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The Transformation of Stewart Gym T H E M A G A Z I N E O F E P I S C O PA L H I G H S C H O O L

CAMPUS DOGS 1 Abbot Baran 2 Bailey deButts 3 Bailey Fitzpatrick 4 Bromley Castle 5 Callie Goldstein 6 Charley and Harley Phillips 7 Cooper Holt 8 Dolce Kovach 9 Frances 20

Valentina Collins 10 Gucci Kovach 11 Hudson Pollach 12 Huck and Winks Fair 13 Jake Hershey 14 Kallie Fitzpatrick 15 Kimmie and Fiona Miller-Marshall 16 Lacy McDowell 17 Lucky Fielder 18 Manolo Kovach 19 Molly and Leo Gomez-Goodnow

20 Reese Anderson

21 Scout

and Rosie Reynolds 22 Singer Douglas 23 Toby Davila 24 Toby, Bella, Daisy, and Maize Rengers 25 Zeus Locke 23

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Nelson’s Green Brier Distillery A quick pit stop turns into a destiny fulfilled for Andy Nelson ’01. W HEN CH A R LIE A ND A NDY NEL SON ’01 STOPPED AT A BUTCHER IN THE TOW N OF GR E ENBR IER, TEN N., IN 2006, THEY NEV ER THOUGHT THEY ’D STILL BE THER E EIGHT Y E A R S L ATER . THE BROTHER S H A PPENED TO SPOT A HISTOR IC A L M A R K ER BE A R ING THEIR FA MILY ’S NA ME – A ND THE R E ST, A S THEY SAY, IS HISTORY.

Monica Jeon ’14

As children they had heard stories about their great-great-grandfather, Charles “Chas” Nelson: his journey to the U.S. by boat in 1850; his father, John Philip Nelson, falling overboard to his death while wearing clothes into which he had sewn the family’s fortune; the opening of his own whiskey distillery; and its closure during state prohibition. As the brothers dug into their past, they found the distillery buildings still in tact, and, preserved by the town’s historical society, some of the distillery’s original bottles: Handmade Sour Mash Tennessee Whiskey distilled by Chas Nelson himself. Charlie and Andy knew at that moment this would be their passion, their business, their life. Fast forward to 2014. The dream of two recent college grads has grown into a full-fledged reality. Green Brier Distillery has a five-person staff, including Goodloe Harman ’02, who joined the Nelson boys as an assistant distiller, and Bill Nelson ’63, the Nelson family patriarch. “One of the challenges was starting a company and raising money as such a young person,” Andy recalls. “Charlie and I were 23 and 24. We had no experience running a distillery. People would hear our story and like it, but then were like, ‘Well good luck; we’re not investing in it, but we hope you succeed.’ It was a much slower start than we had thought.” Andy credits Episcopal with laying the foundation for him to become an entrepreneur. While his course of study didn’t point toward starting a business (he studied philosophy in college), he says life at The High School helped him gain an awareness of the world and how people work. In addition to developing his own sense of self, EHS instilled in Nelson an appreciation of tradition, history, and purpose. “We

didn’t start a distillery just to start one. We did it because our great-great-grandfather had done this. The family name and the pride in continuing that made us want to start it up again. That’s what I’m working for. Not a paycheck. Episcopal has a strong sense of tradition and history, and that contributed to my determination in keeping this thing going.”

They played in Stewart, Pendleton, the dining hall, and before the annual Bonfire. He often played guitar in chapel. Andy was also big into performing and played the drums in another band. But they were both surprised to realize neither of them could recall a time when they played together on the Hill.

1 Green Brier’s three main products: Belle Meade Bourbon, Tennessee White Whiskey, and Sherry Cask Finished Bourbon. Goodloe’s favorite? The Belle Meade. Andy and Goodloe are also particularly proud of their White Whiskey and are eager to see how the batch they distilled themselves turns out.

6 In order to get ready for the holidays, the distillery has been hosting bottling parties throughout the fall. Through social media like Instagram (@tnwhiskeyco) and Facebook, the guys ask for volunteers to come help bottle the whiskey on a Saturday afternoon. They provide snacks and refreshments and find it’s been a fun way to interact with their fans.

2 Bill Nelson ’63, Nelson family patriarch. At EHS he was a Monitor, member of the E-Club, Missionary Society, Lounge Committee, B.L.S., varsity football, varsity baseball, manager for junior baseball team, and quite the ladies’ man, according to his senior yearbook. 3 In 1885, Charles Nelson sold 380,000 gallons of Nelson’s Green Brier Tennessee Whiskey throughout the world. Jack Daniels, the other big player in the whiskey market, sold only 23,000 gallons. 4 The whiskey process, from grain to glass: Prepping the malted barley and grains >> mashing >> fermenting (roughly 96 hours) >> distilling >> aging in barrels (three to 15 years) >> bottling. 5 Goodloe Harman ’02, assistant distiller. At EHS, Goodloe was in a band called Romp.

7 Green Brier was one of the first distilleries in the 1800s to bottle whiskey. Before then, it was sold by the barrel only. 8 Andy Nelson ’01, co-owner of Green Brier Distillery. Andy says one of the greatest things about Episcopal is the relationships and friendships he’s formed after graduation. “All alumni share a common experience that is so different from what most people had in high school. It brings people together.” 9 Sales manager and former manager/ bartender/mixologist James Hensley brought his knowledge of cocktails to the business by incorporating recipes into their marketing. James shares recipes for cocktails made with Belle Meade Bourbon with bars and distributors. They’re also online for you to try at: www.greenbrierdistillery.com/recipes/.

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Contents FEATURES

A LEGACY 22 REPURPOSING Louis Bacon ’74 gives the first gift

toward the transformation of Stewart Gym.

LIFE WELL-LIVED 38 ARemembering legendary science teacher and cross country coach Joe Halm.

WORDS 30 INWARD NO An accident left Beau Wilson ’72 unable to speak. This is the story of the words that first came back to him.

DIAMOND ACRE AND BURCH 34 OUTWARD “13,770 Feet” by Heyward Lathrop ’15 and “That Which Does Not Kill Us” by Lilly Wilcox ’18.

ELSON’S GREEN BRIER 108 FORWARD NDISTILLERY A quick pit stop turns into a destiny fulfilled for Andy Nelson ’01.

DEPARTMENTS

2 FROM THE HEADMASTER 4 EHS SOCIAL 6 AROUND CAMPUS 20 VOICES NOTES 46 CLASS After Episcopal: David White, Jr. ’80,

Art Taylor ’86, Tevan Green ’96, Hattie Gruber ’00, Hannah Ellington ’03, Ryan Jackson ’06, and Bailey Patrick, Jr. ’11

100 IN MEMORIAM 105 MEMORIAL AND HONOR GIFTS

Episcopal High School does not discriminate in its admissions, or in the administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship programs, or in access to or treatment in any other School-administered program on the basis of religion, race, color, sex, ancestry, sexual orientation, disability, national origin, or any other protected category in accordance with applicable Federal, State, and local laws.

Headmaster: Rob Hershey Director of Institutional Advancement: Christina Holt Director of Communications: Jen Desautels Editor: Johanna Droubay Contributing Editors: Katie DaRin, Jen Desautels, Ella Yates Class Notes Editor: Margaret von Werssowetz ’06 Photographers: Katie DaRin, Stuart Hill, Brooks Kraft, Elizabeth Watts, Audra Wrisley, Ella Yates Archivist: Laura Vetter Designer: Linda Loughran

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From the Headmaster THE WORLD IS CLOSER HERE What makes Episcopal High School different? What claim can we make that is uniquely ours, a claim to which no other school can respond, “Me, too”? These are the questions we asked ourselves when the EHS Board launched its comprehensive branding initiative last year. And the claim we landed on, our new “tagline,” is a strong declaration with a double meaning: “The World Is Closer Here.”

and Ethics Program, and exploring new ways of learning in our first year as members of the Global Online Academy (GOA). GOA is a consortium of 53 schools around the globe offering online courses to extend the curriculum into interesting areas such as digital journalism, Arabic language, graphic design, and global health – yet another way in which we bring the world into our classrooms and curriculum. There is one upcoming campus improvement that I am delighted to make known. In this edition of the magazine, you will discover the very exciting news of the impending repurposing of Stewart Gymnasium, which will become the new student center. As you might imagine, there is great enthusiasm on campus for this space, which will provide for informal student gatherings, games, a snack bar, the school store, and the mailroom.

“Close” refers to our location adjacent to Washington, D.C., and its educational and cultural resources. It also describes the intimacy of our 100 percent boarding community, with 90 percent of faculty living on campus, seated meals, regularly scheduled chapel, and the advisor system. Of course “close” refers to our location adjacent to Washington, D.C., and its educational and cultural resources. It also describes the intimacy of our 100 percent boarding community, with 90 percent of faculty living on campus, seated meals, regularly scheduled chapel, and the advisor system. So I’m excited to share with you this simple sentence, which elegantly encompasses two of our most defining characteristics. I am pleased to say that our close-knit world here at EHS is a little bit quieter this year – at this very moment, not a single construction project is underway! This has allowed me to dub the 201415 school year the “year of programmatic implementation and execution.” Rather than attending to facilities, we are devoting every ounce of faculty energy to building programs: expanding the Washington Program, launching the Leadership

This facility has recently been made possible by an extremely generous gift from Louis Bacon ’74 in appreciation of former history teacher and coach Jim Seidule. The iconic beauty and strength of this venerable facility, built in 1913, will have new life as it provides a welcoming space to support just that which our tagline highlights – the closeness of our students who share their lives on The Holy Hill. Enjoy the magazine, and when time permits, come back to campus to visit your School! Sincerely,

F. Robertson Hershey

On Monday, Nov. 10, while this issue of the magazine was in production, Headmaster Rob Hershey announced to the EHS community that he will retire from The High School on June 30, 2016. Rob Hershey, Episcopal’s 11th Headmaster, has served the School in this position since 1998. Read the full announcement online at www.episcopalhighschool.org. 2

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Former Headmaster Sandy Ainslie ’56 and wife, Sharon, joined the Hersheys in support of the varsity football team in their game against Collegiate School in Richmond, Va. 4

Boys’ a cappella group Jack of Hearts serenades the ladies of Episcopal with “My Girl” during sign-in! 9

#EHS1415 Students and faculty have been using #EHS1415 to document life on the Hill with their Instagram pictures. Through the eyes of those who lived it, this is the 2014-15 school year so far. 1 Football helmets 2 Burch trip 3 Dorm games 4 Junior girls at the first chapel 5 Mirrors at the National Gallery of Art 6 Busch Gardens trip 7 Joe Halm Memorial City Cross Country Championships 8 Celebrating the win at Woodberry 9 JV girls’ soccer team at Georgetown Day School 10 Sunset over Episcopal’s campus Photos courtesy of: Kelsey Anderson ’16, Priscilla Barton-Metcalfe ’16, Katie Bauer ’16, Morgan Lineberry ’15, Sofi NavarroBowman ’17, Damian Walsh, Leo Weng ’15, William Wiltshire ’17.

Side by side, alumni, students, faculty, and families packaged 20,000 meals for Stop Hunger Now during a community service project in September.

Tell Me a Story How The Chronicle Finally Went Online A S T OL D BY DAV I D FE BRILLE T ’ 15 AND MO RG AN LI N EB ER R Y ’ 15 , C O -EDI T ORS-I N-C H IE F O F THE C HRONICLE

David:

Morgan:

To be completely honest, when Mr. Jaeger first approached me about the possibility of creating an online version of The Chronicle, Episcopal’s student newspaper, I was both thrilled and terrified. Mr. Epes ’65 had just announced that Morgan and I would serve as the Co-Editors-inChief for the 2014-15 school year, and I had not even fully made it out of Pendleton before my first official duties were assigned to me. Not only that, but this first task was to spearhead a project I had no idea how to even begin.

Simply put, there would be no website for The Chronicle without PBJ. When David and I returned to Episcopal this fall for our senior year, we were in constant contact with PBJ through email and even Skype. Every afternoon, David and I work with Assistant Director for Digital Media Katie DaRin in the Communications Office on what we now call the “E-Chronicle.” I think I speak for all of us when I say that we could not have launched the website without the help of PBJ. I went into this process knowing very little about the complexities of creating a website. Each day I get to learn a little more. It is amazing how the face of a website can drastically change depending on the images you include and the titles you choose. I do not think I realized how big of a deal the website was until we launched it during Community Meeting on Oct. 7. The community support has been amazing.

Morgan:

I remember David telling me about the goal of creating a website for The Chronicle in the upcoming year and then inviting me to attend a meeting with the Communications Office about the logistics of this goal. I had no idea the first thing that went into starting a website, so the meeting was quite the eye-opener for me.

David: David:

I spent the first few weeks gathering as much information from as many sources as possible. A lot of time was spent deliberating on the best platform to use, and even more was spent trying to learn how it all would work. About a month after all of the students were sent “on their way rejoicing” from The Holy Hill, we finally struck some luck. I stumbled upon an organization called The Project for Better Journalism (PBJ), which provides websites and training for its member schools. After being completely clueless as to what our next move would be, this seemed too good to be true.

The incredible support makes us all exceedingly hopeful for what is to come. The way we see it, our job was simply to lay the foundation and provide the infrastructure of the website, and now it is up to the entire community to color it with the content that illustrates everything that Episcopal is and what it stands for. The “E-Chronicle” undoubtedly has amazing potential, unifying all of EHS and serving as a forum for meaningful, and deliberate, discussion. It can also be a terrific, and arguably the fastest, way for parents and alumni to learn about what is happening on campus, allowing for a greater sense of connectivity.

Although the website is now officially online, this process is still in its infancy, and as we all learn how to best use and market it, it will develop into something truly special, commensurate to the School to which it belongs.

