SPARK - Fall 2025

SPARK

THE MAGAZINE OF COLLEGIATE SCHOOL

Roaring Reunion 2025

A field of green with scattered gold was on bright display during Collegiate’s 27th Convocation as seen from the bird’s eye view of the School drone.

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The Future is Green

Over the summer, students established a new native garden at Robins Campus that will filter fertilizers and runoff from athletic fields before heading into streams.

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Endowments in Action

Leah Johnston ’26 and Jane Simkin ’26 explore their respective passions in journalism and art through Collegiate’s Summer Study Endowments

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Catching up with Tyler Brand

No matter how much golf Tyler Brand plays, he’ll always remember his performance in the Columbia Autumn Invitational in 2024.

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Familiar Faces, Different Spaces

Brent Miller ’98 and Teresa Coleman bring fresh perspectives to woodworking and 3D arts, blending tradition and innovation for Middle and Upper School students.

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FEATURE

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Finding Home at Collegiate

For new Lower School Head Khristi Bates, the classroom has always felt like home.

REPORT ON PHILANTHROPY

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ALUMNI NEWS

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Roaring Reunion 2025

Roaring Reunion 2025 was a reminder that while the campus changes and generations move forward, the bonds of community remain steadfast.

Report on Philanthropy

Whether through the Collegiate Fund, endowments, or giving back through time, there is a way for everyone to support the School.

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LETTER FROM THE

HEAD OF SCHOOL

Dear Collegiate Community,

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s we move towards the end of the first semester, I continue to be inspired by the way our students, teachers, parents, and alumni embody the heart of our mission to develop minds that seek and hearts that serve.

The past few months have been filled with moments of excellence, with students achieving great success in their classes and activities, faculty inspiring a love of learning, and traditions connecting us across our community. Our students are thriving and the Class of 2026, in particular, has set a wonderful tone of leadership and school spirit.

In these pages, you will find stories that reflect who we are and what we value. You will read how our teachers continue to engage in meaningful ways, how our alumni carry Collegiate’s values into the world, and how your support helps make it all possible. Because of your generosity, our students benefit from programs, facilities, and opportunities that encourage them to grow as we strive to fulfill our mission. Whether through academics, the arts, or athletics — your impact is visible in every corner of campus.

As vital as your financial support is, the gift of your presence on campus is equally important. Many parents and alumni come to campus to share in the life of the School and attend events such as Oyster Roast, reunion, performances, athletic events, or through volunteer efforts

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across the divisions. Your involvement strengthens our community and models a spirit of service for our students. When they see you show up and invest your time, they begin to understand that generosity is rooted in connection and caring for others.

As the year moves forward, I hope you remain connected and offer your support when you can. Collegiate’s story began in 1915, and through the generosity and contributions of so many over the years, it continues to grow stronger with each generation. Every gift of time, talent, and treasure reminds us that it is the efforts of the entire community that will ensure our future success.

Thank you for your trust and your belief in what a Collegiate education makes possible for our students.

Sincerely,

Jeff Mancabelli Head of School

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Collegiate School Administration: Jeffrey W. Mancabelli, Head of School Sarah M. Abubaker, Director of Strategic Communications Khristiane K. Bates, Head of Lower School Michael W. Boyd, Director of the Arts Jeffrey G. Dunnington, Head of Middle School Patrick E. Loach, Head of Upper School Phyllis Palmiero, Chief Financial and Chief Operating Officer Andrew Stanley, Athletic Director Antenette Stokes, Ph.D, Director of Inclusion and Belonging David E. Taibl, Director of Admission and Enrollment Management Tung T. Trinh, Dean of Faculty Kristen O. Williams, Chief Development Officer

Board of Trustees 2025-26: W. Hildebrandt “Brandt” Surgner P ’11 ’14 ’17 ’19, Chair of the Board Kenneth “Ken” P. Ruscio P ’08, Vice Chair of the Board Neelan “Neely” A. Markel ’96 P ’27 ’30, Secretary Neil Amin P ’31 ’32 Ellen T. Bonbright ’86 P ’24 ’26 Callie L. Brackett ’95 P ’22 ’24 Mason T. Chapman ’84 P ’22 Mayme B.F. Donohue ’03 Leavenworth “Wortie” M. Ferrell II ’88 P ’24 ’27 ’31 Martin “Marty” D. Franks Mary B. Malveaux ’86 P ’26 ’29 Malcolm “Mac” S. McDonald P ’87 ’88 Nimisha Parikh Montgomery P ’35 Lia C. Mooney P ’28 ’31, Parents’ Association President Meera Pahuja ’97 P ’30 ’32 ’34 J. Cheairs Porter Jr. P ’27 ’29 ’32 JoAnn Adrales Ruh P ’16 ’18 ’21 Julious “Jody” P. Smith III ’86 P ’20 ’22 ’25 Wallace Stettinius P ’77 ’79 ’84, Trustee Emeriti W. Gray Stettinius ’79 P ’07 ’10 ’12 R. Gregory “Greg” Williams ’69 P ’01 ’04, Trustee Emeriti Elizabeth Dolan Wright ’01 P ’33 ’35, Alumni Association President

Alumni Association Board 2025-26:

Collegiate School admits qualified students and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national or ethnic origin, religion, gender, sexual orientation, mental or physical disability, or any other status protected by applicable law in the administration of its admissions, scholarships and loans, and its educational, athletic and other programs.

Elizabeth Dolan Wright ’01 Alumni Association President Kash Aboud ’12 Brink Brinkley ’76 Wilson Cecil ’15 Max Comess ’03 Molly Congdon ’03 Kathleen Corsello ’10 John Daniel ’70 Ernie Dettbarn III ’94 Stuart Farrell ’03 Gray Fain ’07 Dominique Meeks Gombe ’09 Muffy Greenbaum ’04 Missy Herod ’72 Angie Hutchison ’90

Devon Kelley ’05 Ted Lansing ’98 Toby Long ’98 David MacMillan ’82 Beth Marchant ’72 Lauren Makhoul ’10 John Markowitz ’01 Gracie Mason ’05 Lee Moreau ’85 Rishi Pahuja ’04 Chris Pearson ’02 Grayson Richmond ’17 William Roberts ’65 Giselle Shaw ’22 Beth Anne Shelly ’83 Nash Wiley ’15

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THE FUTURE IS GREEN A project spearheaded by the Earth Society, students are establishing a new native garden at Robins Campus that will make for a more sustainable community.

By Jack McCarthy

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T’S A DELIGHTFULLY COOL MORNING in early Au-

gust, with summer just beginning to burn out, and students and faculty are out at Robins Campus tossing purple coneflower and black-eyed Susan seeds down a hill. Wearing thick rubber boots, other students pull fallen logs from the surrounding forest and arrange them in a messy semicircle on the hillside. Director of Sustainability Sandra Marr, at the bottom of the hill, is taking the soil temperature with Austyn Ennis ’26. It all looks like the picture of science in action.

A project spearheaded by the Earth Society, this is the first step students are taking to establish a new native garden beneath Charlie Blair Field, quite literally sowing the seeds of a brighter future. Charlie Blair Field is a state-of-the-art, grass-managed field, and keeping the pitch in pristine condition requires frequent watering, fertilization, and the spraying of herbicides. When it rains, most of those herbicides

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run from the field, down the hill, and into the forest, which is home to Fowler’s toads and breeding marbled salamanders. Like so much of an environmental ecosystem, it’s a complicated and intertwined cohabitation. The chemicals used for the field’s upkeep are harmful to the forest below. Slowing the flow of water and chemical runoff from the field will protect the downhill forested area. Ennis planned this native garden to diversify wildlife, address climate change with healthy soils, and mitigate the water runoff from Charlie Blair Field.

“The logs will eventually biodegrade and the native plants will eventually take hold and propagate,” explains Marr who, when discussing her work, often reaches pitches of childlike enthusiasm. “It will probably take about three or four years, but soon this hill will look amazing.”

She then walks over to a large barrel positioned to the right of the log-shaped semicircle. Colorful

handprints paint the sides. Within the natural landscape, it looks out of place. But like everything Marr and her students in Earth Society do, it’s been placed with intention. “This rain barrel is going to collect water for us,” she explains. “This area doesn’t have any sprinkler system. So as our natives get started, they’ll need a regular source of water. These barrels will be self-sustaining and help our plants grow.”

The arc of logs now complete, students toss even more compost packed with seeds across the hill.

It’s raw, fecund, like a freshly tilled patch of land.

Imbued with passion, Marr speaks of the future, of what the students today have done for the community decades from now.

“We have designed this garden so that it has a vertical structure, meaning that the tallest native plants grow closest to the forest,” Marr says. “This is all done to more effectively slow the flow of water runoff from the soccer field. We’ve thought about host plants, color, bloom time, the kinds of wildlife

these plants will attract. With this work, we will increase biodiversity, improve soil quality, and help capture carbon within the soil.”

Marr speaks with a passion that compels you to see a better, greener future. It’s as if, listening to her talk about the biodiversity the seeds of these native plants will bring, you can see the American goldfinches floating above yellow petals of black-eyed Susans, song sparrows flinching from the heads of purple coneflowers. An abundance of salamanders will slide beneath loose soil in the forest. Bugs will leap from tall grasses. This is what sustainable change looks like. A greener future can begin with the small act of throwing a handful of seeds down a hill. With studied intention, Collegiate students and teachers know those seeds can bloom into something much bigger.

With this work, we will increase biodiversity, improve soil quality, and help capture carbon within the soil.”

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JACKIE JOHNSON RETIREMENT After 40 years of dedicated service in our Facilities Department, Jackie Johnson retired from Collegiate School at the end of September.

Jackie’s warm presence and infectious smile have brightened the halls of every building on campus. For four decades, she helped prepare our spaces to welcome students each day, always ensuring that our campus was clean, safe, and inviting.

Jackie is now looking forward to joining her husband, Douglas, who retired from Collegiate in 2023, and is grateful for the opportunity to spend more time with her mother and grandchildren. We look forward to welcoming Jackie back to celebrate her at our annual retiree reception this spring.

FLYING SQUIRRELS As a special thank you to our incredible faculty and staff, we hosted a fun-filled evening at The Diamond for Collegiate employees and their families. The night included a pregame picnic and a first pitch thrown

by Kindergarten teacher Robby Turner and Cougie! Thank you to our friends at the Flying Squirrels for hosting us!

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NEW YEAR, NEW BUDDIES In early September, Seniors poured into the Lower School Garden to meet their Kindergarten buddies for the first time. This long-standing Collegiate tradition fosters friendships across generations, with Seniors guiding and supporting their Kindergarten buddies throughout the year.

A GREEN AND GOLD WEEKEND There’s nothing quite like Pep Rally to kick off Homecoming Weekend with a roar! Students from all divisions packed the stands to cheer on our fall athletic teams and build excitement for the much-anticipated varsity football game against St. Christopher’s. The energy continued on Saturday as green and gold pride echoed across the Cougar community with our annual Color Run, Senior Tailgate, football game, and Homecoming Dance.

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A smile and a hi might seem small, but they can completely change someone’s day.

These moments of connection matter.”

— Jeff Mancabelli, Head of School

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Collegiate Celebrates 27th Convocation with a Call to Connect, Reflect, and Belong Collegiate School launched its 2025-26 academic year with its 27th annual Convocation, a cherished tradition gathering students, faculty, and staff across all divisions. Set to joyful music from the Upper School Jazz Band, Orchestra, and Chorus, the message from all of the student speakers and Head of School Jeff Mancabelli was one of connection, kindness, and belonging.

To read a full recap of Convocation, visit the Collegiate website.

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Collegiate Faculty Recognized for Excellence LOWER SCHOOL AWARDS (left to right)

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Jamie Chambers Craigie Endowment for Teaching Excellence Award

Laura Domalik Clarence B. Williams Award Khristi Bates Head of the Lower School

Khristi Bates Head of the Lower School

Kimberly Workman Martha Elizabeth Schwarz for Excellence in Teaching Award

Kristin Tujuba The Hamill Family Endowment Award

MIDDLE SCHOOL AWARDS (left to right) Jeff Dunnington Head of the Middle School Emily Roig Andrew Jackson Brent Award Laura Zyglocke Craigie Endowment for Teaching Excellence Award Michael Leber The Hamill Family Endowment Award

UPPER SCHOOL AWARDS

STAFF AWARDS (left to right)

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Rachael Barker The Hamill Family Endowment Award

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Patrick Loach Head of the Upper School

Jeff Mancabelli Head of School

Will Dunlap Ann Griffin Award for Excellence in Teaching

Paul Teeples Class of ’77 Anne Jones Staff Award

ENDOWMENTS IN ACTION Leah Johnston ’26 and Jane Simkin ’26 explore their respective passions in journalism and art through Collegiate’s Summer Study Endowments

By Christine Winder

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N A SUMMER MORNING IN NEW YORK CITY, Leah Johnston ’26

stepped out of her temporary dorm at Fordham University and onto the streets of Manhattan looking for her next story. A few hundred miles away in Chicago, Jane Simkin ’26 opened her sketchbook in a studio at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Though their areas of study were different — Leah pursuing journalism and Jane fine art — both shared the same sense of purpose: to learn, create, and expand their worldviews.

Their journeys were made possible by Collegiate’s Student Summer Study Endowments, which allow Upper School students the opportunity to partake in advanced study programs of their choosing. Leah received the Samuel D. Jessee Endowment for Leadership, and Jane received the Mary Parker Moncure Vaden Endowment for Citizenship and the Arts. Through these endowments, funded by the generosity of Collegiate alumni and families, students can extend their education beyond the classroom, immersing themselves in subjects they’re passionate about and deepening their personal growth beyond school walls.

Jane Simkin’s artwork “Paper Cranes” Oil on canvas

Leah Johnston in the hallway of The New York Times.

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In this time we’re living in, it’s more important than ever to have people speaking up and using their voices.”

— Leah Johnston ‘26

Collegiate really fosters that independent thinking, and this is an extension of that.”

— Jane Simkin ‘26

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Storytelling has always been an interest of Leah’s, whether performing on stage through Collegiate’s theater program or writing for the School’s student-led newspaper The Match. This interest led her to set her sights on journalism, specifically at The School of The New York Times, where she was accepted into a two-week course on Global Reporting and Foreign Correspondence. “I want to pursue journalism because, for me, storytelling is one of the most important aspects of humanity,” Leah says. “In this time we’re living in, it’s more important than ever to have people speaking up and using their voices.”

Each morning, she woke up to sweeping views of Central Park from her room, attended classes led by working journalists, and spent afternoons conducting fieldwork in Jackson Heights, Queens.

Leah and her fellow students were encouraged to find inspiration for a longform article that would be their final project. Leah chose to report on gentrification and housing in the Jackson Heights neighborhood, which challenged her to interview residents from a range of backgrounds. “When we were working on our final project, we were interviewing, reporting, stopping people off the streets in Jackson Heights. A lot of people didn’t want to talk to us, especially when they saw our lanyards for The New York Times. That’s what led me to think: this is difficult, and I like it. That’s how I knew I wanted to continue writing and reporting.”

The Samuel D. Jessee Endowment for Leadership, established in honor of Dr. Samuel Davidson Jessee ’70, supports students who demonstrate outstanding character, leadership, and initiative. For Leah, her summer study experience reshaped her understanding of leadership.

“I definitely think it’s made me a better leader. It’s made me a better listener,” Leah, who is also captain of Collegiate’s rock climbing team, explains. “After being in class with people from all over the world and interviewing people off the street, I became good at listening and figuring out how to work together with people who either don’t have the same goal I do or who have a different way of getting to the same goal.

The skill of collaboration is what I picked up on most.”

In Chicago, Jane was also learning from experiences in a new city and her course work. Her days began early with a quiet walk in the park before her painting and figure drawing classes. “In my figure drawing class, I was able to work with live models,” she explains. “I was only able to do that once before, so this was a really exciting experience for me. In my painting class, I hadn’t worked in oil before so there was a learning curve for that.”

The Mary Parker Moncure Vaden Endowment for Citizenship and the Arts, established in memory of Mary Parker “Polly” Moncure Vaden ’69, recognizes students who embody integrity, service, and creativity.

Jane, who volunteers at Richmond Public Schools’ Oak Grove Elementary, the STAR tutoring program, and participates in Collegiate’s theater and arts programs, felt connected to that mission. “Collegiate really fosters that independent thinking, and this is an extension of that,” she says.

Her transition from Collegiate’s campus to the city of Chicago was both thrilling and intimidating. “I was nervous at the beginning because there were so many people around, and they’re all strangers,” Jane recalls. “My experience in Chicago is that they’re very welcoming. I felt very grown up going to a college on my own in a big city.”

Throughout the program, Jane had opportunities to learn new art styles and techniques, which helped her grow as an artist. “I learned a little bit about mixing loose with messy when doing gestures. I’m certainly a more confident artist,” she says.

Though Leah and Jane explored different disciplines, they both left their programs with a greater sense of confidence, new outlook on life, and a passion for their craft. They also agree that the opportunity to study independently, with Collegiate’s support, was transformative.

“The incredible thing I learned from The New York Times is that being in New York and spending two weeks there opens your eyes so much. It’s reminded me of how I want to go places and learn from people who are not the same as I am,” Leah says.

Both see their endowment experiences not only as once-in-a-lifetime opportunities but also as stepping stones to their futures. “I think this experience helped prepare me for college,” Jane says. “I’m more comfortable not knowing things because everyone around me [in the program] knew so much more. I learned that people are people everywhere.” Leah’s experience also confirmed her interest in journalism as a career. “Being in the real world has its own set of challenges, but what stuck with me is that while I was persevering through these challenges as a journalist, I was still enjoying it, and it wasn’t hurting my morale.

This is a good sign.”

Through Collegiate’s Student Summer Study Endowments, students like Leah and Jane are reminded that learning doesn’t end with the school year; it expands with every question asked, every city explored, and every new opportunity seized.

Endowments provide students with valuable opportunities to pursue their passions and interests, helping them build the skills and experiences that lead to future success. Below are the students who took part in this summer’s dynamic endowment programs.

Roger “Doc” Hailes Student Award: Ethan Marr ‘26, Exploring the Rockies Samuel D. Jessee Endowment for Leadership: Gabriela Hernandez ‘26, Exploring Electrical, Computer and Civil Engineering, NC State University Leah Johnston ‘26, Foreign Correspondence and Global Journalism, The New York Times Samantha McMullin ‘26, Leadership Immersion Program, Wake Forest University Stephen Pollard ‘26, Architectural Design Immersion Program, NC State University Clara Totten ‘26, Mundo Lengua Spanish Immersion Program, Cádiz, Spain Jessica Joseph ‘18 Endowment: Kate Hogan ‘26, Law and Society, Oxford University Aleigha White-Barfield ‘26, Medicine: Disease, Diagnostics, and Interventions, William & Mary Pre-College Program Carter LaPrade Memorial Student Award: Leah Johnston ‘26, Foreign Correspondence and Global Journalism, The New York Times Joseph R. Lower Memorial Endowment: Ethan Marr ‘26, Exploring the Rockies William Smith ‘26, Backpacking in the Rocky Mountains William “Bill” Reeves Renaissance Student Award: Samantha McMullin ’26, Leadership Immersion Program, Wake Forest University Finley Wittkamp ’26, Isenberg Business Ethics Academy, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Mary Parker Moncure Vaden Endowment for Citizenship and the Arts: Sarah Bowman ‘26, Chemical Toxicology, Duke University Kate Hogan ‘26, Law and Society, Oxford University Jane Simkin ‘26, Figure Drawing and Oil Painting, School of the Art Institute of Chicago Kyla Williams ‘26, Drama and Musical Theater Pre-College Intensive, Carnegie Mellon University

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Familiar Faces, Different Spaces Brent Miller ‘98 and Teresa Coleman bring fresh perspectives to woodworking and 3D arts, blending tradition and innovation for Middle and Upper School students.

By Christine Winder

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N COLLEGIATE’S HERSHEY CENTER FOR THE ARTS, stu-

dios buzz with creativity. One smells of sawdust and hums with the sound of power tools. Down the hall, another is alive with energy as students fold, shape, and build, bringing their artistic visions to life. Together, these two spaces illustrate how timeless crafts like woodworking and sculpture are being reimagined at Collegiate.

This fall, Brent Miller ’98 P ’30 ’32 has stepped into his first year as the School’s woodworking teacher, while longtime art teacher Teresa Coleman is reshaping the Middle School 3D arts program. Their mediums, though slightly different, have always converged in a shared space until this school year when the woodworking classes moved into the Upper School studio.

For Coleman, this meant a fully dedicated art room of her own. The change not only gave each program more physical space, but it opened new opportunities for students to explore each artform. “Having a completely dedicated art room has been transformative,” she says. “A traditional art classroom has a lot of supplies and needs a lot of space, and a traditional woodworking room has a lot of equipment and tools. We used to make it work together, but now I can set up the room like a true studio. My philosophy is that the art room becomes [the students’] studio, where they can become their art.”

The reshaping of both spaces reflects Collegiate’s broader commitment to evolving alongside its students.

As programs grow and teachers innovate, the School continues to find ways to preserve hands-on learning. Studios like Coleman’s and Miller’s are more than classrooms, they’re laboratories for curiosity, collaboration, and creative confidence.

For Miller, who also teaches in the Upper School history department and coaches the varsity boys winter/ spring track team, the move into the woodworking studio is both a continuation of a longtime interest and a new chapter for the School’s program. He first connected with the course through his friendship with Collegiate’s previous woodworking teacher, Steve Hart ’78, who re-

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tired earlier this year after 26 years at Collegiate. The two worked closely together for years on Collegiate’s track team, where they bonded over long practices and conversations that often turned to woodworking, tools, handcraft, and process. “I value so much what Steve did,” Miller says. “I’m using a lot of what he and I talked about and the value he placed on the process. But I also bring my own experiences and my past memories of woodworking.”

Both teachers approach their classes with an emphasis on process over perfection, on skill, growth, and the confidence that comes from making something with your hands.

In the woodworking studio, students practice dovetail joinery, make cutting boards, and sketch designs for future projects. Miller places less emphasis on students creating a flawless dovetail and more about whether they understand how to mark, cut, and fit pieces of wood together.

“I want to ingrain in them to not worry about perfection right now, let’s focus on the skill development. You can practice over and over again,” he says. “The more I can get them to feel excited about the growth they see, the more they’re going to keep coming back.”

Miller’s approach mirrors his philosophy as both a teacher and a coach: success is rooted in repetition, reflection, and patience. “You don’t master anything overnight,” he says. “Whether it’s a dovetail joint or a race on the track, the more time and focus you give to the process, the better the result.”

This same mindset resonates just as strongly in Coleman’s art room, where experimentation, independence, and reflection are at the heart of every project. Her approach is rooted in Teaching for Artistic Behavior (TAB), a choice-based philosophy that treats students as independent artists. “I’m trying to encourage the artist in them,” she explains. “Sometimes that looks like being hands off when I have students who say, ‘I got it, I know what I want to do.’

For those who do need a step-by-step, I start with that instruction. But it won’t be everybody making the same thing.

There’s a gamut.”

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The enjoyment of working with wood, the enjoyment of the skills — if students take that with them, they can go anywhere with it.”

This year her 7th Graders are creating agamographs, 3D artworks inspired by Israeli artist Yaacov Agam that reveal multiple images within one piece. Eighth Graders are sculpting oversized sweet treats, experimenting with wood assemblage and clay, and even designing interior spaces.

“My goal this year is to expose them to different art media they can use to create 3D artwork,” Coleman says. “Within that, I’m trying to imbue as much choice as possible. They’re given just enough freedom to surprise you, and themselves, and each other.”

Both teachers also see their classrooms as spaces of joy and focus — places where creativity becomes a form of connection. “It can be therapeutic,” Miller says. “You can go in there and just get so focused on your work. If students can reach that level of enjoyment, where they’re truly engaged in what they’re making, that’s success.”

Coleman agrees. “For our emotional health, for our mental health, the act of making and the act of creating in a community and being with your friends, the atmosphere of being in this space is healing. It’s an encouraging space. I hope that it’s fun for students.”

Though woodworking and sculpture are among some of the oldest art forms, Collegiate adapted old spaces for Miller and Coleman to give them new life. And giving their students new ways to think and create. “The enjoyment of working with wood, the enjoyment of the skills — if students take that with them, they can go anywhere with it,” Miller says.

In addition to instilling an enjoyment of creating in her students, Coleman hopes she also helps shape them as artists. “Belief in yourself is so important, especially in Middle School,” she says. “I hope that’s something they get from being in our art classes.”

Two familiar faces in new spaces, Miller and Coleman are ensuring that timeless crafts remain vital, relevant, and deeply meaningful. At Collegiate, wood and clay, tools and imagination, tradition and innovation all come together with a shared belief: that art is not just about the finished product, but about the practice of skills, cultivation of confidence, and a joy for creating that will hopefully last a lifetime.

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Returning Home Through Art Claiborne Colombo ‘05 celebrates a milestone reunion by coming back and giving back.

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HEN CLAIBORNE BUCKINGHAM COLOMBO ’05 walked back

onto Collegiate’s campus for her 20th Reunion, she did so with canvas, brush, and story in hand. For this milestone weekend, she presented a solo art exhibition — the result of a surprise invitation that pushed her back into the studio and reconnected her to where her creativity took root at Collegiate.

When art teacher Pam Sutherland called with the idea, Colombo assumed it would be a group alumni show. Instead, she learned the spotlight would be hers alone. “I thought, ‘Oh no, now I really have to be there,’” she laughs. “But honestly, it was the fire I needed to make the work I’d been wanting to make for a while.”

Claiborne in Third Grade proudly displaying her art, courtesy of the Torch yearbook.

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Sutherland has been central to Colombo’s journey — first as a teacher, then as her mentor during a Ford Fellowship year when Colombo returned to Collegiate to teach painting, drawing, and coach athletics.

“Pam was probably my most influential teacher,” she explains. “She’s really intentional about showing students that there are many ways to live your life and be successful. That was huge for me.”

That openness gave Colombo the confidence to pursue her dual passions: art and athletics. At Collegiate she was encouraged to excel at both, eventually majoring in art while competing in field hockey in college. “The balance of sports and art at Collegiate taught me discipline, competitiveness, and how to go ‘all in.’ Those lessons carry through to my design career, how I build teams, and my personal art practice.”

Today, Colombo lives in two creative worlds. Professionally, she works in design and branding, most notably as art director for Nike campaigns — where precision, systems, and pixel-perfect execution matter. Personally, she holds space for her art, which she describes as fluid, organic, and a release from the structure of her design life.

“In design, it’s all about clarity and distillation.

My art, on the other hand, is the opposite. It’s about slowing down, letting go, and feeling instead of doing,” she explains. Her current series primarily uses paint as her medium, a return to basics after years

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of labor-intensive, mixed-media work. “It’s a pause, really; allowing the work to move on its own rather than trying to control every detail.”

That sense of release is shaped by her current home that she shares with her husband and three sons on Lopez Island, Washington, a village of just 4,000 people surrounded by water. “This series is definitely about fluidity,” she reflects. “Living here, water is everywhere, and at this stage of life, when we have to be more fluid and adaptive, it’s become my anchoring element.”

Even as her career and family life have taken her far from Richmond, Colombo says her Collegiate foundation endures. The blend of rigor and encouragement, the support for both athletics and the arts, and the mentorship of teachers like Sutherland continue to shape her.

“Art has always been my space for reflection and sanity,” she reflects. “That duality I learned at Collegiate — to balance the competitive with the creative — is anchored in me, and I’ll always protect it.”

