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<strong>Holy</strong> Innocents’ <strong>Episcopal</strong> <strong>School</strong><br />
TORCHBEARER<br />
a pu b l i c a t i o n f o r p a r e n t s , a l u m n i a n d f r i e n d s o f h o l y i n n o c e n t s ’ e p i s c o p a l s c h o o l<br />
<strong>Janella</strong><br />
<strong>Brand</strong><br />
Retiring After<br />
31 Wonderful Years<br />
THINK GLOBALLY,<br />
ACT GLOBALLY<br />
SERVICE WORK<br />
ON THE ROAD WITH<br />
THE DEFENDING STATE CHAMPS<br />
CONGRATS!<br />
CAPITAL CAMPAIGN COMPLETE<br />
SPRING 2008 | volume V | issue 4
Gala 2008<br />
The Gala Committee out for A Night In The Orient<br />
Pie The Principal Day<br />
Lower <strong>School</strong> Assistant Principal Mr. Greg Kaiser, in his best “Pie-rate” outfit, wears his<br />
Cool-Whip well, rewarding those students who completed their Accelerated Reader programs.<br />
Left to right: Charles Schoen, Dana Ponder, Aimee Malcolm, Sana Thomas, Towns Paolucci, Anne Harris, Carrey Burgner, Anna Pfohl, Julie McNeil, Kathy Sullivan,<br />
Vanessa Birdwell, Lori Snellings, Karen Fallon, Cheryl Hix, Stacy Scott, Stephanie Ungashick.<br />
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Storm Damage<br />
State Of The <strong>School</strong> Luncheon<br />
Past and present school leaders, Mr. Elliot Galloway, Mrs. Dorothy Sullivan and Mr. Kirk Duncan share thoughts at the State of the <strong>School</strong> reception.<br />
A fierce storm swept through Atlanta on the morning of February 26th, bringing down trees and power lines throughout the city. Our campus did not escape unscathed.<br />
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Mission Statement<br />
<strong>Holy</strong> Innocents’ <strong>Episcopal</strong> <strong>School</strong><br />
develops in students a love of<br />
learning, respect for self and others,<br />
faith in God, and a sense of service<br />
to the world community.<br />
Nathan Johnson<br />
is one happy<br />
hopper at<br />
Lower <strong>School</strong><br />
Field Day<br />
<strong>School</strong> Philosophy<br />
<strong>Holy</strong> Innocents’ <strong>Episcopal</strong> <strong>School</strong><br />
offers an educational program<br />
encompassing academics, arts, athletics<br />
and spiritual formation. Through<br />
opportunities to grow intellectually,<br />
spiritually, physically and emotionally,<br />
students develop their individual worth<br />
and dignity. The challenging academic<br />
program prepares students for higher<br />
education and emphasizes learning as a<br />
pathway toward ethical leadership and<br />
a commitment to the common good.<br />
The school provides a welcoming<br />
and supportive environment, embraces<br />
the differences inherent in a diverse<br />
community, and embodies the inclusive<br />
<strong>Episcopal</strong> tradition of respect for the<br />
beliefs of others. <strong>Holy</strong> Innocents’ is an<br />
active community of faith engaged in<br />
local, national and international service<br />
to others.<br />
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contents<br />
torchbearer SPRING 2008 | volume v | issue 4<br />
EXECUTIVE EDITOR<br />
Nick Roberts<br />
MANAGING EDITOR/STAFF WRITER<br />
Mary Ryan Fink<br />
CONTRIBUTING EDITORS<br />
Dunn Neugebauer<br />
Bonnie Taylor<br />
Tamika Weaver-Hightower<br />
June Arnold<br />
Michele Duncan<br />
Mimi Strassner<br />
Judie Jacobs<br />
Wendy Jackson<br />
Erin Ainor<br />
Holly Raiford<br />
Mary Chris Williams<br />
GRAPHIC DESIGN<br />
Irby Heaton<br />
PHOTOGRAPHY<br />
Nick Roberts<br />
Mary Ryan Fink<br />
Alice Thompson<br />
CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS<br />
Gemshots Photographic<br />
Bonnie Taylor<br />
Allyson Marbut<br />
Sam Hyde<br />
Letters to the Editor<br />
Please send to the attention of Nick Roberts,<br />
at nick.roberts@hies.org, or mail to:<br />
Nick Roberts<br />
Director of Communications<br />
<strong>Holy</strong> Innocents’ <strong>Episcopal</strong> <strong>School</strong><br />
805 Mt. Vernon Highway, NW<br />
Atlanta, GA 30327<br />
From the Editor<br />
Over the course of my career, I’ve changed jobs a number of times – moving between<br />
Advertising agencies to work on new accounts, teaching Marketing at a post-grad school, and<br />
taking a 3 ½ year “sabbatical” in Peace Corps. I’ve never worried whether I’d be able to perform<br />
the work waiting for me in my new job. I have always worried, though, whether the priorities and<br />
philosophies of my new employers might clash with my own.<br />
This was especially true for me last December when I accepted the Director of<br />
Communications position at <strong>Holy</strong> Innocents’. I had too much experience with schools whose<br />
missions seemed to be their endowments, and educators more concerned with their careers<br />
than their students. I know what a great school looks like – my wife works for one, as did my<br />
mom. But I’ve also seen some of my son’s friends graduate woefully unprepared for the next<br />
stage of their lives – and in my opinion, it wasn’t their fault.<br />
So I took things slowly. I watched and listened and tried to gauge the effects of a <strong>Holy</strong><br />
Innocents’ education on the students receiving it.<br />
Now, nearly six months later, I can honestly say that I’ve never known any school whose<br />
priorities I more admire and whose mission and philosophy I agree with so completely. I am<br />
continually impressed by how <strong>Holy</strong> Innocents’ prepares children and teens for success – and not<br />
just in the college classroom, but in the world, and at any endeavor they might choose to pursue.<br />
Over these few months, I have marveled at the academic insights coming from students of all<br />
grade levels, their genuine commitment to community service, their artworks and performances,<br />
their poise and confidence, and their eagerness to engage the world beyond their classrooms.<br />
There’s no great mystery why this is the case. You need only look to the cooperation between<br />
the school and its parents. Politics and personal agendas seem nonexistent on this campus.<br />
The Laptop Program and Accelerated Reader Program, to name two of the many remarkable<br />
ideas that foster learning here, have reaped huge dividends precisely because the motivation<br />
behind them is to create opportunity instead of publicity. And I can’t wait to see what happens<br />
with the new Global Citizenship Program beginning next year.<br />
Finally, our entire community’s commitment to the <strong>Episcopal</strong> Mission of acceptance, inclusion,<br />
commonality and exploration has simply created the ideal atmosphere for talented, young<br />
minds.<br />
The <strong>Episcopal</strong> Church has a one-word slogan that you’ll find on every parish sign –<br />
“Welcome.” I can’t think of a more appropriate summation of what I’ve experienced here. I feel<br />
truly blessed to have been given the opportunity to join in your community.<br />
Nick Roberts<br />
Cover Story:<br />
An enduring, loved and loving presence<br />
since 1977, Ms. <strong>Janella</strong> <strong>Brand</strong> will be missed.<br />
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Baseball Diaries<br />
26 One man’s travels with the defending state<br />
champs<br />
Service Work<br />
When our students see a need, they<br />
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also see opportunity<br />
Global Initiative<br />
<strong>Holy</strong> Innocents’ increases focus on international<br />
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study, relationship and development<br />
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a r t i c l e s<br />
f e a t u r e s<br />
Film Festivals<br />
Young Spielbergs strut their stuff on the silver<br />
screen<br />
15 | The Political Season<br />
16 | Science Olympiad<br />
31 | Remembering Red Smith<br />
50 | Spring Sports Recap<br />
c o l u m n s<br />
36 | Principal’s Corner<br />
66 | From the Head of <strong>School</strong><br />
d e v e l o p m e n t<br />
17 | Capital Campaign Draws To A Close<br />
21 | Alumni Catch-ups<br />
42 | Volunteer Reception, Gala and more<br />
58 | From the Development Office<br />
61 | Class Notes<br />
TorchBearer is published by the Offices of Admissions, Communications and Development of <strong>Holy</strong> Innocents’ <strong>Episcopal</strong> <strong>School</strong>. Special appreciation goes to the parents, faculty and staff whose<br />
contributions make this publication possible. Every attempt has been made to ensure accuracy within this magazine. Please notify the editor of any errors or omissions and accept our sincere apologies.<br />
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History Class<br />
<strong>Holy</strong> Innocents’ Through The Years<br />
50 Years Ago: 1958: <strong>Holy</strong> Innocents’ <strong>Episcopal</strong> Church completes its<br />
new church building on Mount Vernon Highway in Sandy Springs. The parish had been<br />
located at Spring and 16th Streets since 1886, but was forced to move because it stood<br />
right in the path of the government’s new interstate highway project (I-75/85). Planning<br />
begins for a parish pre-school.<br />
25 Years Ago: July 1, 1983:<br />
Mrs. Alice Malcolm becomes the new<br />
Head of <strong>School</strong> at <strong>Holy</strong> Innocents’. Mrs.<br />
Malcolm had been Dean of Students since<br />
1972. She had taught Art at HIES since the<br />
school first opened in September, 1959.<br />
15 Years Ago: 1993: A<br />
Middle and Upper school gymnasium is<br />
completed.<br />
10 Years Ago: 1998: The<br />
Alan A. Lewis Pre-<strong>School</strong> building opens.<br />
<strong>Janella</strong> <strong>Brand</strong> accepts the position as its<br />
first principal.<br />
5 Years Ago: June 1, 2003:<br />
Kirk Duncan is named the 8th Head of<br />
<strong>School</strong> of <strong>Holy</strong> Innocents’ <strong>Episcopal</strong><br />
<strong>School</strong>.<br />
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AROUND CAMPUS<br />
Uno, dos,<br />
tres, cuatro…<br />
Upper <strong>School</strong> Spanish teacher Ken<br />
Kiser is well known around campus for his<br />
teaching, coaching and omnipresent grin.<br />
But when an email circulated inviting people<br />
to his “performance” at Eddie’s Attic, the<br />
well-known music venue in Decatur, it took<br />
many of his friends by surprise.<br />
“I’ve been playing music forever,” explains<br />
Mr. Kiser, who recorded his self-titled CD of<br />
folk songs last year (it’s available on ITunes<br />
and Amazon). When asked how he became<br />
a folk artist, Mr. Kiser replies, “Well, I was<br />
in this great jam band in college – but we<br />
graduated and went our separate ways, so it<br />
just became me and my guitar.” So much for<br />
divine inspiration.<br />
Mr. Kiser hopes to return to the studio<br />
soon. “I’m always writing,” he says. “I find<br />
that if I listen to a lot of different music – but<br />
most importantly, if I’m reading a lot, like<br />
novels and poetry – it just gets the juices<br />
flowing. I take an idea or image, or just a<br />
nice phrase from something I’ve read, and<br />
put it through my own ‘Ken Kiser’ filter and<br />
it comes out as something different. But I<br />
make no apologies – we’re all just giving our<br />
perspective on things.”<br />
Mr. Kiser – we hear you.<br />
J.B. Meathe was off to a slow start at<br />
Bobby Jones Golf Course. The 8th grader<br />
had bogeyed the first hole and barely<br />
saved par at number two.<br />
“I didn’t feel like I was playing well,” he<br />
said. Then he stepped to the tee on the<br />
164-yard, par 3 third. “I hit a choked down<br />
6-iron,” remembers J.B. “It looked good in<br />
the air and nearly landed right in the cup,<br />
then bounced past the pin. But there’s a<br />
DANIEL WHITE<br />
The erudite grease monkey.<br />
English teachers aren’t normally<br />
concerned with speed. They want us to<br />
communicate effectively and enjoy the<br />
world of literature – at whatever pace we’re<br />
comfortable.<br />
So take your time with the following<br />
sentence: Upper <strong>School</strong> English teacher<br />
Daniel White races Rotax-class karts, watercooled,<br />
two-stroke powerplants producing<br />
28 horsepower and revving to 13,500 rpms.,<br />
with a top-speed over 100-miles per hour.<br />
Not exactly War and Peace, but it’s pretty<br />
interesting, don’t you think<br />
It turns out Mr. White has always loved<br />
racing – he’s a big fan of the Formula One<br />
and Indycar circuits and has gone to the<br />
Indianapolis 500 a number of times. He ran<br />
his first race last March and realized his<br />
dreams on the track. “My wife Angela has<br />
been very supportive. My first time on the<br />
track was an experience we’ll treasure.”<br />
So what draws someone to race a go-kart<br />
that can go over 100 mph “I have plenty<br />
of opportunities to engage in my emotional,<br />
creative side as an English teacher,” says<br />
Mr. White. “Racing takes a completely<br />
different mental approach. It is a lot more<br />
than mashing the gas and turning left<br />
and right; it’s a discipline that integrates<br />
all aspects of the learning process to<br />
perform at a high level. And I love engaging<br />
my rational, technical side. It’s all about<br />
integrating classical thinking with romantic<br />
thinking.”<br />
Well, at least he still sounds like an<br />
English teacher.<br />
8th Grade Golfer Comes Up Aces<br />
big slope in the back of the green, and<br />
it rolled back down and dropped in the<br />
hole.”<br />
For the record, this wasn’t even J.B.’s<br />
first ace. “I’ve had two on par 3 courses,<br />
but never on a regular course,” he said.<br />
J.B. isn’t just a “one-hit” wonder. He<br />
played the next six holes at one-under and<br />
is one of the school’s top golfers as an 8th<br />
grader.<br />
Felicitaciones<br />
to Ms. Lopez<br />
Upper <strong>School</strong> Spanish teacher Ms. Lisa<br />
Lopez joined the American Association<br />
of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese<br />
(AATSP) less than a year ago. So why is<br />
she slated to give a speech at their annual<br />
convention in San Jose, Costa Rica this<br />
July<br />
“They e-mailed that the deadline for<br />
proposals for the annual conference was<br />
coming up. Since I like to write, I decided to<br />
send one in.” And just like that, Ms. Lopez<br />
learned the way to San Jose.<br />
Her proposal is titled “Revolutionizing<br />
Space in Language Classrooms,” In it, she<br />
explains that, “Classrooms haven’t evolved<br />
much since the 1800s,” despite significant<br />
changes in technology and lifestyle. Her<br />
idea includes kitchenettes and mirrored<br />
body-movement areas. “The traditional<br />
furniture is out,” she says. “The new focus<br />
would be on our five senses and the four<br />
planes of existence – physical, mental,<br />
spiritual and emotional.”<br />
Ms. Lopez is, of course, very excited<br />
to have been chosen to speak at the<br />
convention. “I have to do a 30-minute<br />
presentation to fellow Spanish and<br />
Portuguese teachers from around the<br />
world,” she says. “It’s scary, but I’m looking<br />
forward to it.”<br />
Tropical Service<br />
Over Spring Break, 14 Upper <strong>School</strong><br />
students and two faculty chaperones visited<br />
the tropics, but not to hit the beach. They<br />
spent their time in service to the people<br />
of Costa Rica, spending several days<br />
teaching math and English at Escuela<br />
Nuevo Amanecer, an elementary school in<br />
Pocora, Costa Rica. They also delivered a<br />
large quantity of classroom and playground<br />
supplies they had purchased prior to the trip.<br />
Sophomore A.P. Taylor was glowing—<br />
and it wasn’t from sunburn—about the<br />
Mr. Kimeli Naiyomah was in New York<br />
City on September 11, 2001. He visited <strong>Holy</strong><br />
Innocents’ this past April 16th. Between these<br />
two dates, Mr. Naiyomah did something<br />
extraordinary – so much so that our school’s<br />
favorite children’s author, Carmen Deedy,<br />
decided to write a book about it.<br />
Ms. Deedy’s new book, 14 Cows For<br />
America, tells the story of Mr. Naiyomah’s<br />
returning to his Maasai homeland in Kenya<br />
and telling the people about the huge fires<br />
he’d witnessed on the day we now know<br />
simply as “9-11,” the sight of people jumping<br />
from tall buildings and the enormous clouds<br />
of debris sweeping through the city. Most of<br />
his audience did not know what a skyscraper<br />
was. They’d only seen jet airplanes trailing<br />
white lines across the sky, 30,000 feet<br />
overhead.<br />
But through Mr. Naiyomah’s story, the<br />
Maasai understood that the American people<br />
had been wounded, were in pain, and<br />
were afraid of what lay ahead. “I know my<br />
people, I know they are merciful,” said Mr.<br />
Naiyomah. “They can be fierce and deadly<br />
when provoked - but they are also the type<br />
of people who can easily cry for the pain of<br />
other people.”<br />
So the Maasai decided to help in the only<br />
way they know. They donated a portion of<br />
their wealth to help America recover from the<br />
tragedy - 14 Zebu cattle, their most valuable<br />
possessions.<br />
Along with HIES 2nd grade teacher and<br />
Director of the Accelerated Reader program<br />
Ms. Susan Rapoport, Ms. Deedy convinced<br />
AROUND CAMPUS<br />
This summer, Upper<br />
<strong>School</strong> History teacher<br />
Ms. Claire Logsdon<br />
will spend a week<br />
with a day that lives in infamy. She plans to<br />
attend the conference Pearl Harbor: History,<br />
Memory, Memorial to examine one of the<br />
monumental moments in American history<br />
while that history is still alive.<br />
At the conference, she’ll hear survivors<br />
of the Japanese attack recount the events<br />
of December 7th, 1941, as well as visit<br />
Hickam Airfield and the Pearl Harbor naval<br />
museums.<br />
Ms. Logsdon knows that both she and<br />
her students will benefit from her trip. “The<br />
best teachers are the ones who experience<br />
history firsthand,” she says. “I’ll be able to<br />
share what I learn with my students and<br />
hopefully make this part of history come<br />
alive for them.”<br />
Carmen Deedy Introduces Her Inspiration<br />
Mr. Kimeli Naiyomah addresses the assembly<br />
experience. “The kids were so nice.” she<br />
enthused, “They all wrote me thank-you<br />
notes, and the teacher even gave me a gift.”<br />
EARTH University (Escuela de Agricultura<br />
de la Región Tropical Húmeda), a private,<br />
non-profit university dedicated to education<br />
in the agricultural sciences and natural<br />
resources, helped coordinate the efforts<br />
of the HIES students, as well as their<br />
housing. EARTH University is located in<br />
Guacimo, with the foundation’s headquarters<br />
in Atlanta.<br />
History in<br />
Paradise<br />
Mr. Naiyomah to come to <strong>Holy</strong> Innocents’<br />
so he could tell his story, which he did at the<br />
April assembly. While he spoke, you’d never<br />
have known another person was in the gym,<br />
as the students sat silently enrapt by the<br />
details of Mr. Naiyomah’s life and his journeys<br />
since 9-11.<br />
As for the cattle – they have since doubled<br />
in number, so the United States is now<br />
the proud owner of 28 Zebu cattle. Our<br />
government has reciprocated by offering<br />
scholarships to seven boys and seven girls<br />
from Mr. Naiyomah’s village—one for each of<br />
the original fourteen cows.<br />
Carmen Deedy<br />
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AROUND CAMPUS<br />
French<br />
Made Easy<br />
Ms. Joanne Thomas<br />
is a presence, both<br />
in the classroom and<br />
online. The Middle<br />
<strong>School</strong> French teacher<br />
created three textbooks<br />
– then posted them on<br />
the internet – to give<br />
her students better<br />
language resources.<br />
She began the<br />
project when Upper<br />
<strong>School</strong> Principal Mr.<br />
Chris Durst asked if<br />
she could teach French<br />
without a book. “I knew<br />
I could,” said Ms. Thomas. “I write my own<br />
notes and activities, but then it hit me that<br />
not only could I teach without a textbook, I<br />
could write one.”<br />
With the Greenbaum Grant, she traveled<br />
with three of her students to France to<br />
ensure her lessons were current. After the<br />
trip, her books went public.<br />
Since its debut, the site has not only been<br />
a hit for Americans, but it’s also had visitors<br />
from over 60 countries. “I’m excited that the<br />
information is available for the students,”<br />
said Ms. Thomas. “And it’s nice to know<br />
that people from South Africa, Guatemala<br />
and Latvia are using it, too.”<br />
To see her work, go to:<br />
http://ahbon.wikispaces.com/,<br />
http://fifthgradefrench.wikispaces.com/ or<br />
http://seventhgradefrench.wikispaces.com/.<br />
Six members of the <strong>Holy</strong> Innocents’<br />
family belong to that elite fraternity<br />
known as People Who’ve Run<br />
Marathons. And they all have<br />
interesting outlooks on their<br />
races.<br />
Math teacher/cross country<br />
coach Mr. Mike Daly, who has run<br />
15 marathons, says, “The big carrot is to<br />
qualify for Boston, and try I did. Finally in<br />
Huntsville, I ran a 2:58 and made it!”<br />
Administrative Assistant Mr. Dunn<br />
Neugebauer has run 14 marathons,<br />
including three Bostons. He especially<br />
remembers Jacksonville in ’93, his first. “I<br />
wasn’t a nice person those last six miles,”<br />
says Mr. Neugebauer. “Life is short until the<br />
last part of a marathon.”<br />
Assistant swim coach Ms. Haley Chura,<br />
who ran a 3:32 in her first Boston Marathon<br />
this April, remembers her first time meeting<br />
‘The Wall.’ “It hit me right on schedule –<br />
Strength and conditioning coach Mr.<br />
Peter Tongren knows Dodgeball. Not only<br />
is he a three-time national champion,<br />
but he also appeared in the 2004 movie,<br />
“Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story.”<br />
“I got Vince Vaughn out,” Mr. Tongren<br />
says with a smile.<br />
His experience on the Silver Screen took<br />
Mr. Tongren and some of his championship<br />
teammates to Hollywood three times. “First<br />
we helped choreograph the actual dodgeball<br />
scenes,” he said. “Then we went for some<br />
preliminary filming. The third time was live<br />
Visiting Spain Before Math<br />
Sixth graders in Ms. Eliza Suarez’s Spanish<br />
class didn’t need a field trip to discover the<br />
wonders of Spanish culture. They simply<br />
turned their own classroom into a Spanish<br />
museum, with student-made exhibits of<br />
bull stadiums, architecture, art, and even a<br />
restaurant with authentic Spanish recipes to<br />
taste.<br />
“They really did a great job researching<br />
their exhibits and put a lot of effort into<br />
creating them,” says Ms. Suarez. “Learning<br />
a language is much easier – and a lot more<br />
fun - when you can see all your lessons in a<br />
cultural context.”<br />
Ms. Suarez’s students have also<br />
connected with students in Spain via “E-Pals”<br />
and shared photos of their museum with their<br />
Chief Running Bears<br />
mile 20,” Ms. Chura says. “My legs, my<br />
arms, my brain – they all just quit. I tried<br />
counting steps, singing songs – anything<br />
to take my mind off of running.”<br />
Other HIES marathoners include Ms.<br />
Chura’s mom, Upper <strong>School</strong> teacher<br />
and swim coach Elizabeth Chura,<br />
Lower <strong>School</strong> assistant Ms. Jennifer<br />
Brown and Fine Arts Director Mr.<br />
Joshua McClymont.<br />
Mr. McClymont is the speediest Bear,<br />
turning in a 2:36 (wow!) last fall in Houston.<br />
“Training consumes me. It affects my eating,<br />
my sleeping, everything” he says. “But after<br />
four months of logging hundreds of miles,<br />
I’m ready to toe the line and get this baby<br />
going.”<br />
There are undoubtedly more marathons in<br />
store for Elizabeth and Haley Chura, Jennifer<br />
Brown and Joshua McClymont. Mr. Daly<br />
and Mr. Neugebauer, however, insist they’ve<br />
retired.<br />
Tongren Goes Hollywood<br />
new amigos. Depending on who you listen<br />
to, the museum was either “awesome” or<br />
“divertido.”<br />
takes in costume.”<br />
In the movie, Tongren<br />
can be seen in the<br />
semifinal round against<br />
the Average Joes, as well<br />
as a few ‘quick takes.’<br />
So what’s it like to see<br />
yourself in a movie “It<br />
wasn’t as exciting as I<br />
thought it would be,” he says. “I’d seen the<br />
