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In This Issue: Class of 2012 Graduation Spotlight on Visual Arts all galleries.

A Report from Girls State and Boys State The Architecture of MSA

A Letter From

HEADMASTER

Rick France

Greetings from the Miller School of Albemarle! It has been an eventful spring and summer. We had a class of forty seniors graduate this May, and they will all attend college next year. We currently enroll students from twelve countries and approximately twelve states. We anticipate an opening enrollment of over 170 students for the 2012-13 year. So, MSA is doing well, and we hope you, our alumni, families, and friends, are proud of our image in the area and the world. Our graduates continue to do good things, capitalizing on many of the experiences they enjoyed here.

We continue to be a resource of service in the region. We have added to the number of organizations with whom we work, and we will continue to add additional service opportunities in the coming year. Our students are out and about in the community, and a variety of organizations contact us when they need help because of the longstanding tradition of MSA students helping others.

Academically, we are stronger than ever, too. We now offer more AP classes, and this spring’s AP exam results were the best in MSA history. The curriculum has grown, as have the facilities. You can read about some of the impact our facility renovations have had supporting the curriculum on page 7, with our spotlight on the visual arts.

Athletically, our teams enjoy great success. Last year cross country finished at number two in the state, and our boys and girls soccer teams went to the league playoffs, as did the tennis team. Baseball played in the semi-finals of the state championship, and we have a junior varsity baseball team coached by the famous MLB All Star Billy Wagner. Boys basketball plays in Division I, although we are a Division III team by size. Girls basketball, which had won two straight state championships, moved up to Division II and still finished at number two in the state. We are right in there, and folks know us.

As the new year begins, we bid a fond farewell to a number of teachers who are retiring or moving on to new opportunities, including Debbie Casado, Connie Gilchrist, Alice Simpkins, and Steve Hunter. Their dedication, positive personalities, and countless contributions have helped us build a strong program. We wish them well. We are fortunate to continue to attract some fantastic teachers. Most have their Master’s degrees, and we have five current teachers working on their doctorate degrees right now. In the tradition of the school, they all work exceedingly hard on behalf of their students. MSA will always be about the relationships we enjoy here.

As the gym renovation nears completion and the many coats of fresh paint and improved facilities welcome our students and their families to campus, we express our deep appreciation to you for your ongoing support of this historical institution.

Samuel Miller’s vision is our reality, and we are thankful to be here at this moment.

Sincerely, Rick France Headmaster

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Contributing Authors: Bradley Bodager, JD, LLM Steve Knepper Annie Knepper Contributing Photographers: Kim Kelley-Wagner Tom Pallante On the cover: Mr. Rob Wyllie holds AP European History class in the Bull Ring with Ke “Kate” Zhao, Alexey Zielinski, and Rachel Odumu.

At right: Roommates Theodore Kim, Chase Cannon, and Aaron Barnett of the Class of 2012. See page 13 for more.

CONTENTS ON THE HILL 3 HAPPENINGS News briefs from students, faculty, and alumni

5 COMMUNITY EVENTS ON THE VISUAL ARTS 7 SPOTLIGHT Teachers help students find their “creative vision”

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VOICES: BOYS STATE AND GIRLS STATE 9 STUDENT A meeting of tomorrow’s leaders COLLEGE COUNSELOR IN SCOTLAND 11 AHugh Meagher travels to St. Andrews

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OF 2012 SPOTLIGHT 13 CLASS Senior Chapel Talks, Salutatorian & Valedictorian Speeches 19 SPRING SPORTS HIGHLIGHTS page 25 MSA ARCHITECTURE 25 MSA’s Architecture is an important part of Albemarle County history 27 BELL TOWER SOCIETY 2012 2 Bell Tower Magazine • Spring/Summer

News in Brief

Happenings on “the Hill” MSA Students Stay Busy over the Summer Several MSA students have participated in rigorous programs across the nation this summer. Rising seniors Danlei Chen, Yingru “Louise” Guan, and Haokai Xu were accepted to summer programs at University of Southern California, Stanford University, and New York University, respectively.

Rising senior Tho Anh “Bill” Nguyen attended summer programs at both Davidson College and Brown University after participating in a week-long marine biology conference through Rotary International.

Class of 2002 Reunion On July 28, members of the Class of 2002 gathered at MSA to celebrate their ten year reunion. After a campus tour with Headmaster Rick France, the alumni enjoyed a barbecue lunch provided by the Office of Institutional Advancement before spending the afternoon at the lake.

Rising sophomore Marta Regn honed her already-impressive art skills through participation in a summer program at the Savannah College of Art and Design.

MSA English Teacher Chris Ross Enjoys Summer in Scotland Students in Chris Ross’s senior English classes will benefit from his experience at the Scottish University International Summer School session entitled “Text and Context: British and Irish Literature from 1900 to the Present,” which took place at the University of Edinburgh (above).

MSA Photo Teacher Tom Pallante Publishes “The Shape of Things” in About Place Journal MSA photo teacher Tom Pallante published a series of images entitled “The Shape of Things” in the latest issue of About Place Journal. Mr. Pallante writes that his series of images explores “the physical and psychological presence of structures throughout the landscape of Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Ohio.” He describes the shapes of these structures as “solid masses in space, often empty inside like skeletal remains of a once brighter and possibly more vibrant time.”

To view more images from this series, visit the online version of the journal at www.aboutplacejournal.org.

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Mr. Ross enjoyed the daily lectures, which were each given by a professor from a different university: “to watch someone who is an expert in their field deliver and pace content provides me the opportunity to reflect on how I go about collecting and delivering content to my students.”

For those considering a trip to Scotland, Mr. Ross exhorts, “Get to the Highlands at least once in your life. Austerely stunning mountain landscapes that truly help you feel apart from the modern, busy life that assails all of us! The other hallmark of Scotland and Wales is that the locavore movement was basically founded here many years ago and is in full swing, so you are guaranteed sumptuous meals of the freshest of meats, cheeses, breads, seafood, and vegetables. ... In Wales, one of the farms was named Pantops, so, we never felt too far from home!”

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News in Brief MSA Dean Peter Hufnagel Publishes on Philosophy and Athletics What do you call the inner force that allows an exhausted Tour de France cyclist to attack on a steep Alpine ascent, a bruised boxer to get back up after being knocked down? We might call it “heart” or “guts.” The Ancient Greeks called it thumos, a rich concept that spans these bodily metaphors and more.

Peter Hufnagel, MSA Dean of Faculty and English teacher, explores the Greeks’ concept of thumos in a recently published essay, “The Olympics of the Mind: Philosophy and Athletics in the Ancient Greek World.” The essay appears in The Olympics and Philosophy (University of Kentucky Press, 2012). Hufnagel co-authored the essay with his former teacher Paul Cantor, a University of Virginia English professor, world-renowned Shakespeare scholar, and frequent MSA guest.

Hufnagel and Cantor explain that the Greeks thought of thumos as a drive deeply rooted in human nature, a part of the soul according to Socrates in Plato’s Republic. It is “what makes human beings—men and women—competitive; it is the passion to be first, to excel in any form of endeavor. ... It is an irrational force that leads human beings to scorn the limitations of their bodies and continually break through existing boundaries of performance. It is the drive to the finish line” (51). In both ancient and modern societies, thumos is exhibited and applauded in athletics. Indeed, “the modern Olympics, like its ancient counterpart, is a festival of thumos” (51). In seeking to understand thumos, then, Cantor and Hufnagel draw not only on Plato’s dialogues and Homer’s Iliad (a text that Hufnagel teaches every year at MSA), but also on examples from athletics.

Hufnagel has published essays on Milton, Shakespeare, and H. G. Wells. He is also a competitive cyclist. Speaking of how his recently published essay relates to his work at MSA, Hufnagel explains, “We normally think of philosophy and athletics as very different human activities, with one exercising the mind and the other the body. Examining texts by Plato and Homer, we see that philosophy and athletics have much in common and much to teach each other. One impressive aspect of a Miller School of Albemarle education is that students learn to balance academics and athletics. Students gain a clarity of mind from the physical efforts required in athletics, and this allows them to be more philosophical in their academic pursuits; likewise, they learn that the same spiritedness and competitiveness that are necessary in sports can be enlisted in the service of reason and intellectual pursuits in the classroom.”

