Annual Report 2021–2022
Accessing the Online Annual Report We have once again chosen to deliver a printed report that focuses on results from the past year and stories about those who have advanced the Woodberry experience. We continue to publish class giving lists and additional material at woodberryannualreport.org.
From the Headmaster: Philanthropy Focused on the Boys Dear Woodberry alumni, parents, and friends, When the class of 2022’s prefect board gathered at their retreat, the boys spoke about making the 2021– 2022 school year one of renewal. We were all eager to return to a more normal Woodberry experience after the changes forced by the COVID-19 pandemic, and the prefects recognized that only their class — and even then only some of them — had been through a full, (and therefore) “normal” year at Woodberry. I’m pleased to report the boys and faculty were able to deliver on that programmatic renewal, with the resumption of critical pieces of our campus life such as seated meals and all-school chapel. We weathered the pandemic as well as we did thanks to the deep bonds of trust between students, faculty, staff, families, and alumni. We also benefited from the incredible generosity of each one of you. Whether you made a gift to the Amici Fund, pledged your support to the Campaign for the Boys, or joined the Walker Society to leave a lasting legacy at Woodberry, you have given us the resources needed to respond to the challenges of the pandemic. We have been able to resume our traditional programming, not just for the students, but also with the three wonderful Reunion gatherings we held in July 2021 and April 2022. And thanks to your generosity, we have been able to launch new initiatives for the boys, such as the all-school Expedition Week, held for the first time in September 2021. As we reflect back on the past year, I am particularly grateful for the board of trustees and the former trustees who have challenged our entire community to finish the Campaign for the Boys and endow tuition assistance for the boys here now and those yet to come. We made outstanding progress during the past fiscal year and are ready to finish strong. Woodberry is a special community, one that knits together students, faculty, staff, alumni, and families. Once you have joined the Tiger Nation, you are a part of our community for life. The enduring power of Woodberry Forest has been revealed through the way we have banded together and delivered the best possible education for our students through some of the most challenging times in American education. Thank you again for your support of Woodberry Forest this past year, and Go Tigers! Byron Hulsey ’86
Headmaster
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2021–22 Annual Report Table of Contents 2 From the Headmaster: Philanthropy Focused on the Boys 4 Philanthropic Support 5 From the Assistant Headmaster for External Affairs: A Campaign Kickoff to Remember 6 Operating Budget Summary 7 From the Dean of Students: Caring for the Boys Here Now
Forwarding the Woodberry Experience 9 Continuing Our Quest to Endow Tuition Assistance 10 Fred Lummis ’71: Giving Back to a Place that Shaped Him 11 The Power of the Endowment: How Decades of Gifts Support Boys Here Now 13 Fiftieth Reunion Brings Three Classes Together 15 The Walker Society: An Enduring Investment 15 Ty Tysinger ’62: Sixty Years of Tiger Service
Our Physical Place 18 Debbie Barden: Keeping Woodberry Running Behind the Scenes 19 Smoot Carter ’04: A Gift to Help All Students Find Academic Success
Why We Are Strong: Community & Volunteers 21 Introduction 22 Why We Are Strong 24 Amici Fund Tops $4.3 Million in Support of Campaign for the Boys 26 Our Volunteers 26 Board of Trustees 27 Advisory Council 27 Regional Chapter Volunteers 28 Class Volunteers 31 Parent Committees
Contributing writers: Whit Flores Jacob Geiger ’05 Kim O’Donnell Luke Stone ’20
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Philanthropic Support Other $562,001 Plant Fund $6,311,935
2% 29%
Endowment $10,461,367
48%
Gift Distribution by Fund
$21,688,653
20% Amici Fund $4,353,350
Corporations $30,600
Alumni $6,946,693 32%
Foundations
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53%
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$21,688,653 2%
Parents (non-alumni) $575,052
12%
Past Parents, Grandparents, and Other Friends $2,593,746
TOTAL CASH RECEIVED (in millions of dollars) 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022
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$15.7 $17.9 $17.1 $20.3 $21.7
From the Assistant Headmaster for External Affairs: A Campaign Kickoff to Remember Dear Woodberry Faithful, What a joy it was to publicly launch the Campaign for the Boys in November 2021. It was a gathering we’d long awaited — the quiet phase of this campaign began in 2016, shortly after the board adopted a new strategic plan. With the restoration of the Walker Building complete and substantial commitments already made to supporting Woodberry’s tremendous faculty and staff, the remainder of the campaign is focused on endowing tuition assistance to preserve the Woodberry experience. As you’ll see in the pages of this Annual Report, we’ve made excellent progress, thanks in large part to the challenge gifts made by current and former trustees to support tuition assistance. We’ve also enjoyed another outstanding year for the Amici Fund because of the work of our wonderful network of alumni and parent volunteers. Woodberry continues to benefit from an alumni giving rate higher than that of any other independent school or university, a tremendous testament to the power of the student experience and the lifelong connections that are forged here. Woodberry parents, both of current students and of alumni, are important stalwarts of support, recognizing the way the school has shaped their sons. We benefit tremendously from their gifts to the Amici Fund, to the Sixth-Form Parents’ and Grandparents’ Gift, and to new endowed scholarships for tuition assistance. As the mother of two Woodberry boys who have now finished college and are making their way in the world, I love seeing the way my sons and their classmates continue to care for one another. As I reflect back on the year, a final highlight was the chance to once again see so many of you in person, whether at Reunion Weekends or during an event in your hometown. Connecting once again after so many Zoom calls was a wonderful gift. I look forward to many more gatherings to come, both on campus and around the world, as we build on the work of the past year and charge toward the goals of the Campaign for the Boys. Sincerely yours,
Catherine Wharton Assistant Headmaster for External Affairs
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Operating Budget Summary
Amici Fund and Other Annual Gifts $4,143,100 9%
Tuition $23,963,000
54%
Revenue $44,144,603
30%
Endowment Transfers $13,370,222
6% Auxiliary, Summer Programs & Other $2,668,281
Student Activities $616,177 Operations/Plant $11,932,921
27%
Faculty and Staff $16,993,579
38%
Expenses $44,129,935
5%
Auxiliary and Summer Programs $2,153,479
13% 15% Tuition Assistance/Grants $6,700,792
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Employee Benefits $5,732,987
From the Dean of Students: Caring for the Boys Here Now Dear Tigers, Traditionally the Annual Report showcases how the school is stewarding its resources, especially the gifts you so generously share with us. This year we also wanted to share a bit about how we are stewarding the four hundred boys in our care, a task that is my core responsibility as dean of students. Over the past several years, we’ve been implementing the Wholeness Initiative. The initiative is now well established, though still growing, combining a variety of interactive programs, guest speakers, and special events to help boys explore topics that fall outside the traditional academic curriculum. These include developing and maintaining sound social and emotional health, building healthy relationships in a diverse world, serving our community, and establishing good habits with technology and social media. We’ve committed to three wholeness days each year that focus on these topics and developed partnerships with organizations such as the One Love Foundation to help inform and guide programming. These wholeness days often involve a guest speaker for the entire school and a series of workshops, generally with different curricula for boys in different grades. The events also offer a break from our traditional routine and include time for advisory groups to meet and reflect on the topic at hand. This year, we extended our wholeness efforts to our parent community, designing and offering a series of webinars focused on topics such as substance use and misuse and social media and digital citizenship. I’m excited to report that this year marked the launch of our all-school Expedition Week. Many of you may know we’ve held a fourth-form expedition in the mountains of Virginia or North Carolina for more than twenty years. In 2019, we added a third-form
expedition to a camp in the Shenandoah Valley. This year, we held our first expedition for the two upper forms. Fifth formers chose from many intensive classes designed and led by faculty members, while sixth formers traveled to southwest Virginia to work with the Appalachia Service Project. This all-school Expedition Week gives boys a chance to connect with one another, the faculty, and the world around them through service leadership and learning. After its very successful debut, we are eager for Expedition Week to become a key fall tradition. Your gifts make the Woodberry experience possible for boys, supporting everything from student clubs like WFSPN and the International Forum to the onand off-campus activities we organize each weekend. And, of course, your support makes it possible for us to deliver the Wholeness Initiative and Expedition Week. We’ve strategically designed the student experience to move from structure to autonomy. As a Woodberry boy moves from the third form through the sixth form, gradually increasing responsibility better prepares him for life after his time at the Forest. Thank you for your care of the boys here now and for helping each one of them have an outstanding and unique high school experience.
