Archways 15 – Spring 2012

A semi-annual publication for alumni and friends of St. Andrew’s Episcopal School

Pass the Sweet Tea and Pull Up a Chair MARTHA FOOSE ’86 HAS A STORY FOR YOU

APRIL 2012 VOLUME 9 NUMBER 1

by GEORGE

QUESTION: HOW MANY SAINTS DOES IT TAKE TO CHANGE A MISSION STATEMENT? ANSWER: 889 FROM 2009-2011, the board of trustees undertook an inclusive and wide-ranging strategic planning process to set the course for the next five years of St. Andrew’s Episcopal School. The core of the resulting plan is the revised mission statement that articulates the raison d’être of the school.

During the 18 months of work, almost 900 members of the St. Andrew’s community directly or indirectly participated in the strategic planning process: parents answered surveys; faculty and staff members participated in multiple sessions of brainstorming, rewriting, and prioritizing; retreats were held with board, parents, staff, faculty, alums, and students; and many constituency groups reviewed draft after draft after draft of the mission statement and strategic plan.

The previous mission statement had served the school well for years, addressing the core of the school’s purpose, both in the classroom (i.e., academic excellence) and in the school’s ethics (i.e., diversity, the Episcopal tradition, spiritual growth, and moral responsibility).

The revised mission statement, resulting from the advice of almost 1,000 Saints, added three essential concepts which, when added to the earlier mission statement, more fully describes the St. Andrew’s purpose.

These three added concepts are as follows: 1. What happens and is valued outside of the academic classroom? “Athletic and artistic pursuits” 2. Why the school is called to this work? “To prepare for a life of service” 3. Who is the intended beneficiary of the school’s work?

“Our community and the world” Benefitting from the input and creation of so many Saints, the new St. Andrew’s Episcopal School’s mission statement is: “To nurture a diverse community in the Episcopal tradition, fostering spiritual growth, moral responsibility, academic excellence, and artistic and athletic pursuits, while preparing for a life of service to our community and the world.”

GAZING THROUGH ARCHWAYS

This issue of Archways focuses on the St. Andrew’s mission

statement, which is:

“To nurture a diverse community in the Episcopal tradition,

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ALUMNI AWARDS

fostering spiritual growth, moral responsibility, academic excellence, and artistic and athletic pursuits, while preparing for a life of service to our community and the world.”

Our mission is reflected in the lives of our alumni

award winners, who include a creative author and chef, a brilliant doctor, a tireless advocate for the disabled, and a loyal volunteer. The mission is behind overnight trips to

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SATURDAYS IN CHINA

the Heifer Ranch and Saturdays spent in Chinese Cultural School. Our mission is reflected in the achievements of our students, which range from success in the National Merit program to state athletic championships, from staging a dynamic musical theatre performance to performing acts of service around the world.

We hope you’ll enjoy this issue of Archways, and that

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SCIENCE PROJECTS The McRae Science Center’s Impact on St. Andrew’s and Beyond

you’ll join us in celebrating our students, alumni, faculty, and friends as we work together to fulfill the St. Andrew’s Episcopal School mission.

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SUCCESS AT ST. ANDREW’S AND BEYOND Catching Up with the Malone Scholars

On the Cover Cookbook author and celebrity chef Martha Foose is St. Andrew’s Episcopal School’s 2012 Distinguished Alumna of the Year.

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ALUMNI UPDATES

contents Mr. and Miss St. Andrew’s

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In Honor of Bee Donley

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How the Rest of the World Lives

Meet the Committees Who Meet For St. Andrew’s The Legacy League

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A Show of Loyalty

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And the Winner is...

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Worthy of Merit

No Debate About It And the Verdict is…

State Champions

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Passage to India

Curtain Calls

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Archways Staff

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Editor Patrick Taylor ’93

Saints Sports Round-Up

Staying After School

Save the Date

Eye on Alumni

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Looking Back/ Looking Forward

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This issue of Archways is dedicated to Bee Donley, who served St. Andrew’s as a beloved teacher and administrator for more than 25 years. “Bee is the most gracious, charming, giving, fun-loving, and supportive woman I have ever known,” says Donley’s former St. Andrew’s teaching colleague and friend of more than five decades, Dot Kitchings. “In addition, she is so very strong. Life has thrown several intense challenges at her, all of which she not only endured, but faced with grace and good humor.

“Bee is our ‘Delta Belle,’ who loves to dance and have parties, to invite you to lunch or to dinner, or to whip up a batch of eggnog. She loves poetry and she can write poems herself that make you laugh or move you to quiet appreciation. She has friends everywhere, and these days they call to check on her regularly.

“As a teacher at St. Andrew’s, Bee’s door was always open to students, colleagues, friends, and strays – the human kind.

Her students knew that she loved them, and she still reaps a harvest of that love. Bee gave and gave to St. Andrew’s and in turn, she has been given all the love and care and concern she deserves from our beloved school.”

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Contributing Editors Elizabeth Buyan ’97 Rebecca Hiatt Collins Marlo Kirkpatrick Designer Alecia Porch Photographers Robby Followell Kyle Hancock Patrick Taylor ’93 If you have a story idea or comment for Archways, please contact Patrick Taylor, editor, at taylorp@gosaints.org.

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St. Andrew’s Presents Arts on the Green

Mr. and Miss St. Andrew’s Seniors Barry Lee and Bud Sheppard have been selected by their peers as Mr. and Miss St. Andrew’s 2012.

Barry, the daughter of Bob and Scottye Lee of Madi- Bud, the son of Patricia Sheppard of Jackson, is an son, is an Alpha Omega who has been on high honor roll Alpha Omega who has been on honor roll throughout throughout her high school career. She is president of his high school career. A natural on stage, Bud has enjoyed major roles in St. Andrew’s the senior class, and a member of the BARRY HAS PARTICIPATED IN A productions of The Crucible, The RobNational Honor Society. A dedicated MEDICAL MISSION TRIP TO ber Bridegroom, Sweeney Todd, You athlete, Barry is co-president of the St. Andrew’s chapter of the Fellow- HONDURAS, AS WELL AS COMPLETED Can’t Take It With You, South Pacific, ship of Christian Athletes, competes EXTENSIVE VOLUNTEER HOURS FOR Our Town, and The Drowsy Chaperone. on the Saints swimming and fast- TEEN TRENDSETTERS AND THE BLAIR Bud has volunteered his time and services for HeARTS Against AIDS, Celtpitch softball teams, and is the man- E. BATSON CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL. icFest Mississippi, and Olsvaldo’s ager of the varsity basketball team.

Clinic. In addition to his studies and She is a member of the Italian Club, BUD HAS VOLUNTEERED HIS TIME the Baking Club, the Latin Club, and AND SERVICES FOR HEARTS AGAINST volunteer work, Bud has worked in the Stewpot Club. Barry has partici- AIDS, CELTICFEST MISSISSIPPI, AND sandwich shops throughout the metro area and as a car salesman for the Wilpated in a medical mission trip to OLSVALDO’S CLINIC. son Auto Group, and also trains gamHonduras, as well as completed extensive volunteer hours for Teen Trendsetters and the Blair ers in the intricacies of Halo 3, as he was the state’s top E. Batson Children’s Hospital. Barry spends her sum- player from eighth through tenth grade. mers tutoring, babysitting, and serving the school as a Congratulations to Mr. and Miss St. Andrew’s, Barry Lee and Bud Sheppard.

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SATURDAY, APRIL 21 St Andrew’s North Campus A FREE, DAYLONG FAMILY FESTIVAL celebrating art, science, music, and community, all in the spirit of the Renaissance.

More than 60 Fine Artists and Craftsmen Period Actors and Performers

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Renaissance-themed Games

Workshops for Children •

Live Music

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stapresents.org Sponsored by the St. Andrew’s Parents’ Association

IN MEMORY OF MIRIAM WEEMS St. Andrew’s Episcopal School and the St. Andrew’s Parents’ Association are proud to remember late artist Miriam Weems by naming her the Honorary Chairperson for Arts on the Green 2012. Weems’s son and stepdaughter are St. Andrew’s alumni, and Weems remained a St. Andrew’s supporter after their graduations. Her dedication to the arts and to St. Andrew’s is reflected in Weems’s paintings of the North and South Campuses, which hang at the school. Weems also donated several of her paintings to auctions for school fund-raisers. “Miriam was the ideal representative of the mission of our school as she celebrated the Episcopal tradition, artistic pursuits, and moral responsibility,” said Rebecca Collins, St. Andrew’s director of institutional advancement. “It is our great honor to pay tribute to Miriam Weems and her life of contributions to our community.”

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Sweet tea

AND PULL UP A CHAIR Martha Foose ’86 has a Story for You Martha Foose, St. Andrew’s Episcopal School’s 2012 Distinguished Alumna of the Year, still remembers her first day as a student on the St. Andrew’s campus.

“I commuted from Yazoo City, and I felt like the country bumpkin coming to Jackson,” Foose recalls.

“I opened the glove box of my car in the St. Andrew’s parking lot, and a bottle of Tink’s #69 Doe-in-Rut Buck Lure rolled out. It was not an auspicious beginning to my St. Andrew’s career.”

That story and others are recounted in Foose’s latest book, A Southerly Course: Recipes and Stories from Close to Home. While her beginnings may not have been “auspicious,” Foose’s knack for combining southern recipes and southern tales has catapulted her to international success as a chef and author.

Foose’s first book, Screen Doors and Sweet Tea: Recipes and Tales from a Southern Cook, was the 2009 winner of the James Beard Award for Best Cookbook: American. Her style has been described as Paula Deen-meetsEudora Welty, an engaging combination that’s made Foose as famous for spinning colorful yarns as she is for spinning strands of sugar.

It’s a success story that Foose could never have predicted. Born and raised in the Mississippi Delta on her family’s Pluto Plantation, Foose began her culinary career working in the café at Square Books in Oxford, Mississippi, where she was charged with preparing recipes from current cookbooks. Foose worked in bookstores and restaurants from Mississippi to Colorado to Vermont, eventually landing in Los Angeles, where she worked at Campanile/La Brea Bakery and as a pastry chef at Georgia, an upscale soul food restaurant owned by actor Denzel Washington.

Encouraged by the acclaimed chefs she worked under, Foose moved to Paris to study pastry at the celebrated École Lenôtre. Her initial arrival in the City of Lights was also less than auspicious; one of her first actions was to literally run into a stranger, causing him to drop his cello in the cobblestone street. When he demanded an explanation, Foose’s hysterical reply was, “I’m from Mississippi!” The disarmed stranger not only forgave Foose, but also led her to a group of other Southern ex-pats, who offered her a place to stay in exchange for a heaping helping of the stone ground grits she had packed in her suitcase.

DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI OF THE YEAR AWARD The highest honor bestowed upon an alumnus or alumna, the Distinguished Alumni Award recognizes alumni who have made extraordinary personal achievements, professional accomplishments, and significant contributions that benefit society. Recipients are individuals whose exemplary lives and activities reflect honor upon St. Andrew’s Episcopal School. One alumna or alumnus is recognized each year.

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“BOOKS OFFERED ALTERNATIVE ADVENTURES to me as I grew up amid the kudzu.

Mrs. Wilburn would read aloud to our fourth grade class each morning from Willie Morris’s books...For the first time I realized that a book could be about where you were from. Until then they had been about fairy tale kingdoms or tales of old or distant places covered by National Geographic. Later, the lovely Bee Donley [a teacher at St. Andrew’s Episcopal School] introduced me to Faulkner’s story “The Bear,” and my love of books about the South became firmly rooted.” — Excerpted from Screen Doors and Sweet Tea by Martha Foose

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learned that grits are cur- letter of introduction that read, “Hello, I am a Frenchrency,” Foose says of the trained pastry chef living in Tchula.” She and Bender experience. “Everything I am, also opened the Mockingbird Bakery in Greenwood, and I owe to grits.” seemed destined for the quiet country life.

With her studies in Paris com- That plan changed when Foose’s Screen Doors and plete, Foose returned to Mississippi Sweet Tea was nominated for the prestigious James to open Bottletree Bakery in Oxford. After multiple Beard Award. The awards ceremony was held at New failed attempts to fix him up with friends and cousins York’s Lincoln Center. Foose attended the event alone, because “she couldn’t date the help,” Foose married her not bothering to take her husband because she thought head baker at Bottletree, Donald Bender, sold the bak- there was no chance she would win. ery, and set off on a series of culinary adventures includ- “When they announced my name, I turned to the guy ing safari camp cooking in South Africa (favorite rec- sitting behind me and said, ‘Hold my purse!’ as I ran up ipe: impala po’ boys), working as a pastry chef at New on stage,” Foose recalls.

Orleans’s acclaimed Bayona, and consultant positions for The award made Foose’s cookbook a bestseller and the Food Professionals Network, Carnival Cruise Lines, catapulted her into a career as a celebrity chef. Today, she Land O’Lakes, and Häagen-Dazs. is a sought-after speaker and a recurring guest on ABC’S Weary of moving, missing family, and longing for pre- Good Morning America, CBS’s The Early Show, The Food dictable weather, Foose and Bender eventually returned Network’s Paula’s Best Dishes, and Sirius/XM’s Martha to the Mississippi Delta, settling in a farmhouse between Stewart Living. Foose has served banana pudding to felTchula and Yazoo City. Foose also found a culinary home low Mississippian Oprah Winfrey, and she’s even done in the Delta as executive chef for Viking Cooking School, a stint on the Home Shopping Network, an experience a position she won by making a Viking range out of gin- that left her a little worried (“What if I see an episode gerbread and sending it to the company, along with a of Hoarders someday and it’s all the stuff I sold them?”).

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Foose is a contributor and food stylist for numerous pub- culinary tips and recipes woven into the manuscript. lications as well as for the film industry, most recently Foose describes her winding path to success as a career serving as food stylist on the Oscar-nominated Missis- built on asking, “Is this seat taken?” and seeing where sippi tale, The Help. the next contact made or next step ventured would Screen Doors and Sweet Tea and A Southerly Course are lead her. “But,” she adds, “I can honestly say I’ve never packed with colorful southern yarns, scrumptious reci- had a job where I woke up in the morning and said, ‘I pes, and whimsical notes on everything from the mate- hate this.’” rial used to make Tervis Tumblers (the same material Today, Foose, Bender, and their nine-year-old son, found in airplane windows), to how to garnish a red Joseph, live in Greenwood and spend their free time on drum fish’s eyeholes with Swarovski the family’s Pluto Plantation. crystals, from what it takes to make “We would probably be better off a snapping turtle let go to why the financially in New York or Los Angepresence of a rooster is imperative to les, but I love the Delta,” Foose says. a toddler’s first haircut. Foose’s writ“I love being able to go to the grocery ing strikes a chord with readers deeper store in my PJs. And there’s a nurturthan her recipe for swimming pool ing aspect here. I feel like we’re givCLEAN YOUR sherbet and sweeter than her Southing Joe a grounding that’s worth the PLATE ern Comfort caramel. trade offs.”

