2019 SSSAS Spring Magazine

SPRING MAGAZINE 2019

AWARD-WINNING

Viewpoints Sixteen Upper School students received top honors in regional and local art competitions.

Catherine Owens '19, “Unsettling” National Scholastic Gold Key, Painting All-City High School Art Exhibition, Painting

Xander Chiaramonte '20, “Golden Ridge” National Scholastic Gold Key, Photography

Maxwell Rudasill '19 Landon Best of Independent School Best of Sculpture, Wood and Resin Sophie VandeHei '20, “Shining Light on PTSD“ All-City High School Art Exhibition Best of Mixed Media

Hudson Reynolds '20, “Seascapes” National Scholastic Gold Key, Painting

Catherine Owens '19, “Expression” National Scholastic Art Awards Gold Key, “Expression”

Anna Giardina '21, “Curly Teapot“ National K-12 Ceramic Exhibition Juried into the National Exhibition Ceramics Makeda Melkie '19, “Hummingbird” Best of Sculpture

Xander Chiaramonte '20 “The Woman's Wrap“ National Scholastic Gold Key, Mixed Media

Quinten Staples '19, “King of Spades” National Scholastic Gold Key, Digital Art

ADDITIONAL AWARDS

Nineteen additional students won Silver Keys and Honorable Mentions in the following competitions.

NATIONAL SCHOLASTIC ART AWARDS Xander Chiaramonte '20, “When the Smoke Clears” National Scholastic Gold Key, Photography

Lena Weiman '21, “Contemplative Bust “ National Scholastic Gold Key Drawing and Illustration

Xander Chiaramonte '20, “A Dash of Joy” National Scholastic Gold Key, Photography

Silver Key: Xander Chiaramonte '20, Photography (4) Kennon Moon '19, Ceramics & Glass (2) Gummy Nichols '19, Digital Art Catherine Owens '19, Mixed Media Maxwell Rudasill '19, Mixed Media Honorable Mention: Kathryn Atkinson '20, Sculpture Caroline Grace Butler '21, Photography Xander Chiaramonte '20, Photography Adrienne Lai '21, Photography Ashlyn Lee '20, Fashion Sofia Montgomery '21, Digital Art Catherine Owens '19, Painting Rachel Suleymanov '19, Ceramics & Glass Quinten Staples '19, Drawing and Illustration Lena Weiman '21, Digital Art

ALL-CITY HIGH SCHOOL ART EXHIBIT

Steph Adrien '21 “Financing Your Education“ National Scholastic Gold Key Collage William Clark '19, “Trickle” National Scholastic Gold Key, Painting

Honorable Mention: Anna Giardina '21, Ceramics Andrew Knops '20, Sculpture Ashlyn Lee '20, Mixed Media Lena Weiman '21, Photography

WHAT'S INSIDE

F E AT U R E S

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Learning Journeys Follow our Lower, Middle, and Upper School students on three powerful learning journeys.

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Making Goodness Visible The Colloquium for the Common Good

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Saints Serve in Puerto Rico Saints Link Up Chumani Chamberlain '20 interviewed the 2019

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Poet-in-Residence, Alysia Harris '06, during the 28th Poetry Week for sophomores.

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“Shrek The Musical” A review of the Upper School spring musical production by Cappies Critic Helen Sweeney ‘19.

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Celebrating Black History Month

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The Athletics Hall of Fame Welcomes New Inductees

D E PA RT M E N TS 6 Headliner

ON THE COVER:

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An Episcopal School

A Saints Powerhouse— the boys varsity basketball team took command of the court to post a historic season in the record books. Read more on p. 42.

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Saints in Action

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Saints Athletics

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Class Notes

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Photo by Jameson Bloom '13

In Memoriam

THE MAGAZINE

SPRING 2019 Head of School Kirsten Prettyman Adams Director of Communications Jen Desautels Editor Director of Design & Production Melissa Ulsaker Maas '76 Design Melissa Ulsaker Maas '76 Jameson Bloom '13 Ana Tobin

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Assistant Director of Communications, Digital Media and Marketing Mandi Sapp Admission & Communications Associate Marcia Mallett Alumni News Advancement Office

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Our New Schedules During the development of the 2016 Strategic Plan, it was clear that one of the community's top priorities was to examine the school's daily and annual schedule.

How did our schedule align with our mission and our values? Was our schedule designed in the best possible way to support our students? Faculty and administrators worked tirelessly over the last few months researching and designing new schedules for each division that support our school's mission to pursue goodness as well as knowledge, while also providing more time for learning and collaboration inside and outside of the classroom. These new schedules will go into effect for the 2019-2020 school year. More information can be found at sssas.org/newschedules.

Photographers Jameson Bloom '13 Melissa Ulsaker Maas '76 Marcia Mallett Mark Regan Photography Audra Wrisley Photography Printer Master Print Questions/Comments Melissa Ulsaker Maas '76 mmaas@sssas.org To Update Your Contact Information or Mailing Preferences Please email asmigel@sssas.org or call 703-212-2720.

Published by SSSAS for alumni, current parents, friends, and other regularly supportive members of the school community. Š 2019 St. Stephen's and St. Agnes School admits students of any race, color, religion, sexual orientation, national or ethnic origin to all rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school.

HEADLINER

Dear Saints, Hanging on the wall in Macan, outside my Lower School office, is a framed newspaper clipping; the edges have darkened with age, and the font is so small it is almost difficult to read the words without a magnifying glass or high-powered readers. It reads: “We all have our ideals. No matter what our station or calling in life we have very real ideals of beauty, purity, and worthiness. When societies are organized, or clubs established, they are always built upon some ideal, whether an ideal method of management, or an ideal way of realizing the purpose for which they were brought into existence. Although our school is in its infancy, we hold the highest ideals for the future: honor, individuality and scholarship.

We have accomplished innumerable things toward cultivating a distinctive school spirit and a splendid reputation; simplicity and culture are our aims and for so short a period of time we have surmounted a number of obstacles in striving to attain them.

~ Tower Topics, St. Agnes School Newspaper, June 1926

I am struck by how these words from almost 85 years ago reflect the very work we are doing today.

We are looking forward, designing a future for our students that will not diminish our past; we will not replace tradition with innovation, but instead will build upon the foundation gifted to us by the teachers, students, and families who came before us. We are living in the dream they imagined in 1926—a school faithful to the highest ideals of honor, individuality, and scholarship, and a school rich in innovation, diversity, creativity, and academic excellence. We are constantly reflecting on our school's purpose—what are we being called to do? How are we using who we are to inform who we can become?

In 1926 the focus was on classroom spaces and buildings, finding places for students to learn, create, and design. Today we are focused on much the same. Through the development of our new schedules, new programs and initiatives, and our campus master plan, we have remained steadfast in our focus to keep our students at the center of our work. All we do, all we imagine is for our students to have the best possible spaces, classrooms, and common areas, to become their very best selves.

I am most grateful for the strength of our school's history and its traditions. They provide the solid footing that allows us to forge ahead and build upon the vision and tireless work of those who knew nothing about who our students and teachers would be today, yet knew our students and our faculty would be worth every bit of their efforts. I am humbled and inspired by their faith in the future of this school!

Warmly,

Kirsten Adams Head of School

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Learning JOURNEYS

BY MELISSA ULSAKER MAAS '76

Think of a powerful learning moment from your school days. Where were you? Who guided you through the moment? What made it so powerful?

Perhaps it was a single moment of revelation, or the culmination of a project that took weeks of work to come to successful fruition. Our Saints have these moments every day, as they make their way through one learning journey after another. They take journeys that are carefully and thoughtfully designed by creative and dedicated teachers, as well as journeys guided by their teachers along the paths of outside programs and competitions.

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A GLOBAL JOURNEY:

The Second Grade Travel Convention The Second Grade Travel Convention is a highly-anticipated event at the Lower School that takes place each March. Preparation for the convention, a highlight of the second grade social studies unit, begins early in the school year.

This social studies unit is an exceptionally well-planned and comprehensive learning journey which takes the second graders on a trip around the world and incorporates cartography, geography, environmental stewardship, art, service, technology, and marketing. “We've really evolved this event from something pretty simple to focusing more on the research aspect and tying the reading, writing, and social studies all together,” explained

second grade teacher Mary Jane Pessaud.

The students' journey begins in September and requires them to use their creativity, design-thinking, critical thinking, research, and oral and written communication skills as they prepare for the Travel Convention in March.

During the convention, students take on the role as travel agents and share fun information and highlights about their assigned country to their customers (parents, teachers, and classmates).

Before asking second graders to imagine their place in the world globally, the teachers focus them on their immediate environments. “Our first trimester is spent on mapping and learning about

the oceans and continents,” Mary Jane said. “It's a continuation from first grade, where they learned about their immediate neighbors in the Town Fair,” she continued. “We broaden their view and build a bridge from Alexandria to the whole world, starting with mapping skills and differentiating North, South, East, and West. Then we do the bird's eye view of the classroom, their bedroom, and eventually create a paper mache globe.

During the year students embark on cultural adventures inside and outside the classroom. This year they went on field trips to the Japanese, Finnish, and Argentine Embassies and welcomed guest speakers who shared their family histories and traditions from around the

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world. They shared stories of living and traveling abroad and working for the United Nations, USAID, and the State Department.

understand that there are a variety of resources available to navigate and virtually explore the world. Our explorations begin in the fall as we wonder how countries express and honor their history, traditions, and values.” The geo-explorers are introduced to the PebbleGo database to learn more about American symbols and take notes about the Washington Monument, the Bald Eagle, and the White House, for example. This leads to an inquiry about national symbols, including flags, monuments, landmarks, and songs.

To frontload what they are going to be looking for when the students begin researching their countries, the classes tour landmarks and monuments to discover what they are and why they are important.

They learn about currency, flags, and national symbols, and parents send in photos and postcards from their travels, which decorate the classrooms and create a fun and informative global atmosphere.

In February their learning journey takes them to the technology lab, where they work with Technology Teacher and Department Chair Keri Gritt. “The students use Tinkercad, a computer aided design program, to design either a 3D coin or a 3D stamp that represents their country,” Keri said. “They might use their country's flag or country code, for example.” Designing these objects requires them to work with geometric shapes and angles, as well as practice spatial reasoning, critical thinking, and measurement skills.

The students' journey takes them to the library, where they are introduced to the process of conducting research. Much of the library curriculum for the second grade supports the Travel Convention and starts with the students' transformation into geoexplorers. Lower School Librarian Julie Esanu explained, “The goal of this curriculum is to help children

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How to Make a Globe ~ M J KATO '29

“First we studied the continents and oceans.

Then we started with a balloon and used these paper mache strips we put in water and we wrapped two layers around the balloon. A couple of weeks later we painted them and then the stencils were drawn on. We put on the continents and the oceans and used specific colors to make them different. The last thing we did was write the names of the continents and oceans on the globe. It was fun to have our parents come to class and help. ”

Through digital resources, such as the Barefoot World Atlas app and CultureGrams, students' mapping skills and reading comprehension are reinforced. “Students learn to identify, compare, and contrast information and then connect their discoveries to the real world,” said Julie. As they conduct their virtual travel to different countries, the geo-explorers learn about things like currency and exchange rates and the role of water around the world.

“In the library, we did research on the currency, population, what continent our country is on, and looked for other facts,” said second grader Ferdinand Bourgeois. “It was fun to do the research. I chose Uruguay because my favorite soccer player, Edinson Cavani, is from there.”

Their work in the library concludes with an exploration of traditional literature around the world. They explore a variety of folk tales,

legends, and myths from different countries and ponder how the telling of these community stories reflect ideals, culture, and traditions of countries or regions.

Back in the classroom, the teachers introduce research writing and nonfiction. “During our unit on biographies, they write their own nonfiction book about something they're an expert on,” Mary Jane said. “We immerse them in nonfiction and talk about what's fact, fiction, and opinion.”

Students learn the importance of using multiple sources for their research, and are introduced to citing sources and putting what they have learned into their own words.

By March they have become experts in their country. They have learned to search for information in books and on apps, discovered nonfiction and read fascinating biographies and journals,

learned how to write reports and present facts, and have become mapmakers and gained a new understanding of where they live in relation to the world. And in the process of discovering new cultures, perhaps now look at their family histories and traditions in a new way.

In preparation for the Travel Convention, the students use their research to produce an advertisement, travel brochure, and marketing video for their customers. In the video students share highlights about their country, and their brochures include photos, drawings, and important information about the country.

“In our brochures, we had to include the food, capital city, flag, the landmarks, drawings, and important facts,” shared second grader Riley Croker. “I chose Bolivia and learned that there are three different regions with different weather, one really cold in the West, one section that's really hot, and one that's like

spring. The weather surprised me. My favorite part of doing the brochure was drawing pictures and learning new facts.”

As the big day drew near, the classrooms were buzzing with activity.“I'm excited to tell people about my country at the convention!” said second grader Vivica Lane. “I chose Peru as my country because my mother is from there. I like hiking, so I think people will be interested in learning about hiking to Machu Picchu.”

As the young travel agents put the final touches on their globes and brochures, second grader Lindsey Miller asked, “Would this ad make you want to go to Iceland?” She had carefully chosen photos she felt were the most compelling.

“I love Iceland and I can't wait for the Travel Convention,” she enthused with confidence. “I'm so ready.”

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A LEADERSHIP JOURNEY:

Middle School Student-Led Conferences “You will be collaborating with your teachers and advisor to craft a compelling conference.

You will be tasked with sharing your progress with your parent(s).

Your advisor will help you along the way, but…

You are the star of this show!

It's all about empowerment, relationship building, communication, leadership, responsibility, and citizenship.” ~excerpt from presentation introducing the students to student-led conferences

At the conclusion of the second trimester in February, Middle School students undertook a new journey of selfawareness and self-discovery as they assumed the lead role in understanding and communicating their progress to their parents and advisors at studentled conferences. The idea of student-led conferences had come up a number of times because many faculty attended conferences and workshops with sessions on them. The conversations progressed and the student-led conferences became

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a reality last June, when seventh grade advisors Katherine Miller and Erin Daly, eighth grade advisor Andrew Avallone, and sixth grade advisor Alexandra Mooskin formed a subcommittee of the Middle School Advisory Committee and took the lead on developing a plan to make them happen.

Participating in student-led conferences requires the students to assume greater control of their academic progress. “They know more about what they learn, how

they learn, and the amount of effort they put into it,” Katherine said. “But how often are they asked to examine, evaluate, and communicate their own assessments?” Giving students the chance to evaluate and speak about their work offers them an exceptional learning journey of leadership and development.

Student-led conferences center around making learning at SSSAS more student-driven and increasing student

ownership of their work. “We told the students that we felt they were mature enough to be a part of dialogue about their learning that was already happening between parents and teachers,” Andrew said. “We want them to develop a keen awareness of their own strengths and areas of growth, and to collaborate with their teachers and families to develop academically and socially.”

As the teachers designed the student-led conferences, they carefully considered the goals for the conferences and each phase of the students' learning journey. “We are teachers, that's our job and it's all about preparing our students,” Katherine said. “Giving them some of the power and control over their own learning causes them to look at their body of work and recognize where they need to improve and where they are succeeding.” The teachers hoped the students would learn to assume greater control of their academic progress and accept personal responsibility for their performance. They would need to hone their organizational and communication skills while reflecting on their strengths and weaknesses in the classroom. This self-reflection would help in their goals for the remainder of the school year, and would set the tone for an open and honest dialogue with their parents and advisors during the conference.

By preparing for the conferences, Middle School Quincey Grieve hoped students would learn to look at their personal academic experiences and learning instead of the grades they were earning for each class. “I wanted our students to look at their work and their learning with a growth mindset, with a focus on understanding their strengths and their areas for growth and to consider how they could take charge of their own learning journeys,” she said.

“I was hopeful the process would be about growth and not about grades— and I think it was—and I really wanted to establish a venue for conversation for families.”

To prepare for the conferences, students created portfolios which included selfassessments and examples of their work from each of their classes. The assessments asked that they reflect on their timeliness, preparation, homework effort, organization, asking for help, resilience, empathy,

I wanted our students to look at their work and their learning with a growth mindset, with a focus on understanding their strengths and their areas for growth and to consider how they could take charge of their own learning journeys. I was hopeful the process would be about growth and not about grades—and I think it was—and I really wanted to establish a venue for conversation for families.” ~ Q U INCEY GR IEVE, M I DD L E S C H O O L D I R E CTO R

collaboration, and creativity. During the conference, students would share with their parents what they were most proud of from the school year, and in which areas they believe they could improve.

Teachers helped with the goal setting process. “They gave us simple guidelines to follow and our goals weren't forced to stay with only school-related topics,” said Charlie Bounds '23.”We worked on the goals with our families. I enjoyed hearing what my parents had to say about me and how I could improve. I set goals related to all of my different activities such as baseball, school, and also some things at home. These goals help me to get better at things that I consider to be my priorities, and it always feels good to get better.”

For seventh grader Claire Helmreich, choosing which assignments to share with her parents was difficult. “There

were many options to choose from, but I ultimately wanted to show pieces that I felt particularly proud of throughout the year. My chosen pieces reflected my growth and represented the challenges that I faced in each class. Some pieces also reflected how I could improve my work habits in that particular subject.

I wanted to communicate that even if I did not start out well in a subject, that I was able to shift the way that I worked and end up with positive result.”

Some students were apprehensive about the student-led conferences, filled with uncertainty about how to prepare: what would they say about themselves? What were their goals?

“When I first heard about student-led conferences, I was really excited but also felt a little bit nervous because it was something we had never done before,” said sixth grader Claire Hanley.

“However, when we began preparing for it and were getting closer to the real conference, I began to feel much more confident and knowledgeable about what the end task was and how we would be able to accomplish that. I think the whole experience was a great learning opportunity, and I feel that all of the teachers fully prepared us in the best way possible.”

Preparing for the conferences, evaluating their work, and presenting goes beyond helping the students assess themselves and take ownership of their efforts and endeavors while they are at St. Stephen's and St. Agnes. “The skills they utilized to plan and present at their conferences will be applicable for their entire lives,” Andrew said. “What they've learned will help them achieve their goals in Upper School and present themselves in college applications and as professionals after college. It is meaningful for our students to begin navigating how to do this effectively in Middle School.”

Eighth grader Calysta Lee felt the student-led conferences helped her reflect on what she has learned in a new way. “ I was able to discover the weaker areas in my studies that I needed to work on and figure out healthy solutions to fix them,” she said. “The process made me think more deeply about how I've grown this year, as I had to put my experiences into words and share them.”

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The conferences also gave teachers the opportunity to work closely with their advisees. “We met individually with each of our students which gave each of us the chance to see our students in a completely different light,” Andrew said.

“We saw how they described our classes, giving us valuable insight into how they interact with what we are presenting each day.”

Student-led conferences are not intended to replace parent-teacher communications, but rather to add a different dynamic and dimension to the conversations. Eighth grade parents, Ken and Elizabeth Wainstein, found it to be a very different experience from the traditional parent-teacher conference.

“It wasn't just parents and teachers evaluating the absent student; it was the student proudly taking ownership of her work and demonstrating how she was internalizing the lessons and meaning of her studies,” they shared. “Our daughter walked into the conference with a high energy level, but it wasn't a matter of nervousness. It was more a matter of excitement at the opportunity to lay out her body of work and explain to us and her advisor how much of herself she puts into her schoolwork.”

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When asked if he felt there was a missed opportunity to speak to their son's advisor at the conference, sixth grade parent Penn Troy voiced the same opinion as many other parents, “Not at all, his advisor does an excellent job of communicating with us on things we need to know. Should there have been anything we wanted to ask, William's presence would not have prevented that communication.” Most importantly, they appreciated how seriously William took the conference. “The conference allowed him to be in a leadership role and put him face-to-face with identifying and speaking to his strengths and weaknesses. The way he took responsibility and his self-assessment of his work habits was very impressive.”

At the end of the day, when the conferences were over, Quincey summed up the positive energy everyone was feeling: “I'm not sure there's a more valuable skill for high school, college, and life, than to be able to look at one's self, celebrate one's strengths, and own and understand one's areas for growth—and then to be able to share that understanding with those who are most motivated and able to support you.”

Taking the Lead in Third Grade The third grade teachers also held student-led conferences this spring which included many of the same self-assessments asked of the Middle School students.

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The students were asked to choose one piece of work to present from four subjects—reading, writing, math, and social studies.

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The teachers created a reflection form for each subject area that provided talking points for the conference. The students had to explain why they selected the examples they were presenting, write down a strength in that subject, and an area they want to work on.

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Students wrote a report in which they detailed their overall strengths and what their goals were at school and at home, reflected on how homework was going, and described ways in which they demonstrate the characteristics of a Saint.

A REAL WORLD JOURNEY:

The Model Judiciary

THE PROSECUTION

THE DEFENSE

Lawyers: Wendy Buendia '20, Alex Bourjaily '20, Jessica Lopez '20

Lawyers: James Hurley '19, Claire Fergusson '20, Nicole Moran '21

Witnesses: Det. Benbrook: Julian Mosley '21 Beth Kelly: Indi Clayton '20 Joe Foster: Charlotte Carr '21 Coroner, Dr. Janet Pierce: Alicia Lopez '19

Witnesses: Defendant Joan Diamond: Chase Albritton '20 Sgt. Madden: Ryan Vuono '20 Estelle Mason: Alice Hurley '20

The Upper School has long participated in the local model judiciary competition. For students who love history, government, politics, and law, it is an incredible learning journey through our judicial system that requires participants to thoroughly analyze and evaluate the evidence and witness testimonies, collaborate as a team, sharpen their persuasive writing skills, and speak confidently and articulately in court. Co-sponsored by the Fairfax Bar Association and Virginia YMCA, this program provides an opportunity for high school students to participate in the trial and appellate phases of legal proceedings. It is a standard mock trial competition that takes place in a real courtroom with real judges. Participation in the program is

a big commitment for students, but is a rewarding and beneficial experience that helps prepare them for the future.

Sam Dubke '16, a junior at Georgetown University, participated in the 2016 Model Judiciary. Sam, currently an intern in Senator Rob Portman's office (R-OH), said “Model Judiciary served as a great gateway to the American legal system. Before participating, I really only had a cursory knowledge of law and the courts, but afterwards I felt much more comfortable with the judicial process, was more confident with public speaking, and was a more concise writer. Being able to work with a team of like-minded, professionally oriented students was great preparation for my college extracurriculars.”

Both the SSSAS prosecution and defense teams won their cases this January at the Fairfax County Courthouse. The Saints prosecution team—juniors Wendy Buendia, Alex Bourjaily, and Jessica Lopez—earned a second-degree murder conviction, the highest conviction possible in the case, against the legal team from Loudoun Valley High School. The defense team—senior James Hurley, junior Claire Fergusson, and sophomore Nicole Moran—earned an involuntary manslaughter verdict against the legal team from Paul VI Catholic High School.

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few last-minute changes and fill-ins due to some conflicts, and the replacements performed as if they'd been there all along. Our teams didn't miss a beat.

Our students represented us with grace, passion, and dignity befitting the Saints community. It's really an awesome experience for the students—extremely official and very authentic.”

Steve Ebner and Latin and Ethics Teacher Alexander Robinson are the teams' coaches, and they are also both attorneys. Steve, who has coached the model judiciary teams for more than 10 years, was a corporate, banking, financial and antitrust attorney before joining SSSAS. Last year, Alexander, who spent five years as a prosecutor before switching to teaching, joined him.

program script based on the facts of a real case. After reviewing the fact pattern, students get to choose which role they want. “Each team has three lawyers, one to make an opening statement, one to make a closing argument, and one to question witnesses,” Alexander explained.

The fact pattern not only includes what happened, but also includes the statements by each witness. “If your job on the team is to be a witness, you essentially have to memorize the statement so you are able to answer factually when the lawyers question you,” Alexander said. “Each team has three or four witnesses depending on which side they're on. For example, the prosecution will have an investigator, two other fact witnesses, and then maybe a person who does the autopsy.”

The student teams began their journey about eight weeks before the trial, when they received the pattern jury instructions and the fact pattern, a

Steve and Alexander, along with Frank Salvato, an experienced outside criminal defense lawyer, work with the student teams once a week.

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Together they coach the students on all aspects of trying a case, including the opening and closing arguments, using persuasive oral and written language, the importance of speaking clearly and articulately, how and when you can approach the judge and the jury, and what to wear.

Junior Jessica Lopez, a lawyer for the prosecution, recounted how the meetings went for the prosecution: “We met with Mr. Robinson, Mr. Ebner, and Mr. Salvato about six times total in the month of January.

During these larger meetings, both the defense and prosecution teams were in the same room, although we were working on different documents and ideas. Occasionally, the two teams would consult each other on how we interpreted certain testimony and evidence, but other than that we acted as separate groups. Outside of those meetings, the prosecution team scheduled individual meetings with

each of our four witnesses to work on their statements and practice what to say under cross-examination.”

The first challenge for the student lawyers was to work on preparing the opening and closing arguments. “I tell the students the opening is very much like putting on a play of a research paper—a live-action research paper.”

Steve said. Alexander reminded the students that it is not just about stating the facts of the case in their opening statements, but more so about presenting a winning argument as to why the defendant is guilty or innocent.

“The opening statement differed greatly from the closing in that the opening was entirely prepared in advance, and the closing was composed during the trial,” Jessica said. “In the opening, we took Mr. Robinson's advice and tried to add a convincing theme to our argument to help persuade the jury. The closing not only referenced this theme, but also included key points and arguments

brought up in the actual trial. As the burden of proof falls on the prosecution, in both statements, I tried to outline just the facts of the case, supporting every piece of my narrative of what happened with physical evidence or at least two agreeing witness testimonies. I think this was what made our case strong enough to win a conviction.”

Apparently in court, a question is not just a question. “The students have to be taught how to ask questions, because when you're doing direct examinations there are rules about the type of questions you can ask.” Alexander said.

“You can't ask leading questions. The cross-examination is a different skill set that requires questions that will expose any bias or reason the witness might not be credible.”

Ideally, interested students begin as a juror and then continue participating in gradually more demanding roles,

like junior Alice Hurley, who was a juror last year and then a witness for the defense this year, a role she found more challenging. “As a juror, I was able to just sit and observe how the case played out, but it helped to prepare me to be a witness this year,” she said.

“When I was testifying during the crossexamination, I did find it a bit difficult to stick to the facts that I was supposed to know for the case. The opposing lawyer's job is to force certain answers out of the witness, and they can be very tricky and ask leading questions that force you to give answers that you might not have meant. I was really able to understand the amount of pressure that witnesses face. “ Sophomore Julian Mosley, a firsttime participant and witness for the prosecution, noted an important lesson he learned on the witness stand.

“While I was preparing, I assumed I'd be fine if I memorized the information given to me in the order that I read it,”

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“Participating in this program showed me the importance of our legal system.

Model Judiciary demonstrated that legal skills can have a real and lasting impact on everyday people's lives. The cases we were given were real, and they showed that legal outcomes can frequently be the difference between life and death for defendants.” ~ SAM DU B K E '1 6

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Julian said. “But when I got up on the witness stand, the prosecutors asked me questions in the order they needed them answered rather than chronologically. That was an error in my preparation I wouldn't make again.”

The most challenging aspects for the students are the speed of the trial, objections and rebuttals. “I think one of the things that trips them up is the speed with which it goes and the uncertainty of whether to object or not,” Steve said. The students are provided with a list of objections, which are the only ones they may use in court. They tend to be shy about objecting. Two-time participant Claire Fergusson '20 admitted her initial discomfort with making objections. “When it comes to making objections, I have often been a little timid,” Claire said. “But through the Model Judiciary program I have become more comfortable with it. I think making objections is a matter of experience and competency.”

“The students pick up quickly on the technical, mechanical things, but tend to need help with the broad polemics,” Alexander explained. “For

example, they're good at picking out the weaknesses in the cases, but they frequently want to rebut the weakest aspect of their argument. In other words, they're thinking about it like an essay, not like a trial. You don't want to do that. You want to come out strong. You're trying to prove something. You want to focus on proving your case, not disproving what's wrong with it. Not shoring up your weaknesses, but proving why it's right. You need to ask the witnesses questions that will support what you're trying to prove in a specific order.”

“Questioning a witness is different with each case,” Claire said. “I have done two mock cases and have come across witnesses that were very difficult to deal with, taking a defensive posture and trying to avoid answering the questions.” Alice was surprised by how similar the role of the witness was to that of an actor. “Witnesses essentially have a predetermined script that they must follow while the attorneys ask them the questions that they've already rehearsed,” she said. “The thing that was most difficult to prepare for was the cross-examination. The lawyers

do their best to present questions designed to get answers that support their argument, but when it comes down to it, witnesses have to stick to what they know and keep their answers short and precise.”

Jessica added, “The biggest surprise for me was a lesson Mr. Salvato taught on how little a lawyer is actually allowed to debate with the opposition and argue their case in court. You can raise points and make arguments during the opening and closing, but not at all during the witness examinations.

That information made me completely rethink how I would use my witnesses and frame my case.”

The students who choose to participate are bright and highly motivated. They have to be dedicated to get through an extensive amount of preparation in a very short amount of time, for a competition that lasts about an hour. In addition to confirming the importance of thorough research and writing well, they learn the importance of having discipline. And in the end, they all believe the journey was incredibly valuable, worthwhile, and eye-opening. “Participating in this program showed me the importance of our legal system,” Sam said. “Model Judiciary demonstrated that legal skills can have a real and lasting impact on everyday people's lives. The cases we were given were real, and they showed that legal outcomes can frequently be the difference between life and death for defendants. It raised the stakes for me, because I had previously thought of law in personal terms, without considering the considerable impact that a lawyer can have in the real world.”

Mya Reid '10 participated in 2009 and is now pursuing a law degree at Howard University. “Model Judiciary was my first opportunity in high school to explore a potential career path,” Mya said. “Most of my teachers can attest that although I did not particularly enjoy speaking up in class, my writing demonstrated that I had a lot to say.

Model Judiciary provided an avenue to face my fear of public speaking and prove to myself that I was capable of conveying great ideas and a strong analysis aloud in front of my peers, my teachers, and a judge.”

MYA REID '10

SAM DUBKE '16

2009 Model Judiciary Participant; Witness for the Defense

2016 Model Judiciary Participant; Prosecution Lawyer

J.D.Candidate at Howard University School of Law

Junior at Georgetown University

Paralegal at Covington & Burling, LLP Legal Secretary at Wilkinson Barker Knauer, LLP Intern, Administrative Judge of the Circuit Court, Prince George's County Circuit Court SSSAS Disciplinary Board B.A. in Political Science and Linguistics, Columbia University, 2015 “Participating in the Model Judiciary taught me that I did not have to be afraid of my own voice. Despite being pretty shy, I was capable of stepping up to the plate when the moment presented itself. I think the reason I could do that is because I knew somehow that the courtroom was where I was supposed to be. No fear (no matter how paralyzing) of public speaking could stop me from walking in my purpose. I am very grateful for Mr. Ebner's guidance and encouragement. Without it I might not have stepped out of my comfort zone, and I could have missed out on an opportunity to actualize my potential.”

