New England

Following a very busy Saturday, Sunday began with Mass and brunch, after which prefects and programmers hurried to board a bus for the Clark Art Institute. In no time, they cruised through the majestic Berkshire Mountains toward Williamstown, Massachusetts, and the museum. The bus ride flew by as students talked, played Imposter and other word games, and prayed the Rosary together. 

It was day three of Euclid this morning, and faces were cheery at breakfast as students looked forward to demonstrating the next three props in Book I. Classes and conversation have a unique way of bringing people together, and though the students haven’t known each other long, fast and firm friendships have already sprung up. The breakfast tables were circled with enthusiastic faces, students confident in their eagerly awaited class conversations. 

Another breathlessly busy afternoon began as students came straight from their Euthyphro class down to Olivia Music Hall for dance lessons. Prefect Teresa Bingham (’26) partnered with Stephen Brown (’25) to give a quick tutorial on East Coast swing steps before letting the students pick partners and try out the new steps together.

With one full day of the High School Summer Program complete, the dining hall was alive at breakfast this morning as the programmers geared up for their first Euclidean demonstrations. Volumes of Euclid’s Elements were open at almost every table as students ran through the props with their peers and prefects over coffee.

After their afternoon Euclid discussion, students on the New England High School Summer Program hurried to the dorms to change for the afternoon activities. On the athletic field, the programmers divided into two teams according to class section. They scrambled with spoons during the egg relay and hopped over teammates for the human log race, fighting to be first at the finish line!

The morning of the first full day of the one-week High School Summer Program was off to an engrossing start as students eagerly talked over Sophocles’ tragic play Antigone at breakfast.

The first afternoon on campus was positively packed, as summer programmers got their bearings and began to make acquaintances. After the initial check-in, students and their parents conversed over snacks and seltzer in St. Frassati Student Center, discussing upcoming events and warming up to one another. Snapshotting a moment of one prefect-programmer conversation, prefect Sophia Forrester (‘29) and programmer Peter C.