“People connect emotionally with In Screen Doors and Sweet Tea, Foose Martha Foose’s my books,” Foose says. “I’ve received writes, “Homesickness brought me least favorite food? letters from Israel, Antwerp, and all back. But what has kept me here is over the world from people who are a love and appreciation for the land “Mammal livers. homesick for the South. It’s a tribute and its people.”

I had a job where to the close-knit nature of the South Just as she had to leave home to for 10 hours a day, that a few of those letters have been appreciate it, Foose now looks back on all I did was clean addressed simply to, ‘Martha Foose, the story of her less-than-auspicious sweetbreads.”

General Delivery, Tchula Mississippi.’ arrival at St. Andrew’s with fondness.

“Food is such an emotional subject.

“You know, I was a such a terrible It allows you to get at a lot of other subjects,” Foose con- student,” Foose says candidly, “but I would never have tinues “I’ve done readings from my cookbook and people had the nerve to put myself out there without the founin the audience have actually cried. I’ve imagined reviews dation I got from St. Andrew’s. The school offered so that say, ‘They laughed! They cried! They ate cobbler!’” many opportunities to explore what your individual Foose has sold more than 100,000 copies and count- interests might be, and there was such a sense of autoning, and with 80 cities listed on her latest book tour, omy and freedom there. St. Andrew’s gave me a broader there’s no end in sight. She is currently trying her hand worldview. I knew there was a lot out there I wanted to at a novel, although she promises there will be some see, but I never lost of my sense of home.”

Martha Foose’s Higher Education

WHILE MARTHA FOOSE NEVER ENROLLED IN COLLEGE, she did audit a class on the history of rock and roll at the University of Mississippi, where she wrote for the university-produced magazine Living Blues. But perhaps the greatest lesson Foose learned in the world of higher education came when she served as a model for Ole Miss figure drawing classes. “I’ve posed naked in front of a room full of college students,” Foose says matter-of-factly. “After that, an appearance on Good Morning America is a piece of cake.”

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DR. GERHARD “SOL” MUNDINGER ’97 Young Alumnus of the Year

“The new McRae Science Center is wonderful. I just hope St. Andrew’s students are prepared for the day when they’re in college and the science lab is half of what they had at St. Andrew’s in high school.”— Dr. Sol Mundinger

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r. Mundinger is part of the face transplant team biology, environmental science, and environmental polat the University of Maryland R. Adams Cow- icy before completing medical school at Johns Hopkins. ley Shock Trauma Center. The team performed During a recent, typical day on the job, Dr. Mundinger its first face transplant on March 19-20, 2012. Performed performed a breast reduction, an ear reconstruction, two on a gunshot victim, the 36-hour procedure was the sixth hand fracture surgeries, and a tumor removal. face transplant and just the second full face transplant per“Becoming a surgeon is hard, exhausting work, but formed in the United States. To date, there have been less it’s such a privilege,” Dr. Mundinger says. “Patients trust than 20 face transplant surgeries performed worldwide. their bodies to you. It’s a huge responsibility, but you Dr. Mundinger spent the months have the opportunity to build unusuleading up to the surgery conductally strong relationships.”

HEALING RUNS ing critical research in face and hand While he finished near the top of IN THE FAMILY. transplants. His work will mean a his class at St. Andrew’s, Dr. Munnew beginning for soldiers suffering dinger is quick to point out that he Dr. Sol Mundinger’s father ballistics injuries, victims of vicious is a surgeon, his mother is was “not the student winning all of animal attacks, and other patients a nurse, his two sisters are the awards.” whose faces have been lost – and “The most critical life lesson I certified nurse anesthewhose lives have been restricted – by learned at St. Andrew’s was the importists (CNRAs), and his disfiguring accidents. His work will tance of balance,” Dr. Mundinger says. wife, Shannon, is a nurse. also allow patients who’ve lost their “I played football and lacrosse and parOne of the few family hands to regain their mobility, or as ticipated in a lot of activities outside members not involved one patient recently shared, to regain of class. Because I learned that lesson in medicine is Sol and the simple pleasure of once again at St. Andrew’s, I’m still able to mainShannon’s dog, Addie, feeling his wife’s hand in his own. tain a balance today.” whom he describes as “Plastic surgery isn’t just about Despite the demands of his resi“ridiculously cute and making people look better. It’s dency and his research, Dr. Mundinger more into agility training.” makes the time to run and train for about the correction of problems to restore both form and function.” triathlons, play the guitar and pursue Dr. Mundinger says. “Hand and face transplants are not photography, and enjoy hunting, hiking, and the outlife-saving, but rather life-giving surgeries. My research is doors. The time away from the surgical suite and the geared toward making these transplants safer for those research lab only makes his time there more rewarding. patients who are good candidates.”

“The research is fast-paced and stimulating and the Mundinger has been fascinated by science since his possibilities are exciting, but it really is just about takdays as a student at St. Andrew’s. Thanks to his perfor- ing care of people,” Dr. Mundinger says. “I like trying mance on several AP exams, Mundinger entered the Uni- to make people look and feel better and become more versity of Michigan as a sophomore, where he studied functional. That’s what plastic surgery is all about.”

PUTTING THE PIECES BACK TOGETHER Dr. Sol Mundinger’s interest in plastic surgery came from an unexpected source – fossils. As a college student, Mundinger worked part time in the University of Michigan’s paleontology lab, where his assignments included reassembling whale fossil fragments shipped in from India and Pakistan. “The fossils arrived in pieces and part of my job was to dust them off and get them fixed back up. I made casts of all of the pieces, figured out how they fit together, then put the fossil back together the way it was before it was broken up. It’s really not that different than the work I’m doing today.”

A RESIDENT IN THE JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL/University of Maryland Medical Center plastic and reconstructive surgery program, Dr. Gerhard Salomo “Sol” Mundinger routinely performs the plastic surgery procedures with which most people are familiar – breast augmentation, nose jobs, and facelifts. Dr. Mundinger’s most groundbreaking work, however, is in the still-emerging field of face transplants.

THE YOUNG ALUMNI OF THE YEAR AWARD The Young Alumni Award recognizes and celebrates the achievements of an alumnus or alumna who has made a major contribution to the community, arts, sciences, or business. Alumni must have graduated from St. Andrew’s within the past 15 years to be eligible for nomination. One alumnus or alumna is recognized each year.

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Christy Gilliland Dunaway ’81 • Saints in Service Award

BORN WITH BOTH ARMS AMPUTATED BELOW THE ELBOW and her left leg amputated below the knee, Christy Gilliland Dunaway grew up to become an advocate for all Mississippians with disabilities. Dunaway heard the call to service as a college student in 1984, when she was part of a group that lobbied the Mississippi Legislature for a law that would help provide attendants in the homes of people with disabilities.

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he viewing balcony in the House Chamber in the also apply for grants, organize fund-raising efforts, and Capitol was not accessible, so we were headed refurbish donated equipment. Eighty percent of LIFE to the House floor,” Dunaway says. “The legis- employees have a disability themselves. lators saw us coming in our wheelchairs and with our “We’re not so much helping people with disabilities prostheses, and they passed the bill before we got to the as we are teaching them to help themselves,” Dunfloor. It was so empowering. That was the day I realized away says. “Then we ask them to go out into their this was what I wanted to do, and I’ve never turned back.” communities and help others.”

Today, Dunaway is the executive Dunaway has moved more than director of Living Independence for 150 people out of nursing homes CHRISTY DUNAWAY Everyone (LIFE) Inc. of Mississippi, and into independent living, but she dedicated her Saints in a non-profit organization that prowill never forget the first move she Service Award to the motes independent living for Missishelped coordinate. In 2001, Dunaway sippians with disabilities. LIFE helps helped a friend with disabilities move memory of her late people with disabilities find the help out of the nursing home where he husband, Daryel and resources they need to live fulhad been confined for three years.

Dunaway, who died in filling lives, and is often instrumental Billy was only 33 years old.

October of 2011. Daryel in preventing people with disabilities “We showed up on moving day was paralyzed in a diving from being placed in institutional care. and said, ‘Billy, we’re busting you accident when he was 15, “LIFE empowers people with disout,’” Dunaway recalls. “We loaded and spent the remaining abilities to advocate for themselves up a moving van and as we drove out, 42 years of his life in a so they can live independently,” Billy flew past us on the highway in wheelchair. The couple Dunaway explains. “A lot of times, his accessible van, finally headed something as simple as a wheelchair home. Moving him out of that nursmet in 1985, when both ramp or paying for an attendant to ing home is the greatest thing I’ve worked at the Mississippi stop by once a week to fill a mediever done and it has defined everyDepartment of cation dispenser can keep a person thing I’ve done since.

Rehabilitative Services. with disabilities in his or her home “We are not defined by our disabiland out of a nursing home.” ities. I try to teach people how to live LIFE determines what it would take for a person to with their disabilities well, just as I’ve learned to live with live independently and finds ways to help make it hap- mine,” Dunaway continues. “People think the work I do pen. Medicaid provides some funds for services and is selfless, but I am actually a selfish person. This work equipment, but those funds are limited. LIFE employees makes me feel good.”

YOU’RE PULLING MY LEG. “You cannot live well and successfully with a disability if you don’t have a sense of humor,” Christy Dunaway says. “In fact, I had so many funny stories that I actually took a course in short story writing so I’d be able to record them all.” • Dunaway’s humorous repertoire includes the time her prosthetic leg detached and rolled down the stairs at the St. Andrew’s Old Canton campus (“I yelled down to my friends, ‘Hey! Can one of you hand me my leg?’”) and the quirks of working in an office in which almost everyone has a disability (“When the receptionist falls out of her wheelchair, no one panics. We just say, ‘Okay, break’s over. Time to get up.’”) • One of Dunaway’s fondest memories of her late husband, Daryel, involves a dramatic entrance turned comical. Arriving home one night, Daryel didn’t realize the headrest on his wheelchair was caught on the back door. • “Daryel pulled the entire door off the hinges and was dragging it down the hall behind his chair,” Dunaway says. “I tried to get it unhooked, but I finally had to call a neighbor to help.” • Stepping through the gaping doorframe to find Daryel sitting in his wheelchair with a heavy door hanging off its headrest and Christy trying to untangle it with her hooked prosthetics, the neighbor said simply, “Well. It looks like you’ve got yourselves in a pickle.”

THE SAINTS IN SERVICE AWARD The Saints in Service Award recognizes St. Andrew’s alumni who demonstrate exceptional service to others and have made a positive difference in their community. One alumnus or alumna is recognized each year.

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Sherry Greener ’62 • The St. Andrew’s Loyalty Award (posthumous)

Jason Greener ’92

“As a student, I thought my mother’s involvement at St. Andrew’s was uncool. She had access to all of the teachers and knew everything that was going on, and honestly, I wished she’d just go home. Luckily, she was never a dance chaperone. That was always a horrifying experience for the kids whose parents did it. But a few years after I’d graduated, I began to realize all my mother had given to the school. Her involvement helped create an incredible experience for me when I attended St. Andrew’s, and she left an incredible legacy at St. Andrew’s for my own children.”— Jason Greener ’92, son of Loyalty Award Recipient Sherry Stribling Greener

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reener’s long association with St. Andrew’s erous gifts and supportive spirit for so many things in began when she enrolled as a first grade stu- and around our community, and of her support, contrident more than six decades ago, when the butions, and true love for this school and its success.” school was still located in Green Hall on North State In addressing St. Andrew’s students on Alumni Street. At that time, the highest grade offered at St. Awards Day, Greener encouraged the students to folAndrew’s was sixth. Greener was not able to graduate low the example of loyalty established by his mother. from St. Andrew’s, but her parents “Each of us has had or will have recognized the importance of the situations in life where your loyalty “SHERRY DID SO school and its continued success, and will shine through – in our families, continued to support St. Andrew’s with our friends, in sports, in clubs, MUCH FOR SO MANY. through the years. The football field in high school, in college, and in our I’m going to try on the North Campus, Stribling careers. No matter what your job is, and model my own Field, is named in honor of Greenor your cause, or what you are called participation here er’s father, Roger Stribling. to do, you will have to be loyal to at St. Andrew’s after Greener followed her parents’ it. Being proficient at it will not be example, becoming a faithful supenough.

To be successful and valued the example she set and porter of St. Andrew’s throughout as a real contributor and member of her involvement here.” her adult life. A graduate of Souththe team or organization, you will ern Methodist University and a suchave to put all of yourself into it and Betsy Greener, cessful businesswoman, Greener show your loyalty.

St. Andrew’s parent and served St. Andrew’s as a member “The neat thing about my mom daughter-in-law of the late of the board of trustees from 1978 receiving this particular award, the Sherry Stribling Greener until 1985, and was also a member of Loyalty Award, is that every one of the Corporation. She was the honorus can relate to it,” Jason Greener ary chair of the 2007 St. Andrew’s Designer Showhouse. continued. “We can all strive to make loyalty a part Greener’s sons, Flynn Greener IV ’88 and Jason Greener of our character and to make a meaningful impact on ’92, are St. Andrew’s graduates, and her grandchildren, those who follow us. We can all demonstrate pride in Sarah Beth Greener and Thomas Stribling Greener, are our alma mater and maintain an interest in and loyalty St. Andrew’s students. to the school and contribute in ways that will promote In accepting the award on behalf of his late mother, the advancement of St. Andrew’s. Remember those who Jason Greener said, “While I thought I knew most every- were there for you – your friends, your family, your thing about my mom, there were many things I would teachers, and your school, and in the end, be steadfast, learn in the days after her passing about her many gen- loyal, and true.”

THE ST. ANDREW’S COMMUNITY MOURNS the loss of alumna and former trustee Sherry Stribling Greener ’62, who died last October following a courageous battle with leukemia. In recognition of her many years of service to St. Andrew’s and the legacy she left behind, St. Andrew’s is honored to recognize Sherry Greener with the St. Andrew’s Episcopal School Loyalty Award.

THE ST. ANDREW’S LOYALTY AWARD The St. Andrew’s Loyalty Award honors St. Andrew’s alumni who, in deed or action, reflect and recognize the importance of being an alumna or alumnus of St. Andrew’s; who demonstrate pride in their alma mater; and whose interest and loyalty are evident by their significant, notable, and meritorious contributions towards the advancement of St. Andrew’s Episcopal School. One alumna or alumnus is recognized each year.

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How the Rest of the World Lives

Last fall, a group of St. Andrew’s eighth graders, teachers, and administrators experienced life in impoverished Guatemala, Thailand, Zambia, Appalachia, and an urban slum – all just 250 miles from the St. Andrew’s North Campus.