During her Reunion Weekend, Colombo’s art serves as a gift back to the community that first encouraged her to embrace both discipline and imagination. It is a return home not only to family and friends, but to the wellspring of her creativity.

Madrone trees don’t get lonely on the rocks Acrylic on raw canvas framed in birch

The bees sure are happy with the lavender this year Acrylic on raw canvas framed in birch

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HEAR THE PEOPLE SING This fall, Collegiate’s Upper School performers brought Victor Hugo’s timeless tale of love, redemption, and revolution to life in Les Misérables: School Edition. Set against the backdrop of 19th-century France, this sweeping musical follows the journey of Jean Valjean, played by Baxter Phillips ’26, as he seeks forgiveness and freedom amid a society on the brink of change. Featuring a talented student cast and live orchestra, this powerful production showcases the depth and heart of Collegiate’s performing arts program.

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Catching Up with Tyler Brand ’23 No matter how much golf Tyler Brand ’23 plays in his life, he’ll always remember his performance in the Columbia Autumn Invitational Sept. 2024, at the Lake Placid Country Club.

By Weldon Bradshaw

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O SAY THAT THE 2023 COLLEGIATE GRADUATE

was in his zone is an understatement. Every shot, it seemed, was pure and magical. All phases of his game clicked. He was locked in and rocking steady.

On the scenic par-71 layout in New York State’s Adirondack Mountains, the Dartmouth College Sophomore recorded rounds of 64, 66, and 66 for a 17-under 196 to break the tournament record, score a nine-stroke victory over the runner-up, lead his team to a second-place finish, and earn Ivy League golfer of the month honors.

“I just felt so in control of everything,” he said.

“I felt so free. My mind was clear. I felt as if I could point and shoot, almost. I was out there just looking around at nature and the fall foliage. It’s so beautiful up there. I was just so grateful that I could even play in that tournament.”

While the Lake Placid experience was singularly memorable, it wasn’t the only highlight of Brand’s golf career at Dartmouth and Collegiate.

This past spring, he won the Columbia Spring Invitational (Springfield, Pennsylvania) and the ROAR-EE Invitational (Kingston, New York) and was named team most valuable performer and first-team All-Ivy League.

As a Freshman, he played in eight matches, tied for second (out of 75) in the Cleveland Golf Palmetto Invitational (Aiken, South Carolina), tied for third (out of 90) at the ECU Intercollegiate, shot a course record 61 (eight birdies and an eagle) in the Princeton Invitational, and placed sixth (out of 35) in the Ivy League championship.

During his three years on Collegiate’s golf team, the Cougars won two Prep League and two VISAA titles, and Brand earned one All-Prep and two All-State citations and was the co-medalist (2-under 69 at the Meadowbrook Country Club) when the Cougars won the 2022 state title. In the 2023 High School Nationals at Fields Ranch in Frisco, Texas, he finished third (out of 312) to help Collegiate to a fourth place finish out of 50 teams.

In all these moments, I have to take a step back and realize what a privilege it is to play a sport I love at such a great school.”

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One recent afternoon, Brand, an economics major, spoke of both the successes and the challenges he’s encountered during his athletic journey.

Has it been a challenge to mix golf with the academic rigors of Dartmouth?

College was definitely an adjustment. I’ve learned to be proactive with my work and plan out my days. You don’t get as much time to practice as in high school. There’s always something else you have to be doing. You can’t just go to the range and be out there for six hours a day, so you don’t get the same reps in practice.

In what areas have you improved since you arrived at Dartmouth?

Every bit of my game has become more consistent because I’ve gotten stronger and I’ve been playing for more years now, so I know what to expect. Mentally, I’ve definitely grown, which also comes from playing more. In college golf, you might have a tournament you don’t get to warm up in. There could be weather [challenges].

You’re there sometimes before sunrise and after sunset playing 36 holes. You’re traveling six-and-a-half hours. So I try to stay mentally present. That’s something I wouldn’t have had the patience for in high school.

In what areas do you need to improve?

You can always work to improve every area of your game. The one that’s most important for me is my mental game. There was a very clear distinction between my good tournaments and bad tournaments with whether or not I would stay positive and keep going after I hit a bad shot or if I would let that bad shot frustrate me more. It seemed like it happened every other tournament. One tournament I would be very determined to trust my game and trust that good shots would come. I did well in those. There were other tournaments where maybe I was putting too much pressure on myself, and it would be like one bad shot was the end of the world, and they would slowly add up, and I would just mentally beat myself. So being [more mentally consistent] makes a big difference. In all these moments, I have to take a step back and realize what a privilege it is to play a sport I love at such a great school.

Is golf more mental or physical?

One hundred percent mental. This year was good. It gave me a lot of confidence. I know I can win. I can be this good, but my takeaway was how important the mental game is.

What do you enjoy most about the game of golf?

Brand ’23 displaying his Columbia Invitational Championship award.

When I first started playing, I really liked the aspect of being outside in nature. It’s peaceful. It’s an escape. It’s still definitely an escape from what’s going on in the rest of my life. Golf is a game, but the lessons you learn from it, like facing the challenges and dealing with the ups and downs, parallel life very well. It’s you versus yourself.

You’re challenging yourself to be the best version of yourself you can be. How can I maximize my potential? You never feel satisfied with how good you are. No matter how well I play now, I know I can get better.

Is your goal perfection or excellence?

Excellence. I wouldn’t say I’m trying to be perfect. I think sometimes I fall into that spell of trying to hit perfect shots, and mentally you can get upset with yourself if you don’t. If I know what kind of shot I’m trying to hit, then I’m able to commit to it and try to execute it. If I execute it, that’s the best I can do.

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READY, WILLING, AND ABLE She’s paid her dues.

By Weldon Bradshaw

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ROM HER TEE-BALL DAYS to her high school

career as a four-season softball starter and AllLeague of Independent Schools catcher at Trinity Episcopal to her stint as a pitcher on William & Mary’s club team, Kelsey Watson competed with joy and spirit, savored what some might call “the grind,” and learned from her mentors every step of the way.

When her playing days ended, she became a coach, first at the little league level before working her way up the ladder, rung by rung by rung. Most important, she found meaning in the successes and the challenges as well as the victories, certainly, and even the defeats.

Yep, she’s paid her dues, and when Robby Turner, Collegiate’s head varsity softball coach since 2011, stepped down following the 2025 season, Watson, an assistant on his staff, had more than earned the opportunity to succeed him.

“We’re very excited for Kelsey to be our next head softball coach and program leader,” said Andrew

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Stanley, Collegiate’s athletics director. “She’s a dedicated coach who’s worked tirelessly to build relationships up and down the program. That will help her start her run on solid footing as she works to build on the legacy Robby spent so many years creating.

Kelsey is an accomplished coach with a level of dedication and work ethic that’s very, very special.”

After earning her undergraduate degree in geology, she worked as an archaeologist in Jamestown, as a staff member at the Science Museum of Virginia, as a chemistry teacher at St. Catherine’s, and as a JV softball coach at Thomas Dale High School and varsity assistant at St. Catherine’s.

Since July 2021, she’s served as assistant to the athletic directors at Collegiate, where she coached JV softball the first year before becoming Turner’s assistant.

“Kelsey’s great,” Turner said. “She’s great at organizing and really connects with the girls. She’s always been available to work with them during the day when it fit in their schedule. Her passion for soft-

Watson cheering on the 2025 girls softball team.

Watson with then-head coach Robby Turner in the dugout.

ball shows when she’s coaching or just talking about the sport. Her commitment to the program is undeniable. Her energy and passion will be a guiding force moving forward.”

Coaching is a calling for Watson, who also teaches an Upper School archaeology class and serves as a Middle School science department substitute.

“I can’t imagine not coaching,” she said. “I love the interaction with the kids and sharing my love for the game and seeing them find joy in it and get better every day. These kids won’t play sports forever, but it’s the connections they make and the lessons they take away and carry through life that are so important.”

The lessons?

“I hope these girls gain confidence,” she said.

“When I think back to what I gained from playing, it was community, confidence, and persistence.”

Her mentors?

“Skip Johns made me want to coach,” she said of Trinity’s former sports performance director, who earlier served in a similar capacity at Collegiate. “And my JV basketball coach Laura Weiler made me realize that coaches can look like me. I’d never had a young female coach before. We had a lot of fun on that team.”

And Turner, of course.

“I really enjoyed coaching with Robby,” she said. “What’s really unique about our program here is that a lot of the girls got their start at Collegiate, whether it was through RiverCats or going out for JV for the first time. We really have a program of home-grown kids.

“Robby had the ability to take these kids and be creative and use all of them to the best of their abili-

ty. We’ll have this girl run for this player. We’ll have the player who can get the bunt down. We’ve been a little unconventional. Robby wasn’t afraid to be unconventional. That’s something I learned from him.”

Watson’s experience as a catcher — essentially, the field general — serves her well as a coach.

“You get to see everything (in the field) and know all the parts,” she said of the position. “You work with the pitcher. You know (the tendencies of) the batters coming to the plate. What pitch are we going to throw? How do our fielders need to be set up? I really like being part of the entire game.”

Watson inherits a team which lost its top two players, multiple-time All-LIS selections Mary Ann Zyglocke ’25 and Harper Murphy ’25, to graduation.

Her challenge will be to cultivate new leadership, perpetuate the culture of positivity and daily improvement, and, as Turner did, play to the strengths of the returning athletes.

She’s undaunted by the challenge.

“It’s exciting to have all these kids, and I’m excited to see how they come into their own and what they grow into,” she said. “A lot of them are young.

They haven’t played a lot. When something clicks, it clicks. I don’t know what that’s going to be for each game. We’ll see what the season holds. I’m excited to see what that is.”

These kids won’t play sports forever, but it’s the connections they make and the lessons they take away and carry through life that are so important.”

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Finding Home at Collegiate

For new Lower School Head Khristi Bates, the classroom has always felt like home.

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She’d charted her course, or so she thought.

Veterinary school was in Khristi Bates’s future. Then, a transformative experience abruptly changed the trajectory of both her career and her life and enabled her to find her true professional calling.

“In my teens, I had an opportunity to work in a vet clinic for a while,” said Bates, Collegiate’s new Lower School Head. “I loved it until the day they asked me to go with them to the Humane Society. I said, ‘Sure, what are we going to do?’ They answered, ‘Put dogs down.’ I said, ‘I can’t do that.’ It wasn’t in my DNA. That was a real deal breaker for my 15-year-old self.”

One door closed, you might say, but another quickly opened.

“My mom was a schoolteacher,” Bates said of Vicki Willingham, who taught 1st Grade for 26 years. “I grew up in the classroom with her. I played teacher my entire life. I started babysitting as a 12-year-old. It’s been who I am from the very beginning, so when the veterinarian thing didn’t work out, the natural progression was teaching.”

Bates spent her formative years in Hutchinson, Kansas, and attended Morgan Elementary, Liberty Middle, and Hutchinson High School.

“I have very fond memories of coming up through school,” she said. “It was a small community. I went to school with these kids all my life, K-12. What’s so special about independent schools is that you have that same sense of family.”

After she graduated from Kansas State University (B.S. in education), Bates moved to Shawnee Mission, near Kansas City, and taught 2nd Grade at Roseland Elementary and Kindergarten at Brookwood Elementary, then at Bel Air Elementary in Athens, Texas.

In 2007, she returned to Kansas (Wichita) to teach 4th, and later 5th Grade at The Independent School, her introduction to education outside the public domain.

Bates enjoyed caring for, and spending time with, animals and initially desired to go into veterinary medicine.

I played teacher my entire life...

It’s been who I am from the very beginning, so when the veterinarian thing didn’t work out, the natural progression was teaching.”

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Bates settles into the administration of the Lower School with her team.

In 2014, she became head of the Lower School at The Independent School, a post she held for four years before moving to San Antonio where she headed the Lower School at Saint Mary’s Hall for seven years. Those early years in administration taught her how much that family-centered foundation mattered to her leadership. “I realized very quickly that my style is rooted in relationships,” she said.

“I love building trust with teachers, encouraging them the way my own teachers encouraged me, and creating a culture where everyone feels they belong. That’s when the real learning happens — when people feel known, valued, and supported.”

Then came the opportunity at Collegiate.

“What really sold me is that when I visited, it just felt right,” she said. “Collegiate is community-centered. It’s family-centered. All the pillars are here that made me think this was the right place.”

Bates succeeds Debbie Miller, a Collegiate icon who passed away this past February following a courageous battle with pancreatic cancer.

Bates steps into her role with humility and deep appreciation for the traditions and people like Miller that shape Collegiate. What excites her most, she said, “is how clearly the School’s values align with the lessons she learned as a child — that a school community is at its best when it feels like a family.”

Bates and her husband Brent have four children: twins Dylan (a surgical resident at the University of Nebraska Health Center in Omaha) and Cameron (a first-year student at the Texas A&M Law School in Fort Worth); Ryleigh (a Kansas State University Senior); and Braedyn (a Collegiate Freshman).

“In both of our major moves, we’ve involved our children,” Bates said. “The first time, we were in a minivan on the way

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Khristi with husband, Brent, and their children, Dylan, Cameron, Ryleigh, and Braedyn.

to Disney World when we got the call about moving to San Antonio. The kids unanimously agreed, ‘You’d be crazy not to take it.’ This time, we had to call everybody. Again, it was, ‘Mom, you have to do this. This is amazing.’ We had long conversations with our youngest son because we’d be transplanting him and bringing him to a new school. When he visited in April, he said, ‘Absolutely we’re going to do this.’”

Though she’s embarking upon her third division-head role, Bates didn’t get into education to become an administrator, she said. Instead, it came with the natural evolution of a life journey that included leadership roles in high school and college and her desire to expand her professional horizons in ways that would impact others.

“The seed was planted because I worked with some really good administrators,” said Bates, who earned a graduate degree in elementary education from Mid-American Nazarene University. “I thought, ‘How can I give back?’ because I loved developing teachers into the best versions of them-

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selves. It’s ingrained in me to love and mentor children, but I’ve loved helping my colleagues.”

For Bates, developing teachers means more than giving feedback after an observation. She invests in building relationships first, creating trust so that teachers feel safe to take risks in their classrooms. She encourages them to identify their own strengths and passions and then helps them align those with school goals so their work feels both authentic and impactful. Professional growth conversations with her often turn into collaborative brainstorming sessions, where she asks reflective questions and invites teachers to co-design solutions rather than handing them a prescription.

“I love thinking at a high level and figuring out how we can improve and implement across the divisions and improve the school,” she explained. “But the real joy is watching a teacher try something new, see it succeed, and then realize they’re capable of even more. That ripple effect reaches every child they teach.”

That said…

“It’s hard to step out of the classroom because I really loved being with the kids,” she said one morning recently as she prepared for the upcoming faculty meetings. “My brain still functions so much in that way, even when I’m creating content [for faculty], which are lesson plans, if you will, for the opening days with the teachers. That’s my opportunity to get in there and instruct.

“Everything is centered on the kids, so when I’m sitting there thinking about what we need to accomplish as adults, it’s centering on what the adults need to get to the kids.

It’s always student centered. Everything comes back to the kids. Is this what they need? Are we acting in a way that’s best for kids?”

So… “I think I never really came out of the classroom,” she added. “It just changed. What I love about being an administrator is that I get to have an impact on students at a higher level. Maybe not directly, but I get to think about the big picture and make sure that [thinking] impacts them in the best way.”

“From the very beginning, I’ve understood education as more than academics,” she said. “It’s about being known, being cared for, and being part of something larger than yourself. That was true in my own classrooms growing up, and it’s what I saw modeled every day by my mom. It’s what drew me to Collegiate, the sense of belonging, the way people genuinely invest in one another.”

As she looks ahead, Bates is eager to nurture and strengthen that culture. “My hope is to continue cultivating a community where every student, teacher, and family feels connected and supported. When we hold fast to that sense of family, everything else — the learning, the growth, the joy — follows naturally.”

A love of education was an ingrained part of Bates’ childhood.

It’s about being known, being cared for, and being part of something larger than yourself.”

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REPORT ON PHILANTHROPY 2024-25

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LETTER FROM THE

Chief Development Officer Dear Collegiate Community, Each year I have the privilege of thanking and celebrating our donors. This past year 2,146 alumni, parents, grandparents, and friends supported Collegiate with a gift to the School. Some made a gift for the first time, while many are consistent and steadfast annual donors. Whether this marks your first gift or your 50th, we are incredibly grateful for your support of Collegiate.

Each of the donors listed on the following pages helped make a difference across campus — in the classroom, on the stage, on the court, with special programs, building renovations and enhancements, faculty recognition and support, and financial assistance that helped us welcome new students and their families. No matter what area you supported, your gift made an impact.

Thanks to donors like you, this was also a record year for the Collegiate Fund with more than $2,600,000 raised. Your support touched every aspect of the student experience. We are grateful to our parent volunteers, such as Amber and Ryan Leggett, who inspired others to give on Collegiate FUNDay, and our alumni leaders in the 50th Reunion Committee, who challenged their class to hit the $1,000,000 mark with their combined giving since graduation. The collective contributions of our community makes an incredible difference and allows our students to thrive every day.

Collegiate is a stronger school because of you. On behalf of the entire development team and the School, we thank you!

With gratitude, Kristen Williams P ’24 ’24 Chief Development Officer

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MEET THE DEVELOPMENT TEAM MARIA COBB P ‘28 ‘31

SAMANTHA HUBER ‘03 P ‘33 ‘35

Associate Director of Development

Director of Collegiate Fund

ANNE GRAY SIEBERT ‘97 P ‘27 ‘29 ‘31 ‘34

FRANCES COLEMAN ‘92 P ‘19 ‘22

EMILY RINEHARDT

Director of Alumni Engagement

Director of Parent/Family Relations

Director of Special Events

MAVORA DONOGHUE ‘96 P ‘28 ‘30

ALEX NEILSON ‘14

AMY ST. JOHN

Assistant Director of Collegiate Fund

Assistant Director of Alumni Engagement

Development Data Manager

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DONORS 1915 SOCIETY $50,000+

Anonymous Mr. M. Garland Anderson II 1970 Mr. Robert A. Axelrod and Ms. Christy N. Wise The Bruni Family Trust The Bryant Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Mark A. Christian 1977 Collegiate School Parents’ Association CoStar Group Nunnally Charitable Lead Trust Mr. and Mrs. J. Brock Saunders 2002, 2003 Mr. and Mrs. Paul H. Saunders Mr. and Mrs. Paul H. Saunders, Jr. 2005 The Saunders Family Foundation Charles G. Thalhimer Charitable Trust Estate of Morton G. Thalhimer, Jr. Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation

PARAT DITAT DURAT SOCIETY $25,000 - $49,999

Anonymous Mr. and Mrs. Richard Cullen Mr. and Mrs. Stanley F. Druckenmiller 1971 Mrs. Anne Garland Farrell Mr. and Mrs. Peter F. Farrell 2002 Mr. and Mrs. Stuart T. Farrell 2003 Farrell Family Charitable Trust Mr. and Mrs. Martin D. Franks Martin and Sherry Franks Family Fund Mr. and Mrs. Douglas D. Garson Ms. Martha Clark Goss 1967 Mr. Bryce D. Jewett, Jr. 1964 Mr. and Mrs. J. Hunter Lansing 2000 Massey Family Foundation Estate of Charles L. Reed, Jr. 1950 Mr. and Mrs. Joseph K. Reid III Mr. Gregory C. Robins 1983 Robins Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Chris H. Snow The Snow Foundation The Timber Ridge Fund Mr. and Mrs. Coleman Wortham III 1969

FOUNDER’S SOCIETY $15,000 - $24,999

Louise B. Cochrane Charitable Foundation Commonwealth Foundations Mr. and Mrs. Richard T. Cullen 2003 Marie G. Dennett Foundation, Inc. Estes Foundation

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Collegiate School recognizes with gratitude the donors whose contributions strengthen every area of the School. Gifts to all funds, the Collegiate Fund, endowment, and capital priorities, demonstrate generosity and a shared purpose. Leadership recognition begins at $2,500, marking a level of commitment that exemplifies the spirit of philanthropy and helps Collegiate thrive today and in the future.

Mr. and Mrs. Leavenworth M. Ferrell II 1988 Mr. and Mrs. James Christopher Gilman 1982 Mr. and Mrs. Samuel S. Gottwald 2002 Ms. Martha Estes Grover 1979 Mr. and Mrs. T. Ryan Leggett The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Mark B. Sisisky Susan and Mark Sisisky Global Enrichment Fund Ms. Virginia Szigeti Mrs. Carol Thalhimer Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Thalhimer III 1997 Ms. Margaret Ruth Thalhimer 1999 The Carol M. & Charles G. Thalhimer, Jr. Foundation Weezie Wiltshire 1967

TORCH SOCIETY $10,000 - $14,999

Anonymous Mr. and Mrs. Richard Balderston The Benevity Community Impact Fund Mr. and Mrs. James C. Bonbright III 1986 Bonbright Family Foundation Trust Mr. and Mrs. Mason T. Chapman 1984 Mr. and Mrs. Max W. Comess 2003 Mrs. Beese D. Craigie Mr. and Mrs. Kevin C. Crosthwaite Mr. Tayloe Murphy Braxton Dameron 2012 Mrs. Ann Darling Mr. and Mrs. William H. Goodwin, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. John D. Gottwald 1972, 1974 H7 Foundation Molly 1988 and Robert Hardie Mr. and Mrs. Paul Hepper The Hoak Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Mark J. Hourigan Mr. and Mrs. Philip L. Innes 2005 Mr. Thomas J. James, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Brady Jones, Jr. 2003 Mrs. Ryan Leavitt King 2008 Mr. and Mrs. James G. Lott Lower School Parents Night Fall Library Book Fund Mr. and Mrs. Gary W. McDaniel 2000 Mr. and Mrs. William A. Mosby Mr. and Mrs. F. Scott Myers Mr. and Mrs. William J. O’Flaherty 2005 William J. and Dorothy K. O’Neill Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Christopher P. Orski Mr. and Mrs. E. Claiborne Robins, Jr. Ms. Sheryl A. Robins 1985 Mrs. Elizabeth Sauer and Mr. Bryan Moody Dr. Harriet Schanzer Mr. and Mrs. Clinton D. Smith Mr. and Mrs. W. Gray Stettinius 1979, 1979

Mr. and Mrs. William L. Stinson 1973 Stinson Family Fund Mr. and Mrs. W. Hildebrandt Surgner, Jr. 1983 Mr. and Mrs. Adam R. Thalhimer 1997 Mr. and Mrs. Adam R. Thalhimer Charitable Fund Bobby and Jayne Ukrop Mr. and Mrs. Dale A. White Mr. and Mrs. R. Gregory Williams 1969 Mr. and Mrs. Barry A. Wilton 1973 Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Wiltshire III 1997

FLAME SOCIETY $5,000 - $9,999

Mr. James W. Arnold and Ms. Sally S. Digges Camp 1999 and Tappan August Mr. and Mrs. David N. Bannard Mrs. Isabel Spilman Bates 1967 Dr. Lillie R. Bennett Bessemer Giving Fund Dr. Courtney H. Bradenham 2002 and Dr. Ben P. Bradenham, Jr. Brent Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Stephen T. Clarke Clarke Family Fund Anne L. Coleman, M.D., Ph.D. 1976 Mr. and Mrs. J. Whitefield Congdon, Jr. 2002, 2003 Cullen Family Fund Davenport Donor Advised Program Mr. and Mrs. John W. Fain 1974 Alice 1997 and Alex Fruth Fruth Family DAF Ms. Patricia A. Garland Dr. Jessica Balderston Gertz Mr. Peter O. Goodwin 2003 Mrs. Deborah E. Hailes Mr. and Mrs. Hugh T. Harrison II Harrison Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Stephen T. Holdych Mr. and Mrs. Wyatt Holzbach Mr. and Mrs. Philip L. Innes 2005 Mr. and Mrs. Bradley W. Jiulianti Mr. and Mrs. Reginald N. Jones Mrs. Mary Harrison Keevil Mr. and Mrs. David F. Kehlenbeck 2003 Estate of Nancy F. Klaus Nathalie L. Klaus Charitable Lead Unitrust Mr. and Mrs. Rama R. Krottapalli Mr. and Mrs. T. Gaylon Layfield III 1969 Dr. Jon M. Lewis and Mrs. Rachel E. Burday Mr. and Mrs. William Benton Lewis, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. J. Ryan Lingerfelt Mr. and Mrs. J. Theodore Linhart 1965 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Mackell 1963

Ms. Neelan A. Markel 1996 Mr. and Mrs. Steven A. Markel 1966 Steve & Kathie Markel Family Fund Mr. and Mrs. John C. Markowitz 2001 Mrs. Kathleen M. Markowitz Cliff Miller Family Endowment Mr. J. Clifford Miller III and Ms. Lucile Miller Mr. Jon D. Moore Mr. and Mrs. Frank F. Mountcastle III 1983 Mrs. Elizabeth D. Mountjoy and Mr. Brian R. Voss Dr. and Mrs. Colin A. Mudrick National Philanthropic Trust Mr. and Mrs. Christopher M. Nichols 1998 Mr. and Mrs. Boyan Nikolov Mr. and Mrs. John D. O’Neill, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. S. Marshall Orr III Mr. and Mrs. Patrick D. O’Toole Dr. Meera Pahuja 1997 and Dr. Kedar S. Mate Dr. Kathleen T. Pearson and Mr. Christopher G. Pearson 2002 Mr. and Mrs. Larry G. Pearson Mr. and Mrs. William S. Peebles IV Mr. and Mrs. S. Garrett Ramsey 2003 Mr. and Mrs. Crit T. Richardson 1975, 1976 Mr. and Mrs. William H. Schultz The Schultz Charitable Fund Mr. and Mrs. William H.S. Seegar Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Smith IV

Dr. and Mrs. Julious P. Smith III 1986 Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Stettinius Mr. Roy T. Tepper III 1990 Ton of Coins Scholarship Fund Tullidge Family Fund Mr. and Mrs. Nathan H. Turbeville, Jr. Vanguard Charitable Winsome Fund Elizabeth Dolan Wright 2001 and J.D. Wright J.D. and E.D. Wright Family Fund

SPARK SOCIETY $2,500 - $4,999

Mr. and Mrs. Boyce Adams Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin K. Adamson 1998 Mr. and Mrs. John G. Adamson 1996 Katherine T. and John G. Adamson Family Charitable Fund Ms. Anne Bruce Ahearn 1987 and Dr. Byron C. Hulsey Dr. Byron C. Hulsey Family Fund Mr. and Mrs. William G. Allen 2003, 2003 American Endowment Foundation Anonymous Mr. and Mrs. Mark Apelt Archimedes Fund Dr. and Mrs. William M. Bader Dr. and Mrs. Todd B. Baird 1987 Mr. and Mrs. Christopher P. Baker

Mr. and Mrs. W. Preston Baldwin III 1980 Mr. and Mrs. W. Chason Beggerow Dr. Richard L. Bennett II 1990 Dr. Sanjay C. Bhagchandani and Dr. Trisha A. Krause Mr. and Mrs. Evan S. Bloodgood Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Bolyard Mr. and Mrs. David C. Boutry Mr. and Mrs. Martin C. Boyle 1997 Mr. and Mrs. Alexander J. Brackett 1995 Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin L. Bruni 2010, 2009 Mr. and Mrs. W. Joseph Buhrman 1972 Eda H. Cabaniss Charitable Lead Unitrust Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Cabaniss III 1988 Mr. and Mrs. Henry S. Carter 1977 Mr. Wilson Randolph Strother Cecil 2015 Dr. and Mrs. Nevan N. Chang Ms. Elizabeth H. Cockriel 1971 G. Dallas & Betty C. Coons Trust Mr. and Mrs. Scott W. Copeland Ms. Laura H. Cowperthwait Mr. and Mrs. Peyton F. Cox 2000 Mr. W. Taylor Dabney IV and Ms. Julia E. Pfaff Mr. S. Donahey Dameron Dr. and Mrs. John M. Daniel III 1970 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Donahue, Jr. 1975 Donahue Family Foundation Mr. Brendan C. Donohoe and Dr. Krista L. Donohoe Ms. Mayme Donohue 2003

