Roz McCoy
Sofia Erlin, Feature Section Editor
May 13, 2020
For 22 years, CHS receptionist Roz McCoy has protected the school from students trying to enter without their IDs. Her presence at the front desk has been an iconic feature of thousands of students’ high school experiences. In many ways, McCoy has become the face of CHS. Although she worked at CHS...
Project Face Shield
Emma Baum, Reporter
May 11, 2020
For Bill Moore, the COVID-19 outbreak is a crisis. But it’s also an opportunity to use his experience to help his community. “I went to school to become an engineer because I wanted to help people… It’s something I have been working on my whole life, how can I help people and where can...
School
Kaitlyn Tran and Vivian Chen
May 9, 2020
COLLEGE/TESTING: As COVID-19 sweeps the nation, college students have been forced to experience the severe measures of abruptly evacuating campus and transitioning their university environment and curriculum to online school. Kimberley Tran, an undergraduate freshman at Princeton University, details h...
Dr. Ed Ferguson
Sofia Erlin, Feature Section Editor
April 28, 2020
When he’s not working in the Emergency Room, Clayton parent Dr. Ed Ferguson enjoys going go-karting with his kids, biking and soap making. Recently, however, because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Ferguson has spent most of his time at the hospital. Ferguson has been an ER physician for 19 years and...
A Guide to Staying Mentally Well
Ella Cuneo, Photo Editor
April 27, 2020
Our situation has changed dramatically in the last few months. Having parties with friends changed to waiting for them to get on your Zoom call. Cheering on sports teams from the stands switched to watching reruns and highlights from your favorite teams on YouTube. Without a doubt, something in your...
Transition to Online Learning During Global Pandemic
Rachel Liang, Reporter
April 22, 2020
On Wednesday, March 25, Clayton High school began its first day of online school as a precautionary measure against the spread of COVID-19. Many mixed opinions on this new online learning arose as students and teachers alike transitioned into the unfamiliar virtual classroom. AP Biology teacher Adam Be...
Restricted Reporting
Grace Snelling and Jimmy Malone
April 15, 2020
Every night at 7 p.m, New York Times Senior Staff Editor Tom Gaffney steps out of the doorway of his house in Manhattan and listens to his neighbor play “America the Beautiful” on the tuba. The nighttime ritual started some time ago in Gaffney’s neighborhood to honor healthcare workers as they...
Loving Lydia: Serving St. Louis’ Homeless During a Global Pandemic
Grace Snelling, Editor-in-Chief
April 12, 2020
In 2001, Lydia Boda was still a child, living in the Ville neighborhood of St. Louis with her three brothers. That was the year that her parents started the Bridge of Hope Ministry in their living room. At first, it was only meant to be a small church. “We have clients, actually, that still come ...
Proposed Legislation Threatens Transgender Rights
Ivy Reed, Reporter
April 4, 2020
“It basically affirmed my sense of belonging. Playing on the boys’ team, I never really felt like I belonged,” Nicky Taghert, 2019 CHS graduate, said about her experience playing on the girls’ soccer team as a transgender athlete. But if proposed state legislation is passed, other trans stude...
What does it mean to be gifted?
Ivy Reed, Sofia Erlin, Disha Chatterjee, Ruthie Pierson, Siddhi Narayan, and Grace Snelling
March 14, 2020
BACKGROUND Although gifted services in the Clayton School District have seen numerous variations over the past 10 years, 2017 marked a new phase in the program. 70 percent of all identified gifted students were actively enrolled in the program. That year, the percentage of black students in gifted c...
disorder.
Noor Jerath, Siddhi Narayan, Sofia Erlin, Tiancheng Fan, and Kaitlyn Tran
March 9, 2020
intro. Your phone dings. It’s a text from your friend. “Want to go get food with me?” it reads. Your heart drops. You think back to earlier that day, to the donut you couldn’t stop yourself from eating. Before you can think twice, you’ve calculated how many calories you’ve eaten that day...
Staying Safe in Clayton
Ryan Kerr, Reporter
March 3, 2020
On July 29, 2019 at 1:03 a.m., Clayton resident Larry Wolff was asleep in his home. He had two vehicles in his driveway. Security video from that night shows multiple people peering inside Mr. Wolff’s truck with flashlights, gaining entry into the truck, and then stealing the vehicle. The truck was late...
Michael Melinger, Chief Multimedia Editor
April 18, 2019
(Want to get this briefing by email? Sign up here: https://tinyurl.com/y3lwfrgv) Good morning, In the inaugural Globe newsletter, we are covering the landslide board...