whole movie long before it was released.<br />
But the first time I saw it in a theater was still<br />
pretty neat.”<br />
Ms Eliza Suarez and her class<br />
One Good Turn<br />
Deserves Another<br />
With three languages at his disposal, Mr.<br />
Gerard Gatoux is rarely at a loss for words.<br />
But when the senior class chose him as<br />
honorary Tassel Turner for their graduation<br />
ceremonies, he was – quite temporarily –<br />
speechless.<br />
“What a wonderful surprise,” said Mr.<br />
Gatoux afterwards, fully recovered. “I’ve<br />
always supported these students in and out<br />
of the classroom, and I’ve really enjoyed<br />
watching them grow and mature. We’ve gone<br />
on mission trips and have a lot of memories<br />
together. One of my favorites is the time we<br />
were volunteering in Reynosa, Mexico, and<br />
they all dyed their hair.”<br />
In keeping with tradition, the Tassel Turner<br />
is kept secret until its announcement at a<br />
special chapel service. Mr. Gatoux, unaware<br />
that he was this year’s honoree, listened in<br />
anticipation of the announcement. When<br />
asked if he’d had a hunch that he might be<br />
chosen, he hesitantly admitted, “Well, I had<br />
hoped.”<br />
Connor Thompson, Dalyan Kilic, Tal Kelsey, Henry Odom<br />
Katie Cross, Kennan Luther, Jasmine Brooks<br />
AROUND CAMPUS<br />
Heart of Service<br />
This summer, rising junior A.P. Taylor will multiple vaccinations<br />
join a two-month mission trip with Teen and must take antimalarial<br />
medication<br />
Missions International to work with Ugandan<br />
orphans – helping to build a meeting hall for before, during and<br />
them and teaching basketball. The civil war after the trip.<br />
that has raged in Uganda for over twenty As daunting as<br />
years has left many displaced and orphaned the environment<br />
children in its wake, and their plight speaks might seem, what<br />
to A.P.’s spirit of service.<br />
makes A.P. nervous,<br />
““People in the U.S. might be down on besides the thought<br />
their luck or have difficulties, but there is that snakes might<br />
usually something they can do about it,” slither into her tent,<br />
says A.P. “That isn’t true in Uganda.” is the question of<br />
A member of the Varsity Basketball team, how all the teens will<br />
A.P. looks forward to sharing the game get along. “I hate drama,” she explains. “I<br />
with the young children. She is also excited just want to go and get some work done. A<br />
about visiting exotic cities like Entebbe lot of people want to go to Africa, but just to<br />
and Kampala, as well as Jinja, site of the go, not to work.”<br />
headwaters of the Nile.<br />
Her experience on the recent HIES<br />
The trip is preceded by a weeklong ‘boot mission to Costa Rica and this ambitious<br />
camp’, where the volunteers will receive trip are part A.P.’s plans for possible Peace<br />
cultural sensitivity and personal safety Corps service after college. But while her<br />
training. Their accommodations<br />
future has yet to take shape, one thing is for<br />
will be rugged—<br />
sure—some Ugandan children are going to<br />
tents and bucket baths. And they need play some good basketball this summer.<br />
To Russia With Love<br />
Some children in Moscow couldn’t make it<br />
to Stacy Bubes’ bat mitzvah. But they still<br />
want to thank her for including them in her<br />
celebration.<br />
“My cousin Charlie was adopted from<br />
Russia, and I’ve seen pictures of where he<br />
lived,” Stacy said. “The building was really<br />
old and dilapidated.” So for her mitzvah<br />
project, a philanthropic option for Jewish<br />
children coming of age, she raised $7,000<br />
and gathered loads of toys for Charlie’s<br />
old orphanage, the Ryazan Baby House in<br />
Moscow.<br />
The money helped buy much-needed<br />
new windows. “The windows were cracked<br />
and really needed to be repaired,” says<br />
Stacy. “It gets so cold there in winter, and orphans in Moscow. “If you don’t have<br />
when one child gets sick from the cold, they parents, you don’t have anything,” she says.<br />
all get sick.”<br />
“I’m lucky that I do, but there are still kids<br />
These days Charlie’s life is a lot different, out there who don’t. I’m just glad I got the<br />
but Stacy hasn’t forgotten all the other chance to help.”<br />
Peter Myer, Madison Collins, Anne Claire Pittman, Madeleine Gibson<br />
Katherine Correll, Samantha Glover,<br />
Ane Wanliss, Grant Wilmer<br />
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BIG BEAR ON CAMPUS<br />
With this issue of TorchBearer, we introduce<br />
the Big Bear on Campus award. The BBOC<br />
is not intended to showcase extraordinary<br />
accomplishments or individual expertise.<br />
Instead, it will recognize students and staff<br />
who make our school unique – who always<br />
seem to be in the middle of things and<br />
contribute that special, intangible element<br />
that creates <strong>Holy</strong> Innocents’.<br />
With that in mind, we proudly introduce<br />
the inaugural Big Bears on Campus:<br />
The Political Season<br />
HIES Students Hot On Political Trails<br />
Upper and Middle <strong>School</strong> students watch closely as the 2008 Presidential campaign unfolds.<br />
Who:<br />
GARY KLINGMAN<br />
8th grade History teacher and advisor<br />
Why: An outstanding educator who is involved at <strong>Holy</strong> Innocents’ to<br />
the ‘n th ’ degree.<br />
Mr. Klingman_________________________.<br />
a. Sponsors the Student Council<br />
b. Leads part of the Recycling Club<br />
c. Is Head Coach of MS Cross Country<br />
d. Is Assistant MS. Track Coach<br />
e. Sponsored the MS Film Festival<br />
f. Organized and led MS Mock Convention<br />
g. Holds technology classes for his colleagues<br />
(this wasn’t a question – all the answers are true)<br />
What you may not know about him:<br />
He lets loose on class trips. On last year’s 8th grade excursion, his<br />
students nominated him to be a featured dancer at the Polynesian<br />
Night Luau, and he accepted graciously.<br />
Something you should know about him:<br />
The balance of power in his classroom has shifted, and his students<br />
are in charge of teaching.<br />
Colleague quotes:<br />
“If Mr. Klingman were a color, it would be a loud and bold primary<br />
one.”<br />
“Many of the innovative, new, exciting and cool events in the Middle<br />
<strong>School</strong> are traceable directly back to him.”<br />
His favorite memories at <strong>Holy</strong> Innocents’ are:<br />
Working with the Student Council and traveling to the Apple<br />
conference with the Technology Department to see the iPhone<br />
unveiled.<br />
Favorite quote:<br />
“I think, therefore I am.”-René Descartes<br />
Our thanks to Mr. Klingman for thinking and being, because without<br />
him, the Middle <strong>School</strong> most assuredly wouldn’t be the same.<br />
Who:<br />
DANIEL BLAUSTEIN<br />
Senior<br />
Why: A leader by example who is connected to his community<br />
and, despite numerous honors and accolades, remains<br />
grounded and genuine.<br />
Details:<br />
• Captain of basketball team<br />
• Captain of State Champion Baseball team<br />
• National Honor Society<br />
• Mu Alpha Theta<br />
• Trinity House volunteer<br />
• Atlanta Children’s Shelter volunteer<br />
What you should know:<br />
When he was a little boy, he dreamt of being: a baseball player.<br />
These days, he dreams of being: a baseball player.<br />
Favorite classes:<br />
AP Statistics, Government and Economics<br />
Favorite book:<br />
The Horse is Dead<br />
Favorite quote:<br />
“It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are<br />
a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.” Mark Twain<br />
There’s no doubt, however, about his remarkable character.<br />
Congratulations, Daniel, on being named our inaugural Big Bear on<br />
Campus. We look forward to hearing great things from you for years<br />
to come.<br />
Diane Bucher, Alexis Stewart,<br />
Keller Donnell, Molly Suttles,<br />
Grace Chambless, Blair Touzet,<br />
Katie Cross<br />
<strong>Holy</strong> Innocents’<br />
has gone into<br />
politics. And<br />
thanks to the<br />
candidate-following<br />
and platformscrutinizing<br />
projects<br />
that the Upper and Middle <strong>School</strong>s have<br />
done this year, students have become quite<br />
familiar with the process.<br />
In the Upper <strong>School</strong>, history teachers Mr.<br />
Quinton Walker and Ms. Claire Logsdon<br />
have been stressing the importance of<br />
staying current. They’ve kept abreast of<br />
political happenings by charting caucuses<br />
and writing letters, even voting as a class on<br />
Super Tuesday. “Not everyone could vote<br />
with us because some students are still 17,”<br />
said Ms. Logsdon. “But the ones who could,<br />
did, and even wore the ‘I voted’ sticker for<br />
the rest of the day.”<br />
Their youthful enthusiasm is a strong<br />
indication that the young voter has returned.<br />
“The students have been really excited<br />
and will ask me in the mornings if I saw<br />
the results of the last night’s debate” Ms.<br />
Logsdon said. “It’s great that they’re so into<br />
it, because at their age, I don’t think I was.”<br />
Taking an interest in politics puts students<br />
in the know and sets a great precedent for<br />
the future. “Closely watching the process is<br />
necessary because it gets students in the<br />
habit of being regular news followers,” said<br />
Mr. Walker. “They know what’s going on,<br />
Charlie Robertson and Phillip Jones<br />
represent Illinois<br />
The candidates:<br />
Clint Dolan, Sarah Venable, Jaya McFarland<br />
The Great State of Michigan<br />
enters the convention<br />
who’s running and<br />
have become even<br />
more familiar with<br />
the American political<br />
landscape.”<br />
But while the Upper<br />
<strong>School</strong> students were<br />
studying the landscape, the Middle <strong>School</strong><br />
students were living it. Led by Middle <strong>School</strong><br />
History teacher Mr. Gary Klingman, students<br />
explored the electoral college’s role in a<br />
presidential election. Their Mock Convention<br />
project involved hands-on approach, with<br />
students serving as de facto delegates,<br />
voting electronically and creating their own<br />
platforms.<br />
During their Convention assembly, they<br />
announced their votes and listened to<br />
an actual convention delegate, Mrs. Jan<br />
Hackney, speak of her own experience vying<br />
for a congressional seat.<br />
“The students will definitely remember<br />
what we did with Mock Convention because<br />
they experienced it in so many ways,” said<br />
Mr. Klingman. “They analyzed platforms,<br />
thoughtfully selected candidates and listened<br />
to someone who will actually hold a seat at<br />
the Democratic convention in Denver. Not<br />
everyone gets to take in politics quite like<br />
that.”<br />
Regardless of what happens in November,<br />
<strong>Holy</strong> Innocents’ students have learned the<br />
excitement of being in the party.<br />
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Science Olympiad<br />
Olympians<br />
Take The<br />
Competition<br />
Off The<br />
Field<br />
LIVING OUR MISSION<br />
Mission Accomplished<br />
Living Our Mission Campaign Exceeds Its Goal<br />
With The Help Of Generous Friends And Donors<br />
Diane Bucher, Alexis Stewart,<br />
Keller Donnell, Molly Suttles,<br />
Grace Chambless, Blair Touzet,<br />
Katie Cross<br />
Amanda Turner, Payton Anderson and Carson McGorry celebrate with their team’s trophy<br />
Akul Munjal and Doug Kruse<br />
with the Olympiad robot<br />
In 2008, not all Olympic games will be<br />
held in Beijing.<br />
Earlier this year, another group of Olympic<br />
contenders vied for medals right here in<br />
Georgia at the Middle <strong>School</strong> Science<br />
Olympiad competition.<br />
The <strong>Holy</strong> Innocents’ team, led by Science<br />
Department Chair Ms. Janet Silvera and 8th<br />
grade Physical Science teacher Mr. James<br />
Jackson, first competed in the regional<br />
competition where the two HIES teams<br />
finished 2nd and 4th, and then to state,<br />
where they secured 4th place.<br />
With success like this, it’s no wonder<br />
that the team has earned itself a reputation.<br />
“People talk about us – and know when<br />
we’re coming to their competition,” said Mr.<br />
Jackson. “It’s a great feeling to know that<br />
your opponent considers you when he’s<br />
preparing.”<br />
<strong>Holy</strong> Innocents’ preps for the competition<br />
for the better part of the year. Coaches<br />
make themselves available during off<br />
periods, and this year, the students spent<br />
the Martin Luther King holiday and a few<br />
Saturdays hard at work.<br />
To ensure the students have the best<br />
possible training, coaches call on additional<br />
science experts for help. In-house go-to’s<br />
Mr. Dave Heidel, Upper <strong>School</strong> Chemistry<br />
teacher and Mr. Mike Poley, Upper <strong>School</strong><br />
Science teacher, advise students in their<br />
respective areas. Parents have also been<br />
known to pull some weight, and next year’s<br />
roster will feature past Olympians who’ll<br />
share their experiences with the up-andcomers.<br />
“It says a lot that we have Upper <strong>School</strong><br />
students who are willing to come back and<br />
coach their old events,” said Ms. Silvera.<br />
“Their commitment was great when they<br />
were on the team, and it’s very impressive<br />
that they continue to be involved.”<br />
The program benefits a student’s overall<br />
academic development, and almost all<br />
Olympiad participants will win an award<br />
at some point in their academic careers.<br />
“Science Olympiad relies on self-motivation,<br />
challenges work ethic and sharpens<br />
analytical thinking,” Ms. Silvera states.<br />
“And those skill sets aren’t just pertinent to<br />
science competitions; they’ll help students<br />
succeed, no matter what they end up<br />
doing.”<br />
Kaki Bennett and Ian Gresov<br />
E.J. Thurmond, Ane Wanliss<br />
Congratulations, everyone. February marked<br />
the completion of HIES’ Living our Mission<br />
Capital Campaign. This three and a half<br />
year effort surpassed its goal of $17 million,<br />
securing over $17.6 million from a total of<br />
1,064 gifts and pledges, making LOM the<br />
largest capital campaign in school history.<br />
“It’s amazing what we’ve done,” said<br />
Head of <strong>School</strong> Mr. Kirk Duncan. “To watch<br />
the campaign from its inception to its end<br />
has been remarkable. And to see how the<br />
school has physically changed because of<br />
our combined efforts just shows that we’re<br />
moving in the right direction.”<br />
The campaign’s outcome is quite visible<br />
around campus – it includes the 41,000<br />
square foot Fred Rowan Family Middle<br />
<strong>School</strong> building, a 28,000 square foot<br />
gymnasium, eleven acres of athletic fields<br />
and the Mt. Vernon Highway pedestrian<br />
tunnel, the largest of its kind in the state of<br />
Georgia. Oh – and HIES added two million<br />
Dorothy Sullivan, Chris Durst, Sarah Rowan, Bernice Rowan, Fred Rowan, Kirk Duncan<br />
dollars to its endowment.<br />
<strong>Holy</strong> Innocents’ received its largest<br />
donation ever from the Rowan family,<br />
who led the giving with two million<br />
dollars. The Been family, the Robert W.<br />
Woodruff Foundation and two anonymous<br />
contributors followed suit with gifts of a<br />
million dollars or more.<br />
While the large contributions head the<br />
list, the entire <strong>Holy</strong> Innocents’ community<br />
was needed for the campaign to succeed.<br />
“I think a lot of people don’t realize how<br />
powerful individual giving is,” said Michele<br />
Duncan, Director of Development. “It’s the<br />
totality of all gifts that brings you to your<br />
goal, and it really says a lot about our school<br />
that we had such a tremendous effort.”<br />
Kirk Duncan, Head of <strong>School</strong>, agrees.<br />
“Campaigns like these are so important<br />
because they start a ripple effect. Donors<br />
give contributions which directly benefit<br />
the students. Then they, with more tools<br />
and resources at their disposal, get a better<br />
education and are in better positions to<br />
help those around them. The giving spirit<br />
is infectous, and it sparks people to action,<br />
which is really what our <strong>Episcopal</strong> mission is<br />
all about.”<br />
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TOP OF MIND<br />
1. What I like best about going to <strong>Holy</strong> Innocents’ is _____________________________________________________________________<br />
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2. My favorite class is ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________<br />
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5. If I could nominate one person to do my homework, it would be _________________________________________<br />
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6. I would never eat the ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________<br />
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7. How many times have you been late to school this year ________________________________________________________<br />
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You Know You’re At<br />
<strong>Holy</strong> Innocents’ When…<br />
You see the seniors trying to park around poles in the senior parking lot.<br />
You see baseball players doing yoga at 6:45 in the morning.<br />
You walk down the hallways and everyone<br />
smiles and knows your name.<br />
You arrive at <strong>Holy</strong> Innocents’.... duh!<br />
You see so many smiling faces in the hallways.<br />
You’re able to make friendships with people you normally<br />
wouldn’t at the drop of a hat.<br />
You get to school.<br />
You walk down the halls and see all the crimson and white shirts.<br />
You hear the rooster cheer.<br />
You see Señor Gatoux smiling when he walks through the hallways.<br />
You hear boys making Yoshi noises.<br />
Everyone knows you.<br />
You hear techno and Mario Kart sound effects<br />
blasting from the Senior Commons.<br />
The Seniors are blasting the song “What is Love”<br />
by Haddaway in the Commons.<br />
You walk into the 4th grade hallway, and it smells like<br />
a waste treatment plant.<br />
You hear the Seniors in the Commons playing music during<br />
the 15 minute break in the morning.<br />
You see your friends.<br />
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ALUMNI CATCH UPS<br />
Catie Sweetwood ‘03<br />
Emily Weprich ‘03<br />
Jeff Campanella ‘03<br />
ALUMNI CATCH UPS<br />
Emily Weprich<br />
Once a Bear, Always a Bear<br />
After graduating from Indiana University<br />
with a degree in Sports Communication,<br />
Catie Sweetwood got an internship with the<br />
NFL’s Chicago Bears, handling marketing,<br />
publicity, special promotions and rowdy<br />
fans.<br />
But Catie was a Golden Bear long before<br />
she donned Chicago’s black and orange.<br />
A graduate of ’03, she played Lacrosse,<br />
ran Track and Field and swam for <strong>Holy</strong><br />
Innocents’. Some of her favorite high<br />
school memories include sporting events<br />
and practices. “Sports were great because<br />
you played with everybody, and not just<br />
your grade,” Catie says. “You depended on<br />
underclassmen and upperclassmen and saw<br />
everyone as teammates.”<br />
She thanks <strong>Holy</strong> Innocents’ for preparing<br />
her for college and attributes much of her<br />
writing success to US English Chair Ms. Niki<br />
Simpson. “She was my favorite teacher,”<br />
Catie says. “She really pushed me, but I look<br />
back and appreciate it now. I still remember<br />
that she named her dogs Scout and Boo<br />
Radley after the characters in To Kill a<br />
Mockingbird.”<br />
Catie’s stint with the Chicago Bears<br />
ended this past season, but she continues in<br />
marketing with Lisa P. Maxwell, a branding<br />
and marketing agency where she helps<br />
manage new accounts.<br />
With sports in her past, in her bones and<br />
on her resume, she’s always open to an<br />
athletic career. “It’s something I’d never rule<br />
out,” Catie acknowledges. So while one day<br />
we may hear her on TV giving play by play,<br />
for now she’s happy cheering on her team.<br />
Go Bears!<br />
This And That<br />
For Emily Weprich, variety is the spice of life.<br />
An ’03 graduate, she began spicing it up in<br />
high school as a swimmer, lacrosse player and<br />
runner. “Sports were great because they built your<br />
confidence and were a good way to make friends,”<br />
Emily says.<br />
She also participated in Young Life and served as<br />
Class President and Homecoming Queen her Senior<br />
Year. “The Homecoming bonfire is one of my favorite<br />
memories. We actually picked up James Jackson,<br />
who was Student Body President, and carried him<br />
down to the fire.”<br />
After high school, Emily attended Auburn, where<br />
she continued to pile up extracurriculars. She<br />
trained in ROTC, competed in various pageants,<br />
was president of the women’s lacrosse team and<br />
auditioned for reality TV.<br />
Once a college grad, she traveled to Kuala<br />
Lumpur and Bali to backpack for two and a half<br />
weeks, and this past October, she ran the Chicago<br />
Marathon.<br />
Her most recent accomplishment was on the<br />
big screen as an extra in Tyler Perry’s The Family<br />
That Preys. “In the movie, I’m the girl talking to the<br />
guy wearing the pink tank top,” Emily says. “Kathy<br />
Bates and Alfre Woodard pass me when they walk<br />
into the bar.”<br />
And with her hands in a number of pots, her<br />
to-do list will only get longer. But, as we now know,<br />
that’s just how Emily keeps life spicy.<br />
Jeff Campanella,’03 acts out<br />
(in and around Birmingham)<br />
In high school, Jeff Campanella was a<br />
Halloween enthusiast, an athlete and skilled<br />
ping-pong player. While these traits still hold<br />
true, Jeff has incorporated another passion<br />
that also pays his bills.<br />
He’s an actor with eight plays and a<br />
Theater Degree from Auburn under his belt.<br />
He now works at the Birmingham<br />
Children’s Theater, where he occasionally<br />
touts the alias ‘Tom Sawyer’ and<br />
performs for large crowds of energetic<br />
kids – an audience of 1,200 isn’t unusual.<br />
“Performing in general can rack your nerves,<br />
and you’d think kids would be easier,”<br />
says Jeff. “But they aren’t. Especially when<br />
they’re screaming.”<br />
His company also goes on the road<br />
to bring theater to less affluent areas of<br />
Alabama, where schools often lack simple<br />
stage equipment. “When that happens, we<br />
adapt,” says Jeff, “but I like performing in<br />
those schools because the kids have less,<br />
and they appreciate you more.”<br />
Jeff also appreciates everyone who<br />
contributed to his <strong>Holy</strong> Innocents’<br />
experience. “I remember I had Ms. Maney<br />
for math, who was wonderful,” Jeff<br />
recalls. “Ms. Danzig introduced me to The<br />
Outsiders, which is still my favorite book.<br />
And I loved playing P-square, which is like<br />
4-square in the Senior Commons. Everyone<br />
used to gather and watch us play.”<br />
In May, Jeff will move to New York and<br />
continue to hone his thespian skills. He’ll<br />
focus on acting, but will spend some<br />
time on ping-pong, too – so as to gain a<br />
reputation as the city’s fiercest player from<br />
Georgia. But if not, he’ll at least act like it.<br />
Jeff Campanella and Emily Weprich<br />
Jeff Campanella,<br />
James Jackson,<br />
Scott Seaborn,<br />
unidentified<br />
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Feature<br />
One of our school’s most<br />
beloved educators<br />
announces her retirement.<br />
On June 1st, <strong>Janella</strong> <strong>Brand</strong><br />
will leave <strong>Holy</strong> Innocents’<br />
after 31 wonderful years.<br />
End Of An Era<br />
Jimmy Carter was in the White House –<br />
probably watching Roots with the rest of us.<br />
Because of some group named OPEC, the<br />
price of gasoline had jumped all the way to<br />
62 cents a gallon. Disco had simply taken<br />
over the airwaves. And <strong>Janella</strong> <strong>Brand</strong> began<br />
teaching 2nd grade<br />
at <strong>Holy</strong> Innocents’<br />
<strong>Episcopal</strong> <strong>School</strong>.<br />
On that first day<br />
in 1977, just as she’s<br />
done every school day<br />
