St. Mark's School

March 8, 2010

Alumni Hockey Players celebrate 30 years!

On Sunday, February 28, nineteen St. Mark’s alumni spanning 5 decades descended on Southborough for the school’s 30^th Annual Alumni Hockey Game. This year the annual event has been renamed in honor of Peabo Gardner ’66, one of the organizers of the inaugural 1980 game.
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February 28, 2010

The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told

Thursday’s Head’s Holiday ended at dinner time, but the fun was just beginning as many faculty and students discovered when they went to the opening night of the winter play entitled “The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told.” Full of bawdy humor and side splitting jokes the play, which is the tale of the original inhabitants of the Garden of Eden -- Adam and Steve, takes the audience on a whirl wind tour of the centuries. The flamboyantly gay couple are banished from Eden, then meet a lesbian couple, Jane and Mabel, who insist that they are the earth's original couple. Together the quartet survives the centuries, including time on the Ark, slavery in Egypt, under the rule of a supremely effete Pharaoh, and life in contemporary New York.
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February 22, 2010

Poet Taylor Mali Changes Opinions at SM

Taylor Mali inspired the St. Mark’s community during his two days as the English Department’s visiting poet. He disabused students of the notion that poetry readings are dull or even remotely dreary. Mali, a professional spoken word artist, won the National Poetry Slam contest four times, appeared on “Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry” three times, and was a teacher for nine years. Mali is on a mission to create 1000 new teachers.
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February 11, 2010

Classical Archaeologist Visits St. Mark’s

Professor Ann Koloski-Ostrow, Chair of the Classical Studies Department at Brandeis University and an eminent Roman archaeologist, kept an audience of St. Mark’s students and faculty fascinated with a slide-lecture on ancient Pompeii this week.
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February 8, 2010

Wick Festival Plays to Standing Room Only

Student singers from across New England performed in front of a full house in the Class of '45 Hall this weekend, during the 18th annual Myron A. Wick, Jr. Choral Festival. The Wick Festival, as it is affectionately called, was established in 1992 through the generosity of the Wick family and friends, in memory of Myron Wick '33 and in honor of his life-long enjoyment of singing.
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