Chat-Fall 2014

fall 2014

the alumnae magazine of chatham hall

the alumnae magazine of chatham hall

the alumnae magazine of chatham hall

the alumnae magazine of chatham hall

the alumnae magazine of chatham hall

the alumnae magazine of chatham hall

the alumnae magazine of chatham hall

the alumnae magazine of chatham hall

2 letter from the rector \ 3–7 chat with the rector: connection, vulnerability, growth 8–29 campus news \ 9–12 signature events \ 14–16 students 17–20 travel \ 21 book review: Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

Senior Class President Kilraine Pinyard ’15 and Student Council President Annika Tice ’15 prepare to bear the Chatham Hall banners at the Investiture of Rector Suzanne Walker Buck

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Rector Suzanne Walker Buck, addresses alumnae, students, faculty and staff, and guests at her Investiture as sixteenth head of School on Saturday, October 4, 2014

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Laura Rand ’06, Editor Design by Christine Walker Printing by Collinsville Printing Company, Martinsville, VA

chatham hall administration

Suzanne Walker Buck, Rector Maisie Deely, Director of Communications and Marketing Strategy Ned Edwards, Chaplain Martha Griswold, Academic Dean Emily Johns, Dean of Students

22–23 philanthropy \ 28–29 community \ 30 legacy parallels 32–44 class notes \ 45 a tribute to Ann Beal \ 47–61 annual report ex-officio members Christine Knight, Director of Advancement Ronald Merricks, Chief Financial and Facilities Officer Carney O’Brien, Director of Enrollment Management Sharon D. Williams, Director of College Counseling

board of trustees

Stacey M. Goodwin ’83, Chair Lucy McClellan Barrett ’53 Nina Johnson Botsford ’72 Katharine Bulkley ’77 Katharine Reynolds Chandler ’68

Laura Brown Cronin ’72 Sarah Martin Finn ’74 Jane M. Garnett ’73 Zachary Hairston P’15 Katherine Coleman Haroldson ’75 Mary Kay Karzas ’71 Sarah Monarchi Longpré ’84 Robert G. McIver P’10 Lisa Rosenberger Moore ’59 Robin Peake Stuart ’69 Michelle Thomas Supko ’02 Ross Walton P’16 Penelope Perkins Wilson ‘41, P’67

The Rt. Rev. Herman Hollerith, IV P’15 Melanie Hogg P ’15, President, Parent Advisory Committee Talmadge Ragan ’69, President, Alumnae Council

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Boyce Lineberger Ansley ’64, P’90 Polly Wheeler Guth ’44, P’70 Robin Tieken Hadley ’57

Chat is published by the Office of Advancement and is distributed to alumnae and those who have shown a continued interest in Chatham Hall. For comments and suggestions, or to request a copy of Chat, please send an e-mail to lrand@chathamhall.org.

Contributing Writers: Robin Musser Agnew ’77, Suzanne Walker Buck, Gwen Couch, Maisie Deely, Samantha Fleming, Kelly Fu ’15, Martha Griswold, Rachel Hightman ’18, Catherine M. LaDuke, Laura Rand, Mary-Michael Robertson ’15 Photography Credits: Mary Craft ’15, Maisie Deely, Wanda Gammon, Elizabeth Hollerith ’15, Stephanie Klein-Davis ’79, Catherine M. LaDuke, Maddison Meeks ’15, Laura Rand, Lisa Richmond, and Don Wood Chatham Hall complies with applicable federal and local laws prohibiting discrimination on the basis of race, creed,color, age, sex, disability, religion, national origin, or any other legally protected category.

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ConnectionVulnerabilityGrowth A conversation with Rector Suzanne Walker Buck and Board of Trustees Chair Stacey Goodwin ’83 On February 24, 2014, the Chatham Hall Board of Trustees voted to accept the enthusiastic, unanimous recommendation of the Search Committee for Suzanne Walker Buck to become the next Rector of Chatham Hall. Suzanne is an energizing and passionate leader who embraces the unique nature of boarding school environment to engage students and build strong relationships with all constituents. Let’s get to know Suzanne a little bit better…

Dear Friends Welcome to a new school year and to the fall issue of Chat. I can only imagine that you’re clamoring to tear through the pages of this publication, look for familiar faces, learn what’s happening in the lives of friends, and engage in the topics and current events of Chatham Hall. Like its readers, Chat is all about relationships—connection with one another, connection to the School, and the School’s connection to the larger world.

In the pages of this issue, we keep you tied to the experiences of those whom you love, and keep you apprised of what we’re doing and thinking here at Chatham Hall. We welcome you to share in our relationship with the greater world by reading about our new service program in India, our time with this year’s Leader in Residence, BBC reporter and author Katty Kay, and more.

Also within the pages of this Chat, you will get to know more about me.

From the Chat with the Rector interview with Board of Trustees Chair Stacey Goodwin ’83, to the list of Fun Facts, you’ll become better acquainted with my leadership style and philosophy. You’ll also become familiar with some of my more “humanistic” (code for “embarrassing”) qualities. For example, did you know that I took break dance lessons in 1982? Perhaps the only thing more humiliating than that was my haircut at the time! Anyway, I hope you will enjoy getting to know me as much as I am enjoying getting to know you.

I am thrilled to be a member of the Chatham Hall community. I look forward to celebrating with you all of the latest transpirations of our school and her people.

In the pages of this issue, we keep you tied to the experiences of those whom you love, and keep you apprised of what we’re doing and thinking here at Chatham Hall.

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beginning. Where did you grow up?

What was your path to Chatham Hall?

Stacey Goodwin ’83, Suzanne (SWB) I grew up in a Board of Trustees Chair suburb of Boston. Both of my parents were teachers, so education was a priority in our household.

In 10th grade I enrolled in Miss Porter’s, an all-girls boarding school in Connecticut. What an amazing experience! In girls’ schools you are given the physical and emotional space to discover who you are. Learning is not constrained to the classroom. The world is your laboratory. These were and remain powerful messages. I am most appreciative of the education I received in an all-girls school.

As an educator, I always knew I wanted to return to an all-girls school environment. When I learned of the Rector position at Chatham Hall, I could not pass up the opportunity to submit my candidacy.

SG I like what you said about physical and emotional space to discover who you are. In all-girls schools we also talk about the formative role of relationships and the power of mentorship. Are there teachers or mentors who have impacted you personally or professionally?

SWB I’ve been incredibly fortunate; there are so many people who have had a formative impact on my life and choice of career. My parents will always hold top honor on the list of special individuals. Whether their influence was

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from Suzanne: When my family and I moved to Chatham Hall this summer, I wrote a letter inviting the Chatham Hall community to share their reflections, inM particular, from C H Aand THA H A L L what’s special about the school. I was flooded with correspondence extoling the greatness of this institution and her people. Allow me to share a few excerpts within these pages:

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Of course there are many things I cherish about CH, but to me, the heart and soul of that school has always been its teachers. Teachers with genuine passion for the subjects they teach make lifelong learners of their students… –KA RIN SC HU TJE R ’ 83

SG Every leader has leadership style; what is your style?

the effect of nature or nurture, I’m still not certain.

In my work in schools, I have benefitted greatly from my relationships with outstanding professionals. While the roles and styles of each of these individuals have varied greatly, there are core threads. Each shared with me encouragement, pushed me to go beyond my comfort zone, grounded me with guiding principles of best practice, and provided a space—like that which we provide in girls’ schools—to explore, examine, make mistakes, and move beyond them.

SG I’m curious about this idea of making mistakes. Can you elaborate?

SWB Absolutely! Resilience is a hot topic in the fields of social psychology, neuro-psychology, and education. From research, we know that one of the greatest predictors of success is resilience—our ability to bounce back from adversity.

If our ability to grow as individuals and professionals is so closely related to this concept, we need to teach resiliency as

In an all-girls school you are given the physical and emotional space to discover who you are. Learning is not

Diocese of Southern Virginia The Rt. Rev. Herman Hollerith, IV P’15, Board of Trustees Chair Stacey Goodwin ’83, Rector Suzanne Walker Buck, and Chaplain Ned Edwards Suzanne Walker Buck and Stacey Goodwin ’83

a skill. And that means providing students with opportunities to dust themselves off after failure.

Vulnerability is scary. But it’s so important. We need to know how to function in uncertainty. We need to show our humanity. In the past few weeks I’ve delved into the work of researcher Brené Brown. Her findings and analysis in this area are inspirational. I highly recommend her most recent book Daring Greatly: How the Courage to be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Love, Live, Parent, and Lead and TED Talks.

constrained to the classroom.

SWB I could talk for hours about leadership. Actually, in September I co-

presented at the Secondary School Admission Testing Board’s annual conference about this very subject. At the core of my work is an emphasis on relationship—looking at how people and systems function with one another.

I took the Marcus Buckingham “Standout Assessment” and was not surprised that my leadership aligns with the style categories of “connector” and “teacher.”

Connecting is all about looking at interdependence and bringing resources to bear. Teaching is about helping others to understand information and the why and how of what we do.

As a leader new to Chatham Hall, I am examining everything. I am exploring the intention of why we do what we do and assessing our methods of doing so.

Intention is big with me!

In my leadership practice you will also see a commitment to providing clear communication, transparency, strategic thinking and implementation.

In addition, I will use metrics as an evaluative tool for measuring success and determining next courses of action.

SG This is your first time serving as head of a school. How have you

approached the role?

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s tudent SWB Through service at a number of independent schools, I have had the

from Chatham Halla variety of leaders. I have learned from both incredible fortune of observing the extraordinary and awful. While keen observation has been helpful, the past seven years at New Hampton School gave me the most exposure to and opportunity to effect institutional change. The work I did there trained me to take on the next stage in the journey of leadership. In July, I attended the from C H A T H A M H A L L National Association of Independent School Institute for New Heads. There I was joined by 90 other new heads of school (side note: only 27 of us were women) and we learned about everything from crisis management, and liability prevention, to building positive school culture, budget forecasting, and designing curriculum. I don’t think you are ever fully ready for that which you confront as a leader, but I am optimistic that I have tools to work effectively with people, to access resources, and institutional needs, and to fromtoC be H Amindful T H A M ofHindividual ALL serve effectively in my new role.

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Students Margaret O’Hare ’17, Mary Elizabeth Lively ’16, Anna Gardner ’18, and Claire Gardner ’15 offer prayers Penny Perkins Wilson ’41, Suzanne Walker Buck, Halsey Buck, and Johnny Buck

Trustees Nina Johnson Botsford ’72, Sarah Monarchi Longpré ’84, Melanie Hogg P’15, Talmadge Ragan ’69, and and Robin Peake Stuart ’69

Procession of international flags honoring the global nature of our School

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I had a fantastic three year experience at Chatham. What I most value of those years is that each of us was able to be our own unique selves. There was not a sense fromofCcompetition H A T H A Mregarding H A L L who had the best clothes, most money, or even the highest grades. We were able to accept each other as individuals. I have to say the hardest part of this experience of “unique-ness” at Chatham was when I attended college and realized that not every community was like Chatham Hall. – S UE M ETC A L F ’7 8

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Chatham Hall Celebrates Investiture of Sixteenth Head Of School More than four hundred students, alumnae, faculty and staff, and guests gathered on the front lawn at Chatham Hall on Saturday, October 4, 2014 to celebrate the Investiture of Suzanne Walker Buck as Rector and sixteenth Head of School.

The induction was conducted by the Rt. Rev. Herman Hollerith, IV; Bishop of the Diocese of Southern Virginia—and parent of Chatham Hall senior Elizabeth Hollerith ’15—with assistance by the Rev. Dr. Ned W. Edwards, Jr., Chaplain of Chatham Hall.

The service, officially investing Mrs. Buck with the responsibility for leadership of the Chatham Hall community, began with an academic procession of trustees and faculty members robed in academic regalia representative of their own universities and degrees. The procession included the international flags honoring the global nature of the school community. The service also included music from a student string quintet, the St. Mary’s Choir, presentations of symbolic gifts by Students, Faculty and Staff, Alumnae Council and Trustees, as well as prayers, scripture readings, and a reading from the Tao Te Ching by Johnny Buck, the Rector’s husband.

The new Rector’s remarks celebrated Chatham Hall’s rich history, vibrant present, and exciting future. She praised the school and its legacy, saying “At the root of Chatham Hall is the spirit of remarkable individuals, individuals who share a commitment to intellectual growth, to character development, to community formation, and to making a difference in the greater world. There is a common thread woven in the fabric of our community. For over 120 years, our students, teachers, and alumnae have modeled an intrinsic desire for connection. This connection takes form as relationships to each other and to ideas. As individuals and a school, we search for meaning, we apply understanding, and we demonstrate empathy. We act. We engage.”

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most, I am charged with two tasks: get to know the Chatham Hall community and to secure her sustainability for generations to come. The more complex question is how do I do these.

In sum, I will be spending time with every constituency, assessing systems, introducing strategic models of operation and bringing financial and human resources to the institution.

SG What have been some of your favorite moments at

Chatham Hall since arriving here in July?

SWB Summer provided such a great opportunity to begin meeting alumnae and friends of Chatham Hall. I really enjoyed having time to acclimate and establish relationships.

As summer ended, registration days were like Christmas for me—the gift of receiving students was amazing. I think I am happiest now that we are in the swing of day-to-day school life. The School is filled with the energy of students and faculty. I’m thrilled to sit in on classes, attempt athletic practices, attend Senior Chapel Services, and host birthday

SWB The people! I was indelibly impressed by the dedication

and commitment of everyone affiliated with Chatham Hall.

Girls spoke eloquently about their love for the School. Staff members made sure I knew that “Chatham Hall is family.”

Faculty shared their passion for teaching “their girls.” And Alumnae made certain I was aware of the transformational powers of the School. Combine this with exceptional programs, facilities, and infrastructure. Chatham Hall is an exceptional place.

SG Do you have a favorite Chatham Hall story?

SWB As part of the Rector search process I visited Chatham

Hall last winter. While I enjoyed time with everyone, I have to say that my interview sessions with students were the most memorable. In one of these I was asked “Mrs. Buck, on a scale from 1–10 how much do you want to be at Chatham Hall, because we don’t want anyone who doesn’t

want to be here.” In a subsequent session I was asked “Mrs. Buck, do you see Chatham Hall as a stepping stone in your career or are you committed to the School for the long haul?” Whoa! The Chatham Hall girls asked the most probing questions out of any group. I was impressed by their intellect, their love of the School and their stewardship of the institution.

Who wouldn’t want to work with such phenomenal girls?

SG What do you hope Chatham Hall girls will bring to the world?

I think what I most learned from Chatham Hall is that a sense of shared history andCexperience from H A T H A Mand HALL rituals and routine teach you that you are part of something bigger than you and bigger than your problems.

We were united by what we had in common, and we were not defined by our differences. We were encouraged to grow and to explore within a structure and a value system.Chatham Hall made me (and countless others) a smart, strong, confident woman.

–PA M E L A M AYE R ’ 74

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SWB A sense of confidence, resourcefulness, resilience, and responsibility.

Those who are privileged to an exceptional education must serve others and impact change. In my Convocation remarks I shared one of my favorite quotes from social anthropologist, Margaret Mead. “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed it’s the only thing that ever has.” As thought leaders, activists, community contributors, and family members, our girls have enormous potential to positively impact others. They are agents of change.

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priorities for this first year. How do you describe them?

parties at the Rectory.

SG Let’s go back even further in your journey to Chatham Hall. You met the School community last spring and shared that you were ecstatic to be a part of this community. We’re so glad you are. What most attracted you to Chatham Hall?

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“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed it’s the only thing that ever has.”

–margaret mead

Suzanne Walker Buck and The Rt. Rev. Herman Hollerith, IV P’15

suzanne’sFunfacts H u s b a n d The Great Johnny Buck C h i l d r e n Halsey (8) Nina (17), Oliver (15)

Technically Oliver and Nina are my step-children but this term fails to represent their meaning in our family’s life.They reside outside of Philadelphia with their mother and step-father.

D o g Kaya (4), our Black Labrador Retriever H o b b i e s Running, playing sports, any outdoor activity, reading, crossword puzzles, travel, entertaining, cooking, and eating.

Fav o r i t e N o v e l Catcher in the Rye....Perhaps a cliche for someone who works in a boarding school, but it’s so good! I read it once a year.

I d e a l W e e k e n d Spending time with friends and

family Enjoying an outdoor activity. Cooking a delicious meal. Laughing. A lot!

F r e q u e n t e d Va c at i o n S p o t s

Mid-coast Maine and our mountain home in New Hampshire

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It’s a toss up between a series of awkward haircuts and taking breakdance lessons.

Kat Wilhelm ‘15 brought her pet turtle along to celebrate Rector Buck’s Investiture!

Rector Buck turns the rings of seniors Susanna Hogg ‘15, Delaney Evans ‘15, and Mereweather Lackey ‘15

W h at a r e y o u c u r r e n t ly r e a d i n g Even

This I Get to Experience (the biography of Norman Lear), Flora and Ulysses (A children’s novel Halsey and I share at bed time), and Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership.

A student string quintet rehearses before the Investiture

John Henry Waller and Suzanne Walker Buck

Crossword puzzles, Ink or pencil

Ink, of course.

T u r t l e L o v e Would you believe that over ten years

ago Johnny and I had a turtle theme at our wedding?

Johnny created a beautiful turtle print that we used as the motif on our invitations and programs. In our ceremony we celebrated turtle symbolism and meaning from different cultures. On our honeymoon we swam with sea turtles in Hawaii. We love turtles. Needless to say, we feel right at home with Chatham Hall’s mascot.

Faculty members Mary Edmonds, Molly Thomas, Cheryl Haymes, Geoff Braun, Ron Merricks, and Don Wood line up for the faculty procession

P h r a s e c o m m o n ly u s e d Hooray For Life!

St. Mary’s Choir performs

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KATTY KAY, BBC WORLD NEWS AMERICA ANCHOR AND AUTHOR

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Co-author of the recent New York Times best selling book The Confidence Code: The Science and Art of Self-Assurance—What Women Should Know and BBC World News America anchor Katty Kay visited Chatham Hall on October 24 and 25, 2014 as the 2014-2015 Polly Wheeler Guth ’44 Leader in Residence.

Kay arrived on Friday, October 24 and spent the afternoon meeting with small groups of students. Kay invited the girls to “Be bold” when asking questions, and gave inspiring insight into her career as a journalist as well as her research into the impact of confidence versus competence when it comes to women finding success in work and life.

Much of the discussions were generated from her recent book The Confidence Code where Kay and Co-Author Claire Shipman posit that when it comes to women, confidence matters as much as competence. Friday evening Kay addressed a packed house with a Keynote speech in the Van Voorhis Lecture Hall with students, parents, alumnae, faculty, and guests in attendance.

Academic Dean Martha Griswold commented, “We are so fortunate to have been able to welcome Katty Kay to Chatham Hall as this year’s Leader in Residence. Her stature in the news industry is unrivaled, as is her desire to help women confront the dualities of

work and life. Katty did her homework, learning about the School, its programs, and its students. She had as her mission to connect at a deep level with our students—and she did just that— with warmth, humor, and conviction.”

On Saturday, October 25, Kay again met with students in small groups as well as hosted an intimate Question and Answer session. Kay’s engagement with the student body throughout her time as Leader in Residence was dynamic; Rector Suzanne Buck remarked “It is an honor to host Katty Kay here at Chatham Hall!

Designed to challenge our thinking, engage us in discourse, and to inspire our actions, the Leader in Residence program is the alchemy of inquiry and execution.

As a journalist, Katty Kay asks questions, yet more importantly, she demonstrates how investigation can evoke powerful change. She embodies the mission of the Leader in Residence program, and that of Chatham Hall.”

Kay herself was invigorated by her time at the school, saying, “My visit to Chatham Hall was a unique and wonderful experience. The questions were phenomenal—smart and honest and curious. I was particularly struck by the warm environment and the way these young women really support each other and cheer each other on. Great role models!”

The Confidence Code: The Science and Art of Self-Assurance—What Women Should Know

The Class of 2014 celebrates after winning Song Contest, May 2014

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Katty Kay and Claire Shipman • HarperCollins Publishers, 2014 The Confidence Code: The Science and Art of Self-Assurance—What Women Should Know by ABC News correspondent Claire Shipman and Katty Kay, BBC World News America anchor presents the reader with the argument that confidence often outweighs competence when it comes to job promotions and overall career success. Kay and Shipman go on to point out that women project less confidence than men do. How can one explain the apparent confidence gap between men and women? The Confidence Code attempts to answer this question, in addition to providing an indepth scientific and social investigation into confidence.

Kay and Shipman find that men typically overestimate their abilities, while women underestimate them. Men also tend to bounce back more quickly after a failure or loss. Kay and Shipman suggest that women should work to refrain from ruminating, or repeatedly focusing their thoughts on past failures. Through their extensive research, Kay and Shipman present factors including genetics and environment and how those factors affect confidence levels.

The Polly Wheeler Guth ’44 Leaders in Residence Fund is a permanent endowment funded through grants from Partridge Foundation.

Kay and Shipman acknowledge that The Confidence Code is not meant to serve as a self-help guide; rather, it is an exploration of the confidence barrier between men and women. The discussions presented in The Confidence Code focus primarily on success as a function of two specific qualities, confidence and competence. If any negative criticism can be offered, it perhaps could center upon the fact that Kay and Shipman appear to define success based solely upon a person’s reputation, level of management position, and salary.

While Kay and Shipman mainly address a female target audience, specifically women working in business or management fields often dominated by powerful men, many of their findings can apply to females and males of all ages, walks of life, and occupations.

Ultimately, the argument presented in The Confidence Code is thought-provoking and effective. Kay and Shipman’s persuasive anecdotes are reinforced by well researched, believable facts and statistics, and reading The Confidence Code will undoubtedly provoke interest in, and enhance readers’ understanding of, the confidence barrier between men and women.

- MARY-MICHAEL ROBERTSON ’15

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Graduation 2014

Class of 2014 College Attendances Albright College American University Barnard College Boston University Carnegie Mellon University Coastal Carolina University Davidson College Dickinson College Elon University Emory University Goucher College Grinnell College Guilford College Jacksonville University James Madison University McGill University North Carolina State University Pomona College Purdue University Savannah College of Art and Design Sewanee: The University of the South The College of Wooster The University of Alabama University of Edinburgh University of Richmond University of Rochester University of South Carolina University of Tennessee, Knoxville University of Virginia Virginia Commonwealth University Wake Forest University Washington and Lee University Yale University

Commencement on the front lawn included a special Chinese zither performance by

Xiangxiang Luo ’14,

as well as musical performances by St. Mary’s Choir, and Dr. Fountain and Missy Fountain’s daughter and opera singer Christina Fountain Loeffler.

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in honor of former Rector Dr. Gary Fountain’s tenure at Chatham Hall.

senior family gift Led by Lin and Sterling Laffitte, parents of Mary Madison Laffitte ’14, the families and friends of the Class of 2014 presented Chatham Hall with a Senior Family Gift in the amount of $133,867 on Friday, May 30, 2014. $20,764 was added to the new, permanent, endowed fund, The Gary J. Fountain Student Travel Award. Income from this fund will provide scholarships for students each year to participate in Chatham Hall’s many travel opportunities. An additional $1,296 was given by senior parents to cover expenses related to their volunteer work on campus. And finally, $111,807 was given or pledged to the Parent Fund, underscoring the 2014 senior families’ commitment to supporting the salaries of the teachers, coaches, house faculty, administrators, and staff, who have nurtured their children, encouraged them to dream, and championed their successes. $10,907 of this amount was contributed to the 2013–2014 Parent Fund Drive and $100,900 was pledged to the Parent Fund over the next ten years to honor annually the women of the Class of 2014.

Tammy and Dan Waters, parents of Kathryn Waters ’14, are the 2014 recipients of the Peter and Dee Dee McKay Award, presented annually to a parent or couple who provide leadership to the School. Tammy—a key member of the Chatham Hall Administration—and Dan have been central to the success of Chatham Hall’s Robotics Team—Dan as a mentor, and Tammy as the team’s number one fan.

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Parents Weekend 2014 was a funfilled weekend featuring an academic recognition service in St. Mary’s Chapel, college counseling workshops, a “Parent to Parent” reception, senior day for fall athletics, a Parent Advisory Committee sponsored breakfast and discussion about “growth mindset,” a Bluegrass picnic where we were joined by members of the Board of Trustees and Alumnae Council, and more! We capped off the action-packed weekend by celebrating our new Rector Suzanne Walker Buck at her Investiture on Saturday, October 4.

Virginia Living Magazine recently recognized Chatham Hall as one of the “Top High Schools & Colleges 2014” in their October 2014 State of Education feature, a listing of the most innovative programs in the Commonwealth. The Discovery Challenge program won a mention in the Science, Math, and Technology category. The issue also featured an article about Chatham Hall’s Leader in Residence Program, and highlighted the visit from Journalist and Author Katty Kay. Virginia Living is Virginia’s premier, statewide magazine and has a readership of over half a million!

Call for Distinguished Alumna Award Nominations The Chatham Hall Distinguished Alumna Award, established in 2010, recognizes a graduate who has distinguished herself through significant, outstanding contributions in her profession and/or meritorious public service. This Alumna embodies the characteristics and values of Chatham Hall in her daily life and inspires excellence in others.

