The Ridge - Winter 2020

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RIDGE WINTER 2020

BUILT FOR BOYS. BUILT FOR LEARNING. In This Issue: The Future Library at BRS Engaging Boys With Project-Based Learning Distinguished Alumnus Allen Bush ’69

ST. GEORGE STANDS GUARD

Visitors to campus are now greeted by a beautiful, handcrafted gate depicting St. George slaying the dragon.

The gate was created by Charlottesville-area metalworker Edward Pelton.

The gate not only contributes to the visual landscape of Blue Ridge School’s acclaimed campus but also provides our students and our community an added layer of security. While residents have remote access to the gate, visitors to campus now request access through an intercom. During Alumni Weekend and Parents Weekend, guests who registered in advance were given access codes to use during their visit. This allowed easier entry while maintaining security.

The new gate is a dramatic addition to campus. Visit Blue Ridge School soon to see for yourself!

HEADMASTER TRIP DARRIN

GREETINGS FROM ST. GEORGE

Greetings from St. George!

This school year marks several important evolutions for Blue Ridge School – in our academic program, in our leadership, and in our day-to-day life on campus.

First, academics. In November, we welcomed educational leaders from the Virginia Association of Independent Schools (VAIS) to campus as they conducted the ten-year strategic accreditation process.

Mason Lecky, Chair of the VAIS team and Headmaster of St. Christopher’s School in Richmond, commended the BRS faculty and leader team for our commitment to curricular innovation and program growth.

In this edition of The Ridge, you can read more about the present-day curricular focus on Project-Based Learning (PBL, see article on page 8). Our adoption of PBL has been led by Dean of Faculty and Academics Peter Bonds. I couldn’t be more proud of Pete’s leadership and the work being done by our faculty, who are committed to professional growth and to strengthening the student learning experience. It’s an affirmation of this work that Pete Bonds was honored by the International Boys School Coalition with the 2019 Action Research Project of the Year (read more on page 19).

Second, governance. The Board of Trustees and the Leader Team are facilitating the community-wide creation of our next five-year Strategic Plan as we envision the Blue Ridge School of 2025. It is an

exciting process, one that I’ve found highly fulfilling due to the degree of investment and input from all constituents of the School: alumni, past and current parents, faculty, staff, administration, Trustees, and, perhaps most importantly, current Blue Ridge boys. The new plan will chart the curricular direction of the School and will serve as the guidepost for future capital and endowment projects to improve facilities and to preserve our beautiful mountain campus.

Our guiding principle is the pursuit of Mission Permanence, defined as the programmatic and operational foundations needed to sustain Blue Ridge School for generations to come. We are on track to finish writing the new plan in June of 2020, and I very much look forward to sharing with you our goals for the future of our school.

There’s a third important transition that I’d like to highlight: the final capital campaign of our present Strategic Plan, Baron Strong: Blue Ridge School 2020. This transformative campaign will establish both a new dining hall and a new library. We are a highly student-centered school, an important part of our culture that also was affirmed by the VAIS Team. Improving the students’ experience guides our top priorities. This capital project, now in the public phase of its $2.2M raise, will span the present and next strategic plans. Planning for the Dining

Hall is now compete and we have recently begun re-imagining the BRS Library. I’m proud and excited to share more about our vision for this “learning commons” in the first article (page 3). Both of these facilities are a celebration of the impactful leadership of Hatcher Williams, BRS Headmaster from 1963- 1984, to whom we are eternally grateful.

As always, I welcome your questions about these topics and any other aspect of our unique school.

Go Barons!

Trip

CONTENTS A PLACE TO LEARN

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The Library at Blue Ridge School

WHAT IS YOUR DRIVING QUESTION?

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Engaging Boys Through Project-Based Learning

A GLIMPSE AT THE CLASS OF 2020

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BARON ATHLETICS

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HAPPENING ON THE RIDGE

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A LETTER FROM THE CHAIR OF THE BOARD

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ALUMNI WEEKEND

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Allen Bush ’69 Named Distinguished Alumnus

IN MEMORIAM

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ROLL OF DONORS 28

BLUE RIDGE SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION: Mr. William A. “Trip” Darrin III, Headmaster Mr. D. Franklin Daniels, Jr., Associate Headmaster for External Affairs Mr. Peter A. Bonds, Dean of Faculty and Academics Mr. Vinton Bruton, Assistant Headmaster for Co-Curricular Programs

THE RIDGE: John Dudley, Editor/Graphic Designer/Photographer Dan Dunsmore, Contributing Editor Tristan Emmanuel ’21, Contributing Photographer

WWW.BLUERIDGESCHOOL.COM THE BLUE RIDGE SCHOOL MISSION: We focus on helping boys reach their potential through personalized, structured, innovative learning practices in a college-preparatory, all-boarding community.

Blue Ridge School admits qualified young men of any race, color, national or ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the School. Blue Ridge School does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national or ethnic origin in administration of its educational policies, admission policies, financial assistance and loan programs, athletic and other administered programs.

ON THE COVER: Student Body President Xuanzhe “Mike” Han ’20 and Student Discipline Committee Member Andrew Jorgensen ’20.

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A New Library

H. Williams

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A PLACE TO LEARN

THE LIBRARY AT BLUE RIDGE SCHOOL

By John Dudley

Information is everywhere, but libraries are not obsolete.

campaigns, alternative facts, and social media echo chambers.

School libraries are experiencing a period of massive change as they strive to meet the shifting needs and demands of students and faculty in the 21st century. The internet has provided students and teachers with access to more information than ever before. One student’s smartphone can access more information than has ever existed within the entire physical holdings of the Blue Ridge School library. However, rather than make libraries obsolete, this proliferation of information has made them more necessary and more relevant than ever before as our students must now learn to locate particular information in an ever-increasing landscape. Not only must they learn to find what they are looking for but they must also be able to recognize a reliable source in our world of sophisticated political disinformation

For most of us born during the 20th Century, libraries were the definitive source of information. They housed books, magazines, newspapers, and document archives. We traveled to libraries to write research papers, to keep current on events, to discover new hobbies and skills, and to borrow materials so we could use them at our convenience. Libraries kept classic novels and works by new authors. We traveled the world through the printed pages of National Geographic, marveled at human achievement in The Guinness Book of World Records, and ensured fair play with Hoyle’s Rules of Games. If all of this can now be accomplished on a mobile phone at nearly every point on the planet and during any time of day or night, why do we still need libraries?

Author Neil Gaiman sums up the need for modern libraries with this: “Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.”

Blue Ridge School’s current library has resided in Williams Hall since it was constructed in the early 1990s. Prior to that, it was in the lower level of the Academic Building. Until very recently, the library was bordering on a hodge-podge of digital and print resources that still included bound encyclopedias and microfiche.

However, changes in personnel and technology proved a good time for the School to examine the role of the library in the 21st Century and beyond. Headmaster Trip Darrin commissioned a task force comprised of members of the faculty, including Katie Cooper, Blue Ridge School’s new librarian.

As we prepare students for the modern

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Heritage have been enjoyed by decades of students, but they are in poor condition, and most of this information can be found in other sources.

world as well as a future that is likely beyond our imagination, now is the perfect time to consider how Blue Ridge School’s library should function. As the administration prepared to draft the next Strategic Plan, Headmaster Trip Darrin looked forward to reviewing the Task Force’s findings. The task force conducted interviews with students and faculty—both at Blue Ridge and at other independent schools— and conducted research on best practices for modern libraries. The task force then wrote a report that was presented to the Headmaster and the Board of Trustees.

At that time, plans to renovate the dining hall were already underway. During that planning process, Williams Library was recognized as a possible location to build a new, modern dining hall, and the current dining hall could easily be converted into a newly imagined library and research space. The task force report is being used as a guide for creating a facility that will benefit Blue Ridge students for decades to come.

The task force determined that the rise of the internet actually has fueled the need for libraries. In their report, the members wrote, “This proliferation of information has made them more necessary and relevant than ever before as our students must now learn to locate information in a seemingly endless abyss. Not only must they learn to locate information, they must also become skilled at assessing its credibility in a world where the very concept of a fact is under assault.”

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A qualified librarian is a necessary guide for the growing digital information landscape all students must learn to navigate. They need a wide variety of skills, including knowledge of many literary genres (classical and emerging), database management, technology, and research.

In addition to managing the physical space of the library, Mrs. Cooper works with classes conducting research, teaching students how to navigate comprehensive online databases and properly cite sources.

She is constantly evaluating the needs of the students and how Blue Ridge School can accommodate them.

Blue Ridge School is committed to preparing our students for college. It is necessary for them to be proficient in and comfortable with databases. Because many of the resources students need to conduct original research will be in digital rather than print form, it is essential that our library have access to a variety of databases, such as JSTOR, Readex, and ProQuest.

Our task force sees ProQuest as “the best entry point for much of the research that students would conduct at Blue Ridge, at any level and in any discipline.”

Katie Cooper, Librarian

She says, “The role of the modern librarian merges a love of books with a desire to educate socially responsible researchers.

Developing a love of reading in our youth runs parallel to understanding the use and meaning of words as they pertain to our social platforms and their influence in our research materials. The modern library is becoming more well-known as the learning commons. In a time when a lot of our learning is research and project-driven, especially with our Project-Based Learning focus, it’s crucial that our students understand that the library is more than just books. I’m here to assist with research, help students broaden or narrow their topics, find the right print and digital sources, and push them to ask the right questions.”

Studies show pleasure readers still predominantly utilize print materials. History, biography, and autobiography sections of Blue Ridge’s non-fiction collections are the most utilized materials at this point.

However, the task force recommends removing a large portion of the reference section as most of these resources can now be found online, and a large portion of them are now out of date. Our collections of National Geographic and American

The task force surveyed more than 130 students about what they would like to see in a new library at Blue Ridge School.

Getting students “in the door” is the first step in ensuring that they are using the library’s resources, reading a variety of materials, and learning to conduct research.

The top four student responses were: 1) having coffee or a juice bar; 2) comfortable chairs and couches; 3) faster wifi; and 4) the presence of a working fireplace.

All of these amenities are under serious consideration for the new library. BRS is fortunate that the library’s future home already has a beautiful and functional stone fireplace.

Mrs. Cooper says, “One of the most important things for our library space is for it to be welcoming. Students should always feel like they can come to the library if they want or need to relax, to find quiet study, to have some down time, but I also want them to come to hang out with friends, to work as a group, and to truly incorporate being here into their everyday lives. The plan is for the coffee bar to be a way for teachers to recognize students for a special treat. The fireplace will play off the space’s charm and uniqueness by providing a cozy feeling with the comfortable reading spaces.”

She adds, “One thing we heard consistently as we visited other schools and talked with other libraries was that we

had to have plenty of electricity and wifi.

We’re planning to have accessible technology for casting, sharing, and presenting in the new breakout rooms, and there will be plenty of outlets everywhere. This year I brought in two new reading spaces with soft seating that have been a huge hit with the students, especially the couch that has three-prong electrical and USB outlets on each side. I’ve seen quite a few group projects gather in the space so one or two of the guys can charge up while they work.”

The new library will be designed to accommodate both quiet individual work and small groups.

“It will flow from quiet spaces at the entry to group work in the back, around the new classrooms,” says Mrs. Cooper. “We are looking at taller shelving near the windows to create small niches for our solo studiers with a lot more open space in the middle so the tables and chairs can be moved to create room for pairs, groups, and whole classes.

We are going for functional, movable furniture and whiteboards, and brighter colors to encourage laughter and communication rather than the dark, stationary furniture many of us remember libraries as having.”

adding more examples of popular genres such as graphic novels, biographies, 20th Century history, music, and young adult fiction.

Mrs. Cooper says, “We ordered a new book display at the end of last year, which I’m rotating out monthly. October was

Her display of “Bookflix,” a play on the popular streaming service Netflix, highlights books that are being turned into movies or tv shows. She also connects with students by recommending books using Netflix-familiar categories, such as Drama, Sports Stories, and Binge-Worthy.

“The role of the modern librarian merges a love of books with a desire to educate socially responsible researchers.

Developing a love of reading in our youth runs parallel to understanding the use and meaning of words as they pertain to our social platforms and their influence in our research materials.”

“Getting to know the students and talking about their interests and plans for the future is what I enjoy most about being a librarian,” says Cooper. “As they say, our kids are our future, and these boys bring a lot of hope with that idea. I love working with them on their projects, showing them something new: a new way to interpret a topic, think about their sources, push their opinions to question all perspectives, and then be called ‘dope’ for it all.”

To alter a famous quote by author Mark Twain: “the report of the death of libraries was an exaggeration.”

School libraries are alive and adapting to the digital world.

They are helping students, teachers, and casual readers make sense of the sometimes overwhelming amount of information available at a moment’s notice. As curriculum promotes collaboration as Mrs. Cooper has been working well as individual study, librarwith dozens of representatives to ies have supplemented study carrels with breakout rooms. test databases, eBooks, audioAs students have begun using books, and more to find the more and more internet-conbest resources for our students’ learning styles. To accommonected electronics, libraries are installing charging stations and date different styles, our library —Librarian Katie Cooper high-speed wifi. Librarians are materials should be accessible becoming experts not just in through multiple platforms. literary genres but also in online a Halloween display with ghost stories, databases and technological hardware.

One of Blue Ridge School’s goals is to some Edgar Allan Poe, and all things that Libraries are transforming into spaces for develop in students a love of learning. To personal growth, academic investigation, this end, the new library needs to encour- go bump in the night. November was a “Nonfiction November” display in honor social studying, and quiet reflection. They age reading for pleasure. It can do this by of No-Shave November – all of the highare shedding a centuries-old chrysalis and offering the kinds of materials our boys lighted titles have mustaches on them so emerging ready for the challenges and want to read and a welcoming environthey are fun and eye-catching.” needs of new generations. ment. The librarian has already begun

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n a e m t i s e o d What How much go is to o much? p x e r u o y s e o How d k a m n o s i c e d your WHAT IS YOUR DRIVING QUESTION? ENGAGING BOYS THROUGH PROJECT-BASED LEARNING

By John Dudley

Imagine trying to hold the attention of a group of boys. It’s not always the easiest thing to do. Their minds are often filled with a swirling storm of thoughts, ideas, and emotions. Meanwhile, teachers are competing for attention and for room in those active minds to convey information that can be complex, confusing, or even unwanted. Blue Ridge School teachers are increasingly using project-based learning 68 (PBL) to engage their students. This

approach creates an authentic experience that develops critical skills, sustains attention, conveys class material, and gives students a sense of accomplishment.

Project-based learning is based on the idea that students learn more by doing than by passively listening to and absorbing information. In history class, for example, students should be historians rather than just hearing about history; in their science

classes, they should be scientists, not just read about science. While students still learn all of the key facts and content they’d get in any history, chemistry, English, or algebra class, PBL provides them the opportunity to apply that knowledge, and the result is deeper and more authentic learning.