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Around Campus

CAROLINE ENGLISH

L U C Y W H I T T L E G O L D S T E I N ’ 97

KIM ADAMS

B.A. Princeton University

M.ED. Klingenstein Center, Columbia University M.A. Middlebury College B.A. University of Virginia

B.S. East Carolina University

SOCIAL STUDIES

> READING: “A Traveller’s History of Turkey” by Richard Stoneman. It’s the first book I’ve read in the “A Traveller’s History of…” series. Now I pick one up before every trip. > FOLLOWING: “This American Life,” Dan Savage’s Lovecast, BuzzFeed

TECHNOLOGY

> READING: “The Goldfinch” by Donna Tartt > FOLLOWING: The Atlantic magazine’s Twitter

> READING: “The Bone Season” by Samantha Shannon > FOLLOWING: The Washington Capitals, Duke Volleyball, edutopia, and Jimmy Fallon

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JOE Y HALM

JEREMY GOLDSTEIN

B.A. University of Virginia > READING:

M.S. Loyola University of Maryland B.M. University of Houston

M.A. Wake Forest University B.A. Vanderbilt University

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BE TSY GONZ ALE Z

L AU R E N E C H KO

J.D. Georgetown University School of Law B.A. Duke University

M.Div. Church Divinity School of the Pacific B.S. Northwestern University

M.A.T University of Virginia B.A. University of Virginia

SOCIAL STUDIES

“All the Light We Cannot See” by Anthony Doerr > FOLLOWING: My morning coffee with a portion of The Writer’s Almanac

SOCIAL STUDIES

> READING: “One Day Contract” by Rick Pitino and “How Google works” by Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg > FOLLOWING: SCOTUSblog, Duke’s men’s and women’s lacrosse, Notre Dame football

Not Pictured:

CHERYL MCCULL A L ATIN

M.A. Northwestern University B.A. College of William and Mary 6

ENGLISH, NINTH GRADE DEAN

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COUNSELING

> READING: “The Goldfinch” by Donna Tartt > FOLLOWING: The Nats

THEOLOGY

> READING: The Bible, a lot. And not just because I’m a priest. Prepping for my Biblical Theology class! > FOLLOWING: Chris Hardwick’s Nerdist podcast and, always, “This American Life”

DIRECTOR OF THE WASHINGTON PROGRAM > READING: “The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears” by Dinaw Mengestu and “Among the Thugs” by Bill Buford > FOLLOWING: On Instagram, episcopalhs, soccerdotcom, worldbank

ENGLISH

> READING: “The Monster of Florence” by Mario Spezi and Doulas Preston > FOLLOWING: USA Volleyball, news, U.Va. Track and Field

Stephen Fry’s second autobiography, “The Fry Chronicles”; “The Poetry Anthology: Ninety Years of America’s Most Distinguished Verse”; and re-reading Terry Pratchett’s “Guards! Guards!” > FOLLOWING: She’s not a follower; she’s a leader!

> READING:

FA C U LT Y P U B L I C AT I O N S A N D P R E S E N TAT I O N S

Publications

Publication

Presentations

DR . T HOM A S HUMME L

BR A N D O N S T R AUB

THEOLOGY

MUSIC

L UC Y W HI T T L E G OL D S T E IN ’97

“La Méditerranée des Arméniens: XIIe-XVe Siècle (The Mediterranean of the Armenians: 12th-15th Centuries)”

“D.C. Descants: A Collection of Descants & Harmonizations”

Dr. Hummel published a book chapter about Khatchig Levonian, “an Armenian intellectual and historian who learned archaeological surveying while assisting a team of Germans exploring Eastern Turkey in the early 20th century. Levonian used this knowledge to document the Armenian religious community in Van and on the nearby island of Aghthamar, the site of an Armenian monastery, using their manuscripts, the liturgical objects in their religious treasury, the local oral history, as well as precise surveys of the sites. The importance of this document is that it was finished in 1914, one year before the genocide of the Armenian community in Eastern Turkey and the destruction of the communities as well as the buildings, manuscripts, and treasuries they inhabited. So Levonian presents a thorough exploration and celebration of a community and its history and art just on the cusp of its destruction.”

As part of the National Conference of the Association of Anglican Musicians, Mr. Straub co-edited this self-published collection of 45 descants and reharmonizations submitted by conference committee members. The book is intended to be a “practical and welcome resource for choirs, congregations, and organists to further enhance the power and expression within our Episcopal tradition of hymnody.”

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Give and Take: Offering and Accepting Mentoring, The Association of Boarding Schools Conference, December 2014 “How often are we given direct, honest and transparent feedback that is in our professional interest? What does effective mentoring ‘look like’? In posing springboard questions and sharing a handful of anecdotes coupled with survey responses from colleagues, we aim to inspire discussion around our responsibility to offer – and seek/accept – professional mentoring as we navigate administrative careers in boarding schools.” (Conference program excerpt) Engendering Leadership: How Independent Schools Support Successful Female Leaders, National Association for Independent Schools, (Upcoming) February 2015 Seven female leaders from independent schools around the country will contribute to this panel discussion, along with Pearl Kane, director of Columbia University’s Klingenstein Center for Independent School Leadership.

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12 WASHINGTON

1 11 7 18

NEVADA

INDIANA

MISSOURI

7 TEXAS

7 2

OHIO

PENNSYLVANIA

VIRGINIA

TENNESSEE MISSISSIPPI

NEW YORK

16 17 8 4 7 14 16 17

WASHINGTON, DC DELAWARE

NORTH CAROLINA SOUTH CAROLINA

GEORGIA

CONNECTICUT

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Summer 2014 sent our faculty far and wide. KIM ADAMS

L AUREN ECHKO

TECHNOLOGY

With her softball team, Lew’s Crew, won the Eastern Regional Tournament and went on to compete in Las Vegas, Nevada, for the National Championship Women’s AA title and the World Championship title. Took second place for the National title and placed eighth overall in the World Championship series out of 34 teams.

BRENDAN BAR AN

SOCIAL STUDIES

Led a service trip to Kenya with six EHS students, working with St. Peter’s Secondary School. Received a grant from the GilderLehrman Institute for American History and attended a seminar on the Cold War at The Ohio State University, which was great preparation for Baran’s senior elective Advanced Global History: The Cold War.

KEVIN COALE ’04

SOCIAL STUDIES

Worked toward his master’s in private school leadership at the Klingenstein Center at Columbia University’s Teachers College in New York City.

RICK DIXON

GERMAN AND SOCIAL STUDIES

Attended a seminar on the War of 1812 sponsored by the National Park Service. Read 25 books, attended 12 minor league baseball games, played for the Halifax County Old Timer’s Baseball League, and grew a garden at his home in Chatham, Va.

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Chaperoned students from Mercersburg Academy (where she taught before coming to EHS this fall) to Poland, where they toured the salt mines, Saint John Paul II’s hometown, and Auschwitz, among other places. 6

CAROLINE ENGLISH SOCIAL STUDIES

Travelled to Turkey. At The Taft School in Connecticut, attended the AP U.S. History Institute for the redesign of the AP U.S. History exam, which is shifting away from fact memorization and toward analysis.

CAROLINE FARIS

COLLEGE COUNSELING

Visited colleges and universities in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Missouri, Texas, Mississippi, Tennessee, South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, and Virginia.

R ACHAEL FLORES

SOCIAL STUDIES AND CO-DEAN OF INSTITUTIONAL DIVERSITY

Attended the National Diversity Directors Institute at St. Andrew’s School in Delaware and the Independent School Gender Project Conference at The Hotchkiss School in Connecticut.

JULIE WANG-GEMPP

CHINESE

Travelled to Lhasa, Tibet; the basecamp of Mount Everest; Rongpu Monastery, the highest monastery on earth; and Lake Nam Tso. “I felt I was in Shangri-La, an earthly paradise.”

5 POLAND

10 13 FRANCE

6 TURKEY

9 TIBET

15 INDIA

2 KENYA

THOMAS HUMMEL THEOLOGY

Travelled for three weeks in India. Looking forward to teaching E.M. Forster’s “A Passage to India” to her Advanced British Literature classes.

MOLLY PUGH

SOCIAL STUDIES

ENGLISH

Attended the National Council for Geographic Education Conference in Memphis, Tenn., to learn about the history of the Mississippi and Arkansas Deltas. Took part in an Economics and the Environment workshop in Las Vegas, Nevada.

MIKE MILLER

ENGLISH

Spent a month in Paris, France, and attended the launch of “La Méditerranée des Arméniens: XIIe-XVe Siècle,” a book to which he contributed a chapter.

HEIDI HUNTLEY

ALISON POOLE

SOCIAL STUDIES

Attended a conference at Islandwood, an environmental camp on Bainbridge Island, Washington State, to learn how to teach courses online for Global Online Academy.

ELEANOR MOORE

FRENCH

Attended a 10-day teacher institute with School Year Abroad (SYA) in Rennes, France. Focused on the history, culture, and life in the province of Bretagne with the purpose of learning more about the SYA program in France and getting to know the faculty in Rennes who work with EHS students.

FR ANK PHILLIPS

ART

Got married to Meghann Jones, former EHS faculty member, at Blenheim Vineyards in Charlottesville, Va. Lots of EHS faculty in attendance!

In D.C. and Virginia, studied performance-based Shakespeare teaching and designed an eight-week curriculum with daily activities, assessments, and a final performance activity. EHS English teachers will use this approach to teach “Twelfth Night” to this year’s freshmen.

BR ANDON STR AUB

MUSIC

As associate conductor and pianist for the Choral Arts Society of Washington, prepared choral groups for performances, including A Capitol Fourth, broadcast live on PBS. Served on the committee for the National Conference of the Association of Anglican Musicians and accompanied the organization’s first Youth Conference Chorus, which rehearsed and performed at EHS. Hosted the Royal School of Church Music’s D.C. Summer Course for Advanced Trebles and Teens at EHS.

PATRICK THOMPSON

MATH

Graded AP Calculus exams at the College Board 2014 AP Reading in Kansas City, Mo.

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Like a Girl This fall’s girls’ athletic teams proved that playing like a girl means bringing home the win. By a score of 5.5 to 4.5, Episcopal captured its fourth Seminary Hill Cup victory in school history at home on Oct. 18. EHS now claims a 4-3 edge over St. Stephen’s & St. Agnes School (SSSAS) in SHC victories since the competition’s inception in the fall of 2008. The girls’ cross country team opened up an exciting day of SHC with a dominant performance over the Saints to give the Maroon an early 2-0 lead in cup points. The next round of competition featured the girls’ JV field hockey, soccer, tennis and volleyball teams. While JV field hockey (0-2L) and JV tennis (3-4L) fell short, JV soccer (1-1T) and JV volleyball (2-0W) successfully added 1.5 points to Episcopal’s cup efforts, giving EHS a 3.5 to 2.5 edge entering the final round of play. The final round saw girls’ varsity tennis finish first with a 6-1 win over the Saints to give the Maroon a 4.5 to 2.5 lead overall. Varsity field hockey (1-2L) and varsity soccer (0-1L) were the next to conclude competition, both edged out by SSSAS by a single goal. With the score tied at 4.5 apiece, rights to the trophy belonged to whichever team captured a victory in varsity volleyball. After winning its first two games and just barely falling in the third, the Maroon, spurred on by an enthusiastic crowd, was ultimately successful in claiming victory. 1

1 Porter Geer ’16 2 The girls’ athletic teams inspired not only each other toward victory, but also the school community with their #LikeAGirl campaign. A video and signs around campus celebrated female athletes, their skill, and dedication. Watch the video at episcopalhighschool. org/shc2014. 3 Eleanor Winants ’18 4 Left to right: Vicky Reynolds ’15, Leigh Channell ’15, Sophie M. Holt ’15, and Marilyn Onukwugha ’15

Seminary Hill Cup Results EPISCOPAL POINTS

Girls’ Varsity Cross Country Girls’ Varsity Tennis Girls’ Varsity Volleyball Girls’ JV Cross Country Girls’ JV Volleyball Girls’ JV Soccer Total:

ST. STEPHEN’S & ST. AGNES POINTS

1 1 1 1 1 .5 5.5

Girls’ Varsity Field Hockey 1 Girls’ Varsity Soccer 1 Girls’ JV Tennis 1 Girls’ JV Field Hockey 1 Girls’ JV Soccer .5 Total 4.5

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Win at Woodberry EHS beats previously undefeated WFS team in 114th playing of The Game. The first half of the 114th Game was a defensive struggle in which both teams held the opposing offense at bay. Woodberry scored on a field goal and on a long punt return after a critical error, leaving EHS trailing 0-10 at the end of the half. Instead of hanging their heads, the EHS team went into the locker room with confidence knowing that the large Woodberry squad had barely moved the ball offensively. We dominated the third quarter, which began with a key forced fumble by Taj Gooden ’16. EHS converted on the very next play, with a touchdown pass from Seth Agwunobi ’18 to Timmy Phillips ’15 just 17 seconds into the third quarter. Throughout the second half, both sides played hard, but EHS began to exploit the holes in the Woodberry schemes. Agwunobi found Phillips, Jonathan Sutherland ’17, and Brian Chase ’15 on three more touchdown passes for a final score of 28-17. In the end, the smaller roster of Episcopal players stifled the Woodberry rushing attack by holding them to just 35 yards on the ground, while tallying nearly 400 total yards against the very fast Woodberry defense. Episcopal sends off 18 seniors with a victory in their last football game: Quinn Ainslie, Daniel Hall Autrey, Jack Bates, Graydon Campbell, Brian Chase, Ax Coffey, Hunter Craighill, John Dixon, Josh Howard, Campbell Jackson, Calvin Lawson, Quinn Lyerly, Jon Ober, Mike Otoo, Timmy Phillips, Matt Renaud, Eric Smith, and James Sutton.

1 Brian Chase ’15 (#4)

2 Students rush the field after the win.

3 Jamie Mason ’73, Rob Farmer ’74, and Mike Massie ’74 4 The winning team surrounds Coach Panos Voulgaris. 5 Cheerleaders, from left: Seniors Ivy Houde, Sophie M. Holt, James Lawton, Meredith Sackett, Head Cheerleader Cooper Gage, Ella Bickley, Brooks Davy, Mary Helen Tarbutton, and Fleming Redd. Not pictured: varsity football players and cheerleaders Campbell Jackson, Jon Ober, and Eric Smith (also seniors). 6 Jesse Meyler ’16 (#78), Eric Smith ’15 (#15), Jack Bates ’15 (#75), and Graydon Campbell ’15 (#65) 12

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Fall Highlights 1 Greg Morgan ’15 Our boys’ cross country team had an inspired season, starting with a runner-up team finish at the Joe Halm Memorial City Cross Country Championships, where Greg Morgan ’15 finished third overall alongside four other teammates who finished with All-City honors. The boys followed this up with a strong performance at the IAC Championships to place third overall. The girls’ cross country team ran as a tight pack all year and finished sixth out of 16 schools at the ISL Championships to cap off a solid season. 2 Kelsey Anderson ’16 Girls’ varsity soccer recorded the most wins in program history (eight) and made it to the ISL A Division Championship for the first time in school history before ultimately being edged by Potomac 1-0.

