Head of School John Palfrey will be leaving Andover following the 2018-2019 school year. Palfrey will become the sixth president of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, effective September 1st, 2019, according to the MacArthur Foundation’s website. Palfrey has held his position as fifteenth Head of School for seven years, having started his…
While Joshua Mann, Instructor and Chair in Classics, printed material upstairs, his Latin-600 students frantically crafted a surprise with sheets of paper and a blue plate from Paresky Commons. When Mann returned to the classroom, he was met with the message “Blue Plate Maybe?” The students had asked Mann to a meal funded by…
While most Andover students spent Thursday, February 14, in classes, nine students took personal time from school to tour the state house and discuss gun safety with state legislators. Tram Nguyen, Massachusetts’ newly elected state representative, invited members of Asian Women Empowerment (AWE), an affinity group for Asian women on campus, and Never Again, a…
This year, students of the Computer Science Research and Development (CSC-600) Course individually designed and created their own projects based on programming skills and platforms. Students were required to apply with a proposal on a project they would pursue throughout the term. Here are this year’s CSC-600 projects: Varun Roy ’19 “I am really interested…
Billy Flynn, Custodial Supervisor of Food Services, has been a part of the Andover community and Paresky Commons since 1989. This year is particularly special to Flynn, as it marks his 30th anniversary of working at Andover. Flynn has been a worker at Andover since he was 20 years old. According to Flynn, his family…