EHS The Magazine: Spring 2023

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WELCOME HOME A GLIMPSE INTO THE FUTURE OF RESIDENTIAL LIFE WITH DEAN AMILA WILLIAMS

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Contents ON THE COVER

WELCOME HOME 40 Take a look inside Episcopal’s two new dormitories and learn

more about the future of the residential life program with Dean Amila Williams. Pictured: Senior monitors with Dean Williams on West Dorm.

FEATURES

COURAGE: THE CAMPAIGN FOR EPISCOPAL 28 We are now six months into the public phase of the largest campaign in the School’s history with plenty of good news to share.

A LOOK INTO THE NEW SCHEDULE 36 An interview with Assistant Head for Academics Nate Ebel

sheds light on how the first full year of Episcopal’s new schedule is making a big impact.

FROM THE PAGE TO THE STAGE 44 See how creative faculty leverage the resources of D.C. to

enhance student engagement and provide once-in-a-lifetime experiences.

THE ARCHIVES: STORYTELLING ACROSS TIME 48 AFROM digital history research project connects Page Dame ’59

with Cate Laverty ’23 as the past and present Editors-in-Chief of Whispers.

KEEN ’23 ON BEING THE LIGHT 96 VIRGINIA How the senior’s final role as the optimistic candlestick Lumière in “Beauty and the Beast” signified the perfect end to her time at Episcopal.

DEPARTMENTS

2 FROM THE HEAD OF SCHOOL UP CLOSE 4 EPISCOPAL Independent Research Projects, Advisory Council, Dick ’51 and Fleming Rutledge, Theologian-in-Residence, Phillips Integrity in Action Award, Makerspace, and more.

CLASS NOTES 52 After Episcopal: Ed Jervey ’54, Ken Ringle ’57,

Jane Pope Cooper ’96, Katie Walls Kruger ’04, Luiji Vilain ’17

92 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 Assistant Director of Communications & Class Notes Editor: Marissa Murdock Assistant Director of Communications & School Photographer: Piper Hartman Contributing Photographers: Natalie Davies, Rebecca Drobis, Sam Levitan, Cory Royster Archivist: Laura Vetter Design: Linda Loughran Printer: Dominion Paper Products, Inc. Published by Episcopal High School for alumni, parents, grandparents, and friends of Episcopal High School. ©2023 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 race, color, religion, 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 When Episcopal’s early leaders first identified the development of intellectual and moral courage as a central tenet of the School’s mission, they understood that our call was first to prepare our students for success in outstanding colleges and universities and ultimately to shape thoughtful leaders, ready to meet the challenges and changes of their times. Today this mission has never been more important. Our students face both an increasingly competitive college admissions process and a swirl of challenging issues, from being both savvy and ethical users of new technologies, including recent AI innovations, to understanding how to build bridges and strengthen community across social and political divides. As we now look to take our use of the remarkable educational resources in greater Washington to new heights, Episcopal

We believe it is critical that we prepare our students to be caring and ethical leaders with the courage to make the world around them a better place. is well-positioned to live our mission in a powerful and exciting way — capitalizing on the very best of our School’s long history.

Our spring magazine will give you a better sense of how we use Washington in innovative and exciting ways to ensure that we are a true national academic leader. Our new schedule allows our teachers to engage with learning moments that make the academic experience truly distinctive and that are designed to enhance our students’ level of engagement in their learning to maximize their achievement. Thinking about time differently with our 100% boarding approach opens up greater possibilities for expanding the types of immersion moments, realworld independent projects, and internships associated with our storied May Program. By connecting students with their individual passions earlier and aligning them with fascinating adults who are associated with an array of professional pursuits, our students see successful leadership in action at a national and international level. These experiential moments, both in and outside the classroom, not only help our students better connect their academic and personal passions with their college admissions choices, but also enable them to enter that process with greater self-awareness, which serves them well in high school and beyond.

We believe it is critical that we prepare our students to be caring and ethical leaders with the courage to make the world around them a better place. For us, this starts

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with fostering a fundamental strength of character based on a commitment to honor and integrity, respectful treatment of all with dignity as children of God, a comfort with rigor, and a pursuit of the truth based on curiosity and an open mind. We actively engage our connections with greater Washington to provide opportunities for fostering and strengthening these core “strength of character” pursuits. Real-world experiences and discourse with thought leaders help our students see when honor and integrity guide our actions and when we fall short. They can wrestle with when a new AI technology like ChatGPT serves as a helpful tool and when it can lead us astray.

They can explore important and complex issues and hear from individuals who pursue what is right and, best yet, who disagree significantly on approaches to solving problems. Our McCain-Ravenel Center for Intellectual and Moral Courage is leading the charge to identify these powerful learning moments associated with Washington resources with programs like our Civil Dialogue Series, campus speakers, and other initiatives. It was particularly powerful to have our Phillips Integrity in Action Award recipient, alumnus John Gable ’83, with us this year to emphasize the importance of approaching complex issues from multiple perspectives and with curiosity so that each of our students can mature in their views and prepare to become leaders who bring us together rather than heighten division.

Of course, all these learning moments are most powerful when done in a close and supportive community. The caring relationships that our faculty and staff intentionally develop with our students give them the confidence they need to thrive during these academic pursuits and leadership development moments. The friendships our students foster with each other offer a critical opportunity to learn from each other’s unique talents and perspectives, to take pride in the core values that unite us, and to learn how best to be leaders prepared to bridge differences and make a positive difference in communities, here and around the world. I certainly take great pride in this remarkable community and know that we have never been more focused on the needs of our students and our mission’s emphasis on intellectual and moral courage.

I hope you will visit us in Alexandria soon to see the excitement firsthand.

Sincerely,

Charles M. Stillwell Head of School

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A RITE OF PASSAGE:

Independent Research Projects For many Episcopal graduates, the memory of their junior year includes the crowning achievement of completing their U.S. History research paper. A significant accomplishment comprising six weeks of careful analytical research, these independently selected projects challenge students to dig deeply into areas of U.S. history that they take particular interest in, ultimately producing a 10-page collegelevel paper — the longest of their high school career to date.

At the heart of the work is the students’ capacity to critically assess the scholarly merit of the information they uncover — a critical skill the Social Studies team purposefully works to help them develop. “All sources aren’t created equal,” teacher Mike Reynolds tells students. “While there are some great resources like Wikipedia or ABC-Clio that serve as a good starting point, you cannot stop there. You have to read original historical research and seek out primary sources.”

Faculty are aware that one of the core competencies students must have when heading off to college is the ability to determine quality sources from ones that are more encyclopedic in nature. To ensure students learn the merit of delving beyond the curated data, this project requires them to cite primary and secondary sources, including academic books and journal articles.

Social Studies teacher Caroline DeVoe explained a goal of the project is to have students actively engaging with the material and thinking critically as they work their way through the research.

“They are expected to put the different sources in dialogue with each other, comparing articles and sources to see where they align and where they differ; we challenge them to then think about why those differences exist.”

Reynolds said, “Students have to realize people write history.

They assess the literature, events, and documents of their era and then create their own unique contributions.”

That is what Episcopal’s juniors are charged with doing as well.

After considering the interpretations and thoughtfully engaging

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with the material, students are expected to weigh in themselves with original argumentation in their final papers.

“History is a big raucous conversation, and historical ideas evolve and change over time,” Reynolds mused. He stresses to students that they cannot engage with the dialogue that has been going on without building the foundational knowledge that is only gained through reading and research of primary sources — “...it’s not quick and it’s not easy, but it is imperative to a scholarly, informed discussion.”

In recalling the work on her junior year research paper — how the Higgins Boat changed the course of WWII — Charlotte Head ’23 said, “I had never written a paper of that length and of that depth, and I believe it truly is a skill in itself to know how to write something so long, stay on topic, and not be repetitive. That was probably one of the hardest things to overcome, but in the end, I feel like I gained a lot to strengthen my writing skills.” The Social Studies Department agreed, awarding Head the 2022 Sewanee Award for Excellence in Writing, presented to one junior annually.

Head continues to apply the research skills learned to other classes, citing her advanced research seminar from her senior fall: “In this class, I had to pick a topic and use the whole semester to do a deep dive into it and create a website for the final project. I chose Lettie Pate Evans (the woman for whom the Evans dorm is named). The whole semester I researched online, looked through the archives in Bryan Library, and tediously flipped through the pages of Evans’ personal archives. I think my first-semester

experience would have been different, and much harder, if I had not written my junior research paper.”

DeVoe and her colleagues are intentional about the outcomes for students, seeking to build skills that will serve them well across disciplines and throughout high school, college, and even later in life. “Organization and time management are of the utmost importance with an ongoing project like this,” DeVoe explained.

“Learning about history and classwork continues, as it would in college, and while some class days have time devoted to working on their papers and research, not all do; students need to purposefully create dedicated time for that work, as they would in college.”

“Resilience is also crucial,” added Reynolds, highlighting the value of sustained effort. He often tells students that he understands there is a certain amount of stress when doing something you have never challenged yourself to do before, and that is not all bad.

“I would rather they have that anxiety now, in a place that can be supportive with great librarians and teachers to help them instead of being in a college atmosphere on their own doing this for the first time.”

Referred to as a “difference maker” by some alumni, the continuity of this culminating experience is a powerful shared experience. Recent graduates often say they find themselves uniquely prepared to hit the mark on their college research projects, whether in history, English, mathematics, or science. The skills acquired, honed, and practiced on the Hill directly correlate to expectations at the college level — from successfully navigating libraries, archives, and online, primary, and secondary sources, right down to utilizing the Chicago Manual of Style for footnotes and annotated bibliographies.

Charlotte Joyner ’20, a junior at Duke University majoring in history and Spanish, harkened back to her time at EHS and the ways that “big history project junior year made every history and writing paper in college an easy job.” Among her primary takeaways were the benefits of learning to talk with her teachers about projects and understanding how to do a close reading of primary sources, which some of her collegiate peers had never done.

“In college, you are not told to go to your professors, and they are not holding your hand. You need to be comfortable talking

with them, checking in, and making sure you’re managing the scope of your work. Understanding how to really gather concrete evidence with primary sources in conjunction with secondary sources is also incredibly helpful when making, and proving, challenging points. The type of research and writing I did junior year at Episcopal prepared me for all my writing in college.”

As innovative as Episcopal’s program continues to be, the shared experience of writing that good old-fashioned history research paper remains constant and continues to be a rite of passage for those on the Hill.

A SAMPLING OF TOPICS RESEARCHED IN 2023 ` Korean Immigration to Hawaii to work on sugar plantations in early 19th century ` Swedish Immigration to the US Following the Civil War (1860s-1950s) ` 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act ` Russian Espionage in the US ` The Gibson Girls and Their Effect on the Suffrage Movement ` Homosexuality in the 1940s and 1950s ` Ida Tarbell and the Rockefeller family ` The Creation of Mormonism and Early Public Perception ` William Still and the Underground Railroad ` The Missouri Compromise, Slavery and Sectionalism ` The Creation of Fast Food in Post-World War II America ` Anti-semitism and Nazi Collaborators in 1930s America ` The Hoover Dam’s Impact on the Humpback Chub Fish Species ` The Early American Economy in Jamestown

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WE ARE

FAMILY!

Rain could not dampen our spirits this Family Weekend because being together on the Hill is always a good time!

We cheered on our performers and athletes, celebrated our incredible students, and enjoyed time to connect with each other, on campus and off.

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F amilies in China gathered to celebrate Family Weekend as well, joining a virtual call with Head of School Charley Stillwell and other members of the faculty and staff on Saturday while showing off their EHS pride!

Beijing

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Advisory Council Meets to Discuss Health & Wellness

Episcopal, as we all know, is a place both of tradition and of constant revision. In that spirit, it is an annual exercise for the School to invite a group of parents and alumni to serve on an Advisory Council to offer feedback and insight on various aspects of School life and programs.

In mid-February, Advisory Council Co-Chairs Laurie and Ned Durden ’88, P’20 ’22 helped lead 25 alumni and parents through conversations about health and wellness at EHS. As Head of School Charley Stillwell reiterated during the meetings, one of Episcopal’s goals outlined in the 2018 Strategic Plan is to help students thrive by inspiring achievement through rigor and wellness.

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Since that goal was articulated in 2018, teen mental health trends in the U.S. have continued on an alarming trajectory, and the stakes are high. Director of Counseling Kristin Hosmer shared that top mental health concerns among teenagers include depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation, and disordered eating. Assistant Head for Student Life Phil Spears offered insight into Episcopal’s robust systems and

resources — including full-time, experienced health professionals — that help to identify and, as appropriate, support specific students who may be struggling.

Community Wellness Coordinator Emily Straight walked the Council through the School’s formal tenth-grade health curriculum, which covers the often-intersecting topics of self-care, stress, sleep, mental health, body image, nutrition,

Thank you to 2022-23 Advisory Council members!

Laurie & Ned Durden ’88 P’20 ’22 (Co-Chairs) Cameron Baker ’11 Lanier Coles P’25 Miller Cornelson ’06 April Crosby ’94 Mason Custard P’22 ’24 Susanne Inman Frayser ’02 Lela Gant ’96 Mary Ayres Griggs P’25 Barbara Kennedy Harty ’96 P’26 Caroline Kelso ’07 Lauryn King ’17 Jane Knops P’23

substance use, healthy relationships, consent, and sexual health. With this context, the Advisory Council was asked to consider how the School can build around the holistic tenth-grade curriculum by creating an environment in which healthy habits are regularly articulated, reinforced, and practiced. The goal, of course, is for EHS students to avoid negative mental health outcomes during high school and beyond by learning to manage normal stress, tend to their own well-being, and seek help when needed.

Advisory Council members universally agreed that one of Episcopal’s strongest assets is its sense of community.

Developing a sense of belonging here can be one of the most powerful protective factors for students’ mental health. The group explored opportunities for peerto-peer leadership, parent education, and gamified challenges as ways to buttress the lessons learned in Episcopal’s formal health and wellness curriculum. Adequate sleep and responsible use of social media were

two particular areas that Council members emphasized as priorities. It was also noted that the chapel program and spiritual life are important assets for students’ well-being.

The Advisory Council’s topic and members change each year, and recent past topics have included lessons learned during the pandemic; substance use policies around vaping; strategic planning (composition of the student body; leveraging Washington, D.C.); service learning; alumni networking; branding; sustainability; and more. Through these meetings, the School has benefitted from the direct counsel of hundreds of alumni and parents with diverse viewpoints but a shared investment in EHS students.

Members are recruited each year based on varied factors: demonstrated interest in the School through volunteerism and/or philanthropy, career experience related to a given year’s topic, or personal recommendations from EHS faculty, staff, or fellow alumni.

Will Krusen P’25 Judy Liu ’18 Sarah Brown Love ’00 RJ Lyerly P’12 ’13 ’15 ’17 ’19 Sara Peri P’24 J.W. Perry ’97 Nikki Poppiti ’08 Todd & Missy Savage P’23 ’26 Kristin Teeters P’20 ’23 Isabella Timon P’24 Jitendra & Amita Vyas P’24

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2022 Theologian-in-Residence: REV. DR. ESAU MCCAULLEY

For Rev. Dr. Esau McCaulley, choosing Episcopal as one of only 10 speaking engagements for the year was an easy decision. The 2022 Theologian-in-Residence is an associate professor of New Testament at Wheaton College in Illinois and serves as the Theologian-in-Residence at Progressive Baptist Church, a historically Black congregation in Chicago. A husband and father of four, he also is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times. In addition, his writings have appeared in other respected publications, including The Atlantic, The Washington Post, and Christianity Today.

With only a few travel commitments each year, McCaulley carefully researches each institution to safeguard his teaching and his time. “I check if the ethos of the school feels like it is inquisitive,” McCaulley said. “I ask myself: Do my passion and gifts fit with the institution’s inquisitiveness, and can what I say help them move forward?” After carefully reviewing the website, McCaulley said he felt confident the values of EHS aligned with his lectures, and he made The High School his first visit of 2023.

During his four days at Episcopal, McCaulley lectured in theology classes, preached a sermon during the annual MLK Vespers, participated in a panel and taught a workshop during the School’s seventh annual MLK Symposium, and attended a dinner with students.

“My biggest takeaway from Rev. McCaulley was the emphasis he placed on loving the humanity of a person even if their actions are not the most admirable or loving,” Ava Foulk ’23, head of the Vestry, said. “He encouraged all of us through his sermon to change the world and actively pursue justice.”

McCaulley spent his week at The High School celebrating the life and legacy of one of his idols, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., during the annual MLK Symposium. Organized by Episcopal’s Office of Community & Equity (OCE) and the McCainRavenel Center (MRC), the symposium occurs every January on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and aims to bring together a variety of voices and perspectives to foster greater awareness of the role Dr. King played in the lives of 10

all Americans. This year’s theme was Courage and the Beloved Community.

McCaulley applauded the efforts of the OCE, MRC, and all involved for doing “a good job of succinctly introducing the key teachings of King, which isn’t very easy. They avoided what I call the ‘Santa clausification’ of Dr. King, where he’s just this guy who says disconnected things about love and justice.”

One of McCaulley’s biggest takeaways from his visit was the caliber of Episcopal students. “They are earnest,” he told us. “They are comfortable expressing their opinions, and they’re more reflective than your average teenager.” Typically, McCaulley attends engagements in university settings but was proud to make EHS his first high school visit. “When I’m invited to do high school youth events, I’ve always said ‘no’ because I felt like I didn’t know how to talk in a way that teenagers would understand,” he said.

“However, I’ve just spoken to the students here like I would speak to my college students. They’ve been able to engage at that level.”

McCaulley is already an author of three books: “Sharing in the Son’s Inheritance,” “Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope,” and “Josey Johnson’s Hair and the Holy Spirit.” Expected in September 2023, his new book, “How Far to the Promised Land,” details his journey of becoming a pastor and practicing ministry while simultaneously explaining the struggles of growing up with an absent father and single mother. In this memoir, he also highlights the way to the promised land is not a trip from poverty to success but the journey to finding beauty in the darkest places. He has confidence in Episcopal students to grasp this lesson from both his symposium workshop, “The Beloved Community: A Christian Perspective,” and his Vespers homily.

“I hope that the students were challenged by me to genuinely examine the teachings of Martin Luther King and how his own faith rarely led him to the most comfortable and easy path,” McCaulley stated. “He wasn’t perfect, but he didn’t just think the right things, he embodied his beliefs in his actions, and that’s something everyone can do.”

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2022 Phillips Integrity in Action Lecture Presented by John Gable ’83 Episcopal welcomed John Gable ’83 back to The Holy Hill in early November to present him with this year’s Phillips Integrity in Action Award, given annually to an individual who has made a significant contribution to bettering our world. media bubbles where they only see information that reinforces their own perspectives and biases, and that tend to keep us apart, Mr. Gable has been dedicated to helping all of us wrestle with complexity and work hard to understand a common set of facts and information that we can use to go about solving complex problems.”

During his keynote address, Gable focused on the importance of intentionally challenging oneself to understand those who hold different perspectives from your own. He called attention to the dangers of the sophisticated algorithms, which are designed to curate material aligned with user behavior and interests so that individuals end up interacting only with stories, news, and people with similar perspectives. He cautioned that “when we only know people just like us, only hear ideas that we agree with, we all become much more extreme in what we believe and much less tolerant of any person or idea that is different.” He went on to share that this current state of polarization is a worldwide problem that we cannot solve without a willingness to talk to and listen to each other and, above all, create personal connections.

He encouraged all to be aware of their biases and left the audience with the notion of trying to always The Phillips Lecture on Integrity in Action was established in 2000 to honor former EHS push past their initial reactions to faculty member Allen Carleton Phillips, Jr., whose life epitomizes the highest ideals of honor a dissenting viewpoint — beyond and integrity, which are at the core of Episcopal High School’s values. It was created by John emotional dismissal and desire to Burress ’54, John Walker ’79, Ed Walker ’85, and then-Headmaster Rob Hershey. The lecture provide counterpoints to a third series and award was established to recognize a remarkable individual representing integrity, thought that focuses on trying to ethical leadership, compassion, and a commitment to service, who would, in receiving this understand the other person’s argurecognition, serve as an inspiration to all of us. ment, perspective, and background.

With nearly 30 years in technology entrepreneurship, management, and executive experience, Gable served on the original teams of well-known companies, including Microsoft Office and Mozilla at Netscape — now known as Firefox. Prior to his career in technology, he was a professional political campaigner and an executive director working for the Republican National Committee.

In 2012, he merged his political and technological expertise in establishing AllSides, a media solutions company that strives to provide balanced news, media bias ratings, and diverse perspectives to enable civil conversation across divides.

As the CEO and co-founder of AllSides, Gable actively works to help people better understand the world — and each other.

The organization serves individuals at AllSides.com and provides patented technologies, tools, and services to schools, media companies, nonprofits, businesses, and other public and private organizations.

In introducing Gable, Head of School Charley Stillwell said, “At a time when so many people in the U.S. and our world live in social

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Making Space for On the first floor of Baker Science Center, you will find three distinct classrooms: the Construction Room, the Fab Lab, and the Robotics Room — together, they form Episcopal’s Makerspace. Outfitted with 3D printers, power drills, laser cutters, robots, and more, these spaces engage students with a creative outlet for active problemsolving opportunities — and they love it!

Science Department Chair Dr. Kim Olsen, science teacher Dr. Kacey Meaker, and STEM Coordinator Dave Collins lead various courses and activities that take full advantage of the trifecta that comprises the Makerspace. In these rooms, students experienced in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) are able to further their knowledge, and students with less experience are welcomed with open arms.

The Robotics Room is filled with tools, robot parts, and a 12x12 foot practice field used by the VEX robotics team to maneuver their robots in preparation for competitions. Meaker noted the benefit of having this dedicated area: “Without room for the field, it’s like practicing basketball without the hoop. Having this space has allowed members of the robotics team to grow and refine their skills even more.” As well evidenced by their success in qualifying for the state championship tournament, which unfortunately fell during Episcopal’s Spring Break.

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Entrepreneurship, Computer Science, Engineering, Advanced Engineering, 3D Modeling, and Introduction to Big Data Analytics are all taught in the Fab Lab. Brimming with fabrication materials and its own laser cutter and 3D printers, the space provides everything needed to bring projects and ingenious ideas to life.

The Construction Room provides students on the robotics team, Science Olympiad, and anyone taking classes in the Fab Lab with additional room to work on, construct, and refine their projects. The space is filled with power drills, saws, bins of supplies for building, and a practice and prep area specifically for Science Olympiad. According to Olsen, who was the original Science Olympiad coach, “We would practice and build in my chemistry classroom, which was a bit difficult since the students had to put their projects and supplies away each time class ended so I could teach other classes. Having the dedicated space is significantly better and provides more focused preparation time.”

I•N•N•O•V•A•T•I•O•N I | N | N | O| V | A | T | I |O| N With the Makerspace, faculty have had a chance to expand their curriculum and programming by having a large area dedicated to STEM course offerings. They find the experience in the creative spaces helps to instill in students a willingness to embrace challenges, learn from mistakes, and work toward a solution — skills needed in class and beyond. According to Collins, “Laura Grace Shield ’23 took advantage of all the Makerspace had to offer, focusing on purpose and truly engaging with the material.” Of her experience, Shield said, “For 3D Modeling, because there isn’t one right way to do things, it’s a lot of trial and error until you get the intended result. Sometimes it doesn’t work out, and you have to start over, but you always learn something from it.”

On the importance of students actively engaging with the material, Olsen said, “We have an opportunity to teach students skills, but in the end, we say ‘it’s your project.’ We can look at the Portrait of a Graduate and see how intellectual courage and, specifically, critically questioning what they are learning fits into all the work our students do. There are times when we watch a student try an idea out that we know won’t work, but there’s something to learn from an idea not working and the curiosity that results in exploration.”

Cultivating a collaborative environment for students and faculty alike is also a goal for the Makerspace. Meaker noted how the 3D

printers in the Fab Lab came to the rescue of the robotics team in a moment of crisis when a small plastic piece that held together an essential element of their practice field broke. “The replacement part would not arrive in time for the competition, so I worked with Dave Collins to print a new piece on the 3D printer, solving the problem with plenty of time for the competition.” Students also embrace the idea of collaborative effort. Shield said, “In Advanced Engineering, we always had groups, so the collaboration was an aspect that pushed me to work with not only my ideas but also other people’s ideas and how to combine them to create a better project overall.”

Collins commented on the organic exchange of ideas he sees occur regularly in the spaces: “Having seemingly disparate classes taught in the same space spurs conversation. A student in 3D Modeling could partner with a student in Entrepreneurship and create a prototype using the 3D printer.” As the awareness of the Makerspace grows, opportunities for collaboration with other classes across campus are exciting to envision.

Olsen looks forward to working with more students and faculty to utilize the Makerspace resources. She says, “Thinking holistically, we want the space to be an area where students can learn and engage or come in with ideas and skills, and we, as their teachers, can help grow their knowledge.”

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Alexa Parchment ’24 with her grandfather Joedy, the inspiration for her project

Igniting Passion through an EXTERNSHIP Once again this year, the McCain-Ravenel Center Winter Externship Program connected eager juniors and seniors with engaging experiences in real-world professional settings.

The program continues a 52-year tradition at the School that allows for a deep dive into workforce learning and career development through connections with myriad businesses, non-profits, and government institutions. From November 14 to February 9, students were able to gain significant knowledge through this unique program.

“One of the best ways for students to discover their path in life and their own agency is to see their work help someone else and produce something of value,” Norman Kim-Senior, director of externships, said. “Externships give students this opportunity to be the source of a solution or to contribute something valuable to a team outside of the protective halls of a school.”

Caring for the elderly has played a significant role in Alexa Parchment’s ’24 life since she was a young child. A native of Farmingdale, New Jersey, Parchment grew up watching her mother support senior citizens as a caregiver at an assisted living facility. Understanding the challenges residents faced staying connected with loved ones, especially during Covid, Parchment saw an opportunity that ignited her excitement and determination to actively help older adults.

Kim-Senior encouraged Parchment to pursue a passion project for her Winter Externship — this set the stage for “Joedy’s Corner.” Named after her grandfather, Parchment’s endeavor set out to teach technological literacy to elderly people across the globe. For nearly four months, she traveled to Washington, D.C., for her two-pronged externship, combining entrepreneurship and technology.

“Technology was something my grandparents struggled with,” Parchment explained. “This project is something I have been working on since I was in eighth grade, and it has grown into a passion for a big problem I want to fix.”

Every Thursday, during Winter Afternoon Option, Parchment journeyed to Chinatown in the historical northwest D.C. neighborhood to attend a seminar by LearnServe.

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The organization’s mission is to equip “high school students from diverse backgrounds with the entrepreneurial vision, tenacity, confidence, and leadership skills needed to tackle social challenges at home and abroad.” This unique experience taught Parchment how to use her voice for change and influenced her business plan for “Joedy’s Corner.”

“I would sit in that class for two hours with other kids my age, and they just gave us ideas and taught us how to turn a business into a non-profit that’s supposed to help our communities,” reflected Parchment. Through her externship, she also rediscovered her public speaking skills. In December, LearnServe hosted a “coffee house” where students were encouraged to share their ideas in one-minute, succinct pitches in front of an audience. “It really helped me gain confidence with my public speaking again. I haven’t had the chance to do any public speaking since Covid started,” the aspiring non-profit business owner said.

Concurrently, Parchment interned at Tech Foundry, a product development company that specializes in guiding clients through the software development life cycle. While at Tech Foundry, Parchment honed and matured the website development skills she will make good use of in refining “Joedy’s Corner.”

Parchment’s supervisor, Engineering and Product Head Designer Elizabeth Kukla, described her as dedicated and proactive. “Alexa brought a project with her that she wanted to pursue, and she has been working to rebuild her community service website in a more modern set of technology,” Kukla explained. “We enjoyed having her during that process, and we hope she gained the insight needed before making her next big life decision.”

