The Highlands Latin Journal - Winter 2017

A QUARTERLY PUBLICATION OF HIGHLANDS LATIN SCHOOL

The Highlands

Winter 2017

JOURNAL Members of the HLS Drama Troupe take a final bow after their opening-night performance of Pirates of Penzance on January 20 at Crescent Hill Baptist Church.

Drama Troupe performs “Pirates”

Over 850 tickets were sold for the two-night performance of Pirates of Penzance, presented by the HLS Drama Troupe in January.

“We wanted to do something that would be fun for the audience and cast,” said Director Teresa Boling. “We had the right talent available to fit the vocal demands of the show.”

Cast auditions were held in August, for which interested participants had to perform a monologue and song that “fit the show,” according to Jobe Arnold, who played the lead role of Frederic. After parts were assigned, students rehearsed twice a week leading up to the show.

“We decided to allow students to be in the show who were involved in sports and other activities. We alternated our rehearsal days to accommodate as many schedules as possible, but we still didn’t have a full cast rehearsal until late in October. We took off three weeks for Christmas and a week off for Thanksgiving. So we had to work quickly and with great focus. There was not any down time at rehearsals,” said Mrs. Boling.

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Spring Meadows Campus 10901 Shelbyville Road

ADMINISTRATION Cheryl Lowe .................................... Founder Shawn Wheatley ................... Head of School Kelly Booker ..... Principal of Spring Meadows Matthew Dickie ...Upper School Asst. Principal Jason Borah .. Grammar School Asst. Principal Krista Lange ............ Primary School Director Polly Collum ............... Director of Admissions Lyndsay Magar .. Asst. Director of Admissions Sean Brooks ... Director of the House System Jennifer Bowen ................ College Counselor Mary Melchior ....................... Office Manager Mary Dick ................ Administrative Assistant

IN THIS ISSUE Pirates of Penzance .................................1-2 Faculty Spotlight: Rob Lewis ........................3 Focus on Family: The Petrie Family ..........4-5 Alumni Spotlight: Magdalena Collum .........6-7 Highlander Sports ........................................8 Geography Bee ...........................................9 House Updates..........................................10 News, Awards, & Honors ............................11

Pirates, written by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan in 1879, was not adapted in any way; students learned and performed the original version.

“It’s an old (really old) play that people still find funny today,” said Danielle Fuller (10th), who played Ruth, a 47-year-old nurse who accidentally apprentices her patient, Frederic, to become a pirate instead of a pilot.

For many Troupe members, Pirates of Penzance was previously unfamiliar. Though initially hesitant, they were able to embrace the comedy and relish the opportunity to use their classical choral training.

“I thought there was going to be a cabaret,” said Maggie Roy (11th), who played Kate, one of the daughters of Major-General Stanley (played by senior Tanner Petrie), when describing her early reaction to the pick. “But now I’m glad.

It was a good choice for our school because it is classical and operatic. It’s really fun but also incorporates classical music, so we were already trained.”

Toward the end of Act 2, pirate cast members gather side by side for an organized kick line during a song called “With cat-like tread, upon our prey we steal.” In this scene, as a group of constables waits in hiding, the pirates are determined to avenge themselves upon the Major-General with, as the song implies, cat-like tread.

“It’s just a bunch of burly pirates in a chorus line; it is the height of farce,” said junior Joseph Collum, who played Samuel, a pirate. “It’s really fun, and really funny; very over-the-top,” added Aiden Arnold (11th), who played the Pirate King.

Cast members: Jobe Arnold, Katelyn Miller, Aiden Arnold, Tanner Petrie, Danielle Fuller, Joseph Collum, William Gunn, Emily Steinbach, Maggie Roy, Meg Booker, Alethia Boswell, Samuel Haddow, Alexander McFarland, Ethan McFarland, Alyssa Meadows, Judah Murdoch, Audrey Dick, Helen Mariah Murdoch, Sophie Harris, Haylee Hatcher, Lily Lange, Sydney Petrie. Tech crew: Alethia Boswell (Costuming), Hannah Thibaudeau (Tech), Daniel Young (Lead Set Artist), Whitney Leonard (Set Artist), Mary Cuthrell and Annika Monson (Set and Tech), and Lily Hamilton (Surtitles Operator ). Dr. Louie Bailey was Musical Director, Janice Murdoch was Choreographer, and Charlie Suer managed set construction.

