School system chosen for national program

by Aziza Jackson, Daily Home

08.24.12 - 12:22 am

TALLADEGA COUNTY — The Talladega County School System is one of two districts in the state chosen to join “Teaming for Transformation: leading digital conversion for student learning,” with the Consortium for School Networking.

The system is now part of a network of 19 school districts around the country aimed at improving student-centered learning through the use of epic-ed, an online community focused on digital conversion for infusing digital resources and tools into the teaching and learning process.

The system was chosen along with Mountain Brook Schools by CoSN to participate in the network.

“Mountain Brook is a very affluent city school district and we’re a rural district,” [Talladega County Schools Superintendent Suzanne] Lacey said. “We feel that everyone will bring different insight to the table.”

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Mountain Brook senior Greer Cunningham one of Metro area's best

Dennis Victory, Birmingham News, August 23, 2012 8:54 a.m.

Mountain Brook’s Greer Cunningham is one of the best players in the area. (Dennis Victory)

Five Mountain Brook volleyball players started together in the seventh grade.
The persistence of toil and sweat produced varying levels of success through the years, but there’s a destination no Mountain Brook team has reached since 1997. That’s the last time the Spartans earned a spot in the season-ending Elite Eight Championship Tournament.
“I really hope and think we have a shot this year,” said senior Greer Cunningham, who’s one of the metro’s best players. “We’ve been playing together for a long time and I think we have the ability to make it far this year.”
Mountain Brooks hosts Clay-Chalkville tonight at 6 as volleyball season begins. The Spartans advanced to the substate round of playoffs last year before falling to Bob Jones.
Cunningham is one of seven returning starters for the Spartans, who finished 30-14 last season. She earned a spot on three of The Birmingham News’ lists of best metro players.
In addition to Cunningham, Mountain Brook’s Claire Gorman, Alice Brown, Julia Smith and Sara Carr were also named among the metro’s best, selected by the News’ prep sports staff with nominations from coaches. The Spartans’ five selections led the list.
This year’s seniors are Cunningham, Brown, Mary Claire Carr, Jordan Hughes and Laura Keel.
First-year Mountain Brook coach Haven O’Quinn – she spent the previous two years at Pelham where she compiled a 68-43 record – likes what she sees from the Spartans.
“I’m so excited about this year,” O’Quinn said. “All 13 on the roster could easily be on the court. There are no big gaps in skill level in these girls and that’s great because they’ll be pushing each other all year.”
The Spartans also play in this weekend’s 30th annual Juanita Boddie Tournament, starting Friday at the Birmingham Crossplex with 27 of the best teams in the state.

Mountain Brook twins score 35 and perfect 36 on ACT

Published: Saturday, August 11, 2012, 6:45 AM

 By William Thornton -- The Birmingham NewsThe Birmingham News

Miller Sisson scored a perfect 36 on the ACT, while his sister Ann scored 35. The twins will soon begin their senior year at Mountain Brook High. (The Birmingham News/Joe Songer)

MOUNTAIN BROOK, Alabama -- When Miller Sisson and his twin sister Ann got back their ACT test scores, they were a little surprised.

"I thought I did well, but I didn't think I'd done that well," Miller said.

Miller scored a perfect 36 on the ACT, while his sister Ann scored 35. The twins turned 17 this month and will soon begin their senior year at Mountain Brook High.

The ACT is a college admissions examination that is given six times a year and accepted by virtually every college in the nation. The test has 215 multiple-choice questions and takes about 3 hours and 30 minutes to complete, according to the ACT website.

The ACT has four parts -- English, reading, math and science. The highest a student can make on each part is 36, and the scores of the four parts are averaged into a composite. The average student scores a 21. Students scoring a 34, 35 or 36 on the test are among the top 1 percent in the country.

It wasn't their first attempt at the test. In December, they took it for the first time, with Miller scoring 32 and Ann earning a 31. But neither score was good enough for them, their mother Leigh Ann said.

"They took it cold the first time," she said. "They didn't do any preparation. We were certainly fine with their first scores. They felt like they could increase them. They both set goals for themselves. I was proud because it was something they wanted to do for themselves."

To prepare for their second attempt, the Sissons took a course with All Pencils Down, a test-preparation class in Hoover. They devoted about four hours each night to preparation, she said.