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he students and adults were assigned to single- resources reflective of what people in that area of the gender villages representing life in Guatemala, world would typically have access to, including wood and Thailand, Zambia, Appalachia, and an urban rice, as well as a number of challenges people in their slum; some were also assigned the role of refugees. Some areas of the world would typically face. The refugees were students played the role of mother to a “baby” water bal- given no resources and were not even allowed to speak – a loon; others were assigned to play children dependent condition that reflects that of many refugees who do not upon others for all of their care. Each village was given speak the languages of the countries to which they flee.

The St. Andrew’s group spent 24 hours in their vil- “I am now disgustingly conscious of everything I take lages, living for one day and one night the lives of those for granted every day. I know that I was really bitter, actually served by Heifer International. Students traded and I can’t comprehend how people that live like that resources or begged in an effort to “survive” daily life, their whole lives can find it in themselves to not let the built fires and cooked their own meals, slept on the bitterness consume them.” ground, and completed chores that ranged from forag- “My favorite part of the experience was when we finally ing for wood to feeding and bathing the village pig. The got to eat,” says Deeksha Mishra, who confesses that she experience was at times frustrating, at time uncomfort- considered trading her water balloon “baby” for food. able, and most of all, eye-opening.

“Actually, I wish the trip had been longer,” says stu “This was an opportunity for our students to experi- dent Millie Morse. “I think we were more relaxed and ence on a very small scale some of the issues associated less involved in the activity because we knew that in less with poverty around the world. than 12 hours, we would get a hot After just one night in a village meal for lunch.” at Heifer Ranch, many of our But even an overnight visit left “It’s one thing to hear students realized a larger global the group with clearly changed about people living in picture,” says Matthew Ellefson, attitudes. these conditions in our airMiddle School dean of students, “I was surprised at how well conditioned classrooms, but it’s who coordinated the project. “It most of the students worked really made them reflect on their together to meet their needs,” entirely different to actually see own lives and how they live comsays Kevin Lewis, associate head examples of their homes and pared to the rest of the world.” of school, who observed the St. food portions. Living like “As a refugee, my job was to go Andrew’s students while playing those people makes it real.” around to all the different groups the role of a Zambian toddler. “At to beg for food, water, wood, and first, the students were very proSt. Andrew’s Student Lily Katz fire. I think the most surprising tective of their own property, but thing about the entire trip was soon they learned the need to how rude the people who had everything they needed share resources through negotiation. It is a very humwere to us,” says Lily Katz. “By the end of the day, my bling experience to know that the difficulties we expegroup and I had collected one egg, one pot of water, an rienced for a day is a lifetime for so much of the world.” eggplant, and a little bit of rice that we couldn’t cook “This entire event made me so much more aware of because we didn’t have enough wood to make a sus- all of the suffering that goes on around the world,” Lily tainable fire.”

Katz says. “It’s one thing to hear about people living “How much people put themselves before others, it in these conditions in our air-conditioned classrooms, hurt a little. My group wasn’t given anything, and a but it’s entirely different to actually see examples of separate group, who shall remain unnamed, tried to their homes and food portions. Living like those peoraid us,” says Lauren Allen, who also lived as a refugee. ple makes it real.”

SAME VILLAGE, NEXT YEAR The trip to Heifer Ranch will be an annual event for St. Andrew’s eighth graders. “I’m also hoping that many of our faculty members will participate,” Matthew Ellefson, Middle School dean of students, says. “It’s an opportunity to experience something really different and meaningful alongside our students.”

WAITING FOR THE COWS TO COME HOME Heifer International was founded in 1944 by Mid-western farmer Dan West, who realized that those suffering from poverty and malnutrition would derive greater long-term use from a cow than from a bag of powdered milk. Today, Heifer International provides impoverished people around the world with animals that serve as a sustainable solution to malnutrition and poverty. To find out more about Heifer International, visit www.heifer.org.

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China WELCOME TO A WORLD WHERE DRAGONS ROAM, the Great Wall beckons, and the aroma of Asian spices fills the air.

A place where two cultures meet, “family” is a loving blend of east and west, and everyone knows that, “Xie, xie,” means “thank you.”

On special Saturday mornings, the St. Andrew’s Lower School campus is transformed into Chinese Cultural School, a place where families and individuals gather to celebrate a vibrant culture and to honor the children that have brought them all together.

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THE IDEA FOR WHAT WOULD BECOME Saturday Morning Chinese Cultural School at St. Andrew’s began five years ago, when current Lower School teacher Ellen Ford was working in the Office of Admissions.

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during the Spring Festival featured St. Andrew’s Lower School Mandarin teacher Yun-Chu Chen retelling the traditional Chinese New Year story of “Nian,” and then explaining that 2012 is a very special year because the dragon is seen as a symbol of power, superiority and wisdom. Anna Everly, Natalie Orgeron and Anna Katherine Solomon, students of St. Andrew’s and CMCCS, are shown here with Chen and the dragon.

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hen we held open house events for prospective students, we were seeing more and more Caucasian families who had adopted Chinese children,” Ford recalls.

Ford learned that many of these families were members of the Central Mississippi Chinese Cultural School (CMCCS), an organization made up of Jackson area families who had adopted Chinese children. CMCCS held monthly gatherings that celebrated Chinese culture and offered parents a chance to share their experiences while their children enjoyed a play date. Moved by a desire to reach out to the families, Ford proposed hosting a Chinese-style tea party for the group at St. Andrew’s. Grace Pei, St. Andrew’s Mandarin teacher, and St. Andrew’s Mandarin students helped coordinate the event.

“This was our opportunity as a school to help make a difference in the lives of these children, and to help our St. Andrew’s students use their Chinese language and cultural skills to help these little ones,” Ford says.

Over the next four years, St. Andrew’s involvement with CMCCS grew. The school began hosting many of CMCCS’s monthly meetings, and as the children grew older, Ford helped CMCCS expand its role, taking the monthly gathering from a play date to a multi-faceted educational and cultural experience.

During the 2011-12 academic year, St. Andrew’s hosted six Saturday Morning Chinese Cultural School gather-

ings on the South Campus, welcoming approximately 30 families. The monthly gatherings include grandparents and non-Chinese siblings, families who have not yet adopted from China but are considering doing so, and Chinese-American families who wish to instill a knowledge of Chinese culture in their biological children. The events at St. Andrew’s are open to all families in CMCCS; children do not have to attend St. Andrew’s.

“St. Andrew’s partnership with CMCCS is helping our local neighbors learn more about their global roots,” says Dr. Chris Harth, St. Andrew’s director of global studies. “The children have a chance to develop friendships and to learn together about their heritage and history, which is shared by more than one-fifth of all humanity. Connecting with their native language and culture helps these children build a more complete and complex sense of identity.”

Ford, St. Andrew’s Mandarin teachers Pei and Yun-Chu Chen, and CMCCS parents organize the programs, with assistance from St. Andrew’s Middle and Upper School Mandarin students. Activities include sharing Chinese foods, learning about Chinese art, viewing short films or reading aloud from books about China, and learning to speak and count in Mandarin. A session in March included cooking Chinese dumplings, making paper dragons and a replica of the Great Wall of China, and lessons in graceful Chinese fan dancing.

TOUCHED BY THE ST. ANDREW’S MISSION While her adopted daughter, Emily, is not a St. Andrew’s student, Vicki Latham is very familiar with the St. Andrew’s mission statement. Latham sees the school’s mission reflected in the partnership between St. Andrew’s and the Central Mississippi Chinese Cultural School. “The St. Andrew’s mission statement is ‘To nurture a diverse community in the Episcopal tradition, fostering spiritual growth, moral responsibility, academic excellence, and artistic and athletic pursuits, while preparing for a life of service to our community and the world,’” Latham says.

“By experience, I can testify that the St. Andrew’s mission is being fulfilled in the life of my child.”

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ST. ANDREW’S FIRST-GRADERS ANNA EVERLY AND ANNA Katherine Soloman were both adopted from China as infants and are growing up together at CMCCS. Both girls speak with excitement about their love of Saturday Morning Chinese Cultural School at St. Andrew’s.

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loved the dumplings we made and I loved the fan dance because the Chinese music made me feel happy,” Anna Katherine says. “And I like being a Chinese person because lots of people are interested in China.”

“I like being from China because China is a big place and lots of people live there and I like knowing that I was born there and came all the way over here,” Anna says.

“When people ask me ‘Where are you from?’ I say I was born in China but I live in Mississippi and I am proud to be Chinese-American!”

“It makes me happy to see my daughter so proud to be Chinese, and I enjoy spending time with the other parents,” says Jane Everly, Anna’s mother. “CMCCS is the one place we don’t stand out in a crowd as an multi-ethnic family, because the majority of the families are just like ours. My daughter hasn’t always been proud to be from China; she used to express a desire to look more like me. After she and some of the other girls became friends, however, it became ‘cool’ to be Chinese, and I stopped hearing ‘I wish I had a different shaped nose or eyes.’ These friendships are invaluable – both the children’s and the parents’. A shared history brings us together and we support each other.”

St. Andrew’s Middle and Upper School Mandarin students also benefit through their participation in the program. St. Andrew’s Mandarin student Patrick McKee has traveled to China to perform service work; McKee sees his involvement with Chinese Cultural School as an opportunity to serve others while practicing his Manda-

rin and gaining valuable cultural skills.

“Chinese Cultural School provides a unique opportunity for students to put their education and experiences to good use within the community,” McKee says. “I’ve had an opportunity to work with Chinese children of various backgrounds by making them more comfortable with their traditional Chinese heritage, while acknowledging their incredibly different upbringings in Mississippi.”

Among the different upbringings represented are those of Chinese-American children who are not adopted.

Seven-year-old Catherine Zhou’s parents, Dr. Wu Zhou and Dr. Hong Zhu, were both born in China. The entire family participates in Saturday Morning Chinese Cultural School to celebrate their heritage.

“My husband and I think having a sense of cultural confidence is very important for our children,” Catherine’s mother, Dr. Zhu, says. “Catherine’s Chinese background not only gives her the advantage of knowing one more language, but also it provides her another way of thinking about the world and life.”

The CMCCS experience has been critical to Vicki Latham and her nine-year-old daughter, Emily, a student at Spann Elementary School. While most of the children who participate in the program were adopted as infants and have no memory of life in China, Emily arrived in the United States at the age of six. The transition to life in America was difficult for Emily, but according to her mother, it was made easier by the CMCCS. Latham connected with the group before she brought Emily home.

AN ALL AMERICAN-CHINESE GIRL “Most of the children wear traditional Chinese dress to CMCCS events, but my daughter, Natalie, has never been a fan of that, and I don’t push it – she’s a ‘blue jeans’ gal – how very American of her! So to celebrate Chinese New Year two years ago, I ordered us matching ‘Year of The Tiger’ t-shirts and she was so excited about them. There would be no doubt in anyone’s mind that we belonged to each other. Natalie had so much fun that day, and that’s exactly the experience I wanted her to have – the chance to truly celebrate and learn about Chinese culture with her very best friends, and to make memories we will both treasure.”— Amanda Orgeron, CMCCS Parent

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“WE WERE BLESSED BEYOND “For the first two weeks with me in Perhaps seven-year-old St. Andrew’s WORDS WHEN China, I was a very non-Asian lady, a student Natalie Orgeron best expresses ST. ANDREW’S stranger, now caring for her, a Chinese the benefits of the CMCCS/St. Andrew’s child,” Latham recalls. “Emily was accuspartnership when she says, “Sometimes EMBRACED tomed to the nannies in her Social WelI’m proud to be Chinese-American, but fare Institute who, although they were mostly I just feel plain.” Natalie sees THE CMCCS only caregivers, at least sounded like “feeling plain” as a good thing; she is her, looked like her, and could be underproud of her Chinese heritage, but never PROGRAM.” stood by her. I fit none of those criteria. feels out of place in America.

Amanda Orgeron “It was extremely important for Emily “That’s one of the reasons my husto quickly be introduced to the environband and I chose St. Andrew’s,” says ment of Chinese Cultural School, to litAmanda Orgeron, Natalie’s mother. tle girls who looked like her with mommies who did “We were looking for a place that truly embraces cultural not look like their children,” Latham continues. “When diversity in its makeup and in its mission. We wanted we got off the plane in Jackson, there were a lot of little Natalie to have a place where she could learn MandaAsian girls from CMCCS there to meet her. That was rin – or French or Spanish – just as a part of her regular on a Thursday night, and we were at Chinese Cultural school day, not as something that set her apart as differSchool the next Saturday morning. Jet lag and all, it was ent from her friends. a decision I knew would help Emily in the process of “We were blessed beyond words when St. Andrew’s healing and adjusting to her new family. I’m sure she embraced the CMCCS program,” Orgeron continues. was relieved to see similar companions who were truly “Having the CMCCS meetings in the same rooms and going to be a part of this new life she was living.” with the same teachers where Natalie spends her school Latham is now in the process of adopting a 10-year- days just adds to the experience we wanted. Being Chiold Chinese girl; in the fall of 2012, Lathan and Emily nese is a natural part of who Natalie is, seamlessly intewill return to China together to meet their new daugh- grated with the other parts of her life. She is Chinese, ter and big sister. Latham and Emily already know that she is American, she is a student, daughter, and friend, Chinese Cultural School will become a big part of their she is a precious gift to us. Rarely do we find one venue new family member’s life. where all those pieces come together so beautifully.”

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Junior Mehak Khan is using a new heat block (a waterless hot water bath) during a DNA lab in AP Biology.

SCIENCE PROJECTS THE McRAE SCIENCE CENTER’S IMPACT ON ST. ANDREW’S AND BEYOND

The McRae Science Center opened its doors less than one year ago, but the building has already lived up to the vision that inspired its construction. In the eight months since its unveiling, the McRae Science Center has not only enhanced the science curriculum for St. Andrew’s students and faculty, but has also become a resource for science students and teachers beyond the school community.

“We’re able to share the facility with other aspiring scientists and science educators, which was always one of our goals,” says Sandra Hindsman, chair of the St. Andrew’s science department. “We can honestly say the McRae Science Center is everything we had hoped it would be, both for St. Andrew’s and for the larger community.”

The space available in the McRae Science Center lecture hall has allowed St. Andrew’s to invite advanced sciences students and teachers from other schools to participate in the lecture series. Students from Germantown High School, Murrah High School, and Piney Woods School have joined St. Andrew’s students for lunch, a lecture, and post-lecture discussion sessions, offering opportunities for students from different schools but with a shared interest in biology, chemistry, and biomedical research to meet and learn together.

