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The 111th Game Highlights From This Year’s Episcopal vs. Woodberry Football Game

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The Athletics Hall of Fame The Hall of Fame Welcomes Eight Individuals and Two Teams

Class Notes

Coeducation Celebrations The EHS Community Celebrates the Anniversary of Coeducation

In Memoriam

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The EHS Promise The Middle-Income Financial Aid Initiative and The Parents’ Promise

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On the cover: Top image: From the 1972 edition of “Whispers.” Bottom image: The 2011-12 Episcopal student body running onto the field before The Game.

Episcopal Celebrates 20 Years of Coeducation CA M PA I G N U P DAT E :

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From the Headmaster

s I write this fall letter, the view out of my office window reveals the beautiful changing colors of the trees in Hoxton Circle. This is just one more reminder that we have now “hit our stride” in the rhythm of the 2011-12 school year. Undeterred by the threatening omen of the late August 5.8 earthquake which was promptly followed by Hurricane Irene, the school year is off to a wonderful start, with the students demonstrating incredible energy, engagement, and positive spirit. I have never seen a group of new students (139 in all!) so quickly and successfully integrated into the full life on campus. I see this as a reflection of their tremendous confidence and adaptability and to the welcoming spirit of our returning students and faculty. The highlight of the fall has been the opportunity to recognize and celebrate the 20th Anniversary of Coeducation at EHS. This historic decision was one of the most important and transforming developments in the School’s history. Coeducation has set the stage for substantial progress in every aspect of the School’s academic program and campus life, not to mention its tremendous impact in the admissions marketplace. We have celebrated this occasion during the course of the fall with a special student assembly complete with an alumni/faculty panel, a barbeque and bluegrass dinner in conjunction with the Seminary Hill Cup, and several off-campus gatherings for young alumni. The real measure of the success of coeducation is evident in the daily life of our community. Come to campus, talk to our students, or enter a classroom, and you will easily draw your own conclusion! This year, under the leadership of new Board Chair Bailey W. Patrick ’79, the Board of Trustees has focused on the

development of the strategic plan to guide the next chapter in the life of EHS. This effort has involved considerable research and discussion resulting in a blueprint for the School’s future direction and actions. Whereas many of the most noticeable accomplishments of the last decade have been in improved and expanded facilities, over 80 percent of the attention of this new plan focuses directly on students and the academic program. Once the plan has been finalized and approved by the Board, we will share it with everyone. We are closing in on completion of The Promise Campaign, having raised $72 million toward our $85 million goal. Presently, the most exciting facet of the Campaign is the construction of Townsend Hall. This new facility will maximize the Academic West Wing in housing English, history, and theology classes. This inspiring new space will increase the number and dramatically expand the size of classrooms, which will all be outfitted with wireless technology and audiovisual capability. In addition, the Crosland Academic Support Center will be relocated and expanded onto the third floor of Hoxton, more than quadrupling the space available for individual and smallgroup student academic support with learning specialists and teachers. It is fitting that this capstone project of The Promise Campaign will impact the lives of our students where it matters most, in the classrooms. I am pleased that we have received positive preliminary reviews by the city as we work through the permitting process in order to begin construction immediately following graduation in June. We thank you for the many ways in which you support EHS. Your involvement provides the impetus necessary to continue to strengthen this wonderful school. Sincerely,

F. Robertson Hershey Headmaster

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Around Campus Spanish Exchange Students Visit Episcopal

en students from Seville, Spain, arrived on campus for a twoweek stay as the second part of the Episcopal Spanish Exchange Program with the Center for Cross Cultural Study(CC-CS). The Center serves as the coordinator of the exchange program between EHS and Colegio Buenaventurada Virgen María Irlandesas de Bami or Las Irlandesas, a private school in Seville. In July, Episcopal Spanish teachers Catherine Gomez-Goodnow and Meghann Jones accompanied eight Episcopal students to Seville to participate in the first part of the program: a three-week home stay. When the Spanish students arrived at EHS, they were happily reunited with their American summer visitors, Jack Blaine ’12, Woody Dewing ’12, Campbell Goodman ’12, Adam Lynne ’12, Caroline Magee ’12, Wells Patrick ’12, Ben Taylor ’12, and Armour Shaw ’12. “Episcopal’s Spanish Exchange Program was undoubtedly one of the best experiences I’ve had at EHS,” said Patrick. “The unique opportunity to live with and host a boy my age from a completely different culture has been one of a kind. Even in spite of our extremely overcrowded dorm room, we were able to bond over soccer and football video games, as well as learn

Episcopal students and their Spanish guests.

about each other through broken, yet effective, conversation.” During their time at EHS, the Spanish students stayed on dorm with their American host students, attended class, and toured the sites of Washington, D.C., and Virginia.

While visiting the Newseum, the Spanish students were greatly moved by the exhibits of the 10th anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001. The students were struck by the collective emotional impact the 9/11 events had on the American people. n

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Gallery Opening: “From the Faculty Collection”

This untitled piece was done by Cassie Miller ’95 while she was studying at Darmouth College. Miller is the daughter of Mike Miller.

The first art exhibit of the year allowed Episcopal faculty and staff to showcase some of their favorite pieces from their family art collections.

his year’s first exhibit in the Angie Newman Johnson Gallery, “From the Faculty Collection,” was produced by EHS visual arts teacher Frank Phillips and Head Chaplain Gideon Pollach. Phillips organized and participated in the exhibit, while Pollach participated and served as curator. The exhibit, which ran from Oct. 4 through Oct. 31, featured works by EHS faculty

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he Honor Committee, which is composed of seniors and faculty members, is responsible for upholding and administering The Episcopal High School Honor Code. The 2011-12 group is led by Honor Committee Chair Woody Dewing ’12. n

Front row: Alessandra Gavin, Woody Dewing, Stuart Agnew, and Wells Patrick; second row: Austin deButts, Jaye Locke, Worth Smith, Ellen Albers, and Liz Helm; back row: Tim Rogers and Bodhi Amos.

and staff members Ann Carver, Viviana Davila, Rick Dixon, David Douglas, Anita Doyle, Nat Duffield, Perry Epes, Jerri Ginman, Catherine GomezGoodnow, Joe Halm, Headmaster Rob Hershey, Mimi Hobart, Heidi Huntley, Meghann Jones, Douglas Kehlenbrink, Jaye Locke, Mike Miller, Mason New, Tim Nielsen, Brad Park, Ginger Peabody, Robin Peralta, Frank Phillips,

Gideon Pollach, Patrick Thompson, Liz Vorlicek, and Julie Wang-Gemp. Among the artists featured in the collection were: Isota Epes, mother of Perry Epes; Sam Pollach, father of Gideon Pollach; Wang Ching Ling, uncle of Julie Wang-Gemp; Cassie Miller ’95, daughter of Mike Miller; Megan Peralta, daughter of Robin Peralta; Nat Gregory ’66, father of Jaye Gregory Locke; Ellie Duffield, Nat Duffield’s mother; and Elena Brady, Anita Doyle’s sister. The exhibit also includes a piece by esteemed 20th century artist Robert Raushenberg. n

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All Aboard! Train Travel to EHS

he experience we know as the start of school, parents driving or flying with their children to Episcopal and helping unload their belongings for a tearful goodbye in front of the dorm, is a relatively new development. In the early days of EHS, those goodbyes were frequently exchanged at hometown train stations. The difficulty and expense of travel did not always permit parents to travel with their children to the School, so a student might board a train in the vicinity of his hometown on his own – or perhaps with an older brother or classmate – for the long trip to Alexandria. Bill Clay ’25 recounts journeys to EHS from Savannah, Ga. “Some of my most vivid memories of those long-ago days are the long trips to The High School on the Atlantic Coast Line railroad, leaving Savannah around 8 p.m. and arriving in Alexandria about 18 hours later if the train was on time.” Charlie Cook ’52 and Bill Cook ’55 traveled from Western North Carolina by boarding the train in Nashville for a 24-hour trip. While the journey was long, it was not necessarily lonely. Sometimes other Episcopal students were on the train, and if they were in a spirited mood, they would ask the younger boys to chant school cheers, sing songs, or recite the schedule. Pegram Harrison ’51 recalls boarding the steam-powered Southern Crescent at Peachtree Station in Atlanta with approximately 15 other students late in the day for an overnight trip. The boys passed the time waiting on the platform for their train by placing pennies on the track to be crushed by incoming trains. These pennies were recovered by the boys as souvenirs. Aboard the train, the students entertained themselves with trips to the dining car and comic books, which were not simply read. “I remember it being a great sport to push comic books into the fan blades that were so valiantly trying to cool the cars,” said Harrison.

Bill Blake ’51 boarded the Southern Pacific in Lake Charles, La., in the morning. The highlights of these trips were visits to Bourbon Street while waiting to change trains in New Orleans. Otherwise, the trip was long and uncomfortable from New Orleans, since the train lacked sleeper compartments and passengers had to sleep in their seats. While train travel could be arduous, it did have its advantages. Hugh

Richardson ’48 remembers that the steamer trunk tags issued by EHS revealed dorm assignments, so train travelers learned this highly anticipated information in advance of their non-train-traveling classmates. Unlike earlier generations of EHS students, the majority of whom traveled from the South, Tim Hidell ’01 took the train to Alexandria departing from Wilmington, Del. He remembers being so eager to return to Episcopal that he would depart the train at Union Station in Washington, D.C., and hail a cab to the School. This way he avoided the long delay in D.C., and arrived at School sooner than had he waited for the train to continue to Alexandria. The journey from the South concluded at the Alexandria station. Harrison remembers, “…being awake to see the Masonic Temple arise by the dawn’s early light, disembarking in Alexandria, and wondering how to get to EHS from the station.” n

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Faculty and Staff Accomplishments

ath teacher Rick Stubbs spent eight days with his family in Alaska, volunteered at the U.S. Open Golf Tournament at Congressional Country Club as a “walking scorer,” and went with Spanish teacher Viviana Davila to San Francisco for the AP teachers’ conference. For eight days in August, the Outdoor Leadership Program faculty, Patrick Thompson and Scott Pohjola, took their families into the White Mountains of New Hampshire to complete a Wilderness First Responder course at SOLO School of Wilderness Medicine. In the course, designed for outdoor enthusiasts and educators, Thompson and Pohjola learned to diagnose, treat, and manage all types of medical emergencies, from bee stings to broken legs. Not only did they walk away as first responders (the same medical training given to police and firefighters), but they also came away with a strong awareness of how to prevent and protect students as they venture out into the wild on such adventures as the freshman Burch Trip, a weekend campout, or a river trip with the kayaking team. Piano instructor Elizabeth Lane attended the National Piano Pedagogy Conference in Chicago this summer. EHS social studies teachers Bobby Watts and Mike Reynolds, English teacher and Department Chair Mason New, and Billy Peebles ’73 toured the battlefields of the Valley Campaign (Shenandoah) and the Seven Days Campaign (Richmond), which were successive scenes of combat in the spring and early summer of 1862 during the Civil War. Their focus was on the strategies and activities of Gen. Thomas Jonathan Jackson, aka “Stonewall.” Their travels, totaling about 750 miles, concluded with a tour of the White House of the Confederacy and the Museum of the Confederacy (MOC), located adjacent to each other in Richmond, Va., provided by the Director of the MOC, Waite Rawls. Rick Dixon, German teacher and chair of foreign languages, coached an

Billy Peebles’73, social studies teacher Bobby Watts, Bill Dunkel, teacher at The Lovett School, social studies teacher Mike Reynolds, and English teacher Mason New toured the civil war battlefields of Valley Campaign and the Seven Days Campaign.

Alexandria Little League Junior Team (T.J. Fannon) to the division pennant with a 9-3 record. Dixon also wrote two op-ed articles for the Danville Register and Bee, as well as played for his fifth year in the Halifax County Old Timers’ League in South Boston, Va. Math teacher and Department Chair Thomas Anderson served as a program dean with the inaugural New York College Experience run by the Oxbridge Academic Programs. After years of hosting programs in Europe, the program was stateside in the summer of 2011. The program was housed at Barnard College and welcomed a population of high school students that was 85 percent international from 32 countries. In addition to taking classes, students explored prestigious colleges and New York City. French teacher Eleanor Moore traveled to the Atlantic Provinces of Canada, stopping to see fellow EHS faculty member Jeff Streed and his family in New Brunswick, then went on to Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia to visit some of the Acadian (Frenchspeaking) communities and explore that part of Canada.

Chinese and social studies teacher Julie Wang-Gempp traveled to six cities in Europe (Rome, Venice, Milan, Lucerne, Paris, and London) for the first time. She was bathed in the rich culture, the beautiful historical sites, and the stunning natural beauty of Europe. She also had a chance to use French, which she studied for seven years. This summer Rachael Flores had the opportunity to attend a teacher seminar through Oxbridge Academic Programs. She spent a week in England at the University of Cambridge attending seminars, participating in study sessions and listening to lectures by world renowned scholars such as the United Kingdom’s Poet Laurette Andrew Motion, and Columbia University professor James G. Basker. Her specific seminar, Visual Experience: Art in History and Literature, directly related to the AP Art History course she teaches at Episcopal and she took a hands-on approach to analyzing art through guided discussions and daily tours of Cambridge’s historic architecture. This summer, Sam Slack, spent six weeks in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Slack studied Latin American culture

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Spanish teacher Sam Slack, wife Charissa, and their son, Riker, at the sculpture, Floralis Genérica, in Plaza de las Naciones Unidas in the Palermo neighborhood of Buenos Aires. Rachael Flores traveled to England and studied art history and literature at the University of Cambridge. She is pictured in front of the King’s College Chapel.

and history at the Universidad Nacional de San Martín, as part of the Georgetown University Latin American Studies master’s program. His trip included visits to many historic sites in the city, including the enormous Cementerio de la Recoleta, which contains the grave of Argentine cultural icon and former first lady, Eva Perón. Slack also visited sites in the city’s surrounding area and made a weekend trip to Montevideo, Uruguay. Gideon Pollach and Ashley McDowell traveled to Haiti for a week in June to set up a school partnership for EHS. They hiked up to the partner school in Campan and presented them with gifts as symbols of Episcopal’s solidarity with them. McDowell also traveled to Holland and Germany this summer to coach a girls U-17 lacrosse team in a tournament that coincided with the U-19 women’s lacrosse world cup. The team was composed of girls from the D.C. metro area, and they competed against teams from Japan, England, Germany, and the U.S. They won the gold medal! n

EHS Chaplain Gideon Pollach and science teacher Ashley McDowell traveled to Haiti to establish a school partnership.

Science teacher Ashley McDowell (far right, second row) traveled to Holland and Germany this summer, coaching a lacrosse team made up of girls from the D.C. metro area and brought home the gold medal.

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Burch Trip 2011

n the early hours of Sept. 23, the Class of 2015 was not preparing for a regular day of classes, seated lunch, and athletics. Instead, Episcopal’s freshman class was packed and boarding buses for the annual Burch Trip, an Outward Bound experience originally established in the fall of 1997 by EHS alumnus Lucius Burch ’59. The freshman class is separated into groups of 10 to 12 and a faculty member for the five-day excursion, during which students are challenged mentally and physically as they hike and camp along the Appalachian Trail. The students must push themselves individually but also as a group, which establishes a bond among the new classmates that endures long after their return to campus. “The Class of 2015 and 10 brave faculty members ventured into the woods as a band of individuals and returned as a team of leaders and stewards to their class,” said Outdoor Program Head Patrick Thompson. “This year’s Burch trip provided the most challenging terrain and most mileage in the trip’s history. The freshman class covered over 100 miles of the Appalachian Trail from South Mountain in Maryland to King’s

Monitors

he Monitors are elected each year by the faculty and students, with the Headmaster’s endorsement. These seniors serve as leaders for the student body and as mentors to new students. This year’s Monitors are led by Head Monitor Caroline Hagood ’12 and five senior monitors. n Front row: Jack Blaine, Buck Armstrong, Caroline Hagood, Laura Hollister, and Clarence Clanton; second row: Matt Valcourt, Carly Lyerly, Willie McDade, Elizabeth Buyck, and Hannah Gray; third row: Wells Patrick, Kelly Chandler, Austin deButts, Stuart Agnew, Liz Helm, and Armour Shaw; back row: Woody Dewing, Worth Smith, Alessandra Gavin, Celeste Jones, and Chris Driscoll. Not pictured: Marina Barsoum and Marshall Weisiger.

Episcopal freshmen taking a break along the Appalachian Trail. (Front row: Osé Djan, Jay Forehand, and Randy Harrell. Second row: Olivia Wise, Ivy Houde, Kate Oldham, Leigh Channell, math teacher Matt Fitzgerald, Kathleen Leonard, Ax Coffey, and Will Talley.)

Gap in Pennsylvania. Over the five days of backpacking, camping, and rock climbing the students learned about themselves, each other, and most importantly had a great time as a class.” “The Burch Program takes students to new heights both literally on the

tops of beautiful rock walls and figuratively in their relationships with themselves and their new classmates,” said Assistant Director of Admissions Helen Woolworth. “I’m proud to be a part of an educational community that invests in its freshman class in such a powerful and visible way each year.” n

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Portrait in Faith Speaker Shares the Importance of Reconciliation

ather Michael Lapsley addressed the Episcopal community on Nov.1 in Callaway Chapel as this year’s Portrait in Faith speaker. A South African Anglican priest and social justice activist, Father Michael was born in New Zealand and ordained to the priesthood in Australia. Senior Warden of the Vestry Bethany Gordon ’12 had the opportunity to spend some time with Lapsley during his visit. “Father Michael’s story was very unique and moving, but he also had such a universal message to share with the community,” she said. “Being able to hear his perspective on life and on the world gave everyone a great opportunity to stop and reflect on our beliefs and actions. His message will help all of us to find a brighter and more positive outlook on our lives.” In 1973, Father Michael moved as an undergraduate student to Durban, South Africa, where, because of the apartheid, there were two universities: one for black students and one for white students. He quickly became chaplain to students of both. In 1976, he spoke out on behalf of schoolchildren who were being shot, detained, and tortured during the height of apartheid repression. In September 1976, he was expelled from South Africa and fled to Lesotho. There, Father Michael continued his studies and became a member of the African National Congress. He travelled the world mobilizing faith communities to oppose apartheid and support the liberation struggle. In 1982, after a police raid killed 42 people in Maseru, Lesotho’s capitol, Father Michael moved to Zimbabwe. In 1990, he received a letter bomb hidden inside two religious magazines from the apartheid regime. Father Michael suffered severe burns, lost both hands, and the sight in one eye as a result of the blast from the bomb. After the attack, Father Michael returned to South Africa and became Chaplain of the Trauma Centre for Victims of Violence and Torture

Father Michael Lapsley visits with Episcopal students.

in Cape Town, which assisted the country’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). His work with TRC led to the establishment of the Institute for Healing of Memories (IHOM) in Cape Town. The IHOM aimed to encourage many more South Africans to work through their trauma. “Father Michael spoke of acting on one’s faith, stepping back from what is easy and ‘normal’ in order to serve God’s purpose,” said Assistant Head for Academics and Theology teacher Mary Fielder. “His message emphasized the importance of reconciliation and how one must guard against utilizing victimhood to justify retribution, a message particularly relevant for our students as they try, with both strength and compassion, to navigate through the complexities of interpersonal relationships.” Father Michael is a graduate of the Australian College of Theology, the

National University of Lesotho, and the University of Zimbabwe. He has honorary doctorates from the University of Macquarie in Sydney, Australia; the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa; and Liverpool Hope University in the United Kingdom. He was awarded the Queen’s Service Medal by the New Zealand government for service to Southern African communities and he serves as Honorary Consul for New Zealand in Cape Town. Portrait in Faith is an annual program that offers powerful models in Christian faith to Episcopal students in the hope that their lives will be informed, shaped, and inspired by courageous men and women. This companion event to the Theologian in Residence program was established in 1994 by Reginald E. Rutledge ’51 in honor of his wife, the Rev. Fleming Rutledge, and his family members who attended EHS. n

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Fall Dance Recital

n Nov. 3, students performed student- and instructor-choreographed routines in Pendleton Hall. Hala Shah, Connie Fink, and Tati ValleRiestra are Episcopal’s dance instructors and are members of the Dana Tai Soon Burgess & Company troupe based in Washington, D.C. The four performers included Amani Brooks ’12, Montana Crider ’15, Jenny Kang ’14, and Klara Leschanz ’14. The students performed six pieces, choreographed by the teachers and by the dancers themselves, all who were in the dance afternoon arts option. All of the dancers were trained in modern ballet and choreography throughout the fall season. The dance concert was enjoyed by an incredibly enthusiastic audience. The show’s lighting was created by Technical Director Tim Nielsen. Dance Coordinator Connie Fink served as the master of ceremonies for the evening. n

From left: Klara Leschanz ’14, Amani Brooks ’12, Montana Crider ’15, and Jenny Kang ’14.

EHS Cheerleaders

ed by Head Cheerleader Woody Dewing ’12, this group of nine seniors was elected by the EHS community to encourage school spirit. n

The Cheerleaders showing their EHS spirit at the 111th game.

Front row: Lilian Smith, Woody Dewing, Emma Holt, and Kelly Chandler; second row: Carly Lyerly, Adam Lynne, and Caroline Hagood; back row: Johny Bond, Chris Wasden, and Buck Armstrong.

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Integrity in Action Speaker Challenges Students to Embrace Their Failures and Make a Difference

roadcast journalist Judy Woodruff spoke to the EHS community on Oct. 13 for the 13th annual Allen C. Phillips, Jr. Lecture on Integrity in Action in Pendleton Hall. Stuart Agnew ’12 provided the invocation and Headmaster Rob Hershey offered welcoming remarks to Woodruff and guests, including Jackie Phillips, the widow of Allen C. Phillips, Jr. and John Burress ’54, a founder of the program. Woody Dewing ’12, chair of the Honor Committee, introduced Woodruff. “Mrs. Woodruff is a sterling example of the power to teach and learn from the world around you,” said Dewing. Woodruff, whose career has spanned four decades, has covered politics and other news for CNN, NBC, and PBS. She now regularly co-anchors the PBS NewsHour and serves as a consultant and occasional contributor to CNN. In addition to her central role in political coverage, which has included serving as White House correspondent from 1977 to 1982, she anchored the PBS award-winning weekly documentary series, “Frontline with Judy Woodruff;” served for 12 years as anchor and senior correspondent for CNN, anchoring the weekday political program, “Inside Politics”; and has been involved in several documentaries including an extensive project on the views of young Americans entitled, “Generation Next: Speak Up. Be Heard.” “I am honored to be at a storied school with a 172-year history,” Woodruff said. She recognized the School’s 20th Anniversary of Coeducation and the decision that was made to ‘overturn tradition and become coed.’ “I look out at your bright faces and know it was the right decision they made 20 years ago,” she said. Woodruff gave praise to previous award winners and said she was humbled and honored to be named among them. “It is especially meaningful to win an award on integrity,” she said.

Integrity in Action honoree Judy Woodruff receives the Allen C. Phillips, Jr. Integrity in Action Award. From left: Austin deButts ’12, Woody Dewing ’12, Stuart Agnew ’12, Woodruff, and Headmaster Rob Hershey.

Woodruff shared with the community the importance of credibility and integrity in journalism. She said that journalists make every effort to avoid mistakes, but when they make them, they must be corrected publicly and as quickly as possible. “This has been a personal philosophy of mine for as long as I can remember,” she remarked. Woodruff emphasized that honesty, integrity, and a journalist’s credibility are paramount. She explained that while journalists are human, with their own personal leanings and opinions, it is important that they “strive mightily to keep it out of their work product.” Woodruff went on to explain the importance of digging deep and never taking anything we see or hear at face value, especially during a time when blogs and social media are so prevalent in our society. Woodruff charged the community with three things. First, she told the students to get to know people who are not like them. “You are part of the most diverse population ever,” she said. Second, she explained the importance

of making good choices, whether they are big or small, for choices ultimately have consequences. And third, she talked about failure. “You will fail at something,” Woodruff said. “Those failures are the spring training for the rest of your lives.” She listed other important figures in history who have also failed at one point or another in their lives. “Robert Browning wrote, ‘A man’s reach should exceed his grasp,’” she said. She told students that when they fail, get up and move on. Woodruff also called upon the students to strive to do more within their community. “No matter where life takes you, you can make a difference,” Woodruff said. “And start by getting it right yourself. Use the values of honesty and integrity that you have learned at Episcopal.” The Phillips Lecture on Integrity in Action was established in 2000 by Headmaster Rob Hershey, John Burress ’54, John Walker ’79, and Ed Walker ’85 to honor Allen Carleton Phillips, Jr. Phillips was a longtime, distinguished faculty member whose devotion to character, integrity, and sacrifice is legendary at Episcopal High School. n

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Episcopal Welcomes 10 New Faculty Members BRENDAN J. BARAN

Social Studies M.A. Columbia University A.B. Brown University Brendan entered teaching right after graduating from Brown University with degrees in history and classics. Prior to coming to Episcopal, he taught history and Latin at the Episcopal School of Jacksonville and the Taft School. His main academic interest lays in classical Mediterranean history. He has studied at the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome, and the American School of Classical Studies in Athens. He has started exploring the Islamic Empires and Qing China. In 2007, he earned his master’s degree from the Klingenstein Center for Private School Leadership at Columbia University. Outside of the classroom, Brendan coaches crew, having competed as a coxswain in high school and college. He also coaches JV volleyball and lives on McGuire Dorm. M AT T H E W T. F I T ZG E R A L D

Mathematics B.A. Dartmouth College M.A. Columbia University Matt received his bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College, where he specialized in international relations and economics. He later earned a master’s degree in computing and education from Teacher’s College at Columbia University. Matt has worked at independent schools for over 10 years in several capacities, including: teacher of mathematics and computer science, director of information services and educational technology, and coach of rowing, football, and ice hockey. Matt is an avid golfer and outdoorsman and lives on campus with his wife Dr. Adrianna Bravo and three daughters: EllaMae, Tallulah, and Tennyson. H I L A RY G A L L A N D

English M.Ed. University of Illinois at Chicago B.A. Wesleyan University National Board for Professional Teaching Standards Achievement Hilary earned her bachelor’s degree from Wesleyan University in history and philosophy, but she also focused on creative writing. She was awarded the Rubin Writing Semester to study creative writing at Hollins University during her junior year, and won the Annie Sonnenblick Memorial Writing Award, as well as the Wesleyan University Fiction and Poetry awards upon graduation.

After six years of teaching in the Chicago Public Schools, and one year teaching at an international school in Taiwan, Hilary moved to Washington D.C., where she taught at a charter school and an alternative day school before coming to Episcopal. MADELINE E. GOBRECHT

Assistant Learning Specialist B.A. Yale University Madeline earned her bachelor’s degree from Yale University, where she majored in psychology with a focus in special education and child psychology. She played on the Yale women’s basketball team during her four years and received All-Ivy League honors in addition to an NIT appearance as a senior. In 2010, Madeline began work at Riverview Children’s Hospital in Middletown, Conn. where she served as a teaching intern for the full academic year. She worked in special education with middle school and high school students in a variety of subjects. This fall, she became the newest member of Episcopal’s learning specialist team. In addition to her role in the learning center, Madeline is head coach of the girls’ varsity basketball team. She also coaches volleyball and softball and lives on Harrison Dorm. KRISTELLE A. HICKS

Spanish Department B.A. Bates College Kristelle joins us from Kent School with six years experience as a Spanish teacher. She has traveled to various Spanish-speaking countries for professional development and service projects. Prior to her time at Kent, Kristelle attended Bates College, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in Spanish and English. Additionally, she has several years experience as a dorm head, coach, community service leader, and student activities coordinator. As a part of the Episcopal community, Kristelle teaches Spanish and is a residential member of the Evans Dorm Team. She will also take an active role in the community service program.

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Director of Counseling Health and Wellness B.S. Georgetown University M.A. Boston College Kristin Hosmer received her undergraduate degree in psychology from Georgetown University followed by a post-graduate volunteer year through the University of Notre Dame. After spending two years teaching U.S. history and psychology at the high school level, she went on to earn her master’s degree in social work from Boston College. She spent a year at the Stone Center at Wellesley College focusing on clinical training in relational theory, women’s development, and diversity and cross cultural issues. Before joining the EHS community, Kristin spent nine years at Georgetown Visitation as a personal counselor and college counselor. She is a licensed clinical social worker with experience in private practice treating adolescents. Her approach to counseling involves a variety of interventions meant to empower, strengthen, and foster well-being. Kristin lives on campus, participates in the Service Council, serves on the Student Assistance Team and is a member of the Anderson Dorm Team. MEGHANN JONES

Spanish and Social Studies B.A. University of Virginia Meghann graduated from the University of Virginia, where she studied Latin American studies and Spanish and participated in a semester abroad in Valencia, Spain. Prior to coming to Episcopal, she was a substitute teacher at her high school alma mater, St. Anne’s Belfield, and tutored ESL students through Migrant Aid in Charlottesville, Va. She also spent time teaching English at a high school in the western highlands of Guatemala. In addition to teaching Spanish 1 and Themes in Global History, Meghann coaches JV field hockey and lacrosse, serves as a faculty sponsor for the Community Council, advises freshman girls, and participates in various school trips including the summer program in Spain and the service trip to the Dominican Republic. Meghann lives on Anderson Dorm with her dog, Harley. MEG O’CONNOR

Director of Theater M.A. Chicago College of Performing Arts B.A. Wesleyan University Meg comes to Episcopal from Shakespeare & Company, a professional theater company in Massachusetts, where she worked as an actor, artist-in-residence for the education department, and director of the Young Company. Before that, she launched

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theater programs at Trinity Pawling School and The Cannon School. At Cannon, her students were selected to perform in the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland, as national finalists for the American High School Theatre Festival. In 2006, she received the John W. Parker Award for excellence in directing from the North Carolina Theater Conference. Meg earned her bachelor’s degree in English and theater from Wesleyan University, where she played on the women’s varsity ice hockey team and was a member of Second Stage. She holds a master’s degree from the Chicago College of Performing Arts with a concentration in directing. At Episcopal, Meg lives on campus and is a member of the Hoxton Dorm Team. B R A N D O N S T R AU B

Director of Choral Music B.A. Michigan State University M.A. University of Michigan Brandon holds masters’ degrees in conducting and harpsichord performance from the University of Michigan and a bachelor’s degree in voice and music education from Michigan State University. In addition to teaching, Brandon has regularly been in demand as a conductor, singer, accompanist, and continuo player. Prior to graduate school, Brandon served for four years as the Oaklawn-Tuttle Chair of Vocal Music and School Organist at The Hill School in Pottstown, Penn. He has also served on the faculties of the New York State Summer School for the Arts (NYSSSA) and Interlochen Arts Camp and has attended summer programs at Oberlin Conservatory, Eastman School of Music, and Westminster Choir College. In addition to directing the choral ensembles and a cappella groups at EHS, Brandon oversees music for the chapel program and teaches Introduction to the Arts and Religious Thought in Music. He lives on McGuire Dormitory. H E L E N S . W O O LW O RT H

Assistant Director of Admissions B.S. Davidson College Helen earned her Bachelor of Science degree from Davidson College, where she majored in psychology and developed a passion for adolescent psychology. Before attending Davidson, Helen completed her freshman year at Dartmouth and competed on their varsity squash team. She then took a year off from school and spent three months in India studying comparative religion and yoga. After graduating from college, she worked as an intern in the admissions office at her alma mater, Groton School in Massachusetts, also assisting with their squash program and serving as a member of a dorm team. This past summer, Helen joined the admissions office at Episcopal. Helen also works with the squash and lacrosse programs and lives on Harrison Dorm. n EHS

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Vestry

he student-run Vestry provides spiritual leadership for the School and assists with chapel services. Its members are chosen each year by the Head Chaplain and the students from the previous year’s Vestry. n Front row: Virginia Wright ’13, Alessandra Gavin ’12, Eleni Hadjis ’12, Senior Warden Bethany Gordon ’12, Abby Halm ’13, Ali Alford ’13, and Annie Gray Dixon ’13; second row: Sydnor Kerns ’13, Caroline Hagood ’12, Jack Glover ’12, Savannah Lambert ’14, and Head Chaplain Gideon Pollach; back row: Wonhee Lim ’12, Robert Hart ’13, and Assistant Chaplain Thom Hummel. Not pictured: Blake Richardson ’14.

A Family Tradition

his year 38 of Episcopal’s new students are legacies. There are 20 new students who have siblings who are current or former EHS students. Some of these legacy students and their alumni family members gathered on the steps of Stewart Gymnasium for the annual legacy photograph. n

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In the Fourth Year of Competition, St. Stephen’s & St. Agnes Claims Seminary Hill Cup Over EHS

wo days of perfect fall weather played host to the fourth annual Seminary Hill Cup (SHC) on Oct. 6 and 7. Community members from both schools came out in droves to cheer for their girls’ teams. After nine well-fought athletic competitions, St. Stephen’s & St. Agnes School recaptured the Cup. Thursday’s competition was dominated by the Maroon, as Episcopal’s cross country team captured two SHC points in the Alexandria City Meet to give EHS an early 2-0 lead in the competition. With eight of 10 possible Cup points at stake on Friday afternoon, it was, however, St. Stephen’s & St. Agnes that regained possession of the Cup with wins in varsity and JV field hockey, varsity and JV tennis, varsity soccer, and varsity volleyball. Episcopal’s JV volleyball (2-0 win) and JV girls’ soccer (2-2 tie) each registered points for the Maroon, but it was the Saints that carried the day and claimed the overall victory by a score of 6.5 to 3.5. After four years of competition, the overall standings leave both schools in a 2-2 deadlock, and anxiously awaiting next year’s chance to reclaim the lead. Following Friday afternoon’s athletic competitions, Episcopal welcomed students, parents, alumni, and friends for bluegrass and barbeque under a tent as part of the celebration of 20 years of coeducation at The High School. n

EHS varsity soccer takes on SSSAS. From left: Erin Montz ’13, Haley Lyerly ’13, and Amanda Lynne ’14.

Assistant Director of Development Libby Wilkinson and her daughter Wynne, Brennan Killeen ’05, and Peyton Killeen ’06 enjoy bluegrass and barbeque.

Freshman students enjoy celebrating under the tent. From left: Leo Weng, Jubal Early, Thayer King, Natalie Wall, Mary Helen Tarbutton, and Millicent Waller.

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Fall Academic Award Winners On Sept. 23, students were presented academic awards for excellence in studies completed during the 2010-11 academic year.

Front row: Teresa Kim ’13, Excellence in Mathematics and Thomas Kilby III Medal for Excellence in Chemistry; Jenny Mok ’14, Excellence in Mathematics; Mandy Holt ’14, Excellence in English and Excellence in World History 1; Jennifer Zhang ’14, Excellence in German; Caroline Magee ’12, Middlebury College Award for Excellence in Foreign Language; Abby Halm ’13, Excellence in Chemistry; Annie Page ’13, Excellence in Biblical Theology; Elle Wilson ’13, Excellence in World History 2; Annie Gray Dixon ’13; Excellence in Studio Art; and Russell Pierson ’12, Excellence in Vocal Music. Second row: Tyler Duerson ’12, Sewanee Award for Excellence in Writing, John Moncure Daniel Scholarship, and Excellence in United States History; Andrew DeJoy ’14, Excellence in Introduction to the Arts; Blair Dewing ’13, Excellence in English and Elizabeth Andrews Watts Scholarship for Excellence in Photography; Alex Deitz ’12, Excellence in French; Stuart Agnew ’12, Excellence in Instrumental Music and Excellence in Latin; Gillian Sarofim ’13, Excellence in Photography; Baker Patton ’12, Excellence in Drama; and Kaitlyn Ugoretz ’13, Excellence in AP Modern European History. Back row: Austin deButts ’12, Excellence in Spanish and Nominated for the University of Chapel Hill’s Morehead Scholarship; Woody Dewing ’12, Dartmouth College Book Award for Outstanding Work in Social Studies and Nominated for the University of Virginia’s Jefferson Scholarship; Thomas Merrick ’12, Excellence in English; Han Jun Bae ’12, Excellence in Mathematics and Excellence in Physics; Jesse Ling ’12, Excellence in Computer Science and Excellence in Biology; and Sang Chung ’12, Excellence in Chinese. Not pictured: Sydney Fenstermaker ’12, Excellence in Biology; Julian Lockhart ’12, The Harvard University Award for Scholastic Achievement, The George Washington University School of Engineering Medal/Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Certificate for Outstanding Work in Math and Science, and Miller Winston ’13, Excellence in Mathematics.

