The Bell Tower Magazine Spring/Summer 2012

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In This Issue:Class of 2012 Graduation

Spotlight on Visual Arts

A Report from Girls State and Boys State

The Architecture of MSA

Spring/Summer 2012

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The Bell TowerSpring/Summer 2012

A Letter FromHEADMASTERRick France

CONTENTS

On the cover: Mr. Rob Wyllie holds AP European History class in the Bull Ring with Ke “Kate” Zhao, Alexey Zielinski, and Rachel Odumu.

At right: Roommates Theodore Kim, Chase Cannon, and Aaron Barnett of the Class of 2012. See page 13 for more.

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Greetings from the Miller School of Albemarle! It has been an eventful spring and summer. We had a class of forty seniors graduate this May, and they will all attend college next year. We currently enroll students from twelve countries and approxi-mately twelve states. We anticipate an opening enrollment of over 170 students for the 2012-13 year. So, MSA is doing well, and we hope you, our alumni, families, and friends, are proud of our image in the area and the world. Our graduates con-tinue to do good things, capitalizing on many of the experiences they enjoyed here.

We continue to be a resource of service in the region. We have added to the number of organizations with whom we work, and we will continue to add additional service opportunities in the coming year. Our students are out and about in the community, and a variety of organizations contact us when they need help because of the long-standing tradition of MSA students helping others.

Academically, we are stronger than ever, too. We now offer more AP classes, and this spring’s AP exam results were the best in MSA history. The curriculum has grown, as have the facilities. You can read about some of the impact our facility renovations have had supporting the curriculum on page 7, with our spotlight on the visual arts.

Athletically, our teams enjoy great success. Last year cross country finished at num-ber two in the state, and our boys and girls soccer teams went to the league playoffs, as did the tennis team. Baseball played in the semi-finals of the state championship, and we have a junior varsity baseball team coached by the famous MLB All Star Billy Wagner. Boys basketball plays in Division I, although we are a Division III team by size. Girls basketball, which had won two straight state championships, moved up to Division II and still finished at number two in the state. We are right in there, and folks know us.

As the new year begins, we bid a fond farewell to a number of teachers who are retiring or moving on to new opportunities, including Debbie Casado, Connie Gil-christ, Alice Simpkins, and Steve Hunter. Their dedication, positive personalities, and countless contributions have helped us build a strong program. We wish them well. We are fortunate to continue to attract some fantastic teachers. Most have their Master’s degrees, and we have five current teachers working on their doctorate degrees right now. In the tradition of the school, they all work exceedingly hard on behalf of their students. MSA will always be about the relationships we enjoy here.

As the gym renovation nears completion and the many coats of fresh paint and improved facilities welcome our students and their families to campus, we express our deep appreciation to you for your ongoing support of this historical institution. Samuel Miller’s vision is our reality, and we are thankful to be here at this moment.

Sincerely,

Rick France Headmaster 25

1 Bell Tower Magazine • Spring/Summer 2012

The Bell Tower is produced by MSA’s Office of Institutional Advancement. Questions and comments about this issue should be directed to Annie Knepper at 434-823-4805 x210 or [email protected].

Contributing Authors:Bradley Bodager, JD, LLMSteve KnepperAnnie Knepper

Contributing Photographers:Kim Kelley-WagnerTom Pallante

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HAPPENINGS ON THE HILLNews briefs from students, faculty, and alumni

COMMUNITY EVENTS

SPOTLIGHT ON THE VISUAL ARTSTeachers help students find their “creative vision”

STUDENT VOICES: BOYS STATE AND GIRLS STATEA meeting of tomorrow’s leaders

A COLLEGE COUNSELOR IN SCOTLANDHugh Meagher travels to St. Andrews

CLASS OF 2012 SPOTLIGHTSenior Chapel Talks, Salutatorian & Valedictorian Speeches

SPRING SPORTS HIGHLIGHTS

MSA ARCHITECTUREMSA’s Architecture is an important part of Albemarle County history

BELL TOWER SOCIETY

The Bell TowerMiller School of Albemarle Magazine

Spring/Summer 2012

CONTENTS

On the cover: Mr. Rob Wyllie holds AP European History class in the Bull Ring with Ke “Kate” Zhao, Alexey Zielinski, and Rachel Odumu.

At right: Roommates Theodore Kim, Chase Cannon, and Aaron Barnett of the Class of 2012. See page 13 for more.

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Greetings from the Miller School of Albemarle! It has been an eventful spring and summer. We had a class of forty seniors graduate this May, and they will all attend college next year. We currently enroll students from twelve countries and approxi-mately twelve states. We anticipate an opening enrollment of over 170 students for the 2012-13 year. So, MSA is doing well, and we hope you, our alumni, families, and friends, are proud of our image in the area and the world. Our graduates con-tinue to do good things, capitalizing on many of the experiences they enjoyed here.

We continue to be a resource of service in the region. We have added to the number of organizations with whom we work, and we will continue to add additional service opportunities in the coming year. Our students are out and about in the community, and a variety of organizations contact us when they need help because of the long-standing tradition of MSA students helping others.

Academically, we are stronger than ever, too. We now offer more AP classes, and this spring’s AP exam results were the best in MSA history. The curriculum has grown, as have the facilities. You can read about some of the impact our facility renovations have had supporting the curriculum on page 7, with our spotlight on the visual arts.

Athletically, our teams enjoy great success. Last year cross country finished at num-ber two in the state, and our boys and girls soccer teams went to the league playoffs, as did the tennis team. Baseball played in the semi-finals of the state championship, and we have a junior varsity baseball team coached by the famous MLB All Star Billy Wagner. Boys basketball plays in Division I, although we are a Division III team by size. Girls basketball, which had won two straight state championships, moved up to Division II and still finished at number two in the state. We are right in there, and folks know us.

As the new year begins, we bid a fond farewell to a number of teachers who are retiring or moving on to new opportunities, including Debbie Casado, Connie Gil-christ, Alice Simpkins, and Steve Hunter. Their dedication, positive personalities, and countless contributions have helped us build a strong program. We wish them well. We are fortunate to continue to attract some fantastic teachers. Most have their Master’s degrees, and we have five current teachers working on their doctorate degrees right now. In the tradition of the school, they all work exceedingly hard on behalf of their students. MSA will always be about the relationships we enjoy here.

As the gym renovation nears completion and the many coats of fresh paint and improved facilities welcome our students and their families to campus, we express our deep appreciation to you for your ongoing support of this historical institution. Samuel Miller’s vision is our reality, and we are thankful to be here at this moment.

Sincerely,

Rick France Headmaster 25

2Bell Tower Magazine • Spring/Summer 2012

The Bell Tower is produced by MSA’s Office of Institutional Advancement. Questions and comments about this issue should be directed to Annie Knepper at 434-823-4805 x210 or [email protected].

Contributing Authors:Bradley Bodager, JD, LLMSteve KnepperAnnie Knepper

Contributing Photographers:Kim Kelley-WagnerTom Pallante

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News in BriefHappenings on “the Hill”


Class of 2002 ReunionOn July 28, members of the Class of 2002 gathered at MSA to celebrate their ten year reunion. After a campus tour with Headmaster Rick France, the alumni enjoyed a barbecue lunch provided by the Office of Institutional Advancement before spending the afternoon at the lake.

News in Brief

MSA English Teacher Chris Ross Enjoys Summer in Scotland

Students in Chris Ross’s senior English classes will benefit from his experience at the Scottish University International Summer School session entitled “Text and Context: British and Irish Literature from 1900 to the Present,” which took place at the University of Edinburgh (above).

Mr. Ross enjoyed the daily lectures, which were each given by a professor from a different university: “to watch some-one who is an expert in their field deliver and pace content provides me the opportunity to reflect on how I go about collecting and delivering content to my students.”

For those considering a trip to Scotland, Mr. Ross exhorts, “Get to the Highlands at least once in your life. Austerely stunning mountain landscapes that truly help you feel apart from the modern, busy life that assails all of us! The other hallmark of Scotland and Wales is that the locavore move-ment was basically founded here many years ago and is in full swing, so you are guaranteed sumptuous meals of the freshest of meats, cheeses, breads, seafood, and veg-etables. ... In Wales, one of the farms was named Pantops, so, we never felt too far from home!”

Mr. Ross was awarded a grant from the Charlottesville Chapter of the English-Speaking Union to fund this course.

MSA Dean Peter Hufnagel Publishes on Philosophy and Athletics

What do you call the inner force that allows an exhausted Tour de France cyclist to attack on a steep Alpine ascent, a bruised boxer to get back up after being knocked down? We might call it “heart” or “guts.” The Ancient Greeks called it thumos, a rich concept that spans these bodily metaphors and more.

Peter Hufnagel, MSA Dean of Faculty and English teacher, explores the Greeks’ concept of thumos in a recently published essay, “The Olympics of the Mind: Philosophy and Athletics in the Ancient Greek World.” The essay appears in The Olympics and Philosophy (University of Kentucky Press, 2012). Hufna-gel co-authored the essay with his former teacher Paul Cantor, a University of Virginia English professor, world-renowned Shake-speare scholar, and frequent MSA guest.

Hufnagel and Cantor explain that the Greeks thought of thumos as a drive deeply rooted in human nature, a part of the soul accord-ing to Socrates in Plato’s Republic. It is “what makes human be-ings—men and women—competitive; it is the passion to be first, to excel in any form of endeavor. ... It is an irrational force that leads human beings to scorn the limitations of their bodies and continually break through existing boundaries of performance. It is the drive to the finish line” (51). In both ancient and modern societies, thumos is exhibited and applauded in athletics. Indeed, “the modern Olympics, like its ancient counterpart, is a festival of thumos” (51). In seeking to understand thumos, then, Cantor and Hufnagel draw not only on Plato’s dialogues and Homer’s Iliad (a text that Hufnagel teaches every year at MSA), but also on ex-amples from athletics.

Hufnagel has published essays on Milton, Shakespeare, and H. G. Wells. He is also a competitive cyclist. Speaking of how his recently published essay relates to his work at MSA, Hufnagel explains, “We normally think of philosophy and athletics as very different human activities, with one exercising the mind and the other the body. Examining texts by Plato and Homer, we see that philosophy and athletics have much in common and much to teach each other. One impressive aspect of a Miller School of Al-bemarle education is that students learn to balance academics and athletics. Students gain a clarity of mind from the physical efforts required in athletics, and this allows them to be more philosophi-cal in their academic pursuits; likewise, they learn that the same spiritedness and competitiveness that are necessary in sports can be enlisted in the service of reason and intellectual pursuits in the classroom.”

The Olympics and Philosophy was released in time for this sum-mer’s Olympic Games.

MSA Photo Teacher Tom Pallante Publishes “The Shape of Things” in About Place Journal

MSA photo teacher Tom Pallante published a series of images entitled “The Shape of Things” in the latest issue of About Place Journal. Mr. Pallante writes that his series of images explores “the physical and psycho-logical presence of structures throughout the landscape of Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Ohio.” He de-scribes the shapes of these structures as “solid masses in space, often empty inside like skeletal remains of a once brighter and possibly more vibrant time.”

To view more images from this series, visit the online version of the journal at www.aboutplacejournal.org.

MSA Students Stay Busy over the Summer

Several MSA students have participated in rigorous pro-grams across the nation this summer. Rising seniors Danlei Chen, Yingru “Louise” Guan, and Haokai Xu were accepted to summer programs at University of Southern California, Stanford University, and New York University, respectively.

Rising senior Tho Anh “Bill” Nguyen attended summer programs at both Davidson College and Brown Univer-sity after participating in a week-long marine biology conference through Rotary International.

Rising sophomore Marta Regn honed her already-im-pressive art skills through participation in a summer pro-gram at the Savannah College of Art and Design.

2012 Golden Apple Award English Department Chair Steve Knepper was awarded the 11th Annual Golden Apple Award for excellence in teaching, presented by the Better Living Foundation.

A MSA parent quoted in the nomination letter writes that “Mr. Knepper creates a love of learning in his English 11 and AP Language and Composition courses. Students of all abilities benefit from his approach to teaching the great works of American literature. Mr. Knepper is empathetic, inspiring, approachable, organized, and energetic.”

News in Brief

MSA English Teacher Chris Ross Enjoys Summer in Scotland

Students in Chris Ross’s senior English classes will benefit from his experience at the Scottish University International Summer School session entitled “Text and Context: British and Irish Literature from 1900 to the Present,” which took place at the University of Edinburgh (above).

Mr. Ross enjoyed the daily lectures, which were each given by a professor from a different university: “to watch some-one who is an expert in their field deliver and pace content provides me the opportunity to reflect on how I go about collecting and delivering content to my students.”

For those considering a trip to Scotland, Mr. Ross exhorts, “Get to the Highlands at least once in your life. Austerely stunning mountain landscapes that truly help you feel apart from the modern, busy life that assails all of us! The other hallmark of Scotland and Wales is that the locavore move-ment was basically founded here many years ago and is in full swing, so you are guaranteed sumptuous meals of the freshest of meats, cheeses, breads, seafood, and veg-etables. ... In Wales, one of the farms was named Pantops, so, we never felt too far from home!”

