🙏 Thank you to all the students and families who took time to get to know NMH during this admission season. We’re honored that you considered our school as a place to spend your high school years learning and growing and we appreciate the thoughtful effort you put into the application process.
🩵 We’re excited to announce our acceptance decisions and to welcome the newest members of our community on Tuesday, March 10. Decision emails will be sent at 7am EST to both students and parents, with additional instructions on next steps included.
🎉 Congratulations to Anthony on being selected as the Class of 2026 senior orator!
👉 Each year, a senior is selected to deliver a speech on behalf of the graduating class. Anthony will deliver his remarks on May 24 at NMH’s 143rd Commencement ceremony.
💭 “There's so many corners of NMH," Anthony said. "I think when you talk about the experience of people here, it's just so varied, and that's the super special thing about this school. The biggest thing I learned is the importance of being myself in those different spots and bringing my own experience into those corners."
🔗 Link in bio to read more from NMH News
‼️ NMH is thrilled to announce a new prize recognizing outstanding innovation, entrepreneurship, and service in the nonprofit and for-profit sectors.
👉 The D.L. Moody Prize in Social Entrepreneurship, named for our founder, will be awarded annually to an entrepreneur whose creativity, passion, and dedication to making a positive difference in the world evokes the spirit that Moody modeled in his own extraordinary life
✨ The prize is open to entrepreneurs around the globe. It’s funded by a gift from Sam Calagione ’88, P’18, 20 and Mariah Draper Calagione ’89, P’18, 20 and carries a $50,000 honorarium.
💭 “This prize will serve to share our school’s mission even more broadly and spotlight those who are using their creativity and entrepreneurial spirit to improve the world,” said Head of School Brian Hargrove.
🔗 Link in bio to read about the prize and how to submit nominations
✈ What was it like for a group of Northfield Mount Hermon students to travel to Costa Rica this spring to study the country's ecological diversity and conservation work?
👉 Frieda ’27 and Mills ’27 share their reflections on the nine-day trip, which involved service work, connecting with communities, exploration, and a lot of fun.
🔗 Link in bio to read more from NMH News
📸: Jed Dioguardi
From breaking a 26-year-old NMH high jump record to leading the team as a captain, Efe ’27 continues to raise the bar.
After setting a new school and New England Championship meet record last spring, Efe is now focused on climbing the national rankings and continuing his success on and off the track.
Read more about Efe’s journey at the link in bio
🎉 Congratulations to the NMH Debate Society on a great showing at a recent parliamentary debate tournament at Deerfield Academy!
👉 The NMH team, composed of George '29, Chloe '29, Joanna '29, and Bess ’27, placed third in the novice division, while Bess and Joanna finished in second place in pairs.
📸: Peter Weis
🪅 Students celebrated the arrival of warm weather at Spring Jam, with a DJ, campfires, lawn games, and a chance to “decorate” each other’s T-shirts with paint powder!
📸: Charlie '28
🚀 When the Artemis II Orion astronauts returned from their trip around the moon last month, Ben Nicholas '15 played an important role in their capsule’s successful splash down in the Pacific. A U.S. Navy lieutenant, he was the company commander for the group of divers and technicians that coordinated the capsule recovery with NASA.
🎙 In the latest episode of “Head, Heart, and Hand,” NMH’s alumni podcast, we talk to Ben about that historic moment, how his time at NMH shaped his career, and more.
🔗 Link in bio
🎉 Congratulations to Bonnie ’27 on her recent art exhibit, “INNA BEAUTI,” at New York’s Flushing Town Hall Gallery ( @flushing_town_hall ), which explored themes including cultural identity, memory, and the relationship between realism, abstraction, and imagined space.
👉 The exhibit included ink landscapes, paintings, installations, and self-portraits, including pieces that have been recognized with awards, among them from the U.S. Congressional Art Competition and the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards.
🔗 Link in bio to read about the exhibit
📸: @lindseytopham