The Olympics and Philosophy was released in time for this summer’s Olympic Games.

2012 Golden Apple Award English Department Chair Steve Knepper was awarded the 11th Annual Golden Apple Award for excellence in teaching, presented by the Better Living Foundation.

A MSA parent quoted in the nomination letter writes that “Mr. Knepper creates a love of learning in his English 11 and AP Language and Composition courses. Students of all abilities benefit from his approach to teaching the great works of American literature. Mr. Knepper is empathetic, inspiring, approachable, organized, and energetic.”

Have a news item you would like to see in the next issue of The Bell Tower? Email text and photo(s) to Annie Knepper at aknepper@millerschool.org.

MSA Faculty Members Teach UVa Summer Courses MSA History Department Chair Kelly Winck and English Department Chair Steve Knepper both taught 2012 summer courses at the University of Virginia. Winck, who is a PhD candidate in UVa’s Corcoran Department of History, taught “American History to 1865.” Knepper, who is a PhD candidate in UVa’s English Department, taught “Popular Song Lyrics: American Rock.” Winck and Knepper both teach MSA juniors, where their experiences working with students at one of the nation’s premier universities help them prepare MSA students for the college classroom.

Mr. Knepper’s class was profiled for UVAToday news. The article can be found online at http:// www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/newsRelease. php?id=19152#.

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Left to right: Poets Nikki Giovanni, Kwame Alexander, and Nikky Finney Photos by Ashley Twiggs, courtesy of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities

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Recognizing the evening’s sponsorship by the Miller School of Albemarle, Dr. Robert Vaughn, Executive Director of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, opened the evening with introduction of the assembled MSA students, faculty, and staff, expressing particular gratitude to MSA teacher and English Department Chair Steve Knepper for his leadership of the MSA Service Group students including Chase Cannon, Yiwen Wang, Grayson Gunner, and Andy Mangham, who had worked for the entire academic year in support of the VFH and its 2012 Festival of the Book, as well as MSA students Aaron Barnett, Nelly Hawley-Hayes, Sara Vogelgesang, Anastassia Simakina, Bill Nguyen, and Marta Regn, who served on the Advisory Committee to the Festival of the Book.

The audience was enthralled with the powerful readings of each poet, their humor and candor and the relevance they pointed out to the universal course of life and the irony and pain of current events. Many recalled Professor Giovanni’s “We are Virginia Tech” memorial address that was broadcast live to millions around the world. Following the readings, MSA students had time to speak with each poet and receive specially inscribed books.

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-Brad Bodager

The poets sign books after the reading

Community Events

Morgan McKenzie Perkins, host of public television program Charlottesville’s Arts Spotlight, speaks with Professor Garrick Louis and his spouse Debbie Crosby P ’16 about Dr. Louis’ development work in regions throughout Africa.

Virginia to Africa

Author Matthew Crawford visits MSA and speaks at Rotary Virginia to Africa Event

On Friday March 2, 2012, Miller School of Albemarle

trustees Preston Stallings, Thomas Brubaker, and John Pritzlaff represented the school in its sponsorship, along with other community leaders, of the third Virginia to Africa water purification project fundraising event, a collaborative effort of Rotary International, the Piedmont Rotary Council, and the UVa School of Engineering. Water purification and access is a core Rotary International objective, and MSA parent and UVa Engineering School Professor Garrick Louis addressed the assembled guests about the water treatment projects over the past three years that have supported construction of a water treatment facility in Cameroon and other water treatment projects in the remote Limpopo Province and in the coming year at the Tlhopane Elementary School, both in South Africa.

Keynote speaker for the event was Matthew Crawford, author of the New York Times best seller, Shop Class as Soulcraft. Having made an on-site visit to the Miller School of Albemarle campus earlier that day, Crawford made the case for the kind of work that requires mastery of real things to cultivate ethical virtues and to foster habits of individual responsibility. Calling for efforts to move from passivity and dependence on consumer culture to self-reliance, Crawford extolled the academic mission and curricular focus of the Miller School as uniquely addressing these goals in an educational setting, and stated “the Miller School has got it right. It has created an educational approach for everyone to model.”

-Brad Bodager, co-chair of the Virginia to Africa event committee

Matthew Crawford addresses the guests

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Spotlight on Visual Arts

MSA Teachers Help Students Find Their “Creative Vision” F rom the photos lining the hallways of Old Main, to Miller,” notes Mr. Pallante, whose own photography the award winning entries in competitive art contests, often takes advantage of his perch atop Caton Hall. to the acceptances at the world’s finest art schools, MSA arts students produce striking results. The visual arts have always played an important role in the school’s curriculum, and they now form one of MSA’s strongest programs. Three key components make this program a success: our teachers, our facilities, and our small classes. These allow for challenging, individualized courses of study for each student.

Miller School of Albemarle students benefit from master teachers in the visual arts. Art teacher Sharon Barrett Kennedy, who has been at Miller School of Albemarle since 1999, is skilled both in working with high school students and in developing curriculum.

Her website (www.art-rageous.net), which contains a wealth of lesson plans for other teachers to use, has received nearly two million visitors. MSA students learn from her expertise every day.

Photography teacher and fine arts department chair Tom Pallante came to MSA in 2008, after teaching for four years at Radford University in Radford, Virginia. His students receive top notch instruction in what he calls a “unique comprehensive high school curriculum modeled directly from a college course.”

He also continues to hone his own skills, displaying a solo exhibition of his work at Radford in the fall of 2011 and placing a series of photos in the most recent volume of About Place Journal (www.aboutplacejournal.org).

Ms. Kennedy has spent the past four years in a new space. Spanning the entire top level of the Canteen Building, the light-filled art studio provides plenty of room for students of all levels to create. A quick tour with Ms. Kennedy reveals students working on many individualized projects, often at higher levels than would be expected from their class year (especially the eighth grade students!). Overall, both the art and photography studios have provided ideal locations for the visual arts at MSA to flourish.

Within these beautiful spaces, small classes of students are given the personal attention and time needed to bring out the best of their abilities and creativity. Mr. Pallante notes that “the most exciting aspect of teaching in the arts at Miller is the creative energy and ideas exchanged between the students and instructors. It is extremely rewarding to watch students develop their own creative vision, voice, and critical thought of the world around them.”

Ms. Kennedy also encourages students to find their creative vision, noting that students who are taking upper level art classes (or who arrive at Miller with advanced skills and a desire to pursue a career in the arts) “find that they have much ‘guided freedom.’”

To Ms. Kennedy, “one of the most exciting things

While excellent teaching is the cornerstone of the fine arts department, it also benefits from recent facility improvements. When Mr. Pallante moved into his newly-renovated photography studio on the top floor of Caton Hall in 2009, he got more than just a nice classroom. Some of the most interesting student photos of Old Main and the Bull Ring have been taken from Mr. Pallante’s classroom windows, which provide light, inspiration, and a vantage point for memorable shots. “The classrooms are brilliant spaces with open views of the beautiful landscape that surrounds

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This discovery and development is readily apparent to anyone viewing the work of both Mr. Pallante’s and Ms. Kennedy’s students that appears regularly in the halls of Old Main. Each year, it is wonderful to see the unique and distinctive styles that emerge from student artists. Highlights of the 2011-12 year included senior Rachel Leach’s uniquely “southern” viewpoint (according to Mr. Pallante), in which she frequently focused her camera lens on her hometown of Free Union. One of Rachel’s photographs was a finalist for the 32nd Annual Photographer’s Forum Magazine College and High School Photo Contest. Nira Liu, a junior, found his niche in detailed colored pencil drawings on dark paper, including his rendition of a photograph by Mr. Pallante entitled “Miller School Nightview” that won an award in the 2012 Southern Teachers Student Art Contest.

