Author: Ivy Miller

2022 Sem Homecoming Football Game

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By Jaden Keefner ’23

Wyoming Seminary’s football team had its annual homecoming game on October 22nd. This year’s game was against Williston Northampton. As the Sem football players prepared for the game all week long, the excitement for the game built up. Mathis Pellerin ‘23, star linebacker, stated, “Williston is a solid team with some good core players, as long as we focus on our job we will win.” The team arrived at Sem on Friday October 21st, staying overnight before the game on Saturday. 

Kickoff was at 1pm on Saturday afternoon. As the football players prepared for the game, the packed student section erupted with noise. After a game that was like a battle because of the constant scoring, Williston drove down the field with 4 seconds left on the clock. The game was tied 30-30. Williston tried for a field goal to win the game, but Chief Montalvo blocked the kick, sending the game into overtime. Sem’s football team scored in overtime making the score 37-30, but Williston got the ball back with a chance to tie it. Williston eventually scored, and were down by one point, but decided to go for a chance to win the game. In a risky decision, Williston’s head coach wanted to go for two points in order for his team to win. Williston capitalized on the play and scored the two point conversion winning the game 38-37. Kevin Burke, head football coach stated, “We left it all out on the field, they knew it wasn’t going to be an easy game, and our boys really showed up today, it just wasn’t the outcome we wanted.”

It was a tough loss for the Sem football program making their record an even 3-3, but they look to bounce back from the loss throughout the rest of their season. Their last home game (Senior day) of the season is against Salisbury Academy. 

Dress Up Days Change at Sem

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by Hannah Johns ’23

Wyoming Seminary Upper School begins to address “dress-up days” differently nowadays. 


Wyoming Seminary Upper School is a college prep school with no uniform for the students who attend it. There is a dress code that isn’t very strict along with a dress code for “dress up days.” Dress up days have been a topic at Wyoming Seminary for a while, during which the boys wear suits and ties, while the girls wear a dress and nice shoes. Since the pandemic happened in 2020, dress up days weren’t seen very much during the school year until the 2022-23 school year. Dress up days are a time for the students of Wyoming Seminary to dress up for a certain event that is happening during the school day. 

As many may like dress up days, there are a certain amount of students who dislike them. Rosey Kelly, ’24, stated, “I don’t like them because it takes a lot longer for me to get ready in the morning and I feel as though they are not much different from regular days at school relating to the dress code.” As dress up days are beginning to come back more often during the school year, they face different challenges. More opportunities for students to express themselves are being given. Mx. Penland, a teacher at Wyoming Seminary and part of the LGBTQ+ community, is beginning to see a change for non binary students to express themselves. “I think there has been a lot less gender language being used.”

Guys wore suits and girls wore dresses, yet now girls are able to wear dresses or suits if they want. “A lot more options are being given and as long as you look presentable, it should be fine to wear what you want.”, said Mx. Penland. Over the years, the dress code for dress up days has changed and people have begun to learn to accept more ways that people may want to dress. Dress up days now, during the current school year, allow students to express and feel themselves by the way they dress. They don’t feel as restricted to wearing certain things, even though the dress code isn’t fully accepted yet, it has made its way to revolve around current situations. 

Sem Stages “Bright Star”

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By: Annabel Dobash ’23

Wyoming Seminary’s fall musical has long been a campus tradition, but Covid 19 hampered large scale productions for two years. Now, their mainstage production is back in full swing. This year, the company performed Bright Star; a Tony Nominated musical based on true events.

The musical tells the story of Alice Murphy, an editor in Nashville as she meets a young soldier who is seeking success in writing and discovers family ties. It was co-written by Steve Martin and Edie Brickell who penned the bluegrass score.

Sem’s production featured Ainsley Eidam ‘23 as Alice Murphy, Liam Phillips-McGraw ‘23 as Jimmy Ray Dobbs, Michael Vodzak ‘24 as Billy Cane, Holly Egbert ‘23 as Margo Crawford,  David Getz ‘24 as Daddy Murphy, and Olivia Stevens ‘23 as Mama Murphy. 

The set included an elaborate moving house that was built by Floyd Bussie, the technical director. Working with the house was the high point of David Getz’s ‘24 rehearsal process.

Auditions took place on September 8th and the cast list was released on September 11th. Official rehearsals began on September 13th. Since then, the cast of over 30 people has been hard at work learning blocking, choreography, and music. 

Last year the rehearsal process was six months long, but this year it was shortened to three months. Eidam describes the short rehearsal process as “crazy, we went from the second day of school to the fourth of November rehearsing and then the show goes up. It’s much shorter, so we have so much more to pack into it, and it’s been a lot stricter.” Despite the limited time, Eidam says that “I find that music [rehearsals]are so inspiring and uplifting, it’s the highlight of my day.”

The cast entered tech rehearsals on October 29th where they met everyday from one to six pm. Bright Star opened., November 4th and ran through Sunday November 6th. Getz is looking forward to “hearing the reactions at the end of act one, I think it will definitely be interesting, but also the opening because I don’t think it will be what a lot of people are expecting it to be.”