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The David Wax Museum Brings Mexo-Americana Fusion to EHS

he David Wax Museum arrived on Oct. 26, for the two-day Jay Walker Symposium. The David Wax Museum began performing in 2007. At first, David Wax and Sue Slezak played in their friends’ living rooms and backyards, but by 2009, they were on the road full-time. The band has a catchy and upbeat sound, fusing traditional Mexican folk with American roots and indie rock to create a unique Mexo-Americana aesthetic. Combining Latin rhythms, call-and-response hollering, and donkey jawbone rattling, they have entertained audiences across the country, and in 2010, were named Boston’s Americana Artist of the Year. Wax and Slezak spent time in the classroom working with the Episcopal orchestra’s string and horn sections. The string section worked with the band on their song, “Wait for Me,” in preparation for Thursday’s Jay Walker Concert. The horn section prepared a Mexican folk song, and the concert choir prepared two different vocal arrangements to perform with The Museum. That afternoon, the entire community attended a preview of Thursday’s concert. The Museum band members shared stories about their backgrounds, and the experience they have shared on the road. The Museum held a jam session Wednesday evening, and the band members broke up into individual

The Museum performs for the Episcopal community.

sessions with the students. “I led an old-time jam which was incredibly fun,” said Slezak. “The kids were so open, willing, and incredibly talented. They were really enthusiastic about trying something they had never tried out; trying an old time tune on the fiddle; closing their eyes and moving a little bit while they were playing; and trying to sing some harmony parts. It was really, really special.” On Thursday, The Museum attended a recording class, a guitar class, and the AP Music Theory class. In the afternoon, the band was joined on

the Fox Stage in Pendleton with all of the EHS musicians for the Jay Walker Concert. The David Wax Museum’s vocals and music joined with the sounds of the EHS choir and orchestra to fill Pendleton Hall. An annual event, the Jay Walker Symposium celebrates John Luther Walker, Jr. ’54 and his love of music. Sponsored by Walker’s family and friends, the program brings musicians to campus to work with students in the classroom, attend open sessions with student musicians, and perform for the entire community. n

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Fall Sports Highlights Boys’ Varsity Soccer

The boys’ varsity soccer team had a remarkable run to the VIS State Championship, their third in four years, with a small core of returning players including the 2010 Virginia Independent School Player of the Year, Schillo Tshuma ’12. The Maroon played their best soccer at the end of the season defeating St. Stephen’s and St. Agnes in the championship final 3-1 after two heartbreaking losses to them in league play.

Girls’ Cross Country

Girls’ cross country was led by All-State performers Alessandra Gavin ’12 and Suzelle Thomas ’14 placing third at the state championships, after placing third at the ISL Championships. Varsity Football

Varsity Field Hockey

The varsity field hockey team completed the season as ISL co-champions winning the conference title for the second year in a row. Led by strong senior leadership from captains Kelly Chandler, Barrett Wagner, and Marion Williams, the girls lost a tough battle to St. Catherine’s (1-0) in the quarterfinals of the state tournament.

The varsity football team earned a chance to go into the final IAC game of the season in the hunt for a share of the league title, when they came up against an inspired Bullis team who took the game and IAC banner for 2011. The Maroon also fought valiantly against Woodberry Forest in the 111th edition of The Game only to fall 21-12 in Hummel Bowl. Led by seniors Austin deButts and Johnny Bond, they played with passion right to the end.

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Girls’ Varsity Soccer

Girls’ varsity soccer lost a stunning golden goal penalty-kick shootout in front of the home crowd in the first round of the ISL tournament. The girls were led by captain Emma Holt ’12 and leading scorer Amanda Lynne ’14, who led the team in all offensive categories for the season (five goals and three assists).

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Varsity Volleyball

The varsity volleyball team blended a mix of new and young players to finish the year on a strong note winning three of the last five matches of the season and look forward to next season and the addition of players from the 11-6 JV team. NCAA Fall Signing

Girls’ Varsity Tennis

The girls’ varsity tennis team’s strong tradition continued as they made the state tournament pairings for the seventh consecutive season. Led by No.1 player Charlotte Hunt ’14 and Sara Kathryn Mayson ’12, a finalist in the ISL tournament, the Maroon ended the season ranked No. 6 in the state and have a strong group of young players coming up next year from the 10-6 JV team.

Four athletes committed to compete at the intercollegiate level at the NCAA fall signing date: Arnaud Adala Moto ’12, Wake Forest (basketball); Emma Holt ’12, Bucknell (lacrosse); Kelly Chandler ’12, Vanderbilt (lacrosse); Kethan Savage ’12, George Washington University (basketball). n

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Fall Play

rom Nov. 9 to 11, Episcopal students performed “Women of Troy,” in the Black Box Theater. “Women of Troy” is an adaptation of Euripides’ “The Trojan Women.” After 10 years of war with Greece, the struggle is finally over, but the aftermath has left the city of Troy reduced to rubble. The Greek army takes the remaining women in the city as prisoners of war, enslaves their queen, and kills the last male child. n

The cast and crew of “Women of Troy.” Front row: Jennifer Zhang ’14, Montana Crider ’15, Kathleen Leonard ’15, Rukky Ezi-Ashi ’15, Suzelle Thomas ’14, Caroline Haley ’15, Camille Russell ’14, Bailey Coleman ’15, Jenny Khang ’14, and Dayzia Terry ’15; second row: Jackson Zyontz ’13, Madison Hardaway ’15, and Technical Director Tim Nielsen; back row: Christopher Colley ’13, Carter Thomas ’13, Ian Rand ’13, Wilbur Earp ’13, Holly Reynolds ’13, and Leo Wang ’15.

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Joshua P. Darden, Jr. ’54

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f you don’t worry about who is getting the credit, it’s amazing what you can accomplish in life.” With these words at the core of every philanthropic endeavor, Josh Darden ’54, an active member of the Charlottesville and Hampton Roads communities, is currently number one on Inside Business: The Hampton Roads Business Journal’s Power List. After graduating from EHS, Darden attended the University of Virginia and later spent a brief time in the Army. He then returned home to Norfolk and began working at his father’s Chevrolet dealership. Darden spent his entire career in the automobile industry owning 11 different automobile franchises over the years and, in 1986, winning Time magazine’s National Quality Dealer Award as the Automobile Dealer of the Year. He served as rector of the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia from 1987-90 and chaired a $1 billion campaign for U.Va. from 1993-97. He also chaired the Governor’s Commission on Transportation for the 21st Century from 1984-86. In addition, Darden has served as chair of the Norfolk Academy Board of Trustees, founding president of the Tidewater Scholarship Foundation, board vice president for Norfolk International Terminals, trustee of Colonial Williamsburg, board member of the Greater Norfolk Corporation, and vice president of the Hampton Roads Partnership. In 1994, he was named First Citizen of Norfolk, and he currently serves on the Hampton Roads Community Foundation Board of Directors. Darden founded the Civic Leadership

Institute, which connects proven leaders through service to improve life in Hampton Roads. He also co-founded the ACCESS College Foundation, a program that strives to make higher education accessible and attainable for public high school students in South Hampton Roads. Since 1988, more than 70,000 Hampton Roads students have benefited from an ACCESS program. His most recent project is The Salvation Army Ray and Joan Kroc Corps Community Center in Norfolk. Founded by a $1.6 billion gift left by Joan Kroc, wife of McDonald’s Founder Ray Kroc, the center offers exercise facilities, music lessons, computer classrooms, and community meeting spaces. There are currently 11 Kroc Centers in cities across the country, and the new Hampton Roads center will increase this number to 12. Norfolk’s Kroc Center, a super community center, will provide guaranteed funding for jobs, programs,

scholarship, and other initiatives related to health and wellness, education, and the performing arts. Darden set a goal to raise $28 million for the construction and endowment of the new center, and The Salvation Army agreed to match his fundraising efforts. Construction for the center began this fall. As a student on the Hill, Darden was a member of the undefeated 1953 varsity football team that was inducted into the Episcopal Athletics Hall of Fame this year. He was also on the track team, a waiter, and a member of the Chapel Committee, the “E” Club and “Whispers.” Darden’s generosity to the community is easily recognizable in his support and dedication to The High School. In 1986, he established the Joshua P. Darden, Jr. Scholarship for minority students and from 1991-93, he served as a Trustee. n

Josh Darden ’54 at the Athletics Hall of Fame luncheon. He was a member of the undefeated 1953 football team that was inducted this year.

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Edward and Bowe Pritchard

PA R E N T S O F E DWA R D ’ 0 9 , P E T E R ’ 1 1 , A N D C E L E S T E ’ 1 4

Edward and Bowe Pritchard volunteer as area admissions representatives in their hometown of Charleston, S.C. Why did you choose to send Edward, Peter, and Celeste to EHS?

We were familiar with the School because multiple generations of Pritchards and our extended family have attended EHS, including my father and grandfather. We considered both single-sex and coed schools as well as smaller and larger institutions; however we did limit the search geographically to the Mid-Atlantic states and portions of the Northeast. During Edward’s eighth grade year, we drove around touring a number of schools, the last of which was EHS. Edward visited Episcopal in mid-January. Being from Charleston, I joked with Edward and told him that if he liked EHS on a cold, grey winter day, he would like it every other day of the year, too. It turns out that he did like it, very much, and Episcopal became his first choice. At that time most boys from Edward’s K-8 school were moving on to attend Woodberry Forest; so choosing Episcopal was a slight departure from his class. When it was time for Peter to decide where to attend high school, he was already very familiar with Episcopal having visited his brother on many occasions. Had it not been for Edward’s experience here, Peter probably would not have considered a boarding school. But, seeing how much his brother loved it; experiencing the campus when visiting EHS for Edward’s athletic competitions; and spending time with Edward’s classmates when they came to Charleston to visit, helped make the decision for Peter, and he too chose to attend Episcopal. Our youngest, Celeste, expressed her desire to attend The High School from the get-go. She didn’t even entertain the idea of staying in Charleston and attending a local high school. As parents we wanted her to formally go through the process and look at other schools in addition to EHS, to make sure she was aware of all of her options, but she was firmly set on EHS. Celeste is the first female in a long family lineage of relatives to attend The High School. Why do you feel it is important to volunteer your time to the School? How did you first become involved with the EHS Admissions Office as a volunteer and what motivated you to become a Charleston area admissions representative?

Like any school, a school is only as good as the people who not only run it, but also the parents, alumni, and students who support and invest in it. I believe in the School and its mission. My home of Charleston is also very important to me, and over the years many Charleston families have attended

Episcopal. While EHS has grown into a diverse school pulling from a national and international geographic spectrum, I think it is vital to keep some of the School’s southern traditions alive. It is important to me to help support and maintain Episcopal’s connection to the Charleston area, and just one of the ways my wife and I can help do that is by serving as area admissions representatives for the School. We also feel that it is important for all EHS parents, ourselves included, to support the School financially, within one’s means or ability, to help maintain the beautiful campus and to retain and recruit outstanding faculty. What is the most important thing you would tell a prospective parent about Episcopal?

First and foremost is the outstanding leadership and clear philosophy and vision of Headmaster Rob Hershey. He believes in the mission of the School and guides the “ship” in the right direction. He knows how to identify and hire talented individuals, and he also knows how and when to delegate authority and allows the faculty and staff the latitude to not just do their jobs, but to do them well. I tell prospective parents of the strong EHS faculty. While there is a strong base of faculty with lengthy tenure at the School, there is also a good balance of fresh, younger talent; they bring new vibrant ideas and energy that you don’t find in other schools. The School’s proximity to Washington, D.C., is also important to emphasize. The School isn’t just near a major metropolitan city, the nation’s capital, but the curriculum takes advantage of the vast range of opportunities the city offers, and therefore Episcopal students are exposed to things that students at other schools would not be. Finally, I tell families about Episcopal’s excellent college placement. Frankly, not only is college placement strong, but EHS graduates continue to perform and excel once they get to college. EHS graduates are better prepared for the challenges of college, especially during freshman year, than are other students. The School’s mission is to prepare students to “lead principled lives of leadership and service to others.” How do you feel this impacted Edward’s, Peter’s, and Celeste’s experiences at EHS?

Episcopal has given our three children a strong foundation and moral compass to live by. They have a sense of right and wrong, what priorities to set, and a sense of responsibility. Episcopal taught our children how to balance study and fun. I do not think that Peter would ever have chosen to attend the U.S. Naval Academy had it not been for the importance of leadership and service to others that was instilled in him at EHS.

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Peter Pritchard ’11 (third from left) celebrates with his sister, Celeste ’14 (fourth from left); his father Edward (fifth from left); his mother, Bowe (far right); and other family members at his commencement in May 2011.

What has Episcopal High School meant to your children?

What is your favorite EHS story or memory?

Edward, Peter, and Celeste would best be able to answer this question themselves, but I would say that the friends they made at EHS and the caring faculty have meant the most to all three of them. The friendships they have made at The High School will last a lifetime. Our children also developed strong friendships with their teachers and coaches. As parents, we too have enjoyed getting to know the faculty, who are outstanding individuals who care about the children, and it was and still is reassuring to know our boys were, and now Celeste is, being looked after by faculty and staff of such character. Edward and Peter still stay in touch with many of their EHS teachers some who are still on campus and some who have moved on to other ventures.

Dropping each of our children off on that first day immediately comes to mind. We felt new excitement each time we drove up the drive, because with each child it was a new journey and adventure. I remember turning to Bowe on the drive home after dropping off Edward and commenting that I thought she would be more emotionally torn up about leaving him, but she said that she wasn’t because Edward was in the right place. She said, “He’s where he wants to be, where he should be, and I can’t be upset about that.” With Peter and Celeste it was the same feeling – that they were in the right place. n

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Reflects On Her Experience on the Hill

was the first child in my family to go to boarding school. As the day of my departure from home drew near, I began to get scared and had no one to ask what life at EHS would be like. The night before I moved to school, I snuck into my sister’s room, crawled in her bed, and cried, terrified to leave my family. I brought that fear to Harrison Dorm and spent the first weeks of freshman year to myself, going to bed in tears. That loneliness could not last long when living on campus with your peers. Like all students at EHS, I signed into breakfast, went to class, ate seated lunch, played a sport, and went to study hall with my classmates every day. By the end of my first year I had grown from a scared little student to a member of the varsity soccer and lacrosse teams and had made the friends that I will consider my closest for the rest of my life. I graduated from EHS in 1999 – early in Episcopal’s coeducational history – and at that time there were about two boys for every girl in the School. While the boys may have noticed a lack of available girlfriends,

The 1999 Cheerleaders at The Game. From left: Annie Graff, Griff VanMeter, Tim Garon, Will Graham, Katie Kaufman, Patrick Carlini, and Becky Kellam.

I did not consider the disparity. In the classroom and on the field, our teachers and coaches drove us to perform and expected the best from all students. I never felt that boys’ teams received more attention or that girls were given leeway. (In a not-so-notable accomplishment, I was the first girl ever to have the most demerits in the school.) With only 100 students in the entire class we all knew each other well, and during those four years I felt less like I had different groups of friends and more that I was part of a cohesive, united class, strongly bonded together. For me, the entire process – going to a new place on my own, being challenged to do my best in the classroom and on the field, respecting my peers, adhering to the honor code, and maturing as an individual with friends who feel like family – is the core of the EHS experience. It was this experience that gave me the confidence and the discipline to play a Division I sport in college. It provided the foundation I needed to live abroad; I have worked in Uzbekistan, China, Taiwan, Mongolia, and even Texas.

EHS alums celebrating at the wedding of Steve Salyer ’99. From left: Walker Inman ’99, Richard Punches ’96, Salyer, Clair Clark ’99, Tim Garon ’99, Kaufman, and Will Chapman ’99.

I now reside in Washington, D.C., one of four partners in an international business firm. In my current professional capacity, I deal primarily with business leaders and government officials in Japan and engineers and bankers in the United States. EHS prepared me well to be undaunted as the only female in the majority of meetings I attend, and I approach every portfolio project with the same energy, integrity, expectation of achievement, and diligence that I did on the field and in the classroom at EHS. While I attribute much of my professional success to the educational and personal foundation that EHS provided, I am most grateful that when I have a hard day or want to celebrate, I have great friends from EHS that I know will be there for me.

Kaufman (center) at the Burlington Northern Santa Fe headquarters with a few of her Japanese partners from Central Japan Railway. One of her projects is deploying the N700-I bullet train in Texas, which calls for her to bring Japanese engineers to Fort Worth Texas to meet with U.S. railway engineers and operations managers.

Eric McDonald ’13

Shares His Diamond Acre Experience

his summer, on a trip sponsored by former Board Chair John L. Townsend III ’73, 13 Episcopal students ventured out west to experience a 25-day wilderness expedition. The group consisted of nine seniors: Stuart Agnew, Kelly Chandler, Harrison Clement, Elani Hadjis, Caroline Hagood, Sam Henriques, Willie MacDade, Lillian Smith, and Riley Wilson. There were also four juniors: Sommer Glubiak, Abby Halm, Evan Leonard, and me. The Episcopal students were accompanied by Alex and Rachel, our Wilderness Venture guides, who led us through the trip. During the trip the group traveled through Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, and Washington. The group took two trips backpacking into the Beartooth and Anaconda-Pintler Wildernesses. For the first trip in the Anaconda-Pintler Wilderness, the group was split in half, and we went our separate ways. For the second trip, we hiked together in the Beartooth Wilderness and had some memorable times. One of the most popular parts of the trip was white water rafting. For four days we rafted down the winding Salmon River. Our amazing white water

Episcopal students hiking through the wilderness.

rafting guides were knowledgeable about the area, and they happened to also be great cooks. After two stints in the backcountry, everyone thought the four days of rafting was luxurious. We slept on beautiful beaches, ate great food for every meal, and rested from all of the hiking. After the rafting, we traveled to Yellowstone National Park, where we saw the famous geyser Old Faithful and took a nice dip in the hot springs. Nearing the end of our journey everyone was getting excited about our summit climb to the top of the Grand Teton. Before climbing the Grand, we spent two days learning different climbing and safety techniques with Exum, the guide company that would lead us to the summit. After completing the lessons, we were ready to climb the Grand Teton. The hike to the saddle was a tough, seven-mile hike, all up hill. The higher we hiked, the more we felt the altitude increase and the temperature drop. When we reached the saddle, the group was exhausted. We all went to sleep early anticipating the 3:00 a.m. wakeup call. Everyone that night was dreaming of the top. When we woke up the

From left: Riley Wilson ’12, Harrison Clement ’12, Kelly Chandler ’12, Alex, the Wilderness Ventures guide, Lillian Smith ’12, Eric McDonald ’13, Sommer Glubiak ’13, and Evan Leonard ’13.

next morning, the mountain looked majestic. It was pitch black and the only lights came from our headlamps and the dim lights of the little town, miles away at the bottom of the mountain. It was 4:00 in the morning by the time we began our journey, and it was frigid. The group was divided into four groups, each accompanied by an Exum guide. After six hours of intense climbing, all of the groups reached the top. The view was breathtaking, and as we reached the top everyone had chills running up their spines. Everyone will remember the top of the Grand for the rest of our lives. The next day we were able to meet the man who gave us the wonderful opportunity to go on the trip, Mr. Townsend. The group visited Mr. Townsend’s property in Teton National Park – The Diamond Acre – on the last night for barbecue and fellowship. The group is very thankful for Mr. Townsend for giving us all this incredible opportunity, and I am sure no one will forget the amazing time we had out west. n

From left: Caroline Hagood ’12, Willie McDade ’12, Harrison Clement ’12, and Riley Wilson ’12.

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n Nov. 12, thousands of students, families, alumni, and faculty from Episcopal High School and Woodberry Forest School

gathered in Hummel Bowl to watch the 111th football game between the two schools, one of the nation’s oldest continuous high school rivalries.

Despite a hard-fought battle and extraordinary efforts by the team, EHS ultimately fell to WFS 21-12, ending their season with a 3-6 record. Director of Boys’ Athletics and Football Coach Mark Gowin reflected on the game and expressed gratitude for the support of the fans. “Our players fed off the tremendous energy in the stands, and we all appreciated it very much,” he said. Austin deButts ’12 scored on a oneyard run and threw a 70-yard touchdown pass to Johnny Bond ’12 to lead Episcopal’s offense. deButts accounted for 283 all-purpose yards, and Bond had two catches for 85 yards to lead the receivers. Episcopal ended the day with

211 total yards to Woodberry’s 213 total yards. Episcopal played well defensively throughout the game, under the direction of Coach Steve Castle. Bond led the defense with 11 tackles, Buck Armstrong ’12 followed closely with 10, and Jack Blaine ’12 added seven tackles. David Maybank ’12 recorded Episcopal’s only quarterback sack. Adam Lynne ’12 blocked a field goal attempt in the fourth quarter. “Anyone watching the game knows how hard our boys played right to the final whistle on Saturday,” said Gowin. “We are grateful to the student body, our football parents, our faculty, and our alumni for their support.” n

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THE HALL OF FAME

Welcomes New Inductees

Shown after receiving their awards at the Athletics Hall of Fame luncheon are (first row, left to right) Hunter Faulconer III (accepting posthumously for his father, P. Hunter Faulconer ’57), Amy Fannon Cupic ’94, S. Nelson Weston ’54, and Bill Flippin ’59; (back row, left to right) Derek Fitzgerald ’91, Vinny Giles ’61, Ed Rice, and Bryson Spinner ’99.

T H E AT H L E T I C S H A L L O F FA M E H O N O R S AT H L E T E S W H O H AV E B RO U G H T E X C E L L E N C E , R E C O G N I T I O N , A N D P R I D E TO T H E S C H O O L O V E R T H E Y E A R S . T H I S Y E A R , E H S I N D U C T E D E I G H T I N D I V I D UA L S A N D T W O T E A M S , W H O J O I N E D T H E R A N K S O F E P I S C O PA L’ S E L I T E AT H L E T E S D U R I N G A C E R E M O N Y O N N O V. 1 1 .

Edward Adams Rice Coach Ed Rice has enjoyed a distinguished athletic career at Episcopal High School, serving in various positions, including athletic director, head varsity football coach, head varsity track & field coach, and director of track & field. Rice has been a valuable member of the EHS community for more than 35 years. In his first two years, he coached the shot put and discus throwers to two state championships. For 25 years, he was head coach for the track & field team, and EHS finished first or second in the Interstate Athletic Conference (IAC) for 22 of those years. When he was serving as assistant coach, his teams won three Independent School League (ISL) championships and three additional IAC championships. There are 40 current school records in outdoor track & field and 33 of those were set during Rice’s tenure, as were 28 of 33 indoor track records. He also helped Episcopal’s varsity football team achieve success, winning four IAC championships during his time as an assistant coach. In 2003, Rice received the Gerald R. Ford AllAmerican High School Coach Award from the All-American Football Foundation. Rice reflected on his time at Episcopal and identified what he believed were the most memorable of his successes. “In terms of Episcopal athletics,” said Rice, “beating Woodberry in 1977 and winning the IAC Track & Field Championship in 1984, those were the benchmarks.”

But Rice also finds a great sense of accomplishment outside of earning big wins and state championships. He knows that there are some students, who might not be at the top of their class or in a leadership position, but find their place, their own accomplishments in athletics. “They leave Episcopal and go on in their life and find great success because of the experiences they had in athletics here,” Rice said. His own career as a student-athlete set the stage for his future accomplishments as a coach. Rice was captain of the track & field team for Phillips Academy at Andover and held the national record for the 16-pound hammer throw. He also played varsity football, earning All-New England honors. As a senior at Boston University, Rice was named Most Valuable Player for the track & field team. Coach Rice continues to work with Episcopal’s studentathletes as assistant coach for the boys’ and girls’ track & field teams. Rice’s enthusiasm and devotion for athletics at Episcopal has never waned, and he is honored to be inducted in to the Hall of Fame. “Before I knew that I was to be inducted, and even now, I walk through the building and see the Hall of Fame and all of the inductees,” Rice said. “All of them have great character, great athletic ability, and to be included is overwhelming and humbling.”

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S. Nelson Weston ’54 Dr. Nelson Weston lettered in both football and baseball at Episcopal. A leader on and off the athletic field, as a senior he was Monitor and co-captain of the baseball team. He also was co-alternate captain of the undefeated 1953 football team, which was ranked No. 1 in the Washington area and won the Virginia Prep Championship. Weston led the team’s defense with 80 tackles and earned All-Metro and All-Prep honors. He blocked a punt in the game against Woodberry Forest School to help secure Episcopal’s victory.

Weston attributes his football successes to his coach. “I had a wonderful coach in Lee McLaughlin. He pretty much taught me how to play football,” said Weston. “It carried over to my college years.” After graduation, Weston was a three-year starter for the University of South Carolina’s football team. He played alongside his brother, Bill Weston ’52, also a three-year letterman for the Gamecocks. As a senior, he co-captained the team and earned Academic All-ACC honors. Weston expressed gratitude to be inducted in the Episcopal Athletics Hall of Fame. “I visited the new athletics center when I was on campus for my granddaughter’s graduation,” said Weston. “It is a magnificent building, in particular, the Hall of Fame. I am honored to be joining it and especially proud to be joining two fellow Gamecocks, my brother Bill ’52 and Jimmy Cathcart ’55.”

Percival Hunter Faulconer, Jr. ’57* A stand-out on the football, tennis, and track & field teams, Hunter Faulconer also led the student body as a Senior Monitor and member of the Honor Committee, “E” Club, and Advisory Board. Faulconer captained the varsity football team and was a fouryear starter, setting school records for most touchdowns and most rushing yards gained in a season and earning All-Met and All-American honors. Faulconer and his team beat Woodberry for four straight years, and he scored all 19 points earned in the 19-6 victory over the highly favored Wakefield High School. As a senior, he received the Jack Buchanan Award for Football and was named as The Washington Post’s Football Player of the Year in 1957.

* awarded posthumously

The “Whispers” staff wrote of Faulconer, “The third reason for the team’s winning record was its captain, an AllAmerican, All-Metropolitan selection, Hunter Faulconer. EHS does not specialize in individual stars, but in team effort; however, Hunter did stand out as the big gun of this year’s eleven. As a captain he provided the leadership that a team must have to win ball games. Also as a player Hunter had no peer. The records that he set cannot be counted on one hand, and it will be many a year before these records are broken.” Faulconer also captained the tennis team for two years and was the No. 1 singles player his senior year, ultimately receiving the George Edmund Bradford Award for Tennis. “My friend, Hunter, in the ’55 season carried the ball 117 times for 761 yards for a 6.5 yard per carry average,” said Bruce Rinehart ’56, Faulconer’s close friend and roommate while at Episcopal. “In The Game, he carried 27 times for 135 yards on a wet, snowy field. Hunter was a gifted athlete.”

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William Seyfert Flippin ’59 At Episcopal, Bill Flippin was a star on both the football and the track & field teams. He played end for two seasons on the varsity football team, earning All-State honors his senior year. The football team finished 6-2-1 in 1957, including a 27-0 victory against Woodberry Forest School, and went 7-1-1 for the 1958 season. He caught two touchdown passes in the 1958 game against Mercersburg Academy. However, Flippin shone even more brightly on the track & field team. He broke the record previously set by his father, Harrison Flippin ’26, in the high hurdles, and he set school records in the 220 low hurdles with a time of 25.3 and the 60 high hurdles with a time of 7.6. Flippin also set a new record

for the high jump, at 6 feet 1¾ inches. Flippin was the first track captain under famed Coach Jim Seidule, who described him as “a superb leader.” The 1959 “Whispers” staff wrote, “Bill Flippin is probably one of the three greatest track men ever to attend The High School. He was a leader, an example, and an inspiration to every member of the team. His achievement of breaking six school records is unprecedented and should be unequaled for many years. Everything he did must be described in superlatives, and his leadership – by demonstration instead of mere words – was beyond praise. He leaves a gap which can be filled only by several boys and takes the devotion of his teammates with him.” “I am honored to be chosen to this elite group at The High School,” Flippin said. “I attended the first Hall of Fame dinner when my father Harrison F. Flippin ’26 was inducted posthumously. I regret that the Flippin Field House was not built before I graduated. We spent many cold windy afternoons on the board track outside.”

Marvin McCrary Giles 111 ’61 Vinny Giles recognizes that his induction to Episcopal’s Athletics Hall of Fame is a unique experience. Although Giles excelled on Episcopal’s football, basketball, and track & field teams, he displayed significant talent in a sport not offered at Episcopal – golf. “It is an interesting thing,” Giles remarked. “I probably am the first person in Episcopal Hall of Fame history to be inducted for a sport that I didn’t play in high school.” Instead, his hurdles coach, Billy Boothe, would play with him on the weekends, allowing Giles to hone his skills on the green. The weekend practices paid off; Giles was a three-time NCAA All-American at the University of Georgia and runnerup at the 1966 NCAA championship. He led Georgia to three SEC championships in 1963, 1964, and 1965, and he won the Dogwood Open in 1963 and 1965. Despite his success, Giles chose to remain an amateur instead of joining the pro tour. He continued to play on the amateur tour circuit, finishing second in the U.S. Amateur for three straight years before winning it in 1972. In 1975, he

won the British Amateur, and he also won numerous other amateur titles, including seven Virginia State Amateurs, two Southern Amateurs, and three Virginia Opens. Giles played on the Walker Cup team in 1969, 1971, 1973, and 1975, winning three times, and he captained the 1993 team to victory. He played on three winning Eisenhower Trophy teams (1968, 1970, and 1972), later captaining the 1992 team to a secondplace finish. Giles has played in 11 professional majors, making the cut in three of his nine Masters Tournament appearances and in both of his U.S. Open appearances. He was low amateur in the 1968 Masters Tournament, the 1973 U.S. Open, and in three U.S. Senior Opens (1993, 1996, and 1997). He won the 2009 U.S. Senior Amateur championship, making him one of only two players to ever win both the U.S. Amateur and U.S. Senior Amateur titles; he is the only player to ever win both the U.S. Amateur, U.S. Senior Amateur, and British Amateur, considered the three most prestigious amateur golf tournaments. He is a member of the University of Georgia, Virginia State, National Seniors, and Southern Golf Association halls of fame. In 1994, he was commended by the Virginia House of Delegates for his “notable successes at the state, national, and international levels of amateur golf; for the leadership and dedication he has given amateur golf; and for sharing with others his love of the game.”

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Derek DeVon Fitz gerald ’91 At Episcopal, Derek Fitzgerald lettered in football and track & field. He was a two-year starter on the varsity football team, and in his junior year, he led the team to an 8-1 record and broke the School’s 28-year-old rushing record, formerly held by EHS Hall of Fame member Max Chapman ’62. Fitzgerald set the new record with 359 yards on 32 carries in the game against Georgetown Prep. He rushed for more than 1,700 yards as a junior and was the leading rusher in the Washington, D.C., area, earning All-IAC, Second Team All-Met, and All-Alexandria honors. As a senior, Fitzgerald received the Moncure Award for Football and earned All-IAC and All-Met Honorable Mention honors. He was recognized four times as The Washington Post’s Top Performer during his high school career, twice for big games against Woodberry Forest School. “As far as high school careers go, Derek was one of the best running backs I ever coached,” remembered Coach

Mark Gowin, football coach and director of boys’ athletics at Episcopal. “He set all of the records here. He was a dynamic back that could do everything. Derek was fast, powerful, had great vision, and made all kinds of plays even when people were all over him.” Fitzgerald also excelled on the track & field team. He ran on the IAC championship 4x100 relay team as a junior and as a senior his relay team won the IAC and Cronly meets. He earned All-IAC honors as a senior and was selected as one of Alexandria’s Top 100 Athletes by the Alexandria Sportsman’s Club in 1999. “My time at EHS was one of the best and most memorable times of my life,” said Fitzgerald, “and set the foundation for my success athletically and academically during my college career.” “It’s always a good feeling to be recognized for your accomplishments, and I’m truly humbled by this honor,” said Fitzgerald. “I’m keenly aware of the tradition and history of EHS athletics. To be enshrined into that history by my induction into the EHS Hall of Fame caps a great time in my life that my family and I will cherish forever. I’m looking forward to returning to the Hill and what better time than Spirit Weekend to celebrate!”

Amy Fannon Cupic ’94 A three-sport athlete and one of Episcopal’s “First 48” girls, Amy Cupic is the third woman to be inducted into Episcopal’s Athletics Hall of Fame. She excelled on Episcopal’s field hockey, indoor track, and lacrosse teams. She captained the varsity field hockey team as a junior and a senior, earning All-ISL honors both years. In her senior year, she led the team to its first ISL championship, regular season and tournament, with a 14-1 record. Cupic had 10 goals and 15 assists in her final season, and she was named Field Hockey Player of the Month and Field Hockey Athlete of the Year by the Alexandria Sportsman’s Club. She also earned All-Met honors as a senior and won the School Award for Field Hockey as both a junior and a senior.

Cupic also shone on the girls’ varsity lacrosse team. She cocaptained the team as a junior and a senior and led the team to an ISL-A league championship. Cupic received the School Medal for Athletic Worth at Commencement. In the fall of 2010, she returned to campus to speak to Episcopal’s female athletes before the third annual Seminary Hill Cup event, inspiring the varsity field hockey team to beat cross-town rivals St. Stephen’s and St. Agnes School for the first time since 1995. “It is a distinct honor to be among such a distinguished group of athletes and coaches, especially during this momentous year celebrating 20 years of coeducation, “said Cupic. “While many years have passed since I walked the halls of Episcopal, I remain proud to be a member of the First 48, to have represented EHS on the field, and am continually grateful for the opportunity to be part of the legacy of this extraordinary school.”

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Bryson A. Spinner ’99 Bryson Spinner lettered in football, basketball, and track & field at Episcopal, helping each team win championships and setting several school records. He was a Monitor and received the Rinehart Medal for Athletic Worth at Commencement. “He might be the best overall athlete I have ever coached,” said Coach Mark Gowin, director of boys’ athletics at Episcopal. “He was a sport-savvy, competitive young man. He did the little things that you can’t teach an athlete. He had an instinctive gift to not just see the field and make a decision, but had the athletic skill to make it happen.” He co-captained the varsity football team as a junior and senior, leading the team to an undefeated season, IAC championship, and No. 14 ranking by The Washington Post for the 1998 season. As a senior, Spinner was named IAC Most Valuable Player, earned High School All-American and First Team All-Met honors, and was ranked as the No. 10 combination quarterback in the nation by National Recruiting Advisor. He quarterbacked the team to three straight victories over Woodberry Forest, received the Moncure Award for Football for two years, and was selected to play in the annual Chesapeake Classic all-star high school football game. Spinner had more than 60 career touchdowns, running and passing, which set both EHS and Alexandria records, and as a senior he was named The Journal Newspapers Northern Virginia Football Player of the Year, Alexandria Gazette and Alexandria Sportsman’s Club Player of the Year, Fairfax

County Hall of Fame Player of the Year, and Pigskin Club of Washington Quarterback of the Year. On the basketball team, Spinner served as captain in his sophomore, junior, and senior years, leading the team to state championships, as well as to victories over Woodberry Forest. The team won the IAC championship in his junior year, and he was named to the VISAA Tournament Team. Spinner earned All-IAC honors as a sophomore, junior, and senior, All-Met Honorable Mention as a senior, All-State as a junior and a senior, and was named to the Sidwell Friends All-Tournament Team as a senior. He was selected to the All-VISAA Tournament Team as a junior and was the VISAA State Tournament Most Valuable Player as a senior. As a senior, Spinner was named as Alexandria Sportsman’s Club’s Player of the Year and Most Valuable Player of the Capitol Classic All-Star Game. He was selected by his teammates to receive the William Caskie Watts Award for the most valuable player in his junior and senior years. Finally, Spinner also excelled on Episcopal’s spring track & field team, serving as co-captain of the team as a junior and senior. He led the team to IAC championships as a junior and senior, and as a junior he won the triple jump and ran on the winning 4x100 team at the IAC championship. He was All-IAC in his sophomore, junior, and senior year; set a new school record in the triple jump (44’10”); and ran on school-record-setting 4x100 and 4x200 relay teams. Spinner earned football scholarships at the University of Virginia and the University of Richmond. He later played for the Frankfurt Galaxy, 2006 World Bowl Champions, as part of NFL Europe. Today he continues to be part of Episcopal athletics, coaching the varsity football and girls’ varsity basketball teams.

