EHS The Magazine: Spring 2022

T H E M AG A Z I N E OF E P I S C OPA L H I G H S C H OOL

| SPRING 2022

JOIN THE CLUB

AN INSIDE LOOK AT PASSION PROJECTS ACROSS CAMPUS

Contents ON THE COVER

THE CLUB 28 AJOIN look into clubs and extracurriculars across campus shows

the many ways students step into leadership roles. Robotics team members pictured on the cover are Vicky Zhou ’24, Claude Morris ’23, and Robert Kats ’22.

FEATURES

THE FIRST OF ITS KIND 32 An interdisciplinary trip to the Chesapeake Bay invigorates experiential education at EHS.

TIME IS NOW 36 OUR Holly and Jere Michael ’51 have traveled to over 50 countries

together over the last few decades. Why? Because their motto is “our time is now, and life is not a rehearsal. This is it.”

RIDING A BIKE 40 LIKE EHS alumnus Wythe Leigh Kinsolving, Class of 1897, traveled

700 miles by bicycle in 1898. Follow his route from EHS to the University of Virginia in the From the Archives feature.

DEPARTMENTS

2 FROM THE HEAD OF SCHOOL UP CLOSE 4 EPISCOPAL Episcopal says goodbye to Dave Phillips, Ed Rengers, and Jeff Streed; McCain-Ravenel Monday focuses on ethical courage; visiting scholars make a big impact on campus; and more.

CLASS NOTES 44 After Episcopal: Alfred Berkeley ’62, Dr. Harvey Moseley ’69, John Churchman ’75, Sundi Lofty ’94, Nettie Webb ’18

77 IN MEMORIAM

Head of School: Charley Stillwell Assistant Head for Advancement: Christina Holt Director of Communications: Irfan Latimer Associate Director of Communications: Ann deSaussure Biondi ’08 Class Notes Editor: Marissa Murdock Contributing Editors: Piper Hartman and Marissa Murdock Photographers: Natalie Davies, Rebecca Drobis, Piper Hartman, Cory Royster, and Allison Shelley Contributing Photographers: EHS Students, Faculty, and Staff Archivist: Laura Vetter Design: Linda Loughran Published by Episcopal High School for alumni, parents, grandparents, and friends of Episcopal High School. ©2022 Episcopal High School Please send address corrections to: Advancement Office, Episcopal High School, 1200 North Quaker Lane, Alexandria, VA 22302. Or by email to communications@episcopalhighschool.org.

Episcopal High School does not discriminate in its admissions, or in the administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship programs, or in access to or treatment in any other School-administered program on the basis of religion, race, color, sex, ancestry, sexual orientation, disability, national origin, or any other protected category in accordance with applicable Federal, State, and local laws.

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From the Head of School As we continue to emerge from the pandemic and return to a more normal approach to life on campus, we are reminded of the importance of our core values and the traditions that have made an Episcopal education so powerful for generations. Our focus is not only preparing our students for success in college and beyond, but, more importantly, preparing them to lead lives of ethical leadership, where they gain the strength of character and the concern for others that position them to make a positive impact in their communities. I sincerely believe this is one of our most important charges, and we are focusing on the development of these characteristics with intentionality, both through our academic and co-curricular programming.

We will continue to inspire our students with an understanding that they each have the capability and the responsibility to make a positive difference in the lives of those around them.

It has been incredible to dedicate time again to our leadership and ethics curriculum this year, which is one of the many ways we develop these life skills with students.

This spring the McCain-Ravenel Center for Intellectual and Moral Courage organized an especially effective day dedicated to ethical leadership which began with a keynote address by former Navy Seal and Paralympian Dan Cnossen, who shared powerful lessons with the students before they moved on to grade-level discussions about the underpinnings of the School’s Honor Code.

Another particular focus for us this year has been helping our students become more comfortable wrestling with difficult issues from multiple perspectives in a respectful manner.

I have been very pleased with our new Civil Dialogue

Series, which is modeling how people with very different viewpoints and ideological beliefs can discuss and analyze important and complex topics in a civil and productive way, as opposed to the divisive and demeaning rhetoric that our students often see in the media. Along similar lines, our new 9th grade civics curriculum is helping students explore the foundations of our government and how leaders can approach challenging issues in productive and respectful ways, while also highlighting the power of responsible civic engagement.

Daily, I also am reminded that our students are very fortunate to be surrounded, 24 hours a day, with adults who provide compelling examples of dedication and commitment to community and lifelong learning. Recently an alumna, Dr. Meg Andrews ’01, took time away from her role as a professor of classics at Harvard to speak at our Cum Laude Induction Ceremony. She shared such praise for all the dedicated faculty members at Episcopal who guided her — including Jeff Streed, who is among our retiring veteran teachers this spring — citing the care and concern shown for her and her classmates as pivotal to unlocking their passions and starting them on their own leadership journeys. The deep appreciation she articulated was incredibly meaningful to faculty and students, alike.

At Episcopal, we will continue our long tradition of helping each student understand that leadership is not just for the chosen few, the Head Monitor, the team captain, the Club President. With our ties to the Episcopal Church, and its call for servant leadership and humble service to others, we will continue to inspire our students with an understanding that they each have the capability and the responsibility to make a positive difference in the lives of those around them. From their classmates who may need support through life’s setbacks to the athletes with whom they buddy for the Special Olympics, our students are surrounded each day with leadership opportunities. As we purposefully strengthen each student’s understanding of their ability to be an ethical leader, we will honor our mission to be one of the country’s most exceptional educational institutions with alumni who are well-equipped to lead by example.

Sincerely,

Charles M. Stillwell Head of School

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PHOTO BY BEAU GREENWOOD P’22

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Episcopal Up Close n S T R AT E G I C P L A N U P D AT E

A Commitment to Community

The deButts Health & Wellness Center and two new dormitories will open their doors in the 2022-23 school year.

These three buildings will provide beautiful new spaces designed to enhance the quality of student life on campus and support the community’s physical health and mental well-being. With the primary goal of decreasing the student-to-faculty ratio on dorm, the two new dormitories were not built to accommodate increased enrollment but rather to de-densify existing dorms.

The community has watched in awe as the buildings have gone up this year, and the whole School is looking forward to the positive changes these spaces will bring to campus. Visit episcopalhighschool.org/masterplan or scan the QR code to read more about the projects and to view a 24/7 livestream of this transformational construction.

Associate Director of Institutional Advancement Rick Wilcox (left), Director of Facilites Ed Rengers (middle), and Trustee Rodney Robinson ’86 (right) on a hard hat tour of the new construction projects.

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n TRIBUTE

Thank You, Lee!

L to R: Charley Stillwell, Sallie Stillwell, Elizabeth Ainslie, Lee Ainslie

One of the most devoted and instrumental leaders in the Episcopal family, Lee Ainslie ’82 P’14 ’17 is stepping down after serving as Chair of the Board of Trustees for the past five years. With service on the Board that spans 14 years, Lee’s commitment to Episcopal is nothing short of remarkable. Despite a very demanding career, Lee always makes EHS a priority. He and his wife Elizabeth have set an incredible example with their personal generosity to the School over many years. As an alumnus who was raised on Episcopal’s campus while his father, Sandy Ainslie ’56, was a faculty member and eventually Headmaster, and whose brother, sons, nephews, and nieces have all attended the School, Lee’s fondness of The Holy Hill runs deep.

“Lee has lived and breathed our core values since growing up on campus as a young boy,” said Head of School Charley Stillwell.

“With a father who was a school head, Lee appreciates the critical role that the faculty and staff play in making Episcopal such a special place. While committed to Episcopal’s culture of achievement, Lee truly values our culture of character, and understands that there is nothing more important than our focus on personal honor, character development, and inspiring talented and compassionate future leaders.”

When reflecting on his tenure, Lee cited asking the Stillwells to be part of the Episcopal community and the decision to move forward on constructing the two new dormitories and the deButts Health & Wellness Center concurrently as two board decisions which make him very proud: “I actually asked if I could rejoin the board in 2015 because I wanted to serve on the Search

Committee for Rob Hershey’s successor, as I believe selecting the Head of School is the most important duty the Board has. One of Episcopal’s great strengths over time has been the steady leadership of very talented and dedicated Heads. Flick Hoxton, my dad and Rob Hershey served EHS for a total of over fifty years. Such stability is very rare and incredibly valuable to an institution like Episcopal that prides itself on a tradition of consistent excellence…

Having worked very closely with Charley over the past five years, I am more confident than ever in his leadership and dedication.

Furthermore, Sallie brings an engaged energy that everyone on the campus appreciates.”

During his most recent service on Episcopal’s Board, Lee was a key driver in the development of the 2018 Strategic Plan, collaborating with stakeholders and school leadership, and he has thoughtfully led discussions as the Board has deliberated over the School’s pre-Civil War history and relationship with slavery.

Incoming Board Chair Sarah Akridge Knutson ’96 said, “Constantly humble, Lee led the Board courageously, always seeking to hear a wide array of voices and always keeping the advancement of our strategic initiatives on the forefront. Lee’s leadership and thoughtful contributions will be missed around the board table, but he leaves the Board well-positioned to continue its valuable work in carrying the mission of our beloved School forward.”

All members of the Episcopal community are indebted to Lee for his exemplary dedication to The High School. Leading by example, he truly epitomizes the characteristics of Episcopal’s Portrait of a Graduate.

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Years of Service Three long-standing members of our community retire.

If you have been on campus at any point over the last thirty years — as a student, a parent, or a friend of the School — the names Dave Phillips, Ed Rengers, and Jeff Streed will surely ring a bell. The three men have a combined 106 years of service to Episcopal. This summer, all three of these respected campus figures will retire, leaving behind important legacies and taking with them countless memories.

DAVE PHILLIPS math teacher

It was the summer of 1991, and Dave Phillips was craving a simpler life. After a decade-long career in sales, he wanted to stop traveling so much and settle down with his growing family in Old Town Alexandria. He began to consider coaching, putting his love of football and his desire to work with kids to the test.

As luck would have it, a friend’s stepfather worked at Episcopal. Phillips got on the phone with Assistant Director of Athletics Jim Fraser, who put him on the phone with Head Football Coach Mark Gowin, who then put him on the phone with Director of Athletics Ed Rice. “Three hours later, I’ve got a volunteer coaching job,” he laughed.

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After a year of volunteering, which meant going into his full-time job before the sun came up so that he could make it to the Hummel Bowl in time for practice, Phillips realized his passion for teaching. “I turned to my wife and said, ‘I really love working with the kids,’” Phillips remembered, and he decided to make his volunteer gig permanent.

Phillips initially hoped to teach history, but there was an unexpected opening in the math department in the fall of 1992, so he jumped in headfirst. “I was only a couple of days ahead of the students,” he said of racing to complete the precalculus work so he could teach it.

Thirty years later, Phillips is a precalculus (and all things math) whiz, and he ultimately did get to teach history as well.

While at EHS, he designed and championed the advanced human geography class, believing staunchly that students must understand global geography in order to be true citizens of the world. He also spent time as the Director of Financial Aid. The students are ultimately what kept Phillips coming back year after year. “You have successes almost every day,” Phillips said. “It’s like the light comes on; the eyes

come up. And maybe the student raises their hand. They want to interact because they got it. That’s what you don’t get in the corporate world.”

The one thing he would change about Episcopal? The School would have more Duke University fans and fewer University of North Carolina fans, something that has plagued him for thirty years. “Krzyzewski [Coach K.] is retiring, so I thought it would be a good time for me to retire, too,” he joked.

JEFF STREED Latin and Greek teacher

Jeff Streed stepped onto campus for the first time in the spring of 1982, and he instantly fell in love with Episcopal. “I was really clueless, you know,” he said of his twenty-two-year-old self, but he was enamored with the community he found and the opportunity to work within the classics department as a Latin and Greek teacher.

On that day in ’82, Streed first spoke with John Walker, then assistant headmaster and English teacher. “The conversation was so genuine, and it didn’t have anything to do with classics, but it was just

wonderful.” Forty years later, Streed is one of the longest-standing teachers left who taught alongside Episcopal legends like Mr. Ainslie, Mr. Callaway, Dr. Miller, and Mr. Phillips, among many others.

Throughout his tenure, Streed has done it all. He has taught classics; he has coached; he served as director of residential life for eight years; he was the faculty advisor to Whispers; he has served on the Honor Committee; and he has been the director of faculty development. He also has overseen Episcopal’s rare books collection, which includes the Nuremberg Chronicle of 1493, a page from a Gutenberg Bible, a thirteenth-century Bible, and a copy of the Canterbury Tales — all of them gifts from alumni. “They’re really amazing books,” he said, still in awe of them so many years later. “To have them in my hands is just fun.”

Streed’s proudest role here has been as an EHS parent. His three sons, Eric ’09, Sam ’13, and Jack ’17, all grew up at Episcopal and graduated from the School.

“They were, in many ways, what was most important about our life at EHS.” In the 2003 Whispers dedication, students wrote: “Mr. Streed is a disarmingly humble and warm teacher, earning the respect of his students through his subtle humor and genuine concern for them. As any student of his will tell you, Mr. Streed’s goal is to be the best classics teacher he can possibly be. Not only has he done this, but he has been a true friend and mentor to the students.”

Upon retirement, Streed and his wife Melanie plan to travel the world. They will be based in their home in New Brunswick, Canada, for six months of the year and go on the road for the other six months.

Streed, a lifelong learner, says he will miss the classroom immensely. “You get this huge rush of adrenaline in the classroom. It’s not always there, but when it is, it’s just perfect.” He says of his future plans: “I have a long, long list of things I want to learn. I think the quote ‘the day you stop learning is the day you start getting old’ rings true.”

ED RENGERS director of facilities

Previously an independent contractor for the Courtyard by Marriott hotel chain, Ed Rengers has been on Episcopal’s facilities team since March 1987. It was Rengers’ wife Dana, (another devoted 30-year employee of the School) who suggested he consider finding a job closer to home. It took one interview with former Head of School Sandy Ainslie ’56, and Rengers was hired on the spot.

Rengers has overseen significant change on campus over his 36-year tenure.

Callaway Chapel was finished right before he came on board, and there were many projects coming down the pipeline. While he was here, the School built Robertson Hall and Hoxton Dormitory; the Shuford Tennis Courts; the Dawson Baseball Diamond; Baker Science Center; Ainslie Arts Center; Hershey Athletics Center; Townsend Hall; the new track; and an addition to Penick Hall. EHS also renovated two floors of the Hummel Learning Center. The current construction project — the deButts Health & Wellness Center and two new dormitories — is Rengers’ biggest job to date.

While much has changed on Episcopal’s campus over Rengers’ time here, much has stayed the same — the community most of

all. Family has been a huge focal point for Rengers since he started at Episcopal, from the children he raised on campus to the facilities team who became like family to him. “We’ve always done things as a group,” he said of his colleagues. “There’s a deep dedication and loyalty to the School from this bunch.”

For almost twenty years, the Rengers family has hosted a barbeque for the facilities team at their home on Lake Anna, which Rengers built from the ground up sixteen years ago. He and Dana will live there full-time during retirement.

Maintenance superintendent Patrick Turner, who has worked with Rengers for seventeen years, writes: “He has always treated this campus as if it were his own property, from the constant upkeep of the buildings to the assured comfort and safety of its residents to its beautiful landscapes.”

Not only that, but Rengers “has been a great leader and mentor to the whole facilities team.”

Of his time at EHS, Rengers says there was never a dull moment, especially not with 130 acres to care for. “I’ve never gotten bored,” he says of his long career.

“It’s something different every day.”

“I’ve spent half my life here,” Rengers said, still in awe of how quickly the time has passed. “That’s incredible.”

Ed’s wife, Dana Rengers, also has been a devoted employee to Episcopal. She retired in the summer of 2020 after a 30-year career in the advancement office.

Rengers’ favorite part of the job was working with Episcopal’s hallowed faculty members. “My greatest happiness was knowing these legends,” she said fondly. For two years, she was the assistant to former Head Sandy Ainslie ’56. “He was unbelievable, and we really looked after each other. It was truly an honor.”

Of Rengers’ long-standing relationships with alumni, Miranda Thompson ’00, director of stewardship and advancement services, wrote: “When I came back to EHS in 2005, I quickly realized Dana was an integral part of the team because of her strong relationships with so many members of the community. She served as an important lifeline of connection back to the Hill for so many Old Boys and Girls, who would regularly call her to say hello and get an update about the School.”

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Fresh Perspectives

Katrina Reed English

Mallory Nonnemaker Theater

First year reflections provide a unique opportunity to hear how the newest members of our faculty and staff see Episcopal, through fresh eyes and with new perspectives. Here is what a few had to share:

WHAT EXCITES YOU ABOUT EPISCOPAL?

There is such incredible alignment when it comes to the School’s mission; students, faculty, and staff are all committed to being the very best versions of themselves and developing Portrait of a Graduate characteristics. Education isn’t just about content cramming and rote memorization from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Instead, students are exposed to authentic learning experiences throughout the day: classes, chapel, club meetings, dorm, athletics, and more. It’s a holistic education that allows students to develop life skills that will serve them long after they graduate.

The community! This has been an excellent place for me professionally and, more importantly, for my own family. I love seeing my young children interact with the students. They have proved to be positive role models and, in some cases, have embraced the roles of being a big sister or brother!

I love that we are told “yes” more than we are told “no” in experimenting and trying new things in the classroom.

I love the ability given to us to go into D.C. [with the new schedule]. I was able to frame my American Drama curriculum around flexexperiences, and we visited the National Archives, The Vietnam Memorial, the National Museum of African American History and Culture, and the National Mall.

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The work centered around diversity, equity, and inclusion is heavy lifting and requires commitment, consistency, and dedication if change for the better is to be made. I respect the efforts led by Louis Smith [and the Office of Community and Equity] and will continue to lend my time and energy in order to help EHS be an even better institution tomorrow than it is today. As long as there are efforts to increase diversity amongst the teaching faculty, and to continue to diversify the student body, I am certain that EHS will continue to be an elite school for years to come. Truly grateful to be a member of this thriving community.

The learning that happens inside and outside of the classroom here is unmatched to any other space I’ve been in. I love being more than just a teacher to the kids, and really enjoy also being a dorm parent, coach, advisor! I also value my colleagues — their teamwork and dependability. I literally have the best teammates in the world and have never felt alone in my department.

My team is always willing to help out, listen to me pitch ideas, and help me grow.

Rudy Wise Associate Director of Admissions

Pierce Brennan Mathematics

Kiamani Wilson ’14 Mathematics

WHAT DO YOU MOST VALUE ABOUT EPISCOPAL STUDENTS?

I love the diversity of the student body! Because students hail from different parts of the globe, our classroom discussions are enriched by varied perspectives and life experiences (which allows students to develop empathy).

I love celebrating the big and small moments with them and their willingness to share them with us — from having boys come back to dorm excited when a girl said yes to Finals, to watching students tutor each other to master a subject, to seeing students grow as performers and try something new.

Their level of engagement in the classroom. They are focused on not just learning content in hopes of doing well on a test or quiz but on genuinely developing an understanding of the material. The students are hardworking, driven, and a delight to teach.

The school spirit and sense of pride the students exhibit is truly remarkable. From conversations I have had and through sheer observation, I find the students here to have a high level of social capital, authentic curiosity, and the ability to truly make an impact.

I value my students’ curiosity! I live for the why and how moments. I tell them, never believe what I tell you just because I said it’s true, I want you to push my thinking and your thinking. We are always striving to go above and beyond.

WHAT DO YOU SEE AS EPISCOPAL’S GREATEST STRENGTHS AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR GROWTH?

Episcopal is wonderfully reflective as an institution. They consistently demonstrate a desire to improve whole-school protocols and educational practices. There are also copious opportunities for professional growth and leadership development.

Our community and location. Having a campus that is 100% boarding near our nation’s capital is a fantastic opportunity and environment for our students and faculty alike.

EHS has all the tools and resources to continue to move forward in an ever-changing world. The sense of community, which can feel like a family at times, is one of Episcopal’s greatest strengths. As Episcopal continues to meet students where they are and challenge them to reach beyond their limits, it is without question that this community will continue to thrive!

Having a strong sense of community is a real strength here. I am excited for us to find more ways to include culturally responsive teaching in our curriculum, and one day have a center for diversity!

Our greatest strength is our community and the opportunities for exploring D.C. The community experience in the classroom, on dorm, and at our many events is what makes Episcopal - Episcopal.

All of the experiential learning that occurs in D.C. supports and enhances that community.

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Civil Dialogue Project 2022 In February, Episcopal’s McCain-Ravenel Center for Intellectual and Moral Courage launched the Civil Dialogue Project 2022, an initiative designed to model civil discussion by engaging knowledgeable external speakers with differing perspectives in thoughtful conversations.

“The ability to have difficult conversations is a skill that needs to be developed and honed,” said Head of School Charley Stillwell in reflecting on the goals of this pilot program. “We all need to be able to listen to one another, but we also need to be able to articulate issues in a way that factually conveys our position and enables others to hear what we have to say.”

All topics discussed during these evening sessions are submitted by the student body to ensure they are not only timely in nature but also of importance to the students. Questions, solicited a week in advance of each session, have included reproductive rights, second amendment rights, the partisan divide and its effect on American politics, and the war in Ukraine.

In opening the inaugural session in February, Jeremy Goldstein, executive director of the McCain-Ravenel Center for Intellectual and Moral Courage, referenced philosopher and professor Arthur Brooks who spoke to students about civil discourse and civil engagement on the eve of the election last year: “Almost no one is ever insulted into agreement,” Goldstein quoted. “And, what Brooks meant was, polarization will not allow us all to go forward as a large group. So tonight we are going to take a moment to sit and listen to a great conversation between two experienced individuals who come from different sides of the aisle and different ideological places. They are going to explore common ground; they are also going to explore their disagreements, listen to each other, and engage in a civil dialogue for the School to experience.”

February’s session brought participants Kevin Blaum, a former Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives who served from 1980-2006, and Manoli Loupassi, a former Republican member of the Virginia House of Delegates who served from 2007-2017, to Callaway Chapel.

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In April, students had the opportunity to hear from Jean Card, Principal of Jean Card Ink, a D.C. Metro Area communications consulting firm, and Karissa Willhite and Chris Giblin ’86 P’16 ’19 ’22, both principals at Ogilvy Government Relations, one of Washington’s most respected bipartisan government relations firms.

In each session, the differences of opinion and perspective were clear; however, the spirit of the conversations enabled students to see humanistic, respectful exchanges. Consistent themes about productive working relationships that emerged in both sessions highlighted the importance and power of intellectual debate based in fact and willingness to thoughtfully compromise. All acknowledged the power of one’s personal beliefs but challenged students to push past that comfort into embracing a genuine curiosity about the perspectives others hold and a willingness to engage in earnest conversation about why they hold their beliefs. Speakers also all stressed how crucial it is to develop one’s own opinions based on research and facts.

In touching on the media’s influence in our country, Willhite echoed the sentiments of her peers in both sessions, “Our self-selection of our news sources is driving that personal wedge more and more. If you’re only hearing from news sources that you agree with, then you’re not learning to think critically. So do a little research, ask questions, hear from both sides on an issue, and then begin forming your own informed opinions.”

“It is our responsibility to be leaders,” Giblin told students in April. “And that’s what Episcopal High School has always been about: producing leaders. You all are the next leaders of our country, and you have a burden on yourselves to read and understand what is going on and why, to absorb it, and then to be positive leaders.”

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Leadership, Ethics, and Courage McCain-Ravenel Monday focuses attention on ethical courage.

Six times a year, the McCain-Ravenel Center hosts an MRC Monday — a full academic day devoted to thoughtful exploration of a timely topic which includes keynote addresses, group discussions, on and off campus activities, and ample time for reflection. In April, students took a deep dive into questions about leadership, from defining it to grappling with what it really means to be a courageous leader.

“All students spent the day taking a look at their ethical compasses,” explained Mimi Schwanda who directs Episcopal’s Leadership and Ethics program.

Students spent a portion of the day delving into relevant ethical dilemma case studies. Ninth and tenth grade students considered ethics through the lens of Episcopal’s Honor Code: “I will not lie. I will not cheat. I will not steal. I will report the student who does.”

With one group watching a mock Honor Committee hearing and talking about how challenging it can be to make the right decision when the stakes are high, while another analyzed the 4th point of the Honor Code “I will report the student who does,” considering if the code could survive without this commitment. Students touched on topics of integrity, loyalty, and friendship.

With a focus on life beyond Episcopal, juniors and seniors were challenged to think critically about how the School’s Honor Code was preparing them to lead ethical lives off campus. They were asked to consider how one makes a decision when there is no clear right answer, and what values might be prioritized in making difficult decisions.

The day’s Keynote address was given by Lieutenant Commander Dan Cnossen, a Navy SEAL combat veteran and six-time Paralympic medalist. After losing both of his legs in Afghanistan in 2009, he channeled the mental fortitude he honed as a Navy SEAL into his rehabilitation and recovery. He spoke to students about the power of tackling difficult situations one step at a time, about what it means to be a courageous leader, and about one’s capacity to change their perspective during the most difficult of times.

It was clear that his stories of hardship, perseverance, and tenacity resonated with the students. Jane Montgomery ’22 said, “Mr. Cnossen was engaging and had all of us captivated by his stories,” she said. “Not only was his story impactful, but he intertwined it with lessons that we could use in our daily lives.”

Schwanda characterized the day as “a great celebration of leadership and courage with students having the opportunity to practice leadership and group dynamic skills, and then gather in small groups and reflect on their own leadership styles.”

2021-22 MRC Mondays For a full description of this year’s MRC Mondays, scan the QR code:

— SEPTEMBER —

Episcopal’s Culture of Character and its Portrait of a Graduate — NOVEMBER —

Learn the City — JANUARY —

MLK Symposium — FEBRUARY —

Black History Month — APRIL —

Leadership, Ethics, and Courage — MAY —

Courageous Action: Seeks Balance and Brings Joy

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Honoring Our School’s History Throughout the years, members of the Episcopal community have researched and shared accounts of the School’s founding and history. Many of these efforts have been comprehensive and collaborative, and they have even involved our students delving into Episcopal’s archives as part of their work in U.S. History courses and other social studies electives.

A particular focus was placed on this research in the years leading up to our commemoration of 50 years of integration, with the establishment of an Office of Community and Equity in 2017, and with the work of the Board Task Force on Racism, Understanding, and Belonging commencing in 2020. The ongoing research has borne increased clarity about the role enslaved people played in our School’s pre-Civil War history.

Earlier this year, Head of School Charley Stillwell and Chair of the Board of Trustees Lee Ainslie ’82 P’14 ’17 established the School History Working Group to explore what we have learned.

Specifically, the Group was charged with identifying key takeaways from the research conducted thus far to inform the Board as it considers how to acknowledge that history, how to continue the research, and how to discuss implications of our past in relation to the School today and in the future.

Former Trustee Billy Peebles ’73 agreed to serve as Chair of the Working Group. In addition to his devotion to EHS, Peebles brings the perspective of a highly-regarded school leader, having served as a head of school for over 30 years. He led Powhatan School from 1985 to 1992, Asheville School from 1992 to 2002, and Lovett School from 2003 to 2018. In retirement, Peebles served as interim head of school at both Palm Beach Day School and Powhatan School. His career in education began at Virginia Episcopal School, where he worked for future EHS Headmaster Sandy Ainslie ’56 as a history teacher, dorm parent, coach, and admissions officer.

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the Working Group are very consistent with Episcopal’s enduring mission: honesty, objectivity, transparency. Our preeminent role as an educational institution is first and foremost our ongoing pursuit of truth and knowledge, and we see this process as an opportunity for the community to learn and grow.”

Joining Peebles on the School History Working Group are the following members of the Episcopal community: Jonathan Beane ’88, P’24 ’24, Trustee and Chair of the Racism, Understanding and Belonging Task Force; Lenora Gant P’96, Trustee 1996-2002; Bailey Patrick ’79 P’11 ’12 ’14, Trustee 200410, Board Chair 2011-17; Louis Smith P’19 ’22 ’23, Director of the Office of Community and Equity; and Bobby Watts P’98 ’00, faculty member 1992-2014. Former EHS faculty member Mike Reynolds also provided ongoing scholarly research and support.