Recognizing that connecting people through technology fulfills her aspiration to help others in a meaningful way, Parchment said: “I know tech is what I want to do for the rest of my life. It’s a privilege to understand what I want to do, and how I want to achieve it. I’m only 17, but understanding the importance of helping people and getting the opportunity to impact so many using complex knowledge that is pretty simple to me is pretty exciting.”

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Courage and the Beloved Community Episcopal celebrated the legacy of Dr. King during the School’s seventh annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Symposium. Collaboratively organized by Episcopal’s Office of Community & Equity (OCE) and the McCainRavenel Center for Intellectual and Moral Courage (MRC), this day is designed to bring together a variety of voices and perspectives to help students develop a deeper understanding of Dr. King’s ideals and the significant role he played in the lives of all Americans.

MASS COMMUNITY CHOIR

During Sunday Vespers preceding MLK Day, Episcopal was treated to an incredible service that included a powerful and humbling homily, delivered by Episcopal’s Theologian-in-Residence Rev. Dr. Esau McCaulley, and a mass community choir, directed by visiting conductor Arreon Harley-Emerson and featuring noted soloist Dr. Jillian Harrison-Jones.

A much sought-after conductor and composer, Harley-Emerson is president and CEO of Equity Sings, and HarrisonJones is the New Cincinnati Women’s Choir conductor. The two joined forces with the School’s student Concert Choir and an additional 35 members of the community, including faculty, staff, and faculty children, all of whom practiced in advance of the service with Director of Choral Music Mike Schmidt. The performance included Schmidt on piano and Post Office Manager Thaddius Williams on drums. The energizing performance brought attendees to their feet with “Better” by Hezekiah Walker, “Total Praise” by Richard Smallwood, and “Lift Ev’ry Voice And Sing.”

Schmidt, who is in his first year at Episcopal and originated the idea for the mass choir performance, said, “I was thrilled with the response from the community, both from those who were willing to sing and from the community as a whole during the service.”

MLK SYMPOSIUM

In opening Monday’s Symposium, director of the OCE Louis Smith said, “The further we get from Dr. King’s time, the less familiar young people, you the students, are with who he was….

He starts to take on this status of just being this icon, this guy who did a lot of civil rights stuff, and we really do not know a lot about him beyond that. And when we look at him that way, we lose sight of why we have a day set aside for this one person.”

Reflecting on the underpinnings and impact of King’s philosophy, a panel of outside speakers discussed the elements embodied

in Dr. King’s messages of nonviolence and agape love and how that helps us understand his vision of “the beloved community.”

Panelists included Cleo Scott Brown of the History Matters Institute, Theologianin-Residence Rev. Dr. Esau McCaulley, Rabbi Bailey Romano of Beth El Hebrew Congregation, and Imam Yahya Hendi, director of Interfaith Alliances of Islamic Circle of North America. Their conversation touched on personal experiences, reflections about the practice of agape love, and aspirational hopes regarding the ideals of achieving the beloved community, as well as the challenges to doing so.

WORKSHOPS AND SERVICE

Students spent the afternoon in small group workshops facilitated by panelists and faculty members. Offerings included sessions on voting rights; considering the beloved community through the lenses of Judaism, Islam, and restorative practice; self-care for girls of color; music history with discussion about protest music and Gospel music; a conversation about offensive language; an exploration into radical self-care and self-acceptance; and several poetry offerings including writing for social change and slam.

Volunteering time between and after the workshops, students assembled close to 3,800 boxes with pantry staples for families throughout the region with volunteers from Islamic Relief USA. This service event, organized by Assistant Chaplain Rev. Richmond Jones, celebrated the legacy of Dr. King’s interfaith work and his care for the most vulnerable within our communities. Jones said, “Seeing the full student body concentrated on the effort to help feed local families was a beautiful moment.”

Of the ongoing partnership, Said Durrah, assistant director of volunteer engagement with Islamic Relief USA, said, “As I climbed the stairs to view the project from above, I noticed something amazing — each student was smiling. Our staff could not stop talking about how these students were so polite, caring, and focused on achieving our goal.”

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A sampling of the vibrant and creative works produced by our talented artists this year.

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Sheryl Zha ’25

Andy Pan ’26

Carmen Oguike ’23

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John Terry ’26

Elliot Kim ’24

Carmen Oguike ’23

Minnie Yuan ’23

SCHOLASTIC ART AWARD WINNERS Eleven students earned recognition in the 2023 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards.

Heralded as the nation’s longest-running, most prestigious program for creative teens, Scholastic recognizes the artistic achievement of students across the nation with their submissions judged by leaders in the visual and literary arts. Three levels of awards are given: the Gold Key, the Silver Key, and Honorable Mention.

Pieces are awarded keys based on criteria that exemplify the core values of the Awards, including originality, technical skill, and the emergence of a personal voice or vision. Gold Key recipients progress from the regional competition to have their artwork considered for national awards.

Congratulations to all of our award-winning artists!

Taylor Pulsifer ’26

GOLD KEY:

SILVER KEY:

Janie Becherer ’23 Cate Laverty ’23 Carmen Oguike ’23 Shota Pinkowski (2) ’23 Baker Zhan ’24 Joanne Zhao ’26

Amelia Hanson ’24 Elliot Kim ’24 Becca Losey (2) ’23

HONORABLE MENTION:

Carrie Feng ’23 Maisie Halloran ’25 Amelia Hanson ’24 Carmen Oguike (2) ’23

View the Scholastic Art Award Winners’ work here:

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Episcopal’s Choir on the ROAD

In February, 27 singers, led by Director of Choral Music Michael Schmidt, ventured into the Big Apple to take in two Broadway shows, explore Times Square, bowl a night away at Bowlero, and experience authentic New York cuisine.

The group ended their trip on a high note with a performance at Schmidt’s home church, St. Paul Lutheran Church in Princeton, N.J. Having his longtime mentor in attendance made the trip even more memorable. “It was very special for me to have been able to share the amazing talents of the EHS students with my mentor and the members of my home congregation,” said Schmidt.

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CAMPING OUT for the Supreme Court Continuing a four-year tradition paused during the pandemic, School Counsel Stefanie Smith took her Introduction to Constitutional Law students to The Supreme Court of the United States to attend an oral argument. Undeterred that only 30 tickets were to be made available to the public on that day for the Counterman v. Colorado case, which focused on the First Amendment, 19 students and their intrepid teachers camped out overnight to secure entry.

“This Flexperience is experiencing constitutional law at its intellectual pique. It is always memorable, and the students’ excitement and engagement never cease to amaze me.”

STEFANIE SMITH

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Athletics Debuts First Annual Captains’ Dinner Captain (Ret.) Matt Hurley ’08 gives keynote at inaugural Captains’ Dinner.

In early January, the winter sports captains took a break from practice to hear from Captain (Ret.) Matt Hurley ’08 at the first annual Captains’ Dinner. This new tradition at The High School was conceived by Admissions and Activities Fellow Erin Phillips ’18, and aims to build camaraderie and inspire leadership among athletics captains at all levels, each season.

While at Episcopal, Hurley was a standout athlete who played lacrosse, ran track, and served as captain of the football team his senior year. After his time on The Holy Hill, he attended the United States Military Academy West Point where he played lacrosse and studied international law. Hurley was commissioned as an Army Infantry Officer in 2012 after his graduation from West Point and served on active duty for over eight years.

He held roles in the 10th Mountain Division, 75th Ranger Regiment, and 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard).

He also completed five overseas deployments.

Hurley transitioned from the military in August 2020, resides in Alexandria, and currently works in the defense and aerospace industry. He recently earned a master of business administration from the University of Virginia and is now pursuing a master of science from Virginia Tech. He returned to The Holy Hill in an official capacity in 2019 as an assistant coach to the boys’

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junior varsity lacrosse team, helping make EHS history with the School’s first-ever JV IAC lacrosse championship.

At the Captains’ Dinner, Hurley reminisced on his years of service, drawing similarities between leadership on the sports field and in the barracks. “Going from Episcopal to military environments was such a smooth and natural transition,” he reflected. “Essentially, I went from being in the locker room to a ‘team room.’ I was able to leverage a lot of what I learned at Episcopal to form relational ties and build trust with both my soldiers and our host-nation partners.”

For Hurley, leadership came with risks. As a special operations soldier, he conducted helicopter insertions into denied areas to capture high-value targets. He cited trust and communication as tools that helped him lead groups of soldiers on single period-of-darkness operations. “You have to trust the person to the left or the right of you to do what you need

At EHS, we do powerful work with all of our students on the topic of leadership, but it feels particularly important to provide opportunities like this for our team captains to learn and grow.

them to do when you need them to do it,” Hurley said.

“Communication is the glue that ties all of this together.”

As a leader, Hurley followed a simple acronym to ensure he was well-equipped for the task at hand. “‘4CP’ stands for character, competence, commitment, compassion, and preparation,” he told the audience gathered in the Goodwin Hall of Fame Room. “Taking time to develop and refine your own governing frameworks for leadership will enable you to be successful.”

He reassured students that serving as an athletic captain can be the best time to hone their individual leadership skills, which he said they all clearly possessed. He challenged them not to shy away from implementing new ideas, concepts, and tactics with their respective teams. Hurley encouraged students to make mistakes and force growth through uncomfortable situations. “You’re not fundamentally deficient as a captain in any way. We all have areas for growth. Deliberately employing new leadership techniques is a great way to demonstrate your commitment to becoming a more effective captain for your teammates and coaches,” he stated.

The first event was a huge success, thanks to Hurley and all involved, including Director of Athletics Jen Fitzpatrick and Assistant Director of Athletics Kadeem Rodgers.

Fitzpatrick said of the evening: “This marked the beginning of what we hope will be an impactful series for our team captains. As an alumnus, Matt was able to articulate his thoughts in a way that resonated uniquely with our students.

At EHS, we do powerful work with all of our students on the topic of leadership, but it feels particularly important to provide opportunities like this for our team captains to learn and grow. This was a fantastic start to what we are planning to be seasonal opportunities for similar gatherings.”

“It was really nice to hear from Captain Hurley at the Captains’ Dinner. His explanation of the characteristics a true leader should possess inspired me and made me look forward to leading my team.”

—AVA SAWI ’24, GIRLS’ BASKETBALL

“Trust is an essential quality of leadership.

A good leader must be able to trust their team and themselves. As athletic captains, we are in a position to give our teammates a voice and an opportunity to grow in and out of our sport.”

—SHAAN VYAS ’24, WRESTLING

CAPTAINS ON LEADERSHIP

“Since this is the inaugural season of swimming as a varsity sport at EHS, I never expected Captain Hurley’s remarks to have such an impact on me. I realized that my goal as captain should be to bring the team together; success will follow.”

—GRAHAM JEWETT ’24, SWIMMING

“Leadership is the ability to bring out the best in people and always hold others accountable. Leaders are only as great as the positive impact they have on other people — past, present, and future.”

—MALIK STUTE ’23, BOYS’ BASKETBALL

“Leadership means showing up every day ready to be present and positive for the greater good of the team. It means being there for all of your teammates both on and off the track, whether in class, on dorm, or just passing them in the halls.”

—AUDREY DEARLOVE ’23, INDOOR TRACK & FIELD

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The weather may have been frigid, but the athletes brought the heat to a memorable winter sports season. Boys’ climbing won the WAICL championship for the second year in a row; the Maroon welcomed swimming for its first varsity season in School history, competing in the IAC and ISL league meets; and indoor track & field had 28 members of the team qualify for the State Championships with both teams finishing in the top 10, and 10 individuals earning All-State honors.

Congratulations to all of our winter athletes!

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DICK RUTLEDGE ’51 on the Theologian-in-Residence Program When Dick Rutledge ’51 approached then Headmaster Sandy Ainslie ’56 about establishing the Theologian-inResidence program in the early nineties, the alumnus had one specific goal in mind. Impact. How might this program impact the lives of Episcopal students and further highlight the gospel of Jesus Christ on campus? True to its mission, the program has brought a wealth of theologians to campus since its founding in 1993, enriching the spiritual lives of countless High Schoolers.

Dick ’51 and Fleming Rutledge with Theologian-inResidence Rev. Dr. Esau McCaulley in Callaway Chapel

Dick’s wife of over 60 years, the Reverend Fleming Rutledge, became one of the first ordained female ministers in the United States in 1975, and Dick originally established the program in her honor. Despite her life’s work and deep faith, she was surprised to hear that Dick had, unbeknownst to her, approached Ainslie about such a program. Deeply touched, she embraced it wholeheartedly and has since been both a Theologian-in-Residence on campus and also a Portrait in Faith speaker — another program inspired by the Rutledge family’s commitment to fostering faith at Episcopal. Portrait in Faith was made possible through a generous gift to the School from Dick’s close friend, Henry Burnett ’44.

Dick did not just conceive of and help to fund both the Theologian-in-Residence and Portrait in Faith programs. For the first decade, he meticulously studied and helped choose the participants who were ultimately invited to campus for the week, getting to know Episcopal’s chaplains very well in the process, and continuing to make an indelible mark on the School. This hands-on work was certainly not new to Dick. During an impressive career in marketing, which included 27 years at IBM, he started Faith on Fire, a passion project at Christ Church in Greenwich, 26

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Conn., that arranges for transformational messages from distinguished ministers, priests, and seminary professors. That experience would prove to go hand in hand with his work on the Theologianin-Residence program.

Through Faith on Fire, Dick would research every single speaker he would suggest or invite to the monthly program, ensuring that their messaging would resonate with the audience members. “He would not invite anyone unless they already had the gifts to make a compelling presentation,” said Fleming. In keeping with Dick’s vision for the Theologian-inResidence program, Episcopal always strives to introduce exciting spiritual leaders to The High School whenever possible, which has helped the programs last and thrive all these years.

“The vision of these programs,” wrote Dick in the Spring 2014 issue of EHS: The Magazine, “was to bring, twice a year, powerful preachers and teachers who would capture the attention, and

The vision of these programs was to bring, twice a year, powerful preachers and teachers who would capture the attention, and then the heart and soul, of the student and adult community.”

then the heart and soul, of the student and adult community.” He hopes that the Theologian-inResidence and Portrait in Faith programs bring every community member at Episcopal closer to God and the gospel. “I believe God is seeking those He loves,” he said in the closing of his article, “which includes all of the students, faculty, and staff at Episcopal High School.”

In January, the Rutledges visited campus to hear the 2022-23 Theologian-in-Residence, the Rev. Dr. Esau McCaulley, preach at the School’s annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Vespers service. While she rarely weighs in on who she believes would make a good guest, Fleming had been following McCaulley’s rapidly rising star in the past few years and knew that Episcopal needed to hear his gospel.

“I love to follow young, compelling preachers who know the gospel,” she told us. “I said to Dick, ‘this is somebody we’ve got to invite.’”

Before meeting in person, Fleming and McCaulley were both admirers of each other’s work, and they now are each contributing volumes in a six-part series from InterVarsity Press on the church year called “The Fullness of Time,” which will be edited by McCaulley.

His recent book, “Lent: The Season of Repentance and Renewal” is already on the market, and Fleming’s book on Epiphany will be published later this year.

As McCaulley told Head Chaplain Rev. Betsy Carmody when she asked what made him say yes to Episcopal, “No one says ‘no’ to Fleming Rutledge.”

When speaking to Dick, it is apparent how much of an influence Episcopal had on him as a young man. To him, honor and integrity remain the biggest pillars of his time on The Holy Hill. “Those ideals are in the water at Episcopal,” Dick said.

While on campus in January, he recounted a story of a slow start to his ultimately long career at IBM. Newly married to Fleming and just starting out in sales, he was floundering during a department-wide training, and a colleague suggested he might cheat on a test they all needed to pass to continue with the company. “I thought about it for a moment, but then I thought about EHS,” Dick said. Mr. Ravenel’s voice entered his head, and Dick immediately knew the right path forward. Following his moral compass, Dick passed and went on to enjoy a strong career at IBM, thanks to both Episcopal and Mr. Ravenel.

After all, if you ask the Rutledges, it all comes back to impact.

Seminarian Intern Enriches Campus Life For over a decade, Episcopal has welcomed students from Virginia Theological Seminary to fulfill their field education requirements. This year, Episcopal was excited to have our neighbor, thirdyear student Mitchell Felton, join our community during the month of January.

During his time at Episcopal, Felton lectured in various classes, preached a homily during Chapel, and joined the community to celebrate the seventh annual MLK Symposium. He quickly became a valued member of EHS, working alongside Head Chaplain Rev. Betsy Carmody and Assistant Chaplain Rev. Richmond Jones, whom he described as authentic, transparent, and reliable.

He also shared campus for a short time with Episcopal’s 2022-23 Theologian-in-Residence, Rev. Dr. Esau McCaulley. Felton described his time with Rev. McCaulley as a true gift: “It was such an amazing opportunity to be around him,” he said.

“As someone who has read his book, I was excited to spend time with him and learn from his wisdom.”

Felton was just as impressed as McCaulley with Episcopal students. “I have to add that Episcopal students are just so awesome,” he said. “They are curious, willing to learn, and they are so loyal to this place.”

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FEATURE

CAMPAIGN LEADERSHIP CHAIR, BOARD OF TRUSTEES Sarah Akridge Knutson ’96 P’26 CAMPAIGN CABINET Lee Ainslie ’82 P’14 ’17 | Robert Mason ’77 P’15 | Rodney Robinson ’86 | Kathryn Tyree P’17 ’19 HEAD OF SCHOOL Charles M. Stillwell P’18 ASSISTANT HEAD FOR ADVANCEMENT Christina M. Holt P’12 ’15 ’17

Always advancing our mission to prepare young people with the intellectual and moral courage to pursue lives of leadership and service, Episcopal High School is evolving with the world around us and within an educational landscape that demands distinction. Positioned to deliver an educational journey that no other school can, Episcopal publicly launched C O U RAGE: THE CAM PAIGN FOR E PIS COPA L in November 2022.

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WITH COURAGE, WE WILL...

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HARNESS THE RESOURCES AND GLOBAL CONNECTIONS OF WASHINGTON, D.C.

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INVEST IN OUR COMMITMENT TO A WORLD CLASS FACULTY AND STAFF.

DRAMATICALLY INCREASE ACCESS TO FINANCIAL AID. MAXIMIZE THE POWER OF RELATIONSHIPS AND COMMITMENT TO COMMUNITY. INSPIRE ACHIEVEMENT THROUGH RIGOR AND WELLNESS.

Supporting priorities set forth in the 2018 Strategic Plan, CO U R A GE is a $150 million campaign — the most ambitious in Episcopal’s 184-year history.

This is a defining moment for The High School.

Our bold plans are only possible with equally bold support from our community.

Our thanks to all the donors who have joined this historic effort to date!

DONORS: 660

PARENT (CURRENT & PAST): 196

ALUMNI: 378

FOUNDATIONS: 17

$115 MILLION RAISED

$150 MILLION GOAL as of April 2023

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CHARLESTON DALL AS HOUSTON LOUISVILLE NEW YORK RALEIGH

BEIJING SHENZHEN

SHANGHAI

OUR COMMUNITY GATHERS TO LAUNCH THE COURAGE CAMPAIGN Special receptions in cities all over the map have been a wonderful way to celebrate the public campaign launch with so many of Episcopal’s alumni, parents, and friends. At each splendid venue, guests viewed the C O U R AG E C AMP AIG N launch video produced by alumnus Luke David ’93, learned about the campaign priorities from Head of School Charley Stillwell, and heard inspiring words from each of the generous hosts about the impact the School has had on them. In Palm Beach, John Townsend ’73 said that his years at EHS were among the most important of his life. It was moving to see how his sentiment resonated with the alumni in the room, whose class years spanned six decades.

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PERSPECTIVES ON COURAGE

Christina Holt with her advisees on Blake Terrace in the deButts Health & Wellness Center.

ASSISTANT HEAD FOR ADVANCEMENT CHRISTINA HOLT P’12 ’15 ’17 The Courage Campaign is bold, no question. Then again, so is the vision set forth in the strategic plan of fortifying the School’s ambitious mission for generations to come. Success in this campaign will be a major milestone towards ensuring Episcopal graduates will forever be prepared with the intellectual and moral courage that leads to impactful lives pursued with integrity and purpose.

What will it take to succeed? Unprecedented participation.

Over 660 members of the EHS family have contributed to C O U R A GE thus far, and we are immensely grateful for their generosity. The stage is set for the public phase of this campaign to have an unimaginable impact on our school’s journey towards an even stronger future, where the strength of community, the 24/7 teaching moments, the unique academic opportunities, and the care for our students’ physical and emotional well-being will be advanced in powerful ways that ring true to the values so cherished by Episcopal alumni across the decades.

Now we ask every member of our community to consider the impact you could have on the School’s mission and on the experience of students today and in the future. It is extraordinary to report that commitments in the $50,000 range and below already add up to almost $4,000,000. Many of those commitments are less than $25,000 each, paid over multiple years. It is both exciting and moving to see the incredible cumulative impact of the generosity of our community at every level.

Every contribution is critical; every contribution will bring us closer to success; and every contribution demonstrates our collective courage and commitment to a future for Episcopal that is even stronger than its past.

By supporting the Courage Campaign, you can help ensure that Episcopal High School continues to be a place where students are challenged to grow and learn, where faculty are supported and empowered to excel, and where our community is united in its commitment to making a positive impact on the world…with C O U R A G E .

“The Courage Campaign is about generating support for Episcopal’s values which the School strives to instill in each and every one of its students.

Episcopal is training young people to be the strong, smart, courageous leaders we need. By investing in the Courage Campaign, you are really investing in the development of these students and the positive impact that they are going to have out in the world after they leave Episcopal.”

CRAIG DIXON ’93 P’23 ’26, EHS BOARD OF TRUSTEES

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CELEBRATING OUR NEWEST SPACES In spring 2021, Episcopal’s Board of Trustees made the strategic decision to begin construction simultaneously on three new buildings conceived as part of the 2018 Campus Master Plan: two dormitories and a health and wellness center.

As a result, the School was able to minimize disruption to the campus, take advantage of low interest rates, and avoid what we now know would have been significant cost escalations in labor and material prices. Estimates show that the Board’s savvy decision saved the School approximately $5 million in interest and construction expenses.

Now complete, the deButts Health & Wellness Center, North and West Dorms, and the incredible new quad are already enhancing the vibrancy of student life on the Hill.

“The heartbeat of boarding school happens in the dorms, and our new residential spaces are so exciting. With three faculty members and 36 students on each dorm, the ratio is a dream. Part of the excitement for both the kids and the adults is that those small numbers naturally build community. On both dorms, the full kitchens and huge common spaces also support community building because they are natural places to make memories and the kids really want to be in those beautiful spaces.”

MIMI SCHWANDA, WEST DORM HEAD

“Being able to go buy groceries together and make dinner in the kitchen with friends for Saturday taco nights on dorm is the best! And, the new quad is always the best spot to play spike ball with all of those on North!”

OMAR FLORES ’23, NORTH DORM

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North Dorm Head Jamie Biondi with students in the Common Room.

Charlotte Whiteley ’24 and Emmie Amason ’23 in their new space on West Dorm.

Omar Flores ’23 and Will Terry ’23 playing a game of chess in the deButts Health & Wellness Center.

Sunny days find students enjoying time together on the new quad.

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THERE ARE THREE SIMPLE WAYS TO JOIN EPISCOPAL’S HISTORIC CAMPAIGN WITH YOUR GIFT OR PLEDGE SUPPORTING COURAGE. 1

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OLL CALL First and foremost, commit R to supporting Episcopal’s annual fund, the Roll Call, by setting up a monthly recurring gift, committing to a five-year pledge, or making an increased one-time gift today.

AMPAIGN PRIORITIES Make a C pledge to support one of the School’s strategic priorities or an unrestricted donation that can be used in the area of greatest need.

EGACY Secure the School’s future by L including Episcopal in your estate plans, such as through your will or living trust, or by making EHS a beneficiary in your retirement plan.

BIG IMPACT BY THE NUMBERS With so much more to come, COURAGE has already made a big impact at The High School.

72 STUDENTS

living on a new dorm

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residences for faculty

2,300 COMPETITORS

18 SCHOLARSHIP GRANTS

750 STUDENT-ATHLETES

$5,000,000

running on the new track

For more information, to make a gift, or to schedule a call with a member of the Advancement Team, please visit episcopalhighschool.org/courage.

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playing on the new field

funded by campaign contributions to the endowment

in saved construction costs

“We are both graduates of EHS and both have long family histories at The Holy Hill. We are honored to be able to support the Courage Campaign and so thrilled that the school has chosen to invest in so many important areas to further strengthen the school now and to ensure a strong and sustainable future.”

AUGUSTA BROWN HOLLAND ’94 AND GILL HOLLAND ’83

“Episcopal High School has been so meaningful in the growth and development of our three children.

EHS gave them the skills and knowledge to handle all challenges that have been thrown their way. Their lifelong relationships with faculty and friends make it a very special place. We are proud to support Episcopal’s mission.”

TRACEY AND DAVID KURZWEIL P’17 ’18 ’22

After using trigonometry to calculate the height of the Washington Monument based on other measurements in the city, Ms. Galiger’s Pre-Calculus students visited the monument to check their in-class calculations.

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A LOOK INTO THE NEW SCHEDULE In March of 2020, Episcopal was poised to roll out its new daily schedule, and then came Covid. While an iteration of the schedule was used in 2021-22, this academic year marks its first uninterrupted deployment — and what a year it’s been!

In a recent interview, Assistant Head for Academics Nate Ebel, pictured with his advisory, shared his perspective about the schedule and how it enables the creative and integrated use of the resources in Washington, D.C., while emphasizing the importance of relationships and connection on campus.

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“The desire for a new schedule had actually been discussed as early as 2013, during that strategic planning cycle. There was a committee formed to explore the possibility of redesigning the schedule, but it only led to a couple of tentative and very partial adjustments and tweaks to the daily routine. It was not until the 2018 Strategic Plan that we really dove into the process to evaluate our goals and re-imagine how we might use time. There was a tremendous desire from the faculty and the students to change the previous schedule. It had been in place for nearly eighteen years, and the School’s programming had changed a great deal as well. Everyone knew that we needed to re-think the

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schedule to fit what we were doing and what we wanted to do.

We formed a thirteen-person task force with members from every area of campus life, and we worked closely with some fabulous consultants from Leadership and Design. The work of the schedule redesign task force took a year and a half to complete, but it was a thoughtful and broad process in which all thirteen members shadowed students through an academic day. We interviewed and collected input from over 70 faculty members. Ultimately, we forced ourselves to articulate the design goals for the schedule as it related to the students, the

faculty, and the institution. With those areas in mind, we set about creating several different versions of schedules that best fit our goals and principles. It was a long but rewarding process to think critically about how we could use time in a way that preserved the most important and traditional elements of Episcopal while also thinking creatively about how a schedule might fit our current needs and goals. Then, just as we were rolling the finished product out in March of 2020, the pandemic hit, and we had to adjust. In some ways, because of the disruptions of Covid last year, this is really the first year of living with the schedule as it was originally designed.”

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WHAT IS UNIQUE ABOUT THE NEW EHS SCHEDULE?

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“At first glance, the schedule looks like other school schedules with its rotation of class blocks throughout the week, but it really is a schedule that is built to take full advantage of some of the most unique elements of Episcopal. As a 100% boarding school on the edge of D.C., we have a tremendous opportunity to incorporate the city into the core academic experience, and that is what this schedule allows us to do. With the Flex Block time built into four days and two evenings each week, individual classes can incorporate the experiences and resources of the city into the curriculum of the course. The city actually becomes part of the course material and an integral part of the learning. What I also love about the schedule, though, is that it truly was designed around the needs of our students, faculty, and institution, so it also maintains the community elements that are so important to the EHS experience. Each week, we have three chapel services, seated meals, and our traditional Community Gatherings; in

addition, we have newly dedicated time each week for advisory meeting — and we have recently added class meetings.

