For 50 years, religion and spirituality have sparked lively discussions on the Charles Wright campus.  Now Chaplain Mike Moffitt is taking those discussions to a larger audience with Waiting for the Whisper, a monthly podcast featuring interviews, reviews, and more. 

The first episode, “Foundations,” features interviews by Moffitt with Sam Brown, Charles Wright’s founder, and Tyler Francis, physical education teacher and basketball coach.  In addition, several students have contributed reviews. 

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Charles Wright’s Knowledge Bowl team took back their state title on March 22 at the division A tournament in Spokane Valley.  The Tarriers have now won the state championship four of the last five years.  In 2007, they lost by just one point.  This year the team really focused on the details to make sure they brought the trophy back home at the end of the season.

“This team is one of the strongest and youngest teams in school history,” says Coach John Lemma.  “Typical past teams have been composed of five seniors and one junior.  This year we had two seniors, two juniors and a sophomore.  The future of the CWA Knowledge Bowl Team has never looked more promising.”

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American writer and film director Stanley Kubrick once said that “what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it’s really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas.”

The Charles Wright community seeks to challenge students in every discipline to think about whether their first inclination is really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas, but we teach those lessons directly to our chess teams.  It seems that Charles Wright students have learned those lessons pretty well.  Some of the state’s best chess players are right here in our Lower and Upper Schools.

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Emily Rome, a Charles Wright senior and editor of the Upper School new magazine The Academy Times, was recently named Washington’s Outstanding Journalist of the Year by the Washington Journalism Education Association.  This is one of just two honors bestowed on the state’s top high school journalists and Rome is Charles Wright’s fourth winner.

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Congratulations to the Charles Wright Knowledge Bowl team!  For the fourth time in five years, they are State Champions!  After losing the title by one point last year, they’re back on top.  We’ll have a full report on the team later in the week.

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Life still goes on at the farmhouse, as Parent Association volunteers continue to sort and price donated goods for next November’s Wright Stuff Rummage Sale.  Our exciting breaking news is that Wright Stuff will host a formalwear sale in honor of prom! Upper Schoolers should stop by the US commons on Wednesday, March 26, and see the new and gently-used gowns and tuxes we have accumulated. You can’t beat the prices – items from $8 to $30. Cash and checks accepted, so come ready to shop!

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If you’re planning to climb Mount Everest this summer (and hey, who isn’t) you may have read the News Tribune’s front-page story: Closed? Local guides predict losses after China reserves Everest for Olympic torch climb. 

Eric Simonson, co-owner of Ashford’s International Mountain Guides company, was pictured and quoted in the article.  What the TNT didn’t report is that Simonson is a proud member of the Charles Wright family (hard to imagine how they missed an important fact like that!)

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Last weekend’s state basketball championship concluded one of the most exciting seasons in Charles Wright’s athletic history. These players and coaches now join an elite group of alums who can call themselves state champions. In recent years, the Tarriers have won championships in cross-country, golf and tennis and they have come very close to winning in track and field and soccer. But until last weekend, Charles Wright had won only two state championships in team sports in the last 30 years.

This year’s boys’ basketball players demonstrated tremendous grace, endurance, confidence, cooperation, skill and heart. They not only won games, they won the respect of their teammates, coaches, opposing teams, and referees. And for that, as much as for the state championship, they deserve to be recognized.

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With 14 seconds left on the clock, Jorden Hand sunk two free throws to seal the state championship victory for Charles Wright on Saturday night.  The Tarriers won by five.  Ken Whitney, a 1977 graduate of Charles Wright and Lower School parent was in the crowd and captured the moment on video tape.  His footage shows just how many people were in the Sundome stands for the championship game and the enthusiasm of the crowd chanting “C-dub! C-dub! C-dub!”  Click here to watch Ken’s video on You Tube.  He’ll be posting more video clips soon.  We’ve also started loading pictures on the photos.charleswright.org site.  Get the required password from Get Wright Online! 

Charles Wright has its first state basketball trophy and it’s the big one.  The boys’ team won a nail biter against River View by a final score of 53-48.  The Tarriers finished their season with a record of 22 and 6, the best in school history.  They cut down the net and celebrated with fans well into the girls’ game that followed to the chant “C-dub, State Champs!”  Read the rest of this entry »