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Four Columns • • • • • • •••••••••• • • • • • 2 In Honor of the Class of 2014 5 Commencement Awards 10 Book Prizes 14 Honoring Outstanding Teachers 15 Final High List 2013-14 16 Academics in Review 18 Athletics in Review 22 College Choices of the Class of 2014 24 To Finish on Top, Start at the Bottom

BY CICI SOBIN ’14

26 Admissions Report 28 Promise Campaign Impact Report 32 A Record-Breaking Year for Senior Class Parents

34 Introducing the Martha L. Cammack Service Learning Fund BY WARD CAMMACK

36 #EHSReunion2014 41 Return to Sender BY DAVID OPIE ’86 41 Summer Reading Four Columns • Summer 2014 Four Columns is published annually for alumni, parents, grandparents, and friends of Episcopal High School.

Copyright ©2014, Episcopal High School Headmaster: Rob Hershey Director of Institutional Advancement: Christina Holt Director of Communications: Jen Desautels Associate Director of Communications: Johanna Droubay Photographer: Rachel Hofer, Elizabeth Watts, and Audra Wrisley Designer: Linda Loughran Printer: Mt. Royal Printing and Communications Episcopal High School admits students of any race, gender, color, sexual orientation, or national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students. EHS does not discriminate in the administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship programs, or other school-administered programs.

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The Class of 2014

n May 31, friends, families, and the EHS community gathered on Hoxton Circle for the 169th Commencement Exercises to celebrate and graduate the Class of 2014.

In his Commencement remarks, Headmaster Rob Hershey praised the senior class for their abundant accomplishments. The Class of 2014 completed a remarkable total of 594 Advanced and Advanced Placement courses, and 80 percent attained High List during their senior year. They submitted 758 applications to 184 different colleges resulting in more than 400 offers of admission from 150 different institutions of higher learning. Eighty-four percent of this graduating class will attend either their first- or second-choice college at 64 different colleges in 33 states, D.C., Ireland, and Switzerland, with 15 receiving merit scholarships.

Headmaster Hershey emphasized that this class also took the time to look outward, engaging in and bettering the world around them.

This class will be remembered for the Serve for the Cure tennis tournament to raise money for breast cancer research and the Color Run to support environmental causes. Fifteen members of this class went on international service learning trips to the Dominican Republic, Kenya, and Haiti. During their four years on the Hill, the Class of 2014 raised more than $50,000 in support of international partner schools and relief projects, and in this year alone, they devoted 2,000 hours to service.

Headmaster Hershey also recognized the class for their athletic accomplishments. During their years on the Hill, members of this class participated in state or league championships in boys’ soccer, field hockey, girls’ basketball, boys’ basketball, boys’ lacrosse, and softball, and 55 members of this class were recognized for either All-League or All-State honors in their sport. Thirteen students have committed to compete athletically at the college level.

Members of the Class of 2014 were also very successful in the arts. In the Virginia Theatre Association one-act play competition, EHS placed in the top 10 among high schools, public and private, in the state of Virginia. Additionally, the EHS theater program was selected as a national finalist in the American High School Theatre Festival and has been invited to perform at the prestigious Edinburgh Festival Fringe next summer. The concert choir and chamber singers toured Connecticut, New York, and Pennsylvania, and performed at the Washington National Cathedral and the President’s home parish, St. John’s Church, Lafayette Square in Washington. Nineteen seniors produced seven issues of The Chronicle. In addition, Daemon and the 112th edition of Whispers were received with enthusiasm by the entire community.

Headmaster Hershey concluded, “Continue to define and commit to your own values, seek your own quotes and inspiration, and choose to live your life based on them. This would be the most significant take-away from all that EHS offers, preparing you for a meaningful, productive, and fulfilling future. Class of 2014, this is our hope for you: take care of yourself and each other, and stay in touch. Godspeed!”

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Follow the Path of Love Excerpts from the Rev. Gideon Pollach’s Baccalaureate Sermon On the afternoon of May 30, the community gathered in Callaway Chapel for Baccalaureate, led by the Rev. Gideon Pollach.

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esus was a teacher like so many of us here today, but his teachings were counter-cultural. They were paradoxical and did not offer knowledge that allowed you simply to succeed. In fact, Jesus, obviously, had no interest in ‘success’ as we define it.

“Instead, Jesus offered us a way of living that his contemporary sages would have called a way of foolishness.

Not a broad way that leads to earthly success, but a narrow way that leads to divine wisdom. Theologian Marcus Borg, a noted author, member of the so-called ‘Jesus Seminar,’ and professor at Oregon State University, says this of Jesus: ‘ {Jesus} directly attacked the central values of his social world’s conventional wisdom: family, wealth, honor, purity, and religiosity. All were sanctified by tradition, and their importance was part of the taken-for-granted world.’

“And these values are still taken for granted as marks of earthly success. Who here is not encouraged to be honorable? Who here is not encouraged to be pure, or to build a family?

“But Jesus did not place lasting value in these cultural norms. Instead, Jesus encouraged his disciples, and by extension all of us, to travel a more difficult path. A way, as he called it, that leads us past a love of self to a love of others.

A way that leads us past convention to a love of God. A way that is beyond achievement to the heart of who and what we are as people…

“Follow the path of love: the path of love that leads beyond self to your neighbor. Follow the path of love that leads you to see God firsthand. Follow the path of love that your parents have laid out for you by offering you the gift of this place. Follow the path of love, the path of wisdom offered to you by this place. If you do, it will transform your experience of this life no matter what happens to you in this life.”

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Words to Live By

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eadmaster Hershey shared the following quotations that inspire him on a daily basis, encouraging students to find their own inspiration.

“THE PROCESS OF STRIVING TO IMPROVE ENRICHES LIFE.”

– Author Unknown “A MAN’S MIND STRETCHED TO A NEW IDEA NEVER GOES BACK TO ITS ORIGINAL DIMENSION.”

– Oliver Wendell Holmes “IT’S OUR CHOICES THAT SHOW WHO WE REALLY ARE, FAR MORE THAN OUR ABILITIES.”

– Albus Dumbledore

“YOU CANNOT LIVE A PERFECT DAY WITHOUT DOING SOMETHING FOR SOMEONE WHO WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO REPAY YOU.”

– John Wooden

“THE PRICE OF GREATNESS IS RESPONSIBILITY.”

– Winston Churchill “AT THE END OF THE DAY, IT’S NOT HOW FAR YOU FALL, BUT HOW HIGH YOU BOUNCE.”

– Sheila Wellington

Balance Your Priorities Excerpts from the Valedictory Address

by Brett Dewing ’14 On the evening of May 30, students were honored at the Valedictory Program, where many received awards celebrating their academic, artistic, and athletic accomplishments. The class elected as their valedictorian Brett Dewing ’14, who gave the valedictory speech.

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nstead of this class splintering apart and trying to figure Episcopal out on our own, a practice that may be common in other schools and in other grades, the Class of 2014 banded together into a cohesive and formidable whole, helping each other out with everything ranging from homework to social drama to even problems we may have been dealing with at home…

“Enjoy your time, whether it be here at Episcopal next year, or at any one of the elite universities our class will be attending. Life goes too fast for us to worry about just one thing, whether it be grades, or athletics, or social drama. Balance your priorities and just enjoy the things that are given to you in order to make the memories that will actually matter later in life.”

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The Class of 2014 chose Brett Dewing ’14 as their Valedictorian.

Commencement Awards

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uring Commencement Weekend, Episcopal High School presented 50 awards and scholarships, recognizing students’ achievements in academics, arts, and athletics, as well as their contributions to school life.

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To the Chair of the Honor Committee John Conger Glover, Jr. ’14 C. C. BAL D WIN MED AL

For Sportsmanship in All Aspects of School Life Barbara Ransome Andrews ’14

Ania DeJoy ’14 and Andrew DeJoy ’14 with their parents, Aldona Wos (left) and Louis DeJoy. Ania received the William Winder Laird Medal for Excellence in French.

W ILLIAM GARRETT B I BB ME D A L

For Excellence in Shakespeare Jackson Paul Neagli ’14 LA UNCELOT M IN OR BLA C K F O RD ME D A L A ND R I CHARD PARD EE W I LLI A MS , J R. S C HO LA RS HI P

For Excellence in Classics Allegra Christine Peake Geanuracos ’15 DA VID TUCKER BRO WN, J R. P RI ZE

For Excellence in Social Studies Andrew Robert Styles ’14 JOSEPH BRY AN M ED AL

For Excellence in English Maja Percy Olsson ’14 LA WT O N M. CAL HOU N, J R. ME D A L

For Excellence in Physics John Whittier Kadlick ’14

Math teacher Dave Collins presented to Alison Amos ’15 the Lucien Minor Geer Scholarship for Mathematics.

PA TR I C K H . CAL LAW A Y P RI ZE

For Excellence in Theology Evan Anthony Hughes ’14 B OYD TAY L OR CUMMI NGS ME D A L

For Publications Ciara Rose Sobin ’14 JOHN M ON CURE D ANI E L S C HO LA RS HI P A ND B ENJAMIN M . BAKER ME D A L

For Excellence in United States History Elizabeth Neall Collett ’15 DA VIS AWARD FOR C O MMU NI T Y S E RV I C E

Charlotte Cornell Hunt ’14 W ILLIAM RILEY D EEBLE I I I S C HO LA RS HI P FO R SOCIA L STUD IES

Zoe Virginia Ashburn ’16 Evan Hughes ’14 received the Patrick H. Callaway Prize for Excellence in Theology.

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R A NDO LPH FAIRFAX ME D A L

For Character, Conduct, and Scholarship Amanda Morrison Holt ’14 JA MES H. FAN N ON , JR. F A MI LY A WA RD

For Athletic Worth Amanda Morrison Holt ’14 R OB ERT WIATT FARR A R C O MMI T ME NT T O A T HLE TICS AWARD

Barbara Ransome Andrews ’14 Blake McDonald Barefoot ’14 Harleigh Janelle Jordan Bean ’14 Caroline Evans Bond ’14 Timothy Salvatore DeCampo ’14 Wright Denny Griffith ’14 Amanda Morrison Holt ’14 William James Hollister ’14 Charlotte Cornell Hunt ’14 Ella Beatrice Hough ’14 Gregory Eugene McGowan, Jr. ’14 Celeste Venable Pritchard ’14 Lauren Adare Tarde ’14 Georgie Somerville Wilkins ’14 Donaldson Gray Williams, Jr. ’14 Kiamani Jonacé Wilson ’14 Gates Hopkins Young ’14

Annalee Walton ’14 (left) received the Edwin Wilson Award for Theater Arts: Acting, the Lucien Minor Geer Spirit Award, and the Whittle Prize for Academic Excellence. Emily Bivins ’14 was presented with the Thomas E. Kilby III Medal for Excellence in Chemistry and the Whittle Prize for Academic Excellence.