Throughout the 2021-22 academic year, the Working Group engaged with members of the EHS community, experts in American history, and leaders from institutions that have pursued similar work. By the end of April, members of the Working Group had spoken with over 20 scholars and experts nationwide who shared a range of experiences and perspectives on approaches to this important work. Conversations within the Episcopal community with alumni, trustees past and present, faculty, staff, and students shed light not only on the complexity of this work but also on the importance our community places on ensuring a thorough and thoughtful process.

In late April, the Working Group shared its findings to date with the full Board of Trustees during its spring meeting. The Board is presently reviewing the research and will reconvene in June for additional discussions as it considers a thoughtful path forward.

Updates will be shared as this work continues. All members of the Episcopal community are welcome to reach out to members of the Working Group with any thoughts or questions.

There is much of which to be proud in our School’s storied history, and the Board believes it is important to have a full and complete understanding of Episcopal’s past so that we may truly honor the powerful legacy we have inherited with integrity, respect, and honesty.

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Courageous Action At Episcopal, our community often talks about intellectual and moral courage.

The School strives to instill certain qualities in each student, a model we call the Portrait of a Graduate, that encourages them to lead lives of ethical courage and leadership. But it’s not just our students and alumni who hear and live this message; it’s our parents, too.

Hank Holland P’18 ’23 landed in Warsaw, Poland, on March 24, 2022, exactly one month after Russia invaded Ukraine. The first thing he did in Poland was buy all the homemade teddy bears at a local gift shop, which he promptly handed out to children waiting to find safety. Because most Ukrainian men stayed behind to defend their country, many of the displaced refugees he encountered were grandmothers, mothers, and children.

A private equity investor, Holland was aware of his limitations, but he was driven by his deep parental instincts to provide comfort to displaced and fractured families. “I don’t have the training or experience to lead armed resistance, deliver needed supplies to the front lines of eastern Ukraine, or evacuate the most vulnerable in Kyiv, Mariupol, or Donetsk,” he wrote. “But I can show up, I can take action, I can support others’ efforts, and I can comfort displaced grandpar- Hank pictured with his son Fulton ’23 ents, mothers, and children.” over Spring Family Weekend.

Holland put it simply: “Though I wasn’t trained as a soldier, I’m a father. I would innately do or give anything for my four children. And as a father, I’ve tried to lead by example and to live by principles that I hoped to instill in my children.” Driven to act, Holland was connected with friends of friends who were already on the ground in the war zone: Ryland Harding and Ben Scott, former British Special Forces and infantry, whom he met up with in Krakow, Poland.

Upon arrival he went straight to work, and quickly knew he was indeed in a war zone. One morning the trio left pre-dawn to deliver supplies to a safe house in Lviv, Ukraine. It was located next to two strategic military targets, and at roughly 4 p.m. local time, Russia launched two missiles from the Black Sea that struck a fuel depot 1 kilometer away and a communication tower .2 kilometers away.

For the rest of that day, Holland felt an “indescribable peace.”

In the midst of a war, he sat in the safe house, listening to air raid sirens as he played with and comforted the children. There was never time to waste, so the next morning he, Harding, and Scott left before sunrise again to evacuate a mother and daughter to a safe house in Poland.

While traveling throughout Poland and Ukraine, Holland’s scope of work was simple: help families make train reservations, make sure they had hot drinks, provide comfort to scared children, and show his support in any way he could. Sometimes that was emotional and sometimes that was financial — providing the means and the resources to get refugees to safety. Before leaving, he bought two cars to give to the mission in hope of ensuring more families would get to the other side.

On April 1, Holland flew Hank (right) pictured with Ben Scott from Poland to London to (left) and Ryland Harding (middle).

D.C., and arrived on campus for Spring Family Weekend, proving once again he is a father first and foremost. “My only wish is that my children find something they’re passionate about and throw everything they have into it.”

Holland acknowledged the work still to be done. He has cofounded Project Apollo to continue evacuation efforts of vulnerable refugees from high-threat areas, and he plans to return to Poland and Ukraine in the summer, this time accompanied by his son Fulton ’23. “There are twelve million refugees; we’ve gotten dozens of people out,” he told us. “That’s like a grain of sand on the beach.”

Until then, he continues to work — through financial backing, through words of comfort to his compatriots on the ground in Europe, and through prayer. “I pray for these kids; I pray that the families will be reunited; I pray for common ground; and I pray for peace.”

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“A Scholar of Her Caliber” This spring, Stanford professor Dr. Paula Findlen returned to campus seven years after her first visit in the spring of 2015 to share her extensive expertise on rare books, Renaissance artwork, and the Roman plague with our students and faculty.

Dr. Findlen began her visit with multiple presentations in Bryan Library regarding the School’s rare books collection, some of which was laid out on the conference table for the community to see (and even handle) for themselves. The collection includes the Nuremberg Chronicle of 1493, a page from a Gutenberg Bible, a thirteenth-century Bible, and a copy of the Canterbury Tales — all of them gifts from alumni — and it rivals collections of higher education and museums, according to Latin teacher Jeff Streed.

“Having Dr. Findlen here was a huge event for my Latin students,” Streed said. “She is arguably the greatest authority in the world on Athanasius Kircher, whose works form the foundation of our rare books collection, and my students had spent weeks preparing to meet with her. To experience those books in a classroom setting under the guidance of a scholar of her caliber was a once-in-a-lifetime experience.”

Alumnus Wayne Holman III ’53 accompanied Dr. Findlen throughout her visit to campus. Holman and Dr. Findlen share an affinity for German Renaissance painter, printmaker, and theorist Albrecht Dürer. Pieces of Dürer’s artwork are 16

displayed throughout campus, and Dr. Findlen spoke with World History students about the etchings they pass regularly.

“I took a lot away from our investigation of Dürer and his unique way of portraying art,” Ray Wang ’24 said of Dr. Findlen’s visit. “I was intrigued to learn he assigned intellectual property to artwork by signing his name and used the new invention of the printing press to mass-produce his artwork.”

During an all-School gathering on her final day, Dr. Findlen shared a brief history of the Roman plague. To help the students better understand the material, Dr. Findlen drew parallels between the plague and the current Covid-19 pandemic. She also introduced students to various ideologies held during the seventeenth century and compared those philosophies to 2022. She touched on the homogenous pandemic safety techniques that influenced Roman society and impact safety methods to this day. Quarantining, masks, social distancing, and hazmat suits were all protective measures against spreading disease in the 1600s.

“Dr. Findlen proved that there were similarities between how people treat pandemics today as compared to centuries ago,” Walter Liu ’24 said. “She also acknowledged that our current pandemic might possibly lead to some period of intellectual breakthrough.”

Alumnus Wayne Holman III ’53 listens to Dr. Findlen’s presentation.

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Brief Yet Meaningful Visits EHS welcomes Theologian-in-Residence and interns from the Seminary.

This year’s Theologian-in-Residence was Reverend Melanie Mullen, the first director of reconciliation, justice, and creation care for the Episcopal Church. Of her work in the greater Episcopal community addressing issues of social justice, environmentalism, and poverty, she said, “This is the great confluence of all my loves.”

A graduate of our neighbor, Virginia Theological Seminary, Rev. Mullen is no stranger to Episcopal, and she spent her week on campus giving sermons, communing with students, and learning about daily life on The Holy Hill. While sitting in on classes, she watched student presentations and answered questions about the role of church in our lives, the meaning of the Bible today, and more. “I feel like I’ve been opened to the world that they see and experience,” Rev. Mullen said. “I could hear the things they were worried about.”

Throughout her week, Rev. Mullen dove into hard conversations with the students, who are much younger than her usual constituents, and was impressed by the depth of their thinking. “They asked me things like: ‘Where do you find authenticity? Where do you find love? Where do you feel like you belong? Why is God calling you?’”

“They changed what I preached,” she said of the impact the exchanges had on her sermons.

Joining Rev. Mullen were two interns from our neighbors at Virginia Theological Seminary, Yaa Addison and Brandon Nonnemaker (husband of EHS theater director Mallory Nonnemaker), who spent four weeks at Episcopal to complete their field education requirement.

While at Episcopal, Addison and Nonnemaker preached, joined classes, coached, and shadowed EHS Head Chaplain Betsy Carmody and Assistant Chaplain Richmond Jones.

Like Mullen, they quickly found a place in our community,

connecting with students and faculty alike. “I found conversations with other faculty to be really meaningful, not just for my work here, but in my own spiritual discernment,” said Nonnemaker.

Addison added: “I want to thank the EHS community for welcoming us and just treating us like community members right away. The care that they have for their students is tangible. I felt it as a student myself for four weeks.”

L to R: EHS Assistant Chaplain Richmond Jones, Yaa Addison, Melanie Mullen, Head of the EHS Vestry Emily Elizabeth Penton ’22, Brandon Nonnemaker, EHS Head Chaplain Betsy Carmody.

I feel like I’ve been opened to the world that they [Episcopal students] see and experience.

— REV. MELANIE MULLEN

The Theologian-inResidence Program was established in 1993 by Reginald E. Rutledge Jr. ’51 in honor of his wife, the Rev. Fleming Rutledge, and his family members who have attended EHS.

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Scholar in Residence Joins the Episcopal Community Established in 1998 by an anonymous donor, The Ben Geer Keys Scholar in Residence Program has a long, treasured history of bringing talented scholars and artists to The High School to work with and live among students for several days.

On March 21, Episcopal welcomed Dr. Khalid Kadir as the 2021-22 Scholar in Residence. Dr. Kadir is a continuing lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley. An environmental engineer, he teaches courses in the Global Poverty and Practice Program, Political Economy, and Civil and Environmental Engineering. He has studied water and wastewater treatment systems in Morocco through a Fulbright Fellowship, and he hopes to redefine engineering to become a more people-centric discipline.

“For too long, engineering has been a narrowly constrained technical discipline,” Dr. Kadir said. He took students through case studies to make his pedagogical pursuits more tangible. “I’m not cleaning water; I’m cleaning your water. I need to understand you — where you live, what’s important to you, what your challenges are — and that opens up the space to talk about inequality and justice.”

While on campus, Dr. Kadir was an active participant in our community, sitting with students, faculty, and staff alike to connect across disciplines. He discussed the complexities of systems that produce evil with the Good and Evil in Literature class, doing a deep dive into Nazi Germany with the junior and senior participants. He went outside with the Environmental Science classes to study stormwater treatment on campus. (Dr. Kadir received his PhD from Berkeley in Civil and Environmental Engineering, where his research focused on wastewater treatment systems.) He shared his personal life philosophy with the Rule of Life theology class, grappling with the class about how we perceive and interact with the world based on our individual belief systems.

“There’s an environment cultivated here with great intention to support these young adults as whole people, which I think is beautiful,” Dr. Kadir observed. He expounded upon the relationships between students and teachers — how the residential aspect at Episcopal encourages focus on the development of both intellectual and moral courage.

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committed to supporting you to that end,” Dr. Kadir told the students as he delivered the Chapel talk on his last day on campus.

“On the other hand, underneath the literature, the math, the history, the science, … lies a much deeper, sacred purpose… Your teachers desire not only good for you, but they expect good from you. They attempt to nurture your moral courage, to help you become people who will stand up for what is right, even when that is hard to do.”

Dr. Kadir also used his Chapel talk to encourage students to be kind to each other and do as much good in the world as possible.

He shared wisdom from his Muslim faith, quoting the Quran on good versus evil. According to Dr. Kadir, “God is telling us not to sink into this world, not to fight dirty to achieve some material or political ends, but instead to rise above. And when confronted with evil or ugliness, to respond with goodness and beauty.”

Assistant Head for Academics and English teacher Nate Ebel said of Dr. Kadir’s week-long visit: “Considering that Dr. Kadir was here for just one week, his impact on the community was extraordinarily broad and deep. Not only did he give his thoughtful and thought-provoking address to the full community in Chapel, but he also worked directly with classes in all of the academic departments.

Whether he was working with the Engineering students, Spanish 2 students, or Environmental Literature students, his lessons and interactions left all — students and faculty — feeling inspired and invigorated to examine their subjects in new ways.”

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Maria Rose Belding Receives 2022 Integrity in Action Award This year’s award recipient began making big changes in the world as a mere eighth grader who not only conceived of an idea to address an issue, but also had the conviction to act on it. At fourteen, Maria Rose Belding was tasked with throwing away the expired food at a food pantry where she was volunteering. The absurdity of it all struck her as she carried armloads of macaroni and cheese boxes to dumpsters in a parking lot filled with hungry people waiting to enter the shelter. Belding came up with the notion of creating a database that could match businesses with excess food with food pantries and emergency food providers serving people in need. With the help of a school friend who was proficient in coding, Belding co-founded the MEANS (Matching Excess and Needs for Stability) Database in 2015. Currently, the nonprofit tech company has rerouted more than five million pounds of food to communities in need across the United States. The organization focuses on two major goals: reducing food waste and rerouting that food to feed people facing food insecurity.

Now 26 years old, Belding is the Chair of the Board at MEANS, a role to which she transitioned in 2021 to pursue her studies at Georgetown University School of Medicine.

During Belding’s 11-year tenure as the organization’s first Executive Director, MEANS transformed from that idea of an Iowa eighth grader to a multimillion-dollar industry leader in food recovery and emergency meal provision. It is active in 50 states and D.C., which is its homebase.

A frequent speaker on food insecurity, inclusive innovation, and building sustainable corporate cultures, Belding has delivered addresses across the U.S. in 28 states and at the Obama White House. Her work with MEANS and beyond earned her recognition as one of L’Oréal Paris’s Women of Worth, a Glamour College Woman of the Year, an inaugural winner of the George H.W. Bush Point of Light Prize, and, in December 2018 at age 23, the youngest-ever CNN Heroes of the Year honoree.

In late April, Belding delivered the Phillips Lecture on Integrity in Action to a packed Pendleton Hall. In addressing food insecurity in our nation, she emphasized myriad complex issues that lead to individuals and

families going hungry and further delineated the staggering impact of Covid-19.

Reminding students they are never too young to make a difference or act on a passion, Belding said, “Here are the things I wish somebody had told me: You are never alone in doing the work you may want to do. Others want to do that work, too, so find them because together you can do some pretty great things. And, you don’t have to apologize for being young and good at what you do.

And when you’re really good at what you do, your age becomes irrelevant.”

After being peppered with questions by students, Belding officially received the Integrity in Action Award from Head of School Charley Stillwell who said, “Think about being in eighth grade and being aware enough to identify a problem and being courageous enough to think that you can do something about it. And, then not that many years later to have touched the lives of millions of people and to have accomplished all that you have accomplished. It’s our great honor to officially award you with our Integrity in Action Award. I can’t thank you enough for sharing your story, inspiring all of us to try to make these kinds of differences ourselves.”

Clearly connecting with the students, Belding received a standing ovation from the audience and was quickly flanked by a group of students who continued conversations with her after the program concluded.

The Phillips Lecture on Integrity in Action was established in 2000 to honor long-time EHS faculty member Allen C. Phillips Jr. It was created

by John Burress ’54, John Walker ’79, Ed Walker ’85, and then-Headmaster Rob Hershey.

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Civics in the 21st Century

New course explores foundations of government, civility, and the power of civic engagement.

In the spring of 2018, social studies department chair Heidi Huntley assembled a cross-departmental group of colleagues to collaborate on the creation of a new ninth grade civics course.

Reflecting on the process, which included participation by not only the ninth grade teaching team but also faculty from other core subjects and EHS librarians, Huntley said, “We spent a lot of time discussing what it meant to learn about civics in the 21st century, and took great care in vetting our resources to ensure they were thoughtful, engaging, non-partisan, and helped students think critically about what it meant to be an engaged citizen. Ultimately, we landed on designing a curriculum that was steeped in a foundational understanding of how the US government functions, and provided students with opportunities to practice civic engagement — we wanted them to know how to live it, not just learn about it.”

After more than a year in development and a delay due to Covid, Civics in the 21st Century came to life this spring.

During the required semester-long course, students investigate the essential concepts of civics, delving into how the three branches of US government function, elections, voting, media literacy, and the press. But beyond this, students When asked what he thought of the new class, David Song ’25 practice being civil, engaged, and well-informed citizens, learning said, “My favorite part is the applicability of things like media how to use the tactics of civics to bring change to their communities. literacy and propaganda techniques, and how knowing about Making sure students understand that civics pertains to the these things encourages independent thinking a lot more. [I also rights and duties of citizens, teacher Joe Eldred said, “This is civics like] that this course offers great freedom in projects and research for all of us. Civic engagement is the participation that connects papers, allowing us to explore, on our own, how our government citizens to government, and it is a vital ingredient of our democracy. came to be.”

I hope students leave the class knowing we all have a role to play Classmate Daisy Campf ’25 added, “I like learning about new at some level — here at Episcopal and beyond.” ways to engage with my community, and having the satisfaction In discussing forms of civic engagement, students are asked to of knowing that I am striving to be the best citizen possible. This consider the myriad ways one can address issues they care about. course is one in which you cannot simply sit and listen. Instead, The class emphasizes the importance of using reliable sources to you are pushed to take initiative and value your own civic role.” become knowledgeable and well-informed about topics, rather than relying on opinion. Teachers also stress the paramount roles of civility and responsible action in a democratic society. Challenged to think critically about the This is civics for all of us. Civic engagement is the reliability of their information sources, students consider participation that connects citizens to government, not only the influence of media and the press on all citizens and it is a vital part of our democracy. but also students’ responsibility to be thoughtful consumers — JOE ELDRED as they embark on research about iconic changemakers and SOCIAL STUDIES TEACHER consider their end-of-semester collaborative action project.

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Special Olympics Returns The Special Olympics returned to campus on a beautiful sunny day in April, taking place on the new track and field for the first time. In an email written to the community after the event, Head Chaplain Betsy Carmody said: “You were an amazing community this morning. I didn’t realize how much I missed watching you all with our Special Olympic athletes. The way you cheer for them, fist bump them, listen to them, and laugh with them is awesome.”

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Track and field competed on the new track for the first time.

GO MAROON! Congrats to our athletes for bringing spirit, grit, tenacity, and determination to every game.

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The boys’ and girls’ climbing teams won first and second place respectively at the Washington Area Interscholastic Climbing League (WAICL) championship.

Girls’ varsity lacrosse won the Independent School League (ISL) tournament.

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Making Beautiful Music Inside a Hidden Gem of Ainslie Arts Center

Ainslie Arts Center has its fair share of well-appointed spaces which include amenities and equipment rarely seen on a high school campus. From instrument practice rooms designed for acoustical integrity, to the Breeden Black Box Theater with full-story catwalk, to painting, drawing, ceramics, dance, and digital photography studios with state-of-the art furnishings, the 42,000 square foot space is home to a vibrant and burgeoning program. Comfortably tucked into a space on the lower level is a true gem in the EHS arts crown, the three room Allen Studio, a state-of-the-art MIDI lab and 24-channel digital recording studio.

As a strong believer that music is important to a well-rounded education, John Allen ’88, whose family supported the creation of the space, said, “My parents wanted to support the school and they asked me what did I wish we had that wasn’t there? I said, ‘Well, certainly a studio would have been nice.’ We had to record things on boom boxes and all the bands practiced in the bottom of Stewart Gym; it The studio is a hidden gem was pretty low tech.” that has allowed me to find my The current space is calling. It’s beautiful and state anything but low tech now as of the art; time always flies by Mark Carter, arts department quickly when I’m down there. chair and director of instru— WILL CRONIN ’23 mental music, explained: “[The studio] is one of the few rooms you will go into on campus that isn’t a square or rectangle. The room and the windows are angled so you don’t get slap back from the sound bouncing off the walls and there are spines in each corner, so the sound doesn’t echo.”

Everything about the space is meticulously focused on maintaining the integrity of sound. The studio only runs air conditioning in five minute increments to remain comfortable but limit outside white noise. Within the space, there are separate chambers, each serving a specific acoustic purpose. Two libraries are used for live recording or percussion instrumental recording, and one isolation room is acoustically sealed to ensure high quality audio recording.

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Adjacent to the studio is the MIDI lab, where students just beginning in audio engineering take classes as well as mix audio recordings. While each room has its purpose, the space also was designed to be versatile so it could allow for recordings and music to come to life.

These unique spaces provide students with an unparalleled classroom experience. In the lab, students can take audio engineering, focusing on soundscapes, digital music, and sound effects. Honors and advanced audio engineering students use the main studio’s recording space, focusing on the functionality and placement of microphones within the studio space. By the end of the advanced class, students have created a portfolio of two to four songs that they have mixed and produced from start to finish.

Carter said that while some high schools and colleges may have a recording studio on campus, Epicopal’s is different because the technology is constantly updated. Students are gaining hands-on experience with the same technology that is actively being used in the audio-engineering industry.

Also instrumental in making this space a reality, Nashville-based record producer and owner of Carnival Music Frank Liddell ’82 recently said, “It’s great to have the studio there for the students at their young age to start dabbling and just experimenting.” A sentiment echoed by Allen.

Will Cronin ’23 has taken full advantage of the studio’s technology, dabbling to his heart’s content. While he arrived on campus with some audio engineering experience, his talent and passion for making music flourished while taking classes, mixing, and recording in the studio. Cronin is now planning on studying audio engineering in college.

“The studio is a hidden gem that has allowed me to find my calling. It’s beautiful and state of the art; time always flies by quickly when I’m down there,” Cronin says.

Interested in hearing a piece Will produced?

Scan the QR code for a sample of his work.

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“Omigod You Guys” The cast and crew of “Legally Blonde: The Musical” wowed the crowd in Pendleton on a cold weekend in February for the always enjoyable winter musical.

Led by Charlotte Whiteley ’24 as Elle Woods, Ian Crews ’24 as Harvard-bound ex-boyfriend Warner Huntington III, and Mac Halm ’25 as the rumpled love interest Emmett Forrest, the entire cast and crew delivered a stellar performance that was talked about long after the curtain closed.

It was such an amazing opportunity even to participate in the musical — much less play Elle Woods! The role was definitely vocally challenging, but that was nothing compared to how rewarding it felt to see the entire production come together. The entire cast was so talented and supportive of one another, and I am so proud of everything we accomplished.

— CHARLOTTE WHITELEY ’24

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Coming Together for the Arts During Spring Family Weekend, art teachers and students hosted a collaborative art exhibit in the Angie Newman Johnson Gallery.

Visual arts teachers Liz Vorlicek, Junko Pinkowski, and David Douglas chose one piece of their own art and many student pieces to be displayed in a French-inspired salon style.

Salon style is more of an artfully haphazard gallery wall than the traditional museum-style exhibit where every work of art is lined in a neat row. Pieces were hung above and below where the eye meets the wall, drawing the viewer’s attention to every nook and cranny in the gallery. The space was flooded with photography, graphic works, and ceramics.

Vorlicek, who also serves as director of the gallery, created a piece that commemorated the gallery opening by incorporating the ladder used to install the lightning in the gallery into its own work of art. The bright yellow ladder leaned up against the wall and was surrounded by ceramics and fabric.

“This feels like a vital celebration,” Vorlicek said of opening the gallery doors on Spring Family Weekend. “We’re so happy that you could be a part of this event and this important part of the life of our school,” she told the families who gathered.

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The Grill N Chill Club learned something quickly this year: Almost every student on campus will show up to an event that serves free food, especially after two tough years of quasi-social isolation due to Covid-19.

“People our age are motivated by food and good weather,” president of the club Will Schenck ’22 joked. “And the club has definitely brought back some of the community that was lost during Covid.”

Grill N Chill might seem self-explanatory. You grill, then you chill. But at the heart of it, the club is focused on building community. “It’s all about the atmosphere created by food and friends,” explained vice president Ward Lilly ’22. “When the grill is rolling, people tend to congregate nearby and spark conversation. Often a football is thrown around, and people talk with members of our community they might not be as familiar with.”

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Generously funded by the Student Activities Committee, led by Director of Activities Cabell Doswell, the club doesn’t charge for the food. “That’s not what the club is about,” according to Schenck. Students can donate to the club’s expenses, but it’s not a requirement.

Lilly and Schenck do most of the grilling.

Sometimes they help train the incoming members of the club, but they mostly view it as their responsibility to make the food while others relax and enjoy the day. While it can be stressful managing the long lines, the wait times, the guests’ expectations, and more, Schenck and Lilly remain calm under pressure.

The Grill N Chill club gives students a much-needed reprieve on warm days, especially during a busy sports season in the Hummel Bowl or on a beautiful weekend afternoon on the Dalrymple patio. While it’s a lot of work to get the grill fired up and find the necessary supplies, it’s worth it at the end of the day. “As long as the grillers can find the time, everyone else will, too,” Schenck says.

HISTORY CLUB • The History Club began as a direct message on Instagram. Walter Liu ’24 was a virtual student his freshman year, beaming into his classes from Taipa, Macao, and he was hoping to get to know some like-minded friends from the other side of the world. He sent a message to his advisory brother Ian Crews ’24, who was also in his history class. Crews immediately was interested, and he’s now Liu’s vice president.

With thirty members, the History Club is divided into groups according to interests — from writing think pieces for The Chronicle to bringing in guest speakers. As vice president, Crews is responsible for finding those speakers and bringing them to The Holy Hill. He recently arranged a virtual session with his uncle Robert Crews, a Stanford University history professor, who discussed the historical context behind the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

The club doesn’t solely focus on world history; it also has a vested interest in the School’s own history, given the richness and weight of a 182-year legacy. Five members, Damian Kearns ’23, Monte Berman ’24, James Hong ’24, Xiangyi Guo ’24, and Liu, recently took home first place at the regional event for the Virginia National History Day Contest 30

Student Investment Group for their video on Senator John McCain ’54: “John McCain: The Maverick Debate.”

In their movie, the students endeavored to showcase how McCain represented a generation of bi-partisan politicians.

“He was less extreme on the political spectrum and considered both perspectives on both the left and the right,” Liu said. “He embodied the example of a moderate, or balanced approach to governing the country.”

“It’s easy to join clubs,” Crews realized, “but to be able to invest your time outside of school, you actually have to really enjoy the topic.” The club is fortunate to have many different history enthusiasts with a wide breadth of talents and interests.

According to Liu, “That is what makes the club stronger… We have so many people able to do so many things.”

ROBOTICS • While robotics is an afternoon option during the fall season (like volleyball or photography), the robotics team puts in copious work outside of their official “season.” They often travel to weekend competitions that last all day and stay late in Baker Science Center to perfect their robots and ready their kits and notebooks. While it is a significant time commitment, the robotics team members are driven by their love for STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics).

Team members are responsible for designing and building a robot from the ground up, which then competes against opposing robots from other schools. On each team of two or three students, there is a programmer, a designer, a builder, and a scout. The scout is responsible for going around to each team’s robot at competitions and asking questions about what their individual group might do better.

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each other,” sophomore Vicky Zhou said. “That’s the biggest part of it.”

Zhou first became interested in the STEM-based activity while building Legos in elementary school. “I have the basics down, but I’m not a programmer,” she stated. That’s where the rest of the team’s strengths come in. To build a competition-worthy robot, they need to work together and lean on each other’s different skill sets. As for Zhou, she likes to work with her hands, so she’s the builder. She learned to solder in computer science class in the sixth grade, and she grew up playing with circuit boards in her spare time. “It’s just a lot of fun,” Zhou told us.

Faculty advisor to the team and science teacher Dr. Kacey Meaker spoke of the benefits of being on the team for students who want to go on to jobs in STEM: “It truly gives you the skills you’ll directly need for a job.” A member of her high school robotics team, Dr. Meaker continued using those skills all the way to earning her PhD. A standout moment for Dr. Meaker was the team’s performance during a competition earlier this year in what’s called the “autonomous” round. At the beginning of each match, the robots have an autonomous fifteen seconds, which the students work on for weeks. “It was so successful because they spent two hours every day, week after week, sitting in the room resetting and running the program and saying, ‘Okay, that didn’t work; let me tweak this one thing,’” said Dr. Meaker. Their dedication to perfecting those fifteen seconds is what keeps her and the students coming back year after year.