Successes such as these show that Ms. Kennedy and Mr. Pallante are preparing MSA students well for future studies in art should they choose to pursue them. According to Kennedy, “few students come into the program knowing that they ultimately want to major in art, but as they acquire skills and gain confidence, some of them realize that their ‘dream career’ is in an art-related field.” For those who have this dream, odds are very good that they will be accepted into one of the top art and design schools in the country. Recent acceptances include Parsons, Pratt, Fashion Institute of Technology, Rhode Island School of Design, Ringling, and Virginia Commonwealth University, to name a few. MSA graduates have gone on to pursue degrees in illustration, fashion design, industrial and craft design, scenic design, art education, architecture and landscape architecture.

Rachel Leach with her award-winning photograph

Nira Liu with his award-winning “Miller School Nightview”

MSA Artists in the Charlottesville Community All Miller School of Albemarle art students are given the opportunity to exhibit their work in a variety of on- and off-campus shows, and they are also encouraged to enter age-appropriate and teacher-approved contests and to participate in the “En Plein Air” art events that are hosted by the School. As a result of these activities, MSA student artists have won a variety of awards for their work and gained positive recognition. Additionally, some (most recently Marta Regn and Andy Mangham) have been accepted into a two-week Governor’s School program for artistically gifted children, and older students have attended residential summer programs at art and design colleges around the country. As mentioned on page 3, Marta Regn was also accepted to the Savannah College of Art and Design summer program this year.

Marta Regn participates in “En Plein Air”

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Student Voices

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Boys State and Girls State are programs sponsored by the American Legion and the American Legion Auxiliary to identify and support young men and women who possess strong leadership and citizenship. At Miller School of Albemarle, we are very careful about whom we nominate for this distinguished program. We look for a young man and a young woman who are personable, upright, and who have a spotless disciplinary record. Finally, the nominees must have been leaders in their junior year U.S. History classes.

This year’s MSA representatives, Kyle Ottaway and Sara Vogelgesang, possess all of these characteristics. Here, Kyle and Sara share their experiences at the 2012 Boys State and Girls State programs.

Girls State

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did not know very much about state government before I went to Girls State, but I learned a surprising amount about it during the week-long program. I not only learned the basic structure of state government and how various issues are dealt with within the state, but I also got a taste of how complicated legislation can be when people with many different opinions must collaborate.

As soon as I registered at Longwood University, I was directed to my dorm floor to meet the other girls in my “city.” All of the girls at Girls State were divided into fourteen cities, and together the cities made up our state. I was placed in the lovely city of Ingles, which my floormates and I decided was a more family friendly version of Las Vegas. We elected a mayor and a city council to preside over our meetings, elected nominees for the house of delegates and other positions, and

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appointed officials.

After our city government was up and running, we had the important task of dividing up city funds and passing ordinances. Balancing the city budget after we allocated our funds proved to be surprisingly difficult, and the mayor and her aides had to stay up late into the night crunching numbers. We attended almost every event together, ate together, and slept in the same dorm, and as a result we bonded very quickly and had immense pride in our city.

All of the girls attending Girls State were also split evenly into two parties: the Federalists and the Nationalists. I was a Nationalist and served as a delegate at the Nationalist party convention. The two-party conventions we had were very interesting, although they could run very late at night. Electing the Nation-

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Girls State went by very quickly and at the end of the week I was surprised at how much we had accomplished.

It was a tiring week, but also much more fun than I had imagined it would be. I came away from Girls State with a new appreciation for the thought and effort needed to run a state and a new perspective on many issues.

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by Kyle Ottaway, Class of 2013 Boys State was a great experience.

When I first received the news that I had been selected to represent Miller School, I didn’t know what to think. I was hearing mixed reviews about Boys State; some people were saying that it was great and others where saying it was less than enjoyable. I didn’t know what to think about everything from the dress code, an American Legion tee shirt and blue khaki shorts, to the other people that were going to be there.

tions and extensive interviews at his school just to be one of the two sent. Adam, my second roommate, told stories of an Air Force Leadership Conference that he went to in which he was one of only four students to be invited. That was my first really humbling experience at Boys State.

As I became more familiar with other students, I realized that I was not alone in feeling overwhelmed by some of the students. The first couple of hours were especially awkward because we were immediately Boys State was held at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia. Prior to arrival, I was told that we were expected to congregate and elect a sheriff to keep us in line and on time. Once we had all gotten to know each going to be divided into cities and that we had to have other a little better, I realized that there was a similar a couple of things on us at all times. The items where quality in everybody there, from the kids who where a “flag book” (basically a schedule), a name tag with my city, and a meal card. When I arrived, after a con- obviously there to win an elected position to the kids who where only there because their parents made them voluted drive around Lynchburg, I saw all 800 of the attend: everybody was nice. It almost seemed surreal; students and their parents in the cafeteria parking lot everybody was considerate of other people’s goals for waiting for their names to be called.

Boys State. As well as having a great time, I learned a We were divided into cities named after famous Virgin- tremendous amount from everybody there. ia natives. I was put into Henry city, named after PatBoys State was an unbelievable and invaluable experirick Henry. In the week that we were there, we would ence that I will never forget. Thank you for enabling grow independent from our counselors by electing students to jobs within the cities. My job, as a member me to be apart of such a wonderful experience. Also, thanks to the American Legion Post 74 for sponsoring of Henry City, was to help elect officials within my city who I thought would be a proper fit for the various my trip. offices available. The two most important positions within the city were Mayor and Sheriff.

When I first arrived at my dorm, it was apparent who was trying to run for office and who wasn’t. Right as I walked in the door, three students came up to me introducing themselves and telling me what position they planned on running for, while also trying to figure out if I was running for anything.

While unpacking my belongings, I met my roommates for the week who were both from Fairfax County and supremely smart. Patrick, the first roommate that I introduced myself to, had to compete in essay competi-

Miller School of Albemarle has sent young men and women to Girls State and Boys State for many years. Our 2011 representatives were Nicole Courtney and Grant Dinwiddie.

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A College Counselor in Scotland

by Director of College Placement Hugh Meagher

This spring, I was honored to be one of sixty North American counselors invited by the St. Andrews Admissions Office to attend this year’s Counselors Visit. Why was I asked? The answer is obvious: Miller School of Albemarle is on the rise, and we are being noticed by top universities all around the world. Furthermore, Richard Pasztory of the MSA Class of 2010 is enrolled at St. Andrews. Thus, on February 28, I drove to Dulles Airport and flew to Glasgow where I was met by a driver and taken to the Rusacks Hotel in the charming village of St. Andrews, where I soon met my fellow North American counselors.

Founded in 1413, the University of St. Andrews is both Scotland’s oldest university and the third oldest university in the United Kingdom. Furthermore, it is ranked just behind Oxford and Cambridge in the UK rankings.

In the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, St. Andrews places 85th; by comparison, the University of Virginia is 135th. Most Americans assume that our system of four years of undergraduate education came from England. In fact, it came from Scotland; the English use a three year system. Finally, three

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signers of the American Declaration of Independence attended or received degrees from St. Andrews.

In addition to its famous university, St. Andrews is the birthplace of golf, and the Rusacks is located next to the “Old Course’s” 18th green and the famous golf clubhouse. By chance, the hotel is also right across the street from John Burnett Hall where my daughter Maggie, a student at St. Andrews, lives. Yes, I did have another reason to visit St. Andrews.

Before the conference began, I walked out on the golf course and posed on the famous Swilcan Bridge (above —do I look a little like Jack Nicklaus?), gazed at the Road House Bunker, and walked around the exterior of the famous Royal and Ancient Golf Club.

The next three days were very busy with a variety of meetings. We met with the University’s First Principal (president) Louise Richardson – formerly Dean of Harvard’s Ratcliff Institute. Dr. Richardson explained how her background in international relations, especially in the study of terrorism, led her to St. Andrews, which

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Academics is recognized as the world’s leading institution in the study of terrorism. The other meetings were similar to those held at American colleges – meetings with professors, deans, admissions staff, students, and tours of various facilities. I especially enjoyed a panel presentation we had with two Canadian and three American students. They were asked many interesting questions; for example “…are you only friends with North Americans?” “No, my best friends are from South Africa, Belgium, and Norway.” Another question was, “Why did you come here to study if you were accepted at Middlebury?” “I am double majoring in Mathematics and Economics, so I wanted to study at the same university where John Maynard Keynes taught class.”