“We’re tapping into shared interests to build connections among neighbors, to help students communicate with others who come from schools and environments different from their own, and to promote scientific literacy in our state,” says Dr. Chris Harth, St. Andrew’s director of global studies, who helped coordinate the lecTHE SCIENCE LITERACY LECTURE SERIES ture series. “The McRae Science Center has allowed us As part of a new, collaborative learning program with to unite students and faculty from schools of all kinds – the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC), public and private, rural and urban. The science center St. Andrew’s launched the Science Literacy Lecture is a place where they can come together to share their Series, which features a quarterly lecture by a noted ideas and aspirations, all while they learn from some of UMMC professor or researcher. the top researchers and doctors in the state.”

LIVING IN THE GENE AGE MANY OF THE BIOTECHNOLOGY WORKSHOPS HELD IN THE McRAE SCIENCE CENTER HAVE BEEN GEARED TOWARD PREPARING STUDENTS TO LIVE IN THE “GENE AGE,” AN ERA IN WHICH SCIENTIFIC AND MEDICAL RESEARCH FOCUSES LARGELY ON DNA AND GENETICS. 24

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Senior Bennett Barr, sophomore Erik Raucher, and junior Mehak Khan are preparing DNA samples for the thermocycler, which is used to amplify small amounts of DNA via the Polymerase Chain Reaction or PCR.

Featured lecturers for the inaugural series included Dr. remarks a little bit about their own backgrounds and Donna Sullivan, professor of medicine, division of infec- how they became the professionals they are today. They tious diseases, who spoke on “Vaccines: their History, are inspiring the next generation of scientists.”

Biology, and Politics;” Dr. Ed Swialto, professor of medicine and microbiology, whose topic was “Around the FACULTY WORKSHOPS World without Leaving Mississippi: The Far-flung Trav- The McRae Science Center has also become a site for els of Infectious Diseases,” and Dr. Margaret Miller Davis, faculty workshops for educators from public and pridirector of medical school admissions, who spoke on vate schools around the state.

“How to Get into Medical School.”

Kathy McKone, a chemistry and Students seemed particularly biomedical research teacher at interested by a lecture delivered Enterprise Attendance Center in

by Dr. Robin Rockhold, assistant Lincoln County, Mississippi, led a chancellor for academic affairs workshop in biotechnology appliand a professor of health science cations at the McRae Science Cenand pharmacology and toxicolter last August. McKone teaches ogy, whose topic was “What’s the workshops as part of her designa“THE BUILDING HAS FULFILLED ALL Buzz? Surviving Mind and Body tion as a Princeton Satellite InstrucOF MY HOPES AND EXPECTATIONS. Stimulants.” Dr. Rockhold’s lector; she is the only such instructor I LOOK FORWARD TO GETTING UP ture focused on the potential risks in Mississippi. In attendance were AND GOING TO WORK, AND AT involved when teenagers consume science teachers representing St. THE END OF THE DAY, IT’S HARD TO popular energy drinks. Karen Andrew’s Episcopal School (RidgeEvans, a teacher at Germantown land), Bogue Chitto Attendance LEAVE. THE McRAE SCIENCE CENTER High School who attended the lecCenter (Bogue Chitto), Jim Hill IS AN INSPIRATIONAL BUILDING.” ture with her students, reported High School ( Jackson), Loyd Star SANDRA HINDSMAN, CHAIR OF THE that one student “threw away her Attendance Center (Brookhaven), ST. ANDREW’S SCIENCE DEPARTMENT energy drink as soon as she got off Madison Central High School the bus” and that many of the students were still dis- (Madison), and Natchez Cathedral Catholic School (Natcussing the lecture with their friends weeks later. chez), as well as a guest speaker from the University of “We’re very fortunate to have these respected doctors Mississippi Medical Center ( Jackson). and researchers who are willing to share their knowl- “The McRae Science Center is definitely benefitting edge and spend time with high school students,” Hinds- people not directly connected to St. Andrew’s,” McKone man says. “We ask all of our speakers to include in their says. “In terms of conducting a faculty workshop, my 26

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school, Enterprise, is a small, rural school about 60 miles south of Jackson. The McRae Science Center provides a location more easily accessible to more teachers. The facilities at the McRae Science Center are outstanding, and Sandra Hindsman and St. Andrew’s have been very accommodating to the needs of conducting a workshop and in welcoming teachers from diverse backgrounds.”

“The McRae Science Center is the perfect blend of aesthetics and functionality as a science building,” says Denise Thibodeaux, an instructor from Natchez who participated in the workshop. “I was impressed with the advanced equipment available, as well as the versatility of the building. As a human anatomy teacher, my favorite feature is da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man. The glass wall with water flowing over da Vinci’s art is striking and beautiful as well as educational.”

This summer, St. Andrew’s will host two faculty workshops offered through the UMMC Base Pair/SOAR Program and funded by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Headed by Dr. Robin Rockhold and Dr. Donna Sullivan of UMMC, the program includes weeklong workshops for middle and high school science teachers.

Topics include biotechnology, fire ants, pond ecology, and forensics. In years past, these hands-on workshops have been held on the UMMC campus. This summer, the workshops will move to the laboratories of the McRae Science Center, with field and pond studies taking place at Lake Sherwood Wise.

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INCREASED AND ENHANCED SCIENTIFIC LEARNING

The McRae Science Center offers the space and facilities St. Andrew’s needs in order to hire additional teachers and add new courses to the science curriculum.

The science staff has a new chemistry teacher, Dr. Claudia Bhagat, and a new course in AP chemistry was added during the 2011-12 academic year. A course in biomedical research will be added during the 2012-13 school year; students will learn and practice many laboratory skills used not only in the biomedical field, but also in agriculture, forensics, and biochemistry. The additional space and more sophisticated equipment in the new building also allow for more frequent and more indepth laboratory projects, while the lobby of the McRae Science Center has become a favorite gathering area for St. Andrew’s students.

“The seating area in the foyer is always occupied,” Hindsman says. “When I walk through, I hear social conversations, but I also hear academic discussions. We’ve provided our students with a place to share ideas and to increase their academic success.

“The building has fulfilled all of my hopes and expectations,” Hindsman continues. “I look forward to getting up and going to work every morning, and at the end of the day, it’s hard to leave. The McRae Science Center is an inspirational building.”

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THE CONFERENCE ROOM IN THE McRAE Science Center features a mural commemorating the life and work of Dr. Marshall Warren Niremberg (1927-2010), who won the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for “cracking” the genetic code and describing how it operates.

Dr. Niremberg’s great-niece and greatnephew, Sam Humphrey and Hannah Humphrey, are 2011 graduates of St. Andrew’s Episcopal School. Their mother, Mindy Humphrey, presented St. Andrew’s with official copies of her uncle’s data sheets – the research documents that chronicle how he broke the genetic code – for use in creating the mural, along with family photos, letters, and clippings documenting his illustrious career.

“I felt it was more appropriate to display my uncle’s work in the McRae Science Center, where it could be shared and appreciated by so many people, than to hang it in our house,” Mindy Humphrey says. “My uncle was a genius, but he was also a very humble man. He worked constantly, but one thing he made the time for was judging high school science fairs. It’s very appropriate to have his work displayed in a school, especially a school that means so much to our family.”

Official copies of Dr. Niremburg’s data are displayed in just six other locations worldwide, all chosen by his widow. They are the University of Florida, where he received his undergraduate and master’s degrees; the University of Michigan, where he received his Ph.D.; the Nobel Museum in Stockholm, Sweden; the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in Cambridge, Massachusetts; the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel; and the Jewish Museum of Florida in Miami.

The Niremberg mural was conceived, researched, written, and designed by Sandra Hindsman, chair of the St. Andrew’s science department, who donated her time and energy to the project “in order to make the life and work of this science hero available to our students.”

ST. ANDREW’S IS ONE OF ONLY 38 SCHOOLS NATIONWIDE AND THE ONLY SCHOOL IN MISSISSIPPI AWARDED A GRANT FROM THE MALONE FAMILY FOUNDATION. PICTURED IS MALONE SCHOLAR KYLE CRAFT ‘08.

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SUC CESS A T S T. A N D R E W’S A N D B E Y O N D

IN 2005, St. Andrew’s Episcopal School became one of a group of select schools nationwide awarded a grant from the Malone Family Foundation for the purpose of granting scholarships to academically gifted students with financial need. In the seven years since, St. Andrew’s has awarded Malone Scholarships to 19 deserving students. The alumni featured here are just a few of the outstanding Malone Scholars who not only excelled at St. Andrew’s, but also are leaving their mark at the college level and beyond.

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KARISSA BOWLEY

ZACH BULLARD

WILLIAM MCGEE

HANNAH PAULDING

LUCY KAY SUMRALL

KARISSA BOWLEY ‘11

KYLE CRAFT ‘08

HANNAH PAULDING ‘11

Bowley is wrapping up her first year at Rhodes College in Memphis, where she is an honor roll student majoring in philosophy and minoring in anthropology and sociology. Bowley plays varsity softball at Rhodes, a sport in which she also excelled at St. Andrew’s. She has also made time to volunteer at a nearby elementary school with a teacher implementing progressive teaching methods and at a Memphis homeless shelter.

“Living and learning here at Rhodes has contributed to my newfound interest in equal education opportunities,” Bowley says. “While I don't yet have a firm career plan, I know I’ll be able to find a calling that I truly care about.”

Craft is a senior human biology major at Stanford University. For the past three years, he has directed the Stanford Project on Hunger, a student group that collects leftover food from the campus and redirects it to local food banks and homeless shelters. Craft also serves with Anjna Patient Education, a non-profit organization focusing on novel ways to provide health education at free clinics, and is partnering with a friend to develop a new non-profit that will benefit people living with cystic fibrosis. During his years at Stanford, Craft has also tutored low-income students from elementary through the high school level and worked part time in the Stanford human performance lab.

Craft plans to take a gap year after graduation to develop iPhone apps with some computer science associates from Stanford, and then enroll in medical school.

Paulding is completing her freshman year at Washington University in St. Louis, where she is pursuing both her academic and her creative gifts with a double major in biochemistry and music. Paulding hopes to pursue a career in pediatrics. In her spare time, Paulding has been involved in tutoring and campus ministry, and serves as a mentor for low-income, college bound high school students as part of a program coordinated through the juvenile family court system. Paulding is a member of Washington University’s Ervin Scholars Program, which recognizes and provides scholarships to students based on their intellectual, leadership, and service achievements.

ZACH BULLARD ‘08

Bullard is completing his senior year at Vanderbilt University, and will graduate in 2012 with degrees in psychology and Russian. Bullard has held a spot on the Dean’s List for six semesters. This fall, he will travel to Vladimir, Russia, to teach English for an academic year. Bullard’s long-term plan is to return to the United States in 2013 and enroll in medical school, specializing in psychiatric medicine. In addition to his studies, Bullard conducts laboratory research exploring the long-term memory structure of patients with schizophrenia. He also writes and teaches science labs for intellectually challenged students; tutors student-athletes in physics and Russian; volunteers at Vanderbilt University Theatre in the lighting and scene shops; and serves as a DJ at WRVU, the Vanderbilt radio station.

WILLIAM MCGEE ‘11

McGee is a psychology major and avid Tigers fan at Jackson State University and works part time at a local grocery store. He hopes to become a psychologist.

“Between work and school, I haven't really had much time for extracurricular activities, but I'm still enjoying my first year of college,” McGee says. “My main focus has been balancing work, school, and a social life, but I’ve quickly learned that to fully be committed to one means a drop off in the others.”

William credits his ability to find that balance in part to his time at St. Andrew’s, where he was a strong student, a committed member of the basketball team, and a gifted rap artist.

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during their college careers. Sumrall has volunteered with the Exceptional Foundation of West Tennessee, which serves developmentally challenged clients, and with the Mid-South Crisis Center, a suicide and crisis hotline. She is also the coordinator of the Rhodes soup kitchen, Souper Contact. In the summer of 2012, Sumrall will participate in an ecology field research course in Jackson, Wyoming, courtesy of the Margaret Hyde Study Abroad Scholarship.

PERRY TYNER TATE ‘07

Tate graduated from the University of Alabama with a degree in psychology and is now pursuing a master's degree in marriage and family counseling at Mississippi College in Clinton. Her long-term goal is to earn a doctoral degree in counseling and pursue a career in counLUCY KAY SUMRALL ‘11 seling underserved children and families. In addition to Sumrall is completing her freshman year at Rhodes Col- her studies, Tate serves as the childcare director at the lege in Memphis, where she is majoring in religious stud- YMCA in Clinton, Mississippi. She and her husband also ies. Based on her record of leadership and community teach Sunday school and sing in their church choir. service in high school, Sumrall was one of 15 entering “My work at the Y is essentially service work,” Tate freshman invited to attend Rhodes as a Bonner Scholar. says. “Though I am taking a small salary, I work to serve The Bonner program awards scholarships and requires the community and to ‘love on’ those children that need scholars to participate in service and leadership activities to feel support the most.”

THE BEST KIND OF REALITY TV THE MALONE SCHOLARS PICTURED HERE AND THEIR FAMILIES WERE FEATURED IN A 2011 TELEVISION CAMPAIGN PROMOTING ST. ANDREW’S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL. IN THEIR OWN WORDS, THE SCHOLARS AND THEIR PARENTS DESCRIBED WHAT THE SCHOLARSHIP AND ST. ANDREW’S HAS MEANT TO THEM. THE MOVING CAMPAIGN CAPTURED BEST OF SHOW BROADCAST AT THE 2012 ADDY AWARDS.

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MEET THE COMMITTEES Who Meet For

ST. ANDREW’S

THE LEGACY LEAGUE, A SUBSET OF THE ST. ANDREW’S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL Touchstone Circle, was established to recognize alumni and friends who have included a designated gift for St. Andrew’s in their estate plans. These planned gifts may take many forms, including bequests (gifts left in wills), trusts, life insurance, or gifts of real estate.

THE ST. ANDREW’S ADMINISTRATION RELIES ON FIVE KEY COMMITTEES to enhance and ensure the smooth operation of the school. Each committee’s role is briefly described below. While a member of the St. Andrew’s board of trustees chairs each committee, committee members do not have to serve on the board. The St. Andrew’s community thanks the committee chairs listed, as well as the members of each committee who have dedicated their time and talents to enhancing St. Andrew’s Episcopal School.

Executive Committee Tommy Williams, Board Chair The executive committee has the authority to render decisions and act on behalf of the board of trustees between meetings of the board. Decisions or acts of the executive committee are subject to approval by the board at the next regular or special meeting of the board following any such decision.

Facilities Committee Wayne Drinkwater The facilities committee maintains and improves the school’s physical plant. The work of the committee includes new construction, renovations, infrastructure, maintenance, and other projects to modify or enhance physical assets on both the North and South Campuses.