"I felt like they really helped my science and English," Miller said. "They helped me learn the nuances of the test. They showed how there are common types of questions on the test. Timing was also a big thing we worked on."

Ann said what also helped was the preparation they received in school.

"We're both fortunate to grow up in a great academic community," Ann said. "Our schools really got us ready. The background and education we've had up to this point was the difference. My friends did really well on the test too."

Neither Miller nor Ann know where they will attending college after graduation, but both feel their opportunities are much better with their scores.

"I don't know exactly where I want to go," Miller said. "But I hope this means I can go wherever I want."

Crestline Elementary Has New Playground

August 7, 2012 By  Laura McAlister
Over The Mountain Journal

Crestline Elementary School’s new playground will be the first handicap accessible one in Mountain Brook.

Crestline Elementary students will start the school year with a brand new playground. The facility is the first handicap-accessible playground in Mountain Brook.
Funding came from the school’s annual PTO fundraiser, Boosterthon, and other sources. Boosterthon gave students the opportunity to participate in the fundraising efforts for their new play equipment. Students found supporters to sponsor them as they ran laps around the field.
The Crestline PTO, through Boosterthon, was the single largest contributor to the project.
Since the Crestline playground is for the community as well as the school, many local groups donated money, including the Mountain Brook City Council, Mountain Brook Athletics, One Stop Environmental, Crestline Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts and NBC bank.
Rep. Paul de Marco, Sen. Jabo Waggoner and Sen. Slade Blackwell also donated to the cause.

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Mountain Brook child wins recipe contest, to attend White House state dinner

Published: Tuesday, July 24, 2012, 1:54 PM    

 By William Thornton -- The Birmingham NewsThe Birmingham News

MOUNTAIN BROOK, Alabama --- Nine-year-old Falcon Wiles of Mountain Brook has been recognized as one of the state winners in First Lady Michelle Obama's nationwide recipe challenge to promote healthy lunches.

Wiles was named today along with 53 other winners, aged 8 to 12, representing all the U.S. states, three territories and the District of Columbia. Wiles' recipe was "Alabama's Yummy Summer Soup," which will be available later at the recipe challenge website.

The contest, part of Obama's "Let's Move!" program to fight childhood obesity, garnered more than 1,200 recipe entries. It was sponsored by Epicurious, the Department of Education and the Department of Agriculture.

Wiles will be invited along with the other winners to a White House state dinner Aug. 20, hosted by Mrs. Obama. Winners will also get a tour of the White House kitchen garden.

To enter the contest, children were asked to look over the nutritional guidelines of the USDA site to make sure their dishes were healthy.

Great Debater: Mountain Brook Senior Won’t Rest on Last Year’s Laurels

July 24, 2012  

Mountain Brook High’s Wyatt Moorer wants to top his debate records, which includes being named best Lincoln-Douglass debater in the state, during his senior year.

By Laura McAlister
Journal Editor, Over the Mountain Journal

Being named the state’s top Lincoln-Douglas debater was quite an honor for Wyatt Moore. But he’s still got one more year of high school, and his plans are to top that.
Last school year, Wyatt’s debating skills earned him the state’s top spot in Lincoln-Douglas debate and received the Most Outstanding State Competitor award. The Mountain Brook High School student hopes to keep those titles and add more during his senior year.
“I’d like to defend my title as Alabama State Champion in Lincoln-Douglas debate, ” he said. “Hopefully, I’ll qualify for Nationals like I did my sophomore year or the Tournament of Champions. That would be a first. That would be a very big deal.”

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Four state titles help Mountain Brook win 2011-12 Metro All-Sports Championship

Dennis Lin, Birmingham News, July 08, 2012 9:45 a.m.

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Tatum Jackson of Mountain Brook watches her drive during the AHSAA Girls 6A Sectional Golf Tournament at Highland Park in April. (The Birmingham News/Joe Songer)

Jackie Clayton started coaching at Mountain Brook High School in 1969. Three years later, he left to become the offensive coordinator at Homewood High, a new school at the time.

From there, he went on to stints at Oak Grove, Shades Valley and Vincent. He has coached baseball, basketball, football, golf and wrestling.

In 1996, he returned to Mountain Brook. Since then, he has coached hundreds of Spartans student-athletes, some of them the children of former proteges.

“I don’t know that I’ve coached the grandkids yet,” Clayton said, laughing.