3 Ricky Miezan ’18 Boys’ varsity soccer peaked at just the right time, earning an overtime victory over Landon on Hoxton field before pulling off a thrilling upset over Bullis in the IAC tournament semifinal to advance to the league championship. The team captured its fifth league championship in school history, its first since 2010, with a 2-0 victory over St. Stephen’s & St. Agnes again on Hoxton field. 4 Erin Phillips ’18 Despite an early exit from the ISL tournament, girls’ varsity field hockey (11-7-1) qualified for the state tournament as the No. 8 seed and travelled to Trinity Episcopal on Nov. 4. Friday Night Lights was a big win for the Maroon, as girls’ varsity field hockey toppled National Cathedral School 3-2.

5 Mackenzie Cunningham ’15 The girls’ varsity tennis team earned a No. 6 seed in the state tournament, with a 12-5 record. They faced and fell to a strong St. Catherine’s team in Richmond during the first round. This is the 10th straight year that girls’ tennis has qualified for the state tournament. 6 Seth Agwunobi ’18 Varsity football defeated St. Stephen’s & St. Agnes 38-12 at Friday Night Lights, setting the team up for another run at the IAC title against Bullis on Halloween. More than 150 Episcopal students traveled in fan vans to watch the Maroon take on the Bulldogs in the IAC football

championship. EHS remained deadlocked at halftime before ultimately succumbing to a talented squad at Bullis.

College Commitments Two senior athletes committed to compete at the intercollegiate level at the NCAA Fall Signing date: Tim Phillips to the University of Notre Dame and Jon Ober to the University of Denver, both for lacrosse.

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1 HEAD TOUR GUIDES Front row: Seniors James Sutton, Pendleton Bogache, Natalie Wall, Brooks Davy, Josh Howard, Morgan Lineberry, and Mimi Perka. Second row: Seniors Sophie L. Holt, Mike Otoo, Emily Salvant, Meredith Sackett, India Nix, and Ann Tucker Smith. Third row: Seniors Leo Weng, Leigh Channell, Calvin Lawson, Aubree Phillips, Rukky Ezi-Ashi, and Marilyn Onukwugha.

2 HONOR COMMIT TEE Front row: Seniors Lucy Catlett, Edward Wickham, Hale Wise (chair), and Mary Ann Broughton. Back row: Seniors Reynolds Griffith, Presley Goode, Caroline Haley, and John Dixon.

3 MONITORS Front row: Senior Monitor Benjamin Arp, Senior Monitor Mary Helen Tarbutton, Head Monitor James Lawton, Senior Monitor Leah Goldson, Senior Monitor Kara Clemmenson, and Senior Monitor Campbell Jackson. Second row: Seniors Emily Salvant, Osé Djan, Lucy Catlett, Pendleton Bogache, Tyler Hartmeyer, and Nina Davila. Third row: Seniors Ax Coffey, Louie Rogers, Edward Wickham, Caroline Haley, Mary Ann Broughton, and Madison Hughes. Back row: Seniors Patrick Simpson, Jay Forehand, Presley Goode, Josh Howard, Hale Wise, and Calvin Lawson.

4 VESTRY Front row: Liz Mao ’15, Karli Francis ’15 (Junior Warden), Madison Hardaway ’15 (Senior Warden), Caroline Hague ’15, and Sara Wilder Bryant ’16. Second row: Mary Helen Tarbutton ’15, Robert Talley ’16, Alex Jacques ’16, and Cara Driscoll ’15. Third row: Camden Alford ’17, Emily Forehand ’15, Sarah Thomas ’16, and Jozette Moses ’17. Back row: Brian Kim ’16, Mary Ann Broughton ’15, Duncan Agnew ’17, and Maya Glenn ’16. Not pictured: Whit Goode ’17.

5 A FAMILY TRADITION

This year, 42 of Episcopal’s new students are legacies. Twenty-five of these legacies are new students who have siblings who are current or former EHS students, and 17 are children or grandchildren of alumni. Some of these legacy students and their alumni family members gathered on Opening Day in front of Stewart Gym.

6 FALL ACADEMIC AWARDS Front row: Peyton Schwartz ’15, the Sewanee Award for Excellence in Writing; Elizabeth Collett ’15, Excellence in English; Lauryn King ’17, Excellence in English; Yeji Kim ’15, Excellence in Physics and the Harvard University Award for Scholastic Achievement; Liz Mao ’15, Excellence in

French and Excellence in Mathematics; Su Kim ’15, Excellence in Chinese; Kate Oldham ’15, Excellence in Biology and the Middlebury College Award for Excellence in Foreign Language; and Laura Bratton ’15, Excellence in Spanish. Second row: Jack Bai ’15, the George Washington University School of Engineering Medal/ Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Certificate for Outstanding Work in Math and Science; Joseph Lin ’16, Excellence in Mathematics; Leo Zhang ’17, Excellence in Mathematics; Brian Kim ’16, Excellence in Instrumental Music; Allegra Geanuracos ’15, Excellence in Latin; Lane Berry ’16, Excellence in German and Excellence in Chemistry; and Sarah Thomas ’16, Excellence in Studio Art. Third row: Augusta Nau ’15, the Dartmouth

College Book Award for Outstanding Work in Social Studies; Natalie Wall ’15, Excellence in Photography; Brooke Webb ’16, the Ingle Family Theology Award for Excellence in Theology; Lydia Webster ’16, Excellence in Drama; Annabelle Woodward ’16, Excellence in English; and Madison Hughes ’15, Excellence in Vocal Music. Back row: Ashby Wickham ’16, Excellence in Themes in Global History 2; and Jared Young ’17, Excellence in Themes in Global History I. Not pictured: Eric Koo ’17, Excellence in Introduction to the Arts.

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Fall Highlights Woodcut artist Eve Stockton 1-3 mounted her show, “Visions & Variants II,” in the Angie Newman Johnson Gallery in September. In October, Expressionist artist Mary Page Evans 4-5 presented gallery talks and taught hands-on workshops to Intro to the Arts, Modern American Poetry, and Drawing classes. Student orchestra and choir groups took the stage at the Fall Performing Arts Showcase 6 over Parents Weekend. In November, student actors performed Edward Gorey’s The Helpless Doorknob 7-9 in the Breeden Black Box Theater after participating in the Virginia High School Theater Festival 10 in Norfolk, Va., where EHS students won 10 awards in one-act play writing, costume and set design, devised theater, and production design. Front row: Erin Zhang ’17, Annabelle Woodward ’16, Maddy Gale ’16, Lydia Webster ’16, Bailey Coleman ’15. Second row: Gaby Cruz ’17, Lauryn King ’17, Kathleen Leonard ’15, Allegra Geanuracos ’15, Madison Hughes ’15, Brooke Webb ’16. Back row: Montana Crider ’15, Nathaniel Lambert ’16, Madison Hardaway ’15, Lizzie Taylor ’15, Robert Talley ’16, Brian Kim ’16, Colt Waller ’18, Tommy Dixon ’16, Lenin Cruz ’16, Leo Weng ’15.

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Voices The EHS Bucket List Things to do before I graduate:

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BRIAN KIM ’16

1. Watch the football team beat Woodberry

1. Give another chapel talk

2. Give a chapel talk

2. Audition for all-district band and all-state band

3. See the return of Thursday pasta bar 4. Win the Redskins raffle 5. Sing in the Coffeehouse 6. Participate in an independent study 7. Find out where Jazzy Phil gets his hair dyed 8. Apply for Diamond Acre

9. Have donuts with the Deans 10. Get hypnotized by Tom DeLuca 11. Take an online class 12. Be part of a team that wins an ISL championship

3. Participate in a snowshoeing trip in New York

4. Take double languages, Latin and Spanish 5. Become the Senior Warden of the Vestry 6. Go busking (performing in the streets) around campus and in D.C. 7. Visit Mount Vernon 8. Live in one of the Hummel/McGuire porch rooms 9. Increase the awareness of diversity as a president of Spectrum 10. Travel to Kenya on a summer service trip

13. Give a God Bless The High School speech

11. Record covers of various songs and make my very own album

14. Sing “On Our Way Rejoicing” for the last time

12. Study abroad in Italy

15. Walk up the front lawn on graduation day

13. Learn how to play the ukelele

16. Receive my diploma

14. Perform at least once per quarter either at chapel or at coffeehouse 15. Make it to the top 4 in Virginia Theater Association competition 16. Continue the no-Category streak for another two years 17. Be a dorm manager

Things I wish I’d done at The High School (or would do if I were a student today):

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1. I wish I had kept a diary of some of the everyday funny things that happen because I’ve forgotten most of them 2. Beat Woodberry in football

3. Take singing lessons 4. I wish I had done something that got me in trouble, nothing major, but something nonetheless 5. Take a drawing class 6. Explore D.C. and get to know it 7. Take a photography class 8. I wish I had returned earlier to work at Episcopal 9. I wish I had taken U.S. History from Mr. Seidule 10. I wish Al Rhyne hadn’t gotten injured before his senior year in football 11. Play squash 12. Learn to play a musical instrument 13. Take a dance class

BETHANY GORDON ’12

1. Give a Chapel Talk

2. Be a waiter for a seated meal 3. Try out for a varsity sport 4. Make an announcement at Community Meeting 5. Stay after an event to meet a visiting speaker 6. Go to a musical at the Kennedy Center 7. Give a tour 8. Watch a movie on dorm with the dorm team 9. Babysit younger faculty children

10. Invite my parents to tailgate at the Woodberry Game 11. Plan or help organize an event at EHS that celebrates diversity

14. Serve the community

12. Introduce myself to the students who stay in my freshman room during sophomore, junior, and senior years

15. Wrestle

13. Try an arts afternoon option 14. Use a late leave 15. Sit in the VIP box in Centennial Gymnasium

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Repurposing a Legacy The Transformation of Stewart Gym STUDENT CENTER S A R E INTENTIONA L SPACE S ON C A MPUS, DE SIGNED TO ENCOUR AGE AUTHENTIC INTER ACTION A ND FELLOWSHIP A MONG STUDENTS. OFF THE FIELDS, OUTSIDE THE CL ASSROOM, BEYOND THE HOUR S OF PL AY R EHE A R SA L , STUDENTS FIND R E SPITE A ND FR IENDSHIP IN A PL ACE TH AT BELONGS TO EV ERYONE .

Stewart Gym, the Old Boy in the courtyard, flanked by newer structures like Baker Science Center and Townsend Hall, has many stories to tell. Since 1913, Stewart Gym has been a gathering place of one kind or another – first as a gymnasium, later as a temporary dormitory, and today, as a student center. The space is unique and historic; one can almost hear the raucous cheers during a wrestling match, the Old Boys leaning over the balcony that runs along the perimeter of the central space. H. Gordon Leggett, Jr. ’50 remembers being pinned during such a match and the drip, drip of the leaky radiator affixed above, droplets of water splashing on his face. With the construction of Centennial Gym in 1937 and later the new athletics center in 2010, Stewart Gym became less about athletics and more about gathering. It has been home to Mass Meetings, dances, and parties, and since 2012, it has served as the official student center. The School made creative use of the space, configuring the gym to house the EHS School Store, a snack bar, game tables, a lounge area, and downstairs, the post office. Much has been done to preserve the historic character of this space while also serving the needs of the student body. After months of thoughtful discussion and research, including visits to other school student centers around the country, plans have been developed to transform Stewart Gym all while

retaining the legacy but expanding the offerings of the building. There will be a significant expansion of usable space with minimal increase to the building’s footprint, and the character of this iconic building will be preserved while spaces are developed to promote healthy lifestyles and social interactions on campus. Some of the features of the new student center will include: an open and inviting lounge, a snack bar with seating, the EHS school store, the post office, a games area with dedicated spaces for table games, terraces, and office space for the director of student activities. In July 2014, the EHS Board of Trustees selected Voith and Mactavish Architects, and planning commenced. Construction is expected to begin in January 2016 with a target completion of August 2016, opening in time for the start of the 2016-17 school year. The energy and excitement for this project is palpable. One alumnus is particularly inspired and has announced his support, launching the fund-raising efforts by giving $3 million to the renovation project. Louis Bacon ’74, a conservationist with a passion for protecting natural resources and wildlife habitats, understands the importance of environment and space. Encouraging authentic interactions is a critical component of a high school experience, and having the right space, especially at a boarding school, is crucial. “Louis’ remarkable generosity has put the EHS student EHS

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center project on a much faster track,” says Director of Institutional Advancement Christina Holt. “That is wonderful news for the School, but it is most exciting for our students.” Bacon has long supported EHS through The Moore Charitable Foundation Scholarship, which he created in 1996. Eight students have received the awards since its inception and credit the opportunities afforded to them at EHS and beyond to the support that the foundation, and Bacon, have given to them. Through the scholarship and now through the generous donation to the redevelopment of Stewart Gym into a state-of-the-art student center facility, Bacon continues to give back to The High School in immeasurable and meaningful ways. Bacon’s decision to give toward this project is multi-layered – he believes in the importance of the student center, but on a more emotional and reflective level, he is inspired to also honor one of his EHS masters. Through his gift to the School, Bacon is giving promise to

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a tremendous project that will serve the School’s future, while also celebrating the legacy of a faculty member whom so many admire. In honor of former faculty member Jim Seidule, Bacon is naming the James M. Seidule History Center in Townsend Hall. Jim Seidule joined the Episcopal High School faculty in 1954. He taught history and coached football and track. He served as the athletics director from 1968 until 1975, when he left to teach at his alma mater, St. Andrew’s School in Chattanooga, Tenn. Seidule returned for one year in 1990 to serve as the director of summer programs.

During his tenure at Episcopal, Seidule often considered the accomplishments and impact of the teachers whose names hung on the walls of Pendleton Hall. He found their commitment to teaching and to the School inspiring and worth emulating. In that same spirit, today’s faculty will see Seidule’s name on the history center and will be reminded and inspired daily by the contributions he made to Episcopal High School. “Mr. Seidule is a legend,” says Bacon. “He was an administrator, a coach, and above all, a teacher. His devotion to Episcopal and his unbreakable consistency over decades of service are second to none. I admired him in my days as a student, first as a coach and then as a teacher. He genuinely cared about each and every student who walked the halls of EHS. He may, perhaps, be the School’s best historian, and it is only fitting that the history center should bear his name so that future students might be inspired to learn more about him during their course of study.”

