Lovett Magazine, Spring 2015

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the lovett school magazine for alumni, parents, and friends spring 2015 volume 33, number 1

Feature 4 CampusNews 10 A view of Hermi’s Bridge as seen from the Lovett campus

ClassNews 36 Lovett is published by the Advancement Office twice a year and is mailed free of charge to alumni, parents, and friends of The Lovett School. For more information or to submit news, call (404) 262-3032, ext. 1208; e-mail alumni@lovett.org; or visit <www.lovett.org>. ©2015 The Lovett School, 4075 Paces Ferry Road, n.w., Atlanta, Georgia 30327-3009.

William S. Peebles iv Headmaster Andrew C. Spencer Chief Advancement Officer

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Kimberly S. Blass Director of Strategic Communications

The Lovett School admits students of any race, color, gender, religion, sexual orientation, and national or ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. The Lovett School does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, religion, sexual orientation, and national or ethnic origin in administration of its educational policies, employment practices, admission policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic or other school-administered programs.

This publication is printed by an fsc-certified printer on paper that is 30 percent post-consumer waste and 50 percent recycled, processed chlorine free.

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Jennifer Z. Boomer Communications Specialist

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Lara Kauffman Director of Alumni Programs

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Ginny Evans Communications Specialist Starr Pollock Assistant Director of Alumni Programs Jennifer Sarginson Associate Director of Communications

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Nancy Black, Kathleen Bryant, Cynthia Coleman, Farhan Hoodbhoy ’15, Debbie Lange, Bryn McCarthy ’15, Perry McIntyre ’71, Karey Walter

On the cover: Morning carpool as the sun rises over the Lower School

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The Lovett School Mission

The Lovett School is a community that seeks to develop young men and

women of honor, faith, and wisdom with the character and intellect to thrive in college and in life.

Founded in 1926 by Eva Edwards Lovett, we continue today as an Atlanta independent school serving children in Kindergarten through Grade 12. With an emphasis on the whole child, we provide integrated experiences in academics, arts, athletics, and service through an education grounded in learning, character, and community.

Learning Lovett faculty and staff inspire our students to love learning. We help them discover how to think critically, communicate effectively, engage creatively, and collaborate purposefully. We create opportunities for them to grow in all dimensions—intellectual, emotional, physical, aesthetic, moral, and spiritual.

Character Lovett teaches the qualities of servant leadership and sound character—honesty, respect, responsibility, compassion, courage, and integrity. We celebrate the uniqueness of each individual within an intentionally inclusive, diverse, and welcoming environment. We honor God in an atmosphere that is rooted in Judeo-Christian beliefs and is further enriched by a variety of religious traditions.

Community Lovett is a dedicated community of students and teachers, joined by loyal parents, staff, alumni, trustees, and friends. We are committed—with shared purposes and principles—to improving our school, our city, our society, our environment, and our world. approved by the lovett school board of trustees, february 2012

The Lovett School Character Pledge

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We, who are members of the Lovett community, seek to live lives of good

character. We believe that good character grows from daily acts of honesty, respect, responsibility, and compassion. We pledge ourselves to develop these ideals with courage and integrity, striving to do what is right at all times.

A Message from the Headmaster

Earlier in my career, I had the privilege of serving as the director of admission and financial aid at a small boarding and day school in Virginia. I found that work to be both enormously rewarding and challenging. Because of that early opportunity in admissions, I have always had the utmost respect for the professionals overseeing this incredibly important and increasingly complex responsibility.

For 14 years, we have been blessed to have Debbie Lange as Lovett’s Director of Admission and Financial Aid. Having had a career spanning 32 years as a teacher and leader at several schools, she will leave us in June to serve as a consultant to other schools and families, and to devote more time to her wonderful family, which includes three Lovett alumni (husband Rocky ’65, and sons Spencer ’94 and Parker ’97) and her five grandchildren.

Under Debbie’s thoughtful and principled leadership, we have bolstered the size of our student body; we have increased dramatically the school’s diversity; and we have strengthened greatly our financial aid budget and program. No one on our campus has been a more fervent spokesperson for living into these responsibilities as called for by our mission: “We celebrate the uniqueness of each individual within an intentionally inclusive, diverse, and welcoming environment. We honor God in an atmosphere that is rooted in Judeo-Christian beliefs and is further enriched by a variety of religious traditions.”

Debbie led and inspired so many efforts to have us reach out to and to serve the Atlanta metropolitan area in all of its breadth and depth.

Great admission directors like Debbie Lange bring to their profession and school an extraordinary combination of gifts as an advisor and counselor to students and their families, as the public face of our school understanding the ever-growing nuances of the education market, as a highly effective leader of a large team of professionals and volunteers, as an astute financial manager with a keen grasp of the significant impact of enrollment planning on the school’s financial footing. She has carried out a challenging array of responsibilities with exemplary skill, grace, and integrity, and an unwavering commitment to our philosophy. Moreover, no one puts in more hours than Debbie Lange serving Lovett.

Thank you, Debbie, for your amazing work in service to our school and our mission of nurturing the whole child.

William S. Peebles iv Headmaster

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The Admission Landscape: A Reflection by debbie lange Director of Admission and Financial Aid Each morning, the sun rises over the hills behind the

Lower School, and each evening the sun sets over the Chattahoochee River.

In between, Lovett shines with life as more than 1,600 students gather to see what the day will bring.

The five-year-olds carrying their “just-right books” will jump from their parents’ cars, while the seniors, sporting plaid and blue-banded white, will emerge from the parking deck moving like they have one foot on Lovett’s sidewalk and the other foot on a college campus.

Joined by every grade in between, they share experiences that will stay with them for 5, 10, and 20 years—and maybe more.

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For five decades this daily ritual has been repeated along Paces Ferry Road (and for four decades before that, in locations across the city). Over the years, the winds coming off the Chattahoochee have brought both change and opportunity. But never did the wind blow us off course; Lovett has used the wind to reach new heights.

Speaking of the wind.

I keep this poem in my desk drawer, as a reminder that as parents and as educators we hold on to the life strings of our children for just a very short time.

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The Chattahoochee River, downstream from Lovett

I see children as kites.

You spend a lifetime trying to get them off the ground.

You run with them until you’re both breathless.

They crash…they hit the rooftop… you patch and comfort, adjust and they’ll fly.

Finally they are airborne.

They need more string and you keep letting out.

But with each twist of the ball of twine there is a sadness that goes with joy.

The kite becomes more distant and you know it won’t be long before the beautiful creature will snap the lifeline that binds you together and will soar as it’s meant to soar, free and alone.

Only then will you know you have done your job.

—Anonymous

The reason for all this reflection? The end of the 2014–15 school year will be my last at Lovett, as I leave to pursue other dreams. After 14 years as the school’s Director of Admission and Financial Aid, now seems like the right time to look back, appreciate, and acknowledge what a privilege this job has been.

Lovett will always be tied to the people most precious to me: my husband, Rocky ’65, and our sons, Spencer ’94 and Parker ’97. Their time at Lovett bestowed many gifts to them. But, these past 14 years have been my time at Lovett.

The Lovett I joined in 2001 and the Lovett I leave in 2015 are different in many ways, but it remains a school in which everyone matters. I tell prospective parents that Lovett will care for your child. As Lower School Counselor Gayle Greenwood says, “We raise them up to be the best they can be.”

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Assessing Today’s Applicants While the “soul” of Lovett has not changed, the educational landscape has certainly progressed over the years to, as founder Eva Edwards Lovett described it, “keep in step with the constant changes occurring in the world around us.”

Maria Madden, the Middle School Dean of Student Life, explains today’s Lovett: “We’re now a 1:1 school, a much more collaborative school, where students do a lot of group projects and interdisciplinary work.”

The problem was that Lovett’s Middle School application process relied on a static writing sample along with one-on-one interviews, transcripts, and test scores.

It was useful information, to be sure, but information that might not accurately predict which students would succeed in such an environment.

With this problem, came an opportunity.

Together, the Middle School Administration and the Admission Office developed a new process. Instead of asking for a real-time writing sample, applicants—in groups of four to five students—work with a teacher to undertake a series of activities. They begin with an icebreaker conversation, in which the teacher poses a question (“If you could go anywhere in the world, where would you go, and why?”) and the teacher models an answer before asking each student to participate.

The groups then build a house of cards; construct a tower of balloons with tape; and navigate through a taped-on-the-floor maze pattern without speaking.

They conclude the group session with a debrief, in which they are asked to reflect on how the group worked together, who demonstrated leadership skills, how they solved problems, and the like.

A rubric is used then to evaluate each student’s performance, organized around five constructs—the supplemental personal attributes the Middle School is looking for in its students. It works, Dean Madden cautions, only because Lovett’s evaluators know students of this age group well, allowing them to be developmentally appropriate in their assessment; especially, she says, with boys.

Word has gotten around about the participatory nature of this process, Madden explains, and now parents and students are enthusiastically arriving for the interview, exclaiming, “we’ve heard this is the most fun

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of all the interviews in town!”

As applicant’s files are considered, the admission committee members are finding the group interview evaluations to be very useful. They help to confirm patterns, or often raise new questions that are useful for discussion about the candidate.

Overall, “the kids have been very responsive, very participatory,” Madden explains. “We’ve been pleasantly surprised. Even the more quiet, reserved students reveal important sides of themselves in this process, which helps us understand them and their thinking better. And parents are telling us that this process really helps to reveal and display the new and true Lovett.”

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The campus is beautiful. Lovett’s bold buildings glisten in the sun and light up the night with a soft glow.

But, anyone who experiences after-hours in these buildings knows they are filled with the soft voices of many preparing for the coming day. The campus never rests.

This bustling campus is much, much more than its buildings. The extraordinary students and adults who fill its halls, classrooms, and offices all strive for the best in their respective roles.

Let me emphatically say that no admission director has all the answers. Your child’s education is not a single path with side rails that prohibits weaving off a predestined course. If anyone ever tells you there is only one route—or one school—to success, I believe they are mistaken.

The advice I can give, especially to those who are just beginning this process, is to not let your emotions or the opinions of others cloud your thinking. Hug your child.

Lovett students enrolling for 2014–15 came from 39 different preschools, 27 different elementary schools, and 10 different middle schools.

Of Lovett’s 896 applicants in 2014–15, 49% applied for financial aid.

Of these, almost 85% qualified for some aid.

What draws all these people to Lovett? I believe most sincerely that it is our soul—the caring and the thoughtfulness that is visible on the faces and in the eyes of both our children and our faculty. There is a genuine love and respect for Mrs. Lovett’s vision that is celebrated each and every day, and that lives on in each of us who are part of this community. As I walk prospective families across campus on tours, I see the school’s soul firsthand. And so do they.

For the last 14 years I have worked with thousands of families. They come with so many questions about our school, and about what makes it unique. But, my experience—both at Lovett and for 16 years before that as a classroom teacher and as an admission director at another independent school—tells me that they are not really looking for information about this, or any other, school.

What they want to know, but can’t possibly ask, is this: what is the right school for my child?

Look at him or her with smiling eyes. And, at the very same time, fortify yourself with self-confidence, assuring yourself and your child that you will do the best that you can.

And we pledge to do the same. Each spring, as I sign the letters of acceptance—and the letters of non-acceptance—and deliver them to the Post Office, I ask myself, did I do the best I could for this child, and for his or her family? Did I keep this child’s interests at the forefront?

Months of applications, testing, interviews, observations, and meetings all come down to that letter, which I personally sign and mail. And with it are my hopes that the value of that child, and the love that a parent has for him, is in no way increased, or diminished, by that letter.

Next year, other sets of eyes will read the admission files, and my signature will be replaced. But the values that our school strives to instill, and the thoughtfulness behind our admission process, will remain the same.

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Over the last nine years working with Steve Brown and the last seven years with Janie Coleman Beck, I am confident that their love of Lovett is steadfast. Steve and Janie are the right people to carry on the torch of our student-centered admission process as they take over the roles of Director of Financial Aid and Institutional Research and Director of Admission, respectively.

For those of you who don’t know Steve and Janie, it will be hard to find them without students around. Through coaching, teaching, chaperoning, and just listening, both of them have made it a point to make Lovett a part of their lives—and that makes the students a part of their lives, too.

The admission process at Lovett is in good hands. I leave knowing in my heart that they will serve Lovett well, and that Lovett will serve Atlanta well for generations to come.

People, and especially alumni, always ask me: What are today’s Lovett students really like? Are they different from when I was a student? And I say yes, and no. Students everywhere are different. In our post 9/11 world, I—and my colleagues at schools around the country—find that today’s students are simply much more connected to and a part of the world than most of us who came of age before 2001 could ever dream of being. Through travel and technology, and curriculum and service, our students are globally centered, and think with a much wider perspective.

Lovett students relish their time on the Riverbank, yet they still yearn to venture from it.

—Debbie Lange

Debbie with one of her grandchildren

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By The Numbers The admission landscape has changed during Debbie Lange’s tenure as Lovett Director of Admission and Financial Aid—with more students, more applicants, more financial aid, and more diversity.

At a glance, a comparison between the first full admission season under Mrs. Lange’s leadership and our current school year:

Applications Legacy Applications Enrollment, Girls Enrollment, Boys Opening Enrollment Students of Color* Students of Color as % of Total Enrollment Attrition Rate Financial Aid Granted Number of Students Receiving Aid

2003–04 716 170 764 754 1,518 178 11.7%

2014–15 896 211 834 839 1,673 350 20.9%

6.09% $1,061,303 130

3.79% $3,147,960 229

*Students identifying themselves—per National Association of Independent Schools categories—as African American, Asian American, East Indian, Hispanic, Middle Eastern, Multiracial, Native American, and Pacific Islander. Not all NAIS categories existed in 2003.

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National Scholars Announced Congratulations to the following seniors who have been recognized by

the National Merit Scholarship Program; the National Achievement Program, an academic competition for Black American high school students; and the National Hispanic Recognition Program, which recognizes outstanding Hispanic/Latino students. All of these students were honored as top scorers in the junioryear PSAT administered in 2013.

National Merit Semifinalists Future engineer Chloe Burns, often spotted with her robot necklace made of recycled materials, came to Lovett from the American School in London in the ninth grade. While her Lovett career has been shorter than most, faculty have quickly recognized her as a “difference maker.”

As a member of the new Gender Equality Club, she is dedicated to creating conversation around the subjects of safety and rape culture awareness. This interest likely stems from her black belt in karate, her involvement with Teens Against Prejudice (TAP), and her fierce belief of inclusion and tolerance.

Her physics teacher describes her as having “extraordinary talent” while having the “ability to grasp abstract concepts, visualize hypothetical systems in two or three dimensions, and perform calculations in a way that is both scientifically logical and mathematically precise.”

Chloe Burns

Sonia Gupta

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Sonia Gupta is not only a dedicated and capable student, but also an active member in a number of clubs and organizations within the Lovett community. Sonia’s involvement includes theater performance, Speech and Debate, the Asian Culture Club, and PRIDE. Perhaps her best-kept secret is her love for sports (specifically her support of the Atlanta Braves and Atlanta Falcons). Additionally, Sonia’s passion for culture and languages combined with her love of mathematics and history led her to an independent study and research opportunity with Emory University community members, Ms. Vadavatha and Dr. Sheth. Ms. Vadavatha shares that “the focus of

the study centered on an original topic to advance her knowledge multi-dimensionally by delving deeper into ‘China: A Nation of Imitators to Innovators.’” Sonia will continue her independent study throughout her senior year. She was recently named Lovett’s STAR student.

