News Archive

Samantha Tancredi ’18 spent her summer participating in a Hutchison Leads Fellowship that took her all over the world. From Geneva, Switzerland, to Seville, Spain, and Washington, D.C., Samantha spent her time researching the role of law in the business, political, and cultural worlds.

Emily Faber ’15 is currently a junior at Rhodes College and serves as the executive director of The Bridge, a student-run newspaper that benefits the homeless.

Our middle and upper school girls are involved annually in Model United Nations (Model UN), a program that gives the girls opportunities to participate in debate and open discussion of international issues while helping them to become more knowledgeable global citizens.

“I have to thank my eighth grade advisors for believing in me and showing me that there isn’t just one style of leadership. Anywhere else, a girl like me could have been lost in the background, but because of their help, I learned that a listener can be a leader and that I have a voice. I never would be the student I am today if it weren’t for the faculty.” - Anna Murrey '18

Head of School Dr. Kristen Ring was recognized as a top leader among mid-size organizations in Memphis.

Hutchison is proud to announce that senior Owen Hergenrader has been named a finalist for the Wells Scholars Program at Indiana University Bloomington and a semifinalist for the Coca-Cola scholarship.

She's determined, adaptable, and analytical with a passion to lead, work hard, and reach for her goals. Meet Abigail White '18.

When the lights go up next weekend for Hutchison’s production of the musical Once on This Island, senior Madyson Bolton will take the stage in the lead role of Ti Moune. Once on This Island is a unique show driven by African-Caribbean music and French colonial culture. The show weaves a new myth from plot elements of The Little Mermaid and Romeo and Juliet with a Caribbean flair.

I waited a few seconds as my friend stared pensively into the distance, processing my explanation to his questions about my job. When I came back into his focus, he replied, “Gosh, I wish someone had asked me that question when I was in high school.”

This is a busy time of year in the Hutchison college counseling office. As we prepare and send recommendation letters, transcripts, and work with girls as the application deadlines quickly approach, it is important to reflect on the relationships we build with each girl. Because of our one-on-one college counseling, we are able to vividly describe each girl in our letters of recommendation. Yet, our work does not start a few weeks before an application deadline; it starts years before. In fact, our relationship with each girl begins during her freshman year. This is the Hutchison difference.

Five Hutchison girls were selected to perform with the prestigious All-Southwest Tennessee Senior High Honor Choir this fall.

To bring learning to life for our girls, we often invite in working professionals to share their experiences. Recently world-renowned photographer Ebet Roberts '63 visited our digital media class to discuss how her career got started in New York in the 1970s.

Hutchison first grader Caroline Fisher '29 knew she wanted to be hands-on while giving back to her community.

Samantha Tancredi ’18 is troubled. Eyes squinting and brow furrowed, she stares into her computer screen at the rough draft of Signpost, Hutchison’s school newspaper.

Senior Monica Fleck ’18 has been selected as a member of the prestigious 2017 All-National Honor Ensembles Symphony Orchestra.

At Hutchison, we recognize that extraordinary things can happen for a young girl when passion, talent, and opportunity meet. Therefore, it is our aim to present your daughter with numerous opportunities to discover and pursue her unique interests. With hard work and dedication, our girls are learning that their passion and talent can take them anywhere they can imagine. Just ask the young women spotlighted.

Have you ever been so bowled over by the brilliance of a teen that it leaves you speechless?

How do Hutchison upper school girls spend their summers? Senior Heather Guglietti spent hers exploring urban planning with a Hutchison Serves fellowship!

Hutchison girls of all ages visit our working farm regularly for a variety of unique learning opportunities. Today, in honor of International Women's Day, several classes joined school Horticulturist Mary Riddle for an early spring inspection of our school apiary where 50,000+ female honeybees currently reside.

A Trip to the Bahamas Engages Girls With Science

Mary Carson Pitts ’13 has made leaps and bounds on and off the field at Tulane. She recently graduated from the university with a degree in Business Finance, all while balancing her academics with an impressive athletic record.

