| | Liz Roberts sets new hoops points record Even if she wanted to, it would be difficult for Liz Roberts to escape the significance of her latest accomplishment on the Kirby Gym hardwood. Every day, as the Durham Academy senior passes through the gym lobby, she walks alongside Athletic Hall of Fame plaques honoring DA girls basketball legends Katie O'Connor '95 and Patricia Biggs Porcelli '84. Both went down in the DA record books for holding all-time school records for points scored — records that Roberts has now eclipsed. Roberts' points total stands at 1,595 and counting, with at least 18 games remaining on the varsity girls' schedule. Read More | |
| | Taking on tough conversations in return to diversity conference Eleven years ago, Middle School language arts teacher Jeff Boyd represented his high school at the NAIS Student-Diversity Leadership Conference. This year, he experienced the event from a different perspective — as a teacher attending the faculty-counterpart to the event, the People of Color Conference. Read his reflections on the conference, taking on tough conversations and more.
Faculty Spotlight: Upper School history teacher Thomas Phu Thomas Phu thinks he's a very lucky person. He wouldn't change a thing about a life that's taken him from a childhood in war-torn Vietnam to refugee camps in Thailand to resettlement in Louisiana to college as a pre-med major to a career as a high school history teacher. Read More
DA Night at the Hurricanes is set for Feb. 28
MLK Day of Service meal-packaging event set for Jan. 18; support sought to fund project Summer Programs 2016 listings are live; registration opens Friday 
Guilford College Quakers:
Alumnus Alston Thompson '15 sparks Guilford basketball to conference opener victory The Chapel Hill News:
Senior Veronica Kim writes about her AP Art History class's visit to artist Patrick Dougherty's Hillsborough installation-in-progress
 
 
 
| | This Week's Events 
Upcoming Events and Reminders Band Concert, Grades 7 & 8
- Thursday, Dec. 10, 7:30 p.m., Taylor Hall Upper School Winter Dance Concert
- Thursday, Dec. 10, 7:30 p.m., Kenan Auditorium Affinity Programs: Whole Foods Gift Card Orders Due (Last chance for 2015-2016)
- Wednesday, Dec. 16 Winter Break Begins (Noon dismissal; no Extended Day)
- Friday, Dec. 18 Classes Resume
- Monday, Jan. 4 In The Pocket Nicaragua Benefit Concert
- Saturday, Jan. 9, 7:30 p.m., Kenan Auditorium Used Book Sale Sort
- Tuesday, Jan. 12,
8 a.m. to 2 p.m. (drop in),
Middle School Tunnel Martin Luther King Jr. Day:
No School, Offices Closed
- Monday, Jan. 18 MLK Stop Hunger Now
Meal-Packaging Event
- Monday, Jan. 18,
10 a.m. to noon, Brumley Performing Arts Building |
