2006
• TOM KATES and MATT HALL join the history department. Hall begins the first football team in Pace Academy’s history. Kates coaches lacrosse. • ALLISON RILEY and MEGAN DICKHERBER join the faculty.
2007
• LAURA AGRONT-HOBBS, MICHAEL CALLAHAN, KEITH NEWMAN, BAILEY PLAYER, REGINA TATE and MATT WALKER are hired. • GAVIN BRADLEY and SHANNON MEYRING complete the College Counseling team. • DAVE FORTIER is head of Facilities. >>> The consummate student-athlete, Regina Tate models intellectual achievement and physical fitness for her students and players. As varsity girls basketball coach, she led the 2010-11 team to the state finals and demands the same excellence in the classroom from her AP chemistry students.
2008
• The Upper School faculty welcomes JEWELL MARABLE, JOHN PEARSON, NANCY ROBINSON, SARA SIEGEL EDEN and LEE WILSON.
2009
• CHARLES BRUBAKER, TOMMY HATTORI and GUS WHYTE are hired.
Top, a courtyard view of The Arthur M. Blank Family Upper School, scheduled to open in the fall of 2014. Bottom, a view of the campus from West Paces Ferry Road. Right, the student commons in the Upper School.
building. So, as we say farewell, we are grateful for the foundation laid in the bricks and mortar of Bridges Hall, but we are even more grateful for its legacy.
It’s Time Scheduled to open in 2014, The Arthur M. Blank Family Upper School will complete Pace Academy’s Long-Range Plan; provide double the space of the current Upper School; include a new Academic Resource Center and the 21st century Woodruff Library; feature state-of-the-
2010
• KEVIN BALLARD and BROOKS FLEMING are the newest members of the Upper School faculty.
2011 art science labs and technology; allow for common work and meeting spaces for students, faculty and staff; assist in the continued retention and recruitment of the highest-caliber faculty; boost learning, foster community and enhance the campus.
• JERE LINK and BRIANNA KORB join the Upper School team.
2012
• ERICA BARBAKOW and JENNI RIDALL COALE ’05 make up the last class of new faculty to teach in the Upper School building.
Large portions of this article were excerpted or adapted from an unfinished history of Pace Academy by Suzi Zadeh.
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