the first to desegregate an all-white high school in Arkansas in 1957, will be speaking during assembly...

Barzdukas urges students to be good neighbors

Joe Levin November 5, 2014

Head of Upper School Audrius Barzdukas asked students to be good neighbors at Wednesday’s Upper School assembly, which was plagued by audio difficulties. A day after the Los Angeles Times ran an article...

Award-winning biographer urges students to discover their passions

Jack Goldfisher April 30, 2014

Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer A. Scott Berg implored students to follow their academic passions and act upon the knowledge they gain from these pursuits in an upper school assembly April 28. The author,...

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