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“Principes Non 

Homines” 

Graduation 

2011 

“Attacking 

learning” 

Webb 

alumni bulletin • 2010-2011 


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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE 

The world is changing. The fact that the world is changing and the fact 

that the rate of change in most cases is accelerating every year is no wellkept 

secret. A single statistic that best captures for me that rate of change 

in our society is that of the ten most in-demand jobs in 2011, none were 

even invented in 2006. 

The ability of schools to both predict and respond to that changing world 

is critical, and preparing students for the world of tomorrow is a core 

business of Webb School of Knoxville. To that end, Webb focuses on: 

• creating learning environments that provide first-hand, practical 

experience, cultivating the skill set needed to succeed in the future; 

• teaching students to think in critical and creative ways; and 

• exposing them to and requiring them to master a body of important, 

relevant knowledge essential to literacy in a broad array of topics. 

Many of us here have been a part of Webb’s transformation over the 

last decade-and-a-half, helping to implement innovative programs 

and methodologies that might give our students and our teachers 

an additional advantage as they work together on this challenge of 

preparing graduates for their lives beyond Webb. This fall’s initiative to 

incorporate iPads into the academic lives of all students in grades 4-12 

at Webb is but another example of parents and school personnel working 

together to improve the chances for success for our children. 

As alumni, you can certainly appreciate more than most the role that 

Webb School can play in preparing its graduates to lead productive and 

fulfilling lives beyond Webb. You have found your way in this world of 

change; perhaps in part through experiences during your time at Webb. 

Our hope is that the school continues to be successful in exploring how 

best to help Webb graduates learn to embrace these inevitable changes 

and flourish in tomorrow’s world. 

Sincerely, 

Scott L. Hutchinson 

Webb School President

Webb School president 

Scott L. Hutchinson 

Webb School 

Board of Trustees, 2010-2011 

Jon Lawler, Chairman 

Randal Boyd 

Cardin W. Bradley 

R. Gregory Brophy 

W. Gregory Hall Jr. ’83 

Dee Bagwell Haslam ’72 

W. David Hovis ’86 

David P. Jones 

Roy King 

Jean Rausch Lansing 

Michael T. McClamroch ’82 

Terry Moore 

S. Mark Overholt ’83 

Susan E. Packard 

Dennis B. Ragsdale ’74 

William R. Riley 

Mark A. Rowan 

Richard D. Strachan 

Mary F. Tarwater 

Tracy E. Thompson 

Ed Winter 

UPPER SCHOOL HEAD 

Matt Macdonald 

middle school head 

David Nelson 

LOWER SCHOOL HEAD 

Angie Crabtree 

director of admissionS 

and financial aid 

Susan Smith 

director of development 

Jay Howard 

president, alumni council 

Mike McClamroch ’82 

Alumni Coordinator 

Helen Bruner 

SPECIAL EVENTS Coordinator 

Linda Reed 

Development office manager 

Peggy Dugan 

website coordinator 

Jordan Wormsley ’06 

associate director 

of communications 

Cathy Dowhos-O’Gorman 

Inspiring Learners Developing Leaders 


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DEPARTMENTS 

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9 student steps 

14 faculty focus 

24 sports wrap 

29 alumni update 

33 class notes 

FEATURES 

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“Principes Non Homines” 

Annie (Haslam) Colquitt ’05 and Leigh Haslam ’07 

interview their father, Gov. Bill Haslam ’76, to share 

his memories of Webb School and talk about 

Webb’s influence on his career in public service. 

Graduation 2011 

including college destinations, Awards Days, 

baccalaureate, Middle School Honors ceremony 

“Attacking learning” 

After three months in classrooms, iPads 

eliminate excuses and change learning. 

ALUMNI BULLETIN MAGAZINE 

Designer/Co-Editor: 

Co-Editor: 

Cathy Dowhos-O’Gorman 

Associate Director of Communications 

Helen Bruner 

Alumni Coordinator 

Writers, Photographers & Contributors 

Elizabeth Gregor 

Andrew Gresham 

Jay Howard 

Scott Hutchinson 

Bobby Lewis, Pro Photo 

Jordan Wormsley 

Adam Brimer, Knoxville News Sentinel 

Dave Cerchiaro, ActionPixTN.com 

Paul Efird, Knoxville News Sentinel 

Allison Rupp, Knoxville News Sentinel 

Colby McLemore, under the auspices of 

A3 Creative Group 

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aroundcampus 

Knoxville City 

Councilwoman and 

Webb parent/alumni 

parent, MARILYN 

RODDY, spoke during 

Upper School Chapel 

about the qualities of 

good character and 

leadership, and 

encouraged students 

to take advantage 

of leadership 

opportunities at 

school and in their 

community. 

Guest authors, speakers enhance 

school experience for Webb students 

Leadership Speaker 

Series highlights 

leaders in community 

and beyond 

Famed explorer 

PETER HILLARY, son 

of the late Sir Edmund 

Hillary, was the guest 

speaker during a 

Middle School 

assembly. Hillary 

described some of his 

adventures and the 

importance of service 

to others as exemplified 

by his creation 

of the Himalayan 

Foundations. 

Jack Prelutsky 

Famed Children’s Poet Laureate 

Lower School students were treated to a 

visit in October 2010 by children’s poet 

Jack Prelutsky. Named the inaugural 

winner of the Children’s Poet Laureate 

award in 2006, Prelutsky has authored 

more than 40 children’s books, including 

The New Kid on the Block and The Dragons 

Are Singing Tonight. He also assembled 

several anthologies of children’s poetry. 

Jack Gantos 

Acclaimed Children’s, Young Adult Author 

With the support of funds provided by 

Webb’s Cornelius T. McMahon Author Series, 

best-selling author Jack Gantos returned to 

campus, April 2011, to speak with Lower and 

Upper School students. Best known for his 

children’s picture book series, Rotten Ralph, 

and the middle school oriented Joey Pigza 

books, Gantos has also authored the young 

adult autobiography, Hole in My Life. 

DON HICKMAN, an 

esteemed former FBI 

Special Agent and 

TVA Inspector 

General, spoke at 

Chapel in honor of 

the Martin Luther King 

Jr. holiday. Hickman, 

the first black graduate 

of Dobyns- 

Bennett High School, 

described his experiences 

in the ’60s and 

Dr. King’s legacy 

through service. 

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Roland Smith 

Award-Winning Fiction, Non-Fiction Author 

Roland Smith, acclaimed author of young 

adult fiction and nonfiction children’s 

books, spoke with Middle School students 

in October 2010. Smith is a former zookeeper 

and research biologist. His titles 

include the children’s book Sea Otter 

Rescue, The Last Lobo, and more recently, 

adventure novels like Zach’s Lie and IQ. 

Charles Maynard 

Popular Author, Storyteller 

During the sixth grade’s annual Appalachian 

Day in March 2011, author and storyteller 

Charles Maynard entertained students with 

traditional Appalachian tales and stories of 

growing up in the Cumberlands. Appalachian 

Day is a daylong celebration of Appalachia 

and a prelude to the sixth graders’ 

field trip to Kanuga in North Carolina. 

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1 & 2 Upper School drama students 

transported audience members back 

to a time when the champagne flowed, 

the caviar chilled, and all the world was 

a party in the musical-comedy, THE 

DROWSY CHAPERONE. 3 & 4 The Upper 

School drama department brought 

Nikolai Gogol’s political comedy, THE 

GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR, to the Bishop 

Center stage for its spring production. 

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CENTER STAGE: Webb students continued the rich tradition of outstanding theater productions. From the Upper 

School’s fall musical, THE DROWSY CHAPERONE, and the spring farce, THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR; to the Middle School’s 

slapstick comedy, COCKTAILS WITH MIMI, and the Lower School’s musical, AN AESOP ADVENTURE, Webb’s young thespians 

performed like pros. 

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5 & 6 Webb’s Middle School presented Mary 

Chase’s slapstick comedy, COCKTAILS WITH MIMI, 

in spring 2011 – a fun-filled romp with lots of 

laughs and twists and turns. 7 & 8 Audiences 

enjoyed the ageless and timeless wisdom of 

Aesop and his fables in the Lower School’s musical, 

AN AESOP ADVENTURE. Classic, cherished stories 

were brought to life on the Bishop Center stage in 

this production that entertained and taught 

important life lessons. 

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aroundcampus 

(right) Webb’s spring 2011 artist-in 

residence, Chuck Webster, works 

with Caitlin Wilkinson ’12. (below) 

Fall 2010 artist-in-residence, Otis 

Kriegel, provides suggestions during 

a Middle School art project critique. 

Visiting artists 

offer real-world 

insights into the 

creative process 

Choral music, PAINTING, AND 

pottery highlighted Webb’s 

annual Dumont Arts Symposium in 

Spring 2011. This celebration of the 

arts brings professionals from the arts 

on to campus to teach and entertain. 

This year’s event featured a performance 

by the University of Tennessee 

Men’s Chorale (top) and presentations 

by Webb’s 2011 ArtXtravaganza 

featured artist, Carylon Killebrew, and 

ceramic artist Bill Capshaw (pictured 

above with Upper School art teacher 

Brad Cantrell). 

Killebrew’s works have been shown 

locally and regionally, and she’s 

represented by galleries in Tennessee, 

North Carolina and Georgia. Capshaw 

is pottery chair/instructor at the Oak 

Ridge Art Center, and his works have 

been included in several private and 

permanent collections. 

Thanks to funding provided by Webb’s 

ArtXtravaganza Art Show and Sale, students 

again experienced the real world of art through 

Webb’s Artist-In-Residence Program. During 

2010-2011, Webb hosted interactive artist/ 

educator Otis Kriegel and painter Chuck Webster. 

Otis Kriegel has over 15 years experience in 

community education and the arts. He earned a 

degree in Experiential Education from Prescott 

College and an M.S.Ed. in Bilingual Education 

from The Bank Street College of Education. 

Co-founder of the internationally known public art collaborative, Illegal Art, Kriegel 

has taught in numerous public schools and is an adjunct professor in the graduate 

school of education at New York University. Otis Kriegel concluded his tenure at 

Webb with an interactive “To Do” art piece. Students were asked to post bright pink 

and yellow sticky notes on a wall of the Upper School Gallery with their “To Do” lists. 

When completed, the piece also spelled out the words, “To Do.” 

Chuck Webster received his MFA from American University. He has participated 

in numerous group and solo exhibitions throughout the United States and abroad, 

and his works are part of several permanent collections. An award-winning artist, 

Webster has received several fellowships and artist residencies in New York, Virginia, 

Florida, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire. 

Webb’s Chamber Singers 

again heralded in the 

holiday season with the 

longtime holiday favorite, 

the Madrigal Feaste at St. 

John’s Cathedral. From the 

Wassail cup to the flaming 

pudding, guests enjoyed 

an evening away from the 

bustle of the season to feast 

amongst royalty and experience 

the laughter and song 

of a medieval holiday. 

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(left) Elise Ergen ’11 and Jordan Shuler ’11 catalog the evidence of a crime scene, 

set up in one of the rooms in Webb’s Clayton Science Center. (below) Callon 

Schmid ’11 and Nicole Jansen ’11 collect fingerprints from one of the “suspects” 

(Webb Director of Development, Jay Howard) from their crime scene investigation. 

Learning the real science of 

solving crime 

Behind the yellow crime scene tape, the forensic team 

examines the evidence – an apparent suicide note, a pen, 

blood splatters on the table, two drinking glasses, and a gun. 

Team members catalog each item, and then carefully collect 

and “bag and tag” the evidence to bring back to the lab. 

This could easily be a scene in the latest episode of CSI or 

NCIS, but think again . . . it’s a new course of study in Webb’s Upper School. 

Forensic Science, an elective introduced in fall 2010, provides students with 

hands-on experience as they perform the real work of real forensic scientists – processing 

crime scenes, analyzing lab data, and conducting criminal investigations. 

“The kids love it and so do I,” says Webb Upper School biology teacher Laura Kile. 

Through a series of different crime scenes Kile sets up throughout the semester, 

students learn about the importance of observation and how to secure a scene and 

collect the evidence. They examine and test different fabrics and hair to determine their 

origin and makeup. “In one crime scene, I threw in some dog hair and horse hair, and it 

totally threw the students off,” said Kile. The young investigators also study and analyze 

fingerprints, as well as learn to collect fingerprints off of objects, which Kile says is a 

difficult task. “The TV shows make it look so easy,” she says. “It doesn’t always work out 

that way.” 

The students might also analyze soil composition or if there’s “blood” at a particular 

crime scene, they’re tasked with determining the blood type, incorporating their 

knowledge of antigens and antibodies. If it’s a blood splatter from a gunshot, they have 

to call on their math skills to calculate the angle at which the blood hit the surface and 

determine where the bullet may have come from. 

The class is a quintessential interdisciplinary science course, incorporating biology, 

physics, chemistry, environmental science, math, and even English. Students record 

in journals the steps they took in their investigations and participate in debates about 

science-related current events. 

It also requires that students do additional legwork outside of class – collecting 

evidence from various “suspects” (volunteer staff and faculty members) on campus 

and knowing what to do with it once they’re back in the lab. 

Kile says the new elective provides more real-world knowledge of what really 

happens while still making forensic science engaging and exciting. “It’s so interesting,” 

says Kile. “The kids get to do stuff all the time, and they really get into it.” 

She adds that Forensic 

Science is a great course for 

students who love science or 

see a future in forensics or 

criminal justice. “For kids who 

might not want to be a doctor 

or researcher, but they really 

enjoy science and the hands-on 

aspect . . . forensic science can 

be a great career choice.” 

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annual science and cultural 

fairs during the year increased students’ 

understanding and fostered 

collaboration. (from top) The Lower 

School’s science fair featured more 

than 100 group and individual exhibits. 

Sixth graders hosted their Euro-Fair 

with displays and food of Western 

Europe. Mandarin Chinese teacher, 

Jia-Li Weng speaks with students at 

the Upper School Cultural Fair. 

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aroundcampus 

Faces program bridges cultural understanding 

Webb’s many internationaL 

programs continued to 

broaden students’ understanding of 

and appreciation for different 

cultures, and deepened international 

friendships. (top) Webb’s Upper 

School again hosted students from 

L’Institut Montalembert in Paris as 

part of a two-week cultural exchange 

program. The Webb student hosts 

later travelled to Paris to stay with 

their new friends from l’Institut 

Montalembert. (above) Former Rotary 

International Exchange student Julie 

Sergyeyeva (pictured right) returned 

to the Webb campus to visit mulicultural 

coordinator, Liz Gregor (center), 

and to meet 2010-2011 Webb Rotary 

International Exhange student, Marco 

Tulio Silva Caixeta, from Brazil (left). 

As Upper School students 

prepared for finals and the 

holiday break, they also bid a 

fond farewell to two Guatemalan 

students who 

wrapped up their experience 

at Webb and in East Tennessee 

as part of a cultural 

exchange program. 

For almost eight weeks, 

Ana Paula Escobar Farrington 

and Sarai Figueroa Alvarez 

participated in the acclaimed 

Faces & Our Cultures 

Program, which places 

qualified Guatemalan 

secondary school students in 

schools throughout the 

Midwest and Southeastern 

United States. Living with host families, 

students attend classes at their host 

school and participate in the school’s 

athletic and extracurricular events. 

“Faces & Our Cultures gives 

Guatemalan students the opportunity 

to improve their English, experience life 

and school in America, and to be 

ambassadors for their home country,” 

says Webb multicultural coordinator, 

Liz Gregor. “The objective is to have an 

enriching, cultural experience for both 

cultures and to promote friendships 

within those cultures.” 

