THE SCHOOL MAGAZINE • COMMENCEMENT 2016
Celebrating the Class of 2016
MISSION
Hutchison School is dedicated to academic excellence and to the parallel development of mind, body, and spirit as it educates young women for success in college and for lives of integrity and responsible citizenship.
H U TC H I S O N M AG A Z I N E
Commencement 2016
DR. ANNETTE C. SMITH
WHITNEY MILLER ’88
President and Head of School
Te c h n o l o g y D i r e c t o r
C A R O L I N E B L AT T I
R A N DY O L SW I N G
Upper School Head
A s s i s t a n t H e a d f o r O p e ra t i o n s
C AT H E R I N E C H U B B
M A R K M . PA R K E R
At h l e t i c s D i r e c t o r
A s s i s t a n t H e a d f o r D eve l o p m e n t
ANN MARIE CRUMP
L AU R A S H Y
L owe r S c h o o l H e a d
Enrollment Management Director
T R AC E Y Z E R W I G F O R D
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Max Maddock
Middle School Head
Senior Communications Director
LO R I G U Y
P H OTO G R A P H Y
S t ra t e g i c C o m m u n i c a t i o n s D i r e c t o r
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Holland Studio
Early Childhood Head
O N T H E COV E R L to R: Seniors Evey Eason, Hallie Robison, Chayce Foster, Piper Bell, Koko Ray, Carter Coleman, Carolyn Simpson; Flower girls, front row: Lucy Carmichael ’28, Emily Weber ’28, Emma Coe ’28; middle row: Margaret Campbell ’28, Zoë Young ’29; back row: Tinsley Anderson ’28, Mary Campbell Elmore ’28
L to R: Abby Crane Budzak ’28, Zoey Sisnett ’29, Head of School Dr. Annette Smith, Madden Culpepper ’27, Virginia Bowie ’28
dear friends, We applaud, celebrate, and wish the best success to the Class of 2016, a passionate group of young women whose joyful spirits and zest for life have left an indelible mark on our school. As their teachers, coaches, and peers challenged, inspired, and called them higher, these girls rose to the occasion, demonstrating a grit and resilience that will serve them well in college and life. Through hard work and perseverance, they gained admission to 110 colleges and universities (including 26 honors programs) and earned more than $8.25 million in scholarship awards. Because of demonstrated excellence in academics, athletics, and the arts, 89 percent of this class earned merit scholarships—no small feat given the fierce competitiveness of college admissions in our country. While these girls will begin exciting new chapters of their lives this fall, I trust that their time spent at Hutchison will prove only more precious with each passing year. As generations of our alumnae often attest, the experiences they had, the interests they developed, and the friendships they formed at Hutchison helped shape their remarkable lives. Sincerely,
Annette C. Smith, Ed.D. President and Head of School
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Congratulations to the Class of 2016!
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2016 COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER
Dr. Margaret West Hodges ’01 The following is an excerpt; to read the full
have prepared you for your future careers and accomplishments. Something else I learned in Hutchison prepared me for school was the value of friendship. my life, and I hope I can help give I went to Hutchison for 14 years today’s graduates some words of and the friends that I made are like wisdom and a little reminder of no other. We just had our 15-year how well they are prepared for their reunion, and it was great to see so future. many of my classmates. The crazy We are all so blessed to have part is that I see many of them all had our lives touched by Hutchison. the time, no matter where they live: Whether a graduate, parent, grandCalifornia, New York, Texas. These parent, friend, or current student, friends and these bonds are stronit is obvious that the culture at ger than many of my other relationHutchison creates self-confidence ships. There is something special that helps its graduates excel. about high school friends. They are I wonder how my life might have irreplaceable. I challenge all of you been different without this Hutchigirls to make sure that you keep in son experience. At how many other touch while away. It will surprise schools would a student be allowed you how much you will cherish It is now time to continuously debate the answers your Hutchison friends throughout for the next phase in in English class? At how many other your life. schools would they be challenged You will all have ups and downs your life. While it may to deal with an advanced biology in college. Whether academically, be scary, it is also class that in every respect was an socially, or emotionally, college is Ivy League college-level course? so exciting ... Believe in a new and a different place. But Without these experiences, I may the foundation that you have been not have been allowed to “dream yourself and you will provided here at Hutchison, and the big.” I might have shied away from friends you have made, will make it make a difference. a degree in life sciences. I may much easier. You are all much more not have had the courage to deal confident, more prepared, and more with pre-med classes or exams. I may not even have versatile than you were just a few short years ago. become a physician or developed the self-confidence It is now time for the next phase in your life. While to deal with sick children and their worried parents. I it may be scary, it is also so exciting to think of the hope that as you, the Class of 2016, go forward, you impact you, the Hutchison Class of 2016, can have on focus on how well you are prepared. You may never your family, your friends, your community, and your fully realize how many advantages you will take away career as you become who you want to be. Believe in from this school, but the years you spent at Hutchison yourself and you will make a difference.