The way things have gone the past four decades, those grandkids will probably be raising multiple state trophies in, say, the 2040s.

With another four state titles, Mountain Brook earned the Metro All-Sports Championship in The News’ rankings for the 2011-12 school year. After claiming the same distinction last year, the Spartans have successfully defended their crown as the metro-area’s top athletics program.

Mountain Brook’s all-time state trophy count: “140 and counting,” Athletics Director Terry Cooper said.
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Mountain Brook High drummer chosen for Grammys summer camp

Published: Wednesday, July 04, 2012, 10:34 AM Updated: Wednesday, July 04, 2012, 11:52 AM

By William Thornton -- The Birmingham NewsThe Birmingham News

 

Harrison Jones, a 16-year-old drummer from Mountain Brook, is one of 136 high school students across the country selected to attend a Grammy Camp this summer. The camp he will attend in Los Angeles is intended to teach the basics of the music industry. (The Birmingham News/Beverly Taylor)

MOUNTAIN BROOK, Alabama -- A Mountain Brook drummer is one of 136 high school students from around the nation selected to take part in the eighth annual Grammy Camp, where teens get a crash course in the basics of being a professional in the music industry.
Harrison Jones, 16, will travel to the University of Southern California's Thornton School of Music July 14-23 for the camp. Other participants selected will travel to similar camps in Nashville and New York.
The camp is supported by the Grammy Foundation, Best Buy, Black River Entertainment, Converse and Guitar Center. Jones was the only Alabama resident chosen to attend at any of the camps.
Jones, 16, a junior at Mountain Brook High School, said he has been playing drums for seven years and was inspired by his grandfather, who played drums in several bands. Harrison is drummer for Dry Honor, a band inspired by White Stripes that plays rock, some jazz and rhythm and blues. "This is a huge deal," he said of the camp. "It's not just about learning about your instrument, but learning about the whole industry. And it's a real honor to represent my state."
At Jones' camp, participants will get training in recording, engineering, concert production, music production, music journalism, songwriting and recording. While Harrison owns some recording equipment, he has never professionally recorded music, which is one of the reasons the camp appealed to him.
Jones' mother, Jennifer, said it was the professional immersion the camp promised, as well as its connection to the Grammys, the music industry's signature award, that inspired Harrison to apply.
"It just sounds like the chance of a lifetime," she said.

Metro Boys Tennis Player Of The Year: Mountain Brook’s Trey Carter

Dennis Lin, Birmingham News, June 14, 2012 10:18 a.m.

 

Mountain Brook’s Trey Carter put together a 41-3 singles record in his four years of varsity play. (Dennis Victory)

Until this year, Trey Carter had dropped only one set playing singles on the biggest stage of Alabama high school tennis. He was a freshman at the time.

Three years later, he finally lost another set, falling behind in the quarterfinal round at April’s state tournament.

That uh-oh moment was soon forgotten. Carter recovered and won a three-setter. He did the same in the semifinals, conceding the first set before winning the next two.

Then, in the Class 6A final, the Mountain Brook senior resumed his dominance with a 6-1, 6-1 statement victory that netted him his first No. 1 singles title.

Evidently, an unfamiliar dose of adversity wasn’t enough to faze the Birmingham News Metro Boys Tennis Player of the Year.

“His mental game is what sets him apart,” Spartans coach Susan Farlow said. “He has never lost a match that really mattered, at state or anywhere else.”

The numbers and results back that up. Over four years on Mountain Brook’s varsity, Carter amassed a 41-3 singles record, going undefeated in state tournaments. He won state singles titles at No. 5 as a freshman, No. 4 as a sophomore, No. 2 as a junior and No. 1 this season.

Carter also teamed with Patrick Lucas, The News’ 2011 Metro Player of the Year, to claim No. 1 doubles titles in 2010 and 2011, giving Carter six state titles overall.

During Carter’s time at Mountain Brook, the boys team captured two state championships and finished as the runner-up twice, including this year, when Vestavia Hills won the team crown.

“When I got into those tough situations where there was a lot of pressure, I just felt like my team needed me and I needed to be a leader and prove my skills and position,” said Carter, who collected a perfect 10-0 record in singles this season despite a late switch from glasses to contact lenses. “I had a lot of experience going into those bigger matches. I had been there before, and it just helped me relax.”