Awardees represent diverse professions and interests. Polly Wheeler Guth ’44 and Povy LaFarge Bigbee ’51 were honored as the 2014 Distinguished Alumnae.

Visit www.chathamhall.org/alumnae/distinguished-alumnaaward for detailed information on how to nominate an alumna and to read about past award recipients. Questions?

Contact Amy Blair ablair@chathamhall.org, 434.432.5508.

CHatHam Hall Summer Camps 2015 Summer Investigators Science Camp This camp is built around the development of a student’s 21st century skills, especially those related to problem solving, collaboration and curiosity. This is accomplished through the integration of the areas of biology, chemistry, and technology into a program where students assume the role of crime scene investigators in order to solve a mock crime.

Science Camp contact: Dennis Oliver, doliver@chathamhall.org 434-432-2941

Summer Riding Program Join our Riding Faculty for an exceptional riding and residential experience. The riding facilities on Chatham Hall’s campus include: the indoor Mars Arena, two outdoor sand rings, and a permanent hunter-trial course. Many School horses of all shapes and sizes provide the appropriate challenges for all riders to learn and improve.

Summer Riding Program contact: Samantha Pleasant Fleming, sfleming@chathamhall.org or 434-432-5605

Camp Dates

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July 12–18

Riding Program Session I for girls ages 9–16

July 12–24

Summer Investigators Science Camp for girls grades 6–8

July 19–25

Riding Program Session II for girls ages 9–16

July 26–31

iding Program Session III (Intensive) for ages 12–17, Open to R Chatham Hall Riders with the option to show August 2 & 3

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Turtle Sports Prayer

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Offered by Chaplain Ned Edwards at the May 2014 Purple and Gold Banquet

Lord, we’re the mighty turtles, and

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Chatham Hall’s varsity soccer and tennis teams finished out the 2014 spring season in the Blue Ridge Conferance Semifinals (BRC). Both teams traveled together to play BRC conference rival North Cross School.

Jingi Hairston ’15 retained her status as a BRC First Team All-Conference performer as she went 5-4 on both the No. 1 singles and No. 1 doubles side of the court for the 2014 season.

Madison McAdams ’14 was awarded the Gene Scott Connor Memorial Tennis Championship Trophy.

Co-captain Walker Abbott ’14 and Co-captain Jane Hawthorne ’16 each received post-season accolades for their performance on the soccer field. Hawthorne received First Team AllConference honors and All-Tournament honors as well. Walker Abbott was named to the AllTournament team.

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faithful, brave

And ask your presence this evening, for all you us do.

help

We rode in buses for hours, through and

defeat,

victory

But we’re the mighty turtles and our spirits

can’t be Beat.

The tauntings from our enemies, bounce right

off our turtle shells We’re known for our good sportsmanship, and our turtle yells.

We played hard, fought, and traveled, and

Alice Richter Trophy for Best All-Around Horsewoman—Mary Madison Laffitte ’14 Katharine Lea Reynolds Athletic Award for the Best Athlete—Susanna Hogg ’15 2013–2014 Chatham Hall Athletic Championship Bowl—Purple Team

thanks, O God, for all that we have

Lord, we’re the not be slow,

mighty turtles, but help us

amazing coaches, who guide

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Gold Team Captain Susanna Hogg ’15

Purple Team Captain Yolanda Mantilla ’15

2014–2015 Bit ‘n Spur President Ana-Christina Zentner ’16

2014–2015 IEA Riding Team Captain Eliza Caprio ’15

Respectful, dauntless, courageous; faithful, trusting and brave, We’re the mighty turtles, proud of what we gave.

So like the little turtles, who eat lettuce and bits of meat,

truly thankful, for the food we are

Let us be about to eat.

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CAC President Claire Mayo ’15

On their first trip to the Zone 3 Championship in March, Chatham Hall’s IEA Team finished 9th out of 70 teams. Riders highlighted during the competition at Garrison Forest School, Owings Mills, Maryland in April were Emily Simanskis ’15 and Sara Stuart ’15, both with second placings in the Team Novice classes.

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Congratulations to Chatham Hall math teacher Ken Tyburski, who is the 2014 Amateur Masters Disc Golf World Champion! Ken traveled to St. Paul, Minnesota for the Professional Disc Golf Association Amateur Masters World Championship in July, besting a field of 72 masters. Ken’s disc golf career began shortly after he arrived at Chatham Hall nine years ago. He played disc golf once in college, but rediscovered the sport when a former Chatham Hall colleague, who often played disc golf on campus with his son, inspired him to play again. Plans to go pro are in Ken’s future.

Chatham Hall Tennis Court Project The Summer Riding Program saw riders from all over: London, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia ... riders traveled near and far to spend a week or two at Chatham Hall! Campers rode twice a day in lessons with Chatham Hall Riding Faculty and were able to try new things, find themselves challenged, and make strong connections with Chatham Hall horses and their new found friends up on dorm. See page 13 for Summer Camps Ad.

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2014 NATIONAL GIRL SCOUT CONVENTION:

Discover, Connect, Take Action: Girls Change the World

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from C H A T H A M H A L L I am extremely excited to have represented the Girl Scouts of Virginia Skyline Council (GSVSC) at the triennial National Girl Scout Convention in Salt Lake City, Utah in October. As a part of the GSVSC delegation, the from CI participated H A T H A Min H A Girl L L Chatham Hall was an exhibitor in Scout Leadership Institute (GSLI). The topics GSLI the Hall of Experiences at the 2014 National Girl Scout Convention, participants could choose from were Basic Needs, carrying the story about what we do Education, Self Image, Teen Violence, Healthy at Chatham Hall. Pictured, Chatham Hall Director of Enrollment ManRelationships, Inclusion/Diversity, and Gender agement Carney O’Brien and Rachel Equality. We were inspired by this year’s keynote Hightman ’18 speaker, Dr. Tererai Trent. Dr. Trent’s remarkable journey from an impoverished village in Zimbabwe to her current place in the world of education and humanitarian work was featured in the book, Half the Sky. We had the opportunity to meet with Anna Maria Chávez, CEO Girl Scouts of the USA; Elizabeth Smart, founder of The Smart Foundation; Candice Kislack, TOMS brand-building and operations specialist; Bonnie St. John, Paralympic medalist; and Michele Norris, NPR host and correspondent, among the many speakers at the convention. Now that the conference has ended, each delegate must make a plan from what we have learned and we will work to implement that plan in our communities to make a difference.

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G I R L S C O U T S O F C H AT H A M H A L L N I N A B E S T ’ 1 5 Girl Scouts of Connecticut, Troop 10322 V I C T O R I A B O N G A R D ’ 1 6 Girl Scout Juliette (A Juliette is a girl who participates in Girl Scouts as an individual member) L E L I A C A R L S O N ’ 1 8 Girl Scouts of North-Central Alabama, Troop 350 R A C H E L H I G H T M A N ’ 1 8 Virginia Skyline Council, Troop 883 S A B R I N A Y V E L L E Z ’ 1 8 Girl Scouts of Greater Atlanta, Troop 14451

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Chatham Hall offers a holistic approach to girls’ development to complement our rich academic curriculum. The GIRLS program has been implemented in collaboration with the Health and Wellness Team, the Chaplain, House Faculty and Class Sponsors. One GIRLS Day is held each semester. Academically motivated and goal-oriented, Chatham Hall girls are “on-the-move.” Our Mission is to help girls thrive: to be both hardy and happy. The mission of our GIRLS program is to provide a safe, nurturing, and structured environment while educating girls through an integrated and developmentally appropriate experience where girls are at the center. Two full days (GIRLS Days) of the school year are devoted to engaging our girls in dialog about happiness and well-being. A variety of workshops are offered on each GIRLS Day, including an exciting workshop—Survival Skills for Girls on the Go—with Dr. Lisa Damour, Director of Laurel School’s Center for Research on Girls. Each day will also allow ample time for each girl to reflect on what is meaningful and purposeful for her; to build healthy connections with peers and adults; and, to cultivate new skills and strategies that can both enhance her learning and relationships, while fostering resilience. Students need permission to unplug, create, reflect, and play. GIRLS Day is designed for doing just that!

Chatham Hall Girl Scout Raises $13,000 to Build Women in Service Monument Through a Girl Scout Silver Award project, Chatham Hall freshman Sabrina Yvellez ’18 has raised $13,000 for a monument honoring women in service for a Veterans Memorial Walk in her hometown of Johns Creek, Georgia. Sabrina, a member of a military family, began raising money for the project, organized by the Johns Creek Veteran’s Association, when she was just 12 years old. Thinking at first that she would raise money for a bench in the park, Sabrina later decided to think big and take on the entire Women in Service portion of the memorial walk. Inspired by female veterans who exemplify the Girl Scout motto of “Courage, Confidence, and Character,” she threw herself into the project, making business cards, sample pavers, and a trifold display—all used to assist her in raising funds at events, bake sales, and in meetings with area CEOs and presidents of companies. Named a “Hometown Hero,” Sabrina caught media attention, helping her to reach her goal. The four-acre walk features a total of 13 monuments, along with benches and pathways, encouraging quiet and contemplation. Sabrina was a guest of honor at the memorial walk dedication held over Veteran’s Day weekend.

Growth A nurturing program that is dedicated to the physical, intellectual, socio-emotional, and spiritual development of adolescent girls.

Independence A program that cultivates independence through trusting relationships and the cultivation of personal responsibility (self-awareness, self-reliance, self-advocacy, and self-care) in girls.

Relationships A program that fosters positive and meaningful relationships with peers and adults by surrounding them with mission-driven faculty who are able to teach skills, serve as role models, and guide girls in their social development.

Leadership A program that teaches girls collaboration, problem-solving, ownership of and responsibility for projects, and community initiatives.

Spirituality A Link Group program that develops and nurtures the spirit of girls by providing meaningful and purposeful exchanges through relationships, personal reflection, and community service.

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This past March, I traveled to Sweden and Norway through the Hallam Hurt ’63 Student and Faculty Foreign Travel Award to investigate the high level of social wellness under the Nordic social democratic system. My research interest was first prompted by a UN report on happiness levels of people around the world. In the survey, all five of the Nordic countries (Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, and Iceland) ranked within top ten, with Sweden and Norway ranking 2nd and 5th respectively. Since all five of the Nordic countries share a similar system of welfare state, we speculated that the high level of happiness of Nordic people could be a result of the government’s efforts. My sponsor and I chose to investigate Sweden and Norway because they share very similar governmental systems; however, they arrived at Social Democracy under different historical contexts, offering us diversity in our samples of investigation.

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from C HI interviewed A T H A M an HA L L at care systems. officer a Stockholm University, an immigrant to Sweden, and officers at US embassies in both Sweden and Norway; visited hospitals in both countries; witnessed protests; and attended a parliament question session in Norway, wishing to better understand how the government may enable their people to be happy by influencing them in different spheres of their lives.

Although UN reports and surveys have indicated that Sweden and Norway are some of the world’s happiest countries, after spending time in each country conducting my research, it is clear that both countries are far from utopian societies. Both Sweden and Norway are experiencing increasing civil unrest as more and more citizens are calling for lower taxation. There’s a growing polarization in Swedish society over immigration—those who want to limit immigration, and those who want to continue to welcome immigrants. It is important to note that everyone we spoke with understands that problems exist in their current welfare programs, and though certain parties are calling for change, those parties do not want to eradicate their social programs. They just want to find resolutions to sustain the programs.

Kelly Fu ’15 with Chatham Hall alumna Katarina Greve ’06, who Kelly interviewed in Stockholm, Sweden

Despite the issues we have seen in the welfare system, we saw a lot of contentment, appreciation, and pride in the people, knowing that their government is taking care of them. If there’s a formula for happiness in Sweden and Norway, it is this feeling of security.

My research interest was first prompted by a UN report on happiness levels of people around the world.

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Chatham Hall’s iQuest program encourages students to extend their curiosity beyond the borders of campus and follow it anywhere in the world it leads.

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The Evolution of Graffiti in Rome:

Comparing and Contrasting the Ancient and Modern How has Roman graffiti evolved as a social and political medium throughout the ancient and modern periods, and what is the purpose of graffiti, and the mindset of the artist, in both of these eras? That’s the question Kate Thomas ’15 set out to answer when she embarked on a journey to Rome in Summer 2014.

Kate will present her findings to the School community this spring.

“I wanted to know why people, specifically Romans, as their graffiti is the best preserved and most continuous throughout history, have been choosing to mark up walls and trains and doors for longer than Christianity has been a world religion. For whatever reason, graffiti has consistently followed urbanization for the greater part of recorded history. What sort of reasons do graffiti artists have to justify their art? Does location have special meaning? Does graffiti directly correlate with rebellion, or dissatisfaction with social, political or community standards? Did ancient street artists have the same intents as modern street artists? To me, graffiti is art. It is far more passionate than many of the masterpieces found in the Louvre, the Met, or the Vatican. It is a statement, whether social or political, and that, to me, is fascinating.”

sit / shake / serve Sit, Shake, Serve, an iQuest project designed by Mary Craft ’15 and Maddison Meeks ’15, explores the importance of service dogs and their importance in the lives of the people they serve.

Mary and Maddison, both dog lovers, knew that they wanted to design a project around dogs, but the girls also wanted to work with people. The idea to focus on service dogs emerged when Mary started thinking about a dog her dad—who is a diabetic— owned. Though she wasn’t a trained service dog, she would alert her owner each time his sugar began to drop—fascinating!

Peggy Law, Founder and Executive Director of Training at Service Dogs of Virginia in Charlottesville, served as an off-campus mentor for Mary and Maddison, introducing the girls to trainers and three service dog owners: a woman with diabetes, a 15-year-old boy with autism and a heart condition, and an 18-year-old woman with a muscle condition, resulting in issues with balance. The first two dog owners have Labradors,

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who are commonly used as service dogs because of their gregarious nature, good temperament, and ability to be trained easily. The third dog owner has a Great Dane. Because they are much stouter than Labradors, this breed is being used to help people who struggle with balance and need extra support.

Regardless of the type of dog, Mary and Maddison were astounded by the immediate bond shared by the dogs and their new owners. That bond is established within a few minutes, and from then on out, the dogs are constantly making eye contact, checking in on their new owners.

After spending time with service dog owners and their families, Mary and Maddison discovered a primary motivator for owning service dogs—bridging social gaps. Disability creates a cut off from the world, and people are more likely to approach someone with disabilities when they have a dog in tow. Next time you see someone with a service dog, Mary and Maddison encourage you to reach out!

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In August of 2014—more than 40 from yearsC Hafter A T H Athe M HALL onset of my obsession— Chatham Hall awarded me the professional development funds to study “Shakespeare’s Kings and Queens” through the Oxford-Berkeley program held at Merton College in Oxford, England.

2014 OXFORD-BERKELEY SPENCER FELLOW My fascination with Tudor England began in 1970 when I was taken to see the film Anne of the Thousand Days, starring Richard Burton and Genevieve Bujold. I excessively enacted my own versions of various scenes from the movie for any family member willing to watch—until the day my father announced that it was time for me to take my cues from the unparalled master: William Shakespeare. The first play we read together was the Bard’s history play, Henry VIII. Thus began my engagement in the study of Shakespeare. While reading the plays (and occasionally attending a live performance) satisfied my interest to some degree, I longed for an opportunity to travel to England to see where Shakespeare lived and worked. In August of 2014—more than 40 years after the onset of my obsession—Chatham Hall awarded me the professional development funds to study “Shakespeare’s Kings and Queens” through the Oxford-Berkeley program held at Merton College in Oxford, England.

Shakespeare lived through an extraordinary period of history, serving two monarchs—a queen and a king—as an actor, playwright, and poet. By focusing on

his unique stance on the monarchy, we gained insight into the literary, social, and political struggles of the time. We began with Richard III, the foundational story of Tudor history, then moved through Henry V, Hamlet, Macbeth, and The Winter’s Tale. This classroom study was enhanced by four theatre visits: Henry IV, Part 1 and Henry IV, Part 2 at The Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-Upon-Avon, Antony and Cleopatra at The Globe Theatre in London, and the Globe Touring Company’s King Lear in the Oxford University Bodleian Library Quad.

These nine plays spanned Shakespeare’s career giving us an appreciation for the enterprising young Shakespeare, as well as the more experienced theatrical expert.

Shakespeare was clearly fascinated by the depth of the human condition and found many possibilities to show this through his depiction of kings and queens.

Our academic class projects were as varied as the students in the class. One classmate performed Paulina’s impassioned monologue from The Winter’s Tale, while another researched Abraham Lincoln’s penchant for Shakespeare.

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When he mentioned the possibility of a field trip to the American Shakespeare Center in Staunton, Virginia, the two of us discussed a potential plan for an intergenerational Shakespeare event with Chatham Hall students! My own project was an original compilation of play scenes entitled Merely a Madness.

My vision for this piece brings the voices of many of Shakespeare’s female characters on stage together. Desdemona from Othello appears in a scene with Kate from The Taming of the Shrew. An omniscient narrator, Prologue, ties the scenes together and provides commentary on the plight of women then and now.

This trip to England was well worth the 40-year wait. My teaching has been reinvigorated, and I look forward to sharing my experiences with my students.

Incredible India Chatham Hall’s student service program in north India is the newest of our several purposeful travel experiences. This inaugural 13-day India program will run from March 8 through March 20, 2015 in Delhi, Agra, Jaipur, and rural Uttar Pradesh state.

“Incredible India” is intended as a fresh, strong companion to the School’s long-running signature service program in Cape Town, South Africa. This new program will shine a spotlight on India’s massive push to educate girls. It features a core three-day service experience at Pardada Pardadi Educational Society (PPES)—a spectacularly successful academic and vocational initiative for girls in Anupshahar village. Here, participants will explore gender and equality of opportunity.

Since our inaugural program in South Africa in 2007, we have seen Chatham Hall demonstrate empathy and take action with a “can-do-spirit.” Our programs have made a difference in many lives, established Chatham Hall as a forerunner in global service, and proven transformative for our girls.

Fully one-third of us at Chatham Hall have participated!

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“Wherever Chatham Hall girls go, they make an impact, and we have

found that these service trips have left indelible marks on our students and transformed their outlook in ways that they had never thought possible. Opening up our students’ eyes and hearts to a country of such beauty and which faces such struggles will strengthen their commitment to service and understanding of a world beyond that which they see everyday.” –Academic Dean Martha Griswold

Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

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I love crossword puzzles.

I remember the glorious day many years ago when I®received my first GAMES magazine, wherein I found “The World’s Most Ornery Crossword Puzzle ,” a two-and-a-half page wonder, with “hard” clues that folded over and hid the “easy” clues. I began the puzzle immediately, eschewing the easier clues, and the one-, two-, and three-star crossword puzzles in the magazine. Ornery schmornery!

Pencil in hand, I read the first clue. Hmm. I had gone through quite a bit of the “across” list before filling in any squares, and if memory serves, it was a three-letter giveaway clue (Think “cat.”) that existed because the crossword creator had to resort to this in order to make those other clues work.

Sweat dripping because I was embarrassed that I had only solved one clue, I realized that this puzzle was ornery.

I flipped back to the three-star puzzle, and with complete confidence, because I know how to solve a crossword puzzle, looked at the clue for one across, and blanched.

Reeling in my dreams to the two-star level, I found success, yet did have to think. I moved to the three-star puzzle and had a bit more success. Over time (GAMES magazine, at the time, came out only six times a year—not often enough, but often enough, because two months gave me time to return to puzzles, rework them, see patterns, get to know Will Shortz quite well, and find success.), I made progress, learning how to approach the crosswords, increasing my vocabulary and points of reference, and moving more quickly through exceedingly cantankerous puzzles. It is a point of honor to never look at the “easy” clues or the answers. I saved issues of GAMES for years, filling in those last blank squares as the answers come.

And that is what Carol Dweck’s book, Mindset, is all about —attacking challenges and struggles from a growth mindset, where we understand that conquering a challenge prepares us for the next one. Dweck offers that the brain is a muscle that grows and becomes stronger when used. She posits that helping people to frame challenges through a growth mindset will enable our children, students, friends, and colleagues to understand that the hard work pays off, that even if we face some failure, persevering makes us stronger, smarter, and more able to confront subsequent challenges.

And those challenges can be tough when we focus on our supposed intelligence. Labeling a person as “smart” makes it harder for her to approach a problem from a growth mindset because the stakes are too high. Learning from one’s mistakes is not an option for such a person, because “smart people don’t make mistakes.” People who identify as “smart,” according to Dweck, are less likely to take on a challenge, but will remain in a comfort zone,

rejecting “a challenging new task that they could learn from.

They didn’t want to do anything that could expose their flaws and call into question their talent” (72). I cringe when I think of the brain-power and creativity lost because of the fear of not getting something right the first time.

So, the framework is important: praising effort over a grade, supporting that person who wants to dig in, get her hands dirty, and who will not stop until she has figured “it” out, however ornery the challenge. Dweck offers suggestions for “teaching” the growth mindset that will help students

I cringe when I think of the brain power and creativity lost because of the fear of not getting something right the first time. shift, if necessary, from a “fixed” mindset to where she wants to learn, and use her newly acquired knowledge to solve the next problem. Dweck also offers helpful advice to give supporters the words necessary to inculcate the growth mindset across a variety of populations.

Reading Dweck’s book will help you learn how your frame of mind, in the face of a new challenge, can determine whether you will grow through your perseverance and risk of failure to (1 across: arrive in a triumphant state) or whether you will fall prey to the dangers of a (9 down: frozen) mindset.

– M ARTHA GRISWOLD, DEAN OF ACADEMICS Academic Dean Martha Griswold, Dean of Students Emily Johns, and Consulting Psychologist Dr. Erin Kelley led a parent development workshop on Growth Mindset (Co-Sponsored by the PAC) during Parents Weekend. The workshop was designed to engage parents in the school-wide conversation about happiness and well-being for adolescent girls.

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–Micki Carlyle Dagenhart ’97

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John Henry embodies the spirit of Chatham Hall!

–Alice Cromer Van Lennep, Former Faculty (1976–2009)

C h at h a m H a l l a n n o u n c e d t h e n a m i n g o f a n e w s c h o l a r s h i p t o b e n e f i t s t u d e n t s f r o m t h e g r e at e r C h at h a m a r e a i n h o n o r o f l o n g t i m e e m p l oy e e J o h n H e n ry Wa l l e r o n S e p t e m b e r 8 , 2 0 1 4 .

Mr. Waller first came to Chatham Hall in October of 1954, and has spent the past six decades supporting the institution through his work as a member of the staff. By establishing this new scholarship fund, Janie Huntley Webster ’57, recognizes the importance of the relationship between the School and the local community and honors Mr. Waller for his service.

Ronald Merricks, Chief Financial and Facilities Officer, shared his enthusiastic endorsement of Mr. Waller, “John Henry Waller loves Chatham Hall and Chatham Hall loves John Henry Waller! Many people can say they love their job but few can say they love the place where they work.

John Henry loves all of the faculty, staff, and students that give Chatham Hall its personality. Even though these people change, John Henry stays the same. He has a great work ethic, is dependable, and always has the interest of others before his own. He is a true gentleman, colleague, and friend.”

In 2004, upon his 50th year of work, the school dedicated the gong in Yardley, used to bring the community to attention during seated meals, in his honor. When Mrs. Webster contacted the school about establishing the scholarship fund, it provided the School a public opportunity to cement his legacy in our community. Upon learning of

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Humble and gracious, his actions speak louder than his words. You will not know all that John Henry accomplishes in a day, you will only know that he works tirelessly to give of himself to the people of Chatham Hall. Day in and day out, for over 60 years, John Henry has and continues to take care of us. He demonstrates compassion and concern for us as individuals; he is attentive to our school home. We are blessed by John Henry’s service to Chatham Hall.

There is no better way to honor an individual who cares about people than by providing a means for ensuring an opportunity for others. The John Henry

Waller Scholarship celebrates the dedication of Mr. John Henry Waller, his commitment to our community, and his support of the education of girls. We are grateful to Mrs. Webster for creating a fund that recognizes the leadership and legacy of John Henry Waller at Chatham Hall.”

Chatham Hall and Mrs. Webster invite all members of the community to share their own memories of John Henry and to make a gift to the fund in his honor. To make a donation please contact the Advancement Office, Attn: John Henry Waller Scholarship Fund, 800 Chatham Hall Circle, Chatham VA, 24531. You may also contact Christine Knight, Director of Advancement, at 434-432-5549.

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When I first came here, I was waiting tables. The dining room wasn’t right here… it was in Ron’s office. Each person served three tables. Of course we had Chatham Hall doilies on the tables, and at night we had cloth napkins. At night the girls had to dress, and they had to sit until everybody finished, and everybody got up at the same time.

My wife, she worked here for 40 years, and my brother-in-law, probably about 25 or 30 years, his brother worked here at one time, and my wife’s sister, she worked here.

So, with the years that my late wife and I put in—she had forty and I’ve got 60— that’s 100 years just between us two. But between the whole family, I guess probably close to 200 years. My oldest son worked one year while he was going to school.

Even my father worked here, he was a cook in the kitchen for a while before he left and moved to Washington—that was before my time. He left and stayed a while, but then came back. My home was in Gretna.

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I went into the service March 22, 1951.