speech, visit hutchisonschool.org/2016speeches
Dr. Margaret West Hodges attended Hutchison School from kindergarten through high school, graduating in 2001. She received a Bachelor of Science in marine biology from Auburn University, graduating summa cum laude, and her Doctorate of Medicine from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. Dr. Hodges completed her residency in pediatrics with the University of Tennessee College of Medicine/LeBonheur Children’s Hospital and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and is currently a pediatrician with Pediatric Consultants/LeBonheur Pediatrics. She recently married and resides in Memphis with her husband, Reese Hodges, and their three large dogs. 4 | Hutchison
CLASS OF 2016 MEG THOMAS STUDENT SPEAKER
Elisabeth Carroll Sims The following is an excerpt; to read the full
encounters, Ilsa, our own ‘It girl,’ or Mr. Robinson’s intriguing anecdotes about U.S. history. Let’s start with a slogan that One particular story from childmany of you may know well, it’s a hood that has stuck with me is classic: “She must be a Hutchison the fantastic journey of The Three Girl.” But what does it really mean Princes of Serendip. It is a story of to be a Hutchison girl? the three sons of the great king of First, she is inventive. Some of Persia, King Giaffer, who are sent our best years at Hutch were spent out on a long journey through a playing games on the playground: foreign land in search of treasure. from eating bugs, to playing horsAs they journey across the country, es, to Kelly and Meagan’s Sally and they notice particular details that Phillip show, we definitely invented others miss, such as the way the new forms of play. grass is cut on the left side of the A Hutchison girl is playful and road, or the sweet residue of honey also values kindness. Like how on their path, and through these Carolyn Simpson helped disorgaseemingly random observations, nized third graders like Haley, Janie, they solve the case of a man’s and me arrange the chaos of crayons missing camel! These three princes Our journey and papers inside our desks. And of Serendip illustrate the definition at Hutchison has been years later … the generosity in the of the word ‘serendipity,’ an unexsenior commons of friends willing pected, but fortunate, discovery one of serendipity. to drop whatever they are doing to occurring by accident to the obserWe have learned that answer a homework question. vant mind. In many ways “she must be a Our journey at Hutchison has Hutchison and life are Hutchison girl” is about each girl been one of serendipity. We have here, but it is also about how those learned that Hutchison and life are saturated with hidden around us have shaped us into who saturated with hidden pockets of pockets of joy. we are today. joy. From Mrs. Wesberry’s aweWe couldn’t talk about Hutchison inspiring biology class, to times today without mentioning our enduring and when you rush into the commons in desperate need of endearing tagline “Anywhere She Can Imagine.” One a calculator and a friend is there to lend you theirs, or way to view this tagline is through our successes: the days when Mrs. Gibson simply offers you a pepDestination Imagination at global finals, Legally permint: we meet with unexpected grace. Blonde at the Orpheum’s High School Musical Awards, Although the accolades of the class of 2016 are lacrosse state champs, AP sculpture gold keys, Hutchiimpressive, it’s the ordinary things that are extraorson girls study in Spain, Wilson Society projects across dinary; the kindness, the playfulness, and the joy of Memphis. But another way to view this tagline is to learning. Finally it is the unity and friendship created consider how each of our imaginations has been nurat Hutchison, because if you have one stick by itself tured, honed, and inspired … by great friends and great it’s easy to break. But if you have a bundle of sticks teachers. My imagination has always been captured together, they are strong and we, the Class of 2016, by stories, whether it’s Amber’s dramatic celebrity are that bundle of sticks.
