STUDENT NEWS

Riding Success

AnniePearl Stroud ’26 and horse Frog are a competitive Eventing team, and over the last show season, the pair completed many shows with competitive rankings, including qualifying for the American Eventing Championships in Montana. AnniePearl and Frog will advance to Modified/1* riding level for the upcoming show season.

Libby Enlow ’25 and horse Crow won first place and a new pair of Justin boots in their inaugural show. The competition included Ranch Trail, Ranch Pleasure, Working Cow, Ranch Reining, and Ranch Riding.

Student With Merit

Congratulations to senior Camille Keehan for being named a Commended Student in the 2023 National Merit Scholarship Program. Camille is one of about 34,000 Commended Students throughout the nation being recognized for their exceptional academic promise. Commended Students placed among the top 50,000 students who entered the 2023 competition by taking the 2021 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test.

Saints Royalty

This year’s Homecoming King and Queen were seniors Jayvont Williams and Mallory Powers. The Homecoming Court was announced on Young Field before the Homecoming game on Friday, October 14.

Musical All Stars

Ian Lawler '25 and Clarke Vinson '25 made the Association of Texas Small School Bands (ATSSB) Region Band, the Texas Private School Music Educators Association (TPSMEA) Region Band, as well as the TPSMEA All-State Band! All-State weekend was January 26-28 in Addison and the Region Band clinic and performance took place at Greenhill School February 17-18. Ian plays French horn and Clarke plays bass trombone.

Saints Circle Giving Challenge

Congratulations to the Class of 2029 for winning the Saints Circle Class Year Giving Challenge for the fourth year in a row! The sixth-grade class had the highest percentage of gifts to the All Saints’ Fund by midnight on All Saints’ Day of Giving, earning them naming rights of Saints

COMMUNITY CLEAN-UP

Circle for the rest of the school year. A big thank you to everyone who has given to the All Saints’ Fund this year!

Texas Thespians State Festival

Congratulations to the following Upper School students who received awards at the Texas Thespians State Festival in November: Robbie Caruthers ’23 & Tori Staggs ’25, Duet Musical - National Qualifier; Reese Davis ’23 & Sam Nowlin ’25, Duet Acting - National Qualifier; Aiden Gutierrez ’25 & Isabella Rodriguez ’25, Duet ActingNational Qualifier; and Harper Pebley ’25, Monologue - National Qualifier.

Eighth graders partnered with Keep Fort Worth Beautiful, where they traveled to a city park to pick up trash as a grade level. Mayor Parker spoke before they left about the value of active citizenship.

TAPPS ALL-STATE AWARDS

Congratulations to the following students who received TAPPS All-State Honors during fall athletics: 1st Team All-State Field Hockey – Kate McCollough ’23, Campbell Wynn ’25 and Raegan Davis ’26; Honorable Mention All-State Field Hockey – Riley Hawkins ’23, Aspen Jones ’23 and Ashton Laird ’24; Academic All-State Football – Cavin Chumley ’23, Bennett Nunnally ’23, Will Parrish ’23, Robert Sanders ’23, Jayvont Williams ’23, Ryan Kramer ’24 and Keller Patterson ’24; 1st Team All-State Football – Robert Sanders ’23 and Jayvont Williams ’23;

2nd Team All-State Football – Charlie

Johnson ’23 and Keller Patterson ’24; Honorable Mention All-State Football –

Esmin Jackson ’23 and Ryan Kramer ’24; Academic All-State Volleyball – Mallory

Powers ’23 and Perrie Sedgwick ’23

Tpsmea Choir Awards

Congratulations to four Upper School singers for making the TPSMEA All-Region Honors

Choir: Robbie Caruthers ’23, Katelynn Pannell ’23, Samuel Nowlin ’25, and Tori Staggs ’25. Another congrats to Robbie Caruthers for also making the TPSMEA All-State Honors Choir.

Season Of Giving

Middle School’s Project Empathy generously donated more than $2,800 and 140 meals for Union Gospel Mission leading into the Thanksgiving holiday.

Athletic Signings

Two seniors signed their National Letter of Intent to play collegiate athletics in the

In Black And White

Congratulations to four Upper School students for being selected to display their work for the final award cycle at the 35th Annual Fort Worth Country Day Black & White Images Contest and Exhibition: Henry Bennett ’23 – Dew, Still Life; Baetti Bulti ’23 –Gulp, Nature & Animals; (Honorable Mention) Robert Sanders ’23 –Heart & Soul, Architecture; and Ryan Neander ’24 –Drops, Still Life (2nd Place). This annual juried exhibition is for high school photography students attending public and private schools in Dallas, Denton, and Tarrant counties.

fall of 2022: Bennett Nunnally, Football – College of the Holy Cross; and Peyton Stellato, Women’s Basketball – Angelo State University

Our Smallest Empathetic Global Citizens

Each month, Julie Miller, Executive Director of the Adera Foundation, visits Early Childhood students and talks to them about Ethiopian culture and shares some of the challenges the children living there face. After each monthly visit, our EC students participate in a tangible activity to show love, kindness, and generosity to their friends across the globe. In September, they made a handprint canvas that was sent to Ethiopia; in October, students organized a shoe drive after learning that shoes are scarce in Ethiopia; in November, EC students earned quarters by doing jobs around the house, which they donated to purchase lunches for the children at the Adera Early Childhood Center (four quarters = one lunch); and in December, our EC students and their families donated books to help build a library at the Adera Early Childhood Center.

Little Angels

The Kindergarten classes raised $5,517 this year, which was used to shop for 82 Forgotten Angels through The Salvation Army. The project started in 2005 as a servicelearning initiative and evolved into an interdisciplinary, semester-long project where Kindergarten students sell popsicles every Friday afternoon to students Age 3 - Grade 5. Kindergarten students connect this project to classroom objectives by creating charts to track their progress, reading their Angel’s wish list, learning about coins and dollars, researching average prices for each item on the wish list to determine a budget, prioritizing and creating a shopping list based on a projected budget, and then actually spending a morning shopping for the Angel.

Senior Service Day

Seniors volunteered on their day off (on PSAT day), working with various organizations around Fort Worth. Organizations included International Newcomer Academy, Tanglewood Elementary, Rivertree Academy, Don’t Forget to Feed Me Pet Food Bank, Neighborhood Needs, LVT Rise, 4Saints Food Pantry, Tarrant County Area Food Bank, and Saving Hope. Groups of students also volunteered on campus at the RANGE and helping SAGE serve lunch.