For the final assembly of the middle school year, students reflected on the concept of Carpe Diem. Retiring school principal reflected on the history of the quote from Horace, which can be translated as “pluck the day, trusting as little as possible in the next one.” Seventh graders J.D. Miller and Mikey Cooper reflected on their own experiences with choosing to seize the day in a speech to his peers, as did ninth grader Carys Nelson, who joined Washington Latin last year and fifth grader Quinn Frankiewicz. Students honored each other for being a supportive, kind, and cooperative classmates fifth grader Simon Riedel, sixth grader Sadie Greenhalgh, and sixth grader Karinna Meier, and also honored their teachers with “Faculty of the Month” merits. Teachers noted the hard-work, humor, tenacity, resilience, and kindness of this month’s merit winners, fifth graders Maxwell Gross, Mila Simpson, and Musa Dansby, sixth graders Lorelei Tarleton, Miles Johnson, and Selah Brown, seventh graders Carys Gill, Coruan Nunn, and Kai Pfeuffer, and finally eighth graders Bethel Gebreyesus, Dean Herst, and Shayla Greaux. The meeting ended with encouragement from upper school students to their younger peers to consider joining Latin Voices and Jazz Band in high school. There is no better way to seize the day than through music and performance!