James Kolsby

One quick search via the Apple store on your iPhone for Periodic: Chemical Calculator, and you will discover James Kolsby’s name listed as the creator and seller. Bursting with potential, James is a strong student with a range of interests. In his rare bits of free time, you can find him playing guitar with his band, Three for Nothing, crafting a video for his classmates or clients, or brainstorming the launch of his next website.

Faculty members often rave about his work ethic, his inquisitive mind, and his ability to analyze and synthesize information. Says one of his former instructors, “his peers admire him for his creativity and talents, but also for his unmatched humor, friendliness, individuality, imagination, and willingness to go above and beyond with his work.”

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National Achievement Semifinalists Driven to understand how the universe works, Talia Burns is described by her physics professor as “scientifically-minded and humble.” Astrophysics and astronomy are guiding her career aspirations, but her talents stretch beyond her love for science.

Much of her time is spent in rehearsal, as she is a talented member of the orchestra and theatre community. In addition to the fine arts, Talia’s interest in Chinese language and culture landed her the opportunity to showcase her proficiency when she placed second during The Georgia Chinese Language Educator First High School Chinese Culture Knowledge Contest last year.

Madison Hardee has led a stellar math and science trajectory at Lovett, supplemented by her participation in a Siempre Verde summer immersion program. Her classes and experiences have inspired Madison to develop a love of science and the Spanish language. Madison is not just a good student but a collaborative classmate. As a PAL, Madison is fostering the strong sense of community that characterizes Lovett in her assigned freshman advisory. Prior to her involvement with PAL, Madison became a cherished Girls Group mentor. She has been an “agent of positive change” and believes she can help make the world a better place.

Camille Ward is never at a loss for enthusiasm and passion. She possesses a love for film and digital photography, lacrosse, and tutoring, but her involvement with organizations like the French Club, Gender Equality Club, and Teens Against Prejudice (TAP) truly epitomizes her leadership ability.

During her junior year, she joined the fall semester cohort at The School for Ethics and Global Leadership (SEGL) located in Washington, D.C. SEGL was an enriching, meaningful, and transformative experience for Camille.

It led to opportunities including serving as an Ann Power Fellow, which is a partnership between ANN INC (parent company of Ann Taylor and LOFT) and Vital Voices to empower young woman with skills and training to impact their local communities. Her experience as a fellow inspired her to create The Empowerment Project as well as Avenues of Aspiration.

Talia Burns

Madison Hardee

National Hispanic Recognition Program Scholar Not afraid of a good debate, senior class president Bennett Diaz is a respected member of the Lovett community. His teachers praise him for his collaborative spirit and intellectual curiosity. His peers respect him for his positivity and willingness to lend a helping hand. Bennett’s advisor describes him as “a strong leader, capable of seeing things from different perspectives.” Bennett’s involvement includes Speech and Debate, Teens Against Prejudice (TAP), football, and Student Government Association.

In Bennett’s words, he hopes to be remembered as “a well-rounded and multifaceted student and leader.”

Camille Ward

Bennett Diaz

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Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month in the Lower School Last year, Lower School students

Winners The winners of this year’s Hispanic Heritage Month video contest for each age category were: Grades K–1 Sarah Raymer/Christian Young (Ellen Ochoa: former astronaut and current director of the Johnson Space Center) Grades 2–3 Laura Jordan/Beth Tucker (Nancy Lopez: professional golfer) Grades 4–5 Audrey Baugh/ Marianne Dhillon (Arturo Moreno: owner of the Anaheim Angels)

Scan the above QR Code to view the video “I’m So Nancy.”

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were challenged with a 3-D poster contest to honor and celebrate famous Hispanic Americans for Hispanic Heritage Month. Students rose to the occasion; this inquiry-based learning project overflowed into the students’ curriculum and flourished even after the project was over.

“I was so impressed with the creativity and collaboration from each participating class for the Hispanic Heritage Hall of Fame poster contest,” said Spanish teacher Brandi Hoyos. “Throughout the year, I would reference the project— but it was hard to share the project once the posters were taken down.”

So this time, Senora Hoyos wanted the classes to create an end product that could be celebrated at any time and in any place. Her solution? A video competition.

In addition to teaching about the subjects, the videos also taught the teachers a thing or two. “Many teachers expressed gratitude—this project allowed them to reach beyond their comfort zones and inspired them to learn how to incorporate new and emerging technologies into their lessons,” said Senora Hoyos.

Laura Jordan’s 3rd grade class researched former professional golfer Nancy Lopez and made their own video remix of Iggy Azalea’s song “Fancy.” To celebrate the life and golf career of Nancy Lopez, the students changed the words and refrain in the song to “I’m So Nancy.”

Through the power of social media, Nancy Lopez saw the video and planned a surprise visit to Laura Jordan’s class in December. The students performed their version of “I’m So Nancy” live for Mrs. Lopez when she arrived and had the opportunity to interview her during her visit.

Nancy Lopez visited Laura Jordan and Beth Tucker’s third grade class after she watched the video “I’m So Nancy.”

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Pictures with a Past In 2014, photographer Kendra Elise

Adams introduced tintype portrait photography to Karey Walter’s Upper School photography students. In collaboration with the American Studies classes, the students learned about the historic wet plate collodion photographic process as part of the school’s sesquicentennial Civil War celebration.

The cameras are bulky and difficult to maneuver, the chemicals used in the process have to be mixed by hand, and the students have to plan ahead and work quickly—but, despite all these hurdles, this complicated type of photography has captured the interest of Lovett’s upper level photography students. They have been working to master this technique ever since.

“It is really cool because it is really tactile,” said Grace Horlock ’14.

“You pour the chemicals, you expose it, and you develop it—all yourself.

It’s magical.”

Several of the students’ photographs were on display in Lovett’s Galleria from January through March in conjunction with Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery, an exhibition based on the book by Deborah Willis and Barbara Krauthamer, that explores the ways in which black people’s enslavement, emancipation, and freedom were represented, documented, debated, and asserted in photographs from the 1850s through the 1930s.

Students also exhibited some of their tintype work at Pace Academy, which held the Atlanta Celebrates Photography 23rd Annual Georgia Photography Exhibition. Senior Matthew Cartledge won a first place award for his wet plate collodion print titled “Grace.” Liza Conner, Claire Doyle,

James Harrison, and Pierce Miller won exceptional merit awards.

While photographs of earlier conflicts do exist, the American Civil War is considered the first major conflict to be extensively photographed. Not only did intrepid photographers venture onto the fields of battle, but those very images were then widely displayed and sold in large quantities nationwide. Photographers such as Mathew Brady, Alexander Gardner, and Timothy O’Sullivan found enthusiastic audiences for their images as America’s interests were piqued by the shockingly realistic medium. For the first time in history, citizens on the home front could view the actual carnage of far away battlefields. Civil War photographs stripped away much of the Victorian-era romance around warfare.

Student-produced wet plate portraits of Lovett alumnus Jason Fulford ’91, senior Allie Lourie, and senior Pierce Miller.

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Retake a Classic

Pablo Picasso Petrus Manach 1901 Oil on canvas

Inspired by parodies of Grant Wood’s American Gothic and artist Nina

Katchadourian’s “Lavatory Self-Portraits in the Flemish Style” photography series, seventh grade art students recreated classical works of art using photography.

After finding their artwork of choice from the National Gallery of Art’s online collection, teacher Katy McDougal instructed them to recreate the exact image or give it a contemporary twist. Students used themselves, a friend, or a family member as the models and were encouraged to think creatively when using homemade props or everyday items to mimic the image.

Their finished artwork was on display in the Lovett Galleria in November, and some examples are reproduced here.

Jonathan Wolle Mexican Boy 2014 Digital photography

Unknown Mother and Child in White 1790 Oil on canvas

Pietro Rotari A Sleeping Girl 1760–62 Oil on canvas

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Ellie Friedman Futurized Mother and Child in White 2014 Digital photography

Carson Allen Retake Sleeping Girl 2014 Digital photography

Vincent Van Gogh Roulin’s Baby 1888 Oil on canvas

Towner Schunk Retake Roulin’s Baby 2014 Digital photography

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A Grand Finale April 15, 2015

Lions for Life

On the 150th anniversary of the death of President Abraham Lincoln, The Lovett School presents

the final lecture in “The Civil War and the Forging of Character,” a four-year lecture series presented by Lovett to mark the sesquicentennial of the Civil War and the Battle of Atlanta.

Join us on Wednesday, April 15, 2015, from 6:00–8:00 pm in Lovett’s Hendrix-Chenault Theater as noted Civil War historians Ed Ayers, David Blight, Gary Gallagher, and Joan Waugh speak about the individuals they feel were most significant to the war’s outcome and the war’s lessons that still resonate for us today. Gordon Jones, the senior military historian of the Atlanta History Center, will moderate this panel discussion.

Registration is required for this event, and tickets are expected to sell

Want to be a Lovett Lion for life?

Well, if you are the parent of a Lovett alum, you are!

Lovett is pleased to announce a new organization, Lions for Life, designed to help parents of Lovett alumni remain connected to the school and to one another following the graduation of their last Lovett student.

Lions for Life plans to present social and educational events, share news and information about Lovett programs and initiatives, and encour-

out. Overflow seating will be available in the Alston Memorial Chapel.

More information is at <www.lovett. org/civilwar>.

“The Civil War and the Forging of Character” was created to bring to Lovett speakers and scholars who can engage all of us—students, faculty, parents, alumni, and the community at large—on critical matters of character and integrity as demonstrated during this defining period in our nation’s history.

“The Civil War and the Forging of Character” is made possible by The Jack and Anne Glenn Character Education Speakers Fund, through the generosity of the Jack and Anne Glenn Charitable Foundation and brothers Jack, Alston, Bob, and Lewis Glenn, and in cooperation with the Atlanta History Center.

age participation in school activities—all to foster a sense of community and keep Lovett relevant!

Lions for Life will welcome its newest members at a very special event this spring. All parents who are graduating their “last Lovett child” will be invited to a cocktail party to celebrate.

More information at <www. lovett.org/lionsforlife>.

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Help Keep Lovett Green

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Lovett is one of 28 schools nationwide to be a charter member

of the Green Schools Purchasing Consortium, a program of the Green Schools Alliance. Through this consortium, 28 public and independent schools agreed to purchase nearly 25 million kilowatt hours of renewable electricity in 2014—the environmental equivalent of taking 3,400 cars off the road for a year!

This partnership helped Lovett counterbalance its environmental footprint while also supporting the creation of clean energy.

Sterling Planet, the nation’s leading broker of renewable energy credits, provided these verified renewable energy certificates from a blend of wind, biomass, and landfill gas-to-energy projects. Lovett has decided to renew its partnership with Sterling Planet and offset 25 percent of our carbon emissions again this year.

Since establishing our partnership with Sterling Planet, the Lovett community has also been able to contribute to this initiative. Through Keep My Planet Green (KPMG), an affiliate of Sterling Planet, parents, alumni, and friends have offset their car emissions or home electricity use while subsidizing projects that reduce carbon into the air. For as little as $36 a year, the Lovett community can offset their car emissions. And for less than 5¢ per day, they can offset their car and home energy use.

KMPG and the Green Team have set a goal to offset 300 cars by Earth Day: April 22, 2015. If Lovett reaches this goal, KMPG will donate $1,000 to the Green Team for on-campus projects. An anonymous donor offered to match the first 50 cars that get offset. Students had to raise $50 to offset one car’s emissions. Therefore, they had to raise $2,500 in order to achieve the matching $2,500 gift. They surpassed their goal in 24 hours by reaching 53 cars in January! At press time, 130 cars had been offset.

KMPG has worked with members of the Upper School Green Team to develop marketing and communication initiatives that support the carbon offset program, and to empower Lovett students to “own” this program. Visit <www.keepmyplanetgreen.com/partner/lovett> to see the students’ handiwork and to help Lovett reach its goal!

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Welcome to Ashley Marshall New Lovett Lower School Principal Ashley Marshall will join Lovett in July 2015 as Lovett’s new Lower

“Ashley has a firm sense of what matters for children and education. She has a strong core knowledge of elementary school skills and knows how to implement them. She also has a creative imagination, so she complements traditional approaches with non-traditional ideas.”

—From an Academic Dean

School Principal.

Ashley Marshall is currently the Early Childhood Director at Charlotte Country Day School in Charlotte, N.C., where she oversees junior kindergarten through second grade.

The Country Day Lower School is known for its balanced, inquiry-based curriculum that forms the foundation for future success.

Prior to leading the faculty and students at Charlotte Country Day, Ms. Marshall was with The Spence School on New York City’s Upper East Side. There, at this storied all-girls school, she taught kindergarten, first, and fourth grades and was the recipient of the Margaret Duckett Award for Outstanding Teaching. In addition to her classroom experience, Ms. Marshall directed Spence’s Lower School community service committee and affinity group for students of color, was a leader in the school’s technology initiatives, developed curricula, and served on the admissions committee.

She has also been an instructor in the Center for Technology and School Change at Teachers College, Columbia University.

In discussing why she chose to come to Lovett, Ms. Marshall noted: “I had heard accolades for Lovett’s educational program, master teachers, and visionary leadership. At Lovett, Lower School students are developing the habits of mind and values deemed essential by the school’s mission.

Decisions are based on the latest

research, passion, and the utmost respect for children and their families.

This is the Lovett I so eagerly hoped to join! I believe so strongly in the mission, vision, and people of Lovett that I would gladly have moved wherever Lovett happened to be located.”

Ms. Marshall holds two master’s degrees from Teachers College, Columbia University: an Ed.M. in educational leadership, with a concentration in private school leadership, from the Klingenstein Center; and an M.A. in elementary education, with an emphasis on differentiated instruction. Her undergraduate studies were in English and education from Simmons College, a private liberal arts college for women in Boston.

Away from school, she is a voracious reader (Mary Oliver, Zadie Smith, and Margaret Atwood are among her favorites); an avid runner (achieving a new personal record in the 2014 Brooklyn Half Marathon in New York City); and an enthusiastic cook and host (well-known for her appetizers and desserts!).

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Happy 30th Birthday, Sports and Games Camp!

A promo for the Summer 1994 Sports and Games Camp.

Note the prices!

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“Sports and Games Camp is the

only reason to get up in the summer,” claims camper turned head-student counselor Craig Rollins ’13. His sentiments are echoed by a host of campers who have attended Sports and Games camp for the past 30 years.

It all began when former headmaster Al Cash commissioned Bill Railey to run a summer camp at Lovett. Planning a new camp was a daunting challenge, but Coach Railey turned to his coaching associate Jim Glasser for help. The collaborative result emerged as Sports and Games Camp, a two-week offering that featured favorite P.E. games, such as dodge ball, indoor soccer, and capture the flag.

The concept was to mix campers of varying ages and to create an atmosphere similar to playing games in a neighbor’s backyard. Sports trivia competitions were added to the schedule to encourage students to read the newspaper each day.

Coach Railey also had a second agenda in mind—the weight room. By using his football players as counselors, they were “captive” and already on campus to send straight to work outs at the end of the day. It also kept the team’s parents happy, as the boys were able to have a summer job and earn some money.

The plan worked. Sports and Games Camp was an immediate success. After a few years, field trips were introduced and a third week of camp was added. Railey did the hiring and Glasser took care of the field trip details. It made for a good team as Railey described Glasser as “the ultimate problem solver and negotiator.”

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Traditions emerged and the daily games grew intense. Campers were assigned to teams, which carried on weeklong round robin competitions.

A favorite was hide and seek right before lunch. One team was given five minutes to hide. The trick was to find a spot big enough for 15–20 campers to hide. The other teams were given ten minutes to find the hiding opponents. The prize for the winning group? First in line for lunch.