Mr. Ross was awarded a grant from the Charlottesville Chapter of the English-Speaking Union to fund this course. 4Bell Tower Magazine • Spring/Summer 2012

MSA Faculty Members Teach UVa Summer Courses

MSA History Department Chair Kelly Winck and English Department Chair Steve Knepper both taught 2012 summer courses at the Uni-versity of Virginia. Winck, who is a PhD candi-date in UVa’s Corcoran Department of History, taught “American History to 1865.” Knepper, who is a PhD candidate in UVa’s English De-partment, taught “Popular Song Lyrics: Ameri-can Rock.” Winck and Knepper both teach MSA juniors, where their experiences working with students at one of the nation’s premier uni-versities help them prepare MSA students for the college classroom.

Mr. Knepper’s class was profiled for UVAToday news. The article can be found online at http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/newsRelease.php?id=19152#.

MSA Dean Peter Hufnagel Publishes on Philosophy and Athletics

What do you call the inner force that allows an exhausted Tour de France cyclist to attack on a steep Alpine ascent, a bruised boxer to get back up after being knocked down? We might call it “heart” or “guts.” The Ancient Greeks called it thumos, a rich concept that spans these bodily metaphors and more.

Peter Hufnagel, MSA Dean of Faculty and English teacher, explores the Greeks’ concept of thumos in a recently published essay, “The Olympics of the Mind: Philosophy and Athletics in the Ancient Greek World.” The essay appears in The Olympics and Philosophy (University of Kentucky Press, 2012). Hufna-gel co-authored the essay with his former teacher Paul Cantor, a University of Virginia English professor, world-renowned Shake-speare scholar, and frequent MSA guest.

Hufnagel and Cantor explain that the Greeks thought of thumos as a drive deeply rooted in human nature, a part of the soul accord-ing to Socrates in Plato’s Republic. It is “what makes human be-ings—men and women—competitive; it is the passion to be first, to excel in any form of endeavor. ... It is an irrational force that leads human beings to scorn the limitations of their bodies and continually break through existing boundaries of performance. It is the drive to the finish line” (51). In both ancient and modern societies, thumos is exhibited and applauded in athletics. Indeed, “the modern Olympics, like its ancient counterpart, is a festival of thumos” (51). In seeking to understand thumos, then, Cantor and Hufnagel draw not only on Plato’s dialogues and Homer’s Iliad (a text that Hufnagel teaches every year at MSA), but also on ex-amples from athletics.

Hufnagel has published essays on Milton, Shakespeare, and H. G. Wells. He is also a competitive cyclist. Speaking of how his recently published essay relates to his work at MSA, Hufnagel explains, “We normally think of philosophy and athletics as very different human activities, with one exercising the mind and the other the body. Examining texts by Plato and Homer, we see that philosophy and athletics have much in common and much to teach each other. One impressive aspect of a Miller School of Al-bemarle education is that students learn to balance academics and athletics. Students gain a clarity of mind from the physical efforts required in athletics, and this allows them to be more philosophi-cal in their academic pursuits; likewise, they learn that the same spiritedness and competitiveness that are necessary in sports can be enlisted in the service of reason and intellectual pursuits in the classroom.”

The Olympics and Philosophy was released in time for this sum-mer’s Olympic Games.

Have a news item you would like to see in the next issue of The Bell Tower? Email text and photo(s) to Annie Knepper at [email protected].

MSA Students Stay Busy over the Summer

Several MSA students have participated in rigorous pro-grams across the nation this summer. Rising seniors Danlei Chen, Yingru “Louise” Guan, and Haokai Xu were accepted to summer programs at University of Southern California, Stanford University, and New York University, respectively.

Rising senior Tho Anh “Bill” Nguyen attended summer programs at both Davidson College and Brown Univer-sity after participating in a week-long marine biology conference through Rotary International.

Rising sophomore Marta Regn honed her already-im-pressive art skills through participation in a summer pro-gram at the Savannah College of Art and Design.

An Evening of Poetry

Left to right: Poets Nikki Giovanni, Kwame Alexander, and Nikky FinneyPhotos by Ashley Twiggs, courtesy of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities


The poets sign books after the reading

On Friday March 2, 2012, Miller School of Albemarle trustees Preston Stallings, Thomas Brubaker, and John Pritzlaff represented the school in its sponsorship, along with other community leaders, of the third Virginia to Africa water purification project fundraising event, a collaborative effort of Rotary International, the Piedmont Rotary Council, and the UVa School of Engineering. Water purification and access is a core Rotary International objective, and MSA parent and UVa Engineering School Professor Garrick Louis addressed the assembled guests about the water treatment projects over the past three years that have supported construction of a water treatment facility in Cameroon and other water treatment projects in the remote Limpopo Province and in the coming year at the Tlhopane Elementary School, both in South Africa.

MSA Sponsors

at the Virginia Festival of the BookThe exquisite paneled auditorium on the lower level of UVa’s Harrison Institute was the hushed setting for a standing-room-only crowd of poetry fans who had crossed the lawn from all directions to hear public readings by renowned poets Nikki Giovanni, Kwame Alexander, and Nikky Finney during the Festival of the Book on March 23, 2012.

Recognizing the evening’s sponsorship by the Miller School of Albemarle, Dr. Robert Vaughn, Executive Director of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, opened the evening with introduction of the assembled MSA students, faculty, and staff, expressing particular gratitude to MSA teacher and English Department Chair Steve Knepper for his leadership of the MSA Service Group students including Chase Can-non, Yiwen Wang, Grayson Gunner, and Andy Mangham, who had worked for the entire academic year in support of the VFH and its 2012 Festival of the Book, as well as MSA students Aaron Barnett, Nelly Hawley-Hayes, Sara Vogelge-sang, Anastassia Simakina, Bill Nguyen, and Marta Regn, who served on the Advisory Committee to the Festival of the Book.

The audience was enthralled with the powerful readings of each poet, their humor and candor and the relevance they pointed out to the universal course of life and the irony and pain of current events. Many recalled Professor Giovanni’s “We are Virginia Tech” memorial address that was broadcast live to millions around the world. Following the readings, MSA students had time to speak with each poet and receive specially inscribed books.

-Brad Bodager

The poets sign books after the reading

On Friday March 2, 2012, Miller School of Albemarle trustees Preston Stallings, Thomas Brubaker, and John Pritzlaff represented the school in its sponsorship, along with other community leaders, of the third Virginia to Africa water purification project fundraising event, a collaborative effort of Rotary International, the Piedmont Rotary Council, and the UVa School of Engineering. Water purification and access is a core Rotary International objective, and MSA parent and UVa Engineering School Professor Garrick Louis addressed the assembled guests about the water treatment projects over the past three years that have supported construction of a water treatment facility in Cameroon and other water treatment projects in the remote Limpopo Province and in the coming year at the Tlhopane Elementary School, both in South Africa.

Matthew Crawford addresses the guests

Morgan McKenzie Perkins, host of public television program Charlottesville’s Arts Spotlight, speaks with Professor Garrick Louis and his spouse Debbie

Crosby P ’16 about Dr. Louis’ development work in regions throughout Africa.

C o m m u n i t y E v e n t s


Keynote speaker for the event was Matthew Crawford, author of the New York Times best seller, Shop Class as Soulcraft. Having made an on-site visit to the Miller School of Albemarle campus earlier that day, Crawford made the case for the kind of work that requires mastery of real things to cultivate ethical virtues and to foster habits of individual responsibility. Calling for efforts to move from passivity and dependence on consumer culture to self-reliance, Crawford extolled the academic mission and curricular focus of the Miller School as uniquely addressing these goals in an educational setting, and stated “the Miller School has got it right. It has created an educational approach for everyone to model.”

-Brad Bodager, co-chair of the Virginia to Africa event committee

Virginia to Africa

Author Matthew Crawford visits MSA and speaks at Rotary Virginia to Africa Event

Spotlight on Visual ArtsMSA Teachers Help Students Find Their “Creative Vision”


Sharon Barrett Kennedy and Tom Pallante

about teaching art at Miller School is having the opportunity to help students discover and develop their artistic strengths.”

This discovery and development is readily apparent to any-one viewing the work of both Mr. Pallante’s and Ms. Ken-nedy’s students that appears regularly in the halls of Old Main. Each year, it is wonderful to see the unique and dis-tinctive styles that emerge from student artists. Highlights of the 2011-12 year included senior Rachel Leach’s uniquely “southern” viewpoint (according to Mr. Pallante), in which she frequently focused her camera lens on her hometown of Free Union. One of Rachel’s photographs was a finalist for the 32nd Annual Photographer’s Forum Magazine College and High School Photo Contest. Nira Liu, a junior, found his niche in detailed colored pencil drawings on dark paper, including his rendition of a photograph by Mr. Pallante en-titled “Miller School Nightview” that won an award in the 2012 Southern Teachers Student Art Contest.

Successes such as these show that Ms. Kennedy and Mr. Pallante are preparing MSA students well for future stud-ies in art should they choose to pursue them. According to Kennedy, “few students come into the program knowing that they ultimately want to major in art, but as they acquire skills and gain confidence, some of them realize that their ‘dream career’ is in an art-related field.” For those who have this dream, odds are very good that they will be accepted into one of the top art and design schools in the country. Re-cent acceptances include Parsons, Pratt, Fashion Institute of Technology, Rhode Island School of Design, Ringling, and Virginia Commonwealth University, to name a few. MSA graduates have gone on to pursue degrees in illustration, fashion design, industrial and craft design, scenic design, art education, architecture and landscape architecture.

Miller,” notes Mr. Pallante, whose own photography often takes advantage of his perch atop Caton Hall.

Ms. Kennedy has spent the past four years in a new space. Spanning the entire top level of the Canteen Building, the light-filled art studio provides plenty of room for students of all levels to create. A quick tour with Ms. Kennedy reveals students working on many individualized projects, often at higher levels than would be expected from their class year (especially the eighth grade students!). Overall, both the art and photography studios have provided ideal locations for the visual arts at MSA to flourish.

Within these beautiful spaces, small classes of stu-dents are given the personal attention and time need-ed to bring out the best of their abilities and creativ-ity. Mr. Pallante notes that “the most exciting aspect of teaching in the arts at Miller is the creative en-ergy and ideas exchanged between the students and instructors. It is extremely rewarding to watch stu-dents develop their own creative vision, voice, and critical thought of the world around them.”

Ms. Kennedy also encourages students to find their creative vision, noting that students who are taking upper level art classes (or who arrive at Miller with advanced skills and a desire to pursue a career in the arts) “find that they have much ‘guided freedom.’” To Ms. Kennedy, “one of the most exciting things

From the photos lining the hallways of Old Main, to the award winning entries in competitive art contests, to the acceptances at the world’s finest art schools, MSA arts students produce striking results. The vi-sual arts have always played an important role in the school’s curriculum, and they now form one of MSA’s strongest programs. Three key components make this program a success: our teachers, our facilities, and our small classes. These allow for challenging, indi-vidualized courses of study for each student.

Miller School of Albemarle students benefit from master teachers in the visual arts. Art teacher Sharon Barrett Kennedy, who has been at Miller School of Albemarle since 1999, is skilled both in working with high school students and in developing curriculum. Her website (www.art-rageous.net), which contains a wealth of lesson plans for other teachers to use, has received nearly two million visitors. MSA students learn from her expertise every day.

Photography teacher and fine arts department chair Tom Pallante came to MSA in 2008, after teaching for four years at Radford University in Radford, Vir-ginia. His students receive top notch instruction in what he calls a “unique comprehensive high school curriculum modeled directly from a college course.” He also continues to hone his own skills, displaying a solo exhibition of his work at Radford in the fall of 2011 and placing a series of photos in the most recent volume of About Place Journal (www.aboutplace-journal.org).

While excellent teaching is the cornerstone of the fine arts department, it also benefits from recent facility improvements. When Mr. Pallante moved into his newly-renovated photography studio on the top floor of Caton Hall in 2009, he got more than just a nice classroom. Some of the most interesting student pho-tos of Old Main and the Bull Ring have been taken from Mr. Pallante’s classroom windows, which pro-vide light, inspiration, and a vantage point for memo-rable shots. “The classrooms are brilliant spaces with open views of the beautiful landscape that surrounds

MSA Artists in the Charlottesville CommunityAll Miller School of Albemarle art students are given the opportunity to exhibit their work in a variety of on- and off-campus shows, and they are also encour-aged to enter age-appropriate and teacher-approved contests and to participate in the “En Plein Air” art events that are hosted by the School. As a result of these activities, MSA student artists have won a variety of awards for their work and gained positive recognition. Additionally, some (most recently Marta Regn and Andy Mangham) have been accepted into a two-week Governor’s School pro-gram for artistically gifted children, and older students have attended residential summer programs at art and design colleges around the country. As mentioned on page 3, Marta Regn was also accepted to the Savannah College of Art and Design summer program this year.

