Publications & News

Many people have been getting creative and using their talents to keep themselves occupied during the recent quarantine due to coronavirus. Others have been using their time to help fight the coronavirus by doing charitable acts. Blair Academy’s Patrick Plum ’22 did both while stuck at his home in South Carolina.

Blair’s English department and all-school read committee have selected Trevor Noah’s 2016 memoir Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood for the 2020-2021 all-school read. During the summer months, students and teachers will delve into the book, a #1 New York Times bestseller, in which Mr. Noah recounts his journey from a harrowing childhood in apartheid South Africa to a career as a political commentator and host of television’s “The Daily Show.” 

Blair Academy stands in solidarity with people of color during this moment of cultural reckoning, and we acknowledge that incidents on our campus have occurred that do not reflect this solidarity. We are committed to listening, learning and making the changes that we recognize need to happen at Blair.

On June 10, 2020, Blair students, parents, grandparents, alumni, Trustees, faculty, staff and friends celebrated Blair’s commitment to being “all in” and “all together” on the School’s fifth-annual Day of Giving. 

At the end of the 2019-2020 school year, Blair Academy will say goodbye to three longtime coaches, history teacher Martin Miller, PhD, math and theatre teacher Wayne Rasmussen and Dean of College Counseling Lewis Stival. With a combined 90 years of coaching experience, these faculty members leave a footprint of what it means to be a Blair coach and a legacy for the community to admire as they move on to the next chapters of their lives. 

Robert Hanson, Blair’s instructor of digital media and film, was honored recently when his film “Kingdom of Archers” was selected for inclusion in the 2020 Brooklyn Film Festival (BFF), New York City’s longest running international-competitive film festival.

The Blair community came together virtually on May 26 to celebrate students’ accomplishments at the annual Underclass Prize Assembly, during which faculty presented a number of subject and department prizes. The event is an annual highlight as the school year comes to a close.