Torchbearer Fall 2009 | Volume VII | Issue 1

A Publica t io n fo r Pa re n ts a nd Frie nd s o f Ho l y In no c e n ts´ Pa ris h Da y School

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Will Students Teleport To School By 1969?

"Foreign Exchange" Program Learning How People Live In Marietta

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During the 2009-2010 school year, Holy Innocents’ will host a number of special events celebrating our 50th Anniversary. On behalf of the Board of Trustees, administration, faculty, staff, students, parents, alumni, friends of the school, and the parish of Holy Innocents’ Episcopal Church, we invite everyone in the community to join us in these celebrations throughout the year. Please check the school’s website, www.hies.org, for updates and details.

September 8: HIES 50th Anniversary Celebration 10:00 a.m. – All School Convocation, Main Gym, Keynote Speaker, Charisse McAuliffe ’96, Founder of GenGreen 5:30 p.m. – 50th Anniversary Cookout/Carnival, Lower School Playground September 15: Grandparent Reception 6:30 p.m., off-campus October 2:

Homecoming 2:00 p.m. – Pep Rally, Main Gym 6:30 p.m. – Alumni Picnic, Riverwood HS Stadium 7:30 p.m. – Football game vs. Pace, Riverwood HS Stadium

October 9:

HIES Athletics Wall of Fame Induction Ceremony Halftime of the football game vs. Landmark Christian, Riverwood HS Stadium

October 17:

Alumni and Family of Color Reception 4:00 p.m. – Been Media Center of Rowan Family Middle School

October 19:

Booster Club Golf Tournament 12:30 p.m. – Shotgun Start, White Columns Country Club, Alpharetta

October 23:

Senior Night Halftime of the football game vs. Whitefield Academy, Riverwood HS Stadium

October 30:

Halloween Parade – 50’s Theme

November:

Pre-School Thanksgiving Program

November 3:

50th Day of School

November 21: Alumni/Student Day of Service December 16: Kindergarten Nativity Program December 17: Alumni Holiday Party January 29:

FAA Art and Fashion Show Time and location TBD Winterfest Reception for Alumni and Past Parents 6:30 p.m. – Gym Skybox

February:

Black History Month Programs US/MS/LS Service Project

February 23:

5th Grade Career Day with Alumni 10:00 a.m. – Curtis Library

March 26 & 27: Spring Sports Fest March 27:

50th Anniversary Parents' Association Gala Main Gym

April 1:

Pre-School Grandparents and Special Friends Day

April 22:

Alpha Omega Celebration

April 24:

Fun Run/Spring Fling

May 5:

LS Grandparents and Special Friends Day

May 14:

Senior/Alumni Luncheon

May 15:

Graduation

May 19:

Volunteer Reception 6:30 p.m., Head of School’s Home

A PUBLICATION FOR PARENTS , ALUMNI AND FRIENDS OF HOLY INNOCENTS ’ EPISCOPAL SCHOOL

Jotjef; History 101:

50 Years of HIES The Past, Present and Future of Education The History of Holy Innocents’ Athletics

50 Divided by 8: Our Heads of School

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STUDYING THE CLASSICS

Among the earliest surviving photos of the Holy Innocents' church and school the more things change, the more they stay the same.

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HIES STYLE Clothing, haircuts, popular slang – they're in, they're out, and they boomerang back after 20 years or so. If you're older than 40, you've probably had all the styles pictured below either on your head or in your closet at some point in your life.

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TRICK OR TREAT For as long as anyone can remember, October 31 has always been a special day on the Holy Innocents' campus. This year's parade will have a 1950's theme.

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Mission Statement Holy Innocents’ Episcopal School develops in students a love of learning, respect for self and others, faith in God, and a sense of service to the world community.

School Philosophy Holy Innocents’ Episcopal School offers an educational program encompassing academics, arts, athletics and spiritual formation. Through opportunities to grow intellectually, spiritually, physically and emotionally, students develop their individual worth and dignity. The

Gspn!Uif!Fejups EXECUTIVE EDITOR Nick Roberts MANAGING EDITOR/STAFF WRITER Sarah E. Alexander CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Tamika Weaver-Hightower Michele Duncan June Arnold Mary Chris Williams Dylan Deal Chris Swann GRAPHIC DESIGN Irby Heaton PHOTOGRAPHY Nick Roberts Sarah E. Alexander Bonnie Taylor CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS Gemshots Photographic Scott Gibson Alice Thompson Special thanks to HIES Archivist Mimi Strassner and HIEC Communications Director Leigh Jackson for their help with 50th Anniversary research and securing historical images. We’d also like to thank all those who shared their stories of our school’s history, most notably Alice Malcolm, Dorothy Sullivan, Janella Brand and Bobby Fay.

In June of 1999, my parents celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. We held a big party for them at their home in Franklin, Maine. The President sent a congratulatory card from the White House. Scores of cousins, aunts, uncles and in-laws ate a big meal, told familiar stories, and then dad finished weeding his vegetable garden.

“Sure, it’s a big day,” he said to me during the party, “but it doesn’t change much in the grand scheme of things.”

I don’t know if dad’s words reflected a certain equanimity or just 78 years in New England. But A shockingly dark-haired editor with his dad, Ernie, June, 1999.

I realized two things that day: nobody enjoyed a good party more than my dad, and there’s still plenty of work to do once the celebrating’s over.

The Golden Anniversary of Holy Innocents’ Episcopal School will bring plenty of celebrating, as it should. From remarkably humble beginnings, HIES has grown into one of the finest, largest, and most respected independent schools in the Southeast – all because of an army of parishioners, parents, trustees, administrators, faculty, staff, alumni, students, and friends. Their work deserves every second of celebration – but more importantly, it deserves a similar commitment as we move forward.

So let’s celebrate. Let’s sing, dance, and pop the champagne. Let’s remember and be grateful for all the people who made this school year possible in the first place. But let’s not forget that the most important aspect of this anniversary is that 1,370 students will receive the best education ever offered on campus.

And I bet next year’s will be even better. If our history shows us anything, it’s that people at this school know how to tend a garden.

Happy 50th, HIES.

TorchBearer is published by the Offices of Admissions, Communications and Development of Holy Innocents’ Episcopal School. Special appreciation goes to the parents, faculty and staff whose contributions make this publication possible. Every attempt has been made to ensure accuracy within this magazine. Please notify the editor of any errors or omissions and accept our sincere apologies.

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challenging academic program prepares students for higher education and emphasizes learning as a pathway toward ethical leadership and a commitment to the common good.

The school provides a welcoming and supportive environment, embraces the differences inherent in a diverse community, and embodies the inclusive Episcopal tradition of respect for the beliefs of others. Holy Innocents’ is an active community of faith engaged in local, national and international service to others.

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History 101 Fifty Years of HIES Fifty Divided By Eight Meet the Headmasters Minding Our Business: The Past, Present and Future of Education The History Of Holy Innocents’ Athletics

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14 | Big Bears On Campus 20 | Faculty Survey 48 | Student Publications 54 | Baseball In Italy COLUMNS

15 | What I Did On My Summer Vacation 52 | Principals' Corner 70 | From the Head of School DEVELOPMENT

58 | From The Development Office 62 | 2009 GALA - Moonlight Over Monte Carlo 64 | Celebration Of The Arts 65 | Class Notes

A TALE OF TWO COVERS:

In September of 1959, Holy Innocents’ Parish Day School barely had enough money for pencils, let alone a big, glossy magazine. Still, we couldn’t help but wonder what sorts of stories might have appeared in one, when the world was buzzing about atom bombs dropping from Russian spaceships and futuristic fantasies seemed just around the corner.

Special thanks go to Lower School teacher Laurie Edwards and some very patient students from the Horizons Program for helping recreate today’s equivalent of that early HI classroom.

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Middle School Counselor Kara Friedman has fond memories of her first job after graduating college. “It was a ‘bunderful’ job,” she says. “We were called Hot Doggers, and I was Kool-Dog Kara.”

Kool-Dog Kara drove a Wienermobile, one of Oscar Mayer’s trademark vehicles that promote the company across the U.S. “You can only do it the year after you graduate from college. We had so much fun.”

You’re probably wondering what would possess a young woman to drive around in a 27-foot long hot dog. “I had this friend who’d done it, and I thought she was crazy, like ‘who would want to do that? That’s the weirdest job ever’,” says Kool-Dog. “But after college, I just wanted to do something fun before I went to grad school, so I applied. There are over a thousand applicants for about twenty positions, so you really have to set yourself apart. I did a whole book about how everyone loves Oscar Mayer hot dogs and I went all around Oxford, Ohio taking pictures of people holding hot dogs and doing funny things with them – studying with a hot dog, lifting them in the gym like they’re weights, all sorts of things. And I got the job!”

Training included a week-long, intensive course in Madison, Wisconsin – aka, Hot Dog High. “You learn how to handle a protest, like if PETA shows up,” says Kool-Dog. “Then you learn how to talk on the radio since you are on the shows all the time, or how to be on TV, what to say, how to present yourself – lots of media training. And of course you learn how 10 | TORCHBEARER FALL 2009

to drive the Wienermobile. It hauls buns.”

The job gave her a different perspective on things, says K-Dog. “You really are famous.

Wherever you are, everybody knows you’re there,” she says. “When we stayed in a hotel, we’d have to tell the people at the desk, ‘Do not tell anybody what room we’re in,’ because people would knock on your door. But that’s also the most difficult part. You can’t even go to the grocery store without people bothering you. It was kind of glamorous but I also learned that I never want to be famous.

There’s no privacy. Everybody’s always watching you. You always have to be ‘on’.”

It’s often said that once you’ve been famous, losing the spotlight can be difficult.

“I remember the first time I went home. I got in the car and was sitting at a stoplight and I turned to the person next to me and waved,” says KD. “They waved back, but I wasn’t in the Wienermobile! I just looked like a crazy person. I was so used to driving it and you wave to everybody as you’re driving by… people just wave to you constantly.”

Leaving must have been difficult.

“I ‘relished’ the days but it was incredibly tiring,” says Kool-Dog. “I was really ready to go to grad school.”

What is a Wienermobile?

(Dog)mensions: Height: 11 feet, or 24 hot dogs high Length: 27 feet, or 60 hot dogs long Width: 8 feet, or 18 hot dogs wide Weight: 10,000 pounds, or 100,000 hot dogs Body: Grilled fiberglass hot dog resting on a lightly toasted fiberglass bun Engine: V-8, 5.7 liter 350 – runs on high octane mustard Features: Hot dog shaped dashboard and glovebox Ketchup and mustard walkway Computerized condiment control panel Condiment splattered carpet Bunroof Front and rear navigational “watchdog” cameras Smiling front grill Relish colored seats That’s all part of the actual signage for the Wienermobile. We can’t make this stuff up.

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High Flyer Sixth-grader Reese Foster is not yet old enough to drive, but he can already maneuver airplanes.

Reese, who turns 12 on Sept. 9, loves flying. And we’re not talking about traveling on commercial jets. The aviator student loves to fly smaller planes himself – with plenty of guidance from his father, of course.

With a grandfather who flew in the Vietnam War and co-founded O’Gara Aviation and a father who joined the business, it’s no wonder Reese enjoys flying. He has pictures of himself as a baby, sitting under the wing of a Citation. As he grew older, he found himself sitting in the co-pilot’s seat watching his grandfather fly.

His first extended amateur flight was from Atlanta to Destin, Florida, when he was nine years old. While his father, John B. Foster IV, flew the Piper Cub for most of the journey,

Reese gained a little experience at the controls. When he was almost 11 years old, he helped to plan a trip to the Experimental Aircraft Association’s Fly-In Convention, now known as EAA AirVenture Oshkosh, in Wisconsin.

Not only did Reese study charts before the adventure, but with support from his father, he also managed most of the Legend Cub’s landings and takeoffs.

Flying is fun, says Reese. “Besides the roar of the engine and wings over you, it kind of feels like you are a bird,” he says, adding that sharing time in the air with his dad is special. “It’s just him and me up there.”

When he’s older, Reese would like to work in the aviation industry, possibly invent a new plane or become a pilot. For now, though, he will concentrate on passing the sixth-grade with flying colors.

DIVING RIGHT IN Tania Lehman is always eager to dive right in and assist – whether it’s in the classroom or underwater.

For 10 years, the first-grade assistant has been a certified rescue scuba diver. While she – fortunately – has not had to use her rescue skills, her training remains intact if she ever needs them. “It’s nice to know what to do in an emergency situation under water,” she says.

If she ever had to save a life, she would prefer to do so in warm, tropical waters. “I lived on the East Coast for most of my life, so I have done the majority of my diving in the Atlantic in cold, murky water.

I had to train in a quarry in Pennsylvania,

A recent trip to Parkaire brought back a flood of memories for Lower School Spanish teacher Allison Fishman.

Some of her second-grade students invited her and second-grade teacher Audra Thompson to watch them perform their ice-skating routines at the metro Atlanta arena. The setting was all too familiar for Ms. Fishman, who ice-skated at Parkaire when she was her students’ age. “It was like watching me and my older sister out there,” she says of watching her students skate.

The 1998 Holy Innocents’ graduate began ice-skating competitively when she was six years old. Her skates glided her from Atlanta to Tennessee to North Carolina to New York to Delaware. “I remember vividly that all the girls I competed against were a little older and bigger than I was,” she says. “I went on to win golds and silvers, so I didn’t let (their ages) get to me that much!”

So just why did Ms. Fishman stop competing for gold and silver medals at age 11? She says her social life began suffering, but she now laughs at that excuse because, “How much of a social life do children have at that age?” In reality, her life as an ice skater included a demanding schedule, with practices before and after school and on weekends. “It was exhausting for my whole family,” she says.

Now, Ms. Fishman skates for fun, but not as often as she would like to. These days, she is content with wearing the gold – along with the crimson, of course.

and it was not the most pleasant experience,” she says.

Obtaining such daring skills is not easy. In her certification class, she was the only female among a group of 10 firefighters, and one of her tasks during a rescue simulation was to carry a 150-pound man out of the water on her back. Apparently becoming a rescue scuba diver requires not only a love of swimming, but also strong back muscles!

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Middle School French teacher Joanne Thomas once drove 3,000 miles in three weeks. She was on no cross-country trip, but on a mission: transport the Japanese press around the city of Atlanta.

While earning a minor certification in Japanese at Georgia State University, Ms. Thomas learned of exciting job opportunities for a little event called the 1996 Olympics. One position that caught her attention was a Japanese press driver, a title that would allow her to practice the language outside of the classroom.

Her Japanese-speaking skills soon were put to the test.

She picked up the journalists and photographers at 6 a.m. every day and drove them around to all of the venues.

She even taught them a word or two of American slang, which the photographers were very interested in learning. In turn, they shared stories about their photo adventures from around the world.

“I was able to form international relationships and expose American culture to the Japanese press through food, hospitality and driving customs,” she says. “It was a great experience to get exposed to the Olympics from the press point-of-view. I got to see things I never would have otherwise.”

The job also allowed her entry into events and the opening and closing ceremonies. It was a “pressing” job, but one that left her with wonderful memories.

At Holy Innocents’, Keith White serves as Director of Community Outreach. When not on campus, he often serves as Director of Outs. And strikes, balls, fouls and close plays at the plate.

White began working as a baseball umpire (in the game’s parlance, “Blue”) about six years ago, after he’d moved back to Atlanta from baseball-crazy Boston. “I wanted to find a way to spend more time with kids in Atlanta and Decatur, just to affect their lives somehow,” he says.

“During the time of Mark McGuire and Sammy Sosa and all the steroids stuff in baseball, a lot of kids wanted to cut corners and hit the long ball, but not really learn what it takes to be a true, solid ballplayer, with all the tools.”

Growing up, White played all sports, but his burly physique was just made for football – he excelled as a lineman in both high school and at Morehouse College. “What I learned on the diamond, though, was something that has helped me all my adult life,” he says. “I fell in love with it – the nuances of the game, the discipline, the precision.”

So why doesn’t he coach? “Because of the number of lives I could touch. I feel like

Rallying The Falcons

Where does a 350-pound offensive lineman sit?

On August 7, it would have been right in front of HIES senior Clark Shelton, who visited the Atlanta Falcons’ training camp to help raise both awareness and funds for the Rally Foundation for Childhood Cancer Research.

“I volunteer for Rally a couple of times a week,” says Clark, who, in 2006, had successful surgery for osteosarcoma, a type of bone cancer, in his tibia. “We make phone calls for ‘Four Quarters For Research,’ something we’re doing at Holy innocents’ for the Wesleyan game. All the money we raise goes to childhood cancer research.”

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I get more bang for my buck as an umpire,” he says. “When you’re coaching, you have maybe twelve or fifteen kids. As an umpire, you’ve got both teams – and I can work five or six games a day.”

“I work games from Tiny T-ball, three- and four-year olds, all the way up to adult leagues,” says White. “With little kids, it’s Bad News Bears – when you see a five-year old hit the ball and run towards third-base, you can’t help but laugh.

But that’s when you get to teach.”

Teaching moments for Mr. White don’t always confine themselves to the play on the field, however. “One of the reasons I like going to East Cobb, Sandy Plains or Forsyth County – for some of these kids, I might be one of the few, educated black men they run into,” says White. “There are times when I’m the only black person around. And I know that if I don’t carry myself in a certain way or do my job well, it could create a stigma.”

That probably makes it difficult to follow umpiring’s golden rule. “As an umpire, you don’t want to be seen,” says White. “If you do your job perfectly, nobody should even know you’re there.”

For the kids and parents lucky enough to have Mr. White work their games, we bet that’s just about impossible.

Clark’s not the only one on campus working with Rally. “Coach Livezey and his wife are really involved,” he says. “And my brother Patrick (HIES 8th-grader) comes with me, but he thinks it’s boring all he does is stuff envelopes.”

Falcons camp was anything but boring, though. “(Falcons President) Rich McKay met us and gave us a big tour – it was really cool,” says Clark. “Then we met some coaches and players, like Matt Ryan and Curtis Lofton and got autographs and stuff.”

Rally, however, had asked Clark to write a speech for the event. “Just my story, how I’d played football and now I’m coaching and, ‘Thank you for inviting Rally’ and all that good stuff,” says Clark. “But I got there and started talking with all the guys and I basically said everything that I’d written. So when I got the microphone and gave the actual speech, it was like, ‘Well as you already know…’”

While Clark may not have channeled Vince Lombardi, we’re sure his message was pretty motivating.

For more information and to contribute to the Rally Foundation, visit their website at www.rallyfoundation.org.

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Five Holy Innocents’ students attended school this summer, but they didn’t mind the extra hours in the classroom.

For two weeks in July, seniors Bill Cangelosi, Greer Gafford and CJ James, and juniors Andrew Morrisett and Tiffany Tang, visited our sister school, Asahigaoka High School, in Sapporo, Japan. Along with HIES faculty members Robin Gafford and Cathy Doering, the students immersed themselves in Japanese culture and discovered what it’s like to attend school in the land of the rising sun.

