”A Fine Line” Choreographed by Shannon Pace & Eva Snyder Friday, April 27: After a grueling week of preparations at the nearby Holyoke High School, the MacDuffie Arts Department presented it annual Spring Music and Dance Concert. Produced by Dance teacher Aimee Dewar and Music teacher Charlie Shrader, the concert showed a record 29 different acts. The diversity of talent was well represented; the MacDuffie Jazz Ensemble struck up a version of “Party Rock Anthem,” and a student band consisting of Vitor Campos ’12, Jeremy Pace ’14, Sam Park ’12, Jeff Marvel  ’13, and Moby Xu ’12 played two complicated songs from…

Thursday, April 26 – The MacDuffie Science Department hosted its annual Science Expo in the Little Theater. Middle School students from the 6th and 7th grade science classes, along with students from the Upper School Conceptual Physics classes, made poster presentations of their independent scientific research projects that covered a wide realm of topics.     Sam Szczur ’18 presenting his Windmill experiment. Here, Sam used 3 different sized blades to see which one produced the most energy. The smallest blade produced the most amount of energy because it took the least amount of wind to activate it.   Parla Ozdelice ’17 poses…

Above: Conrad Birdie played by Zach Metz ’14 Friday April 13 – Sunday April 15, the MacDuffie Theater Department put on the well known musical, “Bye Bye Birdie.” Directed by Ted Lyman and Produced by Denise Boutin, “Bye Bye Birdie” utilized elaborate sets, costumes and vintage video footage which had never been used in previous musicals. A special congratulations to all the MacDuffie students who participated in the play as well Ted Lyman who celebrated his 76th production with the MacDuffie Theater Department. Pictures can be viewed in our Theater Gallery on the Main Gallery page on our website.    

April 2nd, 2012 – Mr. Shelburne, Math teacher and head of the Mathletes, took the team (top left) to the MAML State Invitational Math League Competition at Shrewsbury High School. Of our 6 mathletes, Harry Liu scored the highest, helping the team tie for 5th place ahead of Deerfield and East Longmeadow High. In our league meets, MacDuffie beat Deerfield only once out of 5 encounters (top right). Congratulations to all!   Top Left Picture top row, Left to Right: Thomas Chen, Harry Liu, Jason Dai botton row, Left to Right: Mr. Shelburne, Lucy Luo, Delasoul Lin, Kelly He