Harding retires Jake Criswell’s #6 baseball jersey
Congratulations to Jake Criswell (’16). His #6 jersey was retired during halftime of the football game on Friday, November 4.
Congratulations to Jake Criswell (’16). His #6 jersey was retired during halftime of the football game on Friday, November 4.
Our third graders had a great time on their field trip to the Memphis Zoo on November 3rd.
Fourteen Harding football players selected for D2A All District team West 1.
On Friday, November 4 Noah Sharp (P/OF) signed with Northeast Mississippi Community College.
Our lower school art teacher, Mrs. Bridget Cornelius has two pieces of her artwork on display in the After School Special show at ArtsMemphis.
In their school musical “Rockin’ the School Tools,” the students at Cordova entertained their audience with renditions of great 50’s songs, such as Elvis’s “Teddy Bear” and Carl Perkins’s “Blue Suede Shoes.” They “Rock(ed) around the Clock,” looked for the “Yellow Rose of Texas,” and spoke to the “Witch Doctor.” Students played recorders, keyboards, xylophones, glockenspiels, and boomwhackers to keep the show rockin’!
New York Times best-selling author Bob Goff spoke in chapel on Friday, October 28.
Nov. 5 update: Congratulations to Josh Hinkle. He placed 8th overall at the TSSAA State Championships. The boys team placed 7th and the girls team placed 8th.
Oct. 28: The girls took 3rd place and the boys 4th at the TSSAA Div. 2–A Cross County West Region meet yesterday to advance to next week’s state championship meet at Percy Warner State Park near Nashville.
On Tuesday, October 25 Harding White Station students celebrated the 50th day of school and the 50th year of partnership between Harding Academy and White Station Church of Christ. The students and faculty wore 50s attire and had a big sock hop at the end of the school day.
As part of the fourth grade’s study of Memphis and Tennessee history our classes recently enjoyed a field trip to Elmwood Cemetery. The classes participated in a docent-led tour describing the Civil War section of the cemetery, the mausoleums, the yellow fever epidemic, and famous Memphians buried there.
Last week Harding students transported us back to the fictional American small town of Grover’s Corners to observe the everyday lives of its citizens in three performances of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town.
A group of Harding Academy students and adults recently spent 6 days in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, working with Ambassadors for Christ (AFC). Here they are pictured with our friends that work at AFC.