The Newspaper of St. George’s Independent School
The May 2012
Gryphon Gazette
Volume X, Issue VI
Reflecting on the Class of 2012
Photo By: Trish Dianetti
Memorable Moments of the Graduating Class Zoe Leake ’14 Dagny Vaughn’14
Every class, no matter which school or what year, leaves memories when they go. The class of 2012 is no exception, with its many genuine scholars, comedians, and athletes. At the Gazette, we thought it important to give the teachers one last chance to brag on them or embarrass them before the seniors pack up and head to college Dr. Cort Casey’s sophomore English class has been known to be quite the interesting experience. Although he has moved on to other endeavors in his life, he jumped at the opportunity to share his favorite memorable moments of the class of 2012. “John Marc Shelly put his casted leg through a three feet tall, forty-pound glass vase that I had kept our classroom fish in. Glass shattered, gravel spewed forth, Hayden Tupman cried. It was mass chaos on a Chernobyl level,” he says. When was it not mass chaos in that classroom? “Once, while reading about Grendel slaughtering thirty Danish warriors, Albert Cantu let slip a giggle. Immediately after the ‘he he
he’ slipped out, Albert’s face of the lion who scares off returned to that all-too-fa- Thisbe and who chews on her miliar look of Celtic stoicism dropped veil, leaving it blood that is carved in granite,” Dr. stained. Stephen played the Casey recalled lion so well that he totally In a heatupstaged ed moment “Dr. Cort Casey’s sophomore the maof journal jor charwriting that English class has been known a c t e r s same year, to be quite the interesting ex- and stole Rachel Mc- perience.” the scene Neill broke f r o m the still silence of writing them. I never saw Stephen one day with “I AM SWAMP as a quiet student after that GIRL!” and was soon thereaf- day,” he says. You never know ter visited by Mrs. Bran. how the experience of acting Dr. Casey also takes pride will change a person! in his ability to bring the Often Mr. McGraw found man out of his students: “I himself in the position of corremember Andrew King tak- recting the unruly behavior ing his first step in my class of Drew Bishop when he was early one August morning. in the seventh grade. EvBy the end of the year, he eryone deserves a little love was eating solid foods and and appreciation once and a could say ‘Mama’, ‘Dadda’, while, though. and ‘Beowulf ’. Now that is “On Drew’s birthday, I elesome solid teaching!” he said. vated Mr. Bishop to the temMr. Patrick McGraw let us porary status of Cardinal-forlook deeper into the senior the-day in my Church of the class by telling us stories Coach Potato. Drew got to about them in middle school wear my Cardinal’s baseball English and Language Arts. cap all day in class because “Stephen Hayden was a I typed up an official-looking quiet seventh-grade English proclamation that he could student who amazed me with show his other teachers,” he his acting skills one day in said. class when we were reading A Other students needed only Midsummer Night’s Dream. an assignment to achieve Stephen had the minor role optimal performance, like
“Also,” Mr. Culley added, Duncan Monger. “Duncan impressed me with his initia- “when Terry was in kindertive on his seventh-grade re- garten, every time he would search project. He wrote his walk into the classroom he paper on Joe Theismann and would announce, ‘HEY I’M found a way to interview Mr. TERRY AND I’M FROM Theismann at his home in THE COUNTRY.’ Country Germantown. Duncan made accent included.” Skipping ahead a few a DVD of the interview which he donated to the McClain years, Mr. Culley took the time to share Eleazer’s and Library,” he says. Mr. McGraw also reflected Michael Brasher’s Aztec Rap on a sixth-grade Sophie Ken- video in which Brasher did nedy staring wide-eyed as the worm across the hood of he collected manure for his a car. In a moment of weakgarden from her parents’ ness, Mr. Culley also admitted his, and barn, so obviother ously wonder- “HEY, I’M TERRY the f a c u l t y ing what some AND I’M FROM THE m e m b e r s ’ , crazy teacher appreciation could want COUNTRY.” for Amanda with such a disgusting substance as ma- Bennett’s Twitter feed “funny things Jennifer Lincoln nure. Mr. J.P. Culley knows that says,” as well as any time teachers’ stories about Terry Lincoln opens her mouth. Mrs. Kristi Schultz dubbed Eleazer could take up this whole article. “When Terry the year of teaching this class was just starting out at SGIS “the year of the most broken — about Junior Kindergar- lab equipment” and shared ten — he had an extreme ob- that at their sophomore session with pirates. In the lock-in, Mr. Luther Mercer junior kindergarten room, dressed up like Santa. He there is a loft, and during the proceeded to fall asleep and day Terry would climb up to nobody could find him for the the top of the loft with an eye rest of the night. patch on and act like a pirate, even though he looks nothing Continued on pg. 7 like Johnny Depp.