Sincerely,
Ansel Sanders ’00 Assistant Headmaster and Dean of Students
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Continuing Our Quest to Endow Tuition Assistance For ninety years, a key belief at Woodberry has been that boys with the potential and will to succeed should be able to come to school here regardless of their family’s ability to pay. The first tuition assistance program grew out of the financial turmoil caused by the Great Depression, when J. Carter Walker, the school’s first headmaster, did everything in his power to ensure boys would not be forced to leave the school because of the economic downturn. Faculty members took two pay cuts during the 1930s, with the savings used to offset tuition payments that families could no longer make. The Campaign for the Boys honors the legacy of those who came before us and shaped Woodberry into the institution it is today. It supports the boys here now, delivering an all-boys, all-boarding experience to prepare them for lives as learners, leaders, and citizens. And the campaign prepares the way for boys yet to come by making sure an education here remains accessible to a wide range of students. Endowing tuition assistance is Woodberry’s greatest opportunity to secure its future for decades to come. It also ensures that the school will be financially sustainable for the future. The Campaign for the Boys set a goal of $80 million in new endowed scholarships, the largest component of the campaign. At the end of the past school year, alumni and parents had made more than $60 million in commitments toward this goal. Endowing tuition assistance ensures boys who want a Woodberry education can seize that opportunity. This enables the school’s leaders to target the Amici Fund toward the most pressing priorities or opportunities each school year. Increasing endowed support for tuition assistance helps the school moderate the pace of tuition increases for all students; the tuition increase this past year, 2 percent, was the lowest in fifty years. Tuition assistance is an investment in the school’s future, just as the recently completed restoration of the Walker Building was an investment in the experience of boys here now and in the years to come. Strengthening the school’s financial resources will preserve and enhance the Woodberry experience, guaranteeing that a residential community of boys and faculty will long endure on this special campus.
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Fred Lummis: Giving Back to a Place that Shaped Him When Fred Lummis ’71 arrived at Woodberry as a new boy, he was thirteen years old and had never been east of Texas, his home state. “It was a major moment of growing up and figuring things out on your own,” Fred said of his time as a student. “It was an experience that prepared me for the rest of my life.” After attending Vanderbilt University, where he met his wife, Claudia, Fred returned to Texas, earning a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Texas at Austin and settling in Houston. The distance, his business career in private equity, and a busy family life meant he didn’t have many chances to stay connected with Woodberry or his fellow alumni. That began to change when his own sons approached high school age. Though they didn’t attend Woodberry, the experience of taking them to visit campus got Fred thinking. “I realized that Woodberry meant a lot to me, and that reconnecting with the school and my classmates was important,” he said. Fred and Claudia joined the Advisory Council, and in 2012 he joined the board of trustees. Not long after becoming a trustee, Fred became chair of the finance committee, a role he held until his board term ended in November 2021. He helped the school chart its recovery from the Great Recession, transition from the headmastership of Dennis Campbell to that of Byron Hulsey ’86, and respond to the economic challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. “The day-to-day financial management of Woodberry is fantastic, and the school’s financial discipline and oversight stack up favorably with any company I’ve worked with,” Fred said. “There’s a focus on keeping costs down so that we can control the growth of tuition.” Fred said he and other members of the finance committee carefully track how the school’s tuition compares to that of its peers; last year only three of the top forty boarding schools had a lower tuition than Woodberry. The keys to Woodberry’s success include
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both expense discipline and the durable, generous support given by alumni, parents, and others to the Amici Fund. “The Amici Fund is all about what we do together; we control it.” Fred said. He contrasts that fund with endowment funds. “The endowment’s earnings are driven in part by the market, though our investment committee is an outstanding group of experts. The incredible alumni participation in Amici is a huge part of providing resources to the students and controlling the tuition cost.” Though his time as a trustee recently concluded, Fred continues to serve as a member of the executive committee of the Campaign for the Boys. He led a challenge gift to current and former trustees, which in turn inspired a $20 million matching challenge to the entire Woodberry community from those trustees. “COVID had delayed us a bit, and I felt like we needed a kick start to reinvigorate the campaign,” Fred says of his challenge gift, which will expand the Lummis Family Scholarship Fund and support the Walker Building renovation. “Giving to support tuition assistance spoke to me because I know the commitment families have to make to attend Woodberry. I want to make sure we are supporting the sons and grandsons of alumni and ensuring they can be Tigers.” Fred, who recently co-chaired his fiftieth reunion committee, continues to serve as chairman of Platform Partners, a private equity company he co-founded. He is on the board of several of Platform’s portfolio companies and is part of the Houston Astros ownership group. He also serves on several other nonprofit boards and previously served as chairman of the board of Baylor College of Medicine. Despite all of the calls on his time, Fred prioritizes his commitment to Woodberry for two reasons. “One is because I believe so much in the mission of the school and appreciate what it did for me,” he said. “The other is because of the incredible quality of the educators and staff, as well as my fellow trustees. From top to bottom, it is an enjoyable and meaningful volunteer experience that you just want to be a part of.”
The Power of the Endowment: How Decades of Gifts Support Boys Here Now
A key priority of the Campaign for the Boys is growing the endowment, especially in the area of tuition assistance, so the school can raise tuition more slowly, making the Woodberry experience more affordable for everyone. Here’s a look at how the endowment, and the Triple R Fund, which guarantees Woodberry’s long-term debt and pays for the renovations and replacements of buildings, support the Woodberry experience.
Total value of the endowment and managed funds as of June 30, 2022: $406.4 million
$120.2 million Program
$37.2 million
Capital Projects (includes Triple R Fund)
$87.4 million Faculty and Staff
General (Unrestricted)
$48.4 million
Total number of endowed funds: 425
FIVE KEY AREAS OF ENDOWMENT SUPPORT:
Woodberry’s endowment — built over the past century by gifts and stewarded by the Investment Committee for the school’s perpetual benefit — provides more than 40 percent of the annual budget.
64% of tuition assistance comes from the endowment. Completing the Campaign for the Boys, especially our goal of raising $80 million in new endowed funds for tuition assistance, will secure Woodberry’s financial future and ensure we have a sustainable source of funding to support Tuition boys long into the future. Assistance
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69 New funds established to date during the Campaign for the Boys: 58 for Tuition Assistance 6 for Faculty and Staff Support 5 for Program Support
Endowment Funds Valued Over $3 million Arthur Latham Chair
J. Carter Walker 1894 Chair
Camp Family Chair
J. Carter Walker Fine Arts Center Maintenance Fund
Frank H. Kenan ‘31 and Lawrence Lewis Jr. ‘37 Teacher Internship Program General Scholarship Fund Harry and William Frazier Chair Independence Foundation Chair
Jessie Ball duPont Scholarship Fund Jessie Ball duPont Teaching Endowment Manning Science Building Initiative Endowment
Margaret W. and Thornton H. Brooks ‘29 Teaching Fund Peter Browne Ruffin ‘24 Scholarship Fund Randall B. Terry Jr. ‘53 Headmaster Scholarship Fund S. Blount Mason Jr. Class of 1901 Memorial Scholarship Fund William R. Kenan Jr. Fund
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New Endowment Funds Howard and Stephanie Bissell Scholarship Fund William K. Caler Jr. ‘63 Scholarship Fund Christian Family Scholarship Fund Class of 1972 Scholarship Fund
Geiger Family Scholarship Fund F. Borden Hanes Jr. ‘63 Scholarship Fund Nathaniel “Nat” Jobe Scholarship Fund
Class of 2021 Scholarship Fund
Thomas R. Smith Jr. ‘56 Scholarship Fund
Commonwealth of Virginia Scholarship Fund
DeWitt Stewart Worrell Scholarship Fund
R. T. Dooley Family Scholarship Fund
Total value of endowment and managed funds as of June 30, 2022
$406,392,000
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Fiftieth Reunion Brings Three Classes Together In April the classes of 1970 and 1971, whose reunion had been delayed by the pandemic, joined the class of 1972 to celebrate their fiftieth reunions during the first of two back-to-back Reunion Weekends. The school rolled out the red carpet, but alumni provided the fellowship, laughs, memories, and fun that made the weekend memorable.