All of these moments allow our students and faculty to gather together in intentional ways to help us build and improve the relational connections that make EHS the truly unique education that it is.”

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WHAT WERE WE HOPING TO ACCOMPLISH WITH THE NEW SCHEDULE, AND HOW HAS THAT PLAYED OUT WITH THE COMMUNITY’S LIVED EXPERIENCE?

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“We had several goals with the new schedule, but the primary aims were to take full advantage of our location and our 100% boarding population.

The reality of the schedule has been better than we expected.

It has allowed us to provide truly unique learning opportunities for our students. In the first semester of the year, we have had over 350 flex block experiences, and teachers are creating more and more interesting interactions with D.C. each time they design a lesson with the city resources in mind. There is still room for us to improve, innovate, and share what we have learned as a faculty, but the weekly reality is that we now have four to five classes quietly going into the city on a daily basis, and we also have classes meeting in the evenings to go to plays and events and to hear from and interact with speakers.”

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LOOKING BACK ON THE FIRST YEAR AND A HALF OF THE NEW SCHEDULE, WHAT DO YOU FEEL IS THE GREATEST BENEFIT TO THE COMMUNITY — STUDENTS AND TEACHERS ALIKE?

“In addition to preserving the important all-school moments like Chapel, seated meals, and Community Gathering, the schedule has also created a lot of space for students and faculty to interact in small group and one-on-one settings. Though we are all still busy doing all of the work that comes with study and life at boarding school, there is a less frenzied pace with the longer blocks of time and the longer transition times.

Students can find time to get to their mailbox or dorm room in between the obligations of the day, and there are large chunks of time when students can tuck away to get some extra studying done, touch base with a teacher, or connect with friends. Similarly, teachers have larger chunks of time during free blocks and during lunch to connect with students or collaborate with colleagues. We have also discovered some unexpected benefits as well; we’ve found the incredible value of having protected office hours three times a week when faculty are all in their classrooms and students are able to drop in for extra help, a check in, or a place to start on homework. This time has become an integral part of the weekly routine and the academic program.”

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“Right now, we feel that the daily/weekly schedule provides a lot of consistency, and coming out of the Covid disruptions, we feel positively about how the schedule is working and what it has provided to the School, the students, and the faculty. Having a schedule that fits our goals and needs allows us to focus on what we are doing in the current moment. That being said, as we move forward, we will certainly continue to assess how the schedule fits the changing needs of Episcopal and the community. I think that we will likely look at ways in which we can modify the yearly calendar in order to provide for new and interesting ways that students can learn while here at EHS. Again, being 100% boarding allows us to think creatively about how we use the time we have together, whether on the weekends, evenings, or larger chunks of time during the year.

Our senior externships are such a vital and successful part of our program. It would be great if we could find ways for the juniors and the underclassmen to have similar learning experiences with intensive or experiential programming. Creating new programs or experiences like intensives or externships requires looking at the yearly calendar and thinking of intentional ways of building in time for those things to happen.”

PERSONAL EXPERIENCES OFFICE HOURS Office hours, formerly tutorial, is some of the most valuable time I have with my math students, and to have that protected in the daily schedule speaks volumes to how Episcopal delivers on face-to-face, one-on-one interactions between faculty and students. My classroom is always abuzz with students of all levels. They bring their friends, classmates or not, to hang out, ask questions, talk about life at EHS, and get the help they need. I have regulars, those who pop in before tests, or my advisees who want to chat. It is a vibrant, fun, and critical time in my daily life as a teacher. It’s also my favorite time with my kids.

In my experience, I like the flex blocks more than the previous schedule’s larger group trips because there’s more opportunity to have excursions specifically related to classes and to have a more personal experience with a smaller group of people, which allows for more questions and interaction with the exhibit or speaker. This year I have particularly enjoyed trips like going to the South African Embassy or the National Museum of the American Indian, which were experiences that otherwise would never have been possible except in their direct relation to what we were studying in a certain class, and both advanced my understanding and perspective on the class material in ways that would have been difficult in a larger group.

AMELIA DAVIS ’23

PATRICK THOMPSON, MATH AND COMPUTER SCIENCE TEACHER

A FEW OTHER PERSPECTIVES

COMMUNITY My favorite part of this new schedule is its increased focus on community time. Even small changes like a longer lunch to include time for flex blocks leave students who don’t have flex blocks more time to chat with friends, enjoy the food, and maybe even catch up on homework. I think the extended time we have to learn outside of the classroom is what truly makes the EHS experience feel like a familial one. Especially when comparing this schedule to my previous schools, the flexibility and control we have over our days is something that I feel makes me a more well-rounded student. I also am the co-president of the Student Investment Group, and the increased flexibility of this schedule allows our meetings to include more students and gives our club members the time to research and pitch stocks to the group.

COLLABORATION & GROWTH The thoughtfully-constructed schedule empowers all community members (students, faculty, and staff alike) to fully participate and thrive in the boarding school environment. As a teacher and coach, I so appreciate the fact that each day has built-in opportunities for collaboration, connection, reflection, and growth.

The schedule embodies Episcopal’s mission statement and reflects its person-centered approach to the educational experience.

KATRINA REED, ENGLISH TEACHER

MCLEOD BLOUNT ’23

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WELCOME

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The Future of Episcopal’s Residential Life Program with Dean Amila Williams

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ean of Residential Life Amila Williams has made schools her home for over 20 years. Her career before Episcopal spanned eight years in public schools, four years in human resources and training, and six years in private schools. As her family moved for these opportunities in Atlanta, Georgia, and New York, Williams discovered her passion for making schools feel like true homes through the boarding school experience. A chance encounter with the head of the upper school at Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School led her and her family to the mountains of rural Georgia, and the rest, as they say, is history.

At the time, Rabun Gap comprised 60% boarding students and 40% day students, and for the first time, Williams and her family got to experience life on dorm. Instantly it was a natural fit, with the Williamses hosting students for meals and casual hang-outs on Sundays. Williams made giving the students a taste of home by welcoming them into her family’s living room and kitchen with open arms a priority. That family tradition has continued seamlessly at Episcopal. Thaddius

Williams, Amila’s husband, works as the manager of Episcopal’s Post Office, coaches the boys’ junior basketball team, and is a member of the Activities Team; their son Joshua graduated in 2022; and their daughters, Nia and Laila, have called Episcopal home since they were in third grade and kindergarten, respectively.

In her 5 years at Episcopal, Williams has been laser-focused on how to make the most out of the 100% boarding school experience for each and every student. “This is where everything happens,” the dean said of life on dorm. “This is where you live. This is where you play. This is where you study.” Students, she has come to realize, are their truest selves while on dorm, and the residential life team members have a unique and important responsibility to help each student feel at home at Episcopal.

In December of 2022, the two new dormitories opened to great fanfare on campus, advancing a major component in the 2018 Strategic Plan.

The entire School community came together for a historic move-in day that had been long

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anticipated by students, faculty, and staff alike. It was a day that Williams has been preparing for since she took on her residential life role in 2020 and first heard of the administration’s long-term plans for campus dorms. On that cold but beautiful move-in day, upperclassmen helped each other relocate to their new rooms; dorm residents had a blast decorating the common rooms as a team; and the freshman class spent the day doing a variety of Service Council activities organized by Rev. Richmond Jones and supported by other faculty members.

Since move-in day, the new dorms already have greatly enhanced life on campus, thanks in large part to Williams and the residential life team. The addition of the new dorms will not increase Episcopal’s enrollment; rather, the buildings will enable the School to dedensify the other eight dorms and make the residential life program even more robust.

For the past eighteen months, Williams has been hard at work building a new residential life curriculum to prepare for the opening of these buildings. The new curriculum includes mandatory Monday night meetings on each dorm that last 15 to 30 minutes. The meetings are individually led by the ten dorm heads and designed to provide time for connection that may include hard yet necessary conversations about events happening on campus, lighthearted yet competitive games of Jeopardy, and good old-fashioned bonding over snacks. According to Williams, the main focus of the meetings is to build community and get students out of their individual rooms and into the common rooms for however brief a time. Rather than making it feel like another moment of

an already packed schedule, Williams hopes students look forward to unplugging with their peers after study hall and relaxing together as a family.

Since the opening of the dorms, the students have been most impressed with the multiple common rooms and the kitchen. “The common rooms have been buzzing with dorm activities, bonding time, and the smell of baked goods from the kitchen,” wrote Charlotte Whiteley ’24 in an article titled “New Dorms, New Norms” that appeared in Volume 134, Issue 3 of The Chronicle. Whiteley also appreciates the partnership that comes with being the first group of students to move into a new space on campus and make their mark on the dorm culture. “Student leaders on both North and West are actively working with dorm faculty to develop connections and make the new dorms inclusive communities,” the prefect and rising senior wrote of the efforts.

A major component of the 2018 Strategic Plan was decreasing the faculty-to-staff ratio on dorm. Ensuring that our faculty and staff are available wherever and whenever learning opportunities present themselves has always been a vital component of Episcopal’s 24/7 learning environment, and it remains a crucial part of Williams’ vision for the program.

Dedensifying dorms means that each residential life member has more time to connect with students. “When you are in charge of 30 students instead of 60, you have more time to ask students about their days,” Williams explained.

And in the event of a bad day, teachers have the opportunity to offer more support thanks to the smaller ratio. “You can ask the questions: Why wasn’t it a good day? What can I do? Do you want to talk about it? Can I connect you to somebody?”

And that, to Williams and the students, makes a world of difference. “It gives us the time and space to really form our relationships,” she mused.

Like all Episcopal teachers, Williams wears many hats. In addition to her role as dean of residential life, she teaches Spanish, coaches track and field, and serves as the faculty advisor to Black Girl Magic. But her greatest pride is in her residential life work.

When asked about the biggest strength of Episcopal’s residential life program, Williams didn’t skip a beat. “Our dorm heads,” she said. “They’re really incredible. They know every child’s struggles. They lead an entire dorm team of 6-8 people.

They navigate providing care, accountability, and fun for their residents, all while interacting with parents, and it can be really tough sometimes. To me, they’re the people who make this place feel most like a home.”

Williams spoke of the hard moments on dorm that residential life members are privy to — those moments when students get into arguments, miss out on an opportunity, feel their first heartbreak, or lose a family member. “They’re learning how to manage themselves and their environment,” she has observed about life on dorm. “They are able to decide who they want to be and how they want to be.”

A testament to the strength of the community, Episcopal relationships don’t end at graduation. Williams constantly hears from former students who simply want to share their joy, send updates on their lives, and maintain that strong connection that began on The Holy Hill. Over the years, Williams has noticed a trend in which students are more inclined to do that. They are always the ones she knew on dorm. “Those are the students who were at our house every Sunday,” she remembered of the relationships she was able to build thanks to sharing a common home. “And that’s the vision I have in my head for all Episcopal dorms. That’s what I want our common rooms to feel like for all students.”

With a little distance after graduation, those students are able to see just how much they grew in high school. “I always hear from our students that this is where they learned how to treat people, how to talk to people, and how to be a member of a community,” said Williams. And it has always been paramount for her to provide a safe environment for students to grow into themselves. “This is where they learned how to make mistakes, how to apologize, and how to talk to different people.

As educators, we know how important it is that students are seen and known,” she said, and she strives every day to provide that for each student who calls campus home.

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Students visiting the French Embassy to learn more about famed musician Edith Piaf.

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FROM THE

PAGE TO THE STAGE

Four teachers describe how EHS embraces the D.C. theater scene.

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ince our founding in 1839, Episcopal has embraced the vibrancy and opportunity of Washington, D.C., in all that we do. Aided by the flexibility afforded with the new schedule, today’s teachers are able to create once-in-a-lifetime opportunities for their students, from seeing the First Folio of Shakespeare in person to meeting with and speaking to great minds across disciplines. The creativity and ingenuity of our faculty in providing such unique experiences for students, purposefully aligned with their curricular work, is remarkable, to say the least.

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M O L LY PUGH

takes students outside their comfort zones.

Since she moved to campus in 2008, English Department Chair Molly Pugh has witnessed significant changes in how Episcopal utilizes theater in D.C. In the early aughts, each grade would attend a play a year together, which ultimately became too large to be as impactful as the department hoped, according to Pugh. They decided to approach it from another angle: smaller groups, bigger impact. Since then, departments across campus have been laser focused on getting the most out of each trip to the district and the greater DMV area (D.C., Maryland, and Virginia). Her focus these days is on teaching her students to become responsible and engaged theatergoers and ultimately become responsible and engaged citizens of the world. “We always want to make these experiences as actively pedagogical as possible,” she said of constantly seeking new and creative ways to get students outside of their comfort zones at Episcopal.

Before Winter Break, Pugh’s Victorian Literature class attended A Christmas Carol at Ford’s Theatre. During intermission, Pugh encouraged her students to interview fellow audience members about their holiday traditions through ethnographic interviews, a device the English department often utilizes. To Pugh, teaching her students to be productive and engaged members of these audiences is paramount.

She hopes that, by taking them to these intimate settings, they will ultimately learn to appreciate both the personal enjoyment and the collective experience that theater can provide. “My students returned from speaking with audience members with bright eyes and stories to tell,” Pugh describes. “Having spoken with people who were first-time theatergoers, as well as to those who had been coming to this show for decades, my students were amazed by how eager people were to relate their theater stories.”

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WHIT MORGAN

makes Shakespeare accessible.

Teaching at Episcopal since 1987, Whit Morgan has observed the evolution of Episcopal’s relationship to D.C. in a way few others have. Known as Episcopal’s legendary Shakespearean scholar, Morgan has attended countless theatrical performances throughout his time at EHS — and through his own educational journey. He was inspired to provide students with first-hand opportunities to experience, and interact with, The Bard’s work after six summers assistant teaching in Oxford, England, with a University of North Carolina program. The professor with whom he partnered, Tar Heel legend Christopher Armitage, taught theater-based courses that regularly took students to performances in London, Stratford, and Oxford. “Simply put,” explained Morgan, “after those connections with live theater, I was hooked, and my primary goal in over three decades of teaching has been to share that passion with EHS students.”

Through both semesters of his advanced English seminar, Shakespeare: Page, Stage, and Screen, students not only dig deeply into Shakespeare’s work but also augment their studies with film and live performances, with recent examples including The Tempest at the Round House Theatre in Bethesda, Md., and King Lear at the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C. Several stage actors have also offered workshops and visited with the students, shedding light on the complexity of bringing the roles to life in different interpretations of the various works.

Thanks to Morgan, students also have enjoyed access and insight to Shakespeare’s work that few others will ever have the opportunity to experience. Through the National Endowment for the Humanities, Morgan is one of the lucky and deserving few who were selected for the Teaching Shakespeare Institute at the Folger Shakespeare Library. The program brings together experts and brilliant minds who develop curricula for people all over the nation to access for free on the Folger’s website. Morgan’s connections enabled trips to the Folger Shakespeare Library, including visits to the Reading Room where, at his request, they pulled a few original texts for students to see, including a First Folio from 1623. “For students to see the vault in which these texts are kept and to see the only copy in existence of some of these books provides a very visceral engagement with the works.” While the Folger Theatre has been closed for major construction since 2020, Morgan is eagerly anticipating the grand re-opening in fall 2023.

ELEANOR MOORE

brings the Francophone world closer.

For the first time in several years, Chair of the Modern and Classical Languages Department Eleanor Moore was able to bring her classes back to the French Embassy, also known as La Maison Française, to reconnect with D.C.area Francophiles and fully immerse students in French culture, right in our backyard. Moore, a French teacher at EHS since 1999, has often benefited from the School’s proximity to events that put French culture in the spotlight.

In addition to her engagement with opportunities in D.C., she also leads the EHS-Lycée Stanislas student exchange program to further students’ access to the French language and intercultural experiences.

Moore and her colleague Carmen Carraway recently took several French classes — Advanced French Language, Advanced Topics in Francophone Cultures, and French 5 — to the embassy to enhance their appreciation of famed French singer Edith Piaf. The students were able to take in the 90-minute musical performance which featured Nathalie Lermitte singing many of Edith Piaf’s most famous songs in two non-stop sets accompanied by musicians on piano, accordion, drums, xylophone, and double bass.

The concert went hand in hand with their lessons in real time. The students in all three classes had encountered Piaf ’s name, story, and songs in the context of learning about the French Resistance (Advanced Topics) and with an eye toward considering her art and her career as they relate to the themes of beauty and world challenges (Advanced French Language). As she has done so often, Moore loved seeing the students take part so fully in the events of the evening as they took in the show, mingled with other members of the audience during intermission, and immersed themselves in French culture and history.

“For students to see the only copy in existence of some of these books provides a very visceral engagement with the works.”

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MIKE REYNOLDS

has students dig deeper.

Social studies teacher Mike Reynolds aims to get his students thinking independently. It’s not just about the “what” of history; it’s the “how” and the “why,” according to him. Instrumental in researching the role enslaved people played in our School’s pre-Civil War history, Reynolds has channeled that dedication to studying what his class calls “hard history” throughout his 14 years at Episcopal.

In his work, Reynolds has collaborated frequently with Dr. Will Thomas ’82 P’16 ’17, a historian, author, producer, and professor at the University of Nebraska. When Thomas’s most recent animated film, “The Bell Affair,” premiered at Old Greenbelt Theatre in Greenbelt, Md., Reynolds jumped at the chance to take students in his advanced research seminar that focuses on the history of EHS, Virginia, and D.C. The film tells the story of Daniel and Mary Bell, who sued for their freedom from slavery. Once their re-enslavement was threatened again, the Bells led one of the largest escape attempts in American history of over 75 people, directly from D.C.’s historic wharf.

Reynolds spoke of one student who had grown up in D.C., spent countless evenings hanging out at the wharf with friends, and marveled that she had never heard of this historic event. Reynolds predicted that half of the audience was descended from the families portrayed in the film, further bringing history to life for EHS students. As for what he wants students to take away from the class, he says he wants them to know how to dig deeper and ask the hard-hitting questions. “It’s asking those questions about who we want to be as a country. We have an amazing history, but we haven’t always lived up to it. So where are those moments in history where we can look and see when we have lived up to it?”

WHIT MORGAN

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FROM THE ARCHIVES

Cate’s favorite artifact was the EHS Annual, the predecessor to Whispers, that was published intermittently in the 1890s. While Cate had heard of the EHS Annual, it almost felt like a myth until she was able to handle the publications from over 125 years ago herself.

The EHS Annual 1893-94 was gift of Page Dame ’59

STORYTELLING ACROSS TIME For Caroline DeVoe’s Digital History class, four students took a deep dive into EHS history, each pursuing a topic based on their passions.

TAYLOR CHAMBERS ’23 continued earlier research into racial integration at Episcopal to bring the subject up to the present day and, in doing so, contribute to the historical record with her findings.

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CHARLOTTE HEAD ’23 researched Lettie Pate Evans, a longtime benefactor to Episcopal, connecting her philanthropy to coeducation and the female experience at EHS.

JOSH HWANG ’24 pursued his passion for football by researching the history of the sport at Episcopal, including mapping where EHS players have continued their careers at the collegiate level.

CATE LAVERTY ’23 was drawn to research the history of Episcopal’s yearbook, Whispers, based on her enthusiasm for student publications and her current role as its Editor-in-Chief.

Charlotte Head ’23 and Cate Laverty ’23 working together in Bryan Library.

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hile each student pursued a different topic, they were all genuinely supportive of each other’s projects. For example, because of Cate’s extensive work with the yearbooks, she would share relevant findings on race and gender with Taylor and Charlotte, providing them with leads to support their research. Cate reflected on how motivating it was to come to Bryan Library on a regular basis with her classmates to conduct research with the School’s archival materials, exchanging ideas and giving encouragement to her fellow DiHi Subgroup members — the nickname the students gave to themselves as the subgroup of the Digital History class who were conducting their research in the School’s archives.

Cate’s enthusiasm for Whispers actually preceded her enrollment. When visiting her older brother at Episcopal, she would find herself studying the collection of yearbooks housed in Bryan Library, thinking, “There are yearbooks here from 1920. That’s crazy!” After joining the Episcopal community, Cate found an immediate home on the Whispers staff in the yearbook lab, furthering her passion for student publications and leading her to pursue her chosen field of study, creative directing and communication design.

As Whispers Editor-in-Chief, Cate’s research was informed by changes over time in yearbooks, some of which were driven by technological developments. For instance, as photography became more affordable, the number of photos included in the yearbook increased, and with digital technology, even more so. Other changes Cate noticed included the placement of advertisements in the yearbook, a feature of earlier editions of the publication. While Cate is grateful Whispers staff no longer needs to pursue this source of funding, she enjoyed seeing the old advertisements and connecting them to historical events beyond The Holy Hill, such as the advertisements from the 1930s editions about the Great Depression.

Looking ahead, Cate anticipates technology-driven changes to future graphic design elements. For example, for a previous edition of Whispers, Cate used an online color generator to develop the chosen color palette, a technology only available to recent yearbook staff. With this technology, the yearbook staff was able to use art, color, and design to communicate a message.

Perhaps Cate’s most significant takeaway from her project was connecting her work as yearbook Editor-in-Chief to contributing to the historical record over time. By telling the Episcopal story from her years as a student through Whispers, Cate recognizes she is adding to a narrative that goes back to the earliest days of the publication. With this in mind, Cate reached out to one of her predecessors, Page Dame ’59, who was Editor-in-Chief his senior year. Talking with Page gave Cate a real pride in her position, recognizing the shared lifelong lessons they both learned in this role. Page observed to Cate: “You are the custodian of the principal underpinnings of the School. Your yearbooks are the touchstone everyone will go back to.”

During her research, Cate found herself projecting forward, anticipating future yearbook staff and researchers turning to the yearbooks from her time at Episcopal to develop an understanding of the Covid experience or the 2020 Presidential election. Despite her passion for design,

are the custodian of the “You principal underpinnings of the School. Your yearbooks are the touchstone everyone will go back to.”

—PAGE DAME ’59

when working on the yearbook, Cate now asks herself, “What am I trying to show here historically?” — recognizing the importance of recording history for future generations.

After her deep dive through the long history of Whispers, Cate finds herself thinking of future yearbooks, even her successors decades from now, and offers the following advice, “Your biggest passion is storytelling. Recognize you are telling your own story and the School’s story. Dive into the storytelling aspect of the yearbook.”

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George Francisco III writes: “Still hanging in there!!!”

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hcahcrow@gmail.com This heartfelt tribute from Charlie Cook was mistakenly omitted from the Fall 2022 issue of EHS: The Magazine. Charlie writes, “Robert Porter ‘Bob’ Morgan died on Wednesday, November 17, 2021, after long illnesses with Parkinson’s and Aphasia. He is survived by his wife of 56 years, Carole Ann Montgomery Morgan. A native of Nashville, Tenn., Bob and I were close friends from early childhood.

We attended elementary school together and went on to Episcopal together. At Episcopal, Bob excelled academically, athletically, musically, and in leadership roles. He was almost always on The High List. In his junior year, Bob created and led a musical quintet, The Blue Blazers, that performed at dances and 52

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other venues on campus, foretelling his career in music. He was also on the varsity tennis and basketball teams, serving as the basketball co-captain his senior year and shattering the School scoring record that year. In addition to these accomplishments, he served as a Monitor, President of the Glee Club, and was a member of the Athletic Advisory Board, the E Club, Follies, Hop Committee, Missionary Society, and the Blackford Literary Society.

After graduating from The High School, Bob went to Princeton University, earning his bachelor’s degree. He was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow in 1956 and 1957 while attending the University of California, Berkeley, from which he received a Master of Arts in 1958. He then returned to Princeton to pursue his interest in music theory and composition. He earned a Master of Fine Arts and his Ph.D. degrees there, being among the first scholars in the country to receive a Ph.D. in that field of study. Bob began his teaching career at the University of Houston, where he met his wife, Carole, who happily shared his deep interest in music. After four years at Houston, he moved to Temple University in 1967, became a full professor there in 1975, and in 1979 moved to the University of Chicago where he taught until 1989 when he moved to Yale University. At Yale, he became Chairman of the Department of Music, retiring in 2006.

He authored three major books in his field which have been used extensively in the academic field of music. Bob was truly a renaissance man with a wide range of interests, and he was a great friend as well. Bob, Harte Crow, and I decided to celebrate our 80th birthdays together with our wives by chartering a barge for a week in southern France in 2014. We renewed our friendships and reminisced about our days at EHS. It was so much fun that we took a similar trip in 2018. Bob was surely one of Episcopal’s most distinguished graduates.”

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Edward Mullins

(C) 803-463-1440 ewmullinsjr@gmail.com I’m still enjoying retirement. I have given up my license to practice, but I have an office with limited support in my son’s boutique litigation firm in Columbia, S.C. I’m keeping up with my beautiful grand girls of whom I am very proud. The oldest is finishing law school at the University of South Carolina and will be clerking for a Judge later this year. The next oldest graduated from the University of Virginia and works with the Federal Reserve Board in Richmond, Va. One is a rising senior at Washington and Lee University and will work with one of the big accounting firms in D.C. after she graduates. The youngest will be a rising freshman at Wake Forest this year.

Now for some news from the Class of 1953.

Jonathan Bryan reports: “I helped lead the family’s celebration of Ted Scarborough’s life in a service in December at his retirement home in Delaware. Sandy Roe also presented a remembrance of Ted. A surprise was finding that Ted was a member of the University of Virginia Secret Seven Society — a great tribute to him. Now, a vignette of our times: Judy and I have a granddaughter doing Ph.D. research in the Arctic. She told us recently that she had just Facetimed with her fiancé, a Ph.D. candidate in the Antarctic. Go figure.

A bipolar couple?”

Ammon Dunton reports: “I am still practicing law full time, but have finally turned the managing partner job over to a younger lawyer. I intend to retire at 90. I remain Chairman of our local Orchestra and active in the Lancaster Historical Society, having just raised $500,000 for our history library. A few days ago, I resigned as president of a regional charitable foundation and received a plaque.

My four children are regular visitors to our old home, built in 1725. My dear wife, Kathy, died nine years ago. I would welcome a visit from any classmate who can find his way to

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Dr. Edward Darrell Jervey ’54 Dr. Edward Darrell Jervey ’54 tried to escape the strength of his family legacy. He was determined not to follow in the footsteps of his ophthalmologist grandfather and father, Dr. James W. Jervey, Jr., Class of 1919. While hesitant to follow family career choices, he knew The High School was the perfect option and thus followed his brother, James Jervey III ’49, to The Holy Hill.

“Both my grandfather and my dad were ophthalmologists, and I was a hard-headed young man,” Jervey said. “I decided ophthalmology was one thing I was not going to do. But everybody went to Episcopal, and I did, and I loved it.”

During his senior year at the University of Virginia, Jervey was encouraged by his chemistry professor to review his post-graduation options one last time. He was reluctant, but his professor emboldened him to make an unexpected choice as an English major. Upon graduation, he chose to attend Duke University’s Medical School with a specialization in ophthalmology.

Jervey practiced ophthalmology in Greenville, South Carolina, for over 40 years. As an ophthalmologist, he specializes in treating complex eye disorders and is a trained surgeon. One of the most rewarding responsibilities was performing eye surgeries and watching the transformation in his patients, he recounted. He also served as the President of the Greenville County Medical Society and the South Carolina Society of Ophthalmology.

Even at the end of a 40-year tenure, Jervey was not ready to retire from his practice, Jervey Eye Group. He chose to set his sights on volunteerism as he transitioned into partial retirement. “My wife and I set up a clinic for the homeless in Greenville, and we continue to provide care once a month,” he said of this next stage in his career.

Jervey’s passion for service began in 1970, when he attended a volunteer mission trip to Haiti. “I was part of a group that would go to Haiti once or twice a year to run some free eye clinics,” said the surgeon. “I distributed reading glasses, performed cataract surgeries, and established a couple of eye clinics that are still active in Haiti today.” Of his service work, Jervey reflected that, “there was more to practicing medicine than simply practicing medicine.”

