Hutchison Magazine | May 2021

T H E S C H O O L M A G A Z I N E • M AY 2 0 2 1

Following a Passion

KIMBERLY GLANKLER HOLLEY ’94

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BLACK AND GOLD spirit was at an all-time high when these first-grade girls welcomed back Hutchison’s state championship basketball team! See more photos of the celebration on page 12.

Photograph by Linda Winchester

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Photograph by Brandon Dill

“ AS SOMEONE WHO CLEARLY FOLLOWED HER PASSIONS

IN LIFE, I DON’T THINK YOU CAN PUT A MEASURE ON HOW IMPORTANT IT IS, FOR YOUNG GIRLS ESPECIALLY, TO BE ENCOURAGED TO DO WHATEVER THEY WANT TO DO.

— K I M B E R LY G L A N K L E R H O L L E Y ’ 9 4

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CONTENTS FEATURES

ALUMNAE NEWS

8 Congratulations to the Class of 2021

38 Alumnae Award Honorees

10 Class of 2021 Acceptances

40 Milestones: Marriages, Births & Adoptions, Memorials

12 Hutchison Sting Wins State Championship 14 Theatre: Bringing Back Beehive 16 If It’s Friday, It Must Be Gov Club 18 Seniors on Black History Month Panel Pay It Forward ALUMNAE PROFILES 20 Kimberly Glankler Holley ’94 Learning to Say “Yes”

39 Alumnae Weekend Highlights

42 Professionally Speaking 44 Class Notes D E PA R T M E N T S 3 Are You Following Us? 32 Giving Day Thank You 33 Golf Scramble 56 Express Yourself!

Lower School Artwork

26 Julie Caskey-Reichmuth ’84

Finding the Thread: A Film Editor’s Journey

34 Naja Shabazz ’01

From Inspired to Hired Hutchison | 1

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M E S S AG E | F R O M T H E H E A D O F S C H O O L

dear friends, Dreams inspire us to try something new, learn something different, and possibly travel a route we didn’t expect. Sometimes we work toward a dream and discover that it’s not quite right for us. Some dreams may not fully materialize. Then there are those dreams that lead us to a truly fulfilling life.

I am thrilled to have landed my dream job as head of school at Hutchison. I worked hard to get here, and I have found an organization that inspires me to be my best, every day. There are challenging days, for sure, but when I see the joy of discovery in our youngest girls’ eyes, or the accomplishments of our confident upper school girls, I know that we are doing vital work.

Our school’s marketing tagline is “Anywhere she can imagine.” We truly believe our girls can

Dr. Kristen Ring

do anything, and we infuse this ethos throughout our curriculum and extracurricular activities.

By creating engaging classroom experiences, our teachers inspire our girls to go after what they are passionate about, whether it’s excelling in a science lab, becoming proficient in another language, interpreting a dramatic scene on the stage, finding their voice in writing, competing victoriously on the field or court, or any number of other pursuits. Whatever it is, we are there to encourage our girls to follow their passions.

I always find it fascinating to hear the stories of our alumnae. The three featured in this issue have all taken different paths to their dream jobs. Their stories show us that persistence pays off and that saying “yes” opens up opportunities we might not have considered before. They also teach us that we’re not alone; it’s through the support and inspiration of others that we often reach higher.

I encourage you to keep working toward your dreams, and remember to lift up others to do the same.

Warmly,

Kristen Ring, Ed.D. President and Head of School

MISSION

E D I TO R

P H OTO G R A P H Y

Hutchison School is dedicated to

Max Maddock

Cathy Barber, Brandon Dill, Erin Elise,

a c a d e m i c exc e l l e n c e a n d t o t h e

Director of Communications

Cali Godley, Gabrielle Prewitt,

p a ra l l e l d eve l o p m e n t o f m i n d , b o d y,

mmaddock@hutchisonschool.org

Katherine Redd ’21, Mary Riddle,

a n d sp i ri t a s it educates yo ung wo men f o r s u cce s s i n co l l e g e a n d fo r l i ve s o f

C O N S U LT I N G E D I TO R

integrity and responsible citizenship.

Lori Guy

H U TC H I S O N M AG A Z I N E

lguy@hutchisonschool.org

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Director of Strategy

Caroline Schaefer ’08, Mark Weber, Linda Winchester, and various Hutchison constituents Hutchison Magazine is published by the Hutchison Communications Office.

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PRESIDENT AND HEAD OF SCHOOL

Mary Aubrey Landrum Stafford ’10

Kristen D. Ring, Ed.D.

mstafford@hutchisonschool.org

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DESIGNER

MEMPHIS, TN 38119

Barbara Himber

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Lower School: Engineers in the Making

Early Childhood: Learning About the Heart Junior kindergarten scientists gained hands-on learning experience dissecting sheep hearts. Our upper school science teacher visited and talked to them about the science behind our bodies and how our hearts work. They discussed the four chambers of the heart, veins and arteries, how important it is to eat heart-healthy foods, and why our hearts beat faster when we exercise.

First-grade girls used the engineering process and their knowledge of balance, weighing, perimeter, and area to build tables. Each table had to hold all their food, but none of the food could touch. After drawing the design blueprints, the girls built the tables and tested them with weights to see if they would hold all the food. If not, they had to reflect on what changes needed to be made and redesign.

Upper School: Computer Science Award

Middle School: Digging It! Sixth-grade girls studied different types of fossils and how they are created. They worked with kits that include a 50million-year-old fossil matrix from an area located on the coastal plain of North Carolina, which was covered by the ocean millions of years ago. They sifted through their sediment using a microscope and then put them all on Padlet, a web app that lets users post notes on a digital wall, to comment on each other’s findings.

Once again, Hutchison earned the College Board AP Computer Science Female Diversity Award. Hutchison is one of only 232 schools nationwide to be recognized for its work toward equal gender representation and expansion of girls’ access to AP Computer Science courses during the 2019-2020 school year. Research shows women are more likely to pursue computer science if they’re given the opportunity to explore it in high school.

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SENIOR SPOTLIGHTS

Cates ’21 Awarded Forty Acres Scholarship

Sokoloff ’21 Named National Merit Finalist

Frances Cates ’21 was awarded a Forty Acres Scholarship from The University of Texas at Austin, a highly competitive full-ride, merit-based scholarship. She plans to enroll in the Plan II Honors Program, a four-year interdisciplinary arts and science honors major. As a Certificate of Science Scholar at Hutchison, Cates has spent every summer since ninth grade maximizing opportunities to shadow medical professionals in the community. It’s this intellectual curiosity that the Forty Acres Scholarship recognizes.

Jamie Sokoloff ’21 was named a finalist in the National Merit Scholarship Program. To make it to this stage is an impressive accomplishment: each year there are 1.6 million entrants to the competition, but only about 16,000 are named finalists. Sokoloff, a talented equestrian and aspiring neurosurgeon, plans to attend Duke University in the fall.

As part of Hutchison’s Certificate of Science program, she participated in a virtual program with the University of Chicago this past summer that focused on molecular cloning, gene expression and sequencing, and amplifying DNA.

Halliday ’21 is a Girl Who Means Business Caroline Halliday’s ’21 leadership in and out of the classroom earned her recognition as a “2021 Girl Who Means Business,” an honor bestowed

by The Memphis Business Journal on young women who contribute to their community and “embody so much of what we wish to see in generations to come,” according to the publication. In the summer of 2020, as part of her social science certificate project, Halliday managed the Hutchison farm and then shared the bounty of her harvest at New Hope Christian Academy’s farmer’s market, giving families hard hit by the pandemic access to fresh produce.

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Hutchison Girls Excel at World Language Fair

Learning the Pledge in Sign Language ¡Stupendo! Hutchison girls won a total of 27 medals at The University of Memphis 2020 World Language Fair, demonstrating their knowledge of Chinese, Latin, and Spanish. The event occurred virtually this year. Our girls submitted online entries with the support of Chinese teacher Laoshī Hong Lin, Latin teacher Ms. Virginia Baird, and Spanish teacher Señora María Teresa Evans.

Because of health and safety precautions, girls are not singing in chapel this year. Instead, they’ve been learning sign language. Lower school music teacher Rachel Randall, with the help of a University of Memphis professor, taught the girls American Sign Language (ASL) for a few songs they typically sing in chapel, such as our alma mater. Since they say the “Pledge of Allegiance” every day in class, they decided to learn how to sign the Pledge.