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2016 Graduation Awards m FOUR YEARS, TOP HONORS
Isabel Risch FOUR YEARS, SECOND HONORS
Carolyn Simpson SENIOR YEAR, TOP HONORS
Carolyn Simpson SENIOR YEAR, SECOND HONORS
Isabel Risch
m EDWARD P. RUSSELL AWARD
L: Ideal Hutchison Girl Eliza Sims, also the Meg Thomas Student Speaker Award recipient, shown with her flower girl, Catherine Bowie ’28; R: Russell Award recipient Carolyn Simpson earned Four Years, Second Honors and Senior Year, Top Honors.
Carolyn Simpson The Russell Award, established in memory of Mr. Edward P. Russell, former chair of the Hutchison Board of Trustees, recognizes the senior who, through leadership and devotion to the ideals on which the School was founded, brings honor to herself and to Hutchison. Candidates are nominated by the faculty and staff, and the recipient is selected by the administration.
IDEAL HUTCHISON GIRL
Eliza Sims The Ideal Hutchison Girl award honors the senior who best exemplifies the qualities of the ideal woman as described in Proverbs 31. The senior class nominates candidates, and the upper school student body elects the recipient.
Dr. Smith with Isabel Risch, who earned Four Years, Top Honors as well as Senior Year, Second Honors. 6 | Hutchison
L to R: Seniors: Macy Kloville, Saneela Tameez, Lauren Livesay, Amber Miller, Sophie Levy, Elizabeth Underwood, Madison Wunderlich; Flower girls: Abby Portnoy ’27, Acelynn Saisuphaluck ’28 (face hidden), Mimi Smith ’28, Kynadie Peterson ’28, Maggie Olswanger ’28, Abby Crane Budzak ’28, Madden Culpepper ’27
Lizzy Glankler ’28 and Cecile Vergos
Julia Counce and Eloise McDonald ’28
Amira Coger and Farryn Jackson ’28 Hutchison | 7
Academic Awards ART
Janie White CHINESE
Nora Johnson ENGLISH
Carolyn Simpson HERITAGE
Weslie James HISTORY
Eliza Sims LATIN
Laura Carrier ’17 MATHEMATICS
Sophie Merchant ’17 MUSIC
Ilsa Saeed SCIENCE
Isabel Risch SPANISH
Susannah Bland THEATRE PERFORMANCE
Keevie Smith THEATRE TECHNICAL
Macy Kloville
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SENIORS WITH ALUMNAE MOMS L to R, front row: Lele Popwell, Janie White, Natalie Magness, Anne Carter Lake, Hallie Robison, Eliza Sims; back row: Lee Stewart Bowen ’72, Selden Early Popwell ’79, Virginia Malmo White ’84, Ragan Crawford Magness ’88, Elise Phillipy Lake ’85, Beth Halliburton Robison ’82, Amie Todd Sims ’76, Dr. Smith
12-YEAR GIRLS Below, L to R, front row: Katie Hussey, Natalie Magness, Grace Upshaw, Anne Carter Lake, Hallie Hayden, Ellie Erickson, Abisola James, Gracie Bell, Eliza Sims; middle row: Jenny Davis, Elizabeth Owen, Madison Wunderlich, Elizabeth McEniry, Kelly Cowan, Grace Garrott, Elizabeth Underwood, Amber Miller, Haley Seuss, Weslie James; back row: Carolyn Simpson, Hallie Robison, Grayson McEniry, Drahea Martin, Amira Coger, Susannah Bland, Lawren Camper, Isabel Risch, Lele Popwell
L to R: Lele Popwell, Dr. Smith, Madison Wunderlich, Elizabeth Underwood
Special Awards ALEXANDRA AND TUCKER ADAMS ART PURCHASE AWARD