Dean of Faculty and Academics Pete Bonds says, “Every PBL unit culminates in the

n to be happy? overnment control ? e p a h s e c n e i r e p x king? take a project-based approach to learning, it puts students in the driver’s seat. PBL encourages students to solve engaging, authentic, real-world problems and in the process they develop the skills that really matter and that they need to be successful in college and in the workforce - things like creativity, collaboration, critical thinking, and communication. PBL leads to deeper learning.”

creation of an original public product, like a documentary film, a museum quality exhibit, a podcast, a script, or even a wellresearched and revised paper worthy of publication. Students share their work with an audience beyond their teacher and classmates, which requires them to develop and strengthen their public speaking and presentation skills. Knowing that whatever they created will be on public display gives students a real sense of ownership and responsibility for their work, and as a result, we see an impressive level of seriousness and focus that we don’t see when students are merely trying to cram information into their heads for a test or exam.”

“What it is not is what many people remember as that which comes after students have read their lessons, watched videos, done the labs, and taken a test.

Projects are often seen as the thing students might do at the end when there is some time left, usually done at home often by the parents following a late night run to the craft store. Those are not the projects we’re talking about. These projects are much more rigorous and much more impactful.”

When some parents think of “projects,” they shudder at the memories. Eric White, a member of the national faculty of PBL Works (formerly the Buck Institute for Education), says PBL is an often misunderstood pedagogical method.

“At the same time, they are going to develop and sharpen their soft skills. In fact, I don’t know why we call them ’soft skills’. They are the hard skills of this century.”

So, what does PBL look like in the classroom? Mike Burris is Blue Ridge School’s PBL Coordinator. In this role, he serves as a guide for teachers developing PBL curriculum for their classes, which includes giving advice, assisting in the classroom, providing technological support, and leading regular meetings of teachers using PBL in their classes each trimester. Burris says PBL starts with a “driving question” and ends with a public product.

Bonds adds, “When a teacher decides to

“Students in a 12th-grade English class

According to White, project-based learning allows students to navigate open-ended challenges in a way that requires them to develop a deep understanding of the content. There are additional benefits, too.

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word across all of those puzzle pieces.

Each component together makes up the whole board and you can’t complete the word happiness without putting them all together. It’s also a puzzle board to get people to be more interactive with the project.”

Project-based learning is common in Preston’s classes. Three of his classes last year included PBL and three more have included it so far this year.

“I think it’s more fun than just sitting down and listening to someone speak in a classroom,” says Preston. “This lets you do it yourself or in a group. For this project, everybody had a role to do. We all did interviews. I am editing the text. Other guys are building the puzzle. Everyone’s taking part.”

Students in Tony Brown’s Outdoor Service Learning class interviewed eighteen faculty and students as they considered the question: “What does it mean to be happy?” From those interviews and additional research, they came up with six things people need to achieve happiness in their lives.

are answering the driving question ’How does your experience shape your decisionmaking?’ They are reading the book The Other Wes Moore and the finished project will be a short film where the boys have to write a script and have to bring to the screen this idea of how experience would shape decision-making.”

Preston Neumann, a junior in Tony Brown’s Outdoor Service Learning class, says they have been answering the driving question “What does it mean to be happy?” They read the book Affluenza, which argues that consumer culture and materialism provide only temporary pleasure rather than true happiness, and they interviewed eighteen students and faculty about happiness. From their research, they came up with seven core components of happiness. From that, they created a happiness puzzle.

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Ernesto Torres ’19 and Nova Arsenault ’19 from Pete Bonds’ U.S. history class prepare their display before sharing it with the public during the inaugural PBL Night. Mr. Bonds’ class compared original newspaper articles from the early 20th Century to examine acts of racial terror in Virginia.

He says, “We have seven different components of happiness, and we have seven puzzle pieces for those words. We also have happiness written as a larger

Implementing project-based learning in the classroom requires a learning curve for teachers as well. Thanks to Burris’ regular PBL meetings and the collaborative nature of PBL at Blue Ridge School, each time a teacher uses a project, it is refined.

“Last year Dan Dunsmore had been teaching the book Fahrenheit 451, and he had his students also do what we would call a ‘trailer project’ where they shoot movie trailers of scenes in the book to

bring out the major themes. He added a new dimension last year that I thought was pretty effective where they were engaging the question of ‘How much government control is too much government control?’

That hadn’t been the question in the projects prior, but bringing in that new dimension and the journal writing where the boys continued to approach that question allowed him to sustain the project in a much more effective way.

And the outcome was excellent in terms of the product in the end, and how they demonstrated their understanding of the subject.”

on using storytelling to engage boys in his U.S. history classes earned him the 2019 IBSC Action Research Award. His students researched newspaper articles reporting the lynching of African Americans in Virginia between 1870 and 1920. They then wrote narratives for each of the individuals they researched. Using primary sources to learn about historical events—just like real historians—they developed critical thinking skills and thoughtful analysis of people and situations. The presentation of their finished product—a display of maps, newspaper articles, and essays—prompted considerable discussion.

For his innovative approach and his enthusiasm for project-based learning, Dunsmore received the PBL of the Year Award during last spring’s PBL Night, a showcase of student projects across academic fields. Students presented a wide variety of final products, including songs in Spanish, websites about World War I, and videos about novels.

This year, Burris is participating in the IBSC Action Research Program and will present his findings at the Coalition’s 2020 conference in Spain. He says, “I think we excel in finding good ’driving questions’ and final products for boys. However, the real work of project-based learning is what’s referred to as the ’messy middle,’ and that’s sustaining the project over a length of time where some boys can tune out a

Burris says, “Boys tend to be active learners, and I think everybody— when they are learning anything— appreciates authentic learning experiences, so the more authentic the learning experience, the higher the engagement. The way we do PBL at Blue Ridge, where the finished products are out on display for everyone to see, is terrifying but also very engaging and tends to lead to higher quality work.”

bit and let other people do the work if they are working in teams. So my research project revolves around sustaining inquiry, which is one line item on the project-based learning rubric. You’re constantly checking in with the boys and making sure that each boy on an individual basis is demonstrating an understanding of the content you’re teaching. My focus is on developing this journal/portfolio mechanism where boys can do lots of reflection, critique, and revision.”

Thanks to Blue Ridge School faculty’s willingness to adopt a proven teaching style that engages boys and the resources—both human and financial—that the School has devoted to the practice, project-based learning is flourishing at the Ridge. With each passing year, the projects and their final products are increasingly impressive and the students are increasingly proud of their work. More importantly, though, teachers are seeing highly engaged students achieve a deeper learning of subject material.

Having to share their work with the public adds a crucial element to the process and increases student participation and enthusiasm, according to White of PBL Works. He adds, “If I were to use a TV analogy, I would say that most classes feel like Jeopardy, but PBL feels more like The Amazing Race.”

Blue Ridge School faculty have become increasingly active in promoting project-based learning within the International Boys Schools Coalition. Bonds’ research

During PBL Night, Colby Boyd ’19 shared the digital art he created under the direction of Art Teacher David Welty.

Students were inspired by classic mosaics to create video-game style pixel images that were then transfered to actual mosiacs like the works that inspired them.

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A GLIMPSE AT THE CLASS OF 2020

MIKE HAN BEIJING, CHINA

What will you miss most after you graduate?

The best part about BRS is not education (though it is very important). It is not the programs that it offers. It is the people. These people will make every day you spend in this school interesting and different. These people have been the best part of my life here, and I will miss them dearly after I leave this place.

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ANDY NWAOKO

OSOGBO, NIGERIA

Who at BRS has had the biggest influence on you?

Basketball Head Coach Cade Lemcke. He is undoubtedly the best coach in the country. He is patient, hardworking, dedicated, and genuinely cares about his players’ well being on and off the court.

ANDREW CAM JORGENSEN KEWLEY ASHBURN, VIRGINIA

What is something most people don’t know about BRS? We’re all just a bunch of friendly, fun-loving guys!

MEDWAY, MASSACHUSETTS

What is your favorite BRS memory?

Moving into my dorm room for the first time. I was really nervous, yet excited to be at a new place. I was taken aback to find multiple students coming out to help me and my mom get all of my stuff situated and overall making me feel very welcomed to this new community.

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BARON ATHLETICS SOCCER TURNS UP THE HEAT

Barons soccer had an outstanding season, thanks in part to a newcomer to the pitch.

The team ended the season with a 9-8-1 record, which is the most wins in a season since 2012. The team placed 4th in the Virginia Independent Conference, the best conference performance since 2010, and advanced to the state tournament for the first time since 2008.

Goalie Jackson Culhane ’20, who joined the team this fall for his first season of high school soccer, and the defense allowed an average of only 1.23 goals per game during the regular season; the lowest average since 2009. For 11 games, the opposing team scored only one goal or less.

Culhane and Mid-fielder Juan Campusano ’20 (at left) were both tapped for 1st Team All-VIC. Forward Levi Moss ’20 made 2nd Team All-VIC.

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Photograph by Tristan Emmanuel ’21

Head Coach Matt Bennett says, “This was the most fun I’ve had coaching a team in many years. The guys showed up everyday ready to work, and they did so with an awesome attitude and sense of humor.”

THE POINT OF

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Athletics is a big part of student life at Blue Ridge School. Not only does athletic competition contribute to school spirit but also regular participation in sports by

Approximately twice each trimester, Puckett and Assistant Athletic Director Parker Kirwan present two or three

receiving it more than once.

Puckett points out that students are not honored more than once each academic year.

Student response to the S.P.E.A.R. Award has been better than Puckett expected. “Some students have come to talk to me about it, asking what they need to do to qualify or whether they were close to getting it.”

Recent S.P.E.A.R. Award recipeints Miguel Robiou ’22 and Levi Moss ’20 with Athletic Director Bryan Puckett.

all students teaches them perseverance, determination, and teamwork.

To recognize outstanding student-athletes at BRS, Athletic Director Bryan Puckett introduced in 2017 the S.P.E.A.R. Award which he hopes will inspire students to reach beyond their expectations in many aspects of student life. The Award’s name is an acronym for Service, Perseverance, Excellence, Academics, and Respect.

Puckett says, “We were talking about sportsmanship and what it means to be a good student-athlete, but we weren’t really recognizing it that well. We have the Sports Awards at the end of each season, and students receive the Coach’s Award or MVP or Most Improved. But we wanted something with pillars that exhibit the characteristics of well-rounded student athletes.”

varsity student-athletes with the S.P.E.A.R. Award during morning assembly.

Puckett says because athletic excellence is a requirement to receive the award, being a varsity athlete is a natural requirement. However, this does not necessarily exclude any student. All participants in some sports, such as baseball and track & field, are automatically varsity athletes. Members of the mountain biking team, which is not an interscholastic sport, are eligible (and have won) the S.P.E.A.R. Award too.

So far, twenty-six student-athletes have been selected to receive the Award, with a few of them

Puckett emphasizes that athletic excellence does not necessarily mean being the best athlete on the field or court. For example, last year Keane Emmons-McGill ’19, a four-year manager for the varsity basketball team, earned a S.P.E.A.R. Award.

“It was a unique situation but well deserved because he’s not a great athlete, but he contributed to a varsity program in a very meaningful way that was excellent and to the best of his ability. To me it’s not really about achievement.

It’s about doing the best that you can and what you’re capable of doing.”

Often teenage boys are told what they are doing wrong or how they can improve. The S.P.E.A.R. Award is one way Blue Ridge School publicly recognizes students who are doing things right, who are shining examples of excellent young men.

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HAPPENING

ON THE RIDGE

PAUL FEHLNER NAMED FACULTY EMERITUS Following more than 30 years as a member of the Blue Ridge School community, including twenty-eight years as a member of the faculty, Paul Fehlner has been named faculty emeritus by the Board of Trustees.

The occasion was marked on October 26, 2019, during halftime of the Alumni Weekend football game. At the ceremony, Headmaster Trip Darrin said, “I am proud to name Paul Fehlner as the 12th member of the distinguished educators who’ve been named faculty emeritus of Blue Ridge School. In doing so, we honor a great teacher and an even better man.”

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conclusion of nearly 30 decades serving BRS students. He started as a member of the science department, and served as the department chair for more than a decade.

Fehlner and his wife Gail raised two daughters on the Blue Ridge School campus. Growing up within the warm community of the Ridge, Natalie and Kelsey both took part in various musical productions here on campus.

Fehlner initiated the environmental science program at Blue Ridge School. He led Saturday fine arts programming for more than ten years, famous for bringing not only a capella groups to campus to

entertain the boys but also hypnotists and even snake handlers.

He served as head coach of the varsity tennis and wrestling teams. Darrin says, “There were many years when he coached these teams solo. In fact, past and present athletic directors credit Paul with keeping wrestling alive during some thin years.”

In 2014, Fehlner was selected by the Senior Class to give the keynote speech at their graduation ceremony. His speech was powerful, containing several important messages for the graduates, including the importance of treating women with respect and how to act as a gentleman.

APPLE BUTTER SEASON

Students volunteered for hours to peel bushels of apples and to continuously stir the apple butter as it cooked. They eagerly took turns chopping wood—a coveted opportunity to release stress and to show off in front of friends and faculty. The final product: gallons of “Old Man Tim’s” apple butter.

The air turned crisp at the beginning of October, signaling the arrival of autumn and the time to make apple butter at Blue Ridge School. Generations of students have taken part in the tradition of peeling and cooking Virginia apples on the front lawn.

The quizzical expressions from new students seeing boxes of apples and foreign-looking apple peeling devices were quickly replaced with smiles. When they woke one morning to the sights and smells of a wood fire and a steaming kettle of apples, they eagerly found a way to participate.

George Mackaronis, a teacher and outdoor programs leader, took over the apple butter project this year. He was happy to have the help of retired FLC teacher Jo McKowen and her husband Bill Henry, who regularly talks with students about environmental issues, as well as scores of students.

Mackaronis says, “The biggest highlight of this experience for me was seeing so many people, members of our BRS community, come together over the three days.

Everyone chipped in and worked hard, and it was truly amazing to see our community rally around a cause [supporting cancer research] that impacts many of us. As someone whose father is currently battling cancer, there was a lot of comfort in that for me and I cannot begin to express how appreciative I am of the experience.

Absolutely a memory I will never forget!”

He says making apple butter gives Blue

Ridge students a better understanding of the history and culture of the Blue Ridge region. “Apple Butter making is a long-standing Appalachian tradition and I think replicating it,

especially in this modern world, gives us all an opportunity to step back in time and appreciate the lifestyle and work ethic of the people who came before us. Learning about that heritage gives our students a direct look into how those people subsisted off of the land, and— ultimately—I hope our students feel proud to live in such a place and proud that they put so much effort into making the apple butter. That connection to the land and the cultural history is what can strengthen someone’s sense and love of place, which will yield caring and environmentally responsible citizens who want to take care of this land.”

After many hours of peeling and stirring the kettle—with a new apple butter paddle given to Blue Ridge School by the Morgan family whose three sons are all alumni: Jacob ’15, Connor ’16, and Selby ’19—students finished with more than 230 jars of delicious apple butter and a well deserved sense of satisfaction.