Following The Gingerbread Man Hutchison alumna Ruth Wood Garrett ’05 visited with pre-kindergarten girls virtually and read her new book, The Gingerbread Man in Memphis, as part of the girls’ annual study of gingerbread men. During her visit, Ruth talked about the role of an author and how going to Hutchison gave her the tools she needed to become an author. Girls begin their gingerbread study by comparing and contrasting the different characters from all the stories they read. Then they bake their own gingerbread man cookies and go on a scavenger hunt to find them after they “escape” from the oven.

Middle school history teacher Rachel Mattson recently had an article published by Well-Schooled, a premier site for educator storytelling. In the article, she described teaching in person during a school year like no other and writes: “In addition to medical professionals and emergency responders who have rightfully been the center of attention due to the direct danger they face every day while trying to keep us all safe and cared for, I’d like for more people also to think about teachers.”

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Scholastic Art Awards Hutchison girls won 53 Mid-South Scholastic Art Awards this year, with 10 Gold Keys, 21 Silver Keys, and 22 Honorable Mentions. Once again, our girls were recognized for their incredible talent in the visual arts. With 53 awards, Hutchison led all other independent schools in the regional competition.

Gold Key winners: Grace Ellsworth ’21: Mixed Media; Amellia Hausmann ’21: one Gold Key in Painting and one in Art Portfolio, plus Senior Best in Show for Colorful Breeze and American Visions Award for Colorful Breeze; Camille Mattingly ’22: Mixed Media; Madelyn Simcoe ’21: one Gold Key in Drawing & Illustration and one in Art Portfolio; Emmy Walton ’23: Drawing & Illustration; Nuha Hasan ’24: Photography; Emerson Applegate ’22: Photography; Madeleine Jehl ’21: Jewelry Two seniors went on to win recognition in the National Scholastic Awards: Madelyn Simcoe ’21 is one of 30 National Silver Medal winners and won a $1,000 scholarship. Amellia Hausmann ’21 won a Gold Medal (opposite page).

Peaches by Madelyn Simcoe ’21

Blinded by Emmy Walton ’23 Firefly by Grace Ellsworth ’21

Brother at the Park by Nuha Hasan ’24

Scholastic Writing Awards Congratulations to the 12 Hutchison girls who earned Scholastic Writing Awards at the Nonprofit Alliance for Young Writers’ Southeastern competition.

Our girls demonstrated a mastery of storytelling and creativity in genres as varied as science fiction, humor, short story, and poetry.

Gold Key winners: Sakshi Singh ’24: Personal Essay/Memoir; Loralei Forgette ’23: Poetry; Ana Christi Hunter ’23: Poetry; Eleanor Merchant ’23: Short Story Silver Key winners: Zelia Cedeño-Avila ’24: Poetry; Lauren Dukes ’24: Sci-Fi/ Fantasy; Zoe Ford ’23: one in Sci-Fi/Fantasy and one in Short Story; Juliette Forgette ’23: Poetry; Loralei Forgette ’23: two in Flash Fiction and one in Sci-Fi/Fantasy; Ana Christi Hunter ’23: Poetry; Helen Kastner ’23: Poetry; Grace Ellsworth ’21: Short Story Honorable Mention: Izzy Ellis ’24: Short Story; Caroline Kim ’24: Short Story 6 | Hutchison

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Amellia Hausmann ’21 Wins National Recognition for Art Amellia Hausmann ’21 is one of only 16 people in the country to earn the Gold Medal Portfolio Award, the highest honor given by the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. She is one of only eight to win the award for art. The prestigious award comes with a $10,000 scholarship. Winning this award, Hausmann is in the company of Stephen King, Sylvia Plath, Truman Capote, Andy Warhol, and Amanda Gorman, all notable alumni of the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. Her work was selected from nearly 2,000 works that received National Medals, and among the 15,000 works that were awarded regionally with Gold Keys. Hausmann will be recognized during a virtual ceremony in June, and her work will hang in an exhibition in New York City.

Above: Colorful Breeze

Clockwise from above left: Early August Nostalgia après-midi paisible Dog Days Laundry Day

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Sarah Elizabeth Abbay Mississippi State University

Grace Catherine Adams Louisiana State University*

Grace Elizabeth Bennett The University of Alabama

Frances Elizabeth Cates The University of Texas at Austin*

Katharine Tayloe Bennett University of Utah

Sarah Elizabeth Chandler The University of TennesseeKnoxville*

Phoebe Sartelle Doster The University of TennesseeKnoxville

Grace Michelle Goughnour The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Anna Marie Cole Tennessee State University

Elizabeth Corrine Grinder University of Mississippi

Eliza Bell Kamara University of Memphis

Margaret Faye Kimery College of Charleston

Jenna Nelson McEniry University of Colorado Boulder

Corinne O’Neal Parker University of Richmond

Elizabeth Vaughan Prince Wofford College

Mary Lovelace Pisahl University of Arkansas

Katherine Gilchrist Redd University of Mississippi

Caroline Chadwick Shepherd University of Mississippi*

Mia Elizabeth Temme Sewanee-The University of the South

Sadie Ann Wells The University of Tennessee-Knoxville*

Nia Sahai Drayton The University of TennesseeKnoxville

Madeleine Schas Jehl Texas Christian University

Sally Miles Martin University of Mississippi

Dakota Caroline Shelton Tulane University

Alexis Jordan Corzine University of Arkansas

Dorothy Caroline Halliday Washington University in St. Louis

Adele Orgill Keeney Southern Methodist University

Megan Kate Nunn Furman University

Areeba Sardar Aman College of Charleston

Brooke Catherine Bohlke University of Mississippi

Kathryn Ellie Downs University of Mississippi

Lauren Elizabeth Hopper University of Arkansas

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Caroline Watts Alexander The University of TennesseeKnoxville

Maya Grace Risch Loyola University Chicago

Sydney Jane Short Pennsylvania State University

Marjorie Ann Ross Templeton Sewanee-The University of the South

Eve Adel West Chapman University

Madeleine Ella Siler The University of Alabama

Anna Rose Thomas University of Georgia

Tate Elizabeth Whipple Auburn University*

Mischa Sabine White Rhodes College

* Denotes Honors College

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Leen Qais Amro Tufts University

Katalin Patricia Ballo Miami University

Abigail Chu Brown Belmont University

Mary Margaret Crow Fordham University

Mikiya Danielle Brown Tennessee State University

Jenna Lillian Davis University of Alabama at Birmingham

Eleanor Grace Clements Ellsworth Rhodes College

Amelia Loughridge Cates University of Georgia*

Kathleen Mary Davis University of Miami

Maxine Bernice Engel George Washington University

Carmyn Adara Harrison Georgia Institute of Technology

Amellia Jena Hausmann Savannah College of Art and Design

Erin Ysabel Leal Georgia Institute of Technology

Sophia Noor Mansour Indiana University Bloomington

Lasha Kishon Pope University of Memphis

Emma Grace Prather The University of Texas at Austin

Sophie Ilene Skolnick The University of Alabama*

Mary Franklin Williams The University of Tennessee-Knoxville

Madelyn Claire Prather Davidson College

Caroline Virginia Senter University of South Carolina

Jamie Elise Sokoloff Duke University

Emma Jane Throndson University of Mississippi

Madeline Eleftheria Wilson Sewanee-The University of the South

Ellé Victoria Ammiel Martin University of Memphis

Elizabeth Celeste Moak University of Mississippi

Caroline Elise Robertson The University of TennesseeKnoxville

Betty Jane Thomas Southern Methodist University

MaryAnn Grace Hescock Wake Forest University

Catherine Miller Johnson Southern Methodist University

Bailey Brooke McNamara Mississippi State University

Madelyn Rose Simcoe The University of TennesseeKnoxville

Emma Gayden Norwood Day University of North Carolina Greensboro

Justine Elizabeth Ettingoff The University of Texas at Austin

Camilla Elise Johnson Loyola University New Orleans

Gabrielle Leah Robbins Texas Christian University

Kaia Madison Barnett Undecided

Lillian Thompson Barcroft University of Arkansas

Audrey Ellen Still Campbell University

Micah Ariel Watkins Howard University*

Leah Grace Wolf Stanford University Hutchison | 9

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Class of 2021 Acceptances Appalachian State University

