Isabel Dlabach, Editor
October 29, 2019
On Sunday, Oct. 27 at 6:00pm, St. George’s families received an email announcing the appointment of Mr. Timothy Gibson as the Interim Head of School, effective that day. It was known that former Head of School Mr. Ross Peters would be leaving at the end of the 2019-2020 school year, so a mid-semester departure was not expected. Students did not receive the email but learned about the change from...
Kayla Sanford, Reporter
October 21, 2019
I know you all have seen the bleached boys this year and wondered why and how. Believe it or not, it all started at church camp. At the end of summer 2019, a group of junior boys came to a mutual agreement to dye their hair bleached blond, and the guy that started it all was Carter Shaw. “I decided to bleach my hair because I was at church camp in California and Carter Shaw had an idea of...
Cary Robbins, Editor of Feature Stories
October 9, 2019
“Did you know that for most Hispanic countries, you don’t get just Good Friday off? You get the whole week off,” Junior Luis Lopez said. “In Guatemala, the school year starts in January and ends in October because in November is the fair, and the fair isn’t like the Delta Fair here. It’s a big fair. Everybody from everywhere goes to the fair.” National Hispanic Heritage Month lasts...
Isabel Dlabach, Reporter
October 7, 2019
“[The] USSF has utterly failed to promote gender equality.” This is the complaint that all 28 members of the current United States Women’s National (Soccer) Team (WNT) have issued in their gender-based discrimination lawsuit against the U.S. Soccer Federation (USSF). The federal class-action lawsuit was filed in the Central Disctrict of California in March and is suing for violations of the...
Snowden Farnsworth, Co-Editor-in-Chief
October 3, 2019
The Lodge received an apology from Rev. Thomas A. Momberg this afternoon in response to his chapel talk on Sept. 17, 2019. We are reprinting his letter here with permission: Dear Members of the St. George’s Community: I was wrong, and I apologize. I thought I had carefully written and delivered a talk in the chapel service on September 17th that was appropriate for...
Shaun Burgess, Reporter
October 3, 2019
On Saturday, Sept. 1, 2019, shots were fired at the Delta Fair, causing those in attendance to panic. The shooting at the Delta Fair this year caused many people to question the general safety of large public events, and even the safety of other forms of public entertainment, such as going to see a movie or going to a concert. Sarah Liebmann, a St. George’s senior, was at the Delta Fair during...
Miles Masters, Reporter
September 26, 2019
On Monday, Sept. 23, St. George’s took a day to reflect on recent incidents that have left students, faculty, and parents struggling with feelings of hurt and anger. A recent chapel sermon given by a guest speaker, which included some negatively stereotyped remarks reignited feelings that remained almost unaddressed since the release of a Commercial Appeal article that highlighted inadequate punishment...
Owen Hewitt, Co Editor-In-Chief
September 18, 2019
St. George’s students were pulled out of class at noon yesterday for a chapel follow-up after a controversial reflection was given by Reverend Thomas Momberg on Tuesday, Sept. 17 during all-school chapel. Rev. Momberg works as the Vicar at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, housed on St. George’s Memphis campus and is the president of the board at Memphis Lynching Sites Project, an organization...
E'nissa Golden, Reporter
September 13, 2019
Owen Hewitt, Co-Editor-in-Chief
August 20, 2019
Co-Editor-In-Chief Snowden Farnsworth and Editor of Features Cary Robbins also contributed to the reporting of this story. St. George’s Upper School kicked off the second annual house competition on Friday, dedicating the entirety of the day’s schedule to what was dubbed the “House Retreat.” Mrs. Emmy McClain, who is responsible for much of the House Retreat’s logistical planning, said...