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BRS SIGNS LONGTERM AGREEMENT WITH BRAINY CAMPS Hosting summer camps is an important part of Blue Ridge School’s success.

These programs contribute considerable amounts of money to the annual budget, so Blue Ridge is excited to announce that the School has entered into a longterm agreement with Brainy Camps, a division of Children’s National Hospital in Washington, DC. Brainy Camps provides children with chronic illnesses the opportunity for weeklong condition-specific residential summer camps, as well as year-round support and leadership programs. During the summer, Brainy Camps campers from around the country come to Blue Ridge School to swim, play games, canoe on the lake, and form friendships with other children living with the same illness as they do.

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MOVIN’ IN

Because Brainy Camps serves children with conditions such as epilepsy, heart disease, diabetes, and cerebral palsy, Chidren’s National is installing on campus semipermanent medical facilities that BRS will be able to use during the academic year.

Eight faculty members were delighted this summer to move into new housing following the completion of phase 2 of the Faculty Commons. Six new units—two duplexes and two standalone homes—were constructed behind Gibson Memorial Chapel and beside two existing faculty homes to create a welcoming residential area.

Brainy Camps is only one of several residential summer camps that use Blue Ridge Schools’ facilities. In recent years, the School also has hosted high school football teams, basketball teams, a rowing camp, a women’s mountain biking organization, and the University of Virginia marching band. For more than 40 years, BRS has hosted a summer camp for karate enthusiasts. In summer 2020, the School is excited to launch a series of Blue Ridge School-branded athletic and academic summer camps.

The addition of these new homes allows BRS to provide on-campus housing for nearly 80% of the faculty, which gives our students more opportunities to form lasting friendships with their teachers and coaches. Research shows that boys learn best from people they believe know them as individuals and are personally invested in their success. Having our faculty and their families on campus allows just that.

Head Basketball Coach Cade Lemcke leads a prayer during the formal dedication of the new faculty housing units on October 25, 2019.

PETE BONDS HONORED

BY INTERNATIONAL BOYS’ SCHOOLS COALITION The International Boys’ Schools Coalition presented Pete Bonds, Dean of Faculty and Academics at Blue Ridge School, with the 2019 IBSC Action Research Award. Over the course of the 2018-19 school year, teachers from more than 40 IBSC member Schools around the world participated in IBSC’s annual action research program by developing and executing projects related to the theme, “Boys and Stories: Pathways to Learning.”

IBSC Executive Director David Armstrong calls Bonds’ project, which reconstructs stories of racial terror in early 1900s Virginia, “innovative” and “an outstanding and rigorous piece of teacher research.”

recite information. That’s exactly what my students did in this project, and I was thrilled to watch them develop their critical thinking skills and their ability to question primary sources, and not simply take information at face value. Through their research my students pieced together compelling, and far too often overlooked, stories from Virginia’s past. I knew their work was amazing, and I am glad IBSC thought so too! I am grateful to the IBSC for running this excellent action research program every year to highlight the innovative teaching taking place in boys’ schools across the world. Participating in it was, without a doubt, one of the most rewarding professional experiences I’ve had.”

Blue Ridge School Headmaster Trip Darrin says, “Pete Bonds is a visionary Mr. Bonds has been a history Pete Bonds, Dean of Faculty and Academics educator who poured himself into this teacher at Blue Ridge School since Action Research Project. I congratulate 2010. He has been a leader in the schoolhim for winning this well-deserved honor. Pete leads by example, wide implementation of project-based learning and provides always searching for new ways to get through to students.” valuable teacher evaluation and feedback to ensure continued excellence in the classroom.

Mr. Bonds earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of North Carolina and his master’s degree from James Madison He says, ”It was a thrill to be recognized by IBSC for my action University. He was presented with the award at the International research project. I have always believed that in order to make history instruction relevant for the 21st century, history teachers Boys’ Schools Coalition annual conference in Montreal, Canada, on June 28th. must make it possible for their students to actually do the kind of work that a historian does, rather than simply memorize and

RUE ’81 NAMED TRUSTEE EMERITUS Following his ten years of service to the Blue Ridge School Board of Trustees and three years at the Board Chair, William M. “Mitch” Rue, Jr. ’81 has been named Trustee Emeritus. The Board of Trustees approved the status during its October meeting.

During his years on the Board, Rue pushed for investment in the physical campus, from the development of the fitness center and the Baron Athletic Complex to the

recently completed faculty housing project.

Rue has always believed in the value of sharing the Blue Ridge School story and led the expansion of the School’s marketing efforts. Thanks in part to this effort, BRS has seen in recent years an increase in enrollment and a growing positive reputation in central Virginia. He also saw the need for more attention on technology and has consistently lobbied for greater internet access, a multi-media center, and

creative space with modern, digital design and fabrication tools. Rue says he is most proud of the cultivation of the Alumni Leadership Council, an important tool in the long-term health of the School.

Headmaster Trip Darrin says, “Through Mitch’s mentoring, teaching, and by his example, I have learned a great deal. I am grateful to call Mitch a friend.”

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A LETTER FROM THE

CHAIR OF THE BOARD Dear Blue Ridge School Family, It is my privilege to write to you as the newly appointed Chair of the Blue Ridge School Board of Trustees. As we wind up the Fall 2019 Annual Meeting on our stunning campus, the Board is reminded once again of the incredible opportunity and trust that we hold to further the mission of Blue Ridge School for future generations of boys.

We are completing the fifth and final year of 2020, Baron Strong: Building the Future of Blue Ridge. This strategic plan has been our guidepost for governance and school operations since 2015. With the generosity of the Baron Family and the outstanding leadership of Head of School Trip Darrin and the Blue Ridge Team, we have completed the Baron Athletic Complex, built six new faculty homes, and launched an exciting Williams Dining Hall Campaign for a mission forward, redesigned dining hall and library.

Trip and his Leadership Team continue to attract quality students and deliver curricular and co-curricular programs at the highest level, while supporting the faculty and staff who are the core of our Blue Ridge brand. We are blessed with an outstanding student body, exceptional faculty and staff, strong programs to enrich the Blue Ridge experience, and a growing endowment for a strong future.

While we continually have an opportunity to celebrate successes at Blue Ridge School, it is the Trustees’ job to be generative thinkers and make strategic decisions. To that end we will implement a system of ongoing professional development for the Board so that we can govern effectively while continuing to identify future Trustee candidates. We will look for strategic ways to stake our claim in the everchanging landscape of independent and boarding school markets. We will continue to assess potential for non-tuition revenue growth with Special Programs. In addition, we will continue to evaluate financial structures for a vibrant future.

The Blue Ridge Board is the corporate board for the School. We are volunteers entrusted with hiring and supporting the Head of School, establishing tuition and approving the annual budget, executing all real estate and property matters, along with managing all financial dealings. The nineteen trustees hail from Florida, California, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, and Washington DC. We count seven alumni, six parents of alumni, four friends of the School, and the current Parent Association and Alumni Council chairs. We come from various professional backgrounds, motivated by an individual connection and love for Blue Ridge School.

My Blue Ridge story starts as proud mom (Sam Kalinski, ’13). We entered the unknown world of boarding school as we wound our way to St. George, VA. Sam’s Baron Brothers and their families and the Blue Ridge Faculty and Staff are family. Prior to becoming a Trustee in 2013, I served in the Parent Association 2010-2012 and as Parent Council Chair 2012-2013. As a Trustee, I have served as Strategic Plan Committee chair and Board vice-chair and External Affairs chair, 2016-2019.

It never fails that a huge grin steals over my face on the drive to campus as Bacon Hollow Road opens up to the pollinator meadows that form the lower athletic fields of Blue Ridge School. A left onto Mayo Drive and the campus, mountain, and lake come into view through misty, grateful eyes.

Together, the Trustees, Leadership Team, alumni and families will build on the great history of Blue Ridge School for a strong future.

Thank you for all you have done and will continue to do to support this wonderful school.

Baron Strong!

Jill Carey Kalinski P’13, Chair Blue Ridge School Board of Trustees 20 jillkalinski@mac.com

THE IMPACT OF THE

ST. GEORGE SOCIETY

David Townsend ’75 admits that for many years he was disconnected from Blue Ridge School.

Like many others, he was busy raising a family, working hard at this job, and occasionally finding time for himself - to play lacrosse and learn to sail. When life slowed down a little, he started thinking about the most influential times in his life and how he might give back to people and places that had given so much to him. One of those places was Blue Ridge School.

David says, “When I look at what I’ve been able to achieve today, I owe a huge part of that to Blue Ridge. When I went off to college, I felt like I was prepared and that gave me a level of confidence that I carried on through college and into my professional life.”

He also had some outstanding mentors at Blue Ridge, such as John Young, Bob Knauff, and Charles Hamner. “That’s what’s so great about the School: you have so many people who really care about the students and how they are doing.”

One of the ways David decided to support the School is by joining the St. George Society, which recognizes individuals who have included Blue Ridge School in their estate plans. Members of the Society appreciate the need to continue providing for the School and its mission beyond their own years.

For more information about the St. George Society, contact Jay Atkinson P’13, Director of Leadership Giving, at 434-992-0517.

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ALUMNI Alumni Weekend was a wonderful time for classmates to reconnect and to retell old stories of their youth. We had two days of celebrations, including the Class of 1969’s 50th reunion, lunch at Battle House, Barons football, the dedication of Alumni Field, and a friendly clay target shoot at the new marksman range.

At left: Sully Sullivan ’74, Henry Franklin ’74, and Gatewood Gay ’74.

Members of the Class of 1979: (front row, left to right) Malcolm Matheson ’79, Parker Neff ’79, Brad Brown ’79, Hardy McConnell ’79, (second row) Christian Donovan ’79, Dan Hanley ”79, Abe “Fish” Salmon ’79, (third row) David Hughes ’79, Tom Simons ’79, Les Snyder ’79, Roger Blanchard ’79, (back row) Buzz Taylor ’79, and Walter Leckzsez ’79.

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WEEKEND Alumni from the Class of 1989: (front, left to right) Wade Stablein ’89, Purcy Young ’89, Patrick Graham ’89, Chuck Ridgely ’89, (back row) John Franck ’89, Charles Cannon ’89, Martin Miller ’89, and Reece Tisdale ’89.

Alumni from the mid-1980s: (front, left to right) Mark Meade ’85, Willie Nelson ’85, Chris Wood ’85, (back row) Eric Thompson ’84, Woody Woodruff ’84, and Burke Early ’84.

The Blue Ridge School campus in the fall is a wonderful place to spend the afternoon with your family and fellow Barons. Make plans now to join us for Reunion 2020!

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Alumni enjoyed a friendly clay target shoot on the Saturday morning of Alumni Weekend at Blue Ridge School’s new oncampus five stand. Thanks to the geneorsity of Trustee Sharon Rymer (and mother of Roro Rymer ’17), BRS built the five stand and a marksman range during the summer of 2019 on the lower field near Frye Field.

The five stand and marksman range will allow students in the Outdoorsmen program to develop their skills without leaving campus—and give alumni another fun activity during Alumni Weekend.

Members of the Class of 1969 gathered in Battle House for a special dinner to celebrate their 50th reunion. In attendace were (from left): St. George Tucker, Roger Prior, Jay Jessup, Dorris DeAngelis, John Wellford, Sidney Stern, Julian Van Winkle, Mike Mears, and Allen Bush.

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ALLEN BUSH ’69 DISTINGUISHED ALUMNUS

On the occasion of his 50th reunion, Blue Ridge School presented Allen Bush ’69 with the Distinguished Alumnus Award, the highest honor the School can give to one of its graduates.

As a student, Bush (above with classmate Jay Jessup ’69) had a wide variety of interests. He served as a prefect, an acolyte, and a member of the Honor Council. He sang in the choir and was a member of the varsity football, basketball, and track teams.

In his professional life, he has earned several accolades for his deep commitment to the cultivation of heirloom perennial seeds. After being educated at Kew Gardens in London, Bush operated his own nursery and catalog, Holbrook Farm, near Asheville, where he was an early pioneer in creating a marketplace for perennial seeds. He later served as the Director of North American Operations for Jelitto,

a global leader in the perennial seed market.

In 2014, Bush was profiled in The New York Times’ section “In the Garden.”

Writer Michael Tortorello called Bush a “seedsman and raconteur” for his storied seed collection and collection of seed stories. Bush found a home for both his seeds and his engaging prose in the pages of the catalog for Holbrook Farm.

Tortorello wrote: “Mr. Bush pitched these unsung plants with wry and entertaining catalog copy. Of a shrubby herbaceous plant, Mr. Bush might write: ‘The truth is, for all its beauty, Caryopteris nepalensis contributes its own, shall we say, ‘distinctive,’ odor when handled. The names of major urban areas — Miami, Cleveland, Pittsburgh — have been mentioned in reference to this smell (folks have never mentioned their own towns).”

In 2005, Bush and his family made a substantial gift to Blue Ridge School to renovate the stage and auditorium, dedicating the space “The DeAngelis Stage, in honor of Frank and Dolores DeAngelis for their love and dedication to the arts and the boys of The Blue Ridge School.”

Bush is a very active civic leader in several causes he loves, including the parks and public spaces of Frederick Law Olmstead in his native Louisville, and for decades here at Blue Ridge School.

The Class of 1969 is a notable group among Blue Ridge School graduates.

Allen Bush joins his classmates Jay Jessup and Julian Van Winkle among the few graduates given the honor of Distinguished Alumnus. No other class of Blue Ridge students can make this claim.

IN MEMORIAM Former member of the Board of Trustees Gillette Mingea Brown passed away on June 9, 2019, in Charlottesville, Virginia. An elegant Southern lady, Gillette will be remembered for her warmth, her humor, and the extraordinary number of people who called her a friend. Born in Abingdon, Virginia, she left there to join the Women’s Army Corps during World War II, serving in Germany. After the war, she moved to New York where she was active in St. Bartholomew’s Church, the Daughters of the Cincinnati, and the Colonial Dames in New York. A former trustee of the Blue Ridge School, she was a mainstay on their New York Auxiliary for over 50 years. She was preceded in death by her husband, Thomas B. Hynson Brown, and her granddaughter, Olivia Brown. She is survived by her daughter, Amanda Megargel; her son, Tom Brown (Jennifer); her four grandchildren, Anne Arnold (Matt), Wilton Bealle (Doug), Caroline Megargel and Tom Brown; and a great-granddaughter, Tillie Arnold.

Virginia Harrison, the wife of former Chairman of the Board of Trustees Richard Harrison and mother of Rick Harrison ’78, passed away on September 9, 2019. She attended the Brearley School in New York City. Blue Ridge School Learning Specialist Alexander Keevil is her great-nephew.

Former member of the Board of Trustees Barbaree Rosenbaum Heaster of Ormond Beach, Florida, passed away on May 21, 2019. After earning her undergraduate and graduate degrees in education from the University of Memphis, Mrs. Heaster taught in Meridian, Mississippi, and Clarksburg, West Virginia, (where she met and married Harold Heaster) and Ormond Beach, Florida. She also served as director of Bet Sefer Heritage School. Mrs. Heaster returned to Meridian and became active in many non-profit organizations. Mrs. Heaster had a zest for life and had an energy about her that was contagious.

