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2023
1. A beautiful Mid-Autumn Festival celebration in Kellas Garden with incredible décor, mooncake, bubble tea, karaoke, lantern writing, and a selfie station!
2. October 2022 saw the community come together to break ground in the construction of the Alice Dodge Wallace ’38 Center for the Performing Arts.
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3. The fall pep rally, led by Resident Faculty Mae BurrisWells ’18, took place in Kiggins to wild cheers and pom-pom waving.
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4. Rachel D. ’26, Victoria L. ’26, and Rapple D. ’26 show off their copies of I Never Thought of It That Way by Mónica Guzmán, who kicked off this year’s Speaker Series with a visit to campus.
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5. The Martin Luther King Jr. Day programming for 2023 featured a visiting panel of alum, including Dr. Barbara Nabrit-Stephens ’68, Pamela Thomas ’76, Teki Cruickshank ’88, Head of School Jenny Rao, Amanda G. Benjamin-Smith ’99, Ari Thompson ’08, and Lauryn Harris ’17.
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6. Juliette “JJ” A. ’25 performs as the titular character in this year’s winter play, The Earthling , a devised theatre production.
7. Harini D. ’26 in the fall play, an adaptation of the Greek tragedy Antigone by Sophocles.
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8. Harini D. ’26, Mehar S. ’24, Krisha J. ’24, and Anyatama B. ’23 pose for photos at the Diwali celebrations on campus.
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9. The 2022–2023 members of Emma Willard’s Black and Latinx Student Union (BLSU) take their annual group photo following the student-led Black History Month Assembly.
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