Department Highlights
	Humanities at The Hill School Students must apply to be admitted to this selective program Course covers prose and poetry, American and British, from all periods The study of poems is integrated with the study of musical compositions and paintings Students write essays each cycle, present in class, and discuss their work The program includes intense etymological study of vocabulary Students are prepared to write the AP English Language and Composition Exam as well as the AP English Literature Exam at the end of the fifth form (junior) year College admissions and AP scores are consistently very high 17 Hill Humanities students took the AP English Language and Composition Exam in 2010; there were 6 scores of 5 (out of 5) ;10 scores of 4; and 2 scores of 3 Of those 17 students, 12 also wrote the AP English Literature and Composition Examination in 2010 as fifth formers (juniors), when the exam is normally is taken in the sixth form (senior) year. There were 5 scores of 5; 6 scores of 4; and 1 score of 3.

	Recent Professional activities/service of Hill's humanities teachers
	Henry Bender, Ph.D., Elizabeth B. Blossom Chair of Humanities and Chair of Classical Languages: Presenter at the American Philological Association National convention (2010) Speaker at Philadelphia Classical Society (2008) Program Director for the Classical Association of the Atlantic States (CAAS) Teacher in the Classical Association of New England’s Summer Classical School at Dartmouth University (2008-2009) Lecturer for the National Endowment for the Humanities in Italy Director of the St. Joseph’s University Summer in Rome Program (2010) Adjunct professor of Classics at St. Joseph’s University Member of the International Tour Managers Society; director of over 100 overseas programs to Italy and Greece First to pod cast lectures in AP Vergil (over 40,000 downloads since its inception in 2007) Author of various articles, book reviews, and books on Catullus, Horace, Vergil, and Roman and Greek archaeology

	Recent hill classics and humanities alumni
	Henry Eve (’10) Boston University Anthony Ferrara (’10) Princeton University John Oberbeck (’10) Brown University Dinora Smith (’10) St. Andrew’s University (Scotland) Brianna McGuire (’10) Wheaton College Erin Forester (’09) St Joseph’s University (Presidential Scholar) Evyn Cosgrove (‘09) Vanderbilt University Richard Lafferty (’09) Georgetown University Ryan Lundquist (’08) Georgetown University Skeet Singleton (’08) University of Chicago Allison Holcomb (’08) New York University Peter Ouwerkerk (‘08) University of Chicago Ashley Bradley (’07) University of Pennsylvania Virginia Buckles (’07) Brown University Kyle Ralston (’07) Harvard, currently pursuing an M.A. in Classics at Oxford Jessica Nord (’07) Henry Bean Scholar, College of the Holy Cross Tara Eckenrode (’06) St. Andrew’s University (Scotland) Ryan Gofus (’06) Georgetown University Henry Spelman (’06) University of North Carolina (Moorhead Scholar)                                      Rhodes Scholar, Oxford (Classics) Andrew Goetz (’05) Princeton University