In addition to operating a free eye clinic for the homeless, Jervey also volunteers with a free medical clinic, and teaches resident students of South Carolina Medical School. At 86-years-old, he hopes to continue his volunteerism for as long as he is able.

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Throughout his career, Jervey often drew on the lessons and values he learned while attending The High School. “My math teacher, Mr. Charles Tompkins, gave me one of my favorite mottos that I will never forget,” he said remembering his favorite educator. “‘Always find out where you stand and stand there.’” Tompkins also served as the head of a boys’ camp in western North Carolina that Jervey attended, which only served to strengthen their relationship. A decade later, Jervey worked as the camp doctor during his second year of medical school.

His biggest takeaway from The High School was to follow the Honor Code. “The honor system was one big thing that was stressed at EHS,” he remembered. “I don’t know anybody I associated with who did not honor those instructions.” He hopes current Episcopal students appreciate the lessons of the School and encourages them to take advantage of every unique opportunity. “I didn’t fully understand this when I was a student there, but in retrospect, it was a privilege to attend that School,” he emphasized. “I still carry all of the ideals that I learned there, and I will for the rest of my life.”

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Robert Porter “Bob” Morgan ’52

Ammon Dunton’s ’53 plaque from The Tidewater Foundation and The Holly Ball Committee

Merry Point, Va., on the Northern Neck, near the Chesapeake Bay.” Sam Holt reports: “Still luckily with my partner, now in Boca Grande, Fl., for a couple of months, which means trading the myriad doctors I deal with all the time. (And, looking back, football and rugby in high school or college were not great ideas). Mostly, being thankful that I can still be thankful. And that memories can include EHS. ‘We few, we happy few, we band of brothers…’ Henry V talking of veterans of St. Crispin’s Day is a bit more dramatic than anything we few from ’53 could conjure up, but the spirit is the same. We left The Holy Hill a lifetime ago, given Biblical premises, but episodes and patterns we loved

(or survived) then are no doubt the sort of things that unexpectedly leap into mind at odd times: drifting off to sleep, having an EHS flashback triggered by a dimly echoing event, talking about ‘the good old days’ with someone else about something else. My experience was obviously unique to the class.

As a senior and rat, there was little to relate my experience to. Taking College Boards or being eligible for Egypt while running bells and holding doors was, at best atypical, at worst, a little weird… especially since I had not known about the system when I applied.

But, I grew to feel truly attached to the place and its distinct culture. There is no doubt that EHS completely changed my expectations from those with which I arrived from a public high school in Alabama. It expanded my vision and my sense of possibility. And, it made a group of friends and contacts that have endured — all too often in vivid memory rather than actual interaction — now closing 70 years. I think — despite degrees from three universities — that the one year at EHS was the fulcrum on which my real education was leveled. No single battle on a Saints Day, but nine months of disciplined growth. We few….”

Pete Page reports: “Life has been pretty uneventful so far this wet winter. With a glimmer of spring on the horizon, I have finished pruning the fruit trees and grapevines and look forward to planting a few birds to give my young English Setter some practice. Hope all is well.”

Bailey Patrick Jr. reports: “While I am still going to the office, Rose and I are spending more time in the mountains. Since I last wrote last year, we have been blessed with three more great-grandchildren for a total of seven, all but two of whom have parents who are Old Boys or Girls.”

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Charles Covell

(C) 502-639-2691 covell@louisville.edu A note from Mort Boyd: “We’re having some exciting times in our family. My grandson is thinking of going to boarding school, so among others, he has interviewed at EHS. Of course, I remind him that not only did I, his grandfather, go to EHS, but so did my father, his Great Grandfather! I’m fighting some long odds as his father went to Andover.

Stay tuned.…”

This from Harrison Braxton: “Life in Virginia is good, as usual; but, downside, I am nursing a torn rotator cuff. Ho, hum! Family news is mostly about daughter Grace Anne who was inducted into the Virginia State Golf Association Hall of Fame last October. She also had the honor of hitting the first ball off the first tee at the USGA Inaugural Adaptive Golf Tournament at Pinehurst last July. She plans to compete in the Special Olympic World Games in Berlin in June. EHS news is that my granddaughter Claire applied for admission to EHS in September. I sincerely hope that she will be admitted, but, as you know, it is competitive. 70th reunion coming up next year! Cheers! Harrison” John Burress replied: “I do not have any news, but I spent the night at EHS this month with a friend visiting his very happy ninth-grade granddaughter. Saw a girls’ JV basketball game in the old gym. What a thrill. Got a tour of the new dorms; sure beats West dorm above the kitchen where I was in 1951. Still love the place more each year and am so proud we are all friends. Great health here, and hope the same for you and all of us. Best, John” Oscar Davis replied: “We have moved about a half a mile away from where we used to live. It is not a nursing home or a limited care facility; it is just another place to hang our hat. It is a twelve-story building, and we are on the second. We have food delivered.

This is much more than anyone really wants to know. I do workouts at least three times a week and walk when not working out. I have not played golf for about 15 years (bad back), but I can still quail hunt and fly fish (wading and floating). Thank goodness I am still driving my car and getting around pretty well. My biggest worry these days is losing friends and going to funerals. I am so glad that we seem to be still able to beat Woodberry at football, with half of the students being female. Are we going to try to have our next reunion? It would be a hoot to see how many of us could make it; it would be a very small picture — no need for a wide-angle lens!”

Darrell Jervey wrote: “Just finished an article for the EHS News for Marissa Murdock — very little to add to that now. Thanks for keeping up with all of us. She tells me that we still have 25 alive and well.”

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to strive for a full and bountiful life. I just tell the old man trying to take possession of my life, soul, and spirit to get out; I have no use for him.”

Paul Sackett contributed: “Alison and I have taken possession of a lifetime living unit at the Wake Robin community in Shelburne, Vt. We will divide our time between Vermont and California. Best to all you 1954ers.”

Charlie Tompkins wrote: “Had a great visit with John Burress a couple of months ago who brought me up to date on Fletcher Carter, Morton Boyd, and Robert Wilson whom he had seen recently.”

Correspondent Charlie Covell is happy to hear of your activities and only a few “organ recitals.”

Betty and I now live in The Village in Gainesville, Fla. I am slowly shutting things down at the McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity at the Florida Museum of Natural History, where I have enjoyed working part-time since 2004. I still follow the Louisville Cards and the Tarheels and Hokies!

Thanks for corresponding. Best wishes to you all. Cheers, Charlie

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Sandy Wise

(C) 614-638-5190 hawppmd@gmail.com

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Ken “Buzz” Ringle is still writing in Washington, D.C., shooting skeet and cruising his 40-foot sloop on the Chesapeake Bay. During the past 20 years, he has increasingly been occupied as a bamboo planter at his ancestral home on Avery Island, La. His Class Notes submission was so interesting, we had to turn it into an After Episcopal!

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Barn Szabo ’60 with his wife, son, daughter-in-law, and grandson

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Surry Roberts

surryroberts@adventure777.com

Joint 65th Reunion with 1959: June 2024

Page Dame

(C) 802-624-0071 wpdame3@gmail.com Joint 65th Reunion with 1958: June 2024

Sam Clark says, “Thanks for beating the bushes to gather input from our classmates.

It would appear that many of us have fallen into a pattern of staying close to home and enjoying our retirement years. Diana and I are no exception. Although the Charlottesville area offers many interesting things to do, we are generally content to get a little exercise at the local YMCA most weekday mornings and then take a short walk after lunch. I’ve been on the lookout for other EHS alumni in Charlottesville, but they’re hard to find. Once a month, Jack Cann, Dickie Tayloe ’58, and I manage to meet at the Red Land Club for supper. Also, on a monthly basis, Diana and I see Tom Boyd ’58 and his wife Judy at a dinner for the Charlottesville Committee on Foreign Relations. Unexpectedly, we attended the same Christmas party as Saunders Midyette ’58 at Dickie Tayloe’s home; it was a delight to catch up with Saunders as well.

Stay well, and keep up the good work.”

Page Dame writes, “Here in Sarasota, life in the tropics rolls on seamlessly from one day to the next, and time passes too quickly.

Medical appointments, increased involvement

in our church (St. Boniface on Siesta Key), and restocking trips to Total Wine comprise a weekly merry go ‘round. Beverly and I are both in good health, with normal aches and pains excepted. We often retire early, and HBN (horizontal by nine) is our motto. We plan to return once more to our former home in North Hatley, Quebec, for a month this summer. We so enjoyed doing that during September of last year. That also gives us a chance to visit with cousins in upstate N.Y. Even as a political junkie, I am so disgusted by what’s taking place in Washington D.C., that I can no longer bear to watch MSNBC or CNN. Enough with the Jewish Space Lasers and QAnon nonsense already. When great nations fall, it is generally not from defeat in war but from the rot within. These are dangerous times. A visit with Curious George on PBS early in the morning is a pleasant way to start the day.”

Donald Haddock says, “Not much has changed here. Still hunting, fishing, substitute judging, and living vicariously through the grandchildren. Two grandsons by our older son David Haddock ’87 and one granddaughter by our son Donald Haddock, Jr. ’89. David recently became chief legal officer of his fourth national corporation, most of which have been in the healthcare business. It seems that either good or bad luck follows him throughout the corporate world since most of his former employers have been merged or acquired, creating all kinds of work for him in cashing in his warrants and stock options. Donald has followed

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Kenneth Avery Ringle ’57 Retired author and journalist Ken Ringle ’57 never thought bamboo would become a substantial part of his life. However, his cousin E.A. McIlhenney had different plans. McIlhenny was an explorer, ethnologist, botanist, poet, alligator biologist, and planter of over 60 species of bamboo on Avery Island, La. Due to McIlhenney’s infatuation with plants, he harvested a grove of Moso bamboo on Avery Island over a century ago, which Ringle ultimately inherited from his mother. Moso is a popular timber bamboo native to China and Taiwan that can grow three feet a day and 100 feet tall.

“Shortly after her death, my mother divided her 30-acre homesite among me and my two siblings,” Ringle explained. “My 10 acres held this mess of bamboo, and I honestly wasn’t sure what I was going to do with it.”

Avery Island has been in Ringle’s family for over 150 years, with the bamboo growing unchecked until the late 1990s when the American Bamboo Society (ABS) reached out with a proposition. The society offered to organize and clean up the grove at no charge, as long as they could retain some of the bamboo that they removed. Ringle agreed, and they created the annual Avery Island Grove Cleanup together, which has grown larger and larger with each passing year.

“This huge, tangled grove became absolutely exquisite. It looked like a cathedral,” he said of the extensive work done by the group. “Since 1999, people from all over the world have joined in the cleanup. In February of this year, people from Madagascar, Japan, Maine, and Chicago joined the fray.”

The tradition has evolved into a weekend complete with food, community, and individual stories about how each volunteer fell in love with tending to bamboo. Ringle cited the stories as “remarkable” and even shared some of the narratives that touched him the most. “There was an Army veteran working off post-traumatic stress disorder, a bamboo-curious petroleum geologist, and a Boy Scout leader lobbying for a bamboo merit badge,” he remembered fondly. “There’s even someone who arranges green Moso on the altar of her church for Palm Sunday.”

The volunteers dedicate one weekend annually to care for the grove, but this two-and-a-half-acre bamboo property has weathered plenty of adversity. The passionate horticulturists

have tended to the historic plants through droughts, hurricanes, and sinkholes. For over two decades, ABS members have not only educated Ringle but also the entire Avery Island community on Moso bamboo’s rarity and importance. The new museum and café at the Tabasco factory feature bamboo in the design and the Iberia Parish visitors’ bureau list the ABS grove cleanup as one of its special events.

“The greatest revolution has not just been in bamboo growth, but in those who experience it,” Ringle expressed.

“This work has rekindled bamboo consciousness in jungle gardens and horticultural meccas. I’m not sure how I can ever repay the American Bamboo Society.”

Learn more about Avery Island Moso Weekend at http://www.bamboocentral.net/averyisland.html.

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in his father’s footsteps and is a judge here in Alexandria. He and his wife, and our granddaughter are world travelers and spend a lot of time abroad. My wife Joyce, who many of you will remember from our high school days, is doing well and doing her best to keep me out of trouble.”

Mac Dick writes: “As I write this note, Carolin and I are in Sonoma, Calif., visiting my daughter and her family. We just returned from Tahoe, where the kids went skiing, all four, including their nine-year-old daughter and seven-year-old son. We had fun watching them, but of course, we no longer take to the slopes ourselves. We left a day early because of a threatening snowstorm (three to six feet — it was the prequel for the storm that hit the Midwest and Northeast). It was a tricky 30 mph drive (by my son-in-law) as we descended from 6000 feet to sea level over the course of two hours. Other than that harrowing drive, we had a great time. At home in Ann Arbor, Mich., I have my usual ROMEO (retired old men eating out) events. I also go to the hospital occasionally to visit and bother my younger colleagues. My only constructive activities are serving on the University of Michigan’s Medical School Institutional Review Board for Human Investigation. In that role, we review all protocols that involve human subjects, such as drug studies, device studies, and other human investigations. I find it very interesting and educational. We meet as a committee on Zoom and can manage the review process entirely via the Internet.

I am also active at my church (on the Vestry) and at a local Kiwanis Club. I like Page’s idea for a 50-Year Reunion. Maybe see you then.”

Charley Matheson says: “As you know how much I and we appreciate the great effort you make in keeping ’59 a fraternal unit and all on the happy side of having carried the brass candle together. My sons Charley ’81, Murdoch ’92, and Robert ’91 all finished Episcopal and were prepared well at The High School. You know, they all seem happy about that. Charley’s two girls finished with honors, and his stepdaughter did as well.

Murdoch’s ’92 son, Bear ’20, graduated with distinction and was a running back as well.

All those went on to UVA, like grandpa. It is like I have never left since when I qualified, I was involved with much of the new building boom as an architect early on. EHS seems like a continuum in a way, and as I have also spent much time in Orange, Va., so does 58

Woodberry. My grandson Charley Hilliard went there. My daughter Helen is married to David, who is Landon Hilliard’s ’58 son.

Close quarters eh? Life in Charlottesville is only 90 miles away. I could follow through with a biography based on coincidence.

Happy journey, all.”

After an extended period of no contact owing to a lack of good coordinates, I caught up with Nick Slater and we had a wide-ranging catch-up telephone conversation. Still a country squire in Upperville, Va., he and his wife, Bucky, also have a place in Duck, N.C., where they spend time whenever they can. He is recovering from a recent fall but is in fine spirits and sends best wishes to all.

John Thompson continues as Treasurer of the Baltimore Seafarers Center. Married to my cousin, Ashby deButts, we talk frequently and plan to get together during a spring trip north.

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Bill Drennen

(C) 304-283-5011 wmdrennen1@me.com Joint 65th Reunion with 1961: June 2026

Not much to report. No mail coming my way and still horizontally inclined following knee replacement surgery on January 18, 2023, in Novato, Calif., thanks to good nursing of fiancé Bella Quinn Robbins. I am awaiting the rush of post-pandemic mail about all the successful adventures you 80 year olds who are having this 53rd anniversary of our graduation. I hope your silence bodes good tidings, but I would rather see it in typed form on my computer or in my mailbox than in the silence that surrounds us all to a certain extent. A postcard mailed to 284 Montego Key, Novato, CA 94949 would do me worlds of good, and remind the rest of the class that there are some of us still alive and well and interesting.

Barna Szabo writes, “Our lives were abruptly and seriously disrupted by the Covid Pandemic for the past several years. Trips like the ones you took with Beverly appear in the past like romantic fairy tales. We were also planning a trip to Europe in 2020 to celebrate our 50th wedding anniversary and the opening of an exhibit at the Hungarian Actors Museum in Budapest honoring my late father, Sandor Szabo, who was declared a National Treasure by the Hungarian Parliament and received the highest civilian honor, the Kossuth Dij. It was also going to be an occasion to take along our two sons,

their spouses, and our 2 grandchildren. As you can guess, those plans went out the window with the Covid restrictions. Luckily, we did have a chance to take a riverboat trip from Amsterdam to Budapest in June 2018 — our last overseas sojourn.

Since then, my younger son moved his family to Ubud, in Bali, Indonesia, (he was offered a great job to be General Manager of a stunningly beautiful international Yoga Center), and my wife and I moved out of Calif., in October 2021 to north of Milwaukee to be near our other son, his wife and our six-year-old grandson. My son teaches Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin satellite campuses. Our beautiful home is on a bluff overlooking Lake Michigan. We love the location, the weather, the people, and the calmness compared to California, with all its fires, summer smoke, power outages, floods, water shortage, road rage, and other social, political, and natural maladies.

Our hope is to plan a couple of future trips from here to either Europe or Bali while we are still strong enough to carry our luggage.

Being over 81 years old sobers the mind about plans and trips away from local medical centers. I had stage three sarcoma cancer surgery on March 18, 2020, at UC Davis — the very day all hospitals were shut down to visitors, and only serious surgeries were conducted.

My wife was not allowed into the hospital during my entire stay there — 6 days. I am now three years free from the damned cancer and hope to stay that way. That and having a heart mitral valve replacement in 2013 makes you more focused where the hospitals are, just in case.

It is mind-boggling that we are in our eighties, yet so many of our memories from The High School are still quite fresh in our minds. Let’s hope we can share those and new memories for some years to come.”

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Elliott Randolph

410-804-1792 elliott.randolph@comcast.net

Tim Dudley

(C) 202-316-0586 duds2tu@live.com Joint 65th Reunion with 1960: June 2026

Vinny Giles says, “The Class of ’61 has the proud distinction of being the least responsive.

Congratulations to us!! On 1/19/23, Key and I attended an EHS reception at the Everglades

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Bob Steptoe writes, “Practicing law parttime, and spending the rest of my time traveling, loafing at Isle of Palms, bird hunting, and skiing. Also, we have 19 grandchildren spread around in Colorado, Alabama, North Carolina, Ohio, and West Virginia, and it’s quite a treat watching them grow up.”

Board of Chesapeake Bay Outward Bound.

One of the great pleasures there was taking the EHS students on their “Burch Outdoor Program for 9th graders” week of outdoor adventure. Lucius Burch ’59 was a senior when I was a rat. He has done so much for so many students!”

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Al Berkeley

(C) 443-310-0588 AlfredBerkeley@gmail.com

Joint 65th Reunion with 1963: June 2028

Mason Sexton’s ’65 newest grandson, Ryan, with his dad

Club hosted by John Townsend ’73, who headed the Episcopal Board a few years back.

A very nice affair with over 100 guests. Not sure anyone from our class was there, but we had nice visits with Landon Hilliard ’58 and Harry Burn ’62, among others, and it was great to catch up with Bailey Patrick ’79, another Board head and a great guy. Still stay in touch with Ned Martin, but not often enough. Play gin rummy with Chas Davidson ’64 in Richmond and hear from others on rare occasions. Take me off the ‘failure to respond’ list. Hope you get one or two more recluses! My best, Vinny.”

Tenney Mason says, “Still above ground and rolling with the punches. Presently on a Viking cruise to the Amazon with my forever girlfriend, Debra Devoe, who taught both of my daughters in the third grade at Glenelg Country School. Don’t ask me what ports we’ve visited. Working on developing a surefire system to provide instant recall of the day of the week and where I left my phone 30 seconds ago. A retired photojournalist and editor, I am keeping busy maintaining an Instagram account with three or four posts a week. Check it out: @tenneymason. I also go swing dancing once a week. That’s all, folks.”

Reynolds McClatchey writes, “My wife, Martha, says I have ruined our social life by taking up flute playing and other music evenings. Monday is Atlanta Musicians’ Orchestra, Wednesday is tenor at St. Agnes Choir, Thursday is a trio sonata group at our home, and Sunday is Atlanta Concert. You may remember that I was the only flutist at EHS in our time, but I got to go to D.C., once a week for lessons.”

Randy Williams writes, “Even though I have neither bad news nor great news to report, I do enjoy reading whatever others have to say. In that spirit, I will report I expect to visit Heyward Coleman next month in Charleston, and he also visited us on Martha’s Vineyard last summer. I continue to enjoy tennis and so-called retirement. I also recommend a book by the son of one of our favored professors, Ty Seidule, who wrote a compelling book called ‘Robert E. Lee and Me.’” Rob Wright writes, “Unfortunately, not much stuff except medical (good steps there for me) and a granddaughter back from Jr. Year Abroad in Italy and headed to Sewanee for college!”

Frank Martin writes, “As I get into the back nine, I realize how important old friends are. Last winter, I found and visited a friend in Boston with whom I served in the Navy in the 60s. Last summer, I visited Heyward Coleman, my EHS running mate, in Charleston. Next week, my wife and I are going to see friends from college and early post-college who now live in Florida — John’s Island, Lost Tree, and Palm Beach.

These reunions are special times that I want to enjoy before I play the closing holes!”

Your correspondent reports: “I went to Davos, Switzerland, in January. ‘Social distancing’ means six inches there, and face masks are a sign of Darwinian weakness. I got Covid symptoms on the plane home. I was there to attend a United Nations affiliate’s meeting on the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.

Noble goals with many practical challenges.

Worth working on. Pre-covid, I had flown to the United Arab Emirates and encouraged some leaders there to establish a fund to invest in the Sustainable Development Goals. They have recently announced a seventeen billion dollar fund that should help with some of the less popular goals. I am just rolling off the

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Charles Young III says, “Fifty-nine years after my EHS graduation, I have finally made grandfather status!”

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Alex Jones

(C) 617-549-8203 alexsjones2@gmail.com

Joint 60th Reunion with 1963: June 2024

As we know very well by now, being in the Class of ’64 is not for sissies, and we have lost friends and are worried about others. A piece of good news is that Hugh Wachter, who was thought to be at the door to the next world, has recovered significantly. Would that happen more often? But we lost Robert “Dee” Percy in the past year, and that has hit some of us extra hard. At EHS — and through college — he looked about 13, was self-effacing, and impossible not to like. He was one of the Greenville, Miss., Percys — a famous group that included Walker Percy, a winner of the National Book Award, as well as other celebrated folks.

At EHS, Robert’s most surprising gift was being a player of piano and organ in a rockand-roll band. I recall one performance of the group in Blackford Hall when Eric Mantz, who I think played electric bass, turned his back to the audience during “Shake a Tail Feather” and proceeded to do just that with gusto. Robert went to UNC and roomed near Tigger Alexander, Jimmy Black, and Mayo Gravatt. They all went through rush together, but Robert’s shyness led him to think that he was not going to get a bid. The others had decided to join Zeta Psi, at the time considered one of the wildest frats, and Robert thought they would never want him.

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But they did. It required Tigger, Jimmy, and Mayo to practically frog-march him to the fraternity house to accept his bid, but thereafter, at fraternity parties with live bands, it became a ritual for Robert to be summoned to the stage play at the break. His favorite was Ray Charles’ “What’d I Say?” He decided at UNC to become a doctor and eventually practiced for decades as a cardiologist in Jacksonville, Fla. He was much beloved, but he never married. And to his family and oldest friends, he was always “Dee.” He was also one of the most elusive EHS Old Boys, and despite David Dougherty’s most heroic efforts, he would not show up at reunions even after promising to do so. When he got sick, he asked that no one come see him in the hospital. But Bob May, who loved him dearly, got the word out that he would like to get funny cards or emails with music.

Tigger learned that his favorite was a YouTube rendering of a concert that started with Ray Charles, who was then joined by Jerry Lee Lewis, who was then joined by Fats Domino.

Watching that could bring a smile.

We shall miss you, Dee. And I would be remiss not to mention that Tigger’s wife Poo is going through a very tough time with Parkinson’s. At one of our reunions, she was able — by pure force of will and personality — to get all the assembled and well-oiled members present at a party at Jim Lewis’s house to pose for a photograph. Only Poo could have done that. And it’s Poo, not Pooh, as in Winnie. She got that name from her kindergarten classmates who couldn’t say Anne Harper, and so started calling her Harpoo and shortened that to Poo. Tigger got his moniker at birth from his mother, who declared upon seeing him, “Well Tigger, you’re here at last,” Tigger said of Poo in her struggle. “It’s an honor to help her.”

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Richard Lee

(C) 617-512-2034 dlee60@verizon.net

Joint 60th Reunion with 1966: June 2026

As we assume the mantle of Geezerdom (but the summer of our Geezer years! ), Humphrey Tyler sends us intriguing news — to wit: that the all-women flyover at the Super Bowl this year included an EHS grad, Navy Lt. Suzelle Thomas ’14. This strikes us as quite something.

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Sharon Martin and Kay Dougherty (David Dougherty’s ’64 wife) (L to R)

Rob Whittle ’69, David Clarke ’70, and Marty Martin ’69 after The Game (L to R)

F-35c, but then there are those pesky G-forces with which one must contend — this requires tip-top physical condition.

Something to consider: As we approach our 60th reunion, those of similar status in 1965 reveled in the events at Kitty Hawk.

Then there were Amelia Earhart’s flying feats up to her disappearance in 1937. We have now lived long enough to see the likes of Lt. Thomas and her colleagues at the controls of the most demanding aircraft in the world.

Our hats go off to them — as to all pilots of such — for their remarkable discipline and skill…all quite dazzling.

Here on the ground, the season of the grandchild continues. Jamie Totten and his wife, Jodie, have given up long-term residency in the Nashville area to be closer to grandchildren in Birmingham, Ala. Jamie has become a “soccer grandad,” noting that the local JV team he follows would probably run circles around the varsity teams of our day. We don’t doubt it, as most of us, along with the competition, were rather neophytes to the sport.

Sandy von Stackelberg and Nancy are delighted to announce a second grandchild this past April. They are now splitting their time between Duxbury, Mass., and Vero Beach, Fla. Sailing remains a central feature

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Jack Sibley

(C) 404-290-6427 jack@sibleyfarm.net

Phil Terrie

(C) 810-300-5311 pterrie@bgsu.edu Howell Hollis

Howell.hollis@outlook.com Joint 60th Reunion with 1965: June 2026

L to R: Elya and Michael ’04 Webb, Kristin and T. Lad ’69 Webb, Xandria Webb (widow of Ladson Webb III ’97), Katherine Webb Easterling ’95, and Dr. Bruce Easterling celebrating Kristin and T. Lad Webb’s 50th wedding anniversary.

Billy Peelle reports, “I retired in July as a partner at Bradley, Foster and Sargent, a wealth management firm, and headed off to East Greenland in August with Natural Habitat. There are very small Inuit villages scattered along the coast but no commercial harbors. Seeing icebergs coming off the glaciers is the reason we made the journey.” Back in the states, Billy is president of the Museum Trustee Association, a national organization promoting governance for trustees.

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Charles D. Coppage

(C) 252-202-1323 charles@nccoppagelaw.com

Joint 60th Reunion with 1968: June 2028

Page Smith ’69 and Marty Martin ’69 (L to R)

Page Smith ’69 and Sharon Martin recounting the wedding. (L to R)

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George Walker Moore

(C) 864-941-0666 moorew327@aol.com

Joint 55th Reunion with 1969: June 2024

Lyles Carr was quoted extensively in a recent Politico magazine article, “Biden Appointees Are Looking for New Jobs — And the Market is Hot.” The article’s author recognized Lyles as “one of government draft season’s best-regarded Jerry Maguires — a 47-year veteran of the Washington cottage industry of connecting private-sector businesses with the folks who’ve been drawing paychecks from Uncle Sam.”

L to R: Mark Gardner ’71, Jim Seidule, and Vic Grainger ’70 enjoying the Mega Reunion!

of their lives. In June, Sandy plans to skipper a party of eight on a catamaran from Sicily to the Aeolian Islands.