I took 16 weeks of basic training in Kentucky, then came home for 12 days, then went straight into Korea. I was blessed because I stayed in Korea for only six months. For the six months I was there, I was on the line, you know. It was pretty rough, seeing a lot of people get killed.

But the company that I was attached to was one of the first ones in Korea…so when I went in, it was almost time for the rest of them to go onto R & R. So, when they left, I went to Japan and stayed there for 13 months. When it was time for them to go back to Korea, it was time for me to come back home. So I came home—that was in 1953. I worked on the pipeline for a while, working all night, but I quit that because I was staying with my grandmother and she needed someone there with her. Then on into 1954, I met my wife. We got married and I looked for a job around here. I went to Hargrave and they wouldn’t hire me. So I came over here, and they hired me. That was in October 1954. I was 24. December 28th, I will be 85. I was looking for a job, and I got hooked I guess. And I’ve been here ever since.

On Monday, October 6, 2014 the Chatham Hall community gathered to officially open the new maintenance building on campus. Alumna Penelope “Penny” Perkins Wilson, Class of 1941, and longtime trustee of the school, donated the funds to erect a new maintenance building and named it in honor of Chief Financial and Facilities Officer Ronald “Ron” Merricks. The building dedication and its naming were a surprise that capped off a long weekend of special events at Chatham Hall. Celebrations began Friday for Parents Weekend, while Saturday saw the Investiture of Suzanne Walker Buck as the 16th Head of Chatham Hall.

Board Chair Stacey M. Goodwin ’83 addressed the crowd of faculty, staff, trustees and friends, welcoming all to the ribbon cutting for the building. Rector Buck invited key benefactor Mrs. Wilson to arrange a series of jumbled letters to spell out the name of the building on a prototype of the permanent sign.

Mrs. Wilson then invited Mr. Merricks to help her unscramble and assemble from Chatham Hall the letters, since as Chief Financial and Facilities Officer he would be the one using the building. As Mr. Merricks began to get the letters in place it became apparent that from out C H“Merricks AT H A M H A L L the sign spelled Maintenance,” naming the facility in his honor. Stacey M. Goodwin ’83 then read out a proclamation from the Board Penny Perkins Wilson ‘41, Ron Merricks, of Trustees.

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Director of Communications and Marketing Strategy

Boarding school roots run deep for Maisie, who grew up on the campuses where her parents taught. For secondary school she attended Miss Porter’s and Miss Hall’s School, and earned a B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College. Maisie previously served as the Director of International Recruitment and Senior Associate Director of Admissions at Darrow School and was a Major Gift Officer at Berkshire School. Maisie also has an extensive background in marketing and PR for nonprofits, and spent six years working in fashion and contemporary art in New York City before returning to the world of independent schools.

Christine Cutright Knight Director of Advancement

Christine brings a wealth of knowledge to Chatham Hall with more than 22 years of experience in the field of Advancement. She was most recently the Senior Director of Campaign and Development Operations at The University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business.

Prior to that, Christine worked in the University of Virginia’s Office of University Development and Public Affairs for 19 years. She began her career at Hollins College, a small private women’s college in Virginia where she held roles in the Dean of Students office as well as Advancement. Christine holds a B.A. in Psychology from The University of Virginia, an M.A.L.S. from Hollins College, and an M.B.A. from the University of Richmond.

Christine has a grown daughter, a son who is a freshman at Hampden-Sydney, and a daughter who is an eighth grader.

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Director of Enrollment Management

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Carney has 20 years of experience in different aspects of admission, from independent day school admissions in Dutchess County, New York to secondary school placement in New England, and has presented on several aspects of secondary school admissions at the Secondary School Admission Test Board’s annual meeting. Carney earned a B.A. in English from Vassar College and an M.A. in Educational Psychology from Marist College. She has two grown children who live in New York, a child who is at Tulane, and a child who is at Portsmouth Abbey School.

NEW FACULTY Elizabeth “Betsy” Seymour

English and Creative Writing Teacher, House Faculty

Betsy holds a B.A. in English from Central Michigan University and a M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Alabama. She has taught college, high school, and non-traditional students in a range of settings, all with a focus on education as change and growth. Betsy is praised for her passion for literature, her skill at literary analysis, her ability to get the most out of each student in each class, her beautiful writing and ability to know beautiful writing, her interdisciplinary attitude, and her commitment to community action.

Cara Kinsey Librarian

Cara is a graduate of Dartmouth College, where she earned a B.A. in Religion. She followed that with a M.S. in Library and In-

formation Services from the University of Albany. Having worked most recently in Brazil at the School of Nations, and in Germany at the State International School of Seeheim-Jugenheim, Cara believes in getting to know the globe and its people. Cara’s passion for librarianship blossomed and remains because it allows her to stay connected to all subjects from the sciences to the humanities, while supporting a school’s curricular goals and engaging students’ individual interests.

Kelley Ann Walsh

Dance Teacher and House Faculty

Kelley Ann holds a B.A. in Government from The College of William and Mary, and is finishing a B.F.A. in Dance at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. While at UNC-G, she has focused on becoming a quality educator as well as a technically skilled dancer, improviser, and choreographer.

She has completed course work with the top instructors at the University. She has twice attended the American Dance Festival, in Durham, North Carolina, and also worked as a resident assistant at The University of Mary Washington.

Tica Simpson History Teacher

Most recently a teacher of Upper School History at Stuart Country Day School of the Sacred Heart in Princeton, New Jersey, Tica has also been a campus minister, class dean, and dean of students. She holds a B.A. in Government from Smith College as well as an M.A. in English Education from New York University. She is currently enrolled in the Master of Divinity program at Earlham School of Religion. Tica is applauded for her creativity, broad and deep knowledge in many areas, willingness to meet students where they are, and her desire to create a safe and trusting environment in her classroom.

NEW TRUSTEES Katharine “Kate” Bulkley ’77

Kate Bulkley ’77 is an award winning business journalist who has lived and worked in London since 1990. She writes regularly for specialist publications, including DTVE (formerly Cable & Satellite Europe), Hollywood Reporter, and Broadcast Magazine. From 1998 to 2001, Kate was on-screen media and telecommunications editor at CNBC Europe. Kate began her journalism career at CNN in Washington, DC and worked in radio and in print in Colorado where she was senior reporter at The Denver Business Journal. She has a master’s degree in international economics and politics from the Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, and an undergraduate degree in Modern European Studies from Smith College. Kate is past chair of The Broadcasting Press Guild and past chair of the Royal Television Society’s Early Evening Events Committee. Kate has been an active class agent for Chatham Hall, presented at Reunion 2012, and has spent time at Chatham Hall speaking to classes. Kate is married to Ross Biddiscombe.

Mary Kay Karzas ’71

As a retired fundraising executive, Mary Kay Karzas ’71 brings to the Board of Trustees a wealth of experience in the field of Advancement. She worked in Advancement at Culver Academies in Culver, Indiana for more than 24 years, cumulatively, was director of annual giving at Kenyon College for several years, and served as Chatham Hall’s Director of development and alumnae relations from 1982–1985. Mary Kay earned her A.B. degree in Classics from Kenyon College, where she was a member of the third graduating class of women in 1979. An active member of the

Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), she was awarded the CASE District V Distinguished Service Award in 2002. Mary Kay has been a Chatham Hall class agent, a Reunion co-chair, was a part of the Rector Search Committee that brought us Rector Gary Fountain, and most recently served on the Investiture Committee for our new Rector, Suzanne Walker Buck. Mary Kay and her husband, Warren Reiss, live in Culver, Indiana.

Sarah Monarchi Longpré ’84

We are delighted to welcome back to the board Sarah Monarchi Longpré ’84, who served previously from 2004–2010! Sarah is retired from PricewaterhouseCoopers, the largest professional services firm in the world, where she most recently served as regional director of human resources. A very active member of Golfers Against Cancer, Sarah sits on the Board of Directors. Sarah received her B.S.E.E. in Electrical Engineering from Rice University in 1989, and received an M.B.A from Rice University in 1991. Along with Nina Johnson Botsford ’72, Sarah served as co-chair of the Rector Search Committee that brought us Rector Suzanne Walker Buck. Sarah was a dedicated member of the Alumnae Council from 1995-2001. In 2011–2012, she led

The Board of Trustees and Rector Suzanne Walker Buck after her Investiture on October 4, 2014

the Light the Match Annual Fund Giving Campaign for Young Alumnae, helping us to raise young alumnae participation to 30%. She is also the 2001 Mildred Harrison Dent Awardee, for “that alumna who demonstrates an enthusiastic long-term commitment and devotion to the ideals of Chatham Hall.” Sarah lives in Houston, Texas.

Michelle Thomas Supko ’02

Michelle Thomas Supko ’02 is principal at Bain & Company. She joined the firm as an associate consultant in 2006. Michelle is a member of both the Aerospace and Defense and Airline Practice areas.

Within her office, Michelle co-leads the Local Women at Bain chapter and serves as an advisor for the Vanderbilt recruiting team. She earned her B.E. in Mechanical Engineering from Vanderbilt in 2006. Michelle is the sister of Danielle Thomas Kimmel ’04 and the daughter of former Board of Trustees Chair Dora Thomas.

Michelle, her husband, Major Brian Supko, and their son, Tanner, live in Southern Pines, North Carolina. As an army-wife, she has served as the leader of the Family Readiness Group.

In 2012-2013, Michelle led us in our second year of the Light the Match campaign for Young Alumnae Annual Fund Giving.

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Leila McConnell Daw ’58

Leila received her B.A. from Wellesley College and her M.F.A. from Washington University School of Fine Arts, St. Louis. She has been a Professor of Art at Southern Illinois University and the Massachusetts College of Art. Her public work can be seen as permanent installations at Bradley International Airport, the New Haven Public Library, Northwestern CT Community College, and the St. Louis light rail system. Her work is in the collections of the Cincinnati Art Museum, DeCordova Museum, St. Louis Art Museum, and more. She is Professor Emeritus, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston. Leila was honored as Chatham Hall’s 2013 Distinguished Alumna.

Pace Cooke Emmons ’77

Pace earned her B.A. and an M.A. in English from the University of Pennsylvania. She owned an advertising and public relations firm and produced the local television newscast in Meridian, Mississippi before directing public relations of a nine-county regional community mental health center from 2005 to May 2014. Pace’s daughter Robin graduated in May 2014 after four years at Chatham Hall. Pace and Robin moved to Lexington, Kentucky last spring.

ily to Boston, where she continued her volunteer activities and was introduced to Bible Study Fellowship International (BSF). Upon returning to Charlotte in 1995, she continued in BSF for another 12 years, both as teaching leader and area advisor. She continues to be very active in her church and in an international marriage ministry headquartered in Charlotte.

Lucy Williams Maish ’68

Lucy graduated with a B.A. from the University of Denver.

She worked at the Crittenden-Hastings House in Brighton, Massachusetts as an Educational Outreach Worker before moving to Cincinnati, Ohio in 1976.

Lucy has been an independent representative for Doncastor, a high end line of women’s clothing, since 1997. She has been a dedicated class agent for Chatham Hall, co-chaired the Gala Weekend of the 1994 Centennial Celebration, and has previously served on the Alumnae Council. Her daughter Cary Dunn Maish graduated from Chatham Hall in 1997.

Gladding “Glad” Schaff Markunas ’68

Glad earned her B.A. from Briarcliff College. She has worked as a research and marketing professional for more than twenty-five years at J. Walter Thompson Co., Leo Burnett Company, Burger King, TGI Friday’s, and at Darden Restaurants

Inc. on brands such as Olive Garden, LongHorn Steakhouse, Bahama Breeze, and Seasons 52. Currently she is Vice President of Client Service for Directions Research based in Cincinnati.

Hallie Bettcher Pettegrew ’86

Hallie received her B.A. from Wittenberg University with an Arts concentration in Ceramics and Pottery.

Hallie seeks out the creative forces within her that work to not only shape her children’s lives and home, but also to inspire the local community within which she lives. Seasonally, she lovingly decorates various venues about town that aim to capture tradition and celebrate the family.

Isabelle Selby ’73

Isabelle graduated with a B.A. from Scripps College. She owns a home design store named Isabelle’s Table in San Franciso.

Isabelle has created an Entertaining at Home series for the Ritz-Carlton Residence Club in San Francisco, presented art workshops for the Charles Schultz Museum, illustrated a nationally-published line of greeting cards, designed a privately-commissioned china pattern, had one of her paintings appear in a group show at the Paul Thibaud gallery, and has worked on the interior design for private residence and commercial hotel projects of Donald Trump.

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Four students in the Materials Science and Engineering Department at North Carolina State University are working to develop a new product that purports to detect the presence of date rape drugs...using nail polish!

Interest in the product—Undercover Colors—has swept the web in recent months. Chatham Hall alumna and current college student Laurel Street ’11 has joined the Undercover Color team as Director of Social Media!

Laurel studies Business Administration, Marketing, and Chinese at Georgia Institute of Technology. Let’s hear from Laurel: You’re still in college yourself, how have you balanced your new position with your studies?

It’s a little bit of a challenge balancing classes, extracurriculars and work, but it’s also very exiting and rewarding. I think the key is to become involved in organizations you are passionate about and really enjoy-that way you look forward to the things you need to do and it doesn’t even feel like work! At Chatham Hall I learned the importance of balancing academic and leadership commitments, and I’ve carried those lessons with me throughout my college career.

How does your current position relate to your major/s?

I am currently the Director of Social Media. As a Business Administration and Marketing student at Georgia Tech, this position is the perfect fit for me.

Social media and digital marketing are growing areas within the field of marketing, and it has been very exciting to gain experience in these areas as an undergraduate.

Where did your interest in social media and digital media strategy begin?

I first became interested in social media marketing during my intro-level marketing class at Georgia Tech. I love how social media gives companies the potential to reach lots of users, and opens up a two-way communication channel where companies can really engage with customers. For me, that’s what sets social media and digital marketing apart from traditional advertising, and makes me so passionate about it.

What attracted you to working with a product that surrounds women’s issues?

During my time at Chatham Hall, I first became interested in the issues and challenges that women face. In college, I noticed that one of the largest issues on campuses today is sexual assault—it’s estimated that 1 in 5 college women will experience sexual assault before she graduates. I personally know many women who have experienced sexual assault, and I’m thankful I have this opportunity to work toward a solution and make a difference.

How can our readers follow the progress of the Undercover Colors team?

You can follow our progress on our Facebook page, and website, www.undercovercolors.com. We’re also on Instagram and Twitter, and we are so thankful for your support!

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The Alumnae Council at their fall meeting in October Row 1: Pace Cooke Emmons ’77, P’14, Frannie Wallace Robertson ’73, Lindsay Shook ’02, Mary Freed ’86, Frances Johnson Lee-Vandell ’60, Glad Schaff Markunas ‘68, Diana Howard Fisketjon ‘78, and Muffin Dalton Grant ’66 Row 2: Cheri Bentley ’83, Lucy Williams Maish ‘68, Amanda Sink Wydner ‘94, Margie Hastings Quinlan ’66, Leila McConnell Daw ’58, Talmadge Ragan ’69, Isabelle Selby ’73, Melanie Kirk Holton ’87, and Mary Reynolds ’84

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Sherrill “Muffin” Dalton Grant ’66

Muffin received her B.A. from Hollins College (now Hollins University). She raised her family in Charlotte, volunteering in several civic organizations. In 1986, she moved with her fam-

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Hargrave President, General Don Broome, and his wife, Donna, had a reception at their home on Hargrave’s campus in September for Rector Suzanne Walker Buck to welcome her to the community and meet some of the Hargrave leadership. Their gracious hospitality provided the backdrop for a great evening of conversation and community building!

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In honor of our new Rector, Suzanne Walker Buck, let’s take a look at this photo taken in the Rectory circa 1939. Let us know if you recognize yourself, a friend, or a relative!

10 Admission Open House, Referrals Welcome, Call 434.432.5613 for Inquiries

17 Family Day in Honor of Grandparents, For All Family Members

11 Reading, Joy Harjo, Writer in Residence, Van Voorhis Lecture Hall, 7:00 p.m.

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Contact Laura Rand ’06 at lrand@chathamhall.org, or at 800 Chatham Hall Circle, Chatham, VA, with submissions!

7 The Service of Lessons and Carols, St. Mary’s Chapel, 5:00 p.m.

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6–8 Fall Play, Crimes of the Heart, Black Box Theater, 7:30 p.m

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Senior Night in the Well, 9:00 p.m.

18 Christmas Pageant, St. Mary’s Chapel, 10:45 a.m.

january Did you receive our recent e-mail about the Investiture of our new Rector Suzanne Walker Buck?

On September 26, 2014, we recognized our 28th Annual Lee-

Yardley Day by presenting the Alice Overbey Award to Marcie A. Cobble. Marcie, parent of Leah Cobble Dunne ’96 and Laurel Cobble Fountain ’93, joined the investment committee for the Chatham Hall Board of Trustees in 2006, and helped successfully guide the Board through the stringent process of securing an endowment management firm and developing a successful investment policy. She has been, and continues to be, one of our greatest assets. Thank you for all you have done to make our endowment strong, our policies clear, and our future more secure, Marcie!

More than 70 guests from the local Chatham area joined us in Lee Library for a reception welcoming Rector Suzanne Walker Buck on September 7!

If not, we may not have your current e-mail address! To stay up-to-date on everything that’s happening on campus (and beyond!), please send your e-mail address to Starlet Lemon at slemon@chathamhall.org. Stay tuned for important updates!

19 Admission Open House, Referrals Welcome, Call 434.432.5613 for Inquiries 30–31 Board of Trustees Meeting 31 Interscholastic Equestrian Association Horse Show at Chatham Hall

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19–21 Winter Musical, Ruthless!, Van Voorhis Lecture Hall, 7:30 p.m.

21 Interscholastic Equestrian Association Horse Show at Chatham Hall 26–27 Winter Dance Performance, 7:30 p.m More Details to Follow

Join us for one of the following regional events planned to welcome our new Rector, Suzanne Walker Buck! Visit our website at www.chathamhall.org/ alumnae/off-campus-events for more information!

NOVEMBER 11 Boston, Massachusetts NOVEMBER 13 New York, New York JANUARY 13 Atlanta, Georgia MARCH 10 Vero Beach, Florida MARCH 12 Sarasota, Florida

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1–2 Reunion Weekend, All Welcome, Special Celebrations for Classes Ending in 5 & 0 1–2

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23 Baccalaureate and Commencement, 10:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m.

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12–18 Riding Program Session I for girls ages 9–16, Contact Samantha Pleasant Fleming sfleming@chathamhall.org or 434.432.5605 for Inquiries 12–24 Summer Investigators Science Camp for girls grades 6-8, Contact Dennis Oliver doliver@chathamhall.org for Inquiries 19–25 Riding Program Session II for girls ages 9–16, Contact Samantha Pleasant Fleming sfleming@chathamhall.org or 434.432.5605 for Inquiries 26–31 Riding Program Session III (Intensive) for ages 12–17, Open to Chatham Hall Riders with the option to show August 2 & 3, Contact Samantha Pleasant Fleming sfleming@chathamhall.org or 434.432.5605 for Inquiries

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Contact Amy Blair in the Advancement Office at 434.432.5508 or at ablair@chathamhall.org

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WHAT IS YOUR PRESENT STATE OF MIND? Thankfulness. I love my life and all that it entails. I have my “crazy” moments like everyone, but life is so precious, and I love Juliana so very much. I am so thankful she graduated from Chatham Hall this past year. She loves Guilford College and she is a beautiful and wonderful young woman. I am so thankful for that. I love my work as a tutor. I love my students and helping them learn the skills they need to be the best they can be. I work with K-12.

WHAT DO YOU LOVE MOST ABOUT YOUR DAUGHTER? I love that Juliana is a strong, beautiful, intelligent, and energetic individual. She works hard for the people in her life. She gives 200% in whatever she does. She has a great smile and a love of music, drama, and the arts. Juliana loves humanity, and will always have a heart for the fair and kind treatment of all people. I love her heart. She is sweet, kind, has a wonderful sense of humor, is gentle, stands up for what is right, and loves beauty. She is also the best daughter a mom could ever dream of having. She inspires me, and I thank God for her every day.

WHAT IS YOUR IDEA OF PERFECT HAPPINESS? Spending a few hours a summer with Juliana. Time with someone you love is the greatest gift in life. It is always cherished in both hearts.

WHAT IS YOUR BEST CHATHAM HALL MEMORY? Staying after dinner having coffee with various groups. I was never a “cliquey” person, so I loved visiting both students and teachers alike. I even got to know staff members here then.

WHAT DO YOU MISS MOST ABOUT CHATHAM HALL? I miss the simplicity of the good old days at Chatham Hall. How did we think we were so busy and had no time?! Life was awesome! I loved riding bikes with Dana Cunningham in the country, getting a slice of hoop cheese and lemonade. I loved watching the sunrise with friends, and blankets over a hill where we usually ran laps. I even cherish my memories of lifesaving with Miss Wagoner in the pool. It enabled me to save three lives later on. Most of all, I miss singing our songs together, and the hugs we shared afterward.

Leaving was exciting, but coming back was coming home. I got to experience this again with my daughter for three years. What a treat!

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Juliana Avery ’14 WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE PLACE ON CAMPUS? My favorite place is standing on the lower arcade and looking at the back of campus with Curtis’s Garden in the center. Whether it’s spring, or just snowed, it’s always breathtakingly beautiful.

WHAT IS YOUR PRESENT STATE OF MIND? I’m very excited about the future and enjoying the present. Right now I’m in New York City with my college to be part of the People’s Climate March. I never saw this happening, but the opportunity arose and I can’t wait to see what comes next.

WHAT DO YOU LOVE MOST ABOUT YOUR MOM? My Mom has been through so much and I’m in awe of her strength. She’s such a fighter and that inspires me everyday.

WHAT IS YOUR IDEA OF PERFECT HAPPINESS? Not worrying about the future or problems that may arise, but instead enjoying each moment as it comes.

WHAT IS YOUR BEST CHATHAM HALL MEMORY? There’s no way I could pick one Chatham Hall memory as the best, because there’s many that are unbelievably special. However, the moment I stopped feeling like a new girl and started feeling like part of the community was wonderful.

WHAT DO YOU MISS THE MOST ABOUT CHATHAM HALL? I miss the people so much! There is something about the people you meet at Chatham, and the bond you form, that is life changing.

I plan to keep in touch and count down the days till reunions.

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WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE PLACE ON CAMPUS? The chapel. I love the stained glass, the organ and other music that is played/sung there. I love the chapel talks. I love reading the Bible and that we are a Christian school. I love the many traditions affiliated with the chapel.

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REGISTRATION BEGINS AT 3:00pm, MAY 1 PURPLE AND GOLD BANQUET BEGINS AT 6:00pm, MAY 1

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Hope Rogers Metcalf At 92, I managed to make my grandson’s wedding in Rome. Added to that, fourteen of the family stayed on at a wonderful spot in Tuscany for a week.

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Nancy Evans Gruner All’s well around Pittsburgh. We are decaying graciously and gradually amid friends in a splendid retirement community here. Radiologist son, Sam, in Oregon with four children, venture capitalist, Harry, in Baltimore with three, and daugther, Alex, visiting the US (after 26 years in Sydney, Australia) to get her masters in Occupational Therapy–we deplore the state of our country and the world. Delight in our books, sports teams, garden, birds, and other gentle activities.

Salve. And of course, grandchildren.

class notes Robin Musser Agnew ’77 and her husband, Jamie, received the Raven Award from the Mystery Writers of America in May at the Edgar Banquet in New York City.

Attending the banquet was Pace Cooke Emmons ’77, P’14. The Edgars are given annually to the best mystery books written in a given year, and the Raven Award is given for service to the mystery community outside the realm of creative writing. Past winners include Alfred Hitchcock, President Clinton, Edward Gorey, and Angela Lansbury.

The Raven was presented to the Agnews for their mystery bookstore, Aunt Agatha’s, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, now celebrating 22 years in business. The shop sells new and used books and carries almost 30,000 volumes, hosting frequent author events, a book club, and publishes a newsletter. Robin is a reviewer for Mystery Scene Magazine and serves as president of the board of Ann Arbor’s Kerrytown BookFest, an annual event drawing 4,000 people.

The Agnews have seen the book business change in 22 years, but are happy to say there are still plenty of passionate readers out there. The business has become more event-driven, so the Agnews, at times, host an author each week.

What has not changed are the passionate conversations people have as they discuss favorite authors, books, questionable endings, great endings, and good writing.

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Ordinary Grace,

WILLIAM KENT KRUEGER ATRIA BOOKS 2013.

EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL

Kent Krueger’s masterwork is set in 1961 small-town Minnesota, told through the eyes of 13 year old Frank. As a reader, you’re seeing events unfold as he understood them at the time. The writing makes the whole book seem like a remembered dream of childhood, though not always a good dream. What makes this book especially memorable is that while it’s about terrible loss, it’s also about the way people deal with terrible losses. There’s a passage toward the end of the book—you’ll know it when you get to it—that left me sobbing as well as dog-earing the pages so I could go back and read them again. It’s that kind of transcendent moment that, as a reader, you live to discover, and I imagine as a writer, you live to be able to convey. Buy a copy of this book for everyone and anyone who means anything to you. I hate to use the word special, but this book is special. I’ve read it twice and am already looking forward to revisiting it a third time. Whether or not you’re interested in coming of age stories, or 1961 Minnesota, it simply doesn’t matter, as the emotional truth of this novel is timeless.–ROBIN MUSSER AGNEW ’77

Martha Blankarn Halsey Enjoying six months a year now on Maui with husband of 63 years!! Still enjoying golf and gardening in tropics. Daughter Cyndy lives near us in Oceanport, New Jersey. Hurricane Sandy was worst storm of our lives.

