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MeMphis University school ARTS The Producers takes an extra bow 20 SPORTS Lacrosse team claims state title 26 GIVING Students pack Inside 56,000 food-bank meals 44 Volume 14, Number 3, Summer 2012 Table of Contents by Mr. Barry Ray, Upper School principal Cover Story 3 European Travels Owlcolades 10 Goldstein Academic All-Star days off before the new semester begins. 11 Foreign Language Awards Winter’s chill seems unending, but even- 12 Chess Team and EconChallenge Success 13 Notable Honors tually it yields to warmer, longer days. 15 Book Awards and Special Honors To EvEry Springtime invigorates the earth, yet it 16 Faculty Owlcolades SEASoN THErE seems to zap student energy levels. Many Fine Arts seniors view these last few months of 18 Fine Arts Updates 19 Music Theory Class high school as a time to be endured. As IS A PUrPoSE 20 Musical Theater: The Producers students elect new leaders for the coming 22 Shankman at The Jimmys In the midst of summer, I am reminded year, seniors are thinking about college, 22 Art Awards of cycles. and juniors are thinking about being seniors. Sports Buzz Life is always changing, always revolv- Spring gives way to summer, the school 23 Sports Updates 24 Varsity Basketball ing. Every end makes for a new beginning. year ends, and students go their separate 26 Varsity Lacrosse We see this clearly in nature’s seasons, which ways – to camps and academic programs 27 Fencing 28 Varsity Baseball bring variations that are essential to life. at home and abroad or vacations with 29 Trapshooting The school year also has its seasons, family and friends. 30 Varsity Swimming 31 Varsity Soccer beginning in late summer with students Now with summer ending, I hope you 32 Varsity Track eager for the challenges of the next grade will take a moment to step back, consider 34 Varsity Tennis 35 Varsity Wrestling level. This anticipation is magnified for the school cycle, and gain some perspec- 36 Ninth-Grade Basketball seniors, who are beginning the last high tive. By understanding the challenges each 37 Lower School Basketball school cycle, which will lead them to a new season brings, you can meet them with a 38 Lower School Track 38 Lower School Swimming adventure in a college or university. They plan for success. For seniors this means 39 Baseball Update enthusiastically take on leadership roles and anticipating the pressures of first-semester 40 Lower School Wrestling 40 Lower School Tennis get involved in school activities. deadlines and the expectations of dealing 41 Soccer Update Summer gives way to fall, and the college with the college process. 42 Junior Varsity and Lower School Lacrosse application process is in full swing. There I hope all students resolve to take Campus News are college essays to write and deadlines advantage of campus opportunities in the 43 Rube Goldberg Creations 44 Students vs. Hunger to meet. For most seniors academic expec- new academic season. Plan to do some- 46 Graduates’ Parting Words tations have never been higher; personal thing you have not done before. Make a 48 Caught on Camera responsibilities have never been greater. new friend. Above all else, challenge Insights The excitement of fall activities offers a yourself to do your best every day. 49 Heartbeat Leaders boost – sporting events, theater productions, The 2012-13 year is like a blank page, 50 Protecting Kids Online 50 College Corner school publications, civic service projects, waiting for you to write the script. The and Student Council activities. Seniors are storyline options are endless. It will be anticipating the arrival of college acceptance what you make it. letters. The holidays are just around the corner. Here’s hoping you make your next COVER PHOTO: As fall fades into winter, there are cycle the best ever. Marshall Sharp (front) and Jackson semester exams and then a few welcome Loeb (back) recreate Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man while standing in front of a Vitruvian Man statue in Vinci, Italy, on an MUS in Europe trip. Photo by Mr. Grant Burke, art instructor. See story on page 4. Inside MUS 2 Summer 2012 Junior Jackson Loeb works on his levitation skills during free time at La Giraudière in France. Table of Contents LearningLearning onon thethe FlyFly Students take off for Europe for lessons that expand the classroom – and the mind The Genius of Leonardo da Vinci - 4 French Immersion - 6 Living Latin History - 7 Iconic London Recording Studios - 8 Inside MUS Summer 2012 3 Genius Exposed Travelers Explore and Record the Life and Works of Leonardo da Vinci by Liz Copeland ixteen notebooks were on created their own camera obscura by a flight to Paris this sum- covering the windows of the break- Smer, destined for a