2024 LFA Family Weekend Recap
Once a year, Lake Forest Academy hosts Family Weekend, previously known as Parents Weekend. Activities like a class coffee, Parents Association Welcome Luncheon, BIPOC family gathering, and brand new Bell…
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Preserving the Past: A Look Into the Lake Forest-Bluff Historical Center
Lake Forest-Lake Bluff Historical Center has stapled the two towns together since 1972. Historically called the Lake Forest-Lake Bluff Historical Society, in 1998 the society relocated to its first museum…
Karen Russell Visits Lake Forest Academy
Lake Forest Academy recently had the honor of hosting Karen Russell in the Cressey Center for the Arts on September 26. Russell is an American novelist and short story writer.…
Revels explained
Revels is a play that the junior class puts on for the rest of the school every year on the last day of school before Winter Break. It is set…
Student Athletes at Thacher
By Charlie Clarke ’27 “Ok, I think I get it now! Thanks ____ , see you later.”. Run up to the dorm, get changed for your afternoon activity. Don’t get…
What the Overturning of Roe v. Wade Means for Survivors of Rape
By Sienna Karlen ’27 In the 2024 election, a major consideration for voters from both political parties was women’s reproductive rights: abortion rights, care following a miscarriage, and infertility treatment…
Thacher’s Newest Fisher Fellow: A Spotlight on Mr. Kirby Hales, Professional Vibes Connoisseur and Future English Teacher
By Olivia Long ’25 Thacher’s Fisher Fellows Program was established in 2017 by Remy Fisher CdeP ‘10, and seeks to find “talented, early-career teachers to develop their craft at one…
Orientation: Opportunity to Foster Connections or an Additional Source of Stress?
Explore the positives and negatives of Orientation experience for new students. Photo by Leighton Glass Every fall, the circle welcomes new and old faces as students from all around the…
Room for Change: The Introduction of Gender-Inclusive Housing at MX
Reflecting on the resounding implications of introducing All-Gender housing. While many have heard the ‘buzz’ around All-Gender housing for a number of years at MX, the new gender-inclusive program has…
Room tours: LeBaron-Briggs (LB)
From silly to sentimental, this dorm’s room decor is anything but cliché. Photo by Celine Ding In LB, room decor means a lot. From a “white box” on move-in day…