Carter’s big-match mastery might have sprouted when he lost that first set at state as a freshman. His eventual three-set victory over an opponent he had never beaten before honed a confidence that accompanied his steady rise from the No. 5 singles position.

“If it’s down to the last match and the outcome relies on one court, Trey is the guy I would want,” Farlow said. “He just knows how to bring it on when it counts.”

Carter suffered a rare defeat this season when he and doubles partner Eric Buchalter fell in three sets to Vestavia’s Jeffrey Holcombe and Leo Richard at the state tournament.

Despite the disappointment of that loss — Carter and Buchalter had defeated the Vestavia duo three times in the regular season — Farlow called Carter “the best I’ve ever seen” in doubles play.

“He’s got the most unbelievable hands of any player I’ve coached,” Farlow said.

Carter credits his success to the instruction of Farlow and Jimmy Weinaker, a teaching pro at Pinetree Country Club whose son Jacob recently finished his sophomore season at Mountain Brook.

This fall, Carter will follow in the footsteps of Jacob’s older brother, Jay, in playing tennis for North Carolina State.

Amanda Hood chosen as Mountain Brook Junior High principal

Published: Thursday, June 14, 2012, 4:51 PM    

By William Thornton -- The Birmingham NewsThe Birmingham New

Amanda Hood, Mountain Brook Junior High School's new principal.

 

MOUNTAIN BROOK, Alabama --- Working in Mountain Brook Schools has changed Amanda Hood's life, she said.
"The collaborative culture here and the support that everyone receives is what makes it different," Hood said. "It's very unique. You don't find it often. There's a level of professional commitment that is quite remarkable."
Last year, Hood began working in the system as an assistant principal at the high school. The Mountain Brook Board of Education this week chose her to become the new principal at Mountain Brook Junior High.
Hood's husband Jerry is a teacher and the head football coach at Clay-Chalkville High School.
Hood said she hopes to spend the first year getting to know the school's strengths and weaknesses.
"I want to take the next year and celebrate the things we do well, and seek out the things we'd like to improve," she said. "It's a continual collaboration and reflection cycle, and it's something we shouldn't do every once in awhile."
Prior to working in Mountain Brook, Hood taught at Oak Mountain High School and was an assistant principal at Spain Park High.
Hood is also mother to four adopted children from the Ukraine -- Olivia, 13, Christian, 12, Daniel, 8 and Vica, 7. That wasn't her original plan, though. When she and her husband traveled to the country in 2008, they intended to adopt two children.
"We went in and they laid out four photographs," she said. "We thought it was some mistake. Then I wondered how I was going to choose two and they said, 'No, they go together.'" The couple had 15 minutes to decide whether they would adopt the quartet.
None of the children spoke English, and the Hoods had spent a few months learning not Russian, but Ukrainian.
"It forced Jerry and I to be very creative about the way we were able to meet their needs, and to meet basic needs," she said. "He and I both being teachers, we had a little bit of an advantage. For about two or three months, we were all speaking a language that was all our own. We got a lot of funny stares in restaurants."

Congratulations to the following people on their retirement from Mountain Brook Schools!  We appreciate your years of service! 

Andrea Chapura – BWF

Shara Kernan - BWF

Beverly Laughlin - BWF

JoAnn Webster- BWF

Julia Kent – CB

Laurie Placey – CB

Linda Bass – CR

Anita Ferguson – CR

Anthony Howard – CR

Joy Knight – CR

Zoee’ Saltsman – CR

Joan Graham – MBE

Dianna Hardesty – JH

Nancy Flemming – JH

Alicia Wingard – JH

Karen Wyatt - JH

Cissy Isbell – HS

Elizabeth Johnson –HS

Neal Lambert – HS

Dianna Plosser – HS

John Rangeley – HS

Frank Brakefield – CO

Jan Payne – CO

Don Rickard - CO

Scholar-Athlete Of The Week: Walker Byrd, Mountain Brook High School

Leah Ingram Eagle, Birmingham News, June 06, 2012 8:38 a.m.

Year: senior

Sports: baseball and football

Academic highlights: Walker has a 3.92 GPA and scored a 32 on the ACT. He is a member of National Honor Society, Mu Alpha Theta, and Key Club and is a Student Government representative.

Athletic highlights: Walker is a three-year starter at center on the Spartans varsity football team. He is also a two-year starter and plays catcher on the baseball team. He was named all-metro and allstate in football.