Jackson State University

Spelman College

University of Miami

Arizona State University-Tempe

Lake Forest College

Stanford University

Arkansas Baptist College

Lehigh University

Syracuse University

University of MichiganAnn Arbor

Auburn University

Lincoln University

Talladega College

Austin Peay State University

Long Island University Brooklyn

Temple University

Berea College

Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College

Texas A&M UniversityCollege Station

Bethune-Cookman University

Loyola University Chicago

Binghamton University

Loyola University Maryland

Boston College

Loyola University New Orleans

Boston University

Macalester College

Brescia University

Miami University-Oxford

Bryn Mawr College

Michigan State University

Butler University

Middle Tennessee State University

Baylor University Belmont University

Campbell University Case Western Reserve University

Mississippi State University

Chapman University

Montana State University

Christian Brothers University

Mount Holyoke College

Clark Atlanta University

New York University

Clemson University

Northeastern University

Monmouth University

Coastal Carolina University

Northwestern University

College of Charleston

Oglethorpe University

Colorado State UniversityFort Collins

Oregon State University

Tennessee State University

Texas Christian University The New School The University of Alabama The University of Arizona

University of Nevada-Reno University of North Carolina at Asheville University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University of North Carolina at Greensboro University of North Carolina Wilmington

The University of TennesseeChattanooga

University of North Texas

The University of TennesseeKnoxville

University of PittsburghPittsburgh Campus

The University of TennesseeMartin The University of Texas at Austin Trinity College Tufts University Tulane University of Louisiana University of Alabama at Birmingham University of Arkansas

Pace University

University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff

DePaul University

Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus

DePauw University

University of CaliforniaLos Angeles

Philander Smith College

Duke Kunshan University

Pratt Institute-Main

University of CaliforniaSan Diego

Duke University

Davidson College

University of Mississippi

University of Oregon

University of Richmond University of Rochester University of South CarolinaColumbia University of Southern California University of Utah University of Vermont University of VirginiaMain Campus University of WashingtonSeattle Campus University of WisconsinMadison Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Purdue University-Main Campus

University of Colorado Boulder

Emerson College

Rhodes College

University of Connecticut

Fordham University

Rider University

University of Denver

Fort Lewis College

Rollins College

University of Florida

Washington University in St. Louis

Furman University

University of Georgia

Wellesley College

George Washington University

Rutgers UniversityNew Brunswick

University of Iowa

Georgetown University

Ryerson University

University of Kentucky

Western State Colorado University

Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus

Samford University

University of MarylandCollege Park

Hawaii Pacific University

Sarah Lawrence College

High Point University

Savannah College of Art and Design

Howard University Indiana University-Bloomington Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis

Santa Clara University

Sewanee: The University of the South Southern Methodist University

Wake Forest University Washington and Lee University

Wheaton College Wiley College

University of MassachusettsAmherst

Wofford College

University of Memphis

Yale University

Xavier University of Louisiana

Congratulations!

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HUTCHISON STING WINS

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For the first time in Hutchison’s history, the varsity basketball team took home the gold ball trophy, winning the 2021 TSSAA Division 2-AA State Championship. The Sting ended its stellar 22-2 season by defeating Knoxville Catholic 41-34 in March. The excitement started building the day before in the semifinal game, when the entire school watched via livestream during lunchtime. Ecstatic cheers could be heard in every division as the Sting won and secured their spot in the championship. After the final buzzer in the championship game, Kaia Barnett ’21 was named Tournament Most Valuable Player, Carmyn Harrison ’21 was a finalist for Miss Basketball, and Barnett, Harrision, and Maxine Engel ’21 were chosen for the All-Tournament team. To cap off the tournament, Hutchison’s Cheer Squad won Best Spirit! A few weeks later, The Daily Memphian named Harrison as player of the year, Coach Thomas Jones as coach of the year, and five Hutchison girls— Barnett ’21, Engel ’21, Harrison ’21, Maddie Prather ’21, and Berklee Scifres ’23— were chosen for the All-Metro Team for Division 2. Barnett, Harrison, and Engel also made the D2-AA All-State team chosen Photograph by Mark Weber for the Daily Memphian by the Tennessee Sports Writers Association. After spring break, the team was treated to a victory parade around campus. Congratulations to the entire Sting team, all the coaches, and athletics director Catherine Chubb.

We are buzzing with pride!

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Photograph by Mark Weber for the Daily Memphian

state CHAMPIONSHIP

Photograph by Caroline Schaefer ’08

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BRINGING BACK Photographs by Nick Simpson

This spring, Hutchison presented Beehive, the ’60s Musical, a fun and colorful flashback of a memorable decade that celebrates powerful female voices and iconic music. The story centers around a group of young women who are coming of age and witnessing the nation’s challenges. It features hit songs like “My Boyfriend’s Back,” “Proud Mary,” “Be My Baby,” “Respect,” and “Me and Bobby McGee.” The last time Hutchison produced Beehive was in 1999.

This year’s production featured a cast of 13 girls onstage and a crew of 20 girls behind the scenes. Girls designed the show’s poster, helped construct and paint the sets, sewed costumes and, of course, styled the unforgettable hairdos. The show was directed by Jay Rapp, with musical direction by Leiza Collins, both of whom enjoyed introducing the girls to music that has become early rock ’n’ roll. During rehearsals, as the girls dove deeper into the script and lyrics, they drew parallels between the social protests of 2020 to the turbulent 1960s. They recognized the power of youthful voices to a community. We know these girls will continue to play important roles in the world as they journey through their own decades and make their own music.

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If It’s Friday, It Must Be In this popular club, girls’ voices matter—but not their politics

by Conchita Ruiz-Topinka

Government Club, fondly known as Gov Club, is about government and politics—but without the

show up and show interest evolve as the leaders.

politics. Every Friday, upper school students gather

The teachers interject when they can add context or

in Sanders from 8:25–8:50 am to discuss the week’s

explain how it relates to public policy.” Teachers are

news in a non-partisan way. Girls say the neutrality

the “glue” that connects policies and political trends

of Gov Club provides a safe space for discussions,

in the meetings, he said.

and it has become one of the most active clubs on Grace Adams ’21

tively so they can discuss the issues knowledgeably

this past year, remote learners also joined. Presenters

outside the club and shape their own opinions based

and topics fluctuate, and slides are prepared on a

on facts. Robinson wants them to be informed “in a

shared drive.

factual way, not a social media way.” Whatever the

The growing popularity of the student-led

“For example, guns are a longstanding policy issue. I call it a “Republicat” issue—Republicans and

purpose. “The girls who come to Gov Club are some

Democrats have opinions about it—but we don’t look

of the most motivated and civically engaged girls at

at it from a red or blue perspective, or as a Second

Hutchison,” said Grace Adams ’21, who has been

Amendment vs. gun violence issue,” he explained.

attending since freshman year. She’s been a co-leader

“We look at the facts, at what is going on in the

of the club with Caroline Halliday ’21.

moment, and the public policy implications. We

Junior Faith Egedegbe ’22, one of the leaders

recognize there is a larger debate to be had, one that

for next year, described the “safe space” vibe of the

has been going on for decades, but we don’t get into

Club this way: “It is important that everyone has an

that. Our purpose is to start the conversation, not

open space to receive and review news without any

tell anyone how they should feel about an issue.”

“We don’t want to exclude anyone based on

This inclusive approach is part of the club’s suc-

their political affiliation or opinions, so when we

cess, according to Riley Coopwood ’23. “Everyone’s

make the slides, we always make sure to give the

opinions matter, but especially in this hyper-politi-

facts, not opinions,” said Loralei Forgette ’23, who

cal and polarized world we live in now, keeping the

presented the Derek Chauvin verdict in a recent

club nonpolitical eliminates the prospect of some-

meeting. “It allows for a real conversation about

one feeling uncomfortable, offended, or attacked.”

what is happening, without being swayed by certain

Club “regulars” agree that non-partisan presentations, inclusiveness, and understanding public policies are the hallmarks of the club.

Gov Club has no roster and no officers. Ronnie

Riley Coopwood ’23

topic, he steers clear of debate.

cultivating responsible citizens driven to lead lives of

underlying political influence.”

Faith Egedegbe ’22

The goal is for girls to share information objec-

campus. Between 30 to 35 girls meet weekly and

sessions is a testament to Hutchison’s emphasis on

Caroline Halliday ’21

“It’s all about the girls,” said Robinson. “Girls who

ideas or values.”