Farrington, a freshman, lived with 

Webb parents Jim and Margaret 

Samples and their daughters Annie and 

Faces & Our Cultures exchange students Sarai Figueroa Alvarez (third 

from left) and Ana Paula Escobar Farrington (far right) with their Webb 

host family members (l to r) Lara Cherry, Arlene Cherry, Katie Samples, 

and Margaret Samples. 

Katie Samples. Alvarez, a junior, stayed 

with Webb freshman Lara Cherry and her 

parents Ronald and Arlene Cherry. 

Both girls helped to enrich the school 

campus, according to Gregor. In addition 

to their classes, Farrington and Alvarez 

visited Webb Lower, Middle and Upper 

School classrooms to talk about Guatemala 

and its culture. Both girls also settled 

right into the high school experience at 

Webb. Farrington joined Webb’s climbing 

team while Alvarez tried her hand at 

Spartan bowling. They took in various 

school events such as Webb’s fall musical, 

cheered with the Spartan faithful at home 

football games, and enjoyed sleepovers 

with fellow classmates. 

Through Rotary International’s New Generations 

Exchange, Webb hosted Renata Boppré 

(pictured left), an English teacher from Brazil. 

New Generations is a short-term exchange for 

students or young professionals. Boppré, who 

teaches English at the Yazigi Language School in 

Tubarao, Brazil, sat in on English, geography, 

history and Spanish classes at Webb. She said 

she learned a lot and had a wonderful experience 

with the students and teachers at Webb. 


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Seniors merit honors for 

academic achievement 

(left) Webb’s National Merit Finalists 

for 2011: (back row, l to r) Robby 

Ritchie, Matthew Klawonn, Tyrel 

Prentiss; (front row, l to r) Sam Adams, 

Stephanie Biggs, Deanna Sanders, 

Linnea Calhoun. Tyrel Prentiss also 

qualified as a Finalist in the National 

Achievement Scholarship Program. 

(below) Webb School’s National Merit 

Commended Students for 2011: (l to r) 

Taylor Donnell and KJ Parent. 

Webb seniors Sam Adams, Stephanie Biggs, Linnea Calhoun, Matthew Klawonn, 

Tyrel Prentiss, Robby Ritchie, and Deanna Sanders were named National Merit 

Finalists for 2011 by the National Merit Scholarship Program, while seniors Taylor 

Donnell and KJ Parent were designated National Merit Commended Students. In 

addition, Tyrel Prentiss also qualified as a Finalist in the National Achievement 

Scholarship Program. 

Of the more than 1.5 million students in some 22,000 high schools, nationwide, 

who entered the 2011 National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the 2009 

Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT) as 

juniors, fewer than one percent of the nation’s high school seniors were designated 

National Merit Semifinalists, and even fewer have been named Finalists. These some 

15,000 senior Finalists represented the highest scoring entrants in each state. 

Tyrel Prentiss was also one of 1,300 Finalists selected by the National Achievement 

Scholarship Program, an annual academic competition to recognize scholastically 

talented black students throughout the United States. 

Taylor Donnell and KJ Parent were among the some 34,000 high school students 

to be recognized for their exceptional academic promise by being named National 

Merit Commended Students for 2011. Commended Students placed among the top 

five percent of the more than 1.5 million students who entered the 2011 National 

Merit Scholarship Program competition. 

Haydek earns 

top ACT score 

Jenni Haydek ’12 

earned a top 

composite score 

of 36 on the 

2010-2011 

ACT® test. 

The ACT® test 

is a national 

college admissions 

and placement exam, and 

assesses high school students’ general 

educational development and their 

ability to complete college-level work. 

Nationally, ACT reports that roughly 

one-tenth of one percent of students 

receive a top composite score of 36. 

Among test takers in the high school 

graduating class of 2010, only 588 of 

nearly 1.6 million students earned a 

composite score of 36. 

The ACT consists of tests in English, 

mathematics, reading, and science. 

A student’s composite score is the 

average of the four test scores. ACT 

test scores are accepted by all major 

United States colleges, and exceptional 

scores of 36 provide colleges 

with evidence of student readiness for 

the academic rigors that lie ahead. 

WEBB EXCELS IN AP TESTING: Webb 

students have traditionally posted outstanding 

scores on the AP Exams, and the 2010-2011 

year was no different. Seventy-one Webb students, 

both current and Class of 2010 graduates, earned AP 

College Board Scholar Awards. Twenty-seven Webb 

students qualified for the AP Scholar with Distinction 

Award by earning an average score of at least 3.5 on 

all AP Exams taken, and scores of 3 or higher on five 

or more of these exams. Fourteen students qualified 

for the AP Scholar with Honor Award by receiving an 

average score of at least 3.25 on all AP Exams taken, 

and scores of 3 or higher on four or more of these 

exams. Thirty students earned the designation of AP 

Scholar, granted to students who received scores of 

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3 or higher on three or more AP Exams.

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John Bollenbacher ’12 and 

Stephen Theyken ’12 (pictured l 

to r with Webb Upper School 

science chair, Bob Brown) were 

among the 50 students, representing 

15 high schools from 

across the state, to be invited 

to the Tennessee Junior Science 

and Humanities Symposium 

(TJSHS) in February 2011 at UT. 

The TJSHS is an annual scientific 

research competition that gives 

selected high school students the 

opportunity to present their research 

in a public forum. Students present 

original research in the sciences, 

mathematics and engineering. The 

symposium is one of 48 in the United 

States, and the only one in Tennessee. 

Bollenbacher won second place, 

and a $1,500 scholarship with his 

presentation, “On the Motion of a 

Projectile.” Theyken presented “Yes, 

There Are Atoms. A Comparison of 

Three Independent Methods of 

Determining Avogadro’s Number.” 

Bollenbacher went on to represent 

Tennessee at the National JSHS in San 

Diego, Calif., where he competed 

against students from 48 states for 

additional scholarships. The top 24 

national winners advanced to the 

London International Youth Science 

Forum in the summer. 

Webb’s Robotics Team #1466 didn’t 

have to travel far for the 2011 FIRST 

Robotics competition as Knoxville 

hosted the first-ever FIRST Smoky 

Mountain Regional. More than 50 

teams competed at the Knoxville 

Convention Center, with the winner 

going on to the national championship 

in St. Louis. For the 2011 

challenge, “LOGO MOTION,” robots 

hung inflatable square, triangle and 

circle pieces on pegs at opposite 

ends of the playing field; with extra 

points going to robots that hung the 

pieces to form the FIRST logo. Robots 

could also deploy “Mini-Bots’ to 

climb poles for a chance to earn additional 

points. Team #1466 mentored 

Seymour High School’s team, the 

Eagletrons, which made its début at 

the Smoky Mountain Regional. 

Webb inducts 2011 Cum Laude Society members 

Juniors Tess Allan, Paul Brandt, Marjorie 

Butler, Yates Congleton, Sam 

Friedlander, Jenni Haydek, Madison 

Kahl, Maggie Mamantov, Natalie Ritchie, 

Matt Slutzker, Madison Thomas, and 

Jonathan Yoder; and seniors Patrick 

Daley, Madalene Dawson, Marco Eres, 

Brian Glatt, Sarah King, Hunter Little, 

Sydney Michelson, KJ Parent, and Macy 

Parker were inducted into the Cum 

Laude Society for 2011, recognizing 

superior scholarship. 

Cum Laude members attended a 

reception, featuring guest alumna 

speaker Lisa Stowers ’02. Stowers is a 

Strategy and Organizational Consultant 

for the federal government. 

Stowers noted that as a 

Webb student, she was 

“nurtured by some of the 

best teachers in the country” 

and was “fostered as an 

individual in a community of 

exceptional people.” She also 

shared four lessons she has 

learned since graduating 

from Webb. 

First lesson: never lose 

the value of learning in the 

pursuit of grades. Stowers 

encouraged the students to take advantage 

of the breadth of classes in college 

and to not shy away from difficult courses 

for fear of a lower grade. Second: rethink 

the concept of popularity. “You may miss 

out on your very best friend or limit 

yourself from achieving your full potential,” 

she said. Third: there is no such thing 

as a dead end. “If you’re patient and 

tenacious enough,” Stowers noted, “you 

will always find a detour . . . It may just be 

that the best option hasn’t been presented 

to you yet.” Fourth: growth occurs in 

conflict. “Although we relish in the good 

phases, it is really in the low phases where 

we come out stronger and wiser.” 

Lisa Stowers ’02 (second from left) with (l to r) Webb School President Scott 

Hutchinson, Rachel Stowers ’05, and Liz Stowers at the Cum Laude reception. 


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Students experience 

civil rights history 

During their visit to the Green McAdoo Cultural Center in Clinton, Tenn., the fourth graders completed a written 

assignment about what they saw and learned at the Center. (above, l to r) Turley Wall, Sam Hanggi, Amelia 

Konomos, Haley Denton, and Arthur Jenkins fill out their assignment sheets during their tour of the Center’s 

life-sized photo displays. 

As part of their unit on the American Civil Rights movement, Webb’s fourth grade 

students visited the Green McAdoo Cultural Center in Clinton, Tenn., in March 2011, 

to learn more about the 1956 desegregation of Clinton High School and the historical 

role 12 young black students – the Clinton 12 – played in becoming the first 

students to desegregate a state-supported high school in the South. 

As the Webb students sat in the Center’s period classroom – much like the 

classroom black students had at the Green McAdoo Grammar School in Clinton 

during the 1950s – they learned about the Jim Crow era in the South, the limited 

rights African Americans had at that time, and the turbulent events leading up to 

and after the desegregation of Clinton High School. 

A former Clinton High School student also spoke to the fourth graders about his 

experiences during the time the Clinton 12 attended high school and answered the 

students’ interesting and thoughtful questions. 

A tour of the Green McAdoo Center’s display of letters, news clippings, items, and 

life-sized photos, plus a viewing of the Center’s full-scale bronze sculpture of the 

Clinton 12, concluded the Webb students’ visit. 

Their experience at the McAdoo Center deepened the Webb students’ understanding 

of and appreciation for what was a pivotal moment in the American Civil 

Rights movement and in American history, according to Liz Gregor, Webb’s multicultural 

coordinator. “The students came away with a clearer idea of the courage the 

young black students showed in their local community,” said Gregor, “and they 

realized the impact their brave actions and the actions of others in the Clinton 

community had in changing history in Tennessee, the South and in the entire nation.” 

Check out more Webb news, including student accomplishments 

and events, on our website News page at www.webbschool.org. 

Spartan chess players 

make the right moves 

Webb students scored strong performances 

at the Tennessee State 

Scholastic Individual Chess Tournament 

in January 2011, with several 

qualifying for the state finals. 

Oak Ridge High School hosted 

more than 140 competitors for the 

Region I tournament. Third grader Eli 

Davies placed 18th out of 35 competitors 

in the primary division. Competing 

in the elementary category, the 

largest group with 64 students, sixth 

graders Tolson Bell, Sean Read and 

Dan Primka placed 3rd, 10th and 13th, 

respectively. Bell’s top eight finish 

earned him a berth to the Scholastic 

Individual Finals at Tennessee Tech. 

Eighth grader Sanchit Wadhawan 

and senior Matthew Klawonn also 

made the trip to Cookeville for the 

state finals. Wadhawan finished third 

in the junior high division at regional 

while Klawonn took fourth in the high 

school category. 

Freshman Samir Martin placed 14th 

in the junior high category and juniors 

Rajat Agarwal and Matt Gigliotti 

placed 11th and 13th, respectively, in 

the high school division. 

Webb School was also well represented 

at the 2011 Region I Tennessee 

Scholastic Team Chess Championship 

with Webb’s high school and junior 

high teams qualifying for state. 

Despite having only three competitors, 

Webb’s high school team finished 

third and earned a trip to Cookeville 

for state. The Spartans’ junior high 

team also earned a berth to state with 

a runner-up finish at Region. 

Webb’s Middle School elementary 

team placed sixth while the Middle 

School B elementary team finished a 

solid second. Webb’s primary team 

took fifth place. 

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congratulations to Mary 

Carole Overholt ’13 for winning 

an American Visions Medal and 

Silver Medal in photography at The 

2011 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards 

competition in New York City; 

considered the largest and most 

prestigious arts recognition program in 

the nation for junior high and high 

school students. 

Nearly 1,500 of the most talented 

students in grades 7-12, representing 

45 states in the U.S. as well as in 

American schools abroad, were chosen 

to receive national medals. 

Overholt was also an American 

Visions Nominee and Gold Key Award 

winner at the 2011 Regional Scholastics. 

Several Webb orchestra and band members were 

selected for the February 2011 All-East Senior Clinic 

in Gatlinburg, Tenn. 

Junior violinist Mary Julia Emanuel (seated left) 

and junior violist Ishi Keenum (seated right) were 

both selected for the All-East Orchestra. 

Senior baritone players Matthew Klawonn 

(standing right) and Brian Glatt (standing center) 

earned All-East Green Band and All-East White Band 

honors, respectively; while senior tuba player Craig 

Fowler (standing left) and junior tuba player Gaines 

Miller (not pictured) were both named to the All-East 

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Nicknamed “Blitz Day,” Webb student and adult volunteers joined Knoxville Habitat for Humanity supervisors and 

the partner family, Ivan & Valentina Martinenco, on September 11 to begin work on the floor, walls and roofing of 

a three-bedroom house off of Clinton Highway in Knoxville. 

Helping to build a future 

Students help build fifth Habitat for Humanity House 

Webb School students helped a local couple celebrate their 33rd wedding anniversary 

with a very special gift – a new home. On September 11, 2010, students 

launched their fifth school-sponored Habitat for Humanity House with their “Blitz 

Day,” and started making one family’s dream a reality. 

Continuing a Webb School service tradition that is now 10 years old, Webb 

volunteers worked Saturdays throughout September, October, and into November, 

installing interior walls, roof shingles, siding, and insulation; painting and putting in 

cabinets. The house was completed in late November. 

Webb’s ongoing partnership with Knoxville Habitat for Humanity is an excellent 

opportunity for Webb faculty, staff, parents, alumni, and students to come together 

while helping to make a difference in someone else’s life, according to Webb Upper 

School community service coordinator, Priscilla Hohmann. “With this project, our 

volunteers see a very tangible result from their service,” says Hohmann. “To watch the 

framework of the house go up on ‘Blitz Day’ is incredibly rewarding, and to meet the 

future homeowners and share in their joy is a powerful experience.” 

STUDENT ARTISTS STAND OUT AT SCHOLASTICS: Webb art 

students excelled at the regional Scholastics Art Competition, collecting 58 of 

the 214 awards offered, including two of the highest honors – Gold Key and 

American Vision Nominee. Gold Key and American Vision winners qualified for the 

national Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. The 2011 regional Scholastics received nearly 

600 entries from schools in 13 counties. Webb students in grades 7 through 12 won 17 

Gold Keys, 17 Silver Keys, and 22 Honorable Mention. Of the five American Vision 

Nominees (the five best pieces among Gold Key winners), two were by Webb students.

studentsteps 

Webb Interact 

members usher in 

spring at Interact’s 

HOLI FESTIVAL, 

April 9, at UT. The 

event raised $1,400, 

which went toward 

UT’s Rotaract Club’s 

End Polio Now 

campaign, and to 

support the Bal 

Bahar School in 

Chandigarh, India. 

Cranes of hope 

Webb second grade students (l to r) Alex Hoethke, Niels 

Mandrus, Jennifer Lansing, and Dylan Johnson count and 

package some of the cranes folded by the Lower School. 

“Service Above Self” 

Upper School Interact Club’s HOLI FESTIVAL just one example of Club’s 

commitment to service. 

