Rally Rouser

J.L. Mann names a new Patriot

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010 10:09 a.m. (0)

Christian Boucher is leading the rally cry for the J.L. Mann Patriots.

Boucher, described by friends as artistic and fun, was chosen from a pool of applicants who competed for the job by way of an application process that asked for letters of recommendation and required students to write an essay about what the spirit organization MannNation meant to them.

The essay written by Boucher stood out from the crowd, said Josh Eversole, a global studies and geography teacher at J.L. Mann who also serves as the MannNation advisor.  Continue reading...

 

The week in pictures

Look who's in the Journal this week

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010 8:34 a.m. (0)

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The week in pictures

Look who's in the Greenville Journal this week

OCTOBER 24, 2010 8:47 a.m. (0)

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Visiting Holland

A heroic path to graduation

JUNE 23, 2011 9:25 a.m. (5)

Cellist Pablo Casals once said, “The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn’t been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him.”

I tacked that quote on the bulletin board in my son’s nursery the week he was born, and remembered it June 1 as he crossed the Timmons Arena auditorium to receive his high school diploma, small and resolute in his yellow honors stole.

Two blinks and it was over; he was heading back to his seat. Such a short walk hardly seemed enough. He needed a Blue Angels formation flight. Phillip Sousa and cannon fire. I’m not sure even that would be enough, considering what it cost him to earn that piece of parchment from J.L. Mann.  Continue reading...