Highlights from this Week’s Fly By
Welcome to the Fly By with Callyanne McCrea
School Theme for the Year
This year’s theme is Hope from Psalm 71:5:
“For you, O Lord, are my hope, my trust, O Lord, from my youth.”
Key Reminders
- End Of Year Awards
Eagle Award At the conclusion of each school year, the Logic School faculty vote for the 8th grade male and female students they believe best exemplified what it means to be an outstanding Geneva student.
The 8th grade girl chosen for the Eagle Award is Brynlee Bizon
The 8th grade boy chosen for the Eagle award is Ben Burkhart
GK Chesterton The G.K. Chesterton Award is given each year to the Outstanding Senior Thesis Presenter. These students are eligible for consideration for the award based on their research, written work, and presentation. This does not necessarily mean that students under consideration have the top grades in the Senior Thesis class. Rather, they are nominated for this honor if they show an outstanding depth of analysis combined with the ability to present their thoughts in a winsome and persuasive manner. The ultimate award winner is determined by separate judges based solely upon the final presentation and defense.
This year’s G.K. Chesterton Award Winner: Brady Chandler
Aquila Award At the conclusion of each school year, the faculty and staff vote for the senior male and senior female students they believe best strive towards the standard set by the school’s Portrait of a Graduate. The criteria includes not only academic excellence, but also extracurricular involvement, behavioral integrity, and leadership amongst their peers. In Rhetoric School, these honorees receive the Aquila (Aquila is Latin for “eagle”) Award, the school’s highest honor. The names of these outstanding young men and women are recorded on a perpetual plaque in the L/R admin building.
The Senior girl chosen for the Aquila Award is Elle Chalmers
The Senior boy chosen for the Aquila Award is Jonathan Taylor
Field Day Winner: House of Sayers
House of the Year Winner: House of Lewis and House of Chaucer
Paideia Teacher Awards Geneva recognizes the most outstanding teachers of the year selected by their peers to receive this esteemed award with the Paideia Award.
Grammar School – Pam Chesser
Logic School– Tony Moninski
Rhetoric School– Ina Perales
Philip and Barbara Green Scholarship for Faculty Enrichment The Green Scholarship is an award given to three full-time classroom teachers that have served at least 3 years at Geneva. This annual award is to further their professional development through an enriching experience to enhance them as an educator, elevate what they are providing to the students in the classroom, and to be shared with their peers upon their return.
Chris Carraway will travel on an adventure called “Alexandria and Ancient Egypt”
Tony Moninski will take the “Ancient Greek Mathematics: A Philosophical and Historical Odyssey”
Susan Greenlees will travel to Oxford, Pisa and Rome “Exploring Mathematicians and their Inventions”