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A highlight was the opportunity for alumni to hear from a group of sixth formers about today’s Woodberry experience and for the reunion class to enlighten the boys about what it was like to be a Tiger fifty years ago. Following a special luncheon in the Oval Garden, English teacher and varsity cross country n ee coach Ben Hale led the lively K y Kat hy a n d A n d session. Funny stories were shared from both eras, and there were smiles all around. “It was an honor and a privilege to work with the reunion committees of 1970, 1971, and 1972 during the lead-up to Reunion Weekend,” said Dodie Chavez ’85, director of planned and capital gifts. “I joke with the class of 1970 that they now hold the record for the longest-running reunion committee in school history!”
Each fiftieth reunion class marks its legacy with a gift to the school. The three classes elected to establish scholarship funds to support tuition assistance, ensuring boys yet to come enjoy the same experience they did. The co-chairs of each reunion committee formally presented Headmaster Byron Hulsey ’86 with their class gifts at a Friday night dinner held in the Baker Gallery. The class of 1970 honored longtime Spanish teacher and Woodberry legend Bob Vasquez by establishing the Class of 1970 Robert F. Vasquez Scholarship Fund. Bob attended the reunion dinner. The Class of 1971 Andrew C. M. Keenan Jr. Scholarship Fund honors Andy Keenan for his long-standing and incredibly loyal service to the class. The class surprised Andy at the dinner when they announced the fund is named in his honor. The 1971 class also raised funds to support community service work by current and future Woodberry students. The Class of 1972 Scholarship Fund is already valued at more than $1 million through a mix of current contributions and planned gifts by class members who joined the Walker Society. “In the end, considering all of the delays to reunion weekend, the fact that all three classes celebrated together was the best possible outcome,” said Dodie.”What a special weekend for three very memorable classes.”
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The Walker Society: An Enduring Investment Woodberry’s financial strength is built in large part on the estate gifts of alumni, parents, and friends. Most estate gifts support the school’s endowment, providing perpetual support to the boys, faculty, and staff. In 1992 the trustees of Woodberry Forest established the Joseph G. and Violet N. Walker Society to recognize the special generosity of alumni, parents, and friends who have included the school in their estate plans through a provision in their will or as a beneficiary of a retirement plan, life insurance policy, trust, or annuity. The society has more than 584 members, of whom more than 400 are still living.
NEW WALKER SOCIETY MEMBERS Anonymous ’72
Mr. and Mrs. William B. Fletcher ’06
Mr. Harry B. Mills ’60
Mr. James P. Baker III ’02
Mr. and Mrs. John P. Funkhouser ’72
Mrs. Caroline Reutter*
Mr. and Mrs. Oliver “Crom” Carmichael ’67
Mr. and Mrs. Steven P. Geiger
Mr. and Mrs. William A. Stokes ’73
Mr. and Mrs. Stevens N. Gentil ’70
Mr. and Mrs. Breaux Castleman ’58
Mr. and Mrs. Howell K. Hallett ’72
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Thompson “Topper” Webb ’72
Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Dobbins
Mr. John V. E. Hardy ’34*
Mr. and Mrs. Landon R. Wyatt IV ’09
Mr. and Mrs. Sumner S. Finch ’75
Mr. and Mrs. Tyler Meurlin
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Mr. and Mrs. David P. Broughton ’86
Mr. and Mrs. Roy L. Smart ’72
Ty Tysinger ’62: Sixty Years of Tiger Service Travis “Ty” Tysinger ’62 has seen Woodberry from a variety of perspectives. While plenty of alumni have become teachers or watched their sons and grandsons attend the school, few can say that they’ve been a student, three-sport varsity letterman, teacher, parent, development officer, volunteer, and grandparent. Ty, however, has done all those things in his sixty years of knowing the school. A Culpeper native, he first came to Woodberry for two postgraduate years, during which he lettered in football, soccer, and baseball. He quarterbacked the varsity squad during the legendary Red Caughron’s first two seasons as head coach of the Tigers. While Ty’s tenure as a student was brief, it would play a significant role in shaping his future. “The school embraced me in a way that I had never felt before,” Ty said. “They saw more in me than I had ever seen in myself. It just turned out to be a magical time.”
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up, and Headmaster Baker Duncan ’45 really got the school going again. He brought in some wonderful new teachers who would become favorites of mine.” Among those faculty members was English teacher John Stillwell ’45, who also influenced the young Tysinger. “He and Coach Caughron were the two men who most influenced me when I was there,” Ty said. “But lots of people helped me round out and round up my thinking and my direction.” Ty and his wife Dottie spent their newlywed years in a growing community of young faculty couples brought in during the Duncan era. Their sons Andy ’86 and Mike ’88 were born during Ty’s first stint as a faculty member. Soon thereafter, they would move to Covington to run an Episcopal boys’ home. Ten years later, the Tysingers moved to Stuart Hall School in Staunton, where Ty worked as an assistant headmaster under another longtime Woodberry faculty member, Pat Bassett. The two had become friends when they were colleagues at Woodberry in the late 1960s and early 1970s. However, Ty had become more focused on alumni relations and less so on teaching by that stage in his career. “By that time I had moved into the area of institutional advancement,” he said. “I had come to a point where I was somewhat of a spokesperson for the institutions that I represented. Raising money for quality institutions became my driving force.” In 1994 Ty returned to Woodberry as a senior development officer and director of planned giving. In that role, he and former Headmaster Dennis Campbell collaborated on some of Woodberry’s most successful fundraising efforts. “John Grinalds hired me but moved on before very long. The core of my years back there were with Dennis. He was a big picture guy, so he became very 16
open to looking at things a little differently – with some expanded vision.” During their time together, they spearheaded two capital campaigns that funded the construction of Johnson Stadium, Terry Hall, the Manning Family Science Building, and Kenan Hall, among other projects. “That was an exciting time in the life of the school, and I think he turned over to his successor a school that was in great shape,” Ty said. Now Ty and Dottie are making sure their support of Woodberry will continue in perpetuity. Ty is a dedicated class volunteer, and the two have joined the Walker Society by establishing a charitable remainder unitrust, or CRUT. The trust provides income to the Tysingers throughout their life. After their death, the remaining funds in the CRUT become part of the Woodberry endowment funding the Tysinger Family Scholarship Fund. “When you hit a certain time in your life, you begin to look back on the institutions and the people that have added the greatest amount of quality to your life. And Woodberry is at the head of the pack,” Ty said. “I’ve had the great fortune to work with a number of fine organizations, but Woodberry had me at some really pivotal, formative times. It continued to support me, cultivate my skills, and encourage me in ways that made me very happy about giving back to a place that had meant so much to me.”
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Debbie Barden: Keeping Woodberry Running Behind the Scenes Debbie Barden is one of the people who keeps Woodberry running. As daily operations manager, a title she’s held for five years, one of her jobs is to make sure all eighty faculty houses and apartments are in working order. Debbie is one of the first faces new faculty see the day they move onto campus as she welcomes them and helps them get settled and comfortable in the community.
a grieving member of her staff, a demonstration of one of the values — caring for each other — that Debbie believes makes Woodberry special. She helps make Woodberry special for other people, too. “When I first arrived, I knew no one,” said Woodberry’s mailroom supervisor, Emily Henshaw. “Debbie took me under her wing and instantly made me feel welcome. She has a way about her that puts many people at ease.” After Debbie’s start in housekeeping, she worked in the mailroom before stepping into her current position. Working in the mail room was outside of her comfort zone in the beginning, but she and Wendy Moubray, now a housekeeping manager, made the best of it. “We probably called the Orange post office every day to ask what to do with something,” Debbie said. “But you push through it.” One thing Debbie enjoys about working as operations manager is the job’s variety and how it challenges her problem-solving skills. And others recognize her talents — Debbie is often the first point of contact when anyone on campus is trying to solve a tricky problem. “Most people go to her first before they go to anyone else,” Emily said. “They know she’ll know exactly what to do or who they need to talk to. She is well known and well liked by so many.”