And Mason Sexton hopes to escape the tax authorities in N.Y. as he and Jane also spend more time in Florida. Their three boys are all now in South Beach, living within twenty minutes of each other. Talk radio

host Buck was recently married. And they are delighted to announce the arrival of a new grandson, Ryan, pictured with Mason’s son, Keats. A happy boy! Like sharks, we all gotta keep movin’…the best antidote to Geezerdom.

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Marty Martin

(C) 919-272-2106 marty_martin@martinlegalhelp.com Kinloch Nelson

(C) 585-733-3132 kinloch@rochester.rr.com Joint 55th Reunion with 1968: June 2024

Sharon and Marty Martin returned to the Hill for the first time since their August 2020 wedding to attend the Woodberry game.

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cocktail hour and dinner and, as always, the great dance band immediately thereafter. They toured the new medical facility and dorms.

The dorms will be equipped with kitchens that will replace the illegal heating coils and cooktops as means to learn how to cook. Dibs on a new dorm room for reunion weekend and thereafter. Finally, what can one say! Watching EHS beat WFS 24-8 on a perfect Saturday afternoon topped off the weekend! While on the Hill, they visited with Page Smith, Rob Whittle, Carter Land, Howard Hudgins, as well as Jenner Wood ’70, David Clarke ’70, and Kay and David Dougherty ’64, among many others.

Sandy Schenck received this year’s award for the most rapid and innovative reply to this correspondent’s request for Class Note updates. His email auto-reply responded within seconds to the request. Sandy reports: “Retirement is great, and so is fly fishing. I’m on a mission in the Caribbean for a couple of weeks to study aquatic theology.” We look forward to his photo update!

On January 20, Kristin and T. Lad Webb enjoyed their 50th wedding anniversary. They celebrated during a December family gathering at the Palmetto Club in Columbia, S.C. Rob Whittle ’69 reports he spent thirty days in March/April at Anna Maria Island off the west coast of Florida. Lots of golf and pickleball. He will also serve as the boys’ assistant golf coach at EHS.

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Geoffrey Snodgrass ’71 on a ski trip in Utah.

Chip Compton ’73 and Lewis Fitts ’71 in Savannah, Ga.

Lewis Fitts ’71 with Tebbs Prewitt’s daughter in Raleigh, N.C.

James Newman

(C) 253-677-4697 Newman_jim@comcast.net

Joint 55th Reunion with 1971: June 2026

Craig Stewart and John Coupland’s paths have crossed again! Kris and Johnny’s granddaughter is a student, and their daughter-in-law is a teacher at the Porter-Gaud School in Charleston, S.C. Craig is currently development director at Porter-Gaud.

Recently they’ve all had enjoyable visits with one another.

I recently had a very enjoyable conversation with Vic Grainger. I knew that Vic had been the manager of the EHS football team, but Vic updated me on his experience as manager of the UNC football team. He spoke fondly of the 1972 season when the Tar Heels, under Coach Bill Dooley, finished 11-1!

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Lewis Fitts ’71 with Tebbs Prewitt’s ’70 grandchildren in Louisville, Ky.

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Geoffrey Snodgrass

(C) 504-914-4470 geoff@snodgrassplc.com

Joint 55th Reunion with 1970: June 2026

I just returned from a family ski trip to Utah.

The conditions were the best I’ve ever seen.

The locals said it was the most snow in 40 years. For some reason, it hurts a lot more when I fall compared to 40 years ago, and getting back up isn’t so easy either.

Lewis Fitts says, “Last year, we kicked off the Waiters Guild at the reunion. It was fun listening to memories and comparing notes

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Aaron Efird ’72

Bobby Preston’s ’72 son, Lt. Robbie Preston IV

Darr Hall ’72

Regi Burns ’72

on the number of dishes broken, demerits, etc. I sent out jackets to Joel Stoudenmire, Downing Mears, and Sam Moncure ’70, then dropped off those for Wade Massie ’70, Gilbert Butler, Sandy Stuart ’69, and David Luther ’70 on the way up or going back home. We are working on the Class of ’73 and then ’69 afterward.

“Carrie and I went to the reception for EHS alumni hosted by John Townsend ’73 in Palm Beach, Fla. Signed up John Beach, Jr. ’73, Harry Burn III ’62, Vinny Giles III ’61, John Hooff ’67, Page Dame III ’59, Tom Long ’77 and Bill Hughes ’79 for waiters jackets. Great reception and wonderful seeing everyone. John and Charley Stillwell made great presentations on the future of The High School.

“Left Tuscaloosa on February 7 to make what I call the ‘loop.’ My first stop was Savannah, where I had breakfast the next morning with Chip Compton ’73 (tough scraping wrestler and good waiter), sized him for his jacket. Then it was off to the Central of Georgia railroad museum and a roundhouse that my great, great grandfather, William Wadley, developed after the Civil War. Got a behind-the-scenes tour with the engineers who keep it all running.

“Great weekend in D.C., with wife, Carrie, son Ford ’23, and his girlfriend, Ali. Great restaurants and museums, saw old friends, and visited the School to review yearbooks for future waiter’s jackets. Ford graduates this year and is bound for SMU to pursue a future in business. He has had a great experience at

EHS; it’s been a good fit. He has grown up as a very mature young man; his father is very proud, to say the least.

“Then off to Versailles, Ky., to see the Turnbulls. Richard Turnbull married Allison, Tebbs Prewitt’s ’70 widow. He did a great job raising the girls, as well as Hannah and Ben, the twins they had together. Had supper with the Turnbulls and Graddy Prewitt’s ’74 family, Jackie (wife) and Martha (daughter).

They are running the farm and doing well. We lost Graddy back in 2020; good memories of working on the farm with him and Tebbs.

“Had lunch with old friends Richard Turnbull, Louis Prichard ’72, Tim Hicks, and Ramsey Bell; it was great catching up, sharing memories, and playing ‘who you know.’ Richard has two great restaurants in Lexington: Scott’s and Eppings.

“Moved on to Louisville to spend Valentine’s Day with Brian and Sara Prewitt Strukan (Tebbs’ daughter) and their two boys, Camden and Lachland. Brian is in the Air Force and Sara is in Healthcare. Camden loves and knows every creature from the sea, and Lachland (2) runs, eats, and smiles.

“Ended the trip in the Nashville area to have supper with Hannah Turnbull (Richard and Allison) and Dayton Hale III. Dayton lost his father (childhood friend) last year.

Caught up and shared good memories and job descriptions. Then homeward bound.

“I continue to work on the Waiters Guild and look forward to the meeting at the next reunion.”

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Beau Wilson

(C) 828-390-9802 beauatciti@aol.com

Joint 55th Reunion with 1973: June 2028

This spring, I have gathered EHS Notes from the partners and wives of our deceased classmates: Regi Burns, Bobby Preston III, Darr Hall, and Aaron Efird. Each of our classmates enriched our lives at EHS! According to Mike Hoban, Regi’s partner in San Francisco: “Regi had mixed emotions about EHS, but his time there changed him radically. He arrived as a child who had been protected all his life by a strong mother and grandmother and was not wise in the ways of the world. It was a time when Martin Luther King Jr., had just been killed on April 8, 1968.

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knew of ‘white people’ but did not know any!

EHS was, to say the least, a culture shock. He left EHS as a strong and accomplished young man. Regi was academically gifted and was always on the top of The High List. His senior year was voted the Senior Monitor and the Head of the Honor Committee. Regi received a full Morehead scholarship to UNC and was later accepted to Stanford Law. “EHS was a major influence on Regi. That first day he was determined to be the best student and student-athlete in the School. And he was. EHS taught him that he could reach higher than he ever thought he could. He learned how to construct an argument, write cogently, and developed a lifelong interest in Democratic politics. He was always at the top of the field in tennis, track, and academics.

“One of his favorite anecdotes centered around one student assembly. In the early ’70s, the style was long hair. It was forever in one’s eyes and windblown. Boys with long hair would often shake their hair into place and then brush the bangs back. Regi had an afro and used an afro pick! When his day to speak came, he stood at the lectern, looked out at the audience, flipped his head, and brushed as if he had bangs. Most of the students had no idea what he was doing, but the few that did passed it on to the rest, and the auditorium erupted.

“There was a second African-American student that entered EHS at the same time as Regi; his name was Sam Paschall, Jr. Students were always asking Regi, ‘Where’s Sam?’ Regi would stop, put his hand above his head, and say, ‘Let me check my radar.’

He’d do at least one spin around and say he could not find Sam. “Regi had mixed emotions about his time at EHS, but I think he appreciated it more than he would ever admit. EHS left him with a lifelong love of learning. Regi went on to the University of North Carolina and majored in Political Science. Following UNC, actually the Monday after graduation weekend, he moved to California He was accepted to go to Stanford Law, but when he saw the amount of money he would have to borrow, he decided to work at the bank at which he was applying for the loan.

“Fast forward a couple of years, and he noticed all the folks coming into the bank to deposit paychecks from United Airlines, then with the west coast hub at SFO. He went to work for United Airlines as a Reservations 64

The Class of 1976 celebrating Mega Reunion 2022.

New Chief Justice of the Commonwealth Laurance B. VanMeter ’76 (right) is ceremonially sworn in by his predecessor, Chief Justice John D. Minton Jr. (ret.), at his formal investiture ceremony Jan. 9 in the historic Supreme Court Courtroom. Chief Justice VanMeter’s wife, Fayette Circuit Judge Lucy A. VanMeter, held three family Bibles for him as he took the oath of office. (Photo by Brian Bohannon)

Four generations of the deButts family! L to R: Boota deButts III ’76, William deButts Jr. ’47, Hunter deButts IV ’10 holding William “Bo” Henry deButts V.

Supervisor. Regi was a great cook. In 1984 Regi and his then partner, Richard, decided to pool their money and move to New Orleans to open a catering business during the New Orleans World’s Fair. The Fair was a bust, but Regi and Richard toiled on for a year. Regi would say that he tried to serve pasta to people who wanted shrimp and grits. He did learn to cook Creole and Cajun food. The two came back to San Francisco and United Airlines.

Regi continued to develop as a chef, adding Thai food to his repertoire.” Tragically, Regi died from stomach cancer on January 7, 2016.

Sarah Preston, Bobby’s wife, asked her son, Robbie IV, to share his USMC, 2Lt., photo. Vince Dobbs, Bobby’s best friend at EHS and Tulane, including Tulane ruby,

‘mentored’ Robbie in selecting the USMC over the Navy, where Vincent, USN (ret.), served our Nation in the Pacific. Bobby was an investment advisor in San Francisco and N.Y., and a member of the prestigious Bohemian Club in San Francisco. Bobby died of early-onset of Alzheimer’s on November 22, 2018, during Thanksgiving, Bobby’s favorite Holiday.

Pat Hall, Darr’s wife, wrote how she missed that “rascal.” Darr was “one of a kind!”

“One of the highlights of his life was time spent with his friends at Episcopal, especially Thomas Vincent Dobbs, Jr.. They spoke every day, sometimes three times a day! Darr was proud to have attended EHS and made life-long friends there.” Special memories that

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fall. Hunt Burke is still serving as Chairman of the Burke and Herbert Bank Board, where he was formerly CEO.

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Boota deButts

(C) 703-774-5717 whd@episcopalhighschool.org Joint 50th Reunion with 1975: June 2026

Dear Legendary Class of 1976 Members, I apologize, but I was late submitting my Class Notes for the Fall magazine, so they are included below.

FALL 2022:

Cheshire Rhett ’71, Tommy Rhett ’77, and David Mikell ’77

Pat has of Darr’s time at EHS were attending special functions and get-togethers with him. “His light shone brightly while with you guys.” Darr died from Hodgkin’s Lymphoma on July 21, 2021.

Len Efird, Aaron’s wife, wrote that Aaron’s best friend from EHS was Nick Conner, and they remained lifelong friends at William and Mary University and beyond. Unlike most 14-year-old “rats” at EHS, Aaron arrived on The Holy Hill with a beard, muscular, and was able to throw the shot put 40 feet! Aaron was always a horse! From my perspective, Aaron told me he didn’t want to go to a prep school, but in the long run, he realized it had been the best thing for him at that time in his life.

He said he learned how to study, found his focus on the wrestling mat, and met great friends. He had “community” at EHS. He especially enjoyed his senior year when he did the study project. He chose to see what public school was like by attending T.C. Williams High School and said it was a rude awakening! He had just retired to Georgetown, S.C., and loved fishing for marlin in the Atlantic. Aaron died of pancreatic cancer on April 3, 2022.

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Joint 50th Reunion with 1974: June 2024

Cary Brown’s ’78 daughter, Lauren Brown, on signing day. She will play lacrosse at Vanderbilt University this fall.

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Joint 50th Reunion with 1973: June 2024

William Stokes, Jr., says: “Our son Will Stokes III ’10 got married in Sister Bay, Wis., in October 2022. I will retire from Morgan Stanley on January 31, 2023.”

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Stuart Grainger

(C) 910-352-7474 Stuart grainger@msn.com Joint 50th Reunion with 1976: June 2026

I officially retired on January 1 after 40+ years with the textile giant Milliken and Company, headquartered in Spartanburg, S.C. Anne Jennette Grainger requested I take a longawaited 10-day solo trip to London in late February where I visited the legendary sights and museums. I also made it to the west end theater district to see “Hamilton” and “To Kill a Mockingbird.” I also attended the Tottenham vs. Chelsea football match at the new Hotspur Stadium. George Maxwell and Jim Hardison recently got together for a UNC basketball weekend in Chapel Hill.

George is still the Vicar at the Cathedral of St. Philip in Atlanta. Jim is still with Stephens, Inc., in Winston-Salem. He and his wife, Kathy Kolb, just became grandparents of a baby boy James Glenn. Their son Jimbo Hardison ’09 will be getting married in the

Greetings, fellow members of the Legendary Class of 1976. I hope this finds you all safe and healthy. I write these notes as school is about to open. Student-athletes have returned for early season practices. I’m an early riser and walk around campus and am disappointed to say that there are no 6 a.m. practices with the music blaring in the basement of Centennial and “socks and jocks” being handed out. Oh, the good old days!

Well, we had a good turnout at our delayed 45th Reunion, but we could have had a lot more of you guys there. It was great to catch up with Georg Schaefer. He has officially retired from BMW and is doing volunteer work locally. He and his wife Vera were hosting a displaced Ukrainian family.

His daughter, Theresa ’12, was back for her 10th, so it was fun to catch up with her as well.

Harry MacDougald was in good form. He has become a fitness beast and was seen out in Hummel Bowl running sprints! I recall him mentioning something about triathlons or marathons. Not sure which, but either sounds painful. Tench Coxe was there. Another fitness beast. He spends a lot of time on his bike and has the scars to prove it! Speaking of fitness beasts, Alex Liu joined us and regaled us with his Marauder Football stories. While many of you are familiar with the old hide the football under your jersey trick, well, Alex’s Marauder team had the old hide Alex behind the center trick! No one saw him. They were unstoppable. Cameron Clement made an appearance. It was great catching up with him.

I can’t remember what I had for lunch these days, but I believe he is still selling real estate in Bluefield, W.Va. Robert Cunningham was there all the way from White Post, Va., and is still practicing law. Al Rhyne was getting prepared for his son’s wedding, which my wife Shelley and I had the opportunity to attend in EHS THE MAGAZINE OF EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL

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Linville, N.C., and it was a wonderful occasion. For me, one of the highlights of the wedding was running into 12 members of the Class of 2006 on the practice range who all came up to me saying “hello Mr. deButts.” I kept looking around for my Dad; who is Mr. deButts? I’m Boota. We turn into our parents very quickly! While in Linville, I had a great visit with Howard Smith. Howard promises me he is close to retiring, but I’ll believe it when I see it. He looked healthy and rested.

I’m not sure how many of our classmates still have a child in high school, but Page and Howard do, so good for them!

SPRING 2023:

Now onto some more recent news. If you haven’t heard, Larry VanMeter is now the Chief Justice of the Kentucky Supreme Court.

Now that is a huge thing, and Larry should be congratulated for this achievement. So much for that, and on to the more important analysis of what this actually means to the state of Kentucky and democracy as a whole! From the man whose campaign slogan was “Vote Early and Vote Often!” I wonder what the world has come to. Just when you thought it was safe to start drinking Kentucky bourbon again, something like this happens, and you realize that you should’ve started drinking a long time ago! Oh well, we should be very proud of our classmate and his Chief Justiceship! Well done Larry!

I heard from Frank Greenbaum. He writes that he thinks he was on campus with his nephew six years ago but is unsure. I think he is suffering from the fog of Covid like most of us and claims he has lost track of time. He sounds like he is doing well. He has hung up his lacrosse sticks, too many knee operations.

His coaching days of his daughters’ lacrosse and soccer teams are over as well. According to Frank, “I am down to an occasional weekend of bridge (started learning this at EHS summer school in Adirondacks, California 1975?) and playing pool with retirees at my mom’s community. This is the only ‘sport’ Noby Powell ’77 could never beat me at.”

No surprise that when I ask for news from our classmates that Edward Morrison responds with his usual heartfelt reminisces.

How a song on the radio can turn back the clock, and he remembers staying up to 3 a.m. listening to BB King and Bobbie Bland with classmates Harry McDougald and the late Bo Braselton Jr. He promises he will make the next reunion and “will always be thankful 66

Bailey Patrick ’79 hosted Don Williams ’80, Rob Wilson ’80, and Bill Baker ’77 for golf at Yeamans Hall Club in Charleston, S.C., in February.

John Pace ’77, Tony Shaver, Don Williams ’80, and Gus Barber ’78

for the profound influences we all had at EHS and the enduring lessons they taught us all.”

Well said. And, of course, Alex Liu chimed in and remembered catching the Amtrak train southbound with Edward Morrison, Robert Clement ’75, Thomas Clement ’77, and Tommy Rhett ’77. What he called the Derelict Express! I guess Charleston didn’t have an airport yet!

Lee MacIlwinen provided me with a great update: “Living in Chapin, S.C., now with my wife of 20 years and our two teenage boys.

Anyone else out there with kids younger than 13? Trying to keep up with them is tough, so I’m still running and cycling a good bit. I’m not in the same league as Alex, as I understand he’s still playing rugby!? How does he do it!? My oldest son lives in Charlotte and

Gus Barber ’78, Tony Shaver, Courtney Banghart, Don Williams ’80, and John Pace ’77

my daughter and son-in-law and their three girls live in Columbia so we’re settled in here.

“For work: After spending 20+ years flying all over the world for software startups it’s fun to be on the other side as an active investor. As an investment manager for a small fund called SC Launch, Inc., I get a chance to coach a lot of tech founders and hopefully see a few get a nice exit! We’re not Silicon Valley, but then the quality and cost of living here are pretty good.”

Well, since I write the Class Notes, I need to toot my own horn. William Hunter deButts V was born June 8. Picture of four generations of William Hunter deButts is included. He goes by Bo. Yes, the name Boota (I’m actually Boota two, named after my grandfather EHS Class of 1920) has thankfully been put out to pasture. Bo must be the most photographed

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Joint 50th Reunion with 1978: June 2028

Elis Olsson ’82 at his family farm in West Point, Va.

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James Clardy

(C) 704-609-5570 jim.clardy@wellsfargo.com

Joint 45th Reunion with 1979: June 2024

Dr. Will Thomas ’82 delivering a lecture at UVA in October 2022.

BBQ in Michigan: Woody Stover P’04 ’08, Upton Stover ’08, Hugh Morgan ’83, Mac Dick ’59, and Kent Alley P’22 (not pictured) enjoyed a delicious BBQ meal with all the fixin’s at Satchel’s BBQ, Hugh’s Ann Arbor restaurant, which he has run for 13 years.

and videotaped baby in the history of mankind. Bo’s parents, Hunter ’10 and Molly deButts, live in Norfolk, Va., where Hunter is in the Navy and Molly is a PA. My wife Shelley and I continue to live and work here at Episcopal. I enjoy my time interacting with the students who have no idea what I do and

just assume that my job is to walk around and harass them! What a great gig!

Well, that is the latest update. I am serious about my offer to come visit. My door is always open. Stay safe and be healthy and continue to be Legendary.

Gus Barber joined Don Williams ’80, John Pace ’77, and Bill Baker ’77 for a round of golf at the Country Club of North Carolina with former EHS basketball coach Tony Shaver in January. Gus said, “It was great to catch up with our Hall of Fame coach! We went to the UNC vs. Notre Dame game the following day.”

I also received an update on retiree Cary Brown including some very exciting news about his daughter: “I retired from Federal Service in March 2021. I worked in Intelligence for the United States Special Operations Command at MacDill AFB here in Tampa and held several positions and roles in my nearly 16 years there. While at USSOCOM I also traveled extensively, including deploying to Afghanistan as an augmentee to Joint Special Operations Command. That was my second retirement from the U.S. Government, following a 20-year career in the U.S. Air Force and another two years as a military contractor. In these past two years, I’ve spent considerable time at our family farm in Virginia’s northern neck, overseeing renovation and repair work on the 190-year-old farmhouse and keeping nature from reclaiming numerous outbuildings. We plan to remain Tampa residents and hope to spend considerable time at the farm in the coming decades.

“I’m also proud to share with you that my youngest child, Lauren, has committed to play Division I lacrosse at Vanderbilt University, matriculating this fall. She is a left-handed attack/midfielder with good field vision.

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a team from Florida! She is academically at the top of her class and will graduate in May from the Academy of the Holy Names here in Tampa. My wife and I are crazy proud of her accomplishments and all the dedicated intensity and work she has put in over the years.”

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Bill Hughes

(C) 203-252-1153 william.hughes@pb.com

Bernard Totty

(C) 859-361-1568 seward.totty@gmail.com

Joint 45th Reunion with 1980: June 2026

Arthur Smith

(C) 205-222-3054 wilchester@msn.com

Joint 45th Reunion with 1978: June 2024

Joint 45th Reunion with 1983: June 2028

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Staige Hoffman

(C) 813-597-5059 staigehoffman1@aol.com

Frank Vasquez

(C) 804-873-2212 rfvasquez1965@gmail.com

Joint 45th Reunion with 1981: June 2026

Joint 40th Reunion with 1984: June 2024

Don Williams hosted a small golf outing followed by attending the UNC vs. Notre Dame basketball game in Chapel Hill on January 7. Among the participants were John Pace ’77, Gus Barber ’78, and former EHS Basketball coach Tony Shaver. Shaver retired in 2019 after an impressive career coaching at Hampden-Sydney (17 years) and William and Mary (16 years). The group gathered with UNC Women’s Basketball Coach Courtney Banghart, who coached at EHS (2000-2003), at the pre-game in the Dean Dome. While Gus has gone from curls to the partial cueball look and Don to thin and gray, Tony Holt still looks like he is telling Duncan MacLeod to keep hitting that floater in the lane. Pace has also retained that youthful look! Don recently returned from a trip to the French Atlantic coast, north of Biarritz.

Greg Green was recently in Sayulita, Mexico, still chasing that perfect wave. Greg had a blast at the Woodberry game and looks forward to invading that orange territory in the fall.

David Osborn is happily semi-retired in Atlanta. After two careers, first, in corporate finance and second in mortgage/real estate investment, Dave has had the good fortune to be able to travel extensively for work (initially) and the past 20+ years for fun, including multiple times to many Latin American and European destinations. Dave recently attended the EHS get-together last year at the Driving Club.

Frank Vasquez says, “In April of last year, I left my job to consider the next chapter in my life. I was in no rush, so I took my time looking at various opportunities to find the one that was perfect for me. As you all know, my mother passed away in 2019, so my father called me in early August and asked me to stop looking, as he had decided to move into Dogwood Village, a Senior Living Community in Orange. He asked me to move to Orange, take over the house that we built, and maintain the 12 acres. It took me less than a second to accept his offer, and I decided to take early retirement. So, for the next six weeks, he negotiated with Dogwood, and he finally moved in on October 1. Once it was all said and done, I got a realtor, and I am sure all of you have been there. I started to prepare my house in Richmond for sale. We had an inspector come in and tell me everything that should be repaired to make the house shine, sell quickly, and have the best chance of getting over ‘asking price.’ Well, there were quite a few things to be done, so work began. During that time, my sister and I cleaned out my parents’ house of all the unwanted ‘items’ (better word than junk) and then began donating items from both their house and my house. Once that was all done, I had to pack up my house. Packing to move is no fun, as we all know. Doing it by yourself is worse…. I moved to Orange right before Thanksgiving, and I held Thanksgiving dinner for all in Orange. My house in Richmond went on the market around December 10, and after one open house, we had three offers, all over asking. I chose one, and we closed on January 12.

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“To keep busy and not get too bored, I took a job at Merrie Mill Vineyard (www. merriemillfarm.com) to pour and discuss wine with patrons, which is actually quite fun.

The vineyard and farm are owned by Guy and Elizabeth Pelly — her family began Holiday Inn, and his mother was best friends with Princess Diana, so he grew up with Prince William and Prince Harry. He was William’s Best Man when he wed Kate Middleton, and he is Godfather to their first child. Look him up; he was known as the ‘court jester’ amongst the Royal Family. You wouldn’t know it, as he is a very down-to-earth guy who treats everyone well and seems to just want to be a regular guy. Recently, they asked if I would be interested in learning more about wine at their expense. On February 6, I started my wine and spirit education trust level two class to become a certified sommelier. If I pass, then I may take advanced and master classes down the road. Level two should be enough for what they want me to do in the spring, summer, and fall, but who knows. I have heard that level two is hard with a boatload of things to memorize, and it just gets harder in the advanced and master certifications.”

Gill Holland wrote in with an update: He is still living in Kentucky, and he has recently expanded outside of music and entertainment by opening the Harlan County Beer Company in Harlan, Ky. He invites all who are traveling through the area to stop by and sample some of the Barley Pops! Be on the lookout for his recently signed band, Blair Gun, whose debut album, Blaspheme Queen, dropped March 3.

Nick Owen and Alison live in Atlanta, where he is the co-owner of a software company, and they spend a lot of time in Highlands, N.C. Their eldest, Ellie, is working in D.C., while Jane ’19 is at Davidson with Robert Clark’s son William. Nick’s youngest, Mitch ’20, is at Rhodes College in Memphis.

John Herbert just spent a month skiing in Colorado and Utah with a buddy of his using IKON passes. He is returning to his wife in Houston and surprised her for Valentine’s Day with Springsteen tickets.

Geoff Allen and his wife Claire moved from N.Y., to Davidson, N.C., a little under two years ago (Nick and Robert — let him know next time you are there so you can connect). Geoff is still working for a Swiss-based energy company and works from home and

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Old Boys out to dinner in Winston-Salem, N.C. Left, front to back: Geoff Reid ’85, Frank Vasquez ’83, Richard Pace ’84 Right, front to back: Macon Baird ’82, Sam Froelich ’84, Jimbo Galloway ’83.

Rob Hoxton ’84, Payton Hoxton Alvarez, and Matt Long ’84 at Payton’s wedding in October 2022.

Sophie Weatherly, Bo Weatherly’s ’85 granddaughter

the New York office, so he goes back quite a bit. They may end up closing their venture here, but if they do so, they may need him for about two more years which could take him right into retirement! One of his good friends (Barrett), with whom he plays golf, is married to Gill’s sister, and he has enjoyed getting to know them. He has run into Thurman Brooks and Trip Caldwell, most recently at Davidson hoops games. Geoff is recovering from knee surgery — when a few of them from UNC went down to see Brooks Binder at his house on Tybee last fall, he was the casualty of the weekend as he severed his right quad tendon, missing a step coming out of

the house (in the dark, ok?). Brooks took great care of him that weekend (thanks Brooks!) and he has been recovering and rebuilding his quad since. His two sons ended up at Fairfield University in Conn. — his oldest will complete a graduate year and play lacrosse, and his youngest will finish out undergrad. He and Claire love that they are in one place for the visits now.