MSA Teachers Help Students Find Their “Creative Vision”

A c a d e m i c s


about teaching art at Miller School is having the opportunity to help students discover and develop their artistic strengths.”

This discovery and development is readily apparent to any-one viewing the work of both Mr. Pallante’s and Ms. Ken-nedy’s students that appears regularly in the halls of Old Main. Each year, it is wonderful to see the unique and dis-tinctive styles that emerge from student artists. Highlights of the 2011-12 year included senior Rachel Leach’s uniquely “southern” viewpoint (according to Mr. Pallante), in which she frequently focused her camera lens on her hometown of Free Union. One of Rachel’s photographs was a finalist for the 32nd Annual Photographer’s Forum Magazine College and High School Photo Contest. Nira Liu, a junior, found his niche in detailed colored pencil drawings on dark paper, including his rendition of a photograph by Mr. Pallante en-titled “Miller School Nightview” that won an award in the 2012 Southern Teachers Student Art Contest.

Successes such as these show that Ms. Kennedy and Mr. Pallante are preparing MSA students well for future stud-ies in art should they choose to pursue them. According to Kennedy, “few students come into the program knowing that they ultimately want to major in art, but as they acquire skills and gain confidence, some of them realize that their ‘dream career’ is in an art-related field.” For those who have this dream, odds are very good that they will be accepted into one of the top art and design schools in the country. Re-cent acceptances include Parsons, Pratt, Fashion Institute of Technology, Rhode Island School of Design, Ringling, and Virginia Commonwealth University, to name a few. MSA graduates have gone on to pursue degrees in illustration, fashion design, industrial and craft design, scenic design, art education, architecture and landscape architecture.

Miller,” notes Mr. Pallante, whose own photography often takes advantage of his perch atop Caton Hall.

Ms. Kennedy has spent the past four years in a new space. Spanning the entire top level of the Canteen Building, the light-filled art studio provides plenty of room for students of all levels to create. A quick tour with Ms. Kennedy reveals students working on many individualized projects, often at higher levels than would be expected from their class year (especially the eighth grade students!). Overall, both the art and photography studios have provided ideal locations for the visual arts at MSA to flourish.

Within these beautiful spaces, small classes of stu-dents are given the personal attention and time need-ed to bring out the best of their abilities and creativ-ity. Mr. Pallante notes that “the most exciting aspect of teaching in the arts at Miller is the creative en-ergy and ideas exchanged between the students and instructors. It is extremely rewarding to watch stu-dents develop their own creative vision, voice, and critical thought of the world around them.”

Ms. Kennedy also encourages students to find their creative vision, noting that students who are taking upper level art classes (or who arrive at Miller with advanced skills and a desire to pursue a career in the arts) “find that they have much ‘guided freedom.’” To Ms. Kennedy, “one of the most exciting things

Rachel Leach with her award-winning photograph

Nira Liu with his award-winning “Miller School Nightview”

MSA Artists in the Charlottesville CommunityAll Miller School of Albemarle art students are given the opportunity to exhibit their work in a variety of on- and off-campus shows, and they are also encour-aged to enter age-appropriate and teacher-approved contests and to participate in the “En Plein Air” art events that are hosted by the School. As a result of these activities, MSA student artists have won a variety of awards for their work and gained positive recognition. Additionally, some (most recently Marta Regn and Andy Mangham) have been accepted into a two-week Governor’s School pro-gram for artistically gifted children, and older students have attended residential summer programs at art and design colleges around the country. As mentioned on page 3, Marta Regn was also accepted to the Savannah College of Art and Design summer program this year.

Marta Regn participates in “En Plein Air”

Student Voices


Photos:Frank Crocker

I did not know very much about state government before I went to Girls State, but I learned a surprising amount about it during the week-long program. I not only learned the basic structure of state government and how various issues are dealt with within the state, but I also got a taste of how complicated legislation can be when people with many different opinions must collaborate.

As soon as I registered at Longwood University, I was directed to my dorm floor to meet the other girls in my “city.” All of the girls at Girls State were divided into fourteen cities, and together the cities made up our state. I was placed in the lovely city of Ingles, which my floormates and I decided was a more family friendly version of Las Vegas. We elected a mayor and a city council to preside over our meetings, elected nominees for the house of delegates and other positions, and

Boys State was a great experience. When I first received the news that I had been selected to represent Miller School, I didn’t know what to think. I was hear-ing mixed reviews about Boys State; some people were saying that it was great and others where saying it was less than enjoyable. I didn’t know what to think about everything from the dress code, an American Legion tee shirt and blue khaki shorts, to the other people that were going to be there.

Boys State was held at Liberty University in Lynch-burg, Virginia. Prior to arrival, I was told that we were going to be divided into cities and that we had to have a couple of things on us at all times. The items where a “flag book” (basically a schedule), a name tag with my city, and a meal card. When I arrived, after a con-voluted drive around Lynchburg, I saw all 800 of the students and their parents in the cafeteria parking lot waiting for their names to be called.

We were divided into cities named after famous Virgin-ia natives. I was put into Henry city, named after Pat-rick Henry. In the week that we were there, we would grow independent from our counselors by electing students to jobs within the cities. My job, as a member of Henry City, was to help elect officials within my city who I thought would be a proper fit for the various offices available. The two most important positions within the city were Mayor and Sheriff.

When I first arrived at my dorm, it was apparent who was trying to run for office and who wasn’t. Right as I walked in the door, three students came up to me in-troducing themselves and telling me what position they planned on running for, while also trying to figure out if I was running for anything.

While unpacking my belongings, I met my roommates for the week who were both from Fairfax County and supremely smart. Patrick, the first roommate that I introduced myself to, had to compete in essay competi-

Boys State and Girls State are programs spon-sored by the American Legion and the Ameri-can Legion Auxiliary to identify and support young men and women who possess strong leadership and citizenship. At Miller School of Albemarle, we are very careful about whom we nominate for this distinguished program. We look for a young man and a young woman who are personable, upright, and who have a spot-less disciplinary record. Finally, the nominees must have been leaders in their junior year U.S. History classes.

This year’s MSA representatives, Kyle Ot-taway and Sara Vogelgesang, possess all of these characteristics. Here, Kyle and Sara share their experiences at the 2012 Boys State and Girls State programs.

alist nominees for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and Attorney General of Girls State was sometimes complicated by various city and party allegiances that came into play. Even in our fairly simple model government, nominations sometimes became heated competitions as individuals or whole cities changed their allegiance or traded votes.essons inLeadership

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appointed officials.

After our city government was up and running, we had the important task of dividing up city funds and passing ordinances. Balancing the city budget after we allocated our funds proved to be surprisingly difficult, and the mayor and her aides had to stay up late into the night crunching numbers. We attended almost every event together, ate together, and slept in the same dorm, and as a result we bonded very quickly and had immense pride in our city.

All of the girls attending Girls State were also split evenly into two parties: the Federalists and the Nationalists. I was a Nationalist and served as a delegate at the Nationalist party convention. The two-party conventions we had were very interesting, although they could run very late at night. Electing the Nation-

Photos:Frank Crocker


Boys State was a great experience. When I first received the news that I had been selected to represent Miller School, I didn’t know what to think. I was hear-ing mixed reviews about Boys State; some people were saying that it was great and others where saying it was less than enjoyable. I didn’t know what to think about everything from the dress code, an American Legion tee shirt and blue khaki shorts, to the other people that were going to be there.

Boys State was held at Liberty University in Lynch-burg, Virginia. Prior to arrival, I was told that we were going to be divided into cities and that we had to have a couple of things on us at all times. The items where a “flag book” (basically a schedule), a name tag with my city, and a meal card. When I arrived, after a con-voluted drive around Lynchburg, I saw all 800 of the students and their parents in the cafeteria parking lot waiting for their names to be called.

We were divided into cities named after famous Virgin-ia natives. I was put into Henry city, named after Pat-rick Henry. In the week that we were there, we would grow independent from our counselors by electing students to jobs within the cities. My job, as a member of Henry City, was to help elect officials within my city who I thought would be a proper fit for the various offices available. The two most important positions within the city were Mayor and Sheriff.

When I first arrived at my dorm, it was apparent who was trying to run for office and who wasn’t. Right as I walked in the door, three students came up to me in-troducing themselves and telling me what position they planned on running for, while also trying to figure out if I was running for anything.

While unpacking my belongings, I met my roommates for the week who were both from Fairfax County and supremely smart. Patrick, the first roommate that I introduced myself to, had to compete in essay competi-

Boys State and Girls State are programs spon-sored by the American Legion and the Ameri-can Legion Auxiliary to identify and support young men and women who possess strong leadership and citizenship. At Miller School of Albemarle, we are very careful about whom we nominate for this distinguished program. We look for a young man and a young woman who are personable, upright, and who have a spot-less disciplinary record. Finally, the nominees must have been leaders in their junior year U.S. History classes.

This year’s MSA representatives, Kyle Ot-taway and Sara Vogelgesang, possess all of these characteristics. Here, Kyle and Sara share their experiences at the 2012 Boys State and Girls State programs.

alist nominees for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and Attorney General of Girls State was sometimes complicated by various city and party allegiances that came into play. Even in our fairly simple model government, nominations sometimes became heated competitions as individuals or whole cities changed their allegiance or traded votes.essons in

tions and extensive interviews at his school just to be one of the two sent. Adam, my second roommate, told stories of an Air Force Leadership Conference that he went to in which he was one of only four students to be invited. That was my first really humbling experience at Boys State.

As I became more familiar with other students, I real-ized that I was not alone in feeling overwhelmed by some of the students. The first couple of hours were especially awkward because we were immediately expected to congregate and elect a sheriff to keep us in line and on time. Once we had all gotten to know each other a little better, I realized that there was a similar quality in everybody there, from the kids who where obviously there to win an elected position to the kids who where only there because their parents made them attend: everybody was nice. It almost seemed surreal; everybody was considerate of other people’s goals for Boys State. As well as having a great time, I learned a tremendous amount from everybody there.

Boys State was an unbelievable and invaluable experi-ence that I will never forget. Thank you for enabling me to be apart of such a wonderful experience. Also, thanks to the American Legion Post 74 for sponsoring my trip.

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oys StateBby Kyle Ottaway, Class of 2013

Girls State went by very quickly and at the end of the week I was surprised at how much we had accomplished. It was a tiring week, but also much more fun than I had imagined it would be. I came away from Girls State with a new appreciation for the thought and effort needed to run a state and a new perspective on many issues.

appointed officials.

After our city government was up and running, we had the important task of dividing up city funds and passing ordinances. Balancing the city budget after we allocated our funds proved to be surprisingly difficult, and the mayor and her aides had to stay up late into the night crunching numbers. We attended almost every event together, ate together, and slept in the same dorm, and as a result we bonded very quickly and had immense pride in our city.

All of the girls attending Girls State were also split evenly into two parties: the Federalists and the Nationalists. I was a Nationalist and served as a delegate at the Nationalist party convention. The two-party conventions we had were very interesting, although they could run very late at night. Electing the Nation-

Miller School of Albemarle has sent young men and women to Girls State and Boys State for many years. Our 2011 representatives were Nicole Courtney and Grant Dinwiddie.


This spring, I was honored to be one of sixty North American counselors invited by the St. Andrews Ad-missions Office to attend this year’s Counselors Vis-it. Why was I asked? The answer is obvious: Miller School of Albemarle is on the rise, and we are being no-ticed by top universities all around the world. Further-more, Richard Pasztory of the MSA Class of 2010 is enrolled at St. Andrews. Thus, on February 28, I drove to Dulles Airport and flew to Glasgow where I was met by a driver and taken to the Rusacks Hotel in the charm-ing village of St. Andrews, where I soon met my fellow North American counselors.

Founded in 1413, the University of St. Andrews is both Scotland’s oldest university and the third oldest univer-sity in the United Kingdom. Furthermore, it is ranked just behind Oxford and Cambridge in the UK rankings. In the Times Higher Education World University Rank-ings, St. Andrews places 85th; by comparison, the Uni-versity of Virginia is 135th. Most Americans assume that our system of four years of undergraduate educa-tion came from England. In fact, it came from Scot-land; the English use a three year system. Finally, three

A College Counselorin Scotland

by Director of College Placement Hugh Meagher

signers of the American Declaration of Independence attended or received degrees from St. Andrews.

In addition to its famous university, St. Andrews is the birthplace of golf, and the Rusacks is located next to the “Old Course’s” 18th green and the famous golf clubhouse. By chance, the hotel is also right across the street from John Burnett Hall where my daughter Mag-gie, a student at St. Andrews, lives. Yes, I did have another reason to visit St. Andrews.

Before the conference began, I walked out on the golf course and posed on the famous Swilcan Bridge (above —do I look a little like Jack Nicklaus?), gazed at the Road House Bunker, and walked around the exterior of the famous Royal and Ancient Golf Club.