I also enjoyed a session in the university’s Board Room, a fourteenth century architectural beauty decorated with large oil portraits of the various First Principals. We were hosted by librarians who had assembled various parts of their rare books collection. We were allowed to turn the pages and photograph (no flash) some of the most amazing books I have ever seen. For example, a scientific text personally signed by the author, Galileo Galilei; three books written by and signed by Benjamin Franklin, which he gave to St. Andrews when the university awarded him an honorary degree; a second century manuscript; and works by Sir Isaac Newton and Copernicus.

During the conference, I enjoyed describing the Miller School of Albemarle to my many new friends who work at some of America’s most prestigious public and private schools. For example, I bragged about MSA to the counselors from Princeton Day School, the Westminster Schools of Atlanta, Isidore Newman of New Orleans, and New York’s Stuyvesant High School.

Of course, I also enjoyed spending time with my daughter Maggie and meeting a number of her friends. I had

tea with her four flat mates – lovely young English ladies from the UK’s midlands. We also had dinner with two of her best friends from boarding school (The Hill School) who also attend St. Andrews.

St. Andrews has always been highly selective, but recent events have made it as discriminating as most US top 25 national universities. The royal wedding of Kate and William, in particular, has greatly increased St. Andrews’ applicant pool. Both William and Kate attended St. Andrews, and that’s where their romance began. Thus, today for an American to be admitted, an applicant needs a high GPA with a rigorous course load, SAT scores of 2100+, two 700s on Subject Tests, and a couple of fours or fives on AP Tests. Out of an undergraduate enrollment of about 7,500, around 1,100 are North Americans. Thirty percent of undergraduates are Scots, who go for free – their competition for admission is fierce; another thirty percent come from the rest of the UK who are charged £3,000 for tuition, room and board. Another thirty percent come from the European Union who are also charged £3,000 under the stipulations of the ERASMUS Treaty. The final ten percent are internationals with the bulk coming from North America, although the Chinese contingent is rapidly expanding. Internationals are charged £13,500. In total, over 100 countries are represented in the student body.

So why do universities like St. Andrews go to the time and expense to host these counselors conferences? The answer is simple: admissions offices and college placement counselors have a symbiotic relationship. We learn a great deal about their university – usually cast in the best possible light. They get to know and trust us, and in turn, we counsel more of our top students to consider seriously applying to and then attending their school. It’s a business, but a business I love very much.

It’s my life’s work.

MSA Alumni at St. Andrews Recent MSA graduates Richard Pasztory ’10 and Patton Usry ’09 have been drawn to the academic program at St. Andrews.

Richard enrolled in the St. Andrews undergraduate program and with the support of St. Andrews has pursued an externship for applied experience, working for an international venture capital firm.

Patton, an undergraduate student at Denison University, recently completed a semester abroad at St. Andrews.

Richard Pasztory ’10

Patton Usry ’09

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Students in front of the UVA Rotunda during their trip to the University Research Design Symposium (Photo: John Macdonald)

Special Feature

Senior Chapel Talks 2012

Every MSA senior must deliver a chapel talk to the entire student body. It can be a daunting challenge. Under the guidance of faculty advisors Debbie Casado and Chris Ross, twelfth graders spend hours crafting their messages to the MSA Community. All of the anxiety and hard work are more than worth it, though. Through their chapel talks, the seniors share their passions and their insights, the experiences that have formed them, and the challenges they have overcome. These chapel talks are marked by the sincerity and wisdom of young adults who are turning a page in their lives. The audience always listens, and the audience always learns. Here is a brief sampling from the chapel talks of the class of 2012, accompanied by photos of the authors on graduation day.

If you would like a copy of all the senior chapel talks, email aknepper@millerschool.org.

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“Be weird. Flaunt your individuality.

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Quirky is perfect to the ones that matter in your life. If anyone thinks otherwise, you don’t have reason to hang around them.

The more you celebrate your individuality, the happier you will be. Now that is perfect.” –Olivia Garcia “[Through photography,] I could capture a moment in time the way I wanted to see it. This process gives me the gift of developing a vision of my life.

By taking pictures that are dreary and dark, I can present a work which grasps how I felt while my allergy took over my body. I love being able to create and share how I saw the world around me then, and contrast that vision with how I see the world now.”

–Savannah White “It seems to me, nothing truly worth having comes easy. Therefore, I believe we need to develop a certain mentality that enables us to push forward when we are tired or frustrated. Developing self discipline is a lot more important than relying on another person to help us do something.” –Andrew White

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“Don’t limit yourself. Recognize your shortcomings and try your hardest to overcome them, and help yourself to succeed.” –Spencer Valade

“There’s nothing wrong in embracing who you are. But, there is also nothing wrong in embracing who you strive to become. At this moment, it seems like who you are now is who you’re going to be forever. But in four years, I promise you, you will be so much different. Just remember, it’s up to you to decide if the change is for the better.” –Taylor Baker

“This school pretty much taught me how to have a successful and happy life. I have learned the tools for success from my teachers, and I have learned how to be happy from my peers.” –Peter Syverud “Miller School is a small world to be a part of. I love this place for it has changed me, shaped me, and made me figure out a few things about my values. I was a teenager just getting off the airplane from the other side of the world. I came here to prove that I am ‘smart.’ At times I wondered, why be smart? What do I live for? Is it all about college? Is it all about success? Is it possible to answer these questions without considering what the world tells us to do?

“We are on the go all day, bustling about, trying to achieve different goals. But when it comes down to it, we are just common people navigating similar sets of circumstances. Why do we care about others’ remarks so much? What are we afraid of? As Einstein said, ‘Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.’” –Yiming Zhao

“Like Jackson Pollock, all of us are in the process of splattering our own canvasses.

We struggle, but each challenge brings us close to understanding where we want the next blue line of paint to drip. You might feel weird sometimes, but that’s normal because face it, the world’s weird. I think we should just embrace it, and not try too hard to understand it.” –Nelly Hawley-Hayes “The true challenge in life is consistently living by our morals through thick and thin. Morals are not just thoughts or words, they are a person’s life guide to being who they want to be. How many of us have felt that cool breeze? And how many of us have recognized it for what it truly can be?” –Grant Dinwiddie

“There are some days where nothing goes your way. Everyone has them, and that is no secret.

Fishing has taught me to keep pushing through, because, sooner or later, something good happens.” –Sam Ridenhour

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“We all face vicissitudes in our lives, but we have friends that can help us through those times; after all, that’s what friends are for. But there are always those people who are less fortunate than we are. Before we fall into the rut of complaining, we should take a moment to think about them.”

–Casey Matthews “My message is this: You can find a job that you love and enjoy, when you are done with school. In the meantime, however, school is your job. If you love it, great. If not, work anyway. Value the learning and take pride in it. Do this job well and you will be able to find a career in which you can be happy.

Hard work, not your IQ, will carry you through.” –Max Johnson

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Graduation 2012 “Because of [our rock band] Paradox, I learned how to work on a team, and because of my friends, I started to understand that friendship is the most important thing in this world. I felt wonderful every night we rehearsed together, and I remember how perfect our performance was on that special night last Valentine’s Day. It is indeed a paradox that four people who looked like they could never work together actually formed a successful band. ” –Ke “Magic” Meng

“The act of pulling yourself from the valley is certainly difficult and tests your will. You may question yourself and wonder if you are even worth all of the trouble. Don’t let yourself believe that lie.

Surround yourself with friends who love and care for you, not only those who share in your pain.

Soon you will come to a point where the pain is no longer prominent and you are able to reflect.”

–Aaron Barnett

“Each one of us has special talents, goals, dreams, and motives. When we activate all of those, we are closer to formulating our own destiny. Even if there are some of you in the audience that believe in fate, I believe all of us are granted certain amounts of potential, which we unlock or not. Activating that potential is power, pushing you into your future.” –Leela Young “Everybody has weaknesses. It is how we choose to deal with them that defines us as human beings. It would be one thing if I didn’t like to read, but it would be another thing entirely if I gave up trying to become a better reader. It would be one thing if I let my size stop me on the court, but it’s another thing entirely to use my size as an advantage. Don’t let your weakness define you, but figure out how your weakness can make you stronger.” –Nicole Courtney Bell Tower Magazine • Spring/Summer 2012 16

Salutatory Speech

Chase Cannon, North Carolina State University Class of 2016

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morning. Many of you in the audience today have probably seen the movie Forrest Gump. If so, you most certainly remember this expression: “Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re going to get.” Indeed, a box of chocolates is hardly ever the same, and so it is a surprise each and every indulgent experience. These words of Gump’s precisely describe my experience here at Miller.

