April 2021

Journalists Kristof, WuDunn Share Insights at Circle Talk

On April 22, the Groton community attended a virtual Circle Talk featuring Pulitzer Prize–winning journalists and spouses Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn.

Student moderators Derek Hu '21, Naomi Boateng '22, and Trey Whitehead '21 introduced the speakers and managed the question-and-answer format, asking student-generated questions on topics ranging from police violence and inequality to women’s rights in Senegal and U.S.–China relations.

First, Naomi relayed a question from a Second Former asking if, in Ms. WuDunn’s opinion, the state of women’s rights had improved since she and Mr. Kristof published Half the Sky in 2009. Ms. WuDunn said that women’s rights were moving in generally the right direction... continued
Musical Accolades for Groton Violinists
Two Groton musicians, Allison Jiang '22 and Eric Ge '24, have earned accolades for their outstanding performances on violin. Continued
72 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards for Groton Students
Twenty-five Groton students have won seventy-two regional Scholastic Art & Writing awards, including one national gold medal and eighteen gold keys, the highest regional honor.

Sophia Nicole-Bay ’23 won a national gold medal for her personal essay “Hunger,” which will be published on the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards website in June. Of nearly 230,000 writing submissions nationwide, only 2,000 received a national medal. Continued
“Azdarchid, The Tree Will Grow,” painting by Amy Sharma '23
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Did You Know? Headmaster Jack Crocker led a purposeful expansion of the arts, starting in the late 1930s and continuing through the 1950s. Groton's first full-time Arts faculty member, Max Sullivan, started in 1938, charged with starting a studio arts program that would "relate the arts to other disciplines."

Other memorable arts faculty included Richard Meryman, a portrait painter; Jack Murray, another studio arts teacher who was so popular that the school needed to find additional space to accommodate his students and their projects; Harvey Sargisson, a long-serving Shop teacher who encouraged students to create furniture, not just simple woodworking projects; and Ned Gammons, the organist and choirmaster from 1941 until his retirement in 1974, whose choirs not only sang in Chapel for Sunday services but also performed away from the Circle, including a public performance in Boston's Symphony Hall.

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