The next three days were very busy with a variety of meetings. We met with the University’s First Principal (president) Louise Richardson – formerly Dean of Har-vard’s Ratcliff Institute. Dr. Richardson explained how her background in international relations, especially in the study of terrorism, led her to St. Andrews, which

Recent MSA graduates Richard Pasztory ’10 and Patton Usry ’09 have been drawn to the aca-demic program at St. Andrews.

Richard enrolled in the St. Andrews undergradu-ate program and with the support of St. Andrews has pursued an externship for applied experience, working for an international venture capital firm.

Patton, an undergraduate student at Denison Uni-versity, recently completed a semester abroad at St. Andrews.

MSA Alumni at St. Andrews

is recognized as the world’s leading institution in the study of terrorism. The other meetings were similar to those held at American colleges – meetings with pro-fessors, deans, admissions staff, students, and tours of various facilities. I especially enjoyed a panel presen-tation we had with two Canadian and three American students. They were asked many interesting questions; for example “…are you only friends with North Ameri-cans?” “No, my best friends are from South Africa, Belgium, and Norway.” Another question was, “Why did you come here to study if you were accepted at Middlebury?” “I am double majoring in Mathematics and Economics, so I wanted to study at the same uni-versity where John Maynard Keynes taught class.” I also enjoyed a session in the university’s Board Room, a fourteenth century architectural beauty decorated with large oil portraits of the various First Principals. We were hosted by librarians who had assembled various parts of their rare books collection. We were allowed to turn the pages and photograph (no flash) some of the most amazing books I have ever seen. For example, a scientific text personally signed by the author, Galileo Galilei; three books written by and signed by Benjamin Franklin, which he gave to St. Andrews when the uni-versity awarded him an honorary degree; a second cen-tury manuscript; and works by Sir Isaac Newton and Copernicus.

During the conference, I enjoyed describing the Mill-er School of Albemarle to my many new friends who work at some of America’s most prestigious public and private schools. For example, I bragged about MSA to the counselors from Princeton Day School, the West-minster Schools of Atlanta, Isidore Newman of New Orleans, and New York’s Stuyvesant High School.

Of course, I also enjoyed spending time with my daugh-ter Maggie and meeting a number of her friends. I had

A c a d e m i c s


Students in front of the UVA Rotunda during their trip to the University Research Design Symposium (Photo: John Macdonald)

A College Counselorin Scotland

by Director of College Placement Hugh Meagher

signers of the American Declaration of Independence attended or received degrees from St. Andrews.

In addition to its famous university, St. Andrews is the birthplace of golf, and the Rusacks is located next to the “Old Course’s” 18th green and the famous golf clubhouse. By chance, the hotel is also right across the street from John Burnett Hall where my daughter Mag-gie, a student at St. Andrews, lives. Yes, I did have another reason to visit St. Andrews.

Before the conference began, I walked out on the golf course and posed on the famous Swilcan Bridge (above —do I look a little like Jack Nicklaus?), gazed at the Road House Bunker, and walked around the exterior of the famous Royal and Ancient Golf Club.

The next three days were very busy with a variety of meetings. We met with the University’s First Principal (president) Louise Richardson – formerly Dean of Har-vard’s Ratcliff Institute. Dr. Richardson explained how her background in international relations, especially in the study of terrorism, led her to St. Andrews, which

tea with her four flat mates – lovely young English la-dies from the UK’s midlands. We also had dinner with two of her best friends from boarding school (The Hill School) who also attend St. Andrews.

St. Andrews has always been highly selective, but re-cent events have made it as discriminating as most US top 25 national universities. The royal wedding of Kate and William, in particular, has greatly increased St.Andrews’ applicant pool. Both William and Kate at-tended St. Andrews, and that’s where their romance began. Thus, today for an American to be admitted, an applicant needs a high GPA with a rigorous course load, SAT scores of 2100+, two 700s on Subject Tests, and a couple of fours or fives on AP Tests. Out of an undergraduate enrollment of about 7,500, around 1,100 are North Americans. Thirty percent of undergradu-ates are Scots, who go for free – their competition for admission is fierce; another thirty percent come from the rest of the UK who are charged £3,000 for tuition, room and board. Another thirty percent come from the European Union who are also charged £3,000 under the stipulations of the ERASMUS Treaty. The final ten percent are internationals with the bulk coming from North America, although the Chinese contingent is rap-idly expanding. Internationals are charged £13,500. In total, over 100 countries are represented in the student body.

So why do universities like St. Andrews go to the time and expense to host these counselors conferences? The answer is simple: admissions offices and college place-ment counselors have a symbiotic relationship. We learn a great deal about their university – usually cast in the best possible light. They get to know and trust us, and in turn, we counsel more of our top students to consider seriously applying to and then attending their school. It’s a business, but a business I love very much. It’s my life’s work.

Recent MSA graduates Richard Pasztory ’10 and Patton Usry ’09 have been drawn to the aca-demic program at St. Andrews.

Richard enrolled in the St. Andrews undergradu-ate program and with the support of St. Andrews has pursued an externship for applied experience, working for an international venture capital firm.

Patton, an undergraduate student at Denison Uni-versity, recently completed a semester abroad at St. Andrews.

MSA Alumni at St. Andrews

Richard Pasztory ’10

is recognized as the world’s leading institution in the study of terrorism. The other meetings were similar to those held at American colleges – meetings with pro-fessors, deans, admissions staff, students, and tours of various facilities. I especially enjoyed a panel presen-tation we had with two Canadian and three American students. They were asked many interesting questions; for example “…are you only friends with North Ameri-cans?” “No, my best friends are from South Africa, Belgium, and Norway.” Another question was, “Why did you come here to study if you were accepted at Middlebury?” “I am double majoring in Mathematics and Economics, so I wanted to study at the same uni-versity where John Maynard Keynes taught class.” I also enjoyed a session in the university’s Board Room, a fourteenth century architectural beauty decorated with large oil portraits of the various First Principals. We were hosted by librarians who had assembled various parts of their rare books collection. We were allowed to turn the pages and photograph (no flash) some of the most amazing books I have ever seen. For example, a scientific text personally signed by the author, Galileo Galilei; three books written by and signed by Benjamin Franklin, which he gave to St. Andrews when the uni-versity awarded him an honorary degree; a second cen-tury manuscript; and works by Sir Isaac Newton and Copernicus.

During the conference, I enjoyed describing the Mill-er School of Albemarle to my many new friends who work at some of America’s most prestigious public and private schools. For example, I bragged about MSA to the counselors from Princeton Day School, the West-minster Schools of Atlanta, Isidore Newman of New Orleans, and New York’s Stuyvesant High School.

Of course, I also enjoyed spending time with my daugh-ter Maggie and meeting a number of her friends. I had

Patton Usry ’09

Every MSA senior must deliver a chapel talk to the entire student body. It can be a daunting challenge. Under the guidance of faculty advisors Debbie Casado and Chris Ross, twelfth graders spend hours crafting their messages to the MSA Community. All of the anxiety and hard work are more than worth it, though. Through their chapel talks, the seniors share their passions and their insights, the experiences that have formed them, and the challenges they have overcome. These chapel talks are marked by the sincerity and wisdom of young adults who are turning a page in their lives. The audience always listens, and the audience always

learns. Here is a brief sampling from the chapel talks of the class of 2012, accompanied by photos of the authors on graduation day.

If you would like a copy of all the senior chapel talks, email [email protected].

“Be weird. Flaunt your individuality. Don’t be ashamed of your differences. Quirky is perfect to the ones that matter in your life. If anyone thinks otherwise, you don’t have reason to hang around them. The more you celebrate your individual-ity, the happier you will be. Now that is perfect.” –Olivia Garcia

Senior Chapel Talks 2012Special Feature

“It seems to me, nothing truly worth having comes easy. Therefore, I believe we need to develop a cer-tain mentality that enables us to push forward when we are tired or frustrated. Developing self discipline is a lot more important than relying on another per-son to help us do something.” –Andrew White


Photos: Kim Kelley-Wagner

“There’s nothing wrong in embracing who you are. But, there is also nothing wrong in embracing who you strive to become. At this moment, it seems like who you are now is who you’re going to be forever. But in four years, I promise you, you will be so much different. Just remember, it’s up to you to decide if the change is for the better.” –Taylor Baker

“Miller School is a small world to be a part of. I love this place for it has changed me, shaped me, and made me figure out a few things about my values. I was a teenager just getting off the airplane from the oth-er side of the world. I came here to prove that I am ‘smart.’ At times I wondered, why be smart? What do I live for? Is it all about college? Is it all about suc-cess? Is it possible to answer these questions without considering what the world tells us to do?“We are on the go all day, bustling about, trying to achieve different goals. But when it comes down to it, we are just common people navigating similar sets of circumstances. Why do we care about others’ remarks so much? What are we afraid of? As Einstein said, ‘Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.’” –Yiming Zhao

“[Through photography,] I could capture a moment in time the way I wanted to see it. This process gives me the gift of developing a vision of my life. By taking pictures that are dreary and dark, I can present a work which grasps how I felt while my al-lergy took over my body. I love being able to create and share how I saw the world around me then, and contrast that vision with how I see the world now.” –Savannah White

Every MSA senior must deliver a chapel talk to the entire student body. It can be a daunting challenge. Under the guidance of faculty advisors Debbie Casado and Chris Ross, twelfth graders spend hours crafting their messages to the MSA Community. All of the anxiety and hard work are more than worth it, though. Through their chapel talks, the seniors share their passions and their insights, the experiences that have formed them, and the challenges they have overcome. These chapel talks are marked by the sincerity and wisdom of young adults who are turning a page in their lives. The audience always listens, and the audience always

learns. Here is a brief sampling from the chapel talks of the class of 2012, accompanied by photos of the authors on graduation day.

If you would like a copy of all the senior chapel talks, email [email protected].

Senior Chapel Talks 2012

“It seems to me, nothing truly worth having comes easy. Therefore, I believe we need to develop a cer-tain mentality that enables us to push forward when we are tired or frustrated. Developing self discipline is a lot more important than relying on another per-son to help us do something.” –Andrew White

“There’s nothing wrong in embracing who you are. But, there is also nothing wrong in embracing who you strive to become. At this moment, it seems like who you are now is who you’re going to be forever. But in four years, I promise you, you will be so much different. Just remember, it’s up to you to decide if the change is for the better.” –Taylor Baker

“Miller School is a small world to be a part of. I love this place for it has changed me, shaped me, and made me figure out a few things about my values. I was a teenager just getting off the airplane from the oth-er side of the world. I came here to prove that I am ‘smart.’ At times I wondered, why be smart? What do I live for? Is it all about college? Is it all about suc-cess? Is it possible to answer these questions without considering what the world tells us to do?“We are on the go all day, bustling about, trying to achieve different goals. But when it comes down to it, we are just common people navigating similar sets of circumstances. Why do we care about others’ remarks so much? What are we afraid of? As Einstein said, ‘Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.’” –Yiming Zhao

“This school pretty much taught me how to have a successful and happy life. I have learned the tools for success from my teachers, and I have learned how to be happy from my peers.” –Peter Syverud

Graduation 2012

“[Through photography,] I could capture a moment in time the way I wanted to see it. This process gives me the gift of developing a vision of my life. By taking pictures that are dreary and dark, I can present a work which grasps how I felt while my al-lergy took over my body. I love being able to create and share how I saw the world around me then, and contrast that vision with how I see the world now.” –Savannah White

“Don’t limit yourself. Recognize your shortcomings and try your hardest to overcome them, and help yourself to succeed.” –Spencer Valade

“Like Jackson Pollock, all of us are in the process of splattering our own canvasses. We struggle, but each challenge brings us close to understanding where we want the next blue line of paint to drip. You might feel weird sometimes, but that’s normal be-cause face it, the world’s weird. I think we should just embrace it, and not try too hard to understand it.” –Nelly Hawley-Hayes

“We all face vicissitudes in our lives, but we have friends that can help us through those times; after all, that’s what friends are for. But there are al-ways those people who are less fortunate than we are. Before we fall into the rut of complaining, we should take a moment to think about them.” –Casey Matthews

“The true challenge in life is consistent-ly living by our morals through thick and thin. Morals are not just thoughts or words, they are a person’s life guide to being who they want to be. How many of us have felt that cool breeze? And how many of us have recognized it for what it truly can be?” –Grant Dinwiddie

“The act of pulling yourself from the valley is cer-tainly difficult and tests your will. You may ques-tion yourself and wonder if you are even worth all of the trouble. Don’t let yourself believe that lie. Surround yourself with friends who love and care for you, not only those who share in your pain. Soon you will come to a point where the pain is no longer prominent and you are able to reflect.” –Aaron Barnett

