Hammond NOW Winter 2018

ON CAMPUS & AROUND THE WORLD ISSUE 2 O WINTER 2018

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Cover photo: Seniors Thomas Love and Bess Shuler with Prekindergartener SuSu Barden Artwork by: Eliza Brantley (11th)

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LETTER FROM THE HEADMASTER

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COLLEGE COUNSELING

A hallmark program of the Hammond experience 6

FOOTBALL REIGNS 2017 State Champions

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LEARNING OUTSIDE THE BOOKS

Field Studies at Home and Abroad

50-FORWARD CAMPAIGN

Moving Hammond Forward

Features 10

JAMIE WALKER

Eighteen Years of Early Tech Week 13

THE ARTS IN SIGHT AND SOUND

On stage and off, the stars shine at Hammond 14

ALUMNI SNAPSHOTS

Alumni activities, reunion notes, and homecoming plans 16

CLASS NOTES

Reconnect with former classmates

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FROM TH E H EADM ASTE R

Dear Hammond Families, Alumni, and Friends: It’s hard to believe that as I write this, the first semester of this school year is a fond memory, and the second half of the year is already upon us. It seems like yesterday that we opened the doors after a busy summer vacation to welcome back a group of bright, enthusiastic students whose excitement and dedication to academics, athletics, the arts, and community service continues to amaze us. We are fortunate to have the opportunity to walk this incredible journey with such an impressive group of young people.

Since the start of the school year, we have celebrated the opening of our new nature-inspired Lower School playground and watched as the Innovation Center has taken shape on the upper end of campus. We have celebrated Cum Laude Society and Honor Society inductions, welcomed fall at the Lower School’s annual Fall Festival, applauded impressive performances on the stage and arts studios, and cheered a State Championship football win.

Our faculty continues to seek new and innovative ways of teaching and engaging students in a strong academic program, and we continue to expect each student’s personal best in all they undertake. Our country of study program and international student exchanges help engage our faculty and student body in global experiences that enrich the curriculum and expose them to other cultures. All of these provide an environment that enhances possibilities for growing young people.

Join me in celebrating the exciting journey we all experience as members of the Hammond community. Please join us at a sporting event or arts program, support our student volunteers, and support Hammond through your time, talent, and gifts. We are all fortunate to be part of a vibrant community, proud to be a part of the Hammond family.

All the best,

Chris Angel Headmaster

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The anxiety associated with college admission is undeniable. Families embarking on the process often find themselves making frenzied phone calls to family and friends who’ve survived the ordeal. They clamor for the latest insight from industry insiders who supposedly share secrets for success from the bastions of power, the gate keepers, those admissions professionals who hold annual sway over the destiny of millions of high school seniors.

much of the anxiety associated with college admission. Through numerous individualized student and family meetings, as well as coordinated group programming, the College Counseling Office offers students and their families support and sound advice to offset the stress associated with the process.

Hammond students are encouraged to ignore the hype – the media driven frenzy – and to approach college admission with one goal in mind: to find colleges that match their unique academic and personal needs – in short, to find the right “fit”.

Few can argue that the college admission process is transparent or the time involved tranquil. However, by investing in the Hammond experience, families can avoid

The college counseling program offers a series of carefully crafted experiences that foster reflection and support research as students lay the foundation for a successful college

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College Counseling A HALLMARK OF THE HAMMOND EXPERIENCE

search. These include workshops on college factors to consider, financial and scholarships, college research platforms, career assessment modules, and effective college visits; over fifty college representative visits to connect with interested students; a college trip traveling to South Carolina colleges, as well as schools in North Carolina and Virginia; a symposium program where college representatives are the “teachers� of college research; and much, much more. The number and variety of informational programs offered to Hammond students and families is extensive. However, the most compelling aspect of our program is the personalized attention students and parents receive from dedicated counselors with previous experience in college admission. They work closely with students to offer individualized application strategy,

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essay and application review, and frequent meetings to help them navigate the complex world of college admission and fully realize their college goals.

It has been said that the college search process should be less about a prize to be won and more about a match to be made.

The college search and selection process, as the capstone Hammond experience, allows families to approach the process with less fear and trepidation, and frees students to focus on fit. Each step along the way is designed to provide information, insight and advocacy as Hammond students and their families navigate the next BIG step toward their future.

