Abby Grace Dodson, Reporter
September 29, 2020
How do you lead an organization dedicated to global citizenship during a global pandemic? Mr. Jason Hills is betting that the St. George’s Institute for Citizenship can adapt. “The whole world is basically in [this] new situation,” ninth-grade history teacher and Director of the Institute Mr. Hills said. “A sink or swim situation, where we either adapt to the changes or we don’t.” The...
Alanna Murphy, Reporter
September 22, 2020
“Keep your distance!” “Spread out!” “Watch your wingspan!” In normal years, Collierville campus librarian Ms. Leah Allison doesn’t spend her time yelling these things. "All I feel like I’m saying is ‘spread out, put your mask on, spread out, put your mask on,’” Ms. Allison said. “That just makes me feel grumpy.” A new aspect of Ms. Allison’s job is making...
Callie Hollis, Media Editor
September 15, 2020
Owen Hewitt, Editor-in-Chief
September 10, 2020
The Head of School search committee announced Thursday afternoon that they had narrowed down their list of potential candidates to two, one of which is current Interim Head of School, Mr. Timothy Gibson. The other candidate on the list of finalists is Mr. Palmer Kennedy who has been the Head of School at Advent Episcopal School, a Pre-Kindergarten through eighth-grade college preparatory school...
Owen Hewitt, Editor-in-Chief
September 1, 2020
The last game the volleyball team played was in a packed Murphy Center on the campus of Middle Tennessee State, full of St. George’s students who had made the trip up to Murfreesboro to watch the NetGryphs take home a state championship. The next game they play will feel quite different. The Bleacher Creatures sent an email to students over the weekend that students would be allowed to come...
Owen Hewitt, Editor-in-Chief
August 21, 2020
Well, this is certainly not how I expected to start my senior year. Even the biggest pessimists (including myself) would have struggled to predict that when we transitioned to virtual learning due to an increase in COVID-19 cases last March that the pandemic would still be effecting our school plans the following year. We probably should have known that a hyper-contagious virus wouldn’t just magically...
Shaun Burgess and Allison Newman
April 24, 2020
The 2020 high school spring sports regular season has already been canceled for all sports, and as of April 15, the Spring Fling state championships have also been cancelled. “TSSAA knows that its athletes want nothing more than to play and I believe they will do everything in their power to make it work whenever that may be,” junior soccer player Carsten Haddad said. “I have no problem at...
Aiden Curran, Reporter
April 14, 2020
General: Due to the effects of social distancing, new estimates place the Coronavirus peaking in late May to early June Hospitals in Shelby County are working at less than 50% their surge capacity With only a third of the ventilators currently in use Mayor Strickland has stated that he will be working diligently to reduce the burden placed on hospitals by continuing social distancing...
Sam Kuykendall, Reporter
April 10, 2020
The outbreak of Covid-19 has dominated our lives and global news for the past several weeks. However, the sudden onslaught of restrictions and national shutdowns has left some people trapped away from home. Such is the case with cruise ships. Several of these ships have sailed into the news lately, but not for good reasons. Several cruise liners have seen Covid-19 creep from the news onto their decks. Such...
Miles Masters, Editor
April 10, 2020
Recently, the College Board changed the content and dates of each AP exam, with each now lasting 45 minutes and some additional time to upload responses. Most of the content changes were made to remove the units covered later in the year, and the exams will also be open-note and open-book. Listed below are the specific changes for each of St. George's AP classes. The date for the AP Biology exam...
