The Middlesex spring musical, Ragtime, was a performance of epic proportions. Featuring a crew of thirty-five and a cast of fifty, including three faculty children, the show was one of the biggest productions in the school’s recent history. With incredible period costumes and props, including a restored Ford Model T, the show tackles powerful societal issues that faced America at…
Concord, climate change, and Earth Week at Middlesex all came together during morning Assembly on April 21, when Richard Primack, professor of biology at Boston University, shared his current research with the school community. Professor Primack is investigating the impact of climate change on the flowering and leafing out times of plants, the spring arrival of birds, and the flight…
Meet the Middlesex 2015-16 School President, Kojo Edzie ’16, and Vice President, Deborah (DJ) Williams ’16. Both Kojo and DJ arrived at Middlesex as freshmen and both are boarding students; DJ hails from Brooklyn, NY, and Kojo is from nearby Dracut, MA. School leadership seems to run in the Edzie family. Kojo is the fourth Edzie child to attend Middlesex,…
Earth Day was Wednesday, April 22, and Middlesex’s environmental club, Common Sense, celebrated with a week of activities to promote conservation and environmental awareness. On Tuesday, the community heard from Boston University professor of biology Richard Primack on how climate change affects the timing of ecological events and organisms’ behavior. On Earth Day, students planted a Black Gum sapling to…
Three Middlesex Girls’ Lacrosse alumni braved the elements yesterday to take part in the 119th running of the Boston Marathon. Emily French ’08, Brooke Phinney ’09 and Meg Ford ’11 finished the challenging course with smiles despite the unseasonable conditions. Meg is a senior at the Naval Academy and qualified for the Boston Marathon. Emily raised money for the Charlestown…
Palden ’17, Pema ’17, and Summer ‘17 wanted to create a project that combined their love for photography with the vibrant community here at Middlesex. Inspired by Brandon Stanton’s Humans of New York, Palden, Pema, and Summer seek to capture the diversity of the Middlesex community through photography. Ultimately, the trio wants Humans of Middlesex to be an outlet for…
Dan Giles ’09, whose first short play was produced when he was a senior at Middlesex, was honored to have his play, How You Kissed Me Is Not How I Like To Be Kissed, selected as a finalist for the 2015 John Cauble Award for Outstanding Short Play. This week the show was given a featured reading at the John F. Kennedy Center for…
Ragtime May 1st and 2nd 8:00 PM Based on the novel by E.L. Doctorow, this musical explores a changing America at the turn of the 20thcentury. Intermixing historical events with a fictionalized cast of characters, Broadway.com writes that, “Ragtime weaves together three distinctly American tales — that of a stifled society wife, a determined Jewish immigrant and a daring young Harlem musician —…
One man’s trash is another man’s treasure, as students demonstrated during technology recycling day at Middlesex. Technology recycling (or reusing) provides the opportunity not only to discard old computers, monitors, keyboards, and cell phones in an environmentally-friendly way, but also to forage for hardware for your latest project! Ted ’18 collected a low-power server to run some of his own…
The third Middlesex Alumni Association Gala Auction was held on April 10 at the Four Seasons Hotel in Boston and by any measure, this was the best one yet! A spirited crowd of alumni, parents, faculty and friends of Middlesex gathered at this extraordinary venue to enjoy one another’s company and to support the school they all care about so…