NJCL EVENTS · Summer 2026 · Torch: U.S.
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National Classics Week Recap
FUNDRAISING GUIDE
Game Night
This year, National Classics Week ran from Wednesday, April 15, to Tuesday, April 21! This year’s theme was “Ancient Authors,” which focused on exploring a variety of literature genres, from love poetry, to oratory, to epics! Each day, the officer who did the writeup for that day’s subject also took over the NJCL’s Instagram story, answering questions, both silly and serious, and chatting with JCLers.
On April 18, we held a national game night…although no games actually ended up being played, since participants chose to share news from and ask advice about their chapters, instead!
If you’re interested in learning more about the literary genres we highlighted, I’d highly encourage you to check out this year’s National Classics Week packet, along with looking through your state and local JCLs’ social media accounts, to see what other JCLers got up to!
Ancient Authors Fun Facts:
If you’re ever trying to identify an ancient theater, if the back of the stage is open, it was probably built by the Greeks, but if it has a scaena (a tall wall) behind the stage, it’s probably Roman.
Several epic poems—including Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura and Silius Italicus’ Punica—were considered lost for centuries, until copies of them were eventually found in monastic libraries around the early 15th century!
The NJCL Fundraising guide provides many examples of ways for your local and state chapters to raise money for your own classics events and conventions, other chapters, or other non-profits and organizations you find dear. To check it out click on this link!
The guide is also meant to be a living document to include your own fundraising events you’ve run! To add to the document fill out this form.
It was so lovely to talk to everyone at Game Night for National Classics Week! While we did not play many games, we were able to come together as a community and talk about everything ranging from college to chemistry to, of course, classics and convention, and the event highlighted how the JCL is not just an organization but a feeling and a community.
Stella Anderson, 2025-2026 NJCL First Vice President
Sophia Kantsevoy, 2025-2026 NJCL Second Vice President
Reesey Lai, 2025-2026 NJCL President
Reesey Lai, 2025-2026 NJCL President