since, <strong>Janella</strong> met her<br />
students at her door.<br />
They probably thought<br />
she seemed nice<br />
enough. Little did they<br />
or their parents realize,<br />
though, what sort of<br />
effect this new teacher<br />
with the soft, southern<br />
accent would ultimately<br />
have on our school.<br />
It’s not that <strong>Holy</strong><br />
Innocents’ would never<br />
be the same. Quite the<br />
contrary. With <strong>Janella</strong><br />
setting the example,<br />
<strong>Holy</strong> Innocents’ has<br />
had the strength to<br />
remain consistent for over 30 years – a place<br />
where children will always feel safe and<br />
welcome and confident that they can do<br />
anything worth doing.<br />
Through good times and bad, up years<br />
and down, <strong>Janella</strong> has served as a sort of<br />
philosophical navigator – keeping us moving<br />
forward in the appropriate direction, steadily<br />
confident in our work and mission. Now,<br />
thirty-one years after she first came on<br />
board, our school’s mission is no longer in<br />
question, our philosophy no longer open to<br />
debate. <strong>Janella</strong> has pointed out the direction<br />
to us so many times that, finally, we no<br />
longer need to ask.<br />
But that doesn’t make her leaving any<br />
easier. As Head of <strong>School</strong> Kirk Duncan says,<br />
“It will be a void, but what she’s left here<br />
will continue to affect the school in a very<br />
positive way. We’ll all carry on her legacy.”<br />
The New 2nd Grade Teacher<br />
<strong>Holy</strong> Innocents’ was actually <strong>Janella</strong>’s<br />
fourth job teaching school. She began her<br />
career in the Atlanta Public <strong>School</strong> system,<br />
then taught in New Orleans and Little Rock<br />
as she and her<br />
husband Lee moved<br />
around the South in<br />
the first years of their<br />
marriage.<br />
Eventually, the<br />
young couple<br />
returned home to<br />
Atlanta with their<br />
young daughter<br />
Jenny. As fate<br />
would have it, Jenny<br />
became the reason<br />
<strong>Janella</strong> came to <strong>Holy</strong><br />
Innocents’ in the<br />
first place. “At that<br />
time, the admissions<br />
process for<br />
Pre-<strong>School</strong> was little<br />
more than lining up<br />
over in the parking<br />
lot,” remembers<br />
<strong>Janella</strong>. “If you got<br />
there first, you got<br />
a number. They took 8 girls and 8 boys.<br />
We pulled into that lot at 4 AM and were<br />
fortunate enough to get the last space for<br />
one four-year old girl. We had a wonderful<br />
beginning for her here. I really liked what I<br />
saw and knew this was where I wanted to<br />
be when I went back to teaching.”<br />
From Kirk Duncan<br />
“I haven’t even thought about not having <strong>Janella</strong> here. There have been so many times over the last five years<br />
where I’ve just gone into her office and sat with her and just gained sustenance from her presence.”<br />
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From <strong>Janella</strong><br />
On young children:<br />
“They are so honest and untouched – what<br />
they are to be, they’re now becoming. And it’s<br />
such a wonderful opportunity to be a part of<br />
the becoming.”<br />
Luckily, the right person was in place<br />
to make that happen. Dorothy Sullivan<br />
immediately recognized how the<br />
temperament and insight of Jenny’s mom<br />
Ginny Lewis and Gracie Northcutt<br />
share time with <strong>Janella</strong>.<br />
would be successful in the classroom.<br />
“<strong>Janella</strong> and Lee were very supportive<br />
parents,” remembers Dorothy, “which kind<br />
of starts the process of what we do and how<br />
we do it. She is so calming and gracious<br />
and slow to anger or criticize. She’s very<br />
centered and stable with a great deal of<br />
sweetness and a supportive nature about<br />
her. That was very apparent from the first<br />
time I met her.”<br />
And it has been apparent to every mom,<br />
dad and colleague <strong>Janella</strong> has worked with<br />
ever since. As Associate Head of <strong>School</strong><br />
Rick Betts says, “Everybody who comes in<br />
contact with her comes away with a good<br />
feeling, a warm feeling. Even if it was a<br />
difficult conversation about a controversial<br />
subject, she has a way of calming the<br />
waters every time.”<br />
A Soft Touch<br />
When speaking of <strong>Janella</strong>, many people<br />
at HIES mention the same things – her<br />
caring, calm and nurturing way; her ability<br />
to defuse tension; her levelheadedness as<br />
Principal of the Alan A. Lewis Pre-<strong>School</strong>.<br />
But <strong>Janella</strong> didn’t come to <strong>Holy</strong> Innocents’<br />
as a principal; she was hired as a 2nd grade<br />
Emily Menay<br />
teacher. And for the first 19 years of her<br />
tenure, that was her role.<br />
Dorothy Sullivan tells a story that sheds<br />
light on her friend’s teaching skills. “One<br />
of the things that can be hard on the<br />
administration of the Lower <strong>School</strong> is that<br />
parents request teachers, and of course,<br />
you can’t always accommodate. One year I<br />
had 39 parents want <strong>Janella</strong> as their child’s<br />
teacher. I thought it was a great honor for<br />
<strong>Janella</strong> that half of the whole community<br />
wanted her as their teacher – I’m sure the<br />
other half did too, but didn’t think to request<br />
it.”<br />
Ms. Heather Hahn ‘91 is one of a number<br />
of current Pre-<strong>School</strong> teachers who had<br />
<strong>Janella</strong> both as a 2nd grade teacher and<br />
now as a principal. “It’s taken me awhile to<br />
be able to call her ‘<strong>Janella</strong>’ – I still want to<br />
call her ‘Mrs. <strong>Brand</strong>,’” says Heather. “She’s<br />
always been a mentor of mine. Even when I<br />
left here after 8th grade, I would come back<br />
and visit Mrs. <strong>Brand</strong>. She really believed in<br />
the kids that she taught. She believed that<br />
we could do anything, could accomplish<br />
anything. And she still believes that.”<br />
Out of the classroom<br />
<strong>Janella</strong>’s 20th year at our school, 1996-97,<br />
was her first in a new position. “She was<br />
the first assistant principal ever at <strong>Holy</strong><br />
Innocents’,” remembers Dorothy Sullivan.<br />
“It’s a job that involves a lot of discipline.<br />
Typically, discipline in Lower <strong>School</strong> is<br />
because of physical action – pushing or<br />
hitting or something – and it’s difficult for<br />
most people to keep emotions out of it. But<br />
From Dorothy Sullivan<br />
“(<strong>Janella</strong>) always put writing – not<br />
handwriting, but composition – at the very<br />
front of the fire. She wanted every 2nd<br />
grader to start that process of learning to<br />
write and enjoy expressing themselves.<br />
She would publish their works and bring in<br />
visiting writers. It was the strongest – and, I<br />
think it was to her the most important – part<br />
of her program. And it worked beautifully.<br />
And we got a lot of good writers out of that<br />
2nd grade program due to her work.”<br />
she was so fair and so patient with those<br />
children, trying to teach them ways of doing<br />
things that would keep them out of trouble.<br />
She never stopped teaching.”<br />
<strong>Janella</strong> remembers her time as Assistant<br />
Principal quite fondly. “I just loved being<br />
Assistant Principal because I knew the<br />
children. Part of my responsibility was to<br />
discipline them and everyone thought,<br />
‘oh well that’s just the world’s worst thing,<br />
you’re going to hate that.’ But it turned out<br />
to be quite a blessing, because I knew the<br />
students – I’d taught them in 2nd grade –<br />
and I could sort of tailor-make whatever we<br />
needed as far as discipline.”<br />
The role was short-lived, however,<br />
because in 1998, the new Alan A. Lewis<br />
Pre-<strong>School</strong> needed the right person to serve<br />
as Principal. “I don’t think there was even<br />
a consideration of doing a search,” says<br />
Dorothy Sullivan. “Sue Groesbeck just said<br />
‘I want <strong>Janella</strong> to do this,’ and everyone<br />
agreed. Really, there was no reason to look<br />
for anyone else.”<br />
It almost didn’t happen, though. “When<br />
they offered me the job here in Pre-<strong>School</strong>,”<br />
says <strong>Janella</strong>, “I almost didn’t take it, because<br />
I loved what I was doing so much in the<br />
Lower <strong>School</strong>. If I had not taken this job,<br />
though, I would have missed one of life’s<br />
greatest blessings. It is just so rewarding to<br />
be around these very young children and to<br />
be a part of it and see how it all starts out.”<br />
Those blessings go both ways, though,<br />
because it’s hard to imagine the Pre-<strong>School</strong><br />
without <strong>Janella</strong>, either. As Rick Betts says,<br />
“<strong>Janella</strong> is one of those people who comes<br />
to personify an institution – she is the Alan A.<br />
Lewis Pre-<strong>School</strong>. They’re synonymous. “<br />
In typical fashion, however, <strong>Janella</strong><br />
deflects all credit for the sterling reputation<br />
of the Pre-<strong>School</strong>. “The support we get from<br />
our parents is really the reason we’ve had<br />
such success here. When a student realizes<br />
that his parents and teachers are working<br />
together, it develops a sense of respect and<br />
adds importance to the lessons and school<br />
environment,” she says. “And it allows us,<br />
as teachers, to nurture in a different way – a<br />
more personal way – which results in more<br />
opportunities and more teachable moments.”<br />
Graduation<br />
Feature<br />
The next school year will be the first<br />
since Gerald Ford was president without<br />
either Dorothy Sullivan or <strong>Janella</strong> <strong>Brand</strong><br />
on campus. Some people are, of course,<br />
concerned about what that means, exactly.<br />
“On the one hand, it’s been a beautiful<br />
experience to work with both <strong>Janella</strong> and<br />
Dorothy. But for the school to lose both<br />
of them – that’s 60 years of HI experience<br />
leaving,” says Kirk Duncan. “And that’s<br />
tough for any organization – you’re never<br />
going to replace that. But what they’ve<br />
added here will always be here. They’ve<br />
created the <strong>Holy</strong> Innocents’ atmosphere<br />
and lived the philosophy. And those things<br />
– the intangibles that make our school so<br />
special – will forever bear their imprint. Long<br />
after the rest of us have moved on, Dorothy<br />
and <strong>Janella</strong>’s influence on this school will<br />
continue. And thank goodness for that.”<br />
From Rick Betts<br />
“A key piece of what she does is parent<br />
education. Particularly when the Pre-<strong>School</strong><br />
student is the oldest child in the family – you<br />
know kids don’t come with instructions<br />
– and that Pre-<strong>School</strong> age, the first time<br />
the student leaves the nest, there’s some<br />
anxiety. And <strong>Janella</strong> has spent a great<br />
deal of time and effort helping parents to<br />
understand the developmental stages of<br />
children and what are proper expectations.”<br />
To the Members of the <strong>Holy</strong> Innocents’ Community<br />
I want to take this opportunity to express my gratitude to you and my affection for you. During my many years here I have been blessed to be<br />
a part of this fine school. I will greatly miss the connections I have made with students, parents, colleagues and friends. You have touched my<br />
life in a wonderful way. I could recount pages of examples and stories of which you are a part. I have always felt supported by this strong faith<br />
community. My fond memories will serve to bolster and sustain me as I move into the next chapter of my life.<br />
The soul is healed by being with children. - Fyodor Dostoevsky<br />
Left: Corinne Bicknese, Olivia Stockert, My Bui,<strong>Janella</strong> <strong>Brand</strong> and Left to Right: Caroline Nick, Gia Cullens, Chase Pelletieri, Henry Reams<br />
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Thank you,<br />
Mat Campbell
BASEBALL Diaries<br />
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decisions! Be sharp! Take care of each<br />
other! And we’ll let the results take care of<br />
themselves.” Twenty heads nod in unison.<br />
They are wide-eyed, young, eager, immortal,<br />
ready for anything.<br />
Seniors Daniel Blaustein and Bentley<br />
Heyman are elected captains. Applause all<br />
around.<br />
Deal dismisses the team, reminding them<br />
to be in their rooms by midnight – TV’s off,<br />
iPods off, laptops off. Spring training, after<br />
all, starts tomorrow.<br />
“I’m excited. Right when<br />
it happened I didn’t feel<br />
pressure, but I knew it was<br />
time to step up.”<br />
Blaustein on being named captain<br />
On The Road<br />
With The Defending State Champs<br />
The obstacle is the path – Zen Proverb<br />
Friday, February 29, 2008<br />
Atlanta to Crystal River - 3:50 p.m. - Three<br />
15-passenger vans head out of <strong>Holy</strong><br />
Innocents’ onto I-75 South as spring break<br />
begins. The <strong>Holy</strong> Innocents’ baseball team<br />
is off on its seven-day, five-game tour of<br />
Florida. The vans carry five coaches, twenty<br />
players, a journalist and a priest. They are<br />
sent off with a boxed lunch of a turkey<br />
sandwich, chips, a cookie and a dill pickle.<br />
Parents wish them well; players shut off<br />
their laptops, refrain from playing with their<br />
hackey sacks in the parking lot and board<br />
the buses by grade. Peer pressure, you see,<br />
still rules the day.<br />
The priest – Father John Porter – will act<br />
as General Manager of the Golden Bear<br />
team. I – the journalist – will be the bat boy.<br />
The trip is a “spring training,” if you will, for<br />
the defending state champion Golden Bear<br />
baseball team that will compete against<br />
some of Florida’s finest. The plan is to return<br />
in one week, all red-faced and with stories<br />
to tell.<br />
by Dunn Neugebauer<br />
Gas tanks are filled to the gills, parents<br />
follow in cavalcades; and all are excited<br />
about this supposed five-hour drive.<br />
The drive is an education in nicknames,<br />
lingo and superstitions. I learn names such<br />
as B-Hey, T-Hey, Jingles, Flappy, Squirrely<br />
and Diesel. I hear terms such as pearl,<br />
deuce, roll it up and crop dusting.<br />
And let’s not forget those superstitions. “I<br />
wear the same socks every game,” Assistant<br />
coach Marshall Gaines says.<br />
Shortstop Bentley Heyman is a bit more<br />
complicated when dealing with his pre-atbat<br />
ritual.<br />
“Two swings right, two swings left, one<br />
arm circle right, one arm circle left, one bat<br />
circle over the head, then start timing the<br />
pitcher.”<br />
There is more, but there’s time, plenty of<br />
time. And there’s a problem.<br />
You see, the last time I was in Florida, I lost<br />
my wife, my microwave and my dog, but<br />
that’s another story for another time. And as<br />
I’ve often told people - it’s hard to get back<br />
on the proverbial horse when you’re still in<br />
midair from falling.<br />
But I digress.<br />
The five hour drive takes seven. Google<br />
and/or MapQuest never seem to take into<br />
consideration this two-hour issue known<br />
as “Atlanta traffic.” Still, spirits soar as the<br />
vans start and stop down the mindless<br />
expressway known as Interstate 75.<br />
“You know, this is no easy trip,” Head<br />
Coach Dylan Deal says. “Last year we went<br />
1-4 and we’re playing even better teams this<br />
year. Still, you’re going to see some good<br />
baseball and we’ve got some great kids.<br />
Oops, I might have jinxed this trip already.”<br />
As I look around, however, I see that<br />
success breeds success. The state<br />
championship of last year has attracted a<br />
fine cast of characters aboard these buses.<br />
On the coaching staff alone are some<br />
serious baseball resumes. For example:<br />
General Manager Porter played<br />
professional ball for an affiliate of the<br />
Cleveland Indians. Though rumor has it a<br />
jammed pinkie contributed to the end of his<br />
career back in ’58, he says it was the curve<br />
ball. “Actually it was my ability,” he said.<br />
Jay Hood (a.k.a. Hoodie) played in the<br />
Anaheim Angels organization (’98-’02)<br />
and reached the Class AA level before a<br />
shattered wrist ended his up-and-coming<br />
career as a shortstop. “Best baseball mind<br />
I’ve ever known,” Coach Deal says.<br />
Marshall Gaines was actually a punter for<br />
the University of Georgia football team. His<br />
claim to fame in the 90s was taking a bunch<br />
of 65-pound runts and turning them into<br />
football stars at Morgan Falls. “Salt of the<br />
earth,” says Deal.<br />
Dylan Deal ‘97 is home grown out of HIES.<br />
Starred in the 90s and was often written up<br />
in the Northside Neighbor for his heroics.<br />
Deal would later play at Davidson College in<br />
North Carolina. He also played a starring role<br />
in “The Music Man” last fall, but that’s also<br />
another story.<br />
Zach Blend ’02: Another home-grown HIES<br />
grad Played high school ball before starring<br />
on the Rollins College intramural champions<br />
a couple years later. Was prominently known<br />
as “The King.”<br />
D.C. Aiken: was an outfielder/catcher at<br />
William & Mary and is the father of current<br />
catcher Sean Aiken.<br />
The journalist played Little League and<br />
rumor has it, back in 1970 a high fly ball<br />
was hit in the Madison, Georgia sky to the<br />
second baseman. All he had to do was<br />
catch it, kiss his mom, get his free drink<br />
and celebrate the team’s championship<br />
by playing kick the can in the yard with his<br />
friends. He dropped it… and cried all the<br />
way home instead.<br />
10:15 p.m.: Five coaches, twenty players, a<br />
journalist and a priest gather in Room 111 of<br />
the Best Western. The Honorable Dylan Deal<br />
presides.<br />
“What you do out there tomorrow will<br />
set the tone for the season. Make good<br />
Bentley Heyman, Sean Aiken<br />
Austin Pound<br />
Daniel Blaustein<br />
Whit Woodring<br />
Saturday, March 1, 2008<br />
Alachua, FL: “The last time we were standing<br />
out here on a baseball field together, great<br />
things happened.”<br />
These words kicked off the 2008 season<br />
on the Sante Fe High <strong>School</strong> field and the<br />
journalist can’t even remember which coach<br />
said them. Might have been Marshall Gaines.<br />
Regardless, good words…<br />
And great things began…<br />
Blaustein gets the first hit of the season,<br />
a screamer between short and third. He<br />
takes third on an infield error and scores on<br />
Fletcher Hawkins’ single. Bears open up a<br />
lead they won’t relinquish.<br />
Pitcher Mark Grimm fans the first six<br />
batters he faces. He goes on to strike out<br />
nine in four innings. The Canes don’t even<br />
touch the ball until the third inning when their<br />
No. 7 hitter singles between short and third<br />
just off of Bentley Heyman’s glove.<br />
“I hung a slider that did absolutely<br />
nothing,” Grimm would later say.<br />
Blaustein goes 4-for-5 with two runs and<br />
two RBI’s. Fletcher Hawkins is 3-for-4 with<br />
two RBI’s. Heyman also drives in two with<br />
two singles.<br />
The Bears pound out 16 hits; every starter<br />
gets at least one and six different players<br />
drive in a run. The team looks smooth – late<br />
season smooth – and even Deal is a bit<br />
surprised.<br />
“I’m shocked it went that well,” he says.<br />
“I’m very happy with the way we opened. We<br />
swung the bats well; we were aggressive.<br />
We manufactured runs. I like that. Still, we<br />
can’t get complacent. And remember, we<br />
have four games in four days after tomorrow<br />
so take care of yourselves!”<br />
The happy players nod, joke around, pat<br />
each other on the backs. Even Deal jumps<br />
on another coach’s back as they leave the<br />
field. Tomorrow, you see, is a day off. The<br />
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plan is to sleep late, dine wherever and swim<br />
with the manatees.<br />
Red-faced parents, already baked in the<br />
Gainesville sun, greet their kids with hugs,<br />
congrats and reminders to behave, brush<br />
their teeth and mind their manners. The kids’<br />
faces turn a bit redder, they pretend not to<br />
hear.<br />
Life goes on…<br />
8:15 p.m. - A bunch of red-faced parents<br />
and players dine by the pool at the Best<br />
Western somewhere near Crystal River,<br />
FL. Wills Aitkens has already caught a fish.<br />
Gaines bagged two himself, while Joe<br />
Austin’s luck wasn’t as solid.<br />
“I got two bites, then nothing,” he said.<br />
Austin’s luck hasn’t started out that well.<br />
He actually tripped when getting off the bus<br />
earlier today. “Just earning your stripes,” he<br />
was told.<br />
Coach Deal was going to celebrate<br />
by mullet gigging, but an upset stomach<br />
sidelined him – (bad onion rings, I was told).<br />
He fends off the compliments for his team<br />
but parents are already on to something. An<br />
idea, you see, is germinating.<br />
“What if you went undefeated this year”<br />
one asks. Deal violently shuts down the<br />
suggestion. His arms even get into the<br />
action as he almost drops his Diet Coke<br />
in protest. “We’ll slip up somewhere,” he<br />
assures. “Maybe Monday night even.”<br />
Parents laugh. But they smell blood. Oh<br />
dear, oh dear…<br />
Fell asleep watching Columbo relentlessly<br />
tail a cold-blooded murderer.<br />
“This trip is so fun, I’m<br />
gonna keep coming here<br />
even after my kids are<br />
through playing ball.”<br />
Johnny Heyman –<br />
father of Bentley and Tyler Heyman<br />
Sunday, March 2, 2008<br />
Crystal River, FL - So we’re sitting under<br />
the Spanish moss, relaxing on a warm, 80<br />
degree day. The kids are relaxed – some are<br />
fishing, others playing chess or bocce ball<br />
or hackey sack; a couple throw the football<br />
while others actually swim, hunting for<br />
manatee.<br />
Travis Stout, sophomore pitcher who got<br />
the last three outs the day before, reflects on<br />
his outing.<br />
“I was nervous – you know, being a<br />
sophomore and wanting respect and all,” he<br />
said. “But I just took a deep breath and told<br />
myself to do what I know how to do.”<br />
It worked. The Canes got nothing off him<br />
the previous day.<br />
Though the idea is to have a relaxing day,<br />
Coach Deal recalls a year earlier when this<br />
wasn’t quite the case.<br />
“I’m underwater looking at a manatee and<br />
all of a sudden I look up,” he remembers.<br />
“There’s this huge water moccasin – I mean<br />
five to seven feet long coming into the water.<br />
I’m freaking out. All of a sudden (Forrest)<br />
Stillwell starts beating him with a boat oar<br />
trying to kill him. It only made him madder.<br />
Luckily, the snake finally went away.”<br />
Fortunately on this day there are no<br />
snakes, only five or six manatee, a cookout<br />
to kill for (compliments of Stillwell and his<br />
father) and another day of soaking up the<br />
rays.<br />
7:30 p.m. - The night is capped off with more<br />
serious competition – bowling at Manatee<br />
Lanes somewhere in town.<br />
Bowling notes: Kevin Kyle and Tyler<br />
Heyman ended with turkeys – that would<br />
be three consecutive strikes to end the<br />
game for those of you scoring at home. The<br />
players beat the coaches 591-564. Problem<br />
was, no one could remember what the bet<br />
was, so everybody just shook hands, paid<br />
their $6.42, turned in their shoes and left<br />
Manatee Lanes.<br />
9:30 p.m. until - Back at the hotel, late<br />
at night, the minds of HIES baseball are<br />
spinning: “Who do we pitch in middle relief<br />
tomorrow … Is Fletcher playing too deep<br />
at third… Don’t we need Sean’s bat in the<br />
lineup...How’s Mark’s arm...Where do<br />
we pitch Daniel...How good is Berkeley<br />
Prep...How many innings do we pitch<br />
Austin...Where’s Flappy going to play”<br />
“You know, you learn<br />
a lot about people when<br />
you do their laundry.”<br />
Lisa Woodring – mother of pitcher Whit Woodring<br />
Coach Deal and his staff ponder, wonder,<br />
plan, optimize. The win was nice but big<br />
days are ahead.<br />
Some early-trip observations<br />