Mya discovered a love of the legal process and cross-examination. “Model Judiciary definitely affirmed my pursuit of law as a potential career path.” Mya said. “I loved the process of analyzing the evidence, discerning what facts were favorable to our side from those

Majoring in International Economics in the School of Foreign Service with a minor in Business Intern to U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) SSSAS Student Council Secretary, 2014-2015 & 2015-2016 President of the Model U.N. Club Georgetown University Student Government Senator (GUSA) 2016-2017 & 2017-2018 Cofounder of the Hoya Hub, Georgetown's first on-campus food pantry.

“Participating in the Model Judiciary taught me that I have a penchant for public speaking.

I also learned that my public speaking could be greatly improved. I have had a chance to watch a number of senators and congressmen speak during my time at Georgetown, and they all are extremely confident and poised speakers. Public speaking is a valuable skill in the professional world, and I work to improve it in every one of my collegiate endeavors, whether it be greeting customers as a waiter or speaking with constituents at my internship.”

that favored the other side, and making our case. I did not realize how much I would enjoy preparing for crossexamination and doing it in court. I am definitely destined to be a litigator because I got a huge rush out of finding holes in the other side's arguments and exposing them in the courtroom.”

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Colloquium for the Common Good

Making Goodness Visible

Upper School students spent the first day of the winter term thinking deeply about social issues facing society, and learning how dedicated individuals address societal needs by taking positive and forward-thinking action. At the inaugural Colloquium for the Common Good—a collaboration between the Service Learning, the Institutional Diversity and Equity, and the Environmental Stewardship departments— Upper School students probed further into issues ranging from environmental degradation to gender inequality and affordable housing needs to the rights of persons with disabilities, and discovered how such challenges are understood and addressed in the world.

The school's Episcopal identity was the genesis of the Colloquium; each of the organizing departments realized that a primary focus of their work are people and populations in need. Mary Via, Director of Service Learning and External Engagement said, “The Colloquium for the Common Good is a powerful expression of our Episcopal identity because it reflects our desire to educate students who will commit themselves to transforming injustice and healing the brokenness we find both in ourselves and in our world.”

Brian Kane, Director of Environmental Stewardship said, “The Colloquium underscored the many needs in our world. By understanding these more fully, and seeing how change begins with individual actions, I believe we are bringing a message of hope to the community - a message that is resonant with the mission of an Episcopal Church school.”

The Colloquium contained three key components: a keynote address, a series of workshops, and reflection and social time within advisory groups to review the effect of the content delivered in the workshops. Student choice factored significantly in the day's organization, as students' interests range widely among 465 students, so the day's

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organizers reached far and wide to find speakers knowledgeable about a broad range of topics.

KiKi Davis, Director of Institutional Diversity and Equity said, “The colloquium was an opportunity to not merely expose our students to many of the social issues in the world, but also allowed them to hear from and connect to real life change makers that are making a difference and contributing to the common good through their work in our community and beyond.”

The day opened with a blessing by SSSAS Chaplain Sean Cavanaugh and a welcome by Head of School Kirsten Adams, Dr. Marcia Chatelain, Associate Professor of History and African American Studies at Georgetown University, delivered the keynote address entitled “At Your Age: Making a Difference Then. Making a Difference Now.” Chatelain detailed how youth have historically challenged and advocated for social change, citing the actions by Barbara Rose Johns at Moton High School in Farmville, Va., that became part of the Brown v. Board of Education challenge. In addition, Chatelain spoke of the Children's Campaign in Birmingham in 1963 and the Chicano Student walkout in East Los Angeles in 1968. Each case reminded students of their capacity to address injustices in the world around them and to act for change.

Thirty-five dynamic workshops followed Chatelain's keynote address. Each student chose three workshop sessions in advance, based on their personal interests. Saints faculty were prominent among the presenters, with 20 facultyled workshops, including “Fairness vs.

Justice,” “Sounds of a Movement: Jazz and Civil Rights,” and “With Open Arms: Supporting Refugee Families in Alexandria.” The workshop model followed the intentions of the school's Strategic Plan; innovation and new models of teaching were used to convey knowledge, rather than a “teachercentered” model.

Alex Burtnett '19, said, “I personally loved the format. Being an independent person, I enjoyed walking from session to session on my own and having a schedule tailored to the things in which we were interested.”

Jenn Lansing, '21 participated in the “Theater for Social Change” workshop.

“I love gaining insight into how it is more than an art form, but a language as well,” she said. “The ways it can be used for communication astound me.

Expressing yourself with your most powerful weapon, storytelling, can be so earth-shatteringly amazing.

“The Colloquium was everything I had always wanted out of high school. It was nice to not be stressed about work and grades, struggling to focus in seven or eight classes a day, while sitting down in a traditional classroom. I really loved it.”

Four alumni returned to present workshops including Jim Toomey '79, Alden Leonard '04, Allie Shaw '10, and current SSSAS English Teacher Andy Sidle '78. Each have uniquely contributed to promoting social responsibility through art, teaching, and non-profit management. Ashlyn Lee '20, said, “In each workshop, I saw people using their circumstances to positively impact those around them in different and creative ways and taught me that taking a risk or two and can lead to changes for causes you believe in, no matter what field you are in.”

The day concluded with reflective time in each students' advisory to process the information gained, and the challenging issues that were addressed.

Mary noted, “Students reported that they felt inspired the make a difference in their community and to get more involved with organizations that address issues they care about. As one student put it, 'Can we do this every Tuesday?'”

“My hope is that we have inspired our students to be those changemakers now and in the future,” KiKi added.

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Voices of the Colloquium We have all been inspired by moments in our lives; maybe we have witnessed something from afar, been part of a movement, or heard stories from a friend, neighbor, or family member. Behind every moment of inspiration is another moment. These are the moments, the stories, the whys, that led these presenters to be part of the Colloquium for the Common Good.

EVA-ELIZABETH CHISOLM

ALEXANDER ROBINSON

MILYNA PHILLIPS

Human Services Leader, L'Arche Greater Washington D.C.

SSSAS Latin and Ethics Teacher

SSSAS Lower School P.E. Teacher

Session: Justice vs. Fairness

Session: More than an Athlete? The Reemergence of the Athlete-Activist Hybrid

Session: Speak Up: Disability Rights & Advocacy L'Arche was invited to share about our work around advocacy and disability rights. Many people hear the word advocacy they think about Capitol Hill—working to change policy and legislation. L'Arche advocates in formal ways, but for this workshop we were excited to have the chance to talk about the “little a” advocacy our members do on a day-to-day basis through our presence in the broader community.

Our mission is to make known the gifts of people with disabilities, and we get to do this in our churches,at the doctor's office,checking out at the grocery store,and in so many other places. This was a familiar topic to some of the students and new for others.

Before each session we asked students why they chose to attend—some had personal or familial connections to the topic, while others acknowledged that they didn't have much understanding about disability rights/advocacy. In each of the sessions, students were engaged and asking really thoughtful questions. It was great to talk to one student in particular about what it means to be human—that different diagnoses may impact how we see or encounter someone. I also really valued the vulnerability as students shared some of their personal stories about disability/differing abilities.

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I had a desire to use an expertise I have to enrich our students' thinking about the justice and fairness of social problems. Our students are very bright and curious and I wanted to harness that and help it grow for the moment we were both unencumbered by the curriculum and assessments. Before I taught Latin, it was a profound experience to have stumbled into work that required me to be fair and to seek justice. It's not something I get to make use of, much less share, with the young people that I have the pleasure of teaching. So I jumped at the chance to use that it to present something useful and enriching to our students. The students could define the words justice and fairness.

A few may have heard of one of the cases I discussed as it was a murder case that happened here in Alexandria.

Otherwise, they may have had inchoate opinions about mental illness or pollution or gun violence, but I saw their eyes widen and their minds open once we really started thinking through these cases in an effort to grasp the true meaning of justice and fairness.

I've always been passionate about social justice, activism, and their relationship to agency over one's body.

I wanted to share something that would intertwine these interests with a topic that was relatable, directly impacted their lives, and most importantly left them feeling empowered. I knew the students would immediately be able to recognize the most famous athlete activists and provide some context into how they are trying to affect change.

While I was doing the research for my presentation, I realized that without an in-depth knowledge of sports history, it was unlikely that the students would be able to identify athletes who sacrificed their entire careers, education, safety, and livelihood in the name of equality and activism only a few decades ago.

When they learned that Kareem AbdulJabbar was only 19 years old when he attended the Cleveland Summit of 1969 to demonstrate his solidarity with Muhammad Ali and that in 1967,14 members of the University of Wyoming's football team were freshmen in college when they protested racist league policies, it humanized these heroes and made them relatable. Students voiced that they, too, can affect change in their communities and in school by having a plan and speaking out.

I hope that the students in my sessions left with renewed hope in the potential of inter-sector collaboration and the power of working across communities or traditional divides to solve complex global problems. ~ALLIE SHAW '10

AUTUMN VANDEHEI

JAN-MICHAEL ARCHER

ALLIE SHAW '10

A Founder of the Advisory Council on Child Trafficking (ACCT)

Doctoral Student at Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health (MIAEH)

Senior Manager of Non-profit Partnerships, Good360

Session: Human Trafficking in The United States: The 21st Century Abolition Movement

Session: “Where You Live Can Make You Sick”

The pursuit of better outcomes for sexually and physically exploited children includes generating awareness.

Communicating with teenagers about sexual abuse and commercial sexual exploitation is complicated and awkward, but incredibly important, both for prevention purposes, and also to inspire them to awareness and advocacy as they leave home. Most people think that human trafficking is something that occurs in the developing world, or that the victims/survivors are brought in to the United State by traffickers. It is important to educate what human trafficking looks like here. There were several students who knew a lot, and others that were unaware of human trafficking in the United States but were generally aware of it globally. I was impressed with the thoughtfulness of the questions, and the respect for the topic shown by the students. Several of them came up to speak with me afterward, and I appreciated the intelligent and compassionate questions.

Environmental justice issues encompass an incredibly wide array of concerns—from social justice and equity, to environmental stewardship, to institutional racism and bigotry, to climate change, and beyond—so the environmental justice cannot be anything other than intersectional.

Despite this, the environmental and social justice issues continue to be highlighted in isolation of each other. I have hope for young people picking up the nuance of this combined impact.

Whereas older generations fighting for civil rights valiantly committed to metered, “one-at-a-time” strategies, today's youth understand the need for sweeping intersectional progress.

This is why I wanted to speak to your students. Coming away from the Colloquium, I was excited that I was able to turn some young people onto an new concept. I know I didn't get through to everyone, but there were some who really latched on. They connected my examples of environmental injustice (e.g. power plant clusters) to their own examples of the local energy station in Alexandria. Other students really keyed into the gadgetry of air monitoring and wanted to know more about air pollutants and their health impacts.

Session: Goods for the Greater Good When I started working at Good360, I was shocked to learn how much brand new product companies ship to landfills simply because the items (clothing, furniture, toys, etc.) are out of season, returned, or just unsold. Learning about the practices of online and in-store retailers changed my perspective on sustainability and opened my eyes to the reality that there are unseen forces at play. It's hard to make a difference in the world unless you know what you are up against! I wanted the students to know about the behind-the-scenes practices of the retail industry that most consumers never learn while also sharing possible solutions. Some students were familiar with the wasteful practices of industries like fast fashion and some learned about it for the first time. Overall, I was very impressed by the knowledge and enthusiasm in the room. I think most were interested to learn about how nonprofits are working alongside businesses to achieve their missions.

Watching nonprofits and businesses work together to reduce waste while solving business challenges and helping communities is a win-win-win scenario that most think is impossible to achieve.

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S a i n t s S e r ve i n P u e r to R i c o In September 2017 a Category 5 hurricane devastated Puerto Rico, Dominica, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. It was the strongest storm to make landfall in Puerto Rico in 85 years and its impact has been lasting. The world watched grief-stricken as thousands were killed and homes and business were wasted during the havoc of the storm and in the weeks and months following. As an Episcopal school we are called to serve others, to do what we can to bring peace, comfort, and aid to those who are suffering. This March SSSAS eighth graders visited Puerto Rico, determined to do their part in helping villages and families rebuild their lives.

Andrew Avallone, an eighth grade history teacher, was one of the chaperones on the trip.

“Chaperoning the trip to Puerto Rico was a highlight of my school year,” he said. “The students were empathetic and thoughtful, and I was really impressed by the way they engaged with the service project and took the time to get to know the family we worked with. The trip focused on the value of service, as well as recognizing the importance of learning from the community in which that service is being done. I believe it was a truly humbling and transformative experience for many of them.”

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Building Up

BY JONATHAN KHO '23 When we pulled up to the house we were working on, our eyes were full of compassion when we looked out of our bus window. We noticed a small concrete house planted in the front of the yard. Outside of the house, there was a plank connecting the doorway to the ground, a pile of poles, and a small white dog with brown spots all over its body. The back of the house was torn off by the hurricane so all that was left was the foundation of the house. In front of the house we met Angel, the project manager. He was of average height in a baggy white shirt and loose jeans that had cement stains on it. His head was blotched with sweat but he had a huge grin on his face. Once we changed into our boots and put our gloves and work glasses on, we walked out to listen to the story of the house.

This house was originally made out of wood and most of the house was torn down by Hurricane María. The family living in the house now lives in the United States while the community and our group started building the house. There was a huge orange concrete twister that created the concrete using sand, rocks, water, and cement. We needed to scoop the sand and the rocks into buckets to put into the concrete mixer. Concrete would then be added to black buckets and we would make an assembly line towards the back of the house to start creating the foundation. While we were working, I found the work challenging yet fun because I knew we were making a difference in the family's life. This experience made me think about my life; I learned to cherish and be more thankful for the things I have such as a house to live in, clean water, and our belongings.

For lunch we went to Angel's house to have some authentic Puerto Rican food. As we walked onto the porch of his house, our stomachs began to beg for food once we smelled delicious scents of rice, fried plantains, and chicken. Angel's house was a concrete house with a porch hanging over the road giving Angel's family a beautiful view of the lush leaves of the

rainforest. Once you walked into their house you could see big pots of rice and chicken and big blankets hanging above the room as the substitute for a ceiling. There was a huge couch on the left side of the house and a bathroom on the right side of the house. Angel and his wife, Maria, were very kind and welcoming when we came into their house. On the fourth day, Maria and Angel explained how they were affected by Hurricane MarĂ­a. When the hurricane came, Angel started to run for safety. Maria wanted to stay because she did not want to leave her puppies which she saw as her children.

Eventually she decided to leave but she put the puppies in the bathroom to keep them safe. When the hurricane was over, Maria and Angel came back to find that everything they had was gone.

Angel knew that if God saved him from the hurricane, he was meant to do something. Angel decided to help others by starting to rebuild his houses in his community with help from the neighbors and Global Works.

Angel became a literal angel for the townspeople which caused others in the community to help one another to rebuild their neighborhood. Their community became stronger and more powerful when they worked together and caused others around them to not only become friends, but to build each other up both literally and figuratively.

Hurricane Maria was a tragedy for the

people of Puerto Rico, but it also created bonds and friendships that will last for a lifetime. I'm so glad our group was able to be exposed to such a powerful story.

Laying the Foundation

BY ALI BARROW '23 One of the biggest things we reflected on in Puerto Rico was sympathy versus empathy. Driving into Villa del Rio for the first time was exciting, and I had no idea what to expect. Everything felt different from the US: the onelane roads, the lush tropical trees, the number of dogs and cats, and the typical structure of all the homes in the village.

Before Hurricane Maria, all of Villa del Rio's houses were made out of wood.

Post hurricane saw all these homes ripped apart. In the part of the village in which we were, the homes were in some stage of being rebuilt or were still abandoned. We worked on the same house all three days: laying the bottom level's foundation, and putting rebar up. A very personalized aspect of the work days was how we built under the directions of the people who would live in the home. Everyone involved in the building process on the little house's property belonged to the home: Angel, Angel's sons, and two of their dogs.

The family didn't speak English, so everything they told us on the worksite

had to be translated. Being in the community and working directly with a family was an experience I will never forget.

Halfway through the workdays, we would walk half a mile through the winding village in the limestone mountains to Angel's house where his wife would have spent all day preparing lunch for us. For me, lunches were a definite highlight of the whole trip. Other than the amazing traditional Puerto Rican food made for us there, Maria immediately welcomed us into her home and was so excited that we were helping her community and family out. Their house had already been rebuilt, and even though it wasn't much, we all saw how it was more than plenty.

I really learned the difference between having sympathy for the people in Puerto Rico, and having empathy, where I had the chance to understand and experience their life with my friends by my side because of Global Works. Now when I see a disaster in a country, while I know that I will not be able to go down and help like I did in Puerto Rico, I will have a better understanding of what the people are going through. www.sssas.org | 25

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SAINTS LINK UP ALYSIA HARRIS '06 The Gift of Language

BY CHUMANI CHAMBERLAIN '21

With a relaxed body posture, Alysia Harris is a breath of fresh air; she sees the benefits of failure and finds treasure in the simplest things the world has to offer while staying true to her core beliefs. She sees the beauty in language by “looking beyond what it can do, how it functions as a tool to serve our purposes, and by looking at how language actually becomes a way for us to explore the world around us, and explore ourselves.

Alysia's use of language exemplifies its complexities. Her rich vocabulary brings to life the emotions of her audience, as well as her own, which in turn, creates a ripple effect of vulnerability for her community of listeners.

Alysia began her journey as a poet with Shakespeare and Upper School English Teacher Mary Fawcett. “Ms. Fawcett exposed me to many variations of writing and poetry,“ Alysia said. “she always encouraged me to keep writing.”

In February she was excited to return to St. Stephen's and St. Agnes as the Poet-in-Residence for the 28th Poetry Week for sophomores. She spent the week working with tenth grade English classes, guiding them through a hands-on workshop. One exercise required students to take lines from their favorite songs and use them as guidance to convey their thoughts.

Alysia wrote five suggested lines on the board. She then asked the students to use a song lyric as the first line and write continuously for two minutes. She was adamant that the students could not stop writing during any point of the two minutes. When the two minutes were up, she told them to write the next

line from a song and keep going for two more minutes. This process continued one more time.

After the exercise, one student stood and read, “If life is like a movie, then you're the best part. I'm just a traveler, watching you every week, sitting on a plane, admiring you. Traveling across the world with you was my goal. When I watch, I don't notice anything. You take my breath away. I can't keep track of the amount of times I wished my movie was as good as yours. I could never look away. I don't know how to explain it, but your movie is perfect.”

Another student shared this piece of writing: “I'm just a traveler on a long trip. I'm just a traveler, wandering around not knowing where I will go next. I'm just a traveler with no boundaries, no end, and no restrictions.

I've traveled to high places and low places far and wide. If you wander and explore and dream of traveling to greater places to make my world complete. You travel to see the beauty this world has to offer, to gain knowledge and experience because you're just a traveler on the road.

Just a traveler.”

Alysia responded, “That was awesome!

I like the refrain. What's a refrain?

Something that you repeat.”

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“The world will have to change if there's not a way in which I can make a living as a poet. I've been getting paid for poetry since I was 19.”

Being in her workshop allowed me and my classmates to experience what it takes to dig into your mind and express your emotions more specifically. At the beginning of the workshop, she asked the class: “So how many of you guys read for fun?” About half of the class raised their hands.

She engaged a student who did not in the following conversation: “Okay, and why don't you read for fun?”

“There's no reason,” the student stated.

Alysia questioned, “Why?”

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“Because it's boring,” the student responded.

Nope. Why?” Alysia pushed.

“I don't like it,” the student stated.

“Why?,” Alysia questioned again.

“I don't know why,” the student said.

“Well, then that's not a very good reason, right? If you can't explain why you don't like something, then you probably don't really have a good reason for why you don't like it.”

Her goal in asking the question was to make the students “work [their] creative brains.” She explained, “There's more to life than just figuring out the correct answer. Some questions don't have correct answers. You have to experience things and you have to go through them. Language and poetry allows us, gives us tools, to really process and understand what we're going through, which might not have super easy, clear-cut answers to them.”

Alysia wrapped up her workshop for the sophomores with a reading of Joy Priest's poem, “No Country for Black Boys,” which narrates the Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman confrontation from both perspectives.

“I hope that maybe I have helped you see that poetry is actually relevant,” she concluded. “It can be about current events. It can be about feelings. It can also be about having fun, and I hope you did have fun writing poetry. ” For Alysia, the only path for her life is writing. “There's no other option,” Alysia said. “I feel like sometimes people decide on a calling or decide on a career. For me it was the moment I knew what a poem was and realized that's how I think, so why would I do anything different? The world will have to change if there's not a way in which I can make a living as a poet. I've been getting paid for poetry since I was 19.”

“I think poetry was a sort of therapy for me, journaling, kind of processing the majority of my life. After I finished my poetry degree and I was doing more formal academic work, it really

changed the way that I thought, and it changed the way that I related to language, pretty radically. And so for two years, I didn't write creatively.”

Alysia has traveled nationally and internationally for the past five years performing her poetry. When asked how she differentiates between reading a poem and performing a poem, she dove into the importance of ensuring the audience understands what she is conveying. “As a performance poet, I have to make sure the audience gets what I'm saying, as I'm saying it...It has to be manageable. We talk about cognitive load, it has to be low enough that people can get it, without feeling exhausted by it.”

“But when you read a poem, or when you have something that's mostly in text form, you don't expect your audience to read it out loud,” she added. “I expect my audience to read my poems out loud to themselves, but I also expect them to be able to sit with the text that's in front of them and meditate on it, take more time with it, maybe go find some other sources,

come back to it. And so I feel you have much more freedom, in terms of how much pressure you can put on the language and how much twisting of the syntax you can really do in your poem. Because the audience, if they're reading a poem, will work more for it, in general. If they're listening to it, maybe not so much.”

Within her performance work, Alysia also believes emotions should shine through her performances.

“Vulnerability should be something that we can share with one another,” Alysia said. “And I think performance work actually allows us to do that.”

At the moment, Alysia said she is “just getting back into” poetry. “I would say that now I'm just trying to play with language, just trying to have fun with it,” she said. “I will read a poem that I like, and then I'll write it down by hand so that I can figure out what the author is doing that I can steal, or pick up on, or manipulate in some kind of way.”

Alysia's focus within her poetry sticks with “themes that are consistent with hope, and reconciliation and living up

to your values, and living up to your morals and spiritual integrity.”

Alysia spoke about working on her second collection. “The collection explores faith, from a Christian perspective, but for a secular audience.

Because I think as a poet, I recognize that sometimes we rely, as religious folks, on stock phrases, that can, over time, lose their meaning. And so as a poet, I'm interested in reviving language in a way, to make it more alive.”

A successful poet, Alysia Nicole Harris is a performance artist, activist, and founding member of The Strivers Row poetry collective. Born in Fremont, Calif., and raised in Alexandria, Va., Alysia studied linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania and earned her master's in creative writing at NYU. Alysia is currently finishing her doctorate in linguistics at Yale. Her first chapbook, “How Much We Must Have Looked Like Stars to Stars,” won the 2015 New Women's Voices Series Contest and is available on Amazon.

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The Call of Servant Leadership

BY REBECCA COOPER, MIDDLE SCHOOL RELIGION TEACHER In a sermon titled, “The Three Dimensions of a Complete Life,” the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., masterfully describes a view of life composed of three parts: length, breadth, and height. The length of life refers to the inward concern for one's own 30 | St. Stephen’s and St. Agnes School

welfare. The height of life is one's upward reach for God, and the breadth of life is the outward concern for the welfare of others. I use King's imagery in my teaching because it enables me to balance the needs and concerns of individual life with our collective well being. In particular, I find King's description of the breadth of life a powerful reminder of our dependence on one another. He writes, “Before you get through eating breakfast in the morning, you're dependent on more than half of the world. That's the way God structured it; that's the way God structured the world. So let us be concerned about others because we are dependent on others.” As an Episcopal school that actively cultivates goodness in our students, we have the task of exploring this dependence and examining our collective responsibilities.

This past January Upper School students had the opportunity to engage with a variety of issues related to the value of goodness during the first ever Colloquium for the Common Good. I appreciated the opportunity to lead a workshop and engage with Upper School students during this dynamic day of learning. In my workshop titled “The Democratic Republic of Congo: More than a Paradox of Plenty,” participants explored the bountiful resources of DRC, celebrated Congolese culture, and examined the ethical dilemmas of our dependence on Congolese resources. I was fortunate to present with Patricia Lokwa Servant, founder of the non-profit Congo Love and Development Consultant with Friends of the Congo. Questions at the heart of our study included: How are we complicit in the exploitation of the Congolese people and the degradation of their land? How can we be better informed conscious consumers? What are responsible and appropriate forms of advocacy that safeguard Congolese agency and amplify Congolese voices?

When students ask me why I care about Congo, I have in mind the following passage from historian David Van Reybrouck's book, “Congo: The Epic History of a People:”

“There is no other country in the world as fortunate as Congo in terms of its natural wealth. During the last century and a half, whenever acute demand has arisen on the international market for a given raw material—ivory in the Victorian era; rubber after the invention of the inflatable tire; copper during full-out industrial and military expansion; uranium during the Cold War; alternative electrical energy during the oil crisis of the 1970s; coltan in the age of portable telephonics—Congo has

The tragedy of DRC is indeed heartbreaking. One need only look to the phenomenal, life-transforming work of Dr. Denis Mukwege, founder of Panzi Hospital and co-winner of the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize, to scratch the surface of Congo's suffering. The tragedy of Congo calls to mind a line from the Confession of Sin in a supplemental liturgy for the Episcopal Church that states, “We repent of the evil that enslaves us, the evil we have done, and the evil done on our behalf.” The evil done on our behalf is one of those hard-to-face truths that must be examined if we are truly to work towards goodness both individually and collectively.

As an Episcopal school, inspired by the servant leadership of Jesus Christ, we are called to address tragedy, injustice, and suffering whether it is our neighbors nearby or neighbors an ocean away. The Colloquium provided an opportunity to illuminate our interdependence on DRC, to examine the evil that is done on our behalf, and to elevate young Congolese leaders who are pressing for a more peaceful, fair, and just Congo.

I struggle as a teacher to balance knowledge of suffering in our world with the celebration of resilience that accompanies the overcoming of suffering or the ability to thrive in the midst of challenging circumstances.

I begin my lessons that address difficult topics in a positive place, affirming those who are working on transforming their lives and improving their communities. I have always believed that teaching is inherently an optimistic profession. Teachers live in hope, trusting that the seeds of goodness and knowledge we plant will be watered as our students grow and understand who they are and their place in the world. It is a privilege to be part of this development and to provide space for students to wrestle with the bittersweetness of life. Informed by The Baptismal Covenant of the Episcopal Church, I believe that goodness requires that we strive for justice and peace among all people and respect the dignity of every human being.

turned out to contain huge supplies of the coveted commodity. It has easily been able to meet demand. The economic history of Congo is one of improbably luck breaks.

But also of improbably great misery. As a rule, not a drop of the fabulous profits trickled down to the larger part of the population. That dichotomy, that is what we call tragedy.”

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Shrek The ” Musical I'm a Believer!

A REVIEW BY LEAD CAPPIES CRITIC HELEN SWEENEY '19 The Cappies is a writing and awards program that trains high school students to be expert writers, critical thinkers, and leaders. Student critics vie to be published in local media outlets by attending productions at other schools and writing critical reviews.

Many of us cherish the DreamWorks Animation movie “Shrek” particularly those especially heartwarming and nostalgic elements—Eddie Murphy's voice of Donkey, the finale, “I'm a Believer,” by the Monkees, and the whole “onions have layers, ogres have layers” bit. Then 11 years ago, the film was turned into a musical and debuted on Broadway, and the already highenergy plot was filled with song and dance.

The Upper School Stage One Players chose “Shrek: The Musical” as their

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spring production and opened on March 1, 2019. Performing this show is certainly not an easy task; the fairytale creatures require elaborate costumes and makeup and the run-time is more than two hours which can be exhausting for the cast and crew. This didn't scare Stage One. The technical aspects of a production can often go unnoticed when so many other things are happening; this production of “Shrek: The Musical,” however, went above and beyond with the mics, lighting, set, costumes, and makeup. Every actor with a speaking part was clearly heard, allowing the audience to be present in every moment of the performance. The colorful lighting beautifully added to the magical aesthetic of the production.

Likewise, the set was expertly designed and built —not overpowering the scenes but perfectly complementing them. Perhaps the most intimidating element to this production is the need for eccentric and elaborate costumes

and makeup. Stage One took this challenge in stride. The costumes and makeup transported the audience to a magical land where ogres and talking donkeys exist.

Shrek and Donkey, played by Campbell Weiss '19 and Aron Sobers '19, both had so much energy that it translated to the entire cast. The chemistry between these two leads was undeniable as they easily persuaded the audience they had a love-hate friendship. The accents of both Shrek and Donkey created a sense of fond nostalgia in the theatre, as many in the audience recalled their first experience watching the movie.

Every actor on stage danced, sang, and moved with purpose and passion leaving the audience laughing until their stomachs hurt, smiling until their cheeks were sore, and jumping up for a standing ovation on opening night.

Congratulations on yet another amazing and magical production, Stage One!

Jenn Lansing '21, Bette Vajda '19, Fred Gehlhoff '20

Andrew Seale '21, Sam Tampubolon '22, Lena Weiman '21, Nick Griepentrog '20

Nora Fortune '21

Campbell Weiss '19, Aron Sobers '19, Laetitia Haddad '20

Delaney Moore '20, Campbell Weiss '19

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Celebrating Black History Month

BY KIKI DAVIS, DIRECTOR OF INSTITUTIONAL EQUITY AND DIVERSITY More than 90 years ago, Carter G. Woodson created Negro History Week to recognize and celebrate the contributions of African Americans to the diverse American landscape of art, music, literature, medicine, technology, academia, sports, and every facet of American life as we know it. It is not that these contributions did not exist, it is that they were not included in the story of America. Accomplished Americans like Benjamin Banneker, Charles Drew, Ida B. Wells, and Katherine Johnson were often left out of the stories that built America, revolutionized medicine, fought for civil rights and suffrage, and catapulted the United States into space. Those that were included were left in the margins as one-dimensional anecdotes to those seen as the true builders of our nation, worthy of history's honors.

For every Thomas Edison there was a Lewis Latimer, for every Elvis Presley, a George Washington Carver, a Big Boy Crudup, and a Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton. Black History is American History.

This year St. Stephen's and St. Agnes School was proud to welcome Elizabeth Eckford, one of the Little Rock Nine and an icon of the civil rights movement. We also moved to music that shaped the second half of the 20th century at a special “Tribute to Motown” concert. The next day Carroll Dashiell, Jr., and his band conducted an amazing workshop with the Upper School jazz band. The Middle School had a special concert that highlighted writers, activists, and artists from across time with music and student readings, and the Lower School music classes celebrated the contributions of blues great Muddy Waters. Black History Month is a reminder that America is all of us and our nation's history is not complete until everyone is included.

