Ms. Marianna Paone is the newest member of the Upper School Social Studies department this year. Originally from the small village of Rockville Centre on Long Island, NY, Ms. Paone holds a bachelor’s degree in European History from Bates College, and she recently graduated from the Harvard Graduate School of […]
On August 8th 2023 a wildfire struck Maui, Hawaii. For almost three weeks fires blazed, some still going as of August 27th. Death tolls rose over 100 and well over 2,000 homes were destroyed. Maui was left in a lot of debt and in need of support. According to Times […]
Dana Hall teachers have entire lives outside of the classroom that none of us know about, and some of you may be curious, so I interviewed them to find out. I asked each of them: “What is something the Dana Hall community doesn’t know about you that would be fun […]
My best friend from camp, Mili Reiter, is a 14-year-Israeli who lives a few miles north of Tel Aviv in the city of Herzliya. Herzliya is 64 miles from the Gaza Strip, the same distance between Dana Hall and Springfield, MA. I have been very worried about Mili since the […]
For the first time in the United States, the SAT, or the “Scholastic Aptitude Test”, and the PSAT will move away from their traditional paper-pencil format and will take a new, digital form. The digital PSAT is currently available to Dana students, as tenth and eleventh graders took it this […]
Three new COVID-19 vaccines have been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in order to target the Omicron variant. The Moderna and Pfizer vaccines were approved on September 11, 2023, and the Novavax vaccine was approved on October 3, 2023 as reengineered vaccines. Additionally, Dana Hall held a […]
This summer, many areas of Vermont flooded. The White Cottage Snack Bar, a town and family staple, had to shut down for almost two weeks in the middle of the summer but managed to rebuild in that time. For the White Cottage in Woodstock Vermont, the waters rushed in during […]
President of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RSEF) Luis Rubiales has resigned and is being sued after he kissed a member of the Spanish women’s soccer team, Jenni Hermoso, after the team’s victory in the women’s World Cup over the summer. On August 20, the Spanish soccer team beat the […]
Data Science is a new interdisciplinary course offered at Dana Hall that combines social studies, statistics, and computer science. Mr. Brian Cook, Dr. Alla Baranovsky, and Ms. Cloricia (Pat) Townsend, respectively, specialize in the different parts of Data Science and teach the class together. Students learn to analyze large data […]
Ms. Julia Ryan is the new English teacher this year who is filling in while Dr. Julia Bucci is on a one-year sabbatical. Ms. Ryan brings years’ worth of experience, passion, and enthusiasm towards literature while teaching 9th and 10th graders. She says, “I’m so happy to be here at […]
Lost and Found: Dana Hall welcomes back the Amor Caritas statueNovember 27, 2023
Sophia Coppola’s “Priscilla” reveals the untold story of Elvis’s marriageNovember 17, 2023
Who was Noah Kahan before “Stick Season”? November 16, 2023
The Israel-Hamas war continues to impact the Harvard campusNovember 16, 2023
“Warm, inviting, wise”: Mickey Spaulding adds life to Student AffairsNovember 16, 2023