Coming into my junior year, I was only expecting to focus on my primary goal, basketball. I knew there were a bunch of international kids, some strange kids, and some crazy baseball guys, and I told myself I would just ignore them and focus on my goal. However, Miller has allowed me to evolve into an entirely different person than I had expected to.

I soon discovered the international kids were awesome.

Characters like Ian Kim, Bo Yoo, and Yiming made me laugh more than anyone, were amazingly smart, yet were just like me in so many ways. My roommate from Korea, Theodore Kim, even became one of my closest friends. As for the strange kids, I had one of those as my roommate this year too, and his name was Aaron.

[Laughs.]

But in all seriousness, Aaron became one of my closest friends as well, and I learned to accept people of all different backgrounds and interests because you never know how spectacular someone may be unless you truly get to know them. Oh, and the baseball guys, I still kind of avoid them because they are just too wild for me.

However, the students were not the only surprises for me. The faculty was caring, intelligent, and welcoming like no other place I had ever been. I began cultivating relationships with teachers and coaches that were both on an intellectual and familiar level. They helped me with my college essays, my schoolwork, and life in general because they genuinely cared about me, as they do with everyone in this school.

These changes in perspective serve as a prelude to my message for the class of 2012. Life is full of unexpected surprises. I’m sure most of us never expected to have a Korean roommate become a best friend, to fist bump your senior English teacher because he is a yoga zen master lax bro and is that cool, to have Cooper “pants” you while you’re trying to lift the golf cart for the senior prank, or love a school that you dreaded before and only wanted to come to because of basketball.

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In our future, there will be new experiences, adventures, and people, and my message to all of you is this: embrace the diversity of life’s offerings and enjoy them!

We will never be able to plan for everything or predict everything, and things will hardly ever go exactly how we expect them to and will most likely happen the opposite of how we think they will. But, there is nothing wrong with this at all. When we go off to college, be willing to accept these new ideas and be willing to try different things. Whether you hang out with a new group of people, try a new sport, or try a new class just go for it and do not be hesitant because it is different.

I regret that I did not have this mindset before I came to Miller, because I wasted time not enjoying the experience as much as I could have and should have in the beginning months. I think you’ll agree, this school has helped all of us grow.

In the end, we never know what we will get, but we do know that we have the ability to make the best out of what we do get. I love you guys from the class of 2012.

Thank you for making this one of the most memorable and fantastic experiences of my life. I will always love this school because of what we have shared here, and I hope you will too.

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Yiwen Wang, Washington & Lee University Class of 2016 We, as a whole class, have to say goodbye to this wonderful place that helped us live, learn, and flourish.

Graduation is a bittersweet moment. But we shall graduate with pride and smiles because the Class of 2012 is a special class as worthy of celebration and remembrance as any class that has come before. Of course, our class is special not because a rare earthquake took place at Miller at the beginning of this year, not because we survived in the year that had been rumored to be the end of the world, but because Miller School and the Class of 2012 grew up together like brothers and sisters.

As a welcoming and warm community, Miller has not only helped us grow from shy and scared underclassmen to confident and mature young adults, but also influenced each one of us to learn to respect, trust, and care for others. In the accepting but competitive field of Miller, we have gained recognition for our great talents and hard work through amazing performances, intense sports games, and meaningful service.

Good morning! Thank you for coming to the graduation of the Class of 2012!

In two days, I will be back at home with my parents in China, just like every previous summer. But this time, I am not excited at all because I do not want to leave my home in the United States, the Miller School.

For the past three years, I have eagerly anticipated going to college; but for the past three weeks, all I wished was that time could slow down because there is so much about Miller that I am not ready to let go.

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I still want to take a look at every beautiful scene of the landscape that surrounds us; I still want to watch another intense and exciting basketball match or another funny and fantastic drama production; I still want to talk with my friends and teachers like we are still going to see each other every day.

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I haven’t heard enough of Mr. France’s insightful speeches; I would still like to have a chance to convince Mr. Spivey that just because my backpack has a drawing of a cat next to the word “hello” does not mean that it is a knockoff “Hello Kitty” backpack; I still want to argue with Mr. Gottlob about his theory that the best way to a girl’s heart is through her stomach, even though I know this theory works perfectly well on me.

But today, I have to say goodbye to all of these memories.

I believe that for the Class of 2012, Miller School has been a family where we can truly be ourselves, a friend who always supports and encourages us, and a mentor who points out the right path and lights up our future. Miller has not only prepared us to deal with any challenges that lie ahead of us, but also helped us build upon Miller characteristics of caring and respect that will influence others we come across in college.

Just as Miller witnessed every little transformation of the Class of 2012, we witnessed every significant change about Miller School. We welcomed many more cute new babies to our faculty community. We were fortunate to enjoy the improvement of the dining system and Alumni Gym that provide us with better access to health. A variety of new sports such as Badminton, Endurance Team and Dance Fitness and new community service groups such as Morningside Eldercare increased our value of being part of Miller.

The loss of our beloved faculty member, Mr. Joe Spivey, made each one of us fall apart individually, but also made our community much closer and stronger.

Miller and the Class of 2012 both went through many significant transformations over the past four years. No matter how much we have changed and will change, our love and gratitude for Miller will only increase and our wonderful memories will never fade away.

After all the happy and sad moments, the successes and failures, our memory of Miller now is more than just a photo, a video, or a yearbook. What we have experienced at Miller has indeed become part of our souls.

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Spring Sports Highlights

Varsity Baseball

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Girls Soccer

The girls soccer team experienced an incredible season with many firsts, including making it to the first round of the conference tournament. The focus of the season was to maintain a close-knit team and, of course, to win some games. Creating a positive and strong foundation off the field carried over to quality of play on the field.

The team enjoyed many bonding evenings including a spaghetti dinner, tie-dye party, Easter egg hunt, and hot dog roast. The girls trained hard, even in the rain, and ran more hills than they could count.

Savannah White and Rachel Leach led the team up front, working hard to get open and put the ball in the back of the net. Keeping the ball out of the net and leading the defense were sweeper Alyssa Fickley and goaltender Rachel Odumu. The team ended with a record of 3-6, the most wins to date by an MSA girl’s soccer team.

Rachel Odumu had another MSA first earning first team all conference honors.

-Coach Kristi Melis

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MSA’s Varsity baseball team wrapped up its 2012 season with a 13-10-1 record. The Mavericks came up two runs short in the state semi-finals to the eventual state champions. MSA played the entire season with an eleven-man roster, seven of whom were seniors. Eric Ponton and Jeremy Walker led the team in pitching, both posting 4-1 records. Eric Ponton threw a no-hitter and finished the season with a 0.97 ERA. Both Ponton and Walker earned post-season awards from the league with first team and second team honors, respectively, and Ponton earned all-state honorable mention. Senior Sam Ridenhour was also recognized as second team All VIC and led the Mavericks with a .349 batting average. Joaquin Litzenberger, the leader in the dugout and anchor behind the plate, earned the coaches award and had 18 RBIs and 7 doubles. The Mavericks will also miss the spectacular play in center field of Justin Cooper and the steady contributions of Jarrad Moscicki and longtime Maverick Dan Baer, who wrapped up a five year career with team. Next year Kody Rose (who was injured early in the year) and Michael Daily will look to lead the team back to the State tournament.

JV & Varsity Baseball

-Assistant Coach Tom Pallante

The MSA baseball program expanded to include a JV team in 2012. In their first season, the boys posted a .500 record. Player development remained the highest priority for the team. Freshmen Steele Henley and Brooke Henley and sophomore Orion Bloom were able to make important contributions to the varsity team. JV baseball could be seen and heard practicing intensely on the newly rebuilt lower baseball field sometimes well into dinnertime, long after other practices had ended. The results of this hard work showed when the team competed fiercely against the more experienced teams from larger area high schools. Eighth grader Johnny Wood, sophomore Orion Bloom, and junior captain Christian Cassity won end-of-season honors.