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Anne Lydgate Kaiser We’re enjoying life in our cottage in a retirement community in Topsham, Maine. The choral group will give a spring concert this weekend ( June 2014), and we have a superb director who teaches voice at Bowdoin College to inspire and lead us. This summer we’ll hear lectures sponsored by the Maine Maritime Museum. We have a varied schedule!

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Elisabeth McGinty Laigle George and I are about to celebrate our 62nd anniversary. It’s hard to believe, and we are thankful for the great life we’ve shared. We are going on a 17 day cruise from Boston, North to Nova Scotia, and to Quebec City. We’re looking forward to “cool” weather.

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Sarah Shartle Meacham I’ve just been up to Rangeley–a beautiful large lake in northwest Maine–to visit the children of my classmate Emory Phillips Stein ’51. Both Emory and her husband, Julian Stein, have died, but I find it so touching that their children put me up and give me sustenance and rest each summer. It’s a lovely break from my summers on Cushings Island. Povy LaFarge Bigbee’s ’51 Alumna Award at last May’s Alumnae weekend was a welcome excuse to come and say goodbye to the magnificent Fountains and to see everyone I’ve gotten to know over the years from Chatham classes up and down the years. Doris Beasley Martin ’48, who was a senior my freshman year, was there with her daughter/ trustee Sarah Martin Finn ’74. Also, Lea Cumings Parson ’44, Ashby Cothran, and a host of others from the New Mexico trip. How lucky I am to have this school.

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Ann Kirkpatrick Runnette My husband, John, and I are enjoying summers at our house in Dorset, Vermont, and we are in the retirement community Cypress on Hilton Head in the winter.

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Jane De Hart Had a wonderful visit with Chatham roommate Besty Hulick ’54 when in New York last November, and hope to repeat it this fall after I finally turn in my manuscript, a legal biography of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, into Knopf.

Caroline Ramsay Merriam My husband, Duke, and I continue to live in an old house in Georgetown. I still work at my family foundations for decent child labor conditions, against sex trafficking, for free trade, and a whole host of related causes. We spent all of July in the same house by the sea which we rent each year in Brittany. Then, a final 10 days in Maine.We have three living children, seven grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren.We devote

much of our time to liberal causes and fighting the intransigent Republicans in Congress.

Caroline Young Moore Second grandson graduated from University of Colorado this spring. Took a trip with whole family to Mediterranean Isles this summer to celebrate husband John’s 80th birthday. He’s still a ski instructor!

I’m fine—few aches and pains.

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Josephine Noel Dietz It’s hard to believe, but 2014 is the year the Class of 1956 turns 76! The memories of our days at Chatham Hall are still fresh and it was great to go back to the big reunions to see the changes.

Nancy Wertz Sandercox Address change as of July 10: 4557 Middleton Park Cir. East Jacksonville, Florida, 32224

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Claire McIlvain I have been very active with the Albemarle County Master Gardeners sponsored by Virginia Tech and the Piedmont Extension Agency. A daylily from Claire I work once a week at the McIlvain’s ’59 garden Master Gardener Help Desk where the public can call in with the horticulture questions regarding plant diseases, varieties, and culture, and bring in plants to get a diagnosis of their pathology. Once a week, I am also a “Garden Ambassador” in the gardens of Monticello, which is very near where I live. I have a wonderful time answering questions about Jefferson, Monticello’s history, the gardens’ history, and the plants in the gardens. The vegetable garden is my favorite as it was Jefferson’s. There is so much to tell about it. I have also had an interesting time recently putting together a genealogy of the Lukens family descendants as I am a direct descendant of Rebecca Lukens, who established Lukens Steel, and who is now recognized as America’s premier woman in industry, being the first American Female CEO of an industrial company. A movie was made

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Left to right: Ellie Morgan Moran, Wissie Thompson, Leila McConnell Daw, Ellie Silliman Maroney, Sally Saltonstall Willis, Floy Schroeder Ervin, Molly Buck, Carroll Taylor Clark, and Jane Clark Warren

on her and aired on PBS a number of years ago. Amazing—all of this came out of a family funeral of a dear friend and relation, and my wondering how all the people in attendance were connected.

I have just bought the movie as I did not know about it at the time it was aired. I also work in my garden which I landscaped and built including a raised slate patio next to a concrete fishpond and surrounded by meandering paths with trees, shrubs, perennials, including a huge collection of daylilies some of which I myself hybridized. I always have wished I had family events and children to “brag” about, but that was just not in the cards dealt to me by life.

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Mary Duncan Bicknell I don’t have much to report. I am doing well and have been enjoying North Carolina since early May. Will head back to Houston in a few weeks. I correspond with Helen regularly and she seems to be doing well. I don’t have news about any other Chathamites.

Margot Steenland Cater After two very good years at Chatham, I headed to Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts (per our Headmistress, Ms. Holt’s instructions!). As a Junior, I transferred

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to Vanderbilt and graduated from there in June 1964. I lived in Spain for eight months and then returned to my home town of Houston for work and a Masters degree in Microbial Genetics. I worked in a lab at Rice University and married my husband of 45 years in January 1969. We have lived in Houston for all these years.

We have two grown, married children, and two grandchildren, with one on the way. These have been very joyful years for me and my family. My volunteer work led me to an interest in education and the huge school drop-out rate in Houston’s inner-city schools. I went to work fulltime in 1989 for a non-profit, Communities In Schools (CIS), our nation’s largest school drop-out prevention program. I speak Spanish and worked for CIS in a large inner-city high school (95% Hispanic). I continued to work for CIS in the field and in our Central Office for 14 years.

I’m sure that I gained much more from this experience than I ever contributed.

I am still active on the CIS Board and in running a charity to assist inner-city families in times of crisis. Lately I have been playing lots of duplicate bridge.

Also, in the past 12 years, we have gone to Linville, North Carolina in the Blue Ridge Mountains for 1–2 months each summer.

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ful. I count my years at Chatham as one of the really wonderful things that has happened to me in life. I have very fond memories of our class and all I learned at Chatham. It was great fun to attend our 50th reunion at Chatham in 2010. I loved catching up with those in our class who were able to come! Love to you all.

Simone Crockett Went down to Charlotte last spring to spend a few marvelous days with Caroline Tate ’60 and Becky Noojin ’60—incredible how when we get together no preambles are necessary. Anna Lineberger Stanley ’50 and Becky’s daughter Beeland joined us for dinner. Then took two nieces to Spain and we did 175 miles of the Camino de Santiago, from Leon to Santiago. Now I’ve just become a member of AmeriCorps and will be advising high school students on applying to college and obtaining financial aid.

Anna Lineberger Stanley ’58, Caroline Tate ’60, Becky Noojin ’60, Simone Crockett ’60, and Becky’s daughter Beeland Voellinger

Audrey Sawtelle Delafield I retired in June after 26 years serving as Deacon at St. Alban’s Episcopal Church in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. It has been a great ride, but I was really ready. Haven’t quite decided what I will do now that I have time on my hands, but I am sure something will come up. Maybe I will stay home on a Sunday morning now and then and do the crossword puzzle! Kids and grandkids (six of them) are fine; oldest grandchild is almost 16, and youngest is almost seven. Our son Joe and his family have moved from Los Angeles and back to New York City, which is wonderful news. We hope to visit him often! I see Katrina Watson ’60 now and then (not often enough!), but sadly missed a reunion with her and Marion Benson Miller ’60 this summer as we were traveling. Maybe next summer!

Ann Davenport Dixon For almost a decade now, I have been putting together an exhibition called Art for Youth London, which is held in the Royal College Art in aid of the charity UK Youth.

This year it will be held on Wednesday, 15 October and Thursday, 16 October from 6:30-9:00 pm. So it is about to go up again…deja vu…let’s see…that is a thousand pieces of art going up on Monday the 13th by about 140 artists– and all perfectly hung and labelled in three spacious galleries by 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday for our Sponsor’s evening, with help from about 78 volunteers.

Some wise classmates thought me mad in the Chatham days; but now there can be no doubt!! It is all over on the Friday, when we all swear never, EVER to do it again! (And some of us, as exhibiting artists, have been saying that for 27 years). Would love any Chathamites in London to come. It’s a great party! For tickets and more info see www.artforyouth.com www.artforyouth.com.

Lucy Wise Iliff Photo shows Sky with his rider, Sharon White, just before they went out to x-country at an event in Southern Pines, North Carolina. They had a great ride. He had some time penalties because he is new at this level, Intermediate, and is just getting used to it. Intermediate is the next to top level in eventing. For those who don’t know,

eventing is made up of three phases: dressage, x-country, and stadium. Sky is a 17 hand thoroughbred/warmblood cross. I bred his mother to an event stallion 12 years ago for my daughter Elizabeth, but then she gave up riding. So, not being a rider myself, several years ago, I gave the ride to Sharon White, a professional rider in West Virginia. He has been doing very well. Sky events up and down the East Coast and even went out to Michigan this summer. Charlie and I have a lot of fun going to watch him. Other than following Sky, Charlie and I celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary this summer. The children and grandchildren took us out to a nine bedroom cabin in Luray, Virginia. We had a wonderful time. Charlie and I visited Alex, our youngest, and his wife and two-year-old in Greenwich Village this July. I was very surprised about how much I liked New York. It was much livelier and prettier than I had remembered it. We loved the parks. Alex and I rented bicycles to ride down to the World Trade Center memorial and along the Hudson.

That was so much fun.

Lucy Wise Iliff ’60’s horse, Sky, and his rider, Sharon White

Eleanore Lee News... being retired, it goes slower. I still sometimes have trouble getting used to this and keeping a sense of focus! We are lucky in that our three children are in the area, two in San Francisco, and our youngest (Sophia, my daughter by my second marriage with Ron), lives in Oakland.

All three, fortunately, are employed, despite the sometimes dark job picture for the next generation. Jessica Browning, my older daughter, has a wonderful Pilates studio in downtown San Francisco. If any San Francisco classmates are interested in San Francisco Pilates, please contact me! (<http://local14sf. com/>) I’m still working on my own writing. I used to do a lot of writing— policy work stuff—in my paid jobs.

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Wissie Thompson Ellie Morgan very kindly—and very successfully–hosted a wonderful gathering for lunch at her summer house in York Harbor, Maine on August 6. The invitees were members of the Class of 1958 who were not too far away to get here. Nine of us made it and had a truly marvelous time catching up on recent events in each person’s life and reliving old Chatham times. I also went up to Topsham, Maine this summer with Tootie Greene ’57 to have lunch with Diane Heiskell Schetky ’57 and Kitty Norcross Wheeler ’57 at Diane’s house. Earlier this summer, Lee Porter Page ’59 and her husband came to visit me here in Kennebunkport. I had visited them for two weeks at their house in Vero Beach, Florida last winter at which time I also saw Betsy Baldwin Montague ’59, Lala Mapes Maresi ‘59, and Peggotty Worthington Gilson ’59. When I stayed with the Pages, I was en route to South America to meet up in Rio de Janeiro with Floy Schroeder Ervin ’58. In addition to Brazil, we also went to Argentina and then on to Peru where the highlights were Machu Picchu and Cusco. In addition, I stayed with Tootie Greene ’57 in Warrenton and Molly Buck ’58 in DC this past spring. This summer I also had the pleasure of meeting Suzanne Walker Buck here in Kennebunkport. She was staying with her in-laws and called me. It was a real treat getting to know her over lunch. I was most decidedly impressed with her in so many ways and on so many levels. She has a great deal to give to Chatham.

Noree Lee ’60 celebrating her birthday at a friend’s house in the Washington, D.C. area

This is much much harder! Ron, my husband, is still working close to fulltime with his psychiatry practice. I’ve also undertaken a project of preparing a large collection of family letters (from the collection of grandfather Edmund Lee) from missionary days in China (circa 1896–1920) to get them ready to give to a research library. It’s hard workwith crumbly old yellowed paper and often indecipherable handwriting. But it’s interesting and I’m learning a lot.

Frances Johnson Lee-Vandell Had my comeuppances—which fits/rhymes with Frances: flood through three floors of my house; fell off a ladder, fracturing my ankle; minor flood in old/new house; eczema (antsys-itch!); cut the tendon in my main hand...so switched from construction to woods clean-up.

Fingers crossed, when I can get them out of the splint!

Adelaide McKenzie Moss I have been recovering this summer from knee replacement surgery. So far, so good.

Seems that more and more of us are having parts replaced! In May I went to a 50th Hollins reunion, which was a great experience.

Molly Taylor Pope ’60 and Adelaide “A” McKenzie Moss ’60 at their 50th Hollins Reunion

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Sharon Rafferty Patterson Summer vacation is not a concept for those of us who live and work in a summer resort!

My vacation began on Labor Day, when my seven day a week summer job ended, and my daughter Meaghan arrived for a week. Summer arrived as well, so after an unusually cool two months, it is now hot. We did have a lovely visit from our oldest grandson, Zac, age almost 21, who came in July for three weeks and worked with Tim. We plan to see the younger two grandchildren in Dayton this fall. On the travel front, we had a “carpe diem” moment after the death of a friend last week, and signed up for a Smith College trip to the Amazon, Machu Picchu, and the Galapagos next March. The fact that is over our 50th anniversary was all I needed to rationalize such an impetuous decision. Several items off the bucket list!

Signe Shambaugh Mayfield Retirement from full-time work these past few years has been rewarding: more time to be with a growing family and for journeys to inspiring destinations, including Patagonia in Chile, Machu Picchu in Peru, Banff National Park and Whistler in Canada, Yosemite and Mammoth Lakes in California, and Costa Rica. As an independent curator, I have been working on a 210-page, full-color book and exhibition, In The Realm Of Nature: Bob Stocksdale & Kay Sekimachi, for the Mingei International Museum in San Diego. They are two of America’s most distinguished designer craftsmen, whose calling had unexpected origins during incarceration. During World War II, she was interned as a Japanese American at Tanforan and Topaz, while he was interned as a conscientious objector in Civilian Public Service Camps.

The exhibition is on view from September 14, 2014–March 13, 2015 and is slated to travel to the Bellevue Arts Museum in Washington in July, 2015.

opera and chamber music included as well; still on the Board of the Maine College of Art–a school within the heart of Portland; and a new Board–the Bowdoin International Music Festival, a summer school for young musicians with an amazing schedule of performances for the public. A splendid trip, just recently, to Finland to study the architecture of Alvar Aalto. A spring Duke reunion, and joyful time with old friends. Trips to be with extended family—Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina—and the Maine phenomenon: many guests from across the country coming to Brunswick!

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Margaret Williams Boyd I continue to write and perform.

Both my children are thriving, and I have two beautiful granddaughters!

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Bryant Parker ’61, Alida Bryant ’76, Charlie Woodard, Rosie Bryant Woodard ’62, and Anne Bryant ’67 at their annual reunion in New Hampshire in August

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All is great in my family!

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Kirby Kittredge Johnstone Keeping in touch with Cammy Hair Bain ’63 who lost her mother, Liz Hair, this past spring. Enjoying life in South Carolina on the coast with 21 grandchildren from 24–4. They live in Baltimore; Bethesda; Greenville, South Carolina; and Charleston, South Carolina.

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Buffington Clay Miller It doesn’t seem that much has changed. We are still working on our new home and organic farm. The barn is nearly complete, the greenhouse as well, the solar panels are functioning, the vegetable garden is in place and partially planted, but there’s still much to do. In the meantime, if not the fruits of our labors, we can enjoy the vegetables!

Sharon Rafferty Patterson ’60 with grandson, Zac, and husband, Tim

Caroline Tate Doing great. Still walking, talking, and not wetting my pants yet.

Katharine Watson Visits with Audie, too occasional; Marion’s annual summer trip for art in Maine—this year

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Sissy Williams Boyd ’61 with Meg Foster in her latest piece: Movement For 2 Voices

Elizabeth Reigeluth Parker Our 50th reunion was really an extraordinary experience. I encourage the Class of 1965 to start making plans now to

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Carmi Carmichael Murphy ’65 and Chris celebrating their daughter’s 40th birthday with their six children and spouses

return for your 50th. We had classmates who hadn’t been back to the school since graduation and all agreed it was more fun than some could have imagined.

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Laura Bullitt Despard I’m missing that long Virginia spring while it’s still snowing in upstate New York in April. I keep myself busy in retirement, volunteering with my church at the local food cupboard, at an urban ministry, and an inner city school.

Jean Worthington Queen Still in Williamstown Massachusetts, teaching riding part time and writing my first novel, an historical one about Truro, Massachusetts between 1835-1841. Having fun, but it is taking some time! My husband, Doug, is in a nursing home, so the past few years have been somewhat challenging, but very educational. Our two boys, 36 and 35, will both be in the Puget Sound area soon. Nick has been in Seattle for six years, and Rob and his wife, Bia, are moving to Olympia. I live in a little house with two cats, a dog, and my horse in the back yard. A sweet life, methinks. Would love to connect with class mates! Some of you must have grandkids at Williams??

Tina Basler Terry After seven years of teaching English Language Learners and high-school English in the public school system here in my small, rural Arizona town of Payson, I finally tired of the bloated bureaucracy, federal and state mandates, local petty politics, et al, and handed in my resignation this past June. That same month, I was hired to teach Secondary English and beginning French at our only local private school, the Payson Community Christian School (http://www.paysonchristianschool.org).

We began classes on July 25th–what a difference! We are a small, K-12 school that is really a family. My classes are small

Carmen Carmichael Murphy We remain blessed with our love for each other and our children and those they have chosen to spend the rest of their lives with. We are blessed with great friends and a wonderful company and colleagues with whom we work.

and intimate (largest class is thirteen kiddos!). The students are civilized, disciplined, joyful, and adorable! The school is growing because of the many challenges that beset our local public schools. It’s such a blessing to be back in a private school setting, and makes me appreciate my time at Chatham Hall more than ever. I’m planning to come to our 50th reunion in 2015—seems just like yesterday I was singing in the chapel choir and Senior Quartet! I sing in my church choir here, but I miss the heavenly voices of Chatham! My parents (96 and 97) still live in the house my dad was born in in Honolulu, surrounded by his cousins. I wish everyone much aloha and many blessings!

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Johnson ’69 in New Orleans at the national meeting of the Garden Club of America

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Margaret Perkins Sise I am looking forward to a trip to Atlanta to visit my sister Kate Perkins Hartsfield ’65, her husband, Jack, and her golden retrievers. Kate shows her dogs in obedience trials all over the South and even has a dog training academy. Our house mother at Chatham, Mrs. Crandall, would be amazed that Kate chose obedience! I often wish Mrs. Crandall were still in charge of making all our travel arrangements.

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Muffy Dent Stuart I had an exciting year welcoming three granddaughters (in addition to my three grandsons)! Millie Joy Stuart was born Sept 30, 2013 in Lexington, Kentucky. Twins Lillian Moncure Stuart and Katherine Hutcheson Stuart were born April 22, 2014 and live in Orange, Virginia. Am looking forward to meeting and welcoming Suzanne Buck later this fall on campus. Life is busy in Lexington as I continue to coordinate the scholarship fund for children of parents who work on central Kentucky Thoroughbred farms who are pursuing education after high school. Can’t wait for our 50th reunion in 2018!!

1969 Dalton Fessenden Dana, grand-

son of Kit Ivey Ward ’69, born May 19, 2014, weighing 6lbs. 15 ozs., pictured about 5 minutes old, with Kit’s daughter Whitney and husband, Andrew. Peirce and Kit are so happy to join the “Grandparent’s Club”

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Lee Wulsin Roberts I’m alive and well with a new home in Nevada City (gold rush country) and a Catalina 30 sailboat in Santa Cruz. Still busy doing real estate 24/7. Had lunch with Margie Ryburn Topping ’48 in San Francisco in March. And will celebrate mom’s (Virginia Fowler Arey ’48) 84th in Cincinnati!

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Margaret Malloy Sanders I moved to Pawleys Island, South Carolina a year ago. Richard and I are loving our life there. We have a home on the marsh creek and love paddle boarding and kayaking. Exciting family news is that my daughter in law, Lisa Leake, has a book coming out this week. It is about their adventures of 100 days of real food. I am enjoying being closer to my grands in Charlotte. My daughter Jessica has her first solo show in Manhattan this October. We are so proud of them all. My new address is 148 Wyndham Rd. Pawleys Island, SC 29585 and email is mscabin creek@gmail.com

Nina Johnson Botsford ’72, Laura Brown Cronin ’72, Jane Garnett ’73, and Kate Johnson Nielsen ’72 on Kiawah Island at the wedding of Laura’s oldest son, Patrick

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Terri Walsh Marchioni ’80 visiting her son Danny in China

Charlotte Caldwell Helen Mirkil ’70 and Charlotte Caldwell ’70 gathered with their husbands, Brian and Jeffrey, for an evening with Nellie Greene ’70 this past spring. Many laughs and stories. Helen, Ninna Fisher Denny ’70, and Sara “Sally” Johnson ’70 have produced a book of Selected Sermons

by The Reverend Elinor Robinson Greene II (Nellie).

It is beautiful and can be purchased through Amazon.

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Jane Fuller Killough After 13 years as a faculty member in the Department of Physical Therapy at The College of St. Scholastic in Duluth, Minnesota, I have been granted a year long sabbatical. Will be working on a project comparing therapy techniques to help those with urinary incontinence. Will start with a vacation, however, mainly to see my daughter Sarah in The Man Who Came to Dinner in Chatham, Massachusetts.

Anne Whitaker We have so few opportunities in life to truly reconnect with people, and yet technology is now allowing us to at least glimpse at people from afar! I have to admit, although my time is very limited, I will sometimes look up people on Facebook and am so delighted when I can recognize a name and face. Why is it that I want to connect now after so many years– maybe because the hectic pace of work has slowed, children have grown, and we now have the chance to look back and reflect in different ways–wiser in thought, and maybe much more appreciative of what the past provided!

I think of lanterns and essay boxes...

Randolph...sunning on the deck...

Karen, and wishing I could tell her my daughter ended up at Bryn Mawr too!...Columbia record Club so we would have mail!...Chancel choir and having Mr. W telling me just to mouth the words!!!!...Mr. Bruning telling me that yes I have a chance at getting into college...Dr. Burch telling me I will never make it in Chem II, and Miss

Whiting telling me my nine shades of gray are off–oh would we have a time with that one now!!! Preston looking at me as a new girl with pig tails and clogs and I could just see her wondering... really!?, you’re kidding...right!? I look back and smile–thank you to Chatham, to all those who shared those steps and halls, to Captain W who told me I could do math and Miss W who stood over me when that hockey ball caused the gash that needed six stitches above my eye and said, “you did have ONE good pass.” Camille, I hope I thanked you for walking me to the infirmary!! And to Miss Taylor–because I am now in Paris quite a bit for business–my french is really not as bad as you said! Yes I look back wiser and with much appreciation to everyone. Thank you and Esto Perpetua.

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Keturah Faurot-Burnham My husband, Tom Keeler, and I were delighted to host Lucia Holliday Buie ’73, Lecturer at Khalifa University in Abu Dhabi, for a week this summer, joined later by her husband, Jim, and 17-year-old son, Alex. Lucia was immediately drafted into gardening and cooking at our co-housing community as well as helping me recover from finishing my PhD in epidemiology at UNC this May. We also enjoyed our annual celebration–filled visits with Conti Corry ’73 and her family in Maryland on our way to and from Maine. Lobster always features prominently on the return trip–it’s a mad dash to get the critters to Maryland before they perish,

only to subject them to a bath of boiling water! Now I am back to work at UNC in complementary and integrative medicine research and teaching.

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Tyler Norman Scott I am well and happy in Richmond, Virginia. Still writing away. My first novel, The Excellent Advice of a Few Famous Painters, will be uploaded on Amazon. And I blog about writing at tylernscott.com—my blog is “Pour the Coffee, Time to Write.” Marlyn, if you can believe it, is 16 now and driving.

Granville is in good health and acting away. Can’t wait for my reunion. Chatham hugs to all.

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Pace Cooke Emmons Aunt Agatha’s, the Ann Arbor, Michigan bookstore owned by Robin Musser Agnew ’77 and her husband, Jamie, received a national award from the National Association of Mystery Writers.

Aunt Agatha’s won a special Raven Award for contributions to the mystery world as a non-author. I attended the awards dinner in NYC with Robin and Jamie in May. The bookstore is more than 20 years old, and is highly regarded in its locale and nationally. Robin publishes a monthly newsletter with many author interviews and reviews.

She also hosts a book club and many author events. She’s a founding member of the Kerrytown Bookfest and active in a range of book-related activities.

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Linda Mars Oso Larrikin sold from my farm Oso Arabians and Murray Greys in Australia is representing the UAE at the World Equestrian Games.

