News Releases

• SAS Seniors Offer Labor to Area Non-Profits

  

  The St. Andrew’s-Sewanee School senior class recently ventured off campus together for a day of service to the Jasper, Monteagle and Sewanee communities. Outreach projects included helping to clean up the University Cemetery, offering classroom help to children and teachers at the Jasper Head Start, Monteagle Elementary School and University Childcare Center, painting the playground equipment at the Sewanee Community Center, starting the construction of a mini-climbing wall at the Sewanee Children’s Center, and offering landscaping labor to projects at Otey Parish Church and Sewanee Elementary School. The day of service was part of A Sense of Place, a longstanding yearlong senior requirement at SAS that combines evening lectures with daylong activities exploring the geology, history, arts, literature, and religious traditions of the region. The guest speaker for this unit was Dixon Myers, SAS parent and Coordinator for University Outreach at Sewanee. Mr. Myers led the seniors through a series of exercises to heighten awareness of the needs of others.

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• Traditions, Dogs, & Rubber Boots: The SAS Experience

  

  Listen as Fr. John Thomas, Head of St. Andrew's-Sewanee School, sits down with new heads from four other boarding schools and Peter Baron of AdmissionsQuest to discuss what makes the SAS experience valuable and unique.

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• SAS and Costa Rican Students Swap Mountains and Clouds

  

  Each year, St. Andrew's-Sewanee School and the Cloud Forest School of Monteverde, Costa Rica exchange one student for one semester. The program gives these students the opportunity to hone a second language, learn about a new culture, and learn just how much beauty and warmth the two schools share. This year's exchange students Selina Miller and Beatriz Villalobos-Mora agree that they will return home changed. Beatriz looks forward to returning home as an older more mature person. “At SAS I have begun to learn how to be an adult, to be independent and responsible for myself.” Selina will return having fallen in love with a lifestyle that is closer to the land, “I’ve learned to live so much more simply and less wastefully while being here...Costa Rica has changed my perception of things and helped me grow as a person.”

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• Dean to Give Stuck Lecture

  

  Meet us at the confluence of history, English, religion and outdoor adventure as SAS teacher Patrick Dean lectures on the life of Hudson Stuck, former archbishop of Alaska and the Yukon and the first person to climb Denali (Mt. McKinley).

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• Meet the 2008-09 Claiborne Scholars

  

  Seeking boarding students who have the strength to lead, the aptitude for academic excellence, and the desire to serve… Claiborne Scholarships are awarded to new boarding students entering ninth or tenth grade who have a strong academic record and exhibit leadership qualities that reflect a sense of honor and a commitment to serving the community. This merit-based program is open to all families, including those who would not qualify for need-based aid. The 2008-09 recipients of the Claiborne Scholarship are: Kathryn Hansen of Wilmington, Dela.; Jessica Honiker of Sevierville, Tenn.; and Michael Rudolph of Woodstock, Ga. They join Elizabeth Franklin of Hilham, Tenn; Anna Condon of Memphis, Tenn.; Taylor Kavanaugh of Danielsville, Ga.; Greer Sims of Ambrose, Ga.; Jacob Brashear of Lexington, Ky.; and John Winston Garth of Athens, Ala. Do you have what it takes to be a Claiborne Scholar? Contact our Office of Admissions today to find out.

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• Quid Cogitas?

  

  A recent New York Times column by Maureen Dowd has sparked discussions and creativity in Bill Seavey's Latin classes and on the school's intranet board, SASSAFRAS. "I've been able to put our Catullus and Horace readings on hold for a week or two in order to allow the more advanced students to study this timely article and to understand just how valuable and relevant their Latin and classical education is," said Seavey. "I was amused by the facility our students displayed in making up clever phrases in Latin, such as Obamanatio or Biden tempus meum."

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• Teachers Deal With Economy in the Classroom

  

  One of the great freedoms of being a private school teacher is that you don't have to worry about what is going to be on the year-end standardized tests. For students, that means being able to cover topics when they are timely, even if they aren't part of the original syllabus. Recently Burki Gladstone’s World History II has been enjoying that liberty. The course usually deals with Asian and African history, culture and religion. This year, Ms. Gladstone has taken the opportunity of the economic crisis to look more carefully at the origins of the modern economy and to explore the economic issues currently in the news.

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• Womack Receives Honors for Excellence in Writing

  

  Senior Will Womack recently received a National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Achievement Award in Writing. The recipients were chosen from 1,789 students nominated in their junior year.

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• The Unofficial Graduation Requirements

  

  Every school has its official graduation requirements. At St. Andrew's-Sewanee School those include all the core courses, completing your personal creedal statement, the Senior Seminar, and the infamous Hamlet paper. What's not listed in our catalogue, though, are the unofficial graduation requirements - participating in at least one all-night reading with classmates in front of the Spencer Room fireplace, swimming in the Res, walking through a cave, and once, at least once, riding some whitewater.

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• A College Rep for Each Senior

  

  In an average year, SAS welcomes close to 50 representatives from colleges and universities across the country. That’s almost one college representative for each member of the senior class.

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