-Assistant Coach Rob Wyllie

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Tennis

The MSA tennis team is at the point now where they don’t have to be encouraged to work on their game. They are out there, in droves, constantly seeking to improve. As a coach, this puts a very large smile on my face. People are getting excited, and I couldn’t be more proud of this team.

We began the season playing a team that has really pushed us in the past: Blue Ridge. We have beaten them three times in the last two years but it was always close. We ended up triumphing 5-4 and winning our opening tennis match for the first time in my tenure at MSA. We would go on to defeat LCA, Hargrave, and North Cross to begin the season 4 and 0.

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During the final week of the season, we ended up with four matches in five days against four of the top eight teams in the state. We lost all four of these matches, but we fought hard and played with grace and class. We finished at .500 on the season, and we are garnering respect in the conference.

Two players made the VIC all-conference team this year: Kyle Ottaway and Chase Cannon.

-Coach Michael Dalton

Badminton

This last spring we introduced Badminton as a sport to our MSA community. I was thrilled to see the overwhelming interest from our students. Although badminton is an indoor sport, we enjoyed playing on outdoor courts under the sun. Throughout the season, we learned the rules of the game, practiced serving and receiving the shuttlecocks as well as basic and advanced strokes, and played a round-robin tournament.

We concluded the season with the following students winning Number One titles: Feier Chen in girls’ singles, Sean Park in boys’ singles, Feier Chen and Kate Zhao in girls’ doubles, Sean Park and Denny Yoo in boys’ doubles, and Sean Park and Leona Du in mixed doubles. Overall, we had a sunny season. Most importantly, we truly enjoyed the sport and had fun.

-Coach Esther Tian

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MSA lacrosse enjoyed a year of steady improvement Highlights included the arrival of Assistant Coach Chris Fortier ’02 who injected the program with his tough-nosed experiences of playing for MSA ten years ago. Chris, the eldest of the legendary Fortier brothers, played every position on the field in his day. One of our best practices of the year was he and his brothers Matt and Wes suited up and scrimmaged with the kids.

Individual kudos are to be heaped upon goalie Beau Wilson, who upped his intensity level to became the field general we’ve been needing. He recorded several games in which he had over thirteen saves, which is remarkable! Senior Ben Keller was our clearing specialist with his speed and field vision, and Miles Gagg, our standout attackman, had several multi-goal games. Miles really stepped it up in our last game of the season, a home rematch against New Covenant, who had beat us by one earlier in the season.

He ended the game with four goals, and that victory was sweet!

We were also helped by senior standouts Aaron Barnett on defense and Devon Anderson at midfield. Neither of these young men had ever played the game before this year. With their field awareness and hustle, they each contributed mightily. Aaron was voted our MVP—a rare achievement not only for a first year player, but also for a defense man. In fact, our fairly impenetrable zone D was our most accomplished unit, led by the aforementioned goalie, Beau Wilson, and fortified by veteran defense-men Alexey Zielinski and Edward Her. Midfielders James Semerling (Coaches Award), and Alex Zielinski (Most Improved Player) were stalwart pieces of that zone, and incoming freshman Trevor Scarboro has a strong future at the face off X. Everything came together in our last game of the season. The team hustled, moved the ball, and helped each other. The trick will be to build from that spot next year; focus, intensity, (going to lacrosse camp this summer), and field awareness will get the job done!

-Coach Chris Ross

Golf The 2012 golf season was exciting! Along with the first golf victory for MSA, many personal goals were accomplished by each member of the team. Competitors for the year included Mike Oram, John Armstrong, and Bonnie Kim. These players worked hard in practice to improve their short game and to learn the etiquette of the game. Some of their accomplishments include scoring birdies and pars during match play, increasing drive distance by thirty yards, and scoring personal bests. They have been a great inspiration and support to returning team member Andy Mangham and first year players Gavin Cutchin and Taylor Parsons. These three put in a great amount of effort learning to make consistent contact with the ball and building a solid foundation and love for the game.

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Endurance Team The MSA Endurance Team set the bar high with a successful spring campaign and has carried its momentum into the summer months. The competitive season began with the first round of the Virginia High School Mountain Bike Series hosted by Miller School of Albemarle. The team was excited to showcase several miles of new singletrack mountain bike trails it had constructed together with the Campus Trails Service Group, and to see just how well the winter of training had prepared each rider. Great racing by all MSA riders resulted in numerous teal and green clad athletes on the podium and the overall team win for the event, a first for the school!

Numerous wins and top results continued through the VAHS MTB Series races, and despite stiff competition, especially from cross-mountain rivals “Rocktown” from Harrisonburg, the series

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culminated with MSA Endurance being crowned State Champions at the series finale.

While much of the team focused on mountain biking and the VAHS MTB Series, several members were also hard at work on the road, racking up podium finishes from New York to North Carolina. Rising Junior Ashlyn Woods opened the team’s account with a convincing win at the Wolf Pack Classic road race in North Carolina, and then several weeks later it was both Ashlyn and Sam James taking top honors in their respective categories at the Jefferson Cup Road Race in Charlottesville. Shortly thereafter, it was off to upstate New York to compete in Tour of the Battenkill, one of the country’s largest and most prestigious races. Large, talented fields served as the ideal platforms for Endurance Team members to display their racing prowess, and MSA came away

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Racing continued beyond final exams, most notably with the Junior Road National Championships in August, Georgia. It was a great experience for all team members as they competed on the largest stage available. Ashlyn Woods came away with an amazing sixth place in the Individual Time Trial. Preparations are underway now for several Endurance Team athletes who will be competing in Vermont’s four-day Green Mountain Stage Race in early September.

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With the continued development of current Endurance Team members, as well as the addition of new talent for the 2012-13 school year, the program is poised to continue growing and attending the most prestigious cycling events in North America.

-Director of Endurance Andy Guptill

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Ashlyn Woods and Chris Keeling

A mixture of rookie and veteran track runners spent the season working through a variety of workouts and exercises, both preparing for competition and improving general strength and conditioning. An eclectic group culled from a variety of winter sports such as ping-pong, mountain biking, and dance-fitness, the MSA track runners all saw dramatic improvements in their physical condition. Each week of practice consisted of two sprint workouts carried out at the Western Albemarle outdoor track, and three days of distance and strength training on the Hill. Runners endured ladder workouts up various MSA hills, raced through the speed and agility ladder, and built fast-twitch muscle sweating it out in the weight room. Working through five days a week of difficult training ensured improvement for every athlete on the team. MSA made a strong showing in competitions as well. Junior Elias Hubbard ran in the 800 and 1600 meter races throughout the season, with impressive times for each meet. His final finish of 4:37 in the VISAA State Championship one mile race earned him an eighth place all-state finish. Elias’s progress, and that of the entire team, will undoubtedly carry over into the numerous fall sports bolstered by the strength and speed of the spring track team.

-Assistant Coach Thomas Fickley

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A Historic Treasure: The Architecture

of Miller School of Albemarle The architectural splendor of the Miller School of Albemarle buildings contribute to the rich texture of building arts in Albemarle County. In his seminal work, The Architecture of Jefferson Country, renowned UVa Langhorne Professor of Architecture K. Edward Lay includes descriptions of many of the structures on the 1,600 acres of the grounds of Miller School of Albemarle. Noting that Albemarle County has two of the world’s great examples of the building arts, Lay points out that virtually every style of architecture once or presently popular in the United States

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is represented locally. Additionally, he notes that Albemarle County architecture reflects “the history of the county—its beginnings on the fringe of the western frontier, its settlement and growth, its roads and railroads….its shift from a farming to a broader-based economy ... typical of the nation’s history.” In many ways, the establishment of MSA and its evolution over the past 130 years provides a microcosm of this history. It extends from MSA’s role in establishing the railroad station in Crozet, the paving of Miller School Road (a first in Albemarle County), and the Computer-drawn rendering of the new bleachers to be installed in Alumni Gym

Photo: Clark Walke

History active role of Thomas Edison in the wiring of MSA for electricity.

