Big Sonia
Disha Chatterjee, Feature Section Editor
November 12, 2018
On Thursday, October 4th, director, producer, and Clayton High School class of 1996 alum Leah Warshawski came to visit Clayton and speak with sophomore World/U.S history classes. Later that night, a community screening of “Big Sonia”, a film Warshawski directed, was held at 7 P.M in the CHS audito...
Mr. Thurmon
Angela Xiao, Reporter
November 8, 2018
Mr. Thurmon Stubblefield approaches the green room of the Clayton Family Center, the preschoolers in the room immediately flock to the door. Once Mr. Thurmon Stubblefield, known simply as Mr. Thurmon to those at the Family Center, enters their room, his presence is immediately known. The toddlers...
Why Do We Still Play Football?
Jacob LaGesse, Shane LaGesse, Michael Melinger, and Jimmy Malone
November 6, 2018
All videos included in this story are segments of GET Episode 3, a video edition of this cover story produced by Sean Kim and Michael Melinger, members the Greyhound News Network and Video Production staffs and editors of the Globe....
Overprescribed
Grace Snelling and Lila Taylor
November 4, 2018
"I broke my nose playing basketball when I was 15 and I was prescribed tylenol-3's, which are codeine. I remember I just took them and I liked the way they made me feel. It was a different high than weed, and when I put the two together it was exactly what I’d been looking for, so that started [my...
Sixth Grade Camp vs. The Athletic Department
Cece Cohen, Reporter
November 2, 2018
It seems as though the Clayton athletic department has a stigma when it comes to sixth-grade camp. Sixth-grade camp is an annual tradition where each fall the Wydown Middle School sixth grade class travels to Sherwood Forest Camp for 4 days and 3 nights. Depending on the number of sixth graders in...
New Meramec Principal
Ella Cuneo, Photo Editor
October 31, 2018
Patrick Fisher, who is certified in elementary education with a philosophy degree, masters degrees in school counseling and education administration and who is currently working on his doctorate in educational leadership, is a college dropout. During his time at Illiopolis High School, Fisher, the new princ...
Science Olympiad
Kaitlyn Tran and Sonia Palamand
October 21, 2018
Introduction: For CHS Freshman Jessie Lin, Science Olympiad serves as more than just an extracurricular. A competition event that her parents urged her to join, Lin never imagined that Science Olympiad would have such a large impact on her life as a learning experience. “It was fun, full of lau...
Sixth Grade Camp
Lulu Hawley
October 21, 2018
Each fall, a handful of buses carrying a total of 200 hyper sixth graders travel down to Sherwood Forest Camp. Sherwood is a non-profit organization located in Lesterville, Missouri - a short two hours away from Wydown Middle School. Around 30 students in eighth, tenth, eleventh, and twelfth grades ar...
A Roaring Victory
Jacob LaGesse and Michael Bernard
October 16, 2018
To Kathryn Lyons, history teacher at CHS, Ultimate Frisbee is more than just a game played by college students in a quad. In 2010, Lyons competed in the World Ultimate Club Championship in the Czech Republic. She has watched the sport grow out of infancy in its struggle to gain athletic legitimacy across ...
Robotics Rolls into Wydown
Luka Bassnett, Reporter
October 9, 2018
Clayton High School is known for its successful FIRST robotics team, the Robohounds. However, while the high school team is well-known throughout the area (attending the World Championships in 2017), no similar club exists at Wydown Middle School. That will change this school year, when Wydown Middle School will become home to its own FIRST...
A More Perfect School
Zachary Fisher, Grace Snelling, Sara Stemmler, Lila Taylor, and Richard Cheng
October 5, 2018
“A More Perfect School...” What would a school look like if it was designed with human biology and best learning practices in mind? According to the leading minds in educational and learning research, we would sleep more and move more. We would have more time to process and to think. We would be disc...
Catching Crickets
Cece Cohen, Reporter
October 4, 2018
“No wifi or cell service,” CHS sophomore Noah Kennedy said as he described his trip to the Grand Tetons. CHS seniors Xuenan Jin and Max de la Paz, juniors Dana Anderson and Liza Anzilotti and sophomores Julia Bautz and Noah Kennedy joined Clayton High School AP Environmental Science teacher Charles...
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...