Staying with host families, the students followed their counterparts through the school day, witnessed preparations for an annual summer festival and dressed in traditional Japanese clothes. “There is no substitution in a classroom or a book for an actual cultural exchange, walking in someone else’s footsteps and experiencing the generosity and enthusiasm another group of people has for you,” Ms. Gafford says. “Our students learned so much

because they experienced so much generosity.”

For Greer, the experience was life changing.

“Jumping right into their culture was incredible,” she says. “The two girls I partnered with, Akane and Michiko, became my best friends.

They shared every aspect of their lives and guided me through Japan. I will forever thank them for their hospitality.”

The students couldn’t go all of that way without doing a little sightseeing, though. They spent four nights in Tokyo and visited shrines, temples and the Great Buddha of Kamakura.

“The neatest thing for me was to see how the kids came together. They were just a delight the entire time,” says Ms. Gafford. “They were great ambassadors for our school.”

This January, it will be our turn. Ms. Gafford hopes HIES students welcome our Japanese guests with equal enthusiasm when they visit our school the week of January 4.

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President Pomar

Not all inaugurations come with parade routes, Secret Service and two million flag-waving crazies on the National Mall.

When the Atlanta-Area Association of Independent Schools (AAAIS) recently named Chris Pomar president of their Admissions Association, they didn’t even hold a ball in his honor. “Just a pat on the head,” deadpans the HIES Director of Admissions.

That’s not to say his work won’t play an important role in moving Metro Atlanta’s independent schools forward. “The association was established about 30 years ago to set up guidelines, The Principles of Good Practice, to make the admissions process as fair as possible for the families and the schools, themselves,” says Pomar. “Now, all member schools admit students on a common date and there are principles involving the recruitment or attraction of families or the misuse of financial aid funds, merit scholarships – things like that. It’s all based on good faith and being neighborly and acting in a spirit of fairness.”

The two-year commitment will require a lot of work and a lot of patience, Pomar says, even if it won’t come with a lot of public accolades. The most glamorous part?

“Getting a TorchBearer article written about me.”

Voilà - enjoy it while you can, Chris.

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BIG BEARS ON CAMPUS Leaders are not necessarily the people who push their way into the spotlight or have the most commanding voice. This fall’s Big Bears On Campus choose to lead by example. They set ambitious goals for themselves and the school, and they know how to work as members of a team to get things accomplished.

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An Alpha-Omega, without the Lambda or Phi: Wood attended HIES from kindergarten to second-grade, after which his family moved to Fort Worth, TX. They returned in time for his sophomore year, which has made his high school teachers extremely grateful.

As you stroll through campus, you’ll notice a great many student works of art – both permanent installations and current galleries – from Ms. Jacobs’s classes. In other words, she plays a big role in how people view our campus. “I’ve been given the opportunity to share my passion in life with young students,” says Judie, “and help them discover their own creative talents.” That’s beautiful in more ways than one.

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Why’s that?: A regular in the school’s AP classes, he especially enjoys math and art – “I know it sounds kind of nerdy, but I just love math, the way it all works out. And I’ve always worked in art.”

And that will hopefully lead to…: “Architecture. I like the combination of math and creativity. I’m looking at Georgia Tech – it’s in-state and has a great program.”

Outside the classroom?: Wood is this year’s Vice President of the Student Council’s Executive Board, president of the Integrity Council, a member of the Gentlemen’s Order, and runs Cross Country and Track. “I’m also a member of the Philosophy Club, but we don’t do much,” he says. “We just think about it.”

Faculty influence: “Señor Gatoux – he pushes the limits of what you’d expect in Spanish class. He shows fascinating films that really make you think. He’s always teaching us to question things, to look for our own answers instead of simply trusting authority. I want to take that to heart.”

Thoughts on HIES: “Holy Innocents’ is kind of an intersection of my past, present and future. I remember all the people from when I was young. But as a senior, I have my whole future ahead of me. It’s more of a feeling than a thought – a kind of a joyful resignation, like oh well, it’s going to happen, better enjoy today.”

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Upper School Art Teacher, Member of Holy Innocents’ since 1990.

A renowned artist herself, Judie has some wonderful ways of sharing her passion with students: the Upper School Art Club, Empty Bowl (a citywide ceramic fundraiser), Scarecrows in the Garden (Atlanta Botanical Gardens competition), displays for the High Museum of Art fundraisers, the Museum of Contemporary Art’s student internship program and a number of student shows at professional venues. So how does she find time for her own artwork?

Favorite quote: “It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln HI high points: welcoming Paul Soldner, ceramic artist from Aspen, Colorado, and Andy Pollack, a New Orleans glass artist, to campus.

She also loves the creative fashions students design for the annual Recycled Fashion Shows. “They’re like Project Runway in terms of quality and originality.”

Ms. Jacobs has been a driving force in making the HIES art department one of the region’s top programs for young talent. Many of her students have not only earned scholarships to continue their art in college, but also gone on to become professional artists and designers, themselves. For this, and for everything else she does on (and off) campus, we give her a heartfelt, “Brava!”

WHAT I DID ON MY SUMMER VACATION My summer vacation all started on June 8 when we got on a plane to New York. We switched planes and then flew to Bristol, England. My grandparents picked us up and took us to Wales. My dad is from Wales. Many people think Wales is in England, but it is not. We went to Caerphilly Castle.

It was built between 1268-1271. There were catapults, bows and arrows, and a moat. The water in the moat was as dirty as a brown bear’s coat. While we were in Wales, it was Queen Elizabeth’s birthday. They did something special called “Trooping of the Color” at Horse Guard’s Parade in London.

After staying in Wales for a week, we went to Bristol airport and caught a Ryanair flight to Spain.

We landed at Gironna Airport and drove to Platja d’Aro. When we got to The Clarimar, the owner of the hotel helped us get our bags to our rooms.

Each day we went to a different beach and played in the sand, made sand castles, looked for crabs, and swam in the sea. One day I was lucky and caught a fish with my fishing net! I even jumped off an old fishing boat in the harbor. When we left Platja d’Aro, we had about a three hour drive to Salou, which is also in Spain.

One night in Salou, we had dinner at a place called Maset. The food was great! While we were in Salou, it was the Feast of San Juan on June 23rd. They have a big festival and lots of fireworks. We went to the beach each morning and had a wonderful time. After a week, we went back to Platja d’Aro. Then we watched a rugby game

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and unfortunately the British Lions lost to South Africa. The next afternoon we walked along the coastline. We went to a beautiful place called Tossa de Mar. There was an old castle right on the beach. When we went into the aqua-colored water, it was freezing cold. We just love Spain because it is so beautiful and the Spanish people are very nice. They really like kids!

It was time for us to leave Spain so we went back to Gironna Airport for the second time. We flew back to Bristol and stayed for two days.

We went to see the S.S. Great Britain. It was built by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. She was launched in 1843. The ship is now in the same dry dock where she was built. We were able to go on the boat - then walk under it as if we were underwater. The bottom part of the boat is under glass because it is flaking and falling apart. They are working to restore it so many more people will be able to enjoy it.

We left Bristol and flew back to New York. We stayed in New York for the 4th of July weekend.

We took the “Duck“ for a ride around the city and then it turned into a boat and went straight into the Hudson River. We got wet and had a really fun time. We also walked around in Central Park, took a rowboat out on the lake, and rode in a horse-drawn carriage. I was so tired after all of that …my dad got us a cab so that we didn’t have to walk all the way back to our hotel.

Finally, we arrived home on July 6th. I can’t wait until next year!

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WHAT I DID ON MY SUMMER VACATION

Student On A Mission

By Anna Taylor, Senior

This summer I traveled by myself to Léogâne, Haïti, although, it is not quite as simple as that. Before I left I had to go through many processes, fill out many forms and paperwork, and send many e-mails to people I did not even know.

These people were the directors, doctors, and managers of the Haitian Iodine Salt Project, which is run by the University Of Notre Dame in Indiana. After all the e-mails and paperwork, I finally got my acceptance letter to travel to Haiti.

I went for 18 days to do government research on “The Salt Project.” It aims to add Iodine and DEC to the salt in Haiti to prevent Iodine Deficiency Disease and to help eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis. There have been studies conducted to show that Iodine and DEC increase brain power in children. I used the computer, more specifically, Google Earth, to track places on the map in Haiti that may be possible sites for salt ponds. It was difficult to be thrown into the situation and use a program that most people have not used before. Thanks to Mr. Quinton Walkers’ tenth-grade history class, I had some background knowledge on Google Earth. After I found them on the computer, I went to those places, tracked them with a GPS system and took pictures.

The purpose of taking pictures is so the sites that have the ability to make salt might be funded by some good-hearted people. I placed the pictures in a brochure that Notre Dame will use to show people about the donations they need. Salt ponds are very expensive, usually costing about $10,000.

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such as Father Jean-Berthol Phanord, Wilfort Saint-Hilaire, Lemoine Denera, Antoine Richardson, and Ackson Louis, and I also met many new ones.

I attended a local soccer game every afternoon at 5, and tried some new Haitian foods such as Canapes.

Canapes are green grape-like fruits with a soft green shell you have to bite off first.

After that, you eat the fruit and spit out the seed.

I understand the culture a lot better because of this trip. While walking down the street, I was often called “blanc” which is Creole for “a white person.” Louis Precene, a young man many Holy Innocents’ students have met while traveling to Haiti, served as my guide on the trip. When walking down the streets, up the mountains, or along the beaches, if he ever heard the word “blanc” he would turn around and say in Creole, “She is not white, she is a Christian.” After two days of his saying that, I was never again called “Blanc” and people learned my real name quickly. Once we were walking down a beach in Léogâne tracking some places on a GPS and behind us were about fifteen very young children.

Louis said my name once and after that all I heard was “Anna, Anna, Anna”. The children were very cute.

On the day before I left, I visited one of Holy Innocents’ sister schools right next to Father Jean-Berthol’s house. There was a young boy who got very excited when he saw me. He started jumping up and down and put his hands over his mouth while smiling. He pointed at his wrist and then pointed at me. I looked at my wrist and as usual, I had a hair band on it. On my previous trips to Haiti, I gave out hair bands to the boys and girls at that school and this particular boy remembered me. So I took off the purple bow from my wrist and gave it to the boy. He looked at me, put his hands together like he was about to pray, bowed down to me, and ran away smiling. Many of the children have multiple hair bands on their wrists that I gave them.

I hope to continue visiting Haïti, and eventually to do an internship at one of HI’s sister schools. I would like to teach the children English and French. HI is working on many projects to help our sister schools and the churches we built in Haïti. We have started a Haïti club and have already started a “church dress drive” through the club. I personally will be doing a “croc shoe drive” in the Lower School in the 2009-2010 school year.

WHAT I DID ON MY SUMMER VACATION

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By Jeff Walrich

Picture-Perfect Summer

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Having started a filmmaking course at Holy Innocents’ called Digital Lifestyles, I wanted to use the Greenbaum Grant to take a weeklong intensive digital filmmaking course at the New York Film Academy in New York City.

The school was set in a historic building on 17th street in Union Square.

When they said “intensive” they were not kidding! We were in class for 12 hours a day and had homework every night. Learning about the film industry, directing, new techniques, lighting, camera details, different editing tricks and getting “hands on” time with the equipment at the Academy was truly awesome. Everyone in the class had to make a movie and have it screened and critiqued on the last day of the course. We only had four hours to film and our backdrop could be anywhere in New York. My movie was called “Street Recession” and it was about how the economy and recession have affected the street vendors in New York City. Discovering their struggles and the uncertainty they faced in the future made me feel sorry for them, as some have been doing this for over 10 years.

Learning about the culture in New York was a great life experience, but what I got from my classmates who were from all around the world, including Brazil, London, Canada and Indonesia, was a bonus! We were split into groups of four; learning and working on each other’s movies helped us instill the techniques, skills, and culture we worked on throughout the week.

Some very famous movies and television shows were filmed in New York City and I took advantage of this on the “TV and Movie sets” tour in New York City. Will Smith’s house in “I Am Legend” and the “Friends” building were just two of the famous sets I toured. Next, I visited NBC Studios and was able to see the Saturday Night Live set, NBC Football set, and Jimmy Fallon set. The biggest surprise was how small they were, since TV makes them seem so much larger. One of the highlights was winning the Late Show Lottery! I won tickets and was able to see The Late Show with David Letterman live! While in Times Square, Dr. Phil was filming a promo for his show and I was able to shake his hand and say hello to him.

Since this was my first time in New York, I cannot begin to explain the culture and the experiences that I enjoyed that week. I am looking forward to the new school year, and I hope to challenge my new students to be successful filmmakers and teach them what I learned from the New York Film Academy.

Jeff and Gillian Walrich get a taste of the Big Apple

Bar Harbor, Maine.

Who could ask for a better place to spend two weeks of summer?

The Greenbaum Award, that is so generously offered to HIES educators for summer studies and enhancements, provided me with two wonderful weeks in Bar Harbor. I attended the College of the Atlantic, taking a class in Conservation Photography. The course aims to educate and inspire people to see the beauty of our planet and, in turn, make good choices about how we treat her. We spent hours in the field shooting scenery from gardens, rocky coastlines, sandy beaches, sunrises and sunsets, and communities to study biodiversity. Photographing aspects of the lobster fishing industry and man’s impact on the ocean help show how we can be better stewards of our oceans, which are being overfished.

Another week followed across Frenchman’s Bay at Schoodic Point where I studied rocky coast populations of snails, barnacles, and algae interactions.

Who would ever have thought snails could be so fascinating!

Students in my Environmental Science and Biology classes will work each year on creating a scrapbook to photograph and comment on what they see in nature.

As they take note of the world around them and how they can make a difference they, too, will develop a better sense of what this amazing planet of ours has to offer and of being conscientious about our individual footprint.

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WHAT I DID ON MY SUMMER VACATION This summer I did not travel to any exotic countries. Instead, I stayed home to focus on my music studies at the Franklin Pond Chamber Music program. Chamber music is a type of classical music that was traditionally played by groups of 2 to 20 musicians in the bedchambers of monarchs and aristocrats. Today it is typically performed in trios, quartets, and quintets, primarily by violins, violas, and cellos.

Franklin Pond is a camp hosted at the home of Atlanta Symphony violinist, Ronda Respess. Sixteen kids ranging from ages 13 to 18 are selected through competitive auditions held in March. They are then grouped into four quartets, each with two violinists, one violist, and one cellist, and are assigned a number of pieces to perform at concerts. We met at Ms. Respess’s house every Monday morning from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. for six weeks.

Each week, we had to practice together at our homes, rehearsing each piece while self-correcting and correcting each other. At first, this was tough because, before playing together, we never had to worry about what the other musicians were doing. Now, we had to pay extra attention to each other and to ourselves. This helped with communication skills, getting to know each other as players, and getting more in touch with the music.

My group’s primary piece was a Beethoven Quartet. Every Monday, we met with members of the Atlanta Symphony. After lunch, we would gather for a master class, taught by well-known performers or teachers. Our first master class was with The Vega Quartet, a professional quartet based at Emory University. It was good to get an actual quartet’s input.

Another master class was taught by Eddie Horst, a composer and resident of Atlanta. We all performed his piece, ‘Insecta’, which was written especially for Franklin Pond. He conducted us and explained what he was thinking of when he wrote each part of the piece.

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Musical Connections

By Wick Simmons Freshman

After the master classes, some of us would stick around to sightread (reading music for the first time) some of Ms. Respess’ music from her very large library. Once we ordered pizza and didn’t leave until around 7:30! We were having a great time with each other playing music.

Each quartet performed community outreach concerts in the Atlanta area. My group performed three concerts. Our last was held at Symphony Hall in the Woodruff Arts Center. We met with a man who is an Alexander Technique specialist. This is a way for musicians, performers, or anyone for that matter, to learn to relax when they perform, play, or just in general. It’s a sort of therapy and after this session, I noticed a big difference in my sound and in my position when I played. The weekend before our final concert, we went to Jekyll Island for a retreat. On our first full day, we got up early and went on a six-mile bike ride. If you took out the "bee-sized" mosquitoes, the experience was amazing.

Afterwards, we went to the historic district to meet with our coaches in these so-called “cottages” (which were more like mansions). After two hours of coaching, we headed to the beaches for break, then went back for more coaching. After dinner, we went to our Faculty Concert, where we got to see the pros at work, followed by our dress rehearsal. The next day, our concert went very well, and afterwards we went to a pool party held at a host family’s house.

After Jekyll Island, we held our final concert in the Kellett Chapel at Peachtree Presbyterian Church.

This was the time to give it our all and to say goodbye. There was a large crowd of people, including families, friends, teachers and lovers of chamber music. This experience has brought me closer to my love of music and made me realize that there are other people out there of all ages who play, love, and enjoy music as much as I do. Music can bring people together. I definitely will not forget this summer.

WHAT I DID ON MY SUMMER VACATION

Summer of Hope

“For I know the plans I have for you, the plan to give you hope and a future” —Jeremiah 29:11 For the past four summers, I have spent a week at Camp Hope, trying little by little to change the lives of a few children and planting seeds of HOPE. They are not the ones you see at fancy camps in North Carolina that cost thousands to attend. The children who attend Camp Hope are children of prisoners. The kids come for free, paid for by private donations, and the volunteer teenagers pay for themselves.

Throughout the week, we help the children rise above their circumstances, teach them to become leaders in the community, and provide a life of hope through Christian programming in a fun, camp-like environment.

Campers enter in 4th, 5th, or 6th grade and once they start coming, they come every summer. They arrive at camp scared of a new place… intimidated. But once the week is over, everyone is crying and hugging and they don’t want to go home. A little part of your heart goes home with them, too!

Four years ago, I started as a junior counselor. For the past two summers, I have been a counselor – one of eight in each cabin. Each counselor has a camper, a one-to-one ratio, so you are with him or her 24/7. Every day is filled with activities to bring you closer. The idea is that the counselor becomes a role model for the camper because these kids don’t always have a positive role model in their lives.

Each day consists of game time, field activities, speakers, time for HOPE, arts and crafts, cabin competitions, worship, and swimming that keep the campers busy and looking for the pillow at 10:30 at night. One of our speakers was the sprinter Sam Graddy, a winner of two Olympic medals, who spoke about the hardships he overcame while growing up. Time for HOPE is a devotional

By Arden Birdwell Sophomore time when campers and counselors discuss themes of joy, trust, forgiveness and love.

This can be really tough for the campers as they open up about their personal experiences and hardships. Each camper’s favorite

day is “Wild, Wet and Wacky.” This is a relay race where you run to a chair and sit on a water balloon until it pops. At a second chair, an egg is cracked on your head and at the last, flour is thrown on you.

Then you run back to the line! After the race, everyone takes a ride on a giant slip and slide. Everyone is screaming and it is something the campers have never done before. Each day is jam-packed with fun activities that you enjoy with your camper.

