Winter 2022 Review Magazine

Review The Magazine for Alumni, Parents, and Friends of Saint James School

Winter 2022

Student Service Projects • Women in STEM • Winter Musical: Matilda • SJIT & Holloway Tournaments

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first look Moses Warui '24 earned a victory at the Holloway Wrestling Tournament as his coaches and teammates cheered him on. Moses was one of three Saints to place in his weight class.

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featured The Review is a publication of the Office of Development & Alumni Relations Headmaster: The Revd. D. Stuart Dunnan, D.Phil.

Director of Development and Alumni Relations: Margaret McGuigan Director of Communications: Kimberly Dudash Assistant Director of Communications: Caitlin Moser School Photographer: Levi Cyr-Redcross Saint James School, 17641 College Road, Hagerstown, MD 21740 Tel: 301-733-9330 • Fax: 301-739-0043 • www.stjames.edu

ON THE COVER Kayla Handley '23 looks at her laptop in class.

RIGHT: Rachel Rao '22 walks down the driveway on an icy, rainy day. (photos by Mr. CyrRedcross).

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Saint James looks to move forward as COVID restrictions ease.

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We highlight some of our female students and alumnae involved in STEM.

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Magical performance by cast and crew of winter musical, Matilda.

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The Saint James Invitational Tournament returns to Alumni Hall.

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A Family Affair: Nine alumni have children currently attending Saint James.

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COVID Restrictions Ease, Lessons and Carols Micah's Backpack, Project to Benefit the Homeless Sara Bakr '22 Summer Service Project Winter Long Weekend, College Counseling STEM Program Women in STEM: Highlighting Students and Alumni

Arts & Culture 16-17 18-19 20-23 24

The Return of Saint George and the Dragon Winter Musical: Matilda New Opportunities in Ceramics & Digital Design Winter Art Collection

Chapel Talk

25 Sixth Form Chapel Talk by Caly Ferguson 26-27 A Homily at Christmas Eve Mass by Father Dunnan

Chalk Talk 28 29 30-35 36-37

Winter Athletic Recognition Admiral Holloway Wrestling Tournament Winter Sports Recaps Return of the SJIT

Classmates 38-39 40 41 42-43 44

Read the Saints winter sport recaps on page 30.

A Family Affair: Alumni with Children at SJS Washington, DC Alumni Reception, John Hoke '03 Named Partner Plan For Your Life's Journey Class Notes Update Your Contact Information, Alumni Weekend

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COVID Restrictions Begin to Ease on Campus When the Omicron variant was hitting the United States the hardest, most Saint James students were home for winter break. The return from break ended up being delayed after some students tested positive, with the school moving to virtual classes for two weeks.

This allowed students time to quarantine at home after spending the holidays with family. Students who were distance boarders or on varsity sports teams were allowed to return to campus, but still attended classes virtually.

This minor setback meant that chapel was kept at limited attendance, with most students watching from their first period class. Lunch was also split into two seatings to allow for distancing at tables.

However, since January ended, we have been looking up! Saint James has followed the same trend as the rest of the country, with cases on the decline and restrictions easing. We returned to seated meals in February, initially with everyone getting their food in a buffet line and 4

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then eating together at their tables. However, we are now back to regular family-style meals with students waiting and faculty serving at the tables. We were also thrilled to return to regular chapel with full attendance, including one Eucharist on Wednesdays.

Perhaps most exciting is that we were able to go face mask optional after spring break. Students and faculty wore face masks for one week following their return as we monitored students for COVID symptoms, and then for the first time in two years, our community was able to go without face masks on campus. While we remain vigilant for symptoms, data on campus and in Washington County supported this decision. It has been wonderful to see so many smiles!

We are optimistic that these changes are here to stay as we take another step in returning to the traditional Saint James experience.

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Lessons and Carols On December 11 and 12, Saint James School celebrated the Christmas season with the services of Lessons and Carols, a beautiful holiday tradition that we were grateful to hold in-person once again. Last year, the service was pre-recorded with only the choir and the readers present and then streamed on Christmas Eve on the school's YouTube channel. This year's Sunday evening service was livestreamed so that no matter near or far, all those in the SJS community had the opportunity to watch this time-honored tradition.

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Joshua Farquharson-Seaforth '23, Elise Bamforth '23, Kali Mahoney '22, Ezra Burdette '23, and Kyle Simon-Guerin '23.

Students Maintain Long-Standing Relationship with Micah's Backpack Saint James School is a long-standing sponsor of the Micah’s Backpack program. The program is designed to feed hungry students through a partnership between elementary schools in the Washington County Public School system and sponsoring organizations in the community. Brought to Washington County in 2010, the program now serves more than 1,000 students in 34 schools and involves partnerships with more than 50 churches and organizations.

Former chaplain Father Daniel started Saint James School’s participation in Micah’s Backpack, which was kept up by Father Keyes, and now by current chaplain Father Montgomery, in their roles as service learning coordinators at SJS. Jennifer Martirano, registrar and community service coordinator, has also been instrumental in keeping the program running.

Kali Mahoney ’22 and Ezra Burdette ’23 are in charge of running the program on campus this year. Saint James provides 10 bags to students at Emma K. Doub Elementary School. Kali said the bags are filled with

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two breakfasts, lunches, and dinners, two fruits and vegetables, a few snacks, and milk or juice.

“It’s all warm-up meals, something that’s easy for the kids to do at home, like the Hormel meals or Easy Mac; something they can put in the microwave because most people have access to a microwave,” said Ezra.

Each week, Kali coordinates a group of five students to help pack, with more than 40 students volunteering their time throughout the year. If Saint James is heading into a break, the students will pack 20 or 30 bags so that the students who rely on getting the food don’t miss a week.

As a sponsoring organization, Saint James receives a certain allotment per child to order food from the Maryland Food Bank each quarter. Money from the Chaplain’s Discretionary Fund is used to purchase additional food still needed. In February, Kali and Ezra also organized a food drive by form, and the form with the most donations earned a casual day.

“I enjoy knowing that I’m helping these kids out. They need it, and if we didn’t send the bags, they might not

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Mrs. Martirano said the students also put positive notes in the bags, and if a holiday is approaching, they will include cards and other special treats. She said they have also included surveys in the past in an effort to find out what the kids like or don’t like.

“We try to really put thought into it and make it personal,” she said. “We want the kids to like it and be happy with what they are getting.”

Last year, when Saint James was hybrid, Luke Norris ‘21 was a virtual student who coordinated the program from afar. He would meet Mrs. Martirano at the grocery store to shop for food, and Kali and Ezra would manage the students packing the bags on campus. Luke would then pick up the bags to deliver to the elementary school. Ezra said he enjoyed stepping up last year to help those in the community.

“Kali and I both grew up in Boonsboro, so we live in this community and know kids who are less fortunate,” Ezra said.

“It’s also cool to see Saint James students who are from all over the world helping the local community that you grew up in.”

Kali Mahoney '22, Elise Bamforth '23 and Ezra Burdette '23 pack the bags for Micah's Backpack.

Olivia Asam '22 Spearheads Project to Benefit the Homeless

Olivia Asam '22 packs items for the winter care kits.

Sixth former Olivia Asam completed a service project by making winter care kits for the homeless.

A native of Shepherdstown, WV, Olivia said that as she’s gotten older her awareness of those less fortunate around her has increased, so she wanted to think of something to do to help out. She worked with Jennifer Martirano, who assists with coordinating service learning at Saint James, to come up with a plan.

“Most people donate things at Christmas time, but nobody thinks about what happens after that,” she said. “It’s a brutal winter, so Mrs. Martirano and I decided to make these winter care kits.”

The bags included things such as blankets, hand warmers, and hats, as well as snacks and hygiene items. They made both feminine and masculine bags with items tailored to each.

Olivia made flyers to post around campus and set up collection bins in the residence halls and the McIntyre Room.

Once the items were collected, she coordinated with a group of students to help pack the bags. Through generous donations from students, families, faculty, and staff, 57 bags were made.

The bags were available for students or staff members to take with them prior to winter long weekend. The idea being an individual would keep the bag(s) in their car, and hand them out when they come across a person in need.

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Sara Bakr '22 Runs Neighborhood Summer Camp During COVID Lockdown The lives of children worldwide have been disrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic, with schools, camps, and afterschool activities often cancelled or held virtually. Last summer, Sara Bakr ’22 decided to do something about it in her home neighborhood in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

“Basically, everything went on lockdown, and you couldn’t really leave your neighborhood unless there was something urgent,” she said. “Where I live is a very family-oriented neighborhood with a lot of kids, so my neighbor and I decided to do a summer camp.”

