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The theme may have been “Unheard Voices” but the message came through loud and clear during the upper school community’s annual celebration to honor the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. on Thursday, January 14.

When Advanced Studio Art student Christopher Shim ’22 noticed people around him going through difficult times this year, he decided expressing himself through art was a way to be “a small power for good.”

Eight months after the Messenger profiled the Friends4Frontlines initiative, the ongoing efforts of its founders are drawing national attention.

Interviewing Masters’ alumnae/i has given students at Tower, the campus newspaper, some newfound inspiration.

Following the turbulent takeover of the Capitol that took place in our nation’s capital on Wednesday, January 6, Head of School Laura Danforth addressed the community with the following message. 

Last spring, Clara Kolker ’22 and Mia Romanoff ’22 were trying to make sense of the fractured cultural response to the pandemic and other news during an eventful year.

Put yourself in other people’s shoes. That is what more than 125 Masters faculty and staff members had the opportunity to do during a virtual professional development day on Monday, January 4. They participated in FACTUALITY, an interactive group activity about identity and its impact on ourselves and others.

From more than 2000 submissions by more than 770 high school students across the country, four Masters students - Rachel Schwartz ’21, Charlie Cooper ’23, Niamh Fortuna’ 23, and Ava Bashew ’23 - had their photographs selected to be included in the annual Drexel University High School Photography Exhibition.