Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s “Sherlock Holmes” encapsulates the progression of storytelling, according to senior history major Sabrina Barlow. In her Senior Museum Studies project which she presented in the Heritage Room last Thursday morning, she said storytelling is an inherently communal human experience, but that with the advent of certain technologies, it progressively becomes more...
Professor and Chairman of History Mark Kalthoff will assume the dean of faculty position, and Chairman and Associate Professor of Chemistry Matthew Young will become the dean of natural sciences beginning in the 2019-2020 academic year. Kalthoff will take over from current Dean of Faculty Daniel Coupland. This will be Kalthoff’s third term in the...
On a gray Saturday afternoon in February, the Proctors’ home was just messy enough to be perfectly comfortable. It was warm, the windows fogging up against the chill winter air. Carie Proctor, wearing a baseball cap and sweatshirt, from under which peeked a large, bedazzled belt buckle, moved deftly about the small kitchen, chopping, sprinkling,...
Peace Corps volunteer Kittie Helmick ’15, who is teaching English in the South African village Kwazulu-Natal, spoke to students this week about the process of joining the Peace Corps. Helmick is 9 months into a 27-month tour in South Africa, and she said she is finally beginning to reap the rewards of her work. “It...
Before the opportunity arose to apply for the Philos Project’s Passages Israel trip, senior Sammy Roberts had never thought much about going to the Holy Land. “I’m Catholic,” he said, “I should go to Rome!” He was taking a class at the time with Professor of History Paul Rahe, who encouraged him to apply. After...