From the start of this timeline, it is noteworthy that on the grounds of MSA there exists a Jefferson-era residence, called Pomegranate House, that dates from 1823. An important hall-parlor-plan brick residence, Pomegranate has a molded brick cornice, a penciled Flemish bond façade, and a six-over-nine sash on the first floor.

MSA’s main academic building, “Old Main,” is an E-shaped building that was originally built as a “T.” According to the application letter that successfully requested MSA’s inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places in 1974, the north and south wings completing the ‘E’ were added later.

The National Register of Historic Places letter goes on to describe several notable details of Old Main: This building is two stories high with an English basement and a slate mansard roof. The walls are laid in unbonded brick with highlights picked out in stone forming a constructional or permanent bichrome. A pointed segmentally arched portico opens off the central pavilion on the west side. ...

A rosette motif with boss appears in the spandrel above the arch. ... Stone steps with low stone sides lead to the north and south doorways opening onto the first floor. These doorways have wide stone, lancet arches with a dripstone springing from brick

pilasters on stone bases. ... The tall narrow windows on the second floor have a stone dripstone and sixover-six sashes with large lights. A stone course surrounds the building at the sill level of the window and at the bottom of the dripstone.

In the projecting pavilions, there are three lancet windows with dripstones on the second floor. In each of the gables of the pavilions is a trefoil window with a row of three quatrefoil windows opening immediately below. The mansard roof is pierced by steep gabled dormers with lancet arched windows.

The description also includes an account of Old Main’s interior: A wide stairway with symmetrically divided flights and elaborately carved and incised newels ascends at the juncture of the center “E” bar and the west section, and is lit by a skylight. A stair with an elaborate newel also ascends in each of the wings.

It is a privilege to pursue our academic mission in such splendid surroundings that project this rich history. We feel that it is our obligation to preserve these important structures as learning settings for what author Matthew Crawford describes as the mastery of real things.

Thank you for your support as we work every day to preserve the vision and place of Samuel Miller.

-Brad Bodager

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Annual Giving

On behalf of our students, we are tremendously grateful for the support of the donors listed below during the July 1, 2011 - June 30, 2012 fiscal year.

The Golden Bell Tower Club

For gifts of $5,000 or more during the 2011-2012 fiscal year Mr. & Mrs. Tom Beasley Mr. & Mrs. C. Hill Ewald Mr. Marcus Farbstein & Dr. Rosemarie Hunziker Mr. & Mrs. Hunter Johnson Mr. & Mrs. Richard Keeling Mr. & Mrs. Mark Krebs Mr. & Mrs. John Maddux Mr. & Mrs. F. Page Nelson, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. James W. Newman Mr. & Mrs. Blaise Pasztory

Ms. M. Jean Printz Ms. Charlotte Sherman Mr. & Mrs. Fred Simpkins Mr. & Mrs. Preston O. Stallings Mr. Weiming Zheng & Mrs. Zhenhong Chen

Marietta McNeill Morgan & Samuel Tate Morgan Jr. Foundation

Miller School Alumni Association The Perry Foundation W.E. Brown Family and Friends Wells Fargo Foundation

The Silver Bell Tower Club

For gifts of $1,000 or more during the 2011-2012 fiscal year Mr. & Mrs. Stuart Armstrong Mr. & Mrs. William E. Baer, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Cyrus P. Barger Mr. & Mrs. Lindsay R. Barnes, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Bradley E. Bodager Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Bradbury Mr. & Mrs. Robert Brooks Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Brubaker Dr. Paul A. Cantor Ms. Emily B. Caton Mr. & Mrs. Greg M. Cline Mr. John Crafaik & Dr. Kathryn A. Neeley Mr. & Mrs. Eugene F. Corrigan Mr. & Mrs. Ernest Drumheller Mr. & Mrs. Patrick L. France

Ms. Connie Gilchrist Dickenson Mr. John Gunner & Ms. Leslie Ayers Ms. Jessie Carr Haden Mr. & Mrs. Broadus Hill Mr. & Mrs. Wayne Hufnagel Dr. Sara Kaltreider Mr. & Mrs. Mark King Dr. & Mrs. Daniel La Grua Ms. Virginia Leslie Mr. & Mrs. Brad Lovelace Mr. & Mrs. Joel Mangham Mr. John McCarthy Ms. Ann Memory Mr. & Mrs. Mark Mummau Mr. & Mrs. Charles L. Pace

Mr. & Mrs. Robert Roberts, Jr. Mrs. Elizabeth P. Scott Mr. & Mrs. Joseph W. Wilson Mr. & Mrs. Wm. Lowndes Wilson Mr. & Mrs. David J. Wood, Jr. Mrs. Joseph Wood Abidin Family Fund Anna M. Day Foundation Bank of America Foundation J. Bruce Barnes, Inc. GU Energy Labs Harry A. Wright’s, Inc. Margaret Hulvey Wright Trust Northwestern Mutual Foundation Whitney & Anne Stone Foundation

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For gifts of $250 or more during the 2011-2012 fiscal year Anonymous Mr. & Mrs. Richard R. Abidin Ms. Lisa A. Allen Mr. & Mrs. Frank R. Altenhofen Mr. & Mrs. James H. Baber Mr. & Mrs. William Baer, Sr. Mr. Minghua Bian & Ms. Jun Zhang Dr. & Mrs. Lee Blevins Ms. Kaye Bramblett Mr. & Mrs. Carroll R. Chisholm Mr. & Mrs. Raffaele Coscia Dr. Laurie U. deBettencourt Mr. & Mrs. Don Eisloeffel Dr. Michael Enoch Mr. & Mrs. Anthony P. Farina Mrs. Carolyn D. Farina Mr. & Mrs. Kevin B. Farina Mr. & Mrs. Louis D. Farina, Jr. Mr. Matthew J. Farina Mr. & Mrs. Adam Fickley Mr. & Mrs. William H. Flannagan III Dr. & Mrs. G. Franklin Forney Mr. & Mrs. Donald E. Froude Mrs. Irma Garrison Mr. & Mrs. Rob Garver

Ms. Janice C. Gibson Mr. Art Greene Mr. Samuel M. Hale Mr. & Mrs. Timothy C. Hess Mr. Doug Hornig Mr. & Mrs. Peter Hufnagel Dr. & Mrs. Andrew Keller Ms. Helen Kimble Mr. & Mrs. Steven E. Knepper Ms. Nicolette Kollar Mr. & Mrs. Randall Leach Ms. Vivian Lee Mr. & Mrs. Patrick Magann Mr. & Mrs. Walter J. Malone, Jr. Ms. Shelley Matthews Mrs. Lake Clark McIntosh Mr. & Mrs. Hugh A. Meagher Mr. & Mrs. Robert T. Morgan Mr. Charles K. Nelson Mr. & Mrs. T. Hugh Nelson Mr. Vinh Nguyen & Dr. Huong Tran Dr. & Mrs. William Orem Mr. & Mrs. James Ottaway Dr. John & Dr. Barbara Post Mr. & Mrs. John Pritzlaff IV

Dr. Thomas Quirk & Ms. Catherine Parke Ms. Ravi Respeto Mr. & Mrs. James Regn Mr. Christopher D. Ross Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Shaw Ms. Angie Smith Mr. & Mrs. Joel Snow Mrs. Gerri Stewart Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Sullivan Mr. Paul D. Summers, Jr. Mr. Jack Taylor Mr. John A. Taylor Mr. & Mrs. Dean Wenger Dr. & Mrs. Jon Whalen Dr. & Mrs. Robert Wilkerson Ms. Martina Young Mr. & Mrs. Larry Zeman Blue Ridge Trailer Sales & Services David E. Post Family Foundation Dominion Foundation Dulaney Fund Genentech Employee Giving Program Miller School Parents Auxiliary State Farm Companies Foundation