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Ms. Virginia R. Edmunds Mr. and Mrs. Neil P. Farmer 1974, 1976 Mrs. Betty P. Featherston* Mrs. Joan McCormack Ferrill 1973 Mr. and Mrs. Michael S. Finnegan Mrs. Elizabeth Conner Flippen 1967 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Fritzlen, Jr. 1963 The Thomas and Jerrice Fritzlen Family Charitable Fund Mr. and Mrs. Harrison M. Geho 1983, 1982 Mr. and Mrs. Noah C. P. Greenbaum, Sr. 2003, 2004 Mr. and Mrs. J. Sheppard Haw III 1975 Mr. and Mrs. Dennis W. Hedgepeth Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan B. Henry 2003 Mr. and Mrs. R. Lee Hepp, Jr. 1994 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas K. Johnstone Mr. Alan K. Jones, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. John B. Jung, Jr. Jung Family Charitable Trust Mr. and Mrs. Christian A. Kantner 1995 Ms. Sarah Doddridge Kay 1975 Mr. Philip W. Klaus, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Kornblau Dr. Priyanka J. Kumar and Mr. Kunal Kumar Mr. and Mrs. Peter K. Kyte Mr. and Mrs. J. Christopher Lansing Mr. and Mrs. Theodore H. Lansing II 1998 Mr. and Mrs. Kyle A. Laux Dr. Jingjing Li and Mr. Xin F. Huang The Linhart Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Lewis R. Little, Jr. 2000 Mr. and Mrs. T. Preston Lloyd, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Henry P. Long, Jr. Mr. Henry P. Long III 1998 Peter and Mimi Mahoney Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey W. Mancabelli The Honorable and Mrs. W. Reilly Marchant 1971, 1972 Mr. and Mrs. William A. Martin III 1994 Mr. and Mrs. Winston R. Mason III 2005 Ms. Sarah Maxwell 1995 Mr. and Mrs. Aaron McClung Mr. and Mrs. David M. McFarland 2004 The McFarland Family Charitable Fund Mr. and Mrs. Gregory E. McGeorge 2001, 2006 Ms. Boodie Wiltshire McGurn 1971 Mr. and Mrs. Grayson C. McNeely 1990 Dr. Elizabeth Mei and Mr. Fred Babik Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Meli II 2005 Brandon and Morenike Miles Benita 1976 and Michael Miller Mr. Aaron Montgomery and Mrs. Nimisha Parikh Montgomery Dr. Blake W. Moore and Dr. Jaime E. Moore Mr. and Mrs. T. Justin Moore III 1975 Mr. Todd Morchower 1989 Mr. and Mrs. William J. O’Brien Mr. and Mrs. Mark F. O’Neil Mr. and Mrs. Duncan S. Owen III 1986 Ms. Maria Pahuja and Mr. Rishi Pahuja 2004 Mr. and Mrs. Michael G. Palmore 1993 Dr. Sunny J. Patel and Dr. Bijal M. Patel Pella Windows & Doors Mr. and Mrs. William H. Perkins Ms. Christine K. Plant

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Christine Kane Plant Charitable Fund Dr. Khidhra S. Poole and Mr. Jimmy L. Poole Mr. and Mrs. Roger W. Porter Mr. and Mrs. E. Bryson Powell 1969, 1969 Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan R. Price, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Proutt, Jr. 1998 Proutt Family Fund Mr. and Mrs. Chad Rager Mr. and Mrs. Clyde H. Ratcliffe III Mr. and Mrs. John Rivers, Jr. Mrs. Martha L. Robertson Dr. Sameer Rohatgi and Dr. Anjali Varandani Mr. Colin J. Ruh and Mrs. JoAnn Adrales Ruh Dr. Kenneth P. Ruscio and Ms. Kimberley A. Ruscio Mr. and Mrs. Scott F. Ruth 1991, 1990 Mr. and Mrs. Jason L. Saunders Mrs. Barbara Briesmaster Sensabaugh 1971 Mr. and Mrs. Henry A. Shield II 1991 Mr. and Mrs. Erik S. Siebert 1997 Dr. and Mrs. A. Gordon Smith Mr. and Mrs. George L. Smith III Mr. Richard Pinkney Sowers IV 1996 Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Spradlin Mr. and Mrs.* Robert R. Staples Mr. and Mrs. L. Mark Stepanian 1989 Mr. and Mrs. Brude D. Stoever Mr. & Mrs. Michael J. Szweda Marcia and Harry 1971 Thalhimer Charles G. Thalhimer and Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. T. Case Tischer, Jr. 1998 Ms. Sheryl S. Tyner Mr. and Mrs. Mark C. Van Deusen Mr. and Mrs. Alan P. Vaughan 1991 Mr. and Mrs. John L. Walker III Mr. and Mrs. C. Kemper Wharton Mr. and Mrs. Matthew White Mr. and Mrs. Andrew T. Wiley 1977 Mr. Richard W. Wiltshire, Jr. 1964 Mr. and Mrs. Louis Wimbish III Dr. Charlotte B. Woodfin and Mr. John H. Woodfin 1987 Mr. and Mrs. John W. Woods, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Coleman Wortham 2007 Mr. and Mrs. Edward F. Wukowitz Dr. J. Kenneth Zelenak 1993 and Dr. Ashley T. Zelenak

BRIDGE SOCIETY $1,000 - $2,499

3Chopt Investment Partners LLC Mrs. Frances Shetter Adamson Reed 1963 Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Agee III Mr. and Mrs. Brian C. Alas Mrs. Anne Cary Allen 1974 American Red Cross Mrs. Jeanne E. Anderson Mr. and Mrs. Michael Armstrong Mr. and Mrs. James Ashby IV 2000 Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Aveson, Jr. Mr. Abrar Azamuddin and Dr. Sherin Moideen Mr. and Mrs. Ryan K. Bader 2001 Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Baker Mr. and Mrs. John L. Barnes III Mrs. Christi White Barranger 1969

Mr. and Mrs. Corey A. Benjamin Mr. and Mrs. Matthew D. Benka Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Betts, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. J. Byers Bowen 2001 Mrs. Erwin P. Boyd Mr. John P. McGuire Boyd Mrs. Anne Brasfield 1965 Mr. Daniel J. Briotti and Mrs. Emilie J. McNally Mr. and Mrs. William G. Broaddus Mr. Scott Carrington Brooks 1986 Ms. Kathrin Schwarzchild Brown 1965 Mrs. Nancy Kennon Bruchbacher 1975 Mrs. Amanda Johnson Brumbaugh 2011 BSN Sports Mr. and Mrs. Norman Carley Mr. and Mrs. James Carr Mr. and Mrs.* Charles G. Cary 1956 Mrs. Christine Thexton Chappell 2011 Mr. and Mrs. Wayne A. Chasen Mr. and Mrs. Yuriy Cherepnya 2008 Ms. Missy McGurn Chiles 2003 Dr. and Mrs. James T. Christmas Mr. and Mrs. Custis Lansing Coleman, Jr. 1980 Mr. and Mrs. Bryan S. Cram Mr. and Mrs. J. Scott Cribbs, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Cricchi Andrew and Elizabeth Crowley Mr. and Mrs. Matthew H. Cullen Mr. and Mrs. Craig J. Curwood Daffy Charitable Fund Dr. Tejwant S. Datta and Dr. Inderpreet K. Datta Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. DeCamps 1968 Mr. and Mrs. J. John DeGuenther Mr. and Mrs. John T. Desch 2006 Mr. and Mrs. Ernest A. Dettbarn III 1994 Mrs. Mary Bruce Featherston DeVoe 1956 Mrs. Courtney Carrell Diamond 2001 Dick’s Sporting Goods, Inc Mr. and Mrs. Bharat Doddala Mr. and Mrs. Stephen W. Douglas 2001 Ms. Anne Downing Dr. Gansevoort H. Dunnington Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey G. Dunnington 2001 Mrs. Nancy Page Hall Edmunds 1952 Mr. and Mrs. Paul C. Edmunds II The Edmunds Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Keith A. Evans Mr. and Mrs. Brian K. Failon Mr. and Mrs. Grabille S. Fain 2007 Mrs. Joseph C. Farrell Ms. Susan Farley Ferrell 1964 Mr. and Mrs. Louis Fierro II Mrs. Frances Craigie Fitzgerald 1981 Mr. and Mrs. G. Slaughter Fitz-Hugh III 1982, 1984 Mr. and Mrs. Zachery R. Frederick Mrs. Elizabeth Levey Freeman 1975 Ms. Catherine E. Frei Mrs. Anne Day Friddell 1971 Karen B. Frye Mr. and Mrs. Michael Gaffney Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Galanti 1997 Mr. and Mrs. William F. Drewry Gallalee 1973 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F. Garner, Jr. 1965

COLLEGIATE FUND BY THE NUMBERS

4,502

Over $2.6 Million Raised to the Collegiate Fund

Collegiate Fund Gifts received

by generous supporters like you

from members of our community

6

Areas of Impact

supported by the Collegiate Fund:

91 244 wonderful Collegiate fund volunteers who serve as parent and alumni Cougar Class Connectors

Leadership Level Donors

1

Student Experience

2

The Arts

3

Financial Assistance

4

Athletics

5

Faculty Support

6

Technology & Innovation

100

%

Giving participation from the Board of Trustees and the Alumni Board

Class

of Class

2024of

1948

Spanning 76 years of Collegiate Classes who give back to the school they love

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Mr. and Mrs. William V. Garner 1967 Mrs. Cornelia Whittet Garrett 1961 Garrett Foundation Mr. and Mrs. John F. Gayle, Jr. 1967 Ms. Sally A. Gemmill Mr. and Mrs. Christopher M. Gill Mr. and Mrs. Guy D. Gill Mr. and Mrs. Greg Glatt Dr. and Mrs. Daran G. Glenn Mrs. Ann Winfree Gooch 1962 Mr. and Mrs. David K. Gregory II Brian and Sara Griebel 2004 Mrs. Robert H. Hackler III Mr. and Mrs. Marc D. Hallberg 1973 Mr. and Mrs. Elliott M. Harrigan 1977 Mr. and Mrs. W. Randolph Harrison 1978, 1978 Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Haug Mr. and Mrs. Christian A. Haug Ms. Joan Hedgecock 1967 Mr. and Mrs. Franklin B. Heiner 1966 Mr. and Mrs. F. Robertson Hershey 1966 Mr. and Mrs. Corey W. Hill 1985 Mr. and Mrs. James M. Hoak Mr. and Mrs. Adam R. Hofheimer 1995, 1996 Mr. and Mrs. W. Barry Hofheimer Mr. Mitchell Young Huang 1997 Dr. Jill S. Hunter

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The Huntly Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Peyton Jenkins 2000 Dr. Arun Benjamin Jesudian 1997 Mrs. Gabrielle Chasen Johnson 2007 Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie W. Johnson, Jr. 1972 Mrs. Anne McCormack Jones 1979 Mr. Edward Lee Jones III 1973 Mrs. Misty D. Jones Mr. Jonathan M. Joseph Mrs. Katharine Denny Joyce 1985 Mr. and Ms. Nicholas J. Kaplan Mrs. Jodi Jett Karr 1967 Dr. Claire C. Kaugars Mr. and Mrs. Matt Kave Mr. and Mrs. Carter T. Keeney 2004 Mr. Randal B. Kell and Mrs. Jan A. Churchill Donald P. & Audrey C. King Fund Mr. and Mrs. Ralston C. King 2007 Dr. Lisa L. Kirkland 1976 Mr. James Whitlock Klaus 1982 Mr. and Mrs. Eric C. Krutz Mr. and Mrs. Christopher G. Kulp 1984 Mr. and Mrs. Joseph F. B. Lawson 2004 Mr. and Mrs. Lewis P. Lawson Mr. and Mrs. James E. C. Leavitt III Ms. Kathleen Tyler Leavitt 2014 Mr. Patrick Michael Leavitt 2009

Mr. and Mrs. H. Pettus LeCompte 1971 Mrs. Mary Lou Leipheimer Mr. and Mrs. Shepherd F. Lewis, Jr. 1996 Wen and Yaling Lin Madmone, Inc. Marks-Hofheimer Foundation Massie Scott Fund Mr. and Mrs. John R. Mathews Mr. and Mrs. Kevin R. McDonough Mr. & Mrs. David M. McFarland Dr. and Mrs. J. Eric Meyers 1991 Josh and Brooke Milby Mr. and Mrs. Douglas D. Monroe III 1977 Mr. and Mrs. Joel W. Morgan Dr. and Mrs. W. Philip Morrissette III 1968 Mr. and Mrs. J. Ryan Mostrom 2005, 2005 Mr. and Mrs. Frank F. Mountcastle, Jr. 1959 Mr. and Mrs. John B. Munson 1988 Mrs. Elizabeth Brinkley Munz 1974 Mrs. Alexandra Povlishock Newell 2003 Mr. and Mrs. John F. Newsom III Ms. Mary Catherine Nimaga 1985 Mr. and Mrs. R. Timothy O’Donnell Mr. and Mrs. Julian T. Ottley 1987 Mr. and Mrs. David B. Pahren Parker Carson Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Raymond N. Parrish, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Vimal Patel Mrs. Caroline Garrett Patrick 1996 Mr. Russel Grant Perkins 1993 Mrs. Rhonda King Perraudin 1975 Mr. Ronald Oswin Pessner, Jr. 1988 Piedmont Charitable Foundation, Inc Mr. William S. Portlock and Ms. Nancy L. Raybin Mr. and Mrs. William R. Preston, Jr. 1966, 1969 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B. Price II 2006 T. Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Mr. Samuel Cowan Ramage 1998 Raybin-Portlock Family Fund The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation Mr. and Mrs. W. Brian Reames 1983 Mr. and Mrs. Charles Reece Renaissance Charitable Foundation Richardson Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Graham Rives Mr. and Mrs. Gregory B. Robertson Greg and Libby Robertson Family Charitable Fund Dr. Thomas C. Robertson and Dr. Cynthia S. Ryan Mrs. Valentina Robila and Mr. Radu I. Siminiceanu Mr. and Mrs. Hubel Robins III 1977 Rochester Area Foundation Ms. Catherine S. Rolfe Mr. and Mrs. Christopher W. Rusbuldt 1985 Mr. and Mrs. W. Jerrold Samford 1972 Mr. and Mrs. Gurpreet S. Sandhu Mr. and Mrs. F. Behle Schaaf 1972 Ms. Catherine Janvier Woodward Schwarzschild 2020 Mr. Harrison Tate Schwarzschild 2016 Mr. William H. Schwarzschild III 1966 Kathryn and W. Harry Schwarzschild Fund Mrs. Marian M. Scott Mr. and Mrs. R. Strother Scott Mr. and Mrs. Kevin S. Seay Dr. and Mrs. Christian E. Shield Mr. and Mrs. Gaurav Shrestha Mr. and Mrs. David G. Shuford 1971 Mr. Ravinder Harkirat Singh 2005 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas G. Slater, Jr. 1969 Mr. David Smith and Mrs. Beth Vetrovec Smith 1990 Mr. and Mrs. Alexander H. Sooy 2003 Ms. Elizabeth Lowrance Stagg 1988 Mr. and Mrs. William L. Stinson, Jr. 2006 Mr. and Mrs. Alfred L. Stratford III 1985 Mr. and Mrs. Christopher R. Stringer Mr. and Mrs. Philip Strunk Mrs. Barrie Miller Sutton 1970 Mr. and Mrs. Kyle J. Swenson Mr. Andrew Meyer Thalhimer 2005 Mr. Morton G. Thalhimer III 1973 Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Thalhimer 1979 Mr. and Mrs. William B. Thalhimer III 1964 Mrs. J. Clifford Tharp, Jr. Mr. David E. Thomas and Mrs. Teresa M. Chiocca Mr. and Mrs. Derek A. Thomas 1996 Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Thompson III Mr. and Mrs. Charles Trible Mrs. Ashley Klaus Turner 1985 Mr. and Mrs. C. Porter Vaughan III 1963, 1965 Mr. and Ms. Alex W. Waddell Mrs. Jessica Chasen Walker 2003

Mr. and Mrs. Gary G. Wallace Mr. and Mrs. R. Taylor Waller, Jr. 1971, 1972 Mrs. Christin Lipscomb Walsh 2004 Mrs. Anne Whittemore Mr. and Mrs. Thomas I. Willingham III Mr. and Mrs. J. Christopher Wiltshire 1972 Mr. and Mrs. William B. Wiltshire, Jr. 1992 Dr. John Charles Wood 1970 Mr. Kenneth H. Young 1982 Mr. John Yue Zhuo 2003

COUGAR SOCIETY $500 - $999

The #6 Fund Mr. and Mrs. James Edward Abbe IV 1980, 1984 Mr. and Mrs. Tyler J. Agee 2009 Mr. and Mrs. Darrell S. Alexander 1985 Mrs. Jennifer Shalley Allen 1998 Mr. and Mrs. Matthew G. Anderson III 2000, 1995 Mr. and Mrs. Tiffany Bohm Armstrong 1986 Mrs. Nancy Archbell Bain Dr. Juan Diego D. Baltodano and Mrs. Raquel Montoya-Baltodano Mr. and Mrs. Jay H. Beckstoffer Mr. and Mrs. Joe N. Benevento Mr. and Mrs. Jory A. Berson Mr. and Ms. Wade K. Blackwood Mr. William Temple Blackwood 1982 Mr. and Mrs. Michael W. Bor Mr. T. Andrew Boswell 1994 Mrs. Ann Brady Ms. Elizabeth A. Breen 1993 and Mr. Grant S. Elliott Mr. and Mrs. Arthur S. Brinkley III 1976 Mr. and Mrs. Scott Broaddus Mr. and Mrs. Gray B. Broughton 1994 Mrs. Lloyd Hall Brown 1964 Mr. and Mrs. Matthew C. Brown Mr. Lee Brunjes and Dr. Danielle Gong Mr. and Mrs. T.W. Bruno Mr. and Mrs. Brian J. Callaghan Mr. and Mrs. Louis S. Campbell 2000 Jill Thalhimer Campbell and Louis S. Campbell Charitable Fund Mrs. Christina Merchant Carpenter 2005 Mr. William Bates Chappell, Jr. 1990 Mr. and Mrs. J. Clarke Chase Cherry Grove Foundation Mr. David T. Clary 1984 and Mrs. Michaela J. Clary Mr. and Mrs. Tommy Clements Ms. Katherine Meyers Cohen 1969 Mr. and Mrs. Edward F. Cole III Mrs. Patricia S. Comess Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Covington 1998 Mr. Thomas T. Cullen 1996 Dr. and Mrs. T. Todd Dabney, Jr. 1979 Mr. Enguang Dai and Mrs. Zanyang Yu Dr. Akshay Dave’ and Ms. Norma Radvany Mr. and Mrs. William T. Derry 2003 Mr. and Ms. Edward Lee Dickinson 2000 Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Donoghue 1996 Mr. and Mrs. Ryan P. Drake Mr. Jay C. Evans and Dr. Wendy C. Evans

ExxonMobil Corporation Mr. and Mrs. J. William Ferrell IV 1987 Mr. and Mrs. James I. Finney III 1978 Dr. and Mrs. William C. Gallahan Mr. Harrison Moncure Geho, Jr. 2014 Mr. Thomas A. Gelozin and Ms. Phyllis Palmiero Mr. and Mrs. T. Randolph Gibbs Mr. and Mrs. Matthew T. Goodwin 1990 Mrs. Meghan Rayner Gottwald 2015 Mrs. Jane Johann Gresham 1975 Mr.* and Mrs. William F. Griffin Mr. and Mrs. Steven M. Haas Mr. and Mrs. Brian L. Hager Mr. and Mrs. Craig R. Hairfield 1999 Mr. and Mrs. Andrew C. Harris 1997 The Hon. and Mrs. L. A. Harris, Jr. Mr. Arthur W. Harrison III 1986 Mrs. Constance Kennon Harriss 1959 Mr. and Mrs. Stephen A. Hart 1978 Mr. and Mrs. Armin R. Hartmann 1988 Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Vernon Hawthorne 1978 Mrs. Alexis Beck Henry 2003 Dr. Donna M. Hepper and Dr. Clifford T. Hepper Mr. and Mrs. William R. B. Hershey 1994 Mr. and Mrs.* Stephen D. Hickman Mr. Christopher B. Hogan and Mrs. Laurie Barnes-Hogan 2001 Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Bryan Horner IV 1998 Mr. and Mrs. Gregory R. Hough Mr. Hunter F. Huber 2002 Dr. James Warren Hunter 2001 Mr. Basil L. Hurst III Dr. Jason Hurst and Dr. Jackye Kim Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth G. Hutcheson Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. A. Innes 2005 Mr. and Mrs. Brian Iwashyna Mr. Zachary Milstein Jecklin 2014 Mr. and Mrs. D. Scott Jenkins 1994 Mr. Douglas S. Jones and Ms. Barbara Leary Jones Mr. and Mrs. James R. Jones Dr. Jay H. Joseph Mr. and Mrs. W. Todd Kell 1987 Mr. George Clifford Kirkmyer III 1969 Mrs. Elizabeth Garson Koteles 2005 Mr. and Mrs. William A. Krusen III Mr. and Mrs. J. Scott Kulp 1988 Mr. and Mrs. William A. Kurtz 2004 Mr. Derek Leathers Mr. and Mrs. John A. Leeth Ms. Catherine Clarke Leisy 2005 Ms. Nicolette C. Lerch 2011 Dr. Leigh Lewis and Mr. Burke Lewis Dr. and Mrs. Nathan J. Lewis Dr. Yuan Li and Dr. Jie Gao Mr. Charles A. Liebert 1983 Mrs. Roberta G. Lublin Lublin-Hurowitz Charitable Trust Mr. Graham Keane Mandl 2008 Mr. and Mrs. Michael E. Manson 2005, 2005 Marathon Development Group Mrs. Victoria Christmas Marks 2005 Mr. and Mrs. Lee P. Martin, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Nick Mazzenga 2005

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Mrs. Virginia Layfield McAndrew 2007 Mr. James Moore McMahon 1974 Dr. John W. Melson 2008 and Dr. Gabriella Melson Mr. and Mrs. Daniel R. Merchant The Micawber Foundation Middle & Upper School Parents Night Fall Library Book Fund Ms. Lindsay M. Miller 1965 Mr. and Mrs.* William L. Miller, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. William Monacell Mr. and Mrs. Laurence M. Moncol Mr. and Mrs. Frederic P. Moore IV 1998 Mrs. Joyce Flippen Nash 1960 Mr. and Mrs. Shane M. Nelson 2009 Mr. Stephen S. Newsome and Dr. Bobbette L. Newsome Mr. and Mrs. Edward K. Nickel Mr. and Mrs. Greg B. O’Brien Mr. Justin Oliver Mr. and Mrs. W. Benjamin Pace 1990 Dr. Paras Pandya and Dr. Sonia Shah-Pandya Mr. and Mrs. Michael Park Ms. Sarah T. Paxton 1984 and Mr. A. Andrew Thornton Mrs. Kathleen Pender Mr. and Mrs. Russell W. Perkins, Sr. 1975, 1976 Mrs. Anne Newsom Pinion 1988 Mrs. Catherine R. Plageman 1982 Ann and Richard Posey Mr. Jonathan Roy Price, Jr. 2006 Mr. and Mrs. Christopher S. Price 2001 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Pruitt 2002 Mr. W. Keith Prusek Dr. Allison Purcell and Mr. John Barry Purcell 1992 Mr. and Mrs. Jean-Philippe A. Raffenot 1990 Dr. John F. Reavey-Cantwell and Dr. Jordana Kron Mr. and Mrs. John M. R. Reed 1985 Ms. Katherine Carter Reid 2016 Mr. and Mrs. Matthew W. Richardson 2007 Mr. and Mrs. Robert T. Richardson 2010 Ms. Christiane Rimbault Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm E. Ritsch, Jr. 1964 Mrs. Stuart Chapman Roberts 1977 Mr. William L. Roberts 1965 Mr. W. Randolph Robins 1964 Robins Family Charitable Gift Fund Mr. and Mrs. Stewart M. Roddey 1982 Ms. Jan D. Rodgers Mr. David Andrew Romer 2014 Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Ruehling Mr. Christopher Wayne Rusbuldt, Jr. 2012 Ms. Elizabeth Clay Russell 2010 Dr. and Mrs. Javarro Russell Mr. and Mrs. Will F. Saunders Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. Scher 1983 Mr. and Mrs. Raymond A. Schmalz Mr. and Mrs. Marshall P. Schutt 1998 Schwab Charitable Fund Mr. and Mrs. Hunter C. Scott 1999 Scott & Stringfellow Educational Foundation Mr. and Mrs. James S. Seevers, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Shields Dr. and Mrs. Evan Silverstein 2002 Mr. and Mrs. George A. Smigelski III Mr. and Mrs. Julious P. Smith, Jr.