Her love for adventure led her to travel around the world, visiting 6 of the 7 continents. Mrs. Heaster is survived by her son, Lewis M. Heaster of Ormond Beach, Florida, his wife Angela, and their children Simon (20), Sarah (16), and Irv (7). Mrs. Heaster’s late husband, Harold recently passed away in November of 2018. Mr. and Mrs. Heaster are survived by Harold’s two sons, Steve Heaster (Pam), and Jeff Heaster, five grandchildren, and nine great-grandchildren.

James Moore ’75 of Hagerstown, Maryland, died on March 23, 2019. He came to Blue Ridge School from Severna Park, MD for his junior and senior years.

Always a leader, Jim was a prefect and a member of the Honor Council. He excelled in athletics throughout high school in football, wrestling, and lacrosse, earning state and national titles. Upon graduation, Jim earned his bachelor’s degree from Salisbury State College. While in college he continued to excel in athletics, earning titles of All American in football and lacrosse. He credited Blue Ridge School with giving him an appreciation of education and instilling in him a lifelong desire to work with students in the classroom and on the field. Jim received a master of education degree at Salisbury University and had a long career of teaching, administrative, and coaching positions in Maryland. Mr. Moore is survived by his wife Donna, daughter Allyson, and son Ryan of Hagerstown.

Christopher W. Nappi ’86 passed away on March 28, 2019, after a lifelong battle with a major Congenital Heart Defect. He was a member of the Blue Ridge School Honor Council and recipient of the Clarke Worthington award. He earned his bachelor’s degree in business from St. Andrews Presbyterian College.

Mr. Nappi is survived by his loving parents, Bill & Florence Nappi of Greensboro, North Carolina, and his devoted sister and her husband, Diana and Fuller Robertson of Yorktown, Virginia.

Michael Stewart Phelps ’69 died on November 6, 2016. After graduating from Texas A&M Maritime Academy, he began a lifelong career on the sea. He served in the U.S. Naval Reserves until 1984. Mr. Phelps worked as Second and Third officer on many tankers. Following a sailing circumnavigation of the globe, he turned his attention to sailing vessels. From 1988-1999 he was a habor pilot in Saint Croix, Virgin Islands. After he retired, he and his wife Maria de Boer moved to Amsterdam, Netherlands. There he volunteered on a coal-fired icebreakers at the Nederlands Scheepvaart Museum.

Marc A. Shook ’74 passed away May 8, 2019, at Wintergreen, Virginia. He is survived by his wife of 39 years, Cynthia, and his children Lindsay S. Braidwood and her husband Robb and M. Aden Shook Jr. and his wife Lauren. He loved his time there and the “Blue Ridge Boys” are some of his dearest friends. He attended the College of Boca Raton where he and Cynthia met. Upon returning from college he went to work with his father at S. L. Nusbaum, Norfolk in their shopping center division. They later started their own company, Amy-Shu Properties, in Virginia Beach. Mr. Shook loved the ocean and the mountains, spending his time between his homes on the Virginia Beach oceanfront and the Blue Ridge Mountains of Wintergreen. He was a lifelong member of the First Presbyterian Church of Virginia Beach and the Princess Anne Country Club.

Former member of the Board of Trustees Judith Carlson Winship died on Sunday, July 7, 2019. She is survived by her husband William B. Winship, her son Charles S. Greene III and his wife Virginia Greene, her grandchildren Spencer and Julia Greene, and her stepson, Caleb Winship. She was born in Chicago, Illinois on July 3, 1941 and attended Illinois College (B.A.), Hunter College (M.A.) and New York Law School (J.D.). She spent her entire legal career as in-house counsel at Smith Barney (later Citibank). After retirement, she worked as an arbitrator for FINRA. She was a longtime member of The First Presbyterian Church in New York where she served as a ruling elder and trustee. She was also a member of The Cosmopolitan Club and the New York

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REV. JOHN M. KETTLEWELL (1930-2019) The Rev. John Michael Kettlewell passed away on October 23, 2019, at his home in Schuylerville, New York. He served as chaplain at Blue Ridge School from 1965 until his retirement in 1991. He was a lifelong Episcopal priest, educator, and lover of the outdoors.

Former colleague Jim Niederberger says teachers like John Kettlewell are what make Blue Ridge School such a special place. “One recalls his stimulating and distinctive English classes, his erudition, his terrific sense of humor, his enthusiasm for the caving program and other outdoor activities which he started, and his incredible talent on stage (the actor Ron Moody had nothing on Mr. Kettlewell as Fagin in Oliver). We will also remember his championing the cause of the underdogs in the student body, his zest for practically everything he attempted, and his love of the School for so many years..”

Rev. Kettlewell was a graduate of Harvard University and New York City’s General Theological Seminary. He was ordained as an Episcopal priest in 1955. He served as the assistant rector of Bethesda Church in Saratoga Springs from 1957-1960 and as the rector of St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Geneva, Illinois, from 1960-1965 before joining the faculty of the Blue Ridge School in 1965 as school chaplain and English teacher. During his tenure he was also English department chair, dean of the faculty, director of the summer school, and college counselor.

He earned a master’s degree in English from the University of Virginia and served as the rector at Grace Episcopal Church in Stanardsville, Virginia. Following his retirement from Blue Ridge School in 1991, he moved to Schuylerville, NY, where he served as the rector of St. Stephens Episcopal Church from 1991-2016 and as a head teacher for the Adirondack School of Northeastern New York from 1996-2013.

Headmaster Trip Darrin says, “John had an infectious spirit of adventure and a deep devotion to his faith. His love of the outdoors and education made him an outstanding mentor to decades of Blue Ridge students. He will be missed, but his legacy will long be felt on this campus and in the lives of the many alumni he served.”

During the graduation ceremony of 1991, English Teacher John Young recalled Mr. Kettlewell’s enthusiasm for his students, his creative theatrical performances, his outdoor adventures, and his time spent with students and friends. “But most of all,” added Mr. Young. “John Kettlewell sought to teach us how to live the best possible life—the life of gentle, Christian love.”

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Blue Ridge School Roll of Donors 2018-2019

LIFETIME LEADERSHIP GIVING FOUNDER’S CIRCLE (GIFTS TOTAL $1,000,000+)

Mrs. Thomas P. Bryan Jr. Mr. George A. Bush, Jr. Mr. James L. Jessup, Jr. ’69 Massey Foundation Mr. William E. Massey, Jr. ’70 The Perry Foundation, Inc. The Walton Family Foundation, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Jim C. Walton

CORNERSTONE GUILD (TOTAL GIFTS $500,000+)

Alice W. Bryan Trust Mr. John C. Bryant ’84 Commonweal Foundation, Inc. Mr. Mohammed Dasuki Estate of George A. Bush, Jr. The Fraser Parker Foundation J. E. Fowler Memorial Foundation Jessie Ball duPont Fund Mr. William A. Parker III ’71 Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

MISSION SOCIETY (TOTAL GIFTS $100,000+)

Mr. and Mrs. R. Marc Ammen Mr. Thomas A. Asch ’77 Beckett Charitable Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Michael G. Boswell

Mr. Marion P. Brawley III ’68 Mr. and Mrs. Robert Brooks Mr. Allen W. Bush ’69 Mr. Theodore H. Butz ’82 Dr. and Mrs. B. Noland Carter II Mr. Beirne B. Carter Collegedale Ms. Jaymel E. Connor Mr. James L. Crocker ’72 Ms. Margaret Ann M. Curran Mr. Richard E. deButts, Jr. ’65 Durham Nativity School The Edward E. Ford Foundation Estate of Caroline Boxley Petty Estate of David Marion Mr. Thad W. Evans, Jr. Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund The George A. Bush, Jr. Holbrook Fund Mrs. Robert W. Groves, Jr. Mr. Robert W. Groves III ’67 Mr. Richard D. Hall, Jr. Harrison Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. Harrison Dr. Stephen L. Golder & Dr. Barbara Harty Golder Mr. and Mrs. Harold Heaster Mr. Lewis M. Heaster ’92 Mrs. Mary P. Higgins Hispanic Information and Telecommunications Network, Inc. Jackson Foundation Mr. and Ms. David E. Kalinski Mrs. James A. Kirkland Mr. Robert B. Livy Mr. Boyd E. Lyon, Jr. ’82

Mr. and Mrs. William F. Magner III Mr. David N. Marion ’70 Mr. James R. McKenry, Jr. ’82 Mr. Morgan L. McNeel ’87 The Morgan Foundation Mrs. John J. Morris The New York Auxiliary of Blue Ridge School Noel Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Richard M. Noel The Ohrstrom Foundation, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Oshodin Mr. William A. Parker, Jr. Pepsi Cola Bottling Company of Central Virginia Mrs. Caroline B. Petty Mr. and Mrs. James H. Ridinger, Jr. Robert H. and Monica M. Cole Foundation Mr. W. Mitchell Rue, Jr. ’81 Robert and Hoyle Rymer Foundation Mrs. Sharon Rymer Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Swartz Mr. and Mrs. Edward D. Tayloe II The Butz Foundation Mr. Thomas L. Walton ’02 Mr. James Clayton Wardlaw, Jr. ’90 Mrs. Mary L. F. Wiley The William H., John G., Emma Scott Foundation William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust Dr. and Mrs. John F. Yerger, Jr. Mr. John B. Young IV Mr. and Mrs. Gil Zwetsch 29

ANNUAL LEADERSHIP GIVING, 2018-19 MAYO AND WILLIAMS SOCIETY ($10,000+)

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Albro Mr. and Mrs. R. Marc Ammen Col. and Mrs. Joseph C. Arnold Mr. and Mrs. Marion P. “Dickie” Brawley III ’68 Alice W. Bryan Trust Mr. John C. Bryant ’84 The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository, Inc. Mr. John L. Davenport ’68 Mr. and Mrs. Parker H. Douglass ’98 Durham Nativity School Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund The Fraser Parker Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Guttilla Mr. and Ms. David E. Kalinski Massey Foundation Mr. William E. Massey, Jr. ’70 Mr. James R. McKenry, Jr. ’82 Mr. Morgan L. McNeel ’87 Mr. P. Brooks Minford ’09 Mr. William A. Parker III ’71 Robert H. and Monica M. Cole Foundation Mr. W. Mitchell Rue, Jr. ’81 Robert and Hoyle Rymer Foundation Mr. Robert Rymer ’17 Mrs. Sharon Rymer 30

Sage Dining Services, Inc. Mr. Xiaogang Sheng and Mrs. Liyan Xu Mr. and Mrs. Bradley Sinor Ms. Hope Tate Mr. David D. Townsend, Jr. ’75 Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program Mr. Richard S. Waddell ’68 Mr. Thomas L. Walton ’02 Mr. Robert G. Watt, Jr. ’70 Ms. Cynthia M. Weldon and Mr. Michael T. Dodson Weldon Foundation Inc.

CHAIR’S ROUNDTABLE ($5,000+)

Mr. and Mrs. Rodney Alejandro Mr. and Mrs. Masahiko Aoki Mr. and Mrs. R. Morton Boyd III ’86 Mr. and Mrs. Robert V. Cahill Charlottesville Area Community Foundation Community Foundation of Washington County MD, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Myles P. Culhane Mrs. Anthony J. Ewell Mr. Henry T. Franklin ’74 Ms. Courtney Geduldig and Mr. Chris Heusler

Dr. and Mrs. David B. Hamer Harmon Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Timothy B. Harmon Mr. Wenchang Huang and Ms. Tianying Fan Mr. and Mrs. Perry N. Ives Mr. and Mrs. Brandon Lloyd Mr. G. Davis MacRae, Jr. ’68 Mr. William S. Magann ’67 Mrs. Sara J. Manning The Maplewood Foundation Mr. B. Franklin McLeod III ’73 Ms. Charlotte Moss and Mr. Barry S. Friedberg Mr. and Mrs. Jonathon Murphy Mr. and Mrs. John Patterson Ms. Yanmei Peng Mr. Thomas E. Powell IV ’86 Mr. and Mrs. George D. Roach Mr. Robert H. Sasser III ’82 Schwab Charitable Fund Mr. Yuantian Sun and Ms. Qing Wei Mr. William T. Tilman ’65 TrustPoint Insurance Mr. Neil C. Walker ’94 Mr. J.G. Waltersdorf Mr. James D. Waltersdorf ’06 Mr. and Mrs. Heqiang Wen Mr. and Mrs. Bucky Westmoreland X Power Gear LLC Mr. and Mrs. Guang H. Xu

TRUSTEES’ CIRCLE ($1,000+)

Mr. and Mrs. Vincent J. Abramo The ABW & JRW Foundation, Inc. Mr. David W. Aldridge ’76 American Endowment Foundation Mr. Dale Anderson The Arnold Foundation Mr. and Mrs. James Y. Arnold, Jr. Mr. James Y. Arnold III ’68 Mr. and Mrs. J. Scott Beckwith Mr. Graham F. Bennett ’71 Mr. Michael A. Stieber and Ms. Corinne M. Berezuk Better Living, Inc. Mr. F. Murray Biedenharn ’71 Mr. Halsey Blake Scott ’70 Mr. Rory R. D. Bosek ’04 Mr. and Mrs. Michael G. Boswell Boykin Memorial Fund Mr. M. Porter Brawley IV ’00 Mr. and Mrs. Milford H. Bryant, Jr. Mr. John E. Buckey ’88 Mr. William H. Burruss III ’71 Mr. Allen W. Bush ’69 Mr. Theodore H. Butz ’82 Mr. Edward E. Cadmus III ’81 Calvert Family Foundation Mrs. Sam J. Calvert, Jr. CarKel Energy, LLC Mr. and Mrs. James R. Carroll V Dr. William S. Carver II ’75 Mr. and Mrs. Alan L. Cates, J.D. Mr. and Mrs. Alex S. Chi Mr. E. Allen Churchill, Jr. ’73 Mr. and Ms. Brooks S. Clark Colonial Webb Contractors Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham Crosslife Community Church Mr. and Mrs. D. Franklin Daniels Jr. Ms. Jacqueline M. Didier, Esq. Mr. and Mrs. Kevin B. Drew Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Duncan Mr. R. Burke Earley ’86 Mr. and Mrs. Harold A. Emory Estate of James L Teeter Mr. and Mrs. Rick Etheridge Fannie Mae SERVE Matching Gift Donations Mr. and Mrs. Jay Faulconer Mr. and Mrs. James M. Ferreira Mr. and Mrs. David Foresman Mr. and Mrs. Victor S. Forister Dr. and Mrs. David A. Fosdick Mr. M. Huntley Galleher ’80