Halsey Wise and his wife, Lisha, still live in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., where they have raised four kids. They are all dedicated Jacksonville Jaguars fans and feel they finally have a brighter future with the “potential” arrow up! All four of their kids attended and

graduated from EHS: Hale ’15, Olivia ’15, Cole ’19, and Harrison ’21. They all had a great and formative experience, but Halsey and Lisha are pleased that their 14 years of EHS tuition have come to an end! Their oldest two have since graduated from the University of Georgia and are serious dawg fans. Hale works in Jacksonville, and Olivia works in Austin, Texas. Their younger two sons are at UVA, where Harrison is a sophomore and Cole is a senior about to graduate and move to NYC to work for an investment bank focused on Greentech. They have a family farm in Free Union, Va., just outside of Charlottesville, where they like to spend a good amount of time. Time flies by, and he looks forward to seeing everyone at our upcoming reunion.

David Macleod is still in Birmingham with his wife of nearly 33 years. He occasionally gets to see other classmates and is “grinding” with a small technology company in the student safety space. They are excited to see their son graduate from Sewanee in May, where he hopes to leverage an internship with AustinFC into a front-office job at a professional sports franchise.

Over the years, July has been a good month for Barry Inabnet, as he got into each of the following schools off the waitlist in July: EHS, UNC-Chapel Hill, and the UNCChapel Hill School of Medicine. After scraping by and underachieving at each of those great schools, he continued his education at Columbia University in 2016 to obtain a master’s in health administration, graduating in 2018 with a 4.0 GPA! In July 2019, he and his family moved to Lexington, Ky., where he was recruited to lead the Department of Surgery at the University of Kentucky. They miss NYC but love Lexington.

Seward Toddy ’81 serves as the mayor of the golf course at his local club — he and his lovely wife Shannon have welcomed the Inabnets to Lexington with open arms.

Barry has been spending more time in Africa to set up a Global Health rotation for the UK surgery trainees and faculty; he spent one week in Kenya in February 2023 and is planning a two-week trip to Malawi in July 2023 to work in a mission hospital.

Barry’s daughter is a freshman at Samford University in Birmingham. He also said, “It has been great to see and catch up with David MacLeod ’83, Winton “Red” Blount ’83, Spencer Ragland ’83, and Tony Gaede ’84.”

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Barry is happy that our class bond remains so strong after 40 years, and he invites anyone to look them up if they pass through Lexington.

After a long career in athletics, Ken Tyler transitioned to full-time Advancement work about three years ago and came to work at EHS as a major gifts officer in August 2021.

It’s a little surreal for him to be back on The Holy Hill (and calling Mr. Stubbs a colleague), but he absolutely loves connecting with alums, particularly from the great Class of ‘83. Ken looks forward to seeing everyone when he is on the road, and please let him know if you’re ever in the D.C., area. Both of his kids are EHS grads, continuing a four-generation Tyler tradition. Son, Jordan ’16, is serving our country as a Lieutenant Junior Grade in the Navy, currently stationed in Japan. Daughter, Logan ’19, is wrapping up her career at Roanoke College, where she is a Dean’s List student, NCAA Academic AllDistrict, and captain of the soccer team. She only gets part of that from him! Ken still loves hoops, and said it was great to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the first basketball IAC championship on campus last year with so many former teammates and Coach Shaver!

Cathy and Warren Harvey are in their 34th year of marriage and more in love than ever. They are still living in Apex, N.C., where he is Senior Pastor at Ambassador Presbyterian Church, which they started 25 years ago. They’ve been blessed to be in one place for so long and able to raise their four sons there. It is Warren’s joy to officiate the weddings of young people whom he also baptized as infants, and he’s especially thankful to have officiated all four of his sons’ weddings, two of which they celebrated last year. Needless to say, with the addition of four daughters-in-law and three grandchildren (two girls and a boy), his wife is finally happy to have more girls than boys at their family gatherings. Speaking of family gatherings, they had many of those this past year as he was able to take a four-month sabbatical.

He and Cathy spent extended lengths of time near their kids in Chattanooga, Charleston, and San Diego. Part of that time was a restful month at the beaches in the low country of South Carolina, where Warren grew up.

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David Opie’s ’86 new books “All the Insects in the World” and “All the Mammals in the World”

The cover of Art Taylor’s ’86 new book “The Adventure of the Castle Thief and Other Expeditions and Indiscretions”

Esteban Serrano ’87 en route from Madrid to Baugé en Anjou (Pays de La Loire).

Tad Sherrill ’87 (center) with his younger brother (foreground) and his father, Bing Sherrill ’56

Stephen Shuford ’87 and family in Africa visiting the Victoria Falls Elephant Sanctuary.

Charles Haigler ’87 writes: “Breaking out my 1983 Original Issue for alumni weekend!”

that they are off the payroll. While Warren would never have thought, during his time at EHS or UVA, that he’d be a pastor, he understood that God had different plans, and he’s thankful for his grace and call in his life, and for the blessing of friends and the

congregation He has given him to serve over these many years. He wishes he was able to make more reunions and keep up better with classmates, but he’s thankful to reconnect in recent years with a few folks and hopes to do so more in the future.

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Alec Bounds ’89 with his family enjoying a vacation.

Alec Bounds ’89 and Bob Dunkin ’89 in Atlanta at the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Concert

N.C., where they have been since 1992. His mom still lives in the house in which he grew up and is about half a mile from his house, as the crow flies. Yes, they still do that in Burlington. Both of his brothers, who graduated from Episcopal, are also in Burlington.

Nearly all of you likely remember his next older brother, Tony ’81.

Michael is so close to retirement that he can almost taste it. He hopes to join some of us that have already crossed over to retirement in the not-so-distant future. In the meantime, in addition to work (trying to rent big cranes), his eldest daughter and her husband have given them a granddaughter, Bella, with a grandson due at the end of March. They live in Burlington as well. Of course, Bella already has Michael wrapped around her finger. He is amazed at how he can be manipulated by a two-year-old. He feels that it’s almost as bad as being manipulated by Winton Blount if memory serves him well.

’84

Samuel Froelich

(C) 336-402-3772 froelich@me.com Joint 40th Reunion with 1983: June 2024

’85

Thorne Gregory Jr

(C) 917-922-6250 thornegregoryjr@me.com Joint 40th Reunion with 1986: June 2026

Ross Reynolds ’89 and his dog, Jack, on top of West Maroon Pass between Aspen and Crested Butte, Colo.

Suresh Menon ’89 and Justin Beck ’89 over the holidays

Fletcher Fairey continues to live on the Red Sea in Saudi Arabia, working at the international science and technology university KAUST, raising his son Fletcher (11 years old) with his wife Ida Phillips (Whit’s elementary school dance partner!), and missing his two college-aged daughters who are in the states.

KSA is a beautiful and fascinating place, and he encourages all to add it to their itineraries if traveling to the Middle East. He’d love to host you at KAUST. He calls Chapel Hill home in the U.S. He was lucky to be there when Ken passed through last summer and had a great catch-up lunch with him.

Greg Peete’s 21-year-old daughter, Charlotte, is a junior math major at Washington and Lee. His 25-year-old son graduated from Washington and Lee and is working as a medical assistant in D.C. He will

be pursuing his medical degree somewhere in 2023; he is still waiting to hear back from several schools. Greg is only pointing out the obvious, that his children inherited his wife’s favorable genetic makeup. Their best news for 2023 is that Boyd will be getting married on July 8, 2023, to Emily Fallon in Leesburg, Va. He is puzzled if there is any resemblance to him as Peete men typically postpone wedding vows until their late 30s and 40s! Greg has enjoyed getting together with Harry Lawson ’84, Macon Baird ’82, Mark Slack ’82, and Duncan MacLeod ’80 on occasion to hack it around for 18 holes.

Michael Holt remembers coming to our five-year reunion with his fiancé, Trina. Well, she has stuck with him, and they will celebrate their 35th anniversary this summer. He and Trina live in his hometown, Burlington,

To the best of anyone’s knowledge, Bo Weatherly is the first of our class to be both a grandson and a grandfather.

Jeff Burnett lives in Charlottesville and started a new position at Haidar Capital Management.

’86

Art Taylor

(C) 703-774-5079 art@arttaylorwriter.com

Joint 40th Reunion with 1985: June 2026

This issue’s notes focus on the writers in our class — and glad to share and help celebrate several accomplishments!

Steve Cook’s June 2022 essay “What Next After Kind of Blue?” for “All About Jazz” was one of the most-read articles of the year for the website. Part of the series “Building a Jazz Library,” Steve’s article takes Miles Davis’s classic album — often a first purchase for beginning listeners — and suggests EHS THE MAGAZINE OF EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL

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several other albums and musicians as next steps, both contemporary albums and others right up to the present. (I’ve been following his advice myself and discovering some great new music!) Steve also mentioned having seen Richard Beaver, Jay Gump, and Todd McKee frequently in the last year.

David Opie has recently completed his “All the…” series for Peter Pauper Press with two final books: “All the Insects in the World,” which was released back in December, and “All the Mammals in the World,” for publication in April. And while this series is done, he’s already working on ideas for more books ahead. In the meantime, David and his wife recently moved to Hartford, Conn., and he’s teaching drawing and computer graphics at Eastern Connecticut State University and the University of New Haven.

And I’ve got some publishing news of my own. My second short story collection, “The Adventure of the Castle Thief and Other Expeditions and Indiscretions,” was published

by Crippen and Landru in February, with two previously unpublished stories (including the title novella) in the mix. Additionally, another of my stories, “The Invisible Band,” was recently named a finalist for this year’s Agatha Award for Best Short Story; the story originally appeared in “Edgar and Shamus Go Golden: Twelve Tales of Murder, Mystery and Master Detection from the Golden Age of Mystery and Beyond.”

And speaking of writing, hope other Old Boys from our class will write in with more news for next time! See you then.

’87

David Haddock

(C) 301-575-6750 davidhaddock@yahoo.com

Joint 40th Reunion with 1988: June 2028

All, as I shared with you by email, we had a bit of a mix-up in the last issue, and many of your Class Notes did not get included, so they are included in this issue instead. The update from Andrew Hudson at the end of these notes is new.

First off, I was pleased and surprised to hear from Esteban Serrano last summer.

Esteban writes: “I trust you remember me; this is Esteban Serrano, Class of ’87… phew, that is AGES ago! I’ll try to be brief, although a lot has happened since most of you never heard from me

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Matt Stewart ’89 with his six children, ranging in age from 2 to 23 years old.

Croom Lawrence ’89, with his two daughters, Eleanora and Josephine, and their dogs, Everything “Bagel” and Granola “Bear”

Justin Beck ’89 with his sister Mary and niece Gretchen

again (I’ve only been in touch with Harrison Coleman a couple of times).

“So here it goes in the briefest format possible. Married young, oldest daughter is 29, already married herself. No grandkids just yet.

My wife of 25 years, whom I divorced, passed away as a result of a long struggle with addiction — that being the reason we divorced.

Fast forward a few years, and I’m now living in Philly after having lived in Madrid, Spain, where I was able to finish my Ph.D. I incidentally met a Ph.D. candidate there, and she’s attending Drexel University in Philadelphia, this being the reason I’m now here, shacking with her (Sara).

“Got my Ph.D. in finance (in Spain) after completing undergrad and MBA in the U.S. (George Mason University and Vanderbilt University, respectively) and now teach finance courses online at Ecuador’s leading University (https://www.usfq.edu.ec/en), but I am looking for opportunities here in the Philly area (teaching or otherwise).

“I have been lucky enough to pursue two career paths, one was academics, and the

other I was able to start a food manufacturing and distribution business (with the help of family and friends), which now has professional management (www.alimec.com.ec) and allows me to mostly focus on academics.

Other than the previous travails, life has been good to me. Hopefully, I can catch up with more of you soon.”

Tad Sherrill wrote to suggest some long-distance hikes I might be able to do post-hip replacement and to comment that he was sure that Deutermann’s response (not knowing what it was) would be very interesting (he was correct if you recall from the last issue). Tad’s family has a cottage north of Toronto where they spend their summer vacation time.

Stephen Shuford had a big adventure last summer. He writes: “My family recently spent two weeks in Zimbabwe and Botswana on safari. Parker (wife), Pope (17), Hal (15), and I enjoyed many up-close encounters with various species of African wildlife as well as some not-so-wild beasts at the Victoria Falls Elephant Sanctuary.”

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’89

Croom Lawrence

(C) 540-878-6754 croomlawrence@gmail.com

Joint 35th Reunion with 1988: June 2024

Jamie Frierson ’89 on vacation with his nieces and nephews at The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs, Colo., last July.

Jamie Frierson ’89 celebrating his niece during May Day at Girls Preparatory School in Chattanooga last spring.

Alec Bounds reports: “Just met up with Bob Dunkin two weeks ago in Atlanta for Bob Weir’s shows with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. My older son is a freshman at Rhodes College, where he plays lacrosse and made friends with the son of Latane Montague ’88 and the nephew of Ben Tarbutton ’90. Younger son also plays.”

Jamie Frierson reports: “I live in my hometown Lookout Mountain, Tenn., and spend as much time as possible with my five nieces and four nephews. They are incredible kids, and they are all wonderful to their Uncle Jamie! I can’t make it to Middleburg this April, but I would love to try another year in the near future. Thank you so much for your graciousness. I hope everyone is doing well.”

Matt Stewart ’89 reports: “Life is good in Atlanta! Hope all is well with you!”

’90

Jason Acosta

(C) 301-933-4690 JAcosta_JAh311@hotmail.com Joint 35th Reunion with 1991: June 2026

Rob Geiger ’90 holding a sign by the Capitol to promote generic insulin.

Our 35th Reunion last June was fun if sparsely attended. I was able to hang out with Patrick Johnson, Hampton Nager, Andy Reynolds, and Charles Haigler. There is a picture of the five of us in the Four Columns magazine from last summer, so I won’t repost it here, but I would be remiss to not share the following, which Haigler sent me in anticipation of the reunion weekend. This is not photo-shopped; Haigler is made of steel.

Finally, I am sure you all remember how fast Andrew Hudson was on the cross-country course. The times I ran at the bottom of the varsity line-up, I would only be able to see him for the first minute of the race or so.

His great ability on the course translated into great success as a coach as well. He writes: “I am in my 32nd year of teaching high school English and coaching cross country and track. I am currently teaching 9th grade English at Denmark High School, a relatively new public high school in Alpharetta, Ga.

Murdoch Matheson ’92 and Mason Lampton ’92 and their lovely brides at MFHA Hunt Ball in N.Y.

(Forsyth County). We are studying “Romeo and Juliet” right now. It’s my 4th year at the school after 24 years at Collins Hill High School in Suwanee and four at Riverside Military Academy in Gainesville. My plan is to retire from full-time public school teaching in the next year or two but, hopefully, continue to coach.

“I was recently inducted into the Georgia Track/Cross Country Coaches Association Hall of Fame for a career of success and service. Most of my good years were at Collins Hill, but I have had tremendous success with some great runners at Denmark. I am happily married to Tracy and live in Suwanee.”

’88

Ned Durden

(C) 704-576-5039 neddurden@gmail.com

Joint 35th Reunion with 1989: June 2024

The time has arrived again for a class update, and I do have some news to share. Rob Geiger has been spending a lot of time in D.C. over the last five years as he pushes for affordable insulin. The company he helped start 15 years ago, AmbioPharm, is working to provide generic drugs for diabetes patients.

With the recent news that Eli Lilly is capping the cost of insulin, it sounds like his tireless lobbying on Capitol Hill is paying off.

Kudos to Rob. Keep up the fight for affordable health care!

By the time you hold this issue in your hand, it will probably be summer. You will be gearing up for vacations to the beach and carting children off to summer camp. You might even have high school graduates preparing for their first year at college. To that, I say good luck and wish everyone a safe and relaxing summer!

’91

William Coxe

(C) 864-313-9803 williecoxe@gmail.com Joint 35th Reunion with 1990: June 2026

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’92

Fred Alexander

(C) 704-641-4858 fcaiii@yahoo.com Joint 35th Reunion with 1993: June 2028

Hello, Class of ’92, Hard to believe we are so far along in 2023. Speaking of being far along, Cal Evans has had a busy year.

He reports that he ran into Hank Johnson in NYC buying a diet coke on the street. Cal was wandering out of an old shady CD store while Hank was emerging from a Wall Street meeting.

He also bumped into Clark Gallivan after giving a speech in Greenville, S.C. Clark was ignoring his fiduciary responsibilities of managing client money to go mountain biking while the market was still open. If I remember correctly, ole Gally has boys and a urinal in his house.

Finally, Cal announced that his reproductive boys were thawed out of carbonite freezing, and he and his lovely wife Ivey are expecting Calvin Augustus Evans XII or IV, depends how you are counting, later this year.

This is their second child.

I stated this a few magazines ago, but for those keeping track, there is a good chance that Murdoch Matheson’s grandchildren and Cal’s children could overlap at EHS in the 2039-2041 type area. I hope to have that picture.

Speaking of Murdoch, he and Mason Lampton, along with their lovely wives, met up at the Masters of Foxhound Association’s annual ball. Both remarked that the haggis was the best it’s ever been. I will say I am a sucker for a hound, as I have two redbones myself.

Feel free to drop me a line at fcaiii@yahoo.com to let me know what is going on in your world. If you are in the greater Charlotte area, let me know. Best, Fred

’93

Walker Lamond

(C) 301-580-0761 walkerlamond@mac.com Joint 30th Reunion with 1994: June 2024

There was a great turnout from 1993 for The Game this past November as we continue to make our case for “most successful and attractive class” of the past century. (No one will touch the Class of 1873.) The parents of current students led the charge. Craig Dixon, 74

Lee Vaughan ’93, Chad Stone ’94, Hall of Famer Cary Goodwin ’93, Victor Maddux ’93, and Griff Gideon ’93 at The Game.

Craig Dixon ’93 and Victor Maddux ’93 at the St. James Sports Complex, one of Craig’s development projects.

David Stallings, Thomas Wood, and Lee Vaughan all have kids at EHS, and it was clear they were happy to have an excuse to spend more sunny days on the Hill and possibly relive some gridiron glory through their vastly more athletic offspring. Griff Gideon, Heather Collins, Cary Goodwin, Chris Jacobs, Willy Clark ’92, Chad Stone ’94, and Jed Wolfington ’91 were all in high spirits, while Luke David and Victor Maddux were in the booth producing a flawless worldwide broadcast. It was great to see so many familiar faces in the stands and even better to bring home the W. Admittedly, the Tigers in their matching blazers and ties continue to win the cheer battle as the Episcopal student body seems too distracted by the goth-costume party being held in the home stands.

But you know, scoreboard.

A few times this year, I’ve also had the pleasure of passing through Charleston, S.C., a town where every day is an EHS reunion.

For the last three years, class visionary and raconteur Ham Morrison has been hard at work restoring a beautiful mid-century motel, and when it came time to assemble a crack team to help bring it to life, he looked no further than his alma mater (almost-mater?) bringing on design guru Courtney Gunter Rowson ’95 and yours truly to help make it the most-talked about project in the South.

The Starlight Motor Inn has 50 rooms, a pool, and a bar, which — not unlike Ham’s dad’s

Allison Priebe ’94 and her daughter, McClain Brooks ’21, at The Sulgrave Club in The District of Columbia.

house on Quaker Lane in the 90’s — makes it the perfect place to catch up with friends or hide from the authorities. After hosting all you bozos on raucous overnights through high school, it’s probably only fitting that Ham and I became moteliers. Check us out at starlightchs.com.

Finally, start making plans to attend our 30th Reunion, which will take place in June 2024. We’ll be including the Class of 1994, presumably in some kind of mentoring capacity, so it should be a big ole party. I’ll be flying in from my new address in London, so no excuses. See you there!

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Former head cheerleader, Luke Zehner ’96 with Elisa Donovan (Amber) on the set in Beverly Hills.

Candy Vaughan Hollis ’96 with newborn boy, Vaughan Hollis

Lela Gant’s ’96 daughter, Clark Gant

’95 Thomas Beckner ’96 and the Beckner Bros, Thelonious and Laser

’94

Emily Breinig

(C) 480-330-8017 fletchee@hotmail.com

Class Correspondents Needed

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Joint 30th Reunion with 1996: June 2026

’96

Temple Basham

(C) 804-332-1517 templefbasham@gmail.com

Joint 30th Reunion with 1993: June 2024

Luke Zehner

Allison Priebe is delighted to announce that her daughter Cynthia McClain Brooks ’21, was presented by The Washington Assembly at The Sulgrave Club in The District of Columbia. McClain was joined by Whit Nuckolls ’21 as her escort and supported by her EHS roommate Lucy Bland ’21. A fantastic time was had by all as we laughed, ate, waltzed, and smiled the entire night. McClain was a senior monitor, member of the vestry, and proctor while at EHS, and she is currently a sophomore majoring in neuroscience at Sewanee.

(C) 571-338-1389 zehnerlj@gmail.com Joint 30th Reunion with 1995: June 2026

Greetings from Marin County, Calif. It’s everyone’s favorite head cheerleader Luke Zehner, coming at you with a quick update for the esteemed Class of 1996. Most importantly, I’m doing quite well both personally and professionally. I recently penned a Super Bowl commercial, that’s number four for those of you keeping track at home, featuring Alicia Silverstone in a reprise of her classic role in the 1995 hit film, Clueless.

Speaking of people past their prime, I saw Andy Smith, aka Cuz, last month in Bend, Ore. Brentt Brown and I were heading his way with families in tow to do some skiing, but sadly, Andy broke his shoulder in a terrible half-pipe accident. Cuz was trying to turn back the clock when a backscratcher went terribly wrong and landed him in the hospital. Thankfully, Andy is on the mend and back to fishing for steelhead and raising his two daughters, Magnolia and Percy, who are already shredding black diamonds in deep powder.

As for Brentt, he just finished a successful season coaching his daughter’s basketball team and is looking forward to heading back into the studio this summer with his band Pirate Radio.

I had the pleasure of hanging with the new Chair of the Board, Sarah Akridge Knutson, and the Mayor of Belle Haven Country Club, Brian Knutson, during a quick jaunt back east this fall. It’s crazy to think that their oldest son Jack Knutson ’26, is a freshman on The Holy Hill.

In non-Luke-Zehner-related news, Jane Pope Cooper and “Mr. Valedictorian” Garland Lynn had an unexpected encounter on a low county hoops court this winter. This from Jane: “I ran into Garland yesterday at a heated bball game where his daughter fouled out. Popie, unlike her mother, is fiercely competitive and very athletic, so it was a fun game to watch. The girls’ schools went neck and neck until Popie made a free throw to win by one.”

I recently exchanged Instagram messages with Candy Vaughan Hollis after seeing that she welcomed a son in January. In her own words, “It’s absolutely the best thing that’s ever happened to me. We are just so in love with him. His name is Vaughan Adler Hollis, born January 28, 2023.”

I’m glad to hear that Candy’s settling into her new role with such ease, though I was a bit confused because my kids annoy me to no end.

Fellow left coaster Thomas Beckner continues to thrive with all his fellow weirdos down in LA. Thomas and his partner, Kameko, have two boys under five, Thelonious and Laser, a non-toxic cleaning essentials brand called So Good, and a thriving production company, Little Bear Studios.

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ocean swims with other annoying, fit, and attractive Californians.

I heard from Temple Forsyth Basham about 14 times when she bugged me to write these Class Notes, but I’m not sure what she’s up to.

Rumor has it that aging hippies Kent Lowry, Menard Doswell, and Randy Shelley attended a Phish concert in Charleston this fall. When they’re not “crushing tour,” as Kent puts it, Menard is busy establishing his new commercial real estate venture, Doswell Development, and Randy is teaching, coaching, and writing at South Kent School in Conn.

Lela Gant welcomed her daughter Clark A. Gant in July. Congratulations Lela!

As my 12-year-old daughter would say, that’s all the tea.

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Becky Kellam Everhart ’99 and crew at Phish Mexico in February

Cristin Sutherland Wipfler ’98 working with Jack Bonello ’25 in 10th grade Health and Wellness class.

We are in need of a Class Correspondent for the Class of ’97.

Philip Cox’s ’99 daughter placed second at her gymnastics competition.

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Joint 30th Reunion with 1998: June 2028

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Katherine Stuart

(C) 434-989-7054 katstu@gmail.com

Andrew Nielson

(C) 706-254-2277 Joint 25th Reunion with 1998: June 2024

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Becky Everhart

(C) 917-628-5945 beckykellam@gmail.com

Joint 25th Reunion with 1999: June 2024

Philip Cox reports that: “My family is well.

We just got back from a ski trip to Utah. My youngest daughter is doing great in competitive gymnastics. She got second in the tournament. High-interest rates and high costs are making real estate development harder, but we are still plugging along, building apartments and hotels. I had a great reunion with Alex Schultes. Unfortunately, his dad passed away, but I got to spend quality time with him and his family at the funeral, where I said my own goodbye to his dad, an important

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Mary Elizabeth Barnes, daughter of Brice Lohr Barnes ’00 and Houston Barnes ’00, born on January 23, 2023.

person in my life. Alex’s mom passed away a few weeks later, so please say a prayer for him.”

Not much to report from VB. Just got back from Phish in Mexico and am looking forward to seeing Cocaine Bear. As I’m sure (almost) everyone knows, Griff VanMeter has the og stuffed cocaine bear in his store, Kentucky for Kentucky. Please check out his related line of merch that long predated the film…it is spectacular! Talk Soon, Becky Kellam Everhart

Scott Stearns ’00 and his father at the library dedication in Jacksonville, Fla.

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Schuyler Williams Seifert

(C) 703-304-9423 schuyler13@gmail.com Maisie Short

(C) 310-498-5241 maisieshort12@gmail.com Joint 25th Reunion with 2001: June 2026

Greetings from Charlottesville and your newlywed class correspondent, Schuyler Williams Seifert! At the ripe age of 40, I finally decided to settle down. My husband, Bart Seifert, and I were married on October 15, 2022, at my brother and sister-in-law’s

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After Episcopal

Jane Pope Cooper ’96 When Jane Pope Cooper ’96 couldn’t find an afternoon option at Episcopal that excited her, she set out to create one. A self-proclaimed non-athlete, the budding jewelry designer had an itch for the arts that she was just beginning to scratch and wanted to spend her afternoons exploring her new passion. Enter the Arts Club — built and designed by Cooper and a few other friends.

While Episcopal’s arts program in the nineties was not as robust as it is today, Cooper still began finding her passion while on The Holy Hill. “It was such a transitional time for art,” she reminisced about the mid-nineties. “It hadn’t been made cool yet, and they didn’t have state-of-the-art facilities like they do now.” As a student, she realized she loved photography as an art form, which would ultimately lead to her career of creating beautiful pieces of jewelry.

Fast forward 27 years after graduation, Cooper has built an impressive legacy as a legendary jewelry designer with her work gracing the pages of Vogue, Elle, and Glamour, to name a few. After Episcopal, Pope graduated from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and moved to Los Angeles soon after to pursue a degree in fine jewelry design from the Gemological Institute of America.

She met her husband Tyler through an Episcopal friend, and they began dating long distance as they both pursued their dreams.

In 2001, Cooper and her business partner began a costume jewelry line called BALBOA, which was picked up by Barneys New York within the first four months.

The two made the front page of The Charlotte Observer, “which felt like we were in the pages of Vogue,” Cooper remembered of those early days. Only three years later, Marie Claire named Cooper as one of the “10 Best Stylemakers to Watch.” That immediate traction and press propelled Cooper’s career, and it hasn’t slowed down since.

Cooper went on to launch Jane Pope Jewelry (JPJ) in 2007 while living in New York City and studying fabrication, including wax carving, casting, and stone setting. At JPJ, she works with 14k gold, semi-precious, and precious gemstones to make “perfectly imperfect” pieces that have been spotted everywhere from Hollywood red carpets to the cobblestone streets of her home in Charleston, S.C. “I’ve had some very good luck,” she said of her success in business — luck combined with a lot of hard work, if you ask her Episcopal friends and teachers.

