The Magazine of Memphis University School • December 2006 from the Editor Everything Is Going Global
The Magazine of Memphis University School • December 2006 From the Editor Everything is going global. We’ve got a global economy, global warming, global positioning systems, global security, global communications, global education, global conserva- tion, global websites, and the list goes on. Global issues affect everyone. Here at MUS, we’ve been going global for MEMPHIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL almost 50 years. Mr. Bill Hatchett inaugurated travel abroad Founded 1893 in 1958 with a two-month tour that included England, MISSION STATEMENT France, Switzerland, Italy, Greece, and the Mediterranean. Memphis University School is a Many trips have followed to far-away places such as Turkey, college-preparatory school dedicated to Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Norway, Sweden, Finland, academic excellence and the development Russia, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Scotland, Guatemala, and Belize. of well-rounded young men of strong moral character, consistent with the Our boys have seen the Pope in Rome, Shakespearean performances in Stratford- school’s Christian tradition. upon-Avon, tennis matches at Wimbledon, the opera in London, the coffins of Lenin and Stalin in Red Square, the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace, the Great HEADMASTER Pyramid of Giza in Egypt, the rain forest in Belize. They have studied music, geography, Ellis L. Haguewood history, art, architecture, geology, and, of course, literature. They have learned about BOARD OF TRUSTEES Burns, Keats, Shelley, Byron, Hemingway, King Arthur, Napoleon, and World War I. P. Trowbridge Gillespie, Jr. ’65, Chairman Spanish teacher Mindy Broadaway explains it best when she says, “Somehow, once Musette S. Morgan, Vice Chairman you visit a place, everything you have ever read or seen about the country comes to life, Richard L.
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