how i spent my summer vacation - st. timothy's school · pdf fileparis highlights...

There were 10 weeks between the last teacher workday in

June and the beginning of the new school year in August.

Some faculty and staff filled those weeks with travel. Some took ad-vantage of the break to relax and regroup. Some focused on profes-sional development, advanced de-grees, summer camps and tutoring.

And some savored precious time with family celebrating weddings, anniversaries, new babies and mile-stone birthdays.

This year, we turned the tables on our teachers who often ask students what they did during vacation. Here’s what they had to say:

Have Passport, Will TravelFor science teacher Michaela

Iiames, summer began with a two-week trip to Ireland motivated by an astronomy unit she taught at St. Timothy’s last spring. (See page 22 for more on that story!) She and her husband biked and hiked across green landscapes dotted with sheep and cattle, stopping to meet the locals and enjoy the music.

“One of our favorite days was when we hiked to the top of Croagh Patrick,” she said. The 2,500-foot mountain is thought to be the place where St. Patrick hiked in the 5th Century and fasted for 40 days. “The footing was unstable the entire way up, and by the time we crested the summit we were in a covering of clouds,” Michaela said, “but it was worth it!”

Spanish teacher Lisa Lowrance was an exchange student to Mex-ico and had been to Puerto Rico, Costa Rica and Peru, but she had never been to Spain. This past summer, Lisa and her husband toured Madrid, Barcelona, Seville and Granada. They walked along the banks of the river where Co-lumbus set sail to the Americas, and saw his tomb. They visited La Sagrada Familia, a cathedral that is

still under construction after 125 years. They toured La Alhambra, a Moorish palace constructed in the 1200s, and the Alcazar, the oldest royal palace still in use in Europe.

Alison Gammage, Head of Lower School, went home to the UK with her husband and daughter. They spent hours at the British Museum viewing Roman and Greek artifacts because, she said, “my daughter Amelia loved everything that (Latin teacher) Mr. Millbank taught her last year.” Then they ventured on to Rome for more sightseeing.

“I also had something of a bus-man’s holiday,” she explained, “visiting lower schools in the UK to compare best practices on both sides of the pond.”

Before joining the STS faculty this summer, physical education teacher Fiona Cross traveled to England and France. There were no complaints from her family about the seven-hour flight since they routinely endure 24-hour flights when going home to Australia! Paris highlights included the Eiffel

Tower, the Louvre, Musee d’Orsay, Notre Dame and Versailles. In Lon-don they saw tennis at Wimbledon, cricket at The Oval, The Lion King musical, and the Houses of Parlia-ment.

Exploring the USASTS alumna Ashlee Lynn, who

returned to campus this year as a second grade teacher, traveled to California to see San Francisco and the giant redwoods before continu-ing on to Hawaii.

Angela Parrish, middle school grammar and literature teacher,

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sTs FaculTy and sTaFF: How I Spent My Summer Vacation

Michaela Iiames and her husband biked across Ireland with friends and hiked 2,500 feet to the top of Croagh Patrick.

Ashlee Lynn stopped in San Francisco for a few days en route to Hawaii, where she experienced the thrill of jumping on a ledge 10,000 feet in the air above a volcano.

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And then there was the time the headmaster cried at the faculty meeting...

We’ve got an incredible group of teachers at St. Timothy’s School. In parent surveys, they’re the highest-rated aspect of our school (regarded higher than the headmaster, and deservedly so!). I’m humbled and honored to work with such a wonderful, dedicated, caring group of people. We’re a very special place, and our teachers make it so.

We’re highlighting our faculty in this issue of the St. Timothy’s Spirit. In that spirit, I’d like to share with you a portion of the remarks I offered to our teachers to close a meeting during one of our back-to-school workdays this year. And, it’s true, I didn’t make it all the way through without getting choked up – my tears started flowing during a portion when I reflected on how I saw us rally around an STS family during a time of tragedy. It’s a testament to the care and empathy of our teachers that most of them started crying right along with me! I hope sharing these words—and offering this image of me and a room full of teachers in tears at a school year kick-off meeting—reaffirms for everyone that the work we do is clearly so much more than just a job to us.

Here’s what I shared:

Our mission statement charges us to be a place “where traditional Christian values are emphasized”. We know there are differing beliefs among faithful Christians about what constitutes “traditional Christian values”. How-ever, I think we all can agree on the values of 1 Thessalonians 5: “...encourage one another and build each other up ... Respect those who work hard among you ... Be patient with everyone ... Make sure that nobody pays back wrong for wrong, but always try to be kind to each other

and to everyone else ... Be joyful always.” I know we all strive to offer that kind of environment here every day.

