Grand a Day to Celebrate

Grandparents are an important part of the Christ School community.

Christ School grandparents are invited to spend a day with their Greenie. Come learn about and experience all that makes this place so special.

1951

William Elliot ’51 submitted to The Galax: “I would appreciate you letting those of us still around know that Willie Elliott ’51 is still kicking and in surprisingly good health living in Penney Retirement Community, Penney Farm, FL. My love of Christ School will never end.” Thank you for the note, Willie!

1965

1967

1973

Bob Twomey ’73 recently changed positions within DuPont State Recreational Forest. Previously in Forest Maintenance, he has assumed new responsibilities in Recreation and Trail Maintenance across DuPont Forest effective October 2022.

1981

1985

Tim Madison ’85 and his family come up to Maggie Valley/Lake Junaluska most summers and they were on their way there when he and his son stopped by campus.

2001

Christ School students volunteered and then presented a check to VETS farm, a Veteranoriented outreach in Hendersonville, NC, that is run by Truett, the daughter of Dr. Jennings Presley ’65.

1966

Tom Hatcher ’67 visited campus in July. He has retired from the construction business and enjoyed regaling his buddy, Trent, with tales from a distant past that included shoveling coal, milking cows, and surviving Captain Reid's Latin classes.

1969

Christ School would like to thank Tony Coggiola ’81 for his extremely generous donation of this loaded Toyota FJ Cruiser to the Outdoor Program.

1982

“You could have knocked me over with a feather this summer when I found a Christ School shirt on the rack of an American vintage store selling for £20 in Margate, England!” writes Peter Gartrell ’01. “No one told me that my sweaty old athletic shirts were going to appreciate so much in value, or I would have stowed a bunch away!

When he is in Kentucky, it is always a pleasure for Dan Stevenson ’72 to visit with Buck Hinkle ’66 and Henry Hinkle ’69.

Jill and Dan Stevenson ’72 enjoyed the cool hospitality of Bonnie and Peter Waters ’69 at The Skyline Lodge in Highlands, NC.

1970

James Van Zandt ’70 and his wife, Mary Jo, recently purchased a home in Clifftops, a community in Monteagle, TN. He also officiates services at St. Bede’s Episcopal church in Manchester, TN, two Sundays a month.

Adam Willis ’01 recently switched jobs after nine years with a logistics company. He is now with a company called Traffix and was recently asked to help open their Charlotte office, which he can do from his home office in Hickory.

2006

2009

Will Battle ’09 hosted the Greenies for an Atlanta Gathering at the Intown Club in Buckhead. He and his wife Danielle have a young daughter and are expecting a baby boy.

2012

Doug Colvard ’06 visited Christ School and spoke to a group of students about his recently published book titled “Pivot Points: Living a Purpose Oriented Life.” Former Dean of Academics and History Department Chair Erich Cluxton P’06 was one of Doug’s biggest mentors at Christ School. He attended Doug’s talk along with his wife, Linda, who formerly headed up the Communications Department. (photo)

2008

Zack Myers ’23 and Rett English ’08 recently shared stories in a Ventura, CA, coffee shop. Zack committed to play college football for NC State University in June, one month after winning a state track championship in the high jump (6 feet, 6 inches). Rett is a member of the Christ School Athletic Hall of Fame and was a three-time state champion as a Greenie in cross country and track. He formerly held school records for the 1,600-meter run (4:30.97), 3,200-meter run (9:45.67), and 5-kilometer run (15:54).

After serving as the interim head lacrosse coach at Our Lady of Good Counsel in Maryland, Max Snider ’08 was named the new head coach at Bishop Ireton in Alexandria, VA. Max will continue working full-time as a commercial real estate developer with 10Square in Washington, DC.

Dee Giger ’09 met up with Justice Ajogbor ’20 at the Asheville Championship basketball tournament. Dee played, and Justice still plays, college basketball for Harvard.

Christian Rogers ’09 and Andrew Walters ’10 ran into each other in the construction industry in Raleigh, NC. Christian is an Account Manager with Concrete Supply Co. Andrew is a New Home Orientation Specialist with Lennar SUN Division.