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Faculty Spotlight:

R O B L E W I S , 6T H G R A D E Mr. Lewis is a morning person. 8:00 a.m., in fact, is his favorite time of day.

“The day is full of possibility at that moment, and I generally haven’t done anything by that time to make me worry if I’ll get phone calls from parents.”

Rob Lewis, a former youth minister, is beloved by his students (and their parents) for his kindness and sense of humor, according to Grammar School Assistant Principal Jason Borah.

Mr. Lewis joined the HLS faculty in 2012. After three years teaching 5th grade, he moved up a grade level in the fall of 2015 to teach 6th.

“As a 6th grade teacher, I get to teach everything,” he says, “Latin, Math, Language Arts, Literature, and then finish the day with one of the four ‘studies’—classical, Christian, American, or science.”

Teaching middle school students, he says, is about keeping students focused.

“The most important quality of a middle school teacher is to be engaging; sometimes that’s using really bad jokes (the worst of the worst) to get their attention, and sometimes it’s telling a personal story; at other times it’s playing games or letting them take the discussion on an unnecessary (but important) tangent. In a word, knowing what to do to keep pulling their attention back to the task at hand.”

At Highlands Latin School, the 6th grade “tasks” focus heavily on preparation for Upper School. “This is the last time they will have a dedicated teacher looking over them all day,” says Mr. Borah. “We want them to have a good handle on self-management while they still have that level of oversight.”

The 6th grade book list includes The Bronze Bow, The Trojan War, and Famous Men of Greece; students also read about Greek and Roman history.

The literature is concentrated on virtue and figures within the curriculum, both fictional and historical, who illustrate goodness.

“One of the great themes in the 6th grade curriculum is: do not fear death above all things. We see it in The Trojan War, Horatius, Famous Men of Greece, Christian Studies, and The Hobbit,” said Mr. Lewis. “I find this is more important to me as I get older, but also as I see in our culture that fear of death (and suffering), above all things, eats away at virtue—and not just the theological virtues, but all virtue. My goal as a teacher at HLS is to help these students fear, not death, but living an unvirtuous life.”

After attending his first HLS Closing School Ceremony in May, Mr. Lewis says the enthusiasm, joy, and zeal he recognized in the Upper School students are exactly what he wants for his own son.

“Studying classical figures and languages, as well as exploring the enduring questions of humanity by using rhetoric and logic makes [our students] tough-minded. I can’t imagine there’s much in life they won’t be able to handle after tackling a classical curriculum. The world is tough; Latin is tougher.” www.TheLatinSchool.org

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Q & A:

Tanner, Sydney, and Olivia Q: Tanner, what advice can you give your sisters about their upcoming years at HLS?

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Q: Does that make you nervous or excited?

The Petrie family has been a part of the Highlands Latin School community since 2007, when Tanner, the eldest child, enrolled in third grade. Today Tanner is a senior; his sister Sydney is in 7th grade, and Olivia is in 5th. When Tanner recently earned a perfect score on the ACT, Leigh Lowe sat down with his mother, Amanda, to explore how she thinks Highlands Latin School and other factors contributed to his success. Below is an excerpt from their interview.

Olivia and Sydney: Both.

LL: First, tell us about Tanner.

Sydney: School will get harder.

A P : Ta n n e r i s a character. He’s one of a kind, or at least we think so at home.

He’s kind, and he’s loyal, and he is an excellent big brother to his little sisters.

Just a really good kid.

Tanner: Always be open to what their teachers are trying to teach them.

Because it could be really cool.

Olivia: He tells us a lot about his classes.

