Student: Garrick Church
Garrick Church has attended Stuart Hall for three years, 9th to 11th grade. A deeply thoughtful student, Garrick has made great contributions to the Stuart Hall community through their intelligence and wit. After Stuart Hall Garrick is not sure of their aspirations, similar to most, but they maintain interest in the engineering field. Garrick most commends their peers and Stuart Hall’s faculty, saying, “we as a community are really blessed to have so many ridiculously talented people who are interested in teaching us.” While Garrick appreciates aspects of our community, they find the STEM fields to be quite lacking. They most enjoy science-related topics, writing software, and consuming philosophy content! They also enjoy musical genres including pop, noise, and electronic! Garrick easily embodies our critical thinking grad goal through their own intelligence and appreciation of education!
Parent: Ms. Layne, parent of Tai and Robin Layne
Ms. Layne’s children Robin and Tai have attended Stuart Hall for eleven and nine years, respectively. They began attending Stuart Hall as the Layne’s were working as dorm parents when Robin was born. When she was younger, Ms. Layne had wanted to be a jockey. However, she says that by fifth grade, “I was already taller than any jockey who ever lived.” Currently Ms. Layne is a “chaos mechanic.” She says, “I have always been interested in chaos. I enjoy observing the chaos and then jury-rigging ways for it to run at maximum chaotic efficiency.” She most appreciates her profession's ability to never bore her while allowing her to help others. Ms. Layne enjoys retelling stories with as many dragons as possible, “being a tea snob", 90’s alternative music, and worrying over the parenting abilities of European Starlings. She encourages all to leave the tech behind and experience one's own life via one's own senses. Ms. Layne finds citizenship to be the most important grad goal. She adds, “It’s easy to focus on ourselves as individuals, but it’s vital that we each see ourselves as part of something larger rather than the singular bright center of the universe.” Her own citizenship is often viewed through opening her home tp boarders, her vigorous participation within the Stuart Hall community, and even rescuing Starlings with forgetful parents.
Teacher: Dylan Sorge
Mr. Sorge had worked at Stuart Hall since the 2012-2013 school year. The proximity to his parent’s house and Mr. Arnold’s encouragement of the position led to Sorge’s initial acceptance of the position. When younger, Mr. Sorger initially aspired to have a job where he could, “get paid to balance things on top of other things.” He later decided to become a math teacher as prospects in balancing or teaching music were not as feasible. Mr. Sorge most appreciates Stuart Hall’s, “culture of curiosity,” and the ability it brings to meet people from around the world. He says, “I grew up in a town of 700 people in the middle of cornfields, so this is a nice change of pace.” He least appreciates students' inability to understand how fortunate they are. Mr. Sorge enjoys starting new hobbies, growing houseplants, collecting marbles, and americana/folk music with some soulful screaming. He would like to mention that he completed his interview under duress along with the quote, “Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so,” (Douglas Adams). Through his younger aspirations, hobbies, and general mannerisms, Mr. Sorge embraces our creativity grad goal. He mentions this specific grad goal is important to him as it was the catalyst for his spending time with Mrs. Sorge. He adds, “Also, I like to create things.”
Madeline Speights