Worship time at night is sometimes difficult, as campers hit some tough topics in their lives, especially “forgiveness.”

Camp Hope has three divisions: Cornerstone Camp, Leadership Training Academy, and Interns4tommorrow. As they get older, campers have to be recommended to go to the next level. The first campers from 2000 are now in the summer internship program, navigating their way to a successful life. These kids want something different for themselves and it is inspiring to watch them grow. Little by little, Camp Hope is changing the trajectory of their lives!

Camp Hope opened in 2000 with just 18 campers, and it has grown to over 500 campers and volunteers. It has programs year-round to keep in touch, such as mentoring, field trips, retreats, a Christmas party and a new intern program. Statistics show that 82% of all children of inmates will end up in some sort of incarcerated state. There are approximately 48,000 men and women serving time in the Georgia state prison system alone – which does not include federal, county or city prison systems.

Just think of how many children this represents.

You can go to www.kids2leaders.org for more information about volunteering. I hope to see HIES students there with me next summer. Once you start going, it becomes a part of you and a must for your summer plans!

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FACULTY SURVEY What other jobs have you held besides teaching?

If you weren’t teaching, what would you be doing?

What do you suppose your high school teachers thought you’d be doing in 2009?

What is the most important attribute for a person to be a good teacher?

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FACULTY SURVEY What would be your “dream job” if you could choose any position in the world?

What is something you’ve never told your students about yourself?

Complete this sentence: My favorite thing about teaching is:

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FEATURE

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Take two.

The school is committed to the ideals of the Episcopal Church, which strives for peace and goodwill between all peoples.

Therefore, we give thanks to the two men who are perhaps more responsible than any for our school’s work here in Sandy Springs – Generals William Tecumseh Sherman and Dwight D. Eisenhower.

History is a funny thing. It can be recorded or understood in any number of ways. Depending on how we choose to interpret historical facts, though, different pictures of “truth” often emerge.

This year, Holy Innocents’ Episcopal School will celebrate its 50th Anniversary. But is the 2009-2010 school year actually our 50th? Well, yes and no – it depends on how we look at it. And do we really owe our existence as a school founded on the Christian principles of peace and goodwill to two military leaders? Again, yes and no. It depends.

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FEATURE The corner of Ponce de Leon Avenue and Juniper Street in 1872

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The year was 1872, less than a decade since the conflagration of Atlanta wrought by General Sherman and his army. The South’s economic situation remained dire and many families struggled to survive. The Rev. W.B. Elliott, Rector of St. Philip’s Episcopal Church, designated the church’s Easter offering to found a mission school for “the poor of the northern suburb,” who continued to suffer more than most the consequences of Sherman’s destruction.

Today, “northern suburbs” means Marietta, Dunwoody or Alpharetta. At the time, though, the suburbs included the corner of Ponce de Leon Avenue and Juniper Street, where Atlanta’s first Holy Innocents’ chapel/classroom was built.

Ponce de Leon and Juniper – the northern suburbs. You’ve got to love history.

In 1878, just six years after its construction, the small Holy Innocents’ mission was destroyed by a tornado. For the next six years, the mission’s work continued in a number of private homes, until Mrs. Richard Peters, who had provided the original parcel of land, donated a warehouse at West Peachtree and 16th Streets to serve as temporary quarters until a new chapel could be built at the corner of 16th and Spring Streets. In 1896, construction was completed, and for nearly sixty years, the small church and school flourished along with Atlanta itself.

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Holy Innocents’ Parish Day School opens with 72 students from Pre-K to 1st-grade.

Fidel Castro gains power in Cuba.

International treaty makes Antarctica a scientific preserve.

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Bay of Pigs invasion.

Cuban Missile Crisis.

Berlin wall built.

Marilyn Monroe found dead.

Soviet Yuri Gagarin is first man in space.

Johnny Carson debuts as host of The Tonight Show.

HIPDS builds first formal classrooms in Parish Hall.

Barbara Chambers is named Principal of HIPDS.

Television quiz shows found to be fixed.

On the following pages, we’ve highlighted the major milestones in our school’s history along with some of the events taking place in the world at the time.

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FEATURE

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So 1872 was the actual beginning of “a” Holy Innocents’ school. Why then, do we celebrate it’s “opening” in 1959? To find the answer to that, we need to take a quick detour to World War II in Europe.

As the allies closed in on Berlin, General

Eisenhower marveled at the German autobahn – the world’s first superhighway and the perfect road for rapid mobilization of military equipment and troops. The idea for an American system of superhighways, connecting cities and facilitating nationwide commerce (and military deployment), had originated in the 1920’s, but not until Eisenhower prioritized the system were the plans refined, funded and put in motion.

In 1954, the map for the Atlanta section of I-75 and I-85 took the highway right through – you guessed it – the corner of 16th and Spring Streets. The Holy Innocents’ mission and school would again be razed, this time, though, by bulldozers instead of tornadoes.

The spirit of Holy Innocents’ did not lie dormant for long, however. That November, the mission moved to a growing area of Metro Atlanta, Sandy Springs. For more than two years, under the leadership of The Reverend James Vaught, parishioners worshipped first in the Hammond Elementary school and then, as the group gained in size, Sandy Springs

High School.

In 1957, the land where Holy Innocents’ Episcopal Church now stands was purchased and the first church (now Parish Hall) was built. A new rector, The Reverend Hugh Saussy, arrived and continued to grow the parish. The next year, plans for a parish school were developed, to include children from three-years old through first-grade.

The doors of the new school opened on September 8, 1959.

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THE TURTLE RACE: A LOST TRADITION of the jockeys and then when you were ready to begin, the jockeys took their turtle and went to the center of the ring and the gun went off and let them loose and the winning turtle was the one who got over the line of the outside circle. The judges wore costumes and there was a prize given to the winning turtle and the winning jockey. And everyone had a wonderful time.

“Before the race began, Rusty would always tell the kids the story of the turtle: in order for the turtle to move and get somewhere, it has to stick its neck out. So the philosophy tied in that you have to stick your neck out to get somewhere.

“Unfortunately one year I got a phone call and a petition. This boy who was in secondgrade at the time, I’m sure with great instruc-

Mrs. Alice Malcolm remembers one of Holy Innocents’ early annual events: “The Turtle Race - that was another Rusty contribution. He used to take kids on a hike down to the river, and you’d be amazed at the artifacts they’d find from Indians and early settlers. This was part of what was called the Hightower trail. It was part of the march during the Civil War. And the kids just loved it.

“So each class would have a turtle – kids would find a turtle on their hikes with Rusty – and they would elect a jockey. Out yonder, on the edge of the athletic fields, they’d draw a big inner circle and another one on the outside of that. And all the kids and faculty stood outside of it.

“Before the race started, they had a parade

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U.S. sends 150,000 troops to Vietnam.

Star Trek debuts.

The Big Mac is introduced.

Kwanzaa is created by Ron “Maulana” Karenga.

Viet Cong launch Tet Offensive.

ARPANET, the precursor of today’s Internet, is created.

Elliott Galloway becomes Headmaster of HIPDS. 4th- and 5th-grades are added.

St. Louis Arch completed.

Malcolm X assassinated.

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New Pre-School facility is completed. 6th- and 7th-grades added.

Mao Zedong launches Cultural Revolution.

HIPDS is incorporated, Board of Trustees established. 9th-grade is added.

Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy are assassinated.

Dr. J. Russell “Rusty” Frank named Headmaster. 8th- and 9th-grades are dropped.

Neil Armstrong walks on the Moon.

Woodstock music festival.

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tion from his mother, brought the turtle race to an end. He said it was cruel, that we had disturbed the turtle from its natural habitat and his mother threatened to go to the TV stations and the SPCA and get it broadcast. Each year, the kids all took the turtles back out to the woods and turned them loose. But that was the end of the turtle race.

“So a couple of years ago, I was watching one of those nature shows on TV and they talked about this very topic – that a turtle could be transported from Africa to here and it would not die away because it was removed from its habitat, that it would adapt just fine.

Needless to say, I was a little late in hearing that.”

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Name is officially changed to Holy Innocents’ Episcopal School.

Four students killed by U.S. National Guard at Kent State University.

The Beatles break up.

Computer “floppy discs” created.

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Construction of library, art and music classrooms, science and reading labs for new Middle School, and new classrooms for 4th- and 5th-grades are completed.

Burglars are caught breaking into Democratic Party headquarters at the Watergate Complex.

Skylab is launched.

The "Six Million Dollar Man" debuts on TV.

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Delbert R. “Del” Coggins is named Headmaster.

Altair MITS 8800 debuts, world’s first personal computer.

Arthur Ashe is first black man to win Wimbledon.

Apollo-Soyuz test flight (US and Soviet spaceships dock together).

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Construction of Motor Activities Center (‘the MAC’) completed, bringing to an end HIES’s “Blueprint for a Decade” project.

Camp David peace treaty between Israel and Egypt.

First test-tube baby born in Britain.

Space Invaders video game developed by Taito in Japan.

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FEATURE

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That morning, 72 young faces entered the brand new Holy Innocents’ Parish Day School. The library drove up later in the afternoon – the Sandy Springs Bookmobile.

Throughout that first year, all parents were required to spend one day each week either teaching or helping run the school, a far cry from today’s voluntary parent organizations. Mrs. Alice Malcolm, who would later serve as Headmaster from 1983-96 and whose son Andrew was in that first group of students, remembers her stint as an inaugural school parent. “They made me the art teacher, because of my background,” says Mrs. Malcolm. “About a month later, they hired me to come one morning a week. I pushed a cart with paints and all the supplies from class to class.”

“The next year, second-grade was added,” says Mrs. Malcolm.

“And then third-grade – and I think the two classrooms going down the hall. Those were all the classrooms that existed for those first six years.”

The school, crammed into a few small rooms, short on staff and long on parent involvement, quickly gained a stellar reputation. “I think the one thing that has always set this school apart, from the very beginning, is the respect that we show to each other,” says Mrs. Janella Brand, former Principal of the Alan A. Lewis Pre-School who retired in 2008 after more than 30 years on campus. She heard glowing reports of HIES soon after she and her husband moved their young family to Atlanta. “The result is a respect that we instill in our students. I’ve certainly seen that in my own daughters, and I’m proud to have been a part of that,” says Mrs. Brand. “It’s intangible, and I think you have to experience it to appreciate it, but it’s very real.”

The school’s growing reputation, however, sometimes clashed with its lack of physical growth. “Mary Byrne was the first librarian,” says Mrs. Malcolm. “Mary was in the loft of the Parish Hall Building, where the choir sang. Bob Jones was the PE teacher and he would have indoor PE in Parish Hall while Mary was up there. Mary was very persnickety and the balls were flying up in the loft,” she says, laughing at the memory. “It was very different.”

Administrative areas also suffered from the school’s small scope.

“At that time, the admissions process was little more than lining up over in the parking lot – if you got there first, you got a number,” says Janella.

Mrs. Malcolm adds, “It got so bad that people actually came the evening before and spent the night in the car. The first one who got there passed out the numbers to the rest who came. I don’t think there was that much cheating but there was a lot of standing and waiting. I saw this one time in full motion, right after I became Dean of Students (in 1969), and I said ‘this has got to stop,’ and that’s when we started registering by mail and applying and all those things that come with a growing school.”

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MAC building renovated to provide additional classroom space. The Annual Fund is established.

Margaret Thatcher becomes Britain’s first woman Prime Minister.

Sony introduces the Walkman.

Nuclear accident at Three Mile Island.

Mrs. Alice Malcolm Early faculty pose for school photo

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Prince Charles marries Lady Diana Spencer.

Argentina invades Britain’s Falkland Islands.

Columbia, the first Space Shuttle, is launched.

The first artificial heart transplant is performed.

The HIV/AIDS virus is identified.

Michael Jackson’s Thriller album is released.

Eight acres of land purchased from Life of Georgia.

A 3.5 acre athletic field is completed.

Archaeologists uncover the original Globe Theatre in London.

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Alice Malcolm becomes Headmaster and Edward England Assistant Headmaster. A new Middle School and computer lab are completed.

Cabbage Patch Kids!

President Reagan announces Star Wars anti-missile defense plans.

Sally Ride is first American woman in space.

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THE BUILDING THAT ALMOST WASN’T

Mrs. Alice Malcolm remembers a pivotal moment in our school’s history: “Probably one of the most memorable events during my years as Headmaster was the acquisition of the Riley property adjacent to HIES in 1988. After much advice and lots of discussion, approval was made by the Board and approved by the Vestry to submit a bid. The sealed bid was sent to Fulton County. The countdown was on!

“Board member Frank Bishop and I met with Fulton County representatives and the opposing bidder – who was a developer and a parent at the school, which made matters a bit tense. The bids were opened and they were identical! Then there was a thirty minute recess for both parties to work out a new bid – then back to the table. You could have heard a pin drop.

“The new bids were opened and we won – by $100!”

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CDs outsell vinyl record albums for the first time.

Soviet Union breaks up when Mikhail Gorbachev resigns, and Boris Yeltsin becomes first freely elected president of the Russian Republic.

The Fine Arts Building is completed. HIES acquires the adjacent James L. Riley Elementary School building, along with 11 acres of land.

Terrorists cause a Pan Am jet to explode over Lockerbie, Scotland.

An Upper School is established, sharing the newly renovated Riley Building with the Middle School.

The “grunge” movement takes hold with the success of Nirvana’s “Nevermind.”

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New gymnasium for Middle and Upper Schools is completed.

South Africa adopts majority rule constitution.

U.S. Military implements “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy regarding sexual orientation among troops.

Intel introduces the Pentium microprocessor.

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A 3.3 acre parcel of land is acquired adjoining the Riley building.

The Campus Shop bookstore is built.

Nelson Mandela elected President of South Africa.

The “Chunnel” between England and France beneath the English Channel opens.

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FEATURE

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In 1965, Elliott Galloway became Headmaster and set out to grow the facilities of Holy Innocents’ Parish Day School. “Elliott was a character,” says Mrs. Malcolm. “He had taught Bible class at Westminster, where he was known as ‘The Commander’ because he would wear full Naval ‘dress whites.’

My oldest son was in his class and Elliott would say, ‘Now please boys, please don’t cheat!’ – and we thought that was funny that he’d be saying that in Bible class.”

“But under Elliott, we added sixth, seventh and eighth and even had ninth-grade in his fourth year here,” Mrs. Malcolm continues. “One of the constructions that Elliott did was the old Pre-School building and he bought a Quonset hut and he placed it on part of the athletic field. A young science teacher and I moved down there for our art and science classes and it’s a wonder I stayed because he bred and force fed roaches in a sandbox. I promise you this is the truth – you have never seen such big roaches in your life. Anyway, I gave Elliott a piece of the Quonset Hut when we tore it down and he had it cut up and framed.”

“Elliott was a dreamer,” according to Mrs. Malcolm. “He dreamed of having a high school, but since that was not in the cards at the time, he went down the road and founded his own.”

In 1969, Rusty Frank became Headmaster, cutting the grade levels back to Pre-K through sixth-grade. “We weren’t sure how many families would show up that fall, after the school became smaller again,” says Mrs. Malcolm, “but the groundwork was laid for its future.” Mr. Frank oversaw the school’s first Planned Growth study, as well as its first Capital Campaign, the development of the Middle School, the construction of an Administration building and two large classroom buildings, housing a library, art and music classrooms, science and reading labs for the new Middle School, and fourth- and fifthgrade classrooms.

Mrs. Malcolm served as interim Headmaster during the 1974-75 school year. “Two memories prevail,” she says. “One was being a bit afraid of the whole idea and the other is going through the accreditation process with the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS). Faculty and staff, as well as parents, put their hearts and souls into that undertaking and in April of ‘75, we were rewarded with the recommendation of full accreditation.”

Holy Innocents’ Episcopal School (the name had been changed in 1970) was now officially "on the map" as one of Atlanta’s premiere independent schools.

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First senior class graduates.

Sony PlayStation console is released.

Ebola Virus spreads in Zaire.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame opens in Cleveland.

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FBI arrests the “Unabomber.”

Madeleine Albright becomes first female U.S. Secretary of State.

“Dolly” the sheep is the first animal cloned from adult cells.

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The Alan A. Lewis Pre-School is dedicated. Lower School receives the “National Blue Ribbon School” award for excellence.

The Euro becomes the official currency of the European Union.

76 million Americans watch the last episode of Seinfeld.

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U.S. and coalition forces invade Iraq.

Arnold Schwarzenegger is elected Governor of California.

SST Concorde makes its final commercial flight.

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In 1975, the 26th year of the school’s operation, Mr. Del Coggins became its fifth Headmaster. Another Capital Campaign provided for the first gymnasium (the MAC building), more land was acquired and, much to the chagrin of some, a dress code was instituted – the forerunner of today’s uniforms.

Growth had become the norm for the school. To understand the true significance of this, though, one must again take an historical perspective.

When Mr. Coggins became Headmaster, the entire Metro Atlanta region was home to about one and a quarter million people. Today, the population is fast approaching six million. Back then, Buckhead was regarded as a northern suburb – Sandy Springs was the virtual “sticks.”

In other words, for Holy Innocents’ Episcopal School to have commanded citywide respect and admiration, not to mention everincreasing applications, its people must have created something rather extraordinary.

Mrs. Dorothy Sullivan, who retired in 2007 after 30 years (and one Lower School naming ceremony), remembers her first visit to campus in 1977. “My neighbor’s father was ill, and she taught here and asked if I would sub. I lived in Buckhead near Bobby Jones golf course, and I drove out here and kept going north and north and north… I thought I was in Chattanooga, that this was really nowhere. But I just fell in love with the place.”

That sentiment is a recurring theme at Holy Innocents’. You seem to hear it in virtually every conversation about someone’s first visit to our school. And during the second half of our 50 years, “the place” continuously offered more to love. Capital Campaigns brought construction cranes, expanding boundaries and increased classroom capacity. From 1979 to 2008, our campus witnessed the construction of two new gymnasiums, the Fine Arts Building, two new Middle School buildings, the Alan A. Lewis Pre-School, as well as the purchase of the Riley Building and more than 20 acres of land for facilities and athletic fields.

Mr. Galloway’s “dream” of an Upper School was finally realized in 1991, with the first HIES high school graduate receiving a diploma in May 1995.

Today, Holy Innocents’ enjoys a reputation as one of Atlanta’s finest independent schools. Fifty years of continuously strong leadership – from administrators, a host of outstanding principals, faculty and staff, as well as a supremely involved group of parents – has solidified that position.

One can’t help but wonder what The Rev. W.B. Elliott of St. Philip’s Episcopal Church in 1872 would make of it all. You can almost hear him say, “A laptop program?”

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Hurricane Katrina slams Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama coasts.

Prince Charles marries Camilla Parker Bowles.

Pope John Paul II dies.

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A pilot Laptop Program provides MacBooks for all 5th-, 8th- and 10th-graders.

The Mitchell Report on steroids in professional baseball is released.

Apple introduces the iPhone.