Sara said she started planning for the camp with her neighbor during the spring 2021 semester while she was on campus at Saint James. After arriving back in Saudi Arabia at the end of the school year, she and her friend jumped right in.

"We know the importance of physical activity and social contact during these tough times," she said. "Our aim was to bring that to life through fun and organized activities for the kids in the Alrabia Compound."

They spread the word about the camp through neighborhood Facebook and WhatsApp groups and worked with community leaders to get access to facilities.

The camp was held at the neighborhood recreation center or outside at the park if the weather was nice.

During the week, the camp met for about three hours at a time and drew 7-9 children regularly with 16-17 attending weekend activities. Sara said she put a lot of hours into planning for the camp, choosing a variety of activities to entertain the kids who ranged from age 6-13.

“It started off with more educational activities, like

Sara helps make paper airplanes on origami day.

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making a baking soda and vinegar volcano, but then it switched to movie nights and painting and origami,” she said. “We had a slime day and a make-your-own fidget day. I had no interest in that, but it’s a lot more fun watching the kids enjoy what they’re doing.”

Other activities included a tie-dye day, sports day, and a Just Dance competition. Sara said many of the same kids attended the camp each day, so she got to know them very well. The parents in the neighborhood were also appreciative of having an organized activity for their children to do while they were stuck at home.

“I honestly loved it,” Sara said. “I went back this winter break and hung out with the kids just for fun.”

The children made colorful t-shirts on tie-dye day.

Painting day was a camp favorite.

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Office of College Counseling Hosts Virtual Program About STEM Careers The Office of College Counseling hosted a virtual program for fourth, fifth, and sixth form students interested in STEM careers on February 22. The program was led by Jordan Walendom '19, a junior at Brown University studying Computer Science who is also a Google Associate Project Manager Intern, and Jared Zhang '19, a junior at the University of Michigan studying Computer Science who is also an Amazon Software Development Engineer Intern.

The program covered a wide variety of topics including how to search for intern opportunities, how to apply for internships, and interview tips. They also talked about how specific Saint James offerings, such as AP Computer Science and working in the FAB Lab, helped them identify their interest in coding.

"I think Saint James gave me a community where I was able to challenge myself and grow intellectually," said Jared. "It also gave me an avenue to explore my STEM interests through AP Computer Science, which eventually led me to choose a career path in software engineering."

Jordan said his friendship with Jared at Saint James and

their shared interest in computer science helped him to identify coding as a suitable career path.

"We had been pushing each other academically since the third form and had noticed converging abilities and interests, so I took his future considerations seriously as possible avenues I would want to take," Jordan said. "This convinced me to take AP Computer Science with him the following year, where I gained greater clarity in my skill and dedication to it."

We thank both Jordan and Jared for sharing their knowledge and experience with our students!

SJS Receives AP Computer Science Female Diversity Award For the second consecutive year, Saint James School received the College Board's AP Computer Science Female Diversity Award for expanding access to AP Computer Science A (CSA). This award acknowledges the school's work toward equal gender representation during the 2020-2021 school year. Saint James is one of only 199 schools to be recognized for achieving this important result in AP CSA. AP CSA students learn to design and implement computer programs that solve problems relevant to today's society. Providing female students with access to computer science courses is critical to ensuring gender parity in the industry's high-paying jobs and to drive innovation, creativity, and representation.

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Highlighting Female Students and Alumnae in STEM STEM and liberal arts may at first seem like completely different fields of study, but at Saint James, we believe that a STEM program is built within a strong liberal arts foundation. A liberal arts education prioritizes the relationship between students and faculty with small class sizes and emphasizes logical reasoning, ethical decision making, critical thinking, and better oral and written communication skills. These abilities are highly valued in the scientific fields as well.

Saint James classes in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) have traditionally been strong, and in the past few years additional courses have been added, such as AP Computer Science as well as Design and Engineering. The FAB Lab has also given students further opportunities to explore engineering and design concepts.

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in college.

And while all of our students benefit from our strong STEM programs, in this issue we will highlight just a few of our female students and young alumnae. Across the country, women have made gains in closing the gender gap in STEM occupations—from 8 percent of STEM workers in 1970 to 27 percent in 2019—but they are still underrepresented, given that women make up almost half of the U.S. workforce.

The gender disparity in STEM fields has been widely recognized, and Saint James seeks to empower and inspire our female students to recognize their own potential to help close the gap.

Saint James received the College Board's AP Computer Science Female Diversity Award for expanding access to AP Computer Science. Ian Brauner, science department chair, noted that adding the design and engineering class gave more students the opportunity to explore that field.

“What’s nice about it is that it’s a non-AP class, so the bar is lower in terms of ‘sure, I’ll try it out,’” he said. “So, some students didn’t

particularly have any interest in engineering when they started, but they end up really loving it.”

SJS science teacher Jason Weibel also notes that AP Chemistry has been majority female students for four out of the last five years. Perhaps not coincidentally, female students have received the chemistry prize on Prize Day the past four years, and five out of the last seven.

Dr. Weibel also noted that our three female science teachers—Molly Cyr-Redcross, Kira Harding, and Ashley Leslie ’12—are encouraging young women in the lower forms to pursue STEM classes.

“By the time they get to me in fifth or sixth form, I have high expectations for everyone,” he said. “I expect all of my students to perform at the same level, and they step up and do.”

Having two experienced researchers in Dr. Brauner and Dr. Weibel has also made a difference for our students. They are both scientists who now teach, and they have been able to use their experience and connections to open up opportunities for our students.

| around campus | CAMILLA POWER ‘22 Camilla Power will be attending California Institute of Technology (Caltech) next year, one of the most selective colleges in the U.S. After taking AP Chemistry her fourth form year, she approached Dr. Weibel with an interest in learning organic chemistry. He instead offered to put her on a research project in collaboration with one of his postdoctoral advisers at Caltech, Professor Yuk Yung.

“Last summer, in all but name, Camilla was part of Caltech’s SURF program, which is Student Undergraduate Research Fellowship, but she’s not an undergraduate so even though she couldn’t technically be a SURF, she was in the same program,” Dr. Weibel said.

The research project was with the Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences at Caltech, and they worked on modeling the atmospheric chemistry of the Los Angeles basin in the years following the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo.

Camilla has since joined two other research projects at Caltech, one of which she received a grant to participate in this summer.

“For the first project, I'm analyzing the potential synthesis of organic molecules in the Martian atmosphere throughout time,” she said. “The other one is researching hydrothermal vent chemistry with NASA JPL.” Camilla had her abstract accepted and will be presenting at AbSciCon22, a conference run by NASA and the American Geophysical Union for the astrobiology community, in Atlanta, GA, in May. Camilla has been able to participate in these research projects virtually, though she is looking forward to getting on campus next year. She said the projects have varying time commitments, but even with the typical Saint James schedule, she’s been able to make it work through careful time management.

Camilla plans to major in chemistry at Caltech, with either a minor or double major in English.

Camilla Power '22 is working on several research projects at Caltech, where she will attend next year.

She has never considered herself a full-on “STEM person,” having a real interest in the humanities and even taking two languages (French and Latin).

“I greatly value participating in the humanities alongside STEM because it provides me with important critical thinking and writing skills that are applicable to my scientific endeavors,” she said.

AUDREY JOHNSON ‘22 Audrey Johnson will be attending Boston University next year, majoring in biochemistry on a premed track. Both of her parents are psychiatrists, and she said she always felt she would become a doctor.

“I’ve always had that influence from my parents, and my mother especially is a role model,” Audrey said. “She really inspires me. I think a lot of influence from my mom made me want to become a doctor like her.”

She feels Saint James has supported her growth academically.

After taking chemistry with Mrs. Cyr-Redcross (formerly Miss Billings), Audrey was fairly certain she would end up going into the sciences. She reached out to Dr. Brauner before her fifth form year to see if he had any STEM-related projects she could work on. She ended up researching the effects of nicotine on crickets. She studied their neurotransmitters by using a spiker box to track the neuron spikes after nicotine was dropped on the crickets.

Audrey also attended a medical camp last summer in Atlanta, GA, that she heard about through Saint James.

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to communicate with patients, and different types of medicine for various diseases,” she said.

Audrey said she enjoys trying many different things, and she has been heavily involved in the arts at Saint James, having appeared in multiple plays and musicals. She received the chemistry prize last May and is looking forward to starting at Boston University in the fall.

“I’ve done a lot of research on Boston University, and it’s a great place for STEM students because they have a lot of research facilities,” she said. “There are many opportunities to get in the lab a lot quicker than other schools, so I’m pretty excited to start with more hands-on projects.”

YANNY GAO ‘23 Fifth former Ruoyan Yanny Gao recently presented her project in the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair (Regeneron ISEF). ISEF is the world’s largest international pre-college science competition and brings over 1,800 high school students from 75 countries.