In reality, “being joyful always” at St. Timo-thy’s School is an admirable goal, but probably impossible. We’re a very joyful place, and we should be. But there are also moments that don’t readily lend themselves to joy. It’s naïve to believe that every moment is joyful. There are parts of our jobs that are pretty joyless sometimes. While every moment may not be joyful, every moment we spend here is, undoubtedly, a privilege...

...All day long, we get to do something few other people get to do in their jobs—shape lives, forever. Most people going to work this morning don’t have that privilege. My mother retired last year after 45 years of work as a medical admin-istrator and later with an insurance company. She was successful, worked very hard, had good jobs, good colleagues, and met many good friends along the way. But in all of 45 years at work, she didn’t have the kind of opportunity that we are presented with every single day, all day long.

We’re offered that privilege with every student and every family. 463 children will come into our care every day, and we have an opportunity to permanently, positively, unalterably impact each one of them forever. What a joy! And what an absolute privilege.

And I believe there’s no finer group of people deserving of – and committed to – this privilege.

It’s a great day to be a Titan!

Headmaster’s Letter Tim Tinnesz

A Word From the RectorWhen Jesus is instructing His apostles in the ways of the Kingdom

of God, and in ways of life in His Kingdom, some of His parables emphasize preparation and sacrifice.

For example, in The Gospel according to St. Luke, when Jesus is describing the cost to be His disciple, He uses two parables that give a message of preparation and prudence.

For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it? Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him, saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish. Or what king, going to make war against another king, sitteth not down first, and consulteth whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand? Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sendeth an ambassage, and desireth condi-tions of peace. So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple.

To follow Jesus as a disciple will require a weighing and consideration of one’s present situation.

That is clear in the parable of the man building the tower. It is neces-sary to make sure we follow through with the discipleship, once we start.

Being a disciple is so important that we must do all that we can to make sure the work continues. That is clear in the parable of the king going to war. If the king does not think he can win the war, then he does whatever he can to maintain the peace so life for him and his

people continues. We do whatever we can to continue our disciple-ship and complete the work Jesus gives us to do. It is that important.

These conditions of discipleship are apropos as we pray and think about St. Timothy’s Church and School. It is the wise and vigilant disciples who plan on how to use the resources God has provided and ensure many more will benefit from those resources and gifts.

This is really the attitude driving our creation of a master plan for our church and school. We are engaging Ratio Architects, a Raleigh firm, to help us create and implement a master site plan for the whole of our buildings and property. This plan will allow us to see what we ought to look like for the next five to 10 years and possibly beyond. This kind of planning will require thoughts, wishes, insights, hopes and dreams from many of us.

In the coming weeks, we will have an opportunity to express what we think the school and church need to grow and flourish. When you are given that opportunity, please use it.

We live in a very exciting time. Pray that we will have the grace to be the kind of disciples that will have our children, and many children years down the road, benefit from all God has given us through His Son Jesus Christ.

Yours faithfully in Christ, The Reverend Jay C. James

Rector, St. Timothy’s Church Member, St. Timothy’s School Board of Trustees

…All dAy long, we get to do something few other people get to do in their jobs – shApe lives, forever. most people

going to work this morning don’t hAve thAt privilege.


We’ll begin with a little history lesson.

In 1958, the vestry of St. Timothy’s Epis-copal Church founded St. Timothy’s School at the request of its rector, Father George B.S. Hale. Canvassing their Drewry Hills neighborhood, Father Hale and his wife, Carolyn, enrolled 16 children in the school’s first kindergarten class.

When it came time to find a teacher, Father Hale hired the best one he knew – Mrs. Hale.

The school added new grades and more students each year, surpassing 400 students in elementary and middle school grades within its first decade. As enrollment increased, new buildings popped up on campus.

Fast forward to the fall of 2003, when groundbreaking was held on a two-story, two-wing, 33,000-square foot building. The long-standing Marcia Hall was gutted and refitted as a center for pre-kindergarten and kindergarten.

These sweeping changes presented students with the opportunity to choose a nickname for our school, one that would serve a stu-dent body now spanning pre-kindergarten through eighth grade and introducing a middle school athletic program.

Students voted in the spring of 2004 and chose “Titans” as our new identity. For more than a decade, though, we had no specific mascot or representation.