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Susan Metcalf Tish Berlin ’78, Fay Freed Morlock ’77, and I met for an afternoon in Boston in June.

Lots of chatting and laughing ensued.

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Stephanie Klein-Davis is still a full-time photojournalist at The Roanoke Times in Roanoke, Virginia.

She has taught photography adjunct at VA Western Community College for 10 years. She is married to John Davis of Davis Design/Silver Tears Campers. Her children are Wyeth, 151/2 and Aria, 121/2.

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Allison Sutton Fuqua Celebrating 30 years of marriage with Randy in August 2014. Caroline graduated from Clemson last year with honors and is currently living and working in Charlotte. Sarah Randall is a junior at University of South Carolina.

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Laura Myers Casellas We have moved to Weston, Connecticut and would love to connect with Chatham Hall classmates in the area!

Contact me at betolaura@yahoo.com.

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Charles, age 6, son of Caroline Sloan ’86, pictured at Pawley’s Island

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Laura Mascharka Brucker We survived Hurricane Sandy at our shore house and farm, and one cruel winter. Now undergoing major home renovations and loving our time together as a family. Love keeping in touch with Chatham “family.”

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Ivey Henson Hannon I completed my masters in Library Science through the University of Tennessee in December 2013, and am now the librarian at Wright Middle School in Nashville. My daughter, Murray, will be in the 10th grade this year at Harpeth Hall School for Girls (much like Chatham, but at home!) and my son, Ivey, just started 8th grade at Meigs Middle Magnet School. My husband, Bob, an alumni of Teach For America is on the board of a new Charter School Organization in Nashville. Valor Collegiate opened its first middle school this year with a class of 150 5th graders. We are all about Education in the Hannon house!

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Julie G. Livingston Hello Chatham Hall Family, it’s been so long since I have spoken with any of you that I thought I would give you a brief account of my adventures these past few decades. I still stop to speak with small woodland creatures on chance encounters in the forest or in urban areas. I have attempted to decipher the “language of the birds.” I have crashed my chariot into the sun, but I got back on it and rode it to the moon.

I’ve seen the world reborn 40,000 times.

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got them when I realized that they were not so important. I’ve been a witness to the grid and I have shaken my fist in anger at the sky. I have walked 30 miles in various other people’s shoes. I have scaled medium-sized buildings in a single bound. I have met homeless men who were geniuses and rich men without a soul and vice versa. I have tasted the sweet ecstasy of Perfect Success and I have been to the depths of complete and utter hopelessness and despair. The most unfortunate thing I ever did was forget how to laugh. I will always be sincerely grateful to every single individual who was a part of my experience at Chatham Hall. I Love you guys!

speed points (by running faster than Standard Course Time) and 20 Double Qualifying Points (by qualifying in the Standard Class and the Jumpers with Weaves Class on the same day).

Wes and I still live in Troutman, North Carolina with our four dogs and try not to take life too seriously. I hope our Chatham Hall family is doing well.

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9 1964 Row 1: Kathy Lee Cole, Sally Boy, Tink Caffery Friedrichs, Susie Clarke Hamilton, Ann Robinson Stevenson, Josephine Bayard Row 2: Paula Wright Lipman, Anne Dickerson, Elizabeth Reigeluth Parker, Linda Trent, Boyce Lineberger Ansley, Dana Paulson Davis Row 3: Nancy Comer Shuford, Ann Robinson Weiss, Copper Coggins, Mary Lloyd McDonald, Gwen Wright, Eliza Mabry Gibson 10 1959 Lisa Rosenberger Moore, Margaret McElroy, Margot Cushing, Maria Gallagher Truslow, and Lee Porter Page 11 1944 Kat McKay Belk-Cook, Lea Cumings Parson, Polly Wheeler Guth, and Caroline Hartwell Stewart

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Morgan Brawley Rhodes Eddie and I recently acquired the most treasured American Kennel Club agility title, the MACH title. MACH stands for Master Agility Champion. MACH titles are awarded based on achieving 750

Jennifer Hinson has just relocated to Philadelphia to begin graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania where she will be earning a Master’s in Higher Education Administration. She’s thrilled to be living in Philly and would love to meet up with any Chatham girls in the area!

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Jennifer Hills and Craig M. Stegner were married September 6 in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina at First Presbyterian Church. Craig is a lawyer from Camden, South Carolina.

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Rachel Vice Parrott Hello to all from North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina! My family is about to start another school year. I love summer and I am always sad when it is time to go back to school. This year has been even harder for me because I turned 40 in mid August. Time just keeps trucking along. This year I have three kids in school (3rd grade, 2nd grade, and Pre-K), so that means just one kiddo at home. I am hoping to get more stuff that I need to accomplish done with only the one babe. I am hoping for some mommy naps when the little one naps too this fall! No big things going on in our lives, just raising kids and trying to clean my house (the house will never be clean, ha!). I miss all of you and Chatham Hall.

I never knew how good I had it there until I grew up and went back for a visit last year. Just to have someone make all my meals for me would be amazing! I hope you are all well, and I love when I see some of you on Facebook. Take care.

I hope to see you all at our 25 year reunion (it will be here before we know it!).

following the wedding. We are currently living in Charlottesville where I am a post-op liver transplant nurse coordinator and my husband works in energy at SNL financial.

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Maleita Lindamood On July 20th, 2014, I married the most amazing woman I have ever known, Sarah.

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Alexandra Cashman Eckert married John Braden Eckert on August 17, 2013 in Charlottesville. Nan Lewis Winborne ’03, Martha Loftin ’03, and Sarah Rand ’02 were in attendance at our wedding. We also had the opportunity to attend Nan’s beautiful wedding in Raleigh. We had a great honeymoon in Kauai and Maui Alex a and ndra Ca husb s and hman E John ck Brad ert ’03 en E cker t

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Danielle Thomas Kimmel married Jeff Kimmel on May 25 in Sarasota, Florida.

The bride’s sister and Board of Trustees member, Michelle Thomas Supko ’02, was the matron of honor. Sarah Wideman Eakin ’04, Jordan Nyberg Ferris ’04, and Jennifer Hills ’04 were among the bridesmaids. Danielle’s cousin, Megan Grant Lawrence ’98, Maggie Logan Andrews ’04, and Emily Pulliam ’05 also attended. Danielle and Michelle are the daughters of Dora Thomas, former Chairman of Chatham Hall’s Board of Trustees. Danielle and Jeff live in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Emily Pulliam ’05, Jennifer Hills ’04, Michelle Thomas Supko ’02, Danielle Thomas Kimmel ’04, Jeff Kimmel, Sarah Wideman Eakin ’04, Jordan Nyberg Ferris ’04, Megan Grant Lawrence ’98, and Maggie Logan Andrews ’04 at Danielle and Jeff’s wedding in May. Photo by Damon Tucci Photography

Sarah Wideman Eakin ’04 and husband John “Jack” Wright Eakin III were married in Sewanee, Tennessee on August 2

and Amanda Peterkin ’05 were both bridesmaids. It was so special seeing so many faces on Chatham on my big day!

Laura Anne Roquemore McLaurin ’05, Samantha Franklin Hammond ’05, Walker Abbott ’14, Michael Davidson, Lelan Dunavant Davidson ’05, Julia Rowe ’05, Ashley Hockensmith ’05, Lindsay Burkart ’05, former Chatham Hall Admission Counselor Sarah Hopkins, and Amanda Peterkin ’05

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Lelan Dunavant Davidson I married Mike Davidson on July 19 at my grandparents’ place in Halifax, Virginia. We had a fabulous time celebrating with our friends and family, including Laura Anne Roquemore McLaurin ’05, Samantha Franklin Hammond ’05, Walker Abbott ’14, Julia Rowe ’05, Ashley Hockensmith ’05, Lindsay Burkart ’05, former CH Admission Counselor Sarah Hopkins, Amanda Peterkin ’05, and the Meriwether Godsey staff!

Samantha Franklin Hammond On May 17th, I married my wonderful husband, Philip Hammond, in Charleston, South Carolina. We had lots of Chatham Hall girls in attendance and Laura Anne Roquemore McLaurin ’05

Laura Anne Roquemore McLaurin I got married on June 7, 2014 to Hugh Chumbley McLaurin IV in Hendersonville, North Carolina. Both Amanda Peterkin ’05 and Samantha Franklin Hammond ’05 were in the wedding, and several Chatham girls were in attendance. We now live in Elloree, South Carolina. I am working at our family company, Super Sod.

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Ellen Cartmell I am living in Geneva, Switzerland, working in the Community Health and Innovation Unit of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, and I would love to meet any other Chatham Hall ladies who might be in the area (contact information available through Laura Rand at lrand@chathamhall.org).

Samantha Wall married Jerry Biedenbender on Saturday, August 2, in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Sam Wall ’08 and husband Jerry Biedenbender

Sara Norman After four years of living in New York City, I decided that I have done all that I need to do there and moved to San Diego, California in May. Right now I’m loving the always sunny weather and lack of humidity. I also got to travel to Austin, Texas where I got to watch one of my best Chatham friends, Taylor Nyberg Taliaferro ’06, get married. Hopefully there will be another trip very soon to catch up with my Chatham girls.

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Raquel Helmer Graduating from University of Mississippi in Journalism and History.

Whitney Phelps Hill I got married September 6th to a Woodberry Forest alum and fellow University of Richmond spider!

Ji Wang I have been back to China for almost one year. Now I work for a Chinese Private Equity firm, which is one of the largest and best PE firms in China. The competition is quite intense here, and we work really long hours (about 15 hours) everyday without additional pay (haha it is China). My parents and grandparents are doing OK, and I am really glad to be around them.

I still cherish my memories about Chatham Hall, and I have recommended this school to many friends.

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Caroline Finke is delighted to announce that she accepted a management position at Robert Half Legal in July. She is managing the Chicago Project Space from her new office on Michigan Avenue.

cent Services Department at the Mid Atlantic Wellness Institute in Bermuda which is the local Mental Health Hospital. It was an amazing 10 weeks! I am finishing my summer working at a special needs summer camp and head back to my fourth year in the honours Child and Youth Studies Program at Brock University!

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Catherine Merwin will graduate from Georgetown University in the spring with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing and Global Health Studies.

After passing her boards, she plans to work at a U.S. hospital before considering graduate school or working abroad.

Mary Collins Atkinson ’13 and Math Department Head Don Wood ran into each other (among thousands of people) on the street in New Orleans during the French Quarter Music Festival in April Jingi Hairston ’15, Hannah Early ’12, and Chanel Forbes ’12 reunited in New York City

Elizabeth Goldstein Working with equine surgeon Dr. Callie Fogle of NCSU this summer–studying abroad at University of Melbourne, Australia in the fall.

Jennifer Howard I’ve spent my summer at an internship with the Child and Adoles-

Marion Benson Miller ’60 and Hannah Early ’12

Simone Crockett ’60 and Hannah Early ’12

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Laura Anne Roquemore McLaurin ’05 and husband Hugh Chumbley McLaurin IV

Samantha Franklin Hammond ’05 and husband, Philip Hammond

Rimes McGinn Kirk ’06, Taylor Nyberg Taliaferro ’06, Taylor McCall ’06, Elizabeth Anne McGowin ’06, Sally Norman ’06, Schay Goss Barnhardt ’06, Abby Murnick ’06, and Lindsay Hockensmith ’06

Gloria Mejia ’08, Sam Wall ’08, Ellen Cartmell ’08, and April Hile ’08 at Sam’s wedding in August Lindsay Burkart ’05, Honor Hostetler Mohoney ’05, Samantha Franklin Hammond ’05, Laura Anne Roquemore McLaurin ’05, Amanda Peterkin ’05, Cricket Stone Morris, Lelan Dunavant Davidson ’05, Emily Pulliam ’05, and Sarah Lannom ’05 at Laura Anne’s wedding in June

Chanel Forbes ’12 and Hannah Early ’12

Khadija Todd ’11, Chanel Forbes ’12, Arlene Robles ’11, and Hannah Early ’12

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Hannah Early This summer I was selected for an internship with

JDRF, the leading non-profit for type 1 diabetes research. Since I have type 1, JDRF is an organization very special to me and I couldn’t have asked for a better experience both personally and professionally. I spent eight weeks working in the Financial District of Manhattan, living in both the Upper East Side and Brooklyn. Having grown up in southern Virginia, New York City was definitely an exciting learning experience for me! And my housing while in NYC was all thanks to Chatham Hall alums! The first two weeks I spent getting to know the cats of Simone Crockett ’60, while she trekked the Camino de Santiago in Spain. Then, I had an awesome time staying with my own classmate, Chanel Forbes ’12, and her family.

Simone introduced me to Marion Benson Miller ’60, who was kind enough to let my family and me stay at her apartment when they came to visit me.

I am so thankful I had the chance to meet Simone and Marion and reunite with Chanel. My summer would not have been the same without the wonderful hospitality of fellow Chatham Hall ladies! Side note: The JDRF Walk to Cure event is being held on September 28 in Roanoke, Virginia.

Please consider supporting my team, Virginia Tech Students With Diabetes (http://www2.jdrf.org/site/TR/Walk/Chapter-GreaterBlueRidge4690?team_ id=162486&pg=team&fr_id=3930) as we walk to help turn Type One into Type NONE!

2014

obituaries

December 21, 1943–May 29, 2014 During 29 years on Chatham Hall’s campus as an English teacher from 1983-2011, Dr. Ann Dickinson Beal taught, mothered, inspired, and cared for hundreds of Chatham Hall girls.

She is remembered by generations of us for her kindness, understanding, and compassion.

The Chatham Hall community extends its deepest sympathy to the families and friends of the following alumnae and friends of the School who have recently passed away.

Helen Stephenson Magee ’38 died March 7, 2014. She was predeceased by her sister, Katherine Stephenson Duenner ’35.

Virginia Vinnedge Wheaton ’38 died March 3, 2014.

Madeleine Clark Johnson ’41 died March 13, 2013. She was the aunt of Julie Clark Goodyear ’65.

Helen Lewis Smith ’41 died June 16, 2014. Helen was the mother of Polly Smith ’70. She was preceded in death by her cousin, Polly Lewis Smith ’35.

Helen Cordier Johns ’43 died August 4, 2014. She was preceded in death by her cousin Deborah Meeker ’37.

Diana Stallings Hobby ’48 passed away July 4, 2014. Diana is survived by her nieces Sarah Morris ’72 and Julia Morris Kashkashian ’75. She was preceded in death by her niece Margaret Morris ’77 and sister-in-law Jessica Hobby Catto ’54. Diana was ever active and generous on behalf of Chatham Hall, both as an Alumnae Council member, and with

her gifts over many years. She funded a Science lab in memory of her niece, and endowed the Hobby Chair in English.

Diana also worked for Chatham in the Alumnae Office before marrying William P. Hobby, Jr. in 1954.

Guth ’44 died in May 2014.

Mary Carey Smith ’49 died April 19, 2014.

Anne Wright Morris Berlin, mother of Deborah Berlin ’81 and Letita Berlin ’78 died May 7, 2014.

Louise Lineberger Roberts ’53 died in August 2013. She is survived by her sisters, Dee Dee Lineberger McKay ’48, Harriette Lineberger Steele ’50, and Jane Lineberger Huffard ’56.

Fenton Goodwin Friend ’55 died May 25, 2014.

Shelley Fitch Holman ’56 died May 25, 2014.

Bettina Brown Irvine ’61 died August 30, 2014.

Catherine Davis ’70 died June 16, 2014.

Marjorie Felton Steele ’74 died on May 26, 2014. She is survived by her sister, Alice Felton Horner ’73.

John H. Guth, husband of Polly Wheeler

Arthur Lee, husband of Margaret Johnson Lee ’50, died August 15, 2014.

David Webster, husband of Janie Huntley Webster ’57, died August 7, 2014.

Lois Davenport died August 30, 2014.

She was the great-grandmother of Elizabeth Wall ’11, and was preceded in death by her daughter Jane Davenport Wall ’57.

Eunice Geyer Fulcher, former employee, died Tuesday, May 27, 2014.

Helen Melton died June 19, 2014. She worked at Chatham Hall from 1962– 1975, first as secretary to the Dean of Faculty, as Registrar, and then as Director of Development.

Mildred “Timmy” Leaning Beardslee Wiedeman, former Physical Education and Biology Teacher died March 26, 2014. She worked at Chatham Hall from 1943–1945.

photo ©2014www.LISArichmond.com

Ruth Frick Cox ’37 died June 12, 2014.

New Life for the Chatham Oak

Robin Hanes ’73 Donates Painting

Voices

About Chatham Oak: I attended high

Voices

from C H A T H A M H A L L

from C H A T H A M H A L L

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from the artist

I continue to paint elaborate borders, often with wildlife I observe in or near the trees.

The borders show an added dimension to the subject’s life.

Chatham Oak by Robin Hanes ’73 Gouache, 21x24 inches, Quercus alba

Charlottesville based artist Robin Hanes ’73 has donated her painting Chatham Oak to Chatham Hall. The painting was presented by Gallery C in Raleigh, North Carolina, in an exhibit called The Life of Trees: The Work of Robin Hanes from September 20–October 26.

Limited edition prints are available in the Chatham Hall bookstore for $125.

Net proceeds directly benefit Chatham Hall. Contact Bookstore Manager Maureen fall Webb at 434.432.5512 or mwebb@chathamhall.org to order.

I often choose the mandala form, which lends a note of honor to these trees. This fits well because there’s truly a spiritual aspect to trees.

It is a loving meditation to paint them. Architecture

is a theme in some of these borders. Trees inherently have a kind of architecture beyond human constructions. Plus they are nearly always a primary material in our buildings.

by Claudia Emerson ’75

The English Department Award, given annually at Commencement, has been named the Ann Dickinson Beal English Department Award

by Ann’s daughter, Madeline Corbin-Beal ’97 I am so fond of watching the waves crash, “But, no,” you say “Look out further, past the waves, under the largest of the clouds.

Watch the water there.”

“It is changing whether or not you look at it, but also the very act of your looking changes it too.

The spot you choose to focus on, how narrowly you focus, and, of course, the wind, the clouds, the moon.

thunder moseying around the hem of the water, and I have become unafraid even of lightning strikes.

So when, now, this afternoon years impossibly past, I learn she is dying, there is a selfish comfort in knowing she is doing this thing before me, the way she is in the middle of the pond before I can get there, not facing the dock, not waiting for me, but away, considering the other bank, a turtle dozing on a log, the catfish visible beneath the log, a snake’s head threading the air above its body.

She is unafraid as I would have been afraid if I had arrived before her, too timid to leave the heat— splintered dock. If she is able to imagine a place, I imagine this is hers.

And this poem is not between us, not

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An excerpt from “Chinks in the Cavern”

The color is constantly changing.

school at Chatham, with frequent visits to the giant oak in a far field. We had New Girl Picnic there as well as the Lantern Ceremony just before graduation. I talked the biology teacher into getting students to measure the oak, not a simple matter, and apply to the state champion tree program. It placed second largest in the state, remarkable for its thick, healthy crown. That summer, 2013, we had so much rain, the trunk split in half, under all that weight.

I’m donating this painting and proceeds from its prints to Chatham. This is where my love for trees began. White Bearded Hairstreak, Oakworm Moths, Scarlet Underwing, Fiery Searcher (caterpillar hunter) Cellophane Bee.

An excerpt from “Swimming Alone,” for Ann Dickinson Beal

Even my gaze, something that seems to carry no force, will alter the colors you see whether I am looking at you, the clouds, or the same spot of water as you.

Sitting here with you, staring at the ocean, is the best way I know to cleanse the doors of perception.”

It makes sense to me that Chatham’s school motto is Esto Perpetua, which in Latin translates loosely to, “May she live forever.” As graduates, the words apply to the friendships we maintained and the memories we have of our time at school.

Unfortunately, the same immortality does not apply to the earthly lives that often represent the spirit of esto perpetua most accurately; the spirit found in some of Chatham Hall’s finest, known simply as her teachers. For me, one such teacher was Dr. Ann Beal. My English notebook wasn’t

filled with grammatical corrections or red marker reductions, but instead quotes of inspiration and self preservation like, “If you know who you are, you can go anywhere,” by Flannery O’Connor…Dr. Beal, “call me

yet imagined, the living we have yet to do there in its place.

Ann,” she said after graduation, was a gentle, humble spirit.

Yet in her English class she wasn’t afraid to take on giants and to make us think grandiose thoughts and challenge what the rest of the world might have already engrained…. My time with her was meaningful and poignant…Esto perpetua is further defined as “may she endure forever,” which in the case of Dr. Beal, whom I never could call Ann, seems more appropriate. She may be gone, but her spirit

and her legacy endure on, indefinitely, forever engrained in the lives and memories of the girls she mentored, loved and taught, and I am proud to

call myself one of them.

- LO R I PALM O R E H E AT H ’98

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Talmadge Ragan ’69

What is your favorite Chatham Hall memory?

It would have to be the day I first saw Chatham Hall. It was Spring, and my parents and I had been on a trip to see some girls boarding schools in Virginia. I’d gotten the idea that, although I’d never known anyone who’d gone away to school, it was something I wanted to do. None of the schools I visited seemed to be a match, but as we were driving home, we saw a sign for Chatham Hall. As we drove up onto the beautiful and stately campus, several girls were getting into a bus as a throng of girls on the steps of Pruden waved and shouted their goodbyes. I inherently felt a joy that told me this was the place for me. To this day, that image brings a smile to my face and some happy tears too. It touches me the most because it was my first introduction to Chatham Hall’s lifelong influence on me.

Who was your favorite teacher?

It is tough to say, but has to be Miss Joan Boyle or Dr. Jack Dyer. The illustrious Miss Boyle, with her dramatic flair and passion for the arts, challenged me to appreciate and understand great writing, then use that understanding to discover my voice.

Dr. Dyer offered a class in Ethics, which was particularly timely. With his kind and gentle nature, Dr. Dyer encouraged honest dialogue and conversations, which helped many of us to find our own places in a changing and fast-moving world. It was the late 60’s, and he encouraged us to find our own perspectives and authentic lives in spite of the difficult times our country was facing.

Why do you give to the Annual Fund?

I want to see Chatham Hall continue to grow and maintain its time-honored legacy based on the principles of honor, trust, and achievement. I want to encourage the involvement of today’s Chatham Hall girls in society and today’s world. From being a class agent for many years, I understand the importance of alumnae participation, and I know that whatever I can give makes a difference. I don’t think we can, or should, rely on other people to help our School. Alumnae giving Alumnae giving makes a difference in the makes a difference in the School’s ability to pass our School’s ability to pass our experiences experiences to Chatham Hall girls today. That’s why I to Chatham Hall girls today. give. Esto Perpetua. Let’s be true to Chatham Hall.

That’s why I give. Esto Perpetua.

Let’s be true to Chatham Hall.

Talmadge Ragan ’69

was born in Raleigh, North Carolina. Her father and

mother were journalists, and her father was also North Carolina’s Poet Laureate. After Chatham Hall, she attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she majored in Dramatic Art and Radio/TV/Motion Pictures. She was an actor in Joe Layton’s The Lost Colony in Manteo, North Carolina for several years, then moved to New York City where she produced commercials and continued to do theatre around the country. She moved to Los Angeles in the late 80’s, where she ran the Screen Actors Guild Conservatory and was head of casting at the American Film Institute, while continuing with her own theatre and voice work. She and her husband, film and TV director Worth Keeter, founded Blue Kiss, LLC, a film and commercial production company, in 2000.

They moved to Charlotte, North Carolina in late 2010 and expanded Blue Kiss Media’s production roster to include audiobooks and commercials.

Thank you for your consideration and support of the 2014–2015 Annual Fund. Please use the

envelope enclosed in the Chat, or give online at www.chathamhall.org/giving. If you would like to give a gift of securities, or make a recurring gift, please contact Director of Advancement Services, Starlet Lemon, at 434-432-5600.

2013–2014

chatham hall

annual report

total gifts 2013–2014* annual fund

capital & gifts special gifts endowment in kind

benefactors total gifts

alumnae 940,886 280,488 584,306 44,210 1,849,890 parents 56,058 100 17,600 2,121 75,879 grandparents 4,165 0 1,000 0 5,165 parents of alumnae 108,913 142,332 11,975 240 263,460 faculty & staff 23,818 0 300 2,339 26,457 friends 27,790 0 30,402 119,998 178,190 foundations, corporations & matching gift companies 23,761 130,000 0 7,000 160,761

total

$1,185,391 $552,920

$645,583 $175,908 $2,559,802

In 2013–2014, gifts from the Benefactors Society—a group of 224 donors who gave gifts totaling $1,000 or more to the Annual Fund, the endowment, and/or other purposes—provided the foundation of support for Chatham Hall.

The Benefactors Society includes seven 1894 Founders Circle members—donors who support the Annual Fund with gifts of $25,000 or more and 36 Rector’s Circle members—donors who support the Annual Fund with gifts of $10,000–$24,999. We are deeply grateful for these leaders and all of the 1,157 alumnae, parents, grandparents, teachers, and friends who keep Chatham Hall strong. $250,000–$499,999 Robin Tieken Hadley ’57 F

$100,000–$249,999

Kathelen and Daniel Amos P’07, ’12 R Crystal Trust Estate of Mary M B Wilson ’65 Diana Stallings Hobby ’48 †

$50,000–$99,999

Jane Garnett ’73 F Stacey Goodwin ’83 R Linda Mars ’78 F Lisa Rosenberger Moore ’59 F Robin Peake Stuart ’69 R Penelope Perkins Wilson ’41, P’67 R

*Includes gifts, but not pledges, received between July 1, 2013 and June 30, 2014.