The final Harry Potter book is published.

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Janella Brand retires. The Laptop Program rolls out to include all students in grades 5-12. The Program for Global Citizenship is instituted.

Barack Obama becomes the first African-American elected as President of the United States.

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The TorchBearer Magazine you’re currently holding is published.

Michael Phelps wins 8 Olympic gold medals in Beijing.

Fidel Castro steps down as president of Cuba.

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Fifty years after opening in the sanctuary of Holy Innocents' Episcopal Church, our school now sits on 43 well-manicured acres, with separate Pre-School, Lower School, Middle School and Upper School facilities, a Fine Arts Building, two modern gymnasiums, business and administrative offices, and sprawling athletic fields and facilities.

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Any discussion of the remarkable leadership Holy Innocents’ has enjoyed during its first fifty years begins with Lillabel West. In the fall of 1959, along with her parish’s Rector, The Reverend Hugh Saussy, Ms. West helped launch the Holy Innocents’ Parish Day School as its “Director,” envisioning a place where young children could learn and grow in a safe and nurturing environment. To this day, our school remains on the educational path Ms. West and Reverend Saussy envisioned all those years ago.

According to Jenny West Schneider, Ms. West’s daughter, her mother did not have a background in education, though that certainly did not prevent her from laying a solid foundation for the school and establishing the sense of respect, engagement and acceptance we still enjoy today.

In 1962, the church hired Barbara Chambers, who possessed the credentials needed to bring the school into Atlanta’s independent school community. Ms. Chambers took the title of “Principal,” though her duties included all those we associate today with “Head of School.”

In 1965, the title of principal changed to Headmaster when Elliott Galloway replaced Ms. Chambers. It wasn’t until 2003, however, when Kirk Duncan accepted the position that the title changed to Head of School. The change was made, says Duncan, during the search to replace Dr. Sue Groesbeck, when the Board of Directors decided the title should sound more genderneutral.

The former Headmasters often reminisce about their time at Holy Innocents’, and what resurfaces are fond – and sometimes funny – memories of people and events. When most of them started out in their roles, they probably never imagined a school with laptop or global citizenship programs or rooms equipped with interactive Promethian boards. One thing is for certain, though: they all believe Holy Innocents’ will continue to play an important role in education well into the future.

“The people involved with Holy Innocents’ have always thought ahead, and I think they will continue to do that and continue to provide the best educational opportunities for those students,” says former Headmaster Del Coggins.

Here’s a look at the eight Heads of School who have made Holy Innocents’ what it is today:

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Lillabel West

Barbara Chambers

Elliott Galloway

Rusty Frank

Years as Headmaster: 1959-1962 Birthplace: Atlanta, Georgia Residence: Norcross, Georgia Family: Husband, William “Pete” West; four children, Susan, Jenny, Pete, Jr., and Patrick; six grandchildren Before she was an HI Headmaster: Stay-at-home mom Major changes during Headmaster years: A committee of HIEC Vestry was founded in order to oversee the operation of the school. Second- and thirdgrades were added in 1960 and 1961, respectively.

Golden Memories: Her daughter, Jenny West Schneider, says her mother was all about kids and it showed. Ms. West originally wanted only to start a nursery school, and with help and advice from the Reverend Hugh Saussy, Holy Innocents’ Parish Day School opened its doors. Schneider, a member of the school’s first first-, second- and third-grade classes, says she does not think her mother foresaw such remarkable success for Holy Innocents’. “Over the years, she was so proud of how the school grew and what it turned into,” she says. “Personally, I really enjoyed going to school there, and I thought it was pretty cool that my mom was director.”

Years as Headmaster: 1962-1965 Birthplace: California Family: At the time she moved to Georgia, she had an eight-year old daughter, Catherine Anne Chambers. No recent updates have been found.

Before she was an HI Headmaster: Career educator in California, including 11 years in elementary school administration.

Served as Principal of Franklin Elementary School in Burbank at the time she accepted the position at Holy Innocents’. She was especially interested in science and sponsored science clubs throughout her career. She coached a championship baseball team, the girl’s drill team and worked with the Little Theater Group at Kenmore Elementary in Covina, CA, had an honorary Life Membership in the California PTA, served as an arts and crafts counselor at the YWCA in Pasadena, and was an active member of the Honorary Elementary Sorority, Pi Lambda Theta.

She was also president of the Assistance League Association of Santa Paula.

Major changes during Headmaster years: Initiated a non-graded approach to education, and the school’s pattern of growth emerged, with the construction of the first two formal classrooms.

Golden Opportunity: “It is a real pleasure to be in Georgia,” she said after accepting the position at HIES. “I truly enjoy the people I have met here and at the Holy Innocents’ Parish. I am looking forward to a happy year for all of us, especially the children at the Parish School.”

Years as Headmaster: 1965-1969 Birthplace: Wilson, North Carolina Residence: Atlanta, Georgia Family: Wife, Katherine Warren; four children and eight grandchildren Before he was an HI Headmaster: After a career in the U.S. Navy, he taught English at Westminster where he also served as a middle school principal and guidance counselor.

Major changes during Headmaster years: In 1965, HI added fourth- and fifth-grades, with sixth- and seventh-grades following the next year and eighthand ninth-grades in 1967, along with the completion of a new pre-school facility. In 1968, the school became incorporated and established a Board of Trustees.

Golden Memories: “A child should assume the responsibility for his or her own education,” was one of the educational beliefs Mr. Galloway put into practice at HIES, says his son, Jeff. By the time Mr. Galloway left to found The Galloway School in 1969, his beliefs had been established and integrated throughout HI – in both the school’s mission and curriculum. Jeff says his father had a wonderful working relationship and friendship with Saussy, and that made his time at HIES very special.

Years as Headmaster: 1969-1974. Just 29 years old when he accepted the position, he was the school's youngest-ever Headmaster.

Birthplace: Davao, Philippines Residence: Montreat, NC Family: Wife, Peggy Ann; three children, Cheairs, Susan and Margaret; five grandchildren. His oldest two children attended pre-school at HIES. Where he is now: Currently writing a book about his family's ties to the Philippines, where they owned transportation and electric utility companies which were destroyed during World War II. Before he was an HI Headmaster: He was an education programs consultant for the GA Department of Education and completing his Ph.D. at Georgia State University.

Major changes during Headmaster years: Upon Galloway’s leaving (with a number of HI families following him to The Galloway School), grade-levels were temporarily cut back to Pre-K through 6th. The school enrolled its first African-American students in 1969. In 1970, the school's name officially changed to Holy Innocents' Episcopal School and both enrollment and capacity expanded to three classes per grade. A successful capital campaign in 1974 led to a new Middle School and construction of the Lower School building. HIES’s first athletic teams began interscholastic play.

Golden Memories: In 1969, Mr. Frank initiated The Great Turtle Race, which would continue for 25 years as one of HIES’s most famous traditions. “I consider that a great accomplishment,” he says with a laugh. Mr. Frank especially remembers children swarming around him during Pre-School visits. “That was just so warm and fuzzy. I would think, ‘This is where I need to be in this school.’”

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Del Coggins

Alice Malcolm

Sue Groesbeck

Kirk Duncan

Years as Headmaster: 1975-1983 Birthplace: Tallapoosa, Georgia Residence: Tunica, Mississippi Family: Wife, Anne; two sons, Jon, and David, who both went to Holy Innocents’; Jon’s wife, Pam; two grandchildren, Calli and Addi Where he is now: Mr. Coggins retired in 2006 after working at the Batesville Job Corps Center for several years. He enjoys reading, studying, working in the yard and being an active member of Epiphany Episcopal Church.

Before he was an HI Headmaster: Headmaster at Grace Saint Luke’s Episcopal School in Memphis.

Major changes during Headmaster years: The school’s first playing field was added. The Motor Activities Center (the first gymnasium), which included art and music on the upper level, was also built. HIES established a summer program and an extended day program. The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools approved the school’s accreditation after the process had begun during Rusty Frank’s tenure.

Golden Memories: Mr. Coggins says he remembers the faculty and students playing against each other in softball, the “truly outstanding” chapel services and the faculty’s get-together at the end of each school year. He also remembers frequently visiting the library and interacting with teachers in their classrooms. “The teachers were always well prepared and very creative, always coming up with different ways to motivate the students. And the students always seemed enthusiastic when you visited them,” he says. “It truly was a remarkable time in my life and career. I was surrounded by strong, supportive people.”

Years as Headmaster: Interim Headmaster during the 1974-75 school year. Headmaster, 1983-1996 Birthplace: Atlanta, Georgia Residence: Atlanta, Georgia Family: Husband, Owen; three sons, Pete, Andrew, and Geoffrey; and five grandchildren, Carole ‘09, Geoff ‘06, and HIES third-grade triplets, Owen, Libby and Kent Where she is now: She still calls Atlanta home, though she spends about five months each year in Florida. She enjoys gardening and spending time with her family and friends.

Before she was an HI Headmaster: Her son Andy was a Pre-School student in 1959, when parents were required to help one day each week. She soon found herself teaching art and her goal of a career in landscape architecture shifted to education. “It certainly was not planned. I never intended to teach school in my life,” she says.

Major changes during Headmaster years: HIES bought the Riley School property, the House and the land for Baker Field and the main gym. Plans for a Pre-School building were developed. In 1991, HIES established the Upper School, with the first senior class graduating in 1995.

Golden Memories: She says she savored her time as Headmaster, bearing witness to the growth of the HI campus and construction of new facilities. “I think everyone felt that the school was a great place for children, and the people who worked here felt that they were respected. It's a very warm, caring place,” she says. “The school has a prominent reputation in the independent school community, not only in Atlanta, but also nationwide.”

Years as Headmaster: 1996-2003 Birthplace: Martinsville, Virginia Residence: Toronto, Canada Family: Husband, Mark; children, Alicia and Sam Sibley and grandson, Mason; Christina '01 Where she is now: Head of School at Havergal College in Toronto Before she was an HI Headmaster: Head of Upper School at The Harley School in Rochester, New York.

Major changes during Headmaster years: Computer technology expanded rapidly on campus and the school designed its first website. Foreign language studies expanded to Lower School, and HIES established ties with Asihigaoka High School in Sapporo, Japan. Capital campaigns raised funds for the Pre-School building, Groesbeck Hall – named after Dr. Sue – and Curtis Library. The athletics department added lacrosse and football programs.

Golden Memories: In 2001, her daughter Christina graduated HIES, one of Dr. Groesbeck's proudest moments. Her fondest memories include drama and music productions, chapel services, athletic events, her administrative colleagues, and welcoming President Clinton and Archbishop Desmond Tutu to campus. “It was a time of real transition, so it was busy,” she says. “I enjoy watching HIES blossom, and it is now such a magnificent school. The graduates, themselves, demonstrate that the education provided at Holy Innocents’ is extraordinary.”

Years as Head of School: 2003-Present Birthplace: Pasadena, California Residence: Atlanta, Georgia Family: Wife, Elizabeth “Lizzie;” children, Emily, 22, and Tyler, 13 Before he was an HI Headmaster: For 18 years, he worked at Campbell Hall Episcopal School in Los Angeles, California. From 1996 to 2003, he was Campbell Hall’s Associate Head of School.

Major changes during Headmaster years: The school established a new Mission Statement and Statement Of Philosophy. The Living Our Mission campaign, the largest in the school's history, allowed for the purchase of the South Campus fields, construction of the Fred Rowan Family Middle School, Gymnasium expansion and the South Campus tunnel. The Laptop Program was established. A significant number of curricular choices were added, and HIES developed relations with Episcopal schools and churches in Haiti, and a second sister-school in Briey, France.

Golden Memories: Mr. Duncan cherishes his HIES memories, especially a number of enlightening trips to Haiti, the school's dedication of the Fred Rowan Family Middle School, Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin’s visit, the chapel service with Paul Rusesabagina, a Rwandan who saved more than 1,200 lives during his country’s tragic genocide, and standing in the Pre-School carpool line. “It’s been extremely satisfying coming to work every day. It’s just a great place to be,” he says. “I think I came along at a time that the school was ready for growth and change and because of our great faculty and Board, we’ve been able to accomplish a lot.”

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FEATURE

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36 | TORCHBEARER FALL 2009

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FEATURE Tubuft!gspn!pvutjef/!Uifz!fyqmpsf!puifs!ijtupsjft!boe!puifs!dvmuvsft-!boe! uibu!pomz!nblft!uifn!cfuufs!tfswfe!podf!uifz!mfbwf!pvs!dbnqvt/ !!!!ÓB!ivoesfe!zfbst!bhp-Ô!Ns/!Lbjtfs!fyqmbjot-!Ótdippmt!xfsf!qsfqbsjoh! ljet!up!xpsl!ofbs!ipnf!jo!bo!bhsjdvmuvsbm!tpdjfuz/!Gjguz!zfbst!bhp-!ju!xbt! bo!joevtusjbm!tpdjfuz!boe!ljet!xfsf!cfjoh!qsfqbsfe!gps!joevtusz!ps!pgßdf! kpct/!Upebz!xfÖsf!qsfqbsjoh!pvs!ljet!up!mjwf!jo!b!ejhjubm!fdpopnz!jo!b! hmpcbm!jogpsnbujpo!bhf/!Tp!uif!voefstuboejoh!pg!uif!xpsme!bspvoe!vt!jt! lfz/Ô !!!!ÓJÖn!opu!tvsf-Ô!Ns/!Lbjtfs!dpoujovft-!Óuibu!36!ps!61!zfbst!bhp-!ufbdifst! xfsf!uijoljoh!upp!nvdi!bcpvu!ipx!ljet!bsf!hpjoh!up!sfmbuf!up!qfpqmf!jo!

Christine Huff and Kate Borden

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Jack Maxman and Carter McBride

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Mackenzie Sawicki and Lauren Seiple

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Theresa Jespersen explains a modern educational theory and how today’s best teachers keep all types of students involved and interested: “You have to be somebody who can teach a portfolio of projects and lessons and approaches for the same material. You look at your high-driving, good-writing, totally concentrated kids and say ‘Write me an essay on the long-term effects of the Thirty Years’ War.’ And then you look at someone who is not such a good writer and needs time to collate ideas and organize herself and say, ‘You are going to write me a detailed outline of the long-term effects of the Thirty Years’ War.’ But they’re not actually going to write the essay necessarily; they’re going to go through it so they’ll still study the material and look at the same stuff but the product will be a little different. Both of them, though, will get what you want.

“Then you look at your third student, the person who might be a bit off the wall, and maybe you’re trying to recruit this person to be interested in what you’re doing.

To her you say, ‘Okay, the Thirty Years’ War lasted from 1618-1648 and at the end of that time, there were these long-term effects in Germany and in France and in Spain – come up with a soundtrack for each of those regions and explain why that song is going to apply to this situation.’ So all three kids are working on the same material, but their work is going to be vastly different.

“But you have to be able to let go and move among the three. And you don’t do the same thing every time – the next time you make all of them write, or you say to the kid in the middle, ‘next time I want you to write this as an essay.’ And you say to the writing kid, ‘next time I want you to try something different – I want you to do a presentation.’

“You have to know them, understand them, know who’s walking in the door. And you have to care about them. Friends of mine in other schools get classes of 35 and 40 kids; they’re just warehousing them. What I want for my own children is for their teachers to know them and to care about them as human beings and to see them develop and succeed. “

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The History of Holy Innocents’

ATHLETICS

As far as I know, the sports program at Holy Innocents’ Episcopal School started in the fall of 1970. Although the school started in 1959, there were only 72 very young children enrolled. When Elliott Galloway served as headmaster, he expanded the school through the ninth grade, but to my knowledge, the upper classes were very small and there is no known record of any sports or sports teams or events during these years.

When Elliott left in 1969, John Russell Frank (“Rusty”) was hired. Rusty came with a background in athletics. He had been a gymnast at Druid Hills High School in Atlanta, started the gymnastics program at Avondale High School, was instrumental in beginning a county-wide gymnastics program, and was the head coach of gymnastics at Furman University in Greenville, SC. One of Rusty’s first hires was a young man named Robert S. ‘Bob’ Jones. Bob had played high school football and baseball and was involved in intramurals at Oglethorpe University.

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to pay for his teachers' salaries. The problem was that when Elliott went down the street to start the Galloway School , he took with him a large number of students, especially the older ones. Rusty remembers that he actually had to go to a bank downtown and borrow the money he needed to pay his December payroll. Then in January, these fiscal problems were solved by an unusual stroke of “fortune.” Due to the national political issue of racial equality in education, many public school teachers in Georgia

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were asked to transfer to other schools. As a result, a lot of parents looked toward private schools and suddenly the enrollment at Holy Innocents’ began to increase.

In 1970, Rusty hired me to teach the seventh grade. I came with a vast athletic background.

I had lettered in five sports at Druid Hills High School, had gone to Furman University on a track and gymnastics scholarship, and had been named most outstanding athlete at both schools.

With about 60 students in the upper elementary school (4th, 5th, 6th, & 7th grades), Rusty decided it was time to start sports. At the beginning of the 1970-71 school year, Rusty called in Bob Jones and told him that he was the new (actually, the first) athletic director of the school. Bob wanted to have an afternoon athletic program open to all older students.

The problem was that we had only a small, outdoor slab of asphalt (later to become a minibasketball court), and a small grassy court yard to play on. Our indoor facility was the Parish Hall. Our first program was called “Afternoon Athletics.”

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Chaotic Sanctuary

The idea of the program was quite simple.

Bob and I invited as many older students as we could get to come out after school and play.

First we had to choose up a couple of captains, and then the captains chose who they wanted to play on their teams, and finally each team came up with a name. We played two or three times a week. Each week, Bob and I traded off on the activities that we would play. One week I was in charge of thinking up games, and the next week it would be Bob’s turn. In addition to thinking up games, we also determined how many points could be earned by the teams that won the contests. We kept records of the points earned during the year and at the end of the year we declared an overall winner.

At first the games were easy. We played hide and seek, kick the can, capture the flag, red rover, and other standard children’s games.

However, as the weeks rolled by, the demand for new and more creative contests became a real challenge for us. We were limited because of space and the kids were getting tired of the same old games. So Bob and I sort of got into a competition with each other to see who could come up with the wildest and craziest games.

The number of games that we played were too numerous to mention but two in particular were not only crazy, but extremely dangerous, as well.

One of our games we called “massacre.”

One team would run up and down the asphalt court and the other team would stand along the side with little red rubber balls in their hands hidden behind their backs. As runners would come by, the “throwers” would launch the balls at the runners and try to knock them out of the

competition. This contest was fierce and so had to be abandoned due to a few “head shots” that were supposed to be illegal but happened all the time anyway.

The other game of interest was called “bombs away.” This was played in the Parish Hall. One team would hide up in the old loft area with those same rubber balls, and the other team would be down on the carpet underneath. The idea was to hit one of the ground players with Rogers Matthews

a ball but not to let him or her catch it, which would eliminate the thrower. Incidentally, some of the most competitive games in the history of the school were played in that Parish Hall room in the form of classic “battle ball.” In those days Parish Hall was used for just about everything.