Because an actual titan, accord-ing to Greek mythology, is a bit overwhelming and even frightening, the “ST” logo was put in place to represent St. Timothy’s School. But this year, with a little prodding from middle school teacher and former basketball coach BJ Nowak, the time ar-rived to select a true school mascot.

With careful thought and enormous re-search, the image of an elephant was selected.

Elephants are often referred to as the land’s titan because of their tremendous size and strength. “While these traits are admirable,” Nowak said, “it is the elephant’s intelligence, empathy, and loyalty which motivated us to select it to represent the Titan community.”

Elephants have been known to possess phe-nomenal brain capacity, remain with family

or herd members who are injured, and even bury companions who have passed on. With no predators other than man, they are tough,

resilient and pow-erful creatures.

“Taking into strong consider-ation the tradition of St. Timothy’s, its valuable alumni from over 50 years of education and, most importantly,

the role of Father Hale in establish-ing our wonderful school,” Nowak explained, “we will lovingly refer to our elephant as “George” to honor the legacy of Father George B.S. Hale.

Various images were considered and two were adopted in August to become the mascots of St. Timo-

thy’s School. While the primary image will be a more aggressive elephant, our lower school community members may choose to embrace the “little” version during their younger years. It is with great pleasure and tremendous excitement that we present…

George the Elephant

a new year, a new TradiTion St. Timothy’s School Adopts a Titan Mascot

St. Timothy’s extends a warm welcome to new teach-ers Katherine Lee (grade 3), Ashlee Lynn (grade 2), Lisa Davison (Spanish), Ann Brooke Raynal (English) and Fiona Cross (physical education). Lola Youngman (music) rounds out the new hires for the 2015-2016 school year.

Something Else That’s New This Year…When St. Timothy’s School erected a

new building a decade ago, space was allocated for a Multi-Purpose Room. The MPR was used for an array of functions and activities, from student instruction to parent receptions.

With the continued growth of the STS Fine Arts program, the MPR got a facelift, a new name, and a new purpose over the summer. It’s now the PAC – Performing Arts Classroom – home to:

An ever-growing Band program that sent a handful of students to All District Band last year and two musicians to All State Band tryouts.

Year-long Drama classes with outstand-ing student productions like The Wizard of Oz (2014) and Peter Pan (2015).

An award-winning Chorus program that brought home a superior rating from the annual Choral Festival at King’s Dominion last spring.

One thing hasn’t changed: It’s still dedi-cated to Mary and Art Fritsch and Val and Vic Johnson by their children, Vicki and Ed Fritsch.


GIrLS’ SoCCerVeteran girls’ soccer Coach Judy Whitley led the Titans this spring. De-

spite being a young team (more than half the roster in sixth grade), the girls demonstrated good skills and plenty of determination to capture a 5-7-3 overall record. They placed 6th in the regular season out of 11 teams and lost in the CAMSC tournament to a strong Magellan team.

Three eighth graders – Lilly Roth, Kate Sabiston, and Mimi Wayne – provided leadership for the team; they will be missed next year. A talented group of rising eighth graders will be ready to take the lead when the Titan girls’ soccer team returns to the pitch next year.

BoyS’ TennISHead Coach Alex Wilson returned for a second year to lead the Titan

boys’ tennis team. They were a young team, with only sixth and seventh graders, and only three boys returning from the previous year. The team got

off to a slow start, but hard work and dedica-tion paid off later in the season as they won four straight matches to finish in 3rd place in the regular season. They won their first tournament match 8-1 to move to the semi-finals, but fell in a close match to Magellan.

The team will miss number one player Nima Boroojerdi next year as his family will be relocating to Germany. The Titans will be a team to watch next year with eight solid returning players.

BASeBALLThe Titan baseball team

was coached for a second consecutive year by Gary Benzine, with NC State student Parker Wething-ton assisting. The boys played hard all season and showed tremendous improvement as indi-viduals and as a team. Their overall record of 3-11 does not reflect the talent and quality of play

on this team. The Titans defeated St. David’s by a wide margin in the first game of the tournament, but fell to a strong Wake Christian team in the quarter finals.

The team was led by captains Carter Holjes, Cole Thompson, and TJ Walch. Holjes and Walch will be missed next year, but Thompson will return to lead the Titans in 2016.

TrACk And FIeLdThe 2015 track and field team boasted the largest roster in Titan history

with 41 participants. The team was led by Coaches Quentin Vandenberg, Michaela Iiames, Mike McConoughey and Rahsaan Eaddy. The Titans won several of the meets that they attended. Every runner, jumper, or thrower saw improvement over the course of the season. Several school records were either tied or broken, two for the boys and 10 for the girls.