When Cooper moved from NYC to Charleston, she realized she had a new problem to solve. Communicating with the people fulfilling her orders quickly became complicated.

While living and working in NYC, she could run over to the

Diamond District and handle issues immediately, but the distance only slowed her business once she began making a life in Charleston with her husband and two children. “It was maddening,” according to her, so she decided to take matters into her own hands — a lesson she learned at Episcopal when she started the Arts Club.

In 2019, Cooper launched her third successful business: a woman-owned, women-run jewelry manufacturing business aptly named Conscious Casting. The thoughtful company has long been a dream of Cooper’s after her own issues in the jewelry business. It aims to lessen communication barriers between jewelry designers and jewelry makers and to prioritize environmental awareness within the industry.

Working in a predominately male business, Cooper has always been adamant about building a women-run team.

Thanks to her grit, she is now able to manufacture everything from Jane Pope Jewelry in house. “Launching the casting business and building my team has honestly been the proudest moment of my career,” she said.

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home on the water in Cambridge, Md. It was certainly one of the best days of my life, with the most incredible bluebird sky day possible, thank goodness! The extra joy in our celebration was due in large part to my EHS classmates, who traveled from all over the country to be there for our special day!

Hattie Gruber and Will Nisbet ’01 officiated our wedding and absolutely crushed it with the perfect combination of sentiment and humor infused in their remarks. Of course, Hattie / Kiss The Ring New York was responsible for all of the rings :). The other EHS alums in attendance included: Carlie Hooff Casella, Summers Clarke Lacy, Maisie Cunningham Short, Elizabeth Hossfeld, Brenton Hardee ’02, Alec Hooff ’02, Will McGettigan ’02, Becky Kellam Everhart ’99, Chris Jacobs ’93, and Jeremy Taylor ’63. And, of course, my brothers Victor Maddux ’93 and Hunter Williams ’02 were present. Hunter was our reader and is actually the reason Bart and I met many years ago, as those two have been great friends since elementary school. Lastly, two of my favorite “second EHS mothers” also joined in our celebration were Harriet Broughton (Hattie’s mother) and Gugi Hooff (Carlie’s mother).

Somehow I neglected my Class Notes duties and failed to get an EHS photo, which will haunt me for the rest of my life, but included here is one of the happy new couple and a few extras for your enjoyment!

(As class notes co-chair for over 20 years, I felt I deserved to share more than that one!)

Summers Clarke Lacy shared her updates as well! “Taylor and I had a fabulous time celebrating Schuyler’s wedding in Cambridge, Md., and enjoyed catching up with Maisie, Hattie, Elizabeth Hossfeld, Brenton, Hunter, Will Nisbet ’01, Becky, and Carlie!”

She recently traveled to Wilmington, N.C., to celebrate the life of Eliza Smith Dunn ’02 and Lillian Smith Teer’s father, Percy Smith, who hosted many of us throughout our time at EHS and beyond. He is missed and remembered for sure.” They also enjoyed attending a beautiful Christmas party hosted by Jordan Phillips and his wife Meg for Society 1858 of the Gibbes Museum in Charleston, S.C. (Thanks for that selfie, you two — I had major FOMO!) Taylor and Summers still live in Mount Pleasant, S.C., and are quite busy raising their two adorable boys, Henry (2)

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Schuyler Williams Seifert ’00 and Bart Seifert’s wedding, with Schuyler’s family, Hunter Williams ’02, and Victor Maddux ’93 on October 15, 2022 in Cambridge, Md.

On their wedding day: Bart and Schuyler Williams Seifert ’00

Wedding officiants Hattie Gruber ’00 and Will Nisbet ’01 at Schuyler ’00 and Bart’s wedding.

Betsy Watts Metcalf ’00 and family visiting her brother Rob Watts ’98 in Hawaii over Thanksgiving 2022.

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Elizabeth Pope Sayle ’00 marries Stephen Sayle; also pictured, Courtney Kershaw Taylor ’03.

Zsolt Parkanyi ’00 and Dennis Clancey ’00 in Munich, Germany over Christmas 2022.

The sons of Brice Lohr Barnes ’00 and Houston Barnes ’00 welcome newest arrival, Mary Elizabeth.

and Finley (4). They look forward to bringing them to visit EHS soon!

Jamie McNab wrote in with an update for the first time in years, and now I understand why we haven’t heard from him in a while!

They are super busy raising their three children, who are six, three, and four months old — wow, and congrats! Jamie did not hesitate to add that Hattie has helped him with “push presents” for all kids, and he recommends that everyone consider Kiss the Ring N.Y. for all of their gifting needs! I couldn’t agree more! :) He, his wife Steph, and their clan live in Greenwich, Conn., where they moved five years ago after many years in NYC. In other exciting nuptial news, Elizabeth Pope Sayle married Stephen Sayle on November 26, 2022, in Atlanta. There were also many EHS alums present for their big day! Courtney Kershaw Taylor ’03 (pictured) was an attendant, and Elizabeth’s eight-year-old son, William, served as the ring bearer. Stephen’s sister and Elizabeth’s dear friend, Allison Cobb Felton ’95, were also in attendance. Elizabeth and Stephen live in Atlanta and work together selling real estate with Dorsey Alston Realtors. Congrats, you two — and what a lovely bride you made, Elizabeth!

Betsy Watts Metcalf reports that all is well with her family of four down in Atlanta.

Over Thanksgiving, Betsy, David, and their two daughters went to visit Betsy’s brother, Robert C. Watts IV ’98, and his family in Hawaii, where he is stationed in the Navy.

She writes: “It was so fun to get the cousins together and see their life in Hawaii.” I bet and am jealous of their coordinates — what a great excuse for an amazing trip!

Kate Leggett Mabry’s architecture business MabryArch continues to flourish! Kate’s EHS and college friends from Washington and Lee have been keeping her busy, and she’s very grateful for their trust and support! In mid-2022, she completed a house renovation project for Betsy Watts Metcalf, working with Wright Marshall P’25 (Parent of Lawson Marshall ’25) as the General Contractor.

On top of that, she is also currently working on a renovation of Harriet Holliday’s P’00 (Hattie Gruber’s mother) house in Cashiers.

She writes: “It has been a fun reason to hop on conference calls with Hattie and her mom to talk shop, and I can’t wait for them to host me when I need a dose of fresh mountain air.

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and I can’t wait to see the Cashier’s house when it is finished — perhaps a mini-reunion?! Also, wink, wink.

Zsolt Parkanyi — who always starts out his emails with “nothing much to report” and then goes on to say “from Munich, Germany,” ha! Aside from living that European life, his “big” highlight was the blitz visit of Dennis Clancey before Christmas and having an awesome Bavarian breakfast together! No doubt that was a great time, and I love that you two were able to get together over the holidays!

Dennis Clancey, in similar fashion, writes in from Gaziantep with “nothing much to report” — except that he was there post the earthquake coordinating Team Rubicon’s response. Humble as always, and we are very impressed and grateful for your commitment to those efforts. Dennis continues to travel the world doing all the things but maintains a home in Dallas and spends a lot of time in Southern California.

Scott Stearns is still living in Jacksonville, Fla., and works for an insurance agency, where he was recently promoted to a learning and development coach within the training team. Nice! In other news, St. Johns River State College named its Orange Park Campus Library after Scott’s father in January. Very exciting and special news!

Brice Lohr Barnes and her husband, Houston Barnes, have big news as they welcomed their third child and first girl, Mary Elizabeth Barnes, on January 23, 2023. She writes that “everyone is happy and healthy and enjoying our new bundle of joy.” She is adorable — congratulations to your family of five!

Brandon Stalker is doing well and is currently in the final stages of expansion for his restaurant Evelyn’s in Annapolis — wow (evelynsannapolis.com)! The space began with 36 seats six years ago and will be at 130 when all is said and done. Cal Ripken, Jr., is now one of Evelyn’s regulars, so understandably, “it’s pretty wild to be on a first name basis with my childhood idol… but he’s a normal guy who doesn’t act like a celebrity at all which is pretty cool!” Indeed — congrats on all of the success!

Will Blocker, his wife Allison, and daughter Anne (2) are doing great and enjoying life in Fort Worth.

Vince Van Dillen is in Annapolis and celebrated his 42nd birthday on February 19,

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Elliot Conklin ’01, his wife, Lauren Siegel, and their children

Rebecca Pomeroy Shores ’02 with Mr. Biersach in their office at Durham Academy.

Celebrating Andrew Farrar ’02 and Haley Habenicht’s wedding: Grant Brown ’02, Jim Farrar ’70, Lee McLaughlin ’03, Wylie Hutchison ’07, Will Corbitt ’02, McCoy Penninger ’02, Gilbert Butler ’71, Lyle Farrar ’04, Katharine Farrar ’07, Will Corbitt ’70, Andrew Farrar ’02, Haley Farrar, Will McGettigan ’02, Walker Francis ’06, Susan Castle, Wilkes Evans ’02, Steve Castle, Taylor Robison ’07, Caroline Kelso Evans ’07, Kit McLendon ’02, Alec Hooff ’02, and Scott Farrar ’72.

2022. Where was my invitation?! Kidding — hope you had a great one!

Thanks to everyone who wrote in — we look forward to receiving more updates later this year! And please let me know if you are ever in Charlottesville!

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Beezie Sayers

(C) 713-560-6210 beezie.sayers@gmail.com

Joint 25th Reunion with 2000: June 2026

Elliott Conklin lives in Hyattsville, Md., and just got married to Lauren Siegel. They have

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Case Anderson ’03 and Thomas Wilson ’02 pictured with faculty member and wrestling coach Steve Castle. Case coaches wrestling at Landon School, and Thomas coaches at Bishop O’Connell High School.

Dorothy Hutchison Driscoll ’04 and family at a recent UVA vs. UNC football game.

The Hartleys enjoying a beautiful day at Keeneland in October 2022.

Mac Sullivan ’04 and family recently moved to Texas.

combined their broods of kids and are expecting a son to be born this June. Lauren and Elliott run a nonprofit group of psychologists in Silver Spring, Md.

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Andrew Farrar

(C) 919-616-6636 asfarrar@gmail.com

Artie Armstrong

(C) 805-341-5233 artiearmstrong@yahoo.com Joint 25th Reunion with 2003: June 2028

Anne Arnold Glenn writes, “It’s been a while, here’s an update on me! I live in WinstonSalem, N.C., with my husband Locke and 3 kids, Eli (9.5), Gardner (7.5), and Addy (4). I currently own a small business (Best

of Winston) that serves to promote WinstonSalem via online platforms; let’s just say I’m not directly applying my Greek and Latin majors at the moment. But it has allowed me to lean into my total extroversion and try lots of new things. I’ve also started playing piano (something I wish I had started at Episcopal) and golf. Most of my family now lives in the same city as us, but I haven’t seen many Episcopal friends recently, even though I see the E bumper stickers often around town. I hope everyone is doing well!”

Tim Brown says, “It was great seeing many of you at the reunion last year and renewing connections! It was my first time back on campus since we graduated — a lot has changed, but not everything. I’m living in Austin, Texas, and working in tech. I have only been back here a bit over a year, but my wanderlust is starting to kick in, and I’ve begun plotting my next big motorcycle trip to Africa. That said, it’s a great city, and I’m always happy to host or be a city guide, so let me know if any of y’all make it to the ‘Live Music Capital of the World.’ No family of my own yet, but I’ve got a girlfriend who’s moving in with her dog this spring, so a step in the right direction.”

Andrew Farrar says, “Haley Habenicht and I were married on September 10 in Chapel Hill, N.C. We had a strong EHS crowd to help us celebrate, but Kit stole the show with his toast on Friday evening. Maybe someone recorded a few of his head cheerleader announcements from back in 2002?

Haley and I live in Richmond, Va., with a baby due later this year.”

Hunt Kushner says, “In the spirit of comments above, I really regret not attending the reunion last year, but my newborn son just would not cooperate. My wife and I are enjoying life in Houston (March and April are the best months of the year here), where she teaches 8th grade at a private school, and I am a mid-level executive for a chemical company. We are watching our son start to eat regular food, try to walk, chase our cat, and to some extent, dismantle our house. If anyone is in Texas nearby anytime, please give us a shout!”

Rebecca Pomeroy Shores writes, “This is my fifth year teaching with Mr. Biersach in Durham Academy’s English Department.

I like to think that sharing an office keeps us both young; as you can see, neither of us has aged a bit.”

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Alden Koste Corrigan

(C) 443-783-4659 alden.k.corrigan@gmail.com

Joint 20th Reunion with 2004: June 2024

Laura Davidson Hartley and Stuart Hartley report that things are busy in Lexington, Ky., with their two sweet girls, Mary Maxwell (4) and Louisa (2). Laura still works in fine art insurance with Willis, based in D.C. When she travels up to the home office, she always tries to stop by The High School. Stuart is still with Gray Construction and really enjoys it.

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Charlie Williams

(C) 304-669-1170 charlie.e.williams@gmail.com

Joint 20th Reunion with 2003: June 2024

We have a lot of good news from the Class of 2004. I am living in Richmond, Va., with my wife, Jessie, and daughter, 6-month-old Millie. I transitioned from teaching middle school to being a counselor in a high school.

A big recent highlight was being able to host our soccer coach, Rick Wilcox, for the U.S. vs.

Iran World Cup game before the Richmond alumni event.

Lyle Farrar says, “I’m still living in Raleigh, N.C., and love it. There is a good group of us here, and I see Joe Stallworth ’03, Charlton Miles, Wylie Hutchison ’07, and other EHS folks around town a pretty decent amount. I’m also excited to report that my wife Loftin and I are expecting our first child in June.”

From Sam Duke: “I’ve been in NYC more or less since I left Episcopal, Brooklyn, specifically for the last 14 years. My wife and I have a 3.5-year-old son (Sonny), and I spend my days running a record label (DFA) and a few other projects with James Murphy from LCD Soundsystem. I just saw Eamon Coy over the holidays, and I still keep up with Sissie Strope and Phil Glaize as much as I can. Hope everyone is doing well in their parts of the world.”

Peggy Albertson Campbell remains in Raleigh with her husband and two children.

She accepted a new position within her company, AstraZeneca, and they travel often. She is tired — but happy and often hears from Maizie Clarke Kincheloe, Calvert Coley Lange, and Clarissa Chenoweth Shook (who just welcomed an adorable baby boy).

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Dorothy Hutchison Driscoll says, “Can’t believe we have our 20-year reunion coming up next year. I still see a lot of our fellow classmates frequently (Anna Henderson Brantley, Whitney Brooks, Caroline Mathison, and Allie Tanner Palmer). I recently started a new job within Novant Health. After working in pediatrics, I have shifted gears and will be working as the Clinical Nurse Supervisor for the Breast and Gynecology Oncology teams at the NH Weisiger Cancer Institute. My kids have yet to see the EHS campus, but hopefully, we can bring them up for a visit soon!! Janie is in 1st grade and can’t wait for her brothers (Henry and Will) to start kindergarten in the fall!”

Mac Sullivan reports, “After a decade in Asia, my wife Rebecca and our twins, Betty and Ophelia, have moved back to the U.S. I am now running an IT department for a large Japanese logistics company, and we are living in Grapevine, Texas. In 2020, I published my first book regarding the digital transformation of the supply chain. Was sad to miss our 15th class anniversary; hope to see the EHS crew soon!”

After a career as a Naval aviator flying F-18s, eighteen months ago, LCDR Michael Webb USN became Major Michael Webb, now flying for the Pennsylvania Air National Guard. Michael pilots Reaper drones for military missions somewhere in the world when he is not flying for United Parcel Service throughout North America.

three, Mary Killeen Lynch, on February 8. Big sisters, Maeve and Quinn, are so in love and adjusting nicely to having another girl around. Mom and dad hope to get all three girls to campus this spring for a lacrosse game!

Caroline Fedora Parker married Harrison Parker in Asheville, N.C., on September 10, 2022. They were so busy celebrating that they forgot to take a picture with EHS alumni Will Fedora ’03, Stephen Petrilli, Richard Lee, Margaret Anne McArver, Hillary Harper Molitor, and Mary White Martin ’04. Caroline says she’s sad to have missed the reunion last summer and can’t wait for the next one!

After riding out the pandemic in D.C., Christina Swaim moved to Charlotte, N.C., in March 2022, where she works remotely for a software company. She’s enjoying being closer to family and back in Tar Heel country again — so much so that she recently committed to the UNC MBA program and looks forward to beginning classes this fall.

Lila Warren lives in the mountains of East Tenn., with her husband, Tyler Hern, and their dog, Gravy. She stays busy working from home to manage all hunting and corporate reservations for Otter Creek Farmstead, a quail hunting lodge located in northeast Ala. She has also started a silversmithing jewelry business. In her free time, Lila is fly fishing somewhere or working on her vegetable and flower gardens.

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’06

Peebles Squire

(C) 434-594-4652 peebles.mobile@gmail.com

Molly Wheaton

(C) 504-247-8674 mewheaton@gmail.com

Joint 20th Reunion with 2006: June 2026

Margaret von Werssowetz Waters

Alston Armfield Daigh and husband, Alex, welcomed their third child, Henry Cabell Daigh, on September 15, 2022.

Their growing family recently relocated to Richmond, Va. Will Damron recorded his 600th audiobook last year and is busy auditioning for film and TV in Atlanta, as well as completing his second novel. He and actress January LaVoy were married in a private ceremony last summer in the backyard of their new house.

Phil Hudgens and Tabb Wyllie took a field trip to hit the slopes of Aspen this February.

Brennan Killeen Lynch and her husband Francis welcomed baby girl number

(C) 843-607-5788 margaretvonw@gmail.com Joint 20th Reunion with 2005: June 2026

Class of 2006 — In the words of my co-class correspondent Molly Wheaton, “happy freakin’ summer.” I had the pleasure of seeing Miller Cornelson on campus in February as he served on this year’s Advisory Council at the School. New York City living suits him just fine, and he continues to be the most suave guy to ever come out of Spartanburg, S.C. Frances deSaussure Murray also visited campus back in February, as she came to the much-belated christening of my son Charles.

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After Episcopal

Katie Walls Kruger ’04 Katie Walls Kruger ’04 always knew her success as a meteorologist would manifest outside of her small hometown of Lewisburg, West Virginia.

When she was only nine-years-old, she realized she wanted to report the weather to thousands of people daily. An avid student determined to pursue her dream, Kruger set out to find the strongest academic setting possible for high school, which she found at Episcopal.

“Meteorology is rooted in math and science, so I knew I needed a good calculus foundation,” Kruger said. “That’s where Mr. Rick Stubbs came in. He was integral in my Calculus AB journey.”

After graduating from Episcopal, Kruger obtained both a bachelor’s and master’s degree in Meteorology from Florida State University and Pennsylvania State University respectively. She has lived across the Midwest and East Coast reporting the weather in southern Illinois, Charlotte, Atlanta, and currently southwest Florida. She’s certified by the American Meteorological Society, a designation of professional distinction and recognition.

Kruger met her husband, Ryan, while they worked at the same news station in Illinois. They moved to Atlanta and had two boys, Kenneth (6) and Shade (3). “I have two Emmys, but my proudest accomplishment is being able to juggle a family and this life,” she said. “Being in television and working in news is a lifestyle; it is not a nine to five. Figuring out work-life balance has been difficult but rewarding.”

As she continues to excel in a male-dominated field, Kruger touched on some of the misogynistic commentary she has personally received on social media — derogatory phrases like “weather girl” and “weather bunny.” “I’m one of two who hold a Master of Science in the whole market. People also love to talk about what female meteorologists are wearing. I work extra hard so they focus on what I’m saying.”

Kruger hopes she will achieve her personal goals of educating others about the danger of severe weather — an occurrence that is becoming more common for her as she navigates a world of increasingly extreme temperature shifts. “My goal is to educate when it comes to climate change, even though it is highly politicized,” she expressed. “We can’t contribute one particular weather phenomenon or one event to climate change, but we can cite the Arctic ice and the jet stream as the main contributors to dangerous weather changes. That’s what I want to convey to people.”

Kruger considers herself, and all news personnel, “public servants” and finds joy in the gratitude of her viewers. Serving the southwest Florida market on WFTX-Fox4, she was the

lead meteorologist reporting on Hurricane Ian. She worked 18-hour shifts while her own home suffered significant damage.

“Enduring an event like Ian,” she reminisced about the storm that took the lives of 149 people, 72 in her home base of Lee County alone, “I was not okay. My own family took on major damage and was without power for eight days, but viewers were still thanking me and showing gratitude for staying with them on air and getting them through a Category 4 storm.”

The lessons Kruger learned at Episcopal helped her become the person and meteorologist she is today. After the devastating loss of her father her junior year, Kruger praised EHS for helping her navigate her mental health journey from a young age — lessons she still applies to her daily life.

“When it comes to the world of television, sometimes all it takes is one nasty viewer call or comment to send you spiraling,” Kruger emphasized. “I have a licensed professional counselor I talk to every other week. You can’t keep the negative energy pent up.”

She admires the friends she made at Episcopal for helping steer her in a positive direction following Hurricane Ian. “Friends like Sarah Wood ’03, Sally Flynt ’03, Sissie Strope ’04, and there are so many more that I could text at any time,” she said. “Episcopal gave us a great group of friends.

It was life changing and I am so blessed to have that kind of support.”

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they can walk and run. Speaking of which, I’m eagerly awaiting the baptism of my new god-daughter, Annie McNeil, daughter of Kingsley Trotter McNiel, aka KKMommy.

[She has not approved that new nickname.]

Also, Thomas Light welcomed his third child, Lane Preston Light, on November 3, 2022 — Congratulations!

Unfortunately on my turn to write our notes I have once again neglected my duties before the clock ran out, so everyone send Molly praise and Venmo tips for being superior to me. I promise to have more to report next time or to send an email update to our class this summer! Hope everyone is doing well and having fun out there.

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It was a family circus when Zach Chesson ’05 paid a visit to David Haoming Wang ’05 at his home in New York.

Katharine Farrar

(C) 540-460-2974 katharine.farrar@gmail.com

Joint 20th Reunion with 2008: June 2028

Lindsey Dorman Johnson’s “Weezie Towels” were featured on the TODAY SHOW, and she has been inundated with orders. Her mom, Susan, and her husband, David, actually helped her with some of her shipping because they had a backlog of 6,000 orders to ship.

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Lucy Glaize Frey

(C) 540-327-2267 lglaize@gmail.com

Joint 15th Reunion with 2009: June 2024

Greetings from the Class of ’08! Since we have to wait an extra year for our next reunion (which would’ve been this summer), I asked my classmates to contribute updates to make this edition of Class Notes “extra fun.” This ask did not produce a large number of contributions, but they are all particularly exciting.

Let’s get right to it with Whit Slagsvol’s updates on his unique and peculiar projects.

Whit shares that he has his first prototype demonstration for his military communications company at the end of March. He suggests that everyone buy a Block + Ink shirt to support him while clarifying that he is “no fashion tycoon Brett Johnson but [he’s] getting there.” I asked Whit why Block + Ink is superior and why we should buy a shirt. Per Whit, “every pattern is hand printed using ancient block printing methods, using blocks of wood carved. (Block print is also very in).

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Newlyweds Caroline Fedora Parker ’05 and Harrison Parker in Asheville, N.C. on September 10, 2022

Campbell, son of Madison Murray Carlos ’05, rocking some fresh EHS swag!

Phil Hudgens ’05, Tabb Wyllie ’05, and friends hitting the slopes in Aspen, Colo.

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Elizabeth Dale ’08 and Brian Uhrinek welcomed Anthony Dale Uhrinek in October 2022.

Alston Armfield Daigh’s ’05 three boys

Adelaide Maxwell, daughter of Clay Dunnan Maxwell ’08, in her Episcopal baby Issue.

Amanda Weisiger ’08 and Shaw ’04 Cornelson’s son, Cab Cornelson, showing off his Episcopal pride.

A group of girls from ’08 met up for a weekend in the Bahamas in January! L to R: Lucy Glaize Frey, Carson Roberts Paschal, Marguerite Kleinheinz Stoner, Liz McLean Hughes, Eleanor Galloway, Clay Dunnan Maxwell, Lily Fowle Halls, Eliza Coker Sheldon, Amanda Weisiger Cornelson, Leah Andress Brady, Ann Gordon Pelletier Eisenzimmer

Larry Owens ’08 (center) had a huge EHS turnout to his KC Cabaret performance at the Kennedy Center on March 3, 2023.

Celebrating the baptism of Weston Brady.

Back row L to R: Cooper Hopkins, Leah Andress Brady ’08, Ward Brady, David Brady, Shaw Cornelson ’04. Front row L to R: Weston Brady, Cab Cornelson, Amanda Weisiger Cornelson ’08.

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shirt could work at the beach or dressed up a bit!” I wonder if this style complies with Episcopal’s current dress code? Lastly, he’s still a lawyer, and he still hasn’t proposed, so “cool your jets.” (Of note, Whit did recently ask me for all of the Magazine prints where he mentions the proposal.)

Elizabeth Dale Uhrinek and her husband welcomed their son, Anthony Dale Uhrinek, on 10/01/2022. They also moved from Chicago, Ill., to Raleigh, N.C., in early 2023 to be closer to friends and family. Just in time to miss the frigid Midwest winter! Emily Urquhart also recently moved to Raleigh, and Anthony is already a big fan!

Grace Chesson has a lot to celebrate from 2022. She got married, and she and her husband, Kyle, moved to the UK! Emily Urquhart is going to visit Grace and Kyle this spring. It brings me comfort (and it’s no surprise!) that Emily’s move from D.C., not too long ago, hasn’t interfered with her regular Episcopal rendezvous.

Amanda Weisiger Cornelson delivered quite a few updates within a matter of minutes when I requested them. First up, she shared adorable pictures of Adelaide Maxwell (daughter of Clay Dunnan Maxwell) as well as a photo of Cab Cornelson (Amanda and Shaw’s ’04 son). They were each showing their Episcopal pride: Adelaide showing off her first Issue at home in Charleston, and Cab visiting his grandfather’s (Martin Cornelson ’79) old bedroom with an impressive wall of Episcopal memorabilia.

Weston Brady, son of Leah Andress Brady, was baptized in early January, with Amanda and Shaw ’04 as godparents. Weston will be joining Adelaide and Cab with the Episcopal gear and pride before we know it!

And a big congratulations to Ann deSaussure Biondi and Jamie Biondi on the birth of their second child, Calvin Ehrhardt “Hart” Biondi, born on March 7, 2023.

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Jeila Martin Kershaw

(C) 334-399-0386 jeilamartin@gmail.com

Haley Tenney

(C) 703-509-3117 09hmorga@gmail.com Joint 15th Reunion with 2008: June 2024

Gray Bryant and his wife, Emily, welcomed Barton “Bart” Bryant on November 21, 2022.

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Anderson Wasden ’09 with his wife Kirstin DiCecca Wasden and their new baby boy Wiley Anderson Wasden V “Quinn”

James ’10 and Regan Dorsett with their newborn James Kye Dorsett V

Celebrating Mary Frantz Roberts’ wedding day! L to R: Bill Mitchener ’76, Ruffin Mitchener ’11, John Glover ’81, Addison Bortz ’11, Preston Waldrop ’75, Cameron Baker ’11, Joanie Coker ’11, Mary Frantz Roberts ’11, Ab Boxley ’76, Liz Heebe-Russo ’11, Anne Maxwell Douglass ’11, Caroline Andress Byrne ’11, and Frances Belk Rassieur ’11

Anderson Wasden and his wife Kirstin DiCecca Wasden welcomed baby boy Wiley Anderson “Quinn” Wasden V on July 7, 2022.

James Williams says, “My wife and I actually just moved to Guam for her military service a couple weeks ago, which has been exciting, and we’ll be here for the next 2.5 years.”