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Mary Helen McNatt Tarbutton ’15 LUCI EN M IN OR GEER S C HO LA RS HI P FO R MA THE MATICS

Alison Mary Amos ’15 LUCI EN M IN OR GEER S P I RI T A WA RD

Annalee Lewis Walton ’14 W . A . R. GOOD WIN , JR. ME MO RI A L BO WL

To the Head Monitor Suzelle Margaret Swing Thomas ’14

At Valedictory, Allegra Geanuracos ’15 was presented with the Launcelot Minor Blackford Medal and Richard Pardee Williams, Jr. Scholarship for Excellence in Classics and the Johns Prize for Eminent Academic Excellence.

LLEW ELL Y N G. H OXTO N ME D A L

For Excellence in Mathematics Natnael Yehualaw Kassaw ’14 B ENJA MIN I. JOHN S PRI ZE

For Excellence in Biology Edward Porcher Wickham ’15 B ENJA MIN IRVIN G JO HNS S C HO LA RS HI P F O R B I OLOGY

Meredith Ellen Sackett ’15 A LEXA N D ER JEN N ETT E J O HNS T O N A WA RD

For Excellence in Performing Arts Savannah Ruth Lambert ’14

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This year’s Valedictorian, Brett Dewing ’14 (second from right), celebrates with members of his family: (from left) his father, Henry; his sister, Cameron; his brother, Woody ’12; his mother, Sarah; and his sister, Blair ’13. Brett was presented with the Archibald Eubank Sutton, Jr. Memorial Medal to the Valedictorian.

KEL S O F AM IL Y AW AR D

To the Senior Warden of the Vestry Rebecca Blake Richardson ’14 TH O M AS E. KIL B Y III M E D AL

For Excellence in Chemistry Emily Sinclair Bivins ’14 G EO R G E W IL L IAM L AIR D AW AR D

For Outstanding Photography Blake McDonald Barefoot ’14 W IL L IAM W IN D E R L AIR D M ED AL

For Excellence in French Ania Gabriella DeJoy ’14 Chino Agulanna ’14 (left) received the Charles C. Plummer Award for Excellence in Choir. He is pictured with James Lilley ’14 and Blake Barefoot ’14 (right), who received the George William Laird Award for Outstanding Photography and the Robert Wiatt Farrar Commitment to Athletics Award.

G U Y B L AN N E W C O M B M ED AL

For Excellence in Foreign Language Savannah Ruth Lambert ’14 C H AR L E S F E L L O W S P AG E AW AR D

For Excellence in Poetry Kathryn McDonald Matheson ’14 S E L B Y B AR N E S P AP IN M E D AL

For Excellence in Spanish Harleigh Janelle Jordan Bean ’14 AL L E N C AR L E TO N P H IL L IP S AN D W IL L IAM EVAN S H AN N U M S C H O L AR S H IP F O R EN G L I SH

Victoria Leigh Reynolds ’15 C H AR L E S C . P L U M M E R AW AR D

For Excellence in Choir Chino Cyril Agulanna ’14 R IN EH AR T M E D AL F O R ATH L ETIC W O R TH

Donaldson Gray Williams, Jr. ’14 Cici Sobin ’14 received the Boyd Taylor Cummings Medal for Publications at the Valedictory ceremony. She is pictured with Meredith Sackett ’15, who presented Cici with her rose during the Rose Ceremony.

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Timothy Salvatore DeCampo ’14 Q U E N TIN R O O S E VEL T P R IZ E

For Character Abigael Ajuma ’17 EVE L YN P R E TL O W R U TL E D G E AW AR D

For Excellence in Science Natnael Yehualaw Kassaw ’14 TH E D AS H P IE R C E AW AR D

For Excellence in Chinese Jackson Paul Neagli ’14 TH E S C H O O L AW AR D

For Excellence in Environmental Studies Suzelle Margaret Swing Thomas ’14 Drew Styles ’14 received the David Tucker Brown, Jr. Prize for Excellence in Social Studies.

Lucy Catlett ’15 was awarded the Elizabeth Andrews Watts Scholarship for Photography.

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T HE SC HOOL AWARD

For Excellence in Music Timothy Salvatore DeCampo ’14 T HE SC HOOL AWARD

For Senior Scholarship Jackson Paul Neagli ’14 A R CHIBALD EUBAN K S U T T O N, J R. ME MO RI A L MEDA L

To the Valedictorian John Brett Dewing ’14 MA R K HAL E TEETER S C HO LA RS HI P FO R FOR EI GN LAN GUAGE

Emily Elizabeth Forehand ’15 ELI ZA BETH AN D REW S WA T T S S C HO LA RS HI P FOR PHOTOGRAPH Y

Lucy Hunton Catlett ’15 A R THU R WAX TER FAMI LY A WA RD

For Excellence in Visual Arts Sarah Frances Luther ’14

The Olsson family celebrated with Maja Olsson ’14 (second from right) during Commencement Weekend. Maja is pictured with (from left) her sister, Lanier ’11; her father, Elis ’82; and her mother, Dudley. Over the weekend, Maja was presented with the Joseph Bryan Medal for Excellence in English.

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For Excellence in German Runchan Zhang ’14 A R CHER AN D ERSON WI LLI A MS A WA RD

“Big Brother/Big Sister Award” Wright Denny Griffith ’14 W ILLIAM HOLL AN D W I LME R ME D A L

For Scholarship Evan Wyatt Lyerly ’17 EDWIN WIL SON AWA RD

For Theater Arts: Acting Annalee Lewis Walton ’14 EDWIN WIL SON AWA RD

Modern and classical languages teacher Rick Dixon presented the Mark Hale Teeter Scholarship for Modern and Classical Languages to Emily Forehand ’15.

For Theater Arts: Stagecraft David Madison Hardaway ’15 EDWIN WIL SON AWA RD

For Theater Arts: Dance Xinyi Mao ’15

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During Commencement Weekend, Gray Williams ’14 was awarded the Rinehart Medal for Athletic Worth and the Robert Wiatt Farrar Commitment to Athletics Award. Gray is pictured with his father, Don Williams ’80 (right), and Rob Wilson ’80.

Elizabeth Collett ’15 was presented with the John Moncure Daniel Scholarship and Benjamin M. Baker Medal for Excellence in United States History. She also received the Johns Prize for Academic Excellence.

Blake Richardson ’14 (left) received the Kelso Family Award, which is presented to the Senior Warden of the Vestry, and the Whittle Prize for Academic Excellence. She is pictured with Laurelle Jacques ’14 and Maja Olsson ’14.

Headmaster Rob Hershey presented to Edward Wickham ’15 the Benjamin I. Johns Prize for Excellence in Biology.

Babbie Andrews ’14 (second from left) was presented with the C.C. Baldwin Medal for Sportsmanship in All Aspects of School Life and the Robert Wiatt Farrar Commitment to Athletics Award. Babbie is pictured with her classmates: (from left) Ileanie Alifonso ’14, Cristeen Anyanwu ’14, and Kristin Aria ’14.

At Valedictory, Headmaster Rob Hershey presented the Charles Fellow Page Award for Excellence in Poetry to Kathryn Matheson ’14 (right). Kathryn is pictured with her sister, Eve ’16, and her father, Charley ’81.

The Ainslie Family Award to the Chair of the Honor Committee was presented to Jack Glover ’14. He is pictured at Valedictory with his parents, Sallie and John Glover ’81.

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Book Prizes Whittle, Johns, and Meade Book Prizes recognize scholastic achievement.

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ore than 100 years ago, Episcopal High School instituted Book Prizes to recognize the outstanding academic performance of individual students. These prizes commemorate three former bishops of Virginia: Bishops Whittle, Johns, and Meade.

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T HE J O HNS P RI ZE

For Academic Excellence Kyle Khalil Al-Shafei ’14 Ziting Bai ’15 Emily Sinclair Bivins ’14 Laura Thompson Bratton ’15 Caroline Lide Haley ’15 Amanda Morrison Holt ’14 John Whittier Kadlick ’14 Hyun Sik Kim ’16 Sukyung Kim ’15 Maura Lee Kitchens ’16 Nathaniel Kenneth Lambert ’16 Savannah Ruth Lambert ’14 Morgan Ann Lineberry ’15 Leiqi Lu ’16 Tate-Louisa Mikkelsen ’16 Kathryn Sandridge Oldham ’15 Rebecca Blake Richardson ’14 Jason Sackey ’16 Annalee Lewis Walton ’14 Ryoan Yamamoto ’15 Gates Hopkins Young ’14 Minjin Angela Zhao ’17

For Eminent Academic Excellence Duncan Lloyd Agnew ’17 Elizabeth Neall Collett ’15 Timothy Salvatore DeCampo ’14 Allegra Christine Peake Geanuracos ’15 Natnael Yehualaw Kassaw ’14 Sarah Boykin Heyward Lathrop ’14 Kathleen Slater Leonard ’15 Zehong Lin ’16 Eve Elizabeth Matheson ’16 Adam Morin ’14 Yubo Wang ’17 Mufan Weng ’15 Robert Glenn Young ’14 Isabelle Stuart Anderson Zabriskie ’16 Xiaoyu Zhang ’17 Liyi Zhang ’17

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Abigael Ajuma ’17 (center) received the Quentin Roosevelt Prize for Character. Abigael is pictured with Layne Berry ’16 (left), who won the Meade Prize for the Highest Level of Academic Excellence, and Jazz Stephens ’14.

T HE ME A D E P RI ZE

For the Highest Level of Academic Excellence Virginia Layne Berry ’16 Grace Tillery Falken ’14 Hyeong Seok Kim ’16 Ye Ji Kim ’15 Evan Wyatt Lyerly ’17 Xinyi Mao ’15 Augusta Mattes Nau ’15 Jackson Paul Neagli ’14 Richard Maximilian Smith ’16 Ashby Stewart Wickham ’16

During Valedictory, Madison Hardaway ’15 received the Edwin Wilson Award for Theater Arts: Stagecraft.