“While many years have passed since I walked the halls of Episcopal, I remain proud to be a member of the First 48, to have represented EHS on the field, and am continually grateful for the opportunity to be part of the legacy of this extraordinary school.” A M Y FA N N O N C U P I C ’ 9 4

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The 1953 Football Team The 1953 Football Team:

Episcopal’s 1953 football team ended its season with an undefeated record (9-0) and 234 points scored, giving up just 56 points for the season, making EHS the only unbeaten and untied team in the greater Washington, D.C., area. Co-Alternate Captain John Burress ’54 set the school rushing records, with 164 carries and 1,048 yards gained. Captain Fletcher Carter ’54 (EHS Hall of Fame 2005) missed two games due to injury, but he still earned 719 yards on 101 carries for a season average of 7.1 yards per carry. Nelson Weston ’54 (EHS Hall of Fame 2011) led Episcopal’s defense with 80 tackles, as well as playing guard on the offense. Carter, Burress, Weston, Robert Wilson ’54, and Jay Walker ’54 earned First Team All-Prep honors. EHS also was the only team in the greater Washington, D.C., area to have more than one player earn All-Met honors, which were awarded to Carter, Burress, and Weston. The 1953 team was coached by Lee McLaughlin (EHS Hall of Fame 2005). He was assisted by Syd Walden and Jim Taylor. “We are thrilled,” said Burress. “Many of us have stayed friends all these years. There is something created in the way of a bond within an athletic team, especially one that enjoys success. This is a source of great pride for us.”

“It was an incredible weekend for so many of Episcopal’s all-time greatest athletes. It was so special to see the athletes from the ’53 football and ’72 lacrosse teams reconnecting. Each of the teams displayed a special chemistry and camaraderie that must have been a key ingredient in their respective Hall of Fame seasons. And the individual Hall of Fame inductees were incredibly gracious in sharing stories of support by teammates, coaches, and loved ones.” RICK WILCOX E H S AT H L E T I C S H A L L O F FA M E S E C R E TA RY A N D A S S O C I AT E D I R E C T O R O F D E V E L O P M E N T

Augustus Theodore Allen, Jr. ’56 J. Gray Beverley, Jr. ’54 Langhorne McCook Bond ’55 Harry Bowen, Jr. ’54 Morton Boyd, Jr. ’54 William A. Bridgers, Jr. ’54 John Woodfin Burress III ’54 Clarence Fletcher Carter III ’54 James W. Chapman II ’54 Larry Barkley Creson, Jr. ’54 Jay Carroll Cox ’55 Joshua Pretlow Darden, Jr. ’54 Oscar Swift Davis ’54 Edward Gordon Dudley, Jr. ’56 Joseph Willcox Dunn, Jr. ’55 Percival Hunter Faulconer, Jr. ’57 William Carson Ferguson ’54 William McIntyre Gill ’54 George Patterson Hester ’54 John Gill Holland ’54 Robert L. Hudgins ’54 William Armistead Jeffreys ’54 John Marshall Jones, Jr. ’54 Walter Klingman ’56 Eugene N. Lane ’54 Floyd Lankford III ’57 Harry Leland Lawson III ’54 Malcolm Matheson III ’55 Coach Lee M. McLaughlin Allan John Mead ’54 Raleigh C. Minor ’54 David Nicholls Montague ’54 Charles Norris Nielsen ’56 William Boxley Parrott ’56 James Faulkner Pinkney, Jr. ’55 Lee Hemingway Putney ’54 Bruce Huyler Rinehart ’56 John Bowles Shepard III ’56 Richard C. Sherrill ’56 Samuel G. Slaughter ’54 Cornelius V. L. Stewart ’54 Coach James R. Taylor Charles Vawter Tompkins, Jr. ’54 Coach Stuart Sydnor Walden John Luther Walker, Jr. ’54 S. Nelson Weston ’54 Richard Kelly White, Jr. ’56 David Kirk Williams ’54 Robert Wilson, Jr. ’54 Julian Emmett Winslow, Jr. ’54 Francis Eugene Yon ’55

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The 1972 Lacrosse Team The 1972 Lacrosse Team:

The only undefeated and untied lacrosse team in EHS history, the 1972 lacrosse team ended its season with a 12-0 record, a scoring average of 10 goals per game, and having only allowed an average of three goals per game. Kin Nevitt ’73 (EHS Hall of Fame 1993), team co-captain and attackman, set a school record with 34 goals and was named regional All-American by the U.S. Lacrosse Coaches Association. Attackman Scotty Farrar ’72 set a school record, 50 total points with 21 goals and 29 assists. Charlie Bagley ’72, co-captain and goalie, also set a school record with 141 saves. The season was highlighted by two wins against Woodberry Forest School and the 12-6 defeat of perennial lacrosse powerhouse St. Mary’s of Annapolis. Co-captain Kin Nevitt attributes the team’s strength and success to Coach Joe Shelor. “It started with Joe,” said Nevitt. “He drove the athletes. He was a no nonsense guy who no one would question. He brought football players and a core group of athletes together to create the best team in the state.” n

Bahlmann Abbot III ’72 H. Heath Alexander ’72 Charles Bagley IV ’72 William H. Bell III ’72 Edwin Nash Broyles ’73 Anthony Ray Chase ’73 Charles Bell Compton, Jr. ’73 Alexander Nicholson Conner ’72 Duval Scott Farrar ’72 Robert MacGregor Harryman ’73 William Fairfax Herbert ’73 James Farrier Hobson ’72 Frederick Arthur Lupton III ’72 Joseph T. Mason ’72 Marshall Trammell Mays, Jr. ’73 Henry Mann Montague ’72 Henry Sayler Morgan ’73 Robert Erskine Nevitt ’73 Louis L. P. Prichard ’72 C. Thomas C. Russe ’72 Charles Henry Schutte ’73 Coach Joseph Badger Shelor ’52 Charles William Swinford, Jr. ’72 Coach John M. Walker, Jr. Robert Alan Wilson, Jr. ’72

NOMINATIONS G T H E H A L L O F FA M E S E L E C T I O N C O M M I T T E E W E LC O M E S N O M I N AT I O N S F O R 2 0 1 3 B Y J U N E 3 0 , 2 0 1 2 .

Submit via the website at www.episcopalhighschool.org or to Rick Wilcox, Athletics Hall of Fame secretary by email at fw@episcopalhighschool.org, or by phone at 703-933-4024 (toll-free 877-EHS-1839).

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T H E A N N I V E R S A R Y O F C O E D U C AT I O N The Episcopal community enthusiastically celebrated the 20th anniversary of coeducation at events throughout the fall, both on and off campus.

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The community gathered in Pendleton Hall on Oct. 4 to celebrate the anniversary of coeducation. Head Monitor Caroline Hagood ’12, English teacher Perry Epes ’65, and Director of Faculty Development and science teacher Jackie Maher were joined by alumni, Luke David ’93, T.J. Wilt ’95, Sarah Akridge Knutson ’96, and Azizi Jones ’02, for a panel discussion on coeducation at The High School. The panelists shared their reflections on coeducation and the important strides the community has made since the fall of 1991.

On Wednesday, Oct. 19, Episcopal alumni gathered at a reception at the Colony Club in New York City to commemorate the anniversary. “It was a very successful event, with more than 50 people attending,” said Director of Alumni and Parent Programs Lyle Farrar ’04. Headmaster Rob Hershey, Ginny Moore ’03, assistant director of annual giving, and Libby Wilkinson, assistant director of development, were also in attendance to meet with the guests. “The large turnout of alumnae made it apparent that Episcopal women are capable and attracted to the complex and demanding world of New York City,” said Moore. “Their Episcopal experience contributed to the confidence and success that they have there today.”

S P I R I T O F T H E H I G H S C H O O L D I N N E R AND RECEPTION On Friday, Nov. 11, hundreds of alumni gathered on campus to celebrate the Spirit of The High School and the 20th anniversary of coeducation at Episcopal. The dinner program included remarks by George Logan ’63, who was the chairman of the Board of Trustees that voted in favor of coeducation; former Headmaster Sandy Ainslie ’56, who presided over the first years of Episcopal’s coeducation; the Rev. Rachel May ’00, and Head Monitor Caroline Hagood ’12. The four speakers reflected on their experiences at Episcopal, the transition to coeducation, and the celebration of the decision that changed the face of EHS forever. The program concluded with musical performances by Episcapellas and Jack of Hearts. n

1 The coeducation discussion panelists were T.J. Wilt ’95, Jackie Maher, Headmaster Rob Hershey, Caroline Hagood ’12, Azizi Jones ’02, Perry Epes ’65, Luke David ’93, and Sarah Akridge Knutson ’96.

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Frances deSaussure ’06, Charlotte Woltz ’05, and Jane Humphreys ’05 at the New York reception.

3 Becky Arnesen Jenkins ’00 and Elizabeth Wainwright ’97 at the New York reception. 4 Brian Knutson ’96 and 3

Sarah Akridge Knutson ’96, co-chair of the Celebration of Coeducation, enjoy the Spirit of The High School Dinner.

5 Tiffany Rose, Director of Annual Giving Elizabeth Woodcock, Norma Reynolds, Alix Dejean ’00, Ella Hamlin-Dejean, Assistant Director of Development Libby Wilkinson, and Richard Reynolds enjoy the Spirit of The High School reception.

6 Sandy Ainslie ’56 addresses members of the Episcopal community at the Spirit of The High School Dinner. 7 Matt Chellgren ’92, Alyson Evans Beha ’98, Wray Barber ’98, and Hank Johnson ’92 at the NYC reception.

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8 Julian Robertson ’51 and George Logan ’63 at the Headmaster’s Reception.

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THIS YEAR EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL CELEBRATES 20 YEARS OF COEDUCATION; it was a decision that in 1991 shifted the direction of a 152-year old, all-male, highly respected, and academically rigorous school built on tradition and rich in legacy, toward an even stronger institution of exceptional academics, athletics, culture, and diversity. This new vision was built on the promise of creating a place unlike any other; where students, young men and women, could learn together and live together in preparation for the world outside the gates. 38

48 girls arrived on campus, experiencing the nervousness of the first day of school, which up to that moment, had been reserved for the Old and New Boys. “It was that drive up the hill,” said Comer Shuford Wear ’95, as she reflected on the first memory of coming to campus in 1991. Wear was one of the 16 freshman girls among the first 48 female students. Attending boarding school was not the norm in her hometown of Hickory, N.C., but as part of a family who sent their sons and daughters to boarding school year after year, it was part of her vernacular, she said. Wear was a legacy at The High School; her father, Alex Shuford ’62; her brother, Alex Shuford ’91; her grandfather, Harley Shuford ’30; and her uncle, Pope Shuford ’58 attended Episcopal. “It didn’t feel so much new and different (to go to boarding school),” said Wear. “It was just something that I was ready to do.” After considering other schools, including Madeira and St. Andrew’s, she was drawn toward the new coeducational Episcopal High School; her father, Alex Shuford ’62, and brother Alex Shuford ’91, were Old Boys. Wear was excited to be one of the

George Logan ’63 (left) was the chairman of the Episcopal Board of Trustees at the time of the coeducation decision. Caroline Hagood ’12 is the fifth female Head Monitor in school history.

first female students at a campus that was not open to her until that fall of 1991. Episcopal’s journey toward coeducation began in October 1985 when the Board of Trustees, in an effort to improve upon the current standing of Episcopal in the secondary school community, established a committee to study coeducation and other issues relating to student resources. In January 1986, the committee gathered materials from outside sources including the National Association of Independent Schools, Washington and Lee University, and a number of other boarding schools. The key questions facing the committee were, “What is the best for Episcopal?” and “What kind of school do we want Episcopal to be?” The committee determined that through admitting girls to the School and establishing a solid coeducational program they could expect the following: improved classroom behavior, a more popular campus on weekends with the School as the social center, more civility and tolerance toward one another, better social preparation for life, and a greatly improved morale of the entire student body. These findings, in concert with months of thoughtful discussions and reflections by the Board and school leadership, led to the final vote of 17-7 in January 1990. The voting leadership included then Headmaster Sandy Ainslie ’56 and other Old Boys, whose memories and legacies were deeply entrenched in the all-male history of Episcopal. In the winter 1990 edition of The Old Boy, Ainslie and George W. Logan ’63 reflected on the experience of the vote. “There were people who cried, people who were very enthusiastic, and people who spoke with a real sense of conviction,” said Ainslie. “Everyone spoke with great candor, but there was never

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reflects on the valuable life lessons she learned as one of the first 48.

Each year from freshman to senior year, EHS changed and things like dress code and dorm rules ﬂuctuated as the School slowly acclimated to having women on campus. Because of the amount of change going on around me, I learned how to adapt and thrive in an ever-changing environment. This has served me well as I have moved through college, my career, and the constant juggle of being a working parent.”

any bitterness, never any rancor. It was wonderful.” Logan was the chairman of the EHS Board of Trustees at the time of the decision. “Even though there were differences of opinion, the Trustees approached the question with deep concern for the welfare of the School,” he said. “This was the foundation which bound all Trustees together, and enabled them to go forward in a spirit of unity and mutual respect.” Headmaster Rob Hershey joined the Episcopal community seven years after the first girls arrived on campus and said that the foundation for the transition into coeducation had been laid and the tough decisions had been made by the time he took the helm. “It takes courage to look at something that you love and admire and be willing to ask really hard questions about its future and to make decisions that will definitely reshape the culture as this did,” said Headmaster Rob Hershey.

“It was the absolutely right decision,” said Hershey, “but it was a tremendously difficult decision. Headmaster Ainslie and the strong majority of the Board had attended EHS when it had a really defined male culture. This was such a transformative decision. It took a lot of courage to objectively study it, do the research, go to other schools and learn from their experiences, and to independently conclude that the best future for EHS was a coeducational institution.” “They were exhibiting the highest qualities of leadership,” he continued. “They looked beyond the complexity and the pushback of the moment, which was expressed by people who had simply loved Episcopal as it was, and they looked down the road to ask, ‘What is the best future for Episcopal High School?’ I question whether we could have taken the strides and made the progress that we have since I have been here, if they had not made this important decision.” After the decision was made in January 1990, Ainslie and the Board

An excerpt from the January 1990 Board minutes, reﬂecting the 17-7 vote.

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determined that the appropriate course of action was to first announce the decision to the Episcopal community. When the announcement was made, the reactions were predictably mixed within the student body. Jackie Maher, a science teacher at Episcopal and honorary chair of the coeducation celebration, joined the community just one year after the first girls enrolled at EHS. Looking back, Maher speculated that the news of girls coming to campus must not have been easy for the boys to initially accept. “They chose the School partially because it was all-boys,” said Maher. “To have the change, without deciding for themselves, that was a big thing.” Alex Shuford ’91, whose father and uncle had attended Episcopal before him, candidly reflected on the mood on campus when the news was delivered to the community. According to Shuford, the initial impression among the students was Alex Shuford ’91 fairly negative. “Here was a 150-year tradition of single-sex male education being tossed aside in the theory of academic progress,” said Shuford. “There was a romantic ideal of the boys on the Hill, and it eroded once we knew there would be girls here. We were ragamuffins, a rough and tumble group. The lost boys, a tribe of heathens, like boys on an island.” Looking back, however, Shuford easily admitted that the decision to go coed ultimately helped Episcopal move up to the next tier. “Episcopal is much more educational and more well-rounded than it was,” he said. Not to mention that his Class of ’91 was able to claim the unique distinction of being the last class to graduate from an all-male Episcopal. “There was a lot of pride in that,” Shuford said. When Shuford’s younger sister, Comer, decided to attend EHS, he said he was a little nervous about her being there.

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“What were my parents thinking, sending my sister to a school of 280 boys, gentleman who were ragged around edges?” he laughed.“I left some unambiguous instructions to be cautious and careful around my sister, lest I come back!” On Oct. 4, 2011, during a community meeting focused on the celebration of coeducation, Luke David ’93 remembered a more positive reaction to the news. “I felt fortunate to be here,” David said. “Sports whenever you want, you’re here with your friends 24/7, and now girls are here. That was just the icing on the cake! What Episcopal means is more than just all-boys or coed,” he said. “It goes much deeper than that.” T.J. Wilt ’95 also sat on the panel during the community meeting. He expressed his belief that coeducation at Episcopal was the right move for the School. “I liked girls,” he laughed. But with more seriousness, he added, “Parents weren’t here so we raised each other. Having Episcopal coed provides a more realistic environment; it’s a great aspect of what you will have in the real world.” The potential for unrest and uneasiness among the all-male student body when the announcement was made and the transition was beginning was cause for concern, but according to the faculty on campus during those first years, the transition went well. Math teacher Steve Castle experienced the transition to coeducation while he was a student at Washington

was a student in the early years of coeducation at Episcopal.

From an achievement standpoint, there were no barriers. Girls were part of everything academically. In the two years that I was there, girls were standing out, doing well in the classroom, doing well athletically, and equally quick to pick up on the rhythm of traditions and the class day.”

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Math Teacher saw a significant change in feelings around Episcopal.

Coeducation made Episcopal a much warmer place. I don’t think it was all simply a matter of ‘We will add girls,’ it was about the process we had to go through in looking at it; what will it mean to have girls here; what will we have to do to make this an appropriate environment for boys and girls to be together? We institutionally developed a more systematic approach to what residential life looks like. We became more than just a school where people lived.”

and Lee University and then as a faculty member at Episcopal. “From the perspective of the changes that occurred, I think it made Episcopal a much warmer place,” said Castle. “There were certainly bumps along the way and everyone recognized that you don’t simply make an institution coed by having girls come to it. It takes awhile to develop the coed character.” Girls added a new dynamic to Episcopal, bringing with them new ideas and new levels of sensitivity and insight that before had been absent around campus and in the classroom. “With coeducation, it became a more embracing community,” said Castle. “It was a community where a number of different kids could flourish and find their place and really excel.” John Walker, the director of admissions during the first years of coeducation, reflected on the criteria with which they measured female applicants during those first years. “They had to be strong and confident first,” said Walker. Confidence was key if a group of girls was going to pave the way for the classes that followed behind them. In order for the first female applicants to get a feel for the boarding experience during the admissions process, applicants would stay in faculty houses or in rooms at Penick Hall for overnight visits. “We tried to give them as authentic an experience as we could, and I think it worked,” Walker said.

Walker laughed remembering one moment in the early days of interviewing female applicants and their tours on campus. An Episcopal tour guide was taking a candidate and her family around campus and the applicant’s father asked the student how the dance program at Episcopal was. “The boy said, ‘Oh our dance program is great! We have dances with Madeira and Oldfields,’” Walker said. “The father realizing that the boy had made an earnest mistake said later to Headmaster Ainslie, ‘This is a wonderful program, but you should probably get your tour guides more in line with what the dance program is.’” The move to coeducation was more than just changing the gender landscape on the Hill. The decision was grounded in the effort to help Episcopal progress as a stronger and more competitive academic institution.

The front page of the admission brochure for students applying for the first coeducational year at EHS.

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“Coeducation doubled the potential pool of applicants and raised the bar,” said Alex Shuford ’62. “The young ladies who were [enrolling] in the School tended to be smart, athletic, and competitive; this made the boys work that much harder. Coeducation moved Episcopal up scholastically. And perhaps, even made it more Alex Shuford ’62 civilized.” Shuford attended an all-male Episcopal and was confident that his daughter, Comer, could handle the challenge of being one of the first girls. “She was a bit of an overachiever, smart, athletic, and competitive,” he said. “We looked at other schools but felt EHS would particularly be good for her. She enjoyed being one of the first girls.” Shuford’s assessment of his daughter’s enthusiasm for being one of the first 48 is accurate. Comer found it an exciting experience, an opportunity rich with valuable life lessons. “The best thing about being at EHS during the first years of coeducation was that it taught me about leadership, confidence, and resiliency,” Wear said. “New situations, environments, and change became commonplace to me.” Danielle O’Banion ’97 joined the Episcopal community as a freshman two years after Episcopal went coed. O’Banion played basketball with Portia Scott ’97, the youngest of five children who had all attended Episcopal. O’Banion and Scott’s mothers talked about the opportunities offered at Episcopal, the O’Banions’ unhappiness with their public school options, and the fact that EHS was just a 10-minute drive from their home. Ultimately, it was O’Banion’s visit to campus that was the final selling point. “Our interview with John Walker, being on campus and staying overnight was what sold me,” she said. O’Banion, who served as Head Monitor, is hard pressed to remember any specific feelings of unhappiness or uncertainty within the community during the transition years while she was at Episcopal. She remembers the

school administrators working on the dress code and trying to figure out the equivalent to a tie and blazer. “The fact that they were trying to figure out the dress code for girls showed that they were early in the process on becoming a coed school,” she said. But to her, it didn’t feel much different than a school that had always been coed. O’Banion attributed much of the warmth and sense of community on campus to the faculty. “Every adult was there for all the right reasons,” she said. “They wanted to be there and they really cared.” Sarah Akridge Knutson ’96 joined the community a year after coeducation began. “They must have done a wonderful job (with the transition) because when I got here,” she said, “it felt like girls had always been here.” Azizi Jones ’02 was one of the first girls to live in Hoxton Dormitory, a new facility built specifically to offer housing to the increasing number of female students on campus. Jones felt that the building of Hoxton spoke volumes about the School’s commitment to coeducation. “It was like they were saying, ‘The School has invested in your future,’” said Jones. “’We built a whole new dorm for you to live in.’”

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O’Banion ’97 (right) played varsity basketball all four years at Episcopal.

Jones found the coeducation environment beneficial to her personal and academic growth and confidence. She met her best friend, Jonathan Lee ’01, when they were on campus together as 14-year-olds. Their friendship is unlikely to have begun had Episcopal remained single-sex. In the classroom, Jones was determined to find her voice.

Wear ’95 (second row, second from the left) and her varsity basketball team in 1992.

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Former Director of Admissions remembers the first girls as a confident and talented group, highly determined to leave their mark on the community.

In the School, the girls were holding their own; it is their school and not something they are coming to just because we are offering them something special. Episcopal is theirs.”

“I had something to say,” she said. She found that confidence through her friendships with girls and competition on the athletic fields. Caroline Hagood ’12 is the fifth female Head Monitor in school history and is the granddaughter of Benjamin Hagood ’45 and the great-niece of David Maybank, Jr. ’50. Maybank was on the Board in 1990 and voted in favor of coeducation. Hagood chose Episcopal because she found it to be the right fit for her. Her parents had both attended single-sex boarding schools and while she explored a single-sex option for herself, ultimately she decided to attend Episcopal. “I wouldn’t be here if Episcopal had not gone coed,” she said. “I have had opportunities here that I would not have had anywhere else.” The transition from all-boys to a coeducational environment was relatively smooth, but not altogether without issue. “The transition wasn’t always a piece of cake,” said Maher. “It was easy in relation to other schools (who went through it) because we learned from them. We brought in speakers to talk to the faculty and students, and new things were designed for the coed campus.” There was a worry and apprehension among the students about the traditions and legacy that would be transformed with the arrival of girls. Castle remembered that though the institutional rat system had officially been dismantled years before the School went coed, there was still an underground system. But when the girls arrived, the entire system disappeared. Shuford ’91 reflected fondly on the traditions that he experienced while at Episcopal; as a student, he knew that with the arrival of the girls, some of these things would change. However, despite anticipation for a different way of doing things, there was little more than a ripple of change in the long-standing traditions of the allmale Episcopal. There were, however, new traditions, unique to the girls. “I think those early women who worked on the dorms really tried to create traditions,” said Castle. “The junior

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girls gave roses to the first class of senior girls at graduation, and that still goes on today.” Twenty years later the School celebrates coeducation through a series of events focusing on the growth of The High School since the 1990 decision and honoring those who were instrumental in the transition and development of a coed Episcopal. “Besides the founding of the School in 1839, and the decision to integrate in 1968, coeducation is likely the most transforming development in the School’s history,” said Hershey. Hershey said that in 1990, the issue of coeducation was not the only thing on agenda for Board consideration. At the time the Board was deciding whether or not to go coed; other boarding schools were making the decision to admit day students. The Board while in favor of coeducation was opposed to adding a day student program, confident that such a change would truly change the spirit of The High School. “I feel like the subtlety of the decision to choose to not go to day students and keeping it as a pure boarding school, tied together with going to coeducation, was a profound decision for Episcopal: a decision not to do something,” said Hershey. Today Episcopal remains one of four 100 percent boarding schools in the country, rich with generations of tradition, diverse, and academically strong. The decision to move from an all-boys school to a coeducational environment was the beginning of a new and richer lifelong legacy of learners who are better prepared for the world, learning in an environment that mirrors the world waiting for them outside of the gates. “When it’s all said and done,” Castle reflected, “I look at Episcopal today versus 20 years ago; the things that alumni loved for 170 years, all those things are still here: The Honor Code and the academics. There is a certain culture – that this is the place where you come to do your best and you work hard, but on top of that now, there is this really welcoming, loving community, a community that continues to be about lifelong experiences.” n

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The EHS Promise is a campaign that aspires to strengthen and secure the very core of the Episcopal experience.

The EHS Promise is increasing access to critical financial aid dollars for middle-income families, ensuring that diverse perspectives and backgrounds remain part of the EHS experience.

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In addition, this effort acknowledges the School’s greatest assets – students and faculty – with an innovative expansion of ﬁnancial aid support for middle-income families and an increase in the availability of campus housing for Episcopal’s outstanding faculty.

CONNECT! THE MIDDLE-INCOME FINANCIAL AID INITIATIVE

Putting the EHS experience within reach for middle-income families is a critical priority of The EHS Promise Campaign.

THE PARENTS’ PROMISE

Calling all parents! It is time for all members of the EHS community to be part of this historic campaign.

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Signiﬁcant priorities of The Promise include the construction of a new athletics complex to meet the needs of 43 interscholastic teams, the transformation of the David H. March Library into a true hub of intellectual life on campus, and the renovation of the West Wing as the academic center of campus.

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Lastly, The Promise includes a high priority of environmental and ﬁscal sustainability that includes the care of our campus, a commitment to LEED certiﬁcation for all new construction, and the Roll Call, our annual fund that provides critical yearly support of the School’s program and mission.

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“As I see the families who are approaching us in admissions, I meet families in that middleincome range for whom attending Episcopal presents a very difficult challenge. We want to make sure that Episcopal remains accessible to them.” HEADMASTER ROB HERSHEY

Socio-economic diversity brings a variety of perspectives and enables students to debate, discover, and expand upon their knowledge of the world. Episcopal believes that achieving this greater understanding is a critical part of preparing students to succeed in all aspects of life, yet it is becoming increasingly difficult for a large percentage of the population to even consider EHS as an option for their children. The Middle-Income Financial Aid Initiative is a $12 million priority of The Promise Campaign that aims to keep the door open wide at EHS for deserving students who will thrive at Episcopal and enrich the community.

“The impact of the $7.2 million already raised has been immediate, profound, and necessary.”

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DIRECTOR OF FINANCIAL AID VINCENT HODGE ’89 DISCUSSES THE MIDDLE-INCOME FINANCIAL AID INITIATIVE 1. How would you characterize financial aid at EHS over the years?

Episcopal has experienced tremendous positive advancement and has been and remains committed to enrolling outstanding students. Financial aid allows

the Admissions Office to attract a wide range of highly motivated and amazingly talented candidates with superior records of academic achievement and strong character who otherwise may not be able to attend. While not limitless, the financial aid program’s budget – over $4.2 million – is substantial and ensures Episcopal is affordable and accessible to qualified applicants regardless of a family’s ability to pay. As a result of both its philosophy and historically strong financial position, Episcopal is able to meet 100 percent of a family’s demonstrated need. 2. How will the impact of a fully-funded Middle-Income Financial Aid Initiative be felt by the EHS community?

This effort will be felt in our community in several concrete ways when fully funded. Admissions will be able to continue to attract and enroll extraordinary individuals who possess special skills and talents and are able to make positive contributions in the life of the School in multiple areas, despite the

Middle-Income Financial Aid Initiative Provides • Increased financial support for middleincome families • Increased number of endowed financial aid awards ranging from $2,500 to $25,000 per year. current economic conditions and ultracompetitive admissions marketplace. More funds through this initiative mean Episcopal avoids what is commonly referred to as the “barbell effect” in independent schools, in which you have predominantly a school population comprised of students at two opposite economic poles. These funds allow us to make Episcopal affordable to those who otherwise may not apply due to a growing concern that they would not qualify for enough assistance. 3. Since The Promise Campaign was launched, approximately $7.2 million has been raised of a $12 million goal for this initiative. Can you describe the impact these dollars have had on the School?

The Middle-Income Financial Aid Initiative is of critical importance and its incorporation into The Promise Campaign timely and provident. During this present economic downturn, middle-income families throughout the country have been “squeezed” and feel “tapped-out” as they have faced new financial difficulties. The impact of the $7.2 million already raised has been immediate, profound, and necessary. The financial aid program has been able to sustain returning aid recipients with increased need, meet the need of first-time applicants who had not previously required assistance, and continue to attract and enroll new classes of excellent students. During these exceptionally hard economic times, Episcopal is fully aware of the extent to which

John and Marsha Kleinheinz, parents of Marguerite Kleinheinz ’08, donated $2 million to Episcopal’s Middle-Income Initiative. When asked why it is important to ensure access for middle-income families to Episcopal, they responded, “Ultimately, EHS will benefit more from this middle-income initiative than the students themselves, because middle-income academic achievers are the most driven segment of society. They will become important leaders and innovators – it has always been that way in America. If you look at the individuJohn and Marsha Kleinheinz, Fort Worth, Texas als who have given the most back to EHS, many would probably describe themselves as middle-income kids that were able to succeed because of the quality of education they received.” “Middle (income) families are under tremendous financial pressure when it comes to educating their children,” added the Kleinheinzes. “Even with an income of $150,000 per annum, there is almost no way a family today can afford to send three children to private school without some financial assistance. Just do the math!”

prospective and returning families require our attention and assistance. In tune with the objective financial circumstances of our families, we are glad to be able to bolster our need-based aid program in a climate where a number of schools are unable to do so due to their own economic issues. Episcopal is very fortunate to be able to allay the real concerns of numerous families over cost and affordability, thus allowing their sons and daughters to focus squarely on their studies once admitted and take full advantage of our multifaceted educational programs. 4. Where does EHS stand in terms of industry standards in the financial aid world of independent schools?

and beyond. We are exceedingly privileged to be in a position of strength and preserve this most special opportunity for future generations by continuing to be open to listening, learning from, and reacting strategically to our current families, peer schools, and prospective families. I could not be more pleased to have the opportunity to bear witness to the practical, and to the students. I am extremely grateful to those many thoughtful and generous members of the larger Episcopal family who have taken an interest in this most valuable endeavor and recognize that it pays recurring dividends both for the School and its many recipients.

All top-tier schools are specifically looking at how to maximize in a reasonable, prudent, and sustainable way those dollars to support financial aid. The present very fruitful benefits of the Middle-Income Financial Aid Initiative will only increase upon its completion

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THE PARENTS’ PROMISE PARENTS HELPING TO BRING THE CAMPAIGN TO COMPLETION

“The improvements being made possible by the campaign will make EHS an even better place not only for current students, but future students. We did not mind making a commitment to the campaign even though Nancy only had one more year at Episcopal because we know that the benefits Nancy enjoyed while in school were in turn made possible by the generosity of former alumni and parent donors.” JOHN AND KAREN WALKER, PARENTS OF NANCY ’11

The EHS Promise has already had a remarkable impact on the experience of Episcopal’s students. Members of last year’s graduating Class of 2011 through today’s freshman Class of 2015 have found an intellectual center of campus in the renovated March Library that has drawn them into their studies as never before, encouraging them to linger beyond class time and study hall hours. These students have also trained, competed, and supported their peers in a state-of-the-art athletics center where the platform for achieving one’s personal best has been built. In addition, progress toward the MiddleIncome Financial Aid Initiative has strengthened their classes with diverse perspectives and experiences, and the expanded admissions office in Penick Hall has provided a welcoming and comfortable impression to their future peers. With $72 million raised of the $85 million goal, the School is now turning

to current parents to help bring the campaign to completion. “The strength of our parents’ participation in the Roll Call – an extraordinary 86 percent – is testimony to their support of Episcopal’s overall program and direction,” said Eckert. “We know that it will take a similar level of support to raise the critical remaining funds for this campaign, but we also know that our parents will respond to this call generously and with commitment.” The Parents’ Promise is an effort to raise $6.5 million of the remaining $13 million of the overall campaign goal from EHS parents. Lisha and Halsey Wise ’83, parents of Olivia ’15, and Marcy and Rip Wilson, parents of Taylor ’11 and Elle ’13, are co-chairs of The Parents’ Promise, and together with EHS staff will reach out to all parents in the coming weeks. n

“In over 20 years of working in development at EHS, I have never encountered parents who are happier with their children’s experience at Episcopal than the parents we have here today. Time and time again, as I meet with parents to discuss the priorities of The EHS Promise, I am struck by their enthusiasm and generosity, especially considering the financial challenges that most are facing in today’s economy.” BOB ECKERT DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT

To learn more about The EHS Promise and become part of the great tradition of stewardship that has enabled Episcopal to pursue excellence in all areas of school life for generations, please call, write, or email: The EHS Promise Campaign Episcopal High School 1200 North Quaker Lane Alexandria, VA 22302 Toll Free 877-EHS-1839 Robert C. Eckert Director of Development 703-933-4056 rce@episcopalhighschool.org www.episcopalhighschool.org/ thepromise

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After graduating from Episcopal, Howard Allen attended Princeton University studying architecture, but left during his junior year to volunteer in the American Field Service, where he drove an ambulance during World War II in North Africa and Italy. He was at the fall of Cassino and documented the action there in photographs. After the war, he attended the Art Student League in New York, and then took a job at The Washington Post as an artist in the advertising and promotion department.

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class notes editor, by email to eaw@episcopalhighschool.org, fax to 703-933-4117, or mail to 1200 North Quaker Lane, Alexandria, VA 22302. Howard Allen ’39 at the 111th Game. He has attended The Game, every year it has been hosted by Episcopal, since his graduation.

In 1956, he bought a photography studio in Middleburg, Va. His photography encompassed every venue and subject from portraiture and weddings to horse shows and famous Thoroughbred yearlings, as well as the rich and famous, including President and Mrs. Kennedy when they spent weekends in Middleburg during his administration. Howard had photos published in Sports Illustrated and on the cover of McCalls Magazine. One of his photos has been seen all over the world. It is of Jackie Kennedy on her horse holding her son, John, and her daughter, Caroline, on her pony, Macaroni, riding down the lane at their home in Middleburg. Jackie personally commissioned Howard to take it as the

children’s official birthday photo that year. Until last year, at the age of 90, when he had some health issues, Howard continued to take portraits, and photograph local artists’ work for brochures and magazines, and make reprints of his past photos for sale. He now continues to sell his wonderful photos, but limits his photography to family gatherings and great-grandchildren. Besides his business he has been a member of the church vestry, the Lions Club, and the American Legion. He continues to play golf during the good weather, and played tennis well into his 80s.