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Mrs. Martha Noel Smith 1970 Mrs. Maxine Matthews Smith 1970 Dr. Kulbir Sandhu and Mr. Parmeet Soin Mr. Griffin Timmerman Speight 2015 Mr. Peter Weaver Squire III 2006 Meaghan and Andrew Stanley Ms. Tyler Garland Starr 2012 Dr. and Mrs. Robert B. Steadman 1971 Mrs. Lucy Fitzgerald Steele 1962 Mr. and Mrs. George E. Stephenson II 2005 Mr. Gordon T. Stettinius 1984 and Dr. Carrie Stettinius Mr. Larry B. Stevens and Mrs. Xuan Zhang Stevens Dr. Crystal Polatty and Mr. Michael J. Stott Ms. Liza B. Stutts 1999 Mr. and Mrs. Aaron P. Sullivan Ms. Eleanor Marie Sullivan 2013 Mr. David Taibl Dr. and Mrs. Jayant P. Talreja Mr. and Mrs. John G. Taylor Mr. and Mrs. C. Walker Terry 2005 Mr. and Mrs. Michael H. Thalhimer 2001 Mr. and Mrs. Matt Thompson Dr. and Mrs. A. Leigh Thornton, Jr. 1972 Mr. and Mrs. Christopher E. Trible 1991 Mr. and Mrs. Perry E. Turner III 2000 Mr. and Mrs. Selwyn H. Turner IV 2007 Rob 1988 and Shannon Ukrop George and Mary E. Vetrovec Mr. and Mrs. John W. Vetrovec 1994 Mr. and Mrs. Fernando B. Viego 1991 Dr. and Mrs. Steven von Elten Mr. John Luther Walker IV 2012 Mr. and Mrs. Timothy S. Webb Dr. Paul B. Wehman and Dr. Rebecca Turner-Wehman Mrs. Heather Garson Welch 2007 Mr. and Mrs. Charles C. Wentworth III Mr. and Mrs. George R. White Mr. Alexander Amr Whitfield 2009 Mr. and Mrs. Robert P. Whittemore 1996 Mr. and Mrs. C. Preston Williams 1988 Mr. Preston A. Williams 2011 Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Terrell Williams 1970 Mr. and Mrs. Andrew B. Wiltshire 1999 Mrs. Suzanne P. Wiltshire Mrs. Leigh Enoch Wit 2002 Mrs. Beth Witt Dr. Barbara Wood and Dr. James Wood Woodfin Heating, Inc. Mr. William W. Woolford IV 1971 Mrs. Marietta Edmunds Zakas 1977 Mr. and Mrs. Ruiyi Zhang

GREEN AND GOLD SOCIETY $1 - $499

Mr. Frankie Abralind 1996 Ms. Sarah Abubaker Mr. and Mrs. Michael Adamik Mr. and Mrs.* Keith D. Adams 1966 Mr. Keith D. Adams, Jr. 1994 Dr. Scott McDowell Adams 1997 Ms. Sarah Shepard Adamson 2025 Mr. and Mrs. V. Cassel Adamson, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. David D. Addison Mr. Stephen F. Adelaar 1994 Mr. and Mrs. Eric Afre Dr. Raj Agarwal and Dr. Indrani Agarwal Dr. Rakesh Agarwal and Dr. Gauri Gulati Mr. Shaan Agarwal 2025 Mr. Shiv Agarwal 2028 Dr. Neil Agnihotri and Dr. Rupal Shah Mr. Brahma Alaparthi and Mrs. Swapna Alaparthi Mr. and Mrs. Farhad R. Alavi 1996 Mr. and Mrs. Christopher P. Albrecht Ms. Allison J. Albright 2009 and Ms. Tabitha D. Jett Ms. Karen Albright Mr. Timothy A. Albright 2011 Ms. Catherine Vaden Alexander 2018 Mrs. Anne Harrison Rose Alferink 1972 Bennie Clark Allen Mr. and Mrs. Edward L. Allen 1980 Mrs. Gloria S. Allen Ms. Lori D. Allen Taylor Allen 1979 Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey A. Allende 1986 Mrs. Mary Altizer and Mr. Jim Tyler Mrs. Elizabeth Edmunds Altman 2001 Dr. Vishnu V. Ambur and Dr. Amrita Lalvani Dr. Mitesh Amin and Dr. Neema Amin Mr. and Mrs. Neil Amin Mr. Nicholas Bradley Anders 2015 Ms. Lisa Anderson Mr. and Mrs. Todd D. Anderson Mr. and Mrs. William D. Andrews Dr. Wilson P. Andrews, Jr. 1975 Dr. Leah E. Angell and Mr. Mark J. Palyo Anonymous Mr. Jonathan M. Ansell and Mrs. Pamela Farnham Mr. Richard Henrik Antell 1966 Dr. and Mrs. Michael Armstrong, Jr. 1981 Mr. and Mrs. Randy Arnesen Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Arnett Mary Arzt Mr. and Mrs. Anthony J. Asch, Jr. 1972, 1973 Mr. and Mrs. Steven E. Ash 1976 Ms. Suzanne C. Ash 1976 Mr. and Mrs. Henry O. Atkins IV Mr. and Mrs. Harry Atwood 1983 Mr. and Mrs. Michael Augone Mr. and Mrs. James A. Baber IV Mrs. Elly Bacigalupo Mr. and Mrs. Bradley T. Backus 2001 Mrs. Sally Ann Twedell Bagley Mr. Alfred L. Bailey and Ms. Tivona D. Whiting Ms. Kimberly Sarah Bailey 2003 Dr. and Mrs. Bikram Bal Ms. Hallie Balcomb Mrs. Dianne Carter Ballard 2004 Mr. and Mrs. Edgar J. D. Bance 1972 Mrs. Lisa Herron Bankoff 1969 Mrs. Walker Surgner Banning 2011 Mrs. Susan G. Barco Ms. Rachael H. Barker Mr. and Mrs. John F. Bartholomew Mr. and Mrs. George T. Baskerville III Mr. and Mrs. Timothy F. Baskind

Leading by Giving Amber and Ryan Leggett P ’34 ’36 ’38 model the joy of service and the value of community at Collegiate.

By Christine Winder

L

IBRARY SHIFTS,

Cougar Bingo nights, FUNDay volunteering, and classroom socials — these are just a few of the ways you’ll see Amber and Ryan Leggett P ’34 ’36 ’38 giving back to Collegiate. With three daughters in the Lower School, the couple has embraced these opportunities and more to give their time, energy, and enthusiasm back to the School and the community they love.

Over time, the Leggetts’ involvement has expanded beyond classroom activities. Their desire to stay engaged and help strengthen the community led them to take on the role of Parent Cougar Class Connectors. As

Connectors, they serve as liaisons between the Development Office and other parents, sharing updates, and encouraging participation during key giving weeks. The goal, Amber explains, isn’t about dollar amounts but participation and pride. “It’s such a great way to keep families involved,” she says.

“Every little bit adds up when everyone takes part.”

This was a natural extension of what Amber and Ryan already love doing: connecting with others and giving back to a place that means so much to their children. “We’re very focused on philanthropy — not just money, but time,” Ryan says. “I think it’s important for the kids to see that

we’re not just saying [Collegiate is] a good school, but that we’re leading by being present.”

The Leggetts’ journey to Collegiate began several years ago, when they relocated from Charlottesville to Richmond. As they settled into a new city and considered where they’d send their oldest daughter to school, one piece of advice kept surfacing: if you want the best educational experience in the area, Collegiate is the place to be. “We weren’t really familiar with Richmond or the School, but we kept hearing over and over again that you want your kid to go to Collegiate. It’s an incredible experience,” Amber recalls. Ryan echoes this sentiment with equal enthusiasm. “One of the best things I did from an investment standpoint was send my kids to Collegiate. It’s not just education.” he says.

The couple quickly realized what so many others had told them: Collegiate isn’t just a school, it’s a community. “I hear a lot of [people] say, ‘You guys have so many amazing events. We

Whether it’s your time, your ideas, or just showing up for people, it all counts. That’s what makes a community work.”

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Amber and Ryan see generosity as a responsibility that they hope to instill in their children.

don’t have anything like that,’” Amber says. “I think that’s something huge that sets Collegiate apart from other schools. It’s great to create relationships and have that sense of community.”

That sense of belonging has only deepened as their daughters have flourished at the School.

Each of their child’s journeys looks different, but all are anchored in a supportive environment. “You can feel how much the teachers care about the kids,” Amber says.

“They know their personalities, what motivates them, what might make their day better. It makes you want to be part of that, to do something that helps in return.”

For Amber, those kinds of experiences are exactly why she feels compelled to give back. Every library shift, every teacher treat, every evening spent planning a social is a way of saying thank you for what her children are receiving every day. “For me, personally, it fills me up to help organizations that I care about,” Amber explains. “It kind of feels like a circle to me. I’m giving back and putting that out there in our

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little community, and I would like to think that my girls are going to somehow feel the effect of that, either by watching me do it or seeing me at school helping out.”

Ryan shares that same motivation. A finance entrepreneur, he sees giving back not just as generosity but as a responsibility. “I’m a big fan of philanthropy. I can build momentum, energy, and revenue structures,” he explains of the ways he volunteers his time at the School. “I give back by raising awareness for their funds and teacher projects. I do a lot around the Collegiate Fund. I find ways to do matches to make the same dollar stretch twice or three times.”

Beyond the creative thinking and promotional ideas Ryan lends to the School, he also sees his involvement as a way to model servant leadership. “Servant leadership is important — giving your kids perspective that we’re all the same people. Some of us have had opportunities to have certain privileges, but that doesn’t make us better than other people,” he says.

Ryan hopes that through their family’s example, their daughters

will understand that generosity isn’t confined to financial giving; it’s a way of living. “Whether it’s your time, your ideas, or just showing up for people, it all counts,” Ryan says. “That’s what makes a community work.”

Together, Amber and Ryan embody two sides of the same coin: Amber’s daily presence and handson community building paired with Ryan’s outreach and strategy, both underscored by philanthropy. Both approaches send a clear message to their daughters that giving back is a privilege, a joy, and a duty.

For Amber, it’s about showing up to create community in ways both big and small. For Ryan, it’s about teaching their girls that service and leadership go hand in hand.

And in giving their time, energy, and resources, the Leggetts are ensuring that the circle of care, community, and opportunity at Collegiate continues to grow — not only for their daughters, but for every student who will walk through its doors.

Mrs. Lisa Pennington Bass Mr. Hobart P. Bauhan 1984 Mr. Jared Cole Baum 2010 Mr. Dayal C. Baxani and Ms. Thao T. Tran Mr. and Mrs. William H. Baxter II 1988 Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bayler Mrs. Elizabeth Campbell Bayston 1987 Mr. and Mrs. Andrew R. Beach Mr. Andrew Thomas Bean 2006 Mr. and Mrs. Albert T. Beane, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Wyatt S. Beazley III 1958 Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Beck 1966 Ms. Mary Jo Beck Mr. and Mrs. Steven T. Beck Mr. and Mrs. Frank J. Becker Mr. and Mrs. Paul Becker 1994 Mr. and Mrs. Brian J. Beckstoffer 1999 Mr. and Mrs. Todd A. Bedell, Sr. 2007 Mr. and Mrs. Adam M. Beeh 1998 Mrs. Sarah Pease Beeman Mr. Lucas Edward Beirne 1999 Mr. Jonathan Daniel Showers Belkowitz 2001 Mr. and Mrs. Anthony J. Bell III Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Bell Mr. Dustin Bennett Mr. Robert M. Bennett, Jr. 1988 Mr. and Mrs. Edmund L. Benson III Ms. Heidi Benson Mr. and Mrs. W. Taylor Benson 1962 Ms. Lynne M. Berkness 1978 and Mr. Peter Tlusty Ms. Margaret Karen Berkness 1976 Mrs. Mary Ottley Berndt 2017 Mr. and Mrs. Jason E. Bernstein Dr. Kathryn W. Best and Ms. Amy L. Henderson Mr. W. E. Betts III Mr. and Mrs. Christopher S. Bier 2003 Mrs. Grace Mountcastle Bilger 2014 Mr. John S. 1976 and Dr. Cheryl B. Billingsley Mrs. Leslye Marshall Black 1990 Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E. Blackburn III 1999 Dr. and Mrs. Dana R. Blackmer Mr. and Mrs. Stuart W. Blain Mr. Thomas Wilson Blain 2007 Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Blair, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. John Kemper Blair 2001 Mr. and Mrs. Michael H. Blair 2010, 2011 Mr. Samuel R. Blair 2004 and Ms. Anna M. Starnes Ms. Mary Blissert Mr. and Mrs. David Bloor Mr. Thomas W. Blue Mr. and Mrs. Jerald E. Boak 1989 Ms. Taylor Randolph Bode 1998 Mr. and Mrs. Andrew E. Boehm Mrs. Regina E. Boehm Mrs. Shirley F. Bogaev Mr. and Mrs. Bryan R. Bogese Mr. James Eugene Bokinsky 2005 Mr. and Mrs. Will S. Boland Mr. Luis F. Bolorino and Ms. Aislan G. Bolorino Ms. Kimberly Boos Mrs. Evelyn M. Booth Mr. Jerry C. Booth, Jr. 1984 Mrs. Kimberley N. Booth

Ms. Janis Bordewyk Mr. James Alexander Boschen 1998 Mr. and Mrs. John W. Bottger 1963 Ms. Katherine L. Boutry 2028 Mr. and Mrs. E. Marshall Bowden 1982 Mr. and Mrs. John R. Bowers Mr. Adam Clinton Bowes 2017 Mrs. Cynthia I. Bowles Mr. and Mrs. Eric N. Bowling 1989 Dr. and Mrs. David M. Bowman Mr. John A. Bowman 1974 Mr. and Mrs. Michael W. Bowman Rhiannon and Michael Boyd Mr. and Mrs. Tyler J. Boyd Mr. and Mrs. W. Winborne Boyles Mr. and Mrs. E. Scott Boze III Mrs. Caroline O’Donnell Bracken 2010 Mr. and Mrs. Neill C. Bradley Mrs. Patricia B. Branch 1974 Mr. Tyrone Branch Mrs. Christine M. Branin Mr. and Mrs. Matthew H. Brantingham Ms. Erin M. Breese Dr. Kathryn A. Brennan 2003 and Mr. Samuel Brennan Mr. and Mrs. A. Mason Brent, Jr. 1997, 1999 Ms. Campbell Michele Brewer 2015 Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Brewer Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Bristow 1986 Mr. and Mrs. Peter E. Broadbent, Jr. 1966 Mrs. Peggy Talman Brockenbrough and Mr. Austin Brockenbrough III Mr. and Mrs. David Brooks Mr. and Mrs. Alexander L. Brown Mrs. Grace Wallace Brown 1948 Dr. and Mrs. Jeffrey A. Brown Dr. and Mrs. Michael H. Brown Mr. and Mrs. Orran L. Brown, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Phillip U. Brown Dr. Shantelle L. Brown and Mr. Robert W. Brown Mrs. Anita C. Bruch Mrs. Amis Bruch 2003 Mr. William Mark Bruch III 2005 Ms. Heather Bruneau Ms. Blanche Bruns Mrs. Elizabeth Morrissette Bryant 2000 Mr. and Mrs. Gray F. Bryant Mrs. Jean W. Brydon Ms. Margaret S. Bryson 1962 Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. Buckingham IV 1970 Dr. An Bui and Dr. Melissa Bui Ms. Katherine M. Bulifant Ms. Elizabeth Katharine Bullock 2002 Mr. and Mrs. I. Gerald Bullock 1988 Mr. and Mrs. J. Boyd Bullock, Jr. 1985 Ms. Marcella H. Bullock Mrs. Tauchanna Bullock Mrs. Judith J. Bumgardner Mr. and Mrs. Alfonso Buonomo Ms. Alexandra Clark Burfeind 2009 Ms. Madison Leigh Burfeind 2013 Ms. Sara Anne Burford 1972 Ms. Tara R. Burgess Mr. and Mrs. Laurance G. Burke 1968

Mrs. Emily Bland Burkitt 2015 Mr. Trip Burnett and Mrs. Erin Burnett Ms. Catherine Scott Burns 2013 Mr. and Mrs. Gerald W. Burr, Jr. Mrs. Patricia Margraf Bussard 1963 Mrs. Elsie Bustamante Mr. and Ms. Timothy Butcher Mr. and Mrs. Donald K. Butler Mr. and Mrs. David A. Byford Mr. and Mrs. Charles William Byrd III 2002 Mr. James Alexander Byrd 2014 Dr. Rhiannon Kate Byron 2010 Ms. Stephanie Foard Caceres Dr. Robert S. Call 1976 Mrs. Susan Stokes Call 1956 Mr. and Mrs. Timothy C. Call Mr. and Mrs. Hadley Callaway Ms. Jane O’Connor Callaway 2010 Mr. Carroll Campbell Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan S. Campbell Ms. Margaret H. Campbell 1974 Charles M Caravati Foundation Mrs. Suzanne L. Carley Mr. John Selden Carmichael 2008 Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Carrington Dr. Nikki Carroll Mr. and Mrs. Kevin A. Carson Mr. Bryce Andrews Carter 2005 Ms. Dianne D. Carter Mr. James M. Carter and Mrs. Domica W. Winstead Carter Mrs. LucyGordon Smith Carter 2012 Dr. and Mrs. Robert B. Carter 1964 Mr. and Mrs. W. Hall Carter, Jr. 2001 Mr. and Mrs. Marcelo M. Carvalho Ms. Shannon Harris Castelo Dr. and Mrs. Michael Catoggio Mr. and Mrs. John D. Catterton 1976 Mr. Neil Dewey Causey 2001 Mr. and Mrs. Elliot Cave Mr. and Mrs. Alexander W. C. Cecil 1983, 1981 Mr. and Mrs. Michael C. Chambers Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Ross Chambers 1999 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Chambers Mrs. Anne Ratcliffe Chamblee 1980 Mrs. Sherry F. Chandler Mr. William Neil Chandler 1994 Mrs. Jill Harthun Chao 1985 Mr. Mason Travers Chapman, Jr. 2022 Mr. and Mrs. Page Chapman IV Mr. William H. Chapman, Jr. and Mrs. Mary Ann Rodriguez-Chapman Mrs. Sharon L. Charles Mr. and Mrs. Tyler L. Charles 1996 Mr. James C. Chase, Jr. 2003 Ms. Sarah Massie Chase 2006 Ms. Whitney Elizabeth Chase 2007 Mrs. Mary R. Chavent Ms. Mary B. Sprague and Mr. Nicholas A. Chavez Mr. Ian S. Chavis 2005 Mr. and Mrs. Paul E. Cheesman, Jr. Drs. Stephen and Victoria Davis Chen Mr. and Mrs. J. Cabell Chenault IV 1962

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Ms. Dana Chenevert Mr. Daniel M. Cherkis Mrs. Elizabeth Everett Cherkis 1986 Mrs. Blair H. Chewning Mrs. Kimberly F. Childs 2003 Ms. Kristine Chiodo Mrs. Elizabeth Rosebro Chriss 2009 Jamie and Jenny Christensen Ms. Deborah A. Clabo Mr. Quentin L. Clark Mr. and Mrs. Miles H. Clarkson Mrs. Lindsey Reames Claud 1987 Mr. and Mrs. David J. Clemans Mrs. Ann Schnell Cliquet 2000 Mr. and Mrs. David M. Clough 1973, 1972 Mr. George Saffer Cobb 2028 Mr. Henry Thornton Cobb 2031 Mr. and Mrs. Howard E. Cobb Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth H. Cobb Mr. William R. Cogar 1972 Mr. Christopher Lyons Colan 2008 Mrs. Katherine Tompkins Colavita 2003 Mr. and Ms. John B. Cole 2015, 2016 Mr. David W. Coleman 2005 Mr. and Mrs. Ron O. Coleman Mr. William Eugene Coleman III 1987 Mr. H. Guy Collier 1968 Mrs. Jean Nickel Collins 1964 Mr. Jeffery W. Comer 1976 Mr. and Mrs. David Comfort The Community Foundation of Harrisonburg-Rockingham County Mr. and Mrs. Ian R. Conner Ms. Mary Maxwell Conner 1972 Mr. and Mrs. Craig M. Connor Mr. John Anthony Conrad 1969 Ms. Jo Ellen Constine 1987 and Mr. Robert M. King Shayna and Brad Cooke Mr. Andrew Henry Cornell 2015 Mr. and Mrs. Todd C. Cornell Ms. Lucy R. Correll 1967 Mrs. Kathleen M. Corsello 2010 Mr. and Mrs. Gary S. Cosby 1976, 1977 Mr. and Mrs. Dana T. Costin Mrs. Anne Walker Cotton 1958 Mr. and Mrs. Wellington W. Cottrell IV 2003 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Coulbourn Ms. Christy Counts Mr. N. Kent Covington 1976 Mr. F. Neil Cowan, Jr. 1981 Mrs. Louise C. Cox Mrs. Kerry O’Hanlon Coyne 1993 Mr. and Mrs. Michael R. Crabill Ms. Keller Craig Mrs. Lisa Martin Craig Mrs. Sarah Lisk Craig 2007 Mrs. Teresa Yancey Crane 1975 Mrs. Gretchen Loree Crawford 1987 Mr. and Mrs. Richard Crawford Ms. Mary Crenshaw Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Cribbs Mr. William Coleman Cricchi 2014 Mrs. Hillary Robertson Crittendon 2002

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Mr. and Mrs. L. William Cropper III Mr. Bryan Page Crosby 2001 Mr. and Mrs. E. Bradley Crosby 1978, 1978 Dr. Adam C. Crowl and Dr. Aalya H. Crowl Mr. and Mrs. Beverly L. Crump Mr. Sangesh S. Cudhail and Ms. Angela K. Bilkhu Mrs. Annie F. Cullen Mr. and Mrs. Ashton Cullum Mrs. Julie Heiner Culp 2001 Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Cumbo 2004 Mrs. Elizabeth Turnbull Cummings 1985 Ms. Kathryn E. Cunningham and Mr. Stephen J. Billings Mr. William Rives Curdts 1966 Ms. Hannah M. Curley Mr. and Mrs. Anthony E. Curtis Mr. and Mrs. W. Ross Cushnie, Sr. 2002 Mr. and Mrs. Christopher H. Daly 1979 Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Dandridge, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. James R.V. Daniel Ms. Arlene Keeping Daniels Mr. Joshua Philip Daniels 2007 Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth B. Daub III Mr. and Mrs. William H. Daughtrey III 2000 Mrs. Anne Coleman Davidson 1962 Ms. Stacey L. Davis Mrs. Katherine Wiltshire Day 2010 Mr. and Mrs. Alexander S. De Witt 1991, 1993 Ms. Claire McKenzie Deal 2019 Mr. and Mrs. Jesse M. DeAlto Mr. and Mrs. W. H. deButts III 1976 Ms. Sarah Hopkins DeCamps 1998 Mr. William Michael DeCamps 2005 Margaret Anne Deck 1959 Mrs. Lauren Carter Demetrio 2003 Mrs. Amy W. DeVoe Mr. and Mrs. James M. Dickinson Dr. Meredith Leigh Diehl 1995 Dr. Denise Margaret Dietz Ms. Eleanor Catherine Dillon 2016 Mr. John Edward Dillon 2020 Mrs. Lyanna DiNardo Mrs. Esther M. Diskin Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Dobson Mr. Alexander Wilson Doherty 2010 Mr. Frank Heindl Doherty 1981 Dr. Emory D. Dolan and Dr. James K. Dolan 2004 Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Dolan Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Domalik Mr. and Mrs. Joseph W. Donze Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. Dooley Mrs. Laura Austin Dormuth 2001 Mr. and Mrs. Jeffress S. Dortch III 1964, 1963 Mr. and Mrs. Mike J. Dowd 2007 Mr. and Mrs. John R. Downey II 1973 Mrs. Ashley Massie Doyle 1988 Mr. Ian Charles Drennan 2014 Mrs. Lee Williams Drummond 1998 Mr. Kevin A. Duncan Mrs. Suzanne Jones Duncan 1965 Mr. and Mrs. Will N. Dunlap Mr. and Mrs. James G. Dunn 1979 Ms. Sarah A. Dunn 2009

Ms. Tammy L. Dunn Mr. and Mrs. Wes Dunn Ms. Susan W. Durham 1955 Mrs. Caroline Williams Dutcher 2000 Mr. and Mrs. Wilburn T. Duty, Jr. Dykers/Koenig Family Foundation Mr. Noah James Dziedzic 2014 Mrs. Jennifer G. Earle Mrs. Ashley Payne Eason 1983 Mr. and Mrs. Michael D. Eastep Rev. Gail Merrick Ebersole 1973 Mr. and Mrs. Edgar C. Eck III Mr. and Mrs. E. Cole Eck 2017, 2017 Mr. Hugh G. Edmunds III 1989 Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Edwards 2004 Ms. Spenser Anne Edwards 2009 Mr. Matthew S. Eisenman 2002 Mrs. Kristen Ekey 2001 Dr. Joseph H. Ellen and Dr. Meghana G. Ellen Mrs. Chiquita J. Elliott and Mr. Anthony J. Elliott Mr. Robert Gareth Ellis 1996 Dr. Mary Bennett Ellison 1972 and Mr. Russell P. Ellison Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin W. Emerson Mr. Brian Enroughty and Mrs. Michelle Williams Ms. Kat Epps Ms. Natalie Epps Ms. Piper Epps Mr. Tom Epps Mr. Tommy Epps Wina Epps Erda-Mahler Family Fund Mr. and Mrs. Walter C. Erwin III Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Escalante Mr. and Mrs. Neil D. Etheridge Mr. and Mrs. Sandford G. Etherington III Mr. Henry Allen Evans 2012 Mrs. Margaret Evans Ms. Mary Ann Evans Mr. and Mrs. Michael Everett Mr. and Mrs. Brendan T. Fagan Ms. Laura Courtney Fain 2001 Mr. and Mrs. Everett A. Fairlamb III 1973, 1982 Ms. Sarahbeth C. Farabee Ms. Ellen Faris Mr. and Mrs. Peter N. Farley Mr. and Mrs. Will P. Farmer 2005 Mr. and Mrs. Edwin F. Farren IV Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Featherston III 1987 Mrs. Amanda Lannon Featherstone 1996 Dr. Katelyn Bowman Feinberg 2005 Mr. and Mrs. Raleigh M. Felton IV Dr. and Mrs. Kevin W. Fergusson Ms. Alexandra Frances Ferrell 2016 Ms. Giles Winston Ferrell 2024 Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Ferry, Jr. 1996 Dr. Anthony Fierro Mrs. Marie Achtemeier Finch 1977 Mrs. Frances Mullen Fink 1970 Ms. Katherine Finn Ms. Kathy B. Finney Mrs. Carolyn Mitchell Fitzgerald 2012 Ms. Julie FitzGerald Ms. Anne Garland Fitz-Hugh 2010

Mr. and Mrs. Rives Fleming III 1983 Mrs. Sally Diggs Fletcher 1972 Mr. and Mrs. P. Mahood Fonville, Jr. 1988, 1988 Mr. and Mrs. Mark R. Fonville Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Forchione Mr. and Mrs. Richard P.C. Ford 1991, 1988 Mr. Stuart C. Ford 1972 Dr. Kerwin Crayton Foster and Mrs. Faithea Flowers Foster Ms. Pauline J. Foster Mr. and Mrs. Brian D. Fowler Mr. Edward Jordan Fox III 1980 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. P. Fox 1986, 1986 Mr. and Mrs. R. Leigh Frackelton, Jr. 1973 Ms. Harriet A. Franklin 1961 Mrs. Winifred Fratkin Mr. and Mrs. John William Frazier Mrs. Jean H. Frederick Mrs. Courtney Tysinger Freet 2000 Mr. and Mrs. Ryan D. Frei Mrs. Pearson Moore French 2005 Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm P. Friddell, Jr. 2002 Ms. Ling A. Fung-Wu Ms. Samantha Budd Funkhouser 2021 Mr. Sawyer Cavan Gaffney 2016 Mrs. Cheryl H. Gahagan Ms. Carrie Galeski Ms. Caroline D. Gallalee 2011 Mr. Hunter Drewry Gallalee 2008 Mr. and Mrs. E. Grice Galleher Dr. and Mrs. Lee G. Gammon Dr. and Mrs. Daniel J. Gardiner 2005 Mr. and Mrs. James D. Garland, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Christopher M. Garnett Mr. W. Clay Garrett and Ms. Charlotte P. McAfee Mr. Peyton Howell Garst 2020 Ms. Presley Roberts Garst 2024 Ms. Clara Gaul Mr. and Mrs. Paul J. Geiger 2004, 2004 Ms. Dorothy W. Gentil 1972* Ms. Kimberly Gentil 1972 Mr. and Mrs. Stevens N. Gentil 1970, 1970 Mr. Robert S. N. Gentil 2001 Ms. Sarah Pilcher Gentry 1989 Mr. and Mrs. Gregory D. Gerczak 1996 Mr. Bob Gerczak Mr. and Mrs. Rory Geyer Mr. Constantine J. Giavos and Mrs. Rachel H. Lamel Mr. John L. Gibson IV Mr. and Mrs. Stuart G. Gilchrist Mr. and Mrs. Vic Gilchrist Mrs. Catherine Briggs Gillis 2004 Mrs. Teresa Alvis Given 1982 Mrs. Ashley Jane Glasser-Konecky 1998 Mr. Cannon Hobson Goddin, Jr. 1971 Ms. Johanna Carey Godwin Ms. Blake Goldsmith Dr. and Mrs. Alvin I. Goldstone 1964 Mr. and Mrs. Miller W. Golliday 2012, 2011 Ms. Dominique Meeks Gombe 2009 Ms. Caroline Olivia Goode 2014 Mr. and Mrs. Philip H. Goodpasture 1978 Paige and Philip Goodpasture Family Fund

