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Alumni News
BEYOND THE GATES:
ALUMNI NEWS
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Contact Mary Baarcke ’94 at
Mary.Baarcke@charlestonday.org or submit your alumni news online at www.charlestondayschool.org/submit-class-note/.
Class of 1946 Class of 2008
The family and friends of Joyce Taft Kimbrell wish for the Charleston Day School community to know that Joyce passed away peacefully on May 29, 2021. Joyce loved her time at Charleston Day School and cherished the memories made here.
Class of 2002
Sisters, Frances deSaussure Murray (’02) and Ann deSaussure Biondi (’04), each welcomed daughters within six Margaret Huger Murray and weeks of each Willa James Biondi other. Margaret Huger Murray was born on April 30, 2021 and Willa James Biondi was born on June 16, 2021. Frances, her husband, Billy, daughters, Annie (2) and Margaret, just moved back to Charleston while Ann, her husband, Jamie, and Willa live in Alexandria, VA, at Episcopal High School. Congratulations!
Class of 2004
Susannah Nelson Darby and her husband, JC, welcomed their son, Nelson Homer Darby, on June 2, 2021. Nelson joins big brother, Charlie.
The Hagood Family Jacob P. Dustan recently accepted a position as Senior Cybersecurity Consultant with EY after spending four years at BB&T, now Truist, building two cybersecurity programs for the bank amidst the largest Caroline Hagood and financial services Wells Patrick merger since the Wells-Wachovia acquisition. Caroline Hagood married Wells Patrick on April 24, 2021 in Rockville, SC. Many CDS Scorpion alumni were in attendance. Congratulations to the Hagood family! Hattie Johnson married Harrison Hughes on October 3, 2020 at Combahee Plantation. Weezie Wilson ’07, Susan Wilson ’08, Margaret Blincow ’08, Caroline Hagood Patrick ’08, Gigi Wallace and Hattie Johnson Hughes ’08
Class of 2011
Class of 2006 Callan Joan Hagood was born on January 31, 2021 to Alec (’06) and Caroline Hagood. Cole Shubert was an Honors College/Carolina Top Scholar at University of South Carolina where he studied mechanical engineering. He is a test engineer for SpaceX in Texas. Scan this QR code to read the article the Honors College wrote on him this summer. Many thanks to Mrs. Finch for all that math training!
Class of 2013 Carter Shubert graduated summa cum laude from the University of South Carolina in May, 2021. He was a double major in International The Darby Family Business and Supply Chain/ Operations with a minor in Spanish. He has relocated to Charlotte, NC after taking a position with Red Ventures, the largest digital media firm in the country.
Johnson-Hughes wedding at Combahee Plantation
Cole Shubert at SpaceX Alumni News Continues on page 17
Carter Shubert
Class of 2016
Emma Navarro was named ACC Women’s Tennis Freshman of the Year. She is beginning her second year at University of Virginia.
Class of 2017
Emmett DeScherer graduated from Porter Gaud and will play Baseball at Sewanee, The University of the South, this fall.
Callie Harper graduated from Porter Gaud and will be on the Track and Cross Country team at Furman University this fall.
Standing Stones is the debut novel by Charlie Hastings, a graduate of the Charleston County School of the Arts. He has won numerous writing awards, including several Scholastic Gold and Silver Medals, several Scholastic Honorable Mentions, and the 2017 Carl Sandburg Poetry Contest 3rd Place prize. He has also been published in Best Teen Writing 2018. The book is a testament to the young men of our time, both to the romantic desire men have to be heroes and to the meek yet festering feeling men have to be accepted. It is a book that highlights everything wrong and the few things that are right with how young men, in particular, are brought up.
Class of 2020
Members of the Class of 2020 gathered on Folly Beach in June for a much belated CDS Graduation Party/ Reunion. The Class of 2020 was unable to gather for a party after their CDS “drivethrough” graduation due to COVID-19. Nineteen of the class of 31 are pictured here. We wish the Class of 2020, now entering their sophomore year in high school, all the best in the coming months!
Class of 2020 celebration
CHARLESTON DAY SCHOOL Historic Campus: The Gate House
As you stroll down Archdale Street in historic downtown Charleston, you may not even notice it. A tasteful green Charleston single house with a drive to the left flanked by a wrought iron gate. The house and the gate seem to have always been here; however, much went into renovating this property.
The green house at 7 Archdale Street is called the “Gate House” on the Charleston Day School campus. A neighbor to the school used to live here and sit on his porch, waving at school children as they came and went. When he passed away, the school was offered first rights to purchase the property. The Gate House was renovated by Charleston Day and became the facility manager’s home.
The gates at the drive were not originally there. In fact, they were brought over from the 1939 Charleston Day School facility on the corner of Elliott Street and Bedon’s Alley, the school’s second location run by founders Mary Stuart and Emily Tenney. It is said that these gates are originals created by legendary Charleston blacksmith Philip Simmons, each curve skillfully wrought by a master’s hands.
At one point, the house was utilized as the school’s administrative office space. The Gate House now serves as the kitchen facility for Charleston Day, the place where Flik Dining Services prepare the healthy and delicious meals enjoyed by students and faculty alike. You wouldn’t know the history of these gates, the house, and the stories and years behind them just by walking past. The same can be said for almost any location in this downtown neighborhood. Being in a historic Charleston campus is a privilege and an opportunity to be a good steward and a good neighbor. Our growth over the years has been forged with careful consideration for form, function, innovation and respect for history.