Q: What’s your favorite HLS tradition?

Tanner: All-School Retreat Olivia: Greek Myths Play Sydney: Recitation Days What’s your favorite book (on the HLS book list)?

Sydney: Ovid Tanner: Can it be something we’re reading now? The Great Gatsby!

Q: Sydney, what do you like most about Upper School?

Sydney: We’re given more freedom in Upper School.

Q: Olivia, what’s best about 5th grade?

Oliva: Having one teacher!

Q: Tanner, what advice do you have for your sister and other students on taking the ACT? Tanner: The way we learn at HLS is more systematic, which helps with standardized testing. We learn to think. So it’s not just about knowing the answer but also understanding what the test is asking.

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LL: What drew you to the Latin School?

AP: We moved here in 2007. We were at the pool and a friend said, “Have you heard of Highlands Latin School?” So I went home and did my research, and found out that a big emphasis at HLS (at least in the early years) is the reading. Reading good works. Tanner loved to read at the time and that was really important to us, that he continue to read good things about people of character and that kind of thing. That’s initially what drew us.

LL: Do you feel he was well-prepared coming into 3rd grade?

“It is amazing what these kids can write because they read so many good things. If you read good things, you’re going to write good things.”

AP: He hadn’t been exposed to Latin at all. He didn’t really know about a classical curriculum.

At H L S w e s t a r t - Amanda Petrie Latin in the 2nd His interests really grade, so we were a are wide-ranging and little nervous about varied. We at first thought he was a very that. But he came in 3rd grade and had verbal kid; the vocabulary was there from a such kind and wonderful teachers who very young age, and then reading; but then were patient with him and got him up to as he got into high school, we figured out speed. It just took off from there. The fact he’s sort of math-y and science-y as well. that there’s such an emphasis on reading He just is amazing and can do anything, is what made him comfortable. He had and I don’t know who he gets that from. been reading for many years and that was something he was good at.

LL: He just had a standout performance in our school play as the Major-General LL: What do you all emphasize at home in the Pirates of Penzance, so he definitely in terms of parenting and the principles has a knack for the arts. But he’s pursuing that you encourage both academically and the sciences, is that right? Tell us about regarding character development? Do you his plans. feel like there’s a nice synthesis between your values at home and what’s being AP: Yes, he plans to go to UK next year and taught at the Latin School? major in mechanical engineering. He’d also like to find a major in maybe the Classics AP: First and foremost, you get back what or Latin to supplement an engineering you put into something. And if you don’t degree and to be more well-rounded. put a whole lot into it, you’re not going to get a whole lot out of it. We also talk about LL: I’m sure you’re happy to have him a how people don’t always remember what little close to home. you gave them, but they do remember how AP: I’m very happy to have him close you made them feel. So it’s important to be kind and honest and caring. And I really to home.

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mily ong-term” when choosing HLS feel like at Highlands Latin, those are very important for the faculty and the administration. It really is boiled down into the HLS Code of Conduct and HLS character formation. I don’t think we could have found a better fit.

LL: Do you have specific routines and habits that you feel helped you all get through the Latin School?

LL: Describe the culture at HLS as your family has perceived it.

AP: We were initially drawn because of its academic rigor. As we got here, we discovered that there’s a real emphasis on character development. It’s not a

Because of the size of the school, every teacher knows my children and they’re not afraid to correct them. They have no problem pointing out where they can improve. And I really appreciate that about the school.

LL: Tanner is a Head of House. Tell us about some of the additional activities that he’s involved in here at the school and how he’s such a great example for the younger students.

AP: When Tanner was younger, we had more of a routine and it just became what he does and who he is, and I credit the training at the school starting from using your agenda in 1st grade. And when a new student comes, the kids all help to teach them that if you write everything down, you’re not going to miss anything. And then you get home and parents review the agenda. Now that they’re older we don’t really have to do that as much; they’re sort of self-policing.

Thank goodness.