Yanny’s project is titled EEGBased Music Retrieval with Recurrent Neural Network. It is in a field called music information retrieval, with the most popular example being the app, Shazam.

Shazam is an app that can identify music and TV shows by listening to a short sample of their audio.

“Audio is one of the ways to retrieve music information,” she said. “The term that defines this kind of technique is called audio fingerprinting; it’s similar detecting fingerprints and matching them with those in a database. This matches the tone or sound wave or tempo with those in a database.”

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Audrey Johnson '22 will be attending Boston University to major in biochemistry.

Yanny explained that her approach is less about audio and more about the brain. She used a machine with electrodes that attach directly to your skull, and the readings show the brainwaves.

“Researchers have shown that there is a correlation between the brainwaves and what music people are listening to,” she said. “My goal is to achieve a higher accuracy in this field of retrieving music based on this kind of brainwave data.”

Yanny had to enhance her knowledge of computer programming, using the Python Programming Language to help achieve her goal. Yanny, who is a member of the SJS Chapel Choir, came up with this idea because her grandmother would hum music, but she couldn’t remember the lyrics or song title.

“There are a few music applications in China that also allow the humming feature, but the results are not accurate,” she said. “So, I was thinking what if there is another way I can reach a higher accuracy to actually help people find what they

are trying to find.”

She said Dr. Brauner was a great resource in preparing for the science fair, helping her to narrow down her original, broader goal, making sure she had all of the correct documentation for the registration process, and running through a mock interview so she was ready for her presentation.

“He told me to define every term that I use or else the judges will think I’m talking about something that I don’t know,” Yanny said.

“He told me how to start the presentation because when I’m trying to rewind the whole process of me developing this project, I tend to be really abstract instead of digging into details, and I sound like I’m memorizing and reciting a script.”

Yanny said the presentation, which was completed virtually, was nervewracking, but she is pleased with how she did. The results were not in as of the time of publication. Yanny has one more year to consider her college options, but we are sure her future will be bright.

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Yanny Gao '23, pictured here in AP Chemistry, recently presented a project at the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair.

DARCY FARRELL ‘20 Darcy Farrell is a civil engineering major who is finishing up her second year at the U.S. Air Force Academy located just north of Colorado Springs, CO. Darcy noted that all Air Force Academy graduates receive a Bachelor of Science degree regardless of major because there are several mandatory STEM classes.

She has already taken many including calculus, physics, chemistry, aero and mechanical engineering.

Darcy did extensive research at Air Force before determining civil engineering was the path she wanted to take. The civil engineering department at the Academy has a reputation as one of the best and is a very hands-on program.

Air Force engineers perform many of the same responsibilities as civilian civil engineers, but their work is geared toward the goal of sustaining military operations.

Typically, Air Force civil engineers maintain buildings and structures on Air Force bases by generating and implementing creative solutions to

the confidence to go to my college professors and ask for help.”

Darcy said there were several Saint James classes and projects that helped steer her towards engineering, including launching rockets in AP Physics and a s’mores experiment in chemistry with Ms. Holmes.

A standout on the SJS cross country team, she also noted that physical fitness is a big part of life in the Air Force, and the time management skills she learned at Saint James helped prepare her for life at the Academy.

Darcy, who was also a prefect, said the leadership opportunities she had at Saint James were very beneficial.

“We take a lot of leadership courses, and I already had some experience with leadership at Saint James,” she said. “That was definitely something that I was grateful for once I got to the Academy.”

Darcy lives up to the Saint James motto of “Live Bravely, Lead for Good,” and we look forward to watching her continued success at the Air Force Academy.

complicated issues.

For two weeks this summer, Darcy will be shadowing Air Force civil engineering squadrons to see what it will be like as an officer in the field.

She will then return to the Academy for three weeks of additional training as well as competing with cadets in other flights on various projects.

“We’ll be building two houses that will get sent to people in need across the United States,” she said. “Then we’ll be visiting things like water plants, waste treatment plants, and different things like that.”

Darcy believes the foundation she received at Saint James helped her adjust to life at the Air Force Academy.

“I attribute a lot of my success with my science classes at Saint James to Dr. Weibel,” she said.

“The extra instruction Darcy Farrell '20 is a civil engineering major at the he provided gave me United States Air Force Academy.

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JENNIFER YANG ‘19 After three years at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Jennifer Yang ’19 will be graduating with a degree in psychobiology this spring.

While at Saint James, Jennifer spent three summers interning at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the lab of Dr. Harry Malech, the Chief of the Genetic Immunotherapy Section (GIS). She worked in gene therapy and conducted her own research on a disease called Hyper IGM Syndrome after meeting a young patient with the genetic disorder. Jennifer received an honorable mention for her research in the highly-competitive Baltimore Science Fair.

Even though Jennifer said she did not know where she would be placed when applying for the 8-week paid fellowship at NIH, her passion for gene therapy has continued. At UCLA, Jennifer works in the lab of Dr. Donald B. Kohn, a renowned physician and researcher who has developed new clinical methods to treat genetic blood diseases using blood stem cells that have been modified to remove genetic mutations. Dr. Kohn’s landmark project is on ADA-SCID, a condition where babies are born without an immune system and often don’t survive past the first two years of life, and his research has cured more than 50 babies to date.

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fight off infections so they ultimately don’t live very long. Before gene therapy was a thing, they mainly did bone marrow transplants,” Jennifer said. “But that is limited to patients who have a matching donor or else they have to go through other burdensome treatments like enzymatic therapy.”

Jennifer explained that in their research they attempt to edit the gene sequence and then infuse them in the patient’s bone marrow where they will self-renew and create a continual supply of healthy blood and immune cells.

“It’s actually fascinating. When you hear about it from the outside it sounds like it must be complicated having to engineer so many things but it’s quite straightforward,” Jennifer said. “DNA are made of different nucleotides, and these patients usually have one mutation.

So, all you have to do is replace that mutation and then infuse that and the patient’s immune system kind of magically restores. I think that’s very cool.”

Jennifer will continue her work in the lab next year and then plans to head to medical school for pediatrics.

Her father is a scientist, and she was fascinated by trips to his lab as a child, but ultimately, she remembers her mom being sick when she was young, and that made her want to become a doctor.

“The doctors would tell me things, but I was not able to understand what they were saying and that was frustrating to me,” she said. “I think that motivated me to study medicine so that I can actually interpret what’s going on and be able to help other people to know what’s going on with their body and treat them.”

Jennifer Yang '19, pictured here at Commencement, will be graduating from UCLA with a degree in psychobiology.

ASHLEY LESLIE ‘12 Ashley Leslie ’12 not only pursued a career in STEM, but she is also helping future generations of Saints find a passion for chemistry after returning to Saint James as a teacher.

Ashley remembers taking an introductory physics course with Mrs. Matthews as a third former, and said she just could not grasp the material. After a long conversation with Mrs. Matthews, she said she started to realize that nobody is born with this kind of knowledge.

“Everybody has to troubleshoot; you have to be wrong sometimes.

Einstein was not born understanding the theory of relativity,” she said. “So finally, I just thought ‘Ok, I can do this.’ I felt empowered at that point.”

After that realization, she started having a lot of success in her science classes and received the biology award on Prize Day. She credits Saint James for developing her love for science.

Ashley then earned a degree in biochemistry with an emphasis on chemistry from West Virginia

| around campus | University. She was a teaching assistant for three years in a chemistry lab, and also did two years of biophysics research, looking at the proteins involved with Alzheimer’s and Huntington’s diseases.

Following that, Ashley earned her master’s degree in biological sciences from Carnegie Mellon University. She conducted research for her thesis on a specific time in the egg development of fruit flies, determining how different parts of the cytoskeleton would interact with one another.

While in graduate school, Ashley had the honor of meeting Dr. Jennifer Doudna, a biochemist who has done pioneering work in CRISPR gene editing, after she had won the Nobel Prize for chemistry.

Ashley was a new mother to her son, Theo, and had a chance to speak to Dr. Doudna about her experience.

“She said that she would have her kids come into the lab with her,

and that was really meaningful to me,” Ashley said. “She said, ‘Being a mother and being a woman never stopped me from doing what I wanted to do.’ And I think that was really empowering to me as a woman in STEM and helped me to encourage women to go further in STEM as well.”

Ashley then started working at a new Proctor and Gamble lab in Martinsburg, WV. She worked in Research and Development to test and optimize protocols for the plant to test for purity of materials coming in.

Ultimately, she said she always knew she wanted to be a teacher.

Ashley and her husband Patrick and two children, Theo and Juniper, moved into Coors Hall two years ago.