After five or six years, a counselor dodge ball competition was instituted on Fridays. The games became intense, with the most epic match-up being the year that the final round each of the three weeks was between Wiley Stephens ’96, a football jock and camp lifer, and Brent Abernathy ’96, a talented baseball star. No one can even remember who won, but the competition was legendary.

After Coach Railey retired from camp in 2005, the baton was passed to Kenyon Boatfield, who has continued with many of the traditions. Under Kenyon’s leadership, Sports and Games has expanded to four one-week sessions, most of which sell out. According to camper Leslie Chapman ’19, “My two favorite games are dodge ball and fast track. The tournaments on Friday are crazy because you never know what will happen!”

During the summer of 2015, campers will celebrate 30 years of Sports and Games with retro games and prizes. For more information about Sports and Games, please visit the website at <www.lovett.org/ summerprograms> or contact Lydell Smith at Lydell.Smith@lovett.org.

Field trips continue to be a Sports and Games tradition

Above: Sports and Games, recent edition Left: Dodge ball, a Sports and Games legacy

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and far to celebrate Grandparents and Special Friends Day with Kindergarten, Fifth Grade, and Eighth Grade classes. The annual event took place on November 24 and November 25, 2014, and provided grandparents and special friends the opportunity to visit classrooms, meet teachers, and see student projects.

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1 McLeod Buckham-White poses for a picture with his grandfather, Booker Rankin, while Mary Rankin takes a photo.

2 Fifth grader Audrey Carroll shows off her art project to her grandparents, Claudette and Alan Leyland.

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6 Carolyn Austin with Kindergarten student JD Stratton 7 Kindergartener Jack Stephenson working on his Thanksgiving turkey project with his grandmother, Deede Stephenson.

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8 Olivia Yabroudy smiles for a picture with Bob Pope.

9 Dorothy Earthman (left) of Nashville, Tenn., and Anne Polk (right) of New York, N.Y., enjoy spending time with Kindergartener Casey Polk.

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A Global Celebration Worldfest 2014

The Lovett International Alliance (LIA) hosted its eighth annual

Scenes from the eighth annual Worldfest

Seniors Ben Richards and Mary Stewart Delong perform for the crowd.

Third graders Christian Napier and Devan Gupta play a game of cricket.

Worldfest in October. Attendees gathered to eat international dishes, see musical and dance performances, and wear their native dress. Six special food tents highlighted the cuisine of the following countries and regions: Jamaica, the American South, Germany, Thailand, China, and India.

For the first time ever, Worldfest had a faculty dunk tank, and Headmaster Billy Peebles and Upper School principal Dan Alig were among the members of Lovett’s faculty and staff to get wet!

The LIA is made up of Lovett families committed to expanding international awareness through events and programming for the entire community, and serves as an educational resource and social platform for families of diverse backgrounds.

Aditya Vurukula, Siri Muthamsetty, and Simi Doshi perform a Bollywood dance to the song “Nagada Sang Dohl” from the movie Goli ki Rasleela Ramleela.

Headmaster Billy Peebles got dunked!

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Win-Win for Lovett in the Lovett-Westminster Challenge Lovett’s dedicated True Blue volunteers and donors brought the

school a resounding victory in October’s Lovett-Westminster Challenge. In its third year, the Challenge is a friendly competition that compares annual fund participation between Lovett and Westminster’s parents and alumni, and benefits both schools by encouraging early annual fund commitments.

This year, Lovett won both categories for strongest Parent and Alumni Participation!

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Our Lovett-Westminster Challenge effort was led by 2014–15 True Blue Co-Chairs Karen and Charles Andros and Alumni Association President Taylor Dozier ’02, with invaluable commitment and support from Beverly ’92 and Bo Briggs, Gregg and Mike Irby, Leigh and David Kandzari, Lesee Whitaker Googe ’87, Megan Apple Stephenson ’93, and McKee Nunnally ’87.

We also share our sincere thanks with our more than 160 True Blue volunteers, who provided outstanding outreach to our community during the three-week competition.

The combined efforts of our Lovett family led to a decisive success for the school, bringing in 848 parent and 1,031 alumni commitments to True Blue.

Thank you to everyone who supported Lovett during the Challenge and helped bring another win to the Riverbank!

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Shalom Y’all The Jewish Appreciation Club Gets Going by bryn mccarthy, grade 12

From Chapel Days to FCA mornings to bible studies, Lovett tends

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to be a very Christian school. Yet, there are many other religions represented at Lovett, and this year some Jewish students decided to make themselves known.

Seniors Austin Eiseman and Mirabel Michelson founded the Jewish Appreciation Club in 2014.

Their goal: to share Jewish culture in a fun and celebratory way.

A self-described “proud Jew,” Austin says he “saw that there was a lack of a club for Jewish students, and we wanted the student body to learn more about our culture and customs.”

For now, they primarily gather to celebrate Jewish holidays. “We just bring in traditional foods and share the story behind each holiday with students at Lovett,” Mirabel says.

According to club sponsor Debi Ohayon, they want “to get the whole community involved, regardless of their religion.”

originally appeared in The OnLion, Lovett’s online Upper School student newspaper. To read more of The OnLion, visit <www.lovett.org/onlion>.

So far they’ve had a lot of interest and great turnout at meetings. They have 84 members, and continue to see new faces, including teachers, at every meeting. Austin and Mirabel hope to continue to grow in numbers and teach students who may not have much knowledge of Judaism to understand more about it, and to challenge any stereotypes.

In addition to delicious food and fun music, Austin says, “We also try and teach Hebrew words and phrases. And we answer any questions people may have about our faith and culture.”

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Bringing the World to Lovett Campus guests, lecturers, and speakers enrich our community

Congressman John Lewis and Lovett Alumnus Andrew Aydin ’02 On August 27, Congressman John Lewis and aide Andrew Aydin ’02 spoke to our Upper School students about the Civil Rights Movement and their collaboration on the graphic novel, March—a first-hand account of Lewis’s lifelong struggle for civil and human rights. Upper School students read Book One of March for summer reading and in anticipation of the powerful presentations from Congressman Lewis and Mr. Aydin.

“Look for ways to get into ‘good’ trouble,” Congressman Lewis said in his speech, as he shared stories about his life and the experiences that inspired him—many of which were documented in March. He urged students to fight for what they believe in rather than sitting back and doing nothing.

Aydin shared stories about his days at Lovett and of his entry into politics, working his way up the ranks to Communications Director and Press Secretary during Lewis’s re-election campaigns to the role of Lewis’s digital director & policy advisor, the position he holds today.

He also spoke about his lifelong love of comic books, which eventually led him to convince Rep. Lewis to work with him on March and on March: Book Two, published earlier this year.

Lewis and Aydin followed their talk over lunch with a small group of faculty, administrators, and members of Teens Against Prejudice.

Congressman John Lewis and Andrew Aydin ’02

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Visiting Artist and Lovett Alumnus Jason Fulford ’91 Jason Fulford ‘91 was a visiting artist at Lovett the week of October 27–31, and worked alongside Karey Walter’s Upper School Photo II and III classes.

For two days, Fulford guided Lovett students through in-depth discussions and hands-on activities in learning to think as a photographer, rather than as a viewer. On the second day, students took part in assessing each other’s portfolios, offering suggestions on editing and sequencing. Students gained insight into alternate meanings in their own work, as well as a deeper understanding of how to find the rhythm and motion of each group of photographs.

Jason Fulford is a recipient of a 2014 Guggenheim Fellowship for his photography. He is a contributing editor to Blind Spot magazine and a frequent lecturer at universities.

Monographs of his work include Sunbird (2000), Crushed (2003), Raising Frogs For $$$ (2006), The Mushroom Collector (2010), and Hotel Oracle (2013). He is coeditor with Gregory Halpern of The Photographer’s Playbook (Aperture, 2014), and coauthor with Tamara Shopsin of the photography book for children This Equals That (Aperture, 2014). Fulford’s photographs have also been featured in Harper’s, New York Times Magazine, Time, Blind Spot, Aperture, and on book jackets for Don Delillo, John Updike, Bertrand Russell, Jorge Luis Borges, Terry Eagleton, Ernest Hemingway, and Richard Ford.

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Dana Smith October was National Bully Prevention Month. In addition to the Middle School focus in October on the theme of “compassion” and in an effort to enhance many classroom projects on inclusion in grades 6-8, the Middle School welcomed cultural proficiency consultant Dana Smith to speak to Middle School students with an anti-bullying message on October 23.

Mr. Smith spoke about differences, bullying, and bias and its impact on the learning and safety of a school, and how to be an ally to make a positive change in the school climate. The classroom compassion projects, culminating with this speaker, led to a signing of the Middle School’s “Resolution of Respect,” which is a part of Lovett’s NO PLACE FOR HATE campaign.

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What’s Your [de]Sign?

The American Studies Institute Workshop for Educators

american studies institute of the lovett school Connecting across Disciplines

What does it mean to design lessons

that teach across disciplines? How can seemingly disparate subjects connect in the classroom? The American Studies Institute of The Lovett School was created in 2004 to encourage teachers and students to enrich their understanding of America by searching beyond the confines of a specific discipline. The goal was to answer questions such as these, and to enable teachers to engage in conversation and collaboration.

Registration is now open for “What’s Your [de]Sign?”, the sixth and final American Studies Institute Workshop for Educators, June 12–13, 2015.

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Join us as we celebrate what we have learned in past workshops and reconnect with old friends. Participants are invited to give 20-minute presentations on how they have designed interdisciplinary lessons that work in their own school.

Friday, June 12, will be a time for sharing and learning with one another, and Saturday, June 13, will be optional and include docent-guided excursions to two of Lovett’s key partner cultural institutions: the new National Center for Civil and Human Rights and the High Museum of Art. Thanks to the generosity of our donors, there is no fee for either day.

Keynote speakers include Doug Shipman, the CEO of the National Center for Civil and Human Rights, and Scott Sanchez, an innovation leader and faculty/coach at Stanford University’s Hasso Plattner Institute of Design.

More information at <www. lovett.org/asi>.

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Faculty Profile Stacia Boatwright Stacia Boatwright, Middle School

Director of Academic Technology, joined Lovett in 2011. Since then, she has introduced students, colleagues, and fellow techies to new ways of integrating technology into the classroom. In this Q&A, Stacia discusses her time at Lovett so far and what she hopes to accomplish in the coming years.

sort of programs have you put QWhat into place at Lovett?

QWhat brought you to Lovett?

It’s kind of a funny story. I decided to move to Atlanta for my then-boyfriend, now husband, and I didn’t have a job. I was working at a private school in Washington, D.C., as a technology coordinator and wanted to find something similar in Atlanta. I ended up meeting Randy Murphy (former Lovett academic dean) at a job fair at Westminster. We kept in touch and saw each other again in March when she told me about the job at Lovett. So, I moved to Atlanta in April, interviewed for the job, and was hired. It was really a blessing. I was going to move here regardless, whether or not I had a job, but it turned out that this was the perfect job for me.

One of my main focuses has been professional development. Erin Dixon and I hold professional learning sessions once a month to highlight what our teachers are doing in the classroom. Session topics have included flipped classrooms, project-based learning, and Project Zero.

A teacher will present a specific topic, and then we’ll post the presentation and resources in a shared space for everyone to access and reference.

Angela Sauter and I also started “Wacky Wednesday,” which is a more informal time for teachers to share what they are working on with one another. We have donuts and coffee, and teachers come for two minutes or twenty minutes to get helpful ideas and tools to bring back to the classroom. I truly believe that technology should not be used simply because it is available. It must first support our curricular goals, which for Lovett is our Vision for Learning, and then promote a student-centered learning environment where students are engaged and inspired to learn.

professional development QWhat has been most helpful to you?

After the first Google Summit, hosted here at Lovett, four ladies and I started EduVue. It began as a Google Hangout to recap the conference and share how we were using the tools we had learned. We discovered that we

had great chemistry, everyone had a different background, and we all had a lot to share. EduVue has evolved into a live streaming Hangout where we discuss an array of educational topics and viewers interact with us via Twitter or our Google+ stream.

My experience with EduVue has opened my eyes to new ideas outside of Lovett, so I’ve become passionate about getting Lovett teachers connected with others outside of our school community.

ideas and plans are you excited QWhat about for the future of academic technology at Lovett?

I am excited to take technology to the next level of transformative learning.

There’s a model, SAMR (Substitution, Augmentation, Modification, Redefinition), that we will introduce this spring semester. It was designed

by Dr. Ruben Puentedura to assist teachers in designing technology-infused learning experiences that result in higher levels of achievement. At Lovett, we will train teachers to understand when it is appropriate to use the model based on learning objectives. The ultimate goal is to use technology to change the tasks at hand and extend the walls of the classroom. Students will learn to take control of their learning, create news ideas, and share their work with a broader audience. It will be an exciting and challenging endeavor for the teachers and the students.

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The Arts of Fall

Dance Concert The eighth grade boys are the Men in Black: Tripp Hammond, Lance Beck, Reid Edelstein, and Quinn O’Donnell.

Much Ado About Nothing Karan Soni, as Don Pedro, and Harrison Lyle, as Benedick: “I cannot believe that Claudio thinks he is in love!! Soldiers don’t do that.”

Dance Concert Eighth graders perform their version of James Bond with: front, Melissa Kight, Katherine Poindexter, Chloe Dinkle; middle, Shelby Jordan, Chloe Parks, Haley Hooper; and back, Sarah Grace Selby and Candler Williams.

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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Joe Sear, as Ichabod Crane, is confronted by Palmer King, the Headless Horseman.

Orchestra Concert Julia Koh, Adrienne Liou, Samantha Sloman, Sophia Jackson, and Nicholas Klavohn

Service of Lessons and Carols Mimi Norton (front) and Khadejah Jackson (with candle) sing at the annual candlelight Service of Lessons and Carols service at All Saintsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Episcopal Church.

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CampusNews Willie Candler finished his Lovett football career as the school’s all-time leader in Total Offense, rushing and passing for a total of 7,297 yards and being responsible for 85 touchdowns. The Lions averaged 7.42 yards per play for plays where Candler either completed passes or ran the ball.

Riverbank Roundup Fall and Winter Sports Highlights While there was a bit of juggling necessitated by the construction of

the Murray Athletic Center, the Lions were not to be deterred by the adjustments.

Hannah Bulvin, senior pitcher on the Lions softball team, was named to the All-Region team in leading the Lions to the State Tournament.

Softball Least affected by the construction on the other side of campus was Coach Miki Howard’s softball team. Led by seniors Caty Lindauer, Merritt Wall, and pitcher Hannah Bulvin, the young Lions squad played a strong schedule of higher classification teams. In hosting the Region 6-AA Tournament, Lovett used that early-season experience to take big wins when it mattered, and advanced to the State Tournament for the seventh consecutive season.

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Football On the Riverbank, Coach Mike Muschamp entered his 10th season with the Lions, welcoming back 33 seniors, his largest group ever. As the defending AA State Champions, the Lions began their season as they begin most, on a steamy, late-summer evening on the Riverbank. The foe in the first game was new region rival, Pace Academy, and the Lions made quite the night of it to kick off 2014, taking a 38-3 win.

Two out-of-classification games followed away from home for the Lions, and despite losing both, the team was better prepared in returning home for the fourth game to host Woodward Academy; Lovett took a 21-20 win over their Atlanta-area independent school rivals.

In the finale of their Region 6-AA slate, the Lions faced Greater Atlanta Christian, who held on for a 14-7 win, breaking the Lions’ two-year hold on the region crown.

The first round of state brought the Bremen Blue Devils to the Lions, who were hungry to return to their winning ways. Lovett scored less than two minutes into the game, on a 53-yard pass from senior quarterback Willie Candler to junior running back Jay Harris, then quickly converted two Bremen turnovers into touchdowns as well, to hold a 21-0 lead less than four minutes into the game.

