May 2021

Groton School Wins State Envirothon! On to Nationals
Groton School has won the 2020–21 Massachusetts Envirothon and is heading to the national competition!

Envirothon challenges high school students to tackle pressing environmental issues facing their communities and the world, emphasizing “hands-on, team-oriented problem-solving and community involvement that prepares young people for environmental careers and active citizenship,” according to massenvirothon.org.

Amy Ma ’23 and Amelia Pottash ’23 assembled and led Groton's Envirothon team, under the guidance of environmental science teacher David Black. Participants also included Wally Capen '21, Georgia Gund '23, Robin Huntington ’22, Amelia Lee '22, Alice Liu '23, Aidan O'Connell ’23, Aisling O'Connell '21, and Aryan Mago ’24. Continued
Groton Awards Recognize Distinguished Alumni
Groton School presented its highest alumni honors—the Cui Servire Est Regnare Award and the Distinguished Grotonian Award—at a virtual ceremony Wednesday, May 12.
The event, a placeholder until reunion can resume in person, honored Cui Servire winner Marichal B. Monts '81, founder of the Citadel of Love church in Hartford, Connecticut, and Distinguished Grotonian Joseph B. Cheshire V '66, an esteemed attorney and civil rights advocate. Continued
Blast-Off! Rocketry Club Heads to Nationals
Groton's Rocketry Club has blasted its way to the national competition in The American Rocketry Challenge (TARC), the world's largest student rocket contest.

A team of eight students met regularly to design, build, and test rockets, aiming to launch them high enough and fast enough to qualify for TARC. The rockets not only had to shoot nearly eight hundred feet in the air, but also were required to transport a raw egg and land with it unbroken. Continued

This Sunday, May 30, 6:30 p.m. (Eastern)
 
Join us online as Groton's Orchestra, Guitar Project, Select Chamber Music, Riverside Jazz Combo, and Soul Sauce Jazz Ensemble present a program including pieces by Miles Davis, Beethoven, Mozart, Astor Piazzolla, and others, and featuring world premieres of an original orchestra piece by Andrej Klema '21 and an arrangement of music from Game of Thrones by Wally Capen '22.
 
 
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Did You Know?
The Grotonian, the literary journal, was the earliest student publication, starting in March 1885. It was initially founded to both highlight student literary work and to document school happenings.
Printed on the Groton School Press, the "Grot," as it was commonly called, was published monthly until 1907, when its focus was scaled back to just literary works but its frequency increased to weekly. Ultimately this schedule couldn't be sustained, and by 1926 the Grotonian went back to monthly.
The Grotonian is the school's longest running student publication and today comes out each spring with examples of student creative writing and art.
Groton Trivia
 
Which of the following is not a past student publication:
 
a. The Willibald Gazette
b. The Daily Evening Treason
c. The Voice of Inclusion
d. On the Circle
e. Groton Topics
 
Submit your answer here. The first correct answer will receive a Groton t-shirt.
Last Issue's Answer
No one answered our April trivia question correctly. The "toise," which could be found in Hundred House shortly after it was built, featured a bookcase, a cupboard, and a writing platform.
Clare Vigue P'23 correctly answered the previous issue's trivia question, knowing that Beauty and the Beast was the first play performed by Groton students, in the spring of 1886 in the Brooks House library.
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