Once on campus, faculty get to know Debbie as the engine behind the work order system used to report maintenance needs. There are a lot of moving parts behind every work order and house inspection, but Debbie manages to keep it all straight while humbly refusing to take sole credit. “I’m not an I person; it’s a we,” Debbie said. “It’s really the people who I work with. If it wasn’t for the good group of housekeeping and maintenance workers, we wouldn’t get the stuff done that we do.” Debbie lives in Orange with her husband, Elby. She enjoys gardening, reading, vacationing at the beach, volunteering at her church, and spending time with her two children, Christy and Eric, and her four grandchildren. Former housekeeping supervisor Janet Cooper hired Debbie in 1986 to work alongside and support 18 WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL Annual Report 2021–2022
At graduation, Debbie received the Frank S. Walker Award, presented to the staff member who “has given most unselfishly in performance of his or her duties.” Debbie exemplifies this ideal, eager to help out in other departments when they need a hand, whether by helping with an influx of holiday packages in the post office or planting flowers alongside grounds crew members. Gene Lewis, the director of facilities who has worked closely with Debbie throughout her time at Woodberry, said, “There are few employees that care about the Woodberry community as she has. She always volunteers for any task and lends a helping hand to coworkers, faculty, students, and parents.” No matter how many people tell Debbie that Woodberry would fall apart without her, she refuses to believe it. “You couldn’t do it without everyone else who backs you up, who helps you,” she said. “No one person can do it all on their own.”
A Gift to Help All Students Find Academic Success For Smoot Carter III ’04, confidence and self-belief — both derived from the support of caring teachers and mentors — have been key to his success.
held for longer periods of time, the business has grown. Today Smoot leads a team with offices in Dallas, San Francisco, and Charlotte.
To recognize those who supported him, both as a student and in his business career, Smoot and his wife, Meagan, have made a significant gift to support the restoration of the Walker Building and the Academic Development Center, located in the Dunnington Reading Room on the B Dorm level. In September, the ADC was dedicated as the Smoot Center for Academic Development with boys, his family, and the board of trustees in attendance.
He was introduced to the world of startups while working with Atlantic Bridge, an organization that hosts financial roundtable discussions for British and American business leaders. Many of the participants he met became future clients, including some, he ruefully admits, who attended Episcopal High School. He also connected with Woodberry alumni who are active in the startup or venture capital community, including Charlie Lucas ’80, Joe Lucas ’81, Kevin Phillips ’06, and Trace Smith ’06.
“When I was in college, I felt like the Center for Student Athletes was really helpful for me with mentoring and coaching, and at Woodberry it was the Academic Development Center,” he said. “Sometimes you can’t achieve academic excellence on your own, so helping boys get help on the path to college is my goal.” Smoot came to Woodberry from Northern Virginia and left after his fourth-form year to attend a high school closer to home. He attended Louisiana State University, where he was a decathlete on the track and field team. Smoot then earned a master’s degree from Yale Divinity School. His father, Smoot Carter, Jr., is a 1974 Woodberry graduate and his brother, Ryan, is a member of the class of 2002.
He also continues to value the mentorship he received from Woodberry faculty, both as a student and afterward. Smoot forged a close relationship with Dennis Campbell, who served as Woodberry’s headmaster from 1997 to 2014. “Every time I talk to Dennis, he has a thoughtful message for me,” Smoot said. “I really value the way he combines his faith with his work in education and the long-term connection we’ve had.” Smoot’s success in business has enabled him and Meagan to start a donor-advised fund and give back to Woodberry, a community he feels did much for him, his brother, and his father. He hopes his gift to support the ADC and the Walker Building restoration will enable other Woodberry boys to benefit from the same support he received. “I care about students gaining confidence along their journey through life,” Smoot said. “Personal growth is not achieved alone.”
Smoot Jr.’s father, Smoot Carter, Sr., died of a heart attack when Smoot Jr. was thirteen years old, shortly before he started at Woodberry. The family credits faculty members like Travis Tysinger ’62, Smoot Jr.’s advisor, with providing stability during a difficult time. “Woodberry really raised my dad after my grandfather died,” Smoot said. Today Smoot and Meagan live in Dallas, where he serves as head of private markets for Elevation Securities. He works with founders and other employees of startups who are looking to sell shares of their company before it has completed an initial public offering and begun trading on a stock exchange. As startups have raised more venture capital funding in recent years and remained privately 19
WHY WE ARE STRONG:
Community & Volunteers
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Woodberry’s alumni and parent engagement is unparalleled among independent schools, and even stands alone when compared to colleges and universities across the nation. The time and talent of countless volunteers bring energy to campus and extend well beyond Woodberry’s 1,200 acres. These volunteers work as a cohesive collective within the community to advance Woodberry’s mission. The value of the Woodberry experience becomes immeasurable over time. “Woodberry is a great place to be, but an even better place to be from,” reflects Martin Stephenson ‘99 on why he volunteers time to Woodberry. The sense of belonging and common bond enjoyed by students deepens with time and distance among alumni, parents, and friends of the school. This sense of community inspires many to continue to connect with Woodberry and to give back in a variety of ways. Woodberry’s 134-year history is a reflection of community as a core value and the volunteer contributions of many each year. Its board of trustees works alongside the headmaster to set a long-term vision for the school and support the faculty. Class volunteers form an expansive web rallying over seven thousand alumni to connect through reunions and to support Woodberry’s future through participation in the Amici Fund. Regional chapters expand Woodberry’s presence across the country with events that introduce new families to Woodberry, and keep alumni, parents, students, and friends united in Tiger spirit. Parent class leaders engage fellow families in critical ways that create community during their Woodberry experience. It is with deep appreciation that Woodberry celebrates the spirit of volunteerism within its community, and welcomes you to find your Woodberry in the year ahead.
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Why We Are Strong Board of Trustees
Nelson Fitts ‘93 Nelson Fitts appreciates Woodberry for its academic rigor and the deep relationships with friends and faculty that transformed his life. Bob Smethurst, Doc Straley, Jim Reid, and Chuck McArver are among the many faculty members etched in his memory as major influences. “I feel a lot of gratitude for the education I received, and want to help others access that opportunity.” Nelson served as Advisory Council co-chair with his wife, Elizabeth, and is a current member of the board of trustees. Nelson is excited about work on the next strategic plan for Woodberry that “gets beyond the physical — new buildings and amenities — and focuses on the boys’ experience and faculty support for the important work they do.” Nelson admires the board’s leadership and approach — “the trustees are very thoughtful, not reactive, and long-term thinkers.” As for the time and energy the board devotes to its work, he shares that “each of us has taken something invaluable from his or her relationship with Woodberry, and we share a common desire to help the school thrive.” Regional Chapter Leadership
Pierce Lancaster ’02
Hunter Morhous ’99
Martin Stephenson ’99
Eli Green ’94
The Atlanta Regional Chapter, with its fifteen-year history and pioneering spirit of founders Talbott Nunnally ’76, Lee Burrows ’78, and Richard Spencer ’84, has a recipe for success. Pierce Lancaster ’02 and Eli Green ’94, current and past presidents respectively, believe its streamlined board structure, core events, and being a bit “rogue” have produced legendary events like the Ottley Oyster Roast and strong participation by local Tigers. The group is united with a shared sense that Woodberry changed the trajectory of their lives. Some still connect regularly with former faculty members like John Reimers, while others are thankful to Coach Dick Glover ’61 for his transformation of “husky boys” into wrestlers. With a successful Braves game as a highlight from the summer, the chapter has its sights on the return of the oyster roast, a service day, and building Woodberry’s presence with prospective families. All seem to echo Pierce’s sentiments: “It’s just natural to be involved with Woodberry . . . it played a big role in my life.”
