Alumni Spotlight

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Mystery Alumni Photos

Can you identify the people in these photos? Email your answers by August 1 to: alumni@bullis.org The first person to answer correctly will win a prize from the Alumni Office!

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Photos from past issue:

So many alumni concurrently identified classmates in these photos that there were too many winners to name them all this time. Congratulations to all!

Photo 1: Friends from the class of 1982, Bob Pierce, Pete Minturn, and John Foery.

Photo 2: Katie Richardson and Jenn Saunders, from the class of 1991, enjoy a game.

CYNDI VASCO BULLIS ’83

Where Family and Bullis Intertwine

FFrom her DNA to her blueand Julia ’21. As a frontline Her uncle, William C. Bullis, and-gold spirit, Cynthia Bullis healthcare worker, Cyndi taught English; an aunt, Faith Vasco ’83 has Bullis in her understands the risks. “It’s a Bullis Mace, taught math; and blood. Granddaughter of the scary situation, but I love what Cyndi’s brothers, John ’79 and School’s founders, daughter of a I do. And I know it’s the right Eddie ’86, attended Bullis along former headmaster, married to thing to do. When I go out into with several cousins. Cyndi Founders’ Hall now stands.

an alumnus, she is also a Bullis the everyday world, I know what graduated from Bullis too, and parent, outgoing president of matters in life.” later married Kevin Vasco ’84; the Alumni Association, and their daughters are a current ex-officio Trustee. So many hats Family and Bullis are deeply student and new alumna. give her a unique role. intertwined in Cyndi’s life. Her grandparents, Commander As a toddler, Cyndi remembers Cyndi is also a CRNP (certified William Bullis and Lois Hoover being in a playpen beside her registered nurse practitioner) Bullis, founded the School in mother’s desk, watching Bullis at MedStar Washington 1930. Her father, Larry Bullis ’54, boys visit the office on the Silver Hospital Center, caring for attended the school, taught math Spring campus, where Judy Covid-19 patients, work that beginning in 1964, and was Bullis worked as the bookkeeper. has occasionally quarantined headmaster from 1980 to 1990; When the School moved to her from husband Kevin Vasco her mother, Judy Bullis, was the Potomac, Cyndi and her family ’84 and daughters Lucia ’20 school’s bookkeeper for years. lived in the old farmhouse where

When her grandfather and others agreed it was time for Bullis to go co-ed, Cyndi was among the first girls in the Class of 1983. That year Commander Bullis, an anchoring presence for over 50 years, passed away; her father, Larry, was already headmaster.

“All the girls formed a close and very diverse group. We are still good friends today and keep in touch,” Cyndi says.

She enjoyed Spanish class with Colonel Manuel Baca Jr.—a beloved teacher killed in a