From that point, the Lions never

looked back, taking a 42-14 halftime lead, on their way to a 56-21 win.

The second round, the Sweet Sixteen, would send the Lions to Montezuma to play the Region 4-AA champions, Macon County. The Bulldogs of Macon County were led by one of the top linebacker prospects in the state, but the Lions were not deterred, ending the Bulldogs’ first three possessions with takeaways, two on interceptions by senior safety Murphy Lee, and another on a fumble recovery by senior Jack Barnes.

The half ended with the Lions on top, 21-0, but Lovett would eventually build a 42-0 lead before finally booking their passage to the quarterfinals with a 42-8 win.

Lovett’s 20th berth in the state quarterfinals, in the school’s 55th season of football, would have the Lions travel to Savannah to play Benedictine on a cold night on the campus of Savannah State University.

The Lions were never able to find their rhythm against the Cadets, trailing 16-3 at half. The highlight of the evening was a 76-yard pass from Candler to senior receiver Alex Sayles, which had Lovett back to a 24-10 deficit to begin the fourth quarter. The eventual state champions, however, would pull away for a 31-10 win over the Lions.

Candler went on to be named the 6-AA Offensive Player of the Year.

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Cross Country It was on the cross country trails where Coach Jimmy Jewell’s teams built to the fall’s strongest finishes. A young squad of boys continued to develop during the season, advancing out of region to make a run at state.

At the AA State Meet in Carrollton, Lovett’s boys finished fourth in their AA race. Sophomore Everett Smulders was the first Lions finisher, claiming fourth. Senior Charlie Powers was next for Lovett in 16th, sophomore Nicholas Klavohn was 23rd, and classmate, Josh Eiland, 26th.

Senior Mac Major was the final scoring runner, placing 33rd.

On the girls’ side, results from the regular season had shown the Lions’ squad, also made up of mostly underclass runners, was going to be a force, come time for their state meet.

In Carrollton, The Lions girls

lived up to their season’s results, finishing all seven runners in the race’s Top 20 at the 2014 GHSA State Cross Country meet, with Lovett claiming the school’s 15th State Championship in the sport. The Lions’ 33 points were 42 better than the second-place school.

Sophomore Serena Tripodi won the individual title, finishing in 19:16.70, over a minute ahead of the second-place finisher. Classmate Mara Davis finished fourth overall, and freshman Elizabeth Beveridge was fifth overall. Senior Melissa Houghton was the fourth Lion to cross the finish line, taking eighth, and sophomore Emma Sidman was 15th, rounding out Lovett’s five scoring runners.

Juniors Carolyn Bland and Wendy Harrison completed the Lions contingent, finishing 18th and 19th, respectively.

Sophomore Serena Tripodi won the AA State individual title in cross country, finishing in 19:16.70, over a minute ahead of the second-place finisher.

College Signings Willie Candler, University of West Georgia, football Te’Erica Eason, Northeastern University, basketball Austin Eiseman, Mount St. Mary’s, lacrosse Jack Gearon, Princeton University, football Will Geraghty, University of Richmond, football Cal Pearce, Boston University, lacrosse James Scott, Presbyterian College, golf Harley Sebastian, University of Virginia, volleyball

The 2014 Girls Cross Country State Champions

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In the history of every great school, there are times when vision, leadership, community, and generosity come together to transform an institution.

This is Lovett’s time. This is Lovett’s defining decade.

Our Progress $88,238,732 raised $90,000,000 goal

We are in the homestretch of Our Defining Decade: A Campaign for Lovett, 2005-2015.

Lovett has until June 30, 2015, to reach our historic $90 million goal.

Helping us reach that goal is a very generous $2 million challenge gift. Every dollar raised up to $2 million will essentially be matched, dollar for dollar. But we must raise $1.7 million by June 30 to claim it!

To our alumni, parents, grandparents, parents of alumni, and other friends: if you have not yet given, we ask you to please do so now.

www.lovett.org/giveODD Keep up to date on all the news, videos, and photographs from Our Defining Decade.

Visit us online at www.lovett.org/campaign.

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Front and rear views of the new Murray Athletic Center, overlooking Railey Field.

The MAC is scheduled to open August 2015 for the new school year.

The old restrooms, locker rooms, concession stand, and press box are no more!

A new turnaround and drop off in front of the MAC will enable Lovett to close off the Stadium Plaza for pedestriansâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; festivity and safety during athletic contests.

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Thank you!

We want to thank you for your planned gift to Lovett.

But we can’t if we don’t know about it!

Please inform us if you have included The Lovett School in your will or trust, or as the beneficiary of your IRA, retirement account, bank account, or insurance policy.

Your planned gift entitles you to membership in The Lovett School Legacy Society, a group of loyal donors who have included Lovett in their wills or other estate plans, providing essential support for the school’s future.

To schedule a confidential conversation or learn more, please visit <www.lovett.org/legacy> or contact Andy Spencer, Chief Advancement Officer, at andy.spencer@lovett.org or (404) 262-3032, ext. 1255.

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n i R t E c D u r N t U ns C A Fundraiser for Financial Aid

Lots of construction is underway: the Murray Athletic Center,

Kilpatrick Stadium Renovations, the Hite Sports Medicine Center, and a new pedestrian plaza and traffic turnaround.

We are so excited about these projects—but it means we will not be able to host a 2015 Run ’n Lovett!

Through Run ’n Lovett proceeds, more than $695,444 has been

earmarked for Lovett financial aid and various community causes.

Thank you for your support of past runs, and please join us when

Run ’n Lovett returns April 23, 2016

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Terri Alexander-Cox and husband Phil Alexander-Cox both hyphenate their names, have been married 17 years, and are kindred spirits. She lives in Atlanta where she has taught at The Schenck School and St. Anne’s Day School. “My greatest accomplishment has been raising my children to become marvelous adults. My son, Dr. Alexander Milkey, is a forensic psychologist in Portland, Ore., and the father of my beloved grandchildren, Hannah and Asher. My daughter, Rachel Milkey, graduated from Pratt in interior design and lives in Brooklyn.

Something that might be interesting to all: The walking bridge spanning the Chattahoochee River next to Lovett was named ‘Hermi’s Bridge’ in honor of my mother. My mother and father lobbied to save the bridge when Northside Parkway expanded across the River. When my mother was killed by a drunk driver in 1983, the bridge was dedicated to her. There are plaques at each end of the bridge calling her a ‘builder of bridges’.”

Patrick Ambosetti resides in Geneva, Switzerland, where he attended medical school, did his surgical training in the colorectal field, and is now in private practice. In 1972, he married Dominique, a painter, and they have two children, Aurelieln, 31, and Valerie, 28. In 1995, he divorced, but remarried in 2004 to Alexandra. They have three children: Paul, 9, Rafael, 6, and Chiara, 3. “We live outside of Geneva, bicycling in the country, skiing

in the mountains, and are very fond of Italy so we visit three or four times a year. I play tennis and golf regularly. I keep in touch with Rocky Lange ’65 and his wife, Debbie.”

Patsy (Baggerly) Hardman has worked as a social worker for the past 19 years in the city of Newport News, Va., and plans to retire in five years. Her daughter Catherine lives in Williamsburg, Va., with her husband and Patsy’s grandchildren Lucy, 5, and Charlie, 2. Her son, Mark, and his wife live in Emerald Isle, N.C., where Mark served as a Marine JAG officer stationed at Camp LeJeune.

Mark qualified for the Boston Marathon and Patsy will go to the race to watch him compete. He is currently pursuing a medical degree at the Uniform Services University of Health Sciences. “On weekends I enjoy going to Busch Gardens and The Virginia Living Museum with my grandchildren,” she says.

Thomas Barnett is retired in Atlanta after being in the financial world for 25 years. He and his wife, Barbara, have been married 40 years, and have three children. They have a mountain home in North Carolina near Lake Glenville where they skip away for weekends. “I have always loved sailing and boating, but gardening has become my primary hobby,” he shares. “We have developed a Japanese stroll garden with ponds and waterfalls at our woodsy, hilly property in Atlanta and a meditation garden. We are planning to move in the near future and are looking forward to a new ‘palette’ to work on—taking the fish with us!”

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Reception for Multicultural Alumni and Families September 19, 2014

Thank you to the Alumni Board, Joey Hedgemon ’91, and alumni volunteer Fatimot Ladipo ’90 for organizing this wonderful gathering.

Sponsored by the Office of Multicultural Programs, the Office of Alumni Programs, and the Headmaster’s Office

Lisa Wade ’84, Stuart Wade ’92, Jennifer Wade-Berg ’88, and Lovett second grader Skyler Berg

Vernetta Dorsey ’92, Joey Hedgemon ’91, Maia Watkins ’97, Patrick Wright ’90

Tammy D’Anjou-Turner ’97, Monique Hunt ’92

Kellie Ladipo, Hope Merritt ’92, Fatimot Ladipo ’90, Kaseem Ladipo ’94

After Lovett, Caroline (Bethea) Brown went to Westbrook Junior College in Portland, Maine, and from there to the Villa Mercede in Florence, Italy. “Anne Cabaniss and I were traveling companions. I married and lived in California for two years, moved to New York for seven. During those years we traveled throughout the Middle East and in particular, Kuwait. Returned to New York and

then moved to Bangkok, Thailand, where our son was born. Returning to Connecticut for two years we found our way home to Atlanta. After some years in Atlanta, I remarried, the wedding was in the Highlands of Scotland, with the bagpipes ushering us out of the church. We moved to Arizona, Rhode Island, Scotland, and finally to South Carolina where my husband died. I returned to Atlanta,

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started traveling to the Gulf of Mexico and the east coast of Florida, where I am today. As I review my words I see patterns of movement, nothing startling, but something of a restless soul on the move. So be it. It has been such fun.”

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hours as a communications volunteer for the City of Atlanta in the Emergency Operations Center. “The Cold War was lukewarm headed for hot and ham radio operators were a hot commodity in a city that was only a couple of years beyond the Cuban Missile Crisis.” He signed up for Air Force ROTC and volunteered at Sewanee’s on-campus airfield repairing aircraft and while taking flying lessons, and then was commissioned, he says, “into Uncle Sam’s Flying Club since there was a war going on.” After grad school at the University of Southern California, he went on to fly for three airlines—Southern Airways, Flying Tigers, and Federal Express—and four subsets of the Air Force: Active Duty, Air Force Reserve, Air National Guard, and Alaska State Defense Force, and is now chief pilot for the Alaska Fire Service. He and his wife have four children and all enjoy the “traditional Alaskan outdoor activities that involve hunting and flying.”

After graduating from Florida Atlantic University in 1968, Diane Bordner taught high school social studies in East Point for three years, and decided teaching (although a worthwhile profession) just wasn’t for her. She took a leave of absence to secure a master’s, which led to a Ph.D. from Georgia State University. “My dissertation on campus policing was published, and still in print, but never made the best-seller list,” recalls Diane. “In the early 1980s I was brought to Clearwater, Fla., to be the director of corporate research for a major financial institution, and deciding that working inside the corporate structure was not for me, I formed my own market research company. I sold the company in 2008 after having double bypass surgery.

Fortunately I am healthy now and enjoying retirement and volunteer work in sunny Palm Harbor, Fla. I’ve decided retirement is for me.”

Julian (Boykin) Williams graduated from Queens College (now Queens University) in 1968 with a B.A. in economics as a Dana Scholar and was a member of Phi Mu sorority.

She worked in market research for The Coca-Cola Company in Atlanta. She married her husband, John Young Williams, in 1973 and the couple lived in Manhattan for three years, then returned to Atlanta, where they raised their two daughters, Joyce and Isabel. “We lost John to cancer in February 2014. Joyce lives in San Francisco and Isabel lives in Nashville. I travel a great deal, having been to Alaska, Turkey, Italy, on Safari, the Galapagos Islands and have plans to go to Ireland. I am healthy and plan to stay very active. I love my church, St. Patrick’s Episcopal, and am active in its ministries.”

“Getta and I have been married 48 years (my greatest accomplishment) and have two children and eight grandchildren,” says Chuck Bradley.

“We left Atlanta in 1972 and built a modest chalet style home on the side of a mountain in Brevard, N.C. The kids got so involved in school activities we had to move into town.

We built a home on Lake Toxaway and stayed until I retired in 2008, and now live in Salmon, Idaho. My one real passion is whitewater canoeing.

It has been a source of much pleasure and I have made many good friends as a result. I have paddled dozens of really great rivers, including the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon, but my favorite is the Mid-

dle Fork of the Salmon. I also enjoy hiking, cross-country skiing, and horseback riding.”

Beverly (Cale) Caldwell has lived in Georgia, North Carolina, New Mexico, and Nebraska. “I taught exceptional children for 24 years and travelled extensively. My greatest accomplishments are my two daughters, Kimberly, 41, who lives in North Carolina, and Michelle, 36, who lives in New York. I now live on Lake Norman in North Carolina and find the water to be quite healing and peaceful.”

“I am a working registered nurse and l have lived in the same house since 1970!” shares Cindy (Carter) Cullom of Sandy Springs. “I have two wonderful adult children and two grandchildren, twins, Will and Jack.

Several four-legged children still live at home. I enjoy a simple life—sitting on my screen porch, watching the birds, petting my animals, and eating a home-grown tomato. My travels have taken me to Eastern and Western Europe.”

“After graduating from Lovett, University of Georgia, and Emory Law School, I practiced law in Atlanta, and raised three children,” recounts J. Caleb Clark III. “In May of 2004, I realized that I could no longer avoid the inevitable. I was captured by a call into the ministry. After taking Hebrew and Greek and three years of seminary, I received a master’s of divinity degree. I now serve Eastminster Presbyterian Church, a fabulous church in the shadows of Stone Mountain.

I have baptized my grandchildren and after walking her down the aisle, officiated at my daughter’s wedding.

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Lovett Alumni Night at the College Football Hall of Fame and Chick-fil-A Fan Experience October 30, 2014

John Stephenson ’93, president and CEO of Atlanta Hall Management—the

guiding force behind Atlanta’s new College Football Hall of Fame—and the Alumni Executive Board welcomed hundreds of fellow Lovett alumni to a sold-out evening of food and drinks, fellowship, and, of course, college football!

Joining John in his remarks were Taylor Dozier ’02, president of the Alumni Association; Billy Peebles, Lovett headmaster; and Mike Muschamp, Lovett state champion football coach. The Alumni Association thanks Caroline Crowder Bowen ‘85, Chris Wegener ‘90, Megan Apple Stephenson ‘93, and Ali Dick ‘02 for volunteering their time to organize this spectacular evening.

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on Lake Lanier on what she calls the oldest, shortest houseboat on the lake.

I serve as assistant chaplain of a small open-air chapel in Flowery Branch.

God is good!”

Jaelyn (Cleveland) White graduated from Mercer University with a B.A. in philosophy and at age 25 moved to Tucson, Ariz. “I took a clerical position with an electrical contractor, which led me to starting my own construction supply company, B&B Fastening Systems, Inc. This wild ride consumed 15 of my most energetic years. My husband and I stayed in Tuscon until I retired at age 49, and we moved to New Mexico: The Land of Enchantment. One of my most extraordinary travels was to visit Laura Krugman, to attend the sock hop celebration of her 50th birthday in Paris.

I have one daughter, Cynthia, and a stepson, Patrick, and live on a dirt road, on 10 acres, 150 miles from the nearest commercial airport. Solitude is my best friend.”

Barbara (Constable) Pence shares that her college experience has been extensive: B.A., M.S., Ph.D., and M.B.A., all from Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas, where she lived from 1972–2014. She retired last year and returned to Atlanta after a career in cancer research and as medical school faculty, and after being honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Texas Tech School of Medicine.

