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Hanging out with... Senior Owen Berger and junior Emmett Berger
Get the inside scoop on some of the best times with the Berger brothers.
Emmett Berger (left) and Owen Berger Riley Sanders photo What’s y’alls favorite thing about each other? Owen Berger: My favorite thing about Emmett is that he offers to drive me in the morning. Emmett Berger: My favorite thing about Owen is that he’s able to help me with classes because he took them last year. Describe each other in three words. OB: Runner, creative and annoying. EB: Smart, athletic and lazy. Any nicknames y’all have for each other? OB: No. What’s y’alls favorite hobby to do together? OB: I love playing ping pong, and also a while ago, we used to play this game where one person would hold a basketball, and the other one would have to throw a tennis ball at him, and you’d have to hit the tennis ball with the basketball midair, and we made a game out of it. What is something you all fight over constantly? OB: Whose shirt is whose. EB: Clothes. What do you and your brother have most in common? OB: People say we talk the same. What’s a weird habit of your brother? OB: He runs for fun, I’ll put it that way. EB: He always eats cereal out of the box without milk, and I just don’t get that. Funniest memory together? OB: We make fun of our sister together a lot. What is Owen/Emmett good/bad at? OB: Emmett is good at hacking into other people’s Netflix accounts. EB: Owen is good at soccer and saying he’s going to one place and then going to another. What about Owen/Emmett annoys you the most? OB: He stalks me. EB: Most annoying thing about Owen is that he says that I stalk him even though I don’t stalk him. What was your biggest fight or argument about? EB: Shirts.
LIFE A FUN DAY
Riley Sanders photo After nearly three weeks of classes, fifth grader Ethan Cohen (above) lets loose, jumping over the obstacle during Fun Day Sept. 6. The event featured a variety of physical activities for kids to bounce on and included food trucks from In-N-Out. Fun Day is hosted alternately between St. Mark’s and Hockaday every other year in the fall.
Life in brief PHOTO PROGRAM BHUTAN EXHIBIT WILL BE IN NEARBURG The school’s photography program will showcase a gallery of photos from its trip to Bhutan Sept. 25 in Nearburg Hall. Over the summer from June 13 to June 25, 15 members of the program traveled to Bhutan, where they took a variety of pictures, including pictures of the architecture, landscapes and locals. BLUES CLUB REVITALIZED After a one year hiatus, Blues Club is back and will be having their second performance at an Austin Street Dinner Oct. 12 at 6 p.m. This year, junior Raymond Jurcak is Blues Club president, and physics instructor Stephen Houpt is the club sponsor again. Their first performance was
during the club fair Sept. 12 in Spencer Gym. CHOIR PREFORMED IN ENGLAND OVER SUMMER The choir visited England for the group’s annual summer trip July 18 to Aug. 3, singing at several sites around the country, including Canterbury Cathedral, Winchester Cathedral and, most notably, Westminster Abbey. Performances ranged from traditional evensongs to more of a concert style, with the choir selecting its own pieces, not following the standard service pattern. Sophomore Camp Collins was featured as a soloist throughout the week. LEE BERGER COMING TO VISIT FOR FOURTH YEAR Dr. Lee Berger, an anthropologist will be visiting Oct. 11 to speak to both Upper and Middle
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them. Although they don’t know a lot about the competition, their main focus is unpacking about 3000 pounds of material and equipment for putting their shop back together.
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Junior Ayush Saha and his art
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A peek into the photography team’s trip to Bhutan and the photos they took.
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DEBATE PAIRING FINDS SUCCESS IN LOCAL COMPETITION Junior Wheeler Sears and senior Harris Wilson won the national Grapevine Classic debate tournament Sept. 8. Wilson and Sears won four of five prelim debates, seeding sixth entering elimination. Of the 150 competitors ranked in preliminary competition, Wilson was ranked the seventh best speaker and Sears the eighth best speaker. Sears says the team won four straight debates in the single elimination bracket including a 3-0 victory over South Eugene to be crowned the tournament champions, and they hope to extend their success over the year as they continue to compete along with many of their fellow debaters.
VISITING SCHOLAR COMING NOVEMBER Willard E. Walker, Jr. ’66 Visiting Scholar Robert Edsel ’75 will ROBOTICS TEAM PREPARES be visiting Nov. 1 and Nov. 2. FOR FIRST COMPETITION He is recognized for his work The robotics team, led by roin art preservation and treasury botics sponsor Doug Rummel with recovery, as he has spent the last senior captains Andrew Smith and 13 years doing research on the Perry Naseck, gear up for their Monuments Men and Women, first competition in the third week the soldier-scholars who helped of September. save some of the world’s art from The BEST competition — destruction during World War II. boosting, engineering, science He has located and and technology — is a Home interviewed twenty Monument Depot robot where the team will Officers. have to construct the robot from He is the number one scratch and attach the brains and best-selling author of three motors the organization gives non-fiction books, Rescuing Da — Dylan Liu, Matthew Zhang, Sam Goldfarb, Sahit Dendekuri, Sam Ahmed, Matthew Zhang, Mark Tao
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Vinci, The Monuments Men and Saving Italy.
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