(Senior Parade photos are Courtesy of Sandy Doyle Ahern and Mike Ahern) At 2:40 p.m. on May 1, dozens of faculty and staff members outfitted with face masks lined up at 8-feet apart on Campus Drive to bid the graduating seniors farewell as their families and the soon-to-be graduates circled Columbus Academy for the last…

Everyone could use a little sweetness in these uncertain times, and that is just what Ms. Popelka provided us through Candy Madness, the ultimate candy tournament to see what treats the Academy community would like to see in the Library Bowl. Thirty-two delicious sweets were whittled down by student and faculty votes, as the daily…

Every weekday at 2 p.m. Ohioans tune in to hear Governor Mike DeWine, Lieutenant Governor Jon Husted, and Ohio Department of Health Director, Amy Acton, to catch the latest news surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Acton has spearheaded the Ohio response to coronavirus– becoming one of the most proactive medical professionals in the nation.  Acton…

In 1918, it wasn’t the Spanish Flu that was weighing on the minds of Academy boys. The boys were much more distracted by the prospects of the Great War.  While their classmate, Carey Evans’14, and beloved teacher, Master Albert Field, were off fighting in Europe, Academy boys continued to train on the front lawn with…

COVID-19 has brought Senior traditions into question as the year moves forward, and for many 12th grade students, the coronavirus has forced a process of rethinking and reconstructing the Senior project.  For those sifting and sorting through the options, edX or Coursera might just be your savior. These databases contain thousands of online courses spanning…

As COVID-19 forces people to partake in social distancing, the popularity of the video conferencing app Zoom has skyrocketed, with the number of new monthly active users in February of 2020, at 2.22 million, already being more than the total number of added monthly active users in 2019, 1.99 million. As such, it has gone…

March 17 might seem like months ago, but for candidates running in the 2020 Primary election, March 17 was supposed to mark both an end and quite possibly a beginning. What was scheduled to be Ohio’s main day of in-person voting was halted through an executive order issued by Governor Mike DeWine, and in its…

Beginning at sunset on Wednesday, April 8, and lasting until sundown on Thursday, April 16, Jewish families around the world gathered in a unique way to celebrate the exodus of the Jews from ancient Egypt.  Whereas people typically travel to visit family and celebrate the holiday, stay-at-home orders and social distancing rules due to COVID-19…

With the uncertainty surrounding school returns amid the Coronavirus pandemic and the move from postponing the ice hockey, wrestling, and basketball state tournaments to cancellations, the OHSAA has started discussing the postponement of fall sports. Scott Kaufman, an OHSAA board of directors member and athletic director of Lakota West, says we have” too many unknowns…

  As stay-at-home orders are enforced across the nation, businesses, stores, and many public spaces have been forced to close their doors and send employees home due to the increasing number of coronavirus cases in the United States. Yet healthcare workers must continue to risk their lives as they fight on the front lines of…