View of New York from Rockefeller Center. Andrew Cahall’20/Staff Tired yet excited, we departed from Academy on two busses bright and early Wednesday morning. Instead of taking the straight-shot to New York, we stopped at Sewickley Academy in Pennsylvania along the way. Here our choir and orchestra joined with those of Sewickley to perform the…

Little Dribblers Awe the Crowd. Paul Hansen’19/Media On Friday, February 23, students packed into “The Mack” bleachers to celebrate the end of our winter sports season and to hype up for the upcoming spring term.  To the raucous cheers reverberating through the gym, senior Vikings Luke Tiberi and Ruby Moss listed off the numerous impressive…

(The Ohio Statehouse/Wikimedia Commons) For most of us reaching voting age in the upcoming years, the Ohio gubernatorial election will be the first time that we will officially have a say in our government. The 2018 race for the Ohio governorship is already shaping up to be an important one. In our pivotal swing state,…

(Image: Pexels.com) The Stock Market has started the new year off with a bang, with the Dow-Jones Industrial Average closing at record breaking highs above 25,000, and for the first time ever, the Nasdaq exceeded 7,000. Five Academy seniors capitalized on the pasts week’s record-breaking stock market closings in a huge fashion. Davis Friedman, Herman…

Ready. Set. Legos! (Rhian Seneviratne’20/Staff) One week after returning from Winter Break on January 8, we will observe MLK, Jr. Day on January 15. A month later, classes will be cancelled for a Professional Development day on February 16, followed by a day off on the 19th for Presidents Day. No classes are scheduled for…

Upper School students “beg for cans” on Beggar’s Night in Gahanna. (Chris Heerman’18/Media editor) Academy’s “Kids for Kids” drive is always a major achievement, with students, parents, and the school’s staff pitching in to serve 32 central Ohio families. From clothes stacked high in the athletic lobby to tables holding canned food items in the…

John Kasich: Saving Conservatism by Abandoning Ship: “If the party can’t be fixed,” Kasich said, “I’m not going to be able to support the party.” (CNN interview with Jake Tapper. Saturday, October 7, 2017.) As a moderate conservative who is two years away from voting, I don’t know where to turn. John Kasich’s threat to leave…

Students, families, faculty, and friends gathered at Academy for the 35th annual Charlie David Dinner on Friday, September 22. As always, the event was a smashing success with endless options to entertain attendees of all ages. At the Boardwalk, bubbles flew, eager children gobbled up donuts suspended on strings, scooters whizzed throughout mazes, and the…

(Julia Gurevitz’20/Media) On Wednesday, May 24, Academy’s upper and middle school students came together in the Dining Hall to celebrate 82 students, who participated in the fourth annual Computer Science Fair.  Enjoying Whit’s frozen custard, students walked around to look at their classmates’ projects, ranging from created websites to internet games. Evident were both the…

Beginning on Thursday, May 11, eight students represented Columbus Academy at the State Model United Nations Convention, hosted by the YMCA at Nazarene College in Mount Vernon, Ohio.  Along with faculty advisor, Mr. Compton, Bobby Diller, Cole Duffy, Jay Gokhale, Thomas Jones, Hayden Meyers, Abhi Ramesh, Nathan Reddy, and Donovan Simpson were among over fifty…