AROUND CAMPUS
DR. ANN VAN
TED-Ed
Director of Health Services Dr. Ann Vanichkachorn gave an Upper School chapel talk, drawing on personal experiences and encouraging the community to engage on sensitive issues of race and prejudice.
Interim Head of Lower School Sarah Mansfield and Reading Specialist Jen O’Ferrall introduced fifth grade boys to the concept of a TED-Ed club, charging them to prepare an “idea worth sharing.”
BATTLE OF THE BOOKS
NEW STUDENT PARADE
LITERARY SOCIETY
Battle of the Books T-shirt design contest winners were Charlie Johnson ‘29 [artwork pictured above] and Elliott Pellumbi ‘28.
Excitement ran high at a welcome parade for newly admitted Lower School Saints.
Boys recited society poems on Knowles Field for the first time in school history.
TAYLOR REVELEY: CONSTRUCTIVE CITIZENSHIP William & Mary President Emeritus Taylor Reveley spoke to Upper School students as part of the Williams-McElroy History Endowment speaker program about “constructive citizenship,” encouraging boys to get the facts before acting, listen earnestly and find common ground.
COMMUNITY AND INCLUSION The joint boards of governors at St. Christopher’s and St. Catherine’s spent a day working together to consider strategies to help achieve goals for diversity, community and inclusion. Pictured Above: (seated) Macon Clarkson, St. Catherine’s Board of Governors chair; Mason Lecky, StC headmaster; Sue Baldwin, St. Catherine’s assistant head of school; (standing) Thomas Valentine ‘76, StC Board of Governors chair; Lila Lohr, St. Catherine’s interim head of school; Ed Cowell, StC director of community and inclusion
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QUILT Ninth graders in Rusty Wilson’s Creativity Through the Arts class created a quilt as an homage to Lorraine Hansberry’s 1959 Broadway play, “Raisin in the Sun,” featuring images inspired by the play’s themes.
