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We are featuring alumni and student leadership over on social media this week! Check out the opportunities Nikki took and how you can carve your own path at Darrow! 

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“I stumbled across what appears to be a student made calendar with art featuring student-drawn Darrow vignettes. Looks like maybe 1973-1975.” 

-Fred Allebach ‘75

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How are you spending your screen free time?

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What have you been doing in addition to working and learning from home? 

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A Listening Club Review of 

Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain by Pavement, 1994.

 Rating: 9.0/10

Pavement’s sophomore album is considered a seminal indie record of the 90s and their most accessible album. They polish their lo-fi sounds from their previous record, Slanted And Enchanted, but they stay true to their identity and maintain their raggedness. The record sounds as if it was made by typical 90s slackers, but it exudes a special type of charm that appeals both to hipsters and the mainstream. Vocalist Stephen Malkmus does a great job with his alluring sound and lyrics that poke fun of the music industry, pop culture, and himself. The instrumentals feel rough with seemingly improvised crescendos, but this only adds to the lo-fi charm of the record. This record reminds me of what would follow later in the 2000s indie rock scene, especially The Strokes, with their gorgeous melodies and the charm of Casablancas combined with instrumentation that doesn’t sound polished. Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain sounds like what a “cool” hipster of the 90s would listen to in an era where rock music became a cash grab for the industry and jaded the mainstream with new bands each and every day.

Fav Tracks: “Silence Kid”, “Cut Your Hair”, “Newark Wilder”, “Gold Soundz”

Least Fav: “Hit the Plane Down”

-Jaskaran, ‘21

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“This was one of the paper airplanes I made for mechanical science homework. Although it was homework, I had great fun in making different stunt paper airplanes like these and testing them out. It brought me back fond childhood memories!” -Jaskaran ‘21

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“ My home work space has frequent visitors!” - Ms. Sauvain, Faculty

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“My new home workspace comes with a furry assistant!” - Ms. Dutton 

Please share your work from home setups as we begin online learning this coming week. In the meantime, enjoy the end of spring break! 

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“A puzzle about a garden in bloom, forsythia blooming in the vase: I'm watching signs of spring and dreaming of more.”   - Ms. Dutton, Faculty

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“I found a 1978 Stihl brush cutting tool at the recycling center in the free pile. It had a repair tag on it that only said: “make work”. Well, I got farther into it than the previous mechanic had, only to find that the ignition system needs to be replaced. This now sits in a box waiting for me to see if I can still find parts for it. I was hoping it was an easy fix, but I guess I’ll have to leave a label on it that says “make work”!” - Dr. Lightburn, Faculty 

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From the house of Mr. Villinski, History Department Chair: 

Family walks with Louie, our Labrador Retriever - he's loving it! Board games - Pictionary, Boggle, Mille Borne (great classic French auto racing card game - first played it in French class in high school), Monopoly (we played in person but it turns out that there's an online version through Pogo that can be played remotely) Puzzles - Shells of our Shores, Captain America, who knows what's next? Binge rewatching Lost in Space (the new one) - great stuff - several scenes are reliable tearjerkers - one of our new mantras is, "What would Maureen do?" That's Maureen Robinson, Ph.D., the family matriarch, brilliant scientist/engineer, and indomitable problem-solver and crisis manager. Watercolor painting - Katie and me - we printed outlines online and then did the painting - my first foray into watercolor - hoping to do more!