Mr. and Mrs. Nathaniel J. Goodwyn Ms. Holly Gooss Mr. Chris Gordon Mrs. Bridgette Williams Gottwald 2010 Mr. and Mrs. J. Matthew Gottwald 1999 Mr. and Mrs. James C. Gottwald 2005, 2008 Ms. Margaret Addison Gottwald 2010 Mrs. Mary Darden Gottwald 2010 Dr. Rachel W. Gow and Mr. Stephen D. Gow Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey M. Graeber 1979 Mr. Thomas Clifton Graeber 2018 Mr. and Mrs. Ryan Grammer Ms. Susan Grammer Mr. and Mrs. Gurney W. Grant III Mr. and Mrs. G. Stuart Grattan 1983 Grattan Family Fund Mr. and Mrs. Gregory Gravlin Mr. and Mrs. John W. Gray III 1997 Mr. and Mrs. Donald B. Green 1989 Ms. Elizabeth H. Green 1977 Ms. Zoe Anne Green 1971 Mr. Benjamin L. Greenbaum 1965 Mr. Erik S. Greenbaum 1974 Mrs. Carter Judkins Greendyke 2001 Mrs. Melissa Harris Greenfield 2000 Ms. Kathy Gregg Mr. and Mrs. John P. Gregory Ms. Jane Carlton Gremer 2018 Mr. John Estes Grover 2015 Dr. Atul Gupta and Dr. Reena Gupta Dr. Gaurav Gupta and Dr. Shilpi Gupta Mr. and Mrs. Mark D. Hagan 1984 Dr. Morgan Swanstrom Hagen and Mr. Benjamin Hagen Dr. and Mrs. Chiwon Hahn Mr. and Mrs. Joel Hahn Mr. Roger P. Hailes 1994 and Ms. Natalia Hailes Mr. and Mrs. Andrew E. Hale 1998 Ms. Caroline Addison Hall 2018 Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Hall III Dr. Mark Andrew Hall and Dr. Elizabeth Berglund Hall 1991 Mr. and Mrs. Samuel A. Hall IV Ms. Laura Moore Hall 1968 Ms. Lilly McKann Hall 2020 Mr. and Mrs. A. Coke Hall 1975 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B. W. Hall Mr. and Mrs. D. Lee Hallberg 2001 Mr. and Mrs. Matthew T. Hallett 1999 Mrs. Patsy B. Hallett Ms. Marjorie C. Hamlett Ms. Stephanie L. Hamlett Mr. and Mrs.* John E. Hamner III 1970, 1972 Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Hampton Mr. and Mrs. R. Shawn Handley Mr. and Mrs. George Hann Ms. Chanda Hannah Hanover Harmony Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Jason W. Harbour Dr. Ashley A. Harman and Mr. Rilee C. Harman 2006 Mr. Judson B. Harmon 2001 Mrs. Margaret S. Harper Mrs. Jean C. Harrell

Ms. Terrell Ravenel Harrigan 2014 Mr. and Mrs. Michael Harrington Dr. and Mrs. Barton Harris Dr. Benjamin S. Harris and Dr. Julie D. Harris Mrs. Joanna Parker Harris 2003 Mr. and Mrs. Timothy R. Harris 1978, 1985 Mrs. Anne Gordon Dickerson Harrison 1961 Mr. and Mrs. C. Kennon Harrison, Jr. 2009 Mr. and Mrs. William B. Harrison Mrs. Kerri Cobb Harrison Ms. Sarah Maxwell Harrison 2005 Ms. Anne Larimer Hart 2006 Mr. and Mrs. Joseph D. Hartley Ms. Lily Amelie Hartley 2023 Mr. and Mrs. James B. Haske Ms. Amy Haskell 1968 Mr. and Mrs. E. Livingston B. Haskell Mrs. Kathryn Schilling Havermann 2003 Mr. Michael J. Hawkinson and Mrs. Esperanza Soria-Nieto Ms. Anne Katherine Hawthorne 2014 Mr. William Cole Hawthorne 2007 Mrs. Anne F. Hayes 1988 Mr. Jonathan Miles Headley, Jr. 2014 Dr. David Headly Mr. Wesley E. Hedgepeth Mr. and Mrs. Gerald A. Hedges Mrs. Kathryn W. Heidt 1994 Mr. Charles L. Heiner 1968 Mr. and Mrs. Cory W. Helms 1999 Ms. Carol W. Herod 1972 Mr. and Mrs. Michael N. Herring Ms. Kathleen T. Hershey 1995 Mrs. Frances Friddell Hewitt 2006 Mr. and Mrs. Duncan C. Heyward, Jr. 1998 Mr. and Mrs. James C. Hickey, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Sean D. Hicks Mr. and Mrs. Brian Hill Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Hoak Mr. and Mrs. William B. Hobbs Mr. and Mrs. Josh Hodges Mr. and Mrs. John C. Hoffer Dr. and Mrs. Christopher J. Hogan Mr. Michael Thomas Quinn Hogg 2005 Mrs. Jeni Hoggan Ms. Anne Hogge Mr. and Mrs. Christopher R. Hogsed 2001 Gina and Tom Holden 1963 Mr. Luke Aaron Holdych 2027 Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin P. Holley 2006 Mrs. Jennifer Holloway Mr. and Mrs. W. Daniel Holly III Ms. Anna Marshall Hoover 2014 Mr. Derrick Hopkins Mr. and Mrs. Kevin J. Hopkins, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. John M. Hopper Mr. and Mrs. David L. Hornbeck Mrs. Carson Stettinius Hortenstine 2010 Mrs. Dora Williams Hoskins 2005 Dr. Elizabeth Dorset Hospodar 1993 Mrs. Rebecca Masters Hottman Mr. Nicholas Stanley Hough 2029 Ms. Eliza Randolph Howard 2019

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Mr. Keith F. Howe and Ms. Helen Coulson Mrs. Daisy Hu and Mr. John F. Cale Mr. and Mrs. Tyler Huband Mr. and Mrs. Justin T. Hubbard 2001 Mrs. Samantha Price Huber 2003 Ms. Susan Frazer Hudgins Mr. William L. Hudgins III Mrs. Braden Gardner Huffman 1998 Ms. Josephine F. Hughes 1981 Ms. Christienne Ruddy Hulcher 1977 Mr. and Mrs. Paul Hundley Ms. Catherine Hunt Mr. and Mrs. James S. Hunter Dr. and Mrs. James S. Hunter, Jr. 1980, 1980 Mr. Matthew F. Hunter 1997 Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Hunter, Jr. Mrs. Paige Crosby Hurlbut 2006 Mr. and Mrs. Carroll D. Hurst Mr. Christopher Benjamin Hurst 2001 Mrs. Susan A. Hutcheson Mrs. Elizabeth Flippo Hutchins 1988 and Mr. William M. Hutchins Ms. Brittany N. Hutchinson 2001 Mr. and Mrs. Samuel R. Hutchison 1990 Ms. Anne Forrest Hyslop 2003 Dr. Amanda L. Ijames and Mr. Matthew W. Ijames Mr. Blake Stewart Ingold 2025 Mr. and Mrs. James V. Ingold Ms. Mary Mason Ingold 2025 Mr. and Mrs. Ray Ingold Mr. Thomas Tullidge Innes 2037 Ms. Eileen Jackson Mr. Nathaniel I. Jackson Ms. Madeline M. Nagy 2014 and Mr. Alexander H. Jacobs 2014 Ms. Tina Jadhav 2003 and Dr. Rishi Parikh Mrs. Robin Ruth Jager 1988 Mrs. Elizabeth Cross Jakesch 2000 Mrs. Susan Macon Jamieson 1983 Mr. J. Michael Jarvis, Jr. 2006 Mrs. Kathryn Conner Jarvis 1968 Ms. Mary Garland Jefferson 1961 Mrs. Janice K. Jesse Dr. Alice N. Jesudian Mr. and Mrs. Bryce D. Jewett III 1993, 1994 Ms. Amelia Ann Jiulianti 2031 Mr. Tyler Jiulianti 2029 Dr. Christopher P. Johnson 1996 and Dr. Lynn H. Johnson Mr. and Mrs. Bradford P. Johnson 2006 Mr. Jimel Johnson and Mrs. Tanisha Haynes-Johnson Mr. and Mrs. Samuel D. Joiner 2003 Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Jones Mr. and Mrs. Noah W. Jones Ms. Melissa Jones Mr. and Mrs. Michael Thomas Jones Mr. Timothy H. Jones 2000 Ms. Virginia Ann Jones 1965 Mr. and Mrs. Chad L. Joyce Mr. Crawley Joyner III Ms. Meredith Lee Judkins 2005 Mr. William B. Judkins Mr. and Mrs. Brian C. Justice 1985

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Dr. Barbara Kahn 2002 and Mr. Peter J. Stutts 2002 Ms. Emily Rose Kantner 2023 Mr. Noah Christian Kantner 2025 David and Allison Kao Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan G. Kastenbaum 2006, 2006 Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Kastenbaum 1974 Mrs. Jane Kates Mr. John Franklin Kay III 1978 Mr. and Mrs. Bruce B. Keeney Mr. Kirk David Keil 1988 Mrs. Retta Leigh Perel Keil 1963 Mr. Francis James Kelleher, Jr. 1998 Dr. Kevin E. Kelleher and Mrs. Lori Mitchell-Kelleher Mr. Devon George Kelley 2005 Mr. and Mrs. Francis E. Kelly III Dr. Allen V. Kemp 1976 Mrs. Page Robinson Kemp 1963 Mr. and Mrs. Andrew M. Kerr Mr. Steven Vaughan Key 1987 Dr. and Mrs. W. Wayne Key, Jr. Mr. Joshua Killinger Mr. Mark Duncan Kilpatrick, Jr. 2012 Mr. and Mrs. Mark Duncan Kilpatrick 1981, 1981 Mrs. Elizabeth Parrish King 2005 Mrs. Julia Scott Wall King 1959 Mrs. Lauren L. King Mr. and Mrs. Ralston C. King Dr. and Mrs. E. Davey King 1966 Mr. and Mrs. Waverly G. King III 1968 Ms. Coretta Kingston and Mr. Gerard Williams Ms. Pamela C. Kirk Mr. Albert B. Kirtland 1977 Dr. Elizabeth McKenney Kiser 1980 Mr. and Mrs. Luther C. Kissam Ms. Chandler Elizabeth Klevana 2019 Mr. Leighton William Klevana 2021 Mr. and Mrs. Nathan R. Knight 2007 Mr. Lawrence E. Kochard Reverend Patricia D. 1972 and Reverend W. M. Koenig Dr. and Mrs. Christopher C. Kondorossy Mr. and Mrs. Jeremy K. Kuhlen Dr. Wendy Frances Kuhn 1976 Mrs. Susan Kemp Kump 1967 Mrs. Benjamin R. Lacy IV Mr. Tyler H. Ladner and Ms. Noopur N. Garg Mr. and Mrs. Glenn A. Laferriere Mr. and Mrs. William J. Lagos Mr. Benjamin R. Lamb Mrs. Mary Frances Lambert Mr. and Mrs. Kyle B. Langemeier 2005 Mr. and Mrs. Ben Langley Dr. and Mrs. David A. Lanning Mr. and Mrs. Mark E. Lareau Mr. Benjamin Leach and Ms. Lauren Loyd Dr. Susan B. Leahy Mr. David W. Leary 1962 Mr. Michael Leber Mr. and Mrs. Donald D. Lecky 1968, 1968 Mr. Mason Lecky 1994 Mr. Robert Parke Lecky, Jr. 1967 Dr. Kristina L. Lee and Mr. David Lee Mr. David R. Lee 1971 Dr. Jason P. Lee and Dr. Elizabeth J. Crognale

Mr. Paul Everett Lee 2001 Amy Becker Leibowitz 1988 and Seth Leibowitz Mr. Jordan Becker Leibowitz 2019 Mr. Michael G. Leidy Mr. and Mrs. Robert P. Leonard III Mrs. Sarah Ailsworth Leonard 2004 Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas P. Leonardelli 2001 Mr. David D. Leshner 1990 Ms. and Mrs. Jonathan L. Lewis Suzanne and Bolling Lewis Mr. Warner Featherston Lewis 2024 Lexington Independents Dr. Richard A. Linkonis and Dr. Nicole M. Kelleher 1993 Liquibox Mrs. Elizabeth Thomson Litterini 2001 Ms. Elizabeth A. Little 1981 Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd T. Little 1976 Ms. Astrid M. Liverman 1994 and Mr. Craig T. Streetman Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Lloyd Mr. and Mrs. Patrick E. Loach Mr. and Mrs. Joseph G. Logan 1998 Mr. Josh Logue Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Lombard III Dr. Rachel K. Love and Mr. Nathan W. Love Ms. Cyane B. Lowden Mr. F. V. Lowden III Dr. and Mrs. David W. Luckey 1970 Mr. and Mrs. Adash Lutchman Mrs. Millie DuBose Lynch 2016 Mr. Philip Simpson Mabry 2007 Ms. Amy Macdonald and Ms. McKenzie Jump Mr. and Mrs. F. Daniels MacNelly 1992 Mrs. Kathleen Nelson Maddux 1994 Mr. and Mrs. David Mahler Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Mailey Mr. and Mrs. Thomas R. Major Mrs. Lauren C. Makhoul 2010 Mr. and Mrs. G. Lee Mallonee, Jr. 1967 Mr. and Mrs.* Christopher Mangin, Jr. Mr. Dennis G. Manning Mr. and Mrs. J. Reilly Marchant 2003, 2004 Ms. Grace Madelyn Marchetti 2021 Ms. Jacqueline Dianna Marchetti 2017 Mr. and Mrs. Jon W. Markiewicz Mr. and Mrs. Michael Markowitz Sandra L. Marr Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Marshall IV Mr. Lee Whitworth Martin 2001 Mrs. Clara M. Martin-Pettus and Mr. Randall Pettus Mrs. Tracy Sinnott Mason 1981 Ms. Karen A. Massey 1970 Mr. and Mrs. William H. Massey Ms. Kaitlin Brooke Mastropieri 2010 Mr. and Mrs. Andrew O. Mathews 1994, 1995 Mr. and Mrs. David H. Mathews 1972 Mr. David H. Mathews, Jr. 2002 Ms. Kendall Britten Mathews 2006 Mr. and Mrs. Bruce H. Matson Mr. David J. Janosik and Mrs. Laurel B. Maughan Ms. Robin Jane Mayer 1978 Mr. and Mrs. John J. Mayfield III 1992 Mr. Walter Mason Maynard 1992 Ms. Carolyn Anne McCandlish 2003

Mr. and Mrs. Stanton J. McComb Mr. and Mrs. Collin C. McConaghy Ms. Anne L. McCorey Ms. Katie McCormack Dr. and Mrs. Craig D. McCormick Ms. Terri McDavid Mrs. Elizabeth LaGow McDermid 2001 Mr. and Mrs. Brian W. McDermott Mr. and Mrs. John E. McDonald III 2007, 2008 Mr. Quinn Ravi McDonough 2014 Mr. Jonathan McDorman Mrs. Karen McFall Mr. and Mrs. Mike McGann Mr. and Mrs. Charles N. McGee III 2000 Ms. Karen McGill Mr. and Mrs. Michael D. McGrath Mr. and Mrs. Sean P. McGrath Mr. and Mrs. John T. McGregor Dr. and Mrs. David J. McGroarty Mr. and Mrs. Brian B. McKercher Mr. and Mrs. John H. McLarin 1979 Mr. and Mrs. D. Christopher McLellan 2002 Mr. and Mrs. Dennis J. McLoughlin, Jr. 1993 Mrs. Berkeley Robins McQuiddy 2007 Mrs. Katherine Melton 1993 and Mr. Jason A. Melton Rev. and Mrs. Brent A. Melton Mrs. Rachel Glasser Melton 1995 Ms. Shannon M. Kelley and Mr. Michael E. Mendelson

Matthew Samuel Mendez, M.D. 2001 Ms. Alexandra Mendez-Zfass 2004 and Mr. Sean Bielawski Mr. and Mrs. Jose A. Mendoza Mr. and Mrs. Bruce L. Mertens 1974 Mr. and Mrs. Jason C. Messick 2001 Mr. and Mrs. Tyler D. Meurlin Ms. Nancy B. Meyer Mr. Aarik Mickens-Dessaso and Mrs. Chiquita Whitaker Microsoft Mr. Paul Anthony Middleton 2001 Mr. Samuel B. Middleton 2007 Mrs. Margaret Ownby Milby 1974 Mr. Richard C. Milby Mr. and Mrs. Brent I. Miller 1998 Ms. Hazel Grace Miller 2025 Mr. and Mrs. J. Thomas Miller, Jr. Mrs. Kaitlyn Miller Mrs. Natalie Andreoletti Miller 2000 Mr. and Mrs. Stephen W. Miller Mr. and Mrs. Brian Mills 2002 Ms. Christine Mingus Ms. Julia Fontaine Mitchell 2017 Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey A. Modisett 1978 Mrs. Constance Booker Moe 1954 Mr. John Moncure, Jr. 1974 Monday Night Alumni Basketball Group Mrs. Charlene Monk

Ms. Chatham Monk Mr. and Mrs. D. Reilly Monroe 2002 Mr. and Mrs. D. P. Thayer Montague Mr. and Mrs. Ronald D. Montgomery, Jr. 2003 Ms. Sara Yorke Montgomery 1998 Ms. Catherine Tremaine Moody 2030 Mr. Jackson Armstrong Moody 2029 Mr. and Mrs. Christopher S. Mooney Mrs. Beverly Britten Moore 1971 Ms. Emily Rives Moore 2010 Mrs. Maria K. Moore Mrs. Portia Moore Mr. Ted Moore Mr. William F. Moore, Jr. 1984 Dr. Jean Siri Moorjani 1996 Mr. and Mrs. Michael Moran Mrs. Anne Nelson Morck Mr. Wesley Chambers Morck III 2006 Mr. and Mrs. John N. Moreau Mr. and Mrs. James Morris Ms. Cheney Gray Mosby 2029 Ms. Taylor Jane Mosby 2026 Mrs. Marilyn Linhart Moses 1969 The Moses Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Moshiri Mrs. Brandon Jacob Moss 2001 Mr. and Mrs. Gene Moss Dr. and Mrs. Jon H. Moss 1964

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Ms. Patricia P. Mottley Mr. Frank Fisher Mountcastle 2017 Mr. and Mrs. Donald C. Moyer, Jr. 1993 Mr. and Mrs. Brad Mueller Dr. Avik Mukherjee and Dr. Akta Mukherjee Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey L. Mullen 2003 Ms. Taylor A. Mullen Mr. Thomas Broun Munford 2014 Mr. and Mrs. Derek B. Murray 2005 Dr. Vienne K. Murray and Mr. Brian E. Leipheimer Ms. Angie Muzzy Dr. Bret R. Myers 1998 Mrs. Eliza C. Nader 2001 Mrs. Emily Scott Naftzger 1983 Mr. Thomas B. Naughton and Mrs. Jordan B. Chouteau Mr. and Mrs. John C. Neal 2001, 2000 Mrs. Lucy Boswell Negus 1955* Mr. Alexander James Neilson 2014 Mr. and Mrs. J. Mason New Mr. and Mrs. Ripley C. Newcomb Mrs. Rebecca Major Newman 1971 Mr. and Mrs. Sameer K. Niazi 1995 Mr. and Mrs. Mark D. Nichols 1989 Mr. David L. Nickel 1972 Mr. Richard L. Nigro 1970 Mr. and Mrs. Andrew J. H. Nixon 2002, 2002 Ms. Mary Kate Noon

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Ms. Morgan Norge Ms. Mil Norman-Risch Mr. and Mrs. Andrew W. Norris Mr. and Mrs. George W. Norris, Jr. Ms. Mary Louise Nuara 2002 Mrs. Rita Nuara Mr. and Mrs. Joel W. Nuckols III Mr. and Mrs. Joel W. Nuckols IV 2002 Mr. James Christopher Oates 1972 Mr. Mark Dudley Obenshain 1980 Mrs. Mary Chandler Carter Obrecht 2000 Ms. Holly Kane O’Donnell 2007 Ms. Shannon Margaret O’Donnell 2009 Old Dominion Electric Cooperative Ms. Sarah O’Leary Mr. and Mrs. Vinny and Laura Oliveira Mr. Jacob Harrison Reid Oliver 2009 Mr. and Mrs. James R. Oliver, Sr. Dr. James Robert Oliver, Jr. 2007 Mrs. Kathryn Redford O’Mara 1974 Mr. and Mrs. M. Todd Oney 1989 Ms. Pia Orbezo Ms. Bea Osborne Mrs. Elizabeth Neal Osborne 1956 Mr. James Lee Edward Osborne 1972 Mr. J. Riley O’Shea 2011 Kim 1977 and Tim O’Shea

Mrs. Lucy O’Shields Mr. Stephen Oswald Mr. and Mrs. Brendan D. O’Toole 1998 Ms. Catherine Tison Ottley 2019 Ms. Lucy Coulbourn Ottley 2023 Mr. and Mrs. William H. Overton Mr. Carter Tilman Owen 2020 Mr. Duncan Shaw Owen IV 2018 Mr. Robert Burwell Owen 1990 Oxbridge Properties, Ltd. Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas J. Pace Ms. Martha Elizabeth Pahren 2017 Ms. Rebekah Anne Pahren 2021 Mr. and Mrs. Douglas D.R. Palmore Mrs. Sharon Welton Parker 1962 Mrs. Mary A. Parsley Mrs. Kate F. Fleming Parthemos 1971 Mr. and Mrs. Sandler D. Passman Mr. and Mrs. Roopesh Patel Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Patterson Mr. and Mrs. James D. Patton V Mr. and Mrs. John S. Patton Mr. Carlyle Barrow Paul 1995 Mr. Ray Mercer Paul, Jr. Ms. Susanna Payne Ms. Laura Pease Mr. William S. Pease

Dr. Austin E. Peat and Dr. Ashley W. Peat Mr. and Mrs. Christopher M. Peebles 2006 Mrs. Abbey Reynolds Pemberton 2000 Mr. Joseph B. Penick 1972 Dr. Joseph D. Pennington and Ms. Elizabeth A. Magness Mr. Stephen M. Perigard Mr. and Mrs. D. Kevin Peterman 1989 Mr. Michael Peters Mr. and Mrs. Alexander S. Petrocelli Mr. and Mrs. James A. Pettit, Jr. Mrs. Lisette Christ Piccillo 1976 Mrs. Sally Summerson Pickle 2004 Ms. Bethany Pitassi Mr. and Mrs. Derek T. Podolny Ms. Anne McDaniel Pollard 1988 Ms. Regina Pool Mr. and Mrs. Steven G. Popps Mr. and Mrs. J. Cheairs Porter, Jr. Ms. Leilani Ann Porter 2016 Mr. and Mrs. William G. Poston Mrs. Anne Riker Purcell Powell 2001 Mr. and Mrs. Brandon E. Powell Mr. Hunter S. Powell 2001 Dr. Priscilla W. Powell 2001 and Mr. James T. Alexander IV Mrs. Sarah Holt Power 2000 Mr. and Mrs. Brian Prendergast Presbyterian Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Price Ms. Lee Marshall Price 1966 Mr. Tate M. Price 2031 Mr. Thomas Winston Price 1995 Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Prince Mr. and Mrs. David J. Privasky Mrs. Laura Coleman Proctor 1977 Mr. and Mrs. Braxton C. Pruitt 2005 Mr. and Mrs. C. Tupper Purcell 1994 Mr. and Mrs. Gordon P. Quinby Ms. Anne-Claire Quindoza 2019 Mr. Ian Timothy Quindoza 2022 Mr. and Mrs. Gerry C. Quindoza Mr. Jeff Qureshi 1988 Mrs. Lesley Watson Rabbitt 2000 Mr. and Mrs. Kyle W. Rachau Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth A. Rader Mr. and Mrs. Michael M. Radtke Mr. and Mrs. Ralph J. Ragosta III Mr. and Mrs. Duane H. Ragsdale Mr. and Mrs. Joshua H. Rahman Mr. Marco Antonio Randazzo 2015 Mr. Matteo Randazzo 2011 Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm M. Randolph, Jr. Dr. William M.S. Rasmussen 1964 Dr. Mark A. Rausch and Dr. Christine S. Rausch Mr. and Mrs. Robert Rauschenberg Dr. Tejas Raval and Dr. Marie Sankaran Raval Ms. Monica F. Rawles Mrs. Ashley Reynolds Ray 1991 Mrs. Julia Shannon Raynor 1972 Mr. and Mrs. Spencer P. Redfern 2005 Ms. Kathleen O. Redmond Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Redmond, Sr. Ms. Sarah Redmond

Ms. Kristen R. Reece Mrs. Christie Dunnavant Reed 1989 Mr. David Andrew Reed, Jr. 2015 Mr. and Mrs. F. Scott Reed, Jr. 1992 Mr. J. Douglas Reed 1985 Mr. Laird Scott Townsend Reed 1988 Ms. Payton Caroline Reed 2014 Mr. and Mrs. Robert Carter Thomson Reed Ms. Paige A. Tinney-Reed and Mr. Shawn F. Reed Ms. Savannah Reeves Peter and Tayloe 1998 Reeves Ms. Elizabeth G. Regan 1980 Ms. Dona E. Rehm-Robles Mr. John Lawrence Reifsnider 2016 Mr. and Mrs. J. Aaron Revere 1994 Mr. and Mrs. R. Austin Reynolds 1994 Mrs. Amy Staples Ribock 2005 Mrs. Robbie Rice Mr. Robert Coleman Rice III 1986 Ms. Annie Richards and Ms. Jennifer Lindner Mr. Edward Whitcomb Rider 2004 Amy and Bill Rider Mr. and Mrs. Matthew G. Rigby 1993 Ms. Christine E. Rigsby Ms. Caroline Riina Ms. Robb Rilee Dr. Margaret Barton Rinaldi 2009 Mrs. Emily Rinehardt Mr. Bryce Owens Ritter 2017 Dr. Evan M. Ritter and Dr. Amanda H. Ritter Mr. and Mrs. James G. Ritter 2000, 2000 Maj. and Mrs. Brian V. Riva Dr. Dennis J. Rivet II and Dr. Emily B. Rivet Ms. Elizabeth Mason Roach 1990 Mr. Lee Harris Roberts 2000 Mr. and Mrs. Matson L. Roberts Mr. Matson L. Roberts, Jr. 2011 Mr. and Mrs. John T. Robertson 1965, 1969 Mr. Richard Withers Robertson 2007 Dr. and Mrs. William A. Robertson Ms. Michelle Robey Mr. Justin Hubel Robins 2008 Rich Robins 1986 Mr. William Palmer Robins 2015 Mr. and Mrs. W. Randolph Robins Jr. 2001, 2009 Dr. and Mrs. Grover C. Robinson IV 1993 Mr. and Mrs. Jason G. Robinson 2005 Ms. Helen Christian Roddey 2016 Mr. Charles L. Rogers 1973 Mr. and Mrs. Christopher C. Rogers Mr. and Mrs. Eric Rohnacher 2003 Mr. and Mrs. Eric G. Rohr 1993 Ms. Emily Roig Mr. and Mrs. Asher B. Rolfe Mr. and Mrs. Robert R. Rosebro 1978 Mr. and Mrs. R. Bruce Rosell 2007 Mr. James Rosenstock III Mr. and Mrs. Zachary N. Roski Mr. Paul Anthony Rossetti 2012 Mr. Nicholas A. Roupas Dr. Kirk Richardson and Dr. Linda Rouse Mrs. Margeaux F. Roush 1996 Dr. Christopher Rowland and Dr. Priscilla Hwang