During Commencement, Mary Helen Tarbutton ’15 (left) received the First Forty-Eight Merit Scholarship. She is pictured with classmate Margaret Banes Borden ’15.

At Valedictory, Liz Mao ’15 was presented with the Edwin Wilson Award for Theater Arts: Dance. She also received the Meade Prize for the Highest Level of Academic Excellence.

During the weekend, Savannah Lambert ’14 (second from right) received Alexander Jeannette Johnston Award for Excellence in Performing Arts, the Guy Blan Newcomb Medal for Excellence in a Modern or Classical Language, and the Whittle Prize for Academic Excellence. Nathaniel Lambert ’15 (left) received the Whittle Prize for Academic Excellence. Savannah and Nathaniel are pictured with their sister, Catherine ’12, and their brother, Jason.

Grace Falken ’14 with her parents, Dan and Sidney Falken, at Valedictory. Grace was awarded the Meade Prize for the Highest Level of Academic Excellence.

Harleigh Bean ’14 was awarded the Selby Barnes Papin Medal for Excellence in Spanish and the Robert Wiatt Farrar Commitment to Athletics Award. She celebrated with her mother, Janice Kinard-Bean.

During the weekend, Nathan Kassaw ’14 was awarded the Johns Prize for Eminent Academic Excellence, the Llewellyn G. Hoxton Medal for Excellence in Mathematics, and the Evelyn Pretlow Rutledge Award for Excellence in Science.

Science teacher Kim Olsen presented the Benjamin Irving Johns Scholarship for Biology to Meredith Sackett ’15.

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Jackson Neagli ’14 received the William Garrett Bibb Medal for Excellence in Shakespeare, the School Award for Senior Scholarship, the Dash Pierce Award for Excellence in Chinese, and the Meade Prize for the Highest Level of Academic Excellence. He is pictured with his parents, Rita and Doug Neagli.

During Commencement, Evan Lyerly ’17 was presented with the William Holland Wilmer Medal for Scholarship. He also received the Meade Prize for the Highest Level of Academic Excellence.

During Commencement Weekend, Tim DeCampo ’14 received the Johns Prize for Eminent Academic Excellence, the Robert Wiatt Farrar Commitment to Athletics Award, the Robert Jett Rogers Memorial Bowl, and the School Award for Excellence in Music.

Sarah Luther ’14 celebrated her graduation with (from left) her mother, Becky; her uncle, Christopher Shappert; and her father, David ’70. Sarah was awarded the Arthur Waxter Family Award for Excellence in Visual Arts.

Mandy Holt ’14 (second from left) received the Randolph Fairfax Medal for Character, Conduct, and Scholarship; the James H. Fannon, Jr. Family Award for Athletic Worth; the Robert Wiatt Farrar Commitment to Athletics Award; and the Whittle Prize for Academic Excellence. Mandy is pictured with her parents, Trina and Michael Holt ’83, and her sister, Emma ’12.

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Suzelle Thomas ’14 at Valedictory with her father, Richard Thomas ’78. During the weekend, Suzelle received the W.A.R. Goodwin, Jr. Memorial Bowl to the Head Monitor and the School Award for Excellence in Environmental Studies.

The Archer Anderson Williams Award, known as the Big Brother/ Big Sister Award, was given to Wright Griffith ’14. Wright also received the Robert Wiatt Farrar Commitment to Athletics Award.

At Valedictory, Zoe Ashburn ’16 received the William Riley Deeble III Scholarship for Social Studies. She is pictured with her brother, Zach ’12, and her parents, David and Teresa Ashburn.

English teacher Mason New presented Vicky Reynolds ’15 with the Allen Carleton Phillips and William Evans Hannum Scholarship for English.

Classmates and friends celebrated after Commencement, including seniors Adam Morin, John Eddins, John Kadlick, Patrick Byrnes, and Evan Hughes. Adam received the Johns Prize for Academic Excellence. Jack received the Lawton M. Calhoun, Jr. Medal for Excellence in Physics and the Whittle Prize for Academic Excellence.

Senior Jennifer Zhang was awarded the Robert L. Whittle Medal for Excellence in German. She celebrated her graduation with her parents, Suzy Shi and Larry Zhang.

Charlotte Hunt ’14 (third from right) received the Davis Award for Community Service and the Robert Wiatt Farrar Commitment to Athletics Award. She is pictured with her family: (from left) her mother, Amy; her grandmother, Charlotte Wheeler; her brother, Richard; her father, Richard; and her sister, Caroline.

Seventeen members of the senior class received the Robert Wiatt Farr Commitment to Athletics Award, including, from left: Babbie Andrews, Gray Williams, Greg McGowan, Harleigh Bean, Lauren Tarde, Mandy Holt, Wright Griffith, Tim DeCampo, Charlotte Hunt, and Caroline Bond. Not pictured: Blake Barefoot, Will Hollister, Ellie Hough, Celeste Pritchard, Georgie Wilkins, Kiamani Wilson, and Gates Young.

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Honoring Outstanding Teachers

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ach year members of the Episcopal faculty are awarded masterships, honoring their commitment, dedication, and tireless efforts toward the school community.

Faculty Masterships and Faculty Incentive Awards for 2014-15 JA MES A. CATHCART , J R. MA STERSH IP

To the Head Coach of the Track and Field Teams Damian C. Walsh COCHRAN M ASTERSHI P FOR FIN E ARTS

For Excellence in Teaching Social Studies Michael S. Reynolds

For Fostering the Development of Strong Character and SelfDiscipline Among Students Ashley R. McDowell

DA VID R. D OUGHERT Y MA STERSH IP

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For Excellence in Inspiring Students and Demonstrating the Joy of Teaching Rachael A. Flores

WI LLI A M B. RA V E NE L III MA S T E RS HI P

For Commitment to the Personal Development of Students in the Residential Life of the EHS Community James J. Fitzpatrick R I A HU MMEL MA STERSH IP

For Excellence in Teaching Science or Technology Scott R. Pohjola

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For an Outstanding Teacher Mary E. Hobart

For Excellence in Teaching English John W. Morgan GRI G S BY C .

S HA C K E LFO RD MA S T E RS HI P

For Excellence in Teaching Mathematics or Science Patrick W. Thompson C HA RLE S V . T O MP K I N S MA S T E RS HI P

For Excellence in Teaching, Character, Leadership, and School Service Gideon L. K. Pollach C . A . WO O D RU M S E R VIC E FU ND MA S T E RS HI P

For Excellence in Teaching Social Studies or Government Peter P. Goodnow 14

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Chinese teacher Julie Wang-Gempp

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JOHN MON CURE D ANI E L MA STERSH IP

JOHN AN D ISABEL LA GR EENWAY MASTERS HI P

Head Chaplain and theology teacher the Rev. Gideon Pollach

For an Outstanding Teacher Thomas V. Berry, Jr.

For Excellence in Teaching David W. Collins

For Excellence in Teaching Eleanor C. Moore

Science teacher Kim Olsen

J A ME S G. K E NA N LE A RNI NG FU ND MA S T E RS HI P

For Excellence in Teaching Fine Arts Mark T. Carter

NOR MAN FARQUHAR A ND GOR DON N . FARQUH A R MA STERSH IP

Social studies teacher Brendan Baran

F AC U L TY IN C EN TIVE AW AR D S

B AR L O W H EN D ER S O N AW AR D

In Recognition of Exemplary Teaching and Faculty Service James H. Chesson ’79 Viviana R. Davila David A. Douglas Nathaniel A. Ebel

For Excellence in Teaching Jeffrey A. Streed

F AC U L TY IN C EN TIVE AW AR D S

For Young Professionals Brendan J. Baran Madeline E. Gobrecht Meg L. O’Connor Brandon J. Straub Helen S. Woolworth

EL EAN O R B . M C G AY AW AR D

For Excellence in Teaching a Foreign Language Xiaofen Wang-Gempp JIM S EID U L E F AC U LT Y IN C E N TIVE AW AR D

For Excellence in Teaching Richard M. Stubbs S YD W AL D EN F AC U L T Y IN C E N TIVE AW AR D

For Special Contribution to Episcopal High School Kristin M. Hosmer

For Excellence in Teaching and Coaching, and Extraordinary Commitment to the Students and Mission of Episcopal High School Joseph A. Halm

W IL L IAM G AS TO N C AP ER TO N , JR . F AC U L TY IN C E N TIVE AW AR D

JOHN MINOT WALKER, JR. FACULTY INCENTIVE AWARD

F AC U L TY IN C EN TIVE AW AR D

For Excellence in Teaching Richard S. Dixon, Jr. D O R M AN F AM IL Y AW AR D

For Excellence in Teaching Kimberly G. Olsen

For Demonstrating Daily, Through Personal Actions and Work with Students, the Highest Ideals of the EHS Honor Code Robert J. Rogers, Jr. ’79

Final High List 2013-14 Students on The High List earned a weighted average of 90 or above in their classes, with the first student on the list earning the highest average.