Girls like Porter Johnson excel through our Hutchison Leads program. Read about how Porter started her own year-long independent study project on development in Memphis after a well-established background in volunteering throughout the community as a Rogers Scholar.

Hutchison faculty kicked off the summer with service and joined forces with the More Than A Meal Program.

Nine Hutchison Serves girls attended the annual Books from Birth Luncheon to benefit literacy in the Memphis Community.

Vicki Koehn, middle school English teacher, offered a creative approach to practicing writing. At a critical point in learning to write, she gave her sixth grade girls an assignment to write a ten-chapter book about the subject they know best – themselves.

Cesar Salazar, one of Hutchison’s middle school Spanish teachers, recently received the “Microsoft Best Classroom” award for his outstanding and innovative integration of Colombian culture curriculum into the Spanish language education of his classroom.

These days, it’s easy to look at the Hutchison lacrosse team in awe. Over the past 15 years, the girls who have played lacrosse at Hutchison have combined skill, teamwork, and determination to build the best team in the city and state. The Hutchison Sting has captured seven consecutive Tennessee state lacrosse titles since 2010 and eight total state titles to date.

Our varsity lacrosse team ran away with their seventh consecutive state title this weekend, finishing strong in the championship by defeating Harpeth Hall, 18-7.

Ten Hutchison girls excel in a national math exam & one senior competed in an elite national math invitational!

As the end of the year approaches, we wanted to express our excitement for our seniors as they say goodbye to Hutchison and begin their journeys at colleges and universities across the nation and around the world. We are so proud of the class of 2017!

The 7th graders recently participated in a Service-Learning project with MUS as a part of the Co-Edge Program.

Hutchison senior Sophie Merchant ’17 has been named a semifinalist in the 2017 U.S. Presidential Scholars Program. Sophie is one of 722 semifinalists selected from nearly 5,100 candidates. She is one of only three Memphis students to be named a semifinalist. Final scholars will be named later this month.

Five Hutchison students were among seven Memphis-area students honored at The Salvation Army’s Founders’ Day program for their leadership in volunteerism and fundraising.

We would like to extend special thanks to the golfers, sponsors, and tournament planning committee who supported Hutchison athletics through our annual Golf Scramble this year.

Hutchison’s May Day tradition dates back to 1924 when it began at Miss Hutchison’s Preparatory School for girls as a dance recital.

Upper School girls applied their world language abilities to win fourth place in their division at the Tennessee Junior Classical League (TJCL) Latin Convention. Several girls also recently won Awards for their achievements on the National Latin Exam.

We are proud to announce that the Hutchison theatre department’s production of Beauty and the Beast has been nominated for four different awards this year by the Orpheum High School Musical Theater Awards.

Hutchison's Vocal Point choir won first place and a gold ranking at a major U.S. music festival and has been invited to perform at Carnegie Hall.

The Hutchison Varsity Lacrosse team is dominating the field and national lacrosse rankings.

Famous female political leaders, musicians, dancers, athletes, chefs, actresses, and more made their appearances in 4th Grade recently. Even Lucy from I Love Lucy stopped by!

Cooper Matthews '17 has been awarded Southern Methodist University's Hunt Leadership scholarship.

Four upper school girls – Suraya Buffong ’18, Abigail White ’18, Samantha Tancredi ’18, and Katie McBride ’19 – participated in a Pitch Day as part of Hutchison Invests.

Girls in Little Hive, pre-kindergarten and junior kindergarten biked in Hutchison’s annual Trike-A-Thon to benefit St. Jude. This year’s event raised more than $14,000, exceeding all previous years.

Hutchison’s Emily Smith Britton Chapter of the Cum Laude Society inducted 12 new members this spring.

Middle and upper school girls competed in the Annual Foreign Language Fair at the University of Memphis, where they won 34 individual and group awards.

Four Hutchison girls earned positions in the All State Orchestra and Choir, which is organized by the Tennessee Music Education Association (TMEA).