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Career Networking
Gunnar Gregory ’07
Gunnar Gregory ’07 and D. French Slaughter ’04 Career Networking Chairs | New York City and Charlottesville Regional Chapters As a college student, Gunnar Gregory ’07 recalls mustering the nerve to reach out to former all-star athlete Ed Testerman ’02 for career advice. Surprised to receive Ed’s immediate response, the guidance that followed has greatly influenced Gunnar’s career. Similarly, D. French Slaughter ’04 has tapped fellow Tigers for insight and expertise in his career and values the ability to connect more personally — it’s more than business. As national career networking co-chairs, they are a dynamic team with a vision of developing Woodberry’s career network into a digital community. Surveying alumni to gauge interests, features, communication preferences, and more, they have distilled key findings to offer Woodberry’s alumni relations team strategic recommendations. “This is much more than a career network — it is the network for Woodberry,” shares D. French, his enthusiasm evident. Watch the WFS LinkedIn Group for new features, including alumni news, talent spotlights, and internships.
Amici Class Volunteer
Jojo Beal ‘21 Jojo Beal recalls living in Turner as if it were yesterday, naming his closest friends in room order, and by roommate, mixed with a few stories of those early days. During this year’s OneWoodberry, Jojo volunteered to rally his classmates. “It was a lot of video calls with classmates and group chat . . . what we do anyway,” he said. The class of 2021 made its Amici Fund debut with an impressive 91 percent of the class participating. As a young alumnus in college, giving back to Woodberry is important to Jojo. He recalls being a third former at an alumni event and meeting Broderick Dunn ’00, who joined the school’s board of trustees last fall. “Mr. Dunn shared his phone number and often texted me and other local students to invite us to dinner . . . he always wanted to make sure I was OK.” A job shadow at Broderick’s law firm has influenced Jojo’s intended path in law. “I want to pay this back. Woodberry is brotherhood. It is a learned experience, and it is love.”
Parent Volunteers
Kim and Mac Collie “As parents, we had an amazing Woodberry experience just like our son. I want other parents to have the same,” shares Kim Collie. Kim and her husband, Mac, the parents of Hugh Collie ’22, have dedicated their energy in the last four years shepherding new families through the heartfelt moments of leaving sons on campus and sharing in parents’ joy about their boys and their growth. They’ve also worked to deepen parent connections within the class of 2022 and participation in the Sixth-Form Parents’ and Grandparents’ Gift. Supporting the admission office, they have been incredible Woodberry ambassadors as hosts for welcome receptions for new boys. While their current parent role has come to an end, their continued involvement with Woodberry has not. As evidence was their divide-and-conquer strategy that included Mac’s attendance at Woodberry’s class of 2026 welcome reception in Raleigh while Kim tended to college move-in day for Hugh. When asked about volunteering for Woodberry, Kim shared, “As I tell my children, any time you open your circle, good things come from it.” 23
Amici Fund Tops $4.3 Million in Support of Campaign for the Boys The public launch of the Campaign for the Boys this past year coincided with a record-setting year for the Amici Fund, which for the first time in Woodberry history topped $4 million. The fund closed the year with $4,353,350 donated by alumni, parents, and friends of the school, an increase of nearly $500,000 from last year’s previous record, which was almost $3.9 million. Gifts to the Amici Fund go immediately to work enhancing the experience of the boys here now. Amici gifts also support the faculty and staff who make the Woodberry experience possible for the boys. Special programs like the all-school Expedition Week or everyday activities such as arts, athletics, and extracurriculars are made possible by Amici. During the past year, nearly 65 percent of alumni made a gift, as did more than 92 percent of current parents. Impressive performances were found across the alumni community, but one particularly noteworthy effort came from the class of 2021. In that group’s first year as alumni, 91 percent of the class made a gift. Continuing the fund’s recent success was OneWoodberry held this year on February 24. As always with OneWoodberry, the hundreds of dedicated alumni and parent volunteers worked to rally each class to make the day a success. The class of 1948 with 100 percent participation, the class of 1975 with 95 percent participation, the class of 1963 with $179,714, and the class of 2000 with ninety-five gifts led the way as Woodberry received more than 3,500 gifts to Amici by the end of February 24. Gifts came from forty-eight states and a dozen countries. This year’s results, with a record-setting dollar amount and outstanding participation, place the Amici Fund as one of the outstanding annual fundraising efforts at any school, college, or university. No other institution boasts such a high level of alumni support. This was the sixth consecutive year with alumni giving above 60 percent. Only a few other institutions top 50 percent in alumni support, and none can match the unwavering loyalty that the Tiger Nation shows through its gifts to the Amici Fund.
A Five-Year Look at the Amici Fund $3,674,657
$3,740,547
$3,663,766
92% 85%
65%
66%
2018
2019
Total in Past Years
$3,854,219
$4,353,350
94%
93%
85%
66% 64%
2020
Total in Current Year
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2021 Current Parent Participation
65%
2022 Alumni Participation
Alumni Amici Participation & Dollars Raised by Class Total Raised by Alumni
Total Alumni Donors
$3,016,237 3,439 TOP
CLASS
DOLLARS
PERCENT
Honor Guard '52 '53 '54 '55 '56 '57 '58 '59 '60 '61 '62 '63 '64 '65 '66 '67 '68 '69 '70 '71 '72 '73 '74 '75 '76 '77 '78 '79 '80 '81 '82 '83 '84 '85 '86
$241,182 $9,300 $12,400 $15,005 $66,550 $18,725 $20,178 $15,835 $29,242 $32,055 $56,003 $44,003 $179,714 $42,950 $115,419 $42,120 $55,545 $40,240 $29,267 $21,080 $23,927 $33,145 $55,169 $117,135 $57,543 $16,055 $66,047 $33,059 $67,655 $34,695 $27,854 $90,450 $56,226 $63,718 $76,773 $49,415
71.5% 56.5% 68.1% 76.9% 62.5% 84.0% 61.7% 64.2% 66.6% 77.5% 62.0% 51.1% 75.0% 78.5% 75.9% 68.0% 72.2% 78.9% 88.1% 52.1% 41.7% 65.0% 69.1% 64.8% 95.3% 53.2% 74.1% 55.7% 50.0% 51.1% 69.7% 89.0% 68.6% 65.4% 72.4% 61.8%
Top fundraising in decade=
TOP
CLASS
DOLLARS
PERCENT
'87 '88 '89 '90 '91 '92 '93 '94 '95 '96 '97 '98 '99 '00 '01 '02 '03 '04 '05 '06 '07 '08 '09 '10 '11 '12 '13 '14 '15 '16 '17 '18 '19 '20 '21
$95,912 $53,126 $49,135 $26,815 $32,026 $83,217 $29,172 $53,846 $16,205 $91,740 $28,279 $48,222 $31,249 $40,265 $23,096 $32,289 $58,904 $37,416 $57,664 $26,559 $12,503 $48,667 $14,609 $6,574 $7,232 $8,230 $8,917 $4,119 $9,195 $8,325 $3,080 $4,225 $3,826 $4,128 $1,792
57.8% 63.5% 72.3% 73.5% 58.5% 65.8% 62.0% 78.0% 38.1% 47.4% 80.0% 87.1% 60.2% 89.0% 54.5% 59.1% 65.8% 75.2% 75.4% 79.0% 63.0% 56.8% 51.1% 40.0% 47.7% 41.5% 58.3% 43.1% 45.5% 62.7% 64.7% 69.6% 56.2% 62.3% 91.2%
TOTAL
$3,016,237
64.9%
Top percentage in decade=
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Our Volunteers We are thankful to all of our volunteers who give so much of their time. The number of volunteers has doubled in the past five years, and this growth has been key to our overall success.