Keeping the discourse neutral comes easy to Hutchison Debate Team members in Gov Club, said Dakota Shelton ’21. “We are aware of certain

Robinson, upper school history teacher and club

language that can turn news into an argumentative

sponsor since 2014, introduced the current student-

piece, so we are hyperaware of how we use lan-

led format six years ago. He wants the meetings to

guage and wording in our presentations,” added

be organic and not something girls attend just to fill

Shelton.

a resume. Robinson and other faculty who attend happily stay in the background and let the girls lead.

“We don’t take sides,” said Adams. “We teach this to the younger girls from the very beginning so

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we can hold each other accountable for our words and how they make people feel if they don’t hold the same views as we do.”

and politics, the students have diverse interests.

“I remind the girls that public policy transcends all aspects of life,” said Robinson. “We teach that

Anna Rose Thomas ’21 has attended since

government is always with you, whether you are

freshman year. “No matter your political leaning,

doing research for a science grant, paying your

people listen and respond respectfully. People

taxes, or working in your local community. Public

discuss political beliefs from time to time, but

policy impacts all intersections of life.”

the beauty of it is that I couldn’t tell someone’s

Maxine Engel ’21, who plans to major in public

political leanings just from Gov Club alone,” she

health, said the club has made her aware of how

said. “Everyone is inclusive and ready to look at

extensively public policy intersects with public

something from all sides. There is never one opin-

health. “The club gave me a platform to present

ion more dominant than another.” Thomas, who

on topics that interested me. This year I gravi-

plans to major in international business, favors

tated to COVID-19 news and other public health

presenting on international news.

matters like the Flint water crisis.”

Gov Club is also inspiring a generation of

March 2020, proving the girls’ level of commit-

critically discern its broader impact. People such

ment and engagement. Faith Egedegbe shows no

as Faith Egedegbe, who recently presented on

signs of slowing down next year. Like her peers,

Biden’s first 100 days and included a retrospective

she checks her politics at the door, but not her

comparison dating back to President George W.

thirst for learning.

Bush. “Staying informed about local, national,

“We have a plethora of topics to choose from.

and global news has helped me to spot trends,

I am open to take on any issue. They are all pretty

analyze the effects that the topic at hand has on

fun!” said Egedegbe.

have received,” said Egedegbe, “It’s called a club, but it is more than that. It is

Anna Rose Thomas ’21

Forgette also keeps an open mind. “I like to learn about different events. I have reported on the wildfires in California, the political conven-

part of our civic culture at the school now,” said

tions, COVID-19 stats, international news, and

Robinson. Clay Francis and Ginny Cady, colleagues

different court cases,” said Forgette.

in the History Department, as well as debate

Dakota Shelton ’21

Gov Club has missed only one meeting since

engaged citizens who can absorb information and

us, and form an opinion with the information I

Loralei Forgette ’23

“Being a part of this club has made me a

coach John Reynolds, attend meetings regularly

more empathic person … the critical conver-

and other faculty and administrators drop in

sations that emerge from the presentations

occasionally to add perspectives and context.

are important. They make us world ready,”

While the faculty share an affinity for government

said Shelton.

Maxine Engel ’21

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Seniors on Black History Month Panel

“Pay it Forward”

by Conchita Ruiz-Topinka

Eryka Jenkins, director of student inclusion and belonging, with seniors Nia Drayton, Camilla Johnson, Kiya Brown, Victoria Martin, and front, Dakota Shelton, and Micah Watkins.

To commemorate Black History Month, six seniors hosted a candid panel about race relations at Hutchison and their experiences during their time at the school. The goal was to seek to create awareness of another’s perspective.

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“

The panel amplified student voices, allowing them to share with peers what it feels like to be a black girl at Hutchison. That felt like the right message for this year’s Black History Month program.

— Eryka Jenkins

”

Victoria Martin ’21 wants to be able to reflect on her more than 12 years at Hutchison and know that she did what she could to make things easier for black students who

Hutchison and one that will serve her well in college and beyond.

When she entered Hutchison in seventh grade, Brown

come after her. “Ten years from now, I want to be able to

recalls feeling like she had the weight of the world on her

say I left Hutchison better than I found it,” says Martin. For

shoulders. “I felt like I walked into a 50/50 situation where I

the panelists, leadership means being part of change from

was 50 percent student and 50 percent educator on racism

within. Several girls remembered how older students took

and speaking for the entire black race. People would ask

them under their wings and encouraged them to “hang in

about me and my entire culture,” she says, admitting that

there, it’s worth it.”

it was a difficult time. Fortunately, a sophomore pulled her

With graduation around the corner, Nia Drayton ’21, the

aside and promised her it would get better. With different

current student council vice president, says Hutchison has

schedules and a broader student body, Brown has thrived

prepared her well for college and she appreciates the oppor-

in upper school, and she now makes the effort to informally

tunities afforded to her during her four years at the school.

mentor middle school girls.

Drayton was happy to share her experiences and help the

“I am very proud of these girls,” says Jenkins, who

more than 100 girls who attended, both virtually and in

has been at Hutchison for five years, most recently as a

person, see the Hutchison journey through her eyes. “I felt I

health and wellness specialist in the Crain Center. “The

was seen and heard,” she said.

girls in this senior class have always expressed an interest

Drayton and Martin say they felt it was important to cau-

in paving the way for those who come behind them. In an

tion peers to be mindful of their words and actions because

incredible display of maturity, they are looking beyond their

harmful words cannot be unheard. People don’t forget,

personal experiences for the greater good of our Hutchison

says Martin, who still remembers unkind actions and words

community.”

dating back to sixth grade.

That’s the sort of genuine communication that Eryka

Head of School Dr. Kristen Ring agrees. “When we say we want to develop the leaders of tomorrow, girls who

Jenkins, director of student inclusion and belonging, hoped

speak up for themselves and navigate the complexities of

to inspire with the panel. The students credit her with

our world with humility, respect, and confidence, this is what

building a strong network of support for black students and

we’re talking about.”

providing a safe space to share concerns and then move on in a positive manner.

“The panel amplified student voices, allowing them

Micah Watkins ’21 wants the girls who attended the panel to understand that we all play a role in moving our communities forward. “I want my white peers to understand

to share with peers what it feels like to be a black girl at

that they can play a role in helping us combat racism. It’s a

Hutchison,” says Jenkins. “That felt like the right message

large role, and we need everyone’s help,” added Watkins.

for this year’s Black History Month program.”

Like Brown, she values the opportunity to get outside her

Kiya Brown ’21 credits Hutchison with providing her terrific opportunities, including discovering her “true passion”— poetry. But perhaps the most valuable lesson is the chance

comfort zone to discuss tough issues in a supportive and thoughtful way.

Jenkins agrees that engaging in civil discourse to share

to come into her own and “become comfortable with being

different perspectives is key to establishing trust and

uncomfortable.”

building community. Earlier this school year, Jenkins and

“The panel was an opportunity to be ourselves and

visiting scholar Sarah Wilson hosted senior girls in civil

share our true, raw opinions, without feeling like we had to

discourse sessions to practice how to talk to one another

tiptoe around anyone, and it was well-received,” says Brown.

about difficult issues. She believes this panel was a success

She noted that talking about sensitive issues around a

for both the panelists and the attendees.

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L E A R N I N G TO S AY

by Max Maddock

IT WAS A MILD MARCH DAY, with temperatures in the low 50s, when Kimberly Glankler Holley ’94 stepped into her backyard with Ed, a black Irish Labrador retriever, by her side. Like most labs, Ed is cute, friendly, playful, and loves meeting new people. He is the epitome of an energetic lab, ready to run and fetch and play. Holley said, “Somewhere out here, I’ve hidden a source that he’s going to go and look for.” She crouched down next to Ed, unhooked his leash, and held her hand up to the side of Ed’s face.

He waited expectantly. She held her hand there for a few more seconds before giving a quick command: “Search!”

Ed bolted into the yard, running and sniffing the ground. After exploring for a bit, he would loop back to Holley who quickly repeated the “search” command and off he would go again. He searched in one area, then moved forward and searched another. He darted behind some bushes and then back out again and moved further out on Holley’s property.

This isn’t just an ordinary family dog enjoying the fragrant smells of spring. Ed is a valuable team member. Holley is a K9 Search Specialist with the Tennessee Task Force One (TNTF-1), FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Team. She and other volunteers are always on standby, ready to report for duty after major disasters, such as when a hurricane or a tornado passes over an area and leaves destruction in its wake. Holley’s job, along with her two dogs, Ed and Isa, is to search for disaster victims. Ed is six years old and is trained as a human remains detection dog, searching for victims who don’t survive. Isa, a regal-looking, three-year-old Belgian Malinois, is a live detection dog, trained to find survivors.