• Baseballscoutz.com has HIES ranked<br />
No. 3 in the state.<br />
• People around me keep saying, “That<br />
was off the record!”<br />
Andrew McGonnigle<br />
On The Road With The Defending<br />
State Baseball Champs<br />
• Fried green tomatoes really aren’t<br />
all that bad.<br />
• The card games the kids play<br />
are Red Alert and Tonk.<br />
• Before this week is over, I’ll have to<br />
write my hotel room number on my<br />
hand so I can remember where it is.<br />
Until tomorrow…<br />
Monday, March 3, 2008<br />
Crystal River to Ocala – Hanging out in the<br />
hotel room, listening to “The Night They<br />
Drove Old Dixie Down” on Hoodie’s stereo.<br />
Brooke Hawkins – father of Fletcher – pulls<br />
his car around and cranks up his stereo. The<br />
kids are playing cards and hackey sack in<br />
the parking lot. There’s an extra kick to their<br />
step.<br />
After all, it’s game day.<br />
“I’m excited; this is my first varsity start,”<br />
tonight’s pitcher Kevin Kyle says. “I don’t<br />
have any pre-game routine; just try to chill<br />
and do as little as possible. Basically, I just<br />
want to go out there and have some fun.”<br />
A junior, Kyle has a four-pitch arsenal that,<br />
when working, could give opponents fits this<br />
season.<br />
So the journalist is thinking about this<br />
game – this thread that runs through so<br />
many people’s lives, these stories, these<br />
real estate agents, stockbrokers and priests<br />
who put their lives on hold for a week to<br />
go on this trip. This talk of sacred spaces<br />
such as Fenway Park and Wrigley Field, this<br />
bond, the movies – “Bull Durham” and “Field<br />
of Dreams”… And me, a tennis coach for<br />
crying out loud – I’ve got a baseball uniform<br />
on and I can’t wait until some umpire yells<br />
“Play Ball.” Can’t wait to smell the grass,<br />
watch the maintenance folks line the fields,<br />
hear the parents yell for better and for worse,<br />
hear the kids pumping each other up…<br />
Cars crank, vans roll; it’s on to Ocala for<br />
more of this disease known as baseball.<br />
And later - this from the HIES website:<br />
Ocala, FL - The Golden Bear baseball squad<br />
won its second game of the season without<br />
a loss, this time in extra innings as “spring<br />
training” continues to go well for Dylan<br />
Deal’s team.<br />
The Bears knocked off Trinity Catholic in<br />
nine 8-6.<br />
“I’m proud of our guys because we<br />
battled,” Deal said. “Good teams battle to<br />
the end and we did. It wasn’t pretty but it<br />
was a win.<br />
“It shouldn’t have been that close of a<br />
game; we gave them a lot of runs, but we<br />
also showed a lot of character.”<br />
The Celtics came within an eyelash of<br />
winning it in the bottom of the eighth, when<br />
their No. 9 hitter singled to right with a<br />
runner on second and the score knotted at<br />
5. But right fielder Rob Aitkens gunned down<br />
the runner trying to score to push the game<br />
to another extra frame.<br />
The Bears used the momentum in the<br />
ninth to score three runs. Daniel Blaustein,<br />
who went 3-for-4 and is 7-for-9 on the<br />
season, singled; Bentley Heyman walked<br />
and Fletcher Hawkins walked to load the<br />
bases.<br />
Sean Aiken then ripped a double to score<br />
two. Hawkins would later score on a wild<br />
pitch to put the Bears up 8-5. Hawkins was<br />
2-for-4 on the night and is off to a 5-for-8<br />
start.<br />
“Hey dude, where’s my iPod”<br />
An unidentified player<br />
The Celtics put a run on the board in the<br />
bottom half, but reliever Travis Stout got out<br />
of trouble to get the win. Stout pitched 2 ⅔<br />
innings; Blaustein pitched 2 ⅓ and Kevin<br />
Kyle started and went four innings.<br />
Aiken also had an RBI single in the seventh<br />
to temporarily put the Bears up, but the<br />
Celtics tied it in the bottom half.<br />
Hawkins had two doubles and two RBI on<br />
the night while Wills Aitkens, Jack Austin,<br />
Andrew McGonnigle and Mark Grimm had<br />
singles. Blaustein had a double and a single.<br />
Another unsung hero was courtesy runner<br />
Austin Pound, who helped manufacture two<br />
runs with aggressive base running.<br />
“We’ve got a lot of good things to build<br />
on, though we didn’t come up big the way<br />
we did Saturday against Gainesville,” Dylan<br />
added.<br />
The Bears will be in action again Tuesday<br />
in Tampa against Berkeley Prep.<br />
“This team knows how to<br />
do everything except lose.”<br />
Assistant coach Marshall Gaines<br />
10:30 p.m. - Dinner at Chili’s with parents<br />
and friends, then to bed. Fell asleep to Kelso<br />
and the gang on ‘That 70s Show’.<br />
Unsung fact of the day: Approximately 20<br />
Sean Aiken<br />
Coach Dylan Deal<br />
Andrew McGonnigle<br />
seconds before Aitkens gunned down the<br />
runner at the plate, the HIES coaching staff<br />
ordered the outfield to “take three steps in.”<br />
If not for that, our beloved Bears would have<br />
gone down in eight.<br />
Tuesday, March 4, 2008<br />
Ocala to Tampa -You win some, you lose<br />
some, and some get rained out…<br />
Left Ocala at 10 a.m., made the hourand-a-half<br />
drive to Tampa. Worked out<br />
at Berkeley Prep – a very casual workout<br />
with the energy level a medical flatline. A<br />
little fungo, some hitting and an impromptu<br />
football game in right field.<br />
GM Porter sat in the visiting dugout, the<br />
team working out under his watchful eye.<br />
It’s good we got the workout in; the weather<br />
channel has nothing but green over the city<br />
of Tampa. It’s supposed to get ugly.<br />
With the game called off and a doubleheader<br />
slated for tomorrow, thirty-two<br />
people (separate checks) invade Golden<br />
Corral, then it’s off for a five-star, droolinduced<br />
nap back at the hotel.<br />
6:30 p.m. - Bowling tonight – coaches vs.<br />
the players. We made the same bets, same<br />
teams but this time neglected to add up the<br />
scores to figure out who won. Oh well, oh<br />
well. Impromptu coaches meetings are held,<br />
card games among players, hackey sack in<br />
the parking lot, but mostly sleep.<br />
As Coach Deal told his players in the<br />
parking lot, “No swimming, no sitting in the<br />
hot tub. Guys, we’ve got 14 innings to play<br />
tomorrow.”<br />
Not many grunt or protest.<br />
GM Porter took in a Yankees game at<br />
Legend’s Field. No report yet as to his<br />
observations.<br />
Fell asleep before the opening credits on<br />
‘L.A. Law’. Good night.<br />
Wednesday, March 5, 2008<br />
Tampa – In national news, Brett Favre is<br />
retiring and a cold front is zipping through<br />
the Northeast.<br />
As for the local stuff, if you ever feel like<br />
complaining about Atlanta traffic, try driving<br />
in Tampa; the Busch Gardens trip has been<br />
scrubbed due to the doubleheader, and<br />
tonight’s starter Austin Pound has a simple<br />
game plan when going in – “rock and fire.”<br />
Other general observations:<br />
• Sean Aiken plays catcher and first<br />
and carries his own bowling ball when<br />
on the road…<br />
• Travis Stout, if he continues his<br />
good pitching, will be nicknamed<br />
“Lights Out Stout.”<br />
• Lenny’s makes the best ham & cheese<br />
subs known to man. If you’re ever in<br />
town, order the #1 and do yourself a<br />
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favor and get the lemonade.<br />
• It cost us $96 to fill up the van.<br />
“And they say the economy is good,”<br />
Coach Deal said.<br />
• Everybody I room with snores.<br />
• Emily Procter, who plays Callie<br />
Duquesne on CSI-Miami, is hot.<br />
• Shortstop Bentley Heyman got off to<br />
a slow start in the first two games, but is<br />
chomping at the bit to turn things around<br />
today. Don’t try to tease him about his<br />
2-for-9 start. He simply won’t laugh.<br />
• If Jack Austin’s single up the middle<br />
in Game 2 had been a foot higher, the<br />
pitcher would’ve been carried off on<br />
a stretcher.<br />
• Hoodie bowled a 192 last night;<br />
Kevin Kyle a 168. The journalist dipped<br />
from a 175 to a 121. Coach Deal almost<br />
The Bears then collected their bats and<br />
balls, remembering their parents’ advice<br />
to clean up after themselves, made the 20<br />
minute drive to Tampa Prep, and played<br />
even better in an 8-1 effort.<br />
Mark Grimm was the offensive hero, going<br />
3-for-4 with two RBI, Jack Austin had an<br />
RBI single and drilled a 401-foot out to deep<br />
center – a ball that would have damaged<br />
cars at <strong>Holy</strong> Innocents’ – and several others<br />
chipped in.<br />
On the hill, Whit Woodring went five<br />
innings, gave up five hits, one earned run<br />
and fanned five. Jack “Flappy” Austin threw<br />
an inning before Travis “Lights Out” Stout<br />
closed the deal in the seventh.<br />
Despite the two wins, Coach Deal wasn’t<br />
all smiles.<br />
“It’s a good job getting two wins in one<br />
Baseball team goes looking for manatees.<br />
Originally I was sad – for the coaches, the<br />
players, the parents. For the buildup and the<br />
desire to play in this big game that wasn’t<br />
going to be played; that couldn’t be made up.<br />
Then I started thinking: About nicknames<br />
and hackey sack and late night TV and time<br />
in the batting cage. About watching these<br />
kids do everything but lose; watching them<br />
laugh, bowl, chatter, fall off buses, and<br />
even puke. About traveling from Atlanta to<br />
Gainesville to Crystal River to Tampa, back<br />
to Crystal River, back to Atlanta. About late<br />
night coaches/parents meetings in Room<br />
111 of the Best Western, or 3106 at the<br />
Marriott. About Hoodie’s music, Deal’s giving<br />
Travis a new nickname every day, about<br />
barreling into a restaurant 30-something<br />
strong.<br />
You see, I’ve done spring training before<br />
Sean Aiken, Jack Farrell, Tyler Heyman,<br />
Bentley Heyman, Jackson Davis,<br />
Ryan Cox, Charley Henley,<br />
Fletcher Hawkins, Whit Woodring<br />
<strong>Holy</strong> Innocents’ Remembers<br />
Red Smith<br />
IN MEMORIAM<br />
Staff members and former runners remember the coaching legend<br />
Bentley Heyman, Rob Aitkens,<br />
Daniel Blaustein<br />
broke the lanes with a fastball that<br />
landed half-way down the alley, almost<br />
breaking the rack that hadn’t lifted<br />
yet from his previous shot. The manager<br />
became very nervous every time Coach<br />
Deal came up to throw. No one blamed<br />
him.<br />
• Team moms are the best<br />
invention<br />
since the remote control.<br />
• The players seem well-rested, focused<br />
and ready. Details at 11.<br />
4:30 p.m. - Game report – In a<br />
doubleheader worth missing The Celebrity<br />
Apprentice for, the lean, mean maroon<br />
machine rolled to two more wins Wednesday<br />
night, upping its record to a perfect 4-0.<br />
Though the first game was far from<br />
perfect – an infield error, not getting bunts<br />
down and swinging at inappropriate pitches<br />
– the team picked it up from the third inning<br />
on and drilled Berkeley Prep 11-2.<br />
Pitcher Austin Pound’s pre-game plan was<br />
perfecto, as he went six innings, allowed only<br />
four hits, no earned runs and struck out four.<br />
Daniel Blaustein continued his torrid pace,<br />
going 3-for-3, while Fletcher Hawkins also<br />
kept his going with a 3-for-4 outing. Wills<br />
Aitkens (2-for-4) was another who came up<br />
big and Bentley Heyman’s bat came to life.<br />
day and I think we played fairly well in the<br />
second game,” he said. “I can handle the<br />
mistakes, what I can’t handle is the mentality<br />
that we can just show up and win ball<br />
games. We’re going to have to learn to stay<br />
focused for seven innings, especially against<br />
the teams in our region.”<br />
9:55 p.m. - The team loaded up (almost left<br />
behind a bucket of balls), some ordered hot<br />
chocolate to keep their hands warm, and<br />
headed to Carrabba’s for a victory dinner.<br />
The waitresses were simply appalled.<br />
Final note: Tomorrow it will be two<br />
undefeated teams going at it. The 4-0 Bears<br />
will travel to Crystal River to face the 13-0<br />
home team. In the words of the immortal<br />
Don King, “Somebody’s ‘0’ has got to go!”<br />
Fell asleep to ‘Scrubs’ after a brief staff<br />
meeting in Deal’s room.<br />
Thursday, March 6- Friday, March 7, 2008<br />
At first I thought the end was a bit<br />
melodramatic. I mean, we got to Crystal<br />
River at about 3 p.m. About five minutes<br />
later, lightning began; then the thunder; then<br />
the rain in droves. Within minutes, the field<br />
was two inches underwater and the game<br />
was canceled.<br />
I guess Don King was wrong; somebody’s<br />
‘0’ didn’t have to go.<br />
– and in the big leagues. Have covered the<br />
Marlins and Cardinals and Mets (Oh my!)<br />
Have hung out in the club house, interviewed<br />
the big names, written stories and sent them<br />
in within seconds of deadline.<br />
But once upon a time, as a joke, I told<br />
Coach Dylan Deal I wanted to accompany<br />
him and his team down to Florida. He said,<br />
“Why not” It wasn’t a bad question. So the<br />
next thing you know I’m sitting in the dugout,<br />
dressed in Gaines’ uniform, writing down<br />
notes, staying out of the players way except<br />
to give a high-five or a pat on the back,<br />
picking up equipment, praying with the team<br />
before the game, and soaking it all in.<br />
Next thing you know I’m meeting the<br />
parents, the coaches, the players. And<br />
before I knew it I’d caught this disease – this<br />
disease known as baseball. It started in my<br />
mind and went straight into my soul. It’s still<br />
here as I type, now safe at home in Atlanta.<br />
Still with me as I do laundry and surf through<br />
the channels. It’s great…isn’t it<br />
I fell asleep with a smile on my face.<br />
Thanks for listening.<br />
Dunn Neugebauer<br />
February 29-March 7, 2008<br />
Notes from Spring Training<br />
Robert “Red” Smith died February 24th,<br />
2008. He spent nearly two decades at <strong>Holy</strong><br />
Innocents’ lending his expertise to our cross<br />
country and track programs. Many current<br />
faculty/staff members were more than eager<br />
to share their memories of the man who<br />
coached literally thousands of HIES runners.<br />
Athletic Director Rob Weltz<br />
“I remember after our state track<br />
championship in 2004, Red rode back with<br />
me and I noticed he was getting choked up.<br />
I asked him what was wrong and he said,<br />
“I’m so glad that we won and also I’m so<br />
glad you’re going to take me to Wendy’s to<br />
get me a Frosty. Whenever we win, I have to<br />
have a Frosty.<br />
“He was a breath of fresh air;<br />
he was very passionate with<br />
the kids and was often getting<br />
them to try new things. One<br />
time I went to a cross country<br />
meet with him and I felt like we<br />
were on the red carpet at the<br />
Academy Awards. Everybody<br />
knew Red Smith.”<br />
Head cross country coach<br />
Mike Daly<br />
“He had a great sense of<br />
humor; he was always on<br />
the kids to not miss practice<br />
because of cat birthdays. We<br />
have an annual Leadership<br />
Award that goes to the<br />
senior runner who best exemplifies Red’s<br />
leadership skills. A great idea. I learned a lot<br />
from Coach Red and I know he meant a lot<br />
to a lot of people.”<br />
Former head cross country coach<br />
Randi Aton<br />
“I had the pleasure of meeting Red in the<br />
fall of 1993 when he helped Lucie Bornholm<br />
and me with the school’s first cross country<br />
team. From the beginning, his enthusiasm<br />
for the sport affected our runners. He would<br />
tell the kids before a race to “start fast,<br />
speed up, and sprint at the end” and then he<br />
would beam that wonderful Red Smith smile!<br />
I know this: He loved the sport of running, he<br />
loved his athletes and he loved his family.<br />
I will miss him.”<br />
Former state champion Jenna Downey ‘03<br />
“I was set on playing soccer and he<br />
kept telling me I had to run track. He<br />
wouldn’t take no for answer! He was like<br />
a grandfather to me and was a mentor for<br />
many years. He had such a great sense of<br />
humor and a warm and caring personality;<br />
it’s hard not to love him! There aren’t that<br />
many people who have had the sort of effect<br />
on me that Coach Red did.”<br />
Jeff Campanella ‘03 – former HIES runner<br />
“He lived a wonderful life, giving back so<br />
much to others. I’ll never get the image out<br />
of my head of Jenna running<br />
down the Carrollton hill for<br />
the state title and Red just<br />
sitting in his chair weeping<br />
with joy. It was such a great<br />
moment.”<br />
Dunn Neugebauer – current<br />
HIES cross country coach<br />
“I remember in 2001, it<br />
was my first year ever of<br />
coaching cross country. I<br />
was really nervous about<br />
it – until they told me I’d be<br />
coaching with Red. I never<br />
worried again. After all, how<br />
many teams had a guy with<br />
50-plus years of experience<br />
under his belt”<br />
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SERVICE AND MISSION WORK<br />
“…and a sense of service<br />
to the world community.<br />
Rawson Allen<br />
– from the HIES Mission Statement<br />
George Gwaltney (front)<br />
Owen Brock (back)<br />
Emily Martin<br />
From Pre-K through 12th Grade, <strong>Holy</strong> Innocents’ students learn the power of service work.<br />
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SERVICE AND MISSION WORK<br />
As an <strong>Episcopal</strong> school, with<br />
weekly chapel services and<br />
four chaplains, <strong>Holy</strong> Innocents’<br />
can’t help but approach its<br />
philosophy and methods with<br />
a nod toward the Bible. So why<br />
does Luke 12:48 receive so<br />
much attention<br />
“From him to whom much is<br />
given, much is expected,” reads<br />
the verse.<br />
And students at <strong>Holy</strong><br />
Innocents’ have, indeed, been<br />
given much. They attend a<br />
beautiful school in a beautiful<br />
section of a beautiful city. And<br />
they learn very early that much<br />
is, therefore, expected.<br />
What’s so refreshing, though,<br />
is how quickly and joyfully <strong>Holy</strong><br />
Innocents’ students take Saint<br />
Luke’s words to heart.<br />
It begins in the Alan A. Lewis<br />
Pre-<strong>School</strong>, where this year our<br />
youngest students chipped in<br />
their own allowances to help<br />
secure school supplies for<br />
children their own age attending<br />
the Albert T. Mills Enrichment<br />
Center, an organization in<br />
downtown Atlanta serving at-risk children.<br />
The <strong>Holy</strong> Innocents’ Parents Association<br />
was so impressed by the work our Pre-<br />
<strong>School</strong>ers did that they dedicated the<br />
proceeds of this year’s Fun Run to purchase<br />
a bus for the center.<br />
In Lower <strong>School</strong>, service is built into the<br />
curriculum. Students study virtues such as<br />
charity and the Golden Rule in LS Chaplain<br />
Ms. Beth Lynch’s class, where she makes<br />
a concerted effort to link her lessons with<br />
community outreach.<br />
For instance, to learn patience and<br />
the art of conversation, Ms. Lynch’s<br />
students interact with elderly residents<br />
of the Dorothy Benson Adult Day Care<br />
Center, staging a tea party or giving hand<br />
massages, all while engaging the seniors<br />
in heartfelt conversation. For a lesson on<br />
homelessness, Lower <strong>School</strong>ers visited the<br />
Atlanta Children’s Shelter where they put on<br />
Emily Martin<br />
Kendall Gregory<br />
puppet shows, hosted picnics and simply<br />
played with a group of young children for<br />
whom playtimes are few and far-between.<br />
“We do all of this, studying, doing the<br />
lessons and getting out into the community,<br />
to learn how to be God’s hands and feet,<br />
because this is what we’re called to do,”<br />
says Ms. Lynch.<br />
That calling doesn’t subside, but rather<br />
gains momentum in Middle <strong>School</strong>, where<br />
chaplain The Reverend Patty Roberts<br />
leads the service efforts. Her students<br />
work throughout the city on projects from<br />
assisting the disabled to food drives to<br />
working with the homeless to preserving the<br />
environment. “At chapel last year, I read the<br />
list of everything we had done for service,<br />
and it was overwhelming,” beamed Rev.<br />
Roberts. “It was over three and a half pages<br />
of different service opportunities students<br />
had taken advantage of.”<br />
And it’s in Middle <strong>School</strong> where Rev.<br />
Rawson Allen<br />
Roberts helps students begin<br />
to focus their efforts. Her<br />
Great Days of Service program<br />
allows students to divide one<br />
day of service between two<br />
organizations. The idea is to<br />
let them experience different<br />
types of outreach and decide<br />
what kinds of projects and<br />
causes most interest them.<br />
“Then hopefully, when the kids<br />
are in Upper <strong>School</strong> they’ll be<br />
able to draw from the work<br />
they did here, and already<br />
have an idea of what sort of<br />
volunteer work they want to<br />
pursue,” Rev. Roberts says.<br />
And that leads us to Upper<br />
<strong>School</strong>, where the verse from<br />
Luke really takes hold.<br />
<strong>Holy</strong> Innocents’ Upper<br />
<strong>School</strong> has gained a significant<br />
reputation – not only in Atlanta<br />
but throughout the South<br />
and even overseas – for the<br />
commitment and energy of its<br />
students to community service.<br />
Many Upper <strong>School</strong>ers<br />
help with Horizons, a summer<br />
enrichment program located<br />
on the HIES campus. Horizons works<br />
with at-risk and disadvantaged children<br />
to prevent academic decline during the<br />
summer months through a variety of<br />
educational, social and athletic activities.<br />
Upper <strong>School</strong> volunteers help translate for<br />
the large Latino population who attends<br />
Horizons. They also serve as Teachers’<br />
Aides, help with swim lessons and tutor<br />
young children with their academics. Not<br />
surprisingly, HIES students accounted for a<br />
full 95 percent of Horizons’ 1,200 volunteer<br />
hours last year.<br />
Of course, with age comes privilege, so<br />
Upper <strong>School</strong>ers also have opportunities to<br />
travel to perform service beyond their local<br />
community.<br />
For three years running, groups of Upper<br />
<strong>School</strong>ers have traveled to the Gulf Coast to<br />
assist with the cleanup efforts in the wake<br />
of Hurricane Katrina. This spring, students<br />
Casey Wilson, Amanda Bassett Nick Bitzis, Bailey McBride, Evy Mitchell Kendall Krebs<br />
Corinne Bicknese,<br />
Olivia Stockert,<br />
My Bui<br />
cleaned storm drains and picked up debris<br />
along the Mississippi coast. “I was just so<br />
impressed with the effort that they put into<br />
this job,” said The Reverend Sarah Wood,<br />
US Chaplain and leader of the effort. “It was<br />
thankless work, but they didn’t stop.”<br />
Another of the Upper <strong>School</strong>’s cleanup<br />
efforts is closer to home. What started<br />
as an AP Environmental Science project<br />
monitoring the water quality in Sandy<br />
Springs’ Allen Park has transformed into<br />
a full-blown park clean up. After analyzing<br />
bacteria in the creek water, students<br />
detected a problem. But instead of telling<br />
authorities and getting back to their<br />
schoolwork, the students opted to address<br />
the issue themselves, and hopefully improve<br />
the entire park. They picked up years’ worth<br />
of accumulated trash, planted indigenous<br />
trees and other plant species and wrote<br />
letters to Sandy Spring Council members.<br />
Today, thanks to the students’ hard work,<br />
local non-profits have joined the effort and<br />
are working toward the park’s restoration.<br />
And then there are those service projects<br />
that take place within our school’s walls.<br />
Recycling is an HIES cross-grade initiative<br />
in which virtually everyone participates.<br />
Students also lead many fundraising efforts<br />
– donating money to the Atlanta Children’s<br />
Shelter, the American Diabetes Association,<br />
and schools in Haiti, Costa Rica and<br />
Tanzania, among other causes.<br />
In other words, <strong>Holy</strong> Innocents’ students<br />
tend to what they see needs tending. “As an<br />
<strong>Episcopal</strong> school, we are committed to the<br />