Madison Wunderlich MARY ELISABETH TIPTON ATHLETIC LEADER OF CHARACTER AWARD
Rainey Charbonnet LAURA HAMPTON ROGERS COMMUNITY COMMITMENT AWARD
Nora Johnson RUTH AND BLISS BOWLIN CREATIVITY AWARD
Saneela Tameez
L to R: Maira Baig, Saneela Tameez, Koko Ray, Ilsa Saeed
SARA AND LEONARD FREY AWARD
Isabel Risch ANGELA PERKINS GOODWILL AWARD
Natalie Magness HADLEY AND MARY HELEN GREEN HONOR COUNCIL AWARD
Carolyn Simpson JEFFERSON AWARD
Evey Eason MOREHEAD-CAIN AWARD
Isabel Risch VELMA THORN CUNNINGHAM SERVICE AWARD
Caroline Hastings Caroline Hastings and Weezie Dunavant ’28
Emma Iskiwitz ’28 and Nora Johnson
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Gracie Bell and Ella Ford ’28
Grayson McEniry and Edie McDonnell ’28
Carter Coleman, Susannah Bland, Lauren Livesay
Zoey Sisnett ’29 and Abisola James Sisters Cady Herring ’13, Alli Herring, and Lydia Herring ’18 10 | Hutchison
Virginia Strother and Bella Hughes ’28
Emerson Jones ’27 and Patsy Detroit
Lawren Camper and AnneMarie Smith ’28
Rainey Charbonnet and Jenny Davis
L to R: Natalie Magness, Anne Carter Lake, Lele Popwell, Katie Hussey, Rachel Woodman, Virginia Owen, Keevie Smith, Elizabeth Owen, Chayce Foster, Grace Garrott, Hallie Hayden, Lawren Camper, Isabel Risch, Emma Howell Hutchison | 11
Claire Chandler and Caitlyn Sharpe ’28
Selden Early Popwell ’79, Lele Popwell, Connie Condon Abston ’57
Bett McFadden and Ann Smith ’28
Bess McDonnell ’28 and Elizabeth McEniry
Janie White (center) wore the dress previously worn by her mother, Virginia Malmo White (right) and grandmother Betty Cotten Malmo (left). Whitney Robbins ’27 and Olivia Hopgood 12 | Hutchison
Buzzy Hussey, trustee, and Katie Hussey
Emma Fairey ’28 and Grace Garrott
Campbell Crosby ’28 and Ellie Erickson
Sienna Blaylock ’28 and Katie Libby
Mia Chelsoi ’28 and Alizah Sukhiany
Virginia Bowie ’28 and mother Emily Bryce Bowie ’00, trustee Hutchison | 13
Maggie Olswanger ’28 and Sophie Levy
Sequoia Taylor ’04 returned to see her flower girl, Amber Miller, graduate; Miller wore Taylor’s graduation dress.
Front row, L to R: Abby Kamm ’28, Eloise McDonald ’28, Morgan Wiener ’28, Tinsley Anderson ’28, Lois Hill ’28, Cate Chubb ’28; back row: Haley Seuss, Julia Counce, Elizabeth Owen, Koko Ray, Sophie Barzizza, Emma Howell 14 | Hutchison
Ilsa Saeed and Menaal Haris ’28
Grace Upshaw and Lila Dobbs ’28
L to R: Abby Crane Budzak ’28, Madden Culpepper ’27, Maggie Olswanger ’28, Mimi Smith ’28, Acelynn Saisuphaluck ’28, Caroline Evans ’28, Emma Fairey ’28, Emily Weber ’28, AnneMarie Smith ’28 Hutchison | 15
Drahea Martin and Kadynce Bradford ’27
Makayla Kris ’28 and Keevie Smith
Abby Crane Budzak ’28 and Elizabeth Underwood
Meredith Magness ’18, Natalie Magness, Ragan Crawford Magness ’88
Ellie Greenberger and Emma Doherty ’28 16 | Hutchison
Kelly Cowan and Whitney Bricken ’28
Chayce Foster and Zoë Young ’29
Piper Bell and Mary Campbell Elmore ’28
Grace Upshaw and Rachel Woodman
Amber Miller and Jenny Davis in 2016 and as flower girls in 2004 (inset), in the same location.