Mr. D. Henry Gambrell, Jr. ’75 Mr. and Mrs. Norman Gee Ms. Marylon Rogers Glass Goldman Sachs Gives Annual Giving Fund Mr. Peter H. Green ’88 Mr. and Mrs. Paul L. Griffiths III Mr. Robert W. Groves III ’67 Guillaro Family Charitable Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Paul L. Guillaro Mr. and Mrs. James L. Hacker, Jr. Hammond Family Foundation Inc. Mr. George A. M. Hammond ’68 Mr. James T. Hammond IV ’73 Mr. Liang Han and Mrs. Liang Huang Dr. and Mrs. D. Blair Harrold Mrs. Jean H. Hart Mr. and Mrs. John D. Henderson, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. David F. Hess Mr. Ben W. Hiatt ’71 Mr. Melvin F. Hickman and Dr. Linda J. Hickman Mr. William M. Hines, Jr. ’86 Mr. J Peter Holland IV ’66 Mr. and Mrs. Ian Hooper Mr. and Mrs. George D. Hovey, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Eric L. Hoyle Mr. and Mrs. Ernest E. Hunt IV Mr. Christopher E. Hupfeldt ’73 Indigent Healthcare Solutions, Ltd. Mrs. Lana Ingram Mr. Changchun Jiang and Ms. Guang Yang Mr. and Mrs. Yonghai Jin John A. Gilmore Fund Mr. and Mrs. Garland R. Johnson Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas B. Kalm Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Kennedy Mr. and Mrs. Gi Man Kim Dr. Tae H. Kim and Dr. Hi J. Seung Mr. and Mrs. David Kramer Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Kreimer Mr. and Mrs. Cade Lemcke Mr. and Mrs. Zongfeng Li Mr. John M. Lindner Mr. Christopher G. Mackaronis Mr. and Mrs. William F. Magner III Mr. and Mrs. Joseph P. Marchetti Jr. Ms. Virginia M. Marra Ms. Ellen B. Marsteller Mr. Joseph H. McDermott Ms. Mary McDonald Mr. James Edward McLeskey ’00 Mr. and Mrs. Warren J. McPhillips III Ms. Geny D. Mears Mr. and Mrs. Vineet Mehrotra Mrs. Elizabeth R. Miller

Mr. James H. Miller III ’94 Mr. and Mrs. Archibald M. Morgan IV Mrs. Brownie Morris Dr. and Mrs. Robert A. Myers Mr. and Mrs. Peter M. Neumann Mr. Wai Kwan Ng Occidental Petroleum Corp Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Oshan Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Owen Mr. Thomas J. Parker Patterson Family Foundation, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. David F. Paulson, Jr. Mr. L. Parker Perkins III ’84 Mr. John Petree ’67 Dr. Thomas E. Powell III RB Earley & Associates Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Rogers The Schluderberg Foundation Mr. William Schnauffer IV ’65 Mr. and Mrs. George L. Selden Mr. and Mrs. Karl R. Sening Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Shiner Dr. David A. Sibley ’76 Signal Voice & Data, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. John A. Sipp Ms. Alexandra G. Smith and Mr. Andrew Schonebaum Hugh B. Sproul III, Trust Mr. and Mrs. Marshall T. Steves, Jr. Ms. D. Page Sullenberger The Butz Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Joseph C. Toe Mr. John L. Trimmer Vail Automotive Mr. Charles A. Vail, Jr. ’84 Mr. M. Pratt Valentine ’82 Mr. Julian P. Van Winkle III ’69 Vinson Group, Inc. Mr. Robert R. Vinson, Jr. ’87 Mr. and Mrs. Mark Wade Mr. and Mrs. Edus H. Warren Mr. Joshua H. Watt ’72 Mr. John A. Watts, Jr. ’67 Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Weaver Mr. G. Curtis Weaver, Jr. ’95 Ms. Anne K. West Mr. and Mrs. James J. White Mr. and Mrs. James C. Whitehurst III The Winston Salem Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence B. Wood, Jr. Marlene P. Wright Estate Mrs. Yinglan Xu Dr. and Mrs. John F. Yerger, Jr.

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Mr. W. C. Allen Mr. and Mrs. Ernest E. Armstrong Mr. and Mrs. Christian Arsenault Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Barnhart III Mr. and Mrs. Linwood D. Beckner Mrs. Michelle Bevington Ms. Kim Bongiovanni Mr. Daniel M. Boswell ’01 Mrs. and Mr. Julie Brenton Mrs. Henry S. Brown Mr. and Mrs. Avery Buras Dr. Neville W. Carmical Mr. Xiaoyu Che ’17 Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro Corrections Software Solutions LP Mr. and Mrs. Arnaud T. Couraud Mr. George G. Craddock III ’66 Mr. William A. Darrin III and Ms. Karen E. Fink Mr. Richard Earle deButts, Jr. ’65 Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation Mr. Carey S. Donovan ’80 Ms. Anna Doyle Mr. W. Bryant Durham ’72 Mr. T. Woody Evans III ’83 Mr. J. Scott Finney ’81 Mr. and Mrs. Matthew O. Forman Mr. and Mrs. Michael Fox Mr. and Mrs. Carl B. Frye, Sr. Mr. Robert D. Galbraith and Mrs. Julie Brenton Mrs. Muscoe R. H. Garnett Mrs. Judith S. Gary Mr. J. Gatewood Gay II ’74 George P. Mayo Memorial Fund Ms. Amy B. Glynn Mr. Joe Goins and Dr. Catherine Everett Mr. Harry C. Gordon Mr. Patrick S. Graham ’89 Mr. and Mrs. Enrique E. Guerra Mr. Christopher B. Haller ’94 Mr. and Mrs. James T. Ham Mr. and Mrs. James E. Hibbert Dr. and Mrs. Edward Himot Mr. and Mrs. Melvin A. Holley, Jr. Mr. Yuchun Huang Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. Hughes III Mr. David L. Hunt and Mrs. Sara E. Hunt Information Capital Enterprises, LLC Mr. and Mrs. Koji Ishiguro Ms. Margaret Jan Mr. Roderick Jones 32

Justice Solutions LLC Mrs. Vikki Kalitsi Mr. and Mrs. George S. King Jr. Mrs. Beatrice R. Lyons Ms. Courtenay Lyons Mr. John Henry Maclin IV ’69 Mr. and Mrs. Amit Madhvani Mr. and Mrs. Anthony McAlister Mr. Leander R. McCormick Goodhart ’71 Mr. David C. McDonald ’91 Mrs. Enid Mendleson Mr. and Ms. William Stevenson Mr. Benjamin M. “Jamie” Miller, Jr. ’72 Dr. Kevin M. Miller Mrs. Allan R. Modny Mr. and Mrs. Mark Morgan Mr. Richard A. Morgan ’71 Mr. Timothy Reed Myers, Jr. ’00 National Financial Services LLC Mr. Jung H. Park

Mr. Jefferson G. Parker ’70 Mr. George A. Parrish ’04 Mr. John T. Percy, Jr. ’65 Dr. Harriet F. Phillips Dr. and Mrs. Louis B. Pikula, Jr. Mr. Rufus Puckett Mrs. Tracy Randall Winn Mr. and Mrs. Clyde E. Rankin III Ms. Susan E. Rees Mr. and Mrs. Winston E. Rice Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Payne Rick Ms. Mattie Roberts Mr. Louis Langford Rose III ’80 Ross Creative Group, LLC Mr. and Mrs. Michael F. Shahbazi Mr. and Mrs. James W. Smack Mr. and Mrs. Richey Smith St. Stephens Episcopal Church Mrs. Sarah Rakonitz Stein Mr. and Mrs. David G. Sutton

Mr. and Mrs. Shafik A. Tejani Tiger Fuel Mr. and Mrs. David D. Townsend, Sr. Mr. Robert A. Watson II ’65 Mr. and Mrs. G. Curtis Weaver Wells Fargo Foundation Educational Matching Gifts Program Mr. John Whelan Mr. C. Curry Wilford ’67 Mrs. Thomas H. Willcox, Jr. Mr. E. Barry Wright, Jr. ’68

Dr. Donald R. Campbell ’71 Mr. John T. Casteen Mr. Robert Chappell ’58 Charlottesville Catholic School Mr. George E. Chase, Jr. ’76 Hope Christian Community Foundation Chubb Charitable Foundation Mr. and Mrs. James L. Clarke LTC Gary S. Cleland ’74 Mr. and Mrs. John Cline Mr. Stewart Colby Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Coleman Mr. and Mrs. William Coleman Ms. Melissa Condie BARON BACKERS Mr. Mark Connell ($100+) Mrs. Dora R. Conway Mr. and Mrs. Aidar Abdychev Mr. Richard D. Cooke III ’68 Mr. Forester B. Adams ’88 Mrs. Janet M. Cooper Mr. and Mrs. Paul Adkison Mr. Onir Coronel Mrs. Jean M. Allen Mr. Julio C. Corsini and Mrs. Blanca E. Ms. Shelviajean S. Allen Tiagonce AmazonSmile Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Robert Critcher Mr. Timothy Eldon Armstrong ’94 Mr. James L. Crocker ’72 Mr. Willard R. Ashburn III ’70 Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy D. Crocker Mr. Harry B. Bainbridge and Mrs. Tara A. Mr. and Mrs. Michael Cross Scanlon Ms. Juanita Crowe Ms. E. Gray Baird Mr. and Mrs. Mike Culp Mr. and Mrs. Charles K. Baker Mrs. Anne Gordon C. Curran Mr. and Mrs. Brett Barrientos Mr. William Page Dame IV ’88 Mr. Richard H. Beale ’68 Ms. Teresa Danford Mr. and Mrs. Griffin Bealle Mr. and Mrs. A. Charles Danner, Jr. Lt. Col. J. Mitchell Bell, Jr. ’84 Mr. Eric Charles Fuhrer Danner ’01 Mr. John J. Bennett ’73 Mr. Aaron Danos and Ms. Amy Chouset Mr. Timothy B. Bennett ’76 Mr. William A. Darrin Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Steven P. Benson Dr. Sarah B. d’Autremont Cdr. William Emerson Bissell ’85 Mr. Michael F. Davidson, Jr. ’81 Mr. Toby Blacow Mr. and Mrs. C. Brandon Deane, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. William A. Blodgett Mr. and Mrs. Phil E. DePoy BMR Investments Mr. Daniel William Desenberg ’08 Mr. T. Judson Bobo ’97 Mr. Edward D. Deters Mr. Thomas McCullough Boulware, Jr. ’88 Mr. Ward D. Deters ’86 Mr. James W. Bourland Mr. and Mrs. Patrick C. Devine, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Boyd, Jr. Mrs. Kathryn S. Dick Mr. and Mrs. William Bradley Jr. Mr. Thomas G. Digges III ’92 Mr. Flint Breckinridge ’79 Mr. John Gordon Dixon, Jr. ’95 Mrs. Ann L. Breit Mr. Anthony M. Donovan ’80 Mr. James C. Bridgforth ’04 Mr. Christian J. Donovan ’79 Mr. and Mrs. Albert J. Briganti Mr. Michael Donovan Mr. Edwin C. Brooks ’72 Mr. Mark S. Dreux, Jr. ’94 Mr. Terry D. Brown ’69 Mr. F. Wick Dudley ’71 Mr. William Baxter Brown ’75 Mr. and Mrs. Jason M Duncan Mr. and Mrs. Vinton C. Bruton IV Mr. Sherburne W. Dunn ’66 Mr. Thomas P. Bryan III ’70 Mr. and Mrs. Daniel F. Dunsmore Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Bullock Mr. and Mrs. Arthur P. DuPuis Mr. Mark W. Burton ’70 Mr. William B. Earley Mr. Harry F. Byrd IV ’90 Mr. Eric Cassell Eccles ’01 Mr. and Mrs. Moulaye Camara Mr. Carl R. Elks

Mr. James P. Ellerson ’72 Mr. William J. Elliott IV ’71 Ms. Pamela Ellis Ms. Kathleen Emmans Mr. and Mrs. Christopher J. Ettel Mr. Thad W. Evans, Jr. Ms. Kate W. Fannon Ms. Adelaide Perry Farah Mr. John Y. Faulconer, Jr. ’83 Mr. and Mrs. John Y. Faulconer Sr. Fix Media Mr. Leonard B. Fleming III ’75 Flint Masonry & Contracting, LLC Lt. Col. David Allen Foard III ’68 Mr. David Foresman Mr. Samuel R. Fosdick ’05 Frank S. Hart & Company Franklin Family Foundation Mr. Jeffrey Alan Franz ’07 Mrs. Carl B. Frye, Jr. ’89 Mr. Barry F. Fulton ’68 Ms. Sandra Fulton Mr. and Mrs. David H. Funk Mr. and Mrs. Eric Geilker Mr. John Haskins Glass ’98 Mr. Downing Palmer Gleason ’86 Mr. Richard C. Glover Mr. Rustin Godfrey Mr. Robert Eason Goins ’06 Mr. Charles E. Goodman III ’71 Goodman Construction, Inc. Grace Episcopal Church Mr. Eric D. Graetzer ’70 Mr. Donald Graham Ms. Elizabeth Green Mr. and Mrs. Norman Groff Mr. Michael H. Gross ’91 Ms. Susan Dent Gushue Mr. Richard D. Hall III ’89 Mr. James Pemberton Hammons ’98 Mrs. Lee A. Hancock Mr. Blanton C. Hansen ’87 Mr. William C. Happer ’77 Mr. John H. Hardison ’59 Mr. Frank S. Hart ’67 Hathaway, Inc. Mr. D. Vincent Haynie, Jr. ’81 Mr. James Gregory Headen ’81 Mr. Adam S. Heaster ’98 Mrs. Irene Heifetz Mr. Herman Johannson Hermanson ’97 Mr. Christopher Erik Hewlett ’96 Mr. Richard I. Hickey ’75 Mr. L. Tayloe Highsmith ’94 Mr. and Mrs. Shigekazu Hiraki Hollis Family Charitable Fund Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Hollis 33

Mr. Edmund W. Holt ’67 Mr. Vance Hopson and Ms. Nicole Bond Mr. Tim House Mr. Michael William Hubbard ’68 Mr. David Latimore Hughes ’79 Mr. James Mason Hundley ’99 Mr. Daniel M. Hunter III ’88 Mr. and Mrs. Onza E. Hyatt Mr. and Mrs. John C. Ignaszewski Mr. Christopher D. Ingram ’82 Mr. Charles T. Isbell ’73 Jaffe, Caplan, Fleder, LLP Mr. and Mrs. Clinton S. Janes III Mr. and Mrs. Jerry R. Jared Mr. and Mrs. Mark N. Jenkins Mr. Stephen Jessey and Mrs. K. Bucher Mrs. Lloyd Johannessen Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Johnson Mr. and Mrs. R. Bruce Jones Mr. S. John Joseph III ’70 Mr. Cary G. Justice ’90 Mr. Mark Steven Kavit ’71 Ms. Hilde L. Keldermans Mr. William W. Kerns ’77 Mr. Bryan Kewley Mr. George Kiladitis Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy King Mr. William P. King Mr. and Mrs. Lowry F. Kline Mr. M. Scott Knowles ’88 Mr. and Mrs. Andrew D. Koch Ms. Kelly Konrad Col. Kenneth A. Kraft Dr. and Mrs. John H. Krouse, M.D. Mr. J. Scott Lamar ’06 Mr. and Mrs. Jim Lamar Mr. and Mrs. William L. Lamar Mr. and Mrs. David H. LaMotte, Jr. Ms. Nancy A. Landman Mr. James Graeme Lang III ’88 Mr. Eric Stephen Lange ’03 Mrs. Lois M. Lange Mr. William S. Lange Mr. Daniel T. Lecce ’15 Mr. Dong Suk Lee ’98 Mr. Douglas H. Lees III ’68 Mr. Stephen Mark LeMay ’87 Mr. John B. Levert III ’79 Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Lineweaver The Reverend Helene H. Loper Mr. Randall W. Lordi ’74 Mr. Geoffrey D. Love ’84 Mr. Robert D. Luttrell ’83 Miss Laura Lysle Mr. Lawrence McNeill Maddry ’83 Madison Drug Co Dr. and Dr. Rajesh Malik 34