LL: The school is so conscientious about training students at such a young age that they really can be independent at a young age. Parents may be worried about the subjects they didn’t study when they were younger.

AP: He is the Head of the House of David and that’s really given him an opportunity to build his leadership skills. I think that it’s also helped him with organizational skills and time management. Those are things that they start learning early on here, but being able to put those into practice is a big reason for his success. Besides MajorGeneral, he was also in Little Women last year, and was in the Cabaret the year before.

That allowed him to sort of showcase his vocal talents.

If there’s something that an HLS parent really wants the kids to do, we approach the administration and say we’d like for them to do this. And the administration (more times than not) will say if you want to coach it or lead it, we’ll make the students available and go with it.

LL: The workload is rigorous, but they find time for the plays and the extracurriculars because it’s such great camaraderie and they just enjoy it so!

Tanner Petrie (12th) stands with his younger sisters, Olivia (5th) and Sydney (7th). All three Petrie siblings attend the Spring Meadows campus.

AP: We didn’t have to know Latin. They were holding the kids’ hands all the way through it until they were confident that they got it. www.TheLatinSchool.org

separate class; it just organically happens with good role models, including male teachers and godly teachers and people who are always looking out for your kid.

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ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT:

Magdalena Collum Class of 2014

Magdalena Collum, who enrolled at HLS in 7th grade, says her fondest memories of the Latin School include the retreats, afterschool trips to Heine Brothers coffee shop, the Christmas Cantatas, and “all the many wonderful books, and the communal pain of math and physics.” Now Maggie is a junior at Princeton University, majoring in Comparative Literature and minoring in Violin Performance, and planning to pursue medical school.

“I found myself wanting to integrate a lot of different pieces: wanting to study the big human questions through literature but also to use my resources to give back to the Kingdom in a material way, fitting in my love of languages and music history and science and violin,” she says.

What were your favorites classes at HLS, and why?

AP Calc with Mr. Amunrud, because it taught me the joy of accomplishing something very difficult, and Senior Literature with Mr. Janke, which taught me how to read meaning in books.

What were your priorities in selecting a college?

I was looking for an academically rigorous school that had an environment friendly to religious practice, a strong Christian presence, a great orchestra, and generous financial aid—and after a lot of research, Princeton turned out to be the perfect nexus of all of those elements.

Describe learning about your acceptance to Princeton.

Honestly, I read the email at least three times before shouting to my family in the next room because I thought I had probably read it wrong and didn’t want to give a false alarm. After that I was obviously on a high for a couple of weeks, and as I let myself start reading more about Princeton, I increasingly felt that it was the place God was calling me to—and that came with a lot of peace.

Describe your transition to college, after six years at HLS. My transition to Princeton (and my experience at Princeton overall) was definitely buffered by my involvement in Princeton Faith and Action, the biggest Christian group at Princeton (and actually the biggest student group overall). I found almost instant community in PFA, and it really provided a place to work through the biggest aspects of transition (loneliness, academic struggle, a very secular campus culture, etc.) in a godly, supportive context.

What is the Humanities Sequence you were accepted to at Princeton, and what does it entail?

The humanities sequence is a year-long interdisciplinary humanities course that takes up half of your coursework freshman year (it counts for two courses each semester). It hits all the masterworks of Western literature, philosophy, history, art, and music, from Homer to Virginia Woolf. It’s sort of like the 7th12th HLS Classical Studies and literature curriculum, times five, over the course of two semesters—so it’s very intensive and very fast. We read two or three books every week, and wrote a paper every other week. About 40 students are selected by a short application process each year, although for the most part it’s pretty self-selecting because of the intensity.

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I definitely have an overall feel for the themes that run through the Western tradition from the course, and feel like I can converse somewhat intelligibly on anything from medieval troubadour poetry to Schopenhauer’s aesthetics. That sort of broad overview is really helpful in making connections between different works and their influences, whether that’s in my independent work or when I’m watching a movie with echoes of Platonic philosophy.

You’ve had many opportunities to travel recently. Describe a few of your trips, including those offered through Princeton.