formation of the whole person, which is not<br />
focused on oneself,” said Rev. Wood. “We<br />
do everything we can to help students learn<br />
that offering and outpouring of self to others<br />
is what makes them whole.”<br />
So in a day and age of hand sanitizers<br />
and anti-bacterial lotions as far as the eye<br />
can see, it’s comforting to know that HIES<br />
students are comfortable getting their hands<br />
dirty. In a twist on the adage, “a little dirt<br />
never hurt anybody,” our students have<br />
learned that a little dirt can actually help out<br />
quite a bit.<br />
Luke 12:48 never rang so true.<br />
Connor Randall<br />
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Chris DURST Upper <strong>School</strong> Principal<br />
<strong>School</strong> Principal Theresa Jespersen<br />
I had the great<br />
privilege of<br />
addressing<br />
several of our<br />
current board<br />
members about<br />
the qualities and<br />
characteristics<br />
that make our<br />
Upper <strong>School</strong><br />
a compelling<br />
choice for families in the Atlanta area.<br />
There’s so much more to a quality<br />
education than grades and scores; the<br />
competitive aspect of education—‘btw,<br />
what college did you get into’—seems to<br />
permeate most discussions about school<br />
quality. It’s such a shame that these limited<br />
benchmarks (not necessarily of success<br />
or excellence) are dominating the airways.<br />
As Principal I feel the need to re-center<br />
the debate about what makes a quality<br />
school, not necessarily sounding defensive<br />
or masking deficiencies, but to articulate<br />
what’s really important—or should be<br />
important—to the families at the school.<br />
The following are qualities I believe are<br />
found at great schools, and hopefully you’ll<br />
find them in the HI Upper <strong>School</strong>:<br />
• <strong>School</strong>s must be soulful. Every great<br />
school has a certain ‘something’, that<br />
consciousness that transcends buildings<br />
and rooms and lockers. It’s what you feel<br />
when you come onto campus. Soulful<br />
schools are about partnerships with<br />
families, students and teachers. Soulful<br />
schools care for students in extraordinary<br />
ways, for schools know that if children don’t<br />
feel connected, they run the risk of falling<br />
prey to society’s worst nightmares. Soulful<br />
schools are tearful, joyous, thoughtful,<br />
inspiring—all of which reflect a singular<br />
purpose towards helping and educating<br />
children.<br />
• There is no greater benefit to student<br />
learning than selfless teachers.<br />
Selflessness is absolutely crucial. “But<br />
I’ve always taught this way,” is a sure<br />
sign that someone has lost his way. We<br />
know more about student learning and<br />
brain function than we ever have, and it<br />
is time to demand that teachers search<br />
outside teacher-centered models to engage<br />
students. Students are savvy: they know<br />
exactly which teachers have been doing<br />
the same tired lessons for years and which<br />
ones constantly try to provide that magic<br />
moment of learning. Selfless teachers<br />
are the professionals willing to try new<br />
techniques, are not afraid to be vulnerable,<br />
teach both skills and curriculum and go to<br />
great lengths to model the most appropriate<br />
behaviors for children.<br />
• Every school has a portrait of excellence.<br />
Too often school improvement discussions<br />
center on what children are not doing, or<br />
how curriculum is flawed or how parents<br />
are making a mess of things. Great schools<br />
refocus the discussion by framing the<br />
picture in the community of what the school<br />
looks like when it is outstanding. Inevitably,<br />
that picture becomes a beautiful portrait of<br />
what the children can make of their lives if<br />
we just will allow ourselves to see it.<br />
• The more we give of ourselves, the more<br />
we will love what is left. Independent<br />
schools, and HI in particular, have a<br />
greater obligation and responsibility to the<br />
community to produce individuals who<br />
appreciate service and recognize the value<br />
of diversity. Students who share in these<br />
values and are competent and comfortable<br />
engaging in a fluid and diverse society<br />
will ultimately be the leaders of the next<br />
generation.<br />
Principal’s corner<br />
Middle <strong>School</strong> is an awesome time in a<br />
young person’s life. They are beginning to<br />
feel their power a little, to be a little more<br />
independent and self-reliant. It’s time to<br />
discover where they fit in, to start figuring<br />
out where - and who - they want to<br />
be. Middle <strong>School</strong> at <strong>Holy</strong> Innocents’ is<br />
a place where kids learn to make things<br />
happen, and not just allow things to happen<br />
to them. Our kids feel empowered and<br />
supported, whether it’s to make a movie<br />
about changing the world or simply learning<br />
to avoid the belligerent geese on the ball<br />
fields. I want them to try, so that they<br />
learn they can do. Our faculty and staff are<br />
enthusiastic supporters of the kids and<br />
have worked very hard this year to make<br />
this, the Best Middle <strong>School</strong> in the World.<br />
In math, the department chair and<br />
faculty have coordinated their efforts to<br />
make their teaching more effective, the<br />
kids’ efforts more directed, and the results<br />
more positive. The process began by<br />
identifying objectives for each level of math,<br />
and examining the rationales for inclusion<br />
in the curriculum. They have examined<br />
the time allotments for each section, and<br />
have created new timelines. This should<br />
make the transition from arithmetic to<br />
mathematics and Upper <strong>School</strong> courses<br />
much smoother.<br />
We’re adding a few courses for next year.<br />
In Fine Arts, we are offering an Advanced<br />
Art class for eighth graders who are serious<br />
about pursuing art in Upper <strong>School</strong>. It will<br />
allow the students to spend more time<br />
developing their skills using clay, drawing,<br />
painting, and making photographs. Recent<br />
economic events have shown us all that we<br />
need to make sure our kids understand the<br />
value of a dollar and have the wherewithal<br />
to spend it wisely. All of our eighth grade<br />
students will take a Personal Finance<br />
course where they will “get jobs,” and learn<br />
how to survive on an hourly wage. They<br />
will learn how to use a checking account<br />
and a credit card, fill out a tax return, and,<br />
hopefully, understand the importance of<br />
maintaining good credit.<br />
This year we marked the transition<br />
from first to second semester by having a<br />
Focus Week of experiential learning. Rather<br />
than jump right into the new semester,<br />
we took the first five days after Christmas<br />
break and spent the week engaging in<br />
new and different adventures, and, for<br />
the younger grades, performing some<br />
community service. The kids had fun,<br />
they learned a little about themselves<br />
and their schoolmates, and they enjoyed<br />
the transition<br />
back into hardcore<br />
academics.<br />
We’ll keep this<br />
experience as a<br />
tradition, but we’ll<br />
make changes from<br />
year to year.<br />
We also had<br />
our first-ever<br />
Middle <strong>School</strong> Film<br />
Festival this year. Students in grades six<br />
through eight were invited to form teams<br />
and make two-minute films about Making<br />
the World a Better Place. The movies dealt<br />
with serious issues such as drunk driving,<br />
global warming, and the seamy underside<br />
of the fast food industry along with an<br />
exposition of the first-response lifesavers<br />
in the police and fire departments. We<br />
have already started planning for next<br />
year’s event and have even brought the<br />
current fifth graders over to find out about<br />
what awaits them when they cross the<br />
mystic traffic circle and come to the Middle<br />
<strong>School</strong>.<br />
As I said, this is a terrific time to be in the<br />
Middle <strong>School</strong>. This year has been terrific,<br />
and next year looks even better.<br />
One of my greatest joys and biggest<br />
responsibilities as principal of the Alan<br />
A. Lewis Pre-<strong>School</strong> has been guiding<br />
the young children in my care toward the<br />
development of a spiritual foundation upon<br />
which to build as they grow older. The<br />
process here at <strong>Holy</strong> Innocents’ is greatly<br />
enhanced through the students’ opportunity<br />
to participate in weekly chapel services.<br />
During these services the children learn<br />
about God’s world through stories, song,<br />
and prayers.<br />
Basic concepts and understandings are<br />
taught in the<br />
classroom. First<br />
we learn that<br />
God loves us<br />
all and that we<br />
are to love each<br />
other. There is<br />
an emphasis<br />
here given to<br />
family, friends,<br />
and community<br />
and the parts<br />
JANELLA <strong>Brand</strong><br />
they play in our lives. A daily reminder<br />
of the Golden Rule sets the tone during<br />
morning devotions that are heard by way of<br />
the school intercom. Teachable moments,<br />
which present themselves during the day,<br />
are used to emphasize these principles.<br />
Through the use of age-appropriate Bible<br />
stories, the students learn that God cares<br />
for each of us in a special way. Building<br />
upon His love for us, God’s care, guidance,<br />
and protection are highlighted as a part<br />
of this study. Tolerance and respect along<br />
with lessons of diversity and acceptance<br />
support the theme as well. Regular service<br />
projects are introduced and implemented<br />
in an effort to help the students develop an<br />
understanding of the importance of sharing<br />
and reaching out to others.<br />
We also learn that God is dependable.<br />
There is evidence of His dependability<br />
as we witness the predictability of the<br />
changing seasons as well as other visible<br />
reminders in the world around us. Children<br />
can relate to the rising and ebbing of the<br />
tides when they visit the beach and they<br />
Pre-<strong>School</strong> Principal<br />
Middle<br />
experience light and darkness through the<br />
day and night routinely.<br />
We further emphasize the fact that we<br />
can talk to God by praying to Him. Prayer is<br />
a part of each day. Children learn to recite<br />
chapel prayers including the Lord’s Prayer<br />
and they are taught blessings that are used<br />
before snack time and at Kindergarten<br />
lunch. During the year each class is given<br />
the opportunity to write a joint prayer, which<br />
is learned and shared during morning<br />
devotional time. We know that we can pray<br />
anytime and anywhere. Recently, a Pre-K<br />
student reflected, “God must have really<br />
big ears!”<br />
As our students mature, they are given<br />
an opportunity to build on these basic<br />
understandings and to learn about their<br />
individual family’s religious traditions<br />
and beliefs. Hopefully, we are laying a<br />
foundation that our students will use to<br />
build a spiritual reservoir from which they<br />
can draw strength for the rest of their lives.<br />
On July 1, 2007, I began my first year as<br />
the Principal of the Lower <strong>School</strong> following<br />
Rick Betts who was named our Associate<br />
Head. Rick had done a remarkable<br />
job as Dorothy Sullivan’s successor as<br />
principal. Upon her retirement in 2007, <strong>Holy</strong><br />
Innocents’ honored Dorothy for her thirty<br />
years of distinguished service by naming<br />
the Lower <strong>School</strong> the Dorothy Sullivan<br />
Lower <strong>School</strong>. So you see, all of this was<br />
a bit intimidating. How does one follow in<br />
these footsteps<br />
The foundation of the Lower <strong>School</strong> is<br />
built on determining what is best for our<br />
students and ensuring that they receive<br />
what is needed. The faculty and staff<br />
treat the students with respect and set<br />
boundaries. Children as learners need to<br />
be aware of the academic and behavioral<br />
expectations. Each day, I see students<br />
holding doors open for one other, smiling<br />
and laughing, and being active participants<br />
in their studies and activities.<br />
Service projects are an important part<br />
of our studies. Students in all grades are<br />
involved with activities that serve others.<br />
From helping with dogs that have been<br />
neglected to entertaining folks at the<br />
Benson Center, our students plan and<br />
participate in these events which benefit the<br />
community beyond <strong>Holy</strong> Innocents’.<br />
Our Fine Arts Department affords the<br />
students an opportunity to explore and<br />
discover their abilities in the visual and<br />
performing arts. Through our programs,<br />
students develop a love for painting or<br />
printmaking or a deep appreciation for<br />
acting, singing, or playing an instrument.<br />
Many programs stress the concept of<br />
students’ wellness. The physical education<br />
classes, health classes, and guidance<br />
services from our counselor place great<br />
emphasis on being a healthy person in both<br />
mind and body.<br />
It is imperative that we prepare<br />
our students for the 21st century and<br />
the demands of technology. The fifth<br />
grade laptop program has provided our<br />
teachers with the ability to reach each<br />
student’s learning style and increase their<br />
comprehension and understanding of<br />
the material. It is amazing to witness the<br />
teachers and students learning from one<br />
another and exhibiting a true authentic<br />
learning environment.<br />
All of these areas are integrated with<br />
our strong academics to give our students<br />
a solid foundation that will support them<br />
as they enter the Middle <strong>School</strong> years. So<br />
what have I learned this year in regards<br />
to following in footsteps I am following<br />
the footsteps of those who have seen<br />
future needs and implemented a vision.<br />
The route forward may not be plotted in<br />
details, but with<br />
this clear vision,<br />
the direction<br />
will always be<br />
known.<br />
Lower <strong>School</strong> Principal<br />
TERRI POTTER<br />
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GLOBAL INITIATIVE<br />
<strong>Holy</strong> Innocents’ Global Initiative Program<br />
France<br />
JAPAN<br />
HOLY INNOCENTS<br />
Kelly Moore<br />
Speaking In Tongues<br />
COSTA RICA<br />
<strong>Holy</strong> Innocents’<br />
is going global.<br />
That doesn’t mean we’ll open a Pre-<br />
<strong>School</strong> in Beijing or field varsity cricket and<br />
sumo teams. It does mean, though, that our<br />
school’s focus has extended well-beyond Mt.<br />
Vernon Highway.<br />
We’ve come a long way since Ms.<br />
Anne Jackson taught our very first French<br />
class to Middle <strong>School</strong>ers in 1975. Today,<br />
<strong>Holy</strong> Innocents’ has formal, sister-school<br />
relationships in both Japan and France. Our<br />
administration’s stated goal is to have at least<br />
one sister-school on every continent within<br />
five years. Our foreign language programs<br />
are receiving all kinds of accolades – for both<br />
teachers and students. We’ve expanded the<br />
scope of our school’s service projects – a key<br />
component of both the Balanced Excellence<br />
program and our <strong>Episcopal</strong> Mission – virtually<br />
around the world, with visits to and service<br />
projects in Haiti, Costa Rica and Tanzania.<br />
On top of all that, the HIES Upper <strong>School</strong><br />
begins a new Global Citizenship Program next<br />
fall, a three-year curricular option for rising<br />
sophomores with increased language study<br />
and an experiential, cross-cultural focus –<br />
including semesters abroad and extensive<br />
international service options.<br />
So perhaps we should say that <strong>Holy</strong><br />
HAITI<br />
Innocents’ has already gone global. Or<br />
maybe we should just point out that everyone<br />
involved with these programs is very excited<br />
about the work they’re doing.<br />
Lauren Seiple,<br />
Kendall Gregory,<br />
Mackenzie Sawicki,<br />
The <strong>Holy</strong> Innocents’ Foreign Language program has<br />
received some pretty impressive kudos this year. Both<br />
teachers and students collected awards for academic and<br />
pedagogic excellence.<br />
Ms. Anne Jackson (in what can only be described as a<br />
long-overdue honor) received the American Association<br />
of Teachers of French<br />
“Outstanding Teacher Award”<br />
for the 2007-08 school year.<br />
Ms. Jackson introduced<br />
foreign language study to <strong>Holy</strong><br />
Innocents’ back in 1975.<br />
“This is an enormous<br />
honor for someone who really<br />
deserves it,” her departmental<br />
colleague Mr. Gerard Gatoux<br />
says, giving voice to our entire<br />
community. “Anne Jackson<br />
really got French going here.<br />
She laid the foundation for<br />
everything our department has<br />
accomplished.”<br />
Head of <strong>School</strong> Kirk Duncan<br />
concurs. “Anne Jackson is one<br />
of the reasons we can extend<br />
our Global Initiative beyond the<br />
classroom. We can go to Haiti<br />
and Costa Rica because the<br />
most basic element of cultural<br />
exchange – language study –<br />
is so well established here. And<br />
you’ve got to thank Anne for<br />
that. As for the award, all I can<br />
say is ‘it’s about time.’”<br />
A number of HIES students<br />
have also been recognized<br />
for their accomplishments<br />
with foreign language. Junior<br />
Alex Wallace was named “Student of the Year”, by<br />
the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and<br />
same Georgia Department of Education ceremony at<br />
which Ms. Jackson received her award.<br />
“Alex is a remarkably gifted student of languages.” says<br />
Ms. Christine Stafford, Foreign Language Department<br />
Chair. “He not only loves studying and communicating<br />
in Spanish, but he understands that he can use his skills<br />
to improve his community – he<br />
translates at an elementary<br />
school where less than half the<br />
parents speak English, and he<br />
is increasingly involved with the<br />
growing Hispanic community in<br />
Atlanta. That’s the whole reason<br />
we do what we do – to see<br />
our students enjoy and excel<br />
in communicating in a foreign<br />
language. Not only has Alex<br />
excelled in his foreign language<br />
this year, he has also received a<br />
number of honors and awards<br />
for his writing in English. Alex<br />
makes all of us very proud.”<br />
And then there are junior Kate<br />
Newman and sophomore Sarah<br />
Hamill, who received prizes in a<br />
composition contest sponsored<br />
by the French Consulate in<br />
Atlanta. They were honored<br />
at a reception at the Consul’s<br />
residence. Ms. Stafford adds<br />
some perspective on what<br />
these two young women have<br />
accomplished: “What makes<br />
Kate’s and Sarah’s prizes so<br />
remarkable is that we have two<br />
high school students winning a<br />
contest that was open not only<br />
to high school students, but also<br />
to university students, in seven states! This is an amazing<br />
honor for two very talented students.”<br />
So congratulations, félicitations, and felicitaciones<br />
Portuguese. Alex is the second HIES student in five years<br />
From Pre-K through high school, <strong>Holy</strong> Innocents’ students learn the power of service work.<br />
to receive this prestigious award and was honored at the to all!<br />
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TANZANIA<br />
Alex Wallace<br />
Ms. Anne Jackson<br />
Dr. Madeline Hamill, Sarah Hamill, Mr. Gerard Gatoux,<br />
Kate Newman, Mrs. Elizabeth Newman
GLOBAL INITIATIVE<br />
Introducing Global Citizenship<br />
Beginning next year, <strong>Holy</strong> Innocents’ Upper<br />
<strong>School</strong> will add a new Program for Global<br />
Citizenship. A three year curricular option<br />
for rising sophomores, Global Citizenship<br />
features electives in world literature,<br />
comparative religion and environmental<br />
science, as well as increased foreign<br />
When I was 18,<br />
I was blessed with<br />
the opportunity<br />
to travel to Costa<br />
Rica with two<br />
of my younger<br />
brothers, Matthew<br />
and <strong>Brand</strong>on, and several of my classmates<br />
(one whom happens to be my new sisterin-law).<br />
This 10-day enrichment trip was my<br />
first foray into international travel. How we<br />
managed to survive loving, yet overzealous<br />
parents who packed (for us, mind you) 80<br />
pounds into a medium-sized suitcase and<br />
accompanied us on the first leg of our trip<br />
to Dallas to see us off eludes me still. What<br />
I am certain of, however, is that the trip<br />
sparked my passion for thinking about our<br />
ever-evolving world.<br />
Eight years later, our world is certainly<br />
just that – ever evolving. We need not<br />
turn further than the evening news or our<br />
own wallets to appreciate the fast-paced<br />
changes our world is currently experiencing.<br />
“Globalization,” the word du jour popularized<br />
by Thomas Friedman in his works The<br />
Lexus and the Olive Tree and The World is<br />
Flat, refers to the phenomenon of people,<br />
ideas, and events of the world unifying into<br />
language study. Outside the classroom,<br />
the program includes semesters and<br />
summers abroad and extensive service<br />
work (both international and domestic). The<br />
program attempts to nurture cross-cultural<br />
understanding and an appreciation of<br />
diversity and inclusion issues. While it won’t<br />
a single, functioning society. The question<br />
today that merits consideration, both<br />
globally and at <strong>Holy</strong> Innocents’, is just how<br />
effectively this society “functions.”<br />
Picture for a moment a serene arctic<br />
image. I would imagine a steel-colored sea<br />
littered with large pieces of ice scattered<br />
throughout. Many of you pictured icebergs.<br />
The interesting thing about icebergs,<br />
however, is that we only see a portion of<br />
the iceberg above the waterline. About<br />
10% of the iceberg, in fact. And this is akin<br />
to our knowledge of our expanding world<br />
-- we know what we know. Beneath the<br />
surface of the water, a significant majority of<br />
the ice can be found, and this ice certainly<br />
intertwines itself with neighboring pieces of<br />
ice. This, too, is like our worldview, in that<br />
we do not know what we do not know—the<br />
unknown.<br />
Enter <strong>Holy</strong> Innocents’ and the new<br />
Program for Global Citizenship (PGC).<br />
This program is a prime example of the<br />
institution’s efforts to expand what it knows<br />
about our changing world; to expose<br />
more of the iceberg. An excerpt from the<br />
school mission statement reads “<strong>Holy</strong><br />
Innocents’ <strong>Episcopal</strong> <strong>School</strong> develops in<br />
students…a sense of service to the world<br />
affect the actual diploma students receive<br />
from HIES, it will undoubtedly affect their<br />
lives and options after receiving it.<br />
So while the world’s not technically getting<br />
smaller, at <strong>Holy</strong> Innocents’, it certainly seems<br />
to be getting a lot closer.<br />
community.” The PGC fully embraces the<br />
notion of serving the world community. A<br />
guiding question of the program focuses on<br />
the quality of the society in which we find<br />
ourselves; in other words, how well does<br />
our emerging global society “function” and<br />
can we dare suggest that the concept of a<br />
“good global society” exists Admittedly,<br />
there is some anxiety within this question,<br />
as we only know what we know, and like our<br />
iceberg, there is much unknown.<br />
The program embraces the pillars of<br />
servant leadership, diversity and inclusion,<br />
and citizenship as we begin our inquiry into<br />
the good global society. From the Bahá’í<br />
faith we find the philosophical approach<br />
that suggests we “Let our vision be world<br />
embracing.” The PGC uses that notion as a<br />
compass for guiding itself in its endeavors<br />
to expose more of the iceberg. And as much<br />
as we might want to, we promise not to take<br />