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Winter Academic Convocation Students had the opportunity to hear from Kelsey Reeder '10 at the Upper School Academic Convocation in February. Kelsey currently lives in New York City, where she is a social worker at Harlem Children Zone's Promise Academy Charter School and a psychotherapist to adult patients in the evening. Kelsey graduated from Fordham University where she majored in sociology and social work with a concentration in peace and justice studies. After earning her master's in social work at Columbia University, she studied religious trauma, intimate partner violence, anti-racist and anti-oppressive practice, and family acceptance within the LGBTQ+ community. She spoke about her education and work path and the challenges and successes experienced along the way. She urged the students to remember that external validation isn't everything.“I think there is a part of all of us that wants to have some sort of impact on the world,” she said. “Whether it be as a doctor

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curing illnesses, an actor conveying the complexities of the human experience, an engineer supporting advancement in technology, a teacher molding the next generation—the opportunities to leave this world better off than we found it are endless.”

Upper School students were also recognized for their hard work and success during the first semester. In addition to recognizing students who were on the Head and Deans' Lists, 10 seniors were named National Merit Commended Scholars: Elizabeth Cady, William Clark, Abigail Hawkins, Andrew Kiama, Katherine Mottola, Evelyn Perfall, Ephraim Reed, Helen Sweeney, Bette Vajda, and Campbell Weiss. Seniors Chase Cohen, Patrick Hines, and Thomas Van Buren were named National Merit Semi-Finalists, placing in the top 1 percent of over 1.5 million students who took the 2017 PSAT. All three continued in the competition and have since been named National Merit Finalists.

Robotics Team ThunderStone Advances to International Competition Our Upper School robotics teams had an outstanding showing at the Virginia State Championship. Of the 177 teams in the state, 56 earned slots in the State Championship, including both SSSAS teams who advanced to the semi-finals.

ThunderStone also won the Collins Aerospace Innovate Award for their outstanding and creative robot design, earning an invitation to the FIRST Tech Challenge World Championship in Detroit in April.

In addition, junior Abbie Henshaw was named as a FIRST Dean's List Finalist. Of the approximately 55,000 students involved, only 152 are selected as Dean's List Finalists.

Shannon Fusina @MsFusinaChem: Comparing and contrasting physical properties of ionic vs covalent compounds #ChemEd #ChemLab #HSChemistry

Fashion Designer Rachel Roy, Helen Sweeney '19, Kailash Satyarthi, Sumedha Kailash, Makeda Melkie '19, and SSSAS parent Autumn VandeHei

Nobel Peace Laureate Kailash Satyarthi Inspires Students to Action Kailash Satyarthi, a 2014 Nobel Peace Prize recipient, and fashion designer Rachel Roy visited the Upper School on February 26. Kailash has been a tireless advocate of children's rights for more than three decades. In 2014 he was jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for “struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education.” His documentary film, “The Price of Free,” tells the story of his struggle to liberate children from slavery. The film won for Best Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival.

Kailash founded and spearheads the 100 Million campaign which aims to inspire and mobilize young people

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to stand up and act for their own rights and the rights of their peers.

He hopes to create the world's largest youth movement in support of ending violence against children, eradicating child labor, and ensuring that all children receive an education.

Rachel has partnered with Kailash to spread the message of compassionate consumerism. She is in the early stages of developing a labeling system for clothing, similar to the organic qualification process food items go through. She gave advice to students about how to know if a company is using child labor. “You can make a change in the world and you can do it publicly. Ask your favorite brands

and companies publicly (through social media) where their products are made and ask them to list the factories publicly.”

In the student-led assembly, students discussed what they can do to end child labor. One student asked Kailash, “What is something that motivates you every day to tackle this major global issue?” His answer: “What motivates me is the energy of young people.”

“The power of young people should not be wasted,” he continued. “Take the leadership role because youth should speak for youth...There is a hero inside each of you. You don't need to be champions, you are champions!”

KiKi Davis @KiKiADavis: Wrapping up Black History month with a special US chapel. Our affinity groups wore kente ties and African head wraps in homage to our heritage.

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On February 10, the Upper School Choir performed with other Episcopal school choirs in the Evensong at the Washington National Cathedral. Andrew Buckman '19 was one of the readers.

Freshman to Play in Girls Baseball Invitational Ninth grader Joanie O'Connell was selected from more than 180 applicants to participate in the inaugural High School Girls Baseball Invitational in Arlington, Texas. March 7-10. She was one of 64 chosen for the four-day development camp jointly run

by Major League Baseball and USA Baseball. The camp featured the top high school-age female baseball players in the country.

The High School Girls Baseball Invitational is one of several initiatives run by MLB and USA Baseball to foster the growth and development of female baseball players. The program provides elite training, instruction, and college-career guidance from former MLB players and USA Baseball women's national team players.

Kate Hardwick @hangingwithMsH: Checked off an item on my bucket list today by climbing the Great Wall of China with @SSSASsaints

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Kelley Gorman@MsGormanSSSAS: Big thanks to our friends on Smith Island for a wonderful minicourse adventure! We stayed busy from sunrise to sunset and learned so much about the watermen and Bay ecology.

Fourth Grade Drives Two Tons of Support to Local Food Bank This year the Lower School increased its commitment to supporting our neighbors with food insecurity. The fourth grade sponsored two creative events that combined fun and service and collected more than 4,000 pounds of food for ALIVE Alexandria! In December they held the third annual Crenshaw Arcade, an idea inspired by the book “Crenshaw,” which includes themes about hunger and homelessness. They use their design-thinking skills to build arcade games from reusable materials and invite students and teachers to donate canned goods and non-perishable foods in exchange for tickets. In January they added a new event and invited students to donate food and attend “Play Your Part Math Games,” a fun math and logic games event. Additionally, students and parents were invited to donate food as part of the Lower School Chapel service and since January, they have donated more than 500 pounds of food. All of this is in addition to the weekly vegetable cutting and sandwich making our students do for ALIVE and Meade Memorial Episcopal Church.

The BIGGEST Bowl Ever: Nat Johnson '21 created the largest bowl ever thrown on a pottery wheel in the 3D art studio. The experience of manipulating the huge piece of clay on the wheel was somewhat harrowing, but with the guidance of Upper School Art Teacher Joey Wade, he prevailed.

Rebecca Gehlhoff @curlyhairmusic1: Saints composed melodic ostinati on our beautiful rosewood xylophones, metallophones, and glockenspiels using the rhythmic cells from “Who's That Tapping at the Window?”

Rebecca Cooper @rcooper3712: A great day yesterday for Saints on annual World Religions field trip visiting our neighbors Mubarak Mosque and Beth El Hebrew. Thank you to our gracious hosts.

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Middle School Students Work with Young Athletes In January and February two eighth grade advisories gathered at the Lower School on two different Saturdays to participate in the Special Olympics Young Athletes program. Middle School Math Teacher Pauline Bauman and Associate Director of Middle School Josh Bauman have been involved with the Special Olympics for more than 10 years. When the regional director of Special Olympics expressed the need for a Young Athletes program in Northern Virginia, they volunteered to help coordinate a partnership with St. Stephen's and St. Agnes. Through Young Athletes, Middle School student volunteers introduce children (ages 2-7) to the world of sport with the goal of preparing them for Special Olympics competitions when they get older. The program focuses on the basics that are crucial to cognitive development: physical activities that develop motor skills and hand-eye coordination.

Katie Hahn @KatieHahn: It was a beautiful morning for a stream clean-up with my fellow Saints. Our Lower School neighborhood stream has 75 lbs. less trash! @SSSASsaints

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Saints prepare for the sessions by learning more about Special Olympics and intellectual disabilities, and then later meet the young athletes, working in small groups and playing fun and simple games to help the children develop motor skills.

St. Stephen's and St. Agnes was honored to have Harvard swimmer Schuyler Bailar spend the day with our Upper School community in March. His story of self-acceptance and transition was a powerful reminder that you can be true to yourself and still love what you do.

St. Stephen's St. Agnes @SSSASsaints: To celebrate International Women's Day, the Upper School Women's Affinity Group hosted a special activity this morning to honor the women in their lives. #InternationalWomensDay #thesaintslifeâ Ł

The Rolling RhomBus: Taking Math on the Road There's a special new bus at SSSAS that will carry learning into the community.

Director of Lower School Math Ann Bremner is passionate about teaching mathematics. She noticed that there was a large number of community programs relating to reading and language arts, but not many for math support. “That's when I decided that there should be a way to deliver engaging math activities for all students in our community, and the idea of the 'Math Bus' was born,” Ann explained.

St. Stephen’s St. Agnes @SSSASsaints: Our “Shrek” cast and members of our Panda Friends tutoring program at a dress rehearsal. CBES staff shared: “It was the first musical performance for some of the students so it opened doors for them. They will never forget it!”

“I believe in empowering students by giving them the tools they need to be successful and building their confidence in their Director of Lower School Math Ann Bremner inside the Rolling RhomBus. ability.” After researching and developing the idea further, Ann created the plan and applied for a classrooms and beyond. Ann can't wait Saints Innovation Grant funded by The to hit the road. “We're so pleased to Saints Fund. Saints Innovation Grants have the new Rolling RhomBus to help provide the opportunity for faculty to SSSAS live out our mission of service embrace creativity, risk-taking, and in our community,” Ann said. “We are exploration as inspiration in their excited to share the love of math.”

St. Stephen's St. Agnes @SSSASsaints: Engineering - Creativity - Problem-solving: The fifth grade Toy Factory Exposition showcased the amazing creations of our innovative fifth graders! The best part?

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BOYS BASKETBALL HAS HISTORIC SEASON IAC SEASON AND TOURNAMENT CHAMPS

SLEEPY THOMPSON TOURNAMENT CHAMPS VISAA STATE CHAMPS

The Saints varsity boys basketball team dominated on the court and steamrolled their way through the winter. They took the 2018-2019 season by storm, finishing as five-time tournament champions, winning the Sleepy Thompson Tournament with an 89-58 win over Episcopal High School (EHS), taking the JP Fund Holiday Classic in the National Division,

capturing the IAC regular season championship with an 89-77 win against Landon, the IAC Tournament Championship with a 73-67 win over EHS, and the VISAA State Championship where they met EHS again and won 67-58. Head Coach Mike Jones was named the VISAA Division I Coach of the Year.

FINAL RECORD: 27-3

REGULAR SEASON

ALL-IAC PLAYER OF THE YEAR: Charles Thompson '19 ALL-IAC: Jared Cross '20 Christian DePollar '19 Xavier Lipscomb '20 VISAA ALL-STATE PLAYER OF THE YEAR: Charles Thompson '19 VISAA ALL-STATE SECOND TEAM: Xavier Lipscomb '20 VISAA DIVISION I COACH OF THE YEAR: Mike Jones ALL-MET FIRST TEAM: Charles Thompson '19 ALL-MET HONORABLE MENTION: Christian DePollar '19 Xavier Lipscomb '20 42 | St. Stephen's Stephen’s and St. Agnes School

Woodrow Wilson St. Andrew's Episcopal School Flint Hill School McKinnon Cougars (Australia) St. Albans School Sidwell Friends School Episcopal High School Bullis School Landon School Collegiate School Georgetown Preparatory School Episcopal High School Potomac School Landon School Bullis School St. Albans School Georgetown Preparatory School Saint John Paul the Great St. Maria Goretti High School

JP FUND HOLIDAY CLASSIC CHAMPS

The Saints had an outstanding 27-3 record. With the State championship win, they jumped to a 4th place finish in The Washington Post rankings and were ranked 50th nationally on MaxPreps.

GO SAINTS!

TOURNAMENTS L 57-68 W 88-69 L 57-65 W 99-52 W 81-65 W 61-55 W 71-62 W 66-63 W 97-30 W 62-27 W 81-53 W 84-71 W 68-50 W 89-77 W 80-65 W 95-38 L 56-59 W 82-63 W 80-56

Sleepy Thompson Tournament T.C. Williams High School Benedictine College Preparatory Episcopal High School

JP Fund Holiday Classic

Archbishop Molloy High School Archbishop Hoban High School Greater Latrobe High School

W 81-61 W 93-40 W 89-58 W 88-41 W 61-53 W 92-50

IAC Tournament

Georgetown Preparatory School W 65-53 W 73-67 Episcopal High School

VISAA Tournament

Cape Henry Collegiate School Bishop O'Connell High School Episcopal High School

W 79-45 W 76-46 W 67-58

#onesaint

Jared Cross '20

Christian DePollar '19

Ephraim Reed '19

TEAM ROSTER

Chase Beasley '20

Lamumba Howard '20

Jamal Barnes '20 Chase Beasley '20 Jared Cross '20 Christian DePollar '19 Eric Gordon '21 Lamumba Howard '20 Xavier Lipscomb '20 Jalen Meares '19 Christopher Milton '20 Ephraim Reed '19 Kurt Samuels '20 Andre Screen '20 Charles Thompson '19 Andrew Tyeryar '19 Jared White '19

Charles Thompson '19

Jamal Barnes '20

Head Coach: Mike Jones Assistant Coach: Travis Burgdolf Assistant Coach: Andre Hunter Assistant Coach: Isaac Mcneil Assistant Coach: Wade Summa Manager: Kelsey Gourdin '22

Jalen Meares '19

Eric Gordon '21

Andre Screen '20

Kurt Samuels '20

Christopher Milton '20

Xavier Lipscomb '20

Jared White '19 PHOTOS BY JAMESON BLOOM ‘13

Andrew Tyeryar '19

Head Coach Mike Jones

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Final Record: 8-14 FINAL ISL STANDING: Tied for 3rd (ISL A Division) Claimed 2nd place in the 24th Annual Saints Invitational Girls Basketball Tournament.

Emma Bradley '19

ALL-ISL A DIVISION: Bradyn Griffin '21

Simone Holland '20

ICE HOCKEY

Final Record: 5-14 FINAL IAC STANDING: 5th ALL-IAC: Atticus Beane '20 FINAL MAPHL STANDING: 8th

Will Evans '19

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WRESTLING IAC TOURNAMENT RESULTS: 6th VISAA STATE CHAMPIONSHIP RESULTS: 12th

Cameron Sweet '19

ALL-IAC: Matt Larson '19 Cameron Sweet '19 DAVID HOOPER IAC MOST OUTSTANDING WRESTLER: Matt Larson '19

Matt Larson '19 William Reid '19

Jack Donovan '19

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GIRLS TRACK & FIELD VISAA STATE CHAMPIONSHIP MEET RESULTS: 8th NEW SCHOOL RECORDS: 200m: (27.55) Nyia Cummings '20 400m: (1:01.70) Nyia Cummings '20 55m Hurdles: (9.34) Nyia Cummings '20

Elise Hellmann '20 and Caroline Burnett '19

60m Hurdles: (9.85) Nyia Cummings '20 Distance Medley Relay: (14:47.99) Katie Whalen '21 Caroline Burnett '19 Morgan Lewis '22 Ellie Hanley '22

Nyia Cummings '20

Coach Jayson Gilbert Indi Clayton '20 Coach Jayson Gilbert and Indi Clayton '20

BOYS TRACK & FIELD VISAA STATE CHAMPIONSHIP MEET RESULTS: 8th VISAA ALL-STATE FIRST TEAM: 300m: Curtis Borden '19 55m: Malcolm Johnson '21

Jonathan Randle '20

VISAA ALL-STATE SECOND TEAM: 55m: Curtis Borden '19 NEW SCHOOL RECORDS: 55m: (6.40) Malcolm Johnson '21 60m: (6.86) Malcolm Johnson '21 300m: (35.53) Curtis Borden '19 800m: (2:17.26) Christopher Yu '21 3200m: (10:41.84) Nathan Bezuneh '21 Shot Put: (38'9.5”) Irvine Madenga '21 ALL-MET HONORABLE MENTION: Malcolm Johnson '21

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Curtis Borden '19

BOYS SWIMMING Final Dual Meet Record: 6-5

IAC CHAMPIONSHIP MEET FINISH: 3rd VISAA STATE CHAMPIONSHIP MEET RESULTS: 8th VISAA ALL-STATE: 200 Freestyle Relay: Barton Balistreri '19 Ian Carr '21 Adam Fischer '19 Ethan Oleksa '20 ALL-IAC: Adam Fischer '19

Adam Fischer '19

GIRLS SWIMMING

Final Dual Meet Record: 9-2 ISL CHAMPIONSHIP MEET FINISH: 6th VISAA STATE CHAMPIONSHIP MEET RESULTS: 7th NEW SCHOOL RECORDS: 200 Medley Relay: (1:51.14) Tory Atkinson '19 Olivia Heck '21 Evelyn Meggesto '22 Emily Smith '21

Evelyn Maggesto '22

200 Free Relay: (1:41.71) Tory Atkinson '19 Evelyn Meggesto '22 Claire Toman '20 Ashley West '20 100 Fly: (58.17) Evelyn Meggesto '22 50 Free: (24.41) Emily Smith '21 ALL-MET HONORABLE MENTION: Evelyn Meggesto '22 Emily Smith '21

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The St. Stephen's and St. Agnes School Hall of Fame honors and perpetuates the memory of those individuals who have made outstanding contributions and brought recognition, honor, distinction, and excellence to the school and its athletic program. This year six individuals and a basketball team were inducted in the eighth Hall of Fame ceremony on April 13.

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The Athletics Hall of Fame Welcomes New Inductees MARSHA WAY

Physical Education Teacher and Coach 35 years of service at SSSAS Head Varsity Field Hockey Coach (35 years) Girls Athletic Director (27 years) P.E. Department Chair (27 years) ISL Commissioner (2 years) ISL Treasurer (9 years)

HONORS & AWARDS Varsity Field Hockey Coaching Record: 514 W/86 L/46 T 22 ISL Championships 4 VISAA State Championships 1995 All-Met Coach of the Year 2007 All-Met Coach of the Year 2013 & 2014 Alexandria Sportsman's Club Coach of the Year 2013 & 2014 Named a Top 5 Coach by the National Federation of State High School Associations 2008 Honored with the Wooten Award by The Washington Post 2015 ISL created the Marsha Way Leadership "Way to Go" Award 2018 The SSSAS Marsha A. Way Sportsmanship Award for Girls named in her honor

Marsha Way entered the St. Agnes School doors in 1979 and has been an integral part of life at St. Agnes School and then St. Stephen's and St. Agnes School ever since. She has served as the girls athletic director for 27 years, varsity field hockey coach for 35 years, and P.E. Department chair for 27 years. Marsha has also coached several other Middle and Upper School sports teams. She grew up on a dairy farm and received an academic scholarship to college where she first played on a sports team, the field hockey team. After college she worked in Bermuda and created the health curriculum for the entire island. When she started at St. Agnes as the athletic director, teams were playing five or six games per season, she grew our programs to over twenty games per season.

Coach Way lives the philosophy of working hard and having fun, and if both of these go together then it brings success. This success is evident in her field hockey career record of 514 wins, 86 losses, and 46 ties. Her teams have 22 ISL Championships and four State Championships. Marsha was twice named Coach of the Year by The Washington Post, and in 2008 was honored with the Wooten Award by The Washington Post. She has also served the Independent School League (ISL) in many capacities, including as commissioner for two years and treasurer for nine years. In the 2013-2014 school year, she was named the Alexandria Sportsman's Club Coach of the Year and was listed as a Top 5 Coach by the National Federation of State High School Associations. The ISL leadership “Way to Go” Award was named in her honor in 2015 and the St. Stephen's and St. Agnes School 'Marsha A. Way Sportsmanship Award for Girls' was named in her honor in 2018.

All of this is an impressive legacy, but what has made her beloved by players and peers alike is her determination and her desire to help her players reach their potential. She cheered them on and inspired them. She let them know that she cared about them as individuals.

While Coach Way was the girls athletic director, she had a poster of Joan Benoit Samuelson up in her office. At the bottom of the poster it read, “There is no finish line.” Coach Way has lived with no finish line. Her can-do attitude has inspired almost four decades of students to greatness on the field and in their own lives.

At Coach Way's retirement ceremony, Susanne Wanamaker '82 spoke in her honor and said, “Marsha values fairness, integrity, commitment, and perseverance, and through her own hard work and compassionate dedication, she inspires and ingrains these qualities in every girl she coaches.”

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ALIX FELLOWS Volunteer Coach

42 years of service at SSSAS Co-founded first girls lacrosse team in 1975 Volunteer Coach for varsity and JV field hockey and lacrosse “Clear the pitch, ladies!” was Coach Alix Fellows' call to action for 42 years at St. Agnes School and St. Stephen's and St. Agnes School. She grew up in Ireland, raised five boys, and started volunteer coaching field hockey at St. Agnes School in 1974 so she could spend time with girls. In the spring of 1975, Coach Kathy Jenkins was starting a lacrosse team and asked Coach Fellows if she knew how to play. Coach Fellows, who had played in high school and started her college team, coached the fundamental lacrosse skills while Coach Jenkins focused on the team strategy using basketball tactics.

HONORS & AWARDS 1995 US Lacrosse Potomac Chapter Unsung Hero Recognition 2003 Alexandria Sportsman's Club Assistant Coach of the Year for Field Hockey and Lacrosse 2009 US Lacrosse Potomac Chapter Hall of Fame Inductee

Coach Fellows believes that greatness comes from good fundamental skills and hard work. She taught this by focusing on technique. She would take tennis balls and put them on players' sticks to help their hand positions. She drilled technique until players could do it without thinking. Her call of “Go toward the ball!” reminded her players to push, to be their best, and to take control of the game. This idea extended off the field as well. Ashley Kincheloe Dyson '89 said of Coach Fellows: “Every opportunity, every dream, every success I have experienced in my life has happened because of that strategy [go towards the ball]. Coach Fellows taught me the most important lesson in life: only you can make it happen, only you can pursue the path and the journey that is yours.”

Her warmth and smile radiated love for those around her. Kate Fauth '06 twisted her ankle in a drill and recalls: “I hobbled off the field and was told to see the trainers in the school, a walk that usually takes a couple minutes. My hobbling quickly worsened to the point where I couldn't put any weight on my right leg, so Coach Fellows went from supporting some of my weight to practically carrying me. The walk felt like an eternity. I think about that walk often and how Coach Fellows supported me the whole way there, and when I found out my ankle was broken... I'm so grateful to have had her as a coach.

I may be the only one who can say I was carried 200 yards by my 70-year-old coach, but I know I wasn't the only one to have been rescued by her support.”

Lower School Teacher Beth Barrows coached JV girls lacrosse with Alix for 10 years.”She had a tremendous impact on me as a coach and as a person,” said Barrow. From the tough love she gave every girl on the team to develop them not just as players but as people, to the wisdom she imparted to me on a daily basis as she listened patiently to my mid-twenties angst, Alix became my role model and dear friend. Middle School Teacher Katherine Miller and I always used to say that when we grew up, we wanted to be Alix Fellows. Of course, there's only one, and we are all blessed to know her.”

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CHUCK SHEPHERDSON '61 Football, Basketball, Baseball

Chuck Shepherdson was not only considered an outstanding athlete and a born leader at St. Stephen's, but also an all-around great guy on and off the playing fields and courts. He received 11 varsity letters for four years of varsity baseball, three years of varsity basketball, three years of varsity football, and one year of varsity tennis. Chuck was the captain and quarterback of the varsity football team, as well as the captain of the varsity basketball and baseball teams his senior year.

HONORS & AWARDS Football Team Captain Basketball Team Captain Baseball Team Captain 1960 St. Stephen's School Deacon Player of the Year 1960 All-Prep (football) 1960 All-IAC (football) 1960 All-City (football) 1961 SSSAS Outstanding Athlete Award 1959 & 1960 IAC Football Champions 2002 The 1960 Football Team Honored by Alexandria Sportsman's Club 2011 The 1960 Football Team Inducted in the SSSAS Hall of Fame

Among his many athletic successes at St. Stephen's, Chuck earned All-Prep, All-IAC, and All-City honors during football season his senior year. He quarterbacked two IAC Championship football teams in 1959 and 1960 and was chosen by the St. Stephen's “Deacon” as the outstanding Player of the Year because he “...not only called the signals brilliantly, but was also the moving force behind the defense.” The 1960 football team had a perfect season with 8 wins, 1 tie, and 0 losses and was ranked 6th amongst teams in the Washington Metropolitan area by The Washington Post. The team was honored by the Alexandria Sportsman's Club in 2002 and inducted into the St. Stephen's and St. Agnes School Hall of Fame in 2011. Before graduation, Chuck received the St. Stephen's School Outstanding Athlete Award given to the best overall athlete who competed in at least two varsity sports and was selected by coaches based on playing ability and overall contribution to the team.

While the newspapers talked about the “strong right arm of Chuck Shepherdson” on the football field, his teammates and fellow classmates appreciated another side of him as well. Mature in his understanding of what it meant to be a captain, he watched out for his teammates. Regardless of a player's position he went out of his way to create a team culture to which everyone belonged. He was a leader. Teammate Bill Hunter '62 described Chuck's presence in the football huddle like having a coach there. He kept the team calm and focused when things got tough.

When asked to comment on Chuck's leadership during the 1960 IAC championship game against St. Alban's, St. Stephen's legendary coach, Sleepy Thompson, told the Alexandria Gazette, “Chuck called a great game. He did a masterful job as a field general. He is a real guiding light.”

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PATTY ALEXANDER KELLAM '83 Field Hockey, Basketball, Lacrosse

Having fun was a way of life for Patty Alexander Kellam, who played varsity field hockey, varsity basketball, and varsity lacrosse and was awarded the St. Agnes Outstanding Athlete award in 1983. Coach Marsha Way, head field hockey coach, described her as “an outstanding attack player.” Patty was the gold team captain, leading her team to victories over the green team two years in a row.

She also led her lacrosse teams to two lacrosse tournament championship wins.

Patty was described by her coaches as having spitfire-high energy and being small but a very quick player. She set many records during her time as a St. Agnes lacrosse player.

HONORS & AWARDS Basketball Team Captain Lacrosse Team Captain 1983 Outstanding Athlete Award Tied record holder for most goals scored (9) in a lacrosse game 1981 ISPEA Tournament Champions (13-1) 1983 ISL Tournament Champions (14-2) Athlete Award

She scored 92 career goals in three years, her senior year she averaged 3.6 goals per game for a total of 58 goals. She led the team with an impressive shot percentage of 58 percent and she was the first St. Agnes girl to take 100 shots in a season. Despite being face guarded by opponents most games, Patty always found a way to find the back of the net or to simply occupy defenders so that her teammates could score. In addition to her scoring abilities, Head Lacrosse Coach Kathy Jenkins remembers the liveliness that Patty brought to the team.

She was always finding new ways for the girls to have fun, on and off the field, including sneaking into the gym to prepare pranks and even throwing Coach Jenkins in a pool.

Patty was more than an athlete. She was not only a member of the Athletic Association for three years, but she was also heavily involved in many school activities. She worked on the school yearbook the “Lamb's Tail,” as well as the school newspaper the “Shearings.” She was a member of the Student Council for one year, the French club for two years, and was a student fire marshal for three years. Patty was also inducted into the Cum Laude Society and served on the holiday committee.

Through all of her school experiences, Patty always found a way to be present and focus on the group or team that she was with. She watched her teams develop and grow. Her junior year the basketball team focused on individual skills in order to focus on team strategy their senior year. This team attitude was evident on the lacrosse field as well. An article in “Shearings” attributed the team's success to “the ability of the girls to play together as a team, as well as their speed and stick work.” Patty helped her teams come together and together they found success.

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DAN TATE, JR. '84

Football, Basketball, Track, Lacrosse

Dan Tate played on the varsity football team at St. Stephen's School for three years and was a team captain his senior year. He played on the first St. Stephen's lacrosse team and was later named captain of the lacrosse team as well. He also ran two years of varsity track, and played two years of varsity basketball. Dan was an example of commitment, hard work, and sacrifice to be one's best on and off the field. He focused on his academics—his name was regularly found on the Dean's and Head's lists— and his hard work and integrity guided him in leading his fellow classmates. He was on the student honor council, and class president both his junior and senior years.

HONORS & AWARDS Football Team Captain Lacrosse Team Captain 1982 & 1983 All- IAC (football) 1983 All-Met (football) 1983 Alexandria Journal Player of the Week (football) 1983 Alexandria Gazette AllNorthern Virginia Team (football) 1983 John Morrow Stanton Athletic Award 1984 Outstanding Athlete Award 1984 All-IAC (lacrosse) 1982 Undefeated Football Season (9-0)

James Taylor '84 explained that on the football field Dan “would only need the slightest hole in the line to break a long run.” In football, his senior year alone, he ran 788 yards as the running back, averaged 6.6 yards per carry, and scored 12 touchdowns. He earned All-IAC honors for football, and helped his teams win three IAC championships. That football team was described as “a team of class and character. Under the superb guidance of the coaches, the leadership of the seniors, and the determination of the underclassmen, the team as a unit achieved its goal[s].” His junior year the football team had a perfect league record 9-0 with three shutouts. That same year the basketball team had an almost perfect league record of 11-1. He earned the John Morrow Stanton Athletic Award, given to the student who shows excellence in athletic ability, dedication, leadership, and character and the 1984 Outstanding Athlete Award given to the athlete who plays multiple varsity sports and has shown their ability and contribution to their teams.

When Dan graduated from St. Stephen's School he went on to Amherst College where he played football and was a captain on their lacrosse team.

It is his personal attributes that keep him connected with those he played with in the past. A close school friend, John DelNegro '85, sums up Dan's character in the following way: “I've never met a finer combination of person, family man, friend, mentor, businessman, and Saint. He is the older brother I never had.”

1983 IAC Football Champions (8-1)

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DARA BRUNELLI 'OHARA '93 Volleyball, Basketball, Lacrosse

“Bump, Set, Spike, Win. GO SAINTS!” echoed through the gym and encouraged the Saints team to victory. Head Volleyball Coach, Betsey Rice, described Dara Brunelli O'Hara and the 1993 varsity volleyball team as “one of the best she has ever coached because the team is made up of girls who really want to work together and win.” Dara, a three-sport athlete and a Dean's list student, made athletics a way of life by the time she graduated from St. Stephen's and St. Agnes School in 1993. She played four years of varsity volleyball, four years of varsity basketball, and four years of varsity lacrosse, and was named captain for each team.

