COVID-19 Sends Upper School Home
Owen Hewitt, Editor-in-Chief
September 30, 2020
On Wednesday, Sept. 24, the administration of St. George’s announced that it had made the decision to transition the upper school to virtual learning until fall break in response to the confirmation of three COVID-19 cases among students. The announcement came midway through the school day, and less...
Leading into the Unknown
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 sa...
Spread Out, Spread Thin
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. Al...
Volleyball Game Kicks Off House Challenges for the Year
Callie Hollis, Media Editor
September 15, 2020
Head of School Search Narrows to Two
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 Schoo...
Standing Room Only
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 Blea...
A Letter from the Editor
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...
Keeping Up with the Gryphons: Episode 22
Callie Hollis, Owen Hewitt, and Snowden Farnsworth
May 8, 2020
Keeping Up with the Gryphons: Episode 21
Callie Hollis, Snowden Farnsworth, and Owen Hewitt
May 6, 2020
On Wednesday, Sept. 24, the administration of St. George’s announced that it had made the decision to transition the upper school to virtual learning until fall break in response to the confirmation...
"Hello, my name is Miles Masters, and my pronouns are ‘he/him.’” Just a few years ago, no one would have introduced themselves this way. An introduction contained a few parts: a greeting, name...
It seems like “Star Wars” has been a force, binding modern culture together since the premier of “Episode IV – A New Hope.”...
This past November, junior Dariya Jones performed a poem at Coffee House, St. George’s annual performing arts showcase. The poem,...