ADDITIONAL DONORS IN THE 2011-2012 FISCAL YEAR Mrs. June S. Andrews Mr. & Mrs. Lindsay R. Barnes III Ms. Bonnie S. Bary Dr. Thomas M. Grisius & Ms. Heidi Baughman Ms. Mary M. Belew Mr. Thomas S. Bentson Mr. Samuel Bloom & Ms. Constance Visceglia Ms. Laura Bohleke Mr. & Mrs. Michael Brann Mr. & Mrs. Edward Breving Mr. Joseph F. Burns, Jr. Dr. George L. Cahen Mr. Michael Capaccio & Ms. Laura Morgan Mr. & Mrs. Norman Carpenter Mr. & Mrs. Richard E. Carter Ms. Debra Casado Mr. & Mrs. Bernie Cason Mr. & Mrs. Scott P. Celella Ms. Susan Coleman Mr. & Mrs. Bart F. Conlon, Jr. Mr. William H. Craddock Mrs. Cindy DeNome Ms. Kathleen Donnelley Ms. Victoria Doss

Mr. Gregory G. Faust & Ms. Paulyn G. Heinmiller Mr. & Mrs. Hans Foss Ms. Cassandra L. Frasier Mr. & Mrs. Henry B. Frazier III Ms. Jill Fredrikson Mr. Martin L. Friedburg Mr. Clayton Gentry Mr. & Mrs. L. Tucker Gibson, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Richard A. Goodling Mr. Bernard Haggerty, Jr. & Ms. Susan Baldridge Dr. & Mrs. Charles Hamner, Jr. Mrs. Katharine Hancock Mr. & Mrs. W. O. Hardy Mr. & Mrs. Tim Henley Mr. Henry W. Holt Mr. & Mrs. Robert Hoover Mr. & Mrs. William E. Hopkins Mr. & Mrs. Jeff Hoyt Mr. Robert R. Humphris, Sr. Mr. & Mrs. Ben Hurt Mr. J. Randolph Hutcheson Mr. & Mrs. Louis Karably Mr. & Mrs. Randall F. Keller Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey L. Kennington Mr. Ludwig Kuttner

Mr. & Mrs. David Craig Landin Dr. & Mrs. Winter Lantz Mr. & Mrs. Doug Larimer Mr. & Mrs. Mark Lewis Mr. & Mrs. John Lubimir Mr. & Mrs. David Mahone Mr. & Mrs. Ralph Margolius Mr. Thomas E. Marshall III Mrs. Vernetta P. Marshall Dr. & Mrs. C. Rosser Massey III Ms. Georgiana McCabe Mr. & Mrs. Michael McDaniel Mr. & Mrs. Larry Mellinger Ms. Elizabeth Miller Mr. & Mrs. Larry R. Miller Mrs. Edmund W. Morris Dr. John R. Morris III Ms. Wanda L. Morris Mr. Vernon R. Mowbray Mr. & Mrs. James J. Murray, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Edwin P. Nevin Col. & Mrs. Robert M. Novogratz Mrs. Jean M. Patterson Mr. & Mrs. H. Wescott Powell Mrs. Marian Roberts Mr. J. W. Peyton Robertson Mr. & Mrs. A. F. Robinson

Dr. & Mrs. Robert E. Robinson III Ms. Martha B. Rogers Mrs. Mary Jo Rogers Ms. M. Beth Ruffing Mr. & Mrs. John D. Runnett Mrs. Carolyn Sable Dr. & Mrs. Stephen E. Schmitz Mr. & Mrs. R. Strother Scott Mr. Michael D. Sheets Dr. & Mrs. Charles H. Skipper Mr. James Harrison Smith, Sr. Mr. Joseph L. Spivey Ms. Marilyn Swinford Mr. & Mrs. Edward D. Tayloe II Mr. & Mrs. Harry R. Tear III Dr. Jianghong Tian Mrs. Meghan Waddle Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. Walker Ms. Barbara Ward Mr. & Mrs. Tony M. Watts Mr. & Mrs. Elmer F. Wieboldt, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Daye E. Wilkins Mr. & Mrs. Lloyd L. Willis Mr. Thomas Wingfield Mr. & Mrs. Forrest E. Workman Mr. & Mrs. Donald C. Wright Meriwether Godsey, Inc.

In Memoriam Gifts were given to the Miller School of Albemarle in 2011-2012 in memory of the following individuals.

In Memory of Martin “Boots” Andrews In Memory of Hugh, Chip, In Memory of Lucille Roberts Mrs. June S. Andrews and Peggy Flannagan Mr. & Mrs. William E. Hopkins Mrs. Mary M. Belew Mrs. Lake Clark McIntosh Mr. & Mrs. Patrick L. France In Memory of Robert M. Roberts, Sr. Ms. Jessie Carr Haden In Memory of Charles A. Garrison Gifts received since 7/1/2011 Mr. & Mrs. W. O. Hardy Mrs. Irma Garrison Ms. Bonnie S. Bary Mr. & Mrs. Larry R. Miller Dr. & Mrs. Lee Blevins Mr. & Mrs. Mark Mummau In Memory of Helen Gentry Mr. & Mrs. Richard E. Carter Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. Walker Mr. Clayton Gentry Mr. & Mrs. Eugene F. Corrigan Mr. & Mrs. Lloyd L. Willis Ms. Kathleen Donnelly Miller School Alumni Association In Memory of Bernard Haggerty Ms. Victoria Doss Mr. Bernard Haggerty, Jr. & Mr. & Mrs. Henry B. Frazier III In Memory of James Odington Boyd Ms. Susan Baldridge Mr. & Mrs. William E. Hopkins Mrs. Marian Roberts Mr. J. Randolph Hutcheson In Memory of Joseph T. Henley Mr. & Mrs. David Craig Landin In Memory of Taylor W. Bramblett, ’04 and Ida E. Jones Mr. & Mrs. Robert Morgan Ms. Kaye Bramblett Mr. & Mrs. Tim Henley Dr. John R. Morris III Mr. & Mrs. Robert Roberts, Jr. In Memory of Joseph E. Brochu, ’47 In Memory of Patrick Kelly ’99 Dr. & Mrs. Stephen E. Schmitz Dr. & Mrs. Charles Hamner, Jr. Ms. Jessie Carr Haden Mr. & Mrs. Harry R. Tear III Ms. Barbara Ward In Memory of Gladys T. Cannon In Memory of Allen Q. Ladd Mr. Jack Taylor Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey L. Kennington In Memory of Joseph Spivey Ms. Kaye Bramblett In Memory of Mary Taylor Clark In Memory of Catherine Licker Mr. & Mrs. Doug Larimer & Andrew J. Clark Ms. M. Beth Ruffing Ms. Wanda L. Morris Ms. Janice C. Gibson Mr. & Mrs. Mark Mummau In Memory of Fulton W. Marshall, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. F. Page Nelson, Jr. In Memory of Maggie Lee Conlon Mrs. Vernetta P. Marshall Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Shaw Mr. & Mrs. Bart F. Conlon, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Shaw Dr. & Mrs. Jon Whalen Executive Briefing Team In Memory of In Memory of Levi P. Maupin Miller School Alumni Association Virginia Arnette Crawford Mrs. Mary M. Belew Dr. & Mrs. C. Rosser Massey III Mrs. Jean M. Patterson In Memory of Donaldson P. Tillar III Col. & Mrs. Robert M. Novogratz In Memory of Joseph W. Cummings In Memory of Martin O. Miller Ms. Jessie Carr Haden Mrs. Mary Jo Rogers Ms. Elizabeth Miller In Memory of Cody M. Watts In Memory of Lou Farina In Memory of Ruth Wayland Nelson Mr. & Mrs. Tony M. Watts Mrs. Carolyn D. Farina Mr. & Mrs. F. Page Nelson, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Anthony P. Farina Mr. & Mrs. T. Hugh Nelson In Memory of Mr. & Mrs. Kevin B. Farina Mr. & Mrs. A. F. Robinson Hunter McKnight Wingfield Mr. & Mrs. Louis D. Farina, Jr. Mr. Thomas Wingfield Mr. Matthew J. Farina Mr. & Mrs. Adam Fickley In Memory of Kevin Wilson Mr. & Mrs. Donald C. Wright Mr. & Mrs. Joseph W. Wilson

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