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Stratford Gazebo

The Student News Site of Stratford Academy

Stratford Gazebo

Douglass brings black history close to home

Douglass brings black history ‘close to home’

Leah Davis, Gazebo Assistant Editor February 24, 2018

Black history is always closer than you think. Sure, there are plenty of African-American  historical figures we can recite the names and stories of any day of the week. However, there are even more...

Knox Cleveland, right, with his parents, Blair and Betsy, and sister Ellie, a senior at Stratford

It was an amazing ride

Knox Cleveland, Gazebo Staff Writer January 13, 2018

From the beginning, I knew this was going to be a special season for the Georgia Bulldogs. Since September, I’ve spent my weekends cheering on the Dawgs. From Indiana to California and back home...

IN THE DARK

IN THE DARK

Madeline Davis and Zeraiz Shabbir January 10, 2018

Gazebo Photo by AOL.COM Over the holiday break, there was a major power outage at the Atlanta airport. I didn’t have to read about it in the news. I was there. My father, brother, and...

When it comes to scouts, let boys be boys

When it comes to scouts, let boys be boys

Nick Dorogy, Gazebo Editor November 28, 2017

My first experience with the Boy Scouts came during my sixth grade year with Troop 170. Troop 170 has been operating in Macon for 50 years and has produced 168 Eagle Scouts during its tenure. Earlier...

The Deep

The Deep

AJ Stevenson, Gazebo Staff Writer November 28, 2017

Scuba diving is one way to get up close and personal with aquatic life. But forgetting signals and techniques can make for quite a problem. Last year, my family took a trip to a resort in the Dominican...

Andrew Palmer with grandfather Bill Tift at Coors Field in Denver this past summer

Baseball, fishing and Grandfather ‘B’

Andrew Palmer, Gazebo Staff Writer October 25, 2017

The major league baseball playoffs have a special meaning for me because I can watch three of the four teams on TV and reminisce the amazing and different ballpark experiences I had. I remember the...

The art of expectations

The art of expectations

Sabina Ajjan, Gazebo Staff Writer October 12, 2017

Bigger people. Bigger backpacks. Bigger loads of homework. That is all I expected high school to be. Watching my sister, Tarab Ajjan, staying up until midnight every night with homework ruined any...

Coming home

Coming home

October 2, 2017

It is homecoming week at Stratford. But my homecoming started on Aug. 16, the first day of school. The night before classes started, I asked my friend where the senior parking lot was located. It...

Senior Nick Dorogy continues the  family legacy as editor of the Stratford Gazebo

Big sisters know best

Nick Dorogy, Gazebo Editor September 26, 2017

By the time I was signing up for my freshmen classes four years ago, my sisters, Elena and Stacey, had graduated from Stratford. The first thing I did was ask for their advice. Elena, who is getting...

Kaylee Jellum

CAUTION: Stay back 10 feet

Kaylee Jellum, Gazebo Assistant Editor September 24, 2017

Have your feet ever tripped you? Mine do at least four times a day. The tables bruise me. The chairs scrape my knees. The walls bump into me. As much as I would like to believe it is the objects...

Carly Wanna, who is the Class of 2017 valedictorian, has been editor of The Gazebo student newspaper for the past two years.

When I walked into Room 129, doors began to open

Carly Wanna, Gazebo Editor April 20, 2017

My eighth-grade homeroom teacher, Mr. Dewayne Lawson, once told me journalism was a lot of work. Despite my internal desires to take a journalism class, the petrified, middle-school me decided to...

Freshman Charles Upshaw and his father, Dr. James Upshaw, bike on the Ocmulgee River Trail.

Biking in downtown Macon is an experience to be shared

Charles Upshaw, Gazebo Staff Writer April 20, 2017

I have always loved biking. There is a trail near my house in Shirley Hills, so it is easy to get on my mountain bike and ride trails that allow me to see the seasons of nature. It is probably the...

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