Ye Ji Kim ’15 Xinyi Mao ’15 Richard Maximilian Smith ’16 Hyeong Seok Kim ’16 Augusta Mattes Nau ’15 Jackson Paul Neagli ’14 Virginia Layne Berry ’16 Ashby Stewart Wickham ’16 Grace Tillery Falken ’14 Evan Wyatt Lyerly ’17 Timothy Salvatore DeCampo ’14 Robert Glenn Young ’14 Allegra Christine Peake Geanuracos ’15 Mufan Weng ’15 Elizabeth Neall Collett ’15 Xiaoyu Zhang ’17 Zehong Lin ’16 Adam Morin ’14 Natnael Yehualaw Kassaw ’14 Yubo Wang ’17 Isabelle Stuart Anderson Zabriskie ’16 Duncan Lloyd Agnew ’17 Sarah Boykin Heyward Lathrop ’15 Kathleen Slater Leonard ’15 Eve Elizabeth Matheson ’16 Liyi Zhang ’17 Maura Lee Kitchens ’16 Nathaniel Kenneth Lambert ’16 Laura Thompson Bratton ’15 Ryoan Yamamoto ’15 Savannah Ruth Lambert ’14 Kathryn Sandridge Oldham ’15 Amanda Morrison Holt ’14 Annalee Lewis Walton ’14 Minjin Angela Zhao ’17 Emily Sinclair Bivins ’14 Rebecca Blake Richardson ’14 Morgan Ann Lineberry ’15 John Whittier Kadlick ’14 Hyun Sik Kim ’16 Leiqi Lu ’16 Jason Sackey ’16 Gates Hopkins Young ’14 Kyle Khalil Al-Shafei ’14 Ziting Bai ’15 Caroline Lide Haley ’15 Sukyung Kim ’15 Tate-Louisa Mikkelsen ’16 Elizabeth Porter Geer ’16 Chae Yeon Oh ’16 Suzelle Margaret Swing Thomas ’14 David Yoonchang Jang ’16 Annabelle Noell Woodward ’16 Sarah Gray Castle ’17 Iruka Marie Ezi-Ashi ’15 Isabelle Catherine Jones ’14 Hyun Jee Lim ’17 John Brett Dewing ’14 Dayzia AnJulian Terry ’15 Alana Nicole Callus ’15

Natasha Ferguson ’16 Caroline Duncan Henderson ’14 Bea Edwards Huffines ’16 Gabriela Priscilla Navarro-Bowman ’17 Juhyeong Park ’17 Elizabeth Flower Redd ’14 Edward Porcher Wickham ’15 Haywood Day Cochrane III ’16 Caroline Callaway Hague ’15 Cynthia Callaghan Nelson ’14 Rachel Ruxmani Vadhan ’14 Runchan Zhang ’14 Ivy Shaelyn Houde ’15 Evan Anthony Hughes ’14 Sarah Frances Luther ’14 Laurelle Constance Jacques ’14 Isaac Lee Yu-Qi Kilis ’14 Yingqing Zhao ’16 Andrew Louis DeJoy ’14 Ania Gabriella DeJoy ’14 Isabelle Sage Farrell ’15 Honor May Kalkin ’17 Maja Percy Olsson ’14 Noah Morris Collins ’17 Georgie Somerville Wilkins ’14 Sihan Zhu ’17 Caroline Evans Bond ’14 India Gray Nix ’15 Natalie Campbell Wall ’15 Cristeen Chidera Anyanwu ’14 Catherine Isabel Bulger ’15 Bohye Kim ’16 Yu Chun Kuo ’17 Mary Helen McNatt Tarbutton ’15 Kathryn Nieman Lewis ’16 John Hughes Page ’16 Shane Thomas Calderwood ’16 Sung Mo Koo ’17 Mary Fleming England Redd ’15 Louis Oliver Rogers ’15 Monica Hyesoo Jeon ’14 Andrew Robert Styles ’14 Parker Edward Allen ’14 Daniel-Lester Simpson Edwards ’16 Patrick James William Simpson ’15 John Donald Streed ’17 Sarah Lamont Thomas ’16 Alison Mary Amos ’15 Joalissa Fiorella Diaz ’16 Prabhlean Kaur ’16 Leigh Bosserdet Channell ’15 Maya Camille Glenn ’16 Kathryn McDonald Matheson ’14 Aristea Daphne Rankin-Williams ’16 Brooke Alexandra Webb ’16 Adelle Prior Bortz ’14 Reynolds McAllister Griffith ’15 Olivia Reid Johnson ’16 Kasenda Jared Amadeus Young ’17 Lauryn King ’17 Emily Nicole Salvant ’15

Kelsey Maureen Anderson ’16 Priscilla Blair Barton-Metcalfe ’16 Harleigh Janelle Jordan Bean ’14 Miles Truscott Bivins ’16 William Rauch Brandt ’15 Bailey McGrath Coleman ’15 Sophie Lee Holt ’15 Celeste Venable Pritchard ’14 Teng-Ju Yang ’16 Robert Crawford Boyd ’15 Brooke Walker McClary ’14 John Henry Oliphant ’15 Jungho Choi ’14 Camden Elaine Alford ’17 Samuel Shepherd Armm ’14 Brendan Michael Grajewski ’14 Charlotte Cornell Hunt ’14 Gregory Eugene McGowan, Jr. ’14 Chino Cyril Agulanna ’14 William James Sayre, Jr. ’16 Robert Woodruff Archie ’14 William James Hollister ’14 Madeline McHale Morris ’16 Camille Brooks Russell ’14 Yizhen Wang ’16 Lydia Murphy Wilbanks ’15 Margaret McNeale Butler ’15 Hayne Ragsdale Ainslie ’17 Lane Wheeler Ballentine ’16 Lucy Hunton Catlett ’15 Whitby Stack Goode ’17 Seung Kyun Han ’15 Meredith Ellen Sackett ’15 Ciara Rose Sobin ’14 Lydia Simone Webster ’16 Alexander Nicolay Block ’17 Ji Young Chang ’16 Alexander Colgate Green ’14 James Holden Shearin ’14 William David Edgerly ’14 Cooper Gage ’15 Maxwell Andrew Oliphant ’17 Isabella Messina Sayre ’17 Sean Stuart McCarthy ’16 Hailey Elizabeth Nulsen ’14 John Glenn Shouse ’14 Blake McDonald Barefoot ’14 Laura Hunt Farish ’14 Natalie Elizabeth Morgan ’17 Mackenzie Auchincloss Cunningham ’15 Haley Elizabeth Robinette ’14 Emily Elizabeth Forehand ’15 Peyton Hilliard Schwartz ’15 John Robinson Wickham ’16 Mary Ann Cooper Broughton ’15 Byron Chan Jones ’14 Gregory Matthew Morgan ’15 Taylor Kristen Felt ’16 Thomas Stuart Greenspon II ’17 Marilyn Somtochi Onukwugha ’15 Michael S. Otoo ’15 Matthew Raphael Renaud ’15 Elizabeth Ann Tucker Smith ’15 Camille Witmer Smith ’14 Joseph James Lawton IV ’15

Anabel Grace Winants ’14 Danylo Adrian Kostecki ’15 Thomas Werth Thagard ’14 Elizabeth Graham Ashford ’15 Tweed Pendleton Bogache ’15 Grant Douglas Neagli ’17 Arthur Boyer Schoen III ’14 Craig Allen Myatt, Jr. ’15 Margaret Banes Borden ’15 Dylan Michael ’16 Andrew Marot Sherrill ’16 Katherine Starr Bauer ’16 Natalia Mora ’17 Abigail Charlotte Sackett ’17 Khaile Forbes ’14 Gabriella Marie Cruz ’17 Virginia Katherine Helm ’17 Hannah Grace Martin ’17 Nathan Barnden Craine ’15 Annabelle Howell Gibson ’15 Ryan Thatcher McKernan ’16 William St. Clair Talley, Jr. ’15 Salina W. Tsegai ’17 Brandon Michael Williams ’17 Nina Isabella Davila ’15 Genevieve duPont Dick ’14 Madison Hanna Hughes ’15 Catherine Byron Castleman Maybank ’16 Emily Elizabeth Hennessy ’14 Page Manon Light ’17 Ann Witt McIntosh ’14 Ian Yandell Henderson III ’15 Calvin Alexander Lawson ’15 Kiamani Jonacé Wilson ’14 Jackson Henrich Kemper IV ’17 Chidera Chinedu White ’14 Lewis James Gaskin II ’14 Elizabeth Aline Martinelli ’14 Mariela Rosalie Mendoza ’15 Quintin Hutchinson Tyree ’17 Grace Elizabeth Aprajita Burke ’17 Graydon Patrick Campbell ’15 Sarah Randolph Doss ’16 Sen Michael Kenneally ’17 Isabel Julia Shiff ’16 Wright Denny Griffith ’14 Martin Vaughn Sharp, Jr. ’14 Jazz Quinn Stephens ’14 Marie Evelyn Vencil ’15 Millicent Ann Waller ’15 Sitthipong Chomsang ’14 Jordan Ellis Daniel ’15 Karli Mae Francis ’15 Madeleine Emily Nicola Gale ’16 Sara Wilder Bryant ’16 Cara Diana Driscoll ’15 Carter Page Dudley ’14 Anna McTeague Gillespie ’17 Kristin Noelle Aria ’14 Ann Gordon Finney ’15 Gregorio Zanoni Sapia ’15 Jack Ronald Bates III ’15 David Madison Hardaway ’15 Thomas David Keaton ’14 Madeline Cicirello Korkowski ’17

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Academics In Review Cum Laude Society Induction

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n April, Episcopal High School’s chapter of the Cum Laude Society added 24 members to its ranks. These juniors and seniors were selected by the society’s current members and the chairs of Episcopal’s academic departments based upon their academic achievements and strength of character. The induction was followed by remarks from this year’s keynote speaker, Dr. Carol Quillen, president of Davidson College in Davidson, N.C. Founded in 1906 and modeled after Phi Beta Kappa, the Cum Laude Society honors the scholastic achievement of students in secondary schools.

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College Scholarship Recipients

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ifteen members of the Class of 2014 received college merit scholarships, including:

Duff Archie Presidential Achievement and Legacy Awards and University Scholarship St. Lawrence University Tim DeCampo Presidential Scholarship for Distinguished Achievement Wake Forest University Brett Dewing Thomas Pinckney Bryan Scholarship University of Virginia Page Dudley Wofford Merit Scholarship Wofford College Connor Gribbon St. Vincent de Paul Scholarship DePaul University Evan Hughes Blanchard Scholarship University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Emily Hunt Otey Award Sewanee: The University of the South

Natnael Kassaw Gates Millennium Scholarship Jack Kent Cooke College Scholarship Stanford University Celeste Pritchard Blanchard Scholarship University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill John Shouse Centre Award Centre College Jazz Stephens Letitia Pate Evans Scholarship Agnes Scott College Drew Styles John Frederick Oberlin Scholarship Oberlin College Michael Weaver Arizona Scholarship for Excellence in Academics University of Arizona Robbie Whitman Denison Alumni Award Scholarship Denison University Kiamani Wilson Magill-Rhoads Scholarship Haverford College

Congratulations to the 2014 Cum Laude Society inductees: (front row, from left) Rob Young ’14, Tim DeCampo ’14, Ye Ji Kim ’15, Monica Jeon ’14, Charlotte Hunt ’14, and Leo Weng ’15; (second row) Gates Young ’14, Rachel Vadhan ’14, Annalee Walton ’14, Rukky Ezi-Ashi ’15, and Laura Bratton ’15; (third row) Maja Olsson ’14, Heyward Lathrop ’15, Morgan Lineberry ’15, Celeste Pritchard ’14, Caroline Haley ’15, Jennifer Zhang ’14; (fourth row) Blake Richardson ’14, Nathan Kassaw ’14, Liz Mao ’15, Kathleen Leonard ’15, and Augusta Nau ’15; (fifth row) Ryoan Yamamoto ’15 and Edward Wickham ’15.