any of our global citizens to icebergs. At<br />
least in the first year.<br />
Quinton Walker<br />
Upper <strong>School</strong> History Teacher<br />
Director, Program for Global Citizenship<br />
‘Travel is fatal to prejudice,<br />
bigotry and narrow-mindedness’<br />
“This is one of my favorite quotes, from<br />
Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain. There’s<br />
a spirit in those words that we’re trying to<br />
capture at HI, to open people’s minds.<br />
If we can send out 25 or 50 kids a year<br />
to Haiti, Africa, Costa Rica, Japan… if<br />
we can send 50 kids a year… and you<br />
From the Director<br />
multiply that over 10 or 20 years. You’re<br />
sending out quite a few people who<br />
are going to have the means to make a<br />
difference in the world. You’re sending<br />
them out to do good things and to bring<br />
back perspective and understanding<br />
they can then share with others here<br />
in America. So I think it’s a wonderful<br />
program. Plus, just the Christian aspect of<br />
it – to go into these areas of poverty and<br />
make a difference. I can’t think of a better<br />
example of our mission.”<br />
Kirk Duncan, Head of <strong>School</strong><br />
Language and Culture Studies:<br />
Their Effects on One Student<br />
By Tyler Marquardt, HIES ‘06, Boston College ‘10<br />
I am an Economics major here at BC,<br />
with what I call a History and Japanese<br />
concentration. Unfortunately, I don’t have<br />
time for a double major or a minor, and even<br />
with limited graduation requirements, I need<br />
to take about nineteen credits per semester,<br />
including my Senior year when I’ll also be<br />
writing my thesis. Some of you may think<br />
this is a huge mess, but I’ve made these<br />
schedule choices for one reason – they’ll<br />
allow me to study in Tokyo for my entire<br />
Junior year. But before I share that with you,<br />
let me start at the beginning.<br />
I want to take you back to when I was<br />
Olympiad team (which I see has had great<br />
success in recent years), played soccer and<br />
ran track. I also took my first Spanish classes<br />
that year. This wasn’t my first exposure to<br />
other languages; in fourth and fifth grade<br />
I took French in public school and before<br />
that I lived in Albuquerque where my first<br />
and second grade teacher taught us basic<br />
Spanish. However, this was my first formal<br />
class setting with homework, vocabulary,<br />
quizzes and tests. With Mrs. Stafford’s<br />
instruction, I did well, and continued through<br />
high school with more great teachers: Ms.<br />
Tyrrell, Mr. Gatoux, and Dr. Palmer.<br />
For me, Spanish was much more than just<br />
a class. As some of you may know, I was one<br />
of 32 students from all of Georgia selected<br />
to participate in the Governor’s Honors<br />
Spanish Program in 2005. For four hours a<br />
day, six days a week, we took Spanish class,<br />
conducted research in Spanish and were<br />
forbidden to speak English. At the end of<br />
the six-week program we gave an hour-long<br />
presentation in Spanish. I spoke about the<br />
Panama Canal and tried to give both sides of<br />
the issue (from its controversial construction<br />
to the handover that President Carter<br />
signed off on). At the end of GHP, I was not<br />
only comfortable speaking in Spanish, but<br />
found myself thinking and dreaming in the<br />
from Mr. Gatoux and other teachers, allowed<br />
me to receive the Georgia Spanish Student<br />
of the Year for 2006.<br />
In addition to my Spanish studies, I was<br />
a part of <strong>Holy</strong> Innocents’ first exchange<br />
program with Asahigaoka ( 札 幌 旭 丘 高 校 )<br />
High <strong>School</strong> in Sapporo, Japan. By the time I<br />
graduated, I had twice hosted students from<br />
Sapporo and had traveled there once. My<br />
brief, eye-opening time in Japan encouraged<br />
me to learn Japanese and try to find a job<br />
with a Japanese company in an American<br />
market. I’ll complete my studies in Tokyo<br />
in September and hope to be as fluent as<br />
possible when I return next August. While<br />
in Japan, I’ll begin research for my thesis.<br />
Although my topic is not set in stone, I plan<br />
to study U.S. foreign policies to Japan either<br />
in opening the country up to international<br />
economics in the 19th century or the<br />
1945-1960 post-war period.<br />
As cliché as it sounds, I feel compelled<br />
to say ‘The road ahead is shrouded<br />
in unknowns.’ But in my years at <strong>Holy</strong><br />
Innocents’, I was able to discover not only<br />
what I was good at, but also what I love<br />
doing. My experiences with both Spanish<br />
and Japanese studies have opened a whole<br />
world to me and given me a goal to strive for.<br />
Now I only have to find a way to get paid for<br />
From Pre-K through high school, <strong>Holy</strong> Innocents’ in Seventh students grade. I was on the Science learn language, the as well. power This experience, with of help service what I love doing! work.<br />
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Gala 2008<br />
a ni g h t in th e or i e n t<br />
Laurie and Roland Pritchett<br />
Jim Scott , Spot<br />
The bidding heats up<br />
Raffle winner Bland Deshong<br />
Stephanie and Rick Betts<br />
Karen Barney, Rick Fishman, Jackie Fishman<br />
Surveying the silent auction items<br />
Lizzie and Kirk Duncan<br />
Stacy Scott and friend<br />
Cheryl Hix, Sana Thomas, Stacy Scott<br />
Towns and Rocco Paolucci<br />
Jess Brown, Molly Eustis, Erica Barbakow<br />
Carmen and Joe Kissack<br />
Cindy and Mark Stroman<br />
Angie Aiken and Anne Jackson<br />
Rick Betts and Theresa Jespersen<br />
Vicki and Chris Durst,<br />
Heather and Michael Hingson<br />
Bernadine Richards, Georgia Watts, Anna Pfohl<br />
Kathy Sullivan, Lori Snellings,<br />
Carrey Burgner, Julie McNeil<br />
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A Heart For The Arts<br />
VOLUNTEER RECEPTION<br />
We love our volunteers! <strong>Holy</strong> Innocents’ is blessed to have an amazing group of energetic and talented<br />
volunteers who make countless things – such as the Gala, Heart for the Arts, Booster Club activities and a successful Annual Fund, to name<br />
just a few – happen for our school. On May 1st, top volunteers were saluted at a party at the home of Head of <strong>School</strong>, Kirk Duncan and his<br />
wife, Lizzie. With a nod to Cinco de Mayo, Mexican food was featured and more than 100 people fiesta’d the night away.<br />
Kirk Duncan<br />
Susan Mehre, Ann Taylor, Carter Taylor<br />
Merrell and Butch Woodyard and Lever Stewart<br />
Karen Barney<br />
Joshua McClymont<br />
Karen Martin, Twyla Fendler, Michele Duncan<br />
David Aldridge, Gail and John Jokerst<br />
Sana Thomas and Jane Thomson<br />
Michele Nelson, Stephanie Ungashick,<br />
Rocco and Towns Paolucci, Lori Ainsworth<br />
Debbie and Matt Reams<br />
Cheryl Hix and Stacy Scott<br />
The Reverend<br />
Patty Roberts<br />
Susan Sapronov<br />
Janet Silvera<br />
Merrell Woodyard and Kirk Duncan<br />
Mary McKenzie<br />
Twyla and<br />
Jeff Fendler<br />
Kristen and Kelly Williams<br />
Cathy Bennett, Karen and David Calhoun<br />
Angie Barry and Wes Green<br />
Event Co-Chairs<br />
Leah Henry and Alexis Veer<br />
Dana and Dave Patton<br />
Claire Mills and Dana Ponder<br />
Joanie Ehlers and June Arnold<br />
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FINE ARTS<br />
FINE ARTS<br />
AP Art Students’<br />
PortfolioS<br />
Upper <strong>School</strong> Art teachers Ms. Judie Jacobs and Ms. Wendy Jackson are both accomplished artists in their own right. As is obvious from<br />
their students’ work on these pages, they’ve helped lay a solid foundation for the next generation of artistic talent.<br />
Cory Wright<br />
Nine Faces Of Cami<br />
Keaton Anderson<br />
Landscape<br />
Ethan Bower<br />
Glass Mosaic<br />
Anastasia Courvaras<br />
Rockstar<br />
Kishauna Callwood<br />
Untitled<br />
Katherine Tate<br />
Untitled<br />
Meagan Miller<br />
Sunset<br />
Lilly Landskroener<br />
Golf Course<br />
Courtney Armstrong<br />
Lighthouse<br />
Kevin Brenninkmeijer<br />
Whole Milk<br />
Sarah Bissell<br />
Recycled Bottles<br />
Collin Rhea<br />
Red picket fence<br />
Haley Pope<br />
Landscape<br />
Caitlin Corsetti<br />
Nightscape<br />
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FINE ARTS<br />
Art And Technology<br />
Partner Up<br />
H.O.P.E.<br />
by Katie Keith, Carolina Saca,<br />
Katie Tiller and Mary Weaver.<br />
A grieving teen stares silently out the<br />
window of his bedroom. Smokestacks<br />
belch pollution into a lead-colored sky.<br />
A fireman talks about his goal of being<br />
of service to others.<br />
The depth and eloquence of student<br />
films submitted to the Upper and Middle<br />
<strong>School</strong> Film Festivals this year show that<br />
our students have a<br />
lot to say, and the<br />
medium of video is an<br />
expressive vehicle with<br />
which to say it.<br />
“Digital video<br />
is the future of<br />
communications,”<br />
declared Middle<br />
<strong>School</strong> English and Film<br />
teacher Mr. David Gale,<br />
addressing the crowd<br />
that came to view the<br />
videos submitted at the<br />
1st Annual Middle <strong>School</strong><br />
Film Festival. Middle <strong>School</strong><br />
filmmakers certainly appear<br />
to be catching on to the<br />
art. Today’s desktop editing<br />
software is within the reach of all computer<br />
users with access to a video camera—a<br />
far different scenario from the specialized,<br />
expensive post-production houses of<br />
the recent past. This allows Internet<br />
users all over the world to contribute<br />
constantly, coherently and usefully to<br />
what’s on the Web, and these skills will<br />
be highly effective in the marketplace,<br />
as well. It became clear to teachers and<br />
administrators at the Rowan Family Middle<br />
<strong>School</strong> that HIES students should have<br />
a voice in this media revolution, and the<br />
skills to express it.<br />
The theme for the MS Film Festival was<br />
modeled after the work of Dr. Tim Tyson,<br />
principal of Mabry Middle <strong>School</strong>. Mabry<br />
students have gained world recognition<br />
for their short films. Their digital media<br />
content is shared with viewers all over the<br />
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world on MabryOnline.org, as well as via<br />
the iTunes store. During Tyson’s visit to<br />
HIES in June 2007, MS History teacher<br />
Gary Klingman, and David Gale quizzed<br />
him extensively on how to orchestrate a<br />
film festival. They decided to adopt the<br />
theme, “Making Our World a Better Place”.<br />
Sixteen teams of<br />
student filmmakers came<br />
forward when the Film<br />
Festival was announced.<br />
“Sixth and seventh<br />
graders were at a major<br />
disadvantage,” says<br />
Klingman. “They didn’t<br />
have enough computer<br />
access. They could<br />
research, script and<br />
shoot their projects,<br />
but they couldn’t get<br />
them edited. This<br />
should not be an<br />
issue next year,<br />
when everyone<br />
has a laptop.” In<br />
the end, though, all three<br />
grades were represented. The videos that<br />
made it to the final judging were Drunk<br />
Driving, by Nick Andrist,<br />
Mitchel Bassett, Trent<br />
Martin, Harrison McCrorrie<br />
and Ben Rousseau; Global<br />
Warming, by Blake Barber,<br />
Warner Ray and Edward<br />
Vear; Think About What<br />
You Eat, by George Dobbs,<br />
Carter Holland and William<br />
Mavity; and H.O.P.E.,<br />
by Katie Keith, Carolina<br />
Saca, Katie Tiller and<br />
Mary Weaver.<br />
H.O.P.E. won 1st<br />
place in the 1st Annual<br />
MS Film Festival. The<br />
eighth grade, all-girl<br />
team of filmmakers<br />
observed that, “…<br />
this opportunity has allowed us to<br />
appreciate the great Americans who<br />
serve our community. We are sending<br />
out the message that a person can never<br />
give up on hope.” The film’s interesting<br />
camera angles, quick cuts and effects,<br />
and footage from many different locations<br />
made it a standout.<br />
Sending out the message is the whole<br />
point of film festivals like this, Klingman<br />
points out. “When you are heard by one<br />
person, that makes a difference. When you<br />
are heard by ten people, it makes even<br />
more of a difference. But imagine if you<br />
are heard by 100 million people—what a<br />
difference that would make!”<br />
The submissions to the Upper <strong>School</strong><br />
Film Festival, held in late April, showed<br />
clearly that students are absorbing<br />
powerful aesthetic messages from their<br />
widespread exposure to media--whether<br />
it be television, movies or video games—<br />
and that they know how to apply this<br />
knowledge to their own creations. They<br />
are also mastering the complex software<br />
required to turn out a finished video<br />
production.<br />
The Upper <strong>School</strong> films tackled topics<br />
ranging from athletic shoes to the<br />
absurdity of<br />
war. First Place<br />
winner, A Loss, by<br />
William Ward, Neil<br />
Kimball and Alex<br />
Herzog, depicted<br />
a teen struggling<br />
to overcome<br />
the death of his<br />
girlfriend. Ward’s<br />
directing skills<br />
were showcased in<br />
this piece, as were<br />
Kimball’s considerable<br />
acting skills.<br />
Second Place<br />
winner was X-treme<br />
Walking, by John<br />
Mitchell, Jackson Davis and Ryan Cox.<br />
The video was actually a commercial<br />
depicting the marvelous acrobatic feats<br />
possible for wearers of this athletic shoe.<br />
The film made liberal use of clever special<br />
effects and used a “man-on-the-street”<br />
interview style that featured multiple Upper<br />
<strong>School</strong> students and faculty.<br />
Rachel and the Emo Boy, by Neil<br />
Kimball, required Kimball to serve as both<br />
director and actor—a task he found to be<br />
quite difficult. The film was a theater of the<br />
absurd story about a girl who thinks she is<br />
having a bad day, until she meets a young<br />
man whose day is infinitely worse. The<br />
intense, well-written script was supported<br />
by tight editing and interesting camera<br />
angles.<br />
Alex Fujimoto and John Aldridge’s<br />
submission to the Festival, The Squid<br />
and the Tsunami, employed the technique<br />
of exporting sequences from the video<br />
game Halo, editing them together and<br />
recording a sound track. There was a<br />
profound and poignant message buried in<br />
the endless animated battles—that trivial<br />
matters can result in huge, meaningless<br />
wars. Considering the massive appeal<br />
that video games hold in today’s market,<br />
any animation or virtual set design skills<br />
are going to be a meal ticket for these<br />
students.<br />
Filmmaker Spiros Stathoulopoulos,<br />
guest speaker at the Festival, is the<br />
director of PVC-1, a Cannes 2007 Festival<br />
winner. PVC-1 has the distinction of being<br />
shot entirely in one continuous take, a fact<br />
of great interest to the HIES filmmakers.<br />
Technology and art aside, the underlying<br />
purpose of the Upper <strong>School</strong> Film Festival<br />
was to raise funds for our sister schools in<br />
Haiti. Student organizer, rising senior Lara<br />
Sullivan, is satisfied that the Festival gave<br />
voice to the significant skills held by these<br />
HIES students, in addition to raising $600.<br />
Think About<br />
What You Eat.<br />
by George Dobbs,<br />
Carter Holland<br />
and William Mavity<br />
Drunk Driving<br />
by Nick Andrist,<br />
Mitchel Bassett, Trent Martin,<br />
Harrison McCrorrie<br />
and Ben Rousseau<br />
Global Warming<br />
by Blake Barber, Warner Ray<br />
and Edward Vear<br />
To view these films, visit the<br />
News and Events section of<br />
the HIES website and click on<br />
MultiMedia Gallery.<br />
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Sports<br />
SPRING SPORTS RECAP<br />
Tennis team advances to Final 8; Liz Link places at state in track<br />
John McGoogan<br />
Bentley Heyman<br />
[ TENNIS ]<br />
Broken bones, broken hearts. Injuries<br />
finally caught up to the boy’s tennis team<br />
in the playoffs, as a broken bone in Zach<br />
Reece’s playing hand left the Bears a bit<br />
short handed in its effort against Wesleyan<br />
in the Final 8 of the state.<br />
Reece made a gallant effort playing lefthanded,<br />
and the team took it to the final<br />
set, but a 6-4 in the third loss at No. 1<br />
doubles ended their season at 18-5.<br />
Tyler Mills, the team’s MVP, had only one<br />
loss on the year; ditto for Owen Brock<br />
at No. 3. Reece played No. 2 and had a<br />
successful season.<br />
The team endured a broken thumb from<br />
Keaton Anderson and a sprained ankle<br />
from Brock to reach their Final 8 status.<br />
They emerged as 6AA region champs with<br />
a win over state-champion GAC as well as<br />
Pace Academy.<br />
Ad-in! Lauren Seiple and Morgan Grate<br />
led the girl’s tennis team to the region<br />
quarterfinals before bowing out to state<br />
contender, Wesleyan. Seiple and Grate<br />
occupied the No. 1 and 2 singles slots,<br />
and look for the team to get even stronger<br />
when Mary Elizabeth Shutley rises to the<br />
varsity level next year.<br />
Elizabeth went undefeated in JV play,<br />
normally winning easily on her way to an<br />
8-0 record.<br />
Sure, Coach Cindy Harder will lose her<br />
share to graduation, but Seiple and Grate<br />
return, as well as some key doubles<br />
players to give the Bears a lot of hope.<br />
[ TRACK & FIELD ]<br />
Leaping Link. Sophomore Liz Link<br />
more than outdid her expectations in<br />
the triple jump this year for Coach Ron<br />
Liz Link<br />
Green. Getting second in the region, the<br />
sophomore sensation finished ninth at the<br />
state meet in Albany in early May.<br />
“She jumped the second best distance<br />
of her career in the preliminaries,” Coach<br />
Green said.<br />
Link was the lone girl who qualified for<br />
state, though almost the entire team set<br />
personal records at the region meet at<br />
GAC.<br />
Most in school history! That’s right, three<br />
boys going to state in track is a record at<br />
HIES and Coach Green enjoyed the road<br />
to Jefferson with Trevor Gillum (pole vault),<br />
Darrin McElroy (high jump) and O’Neal<br />
Wanliss (400-meter) in tow.<br />
Gillum and McElroy were second in region;<br />
Wanliss won the 6AA meet in the 400,<br />
becoming only the second individual boy’s<br />
region track champion in school history.<br />
Attendance was up among the track unit<br />
this year, leaving Green and his assistant<br />
happy when thinking of the future.<br />
[ LACROSSE ]<br />
LAX facts. And what a year for boy’s<br />
lacrosse! A milestone was its first win over<br />
Westminster in school’s history – a 10-8<br />
victory back in April.<br />
“That was arguably the best win in the<br />
history of this program,” Coach Mike<br />
Thornton said.<br />
They advanced to state as the No. 2 seed;<br />
though they were dropped 13-10 by topseeded<br />
Milton, Thornton and his gang left<br />
the field with heads up high.<br />
Ashley Tucker, Kelly Scott<br />
The state took note of the team’s success<br />
– Davis Lukens was named All-American<br />
for the second straight year as well as All-<br />
State. Phil Georgakakos was First Team<br />
All-State and Kit York and Brian Garber<br />
All-State Honorable Mention.<br />
Brett Bennett<br />
[ SOCCER ]<br />
Oh so close. It ended in the opening<br />
round of the state boy’s soccer playoffs<br />
– a 3-2 win in penalty kicks to Paideia.<br />
Regardless, Coach Adam Janiak said it<br />
best: “By far that was the most selfless,<br />
passionate game I’ve seen a group of<br />
young men play in my 10 years as a<br />
coach.”<br />
Sam Johnson and John van Beuningen<br />
were the leading scorers, though Janiak<br />
could mention his entire roster when asked<br />
who some of his key players were.<br />
Sam Johnson<br />
Natalie Decker<br />
[ BASEBALL ]<br />
Still playing. They won it all in Class AA<br />
in 2007 and Coach Dylan Deal and his<br />
baseball squad are making another run as<br />
of this writing. Winning 13 games in a row<br />
at one point during the regular season,<br />
the Bears – second in region – began their<br />
postseason drive against Banks County<br />
Friday, May 9th in a best two-of-three.<br />
The team has enjoyed leadership by<br />
committee – as Coach Deal has enjoyed<br />
watching his entire team step up.<br />
Mark Grimm is the pitching ace; Bentley<br />
Heyman – a Wake Forest signee – is one<br />
of the top hitters and solid at shortstop.<br />
Daniel Blaustein – co-captain – has been<br />
a stellar performer at second base and,<br />
when needed, on the mound. Fletcher<br />
Hawkins’ bat has been solid as has his<br />
glove at third base. Sean Aiken – off to<br />
William & Mary next year – is the team’s<br />
rock at catcher. The list could go on.<br />
State finals are Friday, May 30th.<br />
Sean Aiken<br />
[ GOLF ]<br />
Fore! Good news is, the boy’s golf team<br />
captured third at the 6AA tournament.<br />
“The bad news is, only the top two get to<br />
go to state,” Coach Jim Griffin said.<br />
Regardless, what a season his young<br />
squad had! John McGoogan and Ryan<br />
Cox were primarily the low medalists for<br />
the squad. The team has good news<br />
looking forward – eighth grader J.B.<br />
Meathe will join the varsity next year after<br />
drilling a hole-in-one this season for the<br />
JV Bears. “I’m playing every day this<br />
summer,” Meathe said.<br />
Griffin for one, is glad to hear it.<br />
As for the girls, Coach Randi Aton had<br />
only four out a few years ago, hardly<br />
enough to even compete in a meet. She<br />
now has 14 and a contending squad in<br />
6AA. Though they didn’t advance, Casey<br />
Farrell led a Bear squad to a contending<br />
year. Aton had several others step up as<br />
well.<br />
“I’m proud of our kids,” Aton said. “Things<br />
are looking up!”<br />
Tyler Mills<br />
C.J. James,<br />
Adam Wypyski<br />
Ending strong. No, they didn’t earn a<br />
postseason trip, but the girl’s lacrosse<br />
team ended with consecutive wins over<br />
GAC and North Forsyth.<br />
Chandler Hartley, Caroline Lee, Kat<br />
Conway and Kyle Keenan were among<br />
the leading scorers for the season; Coach<br />
Forrest Stillwell commented time and<br />
again on the squad’s improvement.<br />
John Beuningen<br />
Whit Woodring<br />
Bringing the heat<br />
Will Byrd, Bill Whitaker, John McGoogan,<br />
Joe Byrd, Ryan Cox, Blake Snellings,<br />
Coach Jim Griffin<br />
Until next time…<br />
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COLLEGES OF MATrICULATION<br />
Class of 2008 SCHOLARSHIPS<br />
Taylor P. Adams, University of Georgia<br />
Sean A. Aiken, College of William and Mary<br />
Robert K. Aitkens, University of Georgia<br />
Sarah C. Allen, American University<br />
Sydney Allen, The University of Alabama<br />
Caroline V. Anderson, Berry College<br />
Courtney L. Armstrong, Auburn University<br />
John B. Austin, University of Georgia<br />
Virginia R. Baldwin, The University of Montana, Missoula<br />
Sylvia B. Barrows, Sewanee: The University of the South<br />
Brett L. Bennett, Elon University<br />
Michael A. Bird, Mercer University<br />
Sarah L. Bissell, University of Georgia<br />
Daniel I. Blaustein, Georgia State University<br />
Kirsten K. Boe, University of Kentucky<br />
Ethan R. Bower, Georgia State University<br />
Kaitlyn R. Bradshaw, Wofford College<br />
Kevin David Brenninkmeijer, University of Colorado at Boulder<br />
Chelsea B. Brogdon, Southern Methodist University<br />
Meredith E. Broudy, University of Georgia<br />
Phillip M. Brunson, Kennesaw State University<br />
Mary L. Byrd, University of South Carolina<br />
James L. Caldwell, Georgia State University<br />
Kishauna R. Callwood, St. John’s University<br />
Loren R. Canby, Miami University, Oxford<br />
John M. Carpenter, Louisiana State University<br />
Amy C. Casey, Furman University<br />
Caitlin L. Corsetti, The University of Alabama<br />
Anastasia Couvaras, University of Georgia<br />
Katherine P. Decker, Louisiana State University<br />
Glenn P. DeMarcus, Vanderbilt University<br />
Justin L. DeNicola, Clemson University<br />
Arsalan Derakhshan, Emory University<br />
Garrett Easom, University of South Carolina<br />
Alexander H. Erdemir, The University of Alabama at Birmingham<br />
Alice E. Eustis, Presbyterian College<br />
Katherine B. Evans, The University of Montana, Missoula<br />
