Summer 2010
Welcome
from the Head Dear Friends, This issue of Perspectives should be arriving in your mailboxes just as we begin the first school year of our second century. We hope this issue gives you a sense of the varied accomplishments of the faculty, the students and the alumnae in the last six months of our Centennial year. We wish the talented and diverse Centennial Class of 2010 well as they begin their next educational experience at university . They are an amazing group of young women who will no doubt succeed in all they pursue and we are proud to call them alumnae. After a year of reflecting upon our last hundred years, we begin the 2010-2011 school year looking forward to all the wonderful opportunities that lie before us. This year will see the completion of the first phase of Ashley Hall’s comprehensive Master Plan inaugurated in 2005. New play areas and beautiful green spaces now grace what was only mud and asphalt a few short months ago, and our eagerly anticipated Dining Commons nears completion on the corner of Rutledge and Vanderhorst. By the time you are reading the next issue, students will have been enjoying the full benefits of this purposeful planning, sitting down together to a meal in the new facility, designed to promote a return to the values and practices of traditional family-style dining, while cultivating mindful eating habits and providing a venue for instructing our students in healthful meal preparation and sustainable food production. I can’t wait to share that with you. Possunt quae volunt! Sincerely,
Jill Muti Head of School
Perspectives The magazine of Ashley Hall
EDITOR Catherine Newman GRAPHIC DESIGN Julie Frye Design, LLC CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Elizabeth Foster John Slepetz BOARD OF TRUSTEES President – Dr. Malcolm M. Rhodes Vice President – Philip L. Horn, Jr. Secretary – Elizabeth Barone Luzuriaga ’80 Treasurer – Henry B. Gregorie III MEMBERS-AT-LARGE Mary Gordon Baker ‘77 Miss Ray Moore Coker ‘59 Sheppard H. C. Davis Jr. Ann W. Dibble ‘70 Terry Becker Fisher Brett Hildebrand Elizabeth Rivers Lewine ’54 Elizabeth Powers Lindh ‘67 Janet Pearlstine Lipov W. Scott Parker Karen Phillips ‘79 Roy Richards Jr. Kaycee C. Poston Dr. Joseph G. Reves Harriet Popham Rigney ‘56 Nella Barkley Schools ’81 TRUSTEES EMERITI Mary Agnes Burnham Hood Martha Rivers Ingram ‘53 Patricia T. Kirkland Hugh C. Lane, Jr. J. Conrad Zimmerman, Jr. HEAD OF SCHOOL Jill Swisher Muti ADMINISTRATIVE TEAM Assistant Head of School for Academic Affairs, Dr. Nick Bozanic Assistant Head of School/ Director of Institutional Advancement, Cindy Hay Johnson Assistant to the Head of School, Elizabeth Gordon Executive Assistant to the Head of School, Diane Chancey Interim Chief Finance Officer, Audrey Tamekazu Director, Early Education, Dana Van Hook Director, Lower School (Grades K-4), Amy Woodson Director, Intermediate School (Grades 5-6), Lois Ruggiero Director, Upper School (Grades 7-12), Mary Schweers Director of Admissions, Carolyn Newton Director of Athletics, Frances Slay Director of Facilities, Fred Reinhard Director of Fine Arts, Judith Yarbrough Director of Library, Elayne Reiner Director of Technology, John Yarbrough Assistant Director of Institutional Advancement /Director of Communications and Marketing, Catherine Newman