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John Melvin P.O. Box 1770 Pawley’s Island, SC 29585 (H) 843-237-9815 jmel@webtv.net I chatted with Frank Dusch recently. He has moved into a retirement facility in his hometown of Concord, N.C., and says he’s content with his surroundings. He sounded very upbeat about the change. I had a most enjoyable call from Dave “Farmer” Carr, who, coincidentally, was trying to get in touch with Frank Dusch. (Lost telephone number, or something like that.) We both lamented the fact that our golf games are deteriorating at a faster pace than we like, but, at least we are trying. We also concluded that our years at EHS were most rewarding and created lifelong friendships. Edie Meade reports that he retired from Davenport and Company after 38 years with the Richmond firm. After 55 years in the brokerage business,

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Edie was ready to retire and is enjoying the new chapter in his life. He enjoys golf, studying history, and traveling. He and Lucy moved into WestminsterCanterbury four years ago and like the life there. EHS friends in the community include Henry Wilson ’41, Dick Harrison ’42, Hunter McGuire ’47, and George Ossman ’39.

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Baseball 1947 – Ravenel’s Rowdies (left to right): Harvey Lindsay ’47, 2B; Stuart Gilchrist ’47, LF; Joe Chambliss ’47, P; Captain Tommy Gregory ’47, CF; and Phil Duckett ’48, 1B.

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Class Correspondent Needed. Please call Elizabeth Watts, class notes editor, to volunteer: 703-933-4046. Fairfax Conquest was featured in the Rappahannock Record newspaper in July. The article described his poetry talents and the fact that several of his poems have become the lyrics of songs. The reporter said, “Writing poetry is his hobby, and he has achieved considerable success in the art form.” Recently his poem “Take Me Home Yeocomico” was recorded by Jackie Frost, a Richmond musician. It is a tribute to the Yeocomico River, where Fairfax has a cottage.

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Hugh Richardson 1819 Peachtree Road, NE, #200 Atlanta, GA 30309-1850 (O) 404-351-0941 Since there’s no one available for ’47’s class notes, they’ve given me a crack at them in addition to being ’48’s notetaker until a permanent ’47 correspondent can fill the position. Your help is appreciated. Please share a memory, special story, anecdote, or photo with me via telephone or snail mail, because I’m

one of those red-neck Georgia crackers who is electronically illiterate. Back in 1947, the editors of “Whispers” ran a beauty contest and accepted pictures of fair ladies from the student body. The winner was Miss Virginia Jeffer, whose picture was submitted by Rufus Barkley ’48; runner-up was Miss Judy Baldwin, whose photograph was turned in by Bill Marshall ’47; and third place went to Miss Huldah Bennett, whose picture was submitted by Joe Chambliss ’47. Whatever happened to these ladies? They say Rufus Barkley ’48 married a cool beauty but it was Nella Gray, a Sweet Briar schoolmate of Shirley Hooper, who is the wife of Norris Broyles ’48, and Kirk Tucker, wife of Jack Clarkson ’48, beauties themselves. Sadly, Rufus has died so we’ll never know about Virginia Jeffer. Bill Marshall ’47 said Judy Baldwin was the sister of Stuart Baldwin ’47. He met her at an EHS dance, and he thought she had married Bill Waxter ’43. “Bill Marshall is correct,” Stuart says and added that his sister, Judy, had also attended Sweet Briar (that college got the good lookers). Rocky Mount, N.C., native Joe Chambliss ’47 did not put a ring on Huldah Bennett’s finger, but he recalled that she married a North Carolinian, Alex Easley, and they were

the parents of Mike Easley, who was the governor of North Carolina from 2001-09. What about the ’47ers who submitted the photographs? Bill Marshall ’47 was a genuine scholar-athlete long before the words were connected. He was Head Monitor; graduated with advanced standing; was a winner of the R. Walton Moore 1877 Memorial Medal for Reading and the W. A. R. Goodwin, Jr. ’40 Memorial Bowl; and was president of the Fairfax Literary Society. He was captain and halfback on the 1946 football team that lost only one game, and he was a track man. At the University of Virginia, he joined St. Anthony Hall and among his fraternity brothers were Dick Cocke ’48, Eddie Leake ’47, Eddie Meade ’43, Frank Talbott ’47, and Bill Wright ’45. After the Korean conflict, Bill was considering law school until he met Eddie Leake ’47 in D.C. Eddie, then with International Business Machines, was all bundled up in an overcoat. He unbuttoned the coat, not to flash his privates, but to reveal he had on an IBM T-shirt with the company’s motto. Eddie’s unorthodox persuasion seemed to work, and Bill spent a distinguished career with IBM. Now retired from the giant firm and living at WestminsterCanterbury in Richmond, Bill is busy

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buying and remodeling homes for sale in addition to looking after his valuable collection of porcelains and antiques. Joe Chambliss ’47 was at Episcopal for only a year but made a favorable impression on everyone. He could be the only “rat” to have been voted “most popular,” and he was a splendid pitcher for Coach Bill Ravenel’s baseball team. A hard worker on the mound, Joe could always be counted on to pitch strong innings with his canny insight. U.Va. and the University of North Carolina were the most sought after colleges, and Joe graced the campus at Chapel Hill and was one of the most well-liked students. He spent some time in the military and returned to UNC for his law degree. He and his first wife are the parents of son Joe, Jr. and daughter Julie, who between them have five children. Joe and his present wife, Kathye, are happily married, and Joe is partial to North Carolina’s waters. As this is written, Hurricane Irene is closing in, and it’s hoped Joe and his clan are on high ground. Stuart Baldwin ’47 and Harvey Lindsay ’47 have winsome wives both of whom are named Frances; however, Stuart’s wife is nicknamed “Frannie.” She and Stuart grew up and live in the Baltimore area and have a summer home in South Conway, N.H. They have two children, son Read and daughter Julia, and three grandchildren. Stuart was co-head of the post office at EHS, and the U.S. Postal Service could take some lessons from the smoothlyrun operation on the Holy Hill. Stuart received his engineering degree from Johns Hopkins and attended Harvard Business School. While in the service, he was stationed at Biloxi, Miss., and later was in technical marketing for Bendix for 25 years and a consultant for five. Once, Stuart visited Ernie Helfenstein ’50, then a master at Episcopal, and became interested in possibly joining the business staff of a male preparatory school, which led him to Mercersburg Academy, where briefly he was the business manager and vice president of finance. Stuart stays in shape by playing tennis and paddle tennis but has given up sailing.

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As for Harvey Lindsay, he played three sports at The High School – football, basketball, and baseball. At U.Va., he was a stalwart in the DKE house with such Old Boys as Norris Broyles ’48, Jack Clarkson ’48, Mac Jenkins ’49, Bland Lee ’48, and Ralph Williams ’50. He joined the Marines following graduation and saw combat in Korea. He has been chairman and CEO of Harvey Lindsay Commercial Real Estate in Norfolk, Va., and is too modest to admit that he heads one of Virginia’s foremost real estate businesses. Last spring Harvey was presented with an honorary degree at the Old Dominion University commencement program. He was recognized for his outstanding leadership and service to the university and to many organizations in the Tidewater community. He and his wife, Frances, live in an attractive complex called Harbor’s Edge on the Elizabeth River, the same facility where EHS photographer and class notes editor Elizabeth Watts’ mother, Betsy Andrews, resides. Despite eye problems, Harvey is at his office every day. Norfolkian Russ Barrett ’47, still puffing away in the smoky halls of “Egypt” way up in the sky, must smile when he spots Harvey on earth having lunch with alums Jack Clarkson ’48, Josh Darden ’54, and Brad Tazewell ’44. It was great to get a telephone call on my land line from Henry Fair ’48, not from his Mt. Pleasant, S.C., home but from his and wife Mollie’s Sapphire, N.C., summer place. Henry still has his “original parts,” that is he doesn’t have any metal or plastic devices inside his body. He hikes, fishes, and golfs from the back tees. He and Mollie are the parents of Henry III, who lives in New York and raises wolves for educational purposes; Ed, who is in construction in Charleston; and Tom, who is a Charleston computer guru. Like Gerald O’Hara in “Gone with the Wind,” Henry believes in the land and has been most successful in selling plantations and hunting property. Henry is an active member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans. Henry was one of four members of the Class of ’48 to attend Georgia Tech – the others

being Albert Hill ’48, Fuller Callaway ’48, and Ed Van Winkle ’48. Henry recalls that his father was an SAE at the University of South Carolina, and that Albert’s dad was also an SAE at Tech while he starred in the Yellow Jackets’ famous football “Pony Backfield” in the 1920s. Henry and Albert joined SAE and were roommates at Tech. Ed pledged Chi Phi as did his father and son. Fuller became a Phi Delta Theta like his cousin Howard “Bo” Callaway ’44. Speaking of familiar faces, Henry reports that Nella Barkley, widow of Rufus ’48, continues to operate her thriving business, that he often sees Gene Geer ’47, and that Hunter deButts ’47 is married to the widow of Billy Hanahan ’49. From other classes: Betsy Watts Metcalf ’00 coaches JV girls’ lacrosse at Lovett School, where Billy Peebles ’73 is headmaster. Pegram Harrison ’51, brother of DeSales Harrison ’42 has visited I.M. Sheffield ’49 and his wife, Ilse, in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, where the Sheffields live. Pegram, Peek Garlington ’50, Fontaine Gilliam ’47, I.M., and Bill Dixon ’52 were all Phi Delta Thetas at Washington and Lee University. Recently, Bill took his wife, the former Mary Wayne, daughter Ginger, and Ginger’s family to London “so they could learn to speak English,” Bill joked. John Grant ’45 and wife Weesie, another Sweet Briar beauty, took their crowd to Alaska but John said there were no sightings of Sarah Palin. John was the only member of the 130-pound football team to jump to the varsity and letter as an end for Coach Bus Male. Bill “Ace” Parker ’45 took a slip on hard ice outside his front door last January and busted his leg in seven pieces. Indestructible Bill is mending quickly and wouldn’t surprise anyone if he’s back on the ski slopes next winter. Bill, who enlivened things with his down-home sense of humor as football manager during two of Bus Male’s lean years on the gridiron, still has a couple of pair of Athletic Director “Hawk” Latham’s EHS A.A. socks. The thrifty Hawk bought sports equipment to last. In other news, Ben Moore reports that his law firm, Buist Moore Smythe

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Editor’s Note: Thanks to Winston Holt for his many years of service as class correspondent. Winston is retiring from the job. Please contact me, Elizabeth Watts (703933-4046), if you would like to volunteer to be the new class correspondent for the Class of ’49.

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John Ritchie 1848 Westview Road Charlottesville, VA 22903 (H) 434-984-4729 jritchiejr32@yahoo.com and Gish Anderson 109 Oak Hill Lane New Bern, NC 28562 (H) 252-635-6562 gishgay@earthlink.net From John: Gordon Leggett sent me the exciting news that his stepdaughter, Madeline Miller, has published her first novel, “The Song of Achilles.” Bloomsbury Publisher published it in the U.K. in September, and an imprint of Harper Collins, Echo, will publish the U.S. version in March. Three U.S. publishers bid on the book. They will translate the book and publish it in Croatia, Italy, and Spain in the next year. Madeline and her fiancé, Nathaniel Daniel, of St. David, Pa., began a book tour in September which included Dublin, London, several other U.K. cities, and Cape Town and Johannesburg, South Africa. Coincidently, several weeks earlier Gordon had sent me a sample of the wisecracks for which the flight attendants on a South African airline, Kulula Airlines, are famous. He speculated that while Madeline and David are flying in South Africa they might hear an announcement like, “There may be 50 ways to leave your lover, but there are only four ways out of this airplane.”

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Even more coincidently, Gordon and his wife, Madeline (his stepdaughter’s mother, of course), were planning a fall walking tour of Croatia when he sent me this news so he may have had an opportunity to buy the Croatian translation of his stepdaughter’s novel! Gordon reported also the wedding of his niece, Kate Leggett ’00, an EHS graduate, and Jason Mabry in Lynchburg in October 2010. Both are architects practicing and living in Atlanta. Gordon was planning a tour of railroads in West Virginia, Tennessee, and Virginia sponsored by the Pennsylvania Railroad Museum when he returns from his walking tour of Croatia. Hearing of all this travel reminds me that Virginia and I traveled to Omaha, Neb., this past June to follow the U.Va. baseball team to the College World Series. It was a very exciting week of great baseball. Virginia battled to the semi-finals, where they lost a thrilling game in the bottom of the 13th inning to the eventual champion, the University of South Carolina! I have always been a baseball fan. While at The High School, I listened to the radio broadcasts of the Washington Senators’ games on which the announcer tapped a bell for a base hit – once for every base. Four taps meant a home run! What a thrill! Unhappily, in those days the Senators did not get many home runs. I rooted for the Senators like my father and grandfather who lived in Washington D.C. Of course, I grew up in Charlottesville, but baseball loyalties travel and we were loyal Senator fans – even when we traveled too fast one Sunday morning on Rt. 29 on the way to a Senators’ game and my dad got a speeding ticket! Major league baseball teams play 160 games each season so baseball fans learn early that winning is not everything. Well, maybe it is for Yankee fans, but certainly not for Senators fans. I tell people that I’m a third generation Senators fan. Of course, they are called the Nationals now, so perhaps I should say I am a Washington fan, but I believe most people understand. Most

important is I am a baseball fan. Being a baseball fan expresses my values, I think. I like the fact that the president throws out the first ball to start the baseball season every year. It reminds me of George Washington’s tossing the silver dollar across the Potomac. (If you have watched any of the recent presidents throw out the first ball, you know what a drop off there has been in presidential arms since George Washington!) This brief meditation on baseball brings me to the moment when my doorbell rang this spring, and I found a young lad there collecting gifts for his little league, I was happy to support them. And I was even happier when I found that he was a member of the family which had just moved in next door. Good baseball fans make good neighbors, I think. A few weeks later I was happy to give my new neighbors several tickets for an U.Va. baseball game in the NCAA tournament being played in Charlottesville – a very exciting game which U.Va. won! (Baseball can reward you with some great thrills if you do not get discouraged by the losses and speeding tickets.) Then, a few days later, I was happiest of all when my little leaguer’s dad came over to introduce himself as Wayt Timberlake ’86 and report that he had been at his EHS Reunion the previous weekend, and Whitt Clement ’66 had asked if he knew me! So I am very happy to report that I not only have a new neighbor who is a baseball fan, but also is an EHS Old Boy! You know, there is some serendipity between my street in Charlottesville, Westview Road, and EHS. Westview is only about three blocks long, with less than 30 homes, but to my knowledge, there have been four, now five, Old Boys who have lived on it: William Rinehart III ’37, Staige Blackford, Jr. ’48, Lockhart McGuire ’51, me, and now Wayt Timberlake III ’86. What a happy coincidence to live amongst baseball fans and Old Boys! Bill Russell writes, “I turned 80 this year and am still playing golf and

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our economy.) Lamar laments that he will pass his 80th birthday in March, but it does not appear to be slowing him down does it?

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Walter Reed (H) 707-448-3347 waltnloli@earthlink.net

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In July, Julian Robertson ’51 was honored at a black-tie dinner at the New Zealand Embassy, where he was made an honorary Knight Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for his contributions to philanthropy and business in that country. The insignia was presented by Prime Minister John Key. Left to right: John Townsend ’73, Headmaster Rob Hershey, Dick Rutledge ’51, Julian Robertson, 51, and Alex Hamilton ’52.

enjoying life in California and North Carolina. I travel less, eat less, but have fun.” Bobby and Jim McNeely have a summer home in South Freeport, Maine, and took off this past Labor Day weekend on a five-day trip to explore east of Bar Harbor to New Brunswick, Canada. Hurricane Irene and the crowds had left and the weather was glorious Jim reports. I found their itinerary interesting enough to get on Google maps to follow them. They visited federal house museums in Ellsworth, the Black House, and Columbia Falls, the Ruggles House; hiked through a mossy and deserted piece of the Acadian Forest; and stopped at popular Schoodic Point and Quoddy Head. Then they went on to Campobello, FDR’s summer home, which boasts of being the only international park in the world. This visit caused them to reflect on the story of Roosevelt’s childhood and marriage with all its poignancy and curiosity, Jim noted. He also recalls that he was living in Georgia when FDR died at Warm Springs. I imagine most of us remember where we were when we learned of FDR’s death. When they left Campobello, they took a ferry to St. Andrews, which is an historic town settled during the Revolution by loyalists from Maine who, in some instances, dismantled

and brought their houses with them. Finally, they visited Loon Bay Lodge, a Rusticators’ camp in the wilderness where Bobby had shot woodcock with her father 50 years ago. Then they headed back home through the blueberry barrens to South Freeport, where Jim made a woodcock pie for his children and grandchildren who had come for the holiday weekend. Jim adds a postscript that his architectural practice has revived following a long lull. He also mentions that a house on Louisburg Square, which he redesigned in 1984 just sold for $11.5 million! Lamar Cecil writes that despite passing years and retirement, he appears to be locked to Washington and Lee for life! He retired first in 2000 but was called back in 2002 for two more years, then he re-retired in 2004. He continues to be called on for the university’s Alumni College summer program and also for lectures on trips abroad which the university sponsors. He and his wife have just returned from such a voyage that W&L sponsored to Greece and Turkey. Lamar adds that he and his wife have had four of their six children marry in the last 12 months so his annual giving to The High School may decline this year. (This would support my theory that the wedding business is one of the important growth sectors in

Disappointed by the dearth of information about our classmates in these columns in the past, a group of us set about seeing if we could stir up some news. We, therefore, arranged to have the EHS Alumni Office send out a questionnaire to all living members of the class (at last reckoning there are 54); and 25 were filled out and returned, a gratifying number. Using data on the questionnaires, augmented in some cases by phone calls, short summaries of classmates’ activities have been prepared and will appear in this and upcoming issues of this publication. Obviously, this is not the ideal way to go about spreading news of our class; it would be far preferable and undoubtedly more interesting for each of us to write something about his own life and submit it. Don’t be reticent; sit down, take a few minutes, and tell the rest of us what you’ve been doing. We know you’ve been busy; after all, the 60th anniversary of our graduation will soon be upon us. Please send your news to Elizabeth Watts, class notes editor, at eaw@episcopalhighschool.org. J. Madison Brown – One is often encouraged to “Join the Army and get a career.” In a sense Madison Brown did just that. After Yale, he taught briefly in prep school and then joined up. The Army sent him to learn German at the language school at Monterey and following that he was stationed in Germany for many years. With that background, he went to Johns Hopkins for a Ph.D. in German as well as a big bonus – his wife, Katherine Long. Then it was on to three sons; teaching German at Bucknell, Washington University, and VMI; and finally social

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work as an employment counselor. He’s been a dedicated hiker primarily in the northeast, Colorado, and Virginia, where he also helped maintain trails; though he claims that his serious hiking is behind him. Now he says he’s retired, but it doesn’t sound that way. He’s helping Katherine, who has her own career in historic preservation, restore her family’s 19th century home in Parkersburg, W.Va. And to keep his German alive and make good use of it, Madison and Katherine lead yearly trips to Germany for people of German descent from the Staunton, Va., area who wish to visit and explore where their ancestors lived before emigrating to Virginia. Fred (Grover) Cleveland – Here’s another really busy guy…Grover and his wife, Betty, are living in Fort Worth in Trinity Terrace Continuing Care Retirement Center, where he seems to be the major domo. Fred’s life work has been principally as an engineer and mathematician. He has degrees from Texas A&M and MIT, including a Ph.D. in mathematics. He worked until retirement in 1999 as a stealth design engineer for General Dynamics/Lockheed Martin and taught math, including considerable time abroad (England, Scotland, Germany Vietnam, Japan, Malawi, and Belize). Now he’s still busy as an adjunct professor at Tarrant County College and at their CCRC (calls bingo, runs Country Store, operates hydration cart, conducts Sunday morning services, etc.) and writing a book on exponential functions. Beyond that he and Betty have a large busy family (five children and six grandchildren). Charlie Cook – Well, nothing seems to be slowing Charlie down! To bring things up to date, in 2004 Charlie and others formed a new bank, the Nashville Bank & Trust Co. The bank’s business is largely wealth management, so Charlie says that having someone “of a certain age” in a visible position is comforting to the widows and others who are customers. He’s now the chairman of the board, but has told the management that they should look for a replacement in the year or so ahead. I

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think we’ve heard this song before. The really good news is that even in these times Charlie’s bank is making money. But beyond work, Charlie has lots of other interests. He has just stepped down from the chairmanship of the Nashville Public TV station, WNPT. This has also been an enormously successful venture, as the station has grown to national prominence and boasts having the most widely watched local program in the country, “Tennessee Crossroads.” But that’s not all…Charlie is vice-chairman of the Tennessee State Museum Commission, president of the board of the Tennessee Historical Society, a director of the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee, and a director of two for-profit companies. A list of his previous community activities is even more impressive, but would take up too much space. He still has time for his wife, Mary, and their extended families. They travel a fair amount, especially to visit Mary’s daughter in London. Charlie has serious interests in art. His collection of Winslow Homer woodcuts is almost certainly the most extensive in private hands, and this is supplemented by a collection of contemporary works by Tennessee artists. Jim Daniel – After civil engineering and business school at U.Va., Jim developed and eventually sold R.P. Industries, a complex of operating/manufacturing subsidiaries, and retired in 1998. He spends time between a condo in Richmond and a place in Mathews County. He keeps busy – principally boating on the Bay and cruising on the East Coast, took up golf after retirement, and still skis in the west. He’s been active in the Episcopal Church in both Richmond and Mathews County and in charitable work, primarily in Mathews. Bill Dixon – After W&L and two years in the Army (Armored Corps) courtesy of ROTC, Bill has worked in Atlanta where he’s an investor in several different enterprises, principally real estate and manufacturing. Bill and his wife, Mary Wayne, live in Florida, so he commutes to Atlanta for business. When he’s not at work, he’s hunting

(pheasant, duck, and geese) or fishing – he’s caught over 100 marlin, and a fish he caught off the northwest coast of Africa presently holds the world record for marlin. He’s also been a serious sailor, cruising on the East Coast and in the Caribbean; however, to encourage sailing in the young, he’s donated his Hinckley to a local school for use in its sailing program. Pres Edmunds – Pres left EHS for U.Va. and medical school there followed by internship and residency at the University of Alabama in Birmingham and a fellowship in cardiology back at U.Va. It was then on to the Air Force and two years in Savannah. Along the way, he and Harriett had three sons; then they returned to Lynchburg, where he practiced internal medicine in a small group until his retirement in 1990. In the past, he was involved heavily in genealogy and genealogical organizations, but in recent years he’s been less active in that hobby. All three of their children and their families live in Lynchburg, so he’s kept busy as a grandfather. David Hatmaker – After a B.S. in commerce at U.Va., David spent three years in the Navy and several years in the insurance business, and then graduated from law school at U.Va. in 1968. He’s practiced law in Harrisonburg, Va., since then. Eleven years ago he became commissioner of accounts for the local circuit court, so his private practice nowadays is minimal. He and his wife, Dorothy, have two children and four grandchildren. But like most of our classmates, David’s been busy outside of his profession. He has a strong interest in music as both performer (choral singing and directing) and lecturer for a local lifelong-learning institute (on Ralph Vaughan Williams and six Romantic composers). Add to this board memberships (presently local SPCA), authorship of a book (“Report from Philadelphia: A Weekly Account of the Federal Convention of 1787 in the Style of a Reporter on the Scene”, 1987), and lifelong support of the Boston Red Sox.

English Showalter – English and his wife, Elaine, live in Chevy Chase, Md., close to their daughter and grandchildren. They spend most of each summer in London. They have traveled a good deal in 2011: to Brooklyn for their son Michael’s wedding; a two-week cruise to the Caribbean for relaxation; and quick trips to Wilmington, N.C., and Long Beach, Calif., to promote Elaine’s latest book, “A Jury of Her Peers,” a history of American women writers. When English is at home, he is still working on the correspondence of Françoise de Graffigny, and writing a blog on family and local history called “Roanoke and Western Virginia: Glimpses of the Past” at http://www.showalter.blogspot.com/.

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Ed Mullins (H) 803-782-3027 (O) 803-733-9401 ewm@nmrs.com Drummond Ayres has retired again… this time after eight years of teaching writing, journalism, and politics at VMI. Before that he was a correspondent and editor at The New York Times for 36 years. Now he is resting.

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Terry Cooper (O) 703-931-8172 terry.cooper4@verizon.net Our official class reunion was canceled due to low attendance but that doesn’t mean some serious reuniting wasn’t done. Our old Charlottesville crowd had a reunion of its own on April 30. Attendees came from California,

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Texas, Florida, New York, Ohio, etc., and included many of our EHS classmates and other schoolmates, like ’56ers Bob Husted, Walter Klingman, Bruce Rinehart, Hunter Wood, and me, plus Tommy Boyd ’58, Mark Gibson ’57, Rick Pietsch ’58, Graham Randolph ’58, Rives Richey ’55, Jack Rinehart ’52, Fred Scott ’59, Fred Shields ’55, Jack Syer ’57, Sandy Wise ’55, and Ray York ’55. In all, we numbered about 90 and had a wonderful time catching up and reminiscing. Of course, our Charlottesville crowd had a number of Woodberry guys, and they were there in force also, including many of the guys we tangled with on athletics fields, like Alex Slaughter, Ward Sims, Troost Parker, and Bill Wallace. Then, when the official EHS reunion date came around, Fielder Israel followed through on his plans to attend with his wife, Gretchen, and they, I, and my lady friend, Kamer Davis, had a delightful dinner afterward. Fielder has retired from active Episcopal clergy work and lives in Williamsburg. He still works parttime, and he and Gretchen go to Paris every year to spread the Gospel. Bill Saunders skipped the EHS reunion for a very interesting weekend of pistol-packing in North Carolina at a training center put on by the company formerly known as Blackwater. The second day, entitled the pistol tactical course, taught the participants how to protect themselves and their families in the event of, for example, a home invasion. For instance: Who of the invaders do you shoot first? Bill now knows. Boopa Pritchard reports that he is proud of his EHS grandchildren: Celeste Pritchard ’14, Peter ’11, and Edward ’09, who is a midshipman at the U.S. Naval Academy. I’m new to this class secretary gig, and I’d really appreciate hearing from you, especially from those classmates who haven’t kept in touch. Where are you, Gus Kinsolving? Jack Yellott? Jack Shepard?

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After 46 years as an investment advisor (with six firms after mergers), Floyd Lankford is still going strong. He says, “I am as good as I ever was, but more cautious.” He and his wife have two daughters and have lived in the same house for 38 years. As Floyd says, “Life is good.” Tom Lawford is living in Reston, Va., with his adopted son, son’s wife, and two free-range ferrets. He is working four days a week, two of them as occupational medicine doctor for the Smithsonian, where he has worked for the last 14 years. The other two days, he works as medical director for employee health at the five Inova Hospitals. He enjoys the Internet and lots of email friends. Louie Gump, Fred Wood, Chip Woodrum, and Dillon Wooten had a great time at their 50th UNC Reunion in Chapel Hill in May. They also saw Angus McBryde ’55 and Gus Allen ’56. Cotes Pinckney and Pearce Connerat ran in the Monument Avenue 10K race in Richmond last spring.

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Surry Roberts (H) 919-828-2245 surryroberts@adventure777.com 55th Reunion: June 2013

Bill Moffett – Perhaps one of the most distinguished careers of any of our classmates is that of Bill Moffett. Bill received a B.A. in foreign affairs from U.Va. in 1962 and then spent three years of active service with the U.S. Marine Corps. He received a bronze star with V (valor) device as an infantry officer in Vietnam. He retired as a colonel in the reserves in 1992. Bill served as an executive and field operations officer with the CIA’s clandestine service with tours in Latin America, the Caribbean, and East Asia from 1967-1995. He received the Career Intelligence Medal,

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along with the Intelligence Medal of Merit and Intelligence Commendation Medal. In 1995, he opened William Moffett Associates, a sole proprietor consulting firm. He became an independent/industrial contractor for contracts with the CIA, Department of Defense, and the private sector in training personnel for assignment to high-risk areas overseas. Over three years, he became certified as an instructor with the CIA, received a certificate in organization development at Georgetown University, and became a professional development coach with New Ventures West. From 2002-04, he was a leader of organization development with the ASTD. In 2006, he became an educator in psychoanalytics, and in 2010 a board member of the Washington Psychoanalytical Center. Bill’s interests have included kayaking, sailing, SCUBA diving, and collage artistry. Bill relates, “Anyone remember [Be-Bop] Barker? He of the brandnew, flashy, tri-colored Mercury? With the latest in wheel spinners? I am told… that one evening late at night several rats went into the dining hall armed with about eight feet of heavy-duty cord. Their intent was to let Mr. Barker enjoy more of the spotlight as the avantgarde professor he hoped to be. The rats securely fastened the legs of his chair (at the head of the [dining room] table, of course) to the legs of the table. Sure enough, the next day at breakfast after preliminaries were conducted and all had seated themselves, only Mr. Barker was left standing. He became redder and redder in the face as he continued tugging at his immobilized chair. He struggled to discover and understand what unseen force was impeding his being able to take his rightful place at the head of the table. After a few forceful yanks that rattled the plates and glasses, Mr. Barker looked under the table and discovered the problem. Loosening the cord, he sat down. Mr. Thomsen ’30 gave a stern look around the dining room and said to no one and to all that whatever had transpired, he trusted it would not happen again. It never did.” Surely, with a spook in our

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midst, we will never know the names of those rats! Carl Ragsdale – After EHS, Carl attended the University of North Carolina, spent three years with the U.S. Army in Maryland and subsequently took over as president and owner of Marine Chevrolet and Cadillac in Jacksonville, N.C., where he worked for the next 31 years with dealerships also in Lumberton and Sanford. Carl then served as chief operating officer and VP for dealer accounts with the National Automobile Dealers Association in McLean, Va., for 10 years and retired to Atlantic Beach, N.C., in 2007. Carl has been very active running 5ks, 10ks, and marathons, and playing tennis three or four times a week. He has been very active motor boating from Canada to the Bahamas. He has remained very much involved with the Episcopal Church, serving on the executive council of the Diocese of Eastern North Carolina – recently as treasurer and also chairman of the capital campaign. Carl wrote that he “lived in a town of 800, Richlands, N.C. I arrived [at EHS] sporting what I thought was the latest fashion statement, blue suede shoes. It was when the song by Elvis by the same name was popular. I played cake, 130, and JV football with the great quarterbacks (at least in our minds) Lucius Burch and Jimmy Watts. My senior year, I tried out for varsity soccer and, much to my surprise, made the team, became a starter, and earned my letter. Mr. Phillips was very influential, both as a teacher and a person. He was kind, erudite, and caring. I was, like everyone else, petrified of Mr. Karlson, aka King Kong. Mr. Murray labored hard to get me through Latin and Spanish and gave me a chance on the soccer team. Upon being made Monitor, I confessed to Mr. Thomsen ’30 [that I skipped out], and was only told to not do it anymore.” He stated, “We are in the business of making men, not breaking boys. “I have been fortunate to have served a total of almost 12 years on the Board of Trustees at EHS. What a bright, high-powered group of men and women who all strive to do what is best for the

School. My first year at EHS, my “rat” year, Sandy Ainslie ’56 was chair of the Honor Committee, Senior Monitor, captain of the basketball team, and a big person. I, on the other hand, was a country bumpkin, with blue suede shoes. Fast forward about 25 years – my daughter, Anne, is dating [Sandy’s son] Garth Ainslie ’84 at Chapel Hill. She calls me and says that she and Garth would like us to join them, Sandy, Ben Geer Keys ’56, and their wives for dinner in Chapel Hill. I was still scared of them, but she prevailed, and I quickly found that adult beverages have a way of easing fear – and we’ve been good friends ever since.” [even as in-laws] Carl’s grandson, Sutton Alford ’11, was valedictorian at EHS this year! Dan Smythe – Hailing from Tribbett, Miss., where he was devoted to dove hunting, who would guess that after EHS, Dan Smythe has had his footprints embedded in academic Massachusetts? Dan received B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from MIT in 1962, 1964, and 1967 respectively. From 1967 to 1970, he was an assistant professor of electrical engineering at MIT. From 1971 to 1988, he was a member of the technical staff at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, where he worked on integrated circuit mask fabrication, thin-film hybrid circuits, surface acoustic wave devices, MOS integrated circuits, and CCD devices for signalprocessing applications. Since 1988, he has been at MIT Haystack Observatory, where he has worked on high-data-rate tape and disk recording systems and other instrumentation for processing radio astronomical data. He said, “There are a few patents with my name on them. I loved my work, because I was being paid to design electronic ‘toys’ and play with them. My job was my hobby. My job has taken me all over the world. Since some of these trips were to fix some of the ‘toys’ that I designed, my mother calls me a ‘glorified repairman.’ I plan to retire at the end of 2011. “My spare time outdoor activities have included cross-country and down hill skiing, bicycle racing, and foot racing. I broke five ribs while cross-country

skiing on an icy trail behind my house, alone, in freezing weather. Our most interesting vacations were a cruise around the Galapagos Islands and a river cruise through the south of France. I wish I hadn’t lost my English Reference Book!” George Trask – George Trask settled in his hometown, Beaufort, S.C., and has had a full bounty of initiative, entrepreneurship, intellect, and also personal and community enrichment! Between 1969 and 1978, George and his wife restored a 225-year-old, large, historic home on Bay Street that had only three previous owners. Remarkably, George’s family, the Trasks and the Grahams, surely produced more students at Episcopal High School than any other family in the 20th century. After EHS, George attended Davidson College, majored in history, and was student body president. He spent the 1961 school year in Vienna, learned German, was aware of the Kennedy-Khrushchev Summit year, and is organizing a reunion there in October 2011. He served two years in “counterintelligence” in the U.S. Army in Washington, D.C., the time of the M. L. King march on Washington and the killing of Kennedy. George graduated from Harvard Law School in 1967, served a short time on the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders in Washington and then entered the law practice of King & Spalding in Atlanta, where he was involved in corporate and tax law. He stopped law practice in 1977 to pursue business endeavors in South Carolina, his original objective. This broad spectrum includes: banking, radio stations, a wholesale building supply company, real estate development, a hotel, book publishing, and newspapers. George is an avid computer guru and really enjoys writing. He has great interest, of course, in business and also photography, genealogy, and foreign travel – once trekking with son Graham across the Serengeti to Lake Victoria. George remains very enthusiastic about initiatives in business, presently, Hometown Local Media, Inc. He is in excellent health, walking vigorously

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after handball until age 50. With a background in the Episcopal, Baptist, and Presbyterian churches, George and his wife may be more compatible with traditional Anglican thinking at present. He relates, “I see organized religion as a backbone of our society that has unfortunately been increasingly marginalized by political correctness and by the deliberate effort of government and universities to trivialize Christianity.” George’s insight on EHS is clear, “[initial] loneliness made me more independent minded and more competitive. I am very grateful for the confidence my fellow students and our teachers placed in me when I was appointed a Senior Monitor and editor of The Chronicle. I learned that accomplishment comes in many forms, not just in sports. I have very strong and positive memories about our teachers. Mr. Ravenel taught me how to think in the variety of the English language, Mr. Karlson taught me how to think in the strictures of the Latin language, and Mr. Callaway taught me how to think in the logic of mathematics.” Others include: “Mr. Whittle, whose German I used during my college months in Vienna; Mr. Tomkins, whose chemistry helped me understand modern technology; Mr. Deeble, whose history led me to major in history in college and to read it throughout all these years; and Mr. Harnley, who opened my eyes to the marvels of western culture through the trip to Europe when we graduated in 1958. I have very strong and positive memories about our teachers, especially Mr. Ravenel, Mr. Callaway and Mr. Karlson.” Hayne Hipp – After graduation from Episcopal and Washington and Lee, Hayne Hipp served our military and attended Wharton Business School and returned home to the Palmetto State, where he has reigned to the present with enthusiasm and benevolence. After a short stint in San Francisco with Metropolitan Life Insurance, he returned to Greenville, S.C., and gained experience in marketing and investments with Liberty Life Insurance before becoming CEO of Liberty Corporation in 1979. For 27 years,

Hayne led the acquisitions, depositions, and expansion of this company. In 2001, Liberty Corp. sold the insurance division and purchased additional TV stations. Over the next five years, the real estate portfolio was sold. In 2006, Liberty Corp. was sold with Cosmos Broadcasting and its 15 TV stations to Raycom for cash. Also in 2006, Hayne started the Appalachian Trail at Springer Mountain, and on the second day sustained a torn quadriceps tendon. The next year someone “burned my boots” in Maine while on the trail. [We need some explanation, for sure!] “Otherwise, it has been a plus!” He mentions, “I no longer qualify for the heavyweight position in wrestling.” As of August 2011, “I am to Waynesboro, Va., [northbound] and to Hanover, N.H., [southbound] on the Appalachian Trail; 1,300 miles done and 860 to go [on the AT]!” Travel is a high priority, with a week in the French countryside each year, a must. Hayne still thrives on bird hunting. “Several of us purchased Tom Yawkey’s old plantation outside Andrews, S.C., about five years ago and are trying to bring back wild quail, a true challenge. My primary passion at this time is the Liberty Fellowship which [we] started in 2003. It is a unique, one-of-a-kind program that is transforming [the state of South Carolina]. We decided to do something different, to invest our resources directly into the bloodstream of South Carolina, into its young leaders.” The Liberty Fellowship brings a dynamic mix of 20 young community and state leaders, ages 30-45, together for two years to collaborate on issues through Liberty Forums, networking, interaction, and all measures of leadership development. Pope Shuford – “Episcopal High School had a huge impact on my life. My hometown, Hickory, N.C., was a wonderful place to live, but the educational system was average at best. I really had no idea how to study, and I had little exposure beyond the city limits. My older brother went to Episcopal, so I had visited the School on a few occasions, but I was not prepared for a boarding school experience.”