Years later, Alice Malcolm remembers that the librarian, Mary Byrne, wanted to use the loft area for additional library books. The idea was abandoned later because those rubber balls kept flying around and were knocking all the books off the shelves.

Oh yes, and I almost forgot to mention that when we couldn’t get into Parish Hall, we would use the room under the school that is now the office of the plant manager. We put down old mats and had wrestling matches. We also had a game called “London After Dark.” It is sort of like capture the flag except that everyone is on their hands and knees and all the lights are turned off.

Between A Whole Bunch Of Rocks And A Hard Place The following year, Rusty decided to build a playing field. The woods were plowed down east of the campus and a huge dirt field was installed. This area is now mostly the driveway to the Middle School and the Fine Arts Building. The field was big and the field was level, but there were too many major problems: one, there was no grass and two; there were millions of rocks everywhere. The rocks were a constant nuisance. Rusty, Rogers Matthews (head custodian and chief caretaker of everything at the school), teachers, students, and anybody that walked on or near that field were expected to TORCHBEARER FALL 2009 | 41

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The first athletic field under construction

But hey, a field was a field, and in 1971 we decided that we needed a soccer team. Although neither Bob nor I knew anything about soccer, we started a team anyway. We rounded up as many players as we could get, bought uniforms, organized a cheerleading team, and got started.

Devils, Eagles And Bears, Oh My! One of the first things that Bob wanted to do was to create a mascot name for our team and our school. In 1970, the name of the school had been changed to Holy Innocents’ Episcopal School, but we had no name for our athletic teams. Bob decided that it would be a clever, creative, and interesting twist on words to call ourselves the Holy Innocents’ “Blue Devils.” Bob took his idea to Rusty Frank and Rusty remembers going to Bob Oliver, the Parish Rector of the church and the chairman of the Board of Trustees. Bob told Rusty that it was an unusual request, that he would have to think and pray about it, but would have an answer pick up as many rocks as possible and throw them off to the side. This went on, it seems, for years. As for the grass, well, it got seeded (not sure how…. probably Rogers) but then it didn’t grow because we were in a drought and it never rained. I can remember Rusty telling me that what we needed to do was to go up to the Sandy Springs Fire Department and ask them if they needed to practice, then they could come over to Holy Innocents’ and practice their squirting techniques on our field. I can’t remember if we ever did that but the point is that we were desperate for water. Somehow we finally got a little bit to grow but the school year was in full swing and the teachers wanted to know, since we had such a great field, why they couldn’t use it? Rusty finally broke down and told the teachers it was ok to use the field, but to use it sparsely. Naturally, the kids trampled all over the little grass that we had and the field never did get any real grass.

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Field Day – note the PVC soccer goals

for him the next day. The next day came and Reverend Oliver told Rusty that the name was ok. Thus we became the “Blue Devils” and that name survived for a few years before we became “The Eagles,” later to become the “Golden Bears,” as we presently are.

As for our soccer team, Bob remembers building the goals out of plastic pipes that he scrounged up somewhere. Rogers probably lined the field (I don’t remember) and we were ready to play. For opponents, we just called around and asked any and everybody if they wanted to play. I can’t remember who it was that we played that year because everybody we played beat us badly. Bob and I didn’t even know all the rules to the game and we had players who were still trying to kick the ball with their toes.

I can still remember Bob telling the kids, “Whoever toes it, blows it.” We did have positions but rarely did the kids stay where they were supposed to be. I remember one student in particular. His name was Jon Hayden.

Jon was a terrific athlete so we told him that it was his job to chase the ball all over the field no matter where it went.

Another problem was that we couldn’t find anybody to help us referee the games. So who do you think stepped up to help? Our Headmaster himself, Rusty Frank. So I guess that I can say that the first athletic competition at Holy Innocents’ was in soccer on a rock-ridden, grassless field with homemade goal posts, two coaches that didn’t know what they were doing, and a referee who didn’t have a clue as to what was going on. But, and I do mean but, what was really going on was that we all had a great time... and that was the most important thing.

Ladies And Gentlemen, Start Your Turtles The addition of the first athletic field opened up a lot of new and interesting activities. One of the major events became known as “The Great Turtle Race.” Inspired by Headmaster Frank, the idea was that a turtle basically stays in his shell for protection… “Hides his head” as Rusty might have said. Occasionally, a brave turtle will venture out, take a chance and progress along a path that will ultimately lead to success and greater rewards. The contest worked like this: in the fall, each class would find a turtle and take care of it. On the field, a small circle was outlined in lime. Another larger circle was built around the smaller circle, about twenty or thirty feet outside it. Each class would then elect

a “jockey.” The jockey would dress up in a costume and carry the turtle to the inner circle. As the race began, each jockey released their turtle from inside the circle and the first turtle to reach the outside circle was declared the winner. A prize was given to the winning class and another prize was awarded to the jockey with the best and most unusual costume.

This event became the cornerstone of excitement for the entire school for years and years. There were many stories and rumors that surrounded that race each year. Some said that a few turtles were “juiced” or illegally trained. I was accused of putting a pin in my turtle’s rear end just before the race. Truth is, that I never really had a turtle until the last minute. I used to put out a “turtle box” in my classroom but wouldn’t let anyone near it. I told everybody that the turtle was in training and he needed to be left alone. In fact, the only year that I ever won the race was the day I was driving to work and saw a turtle on the side of the road. I stopped, picked it up, took it to school and won the whole race in a landslide!

The new athletic The Turtle Race field also improved the “Afternoon Athletics” program that Bob and I had started. In addition to games such as Frisbee Soccer and Tackle The Man With The Ball ( a violent version of Keep Away), Bob and I started the first football team in the school’s history. Of course it was all voluntary and intramural, but we banged and butted heads as well as any other teams. One of our players was named Eddie Fortier, who later went on to play football at Georgia Tech.

In 1972, our soccer team got a lot better. We had great looking uniforms, a decent field, our coaches knew what they were doing and we had the cutest cheerleaders in the world. We still were not part of any league, but were playing the likes of Pace, Galloway, Trinity, and Brandon Hall.

My most cherished memory of all our early soccer years was the game that we played at Brandon Hall. As I remember, the score was close. Late in the game we had a direct penalty kick on their goal. Coach Jones noticed that some of our players were illegally in the box (kicking zone), so he started yelling at them to get out of the box. The Brandon Hall goalie heard Coach Jones yelling, so he quickly just… got out of the box. He literally left the field leaving an unguarded goal! Naturally, we kicked in the freebee and won the game by a small margin.

Little Tumblers Also in 1972, I was eager to start a gymnastics program. Since Parish Hall was always busy, and since there was no other indoor facility, I started a tumbling team in the grassy area between Parish Hall and the Church. I borrowed an old beat up mini-trampoline that had originally been bought by Rusty Frank, dug up mats that I had acquired over the years and started teaching interested students how to flip and tumble. We built pyramids, walked on our hands, and generally had a great time.

The time between 1972 and 1975 is fuzzy at best to me, but 1975 was a very important time for our school. Alice Malcolm had been hired as the interim Headmaster the year before and Del R. Coggins became the new Headmaster in 1975. Bob Jones had moved on but Alice and Del made two significant hires, Barbara Wyle and David Ward. Barbara came with a huge background in gymnastics. She had been a gymnast and a cheerTORCHBEARER FALL 2009 | 43

FEATURE Coaches Bobby Fay and Michael Bonner with the first HIES gymnastics squad

leader at the University of Georgia, and was a perfect fit for me since I also had an extensive background in gymnastics. David came from Ocean Springs, Mississippi and was to work with me in the Afternoon Athletics program.

David was a true “people” person….. everyone that knew him just instantly fell in love with him.

David and I continued the tradition of the afternoon program, but with David around, everything had to be “bigger than life.” Our team selection process became an all out “draft” of potential athletes. We scouted players and had a giant draft board where we selected the players we wanted, assigned team captains and chose colors for our team. Our competition was fierce. We expanded the games into the woods behind the school and played a game called “War in the Woods.” Basically one team with those same little red (hard) balls would chase the other team all through the woods to “seek and destroy.” We had kids that would climb up trees and then couldn’t get down, and we even lost a little girl (one Patsy Conn… now a proud mother with children at our school) until she finally was found wandering around the Jewish church about a quarter of a mile away. The game eventually became “Kill the Coaches,” but I will leave that story for another day.

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our afternoon program, but he got the faculty going as well. He got Del and me involved with the Holy Innocents’ Church softball team that played across the street at the Baptist church.

He started a foosball tournament with Paul Lange, David Simpson and myself. We played in that same old room that is now the office of the plant manager nowadays. Fierce is not even close to the word that would describe that competition. He also helped organize an annual softball game between the faculty and the staff.

Now those games were a real “hoot.” How could I ever forget watching Alice Malcolm swinging a “hot” bat that never got close to the ball; or better yet, one of our beloved teachers here, still with us after many, many years……

Headmaster Alice Malcolm swings for the fences

swinging the bat, hitting the ball cleanly, and then running full speed ahead toward third base! Now I know she would be embarrassed if I told you her name, but, oh, who cares?... it was our own Janet Silvera.

Congratulations, it’s a MAC For athletics, the year 1978 brought us a priceless addition to our campus. That was the year we all moved into the brand new gymnasium, appropriately called the Motor Activities Center, or MAC for short, even though all the teachers and students still called it the new gym.

Just like that, we finally had an indoor athletic facility and of course, basketball.

David Ward remembers coaching one of the first basketball teams. He remembers coaching the 8th grade team in ’78 and ’79. Despite the fact that Del Coggins told him there would be “no cuts,” David remembers his teams did very well. One year they went 8-4 and had a huge banquet to celebrate the season. Father Perry Scruggs coached the first 7th grade team.

Barbara Wyle remembers that the girls teams started a year or two after the boys teams. She remembers especially the ’82-’83 season when she had an outstanding year with one of her star players being none other than Heather Stewart, now a teacher at our school. From there, the teams and coaching changes become very

FEATURE really a gymnastics show for the ages. The show was choreographed and set to music from the movie “Rocky.” We raised some money and bought some of the most beautiful leotards (for the girls) that you can imagine. I talked Michael Bonner (one of my favorite students) into helping me with

difficult to trace. Names like Bill Peterson, Brent Deason, Laurie Vines, Rick Hughes come to mind… the list goes on and on and I think I will leave it up to better minds to sort it all out.

Back to Barbara… you will remember that she had a background in gymnastics and so Architectural drawing of the MAC

The “Wall of Fire” – no longer attempted at HIES, for some reason

remember begging and pleading with Del that did I. We had a brand new gym but there was what we really needed was a trampoline, but he no equipment except some basketball goals and would not give in. I showed him statistics where a rolling cart filled with basketballs. Nobody more people were injured on the mini-tramp remembers how Barbara and I did it, but than on the big trampoline (then called the somehow we convinced Del Coggins that what “Goliath”). He still said no and thus we never we needed was some gymnastics equipment. bought one.

We wanted to start gymnastics and equipment Being in the early stages of development (it was very expensive. Anyway, we managed to takes years to develop a competitive program), fill the MAC building with a complete set of we never put together a team that would or gymnastics equipment for both boys and girls. could compete with other schools. We were We had tumbling mats, huge safety mats, my still years away from that but I had an “itch” old mini-tramp (that I had inherited from Rusty that really needed to be scratched. So in 1982 Frank), a balance beam, parallel bars (also used I put together a gymnastics exhibition that was as uneven bars for the girls), a side horse (also used as a vaulting horse), a climbing rope, Bobby and Ann Fay’s son, BJ, on the mini-tramp still rings, and a high bar.

For the next four years, Barbara and I took on all comers and we started to build a gymnastics program. I did mostly tumbling and mini-tramp and Barbara did mostly the balance beam and the uneven bars. I can

the logistics, and we were on our way! The participants ranged from grades 2 to 8, and they did it all. They dove over and under each other, handspringed and flipped, and we even had a clown act that I participated in myself. The finale of the show was a daring, death-defying dive through a wall of fire… and I do mean real fire. When Del Coggins saw the fire stunt, he quickly informed me that it had to be cancelled from the show. Once again I begged and pleaded but with no success. Fortunately, our show was such a big hit, that we took it on the road (so to speak). We performed at a number of schools around our area and, of course, the wall of fire mysteriously found its way back into the program.

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Barbara Wyle

show business.

Barbara and I kept up the classes until she moved on and left the school in 1984. I became sidetracked (obsessed is a better word) with baseball because my son became involved with the Chastain Baseball program and I had become a coach. With Barbara gone and my loss of interest in gymnastics, the entire program simply vanished into hyperspace.

Randi Aton and Lucy Bornholm came in to run the show at the MAC and as I can remember, the gymnastics equipment sort of got in the way in the already overcrowded storage room.

Another thing that most people don’t realize is that gymnastics and basketball cannot exist in the same area. The problem is “chalk dust.”

All gymnasts put a chalky substance (actually magnesium carbonate) on their hands so that they will not slip off of the apparatus they are working on. The dust from this chalk gets onto the floor and causes basketball players to slip and slide all over the place. With the facility that Holy Innocents’ had in place at the time, even an experienced replacement for Barbara would have had great difficulty putting together a competitive team.

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1988, the Upper School was approved in 1989, and in June of 1991, Alice hired Buster Brown to become the new Athletic Director of the school. Buster remembers that he just stumbled into the job. Apparently, he was just visiting the school to talk to the current director, Rick Hughes, about enlisting interested students in a basketball camp that he was involved with.

Rick casually mentioned that he was going back to Westminster the following year and that the job of AD would be open. Buster took the hint, applied for the job and got it.

At the beginning of the school year in 1991, Buster came to me and asked if I would be interested in starting a baseball program. I had played only two years in high school, had been Bobby Fay with James Capo

successfully coaching at Chastain for nine years, and loved the game, but was not so sure about considering his offer. I expressed my doubts, but he told me that all would be ok. He told me that there was a new teacher coming in by the name of Brad Kolowich. Buster told me Brad had an extensive baseball background and that he would be my assistant that first year and

FEATURE everything would work out fine. He also told me to go buy a copy of Ron Polks’ book on how to coach baseball and that seemed to satisfy me for the moment.

With that, I eagerly accepted the job and it was not until a little later that I realized we had no field to practice on, no facilities, no uniforms, no equipment, no nothing! In the months to come, somehow Brad and I struggled through that first, miserable season. Thank God, nobody kept a record of our games because we were playing a junior varsity schedule with only a few ninth grade leaders and we got hammered and hammered again.

For practice, we took infield on the tiny softball field across the street at the Baptist Church. For pitching, we had a portable mound set up in the MAC building… balls flying all over the place and our catchers all had sore and wounded HIES Athletics in 2009 – we’ve come a long way knees. For outfield work, we sometimes got the luxury of using the soccer field for the long ball, but mostly it was just small pop flies at the Baptist church. For hitting, we had a real plus. We were allowed to put up a batting cage just behind the MAC building and we installed a pitching machine to throw the balls. The only problem was that the cage was built right next to a hill that had a 25-foot drop off, straight down. Of course we played all our games away, and it didn’t help that I quickly found out I really knew nothing about baseball. I will never forget that we were getting slaughtered by GAC on a very cold day. I only had one pitcher, a tremendous athlete named Marshall Tyler, but he was getting tired and was really struggling. His mother came up to me and asked me what was the pitch count for her son. I can’t remember what I told her but I remember thinking… what in the world is a pitch count?

The next year was a different story altogether. We were still playing a junior leaders. Brad wanted me to help but there was varsity schedule but we were playing a need for a junior varsity coach and by then I with experienced players that went all the way wanted my own team, so I took the JV position. to the 10th-grade. Thankfully, Brad had taken As I remember, the varsity got killed that year over as the head coach (me being the happy asbut my team went 7-5 and boy did we have a sistant), and we literally blew every team out of great time. My assistant at that time was John the water. We went undefeated and won the JV Megal, and John and I had so much in common tournament at GAC to boot. A perfect record of 11-0 and I still believe (although often disputed) it was uncanny. John became my best friend and to this day if I need a new car, I travel all that we were the first team in the history of the the way to his dealership in Dawsonville to get school not to lose a game the entire season. what I need. The good news that year was that In the 1994-95 season, Brad played the after months of promises, the school finally first varsity schedule with only juniors as our The article above was written during the summer of 2009. I do not claim to have every detail absolutely correct as to stories, names, dates, places and events. I did the very best that I could with the information that I received from the loyal people listed below, and from my own

built us a true baseball field.

I continued to coach JV until 1999.

I worked with some great people: Joel Foster, Ron Chrisner, and Randy Akin to name only a few.

In the ‘95-’96 season, Coach Kolowich was replaced by Tony Boyd.

Again, I had an offer to move up to the varsity level. Tony was a real baseball man from the word go. He taught me things about the game that I never knew existed. I used to tease him by reading something obscure from my Ron Polk book (and the many other books and films that I had acquired).

I would ask him what he would do in certain baseball situations and he would always answer correctly. He was the best of the best and I enjoyed working with him immensely. The problem was that I was a born competitor and I still wanted my own team.

Tony began to expand the program by scheduling games with Florida teams during our spring break. He brought in batting cages, put in practice pitching mounds, started playing summer baseball and he wanted a fall ball team, as well. I thought I was mad about baseball but I had never seen anybody as obsessed with the game as he was.

Hanging Up The Spikes Eventually I burned out after the 1999 season. We had a tremendous year with gobs of talented players moving up to the varsity and I figured that I had had my day in the sun. I was tired of the changes going on with my teaching job at the school so at the end of the 1991 school year I decided to “pass off into the sunset” for an early retirement. In 1992, Coach Boyd wanted me to come back as a community coach to help start 6th and 7th graders in the school’s baseball program. But somehow that never became a realty and my baseball days were finished and gone.

Fortunately, I did come back, but not as a coach of any kind. I am now proud to be in charge of the lower school science enrichment program where I get to challenge not kids’ athletic abilities, but their abilities to think scientifically, and hopefully one day to make a major contribution to make the world a better place to live.

memory, old yearbooks and from my own files and notes.

I would like to personally thank Rusty Frank, Alice Malcolm, Bob Jones, David Ward, Barbara Wyle, Rick Hughes, and Buster Brown for giving me their time and help with this article.

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CREATIVE HISTORY

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For some students, a blank page is an overwhelming notion. So many possibilities await them. Which lead would grab the reader’s attention? What words would rhyme and make the most sense? Which colors would make the painting come alive?

Once students finally string the perfect words together, they feel a great sense of accomplishment. But what excites students even more than placing that final period at the end of their last sentence is seeing their creations appear in print and knowing that others will see the results of their hard work, too.

For years, Holy Innocents’ Episcopal School’s student publications have instructed, informed and entertained students. From articles in newspapers to poems and artwork in literary magazines, the Golden Bears’ talents and creative ideas shine on paper. Here’s a look at publications made by students for their peers.

