Latin Club Information

Latin Club information for the 2017-2018 year is posted here.

Dues may be paid to any Latin teacher between now and September 29.

Latin Club Officers

Congratulations to Senior Chang Yu for being appointed MUS Latin Club Consul for the 2017-2018 school year.

Upper School students who are interested in serving as senators need to declare their candidacy by Friday, September 15. More information is posted here.

Consul Yu

Welcome Back

As a new school year begins, here's a story about the Roman world that has been very much in the news this summer:

Welcome to 'Little Pompeii'

New Banner

Thanks for another great year!

Banner on Ridgeway Road

Romans, Go Home!

Another soon-to-be viral sensation from the Bubones Theatre:

Romans, Go Home!

Italy Trip

Registration for the next MUS Latin trip to Italy is open. If you sign up before May 25, you will receive a $300 discount.

For more information, go to this website and log in:

Username: MUS
Password: Italy2018

This trip is open to students who will be in Latin Two and Latin Three next year (2017-2018).

MUS Latin students, on the island of Capri in 2014.

Trigon

Congratulations to Jack Jabbour for his victory in the 5th Annual Lower School Roman Trigon Championship . . . and to Coach Torrey for entertaining the crowd during the faculty undercard.

Jabbour (center, holding trophy) with the rest of this year's trigon cast and crew.

Coach Torrey, magister trigonis

Spring Semester Exams

The AP Latin Exam will take place Wednesday, May 17. (This has been rescheduled because of a conflict with another AP course.)

For all other students, MUS language exams are scheduled for Friday, May 19. Exam study guides have been posted to the onCampus page for each class (go to "Topics" and then "Links and Handouts").

Phaedrus Latin Composition Contest

Congratulations to the following Advanced Readings in Latin students for receiving recognition in the 2017 Phaedrus Latin Composition Contest:

Finalists:

Brooks Eikner, Henry Trammell

Semi-Finalists:

Aneesh Ram, Rahul Mehra, John McBride, Will Huffman, Chris Kerkhof

This contest, which is sponsored by New St. Andrews College (ID), requires students to write an original Latin fable in the tradition of the Roman fabulist Phaedrus. 

Trigon Championship

Congratulations to Will Schuessler, Caleb Littlejohn, and Jack Jabbour for advancing to the finals of the Lower School Trigon competition. The championship round will take place during Lower School assembly on Tuesday, May 9 in Thomas Amphitheatre (weather permitting).

Mr. Suddarth with 2014 champion Bays Webb

Lower School Trigon

The first round of the annual Lower School trigon competition will begin Wednesday, April 26 at 2:30 PM. We will meet in LS 106. This is open to any Lower School students who joined the Latin Club this year.

The trigon instructional video is posted here.

Bernice Fox Classics Writing Contest

Congratulations to Advanced Readings in Latin student Chris Kerkhof for placing in the 2017 Bernice Fox Classics Writing Contest, an annual creative writing competition sponsored by Monmouth College (IL). The contest this year featured the following topic: “A Figure from Classical History, Literature, or Mythology as the Next President of the United States.” Chris wrote about Trimalchio, a character in the Satyricon, a novel written by the Roman author Petronius.

Contest information and the full list of winners is posted here.

A Game of World Conquest

Since January, MUS Latin students have been involved in an epic tournament of Imperium, an ancient Roman version of the board game Risk. Congratulations to the winners of this semester's tournament:

Upper School:

1st Place - Ev Nichol
2nd Place - Loyd Templeton
3rd Place - Brooks Eikner

Lower School:

1st Place - Will Schuessler
2nd Place - Edwin Shy
3rd Place - Stefan Smith

National Latin Exam Report

We have received the results of the 2017 National Latin Exam:

85  Summa Cum Laude Gold Medals
32  Maxima Cum Laude Silver Medals
18  Magna Cum Laude
14  Cum Laude

Generally speaking, the top 10 to 15% of students nationwide earn Summa Cum Laude, the next 10 to 15% receive Maxima, and so forth. Everyone who scores above the national average qualifies for one of the four awards.

Special recognition goes to the students who earned perfect scores this year:

Latin One: Edwin Shy, Warren Barry, Fisher Marks, Ryan Peng
Latin Two: Kyle Koester, Rob McFadden, Charlie Eason, Vijdan Gill, Reid Chandler
Latin Four Poetry: Chang Yu

Congratulations to all of the students who placed in the contest this year!

TJCL Convention Report

Is this a picture of 44 MUS Latin students making the "U" sign? Or are they holding up 10 fingers? The answer is yes.

This weekend, 37 schools across the state attended the Tennessee Junior Classical League State Convention at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville. MUS finished in 1st place overall for the 10th consecutive year.

This was an impressive team effort, and all of the students on the trip contributed in some way to the 1510 points that MUS scored in a wide variety of Latin-related competitions. Our top performers were Rob McFadden, Brooks Eikner, Kyle Koester, and Ethan Hurst, all of whom finished in the individual top ten at the convention.

All three MUS Certamen teams advanced to the finals, with the Latin One and Latin Two teams winning their respective tournaments. (The Advanced team finished in third place, behind two very strong Certamen teams from middle Tennessee.) Also, the MUS chariot team finished in first place, bouncing back after last year's devastating loss by a mere fraction of a second.

Congratulations to all of the students who were a part of this outstanding group achievement!