Burg's Eye View

In our final "Say Hello" podcast episode of the 2019-2020 school year, communications intern Clara Getty '21 interviews Will Maurer '20 about the message he delivered to the student body earlier this year on the topic of bullying and responding with kindness. And now, in our current digital world, how does he recommend approaching social media?

To continue our "Say Hello" podcast series, spring communications intern Clara Getty '21 interviews Eliza DuBose '20 about the story she shared with the school earlier this year and what her message might be if she were to give the talk today. Read more about Eliza at https://bit.ly/2A6GcXB.

Our "Say Hello" podcast series continues with this interview recorded on campus prior to spring break. Carina Cole '22 interviews Jesse Zhang '20 about his passion for photography and what it was like to share that story during a school meeting. Carina originally wrote about Jesse's talk for the student newspaper, the "Mercersburg News," and you can read the story at mercersburgnews.com.

Our "Say Hello" podcast series continues with this interview recorded on campus prior to spring break. Grace Lewis '20 interviews Birdy McDonnell '20 about her story of coming out as non-binary and what it was like to share that story during a school meeting in the fall. Grace originally wrote about Birdy's talk for the student newspaper the "Mercersburg News," and you can read Grace's story at mercersburgnews.com.

Where did the Irving pig costume come from? What has changed in the Irving-Marshall rivalry over the years? What's it like behind the scenes for our declaimers? Find out all of this and more when Chelsea Seaby Bruno '21 takes our podcast mic on the move in this special Irving-Marshall episode as we prepare for the culminating event: Declamation!

At the start of this academic year, Head of School Katie Titus invited students to share their personal stories with the campus community during school meetings. One of the students who answered that call was Selina Xue '20. To kick off our new podcast series "Say Hello," Carina Cole '22 interviews Selina about that experience. Carina originally wrote about Selina's talk for the student newspaper the "Mercersburg News," and you can read Carina's story at mercersburgnews.com.

As students and faculty returned to the classroom after Long Winter Weekend, they embarked on a new daily schedule. This change is part of a pilot program that grew out of the work of the task forces last May and will continue through the end of February. In order to really understand what this pilot looks like and what the community can expect as a result, Mercersburg faculty members Jennifer Miller Smith '97 (dean of academics) and John David Bennett (dean of curricular innovation) sat down with our podcast mic to explore the topic.

Mercersburg's famous Irving-Marshall Week is February 23-27, but what does that mean? And how do you prepare? To answer these questions, we sat down with Annaliesse Cantera '20, president of the Marshall Literary Society, and Addie Jenkins '20, president of the Irving Literary Society, to find out just what to expect. Go Marshall! Go Irving!

Many of our seniors applied to at least one college through early decision, early action, or rolling deadlines, and at this time of year, those college decisions are beginning to come in. John David Bennett, dean of curricular innovation, recently sat down with Michael Conklin, director of college counseling, and Susan Rahauser, director of counseling services, to talk about what this time of year can mean for both parents and students.

For our Thanksgiving episode, we took our podcast mic on the move and asked everyone we met one question: What are you thankful for?