Cary Robbins, Editor
March 21, 2019
“I know that even if I do or I don’t win that I’m still unique,” fourth grader Success Wilkerson said. Wilkerson won the Glowing Gryphon Pageant on the night of Feb. 22. Senior Kaitlyn Bowman hosted a pageant for the fourth and fifth grade girls from the St. George’s Memphis Campus as her Senior Independent Study. The girls wore three different outfits and were able to participate...
Snowden Farnsworth, Editor
March 18, 2019
St. George's was well represented on Feb. 23, 2019 by over forty students from the seventh and eighth grades who competed at the West Tennessee History Day contest, volunteers from the junior class and teachers. Eleven St. George’s competitors walked away with awards and will proceed to the state competition level. At the regional competition, St. George’s students compete with students from...
Cary Robbins, Editor of Feature Stories
March 1, 2019
“I really value that our school values their students,” junior Silas Rhodes said. “They care about the students opinions, and I feel like that’s not something that you see a lot in other schools.” The junior class took their junior retreat last Thursday and Friday where they were able to participate in escape rooms and also visit and learn about Crosstown and the nonprofit organizations...
Cary Robbins, Reporter
February 11, 2019
Just like the Gryphon house system, Gryphnation app, and all senior pranks, St. George's has once again surprised the students of St. George's with a week and a half of community service. Instead of having to go through the same schedule, students had one class for the entire school day and one day of community service. For their study halls, students spent the night at St. George’s Bunkhouse the...
Dean Campbell, Reporter
January 31, 2019
In January, the administration announced to ninth and tenth graders that X-Block was changing. In the meeting, they told students that in order to go to another teacher during X-Block, students need an email confirmation. Another change was the sign-in and sign-out sheets that are now found in most rooms of the high school. After the meeting, there were many questions as to why exactly it happened. “[The...
Laura Beard and Snowden Farnsworth
January 28, 2019
For those looking to have a luscious beard like Upper School Biology teacher Mr. Sam Abrams, he has a few words of advice. “Keep it groomed. Don’t just let your beard grow and never trim up your neckline. Don’t be afraid of grooming products. There’s nothing emasculating about that because if not, you’re just going to look trashy, and you’re going to look terrible,” Mr. Abrams said....
Spencer Cotham and Snowden Farnsworth
January 28, 2019
Two days ago, Congress and the President announced that they have agreed to a deal to end the government shutdown. It lasted 35 days, the longest government shutdown in American history. Confused about what happened with the shutdown? The Lodge sat down with AP Government teacher Mrs. Emily Metz to get you the answers. Q: Could you explain what a government shutdown is? A: “In order for most...
Snowden Farnsworth, Editor
January 23, 2019
The St. George’s robotics team got a close-up view of the government shutdown when VEX announced that they had changed the venue for their Signature Event competition, taking place on Jan. 26, 2019, from the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum to a facility for consumer shows. The government shutdown, which began Dec. 22, 2018, is impacting the nation in a variety of ways. Federal workers...
Snowden Farnsworth, Reporter
January 10, 2019
The Robogryphs have started their competition season off with a bang. At St. George’s VRC Fall Tournament Junior Elizabeth Crane noticed something was wrong with their team’s award-winning robot. “At first I was sort of surprised because our brain doesn’t usually smoke. That’s sort of like a rare thing. Brains don’t usually smoke,” Sophomore Kagan Sears explained. “We’ve seen...
Evan Dorian, Co-editor-in-chief
November 7, 2018
"I wanted to take action.” Matthew Doucette, a 2018 graduate of St. George’s, answered the call to serve his community when he reached out to Mr. Lee Harris’s campaign for mayor of Shelby County. As a young adult in the Memphis community, he was exactly what the campaign was looking for in a “New Era” intern. Doucette is one of many young people in Shelby County who wanted to make his...