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“As a rat holding doors, stacking plates, and running bells were no real concerns, but mass meetings in Stewart Gym were definitely a low point my freshman year. I never realized touching a hand rail could be such a terrifying venture. I could not have imagined that four years later, as Head Monitor, I would be down on the gym floor yelling up at some frightened new boy.” “I had four years of hard work mixed in with some really fun times. I made wonderful friends, enjoyed athletics, and managed to learn how to study. The ultimate endorsement of Episcopal is the fact that I sent two sons there, and hopefully, I will soon have a grandchild heading that way.” We all likely left fingerprints on that handrail. Landon and Venable probably crushed that rail and EHS had to replace it. We will never know! Richard Durham – The opening comment in the 1958 yearbook about Dick Durham reads, “If ever a sloppy, disorganized “king of shreds and patches” is seen sauntering about school at least 10 minutes late for something and leaving a trail of scribbled-upon yellow paper, it is sure to be none other than Dick Durham.” Wow, did he change! After the University of Virginia, where he ran a time of four miles in 24 minutes 34 seconds, and lettered in cross-country, he subsequently pursued two careers. First living in Georgetown, he was in charge of the Mid-Atlantic Division of R. L. Polk and Company of Michigan in their banking division and second, the Durham Agency in Charles Town, W.Va., where he delivered financial services, retiring in 1999. At age 35, Richard resumed running in earnest (1500 meters in 5.06 minutes) and has set multiple local age-related running records. He is devotedly dedicated to his 12 great nephews and nieces and their parents, also to the Boys and Girls Club where he was director and fundraiser for eight years. He has also been an ambassador for the VA Hospital. Richard received an M.B.A. from Mt. Saint Mary’s College at age 53. Following the footsteps of his ancestor, George Rogers Clark, the Appalachian Trail and

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mountain tops remain fascinating to Richard, having completed 100 miles total including the summits of Mt. Mitchell, Mt. Rogers, and Cheoah Bald. Richard Somerville – As a day student at EHS, Richard Somerville was not well known to many in the class, but he has had a career of significant achievement, truly remarkable research with superb teaching skills. Following a degree in meteorology at Penn State and a Ph.D. at New York University, Richard is now a meteorologist on the international stage. He has worked for more than 30 years as a professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, Calif. In addition to over 86 articles, his book, “The Forgiving Air: Understanding Environmental Change,” was first published in 1996 and updated in 2008. It is an authoritative, up-to-date handbook on global change, written by the scientist for the nonscientist. In the book he explains “the hole in the ozone layer, the greenhouse effect, acid rain, and air pollution in accessible prose.” It combines Richard’s research, superb teaching skills, and basic common sense. Having retired in 2007, he remains active in the academic community, with research and giving media interviews, as well as, Congressional testimonies. Writing from France, Richard relates that he is in good health, living with his Dutch photographer wife, and spending half their time in France and the other half in Southern California. “The most important thing for me at EHS was the rigorous core education. Mr. Ravenel and the Grey Gospel in English stand out for me, as does Mr. Callaway in math, and quite a few literature and language teachers. The work ethic at Episcopal and the honor system were central to what formed me. For me, frankly, that outweighs the social aspects, the athletics, and what we might call the cultural side of our time at EHS. Today, success in many careers (and in one’s personal life, too, I believe) depends on communications skills, ability to work with others, continual lifelong learning, and personal integrity. I think that’s the essence of the EHS value system and is well worth keeping.

EHS is obviously different today from the all-white, all-boys, Southern prep school [that we attended]. I think those core values have endured and deserve to be continued.” Rick Pietsch – After his first six weeks at EHS, Rick Pietsch sat right on top of the High List…He must have been loafing! Rick attended U.Va. and received his medical education at Duke University. After a fellowship with the International Eye Foundation in Indonesia and a short stint in Flagstaff, Ariz., Rick has been with the Charlottesville Eye Association for over 30 years as an ophthalmologist, with his emphasis on surgery, teaching, and writing research articles. His outside activities are legend including: the Boston Marathon, skiing, SCUBA, jogging, hiking, and camping. He has now switched golf for very active tennis. Rick is a farmer as well! His particular passion is music. He sings, plays, and composes music along with extended service with the Charlottesville Symphony Board, recently as treasurer. He sings in the choir in the Episcopal Church in Greenwood; his primary position there is “kneeling.” Rick relates, “Rat year, I remember several of us tying up Bill Bond before 7:30 study hall. He came in late, got demerits, and was good enough not to ‘rat’ on us. I, like most of the guys, hated the screaming type of hazing but holding doors, running bells, etc. were benign.” Rick relates his experience on Dalrymple in his second year, “Remember the radiators going through the wall to warm two rooms? Van Cockroft was studying in the next room with his feet on the radiator. Bill DeButts and I took the bulb out of our lamp, connected it to the radiator with a coat hanger, looked at each other… and turned the switch. A ball of fire went to the ceiling, there was a scream from the next room and the entire dorm went black. We ran out in the hall and thankfully ran into Van. He thought we had been hit by lightening. We never said a word.” “Although everyone liked Mr. Ravenel, I think Mr. Phillips and Mr.

Tompkins had more influence on me. Mr. Phillips was probably the only one who knew my stress side. I learned more there than at college, liked it much less, but still know it had a profound effect on the rest of my life.” Surry Roberts – There is one memory from EHS that astounds Surry Roberts to this day. He relates that, “During the senior year, I skipped off a number of times to Washington, usually with friends, but the last time alone. While thumbing on the down ramp to the four-lane highway at Fairlington, I was, surprisingly, picked up by none other than Mr. Karlson. The conversation was lively, and he spoke about the opera and a lady friend in Washington – simply amazing. He dropped me near 14th Street, and I went to the Brass Rail to hear Burl Ives. The night return trip in the bus was thoughtful, and I had visions of the actual King Kong. In his class the next day, there was no eye contact, and he never ever mentioned the ride. The next day I was made a Monitor. What a surprise! Others had to walk 100 demerits. The very next morning, I was “invited” to a “talk” with Mr. Callaway in his small office in the library. He didn’t prompt me to confess and it was perhaps the most powerful learning experience of my life. The talk took 20-30 minutes – defined as an eternity.”

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J. D. Simpson (H) 501-663-8631 (O) 501-377-2110 jdsimpson@stephens.com 55th Reunion: June 2014

Tim Morton welcomed children and grandchildren for joyous week at Virginia Beach this summer. Tim is writing a screenplay with a lapsed monk a central character. Julia Roberts is under consideration for the female lead.

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Bill Drennen (H) 304-876-1236 (O) 304-876-6400 bill@billdrennen.com 55th Reunion: June 2015

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The Class of 1961’s 50th Reunion was a big success. Front row, left to right: George Flowers, Polk Kellam, Reynolds McClatchey, Ned Martin, Tenney Mason, Elliott Randolph, Bill Tylander, Bob Steptoe, John Siegling, and Pete Winfield; back row: Vinny Giles, Ashley Allen, Lanier Woodrum, Tim Dudley, Jim Barton, Bill Julian, and Ashley Spearman.

John Winfield retired from the faculty of the UNC School of Medicine and is in private practice in rheumatology in Boone, N.C. He still enjoys riding Harleys. George Spaulding writes, “All goes well here in Denmark. We live as we have done for many years, no new marriages or grandchildren. We still live in the same house we bought in 1970. Our last big project was a new garage – to make room for my 1966 Corvette. My current project is a complete body-off restoration of the Corvette, to be finished sometime before the summer.”

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Bill Julian (H) 434-202-8859 (O) 757-983-0190 waj43@msn.com 55th Reunion: June 2016

reminiscences of our achievements and antics were delightful. Also, Lanier has encouraged anyone interested to gather again at the Woodberry game November 2012 for an unofficial reunion: more later. Tim Dudley and his son, Philip Dudley ’91, are both working for Morgan Stanley Smith Barney in Leesburg, Va.

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Cotten Alston (H) 770-434-2212 (O) 404-310-0541 rca3@mindspring.com 50th Reunion: June 2013

Thanks to the efforts of Lanier Woodrum in shepherding our flock back to the Hill, 17 of our class of 37 still at large enjoyed our 50th Reunion in June. Though most of us are retiring from a variety of careers, judging from the enthusiasm displayed, we and our wives and friends should be good for another 20+ years. The event’s highlight was Mr. Seidule, matching us in vigor. His

SAVE THE DATES! After polling/ sampling it has been declared that the Class of 1963 should make the effort to gather, at least one last time, as a body politic for its official 50th Reunion, in June 2013 (probably June 6, 7, 8). In recent history we have been fortunate to have been paired with 1962 in a joint reunion of fun and for a greater attendance. Some of ’63 will return in June

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2012; but we hope that in June 2013, that a majority of you who peruse this stellar magazine, who read their emails, answer their cell phones, check their Facebook accounts, and generally carry on a reasonable social intercourse will accede to this request to seriously consider returning to EHS in Alexandria for the 50th. Strother Scott and George Logan will be co-chairs of our 50th Reunion…a gathering unlike any that has ever been held! Details will be forthcoming over the next 22 months as our leaders collaborate with Director of Development Bob Eckert and his colleagues, but please do not delay inking in the June dates…this will be a very special event for all. Surely you are slightly curious about what happened to some of the characters in our class… who got to the Haight before it turned bad? Who among us saw Jimi Hendrix perform at Woodstock? Which bankers are now retired and living the dream? And, there’s always the wonderful urban legend of one of our classmates who has been retired and who has perfected his fishing, his golf game, and his hunting skills with consistent practice… who’d a thunk that ECDIII would be a psycho-therapist living in Germany? That George Logan would be “Professor Logan” at U.Va.’s Darden Business School? You get the drift. Plan to come one more time to check it out for yourself. The new campus will astound, and your leadership will plan a great time. Speaking of Harmon and George Logan, they have a lovely young granddaughter, Mary Neiville, and their son, G. Willis Logan ’96, and his wife, Dr. Ashley Logan, welcomed George Willis Fitzgerald Logan to the family on Sept. 14, seven weeks early. Willis is attending his first year at Duke Divinity School this fall…yikes, this apple fell a long way from the tree, but one day he’ll be preaching Hayseed into Glory! Congratulations and best luck to Willis and all the Logans. In catching up with Strother, he shared a piece of his post-EHS story… lifted from a third-person story. “In 1970, a young soldier named Strother Scott found himself stationed for the

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Strother Scott ’63 was reunited with a Vietnamese soldier whom he trained during the war.

year as a military advisor to the local soldiers in the village of Cho Gao in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam. Flash forward almost 40 years and the now retired Strother Scott, with his wife, returns to Cho Gao hoping to find some of his advisees from 39 years earlier. With his laptop computer under his arm, he stops in a small restaurant in the middle of town. He speaks to the locals at the restaurant and presents a slide show of scanned photos from his war years. One of the older men recognizes a young Vietnamese radioman in two of the photos and sends someone to go find him in the rice paddy. A little while later a man walks into the restaurant with a broad smile across his face. It is a man appropriately called “Smiley.” He approaches the table and seeing the photo on the screen, his eyes widened in disbelief. It was an emotional moment as the two men hugged each other. Photos of the men were taken and the rest of the afternoon is spent reminiscing. Strother and his wife returned home amazed by their good fortune and excited to show the photos of their trip to friends and family members.

In my sincere effort to upgrade the information in this column I started at the end of the alphabet by trying to find Carl Moberg Zapffe. Rumor has it that he ended up in Chicago, was a huge success in some market(s), and is now retired and living the life. Perhaps he will inform us directly, because Google could not quite get me to him! With that one failure and with a looming deadline for our editor, I have decided to reincarnate a bit of info from our final Whispers…of our 54 classmates and their special picture captions. William Slocum Abbott, Charlottesville, Va., “TV or not TV?” Robert Cotten Alston III, Atlanta, Ga., “Grundoons, what a course!’ Joseph Linwood Antrim III, Richmond, Va., “Ski King”…sadly, Joe has passed on…a stroke, we think. Edward Marion Armfield, Jr., Greensboro, N.C.: “Stands for Edward?” Charles Torrence Armstrong, Charlotte, N.C., “…and today is locker inspection!”…Torrey passed some years ago, another stroke. Robert Edward Bares, Williamsburg, Va., “Bulldog ‘on the extreme stick’”… Robare was murdered in Manila while working for the U.S. federal government. Lewis Phillips Buxton, Newport News, Va., “The gospel of Luke”…also gone to his reward, a lingering illness some years back. Edward Codrington Carrington, Beaumont, Texas, “A Rose by any other name…” Ed fell to his death mountain climbing in the Tetons many years ago. Robert Grey Cole, Lexington, Va., “The Tortoise and the Herr.” Robert Kirkwood Colton, Hagerstown, Md., “I need you, Sugar!” Royal Daniel III, Quitman, Ga., “I’ve been Luking for this one.” Attorney Scoop Daniel was last spotted in Brazil, apparently with the residue of his escrow funds…living the dream? James Evans Davis, Jr., Durham, N.C., “I threw away the chaff.” Stanley Kent Higgins, Fayetteville, W.Va., “Executive Bored.” Ben Calloway Jones III, Alexandria, Va., “Silence.” John Nevill Joyner, Camden, S.C., “Last belltime to shower.” William Nicholas Dunning, Millwood, Va., “My last Duchess.” Edward Charles Dwelle III, Jacksonville, Fla., “Moon for June?” Lot

Ensey, Jr., Arlington, Va., “The buttondown mind.” David Bruce Forsyth, Winston-Salem, N.C., “Knitting up the raveled sleave.” Benjamin Apthorp Gould Fuller, Jr., Alexandria, Va., “I’d rather have a brush.” Mayo King Gravatt, Blackstone, Va., “Welcome to my parlor!” William Moncure Gravatt III, Blackstone, Va., “Stumpin’at the Savoy.” David Alexander Harrison IV, Glen Head, N.Y., “The price of wisdom.” John Davis Haywood, Durham, N.C., “Now I’ll try it without the pebbles.” Tucker White King, Jacksonville, Fla., “Join me in the Bowl?” The Gator passed some years back. Claiborne Holmes Kinnard V, Franklin, Tenn., “Will the real Bruiser please stand up?” Wink passed away in late August 2011. George Willis Logan, Roanoke, Va., “No, Goldilocks is mine!” James Notley Maddox, Nashville, Tenn., “It’s onwy eight o’clock!” Thomas James McCarthy, Jr., Pulaski, Va., “When doctors disagree.” Francis Edward McGovern, Danville, Va., “St. Francis, with vigah.” David Fackler Miller, Pittsburgh, Pa., “Trying to rule the waves.” William James Morgan, Jr., Merrifield, Va., “’Crip’ shot.” Frank Hazlett Moss III, Leesburg, Va., “On the north side, naturally.” William Nelson III, Nashville, Tenn., “I’ve got a whale of a tail…” Walter Shirley Nicklin III, Warrenton, Va., “More swill, please.” James Randolph Gordon Poindexter, Greenville, N.C., “King-size.” Henry Burnett Robinson III, Lexington, Ky., “Pip-pip, y’all!” Robert Strother Scott, North Garden, Va., “End of his stretch.” George Lee Simpson III, Washington, D.C., “No blindfold, thanks.” Samuel Cooper Smart, White Stone, Va., “Voluntary practice.” James Manly Stallworth, Jr., Charleston, S.C., “Ye that hear and understand not…” Warren Emerson Stewart, Stevenson, Md., “Where’s my sheepskin?” Thomas Phillips Swift, Columbus, Ga., “What does ‘celeriter’ mean?” Jeremy Wade Taylor, Arlington, Va., “You can’t beat our Rug!” Wayt Bell Timberlake III, Staunton, Va., “Here comes Jim Brown!” Robert Train, Jr., Macon, Ga., “Derailed.” Carrington Cabell

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Tutwiler III, Lexington, Va., “Tut in his sarcophagus.” Cadwell Tyler III, Goshen, N.Y., “The Mountain comes to Mahomet.” John David Varner, Jr., Roanoke, Va., “You complained about the service?” Thomas Michael Ramseur Wellford, Charleston, W.Va., “Plugged-up sewer.” Mike passed away about 15 years ago. Richard Fenner Yarborough, Jr., Louisburg, N.C., “I don’t seem to fit in here.” Charles Augustus Young III, Roanoke, Va., “The spectacular sage.” Carl Moberg Zapffe, Baltimore, Md. “…but I can hear you fine!” Sixty-six might indeed be the new 50, so it is even more of a shock to hear of a classmate dying…I was stunned recently when Jim Maddox called me after having just departed from Wink Kinnard’s funeral. He had not seen Wink in a number of years and was overwhelmed with the suddenness of the event…the good do die young sometimes and since we are not really that “young” anymore we have the 20-20 hindsight to more appreciate lost opportunities and sad events. Our condolences to his family and Gloria. As you noticed in our class roster we’ve lost 15 percent of our classmates over the years…I had never contemplated this necrology before, and I too am a bit overwhelmed at the percentage. So, the resolution is carpe diem and get back for the 50th! Curiosity consumes me simply to see and understand a bit about how we all traveled after our EHS years (certainly considered a bit odd by today’s standards!) and after the dynamic 1960s…and where we are in this present time. Obviously we were not all good friends at EHS, but simply via osmosis in the 24/7 life-style we were all “aware” of each other to greater and lesser degrees…and Facebook will never bridge that face-to-face re-connection!! Kindly check in, update us, and help get this group really rolling.

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Alex Jones (O) 617-496-2582 (H) 617-497-2387 JonesAlex@aol.com 50th Reunion: June 2014

I caught up with David Drennen just before he was headed to France – Paris and the Loire Valley – with his longtime companion, and childhood friend, Sally Ruth May. Like all of us, Dave has lived a life with twists and turns. As a senior at EHS, he had applied to Yale and Duke. That’s all. Yale said no. Duke said maybe, and then, late in the summer, changed that to yes. He went into the Army – 101st Airborne – and to Vietnam, but managed to survive. “I had a degree from Duke,” he said, “but the only education I had that helped me in the Army was my ninth grade typing course.” He served as a clerk, then went to law school at the University of Denver. Dave was originally from Charleston, W.Va., as is Sally Ruth, who is one of those girls whose eyes literally sparkle. They knew each other from about the seventh grade. Dave’s family moved to Shepherdstown, West. Va., when he was young and so they became pen friends and gradually their lives took them elsewhere. Dave married and lived in Denver, as a lawyer and investment banker. When his three kids were out of the nest, he and his wife called it quits and, with a little furniture, he moved back to Shepherdstown to be with his family. And after 40 years, he reconnected with Sally Ruth. That was about seven years ago. She in the meantime had made a life in New York City creating sophisticated guidebooks for the Metropolitan Museum of Art and other major museums. She was a divorced mother, still sparkly-eyed, and they have been commuting between Shepherdstown and New York ever since. Shepherdstown is on the Potomac River about 50 miles north of Washington, and has a population of about 1,700, plus about 4,500 students at Shepherd University, which is part of

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the West Virginia state system. He says it’s “very quiet,” but that the university adds an element of excitement and activity. It suits him, but Sally Ruth isn’t so sure. “She says Shepherdstown is too small for her, and New York is too expensive for me,” Dave said, of their ongoing discussions of whether and how to refine the arrangement. “At one point she suggested we live in Washington, about midway, but I said ‘Why should we both sacrifice what we like for a thing neither of us likes?’ “So that’s how things stand.” Dave’s family is in the golf course business in Shepherdstown, and virtually all the family lives there, which is one of its great appeals to Dave. He is semi-retired, doing a little bank work digitally and shuttling to New York regularly. The joker in the deck is that he found out a couple of years ago that he has Parkinson’s Disease, which is in its early stages, but is slowly taking its toll on him physically. At some point, he won’t be able to drive, for instance. As it stands now, he’s still able to play golf and tennis, and the Parkinson’s is “a good excuse for my weakness in both games.” He is facing it with equanimity, in other words. And realism. And he’s taking great trips, like to France.

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On a one-to-10 British Tabloid rating scale, the tepid response to our semiannual call for news would constitute a “two.” Dr. James Sullivan would not even grace this issue with a June wedding photograph. Perhaps, we shall have to start hacking into cell phones, a haunting prospect. Consequently, this issue will be

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The Class of 1965’s 10th Reunion in 1975.

Cruising in 1963. With Blackie Davis ’64 in the driver’s seat, Humphrey Tyler ’65, Pete Gray ’65, Richard Wright ’64, and Mole Lee ’65 enjoyed the ride.

devoted to nostalgia – at least, in part. Humphrey Tyler’s sister was rummaging around in her D.C. attic last winter, and produced a couple of gems. Above is a nothing less than frightening testament to mid-70s fashion mores, the 10th Reunion class photo. (Yes, that was 36 years ago.) Names are withheld to protect those present (except, of course, in the case of Dr. David Patterson, aka “Phant” – far right – who, apparently, has been doing his best Whitey Bulger imitation…). We think this occasion was the last time he was seen in public. On a more poignant level, we have 1963 photo documentation worthy of George Lucas’s “American Graffiti.” Humphrey Tyler would sponsor a late summer hay bailing “experience” in preparation for early football – in upstate New York. In the photo, we see Blackie Davis ’64 happily sporting his

Anna and Will Haltiwanger ’65 enjoyed their Grand Canyon expedition.

Chevy Impala. Sadly, Blackie passed away last year. Bathing in reflected glory are Humphrey, Pete Gray, Richard Wight ’64, and “Mole.” Pete’s loss in Vietnam cast a pall over all of us – here, as Tyler notes, “forever young.” It appears that, sooner or later, everyone ends up in the Log Room at the Rolling Rock Club in Pennsylvania. We might consider our 50th there so no one will have to travel on a Friday night. Jamie Totten now reports running into class agent emeritus Temple Grassi at said watering hole. (It was here, and not in Nashville, as previously suggested, that Ned Johnson ’66 was

sighted.) Jamie seems to be the common denominator at this location, leading us to believe that it is a game preserve of no small capacity. Whether that function extends beyond the Log Room, itself, remains a matter of speculation. And Will Haltiwanger reports that he did embark upon his Grand Canyon expedition, this, after an accidentinduced titanium hip implant. The trip with his wife, Anna, proved to be a validation of his formidable powers of recovery. (He assures us the photo was not taken at the local Cabela’s Superstore outlet...in Kuwait.) When we return for the winter edition of the EHS Magazine, we shall expect an entirely new cache of wholesome fare, both individual and family related. Your class reporters remain ever dedicated to the proposition of your “right to know.”

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Jack Sibley (O) 404-614-7551 (H) 404-237-2803 jsibley@hplegal.com 50th Reunion: June 2016

Heth Thomas has been a financial representative with Northwestern Mutual since 1982. He and his wife, Elizabeth, have four grandchildren (three in Roanoke, Va., and one in Waynesville, N.C.). Their youngest daughter just graduated with honors from the UNCWilmington’s School of Social Work.

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Charles Coppage (H) 252-473-3893 (O) 252-480-2568 charles@nccoppagelaw.com 45th Reunion: June 8-9, 2012

Peter Howell won his 100th college dual match in his eighth year as men’s tennis coach at Oglethorpe University.

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The annual Class of ’72 golf outing included (front row, left to right): Jamie Coleman ’72, Bruce Faurot ’72, Billy Bell ’72, Charlie Bagley ’72, Heath Alexander ’72, Scotty Linder ’72, Elliot Wood ’72, and Vince Dobbs ’72; second row: Aaron Efird ’72, Jim Furniss ’72, Beau Wilson ’72, Sterling Kelly ’72, Bill Swinford, Kirk McAlpin ’72, Kin Nevitt ’73, Louis Prichard ’72, Reid Murchison ’72, Andy Brown ’72, Pinkney Herbert ’72, Chuck Patton ’72, and Eddie Chapman ’73 on the 18th Hole, Blowing Rock Country Club, Blowing Rock, N.C., July 1, 2011.

Geddes Dowling reports that “The tides flow beautifully in Beaufort, S.C.”

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Kinloch Nelson (H) 585-385-3103 (O) 585-264-0848 kinloch@rochester.rr.com 45th Reunion: June 2014

T. Lad Webb and his family had a busy spring. Both sons had weddings – Mike ’04 married Elya Jean Daniell in Fort Myers, Fla., on March 19 and Ladson ’97 married Xandria Liberte Fleuerke in Norfolk, Va., on May 14. His daughter, Katherine Webb Easterling ’95, had her fourth daughter in June. Ben Gray married Rachel MacRae in Linville, N.C., on Oct. 22, 2011. Rachel is Jim Morton’s second cousin. Jim attended the wedding representing both the family and EHS.

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David Clarke (H) 703-938-8577 (O) 703-293-7223 (O) 703-691-1235 dclarke@bklawva.com 45th Reunion: June 2015

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Geoff Snodgrass (H) 504-895-4200 geoff@snodgrassplc.com 45th Reunion: June 2016

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Beau Wilson (H) 212-588-9363 (O) 212-603-6185 beau.wilson@mssb.com 40th Reunion: June 8-9, 2012

What pulls the Class of ’72 together after almost 40 years away from the Hill? What binds friends together on a July 4th weekend, away from their families? Why do we recount stories of life at EHS like it was yesterday? Why do we smile with joy at seeing another Old Boy, and grieve for those when tragedy befalls them? Why are we always there for each other, even today? What made our EHS comradeship unforgettable? We came to the Hill, young boys eager to explore a new environment, far from home, and free from our parent’s supervision. We suffered under the Rat Code, and grew stronger because of it. We shared every experience together, in the classroom, on the field, and in the dorms. We gave each

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other nicknames – Catfish, Goober, Panda, Walrus, and Preacher – that survive today, and made us all “brothers.” We were imbibed with the Honor Code, and grew up to be honorable husbands, fathers, and men in our communities. EHS changed our lives, and our families, forever. The EHS Spirit is alive today and deep within our soul. It’s an everlasting memory of life and friends on the Hill that lightens our darkest day, everyday. It’s a shared rivalry with Woodberry that will never let us question our loyalty. It’s conversations that have lasted for more than 40 years! It’s binding friendships that is will always stand the test of time, and last longer than our marriages and our children’s lives. It’s a circle of more than 55 true friends which you can never, ever recreate elsewhere in life. Come and join us all for your 40th Reunion, June 8-9, 2012, on the Hill, and celebrate The EHS Spirit! Preacher Editor’s Note: The Class Correspondent, Beau “Preacher” Wilson, decided to write a short essay reflecting the EHS experience for the Class of ’72. The Class Notes of ‘who’s doing what’ will return in the spring edition.

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Porter Farrell (H) 817-732-4315 pfarrell@farrellcompany.com 40th Reunion: June 2013

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Bill Stokes (H) 919-493-7481 (O) 919-490-7141 billstokes972@yahoo.com and Gilliam Kittrell (H) 919-788-8171 (O) 919-876-7411 Gilliam3rd@aol.com 40th Reunion: June 2014

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Old Boys gathered to remember their friend and classmate, David Hoon ’75, at a memorial service held on July 2 at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Chestertown, Md. David died on June 21 after a four-year battle with cancer. (See memorial on page 96.) Left to right: Willie Moncure ’75, Stuart Grainger ’75, Rob Saunders ’75, Max Hoon ’08, Charlie Nulsen ’75, and Wells Goddin ’75.

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Willie Moncure (H) 703-836-2596 (O) 703-836-9755 wmoncure@scottstringfellow.com and Hunt Burke (H) 703-768-1705 (O) 703-684-1645 huntandmolly@verizon.net 40th Reunion: June 2015

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Boota de Butts (H) 703-998-1487 (O) 703-933-4092 whd@episcopalhighschool.org 40th Reunion: June 2016

While the glow of our 35th Reunion is still fresh in my memory, I am writing my class notes. First of all, for those of you who made the pilgrimage back to the Holy Hill, thank you for coming. Please see the accompanying photo of the happy band of brothers! Although it was a small group, we truly had a wonderful time. The eight of us have decided that we will single-handedly recruit the rest of our class to come back for our 40th! Hard to imagine that will be our next major reunion.

Not to aggravate all of our significant others, but our 40th Reunion will be a classmates-only affair, and everyone will be staying on campus on a dorm we will be taking over! Al and Dalt stayed on Dalrymple and had a great time. Ab stayed at a local hotel and spent way too much time going back and forth between the hotel and Episcopal. He is a convert! Now, enough of the promotions for our 40th and on to the class news. First of all, Alex Liu is still the man! He is still a short, wise-cracking pain in the butt, but aside from that, it was great to see him and he looks pretty good. He still has a full head of black hair (probably colors it though!) and has dropped 30 pounds from the last time I saw him. Not quite at the bulked-up weight of marauder football days as he peered through the legs of his center, barking out the count. He was dressed in designer jeans, designer shoes, and designer jacket, and he was working the crowd, at least he thought he was. Unbeknownst to him, we kept him away from the ’06 and ’01 Reunions all weekend long! They owe us big time. As far as I can tell, Yinwah, he actually likes to be called “Lex,” jet sets around the world with large telecommunication

Denise and Mack Benn ’76 with their dogs, Miles and Davis.

multi-nationals picking up his tab. You name a country, and he was there last month. Everyone in the class has a standing invitation to visit him in Montreal, Las Vegas, or Rancho Santa Fe. And those are the only homes he told us about! If you were interested in the big weigh-in between Alex and me and who was closer to their High School weight, it never happened. I win by default, and I write the class notes! Plus, he won by a landslide in the most hair competition! Another attendee was Howard Smith with his wife, Page. Howard continues to be uber-successful in the real estate financing world and is living proof that the world will be taken over by those who had “Cs” throughout their academic life. He figured it out way before any of us did that the grades you make in high school and college really don’t matter! Take that Mr. Alex “104 average” Liu! Ab Boxley was in good form and enjoyed himself so much that he signed up to be our next Roll Call class chair! I pity the fools that say no to him when he calls. Robert Cunningham and his wife, Dana, joined us for dinner. It’s hard to imagine that young Robert is already 4! It seemed like yesterday when I broke the news to the class that Robert had been born! Dr. Billy Kelly

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Friends form the Class of ’76 had a great time at their 35th Reunion. Front row, left to right: Howard Smith, Boota deButts, Alex Liu, and Al Rhyne; second row: Dalt Ruffin, Ab Boxley, Billy Kelly, and Robert Cunningham.

Left to right: Al Rhyne ’76, Boota deButts ’76, and Tench Coxe ’76 and their families enjoyed a vacation together on the Turkish coast last summer.

arrived with a date, which in itself was remarkable. His date even lived in the same time zone which was an improvement for him. More on Al Rhyne and me later in the class notes. Rounding out the attendees was the Master of Ceremonies Dalt Ruffin, who has diligently labored for the past many years as our class chair. He is exactly the same as he was here. Current on the latest fashion trends and a card carrying member of PETA! No seriously, he hasn’t changed a bit. He is honest as the day is long and sincere and genuine in everything he says and does. I heard from many of our classmates who could not make the trip. John Lee Hopkins continues to make his mark in the architecture world in Atlanta. His son, Lee, just graduated from Vanderbilt

while his daughter, Anna, just started at the College of Charleston. Rob Pierce continues to be his “loafer” self. He sends me notes bragging about his running exploits, 5Ks in Idaho while fly fishing! Big deal. His son, Alton, is a freshman at Idaho State so it gives Rob plenty of excuses to head out there. He says work is good. I think he is running a Chick-Fil-A restaurant in Atlanta. Ryvers Wright is still living in Richmond and has three children, who are now 12, 10, and five. It sounds exhausting, and I can’t for the love of me understand why he wasn’t able to get away for our 35th! Kevin Wallace is still killing it in California. He and a friend have developed three mobile fitness apps for the iPhone: Runmeter, Cyclemeter, and Walkmeter. His wife, Susanna, is a saint and keeps everything together. They have two superstar daughters, Kathleen (17) and Sarah (15). Both play on the two-time defending California state high school (Div. V) volleyball champions and will have plenty of choices, I am sure, when it comes to college. Kevin assures me that they get all of their leaping prowess from him! Life is busy for Lee MacIlwinen. Lee’s oldest child, Catherine, and her daughter, Lilly, live close by in Columbia. His oldest son, Brian, is finishing up at

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University of South Carolina. His two young sons, Jack (5) and Patrick (19 months), (yes they are younger than his granddaughter!) keep him and mom Tai on their toes. Lee is working for Computer Associates and is responsible for their international technology alliances, most of which are in Asia. He keeps up with John Bard when he is in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is training for a 200-mile bike ride as well as a half marathon. Slacker! Harold Tilley’s life is currently filled with work, family, church, and relaxation. Doesn’t that sound nice? He runs his property management business in Boone, N.C., and still loves it. He and his wife, Maggie, have been married for over 20 years. This winter season will be his 35th year with the National Ski Patrol. He says he gets in about 30 days of skiing a year, however, he and Maggie do get out of Boone in the winter and head to the Bahamas for sun and warmth. Willcox Dunn is bald! That is not new news. I just like to say that! He came up with some lame excuse for not coming to our 35th like he had to coach his two daughters’ soccer teams. It was good he didn’t come, because he probably would have tried to play in the alumni lacrosse game and ended up hurting himself like he says he did playing in an adult soccer league. I just pulled up lame last week jogging at a speed that if I was going any slower it would have been a slow walk. Getting old is no fun. Clarence Gaines has been getting enough press from me recently, but I thought I’d pass on a blog he started a few months ago. Interesting stuff. http://cgscoutperspective.blogspot.com. Cameron Clement continues to work for RE/MAX in Bluefield, Va., with his wife, Elizabeth. He has a son who is a senior at Radford, a daughter who is 20 and working, and a 12-year-old son who is a rising seventh grader. Jim Brown writes that he has a granddaughter, Sadie Vance Edwards. Jim’s daughter, Claiborne, and her husband, Michael, are the proud parents. Jim and his wife, Toni, run a real estate business in Lexington, Va., focusing on preserving farmland and historic properties as

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well as a small grass-fed beef operation. Jim plays the guitar and dobro in several bluegrass groups and continues his pursuit of photography. Check it all out on www.jfbrownrealestate.com. Mack Benn is still living the dream flying for Southwest Airlines and living year round in Scottsdale, Ariz. Please see the photo of Mack and his wife, Denise, and their two dogs, Miles and Davis. I’m not sure why Mack wrote the following, but he did. “Like you, I’ve lost most of my hair, at least on top. I haven’t been at my fighting weight for several years.” What’s with the hair and weight thing these days? Have you been speaking to Alex Liu? This might be old news for some, but Mack spent 12 years in the Air Force flying F-4s and F-15s before joining Southwest, where he has been for 17 years. I am still waiting to hear his voice come over the plane’s intercom system when I am traveling on Southwest someday. Not sure if it will be a good or bad thing! Frank Greenbaum sent a picture of himself in blue suede shoes. Actually, I’m not sure if it was Frank at all. Hard to tell when it is just the bottom half of the legs! His oldest daughter, Laura, is a math and science whiz (where did that come from?) and will have her choice of colleges. His youngest daughter, Taylor, follows after her Dad and excels in lacrosse and soccer. Finally I get to talk about myself (my favorite topic) and what I’ve done recently. The deButts family along with the Al Rhyne and Tench Coxe families took an incredible two-week trip to Turkey this summer. The highlight was the time we all spent together on two boats cruising the Aegean Sea going back and forth between the Turkish coast and Greek islands. See the photo of Al, Tench, and me enjoying the good life. All the Rhynes are doing great. Beau is a fourth-year student at U.Va.; Ben is a sophomore at Stanford and he is on the football team; Haley is a senior; and Anna a seventh grader at Charlotte Country Day. Al spent a week before the trip in Bordeaux, France, advising and watching spinal surgeries. June, his wife, is a Pilates instructor and does triathlons. Tench and Simone

have two boys, Tench (13) and Zeke (12), who play every sport known to man, all at the same time, and are very good at them all. The frightening thing is that big Tench coaches them. I guess that proves the old adage that the best coaches are not the best athletes! Simone and Isabelle (9) do a lot of horseback riding together. Well that’s all the news from the Holy Hill. I cannot emphasize enough the importance of you coming back and visiting the campus. It is always great catching up with you, so get out of your Lazy Boys and stop by and say hello. The door is always open. Take care.