Mr. and Mrs. Endel Mann Ms. Diane Marsh Mr. and Mrs. Brian Marshall Mr. John L. Martin ’76 Mr. N. Blake Martin III ’74 Mr. and Mrs. Christopher M. Mason Mr. Sharif Massoud Mr. Malcolm Matheson IV ’79 Mr. John Worth McAlister III ’76 Mrs. Courtenay C. McDowell Mr. and Mrs. Daniel M. McFarland Mr. and Mrs. Sam McGregor McGuireWoods, LLP Ms. Jo W. McKeown and Mr. William L. Henry Mr. John G. McMaster III ’65 Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. McMurtry Ms. Allyson McPhillips The Rev. and Mrs. Otto W. Immel Mr. Kyle Lester Medcalf ’05 Capt. and Mrs. Raymond Mello Merrick Real Estate Mr. Thomas B. Merrick IV ’67 Mr. Sonny Merryman Ms. Melissa Meyers Mr. and Mrs. Peter Minford Mr. J. Timothy Mitch, Jr. ’96 Mr. Rory J. A. Mitchell ’09 Mr. William T. Mitchell ’78 Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Modlin Mr. John Moncure, Jr. ’74 Mr. and Mrs. Steve Montaperto Mr. Page Whitworth Moon ’84 Mr. John Pancoast Moore ’74 Ms. Virginia Moore Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Moran Mr. Maxwell E. Morgan ’14 Mr. David Kenneth Morris ’82 Ms. Rebecca Morrow Mr. William Bassett Morten ’71 Mr. Isaal Harby Moses, Jr. ’77 Mr. Jefferey Moss Mr. and Mrs. Jon Mottel Mr. John Morris Mudge, Jr. ’82 Mr. Jasper Murphy Mr. and Mrs. Michel H. Nasr Mr. John A. Neal ’94 Mr. and Mrs. William L. Neal Mr. and Mrs. James F. Neale Mr. William C. Neely The Neisler Foundation Inc. Mr. Matthew R. Neisler ’80 Mr. and Mrs. Lanny Nelson Mr. William H. Nelson, Jr. ’86 Network for Good Mr. Scott C. Nickell ’89 Mr. James A. Niederberger

Dr. and Mrs. Emmanuel N. Njomo Ms. Susan Nordlinger Ms. Julie Oh Mr. and Mrs. David H. Olson Mr. Brendan Michael O’Neil ’05 Ms. Caroline Osborne Mr. E. Stuart Outten, Jr. Ms. Georgia Palmieri Mr. and Mrs. Shepherd P. Parrish Mr. Trent Powhatan Parrish ’08 Mr. Norman E. Pashoian and Mrs. Barbara M. Gracey Mr. Christopher A. Paterno ’88 PayPal Charitable Giving Fund Mr. Thomas H. Peacock ’90 Ms. Susan T. Pender Ms. and Mr. Debra Pennington Mr. William T. Phipps II ’90 Mr. and Mrs. Christopher A. Pistell Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Pochter Mr. David A. Potter, Jr. ’67 Christopher Powell Mr. Roger A. Prior, Jr. ’69 Mr. Michael Jonathan Pritchett ’01 Mr. Bryan Puckett Mr. and Mrs. Henry H. Purcell Jr. Mr. William C. Quarles ’79 Mr. Scott Ramsey Mr. David D. Ranken II ’70 Rappahannock Electric Cooperative Mr. Albert A. Rayle IV ’07 Mr. and Mrs. Albert A. Rayle III Mr. and Mrs. K.D. Reade Jr. Mr. Charles Matthew Reeder ’81 Mr. and Mrs. Ralph C. Reeder Mr. and Mrs. David Rees Mr. John H. Rees Ms. Martha W. Rees Mr. James Donald Reeve ’87 Mr. and Mrs. Rawn H. Reinhard Ms. and Mr. Mary B. Rewcastle Mr. Edward N. Richards II ’82 Dr. and Mrs. Phillip Rizk Dr. and Mrs. Lucien W. Roberts, Jr. Mr. W. Christian Roberts ’83 Mr. J. Kelly Robinson ’74 Mrs. Donna Truslow Rogers ’57 Mr. and Mrs. Victor J. Rosenberg Ms. Lisa Ross Mr. Kevin Roual Mr. and Mrs. Harold Rowland Mr. and Mrs. John B. Rudulph, Jr. Mr. John B. Rudulph III ’96 Dr. and Mr. Nightingale Rukuba Ngaiza Mr. Abraham D. Salmon V ’79 Mrs. Tamara Saltonstall Dr. Henry S. Sanders ’01

Mr. Tyler John Sansom ’03 Dr. and Mrs. Robert H. Sasser, Jr. Mr. Fumitaka Sato Mr. James M. Satterfield, Jr. ’66 Mr. and Mrs. William A. Schmidt Mr. Christian T. Seem ’91 Dr. Howard L. Shareff and Dr. Barbara N. Vosk Ms. Merry Sheils Mr. and Mrs. Thomas R. Shepherd Mrs. Cynthia A. Shook Dr. and Dr. Navjeet Sidhu Malik Mr. Jonathan J. Siegel ’84 Mr. Daniel Howard Simon ’03 Mr. and Mrs. Mike Sipala Mr. and Mrs. Timothy S. Skeen Mr. Edward M. Skipper ’82 Dr. and Mrs. Timothy H. Smelzer Mr. James A. Smith II ’72 Mr. and Mrs. Laurence Smith Mr. Matthew Bryan Smith ’08 Mr. and Mrs. Nathaniel M. Smith Mrs. Penelope M. Smith Mr. Preston S. Smith ’72 Mr. Ryan Michael Smith ’09 Mr. Gregory Lohnes Smythe ’85 Mr. Jonathan Morris Sokolik ’92 Sonny Merryman, Inc Mr. and Mrs. J. Gordon Sorrells Mr. Hugh B. Sproul IV ’88 Mr. Scott M. Sprouse ’90 Mrs. and Mr. Kristen Stein The Stern Foundation

Mr. Sidney L. Stern II ’69 Mr. and Mrs. William J. Stevens, Jr. Mr. Albert Stickney Mr. Paul Richard Stone ’83 Mr. Eric W. Strasser ’08 Mr. Coleman N. Sullivan, Jr. ’66 Mr. William H.L. Sullivan, Jr. ’74 Mr. and Mrs. Brian Tate Mr. and Mrs. Edward D. Tayloe II Mr. Ali S. Tejani Mr. Darren K. Testa ’90 Mr. and Mrs. James Thistlethwaite Mr. Wallace C. Thomas ’68 Mr. Benjamin B. Thompson ’89 Mr. Cole Rexford Thompson ’01 Mr. Eric A. Thompson ’84 Mr. and Ms. Raymond D. Tindel Mr. Javier Torres and Mrs. Johanna Irizarry Ms. Mary B. Touchstone Capt. Samuel Alexander Towne III ’80 Mr. Robert Holt Trice ’88 Mr. Kenneth Robert Tucker ’85 Ms. Jane B. Turnbull Dr. and Mrs. E. Lee Tyrey The U.S. Charitable Gift Trust UBS Financial Services Brawley Wealth Management Group Mr. and Mrs. Henry W. Underhill Jr. Ms. Odanys A. Urena Mrs. Barbara B. Uzielli Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm S. Van de Water Veritas Technologies, LLC

Mr. Scott Wachs Mr. John L. Waldrop III ’91 Mr. George W. Nathaniel Walker ’99 Mr. and Mrs. Otey Walker III Mr. Harcourt E. Waller III ’71 Mr. Haoming Wang ’17 Mr. and Mrs. Quingwen Wang Mr. Ruiyang Wang Mr. William M. Weber, Jr. ’72 Mr. John Christian Weil ’85 Mr. John H. Wellford III ’69 Ms. and Ms. Wendy Werve Mr. M. Willis White ’73 Mr. and Mrs. Martin Whitmer Mr. Gregory C. Wilcox ’74 Mr. Walter Jackson Williams ’87 Mr. H. Dillon Winship III ’76 Mr. Will Winslow and Mrs. Kelley Maclin Winslow Ms. Suzanne Witt Mr. William E. Woodroof, Jr. ’84 Mr. Donald C. Woodward The Rev. Daniel O. Worthington, Jr. ’66 Dr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Yancey Mr. Daniel D. Yerger ’94 Yoga Toka Sgt. James Robson Young ’83 Mr. John B. Young IV Mr. William M. Yowell ’67 Mr. Jun Yu and Ms. Wenjing Zheng

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BARON BOOSTERS

Mr. Khaled M. Aburamadan ’19 Mr. Tristan A. Adams ’19 Mr. Abdullah S. Al Saud ’19 Mr. Trevor D. Albro ’19 Mr. O. Carlos Aldrete ’84 Mr. Benjamin Alejandro ’19 Mr. and Mrs. Robert Allen Mr. JaShaun H. Anderson ’19 Mr. and Mrs. Tyler Anthony Mr. Nova T. Arsenault ’19 Mr. John A. Atkinson III ’13 Mr. Bryce E. Aylor ’19 Mrs. Stacy A. Aylor Mrs. Nancy Baillio Mr. Stephen P. Barbour ’81 Ms. Sara Lee Barnes Mr. and Mrs. Matthew W. Bennett Ms. Terry Benshoff Mr. Kendell S. Berry ’72 Ms. Sara Berry Mr. Asha Bhadbhade Mr. Andrew Bonds Mr. Peter Bonds Ms. Mary O. Bowen and Mr. N. Ravella Mr. Colby L. Boyd ’19 Ms. Cynthia S. Boylan Mr. Timothy Braden Ms. Janice Brasted Mr. and Mrs. Tony L. Brown Mr. James L. Bugg III ’88 Mr. Simon T. Buras ’19 Mr. Ward Carroll ’19 Mr. Pablo E. Cavestany ’19 Mr. Sang Hoon Chae Mr. Kefei (Philip) Chen ’19 Mr. Hyun Wook Choi ’10 Mr. In Woo Chung ’08 Mr. Richard W. Cocke Mr. Peter Cole Mr. David W. Coleman ’73 Mr. Andrew S. Collins Mr. Devin C. Corini ’19 Mr. and Mrs. Timothy P. Cormany The Rev. and Mrs. Harry W. Crandall Mr. John H. Cronly III ’70 Mr. Duong Minh V. Dang ’19 Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Darrell Mr. David D. Daugherty ’95 Mr. Alvin W. Daughtridge Mr. James W. Davis ’67 Mr. William L. Davis and Dr. Cheryl Davis Mrs. Evelyn T. Deane and Mr. Robin Hubbard Mr. Kristopher L. Deane ’19 Mr. Stephen DeMasters 36

Mr. and Mrs. Michael Dickerson Mr. Alexander J. Dillard ’19 Mr. David Harvey Dillon ’75 Mr. Xinyang (Paul) Du ’19 Mr. John Dudley Mr. Peter I. Dudley ’74 Mr. Thomas H. Dux ’71 Mr. and Mrs. Matthew G. Dymond ’84 Mr. Deke Ealy Ms. Eleanor F. Earley Mr. and Mrs. Richard Eaton Mr. Matt B. Ehrich Mr. R. Keene Emmans McGill ’19 Mr. Ian Erhardt Mr. and Mrs. Jim Field Mr. Brian J. Fitzgerald ’80 Mr. Samuel Fort ’19

Mr. Jaden A. Frazier ’19 Mr. Stephan Freihofer Mr. Blair C. Gammon Mr. Daniel Ginsberg ’12 Mr. and Mrs. Stephan Gordon Mr. William E. Grant III ’03 Mr. W S. Greco Mr. and Mrs. John Grubb Mr. Christian X. Guttilla ’19 Mr. Norman H. Hacker Mr. Myles J. Ham ’19 Mr. Charles H. Hancock III ’68 Mr. Adam Harnois Mr. Harris Haynie Mr. Evan T. Hayon ’13 Mr. Tim Hegemier Ms. Catherine D. Herbst

Mr. Jason E. Hess ’16 Mr. Hugh Franklin Holt ’75 Mr. Hyun Sang Hong ’04 Mr. Jong Hyun Hong ’10 Mr. John K. Honig ’78 Mr. Sean Horvath ’19 Mr. and Mrs. Ted Horvath Ms. Ann Host Ms. Shannon Howard Mr. Xulin Hu ’19 Mr. Joseph L. Hunter, Jr. ’79 Mr. and Mrs. Andrew M. Jamrozek, Jr. Mr. Dongjin Jang ’08 Mr. Omar H. A. Jassim ’19 Mr. J. Latham Jenkins III ’88 Mr. S. Clark Jenkins ’66 Mr. Shouhao (Howard) Jiang ’19 Mr. Jiahao Jin ’19 Ms. Holly Jones Mr. Richard C. Joseph, Sr. ’73 K6 Investments, LLC Mr. Xavier Kane ’19 Mr. John Scott Kanich ’88 Mr. Hwang Ki and Mrs. Hyun Shin Mr. Charles King ’19 Mr. Ki Wook Ko ’06 Mrs. Josie Kozack Mr. Kelly Kozack Mr. Grant D. Kramer ’19 Mr. Bill Krulak Mr. Thomas Krulak Mr. A. Carter Latham ’84 Mrs. and Mr. Vicki Laub Mr. John J. Lawson III ’76 Ms. Kate Le Boeuf Mr. Chang Hyun Lee ’07 Ms. Denise Lee Mr. John Marshall Lee, Jr. ’84 Mr. Junghoon Lee Mr. Jay Leshefsky Mr. Ian T. Leuschner ’88 Ms. Lynne Levine Rear Admiral and Mrs. Frederick L. Lewis LexisNexis Mr. Sirui (Eric) Li ’19 Mr. Sang Yeon Lim ’10 Mr. Timothy John Lindblade ’04 Mr. and Mrs. Chris Little Mr. Mitchell E. Loper ’03 Mr. William K. Lowry ’19 Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth D. Machande Mr. and Mrs. Angus L. MacLean, Jr. Mr. Aaron Joseph MacNab ’97 Mr. Alan A. Marshall, Jr. ’77 Mr. Logan P. Marshall ’19 Mr. Richard C. Marshall IV ’66 Mr. Eric Barraud Martin ’79