The committee has adopted a capital project approval policy that defines procedures for reviewing and approving Resource Development Committee capital projects, and has recently commissioned a comNora Frances McRae prehensive assessment of the school’s facilities to allow This committee is involved in strategic planning, com- the board to identify and plan for needed maintenance munications and marketing, and fund-raising. The and improvements in the years ahead. Over the past two resource development committee advises the board of years, the facilities committee has coordinated remodeling trustees in the design and development of long-term efforts in the Lower School; supervised design and confundraising goals for St. Andrew’s and helps ensure struction of the McRae Science Center and renovations that these goals are compatible with the mission, vision, to the Upper School art department; completed instaland initiatives set out within the board-adopted strate- lation of the lacrosse field and improvements to the basegic plan. This committee provides guidance related to ball and softball facilities; and overseen the installation of the Annual Fund, major giving, planned giving, capital an energy management system on the North Campus. campaigns, and funding for other projects and programs.

The resource development committee emphasizes col- Finance Committee laboration, realizing that success depends on recognizing Wesley Goings that all parts of the school are interdependent, and rein- The finance committee is integral to the sound fiscal operforces to donors the value of their philanthropic invest- ation of the school. This committee reviews the annual ment in the school. operating budget, including setting the price of tuition, and then recommends a final budget for approval by the Nominating Committee full board of trustees. The finance committee also reviews Jasmine Taylor monthly financial statements, reviews and recommends This committee proposes the names of new members approval by the full board of annual audited financial stateof the board of trustees, with an eye toward both pre- ments, reviews board policies as they pertain to the finanserving continuity and ensuring rotation in the make- cial operations of the school, and reviews the results of up of the board. The nominating committee also pro- endowments and operating funds that follow under the vides the slate of officers for the board of trustees and St. Andrew’s Episcopal School Investment Policy Stateconsults with the chairman of the board on commit- ment. The finance committee also approves spending tee appointments. recommendations made by the facilities committee.

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Patsy and David Marsh

Shinn and Grace Lee

“A LIFE INSURANCE POLICY is an easy, affordable way to make a significant contribution that will help insure the success of St. Andrew’s down the road. We support St. Andrew’s because we realize that our children benefited from the vision and generosity of those who came before us, and we hope that our contribution will play a part in maintaining the environment at St. Andrew’s that was so special to our family.”— Patsy and David Marsh “A BEQUEST is the best way to increase the endowment fund with the lowest cost alternative to donors. Donors who create a bequest to the school give St. Andrew’s ongoing funds to continue to do wonderful things.”— Grace and Shinn Lee MEMBERS OF THE LEGACY LEAGUE Mr. and Mrs. Leigh B. Allen III Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Bailey, Jr. Judge and Mrs. Fred L. Banks Mr. and Mrs. John A. Bethany III Mr. and Mrs. W. Brad Chism Dr. and Mrs. R. Deaver Collins, Jr. Mr. C. Martin DeFrance Ms. Helen P. DeFrance Mr. and Mrs. Clinton L. Doby Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Farr II Mr. Thomas E. Guillot, Jr. and Dr. Christina Glick

Mr. William Henry Holman III Mr. and Mrs. John Holmes Mr. and Mrs. R. Eason Leake Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Shinn Lee Mr. and Mrs. Marshall A. Loeb Honorable and Mrs. Raymond Mabus Mr. and Mrs. Andrew W. Mallinson Mr. and Mrs. J. David Marsh Mr. Paul F. McNeill Mr. Michael T. McRee Mr. and Mrs. P. Cooper Morrison Dr. and Mrs. Walter P. Neely

Mrs. W. James Phillips Mr. and Mrs. Joe J. Powell Mr. and Mrs. William L. Smith Mrs. W. E. Walker, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Williams Dr. and Mrs. John D. Wofford, Jr. If you have made a planned gift to St. Andrew’s Episcopal School and your name has been inadvertently omitted, please contact the Office of Advancement so that we may acknowledge your generosity.

JOINING THE LEGACY LEAGUE St. Andrew’s is honored to include you as a member of The Legacy League. If you are considering a planned gift to St. Andrew’s or would like to join The Legacy League, please contact: Rebecca Collins, Director of Institutional Advancement • rebeccac@gosaints.org • 601.853.6029 or Elizabeth Buyan, Associate Director of Institutional Advancement • buyane@gosaints.org • 601.853.6013

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LOYALTY DONORS WHO CONSISTENTLY SUPPORT THE ST. ANDREW’S ANNUAL FUND are showing the school more than just a number on a check. They are demonstrating loyalty and a commitment to the mission, vision, and ideals of St. Andrew’s Episcopal School.

“Contributing to the Annual Fund is more about loyalty than it is about the size of the donation,” says Frances Jean Neely, director of annual giving. “We are so grateful to our supporters who give to the Annual Fund year in and year out. Their continuing loyalty to the school is valued as much as their continuing generosity.” The faithful donors featured have all given to the Annual Fund for at least 10 consecutive years. All were inspired to give for different reasons, but all share the same commitment to supporting St. Andrew’s Episcopal School.

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Sidney Allen ’00

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what we have received.”— Rob Farr, alumnus, former chairman of the St. Andrew’s board of trustees, parent of graduate, Annual Fund supporter for 20 years

“The Annual Fund supports faculty development, which is very important to me. I remember how much impact my teachers had on me and I believe our outstanding faculty is one of the things that gives St. Andrew’s a leg up…Counting pre-K, I spent 14 years of my life at St. Andrew’s. It was the place where I made so many good friends and so many good memories. Giving to St. Andrew’s has never felt like a sacrifice.”— Sidney Allen ’00, Alpha Omega graduate, former alumni board member, Annual Fund supporter for 12 years, since his senior year of high school “I have three children who are St. Andrew’s alumni and a grandchild in the pre-K3 program. At the time my children went to school there, I was teaching in the public school system, and I saw that my children were exposed to so much more at St. Andrew’s than other schools offered. I believe St. Andrew’s is the best school in the state. I support the Annual Fund because I want to help someone else have the same opportunity my own children had there.” — Mary Franklin, parent of graduates, former member of the Corporation, grandparent, Annual Fund supporter for 14 years

Donna Patrick

“Stan and I have never had the ability to be ‘major contributors,’ but we have been committed to being consistent with our contributions. Our children, Claire and William, would not be the adults they are today were it not for St. Andrew’s. The lessons they learned both in the classroom and on the athletic fields were invaluable. I firmly believe that Stan and I owe a debt to the institution and one tangible way we can try and “We’ve tried to increase our repay it is by contributing to the donation as our budget has Annual Fund.” — Donna Patrick, allowed over the years. faculty member, parent of graduates, Twenty years ago, our Annual Fund supporter for 22 years

contributions were smaller and more symbolic than anything, but I’ve always thought it important as an alum to participate in the Annual Fund, even if the dollar amounts were small.”

“Bill and I met in college at Harvard. As soon as we were able to start charitable giving after graduate school, we both knew that we wanted to make giving to our respective alma maters a priority, both in order to express our gratitude for the foundation we have been given by these instituJOANNA STOREY ’84 tions and to support the ongoing Annual Fund supporter for 20 years missions of our schools. So, our yearly pledge to the St. Andrew’s Annual Fund is part of our larger commitment to sup“We support the Annual Fund because of my under- port all of the schools and universities that have shaped standing of what the school provided me from 1959 to our careers and lives. And now, with five kids at St. 1963, and what it later provided to my son. In the begin- Andrew’s, we feel additionally compelled to give as we’ve ning when we were starting out, we put supporting St. seen first-hand the dedication of our children’s teachers, Andrew’s in our ‘have to’ budget. We saw it as part of the coaches, and the administrators who support them. We mission to grow the school. Now, supporting the Annual know that in giving to the Annual Fund, we are helping Fund is our way to give back for what has been given. St. them to do their jobs as well as they do.”— Joanna Storey Andrew’s makes our city, our state, and our lives richer. ’84, Alpha Omega graduate, current parent, Annual Fund We see supporting the Annual Fund as an obligation for supporter for 20 years

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A LEGACY OF LOYALTY St. Andrew’s former parent and current faculty member Donna Patrick and her husband, Stan, are not only loyal Annual Fund supporters, but have also passed that tradition of loyal giving on to their children.

“When both Claire and William graduated, I shared my beliefs about the importance of supporting St. Andrew’s,” Patrick says. “Early in their college careers, I would give them the Annual Fund form at Christmas and ‘suggest’ they fill it out before returning to school in January.

It always got them back to their friends at college more quickly if they just wrote the check.

“I knew the lesson had taken after Claire graduated from Rhodes College in 2007. She was hired to teach at St. Mark’s School of Texas in Dallas, and when she began receiving a paycheck, she actually increased her contribution to the Annual Fund over what she had been giving out of her allowance during her college years. When I thanked her for remembering (without any prompting from me) to contribute to St. Andrew’s, Claire told me that her St. Andrew’s education had helped her realize that she wanted to teach, and that she was very grateful for that education.

“William graduated from Auburn this spring and I hope he will continue with his contributions (now with his own money!) as his sister has done. I am confident he will. Supporting the Annual Fund is something that our entire family considers important.”

“St. Andrew’s is such an important part of the life we have in Jackson. It makes our community greater than it would be without the school.

Why do we give? Because you make sure that the important things continue.”

WHAT DOES THE ANNUAL FUND SUPPORT?

SHOW YOUR OWN LOYALTY TO ST. ANDREW’S.

The Annual Fund provides programs, activities, and equipment not covered by tuition.

The Annual Fund impacts every part of the St. Andrew’s experience, including academics, athletics, technology, professional development, and financial aid.

If you’d like to give to the Annual Fund, please contact Frances Jean Neely, director of annual giving, at 601.853.6014 or neelyfj@gosaints. org, or make a secure donation online at www.gosaints.org.

SUPPORTERS FOR A DECADE The following families and individuals have supported the Annual Fund for at least 10 consecutive years.

Those marked by the asterisk (*) have supported the Annual Fund since record keeping began in 1991.

Mr. and Mrs. John D. Adams Dr. and Mrs. John D. Adams, Jr. * Drs. Imad S. and Risa M. Aleithawe Mrs. Robert H. Alexander Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Alexander, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Leigh B. Allen III Mr. and Mrs. Sidney P. Allen * Mr. Sidney P. Allen, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. John J. Bach Dr. and Mrs. Leslie H. Bear Mr. and Mrs. Elton G. Beebe Mr. and Mrs. D. Carl Black, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Blake, Sr. Dr. and Mrs. E. J. Blanchard, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Vic Borromeo Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Bradley Mr. John Provine Briggs Mr. and Mrs. Minor F. Buchanan * Mrs. Sally Murphy Caffery *

Mr. and Mrs. Vernon H. Chadwick * Mr. and Mrs. Thomas S. Chain * Mr. and Mrs. Anson Bob Chunn * Mr. and Mrs. William H. Coker * Dr. and Mrs. R. Deaver Collins, Jr. * Mrs. Marcia Collins * Mr. and Mrs. Ronald D. Collins Dr. and Mrs. O. Weir Conner III * Mr. and Mrs. John A. Conway, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Jack W. Cooke, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Dennis R. Cranford Dr. and Mrs. Stephen F. Davidson Mrs. Cathy Davis Mr. and Mrs. Barney Davis Mr. and Mrs. L. Bruce Deer Mrs. Jessica McNaughton Delaney Mrs. Jean Jones Downey Mr. and Mrs. W. Wayne Drinkwater, Jr. * 36

Dr. Honey East Mr. and Mrs. James H. Eley Dr. and Mrs. Richard B. Ellison, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. S. R. Evans, Jr. Ms. Dorothy Bray Everett Mr. and Mrs. Mark Fanning Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Farr II * Mr. Peter C. and the Rev. Paige Ford Fisher Drs. Richard H. and Sethelle Flowers Mr. and Mrs. John E. Fontaine III Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert B. Ford, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. William A. Franklin Mr. and Mrs. Daniel B. Gaillet Mr. and Mrs. Philip W. Gaines Mr. and Mrs. H. Wesley Goings III Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey E. Good Mr. Greg Riggins Graeber Ms. Jan R. Graeber *

ROB FARR, 20-year supporter of the Annual Fund

Mr. Kenneth James Graeber, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Dudley Collier Graham, Jr. * The Rt. Rev. Duncan M. Gray, Jr. Mrs. Helen C. Green * Mr. and Mrs. Jason S. Greener Mr. Thomas E. Guillot, Jr. and Dr. Christina Glick * Mr. Creath Guillot Drs. Avinash C. and Vinita Gulanikar Mr. and Mrs. David R. Hardy Drs. H. Louis and Alison Harkey Mr. and Mrs. B. E. Harrison * Mrs. Elizabeth McNease Hays Ms. Tina Heitmann Ms. Sandra Smith Hindsman * Mr. and Mrs. James D. Holland Mr. and Mrs. David H. Hoster II * Mr. and Mrs. Tom R. Hudson Mrs. Caldwell Collins Israel Drs. B. J. and Mary E. Jenkins Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Johnson, Sr. Mr. Jason B. and Dr. Priscilla Almond Jolly Dr. and Mrs. James S. Jones Mr. Derek C. Jumper Ms. Frances B. Keane Mr. and Mrs. James A. Keith Mr. William Porter Kiblinger Mr. Vernon E. King Ms. Susan Floyd King Mr. and Mrs. Burney C. King Ms. Jennifer Allison King Mr. and Mrs. Taylor Kitchings * Mrs. Dorothy Kitchings * Dr. and Mrs. Ronald P. Kotfila Mrs. Ronald P. Kotfila, Sr. Dr. Jon Langford Mr. and Mrs. Edward E. Lawler, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. R. Eason Leake Dr. and Mrs. A. Arturo Leis Mr. and Mrs. J. Michael Lightsey Ms. Sherry Cate Liston Mr. and Mrs. Marshall A. Loeb Mr. and Mrs. James A. Lowe, III Mr. and Mrs. Monte E. Luehlfing Mr. and Mrs. Darin M. Maier Mr. and Mrs. Andrew W. Mallinson Mr. and Mrs. J. David Marsh III * Ms. Ann S. Marshall *