“It has been really nice to see students who didn’t think they were going to be science people become very interested in science,” Ashley

said.

Ashley also remembers the cutthroat nature of science majors in college, with high dropout rates. She said she wanted to teach just before that stage, in high school, where learning is supposed to be fun.

“Not everyone is born with how college chemistry works; you’ll get there, and you just have to believe in yourself a little bit,” she said.

“When I was in college, I did see all of those people drop out, and disproportionately they were women, so it means a lot to me that more women are going toward science.

I really think this next generation is going to break that mold and go further and further because I don’t think they’ve been told as much what they’re expected or not expected to do; so, it’s really great that I can be one of those guiding points for them.”

Ashley Leslie '12, a science teacher at Saint James, has a B.S. in chemistry from West Virginia University and a master's degree in biological sciences from Carnegie Mellon University.

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The Triumphant Return of

Saint George and the Dragon

For 23 years, the second form production of Saint George and the Dragon was a fun tradition that those in the Saint James community looked forward to each December.

Directed by Marty Collin, the play’s mix of silly but memorable characters, special guest stars, and a slightly rewritten script with plot twists made the show an annual hit. When Mr. Collin retired in 2017, so did Saint George and the Dragon, with the Class of 2021 being the last class to take the stage as second formers. Since then, the second form class has starred in A Christmas Carol, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, and The Gifts of the Magi, with no production last year.

After hearing alumni recall fond memories from their days as Saint George cast members, the decision was made to bring the show back to Kellam Auditorium this year.

“It felt like the right time. We’re coming out of COVID and trying to bring our community back together. We were able to have live audiences again, and so it felt like this was the year to do it,” said Melanie Regan ’00, Associate Chair of Fine Arts who co-directed the play with Nicole Ruark.

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George experience. Even though the sixth formers were not the primary performers, several of them starred as special guests and they were all able to enjoy the spectacle that is Saint George.

Mrs. Regan had the second form students call several SJS alumni so they could hear about their Saint George experiences. She also took on the task of rewriting the script the same way Mr. Collin used to do, incorporating a Harry Potter theme in this year’s production. The second formers kept the theme under wraps, while Mrs. Regan kept the guest stars a secret from the second form. They didn’t find out until rehearsals who would be starring as the familiar characters from Hogwarts.

“It was a great way to go into the Christmas season with all of this mystery and excitement and magic and fun,” said Mrs. Regan. “Saint George is about having your second formers dive right in headfirst to the Saint James community. It’s like ‘here, you’re a part of us now.’ It’s not about being perfect or knowing your lines, it’s about putting yourself out there. And the community support is just huge.”

You can watch a recording of this year’s production at www.stjames.edu/saintgeorge.

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Mummers' Society Presents

On February 24, 25, and 26, Saint James Theater presented Matilda, the story of an extraordinary girl with genius intelligence and magical powers. The show is based on the 1988 children’s novel by Roald Dahl which was made into a movie in 1996.

The cast and crew did a fantastic job bringing the characters to life for all three nights, the first time a musical has had three performances at Saint James.

“From start to finish, from the beginning of rehearsals on, there was never a moment where this cast took a break,” said director Melanie Regan ’00. “They always wanted to get better every time they showed up.”

This was the third year that the musical has been performed in the winter rather than the spring, and Mrs. Regan said they changed the model of the rehearsal process, with music director Joseph Regan coming every day from mid-November on to do music rehearsals. When Saint James had to delay the in-person start of school after winter break by two weeks, they lost rehearsal time, but managed to stay on task thanks to the change in the rehearsal model.

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the title of the show indicates it is focused on one character, it really is an ensemble piece.

“The students worked very hard to become their characters,” she said. “Depending on who you talked to after the show, there were seven or eight different people who they said stole the show. Everybody had a different favorite. That speaks to the consistency of the cast.”

Valerie Zumbrun ‘25, who played Matilda, said the cast and crew were a close community by the end of the show.

“I think during tech week, watching it all come together was just amazing, she said. “We had snippets of the show, but it was crazy how well everything worked out. We had a lot of fun together.”

One of many standout scenes from Matilda was when Bruce is forced to eat an entire chocolate cake by the evil Miss Trunchbull, played brilliantly by Rodrigo Tejado ’22.

Yu Xing Lin Chen ’22 put a lot of work into playing Bruce, and said she only ate one bite of cake during the performances before turning her back to the audience to make the cake magically disappear into a box.

However, Yu Xing said her favorite moment of the show was when the only people on stage were Mr. Wormwood (Teddy Kuser ’24) and his son Michael (Drew Weisgerber ’23).

“During Teddy’s song, the curtains are closed, and the whole cast was actually behind the stage dancing,” she said. “We did a kick line when they were doing a kick line. It was one of those moments where we could all relax but also have fun and enjoy the show.”

The behind-the-scenes work was all student run from lighting and sound design to managing the stage during the performances. Mrs. Regan said the students on the crew take a lot of pride in their work and play a large role in the success of the show. Matilda was the first musical for Brooks Carpenter ’25, who was in charge of lighting design.

“At first it was a lot of trial and error,” he said. “But once I got through learning the board, I was able to put it all together. The most gratifying part was Saturday night when we got a standing ovation. It made us feel like we all accomplished something great.”

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Pearl Walker '23 uses a stylus to draw on her laptop during Digital Design class.

Digital Design and Ceramics Classes Provide New Opportunities to Explore the Arts Saint James students have gained new opportunities to stretch themselves artistically in the last two years with the additional dedicated space in the Pohanka Fine Arts Center. Two examples of the growth of the Fine Arts program include new semester-long class offerings in Ceramics and Digital Design.

DIGITAL DESIGN The Digital Design class is taking place in the new digital media lab in Pohanka. Students are using Adobe Photoshop to work on digital illustration, photo editing, animation, and more. The class is taught by Stephen Sheredy, who graduated from Barbara Ingram

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School for the Arts (BISFA) as a Maryland Distinguished Scholar.

He holds a BFA in Animation from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). Mr. Sheredy has worked on animated videos for the YouTube channels of corporate children's brands, including Thomas and Friends for Mattel, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for Nickelodeon, and freelance work for Fox Family Entertainment. He also teaches part-time at BIFSA and at Hagerstown Community College for advanced portfolio development.

“Creating a whole new course for students to learn digital media is an historic milestone for the school, and something unique that connects

Digital illustration by Ryan Scott '22

| arts & culture | all students together based on what they consume every day,” said Mr. Sheredy. “A lot of my students want to become illustrators, animators, designers, or filmmakers. It feels wonderful to know that I have helped fill a need the SJS students have to express themselves in ways that prove valuable and essential in their professional career, working with digital software to create strong characters, tell stories, and design beautiful pictures.”

Ryan Scott ‘22, who will be attending the Rhode Island School of Design next year, has been experimenting with Photoshop the past couple of years but wanted to take the class to expand his skills with digital art.

“With the full computer lab and having the nice drawing tablets, it was a good opportunity to learn how to use all of that software, especially from somebody who is qualified and has used it in the field for multiple years,” Ryan said. “Mr. Sheredy is a good teacher and gives a lot of good feedback and tips and he really knows

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what he’s talking about.”

Ryan said he used the foundational skills he learned in other studio art classes, and often started his digital projects by doing a pencil sketch and then scanning it onto his laptop to then draw over digitally with a stylus.

“You’re led by the same principles of line, shape, and color, but then it’s like using that in a digital scape with new types of brushes and new

textures that can be digitally made,” he said. “There’s a lot more freedom but there’s a learning curve to it, too.”

Ryan said he particularly enjoyed the final class project because the students were given freedom to create anything they wanted using what they learned during the course.

“I took all the skills I had learned throughout the semester and tried to

Pearl Walker '23 created an original character in digital design class. The sketch (left) shows the earliest iterations of her character and the pose sheet (right) shows how the character would look in various positions.

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Digital illustration by Danseh Yanou '23

put them together—like different types of line work, different color combinations, filters, pretty much everything I had available,” he said.

Pearl Walker ’23 has been creating art digitally for some time, using YouTube videos to learn new software and skills, so she was excited to take the Digital Design class.

“The thing with digital is that you get access to a bunch of different kinds of pens, and your pen movement can be like moving a piece of chalk or moving spray paint,” she said.

“You also get a bunch of different colors, and you can edit more easily. So, it’s like you’re drawing on paper except you have all your color pens and utensils all right next to you.”

One of the class projects was a character design section, which included a character drawing, body turnaround, pose sheet, and expression sheet, which all help to bring the character to life.

Pearl created a chimpanzee with a prosthetic leg, a character that is part of a book project that she is currently writing.

“I was trying to figure out how her prosthetic leg works, and I was trying to make sense of what would work for my story,” she said. “It was really fun to see what everyone else did.