HONORS & AWARDS Basketball Team Captain Lacrosse Team Captain Volleyball Team Captain 1991 All-Met honorable mention (lacrosse) 1991-1993 All-ISL (lacrosse) 1992 & 1993 All-Met honorable mention (basketball) 1992 & 1993 All-Met first team (lacrosse) 1992 & 1993 U.S. Women's Lacrosse Association All-American 1993 All-Met Player of the Year (lacrosse) 1993 Alexandria Sportsman's Club Third Century Corporation Scholarship 1993 Athletic Council Silver Bowl Participation Award 1993 Outstanding Athlete Award 1990 ISL Lacrosse Regular Season and Tournament Champions (15-1-1 ) 1991 ISL Lacrosse Regular Season and Tournament Champions (16-1-0) 1993 ISL Tournament Champions (141-0)

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Despite playing an average of only a dozen games per season, she still holds top five records for both basketball and lacrosse at St. Stephen's and St. Agnes School. Dara ranks among the top five in school history for basketball in the following categories: points per season, rebounds per season, steals per season, and total varsity points. Dara earned All-Met Girls Basketball honorable mentions her junior and senior seasons.

While she excelled at each sport, Dara received the most honors and awards on the lacrosse field. In 1991 she earned All-Met Honorable Mention, in 1992 she earned All-Met Girls Lacrosse First Team honors, and her senior year she was named the All-Met Girls Lacrosse Player of the Year. In both 1992 and 1993, she received All-American Honors. All of this came as no surprise though to Head Lacrosse Coach Kathy Jenkins, as she knew Dara was something special from the beginning.

Coach Jenkins mentioned, “When I first had the opportunity to work with Dara, I knew she would be successful in whatever sports she decided to play.

She was a natural athlete with extraordinary hand-eye coordination, game sense, mental toughness, and competitiveness; she was a leader.”

Dara led her lacrosse team in points with a career total of 276 points (227 goals and 49 assists), a record she held onto for 15 years. With Dara leading the team, the 1993 lacrosse team had a near-perfect season with a record of 14-1 and captured the ISL regular season championship.

Upon graduation Dara was awarded the St. Stephen's and St. Agnes Athletic Council Silver Bowl Participation Award and Outstanding Athlete Award. She received the four-year Alexandria Third Century Corporation Scholarship for her academic and athletic abilities from the Alexandria Sportsman's Club. At the University of Virginia, Dara lettered in women's lacrosse. Dara continues to be involved and support Saints athletics.

The 1987 St. Stephen's varsity basketball team was described by the school yearbook, "Scroll," as "simply awesome" and the "one bright star as dependable as the sunrise" to pull the student body out of the gloom of winter. The team that year had only two returning starters but came together for a perfect regular season. They played to each player's strengths, despite role changes from the year before, and the term "Proud to be the Sixth Man" really rang true as they used their depth in almost every game to edge their opponents.

ST. STEPHEN'S 1987 VARSITY BASKETBALL TEAM Len Armstrong '88, Pat Dyson '88, John Feden '88, Alex Fisch '88, Erik Jurgensen '87, John LaValle '87, Marc Miller '87, Alain Nana-Sinkam '87, Justin Palmer '88 , Rory Perkins '87, Co-Captain, Christian Simpson '90, Coke Whitworth '89, Orson Williams '87, Co-captain Coaches: Win Palmer, Rich Fairley, Dennis Giuliani

TEAM HONORS & AWARDS Jefferson Tournament Champions St. Stephen's Tournament Runner-Up IAC Regular Season Champions Virginia State Tournament Champions No. 8 Ranking in the Washington Post PLAYER AND COACHES HONORS & AWARDS 1987 All-IAC Players: Orson Williams '87; Alain Nana-Sinkam '87; Rory Perkins '87 1987 St. Stephen's Tournament All-Tournament Team: Orson Williams '87; Alain Nana-Sinkam '87 1987 St. Stephen's Outstanding Athlete Award: Orson Williams '87 1987 St. Stephen's Medal: Orson Williams '87; Alain Nana-Sinkam '87 1987 John Morrow Stanton Athletic Award: Justin Palmer '88 1987 Virginia State Coach of the Year: Head Coach Win Palmer 1988 Sportsmanship Award: Alex Fisch '88 1988 3-D (Dedication, Desire and Determination) Award: Pat Dyson '88 1989 St. Stephen's Outstanding Athlete Award: Coke Whitworth '89

REGULAR SEASON Bishop O'Connell: W, 72-27 Charlotte Day: W, 66-46 Greensboro: W, 61-50 Woodberry Forest: W, 77-38 Jefferson: W, 72-61 Episcopal: W, 56-53 Landon: W, 67-59 Paul IV: W, 59-58 Episcopal: W, 54-46 Bullis: W, 90-48 Georgetown Prep: W, 67-58 St. Albans: W, 63-53 Sidwell: W, 69-58 (2OT) St. Albans: W, 63-56 Landon: W, 60-52 Jefferson Tournament Marshall: W, 62-43 St. Stephen's Tournament St. Alban's: W, 82-68 Gonzaga: W, 71-63 St. John's: L, 57-83 Virginia State Tournament Prince Edward Academy: W, 94-60 Portsmouth Catholic: W, 73-42 Blue Ridge: W, 79-69 Bishop Ireton: W, 70-60 IAC Tournament Sidwell Friends: W, 56-46 Bullis: W, 82-65 Takoma Academy: W, 79-54 Georgetown Prep: W, 75-54

SEASON RECORDS Regular Season Record: 19-0 IAC Record: 12-0 Full Season Record: 26-1 Win streak: 22

Leading the team were senior cocaptains, 6'0" Rory Perkins and 6'3" Orson Williams. Orson ran the offense averaging 20-points a game, while Rory, known as "Mr. Defense," handled the defense. Also contributing to the team's success was Alain Nana-Sinkam '87 who averaged 15-points a game, and Justin Palmer '88 who led the team in steals.

The school's rivalry with Episcopal High School heightened throughout the 1987 season, and during the two games against Episcopal, school spirit and emotions ran high. During the first game, the lead went back and forth, until the end of the second half when St. Stephen's pulled ahead. During the equally exciting second game, the St. Stephen's team once again came from behind for the win. The composure and level-headedness of the players guided the team that night to their 12th straight win against Episcopal in five years.

Head Coach Win Palmer, later selected as the Virginia State Coach of the Year, coached the team to a perfect regular season and undefeated play in the IAC, leading to the IAC Regular Season and Virginia State titles, as well as a final ranking of No. 8 by The Washington Post. Orson, Alain, and Justin received school athletic awards, and Rory, Alain, and Orson were selected to the All-IAC team.

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The Hall of Fame Induction

Front row: Committee Member and Hall of Fame Member Clara W. Ferraro '97, Inductee Marc Miller '87, Inductee Dan Tate, Jr. '84, Inductee Dara Brunelli O'Hara '93, Inductee Patty Alexander Kellam '83, Inductee Coach Alix Fellows, Inductee Coach Marsha Way, Inductee, Committee Member, and Hall of Fame Member Christian Simpson '90, Committee Co-Chair Tack Richardson '99, Head of School Kirsten Adams. Back row: Master of Ceremonies Brett Williams '13, Inductee Pat Dyson '88, Inductee Alain Nana-Sinkam '87, Inductee Orson Williams '87, Inductee Justin Palmer '88, Inductee Coach Win Palmer, Inductee Rory Perkins '87, Committee Members and Athletic Directors Stephanie Koroma and Jeff Walrich

The Miller Family: Inductee Marc '87, son Bennett '16, wife and former staff member Mary, son Zach '16

Inductee Coach Win Palmer

1987 varsity basketball team inductees: Pat Dyson '88, Rory Perkins '87, Alain Nana-Sinkam '87, Orson Williams '87, Marc Miller '87, Christian Simpson '90, Justin Palmer '88, and Coach Win Palmer

Inductee Patty Alexander Kellam '83 with her presenter and brother, Jim Alexander '72

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Committee Co-Chair Leslie Keleher Harris '79, Inductee Dan Tate, Jr. '84, Committee Co-Chair Tack Richardson '99, Presenter John DelNegro '85

Ceremony, April 13, 2019 Hall of Fame Committee CO-CHAIRS Leslie Keleher Harris '79 Tack Richardson '99 ALUMNI Julian T. Burke '77 Susanne E. Wanamaker '82 Geoff Johnson '89 Presenter and Hall of Fame Member Mike O'Donnell '62, Jeff Shepherdson '86, Susan Shepherdson Krider, Hall of Fame Member Doug Hotchkiss '62

Presenter Tia Brunelli Mahaffy '91, Hall of Fame Member Leigh Miller Pyle '91, Inductee Coach Marsha Way, Hall of Fame Member Anna Yates McDermott '91, Inductee Dara Brunelli O'Hara '93

Christian Simpson '90 Melissa F. New '94 Clara W. Ferraro '97 Lindsay Washington Veliz '01 Connor Locke '04 FACULTY AND STAFF Stephanie Koroma, Athletic Director for Girls Michele Phillips '12, Advancement Officer Jeff Walrich, Athletic Director for Boys FORMER FACULTY Sarah Kaplan, Director of Alumni Engagement

Inductee Orson Williams '87 with his family, son Wesley and wife Paula.

Inductee Dara Brunelli O'Hara '93 (second from left) with classmates Erin Wallace, Caroline Worsley, and Tammy Smoker Cassady.

Legendary Coaches Kathy Jenkins, Alix Fellows, and Marsha Way

Inductee Coach Alix Fellows and the Fellows family

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ALUMNI REUNION WEEKEND October 18-19, 2019

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Mabs Royar Loflin 201 Greystone Drive, #339 Beaver, WV 25813 Paul and I are still living at Village at Greystone, a retirement community near Beckley. Our children visit often from California, Virginia, Georgia, and Florida. Our first great granddaughter was born December 23, 2018 in Charlotte, N.C. Always have fond memories of St. Agnes!

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Harriet Rippel Doub harrietd@bhhstowne.com Joanna Dodson Camarata is doing well and enjoys living in Florida.

Anne Clarke Harbold reports that her son lives with her and all is going well. Sally Ringle Hotchkiss reports that she continues to stay very social and is married 60+ years. Ann Lee Jackson continues to enjoy living on the Potomac River. Mary Lou Collins King reports that the California fires were a close call this summer but she is ok. She is recovering nicely after knee surgery.

Liz Melvin Patridge lives in a senior facility with her kids nearby. She is doing well. Harriet Rippel Doub is still

selling real estate and playing tennis.

Call her if you come to the Virginia Beach area. Harriet, Nancy Lee Price Dunton, and Ann Lee Jackson attended Homecoming and Reunion festivities together this fall and had a great time.

1955 ST. AGNES Mimi Niepold Horne horne.mimi@verizon.net

There are travels ahead for Ann and Jay Kaplan, who are heading to London in the spring, and Helen and Bev Young, who will travel with a group from MIT as they often do. After staying a week in Amsterdam they will go to Barcelona for some further exploration. Helen enjoys hiking with friends every week, so she'll be ready for touring. After a busy career overseas with UNICEF, their older daughter is now working toward a PhD in urban education.

Judy and Ward LeHardy are busy with their large family—15 grandchildren and two greatgrandchildren. They divide their time between Kilmarnock, Va., and Kiawah Island, S.C. A big project this year was the preparation of a book about their church, “Strong at the Broken Places.”

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party to help her celebrate several family birthdays. Lucy is quite active, with golf in good weather and indoor tennis in less good weather. She's very proud of her son, John B. Mustin '85, who is now a Rear Admiral. She has put the Kiawah Island place on the market, since she now goes there only once a year.

Out in Winchester Va., Joanie Davis Hackett finds there is plenty to do between outings and in-house concerts, not to mention puzzles. She is beginning to weed out her ancestry archives and resource materials.

Joan and Tom Poland are now well settled in Williamsburg, Va., and Joan is a volunteer docent at Bruton Parish Church. She is associated with a Colonial Dames Committee and has become an associate member of a DAR chapter.

Jean Androus Woodman is happy to have her daughters nearby in Alexandria, Va. Of course, she would like to see her great-grandson more often. She sends best greetings to all of you for 2019, and I join her.

Phyllis Featherstone '58 Phyllis exhibited a painting, a linoleum block print, and two gelatin silver prints as part of the “A Winter's Tale” exhibition at Art on the Terrace, the gallery of the Staten Island Creative Community.

The painting sold at the beginning of the show.

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1958 ST. AGNES Julia Shields habija@aol.com

The Class of '58 had a delightful reunion, highlighted by the luncheon at Lloyd House (and the beautiful St. Agnes scarves we got to take home), the party at the Torpedo Factory Art Center, and the party at the Owens' house, always a real treat. Special thanks to Patty Bayliss Owens and husband Carroll for being such gracious, welcoming hosts, and to Eleanor Backus Engh for helping out on the planning for our reunion. And thanks, too, to Sue Peery Moore and Kay Burney Butler, my fellow residents at the Hampton Inn, for hanging out with me.

It has been a year since Kay Burney Butler's husband Rhett died, and Kay misses him every day for his companionship, his intellect, and his enthusiasm. But Kay carries on, spending part of the year in Lake Forest, Ill., near family and part in Paradise Valley, Ariz., and staying busy with a host of activities and travels. After the reunion, she had another reunion—with her brother who lives in the Shenandoah Valley.

Pat Lyon Dunn took time from her busy workout schedule to travel to Croatia and the Dalmation Coast this summer.

Phyllis Featherstone spent Christmas in Alexandria with her daughter Helen and family. She was looking forward to seeing her two sons and all eight of her grandchildren.

Lina Fippin White has published another book of poetry, entitled “Becoming the Crone.” I recommend it

Susan Rogers Petty '58 Susan was one of three artists presenting work in the “Elements” exhibition at the Chalkboard Gallery, Studio Channel Islands, in Camarillo, Calif., November 2-December 15, 2018. The exhibit explored the intersections of visual abstraction and multimedia explorations. Susan's work focused on the paradox of images which are at once both simple and complex, in oil, graphite, and watercolor. She is well known for the light and form evoked in her painting. Susan has been exhibiting her work professionally since 1977 throughout Southern California. You may see more of her work on the Marcia Burtt Gallery web page at artlacuna.com.

highly, along with a previous collection entitled “Reclamation, a Poetry Memoir.”

Lina kindly sent me copies, which I thoroughly enjoyed before donating them to the St. Agnes library, along with Mary Schneider Azarian's books.

Mary Schneider Azarian is now semi-retired, but still has a modest business making and selling prints.

Mary Schneider Azarian's '58 Mary's second book, “The Tale of John Barleycorn: Or from Barley to Beer,” was reissued by publisher David R. Godine in October of 2018.

The book is illustrated with Mary's beautiful woodcuts, newly handcolored and transformed for this issue. Mary attended Smith College, where she studied printmaking with American artist Leonard Baskin. In 1999 she was awarded a Caldecott Medal for her illustrations in “Snowflake Bentley.”

She has returned to painting, finding it both exhilarating and frustrating.

She spends most of her summers gardening, is enjoying Tai Chi (which she began a year ago), and sings with the community chorus.

Marcia Kendzie Evans sends greetings from Atlanta, a happening city these days, celebrating its soccer team championship, hosting the Super Bowl, and marveling at the opening and closing of the new stadium. Marcia says life is “pretty much status quo,” enjoying family nearby.

Judy Kurtz Suor and her husband moved to a corner apartment with magnificent views in a wonderful retirement home in Clyde Hill, Calif.

Cary Lamond Courier had a busy year, with a trip to the Dominican Republic with friends who have a timeshare, and on her return, a week in Charleston, S.C., with her sister, “touring and eating.” In October she attended number one grandson's wedding to his long-time love… and then after a day of doing laundry and repacking, she took a 15-day cruise from Amsterdam to Budapest with her sister. The only downside was missing reunion.

Janie McPherson Jewell and Pete are delighted that daughter Courtney had a baby boy the day after Thanksgiving.

I await news of Pete's invention, a snow melting machine, for which he has a patent.

Happily we shamed Sue Peery Moore into attending reunion after having missed the last one… though it meant

dashing from the flight that brought the Moores back from Europe to a flight to D.C. No sign of jet lag! The Moores took two cruises in 2018, had the annual family gathering in Vermont, and had several trips to New York.

Eldest grandson Rick is a freshman at Georgetown University. Granddaughter Ellie was chosen to represent the U.S. in a squash tournament in England during Christmas break, with competitors from all over the world.

2018 did not go down as one of my (Julia Shields) favorite years. After a fall (while gardening in the rain), I dealt with sciatic nerve pain throughout the summer and fall. In September someone rammed into the back of my car on I-95, and when I returned the rental car after a month, we discovered that it had hit-and-run damage. Just in time for a slumber party with seven grandnieces and grandnephews, the plumber found major damage which put one bathroom out of action. And finally (I hope), after getting these notes all typed and ready to go, they disappeared from my ancient computer. Fortunately I saved a paper copy. In spite of all the calamities, life is good. I enjoyed a trip to Charleston, S.C., with my cousins, where we viewed most of the homes in which our ancestors had lived.

To end on a sad note, we received word belatedly of Lee Howard Hickson's death on June 30, 2017, due to complications after a fall in which she broke her neck. Our deepest sympathies to her family.

1961 ST. AGNES Chris Hayes Moe cwh2208e@gmail.com

Anne Williams spent a week last summer hiking in the Sierras to celebrate her 75th year. She also joined a puzzle gathering in Rochester, N.Y., where she saw Jan Sutherland Guldbeck. Jan is doing well. Anne also traveled to Alexandria in September for dedication of a bench in memory of her sister, Libby Williams Barton '64. It is beautifully situated between Macan Hall and the old hockey field where Libby tended goal. She caught up with Leslie Smith Ariail, who is busy with art, gardening, and grandchildren.

Anne feels fortunate to have generally good health, despite having to get hearing aids in the fall. “It is sobering

to realize how many have much more serious health challenges.” Anne has heard from several classmates recently.

Fair MacRae Gouldin writes, “We have moved to a retirement community here in Ithaca, which we are enjoying more than I anticipated. Tennis, pickleball, an appealing garden, lectures and events with a Cornell twist, and sociability in the dining room every evening.”

Dorothy Bellinger Grimm writes that Jack has retired and they have settled into a Honolulu condo just before Christmas. They lived in Australia for 37 years!

Helen Preble Stewart in Santa Rosa, Calif., escaped the devastating 2017 fires and finished chemo with good scans in the fall.

Margaret Somerville writes, “We have hit the time in life when body parts are wearing out. All in all, I think we are doing pretty well.” She and Bill are planning to stay in their McLean house and have remodeled a bit to accommodate those traitorous body parts.

Niki Neese Lallande loves living in North Carolina. They still have their log cabin on Long Lake in Maine where they go every summer, enjoying the milder weather. She is a tutor for a girl in the Augustine Literacy Project Title 1 Program and enjoys it very much.

She and Joe took a trip to Scotland last summer and really enjoyed their time while picking up a bit of genealogy.

Coming up soon, Niki is swimming in the Sunbelt Swim Meet in the 75-80year-old group, her second swim meet!

Good for you, Niki!

Margaret Somerville has had some medical issues in the past 12 months and, as a result, last February 2018, she retired from her receptionist position at Vinson Hall Retirement Community after eight years. She misses the people contact but it was time to really retire. She said Ingrid Utech came for a visit during the late summer and they had lunch with Beth Kouns Lamond at the Middleburg Tennis Club. It was great fun to catch up. A few weeks later Bill and Margaret drove out to visit Beth and Clyde at their new retirement home, WestminsterCanterbury, in Winchester. She also saw Anne Williams and Page Proctor Hagan at the service for Anne's sister, Libby.

“I am not planning to attend our 60th Reunion but for those who are going, I hope it is memorable.” www.sssas.org | 61

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Bill P. Hunter '62 I, Chris Hayes Moe, am still on the Steering Committee of the Sherman House Museum, where I volunteer as a receptionist. I'm in year 25 of my kidney transplantation and so grateful for this gift. Tom and I had fun at two reunions last year: Hill AFB friends in San Antonio and his (former) POW mates in Frisco near Dallas. I am always amazed that these men have put their torrid past behind them and are all smiles and laughter when they're together. Tom is the third youngest at 75 and there are at least 250-300 of them still with us! With Tom on the WWl Centennial Commemoration Commission, we also attended several events in D.C., culminating in a moving Sacred Service in the packed National Cathedral on Armistice Day. The WWl Memorial will be dedicated in 2021 at the site of the Gen. Pershing Memorial not far from the White House. I have enjoyed being your class correspondent for many years and am passing the pen (so to speak) to Niki Neese Lallande who kindly agreed to take over. Let Niki and Anne Williams know if you can help plan our 2021 reunion. The desire is to be together more.

1962 ST. STEPHEN'S Doug Hotchkiss dmhbythec@comcast.net

Attention members of the SSS Class of '62. A special reunion for our class is being planned for Oct. 18-20, 2019.

For further information contact Doug

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Hotchkiss at dmhbythec@comcast.net or John Williams at jwilliams@ndia.org.

My year began on a four-day ski traverse, accompanied by classmate John McRae, in the backwoods of Maine. In March, Joan and I escaped the northeast winter to Florida. The summer was spent at home around the beach, pool, and golf course. I also took several hiking trips in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. In November we moved from our beach house to a beautiful place about 200 ft. above the ocean. Am now rehabbing from knee replacement surgery. This should provide me another 10 years of an active lifestyle.

From Bill Hunter: “Hard to believe I retired from IBM 27 years ago and moved to the beach. I sold my remodeling company a few years back and am in the process of unloading a landscaping company. My main passion is still riding bicycles. Last year we biked 1,200 miles around Florida, going from Niagara Falls to Montreal, and many other shorter trips. This year we've biked 950 miles riding around Florida in February, from Pittsburgh to D.C. off road in June, and from Quebec to Niagara in September. Life is fantastic.”

From Bill Hannan: “Son John married Kristina Yee of San Francisco in February, and the young couple honeymooned in France and Spain.

My service on this year's San Francisco Civil Grand Jury included tours of our enormous Hetch Hetchy water system, two county jails, and a beefedup homeless shelter. We issued reports

on animal care and control, in-law and modular housing construction, open-source voting software, and coordination between the Police and Health Departments. Lorraine and I weathered two weeks of smoky air from Northern California wildfires.”

From Dave Davidson: “Nothing new in my life—been retired 17+ years from IBM. Had several part-time jobs doing volunteer work in a hospital surgical waiting room, delivering auto parts, medical samples to labs, and new Ford cars/trucks all over NC/SC/VA/WVA/ MD for 17 dealer locations. Finally sold my parents' “cabin” near Shrine Mont in Orkney Springs. We're busy with our six, ten, and 12-year-old nearby grandkids and grand dogs. Note to Doug Hotchkiss—replaced BOTH of my knees at the same time 14 years ago and still no problems… but don't run unless it's to save my life!

From Ben Bryce: “Quiet year. Four days in Rome, cruise around Italy, and finished in Venice. Needed more time on shore. Brief trip to Boston with return time in Toronto. Taking care of 14 ½-year-old lab who is deaf, losing her sight, and suffering from doggie dementia. If travels bring you to the West Coast, contact us.”

From Mike O'Donnell: “Not a lot to report for the last year. We have had a lot of illness in the family; I look forward to the 57 ½-year class reunion next fall.

Hope we have a good turnout. I have enjoyed working with Dick Flynt '64, Richard Dyas '63, and classmates Dave Davidson, Randy Earnest, and Doug Hotchkiss on the Hall of Fame nomination of Chuck Shepherdson '61.

St. Stephen's and St. Agnes, as always, have been great to work with. All my best to everyone.”

From John McRae: “Lots of “honeydo” projects in 2018—endless days of power-washing, painting, and carpentry. To offset, I doubled down all year on trips to the gym, road biking, and trail running. We did several trips to Boston to visit my son and Cathy's two grandchildren. I tagged along with nine others in late March on a four-day hut-to-hut cross-country ski in upper Maine. In September we had a fabulous two weeks in Ireland for our 28th wedding anniversary.”

From Dave Bill: “2018 was an eventful year for our country and for me personally, highlighted by the the

birth of my daughter's son, my first grandchild, and travel to the U.K., Corsica, Greece, and Ireland. Both trips featured golf, including my first exposure to Irish links and two visits to my favorite golf club, Sunningdale, outside London. My 11 handicap lady golfing companion made the trips the much more enjoyable as we won events at the Romanos Resort in Costa Navarino, Greece, and in St Andrews, and finished third at Sunningdale.

Other golf travel included an event at Shadow Creek in Los Vegas, which we also won, two trips to Palm Springs to play with friends, two Navy SEAL charity events in San Diego and Pebble Beach, and my annual return to the Newport Country Club in Rhode Island.

I remain active as a director of a Cyber Security Company in San Diego, and advisor to three other companies. Life is good; all original issue body parts are working properly and spending time with family and friends is gratifying.”

From Dick Fisher: “Cathy and I spent the past year 'in country,' mostly at our Cape Cod home. We were on the Cape for two weeks in early April and four weeks from mid-June to mid-July.

Then we were back in Richmond to give our various family members a chance to enjoy the Cape without the “old ones” around. We returned from mid-August to mid-September. What a wonderful time when all the kids are back in school, the weather is warm, and traffic is in low volume since rentals are down. Then we conceded with 10 days in early November.

Thanksgiving and Christmas were at our house once again with immediate family with grands and other family from the Richmond area, including 24 for Thanksgiving dinner and 28 for Christmas dinner. Lots of fun.”

From Leo Andrews: “Many travels, domestic and international. Still biking, painting, and loving life with my wonderful gal of 50 years. Pretty much retired from architecture. No children or dogs! Send money!”

From Kim (Robert) Fisher: “2018 started for Jean and me in February with a week-long ski trip to Whitefish, Mont., where those over 70 years of age ski FREE. In March, Jean and I flew to London for a theatre tour, a planned group trip with five plays in six days, which we extended on each end taking in two more plays (including “Hamilton”) and two music concerts

(one at the Royal Albert Hall, one at St. Martin's In The Fields). We spent most of August and all of September at Jean's family's house on Seneca Lake, N.Y. During Christmas and Thanksgiving we visited with my daughter, son-inlaw, and grandson in San Francisco.

In between, I spent some time at home driving around in my 'new' old car, a 1964 Volvo Amazon 122S.” From Randy Earnest: “Gibby and I enjoy time spent with our daughter and grandson in nearby Maryland and with son Kyle '98 and family—Kate and a granddaughter and grandson in nearby D.C. We also relish our less frequent visits with daughter Sarah '96 in not-so-near California. We recently celebrated our 50th anniversary with travels to California, Hawaii (just before the volcanoes erupted!), and later St. Petersburg, Russia, and the Baltics.

The year-long celebration was capped off with a wonderful beach week with most of the family in Delaware. We now look forward to staying put for a while and seeing many classmates at a special reunion this October.”

From John Oberdorfer: “I am doing well. I retired from the practice of law almost four years ago and now spend my time with family (especially three grandsons who live here), and running two foundations on a volunteer basis.

One makes grants to law schools so that students can work at government and public interest organizations during their summer intervals. The other trains low income people in the Washington area for entry-level positions in the technology sector. My wife, Leslie, and I live off of Connecticut Avenue in Washington, where we have been since 1973. Walks, reading, a little tennis, and some travel are also important parts of our lives.”

John Williams continues to explore the mysteries of simulation and virtual reality through his work at the National Training and Simulation Association, which represents the modeling and simulation industry in the U.S. He recently returned from participating in their annual conference and exhibition, one of the biggest of its kind, in Orlando. He says: “Phylis recently retired from a career teaching ESL and reading recovery in the Fairfax County school system, and is now involved in such doings as bridge and cooking clubs, yoga, and even more completely spoiling our grandchild. Our son, Kenton, continues to work with power

companies around the country on clean energy projects for his company, ICF, while our daughter, Alison, has taken a position with Aerospace Corporation.

We're fortunate to have our kids living in the Washington area after being scattered around the world and are looking forward to an active 2019.”

Landon Davis reports that he and his lovely wife, Elizabeth, are still living in Richmond's West End. He spends time babysitting for his daughter's two very active boys, ages 3 and 4. His main interest is his azalea garden with over 300 bushes. It was in the spring 2016 Garden Club of Virginia tour. He is also constructing an HO model train layout representing Virginia's eastern shore.

However, building it is moving at a snail's pace. He looks forward to seeing us all at our special fall reunion.

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Margie Fifer Davenport margieinva@gmail.com

We had a wonderful class reunion last fall. For all those who didn't make it....we missed you! SSSAS, again, was there to meet our every need. Friday night at the Torpedo Factory is always such a great start to the weekend, with the chance to see friends of other classes as well. They even had a special “Classic” room for those with special reunions. We all had our combined SSS and SAS picture taken and had a lot of fun!

As Marion MacRae remembered, it was a “lovely, sunny weekend with no fall clothes needed,” so all the outdoor events during the day went as scheduled. In the afternoon there was wine and cheese outside at Lloyd House, aka, the boarding department.

Afterwards, it was easy to move the tables inside for our class party with the St. Stephen's '63 guys and spouses.

Hats off to Marion for arranging all the catering for us and supplying libations!

And thanks to Andy and Barbara Wiles Kreutzer for contributing some bread and wine. After the delicious dinner, the group assembled was willing to join in playing a game I had brought, a Trivial Pursuits for 1963. Marion's comment was, “Everyone tried mightily to answer the questions. Sometimes no one could; but the clear winner was Louise Knox Livinghouse's husband, Lowell, who obviously had the most right answers.” www.sssas.org | 63

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Barbara Wiles Kreutzer '63 and Andy Kreutzer '63

So, to conclude about the reunion, we were small but mighty! But we want to make sure we encourage everyone to come for our next big one! Let's start planning now! In the general news, Marion has plans to spend a few days in Jamaica in January and seven or eight days in the Dominican Republic at the beginning of March. She says this is her fourth year there. At the end of March she was going with four tennis mates to Florida for five or six days of tennis and “upscale club life.” In April she was planning to go to Panama, Mexico and Costa Rica for two to three weeks with a friend. She says, “otherwise, I'm playing a lot of tennis.” Marion closed with a reminder to that I said I would come to Alexandria to teach her pickleball but we haven't gotten together yet. (I better get up there as promised!)

Barbara and Andy Kreutzer both enjoyed the reunion and connecting with old friends. They reported that they moved from Ohio to central Maine near Bangor in 2018, on a lake and closer to children and grandchildren.

She says, “Winter is a challenge up here, but we are doing well and planning a trip to Florida in February.” She says they have lots of room and water toys, and also a “lovely lake and boats.”

I enjoyed seeing Missy Montague Smith and husband Peter. They seem to be living life right because they both look healthy and happy!

Joni Emerson Shoemaker says she and her husband spent most of their year “racing up and down the east coast from Virginia to Maine, where 64 | St. Stephen’s and St. Agnes School

we purchased (with daughter Cat and her family), a three-season cottage on a lovely pond.” (What is it about Maine?)

Husband Butch and daughter Cat spent most of the summer scraping and painting. A plus to their new place is the ability to see the northern lights from it.

As of December Joni hadn't seen them yet, but she says the neighbors assure them they can be seen frequently and she can't wait! Other news is that they have a new family pet, a smart beagle named Newbury, who has lived his entire two-year life as part of a hunting pack. They have been fascinated watching this hunting dog adjust to indoor life, including seeing himself in the mirror! She says their older dog, Winslow, is “trying hard to teach the 'youngun' how to be a well-behaved indoor pet.”