Mr. Michael Wickliffe Ruehling 1999 Mr. John Barber Rusbuldt 2016 Mr. and Mrs. Donald P. Russell Mr. and Mrs. Frederick L. Russell, Jr. Ms. Anne Mason Montague Ruth 2019 Mr. Parker Hayden Ruth 2027 Mr. and Mrs. Raymond A. Ruth Mr. Scott Forbes Ruth, Jr. 2022 Ms. Betty V. Ryalls Ms. Kaitlyn Marie Ryan 2016 Mr. and Mrs. Russell W. Ryan Mrs. Rebecca Thornton Sable 2008 Penelope de Bordenave Saffer Mr. Amrik Singh Sahni 2006 Ms. Angela Jeanette Saladino 2015 Mr. Vincent Tuller Saladino 2012 Mr. and Mrs. Naji W. Salhab Mr. Andrew T. Sanders, Jr. 1975 Ms. Carole Sandy Ms. Nisha Sanjay Mr. and Mrs. Brandon M. Santos Mrs. Mary Seaman Sarkes 1980 Mrs. Manya R. Saunders 1993 Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Saunders Ms. Elizabeth Savarese Mr. and Mrs. H. Kent Savedge Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas D. Sberna Mr. and Mrs. Christopher B. Schaaf 2000, 2000 Mr. and Mrs. Edward M. Schaaf III Dr. Mary Susan Schmidt Mr. and Mr. Zachary R. Schmitt Mrs. Barbara A. Schneider Dr. Daniel A. Schneider and Dr. Crystan M. Schneider Mr. and Mrs. James M. Schnell Mrs. Brooke Vaughan Schroeder 1992 Mr. and Mrs. William H. Schultz Mr. and Mrs. Edward A. Schutt Mr. and Mrs. E. Christopher Schutt 1987 Mr. Fred Schutt and Mrs. Emily Valentine Mr. David and Ms. Courtney Schweickart Mr. John Cole Scott 1996 Mr. and Mrs. George L. Scott Seasonal Roots Ms. Mary Gordon Seay 2000 Mr. Travis Sewell Mr. and Mrs. H. Leon Shadowen, Jr. Dr. Anish and Mrs. Mona Shah Mr. and Mrs. Joseph M. Sheehan Mr. and Mrs. Keith C. Sheehan Mrs. Molly Bance Shepherd 2006 Mr. and Mrs. J. David Shobe III 1983 Mrs. Julie Shudtz Ms. Alice Ambler Shuford 2002 Mr. Nicolai Shuman and Mrs. Elizabeth G. Whiteside Dr. Ajaydeep Singh Sidhu 2005 Ms. Elizabeth Archer Siebert 2031 R.A. Siewers, Inc. Evan and Christie Thalhimer Silverstein Charitable Fund Mr. and Mrs. Todd Simkin Mr. Craig Simmons Mrs. Elizabeth Yager Simpson 1973 Mr. Samuel E. Simpson Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Sinkler

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Mrs. Norvell Miller Slezycki 1967 Mr. and Mrs. Alex Smith 1965 Ms. Catherine J. Smith Ms. Charlotte Brooke Smith 2022 Ms. Emily Massie Smith 2019 Mr. and Mrs. James A. Smith III 1971 Ms. Kelly R. Smith Mrs. Linda C. Smith Mr. Rob Smith and Ms. Sarah Pruitt Smith Mrs. Sarah Thalhimer Smith 2009 Mr. and Mrs. Ryan Smith Mr. and Mrs. Shane R. Smutz Ms. Kimberly Tate Smythe Mrs. Susanne Williams Snead 1960 Mr. and Mrs. Adrian M. Snell Mrs. Tyler Negus Snidow 1980 Mr. Samuel Jefferson Sommers 2015 Dr. and Mrs. Jefferson M. Sommers 1980 Dr. William Y. Song and Ms. Hyun Hee Kim Mr. and Mrs. Thomas N. Southard Mr. and Mrs. Joshua Spain Mrs. Betsy Jo Viener Spence 1960 Mrs. Alice T. Spilman Ms. Jane Connell Spilman 1972 Ms. Elizabeth St. Clair Spotts 2015 Mr. and Mrs. Stephen T. Spraker 1992 Mr. and Ms. Eric A. Sprehe Mrs. Margaret Rosebro Sprewell 2006 Ms. Amy St. John Mr. and Mrs. Stephen P. St. John Mrs. Betty Stagg Mrs. William L. Stagg III Mr. and Mrs. William C. Stallings Mr. and Mrs. J. Snowden Stanley Dr. Jessica Stanwix and Dr. Matthew Stanwix Ms. Lilyanne E. Stanwix 2025 Mrs. Mironda B. Starke Mr. and Mrs. Will C. Station Mrs. Karen Paul Stauffer 2001 Mr. and Mrs. Tom Stephens Mr. and Mrs. Scott M. Stephens 1980 Ms. Mary Lu Stephens Mr. Sidney L. Stern II 1969 The Stern Foundation Mr. William Stanwood Stettinius 2007 Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Stevens II Mr. Sean Robert - Lewis Stevens 2030 Ms. Antenette Stokes Mrs. Susan C. Stone Mrs. Suzanne Smith Stovall 2001 Mr. and Mrs. Scott E. Strickler 1976 Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth S. Strickler Mr. and Mrs. James S. Stubbs, Sr. Ms. Jelena Subotic Mr. Nicholas Gregory Such 2005 Mr. and Mrs. Geoff Sulanke Mr. George Tucker Surgner 2019 Mr. William Reeves Hildebrandt Surgner 2014 Mrs. Pamela Anderson Sutherland Mr. and Mrs. Kasey D. Sutton Mrs. Alena Svab Dr. Suzzette Chopin and Mr. Vlastimil Svab Mr. Bryce Alexander Sweeney 2007

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Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Syer Ms. Catherine H. Szyperski Mr. Neil S. Talegaonkar Mr. and Mrs. Michael C. Taliaferro 2000 Mr. and Mrs. S. S. Taliaferro, Jr. Ms. Brinkley Taliaferro 2003 Dr. Biao Tan and Mrs. Cong Yao Mr. and Mrs. Ben Tanner Dr. George Tarasidis and Dr. Eleni Tarasidis Mr. Jackson Harris Tavenner 2013 Dr. Nancy E. Taylor and Mr. Brandon C. Taylor Mrs. Jane Whitaker Taylor 2010 Ms. Maria Teresa Taylor Mr. Walter N. Taylor Dr. Lina C. Teng Mr. and Mrs. Lucas Tepper Dr. and Mrs. Charles V. Terry Mr. and Mrs. David Tetrault Mr. David L. Thalhimer 2011 Mr. and Mrs. Trevor Theunissen Ms. Charlotte Emma Thomas 2031 Ms. Martha Howry Thomas 2001 Ms. Sarah C. Thomas Mr. Addison B. Thompson, Jr. 1998 Mr. Daniel W. Thompson 2002 Ms. Leigh E. Thompson Mrs. Kaye E. Thornton Mr. and Mrs. Philip Tickle Joshua and Amber 2004 Tillman Mr. and Mrs. Paul J. Timmons 2013, 2013 Mr. and Mrs. Jason Tinsley 2008 Dr. Matthew Togna Dr. and Mrs. Abhishek Tomar Mrs. Carter Reifsnider Toohers 2012 Ms. Terry Starke Tosh 1971 Mr. Fitz R. Totten Anita Grymes Towell Mr. R. Barton Tracy 2004 Mrs. Susan Bruch Trenkle Ms. Mae Anne Trinh 2033 Mr. Oliver Thanh Trinh 2031 Mr. and Mrs. Tung T. Trinh 1999 Mr. and Mrs. Ryan D. Tucker Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Tudor Mr. and Mrs. Tyler T. Tuite Ms. Kristin Tujuba Mr. and Mrs. Birck Turnbull Mr. and Mrs. Perry E. Turner, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Turner, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Webb L. Tyler Ms. Lee Hibbett Unroe Ms. Clair L. Upton Mr. Joshua Paul Van De Putte 2019 Mr. and Mrs. Mark S. Varland Mr. and Mrs. Gregory W. Vaughan 1976, 1973 Mr. Miles Warren Via 2032 Tim and Mary Vidra 2001 Mrs. Molly McKeon Viellieu 2008 Dr. and Mrs. Juan F. Villalona Mr. and Mrs. Gil John Villanueva Virginia Baptist Male Chorale Mr. and Mrs. Chad P. Vitek Mr. Sanjeev K. Vohra and Dr. Harjit Bhogal

Dr. Kelley A. von Elten and Mr. Alexander S. von Elten Ms. Monique Voss Dr. Michael N. Vranian 2001 Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wainscott Mr. and Mrs. Stephen R. Waldron Mrs. Bernice Spathey Walker 1955 Mr. and Mrs. John C. Walker 2004, 2004 Mr. Lee Stribling Walker 2015 Dr. and Ms. Matthew Walker Mr. and Mrs. Christopher L. Wallace 1993 Mr. Marshall L. Waller 2004 Mrs. Wendy Walton Ward 1974 Mr. Richard L. Ware 1977 Richard L. Ware Gifting Fund Mrs. Elizabeth Robinson Warman 1965 Mr. and Mrs. Brian C. Warren, Jr. Mr. Tom Warren Mr. and Mrs. Paul E. Wash Mr. and Mrs. David Washo 2001 Dr. and Mrs. James Wassum Mr. Franklin P. Watkins, Jr. 1977 Ms. Shirley Watkins Mrs. Elizabeth Bland Watson 1995 Mr. Gary Watson and Mrs. Ying Zhang Mr. and Mrs. Paul H. Watson Mr. and Mrs. Ian A. Watt Mr. Stephen Hurt Watts, Jr. 2000 Mr. and Mrs. Will B. Webb Stormy S. Webster Mr. Robert M. Wedge Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell M. Wells Ms. Junie West Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Westermann 1988 Mrs. Cristina Whitaker Ms. Isabel Tyler Whitaker 2020 Mr. and Mrs. Charles D. White 1985 Ms. Michelle E. White Mrs. Elizabeth K. Whitehurst Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Whitehurst III Ms. Janice C. Whiting Mr. and Mrs. Daniel B. Whitlock 1997 Katherine Whitney Mr. Reid Pierce Whittemore 2030 Mr. and Mrs. Steven G. Whitten Vice Admiral Frank D. Whitworth III USN 1985 Mr. William B. Wichelman and Ms. Victoria L. Misseri Mr. and Mrs. David M. Wilberger, Jr. Ms. Betsy Wilder Dr. Edward J. Wiley, Jr. Mr. William Nash Wiley 2015 Mr. Hank Will 2038 Mr. Jack T. Will 2034 Ms. Olivia Jane Will 2036 Mr. and Mrs. Taylor E. Will Mr.* and Mrs. C. Nelson Williams IV 1963 Mr. Carter Brien Williams 2024 Mr. and Mrs. Daniel L. Williams, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. David M. Williams 1974 Ms. Eleanor Lyons Williams 2024 Mr. Fielding L. Williams, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Jere H. Williams, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Jonnie R. Williams, Jr. 1995 Mr. Matthew K. Williams 2004

COLLEGIATE FUND AREAS OF IMPACT

With six areas of impact, there is no shortage of ways to support Collegiate.

Technology & Innovation

Financial Assistance

Technology & Innovation sparks curiosity and prepares students for a rapidly changing world. From engineering projects in the robotics lab that require building, testing, and teamwork to coding challenges that stretch logical thinking, Technology & Innovation invites hands-on exploration and problem-solving.

The Arts

Faculty Support Exceptional teaching shapes every moment of a student’s journey. Collegiate invests in our faculty through conferences, professional development, and specialized resources. These investments ensure our educators continue to inspire and grow alongside their students.

Athletics Student Experience The student experience lies at the heart of everything we do. From the smallest details, like the kindergarten tote, to larger milestones like a first global exposure, the student experience at Collegiate is vital and ever-expanding.

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Ms. Melissa Evan Williams 2015 Mrs. Ramsey Carter Williams 2008 Mr. Riley Deacon Williams 2015 Mr. and Mrs. Ronald A. Williams Ms. Susan Lynne Williams 1971 Mr. Walter L. Williams 1972 Williams Family Charitable Fund Mr. and Mrs. Samuel J. Williamson 2004 Mr. and Mrs. Whitney R. Williamson Mr. Stew Williamson Mr. Charles Hardwicke Willingham 2018 Mr. and Mrs. Andrew H. D. Wilson, Sr. Mr. Harrison Benjamin Wilson IV 2001 Mrs. Julia M. Wimbish Mr. and Mrs. Matthew L. Wimbish 2002 Colonel (Retired) William Lee Wimbish, Jr. 1980 Mr. and Mrs. Trevor Wind Dr. and Mrs. Matthew A. Winheim Mr. and Mrs. Danny Wise Ms. Emma Wise Ms. Ryland Witt 1993 Mrs. Ann Gray Turner Wood 1964 Dr. and Mrs. Richard H. Wood Mr. Michael B. Woodard Mrs. Kimberly Workman Mrs. Jane Woolford Wortham 1972 Ms. Mary Vernon Wortham 2037 Mrs. Ellen Beane Wright 2005 Mr. and Mrs. Richard H. Wright IV Mr. and Mrs. Christopher D. Wright 2001 Mr. and Mrs. John A. Wyatt 1988 Mr. and Mrs. Russell G. Wyatt 1980 Mr. and Mrs. Randolph W. Wyckoff Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Yarney Mrs. Ashley Davis Young 2005 Mrs. Patricia Chewning Young 1959 Hr. and Mrs. Roderick C. Young Mr. Binhu Yu and Ms. Yinan Ding Ms. Dongmei Yuan Dr. and Mrs. Nathan D. Zasler Dr. and Mrs. Alvaro R. Zeballos Ms. Ann S. Zelenak Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas P. Zizzo 2002 Mr. and Mrs. Matthew J. Zwerdling Mr. and Mrs. C. David Zyglocke *Deceased

GIFTS IN MEMORY OF

Mr. James A. DeVoe Mrs. Mary Bruce Featherston DeVoe

Mr. Nicholas Robert Adams 2004 Mr. and Mrs. Leavenworth M. Ferrell II

Dr. Richard W. Dodd Mrs. Jean H. Frederick

Mr. Daniel G. Bartels Mr. and Mrs. Roger W. Porter Dr. Biao Tan and Mrs. Cong Yao

Vivian Belk Douglas Dr. and Mrs. Javarro Russell

Mr. and Mrs. John Billingsly Mr. John S. and Dr. Cheryl B. Billingsley Dr. Robert P. Black Mr. and Mrs. Alex Smith Mrs. Elizabeth Hotchkiss Cary 1956 Mr. and Mrs. Michael Armstrong Mr. and Mrs. George T. Baskerville III Charles M Caravati Foundation Mrs. Anne Ratcliffe Chamblee Mrs. Gretchen Loree Crawford Ms. Mary Crenshaw Mr. and Mrs. James R.V. Daniel Mrs. Mary Bruce Featherston DeVoe Mr. and Mrs. E. Grice Galleher Ms. Elizabeth H. Green Mrs. Constance Kennon Harriss Mrs. Susan A. Hutcheson Mr. Crawley Joyner III Mr. Randal B. Kell and Mrs. Jan A. Churchill Mr. and Mrs. Frank F. Mountcastle, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. William G. Poston Mr. and Mrs. Clyde H. Ratcliffe III Mr. and Mrs. Christopher W. Rusbuldt R.A. Siewers, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Daniel L. Williams, Jr. Ms. Emma Wise Mrs. Annette B. Chapman Mrs. Stuart Chapman Roberts Mr. Donald L. Charles Mrs. Sharon L. Charles Mr. and Mrs. Tyler L. Charles Mr. Albert Chiocca Mr. David E. Thomas and Mrs. Teresa M. Chiocca Mrs. Cynthia Liebert Crowder 1974 Mr. David L. Nickel Mrs. Elizabeth K. Dalton Mr. and Mrs. John D. Catterton Mrs. Margaret A. Daniel Mr.* and Mrs. William F. Griffin Mr. and Mrs. Mark Duncan Kilpatrick Mr. and Mrs. Alex Smith Mr. and Mrs. Scott E. Strickler Mr. Edward C. Darling Mrs. Ann Darling Mr. Byrd Davenport, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. J. Cabell Chenault IV

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Mr. James A. DeVoe, Jr. 1982 Mrs. Amy W. DeVoe Mrs. Mary Bruce Featherston DeVoe

Mr. Maxwell Chisolm Dwyer 2002 Mr. and Mrs. Leavenworth M. Ferrell II Mrs. Jane Durham Evans 1956 Ms. Susan W. Durham Mrs. Betty P. Featherston Mr. and Mrs. Weldon A. Bradshaw Mr. William Eugene Coleman III Mr. and Mrs. William B. Hobbs Mr. George Clifford Kirkmyer III Mr. and Mrs. Bruce H. Matson Ms. Nancy B. Meyer Mr. and Mrs. Alex Smith Dr. Lina C. Teng Mrs. Sarah Raybin Portlock Fellman 2003 Mr. William S. Portlock and Ms. Nancy L. Raybin Mrs. Dorothy Ewing Ferrell 1957 Mrs. Meade Howarth Williams Mrs. Mary Pease Fleming Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey A. Allende Anonymous Mr. and Mrs. Anthony J. Asch, Jr. Mrs. Susan G. Barco Ms. Mary Jo Beck Mrs. Sarah Pease Beeman Mr. and Mrs. Alexander J. Brackett Mr. and Mrs. Weldon A. Bradshaw Mrs. Patricia B. Branch Ms. Marcella H. Bullock Ms. Dianne D. Carter Mr. and Mrs. J. Clarke Chase Ms. Sarah Massie Chase Mr. and Mrs. J. Cabell Chenault IV Mr. John Anthony Conrad Mrs. Annie F. Cullen Mr. and Mrs. W. H. deButts III Mrs. Esther M. Diskin Ms. Kathy B. Finney Mr. and Mrs. G. Slaughter Fitz-Hugh III Mr. and Mrs. Douglas D. Garson Mr.* and Mrs. William F. Griffin Mr. and Mrs. Elliott M. Harrigan Mrs. Anne Gordon Dickerson Harrison Mr. and Mrs. F. Robertson Hershey Dr. and Mrs. James S. Hunter, Jr. Mrs. Benjamin R. Lacy IV Mr. Dennis G. Manning Mrs. Maria K. Moore Mr. Ted Moore Mr. and Mrs. Frank F. Mountcastle, Jr.

A MILLION DOLLAR CLASS The Class of 1975 not only celebrated their 50th Reunion, but also that the class reached $1,000,000 in cummulative giving since their graduation.

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EARLY 50 YEARS AFTER THEIR GRADUATION, the Collegiate School Class of 1975 continues to leave an indelible mark on our community. At the approach of their 50th Reunion, a committee of dedicated volunteers rallied their classmates around one more milestone: becoming a “million-dollar class.” And on the evening of their hallmark reunion, they announced the realization of their extraordinary legacy of giving that reflects their enduring connection to Collegiate.

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In recognition of their golden reunion and their cumulative giving to Collegiate, the area nestled between the Development and Alumni Relations Office (the old music building many will fondly remember) and the Admission/Cougar Shop building will be named the Class of 1975 Courtyard. This newly renovated space is designed as a beautiful, landscaped gathering area. The key motivation was creating something visible and tangible. “For me, it felt like we needed to do something that people in our class could see and touch,” said Sarah Kay, 50th Reunion Co-Chair. “We wanted to support a space that current students could appreciate and use.” The courtyard represents a concrete legacy they can point to and feel proud of supporting for the school.

The courtyard will do exactly that, serving as a vibrant hub for alumni celebrations, admissions events, Parents’ Association gatherings, and other community functions, continuing to bring people together on North Mooreland Road.

Each committee member has shared a common motivation for giving back: gratitude. They are thankful for the decades of friendships that began on Mooreland Road and have endured half a century, for the educational foundation that prepared them for success, and for the joy of childhood that Collegiate afforded them — a place where they could grow, learn, and dream while remaining children just a little bit longer.

As the Class of 1975 celebrates its 50th Reunion, the courtyard will stand as a permanent tribute to their generosity and their enduring love for Collegiate. Together, they are not only honoring their past but also shaping the experiences of future generations of students, families, and alumni.

The 50th Reunion Committee composed of cochairs Sarah Kay, Martha Fleming Moore, Meade Spotts, and Crit Richardson. Other committee members include: Pem Boinest Hall, Cynthia Luck Haw, Tyler Norman Scott, Granville Scott, Clayton Allen, Nancy Kennon Bruchbacher, Karen Pauli Wells, Bonnie Irby Williams, Vincent Dalton, and Chris Cogar.

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The stone inset in recognition of the Class of 1975 that will go in the newly created courtyard.

The Class of 1975 at their Commencement.

From left to right: Crit Richardson, Pem Boinest Hall, Clayton Allen, Sarah Kay, and Chris Cogar.

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GIFTS IN MEMORY OF CONT’D Mr. and Mrs. S. Marshall Orr III Mrs. Mary A. Parsley Mr. Ray Mercer Paul, Jr. Ms. Laura Pease Mr. William S. Pease Mr. and Mrs. James A. Pettit, Jr. Ms. Kathleen O. Redmond Mrs. Martha L. Robertson Mr. and Mrs. H. Leon Shadowen, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Alex Smith Meaghan and Andrew Stanley Mr. and Mrs. Matt Thompson Mrs. Anita Grymes Towell Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Ukrop Mr. and Mrs. Andrew T. Wiley Mr. and Mrs. David M. Williams Ms. Dorothy “Boo” W. Gentil 1972 Mr. David L. Nickel Mrs. Leigh Gordon Mr. and Mrs. W. Hildebrandt Surgner, Jr. Ms. Janet S. Graves 1962 Mr. and Mrs. R. Leigh Frackelton, Jr. Dr. Roger “Doc” P. Hailes Mr. and Mrs. Ernest A. Dettbarn III Mr. and Mrs. Francis E. Kelly III Mrs. Mary Lynne Schmohl Hamilton 2011 Anonymous Mr. and Mrs. W. Hildebrandt Surgner, Jr. Mr. Charles Kennon Harrison, Sr. 1986 Mr. Robert Coleman Rice III Mr. Patrick Sullivan Henry 1990 Mr. and Mrs. Scott F. Ruth Mr. Brian J. Hurst Mrs. Deborah E. Hailes Mrs. Elizabeth Coleman James 1967 Mrs. Isabel Spilman Bates Anne L. Coleman, M.D., Ph.D. Mr. and Mrs. Custis Lansing Coleman, Jr. Ms. Mary Maxwell Conner Ms. Lucy R. Correll Mrs. Elizabeth Conner Flippen Mrs. Cornelia Whittet Garrett Mr. and Mrs. Stevens N. Gentil Ms. Martha Clark Goss Ms. Joan Hedgecock Mr. Thomas J. James, Jr. Mrs. Kathryn Conner Jarvis Mrs. Jodi Jett Karr Mrs. Susan Kemp Kump Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan S. Perel Mrs. Laura Coleman Proctor Dr. Mary Susan Schmidt

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Mrs. Norvell Miller Slezycki Mr. L. Howard Jenkins III Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B. W. Hall Mrs. Gay Montague Jewett 1965 Mr. and Mrs. Alexander J. Brackett Mr. and Mrs. Scott F. Ruth Mrs. Elizabeth Shewmake Johannessen 1950 Mr. and Mrs. John D. Catterton Mr. Skip Johns Mr. and Mrs. Francis E. Kelly III Mr. Edward L. Jones, Jr. Mr. Edward Lee Jones III Ms. Jessica Eden Joseph 2018 Dr. Jay H. Joseph Mr. Jonathan M. Joseph Mr. Benjamin R. Lacy IV Mr. and Mrs. Alexander J. Brackett Mr. and Mrs. Scott F. Ruth Mrs. Louise V. Wiltshire Mrs. Anne Hirschler Long 1962 Mr. and Mrs. J. Cabell Chenault IV Mr. James Whitlock Klaus Mr. David M. Long Mr. and Mrs. J. Cabell Chenault IV Mr. Jeffrey K. MacNelly, Jr. 1990 Mr. and Mrs. Leavenworth M. Ferrell II Ms. Susan Farley Ferrell Mr. and Mrs. Scott F. Ruth Mr. Henry M. Massie, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Ukrop Mrs. Mary Kennon McDaniel 1961 Lori D. Allen and Command Alkon friends Mr. and Mrs. George T. Baskerville III Mr. and Mrs. W. Taylor Benson Mr. and Mrs. E. Marshall Bowden Mr. and Mrs. John R. Bowers Mrs. Peggy Talman Brockenbrough and Mr. Austin Brockenbrough III Mrs. Judith J. Bumgardner Mr. and Mrs. John D. Catterton Ms. Mary Maxwell Conner Mrs. Louise C. Cox Ms. Susan Farley Ferrell Ms. Harriet A. Franklin Mrs. Cornelia Whittet Garrett Mr. and Mrs. Douglas D. Garson Mr. Chris Gordon Mrs. Elizabeth H. Griffin Mr. William F. Griffin Mrs. Jean C. Harrell Mrs. Anne Gordon Dickerson Harrison Mr. and Mrs. James S. Hunter Mr. and Mrs. Lee P. Martin, Jr. Ms. Boodie Wiltshire McGurn Old Dominion Electric Cooperative Ms. Christine K. Plant Mr. and Mrs. Clyde H. Ratcliffe III

Mr. and Mrs. Alex Smith Mr. and Mrs. W. Hildebrandt Surgner, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. John G. Taylor Mr. and Mrs. Andrew T. Wiley Mrs. Meade Howarth Williams Mr. Richard W. Wiltshire, Jr. Mr. Richard Wesley McDaniel Lori D. Allen and Command Alkon friends Mrs. Sonia R. McDonald Anonymous Mr. and Mrs. Douglas D. Garson Mr. Stephen D. Hickman Mr. and Mrs. T. Gaylon Layfield III Mr. Thomas A. Gelozin and Ms. Phyllis Palmiero Mr. and Mrs. John S. Patton Mr. and Mrs. Michael M. Radtke Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Ukrop Mr. and Mrs. David M. Wilberger, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Randolph W. Wyckoff Mr. Charles L. McFall, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. John Kemper Blair Mr. Brian McGill Ms. Karen McGill Ms. Katherine M. McKenzie Mr. and Mrs. Stephen P. St. John Mrs. Deborah I. Miller Mr. and Mrs. John G. Adamson Ms. Anne Bruce Ahearn and Dr. Byron C. Hulsey Anonymous Mary Arzt Mr. and Mrs. Christopher P. Baker Mr. and Mrs. John F. Bartholomew Mrs. Lisa Pennington Bass Mr. and Mrs. Albert T. Beane, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Dana R. Blackmer Mr. and Mrs. James C. Bonbright III Ms. Janis Bordewyk Mr. and Mrs. E. Marshall Bowden Mrs. Cynthia I. Bowles Mr. and Mrs. Weldon A. Bradshaw Ms. Marcella H. Bullock Mr. and Mrs. John D. Catterton Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Chambers Mrs. Sharon L. Charles Mr. and Mrs. J. Clarke Chase Ms. Sarah Massie Chase Mr. and Mrs. Paul E. Cheesman, Jr. Ms. Missy McGurn Chiles Mrs. Ann Schnell Cliquet Collegiate School Parents’ Association Mr. and Mrs. J. Whitefield Congdon, Jr. Mrs. Hillary Robertson Crittendon Mrs. Annie F. Cullen Mr. and Mrs. Richard Cullen Mr. and Mrs. John W. Fain Ms. Sarahbeth C. Farabee Mr. and Mrs. Louis Fierro II Mr. and Mrs. Rives Fleming III Mrs. Anne Day Friddell Mr. and Mrs. Douglas D. Garson

Mr. Thomas A. Gelozin and Ms. Phyllis Palmiero Mr. and Mrs. Stevens N. Gentil Dr. and Mrs. Daran G. Glenn Mr. and Mrs. John D. Gottwald Mr. and Mrs. Samuel S. Gottwald Mr.* and Mrs. William F. Griffin Mr. and Mrs. Andrew E. Hale Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Hall III Ms. Laura Moore Hall Ms. Marjorie C. Hamlett Hanover Harmony Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Elliott M. Harrigan Mr. and Mrs. J. Sheppard Haw III Mr. and Mrs. Franklin B. Heiner Mr. and Mrs.* Stephen D. Hickman Mr. and Mrs. W. Daniel Holly III Mrs. Kathryn Conner Jarvis Mr. Douglas S. Jones and Ms. Barbara Leary Jones Mr. and Mrs. Bruce B. Keeney Mr. and Mrs. Mark Duncan Kilpatrick Mr. Mark Duncan Kilpatrick, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Ralston C. King Mrs. Benjamin R. Lacy IV Mrs. Millie DuBose Lynch Ms. Neelan A. Markel Mr. and Mrs. Jon W. Markiewicz Mrs. Victoria Christmas Marks Mr. and Mrs. Lee P. Martin, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Winston R. Mason III Mrs. Karen McFall Mr. and Mrs. John T. McGregor Ms. Boodie Wiltshire McGurn Drs. Benita and Michael Miller Mr. and Mrs. Brent I. Miller Mr. and Mrs. Stephen W. Miller Mr. and Mrs. John N. Moreau Mr. and Mrs. S. Marshall Orr III Mr. J. Riley O’Shea Mr. and Mrs. William H. Overton Mr. Carter Tilman Owen Ms. Susanna Payne Mr. and Mrs. Russell W. Perkins, Sr. Ms. Christine K. Plant Mr. and Mrs. Duane H. Ragsdale Mr. and Mrs. Joseph K. Reid III Mr. and Mrs. Crit T. Richardson Mr. and Mrs. Matson L. Roberts Mr. and Mrs. Gregory B. Robertson Mr. Richard Withers Robertson Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Ruehling Mr. Colin J. Ruh and Mrs. JoAnn Adrales Ruh Mr. and Mrs. Frederick L. Russell, Jr. Ms. Betty V. Ryalls Mr. and Mrs. James M. Schnell Mr. and Mrs. H. Leon Shadowen, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. William H. Schultz Dr. and Mrs. Evan Silverstein Mr. and Mrs. Alex Smith Mr. and Mrs. Thomas N. Southard Mrs. Mironda B. Starke Mr. and Mrs. George E. Stephenson II Mr. and Mrs. W. Gray Stettinius Mr. and Mrs. W. Hildebrandt Surgner, Jr.

