Meet Students Who Are Defining Mercersburg

Learn the stories of 18 Mercersburg students and recent grads: How a global economics conference in Taiwan can change your world. Why swimming for Yale seems like a good idea. How it feels to perform for a national radio audience of 750,000. What it’s like to meet Benicio Del Toro ’85. And why you, too, might someday care what in the world Irving-Marshall Week is.

In August 2007, the Academy introduced a new viewbook in which a cross-section of students tell how academic, creative, and athletic opportunities converge at Mercersburg, granting students a pretty incredible chance to define who they are and want to become.

“Mercersburg is set up so that there’s always a bigger challenge and a teacher there to help you pull it off,” says Mark Herring ’09, of Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

“Students are sharp and ambitious and very on top of things,” says Sarah Eadie, who will spend the 2007–2008 academic year studying in China. “They motivate each other in a friendly, collaborative way.”

Bryan Morgan ’07, an actor, musician, and football powerhouse from Hoover, Alabama, will attend Duke University this fall. “I was amazed at the space Mercersburg made for you to do a bunch of different things,” Morgan says.

Keep reading to learn more about Mark, Sarah, Bryan, and 15 others who are contributing a lot to Mercersburg—and learning as they go.