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Whitt Clement

(C) 804-477-5732 whitt.clement@gmail.com Joint 15th Reunion with 2011: June 2026

Many exciting life updates to report from the Class of 2010!

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Author Palmer Smith ’13 Visits with the Student Book Club The librarians at David H. March Library teamed up with the student book club to welcome published author Palmer Smith ’13 back to campus. After reading excerpts from her book, “The Butterfly Bruises,” in Bryan Library, Smith told six members of the book club (and some alumni friends who also attended the event!) stories about her writing career and answered any questions they had. “Everyone had come in having read Palmer’s book, and we were able to ask questions about her writing process, how she chose which poems she wanted to include, and how she got into writing,” Banks Krause ’23, president of the club, said.

Palmer Smith ’13 was back in Bryan Library with the Book Club. L to R: Selah Stiebel ’24, Ava Foulk ’23, Amelia Davis ’23, Meg Gray ’24, Rio Torres ’23, Banks Krause ’23, Palmer Smith ’13, Mackenzie Nichols ’11, James Lilley ’14, and Mary Robert Carter ’13

Brennan McCann ’13, Ollie Fosu ’13, and Eric McDonald ’13

On November 15, 2022, Elliott Bryans VanMeter was born in Nashville, Tenn., to J.T. VanMeter and his wife, Sarah!

On February 6, 2023, James Dorsett and his wife Regan welcomed James Kye Dorsett V in Charlotte, N.C.!

On February 13, 2023, Liza Goodloe Cowden was born in Lexington, Ky., to Lee Cowden and his wife, Chandler!

The boys report that everyone is feeling sleep deprived, but all three mothers and babies are healthy. Congrats guys!

We are very glad to get Beirne Hutcheson back in the States from his Army deployment to Ghana. He returned home in February to family and friends in Fort Bragg, N.C. Last but not least, I can attest that Pen Jones and Will Winkenwerder are both living life in NYC to the fullest, where I met them for dinner recently. Both are doing great and keeping busy with jobs in the software and finance industries. If you find yourself this way, let us know!

Keep the updates coming! Until next time.

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Connor Gallegos

(C) 703-919-4833 connorgallegos92@gmail.com

Joint 15th Reunion with 2010: June 2026

The Class of 2011 continues to stay busy, and here are a few updates.

Hunter Fairchild ’11 married Katie Jordan on October 14, 2022.

After completing her Ph.D. at Columbia University this spring, Cat Lambert will be moving to Ithaca, NY, to begin a job as an Assistant Professor in the Classics Department at Cornell. She would like to thank Jeff Streed — sine quo non — for his inspiring teaching and generous support at EHS and beyond.

Solly Thomas retired from the Marines and is now an attorney in Birmingham.

Anthony De Riggs is living in Buffalo, and he has a 9-month-old daughter named Sofia.

Mary Frantz Roberts married Andrew Roberts in Jackson Hole on July 9, 2022.

Charlie Marshall moved to London as his wife is getting a master’s LSE.

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Celeste Jones

(C) 434-414-4696 jonescelesteh@gmail.com

Joint 15th Reunion with 2013: June 2028

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Somer Glubiak

(C) 804-370-5886 sglubiak@gwu.edu

Joint 10th Reunion with 2014: June 2024

Ollie Fosu writes: “I’m currently stationed in Fla., but should be back in the D.C. area early next year. I’m doing engineering work for the government, so things have been very interesting here. I can’t believe it’s been almost 10 years! Glad I had the chance to catch up with Eric McDonald and Brennan McCann a couple weeks back.”

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Cici Sobin

(C) 703-999-1277 cici.sobin@gmail.com

Joint 10th Reunion with 2013: June 2024

Charlotte Hunt graduated from UNCChapel Hill dental school on May 6, 2022, and moved to St. Petersburg, Fla., for her residency program.

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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 Joint 10th Reunion with 2016: June 2026

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Kelsey Anderson

(C) 703-624-6968 kelseymanderson4@gmail.com

Andrew Karo

Whit Nuckolls ’21, McClain Brooks ’21, and Lucy Bland ’21 at The Sulgrave Club in The District of Columbia.

(C) 804-592-9640 andrew@andrewkaro.com Priscilla Barton-Metcalfe

(C) 727-410-8746 16bartop@gmail.com Joint 10th Reunion with 2015: June 2026

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Halle Hughes

(C) 904-322-2828 hughes.halle@me.com LizaBanks Campagna

(C) 202-650-7687 lizabankscampagna@gmail.com Joint 10th Reunion with 2018: June 2028

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Lexi Weger

(C) 571-721-8585 aweger@princeton.edu

Joint 5th Reunion with 2019: June 2024

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Olivia Tucker

(C) 415-361-1561 olivia.tucker@yale.edu Lilly Whitner

(C) 904-504-5027 lfwhitner@gmail.com Joint 5th Reunion with 2018: June 2024

The Class of 2019 has been busy! By the time this issue is published, most of us will have (fingers crossed) graduated and started our first real jobs. As of the early spring, this is what we were up to: Both Thomas Windels and Ben Korkowski are moving to NYC this summer! Thomas is hoping to start a career in the entertainment industry and told us that 88

Quinn Ainslie ’15, Brooks Davy ’15, and Ford Ainslie ’14 on top of Mt. Yotei in Hokkaido, Japan.

recently, he’s “seen [his] close buddies Peter Mathews, Jacob Morgan, Will Smith, and Geordie Hendricks as well as Mr. Stubbs.

Hope everyone is enjoying their last semester of school!” On a similar note, Ben had this message: “For anyone else moving to the city, I’d love to reconnect, whether it be housing-related or for just a meal. I wish everyone a great end to our senior year of college and a strong start to post-grad plans, whatever they might be!”

Two alumni told us they’ll be joining the armed forces after college: James Dixon is

McClain Brooks ’21 and Whit Nuckolls ’21 at the Christmas Debutante Ball presented

by The Washington Assembly at The Sulgrave Club in The District of Columbia.

commissioning into the United States Army as an infantry officer, and Barrett Carney is heading down to Pensacola to train as a combat systems officer in the Air Force. They’ve kept plenty busy in the meantime: James said he went snowboarding with Kidron Kollin in Vermont this past winter and that he’ll be graduating from UNC-Chapel Hill in May with degrees in political science and Chinese. Barrett recently visited Arden Faires at Virginia Tech and also ran the Atlanta half-marathon.

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After Episcopal

Luiji Vilain ’17 Luiji Vilain ’17, who grew up in Canada, fell in love with football at around 10-years-old when his aunt convinced him to go to one practice. While he excelled athletically, he realized the only path to his dream job in the NFL was to play football in America. To achieve this goal, he followed Jonathan Sutherland ’17 and Patrice Rene ’16, two fellow Canadians who happened to be his best friends, to Episcopal.

“Jonathan and Patrice got in touch with former EHS head coach Panos Voulgaris and decided The High School was the place for them,” Vilain remembered.

“When I got to join them, it was pretty exciting because we knew we could do amazing things together at Episcopal.”

After arriving on campus in the fall of 2015, Vilain led Episcopal to an 8-1 record in 2016 with a 5-0 mark in conference play. He notched 45 tackles and eight sacks during his senior season. He also made 60 tackles, including 15.5 tackles for loss, four-and-a-half sacks, and recorded three forced fumbles as a junior. He was ranked as a four-star prospect and the third overall player in Virginia by 247 Sports. Vilain completed his high school career with a selection to the prestigious 2017 Under Armour All-America Game, where he was one of 100 players selected to train and compete at the highest level for a week in Orlando, Fla. “Luiji is probably the best player I have ever coached,” said Kadeem Rodgers of Vilain’s high school career. “His athleticism is obvious, but his dedication, passion, and I.Q. were the catalyst for his development.”

Villain’s incredible skills catapulted him to a Division I school when he signed to play football at the University of Michigan. In his junior and senior seasons, he appeared in 12 games for the Wolverines and logged 11 tackles, one sack, and one forced fumble. Post-graduation, he decided to join Wake Forest University as a graduate student, where he played 12 games, recording 34 tackles and a team-high 10 sacks.

“Although my time at Wake Forest was short, it was probably the best time I had in college football,” Vilain reminisced.

“I did a lot of growing in my time at Wake, and that was mainly because of my teammates and coaches. I’m extremely grateful for that experience.”

Vilain went undrafted after his solo season with the Demon Deacons but was eventually picked up by the Minnesota Vikings and signed to the 53-man roster. “Ever since I was a kid, I told myself that I was going to get to the NFL. I didn’t know how, and I didn’t know when, but I knew

I was going to get there,” he said of his childhood dream.

“There were times where it was tough, but I’m here now, so it obviously worked out.”

Coming off a divisional win, making the playoffs, and being crowned the NFC North Champions were markers of a record setting rookie season for Vilain. During his first NFL off season, he is dedicating most of his time to training. “The goal is to get better at my sport and continue to climb the ladder,” the 25-year-old said about his short-term ambitions.

“I’m just taking things day by day and not looking too far into the future.”

Vilain’s proudest accomplishment remains receiving his degree from Michigan. “To say that I got to finish at one of the top five public universities in America is definitely a big accomplishment for me. I was the type of person who didn’t really enjoy the classroom, but as time went on, I matured and realized that I’m going to have to do things that I don’t want to, so I might as well do it at a high level,” he said.

Vilain reflected on building his discipline and routine on and off the turf while at Episcopal. “I hope the current students know to enjoy every single day. Everything that I did throughout my day at Episcopal built a routine that carried me through college and continues to stick in the NFL.”

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Our career-oriented classmates have been hard at work: Bobby Hood said he’s currently studying for the LSAT and planning on enrolling in law school in the fall of 2024. Daman Yang recently “finished [his] second co-op designing QC tests for a robotics manufacturing line, now working on [his] capstone project building a remote-control underwater drone.” He’s also gotten together with a handful of fellow alums, including Jerry Chen, Mei Kuo, Kate Castle, Morin Tinubu, Debby Lee ’21, and Esther Kim, and became roommates with Christian Etherton ’05, who told him that EHS freshmen “used to be taught how to juggle.”

Across the pond, Margo Cahill reports that she reclaimed her Luxembourg nationality to become a dual citizen!

As for your faithful class correspondents, Lilly Whitner is moving to Washington, D.C., to work for Accenture Federal Services, and Olivia Tucker is moving to Boston to go into luxury event planning.

Everyone: let us know where you’re heading post-grad, and we can connect you to alums in the same city! Y’all can assemble a little travel group to make the trek to reunion together next June!

Until then, and as always, God bless The High School.

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South Wallace

(C) 843-973-0626 20wallas@episcopalhighschool.org Joint 5th Reunion with 2020: June 2026

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Izzy McGhee Chavez ’22, Yoyo Wang ’22, Clara Brooks ’22, Aaron Lindsey ’21, Alexa Papandreou ’22, Gigi Friedman ’21, Debby Lee ’21, and Marco Uustal ’21 out to dinner in D.C.

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SS Singh

(C) 732-586-9788 ssinghseeds@gmail.com

Joint 5th Reunion with 2021: June 2026

McClain Brooks was presented as a Debutante in The District of Columbia at The Sulgrave Club by The Washington Assembly at their Christmas Dinner Dance.

McClain was escorted by Whit Nuckolls.

Anne Nuckolls, Ellen Bland, and Lucy Bland were also in attendance. She is a sophomore at Sewanee, where she is majoring in Neuroscience, a member of Theta Pi sorority, a proctor and acolyte. She is the daughter of Allison Louise Priebe ’94 and Michael Stafford Brooks of Alexandria, Va.

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Class Correspondents Needed

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.

Joint 5th Reunion with 2023: June 2028

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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.

Clark A. Gant to Lela Gant ’96 on July 20, 2022

Schuyler Williams ’00 to Bart Seifert on October 15, 2022

Vaughan Adler Hollis to Candy Vaughan Hollis ’96 and Preston Hollis on January 28, 2023 Mary Elizabeth Barnes to Brice Lohr Barnes ’00 and Houston Barnes ’00 on January 23, 2023

Calvin Earhardt “Hart” Biondi to Ann deSaussure Biondi ’08 and Jamie Biondi on March 7, 2023 Anthony Dale Uhrinek to Elizabeth Dale Uhrinek ’08 and Brian Uhrinek on October 1, 2022 Barton “Bart” Bryant to Gray ’09 and Emily Bryant on November 21, 2022

Elizabeth Pope ’00 to Stephen Sayle on November 26, 2022 Elliott Conklin ’01 recently married Lauren Siegel Andrew Farrar ’02 to Haley Habenicht on September 10, 2022

Laird Shook to Clarissa Chenoweth Shook ’04 and Michael Shook on August 23, 2022

Wiley Anderson “Quinn” Wasden V to Anderson ’09 and Kirstin Wasden on July 7, 2022

Millie Edith Williams to Charlie ’04 and Jessie Williams on August 16, 2022

Liza Goodloe Cowden to Lee ’10 and Chandler Cowden on February 13, 2023

Will Damron ’05 to January LaVoy in summer 2022

Henry Cabell Daigh to Alston Armfield Daigh ’05 and Alex Daigh on September 15, 2022

James Kye Dorsett V to James ’10 and Regan Dorsett on February 6, 2023

Caroline Fedora ’05 to Harrison Parker on September 10, 2022

Elliott Bryans VanMeter to J.T. ’10 and Sarah VanMeter on November 15, 2022

Grace Chesson ’08 to Kyle Hawley on June 16, 2022

Mary Killeen Lynch to Brennan Killeen Lynch ’05 and Francis Lynch on February 8, 2023 Lane Preston Light to Thomas ’06 and Kate Light on November 3, 2022

Lyle Farrar ’04 to Loftin Johnson on June 3, 2022

Hunter Fairchild ’11 to Katie Jordan on October 14, 2022 Mary Frantz ’11 to Andrew Roberts on July 9, 2022

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In Memoriam

In Memoriam includes deceased alumni as reported to Episcopal High School on or before February 17, 2023.

George Walton Williams IV ’40

of Durham, N.C., on February 25, 2022 At Episcopal, Mr. Williams was a member of choir, played spring tennis, and won the Launcelot Minor Blackford Memorial Award for Excellence in Latin.

Mr. Williams is survived by his wife, Harriet, as well as three children and two grandchildren.

Daniel Peyton “Dan” Sullivan ’47

of Falls Church, Va., on October 30, 2022 At Episcopal, Mr. Sullivan was a Monitor and a member of Fairfax Literary Society, Missionary Society, glee club, and E Club. He was on the Chronicle Board and an editor. He played varsity football, varsity basketball, and Centennial basketball.

Mr. Sullivan is survived by his wife, Margaret, four children, brother, three grandchildren, and many nieces and nephews.

Dr. Karl Kenneth “K.K.” Wallace Jr. ’50

of Charlottesville, Va., on November 27, 2022

Robert Kirkwood Kennon “Ken” Jones ’53

of Stuart, Fla., on October 21, 2022

At Episcopal, Mr. Jones was a Monitor and a member of The Chronicle, E Club, glee club, choir, Missionary Society, dramatics, and Egypt. He played varsity football, ran varsity track, and wrestled. Mr. Jones was president of Whispers, secretary of Fairfax Literary Society, Valedictorian, and won the 2d Debater’s Medal and the Beaudric L. Howell track and field award.

Mr. Jones is survived by his wife, Helen, three children, two grandchildren, and many nieces and nephews.

Lawrence Mitchell “Ted” Scarborough Jr. ’53

of Hockessin, Del., on October 5, 2022

At Episcopal, Mr. Scarborough was a Monitor and schoolroom keeper. He played varsity football, varsity basketball, cake football, and ran track. Mr. Scarborough was a member of choir, E Club, Egypt, Missionary Society, and Blackford Literary Society.

Mr. Scarborough is survived by his wife, Dolly, son, Edmund Christian Scarborough ’87, brother, stepsister, and three stepdaughters.

At Episcopal, Dr. Wallace was a Monitor and a member of Whispers, The Chronicle, dramatics, Blackford Literary Society, and rifle team. He ran varsity winter track and played varsity baseball.

Dr. Wallace is survived by his wife, Patricia, three children, brother, and five grandchildren.

We are proud to honor each departed alumnus and celebrate the contributions each made to Episcopal and their respective communities.

Scan to read full their obituaries.

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John Maurice Trask Jr. ’54

Henry Cannon Spalding Jr. ’56

of Beaufort, S.C., on January 4, 2023

of Richmond, Va., on January 13, 2023

At Episcopal, Mr. Trask was a Monitor, usher, post office keeper, The Chronicle and Whispers photography editor, and secretary for Fairfax Literary Society.

He was a member of chapel committee, dramatics club, and Egypt. John ran varsity track and cross country. He won the Debater’s Medal for Fairfax Literary Society in 1954.

Mr. Trask served on Episcopal’s Board of Trustees from 1982-88 and 1990-91. He and the Trask Family supported the creation of Trask Terrace “...for the future enjoyment of all who teach and all who learn here.”

Mr. Trask is survived by his wife, Caroline; four children, including John Maurice Trask III ’81, Dr. Samuel Clark Trask ’85, and Patrick G. Trask ’88; brothers George Graham Trask ’58, Frederick Graham Trask ’63, Charles Heide Trask ’59; 10 grandchildren, including Isabelle Flora Trask ’11 and Josephine duBignon Trask ’20; and cousin Hannah Huffines Amick ’99. He was predeceased by his fatherin-law, Sam Nash Clark ’31, and nephew, Christian Whitmire Trask ’88.

At Episcopal, Mr. Spalding was a Monitor and track manager. He ran winter track and played JV football. Mr. Spalding was a member of Whispers, The Chronicle, choir, dramatics, Missionary Society, Wilmer Literary Society, and secretary and vice president of Fairfax Literary Society.

Mr. Spalding served on Episcopal’s Board of Trustees from 1985-1989.

He is survived by his wife, Alice; three children, including son Henry C. Spalding III ’84; cousin, P. Noble Powell Jr. ’77; and six grandchildren. He was predeceased by his uncle, Basil Dennis Spalding ’34.

William Watson Barnes ’55

of Wilson, N.C., on November 5, 2022 At Episcopal, Mr. Barnes was a Monitor and a member of glee club, Egypt, and Missionary Society. He played varsity football.

Mr. Barnes is survived by his wife, Sally, son, nephew James Lucas Barnes III ’74, four stepchildren, and nine grandchildren. He was predeceased by his brother James Lucas Barnes Jr. ’51.

James Kegebein “Jim” Dunton ’55

Albert “Bert” Ritchie II ’57

of Knoxville, Tenn., on October 12, 2022 ​​ At Episcopal, Mr. Ritchie was a Monitor, waiter, usher, and schoolroom keeper. He was a member of the Honor Committee, E Club, and glee club. Mr. Ritchie was the president of Fairfax Literary Society, vice president of Daemon, president of Missionary Society, and editor for Whispers and The Chronicle. He played varsity football, varsity track, and soccer. Mr. Ritchie won the R. Walton Moore Medal for Reading, the Boyd Taylor Cummings Medal for Best Work on Publications, and the J.C. Herbert Bryant Scholarship Medal.

Mr. Ritchie is survived by his wife, Jennie; two children; brother, John Ritchie Jr. ’50; four grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews.

William Cantrell “Bill” Goodwyn Jr. ’58 of San Antonio, Texas., on May 23, 2022

of Pasadena, Calif., on December 23, 2022 At Episcopal, Mr. Dunton was a member of choir, glee club, dramatics, Egypt, Missionary Society, and Fairfax Literary Society.

Mr. Dunton is survived by his wife, Nancy; four children; brother, Ammon Gresham Dunton Jr. ’53; six grandchildren, three nieces, and nephew, James L. Dunton ’96.

At Episcopal, Mr. Goodwyn ran track, played football, and was on the rifle team. He was a member of choir, glee club, dramatics, and Blackford Literary Society.

Mr. Goodwyn is survived by his wife, Judith, two stepchildren, two grandchildren, and a sister. He was predeceased by his father, William Cantrell Goodwyn Class of 1913.

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Stephan Watkins Ward ’59

of Nashville, Tenn., on September 27, 2022 At Episcopal, Mr. Ward was a member of Wilmer Literary Society and played cake football, junior basketball, and tennis.

Mr. Ward is survived by his wife, Helen, four children, and nine grandchildren. He was predeceased by stepbrother William Darr Hall ’72.

J. Norton Cabell ’64

of Eugene, Ore., on September 16, 2021 At Episcopal, Mr. Cabell played cake football, junior soccer, and ran track. He was a member of Wilmer Literary Society.

Mr. Cabell is survived by his brother, Richard Aylett Cabell Jr., ’61. He was predeceased by his cousin, Mayo Cabell, ’62.

Dr. Robert Farish “Dee” Percy ’64

of Jacksonville, Fla., on October 10, 2022 At Episcopal, Dr. Percy was a Monitor and a member of E Club, The Chronicle, Whispers, Missionary Society, Wilmer Literary Society, and Grins & Grimaces.

Dr. Percy played varsity soccer, JV baseball, JV football, and cake football.

Dr. Percy is survived by his brothers, William Alexander Percy II ’57 and LeRoy Pratt Percy Jr. ’60; nephews, William Alexander Percy IV ’88 and LeRoy Davis Percy ’89; nephew-in-law, Charles Elis Olsson ’82; and other EHS relatives, Sarah Gamble Karls ’00, Innes Gamble Boland ’02, Maja Percy Olsson ’14, Elizabeth Lanier Olsson ’11, and John Percy Moores ’97. He was predeceased by father, LeRoy Pratt Percy Sr. ’34.

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Frank Whitaker Louis ’65

of Suffield, Conn., on December 4, 2022 At Episcopal, Mr. Louis was a Monitor, Whispers editor, and library keeper. He was a member of Missionary Society, Wilmer Literary Society, Blackford Literary Society, and The Chronicle. Mr. Louis played varsity soccer, Greenway baseball, JV football, cake football, and ran track. He won the Whittle Prize during his time at Episcopal.

Mr. Louis is survived by his two sons, daughter-in-law, and grandchild.

Edward Berrien “Sandy” Sanders III ’65

of Walterboro, S.C., on December 18, 2022

At Episcopal, Mr. Sanders was a member of Missionary Society, Fairfax Literary Society, and Blackford Literary Society. He played varsity baseball, JV football, and wrestled.

Mr. Sanders is survived by his wife, Peggy, two daughters, two brothers, four grandchildren, and many nieces and nephews.

George Anderson Harrison ’74

of Denver, Colo., on October 16, 2021

At Episcopal, Mr. Harrison was a JV wrestler, ran varsity track, and was co-captain of varsity cross country.

He was a member of the Athletic Advisory Board, E Club, and Energy Conservation Club.

Mr. Harrison is survived by his partner, Jacki Bartley; his sisters, including Mary Harrison Kevil; who served on Episcopal’s Board of Trustees from 1999-2005 and 2006-12. Nephews, Julian Harrison Keevil ’01, Peter Vincent Webb ’03, Alexander Anderson Keevil ’04, and Edward Allingham Armstrong III ’07; and other EHS relatives, Elizabeth Harrison Carrington ’06, Catherine Harrison Culp ’09, and Fielding Lewis Harrison ’11. He was predeceased by father, David Alexander Harrison III ’35, and uncles, Richard David Harrison ’42 and James G. Harrison ’43. Mr. Harrison’s brother, David Alexander Harrison IV ’63, died on April 13, 2022.

Walter Stauffer Skold ’79

of Freeport, Maine, on January 20, 2018 At Episcopal, Mr. Skold played cake football, ran winter track, and was a member of the wrestling team.

Mr. Skold is survived by his five children, mother, two siblings, two grandchildren, and the mother of his children.

Benjamin Sevier Blackburn ’01

of Nashville, Tenn., on October 13, 2022 At Episcopal, Mr. Blackburn was captain of varsity wrestling and ran varsity track. He was a member of the outdoor program and was a weight room monitor.

Mr. Blackburn is survived by his mother, father, stepmother, sister, stepsister, niece, nephew, and many family members.

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Prayer

from School Chaplain Rev. Betsy Carmody

O God of grace and glory, we remember before you this day our departed alumni.

We thank you for giving them to us, their family and friends, to know and to love as companions on our earthly pilgrimage.

In your boundless compassion, console all who mourn. Give us faith to see in death the gate of eternal life, so that in quiet confidence we may continue our course on Earth, until, by your call, we are reunited with those who have gone before; through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Amen.

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CHAPEL TALK

Being the Light Senior Virginia Keen spoke in Chapel this spring about how her final theatrical role as Lumière in “Beauty and the Beast” perfectly encapsulated her time at Episcopal. An excerpt from her speech follows.

Last weekend, I played Lumière in our school’s production of “Beauty and the Beast.” Lumière the candlestick both figuratively and literally serves as a light during dark and desolate moments. His sole purpose is to serve and ensure that everyone is happy and having a good time, which is reflected in his energy and his treatment of others. As I worked on developing Lumière as a character, I realized I have strived to embody this same type of character and spirit throughout my time at Episcopal.

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I greatly enjoyed the beginning of my time at Episcopal, from the traditions of Dorm Games and The Game, to the rigor of my new courses and late-night dorm camaraderie.

Life was good, and life was fun at EHS. September turned to December, and the cold, dark winter moved in. As a girl from Florida, I was used to sunshine and salty air all year long. In December in Florida, I would oftentime take a quick dip in the ocean after classes to rejuvenate and refresh. Clearly, plunging in the EHS pond was not a viable alternative! I found myself missing the sunlight.

As I experienced my first sense of the “winter blues,” I felt low and isolated. Looking back, I see how different people reached out and shared their light in various ways.

For example, Caroline Nolan, my next-door neighbor, would bring me into her room for late-night ice cream, movies, and conversation. My monitors and prefects were like big sisters and were always there for me. After the passing of my grandmother, all of my teachers (particularly Mrs. Pugh on dorm) comforted and surrounded me with compassion. In the counseling office, Ms. Kollaros always had an open door and was an additional source of strength. With all of this support, the “blues” dissipated and the sun started to appear out from the clouds.

During my sophomore year, I made an active choice to surround myself with people who were encouraging and uplifting as winter arrived and the Covid-19 pandemic continued. In turn, I now felt equipped to help others.

During the infamous Covid year, it was easy for many people to focus on the challenges and negatives around us; however, there were also so many things to be grateful for and so many positives to accentuate.

I tried to think of different ways to lift people’s spirits, however goofy the activity might be. As spring arrived, a few close friends challenged me to secretly suit up as the Easter Bunny and hop around campus. While it might seem silly, many said it brought a smile to their face or made them laugh. I felt like I truly came into my own and gained confidence during this period.

This led to my willingness to define myself in new ways and try different things that I had always wanted to do. Last winter, instead of doing indoor track and field again, I ventured out of my comfort zone, and tried out for “Legally Blonde.” I was assigned a smaller role, and I purposed to infuse my character with impact and meaning.

With theater, my EHS world opened up to a whole new wonderful group of people. I made valuable friendships, had a blast performing, and experienced joy throughout the winter.

Flash forward to this year, there wasn’t even a question as to whether I would try out for the musical. After auditions, I learned that I had been assigned the part of Lumière. I was thrilled. I strengthened my friendships from the year before and made new friends in the present cast. The part gave me the chance to be humorous on stage, and perhaps bring joy and light to others.

It’s hard to believe that my time at Episcopal is coming to a close, because it has shaped so much of who I am. Coming here was truly the best decision I’ve ever made. As in life in general, there have been highs and lows, but I am grateful for the individuals and community that have been here to support me.

In the end, I’ve learned you don’t need gold metallic pants and a bunny costume to give light to others. I believe we can all spread light and support for each other here on The Holy Hill and beyond to have a positive influence in ways that we may not be aware of. This light isn’t necessarily a spotlight on you; it’s giving that light away to others.

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A Grand Opening Amid cheers from students, faculty, and staff, Boota ’76 and Shelley deButts cut the maroon ribbon to officially open the new deButts Health & Wellness Center this spring.