The QuadPod

For the final episode of the season, we are highlighting some of the year’s best work from students in the audio journalism elective here at Baylor. We have "personal projects" from Conleigh Brock ('23), Justin Todd ('23), Caleb Hampton ('23), Carilyne Wyke ('23), Addi Yates ('24), and Dawson Bowers ('24). Two of these projects feature Baylor people: Addi intervie...

On this episode, we go behind the scenes of "Legally Blonde," the newest upper school theater production. We speak with many members of the cast and crew, as well as director of upper school theater, Beth Gumnick, and set design guru and technical director Garrett Walsh. Students who helped produce this episode and/or conducted interviews include Owen McDaniel ('23), Abagail Bailey (...

On this episode, we will be looking at some of the basic needs that our Baylor family provides us every day, services that are so embedded in our daily experience that we fail to register their full significance. First, we join Nathan Andreotti ('23) and Allen Cox ('09), Baylor’s sports equipment manager, who keeps Baylor teams both looking and feeling good. Next, Miller Robinson ('23)...

On this episode, we are highlighting three Baylor couples who not only live together but work together as well.  Three dynamic duos that prove that Love is not just a holiday but a way of life.   First, senior Owen McDaniel sits down with Penny and Jack Batt to hear their relationship origin story and what they love about one another.  Next, senior Justin Todd takes to the quad...

On this episode, we are featuring four conversations with four coaches who brought home TSSAA state championship titles in 2022.  First, junior Nelson McKnight sits down with head football coach, Erik Kimrey, to discuss his first season at Baylor and how he led the team to its first state title in 50 years.  Next, senior Morgan Sharpe discusses the softball team’s incredible run of state...

In this last episode of 2022, we are featuring an inside look at Baylor's community service program, also known as RESPECT. First, we give you a broad overview of the program with assistant director, Keelah Jackson. Then, we focus our attention on the annual holiday party put on by RESPECT, a beyond-belief feel-good shindig that we are bringing right to your doorstep. Owen McDaniel ('23) starts us...

On this episode, we look at some Baylor clubs and programs that are actively working to raise awareness about our changing environment and, following the Baylor mission, striving to make a positive difference in the world.  First, Owen McDaniel ('23) sits down with president of the Baylor sustainability club, Nora Redding ('23), to discuss the club’s various efforts on campus to model respons...

On this episode, we take a closer look at Hedges library and, in general, reading culture on campus.  First, we join Mr. Kelly, Priscilla Birdsall, and four young middle schoolers (Anton Pruenster ’28, Elizabeth Agner ’28, Ananya Chakraborty ’27, and Caroline Young ‘28) to discuss reading clubs on campus and how a shared love of reading brought two new clubs into being.  Next, senior Owe...

Join us as we kick off season three by learning some things we didn’t know about Baylor faculty.  First, we journey through the academic halls to uncover the surprises hiding in plain sight.  Then, we join band director Mae Weiss way up in the clouds, her new home away from home on the weekends.  Next, we hear how history teacher James Scott’s passion for his Scottish heritage makes...

The final episode of season two highlights six "personal projects" from the audio journalism elective at Baylor.  First, we hear from Nathan Andreotti ('23).  Nathan interviews his parents, Marcio Andreotti and Marcia Ulinski, about their decision to leave Brazil for the US and begin a new life right here in Chattanooga, TN.  Next, we join Halden Williams ('22), Vivi Christopoulos (...

On this episode, we explore the Baylor boarding experience, both from the perspective of several current boarding students and from the dorm parents, past and present, who care for them.  First, we go through a typical day as a boarder with Jasper Bulley ('22).  Then, we sit down with English faculty member and dean of 9th and 10th-grade residential life, Takisha Haynie, and her son, Eva...

On this episode, we’re going to do a little time traveling.  First, we go back to 1985 with Jasper Bulley (’22) and Scott Wilson (’75), former head of school and, back in 85, head of admissions at Baylor, to get the backstory on Baylor’s decision to go co-ed.  Then, Gaston Carmichael (’22) and Alexis Janosz (’22) sit down with Barry and Alexis Bogo (class of '85 and '89 respectively) to...