Ruthie Harwood and Elizabeth Dunavant ’27
Olivia O’Keefe and Olivia Tashie ’28 Hutchison | 17
Elizabeth Gonda and Leia Sherman ’28
Kate Fila and Chloe Phillips ’28
Hallie Hayden and Anniston Humphries ’27
Isabella Dobbins ’28 and Georgia Stokes 18 | Hutchison
Cayley Lawhead and Ava Lunsford ’28
Morgan Robbins and Abby Livingston ’28
Front row, L to R: Virginia Strother, Patsy Detroit, Ellie Erickson, Rainey Charbonnet; back row: Cayley Lawhead, Elizabeth Gonda, Piper Bell, Amber Miller, Nora Johnson, Ruthie Harwood
may day 2016 Clockwise from top left: May Court members Chayce Foster, Saneela Tameez (Queen), Madison Wunderlich Margaret Campbell ’28, Bella Hughes ’28, Olivia Tashie ’28 Evey Eason and Bett McFadden Second- and fourth-grade girls dancing Seniors at the May Pole Front row: Lauren Livesay, Caroline Hastings, Alli Herring; back row: Carolyn Simpson, Carter Coleman, Susannah Bland, Isabel Risch, Ellie Greenberger
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Hutchison girls have the opportunity to attend colleges and universities across the United States, the District of Columbia, and the United Kingdom. Map numbers represent offers of admission extended
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Class of 2016 Highlights • 89 percent of the Class of 2016 earned merit scholarships totaling more than $8.25 million • Girls will attend 40 schools across 20 states • The 66 members of the class earned admission to 110 different colleges and universities, including 26 honors programs 20 | Hutchison
Congratulations, Class of 2016! Agnes Scott College • Alabama A&M The University of Alabama • American The University of Arizona • University Austin Peay State University Baylor University • Belmont University The Catholic University of College of Charleston • Christian Brothers Clark Atlanta University • Clemson University
University • Alabama State University University • Appalachian State University of Arkansas • Auburn University Ave Maria University Brooklyn College • Butler University America • Chapman University University • City College of New York University of Colorado at Boulder
Colorado State University • Columbia College Chicago • Dean College • University of Denver • DePaul University Drexel University • Duke University • East Tennessee State University • Eckerd College • University of Exeter Franciscan University of Steubenville • Furman University • George Mason University • Georgia State University The University of Georgia • Grambling State University • Hampton University • Howard University • Hunter College Indiana University at Bloomington • James Madison University • University of Kentucky • Lehigh University Lewis & Clark College • Louisiana State University • Loyola Marymount University • Loyola University Chicago Loyola University New Orleans • Memphis College of Art • The University of Memphis • Mercer University Miami University, Oxford • University of Miami • Middle Tennessee State University • Mississippi State University University of Mississippi • University of Missouri Columbia • Monmouth University • New York University Norfolk State University • The University of North Carolina at Asheville • The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The University of North Carolina at Wilmington • Old Dominion University • University of Oregon • Pace University Pennsylvania State University • Pepperdine University • Radford University • Rhodes College • Rollins College Saint Louis University • Samford University • San Diego State University • University of San Diego Santa Clara University • Savannah College of Art and Design • Sewanee: The University of the South University of South Carolina • University of Southern California • Southern Methodist University Southern University and A&M College • Spelman College • University of St. Andrews • Temple University University of Tennessee, Chattanooga • University of Tennessee, Knoxville • University of Tennessee, Martin Texas Christian University • Texas Southern University • The University of Texas, Austin • The University of Texas, Dallas The New School • Trinity College • Tulane University • Union University • Vanderbilt University University of Vermont • University of Virginia • Wake Forest University • Washington and Lee University Washington University in St. Louis • Webster University • Western Kentucky University • College of William and Mary Wofford College • Xavier University of Louisiana
Your bright future awaits!
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