She says, “I have traveled to 75 countries and conducted medical research in Uzbekistan and the Philippines.

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graphic Society Explorer in Residence and director of the Genographic Project, and Arnold C. Wells, 41, Arnold Wells Photography; grandchildren are Margot, 15, and Sasha, 13, in Geneva, Switzerland, and Liberty, 9, in Texas.

After graduating from Auburn, Kate (Conway) Thomasson returned to Atlanta and became a Fulton County DFACS worker for five years. “The last year at DFACS my night job was working as a cocktail waitress in the old Underground. Very disillusioning to make more money in three hours doing that than at my real job in two days! But, I did meet my husband there, and we were married for 11 years and had four wonderful children and have three grandchildren.”

Currently, Kate owns rental properties in Atlanta and Boulder, Colo., and hopes to travel to Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam this year. “There is a very long list of places to go in my bucket!” she says.

After college Mary (Crain) Beard worked for Goodbody & Company and then Merrill Lynch. In 1971, she married Andy Beard and has spent the last 43 years raising a family of two sons and one daughter. Her children went to Lovett and are now married with families of their own.

“Andy and I have stayed in Atlanta and in the same house we bought 36 years ago. Our lives have been centered around our children and other family, our church, our friends, and our interests in the community. Now that we have reclaimed the house, Andy and I are enjoying the time we have to travel and pursue activities we enjoy. For me, painting, and for Andy, fly fishing!”

“You might say it all began in Peggy Alstrand’s Art History class,” recalls Diane (Daniel) Wilkinson. “She sparked a global awareness within me that later shaped the course of my career. In 1974 I began teaching French cooking classes in my Collier Hills kitchen and opening cooking schools for cookware shops that were just beginning to spring up in Atlanta and the Southeast. Later, I began organizing food-and-wine tours to Italy and France. Now, I focus on my career as a travel advisor and enjoy sending clients to every corner of the globe, by land or sea. Fortunately my husband, Dick, loves travelling and we can never get enough of Africa. A few years ago, Antarctica was our seventh continent. Our last scuba ‘trip’ was diving with the whale sharks in the Georgia Aquarium!”

After departing Atlanta in 1976, Thomas Dew moved to Hudson, Ohio, a Cleveland suburb, then spent the last 34 years in the Chicago suburb of Elgin. After his retirement last year from the paper and packaging distribution business, he and his wife, Kris, spend the majority of their time in the Northwoods of Wisconsin. “We trout fish, grouse hunt, pick berries, canoe travel, and cocktail cruise with friends on the lake. In our spare time we are deeply involved in wildlife conservation activities. Our daughter Amy is expecting our first grandchild. Our life now is relaxed and we are taking time to smell the roses.”

After graduating from the University of Georgia, Judy (Flagler) Day was a flight attendant for Pan American World Airways. “It was a wonderful experience, traveling around the

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world, serving caviar, and interacting with other cultures.” In 1970 she married and moved to the San Francisco Bay area where, in 1973, daughter Ashley was born. Judy subsequently enrolled in the Lincoln University Law School and graduated, and then later divorced. “My law career began with the firm eventually named Ericksen, Arbuthnot, Kilduff, Day and Lindstrom. I am proud to say that I was the first woman law clerk, the first woman attorney, the first woman partner, and for over 10 years the chair of our 60-attorney law firm.

Breaking ground for the advancement of women attorneys in a staid California law firm was quite an adventure! After 30 years of continuous legal battles both in and out of the courtroom, I retired to travel.”

Grace (Gortatowsky) Bright graduated from Washington University in St. Louis with a B.A. in early childhood education and met husband Jay Warren Bright. They married in 1969 and moved to Connecticut and then headed west to California for a year to serve VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America). They returned to New Haven so Jay could complete his M.A. in Architecture at Yale. “I worked at Yale as a library cataloguer, first at the main library and then at the Yale Center for British Art, architect Louis Kahn’s last commission, and a fitting home for an architect’s wife.

We celebrated our 45th anniversary in 2014! We are currently raising our third puppy and second St. Bernard.

We have two children—a daughter, Emmy, and a son, Mike—and a granddaughter, Nola, 2. Everything they say about the joys of grandparenthood are true—and then some.”

Class of 1969 45th Reunion

Jay Steele, Nancy (Dalton) Steele, Guy Tucker

Strib Stribling, Sharon (Samford) Stribling, Lois (Miner) Yates, Danny Yates

Ricky Calhoun, Thad King, Carter Morris, Hampton Morris, Jerry Wills, Patty (Taulman) Wills

Claire (Bagley) Shouse, Penny Peebles, Billy Peebles, Wawa (Smith) Hines, Chuck Slick, Guy Tucker

The 1968 Undefeated Football Team: Front: Ricky Calhoun, Randy Wolfe, Guy Tucker, Bill Blalock, Edwin Quin, John Elliot, John Savage; Back: Bill Martin, Hampton Morris, John O. Knox

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For the Arts November 20, 2014

Alumni and Lions for Life enjoyed a reception at the Friends of the Arts Art

Show and Sale at the Rogers & Westmoreland Activity Center. The reception was sponsored by the Lovett Alumni Association and Lions for Life—a new Lovett initiative to engage parents who no longer have children at the school, but who want to stay involved with campus happenings. (See page 15 for more information on Lions for Life).

The show featured works by Lovett Fine Arts faculty and, for the first time, works by two distinguished alumni artists, Gregor Turk ’78 and Hutton Snellings ’08.

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Caroline (Crowder) Bowen ’85, Fran (Tidwell) Killebrew ’87, and Lesee (Whitaker) Googe ’87 Megan (Apple) Stephenson ’93, Taylor Dozier ’02, Jay Freer ’78, Lisa Wargo, Jane Jackson, Gregor Turk ’78, and Eileen (Keough) Millard ’80

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Connie (Grant) Goodsell attended Mt. Vernon College and has worked as a nursery school teacher. She and her husband, Bob, have four children: Kib (deceased), Connie, Rob, and Alex. Their grandchildren are Jordan, Ross, Ann Dupree, Amelia, Bailey, and Chloe. “I enjoy Bible study, gardening, oil painting, and family.”

Mary Towers (Hagood) Turner recalls that she attended Marietta public schools until 1960 and then enrolled at Lovett along with four other girls from Marietta. They carpooled every day from the Square in Marietta (before I-75!) and continued their daily commute until they all graduated. “I went to Centre College in Danville, Ky., met and married William D. Turner, Jr., and we lived in Louisville, where our three children—Mary Virginia, Clayton, and Paul—were born.

In 1982 we moved to Naples, Fla., and in 1996 moved to Tampa. In all of our moves I always taught in elementary schools. With the children all married with families of their own and living in three different states, my husband and I retired to our condo on St. Simons Island. We volunteer for our church, walk on the beach with our blind dog, collect shells, and particularly look forward to visits from our family.”

John A. Harper III is a 10-year cancer survivor. He married three years ago, for the first time, and lives with his wife Alice in Smyrna, near the historic Covered Bridge district. He enjoyed a career selling cars for Boomershine Pontiac and retired from Global BMW. “Alice and I like to travel, cook, and watch Jeopardy together. My life lesson would be to wake up happy and

never quit trying. I’ve been broke and homeless, and one year later ate lunch at the White House. God bless us all!”

David and Debbie (Hill) Burford married right after she graduated from Lovett. “David and I had 46 wonderful years together until he died in 2010. We were blessed with three sons and now two beautiful granddaughters. We lived up and down the East Coast and in 1998 moved to the beautiful mountains of North Georgia. I had the privilege of writing a column for the North Georgia News for about 10 years, and now the first two years of those columns have been compiled into a book, Love from the Mountains, containing humorous anecdotes of our encounters with our animal neighbors, both wild and domestic. I teach piano, sing with a ladies barbershop chorus, and am active in my church. I plan to continue these activities as long as I am able here in the sheltering mountains.”

Charles Lee Houck has lived in beautiful Orlando ever since he left Atlanta. “Following discharge from the Air Force, I began teaching at a local college, but soon joined the financial firm of Capital Analysts. When the government changed all the rules on qualified plan investments, I left to start my own company, Controlled Ice Co. (I mean, if you can’t sell ice in Florida. . .). Through an Employee Stock Ownership Plan the company transferred to my employees and is still ongoing. Then I started C. L. Houck, Inc., a sales corporation that represented over 20 different gift lines.

I had five representatives working with me covering the entire state of Florida; I retired when gas hit the $3

mark. Still I play drums, not so much rock and roll, but I sit in with a local jazz group. I still fly, no more Air Force big metal, just a little Cessna.

For the past five years I have been a volunteer grief counselor at Samaritan Care Hospice here in Orlando. I have come to realize that I can’t resolve the dichotomy of the beautiful fulfillment of love with the emptiness of grief, so I just trust in God.” After receiving a master’s degree in early childhood education, Susan (Hounsom) Mahoney spent 30 years working in early elementary, kindergarten, pre-K, and pre-school. She married Jim Mahoney and in 1980 and became stepmother to three little girls, and later adopted two sons from India, John Vijay and Kevin Ravi. “After a divorce, I have moved from my longtime home in the Morningside neighborhood to a small 1923 Arts and Crafts bungalow in Candler Park. I realized that I missed being around children and have taken a part-time job as a ‘nanny’ with a family that happens to be from India.

It’s like going back in time. My travel goal is to visit India with my sons.”

“Home for Christmas my senior year at Hollins, Marge Jones Fowler got me a blind date with a Navy flight surgeon who was in Atlanta visiting,” recalls Sally (Hurt) Fleming.

“If it was not love at first sight, it was close to it. I married Lamar Lafayette Fleming after graduation and it has been ‘love, love, love’ ever since. With Lamar fulfilling his Naval obligations and finishing his medical training, we have lived in Pensacola, Fla.; Augusta; Durham, N.C.; and finally back to Atlanta. Our daughter, Spring 2015 47

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Anne, was born while we were at Duke, and Sarah in Atlanta. They both live in Atlanta. I can’t seem to keep my nose out of a book. I love literature (than you, Mrs. Lange and Mr. Jones), but I also love history (thank you, Mr. Saggus). Now that Lamar is retired, we have moved to Lakemont where we live on Lake Rabun and enjoy a quiet life . . . and give thanks for the journey we have had.”

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Missy (Groome) Milner and Alison (Harp) LeCraw

Jinny Keough, Michael Keough, Anne Fuentes

Lynn Howard, Jim Timberlake, Billy Shuford

Alexa (Zillessen) Goodman and Winslow Savage

“Looking back, I realize that Lovett sparked many dreams,” Nancy Johnson recalls. “Miss Riley’s French class and Mrs. Wilson’s Latin class would shape later choices. After university, I worked in New York in financial management, then was transferred to their European offices in Paris (crossing my fingers, as I gave great assurance that I already spoke French fluently).

This all opened up an exciting new world. Turning 40, I did an English law degree and trained as a barrister, specializing in international commercial law. I switched to one of the large London-based international law firms and later worked in Paris and Rome.

Having turned 60, I have now found my true calling. I decided to pursue those volunteer areas and interests that I never had time for before. I am doing research in Renaissance studies and plan to publish some articles and books.”

Marge (Jones) Fowler went to Converse College for two years and transferred to the University of Georgia.

She graduated in 1968 and returned to Atlanta where she worked for First National Bank of Atlanta and later with the American Express Company.

In 1979, she met her husband, Bob,

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from Virginia Beach, and they were married five months later. “We have two children, Elizabeth, a graphic designer living in Denver, and Robert, a CPA in Charlotte. For 11 years my sister and I had an art business together and held art shows in my home and represented more than 30 local artists.

For the past 16 years I have worked part time for the Peachtree Presbyterian Preschool as their bookkeeper and have enjoyed it thoroughly. I have fallen in love with the game of golf and have become a committed and avid golfer!”

Robert M. Krugman and his wife, Eva, live in the mountains of Big Canoe. They especially enjoy exploring the many hiking trails and the quirky offerings of the North Georgia Mountains. Robert started his own business, Mountain Textiles, Inc., in 1979. “I supply janitorial cleaning and wiping materials to manufacturing, industrial, and construction concerns in the Southeast. Everybody needs rags!

I have two daughters, a stepson, a stepdaughter, and two grandchildren.

They call me Grandpa Bob. Music to my ears!”

“My journey over the years is one I could never have anticipated making while a student at Lovett: living the majority of my life in France with a passionate, rewarding life-long career.” Laura (Krugman) Vincens recalls, “After graduating from Washington University in St. Louis, I taught in Atlanta for one year and then went to Paris to study French. I met my future husband, but he spoke little English, so communication was limited. I returned home and enrolled in a master’s program in secondary school

counseling at Georgia State University. Jean Pierre, my future husband, received a scholarship to study at the University of Southern California. I invited him to Atlanta for the holidays and we renewed our relationship, moved to Paris, and were married.

The American School of Paris became a permanent fixture in my life. I have taught seventh grade language arts and social studied, initiated the first Middle School counseling program, and became the college counselor, a position I still hold today. We have two children, daughter Elise and son Philippe. Elise married an American, lives in Irvington, N.Y., and has three children. Philippe lives in Paris and works for Google.”

From 1968 to to 1989, Bill Leonard, Jr. spent his career in banking and real estate. In 1990, he turned his focus to representing high-growth technology companies in negotiating office leases.

“Through the Fellowship of Companies for Christ, I realized God gave me a business to use as a platform for ministry. In 1992, we started High Tech Ministries for people the Atlanta technology community. The ministry sponsors an annual prayer breakfast; a service initiative in partnership with inner-city ministries; a leadership training program; and weekly bible studies in technology companies throughout Atlanta. Sandy and I have been married 40 years and have two married children and six grandchildren. We are humbled that both of our children and their spouses have chosen to follow Christ and raise our grandchildren in the faith.”

The Lovett School has been a part of Yetty (Levenson) Arp’s life since 1960 when she transferred from Northside High School. “It was at Lovett I met my wonderful husband of 48 years, Charlie Arp ’62. Our three daughters—Kimberly, Shaune, and Megan—all attended Lovett, and our granddaughter, Brooke Arp Babbit, is a third grader in the Lower School. I have been involved with the Lovett Alumni Association since its nascent years. I conceived the idea, developed the business plan, and implemented the formation of the Alumni Campus Shop, which is still in operation today, and received the Aldredge Service Award. I began my real estate career with my family’s commercial company and retired in 2010. I since joined a residential company and was elected to the Atlanta Board of Realtors’ Multi-Million Dollar Sales Club my first year, and have been fortunate to reach this hallmark of achievement repeatedly. Daughter Kimberly has worked at CNN for 21 years; daughter Shaune is a sales associate for the Gagosian Gallery in New York City; and daughter Meggan has served as an assistant/ associate dean of Emory University’s College of Arts and Sciences and Oxford College of Emory University.

Charlie and I have a small cabin at Lake Rabun, which is our favorite retreat, enjoying the beauty of nature and the simplicity of life, which has been restorative and healthy.”

After graduating from Tulane, Wood Lovell was off to the Army Reserves for six years, where he trained as an Army medic. After deciding that he wanted to be a lawyer, he tried law school at Stetson for a year. “I felt Spring 2015 49

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that I had made the wrong decision, so I left and enrolled at Georgia State and took graduate history courses and became a history teacher at Stone Mountain High School. After a year, I had the good fortune to teach history and economics at Lovett for two years. In 1971, I married Cathy Louis ’66 and we had two wonderful sons, Wood, Jr. ’93 and Will ’97.

In 1974, I became a commercial real estate agent specializing in apartment sales. In 1976, I joined Griffin/Hicks Realty and Management Company, and through the magic of leverage, we accumulated a portfolio of 1,000 apartments over a 25-year period.