You have all types of levels of people because some people love to draw but don’t design characters, and you see them draw a character and it’s so cool.”

Danseh Yanou ’23 has taken other studio art classes but wanted the opportunity to explore digital art. He said the hardest thing to get used to was using the stylus because you’re not looking directly at what you’re drawing.

“My favorite was the photography editing,” he said. “You could do so much with it. Even though you were given a picture, but then you could do so many different edits with it, like color, grading styles, vignettes, and stuff. It was very interesting to me.”

CERAMICS Last year, ceramics was added as its own course offering whereas in previous years it was part of the Art I curriculum as an introduction to the medium. An entire semester allows students to have a more in-depth exploration of ceramics, from handbuilding projects to wheel throwing.

There is a dedicated ceramics/3D art studio on the bottom level of the Pohanka Fine Arts Center.

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Cell phone speaker ceramics project by Moses Warui '24.

James for the past 13 years. The ceramics class is an exciting addition for students interested in that medium.

“We can do all of the hand-building projects we’ve done previously and still have them do wheel throwing for a quarter of the year, and they can actually learn how to center clay and throw on the wheel,” Mr. McDonald said.

Phyllis Wu ’22 is a new student at Saint James and had taken ceramics at her previous school. She was excited for the opportunity to build on what she already knew.

“Mr. McDonald would give us projects, and I would see what kind of creativity I could add to it,” Phyllis said. “He said to make a vessel but make it not look like one. I made mine look like a piggy bank. It is a little dog, and you can take off his head and you’ll see a coin slot.”

She said for all of the projects she would start out with a sketch, and then slowly build piece-by-piece, finishing off with the detail work.

“What I liked most was that I was able to talk to everyone in the class to collaborate,” Phyllis said. “I didn’t have to limit myself; I could take the creativity that was in my head and bring it out.”

Moses Warui ’24 said he enjoyed learning new concepts even though he struggled with the wheel. He preferred slab construction when working with the clay.

“You sketch out what you’re thinking then go to the slab roller and get it to the right thickness,” he said. “Then you cut it with a scalpel knife and keep doing that and then put the pieces together. Sometimes it would take two weeks just to get the right texture.”

Moses said that Mr. McDonald would load their projects in the kiln, and he explained that if you want to glaze your project you do it before it’s been fired, but if you want to paint, you do that after. He particularly enjoyed working on his cell phone speaker.

We look forward to seeing the creativity of our student-artists on display in these new formats.

Courtney Secrist '25

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Winter Art Collection Nina Hu '25

Cathy Zhang '25

C.J. Cao '22

Lisa Wang '23

Evie Brauner '24

Page Bacon '23

Sabina Noel '23

Iris Liang '24

Jenifer Diaz '24

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A Chapel Talk February 2022 Caly Ferguson, Sixth Form Chapel of Saint James of Jerusalem

“My journey to becoming more self-confident was a difficult one, but it was in overcoming my insecurity that I realized that a defining characteristic of my life is my determination to work hard.”

In fifth grade, I attended a new school for the first time. Even though it was small, the thought of meeting new people made me incredibly anxious. For the first few weeks, in everything I did, from raising my hand to fist bumping my peers, I concealed my hands in my pockets or up my sleeves. It’s ironic reminiscing about those times because I was inadvertently making myself look weird, even though I was hiding my hands in an effort to not look weird.

I was born with an abnormality called amniotic band syndrome, which occurs in the womb when fibrous bands wrap around parts of the developing body. For me, the bands wrapped around two fingers on each hand, causing me to lose significant portions of four fingers.

As a child, I was self-conscious about this, which caused me to be extremely shy. In unfamiliar environments, such as my first day at a new school, I kept my hands hidden. Even though I always knew I was as capable as a person with ten fingers, I felt ashamed, and it took me years to be myself around people. I felt as though people would not want to associate with me because of my hands; I was afraid to embrace my differences.

My family preached to me that being different wasn’t a bad thing;

it was something I should embrace.

“Your hands were gifts from God,” they said. One day in that fifth grade year, a friend noticed that my hands were different as I typed my first HTML web page in computer class.

At first, he was confused because he didn’t know what he was looking at.

After a few seconds, he recognized what was different about my hands.

A few minutes passed, and my hands became the spectacle of the classroom. My classmates were shocked, but then said they thought it was awesome that I was able to do anything they could. They accepted me as I was; that was the first time I experienced a feeling of acceptance outside of my family. Knowing people could be as kind as my classmates regarding my hands, I felt a newfound sense of confidence.

After that day, I embraced my hands. No more hiding my hands in my sleeves, avoiding raising my hand, or resorting to fist bumps. My peers were in awe of my ability to do things as insignificant as using an Xbox controller, or holding a pencil to create art. Even more significantly, I was named an all-star on my middle school basketball team and was a key contributor to our championship season. These accomplishments were the result of me accepting my hands

as different in a good way.

What makes me unique? Is it the fact that I can do everything that others do and more with four missing fingers? That's not how I would put it. I am unique because I am willing to dive for every loose ball in basketball, sacrifice sleep to fully understand a difficult academic concept, and to work endlessly to find the good in every situation. My journey to becoming more selfconfident was a difficult one, but it was in overcoming my insecurity that I realized that the defining characteristic of my life is my determination to work hard.

Embracing differences is lacking today because everyone wants to wear the same clothes, sing the same songs, talk the same way, and think the same thoughts. Uniqueness must be celebrated more in modern society, and I hope to one day be a driving force in this movement by setting an example through my professional success that one’s differences should not hold them back in any way. My perseverance fuels my mentality to be the hardest worker in every room.

My hands are a part of my image, but they do not define me, and that is what makes me unique.

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A Homily At the Christmas Eve Mass December 24, 2021 The Revd. Dr. D. Stuart Dunnan The Chapel of Saint James of Jerusalem

“The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who lived in a land of deep darkness – on them light has shined.”

(Isaiah 9.2) In nomine . . .

I was, as you would expect, a very ambitious student. Academic study was my area of great success growing up and thus also my greatest vanity all the way through school, college, and graduate school. My father used to joke that I was a “professional student,” and he was not wrong. But occasionally along my triumphant journey there was a crunch moment when I would feel overwhelmed by the amount of work that I had to do and the pace required to meet the standards that I had set for myself, which were in retrospect unnecessarily punishing.

One of these moments was on the 22nd of December in 1980 during my senior year at Harvard when I was alone on campus writing a graduate paper for a master's degree in history that I was pursuing in my fourth year because I had completed the credits for my bachelor's degree the year before. The consequence was that I was doing graduate work while my friends were doing undergraduate work, so I had to stay behind to finish a graduate project which was unique to me.

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Because of this, I had a week of researching and writing all by myself on an abandoned campus in a Cambridge winter. It was cold and wet and dark outside, and I was tired and lonely, so naturally homesick.

Feeling this way, I did what every homesick student does: I called my mother and whined to her about all the work I had to do and how cold and dark it was. I don’t think I admitted to being lonely; I was probably too proud for that, but she certainly knew.

Now again, remember that all of this was my fault, as our unhappiness so often is. I was the victim of my own inordinate ambition. I was trying to do six years’ worth of academic work in four years and expecting to do it perfectly. I was again a very foolish and vain young man.

But my mother did not point any of this out to me. She knew who I was, and she knew I was doing what I wanted to do. She also knew that I could do it, and she fully expected that I would get my work done, that I would do it well, and that I would fly home to Washington on Christmas

Eve. I was just going through a hard time and feeling a little sorry for myself and needed her attention and her voice on the other end of the telephone.

And I will never forget what she said to me - at first because of how funny it was, but now because of how wise it was: “Sweetie, I know just how you feel. I have all this Christmas wrapping to do.”

Now, because I was young and arrogant and completely full of myself, I thought that she was being ridiculous. After all, I was at Harvard doing a master's degree in my senior year, writing an “important” essay on an obscure 19th century theologian whom none of you have ever heard of, but who was for me incredibly interesting and unfairly forgotten. She was just wrapping Christmas presents.

But I loved the way that she was so quintessentially my mother, and I was reminded as I laughed at her just how much I loved her, and I am sure that I felt reassured and comforted.

But I do think that I registered even then two points that I have remembered ever since:

| chapel talk | First, like all good parents and good teachers, she reminded me that work is work, and sometimes it isn’t easy, but you need to focus on what you need to do and get it done. It’s part of life; handle it; and keep the task in perspective.

And second, she reminded me that Christmas is important.

And here let me tell you that for my mother, Christmas was by far the most important day of the year, and she went all out for it. We had Christmas lights and a Christmas tree and an Advent Calendar on the living room mantle with our stockings hanging below it. My parents gave a Christmas party for their friends, which was magical for us, and a separate Christmas Eve Dinner for the family in the dining room, which was the grandest meal of the year.

