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Just shy of her 19th birthday, Jessica Lin ‘12 received word that her dream of becoming a published writer by the age of 18 had come true. Her short science fiction story titled “Mortar Flowers” was officially accepted for publication by Nature Journal, one of the world’s most cited interdisciplinary...

Talk of Broadway and the big screen took on a new reality for upper school Conservatory students following a recent “Life in the Arts” workshop with guest speaker Gary King ‘87. This past spring King, an award-winning filmmaker and director, returned to Harker to discuss his unique road to...

This article was originally published in the spring 2013 Harker Quarterly. Two former Harker students suited up for Stanford’s Rose Bowl victory on New Year’s Day, including Usua Amanam ’09, who played a key role and was named MVP for defense. Amanam attended Harker’s lower and middle schools...

This article was originally published in the spring 2013 Harker Quarterly Some 30 alumni returned to cheer on their friends for Harker’s first basketball league games of the season, held Jan. 4 in front of a boisterous home crowd at the middle school campus. That night was also the premiere of the...

This article was originally published in the spring 2013 Harker Quarterly. There was plenty of good cheer to go around during a special holiday celebration for alumni called Santa’s Winter Wonderland. About 50 people including Harker alumni, their families, faculty and staff joined Santa Claus (played...

This article was originally published in the spring 2013 Harker Quarterly. Pavitra Rengarajan ‘12 has earned at State AP Scholar Award for her extraordinary performance on the 2012 Advanced Placement exams. She is one of 108 students nationwide to receive this honor. As their literature explains, “The...

This article was originally published in the spring 2013 Harker Quarterly. Sarah Howells ’12, now a freshman at Princeton University, recently won a prestigious new award. “The history department is delighted to congratulate Sarah on winning first prize in the Churchill Research Paper competition,”...

This article was originally published in the spring 2013 Harker Quarterly. From Hollywood to the Big Apple, two of Harker’s musical theater certificate graduates have gone on to pursue exciting acting careers, taking them both on stage and in front of the camera. Kim Wong ‘05 and D.J. Blickenstaff...

This article was originally published in the spring 2013 Harker Quarterly. More than 200 students from the graduating classes of 2009-12 returned to Harker’s upper school campus during their winter breaks for the informal annual alumni event Home for the Holidays. The college-aged alumni were joined...

The beautiful new Union campus was the site of the third annual Harker Alumni Families Easter Egg Hunt. Held on the morning of March 23, the event attracted more than 100 attendees, triple the number of participants over previous years. In the past, the egg hunt had been held at the Bucknall campus....