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John Baicy (H) 336-774-8086 (O) 336-722-7768 jbaicy@ImmediaPrint.com 35th Reunion: June 8-9, 2012

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Jim Clardy (H) 704-332-4195 (O) 704-339-2015 Jim_ClardyJr@ml.com 35th Reunion: June 2013

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Bill Hughes (H) 203-861-1641 hughesbill@aol.com 35th Reunion: June 2014

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Staige Hoffman (H) 813-287-9887 (O) 813-781-3184 staigehoffman1@aol.com 35th Reunion: June 2015

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Seward Totty (H) 859-268-8673 (O) 859-514-6434 sewdog@insightbb.com 35th Reunion: June 2016

Cedric Bright writes, “Maria and I are doing well. Our son, Andrew is 3½ years old and 3 feet and 7 inches tall. I am president-elect of the National Medical Association and

will be installed on July 26, 2011, in Washington, D.C. Tim McGee writes, “I am blessed to be the father of two wonderful kids and to have a beautiful and loving wife.” His son, Andrew, is 3 and daughter, Elizabeth, is 10. Juergen Taylor wishes the Class of ’81 a happy 30th anniversary of their graduation from EHS. Several of his family members also celebrated their reunions this year: Martiez Taylor ’91 and Crystal Taylor-Simon ’96.

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Dave Coombs (O) 804-934-4707 david.c.coombs@sprint.com 30thReunion: June 8-9, 2012

Carl Failmezger reports, “I was appointed a Virginia magistrate, which is a low-level judge issuing arrest and search warrants as well as holding bail hearings. Basically, I decide who the bad guys are and lock them up.” Todd Gray won the Chef of the Year award given by the Restaurant Association of Metropolitan Washington at their annual Rammy Awards program in June. Todd has two restaurants in Washington, Equinox and Watershed. Will Thomas is a professor of history at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He recently had a book published by the Yale University Press. Its title is “The Iron Way – Railroads, the Civil War, and the Making of Modern America.” It is available on Amazon.com.

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Frank Vasquez (O) 888-343-6245 Ext 5249 (H) 804-767-5096 rfvasquez@yahoo.com 30thReunion: June 2013

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Sam Froelich (H) 336-288-5711 samfroelich@aol.com 30thReunion: June 2014

Charles Tarbutton is excited about his daughter, Mary Helen ’15, being a freshman at Episcopal this fall.

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Thorne Gregory (H) 203-655-7139 (O) 212-500-3049 TGregory@marathonfund.com 30thReunion: June 2015

The Class of ’85 spans the globe from Hong Kong to Atlanta to Washington, D.C., to New York to Warsaw. Marvin Lummis lives in Colorado and has reached new heights of marvelous. C.D. Cater is in Charlotte and married with three boys (ages 10, 8 and 6) and one girl (3). C.D. sold his restaurant and golf business and is pursuing his dream of becoming a high school coach and athletic director. He is currently an assistant athletic director at Providence Day School in Charlotte, N.C., and is coaching varsity football, JV basketball, and middle school lacrosse. I am married with four boys soon to be 14, 12, 11 and 7 years old and a 9-year-old girl. I am a coach and athletic director on the weekends only and have a desk job during the week. Milo Jones has been living in Italy for the last four years and moved to Warsaw in January with his wife, Ewa Moncure, and daughter Emily (13). He is consulting everywhere, and teaching a few months a year in Madrid and Lyon and was good enough to contact me on a trip to New York. I hope that you will all do the same by reaching me at thornegregoryjr@me.com. Lathan Allen leads Jones Lang LaSalle for the Southeast, but I still say that he married up – like I did. Clint McCotter has joined the Colbert Nation. Clark Trask is a doctor in his hometown of Beaufort, S.C. Robert Avinger lives in Nashville and coaches leadership. He also provides leadership which resulted in another great Collier Lilly Ride 4 Life in Davidson, N.C., in June. We remain true to our original missions to honor the life and gift of Collier, to raise awareness of the need for organ sharing, and to bring communities together. Learn more, make a gift or register for the ride at www.collierlillyride4life.com. Bill Jennings moved from St. Louis to Fairfield, Conn., and is the president

and CEO of Bridgeport Hospital – part of the Yale New Haven Health System. Check him out on the hospital’s website. David Woltz moved to St. Louis and is with Energizer in global marketing. He and his wife, Meghan, had a baby this summer. Henry Flippin Woltz joins his brother, Nikolas, and sister, Elizabeth. Ed Walker was featured in the Washington and Lee School of Law Magazine this summer. The article focused on Ed’s successful efforts to revitalize downtown Roanoke.

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Worth Williamson (H) 864-421-9089 (O) 800-354-4205 worthwilliamson@gmail.com 30thReunion: June 2016

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David Haddock (H) 703-403-8760 (O) 703-854-0334 dshotr@yahoo.com 25th Reunion: June 8-9, 2012

This summer, Dane Snowden began a new job as chief of staff for the National Cable and Telecommunications Association (NCTA) in Washington, D.C. He will work with NCTA’s president and vice president to oversee the association’s day-to-day operations as well as its planning and strategic initiatives.

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Will Burdell (H) 912-638-1790 (O) 912-638-3611 WillBurdell@seaisland.com 25th Reunion: June 2013

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William Townsend (H) 919-664-8401 townsendjk@earthlink.net 25th Reunion: June 2014

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Zan Banks (H) 404-252-7848 (O) 404-467-6384 zan@innovolt.com 25th Reunion: June 2015

1991

Will Coxe (O) 803-404-0984 williecoxe@gmail.com 25th Reunion: June 2016

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Cal Evans (O) 706-425-3444 hotcarlevans@gmail.com 20th Reunion: June 8-9, 2012

News for the Class of ’92 was bountiful heading into the fall season. Mike McCabe, his wife, Merrick, and his daughter, Helen, welcomed twins Sallie Carter and Elizabeth Twohy to the family on March 8. Rumor has it “Mighty” can be seen jogging in front of a rickshaw built for three every afternoon on the sands of Virginia Beach in an effort to get the kids napping. Bill McKinnon would neither confirm nor deny the alleged event. John Mullins wrote in to say that he enjoyed watching classmate Jim Sibley perform as Punjab the Butler in a summer production of “Annie” at the Cashiers, N.C., Mountaintop Community Theatre. John, please make sure we all know Jim’s production schedule, so we don’t miss any future performances! Ben Crow chimed in from Denmark, where he is living in Copenhagen with his wife and three children. Ben works at Ernst and Young there and his personal email is crow@webspeed.dk. Good to hear from you, Ben! Jamie Vinson lives in Alexandria, just a few scant miles from The High School. He is still with the Air Force and based at the Pentagon. Jamie, like me, is a suffering UGA fan today following a heartbreaking loss to South Carolina, but we are not alone. My favorite miserable sports fan, Fred Alexander, told me his only recent news was a family trip with his wife,

Zan Banks ’90 and family on Easter Sunday (left to right): Mary Sib Banks, Zan Banks ’90, Harrison Alexander Banks, and Jeanna Banks.

Holly, and children, Calvin (3½) and June (15 months), to watch his muchmaligned Tar Heel football team lose to a team they should have beaten had the NCAA just stayed out of Chapel Hill. Hank Johnson sent a note along to say that he and his wife are living in N.Y.C. with their two children, Sydney (3½) and Henry (2). My fellow blues brother, Kellam Warren, has a neat venture going, a business litigation law firm called www. mainsaillawyers.com. He is “growing it into a national network of similarly focused partner-level lawyers who have ventured out of ‘Big Law’ in search of a better way for both lawyers and clients.” This sounds like a neat avenue that may appeal to some of our alumni in the legal arena. Kellam and his wife, Suzanne, are enjoying life in Chapel Hill with their 9-year-old son, Kellam, who is quickly becoming a tennis champ. Mason Lampton chimed in to say he has had no more children in the past six months. He also commented on the difficulty of explaining the humor of 1990 3rd Berk stories to people who had not attended The High School, especially when those stories involved the thunderous voice of Oz and his boy toy, Wayne. Matt Chellgren sent me a picture of a fish he caught at his farm in

June Jarrell Alexander, the daughter of Holly and Fred Alexander ’92, enjoyed the beach in her EHS issue shirt last summer.

Pennsylvania. When not controlling the global economy at Bear Stearns in N.Y.C., he patrols the shores of his Rancho Relaxo lake with a shotgun hoping to stave off the snakehead fish invasion coming from Maryland. I moved back to Athens, Ga., from Atlanta with my new bride, Ivey, in August. I am working for Synovus Financial, and she is in B-School at UGA, so if any of you come through town for a game please drop me a line at calevans@synovus.com. We

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were married on New Year’s Eve in Columbus, Ga., and the best men included my brothers, Macon and Wilkes ’02. Lastly, Will Merritt has moved back to South Carolina with his family from Houston, and he told me he was looking forward to his reunion at Sewanee with Kellam. This is the perfect time to remind you all of our own 20-year reunion, co-chaired by Mike McCabe and Murdoch Matheson, coming in June of 2012. Please contact Mike or Murd with questions at mikemccabejr@ harveylindsay.com and Murdoch@ matheson.com respectively. Be safe, and I look forward to seeing you all next June!

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Walker Lamond (O) 212-496-9195 (H) 202-885-9676 walkerlamond@mac.com

Bruce and Katherine Webb Easterling ’95 welcomed their fourth daughter, Eliza Ladson Easterling, to their family on June 17. The Easterling sisters are (left to right): Simmons (4), Mary Pinckney (2), Eliza (6 weeks), and Seabrook (6).

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After a few years as an investment banker in Boston, Ruth Yutiamaco Baxter founded The Monogram Source in Wellesley, Mass. She is now raising two beautiful girls of her own and is still very into the Smiths. Speaking of monograms, Chris Jacobs and Victor Maddux are already gearing up to win another Chevy Chase Club paddleball championship. They are a force. Although I hear the average age of their competition is a hair under 65. King Mueller is still the most popular guy on Capitol Hill. He works in a lobbying firm with a couple of my U.Va. fraternity brothers and always seems available for an afternoon beer in Georgetown. In March, he and his wife, Brooke, welcomed their daughter, Mary Wellford Mueller. Jim Pattillo is still practicing law in Birmingham, Ala. Impressively, he ran the Marine Corp Marathon this past fall. Do you remember that black eye he got in baseball practice our first year? That was a doozy. Jason Light is slapping the bass in his Facebook profile picture, so I’m guessing he’s a recreational rock star. At first glance I thought he was in a metal outfit called

Harry Norman, which is a great band name, but then I realized that was the name of his real estate firm in Atlanta. I never realized Jason was a hair band enthusiast, but it seems he was front and center at the Motley Crue and Poison show in Atlanta this summer. Your correspondent was also there, but Jason may not have recognized me in my leopard print spandex. Speaking of music, Nathan Michel currently of Red Hook, Brooklyn, has released a new record with his band, Hospitality. Buy the record and you’ll surely find yourself transported to the basement of Pendleton listening to the jammy sounds of Poor Cow. Down in Nathan’s hometown of Charleston, Ham Morrison had another great year on the racetrack in the ole number 74 HubeeD’s truck. He’s a living legend. On his Facebook page, Harrison Thurston posts a lot of pictures of fish – the catchin’ kind not the tropical kind. He also reports that he is a Taoist, but I posit that anyone who can throw a football like Harrison cannot be a Taoist. Methodist, maybe. Fellow SMU grad and fishing enthusiast Alex Crow ’94 is living down in Wilmington, N.C., so he must have

gotten a good look at Hurricane Irene this August. Denver Graninger lives with his wife in Bulgaria and is a professor at the American Research Center in Sofia. Of course he is. Your humble correspondent recently left the backwaters of Washington to seek his fortune in the Middle East. And I can report that Kuwait is just lovely in August. It’s a dry heat.

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Emily Fletcher Breinig (H) 602-288-9168 (O) 214-234-4242 fletchee@hotmail.com 20th Reunion: June 2014

Jon Bradner ’93 was in Dallas on business in March 2011. We caught up on our kids and families over dinner and a drink and it sounds like he has a pretty miraculous son that has overcome amazing adversity. Jon lives in Providence, R.I., and had highly entertaining stories from serving in the military. Katie Adler MacInnes had a little girl, Sadie Pembroke, on Aug. 3, 2011. Her family seems to be great. Ashby Brunson and her family just moved from Richmond to D.C. in

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August. She is glad to be back in the area, and she hopes to make it back to campus for a visit one day soon. Hopes all are doing well! Aladdin Freeman is good these days. He is staying busy, directing a lot of things like boxing and lacrosse and did a couple of spring football games. This fall he is the ISO director on Monday Night Football handling the replays and stuff like that. He talks to Ian Thomas, Darion Jones, Tim Senkeeto, Rahmaan Streater ’93, Chaney Milner ’93, and Kendall Meyer Ravitsky from time to time. I was in touch with Matt Lawson ’92 recently, and he said that he and his wife are living in the Bay Area. He is working at a startup and sounds good. All is well in the Big D for us. My husband, Patrick, is doing his M.B.A. remotely with Arizona State University. Our son brings us tons of joy and amusement. My brother, Fletch ’91 and his wife, Anne, had their third son, Campbell James, in February 2011. They live in Columbus, Ohio, where he is a vet and she and her brother own Pistacia Vera dessert boutique. We cannot wait to see them this fall and meet our newest nephew.

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Jane Borden married Nathaniel Stogdill in Greensboro, N.C., on June 4. Jane is a writer and comedian in New York and her first book, a memoir titled “I Totally Meant to Do That,” was published in March. Jane’s book is available on Amazon.com. Marshall Turnbull married Townes B. Johnson III, who attended EHS in 1994-95, on May 7, 2011, in Cashiers, N.C. EHS friends in attendance were Juliana Bush ’96, Gretchen Byrd, Becky McDaniel Crigger and Chris Crigger ’94. The couple lives in Greenville, S.C.

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Temple Forsyth Basham (H) 804-447-4238 ltforsyth@hotmail.com and Garland Lynn (H) 843-991-2150 garland@alumni.virginia.edu 20th Reunion: June 2016

From Temple: Is it just me, or is it hard to believe that it’s been 15 years since we were idling on the Strip, getting demerits for wearing skirts that were (way, way, way!) too short, and talking about how we couldn’t wait to get to college? Say it ain’t so. Well, at least I don’t feel old. A small but mighty crew of ’96ers gathered for the reunion in June, and we had a blast reminiscing about all things Episcopal. Menard Doswell and his wife, Sarah, proved their loyalty by making the trek from Fort Worth, Texas, where he works as a project manager for his family’s real estate business. New father James Rizzo was also there enjoying a small break from playing papa to his infant daughter. Fellow parents of a baby girl, Anna and Thomas Dickinson got a sitter and joined us from Little Rock. Babies abound! Gray MacNair King is awaiting her second child, due in early October. Despite being five-months pregnant at the reunion, Gray looked like she was in better shape than I, but maybe that’s because I never work out and eat whatever I want. Speaking of eating, Brian Knutson still loves creating new WaWa custom sandwiches using the iPad he got for Christmas. Brian recently started a new job with Mannington Flooring, allowing him to work from home and peruse Facebook for hours on end. He and Sarah live in Alexandria with their two boys, Jack and Walker. Sarah was in Paris during our Reunion but assured me that she brought along Dr. Ted Swift Faunce’s favorite mix-tape, “American in Paris.” Nothing says T.S.F. like Blues Traveler and Dave Matthews. Thomas Beckner also channeled Dr. Faunce, attending the reunion in a snazzy European getup and snapping photos with his fancy

Julia Caperton Michau is the daughter of Court and Laura Morton Michau ’96.

camera. He and girlfriend Christina live in N.Y.C. with their Pomeranian, whom he grooms daily when not doing documentary work. Not to be outdone was the newly engaged Mr. Claiborne Sinnickson Guy, looking quite dapper himself. I had a great time catching up with Catherine Cay Dreese. She, her husband, and their two girls enjoy living in rural Maryland among farmland and horses. Also in attendance were Crystal Taylor-Simon and her husband, Clayton, who live in New Bern, N.C., where she teaches high school Spanish and just received her M.Ed. from East Carolina University. They were on the dance floor doing a mean Electric Slide, and I’m pretty sure Lela Gant – who lives in D.C. and looks as great as she did in high school – was shakin’ it, too. But the true star among us was Tevan (“Tevan-Thirty”) Green. He started his own Hampton-based company, Citadel Logic, to help agencies improve their efficiency and effectiveness. Mr. Modest finally divulged that he is honored to have been recently elected to the Citadel Foundation Board of Directors. He will add this to his already-full plate of CEO/president, husband, and father of two young boys. Way to go, Tevan! Another star in our midst: Jane Pope Cooper, full-time mom to Wade and jewelry mogul. (Her earrings were recently featured on the “Today Show!”) She and Tyler moved to Georgetown and graciously hosted our class at their

home after the reunion dinner. Thanks to their hospitality and Doug Caslow’s generous gift of wine, we continued the walk down memory lane until we realized that we are getting older and called it a night. All in all, it was great fun and I implore all of you to return for our 20th! Though she couldn’t make it to the reunion, Meg Furlow Parker was on campus in the form of a laundry basket which bears her name and now lives with the Caslow family. Dorm find! I’m certain Meg was busy with her two children and work, but I hope she will join us in five years. Glynne Barber Bassi was unable to attend, but writes: “I’m in Minneapolis now, and I work for Target. We were in Switzerland for six years. I went to Zurich for work, fell in love, got married, and had a baby before we were transferred to Minneapolis for an international assignment for Lorenzo in ’08. He’s since moved over to Best Buy, so we are now all retail all the time and will probably be stateside for at least a few more years.” Juliana Bush and I caught up at our college reunion (our 10th! Eeek!) last June in Charlottesville, where she lives. In other news, Laura Morton Michau had a darling baby girl named Julia Caperton Michau (“Caper”) on May 11. Supermom Laura still works for Covidien, assisting surgeons in the O.R. as a device specialist. She and Court recently bought a home in Santa Barbara, Calif., and you better believe I’m going to visit! John Seale graduated from St. Mary’s University Law School. He had to miss the 15th reunion, because he was studying for the Texas bar exam, which he passed! As for me, I’m beyond busy with two little boys and my children’s clothing business, Fancy Pants Richmond. I have expanded from semi-annual sales to trunk shows and online Facebook auctions. Check me out! Life is definitely not boring. Andrew and I spend a lot of time with Hampton Moore Eubanks and husband, Ben, who are expecting their first child mid-October. Tyler Muerlin and wife Nena also live here with their two boys. I’ve emailed quite a bit – mostly about the “terrible

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Bryson Aldridge ’97 and Jennifer Dyer were married on May 14, 2011.

J.W. Perry ’97 (left) and his son, Jack, visited Jim Goodwin ’97 and son James in Raleigh last summer.

twos” (and threes and fours) – with Sarah Pugh Kadish. She, Mike, and 19-month-old Henry still live in Seoul, Korea. We hope they will move back to this part of the world very soon. Hope everyone is well. Have a wonderful fall and keep in touch!

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Bill Allen (H) 919-781-0805 (O) 919-716-2195 williamwallen@gmail.com 15th Reunion: June 8-9, 2012

Greetings from Raleigh! It’s early September: college football has started

again, the kids are back in school, and it is time for an update on the Class of ’97. Just an early reminder, our 15-year reunion is coming up next summer. It’s hard to believe we’ve been gone that long, and that it has already been over four years since our last get-together, but I hope everyone can make it. Before I get into the meat of my semi-annual update, if you are on Facebook, please check out the group I created for our class. I think a good chunk of the class is now a member of the group, and so far I’ve seen some good updates. It has been a fun (read: lazy) way to keep in touch with folks and get updates in between my literary masterpieces. The

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Walton James McLeod V (Jay), the son of Catherine and Tad McLeod ’97, is already in training for the EHS football team – Class of 2029.

group is aptly titled “EHS Class of 1997,” so please plug in if you deem that to be a desirable thing to do. Perhaps I should also point out that, in the off chance that I leave something out of the alumni magazine, this group could turn into a good place to add good fodder. Speaking of good fodder, I didn’t get a whole lot of feedback this time, but I do have some pretty cool updates. Back in March, Jessica and I had some friends over for dinner, and one of them happened to use a coolie-cup from Garrett Schulten Schreeder’s wedding to keep his beverage cool. Coincidentally, he was using said coolie-cup on Garrett’s and Marshall’s anniversary. This prompted me to wish Garrett a happy anniversary, and hopefully coerce an update out of her on the recent happenings in Alabama. My email of wellwishes proved to be timely, as Garrett informed me that she and Marshall are expecting their second child! When she gave me the news, she pointed out the due date vaguely as “the end of the summer,” which, as of the time of this writing, is right now. As I’m typing this, Garrett could be in labor. Consequently, once you read this, you can send her a congratulatory email. In other big baby news, Courtney and Jim Goodwin welcomed baby James in the spring. There is no doubt the little guy will be laughing, clapping, and coming up with painfully

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obvious nicknames for his closest buddies in no time! In other Jim Goodwin news, he has made a pretty major career change this spring. Jim recently left a job in executive search – he was working with his brother, Bill – to enroll in “Hamburger University.” To the uninitiated, that means that Jim has entered the highly intense training program to become a McDonald’s franchisee. This is a major personal and professional step, but Jim is very excited about it. The work is extremely intense in the beginning, but if you happen to be in the Fayetteville, N.C., area, please head to a McDonald’s near you and witness Jim doing his best impression of Louis Anderson from “Coming to America.” Joe Segrave sent me a note from Asheville not too long ago as well. Things continue to move along well in the North Carolina mountains for Joe and family. He recently opened his own car dealership out there and despite a relatively weak economy, he says things are going quite well. Shriti Patel is back in Virginia, working as a geriatric psychiatrist and faculty member at Eastern Virginia Medical School. She lives in Norfolk within walking distance of the water and is also close to Virginia Beach. She had a great time running into David Bickford at a festival in town. A chance encounter that can only be explained by poor compass bearings. She hopes to run into more EHS folks now that she’s back in the South. See you next June, Shriti! Early in the summer, I had a miniature EHS reunion in Raleigh. A band called Phish – some of you may have heard of them (kind of a local act, really) – came through Raleigh back in June, and I had a chance to catch up with a couple of other alumni. Shep Rose, Garland Lynn ’96, Randy Shelley ’96 (fellow class notes scribe), Kent Lowry ’96, and Brooks Dubose ’94 all made the trip to the Oak City for the big show. The show was okay, but it was pretty weird that we were pretty much the only people there – us and three guys selling grilled cheese sandwiches and hacky-sacks. It was great to catch up with all of those guys, as it has been several years in most

cases since I had seen any of them. Good things are taking place for Tad McLeod these days as well. He and Catherine are adjusting to parenthood as their son, Jay, was born on May 15. In other news, he ran into Nick Carosi at a Widespread Panic concert. Yes, you read that correctly. They were not at a Kenny Loggins concert, but a Widespread Panic noodle-fest. Those two guys. Right, well, anyway, Nick relayed to Tad that he’s doing awesome and that the architectural precast concrete business is totally cool. Tad’s words, not mine. In another “Twilight Zone” occurrence, they both intend to meet up with Bryan Pinckney ’98 at the House of Blues for a show when Bryan gets back from Bahrain. I also had an opportunity to catch up with Devie and J.W. Perry for a few days. They came to North Carolina for a couple of weeks of well-earned vacation from the grind in New York. J.W. is still practicing high-level credit/finance law at Davis Polk, and after a week on Bald Head Island with family, the Perrys made a pit stop in Raleigh for a few days. It was great to catch up with my old roommate for a few days and meet his 7-monthold son, Jack (or Tennessee Jed as his Uncle Bill insists on calling him, an inside joke funny to exactly one person). Also writing in from New York is Lucy Whittle Goldstein (quite a segue, right?). She spent her summer working on a master’s in independent school leadership through the Klingenstein Center at Columbia. She says that she loved the program and loved living in the city, too. Now that the summer is over, she is back in Newport, R.I., teaching English and serving as the 10th grade dean at St. George’s School. It’s also hard to believe that Jane is already 3 years old! Carter Hancock married Claiborne Johnston (Woodberry Class of ’96) on Feb. 26. They live in New York City. Lucas Tomlinson is serving in Afghanistan with a human terrain team, working out of Kandahar Province, which is Mullah Omar’s old district. Stay safe, Lucas.

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Francis Winslow Poe Brawley III is the son of Patricia and Frank Brawley ’98.

Katherine Moncure Stuart ’98 with her son, Jack.

Andrew Doehler ’98 celebrating in Tahrir Square in Cairo after the fall of Hosni Mubarak. Charlotte Carrick Gummere is the daughter of Jessica and George Gummere ’98.

As a follow up to something from the last issue, Caldwell Clarke did really well in the World’s Strongest Man competition. His neck and forearms are still huge, as he is training to beat Magnus Magnussen in the Universe’s Strongest Man competition, which is an even bigger deal. Watch for the event on ESPN 8 sometime when you can’t sleep in the wee hours of the morning. I promise it won’t be as weird as seeing Carosi, McLeod, and Pinckney at a Widespread Panic concert. Prabs. Please stay in touch via email at williamwallen@gmail.com or Facebook. I look forward to catching up with all of you next June!

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Brad and Kristen McLarry McGowan ’98 welcomed baby Thomas Michael McGowan on March 18.

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in the wedding: Anne’s brother, Sam Duke ’04 and Victor Maddux ’93. The newlyweds live in D.C. and both work at Blackboard, an education technology company. Congratulations, Anne! Wray Barber will be tying the knot in October with Jon Whitticom, whom she met at Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. The two have been living

Katherine Houstoun Schutt (H) 804-788-8981 katherine.schutt@gmail.com Our first bit of news takes us back to campus. Anne Duke married Ande Jenkins ’92 on Aug. 20th at Episcopal. The chaplain, Gideon Pollach, married them, and the reception took place afterwards at the Chevy Chase Club. Two EHS alums served as groomsmen

together in New York City since graduating and are busy planning their wedding in Warren, Vt. We have a lot of new babies to celebrate. Kristen McLarry McGowan and her husband, Brad, welcomed a little boy on March 18. Thomas Michael McGowan arrived in the world at 7 pounds and 7 ounces and 21 inches long. Kristen reports that the little guy certainly keeps them busy. Patricia and Frank Brawley also had a baby boy on Easter Sunday, April 4, named Francis Winslow Poe Brawley III (Frank). Frank says, “We are having a blast in Tampa and are enjoying being parents.” Andrew Grobmyer made the move back home to Little Rock, Ark., from Washington, D.C., this summer after spending much of the last eight years working on Capitol Hill for Congressman Marion Berry and Senator Mark Pryor of Arkansas. Andrew is now doing governmental affairs work on behalf of farmers in Arkansas. He reports: “I am the executive vice president of the Agricultural Council of Arkansas, which is a nonprofit trade association representing the row crop agriculture industry

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in Arkansas. Now that I am back in God’s country, I look forward to catching more Razorback games and spending time in the outdoors.” From the West Coast, Robin Manning Riva writes: “Life is wonderful in Southern California! I finished my master of science degree in education counseling in January and am currently working for California State University as an academic advisor. I really enjoy working with college students and being on a large state university campus. My husband, Brian, returned home safely from his third combat tour, this time to Afghanistan, and will be home for a few years before our next adventure. Yay! He and Lee Hemming ’95, fly the same aircraft and know each other from Gettysburg College lacrosse. They see each other from time to time. We’re not sure if we will remain at Camp Pendleton out here or if we will be stationed on the East Coast in the next few years. Either way I am not complaining. Hope all is well with the Class of ’98.” The Texans are infiltrating New York. Hunter Yarbrough has been up there for six years now, working for an investment company as an oil and gas analyst. He has been joined by Catherine and Stayton Bonner, who recently moved to Brooklyn. Stayton writes: “I’m working at GQ, despite not having worn a tie since EHS. Basically, my job is to research stories and write short pieces for the magazine.” Our most exotic update comes courtesy of Andrew Doehler, who has been traveling the world and taking part in the Arab Spring. He writes: “In October of 2009, I quit my job as a headhunter with Heidrick & Struggles in San Francisco. I left California behind and spent the last year and half traveling around the world visiting 14 different countries in Asia and Africa. I lived in Cairo, Egypt, for eight months where I learned how to speak Arabic reasonably well. In addition, I had the distinct pleasure of living through Egypt’s revolution earlier this year – the picture was taken in

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Episcopal family and friends gathered to celebrate the marriage of William James Stallworth ’00 and Mary Riddick Gauss in Beaufort, N.C., on June 18, 2011. The reception was held at the Dunes Club on Atlantic Beach. The couple is living in Atlanta. Front row, left to right: Hank Stallworth ’67 (groom’s uncle), Jim Stallworth ‘63 (groom’s father), William Stallworth ’00, Mary Riddick Stallworth, Clarence Mills ’03, and Joe Stallworth ’03 (brother and best man); second row: J. H.“Peter” McGee ’46 (William’s godfather), P.X. Head ’00, Wooten Lamm ’66 (uncle of the bride), and Sandy Stuart ‘00; third row: Jordan Phillips ’00, Gene Hooff ’01, Allison Jones Hubbard ’00, Anderson Hackney ’07, and John Simons ’00; forth row: Jordan Whichard ’03, Bill Baker ’77, and John Pace ‘77. Not pictured: Graye Pelletier ‘03 and Morgan Akers ’01.

the celebratory atmosphere of Tahrir Square shortly after the fall of Hosni Mubarak. In July, I returned home to Washington, D.C., to begin my new life as a Foreign Service officer with the Department of State. I’m honored to represent the U.S. abroad as a member of our Diplomatic Corps, and I just found out that my first tour will be in Embassy Rangoon, Burma. So, if any EHS alumni, and especially any fellow Class of ’98ers, plan to visit Burma in the next two years, please let me know!” He also adds: “Rest assured that I am still in contact with Raj Mehta, Peter May, Bill Cherkauskas, and Ben Vranian even though we rarely get a chance to get together, so EHS is never far from my mind.” Alden and Rob Watts are now living in Norfolk, where he is stationed on the USS Monterey. Their second son, Pete, was born on March 2, just in time for the earthquake and tsunami

in Japan, where they were living. Alden and the children had to evacuate to the U.S., and Rob had to stay with his ship until late July. The family is happy to be together in Norfolk. As for me, in January I started working at Virginia Commonwealth University for their in-house creative agency where I write and edit the school’s websites and print publications. I arrived just in time to get involved in March Madness and VCU’s exhilarating ride to the Final Four, which was a fun way to welcome the spring. Hope all are well. Please continue to keep in touch and let us know what you’re up to. Enjoy the fall!

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Davis White davis.c.white@gmail.com 15th Reunion: June 2014

Left to right: Alix Dejean ’00, Will Collier ’00, Kisha Young-Collier, and Sean Francis ’02 celebrated Will and Kisha’s wedding.

