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The Columbus Academy Concert Band and Jazz Ensemble started spring break by spending four days in Orlando. The trip was highlighted by a jazz performance on the CityWalk Lagoon Stage at Universal Studios and a Disney Imagination Campus Workshop for the entire band.

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The Academy contingent included 68 students and six faculty/staff…

by Frank DiRenna for The Columbus Dispatch

Richard Roll returned to Columbus Academy to thank the people who gave him a second chance at life.

Roll was officiating a seventh-grade girls basketball game between Academy and Bexley on Jan. 12 when he went into cardiac arrest. Personnel from Academy, along with parents in attendance, immediately went into action to help save…

Columbus Academy welcomed Michael Haddock as its new Director of Alumni Relations in mid-February.

Haddock previously served as Senior Associate of Engagement and Alumni Relations at the Knowlton School of Architecture at Ohio State University, where he was the point of contact for all annual giving and scholarship raising, stewardship, event coordination, volunteer recruitment and…

After being introduced by former Columbus Academy headmaster John Mackenzie at last month’s Alumni Holiday Luncheon, Dr. Michael Hallet ’70 accepted the 2022 Distinguished Alumnus Award, the highest honor given to an alumnus/a in recognition of outstanding achievement in community or profession and loyalty to the school.

“I’m not sure how deserving I am to receive this award as of December 2022,” said Hallet, “but I promise to earn this honor…

“I can tell you that my successful careers at both Princeton and at Harvard Business School were possible and were enhanced by my total experience at the Columbus Academy,” stated Phil Carlin ’58 when he became the 46th inductee into the school’s Athletic Hall of Fame on December 3, 2022. “Anything I achieved in undergraduate and graduate school was significantly due to the foundation provided by my Academy education and experiences, so thank you Academy for what you’ve given to…