We watched as Ed continued his search. He was out ahead of us, committed to his work.

There was a sense he was focusing in on something. He moved toward some mixed brush on the Photograph by Brandon Dill

back of Holley’s property, investigated it, then stopped.

“He’s found it,” Holley said just as Ed started to bark. “He’s supposed to continue to bark until I get there and not leave,” she added.

Amazingly, Ed’s search only took two and half minutes. That’s impressive when every minute at a disaster site counts. Granted, Ed didn’t have to climb on any piles of rubble or walk over random debris like in real-life search and rescue situations, and, in this scenario, Holley knew where Ed needed to end up. Nevertheless it was incredible to watch Ed demonstrate his search skills.

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Above: Ed and Holley on a search mission Left: Isa and Holley at the trining facility

“

This work is unbelievably fulfilling. I love that I get to do this every day.

”

Within a few seconds, Ed was back to being a spirited Labrador retriever, dashing off to fetch a ball that Holley threw, his reward for a successful mission.

At First She Said No

Even though dogs have always been a big part of Kimberly Holley’s life, she has only

been a certified K9 Search Specialist since 2019. In her previous life, she was in a completely different line of work.

After graduating from Hutchison in 1994, she attended the University of Arkansas, majoring in communications, with a minor in English. Her first job was with the Memphis Botanic Garden in event planning and implementation, then for Metropolitan Inter-Faith Association (MIFA), which originally produced Starry Nights, the outdoor holiday lights display. When the person managing that event left, Holley’s boss handed her the assignment.

Holley’s first reaction was, “ ‘Oh, no, I’m not going to do that.’ But I did it, and I loved it. I oversaw its last year and ultimately the sale of it.”

In 2004, she started working at Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare as a marketing specialist, which came with increasingly more responsibility. Methodist did not have a fulltime event planner, so much of the organization and logistics of events fell to Holley. “My kids’ll tell you, ‘Mommy runs a tight ship.’ I love the attention to detail and following things through. When an event wraps up and you have watched everything move and function the way it was supposed to, it’s a really good feeling.” She worked at Methodist for 13 years.

During her last few years at Methodist, as Holley was raising three children, she began fostering dogs. “I thought it was a great learning experience for the kids, and they would help me take care of them,” she explained. “I’d always had dogs, and I had a particular soft spot for some of the dogs who had a pretty bad lot in life. I wanted to be able to help them

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and give them a better chance to be adopted.” Holley trained to become a Certified Canine Behavior and Training Specialist. She volunteered at the Memphis Animal Shelter, even taking dogs to the Live at 9 Show on Channel 3 to help get them adopted.

In 2016, Holley remarried. Her husband, Dr. Joe Holley, is an emergency medicine physician, and helped during the recovery operations at the Pentagon after September 11, 2001, after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and after Hurricane Michael in 2018, to name a few. He serves as the medical director for TNTF-1, as well as the Memphis and Shelby County Fire Departments. He also is the CEO of Paragon Medical Education Group, which hosts emergency medical services (EMS) training classes. After Kimberly left Methodist,

“As Ready as I ‘ll Ever Be”

In the late night hours of March 2, 2020, and into the

early morning hours of March 3, several supercells produced deadly tornadoes in Tennessee. According to news reports, between 11 pm and 2:30 am, 10 tornadoes touched down across the state. The strongest of the tornadoes hit Cookeville, Tennessee, about 80 miles east of Nashville. The tornado was rated an EF-4, which is considered extreme, and is the second highest rating on the scale. Winds were said to be as high as 175 miles per hour.

Holley began training in late 2018 and was certified in October 2019. The morning of March 3, she had volunteered locally to help search for a missing person. When

she decided to use her marketing, communications, and logistics experience at Paragon as the director of operations.

So how did she become a K9 Search Specialist? Holley recalled that after Joe returned from his deployment to Hurricane Michael, he told her that he’d been talking with the canine team, and that they had some open spots. “He said to me: ‘That’s what you need to go do.’ I said, ‘No. I’m not going to do that. I’m not a first responder. Corporate marketing is my thing.’ ” Joe kept encouraging her, inviting her to go watch a canine certification.

In October 2018, Holley visited the TNTF-1 training center near Millington where they were hosting a certification test.

“I crawled up on the rubble, and I watched the dogs work and I said, ‘Yup. This is what I want to do.’ ” Holley recalled how she knew as she watched one specialist work with her dog. “The search dog was a Belgian Tervuren named Mojo. The test has volunteers serving as victims who are hidden on a giant rubble pile that is meant to replicate a collapsed structure. The way the specialist directed the dog with her hands, she could point him in different directions and he would follow her commands.

He moved across the pile and found every victim that was hidden. I know about working dogs, but to watch it, it blew my mind. I thought, ‘I know that’s a lot of training, but it looks like magic.’ It’s amazing what these dogs can do. I’m still amazed by them every day.”

Within about a week of watching that simulation, Holley said, she brought home her first dog to start training. She gives credit to her husband for opening up this world. “Joe sees things in me that I may not immediately see in myself,” she said. “He sees me as being braver and more confident than I think I am. He knew that the work with the dogs would push me over the top.” She laughed and added, “It’s all Joe’s fault. Every time I bring home another dog, I remind him. This is your fault. You started this.”

Isa and Holley practicing at the TNTF-1 training center.

she returned home, she immediately got ready to deploy to Cookeville. Holley explained that her and her husband’s bags are always packed and waiting in the garage, even though, as a task force rule, they rarely deploy together.

“That was the first disaster that I had worked,” Holley said. “When we arrived on site, our coordinator, who is also my mentor, asked, ‘Are you okay?’ She said, ‘I don’t know what we’re going to see today,’ and she has seen it all. Then she asked, ‘Are you ready for this?’ I replied, ‘I’m as ready as I’ll ever be.’ I don’t know that anybody’s ever ready for what you’re going to see.”

As she began searching with Ed, the first thing Holley saw was a family portrait of a husband, wife, and a young one. It was on the ground and the glass in the frame was shattered. She asked a firefighter what they were looking for, and he told Holley they were searching for a young child.

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“

I crawled up on the rubble, and I watched the dogs work and I said, ‘Yup. This is what I want to do.’

— Kimberly Holley ’94

”

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ED

ISA

Breed: Irish Labrador Retriever Age: 6 years old Collar Label: Rescue Search Specialty: Human Remains Detection Named After: An original member of the K9 team Favorite Toy: Tennis ball

Breed: Belgian Malinois Age: 3 years old Collar Label: Rescue Search Specialty: Live Detection Meaning of Name: “Strong willed” in German Favorite Pastime: Following Batman, the cat, around the house

Photograph by Brandon Dill

“That stopped me, because I’m a mom. Even though I

individuality of the girls. The school has never been about

know what all of this work entails, when it’s a little one, it

just one thing.” She added that her best friends from

just made me start thinking. Then training kicks in and you

Hutchison—1994 classmates Kate Cannon, Hadley Ingram

become very aware of your dog. You want your dog to

Arnold (whose daughters, Abigail ’22 and Scottie ’26,

be safe.”

attend Hutchison now), and Margaret Ledbetter Weaver—

Although Holley took both Ed and Isa to Cookeville, Isa stayed in the vehicle the entire time. “Once we arrived there,

are still her best friends today.

Nevertheless, Holley realized that being at the scene of

it was clear that human remains detection was what was

a disaster is much different than her marketing and event

required, so Ed was the one who worked.”

planning roles were. “In my previous life, everything that I

The Cookeville tornado devastated entire neighborhoods and claimed a total of 19 lives.

Saying Yes and Losing Some Control

“I’ve said no twice in my life when somebody’s offered

did was my doing. If I planned and executed well enough, the event was going to happen. There was a sense of control there,” Holley reflected. “When training search and rescue K9s, so much is out of your control and there are shades of gray. The dog, on a warm, sunny day is going to work

me an opportunity,” Holley admitted. “Both times I said no

completely differently than it’s going to work on a day when

and then did it anyway. I don’t know why ‘no’ is my go-to.

the barometric pressure drops and rain is coming in. Or all of

Now, having opened myself up to do something so com-

a sudden the dog loses its scent, or they can’t find it, or their

pletely different at this point of my life, I will stop saying no

behavior changes. In the field, when you’re actually working,

when people offer me opportunities. I think I’ve worked that

they’re not going to do the thing that you set up in train-

out of my system now.”

ing, because training is always artificial. It’s always pristine

Holley is grateful for the support she’s received from bosses, mentors, her husband, Joe, and even from Hutchison.

in some way, because it’s not ever going to be the way it’s going to be in a real disaster.

