Our Middle and Upper School teams showed great D-Etermination, sportsmanship, and promise for the future as they competed both home and away. From exciting, close wins to some losses that served to bring our athletes closer together, highlights from most of our Winter teams (including many of our teams’ final records and their coaches’ season summaries), are provided in the following pages. You’ll also find news about our athletes’ individual accolades and awards, including those who earned prestigious All-League and All-County nods.*
Blood in the Cane Field
When blood from two dead bodies is found pooled between rows of sugarcane in a field near his home in Franklin, LA, public defender John Clark, III, finds himself entangled in far more than a straightforward criminal defense of the accused.
Drop the Act, It’s Exhausting!
Drop the Act, It’s Exhausting! is one woman’s call to all women to embrace the imperfections in their lives.
Black Rainbow
Miriam Sagan is a poet, essayist, memoirist, teacher, and founding member of the collaborative press Tres Chicas Books whose most recent novel, Black Rainbow, is set in the 1960s and told from two points of view.
Live from Crush Palace (Music CD)
Available to stream from Spotify, this album features Karen O performing tracks from her solo album “Crush Songs”.
Star of David
First-place winner of the 2012 Poetica Magazine chapbook contest, Star of David is a collection of poems by Rick Black that emerged out of a visit to the I. Edward Kiev Judaica Collection at the Gelman Library of George Washington University.
The Short Side of Paradise – A Memoir
The Short Side of Paradise is an account of the 25 years Natalie Beaumont spent in Santa Barbara, CA, a seemingly wealthy community in which the cost of living and the high cost of housing cause many people to struggle financially.
Family (Music CD)
The debut recording by the jazz drummer Steve Johns is aptly titled “Family”, as the impetus came from the realization that his son, Daryl Johns ’14, would be leaving home soon.
Ozone Journal
For four decades, Peter Balakian’s poetry has received critical acclaim in the United States and abroad for its inventive language and its forays into history. “Ozone Journal” is the most accomplished book of a distinctive American voice.
Vise and Shadow: Essays on the Lyric Imagination, Poetry, Art and Culture
In “Vise and Shadow”, the critically acclaimed poet and memoirist Peter Balakian ESB ’69 brings together his most influential essays of the past 25 years.
The Brooklyn Cowgirl Rides Again (Music CD)
“Nashville country gets tangled up with NJ, NYC, and Brooklyn sensibilities and neuroses, taking the music in strange new directions,” says Klass about her music style.
