By Bridget Valls
The Honors Singers class showed their American pride by singing the national anthem at the Atlanta Hawks game this past week.
Ms. Puckett, an upper school choral teacher, told me she was confident about the performance going into it because they had practiced so much.
I checked in with some of the singers to get the inside scoop on the whole experience.
Vivian Shippey (10) told me they had to be ready by 5:15 to get on the buses and leave Lovett. While she would have liked to leave earlier like in previous years, Vivian said the Hawks game was much cooler than the Braves game. “Nobody was really at the Braves game last year since it was at like noon,” she told me. Bates Castellaw, on the other hand, prefers watching baseball, “so I think I had more fun at the Braves game, and it was fun that we got to miss school,” he told me.
For the actual performance, Bunk Newton (10) said they stood “right next to the players on the court,” when they sang the anthem.
The chaperones were obviously an essential part of this field trip.
Ms. Ulrich, Ms. Puckett, Ms. Walter, Mr. Eccles, and Ms. Parker were the chaperones for the trip. It was also Ms. Walter’s birthday, so I bet this was a great way to spend her birthday. “All the chaperones were really fun and I hung out with Ms. Parker basically the whole time,” Vivian told me.
Ms. Puckett told me that the trip was a success and also a lot of fun. “I think it was a great bonding experience, especially for the younger kids, ” she told me.
Since they will be losing many valuable seniors this year, I wanted to ask them who they will miss the most and how losing them will affect their choir.
“I am going to miss Slater the most, but I will honestly miss all of the guys,” Bates told me. He was quick to say that even though they are losing a lot of good singers, they will continue to be good next year. “I think we’re growing as a group. I think some of the younger guys are going to step up,” he said.
“I’ll definitely miss Sutherland and all the seniors really,” Vivian said.
Ms. Puckett also has a long list of seniors she is going to miss. “Sutherland, Slater, Corinne, Susan, and Kareena and Ellie Mayfield. Yeah, they’re all pretty great,” she said.
Still, like Bates, she thinks next year’s group will be just as good in their own way. “The seniors are going to leave a big hole, but we got some youngins coming up,” she told me.
Ultimately, the performance at the Hawks game was a success. “We sounded really good, especially on the video,” Bates told me. And Vivian was quick to agree. “We were good, and since there were a lot of people, there was a lot of cheering when we were done,” she said.