Anne C. Galloway, University of Georgia<br />
Mary Glen Galloway, Undecided<br />
Brian M. Garber, Georgia Institute of Technology<br />
Jasmine A. Garrett, University of Richmond<br />
Kelly L. Garrison, Sweet Briar College<br />
Philip B. Georgakakos, Georgia Institute of Technology<br />
Trevor J. Gillum, University of Georgia<br />
Samuel A. Gonzalez, Montana State University, Bozeman<br />
Julia A. Grimm, Clemson University<br />
Mark E. Grimm, Brown University<br />
William F. Hawkins, The University of Alabama<br />
Christopher C. Herbert, University of Florida<br />
Bentley Heyman, Wake Forest University<br />
Caitlin S. Hogan, Georgia Institute of Technology<br />
Sara C. Hollett, Auburn University<br />
Andrew G. Hovancik, University of Georgia<br />
Emily E. Hovis, University of Georgia<br />
Ashleigh C. Hutchings, The University of Alabama<br />
Helena Johnson, Georgia Perimeter College<br />
David H. Kamerschen, University of Georgia<br />
Timothy B. Kovacs, Appalachian State University<br />
Lilly C. Landskroener, University of Georgia<br />
Erik A. Larsen, Georgia College and State University<br />
Caroline E. Loux, University of Georgia<br />
Davis L. Lukens, Denison University<br />
Martin H. Macintyre, Clemson University<br />
Sarah F. Margeson, University of South Carolina<br />
Emily E. Martin, University of Georgia<br />
Kerry A. Martin, University of Georgia<br />
Arden C. McClain, Miami University, Oxford<br />
Darrin W. McElroy, United States Naval Academy<br />
Ian Andrew McGonnigle, Undecided<br />
John C. McGoogan, Southern Methodist University<br />
Matthew O. McMillan, Clemson University<br />
Margaret A. McWhirter, University of Georgia<br />
Colin Meier, Undecided<br />
Meagan M. Miller, The University of Alabama<br />
Tyler R. Mills, Kennesaw State University<br />
John O. Mohammadioun, University of Colorado at Boulder<br />
Norma V. Nyhoff, Carleton College<br />
Lauren Danielle Ouellette, Rollins College<br />
Haley R. Pope, Rhodes College<br />
Austin L. Pound, Appalachian State University<br />
Erica L. Price, DePaul University<br />
Wayne Alan Quigley, Undecided<br />
Katherine E. Quirk, University of Georgia<br />
Ellen R. Reece, Auburn University<br />
Clara H. Reed, Berry College<br />
Emily W. Richter, University of Georgia<br />
Amanda T. Saca, Wofford College<br />
Raquel L. Scharyj, Wake Forest University<br />
James Kyle Strait, Georgia Institute of Technology<br />
Harrison A. Stroman, University of Georgia<br />
Rachel E. Sullivan, University of Virginia<br />
Katherine M. Tate, University of Colorado at Boulder<br />
Carlee A. Terrell, Georgia Institute of Technology<br />
Christopher W. Thomas, Duke University<br />
Michael G. Vaughan, Georgia Institute of Technology<br />
Colleen C. Weaver, Winthrop University<br />
Matthew A. Webb, Oglethorpe University<br />
Virginia A. West, Miami University, Oxford<br />
Megan D. Wilkins, University of South Carolina<br />
Rachael E. Windler, University of Tennessee, Knoxville<br />
Cory J. Wright, Berry College<br />
Christopher A. York, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill<br />
Taylor Adams<br />
University of Alabama, Alumni Scholarship<br />
Sarah Allen<br />
American University, Dean’s Scholarship<br />
George Washington University, Presidential<br />
Scholarship<br />
Caroline Anderson<br />
Berry College, Academic Scholarship and<br />
Equestrian Scholarship<br />
Jack Austin<br />
University of Georgia Honors Program,<br />
Charter Scholarship<br />
Michael Bird<br />
Mercer University, University Academic<br />
Scholarship<br />
Sarah Bissell<br />
Miami University, Oxford, Oxford Scholarship<br />
Southern Methodist University, Rotunda &<br />
Distinguished Scholar<br />
Kaitlyn Bradshaw<br />
Birmingham-Southern College, Academic<br />
Award<br />
Kevin Brenninkmeijer<br />
Montana State University, Bozeman,<br />
Achievement Award<br />
Meredith Broudy<br />
University of Maryland, College Park,<br />
Presidential Scholarship<br />
Kishauna Callwood<br />
St. John’s University, Academic<br />
Achievement Award<br />
Loren Canby<br />
Simmons College, Activity History Award<br />
Jack Carpenter<br />
Louisiana State University, Bengal Legacy<br />
and Star Student Scholarship<br />
Glenn DeMarcus<br />
American Express Award<br />
Ali Eustis<br />
Ohio Wesleyan University, Diversity Award<br />
Annie Galloway<br />
Auburn University, Academic Scholarship<br />
Brian Garber<br />
University of South Carolina, Woodrow<br />
Scholars Award<br />
Jasmine Garrett<br />
Elon University, Presidential Scholarship<br />
Randolph-Macon University, Presidential<br />
Scholarship<br />
Sam Gonzalez<br />
Montana State University, Achievement<br />
Award<br />
Julia Grimm<br />
BellSouth Corporation, BellSouth<br />
Scholarship<br />
Christopher Herbert<br />
University of Florida, Atlanta Gator Club<br />
Scholarship<br />
Caitlin Hogan<br />
Auburn University, Talent Scholars Award<br />
Sara Hollett<br />
DePauw University, Alumni Legacy Award<br />
Kam Kamerschen<br />
Louisiana State University, Tiger Scholarship<br />
Timothy Kovacs<br />
Western State College of Colorado, National<br />
Student Scholarship<br />
Erik Larsen<br />
Berry College, Opportunity Grant<br />
Carly Loux<br />
University of Alabama, J.C. Moore<br />
Scholarship<br />
Auburn University, Academic Charter<br />
Scholarship<br />
University of Georgia, Charter Scholarship<br />
Davis Lukens<br />
Denison University, Denison Alumni Award<br />
Emily Martin<br />
University of South Carolina, McKissick<br />
Scholars Award and In State<br />
Tuition Award<br />
Kerry Martin<br />
University of Georgia, Charter Scholarship<br />
University of South Carolina, Woodrow<br />
Scholars Award and Merit Award<br />
Darrin McElroy<br />
New Mexico Military Institute, U.S. Naval<br />
Academy Foundation Scholarship<br />
Tyler Mills<br />
Kennesaw State University, Tennis<br />
Scholarship<br />
Norma Nyhoff<br />
Carleton College, Academic Scholarship<br />
and National Merit Award<br />
Danielle Ouellette<br />
Rollins College, Florida Access Grant<br />
Emily Richter<br />
Auburn University, Academic Charter<br />
Scholarship<br />
Christopher Thomas<br />
Rice University, Trustee Distinguished<br />
Scholarship<br />
IBM Watson Scholarship<br />
Megan Wilkins<br />
University of Mississippi, Academic<br />
Excellence Award and Children of<br />
Alumni Award<br />
University of South Carolina: Woodrow<br />
Scholars Award<br />
Cory Wright<br />
Berry College, Academic Scholarship<br />
Lycoming College, Academic Scholarship<br />
Kit York<br />
University of California at Los Angeles,<br />
Scholarship Recognition<br />
Total Awarded: $1, 781, 900.00<br />
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2008 Middle <strong>School</strong> Honors 2008 Upper <strong>School</strong> Honors<br />
Group Awards<br />
Sixth Grade<br />
Eighth Grade<br />
Duke TIP—State<br />
Payton Anderson<br />
James Best<br />
Kendall Krebs<br />
William Mavity<br />
William Rasmussen<br />
Evy Mitchell<br />
Creighton Aldridge<br />
Grand Concours National Winner<br />
Bailey Wilkie<br />
Grand Concours State Winners<br />
Bailey Wilkie<br />
Evy Mitchell<br />
Michael Money<br />
Charisse Hughes<br />
Kendall Konenkamp<br />
Mary Catherine Thompson<br />
Certificat d’honneur<br />
Rachel Garber<br />
Carolina Saca<br />
Sarah Widener<br />
Bailey Wilkie<br />
Science Olympiad—Regional First Place<br />
John Galloway<br />
Jack Watts<br />
Jake Decker<br />
Derby Sutter<br />
Carson McGorry<br />
American Mathematics Competition<br />
James Best (1st Place)<br />
Student Council Executive Board<br />
President – Katie Keith<br />
Vice President – Natalie Scott<br />
Secretary – Anne Yanda<br />
Treasurer – Allison Rogg<br />
Art – Leanne Money<br />
Band – Percussion - Clayton DeHaven<br />
Band – Woodwinds - Stewart Brumbeloe<br />
Chorus – Kennan Luther<br />
Computer - Alina Brenninkmeijer<br />
Drama – Drew Anderson<br />
English – (Girls) – Ashlyn Masters<br />
English – (Boys) – Patrick Shelton<br />
French – Mary Catherine Thomson<br />
Handbells I – Adair Chambers<br />
Handbells II – Dalyan Kilic<br />
Health – Ansley Carter<br />
Geography – Natalie Kessler<br />
Math – Mary Catherine Thomson<br />
Orchestra – Madison Collins<br />
Beginning Orchestra – Elizabeth Callaway<br />
Physical Education –<br />
Jamey O’Shaughnessey<br />
Science – Marielle Williams<br />
Spanish – Grant Wilmer<br />
Strategies – Trent Martin<br />
Research Skills – Harrison Young<br />
Seventh Grade<br />
Art – Stephen Williams<br />
Band – Percussion – Thomas Coleman<br />
Band – Woodwinds - Christin Grulke<br />
Bible – Wright Griffith<br />
Chorus – Michael Money<br />
Drama – Payton Anderson<br />
English – (Girls) - Hannah Weiss<br />
English - (Boys) - Devon Asbury<br />
French – Evy Mitchell<br />
Handbells I – Addie Ponder<br />
Handbells II – Alexandra Juneau<br />
Health – Brantley Taylor<br />
History – Emma van Beuningen<br />
Accelerated Math – Creighton Aldridge<br />
Transitional Math – Thomas Coleman<br />
Orchestra – Wick Simmons<br />
Physical Education – Chandler Cook<br />
Science – William Rasmussen<br />
Spanish – Bailey McBride<br />
Strategies – John Gordon Hiles<br />
Accelerated Algebra – James Best<br />
Algebra – Allison Rhea<br />
Pre-Algebra – Amanda Graham<br />
Art – Kate Hollett<br />
Band – Percussion – Jake Decker<br />
Band – Woodwinds - Brittany Ketchup<br />
Chorus – Rachael Walker<br />
Drama – Emma Borne<br />
English – (Girls) – Darby Cook<br />
Englsih – (Boys) – Harrison Andros<br />
Ethics – Allison Rogg<br />
Film – Shamoya Bailey<br />
French – Bailey Wilkie<br />
Handbells I – Rachel Garber<br />
Handbells II – Tay Rivers<br />
Health – Anne Yanda<br />
History – Shannon O’Hanlon<br />
Latin – Thomas Menk<br />
Orchestra – Michelle Nelson<br />
Physical Education – Clint Dolan<br />
Rhetoric – Hannah Kissack<br />
Accelerated Science – Natalie Sterrett<br />
Science – Shannon O’Hanlon<br />
Spanish – Darby Cook<br />
Strategies – Anna Griffin<br />
Special Awards<br />
Athlete of the Year<br />
Skye Bolt<br />
Sarah Venable<br />
Chaplain’s Award<br />
Katie Keith<br />
Dean’s Award for Citizenship<br />
Sixth — James Moon & Katie Jacobs<br />
Seventh — Wright Griffith &<br />
Brantley Taylor<br />
Eighth — Harrison Andros & Allison Rogg<br />
Middle <strong>School</strong> Faculty Award<br />
Clint Dolan & Katie Keith<br />
World History – Channing Jones<br />
World History Honors – Natalie Decker<br />
US History – John Mitchell<br />
US History Honors – Mackenzie Sawicki<br />
AP US History – Kate Newman<br />
Topics in Modern History – Garrett Easom<br />
European History – Clara Reed<br />
AP European History – Norma Nyhoff<br />
Government/Economics – Brett Bennett<br />
AP Government – Katherine Quirk<br />
World Geography – William Ward<br />
Ancient History & Religion – Carter Ehlers<br />
Ethics – Neil Kimball<br />
New Testament – Sarah Hamill<br />
Comparative Religions –<br />
Arsalan Derakhshan<br />
Mythology – Caitlin Hogan<br />
Spirituality – Alan Quigley<br />
Journalism – Melissa Reeder<br />
English 9 – Kathryn Maloy<br />
English 9 Honors – Kate Borden<br />
English 10 – Millen Kebede<br />
English 10 Honors – Sophia Sapronov<br />
English 11 – Sakia DeLaney<br />
English 11 Honors – Lauren Seiple<br />
AP English Language – Lara Sullivan<br />
English 12 – Sarah Bissell<br />
English 12 Honors – Rachel Sullivan<br />
AP English Literature – Norma Nyhoff<br />
Biology – Carter Ehlers<br />
Biology Honors – Kaki Bennett<br />
AP Biology – Alex Herzog<br />
Chemistry – Price Barnett<br />
Chemistry Honors – Corinne Bicknese<br />
Anatomy & Physiology – Carlee Terrell<br />
Physics – Arden McClain<br />
Physics Honors – Courtney Kissack<br />
AP Physics – Katherine Quirk<br />
Environmental Science – Sam Johnson<br />
AP Environmental Science – Blair Barrows<br />
Algebra I-B – Bobby Fine<br />
Geometry – Meghan Barrett<br />
Geometry Honors – K.C. Crewdson<br />
Algebra II – Christina Callaway<br />
Algebra II Honors – Corinne Bicknese<br />
Algebra III – Drew Steinmetz<br />
Pre Calculus – Haley Pope<br />
Pre Calculus Honors – Caroline Lee<br />
Discrete Math – Emily Martin<br />
AP Statistics – Caitlin Hogan<br />
AP Calculus AB – Kerry Martin<br />
AP Calculus BC – Rachel Sullivan<br />
Spanish I – Rekeyia Sherrell<br />
Spanish II – Meghan Barrett<br />
Spanish II Honors – Megan Ernst<br />
Spanish III – Ashleigh Luttery<br />
Spanish III Honors – Rebecca Hamm<br />
Spanish IV – Matt McCloskey<br />
Spanish IV Honors – Jennie Hardin<br />
Spanish V – Caroline Anderson<br />
AP Spanish – Alex Wallace<br />
French I – Kate Decker<br />
French II – Bailey McDearis<br />
French II Honors – Kaki Bennett<br />
French III – Kartee Johnson<br />
French III Honors – Kate Newman<br />
French IV – Holly Spalding<br />
French IV Honors – Lara Sullivan<br />
AP French – Helena Johnson<br />
Latin I – Jackie Menk<br />
Latin II – Casey Farrell<br />
Latin III – Rachel Bottoms<br />
Latin IV – Emily Richter<br />
Yearbook – Megan Wilkins<br />
Foundations of Art – Callen Phillips<br />
Drawing II – Chandler Wood<br />
3D Design I – Bill Whittaker<br />
2D Design II – Wood Alter<br />
Drawing 1/2D Design I – Olivia Stockert<br />
AP 2D Design – Haley Pope<br />
AP 3D Design – Sarah Bissell<br />
AP Drawing – Kishauna Callwood<br />
Chorus – Chris Mann<br />
Theatre Arts – Phillip Brunson<br />
Band – K.C. Crewdson<br />
Orchestra – Rebecca Hamm<br />
Photography – Alex Erdemir<br />
Informational Technologies – Ryan Cox<br />
Life Wellness – Halle Addison<br />
Physical Education –<br />
Christine Georgakakos<br />
Governor’s Honors Program –<br />
Kate Newman<br />
Phi Beta Kappa Award – Kate Newman<br />
Scholar Athlete Award –<br />
Daniel Blaustein<br />
Katherine Quirk<br />
Quill and Scroll –<br />
Channing Jones, Katelyn Dramis,<br />
Josie Rahn, Lara Sullivan<br />
Student Council Scholarship –<br />
Alex Wallace<br />
University of Georgia Cert. of Merit –<br />
Jennie Hardin, Caroline Lee,<br />
John Mitchell, Kate Newman,<br />
Lauren Seiple<br />
S.T.A.R. Student and Faculty Award –<br />
Kit York and Christine Stafford<br />
Frank L. Butler/Marilyn Butler Blane<br />
Memorial Scholarship – Andrew Parrish<br />
National Honor Society Scholarship –<br />
Corinne Bicknese<br />
Citizenship Award – Alan Quigley<br />
Atlanta Journal Cup – Arsalan Derakhshan<br />
Excellence in Moral Courage Award –<br />
Helena Johnson<br />
Ninth Grade General Excellence Award –<br />
Sarah Merkel, Peyton Warley<br />
Tenth Grade General Excellence Award –<br />
My Bui, Rebecca Hamm<br />
Eleventh Grade General Excellence<br />
Award – Kartee Johnson, Chandler Wood<br />
Twelfth Grade General Excellence<br />
Award – Katherine Quirk, Megan Wilkins<br />
Faculty Award – Arsalan Derakhshan<br />
The Principal’s Award – Sean Aiken<br />
Alice L. Malcolm Headmaster’s Award –<br />
Jennie Hardin<br />
Salutatorian – Norma Nyhoff<br />
Valedictorian – Rachel Sullivan<br />
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PROM ‘08<br />
Juniors and Seniors danced the<br />
night away at Callanwolde<br />
Prom Queen: Rachel Sullivan<br />
Prom King: Philip Georgakakos<br />
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From The Development Office<br />
In Honor of Pan Phillips<br />
In honor of Pan Phillips, beloved 1st grade assistant teacher<br />
in the Lower <strong>School</strong>, a series of benches were installed<br />
in front of the Dorothy Sullivan Lower <strong>School</strong>. The Lower<br />
<strong>School</strong> faculty felt this was an appropriate way to honor<br />
her memory as she cared so much for the children. These<br />
benches will help to keep the Lower <strong>School</strong> children and<br />
faculty comfortable and safe while waiting in the carpool line<br />
(a duty Pan enjoyed and took seriously).<br />
Pan passed away suddenly in 2007 and is missed by all<br />
who worked with her. She worked at HIES for 27 years.<br />
Please don’t sit out the<br />
Annual Fund this year!<br />
With the June 30th deadline looming, Annual Fund volunteers<br />
have been working to get in every possible gift to reach our<br />
goal of $1,100,000 and to have as high a percentage of<br />
participating families as possible. Every child at <strong>Holy</strong> Innocents’<br />
receives a form of financial aid from the Fund each year, so<br />
we ask each family to consider a gift at the level that is right<br />
for their circumstances. Dollars raised this year will be used<br />
towards things like faculty training and benefits, educational<br />
programs, basic repairs to facilities and expansion of the laptop<br />
program.<br />
College Fair Gets All A’s<br />
The Bruce E. Mitchell<br />
Financial Aid Fund<br />
In May, <strong>Holy</strong> Innocents’ received a generous donation from a 7th grade<br />
student, Amanda Turner, and her family. This gift will be used to support the<br />
Science Olympiad Program and the Middle <strong>School</strong> Science Department<br />
over the next two years. The HIES Science Olympiad team competed in 23<br />
categories at the State Science Olympiad in March and won fourth place<br />
statewide against 28 other top schools in Georgia. Amanda credits Mrs.<br />
Janet Silvera with her increased interest and achievement in science, and<br />
she came up with the idea to support the program. Students are chosen for<br />
the team in the early fall and spend many hours over the course of several<br />
months preparing for the regional and state competitions, practicing after<br />
school, on Saturdays, and over vacations. It takes a great deal of dedication<br />
and hard work to comprise a winning team: Amanda’s gift will ensure that<br />
our Science Bears have what they need to stay on top of their game.<br />
The <strong>Holy</strong> Innocents’ 15th annual College Fair took place April 8 in the<br />
school gymnasium complex. It was once again a great success with<br />
over 140 colleges participating and 450 students from 30 high schools<br />
attending.<br />
The college reps always compliment our spacious venue where the<br />
college tables were spread out over the two gyms. We offered a hospitality<br />
area on the upper hall of the main gym where we served the college reps<br />
a boxed lunch and desserts prepared by parent volunteers. The area was<br />
decorated with art loaned by Mrs. Jackson’s and Mrs. Jacob’s Upper<br />
<strong>School</strong> art classes.<br />
Parent volunteers from the 10th grade class, ably assisted by 9th grade<br />
class parents, hosted the Fair. Over 50 students also volunteered their time<br />
in the student and rep registration areas, in the parking lots to assist the<br />
reps with their materials, in the Hospitality area and on the gym floor.<br />
We were pleased to receive such positive feedback from the college<br />
reps, with several commenting that it was the best fair yet.<br />
Turner Gift to Science Olympiad Program<br />
Janet Silvera, David Turner, Amanda Turner, Kathy Turner,<br />
James Jackson<br />
Dana Halberg, Barbara Cartmill, David Haddow, Susan Bishop, Bruce Mitchell, Joe Reynolds, Anne Bachman, John Almeter, Denise Ivey<br />
In 2007, an anonymous donor made a<br />
generous $100,000 gift to endow a financial<br />
aid fund in honor of former Trustee and<br />
Scholarship Foundation Chairman, Bruce<br />
E. Mitchell. This gift was issued with a<br />
challenge to the community, and those<br />
whom Bruce has touched over the years,<br />
to match the support dollar for dollar<br />
and significantly increase the level of aid<br />
available for talented minority students with<br />
demonstrated financial needs. The fund<br />
has grown to $175,000 and we hope to<br />
continue to grow it in hopes it will provide a<br />
Anne and Carter Bachman and Libby Lindsay<br />
full scholarship one day.<br />
On April 17, an event was held at the<br />
Cherokee Town Club in honor of Bruce<br />
Mitchell. This event was a wonderful tribute<br />
to Bruce and all he has done for HIES over<br />
the years. Many members of the Scholarship<br />
Foundation attended the event, as did other<br />
members of the HIES community.<br />
Bruce E. Mitchell has been an active<br />
member of the <strong>Holy</strong> Innocents’ <strong>Episcopal</strong><br />
<strong>School</strong> Community for more than thirteen<br />
years, having served in numerous capacities<br />
including service as Vice Chair and Member<br />
of the Board of Trustees and Chair of the<br />
Scholarship Foundation. He contributed<br />
countless hours and personal resources<br />
to the life and growth of the school and<br />
is admired by many members of the <strong>Holy</strong><br />
Innocents’ school family.<br />
Please contact Michele Duncan<br />
(404-303-2150 x193 or michele.duncan@<br />
hies.org) in the Development Office if<br />
you wish to receive more information on<br />
supporting this Fund.<br />
Wilson Salisbury<br />
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Bruce Mitchell
Outreach<br />
Fun Run Scores Personal Best<br />
CLASS NOTES<br />
Six hundred people walked the morning away for a good cause<br />
during the Parents’ Association Fun Run on April 26th. Seventy-five<br />
Upper <strong>School</strong> and 8th grade students counted laps and kept records,<br />
aided by a dozen parent volunteers.<br />
All funds raised will go toward the purchase of a new school<br />
bus for the Albert T. Mills Enrichment Center. It is a credit to<br />
the HIES spirit of outreach that the event surpassed its goal of<br />
$15,000 by nearly 50%, earning over $22,000.<br />
CLASS OF 1995<br />
Class representative:<br />
Nicole (Thomas) Thibo: nicthm@yahoo.com<br />
Tom Anderson, ’95, and his wife, Megan<br />
had a little girl, Isabelle Anderson, on<br />
October 22, 2007.<br />
CLASS OF 1996<br />
Class representative:<br />
Jenny (Graham) Beeson: jagraham1978@yahoo.com<br />
CLASS OF 1997<br />
Class representative:<br />
Emilie (Collins) Murphy: emiliecmurphy@gmail.com<br />
George Bennett Cierny, ’97, and Jill<br />
Rachel Tanenbaum were married in Atlanta<br />
on April 5, 2008. They are both third year<br />
medical students at Tulane University in New<br />
Orleans, LA.<br />
CLASS OF 1998<br />
Class representatives:<br />
John Morgan: Jfmua2@aol.com<br />
Effie (Swartwood) Thompson: effies21@hotmail.com<br />
Alexandra Henderson, ‘98, is working<br />
as a marketing assistant at Linens USA<br />
in Doraville, GA. The company makes<br />
polyester industrial garments and sells them<br />
wholesale to uniform companies around the<br />
country. She is still living in Norcross with<br />
her boyfriend, Chuck and cat, Molly.<br />
Jeremy Stacy, ’98, is a computer project<br />
engineer with Crothall Industries. He and<br />
his wife, Susan (his Yale sweetheart) married<br />
last summer and live in Chicago. Jeremy<br />
also composes DNB music and performs<br />
solo as Aamano and with a partner as<br />
Section Nine. Susan is a vintage designer<br />
clothing dealer.<br />
Alex Johnson, ’95, and his wife, Liza, have<br />
a beautiful little girl Amelia Isis Johnson<br />
who will be turning one on May 10. Her<br />
big brother, Kellen Woods Johnson, just<br />
turned six and is the kindest big brother<br />
they could have dreamed of having to help<br />
Amelia along the road of life. Liza and Alex<br />
continue to cherish their time together and<br />
look forward to an excellent summer in<br />
Colorado.<br />
James Yancey, ’98, and Tray Butler, his<br />
partner of five years, were joined in a<br />
Commitment Ceremony on May 17, 2008 at<br />
the Atlanta Botanical Gardens.<br />
Andrew Savula<br />
and family<br />
Mary Anna Wearing<br />
Holly McClure, ’97, is still living in New<br />
York and is an Associate Producer for NBC<br />
Sports. She is going to Beijing from August<br />
1-22 for the Olympic games, which should<br />
be pretty exciting. She also ran the NYC<br />
Marathon this past November and reached<br />
her goal of finishing under 5 hours.<br />
William Morgan, ’95, passed his<br />
comprehensive exams to partially satisfy the<br />
Ph.D requirement for the History Department<br />
at the University of Texas. He will be<br />
spending next year in Cuba doing research<br />
for his dissertation.<br />
Joseph Minotto, Austin Minotto,<br />
Sam Baskin<br />
Walker Noland,<br />
Connor Jensen<br />
Sam Cravey and<br />
John Gibson<br />
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Class Notes<br />
Class Notes<br />
CLASS OF 1999<br />
Class representatives:<br />
Jennifer (Cavanaugh) Brown: Jennifer.Cavanaugh@hies.org<br />
Samia Hanafi: samhanafi@gmail.com<br />
Drew McDonald: drew.mcdonald@pfsfhq.com<br />
Chris Denittis, ’99, recently accepted to the<br />
UGA <strong>School</strong> of Law and will begin in August<br />
2008. Chris graduated with a bachelor’s<br />
degree in journalism from Georgia also.<br />