Ms. Catherine H. Szyperski Mr. and Mrs. John G. Taylor Dr. and Mrs. Charles V. Terry Mr. and Mrs. William B. Thalhimer III Mrs. J. Clifford Tharp, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. A. Leigh Thornton, Jr. Mrs. Susan Bruch Trenkle Ms. Sheryl S. Tyner Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Ukrop Virginia Baptist Male Chorale Ms. Junie West Mrs. Elizabeth K. Whitehurst Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Whitehurst III Mr. and Mrs. Andrew T. Wiley Mr. and Mrs. C. Preston Williams Mr. and Mrs. R. Gregory Williams Mrs. Louise V. Wiltshire Dr. and Mrs. Richard H. Wood Mrs. Patricia Chewning Young

Mr. Michael Bruce Rhyne, Jr. 2001 Mr. and Mrs. Leavenworth M. Ferrell II

Dr. Frederic P. Moore III Mr. Carlyle Barrow Paul

Mr. Kent A. Smith 1980 Colonel (Retired) William Lee Wimbish, Jr.

Grayson and Jeannette Nickel Mrs. Jean Nickel Collins Mr. David L. Nickel

Mrs. Elizabeth Call Snead 1924 Dr. Elizabeth Dorset Hospodar

Mr. Adam Djibril Nimaga 2021 3Chopt Investment Partners LLC Mrs. Ann Brady Mrs. Peggy Talman Brockenbrough and Mr. Austin Brockenbrough III Dr. and Mrs. Jeffrey A. Brown Ms. Elizabeth Katharine Bullock Mrs. Elizabeth E. Cherkis Ms. Laura H. Cowperthwait Mr. and Mrs. Leavenworth M. Ferrell II Ms. Susan Farley Ferrell Ms. Samantha Budd Funkhouser Ms. Shannon M. Kelley and Mr. Michael E. Mendelson Mr. and Mrs. Luther C. Kissam Liquibox Mr. and Mrs. Jon W. Markiewicz Dr. and Mrs. David J. McGroarty Ms. Mary Catherine Nimaga Mr. and Mrs. W. Benjamin Pace Mr. and Mrs. David B. Pahren Mr. Ian Timothy Quindoza Mr. and Mrs. James M. Schnell Mrs. Betty Stagg Ms. Elizabeth Lowrance Stagg Mr. and Mrs. L. Mark Stepanian Mr. and Mrs. W. Hildebrandt Surgner, Jr. Clair L. Upton Katherine Whitney Mrs. Elaine Ferebee Osburn 1972 Mrs. Jean Nickel Collins Mr. David L. Nickel Mrs. Irene R. Owen Mr. and Mrs. Scott F. Ruth Mr. Malcolm “Buck” U. Pitt, Jr. The Thomas and Jerrice Fritzlen Family Charitable Fund

Mr. C. B. Robertson III Mrs. Martha L. Robertson Mr. James Catlin Robertson 2004 Mr. and Mrs. Leavenworth M. Ferrell II Mr. and Mrs. John T. Robertson Mr. Jeffrey Scott Robertson 2001 Mr. and Mrs. Leavenworth M. Ferrell II Matthew Samuel Mendez, M.D. Mr. Geoffrey Richard Shudtz 2001 Mrs. Suzanne Smith Stovall Norman Sisisky Mr. and Mrs. Mark B. Sisisky Mr. Raymond M. Slabaugh III Mr. and Mrs. James S. Hunter

Mrs. Ann B. Staples Mrs. Susan A. Hutcheson Mr. Josh Logue Mr. and Mrs. Lee P. Martin, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Ukrop Dr. Edward J. Wiley, Jr. Dr. Jeanette Maurice Taylor Mr. Walter N. Taylor Mr. Morton G. Thalhimer, Jr. Mrs. Jean Nickel Collins Mr. and Mrs. John W. Fain Carrie Galeski Mr. and Mrs. Elliott M. Harrigan Mr. and Mrs. Franklin B. Heiner Mr. and Mrs. James C. Hickey, Jr. Mrs. Jane Kates Mr. David L. Nickel Mr. Stephen Oswald Mr. and Mrs. Alex Smith Mr. and Mrs. W. Hildebrandt Surgner, Jr. Marcia and Harry Thalhimer Mr. and Mrs. William B. Thalhimer III Mr. and Mrs. David M. Wilberger, Jr. Mr. Harold C. “H.C.” Thaxton, Jr. Mrs. Meade Howarth Williams Christopher George Thompson Mr. and Mrs. Leavenworth M. Ferrell II Mr. William W. Thompson III Mrs. Anita C. Bruch Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Cabaniss III Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Chambers Mr. and Mrs. John W. Fain Mrs. Anne Day Friddell Mr. and Mrs. Douglas D. Garson Mr. and Mrs. Stevens N. Gentil Mr. John L. Gibson IV

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Mr.* and Mrs. William F. Griffin Mrs. Kathryn Conner Jarvis Mr. and Mrs. Ralston C. King Mr. Michael G. Leidy Ms. Boodie Wiltshire McGurn Mr. and Mrs. John N. Moreau Mr. and Mrs. S. Marshall Orr III Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Ruehling Mr. and Mrs. William H. Schultz Mrs. Beth Tracy Mr. and Mrs. Matthew T. Hallett Polly Moncure Vaden 1969 Mr. John Moncure, Jr. Mrs. Linda Waddell Mr. and Ms. Alex W. Waddell Mr. William Caleb Wharton 2012 Mr. and Mrs. Matt Thompson Mr. Charles F. Wiltshire Mrs. Suzanne P. Wiltshire Mr. William B. Wiltshire 1967 Mrs. Benjamin R. Lacy IV Mr. and Mrs. Scott F. Ruth Mrs. Paige W. Woolwine 1984 Mr. and Mrs. Mark D. Hagan

GIFTS IN HONOR OF Ms. Sarah Shepard Adamson 2025 Ms. Caroline McCaskey Adamson 2029 Mr. and Mrs. V. Cassel Adamson, Jr.

Ms. Mary P. Blissert Mr. and Mrs. Vinny and Laura Oliveira

Mr. Rives Fleming III 1983 Mr. and Mrs. Brent I. Miller

Mrs. Ellen Turbeville Bonbright 1986 Anonymous

Ms. Catherine Cassidy Frei 2034 Ms. Allison Carolyn Frei 2036 Mr. and Mrs. Ryan Frei

Mr. Mike Boyd Mr. and Mrs. Stuart W. Blain Peter and Mimi Mahoney

Mr. and Mrs. Douglas D. Garson Mr. and Mrs. William S. Peebles IV

Mrs. Emily D. Bradshaw Anonymous

Mrs. Anne Weldon Griffin Mr. and Mrs. Alexander W. C. Cecil

Mr. Jett Lin Bristow 2025 Wen and Yaling Lin

Mrs. Ann H. Griffin Mr. and Mrs. Francis E. Kelly III

Ms. Abigail Marks Carley 2026 Mr. and Mrs. Norman Carley Mr. and Mrs. David Tetrault

Mrs. Deborah E. Hailes Mr. and Mrs. Andrew J. H. Nixon

Ms. Laurel Margaret Carley 2033 Mr. Thomas Prescott Carley Mr. and Mrs. David Tetrault Mr. Mason Travers Chapman 1984 Anonymous Mr. John Cabell Chenault VI 2024 Ms. Lacey Saunders Chenault 2027 Mr. and Mrs. J. Cabell Chenault IV Mr. James Taylor Christmas, Jr. 2008 Dr. and Mrs. James T. Christmas Class of 1964 Ms. Susan Farley Ferrell Mr. Mark Will Claud 1979 Mr. and Mrs. W. Gray Stettinius Mrs. Maria Saffer Cobb Mr. and Mrs. Darrell S. Alexander Mrs. Elizabeth Costin Mr. and Mrs. Andrew J. H. Nixon

Dr. Roger “Doc” Hailes Mrs. Deborah E. Hailes Mr. Mark A. Hall Peter and Mimi Mahoney Mr. Stephen A. Hart 1978 Collegiate School Parents’ Association Dr. David Headly Collegiate School Parents’ Association Mr. F. Robertson Hershey 1966 Mr. and Mrs. William R. B. Hershey Mr. Henry Raab Hofheimer 2027 Ms. Carter Somers Hofheimer 2029 Mr. and Mrs. W. Barry Hofheimer Marks-Hofheimer Foundation Mr. Jack A. Holmes Mr. Derek Leathers Lillian Li Huang 2037 Dr. Jingjing Li and Mr. Xin F. Huang

Mrs. Elizabeth W. Andrews Collegiate School Parents’ Association

Ms. Katherine Ann Cullen 2024 Ms. Jane Randall Cullen 2027 Mrs. Annie F. Cullen

Mrs. Samantha Price Huber 2003 Anonymous Mrs. Kaitlyn Miller Mr. Jonathan Roy Price, Jr.

Mr. Jason Archbell Peter and Mimi Mahoney

Mrs. Aggie Cullen Anonymous

Mr. Christopher Peyton Jenkins, Sr. 2000 Anonymous

Mr. Wilbur L. Athey Anonymous

Mrs. Mary Damon Collegiate School Parents’ Association

Athletics Department Mr. and Mrs. Gary G. Wallace

Ms. Mayme Donohue 2003 Anonymous

Mr. Carter Taliaferro Keeney, Jr. 2036 Ms. Frances Deyo Keeney 2037 Mr. and Mrs. Bruce B. Keeney

Ms. Hallie Balcomb Peter and Mimi Mahoney

Mr. Will N. Dunlap Ms. Sarah Redmond

Mr. David N. Bannard Anonymous

Mrs. Xin-Yi Fergusson Collegiate School Parents’ Association

Mr. Charles L. Blair Jr. Ms. Anne Bruce Ahearn and Dr. Byron C. Hulsey Ms. Susan Farley Ferrell Mr. and Mrs. Shepherd F. Lewis, Jr.

Courtney and Wortie Ferrell 1988 Ms. Giles Winston Ferrell 2024 Ms. Rosewell Page Ferrell 2027 Mr. Leavenworth McGill Ferrell III 2031 Ms. Susan Farley Ferrell

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Mr. Nicholas DuVal Kiczales 2015 Mr. Lucas Devanbe Kiczales 2017 Mr. Noah Stephenson Kiczales 2021 Mr. and Mrs. J. David Shobe III Mrs. Beth Kondorossy Peter and Mimi Mahoney Mrs. Sarah Hyslop Leonardelli 2001 Peter and Mimi Mahoney Mrs. Suzanne LaPrade Lewis Peter and Mimi Mahoney

Mr. Patrick E. Loach Peter and Mimi Mahoney

Mr. Bryce Powell Anonymous

Ms. Mary Estella Williams 2024 Mrs. Erwin P. Boyd

Mr. Jeffrey W. Mancabelli Anonymous

Dr. William F. Reames Mr. and Mrs. Harry Atwood Mrs. Lindsey Reames Claud Mr. W. Brian Reames Mr. and Mrs. Donald P. Russell

Mr. and Mrs. R. Greg Williams 1969 Anonymous

Mrs. Elizabeth Gehr Marchant 2004 The Honorable and Mrs. W. Reilly Marchant Ms. Neelan A. Markel 1996 Anonymous Mrs. Victoria Christmas Marks 2005 Dr. and Mrs. James T. Christmas Ms. Katie McCormack Mr. and Mrs. Vinny and Laura Oliveira Mr. Charles Newton McGee IV 2036 Mr. and Mrs. Charles N. McGee III Mrs. Morenike Miles Anonymous Mr. Brent I. Miller 1998 Peter and Mimi Mahoney Mrs. Julie L. Miller Peter and Mimi Mahoney Mr. William L. Miller, Jr. Anonymous Mr. and Mrs. William A. Mosby Anonymous Kate Parthemos 1971 Ms. Elizabeth H. Cockriel Coach Donald W. Pate Rich Robins

Mrs. Carter C. Reid Anonymous Ms. Katherine Carter Reid

Mrs. Anne Tunstall Bagley Willis 2000 Mrs. Sally Ann Twedell Bagley

Mr. Will F. Saunders Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Saunders

Mr. William B. Wiltshire 1967 Mr. W. E. Betts III Mr. and Mrs. J. Cabell Chenault IV Ms. Laura H. Cowperthwait Mr. and Mrs. James M. Schnell Mr. Richard W. Wiltshire, Jr.

Mrs. Faulkner Bagley Sgro 1988 Mrs. Sally Ann Twedell Bagley

Dr. James Kenneth Zelenak 1993 Mr. and Mrs. Russell W. Perkins, Sr.

Mrs. Gail Smith Mr. James Moore McMahon

Ms. Mary Ann Zyglocke 2025 Mr. and Mrs. George Hann

Mr. Sam W. Smith 2023 Dr. and Mrs. A. Gordon Smith

*Deceased

Dr. Kenneth P. Ruscio Anonymous

Mr. William Walker Spain 2030 Mr. Charles Whitley Spain 2033 Ms. Clara Elizabeth Spain 2036 Ms. Stephanie L. Hamlett Mr. Andrew Stanley Mr. Tyler Joseph Stanley 2028 Mr. and Mrs. J. Snowden Stanley Mrs. Amanda L. Surgner 1983 Mrs. Walker Surgner Banning

Ms. Marjorie Lee Pearson 2036 Mr. and Mrs. Larry G. Pearson

Mr. Brandt Surgner Anonymous Mrs. Walker Surgner Banning

Mr. Alex Peavey Ms. Anne L. McCorey

Mr. Vlastik Svab Peter and Mimi Mahoney

Mr. and Mrs. William S. Peebles IV Mr. and Mrs. Henry S. Carter Ms. Susan Farley Ferrell Mr. and Mrs. Mark J. Hourigan Mr. and Mrs. Reginald N. Jones Dr. and Mrs. J. Eric Meyers Mrs. Lucy Boswell Negus* Parker Carson Foundation Robins Foundation Mr. and Mrs. W. Gray Stettinius Mr. and Mrs. W. Hildebrandt Surgner, Jr. Rob and Shannon Ukrop Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell M. Wells Mr. and Mrs. George R. White Mr. and Mrs. Andrew T. Wiley

Mr. Philip Kiran Shantaram Talegaonkar 2035 Mrs. Sally Ann Twedell Bagley

Mr. Stephen M. Perigard Peter and Mimi Mahoney

Ms. Emily Sophia Waldrup 2029 Ms. Chelsea Rose Waldrup 2032 Ms. Etta Garnett Vidra 2037 Ms. Virginia Szigeti

Mrs. Karen Pickett Mrs. Mary R. Chavent

Mrs. Sarah Williamson Anonymous

Mr. Benjamin Thomas Tavenner 2018 Mrs. Mary Frances Lambert Dr. Matthew J. Togna Anonymous Mrs. Susan Bruch Trenkle Collegiate School Parents’ Association Mrs. Connie Tuttle Mr. and Mrs. Brent I. Miller Mrs. Amy Verdi Anonymous

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The Collegiate Fund is a collective reflection of the Collegiate spirit. Supporting all aspects of a Collegiate education, it’s the vehicle that transforms what is possible for students and teachers.

Make your tax-deductible gift to the Collegiate Fund by the end of the year at collegiate-va.org/makeagift

Contact: Samantha Huber, Director of Collegiate Fund samantha_huber@collegiate-va.org

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LETTER FROM

Anne Gray Siebert ‘97 Dear Collegiate Family, At Collegiate, family is more than a word, it’s a reality we experience every day in our classrooms, on campus, and across our community. This past Roaring Reunion, I felt that reality more strongly than ever. Alumni from across the country returned to campus, reconnecting with old friends, celebrating milestones, and reminding all of us what it means to be part of the Collegiate family.

This year’s reunion was made extra special by celebrating the Class of 2020, a remarkable group of young adults I had the pleasure of teaching in the Lower School when I was a reading specialist. Honoring them with the Distinguished Alumni Award was a true joy and a reminder of the deep, lasting connections that begin in our classrooms and hallways.

The sense of family extended even further this summer, when we invited a group of 6th Graders to help us create a film for the Class of 2020, their then Senior buddies from Kindergarten. I reached out to about 30 families, and the resounding “yes, we would love to help” was inspiring. Watching these children share stories and memories of their buddies, you could see how much these connections had stayed with them, even years later.

The magic didn’t stop there. Once the film was shared on Instagram, my inbox filled with messages from the Class of 2020, eager to reconnect with their Kindergarten buddies. They wanted to reach out, say hello, and continue the relationships that began so many years ago. It was a beautiful reminder that Collegiate is more than a school, it’s a family that spans generations.

I couldn’t help but think of the words from Dr. Hunter’s beloved Lower School Chapel song: “We are one, we are one, we are sisters, we are brothers, we’re a family, we are one.”

Hearing it sung by the children, and feeling it live again at Roaring Reunion, I realized how true it is. Our alumni, our students, our families, through every connection we make, we are one family. The laughter, the stories, the hugs, the shared memories, they all remind us that Collegiate’s spirit is alive in each and every one of us.

Thank you for being part of this family, for nurturing connections, and for keeping our community vibrant and strong. I am so grateful to be part of it with you.

Anne Gray Siebert ’97 Director of Alumni Engagement

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A DISTINGUISHED CLASS The Class of 2020 was honored with Collegiate’s Distinguished Alumni Award.

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OR THE FIRST TIME in School history, Collegiate’s Distinguished

Alumni Award was presented not to an individual but to an entire class: the Class of 2020. It’s only right that this unprecedented recognition would honor a group whose Senior year was marked by resilience, leadership, and an unshakable sense of community in the face of unprecedented times.

When Elizabeth Dolan Wright ‘01, President of the Alumni Association, welcomed the crowd, she set the tone: this was not only a reunion, but a celebration of a class whose bond had been forged through the challenges they faced. But it was Addison Smith ’20 and Austin King ’20, the class’s SCA co-chairs, who gave voice to what it felt like to grow up together at Collegiate. They spoke of long days spent side by side in classrooms, out at Robins Campus, and in rehearsal spaces, and how those hours wove classmates into something more like family. Both recounted little moments from their 13 years at Collegiate: listening to Mr. Turner strum his guitar in Kindergarten, climbing the rock wall in Estes, nervously preparing for Senior speeches — each captured the spirit of

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a childhood lived in community. “We probably spent more time with one another than we did with our actual families,” Smith admitted with a smile, as classmates nodded knowingly.

What they remembered most was not the grand events, but the small ones: riding on their Senior buddies shoulders, the pajama-clad whistle Brunch mornings, the pep rallies filled with green and gold, Seal Gym bursting with uncontainable energy. Smith urged classmates to carry those recollections with them: “As you’re walking around campus this weekend, try to remember the little moments, the conversations, the laughs and the memories made along the way. Coming back together allows us to revisit these memories, relationships, and experiences from the first 18 years of our lives, reminding us of where we came from and how far we’ve come.” It was a reminder that their

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shared past was not just nostalgia, but the foundation of who they had become. They ended on a note of gratitude “Because I didn’t get to say this five years ago, I want to thank everyone that was a part of my high school career”, continued Smith. “I’m so grateful for all the faculty and staff, my classmates, and my coaches. You all shaped me into the person that I am today, and for that, I’ll be forever grateful.”

Patrick Loach, Head of the Upper School, could not hide his affection for the class he called “at the very top of his favorite classes.”

He narrated shared memories while flipping through a projection of photographs — pep rallies, musicals, art shows at the Visual Arts Center, and Feast of Juul — recalling their collective energy and talent. Chicago, he declared, had been one of the finest productions in Collegiate history. Boys’ track winning the

state championship, and the girls coming in second, unforgettable. Yet for all the pride in accomplishments, what stood out most was his simple admission that the Class of 2020 held a special place to him because of the quantity and quality of relationships he formed with the students: “I think I got emotional because of how much I really love this class,” said Loach.

“I think we didn’t get to celebrate your class in all the ways that you all deserved, but I’m glad we can do a little bit of that this weekend.”

When Head of School Jeff Mancabelli took the stage, he framed the award in the context of Collegiate’s long history of distinguished alumni. An NFL player, a vice admiral, a global artist, and entrepreneurs — the honor had always recognized individuals who carried the School’s spirit into the wider world. “Your story is truly like no other,” he told them. “You

As you’re walking around campus this weekend, try to remember the little moments, the conversations, the laughs and the memories made along the way.”

faced a moment in history no one could have anticipated. Yet you adapted, persevered, and overcame the challenge. In true Collegiate spirit, you refused to allow this to break you.”

He pointed to their accomplishments since: graduates pursuing advanced degrees, winning Fulbright scholarships, excelling in college athletics, and beginning careers across industries.

He concluded by saying, “you remind us that while you have each taken your own path, together you have distinguished yourselves not only by your accomplishments, but by the strength of your character and your leadership.”

Then came a surprise. From the double doors of Estes, the Class of 2032 streamed in, now 6th Graders and noticeably taller than when they last stood beside their Seniors five years earlier. Guided by Choral Music Director Ryan Blevins, they lifted their voices in I Am a

Promise, the song traditionally sung by Kindergartners to their Seniors, a ritual the Class of 2020 had missed in the spring of their graduation year. What the pandemic once took away was restored in that moment. Phones rose to capture the scene as members of the Class of 2020 proudly recorded their former buddies, before joining in to sing Hail Collegiate. With arms wrapped around one another, surrounded by friends and family, what had once been a lost experience became a new collective memory; one filled with joy reclaimed.

Each member of the class received a Jefferson Cup, a recognition of the class that embodied grace, and turned challenge into strength.

The ceremony served as a reminder that though their Senior year ended abruptly, their legacy was only beginning. Later that night, under the glow of string lights at the Oyster

Roast, the Class of 2020 mingled and laughed, their voices carrying across the campus that had once been their second home.

While the Class of 2020 will always be remembered as the year school was cut short, more than anything they will be remembered as a class that showed Collegiate, and each other, what true community looks like. Their story now belongs to the School’s legacy, a testament to resilience and to the bonds that last far beyond graduation.

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ROARING REUNION 2025:

When Cougars Come Home Again

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HE MOMENT that nearly 400 alumni and their guests stepped onto Collegiate’s campus for Roar-

ing Reunion Weekend, there was a sense of homecoming that reached far beyond the formal schedule of events. Old friends greeted one another with hugs, familiar walkways carried echoes of shared stories, and new memories began weaving themselves into the school’s long and evolving history. What unfolded over two days was not simply a series of gatherings, but a celebration of belonging, tradition, and the enduring spirit of the Cougar community.

WALKING BACK THROUGH TIME - FRIDAY Friday offered a perfect blend of reflection and discovery. Alumni returned to the classroom, this time as guests rather than students, sitting in on Honors Art with Upper School art teacher Pam Sutherland and guest artist Claiborne Colombo ’05, guitar class with special guest star Johnny White ’20, or observing 8th Grade Envision Richmond students as they tackled real-world challenges with characteristic curiosity. Later, Head of School Jeff Mancabelli invited alumni to journey through the School’s history, tracing its story from Helen Baker’s founding vision in 1915 to the present day. The presentation was followed by tours across campus, where moments of recognition and surprise often mingled.

By afternoon, the tone shifted to pure celebration. The Distinguished Alumni Award honored members of the Class of 2020, and the time-honored Alumni Oyster Roast — now in its 41st year — brought hundreds together under the tent for oysters, barbecue, music, and the kind of storytelling that stretches late into the night.

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UNDER THE BIG TENT - SATURDAY It was a perfect fall evening as nearly 400 alumni and guests reunited and reminiced under a giant tent on the lawn in front of Pitt Hall for a collection of joyous class parties.

Martha Fleming Moore and Lewis “Bubba” Lawson chat before the Class of 1975 dinner.

What lingered after the final song was played and the last goodbyes were exchanged was not just the memory of a festive weekend, but the affirmation that Collegiate’s story is written in the lives of its people.

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CALLING ALL COUGARS As the sun set, the Middle School lawn transformed into a lively stage for reunion parties, where classes ending in “0” and “5” rekindled connections over music from a live band and the glow of string lights.

The Class of 1970 was not photographed.

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CLASS OF 1965

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CLASS OF 1980

CLASS OF 1985

CLASS OF 1990

CLASS OF 1995

CLASS OF 2000

CLASS OF 2005

CLASS OF 2010

CLASS OF 2015

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For many in the Class of 1975, the friendships formed on Mooreland Road started long before they graduated in 1975, some spanning over six decades. In September, more than 90 classmates and their guests came back to celebrate their 50th Reunion by gathering at the Sharp Academic Commons. Classmates reflected on the moments that shaped their lives and the legacy they continue to build together. In the spirit of gratitude and generosity, the Class of 1975 has given a remarkable $1 million cumulatively since their graduation, a testament to their enduring commitment to Collegiate’s mission and future.