Webb’s Upper School Interact Club, 

in conjunction with University of 

Tennessee’s Rotaract Club, hosted a 

HOLI FESTIVAL, April 9, 2011, at UT. 

All members of the Knoxville 

community were invited to greet the 

turn of winter into spring with this 

annual Indian festival of color. Local 

high school bands W.H.A.T., Space for 

Lease and The Outfit Underneath 

provided the entertainment. Refreshments 

and delicious Indian food were 

Webb’s Interact spearheaded 

a Polio Awareness 

Week to raise 

funds for Rotary International’s 

End Polio 

Now campaign. Students 

spoke at Chapel, 

sold wristbands with 

Rotary’s motto, “Service 

above Self,” and hosted 

a bake sale. In all, they 

raised more than $550. 

Connor Moore, Sam 

Adams and Stephanie 

Biggs travelled to South 

Africa in August 2010 

as part of Rotary Club of 

Knoxville’s South Africa 

Outreach Discovery Team. 

The Webb seniors helped 

with service projects and 

explored future 

collaborative and 

sustainable projects 

where students could help. 

available for purchase. In addition, 

guests were welcome to join in the 

celebration by dousing each other with 

water and brightly colored powders to 

signify the new colors of spring! 

Interact’s HOLI FESTIVAL raised 

$1,400. Club members sent $200 to 

UT’s Rotaract Club for its End Polio Now 

program; the rest was used to support 

the Bal Bahar School in Chandigarh, 

India. Below are more examples of 

Interact’s “Service Above Self” projects. 

Webb Interact Club 

members joined Rotary 

Club of Knoxville to help 

with Knoxville’s Free Flu 

Shot Saturday at the 

South Doyle Middle 

School location. 

Students checked in 

visitors, collected forms 

and surveys, and raised 

money for the Empty 

Stocking Fund. 

Interact Club members 

joined students from 

Amnesty International 

UTK to meet and interact 

with local refugee 

teenagers at the Cansler 

Family YMCA. As part 

of the weekly program, 

provided by Bridge Refugee 

Services, the Webb 

students helped bridge 

the cultural gap with 

games and activities. 

There is a saying, “You cannot always 

have happiness, but you can always 

give happiness.” Webb second grade 

students took these words to heart 

when they spearheaded a service 

project to help children affected by the 

2011 devastating earthquake and 

tsunami in Japan. 

The second graders led the Lower 

School’s participation in children’s 

clothing brand OshKosh B’Gosh’s 

“Cranes for Kids” program. For every 

origami crane sent to Osh Kosh B’Gosh, 

the company would donate an article 

of clothing to children in Japan who 

have been displaced by the earthquake 

and tsunami. By the April 25th deadline, 

Webb Lower School students had 

folded 2,463 cranes! 

“Our students were so enthusiastic 

about this project,” noted Webb second 

grade teacher Christen Mayes, adding 

that one second grader even posted a 

“how to fold cranes” video to YouTube. 

The students also put together flyers 

and talked about the program, and 

provided “crane count” updates during 

morning community meetings. 

Learn more about Webb’s 

commitment to service on our 

News page at webbschool.org, 

including stories about the Middle 

School’s Holiday Service days and its longtime 

partnership with the 2010 Helen Ross - 2011 McNabb Center. 13

facultyfocus 

Cover used with the 

permission of Bluewater 

Productions. 

With a resumé 

that includes 

director of more 

than 52 plays, 

Shakespearean 

actor, voice work 

in radio commercials, 

art department 

buyer for 

the television series Babylon 5, star 

of the one-man play Vincent, and 

executive producer/lead actor of the 

award-winning audio drama series, 

Star Trek: The Continuing Mission, 

Webb drama teacher Patrick McCray 

returned to his comic book publishing 

roots as writer of Bluewater Productions’ 

comic book biography, Female Force: 

Betty White. 

The full-length book, written by 

McCray and illustrated by Todd 

Tennant, chronicles the 88-year-old 

Hollywood legend’s career, from her 

days working in radio to appearances 

on game shows; her roles on The 

Mary Tyler Moore Show and The Golden 

Girls, and her return to sitcoms in Hot 

in Cleveland. 

“Working on the Betty White book 

was an honor and a blast,” McCray said 

in a Bluewater press release. “While 

covering a new entertainer is always 

fun, there’s something special about 

profiling an icon. Not only did it allow 

me to savor nostalgia, it also let me 

catch up on areas of pop culture that 

had passed me by.” 

McCray regards White as “perhaps 

the last great television pioneer who’s 

still among us who nevertheless has 

stayed relevant in every decade since 

the ’40s,” he said. “The fact that it was a 

female who went in a very different 

direction with her life than women were 

encouraged to do in that era, and was a 

success at it . . . that was an honor.” 


Robbins, Heiser join teachers in Paris 

for Toni Morrison conference 

Webb English teachers Warren Heiser (left) and Emily Robbins 

(second from left) collaborate with other teachers at the 

“Language Matters IV” conference in Paris. (photo by C.B. Claiborne 

and posted at http://www2.ku.edu/~langmtrs/lmIV/pics.html) 

Upper School English teachers Emily Robbins 

and Warren Heiser were invited to participate 

in the esteemed Toni Morrison Society’s sixth 

biennial conference, “Toni Morrison and 

Circuits of the Imagination,” November 4-7, 2010, in Paris, France. Morrison, winner of 

both a Nobel Prize and a Pulitzer Prize for literature, also attended the event. 

“Toni Morrison and Circuits of the Imagination” drew more than 400 participants 

from the United States, France and other European countries. Heiser and Robbins 

were two of 28 teachers from American and French schools to attend an invitational 

workshop at the conference, titled “Language Matters IV: Reading and Teaching 

Toni Morrison in Translation.” 

The Language Matters Institute is a national education and service initiative that 

brings together secondary teachers and university scholars to discuss the implications 

of teaching Morrison’s works in secondary classrooms. 

“Language Matters IV” aimed to facilitate dialogue between teachers from the U.S. 

and Paris who are teaching Morrison – some in English, others in French – on the 

challenges of teaching translated texts, and charged teachers with developing 

strategies for implementation. 

Emily Robbins, who teaches British and American Literature and Composition at 

Webb, received her Master of Arts in literature and literary theory with a focus on 

Caribbean literature/theory and autobiography from the University of Kansas in 

2007. Her scholarly writing has appeared more recently in Antipodas: Journal of 

Hispanic and Galacian Studies and The William Carlos Williams Review. 

Longtime English teacher Warren Heiser received his Bachelor of Arts in history 

and literature from Harvard University in 1968, concentrating on France and England 

in the modern period; and an Master of Arts in English from the University of 

Colorado in 1973. Before attending college, he spent a year at the University of 

Grenoble in the program for foreign students. 

After more than 30 years of teaching math at 

Webb, Cheryl Gutridge retired in May 2011. In 

April, she was named the 2011 Tarvin Award 

winner for Webb’s Upper School. “She is 

admired by her students and colleagues for her 

professionalism, her loyalty, her grace, humor, 

warmth, integrity, curiosity, passion, and the 

positive lens through which she views life,” 

President Hutchinson remarked. “If there is a 

single example of a paragon of what a teacher 

can and should be at Webb School, it is Cheryl.” 

(left) Cheryl Gutridge leads students in her 

final “Quadrangle Song” during the last day of 

Chapel in May 2011.

(l to r) Gov. Bill Haslam ’76 (waving), his wife 

Crissy Haslam, daughters Leigh Haslam ’07 

and Annie (Haslam) Colquitt ’05, son Will 

Haslam ’03, and daughter-in-law Hannah 

(Hewgley) Haslam ’03 walk in the Inaugural 

Parade, January 15, 2011, in downtown 

Nashville. (below) Bill Haslam’s senior picture 

from Webb’s 1976 Princeps yearbook. 

On January 15, 2011, 

former Knoxville mayor 

and Webb School of 

Knoxville alumnus, Bill 

Haslam ’76, was sworn 

in as Tennessee’s 49th 

governor. Haslam won the 

gubernatorial race in a 

landslide victory to 

become the first Tennessee 

governor from Knoxville 

since Reconstruction. Gov. 

Bill Haslam and his wife, 

Crissy, have three children, 

all graduates of Webb 

School: Will Haslam ’03, 

Annie (Haslam) Colquitt ’05 

and Leigh Haslam ’07. 

“Principes 

Non Homines” 

Annie (Haslam) Colquitt ’05 and Leigh Haslam ’07 

interview their father, Tennessee Governor Bill 

Haslam ’76, to share his memories of Webb 

School and discuss Webb’s influence on his career 

in public service. 

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Leigh Haslam & 

Annie (Haslam) Colquitt 

For his 35th Reunion year, Webb School thought it would be a neat idea for our dad, Gov. Bill Haslam, to be interviewed 

by his children for the Alumni Bulletin. Two of us happily accepted and one couldn’t be bothered (cough, cough, Will ). As 

Webb alumni ourselves, we share many common experiences with our dad during his Webb years and grew up hearing 

many stories from his time as a Spartan. We were excited for the chance to share his recollections with other alumni, 

who no doubt have similar memories. We also wanted to make sure that some of the fun stories were included as well! 

After failing several times to teach our dad to video-chat on Skype or Gmail, we finally settled for a phone conversation. 

Bill Haslam: Hey! Look at this! Aren’t you proud that 

your tech-savvy dad knows how to conference call? 

Annie: Yeah, welcome to 1985, old man. 

Bill Haslam: Hey now, they didn’t have all those iPads 

and Smart Boards when I was at Webb. 

Annie: Same here. Well, other than the invention of the stone 

tools, what is your first memory from Webb? 

Bill Haslam: (laughing) My first memories would be 

visiting campus when my brother, Jimmy (’72), started 

in what was then the Lower School in the seventh 

grade. I would go watch Lower School athletic events 

when I was in the third or fourth grade. 

Annie: I feel like most of the stories I’ve heard from you 

about your time at Webb are about stealing extra ice-cream 

desserts and getting in trouble for it in Chapel. 

Bill Haslam: Well, let me set the record straight on 

that one; I didn’t steal. Every day I would eat one on 

the way up the hill and then save one in my pocket 

for later that day. But one day I forgot about the extra 

ice cream in my pocket and when I put on my jacket 

for morning Chapel, I left a trail of melted ice cream 

dripping behind me. The teacher in the next row 

behind me at Chapel was not pleased. 

Annie: Did you ever get in trouble in school? 

(l to r) Bill Haslam with Webb 

classmate Jim O’Fallon in 1976. 

Haslam, senior guard and cocaptain 

of the 1975 -1976 Spartan 

varsity basketball team, with team 

co-captain Richard Robinson ’76 

and coach Gil Luttrell. Sprinter Bill 

Haslam was a member of Webb’s 

1975-1976 winning 440 and 880 

relay teams. 

Leigh: Were you nervous or did you have big expectations 

when you started as a student? 

Bill Haslam: I was excited about it because both my 

brother and sister were there. For me, it was fun from 

the first day because I felt like I already knew people. 

Annie: What were you like as a student? 

Bill Haslam: I was a good, not great student, 

particularly, until my junior and senior years. I would 

sit in the back of the class instead of in the front. 

Leigh: Mom always said you were a nerd in college, right? 

Bill Haslam: I was a nerd in college. By that time, I 

had changed and realized the importance of studying. 

Bill Haslam: I got in trouble one time in eighth grade. 

If you played a sport, you were not supposed to go to 

P.E., but they were playing kickball and I loved kickball. 

So I snuck into P.E. class and got in trouble for being 

there. Other than that, I think I got a few demerits, 

but I don’t remember what they were for. And I don’t 

remember getting in too much trouble. Those might be 

convenient memories. 

Leigh: What were your favorite subjects? 

Bill Haslam: History . . . Modern European History my 

sophomore year and American History my 

junior year. 

Annie: What are some of your best memories from Webb? 


As a senior at Webb, Haslam was vice president of Student 

Council, a member of FCA and the Spartan Spirit staff, and 

participated on the Discipline Review Board. (l to r) 

Discipline Review Board members Valois Shea ’77, Carter 

McCrory, Chris Testerman ’76, Bill Haslam ’76, Jim O’Fallon 

’76, David Krohn ’77, Lucy Breeding ’78, and Mark Davis ’78. 

Haslam was co-winner of Webb’s Robert Saunders Award 

in 1976. The Saunders Award is given in recognition of 

commitment to service and excellence in social studies. 

Bill Haslam: My favorite memories revolve around 

discussions in class in the Upper School. I don’t know 

if they still have this, but then you had lunch and then 

Activities period. We used to sit on the hill and talk 

after lunch, and I loved that time with friends. 

Playing sports was my favorite activity, and I have 

great memories from many seasons and teams. 

Leigh: What sports did you play? 

Bill Haslam: I played football, baseball, basketball, and 

ran track. 

Leigh: Were you any good? 

Bill Haslam: (laughing) I was incredible. 

Annie: Did you participate in any other activities? 

Bill Haslam: I was involved in student council, I guess 

almost every year I was there. I also participated in a lot 

of different clubs. 

There were a lot of things I got to do at Webb that I 

wouldn’t have had the chance to do at a larger school. 

Many of these activities were good training for what I 

do now. I had the chance to be in leadership roles that I 

might not have had at other schools. Young Life started 

my junior year at Webb, so during my junior and senior 

years I became very involved with that. 

Leigh: Did any coaches/teachers or friends have a special 

influence on you? 

Bill Haslam: Probably the most influential was Webb 

social studies teacher David Bowen, who had just 

graduated from college. He taught me in class and was 

a coach, and later became a really good friend. 

Leigh: And he married you and mom, right? 

Bill Haslam: Yes, he officiated at our wedding. Another 

teacher would be English teacher Mrs. Graf. Junior 

year, we had to write a term paper, and that was a great 

experience. That was how I really learned to write. 

Leigh: Do you still keep up with many classmates? 

Bill Haslam: It was fun during the campaign, going 

across the state and getting to see so many of my 

classmates. This year was our 35th Reunion . . . sounds 

old, doesn’t it? 

Leigh: Well, you are old. You also continued to see classmates 

who sent their kids to Webb, right? Many of your friends had 

kids in our classes at Webb. 

Bill Haslam: That’s right. When y’all graduated, they 

always took a picture of alumni parents, and there was 

at least one classmate who was pictured in those photos 

for each of your graduating years. 

Annie: I think we should ask something about Chapel Talks. 

Bill Haslam: (laughing) Well, back when Webb was 

really hard before you kids got it so easy, you had to give 

a Chapel Talk every year. I think Chapel Talks are the 

best thing about Webb School. You learn how to express 

your thoughts in front of a crowd, and that is a good 

skill no matter what you do later in life. And it’s been 

particularly helpful for me. 

Annie: When you went to Webb, you even had to give Chapel 

Talks in seventh grade, right? What was the topic of your first 

Chapel Talk? 

Bill Haslam: Gosh, I should remember that. I have no 

clue, though (laughing). But I’m sure it was really good. 

Annie: Is there one Chapel Talk that sticks out in 

your memory? 

Bill Haslam: Junior year, it just so happened that my 

Chapel Talk was scheduled for the week after my 

mother died, so I changed my talk to thank all my 

friends who had been so nice and thoughtful, and came 

by to support me. I changed my Chapel Talk at the last 

minute and did not get the change approved. I literally 

decided to do it the night before. I gave two minutes 

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Gov. Haslam shares a laugh 

with Webb School President 

Scott Hutchinson at the 

Spartan Alumni Weekend 

Tailgate, September 2, 2011. 


of my original Chapel Talk and spent the 

other two minutes thanking people. I was 

worried I would get in trouble for that, but 

of course my teachers understood. 

