Category Archives: Features

Feature stories from our staff, including profiles of people and places of interest to our community.

Upper School Faculty: Dr. Katie Best, Academic Services

By Bryson Raquet The past year has been more than eventful here on the Collegiate campus. With a quarter of last year…

Togo: The Unsung Hero

By Audrey Fleming Caution: Spoilers ahead. In the winter of 1924-1925, a diphtheria epidemic attacked Nome, a town on the northwestern coast…

A Holiday Baking Guide

By Anne Ross Hope With so many delicious holiday recipes, how is it even possible to choose between them all? Being a…

A View of Richmond From Up High: Luck Stone’s Boscobel Plant

By Reynolds Hester Drive 14 minutes west from Collegiate School, and you can find yourself at one of Richmond’s largest hidden gems….

The Ferguson Family Farm

By Mackenzie Ferguson Walker Douglas Ferguson Farm  You’ve got a Food Lion, a Family Dollar, and a CVS. Take your pick, because…

Quarantine Fads: Where Are They Now?

By Grace Cornell It feels like the first few months of quarantine was a lifetime ago, rather than about nine months ago….

Geese Attack A Transcendentalist

By Keaton Rahman In the beginning of the summer, on a cloudless Saturday afternoon, I strolled innocently down the goose excrement-covered pathway…

Sneakerheads

By Grace Boll According to Oxford Language, a sneakerhead is defined as “a sneaker enthusiast,” and we have a at least a…

Women’s Athletics And Title IX

By Mackenzie Ferguson  “As Mackenzie Ferguson wraps up her first 50 in the third leg of this relay, she is going to…

Alumni Profile: Collin Moore (’15)–Figure Skating to Construction Management

By Aaron Moore “Oh, the places you’ll go,” was the beginning of my brother Collin Moore’s (’15) Senior Speech on March 5,…