Caroline Smith Wilson is in Charlottesville having a great time taking courses at UVA. You may remember that she has a Ph.D. in finance, but she speaks excitedly about her courses in other subjects such as the history of China, medieval history, physics, philosophy and such! Although it has taken her a long time getting over the effects of Lyme's disease, she now is in a better place and taking advantage of it! She hopes her brother, with whom she has much in common, will move to Charlottesville!

Madeleine Long Tellekamp's note was short and sweet saying she hopes everyone is well and wishing “God's blessings for this new year.”

Polly Hagan Sandridge says, “We are

really just fine—as my mother used to say, 'living along and liking it fine.'” She writes that husband Gerald is working his way into retirement from Siemens Medical Systems. Polly's son is “thriving and doing too much, working a more than full-time job and taking higher level math courses at UCF.” She says her son is a “Love, a Dilbert type, a computer engineer. He is working on self-driving cars at the moment.” You may remember that Polly studied Greek in college and has continued studying Latin. Polly's postscript was “I don't remember a Latin subjunctive... Oh, Colonel Moseley, Magister.” (And now, it occurred to me if she ever wrote her biography her pen name could be Polly Polyglot.)

Marilyn “Mimi” Hoppe says she is still doing some real estate. She lives on the northern edge of Scottsdale, Ariz., and so loves the beautiful views and sunsets there. Always dieting (although I don't think she ever needs to), she walks with a neighbor to be healthy. In 2018 she had a driving trip to Palm Springs to see friends and has occasional jaunts to Prescott. In conversations I can tell she's one of those who is always there for family who might need her.

Another person who is enjoying beautiful views is Betsy Bradford Stevens. Betsy and husband Bill moved to Rhode Island and live in the house her parents built. She has a “serene” view of a saltwater pond leading out to the ocean. With the new home improvements they are making, she will

have an even better view of the ocean along with her own yoga studio! As I spoke with Betsy on the phone, she told me she was in Kauai! I asked about her husband, Bill Stevens, and heard the sweet story of their courtship. She knew him from 1962 when they were at a camp together. At some point he moved to Virginia, and found out, though he had known her as a resident of Rhode Island, that she was now living—and available—in Virginia! A romance was rekindled and marriage ensued!

Last year Althea Ball Morrissey had lots of fun spending time with grandchildren who live close by. Amelia is 2 and William arrived on May 16th.

She says William is a big boy and is trying to walk. Another son who lives close by is getting ready for a daughter in April. She says, “We also fly between Coronado, where we spend most of our time, and a home in the Bay Area.”

When writing, Athea had just seen the snow on TV with the White House in the background. She loves seeing that but says,”That is as close to snow as I want to come!”

Stephanie Connor Pullen was hoping to come to reunion but didn't make it this time. She and husband John live in Raleigh. Our sympathy goes to Stephanie, who lost her sister, Ann, in June last year.

Mary Tolbert Matheny “had a great time” at our 55th Reunion. She just wishes more of you had been there! Still, she enjoyed connecting with people and having meaningful conversations.

She says, “the rest of 2018 was a mixed bag of happy and sad. Mary says Leslie Barnes Hagan ”kindly invited me to join her, her son, and several friends for their annual stay on Cape Hatteras, NC. We were ... having a wonderful time, and had planned to stay a second week.

But just as the second week began, all of Cape Hatteras was suddenly evacuated as a major hurricane approached.”

In spite of that, Mary “will always be grateful to Leslie for the chance to be on Cape Hatteras again.” She says, “My husband, children, and I —living in Louisville—went to Hatteras every summer until the children left home; and I had missed it for decades.” On the sad side, Mary lost her sister, Linda, who was accomplished and very well known in the dance world in N.Y. Our condolences to you, Mary.

Libbie Shackleford Mull has been enjoying having her daughter and three

of her grandchildren living with her.

Libbie is back in mom-mode, driving the kids—Sam (13), Emmy (10), and Sarah (8)—to school and appointments, while daughter Rebekah works for the Department of Law Enforcement. Son Jaime lives in Palatka, Fla., and was married in February of 2018, so Libbie went down for the wedding. Jaime's two children are Autumn (13) and Bobby (8). Libbie spent Christmas with brother Sam Shackleford and wife Corny.

Walda Cornnell Wildman, who may have told us she was retiring, says, “I still have about three dozen clients I just can't transition to another CPA. After all these years, they're friends.” So she'll be doing some work but says, “While I'm looking forward to the work, I confess I've gotten used to sipping coffee and reading the Wall Street Journal in the morning. It's going to be a challenge getting back in the work groove.” (We hear you, Walda!) In May Walda went to France, “in time for the train strike.”

She said, “getting refunds for train tickets was beyond my command of spoken French. So she asked a bilingual French woman to dictate what she needed to say to the clerk. She says, “I felt like I was doing a dictee in Madam Strong's class.” The young woman made it easy for her by putting it on her phone! Walda is still painting, “mostly landscapes,” and selling one every now and again at the Columbia stores that carry her work. She is also “doing some grassroots lobbying for the South Carolina Association of CPAs,” serving on her community's HOA board, and enjoys spending time at Fripp Island.

Dagmar Giffen Cosby says she is “still designing like mad.” She sent me a beautiful picture, and I can see the talent! She has painted a lot for horse shows and says she now has a niche with the dog show people. “I did a few tree skirts this year,” she says. You can check out her website at designsbydagmar.com.

Anne Bodman hopes we had a wonderful reunion and says she'll be joining us for our 60th! I always get a kick out of Ann's humor. She sent a picture of her husband, Andy, and dog Zamboni, saying, “You've probably heard that married couples come to resemble each other as they age. It's our theory that some of us also come to resemble our four-legged companions.“ So she suggests we compare photos and “celebrate their professorial eyebrows,

long noses, and grizzly beards.”

Unfortunately they lost Zamboni (the one who has an affinity for porcupines) to cancer last year. Ann was happy to have visitors who came “all the way from Massachusetts”—Margalee Oelrich Riggan and husband Rob. Ann traveled this year to visit friends in Montana and then to New York City with brother Dick and his wife, Hongyuan, to see her grand-nephew, Ben, perform splendidly in his first off-Broadway musical, “Comfort Women.” In October Anne went to Carson City, Nev., for a “joyful reunion” with two college friends.

I, Margie Fifer Davenport, am planning on traveling abroad this year...I just haven't decided where I'm going! This past year I went to Indian Wells, Calif., for the National USAPA Pickleball Tournament. The venue was impressive with 45 dedicated pickleball courts that would be torn up after the event for the next big tennis tournament! In December I went to Charlotte, N.C., for the UVA football bowl game and we won! It was fun! I'll close with a note from Walda that I think we can agree with, “I owe the St. Agnes we knew a great deal, and even after all these years still care dearly about all my classmates.” Please keep in touch and let me know when you move or change contact information.

1964 ST. STEPHEN'S Dick Flynt richardflynt1@gmail.com

We continue to hold our class luncheons (always welcoming alums from other classes) on roughly a quarterly basis, thanks to the hard work of Courtney Mallinson. Meetings over the last year have included Jack Edsall, Robin Johnson, Courtney of course, yours truly, Tom Kreutzer, Paul Evans, Jimmy Chambers, Rick Palmer, Richie Dellastatious, Alan Caskie '65, Derek Savage '65, Parker Livingston '63, David Speck '63, and Randy Earnest '62. If I have left your name off this list, please let me know and forgive me. Our group continues to grow!

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did in high school. It was fun to relive old memories, especially regarding our trip to Virginia Beach after graduation— the details of which bear repeating, but not in this forum.

I also heard from Dick Wilson, who is retired now and living in the Triad area of North Carolina. Dick and I were both radiomen on the U.S. Coast Guard High Endurance Cutter Androscoggin in 1969-1970. Imagine our very excited surprise when we realized we had ended up on the same ship. Dick expects to make one of our luncheons soon.

Great news for Tom and Anne Kreutzer, whose son Andy and Sarah welcomed twin boys, Wesley and Leo, into the world on November 23, 2018 in San Diego. I have stopped trying to count how many grandchildren they now have, it must be close to at least 10.

I also exchanged emails with Chris Crosman, who now lives in Thomaston, Maine. For many years Chris was curator of the Farnsworth Museum in Rockland, which features works by Andrew and Jamie Wyeth and others.

Chris is currently director emeritus of the Farnsworth and works as a freelance writer and art consultant.

April and I also visited Eric Kendrick and wife Elaine at their beautiful place near Key West, Fla., last March, and then met them at spring training for the Nats in West Palm Beach.

They continue to shuttle between Arlington and Key West, when they are not visiting their children and grandchildren in Colorado.

Finally, thanks to everyone who sent in nominations for Chuck Shepherdson's '61 selection to the SSSAS Athletic Hall of Fame. Chuck's selection may have broken the record for nominations to the Hall! I must also thank Doug Hotchkiss '62 and Mike O'Donnell '62 who spearheaded the effort to elect Chuck.

1965 ST. AGNES Lee Dorman jldor1013@gmail.com

Happy New Year to all – as always because I am the class secretary I get to go first! My year started out to be pretty ordinary—teaching and enjoying the grandkids. I managed to get away for a week in June to the Big Island of Hawaii with a friend. We had planned to hike and spend some time in the Hawaiian 66 | St. Stephen’s and St. Agnes School

National Volcano Park, but apparently Pele had different ideas! Volcanic eruptions were occurring every day for weeks before we flew in and continued while we were there. Even our pleas to the park officials that we were both retired science teachers moved no one to let us in! So we took a three hour flight over the volcano and the entire island— incredible does not begin to describe the experience. The entire week we were there earthquakes happened every day, I have been to three of the islands now and each is unique and special for different reasons—volcanoes and earthquakes rank right up there though!

I did manage two separate weeks at two different beaches in North Carolina during the summer and I am sure my inner self is in fact a beach bum! In September my daughter and grandkids moved in with me. We have all settled in with a routine and I am learning to live with a bit more clutter than I had in the past – but all in all life is good!

I want to share some good news about Marcie Maxwell Andrews.

Her daughter writes she is doing well and remains pretty stable. She is on oxygen 24/7 and tires easily, but she is getting out for lunch or a movie with friends and is sure to make her regular hair appointment! Nancy shared that the whole family will be together for Thanksgiving and all were looking forward to that! You have Marcie's email address and I'm sure she would love to hear from you!

Jane Tinka Adams has shared that she just does not know how to retire!

She is still working for the VA as an oncology nurse specialist. She continues to swim daily, but confesses she is “aging anyway.” Her oldest grandchild went to college this fall. Her daughters are doing well. Her husband, Dan, is busy with the Shiner hospitals. Tinka says they continue to enjoy dancing every weekend and are still glad to be together most of the time!

Jan Reinheimer Walsh-Hohert shared the yearly cycle where they head to Panama in December, go sailing in the San Blas Is until April... then go home to gardening, fishing, kayaking, kids and grandkids. In the fall Jan works for The University of Victoria supervising final practicum students, and does some tutoring... I think she is another one of us who has not figured out this whole retiring thing! The big thing that happened in 2018 was

turning 70. Jan confessed she had a hard time believing this, as I am sure we all do. She says, “I feel blessed to be in good health and plan to keep it that way!”

Liz Callar sent in her news and says she is still living in Lovettsville on 10 acres with farm views. Liz is spending her time taking foxhunting photos in the winter and horse show photos in the Summer. She says, “I am healthy and happy and always have fond thoughts for my time at St. Agnes. I learned so many wonderful lessons for life there.”

Anne Hoskot Kreutzer writes: “We had a couple of fun trips this year. In June we spent a week in Normandy for the 74th anniversary of D-Day. My father had jumped into Normandy shortly after midnight on June 6, 1944. Unfortunately, after evading the Germans for about 12 hours he was taken prisoner and spent the next six months in an Oflag in Poland before he was repatriated in early January, 1945.

We went to a beautiful family wedding in the south of France in September, which was great fun. Andy and Barbara Wiles Kreutzer '63 also attended it.

Our big family news was the birth of identical twin boys to youngest son Andy and wife Sarah in Carlsbad, Calif.

Leo Knox and Wesley Robert were born on November 23, 2018, six weeks early but very healthy, much to our relief. I had spent the whole fall (except for the wedding) out there helping since mom was put on bed rest on at 22 weeks. I was very saddened when Peter (“Biggie”) Redmond called me in late November to relay the passing of his dear wife, Janie Gray Redmond '64. Janie had set Tom and me up on a blind date in December of 1963 for the SAS Holiday Club, and the rest is history. She was maid of honor at our wedding.”

Last—but not least, Barb Callander Davis shares that they had a quiet Christmas in Amarillo before their entire family gathered at their son's home in Connecticut to celebrate New Year's. The cousins, four granddaughters, all love getting together: Lilly (11), Annabelle (9), Caroline (8), and Olivia (4). Barb said they took the entire group into NYC to see The Lion King. Barb says: “Dick and I spend considerable time at our second home in Santa Fe. He continues on the Santa Fe Opera Board for the nationally recognized “Festival” opera company with performances only in July and

August. If anyone is planning to visit fascinating Santa Fe, I invite you to consider attending one of their premiere productions.” (Barb, I was in Santa Fe in April I wish I had remembered you were there!)

Thanks to those of you who shared some news. Don't forget, we have our 55th Reunion coming up in 2020!

1965 ST. AGNES Allen Caskie acaskie@hotmail.com

David Eddy notes, for those with a keen historical interest in such things, that he was born in the “Swamp” at G.W. Hospital and can testify that, as yet, it has not been drained.

Bucky Sydnor writes that in an effort to spice up things a bit, he and his wife have recently moved all the way from Royersford, Pa., to Fuquay Varina, Pa., which, among a long list of obvious advantages, is marginally closer to Bucky's daughter and her family, as well as just a tall-boy's driving distance to Don Fontes' digs. Bucky is also moving up in the competitive bridge world where he recently was recognized for outdrawing an up-and-coming intermediate gunslinger in the latest issue of The Bridge Bulletin. If any of you have already finished your copy of that, please forward it to me.

John Disoway put down the Pina Colada he was enjoying under a palm tree while in Aruba this December for long enough to key in a report about his doings. He and wife Sylvia, when not globetrotting, live in Ft Worth, where he noted that tics were still available for the 2019 Stock Show and Rodeo.

He and Syl did a wedding in Central France (her daughter) and made a quick stop at the Ryder Cup as well as two lengthy motorcycle trips this year. One was six weeks thru Mexico and up the Baja Peninsula. The other was from Fort Worth to Maine and back along the East Coast. They also fit in annual visits to three daughters and six grandkids.

David Litsey is preparing to sell the historic farm he owns to the Centers for Disease Control for use as a research center for mine safety conducted by the National Institute of Occupational Safety. While he waits for that to be finalized sometime this summer, he has been getting geared up for his 50th reunion at UVA. Preparation has

included a bit of vineyard hopping around Charlottesville. This year also found him enjoying a Thanksgiving visit with his son and grandkids in Charlotte, and while he was in the area, a visit to the Biltmore, which he said was very nice if wood is all you have to build something with. David is predicting a good ski season this year with lots of snow already on the slopes outside his backdoor.

Allen Caskie writes that he seems to have forgotten everything he ever knew about golf. A week in Myrtle Beach and two weeks in Hilton Head this summer served only to underscore what a pitiful excuse for a person of Scottish heritage he is, although he remains a top-shelf threat in any single-malt competition.

In June he and Dawn headed to the U.K. to visit son Ryan and family, who live near Bournemouth on the South Coast. A few days spent in a brownedout, sweltering London beforehand led to the sobering discovery that air-conditioning there is the exception rather than the rule. It was a relief to eventually get to the beach where there was at least breeze enough to ripple your warm pint.

Bob Whitton writes: “You'd think I was still working (I'm not). I continue as president of a 71-unit condominium association (yes, I know, some of our class actually RUN for public office; this is a little different). One more year: yippee!

We traveled several times during the year, apart from usual destinations: two weeks on the Italian mainland in April and 10 days in the U.K. (mostly Oxford) in June. In 2019 we plan on spending part of February in the Caymans; four days at our respective college reunions (Andrea's Vassar class will pull in more $, my Williams class will get a participation award…); two weeks on a cruise through Portugal; and in the fall two weeks in Sicily. I have put in much time co-editing a reunion book for my college class: pub date is February, so I'm 'enjoying' the last of the true deadlines now in December.

I've seen, added, or discarded more hyphens and commas (mostly Oxford commas) than you want to shake a stick at. Don't ask about the AP Stylebook (we went “Lite”). Grandkids growing like weeds, and we are enjoying seeing them with a good deal of frequency, relative to distance.”

Jim Collett apparently still has the fire-in-the-belly to withstand another political campaign. He is putting behind

him a couple of narrow defeats for Hilton Head Mayor and a Town Council slot and getting ready to run for the Town Council again. The election is February 17, and Jim expects the results to make the network news. Regardless of the outcome, he notes that after 18 years on the island he knows where all the good restaurants are. He and wife Marcia extend invites to any classmates visiting the island to ring them up and go out to dinner. Allen Caskie and wife Dawn decided to test out their hospitality this year and gave them high marks.

Drake Smith writes that he is enjoying retirement and friends in Montana, “so long as the caldera remains quiescent.” He enclosed his business card which reads, “Physicist at Large: Problems Solved, Catastrophes Averted, Imponderables Explained, Villains Thwarted, Brains Stormed, Repairs Sorted, Kites Elevated, Thingies Printed, Clothing Optional.”

Steve Maize writes: “The big news is that Kay and I celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary in August. Our kids, Keirschen and Landon, and their families, treated us to a rendezvous in Aspen for a long weekend. We had a great time, and I felt that forgiving several thousands in outstanding loan debt might be appropriate. I continue to be active in the New Mexico Watercolor Society and the Albuquerque Museum of Art and History as a docent. Last year Kay and I made a quick stop on our way to my sister's home in Exeter, N.H., and linked up with Derek Savage and wife MC and John Sebrell and wife Sally for a very nice visit.

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Carter Flemming carterflemming@gmail.com We were saddened to learn of the death of Erica Kessler Lodish's husband, Richard, in December 2018.

Richard was the long-time head of the Lower School at Sidwell Friends School. Petey Cosby, Pinky Caples, and I attended his Memorial Service, and we were in awe of the wonderful tributes to Richard's transformative educational career. His service was not only an acknowledgement of his academic and administrative brilliance, but also celebrated his lifelong sense of humor and zest for living. Richard's extensive collection of historic school www.sssas.org | 67

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artifacts is now housed in several museums across the country, including the Richard Lodish Collection of American Education Ephemera at the Smithsonian American History Museum. Erica's daughter, Maya, moved to San Francisco after being awarded an endowed chair in Pediatric Endocrinology/Diabetes Department at the University of California, San Francisco. She has most recently been named the chair of that department, which is quite an accomplishment for a professor who is new to the university.

Pinky Caples reports that “she almost made it into the 'In Memoriam' section of our notes last October after getting some nasty parasites on a recent business trip to India. The infection got out of control and after my husband, Everardo, dragged me to the emergency room, I almost died twice in one night.”

I was happy to see her looking well, and she says she is delighted to be living on this reprieve. Pinky and Everardo's architectural firm continues to work on projects for major institutions like Columbia University and the State Department. Their son, Esteban, is in his last year at Columbia in the master of fine arts program.

Jeanette Tracy continues to enjoy retirement and went on a wonderful summer vacation to Peaks Island,

Chris Motley '66 Chris had a solo fiber art exhibition, “Feelings in Fiber,” at the Morris Graves Museum of Art in Eureka, Calif., from January 5 to February 17. She uses hand knitting, with gathering or pleating, to create sculptural forms and describes her art as “an exploration of texture, color and dimension,” which may reflect a mood, an emotion, an idea or societal condition. She recently expanded her technique to include the knitting of wire. Chris has participated in more than 70 juried art shows. You may see her work on chrismotleyart.com.

Maine, with Erica. Despite it being a rainy week, both report they had a great time catching up.

Ann Martyn keeps up with her singing, and she and husband Frank still host singing parties. She enjoyed hearing Bob Dylan in Roanoke last year and thinks it is wonderful that he keeps evolving as a musician. She hopes “2019 will be a year full of good music— minus the tweets.”

Leslie Ferrell Kauffmann and husband Jose moved from Brussels to Madrid this February. Leslie is delighted to be back in sunny Madrid after years in rainy Brussels. They spent Christmas in Hawaii with son Alex and his wife.

Leslie's daughter, Ana, married Jerry Mendez last February in Miami.

Peg Craig-Kennelly reports that she is “happy to still have her health, is still standing upright, and looking for her car keys while asking herself 'Why did I walk into this room?'” That is something we can all relate to these days! Peg had a wonderful visit with Peggy Johnson Hayes last year. Peg had a shoulder replacement last June which, combined with her two replaced hips, “adds to the amount of artificial parts now residing in my old body.” She speaks for many of us when she says, “this aging business is truly a journey, but the best part is humor.” While advising us that it is “somewhat futile to use artifice to hide crumbling, crepey skin,” she sends light and love to each of you, and prays we will all be here for our next reunion.

I had a wonderful lunch with Susan Whittington, who surprised us with a move back to Alexandria with husband

Brian, after being on the West Coast for all these years. She is enjoying getting reacquainted with Old Town. She laughs at the fact that just as they moved from Seattle, Amazon decided to place its second headquarters here, so she feels “pursued by a Tech Behemoth.” Susan and Brian continue to travel to Europe as frequently as they can. We are happy to have Susan join our local group of SAS classmates!

Lee Vosbeck Hagan continues to work in property management at McEnearney Realtors, and travels to visit her sons when she can. Her parents have moved to a retirement home, and Lee helps manage their care.

Chris Motley had a solo fiber art show at the Morris Graves Museum of Art in Eureka, Calif. We are so proud of Chris for being, as she describes herself, “a late, post-career artist.” Chris has two grandsons and a new granddaughter, so she and husband Neil visit them in Manhattan on a regular basis. Chris and Neil will be in D.C. for March and April of this year, so we look forward to rounding up our local classmates for some fun during that time.

Liz Anglin Simmonds continues to travel the U.S. and Canada with husband Terry in their RV, the Tin Lizzie. They visited Big Bend National Park in Texas, and then made their fifth trip to Newfoundland and Labrador.

They enjoyed learning more about the indigenous people there. Their volunteer activities continue to keep them entertained and busy and Liz says, “We're happy to think that we can still make a difference in some of the things

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that are important to us.” She writes to all, “Long may your big jib draw,” which is a Newfoundland expression meaning a good wish for the future.

Tina Bell continues to live and work in Denver. Aletha Corbin Harris enjoys her grandchildren in Houston, and reports that she and husband Jeff “are doing their best to age gracefully.”

Star Bales Alterman enjoys retirement in Florida with husband Hal. They have two grandchildren who live in Connecticut, so there is lots of traveling back and forth to spend time with them. Petey Cosby is also enjoying retirement and taking some art classes and doing volunteer work. She has four grandchildren and vacations with their families each summer.

PJ Leary wishes everyone a wonderful new year to “explore new adventures and savor past ones.” She has retired from mortgage banking and keeps quite busy with “occasional catering gigs, volunteer work with the Social Security Administration's Protective Money Management Plan, and seeing family and friends at will, which is the joy of retirement!” She is proud of her grandson's choice to serve in the military prior to college and career. He graduated from OSIT at Ft. Benning and then Airborne School.

Margie Dumas Worden says 2018 was a pretty quiet year for her family.

She enjoyed seeing Cindy Hyde Fawsett over Christmas, spent a wonderful afternoon with Jeanette Tracy who was coming through the area after visiting her mother in N.C., and also saw Erica Lodish this winter. Margie's granddaughter plays lacrosse for Virginia Tech, so she and Jimmy travel to her games.

Penny Mendenhall Pestle reports that 2018 was all about family and the food bank she manages. Her “grandtwins” who were born very prematurely in 2016 are doing well now.

They moved to California last year, but Penny says, “Thanks to Alaska Airlines I see them frequently.” Penny works with a team of volunteers to manage a rapidly-growing food bank that serves over 200 families each week. They are now creating a Community Resource Center to support clients as they work toward economic security for their families. Penny captures the sentiments of many of us when she happily says, “I am never bored; am either exhilarated or exhausted, but it's a great way to be at

the ripe age of 70!”

And I, Carter Dudley Flemming, continue my volunteer work in Alexandria, with the Alexandria Housing Authority, other community boards, and now serve as president of our Civic Association. We welcomed our newest grandchild, Bailey, in June 2018, who is the first child of our son, Will Flemming '97, and his wife Jenn. We spent Thanksgiving in San Francisco with our whole family.

Our twin granddaughters are 13 and taller than I am. Our grandson is 9 and enjoys basketball and baseball. We are looking forward to a family trip to Paris in February. I hope some of Madame Strong's terrifying French classes help me remember how to parlez a bit of français while I am there! Thanks to all who wrote in with news!

1967 ST. AGNES Alice Reno Malone tammyarm@aol.com

The SAS Class of '67 has had several mini reunions in the past year. Beth Grosvenor Boland, Elizabeth Herbert Cottrell, and Jill Strachan met for lunch twice, once including Robin Hirst Moore and myself. Laura Baumberger Stevens visited Vicki Smith Wadlow at her new house in Florida. Genie Mallinson Applegate saw Annie Lovering Steele in Charleston, Polly Haff Mehring and Jane Grenfell Duffey in Charlottesville, and regularly walks with Chris Holter Reynolds in Great Falls. If someone is near you, I hope you will reach out and continue the friendships we formed at SAS! Congratulations to Robin Coffin who received her doctorate in leadership and educational policy from the University of Rochester! Her dissertation title is “How to Navigate the College Application Process, Including Access to Financial Aid for Low SES Students,” and she is now enjoying traveling a lot and playing tons of bridge and golf. She and husband Bob spend their winters in Florida to escape the cold. She reports lunch with KC Church (who is looking “terrific and is so interesting!”) in Denver this past fall.

Mary Sweeney Payne sends greetings from St. Augustine. She says: “Mike and I are traveling again for the winter with our two small poodles—this year by car, not motorhome as in the past—we bit

the bullet and sold our RV last spring as Mike's eyes are not what they used to be.

It was 15 degrees in Bar Harbor, Maine, on Thanksgiving with a foot of snow already on the ground as we headed south until April.”

KC Church writes, “Nothing much new for me... as (I think) I wrote last year, I spend my time playing lots of pickle ball and bridge, taking adult education classes, skiing/hiking... basically anything I can do for the body and the brain. I also read a lot.

Would love to see anyone who comes to Denver... and would love to be in touch but I don't do FB so it needs to be email.”

Beth Grosvenor Boland notes, “It's hard to believe I've been retired for five years now, but Frank and I keep active traveling, hiking, and volunteering, which for me means my church and as a docent at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. You can find me at NMAH in the Objects Project exhibit area most every Monday morning, so come see me! I lost my mom last year which was hard, but I'm lucky to have other family, including great nieces and nephews, in the immediate area.”

Jane Grenfell Duffey reports: “I have seen Polly Haff Mehring and Genie Mallinson Applegate recently and am interested in all the garden experts in our midst. When we moved to Charlottesville, I was thrilled to get a garden plot with a deer fence.

It's been hard work and I was all set for a great summer when the May storm blew through and the Rivanna River overflowed leaving my garden 6' underwater. Any tips? This year I am working with four elementary students in different area schools with various learning needs who keep me busy. Tom and I also serve on the board of a local community development non-profit.

Our five grandkids (now 8-16) get lots of our attention. We do get to travel, to see son in Boston, brother-in-law in Florida, and looking up Grenfells in England with a side trip to Normandy.”

From Vicki Smith Wadlow: “As I write, I am sitting with Laura Baumberger Stevens at the house we bought in Quail Ridge in Boynton Beach, Fla., for the winter months.

Clark went skiing so Laura came down and we have been having the best time ever. Saw the 'Downtown Abbey” exhibit in West Palm Beach, shopped, ate, shopped... Had lots of wine and www.sssas.org | 69

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Elizabeth Tayloe Courts '68 and her grandchildren.

Denya M. Clarke '68

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conversation. Our best to everyone.”

Pam McRae Dux sends greetings from Missouri. “Jon and I are celebrating our third Christmas in our Missouri home. We are slowly learning about the culture and history of the middle of the States and found the Century Farms program holds generations of tradition. Both of us being gardeners and surrounded by wildlife, quiet, nature and peace, we are attempting to create something in the rocky soil here. Luckily we are south of the Tornado line and have learned to ride out the warnings with some more confidence. We still have not used our winter boots as the snow has been light for which we, as Hawaii transplants, are grateful. Our health is good and we are happy.”

Once in theatre, always in theatre, Anne Evans has been busy directing “The Comedy of Christopher During” in Arizona, mentoring a sixth grade boy, making clothes for third world children, and planting. Unfortunately, Annie, her 14-year-old Jack Russell has congestive heart failure.

Deborah Androus sends this sad information: “As you know, my dear Thanos passed away at home in Athens in June '18. He so enjoyed meeting my classmates, all of whom welcomed him so warmly. That is all my news for this year.

It continues to be a huge sadness for me.”

So pleased to hear from Fain Ravenel Kapeluck and learn that she has moved to Wake Forest to be closer to her daughter. She is widowed but has nine precious grandchildren to dote upon.

Liz Heffron Mackall reports that “Mark and I have greatly enjoyed our move to the Olympic Peninsula. We've gotten very involved in the community so are busy nearly every day. The grandchildren are growing up so quickly so I try to spend as much time as I can with them, while they still look forward to the 'Grandma adventure days'. Hope to see everyone at the 55th reunion— was sad to miss the 50th.”

From Roanoke, Becky Orme Russell shares some joyous news: “We have our first grandchild a boy, now 7 months old and really cute (written 1/19)! All three of our children live in the Roanoke Valley with us. Like so much of life, I didn't miss not having grandchildren, but now that I have one, I find it's a blast! I am involved in church and a book club—trying to decide, again, what I have to give up in order to make time to get fitter.”

Chris Holter Reynolds has really enjoyed the “pleasure of walking with Genie Mallinson Applegate along the Potomac during the spring and early summer. Vacations and cold weather have interrupted their walks until spring. If anyone is near Great Falls Park or Riverbend Park in Great Falls, please join us. It's so peaceful and beautiful. Thanks for including me in the 50th Reunion festivities—it was lovely to reconnect with friends from so long ago. I hope to see Annie Lovering Steele later this year.”

Genie Mallinson Applegate writes: “Chris and I are trying to put our lives back together and find some joy after the devastating loss of our beloved son, Colin, nearly two years ago. So many of you have been so kind and supportive, taking me under your wings...Chris continues to work in Afghanistan as a senior mentor to the Afghan government in the budget and finance areas. He finds the work most rewarding, although the separation is difficult at times. We spent 11 days with our son, Austen, and my niece (Connie's daughter) in England and Northern Ireland. The theme was daffodils and we saw what seemed to be millions, plus a few other things. I am still working a little and spend as much time as I can in my garden, knitting, beading, and keeping up with my sisters, Connie and Kate, and their families.