The team has to say goodbye to 23 eighth graders; many of them partici-pated in Titan track and field for three years. They will certainly be missed!

GoLFCoach Jimmy Hamilton led the Titan golf team for the third year in a

row. The team was comprised of six boys and five girls, many of them relatively new to the game. The team captured first place in a dual match and several second and third place finishes. They placed 5th in the CAMSC Championship match. The team was led by seventh grader Cole Whitford, who shot the lowest team score at each match. Two eighth graders, Sam Futch and Rom Lewis, will be missed next year. Whitford will be back and ready to lead the team in 2016.

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Titan Athletic Club Hosts Golf Tournament

Cynthia Woodward Wins Chick-fil-A Servant Leadership Award

She went undefeated (51-0) in singles competi-tion during her three years on the Titan girls’ tennis team, winning this year’s MVP Award. An invalu-able asset to the girls’ varsity basketball team, she received the 2015 Coach’s Award. And she was named Most Valuable Runner (girls) on the Titan track and field team last spring.

It was a very good year for Cynthia Woodward, but the athletic accolades did not stop there.

At an end of year awards assembly in June, Cynthia was awarded the 2015 Chick-fil-A Second Mile Servant Leadership Award.

Second Mile Service is a biblical reference to going above and beyond by choosing from within to go that second mile. “And if anyone forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles.” (Matthew 5:41).

It is an honor bestowed by Chick-fil-A North Hills to an athlete who is both leader and servant, will-ing to sacrifice for other teammates, coaches and opponents on the field. It is an award given to a student who displays humility, a positive attitude, good work ethic, good sportsmanship and great character.

STS alum Rally de Leon, owner of the North Hills Chick-fil-A franchise, presented Cynthia with an engraved plaque – and coupons for a year’s worth of free Chick-fil-a sandwiches!

And the Capital Cup Goes To…

Each year one school from the Capital Area Middle School Conference (CAMSC) is awarded the Capital Cup for being the “winningest” school. The recipient school is selected on the basis of a point system. Schools earn points through the three seasons of play for each team they field and addi-tional points depending on their regular season and post-season performance. This year the Titans placed second behind Franklin Academy. The points accrued for the top four schools were:

Franklin Academy – 1720St. Timothy’s School – 1515Magellan Charter School – 1435Cary Academy – 1420

The first annual Titan Athletic Club Golf Tournament was scheduled for a Saturday in November. Organizers envisioned a crisp autumn day with blue skies and sunshine. Instead, the weather was so cold, wet and raw that the tournament was postponed until March.

When the March date arrived, the weather wasn’t much better– but the tournament went on as scheduled and the event was a great success!

Titan athletes and alumni wiped down wet golf carts as participants braved the elements. Headmaster Tim Tinnesz and Head of Middle School Tim Coleman pitched in by manning the beverage cart. With an assortment of prizes and a huge trophy at stake, the mood was light despite the dark skies.

It was a great day to be a Titan!


Over the past four years, kacie Bagley was enrolled in 20 hon-ors courses at Clayton High School and was a part of 12 theatrical productions. Most re-cently, she tapped her way through Clayton Youth Theatre’s sum-mer production of Thoroughly Modern Millie before heading off to UNC-Wilmington.

Six colleges from Massachusetts to Louisiana offered destinee Bates a spot. Ultimately,

she accepted a scholar-ship to Hampton Univer-sity. Destinee was active at Wakefield High School in National Honor Soci-ety, National Achievers Society, National English Honor Society, National French Honor Society, Brain Game team, varsity

tennis team, marching band, honors wind en-semble, color guard, Anti-Bullying Club and Women’s Empowerment.

After graduating from Ravenscroft School, Ally Bonavita is headed to High Point University.

Her talent in visual art was well-docu-mented at St. Timo-thy’s and it continued to flourish at Cardi-nal Gibbons High School. Samantha Bratzke reports she was “thrilled” to re-ceive early acceptance to the college of her first choice, the NC State School of Art and Design. When she’s not creating art, Sammy enjoys softball, running and weight lifting.

Cameron dixon was the recipient of back-to-back Presidential Volunteer Ser-vice Awards at Sanderson High School and was rec-ognized by the National Charity League for most volunteer service hours as a mother/daughter team. She was an assistant girls’

basketball coach at STS last winter and an as-sistant coach for the Northbrook Country Club

swim team this summer. Cameron turned down five other college acceptances – three with schol-arships attached -- to enroll at UNC-Charlotte where her brother Parker, also an STS alum, is a senior.