“Everybody has weaknesses. It is how we choose to deal with them that defines us as human be-ings. It would be one thing if I didn’t like to read, but it would be another thing entirely if I gave up trying to become a better reader. It would be one thing if I let my size stop me on the court, but it’s another thing entirely to use my size as an advantage. Don’t let your weakness define you, but figure out how your weakness can make you stronger.” –Nicole Courtney

“There are some days where nothing goes your way. Everyone has them, and that is no secret. Fishing has taught me to keep pushing through, because, sooner or later, something good hap-pens.” –Sam Ridenhour

“My message is this: You can find a job that you love and enjoy, when you are done with school. In the meantime, however, school is your job. If you love it, great. If not, work anyway. Value the learning and take pride in it. Do this job well and you will be able to find a career in which you can be happy. Hard work, not your IQ, will carry you through.” –Max Johnson

“The true challenge in life is consistent-ly living by our morals through thick and thin. Morals are not just thoughts or words, they are a person’s life guide to being who they want to be. How many of us have felt that cool breeze? And how many of us have recognized it for what it truly can be?” –Grant Dinwiddie

“Because of [our rock band] Paradox, I learned how to work on a team, and because of my friends, I started to un-derstand that friendship is the most important thing in this world. I felt wonderful every night we rehearsed together, and I remember how perfect our performance was on that special night last Valentine’s Day. It is indeed a paradox that four people who looked like they could never work together actually formed a successful band. ”–Ke “Magic” Meng

“Each one of us has special talents, goals, dreams, and motives. When we activate all of those, we are closer to formulating our own destiny. Even if there are some of you in the audience that believe in fate, I believe all of us are granted certain amounts of po-tential, which we unlock or not. Activating that potential is power, pushing you into your future.” –Leela Young

“The act of pulling yourself from the valley is cer-tainly difficult and tests your will. You may ques-tion yourself and wonder if you are even worth all of the trouble. Don’t let yourself believe that lie. Surround yourself with friends who love and care for you, not only those who share in your pain. Soon you will come to a point where the pain is no longer prominent and you are able to reflect.” –Aaron Barnett

“Everybody has weaknesses. It is how we choose to deal with them that defines us as human be-ings. It would be one thing if I didn’t like to read, but it would be another thing entirely if I gave up trying to become a better reader. It would be one thing if I let my size stop me on the court, but it’s another thing entirely to use my size as an advantage. Don’t let your weakness define you, but figure out how your weakness can make you stronger.” –Nicole Courtney

Graduation 2012


“My message is this: You can find a job that you love and enjoy, when you are done with school. In the meantime, however, school is your job. If you love it, great. If not, work anyway. Value the learning and take pride in it. Do this job well and you will be able to find a career in which you can be happy. Hard work, not your IQ, will carry you through.” –Max Johnson

Good morning. Many of you in the audience today have probably seen the movie Forrest Gump. If so, you most certainly remember this expression: “Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re going to get.” Indeed, a box of chocolates is hardly ever the same, and so it is a surprise each and every indulgent experience. These words of Gump’s precisely describe my experience here at Miller.

Coming into my junior year, I was only expecting to fo-cus on my primary goal, basketball. I knew there were a bunch of international kids, some strange kids, and some crazy baseball guys, and I told myself I would just ignore them and focus on my goal. However, Miller has allowed me to evolve into an entirely different person than I had expected to.

I soon discovered the international kids were awesome. Characters like Ian Kim, Bo Yoo, and Yiming made me laugh more than anyone, were amazingly smart, yet were just like me in so many ways. My roommate from Korea, Theodore Kim, even became one of my closest friends. As for the strange kids, I had one of those as my roommate this year too, and his name was Aaron. [Laughs.]

But in all seriousness, Aaron became one of my clos-est friends as well, and I learned to accept people of all different backgrounds and interests because you never know how spectacular someone may be unless you truly get to know them. Oh, and the baseball guys, I still kind of avoid them because they are just too wild for me.

However, the students were not the only surprises for me. The faculty was caring, intelligent, and welcoming like no other place I had ever been. I began cultivat-ing relationships with teachers and coaches that were both on an intellectual and familiar level. They helped me with my college essays, my schoolwork, and life in general because they genuinely cared about me, as they do with everyone in this school.

These changes in perspective serve as a prelude to my message for the class of 2012. Life is full of unexpected surprises. I’m sure most of us never expected to have a Korean roommate become a best friend, to fist bump your senior English teacher because he is a yoga zen master lax bro and is that cool, to have Cooper “pants” you while you’re trying to lift the golf cart for the senior prank, or love a school that you dreaded before and only wanted to come to because of basketball.

Salutatory SpeechChase Cannon, North Carolina State University Class of 2016


In our future, there will be new experiences, adventures, and people, and my message to all of you is this: em-brace the diversity of life’s offerings and enjoy them! We will never be able to plan for everything or predict everything, and things will hardly ever go exactly how we expect them to and will most likely happen the op-posite of how we think they will. But, there is noth-ing wrong with this at all. When we go off to college, be willing to accept these new ideas and be willing to try different things. Whether you hang out with a new group of people, try a new sport, or try a new class just go for it and do not be hesitant because it is different.

I regret that I did not have this mindset before I came to Miller, because I wasted time not enjoying the experi-ence as much as I could have and should have in the beginning months. I think you’ll agree, this school has helped all of us grow.

In the end, we never know what we will get, but we do know that we have the ability to make the best out of what we do get. I love you guys from the class of 2012. Thank you for making this one of the most memorable and fantastic experiences of my life. I will always love this school because of what we have shared here, and I hope you will too.

Good morning! Thank you for coming to the graduation of the Class of 2012!

In two days, I will be back at home with my parents in China, just like every previous summer. But this time, I am not excited at all because I do not want to leave my home in the United States, the Miller School.

For the past three years, I have eagerly anticipated going to college; but for the past three weeks, all I wished was that time could slow down because there is so much about Miller that I am not ready to let go.

I still want to take a look at every beautiful scene of the landscape that surrounds us; I still want to watch another intense and exciting basketball match or another funny and fantastic drama production; I still want to talk with my friends and teachers like we are still going to see each other every day.

I haven’t heard enough of Mr. France’s insightful speeches; I would still like to have a chance to convince Mr. Spivey that just because my backpack has a drawing of a cat next to the word “hello” does not mean that it is a knockoff “Hello Kitty” backpack; I still want to argue with Mr. Gottlob about his theory that the best way to a girl’s heart is through her stomach, even though I know this theory works perfectly well on me.

But today, I have to say goodbye to all of these memories.

Salutatory SpeechChase Cannon, North Carolina State University Class of 2016

In our future, there will be new experiences, adventures, and people, and my message to all of you is this: em-brace the diversity of life’s offerings and enjoy them! We will never be able to plan for everything or predict everything, and things will hardly ever go exactly how we expect them to and will most likely happen the op-posite of how we think they will. But, there is noth-ing wrong with this at all. When we go off to college, be willing to accept these new ideas and be willing to try different things. Whether you hang out with a new group of people, try a new sport, or try a new class just go for it and do not be hesitant because it is different.

I regret that I did not have this mindset before I came to Miller, because I wasted time not enjoying the experi-ence as much as I could have and should have in the beginning months. I think you’ll agree, this school has helped all of us grow.

In the end, we never know what we will get, but we do know that we have the ability to make the best out of what we do get. I love you guys from the class of 2012. Thank you for making this one of the most memorable and fantastic experiences of my life. I will always love this school because of what we have shared here, and I hope you will too.


Yiwen Wang, Washington & Lee University Class of 2016 Valedictory Speech

We, as a whole class, have to say goodbye to this wonderful place that helped us live, learn, and flourish.

Graduation is a bittersweet moment. But we shall graduate with pride and smiles because the Class of 2012 is a special class as worthy of celebration and remembrance as any class that has come before. Of course, our class is special not because a rare earthquake took place at Miller at the beginning of this year, not because we survived in the year that had been rumored to be the end of the world, but because Miller School and the Class of 2012 grew up together like brothers and sisters.

As a welcoming and warm community, Miller has not only helped us grow from shy and scared underclassmen to confident and mature young adults, but also influenced each one of us to learn to respect, trust, and care for others. In the accepting but competitive field of Miller, we have gained recognition for our great talents and hard work through amazing performances, intense sports games, and meaningful service.

I believe that for the Class of 2012, Miller School has been a family where we can truly be ourselves, a friend who always supports and encourages us, and a mentor who points out the right path and lights up our future. Miller has not only prepared us to deal with any challenges that lie ahead of us, but also helped us build upon Miller characteristics of caring and respect that will influence others we come across in college.

Just as Miller witnessed every little transformation of the Class of 2012, we witnessed every significant change about Miller School. We welcomed many more cute new babies to our faculty community. We were fortunate to enjoy the improvement of the dining system and Alumni Gym that provide us with better access to health. A variety of new sports such as Badminton, Endurance Team and Dance Fitness and new community service groups such as Morningside Eldercare increased our value of being part of Miller.

The loss of our beloved faculty member, Mr. Joe Spivey, made each one of us fall apart individually, but also made our community much closer and stronger.

Miller and the Class of 2012 both went through many significant transformations over the past four years. No matter how much we have changed and will change, our love and gratitude for Miller will only increase and our wonderful memories will never fade away.

After all the happy and sad moments, the successes and failures, our memory of Miller now is more than just a photo, a video, or a yearbook. What we have experienced at Miller has indeed become part of our souls.

Good morning! Thank you for coming to the graduation of the Class of 2012!

In two days, I will be back at home with my parents in China, just like every previous summer. But this time, I am not excited at all because I do not want to leave my home in the United States, the Miller School.

For the past three years, I have eagerly anticipated going to college; but for the past three weeks, all I wished was that time could slow down because there is so much about Miller that I am not ready to let go.

I still want to take a look at every beautiful scene of the landscape that surrounds us; I still want to watch another intense and exciting basketball match or another funny and fantastic drama production; I still want to talk with my friends and teachers like we are still going to see each other every day.

I haven’t heard enough of Mr. France’s insightful speeches; I would still like to have a chance to convince Mr. Spivey that just because my backpack has a drawing of a cat next to the word “hello” does not mean that it is a knockoff “Hello Kitty” backpack; I still want to argue with Mr. Gottlob about his theory that the best way to a girl’s heart is through her stomach, even though I know this theory works perfectly well on me.

But today, I have to say goodbye to all of these memories.

Spring Sports Highlights

Girls SoccerThe girls soccer team experienced an incredible season with many firsts, including making it to the first round of the conference tournament. The focus of the season was to maintain a close-knit team and, of course, to win some games. Creating a positive and strong foundation off the field carried over to quality of play on the field. The team enjoyed many bonding evenings including a spaghetti dinner, tie-dye party, Easter egg hunt, and hot dog roast. The girls trained hard, even in the rain, and ran more hills than they could count. Savannah White and Rachel Leach led the team up front, working hard to get open and put the ball in the back of the net. Keeping the ball out of the net and leading the defense were sweeper Alyssa Fickley and goaltender Rachel Odumu. The team ended with a record of 3-6, the most wins to date by an MSA girl’s soccer team. Rachel Odumu had anotherMSA first earning first team all conference honors. -Coach Kristi Melis


Rachel Leach, Bethany Curl, and Leela Young

The MSA baseball program expanded to include a JV team in 2012. In their first season, the boys posted a .500 re-cord. Player development remained the highest priority for the team. Freshmen Steele Henley and Brooke Henley and sophomore Orion Bloom were able to make important contributions to the varsity team. JV baseball could be seen and heard practicing intensely on the newly rebuilt lower baseball field sometimes well into dinnertime, long after other practices had ended. The results of this hard work showed when the team competed fiercely against the more experi-enced teams from larger area high schools. Eighth grader Johnny Wood, sophomore Orion Bloom, and junior captain Christian Cassity won end-of-season honors. -Assistant Coach Rob Wyllie

JV & Varsity Baseball

Varsity player senior Justin Cooper

Varsity Baseball

MSA’s Varsity baseball team wrapped up its 2012 season with a 13-10-1 record. The Mavericks came up two runs short in the state semi-finals to the eventual state champions. MSA played the entire season with an eleven-man roster, seven of whom were seniors. Eric Ponton and Jeremy Walker led the team in pitching, both posting 4-1 records. Eric Ponton threw a no-hitter and finished the season with a 0.97 ERA. Both Ponton and Walker earned post-season awards from the league with first team and second team honors, respectively, and Ponton earned all-state honorable mention. Senior Sam Ridenhour was also recognized as second team All VIC and led the Mavericks with a .349 batting average. Joaquin Litzenberger, the leader in the dugout and anchor behind the plate, earned the coaches award and had 18 RBIs and 7 doubles. The Mavericks will also miss the spectacular play in center field of Justin Cooper and the steady contributions of Jarrad Moscicki and longtime Maverick Dan Baer, who wrapped up a five year career with team. Next year Kody Rose (who was injured early in the year) and Michael Daily will look to lead the team back to the State tournament.

