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With 54 students this year, North Shore Country Day’s eighth grade class is the largest in the school’s 105-year history. It’s so big, in fact, that the administration needed to create a fourth section to accommodate the additional students, so instead of having three classes of 16 for humanities and science classes, students are now split into four classes of 13 or 14.

As the entire North Shore Country Day community gathered on the playing fields on a breezy Wednesday morning for the school’s first all-school assembly of the school year—known as Opening Morning Ex—they reflected on the strength that comes from being together.

For both educators and parents, sparking a love of literature in children is a task that’s often joyful, but can also be onerous.

In this Q&A, Patrick McHugh takes us through his path to NSCD, the extraordinary changes in our athletics program since 1994, and the moments that define his coaching legacy.

Jackson Berner ’24 is wrapping up his second summer season as co-manager and coach at Alternative Baseball Northbrook, an adaptive baseball league for teens and adults with autism, Down Syndrome and other special needs.

Whenever Anthony Trionfo meets some­one who says they want to be a profes­sional musician, his first instinct is to shout, “Go for it!” But then he takes a step back and explains that you have to remember the “why.”

Anthony is a founder of the Umoja Flute Institute, a nonprofit dedicated to providing flutists of African descent with the tools needed to succeed and thrive at all levels of music-making. 

Jim Tuthill ’65, shares how his experience at NSCD has impacted his life and why he gives back.