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TMI to pass battalion command Texas Military Instutute’s Corps of Cadets will honor their peers of the Class of 2007 in their “Final Pass in Review” on Friday, May 18. Outgoing Batallion Commander Lucy Alvarez, only the second female commander in the battalion’s history, will relinquish her command to rising senior Cadet Nathan Overmeyer. TMI junior awarded scholarship for summer study at Harvard Nathan Overmeyer, a junior at TMI – The Episcopal School of Texas, has been awarded a scholarship to summer school at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. Overmeyer is the recipient of a QuestBridge College Prep Scholarship, which provides participants with the opportunity to study at Harvard, Notre Dame, Stanford or Yale universities. Harvard’s Secondary School Program allows six exceptionally qualified high-school students to take Harvard College courses during the summer session. The full scholarship covers tuition, room and board and also entitles recipients to attend a conference on applying to selective colleges. Overmeyer plans to study neurobiology at Harvard. He recently was chosen battalion commander of TMI’s corps of cadets for the 2007-2008 school year, during which he will be the highest-ranking student officer of the school’s award-winning JROTC unit. His award from QuestBridge, says TMI college counselor Lisa Condrey, “is well-deserved for the outstanding scholarship and leadership Nathan has demonstrated at TMI.”
 TMI student wins piano competition
Alexander Hager won first place in the Intermediate Accelerated Division for his age group in the 32nd annual DeBose National Piano Competition held at Southern University in Baton Rouge, La., as part of a weeklong fine arts festival. The competition and festival are presented by the DuBose Foundation to offer young artists opportunities for artistic development. Earlier this year, Hager, a seventh-grader at TMI – The Episcopal School of Texas, also took first place at the San Marcos Young Artist Piano Competition and second place in the Petroff State Piano Competition in San Antonio. He will perform May 20 in the Petroff Honors Recital. Hager, 12, has been playing for five years and takes lessons at the Ramar Institute. He has been entering competitions since 2004 and earned first-place awards last year at the San Marcos competition and at the McClennan Community College Piano Competition in Waco. At TMI, Hager recently was named the first recipient of the Christine Lamprea ’07 Merit Scholarship, awarded to a student who shows a strong interest in music and takes regular lessons. Clark High School CHS art students sweep district awards
Congressman Ciro Rodriquez presented the following Clark art students Saturday with the 23rd Congressional District Awards. It was a clean sweep for Clark art students. * Zach Linge, first prize: $12,000 scholarship awarded by Savannah College of Art & Design; three round-trips to Washington, D.C., to attend US Capitol exhibition of nationwide Congressional Art Award winners, courtesy of Southwest Airlines; $1,700 cash prize, courtesy of Toyota * Emily Royall, second prize: $300 cash prize, courtesy of Toyota. * Eli Morton, third prize: $200 cash prize, courtesy of Toyota. Eli Morton was last year’s first prize winner, and Zach Linge placed second. CHS makes strong chess showing The Clark Chess Club took first place in the high school division of the Dorie Miller 21st Annual Chess Tournament this past weekend. Among individual honors, Tom Robbins placed second, Jeremy Salinas placed third and Isaac Cirlin placed fifth. Hobby Middle School took first place in the middle school division of the tournament to give Northside ISD a sweep of the two senior divisions in the tournament. Geneva School of Boerne
 From left: Morgen Fowler, Nathan Evans and Claire Lunstford Geneva School of Boerne held its first eighth-grade oratorical contest this past week. Over the course of four weeks, students chose, memorized and practiced a piece from a selection of famous speeches and poems. Preliminary rounds were held to arrive at the top three finalists. In the final round of the contest, held May 3, Nathan Evans recited Patrick Henry’s 1775 “Give me liberty or give me death” speech to the delegates in Virginia while Morgen Fowler and Claire Lunsford both recited the conclusion of Martin Luther King’s 1963 “I have a dream” civil rights speech in Washington D.C. Evans, Fowler and Lunsford received first, second and third place respectively. Geneva School is a classical Christian school with a trivium approach to education. Presently, Geneva School of Boerne offers kindergarten to eighth grade. Next year, Geneva will open the rhetoric school which includes ninth to 12th grade. In high school, the students will study formal rhetoric which includes public speaking, culminating in a senior year thesis which they will defend orally. As an introduction to rhetoric, logic students, grades six through eight, compete in this oratorical contest and several yearly debates.
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