STUDENT INVESTMENT GROUP • The Student Investment Group (SIG) began in 2009, when H. Woltz P’04 ’05 ’10 donated an initial $25,000 for Episcopal students to learn about investing in a hands-on way, with real money at stake. Since then, the fund has grown to roughly $90,000 and enables the students to give back to communities in need.

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Students cannot simply sign up for SIG. They must apply, and the process is rigorous. Audrey Davies ’22 didn’t get into the group her sophomore year. It was a competitive year for membership with only a few coveted spots. “I didn’t make the cut,” she said, but that only fueled her fire. Two years later, she’s the president.

Davies’ dad works in investing, and all three of her brothers also are interested in the field. “I just wanted to be in the conversation,” Davies commented on her desire to get involved with SIG. Davies’ passion for the club also is intrinsically motivated.

She sees her work in the group as an investment in her future self. “I want to make that passive income when I’m older.”

Bound for Duke University, she plans to major in economics with a concentration in finance.

Students meet in Bryan Library to make their pitches to the rest of the group. It often gets animated with students making passionate presentations and sometimes disagreeing.

“It’s always interesting,” said faculty advisor to the group and CFO Boota deButts ’76 P’08 ’10 ’12.

Their portfolio is a time capsule of what has been popular over the years since the club launched. deButts (who has been the faculty advisor to the group since 2009) likes to give them free rein. Even if he might not necessarily agree with the purchase, he will execute the buy.

Their first purchase in 2009 was Goldman Sachs, which has proved to be a very profitable move over the years. They bought shares of Boeing in 2012, and they bought into workout giant Lululemon in 2020, when office wear sales were on the decline and athleisure sales were increasing significantly. The group bought Tesla in 2018, and recently GM in 2022, because they predict a big boom with GM’s foray into electric vehicles.

The SIG also is passionate about giving back to communities. As their holdings boomed in 2021, the group earmarked $20,000 as a donation for St. Thomas, Episcopal’s sister school in Haiti.

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A recent interdisciplinary trip to the Chesapeake Bay invigorates experiential education at EHS.

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or decades, teaching, learning, and living at Episcopal has involved leaning into the School’s proximity to Washington, D.C., in unique and powerful ways. Our location, the McCain-Ravenel Center’s commitment to facilitating experiences outside the classroom, and the students’ and faculty’s willingness to jump into adventure all combine to make the Episcopal experience unlike any other.

For the first time, faculty leading three different electives — Javier Bastos’ Advanced Environmental Science, Jamie Biondi’s American Environmental Literature, and Molly Pugh’s advanced English seminar Short Story Writing about Climate Change — collaboratively embarked on a curriculum-based, multi-day retreat to the Chesapeake Bay, broadening the reach of the School’s weekly “flexperiences.”

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THE FIRST OF ITS KIND

Photo by Jay Kellam ’22

Photo by Zoe Arzt ’23

The trip would not have been possible without the new schedule and Episcopal’s 100% residential community. The block schedule, which debuted at the beginning of the school year, includes closed Community Weekends and McCainRavenel Mondays, which are all-day, all-School programs six Mondays a year. These factors freed up participating students from Friday evening to Monday evening, a rare occurrence in a busy high schooler’s schedule, and opened the door to this type of experience.

Episcopal has a long history with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, which was founded in 1967 by Episcopal alumnus T. Marshall Duer Jr. ’31 and several of his peers. The School also gave the esteemed Allen C. Phillips Integrity in Action Award to William C. Baker, past president of CBF, in 2016. “We’ve been talking about this trip and this partnership for five years,” said Jeremy Goldstein, executive director of the McCain-Ravenel Center.

To plan and execute the trip, Bastos, Biondi, and Pugh teamed up with the World Leadership School, an organization that partners with K-12 schools to reimagine learning.

Selecting the Chesapeake Bay as their focus was an easy choice for the faculty members to make due to the region’s vulnerability to climate change and its proximity to the School.

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“The environmental issue is so complex that it requires an interdisciplinary approach to help it make sense,” Bastos explained. Without the science, the teachers say, there cannot be any literature regarding the subject. And vice versa.

“Oftentimes as scientists, we just collect the data,” he mused.

“This idea of conveying that data to a general audience (and making it interesting!) is not necessarily at the forefront of what we try to do.”

The first two days of the trip were divided into three destinations. One group visited the Harriet Tubman Museum in Cambridge, Md., and took a walking tour of the town. Another explored the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Md., and learned about water quality testing, oyster tonging, and species identification. The third group visited Horn Point Laboratory in Cambridge to do water quality testing and hands-on oyster research.

On the final day of the trip, all students went to the Chesapeake Bay Environmental Center in Grasonville, Md., where they seined species in the Bay for identification, applied their newfound water quality testing skills on the Bay and in a tidal pond, hiked around the coast, and pulled up oyster buckets.

“THE TOUR GUIDES TOLD US: ‘YOUR ACTIONS MATTER. SMALL THINGS DO MAKE A CHANGE.’” — EMMIE AMASON ’23

While on the tour of Cambridge, Emmie Amason ’23 was reminded of what she has been learning in environmental science for the last year. “The tour guides told us: ‘Your actions matter. Small things do make a change,’” she said.

The trip also was a reminder to the faculty about working together on solutions for widespread issues, no matter what those problems may be. Often, they said, they are siloed within their individual fields and departments, and they rarely have the time to look up and see what their colleagues are doing in other classrooms.

“Interdisciplinary work is really exciting and beneficial,” said Pugh, chair of the English department. “It also requires a real discipline because it’s so easy to stay in your own wheelhouse. I hope the students take away the ability to open themselves up to the experiences, mindsets, and techniques of others.”

Biondi spoke of the students’ willingness to jump in headfirst while on the trip: “High schoolers are better disposed to do this work because they take courses across so many subjects. They go from my class to Javier’s class to Molly’s class, so they’re primed to switch gears and to use multiple modalities to understand the world. The trip served them well in that way.”

Sydney Hopkins ’23 agreed: “Interdisciplinary work is something that’s really important to me. With our friends in

other classes, we tried to come together from the angle of ‘Hey, we acknowledge this is what you’ve been learning. How do we take this and apply it to what we’re doing in our classroom?’”

An added bonus of the trip was the bonding that comes with an overnight excursion, which the students hadn’t experienced fully since the Burch trip their freshman year. “I just loved those moments of walking side by side and learning that somebody was really into stars and could point out a number of constellations,” Pugh said. “It felt like summer camp,” Amason added, complete with s’mores by the fire and late-night conversations under the stars.

The faculty has big ideas for the future of this type of interdisciplinary experience that provides real-time educational opportunities relating directly to what is going on in multiple Episcopal classrooms. “And it’s only the beginning of thinking about these things. My dream would be to do this for every single student in the school,” Goldstein said.

To read the stories written by Short Story Writing about Climate Change students following this interdisciplinary trip, scan the QR code.

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“ OUR TIME IS NOW” Jere Michael ’51 has held many different titles since his time at Episcopal: student, athlete, dancer, soldier, actor, director, choreographer, restaurateur, and oenophile, to name a few. His current title? World traveler with his beloved wife of 32 years, Holly.

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hile at Episcopal in the late ’40s and early ’50s, Jere was a standout football player. “From the day I got there,” he told us, “the only thing I was interested in was playing football.” On the smaller side, Jere automatically was assigned to the 130-pound team as a freshman, and he had to fight his way onto the junior varsity squad. By the end of the season, he was playing varsity as the second-string running back, and was later a part of the 1950 State Championship team. His peers wrote in the 1951 Whispers that “his graduation this year is undoubtedly a great relief to our opposition.”

After EHS, Jere matriculated at Yale University to play college football. Similar to his entry into Episcopal, he single-mindedly focused on football in the beginning of his college years. “When I arrived in New Haven, my interests

revolved entirely around athletics.” He suffered a careerending ankle injury his sophomore year. Fortunately, he slowly was being exposed to other passions and possible career pursuits and soon realized that “a whole new world of culture, particularly architecture, dance, and theater, had been opened for me.” Jere began to take dance lessons on a whim during his rehabilitation and went on to have a successful career on stage as a Broadway dancer, choreographer, and director.

Originally from Athens, Ga., Jere credits Episcopal for opening his eyes to the world of academia. “I became a student at Episcopal,” Jere remembered. “And I really learned to enjoy the process.” He also says, “my schooling at EHS allowed me to get to Yale and for that I will be forever grateful.”

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“There is not one ‘fondest’ memory at EHS. “There are many: playing football; walking over to the Seminary on Sunday mornings to sing in the choir; waiting on tables; visiting D.C. on our ‘day off’; being in class with Mr. Ravenel…

This reunion is very special, as were my days at EHS.”

Like many of his peers, Jere credits English teacher William Bee Ravenel for deepening his understanding of the English language and fostering a lifelong love of learning. “Mr. Ravenel was very influential in my learning process,” Jere remembered fondly. “He helped me grow up.” Holly agrees: “His parents had great plans for all their children,” she says of their decision to send Jere to Episcopal. “It was completely transformative for him.”

After a year of dancing on Broadway post college, Jere was drafted into the army and went to basic training in Colorado with the Eighth Army Division, which ultimately was sent to Germany. He called the experience “a terrific 18-month cultural exchange program, with a little soldiering on the side.” While in Germany, he was able to travel throughout Europe on the weekends, laying the foundation for a lifetime of travel ahead.

Jere’s intellectual curiosity, which began at Episcopal, directly correlates with his love for travel and adventure. When asked why he travels, he stated simply: “I have a tremendous curiosity. It’s as easy as that. I just look at a map of the world and say, ‘Why don’t we go?’”

Jere met his perfect travel companion in Holly. They were living in Aspen, Colo. in 1980, when Jere was directing “A

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Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.” He ended up casting Holly as the leading lady. Ten years of dating later, Holly laughs that they “rushed to the altar” and have been married and traveling ever since.

Like Jere, Holly also served our country. She was a member of the Women’s Army Corps in Belgium in the mid-seventies, working in classified communications. “It was just a wonderful way to grow up,” she recognized of her post-grad life. “I have a very distinct memory at about seventeen, pretending I was a traveler, and that was it. How could it get any better than that?”

The Michaels bucket their adventures into two decades.

From 2000-10, they mainly focused on their mutual shared interests of food and wine, and “all the history, culture, and art that goes with them.” They were able to plan these trips independently with relative ease, especially when the internet burst onto the scene. “The internet, of course, was a huge boon,” Holly said of the digital world making their research and travel booking much easier. During this time, they traveled mostly around Europe — to Italy, France, Spain, Ireland, Holland, Austria, and more. “If there was a grape growing somewhere in the world, we probably went there,” Holly said of those years.

From 2010-20, Holly and Jere got the itch to explore “more far-flung destinations,” places that aren’t as easy to navigate

with just Google and Airbnbs. They began to dabble in smallgroup travel, linking up with agencies and fellow travel-lovers.

“That’s when we stepped off the ledge,” they said. During this time, they traveled to Nepal, Uzbekistan, Antarctica, Slovakia, Falklands, Peru, and Tanzania, among many others.

Jere and Holly make a good team. Holly usually takes on the planning — taking into account their shared and individual interests. They mutually decide on select cities in each country, choose how many days they want to spend at each destination and what sort of activities they each are looking for, and then Holly is off to the races.

“The other side of travel is the joy of preparing, researching, and anticipating the journey,” Holly says, “which is especially important once one retires — to have focus and drive towards a goal.” They also credit their travel itineraries for keeping them young and sharp. “Physical activity really has been the key to mental acuity.”

While the Covid-19 pandemic upended their travel plans for the past two years, the Michaels still managed to fit in some travel. They were traveling back from Antarctica on February 28, 2020, just two weeks before the world shut down almost overnight. They managed to plan a river cruise through Europe during this time as well. While on a 160-person

boat with only 90 passengers and daily PCR tests, Holly and Jere discovered a slower kind of travel.

The Michaels recently participated in a Class of 1951 conference call — a quarterly occurrence that keeps the Old Boys connected to each other. They told stories from their travels, reminisced about Jere’s time at The High School, and gave advice to others on the call looking to embark on adventures of their own. If any young alumni are looking for budgetfriendly travel tips, Holly and Jere graciously have offered to get on the phone and share hard-earned advice and lessons. If you’re interested in being connected with them, please email communications@episcopalhighschool.org.

What’s next for the Michaels remains to be seen, but they hope to continue their travels as long as possible, with no signs of slowing down anytime soon. Since 2000, they have traveled to 54 countries, and they’re looking forward to checking more off their list in the coming years. Next up is a trip to Italy and the Mediterranean in the fall. After all, as they’ve always said, “Our time is now, and life is not a rehearsal. This is it.”

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FROM THE ARCHIVES

LIKE RIDING A BIKE EHS alumnus travels 700 miles by bicycle in 1898.

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lthough the bicycle dates back to the early 1800s, it was the development of the safety bicycle, as an alternative to the high-wheel bicycle, and technological developments, including the pneumatic tire and the chain drive, that accelerated the popularity of cycling on both sides of the Atlantic.

The 1890s bicycle craze that swept Europe and the United States found an enthusiastic follower among the Episcopal High School community. In June of 1898, alumnus Wythe Leigh Kinsolving, Class of 1897, set out by bicycle with an ambitious itinerary that would take him and a friend across the Commonwealth of Virginia. Their 700-mile itinerary over 12 days, covering some of the hilliest terrain of the region, was ambitious even by today’s standards. It would

challenges ahead. The 75 miles they would travel between Manassas and Bull Run on their way to Episcopal High School would prove to be especially challenging.

The challenges of this segment were rewarded with a week at The High School, from which they rode approximately 60 miles to Brunswick, Md., spending the night before peddling to Harper’s Ferry taking in the dramatic scenery where the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers meet. From there, the cyclists headed south to Winchester, Va., and onto Luray Caverns for sightseeing. After crossing Massanutten Mountain, the pair headed to Staunton for four days of rest before cycling to Lexington for more sightseeing.

From Lexington, they rode approximately 20 miles to Buchanan getting just enough rest overnight to cross the Blue

“… we found some difficulties that added zest to the ride … we encountered first a bad piece of road, then Bull Run and last the deepest dust of the whole tour. We waded the historic stream, over our knees in water, and then waded the dust which soon wedded to the water in our stockings, giving us the appearance of veritable tramps.”

— KINSOLVING, CLASS OF 1897

have been especially so given the road conditions and bike technology at the time, as they were likely biking on dirt roads on a single gear. Because their itinerary included the commencement ceremonies for Episcopal High School and the University of Virginia, the two cyclists sent valises ahead to ensure their attire for the final celebrations would be waiting for them, but carried everything else they would need for their journey by bike.

Kinsolving and his friend launched their journey with an ambitious sixty-mile ride north to Lynchburg from Houston, Va. They allowed themselves two days to bike the 70 miles to Charlottesville where they devoted four days to celebrating UVA’s commencement, leaving the pair well rested for the

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Ridge to the Peaks of Otter before continuing onto Forest Station to spend the night before returning to Lynchburg.

Due to inclement weather, the pair was forced to abandon cycling and return home by train for the first time on their 700-mile trek.

Their trek was such a novelty at the time that Kinsolving wrote about their experience for The Chronicle, the EHS student newspaper. Reflecting on the experience, Kinsolving wrote: “We proved that bicycle touring even in Virginia is feasible, if the weather is clear and the will is strong. Greatly benefitted physically by the trip, we have resolved to take another in the near future, unless the automobile carriage usurp the place in our affections held now by the bicycle.”

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While the men pictured are not Kinsolving and friend, this archival photo is an excellent example of what their trip looked like in 1898.

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1 The 1982 IAC basketball champs returned to campus on the 40th anniversary of Episcopal’s first IAC title win. 2 The student section at the annual faculty vs. student basketball game got rowdy! 3 On the final day of Black History Month, members of our Black Student Alliance gathered for this club photo. 4 The EHS 24/7 Giving Day Challenge was a huge success! We raised $476,337 from 1,125 donors. 5 A race to the finish!

During a Community Weekend earlier this year, students competed in a pie-eating contest. 6 Our prayers were with Lucas Tomlinson ’97, who reported live on the ground in Lviv, Ukraine, after the Russian invasion. 7 Advisory dinners returned to Laird Dining Hall after a hiatus due to the Covid-19 pandemic. We were thrilled to be back! 8 Climbing to new heights! The boys’ and girls’ climbing teams took home first and second place at the WAICL Championships. 9 To recognize Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage month, a lion-dancing troupe wowed everyone in Callaway Chapel.

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In February 2022, Dick Rutledge hosted the Class of 1951 conference Zoom call. He interviewed his classmate Jere Michael and his wife Holly about their extensive travel experiences. The two have been to over 50 countries! Be sure to read the feature about Jere and Holly on page 36.

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Bob Montague owns several Middlesex county houses and lives in Urbana, but still has a house in Alexandria. Two of his houses are on the National Register of Historic Landmarks. He’s in his 3rd term in the vestry of Christ Church in Middlesex, Va., and active in the preservation of Confederate monuments in Virginia. (He has six Confederate ancestors.) He has two preserved and functioning antique cars: a 1921 Lincoln and a 1932 Packard. Both cars have 44

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won prizes. He still drives a lot. Bob has two children — a daughter and a son. For 40 years, he had a Cessna Skyhawk airplane and used visual flight rules until he stopped flying in 2004. Bob still goes duck hunting on an active 5000-acre family farm in Texarkana, Ark., where they grow soybeans, wheat, rice, and own 200 head of cattle.

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Jonathan Bryan writes, “Judy and I celebrated our 60th anniversary last December 28, with all three children and four grandchildren — foreshortened when a granddaughter showed Covid symptoms. No ill effects. We’re safe and sound in our CCRC in Alexandria, a few minutes drive from The High School.

(I haven’t gotten very far in life!) Funny how the longer I live the more important I see The High School in shaping my character. Any Old Boys interested in a reunion-by-Zoom?”

Samuel Holt says, “Little new. Again in Florida for the worst winter months with partner Vicki Weil, avoiding D.C.’s worst of winter weather. Little else to report, except that I still can. Going on 69 years since we left The Holy Hill, and it often feels it; recall is like opening onto fading photos of a different world. How lucky we were! And how little we understood just why.”

Ed Mullins reports that he has given up his license to practice law and spends a lot of time with grandchildren. He still maintains some contact with his old firm, Nelson Mullins Riley and Scarborough, which now has more than 930 attorneys and government relations professionals with 30 offices in 14 states and D.C. He also reports that his good friend, Nelson Weston ’54, had a quadruple bypass operation in February and is progressing well. This all came as sort of a surprise as

it is reported that he shot a 77 on the links shortly before the operation.

Peter Page said, “On our reported trip to Jackson Hole last August, we flew out in a private jet. The gutsy pilot let me take it off and land it — the first time since my last flight in a fighter over fifty years ago. Like riding a bicycle? This winter we spent four days and nights without power. Our generator doesn’t run the HVAC system, so we manned four fireplaces to keep the house livable, being careful of sparks popping out onto hardwood floors. Hardly a newsworthy adventure.”

Bailey Patrick Jr. writes, “For the first time in a number of years we have no grandchildren at EHS. Our last Old Boy (number 8) left for UNC-Chapel Hill last year. I’m still of counsel at my law firm, but am on a much-reduced schedule. We are spending more time in the mountains. Played a round of golf there this past summer with my EHS roommate, John Burress, who still has a pretty good game!”

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I received the following responses from our classmates: A reply from Mort Boyd in the Louisville, Ky., area: “Charlie, nothing much to report.

Anne and I are spending the fall and winter at our cottage in Sea Island, Ga. Haven’t seen any classmates but have kept up with a few thanks to periodic correspondence with John Burress, who visited recently with Fletcher Carter. Further, I have corresponded with Carter Cole on his 85th birthday thanks to the thoughtful effort of his daughter to get as many of his classmates as possible to send him birthday greetings.”

This from Harrison Braxton (along with a photo of a large floral butterfly from Walt Disney World): “The photo was from Disney World in Orlando! Thanks for asking.

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Dr. Robert Wilson ’54 and Ken Tyler ’83.

Daughter Grace Anne will be inducted in the Virginia State Golf Association Hall of Fame in October. Cheers” John Burress wrote: “Hey folks, Mary Louise and I just drove to Florida (what a nightmare) and the highlight for us was a fantastic dinner and visit with our buddy Fletcher Carter. He still has that laugh that roars and the greeting, “HEY MAN.” As you will recall he lost Boise almost five years ago. He now lives in a beautiful retirement community which he loves. He says he has many friends and everyone is so very friendly and helpful. He plays bridge, pinochle, and poker every day. He had some major heart surgery nine months ago and except for golf he has resumed all activities. As you would expect, he is a breath of fresh air! He lives in Mt. Pleasant, just outside Charleston. All of their children, three boys, live there and run the family insurance agency. He has seven grandchildren, the youngest is a 21-year-old fireball lady, a senior at South Carolina. He has four great grandchildren. They give him a lot of attention. He does not use email but please call him at 843-270-4727. He would love it. Bill Baker, please show this to Be Bop (Bob Baker) as Fletcher brought his name up several times. Mary Louise and I are in Naples for a month. She joins me in sending our best love to everyone. We are in perfect health and still the most fortunate and blessed couple in the world, with five children and seven grandchildren. Stay safe.”

Carter Cole celebrated his 85th birthday recently (March), and appreciates those of you who wrote him greetings at the request of his daughter Katherine.

Harry Gamble’s reply: “Charlie, Molly, and I are well and reasonably active for our age. Thank you for asking. Molly still has family and property in Gainesville, and we hope to make a trip there soon. My first cousin and several of my friends have Parkinson’s, and most are coping fairly well. I wish you the best.”

Darrell Jervey wrote: “I am retired but do two free clinics a week, one for the homeless and the other for free medical clinic. I married Pat on June 21, 1958; UVA, 1957; Duke Medical School 1961. USN LtCdr. 65-67. Four children (one boy, three girls); lost youngest daughter 2009 to breast cancer; had an ophthalmology practice until 5 years ago; beach home at Edisto Beach below Charleston; did a lot of sailing until recently; current dog is a yorkie named Ozzie; past president of Greenville City Medical Society, past president of SC Ophthalmology; associate senior warden of Christ Church twice with numerous years on the vestry; Phi Beta Kappa at U.Va.; AOA at Duke Medical School; 10 grandchildren from the ages of 18-31; one great-grandchild (2 years); had open heart vessel grafts x 3 at age 54; still around; built present home in 1970; loved golf and tennis but not now; did eye clinics in Haiti twice a year starting in 1970 until 2014.

Built two ongoing eye clinics still functioning

by Haitian personnel. Life is good! That is about all.”

John Mason writes: “After thirty years in Alexandria, Linda and I pulled up stakes and lit out for LSV – Lower Slower Virginia.

We’re halfway between two small towns in the Northern Neck, which you know well.

We love it. The flavor of life here recalls places in rural Latin America where I lived.

As it did there, the word “neighbor” really means something here. Fifty years later, it’s as though I’ve come back to my pueblo. Bob Montague ’52 lives not far away. Like everyone else, I have an old-age issue or two. I live with them and stay busy doing what I enjoy.

For encouragement I think of Robert Wilson at our last reunion, airing his stitches from a knee replacement just days before. Linda and I refuse to let Covid hold us back. We pay it no heed. But it does defeat us in one way.

Friends abroad all say don’t come. Wait until

la pandemia is over to visit. There’s nothing to see or do here. So no travel for the time being.

Spain, where my daughters grew up as teenagers, was our most recent trip in 2018. My grandchildren — fraternal twins — entered college last fall — Clemson and the College of Charleston. Last June my grandson was valedictorian of his class. A week before, his sister almost upstaged him by skydiving. But not quite. In his address he bragged about her and made her blush.”

Bill Pender responded: “Great to hear from you, Charles, and wish for you many happy years in your retirement. Other than the usual slings and arrows of old age, my more serious health issues have subsided as I enjoy living in my cabin on the southern slope of Big Yellow Mountain in Avery County, N.C. I fancy myself as an artist in painting and landscaping. My wife Gay and I have loved receiving our children and nine grandchildren at different stages that our accommodations will permit as well as their dogs all of whom are tested negative in the face of the pandemic. I am thankful for my blessings in this messed up world and wish the best for you and our classmates.”

This from Nelson Weston: “Dear Charlie, I am one month post quadruple coronary artery bypass surgery and progressing very well. Back to driving and taking care of myself.

I keep in touch with Oscar Davis and Johnny Burress who have been a joy in communicating with us through the years. Ed Mullins ’53 is still my best friend and we see each other almost every day. Have moved to a very pleasant retirement home here in Columbia about a mile from the University of South Carolina and continue to follow the Gamecocks in all sports. I hope to get to EHS in May to see my Grandson Patrick Weston Jr. ’22 graduate.

My best to you and thank you for what you are doing.”

Finally, a few words from your correspondent. I have been working in the Fla. Museum of Natural History (came here in 2004), but mostly at home lately. Betty and I are definitely slowing down but we love Gainesville. I play golf once or twice a week.

We have son Chuck (architect) and daughter Katherine (filmmaking) and three grandchildren living in the San Francisco Bay area. We are downsizing slowly! Be safe and healthy and thanks for the honor of being your Class Correspondent.

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Sandy Wise (C) 614-638-5190 hawppmd@gmail.com 65th Reunion: June 10-12, 2022

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Shepard Ansley writes, “I retired from the law practice in the early 1990’s after 22 years.

I was with a firm known as Carter, Ansley, Smith, McLendon & Quillian. On a trip to California in 1996, I met a man involved in the waste automobile tire disposal business.

He came to Atlanta and convinced my wife and me to invest with him and two other investors in the establishment of the plant in Los Angeles.

“We started a company known as CRM Co. of America, LLC. in Los Angeles. CRM ground up waste rubber tires into crumb rubber, and CRM sold the crumb rubber to the asphalt companies, and rubberized asphalt was used for the roads in California. CRM established a plant outside Phoenix, Arizona, and a plant near Albany, N.Y., and a plant in Canada. CRM sold crumb rubber for use in football fields and soccer fields as well as roads.

I served on the board, and I was an officer of CRM until in 2014 when I sold my interest to the president of the company.

“I continue to serve on the board of The Study Hall, Inc., which is an after school and summer camp program serving K-5th graders in the greater Peoplestown community in Atlanta, offering an educational and enrichment curriculum that enables children to achieve sustained personal and academic success. I participated in the establishment of The Study Hall, Inc., (originally known as The Study Hall at Emmaus House, Inc.,) in 1990, and I was the president of the Board of Directors in 1990, and I still serve on the board thirty-two years later.”

Pearce Connerat writes, “Kept up somewhat with Boopa Pritchard ’58 through his sister at Kanuga, and Robbie Harrison and 46

EHS grads, mates, and friends for life: Joseph D. Pickslay Cheek Jr. ’56, James S. Frazier III ’57, and Charles Norris Nielson ’56.

his attractive new wife Lindy. Not much else to report other than Joyce and I celebrated our 50th in February.”

Fred Macdonald writes, “EHS football was one of the great experiences of my life.

I’m now enjoying retirement in Winter Park, Florida.”

Robbie Harrison writes, “No new news, wish there was… just older, crankier, sore, lethargic, sleepless, tired of going to the doctors, but I still chase my wife around the house, shoot tigers and lions, fish for whatever bites, and trade stories back and forth with Tim DeGavre. Thinking real hard about the June 10-12 reunion.”

Dillon Wooten says, “Nothing exciting to report. I transitioned from petroleum/cstores and trucks to commercial real estate and leasing in 2007 and am still working with daughter and son-in-law in successful business. Three grandsons at UNC Chapel Hill. Oldest plays lacrosse, and two freshmen; one writes for The Daily Tar Heel and one enjoys frat life (Deke). They left me at office while they ski in Colorado. Hope to get to Reunion.”