Be part of the School’s lasting legacy by supporting the transformation of Stewart Gym into a student center. Consider the future while reflecting on the past; honor those who devoted their lives to teaching and guiding EHS students while helping to provide a beautiful space of fellowship for generations of students to come. If you are interested in learning more about how you can support the Stewart Gym renovation, please contact Director of Institutional Advancement Christina Holt at cmh@episcopalhighschool.org or 703-933-4028.

Episcopal’s Straight Arrow The first gift toward the Stewart Gym project is inspired by a legendary master. “Shhhh, tak! Shhhhh, tak!” he says. The long pause that follows is like that of a narrator reading a book on tape.“It was an arrow hitting the target!” he exclaims. “Isn’t that great? Goodness gracious.” Jim Seidule continues in the slow, soft drawl that he refers to as southernese, “How creative! Why wouldn’t you like those students?” He’s referring to the nickname the cheerleaders and student body gave to him – Straight Arrow – and remembering the announcement that was made many years ago during the first home football game of the year. The students erupted into 24

cheers, “Yay rah, Straight Arrow! Yay rah!” From the wistfulness in his voice, he could be remembering the sounds of the cheers again, the way the stomping of the feet made the ground vibrate underneath him. “They got it right,” he muses, “absolutely.” It was not much later that he was walking from McGuire over to Hoxton when he heard that sound – shhhhhh, tak – coming from the second or third floor of McGuire: an arrow hitting its target. “Goodness gracious.” A force, a legend, a straight arrow – words synonymous with the name Jim

Seidule. Stories extracted from memories run the risk of only being partially true, but stories about Jim Seidule? These are ones that are consistently told, accurately remembered, and shared with a deep reverence for the man who has done much for so many.

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the bell rang,” says Seidule, “I gave out pieces of paper and would start to go, with question number one. I would only repeat it once.” So if you missed it, you missed it, and the best you could get was a four out of five. “I guess that’s why they were running.” Seidule was tough. He demanded greatness and he “did not suffer fools at all,” remembers Benjamin Martin ’65. “He did not take prisoners. He was kind, but if you didn’t work hard, he was deadly. If you worked hard, he was willing to work with you as much as necessary to help you get better.” In one of his classes, Seidule lectured from the textbook, “A History of the Modern World,” which Bacon says was “the most underlined and dog-eared tome I ever studied!” “Indeed that course was by far the most educational one I ever enjoyed, or endured, and it set me for life with a better understanding of the world,” Bacon says. “I remember some 20 years after his classroom lectures waxing about Risorgimento and Garibaldi with a prospective Italian client who invested with me thinking I was a sophisticated or intelligent enough American – and I could only credit Mr. Seidule with having prepared me for this and many other successes.” In the classroom, Seidule had his own style, one honed over the years. “He fits no molds,” says Martin. Seidule remembers a professor, Dr. Merriman, who taught a graduate course in

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diplomatic history at George Washington University. Dr. Merriman carried with him 5" x 8" index cards with notes about the day’s lecture. He would put them up on the board and begin to teach. “He was generally sort of a performer,” Seidule says. “He got such pleasure from it. He would walk back and forth, he would smile, he would go through anecdotes. He would use his cards. I said, ‘That’s me.’” And it was. Richard Nalley ’75 remembers, “Mr. Seidule would walk back and forth in front of the class, rolling the rubber band that had held his index cards between his wrist and his fingertips, dispensing some of the most finely honed, densely packed lectures I have ever heard. More than a few of us who sweated our way through Seidule breezed through the Advanced Placement exams in U.S. history and European History, not to mention college lectures.” Seidule’s classes were demanding, expectations were high, but rather than students being deterred from enrolling in his classes, they were inspired. “Jim made history come alive in its complexity, humanness, and relevance,” says Bacon. “It was not a dry subject in his hands but a grand tableaux that enabled him to teach life lessons experienced by historical figures.”

Teachers might have some knowledge of the scope of their influence, but interestingly it seems it is those who are the most beloved who are the most surprised to learn that they have been truly inspirational to their students. What does it mean to be inspirational? Martin, a history professor at Louisana State University, says, “If a teacher inspires his students or her students to reach for whatever is inside them, to try to find out, to plumb the depths, to ask them to do more than they think they can do, and then they find they can do it…that, it seems to me, is the most important attribute any teacher can have.” Seidule believes that it was Episcopal the place that allowed him to be the teacher that his students are remembering. “Teaching was just fun,” he says, “and at Episcopal, it was such a paradise. I loved it.” It was more than just teaching that Seidule loved; it was the learning that came from being part of a faculty filled with great academics and great teachers. In his early years at EHS, Seidule was very much a student in his own right. He was constantly inspired to be better and learn more. Classes at The High School used to all take place in the morning, and in those days, afternoons were not filled up with committee meetings or other commitments. “Four days a week, after lunch, we would go up to Mr. Whittle [Robert Llewellyn Whittle Class of 1907], the German teacher’s apartment and have coffee and cookies,” remembers Seidule. “Oh, did I learn. The first thing I learned is that everybody there who had some degree of seniority had a place to sit, their place. Here I was a rookie. I took somebody’s place but didn’t know it at that point. Next thing I knew, I was up on the radiator for about a year, or two, three years. That’s where I was sitting. I learned so much from them. They would be telling stories they had told for years.” Seidule was grateful to be in that room of giants, never realizing that he himself was becoming one. Seidule paid attention. At a boarding school, where parents are absent, Seidule made sure his students knew they had someone who cared about their accomplishments. His interest, his investment EHS

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in their potential, held his students accountable. Bacon says, “Your performance on the football field, in your studies, and in your personal comportment, he demanded high efforts and he would reward you with a genuine smile or a warm ‘atta boy’ at your achievements,” says Bacon. “You knew he cared about your personal results. Mr. Seidule was tough, at times a task master if you showed any laziness, but he was fair and truly interested in ensuring each student achieved their fullest potential.” When Headmaster Rob Hershey called Seidule to share with him the news about the naming of the history center, Seidule was stunned. Honored, but completely stunned. “My goodness! I am glad that I was sitting!” he exclaims. “Great snakes!” As far as Seidule is concerned, he was a teacher because he loved the profession. For Seidule, the reward for being a good teacher came in everyday moments, like what happened after it was announced in chapel that his European History elective was being cancelled because of low enrollment. Two days later, it was announced in chapel that the European History elective would in fact be offered because the enrollment numbers had jumped from two to nine in just those two days. Those two students,

Rob deButts ’75 and Richard Nalley ’75, had recruited seven more, Seidule remembers. “The best students in the senior class,” he says. “It was remarkable, what other school would do that? They wanted that course. That would have been enough for me, right there.”

_______ Seidule recently received a note from Joe Owens ’60: “History followed you around the clock: in the mornings you taught it and in the afternoons your athletes made it!” In 1971, 22 players on the varsity football team were suspended because they violated training rules. News of the training violations came out mere days before the long-anticipated game against neighboring St. Stephen’s, the School’s second biggest rival. Once Seidule heard of the violations, he knew there was only one course of action that he could take. Seidule spoke to the team, asking those who had violated the rules to raise their hands. “I thought there’d be maybe two or three, but when I asked that, great snakes! “Twenty-two hands go up of the 39 members on the team. I saw one of the members of the team two or three years ago. He said to me, ‘Mr. Seidule, I was on

the front row. I didn’t know if anybody behind me was raising their hand.’” Honor. Seidule took the remaining members of the team to the game that week and Episcopal, against all odds, won the game. David Dougherty ’64 wrote in an editorial in the 1971 issue of the EHS News, “It really was more than a game. There were many important principles that were learned by many people – things like honor, trust, fidelity.” It is not a coincidence, yet not quite intentional, that while supporting the renovation of a building on campus that stands for honor, Louis Bacon ’74 is honoring a man who lives with honor, who believes that it isn’t about whether you win, but how you played the game. Who believes that trying hard, working hard, living with principle, and living with honor are more important than the rest of it. A testament to the School’s spirit, it comes down to honor, as always. Even the words spoken at the 1913 dedication of Stewart Gym reflect on honor. “Take the gymnasium, boys, it’s yours. Take it and make it a training place for muscle; a place in which you may develop your bodies while you are also developing what we call school spirit and that other greatest thing of all – Honor.”

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It is teachers like Mr. Seidule – the ones who don’t teach to eventually be honored, but teach because it brings joy and fulfillment – whose names are engraved on plaques in places like Pendleton Hall and the history floor of Townsend Hall. “I always wanted to be a teacher equal to those whose marble plaques graced Pendleton,” Seidule says. “They were my role models.” And now for Jim Seidule, remembered by many as a tremendous influence in the classroom and on the field, it is official. His mark will forever be on the History Department of EHS. The plaque with his name will stand testament to the attributes of honor, character, and loyalty that The High School places above all else. The image of such a thing is overwhelming to him. “My goodness gracious,” he says. Yay rah, Straight Arrow.

UT SIT MENS SANA IN CORPORE SANO A Strong Mind in a Strong Body B Y L AU R A VET T ER Stewart Gym opened in 1913 and has supported EHS students’ growth and well-being, serving over the last 100 years a multitude of purposes for the school community. Launcelot Blackford, Principal from 1870 to 1913 and an early advocate of school athletics, lobbied the Board of Trustees for the construction of the School’s first gymnasium, the predecessor to Stewart Gym, in 1877. Blackford advocated for the gymnasium not just as a home for indoor athletics but also for the well-being of the students and the community. Blackford implored the Trustees, “[E]ven if by the strong arm of authority the boys are kept quiet, how unnatural, even cruel, such a constraint the whole 24 hours through, and so it must be in bad weather. Would not their health suffer too? If there was a room to romp in, all disorder in the school-room out of study hours could be, as it ought to be, effectually repressed; otherwise, it cannot.” The community eventually outgrew the original 1877 gymnasium, but the same commitment to mind and body motivated the construction of its successor, Stewart Gym. The gym was a gift from Mrs. George W. Peterkin (Marion), wife of the Bishop of West Virginia, who attended Episcopal from 1856 to 1858, and two of her sisters. The building was named in honor of their uncle, Daniel Stewart, and their father, John Stewart. Stewart Gym has been home to basketball, wrestling, fencing, and boxing. Faculty member Mike Miller remembers wrestling in Stewart Gym in the 1960s as a Woodberry student. “The entire student body would gather to stand in the balcony and scream down at the wrestlers. It was deafening and very intimidating. I do not remember the score of my match or even who won, but I remember the noise.” Ironically, during the early years of Stewart Gym, a room in the basement was known as “Egypt,” home to the School’s smoking club. Also located in the basement of Stewart Gym was the predecessor to the school store, the “Mish,” operated by the Missionary Society to support their activities. One of the greatest successes of the “Mish” was introducing the school community to Eskimo pies. No longer an active gymnasium, Stewart Gym has met a wide range of student needs over the years. Prior to the construction of Ainslie Art Center, the Arts Department (including theater and dance) made a home of Stewart Gym. Stewart Gym even served as a dorm during a renovation of Dalrymple Dormitory. Stewart Gym is also remembered by many as the home of the School’s Mass Meetings. One of the more spirited uses of Stewart Gym in recent history was the student dodge ball tournaments organized between 2002 and 2006. Director of Residential Life Jeff Hoisington recalls, “Students would cheer from the track above. It was not unusual to have 100 spectators watching the dodge ball gladiators below, most of whom were male, but there also were a handful of adventurous girls who played.” As Episcopal’s student center, historic Stewart Gym will continue to nurture the entire student, mind and body.

Support the transformation of Stewart Gym. For more information, please contact Director of Institutional Advancement Christina Holt at cmh@episcopalhighschool.org or 703-933-4028.

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An accident left Beau Wilson ’72 unable to speak. This is the story of the words that first came back to him.

The EHS seal on Pendleton Hall after its 2012 restoration, which was inspired by Beau Wilson ’72.

waves, as he remembers them, were 1. [Wind/Water] The prime time for travel to the garden isle of Kauai is 12 feet tall. the last two weeks in December, which “I told Frances, ‘We’re going to is also the start of the rainy season, ride this wave in, and when it breaks, which brings with it huge, treacherI’ll push you. You’ll land on the beach. ous swells on the island’s north shore. Get up and run.’ It worked perfectly.” Tourists take heed and surfers take to But Beau got sucked down. their boards. Only the luckiest spend It was Christmas Day. No lifeBeau Wilson ’72 their Christmas vacations in Hawaii, guards on the beach. Beau drowned. the most geographically isolated archipelago on earth. 3. [Heart/Head] There are four carotid arterGo to Hawaii to get away from it all – from ies, two on each side of the neck – a four-lane work and winter weather. Go to Hawaii to freeway from heart to head. When you feel for find peace and quiet. But be warned. A tiny a pulse in your neck, your fingers feel the beat constellation of islands alone in a vast ocean of the carotids. is a magnet for currents and groundswells and After a stranger pulled Beau to shore, riptides and storms. breathed into his mouth, brought him back to In December 1996, Beau Wilson flew with life… After Beau came to, and his wife, Mary, his family some 7,300 miles from Seoul, South arrived, and he said, “Let’s go back to the condo Korea, where he worked as general manager for so I can shower off and lie down; I don’t feel so Citibank, to Honolulu, before island hopping good”… to Lihue on the north shore of Kauai. Beau’s A river of oxygen-rich blood went hurtling career at Citibank had taken him on a 13-year up Beau’s left internal carotid, exploding the Asian adventure from Seoul to Singapore to middle cerebral artery, a carotid offshoot that Bangkok to Seoul again. He had re-opened supplies blood to the language centers of the Citibank in Vietnam after helping to lift the brain. trade embargo that had stood since the Vietnam He suffered a massive hemiparetic stroke War. And he had recently been appointed by that paralyzed his right arm, his right leg, the President Clinton to the Commission on U.S.right side of his face – and erased every word he Pacific Trade and Investment Policy. had ever known. In 1996 his girls were 5 (Katherine) and 12 Poor consolation: his doctors commended him on the strength of his heart. (Frances). He was 42. Their lives were about to change. 4. [Aphasia/Apraxia] Amnesia is a condition 2. [Swim/Sink] They were swimming off the frequently dramatized but rarely experienced. shore of Ha’ena State Park when they got caught Wikipedia lists 74 amnesiac films: love stories in a riptide – Beau and Frances. The riptide (“Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”), dragged them 60 or 80 yards offshore – not action adventures (“The Bourne Identity,” far for a former Jekyll Island lifeguard. But the “Memento,” “Regarding Henry”), comedic EHS

