Miss Colby Hall (Facult y 2003-2005)
teaches at PS 321 in Brooklyn, NY, and completed her Master’s Degree at Columbia Universit y’s Teachers College in 2007 in Elementary Education. She is engaged to Benjamin Heller, who was a 1994 Harvard graduate (Colby graduated from Harvard in 2002) and is a contributor to the New York Times. They are planning to wed in the summer of 2010 at her family home in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Mr. Bill Harvie has been in Amelia since retiring from NA in 1996. The pace of life there is slower than in the Norfolk area. Amelia is a rural count y about 30 miles west of Richmond, with one stop light, though that may change to two in the near future. Bob Herzog (teacher & coach ) lives about an hour away in Hanover Count y. His wife raises Morgan horses, and Bob thinks of himself as a Country Squire. Mr. Harvie has been teaching at the Amelia Academy for the past 11 years. He teaches a couple of math classes each day, and he is “determined to get it right one of these years, though some of the students will probably doubt this!” He also helps out at the Amelia Golf Course a couple of afternoons a week. Mr.
Thomas
P.
Hudgins,
Jr.
(Facult y 1976-1998) sends his greetings to all former colleagues and students and cannot believe it’s been eleven years since he left Norfolk Academy. After serving as Headmaster at independent day schools in Georgia and North Carolina from 1998 to 2007, he accepted a post as the Assistant Headmaster for Advancement at Girls’ Preparatory School in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Tommy’s daughters love GPS; Kayleigh (17) will be a senior this year, and Joanna (16) will be a sophomore. Janet is busy selling real estate in Chattanooga, a great place to live! He hopes Bulldogs will visit them if they’re in the area or find them on the web (www.gps.edu) and just say hi. Katie Patterson ’08 prepares to fire an arrow. Katie was on JMU's National Championship Archering Team.
Dr. Byron C. Hulsey (Facult y 20032006) finished his third year as the Head of School at Randolph School in Huntsville, Alabama in 2009. He, his wife Jennifer, their son Ben (6), and their daughter Claire (19 months) are very happy in Huntsville, but they miss their friends at Norfolk Academy. Ms. Sally Marr (Facult y 1987-1988) has fond memories of teaching first grade at Norfolk Academy, and remembers a particularly wonderful field trip to the Ford Truck Plant with several dads and Mr. Tucker. She feels proud to have taught Michael Duquette ’99, who joined the Norfolk Academy facult y this year. Sally took a year off to stay home with her newborn son Andrew. In 1989 she worked part-time as Director of Annual Giving for two years before giving birth to her son Connor. Sally has worked in Norfolk Academy Summer Programs for the last twent y-two years. Sally returned to teaching in 1992 at First Presbyterian Preschool and became the kindergarten teacher at The Williams School in Norfolk in 1995 under Headmaster Bart Baldwin ’79, former Norfolk Academy teacher and Assistant Head of the Lower School. In 2008, after thirteen years in kindergarten, Sally moved up to first grade. She teaches at The Williams School with former Norfolk Academy teachers Janice Ford and Liza Needham
and with Norfolk Academy graduate Emily Jonak ’04. Sally enjoyed watching her sons, Andrew ’07 and Connor ’09, competing on the sports fields, singing in the chorus and Academy Singers, and performing in the Winter Musical. Andrew is a junior at Babson College in Wellesley, MA and Connor is a freshman at Lehigh Universit y in Bethlehem, PA. Sally continues to follow former Williams School alumnae who attend Norfolk Academy. Mrs. Virginia Paradise (Faculty
1987-2006) and her husband John sold their home in Norfolk in 2007. They bought land in Mount Holly, which is in Westmoreland County, VA, on the Nomini Creek, to build a house. They stayed in the beautiful town of Kinsale, VA, for several months during construction. John was very busy being the contractor on the new house. He found out how time consuming that can be, but he loved it. They moved into the new home in April 2008. It took about a year to complete everything, but now they enjoy the view and watching the bald eagles fishing in the creek! She and John have been involved in the community in various activities; they worked as election officials during the 2008 Presidential election and the Democratic Primary in June. John and Virginia found it particularly rewarding to see new voters making their selections and the proud expressions on their faces as they left. They have also been involved in various church activities, from pancake suppers to barn sales and the Altar Guild. Virginia sings in the choir at Yeocomico Episcopal Church, and during the spring, she joined several other members of the church choir in a local choral group. She enjoys keeping up with news about fellow Bulldogs on the NA web page. Virginia writes that she misses seeing her former students. It was such a joy and privilege to watch them grow and mature into charming and confident young ladies. Dr. Nat Peirce (Facult y 1995-1996) is beginning his eighth year as Headmaster of East Woods School, Oyster Bay Cove, NY, after spending six years in Mississippi as Head of the Middle
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