Cathy died in 1995, while Wood, Jr. was a sophomore at Duke and Will a rising sophomore at Lovett. In 1999, I married beautiful Jody. We moved to Highlands, N.C., in 2000 and began selling residential real estate and in 2008 became associated with Sotheby’s International Realty. When we have time, we spend it at St. Simons Island, where we have a home in Frederica Golf Club.”

Betty (Lyons) Newman attended Mary Baldwin College and Kennesaw State University. Her career has been in perinatal and neonatal nursing. She and her husband, now deceased, had two daughters. “Now I have three grandchildren, which happen to be one of my passions. I am living alone for the first time in my life and am finding it very fulfilling. It’s important to learn to enjoy your own company.

Residing in Highlands, N.C., is very conducive for reading, gardening, and hiking.”

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Class of 1984 30th Reunion

Nancy Maddox and Lisa Wade

John Hargrove, Kimbrough (Mobley) Gibson, Beaumont (Rooker) Lett, Lois (McKeown) Fulwiler

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After graduating, Zachary David Massey attended Tulane University and after a short stint in the military graduated from Georgia State University with a degree in business. He worked for Nalley Motor Trucks for 20 years. Son David Massey ’89, has two children, Maisy and Zach. “I was divorced and remarried in 1991. I play golf and love to fish on the Georgia

Coast. Katherine and I enjoy having the kids and grandkids visit us at our condo in Highlands, N.C.” Fleming McClelland attended Vanderbilt University. He was commissioned as a reserve second lieutenant in the U.S. Army, but rather than report for duty, he reported to The University of Georgia to attend

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graduate school, earning an M.A. and Ph.D. in English. While in graduate school he, “had the good fortune to meet Mary Anne and we married in Athens, and celebrated our 35 wedding anniversary this past June.”

After UGA, he joined the faculty of the University of Louisiana at Monroe as an assistant professor of English in Victorian literature. “Mary Anne and I spent 28 years in Louisiana, she teaching high school while I taught at the university. When I retired at the rank of professor, I was named Professor Emeritus of English. After retirement, we moved back to God’s Country (Athens) in 2009. I have been privileged to learn from many excellent teachers and colleagues; but I have known fewer than 10 individuals whom I consider to have been truly great teachers—and half of those exceptionally gifted talents taught me at Lovett. I am proud to be a Lovetteer!”

Bobby Mitchell graduated from Vanderbilt with a degree in chemical engineering in 1968. He married Sue Sterne then earned his master’s in ceramic engineering from Clemson in 1970. The couple then headed off to Ohio to begin Bobby’s career. “We moved six times in the first five years of our marriage, but it allowed me to get 25 years of experience in four!

We ultimately moved back to Atlanta and I taught at Tech for eight years. I bought an interest in a small, nearly defunct ceramic manufacturing company, Applied Ceramics, Inc.; we now have several companies and ventures with GM, Hyundai, Hitachi, Dow Chemical, and Mead Westvaco.

We joined several others and founded

a ministry, Fellowship Companies for Christ International. We equip and encourage CEOs and business owners to operate their businesses on biblical principles. Sue and I are still on this journey that has integrated business and ministry and given us great purpose and excitement in our lives.

I recently wrote a book, A Walk in the Market, which has been published in English and Chinese, and I received The Billy Graham Association’s National Award for Leadership in 2004. I have travelled all over the world, but we live one mile from Lovett and have three sons, all graduates of Lovett, and seven grandchildren—three of whom attend Lovett.”

Peter Corbin Moister attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and served in the U.S. Army.

His career has been in finance: investment banking, investment holdings, and investments in commercial real estate. In the 1990s, he graduated from Yale Divinity School and completed three years of Ph.D. studies in Ethics & Society at Emory’s Laney Graduate School. “In 1990 I began spending a lot time in Jackson Hole, Wyo., and in 2000 it became my primary residence with my secondary one in Atlanta.

It’s funny how some things turn out: when I was a kid, my family went camping out west, and I said one day I would return to live! Whitney and I take great pleasure in watching my nephews, Preston and Taylor Moister, John Gilchrist, Jr., and Josephine Prado, establish and manage their families and careers.”

Vince Murphy graduated from Vanderbilt University with a B.A. in chemistry. As a candidate in Officer School at Ft. Belvoir, Va., he found himself a senior to underclassmen Earle Yancey and Tim Yancey. As a new lieutenant, he worked in the Pentagon and was assigned as an aide to the Commanding General of the Ordnance Center and School. “I volunteered for Vietnam and served as a company commander and was awarded a Bronze Star for achievement in combat operations. Returning to Atlanta I starting working with my family’s construction company and was foreman of the crew that built the first concrete divider on I-85. I changed jobs and went into real estate. I formed a development company and built 19 tax-credit-funded apartment communities and operated those, plus 35 more for outside owners. My wife Kay and I have four daughters—Alysis, Dorothy, Elizabeth, and Erin—and four grandchildren.”

Gayle Poole attended Stratford College and Georgia State University. “I have lived my entire life in Atlanta.

My career has been in banking and customer service in the insurance industry. Since genealogy is one of my passions, I have traced my family’s history back to the 1300s.”

Patty (Potter) Ewald reflected on her college experiences—University of Tennessee, Clark University, and Harvard Business School—and her varied professional experiences—the Worcester Model Cities program, City of Worcester Director of Office of Cultural Affairs, Boston Consum-

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Choir Reunion December 4, 2014

Alumni members of the Lovett Choirs reunited for a reception following the annual Candlelight Service of Lessons and Carols at All Saints’ Episcopal Church. Special thanks to Alumni Board members Fran (Tidwell) Killebrew ’87, and alumni class leaders Clarke Davie ’85 and Cameron Bagley ’07 for organizing this wonderful event.

Cameron Bagley ’07, Ray and Beth Chenault, Andrew Bagley ’04

Katherine (Clarke) Buckner ’87 and Lesee (Whitaker) Googe ’87

Lara Kauffman, Fran (Tidwell) Killebrew ’87 and Clarke Davie ’85

Starr Pollock, Susan (Hennessy) Rich ’83, Ansley (Merritt) Conner ’83, Lynn Elliott

Bubba Dean ’88, Jerry Ulrich, Vance (Churchill) Dean ’87, Steve Brown

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ers Council, and the Massachusetts State Arts Council. She later moved to Washington, D.C., to run Labor Institute for Human Enrichment programs out of the AFL-CIO, and then to New York City to work for the Actors Studio as a director and producer. Since then, she adds, “I took Vaclav Havel protest plays to Prague when Havel became president, and co-produced Tribute to Vaclav Havel when he came to NYC. I have written plays, short stories, and a novel is in progress.

Currently I am writing a three-volume memoir of an oil executive/cowboy who fought in WWII, titled Sagebrush Dancing. I’m amazed at how fast life as gone. I miss family members who have passed and am finding aging a challenge and a journey. Looking forward to the third act.”

Jane (Reynolds) Sterne married William A. “Billy” Sterne in 1966 and lived in Atlanta until 2003 when they retired and moved to Hilton Head Island. “We have two daughters, Beth and Catherine, both graduates of Lovett, and now have two granddaughters attending Lovett,” she shared. “I owned a small landscape design and installation business in Buckhead for 20 years. Now in retirement I have taken up golf and bridge.”

Majoring in political science at Emory, Roman Knott Rice later became a researcher for U.S. Representative “Bo” Callaway and ultimately joined an Atlanta public relations group as research director, director of communications for the South Carolina Division of Administration, and then a legislative director for a citizen-taxpayer group. “For the next 27 years

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Arlington, Va., was my home base during the Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush Sr., Clinton, and Bush administrations. I helped found, lead and fund a number of political action committees. After spending several years in semi-retirement in the D.C. area, I decided to make a major lifestyle change, purchasing a 1950s beach house in Myrtle Beach, S.C. This last year and a half has been one long vacation and it finds me embracing more and more what my neighbors call the ‘Salt Life.’”

Carter Richardson Stalvey earned an A.B.J. degree from the University of Georgia and began as a reporter for the Raleigh News & Observer. Since then, he has served as a media supervisor in Lexington, Ky.; an account executive in Newport Beach, Calif.; and director of media services with Coca-Cola in Atlanta. “With Coke I traveled to 48 of the 50 states (missed the Dakotas!), but then turned a hobby into a money-making business, Thyme for Blooms, specializing in wedding and party flowers. Having fun raising two Springer puppies, Elvis and Otis.”

James Leckie Rives has a B.A. from Dartmouth College, an M.A. from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and an M.B.A. from the Amos Tuck School of Business. He started his career in commercial banking in New York City and later founded his own private investment group based in Charlotte, N.C. In 1996, he moved to Southern California as co-founder and number-two executive for a $75 million venture-backed company and stayed out west for the next decade. He

Class of 1989 25th Reunion

Katie (Dearing) Newton, Sarah French, Barb Ghegan

George Olmstead and Reid French

Tammy Jaje, Michael Jaje, Bates Mattison, Stephanie Mattison

Russ Vaughn, Mary Bell (Stolz) Vaughn, Charles Dowman

Laura (Coley) Law, Beth Marshall, Mike Marshall, Scott Law

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Colin Connolly, Kaseem Ladipo, Andy Wardner, Spenser Simrill

Catherine (Mitchell) Jaxon, Julie (Muir) Harlan, Catherine (Stone) Baugh, Susan (Caudell) Harris

Amy (Simone) Miller, Lindsay (Miller-Jones) Anderson, Sara (Mann) Moseley, Brandy Cross, Cheri (Sears) Vaniman

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moved back east to Etowah, N.C., and retired in 2011. He and his wife, Vicki, have been married more than 45 years and have three children and four granddaughters.

After graduating from Emory, Ellen (Robinson) Cleveland taught second grade for several years. “I decided my life needed a bit more adventure, so I applied to be a flight attendant for Delta. I enjoyed photographing faces and places. My husband, Jimmy, and I both grew up in Atlanta and have lived in Atlanta most of our lives. We are retired now and split our time between a condo on the St. Johns River in Jacksonville, Fla., and the eclectic mountain town of Asheville, N.C.” After Linda (Roelofs) Miller graduated from The University of Georgia, she completed her master’s degree in special education. In 1969, she married John B. Miller, Jr. “John was a law student at Georgia and I began my career as the liaison between the Clarke County school system and the county mental health clinic for children. The following year we moved to Atlanta and Jay began his law practice and I became the educational coordinator for the children’s unit of Georgia Mental Health Institute. Later, I became the director of the children’s program for the Atlanta Southside Community Mental Health Center and co-founded a school for children with learning disabilities. In order to work from home I have been tutoring upper level math and science, as well as SAT and ACT math preparation.” They have two sons: Troup graduated from Westminster and Alex from Lovett.

Both attended The University of Texas in Austin.

Betty (Schoen) Jarrell attended UGA, then married and had a son and a daughter. She later worked in a pediatrician’s office and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta’s Alpharetta Urgent Care Facility. She retired in December and is enjoying her extra time with her five grandchildren.

Betty also volunteers at E. Rivers School in an after-school program called the Good News Club, which is sponsored by her church. “Whenever I get a chance to get away,” Betty says, “I head to my favorite beach in Grayton, Fla.” Dotty (Shepherd) Moser and husband Walter have been married 17 years. They live in Amelia Island, Fla., and walk on the beach regularly as they live only four blocks from the ocean. Moser had her own business, Walk Thru Appraisal Services, appraising personal property for banks and insurance companies until she retired in 2011. She now has more time for bridge—she has played for 53 years—and recently won first place in an American Contract Bridge League-sponsored tournament in Michigan. She also has learned to play Mahjong and now plays weekly.

Dotty has two sons from a previous marriage and one grandson, Brody—“a true blessing and greatest joy to all.”

“I arrived in Atlanta from Pittsburgh on Labor Day 1961 and started 10th grade at Lovett the next day,” recalls Patty (Spear) Lemer. “You guys welcomed me, a Yankee, with open arms and even let me start a girls’ hockey team, an unknown sport until then!”

She attended Simmons College, married classmate Andy Lemer ’63,

and studied at Boston College for a master’s in counseling. After receiving an M.B.A. from Johns Hopkins, she ran a non-profit and became an expert in learning disabilities, deficit disorders, and autism spectrum disorders. She has written two books on autism treatments, including the successful Outsmarting Autism, which came out this past summer. She has lived in places as diverse as Australia and Kuwait, but she adds, “I always felt I belonged in Pittsburgh, where my roots are very deep. I left at age 15, and had the sense to move back 40 years later. I love it!” Divorced, she has a daughter, Liz Day, and a granddaughter, Penelope Joy. Anne Roberts Spring received a B.A. in English literature from Wesleyan College and an M.S. in community counseling from Georgia State University. She has lived in New York City and Boulder, Colo., and has traveled throughout the United States and to Jamaica, West Indies. “My career has been in publishing, advertising, and education, specifically special education in the public schools. I have had poems published in academic and literary journals. I am a Benedictine oblate (lay sister) connected with Sacred Heart Monastery in Alabama.”

Margaret (Sloan) Armstrong Staton has both a B.A. and M.Ed. from Georgia State University. She moved to Santa Barbara from Atlanta in 1996. “My family and I have traveled extensively in Western Europe.

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disability community, and formerly ran a foundation that assisted women with disabilities to earn graduate degrees. “I lead a quiet life, my choice,” she adds. “I cherish relationships with old and new friends via telephone, mail, or email.”

“I keep moving away from subdivisions!” exclaims Marianne Stribling. “From Atlanta, to Marietta, to Alpharetta, and finally to 220 acres in Rome. I think I’m safe for a while! I’ve met a woman who owns an adventure travel company and through her I have been able to hike all over the world—England, France, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, New Zealand, and even Iceland. When my second husband and I divorced, he took our steeplechase horses and I kept the broodmares. My passion and hobbies are the same—animals. The horses I race and the dogs I rescue all give so much and ask so little. I work with several animal rescue groups. I will not tell how many dogs and cats I have, but I will say I have nine horses in Rome and six more in Kentucky!”

After graduation from Lovett, Kirby Timmons enrolled in Oglethorpe University and then graduated from the University of Southern California. “Fresh out of USC, I did what most ambitious cinema auteurs do, I became an editor. After a steady diet of exploitation and industrial films, I had learned what ended up on the cutting room floor, so I graduated to writer. I was pleased and proud to be able to write for hit television shows, such as The Waltons, The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams, and The Incredible Hulk, and then went on to spend a quarter-century developing, writing, 56

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and producing training and instructional programs. One of my shows, The Abilene Paradox, ended up being a runaway bestseller and is still used in organizations all over the world. I lost my beloved Gloria to cancer in 2010. I have twin sons, Heath Cameron and Clay Patrick, and am blessed to be in contact with them every day, watching their mother’s dream for them, and my own, come to fruition. I have always been passionate about music and I bought my first piano at age 20.

I still have that piano, play regularly, and who knows? Next stop: Carnegie Hall!”

Karla May Tomfohrde began her career at the Centers for Disease Control. “I was fortunate to be assigned to the only General Bacteriology Lab in the CDC for three reasons. First, it allowed me to expand my knowledge for all groups of bacteria. Second, I joined CDC as commercial systems for identification and susceptibility testing of bacteria were just beginning to appear, and third, my work with these new systems provided me with my future employment opportunities.” She worked in commercial lab and technical positions in California, New York, and Virginia until her retirement. Now, with time to do so, she travels with a wonderful group of friends, to Italy, France, Australia, and South Africa, and to national parks across the United States.