Latin and Greek Students Win State and National Awards

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his was a successful year for Episcopal’s Latin and Greek students, who excelled in state and national competitions this spring. A record 33 students earned various awards in Latin and Greek exams this year.

The National Latin Exam, which tests students at seven different levels in the language, was administered this year in all 50 states and 17 countries to over 154,000 students.

GOLD M ED AL A W A RD WIN N ERS

MA GNA C U M LA U DE A WA RD WI NNE RS

William Sayre ’16 Duncan Agnew ’17 Jack Streed ’17 Brian Kim ’16

Catie Bulger ’15 Ian Henderson ’15 Bea Huffines ’16 Nathaniel Lambert ’16 Savannah Lambert ’14 Hanna Martin ’17 Dylan Michael ’16 Patrick Simpson ’15 Marie Vencil ’15 Annabelle Woodward ’16 Isabelle Zabriskie ’16 Leo Zhang ’17

SILVER MED AL A W A RD WIN N ERS

Sarah Gray Castle ’17 Reynolds Griffith ’15 Ye Ji Kim ’15 Natalie Morgan ’17 Tate Mikkelson ’16 Grant Neagli ’17 Michael Otoo ’15 JP Park ’15 Thomas Thagard ’14

C U M LA U D E A WA RD WI NNE RS

Eli Collins ’15 Allegra Geanuracos ’15 David Jang ’16 William Talley ’15

In the annual Latin Exam produced by the Classical Association of Virginia, Episcopal had 10 out of the top 30 scores.

Savannah Lambert ’14: First place Brian Kim ’16: Ninth place Allegra Geanuracos ’15: 10th place Yeji Kim ’15: 13th place Isabelle Zabriskie ’16: 16th place Marie Vencil ’15: 18th place Catie Bulger ’15: 20th place Ian Henderson ’15: 25th place David Jang ’16: 26th place Nathaniel Lambert ’16: 27th place For the National Greek Exam, in which students from 155 high schools and colleges all over the country compete, EHS also had great success. Allegra Geanuracos ’15 won the highest honors for her work on the Attic Prose exam, a test attempted by very few high school students anywhere in the country.

Geanuracos was the first student during modern and classical language teacher Jeff Streed’s 31 years at Episcopal to receive this honor. Thomas Thagard ’14 won highest honors and Savannah Lambert ’14 and Patrick Byrnes ’14 both earned merit awards.

This year’s Latin and Greek award winners were: (front row, from left) Annabelle Woodward ’16, Tate Mikkelsen ’16, Marie Vencil ’15, Ye Ji Kim ’15, Allegra Geanuracos ’15, Savannah Lambert ’14, Brian Kim ’16, and Sarah Gray Castle ’17; (second row) Isabelle Zabriskie ’16, Nathaniel Lambert ’16, Bea Huffines ’16, Leo Zhang ’17, Jack Streed ’17, David Jang ’16, Patrick Simpson ’15, and Latin and Greek teacher Jeff Streed; (third row) Mike Otoo ’15, Grant Neagli ’17, and Duncan Agnew ’17.

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Athletics in Review

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he Class of 2014 cheered as hard as they competed, sustaining a long tradition of success and sportsmanship in EHS athletics. They had the benefit of spending all four years in the new Athletics Center, the renovated Goodman Squash Center, and Flippin Fieldhouse. Seventeen members of this year’s senior class participated in athletics during every season of their time at EHS. These student-athletes were recognized for commitment to athletics with the prestigious Robert Wiatt Farrar Award presented at Commencement.

This class witnessed and took part in three state championships and seven league titles over the past four years, including the Alexandria Prep Golf Championship four years in a row. The Class of 2014 earned a remarkable 55 All-State or All-League honors over the past four years, and 13 members of the senior class will go on to compete at the NCAA level.

Sports at Episcopal enjoyed some successes and positive indications for the future. The girls’ basketball and softball programs were league champions, with a 19-6 overall record for basketball and an impressive 11-3 overall record for softball, including a thrilling 1-0 victory over No. 1-seeded Maret on our home field to secure a banner season. The boys’ and girls’ varsity squash programs ended the season with winning records, and both had their best results at the U.S. Squash Nationals. The boys’ track and field team came home from the Indoor Track and Field Championships with six All-State performances, including two state champions, Greg Morgan (1600m) and Brian Chase (55m), who also broke the state record in the 55-meter event.

Episcopal student-athletes accumulated 9 All-League honors this spring, as well as 15 All-State honors. Five EHS student-athletes were recognized by the Alexandria Sportsman’s Club as “Athletes of the Year” in their respective sports at their annual year-end banquet: seniors Greg Malinowski (basketball), Charlotte Hunt (tennis), Andrew DeJoy (tennis), Ivy Houde (softball), and Robbie Whitman (golf).

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The softball team after winning the league championship. Pitcher Ivy Houde ’15 (front) received the Athlete of the Year award from the Alexandria Sportsman’s Club for softball.

Greg Malinowski ’14 was recognized by the Alexandria Sportsman’s Club as an Athlete of the Year for basketball. Malinowski will play basketball at The College of William and Mary.

The golf team won the Alexandria Prep School Golf Tournament for the fourth year in a row.

2013-14 Athletic Honors A LL-STATE H ON ORS

Graydon Campbell ’15 Football Andrew Dejoy ’14 Tennis Grace Falken ’14 Cross Country Evan Fisher ’14 Soccer Rennie Harrison ’14 Basketball Ivy Houde ’15 Softball Charlotte Hunt ’14 Tennis Gregory Malinowski ’14 Basketball Greg Morgan ’14 Cross Country Blaise Schuster ’14 Tennis Suzelle Thomas ’14 Lacrosse Indoor Track and Field: (Girls’ 55m) Cristeen Anyanwu ’14 (Girls’ 4 x 200) Cristeen Anyanwu ’14 Zariah Griffith ’14 Kali Lespere ’15 Jazz Stephens ’14 (Girls’ 4 x 400) Cristeen Anyanwu ’14 Zariah Griffith ’14 Jazz Stephens ’14 Carson Goodwyn ’16 (Girls’ 300m) Zariah Griffith ’14 (Girls’ Triple Jump) Kali Lespere ’15 (Boys’ 55m) Brian Chase ’15 (Boys’ 300m) Brian Chase ’15

(Boys’ 4 x 200) Brian Chase ’15 Blake Barefoot ’14 CJ Myatt ’15 Mike Otoo ’15 Outdoor Track and Field: (Girls’ 100m) Cristeen Anyanwu ’14 (Girls’ 200m) Cristeen Anyanwu ’14 (Girls’ 4 x 100) Cristeen Anyanwu ’14 Heyward Lathrop ’14 Zariah Griffith ’14 Kali Lespere ’15 (Girls’ 4 x 800) Brooks Buyck ’17 Blake Richardson ’14 Maja Olsson ’14 Kate Oldham ’15 A LL- I S L HO NO RS

Grace Falken ’14 Cross Country Rennie Harrison ’14 Basketball Charlotte Hunt ’14 Tennis Mandy Holt ’14 Soccer Ivy Houde ’15 Soccer, Basketball, Softball Callie Nelson ’14 Volleyball Aubree Phillips ’15 Softball Mary Helen Tarbutton ’15 Softball Suzelle Thomas ’14 Lacrosse Georgie Wilkins ’14 Field Hockey

AL L -IAC H O N O R S

Graydon Campbell ’15 Football Brian Chase ’15 Football Andrew Dejoy ’14 Tennis Ebube Ezeagwula-Ebube ’15 Basketball Evan Fisher ’14 Soccer Calvin Lawson ’15 Wrestling Gregory Malinowski ’14 Basketball Greg Morgan ’15 Cross Country Timmy Phillips ‘15 Football, Lacrosse Blaise Schuster ’15 Tennis Ashley Sibisi ’16 Soccer Rod Sims ’16 Track and Field Thomas Thagard ’14 Football, Wrestling Gray Williams ‘14 Football, Lacrosse Ryoan Yamamoto ’15 Wrestling AL L -M ET H O N O R S

Cristeen Anyanwu ’14 Indoor Track and Field Brian Chase ’15 Indoor Track and Field Evan Fisher ’14 Soccer Rennie Harrison ’14 Basketball Will Hollister ’14 Football Ivy Houde ’15 Softball Gregory Malinowski ’14 Basketball Tim Phillips ’15 Lacrosse

O TH E R ATH L E TIC HONORS

Alexandria Sportsman’s Club Athlete of the Month (September): Nigel Beckford ’14 Alexandria Sportsman’s Club Athlete of the Month (January): Ivy Houde ’15 Alexandria Sportsman’s Club Athlete of the Month (February): Rennie Harrison ’14 Alexandria Sportsman’s Club Athlete of the Year: Andrew Dejoy ’14 Tennis Ivy Houde ’15 Softball Charlotte Hunt ’14 Tennis Gregory Malinowski ’14 Basketball Robbie Whitman ’14 Golf All-City Cross Country: Adelle Bortz ’14 Grace Falken ’14 Greg Morgan ’14 Blake Richardson ’14 Brandon Williams ’17 2013 Gladiator by SGI/ NFHCA High School National Academic Squad (Field Hockey): Haley Robinette ’14 Georgie Wilkins ’14 Anabel Winants ’14

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Athletic Awards MI LLE R AWARD

For Baseball Teddy Wilhelm ’15 W ILLIAM CASKIE WAT T S AWARD

For Boys’ Basketball Greg Malinowski ’14 MOST V ALUABL E PL A Y E R AWARD

For Girls’ Basketball Rennie Harrison ’14 MOST V ALUABL E ROWE R AWARD

For Crew Annalee Walton ’14 PA R KER REED CARR AWARD

For Boys’ Cross Country Greg Morgan ’15 MOST V ALUABL E RUN NE R

For Girls’ Cross Country Grace Falken ’14 R UTH K. RAIN EY AWARD

For Field Hockey Georgie Wilkins ’14 MONCURE AWARD

A LE X A ND RI A S P O T S WO O D A WA RD

JO H N J. AN D M AR Y TU R N ER TIL M AN C O R S O N AW AR D

For Football Thomas Thagard ’14

For Girls’ Soccer Mandy Holt ’14

WI NNI E T T P E T E RS A W AR D

R E ID N IC KL E AW AR D

For Boys’ Indoor Track and Field Brian Chase ’15 M O S T VAL U AB L E P L A YER AW AR D