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Harry “Bunny” Benham: “Covid has greatly reduced our traveling, but it has encouraged us to read more, spend more time on the farm, and walk the beach in the winter when we go to Vero Beach, Fla. I did run into Sandy Sierck, who has not changed a bit. I will

re-read Surry of Eagle’s Nest, which we can discuss!”

Tommy Boyd says: “As has been our custom for many years, Judy and I spent New Year’s Eve in Williamsburg at the Lodge and walked down Duke of Gloucester St. to a restaurant to celebrate with old friends. This year Page Dame ’59 and his wife Beverly joined our group. On January 3, we left to come home, only to run into a terrible snowstorm (like I-95). It was awful — trees down, and one lane of traffic crawling along. A twohour trip turned into five, but we got home with power… thank goodness! We both are fully vaccinated and boosted, only avoiding U.Va. basketball games. Looking forward to clearing the pandemic and seeing old friends.”

John Brabson relays that in spite of canceled trips, he is heading to Iceland with his two oldest daughters in March for a week.

Also, John was awarded the Community Hero Award for which he received $50,000 to be donated to his two favorite charities – Tampa General Hospital and his local church.

John Briddell, with caution for Covid, regularly visits Ohio State and the Mayo Clinic for his chronic leukemia. He has had time to read extensively about public health — especially Dr. David Quammen’s Spillover: Animal Infections and the next Human Pandemic, published in 2012. An updated version could be titled “I told you so”. With a decline in the virus expected, he looks forward to visiting distant family. As Bob Dole was noted as saying: “Depends.”

After teaching art history at Oberlin College for 33 years, Billy Hood took a

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Shade Murray ’59, Hayes Noel ’59, Lucius Burch ’59, friend, D.B. Murray ’59, and Warner Bass ’59.

visiting professor position at Columbia University from 2007-2009. He then transferred to his alma mater, New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts, which rejuvenated his love of teaching (vanishing-point, contrapposto, and preparing students for graduate studies). In 2020, he retired once more to his hometown, Birmingham, perhaps in search with his friends for the fountain of youth. He is reinventing himself as a literary writer, hopefully in writing a memoir of his teaching career, along with short stories.

Anna Kate reports that Hayne Hip is “missed but did leave a big presence behind.”

Anna Kate joined Carl Ragsdale and Alicia and Pope Shuford and Peggy at Biltmore in Asheville in the fall.

Saunders Midyette’s grandson Zachary Hunter, “is a senior undergraduate majoring in mathematics at Oxford University in England. He has been recognized by Ben Green, Oxford Waynflete Professor of Mathematics, for discovery of a mathematical theory that has resulted in Zachary’s first publication. With international tours being canceled, wife Shirley visited du Pont family public legacies in the Wilmington, Delaware area: Winterthur, Longwood, Hagley, and the Nemours Mansion. The highlight of the Longwood Gardens visit was a stunning lighted fountain with Rolling Stones music, and fireworks galore!”

Bill Moffett has interviewed 50+ military veterans in a unique quest for solid statements on their experiences. His requirements are that he has not met the veteran before, the interview lasts no more than 5 minutes, and the write-up contains only 4 sentences. He engages prospective interviewees only in

public places where an article of clothing, usually a baseball cap, identifies them as having had military service. Bill approaches, identifies his own military service, and then asks the veterans to speak about their military service. Common experience opens the door for conversation about their service, their specialty, and their unit. “Are the findings from these conversations worth publishing? Not sure. Maybe.

“Every one of the 50 or so hapless persons I’ve accosted has, to outward appearances, been happy — pleased, even — to have had the opportunity to chat,” Bill said.

“My most memorable answer? From a WWII Army infantry veteran: ‘Battle of the Bulge. I was 18 years old.’ I consider that to be an entire story on its own.

“Seems strange, but virtually every ‘interview’ of the roughly three dozen fellow ‘Nam vets has ended with our parting with a firm handshake and a quiet ‘Welcome back, brother.’ A not uncommon reaction, [rather than], the extended middle finger a select few of us received when we returned to the US of A after our tour.”

Rick Pietsch reports from Naples, Florida with his wife Dee, where he won a three-day golf tournament thanks to his partner and had a hole-in-one. His jazz trio will begin the first of many gigs at his club over the next three months, always fun! “I feel so fortunate to have been at EHS with such a great diversified group of good guys. Ah, to do it all over!”

Surry Roberts had a magnificent trip to South Dakota highlighted by a 20-minute salute to liberty and patriotism given by a park ranger at Mt. Rushmore. Then came a return visit to Dr. Edwin Stone at the

University of Iowa, who suggested a return visit in 2 years with prospects for stem cell therapy and return of vision. Hallelujah!

Maybe a new Harley Davidson is right around the corner! One highly recommended book: Pearl in the Storm by Tori Murden McClure.

She built her own rowboat and rowed across the North Atlantic in 1998, the worst year ever for hurricanes.

Peter Sevareid writes, “I returned to the U.S. in November after 1 year and 9 months locked in Thailand due to Covid. I am now with my wife Alice on Green Lake in Seattle.”

The DKE Fraternity classes of 1958/59 held a reunion at the Beaufort Hotel in Beaufort in April. Pope Shuford held sway as the most gregarious, outgoing member of the group which included Tim Burnett, Carl Ragsdale, Surry Roberts, Lucius Burch ’59, and Dave Wysong ’59. It was a superb twoday cocktail party!

Richard Somerville writes, “As a climate scientist, in 2021 I threw out my furnace and installed a reversible electric heat pump system that heats my home in winter and cools it in summer. Then I put enough solar panels on my roof to generate as much electricity as my family uses. Better late than never, or potiusque sero quam numquam, as Mr. Williams taught us.”

George Patton “Pat” Waters suggests that, “soon the world will be herd immune, and we can get back to living a normal life.

America is still the greatest country… I look forward to a wonderful 2022 and the same for all who read this. God bless America and all that have worn the cloth of military service.” Pat has retired as head of the Medal of Honor Society.

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Page Dame (C) 802-624-0071 wpdame3@gmail.com 65th Reunion: June 2024

Class Correspondent Page Dame writes, “Beverly and I had a very enjoyable Thanksgiving visit with cousins in upstate New York, near Albany, encountering our first snowstorm since moving to Sarasota five years ago. Our Christmas holiday was spent in Williamsburg, Va., during which we had a festive New Year’s Eve dinner with Tom Boyd ’58 and his wife, Judy. On the return trip to Florida, we stopped in Lewisburg, W.Va. and visited with Page Light ’17 and EHS THE MAGAZINE OF EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL

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her family. We have been in close touch with Page, dating back to 2015 when she won the Dame Prize for Creative Writing. So glad many of the Covid restrictions are being lifted.

We continue to enjoy life in the Land of the Lotus Eaters, where one tropical day flows seamlessly into the next, while surrounded by amazing wildlife, including a resident alligator we have named Elvis. Also in close contact with John Thompson in Baltimore, who has now been married to my cousin Ashby deButts for 15 years. As many of you know, he was Best Man at our wedding, where they met. Please stay in touch and let me know if you are ever going to be in the vicinity.

While I was at Williamsburg over Christmas I ran into Russell Buxton who is now living in Urbana.

“At the end of November I spent four days on campus at EHS and met with a wide variety of administrators, including Charley Stillwell and Christina Holt. I came away with a firm impression that the school is addressing the imperatives of today while using time-honored principles of the past as guard rails to keep the path ahead straight and the course true. For that I am deeply grateful.”

George Brewer says, “Nothing much to report. An exciting time for a codger is a successful bowel movement or perhaps a trip to Costco for “senior hour.” Seriously, you are correct about getting depressed by watching TV news. Our inhumanity to each other is both depressing and entirely predictable.

Keep safe and blessings.”

Jack Cann writes, “Edward ‘Dickie’ Tayloe ’58, who normally joins Sam and me at the Red Lands Club, has been absent of late, as he slipped and fell on the ice in front of his house and is recovering from some cracked ribs. Clearly, he is on the mend, as he recently joined his two friends this week in good spirits.”

Dr. Mac Dick says, “I’ve been a delinquent as well as a guilty member of our class, enjoying the Class Notes, especially those of Surry Roberts of the Class of 1958, but not contributing a single line to ours. So, as we advance into our 9th decade, long after our time at EHS and after a loss of a few classmates, perhaps I should finally chime in. I suppose some of that reluctance was due to the fact I had little clever to say. I’ve gone through the usual growth for a boy of EHS in the 1950s — college (Williams), graduate school (University of Virginia School of 48

Medicine), medical military discharge so did not experience Vietnam, further training in Charlottesville and Boston, marriage to a wonderful woman, a mortgage, two children (both married), two grandchildren, a reasonably successful career in pediatric cardiology at the University of Michigan Hospital and Medical School, and finally retirement. Even after that rather conventional path, I am a quite different person than I was, as I am sure you all are too. No longer nostalgic for the 1950s (we should all read Robert E. Lee and Me by Ty Seidule – yes, the son of that Seidule — for a corrective course of our early ideas), and after 45 years, I have become a Midwesterner. As we all have grown and changed, I marvel at the enormous transformation of The High School — from a conventional, Southern boy’s prep school to one of considerable national prominence, examining its past and actively planning for its future.

As my father loved The High School, so too have I come to appreciate and admire, mainly through recent reunions, alumni publications, and emailings, its success in building for the future while clarifying and holding onto the best of the past. If ever in Michigan (Sam Clark lived here for a while; I didn’t know it then, and he now is in Charlottesville), come and visit us in Ann Arbor.”

Jeb Eddy says, “‘Incomprehensible,’ ‘Partiality,’ ‘Disambiguation,’ ‘Sustainability,’ ‘Notoriety,’ … Thus, or in a similar manner began my participation in the Four Columns tradition. When did it start? Does it still carry on?

“I was the youngest, least athletic member of our class, and I paid a social and physical price for it. But the EHS educational foundations in English and math have led to a mostly enjoyable and privileged life: Swarthmore College, the Peace Corps (Philippines), USAID in Vietnam, Stanford Business School, Apple, 2 failed startups, one my own. Married 53 years; four grandsons.

Turning 80 in October. I applaud that Page is stirring us. The only classmate I was in touch with was Mike Totten.

“Three years ago, I discovered that three New England ancestors of mine were trans-Atlantic slave traders in the time of Thomas Jefferson. Is it ok to do nothing now, given our racial situation? I am seeking some personal resolution and action.

“I don’t know what if any research on plantation-era EHS students and families

then and since has been done. No doubt an unknown fraction of our class has benefited significantly from slavery’s practice and heritage. Question: Would others of us, publicly or privately, care to explore? I am not interested in blame; rather: truth. I would be pleased to connect with you.”

Bill Gibbs writes, “After the sudden and unexpected death of my wife Kim, l moved from Virginia back to Jacksonville to be near my son and his family. In doing so, I spent some time with a dear friend of Kim’s (Anne), and gradually fell in love with her. She tolerated my ardor with skepticism until she too, much to her amazement, fell in love with me, so we married. We are extremely happy and enjoy time spent with her family and mine.

God works in mysterious ways.”

Howard Holden says, “I have escaped being bored with little excitement in my continued retirement, but have enjoyed being “non-essential” according to powers that be.

My body is still trying to avoid catching up with my age so I am ready to resume a more active routine now that many of the restrictions are being lifted. Do extend my wishes to others for good health and personal safety. Thanks Page Dame for what you do to keep our group ‘in the know’, yet out of the memorials.

Fred Scott Jr. says, “Having recently joined the UFO (United Flying Octogenarians), I retired after 57 years as an aviator. In 2016, I was honored with the FAA’s Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award, after 50 years with no accidents or regulatory citations. Flight Experience: My Private Pilot training began with a Cessna 150 solo in June 1965 at Jacksonville Air Service on a grass runway — that airport now closed — in Jacksonville, N.C. I learned so much from James Thomas, CFI, who taught me cross-country in my own Cessna 175 at very slow flight at/near Minimum Controllable Airspeed. Jack Armstrong FAA-DPE at New Bern approved my Private Pilot check ride in September 1965.

“Commercial License (May 1967), Instrument (Jan 1969) and Multi-Engine (May 1971) ratings followed. The SESeaplane rating (at Bay Seaplane Service, Ken Guiness, CFI) was earned in November 1992. I operated my aircraft off a private runway at Bundoran Farm (VA18) for 40+ years. First was a Bonanza 36, then a P-Baron 58, a Cessna Caravan amphibian, and a Colemill

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B55 President II Baron. The best was a rare and immaculate 1940 Waco ZPF-7 open cockpit biplane that was two months older than its pilot.

“Type Rated in the CitationJet (SIC) in July 2008, I now fly a King Air 90 Blackhawk.

The King Air Initial training was with Jerry Jaeb of InFlight Review and later Aircraft Training Resources and Management, plus more casual recurrent simulator experiences at SimCom and at Potomac Flight Training in Sterling, Va., a King Air training company.

Recently I have enjoyed in-aircraft recurrent work with John Cutcher, a former Navy King Air instructor pilot; he’s also a FAA-DPE. “I was trained at FlightSafety Initial in the P-Baron, FlightSafety Initial in the Cessna Caravan, SimCom Initial in the TBM-800.

I am one of the three original founders of a SimCom-based Advanced Baron Seminar which continues annually. A graduate of the Advanced Pilot Seminar in Ada, Oklahoma, I have completed a short course in Spin Training at Warrenton Air Center. Tailwheel recurrent training for the Waco was with Richard Kiser at KSHD, Kenny Painter in Waynesboro, and Jim Alsip at Indiantown, Fla. “Flight destinations include: Prudhoe Bay, Kodiak Island, Kenai peninsula (Homer), Alaska, Newfoundland, Labrador, Baffin Island, Nunavut, Yukon Territory, and all the lower Canadian provinces. Greenland twice.

Caribbean Islands many times, and Haitian earthquake relief flights. I’m an occasional Angel Flight and Veterans Airlift Command pilot/volunteer.”

Howard Trout writes, “I am still enjoying the wine my daughter (Brook and Bull) and her husband (Duckhorn) make in Walla Walla, Washington. Both are superb (even I can tell the difference from the cheapo red wines I usually drink in D.C.). Plus, the price is right. Walla Walla is a good place to be retired.

“I do spend part of my days wondering when something is going to be done about children having access to handguns that can fire 30 rounds in a few seconds, or less. Also, my impression from the women I run into seems to favor a reluctance to having males making the rules that control their bodies.

My impression is that both situations will be substantially improved over time but probably not likely during our lifetimes.

“I do think that our generation has lived through three fascinating and transformative

eras. The first was the development of the nuclear age (bombs, a new source of energy) as well as the development of radar (different method of imaging that greatly expanded our understanding of the world). The second was the development of the computer chip. I have frequently heard people express the view that our space program was exceedingly expensive and not very productive. Since the integrated circuit was essentially funded by the space program, the changes wrought by an ever more effective ‘chip’ had an enormous positive impact on healthcare. When I started my surgical internship at UCLA in 1967, general anesthesia was dangerous and had a profound impact on how surgical procedures were executed. Seven years later, the entire ICU world, including the ICUs for neonates was altered. Indeed, surgical procedures could be performed more precisely (and more deliberately) because the fear of patient damage from complications caused by inappropriate anesthesia were essentially completely abated.

It has remained so to this day.

“The third profoundly important change is taking place now. An ability to manufacture antibodies that allow malignancies to be cured is progressing and going to have a profound impact, not only with tumors but with the ability to make effective vaccines. These will result in profoundly important scientific advances as well as being a stimulus for similar developments. We can insert tiny catheters to 20,000th of an inch accuracy (not by hand but with machine control) in order to aspirate tumor cells that can then be used to develop specific individualized medications that will help treat cancers unique to the single patient. We are in the very early stages but we sure have a lot of smart people engaged in these evolving technologies. They have a ton of research money and a bunch of scientific Nobel prizes are not far away.

“Certainly, we are going to need effective approaches to climate warming and we will also need to ensure that our power grids are effective and safe. Our kids and grandkids will have a lot to keep them occupied. Thank goodness, there are still High Schoolers out there. My best to all.”

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Bill Drennen (C) 304-283-5011 wmdrennen1@me.com 60th Reunion: June 10-12, 2022

A note from class correspondent Bill Drennan: Today is a beautiful sunny day in Marin County, Calif., and I have just completed a 2.5 mile kayak paddle around the North Lagoon in the beautiful yellow kayak, a gift from my fiancé and partner BellaDonna Quinn Robbins. The 2.5 miles was to match the 2.5 weeks since my knee operation at the Novato Community Hospital where I replaced the old oft-injured left one with a new mechanical one that is holding up well enough to paddle around the Lagoon. I am enclosing the missives received since my plea for info from the class issued earlier, which I find very informative and pleasantly upbeat in this day of pandemics, interest raises, and more recently Ukrainian war reports. Let me know what I can do to help towards encouraging attendance to a 1960 sixtieth (or 61st or 62nd) reunion.

Bill Newton says, “Belle and I have weathered the Covid era safely so far and are still brandishing our masks on the assumption that they, along with our shots, are the reason for our good health. We urge everyone else to do the same.”

John Tison writes, “Speaking of inspiration, it must have been the patch of robin’s egg blue sky I glimpsed while traipsing through the ponderosa pines of the Arizona high country that turned my thoughts to your current altruistic role and our arrival on The Holy Hill some sixty years ago — remember?

— the face of God smiling upon us poor rats, and the bells sounded, and the School doors opened, and there was joy and trepidation over the land! Either King Kong or Ordeman or WBR was overheard muttering “…name for me one justification for the existence of teenagers on the face of this earth. Perhaps propagation…”

Jackie and I sold our Charleston house several years ago and have moved to Phoenix to join children and grandchildren here and in Denver while there’s still time to enjoy them in their prime. (The children obviously listened too closely to Horace Greeley and so here we are). Outside of Charleston, the heart of darkness, the true wasteland begins.

Hurtling into the abyss, we are. We do return from time to time to allow me to maintain a hint of the Lowcountry patois.

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grand high road which lies ahead. On either side of the sun porch door are bookshelves filled with good (?) paperbacks and photos evidencing my rich and adventurous past.

One could perceive it as a promising room from which room-inspired, if you will, one can share the passion and the happiness of all those we remember; and something of the weather and wines, and of the laughter and the tearful longings for things unclear to us all. Hell it could be a magic room!

Jackie and I stay active and eat well, trade a few stocks and read in desultory fashion (moi!). Jackie devours books by the dozens and keeps me motivated both in the library and on the trail. Also, John Dewar is always there should we wish to have a preprandial with an old friend.

Bill writes, “I am in Lancaster, Pa., watching my granddaughter play in an indoor field hockey tournament. Just celebrated my 59th anniversary. 4 daughters, 6 grandchildren and 3 great-grandchildren. Homes in Louisville and Maryland near Annapolis. Generally good health and still play tennis. Planning to make reunion. Best to all, Bill Stites.”

Henry Swift writes, “My only news is that my only daughter, Masy, will marry, of all things, an Alabama grad this summer. Lots of planning and festivities.”

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Elliott Randolph elliott.randolph@comcast.net Lanier Woodrum (C) 540-314-5352 lbwoodrum@cox.net 60th Reunion: June 10-12, 2022

Bill Julian writes, “Hi, nonagenarians to be: Since we made it this far, we should have a few more good years to experience. I am naturally pessimistic, so I’m a bit anxious to see how this all turns out. I hope I can continue to accept the things I cannot change. For some inexplicable reason (senility?), I have recurring thoughts of gratitude for the masters who stimulated and herded us through our years on the Hill. I never thanked any of them for their interest in us and their patience. If they hadn’t pushed me as hard as they did, I would not have succeeded. I saw Peter Winfield last month. He’s still enjoying life on his hilltop perch overlooking the valley in Castleton, west of Alexandria in the foothills.

I also ran into Sam Clark ’59, also retired in Charlottesville after a career in Detroit. We 50

attend the “Senior Center” for exercise, etc.

Folks there look awfully old. Hope to see some of yinz in June.”

Bob Steptoe writes, “In December 2021, I passed the 50 year mark of practicing law in Clarksburg, W.Va., with the firm of Steptoe & Johnson, but during the next year I expect to phase out of the active practice. Going forward, my plan includes spending more time at our home on Isle of Palms, S.C.; more upland bird hunting with my new, but likely last, English Setter; more time skiing with grandchildren; more time following U.Va. athletics; and more time traveling with my wife, Becky.

I think it’s an excellent plan for the future provided that the Grim Reaper doesn’t step into the picture. Look forward to seeing you and other classmates in June.”

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Al Berkeley (C) 443-310-0588 AlfredBerkeley@gmail.com 60th Reunion: June 10-12, 2022

I have been working on a project to get triaj. com rolled out for Ukrainian children, both refugees and still-in-Ukraine children. The system was developed to support US military doctors, nurses and medics (all trained on adult medicine) when they face wounded or sick children. It is a just-in-time service for doctors to know best practices in pediatric medicine. It is in daily use at Walter Reid and at Texas Childrens. It builds a medical record for the child that is accessible via the internet anywhere, as the refugees migrate. I am on the advisory board for the UN Global Sustainability Index Institute Foundation and am hoping the UN will help distribute.

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Alex Jones (C) 617-549-8203 alexsjones2@gmail.com 60th Reunion: June 2024

This is an homage to David Drennen, who died in the fall of 2021. I have written before

of Dave’s battle with Parkinson’s, which was a result of exposure to Agent Orange during his military service in Vietnam. But there is another story about David that is not sad, and is, in fact, moving and inspiring. It is a love story.

“David was born in Charleston, West Virginia, where his father practiced law. At a party when he was in the seventh grade, he met Sally Ruth May, and both were smitten.

Sally Ruth went home and wrote DD + SRM in big letters on the cover of her blue looseleaf notebook to show the world that he was her boyfriend.

“David’s father was appointed federal judge and the family moved to Washington where Dave entered EHS. Sally Ruth enrolled at National Cathedral. She decided that they should “just be friends,” and they really were friends. In fact, she set David up with a Nat Cat classmate, whom he dated throughout high school.

“At Episcopal, David was an excellent tennis player, smart, quiet, and with a wry sense of humor. He went to Duke, and then law school in Denver, where he practiced law for many years. He married, had three children, divorced, and then moved to Shepherdstown, West Virginia, a small college town in the northeast corner of the state, where most of his family lived.

“Sally Ruth went to Sweetbriar, married, had a daughter, and then too got divorced.

David came to her wedding and later told her that he had gotten so drunk after the ceremony that he didn’t go to work for two days.

Sally Ruth made her life in New York City.

“In 2004, after around forty years of little or no contact, she answered the phone one day to hear David’s voice saying, ‘Hi, how are you?’ She was soon to visit her mother in Charleston, and he invited her to stop in Shepherdstown on her way back home.

“She remembers seeing him for the first time after so long as he walked to greet her as she was getting her luggage. ‘He was wearing Bermuda shorts – he had really great legs – and had a big grin on his face.’

“He also, by then, had the beginnings of Parkinson’s, though neither one of them realized that that was why, when he was playing tennis, his serve was way off or he often fell.

“In 2009, he went to a neurologist and learned the truth. By then he and Sally Ruth were together for good.

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“For many years, they would visit each other. They both loved the pleasures of the city — its museums, theater and restaurants.

She would visit him in Shepherdstown and loved its quiet beauty. They were bound to each other. “‘He was an uncommonly good and loving man,’ she said, ‘with this wonderful dry wit, which was largely wasted on me. I never got half his jokes.’

“Over time, Parkinson’s made life more and more difficult. On October 18, 2021 he passed away, and she began grieving.

“This story has particular meaning to me because Dave was a good friend at Episcopal and I have known Sally Ruth since college. I also lost my much-loved wife. And I know that, despite the pain, they were lucky. Rest in peace. Signed, Alex S. Jones

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Richard Lee (C) 617-512-2034 dlee60@verizon.net 55th Reunion: June 10-12, 2022

We cannot recall how often required religious courses were held…once a month?… every two weeks? But there were those pesky morning exams, an hour long, and just before departure for the holidays. The credit was required, so they couldn’t be blown off.

Students and faculty, alike, were in the chocks, as cabs idled outside on the asphalt circle.

Everyone on the cusp of freedom! Seems like a long time ago. We suppose it is.

But a reference to the Gospel of Mark did appear to rattle a few cages. So we are pleased with its incorporation into the Class Notes solicitation. One wag suggested we are prepared to accept menus. Well, so what.

Richard Gwathmey posits the following advice: “Tell them not to use the expression ‘The Holy Hill’ so much, especially in obituaries; they way overuse it!” …He has a point.

And John Hunter Robinson puts in a word for Health Bridges International and their work in Urubamba and Ica, Peru. He and Karen were recently there offering support to this home environment for boys and young men lacking family back-up. Couples, apparently, live in this residence, and devote their efforts as surrogate parents of sorts.

The young residents can come and go as circumstances permit — some staying for a while, leaving, then returning. It is a unique

After Episcopal

Alfred Berkeley ’62 Alfred Berkeley is one of the longest standing legacies in Episcopal history. In fact, four Berkeley brothers were members of Episcopal’s first class in 1839. 123 years later, Berkeley continued the storied tradition set by his grandfathers, father, brother, uncle, and cousins that came before him, graduating in the Class of 1962.

While attending EHS, Berkeley became infatuated with community service. “I think that was a big part of the whole ethic of Episcopal,” Berkeley said. “The idea was we were privileged people and should view ourselves as owing society a lot.”

A financial analyst by background, Berkeley served as the President of NASDAQ, and was part of the team taking companies like Oracle, Microsoft, and over 100 others public in his 40 years in the financial industry. Comparing the world of finance to a “chess game,” he served on both President Bush’s and President Obama’s advisory councils centered around cybersecurity. Berkeley feels incredibly fortunate for the opportunities he has had to influence national policy.

“I was lucky enough to be involved in taking some of the companies everyone knows public,” he said.

While finance was a colossal portion of Berkeley’s life, so was community service.

His newest investment, Triaj is a handheld, mobile, diagnosis-specific, cloud-based application to guide “just-in-time” medical care of an injured child. It provides a seven-day hospital treatment guideline from resuscitation through discharge, for healthcare providers — surgeons, physicians, nurses, and corpsmen.

Created in 2011, to treat children in Afghanistan who had stepped on landmines, so-called “blast injuries,” Triaj now is utilized around the world. The app addresses three major health care challenges to eradicate medical error, expand evidence-based best practices to improve patient care quality, and to eliminate the prohibitive cost of care. The project walks doctors through 30 different diagnoses ranging from concussions to injuries from landmines.

“My friend Dr. Martin Eichelberger founded the app, and I’ve been helping him get the word out,” Berkeley said. “I’m hoping to get to the medical community who are affected by the Ukraine situation, so I’ve reached out to my contacts at the United Nations. We have a great sense of urgency because the solution to the injured children problem exists.”

Fueled by the words of former EHS faculty member, Jim Seidule to “persist,” Berkeley aims to inform as many countries of Triaj as possible because “it will save some lives.”

Even as a retired investment banker, Vietnam war veteran and current philanthropist, Berkeley considers his proudest accomplishment his wife, three daughters, and four grandchildren. “Family is everything to me,” he said. He is presently assisting several small businesses with advice surrounding their brand and finances. “I hope I die with my boots still on,” Berkeley said. “I have no intention of hanging them up, I want to keep doing what I’m doing.”

He hopes current EHS students will always keep the honor code first, “Episcopal values are where you start. Be honest with people, be open, forthright, transparent, caring, and loving,” Berkeley said. “Then you want to work hard because there’s so many opportunities in the world.”

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template for community involvement. Karen and John highly recommend it as a worthy charity.

In similar fashion, Jack Glenn continues his long-standing work with the National Alliance of Mental Illness (NAMI NC), and is always looking for donations. Concurrently, he works with law enforcement in honing effective responses to citizens beset with mental illness. This entails involvement in Crisis Intervention Team training on a regular basis in Greensboro, N.C. He also takes great pride in his mentoring of David “Phant” Patterson as an usher at their local church. David, now retired from 45 years of medical practice, affirms this connection, though not precisely in those terms.