CAROLYN STODDARD

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FOOTBALL REIGNS

2017 SCISA 3A State Champions!

In November, the Varsity Football Skyhawks clinched the SCISA 3A State Championship title, marking football’s ninth championship winning season under Head Varsity Football Coach Erik Kimrey’s 14-year tenure. Not only did the Skyhawks handily win the match-up against Laurence Manning, but capped a perfect season, and left much for the Skyhawk Nation to celebrate.

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Throughout the season, the Skyhawks only trailed an opponent for one minute.

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Senior Corbett Glick set career and school records for passing and touchdowns in a season.

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In 1977, Coach Jay Frye celebrated a State Championship win as a Skyhawk player, and forty years later as a Skyhawk coach.

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For the first time ever, the mercy rule was invoked at halftime with the Skyhawks leading 42-0. The second half was played with a running clock.

Congratulations on a spectacular season and an impressive championship game!

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Lucas Pricklett and Corbett Glick

Jay Frye

Corbett Glick

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Thinking Outside the Books Field Studies at Home and Abroad A signature strength of the Hammond experience is experiential education. Beginning in the earliest of grades, co-curricular activities are thoughtfully designed to include field studies here at home and abroad.

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Learning that engages students intellectually, emotionally, socially, and/or physically.

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Learning that is personal and forms the basis for future experiences and learning.

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Relationships developed and nurtured between the learner, the teacher, and the world around us.

Transporting the classroom into the world begins as early as prekindergarten. South Campus excursions to one of several natural areas and ecosystems, guided by our own naturalist-inresidence, Tom Mancke, give students their first taste of experiential learning. These field studies expand to include day trips to places like

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Charleston and Brattonsville that complement the curriculum, and culminate in a 4th grade overnight adventure in Earthshine. From Middle School through the upper grades, yearly field studies engage students in authentic experiences that foster exploration, discovery and growth.

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4th Grade - Earthshine

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5th Grade - Colonial Williamsburg, Yorktown and Jamestown

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6th Grade - Florida Science Trip Orlando and Cape Canaveral, FL

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7th Grade - Camp Tekoa, NC: “The Education of Little Tree”

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8th Grade - Washington, D.C.

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9th Grade - Bryson City, NC

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10th Grade - College Campuses In State and Out of State

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11th Grade - Costa Rica

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12th Grade - Mountain Rest, SC

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Capital Gifts Bring 50 Forward Vision to Life HAMMOND HAS LONG BEEN PROUD of a tradition of philanthropic giving that dates back to the school’s beginnings. Fifty-two years later, this same spirit of generosity and giving are still integral to the success we enjoy today. A little over a year ago, Hammond embarked upon an ambitious campaign to 1) create new, world-class innovative space for teaching and learning, 2) build a new Lower School playground and an innovation center for our youngest learners, and 3) renovate the existing gymnasium to enhance arts and athletics programs.

Through the generous donations of hundreds of faithful Hammond supporters, close to $11 million has been raised in just over a year’s time to begin construction of the Innovation Center, and complete the Lower School playground project.

make way for the new Innovation Center that will house unique classrooms and labs for collaboration and discovery, as well as a student center.

The last components of the campaign are the renovation of the existing 50 year-old gymnasium which will provide improved athletic and arts facilities. These transformations make space available at the Lower School for an innovation center for our youngest learners.

The footprint of the school is changing dramatically and helping usher in a new generation of teaching and learning. As we enter the final stretch of the campaign, we celebrate the donors who are transforming the future of Hammond.

The Lower School’s Playground opened the first week of the 2017-2018 school year to the excitement of hundreds of Lower School students.

This nature-inspired design is in keeping with other features of Hammond’s campus and provides a safe and unique area for play and exploration.

One of the Upper School’s original buildings, Bostick Hall, was deconstructed this summer to 8

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TUITION SAVINGS TIPS Did You Know?

1) Tuition paid directly to Hammond by a Grandparent is Tax Exempt?

• This Tuition payment can reduce future estate tax liability because it does not count against the annual gift tax exclusion amount or the lifetime gift tax exemption • Grandparents can give a large monetary gift and control how the gift is used.

2) New tax laws allow for 529 Savings Plans to fund private school tuition?

• Until now, families only have been able to use 529 Plans to save for college tax free. These plans can now be used to pay for up to $10,000 in annual K-12 expenses, including private school tuition.

We advise consulting your tax advisor before taking advantage of either of these tuition options.

