The lower school’s new assistant head brings a range of experience to the position. Read more.

Twenty-five volunteers from grades 4 and 7 and from high school jumped at the challenge to recycle at Peabody’s graduation, further strengthening our commitment to sustainability issues, providing additional links to our neighbors, and experiencing first-hand a top-notch recycling program. The forks and spoons biodegrade in four months, “and we can even eat them!” exclaimed one student.



Next Friday, May 23 is the last day to return textbooks to the bookstore for credit.



Volunteer to help with the annual Faculty/Staff Appreciation Luncheon on May 22: chefs, hosts, and workers needed. Read more.



Have you been wondering how you can help further the spread of digital astrophotography? Physics and astronomy teacher Bill Rodriguez can use your old web cams for this purpose. Read more.

You can help a USN student with financial need by donating your middle and high school textbooks to the Edward E. Ford Lending Library, which supplies these students with books. Read more.

Your child can discover this summer that learning a new language is fun—classes for 1st through 6th graders held at USN are taught in the TPR method which aims to duplicate the effortless way we acquire our first language as babies. Read more.

Check out all the USN summer camps and register online.



MTSU Adult Summer Language Institute
The MTSU Adult Summer Language Institute offers intensive language classes at USN for adults (also open to rising 7th graders and older students). Sponsored by the Center for Accelerated Language Acquisition at MTSU, language offerings include: German, Arabic, Chinese/Mandarin, French, Scottish Gaelic, and Spanish. Find out details and dates at www.usn.org/summer. Please note that language camps are also available to children Grades 1-6 as part of the 2008 USN Summer Camps. All information and online registration is available at www.usn.org/summer.



Regular library circulation closes tomorrow. All items borrowed during the school year must be returned to the library by May 16. Any items not returned will be charged to the student’s account so the library can replace the item in the collection.

If you have any questions, please call or email Maura Rankin, Library Director 277-7494 mrankin@usn.org.

At last week’s assembly, high school students’ achievements on such challenges as national language contests were recognized, in a warm-up for this week’s Awards Assembly.
photo by Adair Freeman



High school students sign up online for next year’s lockers, thanks to a computer program created by George Wright ’08 in his independent study. Read more.



Debbie Fulcher (l.) and HS students (l. to r.) Abby Perlman, Alexa Friedenberg, and Catherine Berry.




Summer reading lists for grades 5-12 are now available on the website.



Check Out Summer Reading Books
The books on the middle and high school summer reading lists will be available for check out starting Monday, May 19. Students may borrow the books for the summer and return them the first week of school.

Turtles may be slow, but that doesn’t mean they are easy to track. Aaron Novick ’08 presents his research on box turtles and their habitat to the West Meade Conservancy last month. Read more and learn how he kept up with their movements.





This newborn goat is a particularly appealing example of sustainable agriculture as demonstrated to a group of USN students attending the Outdoor Academy’s Student Environmental Summit last month. Read more.

Writing and Service class finishes up the semester with refreshments and a rousing game of Apples to Apples, led by our own USN freshmen.



High school families, would you like to host a student from Guatemala next fall? Read more.



High school students did well on the National Spanish exam. Read more. French and Latin results were reported last week.



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The middle school’s production of James and the Giant Peach, directed by Bakari King, was a hit. In front of the peach is Ellen Jones as one of the narrators; on the peach are Cyrus Shick, Alexandria Churchwell, Will Dossett, Forest Miller, David Zeitlin, Daniel Meyerowitz
photo by Hannah Dobie ’12



Middle school families, you can host an international exchange student next year. Read more.

The middle school is making it easy for students and parents to find their lost articles before school is out.



Field Day is coming up for 4th-7th graders on May 21. Read everything you need to know about it.

Third and fourth graders welcome middle and high school customers to their annual flea market.

Fourth graders enjoying one of their last lower school recess times
photo by Adair Freeman



Field Day is coming up for 4th-7th graders on May 21. Read everything you need to know about it.

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Tigers of the Year Kristi Nye and Adam Kever with (left) Steve Robins and Josh Scouten. Read more.
Read the list of the high school’s other athletes who received awards Tuesday night at the spring sports Awards Evening.



Friday the HS baseball team competes in the Division II class A sub-state tournament at the River Campus, the first appearance for a USN baseball team in a sub-state event. The Tigers take on Harding Academy of Memphis. The tournament is a best of three, with two games played on Friday. The first game begins at 2:00 and the second game begins thirty minutes after the first one ends. If necessary, the teams will play a third game Saturday at noon.

On Saturday, the HS boys' soccer team will play Harding Academy at 5:00 in the Sub-State of the DII/A Soccer Tournament at the River Campus.

Please come out and cheer on these teams. Because these are TSSAA events, there will be an admission charge of $6 dollars.

Other post season appearances:
HS track and field region finals, 5:30 tomorrow at MBA
HS tennis state semi-finals, Tuesday at 1:00 and 5:00 at MTSU



HS Baseball team advances to Sub-State, will host at the River Campus

Soccer Team finishes 2nd, will host Sub-State game

Tennis qualifies for State Semi-finals; Eight advance in singles, doubles action.

Three USN players named All-State for boys’ lacrosse

Middle School athletes receive awards Monday evening



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Josh Scouten, 2008 Tennessee Scholastic Lacrosse Association Coach of the Year



Maggie Killman was selected by the coaches in Region B of the Tennessee Girls’ Lacrosse Association as an All-Region defensive player.
photo by Michael’s Photography