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Schuyler Williams schuyler13@gmail.com and Maisie Cunningham maisie.cunningham@gmail.com 15th Reunion: June 2015

It seems as though a lot has changed in just six months! I, for one, have finally left the Big Apple after nearly six and a half years (I’m still shocked every time I say that!) and have moved to the great state of Texas. Somewhere in between the South and N.Y.C., I have found this state to live up to the hype – no state income tax, far warmer weather (recordbreaking for those of you who live in a vacuum), and prideful Texans who still think this state should be its own country. I might be exaggerating a little… all in all, it was a much needed change! The good news is that I’ve had a chance to reconnect with several EHS alums, including Wynne Liedtke Brown ’99, Andrew Farrar ’02, and Will Blocker. Will and I attended the annual Colonial golf tournament in Fort Worth, not too far from where he lives. He just started his M.B.A. at Texas Christian this fall and is still working full time with his own brand new company! I have a feeling it’s going to be tough to see him, but I’m glad to know he’s nearby nonetheless. Kate Lummis, another Fort Worth native, informed me that she will return

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to Dallas in January, so I’m sure we will catch up at that time. She has been living in London for the past year and a half working for a European retail company and is being transferred to the Paris office for the next six months – how exciting! Better brush up on those EHS French class skills. Kate hopes to see Emily Anderson, who is living in Germany, and Jenny Kroncke might jump over the pond for a French Thanksgiving. So far she has loved living overseas, but looks forward to being back in the States in the new year. Emily Anderson moved to Stuttgart, Germany, remains in the chemistry field, and plans to stay in Germany for a few years. She and Kate plan to reconnect – please send us a picture when you do! Heading to our many North Carolina residents…Jordan Phillips and Lillian Smith are both still in Charlotte and see each other on a fairly frequent basis. Jordan recently attended the wedding of William Stallworth and Mary Riddick Gauss on June 18. P.X. Head, Sandy Stuart, and John Simons attended, among others. William and Mary Riddick reside in Atlanta, where they continue to see P.X. on a regular basis. P.X. reports that he sold off his portion of the still infamous Zingo franchise and has moved on to work at his stepfather’s commercial real estate company. The man who is always full of stories finally got it handed to him – apparently his best friends had a surprise roast for his 30th birthday. I truly wish I had witnessed this event and trust that Stallworth and Jordan did him justice. Matt Jordan – does everyone remember him? This is the first time he has written in to the class notes ever…and we hope it’s not the last! (Had to give you a hard time, Matty J.) Matt writes that he just returned from a year in the country of Georgia, teaching English as a second language, and now lives in New Orleans, which he says is “an absolutely awesome city! The sense of community is ridiculous. I live with my brother Will ’04, and since he is in three bands, I’ve been afforded the opportunity to be a super groupie and

see a ton of live music in addition to all the live music in the city.” He also sees John DePriest ’04 a lot since he too plays in the same three bands. If anyone visits NoLa anytime soon, look for Matt at a restaurant called The Boucherie – apparently he’s becoming a culinary expert! Matt – I will let you know when I come to your city in about a month… Brice Lohr Barnes and Houston Barnes have a very noteworthy announcement – Houston started his own law practice in Durham, N.C., on Sept. 7. The Barnes Law Firm, PLLC, serves innovative companies, entrepreneurs, and small businesses in the Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill communities and the profusion of emerging companies in these communities. While Houston is the only attorney on staff at this time, he expects that demand will be such that he will add several more attorneys and support in the near future, as he looks to expand in alignment with client needs. Houston noted in his press release, “While I have spent the past four years in-house with a dynamic company, I am thrilled about the opportunity to broaden my client base and work with some very exciting companies. Being an executive and working with companies on the business side, as much as on the legal side, is a huge competitive advantage that I have over some of my peers.” Well, kudos to you, Houston, for going out on your own during these rough economic conditions and best of luck! Jonathan Wells still lives in Charlotte and works for a new brewery – so I guess you’ll have to try the beer if you want to catch a glimpse of him! Jonathan recently spent quality time with Hannah Connor ’99 and is getting ready to rep his former brewery (Olde Hickory Brewery) at the Great American Beer Festival next week in Denver. That, sounds awesome. Have a great time! Moving along to South Carolina… Ann Johnson Hopkins married Spencer Hopkins ’01 on March 5 in Spartanburg, S.C. Stuart Rhodes ’01 was a groomsman and Jamie Johnson Boyd ’96 was the matron of honor. Hattie Gruber, Will Milam ’01, Dave

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Clarke ’01, Chuck Gilchrist ’67, and Ned Johnson ’66 were all in attendance. Ann and Spencer currently reside in Spartanburg. Congratulations to the EHS couple! Summers Clarke and her husband, Taylor, continue to enjoy the wonderful city of Charleston, S.C., (how couldn’t they?) and see Alicia Ravenel Boyd and her husband, Ed, on a regular basis. Summers and Taylor had the luxury of going to Europe in August, and Taylor’s brother got engaged at Versailles while they were there. That must have been epic! Summers also ran into Eliza Smith ’02 out at Sullivan’s Island and had a chance to see Aynsley Comer at Pawleys Island over Labor Day Weekend. Those two ladies are going to be in a wedding together in May, so they are excited about getting to see more of each other at the upcoming wedding parties! It does seem to be the never-ending wedding season, does it not? Speaking of weddings, our very own Hattie Gruber’s Kiss The Ring New York jewelry and custom engagement ring business could not be doing better. She has literally made more engagement rings for many of our mutual friends than I can even count! If you are interested in utilizing her services, or at least reading her highly entertaining blog, I suggest you visit: www.kisstheringnewyork.com. Hattie’s cousin, Mary Ann Broughton ’15, matriculated as a freshman this year at EHS. Let’s just say she has some big shoes to fill! While the N.Y.C. crowd may be dwindling, Jamie McNab returned this past year after graduating with an M.B.A. from Stanford University. I guess he wasn’t cut out for the West Coast – c’mon Jamie who were you kidding? I know he and Hattie stay in touch and that he has seen James Doswell since his return. Elizabeth Hossfeld has returned to her native turf and is now living full time in New York working at a real estate development firm, focusing on new construction of apartments in SoHo. She had the pleasure of seeing some EHS friends, including Becky Arnesen Jenkins who joined the N.Y.C. crowd a little less

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than a year ago, at Hattie’s one-year celebration of Kiss The Ring. We knew she couldn’t stay away from the Big Apple for too long! And, if anyone could track down Philip Nuttle in the Big Apple, it’s probably Elizabeth, so I hope they all connect soon. That said, I know their “power dinners” won’t be the same without me! Stewart Gilchrist Jones – also a new class notes contributor I’m happy to say – has exciting news! She and her husband, Crawford, moved to Birmingham, Ala., in early April for his job and gave birth to their first child, daughter Frances “Heyward” Jones on April 21! Needless to say, it’s been a busy summer! Congratulations Stewart – I’m sure your daughter will be as beautiful as you are! Katie Elmore Thomson is a new resident of South Carolina! She and her husband moved to Columbia at the end of April, and she is proud to say that she is officially a stay-at-home mom! More power to you, Katie! She absolutely loves being home with her children, Will and Caroline. Will started preschool this year and Caroline turns one on Aug. 28. Maisie Cunningham is truly a West-Coaster, I am convinced. She now lives at “the beach” (Isn’t that the sign of a true Californian?) and works at Convergent. Not only that, she has incredible news! She is engaged to be married in April 2012 in her hometown of Washington, D.C. I cannot wait for the big day – congratulations, Maisie and Andy! Aside from wedding planning, she saw Brittanny Wildman and Carlie Hooff Casella at an engagement dinner that the Hooffs threw for Maisie and Andy. She alerted me to the fact that Carlie and Dan are the proud parents of a new puppy – I am dying to know which kind! Betsy Watts Metcalf writes that she and David still love Atlanta, and David continues to enjoy his position at McKinsey. Betsy is now working at the Lovett School in their academic resource center, and she recently acquired a new position as their assistant director of sustainability working on their “green initiative.” She also

coaches girls’ lacrosse and will have a chance to show her skills off to her alma mater, as EHS is actually coming to Atlanta for spring break, and they’ll be playing Lovett! I know Betsy is excited to see her former and current players going up against each other. On a more personal note, Betsy continues to write her blog/website, glutenfreedomatlanta. com, and she dabbles in some freelance writing for magazines. If you aren’t already friends with her on Facebook, I suggest you send her a friend request so you can keep up with her entries and recipes there! Ben Clements has stayed true to his northern roots since college – he lives in Burlington, Vt., and just started medical school at UVM. He also got married last September to a fellow Vermonter and was happy to have Charlie Kingsley ’05 join him to celebrate. Living out his last single glory days, Ben had a great “last summer” backpacking in Yosemite and Zion national parks and paddling the Allagash in Maine. And representing our nation’s capital, Bernie Carey is still doing well and recently ran into my brother, Hunter Williams ’02, and William Corbitt ’02. I’m sure they were sober. Bernie also met up with Chase Peterson (who is also recently engaged), James Doswell, and Ryan Eglè for a combo celebration of Bernie’s birthday and Chase’s bachelor party in NOLA. He continues to see T.K. Mante ’99 and Alix Dejean. Ryan Egle has returned to his roots, lives in New Orleans, and works at Eglè Distributing, a family-owned distribution company that sells energy efficient lighting and green commercial cleaning chemicals. Speaking of Bernie and Alix, they both attended the wedding of William E. Collier III and Dr. Kisha YoungCollier on Aug. 7 in Marietta, Ga. Sean Francis ’02 was also in attendance. (See photo.) David Harris and his wife just welcomed their second child, Abigail Eve Harris on Sept. 13. Congratulations for the second time! I think you are winning in terms of number of children so far! (Brice and Houston are expecting.) David and Vanessa are enjoying their

new house in Centreville, Va., with their family of four. Professionally, David is still with IBM and has continued to work with the CBP for almost seven years now. He has moved up to a senior IT specialist at IBM, and while he never expected to work in technology, he is very happy with this career path and has been very successful, clearly! Bobby McLean represents another marriage in our class! He tied the knot this past May, moved to a new house, and still works at an engineering consulting firm in downtown Baltimore. Good for you, Bobby – glad to hear all is well. Last but certainly not least, let’s take a look at what our international-based classmates are up to: Dash Pierce is, you guessed it, still based in China, where he has resided for the better part of the last seven years! Wow, I feel old! Dash is the country manager for an international human resource assessment company. He had a chance to see Darren Platt earlier this year when he paid a visit to southwestern China. He was also a groomsman at Avery Miles’ wedding this past May in Virginia Beach with Bryan Wisner, Michael McFarlane, Charlton Miles ’04, and Brock Miles ’03. Craig Anderson was also in attendance. And…Dash too is engaged to a lovely girl from Texas, whom he happened to meet in Beijing four years ago. Besides that, he’s headed to Borneo in a couple weeks on vacation. Rough life, Dash! I hope to catch a glimpse of you when you return to Tejas for your wedding! Kate Leggett Mabry writes, “I was married in October 2010 to Jason Mabry, a 2001 graduate of Woodberry. We were married in my hometown of Lynchburg, Va., and we enjoyed the company of several EHS alumni, including my sister, Ann Leggett ’93 (maid of honor), Elizabeth Horsey ’00 (bridesmaid), Hattie Gruber ’00, Lisa Manning ’00, Miranda Thompson ’00, Meg Andrews ’01, Lacy Baldwin Noble ’01, Mary Spencer Craddock Scurry ’95, and my step-father, Lamar Cecil ’50, and my uncle, Gordon Leggett ’50.”

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Zsolt Parkanyi still lives in Russia and is now the proud father of Sara Parkanyi, who was born on June 13, in Moscow! He writes that all is well and he and his wife are enjoying the enlarged Parkanyi family. Again, congratulations! Thank you all so much for contributing and making our class notes so interesting – I love hearing from each and every one of you and given all that transpired in six months, I cannot wait to receive the updates in the New Year! And of course, if you find yourselves in Dallas, please look me up! You all know how to reach me!

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Taylor Gillis Clement (O) 910-693-0032 tgclem@gmail.com and Leah Kannensohn Tennille lktennille@gmail.com 15th Reunion: June 2016

It was so great to see so many of you at Reunion this year! For those who couldn’t make it, we hope you’ll be able to come to the 15th Reunion in 2016 (yikes!). Kim Obradovich Holman recently started a two-year term on the Montgomery Sunrise Rotary Club’s Board of Directors. She is currently serving as the Club Administration Committee chair. Jordan Hadwin writes that she is still living in Myrtle Beach. She graduated from the National Automobile Dealers Association’s dealer academy in D.C. in August and is working to become the GM at her father’s dealership and fill the very big shoes left behind by her brother, Gary ’99. His memorial golf tournament will be held again in August, and Jordan looks forward to seeing any alumni that attend. She sees Taylor Gillis Clement and her husband, Baxter, when she can bribe them to visit her (bribes include trips to Alligator Adventure and other classy Myrtle Beach destinations). She is enjoying her new career and being near family.

Ashley McGrane is attending the University of Alabama School of Medicine in Birmingham. She will graduate in 2015. Allen and Libby Seaton Porter moved to 240 Westminster Place in Atlanta after living on campus at Brandon Hall School, where she taught language arts and Spanish for three years. She now teaches skills and strategies for success at Marist School in Dunwoody. In December, Libby will receive her master’s degree in behavior and learning disabilities (education) from Georgia State, and she writes that she is, “so glad to see the light at the end of that tunnel!” Spencer Hopkins married Ann Johnson Hopkins ’00 on March 5. (Stuart Rhodes was in the wedding.). Spencer and Ann live in Spartanburg, S.C., and started a calculator recycling company in March 2010. Campbell Henry and his wife just had a baby girl, Grace Campbell Henry, on April 5. He sees Lance (Bo Richardson) regularly...who is also married now. Perrin Dent is still living in San Francisco working in tech PR. She recently got engaged and is planning a June 2012 wedding in Cashiers, N.C. Stephen Roberts says he misses everyone, and that if anything good emerges from his work, much of the credit goes to the great friends, professors, and minds he met at The High School. He’s sorry that he missed the Reunion. Lauren Sims got engaged in April. She also ran her third half-marathon with Team Challenge, the half-marathon training and fundraising program for the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America (CCFA). She raised more than $14,000 for the cause this year. Leah Kannensohn Tennille writes, “Thanks to Will Lombard’s excellent real estate skills, SFG has a new, much less sketchy office in Atlanta, so it doesn’t look like I’ll be leaving ATL any time soon. Ryan Killeen Weatherly ’02 stopped by for a visit on her way to Nashville recently and she, Anna Bryan ’02, and I enjoyed a delicious dinner together. Dre and I are headed

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up to Charlottesville in September for the wedding of Massie Payne ’03, and we’re looking forward to seeing some EHS alumni there.” Lee Tennille Carson and Liza Sarn recently were featured in a song written by Taylor’s husband about someone returning to their 10-year reunion (loosely based on true events). Liza is determined that this is her chance at fame.

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Anne Arnold Glenn (H) 540-371-6370 anne.a.glenn@gmail.com and Millie Tanner Rayburn (H) 919-370-7496 millierayburn@gmail.com

Ginny Hopper ’04 (left) and Parker Woltz ’04 in Jackson Hole, Wyo.

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Judson Ragsdale is living in Atlanta and has been working on several films and television shows, including “Dear John,” “Army Wives,” “The Vampire Diaries,” “Drop Dead Diva, and “The Hunger Games.

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Matt Berry (H) 914-235-5303 matt.s.berry@gmail.com and Alden Koste (H) 443-783-4659 alden.koste@gmail.com 10th Reunion: June 2013

From Alden: I hope that everyone in the class of 2003 is doing well. It certainly seems, from the class notes that I received, that everyone is keeping busy. Thank you for all of the wonderful updates. James Baring moved to Los Angeles in October 2010 to join Scouler & Company, a financial restructuring/ turnaround firm. He is working in the L.A. headquarters with a friend from Colorado College. He enjoys the scenic views from his apartment in Marina Del Rey and is looking forward to adopting a dog soon. M.R. Rowe graduated from T.C. Williams School of Law (University

of Richmond) in May and took the West Virginia bar in July. This fall she will start at Goodwin & Goodwin in Charleston, W.Va. Sanford Zeigler recently moved to Palo Alto for his residency in cardiothoracic surgery. His first two months were spent at a county hospital in San Jose doing general surgery. He reports that for his initial training they had him start from the bottom, “quite literally.” Also, Sanford is happy to report his engagement to Susanna Stump of Fort Valley, Ga. They will be getting married next March. Winslow Moore Blankenship celebrated her one-year wedding anniversary in June. Winslow started her third year of medical school at Georgetown, where she is rotating through many D.C. hospitals. Winslow was busy in April organizing Massie Payne’s bachelorette party at The Greenbrier. Lauren Pirrung was also present for the festivities. Winslow will be supporting Massie on her wedding day in September as a bridesmaid, and she is looking forward to seeing some familiar EHS faces then. Molly King graduated from Vanderbilt in May with a master’s in education. She got engaged and moved to New Orleans this summer. Her fiancée, Ivy, is from New Orleans, and they are very excited about the move. Their wedding is scheduled for April 2012. While in New Orleans, Molly has been teaching in the lower school at Metairie Park Country Day School. She said that when she interviewed there this spring

she found out that Mr. Hershey had visited the campus earlier that day – such a small world. Jarrett Bell is living in New York and recently started a new job. In addition, he is a student in the part-time M.B.A. program at NYU’s Stern School of Business. Elizabeth Pope is currently living in Charleston, S.C., along with some fellow EHS classmates. She sees Cord Smythe, Sara Caughman, Laura Faulders ’02, Ryan Killeen Weatherly, Beverly Mebane Helms ’02, and Laura Duncan ’02 regularly. Elizabeth went to N.Y.C. in June to visit Hannah Baldwin and Caroline Inman. They had a wonderful time catching up and visiting. Congratulations to Cameron Leppard who was married to Jim Kluttz the first weekend of August in Charleston, S.C. Her maid of honor was Hannah Baldwin. Graye Pelletier, Clarence Mills, Caroline Inman, and Sara Caughman were bridesmaids; Elizabeth Pope was a greeter. Also in attendance from EHS were Will Corbitt ’02, Carter Coker, Anne Sanders, and Marla Woodford. Also, congratulations to those who are getting married this fall. In addition to Massie Payne’s September wedding (mentioned above), a few other classmates will be tying the knot. Brad Tubesing, who is still working in D.C., is very excited about his Oct. 15 wedding, which will take place in Fairfax, Va. Sara Caughman, who is engaged to

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Hannah Ellington performed a senior voice recital at BirminghamSouthern College. Her friend, Kim Obradovich ’01, attended the concert. Hannah won the Whittington Music Competition at BSC for a record third year in a row. After graduation in May, she planned to travel in Europe with her sister, Sarah ’06. Helen Grassi is working in the college counseling department at the Winsor School in Boston. She also coaches squash and tennis. She loves school life with six weeks of summer vacation. Friends celebrated the wedding of Sara and John DePriest ’04. Left to right: Eamon Coy ’04, Will Jordan ’04, Sara Luton DePriest, John DePriest ’04, Robert DePriest ’02, Sissie Strope ’04, and Kirk Amos ’04.

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Harrison Gilchrist (H) 804-443-5247 chgilchr@gmail.com and Caitlin Smith caitlin.ann.smith@gmail.com 10th Reunion: June 2014

Girls from the Class of ’04 gathered last summer at Figure 8 Island. Front row, left to right: Dewitt Tillett, Elizabeth Colyer, Parker Woltz, Dorothy Hutchison, and Mary White Martin; second row: Allie Tanner, Katharine Ragsdale, Anna Henderson, Whitney Brooks, Emily Glass, Madison Penninger, and Mary Peterkin

Harry Ragsdale, is getting married Nov. 19 in Columbia, S.C. Caroline Inman will celebrate her marriage to Jed Dyson on Nov. 12th in Atlanta, Ga. Daphne Clyburn is starting her second year at Saint James School in Hagerstown, Md., where she teaches Spanish, coaches field hockey and lacrosse, and helps out on dorm. She writes that her experiences at Episcopal have helped her be a more effective teacher and mentor. She recently got together with Viviana Davila to talk about teaching Spanish and coaching sports. She also visits the Kehlenbrink’s

often and is fortunate to have kept up with them. After living in Colorado and England for many years, Daphne is very happy to be back in Maryland. After a two and a half month summer break, Case Anderson reports that he now understands why people really do this whole “teaching thing.” Kidding aside, he has enjoyed his time off. He traveled in Italy and Armenia with his family as part of his father’s sabbatical project and was able to spend a healthy chunk of time in Sewanee. He looks forward to the fall and what his second year of teaching will bring.

From Harrison: Thanks for the updates, everyone. Sounds like our class is staying busy and continuing to set a high bar for other classes to beat. From Bangkok to Washington, D.C., our class is taking the world by storm and making an impact in major cities as they do so… Maddy Burke drove from Berkeley, Calif., to Alexandria a few months ago, and recently got her real estate license. To pass the time, Maddy is staying busy fixing up rental properties and selling houses. She writes, “My sisters, Erin ’05, Minnie ’07, and Jeannie ’10, and I are thinking about moving to Costa Rica for the winter. This past spring I coached Episcopal’s state champion novice rowers and am looking forward to doing that again next year.” Lots of EHS graduates gathered in New Orleans over Memorial Day weekend to celebrate the wedding of John DePriest to Sara Luton of Nashville, Tenn. On their way to the wedding, Jennifer and Eamon Coy had a great time catching up with Michael Barraza ’03 while in Charleston, S.C. Congratulations to Wiley Grandy, who got married on July 30 to Gray Crabtree in Tallahassee, Fla. Michael

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Biz Ladwig ’04 with her kindergarten class in Thailand.

Maddy Burke ’04 coached Episcopal’s novice rowers to a state championship. From left: Coach Matt Lukban, Burke, Lucy Douglass ’13, Blair Dewing ’13, Ashton Yarnall ’13, Ileanie Alifonso ’14, and Maggie Graney ’13.

Fulks and Blake Rose were both groomsmen, and (Dad EHS Class of ’64) was the best man. Also in attendance were Katie Arnold McCurry and David Breeden. Wiley recently graduated from the University of Richmond Law School and moved to Norfolk, Va., where he is employed. Joe Swaim just moved to Washington, D.C., and is currently working for the EPA with consent decree driven work in the Metro area. Parker Woltz reports, “I’m finally about to re-enter the real world after a

nice long hiatus; I finished my consulting job in April, spent three months living in Nicaragua working for an education non-profit, and then spent the rest of the summer enjoying my ‘funemployment.’ I also had the chance to hang out with Ginny Hopper recently while in Jackson Hole, Wyo.! It’s been great to catch up with so many of our friends, and I can’t wait to see everyone again soon.” This fall, Parker will begin her first year at Harvard Business School. Elizabeth Ladwig has been living

in Thailand with her boyfriend, Allen Wood, for the last eight months and teaching for about four of those. Biz writes: “It’s been crazy living here – especially after getting an emergency appendectomy in some tiny little hospital outside Bangkok! The first couple of months over here we were able to travel all throughout Thailand, and then over to Vietnam and Laos. I am now teaching kindergarten just outside of Bangkok, and I love my class! They’re adorable and very smart.” Alexander Keevil recently moved back to Richmond, Va., to teach at Riverside School, a small private school for kids with dyslexia. He is teaching U.S. history, physics, and algebra, as well as running the student council and starting an after-school drama program. Alexander will also have the opportunity to return to EHS as a member of the Advisory Council! After graduating from W&L in 2009, John Henderson has been doing corporate communications and marketing for Coral Networks, a startup software company. He writes: “For last two years, I have been living and working in State College, Pa., but I just moved to Alexandria, where my company is getting established. Activities of 2011 thus far include running with a team in the Tough Mudder in Allentown, Pa., and raising $6,000 for Living Waters; starting a community garden in State College; a three-day backpacking trip to the Adirondacks in July, which included summiting Mt. Marcy; and moving back to Alexandria at the beginning of August. I’m still getting settled in, and looking forward to connecting with any alums who might be in the area.” Caitlin Smith is still living in Dallas, and recently took a trip to Charlotte and was able to spend time with Odie von Werssowetz, Dorothy Hutchison, and Anna Henderson, who got engaged over the summer to Dane Brantley. Cole Flannery was selected to be an officer in the U.S. Army JAG Corps. Brittany Bell married Lawrence Anderson Moye IV of Maury, N.C., on Sept. 17 at Saint Egbert Catholic Church in Morehead City, N.C.

Anne Steptoe ’05 (right) and Sydney Hess ’05 (left) visited former faculty member Jim Ellington in Birmingham, Ala., last summer. Together they went to the city’s landmark, the 107-year-old statue of Vulcan, which overlooks the city and commemorates its steel town history.

Brittany received a bachelor’s degree in biological life science from North Carolina State University and a bachelor’s degree in nursing from East Carolina University. She is a nurse at Rex Hospital, Raleigh, where they live. As for me, I’m still living in Charleston, S.C., and working for Garden & Gun magazine. I was able to catch up with a bunch of old friends this summer during my travels along the east coast. Look forward to seeing some of you this fall at The Game!

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Chris Mixon (H) 212-249-2432 cmixon.mxn@gmail.com and Lila Warren (H) 540-592-3609 lilawarren@gmail.com 10th Reunion: June 2015

From Chris: Since we have last communed, it is pretty clear that the Class of 2005 lies firmly in the throes of romance. With one wedding and several engagements, our members are certainly advancing nobly along with their life goals and

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Left to right: Teddy Peterson ’07, Zack Hoisington ’06, Jeff Hoisington, Spencer Graves ’08, and Jeb Leva ’07 reunited at the Colorado College vs. Sewanee lacrosse game on March 19, 2011.

practical societal ambitions. Well done. Let’s rattle off some facts. Katie Woltz is in Europe traveling for a while before going home to Charlottesville, Va. She is currently learning to play the fiddle and is listening to a lot of bluegrass music. Chris Swaim (notice the third, fourth? name change) moved to D.C. in October of 2010 to take a job in the creative department of a political advertising and PR firm, GMMB. She assures us it is exactly like “Mad Men.” In December, she met up with Ellie Frazier, recently home from Rwanda, where she is working in the Peace Corps. Ellie loves what she does and is thinking of staying on an extra year, or possibly returning to the states for more schooling before heading back to Africa. Chris also organized a fourth of July reunion at the Varipapa’s Potomac house on the river. Robbie, Alexandra, Lila Warren, Tabb Wyllie, and Phil Hudgens all met and celebrated the birthing of America. It is reported that while Robbie read the Declaration of Independence, Tabb and Andrew ’08 (the youngest V-Pop) demonstrated what giving birth to America might actually look like. It was a divided labor. Spencer Katona – our inimitable Head Monitor – is engaged to Kerby Stuller, his girlfriend of six years, and they are set to be married in August! Well done, Spencer! He is also entering

his last year of law school and is looking forward to a “big boy job.” Hopefully, that won’t mean prosecuting all of us… In actual marriage news, none of this engagement business, the winner of the first to get married in our class award goes to… Hanna Nation! Well done. A more detailed update of that wedding will soon follow. Hayley Peterson is still living in D.C. with Margaret Anne McArver. She is now the White House correspondent for The Washington Examiner, and she has been traveling on the Republican presidential campaign. Look for her book Fear and Loathing On the Campaign Trail (’12) to be released sometime in early 2013. Hillary Harper is still inspiring the youth of Anacostia! She has just finished her master’s in educational public policy at American University and is heading the math department at her school. Go, Hillary! Phil Hudgens is now back in London and working with Credit Suisse. He came back for a period last spring and early summer to care for his mother who had been battling cancer. She passed away in April, and our prayers are certainly with him as well as her. He is sending an open invitation to all those 2005ers to come across the pond and stay at his place. Taylor Embury – the blondie! – finished his final year at Colorado School

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of Mines and is applying for teaching jobs. He is also still playing loads of lax. Peebles Squire has migrated to the University of Wisconsin-Madison for grad school and is studying international development with an emphasis on Francophone countries. He finished up his time in the Champagne region with what the French might describe as a mild hangover – or at least le petit mort. Lila Warren is in Cookeville, Tenn., beginning her master’s of science degree. She will study fisheries biology and focus on the exotic and never-beentamed Muskellunge. Look for Lila to domesticate this “Musky” soon. Andrew Monson assures us that he is doing the same old stuff. No new tricks for this dog! Jazzfest was brilliant, Red Dress run was…red and he now works for Stryker Orthopaedics. Megan Coolidge has moved back to D.C. and is looking to plan a miniD.C. get together. She is studying international development at GW and is prospering. She also does bartending work at the Commissary – stop in for a drink on the house! Elijah “Nacho” Vidal is holding it down like a boss. ‘Nuff said. David Addicott is in the Army and “chillaxin” in beautiful Afghanistan. He provides intel analysis support at the detention facility. He says its cold, boring, but he gets paid. “Think Old Testament but with more guns.” Christian Etherton has also enlisted and is studying the Afghan language at a base in California. He’ll be training another year and then deploying. Andrew Cramer is working in Tanzania for an energy company called Symbion Power – not to be confused with their rival company, Sybian Power. He works there with his girlfriend and helps her with the charity school the company is trying to start. As for your gracious writer… I started my master’s in English this summer and spent six weeks crushing books with Riddick Beebe ’04. I am in my second year of teaching at Peddie and am making progress on my novel. Tonight, I am heading into Manhattan to participate in the 9-11 memorial GoRuck challenge

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EHS friends enjoyed a debutante party given for Marguerite Kleinheinz ’08. Front row, left to right: Allie Fox, Clay Dunnan ’08, Ann deSaussure ’08, Carson Roberts ’08, Lucy Glaize ’08, and Lacy Kiernan; second row: Spencer McKenna ’08, Elizabeth Elliott ’08, Leah Andress ’08, Liz McLean ’08, Marguerite Kleinheinz ’08, Ann Gordon Pelletier ’08, and Eliza Coker ’08; back row: Wes Graf ’08 and Dexter Randolph.

Last summer, Parham Barber ’08 worked on a chain saw crew with the Rocky Mountain Youth Corps in Colorado.

event. Hopefully, I survive. Good luck, God bless, and send me more notes!

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Margaret von Werssowetz margaretvonw@gmail.com and Jack Pitney (H) 610-649-7471 pitneyjack@gmail.com 10th Reunion: June 2016

Chris Summers ’08 is busy pursuing his career in music performance and production.

Zach Hoisington was named to the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association All-America Team. Mary Lane ’06 ended her Fulbright Fellowship in Berlin with the Associated Press and The Wall Street Journal on two high notes: publishing her first WSJ cover story and getting hired! She now works as a financial reporter for Dow Jones Newswires in Berlin, and also covers fashion and lifestyle for WSJ.

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Matt Hurley ’08 (left), Ansley Stewart ’07, and Craig Stewart ’70 had a visit at a wedding where a Notre Dame friend of Ansley’s married a West Point friend of Matt’s. Left to right: Phil Glaize ’74, Lucy Glaize ’08, David Glaize ’07, Zach Hoisington ’06, Tim Hoisington ’05, and Philip Glaize ’04 celebrated David and Zach’s graduation from Colorado College.

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Lucy Glaize (H) 540-667-3097 lglaize@gmail.com 5th Reunion: June 2013

Wes Graf ’08, Marguerite Kleinheinz ’08, Ann Gordon Pelletier ’08, and Amanda Weisiger ’08 enjoyed a weekend in Newport, R.I., last summer. Great jersey, Wes!

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Catherine Coley (H) 407-629-1787 catherinegcoley@gmail.com and Warner Blunt (H) 804-784-0233 wlb5m@virginia.edu 5th Reunion: June 8-9, 2012

Former EHS teammates Carly Linthicum ’09 and Ansley Stewart played against one another on April 20, when Linthicum’s Vanderbilt hosted

Stewart’s Notre Dame. Ansley had an assist on Notre Dame’s second goal, and Carly scored to put Vanderbilt ahead 8-7 in the game Vandy eventually won 12-10. Carly finished her sophomore season with seven goals for the 8-8 Commodores. Ansley Stewart scored 21 goals and added eight assists during her senior year season as ND finished 10-9 overall. Ansley finished her career with a total of 70 goals and 25 assists.

It’s incredible to think that most of us are starting our senior years in college and are somewhat thinking about what comes next. Tess Waldrop enjoyed her summer living in Glover Park in D.C. with a bunch of Sewanee girls. She had an internship with a non-profit organization, called Roots of Development. It is an organization that works on sustainable development on the island of La Gonave, Haiti. Some of the development includes installing water purification systems, helping them establish their own sources of income, building stable homes, etc. She also worked at a green-certified restaurant in DuPont Circle called Bread and Brew. Tess said it was fun, but lots of work! Leah Andress also lived and worked in Washington, D.C., this summer. She plans on moving there after graduation in the spring! Grace Chesson had an internship with the Peace Corps this summer. Grace, Elizabeth Dale, Tucker Clarkson, Jeremy Austin, Dylan Harry, David Lambeth, and many more Episcopal alumni had a minireunion at Elysian Fields Music Festival. Chris Summers has been growing as a student and a musician. He’s been doing a lot these past couple years with his passion for music, including

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performing at various college shows, doing an out-of-state, city-wide concert showcase in Canton, Ohio, and producing for his label 1SIDE Music Entertainment as well as running it as CEO. Chris is excited because Broadcast Music Incorporated will license the label’s documents very soon. He also founded a graphic design department under his label as well. Chris has released several mix tapes over the years, and he prepares to drop his debut album, “Suite 11: The Registration” in 2012. This will be a big project for him, along with graduating from Ohio University’s Scripps College of Communications as a music production major from. If interested, you can check out his websites: www.1sidemusic.org and www.djishinelive.bandcamp.com. Barbara Bai spent a lot of the spring 2011 semester recording a CD with an a cappella group. For the summer, she’s been working at a consulting firm in Shanghai doing market research and report editing. Barbara also volunteers as an English teacher at a migrant school in the outskirts of Shanghai. Elly Montague is still racing competitively. Her highlights this year have been doing the Charlottesville 10-miler in 65 minutes and 48 seconds, finishing 10th among women in a race with some incredibly talented runners and running in the Xterra 21K trail race in Richmond in June. Elly finished as third woman overall, and got to go up to the podium, which was very exciting! She is training now for the Wineglass Marathon in Corning, N.Y., in October. Other than running, Elly has started interning in health and wellness cardiac rehabilitation at Martha Jefferson Hospital, helping cardiac patients change their habits and take control of their health through exercise and other lifestyle changes. The internship is a very rewarding experience, which goes towards her master’s in exercise physiology. Elly will be at U.Va. for two more years to earn her degree, after graduating this coming spring. Leigh Ainsworth spent the last spring semester readjusting to life back in the U.S. after spending the fall in

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China. This summer she worked at Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, which was a great learning experience. However, Houston was way too hot for her this summer, so she’s excited for the cooler weather for her last year at Trinity this year. Spencer McKenna has been living and working in Boston all summer. He got to hang out with Clark Wright and Graham Jones in Boston. Spencer also had dinner with Ken Risley at the end of the summer. Parham Barber worked for Rocky Mountain Youth Corps in Colorado on a chain saw crew cutting down pinebeetle-killed trees and hazardous trees along trails. By the looks of the picture, it sure looks like Parham knows how to handle a chainsaw! Marina Myers spent her summer in New York interning at J. Crew. She loved the internship, and also got to see Lindsey deButts around the area a few times. Amanda Weisiger also spent the summer in N.Y.C., working as a sales intern for fashion designer Lela Rose. Marguerite Kleinheinz, Ann Gordon Pelletier, Clay Dunnan, Elizabeth McLean, Elizabeth Elliott, Wes Graf, and Carter Voss were all up there, as well. John Richey participated in summer Navy training in San Diego that included experience in each of the Navy’s four communities: submarines, surface ships, the Marines, and aviation. Last semester, I was super busy going to class, doing two internships, and skiing more days in one season than ever before. I am still enjoying studying dietetics, and did one of my internships researching childhood-nutrition practices, specifically focusing on nutrition during the third trimester of pregnancy, during breastfeeding, and introducing solid foods to babies. I learned about and practiced nutrition in communications for my other internship. I got to do my very own episode on a local news station focusing on studying dietetics and celiac disease. To kick off the summer, I traveled down to Fort Worth, Texas, to celebrate Marguerite Kleinheinz’s debut with

many other classmates including Ann deSaussure, Avery McIntosh, Leah Andress, Amanda Weisiger, Ann Gordon Pelletier, Carson Roberts, Elizabeth McLean, Elizabeth Elliott, Spencer McKenna, Carter Voss, Will Hand, and Wes Graf. Her debutante party was unbelievable, and it was wonderful spending a significant amount of time with so many Episcopal classmates. From there, I flew to Colorado Springs, Colo., to see my brother David ’07 graduate from Colorado College. Zach Hoisington ’06 also graduated with David. It was fun seeing Doc, Tim ’05, and Zach out in Colorado. I spent the majority of the summer up in Burlington, Vt., working at a local outdoors shop called the Ski Rack fitting people for running shoes. I absolutely love working there. I also got to lead the Ski Rack social fun run every week. I am continuing to work there a few times a week in the running shop and also the alpine ski shop this fall. As senior year at UVM begins, I am making plans for masters of dietetics graduate school to become a registered dietician sometime in the near future. I’ve also got the upcoming ski season on my mind, and can only hope it will be as good, or better, than last season!

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Billy Hackenson (H) 703-757-0445 bihackenson@davidson.edu 5th Reunion: June 2014

Now officially upperclassmen again, it’s that time of the year when many in our class have embarked upon study abroad programs and focused on majors at home after successfully (I hope) reaching the halfway point of college. Here we go with the updates: Over the summer, a group met up in Charleston, S.C., for the Independence Day holiday. It sounded like a good old time and Haley Morgan, Katie Chapman, Sarah Chase Webber, Frances Stone, Will Ryan, Edward Pritchard, Patrick Mealy, Greg DiNardo, Stefan Graff, Janie Utt, Ben Shuford, Bess Trotter, Bridgette Ewing, and Catherine Harrison all

met up for the mini-reunion. Now for the travel updates: Katie Chapman, Molly Seeley, and Eliza Hadjis have all traveled south to Argentina for the semester, although they are all in different academic programs while there. According to Eliza’s blog (besosdebelgrano.tumblr.com) and the photos I have seen, it seems all is well in Buenos Aires. Espero que disfruten…meaning for us English speakers, enjoy it! Just a few hours south of Buenos, you’ll find Abbott Matthews studying in Montevideo, Uruguay. It sounds like she had a great school year at Colby, where she is now a member of the track and field team, more specifically throwing discus and hammer. Over the summer, she spent time at the Middlebury’s Spanish Language School in a sevenweek intensive language program. In her own words, “one of the weirder, best things I’ve ever done.” Back to Uruguay, she is already loving it; attending school and holding down an internship at Amnesty International. Abbott is blogging, too: (lavidaclara.wordpress.com) Staying in the Spanish world, Alex Helm reports that he is studying in Spain for the semester. He will start off his Spanish adventure with a few weeks in Salamanca in Northern Spain before heading off to Madrid. Elsewhere in Europe, Elle Czura is spending the semester in Prague, Czech Republic, where she is studying economics and art through Charles University. Just a short flight from Prague, you’ll arrive in London where Kelsey Knutson is studying with Syracuse University. And about 10,000 miles away from Europe, we find Bess Trotter in Sydney, Australia, for the semester. She reports, and gleaning information from her blog (bessabroad.blogspot.com), that she has been planning a load of adventures from visiting the Great Barrier Reef to skydiving to swimming with sharks. She told me that she will see Phil Dujardin in Melbourne. Also studying in Sydney for the semester, Charlie Haley wrote to me about his summer and plans for the upcoming semester. He had a great

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Robert Amico ’11 and friends enjoyed the latest Harry Potter film.

summer living in New York City working at an asset management firm and is looking forward to living on the beach, surfing, scuba diving, and traveling in the land down under. Back in Europe, you’ll find me studying in Copenhagen, Denmark, for the semester taking classes through the Danish Institute for Study Abroad. I live with a host family about 40 minutes away from the city center and have to ride a bike each morning to get to school…already, only two weeks in, I’ve skidded into a busy traffic intersection and have fallen off twice. In case you have the urge to read more from me, I have a blog too, (billyhack.tumblr.com). In all seriousness, contact me by email or Facebook me if you are in Europe too so we can get a mini-reunion together in some central city. For those of you in other countries, I hope you get to see other EHS kids, and for those of you in the U.S.A. this semester, work hard, play hard, and appreciate that those around you speak in English. Here’s to a great start to junior year. Be well, ’09.