2021–22 Board of Trustees Edward L. Baker II ‘96 Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida
Broderick C. Dunn ‘00 Fairfax Station, Virginia
Frederick R. Lummis II ’71 Houston, Texas
Patrick F. Bassett Gainesville, Virginia
Damien R. Dwin ‘93 New York, New York
Dorothy A. Matz (P ‘15, ‘18, ‘21) Coatesville, Pennsylvania
John R. Belk ‘77 (P ‘08) Charlotte, North Carolina
Franklin S. Edmonds, Jr. ‘87 Charlottesville, Virginia
D. Matthew Middelthon ‘88 Atlanta, Georgia
Hope H. Bryant (P ‘12, ‘14, ‘17) Raleigh, North Carolina
Sumner S. Finch ‘75 (P ‘11), Chair High Point, North Carolina
Rita W. Ross (P ‘05, ‘09) Washington, District of Columbia
William K. Caler, Jr. ‘63 West Palm Beach, Florida
Nelson O. Fitts ‘93 Greenwich, Connecticut
Robert H. Spilman, Jr. ‘74 (P ‘10) Martinsville, Virginia
Thomas H. Claiborne ‘83 (P ‘14, ‘16, ‘20) Richmond, Virginia
Ragan Folan (P ‘10, ‘13) Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Owen D. Thomas ‘79, Chair-Elect Bronxville, New York
Harley S. Garrison ‘87 Greensboro, North Carolina
Giles Tucker ‘85 (P ‘13, ‘19) Manakin-Sabot, Virginia
E. Hooper Hardison, Jr. ’79 (p ’10, ’12), Vice-Chair Charlotte, North Carolina
Benjamin R. Wall II ‘94 Spartanburg, South Carolina
Benjamin H. Davis ‘89 (P ‘24) Dallas, Texas Edward M. Deal ‘84 (P ‘12, ‘18) Hickory, North Carolina P = Parent
William M. James ‘80 (P ‘15) New York, New York Robert E. Long ’75 Brookhaven, Georgia
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TRUSTEES EMERITUS Sion A. Boney III ‘74 (P ‘16) Hillsdale, New York Haynes G. Griffin ’65 (P ’87, ’92, ’98) Greensboro, North Carolina
2021–22 Advisory Council Chris ’90 and Donna Aldredge Lillington, North Carolina
Eli ’94 and Julia Green (P ’24) Chairs Atlanta, Georgia
Howard and Stephanie Bissell (P ’18, ’20, ’23) Charlotte, North Carolina
David ’94 and Susan Harker Charlotte, North Carolina
Mac and Kim Collie (P ’22) Raleigh, North Carolina
Brad and Allison Hill (P ’22) Easton, Maryland
Jim ’99 and Meagan Davis Greenwich, Connecticut
Thorpe and Sarah McKenzie (P ’18, ’22) Lookout Mountain, Tennessee
Barry and Kathleen Dunn (P ’22) Wilmette, Illinois
Brad and Reed Roberts (P ’23) Atlanta, Georgia
Ware ’99 and Alison Smith Beaufort, North Carolina
Chip Farrar ’04 and Emily Eichenberger Atlanta, Georgia
Tony Sfreddo ’86 Warrenton, Virginia
Ben ’02 and Monica Stolbach Brooklyn, New York
Doug ’87 and Grey Vaughn (P ’21) Raleigh, North Carolina
Andrew ’01 and Brooke Grabato Austin, Texas
David ’94 and Elizabeth Shuford Charlotte, North Carolina
Jamie Turner ’14 and Chelsea Colvin Culpeper, Virginia
Richard ’96 and Caroline Wright Richmond, Virginia
J. Berkeley D’Alton ‘97 Charlton deSaussure III ‘04 Theodore M. Malinowski ‘09 C. Whitten Meares III ‘97 Isaac J. Morton ‘94 Andrew F. Parker ‘94 Telfair H. Parker, Jr. ‘92 John G. Powell ‘97 Andrew R. Tew ‘05 Neil D. Thomson ‘93
(P ’16) Marion W. Peebles IV ‘05 John S. Petrone ‘06 Robert W. Sappenfield, Jr. ‘85 James H. Smith III ‘06 Christian H. Staples ‘01 J. William Thompson, Jr. ‘89 (P ’19) Clarence E. Williams III ‘77 (P ’10, ’13) Landon R. Wyatt IV ‘09
P = Parent 2021–22 Regional Chapter Volunteers Atlanta W. Bonneau Ansley III ‘95 Elijah T. Green ‘94 (P ’24) Kerry M. Izard (P ’19) Henry M. T. Jones ‘90 W. Pierce Lancaster ‘02 J. Alexander McArthur ‘02 L. Hunter Morhous ‘99 Parker T. Mothershead ‘05 Parker T. Nance ‘13 C. Talbot Nunnally III ‘76 Bradley E. Roberts (P ’23) G. Kinsey Roper III ‘73 W. Martin Stephenson ‘99 Joseph G. Vicars, Jr. ‘05 James J. B. Willis ‘13 Austin Andrew R. Grabato ‘01 George S. Hillhouse ‘84 (P ’16) T. Frederick C. Kennedy ‘85 = President P = Parent
D. Coles Merrick ‘07 Bryan B. Plater ‘83 Jesse Y. Womack III ‘96 Capitol Arthur H. Bryant III ‘09 Barrett W. Deacon ‘09 Michael K. Dean ‘93 Broderick C. Dunn ‘00 Camden P. Geiger ‘08 John B. Gogos ‘98 M. Anthony Gould ‘60 Malcolm Marshall III ‘92 Jarrett M. Morrell ‘91 John C. Raffetto ‘02 Philip J. Rogers ‘10 J. Harry M. Stephens ‘07 C. Stewart Verdery, Jr. ‘85 Charleston Walter D. Blessing, Jr. ‘90 Bowen G. Chapman ‘04 Jesse S. Claypoole IV ‘94
Charlotte John R. Belk ‘77 (P ’08) Andrew C. Burns, Jr. ‘04 Alexander K. Butler ‘06 David B. Harker ‘94 Minor T. Hinson ‘80 Frederick E. Hopkins III ‘87 Paul F. Liles ‘08 John B. Lipe ‘98 Kendrick W. Mattox III ‘89 Robert L. McMillan ‘84
Charlottesville H. Wilson Craig ‘12 Brooks D. Hathaway ‘91 (P ’23) Robert H. Jiranek, Jr. ‘81 (P ’17) Jonathan P. Kauffmann ‘95 Keven J. Lindemann ‘87 (P ’22) Thomas J. Ronayne III ‘97
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D. French Slaughter IV ‘04 Edward R. Testerman III ‘02 John B. Updike ‘77 Katherine Walmsley (P ’17, ’19) Dallas Carter J. Butler ‘93 Cyril S. Frazier ‘07 R. William Reynolds ‘90 Edward M. Slater ‘88 Houston Samuel T. Chambers ‘77 Stuart H. Coleman ‘04 D. Walters Hughes ‘07 James E. Maloney ‘69 (P ’25) Lee H. Staley ‘92 W. Perrin Van Allen ‘06
New York City A. Christian Burke ‘72 James W. Davis ‘99 Nelson O. Fitts ‘93 Holden D. Fockler ‘16 James N. Gardiner ‘05 Gunnar G. Gregory ‘07 Robert G. Harper IV ‘96 J. Mitchell Hull ‘77 (P ’04, ’08) F. Claiborne Johnston III ‘96 W. Fort Parker II ‘01 J. Mead Rust, Jr. ‘97 Todd G. Sears ‘94 Sean B. Spector ‘12 Benjamin K. Stolbach ‘02 F. Stuart Swann ‘02 Peter B. Wilson ‘06 Richmond Read M. Butler ‘91 Barbour T. Farinholt ‘80 (P ’09)
Joseph L. Farmer ‘04 Tyler S. Finney ‘08 Muscoe R. H. Garnett III ‘94 Brantley D. Hathaway ‘80 (P ’14, ’16, ’18) W. Massie Meredith, Jr. ‘75 J. Eric Miller ‘94 Frederick T. Moore (P ’13) Richard H. Wright IV ‘96 Triad David P. Broughton ‘86 F. Lee Bryan IV ‘98 Sandlin M. Douglas ‘97 Sumner S. Finch ‘75 (P ’11) William T. Goodson ‘01 I. Bates Grainger IV ‘92 C. Christian Green ‘88 G. William Joyner III ‘88 James C. King ‘87 (P ’16) Britt Lytle (P ’17, ’22) Richard H. Ramsey ‘97
Triangle Powell K. Baggett ‘00 Martin M. Boney ‘85 Martin W. Borden ‘83 (P ’12, ’15) Samuel T. Bratton ‘82 (P ’23) Carter M. Brenneman ‘99 Robert B. Brown ‘87 (P ’23, ’24) Issac A. Brown ‘08 Richard C. Bue ‘86 (P ’21) Kimberly N. Collie (P ’22) Robert E. Long III ‘02 John B. Maddison ‘97 John F. Nash, Jr. ‘08 John F. Nash ‘72 (P ’08) George B. Purrington ‘04 John V. Purrington ‘86 (P ’17) John W. Taylor ‘02 Douglas A. Vaughn ‘87 (P ’21) Heather C. Warren (P ’17, ’21)
= President P = Parent
2021–22 Class Volunteers 1946 A. Colquitt Shackelford, Jr.