Mr. Aristotle L. McDonald ’10 Mr. Brian McEwen Mr. James McGregor ’19 Mr. Kevin M. McHaney The Rev. David B. McIlhiney Mr. David Mehl Mr. Dhruv Mehrotra ’19 Ms. Neha Mehrotra Mr. Angus M. Middleton ’19 Mr. Michael J. Miller Mr. Matthew G. Minford ’16 Mr. Alexander Michael Modny ’03 Mr. Robert S. Montgomery ’73 Dr. and Mrs. Anthony T. Moore Mr. Eric St. Clair Moore ’84 Mr. George H. Moore, Jr. ’80 Mr. Moses J. Moran ’19 Mr. Selby S. Morgan ’19 Mr. Matthew Munsey Mr. Alexander H. Nail ’12 Mr. Christopher W. Nappi ’86 Mr. Peter Neill Mr. Zachary A. Neumann ’19 Mr. Robert Newman Mrs. Susan G. Nimmo Mr. Patrick Norton Mr. Pierre Francois Olivier ’75 Mr. Ned Ormsby Palladium Partners, LLC Mr. and Ms. Alastair Palmer Mr. Taejun Park ’04 Mr. Donald Frost Parker ’77 Mr. Eric Parker Mr. John C. Parrott II Mr. David F. Paulson ’19 The Hon. and Mrs. H. Dudley Payne, Jr. Ms. Julia Peck Ms. Mary P. Pence Mr. Wayne Peterson Ms. Monika Ploc Mr. Henry Pruett ’19 Mr. and Mrs. Brad Pullen Mr. Hyun Joon Pyo ’07 Ragged Branch Mr. Kent C. Raine ’81 Mr. V. Patrick Randolph IV ’77 Mr. Kit Rees Mr. John W. Roach ’76 Mr. and Mrs. Raymond G. Robbins Mr. Henry S. Robinson ’19 Mr. Benjamin Rodriguez, Jr. ’02 Mr. Christopher L. Rogers ’19 Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas P. Roscoe Mr. William L. Sanford, Jr. Mr. Michael C. Savage ’77 Mr. Yeul Chan Seong ’04 Mr. and Mrs. William D. Sessoms

Ms. Barclay Sharon Mr. Andrew Shurtleff Mr. W C. Sinclair Mr. and Mrs. Paul W. Skelton Mr. Douglas Mitchell Smith ’66 Mr. Blake R. Souder ’04 Hugh & Noelle Sproul Family Fund Stafford and Stafford Real Estate Mr. Zebulon H. Stafford III ’66 Mr. James Colan Stanley ’84 Mr. David Anthony Stassi ’85 Mr. and Mrs. Alfred B. Strickler III Mr. Harrison B. Strickler ’17 Mr. Chong Hun Sung ’07 Mr. Joseph E. Szabo ’19 Mr. E. Thornton Tayloe ’94 Mr. Jason Taylor Ms. Hana K. Tejani Mr. Jonathan D. Thomas ’92 Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Thomson Mr. Turner Tilman Mr. George E. Todd ’66 Mr. Ernesto J. Torres ’19 Mr. Mike Trauscht Ms. Victoria Tremaglio Mr. John Penn Turner ’80 Ms. Kelli Turner Mr. R. Clayton Turner ’87 Ms. Mary F. Valente Mr. Harry Keene Varner ’71 Mr. Alexander C. Vohden ’96 Mr. Evan T. Wade ’17 Mr. Vincent Wade ’19 Mr. Robert C. Wallace ’70 Mr. and Mrs. John Waller Mr. Robert S. Weaver Mr. Caleb Werner ’19 Ms. Eileen Weston Mr. James Whitehurst ’19 Mr. Alec P. Williams ’19 Mr. John Arrington Williams II ’66 Mr. and Mrs. Steven R. Wilson Mr. and Mrs. Charles V. Woerner Mr. and Mrs. Cory Woods Mr. and Mrs. Douglas G. Worrall Mrs. McDonald E. Wrenn Myers Mr. Joo Sung Yoon ’10

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33 YEARS

27 YEARS

38 YEARS

32 YEARS

25 Years Mr. and Mrs. Christopher B. Haller ’94 Mr. William A. Parker III ’71 Mr. Daniel D. Yerger ’94

Mr. Kendell S. Berry ’72

Mr. John Moncure, Jr. ’74

36 YEARS

Mr. and Mrs. Graham F. Bennett ’71 Mr. George E. Chase, Jr. ’76 Mr. and Mrs. Carl B. Frye, Sr. Mr. John B. Young IV

35 YEARS

Mr. John C. Bryant ’84 The Rev. and Mrs. Harry W. Crandall Mr. and Mrs. J. Peter Holland IV ’66 Mr. G. Davis MacRae, Jr. ’68 Dr. and Mrs. Lucien W. Roberts, Jr.

34 YEARS

Mr. Allen W. Bush ’69 Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Modlin Mr. and Mrs. Richard S. Waddell ’68 38

Mr. and Mrs. Edward D. Tayloe II

Mr. Marion “Dickie” P. Brawley III ’68 Mr. William C. Neely Mr. Charles M. Reeder ’81 Mr. W. Christian Roberts ’83 Mr. W. Mitchell Rue, Jr. ’81

31 YEARS

Mr. and Mrs. Halsey K. Blake-Scott ’70 Mr. John E. Buckey ’88 Mr. Peter H. Green ’88

30 YEARS

Mr. Thomas P. Bryan III ’70 Mr. Richard E. deButts, Jr. ’65 Mr. Charles H. Hancock III ’68 Mr. and Mrs. William L. Neal

29 YEARS

Mr. Frank S. Hart ’67 Mr. Cary G. Justice ’90 Dr. and Mrs. John F. Yerger, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. L. Parker Perkins III ’84

24 YEARS

Ms. Marylon Rogers Glass Mr. Charles E. Goodman III ’71 Mr. and Mrs. Melvin A. Holley, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Perry N. Ives Mr. John Scott Kanich ’88 Mr. John L. Trimmer Mr. Robert C. Wallace ’70 Mr. M. Willis White ’73

23 YEARS

Mrs. Sam J. Calvert, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Payne Rick

22 YEARS

Ms. Shelviajean S. Allen Ms. E. Gray Baird

Mr. George G. Craddock III ’66 Mr. R. Burke Earley ’86 Dr. Kevin M. Miller Robert H. and Monica M. Cole Foundation Mrs. Thomas H. Willcox, Jr. Mr. John A. Williams II ’66 Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence B. Wood, Jr.

21 YEARS

Mr. and Mrs. Michael G. Boswell Mr. and Mrs. Daniel F. Dunsmore Mrs. Carl B. Frye, Jr. ’89 Mr. John Timothy Mitch, Jr. ’96 Mr. Abraham D. Salmon V ’79

20 YEARS

Mr. James Y. Arnold III ’68 Mr. James W. Davis ’67 Mr. Leonard B. Fleming III ’75 Mr. and Mrs. James E. Hibbert Mr. and Mrs. Jerry R. Jared Mr. John M. Lee, Jr. ’84 Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin “Jamie” M. Miller, Jr. ’72

19 YEARS

Mr. E. Allen Churchill, Jr. ’73 Dr. Sarah B. d’Autremont Mr. and Mrs. Onza E. Hyatt Dr. and Mrs. John H. Krouse, M.D. Mr. John L. Martin ’76 Mrs. Courtenay C. McDowell Mr. James R. McKenry, Jr. ’82 The Rev. and Mrs. Otto W. Immel Capt. and Mrs. Raymond Mello Mr. David A. Potter, Jr. ’67 Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Sasser III ’82 Mr. George W. Nathaniel Walker ’99 Mr. and Mrs. John A. Watts, Jr. ’67

18 YEARS

Mr. William B. Brown ’75 Mr. Blair C. Gammon Mr. and Mrs. R. Bruce Jones Mr. James H. Miller III ’94 Mr. and Mrs. William Schnauffer IV ’65 Mrs. Cynthia A. Shook Mr. Charles A. Vail, Jr. ’84 Mr. and Mrs. Julian P. Van Winkle III ’69 Mr. Robert A. Watson II ’65

17 YEARS

Mr. and Mrs. Linwood D. Beckner Mr. James L. Crocker ’72

Mr. Thomas G. Digges III ’92 Mr. W. Bryant Durham ’72 Mr. William C. Happer ’77 Mr. Ben W. Hiatt ’71 Mr. and Mrs. Marshall T. Steves, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Yancey

16 YEARS

Mr. Timothy B. Bennett ’76 Mrs. Thomas P. Bryan Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Bullock Mr. Sherburne W. Dunn ’66 Mr. M. Huntley Galleher ’80 Mr. and Mrs. Angus L. MacLean, Jr. Dr. Harriet F. Phillips Mr. James M. Satterfield, Jr. ’66 Mr. Alexander C. Vohden ’96 Wells Fargo Foundation Educational Matching Gifts Program

15 YEARS

The Arnold Foundation Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation Mr. William M. Hines, Jr. ’86 Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Lineweaver Mr. John Henry Maclin IV ’69 Mr. and Mrs. William F. Magner III Mrs. Susan G. Nimmo Mr. and Mrs. Albert A. Rayle III Mr. Blake R. Souder ’04 Mr. and Mrs. Hugh B. Sproul IV ’88 Mr. William T. Tilman ’65 Mr. and Mrs. Robert R. Vinson, Jr. ’87

Indigent Healthcare Solutions, Ltd. John A. Gilmore Fund Mr. Richard A. Morgan ’71 Mr. Christopher W. Nappi ’86

12 YEARS

Mr. and Mrs. Ernest E. Armstrong Mr. Harry B. Bainbridge and Mrs. Tara A. Scanlon Mr. and Mrs. J. Scott Beckwith Charlottesville Area Community Foundation Mr. and Mrs. James L. Clarke The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository, Inc. Ms. Jacqueline M. Didier, Esq. Mr. F. Wick Dudley ’71 Durham Nativity School Mr. and Mrs. Paul L. Griffiths III Hammond Family Foundation Inc. Mr. George A. M. Hammond ’68 Mrs. Lois M. Lange Mr. Douglas H. Lees III ’68 Mr. Joseph H. McDermott Mr. and Mrs. Morgan L. McNeel ’87 Mr. and Mrs. George L. Selden Ms. Hope Tate Mr. Eric A. Thompson ’84 Mr. H. Dillon Winship III ’76

11 YEARS

Mrs. Stacy A. Aylor Mr. Michael A. Stieber and Ms. Corinne M. Berezuk Mr. Daniel M. Boswell ’01 14 YEARS Alice W. Bryan Trust Mr. and Mrs. Steven P. Benson Corrections Software Solutions LP Mr. C. Macon Callicott, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Patrick C. Devine, Jr. Calvert Family Foundation Mr. Thad W. Evans, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Alan L. Cates, J.D. Mrs. Anthony J. Ewell Mr. and Mrs. Ernest E. Hunt IV Ms. Adelaide Perry Farah Mr. Mitchell E. Loper ’03 Mr. Leander R. McCormick-Goodhart ’71 Lt. Col. David Allen Foard III ’68 Dr. Howard L. Shareff and Dr. Barbara N. Mr. Joe Goins and Dr. Catherine Everett Dr. and Mrs. David B. Hamer Vosk Mr. Melvin F. Hickman and Dr. Linda J. Dr. David A. Sibley ’76 Hickman Mr. Coleman N. Sullivan, Jr. ’66 Mr. and Mrs. John C. Ignaszewski Mr. Benjamin B. Thompson ’89 Information Capital Enterprises, LLC Tiger Fuel Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program Mrs. Allan R. Modny Mr. and Mrs. Michel H. Nasr Mrs. Donna Truslow Rogers ’57 13 YEARS Mr. and Mrs. Karl R. Sening Boykin Memorial Fund Mr. and Mrs. John A. Sipp Dr. William S. Carver II ’75 Ms. Alexandra G. Smith and Mr. Andrew Mr. William A. Darrin III and Ms. Karen Schonebaum E. Fink Mrs. Sarah Rakonitz Stein George P. Mayo Memorial Fund 39

Ms. D. Page Sullenberger Mr. E. Barry Wright, Jr. ’68

10 YEARS

Rev. and Mrs. John A. Atkinson Jr. Mr. F. Murray Biedenharn ’71 Mr. Rory R. D. Bosek ’04 Mrs. Ann L. Breit Mr. William H. Burruss III ’71 Dr. Donald R. Campbell ’71 Mr. Carey S. Donovan ’80 Mr. Mark S. Dreux, Jr. ’94 Frank S. Hart ’67 & Company Mr. Eric D. Graetzer ’70 Mr. Michael H. Gross ’91 Mr. John H. Hardison ’59 Justice Solutions LLC Mr. Lawrence M. Maddry ’83 Mr. P. Brooks Minford ’09 Dr. and Mrs. Louis B. Pikula, Jr. Ms. Dorothy M. Ramsey Mr. and Mrs. James W. Smack Mr. and Mrs. David G. Sutton Dr. and Mrs. E. Lee Tyrey Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Weaver

9 YEARS

Mr. and Mrs. James Y. Arnold, Jr. Mr. Peter Bonds Mr. M. Porter Brawley IV ’00 Mr. and Mrs. Milford H. Bryant, Jr. Mrs. Dora R. Conway Mrs. Anne Gordon C. Curran Mr. and Mrs. D. Franklin Daniels Jr. Mr. Edward D. Deters Mr. Ward D. Deters ’86 Mr. and Mrs. David H. Funk Mr. Richard I. Hickey ’75 Mr. and Mrs. George D. Hovey, Jr. Mr. James M. Hundley ’99 Mr. and Ms. David E. Kalinski Mr. David K. Morris ’82 Mr. Pierre F. Olivier ’75 Mr. E. Stuart Outten, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Joshua H. Watt ’72 Mr. Robert G. Watt, Jr. ’70

8 YEARS

Mr. and Mrs. Vinton C. Bruton IV Mr. and Mrs. Robert V. Cahill Ms. and Mr. Catherine Dickerson Mr. and Mrs. Norman Gee Goodman Construction, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. David F. Hess Mrs. Lana Ingram The Reverend Helene H. Loper 40

Mrs. Beatrice R. Lyons The Maplewood Foundation Ms. Virginia M. Marra Ms. Charlotte Moss and Mr. Barry S. Friedberg The Neisler Foundation Inc. Mr. Matthew R. Neisler ’80 Mr. Edward N. Richards II ’82 Sage Dining Services, Inc. Dr. and Mrs. Don Sokolik The Stern Foundation Mr. Sidney L. Stern II ’69 Ms. Mary B. Touchstone