After David Velkoff completed his residency at the University of California at Irvine Medical Center, he decided that he did not want to practice medicine. “It was the most courageous decision I ever made,” David recalls. “I became a principal in

a leading photographic art company in Los Angeles. Medicine became my hobby, not a career. I began to seriously train in Kung Fu/Tai Chi with a renowned Chinese master for more than 30 years, and it had a major impact on my life. I came back to medicine, but in enabling patients to use one’s mind-body process for healing.

I co-founded the Drake Institute of Behavioral Medicine and have been deeply involved in anti-aging technologies for the last decade. Those of us who make it another 10 years will have access to the newest anti-aging breakthroughs, which could provide another youthful 10 years—until the next breakthroughs occur.”

Richard H. Waters has been married to Ellen Stewart for 45 years. “We have a son and daughter and two grandchildren. I have had the same job for 45 years, selling metal-working machinery and controls for commercial satellite dishes. If you lost your picture during the Super Bowl, it was probably my fault.” The Waters divide their time between Lavonia on Lake Hartwell and Hernando Beach on the Gulf of Mexico north of Clearwater, Fla., when they are not traveling to one of the 75 countries they have visited. “My Spanish has improved greatly in the last 10 years,” Richard adds. “I got a good basis, plus an Iberian accent, from Dr. Julio Duarte at Lovett before he moved over to Emory. Life now is good and I want lots more.”

Peggy (Wilkerson) Reese and her husband, Buck, have been married for 47 years, with two beautiful daughters and seven grandchildren from age 2 to 20. They moved from Atlanta

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to Marietta in 1978 to start Young Life, and their travels have taken them all over Europe, Great Britain, Ireland, and Peru—including hiking 30 miles on the Inca Trail to Macchu Picchu. While Peggy did not actually graduate from Lovett—she left her junior year to attend Stratford Hall in Danville, Va.—she says it has been “such an honor to always be a part of the many reunions of the Lovett Class of 1964.”

“Among the class of 1964 I would probably rate the lowest on great ambitions, but highest on accomplished goals,” jokes Libba (Wilson) Alford. “I wanted to attend Vanderbilt University, be happily married, have three children close in age, and be a ‘stay home’ mom. I wanted to live in a neighborhood where children could talk to each other over the fence and play together outside every day.

I was blessed with all of these!” Libba was also very active in the local public schools of McComb, Miss., helping to start a preschool program and a tutoring program, be a member of the school board, and lead work with the Governor to establish Mississippi public kindergartens. She then went on to work with the Salvation Army about to teach high school Sunday School and lead the Salvation Army Girl Guard scouting program. She and her husband, Jim, now empty nesters, sold their home and renovated an old downtown tire warehouse into loft living. “We were ahead of our time,” she says.

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three children, Melissa, Hunter, and Jennifer, and three grandchildren, Cameron, Kylie, and Brandon. “I have been a commercial real estate broker/owner for more than 40 years,” says Don. “It is wonderful to be able to live in paradise, own a successful commercial real estate business, still be working at 67, and love what I do!”

After graduating from the University of Georgia, Earl Yancey joined the U.S. Army, ultimately serving as a supply management officer at the largest military depot in the world, providing logistical support for U.S. forces in Vietnam and the Pacific Theater. He later completed his M.B.A. and began a successful career in finance, commercial real estate finance, and commercial real estate development. He and his wife, Lynne, have one daughter, Deupree, and he has three stepchildren: Mary Catherine ’85 and Eileen and Billy ’89. Earl enjoys running (and has run about 30 Peachtree Road Races), flying, boating, and scuba-diving.

a career in real estate in Atlanta,” she writes. “I still enjoy riding horses, hunting, playing tennis, traveling, and—most recently—I have joined the ‘Annie Oakleys,’ learning how to shoot sporting clays.”

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Jill (Partain) Allen is enjoying her twin grandsons, Adam and Luke Greene, born October 7, 2013. Sadly, Jill lost her father, J. O. Partain, Jr., in 2014.

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Daniel Collins is in his 35th year at Morgan Stanley and has been married for 33 years to wife Theresa, who teaches at Mt. Bethel Elementary in East Cobb. Their oldest son, Clint, lives in Raleigh, N.C., where he is employed by Credit Suisse. Their other son, Matt, works for Southeastern Engineering, Inc. in Marietta. Daughter Sarah is a freshman at Georgia Southern majoring in vocal performance.

Tim B. Yancey graduated from Presbyterian College and then served in the U.S. Army, Army Corps of Engineers. Later, he worked for AMF Head Tennis Division as a sales manager in the Southeast and then as a manufacturer’s representative in the tennis and golf business. Recently retired, he hopes to play more gold in the future.

Beckie (Hall) Dearing writes to her classmates, “Thanks so much for keeping up with me. I appreciate it a lot. In 1999, I married the love of my life, Christopher Dearing. Life is going great. Good things are worth the wait.

My children are doing as well as can be. Y’all are an amazing group of friends. I wish everyone the best!”

After Lovett, Bonnie Young attended Bradford Junior College in Haverhill, Mass., and graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill. “I tried several different jobs and finally settled on

Terri L. Hammond retired after more than 33 years with Cobb County.

“I am now enjoying life with my absolutely rotten toy poodle Abby! I was very involved with helping the

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Your Alumni Advantage January 27, 2015

Lovett welcomed John Schuerholz, president of the Atlanta Braves, for the first event of the Alumni Advantage Series: A Legacy of Leadership, a business speaker series designed for working professionals in our Lovett alumni family.

Hagan Dick ’02, Joey Hedgemon ’91, Tyler Caswell ’04, Alex Thomas ’04, Ray Crim ’63, John Schuerholz, Sabrina (Altenbach) Gibson ’04, Kurt Hohlstein ’76, Hadley Benton ’88, Dan Regenstein ’01

Romney campaign in 2012. I recently returned from a two-week vacation in Hawaii, Waikiki Beach, where my youngest niece lives.”

Julie (Hancock) Jones still loves living in Paris. “I miss seeing all of you and appreciate all the work that went into the reunion,” Julie writes. “My son Reg, Class of 2000, is working in Seoul, South Korea, for Samsung.

I even got up the courage to go see him. We had a great time and now I can check Asia off my list! I miss everyone and hope anyone coming to Paris will give me a call; I still get homesick sometimes!”

“My retirement after 23 years at Lovett is my biggest news. It was great fun at Lovett, but it is also nice to do things on my own time,” shares Marcia (Johnson) Sisson. She is in recovery mode after a bad break in her foot.

Sharon Samford and William (Strib) Stribling’s oldest grandchild, Jack, is in first grade at Lovett. “All of our grandchildren live in Atlanta,” they share. “We love watching them play sports.”

John Savage shares, “I moved from Augusta to Potsdam, N.Y., after I divorced in 2006. I have an active practice doing reconstructive knee and hip surgery, as well as other common orthopedic procedures like arthroscopy and fracture care. I hope to retire and move to Atlanta in a year or two, and continue a practice of sorts while I grow my art in sculpting

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Class of 2004 10th Reunion

Alison (Brantley) Ulbrandt, Sandy Chapman, Michael Bleke, Mary Alissa Phillips, Will Wagstaff

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Sandy Chapman, John Gardner, Laura (Clark) Bartlett, Taylor Bartlett

Tyler Caswell, Charles Slick, Rachel (Avery) Simpson, Pete Anastasi

Members of the Class of 2004

Johnson Bazzel and Harrison Bain

Class of 2004 gathers with Billy Peebles

Betsy (Keough) Flood, Austen (Clark) Tully, Maggie (Goode) Bradford

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and painting. I’m currently doing an occasional commissioned work and recently completed a life-size bronze of a football coach in Ashland, Ky. Before moving to New York, I completed a statue of James Brown for the city of Augusta.”

I came full circle from jail to bail to no wife.

Guy Tucker has a busy, happy life.

The song was sung differently than I would have thought, But when it was all done I got more than I sought.

Serena Phillips Vick and Whit are living on St. Simons Island. “We love island life. Son Carter and Lauren Vick are married and living in Manhattan. Son Charlie and Janice Vick are married and living in Decatur. We have two beagles, Ben and Katie.”

Patty (Taulman) Wills moved to the country and is raising grass-fed beef.

While centrifugal forces of events pulled me outward, Family and friends that remained pushed me forward.

Two wonderful kids and a family that remained true, when life’s real meaning coming seemingly out of the blue.

I just wish I knew as much as I thought I knew when in school, But at least I know what I don’t know so that I am nobody’s fool.

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Andy Bairstow’s middle son, Will, is engaged. No grandchildren yet! He enjoys houseboating at Lake Lanier.

Robbie (Smith) Caswell’s second grandson, Owen Scott Simonsen, was born September 2, 2014. Owen and his older brother, Paul, are both children of daughter Eleanor (Caswell) Simonsen ’03.

Fraser Duke shared his poem “The Song Sung So Far” (written September 30, 2014) with his classmates at the reunion: Two score years ago I left Lovett bemused, Then left for only college where I was not refused.

For 23 years, Jane Ellington has enjoyed working at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. She is presently CHOA’s director of volunteer services.

Margo (Meyerson) Ellis’ Virginia home is four miles from the White House. While that may sound very urban, she is actually nestled in a wonderful wooded area that reminds her of Atlanta. “Though our empty nest feels great, we are active travelers.”

She is still very happy working and enjoys the luxury of her own hours.

Richard Gerakitis appreciates the selfless effort of Alison LeCraw in keeping the Class of 1974 connected.

Grandfather to Nell Adley Norton, Charles Hankey is “enjoying life.”

Sheryl and J. Carl Jackson, Jr. have been married almost 36 years. Their oldest son, Justin, is a senior at Georgia Tech and currently studying with Tech’s European campus in Metz, France. Adam is a rising junior at the University of Georgia and studying mechanical engineering.

Bert Jordan’s law firm celebrated its 25th anniversary recently. “I wish I had done my summer reading in high school,” he notes.

Michael Keough’s youngest child, Patrick, graduated from Lovett last May. “All our kids went to Notre Dame and both of our daughters are now married,” he shares.

Alison (Harp) LeCraw has been working with her husband running a home inspection business since 1995.

They have four grown kids and three grandkids. “I enjoy weekends at our lake cabin in Jasper, playing bridge, watercolor painting, and our grandchildren. I have really loved keeping up with classmates through the email news I send out.”

Susan (Littlejohn) Percy’s daughter, Caroline, is a sophomore at UGA studying interior design. She is a member of Delta Delta Delta. Son Grant is a junior at North Atlanta High School and a goalie for the lacrosse team. “Lee and I celebrated our 22nd wedding anniversary in September. We hope to go back soon to Florence, Italy, where we married.”

“I am so sorry that I will not be able to attend the reunion,” wrote Susan (Larkin) Markert. “I wish to all a

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wonderful celebration and reunion.

Best wishes to our 1974 class. May God bless each of you with love, family, and wonderful memories!”

all over the country to help with a wide variety of cases, including deaths, injuries, and product liability.

David McWilliams and his family have lived in Miami for 14 years and he is in his sixth year with U.B.S. Financial Services. He commutes to New York each week. His oldest daughter, Allison, is on a five-month trip around the world; Reid is a junior at Amherst; Cole is a senior in high school; and his youngest daughter, Ivy, is a freshman. “Our household is busy!”

Happily living in Williamsburg, Va., Louise (Patton) Pritchard runs a consulting business that focuses on small- to medium-sized businesses in the public and private sectors. She enjoys serving as executive partner at the Mason School of Business M.B.A. program at The College of William and Mary, where she focuses primarily on leadership development. She has two daughters living in Atlanta and one in Charlotte. She and her husband, Arlie, enjoy spending time with them and with friends at their home on Lake Burton.

“Five grandchildren and one on the way,” shares Jane (Gelzer) Menendez. Enough said!

Missy (Groome) Milner lives in Athens and works in Winder. “My three children are all married, and each family has two boys. My six grandsons range from one to nine years and all live close to me. I’m dating a wonderful person. Life is good!”

John Shepard notes that, “I am enjoying the empty nest after putting two children through Lovett and college!”

Kathy (Black) Shoji’s daughter Haley is a PR major at the University of Alabama and graduates in the summer of 2015. Daughter Lillian is a junior at Blessed Trinity High School and very active in the theater and dance programs and plays the piano. “Yasuo and I dressed up our large ponies, Driving Miss Daisy and Charlie Brown, for trick or treating at Halloween. Daisy wore a tiara and tutu and Charlie was quite handsome.

Otherwise, I’m painting and counting bales of hay.”

Billy Shuford’s son William married in January.

Brigadier General Burke Whitman (below) is in Afghanistan serving with the United States Marine Corps. He serves on Lovett’s Board of Trustees, and on the boards of the Toys for Tots Foundation, Defense Policy Board, Federation of American Hospitals, Institute for the Study of War, Marine Corps University, National Museum of the Marine Corps, and his church.

After 30 years working in aerospace for the shuttle program, John Moore is currently enjoying “forced retirement” through a temporary layoff.

He has been involved in local community theater for 10 years where he acts, builds sets, does tech work, and spends time with his wife and kids, who also participate in the theater.

Chris Olley retired from the DeKalb Medical Examiners Office as a forensic technician 15 years ago. He now works with the same medical examiner, Dr. Joseph Burton, in a consulting firm. They are hired by attorneys Burke Whitman ’74, right, with a BC alum, both enjoying a friendly rivalry from overseas.

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the answer to “what’s for supper” for locals and vacationers alike. The Henrys are very thankful for their devoted Atlanta friends and delighted to have stayed in touch with so many.

“Beach life is great,” she says, “but we still love coming ‘home’ to the bright lights of Atlanta!”

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Mark Turner (above) welcomed his first grandson, Baker Maddox Hammons, on December 10, 2014. He is named after Baker Turner, his great grandfather and former principal of Lovett’s Upper School.

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Christine (Taquechel) Mattei and her husband, Tory, live in Sandy Springs with their three children. Christian is a freshman at St. Pius X, Lindsey is in 7th grade, and Andrew is in 4th. She continues to work in international marketing for UPS and just marked her 20th anniversary with the company. Tory has his own consulting company. “Life is busy, but good!”

Tammy (Friedman) Stanton lives in Asheville, N.C.

Paul Hackett is proud to announce that his youngest son and last child, Harrison, will graduate from Lovett this year!

Todd Stratton’s daughter, Claire, graduated from Lovett in 2014 and is attending Miami University (Ohio).

In 2002, Sassy (Carragher) Henry, her husband, Brian, and their two daughters, May May (15) and Camille (13), moved from Atlanta to Pawleys Island, S.C., to run Sea View Inn. Innkeeping has been an awesome experience for their family, and it has led to two additional business ventures. Palmetto Cheese, “the pimento cheese with soul,” a family recipe and menu favorite of their guests, went on the market in 2006 and is now the top-selling pimento cheese in 32 states and close to 6,000 stores. In 2011 Sassy launched Get Carried Away “Southern Take-Out” and it has become

Class of 1987

Caroline Abney joined King & Spalding as a human resources generalist in 2002 and became the human resources manager in 2004. In 2010, her position was expanded to manage the firm’s diversity efforts globally and she was promoted to associate director of Human Resources & Diversity this year.

president of the Buckhead Heritage Society and recently completed his second full IRONMAN.

Class of 1992

John Schwarb lives in Indiana where he is senior manager of communications at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

His wife, Amy, works in communications at the NCAA. They debate frequently about which is the greater sporting event, the Indianapolis 500 or March Madness.

Class of 1994

Lindsay (Miller-Jones) Anderson is business partner and dating coach at a company regularly featured on The Steve Harvey Show and The Today Show.

She teaches professional singles how to find love online and how to be a great date. She is also the vice president of membership for the Junior League of Chicago and on the board for the 606 (similar to New York’s Highline), which will be open to the public in the spring.