The summer before freshman year, I worked as an au pair with a lovely family in Udine, Italy, where I started learning Italian. My sophomore fall break I went to Rome and Pompeii with my Humanities Sequence class. Last summer I went to Rome again for a Latin program, then headed on my own to be an au pair in France for a month to practice the French I’d started at Princeton. Princeton is very generous with handing out funding to do academic things, so I haven’t had to pay for the trips. Princeton also subsidizes some cultural trips to New York (which is about 90 minutes away by train), so I’ve been to the Met Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Cloisters, to five Broadway shows, a New York Philharmonic concert, and several operas at the Met. That huge endowment comes in handy!

What inspires you to pursue medicine after college?

After shadowing doctors over the past couple years and feeling a calling to pursue medicine, I’ve also been taking some of the science coursework required for medical school, and plan to do a post-baccalaureate year after graduation to finish that coursework before going on to med school. I think it’s very important even for doctors to have a broad humanistic education, so I see my Comp Lit and music studies at Princeton as just as much a preparation for med school as my science classes. All in all, I’m enormously grateful for the diverse range of academic experiences Princeton has afforded me!

How do you think HLS prepared you for college?

I think some of the harder moments at HLS gave me academic confidence of the kind that’s only really possible to get through true difficulty. It also gave me a love of liberal education and the true, the good, and the beautiful, and a mindset of learning to glorify God through my academic pursuits.

(continued from page 5) AP: They do enjoy it! And what’s so wonderful is that even at such a small school, we have that much talent to pull from. And that the kids who are in the Drama Troupe can also play field hockey. So they learn how to balance everything, and still be excellent at everything they do. I think the benefit in having the fourday school week, or shorter for the younger ones, is that they can pursue those interests and parents can still manage what their kids are involved in and not have to take away from school hours.

LL: So have you enjoyed the unique schedule of the Latin School?

AP: We have enjoyed that. It’s allowed us to travel at times when, if we had a traditional five-day school week, we might not have been able to do that. It’s allowed us the flexibility if we needed to stay in our pajamas on Monday and knuckle down and study for tests that coming week, then that’s what we can do. It’s very helpful.

LL: What wisdom would you share with those of us with younger students who are aspiring for good ACT scores in the future?

AP: Look at the big picture. You have to look long-term. There was a period of time where in the Lower School they weren’t writing as much, and I thought, “How are they going to learn to write if they’re not writing?” So then in 7th grade they really started emphasizing writing; and it is amazing what these kids can write because they read so many good things!

If you read good things, you’re going to write good things.

What is your advice for current HLS students?

Learn to find joy in what you’re doing, even the hard stuff. Pray lots!

As a member of the Princeton University Orchestra, Maggie just completed a concert tour in Central Europe, performing at venues in Prague, Bratislava, Budapest, and Vienna.

Maggie will be travelling to Israel for 10 days in June on a funded trip for Ivy League students organized by Christian Union before beginning an internship at the Wake Forest School of Medicine through PICS (Princeton Internships in Civic Service). For 10 weeks, Maggie will observe and aid in the management of Acute Care Surgery, including Trauma Surgery, Surgical Critical Care, and Emergency General Surgery.

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HIGHLANDER SPORTS The 2016 HLS Baseball team earned the first banner to hang in the gym at Spring Meadows after winning the KCAA State Tournament in May. Members of the team were present for the hanging of the banner; the presentation preceded the Boys Varsity Basketball game against Frankfort Christian High School on Jan. 6.

“It’s about time,” says John Henry Fowler, senior baseball player. “I wish it was bigger.”

To earn a banner, teams must win a state championship for Highlands Latin School.

Matt Michel, senior, says the team will “double it” this year, in regards to the number of banners hanging in the gym. “We’ll have another one up there soon.”

