Welcome back to a new issue of the St Marker! We have many amazing new articles by our amazing returning and new student writers that cover the many events and news on campus over the past couple of months.

The arts department held amazing showcases including the successful Winter Music showcase and Bakesale (Eliza Visconsi ‘25) and the annual WICK Choral Festival as documented by Lily Oh ‘27. Jasmine Liu ‘25 also covered the Music Prefects and Vanessa Leung ‘25 wrote about the hilarious Winter Play “The Comedy about a Bank Robbery”.

In Humans of St Marks, Andrew Lamprea ‘24 covered the New Student Leftist Association and Maribeth FitzGerald ‘26 covered the ceremony of two newly endowed chair holders

In News, FeiFei Cao and Manasa Mahesh ‘27 covered athletics highlights in the past Winter season, and more specifically, Annabel Zaterka ‘26 provided an overview of the dedication ceremony for St Marks hockey alumni qualifying for the USA Hockey Team Development Program. Additionally, Alice Wang ‘26 covered the annual Umoja tradition celebrating culture, and Hannah Cha ‘25 covered a recent Gray Colloquium speaker Kevin Mahr. Lastly, Andrea Xu ‘25 provided interesting information on the many unseen places on campus.

Furthermore, Andrea Lamprea offered his thoughts on the C&E department at St Marks while Izzy Mundel ‘25 reflected on the C&E day. Anouk Shin ‘26, Ian Cho ‘26, and Karry Kim ‘25 also gathered student opinions on SDC trials, providing valuable insight. In addition, Jasmine Liu ‘25 comments on the new FLIK setup in the dining hall, and Lucas Jiang ‘26 for the morning Chapel. Finally, for vlogs, Catherine Zhang ‘26 covered the Lunar New Year Festival and so did Chloe Kim ‘26 for Umoja.

Our staff worked very hard to produce many amazing pieces of work and we are so excited to share them with you. We hope you enjoy this issue!

Best,

St. Marker Senior Editors