Francie Sentilles '17 is Hutchison's fourth Morehead-Cain Scholar in six years.

The Hutchison Varsity lacrosse team recently traveled to California to compete against some of the top lacrosse teams in that region.

This past weekend, six Hutchison alumnae participated in Cycle for Survival for the second year in a row and raised almost $12,000.

Lower School Spanish Teacher Kenna Chelsoi and Middle School Spanish Teacher Caesar Salazar served as presenters at this past weekend’s Memphis in May International Teachers' Conference, an event designed to bring international culture to every classroom in Memphis.

Nineteen upper school girls traveled to Nashville last weekend to participate in the Tennessee YMCA Youth in Government Program, an annual conference designed to offer high school and middle school students a hands-on experience with state government.

Three Hutchison upper school girls, including Monica Fleck '18, Ansley Stamper '19, and Anne Grinder '19, were selected to attend the St. Jude Science Scholars symposium recently.

Through our Hutchison Serves program, middle & upper school girls recently volunteered at Southern Reins Center for Equine Therapy.

Hutchison's Rogers Scholars joined cityCURRENT on a recent tour of the Soulsville Foundation.

A group of 32 sophomores and juniors participated in Hutchison's college tour trip to California this spring.

Senior Cooper Matthews has been selected as a finalist for Southern Methodist University's Hunt Leadership Scholars Program. She is one of 76 finalists chosen from more than 700 applications.

Ten girls currently in an entrepreneurship class at Hutchison visited Start Co. recently to tour the facility and meet three female start-up founders.

"Your heart in your body is different than a pretty Valentine's heart!"

More than 800 people came out to see Hutchison's production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" this past weekend.

It's finally here! Our Center for Excellence and SPARK Day Camp summer offerings catalog is now available on our website at cfe.hutchisonschool.org. Register online today!

Twenty-four high school girls from seven different schools are participating in the fourth annual Hutchison Leads Summit at the Kroc Center of Memphis as part of the Center for Excellence at Hutchison.

Through our Hutchison Leads program, senior Gracie Meeks participated in an internship at Baptist Memorial Hospital for Women with a goal of gaining a real-life perspective on the daily life of a nurse in a hospital.

Hutchison senior Jasmine McGill signed her letter of intent to play soccer at Delta State University beginning fall 2017.

Hutchison girls earned an impressive 36 Scholastic Writing Awards at the recent Nonprofit Alliance for Young Writers’ Southeastern competition.

Seniors Sophie Merchant and Laura Carrier have been named candidates for the prestigious U.S. Presidential Scholars Program.

Maggie Loftin recently completed an fellowship with a local animal clinic through our Hutchison Leads program.

Hutchison is proud to announce that senior Stewart Nichols has been named a University of Virginia Jefferson Scholars finalist.

The Hutchison RoboBees finished 14 out of 23 teams at St. George's VEX Robotics Competition under the guidance of middle school science teacher Sherri Sobczak.

As part of our Hutchison Leads program, Gwen Jones '17 participated in a marketing internship with Official Mississippi RiverKings Hockey where she developed a strategy for improving attendance, participated in sales training, and became more familiar with fundraising. She was the only high school student among the cohort of interns.

After a successful varsity fall sports season, six of our Sting athletes were honored by being named to The Commercial Appeal's Best of the Preps team in one of four sports: soccer, volleyball, golf, or cross country.

Pictured is one screenshot image of a game Greeley Lindberg '18 created using the Greenfoot software in her AP Computer Science course.

During the fall semester, upper school girls competed in the local Knowledge Bowl competition under the guidance of upper school science teacher Robert Lofton.

Fifth grade girls recently participated in Genius Hour, a movement that allows students to explore their own passions and encourages creativity in the classroom.

Francie Sentilles '17 and Arden Farr '17 have been recognized by two prestigious and competitive university scholarship programs.

Dr. Becky Deehr, middle school science teacher at Hutchison, was featured as the Educator of the Week on the National Geographic blog in early January.