Annie: The Webb community was very 

supportive during that time? 

Bill Haslam: Very much so. I feel like 

that was one of the benefits of being in a 

smaller school with a smaller class. I knew 

everyone in my class. Right after my mom 

died, I remember going to a dance in the Upper School 

gym and literally being surrounded by friends expressing 

their support and care. 

Annie: What was it like to see your kids go to Webb? 

Bill Haslam: It was really fun. When Will 

started, there were still a few teachers 

who had been at Webb when I was. 

Actually, you all had teachers I knew 

from my time at Webb. Mrs. Potts 

taught Annie and Will, and was one 

of my teachers; and Mrs. Ogden was 

my classmate. It’s always fun when life 

makes a complete circle like that. 

Annie: Which of your children’s Webb 

accomplishments were you most proud of? 

Leigh: Everyone knows the youngest is 

the best. 

Bill Haslam: (laughing) Will. 

Annie: (laughing) Oh sure, the one child who doesn’t love you 

enough to interview you. 

Leigh: How do you think the Webb School motto, “principes 

non homines,” shaped you? 

Bill Haslam: I honestly do think that going to Webb 

helped prepare me for what I do now. That included 

going to a school where there were fewer students, so 

each student had more leadership opportunities, and 

Webb’s emphasis on leadership stuck with me, too. 

A lot of my experiences at Webb were great training 

for many of the things I do now. Giving Chapel Talks 

and learning how to express thoughts in an essay, for 

example, have been helpful to me. 

Leigh: I remember when I was a student at Webb, and you 

gave a guest Chapel Talk about a week before I was to give my 

first Talk. You said, “this is how you should speak: don’t stand 

behind the podium, don’t read notes,” and I thought, “Thanks a 

lot. Way to raise everyone’s expectations for my Talk next week.” 

Annie: You’re a graduate of Webb School of Knoxville. Your 

children are also Webb School graduates. What do you think 

has changed at Webb School and what has remained the same? 

Bill Haslam: Let me think about that one . . . I think 

one constant is that Webb is about a quality education 

and giving students a lot of opportunity to develop 

their talents. I think the school now provides even 

more opportunities than it did when I was there. 

Second, I think it’s a more diverse school than when 

I was there in almost every way. From varied economic 

backgrounds to different parts of greater Knoxville, 

and greater racial diversity, the student population is 

much more diverse, and that adds to the richness of 

the students’ experiences. 

Leigh: What advice would you give to current Webb students 

and Webb’s most recent graduates, the Class of 2011? 

Bill Haslam: First of all, don’t lose contact with your 

Webb friends and teachers. I honestly think that you 

will always have a special relationship with the people 

you grew up with – and most of us do the majority of 

our growing up in middle school and high school. 

Now, I feel much closer to the people who attended 

high school with me, closer than college classmates 

and friends; because I think you share so much in 

those transitional years. 

I think the second thing I would say is don’t waste 

your Webb education. Your parents invested a lot of 

money, your teachers invested a lot of time. It can be a 

great foundation for the rest of your life. 

If I could go back, I would go to Webb School 

again. And I would send my kids to Webb again. 

Leigh: What about grandkids? * 

(l to r) Amy (Dilworth) 

Bercher, Stephanie 

(Barnes) Ogden ’76, 

Bill Haslam ’76, Hal 

Ernest ’76, Les 

Mirts ’76, and 

Chris Young ’76 

at the 2011 

Spartan Alumni 

Weekend Tailgate. 

Bill Haslam: (laughing) Yeah, if I can get my kids to 

move back to Knoxville! Their Webb education 

scattered them to schools and jobs across the country! 

* Just prior to presstime for this Alumni Bulletin edition, Bill and Crissy Haslam 

became proud grandparents to Wyatt Haslam, son of Will ’03 and Hannah 

(Hewgley) Haslam ’03. 

. 

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Photos from Graduation 2011. Webb’s Class of 2011 graduates 

had 100 percent college placement, were extended 406 

acceptances at 93 different colleges and universities, and 

received more than $7.8 million in scholarship offers. 

Graduation 

2011 

MAY 22 • 2011 

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(BELOW) Webb School proudly presented diplomas to 10 legacy graduates at Commencement 2011. (back row, 

l to r) Julieanne (Campbell) Pope ’83, Neill (Albers) Carey ’78, Susan (Myers) Schmid ’79 and Tommy Schmid ’82, Amy 

(Reeves) Kerlin ’81, Hollie (Davis) Renfro ’82, Reese Thomas ’86, Stacy (Nanney) Courtney ’82, Steve Cox ’78, R. Culver 

Schmid ’77, Danny Overbey ’82; (front row, l to r) Andy Pope, Meg Carey, Carter Schmid, Anna Katherine Kerlin, Cole 

Renfro, Kelly Thomas, Caroline Courtney, Steven Cox, Callon Schmid, Daniel Overbey. 

Class of 2011 

Valedictorian, 

Robby Ritchie, 

delivers his 

Commencement 

address. 

. 

(LEFT, l to r) Connor Moore, winner of Webb’s 2011 Dr. S.J. Chapman 

Memorial Award for Leadership, Scholarship and Integrity; and Macy 

Parker, winner of the Margaret and Leonhard Scheuermann Trophy for 

Scholarship, Integrity and Graciousness of Spirit. 

(RIGHT) Twenty-six members of the Class of 2011 

were the first Webb graduates to attend Webb 

School from kindergarten through 12th grade. 

CLASS OF 2011 COLLEGE/UNIVERSITY DESTINATIONS 

Sam Adams 

St. Olaf College Madalene Dawson 

University of Georgia 

Aimen Ali 

Hendrix College Sarah DeBusk 

University of Central Florida 

Eddy Allen 

Boston University Hal Denton 

Hendrix College 

Fletcher Austin Pellissippi State Community College Anna Dilworth 

Auburn University 

Jay Bellingrath 

Auburn University Taylor Donnell Georgia Institute of Technology 

Max Bennett 

University of Mississippi Andrea Dooley 


Stephanie Biggs 

Georgetown University Marco Eres University of Massachusetts, Amherst 

Harrison Boyd 

High Point University Elise Ergen 

University of Tennessee 

Robbie Britt 

Maryville College Dorian Ewing 


Sarah Buxton 

The University of Alabama Brandon Fickey 


Linnea Calhoun 

University of Tennessee Casey Fitzgerald 


Taylor Cao 

Lipscomb University Craig Fowler East Tennessee State University 

Meg Carey 

Auburn University Emily Galdun 

Emory University 

Corey Clayton 

University of Tennessee Danne’ Gassel Pellissippi State Community College 

Katie Coffey 

University of Tennessee Brian Glatt Sewanee: The University of the South 

Courtney Combs 

The University of Alabama John Goodwin 

Wake Forest University 

Caroline Courtney University of South Carolina Chance Harrison 

University of Mississippi 

Steven Cox 

University of Tennessee Hunter Harrison 

The University of Alabama 

Emily Craig 

University of Tennessee Michael Harrison 

Clemson University 

Clarke Curfman 

Utah State University Garrett Headden 


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University of Kentucky 

Sara Daley 

Boston College Bailey Howard 

Roanoke College 

Nicole Jansen 


Dakota Jenkins 

Maryville College 

Hayley Jensen 


Johnathan Keaton 

Carson-Newman College 

Clarke Kelly 


Anna Katherine Kerlin University of Tennessee 

Kyle King 


Sarah King 

Cornell University 

Matthew Klawonn Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 

Wai Lam 


Bryn Lindsay 

Mercer University 

Hunter Little 

Columbia University 

Brennan Liu 


Ashley Longnecker Georgia Institute of Technology 

Christopher Lyne 

Vanderbilt University 

Courtney Madden Virginia Intermont College 

Bogan McCamy 


Justin McDuffie 


Jackson Merrill 

Belmont University 

Sydney Michelson 


Kyle Mitchell 


Connor Moore 

Duke University 

Jackson Moseley 


Manami Murphy 


Zöe Nutt 


Daniel Overbey 


KJ Parent Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

Macy Parker 

Davidson College 

Nello Pesci 

John Brigham Young University 

Rebecca Petersen Georgia Institute of Technology 

Becca Plank 

Denison University 

Andy Pope 

University of South Carolina 

Tyrel Prentiss 


Cory Price 

Gettysburg College 

Ted Primka 


Jack Prince 

EMT School 

Chris Reed 


Cole Renfro 


Robby Ritchie 

University of Pennsylvania 

Dylan Rosseland-Harrison University of Tennessee 

Deanna Sanders University of California, San Diego 

Natalie Scarbrough 

Lipscomb University 

Callon Schmid 


Carter Schmid 

Auburn University

SPECIAL AWARDS 

SUBJECT AWARDS 

Jordan Shuler 


Shawnee Shuler 

Centre College 

Kyra Sichelstiel 

Roanoke College 

Allison Smith 

University of Georgia 

Ariel Spiegelman 

University of Connecticut 

Justin Spiegelman 

University of Miam 

Andy Steuer Sewanee: The University of the South 

MacKenzie Taylor University of Tennessee, Chattanooga 

Alex Thomas 


Kelly Thomas 


Tye Thompson 

Texas Christian University 

Patrick Tisdale 


Victoria Van de Vate 


Jay Werner 


Connor Whinery 

University of Redlands 

Isaiah White 


David Wilhoite 

Samford University 

Kelly Wood 

University of Chicago 

Paige Worley 


Parker Wormsley 


John W. Green Award for Scholarship 

Robby Ritchie ’11, Natalie Ritchie ’12, 

Leigh Cooper ’13, Elliot Baerman ’14 

William R. Webb III Class Citizenship Award 

2011 - Sam Adams, Stephanie Biggs, Taylor Cao, 

Anna Dilworth, Connor Moore, Tyrel Prentiss 

2012 - Marjorie Butler, Yates Congleton, 

Jenni Haydek, Justin Plummer, 

Forrest Robinette, Jonathan Yoder 

2013 - Bryan Berube, Townes Bouchard-Dean, 

Drew Farr, Neal Jochmann, 

Robby Meyer, Niyati Rangnekar 

2014 - Elliot Baerman, Anna Catharine Feaster 

T.K. Kelly, Andrew Robinson, 

Margaret Roddy, Nangesian Waters 

Mockingbird Award Elliot Baerman ’14 

Clint White Award Neal Jochmann ’13 

Anne Zirkle Award Jensine Baerman ’12 

Shane Webb Award David Wilhoite ’11 

Joyce Hunter Award Stephanie Biggs ’11 

Scholar-Athlete Award Hunter Little ’11 

Nancy S. Thoma Award Madalene Dawson ’11 

Chance-Struder Award Taylor Cao ’11 

Serendipity Award Anna Dilworth ’11 

Julia Dossett Webb Sam Adams ’11 

Scholar Award Matthew Klawonn ’11 

Hudson Cup Sara Daley ’11 

Spartan Spirit Award Tyrel Prentiss ’11 

Aquilla “Baba” Cook Award 

Frank Daniel 

Endowed Connor Moore ’11 

Scholarship Award 

Eric Encarnacion Connor Moore ’11 

Memorial Award 

Dr. Edward L. Tauxe Award 

Michael Childers 

Ruth P. Graf Award - English Sara Daley ’11 

Ginna Mathews Mashburn Award for 

Writing about Literature Natalie Ritchie ’12 

Webb School Award for 

Creative Writing Deanna Sanders ’11 

Extra! Award Sarah King ’11 

for Journalism Becca Plank ’11 

Rensselaer Medal - Math Jonathan Yoder ’12 

George Turley Matthew Klawonn ’11 

Award - Math Robby Ritchie ’11 

Bausch & Lomb 

Honorary Science Award Jenni Haydek ’12 

George Grafton 

Wilson II Award - Science KJ Parent ’11 

James C. Linville 

Award - History Alex Thomas ’11 

Robert Saunders 

Award - Social Studies Sam Adams ’11 

Carlson Music 

Award - Choral Music Zöe Nutt ’11 

Drama Award Bryn Lindsay ’11 

Zöe Nutt ’11 

String Ensemble Award Ishi Keenum ’12 

Clover Waterman 

Award - Visual Art Becca Plank ’11 

Director’s Award - 

Instrumental Music Robby Ritchie ’11 

John Philip Sousa 

Award - Instrumental Music Craig Fowler ’11 

Shirley Seidel Briggs 

Award - World Languages Connor Moore ’11 

Brigitte Niederdrenk Macy Parker ’11 

Award - French Kelly Wood ’11 

David Brantley Burns III Peter Anderson ’12 

Award - German Bryn Lindsay ’11 

Emily Anne Fisher Mary Johnson ’12 

Award - Latin Matthew Klawonn ’11 

Hispanic Honor Society 

Medal of Excellence David Wilhoite ’11 

Julie Webb (center), wife of Webb School 

founder, Robert Webb, with Sam Adams ’11 

and Matthew Klawonn ’11, co-recipients of 

the 2011 Julia Dossett Webb Scholar Award. 

The award, established in honor of Mrs. 

Webb, recognizes a senior whose academic 

work is distinguished by a love of scholarship 

and who, by example, has contributed 

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most to the academic morale of the school.

accalaureate 

BMAY 15 • 2011 

Webb’s Chamber Singers perform “How Can I Keep 

from Singing” during the Baccalaureate Prelude. 

Senior Zöe Nutt (RIGHT) 

performed Aaron Copland’s 

“Laurie’s Song” during the 

Baccalaureate Prelude while 

Fletcher Austin ’11 (ABOVE) 

played a piece he wrote for 

the Postlude. 

(ABOVE, l to r) Class of 2011 co- 

Salutatorians Sam Adams and Taylor 

Donnell each spoke at Baccalaureate. 

Sam Adams spoke about “The World of 

Webb” while Taylor Donnell’s address 

was titled “The Only Rules That Matter.” 

Gilbert R. Luttrell Cup Sara Sims Wilbanks ’15 

for Outstanding Leadership 

Henrietta Weigel Leadership Award Abby Noyes ’15 

Fred A. Elmore Jr. Leadership Award Alex Dooley ’15 

Beacon Award Sophia Winter ’15, Kelsey Copeland ’15 

Spartan Spirit Award Lee Brandt ’15, Lizzie Johnson ’15 

S.T.A.R.T. Award 


learning specialist, 

Ellen Schnoll, and 


counselor, Jane 

Durkin, present an 

Outstanding Student 

Award to seventh 

grader Lizzy Noon 

(right) and the Middle 

School’s S.T.A.R.T. 

Award to eighth 

grader Sebastian 


Grandas (far right). 

8th Grade – Sebastian Grandas, Lane Brandt 

7th Grade – Madison Read, Ceci Bradley 

6th Grade – Abby Roesch, Jack Nadaud 

Growth and Character Award 8th Grade – Parker Hamilton, 

Andrew Conley 

7th Grade – Russell Wilder, Laura Altawil 

6th Grade – JT Dooley, Kaley Ousley-Katz 


Honors Ceremony 

Leadership Award Heidi Keller ’16, Christopher Zion ’16 

Anna Grace Kirkland ’17, Nicholas Lansing ’17 

Elliott Stroupe Harrison Mitchell ’15, Elizabeth Emanuel ’15 

Community Impact Award Ceci Bradley ’16, Lizzy Noon ’16 

Outstanding Student 

Award 

Eighth grader Sara Sims Wilbanks (pictured at the 

Middle School’s annual end-of-the-year tree planting 

ceremony) was awarded the Gilbert R. Luttrell Cup for 

Outstanding Leadership during the Middle School’s 

Honors Ceremony, May 27, 2011. 