Thank you!

Thank you for answering a (, opening an *, or making an  donation or pledge. Because of your generosity, over 250 ’s to the 50 Forward Campaign have been received, and we are close to completing the most ambitious project in Hammond’s history.

If you have not yet given, please help us cross the finish line.

Leave your mark on Hammond students for generations to come.

Make a gift or pledge TODAY. For more information contact Sue Keenan at 803.399.9918 skeenan@hammondschool.org.

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Jamie Walker

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While most schools are frantically racing to keep up with ever-changing technology, Hammond takes technology to a whole new level. Each year in late November, Early Technology Week transports fifth grade students to a period in history when fires were an everyday necessity, musical instruments were handcrafted treasures, and recycling was a term not yet coined, but certainly practiced.

A rite of passage for fifth graders, Early Technology Week is an experiential learning opportunity, uniquely Hammond, that transports the classroom to the great outdoors, immersing students in primitive technologies taught by subject matter experts from around the Southeast. Students spend a week rotating through six project stations that provide activities in the very earliest forms of technology, from the burn and scrape method of hollowing bowls and canoes to making flutes out of river cane, gourd-working, kudzu basket weaving, and deer foot tool kit crafting.

The smell of a burning fire, the trill of river cane flutes, and a brisk chill in the air help set the stage for the annual return of Early Tech Week. And if it’s Early Tech Week, you can count on seeing Jamie Walker on campus all week.

For the past eighteen years, Jamie has been a faithful volunteer. It would be easy to concede that he returns each year because his love of the natural world beckons, or the fact that he has been a Hammond student and parent, and served a lengthy tenure on the Board Trustees.

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In fact, all of these things come into play when asked about his decision to volunteer each year, but none more so than his desire to pass along the tradition of using natural resources so often discarded or otherwise ignored.

Jamie’s love of Early Tech Week started when his oldest son, James, was a fifth grader.

He participated for one day, finding his misfortune was not being there for the entire week.

As Jamie tells it, “My first reaction was one of surprise. I was amazed at this incredible learning opportunity, a signature Hammond program, that allows students to authentically experience ways in which our ancestors lived.” Over the course of the next two years, he returned with daughter Charlotte, and son Joseph, adding an extra day, and eventually returning for a full week, participating in each of the stations, and parlaying his love of photography into visually documenting the program.

For Jamie, this passing along of skills and hands-on teaching is experiential education at its finest, and no one is more of a proponent.

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Early Tech Week is the most comprehensive of Hammond’s experiential programs, and one in which students not only learn from subjectmatter experts, but from each other.

“Hammond does an excellent job with programs that have an experiential education component from very early on through the senior trip. It’s grade specific and age appropriate. The benefit to students is that they have the opportunity to do challenging, hands-on activities outside the confines of the classroom. What happens at the end of Early Tech Week, whether they participated in river cane flutes or Tom Mancke’s deer foot skinning, is that these students have taken an innate ability and paired it with the teachings of an elder to use natural resources to produce something useful. That’s the essence of experiential education.”

human, and to use skills that are inherent in my DNA. It’s experiential education for me as well.

But in totality, it’s because I think the investment of time at Hammond is worth it. In every respect, it’s worth it.”

According to Jamie, “Helping with Early Tech Week allows me to continue to be part of the Hammond family. And that’s important to me.”

Simple deer foot tool kits, river cane flutes, and soot-smudged faces are all byproducts of Early Tech Week, but most important are the lessons students will take with them long after the week has ended ... the lessons one devoted volunteer, who continues to return to Hammond year after year, imparts.

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As much as 18 years of fifth graders have benefited from Early Tech Week, Jamie says it has also been an incredibly rewarding experience for him. “It’s an opportunity for me to immerse myself in what it really means to be

Early Technology Week through the years, as visually chronicled by Jamie Walker

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THE ARTS IN SIGHT AND SOUND...

THE ARTS SHOWCASED ITS BEST IN DECEMBER! Beginning

DRAMA DEPARTMENT Presents Fall Production of The Drama Department launched its first full scale production of the school year with the holiday performance of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. A Hammond favorite for students of all ages, and last presented 12 years ago, the play incorporated all of the magic this beloved story invokes.

with an Art Show reception, our visual artists opened their winter Art Show in the lobby of the Bank of America Theatre.