Jackson Feathers received a Flinn Scholars Award to the University of South Carolina valued at $72,800 – an annual grant coupled with tuition reduction for four years. At Cardinal Gibbons he was active in theatre and track, served as liaison to the Board of Trustees, was a founding member of the Spiritual Life Leader-ship Council and served as a retreat leader. And he earned his Eagle Scout Award!

As an editor of her high school newspaper, Haley Gardner received statewide awards for

layout and graphic de-sign from the North Carolina Scholastic Media Association (NCSMA) at UNC-Chapel Hill. She was a member of National Honor Society, Cum Laude Society, Art Honor Society and Latin Honor Society.

She was an AP Scholar and received Academic Achievement Awards in Science, English and History at Ravenscroft School, where she let-tered in varsity tennis and chaired Conference Keepers, a Key Club event. Haley has enrolled at UNC-Chapel Hill.

emmy Garvey played varsity tennis, soccer and basketball for four years at Saint Mary’s School, and for four years she received the school’s Student Athlete Award. She was senior class president, a member of the Executive Student Gov-ernment Association, the

2014 Latin Student of the Year, and a member of National Honor Society. She is attending NC State University.

kayla Gwaltney served as secretary of the Execu-tive Student Government Association at Saint Mary’s School. She has enrolled at James Madison University.

A handful of schools lost out early in Bailey Ham’s college selection process, but it came down to the wire before George Washington University edged out UNC-Chapel Hill in the final round. Bailey graduated with honors from Saint Mary’s School, where she served as Student Government Association President and received the school’s Leadership Award.

William Harris, a Cardinal Gibbons grad, decided he’d rather be a mem-ber of the Wolfpack than a Tarhee l , choosing NC State over UNC-Chapel Hill.

She started running as an STS Titan and continued at Cardinal Gibbons, where she was co-captain of a cross country team that won three state championships. And Laura Hart doesn’t plan to slow down any time soon! She’ll be running at UNC-Wilmington, where she plans to major in Edu-cation. When she’s not run-ning, Laura spends time on her guitar and vocal skills.

Hollis Hatfield said no to Rhodes College, Se-wanee, NC State, Alabama, Clemson, Tennessee, South Carolina and Furman… and yes to Virgin-ia Tech! An International Baccalaureate medalist at Broughton High School, Hollis was captain of the cross country team. She received her school’s Excellence in Latin and Outstanding AP Environmental Sci-ence Student awards, as well as the Yellow Rosebud Award from the National Charity League for 50 additional hours of requirement. And did we mention she’s a beekeeper? Hollis has entrusted care of the hive to her sister Hope and mother Peyton while she’s at school.

sts ClAss of 2011 heAds to CollegeOne of our favorite activities each year is checking in with alumni as they

graduate from high school and head off to college. We are proud of the excellence in academics, athletics, leadership and service exhibited by our STS Class of 2011. Here’s what they reported to us about their recent past and future plans:


nico Hillmann received an appointment to the United States Air Force Academy, an honor valued at $450,000. We might have guessed this was coming when he received his private pilot certification three days before the start of his senior year of high school! An AP Scholar with Distinction, Nico was a member of the National Honor Society at Grace Christian School and a Costa Rica mission trip leader. He passed up a Chancellor’s Scholarship to Embry Riddle Aeronautical University upon receiving the ap-pointment to the USAFA.

Like his sister Elisabeth, Bancks Holmes is a powerful swimmer. He was chosen for the NC Swimming Select Team and chosen three times for the NC Swimming Open Water Select Team. Captain of the Broughton High School swim team for two years, Bancks was a member of the record-setting 4x100 freestyle relay team.

He was a member of the National Honor Society, Latin Honor Society, Service Club and Enthusiasm in Calculus, and presi-dent of the Engineer-ing Club. A North Carolina Scholar and AP Scholar with Honors, Bancks was accepted by UNC-Chapel Hill, Hamp-den Sydney, New

York University, and Washington and Lee Uni-versity. He will join his sister at Washington and Lee, where he plans to major in physics.

A graduate of Ravenscroft School, Anderson Ivey ran cross country, played basketball and was a member of the track and field team. She is now at NC State majoring in Sports Management. Anderson spent the past two summers working at Sharkey’s in Ocean Isle.

A Saint Mary’s alum, Madeline Joslin served on the Executive Stu-dent Government Association as Day Life Representative. “I served alongside Emmy Garvey (senior class president), Kayla Gwaltney (secretary), and Bailey Hall (stu-dent body president) – all STS alumni!” she noted. Madeline was elected by her SMS classmates to serve as Senior Speaker at graduation. After a road trip from Raleigh to San Francisco this summer, she headed to the University of Vermont to major in Environmen-tal Studies and minor in Writing.