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Will Frazier (H) 540-886-8634 wtf4wc@virginia.edu 5th Reunion: June 2015

Coles Lawton began her summer with a trip to Figure Eight Island in June

with Reddin Woltz. She then enjoyed a trip to the Bahamas with her family and Frances Brandley’s family. For the remainder of the summer, Coles was in Charlottesville, taking classes and working, and spent time with Eleanor Blaine, Whitt Clement, Cricket Roberts, and Emmie Burns. Coles is looking forward to her fall semester at U.Va., and cannot wait to reunite with EHS friends for the U.Va.-UNC football game in September. After finishing their first year at Parsons, Danielle Molina and Paige Weber remained in the city for the summer, sharing an apartment with another friend from school. Paige took classes for the summer at Parsons, and Danielle worked for Big Screen Plaza, an outdoor movie venue in the city. Vincent Mariano, Paul Blake, and Cal Bobola paid a visit to Paige and Danielle over Fourth of July Weekend. The girls also enjoyed seeing Alex Hess ’08, Justin Taylor ’09, Kelsey Wall, and Bayly Mears. Lily Merrill spent a month studying abroad in Aix-en-Provence, France. She took classes in Aix and had the opportunity to travel to many neighboring regions, experiencing the wonderful culture of southern France. She returned to New York for the remainder of the summer and worked at Capo Auction and Nicole Miller.

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Cameron Hawkins spent her summer interning at the Nags Head Hospital on the Outer Banks of North Carolina and enjoyed a visit from Martha Perez-Sanz in Durham. Alexandra Vandeventer and her sister, Isabel, went to Dharamsala, India, with Cross-Cultural Solutions, where they volunteered at government-funded day care centers teaching English. They also made a trip to the Pakistan border while they were there. Julia Magee traveled to Seville, Spain, with her family, where they met up with her sister, Caroline Magee ’12, who had just recently completed Episcopal’s summer program in Spain and proved to be a great tour guide for Julia and her family. Julia has transferred from Elon University to Wake Forest University for the upcoming fall semester. Robert Kittrell and Brendan Luther enjoyed a fishing trip at the beach over the summer. They are roommates again this year at Clemson University. Audrey Humleker, along with Khoury and Taylor Ibrahim, participated in the Rhododendron Ball in Asheville, N.C., in June. Alexa Williams, Emily Fay, and Frances Ainsworth ’11 were Audrey’s guests at the ball. Audrey also participated in the Terpsichorean Ball in Raleigh, N.C., along with Reddin Woltz, Abby Hart, and Connor Williams.

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Ambler Goddin (H) 703-683-4757 lag9qy@virginia.edu 5th Reunion: June 2016

Three short months ago, we received our diplomas and walked out the gates for the first time as Episcopal alumni. Since then, everyone has been busy enjoying the freedom that comes with summer, traveling around the world, working, and getting ready for the next step in our lives…college. Shortly after leaving the Episcopal gates, many of the members of the Class of 2011 traveled down to Myrtle Beach, S.C., to spend one final week together before heading off in different directions for various different vacations.

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Caroline Andress ’11 (left) and Mary Frantz ’11 on the Grand Teton.

Caroline Andress headed out to Jackson Hole, Wyo., with Mary Frantz to climb the Grand Teton, which is a part of the Teton range and stands at 13,770 feet. Cameron Baker, Sarah Hulbert, Mackenzie Nichols, Ruffin Mitchener, Preston Brown, Chip Grossman, Reid Nickle, Maria Hewko, and Lucas Ford all headed to Chicago Aug. 5-7 to attend Lollapalooza. They saw a number of different artists such as Coldplay, Muse, Deadmau5, etc. Also attending the three-day music fest were a number of EHS juniors (2013) and seniors (2012). Stanley Gaines, Bennett Jones, Tom Hurley, Colin Thomas, and Hunter Fairchild also attended a music festival. They traveled to Manchester, Tenn., June 9-12 for Bonnaroo and got to experience a number of different artists such as Eminem, Arcade Fire, etc. Mark Herzog and Shantell Bingham traveled back to Alexandria to work at Episcopal’s leadership camp for a few weeks. Mark stayed on campus for the majority of the summer working with the grounds crew and house and pet sitting for various faculty members while they were on vacation. Also working as a camp counselor was Stewart Bova. He worked at Camp Seagull in Arapahoe, N.C. He was

helping out on the rifle range teaching campers how to shoot. Cary Hairfield spent a few weeks of her summer at Williams, where she will be attending school this fall and playing field hockey. She was working with Jaye Locke as a coach at their field hockey camp. Tier Gibbons spent the first month of his summer going to the beach and just generally hanging out. He also began working at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center on July 5th. He works in the benefits verification department, where he gets authorization codes from Blue Cross so that the patient’s radiology procedures like CT scans, PET scans and MRIs can be paid. He is really enjoying his job and being able to help all these different people. This fall, he will be starting as a freshman at Lasell. Robert Amico started his summer by traveling to Berlin on a scholarship he received at graduation for Excellence in German. He studied for three weeks with the Geothe Institute, where he spent his days studying German and exploring the culture of Berlin. He placed into the highest class where he got to meet people from different countries all over the world. The highlight of his trip was seeing “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2.”

Maria Hewko also spent a portion of her summer abroad. However, she was in Iviv, Ukraine, instead of Berlin. She was continuing her study of the Ukrainian language at the catholic university there. This fall, Maria will be spending her first semester of college abroad in London at NYU and will be starting the second semester at Hamilton College. Collin Wiles, Elizabeth Henderson, Cat Lambert, Jack Janes, Amanda Acquaire, Maria Hewko, Lucas Ford, and I spent a month in Europe. We began in Italy. While in Florence, Italy, we happened to run into Caroline Weston, who was there with her family. We also ate lunch with Abby Hart ’10, who was studying in Florence for a month. After spending about two weeks in Italy, we continued our journey through France to Spain. We were able to celebrate the Fourth of July in Madrid before heading off to Paris then London where we caught a flight home.

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MARRIAGES

Benjamin Holt Gray ’69 to Rachel MacRae, Oct. 22, 2011

William James Stallworth ’00 to Mary Riddick Gauss, June 18, 2011

Janes Scales Borden ’95 to Brian James Stogdill, June 4, 2011

Jeffrey Charles Fuge, Jr. ’02 to Erin Stagmaier, April 2, 2011

Marshall Legh Turnbull ’95 to Townes Boyd Johnson III, May 7, 2011

Sally Innes Gamble ’02 to Carl Boland, April 2011

Bryson Moore Aldridge ’97 to Jennifer Dyer Aldridge, May 14, 2011

Catherine Cameron Leppard ’03 to James Whittle Kluttz Jr., Aug. 6, 2011

Thomas Ladson Webb ’97 to Xandria Liberte Fleuerke, May 14, 2011

Riddick Gregory Beebe ’04 to Christina Callie Ellis, Oct. 1, 2011

Catherine Wray Barber ’98 to Jonathan R. Witticom, Oct. 29, 2011

Brittany Neiland Bell ’04 to Lawrence Anderson Moye IV, Sept. 17, 2011

Anne Stuart Duke ’98 to Henry Anderson Jenkins ’92, Aug. 20, 2011

Cyrus Wiley Grandy VI ’04 to Gray Crabtree, July 30, 2011

William E. Collier III ’00 to Kisha Young-Collier, Aug. 7, 2011

Michael McMahon Webb ’04 to Elya Jean Daniell, March 19, 2011

Susan Ann Burnett Johnson ’00 to John Spencer Hopkins ’01, March 5, 2011

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Jacob Wheless Campbell to Jennifer and David Campbell ’84, July 6, 2011

Georgia Ashley Cockrill to Jenny and Rogers Cockrill ’97, June 21, 2011

Henry Flippin Woltz to Meghan and David Woltz ’85, July 2011

James Sparger Hunter Goodwin, Jr. to Courtney and Jim Goodwin ’97, April 18, 2011

Nina Rei Shioya to Mitsuyo Shioya and Clark Graninger ’86, April 25, 2011 Harrison Alexander Banks to Jeanna and Zan Banks ’90, Jan. 24, 2011 James Jack Berna to Alison and Bobby Berna ’90, March 17, 2010 Campbell James Fletcher to Anne and Fletch Fletcher ’91, Feb. 17, 2011 June Jarrell Alexander to Holly and Fred Alexander ’92, June 18, 2010 Sallie Carter McCabe and Elizabeth Twohy McCabe to Merrick and Mike McCabe ’92, March 8, 2011 Mary Wellford Mueller to Brooke and King Mueller ’93, March 2011 Sadie Pembroke MacInnes to Alex and Katie Adler MacInnes ’94, Aug. 3, 2011 Eliza Ladson Easterling to Bruce and Katherine Webb Easterling ’95, June 17, 2011 Julia Caperton Michau to Court and Laura Morton Michau ’96, May 11, 2011 George Willis Fitzgerald Logan to Ashley and Willis Logan ’96, Sept. 14, 2011

Walton James McLeod V to Catherine and Tad McLeod ’97, May 15, 2011 Francis Winslow Poe Brawley III to Patricia and Frank Brawley ’98, April 4, 2011 Emily Miller Dahlgren to Derek and Robin Arnesen Dahlgren ’98, May 16, 2011 Thomas Michael McGowan to Brad and Kristen McLarry McGowan ’98, March 18, 2011 Charlotte Carrick Gummere to Jessica and George Gummere ’98, May 16, 2011 Neely Londyn Trapp to Natascha and Jon Trapp ’99, Sept. 9, 2010 William David Yelle to Marc and Gray Hardee Yelle ’99, June 3, 2011 Abigail Eve Harris to Vanessa and David Harris ’00, Sept. 13, 2011 Frances Heyward Jones to Crawford and Stewart Gilchrist Jones ’00, April 21, 2011 Sara Parkanyi to Barbara and Zsolt Parkanyi ’00, June 13, 2011 Grace Campbell Henry to Meagan and Campbell Henry ’01, April 5, 2001

Sydney Carr Rizzo to Rebecca and James Rizzo ’96, April 13, 2011

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JULIAN THOMPSON BURKE, JR. ’35

of Alexandria, Va., died Aug. 8, 2011. On the Hill, Mr. Burke was a Monitor and played football and baseball. After Episcopal, Mr. Burke enrolled in the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md. During World War II, he served in the U.S. Navy in combat operations and war patrols, where he was honored with a Silver Star for sinking Japanese ships. He served on the Bureau of Naval Personnel at the Naval Academy and was on the staff for the commander of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet. Mr. Burke retired from the Navy in 1976 with two Distinguished Service Medals, two Legion of Merit awards, and a Bronze Star. He served as vice president of the Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society. Throughout his retirement, Mr. Burke spent his time serving those in the community. His good deeds did not go unnoticed, and he was the recipient of the Elizabeth B. Smith award for his volunteer work at the Alexandria, Va. chapter of the Red Cross. He also volunteered with Meals on Wheels. He is survived by his three children; brother, David M. Burke ’43; four grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren. EHS relatives include his brother, George A. Burke ’33.

COOPER MYERS SCHLEY ’37

JOHN STEWART MORTON, JR. ’38

of Nashville, Tenn., died May 27, 2011. At Episcopal, Mr. Schley played football and baseball. He was also a member of the Blackford Literary Society. Mr. Schley matriculated at Princeton and graduated from the University of Virginia with a degree in mechanical engineering. With his degree, he pursued a career in the metal finishing industry. During his service in World War II with the U.S. Navy, Mr. Schley was a bomber pilot. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal with Nine Oak Leaf Clusters. Throughout his life, Mr. Schley enjoyed playing golf and tennis. During his retirement, he volunteered his time with Meals on Wheels and the American Red Cross. He was also a member of the General Society of Colonial Wars, the St. Andrews Society, and the 97th Bomb Group Association. He is survived by his wife, Helen; five sons; four granddaughters; sister-in-law; and several nieces and nephews, including, Richard L. Schley III ’73. EHS relatives include his brother, Richard L. Schley, Jr. ’34

of Baltimore, Md., died Aug. 3, 2011. As a student, Mr. Morton was a member of the Fairfax Literary Society and the Chronicle and “Whispers” boards. He ran track and played baseball. After graduation, Mr. Morton enlisted in the U.S. Army with the 29th Infantry Division. He also served in the Philippines and Bermuda, and was discharged in 1946 as a lieutenant. He remained in the Maryland National Guard and retired as a lieutenant colonel in 1971. Mr. Morton worked in real estate and insurance sales until his retirement in the mid-1990s. He was a member of the Society of the Cincinnati, Society of Colonial Wars, and Green Spring Valley Hunt Club. He served at his church, St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Owings Mills, Md. He is survived by his two sons, a daughter, and three grandchildren.

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JAMES COOKE WILSON, JR. ’38

of Houston, Texas, died March 12, 2011. At EHS, Mr. Wilson served as a Senior Monitor and was a member of the “E” Club, Hop Committee, Chronicle board, and the Blackford Literary Society. He captained the football team and played basketball. Mr. Wilson was inducted into the Episcopal High School Athletics Hall of Fame in 2005. Mr. Wilson matriculated at Yale with a football scholarship, but was sidelined after a neck injury. After his recovery, he attended the University of Virginia until World War II, during which he served as a lieutenant in the U.S. Army Air Corps. After an honorable discharge, he went to the University of Texas and Texas A&M University, and graduated in 1947 with a bachelor’s degree. After graduation, Mr. Wilson returned to Beaumont and served as vice president for three local firms: The Wilson-Broach Oil Company, The Hotel Beaumont, and the Tyrell-Wilson Investment Company. Mr. Cooke was active in real estate and ranching in Texas and Colorado, and enjoyed skiing, traveling, and antique collecting. He was an active member of St. Mark’s Episcopal Church and served on the EHS Board of Trustees. He is survived by a son, James C. Wilson III ’70; a daughter, two grandchildren, several nieces and nephews, and a brother-in-law.

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EDWARD CUTRER SMITH ’40

ROBERT GILKESON WATT ’40

of Oceanside, Calif., died June 11, 2011.

of Atlanta, Ga., died June 2, 2011.

On the Hill, Mr. Smith was a member of the “Whispers” board and the Fairfax Literary Society. He ran track. During World War II, he served in the U.S. Navy as a lieutenant with specialties of combat information center and antisubmarine warfare. Mr. Smith went on to attend the University of Virginia for his undergraduate degree and, in 1950, received his doctorate in physics. He constructed a rotating mirror during his dissertation research that had an accuracy of one part per million per day. Mr. Smith went on to work at Hughes Aircraft Company from 1964-85, and with his associates, discovered the single event upset (SEU) effects of galactic cosmic rays. He continued this research at TRW Inc. from 1985-88. Throughout his career he was published in numerous highly recognized scientific journals. During his retirement, Mr. Smith was a consultant to several major aerospace firms and government laboratories. Mr. Smith is survived by his wife, Amanda; his brother, John C. Smith ’42; three sons, and six grandchildren.

As an Episcopal student, Mr. Watt was a member of the Blackford Literary Society. He played on the basketball, squash, and tennis teams. After graduation, he went on to Virginia Military Institute, where he was called into service. During World War II, he was a tank commander in Europe and Asia, and was later stationed in Japan. He graduated from VMI with a degree in civil engineering and moved back to Atlanta and began working for Plantation Pipeline, Co. Mr. Watt lived in Atlanta and worked in the financial world for over 30 years. He and his family were involved members of First Presbyterian Church for 50 years. Mr. Watt served as a deacon, elder, and president of the men’s Bible class. Mr. Watt helped found and served as president of the Atlanta Fellowship of Christian Athletes. He was a member of the Board of Trustees of Presbyterian College, Mary Baldwin College, Eagle Ranch, and The Atlanta YMCA. He was named Trustee Emeritus at Montreat College. He is survived by his wife, Nell, children, grandchildren, cousins, and nieces and nephews.

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CASON JEWELL CALLAWAY, JR. ’41

GEORGE FITZGERALD NEFF ’41

EDWARD OVERTON M C CUE III ’42

of Hamilton, Ga., died March 20, 2011.

of Charlottesville, Va., died March 30, 2011.

of Charlottesville, Va., died March 21, 2011.

As a student, Mr. Callaway served as a Monitor. He played on the tennis team and boxed. After Episcopal, he attended The Citadel, until World War II, where he served as a lieutenant in the First Chemical Casualty Company. After the war, Mr. Callaway focused on his entrepreneurship and started Dixie Size and Chemical, which expanded into Callaway Chemical and was later sold to Exxon. He served on many boards including National Bank and Trust, Boy Scouts of America, Royal Crown Companies, and The Smithsonian Institution. From 1971-77 and 1981-87, he served on the EHS Board of Trustees. Mr. Callaway was also a Trustee Emeritus at EHS. He is survived by his wife, Nancy; brother, Howard H. Callaway ’44; four children, including Kenneth H. Callaway ’73; 10 grandchildren, including Cason J. Callaway IV ’92, Marshall S. Callaway ’96, William P. Callaway ’01 and Hollis B. Callaway ’04; and seven great-grandchildren. Other EHS relatives include cousins, Judson L. Hand ’75, Frederick B. Hand ’53, and Archibald Gann ’53.

At EHS, Mr. Neff was a Senior Monitor, ran track, and played football. He was a member of the Hop committee and Blackford Literary Society. He entered the University of Virginia in 1941, but joined the U.S. Army Air Corps in 1942, where he served as a pilot during World War II. He returned to U.Va. where he was quarterback of the football team and ran track. He served as university president and Honor Society chairman. In 1948, Mr. Neff moved to Houston where he worked for Standard Oil and later First National Bank. Mr. Neff served as a board member of the EHS Board of Trustees. He is survived by his wife, Elizabeth, two sons, daughter, sister, two grandchildren, Annette G. McCormack ’00 and Caroline C. McCormack ’02; two brother-in-laws, Will Lummis ’47 and Fred Lummis ’49; nephew, Palmer B. Lummis ’73; and two great-nieces, Katherine M. Lummis ’00 and Anne Lummis Wright ’02.

At Episcopal, Mr. McCue was a Monitor and played baseball. He was a member of the Fairfax Literary Society and awarded the Llewellyn Hoxton prize for excellence in mathematics. After EHS, he served in World War II from 1943-46 as the senior quartermaster of the LSM command ship in the Asia-Pacific Theater. Under his command, the ship earned four engagement stars. When he finished active duty, Mr. McCue joined the U. S. Naval Reserve and served for 29 years. After the war, he attended the University of Virginia for one year then transferred to Yale University where he earned a degree in civil engineering. He earned his LL.B from the University of Virginia. Following college, Mr. McCue went to work on Capitol Hill and practiced law in Virginia for 32 years. From 1970 until 1984, Mr. McCue served as a trustee of the JamestownYorktown Foundation and became a member of the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation Council in 2001. He served as the president and director of the Albemarle County Historical Society and the Albemarle Rotary Club. He is survived by his wife, Mary.

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ROBERT NELSON WALLER ’43

of Fripp Island, S.C., died March 3, 2011. On the Hill, Mr. Waller played on the baseball team. He was a member of the Missionary Society and the choir. Mr. Waller worked at the Riggs National Bank of Washington, D.C. for multiple years and was the vice president until his retirement. He enjoyed over 30 years of retirement on Fripp Island, S.C. He is survived by his wife, Rita, a daughter, a son, three grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren.

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DABNEY HUTTER CRAIGHILL, JR. ’44

JOHN HENRY M C CORMACK, JR. ’44

of St. Simons Island, Ga., died May 28, 2011.

of Jacksonville, Fla., died Sept. 8, 2011.

As an EHS student, Mr. Craighill was Head Monitor and served as the president of the Blackford Literary Society and Missionary Society. He played football and ran track. He was a member of the “E” Club, “Whispers” board, and Hop Committee. At the University of Virginia, Mr. Craighill was a member of the Trigon Engineering Society. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II, and later began a sales career and worked as an executive for Titanium Division of National Lead Co. He retired in 1992 and moved to St. Simons Island. Mr. Craighill enjoyed spending time with his family at Lake Toxaway, N.C., and was a board member of the property owners association. He is survived by a daughter, two sons, Robert E. Craighill ’77 and Charles C. Craighill ’79; and two grandchildren.

As a student, Mr. McCormack played basketball. He was a member of the Blackford Literary Society. During World War II, Mr. McCormack served in the U.S. Navy. He earned a degree from Washington and Lee University where he served as president of the Kappa Alpha Order. Mr. McCormack was very active in the banking world. He served as chairman of the board of the Atlantic National Bank of Jacksonville and senior vice president and Jacksonville chairman of First Union National Bank of Florida. He served as past president and chairman of the Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce; director of the Florida Bankers Association; and member of the Association of Reserve City Bankers. He was a civic volunteer for almost 60 years. Mr. McCormack was an active member of St. Matthews Catholic Church and volunteered at St. Catherine Laboure Manor. He hosted “Current Events with Jack” on a weekly basis. He is survived by his wife, Juju, two sons, three daughters, seven grandchildren, and two step-grandchildren.

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BENNETT HESTER PERRY, JR. ’47

WILLIAM TOWLES DETTOR, JR. ’48

PHILIP ALLEN MACKELVIE ’48

of Henderson, N.C. died April 15, 2011.

of Saluda, Va., died March 20, 2011.

of Lakewood, Colo., died Sept. 5, 2011.

At Episcopal, Mr. Perry was a member of the E-Club. He played on the football team and ran track. Mr. Perry earned his graduate and law degrees from the University of North Carolina. He was a lieutenant and platoon leader for the U.S. Marine Corps from 1951-53. After his service, Mr. Perry practiced law and was a partner in the family firm, Perry, Kittrell, Blackburn and Blackburn. He was a member of the North Carolina State Bar Association, the Vance County Bar Association, and the Henderson Rotary Club. Throughout his life, Mr. Perry continually served his community. He was an Eagle Scout and served on the board of trustees for the H. Leslie Perry Memorial Library and the Henderson Salvation Army. He was also an active member of his church, The Church of the Holy Innocents.

Mr. Dettor graduated from Lane High School before attending Episcopal. At The High School, Mr. Dettor was a varsity letterman on the football team. Mr. Dettor and the 1947 varsity football team were inducted into the Episcopal High School Athletics Hall of Fame in 2009. After graduation, Mr. Dettor went on to attend the University of Virginia. Mr. Dettor served on active duty in the U.S. Army Reserve as a first lieutenant during the Korean conflict. Later in life, Mr. Dettor was the president of a family owned wholesale distribution company, Dettor, Edwards and Morris. He is survived by a daughter, a son, and grandchildren.

On the Hill, Mr. MacKelvie was a Monitor and a member of the “Whispers” board and Blackford Literary Society. He played basketball and ran track. After Episcopal, Mr. MacKelvie served as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force. After his service, Mr. MacKelvie went on to earn a degree in chemistry from Michigan State. He was the founder and owner of Technical Tools, Inc. He built the company from scratch and turned it into a profitable family business. In his spare time, Mr. MacKelvie enjoyed playing golf, bike riding, and traveling. He is survived by his wife, Donna, a daughter, three sons, three granddaughters, and two great-granddaughters.

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N. FLOYD M C GOWIN, JR. ’48

of Chapman, Ala., died Dec. 1, 2010. At The High School, Mr. McGowin was a member of the choir and played on the tennis team. After Episcopal, he matriculated to Yale, graduating with a degree in international relations. After college, he served in the U.S. Marine Corps and Reserve as a first lieutenant. After his service, Mr. McGowin worked for his family business, W. T. Smith Lumber Company, one of the oldest and largest lumber companies in Alabama. Mr. McGowin also worked for Rocky Creek Logging Company, where he was president until his retirement in 1991. Mr. McGowin had a passion for flying, and in his lifetime, completed over 50 years of flying with more than 13,000 hours in 58 types of aircraft. In 1997, he was inducted into the Alabama Aviation Hall of Fame. Mr. McGowin served as chairman of the Wright Brothers/Maxwell Field Foundation and was vice president and director of The Discovery of Flight Foundation. He is survived by his wife, Rosa, a son, two daughters, seven grandchildren, and two nieces. EHS relative include his brother, J. Greely McGowin ’41.

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DAVID KERNDT WIECKING ’50

FREDERICK MACKAY COLE ’52

of Charlottesville, Va., died July 22, 2011.

of Brooklyn, N.Y., died May 27, 2011.

On the Hill, Mr. Wiecking was Valedictorian and a Monitor. He was on “Whispers” board and a member of the Fairfax Literary Society. He was on the football and wrestling teams. After Episcopal, he graduated from Princeton, and served in the U.S. Navy for two years. He entered Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and completed his pathology residency at the University of Virginia Medical School. During his residency, he also attended and graduated from the University of Virginia School of Law and passed the Virginia State Bar. From 1972-93, Mr. Wiecking served as chief medical examiner in Richmond, Va. During his 21 years there, the office became one of the most respected staterun, forensic laboratories in the nation. While he was chief medical examiner, he taught at the Medical College of Virginia and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He served on the American Board of Forensic Science. Mr. Wiecking retired in 1993. He is survived by his wife, Mary Jane; a son, James W. Wiecking ’84; two daughters; and seven grandchildren.

As an EHS student, Mr. Cole was a member of the choir, Glee Club, and the Fairfax Literary Society. After his time at Episcopal, Mr. Cole attended Sewanee: The University of the South and earned a bachelor’s degree in history. Mr. Cole was a Peace Corps coordinator in Washington, D.C., and a field representative and deputy mission chief for the humanitarian aid organization CARE in Libya, Yugoslavia, and India. He also worked for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) as the deputy director of the Asia and Pacific region of the foreign disaster assistance division. He retired from USAID in 1993. He is survived by three children, a sister, and three grandchildren.

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COURTLANDT DIXON BARNES BRYAN ’52

CORYDON MERCER BAYLOR, JR. ’53

JOHN CUMMINS WULBERN ’54

of Guilford, Conn., died Dec. 15, 2009.

of Virginia Beach, Va., died May 19, 2011.

of Tampa, Fla., died June 8, 2011.

As a student, Mr. Bryan was a member of the Blackford Literary Society, the Chronicle and “Whispers” boards, choir, Glee Club, and Press Club. He was a cheerleader and a substitute waiter. After Episcopal, he attended Yale University, where he was chairman of the Yale Record. He joined the U.S. Army and served two years as a photo intelligence officer in Okinawa and Korea. Mr. Bryan was a freelance writer, most known for “Friendly Fire,” which was a series of articles turned into a book and later a television movie that won four Emmys. His first published short story, “So Much Unfairness of Things,” appeared in The New Yorker and has been reprinted in two anthologies. His first novel, “P.S. Wilkinson,” was the winner of the 1965 Harper Prize Novel contest. He wrote other novels, including “The Great Dethriffe,” and “Beautiful Women; Ugly Scenes.” Mr. Bryan spoke at the Miller and Rhoads Book and Author Dinner in 1947, as did his father, Joseph Bryan III ’21, in previous years. In 1963, he provided the narrative for a widely distributed Swedish documentary, “The Face of War.” His work was also published in The New York Times magazine, The New York Times Book Review, and other periodicals. Mr. Bryan taught at various schools, including the University of Iowa, University of Virginia, Colorado State University, and Bard College. He is survived by his wife, Mairi, a sister, a son, two daughters, a step-daughter, a step-son; and four grandchildren. This is a correction from the spring 2011 magazine.

At The High School, Mr. Baylor was a member of the E-Club and the varsity soccer team. After EHS, Mr. Baylor matriculated to Hampden-Sydney College. Mr. Baylor was active in the retail car business and owned and operated three Firestone Sales and Service stores, which he sold in the late 1950s. For nearly 40 years, he was an American Honda Motor Company dealer and owned the Virginia Beach Marine Company and Honda of Virginia Beach. He was an active member of the Galilee Episcopal Church. He served on the board of the Virginia Beach SPCA and the Princess Anne County Club. He was chairman of Episcopal’s Old Boys Council and served as the EHS Tidewater area representative for many years. He was a member of the Norfolk German Club, the Athletic Foundation of the University of Virginia, and the Rotunda Society of the University of Virginia. He is survived by his wife, Sandra; two daughters; a son, Corydon M. Baylor III ’75; and five grandchildren.

At Episcopal, Mr. Wulbern served as a Monitor, cheerleader, and co-captain of the varsity soccer team. He was a member of the Blackford Literary Society, Missionary Society, and Drama Club. After graduation, Mr. Wulbern attended Rollins College and the University of Florida, where he was a member of the Kappa Alpha Order. He received his master’s in banking and management from Harvard University. Mr. Wulbern began his banking career at Barnett Bank in Jacksonville, Fla., and later became the president of Barnett Bank in Ocala, Fla. In 1978, he moved to Tampa and became the president of First Florida Bank, Inc. He served as president of the Florida Banker’s Association and Independence Banker’s Bank. He was the director of the American Banker’s Association and served on the board of Bay Cities Bank in Tampa; Citizens First Bank in Ocala; and the Abe Brown Ministries. He is survived by wife, Nancy; a brother, Edward R. Wulbern ’50; four sons, including John C. Wulbern ’93; and six grandchildren.

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GEORGE DUDLEY MORTON ’59

LAURANCE HERRICK HIGGINS, JR. ’75

of Norfolk, Va., died Oct. 23, 2011.

of Richmond, Va., died June 15, 2011.

On the Hill, Mr. Morton was a Monitor. He was a member of the Honor Committee, Hop Committee, and the Blackford Literary Society. He played football, basketball, and ran track. After EHS, Mr. Morton attended Washington and Lee University, where he developed a passion for journalism and theater. In 1968, he began his career at The Virginian-Pilot as a science reporter. After the Pilot, Mr. Morton began an acting career and hosted his own TV show, “Tim Morton’s Tidewater” on WHRO in Virginia. He performed in an Off-Broadway revival of “Pygmalion.” Mr. Morton taught Hebrew school and was very active in the lives of his grandchildren. He was a member of the Actor’s Equity, the Sierra Club, and Temple Israel. He is survived by his wife, Kathryn, two daughters, a son, and four grandchildren.

While at EHS, Mr. Higgins was a waiter and was a member of the varsity football and track teams. He attended Virginia Commonwealth University. After graduating, Mr. Higgins began a long career in finance. He was an active family historian and also played soccer and enjoyed bird hunting throughout his life. He is survived by wife, Deborah; a son, L. Herrick Higgins III ’05; two daughters, a stepmother, a brother, and two sisters. Other EHS family members include his uncle, Paul B. Barringer II ’48.

DAVID M. HOON ’75

of Chestertown, Md., died June 21, 2011. While at EHS, Mr. Hoon was an acolyte and waiter. He was a member of the “E” Club, the Chronicle board, and stage crew. He was on the varsity football, wrestling, and lacrosse teams. Mr. Hoon received his bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from Vanderbilt University, where he was a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. After graduation, he joined Turner Construction in San Francisco. In 1981, he left Turner Construction to backpack around the world and, upon returning from his trip, joined Gardner & Gardner Construction in Annapolis, Md. In 1985, he joined North & Parker Construction on Kent Island, Md., and soon after co-founded Westwind Construction. Mr. Hoon served on the vestry of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Chestertown, Md. He was on the board of the Virginia Theological Seminary. Mr. Hoon was recognized in the Guinness Book of World Records on June 20, 2011 for surviving 55 chemotherapy treatments. He is survived by three sons, including, David M. Hoon II ’08, his parents; two brothers.

JOHN MACON CORNICK â&#x20AC;&#x2122;77

of Raleigh, NC, died May 13, 2011. On the Hill, Mr. Cornick was a member of the varsity baseball team. After Episcopal, he attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. Mr. Cornick was a CPA and worked in public accounting, private practice, and private industry. He worked as the chief financial officer for Southern Industrial Constructors. Mr. Cornick served his fraternity after graduation as house manager, alumni advisor, and board member. He was the chairman of the board of trustees with Edenton Street United Methodist Church. He was the treasurer of the board of The Nation Society of President James Madison Family Descendants. He is survived by his wife, Gina, two daughters, and multiple nieces, nephews, and cousins.

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REID NEISLER HUNNICUTT â&#x20AC;&#x2122;90

of Gastonia, N.C., died May 2, 2011. At The High School, Mr. Hunnicutt was a member of the varsity football team and the Blackford and Senior Lounge committees. After graduation, he went on to North Carolina State University, where he was a member of Pi Kappa Phi fraternity. Mr. Hunnicutt was a graduate of the Chapman School of Seamanship and was a certified pilot of the U.S. Coast Guard. He was an entrepreneur and operated the Sea Screamer of Panama City Beach, Fla., and the Sea Thunder of Myrtle Beach, S.C. He is survived by his wife, Michelle, his mother, a daughter, a son, in-laws, and multiple nieces and nephews.

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MEMORIAL GIFTS

In Memory of Miss Caroline Elizabeth Anderson ’97 Mr. and Mrs. Scott Crissman Harris ’97 In Memory of Ms. Kristin Ashley Armistead ’00 Ms. Harriet Wooten Cooper Gruber ’00 In Memory of Rear Adm. and Mrs. Julian Thompson Burke, Jr. ’35 Mr. Edwin D. Rengers and Mrs. Dana W. Rengers In Memory of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Cooper Dawson, Jr. Mr. Edwin D. Rengers and Mrs. Dana W. Rengers In Memory of Mrs. Samuel Cooper Dawson, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. John W. Ey In Memory of Mr. John Chauncey Everhart ’08 Ms. Leah DuVal Andress ’08 Mr. Charles Spencer McKenna ’08 In Memory of Mr. Robert Wiatt Farrar ’07 Ms. Dorothy Lee Hutchison ’04 In Memory of Mr. Gary Lyn Hadwin, Jr. ’99 Mrs. Georgeanna Milam Chapman ’99 Mr. William Sherard Chapman III ’99

In Memory of Mr. Archibald Robinson Hoxton, Jr. ’35 Mr. and Mrs. Scottow Atherton King ’75 In Memory of Mr. Collier Cobb Lilly ’85 Mr. and Mrs. Scott Alexander Collie ’85 In Memory of Mr. John Stewart Morton, Jr. ’38 Mr. Gordon H. Harper Mr. Edwin D. Rengers and Mrs. Dana W. Rengers In Memory of Mr. George Fitzgerald Neff ’41 Mr. and Mrs. Norborne Berkeley, Jr. ’41 In Memory of Mr. James Thomas Patrick ’55 Mr. and Mrs. Bailey Patrick, Jr. ’53 In Memory of Mr. Allen Carleton Phillips, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Scottow Atherton King ’75 In Memory of Mr. Robert Reeves Price III Mr. Jeffrey B. Hoisington In Memory of Mr. Nicholas Karl Shannon ’80 Mr. Laurent Christopher LeBien

In Memory of Dr. David Kerndt Wiecking ’50 Dr. Sharon A. Boone The Davis Family Mr. Steven Lee Frankel ’84 Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Stuart Gilchrist, Jr. ’47 Mr. and Mrs. Wayne B. Hufner Ms. Joanne Macleay Mr. Robert W. Massart and Ms. Susan M. Garcia Mrs. Allen Smith III U. S. Trust Ms. Lucia K. Whitlock HONOR GIFTS

In Honor of The Ministry of Caleb King ’77 Mr. and Mrs. Scottow Atherton King ’75 In Honor of Mr. Joseph Badger Shelor ’52 Mr. and Mrs. John Lockman Appleby ’77 In Honor of Mr. John LeRoy Townsend III ’73 Mr. Joseph J. C. Mark, Jr. Mr. Michael Treisman In Honor of Mr. John M. Walker, Jr. Mr. Scottow Atherton King ’75

In Memory of Mr. William Elmore Spruill ’85 Mr. and Mrs. Scott Alexander Collie ’85 Mr. Steve Six

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