(They can work that out.) Both plan to make an appearance at the reunion in June, though Jack’s presence may be somewhat truncated by his youngest daughter’s wedding in D.C. at the same time.

And evading all manner of pestilence, night humors, and travel disruptions, Jim Sibley, Jamie Totten, and Mole (aka R.H. Lee) did make it in October to the site of “Custer’s Last Stand” in southeastern Montana — an initial visit for all. As always, seeing the topography first hand affords a much better understanding of how events unfolded.

And who knew there was a Sibley tent stove, designed along with the Sibley tent, and used by the military everywhere for decades? Jim was most pleased to learn of the stove at a local museum. Museum staff were delighted to have in their presence a descendant — albeit, distant — of the inventor.

Humphrey Tyler was going to join this claque, but begged off. He and Susan were making the transition from Connecticut to suburban LA to be closer to grandchildren.

Suburban LA? Are there no limits to what grandparents might do?

Last, it appears our class is on the docket for a reunion this spring. Surely, any returns, though gratifying, will not engender the intensity of the departures following those religion exams so long ago.

Class of ’65 expedition to Little Bighorn.

John Robinson ’65 with children in Peru.

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to get and stay in contact with friends such as Will Ravenel, Clyde Jacob, Phil Porterfield, and Phil Michaels. Always great to hear from them.

Clyde Jacobs recently retired from practicing law in “Nawlins” and I am sure is even more of a sommelier than he was when I had lunch with him about 9 years ago. I also had the opportunity to have a very nice dinner in Myrtle Beach several years ago with Joe Jarrett Jr. Unsure if Joe is still practicing medicine there. I closed my law practice on Labor Day 2019 and was going to enjoy traveling until Covid put us all under quarantine.

Hopefully, we can get going soon.

Now for a sad truth. Looking at the most recent issue, we have all achieved our three score and ten years of life and more. In the last issue of EHS: The Magazine there were death notices for seven “Old Boys” whom I knew during my three years on the Hill.

We are having a “Mass Reunion” weekend in 3 months including our 55th. I am really hoping that all of us can attend and renew friendships. I was privileged to make the 50th in 2017 and it was wonderful to see some classmates that I had not seen since June 1967. The 55th may not be as lavish, but I can assure you that attending will be well worth the time and effort. Please make the effort; I am looking forward to getting back together with each and everyone of you.

Jack Sibley (C) 404-290-6427 jack@sibleyfarm.net Phil Terrie (C) 810-300-5311 pterrie@bgsu.edu Howell Hollis Howell.hollis@outlook.com 55th Reunion: June 10-12, 2022

Fleeing the dismal winter in central New York, Jackie and I spent two warm and sunny weeks last February on the South Carolina coast. One day I left Jackie and her bicycle at Hunting Island State Park (magnificent!) and drove up to Charleston, where Henry Smythe, with his characteristic generosity and style, fed me lunch and led me on a walking tour of the historic district.

Speaking of the Old South, I have been talking to Billy Peebles ’73, who is leading EHS’s investigation of its connection to slavery. At a time when many states are actively trying to prohibit honest discussions of our nation’s history, I am proud to see our school forthrightly investigating the realities of its past.

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Charles D. Coppage (C) 252-202-1323 charles@nccoppagelaw.com ​​55th Reunion: June 10-12, 2022

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George Walker Moore (C) 864-941-0666 moorew327@aol.com 55th Reunion: June 2023

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Henry Smythe ’66 and Phil Terrie ’66 at Henry’s home in Charleston.

Bayly Buck ’69 and Howard Hudgins ’69.

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Marty Martin (C) 919-272-2106 marty_martin@martinlegalhelp.com Kinloch Nelson (C) 585-733-3132 kinloch@rochester.rr.com 55th Reunion: June 2024

Bill Lewis remains gainfully employed! He writes, “At 70 years old, most people are looking to retire, but as for me, I was reappointed as judge by the Virginia Legislature (General Assembly) for another 6-year term.

Unfortunately, there is mandatory retirement by 74. Every morning, I continue to look forward to the day’s cases, trying to help those who weren’t fortunate to have the advice and guidance that our parents gave to us. When I don’t think I am helping, it’s time to sail into the sunset!

Richard Rhodes ’69 at Christmas with his four grandchildren, who are currently living with him.

Howard Hudgins and Bayly Buck went on an archaeological search for Belmont Winery which was located just inside the north entrance to the Skyline Drive. The winery was founded by Bayly’s great great grandfather in 1860 and was the largest east of Mississippi with approximately 400 acres.

They found several foundations and some very, very old vines. (Class Correspondent’s note: No wonder Bayly’s wine was so good at our reunion. Oenology is in his genes.)

Lewis Lawrence ’69 reports spring is arriving in Oregon. He loves living on Willapa Bay with the water and its many critters. He is busy “enlarging” his tenants’ housing. His barn swallows require two-inch openings to enter their nests. He also reports he learned a basic rule of Newfoundland dog husbandry: Don’t try to stop a Newfie attacking a raccoon by sticking your arm out! While the raccoon

escaped unharmed, Lewis wasn’t so fortunate, but has nearly recovered.

Sharon and Marty Martin currently plan to be knee deep in construction sawdust this year as they undertake a major house renovation project. When completed, classmates have a standing invitation to visit. Bring some of Bayly’s wine, or a reasonable substitute.

In May 2022, Harvey Moseley Jr., received the James Craig Watson Medal of the National Academy of Sciences for “applying creativity, a deep knowledge of physics, leadership, and perseverance to conceive and develop technologies and instruments used by astronomers worldwide to revolutionize cosmology and astronomy at X-ray and infrared wavelengths, while mentoring the next generation of astronomical pioneers.”

Congratulations, Harvey!

Navy veteran Richard Rhodes writes, “When I talk to people nowadays, most of them ask me what the draft was. Then I have to give them an ancient history lesson. I try to travel somewhere every month. I own an RV and that’s fun to take out. I also own a timeshare and use the weeks to take exchange vacations at other resorts. I’m doing well as a retired old man. I have my fourth son, his wife and their four children living with me in Chesapeake, Va. 10 of my 12 grandchildren live here in Chesapeake. That’s why I moved here when I retired. Grandchildren will keep you young.”

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James Newman (C) 253-677-4697 newman_jim@comcast.net 50th Reunion: June 10-12, 2022

EHS is planning to host a multiyear (including us) Reunion Weekend on June 10-12.

Many of us will be seeing members of the Classes of ’71 and ’72 that we may not have seen since our time on The Holy Hill. So please attend! Since the last Class Notes I found some interesting facts. Vic Grainger almost became a WFS alumnus and Craig Stewart is an alumnus of two high schools!

From Vic Grainger: “I had some nice, long phone conversations this summer with both Jim and Ty Seidule.

“I had a lot of shared history with both, from summers as a camper and counselor at Camp Yonahnoka in Linville, N.C., to EHS, to working with Jim at Saint Andrews School, and subsequent visits.

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Dr. Harvey Moseley ’69 Growing up in rural Brunswick County, Virginia, Dr. Harvey Moseley ’69 never believed he would become a Senior Astrophysicist for NASA. As an academically advanced child, Moseley was introduced to five scholastically challenging high schools, and ultimately chose Episcopal because of its academic rigor, extracurricular activities, and financial assistance. He credits his ability to attend EHS to an anonymous donor who provided significant tuition assistance, “Without that support, I never would have been able to attend.”

Being at The High School led Moseley to develop relationships that fueled his love of science and math. He had a room in Bryan Library where he did optical work with friends that allowed him to master a wide range of experimental techniques and manufacturing processes.

Mr. Callaway’s and Mr. Lindsay’s math classes produced an affinity for stimulating coursework that Moseley says, “was exactly what [he] needed at the time.”

“Mr. Callaway was an institution at Episcopal, and he was absolutely a really wonderful teacher,” he recalled with sincerity.

Outside of his time at EHS, Moseley spent summers working on the family farm and building a small observatory working alongside his then high school friend Sarah Nash, who has been his wife for the last 50 years. The teenagers built the observatory from items they collected and created.

One of the proudest accomplishments in Moseley’s career was building the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) with a 15-person team at NASA. Launched in November 1989, COBE was a satellite that, in layman’s terms, measured leftover residual light from the Big Bang. The complex satellite produced a precision map of the radiation, creating what he calls “the first baby pictures of the universe.” As cited from NASA’s website: In the 1990s, the late theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking described COBE’s findings as “the most important discovery of the century, if not of all time.”

1500-man years of work yielded two Nobel prizes in physics for the two leaders of the COBE team, and a once in a lifetime opportunity for Moseley. “It was such an amazing experience to get those results and to have the conclusion be so spectacular,” the astrophysicist reminisced.

The COBE was a hallmark of Moseley’s career, but he is also credited with inventing and leading the development of cryogenic X-ray microcalorimeters, which are central to the scientific capability of current and future X-ray astrophysics missions and have found broad application in a wide range of fields in physics.

He created and led the development of microshutter arrays that provide multi-object spectroscopy on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). This innovation allows the JWST to carry out one of its primary scientific objectives, the study of the evolution of the earliest galaxies in the universe.

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challenging academic work gave me the confidence to conquer the world, especially coming from a small, rural place,” he said.

Moseley has not only conquered it, but also bettered it! In May 2022, he was awarded the James Craig Watson Medal from the National Academy of Sciences which is presented every two years to acknowledge outstanding contributions to the science of astronomy. In announcing the award on its website, the Academy further described their selection of Moseley, “For applying creativity, a deep knowledge of physics, leadership, and perseverance to conceive and develop technologies and instruments used by astronomers worldwide to revolutionize cosmology and astronomy at X-ray and infrared wavelengths, while mentoring the next generation of astronomical pioneers.”

Technically a retired astrophysicist, Moseley now spends his time as the Vice President for Hardware Engineering at start-up Quantum Circuits, Inc. Clearly not one to take it easy in retirement, he is working with the company to develop the first practical quantum computer.

Grateful to The High School for preparing him for a life he otherwise may not have known, Moseley is also thankful his years on the Hill provided him with what he considers some of his closest friends.

“One thing I learned in experimental physics is that you have all sorts of ideas and almost all of them are wrong,” he mused.

He advises all current EHS students to “not focus on every lost battle, but instead continue to learn, explore, and take advantage of additional opportunities.”

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Winton Blount ’83 and Lewis Fitts ’71, and Ken Tyler ’83 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

“Jim sounded great. We swapped stories and book recommendations. His to me was a biography of Charles De Gaulle by Julian Jackson. I wondered if I was being punished as it was so long, but it was excellent. He told me I should move down to the Villages.

“Ty and I spent much time talking about reaction to his own book, which I have subsequently read. I found it thought-provoking and it helped me examine my own journey through white Southern traditions.

“Jennifer and I attended a wedding for the daughter of close friends. She is Virginia (“Ginna”) Oates ’09. The festivities were held on the campus of the afore-mentioned Camp Yonahnoka. Lots of memories there and ties to EHS. The camp was owned by long-time chemistry master and track coach Charles Tompkins (“Mr. T”) who retired just before we came to school — and operated the camp for 50 years. That is where I first met Jim, who was really running the place in its later years, and who was the one responsible for my taking a look at EHS instead of Woodberry, where men in my family had gone for several generations. At the reception there was a group photo of EHS alumni, so if it appears in future notes for class of 2009, the only old guy is me. I thought this might be a special year for Tar Heel football, but does not look like it is headed that way. I am nominating Jim Seidule as the new defensive coordinator!”

Craig Stewart writes: “Older daughter Ansley Condon ’07 just delivered our third grandchild, a 9lb, 14oz boy! Cricket and I are still in Charleston and mostly having fun. We are helping her 91-year-old mother… when she’ll let us.

“I actually attended the first day of high school at Terry Sanford High School in Fayetteville in 1967 before we got the call that afternoon that EHS was turning a small single on McGuire into a double and taking me off the waitlist. Why am I telling you this? Because the TS Class of ’70 kids consider me an alumnus based on that one day, so I attended their 50th reunion this past weekend. The good-looking girls then are still good looking!

“Coach Seidule sent me an article from The Villages newspaper. He’s 90 and still going strong! Both he and Jackie Phillips are committed to attending our class dinner in June.

Several other masters from our era will be on The Holy Hill but we’ll have to share them with the Classes of ’71 and ’72.

“Sadly, we recently lost our classmate Tommy Steptoe ’70. He was a quiet, intelligent guy who was a judge in W.Va. for many years.”

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Geoffrey Snodgrass (C) 504-914-4470 geoff@snodgrassplc.com 50th Reunion: June 10-12, 2022

Jud Cuttino writes, ”Just like Geoff Snodgrass, I will also miss our 50th Reunion as I will be on a twice- postponed 40th anniversary trip with my wife Debby to East Africa. I thoroughly enjoyed our 45th class reunion in the fall of 2017 — complete with a massacre of the Woodberry football team!

I have been retired for about four years now after 35 years of practicing anesthesiology in Savannah, Ga. My most frequent “reunion” with EHS alumni occurs at the annual EHSWFS Alumni Cup Golf Tournament in which

I have participated for 15 of its 20+ year existence. One of last year’s Alumni Cup’s highlights was getting to spend time catching up and reminiscing with David Dougherty ’64 who had retired and lived nearby. I currently spend my time: trying to shoot my age in golf, visiting my 5 granddaughters in Atlanta (son) and Connecticut (daughter), and traveling the world (Antarctica 1/22, East Africa 6/22). With a newly installed hip this March, I will hopefully finally shoot my age, and I will be looking forward to this fall’s Alumni Cup Golf match where EHS will crush Woodberry! Go Maroon!

Walter Dupree says, “Last August, Charlotte and I went to Jackson Hole for a week’s vacation. The last time I had been there was 50 years earlier in a Volkswagen bus with Chip Land and Regi Burns ’72. This time, there was no camping or backpacking involved.”

We still live in Atlanta where I work managing investments, participate in various book groups, and try to stay in shape with yoga and old man’s crossfit. After a two year Covid hiatus, New Orleans celebrated the return of Mardi Gras. Noted celebrities in the crowd and pictured above are Jen “Miss Information” Psaki and a Russian Disinformation Officer on leave from Ukrainian exercises. We stay busy with two married daughters and five grandchildren, all of whom live within a couple of miles of us. That’s the great news.

The less great news is that our oldest grandchild, Paul, was diagnosed with Ewing’s Sarcoma in August of 2020, shortly after his 6th birthday. A rare bone cancer that usually strikes teenagers, this cancer in his right femur had metastasized to his lungs, his other femur, and his spine. After 10 months of treatment with chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery to replace the femur with an expandable titanium rod, his quarterly scans have continued to show “no evidence of disease.” This truly feels like a miracle. Though the risk of recurrence remains high, we are just grateful to have a resilient first-grader who enjoys school, plays baseball, soccer, and golf, and also acts as my go-to source for any sports information.

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Beau Wilson (C) 828-390-9802 beauatciti@aol.com 50th Reunion: June 10-12, 2022

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Jock McIntosh reports that his first granddaughter, Collins Marie McIntosh, was born November 9, 2021! Parents and baby doing great, and grandparents could not be happier!

Pinkney Herbert had a solo show of his recent drawings and paintings in June at David Lusk Gallery in Memphis.

Bruce Faurot reached out to Doc Watson for his thoughts on the Ukraine crisis. Dobbs and I will call him soon.

As for myself, my private client relationships continue to be invigorating and I continue to be active. I look forward to seeing our class at the 50th Reunion.

Joe Mason reports that he retired from his psychiatric practice at the beginning of the pandemic and “have been trying to make myself useful and read the history I didn’t care about when I was younger, including Ty Seidule’s book about Robert E. Lee.” He has been playing his guitar and bridge, hiking, biking, motorcycling, and paddling. “That’s what keeps me sane. My daughter and only grandchild (Rhett, 5 years old) are in Los Angeles, and we hope to go visit more frequently as it becomes safer. Nancy and I live in Charlottesville, and I can’t imagine being anywhere else. I see brother Jamie Mason ’73 in Richmond fairly often and am looking forward to catching up with everyone at our 50th in June.”

Pat Stewart is living in the Missouri Ozarks, and is the director of a very bustling Roman Catholic house of hospitality and retreat: Marian Acres - Madonna House. This year is his 30th anniversary of membership in the worldwide community of Madonna House. He is painting commissions for the sheer joy of it.

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Rob Banner, Greg Michaels, Scottow King, Jack Barber, David Ritter, Gary Furr, Willie Moncure, John Watt, Stuart Grainger, Mel Broughton, Harvey Bilisoly, John Wetzel, Rob Saunders, Wells Goddin, and Charlie Nulsen at a Class of 1975 brunch Rob Saunders hosted on Reunion weekend before The Game.

Kin Nevitt ’72 and his son had a great fishing day on the Bahamian Cays in March.

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Geoffrey Snodgrass ’72 in New Orleans celebrating the return of Mardi Gras.

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Stuart Grainger (C) 910-352-7474 stuart.grainger@milliken.com 50th Reunion: June 2025

Greetings from Wilmington, NC where I am still working for Milliken and Company.

Anne won’t let me retire. Mason Hawfield reports his son Mason recently got married at a small ceremony here in Wilmington.

Young Mason is quite the schmoozer here

in town. We see Hugh MacRae often at St. James Parish that is loaded with EHS alumni of all ages. I am not sure if Hugh has officially retired from the real estate world.

Bobby Estill is living in Hawaii this winter and surfs every day. Doug Lane is still operating Anglers Lane in Forest, Va., after his 19-year career in the furniture business.

It’s a retail fly-fishing store with guided fishing trips. Doug has hosted trips for Gilliam Kittrell ’74 and George Maxwell and his wife Molly. Frank Rogers will be celebrating his 30th wedding anniversary in August with his wife Doris. Frank is in his eighth year as a Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court Judge. Wife Doris has been in the legal

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Boota deButts (C) 703-774-5717 whd@episcopalhighschool.org 45th Reunion: June 10-12, 2022

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Harry Archer, Gus Barber, Charles Winston, and I gathered in Atlantic Beach, N.C. in early December for a memorial service for Harry’s dad. The Archers retired to their longtime beach house after raising Harry and his sister in Raleigh where he became active in the community including a long stint as a town councilman. Their Atlantic Beach house was a popular destination during our EHS and UNC years where the Archers served as house parents, gently steering us away from our worst hooligan instincts and tucking us into bed after a long night. I know how proud Mr. Archer and his wife Janie, who passed in 2006, were of Harry, his wife Sally, and Harry’s three boys.

Harry and Sally just became grandparents courtesy of their oldest son, Harry James

After Episcopal

John Churchman ’75 John Churchman recalls finding a sense of place in the arts department at Episcopal. “I think the thing about art classes was the very welcoming environment,” he said. Within the arts department, teacher John Lisanick was of great influence on Churchman as he remembers him as “very gentle, kind, and instructive.”

On the Hill, Churchman was able to work with his teachers and peers to develop his artistic skills as well as discover a passion for the arts.

Churchman graduated from Vassar College in 1979, where he majored in English and was heavily involved in the theater department.

He then moved to New York and worked with several renowned photographers and even tried his hand at modeling. After his time in NYC, Churchman moved up to Vermont to continue pursuing his art career. Fast forward to today and Churchman still lives in Essex, Vt., with his wife, Jennifer, at their home, “Moonrise Farm,” taking care of their numerous animals, and creating beloved children’s books that tell stories about the highs and lows of caring for them.

In the adventures of Sweet Pea & Friends, the Churchmans created a uniquely successful book that combines both photo-illustration and carefully crafted words that appeal to children as well as adults. In 2015, they independently published their first book The SheepOver after raising funds to print through Kickstarter. Churchman delivered several copies of the book to Elizabeth Blumle, of Flying Pig Bookstore in Shelburne, Vt., who, unbeknownst to him, was a contributing writer for Publisher’s Weekly. Blumle wrote a rave review and, within hours, the Churchmans were fielding offers from publishers from around the world. They have since published six books with several publishers, are officially New York Times Bestselling Authors, and have a new book available for pre-order at sweetpeafriendsbookstore.com, titled, Happy Birthday to Ewe. While Churchman is now a published author, his artistic and personal pursuits extend far beyond that. He has worked with several clients including, but not limited to the state of Vermont, New England Culinary Institute, Goodrich, Warner Bros., and Hallmark Cards. He was the president of the Board of Trustees of Frog Hollow Gallery in Burlington, Vt., and a juried artisan. In addition to his client-based work Churchman is a passionate photographer who focuses on color and light in his distinctive images to bring his work to life.

“When it’s all said and done, there’s not a whole lot that we necessarily leave behind and the thing I like about children’s books is that when I’m gone my books will be around and I’ll be remembered in some way…you can’t hope for much more than making something that brings a little light and joy to our lives.”

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profession for 50 years. They enjoy Pawleys Island, S.C. when they can get away from Roanoke. Rob Saunders and wife Melissa hosted a wonderful 45th reunion pre-game brunch at their home in Alexandria. David Ritter was in attendance and had not been on campus since 1975. Other attendees included Mel Broughton, Rick Pfefferkorn, Charlie Nulsen, Willie Moncure, Greg Michaels, John Watt, Gary Furr, Jack Barber, Rob Banner, Scottow King, Wells Goddin, John Wetzel, and Harvey Bilisoly. Toasts were made to our classmates who are no longer with us. The High School does a wonderful job with the reunions, and we always have a blast. Do not miss our 50th!

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Archer IV (who Charles and I serve as godfathers) while his middle son, Charlie, is working with his dad in the insurance business and coaching lacrosse at a local high school. Ned, the youngest, is also in the insurance business and just became engaged.

Charles’ oldest, RuthAnne, is a senior at UNC, serving as an EMT at a local rescue squad and hopes to go to physician assistant school following graduation. Charlie is a junior in the UNC Kenan-Flagler College of Business and president of his fraternity.

Charles’s youngest, Georgia, plays field hockey, basketball and lacrosse at Ravenscroft School and is headed for UNC this fall.

Gus and Lloyd Barber are also grandparents with a sixteen-month-old grandson. And finally my daughter Julia will enter EHS this fall as a sophomore, forty four years after your humble correspondent’s graduation.

Jim Clardy ’78, Gus Barber ’78, Harry Archer ’78, and Charles Winston ’78.

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Bill Hughes (C) 203-252-1153 william.hughes@pb.com 45th Reunion: June 2024

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Staige Hoffman (C) 813-597-5059 staigehoffman1@aol.com 45th Reunion: June 2025

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Bernard Totty (C) 859-361-1568 seward.totty@gmail.com 45th Reunion: June 2026

Bill Hanahan ’82, Hugh Tarbutton ’82, Arthur Smith ’82, Frank Liddell ’82, Jack Bocock ’82, Moultrie Dotterer ’82, James Ragsdale ’82, and Bart Hardison ’82.

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Arthur Smith (C) 205-222-3054 wilchester@msn.com 40th Reunion: June 10-12, 2022

Hello Class of ’82, and hope this finds everyone safe and healthy.

The second EHS ’82 Rendezvous was another grand success. Many thanks to James Ragsdale for hosting the trip at Moree Preserve. I look forward to another rendezvous soon! Notes from hither and yon: Ironman David Coombs reports “My wife Heather and I enjoyed some R&R in South Beach, Miami the first week of March with four other couples. My son Ed and I will be enjoying a boys beach and golf trip 58

David Coombs ’82, wife Heather Coombs, and Mills Fleming ’82.

Mark Slack ’82, Macon Baird ’82, Greg Peete ’82, and Hamilton Baird ’82

to Emerald Isle the last week of March. This should prepare me for my upcoming Myrtle Beach golf trip, shortly before our big 40th reunion!”

Macon Baird writes that his regular golf group of Greg Peete and Mark Slack added Macon’s brother Hamilton Baird to their fall golf outing.

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Winton Blount ’83, David Macleod ’83, Spencer Ragland ’83, and Tony Gaede ’84.

Allston Moore ’83 and Ken Tyler ’83.

Will Kuhne ’84 and Ken Tyler ’83.

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Samuel Froelich (C) 336-402-3772 froelich@me.com 40th Reunion: June 2024

Mandy Machado Frye ’94, Allison Priebe ’94, Winton Blount ’83, David MacLeod ’83, Spencer Ragland ’83, Tony Gaede ’84, and Ken Tyler ’83 at dinner in Birmingham, Ala.

Christina Caldwell, Trip Caldwell ’83, and their daughter Tanner Caldwell visiting The Holy Hill.

Danny Miller writes: “We are up in Wayne, Pa., and I am in my 25th+ year with Aon, an insurance broker. Married 30+ years with three kids. All of them are well and the last is just about out of grad school. It was great to see a number of folks from that team and Coach Shaver even joined us. We had a blast. Fellow 1982 Alum John Kelly was there as well, so it was great to see him, as well as the rest of the guys. Looking forward to The Reunion this summer.”

Ken Tyler ’83 is back at The High School and organized a 40th anniversary event for the 1982 IAC basketball champs.

Mill Fleming reports that he “was one of six finalists (from over 100 applicants) interviewed to fill a seat vacated on the Georgia Supreme Court. He was also appointed in 2021 by Georgia Governor Brian P. Kemp

to serve on the state’s Judicial Nominating Commission. The Commission reviews applications and recommends candidates to fill judicial vacancies within the state, superior and appellate courts in Georgia. He recently enjoyed seeing Dave Coombs and Dave’s wife Heather who were in Savannah in December for a business trip.”

I am very excited about our 40th (gasp) Reunion. Hope to see all the people there that will be able to make it.

Cheers!

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John Sloan (C) 910-616-6375 jsloan14@ec.rr.com Frank Vasquez (C) 804-873-2212 rfvasquez1965@gmail.com 40th Reunion: June 2023

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Thorne Gregory Jr (C) 917-922-6250 thornegregoryjr@me.com 40th Reunion: June 2025

Peter Stephens writes: “I am still in London but still getting back to the U.S. often. I met a group of EHS students and faculty over in London and it was great to have dinner with them and hear how things are new, but still the same in many good ways. I enjoyed catching up with Chris Bickford ’85 recently after finding his Outer Banks photo book. I also have enjoyed seeing several of Sam Froelich’s photos around North Carolina. Two great photographers!

We needed more of their work on the yearbook! My two sons Matteus and Sebastian are in high school in London, but their team colors are maroon and black so we do a few maroon and black cheers on sports days.”

Patrick Burke writes: “Just had my first baby girl (Chloe) on 3/3/22. Still living in Mt. Vernon, Va. Up to 6 kids now…phew!

Sounds like your last kid is ready for college!

My oldest is 21, so a fair spread there.”

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thinking through his college options after his team competes in the final of the CT State Hockey Championship in March 2022. Go Blue Wave! David Opie ’86 is a talented author and illustrator and is also a neighbor in Connecticut. He can be found at space-

mandave.com

Milo Jones writes: “I have just completed a stint as a research fellow at the Changing Character of War Center, Pembroke College, Oxford. I adored it and will be back next year. Meanwhile, I’m still nominally living in Warsaw, but this summer I’m teaching geopolitics for MBAs at Imperial College London and at IE Business School in Madrid.”

Rod McGee has a son, Hugh, who is a senior at EHS. He is a member of the championship varsity basketball team and All IAC in the high jump.

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Art Taylor (C) 703-774-5079 art@arttaylorwriter.com 40th Reunion: June 2026

In my call for news, I always try to prompt a bit. What can you tell me about job promotions, honors or recognitions, news with the kids or (gulp!) the grandkids?

Rob Jones continues his pursuit of athletic excellence and will compete in the Moore County, North Carolina Masters Division in 400 meter freestyle swimming competition in April 2022.

Rodney Robinson hit me with an unexpected one: retirement.

“I have entered the 3rd chapter and have retired to sunny Sarasota, Fla.,” he began.

“After a career working from tobacco to social media, I intend to unplug, smell the roses and be of service to others. This spring, I end my second stint on the board of trustees at EHS, the last in a long line of the class of ’86 starting with legends Alex Bocock and Chris Giblin. The Board has continued to address the tough issues to make our School better for all. I did have a chance to ping Smith Roberson from the infamous Ms. Salmon English class and he’s doing well in North Carolina. On a personal note, both of my daughters graduate college in May (Barnard ’22 and Hampshire ’20) and start their road to independence. If anyone is down this way, bring your tennis game and let’s get at it.”

