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White Station Scroll

A publication by the students, about the students, and for the students of White Station High School

White Station Scroll

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From athletes to educators

Martin Catron, Writer March 18, 2025

Teachers with backgrounds in sports are now applying the discipline, teamwork and resilience they developed on the field to their classrooms, proving how lessons from athletics can extend beyond the game. Many...

(From right to left) Kaitlyn Card (11) and Hannah Yaghini (11) pose for a picture after winning 2nd place in the Battle of the Burg. This tournament was held in Gatlinburg, Tennessee.

Beyond the game — the role of friendships in sports

Grace Amgalan, Sports Team Leader March 18, 2025

‘Hey, are you coming to practice today? Should we ride together?’ is often the conversation between two friends who are on the same athletic team. Encouraged by her friend Hannah Yaghini (11), Kailyn...

Cui sings at the Memphis Chinese Community Center for the 2025 Lunar New Year celebration. She has performed several times, ranging in locations from the Rose Theater to the FedExForum to the Advanced Placement (AP) grading convention.

Calculus and art — Cui’s operatic dance performances

Evan Easley, News and Features Team Leader March 14, 2025

Elaborate dress, acrobatic stage movements, detailed makeup and music. In traditional Beijing opera, short scenes from various traditional stories are performed on minimalistic stages in which most information...

(Front) Faith Gbeneneh (12) takes Advanced Placement (AP) French. (Left to right) Ella Bennett (11), Simone Kester (12) and Taneshia Clear (12) also take AP French; the four of them are taught by N’koumitcha Tassa, making the class size four students.

A battle of relevance — AP liberal arts courses

Ellen Tan, News and Features Team Leader March 3, 2025

Imagine you sit down in English class like any other day. Suddenly, you are handed a piece of brightly colored paper with a checklist of some sort — it is your course selection sheet. White Station High...

Zoe Bondi (10) sits with her organ teacher, Kristin Lensch, near the organ that Bondi performs on. Bondi has played the organ for two years.

Keyboards and pipes — Bondi’s organ playing

Evan Easley, News and Features Team Leader February 26, 2025

Worshippers enter the church interior, the pastor makes a call to worship and they introduce the service’s opening hymn. Striking yet warm sound engulfs the church as the organist begins to play, stretching...

The Scroll is the student-led newspaper of White Station High School. In order to print around six issues each year a team of writers called the editorial board reviews the entirety of the paper and its cycles from article ideas to the printed copy.

Why you haven’t been in the newspaper

Editorial Board February 23, 2025

NOTE: Editorials that appear within The Scroll are strictly the opinions of the editorial board. These opinions are based on research, group discussion, and personal beliefs and do not represent the views...

The Edge Motor Museum in Memphis, Tennessee houses dozens of historically and culturally significant cars. The museum focuses on preserving the history of their cars to educate visitors about the history of American speed.

Beyond Beale Street — a guide to Memphis’ obscure museums

Kate Metcalf, Editor in Chief February 23, 2025

Edge Motor Museum  On the edge of downtown Memphis, you can find a museum that journeys through the history of the American sports car. For the car fanatics and car-wary alike, almost anyone can...

Aniya Rouser (12) holds up a U.S. Air Force shirt. She enlisted late in her junior year, which allowed her to get priority during job selection.

Students to servicewomen — enlisting in the military

Evan Easley, News and Features Team Leader February 14, 2025

Disclaimer: Some of the comments about the military and service do not reflect the U.S. Military as a whole but only the experiences and opinions of a few.     ‘What are your plans for after...

Different from the Common App and Coalition App applications, QuestBridge’s National College Match application opens in late July and closes in early October. Finalists are notified in mid-October and prepare their supplementals for their ranked schools. They will be notified if they “matched” with their school in early December.

Now what will it be, Early Decision or Restrictive Early Action

Ellen Tan, News and Features Team Leader February 6, 2025

Like any other day, you log into your email but spot a subject title labeled, “College Admission: Status Update.” Thump, thump, thump. You sign into the college portal and take a deep breath as you...

Cannon Barron (12) is a teacher assistant (TA) for George Richardson’s 4th period Advanced Placement (AP) Chemistry class. Part of Barron and his fellow TAs’ job is to prepare labs for the students who take AP Chemistry.

From classmate to class aide — teacher assistants

Jane Mercer, Lead Copy Editor February 2, 2025

Teachers are often swamped with work. Hundreds of students rush in and out of their classrooms each week, leaving behind massive stacks of papers to read, grade and return. Having an extra set of hands...

The Spartan basketball cheerleaders keep the basketball teams motivated with their cheers. The team has even created its own cheers specific to White Station High School.

The heart of the crowd

Celeste Cruz, Social Media Co-Manager December 16, 2024

After every layup, dunk, steal or free throw, there is an exhilarating chanting that keeps the basketball players and crowd motivated. Descendants of their long history, basketball cheerleaders are the...

A priest’s hall at Asakusa Shrine in Tokyo, Japan, stands next to surrounding foliage. Priest halls are designated areas where the head priests or other senior religious leaders conduct their duties, such as meeting with worshippers seeking guidance.

Practicing Shinto in a Western nation

Evan Easley, News and Features Team Leader December 9, 2024

33% Protestant, 22% Catholic, 22% no affiliated religion and 11% nondenominational Christian; sitting in that remaining 12% of the United States population lie several other minority religions, from Jewish...

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