The 2020 winter issue of Jackson Academy’s magazine, True Blue, is available online.

COVID-19 Q&A with Dr. Alan Jones Greatly Appreciated

Jackson Academy families were grateful for a recent Q&A featuring UMMC Chief of Emergency Medicine Dr. Alan Jones answering questions about coronavirus (COVID-19). This interactive session, moderated by Bryan Eubank, was live on Facebook and the Raider Network. Dr. Jones responded to pre-submitted questions and questions posed on Facebook Live. If you missed this informative session, you may watch the recorded version at RaiderNetwork.org.

Dr. Jones is leading UMMC's clinical response efforts for the COVID-19 pandemic and also serves as UMMC’s Chief Operations Physician. He is a JA parent and JA alumnus.

University President Delivers Message to Seniors for JA Academic Signing Day

Dr. Mark E. Keenum, president of Mississippi State University, delivered the first of Jackson Academy's Presidential Addresses and JA Senior Academic Signing Announcements in honor of the Class of 2020. Seniors and their parents were sent the message from Dr. Keenum last night.

Each Monday, look for other messages being delivered to JA seniors by Mississippi's university and college presidents. Congratulations, Class of 2020!

Easter Holidays Begin Friday

Jackson Academy will be on Easter break this Friday and next Monday. We hope you all have a blessed Easter weekend.

The junior varsity and varsity soccer teams gathered for a banquet at the beginning of March to celebrate their 14-1 and 16-2 seasons, respectively, and another year of growth and development as individual players. Varsity Head Coach Phillip Buffington and Assistant Coach Craig McCabe presented awards alongside Junior Varsity Coach Jaylon Robinson.

Junior Varsity Awards:

Varsity Awards:

The Office of Alumni Relations invites you to send us a snapshot of you and your children having an egg hunt in their JA attire by Friday, and one lucky family will win the "JA Golden Prize" delivered by the Easter bunny himself! Send your photo entries to [email protected]. These photos will be shared on JA social media.

Artistic expression often flourishes at the nexus of creativity and restriction, like a stay-at-home order. During distance learning, JA students and faculty are producing pieces to bring laughter and ease the heartache of this separation from the school community.

In a project that incorporated photo editing education and a humorous approach to art conservation, Susan Ingram’s visual art students equipped famous portraits with protection against the coronavirus.

View the full album on the JA Facebook page.

Kerri Sanders’ theatre students directed, starred in, and produced “COVID-19 Survival Videos” in which they showed what a day in their lives is like right now. In the videos the students treat their time at home with humor, but it’s clear they take the situation seriously. As senior Reese Anderson says while describing the importance of spending time outside, “I’d rather be fending off wasps and mosquitoes than fending off a virus.” Several of the students’ videos will be shared on JA’s social media accounts later this week.

“Inspiring each other is such a part of who we are as a school,” said teacher Ann Boswell Carlson. When ninth grade English teacher Jennifer Conway challenged her students to write a free or formal verse poem using several of their vocabulary words, Carlson decided to take the challenge, too. The result was 41 lines of poetry titled Spring 2020: A Teacher’s Hopeful Lament in which Carlson describes feelings many members of the JA community share in response to the coronavirus pandemic. “After I read the assignment, this just kind of poured out,” Carlson said.

Rawlings and Perfect Game announced their Preseason All-American teams last week, recognizing the top underclass high school baseball athletes in the U.S. The Rawlings-Perfect Game Preseason All American first, second, and third teams recognize 300 players from the U.S., Canada, and Puerto Rico. Each team consists of 100 players who are currently juniors, sophomores, or freshmen in high school. Congratulations to JA’s J ackson Conn, Henry Lee, and Parker Ryan for earning recognition for their hard work and commitment to the game of baseball. Jackson was named to the Rawlings-Perfect Game Preseason All-American Honorable Mention Team and All-Southeast Region 2nd Team. Parker was named to the Rawlings-Perfect Game Preseason All-American Honorable Mention Team and All-Southeast Region Honorable Mention Team. Henry was named to the Rawlings-Perfect Game Preseason All-Southeast Region Honorable Mention Team.

To read more, visit JA's athletic website GoRaiders.org.