In many ways, the Senior Speech has become the quintessential measure of a Greenie. 

Sharing life lessons attained from your time at Christ School takes a certain degree of perspective. There’s also the poise needed to talk in front of roughly 400 other people with the full student body and faculty assembled. 

Leaders inspire confidence and commitment in others, pointing the way to ideal goals of success.  

The Class of 2025 looks the part as of Wednesday!

Academic Rigor at its finest. 

Christ School offers more Advanced Placement courses than ever before (27) across a wide spectrum of academic disciplines. The possibility exists for the highest-achieving boys to earn college credit before graduation, all in accordance with the first school pillar of Academic Rigor.  

Noted author Elizabeth Kostova will be on campus Sept. 9 and 10 as part of the Cooper Living Arts Series. 

The first of her three novels, The Historian, holds the distinction as the first debut novel in U.S. publishing history to open at No. 1 on the New York Times Bestseller List, has been translated into 40 languages, and won Quill and Independent Bookseller Awards.

Since their return to campus this month, there has been a shared appreciation amongst the faculty for where the school stands today, not only persisting but thriving.

Christ School's faculty and staff hail from diverse backgrounds and many of our educators have gone on to distinguish themselves with postgraduate degrees in their chosen fields. The common thread amongst these men and women is that they know boys. 

These six new additions to the school community will enhance an already winning team for 2024-25.

Where it all began in 1900, and where a most historic school year for Christ School started Sunday night. 

Yard A. 

Calling all Ripple Makers!

Please come and join us Sept. 27-29 for Alumni Weekend which will include a kickoff celebration for Christ School’s 125th anniversary, “The Game” with Asheville School, alumni awards, and an induction of Coach Mike Knighton P’87 into the Athletic Hall of Fame.  

Our second school pillar of Leadership is characterized by virtues such as courage, integrity, persistence, and selflessness. These same universal ideals that we ask of the boys are an expectation of the adults who feel a calling to serve in the development of their leadership.

Welcome back, Greenies!

Three of our favorite words, especially this time of year. As summer break concludes, Christ School’s faculty and staff look forward to the sense of renewal that comes with having the boys back on campus. We all share in the excitement of Christ School’s 125^th anniversary.

Judson Meyers ’25 led the graduation procession onto Yard A in May and hasn’t touched much dry land since then. 

The South Carolina House Prefect will miss the start of school for an admirable reason after his summer on the water. Judson has been chosen to represent the United States in the World Rowing Under 19 Championships scheduled for Aug. 18-25 in Ontario, Canada. 

Evan Reich ’26 received the best kind of e-mail Wednesday.

The rising junior from Greensboro learned that he has been shortlisted as a finalist for the John Locke Institute Global Essay Prize in the category of History.

When the Head of School pays for lunch and drives? A boy must be doing something right. 

Plenty of things in the case of the summer logistics team. Since the rest of their Greenie brothers went home in May, no task around campus has been too big or too small for Logan McCartney ‘26, Elliott Stay ‘27, Aidan Beatty ‘27, Alec Dzialo ‘27, Zachary Price ‘26, and team lead Alex Jarrett ‘26.  

The endless possibilities of Artificial Intelligence (AI) offer new and potentially lucrative frontiers. 

Bing Li ‘16 finds himself in this sphere as an innovator. The Christ School alumnus is revolutionizing life science research and winning awards for his Pittsburgh-based company.  

Everyone knows the Nike Swoosh as one of the most recognizable brand logos in the world. 

Prepare to see it a lot more around campus. 

Christ School basketball has been designated a Nike Elite program, a sponsorship which should positively affect all Greenie teams. 

Seven boys from Christ School have committed to play college sports in the Ivy League since 2020, a testament to how the school balances athletics with its four pillars – Academic Rigor, Leadership, Spirituality, and the Dignity of Manual Labor. 

As of this week, a couple opportunities now exist for rising senior Dawson Thompson ’25 to follow the same path. 

Cole Lewis ’25 felt an immediate kinship with the people of Morocco when he spent last summer in North Africa and yearned for more. 

Make that Cole Lewis ’26. 

Not just any opportunity would cause the fifth-year senior and Day Student Proctor to defer his final year at Christ School. Cole has accepted a scholarship from the U.S. State Department’s National Security Language Initiative for Youth (NSLI-Y) program to study Arabic for a full academic year in Morocco's capital city of Rabat. 

Hearing is believing when it comes to the vocal range of Harrison Bieschke ’26. 

The Greenie was chosen through selective audition from other students across his home state to take part in last month’s Tennessee Governor’s School for the Arts at Middle Tennessee State University. 

Two members of the Class of 2020 who first befriended one another as Greenies now find themselves on a similar trajectory in the U.S. Marine Corps. 

Lieutenant Joe Coladonato ’20, left, and Lieutenant Jack Fitch ’20 furthered their service to their country by reporting June 3 to The Basic School in Quantico, Va. 

In true Greenie fashion, Mason Plumlee ’09 gave everything he could to 100 young, impressionable basketball players last week. Never mind that his own professional free agency was pending at the time.  

High character paired with ability is why Mason is now going on Year 12 in the NBA.  

For the fourth consecutive year, the Asheville Citizen-Times All-Western North Carolina Athlete of the Year for outdoor track is a Greenie. 

Congratulations, Dawson Reeves!