Mjufsbsz!Nbhb{joft In the 1970s, it was known as The Devil’s Trail. In the 1990s, it was known as The Pen. But now, many know it as the Rhyme and Reason. So just why did the name of the Upper School’s literary magazine finally change to what it is today? There’s no rhyme or reason to it. After the English department decided the Upper School should have its own magazine, the first edition was published in 2004, and the joint Middle School-Upper School journal, The Pen, became the literary magazine for only the Middle School.

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CREATIVE HISTORY Lulu.com, an online publishing company, to produce a more professional-looking journal. While the Rhyme and Reason publishes in a hard copy form every spring, it also began publishing online via the school’s website in 2008.

The magazine is filled with creative pieces such as poetry, prose and visual artwork – all submitted and selected by students. The winning pieces of the Steve Marine Poetry Contest are published in the magazine and with the contest’s 10th anniversary this year, plans are underway for the magazine to further promote this competition.

“HIES has a thriving community of writers and artists, and the Rhyme and Reason wants to showcase, promote and celebrate that community,” says faculty advisor Dr. Chris Swann. “Students are often surprised when they read a poem or short story or see a piece of artwork and then realize who the student was who created that piece.”

The Middle School literary magazine’s name changed a few times over the years, as well. The magazine had been on hiatus when Vanessa Reid, a former Middle School teacher who now is an Upper School English teacher, became the faculty advisor in 2004. A new literary magazine club formed, and the students named the first issue Saved by the Bell. The following year, the magazine became known as Didactic, and finally, the name The Crimson Rose grew on people.

Traces of the former Middle School literary magazine can be found in the division's newspaper, HI Bear Nation, which eventually absorbed the publication. Students titled a section “The Crimson Rose Corner,” which included creative pieces previously enjoyed by readers of the magazine. Last year, the section did not appear in the newspaper, but readers can look out for it again this year, as plans are underway to incorporate it again.

While Reid was faculty advisor for the annual magazine, students initiated clever campaigns to encourage students to submit work. The “goodies for poetry” campaign quickly became Ms. Reid’s favorite one. “The crew had a bake sale and instead of charging money, they took submissions. The group decided together upon which pieces such as poetry, short stories and artwork to include,” she says. “All of these endeavors are crucial to our students’ understanding of the writing and publishing process. Too many adults have no idea what goes into this amazing feat. I love that our kids are exposed to the wonders of words and the power of publication.”

For several years, Lower School students also paused for a moment to admire their classmates’ creativity. The school’s literary publication, PAWS: Poetry and Writing Scene, included stories, poems and drawings. For budget reasons, it was discontinued during the 2006-2007 school year, and there are no current plans to revive it.

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For students interested in pursuing a career in the media, the school’s newspapers are excellent avenues for potential journalists to gain hands-on experience and enhance their writing skills. One such newspaper is the Upper School’s Crimson & Gold, which began the year the Upper School opened, but it didn’t become a formal publication until a journalism class was offered in 1999. The student-produced paper has come a long way since then. It evolved from an amateurish four-page black and white card stock newsletter-type product to a 16-page plus newsprint paper in full color. Every six weeks the Upper School community enjoys the student staff writers’ coverage of stories and editorials concerning the school and current affairs. As students work on the newspaper, they learn about being consumers of the news and realize an educated reader is an educated person, says Crimson & Gold faculty advisor Carla Klepper. “We have a group of aspiring young journalists who are passionate about their publication and the work that goes in to it,” says Ms. Klepper. “Former students currently work for CNN in New York, Cox Media, contribute to their college newspapers and work on niche magazines. It is heartening to see their love of the profession in this shrinking print era, and all four of TORCHBEARER FALL 2009 | 49

CREATIVE HISTORY last year’s senior staff members are planning to major in journalism in college.”

For at least 14 years, HI Bear Nation has been the Middle School’s student information source. About 15 students on average plan and lay out the pages, which are filled with news, feature and sports stories. “I think they learn about the whole process from how stories and photos get into the paper to what people write about,” says Middle School English teacher and newspaper faculty advisor Eileen Thurmond.

Beginning in the early 1990s, the Lower School began publishing a newspaper, HI Lights, four times a year. Fifth-graders took on the task of putting it together. They would interview subjects and write and submit articles, all the while keeping in mind that the newspaper’s audience wasn’t just their grade level, but the entire school. Unfortunately, when responsibilities changed in the Lower School, HI Lights ceased to exist.

So what’s next for the remaining school publications as technology changes? As professional newspapers move to the online community, so will the Crimson & Gold; plans are underway to publish an online edition of the paper. And while hard copies of the Middle School’s HI Bear Nation still are found around the campus, the paper also can be found online through the school’s website. “People get their news less from newspapers now and more from online sources, so we’re going to be more online,” says Ms. Thurmond.

Zfbscppl Not many people may realize it, but before the school year even begins, Upper School students are hard at work on the next issue of the yearbook. In August, they attend a workshop hosted by the annual’s publisher, Jostens, and design the theme and cover for the book.

For 15 years, students have been recording the school’s history in its yearbook, Ursidae, which includes all divisions. Scientifically speaking, bears belong to the family Ursidae, so the title is fitting for a school full of Golden Bears. The yearbook has not always been completely studentproduced, though. Before the establishment of the Upper School in 1991, a former teacher, Cathy Charnley, produced a smaller yearbook.

Before the online boom, students may remember the process it took to create a yearbook. Pages were laid out and photos were cropped by hand and then mailed to the publisher. Now, with several clicks on a keyboard, photos are cropped using Photoshop and pages are created and sent to the publisher online. The creativity process has not changed much, though.

Students still take the photos, design the pages and write the body copy and photo captions. Section editors review their own sections, and one or two co-editors are responsible for proofing the entire book.

Putting together such a comprehensive history of the school is the closest thing to working in the real world that a class can offer, says faculty advisor LeAnne Weaver. First, students apply for staff positions, and after one year they can apply for editor positions. The staff must work within a budget, stick to deadlines and collaborate as a team. “Yearbook students take what they learn about design and apply it to McCauley Massie, Susy Robinson other subjects when they do projects and presentations. Several yearbook students have moved into advertising and marketing as a career choice after their experiences in yearbook,” she says.

The students’ early preparation shows.

Ursidae’s 2007-2008 front cover was recognized for excellence in the 2009 Gotcha Covered Look Book, which is annually published by Jostens and features yearbook spreads and covers from across the country.

The book also earned the silver medal award by the Columbia Scholastic Press Association.

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CREATIVE HISTORY Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.

—Muriel Rukeyser

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so let the infantile, stretching sunbeams crawl softly over your skin

and forget about sleek razorblades, rough braided rope,

because it’s morning now, and yellow, green, and look— there’s no horizon.

Cold night is centuries away.

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I know you and I remember you.

I remember the you who would catch lighting bugs all night long with a certain little girl.

We wiggle our bare toes,

I remember you like I remember a song; tucked into my heart and soul; a carefree tree-climbing boy forever.

Swinging, back and forth,

But looking at you now is like looking at a fraternal twin through the warped mirrors of my mind and memory.

Forcing the heavy summer air behind us.

The new you is a cursive rendition of the plain print classic, and I’m not sure I like you now, with complexity as your best policy.

Trying to touch the cotton-candy clouds Of the past.

Forth and back.

We stretch our legs,

Swinging, up and down Down and up.

We are time traveling.

But when we stop running Through the sky,

I remember the old you, when you were comfortable in your own skin without the smoke and mirror show.

When our toes touch the warm dirt,

But then again in my memory, honesty is not always the best policy.

And we cling to the remnants of perfection,

In my mind, you will never be anything more than a child’s scrawl of sidewalk chalk.

—Kate Borden ’11 3rd Place Winner 9th annual Steve Marine Poetry Contest

The clock starts ticking again.

The sugary pieces of memories That we grabbed from the sky When we were time traveling.

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CHRIS DURST UPPER SCHOOL PRINCIPAL

I’m glad summer’s over.

That statement is a heresy in many circles, especially in my household.

My son asked me one day in late July, “Dad, why are you going to school today? No one’s there...”

“It’s my job.

I need to be there.” I could tell from his expression, my ‘let’s-not-bother-Dad-rightnow-because-I’m-afraid-he’ll-blow,’ look suggested that I had let his inquiry irritate me. So much so that I believe I stewed all the way to the office. Thank goodness for the bookstore folks and US Assistant Tommie Best being around this summer, for I would have been alone in the US without them and the summer days of my discontent would have been truly unbearable.

Yet I love my job – I love HIES, the faculty, the students, the families whom I’ve come to love in my 11 years here. So why the discontent? I realize actually that I don’t necessarily love my job (more plainly, parts of my job description leave a lot to be desired!), but I cherish the work. Bennett Sims, writing in his book Servanthood, says,

“A job is something someone else defines for you, and work is something you define for yourself.” The work here fulfills my sense of duty as a servant leader, to serve the common good and, of course, to satisfy my need to grow spiritually and professionally (and in that order).

I believe all of our teachers model servant leadership; their work is their calling, and I believe it has a tremendous impact on the lives of our students. Leadership expert Robert Greenleaf asks two very important questions about the effectiveness of leaders – essentially, do those being served become healthier, wiser, more autonomous and ultimately leaders themselves? And what will their effect be on the rest of society, the under-privileged, the people who need to be served?

I firmly believe that our students will be the leaders of the their generation – but are we at HIES equipping them with the tools for servant leadership? In the HI Upper School we continually provide opportunity for students to cultivate their passions and opportunities to serve the common good.

Institutionally we will have a curriculum that not only is innovative, but also demands that students engage, serve and create.

We offer programs – Global Citizenship, US Green Team, sister-school relationships in France and Japan – for students to explore

how they will seek fulfillment by making this world a better place for all mankind. That used to be a cliché, but now more than ever we question the paradigms under which we live. Our students must not be unilateral in deciding how to lead, but be clear: they will be held accountable for the future whether they decide to lead or not.

The shift in thinking and the way for change and leadership may not be so convoluted nor politically charged. One of my high school classmates, Marty Nesbitt (CEO of The Parking Spot and President Obama’s campaign treasurer), was honored to give the commencement address at our alma mater. His advice to the class of 2009 was hardly politicized; he asked them to reach for incremental objectives while holding dearly to their ideals. What were the ideals? Be your brothers’ keeper, hitch your wagon to causes greater than yourself, put other’s interests ahead of your own, and (if I may add one without his permission) have an unfailing belief in one’s ability to learn, grow and change. We would do well if our US students, faculty and administration held those ideals close to our hearts as we try to become servant leaders, now and in the future.

Time to go to work.

I once made a crank call to Orson Welles.

Yes, that Orson Welles. Citizen Kane.

War of the Worlds. Touch of Evil. One of America’s greatest theatrical talents.

When I was young, my father owned the rights to a radio production of “A Christmas Carol” which starred Welles and Lionel Barrymore. Sometime in the mid-seventies, Mr. Welles considered rebroadcasting the program, initially aired in December of 1938.

He contacted my father and they became partners in this endeavor.

One day, when I was maybe eight or nine years old, I was exploring my father’s home office and came across his Rolodex. In it, I found a card listing “Orson Welles” and a phone number. For reasons I couldn’t explain now, I picked up the phone and dialed the number. A deep, growly voice answered, “Hello?”

“Mr. Welles?” I said, and he replied, “Yes?” I panicked and hung up on him.

The next day, I couldn’t wait to tell my friends at school that I had actually spoken to the guy from the wine commercials on television. You see, that was the only way I knew him. Not from his years in Hollywood or his legendary status in American film. It was from his television ads for Paul Masson wine

near the end of his life. I was wowed by his celebrity.

One of the things I like most about my work in the Alan A. Lewis Pre-School is that I get to spend my days with kids who are entirely unimpressed with such things - the more superficial aspects of life.

Things like fame and stardom don’t mean much to a pre-school student. What they recognize, what speaks to them, is kindness, compassion, an interest in their world, and the ability to see things on their level. People like Orson Welles, or his modern equivalents, have yet to appear on their radar.

Howard Gardener is a researcher and professor working in the field of cognition and education at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education. He is widely recognized as a leading scholar in the study of how we think and learn. Two years ago he published a fantastic book called Five Minds for the Future, in which he lays out his belief that the next generation of leaders will have to be able to think in ways that are significantly different from those who preceded them. Gardner suggests that students today will need to master a certain discipline. They will need to learn to be creative, thinking in ways that computers cannot; they will need the ability to act in an ethical manner. They will need to appreciate diversity and to welcome knowledge that can be obtained only through the sharing of personal experiences. And finally, they will need to be able to synthesize a great deal of information, to choose what is valuable, discard what is not, and use that information

in practical ways.

All of these skills are important, and we work together to build a foundation for each of these with our Pre-School students. But I find myself returning time and again to the challenge presented by the last one in particular. How do we teach the children, and how do we ourselves learn, to be able to sift through the billions of bits of data and information we are bombarded with every day to find that which is important?

One of my favorite passages of scripture, posted over my office desk, comes from 1st Thessalonians. It reads, “Test everything.

Hold on to the good.” That is the challenge that we face, as educators and as parents.

Teaching our children to constantly question… to search for the truth, to recognize it, and to use it for the betterment of themselves and others. Can we teach them to see beyond all the hype, clutter, noise, and the culture of celebrity to get to the heart of what is important?

Had I truly known who Orson Welles was, would I have picked up that phone and called him? Probably not. But at that point in my life, I was still a child, and I was still seeing the world through a child’s eyes. It is a simpler way to see things, less cluttered by the noise of the world, and in some ways perhaps it would be better if all of us, adults and children alike, were able to see things through that unique lens.

GREG KAISER

PRE-SCHOOL PRINCIPAL

PRINCIPAL’S CORNER

MIDDLE SCHOOL PRINCIPAL

THERESA JESPERSEN

This last half-century has seen a tremendous rate of change in our school, and in education in general. If we were to transport our students from 2009 to 1959, what would they see? Would they be able to navigate the hallways and labyrinths of social networks with the same self-assurance they have now, or would they feel as lost at sea as their grandparents would in 2009?

What would have been in the book bag of a sixth grader in 1959: some textbooks, pencils and pens, and a lunch box? An upper school student would have much the same thing, except the more advanced math student would have a slide rule. Many years ago I was at the National Air and Space Museum with my family and noticed a slide rule on display. It was about 4 feet long and mounted on the wall. I pointed it out to my son and told him that this was what was used before people had hand-held calculators. With the literal mindset only a very small child can wield, he expressed dismay at how hard students had to work – after all, it was really big and looked very heavy…

What will the students in 2059 carry in their book bags? Will they just carry a small computer, or a cell phone/ remote workstation? Perhaps they will wonder at the term “book bag” much as we crinkle our eyes at arcane descriptors like “knap sack” or “carry all.” A more important question is what will they learn? Underlying the cutting edge of educational thought is the goal of confident, capable people who can interact in the contemporary world. Just as in 1959, students need to communicate effectively, so clear and expressive writing remains important.

The skills we value have changed somewhat: it’s far less important in 2009 to have lovely handwriting than it was in 1959 since so much of what we produce is typed. I would venture to say that

the only profession where handwriting remains important is medicine, where apparently the goal is to have handwriting on a prescription slip appear as illegible as possible – and really, would we trust a doctor with neat penmanship?

Students spend far less time memorizing poems and speeches than was common fifty years ago, yet today’s students can access “The Gettysburg Address” or any of Shakespeare’s sonnets with a speed unimaginable back then. Every HIES laptop is equipped with a virtual library of literature, historical documents, and other primary sources known as Vital Source Bookshelf, and, too, we have much of our library collection online.

Math and science were vitally important in 1959, as the United States was concerned with the state of education in relation to the evidently superior Soviet system. Sputnik had passed over the USA only two years previously, and prevailing wisdom held that we needed to “catch up.” Math and science remain vitally important in 2009: the advanced algebra and calculus required to put a man on the moon in 1969 will be just as important, although knowledge of faster-processing computer programs will enhance that experience, and help us send a mission to Mars before 2059. The skills and thought processes are similar, but the tools are different. Remember that scene in Apollo 13 when Ed Harris told the Houston guys they would need to recalculate the angle for the capsule’s re-entry? Those guys with the skinny ties and flat tops got out pencils and slide rules – and figured it out by hand. Our Advanced Placement Calculus students could figure it out somewhat faster, I think, but they still need to know how to set up the problem. All our math students use scientific graphing calculators and their laptops, and now the Math department is introducing WebAssign

to better introduce technology into the math classroom.

Our children have a great deal of virtual freedom via the internet, TV, and other broadcast media; yet they have, in many ways, far less actual freedom than we ever did. They are savvier at younger ages about movies, make-up, and relationships (well, maybe they haven’t changed too much in that department), but they are often surprisingly naïve about money matters and employment: cars and technology both have changed that. Kids don’t get sent to the store to pick up milk because they could get killed on the way there. Paper routes, previously a mainstay of adolescent incomes, are a thing of the past, either the purview of enterprising adults or just going the way of the dinosaurs as more and more of us get our news from TV or online. Crews of landscapers have largely displaced neighborhood lawn mowers. What’s a kid to do? To teach them about money and how to use it effectively, our eighth grade students take Personal Finance, where they use real online sources to gain virtual (and fictitious) entrée into the Atlanta economy. Students locate jobs, and once they find them, figure out how to survive. They get apartments, find transportation to work, make budgets, and fill out a tax return.

How we teach has changed with our changing recognition of how kids learn.

It’s exciting to contemplate what our descendants will learn – and how they will learn it – in 2059.

In 1959 the debate of whether required prayer in public schools was a violation of the separation of church and state was beginning to escalate. States were questioning the appropriateness of biblical instruction in the schools.

Pennsylvania, in 1959, outlawed Bible readings in the public classrooms, foreshadowing the movement away from religious practices in public schools in subsequent decades.

As the controversy raged on, Holy Innocents’ Episcopal School was established with the belief that a faith based foundation of moral values and traditions provided a life-long support to their students. It was recognized that a school plays a critical role with the children’s learning, growing, and developing into the people they will become later in life. After fifty years of

existence, the faculty and staff of the school continue to embrace this wisdom and incorporate the philosophy into their daily instruction.

The Lower School culture embodies our religious foundation. The weekly chapel service emphasizes and fosters respect and tolerance for each individual. The students’ community service activities include reaching out to the elderly, protecting our environment, teaching disadvantaged children, assisting in providing aid to rescue dogs, and caring for one another. My hope is that each student will take with them these invaluable experiences and make the service learning a part of their core values. I wish for our students the desire to help others because it is the “right thing” to do and not for any praise or accolades they might receive.

In 1959, and throughout the years, there has been a great deal of discussion and many arguments over the role of religion in a school setting. At Holy Innocents’, our faith-based foundation continues to enrich the lives of our community of learners. Teaching philosophies, methods of instruction, technology and various aspects of education will change in the next fifty years but the continued care and love for our students will ensure their life successes in the future.