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The cover of David Opie’s ’86 book, All the Insects in the World.

It was great to hear from a couple of other classmates pushing ahead with creative endeavors.

David Opie has just finished the artwork for All the Insects in the World, scheduled for publication this fall, and is looking ahead to All the Mammals in the World, scheduled for spring 2023. He’s also teaching drawing and digital illustration at the University of New Haven in Connecticut.

And in Idaho, Scott Pietsch continues to enjoy writing and playing music — with many of us continuing to enjoy listening! If you haven’t already, check out his website at bacondrive.com to sample for yourself.

After struggling to write much that first year of the pandemic, I made better headway last year myself, and I’m pleased to have some publications ahead. Love Me or Leave Me recently appeared in Music of the Night, an anthology produced by England’s Crime Writers’ Association, and We Are All Strangers Here is forthcoming in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine later this year, not sure yet which issue. My wife, Tara Laskowski, and I also co-wrote another story, a quirky little series of six bits of flash fiction inspired by the board game Clue; that story, After Their Convictions, Six Murderers Reflect on How Killing Mr. Boddy Changed Their Lives, should appear later this year in Black Cat Mystery Magazine.

And I’ve recently finished editing an anthology too: Lawyers, Guns, and Money: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Music of Warren Zevon, scheduled for June publication.

I was also glad to return to in-person writing festivals earlier this year, with a visit to Alabama in early February for Murder in the Magic City in Birmingham and Murder on the Menu in Wetumpka — and a great surprise in Wetumpka when my former EHS roommate Charles Haigler ’87 popped by to say hello!

A couple more bits of personal news ahead as well, but I’ve already taken up too much

Art Taylor ’86 and Charles Haigler ’87.

space here. I’ll save them for the next column when I have more info — which segues to another nudge for everyone else to send in their news too! I’ll be ready to share.

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David Haddock (C) 301-575-6750 davidhaddock@yahoo.com 35th Reunion: June 10-12, 2022

Charles Haigler writes: “It was great to see my high-school roommate, Art Taylor ’86, meet his lovely wife, Tara (celebrated writer as well!), and son, Dash, recently at the “Murder on the Menu” event in Alabama!

After we graduated (both of us sons of car dealers), Art went on to Yale University (boom!) where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts. He then received a Master of Arts from North Carolina State University and a Master of Fine Arts from George Mason University.

Art has always been a writer. More recently, Art’s short fiction won an Edgar Award in 2019; an Anthony Award in 2015; Agatha Awards in 2014, 2015, and 2017; Macavity Awards in 2014, 2017, 2019, and 2020; and four Derringer Awards: for Best Novelette in 2011 and 2021 and for Best Long Story in 2012 and 2013.

He is the author of On the Road with Del & Louise: A Novel in Stories (2015), which won the Agatha Award for Best First Novel in 2016. He edited Murder Under the Oaks: Bouchercon Anthology 2015, which won the Anthony Award for Best Anthology or Collection in 2016.

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A picture of a Steve Sztan ’92 original custom cutting board.

John Mullins ’92 and Jim Sibley ’92 after hitting golf balls in Truist Park.

Don Haddock ’89, his wife Cristina, and their daughter.

Alex Bounds ’89 celebrates Senior Night with his son, wife, and daughter.

Walker Lamond ’93, Schuyler Williams ’00, Cary Goodwin ’93, Murdoch Matheson ’92, and Howdie Goodwin ’91.

In addition to writing fiction, Art also reviews mysteries and thrillers for The Washington Post and contributes to lMystery Scene magazine.

Art is now an assistant professor of English at George Mason University.

I would like to write that “I taught Art everything he knows,” but that would truly be... “fiction.”

teams. We have games every weekend, so I spend a lot of time on the sidelines or traveling to out-of-town tournaments with my younger son. Accompanying photo is from Senior Night this past Monday.” Looking good, Alec and family!

Don Haddock reports that his daughter Eva is a freshman at NYU studying music business. He and Cristina are thrilled to have an excuse to go to New York and would love to meet up with EHS friends in the city.

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Ned Durden (C) 704-576-5039 neddurden@gmail.com 35th Reunion: June 2023

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Croom Lawrence (C) 540-878-6754 croomlawrence@gmail.com 35th Reunion: June 2024

Alex Bounds very kindly reports: “Lacrosse season is in full swing, and my wife and I are very busy supporting our boys. My older son is a senior and heading to Rhodes College in Memphis to play lacrosse, and I help coach my younger son with his local and travel

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William Coxe (C) 864-313-9803 williecoxe@gmail.com 35th Reunion: June 2026

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Fred Alexander (C) 704-641-4858 fcaiii@yahoo.com 30th Reunion: June 10-12, 2022

Hello, Class of 1992. I am looking forward to seeing everyone at our 30th reunion in a couple of months. Recently, I’ve caught up with a couple of our classmates, Steve Sztan and John Mullins.

Steve is living in Tucson, Ariz., and has parlayed his Air Force A-10 flying skills into being a pilot for Southwest Airlines. Between trips to eastern Europe and Albuquerque he is coaching high school lacrosse and most recently took up wood working. Below you can see a couple of pictures of some cutting boards that he’s made.

John Mullins is the sales manager for Sabre Limited in Atlanta. They are a top Microsoft partner specializing in production and inventory management and theatrical productions, among other services.

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that went horribly awry and long story short, Freddy Freeman is no longer a Brave.

Again, just want to reiterate how excited I am to see everyone in a couple months.

Love, Peace, and Chicken Grease, Fred

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Walker Lamond (C) 301-580-0761 walkerlamond@mac.com 30th Reunion: June 2023

The last issue of this magazine caught up with the beautiful and brilliant Heather Collins, who is now a pediatrician in Washington working with acutely ill children. At EHS not only could Heather outrun anyone on the track, she was the first female member of the Honor Committee and a formidable but friendly force in any classroom discussion. She was also a classmate of mine at the University of Virginia, although she ran in considerably more respectable circles. Still, a glimpse of her across the Grounds was enough to set a boy’s heart aflutter.

Jason Light writes that after 24 years of living in Atlanta, working in real estate, and playing bass in Hotlanta’s tastiest cover band, he’s headed out on a bit of a walkabout with plans to visit 55 countries over the next year.

His worldwide adventure will take him to the Galapagos, Easter Island, the top of Mt. Everest, and, presumably, through the lost steam tunnels of Centennial Gym. Jason, if you’re looking for a way into the VIP tomb at the Great Pyramids, I know a guy. And be sure to drop in on some of our overseas classmates like Max Vielle in Belgium, Igor Ermalov Budanstev in Switzerland, and Denver Graninger, who I believe still summers in Greece with his crack team of archaeologists.

There was a solid showing in Orange at this year’s Woodberry Game, mostly by some of the Old Boys from the Class of 1991 that set such shining examples for us when we first arrived on the Hill. Gentlemen like Drew Burris ’91, John Doering ’91, Will Coxe ’91, Dexter Rumsey ’91, and Rob Matheson ’91 were all there to remind me what a pleasure it was to live on 1st Dal as a New Boy. Howdie Goodwin ’91 brought his much smaller little brother Cary Goodwin along with him, and it was all we could do to keep them both off the field in the final minutes of the game to salvage a victory. Ham 62

Brentt Brown ’96, Luke Zehner ’96, and Andy Smith ’96 golfing in Bend, Oregon.

Thomas Beckner ’96, his wife Kameko Beckner, and sons Laser and Thelonious at Joshua Tree.

Morrison, Murdoch Matheson ’92, John Hooff ’94, and Schuyler Williams ’00 were also on hand, and clever, elevated conversation was enjoyed by all.

I recently brought my daughter to campus to see the excellent production of Legally Blonde, which by all indications was an absolute smash hit. Sitting in the plush theater seats of Pendleton and watching the giddy students chatting and flirting with each other in their uniform of sweatpants and shower shoes, I couldn’t help but mark the stark contrast to my memories of the same building, croaking out hymns on hard wooden pews and praying Mr. Helfenstein wouldn’t call us out by name for nodding off in morning Chapel But despite the downgrade in dress codes and downright steroidal improvements to the facilities, EHS remains, I am happy to report, more or less unchanged. Something I

hope the leadership remembers is essential to its enduring charm.

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Emily Breinig (C) 480-330-8017 fletchee@hotmail.com 30th Reunion: June 2024

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After Episcopal

Sundi Lofty ’94 After graduating from Episcopal, Sundi Lofty ’94 envisioned a career path that would enable her to meld entertainment and education together to effectively reach people and make an impact.

“I always knew I wanted to marry education and entertainment,” Lofty said. “Even if that meant I had to create my own opportunities to fuse the two together.”

As a member of the second class of girls to graduate from The High School, Lofty understood the importance of having a seat at the table. For her, education was the key to success.

As a former Jefferson Scholar, Lofty holds a B.A. in English and a Master of Teaching (secondary English education) from the University of Virginia, as well as a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from New York University. The love she found for English she credits to the educational experience she had on The Holy Hill.

Twenty-eight years later, Lofty, not only has a seat, but also owns the table. As the senior development creative, writer, and producer for Black Robin Media, LLC, she researches, develops, and writes documentary and docu-series treatments to pitch to well-known networks including Oxygen, OWN, PBS, MSNBC, CNN, Discovery, and many others.

She also writes scripts for linear, digital, and social media, as well as experiential exhibits at institutions including the Smithsonian NMAAHC’s Power of Place (permanent collection) and Afro-futurism (coming 2023), Dodge RAM’s 360 Media program, TV One’s NAACP Image Award Winning television special, In Conversation: The Michelle Obama Interview, as well as TV One’s news special, Real Estate Realities: When the Boom Goes Bust.

In June 2021, she began what she called “a divine directing.”

She was tapped to direct, and executive produce, “Onyx Family Dinner.” A series where social media influencers, the Onyx Family, share a meal with other influencers, changemakers, and celebrity guests to discuss issues surrounding mental health, social activism, body positivity, and more.

The goal of the series is to provide the next generation with tools to face the world. With a following of over 7 million on social media and over three billion views on their content, the Onyx Family’s mission, “Tell the Story, Feed the Soul; Make them Laugh, Heal the Heart,” reached families around the world.

In addition to Black Robin Media, Lofty serves as the current Creative Director of Social Impact and Special Projects for MTV

Entertainment. Accomplishing her long-term goal of unifying entertainment and education, she celebrates her creative “marriage” every day. She is responsible for the socially conscious post on social media for all of Viacom’s brands i.e., BET, Paramount +, E!, CMT, CBS, Nickelodeon, and more.

She also has created content for YouTube Originals, History Channel, Smithsonian Channel, Refinery29, Oxygen Media, Fuse Media, Food Network, TLC, Travel Channel, Retired Living, AsPire, and TV One. Her scripted work has placed at the Austin Film Festival (AMC’s Original Pilot Competition), Slamdance (Teleplay Competition), Urbanworld Film Festival, and also has earned a spot in the CBS Writers Mentoring Program.

“I take this opportunity seriously because TV speaks to people,” Lofty says. “Entertainment allows people to escape from the everyday trials of life. The opportunity we have for impact is major.”

One of her projects that aired over three nights in February 2022, centered on the legacy of President Lincoln. Lofty was a member of the writing team for the History Channel’s production “Abraham Lincoln.” The documentary chronicled the president who led the country during its bloodiest war and greatest crisis.

Lofty credits her time at Episcopal for helping to shape her into the person she is today.

“Even though I transferred in after my sophomore year, everything I was exposed to at Episcopal was monumental in shaping my overall success.”

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Randy Shelley (C) 843-452-2244 randallshelley78@gmail.com 30th Reunion: June 2026

Thomas Beckner writes that he is living in Venice Beach, CA and has successfully resurfaced from the pandemic with a full beard and a beautiful man bun (not to mention a daily battle with his “dad bod.”) More importantly, he emerged from isolation with two kiddos in tow. Guess he’s been busy. Known as Thee Brothers Beckner on the Gram, these two little nuggets were both home-birthed in Los Angeles by his lovely partner Kameko Wild Beckner. The boys (Laser and Thelonious) are healthy, nocturnal, and learning French, and their father has learned to change a cloth diaper while riding his skateboard. Thomas and Kameko have launched a company called So Good General Store, a mission-based corp, trying to save the planet, one ounce of concentrated cleaning product at a time. It’s a non-toxic, no plastic, BIPOC founded joint, where Thomas serves as the unpaid intern, content creator, and resident Bizzat (If you are into saving the planet and want to try So Good use EHS25 for 25% off the whole site.) Special shout out to Temple and Zehner for their continued support! Pre-pandemic, Thomas was vice president at Goop, where Paltrow confessed that he was one of the few people in this world she’d let stick a camera in her face. (For the record, Tommy, you still can’t put one in mine.) After furloughs at the company, Thomas went out on his own and founded a creative collective, Little Bear Studios, which creates all sorts of online and broadcast content: branded video, photo, marketing, etc. If you are in need of creative muscle, please reach out via littlebearcreates. com. He’s hungry for new biz and will cut EHS alums a deal of course! Additionally, Thomas writes that he met up with Luke Zehner and Joel Bunn ’95 at a Phish show in Santa Barbara back in October. A good time was had until Luke tweaked a bit and slept, as he often does, under his bed.

Speaking of Z, Luke Zehner says, “Greetings from Marin, y’all. I really feel like I put the “old” in Old Boy after the past few years. Had I known there was going to be a global pandemic, we might not have had this third kid. But as they say at Vespers, “God doth have a sense of humor.” As most of you 64

have heard, I recently wrote my third (and finest) Super Bowl ad. I could describe it here, but you’d be better off going to thebookofz. com to enjoy it for yourself. We filmed outside of London at Queen Elizabeth’s childhood home on Thanksgiving. Ted Lasso star Hannah Waddingham is the featured talent, and we hit it off immediately. I’m not quite sure we’re officially friends just yet because she stopped responding to my Instagram messages. That’s all for now. I’m off to the Mill Valley farmer’s market to fetch some local organic produce.”

Andy Smith recently got promoted to regional sales director, Pacific Northwest division, at Mannington Floors. He writes that his children are doing lots of skiing and that he landed a nice Steelhead a few months back. Looks like Andy’s been hitting the links in Oregon quite a bit, too, with cousins Luke and Brentt Brown. Andy and I have been trying, to no avail, to coordinate a guy’s weekend with some Old Boys, however, there has been very little helpful or related input from the group. It seems our interests in nostalgia-provoking fun has evolved, and is limited to, and now divided among those who would like to ski, and others who’d prefer to fish or golf.

Meanwhile, several of us fall into categories all our own, myself included, who seem to want nothing more than to see old friends and not be forced into any type of activity that has the potential to cause severe injury or demonstrate my lack of extracurricular vigor.

I think Andy and I have settled on finding a halfway point between South Carolina and Oregon, somewhere in the Midwest, perhaps at a Roy Roger’s, where we might share some coffee and discuss the National League East as well as Luke’s most recent Super Bowl advertisement. Congrats on the promotion, Cuz! See you down at Roy’s!

Jane Pope Cooper writes, “The small crew at the Woodberry game and reunion had a great time being back on campus.

Like the old adage: quality over quantity?

It was great to see everyone, and I brought my daughter Pope to check out the campus in case there is a chance she would be interested in attending her mom’s alma mater. The ladies helped us storm the dorms and show her around. Twiggy Furlow Parker gets MVP of the trip. It had been WAY too long, and we loved seeing her and getting to know Ashley. Also, loved being there with Eliza Brewer Hoffman ’95 and Helen Wells ’95,

and Courtney Rowson ’95. We just moved into our renovation after 15 months and like I have told everyone I have seen since then, that was my final move. It was brutal. Next one is into the grave. But we are so happy to be settling in and thankful for our new/old spot. I moved offices too this year, but nothing too exciting there for readers. Brought manufacturing in house which is amazing.

Very proud of my female powered team here at JP. I haven’t seen Kent in quite some time since I moved my office, but I am thinking of hanging out at Merc and Mash in hopes of running into him some time soon. Miss those Old Boys but loved hanging with Bry Guy (Claiborne Guy?) aka Brian Knutson as the lone wolf at THE GAME.” Rickety, rackety, Jane! See you at the next one!

Sarah Pugh Kadish writes, “Nothing much new in the Kadish household. We’re officially Maryland residents for the long haul.

I’m back in the classroom working with kiddos that need some academic intervention.

My middle school students particularly enjoy my mom jokes and trying to explain Snapchat to me. We see the Knutsons whenever we can and loved catching up with so many friends at the Reunion in November!” Welcome back to the classroom, Sarah! I’ve got plenty of corny jokes if you need any!

Sarah Akridge Knutson writes, “Brian Knutson is obsessed with coaching Alexandria City High School (used to be TC Williams) varsity lacrosse team. So much so…he’s made us all call him coach around the house. He’s eager to get back out on the golf course and has many ‘once in a lifetime’ golf invitations this summer. Jack (13) just got into EHS and will be a freshman next year. He’s into lacrosse, sports cards, and recently learned to scuba dive. Walker (11) has finally agreed to take a few months off of ice hockey and is working on perfecting his golf swing. Bodie (5) is so “over” preschool and is ready to go to real school with “real” kids and not “these babies.”

He’s on a strict diet of Lucky Charms, Oreos, and Cheez-its because we heard once that fat kids are harder to kidnap, and we are old and tired! I’ve decided I’m in need of a hobby in 2022 (especially as I write this, and I have no interesting/funny things to share about myself ) …still trying to figure out what that will be and I’m taking suggestions. Maybe a spa reviewer? Loved seeing EHS pals at the reunion and hope to see more this coming

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Becky Kellam Everhart’s ’99 daughters dressed in green for St. Patrick’s Day.

Hannah Connor ’99 paddling the James River.

year.” Congrats to Jack Knutson! I hope he gets as lucky as his father did with roommates!

Garland Lynn and I rendezvoused in September at Darlington Motor Speedway for the annual running of the Southern 500.

A good time was had, but we left a little hard of hearing and smelling of burning tires, and I found myself yelling in casual conversations a week later. Garland quickly made himself at home among the NASCAR masses with his tote cooler and U.Va. hat, trash talking anyone rooting against his beloved Kyle Busch, driver of the #18 M&M’s Toyota Camry. (For those of you unfamiliar with the sport, Busch is not a popular driver.) I’m hoping Garland will return for the spring race in May. I could use a wingman.

Speaking of things casual, Kent Lowry continues to thrive at his position as Territory Manager with Boston Scientific where in 2021 he was inducted into the President’s Club for his impressive sales volume of spinal cord stimulation systems. For some reason, I’m picturing Kent wearing an embroidered blazer and ascot, backstage in an exclusive room on the set of Saturday Night Live with Steve Martin, Tom Hanks, and Tina Fey, smoking cigars and sipping expensive scotch. When Kent isn’t stimulating his patient’s spinal column, he can often be found on a surfboard or following up with his DMs on LinkedIn. I was able to connect with Kent and his family over the holidays briefly. We had a great time catching up, and I’m thrilled to share that I am still taller than both of his children (though that is a trend that appears to be “short-lived”).

Laura Morton Michau says she and her husband Court, along with daughters Caper

(10) and Millie (9), and their dog Maple now live in Richmond, Va. However, they try to get out of town as much as possible (sorry not sorry, Richmond) and “live for the next escape and travel.” They are on their way to Montana to go skiing for spring break, and then off to Charleston, S.C. to see old friends and groovy tunes at the High Water Festival in April. Laura is still working with Medtronic (17 years now) while husband Court crushes Naval law. She adds that, “As a family we have been on a binge of every Bill Murray movie made and we are pretty competitive in all racket sports — mainly badminton. I hope to see the Michaus this summer in Charleston!”

I had the pleasure of spending time with James Ervin ’95 and Joel Bunn ’95 last July in Charleston. Those two always find time to play music together every chance they get in spite of the geographic distance between California and South Carolina. These gentlemen still haven’t missed a beat, literally, from their old days on McGuire together or in the basement of Pendleton. Additionally, I caught up with Jonathan Dunlap ’95 (and James again) in our old hometown of Florence, S.C. Jonathan is in Asheville, N.C. now. He and I have started a two-man book club since we seem to be the only people in each other’s life who still read. If anyone wants to join, let me know. We’ve just started War and Peace, ironically, so there’s plenty of time to catch up.

Temple Forsythe Basham writes, “Not much to report from the Basham household.

Had a ball at the Reunion in November with the small but mighty crew who made it. Sarah Pugh Kadish, Jane Pope Cooper, Laura Morton Michau, and Meg Furlow

Parker joined me in a stroll through campus to relive the glory days. A lot has changed, but a lot has stayed the same. We lost to WFS but celebrated nonetheless after the game at Sarah and Brian Knutson’s house. Brian was the only male representative at the Reunion, and thereby voted funniest and most handsome. I called Luke Zehner and Thomas Beckner from the Reunion to let them know.

We laughed a LOT and promised not to let so much time pass before our next gathering.

(By the way — The Class of ’95 showed us up and had more attendees; I expect ALL of you to attend the 30th!)

Well, old folks, that about does it. I hope everyone had a good pandemic and insurrection, that the outcome of whatever civil and global strife that most certainly lay ahead will align with your values. I, for one, have chosen, in time, to detach from the political theater that we currently find ourselves caught in the middle of, and have chosen instead to embrace a local cause near and dear to my heart. That’s right, I spend much of my free time on weekends at PetSmart trying to convince strangers, in spite of their better judgment, that adopting a feral kitten will be the best decision they ever made.

Till next time, Shantytown. Cheers!

Randy

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Episcopal High School would like to thank Bill Allen for his service as a Class Correspondent. We are in need of a Class Correspondent for the Class of ’97.

If you would like to share an update or volunteer to be the Class Correspondent, please contact Marissa Murdock at mmurdock@episcopalhighschool.org or 703-933-4125.

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Katherine Stuart (C) 434-989-7054 katstu@gmail.com Andrew Nielson (C) 706-254-2277 25th Reunion: June 2023

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Becky Everhart (C) 917-628-5945 beckykellam@gmail.com 25th Reunion: June 2024

After spending the last five years in Florida, Hannah Connor moved back to Virginia this fall just in time to paddle the Great Return of the federally endangered Atlantic sturgeon on the James River. Next month she’ll take on the wild and scenic Buffalo River in Arkansas, paddling through the Upper Buffalo Wilderness to the boundary of the Ozark National Forest. When she’s not paddling mighty rivers, she remains on staff as a senior attorney with the Center for Biological Diversity where she focuses on healthy ecosystems and securing a future for all species, great and small, especially those hovering on the brink of extinction.

Philip Cox writes: “My family and I are having a good year. I still live in Johnson City, Tenn., and I’m continuing to grow my business (mainly building apartments right now). My son, Charlie (10) and I are going to England for spring break. My daughter Kensi (5) is big into gymnastics.

And my other daughter Ella (8) is just living her best life. On an EHS note, I occasionally run into Evan Remmes ’96 and Croft Thomas ’96 at Biltmore Forest Country Club in Asheville and I’m good friends with Robert Williams ’90 who lives in Johnson City and I still keep in touch with Alex Schultes. He is still living in Doha Qatar and doing well.

Keep hoping he moves back to the U.S. We are ready for summer here in Virginia Beach. Dressed my girls Alice (4) and Sutherland (3) for St. Patrick’s day… looks like mass meetings taught me how to properly dress my children! Wishing everyone well, Becky Kellam Everhart.

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Brandon Stalker wrote in for the first time in a few years with the fantastic update that his restaurant, Evelyn’s, which is named after his daughter, is undergoing an expansion to grow from 34 seats to 140! Evelyn’s won best 66

Schuyler Williams ’00 and fiancé Bart Seifert.

new restaurant in Annapolis in 2018 along with best breakfast, and it has held the title for Best Breakfast since winning it in year one.

Cal Ripken who was his childhood idol is a regular and Brandon encourages any members of the Class of 2000 to stop in if ever they are in Annapolis. Brandon writes that it has been an incredibly challenging few years to be a restaurant and commercial real estate owner, but that he feels very grateful to have remained sane and solvent. He looks forward to bringing his fiancé to EHS this year so she can see the place that made him the man he is today.

Summers Clarke Lacy had a lot of recent hangs with fellow members of the Class of 2000. She recently got together with Lillian Smith Teer and her daughter Lily while they were in town for a regatta, and they took their kids to see the USS Yorktown. She was also able to catch up with Lynn Steyaart and his wife while they were in town for a visit. Vince Van Dillen has been doing some travel visiting friends and family in Seattle and San Francisco. Also on the west coast, Maisie Cunningham Short is adjusting to life with two young kids and has started playing tennis competitively again after a 20+ year hiatus.

Her daughter Lucy will be turning one the weekend of reunion so it’s TBD whether she will make it back east. Maisie also recently joined the Advisory Board of Nerdy Girl Success, a non-profit dedicated to supporting and preparing young women of diverse backgrounds to become the decision makers in business, politics, and the arts. From Munich, Zsolt Parkanyi provided a very on-trend Covid-era update that he a) got Covid; b) got vaccinated; c) got a dog; and d) has had

Lillian Smith Teer ’00, Summer Clarke Lacy ’00, her husband, and their daughters visiting the USS Yorktown in Charleston, S.C.

enough Zoom calls for one lifetime. He is very much looking forward to traveling again including back to Alexandria for the reunion in June.

Schuyler Williams has lots of exciting news, namely that she got engaged to Bart Seifert in December. Schuyler writes that the happy couple is getting married in October at her brother Victor Maddux’s ’93 home on the eastern shore of Maryland. Schuyler also got a puppy recently so is really embracing the suburban life. Schuyler and Bart’s Goldador, Ivy, was brought to their attention by Hattie Gruber, who also did Schuyler’s engagement ring so lots of gratitude for Hattie this year.

Schuyler has seen Hattie twice in the last few months — most recently to pick out her wedding dress in NYC. Schuyler writes that she also saw Hattie at her stepfather Billy Holliday’s memorial service, which took place in January in his hometown, Myrtle Beach. Billy’s incredible life was celebrated by his family and many of Harriet and Hattie’s closest friends. Summers Clarke Lacy and Brenton Hardee ’02 were in attendance as well, so despite the unfortunate circumstances we were able to enjoy a mini reunion.

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Beezie Sayers (C) 713-560-6210 beezie.sayers@gmail.com 20th Reunion: June 10-12, 2022

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Stuart and Laura Davidson Hartley ’03 with their beautiful family.

Eleanor and William Vance, children of Lauren Vance Stockstill ’02.

Paris Granger Brown, daughter of Grant Brown ’02.

Wilkes ’02 and Caroline Koste Evans ’06 at their wedding.

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Andrew Farrar (C) 919-616-6636 asfarrar@gmail.com Artie Armstrong (C) 805-341-5233 artiearmstrong@yahoo.com 20th Reunion: June 10-12, 2022

Artie Armstrong: “All is good on the left coast. Temperatures are now in the mid to high 80’s, just like my golf scores.”

Grant Brown : “Laura and I had a baby girl, Paris Granger Brown, on February 28.

Everybody is healthy and happy. Big brother Brooks (2) was excited to welcome her to the family!”

Tim Brown: “Some big changes this past year. I moved from Hawaii to Austin, Texas, where I bought a house and finally settled into a place of my own for the first time in four years. On a ski trip this past Christmas I ran into Rebecca Pomeroy Shores who somehow recognized me in my snow gear!

David Carr ’73, Ginny Moore Carr ’03, and Will Carr at Ginny and Will’s wedding.

Ginny Moore Carr ’03 and Sally Mebane Murray ’03 at Ginny’s wedding in April 2021.

I’m still working in management consulting and enjoying its move to being 100% remote.

Still traveling a lot and looking forward to seeing y’all for our 20th!”

Mac Clifford: Mac and Lucy Clifford are expecting their second child this July, a baby girl, which is both exciting and terrifying!