Jaclyn komoski is back in the Tar Heel State! After her sophomore year at Ra-leigh Charter High School, where she and her doubles partner won all-county in varsity tennis freshman year, Jaclyn’s family relocated to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

When it came time to apply to colleges, she ap-plied to five – all of them in North Carolina! She was accepted by all and chose UNC-Charlotte.

With nine AP cours-es in calculus, physics, chemistry, environmental science, macroeconom-ics, microeconomics and statistics under his belt, kurtis konrad should have no trouble in the School of Engineering at NC State. A National Merit Scholarship final-ist, Presidential Scholar finalist and Eagle Scout, Kurtis received the Leesville Road High School PTSA Academic Scholarship.

eric Lester is a 2015 National Merit Scholar, but he won’t be going to college this fall. Instead, he will spend a year in China taking courses in Chinese on Chinese language and literature as part of a Confucius Institute Scholarship (CIS). “It’s a program that affords this opportunity to me free of charge as a result of my study of Chinese language,” Eric explained. After his gap year, he’ll attend Carnegie Mellon University to

double major in physics and computer science. At Raleigh Charter High School, he started a Ro-botics Club and competed in the Science Olympiad state competition. For the past three years, Eric vol-unteered in the IT depart-ment at RCHS. “I’ve done

everything from building servers to managing the network to painting to mounting televisions!” he said.

In the halls of Sanderson High School, david Losada and wrestling were often used in the same sentence. A member of the Spartan wrestling squad for four years, David made it to state com-petition both junior and senior years – a big deal considering that only 16 wrestlers in each weight class from the entire state qualify. When he was inducted into Sanderson’s National Honor Society, David cited STS history teacher Peggy Todd as the most influential teacher in his academic career. He served as president of his school’s Environ-mental Club and fulfilled his community service hours by volunteering at Teen Court, where teenage first-time offenders charged with misdemeanors have a trial by jury of their adolescent peers. This experience fueled David’s passion for law, his ultimate career goal. In the meantime, he has accepted a scholarship to Campbell University where he will major in Business and Economics and minor in Philoso-phy. He intends to keep the job at Harris Teeter North Hills that he held through high school, where you’ll find him stocking the produce department on weekends.

Adam Huggins earned his Eagle Scout Award while at Broughton High School. He opted to remain local and is now at NC State.

Sarah Huggins, Adam’s twin sister and fellow Broughton alum, received a scholarship to Meredith College that knocked her other five acceptances out of contention.


kristina Marquardt has enrolled at the Georgia Institute of Technology to study Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, passing on scholarships from Clemson, University of Alabama and Uni-versity of Delaware in the process. At Wakefield

High School, Kris-tina was in National Honor Society, Na-tional Beta Club, S c i e n c e Ho n o r Society, Mu Alpha Theta and student government, and was named a North Carolina Scholar.

Melissa McBride received appointments to the United States Coast Guard Academy, the United States Naval Academy and the United States Mer-chant Marine Academy – with a total scholarship value of $792,000. She declined them all. She was accepted at Norwich University, the oldest private military college in the country, and UNC-Chapel Hill. She turned them down as well. Instead, the Cardinal Gibbons grad enrolled at NC State. “I chose to not pursue my appointments because I have a calling to serve in a medical field,” Melissa explained. “The acad-emies did not present this opportunity to me so I am now at NC State where I can go in any direction now.”

Hannah Messick is “beyond excited” to be enrolled at East Carolina Uni-versity to pursue a degree in nursing, and the scholarship ECU awarded her is icing on the cake! The Cardinal Gib-bons alum earned a silver medal in the

Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award pro-gram. Last July, Hannah’s dance team was named Showstoppers National Champion.

When ellery newell moved to Burlington at the onset of her senior year of high school, she opted for home schooling. She is now enrolled at UNC-Greensboro.

Allegra Pieropan spent much of the summer traveling: visiting family and friends in Italy, touring London, and spending time in Chicago, New York City and Atlanta. What little time she did spend in Raleigh was on the tennis court

taking her skills to the intermediate level. She is now at Johnson & Wales University in Char-lotte, majoring in Hospita l i ty and Tourism Manage-ment. An honors graduate of Trinity Academy, Allegra was a member of the volleyball and swim teams and Cru.

