Summer Latin Challenge Winners

Congratulations to Rahul Mehra ("Let's go, Cubs!" sign in Wrigley Field), Bailey Keel ("Lord, direct us" motto of London), and Richard Ouyang (Latin entry sign at Fishbourne Palace).

Summer Latin

Before classes even begin, I'll award some bonus homework points to the first person to send me a correct translation of each Latin sign that I've come across this summer.

+5 points (the blue banner, to the top left of the unfortunate advertisement)

+2 points

+15 points (All of the Latin on the orange sign.  Pardon the glare - AEDIFICIUM is the first word in line 3; IN BRITANNIA in line 4.)

End of the Year

Thanks for a great year.  Hope everyone has a nice summer.

Spring 2014 Exam Study Guide

The exam study guide is posted here.

Foreign language exams are scheduled for Thursday, May 15.

Trigon Photos

Photos of the 2nd Annual MUS Trigon Championship are posted here.  Congratulations to Bays Webb for a hard-fought victory.

The MUS Film Club is editing a video of the event, complete with color commentary from Mr. Suddarth, Mr. Smythe, and Coach Torrey.  I'll post a link to the video whenever it becomes available.

Special thanks to all of those who helped with the event: Mr. Smith (IT support, establishing a live chat session with our trigon friends in England); Mrs. Greer from the communications department; Mr. Greer, Mr. Fudge, and Mr. Burke from the fine arts department.

2014 Phaedrus Latin Composition Contest

Five MUS Latin students have been recognized in the 2014 Phaedrus Latin Composition Contest.  In this competition, students write an original fable in Latin, in the same tradition of the Roman fabulist Phaedrus (sort of the Roman equivalent of the Greek storyteller Aesop).  The contest is sponsored by New St. Andrews College.

275 students from 20 different states competed this year.  The contest rewards three overall winners with cash prizes and then recognizes a group of finalists and semi-finalists who were also in the running.

Finalists – Salman Haque and Stephen Pacheco

Semi-Finalists – Tejvir Vaghela, Kamar Mack, and Jerry Oates

Congratulations to these students for a job well done!

2014 Convention Results

It was certainly an eventful weekend in Murfreesboro: two Certamen finals matches coming down to the very last question, a charioteer being thrown from his chariot, and our neighbors to the south hitching a ride home with us after their van was stolen from the parking lot.

In the end, we captured our seventh consecutive TJCL title.  We are very proud of the hard work and dedication of all of the MUS Latin students who made this victory possible.  Special recognition goes to the six MUS students who scored enough points to qualify for the overall top ten out of all of the students at the convention: Patrick Murphy, Will McAtee, Brooks Eikner, Salman Haque, Richard Ouyang, and Jackson Moody.
 
Full convention results are posted here.  We'll go for eight in a row next year in Gatlinburg.

Bernice Fox Writing Contest

Four MUS Latin students have received commendation in this year's Bernice L. Fox Classics Writing Contest: Jack Hawkins, Stephen Pacheco, Salman Haque, and Kamar Mack.

This annual writing contest is administered by the Department of Classics at Monmouth College (IL). This year's topic was "Twelve Modern Labors of Hercules: What twelve labors would Hercules have today and how would he complete them?"

Monmouth recognizes one overall winner and then selects the top 15% or so of submissions for honorable mention. MUS is the only school in Tennessee to have winners in this year's competition.

The complete list of winners is posted here.

Final Convention Reminders

Click here for a sheet with final convention information for students and parents.

All students who are going on the trip need to attend a mandatory meeting next Tuesday, April 22 in the Wunderlich Auditorium during OP.

There are still openings in many of the convention events.  Anyone who would like to compete in an event that he is not currently signed up for should talk to his Latin teacher.

2014 National Latin Exam Scores

77 Summa Cum Laude Gold Medals (students in this range score in the top 10% nationwide)
34 Maxima Cum Laude Silver Medals
21 Magna Cum Laude
14 Cum Laude

Special recognition goes to the 18 perfect scores we had, tying the school record we set two years ago:

Latin One: Jackson Moody, Jason Wang, Charlie Evans, Benton Ferebee, Jon Staffel, Chang Yu, Matthew Temple, Jackson Howell, Alexander Goodwin

Latin Two: Tom Wells, Henry Trammell, Brooks Eikner, Aneesh Ram

Latin Three: Witt Fesmire, Patton Orr, Bilal Siddiq, Will McAtee

Latin Four: Richard Ouyang

Congratulations to all of our NLE award winners for all of their hard work.

Newspaper Article

Click here to read an article about Latin in today's Commercial Appeal.  The MUS Latin program is mentioned.

Convention Tryout Reminder

Tomorrow (Wednesday, April 9) immediately after school:

1. Olympika / Chariot Race - Meet Coach Torrey in his office.

2. Mythology Spelling Bee / Principal Parts Bee - Meet me in LS 106.

All of these events are open to both Upper School and Lower School students. 

CAMWS Translation Contest

MUS has two winners in the 2013-2014 Latin Translation Contest sponsored by the Classical Association of the Middle West and South.

Congratulations to Salman Haque for placing in the top 10 to earn a $250 cash prize (for the second year in a row) and to Richard Ouyang for earning a letter of commendation.

This is a very difficult competition for advanced high school Latin students across the CAMWS region (Virginia to Arizona, Florida to Michigan).  There were only 7 winners in the entire state of Tennessee (including Salman and Richard). 

Spring T-Shirts Have Arrived

All Latin Club members should pick up the spring T-shirt from Mr. Suddarth's office.

"April is the Cruellest Month"

A reminder that today marks the beginning of Latin Language Appreciation Month in the state of Tennessee. With all due respect to T.S. Eliot, there is nothing cruel about it.