King of the (Brumbaugh) Hill

In 1998 St. Andrew’s completed its big move from the Bradmoor Campus to Postoak. The move was necessitated by an untimely eviction notice from Montgomery County, and finding and purchasing the new home in Potomac saved the school.

To mark the 25th year on this campus, we invited alumni to share their memories from the move. Dave Ticehurst ‘99 recalled when he and fellow technical theater students David Mushal ‘99, Doug Dresser ‘01, and Chris Moberg ‘01, loaded their station wagons and minivans with stage lights, electrical cables, and rigging equipment and hauled them to Potomac.

The most memorable part of exploring the new campus, Ticehurst said, was taking advantage of the terrain for an epic game of “king of the hill.”

“There was a gigantic mountain of dirt in the center of what was to become the soccer field,” Ticehurst writes. “It was raining, and the mound had rivulets of mud streaming down, adding to the boyish appeal of the game. This persisted until one of the underclassmen was pushed too hard and rolled all the way to the bottom, fully covered in mud.”