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romps (“Overboard,” “50 First Dates”)… Like natural disasters and zombies, sudden memory loss is a phenomenon fascinating and frightening, best experienced vicariously. There is tragedy and comedy in the sudden erasure of self, and dramatic momentum in the possibility that the self will make a comeback, or maybe more than a comeback: a transformation. Aphasia is a condition less famous but more common. It refers to a disruption in expressing and understanding language – the breakdown of communication as opposed to memory – most commonly caused by stroke. Although less glamorized and less feared than amnesia, aphasia’s treatment of the self is no less ruthless. “When you’re a father and a husband…” This is the point when Beau first began to tear up. He was sitting in my office in Penick Hall on a sparkling Saturday morning in October. Glancing around at pictures of my husband and two children, 18 years after the accident that left him speechless, he was speechless again. My digital recorder counted 21 seconds of silence, and then: “[Aphasia] affects everything. It affects your self-confidence, your self-esteem, and your self-motivation.” In a conversation, 21 seconds of silence feels many times as long as it really is. It feels like a “long time,” and those are the words I almost used to describe Beau’s emotional pause. But what is that long time compared with three weeks of unconsciousness, three months lying in hospital beds thousands of miles from home, and two years re-learning how to speak? Beau had aphasia, not amnesia. He knew his wife, but not her name. Add to that apraxia, the inability to execute purposeful movements – in Beau’s case, to pronounce words. “I know why babies cry,” he told me. “They can’t speak.” 5. [0/1] “One day all the doctors were standing around me – the physiatrist, the psychologist, the psychiatrist, the occupational therapist…about six or eight of these guys around the bed, telling my wife about the condition I was in and what’s

going to happen or not happen. I couldn’t participate, I couldn’t say a single word.” He was starting at zero, and maybe that’s why he had nowhere to go but one. One, two, three… Lying in his hospital bed, he would count silently to himself. Numbers were the first words that came to him. Two, three, four, five… Three, four, five, six… Days and weeks of counting, of wordless thoughts and numeric incantations. “I remember lying there for a couple of days trying to build self-confidence.” But how do you formulate a motivational speech with nothing but numbers? What can be your mantra when you have no words? “And then suddenly,” he said, “I remembered: Fortiter, Fideliter, Feliciter.” Three Latin words that every Old Boy knows and every young student sees when he or she looks up at the pediment of Pendleton Hall on the way to an art class or concert. These were among the first words to come back to Beau. When he had almost no words, he had these words, and these words – bravely, faithfully, successfully – were enough to flip a switch somewhere inside him. Somewhere, a light came on. 6. [Earth/Fire] On Aug. 23, 2011, a magnitude-5.8 earthquake originating just east of Beau’s hometown, Keswick, rocked Virginia and a dozen other states. There had been no greater shake-up east of the Rockies since 1897, and it was felt by more people than any other quake in U.S. history. It cut cracks in the Washington Monument, sliced National Cathedral finials from their spires, and left small but noticeable fissures on the face of the Episcopal High School seal on Pendleton Hall. The familiar image at the center of the seal is meant to represent the Divine Hand pouring oil into the lamp of knowledge. It sits atop a stack of books, the Bible and the Book of Common Prayer, and above a rippling ribbon of words – Fortiter, Fideliter, Feliciter – the school motto. The lamp is lit. A tiny

flame, the tiniest detail of the whole elaborate frieze, is the point of it all. Light, enlightenment, education, fire. 7. [Fortiter/Fideliter] In March 1997, against the wishes of his doctors, Beau returned to work with a cane, barely able to say a single word. When his healthcare provider prescribed two hours of speech therapy twice a week, he scribbled on a piece of paper with his good hand: “Four hours a day.” When Beau returned to the Rehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific for a check-up in August 1997, he said to a friend, “All these guys in this hospital that I was here with eight months ago, they’re still here. Why are they still here?” “None of those guys were driven like you,” his friend said. “None had the family support network you had. None of them had a great job to go back to. Some of these guys will be here forever.” Beau thinks it was the values he learned at Episcopal that got him out of the hospital and back to work. “Had I not been at Episcopal from ’68 to ’72, I’m not sure I could have done it.” His speech has recovered dramatically, completely if you don’t count the occasional hesitation. “Most neurologists, they look at the MRIs of my head and the size of the big black spot in my brain, and they’re shocked I can speak.” 8. [Feliciter] As a result of Beau’s near death experience, the Episcopal campus underwent one subtle but significant physical change. Whenever Beau visits The High School, he looks up at the seal on the face of Pendleton, the one cracked in the fluke earthquake of 2011. “We all leave here with a better education for sure, a lot of great friends. But in some sense we never leave. There’s something in your soul that’s always here, and for me it’s those words.” In May 2012, he noticed that the paint had faded and the gold had all but worn away. Most of the elaborate, three-dimensional details were whitewashed, some were discolored by algae, and the Latin words that had so inspired Beau were, from a distance, barely visible.

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A 2011 earthquake left cracks in the Pendleton seal, pictured here shortly before its restoration in 2012.

Beau urged the School to research and restore the appearance of the Pendleton seal as it was in the late ’60s and early ’70s, when Beau was a student. Episcopal took quick action, and Beau contributed to the cost of the restoration. “I want it to be important to the students,” he says. Next time you are here, look up. Notice the undulating blue banner with its shining gold border and the immaculate white flower garland interlaced with a golden sash. Notice, in particular, the color of the gold paint, not so much rich as it is bright, brilliant, lit up, and alive. “All of us can overcome extraordinary challenges in life,” Beau wrote in his 2002 Reunion bio, when he returned to the Hill for his 30th Reunion. “Especially if you’ve faced them before, like we did with Coach Shelor [’52] and our undefeated lacrosse team in 1972. You have to believe! Losing and defeat are not options in life!” Next time you visit The High School, look up and consider how a dead language on an old building rescued a man from an island of self-doubt. Next time you are drowning or stranded or speechless, look inward and remember Beau.

Beau is senior vice president of wealth management at Morgan Stanley in New York. He chairs the Little Keswick Foundation for Special Education, raising scholarship money for the Little Keswick School, established by his parents in 1963. He also chairs the Overseas Schools Advisory Council for the State Department, bettering education for American families living abroad. In November of this year, Beau was appointed by Queen Elizabeth as a member of The Most Venerable Order on the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem.

“ We all leave here with a better education for sure, a lot of great friends. But in some sense we never leave. There’s something in your soul that’s always here.” – BEAU WILSON ’72

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The Diamond Acre Expedition proves that leadership can be a shared experience.

I have never been more who could make the climb On a trip sponsored by exhausted. Eyes glazed over, I alone, but right now we share a John L. Townsend III ’73, barely register the foot placecommon goal: we won’t be satTrustee Emeritus and former ment of the person in front isfied unless each of us makes it EHS Board Chairman, 12 of me over the series of jagged to the top together. students spend three summer rocks in our path while shrugThis goal is what led us to weeks in the wilderness ging and re-shrugging my wake up at 3:30 a.m., climb a of Montana, Wyoming, backpack over my shoulders in rocky slope for an hour in total and Idaho on the annual attempt to ease my discomfort. darkness, and finally, tethered Diamond Acre Expedition. I sneak a hesitant glance at the together, climb pieces of the towering formation ahead of mountain face on our way to our group and regret it, feeling a nervous and the summit. My job as a member of the team exasperated twinge in my stomach. Seeing the is to encourage my teammates, to work hard body language of my 12 classmates, I can tell to keep going and maintain our pace. There is they are each going through a similar experino authoritative leader among us. Normally, ence. If I were I would rely on on my own, I my leadership It all comes out on this mountain. know I would style to delegate never make it to specific jobs and the top of the tallest mountain in the Teton use my knowledge of nature to help us along National Park in Wyoming: the Grand Teton, the trail. But in this unique moment of col13,770 feet above sea level. laboration, although never said out loud, our For three weeks we trained for this two-day trust in each other carries us farther than any ascent, with each of us showing bits of our best individual’s strength or skills. and our worst. It all comes out on this mounAccepting a hand from the boy in front of tain. Each member of the group was selected me, I step onto the peak and count the 12 other from a pool of applicants for a reason: we all heads and smiles of my friends. I take in the full have heart. We aren’t all athletes or outdoorseffect of the view, hundreds of miles all around, men. Our origins range from Columbia, S.C., and appreciate the efforts of every group memto New York, N.Y. There are definitely members ber in reaching this point.

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Stronger Hiking the length of a marathon on the Appalachian trail.

I’m just going to put it out there: I did not enjoy the Burch trip. The hiking was tiring and made my legs and back ache from climbing uphill while carrying a backpack almost my size. The food was sub-par, and licking my bowl clean is something I will never do again. Plus, having your birthday on the first day of a five-day hiking trip with no showers or toilets is not great, though we did get to celebrate with s’mores. By the end of the week, my group and I were frustrated, struggling to keep a positive attitude, and stressed out because of the burden of having to navigate, keep up with camp, cook, and clean without much help from our instructors. On Burch I learned many new skills. I was able to tie knots to keep my tarps secure; my group I mates would sometimes come to me for help. I learned how to build a fire even though I was sheepish and didn’t enjoy it. The whole time I was thinking, “When will I ever need to know this?” – much like I do now when I am completing my physics homework. I also had many conversations on the trail and in camp. I told my group that I would want to have hot fudge squirt out of my belly button, if I had to choose any condiment. One girl and I talked about all of the amazing breakfast foods we had tasted. I learned about a teammate’s

On the bus from Baltimore to Episcopal, I sat alone. I had plenty of time to think – and check my Instagram and Twitter feeds – but more importantly to think. I realized how capable I now feel. I can say I have hiked the length of a marathon on the Appalachian Trail. I can say that I know how to tie a trucker’s knot. I can say that I survived. I have a Canadian roots and her aspirations to be newfound appreciation for running water in the FBI. She and a few others learned and home-cooked meals. I appreciate that I am passionate about women’s Team “Feel the Burns” and their ability soccer, YouTube, and Macklemore, and to listen to me ramble about my passions. that I consider myself to be a feminist, I appreciate the weird rituals we had to especially in the sports department. I do before we were allowed to eat dinner. found myself questioning why I was I appreciate that our instructors didn’t telling people these things. make my group stay up all night on the last day, tending to the fire, like the other groups had to. I appreciate the fact that I didn’t have to realized how capable I now feel. wait in line for a shower on dorm because I have my own at home, After we cleaned up and packed away since I am a faculty kid or “Fac Rat.” I all of our group gear, I was relieved. I appreciate my Burch experience. didn’t have to tie any more knots in the I had an epiphany on that charter rope that I had been carrying all week, bus taking me back to EHS. I realized I wasn’t going to have to lick my bowl that I have a lot going for me, and clean ever again, and I was going to that sometimes things that seem irrelevant have access to running water! I excitedly at first can make you feel stronger at got on the bus and leaned on my new the end of the day. And sometimes, friend’s shoulder, preparing to take a when I have to wake up early to read nap on the three-hour ride from cenand re-read my physics textbook to tral Pennsylvania back to the Baltimore finish my homework, that’s what keeps Outward Bound base. me going. Burch, a five-day Outward Bound backpacking adventure on the Appalachian Trail, is a hallmark of the Episcopal experience and the Leadership and Ethics Program for the freshman class. The Burch Trip was established by Lucius Burch ’59.

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A Life Well-Lived W HEN SCIENCE TE ACHER JOE H A LM SUDDENLY PASSED AWAY THIS SUMMER, W ITHIN DAYS, W ITHIN MOMENTS, HIS STORY U NFOLDED. THROUGH SOCI A L MEDI A, EM A IL E XCH A NGE S, PHONE C A LL S, A ND THE CELEBR ATION OF HIS LIFE , STOR IE S W ER E SH A R ED FROM A LL COR NER S OF THE WOR LD. THE DEPTH A ND QUA NTIT Y OF THE SE STOR IE S GR EW AS DAYS PASSED A ND CH A PTER S W ER E W R IT TEN A BOUT JOE H A LM : HUSBA ND, FATHER, COLLE AGUE , TE ACHER, A ND COACH. W H AT FOLLOWS A R E JUST PIECE S OF HIS STORY, TOLD BY THOSE W HO K NEW HIM BE ST.

The Legend: Joe Halm B Y J O E Y H AL M , ASSIS TAN T D IR E C T O R O F C O U N SE L IN G

The summer of 1990 proved to be the most pivotal time in my life. Then 21, I traveled north of the Mason–Dixon line for the first time to find myself awestruck by the lush beauty of the Adirondack Mountains and northern Lake George. There to coach tennis on the red clay courts of YMCA Conference Center Silver Bay, I marveled day after day at so many “firsts” for me: brilliant summer days that topped out at 72 degrees, sailing a Sunfish in waters with 20-foot visibility, tasting the exquisiteness of local maple syrup, sleeping out under the stars each night, startling at the eerie call of a loon, and having to explain why “y’all” is NEVER singular. Surely the greatest “first,” however, was my introduction to this redhead from New Jersey who’d just returned from ditching a graduate program at Penn State. Joe Halm – The Legend. That’s the way it felt to me before having met the man himself. I’d sat on the periphery of evening meals at the picnic table listening to tales of this guy who’d dragged unsuspecting hiking partners up brutal, trail-less peaks in the High Peak regions, slalom-skied through the course which no one else had yet achieved, made the impossible diving catch at short-stop to clench the win against the Lutheran softball team the year before, and welcomed

anyone interested along for what was to be his daily adventure – keeping them laughing all along the way. Joe Halm was something of a mythical being in my mind. And then I met him. He seemed pretty normal – a friendly, Green Monster T-shirt clad guy with a bright smile and easy way of being. He wasn’t flashy in any way. In fact, he was the opposite of flashy – unassuming and understated, but clearly comfortable in his own skin. “Nice guy,” I thought. In the weeks that followed, Joe Halm grew to be a part of my daily life. Joe included me on adventures that added to my list of firsts: forming a band of three to learn and perform James Taylor and the Indigo Girls; rock climbing above Chapel Pond; canoeing across an utterly still alpine lake on a star-filled night; and reveling in the thrill of slalom skiing. Joe Halm grew to be my closest friend. Because we each had other romantic interests, the friendship was just that – and it was easy. Returning to the Texas Gulf Coast at the end of that summer was nothing short of heartbreaking. I missed counting stars as I drifted off to sleep. I missed being on a TV-less campus where people played cards, told jokes, and sat around campfires. I missed the very air of the Adirondacks. But, most of all, I missed Joe Halm. EHS

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Joe and I talked every week via phone and wrote letters just as often. We visited at Christmas. We reunited the following summer at Silver Bay, and Joe introduced me to the High Peaks. Our friendship flourished across time and space. The story is much-told and somewhat legendary at this point. And it is a true one. Joe Halm did, in fact, climb in his blue Subaru and drive from South Carolina to my doorstep in LaMarque, Texas. He did without warning and not knowing the outcome profess his love for me. What most people do not know is what Joe actually said to me on Feb. 29, 1992. I can still hear every syllable. With what I know was every ounce of bravery he could muster, Joe looked me in the eye and said with quiet purpose, “Joey, I have always known that I love you, and somewhere along the way, I’ve fallen in love with you.” And in that moment, Joe Halm shifted and cemented the course of my life. I am forever grateful.