-Assistant Coach Tom Pallante

Spring Sports Highlights

Girls SoccerThe girls soccer team experienced an incredible season with many firsts, including making it to the first round of the conference tournament. The focus of the season was to maintain a close-knit team and, of course, to win some games. Creating a positive and strong foundation off the field carried over to quality of play on the field. The team enjoyed many bonding evenings including a spaghetti dinner, tie-dye party, Easter egg hunt, and hot dog roast. The girls trained hard, even in the rain, and ran more hills than they could count. Savannah White and Rachel Leach led the team up front, working hard to get open and put the ball in the back of the net. Keeping the ball out of the net and leading the defense were sweeper Alyssa Fickley and goaltender Rachel Odumu. The team ended with a record of 3-6, the most wins to date by an MSA girl’s soccer team. Rachel Odumu had anotherMSA first earning first team all conference honors. -Coach Kristi Melis

The MSA baseball program expanded to include a JV team in 2012. In their first season, the boys posted a .500 re-cord. Player development remained the highest priority for the team. Freshmen Steele Henley and Brooke Henley and sophomore Orion Bloom were able to make important contributions to the varsity team. JV baseball could be seen and heard practicing intensely on the newly rebuilt lower baseball field sometimes well into dinnertime, long after other practices had ended. The results of this hard work showed when the team competed fiercely against the more experi-enced teams from larger area high schools. Eighth grader Johnny Wood, sophomore Orion Bloom, and junior captain Christian Cassity won end-of-season honors. -Assistant Coach Rob Wyllie

JV & Varsity Baseball

A t h l e t i c s

20Bell Tower Magazine • Spring/Summer 2012Varsity player senior Justin Cooper

Varsity Baseball

MSA’s Varsity baseball team wrapped up its 2012 season with a 13-10-1 record. The Mavericks came up two runs short in the state semi-finals to the eventual state champions. MSA played the entire season with an eleven-man roster, seven of whom were seniors. Eric Ponton and Jeremy Walker led the team in pitching, both posting 4-1 records. Eric Ponton threw a no-hitter and finished the season with a 0.97 ERA. Both Ponton and Walker earned post-season awards from the league with first team and second team honors, respectively, and Ponton earned all-state honorable mention. Senior Sam Ridenhour was also recognized as second team All VIC and led the Mavericks with a .349 batting average. Joaquin Litzenberger, the leader in the dugout and anchor behind the plate, earned the coaches award and had 18 RBIs and 7 doubles. The Mavericks will also miss the spectacular play in center field of Justin Cooper and the steady contributions of Jarrad Moscicki and longtime Maverick Dan Baer, who wrapped up a five year career with team. Next year Kody Rose (who was injured early in the year) and Michael Daily will look to lead the team back to the State tournament.

-Assistant Coach Tom Pallante

The MSA tennis team is at the point now where they don’t have to be encouraged to work on their game. They are out there, in droves, constantly seeking to improve. As a coach, this puts a very large smile on my face. People are getting excited, and I couldn’t be more proud of this team.

We began the season playing a team that has really pushed us in the past: Blue Ridge. We have beaten them three times in the last two years but it was always close. We ended up triumphing 5-4 and winning our opening tennis match for the first time in my tenure at MSA. We would go on to defeat LCA, Hargrave, and North Cross to begin the season 4 and 0.

During the final week of the season, we ended up with four matches in five days against four of the top eight teams in the state. We lost all four of these matches, but we fought hard and played with grace and class. We finished at .500 on the season, and we are garnering respect in the conference. Two players made the VIC all-conference team this year: Kyle Ottaway and Chase Cannon.

-Coach Michael Dalton

This last spring we introduced Badminton as a sport to our MSA community. I was thrilled to see the over-whelming interest from our students. Although bad-minton is an indoor sport, we enjoyed playing on out-door courts under the sun. Throughout the season, we learned the rules of the game, practiced serving and re-ceiving the shuttlecocks as well as basic and advanced strokes, and played a round-robin tournament.

We concluded the season with the following students winning Number One titles: Feier Chen in girls’ sin-gles, Sean Park in boys’ singles, Feier Chen and Kate Zhao in girls’ doubles, Sean Park and Denny Yoo in boys’ doubles, and Sean Park and Leona Du in mixed doubles. Overall, we had a sunny season. Most impor-tantly, we truly enjoyed the sport and had fun.

-Coach Esther Tian

Tennis

Badminton


MSA lacrosse enjoyed a year of steady improvement Highlights included the arrival of Assistant Coach Chris Fortier ’02 who in-jected the program with his tough-nosed experiences of playing for MSA ten years ago. Chris, the eldest of the legendary Fortier brothers, played every position on the field in his day. One of our best practices of the year was he and his brothers Matt and Wes suited up and scrimmaged with the kids.

Individual kudos are to be heaped upon goalie Beau Wilson, who upped his intensity level to became the field general we’ve been needing. He recorded several games in which he had over thirteen saves, which is remarkable! Senior Ben Keller was our clear-ing specialist with his speed and field vision, and Miles Gagg, our standout attackman, had several multi-goal games. Miles really stepped it up in our last game of the season, a home rematch against New Covenant, who had beat us by one earlier in the season. He ended the game with four goals, and that victory was sweet!

We were also helped by senior standouts Aaron Barnett on defense and Devon Anderson at midfield. Neither of these young men had ever played the game before this year. With their field awareness and hustle, they each contributed mightily. Aaron was voted our MVP—a rare achievement not only for a first year player, but also for a defense man. In fact, our fairly impenetrable zone D was our most accomplished unit, led by the aforementioned goalie, Beau Wilson, and fortified by veteran defense-men Alexey Zielinski and Edward Her. Midfielders James Semerling (Coaches Award), and Alex Zielinski (Most Improved Player) were stalwart pieces of that zone, and incoming freshman Trevor Scarboro has a strong future at the face off X.

Everything came together in our last game of the season. The team hustled, moved the ball, and helped each other. The trick will be to build from that spot next year; focus, intensity, (going to lacrosse camp this summer), and field awareness will get the job done!

-Coach Chris Ross

Andre Coscia

The MSA tennis team is at the point now where they don’t have to be encouraged to work on their game. They are out there, in droves, constantly seeking to improve. As a coach, this puts a very large smile on my face. People are getting excited, and I couldn’t be more proud of this team.

We began the season playing a team that has really pushed us in the past: Blue Ridge. We have beaten them three times in the last two years but it was always close. We ended up triumphing 5-4 and winning our opening tennis match for the first time in my tenure at MSA. We would go on to defeat LCA, Hargrave, and North Cross to begin the season 4 and 0.

During the final week of the season, we ended up with four matches in five days against four of the top eight teams in the state. We lost all four of these matches, but we fought hard and played with grace and class. We finished at .500 on the season, and we are garnering respect in the conference. Two players made the VIC all-conference team this year: Kyle Ottaway and Chase Cannon.

-Coach Michael Dalton

Tennis

MSA lacrosse enjoyed a year of steady improvement Highlights included the arrival of Assistant Coach Chris Fortier ’02 who in-jected the program with his tough-nosed experiences of playing for MSA ten years ago. Chris, the eldest of the legendary Fortier brothers, played every position on the field in his day. One of our best practices of the year was he and his brothers Matt and Wes suited up and scrimmaged with the kids.

Individual kudos are to be heaped upon goalie Beau Wilson, who upped his intensity level to became the field general we’ve been needing. He recorded several games in which he had over thirteen saves, which is remarkable! Senior Ben Keller was our clear-ing specialist with his speed and field vision, and Miles Gagg, our standout attackman, had several multi-goal games. Miles really stepped it up in our last game of the season, a home rematch against New Covenant, who had beat us by one earlier in the season. He ended the game with four goals, and that victory was sweet!

We were also helped by senior standouts Aaron Barnett on defense and Devon Anderson at midfield. Neither of these young men had ever played the game before this year. With their field awareness and hustle, they each contributed mightily. Aaron was voted our MVP—a rare achievement not only for a first year player, but also for a defense man. In fact, our fairly impenetrable zone D was our most accomplished unit, led by the aforementioned goalie, Beau Wilson, and fortified by veteran defense-men Alexey Zielinski and Edward Her. Midfielders James Semerling (Coaches Award), and Alex Zielinski (Most Improved Player) were stalwart pieces of that zone, and incoming freshman Trevor Scarboro has a strong future at the face off X.

Everything came together in our last game of the season. The team hustled, moved the ball, and helped each other. The trick will be to build from that spot next year; focus, intensity, (going to lacrosse camp this summer), and field awareness will get the job done!

-Coach Chris Ross

The 2012 golf season was exciting! Along with the first golf victory for MSA, many personal goals were accomplished by each member of the team. Competitors for the year included Mike Oram, John Armstrong, and Bonnie Kim. These players worked hard in practice to im-prove their short game and to learn the etiquette of the game. Some of their accomplishments include scoring birdies and pars during match play, increasing drive distance by thirty yards, and scoring personal bests. They have been a great inspiration and support to returning team member Andy Mangham and first year play-ers Gavin Cutchin and Taylor Parsons. These three put in a great amount of effort learning to make consistent contact with the ball and build-ing a solid foundation and love for the game.

-Coach Meghan Waddle

A t h l e t i c s

Golf

Lacrosse


The MSA Endurance Team set the bar high with a successful spring campaign and has carried its momentum into the summer months. The competitive season began with the first round of the Virginia High School Mountain Bike Series hosted by Miller School of Albemarle. The team was excited to showcase several miles of new singletrack mountain bike trails it had constructed together with the Campus Trails Service Group, and to see just how well the winter of training had prepared each rider. Great racing by all MSA riders resulted in numerous teal and green clad athletes on the podium and the overall team win for the event, a first for the school!

Numerous wins and top results continued through the VAHS MTB Series races, and despite stiff competition, especially from cross-mountain rivals “Rocktown” from Harrisonburg, the series

Endurance Team

with two podium appearances: Chris Keeling placed fifth and Sam James placed second in the men 17-18 and 16-17 age groups, respectively.

Racing continued beyond final exams, most notably with the Junior Road National Championships in August, Georgia. It was a great experience for all team members as they competed on the largest stage available. Ashlyn Woods came away with an amazing sixth place in the Individual Time Trial. Preparations are underway now for several Endurance Team athletes who will be competing in Vermont’s four-day Green Mountain Stage Race in early September.

With the continued development of current Endurance Team members, as well as the addition of new talent for the 2012-13 school year, the program is poised to continue growing and attending the most prestigious cycling events in North America.

-Director of Endurance Andy Guptill

A mixture of rookie and veteran track runners spent the season working through a variety of workouts and exercis-es, both preparing for competition and improving general strength and conditioning. An eclectic group culled from a variety of winter sports such as ping-pong, mountain biking, and dance-fitness, the MSA track runners all saw dramatic improvements in their physical condition. Each week of practice consisted of two sprint workouts carried out at the Western Albemarle outdoor track, and three days of distance and strength training on the Hill. Runners endured ladder workouts up various MSA hills, raced through the speed and agility ladder, and built fast-twitch muscle sweating it out in the weight room. Working through five days a week of difficult training ensured improve-ment for every athlete on the team. MSA made a strong showing in competitions as well. Junior Elias Hubbard ran in the 800 and 1600 meter races throughout the season, with impressive times for each meet. His final finish of 4:37 in the VISAA State Championship one mile race earned him an eighth place all-state finish. Elias’s progress, and that of the entire team, will undoubtedly carry over into the numerous fall sports bolstered by the strength and speed of the spring track team.

-Assistant Coach Thomas Fickley

culminated with MSA Endurance being crowned State Champions at the series finale.

While much of the team focused on mountain biking and the VAHS MTB Series, several members were also hard at work on the road, racking up podium finishes from New York to North Carolina. Rising Junior Ashlyn Woods opened the team’s account with a convincing win at the Wolf Pack Classic road race in North Carolina, and then several weeks later it was both Ashlyn and Sam James taking top honors in their respective categories at the Jefferson Cup Road Race in Charlottesville. Shortly thereafter, it was off to upstate New York to compete in Tour of the Battenkill, one of the country’s largest and most prestigious races. Large, talented fields served as the ideal platforms for Endurance Team members to display their racing prowess, and MSA came away

Track

Photo by Phillip Robb

Endurance Team

with two podium appearances: Chris Keeling placed fifth and Sam James placed second in the men 17-18 and 16-17 age groups, respectively.

Racing continued beyond final exams, most notably with the Junior Road National Championships in August, Georgia. It was a great experience for all team members as they competed on the largest stage available. Ashlyn Woods came away with an amazing sixth place in the Individual Time Trial. Preparations are underway now for several Endurance Team athletes who will be competing in Vermont’s four-day Green Mountain Stage Race in early September.

With the continued development of current Endurance Team members, as well as the addition of new talent for the 2012-13 school year, the program is poised to continue growing and attending the most prestigious cycling events in North America.