Brian Hall, ’99, is currently shooting the<br />
21st season of FOX’s COPS. His first venue<br />
has him riding with Broward County Sheriffs<br />
Department in Fort Lauderdale, FL. Other<br />
recent projects include “The Real World<br />
Hollywood” now airing on MTV. Brian has<br />
teamed up with SneakySunday.com,<br />
an Atlanta-based website that features<br />
recommendations for bars and clubs,<br />
restaurants, hotels, shopping and live<br />
entertainment. Brian is helping launch<br />
SneakySunday.tv in the coming weeks,<br />
which will feature original programming and<br />
insider access to the cities’ hottest spots<br />
in a short-form, documentary-style videoreview<br />
site.<br />
Sarah Foy Moreland, ‘99, will marry Hans<br />
Marcus Sherman in Atlanta, Georgia on June<br />
14th, 2008 at All Saints’ <strong>Episcopal</strong> Church.<br />
The couple will continue to reside in Boston,<br />
Massachusetts.<br />
David Peterson, ’99, and Melissa Clapp<br />
Peterson, ’99, would like to announce their<br />
wedding on November 3, 2007. David says<br />
“It’s funny because they didn’t really hang<br />
out at all much in high school, but met back<br />
up a couple of years ago, and the rest is<br />
history.”<br />
CLASS OF 2000<br />
Class Representatives:<br />
James Capo: jhcapo@gmail.com<br />
Nitara Carswell: nitaracarswell@hotmail.com<br />
Sarah Oddsen: sarahodd@hotmail.com<br />
Courtney Dutson, ’00, attended Bikram<br />
Yoga Teacher Training last fall, which is a<br />
very intensive 9-week program for Bikram<br />
Yoga, the original hot yoga. Teacher Training<br />
is similar in intensity to Army Boot Camp--18<br />
hour days, 2 intensive 90-minute+ yoga<br />
classes every day in 105 degree F heat,<br />
lectures, teacher dialogue memorization<br />
and presentation for evaluation, etc. She<br />
graduated and now teaches Bikram Yoga<br />
full-time at several studios in the Central<br />
Florida area. Courtney lives in Cocoa<br />
Beach, FL and surfs every day possible.<br />
CLASS OF 2001<br />
Class Representatives:<br />
Matt Freeman: msfreeman@gmail.com<br />
Ellen Williams: ellenwilliams@mindspring.com<br />
Ashley Crowley Jones, ’01, has been<br />
married for four years to Erik Jones, and<br />
they have a 1 1/2 year old little boy named<br />
Joshua Jones. They live in Fort Rucker, AL.<br />
Her husband is in flight school for the US<br />
Army. He is training to be an Apache pilot.<br />
The Jones’ will soon be moving wherever<br />
the Army sends them by the end of the year<br />
which is very exciting.<br />
CLASS OF 2002<br />
Class Representatives:<br />
Katie Kirtland: kirtlkr@bellsouth.net<br />
Alley Pickren: alleypic@uga.edu<br />
Zach Blend, ’02, was hired by <strong>Holy</strong><br />
Innocents’ as an assistant baseball coach.<br />
Zach led the <strong>Holy</strong> Innocents’ Middle <strong>School</strong><br />
Baseball Team to a 2nd place finish in the<br />
Dunwoody Senior League this spring. He<br />
works full time as a Development Officer for<br />
the Goshen Valley Boys Ranch in Waleska,<br />
Georgia, a home for young men who have<br />
found themselves within the state foster care<br />
system due to years of abuse and neglect<br />
and are in need of a higher level of care and<br />
support due to past traumatic experiences.<br />
Alex Crumpler, ’02, “One year ago,<br />
Sonia Barbalho and I entertained one<br />
another about the possibility of traveling<br />
together. Having the passion to see the<br />
world, challenging ourselves in foreign<br />
situations and a desire to widen our<br />
global perspective, we began planning an<br />
extended trip that would include much of<br />
South America, Australia and Southeast<br />
Asia. The dream became a reality! We felt<br />
that there will be few times afforded to us in<br />
our lives to go on a similar journey. Budget<br />
in mind, we agreed that the purpose of<br />
our trip will be to immerse ourselves in a<br />
menagerie of cultures, languages and life<br />
lessons.<br />
“Thus far we have survived a week in Rio<br />
de Janeiro celebrating Carnival, witnessed<br />
the creation of a perfect Argentinean<br />
Malbec, explored the ruins of Machu Picchu,<br />
walked across floating islands made of<br />
reeds in Lake Titicaca and biked through the<br />
Patagonian Lake District.<br />
“The adventure will have an exponential<br />
impact on who we are as people and<br />
positively enrich our international awareness.<br />
Traveling increases one’s appreciation for<br />
life, evokes curiosity and passion, sharpens<br />
one’s ability to adapt and, most importantly,<br />
it energizes the mind to learn.<br />
“We seized an opportunity and made<br />
many sacrifices in order to follow our hearts<br />
and dreams. This adventure would not have<br />
been possible without the love, support<br />
and knowledge of our friends and families.<br />
You have enlightened, inspired and instilled<br />
the qualities and values that have and will<br />
continue to shape us for the rest of our lives.<br />
Words cannot express our gratitude for the<br />
many things you have bestowed upon us.<br />
Although this may be an unconventional way<br />
to learn, the potential to learn is endless.<br />
We love you and will continue to share our<br />
insights, experiences, recommendations<br />
and appreciation. The web address is www.<br />
goneroaming.wordpress.com.”<br />
Missy Evans, ’02, is graduating from the<br />
University of Denver Graduate <strong>School</strong> of<br />
Social Work in the clinical Families track,<br />
on June 6 with a Masters in social work.<br />
She will receive her school social worker<br />
license and social work license. Missy will<br />
be moving to Jackson, WY for a job as a<br />
therapist.<br />
CLASS OF 2003<br />
Class Representatives:<br />
James Jackson: JJDAWG84@UGA.EDU<br />
Emily Weprich: wepriep@auburn.edu<br />
Caroline Wimberly: caroline.wimberly@duke.edu<br />
Robert Fowler, ’03, is graduating from the<br />
University of North Carolina with a Masters<br />
degree, and will be working in Charlotte for<br />
PricewaterhouseCoopers in the fall.<br />
Adam Jones, ’03, graduated from the<br />
University of Georgia, Terry College of<br />
Business with a degree in Management<br />
Information Systems in December 2007.<br />
He now works for Ernst & Young in the<br />
Technology and Security Risk Services<br />
Department full time and recently moved<br />
into a new place in Buckhead.<br />
James Milner, ’03, graduated cum laude<br />
last May from the University of Miami,<br />
FL. He received departmental honors<br />
in Philosophy. James was accepted at<br />
Georgetown University for the Conflict<br />
Resolution M.A. Program. He currently<br />
works at Knuckle Up Fitness Sandy Springs,<br />
where he has recently begun training in<br />
Brazilian jiu-jitsu.<br />
CLASS OF 2004<br />
Class Representatives:<br />
Amy Fore: amyfore@uga.edu<br />
Collins Marshall: HCM04@fsu.edu<br />
Gordon Silvera: Gordon.M.Silvera@dartmouth.edu<br />
Angelique Constantaras, ’04, has been<br />
accepted to study abroad through the UGA<br />
en España Sevilla Maymester program. The<br />
program extends from May, 7 2008 to June<br />
2, 2008, and she will be taking Business<br />
Spanish as the final Spanish class of her<br />
Spanish major at UGA. After the program,<br />
Angelique will remain in Spain with relatives<br />
in Benidorm, Spain and continue to improve<br />
her fluency in the Spanish language by<br />
working in the area. She will return in the<br />
fall of this year to complete her Advertising<br />
degree through the Grady <strong>School</strong> of<br />
Journalism and Mass Communication<br />
at UGA. Most recently, Angelique was<br />
awarded the position of VP of Educational<br />
Programming on the Advertising club’s<br />
executive board for Fall 08 and she was<br />
accepted into Alpha Delta Sigma, a national<br />
honorary society sponsored by the AAF<br />
(American Advertising Federation).<br />
Eric Huff, ’04, is graduating from Florida<br />
State University where he majored in<br />
Finance. He will be moving to San Diego<br />
upon graduation.<br />
Susan Little, ’04, is currently an intern with<br />
Mass Mutual Financial Group. She started<br />
in January and currently works both in the<br />
Athens and the Atlanta, Georgia offices and<br />
will continue through the summer and fall.<br />
Jordan Olinger, ‘04, will be graduating<br />
from Xavier University in Cincinnati, OH<br />
this May with a B.S. in Athletic Training and<br />
Natural Sciences. Through her tenure at<br />
Xavier University, she has been involved in<br />
several organizations such as the Student<br />
Government Association, University<br />
Admissions Committee, Delta Sigma Theta<br />
Sorority, Incorporated, the Black Student<br />
Association and the Xavier Cheerleading<br />
Team. During her senior year, she was<br />
President of the 2008 Senior Board, Vice<br />
President of the Rho Xi Chapter of Delta<br />
Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated, Chair<br />
of the Board of Elections Committee, and a<br />
member of the Leadership Committee and<br />
Gospel Choir. Jordan also interned<br />
as a student athletic trainer this year for<br />
the Xavier Musketeers Men’s Basketball<br />
team who made it to the Elite Eight in the<br />
NCAA Tournament. During the past four<br />
years, Jordan has been recognized for<br />
her academics and leadership abilities by<br />
receiving the Outstanding Sophomore award<br />
in 2006 and just recently was the recipient<br />
of the Xavier University President’s Award.<br />
Jordan has also been on Xavier University<br />
Dean’s List consecutively and National<br />
Dean’s List. Succeeding graduation, Jordan<br />
received the opportunity to participate in<br />
an Alternative Breaks Trip in the Dominican<br />
Republic assisting and living at an outreach<br />
orphanage. Jordan has truly enjoyed her<br />
experiences at Xavier and is excited to move<br />
to Nashville, TN where she will be attending<br />
Physician Assistant <strong>School</strong> concentrating in<br />
pediatric orthopedic surgery.<br />
Kate Stice, ’04, is graduating from Florida<br />
State University. She majored in Public<br />
Relations. She is headed around the world<br />
solo for four months visiting 17 countries.<br />
Amy Stivarius, ’04, is graduating from UGA<br />
in May with a BS in Psychology. She is very<br />
excited!<br />
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Class Notes<br />
Class Notes<br />
CLASS OF 2005<br />
Class Representatives:<br />
Tyler Rathburn: tratt@comcast.net<br />
Rachel Shunnarah: rach521@uga.edu<br />
Kate Sternstein: kasternstein@davidson.edu<br />
Allyson Young: youngan@auburn.edu<br />
Katherine Cochrane, ’05, began her senior<br />
year at the University of Georgia in the fall<br />
while completing double majors in both Real<br />
Estate and Spanish. She is currently planning<br />
on attending law school in the fall of 2009<br />
and hopes to pursue a career in property<br />
law.<br />
Presently, Katherine is studying abroad<br />
in Valencia, Spain. The trip started on<br />
January 20th and she returned on April<br />
26th. Katherine is in Spain with the “UGA<br />
en España” program(http://www.spain.uga.<br />
edu/vcia/index.htm) to fulfill credits for her<br />
Spanish major. She is taking four classes<br />
in Spanish at the University of Valencia.<br />
She also has a blog detailing some of her<br />
experiences if you’d like to read it at: http://<br />
katcochrane.blogspot.com/ and picasa<br />
web album of pictures at http://picasaweb.<br />
google.com/katcochrane.<br />
Andy Rast, ’05, deployed to Iraq with 3rd<br />
Battalion, 10th Marine Regiment on March<br />
13. He is spending seven months monitoring<br />
convoys moving throughout Iraq.<br />
CLASS OF 2006<br />
Class Representatives:<br />
Kaitlin Duffy: duffykc@auburn.edu<br />
Miller Edwards: edwardm@auburn.edu<br />
Anna Pickren: annapic@uga.edu<br />
Amy Schwartz: amy8700@hotmail.com<br />
Justin Bower, ’06, is attending Field<br />
Training with the US Air Force this summer<br />
at Maxwell AFB, AL. He is currently enrolled<br />
in AFROTC at the University of Georgia with<br />
plans to commission in Spring 2010. He also<br />
received the H. Randolph Holder POW/MIA<br />
Scholarship Award. The award is in memory<br />
of Major Holder who was imprisoned in<br />
a Nazi German camp during WWII. The<br />
award, presented at the Annual Dining -<br />
Out /Awards Ceremony for the Air Force<br />
ROTC program at UGA. He was given to a<br />
cadet who, according to his commander,<br />
exemplifies good leadership, academic<br />
excellence, outstanding integrity and a<br />
high sense of responsibility. Major Holder’s<br />
widow was present at the dinner to hand<br />
Justin the award personally. Justin also<br />
received the American Legion Scholastic<br />
Excellence Award during the ceremony in<br />
recognition of his leadership abilities. He will<br />
be participating in the Air Force Field Training<br />
program this summer in Alabama and will<br />
return to Athens in the fall for his junior year<br />
where he is studying Psychology and is an<br />
active member of the ATO fraternity.<br />
Amir Kabiri, ’06, has been working as an<br />
Apple Campus Rep at USC in L.A.<br />
Courtney McClain, ’06, pledged Pi Beta Phi<br />
Sorority at Wake Forest.<br />
Claire Sellers, ’06, is currently entering her<br />
junior year at Marymount Manhattan College<br />
with a double concentration in directing and<br />
producing and management with a minor<br />
in theatre performance. Claire is a Resident<br />
Advisor at one of the college’s residence<br />
halls and she was also the assistant director<br />
to Lisa Rothe for her Marymount’s mainstage<br />
production of “A Month in The Country”. In<br />
Summer 2007, Claire traveled to Paris to<br />
study the Jacques Lecoq acting method<br />
under Sarah Harper and Pascal Laurent. In<br />
Paris, Claire performed in “En Attendant<br />
de la Loco”, a performance commissioned<br />
by the city to depict the coming of the first<br />
railroad in Paris. This summer, Claire will be<br />
teaching theatre, English, and French, at<br />
TASIS (The American <strong>School</strong> In Switzerland),<br />
in Lugano, Switzerland<br />
CLASS OF 2007<br />
Charlotte Bissell: cmb123@comcast.net<br />
Sarah-Elizabeth Kirtland: kkirtla@clemson.edu<br />
Taylor Pack: pack_t@bellsouth.net<br />
Emily Phillips: goldengirl188@aol.com<br />
Rebecca Barrow, ‘07, joined Kappa<br />
Delta sorority at the University of Georgia.<br />
Rebecca is also involved in the Greek<br />
InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, is a<br />
member of the UGA Deck Dawgs (an<br />
organization of students who work with<br />
the Athletic Association to promote swim<br />
meets), and is a member of the UGA Heros<br />
(a UGA philanthropy that supports programs<br />
for children with AIDS). In March 2008,<br />
Rebecca traveled with the Greek InterVarsity<br />
group to Neply, Haiti for a mission trip.<br />
Peter Grimm, ’07, has been named to the<br />
Wake Forest University’s Dean’s List for fall<br />
semester 2007.<br />
M.J. Jansky, ’07, was recently inducted into<br />
Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society<br />
of the two-year college. He was inducted at<br />
Seminole Community College in Orlando,<br />
Florida.<br />
Clover Street, ’07, will be interning in<br />
Minnesota working with reptiles at Reptile<br />
and Amphibian Discovery Zoo this summer.<br />
Reptiles are Clover’s passion for a career in<br />
herpetoculture. He is a member of the Maine<br />
Herpetological Society. Over the past year,<br />
he became the Wildlife Care and Education<br />
Club vice president and the club went with<br />
research biologists to tag bear cubs. Overall,<br />
he is enjoying Unity College!<br />
LOST ALUMNI<br />
We are missing contact information for the<br />
above alumni. If you are in contact with any<br />
of the above graduates, please encourage<br />
them to get in touch with the HIES alumni<br />
office by emailing tamika@hies.org.<br />
Carter L. Hatcher 1995<br />
Holly P. Bond 1996<br />
Christopher L. Lardner 1996<br />
Kimberly A. Munro 1996<br />
Katherine L. Schultz 1996<br />
Stephanie M. (Spottswood) Scurlock 1996<br />
Benjamin J. Gaudreault 1997<br />
Andrew B. Hess 1997<br />
Peter M. Nagle 1997<br />
Kimberly A. Perisino 1997<br />
Keith A. Cooper 1998<br />
George M. McCord 1998<br />
Laura H. Bond 1999<br />
Elizabeth M. Fowler 1999<br />
John P. Gallagher 1999<br />
Kyoko F. Sadoshima 1999<br />
Robert A. Schiess 1999<br />
Emily F. Tonge 1999<br />
Alexandra J. Allen 2000<br />
Katharine M. Duke 2000<br />
Jasmine Nadja M. Smiri 2000<br />
Slade J. Hill 2001<br />
Andrew J. Maxfield 2001<br />
Shannon F. Vaughn 2001<br />
Patrick M. Anderson 2002<br />
Sean P. Coughlin 2002<br />
Matthew A. Nickerson 2002<br />
Ashley D. Chandler 2004<br />
Bryan A. Jones 2004<br />
Shaquita N. McWilliams 2004<br />
Hailey M. Appling 2005<br />
Alexandra B. Lunday 2005<br />
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From the Head of <strong>School</strong> Alpha omega - Class of ’08<br />
A Fond Farwell to <strong>Janella</strong> <strong>Brand</strong><br />
Thursday, April 24 was Alpha Omega Day<br />
at <strong>Holy</strong> Innocents’ sponsored by The Office<br />
of Alumni Relations and Development. The<br />
36 Alpha Omegas (listed below) were first<br />
celebrated with their faculty members at<br />
the Ice Cream Social in Porter Dining Hall.<br />
The students were welcomed to the event<br />
with photo buttons featuring their first grade<br />
pictures.<br />
The next event was dinner at Maggiano’s<br />
Little Italy at Perimeter with parents,<br />
faculty, staff, and friends. The Director<br />
of Alumni Relations and Special Events,<br />
Tamika Weaver-Hightower, presented each<br />
student with a lapel pin to be worn on their<br />
graduation gowns. The program ended with<br />
a slideshow of the students’ <strong>Holy</strong> Innocents’<br />
memories.<br />
One of the joys of my first<br />
five years at <strong>Holy</strong> Innocents’<br />
has been my occasional<br />
visits to the Pre-<strong>School</strong><br />
morning carpool. It is a<br />
wonderful way to connect<br />
with our young families,<br />
many of whom will be with<br />
us for years to come. Each<br />
carpool brings with it a<br />
parade of pets, all styles<br />
of pajamas on younger<br />
siblings, mostly smiling<br />
student faces (with a few<br />
future “night owls” having<br />
a difficult time getting an<br />
early start), and a lot of<br />
laughs. On the first day of<br />
school after a long summer,<br />
one Kindergartener jumped<br />
out of his car, looked up at<br />
me with his head cocked<br />
quizzically to one side<br />
and asked, “Are you still the Head of the<br />
school” There are always surprises on the<br />
Pre-<strong>School</strong> carpool line.<br />
As much as I love seeing the children,<br />
I must admit that just as great a pleasure<br />
is the carpool time I spend with <strong>Janella</strong><br />
<strong>Brand</strong>. I haven’t yet allowed myself to<br />
think about next year’s carpool without her<br />
loving, comforting presence. <strong>Janella</strong> will<br />
be retiring this June after 31 years at HIES,<br />
first as a 2nd grade teacher, then Lower<br />
<strong>School</strong> Assistant Principal, and for the past<br />
ten as Principal of the Pre-<strong>School</strong>. Many<br />
of our faculty and parents were students<br />
of <strong>Janella</strong>’s. Her imprint is everywhere on<br />
campus.<br />
When I first came to HIES in 2003,<br />
<strong>Janella</strong> was in her sixth year as Pre-<strong>School</strong><br />
Principal. She had been instrumental in<br />
attracting funding for the new Alan A. Lewis<br />
Pre-<strong>School</strong> building, and her input was<br />
crucial in finalizing the plans that led to its<br />
wonderfully child-centered design. <strong>Janella</strong><br />
was also the school’s unofficial “Guardian of<br />
the Philosophy” (as Dorothy Sullivan fondly<br />
referred to her). <strong>Janella</strong> chaired a committee<br />
that met several times each year to discuss<br />
the ways we upheld the tenets of our<br />
Statement of Philosophy (a document that<br />
has since been revised with extensive input<br />
from <strong>Janella</strong>). The school’s mission, at that<br />
point, was assuredly in her capable hands.<br />
With <strong>Janella</strong>, all seems serenely secure.<br />
<strong>Janella</strong> <strong>Brand</strong> is also a passionate public<br />
servant. She has been deeply involved<br />
at Mount Vernon Presbyterian Church for<br />
years and has inspired many with her grace<br />
in meeting the needs of others. About<br />
two years ago, <strong>Janella</strong> and her husband<br />
Lee returned from a vacation in Costa<br />
Rica. When most people return from such<br />
a trip they tell tales of surf lessons and<br />
rain forest treks. <strong>Janella</strong>, however, spoke<br />
enthusiastically about a school she had<br />
encountered. She and Lee had gotten to<br />
know a man named Harry Bodaan, the<br />
owner of their hotel, who told them about<br />
a school in the nearby village of Quepos<br />
that needed lots of help. <strong>Janella</strong> spoke<br />
earnestly of the beautiful students in Escuela<br />
de Estadio, studying hard day after day in<br />
abject conditions. She was determined to<br />
help. And when <strong>Janella</strong> puts her mind to<br />
something…<br />
A year later, because of <strong>Janella</strong>’s<br />
determined leadership, the Pre-<strong>School</strong><br />
had gathered over 600<br />
pounds of supplies for<br />
Escuela de Estadio. The<br />
children wrote letters<br />
to the students and<br />
<strong>Janella</strong> even contacted<br />
administrators at UPS to<br />
facilitate the process of<br />
shipping this enormous<br />
bundle of school supplies<br />
to Costa Rica. All in all it<br />
was a monumental task<br />
pulled off with the unique<br />
blend of patience and<br />
efficiency we’ve all come<br />
to expect of <strong>Janella</strong>. She<br />
was fueled by her passion<br />
for children and her faith<br />
that God wants all of us<br />
to serve those in need.<br />
<strong>Janella</strong>’s passion inspired<br />
us to reach out to the<br />
people of Costa Rica and<br />
led to our contact with EARTH University<br />
near the capital of San Jose. Recently, a<br />
dozen Upper <strong>School</strong> students spent their<br />
spring break teaching elementary school<br />
students from some of the poorest schools<br />
near EARTH University.<br />
<strong>Janella</strong> will fill her retirement by spending<br />
time with her husband, her grown daughter<br />
Jenny and her dog, Delilah. She will also<br />
devote more time to her volunteer pursuits<br />
as she explores new and varied ways to<br />
impact the lives of children - whether in<br />
Sandy Springs or Costa Rica. In short, she<br />
will continue being her altruistic, loving self.<br />
Her world will continue to be filled with the<br />
many blessings that come from a generous<br />
spirit.<br />
Above all else, <strong>Janella</strong> will be remembered<br />
for her absolute love for her students. She<br />
begins each day at the Pre-<strong>School</strong> by<br />
signing on over the intercom, broadcasting<br />
her daily prayer into each classroom,<br />
“Good morning, boys and girls. This is your<br />
Principal, Mrs. <strong>Brand</strong>.” Those words will<br />
forever echo through the hallways of the<br />
Pre-<strong>School</strong>, as will <strong>Janella</strong>’s loving care for<br />
all who entered there. She will be greatly<br />
missed. We wish her a fond farewell.<br />
Sarah Allen<br />
Caroline Anderson<br />
Jack Austin<br />
Michael Bird<br />
Sarah Bissell<br />
Kirsten Boe<br />
Chelsea Brogdon<br />
Kate Decker<br />
Bailey Evans<br />
Kelly Garrison<br />
Philip Georgakakos<br />
Trevor Gillum<br />
Fletcher Hawkins<br />
Christopher Herbert<br />
Bentley Heyman<br />
Caitlin Hogan<br />
Emily Hovis<br />
Tim Kovacs<br />
Lilly Landskroener<br />
Carly Loux<br />
Kerry Martin<br />
Arden McClain<br />
John McGoogan<br />
Matthew McMillan<br />
Ali McWhirter<br />
Norma Nyhoff<br />
Lauren Danielle Ouellette<br />
Kyle Strait<br />
Rachel Sullivan<br />
Katherine Tate<br />
Carlee Terrell<br />
Christopher Thomas<br />
Michael Vaughan<br />
Colleen Weaver<br />
Virginia West<br />
Rachael Windler<br />
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Lower <strong>School</strong> students discover the joy of teamwork during Field Day races on May 6th.<br />
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