8th Grade – Elizabeth Thompson, John Fry 

7th Grade – Lizzy Noon, Carson Talbott 

6th Grade – Ameena Iqbal, Dan Primka 

Superior Athlete Award Brock Beeler ’15, Dasia Maxwell ’15, 

Peighton Meske ’15 

Dedicated Athlete Award Sebastian Grandas ’15, Katie Collier ’15 

Sportsmanship Award Harrison Mitchell ’15, Molly Melton ’15

During 2010-2011 Webb School announced it would embark on a new one-to-one iPad program for students 

in grades 4 through 12, effective fall 2011. By providing students with a portable, lightweight, 24/7 learning 

tool, Webb’s goal was twofold: to enhance the learning environment in the classroom and throughout campus 

by increasing access to knowledge, engagement, and interactivity; and to further prepare graduates for the 

world of tomorrow by increasing their knowledge of, and facility with, technology. The iPads could also, over 

time, replace textbooks – reducing costs and lightening the load of students’ backpacks. 

So how’s the program going? Below are excerpts from an article by Allison Rupp, published November 8, 

2011, in the Knoxville News Sentinel. 

in the news 

(Reprinted with the permission 

of the Knoxville News Sentinel.) 

“Attacking learning” 

After three months in classrooms, iPads eliminate excuses and change learning 

Ben White asked his sixth-grade students if his hair 

looked OK. As he prepared to be on camera, his Webb 

School of Knoxville students opened video apps on their 

iPads to record White giving them their homework 

assignment. At home, students could watch their teacher 

explaining exactly how to diagram nouns and verbs. The 

assignment was also loaded on iCalendar. 

White said the iPad takes away excuses for not doing 

homework. “The only excuse is my battery died or my 

dad ran over my iPad,” said White, a sixth-grade 

composition teacher. 

Every student in grades 4-12 at Webb School has had 

an iPad either purchased by parents or leased through 

the school since August . . . 

About three months into school, teachers and 

administrators have already seen great advantages to 

using the computers, both for themselves and students. 

Problems they thought might occur, such as being a 

distraction, breakage and tech problems, haven’t been 

big issues. 

White said iPads engage everyone, and he can cover 

more in a class period. “It has all the different platforms 

for a kid to attack learning,” White said. “They have a 

visual document with definitions and can attach an 

audio file. You can push play and hear the answers.” 

During a recent class, White’s students did a lesson 

about subject-verb agreement completely on their iPads. 

First, they read definitions from their electronic textbook 

– White already calls the paper version “old school.” 

Then they filled out an electronic worksheet. “Last year, 

I would’ve just handed it out,” White said. “Then they 

would’ve had to keep up with it in paper format. I’ve 

been to the copy machine once this year, and that’s 

because I was going to miss class.” 

His students rarely bring paper, pencils or books to 

class. Besides saving trees, this allows students to save 

their work in one place. For students who do better with 

audio learning, White had sixth-grader London Hovis 

read definitions aloud so other students could record her 

and play back later. White uses an app called Join.Me, 

which allows students to see what is on his computer and 

chat with him when they are in the hallway working. 

Katherine Wilson, a sophomore at Webb, said iPads 

help students keep up with work when they miss school. 

All notes are online. This goes for teachers, too, said 

classmate Zahra Amer. Her algebra teacher recorded a 

lesson for his students to 

watch on their iPads when 

he missed school. “Subs 

can’t really teach us that 

stuff,” Zahra said. “We 

didn’t lose a day.” 

Students make atoms 

for chemistry class with 

iPads and use them to 

video chat with other 

students to practice 

speaking Spanish. 

“Our backpacks last 

year were really heavy,” 

she said. “Now, they’re only two or three pounds.” . . . 

Teachers have students read articles posted online 

using the iPad and then e-mail responses. Science 

classes use apps that show a human brain in 3D . . . 

Zahra said some Webb classmates play games at 

school, but if students listen and use iPads properly, 

they make school easier. When White wants students 

to pay attentions, he tells them to put the screens 

down and look at him. Certain sites like Facebook and 

YouTube are blocked through filters. “You gravitate to 

where you can see the screens,” White said. “I teach a 

lot from the back of the classroom.” 

Jim Manikas, director of technology at Webb, said he 

usually helps only a few students every day with iPad 

problems whereas it could be half a class with laptops. 

He hasn’t heard of breakages or losses, yet. 

Using their iPads, 

Webb sixth grade 

students audio 

and/or video 

record their 

classmate recite 

their homework 

assignment in 

Ben White’s 

composition class. 

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Webb state track & field photo 

of Marjorie Butler taken by News 

Sentinel’s Adam Brimer and 

published May 4, 2011, at 

knoxnews.com. Reprinted with 

the permission of the Knoxville 

News Sentinel. State tennis 

photographs were taken by and 

reprinted with the permission 

of ActionPixTN.com. 

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Spartan athletics 

during 2010-2011 was 

marked with repeat state 

championship team and 

individual titles. 

The following is a sampling 

of headline news. To read up 

on all the state details, check 

out Athletics under School Life 

at www.webbschool.org. 

1. THE SPARTAN VARSITY 

FOOTBALL TEAM 

BROUGHT HOME ITS 

SECOND STRAIGHT STATE 

TITLE, marking a perfect end 

to a perfect season. Webb 

defeated St. George’s, 42-7, in 

the 2010 Division II-A state 

championship and clinched 

the school’s first undefeated 

championship season and 

24 Webb n a l u m n i b u l l e t i nthird state title in five years. 

2. SOPHOMORE KENSI 

WIELAND WON A THREE- 

HOLE PLAYOFF TO BECOME 

KNOXVILLE’S FIRST GIRLS 

HIGH SCHOOL STATE GOLF 

CHAMP SINCE 2006, and the 

first girl in Lady Spartan golf 

history to win a state title. 

Wieland outlasted St. George’s 

Jennifer Kim in three extra 

holes to win the 2010 Division 

II-A individual state title. 

3. FOR THE SECOND YEAR IN 

A ROW, WEBB’S VARSITY 

GIRLS AND BOYS CROSS- 

COUNTRY TEAMS WON THE 

DIVISION II-A CHAMPION- 

SHIPS. Junior Natalie Ritchie was 

the leading Lady Spartan runner, 

taking runner-up, while senior Tye 

Thompson led the Spartan boys 

team with third-place finish. 

4. WEBB’S MIDDLE SCHOOL 

BOYS CROSS-COUNTRY TEAM 

SUCCESSFULLY DEFENDED ITS 

STATE TITLE. Eighth grader Nathan 

Wolfenbarger led the Spartan 

charge with a second-place finish.

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5. IT WAS DÉJA-VU ALL 

OVER AGAIN FOR JUNIOR 

MARJORIE BUTLER AT THE 

2011 DIVISION II STATE 

TRACK & FIELD 

CHAMPIONSHIP. For the 

third consecutive year, Butler 

repeated victories in the 

women’s pentathlon, 100- 

meter hurdles and 300-meter 

hurdles – pushing her career 

gold medal count at state 

to 10. 

6. IN A DRAMATIC COME- 

FROM-BEHIND PERFOR- 

MANCE, WEBB’S VARSITY 

WRESTLING TEAM DEFEATED 

DEFENDING CHAMPION ST. 

GEORGE’S TO WIN THE 2011 

DIVISION II-A INVITATIONAL 

DUAL TOURNAMENT. The 

Spartans overcame an 18-0 

deficit to even the score, 36-36, 

coming into the final match. 

Sophomore David Matthews 

(pictured, competing at an 

earlier meet) won 5-3 and sealed 

the championship for Webb. 

7 & 8. WEBB SCHOOL’S VARSITY TENNIS TEAMS GARNERED 

FIVE GOLD MEDALS AT THE 2011 DIVISION II-A STATE CHAMPI- 

ONSHIPS, INCLUDING BACK-TO-BACK BOYS AND GIRLS TEAM 

TITLES, A FOURTH STRAIGHT GIRLS DOUBLES TITLE, THE GIRLS 

SINGLES CROWN, AND A HISTORICAL FOURTH CONSECUTIVE 

BOYS STATE SINGLES CHAMPIONSHIP. Both the Webb boys and 

girls teams won 4-0 in their respective state championship matches. 

Juniors Jenni Haydek and Vicki Garcia nabbed their second girls doubles 

title in a row. The win marked Garcia’s fourth straight state doubles 

victory. Freshman Anna Catharine Feaster won the girls Division II-A 

singles crown while Webb senior Brandon Fickey made state high school 

history by winning his fourth consecutive state singles title. Both Fickey 

and Feaster captured PrepXtra Player of the Year honors for boys and 

girls tennis, respectively. 

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MORE STATE NEWS 

• In one of the greatest 

comebacks in the history of 

Lady Spartan basketball, Webb’s varsity 

girls fought their way to the 2011 

Division II-A state championship against 

Franklin Road Academy where they 

overcame a 13-point deficit with just 

four minutes left, and almost tied the 

game, 52-50, with just under 30 seconds 

on the clock. The Lady Spartans (27-6) 

fell to FRA, 55-52, and finished state 

runner-up. 

• After a 9-1 loss to University School of 

Jackson (USJ) in the opening round of 

the 2011 Division II-A state baseball 

tournament, the Webb Spartans swept 

Franklin Road Academy, 14-2, to 

advance to the loser’s bracket final 

where they avenged their loss to USJ, 

13-1, and earned a berth to defend their 

state title against Evangelical Christian 

School (ECS). A walk-off homerun by 

ECS in the eighth inning clinched the 

championship for the ECS Eagles. 

• Webb’s Spartan lacrosse team finished 

runner-up at the 2011 state championship. 

Completing their most successful 

season in school history, the Spartans 

(10-3) won the East Region title for the 

second time in three years. Assistant 

Spartan lacrosse coach Jonathan 

Johnson ’93 was named assistant coach 

of the year by his in-state peers. 

• The Spartan boys golf team successfully 

defended its Division II-A East/ 

Middle Region title and earned a berth 

to the state golf tournament where the 

Spartans finished third. Sophomore Jack 

Smith led the Webb team with a 

fifth-place finish. 

• At the 2011 Tennessee State High 

School Swimming and Diving Championships, 

junior Dylan Rasnick took 

second in the men’s 200-yard Individual 

Medley. Classmate Madison Thomas 

placed third in the women’s 50-yard 

freestyle and senior Brian Glatt finished 

fourth in the men’s 100-yard free. 

Marjorie Butler (No. 24) goes up for a shot during 

a game against Christian Academy of Knoxville in 

December 2010. 

Butler named 

Division II-A 

Miss Basketball 

Fickey named to All-America Team 

Marjorie Butler was named Division II-A Miss 

Basketball for 2011. On the season, the 

Region MVP averaged 21.1 points, 5.6 

rebounds, 3.4 steals, and 3.0 assists per 

game. She averaged 28 points in the state 

sectionals and two state-tournament games, 

leading her Lady Spartans (27-6) to the 2011 

Division II-A state championship final against 

Franklin Road Academy, where Webb fell just 

short (55-52) of claiming the state crown. 

Butler has played on Webb’s varsity 

basketball team since eighth grade. She 

helped the Lady Spartans win the state title 

in 2009, take state runner-up in 2008, and 

the state semifinals in 2010. In spring 2011, 

she was named PrepXtra and All-KIL Player 

of the Year. In November of 2011, Butler, a 

University of Georgia signee, was honored 

with distinguished recognition as Tennessee 

State Winner of the 2011 Wendy’s High 

School Heisman Award. 

Having led the Spartans to their second consecutive Division II-A state tennis 

championship and winning a state-record fourth consecutive state singles title, 

Class of 2011 graduate Brandon Fickey was selected to the All-America boys team 

by the National High School Tennis All-American Foundation. 

Fickey, a University of Tennessee signee, posted a season singles record of 11-2. 

He became only the third player from Knoxville to be chosen to the team since the 

foundation started in 1998. Webb’s Whitney Chappell ’05 and West High School’s 

Jennifer Williams were named to the All-America team in 2002. 

To be considered as an All-American tennis player a student/athlete must 

maintain an above average academic and citizenship record, compete on a high 

school tennis team, and garner an individual national ranking. A player with a 

national ranking has a proven match play record that clearly demonstrates he/she 

has reached the pinnacle of national junior competitions and is one of the premier 

tennis players in his/her age division in America. 

All-American awards are presented annually to the top 40 boys and top 40 girls in 

the United States, with most of those honored moving on to compete at the highest 

collegiate tennis levels, and a few even advancing to the professional circuits. 


sportswrap 

Wormsley named to 

Louisville Slugger 

All-American Team 

Webb’s 2011 girls KISL Large Division Tournament championship team: (l to r) Emily Wyrick, Frances 

Harrison, Alyx Thompson, Katie Collier, Day Vance, Molly Melton, Grace Wall, Jaiden McCoy, Micah Scheetz, 

Lillie Bertelkamp, Dasia Maxwell. 

Webb’s Middle School girls and boys basketball A teams won 

the 2011 KISL Large Division Tournament championship. 

The Lady Spartans defeated Christian Academy of Knoxville, 53-14, to take the 

girls KISL title, marking a perfect end to a perfect season for the girls team (20-0) – its 

first undefeated season in the history of the program at Webb. 

With a schedule that included many of the best teams in Knoxville, the Lady 

Spartans averaged 49 points per game compared to their opponents’ 16 points-pergame 

average. Webb head girls Middle School basketball coach, Wade Mitchell, 

attributed the team’s success to its ability to play together and knack for finding the 

open man. “The players were very team-oriented, unselfish and passed the ball 

exceptionally well,” Mitchell said. “And they were a very balanced team that could 

put five very good players on the floor at the same time.” 

The Spartan boys team controlled play during most of its championship final 

against Grace Christian Academy (GCA). Webb won, 53-34, over the GCA Rams. This 

year’s Spartan team finished the season with a 19-1 record. A 3-point loss to undefeated 

Bearden was the only blemish. Webb also won the 2010 Maryville-Eagleton 

Christmas Tournament. 

Webb head boys Middle School basketball coach, Elliott Stroupe, said that 

man-to-man defense was the trademark of the small but quick boys squad. 

“Opponents often complimented our team’s defensive prowess,” Stroupe added. 

Spartan baseball 

player Parker 

Wormsley ’11 was 

named to the 2011 

Louisville Slugger 

High School 

All-American Team. 

Prior to the 2011 

season, Wormsley 

was a two-time 

All-American 

Honorable Mention. 

Wormsley, a 

University of Tennessee signee, was 

selected to the Louisville Slugger 

All-American team as a multi-positional 

player after a stellar year both 

on the mound and at the plate. 

Wormsley finished his senior season 

with a .467 batting average, 14 

doubles, 3 triples, 6 homeruns, 43 

runs batted in, and 20 stolen bases. 

He posted a 7-1 record on the 

mound with a 1.71 ERA. Wormsley 

also led the Spartans to the Division 

II-A state title game, and they would 

finish the season as state runners-up. 

Wormsley also earned TBCA 

Division II Player of the Year, All-KIL 

and All-PrepXtra Baseball First Team 

honors, was selected to the Division 

II-A East/Middle All-Region and 

All-Region Tournament teams, and 

named All-Region Tournament MVP. 

Webb’s 2011 boys KISL Large Division Tournament championship team: (l to r) Alexander Berube, Max 

Bacon, Blake Wyrick, Liam Willoughby, Justin Jenkins, Brock Beeler, Troy Whiteside, Dean Miniard, Harrison 

Mitchell, Christopher Zion, Carson Talbott, Frank Romano, Nathan Allen (not pictured: team managers Blake 

Smith and Lizzy Noon) 

For more Spartan sports 

highlights, including All-State, 

PrepXtra, All-KIL/KFL and All- 

Region honors, plus information about our athletes 

and their committing/signing with collegiate teams, 

check out Athletics under School Life at 

www.webbschool.org. 