Gifts from alumnae who are also parents or grandparents are listed on the alumnae line.

$25,000–$49,999

$1.2M 32% 92% 55%

alumnae participation

100%

volunteer leadership participation

574

Anonymous F Joan Gillings P’98, G’06 The Guilford Foundation Special Fund #6 of the Hampton Roads Community Foundation F Barbara Mallory Hathaway ’39 F Christine Robinson Secor ’68 R Jean Armfield Sherrill ’63 R Constance Flint West ’66

total annual fund

$10,000–$24,999

faculty participation current parents

donors have given for five or more consecutive years, we recognize them as members of our new Columns Club

Watercolor by Jacqueline Comola, Admission Counselor

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Lucy McClellan Barrett ’53 R Povy LaFarge Bigbee ’51, G’03, ’09, ’10, ’11 R Nina Johnson Botsford ’72 R Magalen Ohrstrom Bryant ’46 R Katharine Bulkley ’77 R Katharine Reynolds Chandler ’68 R Mary W. Covey Charitable Trust R Katherine Cravens ’55 R Laura Brown Cronin ’72 R Ben and Betty Davenport R Estate of Julia M. Morrison G’08, ’13 Sarah Martin Finn ’74 R Gary Fountain R Melissa Evans Fountain R Paul and Cynthia Googe P’09 Susan Gillings Gross ’98 Polly Wheeler Guth ’44, P’70 R Katherine Coleman Haroldson ’75 R Walker Johnson Jones ’70 R Pauline Dent Ketchum ’70 R Sarah Monarchi Longpré ’84 R John and Adrienne Mars P’78 R Josephine McFadden ’57 R Lillian Lineberger McKay ’48 and Hamilton W. McKay, Jr. P’72, ’75, G’10 R Alice Pack Melly ’52 Carol Monarchi P’84 R Kate Johnson Nielsen ’72 R Lea Cumings Parson ’44, P’65, ’68 R Joan Coulter Pittman ’55 R Brett and Elizabeth Rule P’16 R Cynthia Lovelace Sears ’55 R Nevin and Dora Thomas P’02, ’04 R Barbara Briggs Trimble ’39 R Frank and Mary Varanelli P’14 Ross Walton P’16 R

$5,000–$9,999

Alumnae Association Susan Fox Beischer ’59 Susan Fair Boyd ’51 Beverly Edgell P’93 Douglas and Elizabeth Goldstein P’12 Muffin Dalton Grant ’66 Alice Lineberger Harney ’56 Nancy Gwathmey Harris ’50 Isabel Hooker ’43 Channing Howe P’69 Andrea Littman Long ’96 Richard Lynd Robert and Mary McIver P’10 Katie Belk Morris ’72 The Louise P. Overbey Trust Lee Porter Page ’59 Michelle Thomas Supko ’02 David and Kathryn Wilton P’14 Linda Witherill ’49 Zhijun Xiang and Min Qin P’17

$2,500–$4,999

Boyce Lineberger Ansley ’64, P’90 J. Kermit and Glenys Birchfield P’93 Judy Carter ’63 Jerry and Judith Clark P’04 Mary Dunbar ’71 Melanie Kirk Holton ’87 Lynn Rosengarten Horowitz ’67 Virginia Johnson P’70, ’72 Julia Morris Kashkashian ’75 Eleanor Silliman Maroney ’58 Jane Everhart Murray ’63 Michael and Patricia O’Brien P’06, ’07 Cynthia Bryant Parker ’61 Jane Preyer ’72 Margie Hastings Quinlan ’66 Frances Wallace Robertson ’73 Mary Bovard Sensenbrenner ’49 Richard Simmons Muffy Dent Stuart ’68 Natalie Farrar Theriot ’55 Richard and Christina Thomas P’15 Margaret Horner Walker ’58 E. Carlton and Shay Wilton

$1,000–$2,499

Joanne Shartle Anderson ‘49 Ellen Simmons Ball ’73 Calvin Bard and Heather Edgley P’14 Richard and Neely Barnhardt Josephine Bayard ’64 Katherine McKay Belk-Cook ’44, P’72 Patricia Parshall Berger ’56 Laurence and Karen Bettcher P’86 Mary Duncan Bicknell ’60 Fred and Brenda Blair P’92, ’00 John and Valerie Booth P’14 Virginia Cates Bowie ’73 Mary Boy ’75 Linda Lovelace Brownrigg ’53 Theodore Bruning Anne Bryant ’67 Fay Wilmerding Burdon ’57 Eleanor Burke Farris ’86 David and Barbara Caldwell P’06 Campbell Insurance Company

Kathleen Arey Carroll ’67 Virginia Carter ’76 Louise Clarke ’63 Class of 2014 Katherine Lee Cole ’64 Lois Hart Coleman ’46 Barbara Collie P’85 Sarah Collie ’85 Trygve Norstrand Cooley ’48 Carole Robertson Coviello ’62 Mary Hooker Crary ’45 Jenny Crisp ’81 Carol Babcock Davenport ’47, P’70 Lois Davenport P’57, G’11 Dana Paulson Davis ’64 Jefferson and April Davis P’17 Frederick B. Dent P’68, ’70 Thomas and Martha Dixon P’15 Elizabeth Slade Driscoll ’50 Sally Witt Duncan ’44 Michael and Dianne Dunham P’11 Olivia Hutchins Dunn ’53 Joanna Edgell ’93 Florence Schroeder Ervin ’58 Lucy Holmes Erwin ’93 Dale and Denise Evans P’15 Mary Applegate Fisher ’36, P’64 Diana Howard Fisketjon ’78 Edmond and Angela Fitzgerald P’13 Sean Forbes and Gillian Lakhan P’12 Sara Cruikshank Foster ’46 Laurel Cobble Fountain ’93 Virginia Beresford Fox ’52, P’80 Julia Frazier ’62 Mary Freed ’86 Lorraine Caffery Friedrichs ’64 Gary and Carol Gibson P’09 Sarah Dabney Gillespie ’77 John Goodhue Zachary and Felicia Hairston P’15 Douglas and Kathryn Hendrickson P’02 Elsie Hilliard Hillman ’43 Sanders Beard Hockensmith ’74, P’05, ’06, ’08 Herman and Elizabeth Hollerith P’15 Caroline Jeanes Hollingsworth ’50 Cecilia Janssen G’14 Roger and Jill Jenkins P’09 Jean Merritt Johnston ’62 Mary Kay Karzas ’71 Martha Ann Keels ’75 Nancy Lee Smith Kemper ’69 Annette Kirby ’80 Priscilla Pugh Kirkpatrick ’62 Henry and Kimberley Knight P’09 Sterling and Linder Laffitte P’14 Anna Lane ’72 Megan Grant Lawrence ’98 Ellen Childs Lovejoy ’50 Gladding Schaff Markunas ’68 Bradford Simmons Marshall ’76 Martha Justice Martin ’55 Sarah Shartle Meacham ’51 Helen Mirkil ’70 Joanna Sperry Mockler ’51 Ann Ward Morgan ’48 Ned and Catherine Morris P’14 Martha Givens Nicol ’70 Clare Harwood Nunes ’52

Janice Copley Obre ’67 Mary Norris Preyer Oglesby ’68 Elizabeth Reigeluth Parker ’64 Hallie Bettcher Pettegrew ’86 Lillian Headley Poole ’62 Catherine Reed ’83 Robin Revis-Pyke Michael and Donna Robertson P’15 Patricia Robinson ’70 Ellen MacVeagh Rublee ’50, P’78 Catherine Doeller Sage ’80 Dennis and Cynthia Samuel P’16 Mary Shallenberger ’66 Marc and Cynthia Shook P’02 Herk and Sherry Sims G’15 Kimmie Stuart Sloane ’41 Kathryn Reed Smith ’45 Pomeroy and Tracy Smith P’11 Laura Spencer ’07 Caroline Hartwell Stewart ’44, P’67 Eugene and Kathryn Stuart P’15 Jim Stuart Barbara Billings Supplee ’53 Sallie Grace Tate ’81 Richard and Nancy Tebeau P’08, ’13 Margery Hobson Thomas ’44 Wissie Thompson ’58 Elizabeth Wheat Townsend ‘52 James and Lisa Tuite P’14 Elizabeth Kirk Unger ‘73 Robert and Joan Wallick P’87 Amelia Walker Ward ‘66 Katharine Watson ‘60 Frances Sommers Wheelock ‘75 Sally Saltonstall Willis ’58 Sarah Jones Winmill ’49 Alice Blum Yoakum ’48 Sherley Young ’57 Studie Johnson Young ’70

purple & gold circle

Young Alumnae donors of $500– $999 who graduated between 6 and 15 years ago Young Alumnae donors of $100– $499 who graduated within the past 5 years Mary Kathryn Atkinson ’10 Schaeffer Goss Barnhardt ’06 Elizabeth Ferlise ’11 Elizabeth Goldstein ’12 Alexandra Walker ’09

F 1894 Founders Circle R Rector’s Circle members are donors to the Annual Fund who contribute $10,000+. † Deceased

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the esto perpetua society*

Created in 1996, the Esto Perpetua Society celebrates the vision and commitment of individuals who will shape Chatham Hall’s future through their estate plans. We invite you to visit www.chathamhall. org/giving/ and click on the interactive, professionally-supported link Estate & Financial Planning for information relevant to your personal and philanthropic goals. To join the Esto Perpetua Society, contact Christine Cutright Knight at 434-432-5549 or cknight@chathamhall.org.

Anonymous (7) Kathleen Arey Carroll ’67 Jennifer Austell-Wolfson ’82 Jenifer Barnes Garfield ’50, P’79 Barbara Billings Supplee ’53 Mary Blodgett ’35 Anne Bryant ’67 Cynthia Bryant Parker ’61 Charlotte Caldwell ’70 Jacqueline Cannon Brown ’56 Judy Carter ’63 Elizabeth Cary Pierson ’71 Cynthia Coe Devine ’73 Joan Coulter Pittman ’55 Jane De Hart ’54 Muffy Dent Stuart ’68 Mary Dunbar ’71 Cynthia Dyer Hancock ’71 Joanna Edgell ’93 Claudia Emerson ’75 Susan Fair Boyd ’51 Elizabeth Farmer ’64 Natalie Farrar Theriot ’55 Alison Fennelly Siragusa ’50 and Ross Siragusa P’71 Patricia R. Frederick ’57 Jennifer Gammill McKay ’84 Josephine Gilmore Bell ’57 Marguerite Hillman Purnell ’38

Mary Hooker Crary ’45 Janie Huntley Webster ’57 Caroline Jeanes Hollingsworth ’50 Kate Johnson Nielsen ’72 Nina Johnson Botsford ’72 Studie Johnson Young ’70 Walker Johnson Jones ’70 Mary Kay Karzas ’71 Patricia Kellogg Maddock ’77 Margaret Ker Gotz ’48 Povy LaFarge Bigbee ’51, G’03, ’09, ’10, ’11 Boyce Lineberger Ansley ’64, P’90 Jane Lineberger Huffard ’56 Lillian Lineberger McKay ’48 and Hamilton W. McKay, Jr. P’72, ’75, G’10 Andrea Littman Long ’96 Amanda Mackay Smith ’58 Barbara Mallory Hathaway ’39 Linda Mars ’78 Josephine McFadden ’57 Katherine McKay ’75, P’10 Margaret Meigs Blodget ’42 Frances Menefee Weeks ’45 Saraellen Merritt Langmann ’51 Julia Mitchener Turnipseed ’84 Katherine Norcross Wheeler’57 Laurie Nussdorfer ’68

Lynn Painter Dillard ’56 Patricia Parshall Berger ’56 Dana Paulson Davis ’64 and William Cole Davis Eleanor Pennell ’48 Anne Perkins Cabot ’47 Lynn Pixley Scott ’61 Polly Porter ’42 Mary Reed Spencer ’74 Elizabeth Reigeluth Parker ’64 Anne Rodgers Feldman ’57 Patricia Schoen Gile ’45 Mary Shallenberger ’66 Joanne Shartle Anderson ’49 Sarah Shartle Meacham ’51 Frances Sommers Wheelock ’75 Sallie Grace Tate ’81 Ann Taylor ’54 Maris Wistar Thompson ’58 Emily Todd ’75 Janet Tremaine Stanley ’68 Lisa Vilas Weismiller ’69 Courtney Vletas ’87 Lucy Webster Archie ’87 Polly Wheeler Guth ’44, P’70 Elizabeth White-Hurst ’99 Jane Wilson ’77 Sally Witt Duncan ’44 Virginia Worthington Marr ’55

Jane Yardley Amos ’59, P’91 Anonymous (2) Janice Coleman J. Belk Daughtridge P’13 Channing Howe P’69 Nancy Langford Carolyn E. Lecque P’88 C. Thomas and Eleanor May P’85 H. Victor Millner, Jr. P’77 Pattie R. Motley P’81, ’85 Michael and Patricia O’Brien P’06, ’07 Celeste Phelps P’09 Sara Sterling P’03 Dora Thomas P’02, ’04 Francis and Patricia West P’90, ’97

bequests and planned gift disbursements

Estate of Mary M B Wilson ’65 *Alumnae appear by maiden name first in the list. † Deceased

endowed funds scholarships

Alumnae Legacy Scholarship Caroline S. Biedenharn ’03 Endowed Scholarship Edith Sunday Clarke ’23 Scholarship Class of 1941 50th Reunion Scholarship Class of 1955 Memorial Scholarship Class of 1958 Memorial Scholarship Class of 1959 Endowed Scholarship Katy Close ‘79 Scholarship George D. Dayton II Scholarship Karen von Maltitz DeWolfe ’60 Memorial Scholarship Connie Gibson Memorial Scholarship Margaret Hall Foundation, Inc. Scholarship Phyllis Banks Hunt Scholarship Anne Winship Kelleher ’52 and Sandy Ryburn Taylor ’52 Scholarship Barclay Ball McCall ’55 Memorial Scholarship Sidney A. Mitchell Scholarship Anne Shirley Molloy Scholarship Joan C. Pittman ’55 Scholarship Reader’s Digest Endowed Scholarship Wiley Patterson Reis ’27 Scholarship Alison ’50 and Ross Siragusa Scholarship Jerry Van Voorhis Leadership Scholarship Sally Brittingham Wallace ’44 Legacy Scholarship Zachar - Holt Scholarship

student support funds

Ellen Baldridge ’88 and Margaret Baldridge ’90 Dean’s Discretionary Fund to help girls in crisis Lucy M. Barrett ’53 Student Travel Award Mimi Norcross Fisher ’55 Endowment Fund for Adolescent Development Gary J. Fountain Student Travel Award Goldstein Family Endowed Student Travel Award Hallam Hurt ’63 Student and Faculty Foreign Travel Award Julia Northington Rowe ’05 Leadership Fund Kaitlin R. Tebeau ’08 and Cassidy A. Tebeau ’13 Student Travel Award

faculty and staff support

Mary McLean McKissick Armfield ’39 Chair of St. Mary’s Chapel Nina Johnson Botsford ’72 Endowment for Faculty Support Theodore E. Bruning, Jr. Instructorship in English Class of 1951 50th Reunion Faculty Salary & Benefits Endowment Fund Class of 1953 50th Reunion Endowment in support of faculty and staff benefits

Class of 1956 Faculty Professional Development Fund Class of 1957 50th Reunion Fund for Faculty Salaries and Benefits Faculty Retirement Fund Faculty Support Endowment Fund Edward E. Ford Foundation Fund for Faculty Futures Madame Marie Gagarine Teaching Endowment Greene Field Fund in memory of Rocky Delano and Peggy Pile and in honor of Nellie Greene Robin ’57 and John Hadley Instructorship in Mathematics John W. B. Hadley Instructorship in Science Diana S. Hobby ’48 English Department Chair Kate Johnson Nielsen ’72 Faculty Support Fund Georgia O’Keeffe 1905 Fund Barbara Jacobi O’Reilly ’57 Fund to Secure Current Faculty Salaries and Benefits Plant Foundation Fund Virginia Stewart Fund Betty Thornton Endowment Fund William Woolsey Yardley Memorial Employee Endowment Fund

other special purposes academic funds

The Sarah C. Benson ’47 Endowed Music Fund Alexandra Sterling ’03 Science Educational Materials Endowment Wray Environment Fund

awards funds

Class of 2012 Athletic Award Gene Scott Connor ’34 Memorial Championship Tennis Cup Virginia Henry Holt Award for a sophomore who is a superior student, who best exemplifies the character, deportment, energy, kindness and grace of the ideal student at Chatham Hall Lillian Evans Lineberger New Girl Award Catherine Ingram Spurzem ’74 Creative Writing Award Helen Gregory Yardley Award for Excellence in Sculpture

guest speakers/ concert funds

Joan Danforth Cook ’48 Concert Lecture Fund The Polly Wheeler Guth ’44 Leaders In Residence Fund Leadership Speakers Fund Made Possible by the Classes of 1944, 1968 and Other Individual Donors Shirley Baker Pond ’48 Fund for Chapel Speakers

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Sally Witt Duncan ’44 and A. Baker Duncan Book Fund Abbie Rickert Hershey ’57 Library Book Endowment Fund Trina Robinson Secor ’68 Leadership Library Fund

maintenance funds

Class of 1940 50th Reunion Fund for the upkeep of St. Mary’s Chapel Class of 2007 Family Gift Fund General Heritage Fund Heritage Fund Langhorne and Gertrude Wilson Jones ’23 Perennial Garden Fund Haddon Kirk Chapel Courtyard Memorial Fund Kitchen and Dining Room Maintenance Fund Mars Riding Endowment St. Mary’s Chapel Fund Shaw Science Building Maintenance Fund Jerry Van Voorhis Lecture Hall Maintenance Fund Penelope Perkins Wilson ’41 Heritage Fund

miscellaneous funds Jeffrey Ferguson ’41 Endowed Chapel Fund Rector’s Discretionary Fund Technology Endowment

unrestricted

Annual Giving Endowment Class of 1942 50th Reunion Unrestricted Endowment Fund General Endowment William R. Kenan Jr. Endowment Fund Kirby Fund Elizabeth Beckwith Nilsen ’31 Endowment Fund Virginia L. Radley Endowment Fund Marlene R. Shaw Endowment Fund

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alumnae giving

The following lists include donors to all funds at Chatham Hall. Alumnae are listed by class year and alphabetically by maiden name.

Alumnae Participation 32% | Young Alumnae Participation (Classes 1999–2013) 25% Alumnae Co-Chairs: Jane Murray and Joanna Edgell honorary alumna Participation 64% Ann Beal † Dee Burch F Melissa Evans Fountain B C Alice Overbey Dora Thomas E B C Alice Cromer Van Lennep Lockett Van Voorhis

class of 1936

Participation 100% Mary Applegate Fisher B

class of 1937

Participation 33% Katharine Hobson Sturtevant C

class of 1938

Participation 100% Hope Rogers Metcalf C

class of 1939 Reunion Participation 33% Barbara Briggs Trimble B C Barbara Mallory Hathaway E B C Mary Speer Marr C

class of 1940

Participation 33% Eugenia Lovett West C Anne Meigs Larkin

class of 1941

Participation 46% Edith Gwathmey Grassi C

Yellow Iris by Yolanda Mantilla ’15

Ethel Hix Darrell C Penelope Perkins Wilson B C Sarah Robbins Bradshaw C Harriett Sayre Noyes C Kimmie Stuart Sloane B C

class of 1942

Participation 36% Class Agent:

Lucy Charles Jones Bendall Lucy Charles Jones Bendall C Polly Porter E C Lee Stuart Cochran C Mary Tiedeman Hoagland C Mary Walton Curley C

class of 1943

Participation 50% Edith Bettle Gardner C Anne Campbell Clement C Pauline Harrison Winans Finn C Elsie Hilliard Hillman B C Isabel Hooker B C Janet Ketchum Whitehouse † Mary Sheldon Burns C Sally Thacher Amory C Joan Williams Graham C

class of 1944

Participation 38% Class Agent:

Caroline Hartwell Stewart Lea Cumings Parson B C Caroline Hartwell Stewart B C Margery Hobson Thomas B C Katherine McKay Belk-Cook B C Susan McKnew C Joan Stanley French C

Polly Wheeler Guth E B C Sally Witt Duncan E B C

class of 1945

Participation 52% Class Agent:

Mary Hooker Crary Diana Beebe Richardson Sally Hillman Childs C Mary Hooker Crary E B C Marion Jones Kingsford C Anne Lee Reath C Laura Lee Bullitt C Mary McChesney Ten Eyck C Sally McCrillis Eldredge C Frances Menefee Weeks E C Margaret Murray Baldrige Kathryn Reed Smith B C Jean Ruffin Lilly C Patricia Schoen Gile E C Carolyn Vreeland Le Boutillier

class of 1946

Participation 61% Sara Cruikshank Foster B C Helen Dempwolf Goodhue C Joan Dodge Rueckert C Alison Erskine Farrar Lois Hart Coleman B C Emma Hodge Sarosdy C Joan Houston McCulloch C Nancy Howland Washburne Florence Hunter Ault C Joan Miller Tait C Ann Mitchell Throop Nancy Ober Bowman Magalen Ohrstrom Bryant B C Eleanor Owens Earle C Priscilla Pruden Garretson C

Sally Quinby Gibbs C Victoria Thomson Romig C Ann Thoron Hale Helene Zimmermann Hill C

class of 1947

Participation 64% Class Agent:

Carol Babcock Davenport Carol Babcock Davenport B C Martha Bacon Hartfiel C Noel Barnes Williams C Martha Blankarn Halsey C Laura Chandler Marshall Adelaide Comstock Roberts Nancy Evans Gruner C Marjorie Flory Cecily Hogg Morrow Gainor Ingersoll Miller C Joan Kurtz Ferguson C Cordelia Ruffin Richards Annette Shelden Dykema C Eleanore Walton Bequaert

class of 1948

Participation 49% Class Agent:

Harriet Simons Williams Doris Beasley Martin C Alice Blum Yoakum B C Mary Fox Church C Margaret Ker Gotz E C Lillian Lineberger McKay E B C Anne Lydgate Kaiser Jane-Kerin Moffat Trygve Norstrand Cooley B C Anne Osborne Swain C Eleanor Pennell E Virginia Plews Robey C Margaret Ryburn Topping C Jane Schaff Odell C Harriet Simons Williams C Diana Stallings Hobby † B Barbara Townsend Crawford C Ann Ward Morgan B C

class of 1949

Participation 40% Mary Bovard Sensenbrenner B Jean Clark Eysenbach C Anne Foley Doucet C Sarah Jones Winmill B C Elisabeth McGinty Laigle Joanne Shartle Anderson E B C Martha Snowdon North C Caroline Staub Callery Ann Trowbridge Richter Catherine Van Rensselaer Townsend C Frederica Wellington Valois C Linda Witherill B C

E Esto Perputua Society members are individuals who have included Chatham hall in their estate plans.

B Benefactors Society members are donors who contribute $1,000+ to the Annual Fund or for other purposes.