Where do you see your academic future? I plan to major in pre-med at Auburn. I want to be an orthopedic surgeon.

Where do you see your athletic future? I plan to play intramural sports in college, unless a baseball opportunity presents itself this spring.

Favorite subject: My favorite subject is AP calculus with Ms. Burns because I enjoy the challenge of it.

What’s on your iPod? Dave Matthews Band, Needtobreathe, Zac Brown Band and Gavin G.

Mountain Brook girls win golf state title

Dennis Lin, Birmingham News, May 16, 2012 11:53 a.m.

(Carolyn McCalley of Mountain Brook, shown during the 2011 AHSAA golf championships, helped the Spartans to the 2012 title. (Press-Register/Mike Kittrell))

OPELIKA — Fried pickles. Long green socks.

Mountain Brook’s girls pulled out all the stops at Tuesday’s Class 6A state golf tournament. Afterward, they celebrated their second team title in as many years.

Before they raised another blue trophy, they practiced their “lucky ritual,” as Spartans captain Carolyn McCalley called it. Then they went out and posted an overall round of 29-over par, winning the two-day tournament by 10 strokes.

“We just really like fried pickles,” McCalley said. “We have fried pickles before our big tournaments, just for the really big ones, the ones we need to have.”

The Spartans needed this one, this being the biggest tournament, after all. Maybe they needed those fried pickles just as badly. They’d neglected their favorite finger food on Sunday night and left Grand National Golf Course on Monday in a tie for first with Auburn.

“Before we played the first day of the tournament, they were kidding that we needed to get the pickles,” Mountain Brook coach Jackie Clayton said. On Monday night “one of them says, ‘I told you we should’ve had those pickles!’ So they all said, ‘OK, let’s get the pickles.’ ”

The four girls carpooled to a nearby Zaxby’s for a second dinner. Their lucky ritual complete, they revealed another quirk Tuesday morning, donning long green socks and drawing chuckles from a surprised Clayton.

“We’re a real laid-back group,” Clayton said. “We cut up like this all the time.”

The Spartans carded a 36-hole score of 491 with Tatum Jackson’s 153 — good for third — leading the way. Auburn was second at 501. 

Mountain Brook Schools program offers taste of college life

Published: Saturday, April 21, 2012, 11:00 AM

By William Thornton -- The Birmingham News

 

Mark Almond -- The Birmingham NewsSamford student Anna Sharp (left) assists Mountain Brook students Bailey Jones and John Donley as they work with a phone and computer at Samford University in Homewood, Ala., Wednesday, April 11, 2012. Graduated Mountain Brook special education students participate in the Turning Points program at Samford University to experience college life. They interact with Samford students, attend some classes, get training in social skills and work on campus. (The Birmingham News/Mark Almond)

For Judy Jones, Mountain Brook Schools' Turning Points initiative is appropriately named. 

"Everybody needs to feel like they are contributing," Jones said. "Everybody likes to feel fulfilled and doing things that make them feel like part of society."

Judy's daughter Bailey is one of the first participants in Turning Points, a program that gives special education students a taste of college life at Samford University when they might not normally get the chance to experience it.

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Boys Tennis: Mountain Brook 9, Homewood 0

Birmingham News, April 09, 2012 7:39 p.m.

Mountain Brook (9-1) won seven matches at love and dropped only three games in the match to overwhlem Homewood.
S1:  Trey Carter (MB) d. Charlie Carter 10-0; S2:  ERic Buchalter (MB) d. David Cox  10-0; S3:  Nelson Jetmundsen (MB) d. J.R. Carter 10-0; S4:  Jacob Weinaker (MB) d. Drew Jones 10-0; S5:  Ben Shearer (MB) d. Aaron Ragsdale  10-0; S6:  Sam Lidikay (MB) d. Alex Vice 10-1; D1:  Carter/Buchalter (MB) d. Carter/Carter 10-0; D2:  Shearer/Weinaker (MB) d. Ragsdale/Jones 10-0; D3:  Jetmundsen/Lidikay (MB) d. Cox/Vice 10-2.

Congratulations, team!

Girls Golf: Mountain Brook wins Hike the Hills

Birmingham News, April 03, 2012 7:25 p.m.