Mr. and Mrs. Ken McCarley * Mrs. Hyman F. McCarty, Jr. * Mr. and Mrs. Mark J. McCreery Mr. Raymond E. McDaniel Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. McDonald Mr. Ray McFarland Mrs. Margaret P. McLarty Mr. and Mrs. David L. McMillin Dr. and Mrs. William C. McQuinn Mr. and Mrs. Vaughan W. McRae * Ms. Laurie Hearin McRee * Mr. Michael T. McRee * Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. Meeks Mr. and Mrs. George I. Melichar * Mr. and Mrs. Carl D. Menist * Mr. and Mrs. Richard H. Mills, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Cooper Morrison Mr. and Mrs. David S. Morse Dr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Mosley, Jr. Ms. Sarah Murphy Mr. Christopher Brock Myers Dr. and Mrs. Walter P. Neely * Dr. and Mrs. William T. Neely, III Ms. Taylor Neely Mr. Andrew Neely Ms. Lady K. Noel * Mr. Kevin O'Malley Mr. and Mrs. Keith D. Obert Dr. and Mrs. C. Douglas Odom * Mr. and Mrs. Steven D. Orlansky Mr. and Mrs. James Y. Palmer Dr. Randall Patterson Mr. and Mrs. John Paxton Dr. Raymond Peeples Dr. and Mrs. George D. Penick, Jr. * Mr. and Mrs. James E. Poole, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Joe J. Powell, Jr. * Mrs. Katy Morgan Pulvere Dr. Louis V. Puneky and Dr. Shirley Schlessinger Ms. Michelle Allen Purdy Dr. and Mrs. Paul W. Purdy Mr. and Mrs. William A. Ray Mr. J. Stevenson Ray & Dr. Melinda Ray Dr. Vonda Reeves-Darby Ms. Patsy Ricks Mr. and Mrs. J. Daniel Roach Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Robinson, Jr. * Mrs. Charlton S. Roby *

Mr. and Mrs. Michael Rodgers Mr. and Mrs. C. Ted Sanderson, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Patrick H. Scanlon, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Marvin L. Scott Mr. and Mrs. James W. Shelson Dr. Audrey Sidney Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Q. Smith Mr. and Mrs. William L. Smith * Mrs. Ann R. Sneed Mr. and Mrs. Stewart R. Speed Mr. and Mrs. Leland R. Speed Dr. and Mrs. Leslie V. Spriggs Mr. Kevin David Stone Drs. William and Joanna Storey Mr. and Mrs. Jerry M. Sullivan, Jr. Judge and Mrs. James C. Sumner Dr. Linda G. Tanaka Mr. and Mrs. Patrick C. Taylor Mr. and Mrs. Charles C. Taylor, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. John L. Taylor Drs. Herman A. Taylor, Jr. and Jasmine P. Taylor Dr. and Mrs. David M. Temple * Dr. and Mrs. Salil C. Tiwari Ms. Robyn Touchstone Mr. and Mrs. Christopher H. Travis Mrs. Meriwether Wofford Truckner Mr. and Mrs. Bayard T. Van Hecke Dr. and Mrs. Ralph B. Vance Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Vick Drs. Parminder J. and Vibha Vig Dr. and Mrs. David I. Waddell Mr. and Mrs. F. John Wade Mrs. Gloria M. Walker Mr. and Mrs. Michael B. Wallace Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm E. Waren, Sr. Ms. Tara L. Washington Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Wells Mr. and Mrs. Steve A. Whatley * Mr. and Mrs. Albert B. White Mrs. Kathryn Wiener Mr. F. Ren Wilkes Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Williams Dr. and Mrs. John D. Wofford, Jr. * Dr. Taylor Stevens Wofford Dr. John D. Wofford III Mr. and Mrs. David E. Wood Drs. William R. and Bonnie Woodall Dr. Benjamin Ray Wynne Mr. John Zehr and Dr. Carolyn Bigelow

Correction: The fall 2011 issue of Archways included a list of alumni who faithfully contribute to the Annual Fund at the 1947 level, even though they no longer live in the Jackson area. We apologize for the inadvertent omission of Mr. Ren Wilkes, who lives in New Orleans, Louisiana, from that list.

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ST. ANDREW’S WAS A BIG WINNER in the Jackson Advertising Federation’s 2012 Addy Awards, which honor the best advertising and marketing in Central Mississippi.

A television campaign consisting of four commercials featuring St. Andrew’s Malone Scholars captured Best of Show Broadcast. Gold Addys were also awarded to the Malone Scholars campaign and to Archways magazine, and the St. Andrew’s Annual Fund calendar captured a Silver Addy. In recognition of their outstanding work for St. Andrew’s and on behalf of other clients, Marlo Kirkpatrick was named Writer of the Year and Alecia Porch was named Art Director of the Year.

The February awards show was the latest in what

has become a tradition of success for St. Andrew’s at the Addy Awards. St. Andrew’s projects have earned multiple Gold and Silver Addys for several years running, and have captured Best of Show honors in three of the past five years. Previous Best of Show winners include the St. Andrew’s admission kit (Best of Show Print) and materials promoting the Campaign for Science and Art (Best of Show Print and Best of Show Overall).

Congratulations to St. Andrew’s for another awardwinning body of work.

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MERIT

TEN MEMBERS OF THE ST. ANDREW’S CLASS OF 2012, 15 percent of the class, have been recognized as qualifying for National Merit Finalist status, the largest number of any school in the state, regardless of class size.

Of the 1.5 million entrants, only the 50,000 with the highest PSAT/NMSQT Selection Index scores (critical reading + mathematics + writing skills scores) qualify for recognition in the National Merit Scholarship Program.

Congratulations to (standing, from left): Matthew Mosley, David Morse-Gagne, Phillip Qu, Mike Steere, Blake Luehlfing; and (seated, from left) Jessica Lee, Jesse Bowen, Malika Shettar, and Bennett Barr. Not pictured is Neil Mehta.

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AND THE VERDICT IS… STATE CHAMPIONS NO DEBATE ABOUT IT DARIN MAIER IS AN OUTSTANDING SPEECH, DEBATE, AND THEATRE EDUCATOR

The St. Andrew’s Episcopal School Mock Trial Team won the 2012 State Championship at the state competition held at the Hinds County Court House last February. The team now advances to the national competition, which will be held in Albuquerque, New Mexico, this May.

Congratulations to Darin Maier, St. Andrew’s director of forensics, who received the 2012 Outstanding Speech, Debate, and Theatre Educator Award from the National Federation of High Schools (NFHS).

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aier received the award for the state of Mississippi, then advanced into the regional “Section 3” round, where his accomplishments were weighed against those of award recipients from Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. Maier was also named the recipient of the 2012 Outstanding Speech, Debate and Theatre Educator Award for Section 3. He will next advance to the selection round for the National Citation, the highest honor awarded to sponsors and coaches by NFHS. In addition to coaching the St. Andrew’s forensics teams, Maier serves as the associate head of the Middle School, and teaches Advanced Placement United States government, Advanced Placement comparative politics,

economics, and speech and debate competition, a course that helps students prepare for tournaments. Maier was an assistant forensics coach at St. Andrew’s from 20002005 and returned as the director of forensics in 2010.

“This award is as much and perhaps even more so, a recognition of the forensics program at St. Andrew’s and hard work on the part of our two assistant coaches, Tim Alford and Ruthie Taylor, and our approximately 25 students as it is for anything that I have done in terms of coaching,” Maier says. “I must admit, however, that to receive an award such as this after over a quarter-century of involvement in speech and debate as a student, judge, coach, and tournament director is a great validation of the hours invested in this work, which is critical to fostering an educated and articulate citizenry.”

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he mock trial case, State of Mississippi v. Finley Patton, was a criminal case in which the teenaged defendant was accused of selling marijuana to an undercover police officer at her high school in fictional Campbell County, Mississippi. The mock trial team tried both sides of the case, convincingly representing both the prosecution and the defense.

The team faced some of the toughest competition in the state of Mississippi, including Madison Central, Long Beach, Sacred Heart, and Oxford High Schools. St. Andrew’s faced Oxford in the nail-biting championship round, emerging victorious and capturing the school’s first Mock Trial State Championship since 2002. The victory represents not only the hard work of the students, but also that of their dedicated and generous coaches, including Dr. Jim Foley, St. Andrew’s history

teacher, and parents and attorneys Sheryl Bey and Anita Modak-Truran.

“Winning the championship meant a lot to us because of all the hard work we put into it,” says team member Sadaaf Mamoon. “For the witnesses, that means countless hours spent creating a strong, believable character.

For the lawyers, it was a challenging exercise of showmanship, charisma, logic, and rhetorical skill. We also had a team of skilled and devoted coaches who gave up hours of their lives to coach us and certainly worked harder than any of us did. We felt we owed them a win.”

The winning team included Dr. Jim Foley (coach), Michael Modak-Truran, Nupur Brahmbhatt, Ivy Pei, Meredith Blackwell, Bridget Bey, Madyson Brown, Sadaaf Mamoon, Caroline Brewer, and Vineet Aggarwal.

INDIVIDUAL RECOGNITIONS During the four rounds of preliminary competition, several students also won individual awards.

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Opportunities for St. Andrew’s students to learn, serve, and live overseas continue to grow with the 2012 launch of an exchange program in India.

“One in six people on earth live in India,” says Dr. Chris Harth, St. Andrew’s director of global studies.“There is a great deal of business growth there, and by contrast, there are more people in India living on less than one dollar per day than anywhere else in the world. An exchange program in India offers incredible opportunities for our students to learn and to serve.”

IN JANUARY 2012, members of the St. Andrew’s faculty And because the instruction of the school is in English, traveled to India to explore the many ways St. Andrew’s there would not be a language barrier.” could partner with Sreenidhi International School in “Sreenidhi International School was established in Hyderabad, India. In addition to Harth, the St. Andrew’s 2003 by a benefactor who envisioned a master plan delegation included Julia Chadwick, head of the Upper focused on the mind, the body, and the spirit,” Harth School; Donna Patrick, chair of the history department; says. “We laid the groundwork for an exchange program and Dan Roach, dean of students. The four visited classes with service and academic components, and also with at Sreenidhi and collaborated with the artistic and athletic components.”

AN EXCHANGE PROGRAM school’s faculty to outline the details Students from St. Andrew’s and stuIN DRIVER’S ED of the exchange program, which will dents from Sreenidhi will not only begin later this year. perform service work and study in “I was struck by the many “The sense of purpose and comeach other’s countries, but they will forms of transportation we munity within the Sreenidhi Interalso share their rich artistic heritages. observed each day during national School reminded me of St. Students from St. Andrew’s will learn our stay in India. I made Andrew’s,” Patrick says. “The facabout India’s vibrant arts culture and ulty not only projected a deep level its past and present influence on art a list of all the methods of of professionalism, but also expressed worldwide, while students from India transportation we encountered a great sense of pride in and com- during a one-hour drive. There will explore the visual and performing mitment to their school. They were arts born in Mississippi, including the were 17 different ones, ranging state’s many contributions to literaeager to share their knowledge with from a family of five plus their ture and music. The athletic compous, and just as eager to learn about dog on one motorcycle to a us, our school, and the United States. nent of the exchange might introduce The students also seemed genuinely man riding an elephant. Such St. Andrew’s students to competitive happy to be at the school and thrilled varied forms of transportation cricket while immersing Indian stuto interact with us during our visit.” results in a rather, shall we say, dents in American football. The multi “One of the most compelling asfaceted exchange is in keeping with disorderly road system.” pects was that the school already has the St. Andrew’s mission statement, a foundation in place for service which emphasizes the fostering of DONNA PATRICK learning,” Chadwick adds. “Our stu“academic excellence and artistic and dents would have the benefit of not only being a part athletic pursuits, while preparing for a life of service to of the school, but also of working in the local villages. our community and the world.”

STANDING OUT IN THE CROWD

“What struck me the most about visiting India was the density of the population,” Dan Roach says. “There were people literally lining the streets from side to side. As Americans, we really stuck out. Everywhere we went, we attracted attention, but the people were friendly and welcoming.” India is the second most populous country on earth and in 20 years, is expected to surpass China to become the most populous. One in six people on earth live in India.

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FROM MISSISSIPPI TO THE TAJ MAHAL

Members of the St. Andrew’s team who traveled to India were unanimous in their choice of a visit to the Taj Mahal as a high point of the trip. They weren’t the only people with a Mississippi connection visiting the world-famous landmark. The St. Andrew’s group was there on the same day that Mississippi native Oprah Winfrey was filming a segment for her new television show. While the group didn’t see Oprah personally, they certainly heard plenty of “buzz” about her presence in India.

Students will also have the opportunity to be involved in academic collaborations. For example, students at Sreenidhi are currently involved in an academic collaboration with a school in Germany that sees students from both schools working together on a global warming project.

“The students are communicating virtually and also traveling back and forth to work together on this joint project,” Harth explains. “It’s a shared global concern, studied from two different perspectives.”

Though their time in India was brief, the St. Andrew’s delegation built lasting relationships with members of the Sreenidhi community. Assisted by members of the Sreenidhi kindergarten class, Chadwick, Patrick, Harth, and Roach all planted trees on the Sreenidhi campus, symbolic of the two schools’ plans to grow together.

In the fall of 2012, a group of students and faculty from Sreenidhi International School will arrive on the St. Andrew’s campus, and in the summer of 2013, a group of students from St. Andrew’s will travel to Sreenidhi.

“The India trip was a highlight of my career,” Chadwick says. “The faculty was incredible and they were so clear in expressing the mission of the school, which is to kindle the light within. This was evident everywhere – in the classroom, the faculty professional development, the staff, even the architecture of the complex.

This exchange is important because we already have connections with China and Japan, but there was still one piece lacking – an exchange with the second most populous country and the largest democracy on earth. We have found that piece in this relationship with Sreenidhi International School.”

“SPRECHEN SIE DEUTSCH?” “PARLEZ-VOUS FRANÇAIS?” In conjunction with the addition of German to the

list of languages taught at St. Andrew’s, Herr Przemek Tokarski, the school’s German instructor, led St. Andrew’s inaugural school-sponsored trip to Germany and Austria in the spring of 2012. An exchange partnership between St. Andrew’s and Norbert Gymnasium in Knechtsteden, Germany, could become active as early as 2013. The fall of 2011 and spring of 2012 also marked St. Andrew’s first reciprocal exchanges with its partner school in Paris, Lycee Victor Duruy.

ST. ANDREW’S INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE PROGRAMS

St. Andrew’s offers international exchange programs with partner schools in seven countries, more than any other secondary school in Mississippi.

St. Andrew’s partner schools include: China

Kunming Foreign Language School

France Lycee Victor Duruy Ghana

Hermann Gmeiner International College

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Scotland Carnoustie High School

Japan Momoyama Gakuin

Spain Colegio Alarcón

Global Citizen of the Year CHRIS HARTH, ST. ANDREW’S DIRECTOR OF and practicality has served him well in his leadership global studies, won the 2012 Global Citizen Award roles with the National Council for Social Studies and presented by the National Association of Independent the Mississippi Association of International EducaSchools (NAIS). NAIS presents the award annually to tors,” said Paul Miller, senior director of NAIS. “For his the individual who has best promoted many accomplishments, and especially global education in NAIS member his groundbreaking glocal work, which schools. NAIS represents approximately reminds us that global engagement hap1,400 independent schools and associapens around the corner as well as around tions in the United States and also affilthe world, we are pleased to present Chris iates with independent schools abroad. with the Global Citizen Award.”

