At 6:30 on Tuesday, May 10, author Rinker Buck will read from and sign copies of his book The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey in the USN auditorium.
The book is the story of the trip Rinker Buck and his brother took a few years ago along the Oregon Trail, traveling in a mule-drawn covered wagon. It recently won a PEN New England award.
Click here to read the New York Times review of the book, and click here to read Buck's comments to the Wall Street Journal about the trip.
The day before the reading, Buck will be talking with lower, middle, and high school stduents at USN. His next project is a flatboat journey from Pennsylvania to New Orleans which will begin in July. For part of this trip, one of his crew members will be Cynthia Lee, retired USN Director of Outdoor Education.
The reading, sponsored by Parnassus Books, is free and open to the public.
Aliza Ahmed '26, Uma Ehrig '26, Victor Peng '26, Ruchika Ramachandran '27, and Yvonne Wang '27 participated in the Asian Educators Alliance conference this year in Atlanta, Georgia.
Anna Brook '30, Claire Yu '30, Clio Cherry-Pulay '29, and Liam Mooney '28 took him the championship during the 4th annual USN Middle School Quiz Bowl Championships. Two teams will travel to Chicago to compete in the National Academic Quiz Tournaments Middle School National Championships on Saturday, May 10.
Cpl. Robert Gibson joined University School of Nashville in November as a School Resource Officer, a certified police officer who is primarily assigned to a school and provides safety and security-related functions, including emergency response, safety training, traffic direction, and patrol functions.
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