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SPARTAN COACHING KUDOS 

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> Lady Spartan head varsity basketball coach 

and assistant athletic director, Shelley (Sexton) 

Collier, was among seven University of Tennessee 

former student-athletes to be inducted into the 

Lady Volunteer Hall of Fame Class of 2010. A point 

guard for the UT Lady Vols, Collier competed on the 

Tennessee hoops squad from 1982 to 1987. A fierce 

competitor, Collier came back from a serious knee 

injury to captain her team to the first NCAA title in Lady Vol basketball 

history in 1987. She was named the MVP of the 1986 NCAA Mideast 

Regional, appeared on the 1986 NCAA Mideast Regional All-Tournament 

Team, and helped to lead her team to the 1985 SEC Championship and 

the 1985 SEC Tournament Championship. 

> Longtime Webb head varsity baseball 

coach Clark Wormsley received the 2010 

Division II-A Coach of the Year award 

by the Tennessee Baseball Coaches 

Association (TBCA). Earlier in the year, 

Wormsley was inducted into the Anderson 

County Hall of Fame. Coach Wormsley 

shared TBCA honors with his son and 

Webb Class of 2011 graduate Parker 

Wormsley, who was named Division II-A Player of the Year. (left) Clark and 

Parker Wormsley with their 2010 TBCA Division II-A Coach of the Year and 

Player of the Year awards at the TBCA awards banquet, January 29, 2011. 

> For the second year in a row, girls and boys varsity tennis coach, Jimmy 

Pitkanen, was named PrepXtra Girls Tennis Coach of the Year. Pitkanen 

guided the 2011 Spartan and Lady Spartan tennis teams to their second 

consecutive Division II-A boys and girls championship titles. 

> Longtime head varsity football coach and 

athletic director, David Meske, was selected 

as TSWA’s 2010 Coach of the Year for Division 

II-A – an honor he also received in 2009. Meske 

guided the Spartans to their second consecutive 

state football title and fifth state crown overall 

in December 2010, defeating St. George’s 

Independent School. The Men in Green (13-0) clinched the school’s first 

undefeated championship season and Webb’s third state title in five years. 

SHOUT OUT . . . 

>> Spartan defensive lineman Hunter Little ’11 

was named a finalist for the 2010 Tennessee 

Titans Mr. Football awards. Little was one of three finalists 

for Division II-A lineman. He had 55 tackles for the 2010 

season with nine tackles for loss and five sacks. 

>> Webb’s Middle School football program ended the 

2010 season with an impressive 6-2 record and sported its 


largest team to date with 51 players. 

At Upper School Chapel, Aug. 17, 2011 Webb Athletic Director, David Meske, recognized Coach 

Clark Wormsley for his more than 25 years of service to the Webb varsity baseball program, and 

presented Wormsley with a letter jacket. (above) Coach Clark Wormsley (center) with his son 

and new Spartan baseball coach, Jordan Wormsley ’06 (left), and David Meske. 

Spartans’ baseball program passed 

from father to son 

Following another successful season of Webb School baseball, the 

team’s longtime leader made the decision to step down as head coach. 

For 25 years Clark Wormsley manned the head coach’s box for the 

Spartans and during that time, he won 436 games and was a part of 

two baseball state championships (once as an assistant coach in 1985, 

and once as head coach in 2010). Under Wormsley’s leadership the 

Spartans have won seven region titles, made six state tournament 

appearances, finished as state runner-up in 2003, 2005 and 2011, and 

won the state championship in 2010. 

Wormsley has been inducted into the East Tennessee Baseball 

Coaches Hall of Fame (2007), the Lincoln Memorial University Athlete’s 

Hall of Fame (2009), and the Anderson County Hall of Fame (2010). In 

2005 and 2011, the American Baseball Coaches Association named him 

the Regional Coach of the Year. More recently, Coach Wormsley 

received an A.F. Bridges Male Coach of the Year Award for 2010-2011 

for Athletic District 2. 

Wormsley is also an eight-time District Coach of the Year, a seventime 

Region Coach of the Year, and a two-time KIL Coach of the Year. 

Over 35 of his athletes have gone on to play baseball at the college 

level, and five have played baseball professionally. 

Filling the void will be Wormsley’s oldest son and Webb Class of 

2006 graduate, Jordan Wormsley. The younger Wormsley is coming off 

of a five-year tenure at Vanderbilt University. He spent four years as a 

player in the Commodores’ program, and then spent his final year as a 

graduate assistant coach. While at Vanderbilt, Jordan was a part of two 

regular season SEC championships, one SEC tournament championship, 

and a Final Four appearance at the College World Series. 

As a Spartan, Jordan played for his father and helped Webb reach 

the state tournament four times and two state runner-up finishes.

alumniupdate 

State Supreme Court Justice Sharon Lee ’71 

named Webb’s Distinguished Alumna for 2010 

Tennessee Supreme Court 

Justice and Webb Class of 

1971 alumna, Sharon G. Lee, 

was named the recipient of Webb 

School’s Distinguished Alumnus/na 

Award for 2010. This award is 

presented annually to an alumnus/alumna whose business 

or professional accomplishments and service to others 

exemplify the goals of Webb School of Knoxville in the spirit 

of its motto, “principes non homines” – leaders not men. 

Webb welcomed Justice Lee back to campus November 

22, 2010 to present her with her award during a special 

Upper School Chapel ceremony. Prior to Chapel, Lee spoke 

with Webb Lower and Middle School students about her 

career and her role as a justice on the Tennessee Supreme 

Court, the state’s highest court. 

Justice Lee grew up in Madisonville, Tenn. She completed 

her bachelor’s degree in business administration with high 

honors from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and a 

doctor of jurisprudence from the University of Tennessee 

College of Law where she graduated in the top 15 percent of 

her class. 

Following law school, Lee returned to her hometown to 

practice law with her uncle. She soon started her own 

practice and stayed a solo practitioner for 26 years. Lee also 

served in various positions in the area – county attorney for 

Monroe County, Madisonville city judge and city attorney for 

Vonore and Madisonville – before she was appointed by 

Gov. Phil Bredesen to the Tennessee Court of 

Appeals in June 2004. Justice Lee became the 

first woman to serve as judge on the Eastern 

Section of the Tennessee Court of Appeals in 

its 79-year history. 

During her tenure on the Tennessee Court 

of Appeals, Lee was also an adjunct faculty 

member at the University of Tennessee 

Attorney and Webb alumnus 

David Wedekind ‘73 (left) 

presents Justice Sharon Lee 

with Webb’s 2010 

Distinguished Alumnus/na 

Award at Upper School 

Chapel, November 22, 2010. 

College of Law where she taught trial advocacy. In October 

2008, Lee was appointed to the Tennessee Supreme Court, 

becoming the third woman on the five-member court. 

In 2010, Justice Sharon Lee was named a YWCA of Knoxville 

Tribute to Women honoree. She also received a Woman of 

Achievement Award from the Girls Scouts of the Appalachian 

Council. Lee is membership chair and past president of the East 

Tennessee Lawyers’ Association for Women, and a previous 

member of the board of the Tennessee Lawyers’ Association for 

Women. She also served as secretary and member of the 

executive board of the Knoxville Executive Women’s Association 

and is a member of the board of directors of the Boys and 

Girls Club of Monroe County. 

Justice Lee has two daughters, Sarah Alliman, a Webb Class 

of 2002 graduate, and Laura Alliman, who graduated from 

Webb in 2004. 

Tennessee Supreme Court Justice Lee with (l to r) 

her sister Charla Sherbakoff; her mother, Judy Lee; 

her daughter Sarah Alliman ‘02; her uncle J.D. Lee; 

and her daughter Laura Alliman ‘04 at a reception 

in Webb’s Coleman-Lange International Center. 

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Webb School 

heads south 

to Atlanta 

Webb School, along with Webb Class 

of 1981 alumna Kristi (Warren) Evans, 

hosted a regional reunion in Atlanta, 

Ga., April 28, 2011. Area alumni 

gathered at The Warren City Club to 

enjoy hors d’oeuvres and good 

company with classmates and 

friends. Webb Director of Development, 

Jay Howard, and Webb Director 

of Technology, Jim Manikas, were 

also on hand to speak with alumni 

about the school’s new one-to-one 

iPad program for students in grades 

4 through 12. 

(l to r) Brooks (Koella) Heiser ’89, Kristi (Warren) 

Evans ’81, Ellen (Myers) Woodruff ’82, Laura (Welker) 

Tredway ’82, Margaret (Burns) Taylor ’82 

(l to r) Webb Director of Development, Jay Howard, 

Chip Cagle ’76 and Lauren Tenney ’99 . 

Taylor and Julia Hamilton 

with their son Parker 

Hamilton ’15 at 

Commencement 2011. 

Taylor Hamilton received 

Webb’s 2011 Robert Webb 

Service Award for 

outstanding service and 

leadership to the Webb 

community. Hamilton’s 

service to Webb School 

has been exceptional and 

includes longtime Class 

Agent, past president of 

the Alumni Association, 

former Trustee Board 

member, and “Realize the 

Vision” Alumni 

Committee member. 

Hamilton recognized for service, 

leadership to the Webb community 

During Webb’s 2011 Commencement ceremony, May 22, Webb School presented 

Class of 1983 alumnus Taylor Hamilton with the school’s Robert Webb Service 

Award for 2011. 

Established in honor of Webb School of Knoxville founder, Robert Webb, the 

Robert Webb Service Award recognizes a member of the alumni body who has 

distinguished him/herself through outstanding service and leadership to the Webb 

community. 

Taylor Hamilton possesses an exceptional record of service to Webb School. As a 

longtime Class Agent, he is an important liaison between his class and the school – 

spearheading fundraising efforts and organizing reunions. 

A past president of Webb’s Alumni Association and former member of the Board 

of Trustees, Hamilton was a vital member of the school’s 50th Anniversary Planning 

Committee and the “Realize the Vision” Capital Campaign Alumni Committee. For 

more than 22 years, he has been a generous and loyal donor to Webb School. He’s a 

regular Annual Fund volunteer and is always on hand to help with Webb’s parent 

and alumni phonathons. 

Taylor Hamilton began recruiting in the furniture industry when he formed The 

Hamilton Group in 1995. Previously, he spent four years in investments and trust 

administration with The Northern Trust Company in Chicago, Ill. He was also a 

branch manager and commercial lender for SunTrust Banks in Nashville, Tenn. 

Taylor holds an MBA in Marketing/Finance from Indiana University and a B.S. in 

Finance from the University of Virginia. 

Taylor and his wife, Julia, are the proud parents of two Webb legacy students – 

Parker, Class of 2015, and Jack, Class of 2019. 


alumni 

happenings 


Spartan Spirit Tailgate 

September 17, 2010 

Webb alumni and their families, as well as former 

faculty and staff, joined the Spartan cheerleaders 

and Pep Band for the annual Spartan Spirit 

Tailgate prior to the Webb vs. Franklin Road 

Academy football game. (top, l to r) Tommy 

Schmid ’82, Susan (Myers) Schmid ’79, Mike 

McClamroch ’82 and his son Michael ’20. (above) 

During halftime of the Webb vs. FRA game, Webb 

recognized members of the Spartan 1980 A-AA 

boys state championship track and field team 

(l to r) Steve Fry ’82, John Shaw ’82, coach and 

alumnus Dorn Kile ’68, Craig Miller ’81, and Bill 

Bass ’80. Some alumni classes celebrated their 

reunions at the Tailgate (see page 32). 

Young Alumni Speak with Seniors 

January 4, 2011 

(above, l to r) Class of 2009 graduates Carter 

Tisdale, Andrew Bindrim, Kelley Kidd, and 

Meredith Finch, and other Webb alumni who are 

still in college, were invited by Webb’s College 

Counseling Office to speak with Webb seniors 

about their college experiences. 

Young Alumni Holiday Lunch 

December 16, 2010 

A good number of Webb young alumni braved the 

snowy weather to attend Webb’s annual Young 

Alumni Holiday Luncheon, where they caught up 

with classmates and friends, and visited with Webb 

faculty and staff. (above, l to r) Class of 2010 

graduates Eileen Robinson, Olivia Thornton, 

Devon Meske, and Annie Freeland. 

Spartan Classic Golf Tournament 

May 21, 2011 

(above, l to r) Ed Winter, Greg Hall ’83, and Jeff 

Chapman ’61 were among the Webb alumni, 

parents, students, and grandparents to participate in 

Webb’s annual Spartan Classic Golf Tournament, 

held during Commencement weekend, at Willow 

Creek Golf Course. Kudos to winning team members 

Cecil Scarbrough, Dane Scism and Eric Ericson; 

and runner-up team members Bobby Baird ’05, 

Arthur Long ’05, Tyler Baird ’07, and Zach 

Gosselin ’05. Peter Finch won closest to the pin 

while Cecil Scarbrough shot the longest drive. 

Congratulations to all the players and we look 

forward to your joining us again next year! 

>>Want to become involved with Webb’s 

alumni activities? Contact Webb Alumni 

Coordinator, Helen Bruner, at (865) 291-3825 

or helen_bruner@webbschool.org. 

Mentor Program Career Day 

April 25, 2011 

Webb’s Mentor Program provides students the 

opportunity to connect with mentors in a variety of 

professional fields and to pursue their passions. 

Mentors experience one-on-one interaction with 

students as they offer first-hand learning at their 

worksites and serve as role models for seniors 

before they begin their college careers. As part of 

the program, Webb hosted its annual Career Day 

for juniors. Potential mentors like (top) orthopedic 

surgeon Dr. David Hovis ’86, and (above, l to r) 

anesthesiologist Dr. James Choo ’95 and attorney 

Aisha Rahman ’01 spoke with students and 

described their occupations/businesses. 

Alumni 

Speakers 

Each year, Webb 

alumni return to 

campus to speak 

with students during 

classes or as part of 

programs such as 

Webb’s Leadership 

Speaker Series or 

World Issues 

Colloquium. (right) 

Webb alumnus 

Nathan Al- 

Khazraji ’95, regional 

security officer for the United States Department 

of State, spoke at Webb’s World Issues Colloquium 

in October 2010, and shared his experiences with 

Upper School students in Mr. Schmid’s U.S. 

Government class. 

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reunion gallery 

2010-2011 

1. Webb’s Class of 1960 celebrated its 50th Reunion, 

October 15 & 16, 2010 with dinner at Bravo’s in Knoxville 

and a tour of the Webb campus. (l to r) Jim Bradley, Hugh 

Faust, Jeff Goodson, Bill Swann, Sam Colville, Jim Hart, 

LeClair Greenblatt, Ken Christenberry (’59), Doug Newton, 

Bob Godwin (’59), and former Webb faculty member Ted 

Bruning. (not pictured: Chip Osborn). 

3 

5 

4. Suzanne 

(Wallace) 

Stowers ’67 and 

Duffy Stowers ’65 

at Webb’s Spartan 

Spirit Tailgate, 

September 17, 

2010. 5 & 6. Class 

of 1995 alumni got 

together for their 

15th Reunion, 

November 27, 

2010, at Sapphire 

in Knoxville. 

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2. During their Webb campus tour, Class of ’60 alumni Bill 

Swann (left) and Jim Hart pose beside the photo of Webb’s 

1959 football team that hangs outside of the Upper School 

gym. Swann is #23 in the picture; Hart is #26. 3. (l to r) Class 

of ’59 & ’60 members Bob Godwin, Doug Newton, former 

faculty member Ted Bruning, Bill Swann, Sam Colville, Jim Hart, 

Ken Christenberry, and Chip Osborn during their campus tour. 