Both of their children will have the opportunity to visit the EHS campus very soon, as the Cliffords will be moving to the Washington, D.C., area this year in support of Mac’s new role with the federal government at FEMA. The whole family is excited to reconnect with the local EHS network.

Wilkes and Caroline Koste Evans ’06: “We were married in November 2021 in Atlanta, Ga. The wedding was so much fun, and we were fortunate to be surrounded by many EHS friends and family for the event!

We are living in Atlanta and excited for the road ahead.”

Christopher McLendon Jr.: “My wife Lea, our daughter Everett Kay, and I welcomed our son, Hayes Barlow McLendon on March 21, 2021. We all look forward to visiting EHS for my 20th reunion in June!”

Judson Battle Ragsdale: “I am coming up on my five year anniversary working with Invisors, a workday partner, as a Senior Data and Analytics Consultant in Atlanta, Ga. I was the 14th person to join the company, which has grown to over 250.”

Lauren Vance Stockstill: Sam and Lauren welcomed their twins, Eleanor “Ellie” Catherine and William, on January 10. They are excited to visit campus for the 20th reunion in June and hope their new issue onesies still fit by then!

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Alden Corrigan (C) 443-783-4659 alden.k.corrigan@gmail.com 20th Reunion: June 2023

I hope everyone is doing well! My family was very excited to celebrate the wedding of my younger sister, Caroline Koste Evans ’06, and Wilkes Evans ’02 this past November.

It was such a wonderful weekend of festivities, and it was a great opportunity to catch up with a number of alumni who were in attendance. We are even more ecstatic that Caroline and Wilkes have decided to live in Atlanta, so we will get to see them often.

Ginny Moore-Carr was married on April 24, 2021 to Will Carr, son of David Carr ’73.

Their rehearsal dinner was at Barrackside Farm, the former home of the late “Big” David Carr ’43, a place which has hosted many after parties for The Game and where the couple’s engagement occurred. Their small celebration included Ginny’s classmates, Sally Mebane Murray (maid of honor) and Gray Murray, and the groom’s uncles, Cliff Fox ’75 and Arthur Smith ’82. The Carrs live in Charlottesville, Va. Laura Davidson Hartley and Stuart Hartley welcomed their second child on April 3, 2021, Louisa Emerson Hartley. She is a firecracker just like her dad. Stu works for Gray Construction, and Laura has rejoined Willis Towers Watson based out of D.C. brokering fine art insurance.

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Catherine Blanchard Gillespie and her husband welcomed their son Henry on September 9, 2021. He joins delighted big brother William and skeptical doggie Bella at their home in Houston, TX. A. Houston Moncure married Kate Davidson in August 2020 and moved to Montego Bay, Jamaica.

Mac Sullivan, his wife Rebecca, and their twin daughters Betty and Ophelia, are now living in Grapevine, Tex. Mac had previously been in Asia for a decade but is now back stateside. He is running an IT department for a large Japanese logistics company and is going to defend his PhD this June. He is excited to share that he published his first book this year. As you may imagine, twin five-year-olds, moving family across the world, 68

Catherine Gillespie’s ’04 sons and dog in Houston, Texas.

Mac Sullivan ’04, his wife Rebecca, and their twin daughters Betty and Ophelia.

supply chain IT job, and PhD don’t give him too much time for catching up, but he is so excited to do so really soon. P.S. Super proud of the Georgia Bulldawgs as that was a shining moment in a tough 2021 year.

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Ellie Frazier (C) 540-256-7215 kefrazier8@gmail.com 15th Reunion: June 10-12, 2022

Zach Chesson and his wife, Cassie, moved to Raleigh in 2020 and now have three kids — Cora (5), Lucy (2.5) and Oliver (6 months).

They are loving being in North Carolina!

Peebles Squire and his wife, Lauren Cobert Squire, welcomed into the world their first son, Oliver Peebles Squire, on March 20.

They are beyond elated and look forward to his first trip to The Game!

Christina Swaim relocated to Charlotte, N.C. this spring after bouncing between D.C. and the Carolinas for the better part of a decade or plus. She looks forward to leaning into her Southern accent on Zoom calls.

Tabb Wyllie is doing well and writes that his daughter (Violet) is at The Butterfly House at the Seminary with the kids of a few other EHS alumni in the area! He hopes to see folks at the Mega Reunion weekend this summer!

Molly Wheaton (C) 504-247-8674 mewheaton@gmail.com Margaret von Werssowetz Waters (C) 843-607-5788 margaretvonw@gmail.com 15th Reunion: June 10-12, 2022

Dear Class of ’06, I’ve completely missed the deadline on compiling notes for the spring magazine and have just two minutes to slip this in before it goes off to print. First and foremost, I could not be more excited to see many of you at our reunion on June 10-12. If you are on the fence, just stop thinking, book your travel plans, and COME. While we all anticipate being together, I’ll use this brief edition of Class Notes as a quick toast to our classmates who won’t be with us. Wherever you may be reading, raise your glass and join me in remembering our dear friends Brailey Pare, Zee Lamb, and Christopher Kershaw. Each of them brought so much joy and fun to our lives in their own ways, and I, for one, miss them. I thought it was quite fitting looking back and finding this quotation from The Tao of Pooh on Kershaw’s yearbook page: “When you discard arrogance, complexity, and a few other things that get in the way, sooner or later you will discover that simple, childlike, and mysterious secret known to those of the Uncarved Block: Life is Fun.” Sending my best to all of you, and see you in June!

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Adelaide Springs Maxwell, daughter of Grover and Clay Dunnan Maxwell ’08.

Andrew Shiels ’08 grilling at Emily Urquhart’s ’08 apartment.

Class of ’08 girls trip to South Carolina: Biz Dale Uhrinek, Grace Chesson, Trina Brady Hooker, and Emily Urquhart.

Harper June Sheldon, daughter of Jack and Eliza Coker Sheldon’s ’08.

JB Reefer ’08 proudly shared this photo of his son.

Matt Hurley ’08 with Willa Biondi, daughter of Ann deSaussure Biondi ’08 (left) and his daughter Lillian (right).

Rutledge Long also wrote in to report that he started a new position at Brown & Brown Insurance in Stuart, Fla., as vice president of their Specialty Risk division.

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Greetings from the Class of ’08! In the words of Clay Dunnan Maxwell, the Episcopal Class of 2040 is looking strong. I couldn’t have said it better myself. Leading this pack of legacies is Weston Kirk Brady. Leah Andress Brady, David, and big brother Ward Brady welcomed baby Weston to their family on October 26, 2021. Liz McLean Hughes,

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Lucy Frey (C) 540-327-2267 lglaize@gmail.com 15th Reunion: June 2023

Reagan, and big brother Harrison Hughes welcomed Wilson Huntley Hughes to their family on December 6, 2021. Eliza Coker Sheldon and Jack Sheldon ended 2021 on an exceptionally high note with the birth of their daughter, Harper June Sheldon, on December 30, 2021. And most recently, Clay Dunnan Maxwell and Grover Maxwell are beyond thrilled to share that their daughter, Adelaide Springs Maxwell, was born on March 14, 2022.

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Side of Manhattan, and are moving to Long Island City. JB is a software engineering manager. I am sure moving out of the city will bring welcomed breaths of fresh air. JB misses our class and invites anyone to reach out! This is an epic, and absolutely precious, group of babies. I have a strong feeling there will be a few more babies joining the Class of 2040 legacy group. Stay tuned.

After 6 years of working at Episcopal, Emily Urquhart made the leap off campus in June 2021. She works at an education tech startup in DC called GiveCampus. If you’ve ever contributed to one of Episcopal’s EHS 24/7 Giving Days, you’ll recognize the GiveCampus platform. Emily still gets to work with Episcopal’s advancement team, so she still feels quite connected to the School.

Emily moved from campus back into DC, and lives just a couple blocks away from Grace Chesson. They meet up frequently to run their dogs, and recently took a road trip down to South Carolina for a girls’ weekend with Biz Dale Uhrinek and Trina Brady Hooker. Emily and Peter Kehlenbrink keep in touch, and have promised each other to go indoor climbing together at some point, hopefully soon!

Andrew Shiels reports that he reads everyone’s updates in the Class Notes, and this is his first time contributing. Groundbreaking!

Hopefully it’s not your last contribution, Andrew! He is preparing to start a new job in Virginia, and will be living in Reston as of April 4. He looks forward to being D.C.adjacent again, if only because of how much easier it’ll be to make it to our class reunion next year, he says. ’08 So Great! Emily got to see Andrew when he was in the area for work (see photo of Andrew grilling with a view on Emily’s rooftop.) I see many more rooftop grill parties in their future!

Ann deSaussure Biondi, Jamie, and their daughter, Willa, remain settled on campus. Willa and Lillian Hurley, daughter of Hannah and Matt Hurley, are classmates at the Butterfly House at the Seminary. Do not miss the adorable photo of Matt, Lillian, and Willa getting some quality hang time together.

Tucker Clarkson, his wife Rebecca, and their son Russell are moving from New Orleans to Jacksonville, Fla., this summer.

It’s been a bittersweet transition, but they are looking forward to seeing more of Jack Clarkson ’48, and family!

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Richard Firth ’08, his wife Caroline, and their two dogs.

Weston Brady, the newest addition for Leah Andress Brady ’08.

Wilson and Harrison Hughes, sons of Regan and Liz McLean Hughes.

After many changes to original plans and a small family-only ceremony, Eliza Coker Sheldon and Jack Sheldon finally got to celebrate their wedding with a big party in Bluffton, S.C. Leah Andress Brady, Amanda Weisiger Cornelson, Eleanor Galloway, Marguerite Kleinheinz Stoner, Ann Gordon Pelletier Eisenzimmer, and Lily Fowle were all there to celebrate the not-so-newlyweds.

Richard Firth and his wife Caroline are still living and working in Dallas. Richard

continues to look for his golf swing. They welcomed another puppy, Sterling, into their family this past fall.

When I requested updates for this round of Class Notes, I made the classic (and nearly inexplicable in this day and age) mistake of CC’ing instead of BCC’ing my classmates on the e-mail. After Whit Slagsvol repliedall to say hello with the waving emoji, he did send me quite a few updates on both his professional and personal life. He has several

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Vic Grainger ’70, Bess Trotter DuBose ’09, Edward Pritchard ’09, Tyler Allen and Ginna Oates ’09, Bitsy Motley ’09, Hill DuBose ’09, Bridgette Ewing ’09, Kelsey Knutson Tressler ’09, Catherine ’09, Khoury Ibrahim ’10 at Ginna and Tyler’s wedding.

business ventures that continue to grow and develop. Slagsvol Law Firm has grown into Sweetgrass Law Group with a few partners.

One of his startups, Block + Ink, has a number of cool projects for this year, including a Margaritaville product, a product for GQ’s upcoming subscription box, another subscription box called Beachly (a repeat customer), and a collaboration with Southern Charm’s Craig Conover. Whit’s tech startup, Ripple Two, received a grant with the Department of Defense. They are developing a communications technology, which he cannot discuss, and are working with 724th Special Tactics Group, the Air Force’s most elite ground troops. Patent pending!

Moving onto his personal life, Whit shares he is still dating his angel girlfriend, Hailey. They have a beautiful home in central Charleston, and domestic life suits him well. He promises me she won’t ever see these Class Notes, and shares that he is going to surprise her with a big trip and a proposal when she finishes her Doctor of Nursing Practice program. We are looking forward to the updates to come. But for now, shhh, it’s a secret!

Our 15-year reunion is next year. (Wow, time flies! To any current students who may have found your way to these Class Notes, savor your time on The Holy Hill!) Many classmates have shared they’re planning to return for the reunion. Let’s make it a big turnout!

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Jeila Martin Kershaw (C) 334-399-0386 jeilamartin@gmail.com Haley Tenney (C) 703-509-3117 09hmorga@gmail.com 15th Reunion: June 2024

JMK here again to address you all in this edition of Class Notes, or as my father would say, “your little notes — seems like you have a lot of fun doing that.” I have recently returned from a whirlwind weekend spent in NYC with my soulmates Haley Morgan Tenney, Claire Channell, Frances Stone Edge, Sarah Chase Webber, and Mary Spencer Morten. We laughed, we (I) cried, we took in a Broadway show, and generally just enjoyed each other’s company after the long Covid separation. I returned to New Orleans afterwards where Mardi Gras was in full swing and hung out with Ross Parkerson ’06 and Hanes Dunn. I also caught up with Juliette Crowther Elliott ’10 at one of our mutual bestie’s bachelorette parties and look forward to seeing her back in New Orleans for the wedding in late March.

Baobao Zhang writes: I started a tenure-track assistant professor position at Syracuse University in fall 2021, where I teach technology policy. It’s been good living in Ithaca, N.Y. Life in upstate New York is like living in an L.L. Bean catalog, so I’ve been doing a lot of cycling, hiking, and cross-country skiing. I’m planning to cycle across the entire state this summer with my friend.” We wish you luck on your cycling

Sarah McCormick ’10 and Ben McCormick welcomed baby Abigail Greear McCormick in March!

trip! Sounds like Baobao is getting enough outdoor activity for all of us so don’t mind me returning to my couch…!

Catherine Harrison Culp reports that she is still enjoying the Cali life out in LA with her husband Robert, but she has been able to fit in a few East Coast trips over the last several months, including a trip to Bess Trotter DuBose’s home in Pawleys Island, S.C. for Bridgette Ewing’s bachelorette!

Connor Williams ’10 was also in attendance at the weekend’s festivities and while I am sure that the girls did less damage to the house than Beach Week 2009 I am also guessing that they had just as much fun. If those walls could talk… nevermind, I’m actually glad they cannot. Bess also writes that she and Hill DuBose are living and working in Raleigh, N.C. and having fun with their 9-month old baby, Bill. I can confirm he is very cute!

Abbott Matthews says: “I got married March 12 in São Paulo, Brazil to André Luis Martins Filho. It was an incredible wedding and great to introduce Brazil to some of my U.S.-based family and friends. As I write this, I’m staring at a very large pile of clothes and several suitcases for yet another move — this time, we are headed to the Bay Area, California, on Tuesday now that Facebook (errr... Meta?) is returning to the office late March. We’ll be totally new to the area, so looking for anyone who lives there or has recommendations to share. Would love to see some fellow EHS alumni!” Best wishes to the happy couple, and Bay Area classmates — do your thing!

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Speaking of the Bay Area, Ginna Oates and her husband Tyler finally had their big wedding celebration in Linville, N.C. with several EHS alumni in attendance and also report that they are happily still living in San Francisco with their lab puppy. Y’all get together now!

Until next time… counting down the days until our future reunion… xoxo.

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Whitt Clement (C) 804-477-5732 whitt.clement@gmail.com 10th Reunion: June 10-12, 2022

We have several important updates on the baby and wedding front!

Audrey Humleker Garrison is a new parent! James Dahl Garrison was born May 28, 2021. He surprised them by arriving two months early, but Audrey writes that he is thriving.

Sarah Cauthen McCormick followed suit, writing “Ben and I just had a baby!

Abigail Greear McCormick was born March 4, 2022. Everyone’s doing well — it’s a fun new adventure — and our dog Louise is the best big sister. Uncle Will Cauthen ’11 can’t wait to meet her! He’s coming out in May.” Great news, Audrey and Sarah!

Last but not least, JT VanMeter married Sarah Markum on the beach in Key West, Fla., in February. A large group of EHS family and friends were in attendance to celebrate. The newlyweds will continue to call Nashville home. Congrats JT! I hope many of you will be back on campus in June for our 10/(12?)-year reunion. For those unable to make it, stay tuned for more notes to come…

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Connor Gallegos (C) 703-919-4833 connorgallegos92@gmail.com 10th Reunion: June 10-12, 2022

A couple of quick updates since the last edition of the EHS: The Magazine. I hope to see many of you all at the reunion this June! I have officially moved up to Philadelphia and got married this past November.

Stanley Gaines recently visited, and we crushed Philly cheesesteaks and watched the March Madness tournament together.

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Class of ’11 friends having fun at Connor Gallegos’ wedding. Front row: Connor Gallegos ’11, Tom Hurley ’11, Hunter Fairchild ’11 Middle: Chip Grossman ’11, Stanley Gaines ’11, Michele Conklin Back: Scott Conklin, Max Graney ’11, Sutton Alford ’11, Will Cauthen ’11.

Harrison Clement ’12 and Erik Skytting ’12 catching up over dinner.

up at the Reunion with Robert Amico, Sam Faulken ’12, and C-Lo.” Robert Amico is making the long trek from Oregon to attend the reunion. He currently is working as a production assistant at LAIKA Studios working on their next film, Wildwood.

I am excited to include two engagements from members of our class. Hunter Fairchild and Tom Hurley both got engaged recently.

Tom is engaged to Emma Holt ’12 and Hunter is marrying his college sweetheart, Katie Jordan.

In our last update, we welcome Jake Love back from Iraq and Syria. He is traveling and spending the summer in Nantucket before starting at the Darden School of Business this coming fall. Congrats, Jake!

I can’t wait to see everyone in a few months!

Frances Blount Stroud ’13, her father Winton Blount IV ’83, and Frances’ new son Joseph Stroud.

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Celeste Jones (C) 434-414-4696 jonescelesteh@gmail.com 10th Reunion: June 10-12, 2022

Caroline Magee Weiss and Laura Hollister started a true crime podcast, “Evil People Podcast.” Give them a listen on Spotify! Also, Laura got married to Molly Sweeney Hollister on New Year’s Eve. Congratulations, Laura and Molly!

Harrison Clement traveled to Stockholm for a week-long course as a part of the MBA program at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business. While there, he was able to catch up with Erik Skytting over dinner!

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Andrew DeJoy’s ’14 book on the mechanics of the financial services industry.

Navy Ensign Jordan Tyler ’16, Supply and Logistics Officer aboard the USS Chief, on duty off the coast of Korea on March 15, 2022.

engineers who may be interested. Isaac can be reached at isaackillis@gmail.com.

Annalee Walton quit her high stress job and has no idea what she’s doing.

Kiamani Wilson completed her two years at Teach for America. She now teaches Geometry and Honors Algebra II with Trigonometry at EHS. She is also the program assistant to the Office of Community and Equity on campus, has completed her first graduate degree, and is currently in pursuit of her second masters.

Ivy Houde, Sophie Holt, Caroline Haley, Olivia Wise, Izzy Farrell, and Marie Vencil met up for a Class of 2015 dinner in NYC.

Look forward to seeing everyone at our 10-year Reunion this June!

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SomerGlubiak (C) 804-370-5886 sglubiak@gwu.edu 10th Reunion: June 2023

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Cici Sobin (C) 703-999-1277 cici.sobin@gmail.com 10th Reunion: June 2024

Alex Brennan is currently working at Goldman Sachs in Philadelphia.

During his final two years in law school, Andrew DeJoy wrote a book on the mechanics of the financial services industry. His title, Behind the Swap, examines the often-overlooked trade processing function of financial institutions to reveal long-standing issues in the infrastructure of domestic over-thecounter swaps and derivatives markets. This granular perspective from the middle office allows Andrew to connect the dots between traditionally siloed conceptions of operational risk. Ultimately, Behind the Swap refocuses attention to the real problems facing the industry and proposes a holistic,

’15 Page Dame ’59 and Page Light ’17 have become pen pals since Page ’17 won the Page Dame Medal, an English award, while she was a student.

multidisciplinary framework for a more stable and efficient financial system.

In addition to catalyzing real solutions, Andrew’s end goal is for financial institutions to use Behind the Swap to train new hires within operational departments. As his writing aggregates lessons from a challenging and fragmented four-year journey towards making sense of the industry, Andrew also hopes that his book will help students learn more efficiently by providing a behind-thescenes perspective of how it all works.

Isaac moved from Seattle to London 9 months ago for a software engineering role at Amazon in the Alexa Shopping Natural Language Understanding space. He would love to provide mentorship to upcoming

Presley Goode (C) 804-441-2286 pgoode2@gmail.com Tyler Hartmeyer (C) 516-474-9843 tyler.hartmeyer@gmail.com Morgan Lineberry (C) 205-789-0447 morganlineberry12@gmail.com 5th Reunion: June 10-12, 2022

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Nettie Webb ’18 Currently a senior at the University of Virginia, Nettie Webb ’18 was recently awarded the first-ever Undergraduate Excellence in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award by the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Webb is majoring in interdisciplinary studies with minors in environmental engineering and environmental science, and concentrations in both environmental justice and decolonization of engineering curriculum.

She credits Episcopal’s History of the South class, taught by Mike Reynolds, with igniting her interest in diversity, equity, and inclusion work. She praises the class for helping her prepare to ultimately orchestrate the History of Enslaved African American Laborers (HEAAL) Tour with a group of classmates at UVA. “Episcopal definitely shaped and influenced the work I’m doing now,” Webb said. “If I hadn’t done the Voices of Integration work for Episcopal’s 50 Years of Integration celebration, I would have never thought that something outside of engineering was even in the realm of possibility for me.”

The idea for the HEAAL Tour came in response to an outcry for change in the wake of the summer of 2020. “After George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, there was a letter from the Black Charlottesville community,” Webb explained. “They proposed solutions for racial equity, and part of that letter was changing the curriculum that the University of Virginia provided first-year students to educate them on the history of slavery and white supremacy at the University.”

Driven to take action, Webb and her peers conceived a campus tour that could honor and acknowledge the enslaved workers, drawing on primary source documents and research undertaken by the University. That fall they debuted the tour to a group of first-year students belonging to a Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) organization. Struck by the power of the experience, the group convinced Webb that it should be provided to all first-year students at UVA. Inspired by their recommendation, Webb wrote a grant proposal to the University’s Inclusive Excellence Committee and was awarded funding to incentivize first-year students to take the tour and to offer paid positions for the tour guides.

“The incentive was sponsored by a Black-owned restaurant which offered to cater food for whatever association or dorm yielded the highest attendance on the tour each year,” Webb reflected. The ability to pay the tour guides was also very important to Webb because it ensured equity by enabling those who rely on income from campus jobs to participate.

Nettie Webb ’18 (fifth from right) leads EHS students on the HEAAL tour at UVA.

All first-year students are now strongly encouraged to participate in the tour not only to learn more about the complex history of the school, but also to better understand the reality of those enslaved laborers.

“I think it’s incredibly important because of the recency of this history,” Webb explained. “UVA didn’t recognize or put intention into telling these stories or these narratives until 2007.”

According to Webb, the HEAAL Tour regularly generates meaningful conversations, thought provoking questions, and a safe space for Black students and alumni alike.

The tour concludes with an acknowledgement of the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers, designed after a broken shackle.

The memorial is considered an “active” monument as the University continues to uncover the names and identities of former enslaved laborers. Although a hefty undertaking, Webb believes the key to discontinuing generational cycles of racism is education. “Unless we acknowledge the silent past, and then adequately change the structures that contribute to the system, then it’s going to probably repeat itself.”

After graduating, Webb will join Episcopal’s faculty as a 2022-23 teaching fellow. She eventually plans to pursue her PhD in education, specializing in DEI in STEM. “Guiding this HEAAL Tour, I had to lean heavily onto some of the skills I learned at EHS, and for that I am grateful.” She now emboldens current Episcopal students to engage in meaningful conversations with their classmates and teachers. “The in-depth conversations we actually got to have in our classrooms, the exposure to extremely great teachers, and the impactful discussions expanded my ideas,” Webb said. “I hope students take advantage of the incredible opportunity they have in that space.”

Bethany Gordon ’12 received UVA’s Graduate Excellence in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award by the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences for her accomplished work in the field of social justice in 2022.

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Eve Mazlish ’21, Lucy Schmachtenberger ’21, Lillian Jester ’21, Jack Denison ’21, Lucy Peacock ’21, and Noë Boggan ’21 after Denison’s lacrosse victory in Lexington over W&L.

Katherine Schwartz ’19 studying abroad in Madrid, Spain this past fall.

Olivia Tucker ’19 and Jack Streed ’17 celebrated their fourth anniversary this past fall.

Grace Moog ’19, Hannah Doss ’19, and Lilly Whitner ’19 enjoying fondue together in Paris, France this spring.

Christos Backos ’19, Geordie Hendricks ’19, Camilla Hipp ’21, Charles Starks ’21, McClain Brooks ’21, and Flora French ’21 at dinner in Sewanee.

finally getting to enjoy working from offices after having started our careers remotely and traveling. Here are some updates from a few members of our class: Porter Geer and I (Kelsey) have both continued playing soccer. We’re now both living in D.C., and finally reunited on the field this past winter playing with some old W&L teammates of mine.

Zoe Ashburn reports that she’s living in D.C. as well and works for a communications and marketing firm in Alexandria, Va. Maddy Gale is excited to be returning to the area as well. She is moving back to D.C. this spring doing marketing and PR for a defense contracting company.

Maya Valcourt is now a licensed realtor in Tennessee. She has sold over 45 homes in the Nashville area this spring in addition to starting both a home concierge business and a rental car business.

Last but certainly not least, Maya Glenn writes that her research has recently been awarded a Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship!

We can’t wait to see everyone for our first reunion on The Holy Hill this June!

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Halle Hughes (C) 904-322-2828 hughes.halle@me.com LizaBanks Campagna (C) 202-650-7687 lizabankscampagna@gmail.com 5th Reunion: June 10-12, 2022

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Nettie Webb was awarded the University of Virginia’s engineering school’s Excellence in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion award.

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Juliet Faris says, “Things have been good this year! Last summer, I started my job as a nurse tech at CS Mott (the children’s hospital here in Ann Arbor) in a pediatric cardiac step down unit and I love it! First semester, I completed my psychology and obstetrics rotations in nursing school (most notably I got to watch two c-sections). I also had the chance to go to Norco, Calif., for EHS THE MAGAZINE OF EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL

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the collegiate club ultimate frisbee national championship tournament with my team, Flywheel. This semester I am in my pediatrics and medical surgical nursing rotations and am getting ready for frisbee tournaments in Texas, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and hopefully Wisconsin for the championship tournament again. We have already traveled to Virginia and North Carolina for tournaments this year and I spent spring break with the team in Florida. This summer, I will continue to work as a nurse tech in my unit as well as study abroad in Denmark, Sweden, and Iceland!”

Katherine Schwartz writes, “I spent the fall semester studying abroad in Madrid, taking courses in both Spanish and English literature. I relied heavily on the Spanish courses and immersion experiences I completed during my time at Episcopal. For my final paper at my university in Spain, I had to write about Don Quixote — which I first studied with Ms. Mendizabal!”

Lindsey Harrison ’19, Lucy Schmachtenberger ’21, Ruby Gregg ’21, Janie Reynolds ’18, Paul Pivirotto ’19, Whit Nuckolls ’21, Collin Fitzpatrick ’19, and Frances McIntosh ’18 enjoy dinner in Lexington.

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Class Correspondents Needed 5th Reunion: June 2026

If you would like to share an update or volunteer to be the Class Correspondent, please contact Marissa Murdock at mmurdock@ episcopalhighschool.org or 703-933-4125.

Catherine Clark reports she is loving the University of South Carolina.

Births and New Arrivals

Marriages

Email alumni@episcopalhighschool.org with news of births, adoptions, and other family additions.

Email alumni@episcopalhighschool.org with news of any and all matrimonial unions.

Paris Granger Brown to Laura and Grant Brown ’02 on February 28, 2022.

Weston Kirk Brady to David and Leah Andress Brady ’08 on October 26, 2021.

Wilkes Evans ’02 to Caroline Koste ’06 in November 2021.

Hayes Barlow McLendon to Lea and Christopher McLendon Jr. ’02 on March 21, 2021

Wilson Huntley Hughes to Reagan and Liz McLean Hughes ’08 on December 6, 2021

Ginny Moore-Carr ’03 to Will Carr on April 24, 2021.

Twins, Eleanor “Ellie” Catherine Stockstill and William Sam Stockstill to Sam and Lauren Vance Stockstill ’02 on January 10, 2022.

Adelaide Springs Maxwell to Grover and Clay Dunnan Maxwell ’08 on March 14, 2022.