The Halm Family: Joey, Ellie ’16, Mac, Abby ’13, and Joe

JO SE P H A . H A L M (196 3 - 2014) When not teaching biology, freshwater ecology, or physics, Joe loved spending time outdoors hiking and kayaking with his wife, Joey; their three children, Abby ’13, Ellie ’16, and Mac; and their dog, Lucy. An avid backpacker, rock climber, mountaineer, and cross-country skier, he led outdoor trips for EHS students in the winter and summer. Along with his love for the wilderness, Joe was a well-rounded musician and played percussion and guitar in styles that ranged from classical to rock. He also enjoyed biking, running, archery, surfing, and playing golf. There is nothing Joe loved more than coaching and going to school with his daughters, skate boarding and cheering on the Nats with Mac, and making music with all the family. “I think from day one, I wanted to be just like my dad,” said Joe’s daughter, Abby ’13. “My dad tried to make me a son, and that’s just the truth. I was heading up mountains with him, I was skateboarding with him, I was surfing with him, I was doing everything with him. I had this teacher and a coach, and I wanted to be just like him.” Joe joined the EHS faculty in 1996 after teaching at Montclair Kimberley Academy in New Jersey and Christ Church Episcopal School in South Carolina. At EHS, he was the head coach of the varsity cross country team and coached the middle distance and distance runners for the track team. He was also head of Berkeley Dorm and served on the Student Assistance Team, and he was a recipient of Episcopal’s Syd Walden Faculty Incentive Award for Excellence in Teaching and Coaching, and Extraordinary Commitment to the Students and Mission of Episcopal High School. Joe was selected as one of the Alexandria Education Partnership Excellence in Education Award winners in 2005, and in 2009 he served on a high school biology curriculum development team for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

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Excerpts from the Service in Thanksgiving for the Life of Joe Halm AUG. 2, 2014

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My Joe Halm story begins with Joey Lockwood. Once Joe identified Joey as his one, he wasn’t going to let her get away. In the grandest of gestures, he drove across the country, in his faithful Subaru, and put everything on the table. Everyone thought it was so romantic. But, as Joey’s roommate and best friend, I had some follow-up questions. We met at a restaurant called the Black Eyed Pea near the University of Houston to talk. Joe sat with his hand under his chin, twinkle in his eye, clearly amused – oh, you know that Joe pose: two fingers just under his eye and the others like this... as he answered all of them. And to sweeten the deal, he gave me an extra copy of a mixed tape he had, which included songs like Nancy Griffith’s Late Night Grande Hotel and James Taylor’s Fire and Rain. Lucky for me, I didn’t just know Joe as Joey’s boyfriend or husband. For three years Joe and I, along with Joey and Eleanor Moore, were colleagues at Christ Church Episcopal School in Greenville, S.C. What times those were! I’d sit near them during faculty meetings and couldn’t wait ‘til later that evening to recap everything over a plate of Joey’s pasta or bowl of chili. See, as a scientist Joe was – by training – an observer of nature and wildlife. But he was also a keen observer of human nature and wildlife. He could find the funny in people, their quirks, and describe them – not at all in an unkind way – just funny. A teacher’s penchant for dramatic entrances into meeting rooms, or even just explaining the back story behind a faculty member’s seemingly odd remarks. We also hiked and golfed and went to plays and often hung out at their home, telling stories, laughing, singing to Joe’s guitar. Without a doubt, Joe was an interesting person. His talents and skills ran deep and wide, the quintessential everyman.

An ordinary day for Joe could move him smoothly from taking the dogs for their morning run, dressed in his Episcopal sweatshirt, waders, doing something ‘science-y’ with his students, out on the field coaching Ellie and Abby and the rest of team, khaki pants, stop watch, flip phone in one pocket, relay batons in the other, and later that evening, cleaned up and looking sharp in his tux to play in the orchestra pit of a musical production. Joey, you had your very own real life James Bond. To read more of Terri Brown Potter’s remarks, please visit: www.episcopalhighschool.org/joehalm.

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Any student who had Joe can attest to his ability to captivate the classroom. It takes a special teacher to convince a classroom of teenagers that counting fruit flies for an hour is in fact a fun time for all. Yet Joe’s ability to teach wasn’t just about a talent for instruction. He really convinced us all that after 20 years of teaching, he was still learning with us. In the fall of my senior year, I had a thought that I’d like to do an independent study for Biology. It probably would have stayed as an idea if I hadn’t mentioned it to Joe one day at advisory lunch. Next thing I knew, he had emailed former colleagues, and we had put together an independent study on genetics for the spring. By that time the weather had warmed up, we were standing side by side catching minnows at a local stream. If you could’ve seen us both out there, I’m not sure it would have been easy to guess who was the student or the teacher. I’m sure that to everyone walking by that day, we looked like two kids playing in a stream. I can’t tell you what my findings were then or even much about the reason why we were out there, but I do remember

how excited I was to be out there learning alongside Joe. It wasn’t just that Joe was committed to teaching; he was committed to demonstrating to students what it meant to enjoy the process of learning. Joe carried the same commitment to students in the classroom to all of his runners as a cross country and track coach. I only had the privilege of running for Joe during my senior year, so I turned to Reid Nickle who knew Joe much better as a coach, to hear a story that captured his commitment to the runners. During Reid’s sophomore year at Episcopal, he traveled alone to Charlotte, N.C., to compete in the Footlocker Regional Championship, an important race for Reid as he looked to pursue collegiate running. Not one to miss one of his runner’s races, Joe showed up to cheer Reid on through a cold, wet morning race. Twelve hours of driving for a race that took Reid just over 16 minutes to complete. I don’t think you or I need much more to see that Joe’s commitment to his runners wasn’t just about the sport. He drove all that way to see Reid because he cared about him as an individual. If you ran for Joe, you knew that every race he was going to be there to support you win or lose. To read more of Mark Herzog’s remarks, please visit: www.episcopalhighschool.org/joehalm.

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well-lived. If I ever questioned the value of something like Facebook, those questions were answered in the form of pictures and tributes that made me smile, that made me cry and brought me comfort over the last seven days. If you did nothing more than look at the pictures, you were reminded that Joe Halm was a teacher, a coach, an advisor, a runner, a drummer, a singer, a short-stop, an avid outdoorsman, an environmental scientist, a man of faith, a son, a brother, a friend, a husband, a father. The picture of Joe and the girls’ cross country team in a prayer circle before a race, Joe in the Adirondacks, Joe with his friends, Joe with his family. Damian Walsh posted a picture of the two of them during a track meet looking at a clipboard with the caption, “I will be reading off his clipboard for the rest of my life.” You and me both, Damian. Emily Straight posted the story Gregg Dinehart told her about asking Joe what he tells the cross country runners before a race. Joe replied that he told them “hurry back.” Vintage Joe. Layne Berry’s beautiful tribute about so many different people thanking Joe for helping them in so many different ways. Jim Lockwood’s post about now knowing what heaven looks like. A number of people simply posted “rest in peace.” Rest in peace. I love the sentiment, but let’s face it, Joe Halm and the word “rest” do not belong together in the same sentence. A life well-lived. Joe packed more into 24 hours than most of us put into a week. He did so many different things, did them with passion, and he did them all well. He was quietly larger than life. “Larger than life” suggests someone who takes over a room. That was not Joe Halm. Joe was the reason people were in the room, the one organizing the hike, but he was not the center of attention. It was always about others. To read more of Steve Castle’s remarks, please visit: www.episcopalhighschool.org/ joehalm. 42

THE NEXT CHAPTER Joe’s story is still being told, written by those who have found ways to honor him, making his legacy a piece of our School’s history. The EHS cross country team remembers Coach Halm as they run, wearing EHS XC JAH bracelets. Opposing teams have honored him as well, wearing ribbons and stickers to show their support of the team, the Halm family, and the EHS community. In October, the Alexandria City cross country coaches unanimously voted to rename the annual city championship meet as the Joe Halm Memorial Alexandria City Cross Country Championships. On the day of the race, members of the EHS community and competing teams came together for the dedication of the race. Headmaster Rob Hershey offered words infused with the spirit of Joe Halm’s legacy, and Ellie Halm ’16 shot the starter gun to begin a moment of silence to honor her father. In November, hundreds of members of the EHS community, both on campus and around the world, ran in remembrance of Coach Halm, using the hashtag #EHSRunsforJoe to connect with one another from wherever they found themselves on race day. Winston Holt ’82 runs in Darien, Conn., while Frances Kupersmith ’07 runs in San Francisco, Calif., as part of the EHS Runs for Joe event on Nov. 16.

THE JOE HALM SCHOL ARSHIP FUND Within days of Joe’s passing, members of the EHS community wanted to honor Joe’s memory in a tangible and lasting way, and named the Joe Halm Scholarship fund. This fund is need-based and will be awarded to a deserving student beginning with the 2015-16 school year. It ensures that Joe’s legacy will continue for many years to come. If you are interested in honoring Joe Halm through this fund, please contact Director of Stewardship and Advancement Services Elizabeth Woodcock at emw@episcopalhighschool.org. At publication time, there were 160 donors to the fund with a total of $51,171 raised.

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of McLean, Va., died April 15, 2014. At Episcopal, Mr. Maddux was a Monitor and a member of the Fairfax Literary Society, the Missionary Society, and the football team. After graduating from EHS, Mr. Maddux attended the University of Virginia. During World War II, he served in the Navy, including in the Allied invasions of Africa and Italy. He owned hotels in Washington, D.C.; Cape May, N.J.; and Lake Worth, Fla. Mr. Maddux is survived by his son, H. Cabell Maddux III ’65; four grandchildren, including Victor Maddux ’93; and 10 great-grandchildren. Other EHS relatives include his late son, Fielding Lewis Maddux ’67.

Henry Hyman Philips, Jr. ’36

of Tarbor, N.C., died Sept. 23, 2013. At Episcopal, Mr. Philips was a member of the Fairfax Literary Society, The Chronicle, and the tennis team. He was twice the recipient of the Debater’s Medal. After graduating from Episcopal, Mr. Philips earned both his A.B. and J.D. from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. While attending law school, Mr. Philips was drafted into the U.S. Army Air Corps. He served 33 months in seven countries during World War II. He was discharged in 1945 as first lieutenant. In 1947, Mr. Philips was appointed captain of the Officers Reserve Corps, and in 1969 he transferred to the Retired Reserve of the United States Air Force as lieutenant colonel. He practiced law in Tarboro and was a communicant of Calvary Episcopal Church, where he served several terms on the vestry. He served on the Diocesan Council and the Standing Committee, and he also served a term as president of the Laymen of the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina. Mr. Philips is survived by a stepson, a daughter, and a granddaughter. Other EHS relatives include Louis Stuart Ficklen ’36 and James Daniel Gilliam, Jr. ’68.

R. Goodwyn Rhett, Jr. ’38

of Charleston, S.C., died May 28, 2014. At EHS, Mr. Rhett was a member of the basketball and tennis teams. After Episcopal, Mr. Rhett went to Yale University, where he was awarded the 1941 F. Wilder Bellamy, Jr. Memorial Prize, given annually to the most outstanding student. He served in the U.S. Navy as a Lieutenant JG during World War II. He was a purchasing executive in the mining firms Cerro de Pasco, Kennecott Copper Corp., and 100

AMAX Inc. He had a lifelong interest in history and poetry and was a member of the Charleston Artillery Society. He was also an avid golfer and played until a few months before his death. Mr. Rhett is survived by two daughters and three sons, including Robert Goodwyn Rhett III ’68, and eight grandchildren. Other EHS relatives include Robert C. Rhett 1877, Robert G. Rhett 1913, Odon Franz von Werssowetz ’04, and Margaret Rhett von Werssowetz ’06.

Ralph Van Sickler Chamblin, Jr. ’39 of Herndon, Va., died March 10, 2014.

At Episcopal, Mr. Chamblin was a member of the Fairfax Literary Society and the little varsity football and junior track teams. He was also an office boy and a substitute waiter. After EHS, he graduated from the University of Virginia with a B.S. in education and then from Middlebury College with a master’s degree in French. He served in the U.S. Navy in the South Pacific during World War II and in the Naval Reserve. Mr. Chamblin taught Spanish and French in Delaware and New Jersey for 33 years, after which he joined the Peace Corps, serving in Liberia. He was active as a lay Eucharist minister. He is survived by his wife, Helen McCleur Chamblin; three daughters; and a stepson.

Dr. Junius Weeks Davis, Jr. ’39

of Southern Pines, N.C., died Jan. 2, 2011. At Episcopal, Dr. Davis was a member of the Fairfax Literary Society, the assistant manager of the track team, and the associate editor of The Chronicle. After graduating from EHS, he attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he received both an A.B. and a certificate in medicine. As an undergraduate, he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon. He received his M.D. from the Medical College of South Carolina. In 1976, he received an M.P.H. from UNC-Chapel Hill. Dr. Davis served as a captain in the U.S. Air Force, where he was chief of pediatric services with the 3624th USAF Hospital. Dr. Davis was a practicing pediatrician in New Bern for many years. He is survived by his wife, Emma Katherine Guion Davis; a son, W.B.R. “Roddy” Davis ’70; a daughter, Margaret Coleman, EHS administrative assistant; four grandchildren, including Katherine G. Coleman ’06 and Robert D. Coleman ’09; and two great-grandchildren.