My mother spent weeks on her Christmas cards. The list was very long, and she wrote a note for everybody in her idiosyncratic and sometimes illegible left-handed handwriting. And everybody got presents - not just us, but all her friends and our teachers and our neighbors. And she always included her divorced and widowed friends at our family dinner who were alone at Christmas: Auntie Phyllis and Aunt Betty Hazelton and Aunt Betty Mooney, who added greatly to the company. She gave my sixth-grade teacher an amaryllis every Christmas until he died because he was Dutch and then to his widow after him “because she must miss him.”

And we woke up Christmas morning to find our stockings at the foot of our beds filled with presents, which she had spent the whole year before finding for us, and then came downstairs to discover five piles of

presents, a pile for each of us in the living room. And we opened our presents with giddy abandon, while she wrote down the details for thank you notes which we would write the next day and my father gathered up the discarded wrapping paper. As I think about it, at Christmas, my father always had the supporting role, but he seemed to be up for it.

And this is why I always spent Christmas Day with my parents in the house where I grew up and then with my mother after my father died: I knew how much Christmas mattered to her, and I also knew that my siblings were celebrating with their families and recreating for their children what our mother had created so generously for us.

But during the last five years of her life when my mother was suffering from progressive dementia as my father had before her, our Christmases together became quieter and quieter. At the end, it was just my mother, her two devoted caregivers, and me, but she knew it was Christmas, as Linda and Adel had risen to the occasion and decorated the house. We shared a delicious Filipino feast together, and there were presents from them and all my mother’s children underneath the Christmas tree.

And it was at this, my last Christmas with my mother, that I finally realized the third most important truth that she had taught me when she comforted me over the

telephone all those years ago.

And the truth was this: my mother’s work wrapping presents for other people was not less important than my work researching and writing a graduate paper which has only ever been read by my professor and me; it was more important, because she was working hard for all of us, whereas I was just working hard for me – for my own achievement and my own happiness.

And I learned this lesson at our last Christmas together because this was the Christmas when my mother no longer knew who I was but was still just thrilled to see me and delighted in all the presents which were now just for her, a sign, I think, of her reward to come.

It is indeed more blessed to give than to receive, as this great feast reminds us, because it is only by living generous and giving lives that we can shine with the one true light which this holy child has brought to us, the light of the star above his manger which reveals his presence with us, the light of Christ in all of us which alone dispels the darkness.

Merry Christmas to you all.

Amen.

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Winter Athletic Recognition Congratulations to the following athletes for earning All-MAC and All-County honors.

Colin Greene '22 All-MAC

Ethan Zumbrun '23 All-MAC Second Team All-County

Asa Hammer '22 All-MAC

Solomon Ball '23 All-MAC First Team All-County

Daniel Peacher '22 All-MAC

Danseh Yanou '23 All-MAC

Jayden Ross '23 All-MAC First Team All-County

JV Wrestlers Place at Independent School Tournament At the JV Maryland Independent School Wrestling Tournament on February 19-20, Michael Bundu '24 was the champion in the 285 lbs. weight class. Wyatt Maguire '25 took second place at 170 lbs. Way to go, Saints!

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Admiral Holloway Wrestling Tournament Returns to SJS After a one-year hiatus, Saint wrestlers alike—view the Holloway James was thrilled to once again Tournament as one of their favorite host the annual Admiral Holloway events of the year. The noise, the '39 Wrestling Tournament on excitement, the highs and lows of Saturday, December 4. The event the sport wrestling; the humility returned in full force with a field of and courage on full display are all 13 teams from Maryland, Virginia, so 'Saint James,'” said Coach Steve Pennsylvania, and Washington, DC, Lachut. "As a coach, it is a great way who all agreed to rigorous COVID to open our season and help our protocols in order to compete. With athletes develop experience and last year's wrestling season canceled, confidence for the long season to this was the first time the Saints come. It is really an event that helps were on the mat build the culture in two years, and of wrestling at there was no better Saint James.” way to reintroduce Congratulations 2021 our athletes to to three Saints who Saints wrestling placed in their than the Holloway weight classes: Tournament.

Moses Warui '24, “So many of Asa Hammer '22, our students— and Colin Greene wrestlers and non'22.

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VARSITY WRESTLING

Varsity Wrestling Coach Steve Lachut

The Saint James wrestling team returned to the mats in 2021 after only practicing during the 2020-21 season. Given that, there was a lot of uncertainty regarding this year’s team. Although the team was 39 strong, there was a wide breadth of experience in the sport. Eleven sixth formers led the way, with all but one being a regular starter for the Saints. The group was led by captains Benson Riser, Asa Hammer, Colin Greene, and Sean Rowe.

In usual fashion, the Saints started the season with the Admiral Holloway Tournament which was highlighted by the second-place finish

by Moses Warui (fourth form) at 113 pounds and third place finishes of Greene (132 lbs) and Hammer (138 lbs). A lighter-than-typical regular season was highlighted by victories over traditional public school powers Catoctin and Oakdale.

The Saints finished second in the MAC Dual Meet Tournament, dropping to eventual champion Georgetown Day by 20 points. However, the Saints didn’t give up and fought hard in the MAC Tournament the next week, finishing just one point behind GDS. Although the Saints were wrestling without several starters that day, the team still crowned four individual weight class champions: Greene (132 lbs), Hammer (138 lbs), and fifth former Ethan Zumbrun (145 lbs) and sixth former Daniel Peacher (285 lbs). Additionally, fifth former Danseh Yanou was voted to one of two at-large All-MAC spots for his effort finishing in second place at the event.

Although the Saints did not have the strong finish that they may have hoped, it was nice return to the mats, and a nice finish to the careers of these exceptional sixth-form students.

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MVP

SAA

MIP

Colin Greene '22

Asa Hammer '22

Ethan Zumbrun '23

Most Valuable Player

Saints Athletic Award

Most Improved Player

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VARSITY GIRLS BASKETBALL

Varsity Girls' Basketball Coach Andrew Williams-Watson

To kick-off the 2021-22 season for Varsity Girls' Basketball, the team traveled to Highstown, NJ for the Peddie School Girls’ Tournament. We finished the tournament with an 0-3 record, but the girls fought extremely hard during each and every possession, and our very own Elise Bamforth (fifth form) earned All-Tournament honors.

Next up was the Madeira tournament in McLean, VA. Our first game was a successful one. Many of our younger role players had the opportunity to showcase their hard work and played very well against a scrappy Madeira team. The second game was a hard fought back-and-forth contest, but we came up short by three points.

After that tournament our season became an episode of a series of unfortunate events.

Students were unable to return to campus until a couple of weeks into January due to COVID, and a handful of players couldn’t come back, which in turn made it possible for our mangers to lace ‘em up and play in the interim. Due to our continuity being disturbed and having our mangers joining the team, the rest of our remaining schedule was all about playing hard for 32 minutes and playing basketball the Saint James way.

Our Most Improved Player, second former Payton Dotson, started the season at the end of the bench. With her resiliency and her commitment to getting better every day, she earned her way to the starting lineup. The Saints Athletic Award went third former Claire Barnes, a player who always found a way to bring her best no matter what obstacles were thrown her way. Our MVP, Elise Bamforth, was the heart and soul of the team, and she is someone who signifies what it means to be a leader on and off the court.

This season was full of learning experiences, sacrifices, and player development.

With so many key players returning next season, the future of the Saint James Girls’ Basketball team is a bright one.

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Elise Bamforth '23

Claire Barnes '25

Payton Dotson '26

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VARSITY BOYS BASKETBALL

Varsity Boys' Basketball Coach Kevin Breslin

It is nearly impossible to speak about this year’s Varsity Boys’ Basketball season without discussing the same event that has dominated world headlines for two years. In the winter of the 2020-21 school year, Saint James, like most independent schools, canceled interscholastic competitions. During that year, athletics continued to be a foundational part of campus life as we hosted practices and several school-wide basketball competitions to foster the values of teamwork, selflessness, and dedication toward a common goal.

The 2021-22 season we have just completed will be remembered for the participation of those students who stepped up to participate in the basketball program of 2020-21. Many students developed their skills within our campus gates with an eye towards a return to the court for varsity competition in 2021-22.

Due to injuries and complications resulting from the pandemic, 23 students suited up in uniform for this year’s varsity competitions. At other schools a basketball roster is composed of 12 or fewer students. Our commitment to multisport participation and a school culture that values stepping outside of one’s own comfort zone fueled any successes we had this season.