LOWER SCHOOL PRINCIPAL

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BASEBALL IN ITALY

Top row: Dylan Deal, Ellis Watson, Skye Bolt, Matt Szathmary, Charlie Rousseau, Austin Rogers, Cody Temples, Frank Vashaw

Bottom row: Alec Bicknese, Mitchell Davis, Wesley Simons, John McKay, Seth Bancroft, Whitney Bluebonnett, Coty Nash

Photos courtesy of Eva Stancil-Murray

Piazza del Duomo

The Experience of a Lifetime: America’s Team, Italy 2009

by John McKay ’11 and Skye Bolt ’12

Monday July 20th We arrived at the airport on a hot Monday afternoon, excited and ready to get this show on the road. Our bags were filled to the top and everyone was checking in, when Mitchell Davis says, “I wonder what the baseball will be like?” “I didn’t even know they had baseball in Italy,” adds Wesley Simons. We all had questions about the baseball. Will they be good? Are they going to be big? No one seemed to have any answers, though, not even our coaches.

We arrived at the gate about two hours before our flight. Many of us made a dinner run to Panda Express while others made goodbye phone calls. We greeted our teammates from around Atlanta and were very excited to find out we will be traveling with a softball team, as well. Finally, everyone boards the planes and after some seat changes we finally take off. Earphones seemed to be on everyone as we slept through the night on our way to Milan.

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BASEBALL IN ITALY

Tuesday July 21st

Eating dinner after double-header against Bollate, near Milan Castello Sforzesco, Milan, Italy

The plane lands and we head to the gate. “We finally made it!” Wesley Simons says. The smiles on everyone’s faces show how excited we are to be here. As we get our bags, we meet our tour guide, Thomas. Thomas is Danish and he lives in the Alps, but he does tours like this every summer in Italy. He greets us with a smile and after a couple lost bags, we finally board the bus to the hotel. We checked in and made our way to our rooms.

Ellis Watson and I get screamed at by an Italian maid, which definitely woke us up and made us realize just how tough it was going to be to communicate with the locals.

To avoid jetlag, we go out for a day in Milan. We spend the day shopping and visiting beautiful churches and cathedrals. We meet up in front of the Castle and make our way back to the hotel for dinner – a delicious meal, but most of us head to bed early after a long day.

Wednesday July 22nd

Cody Temples, Mitchell Davis, John McKay, Skye Bolt, Wesley Simons, Ellis Watson

City Hall, Florence

We head off to spend a day on Lake Maggiore, about an hour outside of Milan. “This is one of the most beautiful places I have ever visited,” Wesley Simons tells me. “Not quite like the lakes in Georgia,” Austin Rogers sarcastically adds. Almost all of us took a boat to an island where we shopped and ate lunch and enjoyed some of the most beautiful views in all of Italy. Daniel Szathmary, a team member from North Gwinnett, made the best buy of the trip with a white and blue sailor hat. He was actually mistaken for the captain of the boat by a few locals. Sadly, we had to leave the island around 2:00 because of our first set of games.

We arrived at the fields and learned our first two games will be played against teams from the Bollate Baseball Club. We won the first game 7-2 mainly behind the arm of Szathmary, a North Gwinnett ace. “Our bats weren’t really there in the first game” Mitchell Davis says, “I think we struck out like 18 times.” It didn’t matter though because we just got our first win in Italy and were all pretty excited.

Between games, the Bollate people tell us that was their younger team and they will be bringing in some older players for game two.

During the second game, it is hard to tell whether we’re more focused on baseball or keeping off the mosquitoes. Either way, we found ourselves in a 6-6 tie in the bottom of the 7th with the bases loaded and two outs. Charlie Rousseau is up. He strikes out on three pitches and after some arguing about a dropped third strike, the game ends in a tie. We ate a delicious meal with the other team and everyone was satisfied with a fun day of baseball. Thomas then had us join the softball girls for a little dance party with the Italian softball team. They show us some of their famous Italian dances and Ellis Watson teaches them how to do the “Soulja Boy.” It was a great day, but we all, especially the coaches, were ready to get back to the hotel for some sleep.

Thursday July 23rd At 9 a.m. we board the bus on our way to Florence, a four-hour drive, most of which was spent sleeping. We arrived

at our hotel at around 1 p.m. and checked in to our rooms – but not for long. After about 15 minutes, we were on our way to downtown Florence. Thomas walked us to the main square and set us free. We split up into groups – some climbed the nearly 500-step bell tower and others, like mine, enjoyed a day shopping and sightseeing. Everyone met up in the main square and we enjoyed a delicious meal at one of Florence’s great restaurants. We went out after dinner and enjoyed the nightlife, capping off a great first day in Florence.

Friday July 24th We woke up early and went with a local guide to experience the city’s great history. Everyone learned a lot this morning

and were very excited when we were led to a famous leather shop by Thomas.

Many of us bought a famous reversible belt for family back home. We split up and ate lunch separately before heading to our second set of games.

We decided to play one nine-inning game instead of two seven-inning games this time, against a professional team from a town outside of Florence. We looked a little outmatched, but no one was really nervous. We jumped out to an early 4-0 lead in the first inning, but that was about all of the lead we would be having. We slowly ran out of pitching and that hurt. At one point, in about the fifth inning, we were told we were losing 19-4. But we managed to crawl our way back into the game behind the bat of Skye Bolt, who hit a monster homerun. It was 19-17 in TORCHBEARER FALL 2009 | 55

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Double-header against Rome in Olympic baseball stadium

had told him they were “gaming it up the 9th inning, but a strikeout ended it at D&B’s.” Once Skye caught up, our with the bases loaded. “It was a tough group spent the day sightseeing many loss, but I think I am going to get over of the city’s spectacular buildings, it” Mitchell Davis says after leaving the churches and restaurants. game in the fifth inning with an injury to Pre-game meeting against Bollate The highlight of the trip was the Vatihis “upper leg.” We go and cheer on the can, not only one of the most beautiful softball team, who won easily. After their places on earth, but also one of the most spiritual. You couldn’t help game, we had a delicious Italian meal with everyone before the hourbut feel very reverent being there. We made our way to the Sistine long drive home in the dark.

Chapel, and it was amazing to think of how Michelangelo actually painted it, seeing how it was a ceiling. I can’t image how anyone After a week’s could have done such a spectacular job painting a ceiling. Sadly this worth of touring, the group was pretty tired. But the next day was would end our sightseeing. By this time many of us were exhausted, filled with great history. After a 2 ½ hour drive down to Rome, we but you can believe we were ready to battle in our last two ball visited the famous Coliseum where teammate Mitchell Davis remarks games. “this certainly is a bit bigger than the Georgia Dome.” The Coliseum We run-ruled the Rome team the last two games. Though, disapcertainly was a spectacular sight but for a few, taking pictures with pointed, the Romans, like all the Italians we met, remained hospitable, tourists from all over the world seemed just as much fun. Once we warm, and genuinely happy to meet us. Upon trading American finished touring the coliseum, Thomas took us to more historical apparel for Italian gear, we ate burgers at a local bowling alley. They sights, like where Julius Caesar lived. He even showed us the very were quite good. The next morning at 6 a.m. we slinked slowly from spot where he was cremated. our beds to the bus and left for the airport. Rome was just as beautiful in the early morning light as it was lit up at night. Perhaps more so The next morning we this particular morning, as we knew we would not see her for quite rested, or at least some of us did. Sunday was our free day to explore some time.

Rome by ourselves. Many of the guys walked a planned route from The plane trip home lent itself to reflection: to play the best sport in Mr. Thomas. Skye, though, spent the morning trying to find the nearthe world in an exotic, inimitable, profoundly relevant, beautiful counest Dave and Busters (which did not exist). He had slept in and had try - that is living a dream. trouble catching up with the group after teammate Mitchell Davis

SATURDAY July 25th

SUNDAY July 26th

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Softball girls outside Coliseum

Duomo, Florence, Italy

View of Florence from the top of the Duomo

Wes Simons, Whitney Bluebonnett, Ellis Watson, John McKay, Austin Rogers, Skye Bolt, Coty Nash in the Piazza di San Lorenzo, Florence, Italy

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FROM THE DEVELOPMENT OFFICE

Named Gifts To The Living Our Mission Capital Campaign

Susan and John Farrell and family named the conference room in the Athletic Office suite.

Tara and Mark Widener and family have Patricia Bowman Terwilliger Family named the Dorothy Sullivan Lower School Foundation has named the science laboratory Nurseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Clinic in memory of Markâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mother, in the Fred Rowan Family Middle School.

Lillian Boatwright Widener.

Ann and Howard Lukens, a current Board member (not pictured), and family have named the gym training room as part of the Living Our Mission Campaign.

Financial Aid Donations make it possible for current families to remain at HIES

Due to the economy in 2008-2009, HIES had a number of families in need of tuition assistance for the coming year. We were extremely fortunate to have generous donors step forward and provide additional financial aid funds to make this possible. We would like to thank the generosity of the following people: Anonymous Donor Anonymous Donor Anonymous Donor Pam and Darren DeVore Marilyn and Curtis Kimball Madelaine and Phillip McCrorie Patricia Bowman Terwilliger Family Foundation 58 | TORCHBEARER FALL 2009

The Stephenson Family and the Middle School Student Council donate commemorative benches The Carlos Plaza, behind the Middle School, has lots of extra seating thanks to the generous donations of both parents and students. Phoebe and Johnny Stephenson and family donated a bench in honor of Mark Basham, beloved parent of Carter and Lauren, who passed away in March, 2008. The Middle School Student Council donated funds to provide a table with benches in memory of staff member Charles Zachary, who passed away in December, 2008. He was loved by staff, students and parents alike. The memories of these two wonderful people will live on thanks to these generous donations.

FROM THE DEVELOPMENT OFFICE

2008 – 2009 Annual Fund

Terri Potter, Jeanine Lewis, Emma, Eden and Derek Yaniger and Jed Dorsey

Past recipients with Ms. Lewis and Emma (L-R): Alexandra Stoughton, Payton Anderson, Edward Vear, Chris Warley, Sophia Sapronov, and Julia Boyd

Alan A. Lewis Award Celebrates 10 Years The scholarship was established by Mr. and Mrs. Gerald A.

Lewis in memory of their son, Alan, who was an honor student at Holy Innocents’. This scholarship is given to a 5th grade student during LS Honors Day. The Lewises also named the HIES PreSchool for their son – Alan A. Lewis Pre-School. Photos from May 21 LS Honors Day. Year Recipient Name Year Recipient Name 2001 Sean Aiken 2009 Emma Yaniger 2000 Charlotte Bissell 2008 Alexandra Stoughton 1999 JoAnne Glisson 2007 Edward Vear 1998 Charles B. Winn IV 2006 Payton Anderson 1997 Andrew B. Crosby 2005 Christopher Warley 1996 Erin Yelich 2004 Julia Boyd 1995 Susan Bean 2003 Sophia Sapronov 2002 Karishma Habbu

Gift to Refurbish Parish Hall

Thanks to the generosity of an anonymous donor, Parish Hall was painted this year. This has been appreciated by the Lower School students, faculty and Holy Innocents’ Episcopal Church.

The 2008-2009 Annual Fund raised $1,023,000 that will be used during the 2009-2010 school year. Many supporters ask exactly what the Annual Fund pays for. Unlike gifts from the Parents’ Association, Fine Arts Alliance or Booster Club – whose gifts are usually earmarked for specific purposes - Annual Fund dollars are generally unrestricted, meaning they are used wherever the School’s greatest need may lie.

Tuition revenue and Annual Fund proceeds are pooled together. The Board determines where the School’s greatest needs lie, and resources are used accordingly. This is why we can’t say with specificity what the Annual Fund pays for because, in truth, it pays for a part of everything that benefits our School and its students.

Maybe the best way to visualize the Annual Fund’s importance is to look at the Holy Innocents’ calendar and know that the months of September through March, and the first three weeks of April, are paid for by tuition dollars.

The remaining five weeks of the school year are paid for by gifts from the Annual Fund and the three parent organizations, endowment income, and fees… but the greatest of these is the Annual Fund!

Mindful of the critical importance of a successful Annual Fund – particularly in today’s challenging economy – we thank our 2008-2009 leaders, Julie and Randy Brehm, and Kitty and Alston Correll, for their dedication and tireless effort. Their team of class representatives made countless phone calls to raise needed funds.

Our sincere thanks go to the following representatives:

Grade Representatives Early Learners Pre-Kindergarten Kindergarten Pre-First 1st Grade 2nd Grade 3rd Grade 4th Grade 5th Grade 6th Grade 7th Grade 8th Grade 9th Grade 10th Grade 11th Grade 12th Grade

Emily and Aaron Gilcreast Bonnie and Grant Leadbetter Jennifer and Brannan Hatfield Michele and Scott Nelson Alison and Greg Sample Kelly and Heath Morgan Jenny Cantrell Laura and McKee Nunnally Mary and Mike Chambers Jayne Ann and Clay Milling Clare and Michael O’Shaughessey Susan and Rick Ballou Tracey and Mark Allen Joanie and Sam Ehlers Beth and Andre Touzet Susan and John Farrell

Leadership Circle Grade Representatives Kindergarten -5th Grade 6th Grade Leadership Circle 7th Grade Leadership Circle 8th Grade Leadership Circle 9th Grade Leadership Circle 10th Grade Leadership Circle 11th/12th Grade Leadership Circle

Kitty and Alston Correll Kelly and David Asbury Vanessa and David Birdwell Jody and Dan McGrew Cindy and Paul Warley Pam and Darren DeVore Julie and Randy Brehm

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FROM THE DEVELOPMENT OFFICE

Members of the Class of 2009 Give Their First Gift to the Annual Fund

Sixteen members of the class of 2009 show their new alumni status by giving their first gift to the Annual Fund. The Annual Fund is extremely important to the ongoing operation of the school because it covers expenses that tuition does not. Gifts to the Annual Haley Bruce Will Byrd Joe Byrd Ryan Cox Jackson Davis

Fund from alumni (no matter the size) shows how important the school has been to their education and future. The Development Office is appreciative and wants to recognize these students for giving back to help continuing and new students this year.

Jack Farrell Kim Heintzelman Courtney Kissack Carole Malcolm John Mitchell Kate Newman

Collin Rhea Marley Sapp Lauren Seiple John van Beunigen Whit Woodring

Volunteer Appreciation Party On a beautiful spring evening in early May, a number of top HIES volunteers were treated to Mexican fare at the home of the Head of School.

Lizzie and Kirk Duncan were joined by volunteers to the Annual Fund, Parentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Association, Fine Arts Alliance, Booster Club, Admissions and the libraries. Kudos to these parents who give so generously of their time and talents to make Holy Innocentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; the special place it is!

John Farrell and Dave Stockert

Pete Vaky, Rick Betts, J.T. Thomson and Bill Hollett

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An anonymous donor provided a $30,000 gift to help finish construction of the St. Marguerite School in Haiti. Kirk Duncan, Former Board Member John Snodgrass, Board Member Lever Stewart, Board Member Van Westmoreland, Upper School Chaplain Sarah Wood and Kirk Duncan's nephew, Jake Torchin from Ladoux H.S. in St. Louis, attended the dedication this past June.

Dedication ceremony for the new school

Sarah Wood, Van Westmoreland, Lever Stewart, Kirk Duncan, Jean Bertol and John Snodgrass Kindergartners are universally cute

The new school's faculty attend the ceremonies

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GALA 2009

GALA 2009 Denee Sizemore, Peggy Farnham, Catherine Pittman, Lori Snellings, Michele Nelson, Stephanie Ungashick, Ginger Mulherin, Janet Saltmarsh, Krist Voyles and Julie Bills

MOONLIGHT OVER MONTE CARLO

Sign outside CEC

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Colleen and Scott Sport (left) Debra and Matt Reams (right)

Nora and Darrell Borne Alexis and Kevin Vear

Jayne Ann Milling Clay Milling Kelly Asbury

Dana and David Aldridge Jaimie and Peter Hardin

Kelly Davis

James Price, Janet Fryburger, Cindy Warley, Christina Price, Kristina Blass and Mitchell Blass

Terri and Ron Johnson, Cheryl and Parker Hix

Shannon and Mark Kelsey Lori and Clay Snellings

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CELEBRATION OF THE ARTS

Dave Stockert David Aldridge

Lori and Clay Snellings Jennifer and Terry Weiss

Back Row – Cammie Ives, Kristina Blass, Catherine Bennett, Carla Rogg, Debra Poch, Tavia McCuean, Middle Row – Wendy Money, Janet King, Alexis Vear, Nora Borne, Leah Henry, Charles Schoen, Front Row – Melissa Davis, Tami Crewdson, Merrell Woodyard Drs. Melisa Rathburn-Stewart and Michael Stewart

Bruce Ford Marcia and Jim Decker LeAnna Wade, Sara Eckman, Ashley Tucker, Gretchen Glaze, Kendall Martin, Anna Marie Sokolowski

Haley Bruce and mom Dana Sarah Widener, Hannah Kissack, Allison Rogg

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Alex MacLellan, Austin Holland, Payton Anderson

CLASS NOTES

If you would like to submit class notes for the spring issue of the TorchBearer, please contact Tamika Weaver-Hightower at tamika@hies.org or 404.303.2150 Ext 181.

Marisa Gewertz and her husband had a baby on November 4, 2008. His name is Joseph Samuel Gewertz. He was 5 lbs. and 15 oz. He was born in Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington, VA.

CLASS OF 1995 Class representative: Nicole (Thomas) Thibo: nicthm@yahoo.com

Class representative: Jenny (Graham) Beeson: jagraham1978@yahoo.com

Raine Crumpler Hyde had to go through an application approval process, then study for six months, and pass two exams to receive her CPCE (Certified Professional Catering Executive) designation in November, and CMP (Certified Meeting Professional) designation in February. She is now working in the Converting Division for a non-profit called TAPPI, doing event planning and content programming.

Class representative: Emilie (Collins) Murphy: emiliecmurphy@gmail.com

Ashley Bahl Binder wed Michael Binder on September 20, 2008 at Saint Luke’s United Methodist Church in St. Petersburg, FL. Anna Williams ’97 attended the wedding.

Spears Mallis and his wife, Janna, welcomed their second child and first son, Sam Spears Mallis. He was born on May 13, 2009.

CLASS OF 1996 Gralyn Crumpler is engaged to Stephen Daily. Stephen proposed in Dublin, Ireland over Memorial Day. They plan to wed May 15 of 2010 somewhere on the Georgia coast. Below is a photo of the couple at a wedding in Bordeaux, France (the main purpose of the trip overseas) with HIES alums Dustin Biddle ‘96 and Monique Caracola ‘96 (who were also guests at the wedding). Monique actually helped Steve plan the engagement in Dublin!