Gregor Avison is living the good life in Colorado.

After moving up and down the East Coast for 10 years, Arlene Dijamco and her husband are happily settled in Roswell with their four girls and a new practice.

Class of 1988

Wright Mitchell recently opened his own law practice, Mitchell Law, specializing in employment law, civil litigation, and land use and zoning.

Wright continues to volunteer as

Coach Charlie Finch led Lovett’s own 2014 AA State Track and Field team to a state championship!

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Married since 2009, Emily Thomas Kendrick and her husband work hard at their jobs at Arrow Exterminators. “We’re having a blast growing my family’s 50-year-old company.

In our free time we spend as much time as possible with our 9-year-old grandson here in Atlanta. When not working or spending time with our grandson, we are hiking or skiing at our home in Winter Park or scuba diving.”

Sara (Mann) Moseley started her own marketing consulting company, Right on Pointe, in 2012, and is the proud mother of two boys Mitchell, 6, and Spencer, 3.

Cheri (Sears) Vaniman is currently working on her specialist degree in leadership.

Elizabeth (Kane) Wing’s women’s clothing store opened on Atlanta’s west side. It is aptly named Kane.

Class of 1995

Michelle Bracken is living in Dallas, Texas. She has worked at GE for 12 years and presently serves as a manager of risk analytics for GE Capital.

Class of 1998

Stephanie (Cline) Mills and family recently relocated to West Palm Beach, Fla. They welcomed a son, Conrad Christopher, in August. Her husband, Chris, is an attorney and she is a stay-at-home mother to Sutton (5), Lucy (3) Annemarie (2), and baby boy Conrad.

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Kashi Sehgal, CEO of Gigabark, was featured in the Atlanta Business Chronicle’s “40 Under 40.” Kashi also runs a nonprofit program called Mentor Walk, aimed at reducing high school dropouts, and the nonprofit annual technology conference South-WIRED (formerly Digital Atlanta).

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Dorian Lamis, Ph.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist and an assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Emory University School of Medicine.

He received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Georgia and his doctorate from the University of South Carolina.

Class of 2001

Kabir Sehgal has been quite busy lately. Last May, the New York investment banker and his mother published Bucket of Blessings, a children’s book they co-wrote that reached No. 8 the New York Times best-seller list for children’s picture books. In February, Kabir won a Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Album for “The Offense of The Drum” by Arturo O’Farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra. He served as the album’s executive producer and wrote the liner notes. And then, in March, Kabir published his latest book, Coined: The Rich Life of Money and How Its History Has Shaped Us, and returned home to Atlanta for a reading and book signing at The Carter Center.

Class of 2002

March: Book Two, co-authored by Congressman John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell, was released in January. It is the sequel to bestseller March: Book One in a much-heralded graphic novel trilogy. The Washington Post book review said of March: Book Two, “A must-read monument. . . . As Rep. Lewis continues to carry the civil-rights flame, this graphic achievement is a firsthand beacon that burns ever relevant today.”

Director Danielle Bernstein’s documentary film, Imba Means Sing, was featured in the 2015 Atlanta Film Festival. The independent feature proves the power of music and the empowering impact of an education.

In October, Ansley (West) Rivers’ photography was on display at Gallery L1 as part of Atlanta Celebrates Photography. She received her M.F.A. from the California College of the Arts and her B.F.A. from the University of Georgia. Ansley lives and works with her husband on their farm on the coast of Georgia.

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Abbey Ghegan works as a senior search consultant at Homrich, Klein & Associates in Atlanta.

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Class of 2009 5th Reunion

Alana Burns, John Gerakitis, Austin Davis, Connor Wakamo

Michael Steele and Whitney Kenney

Mack Emerson, Chip George, Daniel Domanico

Tyler Silverman, North Winship, Frank Keith, Burton Dunlap

Quinn Irby, Caroline Davenport, John Gerakitis, Addie Schoen, Alyssa Botts

Amanda Dunn, Charlie Low, Carolina Ivey, Katie Adams

Lollie Corrigan, Gabrielle Eichenblatt, Elizabeth Bowling

Class of 2009 with reunion planner, Mary Scott Wolters

Stewart Coleman, Alex Reese, Martin Connell, Lee Price, Taylor Clark

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Class of 2007

Betsy (Keough) Flood is living in Chicago with her husband, Matt, an ophthalmology resident at Loyola University Medical Center. Betsy is an attorney with the law firm Burke, Warren, MacKay & Serritella, P.C., and focuses her practice on First Amendment issues and matters related to religious institutions.

Solo artist Eric Nam kicks off a fourcity American tour this February with concerts in New York, Atlanta, Dallas, and Los Angeles. Eric has released two new singles in advance of his tour. Eric was originally discovered through one of his cover songs on YouTube and invited to appear on Korea’s Birth of a Great Star 2 in 2012, finishing in the Top 5. He released his first album, Cloud 9, in 2013. Follow Eric’s singing career at <www.ericnam.com>.

Laura (Clark) Bartlett is an architect in Birmingham, Ala., where she lives with her husband, Taylor. Prior to her current position, Laura worked in the international market in London. Her projects included high-end commercial and residential work in Dubai, India, and London, one of which was featured as the Wall Street Journal’s House of the Day. When she isn’t designing, she still enjoys playing the cello and traveling to new and exciting places that may influence her work back home.

Class of 2008

Daniel Domanico deepened his Lovett roots and married fellow alum, Lea Sedehi ’08, on March 15, 2014!

In physician assistant school at Mercer University, Jessica Martin will graduate in May 2016.

Kevin Reagen is currently living in Sydney, Australia, and attending graduate school at the University of Sydney where he is studying international conflict. He will complete his master’s degree in December 2015.

In 2014, Melissa Siegel was teaching English on a Fulbright Fellowship in Malaysia. In 2015, she is teaching in Shanghai, China.

Sarah Kelly is living in Charleston, S.C., and helped open Minero, the newest restaurant by James Beardaward winning chef Sean Brock. Sarah reports that Minero will open an Atlanta location in Ponce City Market this spring.

After a year working as a medical assistant at Piedmont Hospital, Elizabeth Thorpe began physician assistant school. She plans to graduate in May 2017.

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Class of 2009

Class of 2010

Drew Beskin is general manager for the Georgia Theater in Athens.

James Loper has launched a new business, Hux.com. Hux allows customers to visit a secure online marketplace and select from a group of prescreened local service providers (presently house cleaners), view availability, confirm appointments instantly, and pay after the service is complete. He and his partner plan to expand this model into other local services.

Lyndsey Peters graduated from the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., in 2014 and was commissioned as an officer in the U.S. Navy. Lyndsey successfully completed four years of intensive academic, physical, and professional training, resulting in a bachelor of science degree with a major in aerospace engineering. Following graduation, Ensign Peters was assigned to the Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Fla., where she continues flight training to become a Navy pilot.

Still keeping one foot firmly in the world of lacrosse, Alex Heaton will coach at a clinic in Berlin, Germany, with Victoria Lacrosse Club. He will also coach club teams in Oslo, Krakow, and London while working with GE Capital International in London.

Alex also serves as an assistant coach with Lovett’s varsity team.

Merrill Ricketts graduated from Rhodes College with a B.A. in accounting and an M.A. from Tulane.

She is an accountant with Deloitte and living in New Orleans.

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Class of 2011

Mackenzie Towles works for Beacham & Company Realtors as a marketing assistant.

Vanessa Wilkins graduates from Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at University of Southern California this spring. She is applying to graduate school to continue her studies.

Class of 2012

Coleman Barrie is studying structural engineering in the University of Georgia’s new engineering program.

“My plan is to work with offshore oil rig structures or possibly a renewable energy source concerning the ocean.

This past November I contacted a faculty member about a research opportunity and started January 20!

The research consists of modeling and designing currents and sediment traps in the deep ocean. I am very excited about the possibility of three papers being published!”

Caroline Deisley was named a 2014 recipient of the Chick Hearn Scholarship Award for a student attending the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. Caroline is a junior at USC, studying broadcast journalism and sports media studies and business and hopes to be a sports anchor. She is a multimedia journalist and weather anchor with Annenberg TV News, USC’s student-run television channel. Caroline is also a social media assistant with

USC’s athletic department, helping manage its Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram accounts; contributing to the department’s blog, USCRipsIt; and running a live chat during Trojan football games. She has been an intern with Fox Sports Digital and Mandalay Sports Media.

Nana Koranteng received the ABC-Experiment in International Living scholarship her junior year of college. She went to Turkey for a month and continues to travel.

Last summer, she interned in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She spent the fall semester studying abroad in Amman, Jordan.

Class of 2014

Grant Haley was among four freshmen who earned a 3.0, Dean’s List, and contributed on the gridiron for Penn State this season. Grant Haley’s speed earned him notice early in Penn State’s 2014 August practice sessions. He was a factor on special teams coverage, as a return man, and as a reserve corner for the Nittany Lions. He finished with 18 tackles (12 solos) this season. Haley’s on-field highlight was his 30-yard interception return for a touchdown in Penn State’s win over Temple.

Caroline Deisley ’12 with her mom, Laura, Lovett’s director of strategic innovation

Submit your class note at <www.lovett. org/alumni/submit-a-class-note>.

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Alumni Weddings

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Christy Nickles to Allen Bell, July 12, 2014.

Matt Tritschler to Julie Lebreton, October 11, 2014.

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Graham Railey to Katie Shea, July 13, 2013.

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Coley Young to Judson Cuttino, May 17, 2014.

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Anne Kagey to Alex Blench, September 27, 2014.

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Sarah Heald to Zach Thwaite â&#x20AC;&#x2122;03, August 16, 2014.

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Lynn Bazzel to Samuel Wilmoth, September 13, 2014.

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2006

Laura Young to Billy Morgan, July 19, 2014.

Katie Jackson to Chris Riley ’06, August 23, 2014.

Amanda Siegel to Adam Newquist ’05, November 1, 2014.

2010

Kelsey Melito to Ryan Shackelford, January 10, 2015.

2007

Caroline Davis to Will Hughes, November 1, 2014.

2008

Lea Sedehi to Daniel Domanico ’09, March 15, 2014.

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Leslie Wade to Matthew Wooldridge ’05, December 31, 2014.

1 Chris Wimmer ’04, Stephen Wright ’04, Anne (Kagey) ’04 Blench, Stutz Wimmer, Jacqueline (Petro) Ruiz ’04, Amy Mahoney ’04 2 Will and Caroline (Davis) ’07 Hughes 3 Graham ’03 and Katie Railey with lots of Lovett friends 4 Judson and Coley (Young) ’04 Cuttino 7

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5 Billy and Laura (Young) ’06 Morgan 6 Ryan and Kelsey (Melito) ’10 Shackelford 7 From the Class of 2002: Mack Horton, Hagan Dick, Matt Tritschler, Taylor Dozier, Bynum Boley 8 Chris ’06 and Katie (Jackson) ’06 Riley 9 Matthew ’05 and Leslie (Wade) ’08 Wooldridge 10 Daniel ’09 and Lea (Sedehi) ’08 Domanico

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Submit your baby announcement at <www.lovett.org/alumni/baby>.

Alumni Babies

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1 Lucas, son of Jim and Jacquelyn (Jones) ’92 Foley 2 Pearce, son of Jared and Meaghan (Goodwin) ’97 Boyd 3 Jordan, son of Chris and Kelly (Johnson) ’92 Hodgdon

1991

Sean and Tifini McGill, a son, Lucas Stephen, July 15, 2014.

4 Ridings, daughter of Knox ’99 and Ridey Wyatt 5 Eleanor Grace, daughter of Ted and Lauren (Millichap) ’95 Boehm 6 Rachel, daughter of Kyle ’00 and Stephanie George 7 Davis, son of Beau and Kristen (Klee) ’02 Brinkley 8 Dave and Natalie (d’Aubermont) ’96 Thompson with their children, including new daughter, Noelle

Correction

Our apologies to Kyle ’00 and Stephanie George for a misprint in the last issue of Lovett. Their daughter, Rachel, was born January 16, 2014 (photo 6).

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1992

Chris and Kelly (Johnson) Hodgdon, a son, Jordan Matthew, October 7, 2014.

Jim and Jacquelyn (Jones) Foley, a son, Lucas James, December 21, 2014.

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Jason and Laura (Granson) Griffin, a daughter, Rosemary Elisabeth, October 17, 2014.

Chris and Stephanie (Cline) Mills, a son, Conrad Christopher, August 11, 2014.

Pierce and Lollie (Henry) Owings, a daughter, Lillian Kimble, June 6, 2014.

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1999

Dave and Natalie (dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Aubermont) Thompson, a daughter, Noelle, May 27, 2014.

Knox and Ridey Wyatt, a daughter, Ridings Gardner, May 22, 2014.

1997

Jared and Meaghan (Goodwin) Boyd, a son, Pearce Jackson, June 12, 2014.

Russ and Sara Richards, triplets, Abby, Charlie and Trox, November 10, 2014.

Beau and Kristen (Klee) Brinkley, a boy, Davis Brooks, October 9, 2014.

2003

Brandon and Alice (Fairbank) Emerson, a son, Connor Rex, April 17, 2014.

Eric and Eleanor (Caswell) Simonsen, a son, Owen, September 2, 2014.

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In Memoriam John Yancey Abbott ’65 Thomas C. Bianco Parent of alumna Rebecca Cowan Busbey Parent of alumni Catherine Roll Calvert Parent of alumni Eleanor McCarty Cheney Parent of alumna

Campus Bulletins

Mark Your Calendars!

Alumni Homecoming 2015

Friday, October 23 Complimentary LowCountry BBQ, 5:30 pm, Middle School Plaza Homecoming football game, 7:30 pm, Kilpatrick Stadium Class Reunions Saturday, October 24 Classes of 1970, 1975, 1980, 1985, 1990, 1995, 2000, and 2005

Golden Lions Society

Alumni and spouses from the Classes of 1962, 1963, 1964, and 1965 Save the Date The Inaugural Golden Lions Society Gala

Saturday, November 28 Class of 2010

James Christopher Deisley Parent of alumni George Abram Dusenbury III Parent of alumni Betty Jane Bell Elarbee Parent of alumni Dorothy Chapman Fuqua Parent of alumni, grandparent of alumni, former trustee George Goodwin Parent of alum, former trustee Owen Halpern ’70 I. David Harris Former faculty Frances Elizabeth “Beth” Johnson ’82

For more information, visit the Lovett website at <www.lovett.org/alumni>.

Gayle England Bickerstaff Kennedy Parent of alumni, grandparent of alumni

Summer Programs

Jacqueline Thiesen Reynolds Kennedy Parent of alumni Pamela Blume McAllister Parent of alumni

Saturday evening, April 25, 2015 Capital City Club, Brookhaven

Helen Hatch Means Parent of alumni, grandparent

The Golden Lions Society is for all Lovett alumni who have reached or passed the 50th anniversary of their graduation.

Martha “Cissy” Walker McCord Parent of alumnae Leedel Matthews Prince ’69 When school is out, the Summer Programs at Lovett are in!

All school-age children in the Atlanta area are invited to attend, so make plans to spend the summer on the Riverbank.

Summer school, summer camps, enrichment, study skills, test prep, and more! <www.lovett.org/summerprograms>

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Janet Royce Mills Former faculty, parent of alumni Clyde Armand Rodbell Parent of alumni Marion Kiser Sanford—Little Lovett Grandparent Mary Virginia Thomas Sewell Parent of alumnae Dorothy Anne Wellman Voegeli Parent of alumni Dr. Jack R. Walker Parent of alumni Dr. John Michael Walker ’79 Jo.Lane Cheves Wright Parent of alumni, grandparent of alumnae