The Mountain Brook girls golf team shot a second-day 226 to rally from fourth place and win the Hike the Hills Tournament at Highland Park-Boswell Golf Course. The Spartans started the day 11 shots behind Auburn's 240, but rounds of 74 by Tatum Jackson and Carolyn McCalley led the rally.
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Dr. Theresa Corley receives Lifetime Commitment to Teaching Award

High school science teacher, Dr. Theresa Corley, was awarded the Roberson Lifetime Commitment to Teaching Award from the University of Montevallo School of Education.  The award is based on nomination for the positive impact made on the life of a University of Montevallo faculty, staff member, or student. 

Dr. Corley was recognized at an awards banquet in February on the University campus as well as at the March meeting of the Mountain Brook Board of Education.  With 27 years in education, Dr. Corley's commitment to her students is outstanding.  Mountain Brook Schools are proud of her!

Congratulations to the Sword & Shield staff for receiving, for the first time ever,  a rating of “All Alabama” at this past weekend’s Alabama Scholastic Press Association’s state competition. The Sword & Shield was one of three high school newspapers state-wide to receive this rating, which is the highest award possible.

The following students also received individual awards:

On-site newspaper Editorial writing

1^st place:  Olivia Burton

2^nd place:  Barbara Sandlin

On-site newspaper Layout

2^nd place:  Mary Nobles Hancock

Page One Design  December 14^th Edition

1^st place: Co-Editors-in-Chief Will Hightower and Mary Nobles Hancock

Review

1^st place:  Anna Patterson—“Taking the guesswork out of Greek Yogurt”

Honorable Mention:   “The Great Language Debate”—Rachel Fleisig, Mary Nobles Hancock, Atticus O’Brien

Editorial

2^nd place:  Anna Patterson—“A perishing culture? The decline of print journalism”

Sports Story

2^nd place:  Will Hightower—“Vlachos proves Saban wrong”

3^rd place:  Fletcher Cox—“MBHS Football team defeats Hoover”

Ads—Design

1^st place:  William Norris

Arts/Graphic

2^nd place:  William Norris

News Photo

3^rd place:  Will Hightower

We are proud of our journalism students!

Girls Basketball: Mountain Brook 51, Thompson 42

Birmingham News, February 16, 2012 9:10 p.m.

Jeff George
“Survive and advance” was the theme Mountain Brook coach Mark Cornelius preached to his team all week.

The Spartans (25-9) did both, beating Thompson in a Class 6A sub-regional game.

Mountain Brook forced 20 turnovers and used a 13-6 run in the third quarter to secure the win.
“I was really worried about the game,” Cornelius said. “But we did enough to win. I was proud of the way that the ladies fought and took advantage of the opportunities.”
Mountain Brook will face Shades Valley at noon Feb. 22 in the Northeast Regional at Jacksonville State.
Annabelle Friedman led the Spartans with 17 points, 10 coming in the fourth quarter. The junior guard was 10-of-10 from the free-throw line. Collier Oglivie added 11 points.
“Thompson had a great game plan” Cornelius added. “Our run in the third quarter and free throw shooting helped us advanced. That’s all is about tonight.”
The Spartans made 19-of-25 of free-throw attempts.
Cornelius, who took the Spartans to several regionals and a Final Four appearance during his tenure as the school's boys coach, is making his first trip to Jacksonville in his first season as the girls coach.
Thompson (16-12) was led by KaDeisha Stowes, who had 15 points and 11 rebounds. Sophomore Taylor Underwood added nine points before leaving the game with an injured knee in the third quarter.

Mountain Brook High School Leadership Mountain Brook Cohort Selected

Congratulations to students from Mountain Brook High School chosen to be the 2013 cohort of Leadership Mountain Brook.  The group will participate in leadership activities throughout the 2012-2013 school year.

Front Row:  Maggie Mandt, Anne Holman Smith, Tyler Jaffe, Catherine Elizabeth Luke, Sarah Sims Parker, Anna Smith, Mary Shelton Hornsby.

Second Row: Charlotte Weaver, Reid Parrott, Alana Bartoletti, Katherine Francis, Mary Nix Roberson, Brooks Glover, Drew Dickson, Mitchell Bain.

Third Row:  Stewart Harrington, Mary Grace Tracy, Catherine Massingill, Reynolds Thompson, Reilly Blair and Principal Vic Wilson