To the Best Defensive Player in the Woodberry Football Game Campbell Jackson ’15

M O S T VAL U AB L E P L AYE R AW AR D

For Softball Ivy Houde ’15

For Girls’ Indoor Track and Field Dayzia Terry ’15

J O HN S T U BI NG A WAR D

W IL L IAM D EAL W AX TER , JR . AW AR D

C AR O L IN E EL IZ AB ET H AN D E R S O N AW AR D

Coaches’ Award for Football Gray Williams ’14 WI LLI A M W. BO O T H E A WA RD

For Golf Robbie Whitman ’14 J O S E P H B. S HE LO R ’ 52 A WA RD

For Boys’ Lacrosse Gray Williams ’14 T Y LE R A WA RD

For Girls’ Lacrosse Suzelle Thomas ’14 P E Y T O N S . HA WE S I II A WA RD

For Boys’ Soccer Evan Fisher ’14

For Football Brian Chase ’15

For Boys’ Squash Parker Allen ’14

For Girls’ Track and Field Cristeen Anyanwu ’14

TH EO D O R E S . F AU N C E AW AR D

JAM E S A. C ATH C AR T I I I S C H O L AR S H IP / TO MPKI NS CUP

For Girls’ Squash Sarah Doss ’17 G EO R G E ED M U N D B R AD F IEL D AW AR D

For Boys’ Tennis Blaise Schuster ’15 M O S T VAL U AB L E P L AYE R AW AR D

For Girls’ Tennis Bea Huffines ’16 B EAU D R IC L . H O W E L L AW AR D

For Boys’ Track and Field Mike Otoo ’15

In Memory of C.V. Tompkins For Track and Field CJ Myatt ’15 TR AIN / D O S W E L L M E M O R IAL C U P

For Track and Field Zariah Griffith ’14 M O S T VAL U AB L E P L A YER AW AR D

For Volleyball Camille Smith ’14 C H AR L E S M O R TO N S TEW AR T III AW AR D

For Wrestling Thomas Thagard ’14

College Athletes Many Class of 2014 student-athletes plan to continue their athletic careers at the college level, including: Blake Barefoot Georgetown University (football) Suzelle Thomas Naval Academy (lacrosse) Robbie Whitman Denison University (squash and golf) Nigel Beckford University of Maine (football) Chris Shea Bucknell University (squash) Cristeen Anyanwu Georgetown University (track and field) Rennie Harrison University of Richmond (basketball)

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Gregory Malinowski The College of William and Mary (basketball) Georgie Wilkins Rhodes College (field hockey) Evan Fisher James Madison University (soccer) Harleigh Bean Washington & Lee University (lacrosse) John Shouse Centre College (lacrosse) Grace Falken Davidson College (cross country)

Members of the Class of 2014 who will continue their athletic careers in college include: (front row) Harleigh Bean, Grace Falken, John Shouse, Suzelle Thomas, Georgie Wilkins, and Robbie Whitman; (back row) Nigel Beckford, Rennie Harrison, Gregory Malinowski, Blake Barefoot, and Evan Fisher. Not pictured: Chris Shea.

Robbie Whitman ’14 will play both squash and golf at Denison University. He also received the Alexandria Sportsman’s Club Athlete of the Year award for golf.

The varsity girls’ squash team ended their season with a winning record.

Charlotte Hunt ’14 was recognized by the Alexandria Sportsman’s Club as an Athlete of the Year for tennis.

Caroline Haley ’15 drives to the basket in a game against Flint Hill.

The girls’ basketball team won the league championship.

Alexander Green ’14 serves during a squash match against Woodberry Forest. The boys’ squash team ended the season with a winning record.

The Alexandria Sportsman Club recognized Andrew DeJoy ’14 as an Athlete of the Year for tennis.

Brian Chase ’15 (left) broke the state record for the 55-meter dash in indoor track and became this year’s state champion in that event.

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College Choices of the Class of 2014 Chino Cyril Agulanna Cornell University Lee Sanford Ainslie IV University of Virginia Kyle Khalil Al-Shafei Georgia Institute of Technology Ileanie Gisell Alifonso Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey at New Brunswick Parker Edward Allen Southern Methodist University Bowen Ellison Amos Clemson University Barbara Ransome Andrews University of Virginia Cristeen Chidera Anyanwu Georgetown University Robert Woodruff Archie St. Lawrence University Kristin Noelle Aria Tulane University Samuel Shepherd Armm Case Western Reserve University Blake McDonald Barefoot Georgetown University James Calvin Barkley Wofford College Peter Keyser Bartlett Sewanee: The University of the South Harleigh Janelle Jordan Bean Washington and Lee University Nigel Oshane Beckford University of Maine Nicolas George Benitz Trinity College Emily Sinclair Bivins Vanderbilt University Caroline Evans Bond University of Virginia

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Adelle Prior Bortz University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Alex Joseph Brennan University of Alabama Patrick Charles Michael Byrnes Trinity College Dublin Jungho Choi University of Virginia Sitthipong Chomsang University of Rochester Steven Aubrey Craig Clemson University Timothy Salvatore DeCampo Wake Forest University Nicholas Jacob Thedore Hofmann Deitz Dickinson College Andrew Louis DeJoy Duke University Ania Gabriella DeJoy Duke University John Brett Dewing University of Virginia Genevieve duPont Dick Trinity College Hamilton Charles Drucker Trinity College Carter Page Dudley Wofford College John William Eddins Colgate University William David Edgerly Saint Joseph’s University Grace Tillery Falken Davidson College Laura Hunt Farish University of Virginia Christopher Evan Fisher James Madison University

Khaile Forbes College of William and Mary Lewis James Gaskin II Wake Forest University John Conger Glover, Jr. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Brendan Michael Grajewski University of Virginia Alexander Colgate Green Boston College Michael Connor Gribbon DePaul University Wright Denny Griffith Washington College Zariah Thana Griffith Barnard College

Emily Morgan Hunt Sewanee: The University of the South Penelope Addison Ingle Southern Methodist University Laurelle Constance Jacques College of William and Mary Monica Hyesoo Jeon University of California at Los Angeles Byron Chan Jones University of Maryland, College Park Isabelle Catherine Jones Tulane University John Whittier Kadlick Hamilton College

Ross Allan Hardin Clemson University

Suhyun Kang Les Roches International School of Hotel Management

Renata Wilckes Harrison University of Richmond

Natnael Yehualaw Kassaw Stanford University

Caroline Duncan Henderson University of Virginia

Thomas David Keaton University of Colorado at Boulder

William James Hennessey II Texas Christian University Emily Elizabeth Hennessy Sewanee: The University of the South William James Hollister Clemson University Amanda Morrison Holt Davidson College Ella Beatrice Hough Elon University Evan Anthony Hughes University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Charlotte Cornell Hunt University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Isaac Lee Yu-Qi Kilis University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Savannah Ruth Lambert University of Pennsylvania James Stanley Lilley Colorado College Sarah Frances Luther Elon University Amanda Judith Lynne Gap Year University of Colorado at Boulder Gregory Robert Malinowski College of William and Mary Felicia Louise Mannix Texas Christian University

Elizabeth Aline Martinelli Southern Methodist University Kathryn McDonald Matheson College of Charleston Brooke Walker McClary Elon University Gregory Eugene McGowan, Jr. Trinity College Ann Witt McIntosh College of William and Mary Jisoo Mok California Institute of Technology Benjamin Allston Moore IV University of South Carolina Adam M. Morin Davidson College Jackson Paul Neagli Rice University Cynthia Callaghan Nelson Southern Methodist University Hailey Elizabeth Nulsen Gap Year Clemson University Maja Percy Olsson Colorado College

Celeste Venable Pritchard University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Elizabeth Flower Redd University of Virginia Rebecca Blake Richardson University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Haley Elizabeth Robinette United States Military Academy

William Charles Slade Santa Clara University

Michael Patrick Weaver University of Arizona

Camille Witmer Smith University of Alabama

Chidera Chinedu White Hamilton College

Theodore Briell Smith IV Southern Methodist University

Robert Stedman Whitman Denison University

Ciara Rose Sobin Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Georgie Somerville Wilkins Rhodes College

Jazz Quinn Stephens Agnes Scott College

Donaldson Gray Williams, Jr. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Andrew Robert Styles Oberlin College

Kiamani JonacĂŠ Wilson Haverford College

Arthur Boyer Schoen III Trinity College

Lauren Adare Tarde Wake Forest University

Martin Vaughn Sharp, Jr. Elon University

Thomas Werth Thagard IV Washington and Lee University

Anabel Grace Winants University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Christopher Kjaer Shea Bucknell University

Suzelle Margaret Swing Thomas United States Naval Academy

Camille Brooks Russell University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

James Holden Shearin University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Rachel Ruxmani Vadhan University of Virginia

Gates Hopkins Young University of Virginia Robert Glenn Young The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Runchan Zhang Wellesley College

John Glenn Shouse Centre College

John Wickliffe Waller IV University of Virginia

Walter Gladstone Simpson Clemson University

Annalee Lewis Walton Southern Methodist University

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To Finish on Top, Start at the Bottom A senior collects lessons learned through Senior Seminar internships.

BY C IC I S O B IN ’ 14

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ometimes you’ve got to learn things the hard way. But that doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy yourself along the way. Each spring, the senior class spends the month of May participating in internships as part of Senior Seminar, a program that gives Episcopal students a first glimpse of life beyond the gates.

Many graduating seniors’ excitement for life after high school is tempered by nerves. As much as Episcopal prepares us for college and beyond, we have also come to understand that the “real world” offers no guarantees. We all want to hit the ground running to secure a stable job four years from now.

Through Senior Seminar, Episcopal gives its seniors a final boost of support in their last month on the Hill. I spent my Senior Seminar in the EHS Communications Office writing news stories, taking photographs, editing Commencement programs – and blogging about my classmates’ first foray into the working world.

