graduation 2014
Ninety-one
seniors graduated from St. Andrew’s Episcopal School on Sunday, May 25th in a beautiful ceremony inside Founders Hall Gymnasium. A diverse class of scholars, artists, athletes, and servants, these students from the Class of 2014 were accepted to 179 colleges and universities from around the world, and received more than eight million dollars in merit scholarship money. They traveled the globe during their Junior Experience trips, competed courageously in SPC championships and at the ISAS Fine Arts Festivals, contributed significantly to non-profits through their community service work, and impressed faculty and staff during their last days on campus with their Senior Project presentations, a requirement to graduate. The seniors elected Art History faculty member Marsha Russell to be their faculty speaker at graduation, who said, “All of us here have watched with wonder and relished both the ways you have grown and the ways you have supported growth in one another. Being with you has reminded us, every single day, that the way we take care of others matters.”
Graduate Maddie Hampton (’13) was elected as the Senior Speaker at graduation and passed along her own words of wisdom, “Failure is nothing more than the opportunity to learn. It is a well-known cliché, but one that has a lot of truth to it— failure brings about learning and I would even go so far as to say that it is impossible to fully learn something without failing at least a little in the beginning.” Seniors Austin Burns and Olivia Hindera won the Scholarship Award for outstanding academic achievement, passion for learning, and pursuit of excellence. Zeek Price received The Hilary H. Carlson Award; Sarah Rulon-Miller received The Scott Field Bailey Servant Award; Frankie Chen was given The Cornerstone Award which recognizes courage, creativity, and love of school; and Bri Hardeman received the Lucy Collins Nazro Award for contributing in original ways “to improve the life of students, faculty, and staff of St. Andrew’s.” Head of School Sean Murphy presented Upper School Chaplain Rob Leacock with the Lucy Collins Nazro Faculty Service Award and Art History teacher Marsha Russell received the inaugural St. Andrew’s Teaching Award given in recognition of outstanding work with students. 6 • St. Andrew’s Episcopal School • www.sasaustin.org