The Allen-Stevenson School

February 2022

As I See It

Dear Alumni,

April is a pink and white and yellow month in New York--outside my apartment windows on 90th Street a magnolia, crabapple and a cherry compete for my attention. On every side street it seems blooms announce that this is the season of commencements and reunions, plays and presentations, and going out to Randall’s Island and the Park after the long winter of masks and careful living. Now we’re in the season of basketball play-off banter—the Brooklyn Nets and my Boston Celtics–and all that comes with the beginning of the baseball season and the ever-hopeful Mets and the Yankees.

At the School now, in this month, it looks to me to be a place you would recognize—nearly normal. We’re staging an adaptation of the play 12 Angry Men in our theater with girls from Nightingale and graduation is scheduled to return to the gymnasium in person. Boys in the choruses and orchestras are getting ready for spring performances and recitals and there is enormous excitement about this year’s chorus and orchestra trip to an evening performance of Hamilton. Wow! And for you, too, alumni, a spring with familiar occasions: mark Friday, June 3 on your calendars for the Alumni Reunion at 583 Park–a big do for Mr. Trower who, as you know, is stepping down after 32 years at the helm.

I’m going to buy myself a pink tie for these events, a pink necktie at a real store and not online and not on sale! See you then.

All best,

D. Kersey

Alumni News

List of 2 news stories.

From Classroom Lesson to Life Lesson
4/27/2022

With an introduction from Allen-Stevenson Student Council President Xander G., today's Upper Division Assembly featured Artemis Joukowsky ‘77 who spoke to our students about a memorable assignment he was given as a student at Allen-Stevenson.

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Political Reporters Benjy Sarlin '00 and Will Rahn '02 Speak to Middle and Upper Schoolers About Presidential Election
11/3/2020
Benjy Sarlin '00 of NBC and Will Rahn '02 of CBS, political reporters on the national scene, visited our Middle and Upper School students live for a discussion and Q&A on the current presidential election.
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