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SAINTS SUPERLATIVES SPECTACULAR STUDENTS
Led by Model UN Advisor Lily Thompson, GSL’s MUN team participated in the 24th Annual YMCA Middle School Model United Nations Conference at City Hall in December. Lucian Hanson ’24, Ellery Kuebler ’23, Eddie Ferguson ’23, and Jackson Halpern ’23 (far right) won an award for Outstanding Bill, while Foster Gettys ’25 (second from the right) and Halpern each won awards for Outstanding Delegate.
Winter Spirit Award Winners: Jake Turner Smith ’23 and Caroline Byrnes ’23
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Rowan Halpern ’28 won Cub Scout Troop 34’s Pinewood Derby in February.
Middle School Geography Bee Winner: Sebastian Mixon ’24
Christmas Card Art Contest Winners: Cover Art: Mila Douglas ’26, Inside Art: Phoebe Owen ’28, Back Cover Art: Franklin Barton ’27, First runner-up: Zoe Pretzer ’25, Second runner-up: Madison McCarty ’28
Fantastic Faculty
Head of Preschool Cynthia Hill and Junior Kindergarten Assistant Teacher Jeanette Walton attended the 2022 NAEYC Conference in Washington, D.C. in November and presented a workshop on creating an outdoor classroom like ours at GSL.
Head of Lower School Marti McCloud and Senior Kindergarten Teacher Kirsten Horton presented at the 2022 TAIS Biennial Conference in Chattanooga in November. They led workshops on enhancing early literacy development and using environmental psychology in classroom design.
Grace-St. Luke’s helped sponsor the Daily Memphian Developing Memphis Seminar this fall, and Head of School Andy Surber welcomed attendees, sharing highlights about GSL and some of the reasons why his job is, as he described, “the best job in the world.”
Middle School Spelling Bee Champion: Ellie Barksdale ’25
Lower School Spelling Bee Champion: Leah Perry Butler ’27
Russ Thompson has written his second children’s book, The Owls of Sedgemount, which features illustrations by alumna Paige Fernandez ’21. He shared some excerpts with students in Celebration this fall.
Middle School Dean of Students and English teacher Kimberly White finished her M.Ed. in Educational Leadership and Policy at Boston College's Lynch School of Education and Human Development in November. She was accepted into the doctoral program in educational leadership at the University of Memphis and hopes to complete her Ed.D. in 2025.