7 

8 

10. Class of 2005 alumni 

at Webb’s Spartan Spirit 

Tailgate. 11. The Class of 

1980 celebrated its 30th 

Reunion, September 4 & 5, 

2010, with a gathering at 

the home of Sarah Tarver 

and dinner at Cherokee 

Country Club. 

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7. Class of 1970 alumni gather for their 40th Reunion at Cocoa Moon in 

Knoxville, April 30, 2011. 8. (l to r) Class of 2000 alumni (l to r) Luke Foster, 

Jenny (Broome) Greer, and Jared Smith and his wife at the Spartan Spirit Tailgate. 

9. Class of 1985 alumnus Bob McClellan (center with former Webb student Beth 

(Sterchi) Cantrell and Paige Preston) headed up Class of 1985’s 25th Reunion, 

October 15 & 16, 2010, at Bistro by the Tracks in Knoxville and dinner at the 

home of Taylor Preston. 

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classnotes 

The following Class Notes were 

received from August 2010 

through August 2011. The 

information was posted to our 

online alumni community at 

www.webbschool.org or was 

pulled from our Facebook site. 

If you haven’t already done 

so, please join our alumni 

Facebook family at at www. 

facebook.com/webbalum. 

60s 

David Shearer Payne ’61 is 

now retired from teaching, and 

celebrated his 40th wedding 

anniversary with his wife, Pat. 

They have three children, 

Shoena, Mikael and Russell, and 

two grandchildren, Bethany 

and Annalie. 

Mary Alice (Slemons) 

Hines ’63 married Albert 

Anderson on April 12, 2008. 

Bill Lockett ’67 returned to 

school after practicing law for 35 

years and obtained his Master’s of 

Arts and a Marriage and Family 

Therapist degree, and now works 

with traumatized and abused 

children and adults. 

In April 2011, Flossie McNabb 

Sonneland ’69 opened the 

Union Avenue Bookstore in 

downtown Knoxville, Tenn. 

70s 

The 2011 Junior Achievement of 

East Tennessee Business Hall of 

Fame inducted Dee (Bagwell) 

Haslam ’72 for her exceptional 

contributions to the East 

Tennessee business community. 

Knoxville author, columnist, 

historian, and Metro Pulse 

magazine associate editor, Jack 

Neely ’76, was named a 2011 

Front Page Follies honoree by 

the East Tennessee Society of 

Professional Journalists. 

Ronald Bowling ’77 writes that 

he has been married 29 years and 

has four children. 

Martin Carlson ’78 has moved 

into a newer home and invites his 

friends to come visit him in Los 

Angeles, Calif. 

80s 

Brian Bonnyman ’81 is a 

community health family 

physician in Knoxville’s center city. 

Diane (Renert) Lechter ’82 has 

been working as a public speaker 

on behalf of the Epilepsy 

Foundation. Her daughter, Goldie 

Winston, is a junior at the 

University of Wisconsin - Madison 

and her son, Benjamin, is an 

eighth grader at the Epstein 

School in Atlanta. 

To his Webb classmates, Philip 

Goldstine ‘83 writes: “After 16 

years at Morgan Stanley and 

three-and-a-half years at Wachovia 

Securities, I am now an 

independent financial advisor 

with the firm Tower Square 

Securities, a subsidiary of MetLife. 

As always, I hope all is well with 

you, many of whom I correspond 

with on Facebook!” 

Carl Koella III ’83 was elected 

Mayor of Rockford, Tenn., and in 

the summer of 2010, he was 

elected Chairman of the 

Tennessee Health Services and 

Development Agency. 

Kris Mcilwaine ’85, Ph.D. 

recently wrote a current research 

compendium for the field of 

sociology. She spent much of the 

summer of 2011 converting her 

house in Tucson, Ariz., to solarelectric. 

She writes that she misses 

her Class of ’85 classmates. 

In addition to working as a Clinical 

Associate Professor of Pathology 

at the University of Louisville, 

Dr. John Parker ’85 is affiliated 

with the North Hospital system 

in Louisville as a consulting 

neuropathologist. He writes that 

he enjoys competing with his 

English Mastiff, “Lewy,” in 

obedience trials. 

Richard Chinn ’88 was recently 

named the Tennessee Statesman 

of the Year for the Third 

Congressional District by the 

Tennessee State Republican Party. 

90s 

Alexis Wade ’91 and Sherif 

Guindi ’91 were married 

November 28, 2009 in Knoxville, 

Tenn. Sherif is working as an 

attorney in private practice in 

Knoxville. Alexis is a realtor and 

her son Ethan is a member of the 

Class of 2020 at Webb. 

Blair Harrison ’91 married 

Krissy Harvey on June 19, 2010 

in Columbus, Ga. Bryan 

Langley ’91 was the best man 

and longtime Spartan football 

coach David Meske was in 

attendance. 

Blair Harrison ’91 married Krissy Harvey, 

June 19, 2010. 

Jennie (Chapman) 

Linthorst ’91 is pleased to 

announce her first published 

collection of poems: Autism 

Disrupted: A Mother’s Journey of 

Hope, with foreword by renowned 

developmental pediatrician, Dr. 

Ricki Robinson. Linthorst writes 

that her collection is about 

motherhood, marriage and being 

a woman. “This would make a 

great gift for any mother in your 

life, and offers insight and hope 

for all in the special needs 

community,” she says. 

Jessica (Stewart) Legg ’92 

writes the after a 17-year battle 

with Multiple Sclerosis, her 

mother passed away in July. She 

says that her Webb School family 

knew her mother as a vibrant 

woman and she was that way 

until the end of her life. Jessica’s 

triplets attend Sequoyah Hills 

Elementary School in Knoxville, 

Tenn. Jessica writes that they’re 

doing well and love school. 

The News Sentinel reported that 

Whitney Sharp Peter ’92 was 

honored at the 2010 YWCA 

Tribute to Women. She is a 

second-generation construction 

company executive and has been 

recognized by the National 

Association of Home Builders as a 

Certified Green Professional, a 

Certified Aging-In-Place Specialist, 

and a Certified Graduate Builder. 

She is a past president and CEO of 

the Junior League of Knoxville. 

Bobby Serrell ’93 is the 

Education Director at the awardwinning 

Barrow Group Theatre 

Company in New York City. He 

writes that if anyone wants to take 

a class there, please email him. 

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BILLY OSTEEN ’85 

“memories forged & LESSONS LEARNED OFF OF PELLISSIPPI PARKWAY” 

For more than five years, Webb Class of 1985 alumnus and former Webb school ENGLISH teacher AND COACH Billy 

Osteen and his family have lived in ChristchuRch, New Zealand. On September 3, 2010, a powerful 7.0 magnitude 

earthquake struck New Zealand’s South Island, including the city of ChristchurCh – just 19 miles from the 

earthquake’s epicenter. Then just five months later, Christchurch was AGAIN rocked by a major 6.3 magnitude 

earthquake. Osteen shares his experiences and reflects on his days at webb in an email, Sent february 2011. 

For the past 5 years, my wife of 15 

“ 

years, Susan, TWO DAUGHTERS, 

Lawson 11 and Stewart 7, and I have 

enjoyed an idyllic Kiwi lifestyle in Sumner, 

Christchurch, New Zealand – four blocks 

from the Pacific Ocean, kids walking, 

skateboarding, and scootering to an 

amazing school two blocks away, a Mayberry 

village of 6,000 people “where everybody 

knows your name” just outside a thriving, 

cosmopolitan city of 400,000 people. 

We had found paradise in the natural 

beauty of our fellow citizens and the landscape. While we 

quietly acknowledged with other ex-pats that this was too 

good to be true, we blithely assumed that all good things 

will last. Alas, as I should’ve recalled from my English Lit 

classes with Mary Jo, Ginna, and Cornelius, and our Religious 

Studies class with Rev. Paddon, there is a time and season for 

everything, good and bad. 

Starting on September 4, 2010 and 

continuing right through to the morning that 

I write this, we are being hammered with 

5,000-plus measurable earthquakes and 

aftershocks with the most destructive coming 

on February 22, 2011 (6.3 magnitude), which 

led to the almost complete destruction of 

the central city – 200 deaths, and paradise 

no more. 

My family has been one of the fortunate 

ones to be living in a warm, weathertight 

house with the onset of winter, unlike 10,000 

Billy Osteen ’85 and Webb math teacher Cheryl 

Gutridge lead a freshman team skit during 

Chapel. The photo was taken from Webb’s 1993 

Princeps yearbook. 

It will be these ‘hard yards’ ahead, beyond the drama and 

excitement of the immediate, that will call upon all of my prior 

experiences – many of which come right back to memories 

forged and lessons learned off of Pellissippi Parkway: August 

two-a-days with coaches Gratz, Meske and Wormsley, Freshman 

Retreats, AP Calculus with Joyce, Chapel Talks, the boost of 

seeing (and hearing) the cafeteria workers every day, and the 

incredible support and encouragement I received both as a 

student and a teacher . . . 

“ 

other families whose homes are either demolished or soon 

to be; and face the prospects of living in campervans or 

trailers for the next several years. 

While our dramatic escape on the day of the February 

quake will be a story that we’ll draw upon as a family for the 

rest of our lives, the longer lasting effects of this for us are 

tucked within the aftermath of trying to assist with the city’s 

recovery and in understanding on a much deeper and more 

empathetic level the suffering that has accompanied these 

kinds of events in New Orleans, Japan, Chile, Haiti, and 

Indonesia. 

It will be these “hard yards” ahead, beyond the drama and 

excitement of the immediate, that will call upon all of my 

prior experiences – many of which come right back to 

memories forged and lessons learned off of Pellissippi 

Parkway: August two-a-days with coaches Gratz, Meske and 

Wormsley, Freshman Retreats, AP Calculus with Joyce, 

Chapel Talks, the boost of seeing (and hearing) the cafeteria 

workers every day, and the incredible support and 

encouragement I received both as a student and a teacher, 

particularly from Jim Snodgrass. 

Throughout the ups and downs of this most recent event, 

I am grateful for the opportunities to apply the “Leaders Not 

Men” motto of our beloved alma mater. 



Nathan 

Al-Khazraji ’95 

shared pictures 

(lower right) of his 

daughter, Elea, and 

one with himself 

and his wife, Nora, 

with Elea, in the 

Dolomites in Italy 

(right). After 

graduating from 

Webb, he studied 

at James Madison 

University before 

working in Washington D.C., and 

then moved to the United Arab 

Emirates. Nathan now works for 

the United States Department of 

State and was posted as a 

security agent at the U.S. 

Consulate in Milan, Italy with his 

family. He now works in the 

Washington, D.C. headquarters. 

Matt Miller ’96 and Lindsay 

Pabst were married on October 

15, 2010 in a ceremony at 

Blowing Rock Country Club in 

Blowing Rock, N.C. Matthew 

graduated from Wake Forest 

University and earned his Master 

of Divinity from Reformed 

Theological Seminary in 

Charlotte, N.C. They live in 

Greenville, S.C., where Lindsay 

works as an endodontist and 

Matt is senior pastor at Greenville 

Presbyterian Church 

Whitney (Krisle) Bell ’97 and 

her husband, Mike, welcomed 

George “Bennett” Bell on July 11, 

2011. He weighed 5 pounds, 13 

ounces, and was 19 inches long. 

Becky Serrell ’97 and John Cyr 

and were married May 29, 2009 

in Knoxville, Tenn. John is a fine 

arts photographer and runs an 

independent printing lab, Silver 

68, in Brooklyn, N.Y., and 

Rebecca is a dancer, teacher and 

choreographer. They live in 

Brooklyn, N.Y. 

Brock Bosson ’99 

sent an email, 

November 22, 2010, to 

varsity Spartan 

baseball coach Clark 

Wormsley, and 

attached the photo to 

the right. He writes, 

“Hey Coach. I was 

watching some 

soldiers play baseball 

under less than ideal 

conditions in Afghanistan the 

other day and, in watching these 

guys play ball to take their 

minds off things, I remembered 

how much I missed the game. I 

also realized that it has been 

way too long since I dropped 

you a line. I’m deployed now 

with the Army Component of 

Central Command doing 

International and Operational 

Law. So far, it’s turned out to be 

interesting and I get to travel a 

good amount between Iraq, 

Afghanistan and Kuwait. I’ve 

attached a photo from a spot 

near where I was working at 

Bagram, Afghanistan.” 

At the 2011 Pinnacle Business 

Awards, presented by BB&T and 

the Knoxville Chamber of 

Commerce, Joey Nother ’99, 

founder and creative director of 

Designsensory in Knoxville, 

Tenn., was recognized as a 

Young Entrepreneur of the Year. 

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Brock Bosson ’99 sends this photo from 

Bagram, Afghanistan. 

Derrick 

Harmon ’01, 

recently had 

his two case 

studies 

published in a 

United Nations’ 

Global Impact 

Initiative 

publication, which he completed 

while pursuing his MBA at the 

University of Notre Dame. His 

work was based on the research 

he had done in Sarajevo, Bosnia- 

Herzegovina. 

Jessica (Metcalf) Lutfi ’01 and 

her husband, Michael, welcomed 

Daniel Michael Magdi Lutfi into 

the world on September 28, 2011. 

Becky Serrell ’97 married John Cyr, 

May 29, 2009. 

Mary Faith Carpenter ’00 and 

Christopher Russell Costello 

were married July 10, 2010 in 

Pawleys Island, S.C. 

(l to r) Afton (Stubblefield) Mooney ’01, 

Carolyn (Reed) Word ’01, Caitlin Lighter ’01, 

Catherine (Davis) Pattison ’01, Emily Cleveland 

’01, and Adele Moore Yonchak. 

Bennet Bell, born July 11, 2011. 

See You on Facebook! 

Stay connected with your fellow alumni through 

our “Webb Alum” Facebook page (www.facebook. 

com/webbalum ). Keep informed of upcoming 

events – from reunions to our All-Alumni Spartan 

Spirit Tailgate. It’s a great way to stay in touch! 

Carolyn (Reed) Word ’01 

posted the above picture on 

Facebook. It’s from a Webb 

alumni girlfriend “reunion,” in 

August 2010. 

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The News Sentinel featured a 

story about Hugh Faust ’02 in 

May 2011 (http://www. 

knoxnews.com/news/2011/ 

may/26/rare-mussels-found/). 

Hugh has researched large cats 

in South Africa, studied snow 

leopards in Russia’s Altai 

Mountains, and worked as a 

wildlife biologist in Wyoming 

over the last 10-plus years. He 

recently discovered two 

endangered mussel species on 

the upper Emory River – the 

extrememly rare Alabama 

lampmussel, and a purple bean 

mussel, which is a federally 

endangered species found only 

in a handful of streams in 

southwest Virginia and East 

Tennessee. Check out the full 

story at knoxnews.com. 

On July 24, 2010, Julia 

Bedinger ’03 and Ryan Mark 

Connor were married in Knoxville, 

Tenn. Julia completed her 

master’s in education in May 2010 

at the University of Tennessee. 

Julia teaches at Jefferson Middle 

School while her husband 

completes his law degree at UT. 

Slade Trammell ’03, an 

accomplished pianist, was invited 

to perform in Palm Springs and 

Pittsburgh in late 2010. Slade 

is on the faculty of Roane State 

Community College. His past 

awards have included top prize 

at the University of Tennessee 

National Piano Scholarship 

Competition, first prize in 

the Celebration of Excellence 

Competition, and a Music Study 

Club Prize. Performances have 

taken him around the United 

States, and in August 2008 he 

made his European début with 

recitals in Salzburg and Steyr, 

Austria, where he planned to 

return in 2011. In 2009, he made 

his orchestral debut with the 

American Philharmonic Orchestra 

for the ensemble’s Tenth 

Anniversary Gala concerts. 