Austen will move out this winter and take his own apartment with his partner, so there's plenty of room in Arlington should you want to visit.”

Polly Haff Mehring is “happy to report that I am on the upswing after three years of various health issues. In the fall we took full advantage of this improved state of affairs and went with college friends to Madrid and southern Spain for a couple of weeks where we had great weather and saw many of the grand sites of Moorish and Catholic Golden Era Spain!”

Elizabeth Herbert Cottrell has some exciting family news, “Our daughter, Sarah Cottrell Propst, has been appointed cabinet secretary for the New Mexico Department of Energy, Minerals, and Natural Resources by New Mexico's new governor, Michelle Lujan Grisham. They hope to make New Mexico a leader in prioritizing renewable energy.”

From Alice Reno Malone: Big news is we've downsized in Charlottesville!

What a project—times like these I

wish I had siblings who would take inherited stuff off my hands! Jim still teaches part-time at UVA Law and plays incessant rounds of golf. Our girls are both in Massachusetts: Katie teaches pre-school in Nantucket and Virginia is working in Hospitality in Williamstown. I study and research history as I continue my project of editing/annotating family letters from the 1830's. I'm also very active as an adopted Dartmouth '71, which I consider my alma mater. (I was an exchange student there 1969-71) . My Dartmouth 50th is coming up in 2021 and this time I will get to 'walk' with the graduating class of '21.

As they say, please keep those cards and letters coming in! We are so lucky to have a class that keeps in touch (in great part, thanks to Mary Sweeney Payne's SAS '67 FB page. Please join the 21 of us who are on it!). It seems like only yesterday, we wore our white dresses (not too short) and walked out of Daniel Gym and into the world.

1968 ST. AGNES Barbara Butler Leonard bbleonard@verizon.net

SAS Class of 1968 50th Reunion: For those of you who couldn't make it, we truly missed you. It was great fun to see each other again, to recognize one another, and to remember those hilarious moments from so long ago.

Most agree this was a fabulous reunion, more fun than we'd ever expected. This is thanks to so many of you who made great efforts to be there. Also thanks to those on the Reunion Committee who worked through the months to reach out, to find lost girls, and to encourage people to come. Then there was the Hospitality Committee who organized and pulled off a wonderful class dinner.

Sherrie Rook, Sherry Adamy Churchill, Marcia Williams, Helen St John, Mary Anne Warner, Mary Leith Leslie, Susan Snodgrass Wynne, Elise Haldane, Barbara Butler Leonard.

Friday started with a handful of us being interviewed by fifth graders and then on to lunch at Lloyd House. Also in attendance were alumni from other “older classes,” celebrating 45, 55, and 65 years! After a tour of the building, which is now offices and museum (old BD), we were set free until meeting again at the annual alumni reception at www.sssas.org | 71

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have been taking time for more trips this year, which I really enjoyed. I am having a wonderful time reconnecting with my St. Agnes classmates! I hope to hear from many more next year!”

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Marion Dawson Robinette marion.robinette79@gmail.com

the Torpedo Factory. Plenty of drinks, food, conversation, and class photos.

By Saturday morning there were many more of us attending events. There were tours of the Upper and Lower School campuses, girl's field hockey game, and the Homecoming football game.

We marched on the field as half time entertainment! The best was the last, our class dinner, once again at Mrs. Haldane's beautiful house up on the hill. Lucie Morton Garrett gave a fun wine tasting presentation followed by dinner around small tables. There was plenty of laughter, storytelling, and calls for another reunion sooner than later.

France anyone? Holley's (Holley Russell Del Giudice) idea. I should mention there were several hearty husbands who attended and they bonded and enjoyed themselves tremendously, it seemed.

Recently I heard from a couple of you. Denya Treviranus Clarke sent photos of Elizabeth Tayloe Courts' family and hers also. The dog in Denya's arms is the great, great, etc. grand dog of Lucie's dogs from 1966. Diane Eads Trautman lives in Maryland, where she is quite involved in community theatre.

“How reassuring it was to find that the classmates I met again were still just my old friends from the 1960's…who have great personal warmth and a solid core of values, so many dedicated towards bettering the lives of others…I am recharged with the positive vibes of the class of '68. “ ~Holley Russell Del Giudice 72 | St. Stephen’s and St. Agnes School

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Sara Charlton charltonryan@earthlink.net From Betsy Ellis Mills: “I'm loving my title of YaYa ( can't do Granny or Grammy) and they all keep me very busy, since two of my girls live within three miles and the other is 10 minutes away. My youngest daughter and son-inlaw are within days of having their first baby. We know it's a girl and of course I can't wait to meet her. Middle daughter and son-in-law have their hands full as their identical twin girls just turned 2. I still get the girls mixed up if I don't look carefully... oldest daughter and son-inlaw have a 5-year-old girl and an 8-yearold boy. He attends the same school all my girls did and also where I taught.

He warms my heart when he tells me he wishes I was still the P.E. teacher, because I would make it more fun!

Husband now retired after 37 years with Nike. We bought a class A RV which I nicknamed The Beast and have been doing some traveling, when he can tear me away from the grandkids. Of course my 10-year-old rescue golden retriever, Teddy, who is known as my Velcro dog, goes everywhere with us.”

I, Sara “Kathy” Charlton, plan to retire in a couple of years. I want to finish a couple of big projects and I am still having fun. My music is going well, still playing in a rock/country band. I

The Class of 1973 celebrated its 45th Reunion in September and what a celebration it was! From the Torpedo Factory Friday night to dinner at Landini Brothers to a day of shopping, reminiscing, non-stop talk and fun, to dinner Saturday night at Morrison House, a great time was had by all.

Classmates in attendance were Meg Babyak Tucker, Liz Bostick, Christy Carter Sauer, Karen Claussen Shields, Madeline Cooley Flagler, Marion Dawson Robinette, Annie Groves Odell, Suzanne Ives Dunkley, Jane Kincheloe Wiles, Pembroke Moreau Roeder, Ginny Morton, Mary Palmer, Terri Shelton, Leslie Treece Fairbairn, Karen Washington Franklin, and Pam Zimmerman Brislin. On to classmate news.

Terri Shelton reports that she continues as the chief research officer leading the campus of UNC Greensboro in a banner year where awards were up over 13 percent. She also serves as the lead investigator on several grants and initiatives translating research into policy and practice.

Leslie Treece Fairbain reports that our annual 2018 Bayou Boogaloo Cajun Food and Music Festival weekend reunion was another success. Several of us stayed at the Marriott Renaissance Hotel across the river in Portsmouth.

Those of us who arrived Friday met for our usual dinner at Cafe Europa, where the owner and executive chef's wife (who makes all desserts from scratch) spoiled us after finding out we have known each other since elementary/ high school days and made dining at their lovely restaurant part of our yearly trip to Norfolk. The newbie attendees last June were Suzanne Ives Dunkley and husband Michael, as well as Marion Dawson Robinette. They will surely be back this coming June.

Others in attendance were our resident Bayou Boogaloo artist Annie Odell, our adopted daughter, Katie Odell, Liz Bostick, Terri Shelton, Madeline

Bliss in El Paso, Texas.

Ellen Meade sent sad news that her mother passed away on February 7, 2018, a month after turning 99.

Page Pettit attended the memorial service. Ellen and her husband, Robert Kahn, live in Bethesda, where he is a consultant and teacher and Ellen is an advisor to the Fed's vice chairman.

Their son Gabe is a CPA in New York and her younger son is a sophomore in college in Texas.

Sharon Snow Nicholson's son Bo got married in Roaring Gap, N.C., in September. Beth Holliman Hart, Vickers Bryan, and I attended the festivities. My daughter, Laura, got married in June in Annapolis.

1976 ST. AGNES Cooley Flagler, Meg Babyak Tucker, and Leslie Treece Fairbairn. We had a blast. Our group dinner on Saturday was, as usual, at Todd Jurich's and thanks to Cary Reardon Nunnally, who assisted with the arrangements at both Cafe Europa and Jurich's.

Jane Kincheloe Wile reports that she went sailing on a huge clipper ship in February 2018 and then a big gala in Santa Barbara to celebrate her winery's Pink Ash Rosé. Son Drew was married in June at the winery (Paradise Vineyards) in Clifton, Va. Jane and Pam Zimmerman Brislin met up in Tuscany in May for a wonderful trip.

My life with dogs keeps me busy on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. In January of 2018 we added “Jeter” to our pack so we now have four doxies!

He is the nephew of Stanley, both long-haired mini dachshunds. Jeter has been traveling to dog shows with his breeder/handler and has already earned points toward his AKC champion title.

Stanley and I continue to visit our local nursing home, and we also visit a local elementary school where the second graders read to Stanley. Stanley and I are also training in rally/obedience and look forward to entering competitions. I also volunteer once a week at the Nabb Research Center for Delmarva History and Culture on the campus of Salisbury University. Currently I am transcribing a physician's ledger from Somerset County, Md., that dates to 1814-1817.

I will probably be working on it this time next year, as the doctor appears to have the same penmanship and abbreviations as the doctors today…

Melissa Ulsaker Maas mmaas@sssas.org

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Effie Cottman Dawson effiedawson00@gmail.com It was great to hear from Margaret Gilmore Yeakel, a St. Agnes classmate through seventh grade. The Gilmores moved from Alexandria to England, then to New Hampshire, where Margaret finished high school. She reconnected with Ellen Meade at Duke. After college Margaret worked in pediatric nursing and hospital management in Atlanta, where she met her future husband, Chris, who was completing a fellowship in pediatric anesthesiology. They moved to Columbia, S.C., and have been there 32 years. They have two grown daughters and a son-in-law. It's great to reconnect with her.

Sue Brown Howland reports that she is painting like crazy, showing and selling work through a Boston gallery, her website, and Instagram. Her children include a river guide son in the Grand Canyon, a furniture designer son about to finish his master's at Rhode Island School of Design, and a daughter who is a competitive equestrian.

Maggie Hoy Heckman's oldest son Daniel and his wife, Autumn, had twins in 2018 and Maggie now has three grandchildren. Maggie and husband Bruce live near Daniel and Autumn in Fredericksburg. Maggie's middle son Andrew still works in Fredericksburg and youngest son Stephen is a Captain in the Army, flying Blackhawks. He and his wife, Ashlee, are stationed at Fort

Liz Bancroft has one thing to say, “RETIRED!” She refused to elaborate.

Travis Brownley writes: “My partner Liz now works for One School House, developing online learning for Independent High schools. I am in my 11th year as Head of School at Marin Academy. Our boys are 9 and thriving in third grade. Please get in contact if you come to the West Coast.”

Jayne Carson writes: “I continue living in Old Town and working for Fluor in Arlington doing business development in the defense sector.

I was on business travel for much of 2018 but was able to enjoy two wonderful personal trips. This past spring I spent a couple of delightful weeks exploring London, England and much of Scotland. The trip was planned around seeing Hamilton at the Victoria Palace Theatre and the production was absolutely fabulous. I have just returned from a once in a lifetime vacation on a cruise that began in Perth, Australia and ended in Auckland, New Zealand. The planning for this trip centered on New Year's Eve—we were in Sydney Harbor to ring in 2019 and that, too, was fabulous. Lastly, I continue serving as a board member for the Army Women's Foundation; a true labor of passion.”

Sharon Huhn Dennis writes: “Husband Craig and I celebrated as our youngest son, David, received his bachelor's in aerospace engineering from Virginia Tech last May. He is doing graduate work at Tech now. Oldest son Jacob (master's in computer engineering www.sssas.org | 73

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Class of 1976 photos: 1. R uth Hazel Little and sister Jeannie Hazel ('78) hiking the Incan Trail in Peru.

2. Sharon Huhn Dennis '76 and family celebrated son David's graduation from Virginia Tech, from left to right: son Jacob, husband Craig, son David, daughter Sandy, and Sharon (missing son Joe).

3. Amy Goers Rhodes '76 and husband Dave with their daughter, Aya, and new son-in-law, Sam. 4. Elizabeth Bancroft '76 retired after 37 years with PBS. 5. M elissa Ulsaker Maas '76 with sons Jameson Bloom '13 and Alex Bloom '11 in Iceland. . Gary Oztemel, Karen Scrivanos Oztemel '76, daughter Alexandra, new 6 son-in-law Chris Genualdi, and son Harrison

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from Virginia Tech) is doing research at Tech on driverless cars. Daughter Sandy is a labor and delivery nurse in Warrenton and middle son Joe (doctorate in chemical systems from Virginia Tech) is working in Calif. Craig and I are working, but semi-retired (will work for health-care is our motto).

I am still playing/writing music. I visited Hawaii last year as a conference presenter and performed in local churches there. Enjoying Culpeper, Va.” Ruth Hazel writes: “My daughter, Christina, was married September 29 at our family home in Waterford, Va., to George Benza of Vienna, Va. Last June I hiked the Inca trails in Peru with a group of friends.

Karen Scrivanos Oztemel writes: “Our daughter, Alexandra, was married this past September 15 to Chris Genualdi in San Francisco, and our son, Harrison, served as the officiant.

They both graduated from University of Richmond, as did husband Gary and I, although they didn't date until several years later when they were living in NYC. The wedding was held at The Pearl, a hip converted warehouse space in the Dogpatch section of San Francisco. Margaret Moreau and husband Eric Emanuelson flew out for the celebration.”

Amy Goers Rhodes writes: “I have some wonderful and exciting news to share! My oldest daughter, Aya, got married this past December! She and her husband, Sam, are both in seminary in North Carolina. Tala will graduate from Radford University in May and Sarah is a

Reid Walker '82 and Mike Nisbet '82

sophomore at Towson University. I keep active with Bible study, volunteering, and working with Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America. I was active during the midterm elections phone banking, postcard writing, and door to door canvassing for gun sense candidates and in January will begin work with the Maryland state legislature advocating for common sense gun laws.

Husband Dave is still working with MCR corporation but hopes to retire in the next two to three years. I saw Rachel Hunt for lunch in September and we are planning to get together again. She still lives in Silver Spring and would like to be in touch with classmates more often. Looking forward to the next time the wonderful class of 1976 can get together!”

Carol Erickson Saberin-Tener writes: “Living the dream in Vermont ( if you love snow and cold in winter and rain and green mountains in summer ). We just had our 11th grandchild, a boy, in January. I am selling Hondas and pre-owned vehicles, trying to build a retirement after 30 years in the recreation industry. Husband Kinley is teaching skiers full time in winter and mountain bikers in summer. Anyone who wants a little adventure come visit!

Grace Tiffany writes: “I am still teaching in the English Department at Western Michigan University and gearing up for my son's graduation from high school this year. Still married to Tom Lucking, who is retired but doing everything from ice fishing to taking singing lessons. I am still writing, not

only my blog at www.shakespearefiction. blogspot.com, but other books, including a critical edition of Jorge Luis Borges' stories, poems, and essays about Shakespeare.”

Mary “Frizzle” Willis Coffey writes: ”I am in the middle of the 17th year of running my little Montessori school, and now have my grandbaby (now 3!) there as well, which is a joy. I loved seeing folks at our last reunion, and getting a little more in touch with fellow SASers. Those were great years, and great experiences.”

I, Melissa Ulsaker Maas, celebrated my 10th wedding anniversary and, ahem, big birthday with an amazing family trip to Iceland in June. Definitely one of the highlights of my life. It was incredible for my husband Brent and I to share everything with sons, Alex Bloom '11 and Jameson Bloom '13. Not only was the scenery breathtaking, but Brent, Jameson, and I shared our love of photography while Alex was doing a sensational job with his first drone video. Jameson is still doing freelance photography and graphic design for SSSAS and Alex is working and traveling (Peru in August and snowboarding in Utah in February). My dog children, Ripley (1) and Summit (3) are the best of friends now and two of the biggest dogs in the park at 120 and 127 lbs. I wish everyone a fabulous year and hope we can get together to celebrate our milestone birthdays!

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SaintsLink Spotlight: Leslie Harris '79

Founder and owner of LH Gardens, LLC in Charlottesville, Virginia.

what we do, which makes it so rewarding to do well.

And the third is hanging out in gardens that we have worked to make beautiful. Best office space I have found! But in terms of creating your own business, ANY business, and watching it come alive as you work with it—I compare it to a sport. It's multi-faceted and you get better as you put more time into it. A team forms and if you think of getting a new client as “winning,” that's great, but what's even better is just getting to do something you love.

Back in the day it was team sports at SSSAS and in college, then lots of years of tennis. Running my business feels like my new sport. And in my case, it's actually pretty physical.

Q: What is more difficult: teaching or creating your own business?

A:

Q: You were a teacher and coach for three decades. What inspired your career change and why gardening?

A:

My husband, Jeff, and I started teaching at Brunswick School in Greenwich, Conn., right after we graduated from UVA in the early 80's. We had spent a bit over 30 years there and it had been a wonderful experience. It was just time for a change. It wasn't time to retire, though, and I thought it would be great to make money doing what I love to do. I have loved gardening for years, and in my last years of teaching Spanish at Brunswick, I worked with a gardening company on Saturdays so that I could understand how a business like that operates.

Q: What is the most rewarding aspect of creating your own business?

A:

I have to give you three aspects that are particular to our business. The first is the team of talented gardeners (seven now) I have assembled and how wonderful it is to work with them. The second is client relations. We stick with clients who appreciate

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In the case of my business, there is much less stress. When you teach at a really good school like Brunswick or SSSAS, there is a high standard to maintain in terms of professional standards and growth. Our motto for LH Gardens is “We like to fuss with your flowers.” We do the very best we can to make each garden shine, but as you can imagine, there is not quite so much pressure there. You always want to do your best, but gardens are less important to oversee than young people. That being said, I am putting every bit as much time in as I did teaching, and of course, much more in the summer!

Q: What do you love most about being a part of the SSSAS community?

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CB Bell Guess edenhouse3@gmail.com Everyone must be very busy because I have very little news to share from the Class of 1977. Thanks to Jenifer Shockley we have a class Facebook page and we use that to keep in touch with each other. Jenifer does a great job sharing news with us and posting clever birthday greetings! In March several classmates got together for lunch and dinner and to see the cherry blossoms.

Those of us who could not be there enjoyed seeing the pictures!

1982 ST. STEPHEN'S From the Advancement Office: Reid Walker walked his daughter down the aisle to be married on November 10, 2018, at Washington National Cathedral, where he also was married.

Mike Nisbet was there to help celebrate the big day. Mike and Reid successfully climbed Mt. Pico de Orizaba (18,491') in Mexico on January 1, 2019.

Mike Martin '83 Mike and teammate Adam Lowry won the 10-race 2019 505 World Championship sailing competition in Fremantle, Australia, competing with 88 other teams. Mike and Adam secured their win with the eighth race. This was Mike's fourth world championship.

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I like that even though I am getting rather ancient, the older AND current people at SSSAS still seem interested in me, and I certainly am interested in them! There is a bond over the years and experiences, even if the specific years and experiences didn't overlap. I am currently working with the Athletic Hall of Fame Committee, and I really appreciate how there is respect among the generations and current employees, too. It's a special place and alumni participation is so valued and welcome, whether it's in the form of a donation or just being connected.

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Mountain man, Chris Rodgers, is still with a small railroad museum in Montana about an hour north of Yellowstone, and getting out for kayaking and treks in the Absarokas.

Patrick Nugent is in Dallas working for HDR Engineering and building really big things. He's celebrating 16 years with his wife, has a 10-year-old daughter, and sings Gregorian chants with his church choir.

Robt McDonough is close to SSSAS in Del Ray and is teaching theatre at George Washington Middle School in Alexandria. He and Victoria have two boys at TC Williams High School.

Steven and Martha Shaw Peterson '83 are opening up an eight bedroom, historic Airbnb in Old Town in March.

It was originally George Washington's kitchen but is now a townhome.

Chris Cox and his family are in Richmond, where his son and daughter attend St. Catherine's and St. Christopher's, respectively. They are both into theater, just like their Dad. Chris notes that Tony Macintyre's sister, Eve Macintyre Saville '81, lives a block away, and Trace Carson's daughter used to babysit Chris' kids.

I, Gant Redmon, am coming up on my 25th with Ann. We are six months away from being empty nesters. I recently left IBM to become CEO of a Boston software company.

1985 ST. AGNES Taylor Kiland taylorbkiland@aol.com

Well, ladies, we have a grandparent among us! Congrats to Meg Stinson Dalton and her husband, Shane, on the birth of their grandson, Wilson Alexander Dalton, on December 10, 2018. Parents are Dakota Dalton and Taylor Fisher. Little Wilson weighed 7 lbs., 14 oz. and was 20 inches long.

Based on all the photos I have seen, I don't think Wilson has been out of Meg or Shane's arms yet!

Back On Campus: Jennifer Griffin '87 Jennifer returned to the Lower School on February 7, to speak to the fifth grade about her journalism career as part of the Alumni Leadership Speaker Series. Fifth grade teacher Caitlin Engelberg believes that “connecting alumni with our students will help teach them about leadership, with an emphasis on how have a growth mindset can help one be an effective leader.” This speaker series is a way for SSSAS alumni to share how their experiences at SSSAS allowed them to be leaders in their field and communities.

1987 ST. AGNES

Shelly Webb shelly.webb.108@gmail.com As class secretary, I was so grateful to reach out to my wonderful classmates and not only hear about their lives but also share our mutual amazement about turning fifty, which will happen to most of us in 2019.

The biggest news is that Courtney Jewell Beveridge and her husband Brian are new parents! Welcome to Reed Fitzgerald Beveridge, who is being called “Fitz,” and came into this world on November 23, 2018 weighing in at 6 lb., 9 oz. Courtney writes that Fitz is “the happiest baby boy you would ever want to meet. He is low maintenance, a

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SaintsLink Spotlight: Ted Chen '83

Co-Founder of LifeSaver, an app that automatically detects driving and blocks cell phone use without additional hardware to combat distracted driving.

Soon after, we started getting about five calls a day from service technician. These companies assume a lot of liability for having their employees drive around all day in company vans, while using company phones. One small accident causes insurance rates to skyrocket, let alone the potential for any major accident taking place.

The accountability here—the employer and employee contract—is where we were able to find a more sustainable market.

Q: What have you found to be the Q: What inspired you to create your app?

A:

Five years ago I decided to do my own thing and it resulted in starting this app in Silicon Valley. I am not an engineer, but I like the tech culture and Silicon Valley has a unique nature to it which I have enjoyed.

We decided that if we were going to do this, we didn't want a small niche issue where we had to convince people of the problem we were trying to solve. My co-founder and I both have teenagers who were just about to start driving. Distracted driving has been officially named a “social epidemic,” and this was five years ago so the problem has only gotten worse since then. Before our own children even started driving we could see distracted driving was a problem, so we wanted to solve this epidemic—not only for our own children, but also for everyone.

We started with a consumer solution to a major world issue, distracted driving, and we got a lot of traction and media attention right away. We have been covered by numerous news outlets, and we are now the number 1 search result for distracted driving in the app store.

But what we found along the way is that there are unique aspects of this problem—that people don't like to pay for things and that people don't want to be helped. So, we realized that the solution to this problem is only as good as the person holding you accountable. If you don't have accountability then it doesn't work. The natural accountability relationship here is between the parent and child and more specifically the parent and teenager. This creates a very small window for opportunity, and looking from a pure business standpoint the accountability here will only last for a short amount of time.

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most challenging aspect of creating and marketing the app?

A:

I think the biggest challenging has been distribution, scale, and awareness, and the dynamic of accountability that needs to exist naturally. We are in a perfect storm.

This problem is not going away anytime soon and we are seeing the demand come to us, which is unique.

We are forming lots of partnerships, mainly with insurance companies who are buying the product, which makes distribution much more efficient for us. Since the dynamic of accountability needs to exist naturally, we found that the enterprise market was better for us than the consumer market.

Q: What piece of advice would you give to those trying to create and market their own app?

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It is extremely difficult to monetize, and it is hard to catch fire unless you get the right idea. We discovered that enterprise was the best channel for us. You just have to find the right fit for what you are trying to accomplish or the problem you are trying to solve.

Q: What do you love most about being a part of the SSSAS community?

A: I don't know many people who can say that they

keep in touch with their friends from high school. I can say that. While it is not on a daily basis, I certainly touch base with my high school friends at least quarterly and I really don't see that with many of my peers who attended other high schools. My time at St. Stephen's was really special and I absolutely loved it.

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good sleeper and gives us more smiles than we could ever imagine…We are still living in Clifton Va., and I still have my communications consulting practice that I manage from home.”

Congratulations!

Molly Bryan Santos writes that “all is well in Idaho. I am a stay-at-home Mom and chasing my son, Cody, around the ski mountain. We are happy and in good health!”

Rebecca Brockman Zuvich reports that she is still working at NC State and is now a “Gallup Certified Strengths Coach, still trying to help managers, teams and people bring their best selves to work each day.” Go Becca!

Cathy DuBost McCambridge and her family are still living in Northern Virginia, and she feels fortunate to be able to have lunch every so often with some of our classmates. She and husband John are super busy with real estate, and they just got back from visiting Catherine's family in Chile.

Cecile Lastelic Phillips writes that: “My oldest, Carroll Phillips '18, is a freshman at Bucknell University. Other daughter, Lily Phillips '21, is a junior at SSSAS. Trying to get used to the new normal of only one kid at home.”

Jeannie Woods Livingston and her family are loving living in Bend, Oregon, “keeping busy with all the fun stuff to do here—biking, skiing, hiking, etc. I've even taken up golf, which I thought I'd never have the patience for.

Kids are happy and healthy. Madeline is in ninth grade, Will is in seventh, and Jack is in fourth.”

Casey Kennedy-Waesche and her family are happily living down just north of St Augustine, Fla. Casey is training their foster dog, Jack, to be a service dog for children's hospitals and hospice.

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Sharon Dewey Cassidy cassidy4kids@gmail.com At the end of September, we celebrated our 30th high school reunion and we had a very impressive turnout!

Big props to Jennifer DePodesta Castioni who flew in from Italy for the celebration! Michelle “Bunny” Lopez was our planner extraordinaire who got us all organized and planned a fabulous dinner on Friday night in Old Town after the Torpedo Factory cocktail party. Also, many thanks to local

SaintsLink Spotlight: Melissa Yadao '88

Sports Medicine- Medstar Georgetown Orthopaedic Institute

Q: What has been the most difficult injury that you have treated?

A:

In sports medicine, one of the most challenging injuries was a big lineman football player who sustained a severe injury to ligaments in his knee that also injured a major nerve to his lower leg. However, I would say some of the most difficult injuries to treat are the overuse injuries where the athlete does not want to stop. These do not always need surgery but can take months to heal and involve a lot of education, patience, and support.

Q: What do you love most about being a part of the SSSAS community?

Q: Why did you choose to practice orthopedic surgery and sports medicine?

A: Orthopedics and sports medicine naturally combine two of my favorite things—sports and medicine.

My interest started in high school, as I seemed to always get injured. An elbow dislocation in eighth grade sidelined me for a while and then lingering knee problems followed me into college. I wanted to know how to fix my injuries so no one could tell me I had to stop playing. I admit I was drawn to the challenge of orthopedics as it's so male-dominated. Orthopedics is a very rewarding and satisfying field, seeing patients get back out there doing their sport/activity. I spend a lot of time educating my patients so they can stay healthy, active, and hopefully injury-free.

Sabrina Gilmore Scanlon who hosted a very fun karaoke party at her lovely home in Mount Vernon on Saturday night Melissa Kuhn Cetola (a new real estate agent with Fonville Morisey Realty) & Mary Pope Furr drove in from the Raleigh area. Newlywed, Elizabeth “Wesley” Middleton flew in from LA and we loved hearing all about her wedding on her mom's farm in the Asheville, NC area. Kathleen Hobson Davis drove in from Chagrin Falls, OH, and just accepted a position with the east side support group of Courage To Caregivers. Julie Eady Rao writes, “It was so great to see you at our reunion! I loved catching up with our classmates, and it's like all of the years just disappear! I've had a year of

A:

This is a great question—I have always felt that my time at St. Agnes was so special, and I am incredibly thankful for the experiences and opportunities I had. As time has gone by, I love reconnecting with my classmates, coaches, and teachers. I am both amazed and so proud of what incredible women we have become and truly cherish the times we get together.

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change, with a move from Toronto to Los Angeles last year, and becoming an empty nester this fall. My daughter, Jaimie, is now a freshman at Harvard and my son, Jordan, is a junior at UCLA. We moved for my husband's new job which includes a great deal of travel, so I'm looking forward to being able to join him on trips now, starting with Asia in January. Wesley and I plan to get together in LA soon, and I have a guest room for anyone that would like to visit!” Stephanie Edens Van Horn was in from Houston, TX, and continues to fly as a flight attendant with United.

Karen Belevetz DeHaven was in from Sellersville, PA, and she enjoys running AHA! Studio for Integrated Therapies.

Most locals were present and really

enjoyed reconnecting: Bethie Kane & Colleen Redding Godbout of Arlington, Karen Snyder of Falls Church, Courtney Butler Ashmore of Fairfax, Catherine Gouldin of McLean, Lynne Burroughs Turner of Springfield, Elizabeth Banks Hawkins of Chantilly and Maria Evans who just bought a townhome in Old Town Alexandria! It was lovely seeing Alison Herr Christmas briefly at the Torpedo Factory. She continues to work as an agent for TTR Sotheby's in Alexandria. I am still in Darnestown, MD and continue to play a lot of tennis as well as volunteer at my kids' schools.

I'm coaching my daughter's basketball team which is tons of fun! However, my big news is I left my corporate job in September and signed on with Monat - a luxury, vegan, botanically-based, natural hair care line. I am loving working from anywhere and helping people with their hair needs. Touch base if I can assist! This week is a DC Area Saints reception at the Sulgrave Club, and I hope to see many old friends there! Please stay in touch!

1989 ST. AGNES Amanda Edwards acefoto@aol.com

2019 marks 30 years since the St. Agnes Class of 1989 marched out the doors of Daniel Gymnasium into what has proven to be a much wider and much wilder world. Time is a most curious beast. It never occurred to me then that I'd still be writing these missives now, but here we all are and here is what I have been able to gather this time around.

First and foremost, sincerest condolences to Lee Casselman Whelan and Alexandra Woodman Johnson whose fathers, William E. Casselman and Jan Barrett Woodman, passed away in September and November, respectively. I can only imagine how difficult a time it must have been for both Lee and Alexandra, but I took comfort in watching our classmates rally around them via Facebook messages and, undoubtedly, in person. It was a reassuring reminder that we remain a family, however globally scattered we all might be. In happier news, Lee and her family have moved back to Connecticut after three years of living the expat dream in Belgium. I will personally miss following all of Lee's European

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Sarah Goldsmith '90 and Molly Eppard '90

Sarah Goldsmith '90 and Katherine Schupp '90 adventures online, but I see she is already back on the New England ski slopes so all appears to be falling back into place organically for her!