David D. Plater Robert K. Yowell
1948 Joseph G. Fiveash, Jr.
1955 Robert H. Borden Henry H. Brown L. Richardson King L. Bagley Reid G. Joseph Vining
1949 James C. Eller John L. S. Northrop Edward R. Slaughter, Jr. 1950 Russell M. Robinson II 1951 Charles R. Bourland, Jr. Edward H. Hardison Walton K. Joyner Frank F. Mountcastle, Jr. Richard N. Taliaferro, Jr. 1952 Theodore K. Woods, Jr.
1956 William A. Wallace 1957 John P. Castleman, Jr. J. Carter Fox Albert C. Monk III Robert N. H. Poole Gregory S. Prince, Jr. C. Hunton Tiffany John H. Wright III
1953 Herbert F. Kincey, Jr.
1958 Peter S. Gilchrist III J. Ward Purrington Charles K. Scott
1954 John G. P. Boatwright
1959 James L. Coker IV
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John N. Gulick, Jr. William L. St. Clair G. McNeir Tilman* 1960 M. Anthony Gould William D. King John S. May, Jr. Harry B. Mills J. Quentin Roemer Marion M. Wall 1961 John S. Curry Charles L. Dibble C. H. Randolph Lyon R. Hunter Morin Lewis S. Morris, Jr. J. Rutledge Young, Jr. 1962 Ray E. Burger, Jr. Charles A. Carr, Jr. Robert J. Feller Douglas W. Kincaid, Jr. Charles B. Mayer Lloyd L. Thompson III Travis J. Tysinger Peter A. Wilson
1963 William K. Caler, Jr. Joseph A. Lipe Peter B. Lyon James H. Price III Robert C. Randolph IV Cleveland A. Wright 1964 Charles C. Coddington Lucien B. Crosland Isaac B. Grainger III Edmund W. Perrow Robert P. Roper, Jr. 1965 Benjamin A. Carey Edward H. Covington R. Michael Daniel William A. Daniel, Jr. J. Haywood Davis William E. Deegans III Frederick B. Dent, Jr. Harold F. Gallivan III R. Spencer Garrard Haynes G. Griffin Douglas S. Holladay, Jr. Thomas B. Jahncke R. Walter Jones IV
Lawrence W. Krieger, Jr. John L. MacCorkle Edgar M. Norris, Jr. Richard B. Payne, Jr. Robert B. Phelps Simon C. Sitterson III James M. Tallman Edgar N. Weaver, Jr. Harold E. Young, Jr. 1966 John D. Baker II Richard F. Barnhardt James R. Bird R. Jeffrey Board F. Cooper Brantley William B. DePass, Jr. John K. Hollan L. Richardson Preyer, Jr. 1967 R. Lawrence Brown III Robert H. Edmunds, Jr. James H. Grantham John A. Hammerschmidt Robert F. Hine W. Deberniere Mebane Charles W. Robinson, Jr. David G. Sutton Ben D. Thomas, Jr. J. Edward Watson III O. Beechmond Watson III Charles S. Wilson II 1968 Francis C. Bagbey William C. Cleveland III G. Ware Cornell, Jr. John B. Demere Paul S. Huber III William C. Hudgins C. Crowell Little, Jr. Phillip Sasser, Jr. A. Wilson Somerville, Jr. G. Jackson Tankersley, Jr. 1969 William B. Judkins Charles Lee Smith III C. Whitley Vick III 1970 Wilson M. Brown III Samuel B. Rankin 1971 Andrew C. M. Keenan, Jr.
1972 John F. Nash 1973 Herbert A. Claiborne III Robert C. Hudson B. Sykes Sturdivant 1974 John K. Cohen Dean G. Norman G. Scott Rayson John Zimmermann 1975 George A. F. Berry Marvin P. Bush E. Biery Davis, Jr. R. Thomas Edwards, Jr. Sumner S. Finch Vernon M. Geddy III Richard King IV Robert E. Long Henry W. Maclin III W. Massie Meredith, Jr. Peter R. Minor James E. Moyler III James H. Murray William C. Nixon, Sr. C. Beale Payne Walter L. Smith E. Massie Valentine, Jr. Timothy S. Wilkins 1976 Albert L. Butler III Alexander W. Evans John G. Fox II Carleton B. Gibson IV Douglas J. Gill James G. Harrison III Michael B. Herrmann W. McDowell Hoak Hayes R. Holderness Allen M. Laws William S. McMaster James B. Moon David P. Roberts T. Jefferson Smith IV William L. Steele IV 1977 Cyrus P. Barger, Jr. John R. Belk William J. Blair III James E. Clement, Jr. J. Mitchell Hull Patrick F. Nash
1978 Diggs S. Bishop R. Lee Burrows, Jr. 1979 William W. Hadley 1980 Jordan R. Bain James B. Bell Robert A. Bristow Frederick C. Butler III Alexander G. Campbell III B. Grimes W. Creasy Barbour T. Farinholt G. Stuart Grattan William N. Harris Brantley D. Hathaway John D. Hendrix, Jr. Minor T. Hinson Charles C. Lucas III Douglas W. Maclay, Jr. Will D. Magruder, Jr. John C. Moylan III John J. Norman, Jr. Geoffrey A. Rilling David K. Robb William L. Spencer Hal V. Worth IV 1981 Charles W. Biggs II Joseph C. Bossong, Jr. Donnell B. Carr Jay J. D’Lugin Moss W. Davis Quentin K. S. Falconer Lee A. Folger IV Patrick M. Gilbert Joseph H. Hardison III Christopher H. Holden Thomas W. Jamison, Jr. Robert H. Jiranek, Jr. James C. Lloyd Josiah C. T. Lucas C. Knox Massey III Fidelma B. Rigby Cliona B. Robb Bleecker P. Seaman III Gregory M. Somerville Thomas N. Spong Scott M. Stephens Charles M. Stillwell Joseph J. Thomas Jonathan E. Walker 1982 Samuel T. Bratton
Arthur H. Bryant, Jr. Mark F. Bryant James D. Cross Thomas F. P. Enochs Harry Frazier IV H. Todd Geddes
W. Edward Glattly David G. Grattan Winston R. Griffin William B. Hardison Jonathan C. Hinson Tyson D. Janney Joseph W. Milby, Jr. William C. Monk, Jr. G. Preston Nowlin III M. Bagley Reid Col. John S. Scott William R. Slicer Stafford M. Swearingen J. Stuart White III 1983 Martin W. Borden F. Huntley Bossong Catesby B. Jones R. Brandt Swindell, Jr. Edward W. Valentine 1984 B. Manly Boyd III James T. Duckworth III George S. Hillhouse Robert L. McMillan A. Nicholas Purrington Richard P. Spencer II 1985 John W. Black III J. Miles Boldrick William P. Bray T. Frederick C. Kennedy
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David R. Lawson Steele E. McGonegal Kevin W. Tydings C. Stewart Verdery, Jr.