“When I was at Hutchison, I took time away to competitively

“The hardest challenge for me was to do something

show horses down in Florida during the school year, and this

completely different from my previous career. As a search

was way before computers and the internet,” she explained.

specialist, I can’t just walk in and be great, and my dog be

“Hutchison was supportive of that. They sent me my work,

great, and my search strategy be perfect, and know that

they allowed me to do that. If you’re involved in something,

everything is going to fall right in line like it’s supposed to.

and you’re passionate about it, I feel like the school has

That’s not how disasters work. There are always curve balls,

always encouraged people to follow whatever their passion

and we have to adjust.

is. That’s not something that they just say they do now; they’ve always been that way.

“As someone who clearly followed her passions in life,

“This work is unbelievably fulfilling. I love that I get to do this every day. I volunteer my time and my expense to do this work, and I am so glad that I said ‘yes’ ultimately. I’m

I don’t think you can put a measure on how important it is,

glad that I stepped way out of my comfort zone after 40 to

for young girls especially, to be encouraged to do whatever

do something that I would never in a million years think that

they want to do. Hutchison has always encouraged the

I would do.”

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Finding the T

a film E

by Max Maddock Photographs by Cali Godley

The first frame of While I Yet Live, a short documentary film for the Op-Docs section of The New York Times website, features items hanging on a clothesline. As they billow in the wind, a voiceover asks: “Have you ever paid trees any attention?” and then describes the various colors you can find in trees and how the leaves blow. Cut to an image of a quilt on a clothesline blowing in the wind. Several voices 26 | Hutchison

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m Editor’s Journey

unite to sing a gospel tune called, “I Don’t Want Nobody to Praise Me When I’m Gone,” and then there’s a brief shot of cars crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. At about three minutes into this 14-minute documentary, we learn where we are: Gee’s Bend, Alabama. Then we hear the stories of six women who have mastered the art of quilt making and how it is an essential part of their lives.

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It’s a distinct choice to start a film about quilting by asking a question about

trees. The documentary was directed by Maris Curran, but film editor Julie Caskey ’84, played an integral role in piecing together the footage filmed on location, the recorded voices, and the beautiful music sung by the quilters. Among other things, the film evokes ideas about the history of the South, gospel music, what it means to be an artist, religion, suffering, redemption, and thankfulness. While the film is ultimately the director’s vision, Caskey’s work is, in essence, like finding the perfect way to sew together a beautiful quilt. She joins together pieces of film in ways that tell a unique story and convey a director’s vision.

From Art History to Artist When Julie Caskey was a student at Tulane University, she admits, “I didn’t even know to be interested in film editing.”

She was immersed in an art history major. “I loved art history.

choice was made. Although she continued to work in art galleries out west, she said that work never quite felt right for her.

She decided to go back to school and enrolled in a media studies program at San Francisco State University. That’s when she got an inkling that she

I loved art. I loved sitting in a dark

wanted to be involved in film. “I

room and seeing these amazing

didn’t know in what capacity,”

images.” She even spent her junior

she admitted. “There are so many

year of college in Florence, Italy,

directions you can go—writing,

studying art and architecture.

directing, producing. But I did

Today, she’s still looking at

know that editing is where the film

images, sometimes in a dark room,

comes together.”

only these images are now moving,

She recalled her story while

and she is the artist. As a freelance

sitting in her editing studio, a front

film editor for more than 20 years,

room in her house. It is modest

Caskey works behind the scenes,

compared to the million-dollar

mostly from her home in Berkeley,

editing suites we sometimes see

California. She combs through

represented in “making-of films”

hours of footage and directors’

about films. Caskey’s studio con-

notes to help decide how images,

tains a desk that can also function

voices, and music should be cut

as a standing desk, an ergonomic

together or juxtaposed to tell the

kneeling chair, two video monitors

thread of a story. Her choices

side by side, a small mixer, two

influence so much of what a film

external speakers, a stylus, and a

or documentary evokes.

keyboard. The desktop computer

To get to this point took some determination, and also a willingness to follow her passions. After Tulane, Caskey returned to Memphis and worked for the Memphis Arts Council and at the Alice Bingham Gallery. She spent two years learning to fly planes, thinking she might want to be a pilot. Eventually, she decided that she wanted to try something, and someplace, different, so she packed up her Honda and headed west. She was bound for either San Francisco or Seattle, but she knew someone in San Francisco looking for a roommate, so the

and backup storage drives that house the terabytes of digital film footage, music, and audio are tucked below the desk and might seem small when one imagines the many different stories they contain. She likes the flexibility of being able to work from home so that she can spend time with her husband, their nine-year-old son, and their dog, a friendly black-and-white Pointer/Brittany mix, who is lovingly named Rooster Cogburn, after the character from the book True Grit.

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She recalled a defining moment in 2001. “The most influential stroke of good luck I had was when I heard the editor Vivien Hillgrove give a talk called ‘The Spirit of Editing.’ I still have my notes from that lecture and remember how it hit me like a ton of bricks. The way she spoke of the art of editing and how to mine for stories in footage was inspirational. She talked about how she used real, not manufactured, sounds when she was the dialogue editor for Amadeus to make the film more emotional. She explained how language can be used as music, like in The Unbearable Lightness of Being where she and Walter Much used the din of Czechoslovakians talking in the background as sound design. She described how she would put photos up on the wall and see where her eyes went when she listened to dialogue. When I heard Vivien speak, I was like, ‘Oh yeah, that’s what I want to do.’ ” At the time, Caskey had aspirations to apprentice with someone like Hillgrove, but she knew that was probably wishful thinking. And yet, months later she happened to be searching an online bulletin board for jobs and saw that Vivien was looking for an assistant. Caskey immediately called at 7 am on a Saturday morning, expecting to leave a message, and Vivien answered the phone. She got the job and worked with Hillgrove for a little over two years on three different films.

In addition to apprenticing with Hillgrove, Caskey practiced her early editing skills through several hands-on editing jobs, including an internship with the Oakland Unified School District, which had a TV station where Caskey cut together pieces of wobbly student-shot video of events such as the spelling-bee or jazz camp. “It was a low-stakes way to figure out how to find the story in a bunch of footage,” Caskey recalled. “I loved it and discovered that I was good at it. So I thought, ‘I’m going to keep going this way.’ ” After that, she worked for the television channel, Current TV, founded by Al Gore, which was pioneering “citizen journalism,” where people from all over the world could send in news footage. “It had higher stakes, because it was for broadcast, and I had to make it look professional.”

Finding the Crux of a Story What was it about editing that finally made sense for Caskey? “It was a combination of hearing Vivien speak, working with her, and recognizing my own personality and strengths.

“Vivien’s passion for the craft was influential,” she recalled.

“She was a woman working in a male-dominated field, and she defied all stereotypes.” Caskey explained a little-known fact: many of the first film editors were women. “In the first days of film, the men in charge would say, ‘That’s a woman’s job; they can sew those pieces together.’ In the editing rooms, it was all women. Eventually the men caught on: ‘Oh, that’s a really powerful, influential job,’ and they took over editing.”

One of Caskey’s clients is Pixar, the animation studio.

She’s editing a series of short non-fiction films called “Inside Pixar” that are available on Disney+. One is about a woman who works as a character designer at Pixar and who talks about working in a man’s field. Caskey and the film’s director, Erica Milsom, hope that her story can serve as an inspiration for girls. “I take that responsibility seriously. The field of animation, as well as editing, is often heavily populated by men. If there are young girls who are interested in these fields, I want them to see, ‘I could do that.’ That’s what Vivien did for me.”

Hillgrove also taught Caskey that you have to know the editing technology and software, but then you have to forget about it because that’s not what editing is. “It’s about storytelling,” Caskey explained. “The editor’s influence is huge.

For instance, an editor might say: ‘I think that cutting from this scene to that scene will communicate x, y, or z in a much more emotional way than if we put it down the road at the end of the film.’ ” Caskey knows a lot about music as well. She’s studied piano since she was five years old and has a baby grand piano in her home. “Music is so important to editing,” Caskey explained. “Not only in terms of pacing and rhythm, but also in terms of tone and setting a scene, either the absence of it or the use of it.”

it’s my job to watch all of the footage and say,‘what’s the heart of this? What are we trying to communicate?