Young adults today face numerous challenges as they move along the path to becoming successful adults.  Here at Baylor, we live by the motto: Amat Victoria Curam (Victory Loves Care).  On this episode, we will explore key services that Baylor provides for students to help them navigate the academic and social pressures of their daily lives.  In addition, we will hear two incredible...

On this episode, we highlight stories of students and faculty who are truly living the Baylor mission to make a positive difference in the world.  First, senior Brett Cooper sits down with senior Adelle Pritchard to talk about how her Southside restaurant combines a love for crepes and community.  Next, senior Dacorian Jones-Montgomery gets the backstory on the Taraloka foundation from f...

On this episode, we will dive into some unique Baylor codes and customs.  First, senior and chairman of the honor council, Brett Cooper ('22), speaks with faculty advisor to the council, Elin Bunch ('09), about the legacy and tradition of the honor code here at Baylor, and then Brett sits down with senior David Danquah ('22) to answer some questions of his own about his time with the council....

On this episode, we highlight the spirit in "spirit week," not just surrounding the Friday night lights, but the other people and activities that bring our Baylor community together. You will not only learn more about the spirit that you know and love, but also the spirit that you may not have come to appreciate.  First, John Emendorfer (’23) and Ethan Wright (’22) ask students around campus...

On this episode, we explore new beginnings.  Lizzie Hill ('22) and Reese Hullander ('23) visit a 6th-grade class to learn what students are most excited about in starting their Baylor careers.  We get to know two of our international boarding students, Jakub Ucieszynski ('24), who hails from Poland and is attending school in the US for the first time, and David Danquah ('21), a fourth-ye...

On this episode, we celebrate the tenure and legacy of Scott Wilson ('75) who has served our school as headmaster for the past twelve years.  First, we start by speaking with Susan Collins, Scott’s assistant during those years, and someone who knows him as well as anybody.  Next, we sit down with Matt Lewis ('74), who offers us a perspective on Scott’s legacy and the transformative effec...

On this episode, we tell the remarkable story of how freshman Luke Thompson ('24) became one of the top birding experts in our region and established Baylor's campus as the premiere location for birding in the state.  First we speak with Susan Wilson (wife of headmaster Scott Wilson), an avid birder herself who took Luke under her proverbial wing when he was just a shy sixth grader with an in...

Welcome to "The Quadpod," a podcast highlighting life at Baylor School in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Inspired by the many converging paths on our campus where faculty, staff, students, alumni and families meet, we bring you stories from all angles, told by many voices.  Every year, we have the difficult task of saying goodbye to faculty members who are beginning that new chapter in life we call...

Welcome to another episode of the “Quadpod,” a podcast highlighting life at Baylor School in Chattanooga, Tennessee.  Inspired by the many converging paths on our campus where faculty, staff, students, alumni, and families meet, we bring you stories from all angles, told by many voices.  On this episode, we look at how Baylor is involving itself in our local community through civic engag...

Welcome to another episode of "The Quadpod," a podcast highlighting life at Baylor School in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Inspired by the many converging paths on our campus where faculty, staff, students, alumni and families meet, we bring you stories from all angles, told by many voices.  On this episode, we will look at how Baylor’s community is responding to social outcries for justice in the...

Welcome to another episode of "The Quadpod," a podcast highlighting life at Baylor School in Chattanooga, Tennessee.  Inspired by the many converging paths on our campus where faculty, staff, students, alumni and families meet, we bring you stories from all angles, told by many voices.  On this episode, we’ll unearth just what makes our campus location at the mouth of the Tennessee River...

Welcome to "The Quadpod," a podcast highlighting life at Baylor School in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Inspired by the many converging paths on our campus where faculty, staff, students, alumni and families meet, we bring you stories from all angles, told by many voices. This episode includes student reporting from junior Libby May, and seniors Kailee Johnson, Nell Smith, and Steven Yao. And now, episo...