6/19/2023 0 Comments I Owe You One by Natalie Hyde![]() ![]() ![]() “I think the students feel the sense that the activity connects them to generations of NCS students going back over 100 years,” he says.Īwarded to an Upper School student, the Hyde-established in 1914 by the first treasurer and former trustee of the Protestant Episcopal Cathedral Foundation, Thomas Hyde-is the school’s oldest prize. The idea is to give students a variety of jumping off places,” says Upper School English teacher Tony Speranza, who chaired the department for eight years. “We try to come up with an idea that has multiple meanings and that is concise-usually one word or phrase. This school year, the topic was becoming, and students wrote their pieces in the All Hallows Amphitheater due to COVID-19 mitigation policies. Sprawled out across every nook and cranny in the Cathedral Nave, laying on marble and clad with green notebooks, students write about whatever comes to mind when they hear the theme assigned by the English department. Once every fall, when students walk into Washington National Cathedral expecting hymns, homilies, and scripture readings, they are excited to learn that this is instead the surprise Hyde-Tuckerman service.Ī tradition of more than 100 years, the Hyde-Tuckerman extemporaneous writing competition invites students to spend 45 minutes authoring an original piece. ![]()
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