Traditions

As a school founded 83 years before the founding of our nation, we’ve got tons of traditions, and they’re awesome. My favorites so far have been convocation, the yule log, and grand illumination.

At convocation, all the freshmen gathered in the courtyard of the Wren building, and the rest of the school stood in the back of the Wren building. To symbolize the class of 2012’s entrance into the school, we entered the front of the Wren building and came out the back to a crowd of cheering friends and friends to be. We were celebrities for a day! At graduation, we’ll enter from the back and come out the front of Wren.

The yule log was near Christmas, where President Reveley, our incredible president who speaks gold and has a fanbase consisting of the entire population of our school, dressed as Santa Claus and read us *How the Grinch Stole * Christmas on the portico of the Wren building. We were each given a piece of holly, which we had to rub on the yule log and then throw into the flames Wren’s Great Hall fireplace, symbolizing our riddance of the year’s burdens.

Grand Illumination is also in the winter. The students living in the student house in Colonial Williamsburg invited the school over for hot cider, cookies, and a cappella, and then we sat on the governor’s palace lawn for a fireworks spectacle!