Emmett D. Nelms F. Stuart Swann
1986 David P. Broughton Fanning M. Hearon III C. Andrew Tysinger 1987 Frederick E. Hopkins III Christian G. Schnabel 1988 Robert M. Daniel, Jr. 1989 Luke M. Babcock Philip J. Bartlett Coburn R. Beck Charles H. G. Honey David K. Maynard Bradley H. McGetrick John D. Osteen F. Reid Warder, Jr. John S. Willim III 1990 Walter E. Daniel IV Francis S. Gristina Alexander M. Neuman Jason M. Slade Edward C. Stone 1991 Mark B. Copen Gunby J. Garrard W. Scott Gillespie Brooks D. Hathaway John C. Matthews Jarrett M. Morrell 1992 John G. Beam III William K. Brawley III Carter H. Burwell J. Roger Edwards III Charles P. Fulford III W. Schley Gordy, Jr. I. Bates Grainger IV Malcolm Marshall III J. Harris Morrison III Telfair H. Parker, Jr. Lee H. Staley J. Graham Underhill
John W. Ward IV Robert K. Yarbrough 1993 Michael K. Dean Joshua B. Heiskell J. Giles Ward 1994 T. Winfrey O. Bear Lawrence H. Dempsey III Elijah T. Green Carter M. Little R. Blake Lovelace J. Eric Miller Isaac J. Morton Todd G. Sears 1995 Stuart L. Brown Jonathan P. Kauffmann John M. Lowry J. McIntyre Ward 1996 Edward L. Baker II F. Baily Dent III F. Claiborne Johnston III Jesse Y. Womack III 1997 William D. King, Jr. C. Whitten Meares III Corbin P. Miller Porter H. Nolan John G. Powell Thomas S. Ragsdale IV 1998 John W. Barton III Colin R. Brooks Benjamin C. Bruner F. Lee Bryan IV Jonathan L. Drew P. Tate Forrester William F. Grace III Thomas B. W. Hall
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John L. Hallett II M. Camp Kilcollin, Jr. Gordon H. Kolb, Jr. John B. Lipe Harrison Stuart Matthew E. L. Tornabene Andrew S. Wright 1999 Carter M. Brenneman M. Brian Burchette Charles Collier III Paul H. Dent Hynson H. Marvel III Webb B. Milward T. Dyllan Rankin F. Bradford Swann, Jr. John E. Voissem Frayser F. White IV 2000 Donald R. Anselmi Broderick C. Dunn Edward C. Frackelton Adam J. Geist James Taliaferro M. Oates F. Marshall Rabil, Jr. Richard R. Reutter W. Ansel Sanders C. McDonald Steele
2003 Cameron A. Arnett John D. Baker III J. A. Stuart Bonner, Jr. T. Dubose Bratton J. Michael Day, Jr. Andrew S. Ellison Conner G. Gentil F. Stafford Kelly Adlai T. Mast IV Whidbee S. Perrin Gregory R. Schwartz Samuel A. Slater Alexander R. Strange Patrick H. Van Meter Philip W. Vann 2004 James S. Boswell Andrew C. Burns, Jr. Bowen G. Chapman Stuart H. Coleman Charlton deSaussure III Joseph L. Farmer Sydney D. F. Farrar II Graham B. Gardiner P. Howard Glenn G. Grey Littlewood J. J. Caylor Mark III Trevor S. Slaven Boyd R. Steinhoff James K. Woolford, Jr.
2001 Caldwell M. B. Bailey George R. Bassett, Jr. Robert W. Chen William T. Goodson Andrew R. Grabato Lloyd F. Moss III Frank D. Nelms III Benjamin K. Noland John H. Scott Philip D. Sterling F. Taylor Sutton V
2005 W. Thomas L. Avery Wilson M. Bonner W. Haynes David Paul Funkhouser Galen P. Green Christopher T. W. Gresham Peter A. S. Hansen Lawrence O. B. Kluttz Robert E. Mason V Parker T. Mothershead R. Louis Smart IV Ross P. Smith Andrew R. Tew W. Myles Wynn
2002 William C. Collier Jorge P. Ibarra
2006 Roddey Dowd III Bratton W. DuBose
John R. Grey IV D. Ross Howard, Jr. Patrick S. Kelly Benjamin F. Matthews III John S. Petrone Peter B. Wilson 2007 John D. Ainsworth Joseph L. Arnold III Gordon R. Crenshaw Cyril S. Frazier Gunnar G. Gregory Buckley G. Smith J. Harry M. Stephens John S. Whaley III 2008 J. Robert Belk, Jr. Douglas V. Gabbert William D. Lawson V Richardson G. Seabrook G. Coleman Wright 2009 Arthur H. Bryant III Barrett W. Deacon James F. Frazier William D. Sutherland Landon R. Wyatt IV 2010 Elliott L. Brewer B. Alexander Hagood W. Chase Spong Patrick M. Szyperski Clarence E. Williams IV 2011 Kevin W. Bennert William L. Borden, Jr.
E. Ragland Coxe, Jr. J. Buckley Davis III W. Austin Finch Craig R. Fuller Cary D. D. Jones Matthew A. Laws J. Brian Pecheles 2012 Charles B. Blaydes Edwin B. Borden II William B. Choate III H. Collier Connell H. Wilson Craig Marshall W. Deal Henry W. Dyke Mark E. Petrone Caswell C. Prewitt Charles L. D. Setzer 2013 J. Edward D. Archer Christopher C. Broughton Nicholas W. Cirillo Feixiang Han Faulkner W. Hereford F. Trice Moore Peter C. Shelton MacLean S. Trainor William G. Tucker James J. B. Willis L. Haynes Zaytoun 2014 Spencer A. Bibb Thomas H. Claiborne, Jr. T. Lester Coleman John Patrick H. Connell D. Maybank Hagood, Jr. D. Whitehead Hobbs, Jr. Samuel M. Hodges
George A. Ives IV J. Hines Liles William J. Osterman 2015 Charles R. Borden Eduardo Corona Nathan J. Ingram Christopher K. Nance William N. Peak T. Talfourd Wharton, Jr. Alexander C. Whittemore 2016 Wyatt S. Beazley V Jaquelin T. R. Claiborne J. Walker Comer Graham H. Goldstein Daniel R. Japhet III Robert L. McMillan III J. Garnett Reid, Jr. John A. Sari 2017 B. Lee Caffey Scott D. Gullquist, Jr. R. Parker Jacobs Christopher H. Oldham, Jr. Michael O. Warren, Jr. Tilden Q. Winston J. Roch Zaytoun 2018 R. McDonald Boney Max G. Bozymski R. Dean Browning Samuel E. Deal Lee P. Dudley III T. Crawford Humphreys Dong Woo Kwon Robert L. Neill II
J. Scott H. Pittman William W. Rich Jack E. Stone Khalid Thomas 2019 Walker J. Antonio J. Benjamin Burgess Mackenzie L. Daniels John D. Harris William E. Huger IV Luke E. Hutchinson W. McMahon Izard Robert R. Jolly III Wilkinson S. Rogers John B. Ryan R. Ashby Shores, Jr. R. Taylor Tucker T. Dylan Walmsley 2020 Julius E. Banzet V Elijah d. Drake Alexander L. Forward A. Taft Gantt Miller R. King Colin J. Kovacs Walker R. Owens C. Hawkins Schnabel Luke W. Stone 2021 Joseph D. Beal Gia Khanh H. Do Graham M. Godwin J. Ben A. Haggin II Walker C. Simmons, Jr. L. Clark Warren
2021–2022 Parent Committees Sixth-Form Parents’ and Grandparents’ Gift Committee Brandon and Karen Perry, Chairs Mike and Sarah Innes Mitch and Sylvia Leverette Thorpe and Sarah McKenzie Chase and Jennifer Monroe Robert and Gaylen Reynolds Bryan and Molly Willis
Class of 2023 Brad and Reed Roberts, Chairs Don and Nicole Barnes Sam ’82 and Cooper Bratton Will ’82 and Kate Hardison Brooks ’91 and Kristen Hathaway Joe ’91 and Britt Parrish Bob and Marie Shuford
Class of 2024 Eli ’94 and Julia Green, Chairs Harry and Carrie Bell Fleet Dillard ’89 David and Cameron Ellerbe Mark and Stephanie Osada Zol and Cora Rainey Chris and Walker Wilson
Class of 2025 Tad and Whitney Melton, Chairs Justin and Donyal Andrews John and Eliza Blackwell Greg and Erin Lanuti Colin and Lexi McKay Marshall ’00 and Bonnie Rabil Danny and Anna Van Clief
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