White Station High School is a four-year public high school located in Memphis, Tennessee .
40-493: Lightman may refer to: People [ edit ] Alan Lightman (born 1948), US physicist and writer Gavin Lightman (1939-2020), English judge Harold Lightman (1906-98), English barrister John Lightman, US musician, member of Big Star Stafford Lightman (born 1948), English doctor Toby Lightman (born 1978), US singer-songwriter Sari and Romy Lightman, members of
80-453: A Cambodian lawyer named Veasna Chea Leth who told him that when she had been going to university in Phnom Penh in the mid-1990s, she and a handful of female students lived underneath the university building, in the two-meter crawl space between the bottom of the building and the mud, because there was no housing for female university students. Lightman and Chea together conceived the idea of
120-423: A baseball team (M), a softball team (F), a cheerleading team (F), and a tennis team (M/F). The Lady Spartans tennis team has won the city championship for 3 consecutive years, 2009–2011, and finished as state runner-up in 2009, 2010, and 2011. That team was led by Kayla Jones, Kasey Spillman, Maya Smith, and Lauren and London Thomas. The boys' tennis team won the 2011 district championship and advanced one player to
160-399: A distinctive identity as a full-fledged Memphis high school. The original White Station mascot was a bulldog and the school newspaper was The Bulldog Leash , with school colors of blue and white. However, these colors were already in use by Memphis Catholic High School . The first senior class of 1956–1957 chose Spartans as their mascot and green and gray as school colors. In keeping with
200-463: A dormitory for female university students in Phnom Penh. That first facility was completed in 2006, the first dormitory for college women in the country. During this work, Lightman founded Harpswell, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to support emerging women leaders in Southeast Asia. Harpswell now operates two centers in Phnom Penh. In addition to providing housing, food, and medical care,
240-665: A geometrical warping of time and space; his calculations, with Stuart L. Shapiro , of the distribution of stars around a massive black hole and the rate of destruction of those stars by the hole; his discovery, independently of Roland Svensson of Sweden, of the negative heat behavior of optically thin, hot thermal plasmas dominated by electron- positron pairs, that is, the result that adding energy to thin hot gases causes their temperature to decrease rather than increase; and his work on unusual radiation processes, such as unsaturated inverse Compton scattering , in thermal media, also with wide application in astrophysics. In 1990 he chaired
280-647: A major performance each fall and spring, and the senior-level play production class produces an annual one-act play festival as well. White Station has a prominent Army JROTC program. Since their inception in 1967, the Spartan Battalion teaches young people to be better citizens. Students who enroll in this class, cadets, are taught about US history, civics, and military tradition. Cadets join many different teams inside of JROTC: Knowledge Bowl, Raiders, Marksmanship, Treble Corps, Robotics, Color Guard, Armed Drill Team, and Unarmed Drill Team. The JLAB Team (a branch of
320-604: A new program in leadership for young professional women from all ten countries of Southeast Asia: Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Indonesia, Singapore, and Brunei, plus Nepal. The Harpswell-ASEAN Women's Leadership Summit consists of a ten-day summer program in Penang Malaysia, with lectures and workshops in critical thinking, civic engagement, Southeast Asian geography and society, technology and communication, and gender issues. The program has
360-636: A senior research scientist at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (1979–1989); and then a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (1989– ). During this period he began publishing poetry in small magazines and eventually essays in Science 80 , the Smithsonian , The New Yorker , and other magazines. At MIT, in the mid-1990s Lightman chaired the committee that established
400-530: A structural instability in orbiting disks of matter, called accretion disks, that form around massive condensed objects such as black holes , with wide application in astronomy; his proof, with David L. Lee , that all gravitation theories obeying the Weak Equivalence Principle (the experimentally verified fact that all objects fall with the same acceleration in a gravitational field) must be metric theories of gravity, that is, must describe gravity as
440-521: A total of 25 participants each year, who are flown to Penang from their respective countries. White Station High School White Station High is a member of the Shelby County Schools system and is recognized as one of the best high schools in the state of Tennessee. U.S. News ranked White Station as #25 in Tennessee. Additionally, Tennessee has designated White Station as a Reward School for
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#1732879997664480-531: The AP Capstone program in the 2014–2015 school year. Class sizes averaged 20.7 students per teacher at the time of these achievements; however, class size averages have increased to 27 students per teacher. White Station offers several foreign language options for students, including Spanish, Latin, Japanese, French and Mandarin Chinese. In February 2022, White Station was announced to be one of 60 schools piloting
520-488: The AP African American Studies Program. White Station High School has a long tradition of athletics. They currently have basketball teams (M/F), soccer teams (M/F), track and field teams (M/F), a football team, a bowling team (M/F), lacrosse teams (F), a golf team (M/F), a volleyball team (F), rugby teams (M), cross-country teams (M/F), ultimate teams (M/F), a swim team (Co-ed), a wrestling team (M),
