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CA Magazine

Winter 2024

The winter 2024 issue of Concord Academy Magazine celebrates something central to the CA experience: storytelling. The narratives we choose to tell, and how we tell them, shape our understanding of ourselves and the world—and our communities. This issue considers both the work of CA alums in film and television and the productions we present on the CA stage.

News and Stories

2024 Senior Projects Showcase CA Students’ Love of Learning

This spring, 32 Concord Academy 12th graders demonstrated their love of learning by completing senior projects. These self-designed, faculty-supported programs offered students one-of-a-kind educational experiences. This year’s presentations on May 14 in the Student Health and Athletic Center exemplified these seniors’ creativity, interdisciplinary thinking, and technical skills.

CA Student Drives Smart Outlet Sustainability Initiative

Xander Grossman ’26 is helping Concord Academy realize its mission of promoting a more just and sustainable future by adding smart outlets across the school’s campus. His idea resulted in a desire to conserve energy and was made possible by the Green Revolving Fund, which provides start-up investment in student-driven projects with meaningful impact.

CA Honors Journalist Richard Read ’75 with the 2024 Joan Shaw Herman Award

On May 10, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Richard Read ’75 accepted the Joan Shaw Herman Award for Distinguished Service at an all-school assembly. The Joan Shaw Herman Award—the only award CA gives—underscores CA’s mission of doing good work in service to others.

Chemistry for Change

This summer, Taylor and Francis will release two open-access textbooks by Will Tucker, head of Concord Academy’s Science Department: one on general and one on organic chemistry. Jake Klineman ’25 lent a student perspective to editing the general chemistry book. Supported by the Concord Academy Class of 1972 Green Seed Fund and the Academic Office, these free digital textbooks promote green chemistry principles, emphasizing energy efficiency, renewable resources, and pollution prevention.

Composer-in-Residence Láura Macias Creates an Evocative Desert Soundscape in a New Work for CA Musicians

Using unconventional techniques, Macias collaborated with student musicians to evoke the heat and allure of the desert landscape, creating a transformative experience for the performers and audience alike.

Hall Fellow, Caitlin FitzGerald ’02, Speaks

For six decades, Concord Academy has honored distinguished individuals with the Hall Fellowship. Today, we welcomed accomplished actress and filmmaker Caitlin FitzGerald ’02, who shared insights from her entertainment career and reflected on her CA experience.

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