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Families may purchase textbooks online for the 2021-2022 school year beginning on Wednesday, August 11.

While most of Blair’s students and faculty are enjoying time off before the start of the 2021-22 school year, a group came together over the summer holiday for a series of unique learning opportunities.

Born on October 10 at 10 a.m. and weighing 10 pounds, former Blair Buc Michael Tobey has spent his entire basketball career, from high school to professional leagues, wearing the number 10 on his jersey. Now that he has secured a spot in the upcoming Tokyo Olympics, Michael may have just found his new lucky number: 2021.

On Friday, June 11, 2021, Blair celebrated the transformation of Steckel House into a new, two-family faculty residence with an open house and dedication ceremony. 

Welcome to the newest corner of Blair, the meditation garden, named in honor of longtime member of the Blair community, Sharon Maguire-Merrifield. Ms. Merrifield, the proud mother of Rebecca ’10 and Graham ’14, came to Blair in 1986 and worked in a number of roles, including as a member of the admission and advancement teams, a language and LEADS teacher and basketball coach.

The all-school read provides the entire Blair community, from students to faculty and staff, an opportunity to engage with a single work of literature. The tradition, started in 2017, offers students the chance to interact with up-and-coming authors and thinkers, and it allows the entire community to have a collective conversation about important issues.

Reading is an essential component of a well-rounded Blair education, and the summer is no exception. All Blair students are expected to read a minimum of five fiction or nonfiction books over the summer, and they are urged to wade into even more.

When Far Hills Country Day School student Cayden Walton opened his acceptance package to Blair Academy and saw that he had been awarded the Blair Academy Far Hills Endowed Scholarship Prize, he felt elated.

Blair’s freshman, sophomore and junior classes came together on May 27 on Marcial Field to celebrate students’ accomplishments at the Underclass Prize Assembly.

On the morning of May 25, as the sun settled on the shining faces of Blair’s class of 2021, it became clear that this year’s graduation brought an extra sweetness. “Had I known I’d be standing here, addressing you as Head of School back when we were sending many of you your acceptance letters in March 2017,” said Head of School Peter Curran, “I might have focused...on some of the challenges you would face over your high school career and the self-awareness, empathy, emotional intelligence and resilience you would develop as you navigated what lay ahead.”