D. Harcourt Lees, Jr. ’39

The Hon. Howard Hollis Callaway ’44

After graduating from Episcopal, Mr. Lees worked for the Fauquier National Bank. He joined the Warrenton Rifles (Company 111 of the 11th Battalion, Virginia Protective Force), a state-authorized military organization tasked with providing home-defense training and security. He served in the U.S. Armed Forces during World War II and was a sergeant in the 530th Ordinance Tank Maintenance Company stationed in England, France, and Germany. After his discharge from the Army, Mr. Lees worked in insurance and real estate. For more than 50 years, Mr. Lees served as the director of the Fauquier National Bank and was a member and president of the Warrenton Rotary Club. He was also a member of the Fauquier Club and was a member and president of the Fauquier Board of Realtors. He is survived by a son.

At The High School, Mr. Callaway, known as Bo, was a Monitor, Schoolroom Keeper, and Graduate, and he served as both Librarian and President of Blackford Literary Society. He was a member of the football, basketball, and tennis teams, E-Club, Missionary Society, and the Rifle Team. After EHS, Mr. Callaway graduated from West Point and served in the Korean War. He then went on to pursue a career in politics and held elective office in the House, representing Georgia from 1965 to 1967. Mr. Callaway helped Republicans rise in the South throughout the ’60s and ’70s and was secretary of the Army during Nixon’s and Ford’s presidencies. He spent much of his life and was well-known for helping his parents develop Callaway Gardens in Pine Mountain, Ga. Mr. Callaway is survived by his five children, including his son, Howard Hollis Callaway, Jr. ’67. Other EHS relatives include his brother, Cason Jewell Callaway, Jr. ’41; his nephew, Kenneth Hodges Callaway ’73; and his great-nephew, Marshall Smith Callaway ’96.

of Warrenton, Va., died July 21, 2013.

Harrison M. Robertson, Jr., ’39

of Palm Beach, Fla., died Dec. 16, 2013. At Episcopal, Mr. Robertson was a member of several athletic teams including football, basketball, squash, tennis, and track. He was the president of the Fairfax Literary Society, Senior Monitor, Stewart Gym Director, Centennial Hall Director, Co-Head Office Boy, Shoveleer, Cop, as well as a member of the Choir, Missionary Society, Egypt, “E” Club, Chronicle board, and “Whispers” board. He served on the Hop Committee and took part in the Shakespeare Play. Mr. Robertson attended the University of Virginia, where he received his bachelor’s degree. After graduation, Mr. Robertson enlisted in the Army and served during World War II earning the rank of captain. He received an L.L.B. from the University of Virginia Law School and practiced law with Brune, Robertson & Iglehart in Baltimore. Mr. Robertson went on to serve as an assistant attorney general for the state of Maryland and as People’s Counsel before the Public Service Commission and the Metropolitan Transit Authority. He is survived by his sister and nine nieces and nephews. EHS relatives include Colin Mackenzie Robertson ’44.

of Hamilton, Ga., died March 15, 2014.

Weir Randolph Goodwin III ’48

of Houston, Texas, died June 28, 2014. At EHS Mr. Goodwin played football, basketball, and baseball. He was a member of the Stewart Athletic Club, choir, and E-Club, and he served as a Monitor and a waiter. Mr. Goodwin earned a Bachelor of Science degree in physics from Virginia Military Institute and a Master of Science degree in chemical engineering and industrial management from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Mr. Goodwin joined the U.S. Army and worked his way up to 1st Lieutenant. Later he worked at Ethyl Corporation; Marshall, Neil & Pauly; and Reid Engineering Company before forming Goodwin Associates, Inc., a manufacturer’s representative firm, in November 1978. Mr. Goodwin is survived by three sons and six grandchildren.

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IN MEMORIAM

Joseph Badger Shelor ’52

George Patterson Hester ’54

of Alexandria, Va., died May 28, 2014.

of Henrico, Va., died Feb. 19, 2014.

This portrait of Mr. Shelor hangs in the chemistry lab named in his honor. It was painted by his wife, Bonnie.

On the Hill, Mr. Shelor was a Monitor and a member of the JV football, squash, and varsity baseball teams. After graduating from EHS in 1952, he earned a B.S. from Hampden-Sydney College and an M.A.T. from the University of Virginia prior to spending several years in the U.S. Navy and in business. He was attracted to the teaching profession because of the positive influence of his mother, who was a teacher. Throughout his 45-year tenure at Episcopal, Mr. Shelor was recognized for his excellence in teaching, character, leadership, and school service. The Governor’s School at Lynchburg College named him an Outstanding Educator in 1996. While many students benefited from his knowledge of chemistry, others enjoyed getting to know him as their lacrosse coach, advisor, or on dorm. Mr. Shelor dedicated his life to challenging and inspiring Episcopal students to do their best. Because of his exceptional service to EHS, a chemistry laboratory in the Baker Science Center was named in his honor, and a lacrosse award was given in his honor by his 1972 undefeated Hall of Fame lacrosse team. Mr. Shelor retired in 2007. Mr. Shelor is survived by his wife, Elizabeth (“Bonnie”); three daughters; and six grandchildren. EHS relatives include brother Morgan Lunsford Shelor ’53.

“In a world where compromise and expediency are increasingly the norm rather than the exception, there is a tremendous need for the Joe Shelors of the world and the discipline and lessons they impart. At the end of the day, when the formulas and chemical symbols have faded from memory, Joe will be remembered for the lessons of discipline, honor, integrity, self-reliance, and fairness he imparted to generations of young people.” – Jimmy Farrar ’70

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At EHS, Mr. Hester was a member of the choir, Dramatics Club, Egypt, Glee Club, Press Club, and the varsity football team, for which he was inducted into the EHS Hall of Fame in 2011. Mr. Hester served in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve for eight years beginning his senior year at Episcopal High School. He matriculated at the University of Virginia, and after graduation moved his family to Richmond, where he worked at Connecticut Mutual Life Insurane and Miller & Rhoads. After accepting a job in Oklahoma City, Mr. Hester returned to Richmond and formed Emtex Corporation in 1978. He is survived by his daughters; his son; five granddaughters; and his brother, Gerald Courtney Hester ’66.

Dr. Eugene Numa Lane ’54

of Columbia, Mo., died Jan. 1, 2007. At Episcopal, Dr. Lane was a member of The Chronicle staff, an editor for Whispers, and president of the Blackford Literary Society for three terms. He was the assistant manager for the varsity football team, manager for the wrestling team, and manager of varsity track. Dr. Lane won the Blackford Literary Society’s Debater’s and Public Speaker’s medals, as well as the Johns Prize and medals for Shakespeare, English, Latin, and English composition. After graduation, Dr. Lane attended Princeton University, where he received his undergraduate degree. He went on to earn his graduate and doctoral degrees from Yale University. Dr. Lane taught at the University of Virginia and the University of Missouri, where he helped to build their Department of Classical Studies. He is survived by his wife, Carol; his son; his daughter; and his granddaughter.

George Summers McCluney ’59 of Greenbrae, Calif., died Oct. 27, 2013.

On the Hill, Mr. McCluney was a member of the wrestling team, the cake team, and the Wilmer Society. After Episcopal, Mr. McCluney was a gentleman farmer on land overlooking the Missouri River near Berger, Mo., until 1992, when he moved to Larkspur, Calif. He loved his home overlooking the San Francisco Bay and the daily sunsets over Mt. Tamalpais. Mr. McCluney is survived by his wife, Chris; his sister; and his brother.

Edward Griffith Dodson III ’68

of Coatesville, Pa., died Feb. 24, 2014. While at EHS, Mr. Dodson was an editor for The Chronicle and a member of Executive Board, Dramatics, Choir and Glee Club, Missionary Society, and the Blackford Literary Society. He was a member of the football, track, and lacrosse teams. As a young man, he achieved the rank of Eagle Scout. After The High School, Mr. Dodson attended the University of Virginia graduating in 1972. He later went on to own Griffith Woodworking. He was a member of Covenant Presbyterian Church, Frazer. Mr. Dodson is survived by his wife, Patty; his children; two sisters; and nieces and nephews. EHS relatives include his father, E. Griffith Dodson, Jr. ’32, and his uncle, Robert Winchester Dodson ’43.

Homer Avery Jacobs III ’83

of College Station, Texas, died Aug. 26, 2014. At The High School, Mr. Jacobs was a Monitor, on the Admissions Committee for three years, and a member of the choir. He played junior football, junior and JV basketball, and JV tennis. He received the Whittle Prize and made The High List. Following his graduation from Texas A&M with a bachelor’s degree in journalism, Mr. Jacobs spent much of his career devoted to A&M athletics. After working at the Sherman Democrat, the Galveston Daily News, and Aggies Illustrated, he joined the 12th Man Foundation in 1996 and was the first editor of the 12th Man Magazine. Spending 22 years in Galveston, Mr. Jacobs was a frequent guest on local radio shows and on pregame shows on the Aggie Radio Network discussing Texas A&M athletics. Mr. Jacobs is survived by his wife, Laurie, and her four sons. EHS relatives include his father, Homer Avery Jacobs, Jr. ’50.

Davis Munson Hammell ’04

of Alexandria, Va., died Sept. 18, 2014. At EHS, Mr. Hammell played football and threw the shot and discus for the track and field team. Mr. Hammell went on to attend Yale University, where he played varsity offensive line for Yale when Yale beat Harvard in 2007. In addition to playing football, Mr. Hammell loved science, philosophy, books, and Scrabble. He is survived by his mother, sister, and uncle.

John Warburton Reily ’11

of Metaire, La., died July 27, 2014. At Episcopal, Mr. Reily was a member of the football team. He was a 2011 graduate of Metairie Park Country Day School and was in his senior year at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. He was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity and several New Orleans organizations. Mr. Reily is survived by his parents and his two brothers, Hugh and William Boatner Reily V ’09.

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IN MEMORIAM

Joseph A. Halm

of Alexandria, Va., died July 27, 2014. Mr. Halm died unexpectedly on Sunday, July 27 in Silver Bay, N.Y. Mr. Halm was a member of the EHS community from 1996 until his death. He taught science, coached cross country and track, and led students on numerous outdoor trips throughout the years. He was also head of Berkeley Dorm, served on the Student Assistance Team, and was the recipient of Episcopal’s Syd Walden Faculty Incentive Award for Excellence in Teaching and Coaching, and Extraordinary Commitment to the Students and Mission of Episcopal High School. Mr. Halm was selected as one of the Alexandria Education Partnership Excellence in Education Award winners in 2005, and in 2009 he served on a high school biology curriculum development team for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. When not teaching biology, freshwater ecology, or physics, Mr. Halm loved spending time outdoors hiking and kayaking. Along with his love for the wilderness, Mr. Halm was a well-rounded musician and played percussion and guitar in styles that ranged from classical to rock. He also enjoyed biking, running, archery, surfing, and playing golf. Before Mr. Halm came to Episcopal, he taught at Montclair Kimberley Academy in New Jersey and Christ Church Episcopal School in South Carolina. Mr. Halm is survived by his wife, Joey; two daughters, Abby ’13 and Ellie ’16; and his son, Mac.

Ruth deWindt Hoxton

of Shepherdstown, W.Va., died Oct. 17, 2014. Mrs. Hoxton was the wife of the late Archibald R. (“Young Flick”) Hoxton, Jr. ’35, EHS Headmaster from 1967 to 1981 and teacher from 1945 to 1950. Mrs. Hoxton was presented the Episcopal High School Distinguished Service Award in 1985 for her many decades of hospitality, advice, and guidance to EHS faculty and their families along with countless EHS students. In 2000 Hoxton Hall, home to 36 students and two faculty families, was dedicated to Flick and Ruth Hoxton for their devotion and service to the many EHS students that they so enjoyed working with. In 2003, Mrs. Hoxton established the Ruth and Flick Hoxton ’35 Scholarship Fund, providing many deserving students from West Virginia with financial aid to attend Episcopal. Mrs. Hoxton and family members have continued to support this scholarship. 104

Mrs. Hoxton is survived by two children, including Archibald “Arch” R. Hoxton III ’62; four grandchildren, including Archibald R. Hoxton IV ’84; and four great grandchildren, including Alexandra (“Ali”) d. Hoxton and Archibald (“Quin”) R. Hoxton V, who also attended EHS. Other EHS relatives include Archibald Robinson Hoxton, Sr. 1895, Headmaster from 1913 to 1947.

John James Lisanick

of Alexandria, Va., died June 28, 2014. For three decades, Mr. Lisanick taught art at Episcopal, serving for several years as the chair of the Arts Department. Before joining the EHS faculty, he earned a B.S. from State University of New York at New Paltz and an M.F.A. from American University. He is survived by his son, John. J. “Jeff ” Lisanick ’84.

W. Temple Webber, Jr.

of Houston, Texas, died July 24, 2014. Mr. Webber was a member of the EHS community for many years, as a parent, grandparent, and member of the Board of Trustees. Mr. Webber served as an Executive Council Member from 1980 to 1986 and was on the Board from 1986 to 1992. Mr. Webber received the EHS Distinguished Service Award in 1992, and in 1994 was a member of the campaign steering committee. Mr. Webber and his family significantly contributed to the construction of the Patrick Henry Callaway Chapel. Mr. Webber graduated from the Choate School in Wallingford, Conn., before attending Washington and Lee University, where he was a member of the golf team and Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. Mr. Webber worked in banking, first with Texas National Bank and then with Old Southern National Bank. He was a very active member of the community over the years, serving on several nonprofit boards including M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. He was a member of Allegro, River Oaks Country Club, and The Bayou Club. Mr. Webber is survived by his wife, Barbara; two sons, including David Falconer Webber ’81; and seven grandchildren, including Sarah Chase Webber ’09. Other EHS relatives include his late son, Christopher W. Webber ’79.

