December 2019

1. Latin Fall Festivus

A dedicated delegation of 57 Upper and Lower School students resisted the siren song of the College GameDay broadcast on November 2 and performed very well at the 12th Annual Latin Fall Festivus. Full results are posted here.

2. Saturnalia (a celebration of the traditional ancient Roman winter holiday) will be held in the Wunderlich Auditorium during OP on Tuesday, December 3. Refreshments will be served, and the club officers will go over information pertaining to our annual service project. All Upper School and Lower School Latin Club members are encouraged to attend.

3. A total of 35 Upper School students recently participated in the 2019-2020 Classical Association of the Middle West and South Latin Translation Contest. Last year, we did not receive the results of this competition until the end of April, so it will be quite a while until we hear anything.

4. Semester exams for the Department of Classical and Modern Languages will be administered on Wednesday, December 18.

November 2019

1. The Latin Fall Festivus will take place on Saturday, November 2 from 7:45 AM to 11:55 AM at Houston High School. Contest information is posted on onCampus (on the course bulletin board page), and students should have received an additional information packet in class.

2. MUS AP Latin students recently participated in the ALIRA (ACTFL Latin Interpretive Reading Assessment), a language proficiency exam administered by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. The exam ranks students according to a 10-point proficiency scale. Out of the 16 students in the class, 13 of them earned one of the top two recognitions:

Advanced Rating (highest score possible): Jacob Rickels, Cooper Grinspun, Will Schuessler

Intermediate 5 Rating (next-highest score possible): Samy Paul, Fawwaz Omer, Doug Curtis, Max Shackelford, Walker Burks, Ryan Peng, Cullen Lonergan, Hart Gowen, Edwin Shy, Jack Jabbour

Congratulations to all of these students!

3. The annual Latin Veterani Dinner recently took place, an event that celebrates the progress of "veteran" Latin students in the Memphis area. A group of MUS students from Advanced Readings in Latin and Advanced Placement Latin joined students from St. Mary's, White Station, and Germantown for an evening of fellowship at Pete and Sam's Italian Restaurant. Professor Geoff Bakewell of Rhodes College was the featured speaker.

In the "Elvis Room" at Pete and Sam's.