7 YEARS

Mrs. and Mr. Suet Cheung Ms. Melissa Condie Mr. and Mrs. Jason M Duncan Mr. James P. Ellerson ’72 Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund Mr. and Mrs. Matthew O. Forman Dr. and Mrs. David A. Fosdick Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Hollis Mr. Michael W. Hubbard ’68 Mr. David L. Hughes ’79 Mr. and Mrs. Andrew M. Jamrozek, Jr. Mr. Stephen Jessey and Mrs. K. Bucher Ms. Hilde L. Keldermans Mr. and Mrs. William L. Lamar Dr. and Dr. Rajesh Malik Mr. Richard C. Marshall IV ’66 Mr. and Mrs. Warren J. McPhillips III Mr. William T. Phipps II ’90 Dr. and Mrs. Phillip Rizk Schwab Charitable Fund Mr. Edward M. Skipper ’82 Mr. David D. Townsend, Jr. ’75 Mr. and Mrs. Otey Walker III Mr. G. Curtis Weaver, Jr. ’95

6 YEARS

Mr. and Mrs. R. Marc Ammen Mrs. Paul L. Guillaro Colonial Webb Contractors Mrs. Janet M. Cooper Mr. and Mrs. Timothy P. Cormany Mrs. Kathryn S. Dick Mr. Anthony M. Donovan ’80 Mr. Samuel Rittenhouse Fosdick ’05 Ms. Catherine D. Herbst Mr. Jason E. Hess ’16 Mr. and Mrs. D. Randall Hicks Hollis Family Charitable Fund Mr. John K. Honig ’78 Mr. and Mrs. Eric L. Hoyle Mr. Christopher E. Hupfeldt ’73

Massey Foundation Mr. William E. Massey, Jr. ’70 Ms. Virginia Moore Mr. and Mrs. Archibald M. Morgan IV Dr. and Mrs. Robert A. Myers Mr. William H. Nelson, Jr. ’86 Mr. Michael J. Pritchett ’01 Rappahannock Electric Cooperative The Schluderberg Foundation Dr. and Dr. Navjeet Sidhu-Malik Mr. and Mrs. Mark Wade Mr. and Mrs. Mark Werner

5 YEARS

Mr. David W. Aldridge ’76 Joan K. Brawley Mr. and Mrs. John Cline Community Foundation of Washington County MD, Inc. Fannie Mae SERVE Matching Gift Donations Mrs. Judith S. Gary Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth D. Machande Mrs. Sara J. Manning Mr. and Mrs. Peter Minford Dr. and Mrs. Anthony T. Moore Mr. Donald F. Parker ’77 Mr. Roger A. Prior, Jr. ’69 Mr. Bryan Puckett Mr. David D. Ranken II ’70 Mrs. Tamara Saltonstall Mr. and Mrs. Paul W. Skelton Ms. Odanys A. Urena Weldon Foundation Inc. Mr. Jun Yu and Ms. Wenjing Zheng

CAPITAL AND BARON FUND GIFTS IN HONOR OF CORY WOODS & DR. KEVIN MILLER

by Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Albro DAN DUNSMORE

by Mr. Bryce E. Aylor ’19 JAMES MOORE ’75

by Mr. William B. Brown ’75 COLIN CAHILL ’15

by Mr. and Mrs. Robert V. Cahill WARD CARROLL ’19

by Mr. and Mrs. James R. Carroll V J. PETER HOLLAND IV ’66

by Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Darrell TRIP DARRIN’S 50TH BIRTHDAY

by Mr. William A. Darrin Jr. JOHN D HENDERSON III ’92

by Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund MAMADI DIAKITE ’15

by Mr. M. Huntley Galleher ’80 CLASS OF 1973

by Mr. James T. Hammond IV ’73 JOHN DANIEL HENDERSON III ’92

by Mr. and Mrs. John D. Henderson, Jr. CLASS OF 1988

by Mr. Daniel M. Hunter III ’88 DR. KEVIN MILLER

by Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Johnson JACK KALM ’21

by Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas B. Kalm ERIC S. LANGE ’03

by Mrs. Lois M. Lange CLASS OF 1968

by Mr. Douglas H. Lees III ’68 D. FRANKLIN DANIELS, JR.

by Mrs. Beatrice R. Lyons CLASS OF 1976

by Mr. John L. Martin ’76

JAMES H. MILLER III ’94

by Mr. Joseph H. McDermott TOM AND CINDY ENGLE

by Mr. Joseph H. McDermott LEONARD W. MCDERMOTT

by Mr. Joseph H. McDermott BRYAN PUCKETT

by Mr. Rufus Puckett GEORGE MACKARONIS

by Ms. Susan E. Rees NICK ROSCOE ’17

by Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas P. Roscoe WILLIAM RUKUBA ’19

by Dr. and Mr. Nightingale RukubaNgaiza DR. ROBERT H. SASSER, JR.

by Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Sasser III ’82 JUDITH WINSHIP

by Ms. D. Page Sullenberger CATHY BOYD

by Ms. D. Page Sullenberger CLASS OF 1988

by Mr. R. Holt Trice ’88 JOHN J. WHELAN III ’20

by Mr. John Whelan BRYAN WOOD ’86

by Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence B. Wood, Jr. THOMAS YANCEY (BEN) ’79 & THOMAS A BUSH ’11

by Dr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Yancey CLASS OF 1983

by Sgt. James Robson Young

FACULTY PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT DAN DUNSMORE

by Better Living, Inc. EVAN GRABER

by Mr. and Mrs. Mark Werner

MOUNTAIN BIKE TEAM

GATEWAY TRAILS

by Mr. and Mrs. Paul Bower

BARON ATHLETIC COMPLEX

JIMMY CROCKER ’72

by Fix Media CHRIS HICKMAN ’12

by Mr. Melvin F. Hickman and Dr. Linda J. Hickman

GIBSON MEMORIAL CHAPEL

MR. AND MRS. D. FRANKLIN DANIELS, JR.

by Mrs. Beatrice R. Lyons DR. ROBERT H. SASSER, JR.

by Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Sasser III ’82

DINING HALL RENOVATION & EXPANSION SIRUI “ERIC” LI, ’19

by Ms. Yanmei Peng DR. ROBERT H. SASSER, JR.

by Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Sasser III ’82 WENTAO “PETER” SUN ’21

by Mr. Yuantian Sun and Ms. Qing Wei

ART DEPARTMENT

EVAN GRABER

by Mr. and Mrs. Mark Werner 41

CAPITAL AND BARON FUND GIFTS IN MEMORY OF ANDREW D. POCHTER ’10

by Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Pochter CHARLIE EDMUNDS II, ’68

by Mr. and Mrs. Eric Geilker

by Mr. and Mrs. J Peter Holland IV ’66

by Mr. and Mrs. Douglas G. Worrall COBY FRYE ’89

by Mr. M. Huntley Galleher ’80

by Mrs. Carl B. Frye, Jr. ’89

by Mr. S. John Joseph III ’70 DR B. NOLAND CARTER

by Mr. S. John Joseph III ’70 E. TURLEY HIGGINS

by Mr. and Mrs. Edus H. Warren

by American Endowment Foundation

by Mr. Alvin W. Daughtridge

by Mr. S. John Joseph III ’70

by Mr. and Mrs. Henry W. Underhill, Jr. GEORGE MAYO

by Mr. Harry B. Bainbridge and Mrs. Tara A. Scanlon

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MARC SHOOK ’74

by Mr. W. C. Allen

by Mr. and Mrs. Tyler Anthony

by Mrs. Nancy Baillio

by BMR Investments

by Mr. and Mrs. Christopher J. Ettel

by Mr. and Mrs. Jim Field

by Mr. Henry T. Franklin ’74

by Franklin Family Foundation

by Mr. and Mrs. Stephan Gordon

by Ms. Ann Host

by Jaffe, Caplan, Fleder, LLP

by Rear Admiral and Mrs. Frederick L. Lewis

by Ms. Susan Nordlinger

by Palladium Partners, LLC

by Ms. Susan T. Pender

by Mr. and Mrs. Raymond G. Robbins

by Mrs. J. Kelly Robinson ’74

by Mr. and Mrs. William D. Sessoms

by Mr. and Ms. Raymond D. Tindel

by Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm S. Van de Water MARK HEADEN

by Mr. James Gregory Headen ’81

MRS. NANCY FIFE PRIOR

by Mr. Roger A. Prior, Jr. ’69 NICK CARTER II

by Mr. and Mrs. Edward D. Tayloe II PATRICK PARKER ’78

by Mr. Thomas J. Parker R AY HODGES ’73

by Mr. E. Allen Churchill, Jr. ’73

by Mr. and Mrs. Bucky Westmoreland ROGER A. PRIOR

by Mr. Roger A. Prior, Jr. ’69 STIMP HAWKINS

by Mr. and Mrs. William Schnauffer IV ’65 JOSEPH MOOREFIELD ABR AMO ’96

by Mr. and Mrs. Vincent J. Abramo

by Mr. Sharif Massoud

by Mr. Scott Wachs ANTHONY T. NOEL ’78

by Mr. and Mrs. Richard M. Noel

ST. GEORGE SOCIETY Recognizing those who have included Blue Ridge School in their estate plans.

Mrs. Myrtle Knight Adams* Mrs. Janet R. Aldridge Mr. Andrew J. Asch, Jr.* Mr. William S. Ballenger V Mrs. Charlotte Marie Fowler Bentley* Mrs. Margaret P. Bogle* Mrs. Francis P. Brawley* Mrs. Gillette M. Brown* Mr. and Mrs. Edward H. Brownfield, Jr. ’66 Mrs. Thomas P. Bryan Jr.* Mr. John E. Buckey ’88 Mr. George A. Bush, Jr.* Mr. Beirne B. Carter* Dr. William S. Carver II ’75 Mr. and Mrs. Arthur T. Coe* Mr. Richard D. Cooke III ’68 Ms. Margaret Ann M. Curran Mr. and Mrs. D. Franklin Daniels Jr. Mr. K. Collier deButts ’97 Mr. Richard E. deButts, Jr. ’65 Mr. R. Burke Earley ’86 Mr. Thad W. Evans, Jr. Mrs. Anthony J. Ewell Mrs. Lyman N. Fairbanks, Jr.* Mr. Edward H. Faulconer Mr. Leonard B. Fleming III ’75 Mr. Leonard B. Fleming*

Mrs. Robert N. Flood* Mr. M. Huntley Galleher ’80 Mr. John Haskins Glass ’98 Ms. Marylon Rogers Glass Mr. Nathan L. H. Golder ’01 Mrs. Will R. Gregg* Mr. Richard D. Hall III ’89 Mrs. Margaret Hall Hamilton* Mr. and Mrs. J Peter Holland IV ’66 Mrs. Mary M. Holtzclaw* Mr. James L. Jessup, Jr. ’69 Mrs. James A. Kirkland Mrs. Suzanne T. Little* Mr. Robert B. Livy* Mr. Boyd E. Lyon, Jr. Mrs. Beatrice R. Lyons Mrs. Winona M. Madren* Mr. David N. Marion* Mr. William E. Massey, Jr. ’70 Dr. and Mrs. Edward M. McFarlane* Mr. Joseph M. Mercer* Gething C Miller, Trust Mr. P. Brooks Minford ’09 Mr. John P. Moore ’74 Mr. Norman W. Morris* Mr. Sam A. Murphy ’98 Mr. and Mrs. Sam W. Murphy Mrs. Charlotte B. Nobile*

Mr. William A. Parker III ’71 Ms. Alice D. Parvin Mr. Frank D. Pendleton* Mr. and Mrs. L. Parker Perkins III ’84 Mrs. Caroline B. Petty* Mr. and Mrs. Albert A. Rayle III Dr. Jacqueline A. Rice Mr. Edward N. Richards II ’82 Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Sasser III ’82 The Reverend John C. Smith Dr. and Mrs. Don Sokolik Mrs. Henry F. Stern, Sr.* Mr. Sidney L. Stern II ’69 Mr. James L. Teeter ’43* Mr. David D. Townsend, Jr. ’75 Mr. John L. Trimmer Mr. Charles A. Vail, Jr. ’84 Mr. and Mrs. Julian P. Van Winkle III ’69 Mr. and Mrs. Robert R. Vinson, Jr. ’87 Mr. J. Clayton Wardlaw, Jr. ’90 Mr. G. Curtis Weaver, Jr. ’95 Mr. Dean M. Wilder Mrs. Mary L. F. Wiley* Mr. Hatcher C. Williams* Dr. and Mrs. John F. Yerger, Jr.

* Denotes deceased.

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VOLUNTEERS 2018-2019 BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Mr. Edward E. Cadmus III ’81 Mr. Alan L. Cates, J.D. Mr. R. Burke Earley ’86 Mr. John W. Gant Jr. Dr. David B. Hamer Mr. Ben W. Hiatt ’71 Mr. J. Peter Holland IV ’66 Mrs. Lana Ingram Mr. Kevin C. Jones, Esq. Ms. Jill Kalinski Mr. and Mrs. Archibald M. Morgan IV Mr. W. Mitchell Rue, Jr. ’81 Ms. Sharon Spence Rymer Mr. Robert H. Sasser III ’82 Ms. Alexandra G. Smith Ms. D. Page Sullenberger Ms. Hope Tate Mr. David D. Townsend, Jr. ’75 Mr. Joshua H. Watt ’72 Ms. Cynthia M. Weldon Mr. D. Palmer Young ’70

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2018-2019 ALUMNI LEADERSHIP COUNCIL Mr. R. Burke Earley ’86 Mr. Parker H. Douglass ’98 Mr. Morgan L. McNeel ’87 Mr. Robert R. Vinson ’87 Mr. G. Curtis Weaver, Jr. ’95 Mr. Matthew W. Harris ’04 Mr. Rory R. D. Bosek ’04

2018-2019 PARENT ASSOCIATION Mr. and Mrs. Archibald Morgan Mrs. Janet Alejandro Mrs. Kristen Jorgensen

2018-2019 NEW YORK AUXILIARY OF BLUE RIDGE SCHOOL Mrs. John A. Sipp, President of the Auxiliary Jacqueline M. Didier, Esq. Mrs. Paul L. Guillaro Mrs. Ernest E. Hunt IV Ms. Ellen Blair Marsteller Mrs. Douglas Beale Ms. Ann Lane Breit Mrs. Henry S. Brown

Mrs. Hynson Brown Ms. Alidia Claggett Ms. Missey Condie Mrs. R. Hunter Cushing Mrs. D. Franklin Daniels, Jr. Mrs. Roland W. Donnem Mrs. Anthony Ewell Ms. Adelaide Perry Farah Ms. Lucy Lee Gant Ms. Amy B. Glynn Mrs. Frederick Grace Mrs. E. Franklin Harris II Mrs. Eric L. Hoyle Mrs. Charles Brock Hughes III Mrs. John Lyons Ms. Laura E. Lysle Mrs. Warren J. McPhillips III Ms. Merri C. Moken Ms. Ginny Moore Mrs. Robert Myers Mrs. Robert H. Scarborough III Ms. Dee Schwab Mrs. George L. Selden Ms. Alexandra Gregg Smith Ms. Wendi M. Smith Mrs. Peter E. Stein Mrs. Henry McDonald Tate Ms. Mary B. Touchstone Mrs. William Barr Winship Ms. Nicole L. Wright

YORK AUXILIARY OF BLUE RIDGE SCH W E N OOL TH E

111TH BLUE AND WHITE BASH SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 2020 6:00 pm - 11:00 pm

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