560-515: The Canadian band Tasseomancy (band) Fictional characters [ edit ] Cal Lightman , character in the television series Lie to Me Films [ edit ] Lightman (film) , is a Tamil film from Venkatesh Kumar.G [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with the surname Lightman . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding
600-592: The Knowledge Bowl Team) finished first in the JROTC Leadership and Academic Bowl Championship in the Army Academic Challenge in 2019. Currently, there are more than 2,569 students at White Station: 31% are Caucasian, 44% are African American, 9.1% are Asian or Pacific Islander and 11% are Hispanic. In addition to students from the surrounding neighborhood and who travel from all over the city for
640-613: The Memphis City Board of Education foresaw the need for a separate junior and senior high school in the area to accommodate the growing population. Rush W. Siler, a mathematics teacher at East High School , was appointed as principal in 1951, and White Station began to develop a junior high. In August 1954, a high school building was completed, and the school began to develop a senior high school program. As such, White Station Middle School and White Station Elementary School were formed. At this point, White Station High School needed
680-653: The Memphis International Airport Art Contest, and last year students from White Station won over 30 gold keys in the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. In the performing arts, White Station has four bands and two orchestras, as well as five choirs and two a cappella pop groups. The four bands are as follows: Jazz Ensemble, Wind Ensemble, Symphonic Band, and Concert Band. There is a marching band that starts in July and goes on until December, depending on if
720-658: The Mid-South region as they attend various conferences such as VUMUN, WUMUNS, MUNI, WAVEMUN, and MSMUN, winning Best Large Delegation consistently. Additionally, they annually host a conference at White Station High in September, garnering attendance from various schools across the Mid-South. The Quiz Bowl team in White Station is another one of the major clubs. It is largely student-led. This club travels to surrounding areas and competes against other schools. Two tournaments are hosted by
760-473: The Quiz Bowl Team each school year. Other activities include an elected student council, jazz ensemble, DECA, and HOSA club. Students staff the school newspaper ( The Scroll ), the yearbook ( The Shield ), and an art and literary magazine ( The Scribbler ). Also, students in the art program at White Station High School consistently perform well in art competitions. Several students from White Station have won
800-502: The Secretary General. In his scientific work, Lightman has made contributions to the theory of astrophysical processes under extreme temperatures and densities. In particular, his research has focused on relativistic gravitation theory, the structure and behavior of accretion disks , stellar dynamics , radiative processes , and relativistic plasmas . Some of his significant achievements are his discovery, with Douglas Eardley , of
840-704: The Tennessee Holocaust Day of Remembrance and the TMEA conference. In 2014, the White Station Men's Chorus was selected to perform at Southern division ACDA in Jacksonville, Florida. Each year, the choir program sends a substantial percentage of students to All-West and All-State. White Station has a theatre program, including troupe 1581 of the International Thespian Society . Students present
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#1732879997664880-406: The ancient Greek theme, the White Station newspaper was dubbed The Scroll and the yearbook became The Shield . The first high school class of seventy-eight seniors graduated on May 30, 1957. The school began development on a new building in 2009, which was completed sometime in 2011. In the same year, an older building was torn down. The Freshman Academy was completed in the summer of 2011 and
920-664: The communication requirement for all undergraduates. In 2005, he was a cofounder of the Catalyst Collaborative at MIT, a partnership between MIT and Central Square Theater, in Cambridge, that sponsors plays involving science and the culture of science. In the same years, Lightman cofounded the graduate program in science writing at MIT. In August 2023, Lightman was appointed a member of the United Nations’ Scientific Advisory Board, reporting directly to
960-501: The facility operates a program in leadership skills and critical thinking. The in-house program includes English instruction, computer literacy, debate, analytical writing, comparative genocide studies, strategies for civic engagement, leadership training, and discussion and analysis of national and international events. As of fall 2023, the Cambodian program has about 250 graduates and about 76 current students. In 2017, Harpswell launched
1000-417: The faculties of Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and is currently a professor of the practice of the humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Lightman was one of the first persons at MIT to hold a joint faculty position in both the sciences and the humanities. His thinking and writing explore the intersection of the sciences and humanities, especially
1040-539: The football team makes it to the playoffs for it plays on football games. The WSHS came second in a 2014 band competition. The orchestras have gained superior ratings at concert festival and also hold many of the positions in the All-West Tennessee band, orchestra, and choir, as well as spots in the Memphis Youth Symphony and All-State ensembles. White Station's choir program has performed at events such as
1080-541: The gifted for the 2018–2019 school year. White Station High School is ranked #3 in Top Public Schools In Memphis. White Station is an optional school that offers an Optional (Honors) Diploma. Newsweek magazine ranked White Station #1027 in the United States and #8 in Tennessee in its 2009–2010 edition of America's Best High Schools. White Station High made Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) in 2007. In