C Columns Club members are donors who contribute 5+ years to the Annual Fund or for other purposes. † Deceased Classes that celebrated Reunion in 2014

Participation 46% Class Agent:

Ellen Childs Lovejoy Jenifer Barnes Garfield E C Ellen Childs Lovejoy B C Harriett Dayton C Elizabeth Evans Karin Fagerburg Jackson C Alison Fennelly Siragusa E C Mary Griswold Horrigan C Nancy Gwathmey Harris B C Kathleen Herty Brown C Kathleen Horne Graff C Caroline Jeanes Hollingsworth EBC Margaret Johnson Lee Prudence Lowe Miller C Ellen MacVeagh Rublee B C Cynthia Murray Henriques C Custis Preston Haynes C Sally Reese Pryor C Elizabeth Slade Driscoll B C

class of 1951

Participation 35% Class Agent:

Sarah Shartle Meacham Laurene Berger Owen C Kent Brain Rogers C Joan Chickering Volberg C Ann Cochran McCandless C Margaret Dayton Ankeny C Susan Fair Boyd E B C Povy LaFarge Bigbee E B C Saraellen Merritt Langmann E C Sarah Shartle Meacham E B C Joanna Sperry Mockler B C Ann Tracy Ross

class of 1952

Participation 52% Virginia Beresford Fox B C Carolyn Borders Danforth C Margaret Brown Armstrong Anita Caine Schenck C Josephine Cornwell Parman C Judith Gregory Bowes Clare Harwood Nunes B C Ann Kirkpatrick Runnette Alice Pack Melly B C Alison Ruder Thomas Lee Sullivan Born C Mary Webster Kampf Elizabeth Wheat Townsend B Alison Wright Cameron C

class of 1953

Participation 62% Class Agent:

Barbara Billings Supplee

Lucy McClellan Barrett Margot Bell Woodwell C Barbara Billings Supplee E B C Patricia Carter Hatch C Winston Case Wright C Joan Cass Adams C Jane Clark Reeder C Jean Connelly Mooney C Lee Edwards Anderson C Susan Elder Martin C Olivia Hutchins Dunn B C Betsy Kenney O’Brien C Elizabeth Lackey Johnston C Gail Lassiter Malin C Sara Love Downey C Linda Lovelace Brownrigg B Lucy McClellan Barrett B C Cornelia Mueller Gibson C Judith Ruffin Anderson C Doris Silliman Stockly C Mary Catherine Sours Plaster C Iris Winthrop Freeman

class of 1954

Participation 33% Class Agent:

Ann Taylor Mary Blair Simmons C Jane De Hart E C

Betty Gullatt Budlong C Elizabeth Jefferys Dees Elizabeth Peters Turner C Caroline Ramsay Merriam C Elisabeth Swan Weitzel C Ann Taylor E C Judith Turben Walrath C Donna Vroman Kreidler C Angela Winthrop Getchell Ann Woolfolk Austin C Caroline Young Moore C

class of 1955

Participation 34% Class Agent:

Martha Justice Martin Elizabeth Blanton McHargue C Anne Burling C Joan Coulter Pittman E B C Katherine Cravens B C Shelby Elliott Roberts C Susan Embree Parker C Natalie Farrar Theriot E B C Carlotta Hellier Parsons C Martha Justice Martin B C Cynthia Lovelace Sears B Elizabeth Marshall Games C Louanna Owens Carlin C Louise Shartle Coleman Virginia Worthington Marr E C

class of 1956

Participation 52% Doris Balkcom Keen Evelyn Bullitt Hausslein C Jacqueline Cannon Brown E C Carol Culver Bitting C Irene Darden Field C Judith Fenn Duncan C Dina Kauders Leonard Alice Lineberger Harney B Jane Lineberger Huffard E Joday Litton Blevins C Josephine Noel Dietz C Nancy Olmsted Kaehr C Lynn Painter Dillard E Patricia Parshall Berger E B C Marcia Pyle Welch C Emma Scott Christopher C Sue Wolf Moore C

class of 1957

Participation 59% Sally Bramstedt Richards Nancy Campbell Fales Ellen Day Ross C Sharon Ellis Miller Josephine Gilmore Bell E C Stuart Greene C Ann Hay Reeves C Janie Huntley Webster E C Josephine McFadden E B C Isabel Merrill Lyndon C Eugenie Millan Campbell Martha Moffitt Carlstrom Katherine Norcross Wheeler E C Martha Patterson Martens C Ann Staples Waldron C Virginia Thornton Craley C Robin Tieken Hadley B C Alice Williams Vining Fay Wilmerding Burdon B C Sherley Young B C

class of 1958

Participation 49% Class Agent:

Florence Schroeder Ervin

Margaret Horner Walker Ethel Baskerville Powell Molly Buck C Margaret Bullitt Pough Jane Clark Warren Allen Craig Mears C Olive Hershey Margaret Horner Walker B C Mary Kemp Callaway C Anna Lineberger Stanley C Leila McConnell Daw C Eleanore Morgan Moran C

class of 1960

Page Nelson Loeser C Rebecca Roberts C Sally Saltonstall Willis B C Florence Schroeder Ervin B C Eleanor Silliman Maroney B C Wissie Thompson E B C Burleigh Vette Blust C

Participation 42% Class Agent:

Simone Crockett Mary Austin Lowery C Elinor Beidler Siklossy Marion Benson Miller C Mary Duncan Bicknell B C Helen Dunn C Susan Dwelle Baxter C Elizabeth Walter-Echols C Denny Fowler Pierce-Grove C Kay Graham McCullough C Frances Johnson Lee-Vandell C Eleanore Lee C Margaret Lloyd Keuler Adelaide McKenzie Moss Sharon Rafferty Patterson Margaret Reeder Crosbie C Audrey Sawtelle Delafield C Margot Steenland Cater Molly Taylor Pope Katharine Watson B C Eliza Wolcott Morehead

class of 1959

Participation 39% Helen Anderson Shaw Emily Arents Margaret Cushing C Helen Eggleston Bellas Mary Fishburne Heuchert C Susan Fox Beischer B C Maria Gallagher Truslow Priscilla Mapes Maresi C Margaret McElroy C Barbara McMillan Lee Porter Page B C Lisa Rosenberger Moore B C Margaret Worthington Gilson C Jane Yardley Amos E C

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class of 1950

top 25 class giving CLASS OF 1936

100%

CLASS OF 1938

100%

CLASS OF 1947

64%

CLASS OF 1953

62%

CLASS OF 1946

61%

CLASS OF 1957

59%

CLASS OF 1964

58%

CLASS OF 1970

52%

CLASS OF 1952

52%

CLASS OF 1956

52%

CLASS OF 1943

50%

CLASS OF 1958

49%

CLASS OF 1941

46%

CLASS OF 1950

46%

CLASS OF 1948

46%

2,684 states with highest concentration of alumnae Virginia

358 319

North Carolina

45%

CLASS OF 1966

42%

CLASS OF 1960

42%

CLASS OF 1972

42%

CLASS OF 1967

42%

CLASS OF 1984

(active)

55%

CLASS OF 1945

CLASS OF 1963

total alumnae of record

41%

CLASS OF 1962

40%

CLASS OF 2006

40%

CLASS OF 1968

40%

consecutive years of giving Below are the number of donors who have made Chatham Hall a part of their giving plan each and every year for 20 or more years!

Thank you for your loyal support!

51 donors = 40+ years 92 donors = 30+ years 192 donors = 20+ years

class of 1961

class of 1962

Participation 40% Class Agent:

Jean Merritt Johnston Jane Allen Street C Rose Bryant Woodard Jo Rainey Evans Tisdale Julia Frazier B Holly Fry McGowan Shirley Grange C Lillian Headley Poole B C Jean Merritt Johnston B C Louise Potts Thibodaux Priscilla Pugh Kirkpatrick B C Eugenia Richardson Nash C Carole Robertson Coviello B C Diana Simrell Savory C Judy Treppendahl Robinson C C. Jane Van Landingham C Nuna Washburn MacDonald C

class of 1963

Participation 53% Class Agent:

Jane Everhart Murray Jean Armfield Sherrill B C Susan Beekman Clough Mary Bell Timberlake C Judy Carter E B C Louise Clarke B C Anne Clement Haddad C Jane Everhart Murray B C Leslie Fenn Gershon Alice Flint Roe C Charlotte Gignoux Dwyer Helen Gregory Wise C Joan Gunter McCauley Anne Hathaway Bowes Kirby Kittredge Johnstone Ada Long C Gwynne Macrae Pfeifer Susan Overbey Funderburk C Dicke Tredway Sloop Jane Webb Crawford C Virginia Willson Welch C

class of 1964

Participation 58% Class Agent:

Boyce Lineberger Ansley

Elizabeth Reigeluth Parker Josephine Bayard B Sarah Boy C Lorraine Caffery Friedrichs B Nancy Comer Shuford C Frances de Saussure Meade Anne Dickerson Janet Holley Wegner Dorothy Howard Verney Ann Hoxton Taylor C Laura Law Katherine Lee Cole B C Boyce Lineberger Ansley E B C Eliza Mabry Gibson Mary Lloyd McDonald Stefanie Nunes Kies Dana Paulson Davis E B C Elizabeth Reigeluth Parker E B C Joan Richardson Doty Ann Robinson Stevenson Phyllis Statter Oxman B C Linda Trent Audrey Warner Speer C Paula Wright Lipman

class of 1965

Participation 28% Class Agent:

Charlotte Kirk Reynolds Holly Bowles Blanton Rachel Boyd Laura Bullitt Despard C Deborah Clark Mary Fry Edmunds Haywood C Susan Farwell Houston C Charlotte Kirk Reynolds C Barbara Lane C Marian Larkin Sally Lindsley Kroll Hope Metcalf Johnston C Margaret Payne Mahoney C Penelope Stout Strakhov C Nina Tabor Martin C Pamela Wade Latta

class of 1966

Participation 42% Class Agent:

Margie Hastings Quinlan Elizabeth Bayard Tallman Marian Bray C Karen Burns Blakey C Carolyn Carter Yawars C Pauline Cherry Sara Clay Branch C Muffin Dalton Grant B Constance Flint West B C Katherine Hallowell Noyes Nancy Hanes White C Margie Hastings Quinlan B C Lynn Kitson Williams Edith Patterson Cates C Jill Sedlmayr MacMillan C Mary Shallenberger E B C Suzanne Shaw Spradling Ann Lee Stephens Sarpy Mary Lynn Thomas Van Wyck Jane Upson Hubbard Amelia Walker Ward B Sally Whately-Smith Pilkington C Sarah Yardley C

class of 1967

Participation 42% Class Agent:

Debbie Humphreys Jones Kathleen Arey Carroll E B C Marney Ault Wasserman C Jessica Bell Nicholson C Anne Bryant E B C Georgia Cadwalader Bennett Janice Copley Obre B C Adnée Hamilton C Debbie Humphreys Jones C Ida Little Patricia Noojin Dudley C Margaret Perkins Sise C Lynn Rosengarten Horowitz B C Elizabeth Scott Hayes Maura Smith Collins C Caroline Stewart Lacey C Elizabeth Stout Foehl Mary Tiffany Schweitzer Priscilla Wade Belsinger C

class of 1968

Participation 40% Class Agent:

Terry Overbey Stafford

Lucy Williams Maish Anna Best Lee Katie Carlson Houston Kathryn Carter Jacobs C Annie Clarke Ager Spring Critchlow Swinehart Muffy Dent Stuart E B C Jane Howard Cheever Mollie Hunt Holmes C Julia Mattingly Mary Norman Huguley Laurie Nussdorfer E C Terry Overbey Stafford C Mary Norris Preyer Oglesby B C Katharine Reynolds Chandler B C Christine Robinson Secor B C

Gladding Schaff Markunas B Lucy Williams Maish

class of 1969

Participation 31% Anne Blodget Holberton C Mary Dykema McDonald Carol Harlocker McBee Julia Johnson C Elizabeth Landes C Janet Lewis Peden C Mary Murrill Oakes C Robin Peake Stuart B C Talmadge Ragan C Nancy Lee Smith Kemper B Tucky Stout Pogue Louise Towers Hardage C Lisa Vilas Weismiller E C Mary White English C Mary Wolcott Davis C Virginia Wulsin Roberts C

class of 1970

Participation 56% Class Agent:

Carolyn Davenport

Ninna Fisher Denny

Elinor Greene Wendy Bailey Hamilton Rebecca Brown Hutcheson Charlotte Caldwell E C Nancy Callery Carolyn Davenport Pauline Dent Ketchum B C Julia Dominick Gray Helen Dupuy Ninna Fisher Denny M.E. Freeman C Cornelia Freyer C Lynette Gaido Lee Gates Crosby Martha Givens Nicol B Elinor Greene Cynthia Halsey Mernick Betty Hessee Walker Johnson Jones E B C Studie Johnson Young E B C Sally Lesh Quereau Hope Luke Hetherington Lucia Mercer Helen Mirkil B Louise Nash Gardner Jean Northington C Pamela Purcell Patricia Robinson B Karrick Scott Collins C Katherine Washburne Reimelt Catherine Williams Nell Willis Twining

class of 1971

Participation 32% Class Agent:

Camille Agricola Bowman Camille Agricola Bowman Gloria Bond Clunie Elizabeth Cary Pierson E C Mary Dunbar E B C Venita Fields C Mary Kay Karzas E B C Deborah Locke Iberger Preston Lyon McGregor Margaret Malloy Sanders C Lizette Smith C Sarah Yancey Stipanowich

class of 1972

Participation 44% Mary Baldrige Katie Belk Morris B C Nancy Bolduc Anne Bowman Gowing Laura Brown Cronin B C Julie Cleveland Sarah Foscue Merrell Jane Fuller Killough C Katherine Hairston La Rosa Carolyn Huntoon Connell Nina Johnson Botsford E B C Kate Johnson Nielsen E B C

Anna Lane B C Margaret Lovett Simpson Lillian McKay Teigland C Sarah Morris C Katherine Pieters DeNes C Jane Preyer B C Diana Simonds C Sandra Sweatt Hull Susan Towers Dennard C Sallie Wise Chaballier C

class of 1973

Participation 23% Class Agent:

Virginia Cates Bowie Anonymous C Kristin Caldwell Schad C Julia Carr Day Virginia Cates Bowie B Jane Garnett B C Robin Hanes C Marian Henley Mary Thomas Joseph Elizabeth Kirk Unger B C Mary Newcombe Isabelle Selby Ellen Simmons Ball B C Martha Stevens Brown C Margaret Sugino Frances Wallace Robertson B C

class of 1974

Participation 23% Sanders Beard Hockensmith B Lori Braun Jackson C Elizabeth Carter Beckmann Sarah Martin Finn B C Pamela Mayer C Mary Pugh Manning C Mary Reed Spencer E C Laura Williams Galtieri Anne Wynn Weissinger C

class of 1975

Participation 34% Class Agent:

Mary Boy Mary Boy B C Susan Bruce C Katherine Coleman Haroldson B C Kathryn Granger Haines C Mary Evelyn Guyton Heidi Hand Evans C Martha Ann Keels B C Katherine McKay E Julia Morris Kashkashian B C Tyler Norman Scott C Mary Lyman Scott Jackson C Frances Sommers Wheelock E B C Emily Todd E C Leigh Wilson

class of 1976

Participation 23% Class Agent: Virginia Carter Alida Bryant C Virginia Carter B C Caroline Ives Pearce C Anne Jiranek Doyle Celia Lippitt Snow Janey McCoy C Caroline Nichols C Bradford Simmons Marshall B C Sara Stoneburner

class of 1977

Participation 20% Class Agent:

Patricia Kellogg Maddock Katherine Brooks Katharine Bulkley B C Pace Cooke Emmons C Camlyn Craig-Brown Sarah Dabney Gillespie B C Frazier Millner Armstrong Sarah Nelson Polly Slater Glover Jane Wilson E C

class of 1978

Participation 22% Letitia Berlin Lisa Burton C Beth Duncan Berkun C Margaretta Gallagher Archie C Barbara Greer Diana Howard Fisketjon B Linda Mars E B C Susan Metcalf

class of 1979

Participation 11% Molly Davis Stephanie Klein-Davis Johan Newcombe Peers Susan Shelton

class of 1980

Participation 18% Catherine Doeller Sage B C Janet Freed Rosser C Florence Hines C Annette Kirby B C Allison Sutton Fuqua C

class of 1981

Participation 15% Bradie Barr C Deborah Berlin Jenny Crisp B C Elizabeth Peters C Sarah Reed Harris Sallie Grace Tate E B C

class of 1982

Participation 19% Jennifer Austell-Wolfson E C Karen Gates Kettler Sharon Reese Elizabeth Reynolds Lauren Waters Luczkow

class of 1983

Participation 30% Cheryl Bentley C Sonya Cumming Penny Stephanie Dozier Kirkman C Stacey Goodwin B C Monica Dee Guillory Catherine McCormick C

Chatham and Shanghai by Jingyi Shao ’15

Elizabeth Mullen Amy Nolde Tamara Pottker C Catherine Reed B Karin Schutjer C Susan Wright C

class of 1984

Participation 41% Class Agent:

Jennifer Gammill McKay Tracy Bartlett Lively Mary Jo Blake Amanda Brady Jennifer Gammill McKay E C Augusta Harrison Dunstan Sian Jones C Caroline Landis Carter Sarah Monarchi Longpré B C Sarah Purcell Bell Mary Reynolds C Lisa Richmond C Katie Van Lennep

class of 1985

Participation 22% Class Agent:

Belinda Thornton Ruelle Adrienne Burdette Catherine Cates Sarah Collie B C Kathan Dearman Melinda Fera Whitney Labouchere Gerache Mary Blair Motley Belinda Thornton Ruelle C

class of 1986

Participation 28% Class Agent: Mary Freed Anna Avery Hallie Bettcher Pettegrew B C Mary Bilecky Drimer C Eleanor Burke Farris B C Judith Duncan C Mary Freed B C Flora Garner-Platt Laura Myers Casellas Melissa Norton McKinley Caroline Sloan Elizabeth Todd Beall

class of 1987

Participation 18% Class Agent:

Judy Currie Hamilton

Laura Willoughby Judy Currie Hamilton C Melanie Kirk Holton B Leslie Lawhorn Neely Dana Nossaman Keilman C Kimberlee Scott Laura Willoughby C Semmes Wright Calvert

class of 1988

Participation 13% Laura Dick Moses Laura Mascharka Brucker C Anne Prouty List Rebecca Taylor Heery

class of 1989

Participation 22% Class Agent:

Stephanie Hewitt Hedge Taylor Aldridge Higdon Jennifer Bess Jones Melissa Edwards Bibb Nancy Evans Wahmhoff C Sonja Fields Andrews Nini Hadjis Ginger Lindsey Justine Shuford Moroz

class of 1990 Participation 8% Haley Collins Poole Kate Lynn Jones C

class of 1991

Participation 35% Class Agent:

Catherine Whitehead Huband Sarah Abbott Weitzenkorn Jennifer Abel LaRue Karen Anderson Leonard Alison Carter-Cady Ansley Chapman Cella C Heather Cook Barnes Sarah Edwards Pember Nancy Hilliard Joyce Shannon Hinderliter Hembree C Kitchi Joyce

Emily Page Murray Catherine Whitehead Huband C

class of 1992

Participation 8% Gretchen Blair Clark Elizabeth Blocker Tonelis

class of 1993

Participation 27% Class Agent:

Anna Robinson Emily Blair Harvey C Andrea Cannon Little C Laurel Cobble Fountain B C Mary-Stuart Day C Joanna Edgell E B Lucy Holmes Erwin B C Kerrington Ramsey Molhoek C Anna Robinson C Ava Ann Vrooman C

class of 1994

Participation 21% Class Agent:

Sandra Van Haaften Heasley Alison Ardito Davis Eleanor Farrell Alexandra Michaels Adkins Amanda Sink Wydner

class of 1995

Participation 9% Class Agent:

Reagan Greene Pruitt Reagan Greene Pruitt Ashley Rice Evans

class of 1996

Participation 19% Andrea Littman Long E B C Tanya Mahdi McMain C Erika Olson Jennifer Quainton Kate Tissue Ribovich

class of 1997

Participation 7% Class Agent:

Morgan Karsman Robertson Rebecca Frackelton Alyson Kent C

class of 1998

Participation 23% Class Agent:

Susan Gillings Gross Maibeth Deas Keith C Susan Gillings Gross B C Megan Grant Lawrence B Taylor Hall Bandyke C Katherine McLean Ryan C Kerry O’Neill Irwin Elizabeth Yarborough

class of 1999

Participation 22% Class Agent:

Morgan Brawley Rhodes

Elizabeth White-Hurst Mari Armstrong-Hough Morgan Brawley Rhodes Alan Crowe C Sharon Lu Kristine Velasco Pincock Elizabeth White-Hurst E C

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Participation 27% Class Agent:

Cynthia Bryant Parker Anonymous C Mary Allen Cox C Sarah Belden Ravndal C Bettina Brown Irvine Cynthia Bryant Parker E B C Jane Carney Scully C Deborah Detchon Dodds C Rebecca Robinson Preston Sarah Ellen Tredway Webster Catherine Wilson Smith C

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Participation 11% Class Agent:

Elizabeth Call Jane Allen C Katherine Blair Farmer Andrea Dedmon C

class of 2001

Participation 15% Class Agent:

Katherine Currin Trisha Blackwell C Katherine Currin Margaret Lehner Stone Sarah Pannell

Parent Participation All Funds 55% Senior Parent Chairs: Sterling and Linder Laffitte P’14 | Parent Chair: Kristin Mitchell P’16 Grandparent Participation 13%

class of 2002

Participation 35% Class Agent:

Kimberly Daniels Taws

Michelle Thomas Supko Emily Brown Sales C Elisabeth Campbell Cales C Emmalyn Cochran Danielle Dillon Munkelt Karla Hudson Martin Lindsay Shook C Sara Stumberg Walker C Michelle Thomas Supko B C Deborah Varela

class of 2003

Participation 25% Class Agent:

Mary Katherine Evans Rordam

Whitney Jones Allen Sarah Arnn Parrish Lydia Beresford Mary Katherine Evans Rordam C Jennifer Hinson C Whitney Jones Allen Martha Loftin Christine Meyer Jaquette Page Gilbert Isabelle Randolph

class of 2004

Participation 31% Class Agent:

Marguerite Logan Andrews

Danielle Thomas Kimmel Sarah Burton Graper Abigail Haymes Ibarra C Mary MrDutt C Jordan Nyberg Ferris Ayako Obata Ann Pope Elizabeth Thomas Danielle Thomas Kimmel C Alice Ward

class of 2005

Participation 34% Class Agent:

Lelan Dunavant Davidson

Emma Smith Castro Lelan Dunavant Davidson C Samantha Franklin Hammond Ashley Hockensmith Rebecca Jones Sarah Lannom C Emily Pulliam Laura Anne Roquemore McLaurin Julia Rowe Emma Smith Castro C Laura Stocke Farmer

class of 2006

Participation 40% Class Agent:

Schaeffer Goss Barnhardt

Taylor Nyberg Anonymous Paige Abe Joanna Caldwell C Nell Gilliam Schaeffer Goss Barnhardt Jessica Hills

class of 2014 parents

A Bend in the Road by Elizabeth Hollerith ‘15 Lindsay Hockensmith Victoria Ireson Taylor McCall Elizabeth Anne McGowin C Sara Norman C Taylor Nyberg C Amy O’Brien Covert Laura Rand C Virginia Thomas Lorena Vega

class of 2007

Participation 28% Class Agent:

Virginia Evans

Laura Spencer Virginia Evans Caroline Finke Elizabeth Loewenstein Ann O’Brien Laura Spencer B C Sandra Turnbull C Emily Dale Willmott

class of 2008

Participation 19% Class Agent:

Ellen Cartmell

Maggie Oakes Shelby Hockensmith Maggie Oakes C Kristin Reese Kaitlin Tebeau C Sophie Youles

class of 2009 Participation 41% Carlyn Carter Sumner Dalrymple Grace Fulop Margaret Googe Constance Harris Raquel Helmer Whitney Henderson Rosalind Jenkins Rebecca Knight Laura McCall Mary McCusker Polly Mingledorff C Whitney Phelps Vivian Roussel Marion Tilghman Alexandra Walker

class of 2010

Participation 22% Class Agent:

Adele Cornwall

Grace Hwang Mary Kathryn Atkinson Adele Cornwall C Alyssa Edes Chelsea Hermann Grace Hwang Laird McIver Charlotte Rettberg Rebecca Smith

class of 2011 Participation 20% Class Agent:

Kathryn Bennett Kathryn Bennett Isabelle Dunham Elizabeth Ferlise Ardra Hren Catherine Merwin

Lily Fulop Emily Hussey Mary Madison Laffitte Catherine Lane Yea Seul Lee Xiangxiang Luo Xiaodi Ma Madison McAdams Dasia Moore Caitlyn Morris Molly Penny Alexandra Powell Christina Reed Drew Sherrill Rachel Tuite Alexandra Varanelli Stryker-Ann Vosteen Yiran Wang Kathryn Waters Noelle Wilton Kendall Woodlief Shangyu Ye

Participation 54% William and Darnell Abbott Anna Avery Calvin Bard and Heather Edgley B William and Jill Baskin Beth Duncan Berkun C John and Valerie Booth B Pace Cooke Emmons C Timothy and Jacklyn Fulop Bruce Hussey and Marian Murphy Sterling and Linder Laffitte B Louis and Tango Moore Ned and Catherine Morris B William and Lynn Penny Robert and Elizabeth Powell Bill Sherrill and Lori Wainright C James and Lisa Tuite B Frank and Mary Varanelli B Paul and Marguerite Vosteen Daniel and Tammy Waters C David and Kathryn Wilton B Edward and Sandra Woodlief

class of 2014 grandparents

Participation 20% Howard Berkun Martha Campbell Judith Fenn Duncan C George and Janice Edgley

Ann Foust Robert and Patsy Gibson Donald and Constance Hussey Cecilia Janssen B Mr. and Mrs. Ralph M. Laffitte William and Betty Penny L.J. and Beth Turner Louis and Annette Vosteen

Robert and Jeanine Stewart Eugene and Kathryn Stuart B Richard and Christina Thomas B William and Mary Tice Markus and Cathy Wilhelm Kristin Wilson Joseph and Debra Woody Joseph and Bernadette Young

class of 2015 parents

class of 2015 grandparents

Participation 53% Anonymous (2) Fred and Rebecca Caprio Raja and Saradha Chadalavada Thomasin and Paul Chrisman Thomas and Martha Dixon B Dale and Denise Evans B Jan and Dagmar Fahr Theodore Fletcher and Ann Kidder Junxi Fu and Minmin Hugan Zachary and Felicia Hairston B James and Melanie Hogg Herman and Elizabeth Hollerith B Martha Landrum-Buckner Dione and Robert Leak Cesar and July Mantilla Chester Mayo Taylor and Katherine Parrish Joseph and Susan Pinyard Holly and Walt Rhea Michael and Donna Robertson B