The Choral Department and Band presented holiday concerts that helped usher in the season with impressive vocal and instrumental music.

Bravo

Audiences were swept into the holiday spirit alongside Ebenezer Scrooge by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future. The holiday classic included students from all three divisions, and several faculty members who helped captured the essence of the play.

A production of this magnitude includes a host of stars whether on stage or behind the scenes.

Under the direction of Linda Khoury, the group put on a stellar performance with impressive sets and the same stellar acting to which we’ve become accustomed.

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.Pictures Worth a Thousand Words

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snapshots ALUMNI OFFICE ON THE ROAD TO USC

Alumni Council President Lane Haselden (‘88)and William Haselden

Corbett Glick and Ellie Haile

Alumni Award Recipients Johnny Beach (‘75), accepting on behalf of Dana Beach (‘73), and Nicki Priester (‘08)

HOMECOMING 2017 Homecoming 2017 brought out the best in every Skyhawk. Alumni celebrated before the game at a reception hosted by Headmaster Chris Angel and his wife, Peggy, followed by a spirited match-up against cross town rivals, Heathwood Hall. Anna Penland (‘17) returned to pass the crown to Mr. and Miss Homecoming 2017, Corbitt Glick and Ellie Haile, daughter of alum Cantey Haile (‘87).

The exciting evening was eclipsed only by the Skyhawks’ victory over the Highlanders.

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USC welcomes Hammond faculty, staff, and graduates for lunch

LEGACY BREAKFAST • 2017

Bailey Dukes (‘13) and Roo Daniels (‘13)

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2017 Alumni Holiday Social at the Governor’s Mansion This year’s Alumni Holiday Social found Skyhawks from a wide range of classes celebrating the season at an extra special venue ... the South Carolina Governor’s Mansion. Governor Henry McMaster and First Lady Peggy McMaster, parents of alums Henry McMaster (‘06) and Mary Rogers McMaster (‘07) opened the doors of the Mansion to Hammond alumni who toasted the season, reminisced, and reconnected with former classmates.

The Governor’s Mansion provided the perfect backdrop to mix and mingle with friends old and new!

SAVETHEDATE

Coming This Spring!

Alumni Soccer Saturday, February 24

Fireflies Stadium Thursday, April 19 6:00 - 8:00 pm

Alumni Family Event

Watch for more information!

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class notes

Class of ‘71

The Citadel Board of Visitors is now being led by COL .

FRE D L . PRIC E JR ., UMSC (Unorganized Militia of South Carolina), a member of The Citadel’s Class of 1975, and president of Ace Glass Company, Inc., which is headquartered in Columbia. Price has been a member of the Board of Visitors since 2007.

Class of ‘73 DANA BEAC H returned to campus as the keynote speaker for the National Honor Society Induction Ceremony on November 21. Founder of the Coastal Conservation League, Dana was named as the 2017 Distinguished Alumni Award recipient.

Fred Price

Class of ‘87 WILLIAM OTIS and his wife, Kindall, welcomed their son, Jack Lynn, on June 12, 2017. Jack joins big brother, Beau (age 2).

Class of ‘94 Dana Beach

BL AIR GILES his wife, Cynthia, welcomed their seventh child, Samuel James, on June 16, 2017. Sam joins siblings Lizzie, Nathan, Ellie, Sullivan, McKay, and Bingham. The Giles live in Utah.

Class of ‘98 MAE TODD MULLINS (WILLIAMS) and her husband, Butler, welcomed their third child, Marguerite “Bowen” Mullins, on July 27, 2017. Bowen joins big sisters Elizabeth Todd and Pearson.

Class of ‘99 Bowen Mullins

BRYAN LUMPKIN and his wife, Becky, welcomed their daughter, Lillian “Lilly” Laura, on June 26, 2017.

Class of ‘01 K ATHE RINE WALL AC E (WOLFE) and her husband, Jason, welcomed their daughter, Brawley Elizabeth Wallace, on July 5, 2017. Brawley joins big sister Charlotte (3).

Brawley Wallace

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Class of ‘02 STET BIC KLEY and his wife, Natalie, welcomed their daughter, Avaline Naomi, on June 11, 2017. The Bickleys are currently living in Roanoke, Virginia.

Class of ‘03 Copeland Mundy

Aveline Bickley

MAT T MUNDY and his wife, Ashton, welcomed their daughter, Copeland Grace, on August 20. Copeland joins big brother, Holmes (2).

