By Wendy Gatto & Elaine Wenkoff, USN Evening Classes Co-Chairs
USN Evening Classes is excited to announce that registration will open on October 16 for a curated collection of holiday-themed classes guaranteed to make your holiday season even more beautiful, delicious, and fun.
Classes will run Saturday, October 26 through Saturday, November 16 and include:
- Holiday Entertaining Ideas with Epergne
- Holiday Menu Inspo Butcher & Bee Style
- How to Include Non-Alcoholic Drinks in Your Holiday Menu with Killjoy
- Charcuterie Boards for the Holidays with Host & Toast
- Festive Florals with Flower House
- Holiday Photography Workshop with Grannis Photography
- Perfectly Paired Holiday Cocktails & Desserts with Chef David Andrews and Golden Pony
- Unwrap Calm: Intuition and Mindfulness During the Holidays with Fabi Cordaro
We've also got the perfect way to kick off the fall season. Enjoy the fall splendor with University Landscape Architect James Moore as he provides a guided tour of the Vanderbilt Arboretum on Saturday, October 26. Learn about notable trees, campus history, and design that included more than 6000 trees across 300 acres.
All 40 eligible University School of Nashville students in the Class of 2037 registered to vote ahead of the voter registration deadline, and Eleanor Mixon '27 and Dylan Omary '27 walked across the street from USN to the Scarritt Bennett Center to cast their first ballots on the final day of early voting.
Students in High School History Teacher Cameron Parsons' Advanced Topics: American Government and Politics Class have been working diligently on civic engagement projects that required them to participate in the democratic process.
Congratulations to the Class of 2027 inductees of the USN Cum Laude Society: Jack Barrett, Charlie Blau, Alder Brandon, Olivia Brown, Elisabeth Crane, Alexandra Drewry, Lucia Gellert, Melis Kurtulus, Abigail Manoukian, Lily Margalit, Eleanor Mixon, Louisa Nordberg, Mia Orefice, Karsen Puzniak, Ruchika Ramachandran, Jacqueline Seale, Elliott Spiller, Laine Theobald, Alexander Truss, Yifan Wang, Madeleine Wiseman, and Julia Young.
With trail names like Megawatt, Electric Avenue, High Voltage and Livewire, the mountain bike team knew it was time to pedal out some extra watts for their NICA/TICL State Championships at Raccoon Mountain, and survive the technical trails above Chattanooga full of boulder gardens, rock drops and sandy rubble.
Winged Deer Park and trails in Johnson City hosted our 4th race on Sunday October 11th, and despite a bit of hurricane outwash winds and showers - and reduced team numbers due to fall break and distance from Nashville - our racers utilized all available skills and speed which helped “wing" Sophomore Claire Dehner to a 4th place podium spot, our first podium appearance and medal for the season.
Tiger golfers have officially qualified for the region tournament, and our other teams are not far behind. Volleyball sits near the top of the district, finishing up regular season play next week with Senior Night. Girls soccer continues to hold first place in the district after another 9-0 win, and our cross country runners are chasing after some school records. To round it all out, our mountain bike team traveled to Oakfield to continue to improve on their times for the season. There’s plenty more where that came from- so be sure to come out to the River Campus, Sperling Gym, or out on the road to cheer on our Tigers before their seasons end.
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