journey fast room with black plastic pierced entitled “The Genius of Leonardo with a small hole, which allowed da Vinci.” The plan was for 16 the French countryside to be pro- students from the Class of 2013 jected upside-down on the opposite to fill the blank pages with draw- wall. Of course, each boy also had a ings, inspirations, and imaginings digital camera or a phone camera as they explored the life and works to record his adventures. of the quintessential Renaissance Their time at La Giraudière man. Leonardo’s notebooks were, included daily classroom sessions after all, just blank sheets of parch- Sylvester Tate contemplates on drawing, photography, or art ment before he filled them with the chess board at La Giraudière. history. A couple of lectures were anatomical masterpieces, engineer- magic – in front of La Giraudière, co-taught by 9-month-old Elliot ing marvels, and philosophical which was home base in the Loire Burke – from a baby backpack – observations. Valley for nine days. This was and her dad. Mr. Grant Burke, art instruc- arguably the most photo-centric “She did a pretty decent job,” tor and an MUS in Europe leader, MUS trip ever. Burke said. blogged photographic evidence Each student made his own The MUS contingent, which that the students did, indeed, rudimentary camera that collapsed included Burke’s wife, Mrs. Mandi sketch, take notes, and journal in into his notebook. Constructed Burke, and Instructor in Science Bill their notebooks. The blog also dis- of matte board, duct tape, and Taylor, took a variety of day trips plays photos of the boys posing in Coke-can aluminum, the cameras from La Giraudière, including to front of Château du roi René, visit- captured images on photographic the beach at La Baule and Château ing the Cesbron chocolate factory, paper, which the boys processed in d’Amboise, where Leonardo spent and levitating – via fish-eye-lens an improvised darkroom. They also his final days. Then the students moved on to Paris, where they toured the Louvre and Orsay museums, climbed the Eiffel Tower, and took a rainy boat At left: Chaz Kemp works on a sketch of the harbor at Vernazza, one of Cinque Terre’s five towns Inside MUS 4 Summer 2012 Gathered in front of La Giraudière before dinner are (left to right) Frederick Scharff, Christian Sanders, John Brand, William Hoehn, Alex Weaver, Mac Trammell, Scott Kadien, Remy Rea, Marshall Sharp, Tucker Brock, Fort Robinson, Jackson Loeb, Sylvester Tate, William Mann, Andrew Miller, and Chaz Kemp, all of the Class of 2013. ride on the Seine. At the Louvre towns clinging to the rugged tours, St. Jerome in the Wilderness,” the group viewed the Mona Lisa Italian Riviera cliffs – to hike and Burke said. and happened upon a special sketch the waterfront at Vernazza. It was an action-packed trip, exhibition of Leonardo’s The Virgin A stop in Vinci, Leonardo’s birth- running from city to city, present- and Child with Saint Anne, which place, included a visit to Museo ing lessons that earned students a also showcased some of the artist’s Ideale Leonardo da Vinci, which semester credit. Burke said he would earlier paintings, compositional features models of inventions from not have missed this trip, his first sketches, and preparatory drawings his notebooks. MUS in Europe experience, and, from his notebooks. “The kids were intrigued to see word is, his fellow travelers agree. A night train brought the how much he understood about Andrew Miller will never group to Florence, Italy, where photography, including the use forget his sense of awe at entering Leonardo lived and worked for of lenses and the camera obscura,” St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican or many years, beginning with his Burke said. his fascination with the architec- apprenticeship in Verrocchio’s After a stop in Sienna, it was ture of Notre Dame Cathedral in workshop at age 14. During several off to Rome to see the Coliseum Paris. The trip was also a time of days in the area, they visited the and Forum, Borghese Gallery, and growth for him. Uffizi Gallery, toured the Duomo, Vatican Museums. “It opened my eyes to a and climbed to the top of Giotto’s “We searched the Vatican completely different way of life Campanile. They also traveled galleries and found a da Vinci that was, at some points, uncom- to the Cinque Terre region – five painting not normally on the fortable for me,” Miller said. Inside MUS Summer 2012 5 Students enjoy the first course of their three- Mr. Burke teaches the students how to build course lunch at La Giraudière. their notebook cameras. Andrew Miller (foreground) and William Mann take a spin on the carousel at Guérande. William Mann came away absolutely unachievable to most history changes. from the experience with a new people at the time.