Music Teacher Travels to Oxford for Summer Conducting Institute
This past summer, upper school music teacher Susan Nace attended the residential Choral Conducting Institute at St. Stephen’s College of Oxford University through the…
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Endowments Expand Learning Opportunities for Students and Now Teachers
This article originally appeared in the summer 2015 Harker Quarterly. Generous endowments to Harker have made a significant impact in 30 students’ lives over…
Endowment Recipients Continue to Present Outstanding Research
Each year a set of seniors receives funds to research and write papers on topics of choice and this year’s array of papers continues…
Near & Mitra Endowments Broaden Student and Teacher Horizons; More than a Score of Papers Produced
This article was originally published in the fall 2014 Harker Quarterly. Since their foundings in 2009 and 2011, respectively, the John Near history endowment…
Historical Research Papers by Endowment Scholars Range from Development of the Constitution to the Viability of the Bitcoin
Eight more students walk away from Harker this year, each having contributed a unique historical research paper to the growing archive housed in the…
Endowment Scholars Study Artists, Duels, Composers, Nazi Errors, ERA and Economics in Their Historical Analyses
Harker’s maturing endowment program produced six scholars this year, all seniors, who each presented their papers in late April to fellow students, parents, faculty…
Alumna and Mitra Scholar Sarah Howells Wins Inaugural Churchill Research Paper Competition
Sarah Howells ’12, now a freshman at Princeton University, recently won first place in the Churchill Research Paper Competition sponsored by the University of…
Humanities Endowments Produce Four Scholars: Papers Cover Charter Schools, Special Forces, Nuclear Policy and Churchill’s Public Relations
This article originally appeared in the summer 2012 Harker Quarterly. The Mitra Family Endowment, established last year, has borne its first fruit. Sarah Howells,…
Eight 2012-13 Near and Mitra Endowment Scholars Named by History Department
The history department is pleased to announce the 2012-13 recipients of the John Near and Mitra Family scholar grants, all rising seniors. 2012-13 John…
Endowments Create Scholarship: Charter Schools, Vietnam, WWII and Nuclear Strategy Examined by Mitra and Near Scholars
The Mitra Family Endowment, established last year, has borne its first fruit. Sarah Howells, grade 12 and the first Mitra Scholar, added her effort…
