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

• GCL Fall Forum Reminder to come for the GCL Fall Forum this morning, November 17th at 8:30am in the Lyceum to hear “Stories of Hope from God’s Faithfulness in the Classroom.” In this season of thanksgiving, let’s gather to hear a panel of teachers share stories of hope from their classrooms and how they see Jesus at work in the lives of their students.
• Cookie Dough Fundraiser Geneva sophomores are raising funds for their upcoming Europe trip by selling Order Up frozen cookie dough. Made from scratch with real butter, cookie dough makes a wonderful Christmas gift. Each box contains one dozen pre-shaped cookies with gluten-free options available. Deadline to order is November 21. Deliveries will occur the week of December 8. See the Landing for the link to purchase.
• Early Release Early Release is this Friday, November 21st. As a reminder dismissal times vary based on school. 11:30 — Grammar11:45 — Logic12:00 — Rhetoric
• Land Announcement Be sure to read the announcement that came out last Thursday about the exciting campus expansion. These additional 11.2 acres are an answer to many prayers and came in God’s perfect timing!

This Week in History

On November 18th, 1883 a brand-new and uniformed way to tell time in the U.S., the “Railroad Standard Time”, was adopted after being proposed by a Connecticut school teacher, Charles F. Dowd. Dowd’s plan divided the country into four zones — you may have heard of these: Eastern Time, Central Time, Mountain Time, and Pacific Time. In Boerne, we fall into the Central time zone. Adjacent zones are each one hour apart. Before this proposal, every city and town kept its own local time based on where the sun was in the sky. “Noon” was simply when the sun was highest in the sky. Imagine trying to decide the exact second the sun was at its highest point in the day and for the whole town, or state, to agree. This system worked fine until the world got faster with the addition of railroad traveling. Train schedules were impossible to keep straight as station masters couldn’t keep up with the variety of “local” times. That’s when Charles proposed this new way to keep time. On The 18th, at exactly noon, the clocks in each zone were synchronized and the day became known as “The Day of Two Noons” because in many places, clocks were reset and people had “two noons” in one day.

Did You Know?

Did you know that alumni Grace Smith, Class of 2017 and  niece of Coach Calderon, recently received an Emmy? The Emmy was in the category, “Special Event Coverage – Live” which covered the Kansas City Fourth of July Celebration. Her Emmy statuette is proudly displayed in her home. She works at KCTV5 in Kansas City as a general assignments reporter and a weekend fill-in anchor. During her time at Geneva, she was a member of the yearbook team at that time, led by Libby Lunsford.

Fun Faculty Fact

Grammar School PE coach, Tracy Calderon, is in her 19th year of teaching PE at Geneva. Before that, she was a San Antonio public school teacher for 16 years. Coach Calderon grew up in Oklahoma and was an All-State basketball player, with a scoring record of over 3,000 points, She went on to play for the University of Alabama. Basketball wasn’t her only talent, she was also her high school valedictorian. She’s loved coaching several girls basketball teams in both Logic and Rhetoric. Coach Calderon’s son Joel attended Kinder through 12th at Geneva and she has loved the community and being part of the life here. She treasures getting to watch kids from kindergarten all the way to their senior year. We love you Mrs. Calderon!