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COMING FULL CIRCLE Abby Fleming ’21 Returns to Collegiate as a Teaching Fellow.

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Abby Fleming ’21 is now teaching alongside those her taught and inspired her, like Hannah Curley.

HEN ABBY FLEMING ’21 walked back through the familiar halls of Collegiate School this fall, it wasn’t as a student hurrying to class but as a Spanish Teaching Fellow — a full-circle moment just four years after she’d graduated. “It’s a little surreal,” she admits.

“But it feels right.”

Four short years after graduating, Fleming has returned as a Spanish Teaching Fellow, part of Collegiate’s Fellows Program designed for early-career educators. For Fleming, the choice to begin her teaching journey where it all started was a natural one.

“I really loved my time at Collegiate,” she says. “I came from public school, and it was definitely a culture shock at first, but over time, I grew to love the community here. I loved my teachers. I always felt supported as a student, and I knew that meant I’d feel supported as a teacher, too.”

After graduating from Collegiate, Fleming attended Virginia Tech, majoring in Spanish and International Studies. The same sense of school spirit and belonging that drew her to Collegiate pulled her toward Tech. “I’ve always been drawn to schools that feel like communities,” she says. “That’s what Collegiate is — it’s not just a school; it’s a community.”

It was at Collegiate that Fleming first realized she wanted to teach. Her inspiration came from her 9th Grade Spanish teacher, Hannah Curley, who made language come alive. “She made learning Spanish so fun,” Fleming recalls. “We’d play games, use fly swatters to race to the board and select the right words, work in groups, it was all so engaging. That was the first time I thought, ‘I could love doing this.’”

Fleming continued to build her skills through volunteer work at the Faison Center, where she taught students with autism, a commitment she’s kept since her Freshman year of Upper School. “I knew I loved teaching the students at Faison,” she said, “and I loved Spanish, so why not just blend the two things I’m really passionate about.”

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When she heard about Collegiate’s new Fellows Program — a structured, mentorship-based pathway for early-career and career-switchers who want to pursue a career in education — she knew it was the right fit. “Even during the interview process, I felt so supported,” Fleming says. “Now that I’m here, I get to observe other teachers and learn about things like childhood development, classroom management, and organizational strategies. Things I would have picked up eventually, but having all of these resources for support has been really nice” She’s come full circle in more ways than one: Fleming now assists in Curley’s classroom, the very same room where she first fell in love with Spanish. “It’s wild,” she says. “When I was in 9th Grade, I thought Ms. Curley was so young and cool. I wanted to be like her. And now I get to work alongside her.”

The Fellows Program has also given Fleming the space to discover her teaching voice. “I’ve learned so much about classroom management and how to connect with students,” she says. “Being close in age to them helps because they can relate a little more to me. They still think I’m old,” she laughs, “but they know I’m younger than most of their teachers.”

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Outside the classroom, Fleming wants to reinvest in the community that shaped her. She helps lead STAR, the tutoring program for English Learners at Quioccasin Middle School, that she participated in as a student, and she plans to stay involved with Faison during summer and winter breaks, and she hopes to assist with the John Maloney Project, a program that pairs Collegiate students alongside children on the autism spectrum. “As a student, I didn’t realize how much teachers do here,” she says. “Everyone’s coaching, mentoring, sponsoring clubs, it’s just what people do. The school day might end, but they are still here.”

Looking ahead, Fleming isn’t sure exactly where she’ll be in five

years, but she knows she’ll still be teaching. “It’s what makes me happiest,” she says. “I don’t see myself being happy in any other field.” And Collegiate, her home for four years, where she first discovered her love of the classroom, feels like the right place to begin.

CLASS NOTES

John Paul Middleton ‘78 and Sherrie Duff ‘75 (Homecoming Princess)

No matter where our life takes us beyond North Mooreland Road, we are always uniquely connected by our time spent at Collegiate School. Class Notes offers a window into that shared bond between fellow alumni.

Whether you knew them then, follow them now, or never met, you are all Cougars.

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Betsy Dale Gayle, mother of Elizabeth Gayle Clough ’72 died Aug. 4, 2025. Betsy attended Collegiate but graduated from St. Catherine’s.

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Daniel Smith, husband of former Middle School English teacher Cheryl Smith, father of Whitney Smith Conrad ’93 and Ellen Ashton Smith Jackson ’95, and grandfather of Will Conrad ’22, Spencer Conrad ’25 and Clay Conrad ’28, died July 27, 2025.

Lucy Boswell Negus, mother of Stevens Negus ’77 and Tyler Negus Snidow ’80, and grandmother of Kyleigh Negus ’16 and Sid Negus ’18, died Aug. 24, 2025.

In September, Laura Hall, Mary Jean Sadler Mann, her husband, Steve Mann, and Cristy Conner Jarvis met in Charlottesville and had dinner with Ann Crymes Galione and her husband, Bob. It was a wonderful visit, and in the future we hope to get together in Richmond. Hopefully, more classmates can join us.

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The Class of 1965 proved once again that Cougar spirit never fades! Reunion weekend was filled with laughter, stories, and cherished memories. Truly, age is just a number when it comes to fun, friendship, and Cougar pride!

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1967 James Livesay Jr. died July 26, 2025.

Elizabeth Whittet O’Conor, sister of Connie Whittet Garrett ’61, died Sept. 1, 2025.

Susan Schmidt, PhD walks her Boykin Spaniel “Pippa” on beaches year-round and swims through October. She kayaks to survey shorebirds on the Rachel Carson Preserve and has led four discussions at the local library on Rachel’s books. She is working on a sailing memoir focused on ocean currents and sea level rise while living on high ground in Beaufort.

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Charles Cabell died June 26, 2025.

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Mary Burruss published her first book under her own name in May 2025. This charming children’s book titled, HOORAY FOR GOATS!, introduces young children to the ecologically friendly idea of using goats to mitigate invasive plants and unwanted weeds. It’s sold in local bookstores, at the Valentine Museum gift shop, and of course, is available on Amazon. When not promoting her book, Mary is busy raising money for The Branch Museum of Design as the Development Director.

The Class of 1987 had a reunion of sorts at a very special celebration! Leighton Klevana, Todd Baird, and Carl Nease— joined by Alec McKenzie, who spent some time at boarding school but still counts as one of the crew—came together for Carl’s oldest daughter Karoline Nease’s wedding in Virginia Beach this past September. It was a joyful gathering, full of laughs, memories, and a little bit of “remember when” magic!

Anne Margaret Daniel and her husband, James Pethica, have a “new old” house in Barboursville, Virginia, after many years in Woodstock, NY, and Williamstown, MA. She is on sabbatical from The New School University in 2025-26 and will be spending part of the time at home in Barboursville.

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Mary Ellen Pauli and fellow members of the Class of 1973, Kathy Pendleton, Lewis Little, Bill Stinson, Justin Frackelton, and Kent Hudgens recently enjoyed reconnecting over lunch.

Additionally, Mary Ellen, Mike Christian, Kathy Pendleton, and Billy Stinson are on the move together outside of their lunches!

Dan Savage had the pleasure of riding the coattails of Mont Gaylord and Buzzy Northen to win the Steve Holt Golf Classic at Jekyll Island in May.

1979 Cynthia Gray Ellis, sister of George Gray ’74, died July 23, 2025.

Madeline Cooper Webster, granddaughter of Martha McKaughn, celebrated her first birthday on September 12, 2025.

Sarah Paxton enjoyed a mini reunion with former Match staffers Missy Falls Mauck and Ned Booth, 41 years after working together. Ned has been living in Europe for most of the last 40 years, and plans are in the works to visit him in England and Portugal.

1985 After 36 years living in Texas, Illinois, Florida, and most recently Connecticut, Janee Heizer Hunter has moved back to Richmond with her husband, three children, and three dogs.

She is enjoying rediscovering Richmond and reconnecting with old friends.

1986 Katherine Kelley Mauck, died Aug. 30, 2025.

1988 Greg Gresko has been working as an ecumenical Christian missionary professor in South Korea for several years, tutoring English to refugees who have escaped from the north and helping them heal through storytelling. His work extends to other Asian countries, and he maintains strong contacts in Europe. He has also published research on the ethics of AI in secondary and university educational settings, including a chapter in Generative Artificial Intelligence Applications: Holistic Reflections from the Educational Landscape (2024).

Ron Pessner and his wife, Paula, are doing well in Seattle.

He continues to lead Product Management for M365 Copilot at Microsoft, while Paula is a nurse at Harborview Medical Center. Their eldest, Davis, married Philip Hedden in June in Seattle. Davis is in her second year at VCU Medicine, and Philip is finishing his last year at UVA Law. Their child Maslyn started at NYU Law after working in DC, and their youngest, William, started at the University of California, Santa Barbara this fall.

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1. T he Class of 1965 at Reunion weekend. Front row: Page Hancock Thurston, Molly Waddell, Claiborne Chapman Jenkins, Mary Flinn, Nancy Unger Payne, and Mary Clifton Ottley Jones.

Second row: Lindsay Miller, Paula Brown Demosthenes, Jane Longan Caldwell, Lee Miller, Anne Dobbins Brasfield, Molly Leary Rabb, Judy West Kidd, Gail Pearsall Kinder, Mary Hays Leeper Kiefner, and Blair Penick McIlwain.

2. Mary Ellen Pauli ‘73 and fellow members of the Class of 1973 Kathy Pendleton, Lewis Little, Billy Stinson, Justin Frackelton, and Kenny Hudgens recently enjoyed reconnecting over lunch.

3. Additionally, Mary Ellen Pauli ‘73, Mike Christian, Kathy Pendleton, and Billy Stinson are on the move together outside of their lunches!

4. Dan Savage ‘73, Mont Gaylord ‘73, and Buzzy Northen ‘73 won the Steve Holt Golf Classic at Jekyll Island in May. 5. Madeline Cooper Webster, granddaughter of Martha’s McKaughn ‘79, celebrated her first birthday on September 12, 2025.

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6. Mary Burruss ‘81 published her first book under her own name in May 2025. This charming children’s book titled HOORAY FOR GOATS!, introduces young children to the ecologically friendly idea of using goats to mitigate invasive plants and unwanted weeds.

7. Anne Margaret Daniel ‘81 and her husband, James Pethica, have a “new old” house in Barboursville, Virginia, after many years in Woodstock, NY, and Williamstown, MA. She is on sabbatical from The New School University in 2025-26 and will be spending part of the time at home in Barboursville.

8. Sarah Paxton ‘84 enjoyed a mini reunion with former Match staffers Missy Falls Mauck and Ned Booth, 41 years after working together. Ned has been living in Europe for most of the last 40 years, and plans are in the works to visit him in England and Portugal.

9. Leighton Klevana ‘87, Todd Baird ‘87, and Carl Nease ‘87—joined by Alec McKenzie (honorary ‘87) came together for Carl’s oldest daughter Karoline Nease’s wedding in Virginia Beach this past September.

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Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority. He has been with Virginia ABC since January 2016, previously serving as a Special Agent in Hampton Roads and as Assistant Special Agent in Charge for Richmond/Fredericksburg.

As SAC – Administration, he is responsible for grant programs, system and data ownership, emergency management, and oversees Internal Affairs investigations for the Office of Professional Standards.

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2. Ron Pessner ‘88 and his wife, Paula, celebrated the marriage of their eldest child, Davis to Philip Hedden in June in Seattle. Davis is in her second year at VCU Medicine, and Philip is finishing his last year at UVA Law. 3. Hayes, the son of Lexie Penny Arnett Gerczak’s ‘96 is now in 6th Grade at Collegiate and loving it. Lexie regularly connects with classmates Leah Loftin Loomis, Farleigh Fitzgerald, Caroline Garrett Patrick, and Katherine Oliver Olson.

She looks forward to celebrating the Class of 1996’s 30-year reunion next year.

4. Scottie Thompson ‘00 is thrilled to announce that her directorial film debut was screened at the Richmond International Film Festival in September 2025.

The film is a comedy, and Scottie attended the event.

5. Greg McGeorge ‘01 and fellow members of the Class of ‘01 brought home the trophy from Bushwood, an annual Ryder Cup-style match against the St. Christopher’s Class of 2001.

6. After a cross-country trip to Richmond in 2022 with her young children, Sara Hairfield Hogan ‘05 was inspired to create WrovenDen, a children’s travel tent that prevents climbing and includes blackout coverage while being half the weight and pack size of traditional travel cribs. She recently returned from Vietnam to approve the first production run of 500 units and is preparing to launch a Kickstarter campaign in early 2026.

7. Meredith Judkins ‘05 married Richard Lee, where else but the Judkins family’s favorite spot, Squam Lake, New Hampshire on June 7th. Carter Judkins Greendyke ‘01, Gracie McGurn Mason ‘05, and Kate Robertson Stephenson ‘05 were in the wedding party.

8. Katie McCarthy Stefanic ’05 and Alex Stefanic ‘07 welcomed their first child, Claire McCarthy Stefanic, in June.

9. Claire Gentil McMahon ‘06 and her husband, John McMahon welcomed a baby boy, Emmett McMahon, on February 12, 2025.

Ernie Dettbarn is serving his second year on Collegiate’s Alumni Association Board. He works to encourage camaraderie among alumni and promote Collegiate traditions, urging graduates to connect with fellow Cougars and participate in alumni events.

1996 Lexie Penny Arnett Gerczak and her family are doing well in Richmond. Her son started at Collegiate last year in 5th grade and is now in 6th grade, loving it. She enjoys attending football, soccer, and lacrosse games and cheering on the Cougars. Lexie has a private practice as an LCSW working with kids, teens, and families. Her husband works in finance, and they have two boys, ages 11 and 8. She regularly connects with classmates Leah Loftin Loomis, Farleigh Fitzgerald, Caroline Garrett Patrick, and Katherine Oliver Olson. She looks forward to celebrating the class of 1996’s 30year reunion next year.

1997 Christy Thurston Mead lives in Dallas, Texas, and is married with a four-year-old daughter named Meggie. She works in urban planning and development.

1999 After eight years of service at the Board of Governors of the Federal

Reserve System, including a two-year detail to the U.S. House Financial Services Committee, Lucas Beirne joined Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP as Of Counsel in the Financial Institutions Group.

His practice focuses on advising banks on compliance, supervision, regulation, enforcement matters, and applications related to new bank charters and mergers. Lucas, Amanda, and their daughter continue to live in Alexandria, where their daughter started 1st grade at St. Stephen’s St. Agnes School in the fall.

2000 Scottie Thompson is thrilled to announce that her directorial film debut was screened at the Richmond International Film Festival in September 2025 at the Byrd Theater.

The film is a comedy.

This autumn, Laura Selene Rockefeller is starting her PhD in English with Creative Writing at the University of York in England.

2001 Greg McGeorge writes, “For the past 14 years, the Collegiate Class of 2001 has held an annual Ryder Cup-style match against the St. Christopher’s Class of 2001, known as the “Bushwood.”

It is a cherished tradition and highlight for participants, especially when the Cougars bring home the trophy.”

2005 After a cross-country trip to Richmond in 2022 with her young children, Sara (Hairfield) Hogan was inspired to create WrovenDen, a children’s travel tent that prevents climbing and includes blackout coverage while being half the weight and pack size of traditional travel cribs. She recently returned from Vietnam to approve the first production run of 500 units and is preparing to launch a Kickstarter campaign in early 2026.

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Meredith Judkins married Richard Lee, where else but the Judkins family’s favorite spot, Squam Lake, New Hampshire on June 7. Carter Judkins Greendyke ’01, Gracie McGurn Mason ’05, and Kate Robertson Stephenson ’05 were in the wedding party.

Katie McCarthy Stefanic and Alex Stefanic welcomed their first child, Claire McCarthy Stefanic, in June.

2006 Claire Gentil McMahon and her husband, John McMahon welcomed a baby boy, Emmett Edward McMahon, on February 12.

2007 Meredith Ascari Farmer married Jordan Farmer in June 2025 in Santa Barbara, with a larger celebration in September in

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They welcomed their first child, a daughter named Agee Grace Farmer, on May 14.

Katelin Gornto reports that the last member of her family crew, Henry, finally came home after 7.5 months in the NICU. Berkeley Robins McQuiddy and her husband, Scott launched a new business, Lucky Dog Mobile Groomers, providing full-service mobile dog grooming in Richmond.

2011 Matson Roberts and his wife Elizabeth, welcomed their son, Marshall Winslow Roberts, this summer.

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Caroline Cheatham Schiele and Susannah Wheat Smith, both class of 2012, had baby boys just 7 months apart - Beau Schiele and Archer Smith.

2016 Mary Katherine Hilb got engaged to Jordan Weeks at Portico restaurant in May.

2017 Elizabeth Harrison Granger and Ben Granger, both Class of 2017, welcomed a baby boy in September.

2019 Gabe Lacy, son of Hallie Lifson and Adam Lacy, brother of Jackson Lacy ’15, and stepbrother of Rachel Lifson ’19, died Sept. 2025.

2020 Akum Dhillon was a featured presenter at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference (AAIC) 2025 in Toronto on his recent publication regarding Alzheimer’s risk in the UAE. He was also featured in an Alzheimer’s Association article.

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IN MEMORIAM Our condolences are offered to these members of the Collegiate family.

Curtis Jackson, father of Facilities employee Dwayne Jackson, died June 8, 2025.

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William “Bill” Griffin, husband of former biology teacher Ann Griffin, died June 13, 2025.

Heroit “Rhett” Clarkson, grandfather of Whitney Clarkson ’24 and Adelaide Clarkson ’26, died June 20, 2025.

Robert Flinchum, grandfather of Madison Flinchum ’20, died June 23, 2025.

Haddon C. Alexander III, grandfather of Christopher Johnson ’17 and Lucy Johnson ’19, died June 24, 2025.

James Darden, father of Jeff Darden ’84, died June 26, 2025.

1-3. Meredith Ascari Farmer ‘07 married Jordan Farmer in June 2025 in Santa Barbara, (Photo 1) with a larger celebration in September in Richmond with friends and family. (Photo 2) They welcomed their first child, a daughter named Agee Grace Farmer, on May 14, 2025. (Photo 3) 4. Berkeley Robins McQuiddy ‘07 and Scott McQuiddy launched a new business, Lucky Dog Mobile Groomers, providing full-service mobile dog grooming in Richmond.

5. Henry, son of Katelin Gornto ‘07, finally came home after 7.5 months in the NICU. 6. Caroline Cheatham Schiele and Susannah Wheat Smith, both class of 2012, had baby boys just 7 months apart - Beau Schiele and Archer Smith.

7. Mary Katherine Hilb ‘16 got engaged to Jordan Weeks at Portico restaurant in May 2025.

8. Ben and Elizabeth Harrison Granger, both Class of 2017, are expecting a baby boy in late September 2025.

9. Akum Dhillon ‘20 was a featured presenter at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference (AAIC) 2025 in Toronto on his recent publication regarding Alzheimer’s risk in the UAE. He was also featured in an Alzheimer’s Association article.

Margaret Rada, daughter of former faculty member Peggy Rada and former Trustee Heath Rada, and sister of Mary Talmadge Rada ’89, died June 30, 2025.

Carolyn Gibrall, grandmother of Lillian Barnes ’20 and Lucy Barnes ’22, died July 3, 2025.

James Lowe, husband of Katharine Tilghman Lowe ’53, father of James Lowe ’82 and Anne Lowe Thompson ’90, and grandfather of Trey Thompson ’21 and Addison Thompson ’23, died July 10, 2025.

George Woltz, father of Lt. Col. George Woltz Jr., USAF (Ret.) ’80 and Hunter Woltz Kornblau ’82, died July 16, 2025.

Ann Richmon, grandmother of Jake Palyo ’11 and Jessica Hall (left after 9th Grade, was Class of ’22), died July 17, 2025.

Michelle Trenkner-Hatchett, wife of Cabell Hatchett ’94, died July 17, 2025.

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Jeffrey Wells, grandfather of Alice Goodwin ’27 and Evie Goodwin ’29, died July 18, 2025.

Lester Haisley, father of John Haisley ’82 and Sam Haisley ’85, died July 19, 2025.

Susan Callahan, mother of Tom Callahan ’94, died July 20, 2025.

Patrick Milmoe, father of Mary Kaye Milmoe Chryssicas ’83, Caroline Milmoe Pugh ’85, and Hugh Milmoe ’87, died July 22, 2025.

Patrick Wilson, father of Garrett Wilson ’18, died July 24, 2025.

Kevin Boll, grandfather of Trey Boll ’20 and Gracie Boll ’21, died July 29, 2025.

Tyrus Bingham, brother of Ta’ Bingham Frias ’94, died Aug. 3, 2025.

Nelson Williams, husband of Meade Howarth Williams ’63, father of Preston Williams ’88 and Beverley Williams Curry ’91, fatherin-law of Chief Development Officer Kristen Williams, and grandfather of Carter Williams ’24 and Elly Williams ’24, died Aug. 26, 2025.

Allison MacMillan, grandmother of Rachel Naurath ’10 and Rebecca Naurath ’12, died Aug. 28, 2025.

Patricia Sharpe, mother of Monty Sharpe ’75 and grandmother of Russell Sharpe ’06, Parker Sharpe ’09 and Sam Sharpe ’11, died Aug. 29, 2025.

Ann Chapin, grandmother of Latané Rowland ’16 and Hallie Rowland ’18, died Sept. 3, 2025.

James Davis, husband of former piano teacher Ann Davis and father of Elizabeth Davis Reynard ’89, died Aug. 6, 2025.

Catherine Irby Snodgrass, mother of Bonnie Irby Williams ’75, and grandmother of Brooke Williams ’08, Bridgette Williams Gottwald ’10 and Melissa Williams ’15, died Sept. 6, 2025.

John Mayfield, father of Carty Mayfield Hebert ’86, father-in-law of Sarah Thompson Mayfield ’92, and grandfather of Alston Mayfield ’37, died Aug. 7, 2025.

Mary Hickman, wife of former Head of School Steve Hickman, mother of Kindergarten Assistant Leigh Lovett, and grandmother of Mary Lovett ’38, died Sept. 12, 2025.

Susan Masters, mother of Upper School Science teacher Rebecca Hottman, died Aug. 8, 2025.

Joan Forshaw Ingram, mother of Paige Ingram Fox ’86 and Grey Ingram ’91, mother-in-law of Ted Fox ’86, and grandmother of Anne Pearson Fox ’16, Millie Fox ’19 and Thomas Fox, died Sept. 13, 2025.

Elizabeth “Bonnie” Shelor, grandmother of Zack Hunnicutt ’19 and Lily Hunnicutt ’21, died Aug. 11, 2025.

Elizabeth Goodbody, grandmother of Ella Goodbody ’24, died Aug. 12, 2025.

Marilyn Roach, grandmother of Jacob Herring ’21, died Aug. 15, 2025.

Gretchen Brown, mother of Bill Brown ’81, died Aug. 16, 2025.

Blair Smith, brother of Alex Smith ’65, and uncle of Kerrigan Smith ’90, Erin Smith Jewett ’94 and Blake Smith ’00, died Aug. 25, 2025.

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Susan Mangin, mother of Evan Mangin ’26 and Rose Mangin ’29, died Sept. 17, 2025.

Marcel Cornis-Pop, father of Anca Cornis-Pop ’96 and Oana Cornis-Pop ’99, died Sept. 23, 2025.

Jane Hobeika, grandmother of Julia Hall ’29 and Martha Hall ’31, died Sept. 23, 2025.

ALUMNI Betsy Dale Gayle ’48 Ashlin Wyatt Smith ’50 Lucy Boswell Negus ’55 James Livesay Jr. ’67 Elizabeth Whittet O’Conor ’67 Daniel Smith ’68 Charles Cabell ’70 Cynthia Gray Ellis ’79 Katherine Kelley Mauck ’86 Gabe Lacy ’19

These notices were received as of Sep. 30, 2025.

This In Memoriam section is taken from printed obituaries and compiled from our database, which may be edited for space. Please contact our office if the information is incomplete. To submit a condolence, email spark@collegiate-va.org.

TEACHER’S TAKE

Mike Leber

“It’s chaotic. And I love the chaos.” From his classroom positioned at the doorway of the jubilant 7th and 8th Grade hallway in Flippin, Middle School Latin teacher Mike Leber’s classroom is filled with the sounds of echoing laughter and the opening and closing of metal lockers. Though the ancient language is no longer spoken, Leber finds joy in teaching students how to apply Latin’s significance and history to the broader world. His methods of teaching are not composed of formal lectures, but rather interactive lessons that engage students in time-traveling activities. This year, a third 8th Grade Latin class was added to satisfy the number of students desiring to continue their study of the language, bringing Leber to teach a total of 10 Latin sections. The student’s passion excites Leber, who cherishes the light-hearted and curious nature of Middle School students. For Leber, teaching is more than educating students on mythology and grammar. It’s about forming meaningful connections with students and helping them develop the skills to become kind and respectful members of society. Leber sat down with Spark to discuss the merits of learning an ancient language, the importance of student agency, and the joy he receives from teaching this “in-between” age group.

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Spark talks with Middle School Latin Teacher

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Editor’s note: With every story we publish, our intention is to celebrate the experience of Collegiate. As part of that ongoing effort, we have been working with Upper School students, publishing stories in their own words.

This piece is one such student narrative.

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For me, it’s about putting power back in the hands of the students to learn.”

Why Middle School Latin?

Middle School is fun. It’s always something different everyday. Students have energy and are excited about what each day can bring. They are in that stage where they’re not so driven by academic success and the things they have to check off their to-do list, so there’s a little more freedom to experiment. Students are usually very excited to try new things and open to new ideas. And, they’re just funny.

Latin is a puzzle — a problem to solve. My mind works in that way, and I really enjoy the minutia of the grammar. I also think it goes back to the perspective of the language and that it’s something so ancient but so applicable to our modern world. The Roman Empire spanned three different continents — Europe, Africa, and Asia — and there are people in these multi-cultural societies studying how they interacted and the stories they told. Latin tells us about our society and the stories that we tell. Unfortunately, we repeat some of the same mistakes and patterns, and Latin can give us a different perspective into how we interact with other people.

What do you enjoy about teaching at Collegiate?

The people, first and foremost. The community we have here is special. I really value my colleagues and excellence as one of our core values. The thing that sets Collegiate apart from other schools is the excellence of the faculty, students, and administration. The teachers are trying to get better and be the best that they can be, and it really inspires me to do the same. It’s not all about academics, but about helping students become good people.

What is your approach to teaching?

For me, it’s about putting power back in the hands of students to learn. I try to design lessons where I am more of a facilitator and not a lecturer or driving instruction. I have the students be the ones to discover themselves through trial and error and making mistakes, and I’ll be there along the way to point them in the right direction. I really try to focus on student agency — getting students to realize that they can fend for themselves and that they have the power to take ownership over their own learning.

Are there components of your educational experience that you strive to replicate in your classroom?

[The late Upper School Robotics teacher] Dan Bartels taught me at Hanover High School. His class was really experiential and we did a lot of activities. We built a trebuchet and did experiments every day in physics. I really enjoyed learning by doing. With Latin it is kind of hard because it’s a language that people don’t speak, so I try to find ways to make class hands-on and experiential.

What do you hope students take with them as they leave your classroom?

I’ve always said that I want students to learn Latin, but for me it’s that they are going to leave a better person and have the skills that they will need to succeed in other classes and life. I hope they try to treat everyone with compassion and empathy and learn to see different perspectives.

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