Beginning in the winter of senior year, seniors apply for jobs, line up transportation, and maintain their GPAs to keep them eligible for internships. In the months leading up to their first day of work, many of my classmates felt overwhelmed by the freedom and responsibility the School gave us to coordinate our Senior Seminars entirely on our own.

As AP exams and athletic commitments began to wrap up in the spring, Senior Seminar was in full swing. Suddenly, seniors could leave campus and head into D.C. without first alerting a faculty member. We were responsible for getting ourselves to work on time, without administrators knocking on our doors if we slept in, and we were held accountable by our new bosses, representing both Episcopal High School and our class.

In addition to easing us into our new freedoms and responsibilities, Senior Seminar provided an opportunity to learn outside the classroom. Visiting and interviewing my classmates at their workplaces was particularly rich and

educational due to their diverse perspectives and experiences.

For example: • Maja Olsson ’14 learned about time management and self-accountability while writing her nine-chapter novella on campus.

• Will Hollister ’14 has a new appreciation for teamwork in all aspects of life at Monumental Sports.

• Sam Armm ’14 came to understand the value of supporting children whose households do not speak English as a first language at the Child and Family Network Center.

• Senator John McCain III ’54 taught Laurelle Jacques ’14 that you will be successful in what you feel passionate about.

Since the recession of 2008, college graduates have faced an especially competitive job market. Senior Seminar gives Episcopal students a jump start on building their resumes.

Episcopal graduates finish with a diploma – plus work experience and references to list on future job applications.

Senior Seminar was a practice run for our professional lives. Sometimes we learned through trial and error, and sometimes we learned from plain old hard work. Most days, my classmates learned simple lessons like, “Now I understand why my parents are so tired after work.” Over time, we came to meaningful realizations about patience, teamwork, and accountability. Although each member of my class specialized in a different field, we took away important universal lessons that will carry us through college and beyond.

To read Cici Sobin’s blog, “Wisdom from the Workplace,” scan this QR code.

Here are just a few of the places where the Class of 2014 interned during Senior Seminar: Alexandria Times Air & Space Museum Children’s National Hospital (Georgetown University) Colliers International C-SPAN Discovery Channel Ernst & Young

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Fund for American Studies Georgetown Lombardi Cancer Center (Georgetown University) Monumental Sports and Entertainment NASA Greenbelt National Land Trust Alliance Office of Congresswoman Terri Sewell (AL)

Office of Senator John McCain (AZ) Office of Senator Richard Burr (NC) Ogilvy Government Relations Pardon the Interruption RBC Wealth Management The Scout Guide Transportation Security Administration

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Photos by CiCi Sobin ’14

1 • Sam Armm ’14 working at the Child and Family Network Center.

2 • Will Hollister ’14 on the job at the Verizon Center through his internship with Monumental Sports.

3 • Haley Robinette ’14 interning at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum.

4 • Sarah Luther ’14 creating an impressionist painting for her independent Senior Seminar project.

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Admissions Report New Students 2014-15

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66 GIRLS

73 BOYS

89 freshmen

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$1.5 million awarded to 43 new students (31%)

New students play...

Baseball • Basketball • Climbing • Crew• Cross Country • Cross Training • Dance • Field Hockey• Football Golf • Kayaking • Lacrosse • Soccer • Softball • Squash • Tennis • Track & Field • Volleyball • Wrestling

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1 French horn player 1 handbell player 1 bagpiper 2 cellists 3 trumpeters 4 saxophonists 4 clarinetists

New Student Musicians

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13 pianists

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Community Service

57 new students have done significant work with community organizations such as: AGAPE ALIVE Big Brother Boys and Girls Clubs Builders Club Compassion International Dream Dog Foundation Habitat for Humanity Interact Club Midnight Run Nadar Por Vida National Junior Honor Society New Orleans Miracle League Orphan Sponsorship Ronald McDonald House Special Olympics Wounded Warrior Project

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Million Dollars

The impact is almost immeasurable. It lives daily in the conversations around a Harkness table, in the stacks of March Library, and in the raucous cheers at a wrestling match. Thanks to the generosity of 976 members of the EHS community, this is just the beginning.

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Middle-income financial aid initiative Exceptional students come from everywhere: From the Mile-High City and the South Carolina Lowcountry. From families with incomes small, medium, and large. What do we say to the in-betweens? When they send in all the forms and hear back from schools: Well, technically, your parents can afford to send you here. And they hear from their parents: Well, actually, we can’t. Now Episcopal can offer more aid to more students in the middle. And every offer meets 100 percent of the student’s need. Because if it doesn’t, “Welcome to Episcopal” stands marred with an asterisk. Thanks to The Promise, more middle-income parents can say yes.

Townsend HAll Molly Pugh, English Teacher She likes overcast early mornings, when the only light is her desk lamp and computer screen (and maybe the luminescence of a new thought) in the corner of her classroom, Townsend 302. Students might stop by and gather round, rubbing ideas together, like building a fire. • Gather round. That is the beckoning call of the Harkness table, that heavy, oblong symbol of a democratic classroom, where the teacher sits among the students. “I’ve had some of my best discussions here,” says Molly, who also says that the floors were reinforced to carry the weight of these tables, and the walls were laid out to accommodate their girth. • But – “I’ve always taught my classes around the idea that discussion is vital. I’m not doing anything different.” And yet – “There is something about being in a beautiful space that makes people and their interactions more dignified.” • Beautiful, yes. The grand stairway, for example: “An air- and light-filled conduit that links departments and invites you to walk through, to stop, and to sit. I’ve had serious, scholarly conversations with students in these halls. I like that people can overhear us.” • Townsend has been called a jewelbox, a Janus – the god with two faces who looks forward and back. Elaborate millwork makes reference to the Georgian era, but the building’s function is all future: “Touch a button and it comes on,” says Molly. She is talking about the overhead video projector (one in every classroom) that connects easily to her computer. “Teachers who might have shied away from multimedia now find that open to them. The technology, the way it’s set up – it allows us so much freedom.”

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Athletics Center Thomas Thagard ’14, Birmingham, Ala. He used to wrestle in a dungeon – a school basement in Birmingham with one window about yay big. And then he came here. “Windows make you happy,” he says. • Episcopal’s wrestling cage is something like he’s never seen at any high school, anywhere, and he’s wrestled all over his home state of Alabama. “I’ve seen some very fine places,” he says.

“But nothing like this.” • And nothing like the 60,000-square-foot athletics center, where he would spend so many afternoons and evenings training for wrestling, football, and lacrosse. “It gives you the ability to pursue your athletic potential. It’s freedom.” His motto is Winston Churchill’s “Never, never, never give up.” • Even if sometimes he might ask God to give in and make life a little easier.

Like when, back home, he would pray for rain so that football practice would stop. “I tried the same thing here. Turns out they just move practice to the indoor track.” • This year during football season he dislocated his knee. Tore the cartilage so bad there’s nothing left to anchor his knee cap. Wrestling season came. “I didn’t want to be a sideliner. I didn’t want to sit.” But every attempted comeback met with subluxation, dislocation – a painful physical shift. The only effective counter was a shift in perspective. “I decided to focus my energy less on myself and more on others.” He became his teammates’ unofficial coach. • He says, “You might get old, bitter, and bruised,” in a way that says he’s said it a thousand times. “Others won’t. You can always focus on them.”

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March Libr ary Maya Glenn ’16, Reston, Va. It was about rebellion. Rebellion against a classical sense of beauty. Against traditional forms of literature and architecture and faith and daily life. It was wild and new, a turn-of-the-20th-century explosion, and it was called modernism. • “As soon as I heard the word, I thought modern dance,” says Maya, who chose choreographer Martha Graham as the subject of her Global History 2 modernism project. She was the first student to ever choose a dancer for the assignment. • Maya is a dancer. And during her three weeks of research, she liked to go the library in the afternoons, before dance class. Townsend Hall, the athletics center – those places are destinations. The library is a channel to somewhere else. • To a different time and place: Martha Graham’s studio during the Great Depression. Maya travelled there through videos and photographs and databases with names like ProQuest. She read Graham’s autobiography and newspaper reviews from the 1930s. And she talked to the librarians.

• “They would point me toward resources, but we would also have conversations about modernists, and they would share their opinions and ask how my research was affecting my own style of dance.” In a space built for introspection and interaction, “They made me think of things I might never have thought of.”

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A Record-Breaking Year Class of 2014 parents shatter senior parent gift record.

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n astonishing 99 percent of families of the Class of 2014 gave $570,309 to the 2013-14 Roll Call, smashing all previous records for senior parent giving. Sallie and John Glover ’81 (Jack ’14 and Sallie ’11) led a fantastic committee of volunteers who contacted fellow parents beginning in September. Thanks to the committee’s infectious enthusiasm, by Fall Parents Weekend, they had already surpassed the previous Senior Parent Roll Call record, and the gift has continued to grow. The average gift from Senior Parents this year is an amazing $4,833, and nearly every family participated.

In addition, John Hurley, the grandfather of Brett Dewing ’14, chaired the senior grandparent effort, which yielded an additional $25,174.

During their children’s years on the Hill, the parents of the Class of 2014 also supported the priorities of the EHS Promise Campaign, making gifts and pledges totaling $5,963,889 in support of endowed scholarships, Townsend Hall, the Athletics Center, and significant renovations to March Library and Penick Hall.

Over the past four years, the parents of the Class of 2014 gave a total of $7,446,978 to the Roll Call and Promise Campaign, with 100 percent of families supporting The High School. Thank you, senior parents!