Caroline Pope is majoring in Micro-biology at NC State University. She grad-uated from Cardi-nal Gibbons High School where she ran cross country, was a member of National Honor Society, and was active in Read and Feed, a non-profit designed “to give kids an appetite for reading.”

It was a busy summer for Beñat Quartararo. Immediately after graduating from Raleigh Char-ter High School, he left for a family vacation in England and Scotland. And immediately after returning, he left for the summer session at High Point University where he earned eight credits in four weeks. Beñat graduated magna cum laude from Ra-leigh Charter High School, where he was a Presidential Scholar and mem-ber of National Honor Society. He received a Fellows Scholarship to High Point, where he is enrolled in the Honors Col-lege. He plans to major in Communications and minor in Political Science.

Alex russell was accepted at Campbell University, Hampden-Sydney College, and East Carolina Univer-sity, with scholarhsip offers from Campbell and H-S. He chose Campbell. At St. David’s School he played soccer and was on the first varsity lacrosse team. In his junior year, he helped coach middle school lacrosse.

Saint Mary’s School alum Morgan Seidel has enrolled in the Honors College at College of Charleston, where they wanted her so badly that they offered her in-state tuition. She plans to pur-sue a degree in Marine Bi-ology. Last spring, Morgan brought home an armful of fine and performing arts awards from SMS: Heart Award in Chorale, Visual Arts Achievement Award, Outstanding Achievement in Acting, and Exceptional Leadership in Chorale. Founder of the school’s SCUBA Club, Mor-gan was a member of National Honor Society, National Spanish Honor Society, National Art Honor Society, and International Thespian Society. She was president of Chamber Choir, president and web designer of Chorale, and a school vestry member.

The recipient of four varsity letters for tennis at Sanderson High School, Maggie Strickland won

the team Leadership Award and was named to the Academic All-Conference team. She received three con-secutive Presidential Service Awards as well as the school’s Spar-tan Award. Maggie is attending UNC-Wilmington.

Titan alumni Jax Tyson and Hollis Hatfield show off their International Baccalaureate medals at Broughton High School’s gradu-ation in June.


For all three seasons of all four years at Ravenscroft School, Samuel Stump was on a sports team: soccer in the fall, swim team in win-ter, and track in the spring. Additionally, he played CASL soc-cer throughout high

school. The big news in the Stump family is that, unlike brothers Jamie and David, Samuel is not attending Virginia Tech to major in Engineer-ing. Instead, he is studying Computer Science at NC State.

Andrew Swearingen will attend Auburn University as a schol-arship recipient, where he plans to major in Mechanical Engineer-ing and attend numer-ous football games! An honors graduate of Sanderson High School, Andrew is following in the footsteps of both parents who are Auburn alumni.

kreager Taber set the state record in pole vault last May at the state track meet and holds the pole vault re-cord at Cary Academy. In her senior year at CA, Kreager was first in pole vault in the TISAC conference and at the NCISSA meet. She is

now in Vermont where she will be pole vaulting and participating in triple jump on the Middle-bury College track team. She plans to major in Environmental Studies and International Rela-tions.

A graduate of Ravenscroft School, Allyson Take will attend UNC-Chapel Hill.

Marshall Taylor, a Cardinal Gibbons alum, is attending Randolph-Macon College.

Jax Tyson earned her Inter-national Baccalaureate medal at Broughton High School, where she was a member of National

Honor Society, Latin Honor Society and Service Club. She turned down accep-tances and scholarship offers across North Carolina and into South Carolina, opting instead for a scholarship from the Honors College at East Carolina University.

A graduate of Sand-erson High School, Caroline Vebber is at High Point University and got a jump start by enrolling in the sum-mer session. Family beach time filled the rest of her summer.

Thomas Waldrop is in the School of Engineering at NC State University. A graduate of St. Da-vid’s School, he is an Eagle Scout and enjoys sailing.

A baseball standout at Millbrook High School, Joseph Ward was equally known for his aca-demic excellence. Although he was offered a Flinn Scholarship to the University of South Carolina, Joseph chose East Carolina University where he was awarded an Honors Col-lege Scholarship, a Passage Academic Merit Scholarship, and the Ella D. Broughton Memo-rial Scholarship.

Lee Whitley was ac-cepted into the Hon-ors Program at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he will major in Me-chanical Engineering. The Ravenscroft grad is an Eagle Scout and a National Merit Schol-arship finalist.

Mary Scott Willson is at Appalachian State University. While at Saint Mary’s School last year, she served on the senior leader-ship team at White Memorial Presbyterian Church and was an NC Senate page.