1120-553: The lone 2011–2012 school year, White Station had 22 National Merit Semifinalists, more than any other school (public, private, or charter) in the state of Tennessee. In the 2012–2013 school year, White Station announced 23 National Merit Semifinalists. White Station High School has also had the most National Merit Scholarship semifinalists of any school in the state of Tennessee in many previous years. White Station has 7 National Board Certified teachers. In January 2014, White Station High School announced that they would be offering
1160-472: The multilogues among science , philosophy , religion , and spirituality . Lightman is a member of the United Nations’ Scientific Advisory Board, reporting directly to the Secretary General. The purpose of this Board is to advise UN leaders on breakthroughs in science and technology and mitigate potential risks, including ethical and social issues. Lightman is the author of the international bestseller Einstein's Dreams . and his novel The Diagnosis
1200-480: The old South Annex was torn down in response. A new parking lot was created. As of 2014, a grant was received to update the cafeteria and the picnic tables in the courtyard. In November 2009, the school system in which White Station is included, won a grant of $ 90 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation . The gift of more than $ 90 million from Gates to fund plans and improve teacher effectiveness, including raising
1240-509: The past years, winning the first Knowledge Bowl ever in 1987–1988, and in 2014 – beating Houston in the final round. Its Mock Trial team won the Tennessee State Championship in 2009, 2010, and 2011. White Station's Science Olympiad team consistently places well in the state, placing 2nd in 2014, 2015, and 2018 while going to Nationals in 2017 and 2019. Their Model United Nations team is a completely student-run, ranked team in
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1280-465: The person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lightman&oldid=1250519800 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description is different from Wikidata All set index articles Alan Lightman Alan Paige Lightman (born November 28, 1948) is an American physicist , writer, and social entrepreneur. He has served on
1320-590: The school's college preparatory program, White Station serves the family housing units of the University of Memphis at the Park Avenue Campus. White Station can trace its origins to a school organized just prior to the Civil War that initially shared a building with a Masonic Lodge. By 1897, the school, then known as Albert Pike High School, occupied the entire building and, with an enrollment of eighty students,
1360-815: The science panel of the National Academy of Sciences Astronomy and Astrophysics Survey Committee. He is a past chair of the High Energy Division of the American Astronomical Society . Lightman's essays, articles, and stories have appeared in The Atlantic , Harper's Magazine , Nautilus , The New Yorker , The New York Times and other publications. His books include: A more complete list of Lightman's essays and articles can be found at his MIT faculty page In 2003, Lightman made his first trip to Southeast Asia, to Cambodia. There he met
1400-701: The state championship. The Bowling Team won the city championship in 2014 and advanced to state. In 2009, the Spartans won the Division 6A State Title, the highest football division in the state. In 2013 the Spartan football team made it to 6A state semifinals, a game they lost 49–41 to Hendersonville High School. White Station has many active clubs in areas including foreign language, mathematics, science, business, government, music, art, film and community service. Its Knowledge Bowl team has won four Knowledge Bowl championships in
1440-676: The state championships. White Station's Lady Spartans volleyball team won the Memphis city championships in 2006, 2007, and 2008. The boys and girls Cross Country teams have won the Memphis city championship for 5 consecutive years. Additionally, the White Station High School cross-country teams sent 3 runners to the Tennessee Cross Country State Championships this year; they were Jarryn Lowe, Russell Wolfe, and Gabrielle Shirley. Jarryn Lowe finished 30th overall at
1480-568: The supervision of Robert Naumann. He then received a Ph.D. in physics from the California Institute of Technology in 1974 after completing a doctoral dissertation, titled "I. Time-dependent accretion disks around compact objects. II. Theoretical frameworks for analyzing and testing gravitation theories", under the supervision of Kip S. Thorne . Lightman was a postdoctoral fellow in astrophysics at Cornell University (1974–1976); an assistant professor at Harvard University (1976–1979);
1520-592: Was a finalist for the National Book Award. He is also the founder of Harpswell, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to advance a new generation of women leaders in Southeast Asia. Lightman hosts the public-television series Searching: Our Quest for Meaning in the Age of Science . He has received six honorary doctoral degrees. Alan Lightman was born and grew up in Memphis, Tennessee . His father Richard Lightman
1560-536: Was a movie theater owner and played a major role in desegregating movie theaters in the South in 1962. His mother Jeanne Garretson was a dance teacher and Braille typist. Lightman graduated from White Station High School . He graduated Phi Beta Kappa with an A.B. in physics from Princeton University in 1970 after completing a senior thesis, titled "Design and construction of a gas scintillation detector capable of time-of-flight measurements of fission isomer decays", under
1600-609: Was one of the largest schools in Shelby County . After World War I, the school was renamed White Station to honor Mr. Eppie White, who had donated three acres of land for the construction of a school building. The school served first through eighth grades during this time. After the White Station area was annexed to Memphis, the school became part of the Memphis City Schools during the 1950–1951 academic year. At that time,
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