What’s the most interesting way to tell it?’

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The Confidence to Pivot Changing directions before landing on editing wasn’t easy, Caskey admitted, but she felt somewhat prepared for it.

“Hutchison provided this amazing foundation that allowed me the confidence to pivot in any direction I wanted to go.

The thing that I didn’t appreciate at the time that I do now, being a mom, is that I see how important school, the school environment, and teachers are, and how influential they are in formative years. It’s important that school feels like home and that you have the confidence that all of your teachers know you and care about you. I definitely feel like I had that at Hutchison, and I am aware that I am constantly trying to recreate that for my son. Hutchison was like a home in that I felt confident and secure.”

Her advice for Hutchison girls? “Be persistent. That’s paid off for me. I tried so many different things, and I would get into something and it wouldn’t feel right. It was A poster of the short documentary While I Yet Live, which Julie Caskey edited. Scan the QR Code to watch the film on The New York Times website.

embarrassing that it didn’t feel right. But then I went, ‘nope, I need to keep going and find something.’ And I landed in a very niche place, but it works. My advice would be to try to know yourself. Know your personality, know your limitations. Be connected to your ambi-

Caskey believes she’s found the kinds of films that she

tion. And try to stay focused on that. It’s easy

likes to work on. Most range in length from three minutes to

and tempting to get a job you understand and

15 minutes. In addition to short films for Pixar, and corpo-

know how to do it, but it may not be satisfying.”

rate work for Adobe, Google, and others, she prefers to work

Although bittersweet, Caskey had the

on documentaries, not scripted films. With documentaries,

opportunity to work on a film as a co-director

she explained, being an editor is almost DEVOTED TOlike being a writer.

and editor. One of Caskey’s friends, Anna Ku-

“It’s the director’s job to go in and say, ‘this is what I think

perberg, is a photographer. When she learned

this piece is going to be about,’ but you never know what’s

that her wife, Carla Jean Johnson, had an

going to happen, what the person being interviewed will say,

aggressive form of breast cancer, she decided to

or what’ll be the most interesting and compelling thing. It’s

track her diagnosis, treatment, and illness with

my job to listen to and watch all of the footage, make lots of

photos and film.

notes, and say, ‘what’s the heart of this? What are we trying to communicate? What’s the most interesting way to tell it?’ ” Watch the documentary While I Yet Live, for instance,

“The film is called Eleven Weeks because it was 11 weeks from Carla’s diagnosis to her death,” Caskey said. “Carla approached the end of life in a very courageous,

and you’ll see how she’s put together the elements in a fresh

remarkable way, and Anna wanted to document this. When

and creative way. “That film was a tremendous experience,”

Carla was dying, she asked me, ‘Will you help me make a

Caskey said. “It was only 14 minutes, but it traveled the

film about this?’ It was intense, because she was a friend of

festival circuit, and found a wide, international audience.”

mine, but I think the message is that we have options in that

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situation, and she did it in a very beautiful way.”

Caskey said that she’s crossed three of her four bucket list career goals off: the first, working with Vivien Hillgrove, the second, working with Maris Curran, the director of the documentary about quilting, and third, working with Pixar.

The fourth, “well, that one continues to evolve.”

“The thing that I love the most about my work is that every project I work on is like this crash course in whatever

Hutchison provided this amazing foundation that allowed me the confidence to pivot in any direction I wanted to go.

subject it is,” Caskey said. “If it’s the end of life, it’s dealing

with that subject matter. If it’s about being a female animator

I do is interesting, because stories are stories. It’s about the

in a male-dominated industry, or veterans with PTSD, or the

human experience, whether it’s the work that you’re doing or

ladies of Gee’s Bend, Alabama, and their quilting and their

how you’re surviving in this world. I get to take this deep dive

craft and what it’s like to be a black woman in Alabama in the

into these different specific stories and immerse myself in

’60s, then I learn about those things. Even the corporate work

them and then move on to the next one.”

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A L U M N A P R O F I L E | N A JA S H A B A Z Z ’ 0 1

From

Inspired

by Max Maddock

to

Hired

Naja Shabazz ’01 recalled one of the first inspirations for her interest in interior design. “When I was growing up, we had encyclopedias at our house.

You know, actual books on paper. Ours were from the 1960s, and so a bit behind, even for then. They were fascinating to look at.”

She remembered how the books were akin to little time capsules. One of the editions, she explained, enthusiastically described Richard Nixon’s presidency.

She read many of the volumes, and once landed on an entry about interior design. When she read that section, it planted a seed that stayed with her. and served as Carleton’s assistant director of alumni relations for almost five years. She enjoyed seeing the other

interior design didn’t seem like a possibility. “It was one of

side of life on campus and was involved in the school’s

those things where life just keeps rolling and you don’t think

10-year strategic planning process.

about it,” she remembered. Nevertheless, she continued to

She discovered that one of the perks of working at a

notice signs pointing her toward her dream. “I would come

college was that staff could take classes. She had already

home for spring break, and my mom and my sister were

excelled in Spanish, so she challenged herself by taking a

watching shows on HGTV,” she remembered, laughing. “I

class in Arabic. She admits her Spanish is much stronger and

was like, ‘Oh my gosh, I want to do this!’ ”

jokes that sometimes she speaks what she calls ‘Sparabic.’

Changing majors midstream wasn’t an option. For

“If I’m speaking Arabic and there’s a word I don’t know, my

one, Carleton didn’t have an interior design program, and

brain will be like, ‘Oh well, here’s this Spanish word,’ and I’m

Shabazz was enjoying her experience at the school and

like, ‘No, no, no!’ ”

didn’t want to start over at another university. She formu-

In 2014, Shabazz finally decided she was in a good place

lated a practical solution for the situation. “I said to myself,

financially and took the plunge. She applied to a number of

‘Why don’t I finish this degree, get some work experience,

different universities with interior design programs across a

pay down some debt, and when I’ve done that, then I’ll go

wide geographic area, from Virginia to Tennessee to Kansas

pursue this next dream.’ ”

and Arizona. She chose O’More College of Design in Nashville,

Unlike others who have made similar promises, Shabazz

where she completed a four-year, bachelor of fine arts in

stuck to her plan. After graduating from Carleton in 2005,

interior design program. The school has since become a part

she moved back to Memphis and worked first at a gym and

of Belmont University.

then as a program associate at Latino Memphis, where she was able to use the Spanish-speaking skills she had polished at Hutchison. Then Carleton came calling again. This time,

The Army Comes Recruiting Many people might not be aware of this, and neither was

the college had a job offer in the alumni relations office, so

Shabazz at the time, but the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

she moved back to the often frigid weather of Minnesota

employs a number of interior designers. She discovered this

Photograph by Erin Elise

Later, when she enrolled at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, she decided to major in English. At the time,

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Naja Shabazz ’01, center, receives a Commander’s Award for Civilian Service for her interior design work from the Department of the Army.

at a career day at O’More. “I looked at the list of who was

the needs. Shabazz and her colleagues follow certain stan-

coming, and I saw there were the requisite residential

dards. Furniture specifications might change, for instance,

designers, but then I saw the Army. I said, ‘What does the

depending on a person or group’s rank in the Army. They

Army want? I gotta check this out.’ ”

also are required to seek multiple bids for the materials and

She remembered telling her brother, who is in the Navy, about this particular discovery, and he was equally stumped.

He showed her a video of Navy bunks and said, “This isn’t

handle the logistics of procuring the furniture and making sure it arrives on time.

Before COVID-19, Shabazz spent much of her time travel-

really design.” She said she understood how he could think

ing to different locations to survey needs and ultimately make

that, but then a lightbulb went off in her head: someone has

sure installations went according to plan. For the past year

to lay out where those bunks are going, to requisition them,

and a half, she’s been fortunate enough to continue working

to make sure they are up to standards, and to deal with the

remotely, relying on computer design programs like AutoCad

logistics of getting them delivered to facilities and installed

to fill in in situations that might normally require her to

correctly.

be on site. “I was grateful to be an interior designer who

The career fair paid off, because soon after graduating,

worked every day because our customers are still in need.”

Shabazz was hired as an interior design intern at the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center in Huntsville, Alabama, which eventually turned into a staff position.

