Magazine Mania

By: Bill Burton, Administrative Vice President

The annual GAC magazine sale officially kicks off on Friday, September 7, but the “early birds” are already contacting their clients and getting tons of orders.  GAC is the National Champion magazine sale school among the 40,000 schools that participate with QSP/Reader’s Digest.
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GAC Construction, Roads and Landscape

By: Dr. David Fincher, President

All summer long the sound of heavy machinery and evidence of newly stirred dirt has confirmed that GAC is once again improving and upgrading the campus.  The 12,900 sq. ft. Naik Athletic Training Center reaches completion; additional parking spaces are added behind Liles Media Center and expansion of Pipeline Road as a primary campus thoroughfare all takes shape.  Because of planning and permit work underway, excavation and initial construction of The Forum may be delayed until a few weeks after school has begun.
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Annual School Theme...Legacy

By: Jill Morris, Community Relations Director

This year’s theme is Legacy…Learn it, Live it, Leave it.  Students will hear this theme over and over throughout the school year in chapel, the classroom, read it on bulletin boards and, hopefully, see it lived out on campus as well as at home.  Thank you for your confidence in GAC and in your commitment to Christian education.

As Dr. Fincher stated when he quoted Pericles:  "What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others."

 

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What's New This Year?

By: Jill Morris, Community Relations Director

The Naik Athletic Training Center (left) was dedicated on August 23rd as parents, students and friends of GAC celebrated the opening of the new 12,900 sq ft. fitness center which includes weight training, batting cages and pitching facilities.

The Coan Softball Field was also dedicated that day in honor of Sandra Coan, grandmother of senior softball athlete Jessica Coan.

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First Day of Chapel Shared with Area Youth Ministers

By: Jill Morris, Community Relations Director

New friendships were formed as GAC chaplains Terry Davis and Jordan House invited youth ministers from area churches to join us on the first day of Junior High and Senior High chapels.  During the spring semester, students were asked to fill out cards with names of their church youth ministers.  Those ministers were then sent an invitation to the first chapel service.  “Church youth ministers and chaplains can be even more effective in these students’ lives when we partner together,” said Terry Davis.
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American Heroes In Our Midst

By: Jill Morris, Community Relations Director

There are only 108 living U.S. Medal of Honor recipients.  Only four Medal of Honors have been given since the Vietnam War and that was given posthumously.  Therefore, it was a great honor to have Sergeant Major Jon R. Cavaiani in our chapel on August 16 as a Medal of Honor recipient.  Accompanying Sgt. Cavaiani was 4-Star General Bryan Douglas Brown, Commander, Headquarters U.S. Special Operations Command, MacDill Air Force Base, Florida.  General Brown addressed GAC Junior High and Senior High students sharing "The way we win the war in Iraq is by building bridges…Learn a foreign language.”  He continued “Our guys are the best when they need to be lethal, but bridging gaps through communication is the key to winning the war.”
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GAC Enrollment and Retention Remain High

By: Bill Burton, Administrative Vice President and Linda Clovis, Director of Admissions

As we look forward to another great year at GAC, our statistics indicate positive numbers again.  GAC continues to be blessed with strong enrollment and a high rate of retention as we begin our 40th year.  Our current goal is not numerical growth in the student body, but rather growth in quality of our programs and facilities.  A testimony to this quality is that we have students coming to us this year from 12 counties and 65 zip codes in the metro Atlanta region.
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Senior High Thursdays

By: Scott Harsh, Senior High Principal

By now, I hope all of you are aware of the positive changes we have made to the schedule for Thursdays.  By moving Growth Period to the first hour of the day on Thursdays, followed by chapel and three block periods, students’ specific needs can be more met more efficiently and effectively.
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Academic Teams...Seeking Highly Competitive Students...(and their parents)

By: Dan and Suzann Landreth, Academic Booster Club Co-Presidents

The Academic Booster Club (ABC) is a parent organization devoted to the promotion and recognition of our competitive academic teams.  We had very strong showings in competitive events last year and it’s time to build those teams again.  These teams bring home trophies and recognition for the team and GAC.  Your student can help GAC achieve state level recognition.
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Praise to God

By: Misty Overman, Junior High Principal

Praise to God, the Junior High has experienced an unprecedented smooth beginning this year.  Thank you to students, parents, and teachers for their flexibility and patience as we worked out the few bugs this week.  Scheduling certainly benefited from the summer attention as we have changed very few schedules this week.  Even the ever fearful carpool has gone smoothly these first few days.  
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GAC's Web Team Wins National Award

By: Jill Morris, Community Relations Director

Exciting news!  The Jammin' 'bout Diabetes GAC Website Design Team won national recognition this summer at ThinkQuest USA, an event sponsored by Oracle.  Student and teacher participants will receive a computer laptop, while GAC, will receive a prize of $1,000.
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Children Need Success

By: Norma Miller, Elementary Principal

Our focus this year is to maximize each child's success.  Over the last decade our faculty has embraced and seriously applied two bodies of research.  The first began in the early '90's when we began to better understand how the brain learns.  Teachers have joined the excitement, using curriculum and teaching strategies that reflect a great deal of this excellent research.  Over time we have become a brain-based learning school.
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Diving Team Goes Gold

By: Jill Morris, Community Relations Director

The Southeast Xtreme Diving Team (SXD), which trains under GAC Dive Coach Herb Cables, won 4 gold medals at the 2007 Georgia Games.  The team trains at the GAC Freeman Aquatic Center and one of the divers, eight year old GAC student, Molly Joseph, won the 1-meter springboard event in her age group.  "I couldn't be any more proud" said Coach Cables. 
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Building a Legacy in the Village

By: Rhonda Hawkins, Early Childhood Principal

Tears are few, children are laughing, teachers are happy, and carpool is running relatively smoothly.  As the school year begins, I am reminded again that children are a true blessing from God.
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Kings Gate Theatre Show Season 2007-2008

• One Act Play: October 9, 11, 13 – 7:30
• Junior High Fall Production: October 29, 30 – 7:30
• “Fruitcakes”: December 6, 7, 8 – 7:30
• Homecoming Musical: “Big River”
          January 24, 25 – 7:30
          January 27 – 2:00 & 7:30
• Freshman Follies: February 8 – 7:30
• Visions Showcase: March 14, 15 – 7:30
• Junior High Spring Production: March 28, 29 – 7:30
• Dinner Theatre: “Murder in the Nunnery” – Apr. 24, 26 – 6:30
• Shakespeare: “Romeo and Juliet” – May 8, 9, 10 – 7:30

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