Louisa Emerson Hartley to Stuart ’03 and Laura Davidson Hartley ’03 on April 3, 2021.

Henry Gillespie to Patrick and Catherine Gillespie ’04 on September 9, 2021.

Oliver Peebles Squire to Lauren and Peebles Squire ’05 on March 20, 2022.

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Harper June Sheldon to Jack and Eliza Coker Sheldon ’08 on December 30, 2021.

James Dahl Garrison to Trey and Audrey Humleker Garrison ’10 on May 28, 2021.

Abbott Matthews ’09 to André Luis Martins Filho on March 12, 2022.

JT VanMeter ’10 to Sarah Markum in February 2022.

Connor Gallegos ’11 to Kristen Brandos in November 2021.

Laura Hollister ’12 to Molly Sweeney on December 31, 2021.

Abigail Greear McCormick to Ben and Sarah Cauthen McCormick ’10 on March 4, 2022.

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In Memoriam Edward Archer “Eddie” Leake Jr. ’47

of Richmond, Va., on February 17, 2022

At Episcopal, Mr. Leake was Head Paper Boy, a waiter, and was part of Egypt and Stewart A.C., Missionary Society. He played Centennial basketball, tennis, b-squad football, and was a cheerleader. In his senior yearbook, his classmates remembered Mr. Leake’s “power to win friends.”

Mr. Leake is survived by his sons: Edward Archer Leake III ’76, Charles Slingluff Leake ’77, Francis Carter Leake ’80, daughter, eight grandchildren, and three nieces. He was predeceased by his mother, father, and brother.

Peter Bird Martin ’47

of Hanover, N.H., on November 22, 2021 At Episcopal, Mr. Martin played varsity football, ran winter track, and spring track. He was also a member of the E Club, Fairfax Literary Society, and served on the Chronicle board. In his senior yearbook, his classmates predicted that Mr. Martin “will one day be a man of distinction.”

Mr. Martin is survived by his wife Lucretia, sister, six children and step-children, ten grandchildren, and eight great-grandchildren.

William Long “Bill” Hodges ’48

of Forest, Va., on September 14, 2021

At Episcopal, Mr. Hodges was a Monitor. He participated in the Missionary Society, glee club, choir, and 12th night. He was the president of Blackford Literary Society and the president and co-founder of Grins & Grimaces. In the 1948 Whispers, his classmates described Mr. Hodges as follows: “[he] belongs to that group of boys who make up the backbone of this school.”

Mr. Hodges is survived by his two sisters, brother, James Barnett Hodges Jr. ’53, four children, eight grandchildren, and eight great grandchildren.

Dr. James “Latane” Ware ’52

of Richmond, Va., on December 26, 2021 At Episcopal, Mr. Ware was in Egypt, Missionary Society, Blackford Literary Society, and on the wrestling and Greenway baseball teams. In his senior yearbook, his classmates remembered Mr. Ware’s “brilliant charm” and his “remarkable desire to work that enables him to buckle down when the going gets rough.”

Dr. Dwight Wingate Underhill ’54

of Columbia, S.C., on February 23, 2022 At Episcopal, Mr. Underhill ran varsity track, cross country, and was a member of the Fairfax Literary Society.

Mr. Underhill is survived by his wife, Marilyn, son, sister, three brothers, four nieces, and loyal Australian Shepard.

Langhorne McCook Bond ’55

of Marshall, VA., on January 29, 2022 At Episcopal, Mr. Bond played junior varsity basketball, managed varsity football, and was a member of Egypt and Fairfax Literary Society.

Mr. Bond is survived by his wife, Enriqueta, two children, brother, Thomas Dunlop Bond ’58 and was predeceased by his grandfather, G. Thomas Dunlop Class of 1886.

Frederick Philips “Fred” Wood Jr. ’57

of Raleigh, N.C., on January 2, 2022

At Episcopal, Mr. Wood was a monitor.

He played varsity football, ran winter track, and was co-captain of varsity track. He was a member of the Egypt Missionary Society, E Club, and the Advisory Board.

Mr. Wood is survived by his wife, Elaine, three children, four grandchildren, sister, and stepbrother.

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Richard Snowdon Durham ’58

of Martinsburg, W.Va., on March 2, 2022

The Honorable Thomas “Tom” Wetherell Steptoe Jr. ’70 of Charles Town, W.Va., on January 22, 2022

At Episcopal, Mr. Durham participated in Rifle Club, Dramatics, Choir, Glee Club, Mission Society, Fairfax Literary Society, and Egypt. He also was on the Chronicle and Whispers staff and ran track and winter track.

In Mr. Durham’s senior yearbook, his classmates remembered his “extremely analytical mind fully aware of all the

life evolving about him.”

Mr. Durham is survived by his twin sister; brother-in-law; nieces; nephews, including Kenneth DuVal Tyler ’83; and many great-nieces and great-nephews, including Jordan Townsend Tyler ’16 and Logan Elizabeth Tyler ’19. He was predeceased by his brother-in-law Sewall Truax Tyler ’55.

George William “Bunky” Henderson III ’66 of Charleston, S.C., died February 13, 2022

At Episcopal, Mr. Henderson was a member of Whispers, The Chronicle, and Wilmer Literary Society. He was also a waiter and an usher. Mr. Henderson was a varsity wrestler, ran winter track, and played varsity baseball and cake football. In his senior yearbook, his classmates remembered Mr. Henderson as “naturally friendly” and said that “he stands as living proof that ‘you catch more flies with honey....’”

Mr. Henderson is survived by his wife, Lindsay, two children, four grandchildren, and a number of very close friends.

Peter Henry “Pete” Vandevanter ’69

of Leesburg, Va. on December 25, 2021

At Episcopal, Mr. Vandevanter was a monitor and served on the Honor Committee. He played varsity football, junior varsity basketball, baseball, and ran varsity track. He was the president of the Missionary Society, secretary of E. Club, president of the Athletic Advisory Board, and a member of the Blackford Literary Society. In the 1969 Whispers, his classmates described Mr. Vandevanter as follows: “Already among the class’s foremost in brain and muscle power, Vandevanter gives the impression that he has revealed only the top of the iceberg, that his talent is only beginning to show.”

Mr. Vandevanter is survived by his wife, Jan, two children, two grandchildren, a brother, and two sisters.

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At Episcopal, Judge Steptoe played J.V. football and varsity lacrosse and ran varsity track. He was on the Chronicle and Whispers staff. As a student, he received the William Bee Ravenel “E” Club Award for Effort, Service, and Sportsmanship in Athletics and the William Garrett Bibb Award for Excellence in Shakespeare. In the 1970 Whispers, his classmates described Judge Steptoe as follows: “Unlike too many of the rest of us, Tom is willing to give of himself completely in order to help others. His touching constancy and genuine sincerity cannot help strike responsive chords in us and makes us all better for it.”

Judge Steptoe is survived by his wife, Sharon, daughter, Anne Parrish Steptoe ’05, son-in-law, son, and daughter-in-law, as well as cousins, Robert Mason Steptoe Jr. ’61 and Colonel Philip Pendleton Steptoe II ’64. He was predeceased by his father, Thomas W. Steptoe ’32; uncles, Philip Pendleton Steptoe Jr. ’31 and Robert M. Steptoe ’38; and cousin James Duff Steptoe ’69.

Aaron Hardwick Efird ’72

of Georgetown, S.C., on April 3, 2022 At Episcopal, Mr. Efird was in E Club and on the Athletic Advisory Board.

He played varsity football, varsity lacrosse, and was the captain of the varsity wrestling team. He won the C. Morton Stewart III Award for Wrestling in ’72. In his senior yearbook, his classmates remembered Mr. Efird as a “very amiable friend.”

Mr. Efird is survived by his wife Lenora; two daughters; EHS family members Ellis Murray Johnston III ’90 and Anne Johnston Dodd ’01; and many more extended family members.

William Truslow “Billy” Newman IV ’77

Douglas Edwin “Doug” Kehlenbrink

of Newnan, Ga., on December 2, 2021

of Harrisonburg, Va., on March 25, 2022

At Episcopal, Mr. Newman was the Whispers photography editor, The Chronicle photographer, and Daemon photographer. He played varsity soccer, varsity track, tennis, and cake football.

Mr. Newman also participated in the acolyte guild and E Club. He found his passion for photography at Episcopal and won the Cummings Medal for School Publications his senior year.

Mr. Newman is survived by his wife, Kathleen, children, stepchildren, mother, brother, David Arnold Newman ’75, and niece, nephew and grand-nephew. He is predeceased by his father.

Mr. Kehlenbrink, faculty member and chair of the arts department at Episcopal from 2000 to 2016, has died after a long battle with Parkinson’s Disease. At Episcopal, Mr. Kehlenbrink helped the arts department flourish and inspired students to pursue their artistic and musical passions. Mr. Kehlenbrink took advantage of Episcopal’s proximity to Washington, D.C., and often planned trips into the city to expand students’ understanding and appreciation of the arts.

Mr. Kehlenbrink is predeceased by his parents, Charles and Janice. He is survived by his wife, Diane, son, Peter Douglas Kehlenbrink ’08, sister, two sisters-in-law, and several nieces and nephews. Mr. and Mrs. Kehlenbrink were also dedicated host parents to Abel “Shadow” Sebele ’09, who died in 2016.

Christopher Knox “Chris” Kershaw ’06 of Montgomery, Ala., on January 22, 2022

At Episcopal, Mr. Kershaw was a part of the kayaking and powerlifting clubs, and ran varsity track. After The High School, he received a BS from Tulane University. He was in his final semester at the University of Colorado Denver and working towards a degree in mechanical engineering with plans to relocate to Montgomery, Ala., and start work at his family business, Knox Kershaw Inc. Mr. Kershaw is survived by his parents, sisters Courtney Kershaw Taylor ’03 and Jeila Martin Kershaw ’09, brother-in-law, niece, maternal grandparents, uncle, and dog.

Kai Kimura Swift ’17

of Las Vegas, Nev., on April 2, 2022 At Episcopal, Ms. Swift was in the Student Association for Visual Arts and the Young Democrats Club. She played JV soccer and was a waiter and tour guide. At her graduation, Ms. Swift received the Arthur Waxter Award for Excellence in Visual Arts.

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Corrections from the Fall 2021 EHS Magazine We were deeply saddened by errors in the In Memoriam section of the fall issue, which misaligned images and entries for the following alumni. We sincerely appreciate all who shared corrections with us. Our alumni are incredibly important to us and we share the following special section to properly honor each alumnus.

With James Lee Williams Jr., Mr. Tazewell founded the firm Williams & Tazewell Architects in Norfolk. The firm designed buildings throughout Virginia, including several courthouses, theaters, buildings at Old Dominion University and U.Va. Health Sciences, as well as Episcopal’s own Hummel Learning Center and Hummel Bowl. In 1972, Mr. Tazewell became the secretary of the Virginia chapter of the American Institute of Architects.

Mr. Tazewell was preceded in death by his father, Edmund Bradford Tazewell Class of 1910, brother William Littleton Tazewell ’50, and son Edmund Bradford Tazewell III ’76.

He is survived by his wife, Mary Lou, two daughters, a daughter-in-law, three grandchildren, three stepchildren, and eight step-grandchildren.

Lloyd Langhorne Craighill ’46

Nathan Hollister “Nat” Bundy Jr. ’44

of Lexington, Va., on September 14, 2021

At Episcopal, Mr. Bundy ran track and played for the varsity football team.

He was a monitor and member of the Missionary Society, Fairfax Literary Society, and the rifle team.

Following his time on The Holy Hill, Mr. Bundy attended Yale University, took a year off to serve in the Navy, and then graduated in 1949. He moved to Norfolk, Va., and joined the family business, then called DaltonBundy Lumber Company. Mr. Bundy retired in 2001 as the company’s president, which was later named Randolph-Bundy.

He was active in his community, serving as the president of the Virginia Symphony and a board member of the Virginia Science Museum and Virginia Wesleyan University.

Mr. Bundy was preceded in death by a daughter. He is survived by his wife, Marie, as well as two daughters, a son-in-law, two grandchildren, and seven nieces and nephews.

At Episcopal, Mr. Craighill was a monitor and reached the rank of Eagle Scout. After his time on The Holy Hill, Mr. Craighill graduated from the University of Virginia then worked for Philip Morris for 34 years. He held many positions at Philip Morris and retired as the general manager of the manufacturing center in Richmond in 1984. Mr. Craighill enjoyed noting that he was retired for longer than he worked, and enjoyed time spent with family and serving on volunteer boards and in his church.

He was preceded in death by his brother, Robert MacDonald Craighill ’45, and cousins Dr. Lloyd Rutherford Craighill Jr. ’44, Dabney Hutter Craighill Jr. ’44, and The Rev. Peyton Gardner Craighill ’47. Mr. Craighill is survived by his wife, Margaret, three sons, five grandchildren, three great-grandchildren, and cousins Robert Edley Craighill ’77, Charles Stillwell Craighill ’79, and Charles Hunter Craighill ’15.

of Virginia Beach, Va., on April 28, 2021

Edmund Bradford “Brad” Tazewell Jr. ’44

of Virginia Beach, Va., on August 27, 2021

William Pendleton Thompson “Pete” Hill Jr. ’46 of Mystic, Conn., on October 3, 2021

At Episcopal, Mr. Tazewell was a monitor. He played on the varsity basketball and football teams, and was a member of the Chronicle board, Blackford Literary Society, Missionary Society, and E Club.

After EHS, Mr. Tazewell enlisted in the U.S. Army and was a member of the ski troops of the 10th Mountain Division. He was honorably discharged in 1945 following a severe injury while serving in Italy. Mr. Tazewell went on to study architecture at the University of Virginia and then receive his master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1951.

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During his time on The Holy Hill, Mr. Hill was a member of the E Club, Chronicle and Whispers boards, Hop Committee, Missionary Society, and Blackford Literary Society. He was an alternate captain of the football team and member of the baseball team.

After Episcopal, Mr. Hill graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy. He entered the U.S. Marine Corps in 1946, served in Korea in 1952, and retired in 1960. Mr. Hill married Sally Joyce Hewes in 1952, and, following his retirement, moved to Mystic, Conn., where he

started a new career at General Dynamic Electric Boat. Mr. Hill retired from GDEB in 1991 to spend time with his family.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Sally, and is survived by three daughters, four grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren.

George Calder “Buster” Walker Jr. ’46 of Lynchburg, Va., on December 20, 2019

Mr. Eastwood served two years in the U.S. Air Force. He retired as president of Cowin Equipment Co. after 34 years in the business.

Mr. Eastwood is survived by his wife, Punky Brooks Eastwood, as well as four children, nine grandchildren including Shepard Stone Chalkley ’11, and 12 great-grandchildren.

Dr. Miles Cunningham Gregory ’48

of Roanoke Rapids, N.C., on December 12, 2019 Mr. Walker was a member of the Chronicle and Whispers boards and the Missionary society. He was a cheerleader and vice president of the Blackford Literary Society. He ran track and played for the spring tennis and 130-pound football teams.

After Episcopal, Mr. Walker attended Lynchburg College and the University of Virginia. He served as a lieutenant in the U.S. Army during the Korean conflict. In recognition for his service, he was honored with a Unit of Citation in support of Meritorious Combat, and a Korean War Service Medal with a Bronze Star.

Following Mr. Walker’s service, he joined the family real estate firm, John Stewart Walker Inc., and went on to lead the firm as its principal broker for over 50 years. Mr. Walker has received recognition for his role in the development of central Virginia.

He served as president of the Lynchburg Association of Realtors in 1960, and three years later became the vice president of the Virginia Real Estate Association. In 1973, Mr. Walker was appointed to the Virginia Real Estate Commission by then-governor Linwood Holton, and served for 10 years under two governors. George’s accomplishments led him to a long relationship with the Virginia Department of Transportation and a hand in developing the commonwealth’s highway system.

Mr. Walker was preceded in death by his father, George Calder Walker Class of 1916. He is survived by his wife, Lynne Ramsey Walker, as well as three sons, one grandchild, a brother, and many family and friends.

George Stone “Pete” Eastwood II ’48 of Birmingham, Ala., on March 6, 2021

At Episcopal, Mr. Eastwood was a monitor and waiter. He was a member of the Missionary Society, choir, Whispers and Chronicle boards, and E Club. Pete received the Whittle Prize in 1946, 1947, and 1948, and the Spanish Prize in 1948. Mr. Eastwood ran track and was inducted into the EHS Athletics Hall of Fame as a member of

At Episcopal, Dr. Gregory was the captain of the varsity football team and played for the varsity baseball and Centennial basketball teams. He was a monitor, vice president of the E club, and a member of the choir, Stewart Athletic Committee, and Egypt.

After EHS, Dr. Gregory enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps. Following his discharge, he graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University School of Medicine. He was a resident at Charity Hospital in New Orleans, La., where he met his wife, Ruthie. The couple returned to Dr. Gregory’s hometown in 1963, where he practiced pediatrics for more than 40 years.

He was preceded in death by his brother, Thomas Wynns Gregory ’47. Dr. Gregory is survived by his wife Ruthie, three children, five grandchildren, and EHS relatives Samuel Gregson Falken ’12 and Grace Tillery Falken ’14.

Philip Conrad “Phil” Hammond Jr. ’48

of Greensboro, N.C., on March 10, 2021

At Episcopal, Mr. Hammond played varsity basketball, tennis, and 130-pound football. He also served on the Whispers board.

After his time on The Holy Hill, Mr. Hammond graduated from Davidson College and served for two years in the U.S. Navy, stationed in the Netherlands.

He returned to Greensboro in 1955 to work at Security National Bank; when it merged with North Carolina National Bank, he relocated to Wilmington for 19 years.

Mr. Hammond moved to Charlotte in 1978 to help establish the mortgage division for new construction. He married his wife, Linda, in 1980.

He was preceded in death by his grandfather, Henry Hurt Edmunds Class of 1888. Mr. Hammond is survived by Linda as well as two children, three stepchildren, a sister, seven grandchildren, one great-grandchild, and many more family members.

the 1947 football team.

He received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Alabama and was a Rhodes Scholarship finalist. After college,

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Edward King “Ed” Van Winkle Jr. ’48

John Julius Pringle III ’52

At Episcopal, Mr. Van Winkle was a monitor. He also played tennis and was a member of the 1947 varsity football team, which was inducted into the EHS Athletics Hall of Fame in 2009.

Mr. Van Winkle graduated from Georgia Institute of Technology and served as a first lieutenant in the U.S. Army during the Korean War. He led the family business, Van Winkle Construction, for 50 years.

Mr. Van Winkle served as president of the Associated General Contractors Georgia Branch and received the Skill, Integrity, Responsibility Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000. He built many notable buildings in Georgia and the Atlanta area.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Carolyn, and brother, Frederick Sloat “Fritz” Van Winkle ’53. Mr. Van Winkle is survived by three children, seven grandchildren, and seven great-grandchildren.

At Episcopal, Mr. Pringle was a member of the Blackford Literary Society and the Missionary Society. He played JV and varsity baseball, junior basketball, and 130-pound football and JV football.

After EHS, Mr. Pringle graduated from Georgia Tech and then spent three years in the U.S. Air Force where he served a tour in Korea. He received his MBA in 1961 from Harvard Business School and moved to Washington, D.C., to work as an economist for the Rand Corporation. He married his wife, Betsy, in 1962 and they returned to North Carolina the following year. At the end of the decade, Mr. Pringle decided a career change was in order and moved with his family to Palo Alto, Calif., so he could study to become a teacher. He received his Ph.D. in 1972 from Stanford University and became a professor at the Kenan-Flagler School of Business at UNC-Chapel Hill the same year.

Mr. Pringle was preceded in death by his grandfather, John Julius Pringle Class of 1894, father John Julius Pringle Jr. Class of 1925, and brother-in-law Isaac Mayo Read Jr. ’53. He is survived by his wife, Betsy, four children, eight grandchildren, a sister, and cousins Albert Lee Wardlaw Jr. ’44 and William Elliott Wardlaw ’48.

of Atlanta, Ga., on March 9, 2021

Robert Withers “Nick” Nichols ’52

of Louisville, Ky., on November 30, 2020

At EHS, Mr. Nichols was a member of the varsity baseball, football, and basketball teams, as well as the Missionary Society. He was also a monitor, waiter, and the treasurer of the Blackford Literary Society.

After Episcopal, Mr. Nichols graduated from Centre College and then served in the U.S. Navy from 1956-60.

He returned to Louisville, where he worked in finance, first as an investment broker and eventually as a senior vice president at the Kentucky First National Bank. Mr. Nichols retired from Raymond-James in 2004.

He was preceded in death by his brothers, John Ball Nichols III ’49 and James Forestus Nichols ’50. Mr. Nichols is survived by his wife, Martha, as well as two children, four grandchildren, and extended family members including nephew Jonathan Alexander Nichols ’81.

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of Chapel Hill, N.C., on October 18, 2021

Rogers Cockrill ’66

of Little Rock, Ark., on July 2, 2021 At Episcopal, Mr. Cockrill was a member of the varsity football and track teams, as well as the Blackford Literary Society and the Blackford Lounge Committee. He was a monitor, library keeper, and schoolroom keeper.

Mr. Cockrill graduated from the University of Virginia and the University of Arkansas School of Law, and began his legal career in 1973 at the Pulaski County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office. He served on the boards of Easterseals Arkansas and the Arkansas Game and Fish Foundation, and was a member of the Tillar, Ark., Hunting Club. Mr. Cockrill’s family notes that he allowed neither his legal career nor his lifelong heart disease to define him. Family time was his top priority, and later in life Rogers enjoyed teaching his grandchildren how to duck hunt and fish.

He is survived by his wife, Ellon, as well as a daughter, son Rogers Tillar Cockrill ’97, three grandchildren, a sister, and many extended family members.

Alexander Bain “Alec” Parrish ’66

Henry Burgwyn Hundley ’69

of Stamford, Conn., on October 17, 2020

of Richmond, Va., on August 10, 2019

At Episcopal, Mr. Parrish was a senior advisor and schoolroom keeper. He was a member of the Missionary Society, Wilmer and Blackford Literary Societies, choir, and Glee Club. He wrestled, ran varsity track, and played on the junior, JV, and varsity football teams.

Mr. Parrish graduated from Roanoke College and served during the VIetnam War as a radio man and fought in the battle of Da Nang and was one of the last soldiers evacuated from the battle of Khe Sanh. Following his service, Mr. Parrish worked as a salesman in the Garment District of New York City.

His wife, Constance, preceded him in death by a few days. Mr. Parrish was also preceded in death by his father, Edward John Parrish Jr. ’31, and brother, Edward John Parrish III ’64. He is survived by two brothers, five nephews, a niece, and six greatnieces and nephews.

Mr. Hundley was a member of the Wilmer Literary Society, choir, Glee Club, Fairfax Literary Society, and the Chronicle board. He played junior football, ran junior track, and was manager of the varsity lacrosse team.

After Episcopal, Mr. Hundley served in the journal office of the Virginia State Senate and appeared in numerous roles as a fixture of the Westmoreland Players.

Mr. Hundley was preceded in death by his brother, Deane Hart Hundley ’72 and cousin Ross Valiant Cauthorne ’29. He is survived by two siblings, three nephews, two grand-nieces, and many friends.

Samuel Parkin “Sam” Harris Jr. ’69

of Thomasville, N.C., on September 1, 2021

At Episcopal, Mr. Harris was a member of the Wilmer and Fairfax Literary societies, the Chapel committee, and the football, wrestling, and soccer teams.

He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he studied psychology. Mr. Harris moved to California and became a counselor.

He changed careers to real estate in the 1980s and was an avid golfer. Mr. Harris returned to North Carolina in his later years.

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“The faculty deserve a big assist...”

Dr. Meg Andrews ’01 on the power of the student-teacher relationship.

On April 1, 2021, Dr. Margaret Andrews ’01 returned to campus to deliver the keynote address at the Cum Laude Society Induction Assembly. An assistant professor of Classics at Harvard University, Dr. Andrews spoke of the studentteacher relationships at Episcopal that enabled and inspired her to dive deep into her studies at a young age, a practice that set the stage for an accomplished career in academia.

Below is an excerpt from her address to the School, where many of her former teachers sat in the audience: There is no doubt that each of you [Cum Laude Society inductees] has been blessed with a certain natural talent as far as intelligence is concerned, but if intelligence needs to be communicated to be recognized, we’re missing a piece of the puzzle. The average human attention span for concentrated thought within your own mind is seven seconds before your mind tends to wander; that’s if you’re working on a math problem, say, or trying to craft a sentence in a paper. But

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in conversation, we can debate ideas and talk intelligently with others for hours on end. Human thinking is dialogic in nature. There is a reason why many of the ancient philosophical treatises were written as mock dialogues and why we have conversations with ourselves when we’re trying to sort out important issues in our daily lives. So let’s give credit where some credit is due.

It’s easy to talk about EHS as an institution of higher learning where state-of-the-art classrooms offer students the latest tools for learning, but let’s tighten up the language a little bit. Episcopal is not a respected institution of higher learning by virtue of itself or its buildings; it’s because of the faculty who inhabit them, who design the courses and shape the students. It’s not so easy to capture in a viewbook the experience of geometry with Mr. Stubbs, biology with Mrs. Caslow, Shakespeare with Mr. Morgan, or Latin with Mr. Streed, but these faculty and others are what make EHS

and its students. The faculty, not the school, are the actual institution. They are the ones who draw out the students’ intellect; they are the ones who train bright, but inexperienced, minds to question critically and investigate with curiosity, as you say. Educators aren’t there simply to deliver information; our minds are wired to need them in order to learn how to think. Teachers are there to engage the students in conversations and to get them to communicate their ideas

In all the change on campus over these decades, the student-faculty relationship has indeed remained constant, and as long as that remains the case, EHS and its students will continue to thrive.

— D R. MARGARE T A N D R EW S ’ 01

so that they can sustain deep thought beyond what they’d be able to do otherwise, no matter how naturally gifted. Doing this well and right, like Socrates did, if you ask me, is hard.

But you know you’re on the right track when you see the students thrive in a way that those sitting before you clearly have. Their success is their own, of course, but the faculty deserve a big assist.

It’s hard to put into words how fundamental the contributions of the EHS faculty have been in my own intellectual life. I became interested in history in a life-changing way during a class my sophomore year, and when I wanted to take it further, I feel like the whole school mobilized to make that happen. I drew up Independent Studies with my teacher, who led me through what was essentially a graduate school seminar squeezed between dinner and Study Hall. When I needed to learn Latin to read certain historical documents, there was Mr. Streed with a plan for us to work together over the summer. I’d work my way through a textbook and mail him all the completed exercises, and he’d grade them and mail them back. This was pre-email and Zoom, obviously, but that didn’t matter. We found a way just the same. None of these things could have happened if Jackie Maher, then the assistant head for academics, hadn’t approved my rather atypical course lineup, but she did — of course — because she and everyone else understood that I was now on my own intellectual journey, and what more could educators want?

Not long after this, I got a sort of academic intervention when several faculty members began convincing me to consider colleges besides the one in my home state that I was “supposed” to go to. The conversation in which I told my parents that I wanted to apply to Princeton wasn’t easy, but I had such strong support of the faculty here that I stood firm in it. I honestly never worked towards Princeton; I felt like it just happened, at least back then.

I realized only later that it was the faculty who deserved most of the credit for engineering it. They saw my potential, steered me in the right direction, and literally worked overtime with me to help make that moment mine. Obviously I’m not the only student to have passed through these gates. We’re honoring academic achievement today, but there are scores of successful alumni — athletes, artists, and professionals — who could tell the same story about their time at EHS. To the parents here today, you just don’t know how lucky you are to have your kids in the hands of such special teachers.

They are crafting them into engaged and discerning adults in ways that are difficult to appreciate now, but I promise will be tangible in the future. The fact that I can come back 20+ years after graduating and see a dozen faculty members still in place is remarkable — an overwhelming testament to their commitment to EHS as a place and, more importantly, its students. In all the change on campus over these decades, the student-faculty relationship has indeed remained constant, and as long as that remains the case, EHS and its students will continue to thrive.

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