Academics News

Thirteen students were inducted into the St. Andrew’s chapter of the Cum Laude Society on Tuesday morning in a ceremony attended by the entire student body as well as the honorees’ parents. Seniors Sutanu Biswas, Rebekah Daniels, Julia Grace, Simon Lewis, Britta Loftus, Harrison Nealley, and Samantha Spaccasi were joined by juniors Catherine Ahmad, Brian Bies, Aidan Herderschee, Layla Najjar, Izzy Schellenger and Aaron Sibarium in being inducted into the honorary group.

"What is it like to be a certain kind of person, at a certain circumstance, at a certain time?” Studs Terkel, whose book My American Century was the juniors’ summer reading, posed this simple but critical question more than once during his storied career as America’s premier oral historian. For the 54 junior oral historians, whose work was prominently on display in MacDonald Hall on Monday night during the 16^th annual Oral History Night, Terkel’s query also provided the general framework for their own significant exploration of and contribution to the oral history tradition that was honored during the evening’s proceedings.