The following 4th-6th grade HLS Basketball players were recognized by KCAA for their academic and athletic achievement during the regular season: Academic awards went to George Hall (6th), Jackson Robbins (6th), Will DeWitt (5th), Lincoln Staab (4th), Patrick Hobbs (4th), Tyler Solon (4th), Landry Sipes (6th), Ava Swan (5th), and Scarlett Derhake (4th).

Matt Michel (12th), Bobbie Fowler (10th), Luke Robson (9th), Levi Shinaberry (9th), and Ryan O’Dea (8th) watch as the 2016 Boys Varsity Baseball is hung in the gym at Spring Meadows on Jan. 6.

The following players were named All League: Eli Robson (6th), Alex Beiter (6th), Bo Hamilton (5th), Ryan Kimbell (4th), Jackson Moore (5th), Roland Swan (5th), Samantha Kang (6th), Mary Kate Rohrer (5th), and Sophie Hales (4th).

The Girls JV Basketball team went undefeated in the Bluegrass Invitational on January 28, beating Bluegrass Baptist (53-26), CEC (33-8), and AIE (30-14). Grace Burnett, Hattie Hume, and Lindsey Thomas (pictured at right) were picked for the All-Tournament Team, chosen by the opposing team’s coaches throughout the day. Charlotte Wright (9th) had the best defensive posture throughout the day, and Willow Noltemeyer (10th) had her best jump for jump ball for the CEC game, according to Coach Natalie Malcom.

“Kate Burnett, Hattie Hume, and Lindsey Thomas had double digits in points during the Bluegrass game, which helped us reach our highest scoring game to date,” says Coach Malcom.

Oliver Hedgespeth (Kindergarten) smiles between songs at Upper School students unwrap books from their Sophomores in Mrs. Bramer ’s Chemistry class hold the Primary School Cantata on Dec. 8.

“Secret Santas” at the Upper School Book Exchange. acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin) they made, after testing it for purity.

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To win the Highlands Latin School 7th/8th grade Geography Bee in Cooke Hall on Friday, Jan. 13, Sydney Petrie (7th) correctly answered the following question: “Last August, President Barack Obama announced the expansion of a marine national monument, creating the world’s largest marine protected area.

The Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument is located off the coast of which U.S. state?” (Answer: Hawaii) Jack Robinson (8th) earned Runner-Up. “Geography is more than maps,” says Mr. Thomas, Spring Meadows geography teacher. “It’s all about Earth and its people. It tackles questions of how people shape their environment, how they shape each other, and how their environment shapes them.”

Geography students took a written exam to qualify for the HLS Geo Bee. Top scorers, as pictured above: Samuel Haddow, Jack Robinson, Jonathan Lasoi, A.J. Mangione, Dave Thomas (SM geography teacher), Alethia Boswell, Sydney Petrie, Emma Caudill, Isabel Daniel, Evangeline Mee (CH geography teacher), and Meredith Moser. Isabel Winebrenner and Kashiku Hutcheson are not pictured.

HLS students learn 125 countries, 60 capitals and flags, plus all 50 states and their flags and capitals. In the third trimester, students each choose a country to research for a written report and a fifteen-minute presentation to the class.

“Despite the hard work, [the presentations] are always the most fun part of the year,” says Mr. Thomas. “Students have come dressed in East Indian saris, toting homemade volcanoes, and bearing exotic food. Sometimes the recipes turn out to be delicious. Sometimes, they turn out to be ‘cultural experiences.’ I’m always blown away at how much information students can find about their countries and how much they fall in love with their countries. One former student (now a sophomore) is obsessed with New Zealand and trying to find ways to study abroad there. That obsession started with her country project in 7th grade.”

Sydney will take a qualifying test for the Kentucky State Geography Bee, scheduled for March 31 at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green. If she wins, she will represent Kentucky at the National Championship in Washington, D.C.

Lemlem Hutcheson, Carter McGill, Molly Mast, and Sarah Sixth grade students celebrate their end of Anne of Green Lydia Kratt and Silas Clark show their square-dancing Beth Plummer perform Everyman with their class, Jan. 19. Gables with an etiquette tea in Heritage Hall at CHBC. skills at the 2nd grade “Little House” party, Jan. 26.