Memorial and Honor Gifts Many donors choose to make memorial or honor gifts to Episcopal High School as a way to pay tribute to friends and loved ones. We are grateful to these donors who contributed to EHS from July 1, 2014, to Oct. 31, 2014. ME MOR I A L G IF T S In Memory of

Ms. Kristin Ashley Armistead ’00 Mrs. Joanne H. Jones ’02 and Mr. Hudson D. Jones In Memory of

Ms. Martha Locke Cammack ’09 Ms. Elizabeth Speed Ward ’09 In Memory of

Mr. G. Moffett Cochran ’69 Mr. Allen M. Wallace In Memory of

Mrs. Matilda Martin Dobbs Mr. and Mrs. William S. Peebles ’73 In Memory of

Mr. Edward Griffith Dodson III ’68 Ms. Annabel Pougnier In Memory of

Mr. Weir R. Goodwin III ’48 Mr. Douglass Sorrel Mackall III ’49 In Memory of

Mr. Joseph A. Halm Ms. Elizabeth Stuart Agnew ’12 Ms. Kim Akins Ms. Leah DuVal Andress ’08 Ms. Barbara Ransome Andrews ’14 Mr. Benjamin Dennington Archie ’18 Mr. Robert Woodruff Archie ’14 Mr. and Mrs. Timothy R. Archie Mr. and Mrs. Scott J. Arrington Mr. Zachary Vandergrift Ashburn ’12 Ms. Jennifer Atkinson Mr. and Mrs. Attison L. Barnes III ’82

Mr. Attison Leonard Barnes IV ’11 Ms. Sarah Merrill Barringer ’13 Mr. Francis Barry Mr. Timothy Becker Mr. Anthony Belber Ms. Ryan Elizabeth Bennert ’12 Ms. Ella Sheffield Bickley ’15 Mr. and Mrs. John S. Bickley, Jr. Ms. Kathryn Bickley ’13 Ms. Shantell Norissa Mari Bingham ’11 Katie, Annie, Emma, and Mike Blakslee Frank, Nancy, Will, and Alex Brincheiro Mr. and Mrs. C.C. Burroughs Ms. Colleen Byrne Ms. Susan Campbell Mr. Gregory W. Cashman and Ms. Margaret E. Neal Mrs. Kathleen S. Caslow and Mr. Douglass P. Caslow Ms. Molly Caulfield Ms. Carolyn Close Ms. Kennedy Columbo Mr. Chip Comstock and Mr. Andrew Comstock Mr. and Mrs. David C. Comstock Mr. Rich Comstock Ms. Sian MacIver Crosby and Family Carolyn, Shawn, Matt, Maggie, and Mark Daley Mr. Daniel Dallabrida and Mr. Daniel P. Duffie Maribeth, Don, Russell, Evan, and DJ Darwin Mrs. Viviana R. Davila and Mr. Derrick Davila and Family Mr. and Mrs. Howard C. Davis Ms. Lindsey Sprague deButts ’08 Mr. and Mrs. William H. deButts III ’76 and Family

Mr. and Mr. Joseph D. DeCampo and Family Mr. and Mrs. James M. Degeorge Mr. Donald Robert DePriest ’02 Ms. Ann Ehrhardt deSaussure ’08 Ms. Frances Huger deSaussure ’06 Ms. Genevieve duPont Dick ’14 Mr. Kwafo Djan and Ms. Jeannette Walters-Marquez Mr. and Mrs. Gaillard T. Dotterer, Jr. ’81 Ms. Henrietta N. Dotterer ’18 Mr. Gaillard T. Dotterer III ’11 Mr. Frederick W. Dotterer ’13 Mr. and Mrs. David A. Douglas and Family Mrs. Robert A. Douglas Mr. Richard Allen Drucker, Jr.’12 Mr. and Mrs. Jim Duffy Mrs. Carolyn Coe Dyer Mrs. Alma H. Edgerly Mr. William David Edgerly ’14 Mr. W. Perry Epes III ’65 and The Rev. Gail A. Epes Ms. Maria Fotini Faidas ’13 Mr. Philip Lyman Faris ’13 Mr. Lee Farmer, Ms. Rachel Peretz, and Ms. Alesia Call Mr. Stuart Shields Ferber ’16 Ms. Andree G. Finkle Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Finkle Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Fitzpatrick and Family Mr. and Mrs. Charles D. Fox IV Mr. Charles Dunsmore Fox V ’11 Mr. Laurance William Frierson ’00 Ms. Jenn Galgano Ms. Alessandra Gina Gavin ’12 Mr. John M. Gavin and Dr. Cynthia J. Nolletti Mr. Owen Gilbo Mr. Christopher Harrison Gadsden Gilchrist ’04

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Mr. Charles Buckley Gillock, Jr. ’10 Mr. and Mrs. Frederic W. Giltzow Mr. and Mrs. Jay H. Giltzow, Jr. Ms. Lucille Harrison Glaize ’08 Mr. and Mrs. John C. Glover ’81 and Family Ms. Sallie Harris Glover ’11 Mr. and Mrs. Peter G. Glubiak and Family Mr. and Mrs. Danny C. Golden Mr. and Mrs. Read F. Goode, Jr. and Family Mrs. Frank Shields Goodman Mr. and Mrs. Scott C. Goodman ’78 and Family Mrs. Catherine B. Gomez-Goodnow and Mr. Peter P. Goodnow and Family Mr. Wesley John Graf ’08 Mr. and Mrs. Jules Halm Mr. Robert Eric Hart, Jr. ’13 Mr. and Mrs. David L. Hathaway Mr. and Mrs. Leo Helmers Mr. and Mrs. Ian Y. Henderson, Jr. and Family Mr. and Mrs. F. Robertson Hershey Mr. Jeffrey B. Hoisington Mrs. Mary Kate Davis Holland Mrs. Christina M. Holt and Mr. Charles S. Holt and Family Mr. and Mrs. H. Winston Holt IV ’82 and Family Mr. and Mrs. Mark Hourigan Mr. Marty Huntington Ms. Rachel Virginia Hurley ’10 Ms. Sarah Grace Hurley ’13 2nd Lt. Beirne Carter Hutcheson ’10 Mr. and Mrs. John Randolph Hutcheson Mr. Charles D. Hyman and Ms. Janet Healy and Family Mrs. Rebecca Arnesen Jenkins ’00 and Mr. Christopher P. Jenkins and Family Mr. and Mrs. Arthur R. Jorgensen Mr. Thomas Harrison Joyce ’97 Mrs. Deborah Anne Kadlick Mr. John Whittier Kadlick ’14 Mr. and Mrs. Rashad F. Kawmy ’01 Mr. and Mrs. Douglas E. Kehlenbrink Mr. Peter D. Kehlenbrink ’08 Capt. and Mrs. Matthew R. Kirwan ’00 Ms. Frances Dabney Kupersmith ’07 Ms. Germaine S. Kvinta Ms. Laura LaCorte Ms. Catherine Jeanne Lambert ’11 Mr. and Mrs. Anthony T. Lathrop and Family Ms. Coles Heyward Lawton ’10 Dr. and Mrs. Joseph J. Lawton III

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Mr. Joseph J. Lawton IV ’15 Dr. Jean Brown Leonard and Mr. Charles M. Leonard Mr. and Mrs. Michael E. Liddick and Family Ms. Katherine Little Mr. and Mrs. Steven Locke Dr. and Mrs. Clayton M. Lockhart Mr. and Mrs. Jason E. Lockwood and Family Mrs. Katherine L. Mabry ’00 and Mr. Jason Mabry Mrs. Parker Woltz Mackie ’04 and Mr. George M. Mackie V Ms. Catherine Byron Castleman Maybank ’16 Mr. and Mrs. David Maybank, Jr. ’50 Mrs. Joanne M. McAvoy Mr. and Mrs. Gregory E. McGowan Mr. Gregory E. McGowan, Jr. ’14 Mr. Donald McMillan Mr. James Riley McNab III ’00 Ms. Sophie R. McNichols ’13 Mr. and Mrs. Vollie D. Melson Ms. Elisabeth Sophie Merten ’13 Mr. and Mrs. William H. Milam, Jr. ’01 Ms. Christie Miller Ms. Erin Augusta Montz ’13 Mrs. Eleanor C. Moore and Mr. Toby Moore and Family Mr. and Mrs. James P. Moore, Jr. Ms. Marina Amanda Myers ’08 The Hon. Douglas B. Neagli and Family Mr. and Mrs. James B. Neal Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Olsson ’82 and Family Ms. Elizabeth Lanier Olsson ’11 Mr. and Mrs. Ben O ’Neal Pacers, Mr. J. Chris Farley and Staff Ms. Elizabeth Parker Ms. Nancy Lynn Pasternack Ms. Ann Gordon Pelletier ’08 Dr. and Mrs. Robert A. Pierce II ’78 Mr. and Mrs. Douglas C. Price and Family Mr. Robert Pursell Ms. Danielle Winters Rengers ’07 Mr. Edwin D. and Mrs. Dana W. Rengers Ms. Michelle Leigh Rengers ’09 Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Reynolds III and Family Mr. and Mrs. John N. Richardson, Jr. Mr. John North Richardson III ’13 Ms. Rebecca Blake Richardson ’14 Ms. Annabel Hardtner Rose ’07 Mr. and Mrs. and William E. Rose and Family Dr. and Mrs. Omar P. Sangueza and Family Mrs. Bonnie Kane Sharp

Mr. Martin V. Sharp, Jr. ’14 Mr. Alexander Grady Smith ’10 Ms. Stirling Palmer deVeres Smith ’13 Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Soja and Family Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey A. Streed and Family Mr. Richard Myers Stubbs Mr. Matthew Thomas Valcourt ’12 Mr. and Mrs. Wiley A. Wasden III and Family Lt. Cmdr. and Mrs. Robert Watts IV ’98 Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Watts III Ms. Shawn Michelle Weger ’07 Ms. Mary Werler Mr. and Mrs. David J. Whichard IV ’03 Mr. and Mrs. Robert Whitaker Ms. Amy Whitman Mr. C. Dale Whitman Mr. Alfred Collin Wiles ’11 Mr. Austin Chase Wiles ’13 Ms. Michele E. Wiles and Mr. Robert Mulroy Ms. Elizabeth A. Wilson ’13 Ms. Taylor W. Wilson ’11 Mr. and Mrs. Russell P. Wilson Mr. and Mrs. Carter Worth Mrs. Mary Peterkin Worthington ’04 and Mr. Clayton A. Worthington Mr. David Wright Ms. Virginia Maddux Wright ’13 Mr. Jun Wu ’10 Mr. and Mrs. Sam Zimmerman In Memory of

Dr. William Evans Hannum II Mr. William Henry Calvert Kegan ’05 Mrs. Martelle O. Scott In Memory of

Mrs. Ruth deWindt Hoxton Mr. R. Cotten Alston III ’63 Mrs. Mimi Mackell Wilson Dozier and Mr. O. Kemp Dozier Ms. Tracy L. Drumheller Mr. and Mrs. Steven L. Frankel Dr. and Mrs. James C. Holland Mr. Edwin D. and Mrs. Dana W. Rengers Mrs. Evelyn Thomsen Ruffin Mr. Henry K. Willard III Mr. and Mrs. Thomas P. Wolf In Memory of

Mr. John James Lisanick Mrs. Robert A. Douglas Mr. Steve Six

In Memory of

Mr. James Robert MacDonald Mr. and Mrs. Ellis C. Zaytoun ’81

Mr. Joseph Badger Shelor ’52 The Hon. and Mrs. Whittington W. Clement ’66 Mr. Charles Pierson Gilchrist IV ’02 Mr. and Mrs. Stuart M. Grainger ’75 Mr. and Mrs. David L. Hathaway Mr. and Mrs. Ellis C. Zaytoun ’81

Mr. James Francis Thornton, Jr. ’51 Dr. and Mrs. William B. Inabnet III ’83

In Honor of

Mrs. Viviana R. Davila Ms. Elizabeth Speed Ward ’09

Dr. Kimberly G. Olsen Mr. John Geanuracos and Ms. Janine Peake

In Honor of

Mr. and Mrs. William H. deButts III ’76 Ms. Stirling Palmer deVeres Smith ’13

Rev. Gideon L. K. Pollach Ms. Stirling Palmer deVeres Smith ’13

Mr. Richard Myers Stubbs Ms. Stirling Palmer deVeres Smith ’13 Ms. Elizabeth Speed Ward ’09 Mr. Daniel F. Wilhelm and Ms. Courtney O’Malley

In Honor of

Ms. Virginia Tyler Duerson ’12 Ms. Stirling Palmer deVeres Smith ’13

Ms. Alison Holby Poole Mr. John Winder Hughes III

In Honor of

Mr. Nathaniel A. Ebel Mr. and Mrs. R. Halsey Wise ’83

Ms. Rachel Rutledge Stewart ’13 Ms. Stirling Palmer deVeres Smith ’13

Mr. Damian C. Walsh Mr. Kwafo Djan and Mrs. Jeannette Walters-Marquez

In Honor of

Mr. William Perry Epes III ’65 Mr. and Mrs. Ian Yandell Henderson, Jr.

Mr. Brandon J. Straub Mr. and Mrs. John W. Hughes III

Mr. Robert Crenshaw Watts III Mr. and Mrs. Ian Yandell Henderson, Jr.

In Honor of

Ms. Carolyn L. Lewis Mr. George E. Wilbanks

Mr. Jeffrey A. Streed Mr. John Geanuracos and Ms. Janine Peake

Ms. Miller McKimmon Winston ’13 Ms. Stirling Palmer deVeres Smith ’13

In Memory of

Mr. Edward Watts Morris, Jr. ’53 Mrs. Edward W. Morris, Jr.

In Memory of

Mr. John Luther Walker ’54 Mrs. Jane W. Kerewich

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Ms. Elizabeth A. Vorlicek Ms. Stirling Palmer deVeres Smith ’13 In Honor of

Correction: Langhorne Gibson, Jr. was erroneously and regrettably omitted from the 2013-14 Annual Report. He did support the 2013-14 Roll Call and remains a member of the Callaway Loyalty Society.

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The Transformation of Stewart Gym T H E M A G A Z I N E O F E P I S C O PA L H I G H S C H O O L

CAMPUS DOGS 1 Abbot Baran 2 Bailey deButts 3 Bailey Fitzpatrick 4 Bromley Castle 5 Callie Goldstein 6 Charley and Harley Phillips 7 Cooper Holt 8 Dolce Kovach 9 Frances 20

20 Reese Anderson

21 Scout

and Rosie Reynolds 22 Singer Douglas 23 Toby Davila 24 Toby, Bella, Daisy, and Maize Rengers 25 Zeus Locke 23

FALL 2014