By Grace Yurko ’25
On February 25th SPSG held their annual Accepted Student’s Day, during which newly accepted students for the 2025-2026 school year and their families came to enjoy the morning at their possible future school. Prayers was full of energy that morning with current SPSG students cheering on the prospective students and families as they entered the gym and took their seats. There were green and white pom poms, towels being waved, and confetti canons. Immediately after, students led the notorious “Chomp chomp welcome to the swamp!!!”.
All-School SGA President Janelle Glascoe (‘25) began Prayers by introducing herself and the school song. Following that, head of SPSG Mrs. Malfa (‘89) spoke about the school and the warm and welcoming environment that the students embrace each day. Then, we heard from student speakers Ariel McLaurin (‘25) and Delilah Goforth (‘30). McLaurin ended her speech to the prospective students by telling them that “SPSG has given [her] the tools to become who [she is] today, and [she is] excited to see who [they] will become here, too.”
After the three speeches, Experience+ Coordinator Mrs. Mills introduced current students to a marketing and brand engagement industry visit to imre’s Towson offices, which will be held on March 5th. She also presented a law roundtable in which students will hear from attorney Janice Bledsoe (‘81) on March 7th. Following this, a group of middle school students showed pictures and spoke about how their trip to Mexico with their SPSG class gave them a sense of independence. Then, Chaplain Gathman and service-learning representative Ashley Hayunga (‘25) announced the annual Service Day on March 5th, as well as the service drive in which advisories in the upper school and grades in the middle school are assigned many different items.
Green Team Representative Charlotte Ullmann (‘25) and White Team Representative Lidia McFaul (‘25) introduced the Green and White tradition at SPSG. Students then played a game called “Guess Where the Faculty Member is Hiding.” To play this game, they needed one green and one white team member from each grade, 5th to 12th. Ullmann and McFaul showed a video of an area in SPSG, and a faculty member was hiding somewhere in that space previously shown in the video. The players would then write on a whiteboard where they thought they saw the faculty member hiding and whichever team got it right got a point for their team. To end Prayers, the cheer team put on a performance and handed out clips to the prospective students. Glascoe then dismissed students, while prospective students and families headed to the learning commons for a class fair so they could see their possible choices of classes.
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