CLASS OF 1997

Helen Abbott Jonas, her husband, Gabe, and big brother, Landon, are thrilled to announce the addition of another little boy to the family! Dylan was born on April 19, 2009 weighing 6 lbs and 13 oz. He is happy and healthy and everyone is doing well! The Jonas family lives in Sandy Springs, GA where Helen continues to work for McKinsey & Company, Inc.

Jordan McAuley has a new book, “The Out Traveler: Atlanta.” The book was published February 1, 2009 by Alyson Books and Regent Media (parent company of Out Magazine, The Advocate, and Here!

Television). It is the follow-up to his first book, “ATLANTAboy,” that was published in 2005. Jordan lives in New York City.

Allison Hallman Sapp and her husband, Jeffrey David Sapp, welcomed their daughter, Natalie Elizabeth Sapp, on January 3, 2009.

Paul Kenney and his wife, Karen, moved to a house near Lakeside High School last August with their son, Jason. Jason will be 2 years old in November and is into everything. They have really enjoyed the new neighborhood, and have been at the pool most days this summer. Paul has also started an engineering consulting firm called Proficient Engineering, Inc. Proficient designs mechanical, electrical & plumbing systems for all types of buildings.

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CLASS NOTES

CLASS OF 1998 Class representatives: John Morgan: Jfmua2@aol.com Effie (Swartwood) Thompson: effies21@hotmail.com

Julie Califf Schuh and her husband, Joe, welcomed a baby, Sophie Amelia Schuh, on October 14, 2008.

The family still lives in Melbourne, FL where Joe works as an electrical engineer for NASA and Julie works in Hospital Sales for Sepracor Pharmaceuticals.

Katie McGoogan Weeks married Jace Brackett Weeks on July 26, 2008 at Peachtree Presbyterian Church with their reception at the downtown Capital City Club. HIES Alumni included in the wedding are as follows: Merrit Kuh Miller ‘98 as Matron of Honor, Effie Swartwood Thompson ‘98, Brittany Espy ‘98, Erica Barbakow ‘98, Heidi Bauer ‘98 and her brother John McGoogan ‘08. The couple resides in Smyrna, GA. Katie currently works in Admissions at Holy Innocents’ and Jace is a mortgage lender with SunTrust Mortgage. They are thrilled to be expecting their first child in November 2009!

Aida Mahmutovic Mayhew married Christopher Mayhew last year. The couple welcomed their first son, Grayson Deen Mayhew, on January 30, 2009. He weighed 8 pounds and was 21.25 inches long.

Aida Mahmutovic Mayhew married Christopher Mayhew last year. The couple welcomed their first son, Grayson Deen Mayhew, on January 30, 2009. He weighed 8 pounds and was 21.25 inches long.

Julie Smart Campbell and her husband welcomed a new baby in their home!

James was born January 27, 2009. He is welcomed by big sisters, Ella Kathryn and Caroline.

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Effie Swartwood Thompson and her husband, Ty, welcomed Kathryn Grace Thompson (Gracie) on September 13, 2008.

Gracie was 8lbs. 8oz. and 20 1/2 inches.

James Yancey served as Managing Director of 360i for two and a half years in Atlanta. Recently, he was named Managing Director of Europe for Innovation Interactive, which is parent to Atlanta businesses 360i, a digital marketing agency; SearchIgnite, a digital marketing platform; and Netmining, an onsite behavioral optimization company in Brussels. James and his partner, Tray Butler, moved together in February to open the London office.

James also advises an Atlanta start-up

called Hob Nob (www.hobnobjobs.com) that is working with students at local high schools and universities (Emory, Georgia State, Georgia Tech) to help them determine their correct career path. James now lives in Hoxton and is loving the tea and biscuits offered at every meeting! Here was one of the articles related to the press release earlier this year: http://www.dmnews.com/InnovationInteractive-opens-UK-branch/ article/127513/

CLASS OF 1999 Class representatives: Jennifer (Cavanaugh) Brown: jennifer.brown @hies.org Samia Hanafi: samhanafi@gmail.com Drew McDonald: tam1980@gmail.com

Jennifer Cavanaugh Brown and Jess Brown welcomed their daughter, Kathleen Claire Brown on March 17, 2009. Baby Claire weighed 6 lbs 13 oz at birth. Leigh Spence Jackson ‘99 and her husband, Brian, are Claire’s godparents. The Browns live in Dunwoody. Jennifer is a fourth grade teacher at Holy Innocents’. Jess is an accounting manager at KPMG. Morgan Petek travelled to India with an organization called Rising Star Outreach, which works with adults with leprosy and children who have been affected by the disease because a parent or grandparent has it. Morgan has found her true passion and now is waiting to hear back from several schools in London and a few here in the states to which she has applied for her Masters in Global Health. She plans to return to India this summer for a few months, and then again after she receives her degree so she can really make a difference.

CLASS NOTES

Lauren SmithSchosger and her husband, Christophe, welcomed baby Mathilde on May 18, 2009.

Mathilde weighed 7.5 pounds and was 20.5 inches long. The Schosgers currently live in Strasbourg, France. She had a 2-year position teaching English at a university in Strasbourg and now is looking for another teaching job for the next school year.

Amanda Stasiak Hoover and her husband, Chad, announce the birth of their daughter, Anna Sophia on June 24, 2009. She was 9 pounds and 21 inches.

CLASS OF 2000

CLASS OF 2002

Class Representatives: James Capo: jhcapo@gmail.com Nitara Carswell: nitaracarswell@hotmail.com Sarah Oddsen: sarahodd@hotmail.com

Class Representatives: Katie Kirtland: kirtlkr@bellsouth.net Alley Pickren: alleypic@uga.edu

Brian McGuire joined Private Bank of Buckhead in December of 2008 as Vice President of Treasury Management Services. Brian graduated from Elon University with a degree in Business Administration in 2004. He later worked for Intuit, Inc., before transitioning into banking in the Atlanta area. Brian currently is at work on a Professional MBA at Georgia State University. Outside of work and school, he serves on the Education Committee for the Buckhead Business Association and is an active member in Kiwanis International.

CLASS OF 2001 Class Representatives: Matt Freeman: msfreeman@gmail.com Ellen Williams: ellenwilliams@mindspring.com

Rachel Knox Lucas and her boyfriend of five years, Dean Lucas, were married on May 23, 2009 in Marin County, California.

In July, the couple moved to the San Diego area where she hopes to find a job in marketing. If any HIES alumni are hiring in the area, she is their woman!

Keeley M. Stitt is in her third year of teaching in an inner city, southside, elementary charter school in Chicago. She has written and won two Oppenheimer Teaching grants which augmented the art program for her students. She loves teaching and plans to obtain her Masters in Art History and Printmaking.

Ellen Williams was awarded a Masters degree in Education in August from Georgia State University. She teaches second grade in a local public school after several years of teaching Kindergarten.

Kristen Wright graduated from the University of Richmond School of Law in May. She was on the team that won the American Bar Associationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s National Trial Advocacy Competition in January. There were 64 teams from across the country participating in the competition. Students were judged on their advocacy skills and courtroom presence at each stage of the trial. Each team consisted of four law students, two serving as lawyers and two acting as witnesses for the trial.

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CLASS NOTES

CLASS OF 2003 Class Representatives: James Jackson: JJDAWG84@UGA.EDU Emily Weprich: emily.weprich@yahoo.com Caroline Wimberly: caroline.wimberly@duke.edu

Meredith Fehr-Piotter married Reid DeLappe on Saturday, November 8, 2008 in a twilight beach wedding ceremony in Jamaica. The maid of honor was her sister, Amanda Fehr-Piotter, ’04. Another alumna and bridesmaid in the wedding party was Molly Reed, ’03. An Atlanta reception was held on Saturday, November 28 at Maggiano’s in Buckhead. Among guests were alumni Handley Barnett ’03, Christen Cook ’03, Molly Reed ’03, Amy Fore ’04, and Amanda Fehr-Piotter ’04. Meredith graduated from the University of Georgia with a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology.

She currently recruits for Bankers for Hire in Alpharetta. Reid is a Respiratory Therapist.

The couple plans to buy a home in the Alpharetta area.

this field. He was also selected to write the new GPS curriculum for the state in his field. Tony and his fiancée, Melissa, were married July 18, 2009 and look forward to their trip to Hawaii.

Emily Weprich is living in New York and working in production for the show “The City” at MTV Networks. Although working in Times Square is exciting, she finds modeling is her true passion. At her first NYC modeling audition in November, she landed a national modeling job for GNC. She is the face of the product WellBeing - in stores now. This job landed her an agent and Emily now has done various modeling jobs for Women’s Health Fitness Magazine.

Emily is in training for her third marathon, Niagara Falls, and is excited her classmate, Catie Sweetwood, will be doing the half marathon!

CLASS OF 2004 Class Representatives: Amy Fore: amyfore@uga.edu Collins Marshall: HCM04@fsu.edu Gordon Silvera: gordon.silvera@gmail.com

Davis Stitt graduated from SMU with a degree in Accounting and plans to continue at SMU next year for his Masters in Accounting. He was recently inducted in the Golden Key Society for being in the top 15% of his class academically. He won the September 2008 Family Talent Show playing his banjo. He was in Oxford, England last summer with SMU.

Aimee R. Ways graduated this May from The College of Charleston, with a B.A. in Religious Studies and a Minor in Art History.

Aimee will continue this fall at The College of Charleston to complete a second B.A. in Art History, and to further her Arabic language studies. The following year she plans on entering a graduate program in Middle Eastern Studies.

Jessica Rowan graduated cum laude from Appalachian State University in 2007. She is working in Charlotte, NC. She will marry Brian Vest (also a graduate of Appalachian State University) from Ashville, NC, on September 26, 2009. They will reside in Charlotte.

Hesley Harps is going to be on the TV show, "Cold Case," which airs on Sunday nights on CBS. The show uses flashbacks to tell the story and Hesley will be in flashbacks from the 60’s. Hesley says we won’t believe what they did with her hair.

It was shot on the Queen Mary in Long Beach. She will be on the first episode of the season!!!

Catie Sweetwood is back in school at DePaul University getting her Masters in Education. She is currently a Special Education teacher in an elementary school.

She loves her job! Catie has been keeping busy with school, work, training for a June triathlon and for a marathon that she will be doing with Emily Weprich ‘03 at Niagara Falls in October!

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CLASS OF 2006 Class Representatives: Kaitlin Duffy: duffykc@auburn.edu Miller Edwards: edwardm@auburn.edu Anna Pickren: annapic@uga.edu Amy Schwartz: amy8700@hotmail.com

CLASS OF 2005 Class Representatives: Tyler Rathburn: tratt@comcast.net Rachel Shunnarah: rach521@uga.edu Kate Sternstein: kasternstein@davidson.edu Allyson Young: youngan@auburn.edu

Eva McDonald graduated from The University of Georgia with a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology.

Tyler Rathburn graduated with distinction from University of Virginia with a major in Religious Studies and a Minor in History.

He will be attending dental school at the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta in the fall.

Ryan Warner Wood is a rising senior at Savannah College of Art and Design. He is pursuing a double major in photography and cinematography and is on the Dean’s List. Recently, Ryan was featured in an art show at Tula Gallery in Buckhead along with Mr. Scott Gibson, Ms. Judie Jacobs, and Payton Adams. Ryan is also an avid cyclist and surfer.

CLASS NOTES

CLASS OF 2007

CLASS OF 2008

LOST ALUMNI

Charlotte Bissell: cmb123@comcast.net Sarah-Elizabeth Kirtland: kkirtla@clemson.edu Taylor Pack: pack_t@bellsouth.net Emily Phillips: goldengirl188@aol.com

Glenn DeMarcus is completing his freshman year at Vanderbilt University where he has made the Dean’s List. Glenn has also been invited to join Phi Eta Sigma, a national freshman honor society. He was also initiated into Kappa Alpha Order fraternity where he will serve as the rush chairman in the fall.

Name Carter L. Hatcher Ian A. Marshall Holly P. Bond Jordan Q. Brown Christopher T. Dwyer Christopher L. Lardner Ryan P. Mayo Kimberly A. Munro Katherine L. Schultz Stephanie M. Scurlock (Spottswood) Magaret M. Yepez (Lunsford) Christopher B. Chappell Benjamin J. Gaudreault Peter M. Nagle Kimberly A. Perisino Heather M. Yager Keith A. Cooper Tibor G. Cseley George M. McCord Zachary A. Yager Christian Zweifel Laura H. Bond Elizabeth M. Fowler Lauren D. Friedrichs John P. Gallagher Holly M. O’Keefe Kyoko F. Sadoshima Robert A. Schiess Alexandra J. Allen Katharine M. Duke Jasmine Nadja M. Smiri Slade J. Hill Andrew J. Maxfield Shannon F. Vaughn Patrick M. Anderson Sean P. Coughlin Matthew A. Nickerson Nathan M. Rajotte Jane C. Huang Ashley D. Chandler Shaquita N. McWilliams Hailey M. Appling Alexandra B. Lunday

Lucy-Gray Lansing is attending Savannah College of Art and Design. She will be entering her junior year in the fall. She has been awarded several academic scholarships and is on the Dean’s List.

Lucy-Gray has been working with young children at a private school in Savannah and finds time to bike, sew, and is a gourmet cook.

Jennie Kushner and Emily Phillips made their debut Sunday Dec. 21, 2008, at the Phoenix Society of Atlanta winter ball held at The Cherokee Town Club. Holy Innocents’ alumni in attendance included Isabelle Isakson ‘05, Katie Downs ‘05, Geoff Malcolm ‘06, Travis Plage ‘06, Andrew Isakson ’07, Becca Barrow ‘07, Kate Henderson ‘07, Robyn Baitcher ‘07, Charlotte Bissell ‘07. Emily’s sister Callan ’11 was also there, along with sophomore Addison Baitcher ‘11. Kushner and Phillips are currently sophomores and roommates

at the University of Alabama where they are actively involved in the community. Kushner, a journalism major, writes for the school newspaper and Phillips, a fashion retail major, was hoping to get a Tory Burch internship in New York for the summer.

ALUMNI HAPPENINGS Alumni Homecoming Picnic Friday, October 2 6:30 pm Riverwood High School Alumni Annual Fund Phonathon Sunday, November 8 5:00 pm Curtis Library Alumni Day of Service Saturday, November 21 9:00 am Been Media Center Alumni Holiday Party Thursday, December 17 6:30 pm French American Brasserie Winterfest Reception for Past Parents and Alumni Friday, January 29 6:30 pm Gymnasium Skybox

FACEBOOK AND LINKEDIN Join the Holy Innocents’ Alumni Association on Facebook and LinkedIn. This will keep you connected to the school with news and events.

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We are missing contact information for the above alumni. If you are in contact with any of the above HIES graduates, please encourage them to get in touch with the HIES alumni office. You can also log on to the website at www.hies.org. Click on alumni. If you have never logged onto the site before: Your username is firstnamelastnamegraduationyear (i.e.

TamikaHightower97) Your password is your date of birth (i.e.MM/ DD/YYYY) this includes the slashes.

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FROM THE HEAD OF SCHOOL

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61!Zfbst!pg!Usbejujpo “The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.”

—Jane Adams, Nobel Peace Prize winner, 1931

In 1959, Holy Innocents’ Episcopal Church started a school with 72 students enrolled from Pre-K through first-grade. In 2009, as we celebrate our 50th anniversary, the school has become one of the largest independent schools in the nation and a leader in Episcopal education. The HIES spirit of community - “our common life” - has served as a thread through each era of the school’s development.

The dynamic tension between offering a firstrate college prep education and developing in students the capacity to help make the world a better place has set our school apart as a unique and blessed community for 50 years.

Throughout this 2009-2010 school year we will celebrate our distinctive mission to “develop in students a love of learning, respect for self and others, faith in God and a sense of service to the world community.” Happy anniversary to us!

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Isaac Newton once said, “If I have seen further it is only by standing on the shoulders of giants.” Our school’s success has required a cast of thousands of dedicated, generous and talented “giants” - faculty, staff, administrators, trustees, parent volunteers, alumni, generous donors, rectors, and vestry members who have all helped further the school’s ability to deliver its mission to thousands of students over the past five decades.

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Since 2003, I have been fortunate to serve as Head of School. When I arrived in July of that year, I began gathering stories from HI community members anxious to tell the new guy about the school’s special history. I was repeatedly told about the school’s sixth Headmaster, Alice Malcolm, who led the school through a key era of growth. Under her leadership the Board of Trustees decided to purchase the Riley Elementary School building that now houses our Upper School and will eventually be the site of our next several building campaigns. It was under Alice that 70 | TORCHBEARER FALL 2009

that resulted in the construction of the Alan A. Lewis Pre-School and Groesbeck Hall. At that time the church rector served as the school’s Board Chair, and Alex was the first non-rector to chair the Board. His contributions will always be appreciated.

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the school boldly decided to start an Upper School program. It was a risky endeavor, but the school was confident that our spirit of community would continue attracting families, which is exactly what resulted.

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I was told of the school’s third Headmaster, Elliott Galloway, who served from 1965-1969.

He had a heartfelt fervor for the communityoriented nature of the school’s mission and helped everyone involved envision a bold future. Elliott went on to start the Galloway School, but was always deeply connected to HIES, right up until his death in July 2008. In September 2006, Elliott attended the dedication of the Fred Rowan Family Middle School building. He sat in the media center listening intently to the various speakers that day. Afterward, he said, “I had a vision for this building 40 years ago.” What an endorsement!

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I was told of Alex Patterson, who served as the school’s Board Chair as the church searched for a new rector in 2002. Alex’s thoughtful, measured leadership helped steady the HIES ship during this important transition. Under Alex’s leadership, the Board worked with Head of School Dr. Sue Groesbeck in completing the building campaigns

From 2002-2007, the school experienced an era of growth in which the Board approved the creation of a football program and formed the search committee for a new Head of School in 2003. The Living Our Mission Capital Campaign was launched in 2004, producing 60,000 square feet of academic and athletic space and 11 acres of playing fields on the South Campus (not to mention the state’s longest – and most expensive – pedestrian tunnel). The school started a relationship with an Episcopal school and church in Haiti in 2004. Since then our community has helped build three schools and churches there.

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Most recently the Board, under Chair Dave Stockert, approved new mission and philosophy statements for the school. Working with the church vestry leaders, Dave spent long hours in 2008 helping to revise the school’s by-laws, creating a strong partnership between the Head of School and the Rector of the church. The new by-laws call for a non-rector Board chair – an enormous and courageous change for a large parish school whose governance model had remained the same since its inception.

Through five decades of tremendous growth and development, there has been a parade of selfless HI community members who have helped further the school’s commitment to develop well-educated, heartfelt and giving human beings. Not only am I proud to be a part of such a community, but am excited by what the next 50 years holds for a school blessed with such dedicated, involved and generous supporters.

GOLDEN BEAR CHEERLEADERS

The Little Bear Cheerleaders pose with their high school counterparts (from left) Gracie Galloway, Lauren Klopfenstein, Annie Hollett, Morgan Sawicki and Ali Garcia.

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