2010

Jeff Hudak ’10 recently moved to the Atlanta area to join Delta Airlines as a pilot. Jeff recently got engaged and we hope he and his fiancée will visit campus soon to speak with the Robert Morgan ’36 Aviation Program.

Doug Embler P’19 and James Garland ’10 took a bus full of Greenies to watch the Charlotte Hornets vs. Brooklyn Nets in the first semester. Mason Plumlee ’09 had a solid game for the Hornets in a 98-94 home loss with a team-high 11 rebounds and nine points.

Thomas Willingham ’10 and his wife just had their first child – a daughter – in May.

2011

Marshall Plumlee ’11 is enrolled at Harvard Business School where he is pursuing an MBA. He completed a summer internship with Blackstone where he worked in their tactical opportunities group.

Hampton Haney ’12 has been working in the golf business as a superintendent for the last few years. Recently, he moved from Pinehurst, NC, back to WNC to work on the Bobby Weed Golf Design project at Waynesville Country Club. Hampton is excited to be back in WNC and working on a big golf course renovation project.

2014

Ellis Pace ’14 rushed for more than 2,000 yards in high school and continued his football career at Wofford College. He is doing a different kind of running these days. Ellis was the overall winner of the Hope for the Holidays Jingle Jog 5K in downtown Hendersonville, NC, in December. His winning time of 18 minutes, 20 seconds was 23 seconds faster than any other runner in the field. And Ellis, wearing bib number 1687 in this photo, ran the whole way with a Santa hat on his head.

2015

George Thornton ’16 is living in Dallas working for a land and commercial real estate acquisition firm. George gained his first real estate experience working for Henry Keenan ’14 in Puerto Rico. The two worked together at Henry’s company called RED Atlas.

2017

2018

John Beard ’18 moved to Wilmington, NC, in August to start work for Live Oak Bank as a business analyst.

Max Brie ’18 founded a company while at St. Bonaventure called Dalorum. The company helps college athletes navigate their college experience with NIL deals and more.

After graduating from Wofford in May of 2022, Marshall McDill ’18 decided that instead of going into the corporate world, he wanted to go somewhere he could work and play. He is living in Key West, FL, and is chartering boat trips in that area. He plans to buy a bigger boat soon to expand his business. He is keeping busy and enjoying the work.

Connor Booher ’20 is a junior at Duke studying economics, religious studies, and political science. He is studying abroad in Barcelona, Spain this semester and is looking forward to this summer when he'll be working in banking in NYC.

Jack Purvis ’15 recently spent the week at his family’s ranch along with Jarrett and Kelly Lange P’16 and Payton ’16 relaxing and hunting. Jack and his wife Paige are expecting a baby girl in March. They live in Midland, TX, and Jack recently took a job as the Director of Business Development for Global Compression Services. Paige just celebrated three years of owning her Pilates Studio (Embody Lagree).

2016

Michael Freeman ’16 moved to Atlanta about a year ago and just recently started working for Home Depot as a senior analyst.

Aaron Graham ’16 works in financial advising with Boys Arnold Wealth Management in Asheville, NC. Aaron and his fiancé, Bailey, recently closed on a condo in Hendersonville, NC.

John Helton ’17 graduated from Elon in January of this year and is working for AmeriCorp in Washington DC.

Vance Stiles ’17 is a Second Lieutenant in the US Marine Corps and currently stationed in Quantico, VA (about 45 minutes outside of Washington, DC). He began the 13-week Infantry Officer Course (IOC) last October.

Adam Pollard ’18 graduated from Auburn last spring and got a job as a data analyst with Comcast in Denver, CO. He sees Charlie Bradshaw ’17 occasionally, who lives in Vail, about an hour and a half away.

2020

Connor Jones ’21, Joseph Coladonato ’20, and Henry Duggins ’20 met up at the Army-Navy game in sunny Philadelphia.

You wouldn’t think that Harvard plays a lot of basketball games in Asheville, and you would be correct. But the Crimson and Justice Ajogbor ’20 were part of the four-team Asheville Championship in November. Justice is a junior forward who appeared in six games last season after recovering from an injury. His freshman season was cancelled by the pandemic.

Joseph Visconti ’20 visited campus before heading back to Florida State for his first full year on the cross country team. He was on campus with Andrew Hammel ’20, who is also now running at Florida State.