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Jackson Cancel ’26 of 51���� has won a Student Emmy Award in the Interview/Discussion category at the 2026 Southeast Student Production Awards, presented by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.

Evan Reich ’26 received the best kind of e-mail Wednesday.

The rising junior from Greensboro learned that he has been shortlisted as a finalist for the John Locke Institute Global Essay Prize in the category of History.

Please join 51���� in congratulating several faculty on their promotions effective for this school year.

Teaching is not a one-way street at 51����. Faculty members are constantly learning and evolving right alongside their students to mutually enhance the educational experience.

Dr. Spenser Simrill is an instructor who is trying something new for the 2020-21 school year. Dr. Simrill wanted to give his AP Language and Creative Nonfiction classes an additional means of expression by launching “The Green Light” website last fall.

Lux Haney-Jardine ’20 not only made headlines for 51����, but North Carolina as a whole at last week's National Student Media Contests in Washington, D.C.

51���� sent a contingent of 10 Greenies and three faculty members to the National High School Journalism Convention held November 20-24 in Washington, D.C.

Dr. Spenser Simrill, a new addition to 51����'s faculty for the 2019-20 school year, brought with him more than a decade of teaching experience at the University of Georgia as well as an extensive background in filmmaking, writing, and digital media.

Greenies are putting Dr. Simrill’s teachings to work while tracing their own family history with a special English Department project.

Oftentimes, the most memorable submissions for 51����'s arts and literary magazine come from unlikely sources. Such is the case again this year. The Struan, a 64-page annual collection of works from Greenie students and faculty, was published last week.

Freeman put a decade worth of research into her first book and said she is indebted to 51���� for its help since her initial visit to campus in 2011.

"I have followed the school with great enthusiasm since then," Freeman said. "It is a real privilege to be here with you. This may be 2019, but the same ideals that are in place now are what Barton took with him."

Cover to cover, 51����'s creativity shines through each year in the Struan.

J.D. Vance unabashedly believes in the American Dream and the right for all people to pursue happiness. Both are in dire need of repair. Especially in the type of blue-collar communities where he came from, Vance said Monday night. The New York Times best-selling author was 51����'s special guest as part of the Godwin-Hauser Visiting Writer Program.

Friday's Montreat College Creative Writing Festival was much more than a learning experience for Emily Pulsifer's students.

The Struan is a decades-old tradition that never gets old for Emily Pulsifer.

Kyle Fraser returned to his old stomping grounds on February 9, and came back fulfilled.

Engineering instructor Marcel Duhaime and his family did not have any special plans for Winter Break. They do now, and they're bringing a few friends.