In addition to supervising the global In accepting the award, Harth thanked programs at St. Andrew’s, Dr. Harth is the his colleagues, including the faculty and founder of the Global Studies Foundation, administration of St. Andrew’s. a nonprofit that promotes international “Together, we are setting a positive education. He has written extensively on example and serving a greater good. Peoglobal education topics, and is credited with both popu- ple have actively embraced that, and are following that larizing the term “glocal” and putting the concept into example to change lives and communities.” Harth closed practice in areas such as service learning. by quoting a saying popular in Ghana that translates to, “Chris Harth’s combination of intellectual reach “If you climb a good tree, the village will support you.”

ST. ANDREW’S ’ROUND THE WORLD

The Guillot Global Fellows Program offers grants to St. Andrew’s students who wish to perform service work in other countries.

The 2011–12 Guillot Scholars are:

humanitarian service in Scotland and Rwanda

Vineet Aggarwal medical service and comparative research in India

Marion Hudson environmental and educational service in Ecuador

Pontus Andersson educational and humanitarian service in Scotland and Rwanda

Brynne Kelsey educational and healthrelated service and research in China

Aritra Biswas educational service and technological outreach in Brazil

Mehak Khan medical service in Tanzania

Shalina Chatlani environmental and educational service in Ecuador Lauren Friedrich educational and

Mary Sanderson educational and environmental service in Thailand Ian Stonestreet educational and humanitarian service in Scotland and Rwanda Savannah Thomas environmental and educational service in Ecuador

Allie Puneky educational and humanitarian service in Scotland and Rwanda

St. Andrew’s also offers travel grants for faculty members who wish to participate in service or educational work world-wide and incorporate their experiences into their classroom instruction.

Peryn Reeves-Darby educational and humanitarian service in Rwanda

Faculty members who received grants include: Ellen Ford

Lower School instructor China

Gail Cado Middle School history Israel Ben Sabree

Upper School math Scotland

Leanna Owens head of Lower School China Price Chadwick

Upper School science Rwanda

St. Andrew’s welcomes inquiries from donors interested in supporting the faculty travel grants program.

Interested sponsors should contact Chris Harth, director of global studies, at harthc@gosaints.org.

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CURTAIN CALLS PERFORMERS OF ALL AGES TOOK THE STAGE THIS FALL AND WINTER IN comedies, dramas, and musicals that earned ovations and prompted curtain calls.

Our Town The Upper School theatre department presented the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Our Town by Thornton Wilder. This timeless classic set in the fictitious town of Grover’s Corner, New Hampshire, centers around the everyday lives of neighboring families and the poignant moments they share over the years.

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Thoroughly Modern Millie, Jr. The 5th and 6th grade production of Thoroughly Modern Millie Jr. transported the audience to the Jazz Age in New York City with song and dance numbers from the 1920s.

Charlotte’s Web The 3rd grade performance of Charlotte’s Web enchanted audiences of all ages, who relived E.B. White’s beloved children’s classic through a cast that included rats, geese, goslings, sheep, a cow, a donkey, and of course, calligraphy-performing spiders and a grateful pig.

The Drowsy Chaperone The Upper School production of the Broadway musical The Drowsy Chaperone earned rave reviews as one of the finest overall productions in St. Andrew’s history. The script and music were entertaining in themselves, but what made this production special was the “ensemble effect,” which occurs when a cast comes together to produce not just an outstanding stage show, but also a unified piece of art.

A Christmas Story with Angels, Lambs, Ladybugs, and Fireflies The 1st grade play, A Christmas Story with Angels, Lambs, Ladybugs, and Fireflies, told the story of small creatures Beauty and the Beast, Jr. The 7th and 8th grade performance of Beauty and the who gathered the other animals and led them to BethleBeast Jr. drew the highest attendance at a Middle School hem to see the newborn baby Jesus. The message behind production for many years. The students’ singing, danc- this heartwarming performance was that God sent His ing, and acting abilities wowed the crowd, with many son for everyone, even the smallest among us.

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BOYS COUNTRY-CROSS TEAM AND GIRLS SWIMMING TEAM, BOTH NAMED 2011 DISTRICT 3A STATE CHAMPIONS.

Cross-country and swimming are just two of the 17 outstanding athletic programs that have helped St. Andrew’s win the Mississippi All Sports Award 12 years in a row.

For students who love to compete, St. Andrew’s is the smart choice.

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SAINTS ATHLETICS RECORDS

Girls Swimming, State Champions State Runners-Up

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Girls Cross Country, State Runners-Up

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STAYING AFTER SCHOOL

SAVE THE DATE

The St. Andrew’s Alumni Board

St. Andrew’s is pleased to introduce its 2011-12 alumni board of directors. The goals of the board include:

friendships while giving back to an institution which provided me with a rich educational experience and is now providing the same, if not better, for my kids,” says Ravi • Nurturing relationships with current and future Raju ’88, president of the alumni board. “The board is alumni and engaging them in the life of St. made up of dedicated individuals who feel a debt of grat Andrew’s Episcopal School itude to this school for playing a foundational role in • Coordinating and promoting shared activities shaping who they are and who they have become. We with alumni and future alumni that instill good have such a diverse group from different professions and will and pride while providing service to the perspectives – it is really a microcosm of the broader St. community, education, and/or social interaction Andrew’s community that has encouraged creativity and • Enhancing communication between St. Andrew’s individualism while at the same time nurturing a strong and its alumni sense of community.

• Promoting the school and assisting in identifying “St. Andrew’s is stronger today than it ever has been and recruiting future students because its former students have given back their time, • Encouraging the financial support of St. Andrew’s financial support, and guidance,” Raju continues. “I am Episcopal School confident that the current crop of St. Andrew’s students is going to go on to achieve great things; they will do so “Serving on the alumni board has been a very reward- by standing on the shoulders of our alumni who paved ing experience as I have been able to renew many old the way and continue to do so with their involvement.”

THE ST. ANDREW’S ALUMNI BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND THEIR ROLES Pictured back, left to right: Dan Roach ’78, Alumni Annual Fund Chairman/Alumni Games Co-Chairman Jason Watkins ’91, Alumni Award Nominations Chairman • Scott Albert Johnson ’88, Homecoming 2012 Co-Chairman Alex Purvis ’94, President-Elect/Resource Development Committee • Ravi Raju ’88, President/Board Recruitment

HOMECOMING AND ALUMNI WEEKEND SEPTEMBER 21 – 23, 2012 Open to all St. Andrew’s Episcopal School alumni and their families FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21

• Pre-game tailgating and family barbecue with live entertainment •

St. Andrew’s Episcopal School vs. East Webster High School at Stribling Field

• Post-game alumni parties

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22

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Campus tours, lunch, and social time with friends, faculty, and former faculty members

• Special events for children of alumni •

Saturday evening parties for alumni groups and reunion classes

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Non-denominational service at the David E. Wood Chapel on the North Campus

Watch your snail mail and your e-mail and check Facebook for more information.

Not pictured: Lorna Lyell Chain ’83, Homecoming 2012 Co-Chairman • Oliver Galicki ’08, Metrics Committee Co-Chairman Tatiana Markov ’96, Stewardship Chairman

DON’T MISS OTHER FUN-FILLED ALUMNI EVENTS COMING IN 2012. Watch your snail mail and your e-mail and check Facebook for dates and details. / REUNIONS – Class of 2002 • Class of 1992 • Class of 1987 • Class of 1982 YAPPY HOUR AND PICNIC FOR YOU AND YOUR POOCH – Sponsored by the Office of Alumni and the Annual Fund ALUMNI LUNCH AND A TOUR – Your chance to see what’s new at the Lower School / ALUMNI TRAVEL NIGHT – Exciting travel opportunities for alumni and parents coordinated by St. Andrew’s / LOCAL ALUMNI PARTIES – Parties are already in the works for alumni in New York, Memphis, and New Orleans this summer and fall. For more information or to help coordinate an event in your city or town, contact Elizabeth Buyan at buyane@gosaints.org. / HOLIDAY PARTY AND ALUMNI GAMES – December 23, 2012

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Front, left to right: Jordan Hailey Bryan ’03 • Secretary/Alumni Games Co-Chairman Emily Jones ’00, Social Committee Co-Chairman • Student Alumni Consultant Team Faculty Advisor Taylor Neely ’01, Alumni Awards Dinner Chairman, Almost Alumni Chairman Pam Franklin ’89, Metrics Committee Co-Chairman • Tina Heitmann ’02, Social Committee Co-Chairman

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THE YOUNG ALUMNI ASSEMBLY FOUND ALUMNI SHARING THEIR COLLEGE EXPERIENCES WITH UPPER SCHOOL STUDENTS. THE CLASSES OF 2001, 1991, AND 1981 CELEBRATED THEIR REUNIONS IN STYLE.

THE ALUMNI GAMES SAW FORMER STUDENTATHLETES AND WEEKEND WARRIORS TAKING THE FIELD IN BASKETBALL, FOOTBALL, AND SOCCER.

1. Class of 19914 20-year reunion 2. Greg and Elizabeth Buyan ’97 3. Jason Watkins ’91, Elizabeth Buyan ’97, Taylor Neely ’01, and Emily Jones ’00 4. Carrie Menist Grunkemeyer ’04, Elizabeth and Hiatt Collins ’96, Caldwell Collins Israel ’01 5. The Homecoming Barbecue 6. Sean Cupit ’99 and Mary Robinson ’03 7. (front, from left) Kandi Walker ’11 (Boston University), Sophie Sharp ’10 (Tulane), Leah Harkey ’11 (Hendrix), and Hannah Humphrey ’11 (University of Texas); and (back, from left) William Boyles ’11 (Ole Miss), Kyle Cupples ’11 (Mississippi State), Will VanLandeghem ’11 (Ole Miss), Lee Sargent ’11 (Mississippi State), Mary Reid Munford ’06 (Princeton), Davis Woodall ’10 (Loyola), and Elliot Varney ’09 (Millsaps) 8. Nathan Slater ’11 evades Kyle Craft ’08 and John Spann ’08 9. (front, from left) Jordan Hailey Bryan ’03, Frances Patterson Croft ’98, Kristin Allen, and Morgan Samuels, and (back) Greg Buyan, Elizabeth Buyan ’97, Justin Croft ’98, Andrew McLarty ’01, Sidney Allen ’00, Aaron Samuels ’01

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1994 Katherine Mills Scanlon and her husband, former St. Andrew’s student John Scanlon ’93, welcomed a son, Nathan Preston, on December 18, 2011. Nathan Preston joins his two-year-old brother, Connor.

1997 Elizabeth Buyan and her husband, Greg, welcomed a son, Charles Edward “Charlie” Buyan, on March 6. Charlie joins big brother Henry, who will become a member of the class of 2027 this fall.

Priscilla Almond Jolly returned to the Jackson area after completing her residency in orthodontics at LSU in New Orleans.

She lives in Madison with her husband, Jason, four-year-old daughter Stella (Class of 2025), and one-year-old daughter Eva. Priscilla practices orthodontics in Ridgeland.

1998 Jennifer Joe is completing her nephrology fellowship in Boston at the Brigham and Women’s and Massachusetts General Hospital joint program. She also organizes the St. Andrew’s Episcopal School Boston Alumni Group.

Please e-mail future Class Notes to Elizabeth Buyan ’97 at buyane@gosaints.org.

1975 Julia Womack Coggins has worked for the Mississippi Department of Human Services for 21 years. She and her husband, Jesse, have been married for the same amount of time, and rely on their third Rottweiler puppy, Lola, to keep them young. Coggins also enjoys connecting with her many old St. Andrew’s friends on Facebook.

1987 Dennis Roberts received his doctorate in clinical psychology from Antioch University (Seattle) in September 2011.

He is an instructor at DePaul University in Chicago teaching in the Department of Health Sciences.

1988 Shelly Montgomery Johannessen, along with her husband, Michael, and daughter, Jane Neves, will complete a twoyear assignment in Havana, Cuba, in May 2012 and will be moving to Moscow, Russia, in July for a follow-on posting.

This will be Johannessen’s second assignment in Moscow.

She expects a visit from her aunts Barbara Adams, Julia Chadwick, and Ouida Davis. When Jane Neves turned 2 in December, the family celebrated her birthday in the Cayman Islands, a 40-minute flight from Havana. The Johannessens will miss the tropical life of the Caribbean, but they look forward to embarking on new, Russian adventures in snowy Moscow.

1980 Margaret Anne Bishop lives in Golden, Colorado, where she is the principal at West Woods Elementary K-6 in Jefferson County, Colorado. This is her ninth year as a school administrator.

1982 Edward P. Meadors is professor of Biblical studies at Taylor University in Upland, Indiana, where he has served for 17 years. College teaching has afforded him the opportunity to devote significant time to writing and extensive travel with students, including recurring trips to Greece, Italy, Israel, Honduras, and Turkey. Meadors and his wife, Kathy, pur1991 chased 25 acres of hardwood forest a few years ago, and are Carter Myers is CEO of AnComm, the creator of Talk presently establishing a small-scale tree farm. With two of About It®, the first and only anonymous communication their three children off to college, they are on the brink of service that allow students to engage in text message or an empty nest. e-mail dialogue with trusted school staff members. Talk About It® is currently used by more than 300,000 stu1984 Win Rawson and his wife, Ali- dents nationwide. Since the product’s launch and success, son, welcomed a daughter, Mary AnComm has been acquired by Reliance Communications.

Alice Rawson, on September 1992 1, 2010. She joins big brothers Adrian Green married Ryan Mann on August 27, 2011 on Edwin and Doty. Win is presi- Cape Cod, Massachusetts, just hours before the arrival of dent of Benefit Recovery Inc. in Hurricane Irene. The couple lives on Cape Cod, where Win Rawson Memphis, Tennessee.

Green is a physical scientist at the U.S. Geological Survey in Woods Hole, and her husband is assistant director of 1985 the Harwich Conservation Trust land trust organization.

Laura McKinley Glaze was elected and is currently serving as president of the Capitol Area Bar Association, the larg1993 est volunteer association of lawyers in Mississippi. Glaze Austin McMullen is running for re-election as Mayor of practices with Wells, Moore, Simmons, Edwards & WilOak Hill, Tennessee, a city of approximately 5,000 near banks, PLL. She and her husband, Chip, live in Jackson with Nashville. He and his wife, Kelly, have two children, Reagan their three sons, Daniel Gallarno (a junior at St. Andrew’s), (5) and Mary Austin (1). McMullen is a bankruptcy attorney Mason Glaze, and Gray Glaze. with Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP, and also serves as an appointee of Governor Bill Haslam to the Tennessee 1986 Jennifer White Young and her husband, Vernon, wel- Real Estate Commission, which licenses and regulates real estate professionals. comed a daughter, Hannah Nicole, on January 16, 2012.

