Last week’s chapel services celebrated Epiphany, which is the commemoration of the manifestation of Christ to the gentiles as represented by the Magi. Members of the Middle School Drama Department performed a festival of light for students on the North Campus. At the South Campus 4th Graders portrayed Mary, Joseph and the Magi. For more photos from the services click here.

This July, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Eudora Welty Foundation are sponsoring two week-long seminars on teaching Welty. Upper School English teacher Taylor Kitchings has been selected as one of two high school teachers who will join college faculty from around the region to teach the seminar. Also, Mr. Kitchings will be a co-teacher at a workshop at Millsaps on February 29th on strategies for teaching Welty’s autobiographical One Writer’s Beginnings at the secondary level.

Mr. Kitchings has yet another feather for his cap. Yale University Press has recently published his short story "Mr. Pinky Gone Fishin’" in a collection entitled Tight Lines, which includes stories and essays by such writers as former president Jimmy Carter, Christopher Buckley and Skip Morris.

Mr. Cecil Dexter has joined the Upper School Science Department as a physics instructor. Mr. Dexter, a graduate of Mississippi State with a BS in Nuclear Engineering, worked for the Tennessee Valley Authority for 20 years, first as a managing nuclear engineer, and later as a site training manager at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Facility.

As a part of the ongoing Global Studies Guest Lecturer series, Col. Rob Gordon, senior vice president of City Year, will be visiting St. Andrew’s North Campus this Friday to address students in all three divisions of the school.

Colonel Gordon recently retired from a distinguished career in the United States Army and joined the leadership team at City Year, a member of the AmeriCorps network, an organization he helped found when he was a White House Fellow and Director of Special Operations for the Office of National Service. Prior to joining City Year, Colonel Gordon was Academy Professor of Social Science and Director of American Politics at the United States Military Academy at West Point. He has held a number of command and staff positions, including a tour in Germany, and taught at both the National War College and the Federal Executive Management Center. He also has served as a Center for Public Management Fellow at the Brookings Institution and has been actively involved with national civilian service, co-founding the Service America program at West Point, advising foreign governments on national service systems, and serving as a judge of the President of the United States’ 1998 Service Awards. His awards and decorations include the Legion of Merit, Defense Meritorious Service Medal, two awards of the Meritorious Service Medal, six awards of the Army Commendation Medal, the Outstanding Volunteer Service Medal, the Army Achievement Medal, two awards of the Honorable Order of Saint Barbara, the Parachutist Badge, and the Ranger Tab. He is a member of the French-American Foundation and selected to its Young Leaders Program. A graduate of the National War College and the Army Command and General Staff College, Colonel Gordon received his BS from the United States Military Academy and an MA in public affairs from Princeton University.

For more information about Col. Gordon’s visit please contact Chris Harth St. Andrew’s Director of Global Studies.

The Saints Soccer teams have a couple of district match-ups this week. Tomorrow they take on St. Joe Greenville in Greenville, and on Friday they’ll have a rematch against St. Joe Madison up the parkway at St. Joe. The Girls’ games start at 5:30, boys’ games at 7:00.

There’s a lot of basketball this week too! Girls and boys JV and varsity teams play Enterprise tomorrow at home. Girls JV begins at 4:00, boys JV at 5:00; girls varsity begins at 6:00, boys at 7:30. There are also 7th and 8th grade games tomorrow at Olde Towne. The 8th grade teams will play at Madison Crossing on Thursday, and the varsity teams will play at Hinds AHS on Friday.

Click here for a complete list of games and times.

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