4 Years of Roll Call Giving from the Parents of the Class of 2014 2010-11

Freshman Year | 86% participation 2011-12

Sophomore Year | 81% participation 2012-13

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Class of 2014 Senior Parent Gift Committee CO-CH AIRS

Sallie and John Glover Jack ’14 and Sallie ’11 COMM IT TEE MEM BE RS

Chituo and Cyril Agulanna Chino ’14 and Tochi ’16 Elizabeth and Lee Ainslie ’82 Ford ’14 and John ’17 Jennifer and Scott Andrews Babbie ’14 Robin and Quint Barefoot Blake ’14 and Nathan ’15 Cathy and Scott Bortz Adelle ’14 and Addison ’11

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Kyungran and Jaeyoung Choi Justin ’14

Lucinda and Chris Jones Isabelle ’14 and Bennett ’11

Dudley and Elis Olsson ’82 Maja ’14 and Lanier ’11

Lisa Colgate Alexander Green ’14

Hazel Chan and Ron Jones Byron Jones ’14

Anne and Edmund Redd Elizabeth ’14 and Fleming ’15

Sarah and Henry Dewing Brett ’14, Blair ’13, and Woody ’12

Deborah and Richard Kadlick John ’14

Becky and John Richardson Blake ’14 and Jack ’13

Christine and David Martinelli Liz ’14

Suzy Shi and Larry Zhang Jennifer Zhang ’14

Caroline and Allston Moore ’83 Allston ’14

G R AN D PAR E N T CH A I R

Jeanmarie and Richard Drucker Hamilton ’14 and RJ ’12 Julie and Beau Dudley Page ’14 and Thomas ’12 Trina and Michael Holt ’83 Mandy ’14 and Emma ’12

Rita and Doug Neagli Jackson ’14 and Grant ’17 JoAnn and Charlie Nulsen ’75 Hailey ’14 and Jordan ’10

John Hurley Brett Dewing ’14, Blair Dewing ’13, Woody Dewing ’12, Tom Hurley ’11, and Matt Hurley ’08

Headmaster Rob Hershey gave remarks celebrating the addition of the Class of 2014’s engraved bricks to the Alumni Walk. Beginning with the Class of 2013, Episcopal’s Alumni Walk will surround the entire Chapel lawn.

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the Martha L. Cammack Service Learning Fund “I think she was courageous and did not know it.”

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f five daughters, Martha always asked mentoring young girls. She wanted to live for the least and gave the most. She in a dorm, to work on a school campus could be quiet and shy. She was never a (in fact she was particularly interested in “look-at-me” type, yet she wanted to do so development), and to do what she did best much. She loved to participate, and by doing and loved the most. Her first choice was so, was constantly enlisting as many people of course Episcopal High School. She had to get involved as possible in whatever she just written a letter to Episcopal and had was interested in. Martha was also a collabmissed an available position because she orator, often calling and asking for advice. was working at a bank. Our conversation And she was often there with advice. When I was that she was going to quit her thengot crossways with one of our other daughpresent job, move out of her apartment, ters, she would call and say, “Dad, be nice; and dedicate every moment going forward that is your job.” in a serious way to getting to the place she Martha was a not a “natural” student and wanted to be. Her exact words were, “Dad, struggled with grammar school, so we were get rid of the apartment; I know what I need This spring, the Martha L. Cammack in a way surprised that she wanted to follow to do.”

Service Learning Fund was established in memory of Martha her oldest sister, Julia, to EHS. We were Why the gift to Episcopal and why the Cammack ’09, who passed away on supportive, though we wondered if she could Service Learning Fund? Martha’s four years actually be accepted and were impressed when October 12, 2013. The fund was set at Episcopal transformed her life and truly up through an endowed gift made she was and reciprocated with alacrity but in made her the person she became. We did by father and step-mother Ward and a business-like way that we would continue to Shelley Cammack; mother Lucie not realize how many people Martha was Cammack; and sisters Julia Wallace see, over and over. touching, reaching out to, and impacting Cammack ’06, Alice Cammack ’11, The most amusing part of this story is in many ways, sometimes under particuJulia M. Cammack, and Ward W. that Martha learned of her acceptance the larly tough circumstances. I think she was Cammack. morning she and her eighth grade class were courageous and did not know it. I think leaving on their spring break trip. In fact, she had several often about the many, many stories of trust and leadership, acceptances and a lot of pressure to continue high school those crucial elements of character that people our age have to where she had been over the past nine years. On her way out be coached on. I often wonder where she got that and how she the door, I asked her if she wanted me to hold up notification had figured out so much and accomplished so much in just 23 until she got back from the trip, whereupon Martha said over years. Martha’s experience at Episcopal was instrumental, and her shoulder, “No, call them all now, and tell them I am going the service trip was pivotal. to Episcopal.” From that point on, Martha never looked back.

Why this gift now? We were so inspired by the Class of Everything she did was on her own.

2009 and their effort on behalf of Martha and Stedman Gage More than anything, Martha loved giving tours and that we felt we should contact the Advancement Office and see guiding prospective students and parents through the School, how we could both complement and compliment the Class of an attribute she carried throughout her tenure at EHS and 2009’s kindness. on through Wofford College. I distinctly remember Martha The Martha L. Cammack Service Learning Fund instantly signing up for the Dominican Republic trip, returning, and hit exactly the right note all the way around. It is an inspisending us the photos. It impacted her in a way that seemed ration for us, and we hope it will inspire the student who older and wiser than what one might have expected – affording receives it each year. We are confident that EHS will make the her more perspective on privilege and entitlement and what her best decision in that regard, perhaps choosing someone with role in the world might be.

Martha’s spirit of service or a student quietly searching for his The last conversation I had with Martha was actually or her place in life. And we are confident that Martha would two days before she died. She had decided her true role was feel the same way.

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Stedman Gage ’09 was honored by his class in a memorial gathering held during Reunion Weekend on the Class of 2009 Plaza, where his and Martha’s bricks lie engraved with their names.

Members of the Class of 2009 made a gift to the School in honor of Stedman and Martha. On Saturday, June 7, the class dedicated two trees to their lost friends, a lasting and living tribute rooted in Episcopal soil.

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Casey McCullough, Director of Sustainability “Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet” by Bill McKibben

What to do when your college application takes a detour.

Eleanor Moore, Modern and Classical Languages Teacher “Mountains Beyond Mountains” by Tracy Kidder

BY DAVID B . O P IE ’ 86

“Farewell, Fred Voodoo: A Letter from Haiti” by Amy Wilentz “Le Grand Meaulnes” by Alain-Fournier

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remember sitting in Spanish work rendering that pair of old class the fall of my senior year shoes. Mr. L gave me a lot of at EHS. My mind started to drift. encouragement and helped me I had recently sent in my applicathrough that dark time. tion portfolio to the Rhode Island My drawings were better School of Design (RISD). The the second time around, and I school required 20 slides of my was accepted to RISD. Later, work, plus three original pencil when I went to RISD for a tour, drawings: shoes, a bicycle, and the admissions person read my a subject of my own choosing. name and said, “Aren’t you the The drawings had to be done in one who had your admissions pencil on a 16-by-20-inch sheet portfolio destroyed by UPS?” of paper, and then folded twice.

Everyone in the room gasped RISD provided the envelope that and looked at me. At least the all the materials had to fit in. I episode made my application spent a lot of time on those drawstick out from all the others. ings, trying to get the details and In the years since, I have shading just right. It was going to illustrated close to 20 books, be so much fun to draw and paint including, most recently, the all day in art school… picture book “Dozer’s Run” for The class bell rang me back Sleeping Bear Press. The story, David B. Opie ’86 has illustrated close to 20 books, to reality. I gathered my books written by Debbie Levy, is a true including “Dozer’s Run.” and went downstairs to check tale about Dozer, a dog who my mailbox. Waiting for me slips out of his yard, spontawas a postcard from UPS. I flipped over the neously joins a half-marathon, and ends up card and saw a long checklist. The top entry running the last 8 or so miles. The annual race read, “Your package was slightly damaged in is a fund-raiser for the Greenebaum Cancer transit but was delivered to the addressee.” I Center, and, when the press reported the story scanned down the list, which got progressively about Dozer’s joining the race, people from all more tragic. It ended with, “Your package was over the world donated money on his behalf. completely destroyed in the shipping process.”

In grad school, we had a required writing That last one had a check mark next to it, and class. After a few weeks of writing assignthe address for the RISD admissions office was ments, the teacher held meetings with indiwritten at the bottom of the card. It hit me: All those slides vidual students. At my meeting, the teacher said, “You write were destroyed, but worse, so were the original drawings. The really well. Where did you go to college?” application deadline had passed. I was devastated.

“I went to RISD, but I placed out of English, so I didn’t I showed the postcard to my art teacher, Mr. Lisanick (Mr. do much writing in college. But my high school had a great L), who calmed me down and said that he would call UPS English Department, and that’s where I learned to write,” I to get more information. He was told that the envelope had replied. And that’s the direction that I’m going in next. I have gotten snagged and shredded by their conveyor belt. All that written a couple of chapter books and picture books. I plan to was left was a scrap of paper with my and RISD’s addresses. hone those manuscripts and contact literary agents soon, and Mr. L then called RISD and got a two-week extension for my I’ll be sure to let the EHS community know what happens. application. I was too upset the first day to get started on the drawings, but the next day I went to Mr. L’s class and got to Opie’s work can be viewed at www.spacemandave.com.

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Whit Morgan, English Teacher “A Prayer for Owen Meany” by John Irving “The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America” by Erik Larson

Meg O’Connor, Director of Theater “A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599” by James Shapiro

The Rev. Gideon Pollach, Head Chaplain and Theology Teacher “The Meaning of Jesus: Two Visions” by Marcus J. Borg and N.T. Wright

Alison Poole, English Teacher “Wild” by Cheryl Strayed

Molly Pugh, English Teacher “Flight Behavior” by Barbara Kingsolver

Tim Rogers, English Teacher “Don’t Look Back” by Karin Fossum “The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet” by David Mitchell “The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle” by Haruki Murakami

Jeff Streed, Modern and Classical Languages Teacher “A Man of Misconceptions: The Life of an Eccentric in an Age of Change” by John Glassie

Rick Stubbs, Math Teacher “Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption” by Laura Hillenbrand “In Harm’s Way: The Sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors” by Doug Stanton

Elizabeth Woodcock, Director of Stewardship and Advancement Services “The Goldfinch” by Donna Tartt

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Headmaster Rob Hershey “The Target” by David Baldacci

Mary Fielder, Assistant Head of Academics “Sophie’s World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy” by Jostein Gaarder “Chronicle of a Death Foretold” by Gabriel Garcia Márquez

Anna Collins, Library Director “Me Before You” by JoJo Moyes

Jen Desautels, Director of Communications “The Last Enchantments” by Charles Finch “Call Me Zelda” by Erika Robuck “Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity” by Katherine Boo

Sarah Fite, Instructional Librarian “Fin & Lady” by Cathleen Schine

Joe Halm, Science Teacher “Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species” by Sean B. Carroll “An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth: What Going to Space Taught Me About Ingenuity, Determination, and Being Prepared for Anything” by Chris Hadfield

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