Fifth former Kenneth Ho earned our Most Improved Player award through his invaluable contributions to our team on the practice court. This season marked the first time that fifth former Jack Ashby-Jacobs had played organized basketball, but he overcame his inexperience to make valuable contributions to the team in several games. Jack shared the honor of the Saints’ Athletic Award with sixth former Caly Ferguson for their shared enthusiastic commitment to the team.

Our on-court performance was led by the duo of fourth former Jeremiah Gorham and third former Jacob Ross. These two were the only students who were able to participate in every game this year and consistently excelled as underclassmen on a varsity team. For his efforts, Jacob was named the Most Outstanding Player for our season. The contributions of young players to our team has everyone excited for the future of our basketball program, especially the return of All-MAC selections, fifth formers Solomon Ball and Jayden Ross.

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MVP

SAA

MIP

Jacob Ross '25

Jack Ashby-Jacobs '23 & Caly Ferguson '22

Kenneth Ho '23

Most Valuable Player

Saints Athletic Award

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Talented Teams Take the Court at 35th Saint James Invitational Tournament (SJIT) The Saint James Invitational Tournament was another SJS tradition put on hold during the pandemic, and we were happy to see the tournament return for the 35th time to Alumni Hall on February 3-5, 2022. Planning for an indoor tournament during this time came with a unique set of challenges and contingency plans.

"Bringing the tournament together required the collaboration of many dedicated individuals across several departments on campus,” said basketball coach Kevin Breslin. “Were it not for the leadership of the Athletic Department, Development and Communications teams, and especially Father Dunnan, we would not have been able to continue this great tradition. The challenges presented by Covid-19 stretched our committee to think outside the box regarding scheduling, ticketing, and parking but we were able to bring people together for three days of elite high school basketball.”

The lineup of eight teams changed as the tournament date approached as a few teams were not able to participate, leading to a slightly different format with three one-day showcase teams—but the quality of basketball did not diminish, with highly-entertaining, fast-paced games and players draining threes and making highlight-reel dunks.

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The seating capacity was limited each day, and those in attendance were able to watch many Division-I college prospects take the court, including those from Southern California Academy, the #17-ranked team in the country at the time. The championship game went down to the final possession, with Southern California coming up with a defensive stop to beat National Christian Academy, 50-47.

We had many SJS alumni attend the SJIT and held a reception before the championship game. It was wonderful to welcome them back to campus.

Tarkett Sports and Abacus Sports Installations were once again the lead sponsors of the tournament, and we want to thank all of our generous sponsors for their support of the SJIT. The money raised by the tournament supports the Saint James Scholarship Fund.

We also want to thank the many volunteers who helped make the tournament possible.

“As we have been doing for 35 years, the strength of our school community affords our basketball program the terrific opportunity to showcase our hard work against some of the best teams in the country," said Coach Breslin.

We are already looking forward to the 2023 SJIT!

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Championship Day Scores CHAMPIONSHIP GAME Southern California Academy, 50 National Christian Academy, 47 THIRD PLACE GAME St. Maria Goretti, 72 Combine Academy, 60 All Tournament Selections MOST OUTSTANDING PLAYER Isaiah Coleman, National Christian MOST VALUABLE PLAYER Jaxon Kohler, Southern California ALL TOURNAMENT TEAM Amaree Abram, Southern California Solomon Ball, Saint James Liam Craven, Combine Academy Turner Harris, National Christian Khalil London, Scotland Campus Jordan Nkoa-Abessolo, St. Maria Goretti Tyson Oghene, St. Maria Goretti Lebron Thomas, Trinity Collegiate

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Keeping It In The Family Nine Alumni Have Children Attending Saint James Each year there are alumni who send their children to Saint James in hopes that they will have a similar educational experience. This year we have a higher number than average, with nine alumni children a part of the next generation of Saints. They are: • Christian Asam ‘92 (Olivia ‘22 and Campbell ‘25) • Laura (Randall) Carpenter ‘89 (Brooks ‘25) • Jae Hyun Lim ‘93 (Nate ‘24) • Geordie Newman ‘93 (Tucker ‘24) • Carolyn (Burton) Owens ‘98 (Trevor ‘24) • Eric Riser ‘87 (Benson ‘22) • Don Risser ‘84 (Parker ‘24) • Chris Schlotterbeck ‘91 (Lily ‘26) • Steven Secrist ‘86 (Courtney ‘25) These alumni now get to experience Saint James as a parent and see what has changed over the years as well as what traditions have 38

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Christian Asam ’92, president of the Bavarian Inn in Shepherdstown, WV, has two daughters at Saint James, Olivia ’22 and Campbell ’25.

He graduated right before Father Dunnan took over as headmaster, and says Saint James is like a different school. He was able to witness the beginning of that transition while his brother David ’94 was a student and feels the culture of the school has changed for the better. Olivia also recalls her father telling stories from his Saint James days that would earn a demerit or two today, but says the traditions and values appealed to the family.

“He’s always felt a connection to the school; he loved the environment, loved being dressed up and obligated to do things and staying busy,” Olivia said. “I think he wanted me to come here and have that experience and

make the best out of myself.”

Christian and his wife Kerry ultimately thought Saint James would provide the best experience.

“It’s a great place for them, especially in these formidable teenage years, where they build upon their character,” he said. “I think the Saint James experience has been essential for them to have—to prepare them for life and to prepare them for college.”

He feels the foundation of chapel is one thing that hasn’t changed, and also remembers other traditions like he dress code and standing when an adult enters a room. Being a Saint James parent has brought some of those memories back for him.

“I’m enjoying seeing it again through their eyes. Olivia has gotten a great education and a great foundation, and I’m really excited to see what these next few years will bring for Campbell,” Christian said.

| classmates | If you tally the years cumulatively, Eric Riser ’87 is on his 21st, and last, year as a Saint James parent. Alec ’16, Carson ’18, and Olivia ’20 have joined the alumni ranks, and now Benson ’22 will follow this year. Eric said the size and demographics of the student body and campus facilities have changed the most since his own time as a student.

“Girls couldn’t live on campus, and there were only four girls in my graduating class, and only 135 students enrolled in the school,” he said.

Eric said Saint James feels very familiar to him as a parent.

“The feel on campus remains a tight-knit community,” he said. “The chapel services I’ve attended through the years with my children especially remind me of my time as a student.”

Laura (Randall) Carpenter ’89 went to Saint James with her sister Leigh (Randall) Sappenfield ’89 at a time when the school was transitioning from Father Owens to Father Baker.

Laura likes that some things she remembers from her experience as a student—the sense of community, time for reflection, and a high chapel service—are similar to what her son Brooks ’25 is experiencing now.

She also said the student-faculty relationships are a hallmark of the SJS experience.

“The interaction with the faculty is so important. They have the ability to help kids through their struggles as teenagers and show them how to manage getting through life,” she said.

Laura lives in Hagerstown and has stayed in touch through the years.

Her younger sister, Lesley (Randall) Evans, graduated in 1995 and Laura’s family would attend alumni events, services at the chapel, and later sports games for her nephew and niece, Colin ’16 and Maddie ’19 Sappenfield.

Brooks was also baptized by Father Dunnan in the chapel. Even though

the start of his time as a student has been disrupted by the pandemic, Brooks is happy to be a Saint.

“It is definitely different than I thought of it while I was younger. But it’s a good different,” Brooks said. “I particularly like the seated meals. It gives you an opportunity to meet so many different people.”

While Brooks plans to eventually board, Laura said being the parent of a day student has given her newfound respect for the amount of time her parents put into school, with the back-and-forth of getting to campus.

Brooks was involved in stage crew for Matilda, and Laura said she and her husband Stephen made it clear that if there was an activity he wanted to do, not to worry about late pick-up times.

“When you’re a day student at a boarding school, you are already instantly removed from some things, so the effort is on the student’s part to get involved. It’s a little more work,” she said.

Geordie Newman ’93 has a unique perspective on Saint James.

He graduated in Father Dunnan’s first year as headmaster, taught environmental science on the faculty for two and a half years, served as a president of the Alumni Council, and is now an SJS parent. He also holds the distinction of being Father Dunnan’s first Senior Prefect.

“I learned a lot of lessons that year that I still abide by now in my professional career,” he said. “At the time I had no idea that I was learning lifelong lessons.”

His son, Tucker ’24, started at Saint James last year as a virtual student for three-quarters of the year because day students were not permitted to attend classes on campus. When the campus opened after spring break, Geordie said there was no question that Tucker wanted to go in person and interact with his classmates and faculty.

“Obviously, it was a challenge with Covid, but it was really interesting when he would continue to speak with his friends at his old school. The amount of work they were still doing at Saint James during Covid virtually was substantially more intense than what some of the other schools were doing,” Geordie said.

Like Laura, Geordie pointed out the importance of the student-faculty interaction.

