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Green & Gold
Volume XXVII, Issue VII
EDITORIAL
“My challenge to the class of 2025 was to enjoy school.”
A Publication of Wesleyan School
The 2023 Artist Market invites the Wes- Wesleyan celebrates leyan community to attend this year Governor’s Honors
Audrey Pursell On April 28 and 29 the Wesleyan artist market, which is open to the public, takes place in Yancey Gym where a variety of student and professional artists will share their talents. Some proceeds go to WesleyEditor-in-chief Caran, while some of the proceeds go to the oline Croley reminds students themselves. The student artists the high school of the are particularly special as they are balancchallenges she gave ing creating their art as well as managing them for the year. schoolwork. The student artists this year will display a variety of talents ranging Pg. 2 from paintings to boba tea. Junior Taran Young is making prints in varying forms of media such as landscapes, movie posters, and cityscapes. He came up with the idea from just what was most fun for him to paint, which was scenery. His pieces will sell for around $10 to $40. Young says, “I wanted to make art that showcased my talent but also pieces that appealed to broad audiences.” He made most of the pieces just for fun, but some were made with the artist market in mind. Young has made a dozen different items The high school band that he will be selling. He anticipates that and Chamber Singers his most successful item will be the “Spihad successful spring concerts. Pg. 5
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Program finalists
Junior Taran Young has worked hard to make prints of his art in various forms of media that he will sell at Artist Market.
Lauren Tucker Congratulations to juniors Papa Ohemeng-Mensah, Tengle Wang, Elizabeth Tian, and sophomore Norah Mukana for being named as finalists to participate in the Governor’s Honors Program at Georgia Southern this summer. The Governor’s Honors Program is a 4-week residential camp where students choose different concentrations of academic study. The students each selected a major area of study, and then they choose an additional elective. Ohemeng-Mensah will be studying computer science, Wang will be studying science, specifically concentrating on biology and environmental science, Tian (cont’d on pg. 4)
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derverse Movie Poster” because it has sold the most in previous festivals. The biggest struggle for him has been getting all of his work out before the deadline. Young has decided to be in the artist market because he finally started taking his art seriously and wants to showcase it to his peers. G.H.P. will be held at Georgia Southern this sum(cont’d on pg. 6 ) mer. gosa.georgia.gov
Students can serve their city this summer with Love Atlanta
Caitlin Bridgers Love Atlanta is a volunteer organization based out of Passion City Church that provides service projects during a week in the summer for anyone looking to give back to their city. During the week of June 12-17, Love Atlanta is partnering with 75 organizations by providing more than 275 projects. There are projects all over Atlanta, up to Cumming, out to Douglasville, and goes as far south as Newnan. Community Relations Coordinator Corey Ruff said about Love Atlanta, “The hope is to be a vehicle to get people who may not know about a certain High school students organization the opportunity to serve in organihad restful and fun zations around their city. Hopefully they will fall Easter breaks. Pg.12 in love with the organization and mission, and (cont’d on pg. 11 )
Love Atlanta volunteers serve ministries around the city to make life better for others.
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Admissions season wraps up as Wesleyan welcomes its newest wolves
SPORTS
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Wesleyan’s spring sports head into the later parts of their seasons and the playoffs. school. Pg. 14-15 Wolfie welcomes new wolves to the@wesleyaninsta
Several families have been celebrating their status of Newest Wesleyan Wolves the past few weeks as admission decisions for the 20232024 school year were released April 1, 2023. Although the application for Fall 2023 didn’t go live until October 1, 2022, the admissions department, which includes Mari Beth King (Director of Admissions), Meredith Jamieson (Assistant Director of Admissions), and Monica Macia (Admissions Assistant), has been running at a full sprint since August. Throughout August and September, the admissions team prepared for the upcoming admissions season by preparing for all events and editing their new print materials while also recovering from the previous admissions season as there’s little downtime in between.
Mari Beth King serves as the Director of Admissions. Smith (cont’d on pg. 4)