Contributors and Staff

William Beachy is a retired History teacher who spent his entire career at Country Day and continues to live in the New Orleans ares with his wife, Kathryn. Originally from Kansas City, Bill earned his AB from Kenyon College where his classes included one about Athens during the fifth century BCE. During his first year at Country Day, Bill taught Ancient History, which focused for a semester on classical Greece and Rome.

Sam Ferguson loves Greek literature. While he thinks Euripides totally rips, and he appreciates the lucidity of Thucydides, his favorite Greek writer is Homer, who really knocked it out of the park with TheOdyssey.

Justin Gricus once saw the band Styx play at the Hollywood Casino at Greektown in Detroit, MI. Though he’s never completely submerged himself in Styx’s deep river of iconic anthems, he considers his taste for overproduced arena rock of the '70s and '80s to be his Achilles heel.

Robin Heindselman left the Cave at the age of 6, saw her own shadow, and promptly went back in the Cave. She enjoys reading about other people’s realities by firelight.

Howard Hunter has always wanted to be a Hoplite but in his current stage is more sybarite. His basic sophistry and continual solecisms have precluded his rise as Philosopher King of the East Bank of Orleans Parish.

Betsy Kern would not open Pandora’s Box; she follows directions. She’d sell the Golden Fleece and buy Hippolyta’s Girdle. She doesn’t need to fly near the sun; she lives in New Orleans.

Jennifer LaCorte Marsiglia's intro to Greece began in Room 8 at Country Day, where she fondly remembers learning the Greek alphabet and creating a Grecian urn. She continued her studies through her time at Country Day and into college, where Greek life was a thing, and on through law school, where the Socratic method ruled the day. Through it all, her most profound lesson came in a life-