The Heritage School welcomed over 150 former students and faculty members to the first ever, all-inclusive Heritage Reunion this past weekend.  All classes from 1975 to 2007 were invited to see the campus and enjoy dinner.  

The Student Life Center, the site of the event, was transformed into a festive Mardi Gras party, with colorful masks, beads, and doubloons decorating the walls and tables. Besides enjoying an authentic Cajun dinner of crawfish, shrimp, gumbo, red beans and rice, king cake and bread pudding, reunion attendees had fun browsing through old Heritage yearbooks and newspaper scrapbooks, catching up with friends from the past, and dancing to the sounds of current faculty member, Doug Kees', band. Everyone had so much fun, Ms. Griffith nearly had to give out detentions to end the party at midnight!

Many thanks to alumna Holly Mitchell, who was not only instrumental in planning the event, but also made beautiful centerpieces, fellow alumna Lee McEachern, who crafted amazing, life-sized peacock topiaries, and current parent Karen Mansour, who catered the delicious meal.

The class of 1989, pictured below, had the most attendees, with 13 out of 26 graduates. If you missed it, we missed you, too, and hope to see you at a future event! 

At a recent All-State basketball meeting in Macon, GA, Senior Emily Gray Powell was selected as a member of the All-State basketball team. This award was voted on by all of the basketball coaches in the AA Georgia Independent School Association. Emily Gray was one of only three players from Region 4AA to receive this honor.  She was also selected to represent the GISA in a cross state game with South Carolina as a member of the GISA All-Star team. She, along with 11 other seniors, will represent the best senior basketball players in the GISA AA classification. The game is being played on Saturday, March 5, in Columbia, South Carolina, at 11:00 am.  Congratulations, Emily Gray!

Heritage Helps Haiti

Much of Port-au-Prince remains in ruin, more than a year after a major earthquake hit Haiti, according to Jean Bruno, a Haitian Anglican priest who is the head of Bethlehem Ministry.

Heritage teacher, Frank Marchman, serves on the board of Bethlehem Ministry, and arranged for Pere Bruno to speak to Heritage students this week.  Bethlehem Ministry has a school, Ecole St. Bartelemy, and a medical clinic at Terrier Rouge in northern Haiti.  The ministry also sponsors an experimental jatropha project - encouraging Haitian farmers to grow jatropha, a plant that yields an oil that can be used for fuel and for cleaning substances.  

Heritage students learned that Haiti is a nation of almost 10 million people who face environmental difficulties daily.  The earthquake exacerbated already difficult problems. Pere Bruno talked about work being done to avoid the continued outbreaks of cholera and the need for scholarships for students at Ecole St. Bartelemy.  A yearlong scholarship, providing books, uniforms, tuition, and a daily hot lunch, costs $200, and for an additional $25, a donor can provide healthcare through the medical clinic.  Donations, marked "scholarship," can be sent to Bethlehem Ministry, 105 Rocky Road, Morganton, GA 30560.

Last year, Heritage 6th graders organized a massive fundraiser for Haiti.  Learn more about that here.

Text excerpted from two stories in the Times-Herald.  Read the full stories here:

Haitian priest says little progress seen in capital

Soccer
Friday, March, 4:00, 5:15, 7:15 pm, MS Girls, Varsity Girls, and Varsity Boys at home vs. Trinity, AL 
Monday, March 7, 5:00 pm, MS Girls at Piedmont
Tuesday, March 8, 5:00, 6:45 pm, Varsity Girls and Boys at Arlington
Wednesday, March 9, 5:00 pm, Varsity Boys at LaGrange Academy
Thursday, March 10, 4:30, 6:15 pm, Varsity Girls and Boys at home vs. LaFayette Christian
 

Tennis
Monday, March 7, 4:00 pm, MS at home vs. St. George
Tuesday, March 8, 4:00 pm, Varsity at home vs. Calvary
Thursday, March 10, 4:00 pm, Varsity at home vs. OMA
 

Track and Field
Thursday, March 10, 3:30 pm, at Mills Springs

Intramurals
Saturday, March 5: Intramural playoffs.  Red vs. Green at 10:00 am and Cardinal vs. Orange at 11:00 am.  Don't miss the championship game on Friday, March 11, at 10:00 am!
The 7th graders will be running concessions during the games to raise money to go to Washington in 8th grade.