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1995 Trey Bullet and his wife of four years live in Atlanta, where Bullet works with CRC Health as a regional outreach specialist. He markets CRC’s treatment centers for children and adults with behavioral health challenges, Trey Bullet including chemical dependency issues, mood disorders, drug addictions, eating disorders, and weight management issues. The Bullets welcomed a son, Zachary, on September 26, 2011.

Laura Lea Daugherty Palmer

Laura Lea Daugherty Palmer and her husband, Anthony Palmer, live in The Woodlands, Texas.

The Palmers welcomed a daughter, Grayson Caroline, on October 27th. Palmer works for the Economic Development Partnership in South Montgomery County as the vice president of business retention and expansion.

1999 Katy Morgan Neely Pulvere and her husband, Graham, welcomed Macon Henry Pulvere on August 25, 2011. Macon joins his big brother, Miller (2).

Eric Ford is an associate professor of astronomy at the University of Florida. Much of Eric’s research has involved analyzing observations from NASA’s Kepler mission to help determine the frequency of earth-sized planets. The American Astronomical Society’s Division of Planetary Sciences honored Ford with the 2011 Harold Urey prize for outstanding achievement in planetary research by a young scientist.

Katherine Underwood Hallen survived a cross-Atlantic move from Washington, D.C. to London, England. Hallen is a senior communications manager for Nokia working in global media strategy. Her husband, Ben, is an assistant professor of strategy and entrepreneurship at London Business School. Hallen has reconnected with fellow alum-turnedexpat Anne Taite Austin Vogeeler ’97 in London.

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1996 Barrett Hathcock and wife, Katie, celebrated the birth of their second child, Carter Barrett Hathcock, on July 21, 2011.

FROM STUDENTS TO STAFF Many St. Andrew’s alumni have returned to the school as faculty or staff members. Alums on staff include: 1970 1975 1978 1978 1982 1987 1988 1990

Jerry Scott Goodwin Susan McEuen Lawler Hannah Kitchings King Dan Roach Paul Buckley Elizabeth Taylor Barton Judith Mosal Crotty Cab Green

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Patrick Taylor Caroline De Beukelaer Price Chadwick Elizabeth Stevens Buyan Anna Purvis Frame Taylor Morse Davis Emily Jones Andrew McLarty

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2002 Caroline Morrison White 2002 Chelsea Taylor

Freeman 2003 Marty Hitt Kelly 2005 Allen Lyle 2005 Ruth Craig Taylor 2006 Leslie Wells 2007 Rubina Sethi

Anna Lazarus and her husband, Abram Orlansky and his wife, Hannah, are excited to be Miguel Gonzalez, welcomed a moving back to Jackson in May following his graduation daughter, Caroline Truly, on from Harvard Law School. Once home, Abram will be August 19, 2011. The family clerking for Judge Rhesa Barksdale in 2012-2013. lives in Miami.

2003 Stephen Mills and his wife, Katie, Laura Rebecca Daily is graduating from University of Tenwelcomed a daughter, Emma nessee College of Medicine in May. She will practice in James, on September 19. The obstetrics and gynecology. family lives in Jackson.

Anna Lazarus Dr. Drew Mallette married Dr. Kathryn Hollis in April 2000 2011. Drew is the son of Dr. Mary Currier Mallette ’74, the Anne Bryant married John Sol- state health officer of Mississippi, and Kathryn is the daughomon from Ok lahoma City ter of Ruthie Hollis, head of St. Andrew’s Middle School. on October 8, 2011. The couple Drew and Kathryn are first year residents at University of makes their home in Washing- Mississippi Medical Center and make their home in Jackson. ton, D.C. Anne Bryant has been 2004 a fine art/documentary photogWhitney-Lehr Ray Flynn ’04 married Chris Flynn on rapher for 15 years and received January 8, 2011 in Jackson.

Members of the wedding Mary Kreyling Lumpkin her BFA in photography from Parparty included: Ellie Wallace son School of Design. Visit www. ’04, Olivia Ware ’04, William annebryantphotography.com Ray ’00, and Melanie Smith Mary Kreyling Lumpkin and Crawford ’04. The couple lives Bryce Lumpkin welcomed a in Minneapolis, where Flynn is daughter, Emily Gayle Lumpkin, a sales operations analyst for born December 17, 2011.

International Decision Systems and her husband is pursuing a 2002 Ph.D in medieval history at the Danielle Bonner lives in Atlanta, University of Minnesota.

Danielle Bonner Whitney-Lehr Ray Flynn Georgia, where she works as a physical therapist at The Shepherd Center, a rehabilitation 2003 center for patients with spinal cord and brain injuries. Dan- Sean Kochtitzky earned his master’s degree in forensic sciielle is engaged to be married this October in Ellaville, Geor- ence from the University of Southern Mississippi in August gia, to Bryan Schroeder.

2010. He moved to Atlanta and started work at the U.S. Army

THE PORTABLE SON The Portable Son, a collection of short stories by Barrett Hathcock ’96, is earning excellent critical reviews. The Portable Son tells the story of Jackson native Peter Traxler and his journey from boyhood to adulthood. The setting is the contemporary South—not the South of cartoonish rednecks, but rather the polite, well-behaved South, the South of relentless good manners, Polo shirts, and thank you notes.

Hathcock has also published works of fiction and nonfiction in the Colorado Review, Arkansas Review, MacGuffin, Fried Chicken and Coffee, Cimarron Review, and REAL: Regarding Arts & Letters. He has served as a contributing editor for The Quarterly Conversation for the past five years.

Hathcock holds an M.F.A. from the University of Alabama and he has taught writing at Samford University and Rhodes College. He lives with his wife and growing family in a house “down by the river in Memphis, Tennessee, which is thankfully no longer at flood level.”

Early reviews of The Portable Son: “It’s all here, the awkwardness of reconnecting with childhood friends, the impossibility of integrating your youth with your adulthood, the longing for home when home is a time and not a place. Hathcock writes haunting, unforgettable stories.” – Publishers Weekly “In The Portable Son, Barrett Hathcock has captured to a remarkable degree what it was to be an adolescent in the 1990s.

But not just that; he updates the South for a new generation of readers. Anyone who reads this delightful book will understand that the great works of Southern fiction are encoded in his DNA.”– Scott Esposito, critic, writer, and editor “The Portable Son heralds the arrival of an important new writer from the South. Barrett Hathcock knows his material well and writes with both verve and sensitivity, in stories that surprise in countless ways. I’m keeping an eye on this guy, and you should too, as you will discover in these pages.”— Steve Yarbrough, author of Visible Spirits and The End of California For more information, visit aqueousbooks.com.

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Criminal Investigation Laboratory as a latent print examiner.

On August 2011, after completing his training with the Army Crime Lab, Kochtitzky was deployed to Afghanistan. He currently works in a mobile lab where he processes evidence to help identify the enemy and provide intelligence. Kochtitzky received certification in crime scene investigations from the International Association for Identification at the end of September. He will be eligible to take the latent print certification when he returns from deployment.

School. She held a degree in economics from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. Greener began her career in the construction heavy equipment industry by joining her father in the family business in 1975 at StriblingPuckett, Inc. She was chairman of the board for Stribling Equipment, LLC and Empire Truck Sales, LLC. Greener’s lifelong commitment to community service led her to serve on the boards of Mississippi Baptist Health Systems, Regions Foundation, Mississippi Children’s Museum, Junior League of Jackson, Junior Achievement, Deposit Guaranty National Bank, Fondren Renaissance Foundation, the Metropolitan YMCA and on the board of trustees for St. Andrew’s Episcopal School. Greener’s love for and long ties to St. Andrew’s ran deep; she was recognized for her service to the school as the posthumous recipient of the 2012 St. Andrew’s Loyalty Award. Greener is survived by many friends and family members, including her sons, Flynn Greener IV ’88 and Jason Greener ’92; Jason’s wife Betsy Faile Greener; and her grandchildren Nicholas Tyler Greener, Sarah Beth Greener (class of 2021), and Thomas Stribling Greener (class of 2024). She was also aunt to Wilson Stribling ’90.

2009 Charles Woods was inducted into the University of Mississippi Who’s Who on January 21, 2012.

IN MEMORIAM Stuart Irby ’71 (1954-2012) The St. Andrew’s community mourns the loss of alumnus and loyal supporter Stuart Irby. Irby was a noted Jackson businessman and philanthropist who supported many charitable causes during his lifetime. Irby is survived by his brothers, Richard Irby ’81, Charles Irby ’73, and Joseph Irby; his sister, Margaret Irby; two sons; a daughter; a grandson, and a large extended family.

Dr. Allen Becker (1924-2011) Former St. Andrew’s Head of School Dr. Allen W. Becker died at his home in Austin, Texas, on October 29. Born into a military family, Allen lived in various parts of the country, graduating from Dreher High School in Columbia, South Carolina in 1942. That same year, he enlisted in the army and was discharged in 1946 as a 1st Lt. in the Infantry. Allen had a lifelong love of the English language and earned a B.A. in English from the University of South Carolina, an M.A. from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and a Ph.D from Johns Hopkins. He taught English at the University of Tennessee, Johns Hopkins, and the University of Texas. In 1957, he became the headmaster of St. Stephen’s Episcopal School in Austin, Texas where he served until 1973. Under Allen’s leadership, St. Stephen’s became the first boarding school in the South to become integrated. In 1973, Allen accepted the post of the head of school of St. Andrew’s Episcopal School, a position he held for six years. Dr. Becker was preceded in death by his parents, his daughter, Susan, and his wife, Elizabeth. He is survived by three children and four grandchildren.

“Under Dr. Becker’s leadership, St. Andrew’s became a serious academic institution and began to develop its regional and national profile,” says Mimi Bradley, St. Andrew’s director of college counseling. “He wanted St. Andrew’s graduates to be competitive nationally. Dr. Allen strengthened academics, made community service a graduation requirement, and brought the Japanese Exchange Program to St. Andrew’s. The list goes on and on. We are St. Andrew’s largely because of his vision and the path he set for this school. We all owe Dr. Allen Becker a huge debt of gratitude.”

David Moore, Former Student (1961-2011) Former student David Howard Moore died on November 11, 2011. Moore attended St. Andrew’ Episcopal School and Murrah High School, Millsaps College, and the University of California at Berkley and Pacific McGeorge Law School in Sacramento, California. In his later years he owned and operated David Moore Bonding Company.

Robert Norman ’82 (1964-2011) Robert “Rob” Norman, a St. Andrew’s alumnus and wellknow figure in the Virginia Highlands restaurant community, passed away last August. Norman was a graduate of St. Andrew’s and the University of Alabama. He was a longtime employee of The Highland Tap and had more recently worked at Fontaine’s Oyster House. He is survived by his sons, Jackson and Charlie, his parents, and his former wife. He was preceded in death by his sister, St. Andrew’s alumna Melissa Norman ’80. An excellent cook, Norman was famous for his deep-fried turkey.

Rebecca “Becca” Disharoon (1989-2011) The St. Andrew’s community mourns the loss of former student Rebecca “Becca” Disharoon, who died in October 2011 at the age of 22. She was an honor student studying pre-med at the University of Southern Mississippi. Disharoon received numerous educational awards throughout her life. She graduated from the Education Center at the top of her class. During her years at St. Andrew’s she was a varsity cheerleader. She is survived by her daughter, Claudia Alyssa Tyner.

Sherry Stribling Greener (1944-2011) The St. Andrew’s community mourns the loss of alumna and former trustee Sherry Stribling Greener ’62. Greener attended St. Andrew’s and was a graduate of Murrah High 57

kcaB gnikooL | Looking Forward Archways catches up with Dr. Charles Weeks

Dr. Charles “Bubba” Weeks headed the St. Andrew’s about, again by provoking interest in the bike followed Episcopal School Humanities Department from 1979 by conversations that engaged me with local culture in until 1997, also serving as faculty advisor on North Pas- that city.” ture, the school’s literary magazine, in the days when Though he left the campus 15 years ago, Dr. Weeks the St. Andrew’s North Campus was still the scene of still enjoys sharing fond memories of his students and an occasional cow trespassing. colleagues at St. Andrew’s, including an impromptu Since leaving St. Andrew’s, Dr. Weeks has continued birthday party staged by his students and held in his to teach as an adjunct professor at Mississippi College honor, “whether I liked it or not,” and the story of a stuin Clinton, and also taught for two years in a New Eng- dent who went to great lengths to introduce his teacher land residential school with a humanities program simi- to his younger brother, concluding the introduction lar in many ways to that of St. Andrew’s. He has devoted with the warning that Dr. Weeks was “someone to be a great deal of time to writing; in addition to publish- avoided.” But perhaps Dr. Weeks’s favorite memory is ing a book in 2005, Dr. Weeks has of a senior prank inspired by his written several articles for historown words. In his discussions of ical journals, entries on arts and literature and the importance of travel journalism for an encyclodiscussing works in the proper pedia of American journalism, context, Dr. Weeks frequently and most recently, an essay on a instructed his students to “deconSpanish map owned by a gallery struct” the works. in New York.

“When I entered my office one Dr. Weeks has also traveled a day, I found my desk meticulously Oft-heard response large part of the United States and woven with fish wire with a brief, from Dr. Charles Weeks Europe, conducting research for handwritten message telling me I his writing aboard a folding bicyshould try to ‘deconstruct this,’” cle. His method of transportation proved to be a valu- Dr. Weeks recalls. “With regard to this challenge to able ice-breaker as he explored other countries, states, deconstruct my desk, yes, I am afraid that was a response and cultures. to my probable use of that word, or somehow - given “I recall being accosted at the border crossing between the quality of the student in charge of weaving the fish Austria and Hungary by a uniformed Austrian border wire that was attached to the desk drawer handles – his guard wearing a pistol,” Dr. Weeks recalls. “I was a bit making a connection.” put off initially, but quickly was put at ease when he While Dr. Weeks has enjoyed his other teaching posiexpressed interest in the folding bicycle I was carry- tions and his far-flung travels, St. Andrew’s holds its own ing, and seemed to want some relief from doing a very place of honor in his career. inconsequential job. He called a colleague over, and what “While college teaching has special rewards and chalensued was a very pleasant conversation about where I lenges,” Dr. Weeks says, “I have enjoyed the most teachwas from and learning that one had relatives in the U.S. ing the kinds of students I had at St. Andrew’s and the and the other had been to – no less – Las Vegas. On this courses I taught there.” side of the Atlantic, I liked to think that I was doing good Deconstruct that statement, and the only possible things to change the ways people thought about getting context is a positive one.

“YES AND NO, BUT MOSTLY NO.”

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