Participation 13% Gladys Dixon William and Adele Fletcher David and Jane Leak Lynda Mills Herk and Sherry Sims B Susan Smith Nancy Stewart

class of 2016 parents Participation 57% Anonymous Christopher and Taboth Boch Victor Bongard III and Taylor Albright Raja and Saradha Chadalavada Henry and Jane Hawthorne James and Tracy Lively Wayne and Marie Mitchell

Kristin Mitchell Tim Mitchell Esther Okeyo Tony and Evelyn Paz Bobby and Irina Rains Brett and Elizabeth Rule B Dennis and Cynthia Samuel B Jack and Ginger Somers Ross Walton B Kathleen Weller Derek Weller John and Patricia Wilson Robert and Kathleen Zentner

class of 2016 grandparents

Participation 6% Richard and Barbara Bashford Henry and Elizabeth Hawthorne

class of 2017 parents Participation 62% Stephen Brunton Terry and Cynthia Dittrich Warren and Susan Hawkridge Tim and Karen Hayes Joan Morris Kathleen O’Hare William and Lynn Penny Robert and Jennifer Plemmons Maria Pucsinszki Laura Salazar-Rogers Mark and Rachel Strawn Kristin Wilson Zhijun Xiang and Min Qin B

class of 2017 grandparents

class of 2012

Participation 14% Mary Hayes William and Betty Penny James and Judy Strawn

Participation 19% Class Agent:

Mary Kate Winebrenner Sarah Brown Hannah Early Elizabeth Goldstein Meredith Lee Mary Kate Winebrenner

class of 2013 Participation 3% Class Agent:

Stephanie Tuck Cassidy Tebeau C

class of 2014 Participation 100% Walker Abbott Merjen Atayeva Juliana Avery Kendall Bard Molly Baskin Kathleen Berkun Dayzah Blaine Amanda Booth Michaela Campbell Robin Emmons Katherine Ferro De’ja Flowers

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class of 2000

parents of alumnae Parents of Alumnae Participation 48% James and Maria Allen P’00 C Jane Yardley Amos ’59, P’91 E C Kathelen and Daniel Amos P’07, ’12 BC Jean Anderson P’74 Boyce Lineberger Ansley ’64, P’90 E B C Victor and Bonnie Ardito P’94 Florence Hunter Ault ’46, P’72, ’75, G’04, ’06 C Margaret Murray Baldrige ’45, P’72 John and Carol Baughman P’01 Ann Beal P’97 † Katherine McKay Belk-Cook ’44, P’72 B C Laurence and Karen Bettcher P’86 B F. Matthews and Beth Bigbee P’10 C Mary Bilecky P’86 C J. Kermit and Glenys Birchfield P’93 B Fred and Brenda Blair P’92, ’00 B Michael and Thelma Blair P’93 C Holly Bowles Blanton ’65, P’90 Nancy Ober Bowman ’46 Barry and Jo Brown P’02, ’04 C Anne Bryant P’61, ’62, ’67, ’76 C Katharine Bulkley P’77 C Walter and Dee Burch P’85 C Howard and Patricia Burkart P’92 C Theodore and Southard Burr P’97 David and Barbara Caldwell P’06 B C Caroline Staub Callery ’49 P’70, ’71 Joan Carter P’76 C U. Roger and Valda Casey P’08 Edith Patterson Cates ’66, P’96 C Jerry and Judith Clark P’04 B C Anne Campbell Clement ’43, P’63 C Davenport and Gladys Cleveland P’72 C Marcie Cobble P’93, ‘96 C Barbara Collie P’85 B C Maura Smith Collins ‘67, P’06 C S. Christopher and Sara Cornwall P’10 Jebbie Crowe P’99 J. Christopher and Elizabeth Dalrymple P’09 J. Belk Daughtridge P’13 E Lois Daughtridge P’13 Carol Babcock Davenport ’47, P’70 B C Lois Davenport P’57, G’11 B Karen Dedmon P’00 C Frederick B. Dent P’68, ’70 B C Judith Fenn Duncan ’56, P’77, ’78, ’79, ’84, ’86, G’14 C

Michael and Dianne Dunham P’11 BC Eleanor Owens Earle ’46, P’79 C Ralph Earle II P’79 Beverly Edgell P’93 B C Aubrey and Elayne Edwards P’89, ’91 C Olga and Stanley Erickson P’13 C Alexander and Virginia Evans P’03, ’07 Hilda Farmer P’81 C Michael and Karen Farrell P’94 Mary Applegate Fisher ’36, P’64 B Edmond and Angela Fitzgerald P’13 B C Sean Forbes and Gillian Lakhan P’12 B C Ellen Fort P’05 Virginia Beresford Fox ’52, P’80 B C Nan Freed P’77, ’80, ’86 Timothy and Jacklyn Fulop P’09, ’14 Stewart and Lynn Gammill P’84 C Jenifer Barnes Garfield ’50, P’79 E C Cornelia Mueller Gibson ’53, P’83 C Gary and Carol Gibson P’09 B C Paul and Robin Giddings P’99, ’00, ’03 C Joan Gillings P’98, G’06 B Douglas and Elizabeth Goldstein P’12 B C John and Sarah Goodwin P’83 C Paul and Cynthia Googe P’09 B James and Mary Granger P’75 C David Greer P’78 Michael Gruening and MarieChristine Grüning-Crouzet P’04 Susan Reed Guise P’74, ’81, ’83 Polly Wheeler Guth ’44, P’70 E B C Mary Evelyn Guyton ’75 Samuel Hairston P’70, ’72, ’73 C Martha Blankarn Halsey ’47, P’70 C Cheryl Haymes P’04, ’05, ’12 Douglas and Kathryn Hendrickson P’02 B C Cynthia Murray Henriques ’50, P’73 C Mark and Wendy Hermann P’08, ’10 Helene Zimmermann Hill ’46, P’80, ’82 C Sanders Beard Hockensmith ’74, P’05, ’06, ’08 B Mollie Hunt Holmes ’68, P’93 C Paul Hough and Ingrid Nelson P’99, ’10 C Channing Howe P’69 E B C

Henry and Margaret Hurt P’93 C Robert and Sandra Jackson P’98 C Roger and Jill Jenkins P’09 B C Robert Jiranek P’76 Virginia Johnson P’70, ’72 B C Kirby Kittredge Johnstone ’63 Henry and Kimberley Knight P’09 B Katherine Hairston La Rosa ’72 Anne Labouchere P’85, ’88 Anne Meigs Larkin ’40, P’65 Frances Johnson Lee-Vandell ’60 P’86 G’12 C Sylvia Stallings Lowe P’72, ’75, ’77 Lucy Williams Maish ’68, P’97 Julian and Diane Mann P’98 John and Adrienne Mars P’78 B C Doris Beasley Martin ’48, P’74 C Harry and Mary Maxon P’90 Rogers and Susan McCall P’06, ’09 Norman and Vivian McGowin P’06 C Robert and Mary McIver P’10 B C Lillian Lineberger McKay ’48 and Hamilton W. McKay, Jr. P’72, ’75, G’10 E B C Katherine McKay ’75, P’10 E Arthur and Sandy Meister P’99 C William Mellen P’80, ’81 C Ron and Ann Merricks P’02 C William and Mary Frances Merwin P’11 Hope Rogers Metcalf ’38, P’65, ’69, ’78 C H. Victor Millner, Jr. P’77 E C Carol Monarchi P’84 B C Andrew and Sheppard Morrison P’10 C Pattie Motley P’81, ’85 E C Archie and Sherri Murphy P’99 C Michael and Patricia O’Brien P’06, ’07 E B Thomas and Jane O’Neill P’98 C Alice Overbey P’68 Lea Cumings Parson ’44, P’65, ’68 B C Charles and Betty Prouty P’88 C Robert Pugh P’73, ’74, ’77 C William and Kimberly Rand P’06 Thomas Randolph P’03 Virginia Plews Robey ’48, P’80 C Cynthia Rodriguez P’13 Ellen MacVeagh Rublee ’50, P’78 B C J. Glenn and Alice Shelton P’79, ’81 C Marc and Cynthia Shook P’02 B C Mary Blair Simmons ’54, P’77 C Alison Fennelly Siragusa ’50, P’71 E C

faculty & staff Jane Allen C Robert Ankrom C Schaeffer Goss Barnhardt Richard Hunter Barnhardt III Shannon Bird Amy Blair C Geoffrey Braun Jacqueline Comola Gwendolyn Couch Laura Daniel Amy Davis C Bonnie Dodson C Barbie Eanes Mary Edmonds C

Ned Edwards Samantha Fleming Gary Fountain B C Melissa Evans Fountain B C Wanda Gammon C David Grimes Martha Griswold C Cheryl Haymes Jennifer Hiltwine C Brittany Jackson Kim Jackson C Emily Johns Alyson Kent C Catherine LaDuke C Starlet Lemon C

Yanjun Liu David Lyle C Margaret McColley Ron Merricks C Susan Morley Don Morley James Morris Sheppard Morrison C Sherri Murphy C Lauren O’Neill Dennis Oliver Laura Rand C Robin Revis-Pyke B Wanda Scearce C R. Alan Spearman C Carolyn Stenzel

Molly Thomas C Kenneth Tyburski C Tammy Waters C Elizabeth Weaver Maureen Webb C Sharon Williams Donald Wood C Katie Wood Dina Yassin

Dicke Tredway Sloop ’63, P’92 Pomeroy and Tracy Smith P’11 B Kenneth and Susan Sommerkamp P’90 C Tracy Spencer P’07, ’12 Caroline Hartwell Stewart ’44, P’67 BC Anne Osborne Swain ’48, P’70 C Elizabeth Bayard Tallman ’66, P’94 Richard and Nancy Tebeau P’08, ’13 B C Mark and Molly Thomas P’06, ’08 C Nevin and Dora Thomas P’02, ’04 E B C Elizabeth Towers P’09 C John and Kathleen Turnbull P’07 C Jerry and Lockett Van Voorhis P’94 C John Wallace P’73 C Robert and Joan Wallick P’87 B Sarah Ellen Tredway Webster ’61, P’87 Anne Wynn Weissinger ’74, P’01 C Valerie Welch P’12 C Francis T. and Katherine West P’90, ’97 E Lynn Kitson Williams ’66, P’91 Noel Barnes Williams ’47, P’70 C Penelope Perkins Wilson ’41, P’67 B C Jonathan and Rebecca Winebrenner P’12 C Frank and Paige Wiseman P’12 Donald and Gayla Wood P’96 C D. Oliver and Mary Semmes Wright P’87 C Stewart and Emily Wright P’79, ’83

friends & current students Victor and Christine Anthony Christine and William Baggerly Richard and Neely Barnhardt B Kirk Bidgood Theodore Bruning B C Monique Calhoun Mary Ellen Carroll Cheryl Czuba Lee Darch Ben and Betty Davenport B C Richard Dixon C Kathleen Bond Dow C Carolyn Eanes Wendy Eldridge Panuska

Dugald Fletcher Eunice Fulcher † C John Goodhue B Kirsti Goodwin Carroll Haines Jingi Hairston ‘15 I. Cecil Handy Charles Hickox, Jr. C H. Winston and Betty Holt C Caroline Ireland Brittany Jackson Kyle and Pam Kahuda C Sarah Bugbee Keidel C Warren Kelleher C

Lona Kelly Michelle Hopkins Lawrence Sidney Lovett C Ann Luther Richard Lynd B Michael Lyons Frank Maddux Betty Mirro Stevan Mosh and Eleanor SchaffnerMosh Caswell and Liz Nilsen Katherine Nufer John Perkins Gilman and Georgia Peterson

corporations & foundations

3Kids Corp.

AARP Alcyon Foundation AmazonSmile Foundation American’s Charities Andrews Law Firm, LLC Apex Equestrian Avalon Trust Ayco Charitable Foundation/Holton Family Fund Katherine and Thomas Belk Foundation The Boston Foundation BW718 Foundation Inc. Campbell Insurance Company B C Central Carolina Community Foundation Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Cochran Family Foundation Thomas B. & Robertha K. Coleman Foundation Inc. Community Foundation for Greater New Haven

Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro Community Foundation of the Chattahoochee Valley Mary W. Covey Charitable Trust B C J. Crisp Properties, LLC Crystal Trust B Darden Restaurants, Inc. Foundation Diamond Paper Company, Inc. C S. Downey Fund of the Northern Trust Charitable Giving Program Driscoll Foundation Elster Foundation Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund Foundation for the Carolinas GE Foundation Greater Houston Community Foundation Guilford Foundation B Zachary P. Hairston, D.D.S. Family Dentistry Hampton Roads Community

Foundation/ Special Fund #6 B Claire Adair Hendrickson Foundation Hewlett-Packard Elsie H. Hillman Foundation Hobby Family Foundation Indian River Community Foundation/Phil & Carole Coviello Fund Jefferson Scholars Foundation John M Belk Educational Endowment Land O’Lakes Foundation Merck Company Foundation Meriwether-Godsey, Inc. C Minneapolis Foundation Network for Good New York Community Trust Louise P. Overbey Trust B C Pfizer Foundation Matching Gifts Program Henry B. Plant Memorial Fund Lunsford Richardson Preyer Charitable Lead Unitrust

Horses in a Row by Memi Pearsall ’15, featured in the Junior Gallery issue of The Chronicle of the Horse

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Mary-Michael Robertson ‘15 Wendy Ross-Terry V. R. Shackelford III Richard Simmons B C Lelia Smith Nancy McCurn Stewart Jim Stuart B Sara Thompson C John Thorndike C Robert Welch G’12 John and Jeanne White E. Carlton and Shay Wilton B James H. Wright C

R.J. Reynolds Foundation Lisa Richmond Photography Robin and Sandy Stuart Fund/ Chicago Community Trust Schwab Charitable Fund Sherrill Family Fund/Bank of America Charitable Gift Fund Sledge Foundation Stuart Family Foundation Charles B. Sweatt Foundation Target Thanksgiving Foundation James W. Thornton Family Foundation Trident United Way Union Pacific Matching Gift Program United Way of Central New Mexico Uplands Family Foundation Verizon Foundation Virginia Commission for the Arts Wells Fargo Foundation Winning Link Property Resources Wyoming Community Foundation/ Wallick Family Fund

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thank you! We are grateful to the many volunteers who worked enthusiastically and selflessly on behalf of Chatham Hall during 2013–2014. You have enriched our academic, athletic, and student life programs. You have helped us recruit new students; have hosted and coordinated events; have raised much-needed funds to balance our budget and strengthen our programs and provided invaluable investment advice. And, you have planned and coordinated programs for our alumnae and parent communities. Thank you for all that you do! board of trustees chair

Stacey Goodwin ’83 Lucy McClellan Barrett ’53 Nina Johnson Botsford ’72 Katharine Reynolds Chandler ’68 Laura Brown Cronin ’72 Sarah Martin Finn ’74 Jane Garnett ’73 Susan Gillings Gross ’98 Zachary Hairston P’15 Katherine Coleman Haroldson ’75 Mary Kay Karzas ’71 Sarah Monarchi Longpré ’84 Robert McIver P’10 Lisa Rosenberger Moore ’59 Robin Peake Stuart ’69 Ross Walton P’16 Penelope Perkins Wilson ’41, P’67

honorary gifts Walker Abbott ’14 Jane Allen ’00 Boyce Lineberger Ansley ’64, P’90 Anna Avery ’86, P’14 Kendall Bard ’14 Schaeffer Goss Barnhardt ’06 Molly Baskin ’14 Kathleen Berkun ’14 Povy LaFarge Bigbee ’51, G’03, ’09, ’10, ’11 William Black Amanda Booth ’14 Nina Johnson Botsford ’72 Laura Bradley-Pierucci ’67 Geoffrey Braun Georgia Brunton ’17 Michaela Campbell ’14 Chatham Hall Faculty Class of 1959 Class of 1964 Class of 1979 Class of 1984 Class of 2006 Carole Robertson Coviello ’62 Alice Cromer Van Lennep

Sumner Dalrymple ’09 Lois Anne Daughtridge ’13 Mary Dugan ’12 Mary Edmonds Claudia Emerson ’75 Robin Emmons ’14 Katherine Ferro ’14 Mary Applegate Fisher ’36, P’64 Gary Fountain Melissa Evans Fountain Mary Freed ’86 Keming Fu ’15 Grace Fulop ’09 Lily Fulop ’14 Margaret Googe ’09 Elinor Greene ’70 Megan Grissett ’05 Kathryn Granger Haines ’75 Sarah Reed Harris ’81 Jane Hawthorne ’16 Mary Alice Hayes ’17 Cheryl Haymes P’04, ’05, ’12 Mackenzie Hermann ’08 Chelsea Hermann ’10 Emily Hussey ’14

Nancy Hilliard Joyce ’91 Catherine LaDuke Mary Madison Laffitte ’14 Sterling and Linder Laffitte P’14 Catherine Lane ’14 Katherine Leak ’15 Starlet Lemon Anne Prouty List ’88 Begona Llaca Morfin ’17 Sarah Shartle Meacham ’51 Lisa Rosenberger Moore ’59 Dasia Moore ’14 Fay Freed Morlock ’77 Caitlyn Morris ’14 Elizabeth Reigeluth Parker ’64 Molly Penny ’14 Annabelle Poston ’15 Alexandra Powell ’14 Catherine Reed ’83 Janet Freed Rosser ’80 Drew Sherrill ’14 Zoey Sims ’15 Anna Grace Somers ’16 R. Alan Spearman Mary Reed Spencer ’74

trustees emeriti Laura Spencer ’07 Margaret Spencer ’12 Robin Peake Stuart ’69 Sara Stuart ’15 Barbara Billings Supplee ’53 Sallie Grace Tate ’81 Cassidy Tebeau ’13 Molly Thomas P’06, ’08 Rachel Tuite ’14 Jerry and Lockett Van Voorhis P’94 Alexandra Varanelli ’14 Marguerite Vosteen ’13 Stryker-Ann Vosteen ’14 Camille Walton ’16 Kathryn Waters ’14 Noelle Wilton ’14 Kendall Woodlief ’14 Ana-Christina Zentner ’16

memorial gifts Rebecca Adkins Joan Mitchell Ault ’44 Ann Beal Cynthia Welles Borie ’74 Wilmotine Owens Bowman ’42 Charles Callery Carter Mac Rae Chatfield ’46 Sarah Church ’68 Mildred Harrison Dent ’41 Sheila Dixon Woodson Emmons Marjorie Milbank Farrar ’53 Jeffrey Ferguson ’41 Sally Ferguson ’37 Emily Norcross Fisher ’55

Sarah Huntington Fletcher ’52 Connie Gibson Charlotte Streeter Goodhue ’45 Harriett Graves-Beckley ’72 Barbara Ann Greer Edith Porter Hickox ’38 Virginia Holt Frances Bettle Howard ’36 Phyllis Hunt Anne Winship Kelleher ’52 Carin Moore Laughlin ’45 Joan Campbell Lovett ’45 Susan Thompson Lynd ’61 Virginia Allen MacStravic ’66 Robert and Eugenie Millan

Margaret Morris ’77 Susan Smith Mumford ’46 Patricia Pyke Munn ’45 Erma Yeatts Murphy Lucille Payne Martha Ann Pugh ’77 Nancy Remley Whiteley ’68 May Cannaday Robertson ’26 Mary Bleecker Simmons ’55 Elizabeth Cooper Smith ’41 Martha Battle Stathers ’60 Dr. and Mrs. Allen Tate Dorothy Dudley Thorndike ’47 Ann West Vivarelli ’53 Jeanne Wagoner

Jane Davenport Wall ’57 Dixie Whitehead Mary B. Wilson ’65 Virginia Downing Wiseman ’37 Helen Yardley

Boyce Lineberger Ansley ’64, P’90 Polly Wheeler Guth ’44, P’70 Robin Tieken Hadley ’57

ex-officio members

Linder Laffitte P’14 Parent Advisory Committee The Rt. Rev. Herman Hollerith IV P’15, Bishop, The Diocese of Southern Virginia Mary Freed ’86 President, Alumnae Council

alumnae council president

Mary Freed ’86 Cheryl Bentley ’83 Lydia Beresford ’03 Martha Stevens Brown ’73 Elisabeth Campbell Cales ’02 Ansley Chapman Cella ’91 Joanna Edgell ’93 Diana Howard Fisketjon ’78 Nini Hadjis ’89 Emily Blair Harvey ’93 Melanie Kirk Holton ’87 Frances Johnson Lee-Vandell ’60 Tracy Bartlett Lively ’84 Taylor Nyberg ’06 Maggie Oakes ’08 Lee Porter Page ’59 Margie Hastings Quinlan ’66 Talmadge Ragan ’69 Mary Reynolds ‘84 Frances Wallace Robertson ‘73 Lindsay Shook ’02 Ann Taylor ’54 Elizabeth White-Hurst ’99 Amanda Sink Wydner ’94

parent advisory committee officers

President: Linder Laffitte P’14 Co-Vice Presidents: J. Bradley and Melanie Hogg P’15

class of 2014

William and Darnell Abbott Sterling and Linder Laffitte Louis Moore Tango Moore Ned and Catherine Morris

class of 2015

Dale and Denise Evans J. Bradley and Melanie Hogg Herman and Elizabeth Hollerith J. Vincent and Susan Pinyard

class of 2016

Henry and Jane Hawthorne Kristin Mitchell Bob and Irina Rains Jack and Ginger Somers Robert and Kathleen Zentner

class of 2017

Terry and Cynthia Dittrich William and Lynn Penny Mark and Rachel Strawn Kristin Wilson

alumnae volunteers Whitney Jones Allen ’03 Marguerite Logan Andrews ’04 Boyce Lineberger Ansley ’64, P’90 Schaeffer Goss Barnhardt ’06 Lucy McClellan Barrett ’53 Lucy Charles Jones Bendall ’42 Kathryn Bennett ’11 Nina Johnson Botsford ’72 Virginia Cates Bowie ’73 Camille Agricola Bowman ’71 Mary Boy ’75 Elizabeth Call ’00 Virginia Carter ’76 Ellen Cartmell ’08 Emma Smith Castro ’05 Gretchen Blair Clark ’92 Sarah Collie ’85 Adele Cornwall ’10 Mary Hooker Crary ’45 Simone Crockett ’60 Laura Brown Cronin ’72 Katherine Currin ’01 Carolyn Davenport ’70 Carol Babcock Davenport ’47, P’70 Ninna Fisher Denny ’70 Lelan Dunavant ’05 Florence Schroeder Ervin ’58 Virginia Evans ’07 Sarah Martin Finn ’74 Mary Freed ’86 Jane Garnett ’73 Stacey Goodwin ’83 Susan Gillings Gross ’98 Judy Currie Hamilton ’87 Sandra Van Haaften Heasley ’94 Stephanie Hewitt Hedge ’89, P’12 Catherine Whitehead Huband ’91 Grace Hwang ’10 Jean Merritt Johnston ’62 Debbie Humphreys Jones ’67 Danielle Thomas Kimmel ’04

Tracy Bartlett Lively ’84, P’16 Sarah Monarchi Longpré ’84 Ellen Childs Lovejoy ’50 Patricia Kellogg Maddock ’77 Lucy Williams Maish ’68, P’97 Martha Justice Martin ’55 Jennifer Gammill McKay ’84 Sarah Shartle Meacham ’51 Helen Mirkil ’70 Jane Everhart Murray ’63 Taylor Nyberg ’06 Maggie Oakes ’08 Elizabeth Reigeluth Parker ’64 Cynthia Bryant Parker ’61 Reagan Greene Pruitt ’95 Margie Hastings Quinlan ’66 Talmadge Ragan ’69 Charlotte Kirk Reynolds ’65 Morgan Brawley Rhodes ’99 Morgan Karsman Robertson ’97 Anna Robinson ’93 Mary Katherine Evans Rordam ’03 Belinda Thornton Ruelle ’85 Laura Spencer ’07 Terry Overbey Stafford ’68 Caroline Hartwell Stewart ’44, P’67 Michelle Thomas Supko ’02 Barbara Billings Supplee ’53 Kimberly Daniels Taws ’02 Ann Taylor ’54 Stephanie Tuck ’13 Margaret Horner Walker ’58 Elizabeth White-Hurst ’99 Harriet Simons Williams ’48 Laura Willoughby ’87 Mary Kate Winebrenner ’12 Amanda Sink Wydner ’94

parent volunteers Darnell Abbott P’14 William and Jill Baskin P’14 Valerie Booth P’14 Nancy Cranmore P’17 J. Belk Daughtridge P’13 Cynthia Dittrich P’17 Dale and Denise Evans P’15 Felicia Hairston P’15 Karen Hayes P’17 Melanie Hogg P’15 Elizabeth Hollerith P’15 Linder Laffitte P’14 Lynnette Lawson P’15 Tracy Bartlett Lively ’84, P’16 Marie Mitchell P’16 Cristie Neller P’15 Kathleen O’Hare P’17 Katherine Parrish P’15 Susan Pinyard P’15

Elizabeth Powell P’14 Donna Robertson P’15 Janet Shelton P’15 Jack and Ginger Somers P’16 Rachel Strawn P’17 Dora Thomas P’02, ’04 James and Lisa Tuite P’14 Marguerite Vosteen P’13, ’14 Kristin Wilson P’15, ’17 Kathryn Wilton P’14 Edward and Sandra Woodlief P’14 Robert and Kathleen Zentner P’16

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