Christina Pfeffer Caporale has seen both Lee and Nicole Zehfuss in recent months. Christina and her family recently moved to a new home in Burke and endured a massive renovation of the kitchen and main floor. The good news is that they all survived the upheaval and Christina gets to work from said home in her new capacity as director of professional services for North America at FinancialForce. Both of her children, Emma and Cater, started playing lacrosse this past year and love it!

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Nicole Zehfuss now has a little Saint of her own. Her son, Kenner, started kindergarten as a member of the SSSAS Class of 2031! As a result, Nicole is back on campus frequently and has had a hard time convincing Kenner that all she had to play on when she was his age at his school were some old wooden, splintery seesaws and such. Times were so hard, how did we ever manage?!

In addition to a couple of child-free dinners with Christina and Lee, Nicole also saw Jamie Junghans Shaw for coffee last spring. Jamie continues to make me jealous by jetting around the world for work and play. Recent travels have taken her to Ireland, Corsica, Peru, and Paris. After more than twenty years as a freelance writer and brand strategist, Jamie has recently taken a full-time job as creative director at Cogs & Marvel, a brand experience agency based in Dublin, with a new office in San Francisco. Though she loved the freelance lifestyle, she felt she couldn't pass on the chance to build a creative practice at an international company that designs experiential brand activations around the world. A highlight for Jamie this past year was leading a team of creative women in producing a pop-up experience called “That Lady Thing” which speaks to gender equality via the medium of an Instagrammable “museum” of colorful photo moments. If all goes to plan, the installation will reopen in San Francisco in March and then possibly tour other parts of the country throughout 2019.

Amazing!

Back on the East Coast, Ashley

Kincheloe Dyson reports that she and her husband, Pat Dyson '88, are still loving life in New York City where they are raising their two daughters. The four of them met up for a surfing adventure in Mexico over the holidays with Lila Rifaat Steinle '87, her husband, Pete, and their two daughters. Ashley reports that they also recently had dinner with Peter Meyer '88 and his wife, Kit, and Justin Palmer '88. With a little luck, Ashley will make it over to California this year for a much-anticipated reunion with Jamie, Paige Henke Hillegass, Allison Walker Mowers, and myself.

Watch this space…

Further south in Northern Virginia, Jennifer Evans Allard recently completed her doctorate.

Congratulations, Dr. Allard!

Coincidentally, she and Gratia O'Rourke Barnett are indirectly working together. Gratia is a “rockstar” special ed math teacher at Mount Vernon High School, while Jennifer is a high school math curriculum specialist for Fairfax County. Jennifer reports that Gratia and her co-teacher “have become experts at project-based learning and have really helped to increase achievement for some students who have struggled in math (or school in general).” Jennifer goes on to say that she helps them sometimes, but mostly just sits by “in awe of their great work.” How fab is that?!

Further south to Raleigh, N.C., where Valerie Hillings has recently moved after 25 years in New York City. Following 14 ½ years at the Guggenheim, Valerie has started a

new job as director and CEO of the North Carolina Museum of Art. She and husband BJ both attended Duke University, so they are familiar with the area and excited to start this new chapter in their lives. Valerie writes that she is “honored to be leading this state museum with its strong art collection and campus, including two buildings and a 124 acre museum park.”

Congratulations, Valerie!

No such excitement here in Los Angeles. I, Amanda Edwards, am doing much of the same in terms of my photography, although I am attempting to diversify a bit. Change has never come easy to me so it's a slow process, but one I hope will lead me to some epic new adventures in time. Here's to an extraordinary 2019 for us all. I look forward to seeing EVERYONE at our 30th Reunion this fall!

Eddie Chu '93 Eddie won his second Emmy, “Outstanding Creative Achievement in Interactive Media for a Scripted Series,” for “Westworld.” In addition, he had eight Clio Shortlisted entries for “Westworld” and “Game of Thrones” (Motion Graphics, Integrated Campaign, Multiplatform Campaign, and Drama).

He has been working on “Game of Thrones” and a new HBO show called “Euphoria.” He also recently accepted an advisory board role at a gallery called Brooklyn Wayfarers, and he's doing a show in Tokyo in November 2019.

Molly Tynes Wagner '99, Louise Rains Gomez '99, and Carlos Gomez

Huascar Gomez-Garcia '99, Beth (Bryant) Dukes '99, Louise Rains Gomez '99, and Gillian Diercks '99

1990 ST. AGNES Sarah Goldsmith Campos slgoldsmith@yahoo.com

Aida Longo Knowles and husband Sam welcomed Lucas Samuel Knowles on September 18, joining big sister Sofia (2).

Molly Eppard writes that she is “still enjoying work and life in Vail, and had the wonderful pleasure of visiting with Sarah Goldsmith Campos and family this October. We took a trip out to the Cotswolds, including a day trip to lovely Blenheim Palace, which I remembered from my Madingley days….the tour has changed a bit, actually!”

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SaintsLink Spotlight: Zach Terwilliger '99 US Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia

Q: If you could offer one piece of advice to those who were giving serious thought to pursuing law in the government realm, what would it be?

A:

It costs a tremendous amount to pursue this dream, put yourself in a position to succeed when picking which law schools to apply to and attend. Take the cost into consideration and choose a school that you can afford.

Q: What do you love most about being a part of the SSSAS community?

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Q: What is the most common question you get about your job?

A:

I often get asked, “What is the most difficult part of your job?” My answer to this question would be: It is never an easy decision anytime you are dealing with taking away somebody's liberty; with that kind of power comes tremendous responsibility.

Q: What is the most rewarding aspect of working for the Department of Justice?

SSSAS taught me how to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing. The community provided me with my best friends to this day. The school was rigorous enough both athletically and academically which has served me well in my pursuits later in life, I've been able to overcome any challenge with confidence. I love that it is a community that continues to this day to foster an instant bond and trust between individuals meeting for the first time or reconnecting after years. I feel incredibly blessed to have had the benefit of getting an education from SSSAS, not only was it great prep for college but for life in general.

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A: To seek justice for victims of crime. officer for the Federal Railroad Administration. It's been a blast geeking out over trains (honestly a big surprise for me) and getting back to my historic preservation roots. I recently bought a condo in Park Fairfax and live directly across the street from Sarah Goldsmith Campos' mother! And for fun, I've been traveling a lot, including France, England, Scotland, California, New Hampshire, and NYC!” Katherine and I had a quick and very fun catch-up over dinner in London.

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to know the country, going on a safari in Kafue National Park (about the size of Wales or Massachusetts), the highlight of which was a balloon ride where we flew low over the animals, lions staring up at us as we passed. We also visited Victoria Falls, the largest falls in the world. Since we went during the dry season, we were able to go to the Devil's Pool, a pool immediately above the falls. Look me up if you feel like a safari. So far everything's going well! We are heading home briefly for Christmas, which will be great.”

All is well in London despite the Brexit madness. I haven't begun stockpiling supplies in the hopes they will have worked it all out by the time

you read this! I was in D.C. and Virginia this summer and got to catch up with Aida Longo Knowles, Katherine Schupp Zeringue, Kimi O'HalloranPerez, Jennifer Steinberg Levine, and Lee Carosi Dunn. I just wish there had been more time!

1993 ST. STEPHEN'S AND ST. AGNES Lisa Meltz Gumpert lisa_meltz@yahoo.com Steve Lastelic lastelic@gmail.com The Class of 1993 celebrated its 25th Reunion during the 2018 Homecoming and Reunion Weekend and had a fantastic turnout of more than 30 classmates for the weekend's festivities.

The reunion planning committee consisted of Montez Anderson, Tammy Smoker Cassady, Denny Cordell, Christian Ferry, Gautam Gulati, Craige Moore, and Dara Brunelli O'Hara. It was fantastic to reconnect with so many classmates from around the country.

Ilya Shambat traveled to the reunion from Australia, where he is raising his daughter while working for Thad Kahlow's father on a political information website. lise also writes on many Internet forums and translates Russian poetry.

Eddie Chu won his second Emmy award in September for “Westworld.”

He's currently working on “Game of Thrones” and a new HBO show called “Euphoria.” He also recently accepted an advisory board role at a gallery called Brooklyn Wayfarers, and he's doing a show in Tokyo in November 2019.

1999 ST. STEPHEN'S AND ST. AGNES Hannah Prentice Traul hannah@jacksonprentice.com Pender Ellett Koontz penkoontz@gmail.com Melissa Biles Lewis is enjoying life in Seattle, taking some time off from her career as a pastry chef to spend time with her one-year-old son, Luke.

John Chapman won re-election back in November for another three years on the Alexandria City Council.

Melissa Yates Civali is moving back to Alexandria at the end of the school year, and Erin McConnell is also trying to make her way back with her family of

John Chapman '99 In November John was re-elected for a third term on the Alexandria City Council. As a member of City Council, John serves on six local and regional boards. He is a career educator and currently works as a community use program specialist for Fairfax County Public Schools and runs a small business, Manumission Tour Company, which provides guided cultural history tours about the experiences of Africans and African Americans in Alexandria. John has a bachelor's in social studies education from Saint Olaf College. He is a 2008 graduate of the Minority Political Leadership Institute at Virginia Commonwealth University and a 2010 graduate of the Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership at the University of Virginia.

Back On Campus: Tack Richardson '99 As part of the Alumni Leadership Speaker Series, Tack spent a morning on the Lower School campus talking to the fifth grade about how SSSAS prepared him to lead and how the leadership skills he learned helped him in college and his career. He asked the students what qualities were important in a leader which lead to discussions about optimism, empathy, resilience, persistence, and flexibility. Tack received a bachelor's in political science from The Johns Hopkins University and a master's in business administration from UVA. He is currently working for MITRE as a management consultant.

Back On Campus: Zach Terwilliger '99 In February Zach spoke to Upper School students about his extensive legal career, as part of an AP Government speaker series put together by history teacher Bud Garikes. Zach is currently the 62nd United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia (EDVA), leading a staff more than 250 prosecutors, civil litigators, and support personnel. As the chief federal law enforcement officer in EDVA, he supervises the prosecution of all federal crimes and the litigation of all civil matters in which the United States has an interest. Prior to his appointment as U.S. Attorney on May 25, 2018, Zach served as an associate deputy attorney general and chief of staff in the Office of the Deputy Attorney General at the Department of Justice, where he was a principal advisor to senior Department of Justice. From September 2015 to September 2016, he served as counsel to Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley, where he focused on issues relating to criminal law, elder justice, human trafficking, and the Bill of Rights. He was hired as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in 2010. Zach holds a bachelor's degree in government and foreign affairs from the University of Virginia, and graduated with the highest honors from the William & Mary School of Law.

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Lizi Donatelli '00

five to Alexandria by end of the year.

Julia Kelly reports her fourth grader is loving school, and she is still enjoying her job at University of Richmond.

Kelly Case and John Winstead had their beautiful daughter, Emma, on July 25, 2018.

Kim McCue is busy working full time at Browne Academy where she was just named the next head of lower school and getting her masters at George Mason.

Molly Tynes Wagner continues her career as a Broadway performer (as Molly Tynes), and enjoys traveling with her husband, Richard, between gigs. Most recently she was in the preBroadway run of the new musical “Ever After” in Atlanta, now home to fellow Saint, Louise Rains Gomez and her husband Carlos. Molly and Louise had a great time reconnecting after way too many years!

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Nate '00, Marlowe, and Kathryn Savio

2000 ST. STEPHEN'S AND ST. AGNES Nathan Savio nrsavio@gmail.com

Lizi Donatelli tells me she spent the last three months of 2018 traveling Southeast Asia. She explored seven countries including the temples in Cambodia, waterfalls in Laos, and islands in the Philippines. While on sabbatical, she put her video production skills to use and documented her journey on her YouTube channel: Lizi on Location. Feel free to follow!

Niko Papademetriou says his son, Luca, is now in kindergarten and has an affinity for race cars, nature, and hockey. Niko and his wife, Sara, work hard to balance their careers, their family, and their love of travel, and plan to travel to Virgin Gorda BVI, Barcelona,

Fabien and Takhani at the World Cup finals in Moscow

Cassie Griffin Gordon Grant '06, John Griffin '90, Caitlin Griffin '01, Jennifer Griffin '87 Sardinia, Greece, and Munich in 2019.

After four years of living in Turkey, Shaun Jamieson returned to the U.S. in October to oversee international health, safety, and security for Iowa State University.

Andrew Keen decided to make a career change, passed the Series 7 and Series 66 exams, and now is a sales consultant for an investment fund company in Bethesda.

Tyler Gray reports that he just graduated with a master's in business administration. from Louisiana State University, and that he was named president of the Louisiana MidContinent Oil and Gas Association.

Jessica Bigby graduated from Georgetown University Law Center in May 2018, and is now practicing in the Investigations, White Collar, and Fraud group of Hogan Lovells in D.C. Jessica

Wes Charlton '02

with her husband. Continuing the theme she also wishes everyone to visit!

2002 ST. STEPHEN'S AND ST. AGNES Virginia Pasley vbpasley@gmail.com

Back On Campus: Andrew Bleeker '03 In March Andrew spoke to Upper School students in the Black Box, as part of the AP Government speaker series. Following experience working as the lead digital marketing strategist on both of President Obama's campaigns, as a senior advisor to Secretary Clinton, and as a global digital practice leader for Hill & Knowlton Strategies, Andrew founded and leads his own digital media company Bully Pulpit Interactive, a communications agency specializing in brands, causes, and candidates. Andrew was named to 40 under 40 lists

by AdAge and PRWeek and has been featured on the TODAY Show and CNN. He has also taught digital analytics at Georgetown University and serves on St. Jude Children's Research Hospital's advisory board. He graduated from Wesleyan University.

also traveled a lot in 2018, visiting Cuba, the Dominican Republic, South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.

I, Nathan Savio, just learned that after two years of living in Muscat, Oman, I'll be transferring to Windhoek, Namibia in August 2019 to work as a logistics manager for the U.S. Embassy there for the next three years. My wife, Kathryn, and my 3-year-old son, Marlowe, will accompany me.

2001 ST. STEPHEN'S AND ST. AGNES Salman Cheema spcheema@gmail.com

Audra Swanberg Giordano graduated

from nursing school in December, 2018.

Matthew Warin is currently posted with the U.S. Embassy in Zagreb, Croatia, with his wife, Nicole, and three children, Jacob, Jonathan, and Julia. He urges all Saints to come visit!

Peter Brodhead is wrapping up his time teaching in Seoul, South Korea, and moving to Kaohsiung, Taiwan. He also urges everyone to come visit him and his wife, Sara, and children Otto and Josie!

Kishor Nagula was recently married in Africa and is now living in Nairobi, Kenya, working as a consultant. Also wishes everyone to visit!

Polly Browne Bainbridge is living in London and recently had a baby, Grace,

Update from the class of 2002! Here you go: Takhani Kromah Bonnet, after seven years in London, relocated to Brooklyn, New York in 2015. She now works in grants and operations coordination for the International Rescue Committee.

She also serves on the board of Drive Change NYC and the Grants Advisory Committee for the New York Women's Foundation. Her husband, Fabien, is a digital marketing executive with Young & Rubicon Group. Takhani and Fabien have been enjoying “the arts, travel, and exploring new cultures”!

Wes Charlton left private law practice with Dunton, Simmons & Dunton and started the new role of director of advancement at Christchurch School in May 2018. He also put out his third original album, “Morning Stars,” in September 2018, through Vox Records.

More information is available at www. wescharlton.com.

Robin Eckert and her husband welcomed Lewis William Eckert-Sorrels on Nov. 12, 2018.

Katie Goodman received her doctorate in epidemiology from Johns Hopkins University in December, and she will be starting a post-doctoral fellowship “working on hospitalacquired infection/antibiotic resistance research” in the spring. She and her husband also welcomed William Edward Consedine on Dec. 7, 2018.

Stephanie Bissell Torres and her husband welcomed son Logan Maverick Torres, and she began a new job as territory business manager for the Hematology Division of Shire Pharmaceuticals.

John Woods has been living in Oakland, Calif., but is moving back to the Houston, Texas, where his company, Intuitive Machines, is building a lunar lander.

I am currently teaching ninth grade English (or “ELA” as everyone calls it now, apparently) in Washington, D.C.

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2004 ST. STEPHEN'S AND ST. AGNES Joe Sherman joe@lawfirmjvs.com

Kelly Finnigan Mechling kathrynkfinnigan@gmail.com Aedan Comey wed Libby Lenneman on June 16, 2018, at St. Rita's Catholic Church in Alexandria, Va. Marshall Bush Rossi shares a group text chat with Abigail Meyer, Hallie Routh Goebels, Karla Herrera Crockett, and Meaghan Donohoe Regan. She loves strong verbs and dry humor.

Juan Giugale graduated first in his class from the medical school at the University of Virginia. He married the salutatorian, Lauren, and they moved to Pittsburgh to finish their residencies in orthopedic surgery and urogynecology, respectively. Having finished residencies, they remained in Pittsburgh to start their practices and on October 15, 2018 welcomed their first child, daughter Mariela.

Patrick Holcomb graduated from Emory & Henry College, married his sweetheart, and started working in Asheville, N.C., before moving to Denver five years ago. He works in the legal cannabis industry as a general manager of a dispensary. He owns a house in Denver and enjoys the outdoors.

Treat Huey continues to play tennis for a living and advanced to the Wimbledon semi-finals for men's doubles in 2016. He married in 2018 and lives with his wife, Charlotte, in New York City.

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Connor Locke transferred from Loyola College to Washington & Lee to finish college, which he did. He started working in real estate finance at Walker & Dunlop in October 2009 and continues there today serving as a vice president. He met his wife, Madeline, at Abigail Meyer's wedding, and although they married in the summer of 2017, he made her wait until winter of 2018 to honeymoon. They lived in New York City for several years before a recent transition back to Washington D.C. Meaghan Donohoe Regan married Lt. Patrick Regan in January 2017, eloping to the Virginia Beach courthouse. In August 2017 they welcomed their son, Patrick Donohoe Regan. After a deployment and house renovation “insanity,” they bore more fruit and welcomed another son, Leo Donohoe Regan, in December 2018. Meaghan is a publicist for chefs and restaurants when she is not on maternity leave, which feels like “always.”

Paul Rudwick laughs out loud for the right reasons and shares his sense of humor with his wife. He lives in Portland, Oregon with one child. He works as a municipal engineer and prefers the slow pace and high quality of life on the west coast.

Emily Pebbles Russell lives with her Dachshund/Chihuahua mix, Pickle, in New York City. She reinvents herself every five years, starting off in the nightlife business throwing parties and being a gal about town. She then turned to art shows and events and launched a

Emily is now the creative director for Boulevard, designing experiences to tell engaging stories of the products of human history, including work at the Smithsonian National Museum of African-American History and Culture and on the Microsoft HoloLens. In 2013 she launched the Centre-fuge Public Art Project, which has subsequently spread to Miami. Emily graduated with honors from New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study, where her concentration centered on photography and the anthropological factors that shape and influence contemporary popular culture.

Meaghan Donohoe Regan '04, Patrick, Jr., husband Patrick public art project in the Lower East Side in 2013. Centre-fuge boasts financing, tax-exempt organization status, and spread to Miami. She is now the creative director at an arts and culture content start-up, Boulevard, and designs experiences to tell engaging stories of the products of human history. Look for her work in the Smithsonian National Museum of African-American History and Culture and on the Microsoft HoloLens.

Michael Schwimer invests in talented minor league baseball players with major league potential. Sports Illustrated featured his business model last year and he boasts an impressive roster of clients.

SaintsLink Spotlight: Alice Zimmermann '04 A.I. Product Partnerships, Google Europe, Middle East & Africa

summer; I didn't stay. I had fallen in love. I definitely left my heart in Tel Aviv—so much imagination and energy there. I went back to school to study engineering management and innovation at Stanford, then came to London to lead business development projects in A.I. for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa working to help build the Google Assistant. I'm married now (to a Brit), so whatever's next will probably be about raising kids. I left the U.S. eight years ago. One of these years I'll finish my “big semester abroad” but it was worth it.

Q: What has been the most interesting discovery you have made about your job?

A: Once upon a time, I figured all careers followed logical

paths. Along the way, I discovered my story doesn't have to make sense. SSSAS taught me first that you can follow any passion you want at all. You can pivot. It's fine. You don't have to be just one part—you can be all parts.

In high school, I would say I was an art and math geek.

I studied neuroscience and visual art at Duke under a humanitarian impact scholarship and had no idea that would lead me to work in artificial intelligence and tech product management. In college I was focused on fulfilling a very different dream—going from a pre-med program to living across Spain, Panama, and Argentina, then landing a real job in Latin America. I was obsessed; there was a period of time where I stopped speaking much English. I joined big tech companies and began working on emerging technology, first at Nokia then Google in California and Mexico. The dream was: office job, foreign languages, palm trees, and empanadas, to free the soul a little, and work on a project that would affect millions of people…at the time that was spreading the mobile internet. After living in Mexico City for a few years, I met a woman who told me, “Go fulfill your next dream,” so I left to work as a creative director in Tel Aviv, thinking of hilarious ideas for YouTube videos in Israel. That was my job. There was a war going on that

Now, success is a zig-zag. When life forces you in a new direction, success is *making* it a blessing in disguise.

In your 20s, the best you can do is follow your heart and set yourself up expansively and slow down later.

Life is fast, but life is long. We have a lot of chances in life to start over if we choose to, and to walk away from anything that becomes stagnant or toxic. I had no idea about any of this when I was in school. I speak a lot at conferences about the lightning pace of societal change. Just like business can change as quick as the wind, you can radically transform yourself many times, and it often will happen whether you like it or not, so embrace change and be more true to yourself with every step.

Q: What do you believe is the most difficult aspect of your job?

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Building virtual teams is hard and it's isolating; computerized human communication is a terrible replacement for face-to-face time, period.

In the era of machine intelligence, human empathy, instinct, and emotional intelligence is more important than ever.

Machines are tools, but not themselves the answer. What we need to look for now is how to nourish people and protect the basics for society in this new environment.

How does a generation get past this type of isolation?

Look into the past—radically scrape away the noise. The physical world is not the default for a lot of folks. We have to retrain ourselves to live without technology to stay balanced. Build physical things with people we care about.

More and more I admire people with physical, manual, or face-to-face influence skills and old fashioned, local, artisanal jobs. After working in big tech for more than ten years digitizing everything, a point comes when you wake up and realize that all that matters is the basic stuff: fresh food, community, family, sense of hope, and safety .

I get homesick! All this time invested into becoming a foreign me, “Alicia,” and I end up missing the American South like none other. There's just nothing quite like being part of a local culture and community. So, I make cornbread at home and got a banjo for days when I'm craving that American feeling. I'm also grateful to have a great husband who keeps me grounded.

Q: When not using the Google browser, what is your second favorite search engine?

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The Google Assistant! We are at the brink of a shift towards conversational computing where conversation will be the primary means of human-machine communication. Thanks to advances in natural language processing and speech synthesis, you can just ask to get things done and the data can be dynamically assembled to respond in context or take actions on your behalf. A lot of industries are about to be disrupted.

The whole idea is to ask things naturally and get things done. Tech should be way more intuitive for everyone.

It's still early days but we are learning how to engineer A.I. in a way that helps people in their daily lives (getting the right train to work, finding things to do on a weekend, or helping kids get off their phones and do some exercise). If we do our jobs right, the goal is to let humans be more human. There are some things we have to be careful about and pay attention to though (values, above all else), so we don't get it wrong.

Q: What do you love most about being a part of the SSSAS community?

A: The characters. So many classes stuck with me. I

remember a lot of details from the “Norton Anthologies” (“Whan that Apryll...” ...anyone?) and Medieval history class. I still remember most of the sermons, too. There was so much bravery and maturity among the students.

So many people knew who they were at a young age, had a lot of swagger, and a strong sense of identity, which is admirable. The faculty were thoughtful with ideas and critical thinking, particularly in the liberal arts.

I am proud to be a Saint and I admire so many people I went to school with who have gone on to follow what makes them happy, whether it's fishing or parenting or helping run the world.

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Alison Yates '05 Alison moved to Los Angeles in 2011 to pursue more parts in film and television and her most recent roles include “Stand Up and Away! With Brian Regan” on Netflix, “Jane the Virgin” on The CW, and “Mom” on CBS. Since graduating from SSSAS, Alice attended Boston University's School of Theatre where she received a bachelor's of fine arts and majored in acting.

She also trained at The Accademia del'Arte in Arezzo, Italy, and at The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts in London.

Joe Sherman lives in Norfolk, Va., with his wife, Kate, and their son, Harrison. He works as an attorney specializing in eminent domain cases and property rights litigation and spends most of his money restoring a historic house. His wife paints realistic oil artwork and performs commission work for portraits, landscapes, buildings, and family pets.

Joe Stuntz lives in Clarendon with his wife and two children, the second of which arrived this past year. He joined an identity management and cybersecurity startup as a side hustle and also works for two other new businesses, one dealing with a new type of tattoo and the other vintage guitars.

2005 ST. STEPHEN'S AND ST. AGNES Emily Hewitt ebhewitt@gmail.com

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I, Emily Hewitt, am living near Boston with two wonderful roommates enjoying the suburban bliss of backyard beer and barbeques, when it isn't freezing and snowing, that is. Currently, I'm teaching at an all-girls high school north of the city that is only in its third year, so there are 88 | St. Stephen’s and St. Agnes School

Caroline Nuckolls '07 and Lizz Lavie '12 lots of challenges and opportunities!

The Saints highlight of my year was attending Abby Humphrey's beautiful wedding to Charlie Coit at Christ Church in Alexandria in June and seeing so many familiar faces, including Mr. and Mrs. Holden. The celebration was a fun weekend of reminiscing, catching up, and celebrating the newly wedded couple.

I had a chance to catch up with Peter Bakke this fall in Seattle where he is teaching physics, inspiring the next generation of scientists, and taking full advantage of all the outdoorsy opportunities Washington State has to offer.

Over the holidays I was able to spend time with Eleanor Shaw and discuss all things teaching, politics, and weight lifting, of course. Eleanor has become quite the weight lifter and has the muscles to prove it! Eleanor, Mark Helms and his wife Jen, and I were able to visit Justin Hughes and his wife, Laura, and son, Caleb, at the Hughes residence, where Caleb and Justin entertained us with their musical prowess on Caleb's xylophone.

Christmas came early for Brian Scullin and his wife, Shannon, when they welcomed a daughter, Delaney May Scullin, in November. If any Saints find themselves in Phoenix or Scottsdale, Brian says to give them a shout!

Neal Rajan is currently an energy broker and consultant for United Energy Services. He says it has been a windy road to this point, with a pit stop in medical school and a graduate degree in health administration. Both he and the president of the brokerage are confident that he has what it takes to be successful in the field, and Neal

hopes to open his own brokerage in the coming years.

Caroline Rabbitt Tabler is living on Capitol Hill with her husband and working in the Senate as the communications director for U.S. Senator Tom Cotton from Arkansas.

Jennifer Aronica graduated from Georgetown University School of Medicine in 2015 and is currently in her final year of a dermatology residency at George Washington University.

Alison Yates has been busy on and off screen in Los Angeles. You can catch her most recent roles on “Stand Up and Away! With Brian Regan” on Netflix, “Jane the Virgin” on The CW, and “Mom” on CBS. Alison also frequently performs at The Second City and Groundlings. When she's not on screen or on stage she runs a social

Alysia Harris '06 In February Alysia spent a week at SSSAS as the Poet-in-Residence during our 28th Poetry Week for the sophomore class. A dynamic, natural teacher, Alysia engaged the sophomores in exercises that challenged them to think differently, take a new perspective, improve their writing skills, and express their creative voices in poetic form. (To learn more about Alysia and Poetry Week, read the article by Chumani Chamberlain '19 on p. 26)

Kelsey Reeder '10 Kelsey returned to SSSAS in February to speak at the Upper School Academic Convocation.

Before Convocation she visited with students taking AP Psychology to share her career path and experiences as a social worker living in New York City, where she works at Harlem Children Zone's Promise Academy Charter School during the day and provides psychotherapy to adult patients in the evening.

Kelsey graduated from Fordham University with a degree in sociology and social work and then earned her master's in social work at Columbia University. (Read more on p. 36.)

2009 Saints at CAPS game: Alex Propp '09, Connor Ortman '14, Andrew Propp '06, Bennet Habliston '13, Sarah Ortman Sams '09, Chazzo Habliston '09 media management business, as well as a premium skin care business.

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2010 ST. STEPHEN'S AND ST. AGNES Ally Shaw atsshaw10@gmail.com

Annie Culvahouse Teague aculvahouse@gmail.com

Chip Phillips cphillips@sssas.org

In November Abigail Holden Ryan moved to Geneva, Switzerland, where she will continue to expand her contemporary art gallery, while the flagship location remains in Boston, Mass.

Chip Phillips is the associate athletic director at SSSAS, teaching English, and coaching football and lacrosse. He is currently finishing a master's degree at Georgetown University.

Stephen Upton recently moved to Denver, Colo., enjoying life in the Rocky Mountains with his fiancee while getting ready for his wedding in April.

Polly Carbonell recently moved to London, England for work. She loves being across the pond, close to her English family.

Connor Wiseman, John Quarles, and Garrett Williams are living in Los Angeles, Calif. While working they are also apart of a band called Blue Silk, check them out on Spotify!

Cooper Godfrey recently enrolled in the Harvard Law School.

Jack Hamilton is living on the West Coast in Eugene, Ore., working for Nike Golf.

2011 ST. STEPHEN'S AND ST. AGNES Mathias Heller mfitzheller@gmail.com

Meredith Bentsen meredithbentsen@gmail.com Ryan Brackett is finishing a creative writing major at Carnegie Mellon University, while working on screenwriting with Scriptsburgh. He is www.sssas.org | 89

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SaintsLink Spotlight: Brett Williams '13 Radio voice of Western Kentucky University Women's basketball for the Hilltopper IMG Sports Network and freelance play-by-play commentator for the Big South Network on ESPN+

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Based on my experience, the better the off-air chemistry between a play-by-play commentator and an analyst, the stronger their on-air pairing has the potential to be. Stylistically, it may not always turn out to be a great match, but I believe a strong working relationship with one's broadcast partner is the first step toward complementing each other well on air.

Thus, it's hard to say with which well-known analyst I would work well. That said, I greatly respect the work of Kirk Herbstreit, Eddie Olczyk, Jay Bilas, and F.P. Santangelo, just to name a few. I would also love to see Drew Brees get into broadcasting when his NFL career concludes; his humility and eloquence would lend themselves well to color commentary.

Q: Do you have any signature phrases you like to say?

Q: Who are your sportscaster “heroes?”