-Director of Endurance Andy Guptill

A t h l e t i c s

A mixture of rookie and veteran track runners spent the season working through a variety of workouts and exercis-es, both preparing for competition and improving general strength and conditioning. An eclectic group culled from a variety of winter sports such as ping-pong, mountain biking, and dance-fitness, the MSA track runners all saw dramatic improvements in their physical condition. Each week of practice consisted of two sprint workouts carried out at the Western Albemarle outdoor track, and three days of distance and strength training on the Hill. Runners endured ladder workouts up various MSA hills, raced through the speed and agility ladder, and built fast-twitch muscle sweating it out in the weight room. Working through five days a week of difficult training ensured improve-ment for every athlete on the team. MSA made a strong showing in competitions as well. Junior Elias Hubbard ran in the 800 and 1600 meter races throughout the season, with impressive times for each meet. His final finish of 4:37 in the VISAA State Championship one mile race earned him an eighth place all-state finish. Elias’s progress, and that of the entire team, will undoubtedly carry over into the numerous fall sports bolstered by the strength and speed of the spring track team.

-Assistant Coach Thomas Fickley

culminated with MSA Endurance being crowned State Champions at the series finale.

While much of the team focused on mountain biking and the VAHS MTB Series, several members were also hard at work on the road, racking up podium finishes from New York to North Carolina. Rising Junior Ashlyn Woods opened the team’s account with a convincing win at the Wolf Pack Classic road race in North Carolina, and then several weeks later it was both Ashlyn and Sam James taking top honors in their respective categories at the Jefferson Cup Road Race in Charlottesville. Shortly thereafter, it was off to upstate New York to compete in Tour of the Battenkill, one of the country’s largest and most prestigious races. Large, talented fields served as the ideal platforms for Endurance Team members to display their racing prowess, and MSA came away

Track


Ashlyn Woods and Chris Keeling

Photo by Phillip Robb


A Historic Treasure: The Architecture of Miller School of Albemarle

Computer-drawn rendering of the new bleachers to be installed in Alumni Gym

The architectural splendor of the Miller School of Albemarle buildings contribute to the rich texture of building arts in Albemarle County. In his semi-nal work, The Architecture of Jefferson Country, renowned UVa Langhorne Professor of Architecture K. Edward Lay includes descriptions of many of the structures on the 1,600 acres of the grounds of Miller School of Albemarle. Noting that Albemarle County has two of the world’s great examples of the building arts, Lay points out that virtually every style of archi-tecture once or presently popular in the United States

active role of Thomas Edison in the wiring of MSA for electricity.

From the start of this timeline, it is noteworthy that on the grounds of MSA there exists a Jefferson-era residence, called Pomegranate House, that dates from 1823. An important hall-parlor-plan brick residence, Pomegranate has a molded brick cornice, a penciled Flemish bond façade, and a six-over-nine sash on the first floor. MSA’s main academic building, “Old Main,” is an E-shaped building that was originally built as a “T.” According to the application letter that successfully requested MSA’s inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places in 1974, the north and south wings completing the ‘E’ were added later.

The National Register of Historic Places letter goes on to describe several notable details of Old Main:

This building is two stories high with an English basement and a slate mansard roof. The walls are laid in unbonded brick with highlights picked out in stone forming a constructional or permanent bichrome. A pointed segmentally arched portico opens off the central pavilion on the west side. ... A rosette motif with boss appears in the spandrel above the arch. ... Stone steps with low stone sides lead to the north and south doorways opening onto the first floor. These doorways have wide stone, lan-cet arches with a dripstone springing from brick

is represented locally. Additionally, he notes that Albemarle County architecture reflects “the history of the county—its beginnings on the fringe of the west-ern frontier, its settlement and growth, its roads and railroads….its shift from a farming to a broader-based economy ... typical of the nation’s history.” In many ways, the establishment of MSA and its evolution over the past 130 years provides a microcosm of this history. It extends from MSA’s role in establishing the railroad station in Crozet, the paving of Miller School Road (a first in Albemarle County), and the

Photo: Clark Walker


A Historic Treasure: The Architecture of Miller School of Albemarle

H i s t o r y

Computer-drawn rendering of the new bleachers to be installed in Alumni Gym

active role of Thomas Edison in the wiring of MSA for electricity.

From the start of this timeline, it is noteworthy that on the grounds of MSA there exists a Jefferson-era residence, called Pomegranate House, that dates from 1823. An important hall-parlor-plan brick residence, Pomegranate has a molded brick cornice, a penciled Flemish bond façade, and a six-over-nine sash on the first floor. MSA’s main academic building, “Old Main,” is an E-shaped building that was originally built as a “T.” According to the application letter that successfully requested MSA’s inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places in 1974, the north and south wings completing the ‘E’ were added later.

The National Register of Historic Places letter goes on to describe several notable details of Old Main:

This building is two stories high with an English basement and a slate mansard roof. The walls are laid in unbonded brick with highlights picked out in stone forming a constructional or permanent bichrome. A pointed segmentally arched portico opens off the central pavilion on the west side. ... A rosette motif with boss appears in the spandrel above the arch. ... Stone steps with low stone sides lead to the north and south doorways opening onto the first floor. These doorways have wide stone, lan-cet arches with a dripstone springing from brick

is represented locally. Additionally, he notes that Albemarle County architecture reflects “the history of the county—its beginnings on the fringe of the west-ern frontier, its settlement and growth, its roads and railroads….its shift from a farming to a broader-based economy ... typical of the nation’s history.” In many ways, the establishment of MSA and its evolution over the past 130 years provides a microcosm of this history. It extends from MSA’s role in establishing the railroad station in Crozet, the paving of Miller School Road (a first in Albemarle County), and the

pilasters on stone bases. ... The tall narrow windows on the second floor have a stone dripstone and six-over-six sashes with large lights. A stone course surrounds the building at the sill level of the window and at the bottom of the dripstone.

In the projecting pavilions, there are three lancet windows with dripstones on the second floor. In each of the gables of the pavilions is a trefoil win-dow with a row of three quatrefoil windows opening immediately below. The mansard roof is pierced by steep gabled dormers with lancet arched windows.

The description also includes an account of Old Main’s interior:

A wide stairway with symmetrically divided flights and elaborately carved and incised newels ascends at the juncture of the center “E” bar and the west section, and is lit by a skylight. A stair with an elaborate newel also ascends in each of the wings.

It is a privilege to pursue our academic mission in such splendid surroundings that project this rich history. We feel that it is our obligation to preserve these important structures as learning settings for what author Matthew Crawford describes as the mastery of real things.

Thank you for your support as we work every day to preserve the vision and place of Samuel Miller.

-Brad Bodager

Photo: Clark Walker

Ms. M. Jean PrintzMs. Charlotte Sherman

Mr. & Mrs. Fred SimpkinsMr. & Mrs. Preston O. Stallings

Mr. Weiming Zheng & Mrs. Zhenhong ChenMarietta McNeill Morgan & Samuel Tate Morgan Jr. Foundation

Miller School Alumni AssociationThe Perry Foundation

W.E. Brown Family and FriendsWells Fargo Foundation

The Silver Bell Tower ClubFor gifts of $1,000 or more during the 2011-2012 fiscal year

On behalf of our students, we are tremendously grateful for the support of the donors listed below during the July 1, 2011 - June 30, 2012 fiscal year.

Mr. & Mrs. Stuart ArmstrongMr. & Mrs. William E. Baer, Jr.Mr. & Mrs. Cyrus P. BargerMr. & Mrs. Lindsay R. Barnes, Jr.Mr. & Mrs. Bradley E. BodagerMr. & Mrs. Thomas BradburyMr. & Mrs. Robert BrooksMr. & Mrs. Thomas BrubakerDr. Paul A. CantorMs. Emily B. CatonMr. & Mrs. Greg M. ClineMr. John Crafaik & Dr. Kathryn A. Neeley Mr. & Mrs. Eugene F. CorriganMr. & Mrs. Ernest DrumhellerMr. & Mrs. Patrick L. France

The Golden Bell Tower ClubFor gifts of $5,000 or more during the 2011-2012 fiscal year

Mr. & Mrs. Tom BeasleyMr. & Mrs. C. Hill Ewald

Mr. Marcus Farbstein & Dr. Rosemarie HunzikerMr. & Mrs. Hunter JohnsonMr. & Mrs. Richard Keeling

Mr. & Mrs. Mark Krebs Mr. & Mrs. John Maddux

Mr. & Mrs. F. Page Nelson, Jr.Mr. & Mrs. James W. Newman

Mr. & Mrs. Blaise Pasztory

Ms. Connie Gilchrist DickensonMr. John Gunner & Ms. Leslie AyersMs. Jessie Carr HadenMr. & Mrs. Broadus HillMr. & Mrs. Wayne HufnagelDr. Sara KaltreiderMr. & Mrs. Mark KingDr. & Mrs. Daniel La GruaMs. Virginia LeslieMr. & Mrs. Brad LovelaceMr. & Mrs. Joel ManghamMr. John McCarthyMs. Ann MemoryMr. & Mrs. Mark MummauMr. & Mrs. Charles L. Pace

Mr. & Mrs. Robert Roberts, Jr.Mrs. Elizabeth P. ScottMr. & Mrs. Joseph W. WilsonMr. & Mrs. Wm. Lowndes WilsonMr. & Mrs. David J. Wood, Jr.Mrs. Joseph WoodAbidin Family FundAnna M. Day FoundationBank of America FoundationJ. Bruce Barnes, Inc.GU Energy LabsHarry A. Wright’s, Inc.Margaret Hulvey Wright TrustNorthwestern Mutual FoundationWhitney & Anne Stone Foundation

AnonymousMr. & Mrs. Richard R. AbidinMs. Lisa A. AllenMr. & Mrs. Frank R. AltenhofenMr. & Mrs. James H. BaberMr. & Mrs. William Baer, Sr.Mr. Minghua Bian & Ms. Jun ZhangDr. & Mrs. Lee BlevinsMs. Kaye BramblettMr. & Mrs. Carroll R. ChisholmMr. & Mrs. Raffaele CosciaDr. Laurie U. deBettencourtMr. & Mrs. Don EisloeffelDr. Michael EnochMr. & Mrs. Anthony P. FarinaMrs. Carolyn D. FarinaMr. & Mrs. Kevin B. FarinaMr. & Mrs. Louis D. Farina, Jr.Mr. Matthew J. Farina Mr. & Mrs. Adam FickleyMr. & Mrs. William H. Flannagan IIIDr. & Mrs. G. Franklin ForneyMr. & Mrs. Donald E. FroudeMrs. Irma GarrisonMr. & Mrs. Rob Garver

Mrs. June S. AndrewsMr. & Mrs. Lindsay R. Barnes IIIMs. Bonnie S. BaryDr. Thomas M. Grisius & Ms. Heidi BaughmanMs. Mary M. BelewMr. Thomas S. BentsonMr. Samuel Bloom & Ms. Constance ViscegliaMs. Laura BohlekeMr. & Mrs. Michael BrannMr. & Mrs. Edward BrevingMr. Joseph F. Burns, Jr.Dr. George L. CahenMr. Michael Capaccio& Ms. Laura MorganMr. & Mrs. Norman CarpenterMr. & Mrs. Richard E. CarterMs. Debra CasadoMr. & Mrs. Bernie CasonMr. & Mrs. Scott P. CelellaMs. Susan ColemanMr. & Mrs. Bart F. Conlon, Jr.Mr. William H. CraddockMrs. Cindy DeNomeMs. Kathleen DonnelleyMs. Victoria Doss

The Bronze Bell Tower ClubFor gifts of $250 or more during the 2011-2012 fiscal year

ADDITIONAL DONORS IN THE 2011-2012 FISCAL YEAR

Annual Giving

Ms. M. Jean PrintzMs. Charlotte Sherman

Mr. & Mrs. Fred SimpkinsMr. & Mrs. Preston O. Stallings

Mr. Weiming Zheng & Mrs. Zhenhong ChenMarietta McNeill Morgan & Samuel Tate Morgan Jr. Foundation

Miller School Alumni AssociationThe Perry Foundation

W.E. Brown Family and FriendsWells Fargo Foundation

The Silver Bell Tower ClubFor gifts of $1,000 or more during the 2011-2012 fiscal year

On behalf of our students, we are tremendously grateful for the support of the donors listed below during the July 1, 2011 - June 30, 2012 fiscal year.

