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Nick Landman: "I feel lucky for what I have."
Last summer Nick Landman volunteered at My Brother’s Keeper, a non-profit Christian ministry in Easton and Dartmouth, MA, which delivers furniture and food to families in need. Anyone living in its...
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HOCKEY Fenn's varsity hockey team hosted Fay School on Feb. 10, the second meeting between the two teams this season outside of tournament play. Fenn dropped the first game, 3-1, on Jan. 22, but Coach...
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Jake Harvey: All the Little Things They Do
Jake Harvey’s older sister Lily, now 16, taught him lots of things, including how to spell, Jake said in a Senior Reflection in which he emphasized the importance of not taking one’s family for...
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Music is "the Number One Priority" for Young Alumnus
When Alex Tung, who graduated from Fenn last spring, was a fourth grader, he attended an “Instrument Petting Zoo” held each year by the music department to introduce new students to the array of...
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Varsity Hockey As the closing whistle is about to sound on the winter sports season, the varsity hockey team traveled to Rivers School on Feb.19. Nico Carere kept Rivers at bay until Fenn got on the...
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Winner Named in W.W.F. Speaking Contest
A poem by Langston Hughes, “Let America Be America Again;” the 2005 Steve Jobs “Stay hungry. Stay foolish.” commencement address at Stanford University; and a humorously ironic poem by Taylor Mali...
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Tyden Wilson: Imperfection Offers a Life Lesson
Sometimes you just know you are going to have a bad day. That’s what Tyden Wilson suspected on the second day of the Massachusetts Junior Amateur Championship, which is sponsored by the Massachusetts...
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Godspell and Fiddler are Joint Fenn/Nashoba Brooks Winter Musicals
Fenn's Ward Hall resounded with “Day by Day” and other well-known melodies from the hit Broadway musical Godspell on March 4 and 5. The production, directed by Tiffany Culp, featured Fenn School boys...
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Ninth Graders Learn How They Can Make a Difference
Through months of learning about non-profits and researching area organizations that its members might support, the Youth in Philanthropy group, comprised of seventeen boys in the ninth grade class,...
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Students of Color Conference Inspires Middle Schoolers
“It was amazing!” declared sixth grader AliJah Clark of his experience at the Middle School Students of Color Conference in East Providence, RI, on March 5. One of the workshops AliJah attended was...
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ILP Teacher Facilitates IBSC Master Teaching Workshop
What makes a master teacher? Jen Waldeck knows much about the subject. She has not only spent fourteen years at Fenn, currently teaching in the Lower School Intensive Literacy Program, and ten years...
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Seventh Graders Carry on D.C. Tradition
For William, it was doing a 360-degree barrel roll in aflight simulator at the National Air and Space Museum, “a really amazing place that I absolutely loved!” For Mattie, it was visiting the Korean...
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Mark Reiss: Hiking New Hampshire's 4000-footers
"Why did you want to climb Mount Everest?" This question was asked of George Leigh Mallory, who was with both expeditions toward the summit of the world’s highest mountain, in 1921 and 1922. His...
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"Pastel Works" by Newburyport, MA, Artist Opens in Kane Gallery
The Fenn Visual Arts Department is pleased to announce the opening of its second visiting artist exhibition this year, in the Kane Gallery. Titled “Pastel Works,” the exhibit features work by...
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Ninth Graders Wax Lyrical at Annual Poetry Slam
At the annual ninth grade Poetry Slam, spring flowers gathered “in galaxies like/tiny pinpricks” and a shoelace lay “tangled/on the wooden floor/a serpent of black thread.” The morning event, held at...
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Students Honored in SISAL Art Show
Fenn eighth grader Julian Yang, ninth grader Liam Tasker, sixth grader Andrew Heinze, and seventh grader Sam Barton were honored for their artwork in the 2016 Small Independent School Arts League...
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April is National Poetry Month and boys across divisions are waxing lyrical in their English classes. Here is a sampling of recent poems from Fenn English classes. Smoke by Tyler McGarry (grade 6)...
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Being Agents of Change is Focus of Respecting Differences Day
“There was a time in my life that I never thought I would see this day—me standing here at a school, talking to a group of students,” said Shujaa Graham, who spoke to Upper School boys on Respecting...
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Liam Tasker: How to Make Lemonade
“When life gives you lemons, make lemonade,” goes the proverbial saying that is meant to encourage optimism in the face of adversity or misfortune. Liam Tasker felt that life had handed him a lemon...
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Sun Shines on Founder's Day
“We are gathered to celebrate and honor the vision of Roger and Eleanor Fenn,” said Headmaster Jerry Ward, officially opening Fenn’s annual Founder’s Day celebration in the meeting hall on April 15....
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