“The relationships that some of the students and teachers have is not what you typically see at other schools,” he said. “They enjoy each other’s company during sports practices or meals. Tucker mentions the interaction in the classroom is very relaxed yet intense at the same time.

I think public school teachers don’t have the opportunity to get to know the students the way the faculty at Saint James do.”

Tucker will be joined by his sister Charlotte next year, who Geordie says is very excited and would “be there today if they would allow her.”

Geordie and his wife Mandy have been bringing their children to campus their whole lives, attending the SJIT, chapel services at Christmas and Easter, and Dan Prete’s basketball Camp. Both Tucker and Charlotte were also baptized at Saint James.

“I’ve always wanted them to attend Saint James because I know they’ll have an experience that they’ll never forget and it really will prepare them for college,” Geordie said. “That’s really one of the many benefits of Saint James. It’s not only the relationships you develop with students and faculty but the time management skills, the sense of pride in your work, and not just trying to get by but really applying yourself, because you’re pushed at Saint James to do that.”

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Alumni Gather for Reception in Washington, DC

For the first time in three years, we held an in-person alumni event! More than 35 alumni and friends joined us on Friday, March 18 at The Brighton on the wharf in Washington, DC. The weather was perfect for watching the sunset on the deck while enjoying delicious food (lobster croquettes!) and drinks and catching up with friends. Special thanks to Ian Hilton '90 for the amazing venue.

John Hoke '03 Named Partner at McGuireWoods John B. Hoke, Saint James Class of 2003 and member of the Board of Trustees, was elected partner at McGuireWoods as of January 1, 2022.

Working out of the Charlotte, NC office, John’s practice focuses on advising public companies on securities law compliance, capital raising and public-company governance matters. John also advises public and private companies, private equity funds, family offices and independent sponsors on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and growth equity, venture capital and other financing investments.

John earned his BA in History from Davidson and JD from William & Mary Law School. He was selected for inclusion in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch by Corporate Law in 2021 and named to "North Carolina Rising Stars" by Thomson Reuters Super Lawyers in 2022.

Congratulations, John!

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Class Notes 2004

Bitsy Kopp Wanack and her husband Eric welcomed their son, Arthur Louis Wanack, in September 2021. Bitsy is an occupational therapist and is pursuing a Master of Public Health at the George Washington University.

2014

Sam Ackerman is living in Galena, MD, and working as a crop scout for Harborview Farms in Rock Hall.

Max Brady is in his second year at Emory Medical School, with two years to go followed by a residency.

2016

Grant Golden led the Richmond Spiders to the second round of the NCAA Tournament. The Spiders won the Atlantic-10 title to earn a #12 seed in the tournament, and then pulled off a first round upset of #5-seed Iowa, 67-63. He became the fourth Spider to score more than 2,000 career points and third to reach 1,000 rebounds.

2019

Trinity Schlotterbeck, a junior pitcher on the University of Maryland softball team, was named a co-captain for the Terps 2022 season.

2020

Griffin Almany was named to the Dean's list for the Fall 2021 semester at Elon University.

Skylar Treadwell is a sophomore on the Seton Hall University women's basketball team. She was named to the All-Academic Big East Team after her freshman season.

2021

Morgan McMahon, a freshman on the Colgate University women's basketball team, was the Patriot League Honorable Mention of Rookie of the Week on January 10. She was named the Colgate Student-Athlete of the Week on January 17 after she had a career-high 24 points.

Morgan McMahon '21

Faculty Grant Golden '16 poses before a game with Jimmy James '20, who is a freshman at Richmond.

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Former faculty members Camilo Fiore and Andrea Santos welcomed a baby girl, Daniela Valentina Fiore Santos, on January 22, 2022.

In Memoriam: Mary M. Woodruff I am sad to inform the many alumni and former faculty who admired her that Mary M. Woodruff died suddenly of a heart attack on February 16.

Don and Mary Woodruff came to Saint James in September of 1966 and moved on to other adventures in education in June of 1987. They were an incredible team who gave themselves fully to the community of the school, with a special concern for their bachelor colleagues and the international students they would house so generously during vacations. Mary began the art program at Saint James and was recently honored by the Class of 1983 who gave the department office in the Pohanka Fine Arts Center in her honor. She and Don were inducted together into the Kerfoot Society in 2015.

Both Mary and Don have been especially helpful to me during my time as Headmaster and generously and enthusiastically supportive of the School, so I share in this loss. I am pleased however that she was spared any pain or hardship at the end of her time with us, and I am sure that she will go straight to God, as she was the model of a Christian: kind, faithful, and loving. Her face was bright with the goodness of her soul. She just beamed when she said hello to all of us.

We pray for her soul and for Don and their children, Don Jr. '84 and Michelle '87.

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Class Notes In Memoriam William R. Howard, Jr. '43 passed away on January 22, 2020 at the age of 95. Bill served in World War II, a month after he graduated from Saint James in 1943. He retired from Equitable Trust Company as a VP and Corporate Trust Officer.

He is survived by his wife Annette of 65 years, two daughters, and four grandchildren.

William Robin Glattly '49 of Rockville, MD passed away on January 31, 2022. He is survived by his wife of 62 years, Eleanor, four children, and seven grandchildren. Robin always said that his experience at Saint James was one of the most important influences of his life. He worked as a Commercial Designer in Washington DC and after he retired, traveled with family and enjoyed time with his children and grandchildren at his farm in Culpeper, VA. Davenport "Mike" Plumer, III '50 passed away at age 89 after a brief illness. He dedicated his life to the art of teaching; VicePresident for Development at the New York Institute of Technology; on the faculty of the Harvard Graduate School of Education; and as an English teacher at the

Belmont Hill School. He is survived by a loving family of five adult children, a beloved wife, and three grandchildren.

Edwin H. Hull, Jr., Maj. USAF (Ret.) '51 passed away September 13, 2021 of COVID-19-related respiratory failure. He is survived by his wife, Catharine (Kate), three children, seven grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren. He served in the US Air Force from 1952 to 1972. After retiring, he continued his passion for flying by becoming a corporate pilot for Border Machinery and Richard Distributing.

William P. Daisley ’54 of Chevy Chase, MD, passed away on December 10, 2021. He is survived by his wife, Linda, two children, five grandchildren, and two greatgrandchildren.

Winter Calvert Cullen, III '56 passed away on November 11, 2021. Winter went to Virginia Tech and then went on to operate his family's farm, "Winmar Farms," until his retirement in 1993.

I He is survived by his wife of 61 years, Mary Thom, three children, and five grandchildren.

William S. Anderson '72 of Sumter, SC, passed away on December 27, 2020. He is survived by Frances Farmer Anderson, his wife of 32 years.

Michael R. Firth '78 of Naples, FL, passed away on January 15, 2022 from cancer complications. He is survived by his brother and two sisters.

Michael S. Carey, son of Wayne '66 and Jane Carey, passed away on January 17, 2022 at the age of 55.

The Honorable John W. Sause, Jr., father of Barkley Sause '84, passed away on November 28, 2021. He was a retired Queen Anne's County Circuit Judge.

Mary Stuart Uhl, the mother of George Hatcher ’74 and William Hatcher '77, the grandmother of Will Hatcher '05, Lynn Hatcher ’13 and the late Mary Ann Hatcher, passed away on March 5, 2022 at the age of 93. Mary Stuart has the distinction of being the first woman to serve on the SJS Board of Trustees.

Betty Romaine Hose of Williamsport, MD, passed away on January 6, 2022. She was employed as a cook at Saint James for many years.

Stephen L. Monn, of Waynsboro, PA, passed away on January 13, 2022 at age 74. He is a former Director of Technology at Saint James.

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Alumni Weekend 2022 We hope you are planning to join us for Alumni Weekend on April 29, 30 and May 1! We are eager to once again see our alumni, their families, and parents of alumni for a fun, three-day weekend featuring many special events and activities for all ages. View the event schedule and register: www.stjames.edu/AW2022.

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Our Saints have come together in many ways throughout Saint James School’s history. As we have reunited this year, the power of being Saint James together, in person, has become clearer than ever.

Your power to impact our community comes in many forms, including in your support of the Annual Fund.

We rely on your generosity to support the power of a Saint James education for all students. Please make your gift today!

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When our children started at Saint James, we knew that their academic experience would be first-rate, but we never imagined the breadth of experiences that would be available to them at a school this size: opportunities to participate in amazing music and theater programs, intense and competitive athletics, exciting travel and meaningful social experiences, all of which have enriched their lives in countless ways. We contribute to the Annual Fund because, quite simply, it allows Saint James to offer and support these kinds of activities, which create a dynamic, rich, and joyful experience for our children and for our entire community.

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