The Golden Bell Tower ClubFor gifts of $5,000 or more during the 2011-2012 fiscal year

Mr. & Mrs. Robert Roberts, Jr.Mrs. Elizabeth P. ScottMr. & Mrs. Joseph W. WilsonMr. & Mrs. Wm. Lowndes WilsonMr. & Mrs. David J. Wood, Jr.Mrs. Joseph WoodAbidin Family FundAnna M. Day FoundationBank of America FoundationJ. Bruce Barnes, Inc.GU Energy LabsHarry A. Wright’s, Inc.Margaret Hulvey Wright TrustNorthwestern Mutual FoundationWhitney & Anne Stone Foundation

AnonymousMr. & Mrs. Richard R. AbidinMs. Lisa A. AllenMr. & Mrs. Frank R. AltenhofenMr. & Mrs. James H. BaberMr. & Mrs. William Baer, Sr.Mr. Minghua Bian & Ms. Jun ZhangDr. & Mrs. Lee BlevinsMs. Kaye BramblettMr. & Mrs. Carroll R. ChisholmMr. & Mrs. Raffaele CosciaDr. Laurie U. deBettencourtMr. & Mrs. Don EisloeffelDr. Michael EnochMr. & Mrs. Anthony P. FarinaMrs. Carolyn D. FarinaMr. & Mrs. Kevin B. FarinaMr. & Mrs. Louis D. Farina, Jr.Mr. Matthew J. Farina Mr. & Mrs. Adam FickleyMr. & Mrs. William H. Flannagan IIIDr. & Mrs. G. Franklin ForneyMr. & Mrs. Donald E. FroudeMrs. Irma GarrisonMr. & Mrs. Rob Garver

Mrs. June S. AndrewsMr. & Mrs. Lindsay R. Barnes IIIMs. Bonnie S. BaryDr. Thomas M. Grisius & Ms. Heidi BaughmanMs. Mary M. BelewMr. Thomas S. BentsonMr. Samuel Bloom & Ms. Constance ViscegliaMs. Laura BohlekeMr. & Mrs. Michael BrannMr. & Mrs. Edward BrevingMr. Joseph F. Burns, Jr.Dr. George L. CahenMr. Michael Capaccio& Ms. Laura MorganMr. & Mrs. Norman CarpenterMr. & Mrs. Richard E. CarterMs. Debra CasadoMr. & Mrs. Bernie CasonMr. & Mrs. Scott P. CelellaMs. Susan ColemanMr. & Mrs. Bart F. Conlon, Jr.Mr. William H. CraddockMrs. Cindy DeNomeMs. Kathleen DonnelleyMs. Victoria Doss

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The Bronze Bell Tower ClubFor gifts of $250 or more during the 2011-2012 fiscal year

Ms. Janice C. Gibson Mr. Art GreeneMr. Samuel M. HaleMr. & Mrs. Timothy C. HessMr. Doug HornigMr. & Mrs. Peter HufnagelDr. & Mrs. Andrew KellerMs. Helen KimbleMr. & Mrs. Steven E. KnepperMs. Nicolette KollarMr. & Mrs. Randall LeachMs. Vivian LeeMr. & Mrs. Patrick MagannMr. & Mrs. Walter J. Malone, Jr.Ms. Shelley MatthewsMrs. Lake Clark McIntoshMr. & Mrs. Hugh A. MeagherMr. & Mrs. Robert T. MorganMr. Charles K. NelsonMr. & Mrs. T. Hugh NelsonMr. Vinh Nguyen & Dr. Huong TranDr. & Mrs. William OremMr. & Mrs. James OttawayDr. John & Dr. Barbara PostMr. & Mrs. John Pritzlaff IV

Dr. Thomas Quirk & Ms. Catherine ParkeMs. Ravi RespetoMr. & Mrs. James RegnMr. Christopher D. RossMr. & Mrs. Robert A. ShawMs. Angie SmithMr. & Mrs. Joel SnowMrs. Gerri StewartMr. & Mrs. Bruce SullivanMr. Paul D. Summers, Jr.Mr. Jack TaylorMr. John A. TaylorMr. & Mrs. Dean WengerDr. & Mrs. Jon WhalenDr. & Mrs. Robert WilkersonMs. Martina YoungMr. & Mrs. Larry ZemanBlue Ridge Trailer Sales & ServicesDavid E. Post Family FoundationDominion FoundationDulaney FundGenentech Employee Giving ProgramMiller School Parents AuxiliaryState Farm Companies Foundation

ADDITIONAL DONORS IN THE 2011-2012 FISCAL YEAR

Mr. Gregory G. Faust &Ms. Paulyn G. Heinmiller Mr. & Mrs. Hans FossMs. Cassandra L. FrasierMr. & Mrs. Henry B. Frazier IIIMs. Jill FredriksonMr. Martin L. FriedburgMr. Clayton GentryMr. & Mrs. L. Tucker Gibson, Jr.Mr. & Mrs. Richard A. GoodlingMr. Bernard Haggerty, Jr. & Ms. Susan BaldridgeDr. & Mrs. Charles Hamner, Jr.Mrs. Katharine HancockMr. & Mrs. W. O. HardyMr. & Mrs. Tim HenleyMr. Henry W. HoltMr. & Mrs. Robert HooverMr. & Mrs. William E. HopkinsMr. & Mrs. Jeff HoytMr. Robert R. Humphris, Sr.Mr. & Mrs. Ben HurtMr. J. Randolph HutchesonMr. & Mrs. Louis KarablyMr. & Mrs. Randall F. KellerMr. & Mrs. Jeffrey L. KenningtonMr. Ludwig Kuttner

Mr. & Mrs. David Craig LandinDr. & Mrs. Winter LantzMr. & Mrs. Doug LarimerMr. & Mrs. Mark Lewis Mr. & Mrs. John LubimirMr. & Mrs. David MahoneMr. & Mrs. Ralph MargoliusMr. Thomas E. Marshall IIIMrs. Vernetta P. MarshallDr. & Mrs. C. Rosser Massey IIIMs. Georgiana McCabeMr. & Mrs. Michael McDanielMr. & Mrs. Larry MellingerMs. Elizabeth MillerMr. & Mrs. Larry R. MillerMrs. Edmund W. MorrisDr. John R. Morris IIIMs. Wanda L. MorrisMr. Vernon R. MowbrayMr. & Mrs. James J. Murray, Jr.Mr. & Mrs. Edwin P. NevinCol. & Mrs. Robert M. NovogratzMrs. Jean M. PattersonMr. & Mrs. H. Wescott PowellMrs. Marian RobertsMr. J. W. Peyton RobertsonMr. & Mrs. A. F. Robinson

Dr. & Mrs. Robert E. Robinson IIIMs. Martha B. RogersMrs. Mary Jo RogersMs. M. Beth RuffingMr. & Mrs. John D. RunnettMrs. Carolyn Sable Dr. & Mrs. Stephen E. SchmitzMr. & Mrs. R. Strother ScottMr. Michael D. SheetsDr. & Mrs. Charles H. SkipperMr. James Harrison Smith, Sr.Mr. Joseph L. SpiveyMs. Marilyn SwinfordMr. & Mrs. Edward D. Tayloe IIMr. & Mrs. Harry R. Tear IIIDr. Jianghong TianMrs. Meghan WaddleMr. & Mrs. Robert L. WalkerMs. Barbara WardMr. & Mrs. Tony M. WattsMr. & Mrs. Elmer F. Wieboldt, Jr.Mr. & Mrs. Daye E. WilkinsMr. & Mrs. Lloyd L. WillisMr. Thomas WingfieldMr. & Mrs. Forrest E. WorkmanMr. & Mrs. Donald C. WrightMeriwether Godsey, Inc.

Annual Giving


Mr. Joseph Spivey

In Memoriam

In Memory of Martin “Boots” AndrewsMrs. June S. AndrewsMrs. Mary M. Belew

Mr. & Mrs. Patrick L. FranceMs. Jessie Carr Haden

Mr. & Mrs. W. O. HardyMr. & Mrs. Larry R. MillerMr. & Mrs. Mark Mummau

Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. WalkerMr. & Mrs. Lloyd L. Willis

Miller School Alumni Association

In Memory of James Odington BoydMrs. Marian Roberts

In Memory of Taylor W. Bramblett, ’04Ms. Kaye Bramblett

In Memory of Joseph E. Brochu, ’47Dr. & Mrs. Charles Hamner, Jr.

In Memory of Gladys T. CannonMr. Jack Taylor

In Memory of Mary Taylor Clark& Andrew J. ClarkMs. Janice C. Gibson

In Memory of Maggie Lee ConlonMr. & Mrs. Bart F. Conlon, Jr.

In Memory of Virginia Arnette Crawford

Dr. & Mrs. C. Rosser Massey III

In Memory of Joseph W. CummingsMrs. Mary Jo Rogers

In Memory of Lou FarinaMrs. Carolyn D. Farina

Mr. & Mrs. Anthony P. FarinaMr. & Mrs. Kevin B. Farina

Mr. & Mrs. Louis D. Farina, Jr.Mr. Matthew J. Farina

Mr. & Mrs. Adam FickleyMr. & Mrs. Donald C. Wright

Gifts were given to the Miller School of Albemarle in 2011-2012 in memory of the following individuals.

In Memory of Hugh, Chip, and Peggy Flannagan

Mrs. Lake Clark McIntosh

In Memory of Charles A. GarrisonMrs. Irma Garrison

In Memory of Helen GentryMr. Clayton Gentry

In Memory of Bernard HaggertyMr. Bernard Haggerty, Jr. &

Ms. Susan Baldridge

In Memory of Joseph T. Henleyand Ida E. Jones

Mr. & Mrs. Tim Henley

In Memory of Patrick Kelly ’99Ms. Jessie Carr Haden

In Memory of Allen Q. LaddMr. & Mrs. Jeffrey L. Kennington

In Memory of Catherine LickerMs. M. Beth Ruffing

In Memory of Fulton W. Marshall, Jr.Mrs. Vernetta P. Marshall

Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Shaw

In Memory of Levi P. MaupinMrs. Mary M. Belew

Mrs. Jean M. Patterson

In Memory of Martin O. MillerMs. Elizabeth Miller

In Memory of Ruth Wayland Nelson

Mr. & Mrs. F. Page Nelson, Jr.Mr. & Mrs. T. Hugh NelsonMr. & Mrs. A. F. Robinson

In Memory of Lucille RobertsMr. & Mrs. William E. Hopkins

In Memory of Robert M. Roberts, Sr.Gifts received since 7/1/2011

Ms. Bonnie S. BaryDr. & Mrs. Lee Blevins

Mr. & Mrs. Richard E. CarterMr. & Mrs. Eugene F. Corrigan

Ms. Kathleen DonnellyMs. Victoria Doss

Mr. & Mrs. Henry B. Frazier IIIMr. & Mrs. William E. Hopkins

Mr. J. Randolph HutchesonMr. & Mrs. David Craig Landin

Mr. & Mrs. Robert MorganDr. John R. Morris III

Mr. & Mrs. Robert Roberts, Jr.Dr. & Mrs. Stephen E. SchmitzMr. & Mrs. Harry R. Tear III

Ms. Barbara Ward

In Memory of Joseph SpiveyMs. Kaye Bramblett

Mr. & Mrs. Doug LarimerMs. Wanda L. Morris

Mr. & Mrs. Mark MummauMr. & Mrs. F. Page Nelson, Jr.

Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. ShawDr. & Mrs. Jon Whalen

Executive Briefing TeamMiller School Alumni Association

In Memory of Donaldson P. Tillar IIICol. & Mrs. Robert M. Novogratz

Ms. Jessie Carr Haden

In Memory of Cody M. WattsMr. & Mrs. Tony M. Watts

In Memory of Hunter McKnight Wingfield

Mr. Thomas Wingfield

In Memory of Kevin WilsonMr. & Mrs. Joseph W. Wilson

Photo: Sharon Barrett Kennedy


Mr. Joseph SpiveyMSA Faculty Member from 1997-2012

“May you have fair winds and following seas.”

In Memoriam

In Memory of Lucille RobertsMr. & Mrs. William E. Hopkins

In Memory of Robert M. Roberts, Sr.Gifts received since 7/1/2011

Ms. Bonnie S. BaryDr. & Mrs. Lee Blevins

Mr. & Mrs. Richard E. CarterMr. & Mrs. Eugene F. Corrigan

Ms. Kathleen DonnellyMs. Victoria Doss

Mr. & Mrs. Henry B. Frazier IIIMr. & Mrs. William E. Hopkins

Mr. J. Randolph HutchesonMr. & Mrs. David Craig Landin

Mr. & Mrs. Robert MorganDr. John R. Morris III

Mr. & Mrs. Robert Roberts, Jr.Dr. & Mrs. Stephen E. SchmitzMr. & Mrs. Harry R. Tear III

Ms. Barbara Ward

In Memory of Joseph SpiveyMs. Kaye Bramblett

Mr. & Mrs. Doug LarimerMs. Wanda L. Morris

Mr. & Mrs. Mark MummauMr. & Mrs. F. Page Nelson, Jr.

Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. ShawDr. & Mrs. Jon Whalen

Executive Briefing TeamMiller School Alumni Association

In Memory of Donaldson P. Tillar IIICol. & Mrs. Robert M. Novogratz

Ms. Jessie Carr Haden

In Memory of Cody M. WattsMr. & Mrs. Tony M. Watts

In Memory of Hunter McKnight Wingfield

Mr. Thomas Wingfield

In Memory of Kevin WilsonMr. & Mrs. Joseph W. Wilson

Photo: Sharon Barrett Kennedy

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