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

• New Road It’s an exciting morning with the grand opening of our new road! You likely saw the map that was posted yesterday explaining traffic flow. As a reminder, this road is only open from 7:00 to 8:45am and then again from 2:30-4:30pm. During all other windows of time, campus should be accessed from Cascade Caverns road. As we make our way to school this morning, let us thank the Lord together for His provision through the generosity of all of those who contributed. Check Amy Metzger’s post for all of the road details.
• TEFA Deadline Today, March 17th is the last day to fill out the application for TEFA.
• Lyceum Lectures Join us a week from tomorrow, March 25th, for our Spring Lyceum Lecture with Rhetoric Humanities teacher Rick Poole. Each Winter and Spring, the Logic and Rhetoric School put on an evening lecture given by one of our very own Geneva Faculty or Staff members on a topic of their choosing. Here’s Dr. Clay Carpenter and Mr. Poole with a sneak peek into this upcoming Spring Lecture.

This Week in History

On March 23, 1839, the initials “O.K.” are first published in The Boston Morning Post. During the late 1830s, it was a practice among the young educated circles to purposefully misspell words, abbreviate them and then use them as slang when talking to one another. In this case, “ok” was a play off the misspelling of all correct spelled oll korrect. Similar to how we use our own slang today like lol or jk or ttyl, the “in crowd” of the 1830s had a whole collection of their own terms. 187 years after the first published ‘ok’, this popular term is deeply embedded into our English language.

Did You Know?

Did you know that on the Spring Break Europe trip, Juniors got to listen to their teachers speak on the different places they visited? Complete with maps, short bios, and recorded audio Rhetoric Instructor, Ryan Newcom, developed ‘Geneva Audio Tours’ in order to enrich the experience for our Juniors that much more.

Fun Faculty Fact

Rhetoric Humanities teacher, Rick Poole, was born in Alabama but lived in a dozen or so states before landing back in Texas for good. He graduated from UTSA and before teaching, Mr. Poole had 20 years in the business world. In the early 90’s, he was a roadie for various rock and country acts and spent some time in Tennessee writing songs. He considers himself a Christian book nerd and has been deeply affected by CS Lewis and Tolkien, both of which are greatly bound up in his testimony. Mr. Poole loves the Beatles, the rain, medieval poetry, and playing the guitar. His wife, Wendy, subs at Geneva and their daughter Lucy is a current 6th grader. Mr. Poole says that what he loves most about teaching at Geneva is that he gets to help raise the next generation of Christian leaders that the world so greatly needs. You are a fan favorite, Mr Poole!