A:

Having watched Monday Night Football and Sunday Night Football since as far back as I can remember, I've always admired Al Michaels. He puts the viewer at ease throughout the flow of the game with a seemingly effortless delivery, and he describes the action artfully and sheds light on compelling storylines. Perhaps his best attribute, in my opinion, is his ability to consistently provide the perfect punctuation to big moments (e.g., “Do you believe in miracles?”, “He did what?”). I also draw a lot of inspiration from hockey broadcasters—namely Doc Emrick of NBC Sports and the Washington Capitals' play-by-play voices, Joe Beninati and John Walton.

Emrick has a vocabulary and energy I envy, while Beninati's style and cadence have largely shaped my own calls of hockey and lacrosse. Lastly, during the Caps' run to the Stanley Cup last year, Walton displayed mastery of what I believe to be the primary objective of the voice of any team—closely understanding and relating emotionally to your fans as you bring them along for the journey of a season.

Q: If you could have one partner in your announcer booth, who would it be?

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A: I haven't developed any great catchphrases

since “It's always a great day to be a Saint!” Seriously, though, it's mostly little things. When re-introducing myself, I'll say something like, “Brett Williams here with you; thanks for being with me.” Or as the top of the fifth inning in baseball concludes, I'll say “We're halfway home in [whatever city we're in].” My home run call is: “It's going back, way back, and not coming back!”

Q: What do you love most about being a part of the SSSAS community?

A:

There's something truly special about being a Saint. Everyone—students, faculty, and staff—is so united behind and invested in the school's mission, which as a result is furthered with purpose and sincerity every day. From the first day I set foot on campus, I not only felt welcomed with open arms, but also encouraged to discover my passions and pursue my best self. I am so blessed to have learned from my SSSAS teachers, coaches, and peers, and I treasure the relationships we forged to this day. My goal is to hold firm to the values instilled in me during those pivotal four years and represent the Saints in the best possible way in everything I do.

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also bringing freestyle rap to the school and local community.

David Budway is in the final year of his master's at University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. He plans on staying Down Under after graduation to work as a registered nurse.

Lauren Caccamo started her own media business in Morgantown, W. Va., specializing in commercial photography and wedding videography.

Sam Teague is living with fellow 2011 Saint Chris Forsgren in Ballston and working as a policy analyst at BGR Group.

Jack Tokarz has found a respite from his nomadic tendencies and has created a comfy nest in Austin to settle into.

The twigs of the metaphorical nest are the plethora of engaging activities he pursues such as software development, board game design, improv comedy, rock climbing, and yoga.

2012 ST. STEPHEN'S AND ST. AGNES Michele Phillips michelephillips@sssas.org

I am enjoying my second year in the Advancement Office at SSSAS, but will move back to Denver this summer. I went to as many Notre Dame football games as I could this fall, but the highlight was watching the Irish beat Michigan to kick off the season.

Paige Patterson is living with Brent Armstrong in Arlington, Va., and working alongside her mom and sister at TTR Sotheby's International Realty as a Real Estate Agent.

After finishing her master's in public health at Boston University in 2017, Maya Haynes remained in Boston working for the Boston Public Health Commission. She helps manage a $14 mil grant dedicated to HIV/AIDS services across Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Maya became trained as a birth doula, racial justice facilitator, and sexual health educator. She hopes to return to the D.C. area soon, she misses her family and pet bearded dragon.

Ryon Huddleston graduated from Wake Forest University in 2016 with a bachelor's degree in economics and a minor in statistics and global commerce. After having the opportunity to help scale a tiny startup in the heart of Palo Alto during his junior year, Ryon fell in love with the West Coast and is enjoying the beautiful

The Bloom brothers, Alex '11 and Jameson '13, in Iceland (and pricey!) Silicon Valley lifestyle, hiking, swimming, and snowboarding all over the Bay Area. Only four blocks from the Golden Gate Bridge, Ryon works remotely as an enterprise sales representative for a WAN-edge infrastructure startup called Aryaka. If he's not selling WAN infrastructure to global companies, he's skiing in Lake Tahoe, playing soccer and working on getting his CISA/CISSP certifications.

Jasmine Armstrong graduated from Syracuse University in 2016 with a bachelor of fine arts in video art and a minor in marketing. She's produced several short films, television events, and gallery showings. She continues to pursue her interest in video production as she begins her new job as a production technician at MIRROR. In her free time she runs her small business selling handmade, fairly sourced personal care products.

moved back to Washington, D.C., to work in the healthcare practice of the public affairs firm, Weber Shandwick.

In her spare time, Mollie coaches a sixth grade STARS lacrosse team with former SSSAS teammates, Margaret Tucker Fogarty '13 and Michele Phillips '12, and had the privilege of speaking to the SSSAS fall sports captains during the captains' luncheon at Mrs. Adams home.

Claire Malkie graduated from Hofstra University in 2017 with a bachelor of fine arts in classical acting with minors in English and musical theatre. After graduation Claire moved

to Chicago where she acts professionally and takes classes at Second City. Her improv group, Agent Carol, performs all around the Chicagoland area. When she isn't pursuing her creative endeavors she works at SoulCycle and absolutely loves exploring the Windy City.

Evan Draim is completing his first year at George Mason University's Antonin Scalia Law School while working as a legal and policy specialist for ServiceSource, a non-profit resource provider for veterans and individuals with disabilities. He continues to be active in Virginia Republican politics, serving on the executive board for

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the Young Republican Federation of Virginia. Following graduation from law school, his goal is to work as a military lawyer in the JAG Corps.

Alexis Sargent celebrated one year working as an analyst for Choice Hotels International and then was promoted to project manager on the company's Owner & Portfolio Strategy team.

Outside the office, she has continued to dominate the diamond, this time leading her summer team to a Fairfax Adult Fastpitch Softball League championship. She is also taking time to help raise the next generation of softball greats as a youth pitching coach.

Among the highlights of Alexis' year was helping plan the Class of 2013's 5th Reunion and catching up with her fellow Saints.

Brett Williams continued working for the athletics department at Queens University of Charlotte (N.C.), where he called nearly 100 games across 11 sports, through October 2018. He then landed a new job as the radio voice of Western Kentucky University women's basketball for collegiate broadcasting and marketing giant Learfield IMG College. He has traveled to the likes of Notre Dame, Oklahoma, and even a tournament in Vancouver with the Lady Toppers and is enjoying every minute calling the action of their Conference

U.S.A. title defense. Brett has also continued to give play-by-play for other outlets on a freelance basis, most recently for the Big South Network on ESPN+. He greatly enjoyed reuniting with his classmates—and watching Saints football crush Bishop Ireton—at Homecoming this past fall and looks forward to returning to Alexandria again soon.

Ilkka Kovanen is a proud two-time University of Michigan alumnus, having completed his master's degree in industrial and operations engineering.

He is now back in Northern Virginia working in power markets consulting for ICF. Tyler Williams describes his 2018 and early 2019 as “a very rough road, but also rewarding.” He is especially pleased to have founded two organizations over the last year.

The first, BrotherBlock, provides financial services and specializes in advisory analysis of the cryptocurrency market. The second, called IDEA, is an entrepreneurship mentoring program for at-risk high school students. Tyler welcomes an email from anyone who may be interested in getting involved with IDEA and asks them to send their resume to him.

Natalie Revers '14 The Society of Virginia has named Natalie Revers '14 the new 2019 Cherry Blossom Princess. Natalie graduated from William & Mary in 2018 and now works as a financial analyst for Wells Fargo Commercial Real Estate Group.

She is thrilled to participate in this year's Cherry Blossom program as the representative for Virginia during the National Cherry Blossom Festival. Natalie was crowned at a luncheon March 9 at Washington Golf and Country Club in Arlington.

2014 ST. STEPHEN'S AND ST. AGNES Sarah Shaw sarah.shaw13@gmail.com

Sophie Reardon graduated from Boston College in May. She moved across the Charles River to Somerville and now works at NBC10 Boston and the New England Cable Network as a

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ALUMNI REUNION WEEKEND October 18-19, 2019

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Terence Joseph '15, Emmett Dunn '16, Chip Phillips '10, Annie Dyson '18, Torie Cox '18, Michele Phillips '12 freelancer for the digital team. In the rest of her time, Sophie works as a store communication lead for a Boston-area restaurant group called Clover. She's been enjoying catching up with some of her SSSAS classmates who moved to Boston after college graduation.

She hopes to see everyone at the class reunion this fall!

Kathryn Cavallo graduated in May from Columbia University with a bachelor's degree in neuroscience. She has completed her first semester of medical school at George Washington University in the fall and absolutely loves it! She misses lacrosse, but still stays involved as a coach for the Capital Lacrosse Club.

Will Rainey graduated from the University of Virginia in May with a degree in systems engineering. After his graduation, Will was commissioned as an officer in the U.S. Navy. In July, Will reported to Naval Air Station Pensacola to start naval flight school and has been working hard ever since. We are so proud of Will and are so grateful for his service!

Camille Jones is spending her spring 2019 semester at the Benito Juárez Autonomous University of Oaxaca in Mexico, taking a full Spanish course load and teaching English. She will graduate from Morgan State in the fall of 2019 with a major in applied liberal arts (Spanish) and a minor in Latin American and Caribbean studies. She has also been inducted into the Foreign

Language Honor Society and the Spanish National Honor Society, and is the acting Morgan Chapter president of the latter. She plans to start her dream career as a Spanish teacher in the fall of 2020.

Natalie Hellmann graduated in May from Rollins College with a B.A. in Business Management and has taken a job as an associate with a commercial real estate development firm in Winter Park, Fla. She discovered a passion for scuba diving and has traveled to the Dominican Republic, Grand Cayman Islands, and a few Florida springs, with plans to dive in the Florida Keys and Turks & Caicos in early 2019! Aside from her scuba adventures, Natalie also traveled to Barcelona and Florence over the summer, and visited fellow SSSAS alumni for “SantaCon” while in N.Y.C. for business. In 2019, she plans to find the right graduate school and explore job opportunities in the D.C. area.

Anii Chams-Eddine finished her final year at William & Mary in May with a major in international relations and a minor in French & Francophone studies. Before joining the real world, she spent the summer traveling around Europe and working on a paper with her capstone adviser. In the fall Anii began work at a D.C.-based consulting firm. It's been an exciting year and she is looking forward to what 2019 has to hold!

2016 ST. STEPHEN'S AND ST. AGNES Sarah Lowe sarahelowe20@gmail.com

Nicki Gray is enjoying her third year at Georgetown University after spending her summer in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she took classes in immunology and virology and focused her laboratory research on pediatric respiratory infections. After two years of volunteering as an EMT, she has also become a certified CPR and EMT instructor and enjoys the challenge of teaching aspiring medical providers from diverse backgrounds. Nicki's greatest accomplishment of 2018 was being awarded The Congressional Award Gold Medal which is Congress' highest award for young people and celebrates exemplary volunteer service and personal development. She is so excited to see what the future holds!

Haley Hassell spent her fall semester studying abroad in Copenhagen,

Denmark! She studied clinical psychology and took a lot of interesting classes that she would have never had the opportunity to take at Hamilton College. It was so valuable for her to learn about psychotherapy from a European perspective, especially since Denmark is one of the happiest countries in the world. She couldn't wait to bring what she learned back to her American classes!

Kennedy Gayle is a junior at the University of Delaware. She spent

Nicki Gray '16 In 2018 Nicki was awarded The Congressional Award Gold Medal, which is Congress' highest award for young people celebrating exemplary volunteer service and personal development. Nicki's service activities highlighted in the award night program include: more than 750 hours feeding and clothing the homeless, volunteering at my local hospital, and working with children with disabilities; becoming a CPR instructor; and earning an EMT license and continuing to volunteer with Georgetown Emergency Response Medical Service (GERMS).

Her interest in global health inspired a 12-day expedition to India, which dramatically expanded her understanding of worldwide medical and environmental needs and the logistic and economic impacts of delivering care and resources. Nicki is currently a junior at Georgetown University majoring in health care management with a minor in disability studies. She has been an emergency medical technician at Georgetown Emergency Response Medical Service since May of 2017. www.sssas.org | 93

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Katie Connor '16

Kennedy Gayle '16

Haley Hassell '16 (right) and college friend Skyler Simpson

a semester studying abroad in London, England, studying mass communications and international advertising, where she received an award for her outstanding academic achievement. While in London, Kennedy was elected to represent African American students on a diversity panel and was also able to travel throughout Europe and had the opportunity to immerse herself in many different cultures.

From January 2018 to April 2018, Katie Connor studied abroad in Florence, Italy, through the Semester in Florence program at JMU. She had a great time studying Italian language, Italian cuisine, literature, and of course, Renaissance art history. She also visited

cities such as Naples, Venice, Basel, Nice, and Belfast. Over the summer, she interned at the Fred W. Smith National Library at Mount Vernon Mansion. At JMU, she currently studies English, art history, and French.

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2017 ST. STEPHEN'S AND ST. AGNES Adele Reardon amr6a@virginia.edu

Sterling Gilliam III sterlinggilliam03@gmail.com Adele Reardon is having a great year in Charlottesville at the University of Virginia. She is continuing to study French and is considering studying

political science as well. This past summer Adele had an internship in Berlin, Germany, and wants to study abroad again next year. As a class correspondent, she looks forward to keeping in touch with the class of 2017 this year and in the future!

Calli Doulis is enjoying her second year at James Madison University. She is continuing to study early inclusive childhood education and is looking forward to learning about special education. With each passing day she becomes more passionate about her major and is gaining an overwhelming excitement for her future career as an early childhood educator. She also enjoys active involvement in her sorority, Phi Sigma Sigma. As a founder at James Madison University, being able to be a part of an organization that is just beginning to grow is an incredible opportunity. She looks forward to being part of Phi Sigma Sigma's sunshine committee and spreading positivity throughout her chapter and general community on campus.

Arwen Lewis-Anthony is loving the University of Sussex in Brighton, England, where she is studying American studies and history. She is looking forward to returning to the U.S. for a study year abroad at University of Colorado Boulder next academic year!

She enjoys going out with her friends in Brighton, working for Deliveroo (a U.K. food delivery service) as a student ambassador giving out free food to her friends, and enjoying the beautiful British sunsets on the beach.

Caroline Armstrong is continuing to study business with a major in marketing at Virginia Tech. She enjoys her sorority and practicing yoga.

Anne Macon Edwards is loving her first year at the University of Virginia.

Her parents love coming down for football games and tailgates. Although she isn't sure yet what she will study, she loves meeting new people and staying in touch with her SSSAS friends.

Olivia Gilliam is in her second year as a Bulldog at the University of Georgia. She has declared majors in geography and anthropology and a minor in biology. This May she will be traveling to Tanzania to study and do field work, as well as hike Mt. Kilimanjaro before she returns home.

Sterling Gilliam is enjoying his sophomore year at Vanderbilt. He has declared as a chemistry major in addition to minors in history and

political science. He greatly enjoyed seeing friends from the class of 2017 over winter break.

Jo Herget is loving her second year at UVA. She continues to enjoy taking art history classes and works at the Fralin Museum in Charlottesville. She loves spending time with her niece, Bennett, and staying busy with her sorority.

Wynne Whitley is pleased to be a sophomore on the Georgetown University lacrosse team. Since she isn't too far away from home, she enjoys visiting family and friends in Alexandria. Wynne is studying psychology and when she isn't too busy with school work or the lacrosse team, she loves relaxing with friends and cheering on fellow athletes at sporting events. Hoya Saxa!

Mollie Miller can't believe how fast her time at Georgetown is flying by. She

absolutely loves playing lacrosse and spending time with her teammates, including fellow SSSAS alumna Wynne Whitley. Off the field, Mollie is enjoying studying marketing and FaceTiming her fifth grade sister, Slye!

2018 ST. STEPHEN'S AND ST. AGNES Charlotte Fontham cfontham@gmail.com Lindsey Ellison m221914@usna.edu Hollis Bluestein, who is attending Elon University in North Carolina, is extremely excited about his recent purchase of a dirt bike.

At the beginning of the school year, Jadyn Chandler's track and field team at Mercer had dinner with the university's president to celebrate the

new term. The team has been working hard towards their goal of placing in a lot of different events at the Southern Conference Championship in April. She and her roommates have also done some community service work, helping clean and reorganize the Ronald McDonald House in Macon, Ga. Christian Corpening has greatly enjoyed exploring theatre as a field in NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, both in his regular studio classes and through his backstage work on productions. He has discovered a passion for teaching, so he spent some time over the winter break student-teaching with Ms. Jagodowski at the SSSAS Middle School.

His experiences this semester have helped him grow as an artist and, more importantly, as a person, and he can't wait for more!

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Manhattan at NYU and looks forward to studying anthropology and art history in Florence, Italy this summer!

With one semester of “plebe” year under her belt at the U.S. Naval Academy, Lindsey Ellison has gained a new perspective on life and long-time friendships. Although it has been tough to balance lacrosse, academics, military obligations, and plebe duties, she has realized that it's the people in her company and on her lacrosse team who are going to get her through the long days. In the upcoming second semester, Lindsey is looking forward to lacrosse, choosing her major, and climbing the Herndon Monument (plebes no more!).

Through both the good times and the tough times, Lindsey has loved her first semester.

Balancing a full schedule of college classes, military obligations, and simply life as a “plebe” has tested Jacob Foster in ways he only could have imagined, but the U.S. Naval Academy has definitely lived up to its reputation. He feels that through his struggle and pain he has gained a sense of accomplishment only attainable through such intense adversities, as wellas a greater appreciation for the men and women who have served our great nation. Jacob is proud to wear the Navy colors, and has no doubt that the Naval Academy will prepare him well for his future career as an officer.

Taylor Henriksen finished her first season of UVA field hockey in November, and the team made it to the NCAA Sweet 16. She also joined the Epsilon chapter of the Pi Beta Phi sorority in January. Taylor has been involved in volunteer tutoring and an athlete mentorship program. Right now she is deciding between a commerce or psychology major. Taylor loves UVA and can't wait to spend another three years at the university.

In Elliot Karsten's first semesteat Pitzer College, he took classes in fields that he has never studied before, including a music theory course and film photography class that included working in a darkroom. He was elected to Student Senate, a group that debates campus policy, including a recent resolution over suspending the Pitzer study abroad program in Israel. He has also taken advantage of the beautiful Cali weather, studying by the pool, hiking with his friends, and taking trips to downtown Los Angeles and the beach!

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Rainier Lee loves being on the lacrosse team at Providence College. It has been a super rewarding experience, and he has developed great bonds with his teammates. Being on the team and wearing his lacrosse jacket aroundcampus has been a cool feeling and a great conversation starter. Fall ball was filled with hard work and early wakeups, but Rainier thinks it has instilled discipline within him.

Something he didn't expect was how much he has enjoyed being in the weight room. Rainier thinks Coach Johnson does a fantastic job of preparing the SSSAS student athletes for their collegiate careers, so he wants to give a big thanks to Coach Johnson!

Thomas Majure is enjoying his time in Ann Arbor at the University of Michigan.

He has found plenty of things to do on campus besides just going to class, keeping busy going to the Big House to watch the football games, walking in the Walk to End Alzheimer's, meeting patients at the Mott's Children's Hospital, and playing for the U of M rugby team.

While suffering an injury during an Ohio State rugby game, Thomas experienced a compassionate side of the U of M community that he didn't think was possible at a school so large.

Tessa Moore's first semester at the American University of Paris was an exciting one! Going to school at the heart of one of the cultural and artistic centers of the world made for a unique and fulfilling experience. She especially enjoyed her art history class, which took place in a different world-renowned museum each session. Although Paris had so much to offer to Tessa, she also benefited from the exciting travel opportunities of other nearby cultural centers, such as Dublin, Geneva, and London.

Grayson Offutt is playing lacrosse at UVA on a very close-knit team that quickly welcomed her into the family.

Their relationships formed as much on the field as off. They get through the tough practices together and push each other to be the best they can be.

Grayson is looking forward to her future at UVA and on the lacrosse team.

It took some time for Marta Rich to adjust to the U.K. education system at St. Andrew's in Scotland, but she loves that it allows her to focus on her degree in English and modern history. Not only has she immersed herself in Scottish culture, but she has also been able to

meet many different people from all around the world. She is playing in the symphony orchestra, through which she has met students ranging from 1st years to post-grad. Marta is especially happy that she got to visit Tessa Moore in Paris in place of returning home for Thanksgiving.

Audrey Shaw's transition to UVA was strange at first, since she did not know many people, but joining the a cappella group, Hoos in Treble (HIT), helped her find her place and start creating meaningful relationships. HIT has made her more confident and willing to put herself out there. It even pushed her to decide to go through sorority rush and pledge the Beta Alpha chapter of Kappa Delta!

Will Stiers has had the privilege of meeting inspiring and hospitable people at the University of Alabama, while also making an impact on the community around him. He joined the Iota Iota chapter of the Sigma Chi fraternity and was chosen to be their chapter editor.

Will was also selected to be a member of the Lobby Board for Alabama's Student Government Association.

He is a member of Young America's Foundation, a conservative politics organization on campus, through which he has been able to attend a conference in Washington, D.C. and is planning to attend the Conservative Political Action Conference in February.

After a semester at Denison University, Maya Tumiwa can't imagine being anywhere else. Her first season on the field hockey team was amazing. They went undefeated in their conference and went on to win the NCAC tournament. Luckily, she is playing with SSSAS teammate AC Veith, who first taught her about the sport. Playing at college has been an adjustment for Maya, but her coach has helped her hone her skills and explained some new rules. It's been a great experience overall, and she can't wait to meet more people during her time at Denison.

AC Veith's first semester at Denison University was a blast academically, socially, and athletically. Though she thought it would be difficult to make friends after being at SSSAS for so long, it was actually easy because SSSAS prepared her so well to communicate with her peers. AC knows that she couldn't have made a better choice.

Being a Saint is meaningful to so many people in so many different ways.

Saints Teachers Beth Barrow and Joe Lindsay '12 support The Saints Fund because teaching Saints is what matters most to them.

Dave Cogar '87 and his daughter Mackenzie '19 support The Saints Fund because no matter where life takes them, the Saints community will always be their home team.

Saints Grandparents Bill and Carol Gross support The Saints Fund because when they visit, they witness firsthand how a Saints education is helping their granddaughter become ready.

Make your gift to The Saints Fund today and tell us what matters most to you about being a Saint.

The time is now! Make your gift to the 2018-2019 Saints Fund before the June 30 deadline! sssas.org/give For more information about additional ways to give to The Saints Fund contact Nicole Morrell, Director of Annual Giving, at 703-212-2715 or nmorrell@sssas.org. www.sssas.org | 97

ALUMNI CONNECTIONS

Atlanta Reception at White Oak Kitchen, November 7, 2018

George Andrews '82, Sarah McAfee '12, Associate Head of School Bob Weiman, Nancy Thompson '77, Mac MacDonald '12, Kathleen Miller O'Gara '03, Greg Meushaw '03, Wade Morris, Montez Anderson '93

Kathleen Miller O'Gara '03, Head of School Kirsten Adams, Greg Meushaw '03

Philadelphia Reception at the Estia Restaurant, January 28, 2019

Montez Anderson '93, Director of Annual Giving Nicole Morrell, Anna Bechtel '96

Guest Sara Shick, Anna Bechtel '96, Ted Mollegen '55

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Andy Sidle '78, Avery Boling Bissell '78, Francesca Seeger Dalglish '77, Coleman Switkay '70

Mary Switkay, Coleman Switkay '70

Martha Niepold Johnson '60 and Montez Anderson '93

Washington, D.C. Reception at the Sulgrave Club, February 19, 2019

Max Shapero '13, Head of School Kirsten Adams, Chief Advancement Officer Rachel Jarvis, Lizzie Beane '13

Mac Routh '08, Robbie Hyatt '10

Judd O'Brien '01 and Milen Zerabruk '01

Caroline Hamil '12, Max Shapero '13, Tori Miller '12, Chase Whitley '13, Lizzie Beane '13

Catie Meyer '86, Sean Cassidy, Sharon Dewey Cassidy '88

Jones Veith '14 and Julie Conley '79

Alysia Harris '06, Karen Washington Franklin '73

Evan Draim '13 (far lef) and Alexis Sargent '13 (far right) with guests.

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MILESTONES

Chris Hansen and Megan Cummings '03

Libby Lenneman and Aedan Comey '04

Julia Reeder '03 and Antonio Campos García

Alice Zimmerman '04 and Alexander David Evans

MIDDLE AISLE Megan Cummings '03 and Chris Hansen, December 31, 2018 Julia Reeder '03 and Antonio Campos García, December 31, 2018 Aedan Comey '04 and Libby Lenneman, June 16, 2018

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Erin O'Connell '10 and Patrick Kelly

Alice Zimmerman '04 and Alexander David Evans, September 14, 2018 Greg Perkins '07 and Addison Miller, October 20, 2018 Daniela Chinsammy '09 and Peter Lee, October 27, 2018 Sarah Walinsky '08 and Seth Peritz, November 10, 2018 Erin O'Connell '10 and Patrick Kelly, January 19, 2019

James Barber Beitler

Mariela Giugale

Leo Donohoe Regan

Andrew Charles Miller

Elsie Fauth Remeika

Giavanna Lucile Wiltshire

Leonardo Ferdinando Romano

Ella Rose Wenger

NEW ADDITIONS Alumni Courtney Jewell Beveridge '87 and Brian, a son, Reed Fitzgerald Beveridge, November 23, 2018 Jason Yoo '96 and Heather, a girl, Hayden Sophia Yoo, October 27, 2018.

Emily Nuckolls Polk '02 and Jonathan, a daughter, Agnes Catherine Polk, December 29, 2018 Brian Wood '03 and Emily, a son, Barrett Paul Wood, May 14, 2018 Kyle Barber '03 and Ben Beitler, a son, James Barber Beitler, December 31, 2018 Kathleen Miller O'Gara '03 and Grady, a boy, Miller Fleetwood O'Gara, February 19, 2019 Juan Giugale '04 and Lauren, a daughter, Mariela Giugale, October 15, 2018

Meaghan Donohoe Regan '04 and Patrick, a son, Leo Donohoe Regan, December, 2018 Rachel Rodriguez '04 and Chris, a daughter, Isabel Anne Rodriguez, January 28, 2019 Chris Miller '05 (former faculty) and Sarah, a boy, Andrew Charles Miller, January 29, 2019 Kate Fauth Remeika '06 and Owen, a daughter, Elsie Fauth Remeika, November 30, 2018 Sarah Fort Wiltshire '09 and Christopher, a daughter, Giavanna Lucile Wiltshire, December 3, 2018

Faculty & Staff Michelangelo Romano (Upper School physics teacher) and Patty, a son, Leonardo Ferdinando Romano, January 17, 2019 Joe Wenger (Upper School English department chair and teacher) and Hartley, a daughter, Ella Rose Wenger, January 21, 2019

Sean Ganley '04 and Elizabeth, a son, Ronan Patrick Ganley, November 12, 2018 www.sssas.org | 101

IN MEMORIAM

Alumni

Eufrasia Federici Billie

Charles Pflugrath

William “Bill” Rapoport '61 April 2, 2018

grandmother of Elizabeth Bellino '94 and Caroline Bellino Marvel '99 September 10, 2018

Alfred Earle Zimermann '69

Linda Tolbert Tarnay

sister of Mary Tolbert Matheny '63 November 6, 2018

Thelma Yeonas

brother of Rick Zimermann '66 April 17, 2015

Amelie Hains Scheltema '46

Tanja Quinn

June 11, 2015

Mary De France Round '46 November 1, 2016

Dorothy “Dottie” Cole Hooff '48 sister of Marcia Cole Doelman '52, grandmother of Louise Hooff Clarkson '98 and Alec Hooff '02 October 28, 2018.

Bernice Ann Wilson Munsey '52

(former Alumni Association board member) November 23, 2018.

daughter of Bill Quinn (former faculty) November 17, 2018

Frank VanDevelder

father of David VanDevelder '85 November 18, 2018

Ernest L. Ruffner

husband of Caroline Pierce Ruffner '53, step-father of Stacy Holleder Jones '76, Mary “Katie” Holleder Fellows '78, Susie Holleder Connors '80, and Caroline Holleder '84 November 20, 2018

husband of Beverly Edwards Pflugrath '59 December 23, 2018

mother of Steve Yeonas '75 and Stephanie Yeonas Ellis '72 January 12, 2018

Brian Cowan

father of Anna '24 and Luke '20 Cowan January 14, 2019

Stephen Miller

father of Angela Miller '89 January 23, 2019

Robert W. Milner, Sr.

grandfather of Noah Milner '29 January 24, 2019

Cathleen A. Mallaney

Barbara Brooks Wallace

Jane Gray Redmond '64 November 26, 2018

mother of James Wallace '74 November 27, 2018

grandmother of Chip '10 (associate athletic director), Michele '12 (advancement officer), Timmy '14, and Erin Phillips '18 February 7, 2019

Family, Faculty, and Staff

Edward P. Owens, Jr.

Frances Payne Bouknight Tyler

Edward “Ed” T. Britton III

father of Dan '85, Dave '83, and Steve Britton '81 May 2, 2008

Dennis G. Lyons

father of Andy Lyons '79 (former Alumni Association board member) March 2, 2017

Gudrun Parker

wife of Bill Parker '64 September 10, 2017

Jeff Yates, Sr.

parent of Jeff Yates, Jr. '03 and Jessica Yates '10 February 22, 2018

Suzzon O. Jackson

mother of Michele '91 and Lisa '94 Zugschwerdt June 17, 2018

Kathryn Forde-Cosby wife of Taylor Cosby '61 August 20, 2018

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grandfather of Caroline Molnar '27 November 27, 2018

Ira John “IJ” Gorman (former coach) November 29, 2018

George H. W. Bush

father of Marvin Bush, grandfather of Walker Bush '08 and Marshall Bush Rossi '04 November 30, 2018

Audrey Reed

grandmother of Lucy Kromer '19 December 1, 2018

Dennis Scully

grandfather of Declan Lynn '26 December 12, 2018

Eva Molnar

mother of David Molnar '87 and grandmother of Caroline Molnar '27 December 16, 2018

Fitz William McMaster Woodrow, Jr.

father of Fitz W. M. Woodrow III '85 December 22, 2018

mother-in-law of Cathy Smith Tyler '80 (former Board of Governors member), grandmother of Chris '21, Harrison '13, and Rice Tyler '15 February 8, 2019

Janice Muriel Connally

(former faculty) mother of John '76 and Mary '76 Connally February 9, 2019

Melissa Jacobsen

wife of Jake Jacobsen (former physical education teacher and coach) and mother of Doc '11 and Ally '18 Jacobsen February 18, 2019

FROM THE ARCHIVES

Willis Wills showing plot and plans for new St. Stephen's School campus to Kendon Stubbs '57, Danny Newton '58, Alan Stubbs '59, Billy O'Keefe '58, Edmond Stubbs '61, and Bunny Bryant '61.

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