LE E PAT TE RSON (L AFONTANT) was selected as a recipient of the 2017 Unsung Hero Award by the Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina

Class of ‘04 Lee Patterson

DARGAN R AIN (MCMASTE R) welcomed a son, Robert, on September 11. He joins big sisters, Anne and Beth.

JESSICA GR AC E BRUNE R was married to Daniel Monroe on

October 21, 2017.

Class of ‘05 K ATIE BURNIE (HINES) and her husband, Alan, welcomed a child,

Robert Rain

Daniel.

KE LLY KIRBY (HARVIN) and her husband, David, welcomed their son, Harris Hines Kirby, on May 20, 2017. Harris joins big sister, Emma.

R ANKIN LIVINGSTON (SIM) and her husband, Josh, welcomed their first daughter, Mary Russell, on August 5, 2017.

Class of ‘07 ALI BOYD began a new position as a law clerk for the U.S.

Mary Russell Livingston

Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Class of ‘08 WALKE R INABINET married Dr. Sara Chandler Finney on December 9, 2017, at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Charleston, South Carolina. A graduate of USC, Walker is employed with Merrill Lynch Wealth Management’s Folline King Group, and Sara Chandler is a graduate of the University of South Carolina and the USC School of Medicine. She is employed with Palmetto Health Richland. The couple resides in Columbia.

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Nicki Priester

Kat Chrysostom

Thomas Hydrick

NIC KI PRIESTE R , legislative liaison for the Wine and Spirts Wholesalers Association of SC, a former assistant to SC Governor Nikki Haley, and recipient of the Order of the Palmetto, the state’s highest civilian honor, was selected as the 2017 Young Alumni Award recipient by Hammond’s Alumni Council.

Class of ‘09 THOMAS HYDRIC K returned to campus to address the 2017 inductees of The Herbert Barks Chapter of the Cum Laude Society. Hammond’s Cum Laude Society was the second chapter chartered in South Carolina and is considered a Phi Beta Kappa equivalent in secondary education recognizing academic achievement, honor and integrity. Thomas is the first alumnus to address the Cum Laude Society who was also a member of the prestigious group. Thomas spoke about his experience at Hammond and how he felt his training prepared him to study at Furman, Cambridge and Vanderbilt Law School. He will soon join the law firm of Baker Botts LLP in Washington, D.C., and encourages students to make the most of their time as a Hammond student since the skills they develop will pay dividends for the in the long run.

K AT C HRYSOSTOM addressed the Upper School Assembly on November 21, 2017, to discuss being an entrepreneur and taking chances in business. A founding member of Hammond’s equestrian team, she has pursued her love of horses and launched an equine products business, Benefab by Sore No More, after overcoming a major injury.

Class of ‘11 K AKI SMITH married Eric Lain on June 24, 2017.

Class of ‘13 SYDNEY BEASLEY finishes her college equestrian career at the University of Georgia with four rings- two SEC champion rings, one national championship ring and one, four-year letterman.

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Drew Moore

Sarah Adams

Mary Clyde Culbreath

Mari Jones

Class of ‘14 DREW MOORE , a senior at the US Naval Academy, spoke to Dr. Michael Turner’s Leadership Class about leadership skills and his experience at the US Naval Academy.

MARY C LYDE CULBREATH , a senior at Birmingham Southern, returned to campus to join Mr. Lalumondier for some student teaching in the Lower School. She was the recipient of the Kinsey Black Jones scholarship as a senior at Hammond and is pursuing a career in teaching.

Class of ‘16 ZAC HARY LIPSITZ , a sophomore at Southern Methodist University, where he is a mechanical engineer major and member of the men’s swim team, was named National Society of Collegiate Scholars Scholar of the Week in September 2017.

Class of ‘17 SAR AH ADAMS , a freshman at Clemson University, had a lead role in the Brooks Center for Performing Arts fall production of Godspell.

MARI JONES , a freshman at Harvard University, was recently named a John Harvard Scholar designating that she is in the top 15 of her class after the first quarter.

Passings It is with sadness that we announce the passing of JE NKS C R AY TON (‘80) on September 15, 2017.

When BR AN NAN H U DSON (‘11) was 16, he played Justin Thomas, winner of the PGA, at the junior PGA in Indianapolis and beat him (by three strokes, as Brannan pointed out).

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