Persevering Through an “Interior Design Emergency”

The Support Center provides three different interior design

Shabazz recalled a project she worked on that she is

functions: a housing team, which designs barracks and other

particularly proud of. Her interior design group was outfit-

housing needs; a medical team, which outfits medical

ting a school for service members’ children on a base in

facilities, and an administrative team—the team Shabazz is

Germany. A senior member of the team had been leading

on—which focuses on administrative complexes, schools,

the project, but she wasn’t getting some of the details

hangars, fire stations, and a variety of other spaces.

correct, including the fact that drawings needed to be

As an example, if Fort Belvoir in Fairfax County,

scaled for metric measurements. Eventually the project was

Virginia, needs furniture, they contact Shabazz’s group,

reassigned, and Shabazz, who was still an intern at the time,

which reviews the plans and specifications to understand

began working on it.

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“At one point, another coworker and I worked 14-hour

Hutchison. “I just know she saw something in me and wanted

days. We ended up having 13 people working on the project

me to be able to have a strong education,” she explained.

to get it back to where it needed to be, because we were

“Going to Hutchison meant a lot of opportunity, and it also

on a time crunch.” There were also millions of dollars at

came with some challenges. At the time I graduated, our

play. She can laugh now, but Shabazz recalled a colleague’s

class had four black students.”

husband who joked that he wanted to come to their office to “see what an interior design emergency looks like.”

“I have pride in my team and the work that we do, and

She admits she sometimes felt isolated at Hutchison, but knows now that she offered help, too. “I’ve had classmates reach out to me and tell me about how much of an impact

I know how important it is,” Shabazz stated. “I had worked

my being there was for them. I hadn’t realized that because

on that school project previously, so I had some institutional

I was in the seventh grade. I was a little girl.”

I F E E L T H AT I A M D O I N G WO R K T H AT I S H E L P I N G P E O P L E A N D T H AT M E A N S A LOT. I T I S S O F U L F I L L I N G TO T H I N K T H AT I H A D — N A JA S H A B A Z Z ’ 0 1 T H I S D R E A M A N D N OW I ’ M L I V I N G I T.

memory about it that some people didn’t have. I just said, ‘I want to help and be a part of this.’ ” Her reward was that she was asked to travel to Germany to see the project to fruition, which is an unusual perk for an intern. Sure enough, when she and her colleague arrived,

Over the past year, Shabazz participated in focus groups with the head of school and a visiting scholar of inclusion, where she heard some stories from recent alums about difficult experiences. She knows there’s more work to be done.

“The focus groups motivated me to reinvigorate my

there were installation issues and some of the furniture

relationship with Hutchison because I love the school. I

hadn’t arrived yet, so they spent the last hours carefully

hope to have more opportunities to engage with alums

going through and checking all of the pieces. “It was fulfill-

and students.”

ing to feel like I was a part of something like that.” She’s also

She has been thinking about inclusion for a long time.

traveled to projects around the U.S. in Washington state,

She remembered a specific incident when she was around

Colorado, and California.

nine years old. She noticed a Latino couple and wished that

That wasn’t her only emergency project, though. When

she could talk to them. She was aware that Latinos in the

her own office building was found to have a mold problem,

Memphis area were being mistreated because they couldn’t

they quickly had to relocate to a new building under an

speak the language. “I said to myself, ‘I can’t stand for that.

emergency lease. Shabazz was called to help out on that,

I know how it feels to be left out. I don’t want people to feel

too. Moving to the new building required furniture, paint,

that way.’ Even at nine I could think about how different

and carpeting, as well as deciding which teams were moving

their experiences were and how I wanted to help.” That’s

when and the logistics associated with the move. For her

one reason she was passionate about mastering Spanish at

work, Shabazz received a Commander’s Award for Civilian

Hutchison and in college. Similarly, it was after the events of

Service from the Department of the Army in April 2019.

September 11, 2001, that she was inspired to take a class in

She points out that her job is not all about design and style. “Interior design can be challenging to teach, because

Arabic while working at Carleton.

In regards to her work, Shabazz is hopeful that someday,

they’re preparing you for unknowns,” she explained. “I have

she can offer her interior design skills toward some type of

my job with the Corps of Engineers with its unique projects,

humanitarian work. “I would like to find a way to help with

but interior design work can vary greatly. I know a classmate

some of the crises around homelessness that we have in

who works in a university sports facility; one is in residential

the United States and even abroad,” she explained. “What

design; one even builds custom furniture.” In particular, she’s

are some creative solutions for people in need? That’s what

had to learn a lot about technical writing and how to speak

I think I would like to do.” She also hopes to be able to use

specific interior design language with vendors.

her Spanish-speaking skills in her work in the future.

Hopes for Hutchison and the Future

soldiers with her interior design work. “I feel that I am doing

Right now, she’s grateful that she is able to work for Shabazz, who started at Hutchison in the seventh grade, said she’s not entirely sure how her mother heard about

work that is helping people and that means a lot. It is so fulfilling to think that I had this dream and now I’m living it.”

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alumnae award honorees Each spring, Hutchison celebrates its alumnae award honorees during Alumnae Weekend festivities. This year, due to the pandemic, we celebrated our honorees as part of our virtual Alumnae Weekend. We thank these alumnae for their leadership, service, friendship, and, above all, their continued commitment to helping us keep Hutchison Strong.

2021 Distinguished Alumna Award SUSAN SPRINGFIELD ’82 The Hutchison Distinguished Alumna Award recognizes and celebrates alumnae who are making a difference in the world through exceptional professional achievement, singular artistic creation, and selfless and visionary service.

Throughout her career, Susan Springfield ’82 has often been one of only a few women at the table. She wants to change that. Though modest about her professional accomplishments, Susan does not hesitate to wield her considerable professional influence to effect change and benefit the women who follow her. She has been recognized nationally and locally for implementing changes to improve women’s opportunities and lives through her role as Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Credit Officer at First Horizon Bank and her tireless community engagement, including her work for victims of domestic violence. A former Hutchison trustee and member of the Alumnae Association Board, she and her fellow Class of 1982 graduates created a scholarship dedicated to financial assistance. Susan’s laser focus on creating opportunities for women and girls is a tremendous community asset.

2021 Alumna Service to Hutchison Award ROBYN MCGEE RABY ’88 The Alumna Service to Hutchison Award recognizes the school’s appreciation for exceptional and longstanding service to and advocacy for Hutchison.

When Robyn McGee Raby ’88 graduated and was headed to the University of Alabama, she was ready to embark on her new adventure. She says Hutchison was clearly in her rearview mirror, and she did not think she would be back anytime soon. Thankfully for us, she did return and has been an engaged community member since. As a parent to five Hutchison girls—four alumnae, and one in middle school—Robyn is an active and engaged advocate for students and alumnae.

She has served multiple leadership roles on the Alumnae Association Board and is always ready to assist with anything from hosting a class gathering to tracking down outdated information on alumnae. Robyn always brings a fresh perspective and adds excitement to any project. Her energy and upbeat attitude are inspiring. As a mother, a friend, and a colleague, she is a role model to us all.

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virtual ALUMNAE WEEKEND 2021 • HIGHLIGHTS Celebrating 100+ Years of Friendships!

While this year looked different, we were excited to celebrate our first-ever virtual reunion with a weekend full of friendship and fun! Here are a few ways we celebrated together, even at a distance:

Convocation

We started with a welcome from Mary Aubrey Landrum Stafford ’10, Alumnae Director, and Amelia Brown Williamson ’10, Alumnae Association Board President, and the presentation of Alumnae Award Honorees by Dr. Kristen Ring, head of school.

Comeback Coffee

Hosted by Megan Wellford Grinder ’91, Chair, Hutchison Board of Trustees.

We hope you had your favorite cup of java handy, because virtual coffee doesn’t have a lot of caffeine.

Wine Tasting Webinar

Hosted by Katie Griesbeck ’96, who is the Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Cakebread Cellars in Napa Valley, California. There’s nothing quite like having a wine expert give you some inside tips on great wines, especially while enjoying a glass of vino. It almost felt like we were in the same room.

Live from Hutchison

Since alumnae couldn’t be here in person, we went live from different locations to provide a quick glimpse of the campus.

Check the short videos out on our web page.

How-to Videos Looking for an easy at-home workout to keep active, or wondering how to grow microgreens?

We’ve got you covered.

If you missed them, you can still follow along by watching online.

Take a photo of the QR code to see all the virtual alumnae weekend content. Or visit: hutchisonschool.org/alumnae-weekend-schedule

Save the dates! April 1-2 , 2022 Please save the dates for the 2022 Alumnae Weekend!

More detailed information will be sent in the fall.

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