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Four individuals familiar to Columbus Academy will take on new roles at the school in the coming months. Head of School Melissa Soderberg has announced the hiring of Edward Rhee as Associate Head of Middle School and Harland Young as Assistant Director of Facilities and Grounds as well as promotions of Lisa Spolter to Assistant Director of Admissions and Dr. Pascal Losambe to Assistant Head of School for Student Outreach.

Rhee is a 1993 graduate…

Columbus Academy is excited to announce a pair of new varsity head coaches for the upcoming 2021 spring season! Ashlee Abraham takes over the track and field program while Morgan Fee Maldovan will guide our girls lacrosse team.

Abraham replaces Denny Hammond, who retired from coaching at the conclusion of the cross country season last fall after five-and-a-half years at Academy preceded by 17 years at Reynoldsburg High School (read news article…

At 7:30 p.m. on January 29-30, our middle school theatre program will try a brand new venture by presenting “Kittens & Auditions” live online! For a family price of $5, you can reserve your access to one of the shows by visiting https://conta.cc/3qGSN8H. Access must be purchased by 5:00 p.m. on the day of each show, and the link to view the production will be emailed to you 30 minutes prior to the selected performance. This…

From 9:00 a.m. until noon on Saturday, January 30, Columbus Academy is partnering with PrimaryOne Health, Franklin County Public Health and the Ohio National Guard to offer free COVID-19 testing on our campus. Open to everyone, including the general public, testing will be conducted in the white tent on the Sommer Family Recreation Area next to our dining hall patio (view campus map). To pre-register, please text…

We were incredibly saddened to learn that alumnus and former faculty member John Detrick '53 passed away on December 26, 2020.

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He was an Academy legend in many ways, including being the first graduate to return as a teacher when he joined the math department in 1961.

As mentioned in a letter from…