We was down south in the warm weather, now, and a mighty long ways from home. Completed in 2016, the Upper Learning Building includes a theater, cafeteria, classrooms for third through fifth grade, and multi-purpose spaces. ... “No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. In 2016, Riverdale was awarded the New York Athletic Training Association's Joseph Abraham Award, which is an award given annually to high schools that provide outstanding athletic injury care to their student athletes. Riverdale students may participate in the jazz and concert bands, orchestra, chamber music ensembles, chorus, dance team, and the a cappella singing groups, the Rivertones and Testostertones. 'A crying shame': 140-year-old grave site dug up in Lee County, authorities search for 'scoundrels'. The grave of Samuel Jones, who was laid to rest in the Flint Hill Cemetery in Eastern Lee County in 1882, had its slab removed and grave dug out, county officials discovered Monday. By World War II, the school attracted both day students and boarders; one student in six or seven came from another country. In 1972, the Boys and Girls Schools were combined. "Bugle Boy to Battle on New Fronts : The firm's founder overcame personal and business woes to build a top clothing firm. “The difference in this [incident] is the whole grave is gone.”, While law enforcement officials were unable to say whether or not the body of Samuel Jones was missing, Ward said, “Let me put it like this: Where Jones was laid to rest, there’s an empty hole. We begun to come to trees with Spanish moss on them, hanging down from the limbs like long gray beards. ", https://9494b7add7fcd9588a83-1f69badc2e0d0c2f55d8bfc02212a52e.ssl.cf5.rackcdn.com/Impact%20Report%202015-2016/Teachers%20Guild%20Impact%20Report%202017-02-28.pdf, "Riverdale Country School: Upper School Teams", "Riverdale Country School: Athletics Awards", "2014 High School League Scores - NYC Ultimate - DiscNY", Riverdale Country School ~ Riverdale Review, "Ed Hayes Takes On Riverdale Country School", https://www.weiatlanta.com/laniesha-butler/, "Appelbaum & Nemec : Friendship leads to big-budget, "Love at First Lab; Chemist Jacqueline Barton blazes a trail with innovative DNA research", "Rosalyn Baxandall, Feminist Historian and Activist, Dies at 76", "FENCING; Mild, Modest Teen-Ager Knows How to Seize a Championship", "Rejoice, Muffy and Biff: A Preppy Primer Revisited", "In the Spin Zone, Word’s Around; A Night Out With D.J. The remake has a similar theme to the original film, but a noticeably different plot and tone. Get up-to-the-minute news sent straight to your device. Upper School students produce one musical and one play each year in the Jeslo Harris theatre. “A good amount of soil was removed from the grave site. Jones said the slab covering Samuel Jones’ grave, which weighs hundreds of pounds, was damaged and removed before the grave itself was excavated. It currently serves 1,140 students. “It’s a shame that the resting places of these individuals are being disturbed,” Jones said. "Nobody believes that, but it is true. New York Times bestselling author Lorraine Heath continues her Once Upon a Dukedom series with this lush love story of a duke who discovers what he desires in a wife may not be what he needs…. Hackett was an organizer of the Guild of Independent Schools of New York City, and an organizer and president of the Adirondack Mountain Club. No other candidate for the presidency can make that statement."[11].