Stephen Davis ’04 worked 

for the Supreme Court Institute, 

preparing summary briefs 

regarding the 2010-2011 

caseload for the Court. He 

graduated from Georgetown Law 

School in May 2010. 

2nd Lt. Spence Hunter ’04 

2nd Lt. Spence Hunter ’04 

graduated from the United 

States Army Officer Candidate 

School at Fort Benning, Ga., on 

September 23, 2010. He 

continues his officer training in 

the Infantry Basic Officer 

Leadership Course at Fort 

Benning. Hunter graduated 

from the University of Tennessee 

in 2008. 

Nikki patel ’96 

RECIPIENT OF PENN VET AWARD 

Webb alumna Nikki Patel was named a 2010 winner of 

the Pen Vet Student Inspiration Awards. The award is presented 

annually to two University of Pennsylvania School of 

Veterinary Medicine students who demonstrate the “potential 

to significantly advance the frontiers of veterinary 

medicine and expand the profession’s impact on the wellbeing 

of animals and society,” according to University of 

Pennsylvania’s Penn News website. 

Each award-winner received $100,000 in unrestricted 

funding from the Vernon and Shirley Hill Foundation to 

be used toward realizing their veterinary missions and 

proposed projects. 

Patel, a graduate of University of Tennessee, is a Penn Vet 

student whose award-winning proposal, “Veterinary Public 

Outreach 2.0, ” uses the Internet to inform the public and 

policy makers about wildlife trade and other veterinary 

issues. Patel uses Google Earth to help illustrate these 

unreported issues and present the devastating impact they 

have on wildlife, humans and ecosystems. 

“Veterinarians are evolving to have the responsibility of 

stewards of the planet,” Patel said on Penn News. “Within this 

role, it is our duty to educate the public on the depth and 

breadth of current problems that we are working to help 

solve, encompassing public health, conservation and 

36 environmental Webb n a lhealth.” 

u m n i b u l l e t i n 

Lee Haniford ’04 married Megan 

Vaughn, June 19, 2010. 

Lee Haniford ’04 and Megan 

Vaughn were married in Knoxville, 

Tenn., on June19, 2010. Lee has a 

bachelor’s degree in management 

and organization from 

Miami University in Ohio. 

He works in human resources for 

ALCOA in Independence, Ohio. 

Alex Keeton ’04 with President Obama. 

Retired Webb teacher Grier 

Novinger submitted a picture 

(above) of Alex Keeton ’04 

with President Obama at a 

White House dinner in fall 2010. 

Keeton was working as an aide 

to former U.S. Rep. Lincoln Davis. 

Bryson Bosson ’05 is a 

customer service manager for 

Clayton Bank & Trust Co. 

Former Webb robotics team members 

(l to r) Robert Davis ’05 and Sam 

Bacon ’08 helped mentor Webb’s 

robotics team #1466 as it prepared 

for the 2011 FIRST Smoky Mountain 

Regional robotics competition. 

Robert Davis ’05 was an 

undergraduate researcher for two 

different projects at the University 

of Tennessee and at Tsinghua 

University in Beijing. More 

recently, he and Sam Bacon ’08


helped mentor Webb’s Robotics 

Club for the 2011 FIRST Robotics 

Smoky Mountain Regional in 

Knoxville, Tenn. 

Jordan Greene ’05 married 

Jerod Pilot of Fairhope, Ala., on 

October 30, 2010. They live in 

Madison, Ga. 

Evan Smith ’05 was recently 

promoted to Wind Field Manager 

of Operations & Maintenance for 

Siemens Energy. Evan and 

Megan Boyce ’05 were married 

on January 8, 2011. 

Over holiday break 2010, 

Webb College Counseling Co- 

Director Rick Ziegler met up 

with the following Webb Class 

of 2005 alumni: Michael 

Rogers, who graduated from 

Davidson College and is now 

a medical student in Virginia; 

William Thistlethwaite, who 

graduated from University of 

North Carolina at Chapel Hill 

and is attending law school at 

Columbia University; University 

of Tennessee graduate David 

Woods – an engineer working 

in Virginia Beach, Va.; and Ashim 

Bhandari, who graduated 

from University of Tennessee 

with a degree in microbiology 

and has joined the Navy for 

surface warfare. Rick also reports 

that after graduating from 

University of Tennessee, Amit 

Jethanandani ’05 is enrolled at 

the University of Texas School of 

Public Health. 

(l to r) Michael Rogers ’05, William 

Thistlethwaite ’05, David Woods ’05, 

Webb College Counseling Co-Director 

Rick Ziegler, and Ashim Bhandari ’05. 

Matt Glisson ’06 received his 

master’s degree from Carnegie 

Mellon University in mechanical 

engineering in May 2011. Matt 

is doing a one-year internship at 

Disney Research in Pittsburgh, 

Pa., where he is conducting 

research in robotics. He writes 

that his interest in robotics began 

as a member of Webb’s Robotics 

Club under Upper School math 

teacher David Pierce. 

Tyler Dougherty ’07 was 

selected to be one of the 

representatives of the senior 

class during Maryville College’s 

Homecoming festivities, 

October 23, 2010. Candidates 

were nominated by students in 

their respective classes, with an 

entire student body selecting 

the Homecoming Queen and 

King through an election. 

Tyler was also a finalist for the 

Maryville College Outstanding 

Senior Award. 

Tyler Dougherty ’07 escorts Le’Sean 

“Seanny” Brannon, a senior from 

Baltimore, Md, at halftime of the 

Maryville College Homecoming 2010 

football game. 

Tadd Hatcher ’07 has joined 

Wells Fargo Securities as an 

Investment Banking Analyst in 

the Energy and Power Group in 

Charlotte, N.C. He also joined 

Youth for Understanding 

International as a volunteer 

to assist with their student 

exchange program. Tadd 

graduated from Washington and 

Lee University in May 2011 with a 

Bachelor of Science in accounting 

and business administration. He 

received the Francis P. Gaines and 

Washington and Lee National 

Merit scholarships. Tadd was 

selected as a member of the 

Williams Investment Society and 

as a Peer Tutor during his junior 

and senior years. He competed 

on the Generals’ Tennis Team 

for three years and received the 

W&L Scholar-Athlete Award. Tadd 

is a member of the Sigma Chi 

fraternity and served as Pledge 

Class President. He volunteered at 

a free medical clinic in Lexington, 

Va, and interned at Morgan 

Stanley in New York City after his 

junior year. 

A.J. Kirby-Jones ’07, first 

baseman for the Oakland A’s Class 

A affiliate, the Burlington Bees, 

was named Midwest League 

Player of the Week, August 1, 

2011. He ranked second on the 

team in walks, third in homeruns, 

and fourth in RBIs. 

Sara Mishu ‘07 was named to 

the dean’s list for the 2010 fall 

term at Centre College in Danville, 

Ky. This honor is reserved for 

students who maintain at least a 

3.60 grade point average. 

A huge THANK YOU to 

Katherine Roddy ’07, who 

tirelessly collected Class Notes for 

just about all of her classmates! 

While there’s not enough room in 

this edition to post all the Notes, 

you can find them on Webb’s 

website. Click on Alumni>Alumni 

Portal>Alumni Downloads. 

Ellison Berryhill ’08 received 

Maryville College’s Ryan 

Newhouse Award, which is given 

each year to the junior or senior 

student at Maryville College who 

typifies the finest characteristics 

of the liberal arts by uniting 

principles of business, fine arts 

and humanities in his or her 

academic life, personal growth 

and values. 

Webb College Counseling Co-Director 

Rick Ziegler (right) with (l to r) Faith 

Lindsay ’08 and Andrew Bindrim ’09 in 

Butler University’s Hinkle Field House. 

Peyton Miller ’08 worked as 

a summer intern for The Weekly 

Standard during fall 2010. 

Chris Prince ’08 is attending 

George Mason University and 

spent summer 2011 in Taiwan at 

the Taiwan National University. 

During a college tour in October 

2010, Webb College Counseling 

Co-Director Rick Ziegler met up 

with Webb alumni Faith 

Lindsay ’08 and Andrew 

Bindrim ’09. Both students 

attend Butler University and 

were part of a student panel for 

the 40 or so guidance/college 

counselors on the tour, according 

to Ziegler. “Faith and Andrew 

were just wonderful in their 

presentations and in answering 

questions,” writes Ziegler. “I 

received tons of great comments 

about them from other 

counselors on the tour. Not only 

was I proud of both, but seeing 

them reminded me again why I 

have the best job at Webb School 

and maybe in the entire world!” 

In March 2011, Jason 

Berube ’10 was elected 

president of the Virginia Tech 

Class of 2014. 

Trey Hatcher ’10 was one of 

two Washington and Lee 

University rising sophomores to 

be selected to the prestigious 

Kemper Scholars Program. Each 

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year, the James S. Kemper 

Foundation selects one first-year 

student from each of its 

participating schools to serve as 

Kemper Scholars. Washington 

and Lee University is one of only 

15 schools invited to participate 

in the scholarship-mentorship 

program. As a freshman at 

Washington and Lee, Hatcher 

was selected to the Freshman 

Leadership Council and was 

elected the only Freshman 

Representative of the Executive 

Committee. He also competed 

for the W&L Generals in track 

and field and received a scholarathlete 

award. Hatcher plans to 

major in accounting and 

business administration, and 

recently completed a financial 

internship with The Omerta 

Group in London, England. He 

also took classes at The London 

School of Economics and The 

University of London. 

SHARE 

YOUR NEWS! 

Newly married? Celebrating a new 

career? Announcing an expanding 

family? Planning an exotic trip? Met 

up with Webb classmates and 

friends? PLEASE send us your Class 

Notes for our next Alumni Bulletin 

edition. And to stay up-to-date 

about campus highlights and alumni 

happenings, update your email 

address with our Alumni Office. 

Send your notes (don’t forget to 

include pictures!) and email address 

to Helen Bruner, Webb Alumni 

Coordinator, at helen_bruner@ 

webbschool.org. 

In Memoriam 

Webb alumnus Hugh Van Deventer Slatery ’74 passed away suddenly, June 6, 2010. 

Below is a copy of his obituary. 

Hugh Van Deventer Slatery, 53, of Lexington, died unexpectedly on Sunday, June 6, 2010. Preceded in 

death by his father, Herbert Harrison Slatery, Jr., he is survived by his mother Carter Van Deventer Slatery 

of Knoxville, Tennessee; his three children, Carter Hill Slatery, Hugh Van Deventer Slatery, Jr., and Sharon 

Isabella Grace Slatery, and their loving mother Danita Morris Slatery, all of Lexington, Kentucky; his 

brothers, Herbert Harrison Slatery III and wife Cary Pridgen Slatery of Knoxville, Tennessee, and Charles 

Kyle Slatery and wife Jane Genette Slatery of Memphis, Tennessee; and a niece and five nephews: Frances 

Van Deventer Slatery of Birmingham, Alabama and H. Harrison Slatery, IV of Knoxville, Tennessee, 

Charles Kyle Slatery, Jr. of Washington, D.C., and Sidney Wilson Slatery and John McSpadden Slatery 

of Memphis, Tennessee. Hugh graduated from Webb School of Knoxville in 1974, and matriculated to 

Texas Christian University where he earned a degree in Business Administration. He was elected President 

of the Delta Tau Delta fraternity. After college he worked for Hohenberg Cotton Company, later formed his 

own brokerage firm in Forth Worth, Texas and eventually moved to Lexington, Kentucky, where he was 

involved in the financial consulting business. He was an active participant at Immanuel Baptist Church in 

Lexington, and loved seeing his children taught and coached at Lexington Christian Academy. His smile, 

laughter and compassion will be missed greatly by his family and friends.family, friends, and colleagues. 

Webb alumna Holliday (Osborne) Gordon ’79 passed away October 12, 2010. Below is an 

excerpt from the obituary, published October 20, 2010, in the Knoxville News Sentinel. 

GORDON, HOLLIDAY (OSBORNE) - passed away peacefully Tuesday, October 12, 2010. Preceded 

in death by parents John Coughlin Osborne and Nancy Miller Osborne. Survived by husband Terry Gordon 

and daughter Hannah Stratton of Stone Mountain, GA; stepmother Martha Lee Osborne of Knoxville; 

sisters Laurie Osborne (John Beichman) of Oakland, ME, and Graham da Ponte of New Orleans; 

brothers John Osborne (Caroline) and David da Ponte (Laura) of Knoxville; and eight nieces and nephews. 

Holliday was born March 21, 1961, in Chicago. Graduated from Webb School of Knoxville, 1979; BA, 

University of Tennessee, 1983; JD, Emory University School of Law, 1992; MLS, University of 

Alabama, 1997. She had a distinguished career as a law librarian. Her intelligence, skill, determination, 

compassion, and sense of humor will be missed by family, friends, and colleagues. 

Webb alumnus Todd Overton ’80 passed away April 18, 2011. Below is a excerpt of the 

obituary, published April 26 & 27, 2011 in the Knoxville News Sentinel. 

OVERTON, TODD DONALD - age 49 of Bethel, CT and formerly of Knoxville, TN and Vero Beach, 

FL passed away on April 18, 2011 after a courageous eight-year battle with cancer. Todd was a fun-loving, 

kind, gentle giant of a man. He was a graduate of Webb School, Knoxville, TN and attended Presbyterian 

College, Clinton, SC. Todd was a successful personal chef and most recently the owner/contractor of New 

England Home Improvements, a company he established. Both professions required artistic ability, knowledge, 

skill, and attention to detail. Each job no matter how small or large was met with the same selfimposed 

level of excellence which was greatly appreciated by his clients. He is survived by his devoted and 

loving wife Laura Del Savio, his precious son, Zachary Overton; and his stepchildren, Kate, Max, and Anna 

Brosnihan of Bethel, CT. He also is survived by his mother and stepfather, Dr. Betsy & Mr. Sherman 

Smith of Lenoir City, TN; his sister and her husband, Terri & Brent Walters and nephew Bradley Rose of 

Vero Beach, FL. He was preceded in death by his grandparents, Dr. Clarence & Mrs. Roberta Hoffmann, 

Mr. & Mrs. James Vines, and his father Dr. Donald Overton. 


[A Look Back] 

Latin Class with Mrs. Fisher 

The above photograph sits in a bookcase across from my desk in Webb School’s Alumni Office. 

This is a special photo to me as several of the girls pictured were classmates of mine in elementary school. However, 

I don’t know all the names. If you do, I’d love to hear from you. And please include any additional information 

you might have about the above shot. 

Do you have a photo and/or fond memory that captures a moment in the life of Webb School? Please consider 

sending in your images and stories for possible publication in Webb’s Alumni Bulletin. Be sure to send copies of any 

photos (please don’t send priceless originals) along with the date and location, additional information about the 

event, and the names of those pictured, if possible. Mail to: Helen Bruner, Webb Alumni Coordinator, 9800 Webb 

School Drive, Knoxville, TN 37923 or email your images/stories to: helen_bruner@webbschool.org. 

Thank you! 

MANY THANKS to Amy (Reeves) 

Kerlin ’81 for helping us identify some 

of the girls pictured in the photograph 

(“Unit I, Webb Day Camp 1970”) 

published in our last Alumni Bulletin. 

(l to r, indicated by arrows) Anne Marie 

Beaman, Amy (Reeves) Kerlin ’81, Missy 

(Bell) Boltwood ’81, Kristin (Killefer) 

Bianconi ’81, Lauralee Morton, Anne 

Martin Ayres ’81, Kim (Bailey) Nelson. 

 

 

 

 

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