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CURRENT HOUSE POINTS House of Andrew................................... 954 House of David................................. 901.25 House of George.............................. 848.75 House of Patrick............................... 937.25

HOUSE EVENTS • According to House Scribe Danielle Fuller (10th), House of Andrew members cleaned out storage closets and dismantled decorations at Uspiritus over the holidays.

• House of David members sorted donations at Dare to Care Food Bank on Jan. 30, according to Head of House Tanner Petrie (12th).

• The House of George hosted a Red Cross Blood Drive Jan. 30, at which over 20 participants donated blood, reported Head of House Matt Michel (12th).

• House of Patrick Lanista Hattie Hume (10th) said House service projects at Franciscan Soup Kitchen involve serving food and drinks to residents. “It’s so much fun helping others and seeing your impact on their lives,” says Hattie.

THE STUDENT SECTION At the HLS Varsity Basketball game against Frankfort Christian on Jan. 6, Josiah Gomez (9th) set a record: ten back handsprings in a row on the basketball court. His gymnastics (and megaphone) help generate spirit at HLS games.

Josiah, along with Cate Jarboe (11th), Mitchell Halsema (11th), and Audrey Dick (9th) were enlisted by Spring Meadows principal Kelly Booker to lead the student section at HLS athletic events.

“We were all four at the first game, sitting with Mrs. Booker, watching the student section of the opposing team and decided we needed that,” says Cate.

Mitchell says the student section adds another element for the HLS community. “We’re trying to build more of a culture around sports.”

A big crowd and being loud, the students said, are the best ways to show support to the HLS teams.

Join the crowd as the Boys’ Varsity Basketball team celebrates Senior Night, Feb. 21 at 6 p.m.

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House Updates

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News, Awards, & Honors

FA C U LT Y

Tony Hernandez and his wife, Katie, welcomed their third daughter, Elenora Isabel, on November 3.

On December 4, Rebekah and Jason Borah welcomed their son, Richard Thomas “Tom” Hill Borah.

STUDENTS M a d e l i n e L a n g e ( ­‘1 6 ) was named to Wisconsin Lutheran College’s Dean’s List for the fall 2016 semester for earning a s e m e s t e r G PA o f 3 . 6 or higher.

Braxton Harstine (5th) and Oliver Noth (4th) competed with 41 other players in the Martin Luther King, Jr. Chess Tournament on Jan. 17 at Atherton High School.

Braxton earned 4th, Oliver earned 1st, and together they earned a 4th-place trophy for the HLS Team.

Emily Steen (3rd) was an angel in the BrownForman Nutcracker at the Kentucky Center for the Arts in December. Hannah Thibaudeau (12th) played a gray soldier, and Carmen Everson (6th) played a “party girl.”

The Crescent Hill 4th Grade Basketball team was featured on the Feb. 4 episode of The Scotty Davenport Show on WBKI TV. Scotty, Head Coach of the Men’s Basketball team at Bellarmine University, spoke to the team about the importance of teamwork, hard work, and focusing on the fundamentals. The Scotty Davenport Show is filmed at Roosters Restaurant.

The HLS Alumni Basketball game, held Jan. 6, hosted former basketball players for a Highlander v. Highlander matchup. Faculty members were also invited to play; the game took place after the Boys’ Varsity game against FCHS. “The game is a chance, however brief, to catch up with your old comrades-in-arms,” said Jacob Bowe, Class of 2011 and member of the first Varsity Basketball team. “This year, though, I think we were all excited to see and play in the new gym on the Spring Meadows campus. It was inspiring to see how much the school has grown.”

Twelve former players, pictured below, participated in this year’s event.

“I know that many of the alumni (myself included) had not touched a basketball since the 2016 game,” said Jacob.

“Mr. Ashby does a good job of balancing the teams so the score is not too lopsided, but I honestly do not think the players care about or pay attention to the score. The clock is a different story.”

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