Throughout the school year, students have worked hard in academics and extracurriculars, overcome challenges, and made this school year a great one.
The boys in maroon and gold have helped each other celebrate victories and learn from mistakes, building camaraderie and community. Some notable events from this year include EA Day, the fall play and spring musical.
EA Day, played at home this year, was a big rallying point for the community and the pinnacle of what the community is all about.
“The school spirit was fantastic this year,” said Fifth Former Luca Aloi, who helped the Fords soccer team defeat EA.
“The support we have at Haverford is unmatched, contributing to another successful year in athletics, personally and school-wide,” Aloi said.
“EA Day brings the school together in a lot of ways,” Fifth Form Student Body President and football player Josh Williams said. “There are lots of events before the actual EA Day, including spirit week and senior week, which all help show how we have pride in how we work to strengthen the community, even for one week… the community [support] strengthens our play.”
Fords basketball was also popular this year.
“The Penn Charter game was one to remember,” Third Former Lucas Crutchlow said. “The student section for the Malvern game was the biggest I’ve ever seen for a Ford’s basketball game. I still think that even though we lost, we still demonstrated what the Fords can do when we all come together.”
Along with athletics, the performing arts also excelled this year.
The Haverford 2024 musical, Beauty and the Beast, was a sell-out show for all three days it ran.
Sixth Former Render Ford, who played Cogsworth, said, “It was an amazing feeling. Something special about Haverford is that people treat any event, sports game, or show, like a community task to show up and support people.”
“I definitely recognize that it is a defining quality of the brotherhood that we have here and one of the best representations of it coming to light,” Ford said.
Clubs were yet another area of excellence this school year. Fords had some major accomplishments from Robotics, Model UN, and Mock Trial.
“The clubs this year have been great,” Third Former Deacon Golderer said.
Fifth Form student council member Milan Varma said, “We had lots of students involved in Model UN, Robotics, and Mock Trial. Robotics performed very well. The A team won the state championship and advanced to the world championship. In Mock Trial, we made state finals after a long season with the biggest team we’ve ever had.”
“Having good leaders and members of the community guided us to success. This year, we had good senior leaders that set a high standard for the rest of the school. The Student Council, Signet Society, and Honor Council had great leaders. The brotherhood was tight.”
Student council President Josh williams ’25
Model UN also performed well at the Ivy League Model UN Conference, where the Fords earned multiple fourth-place awards.
When the Fords were not rallying together for their team or friends in the musical they could be spotted playing in the snow on various snow days. Fords had three snow days this year.
“It was a cool feeling because we have not had a snow day in two years,” says Third Former Ray Kresge. “It was very chill to just be able to relax and go sledding.”
“Having good leaders and members of the community guided us to success. This year, we had good senior leaders that set a high standard for the rest of the school. The Student Council, Signet Society, and Honor Council had great leaders,” Williams said. “The brotherhood was tight and was heavily impacted by our school body president Asa Winikur’s goal to try to increase the school spirit.”