Alex yost, a member of the state champion lacrosse team at Cardinal Gibbons, is now at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania.

The simple truth is that dakota Zuehlke loves soccer! Captain of the varsity girls’ soc-cer team at Brough-ton High School, she plans to play club soc-cer at Appalachian State University where she will major in El-ementary Education. Dakota was a coun-selor at Camp Kanata for several years, with a promotion to chief of arts and crafts this year.

She will always be “Ms. B” to these – and many more – alumni! Last spring, middle school art teacher Kim Balentine was host to seven of her former students at a spaghetti dinner: (left to right) Maggie Strickland, Caroline Vebber, Kayla Gwaltney, “Ms. B”, Ally Bonavita, Dakota Zuehlke, Cameron Dixon and Bailey Ham. “We laughed about STS middle school memories – lunch room events, art, and so much more,” Ms. B said. “We even face timed Mr. Nowak and his sweet little Izabella!” The girls wore t-shirts represent-ing the colleges they’re now attending: UNC-W, High Point, James Madison, Appalachian, UNC-Charlotte and George Washington University.

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all sophomores at broughton high school are assigned a

personal project – a significant endeavor requiring months to plan and execute. “do or create something that you love” is what project guidelines suggest.

so huston wallace (sts class of 2009) channeled his love of fishing and kayaking into a tournament that raised over $1,500 for the southeast pamlico volunteer fire department.

The teach’s cove Kayak fishing tournament, held in oriental, nc last september, required contestants to flex two skills. at daybreak, they put in their kayaks and canoes at teach’s point and paddled out. for the next four hours, they got down to the business of fishing.

The ultimate goal of the anglers was a “pamlico slam” – a flounder, a trout and a drum.

although he’s been fishing all his life, wallace didn’t start kayak fishing with any regularity

until his parents, John and erin, brought home a kayak from an sts auction fundraiser several years ago.

he could have hosted the tournament closer to his raleigh home, but wallace had a number of reasons for choosing oriental.

“i worked as a counselor at a sailing camp in oriental for eight weeks last summer,” he said, “and i built up a large group of friends.

The fishing is great, and i have a few friends who live in oriental that i knew would be able to help me set up the tournament.”

and he had a very personal reason for selecting the benefi-ciary.

“when i was in the first grade,” he explained, “our beach house in oriental caught fire. The southeast pamlico volunteer fire department was the first to

respond.” and with the tourna-ment scheduled for september 11, wallace added, “i thought it was an appropriate time to honor and thank our firefighters.”

wallace had great help from sts alumni families who con-tributed financial and logistical support for the tourney: elliott honeycutt and his dad, Jacob munster and his family, Kofie yeboah and his dad, Kathryn lyle, megan carley, Kip meadows, and the mangum family. a number of friends and former teachers who couldn’t at-tend helped the cause by buying tournament t-shirts.

completed months ago, wallace’s sophomore project is now history. one might expect the same of the fishing tourney. but oriental hasn’t seen the last of the teach’s cove Kayak fish-ing tournament.

“i definitely plan on doing it again next year!” wallace said.

School Project Benefits Volunteer Fire Company

Alex Sullivan Appointed to Coast Guard AcademyAlex Sullivan, STS Class of 2006, is a freshman at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London, CT. He was one of 289 appointees from a pool of 9,000 applicants.

The Coast Guard Academy, founded in 1876, is the only one of the five federal service academies that does not require a congressional recommendation for admission. Instead, admission is based solely on personal merit through a nationwide competitive process with no state quotas.

Alex reported for Swab Summer, the Academy’s seven-week initia-tion, last June. He earned his shoulder boards and is now one of 1,030 cadets enrolled in a four-year bachelor of science degree program.

In addition to his rigorous coursework, Alex wrestles for the Academy and plays trombone in the band.

Huston Wallace organized the Teach’s Cove Kayak Fishing Tournament and raised $1,500 for the Southeast Pamlico Volunteer Fire Department.

SPC Gary Donaldson Instead of enjoying his senior year at The Citadel, Gary Donaldson is serving in Afghanistan with the Army National Guard.

The STS alum, a graduate of Cardinal Gibbons High School, joined the National Guard during his sophomore year at The Citadel. When his unit was deployed to Afghanistan last May, SPC Donaldson volunteered to go with them.

Donaldson was in the hearts and minds of STS students and staff last month. First and fifth grade Study Buddies made Valentine’s Day cards and first grade teachers Sharon Carlson, Debbie Potter and Sandy Robinson put together care packages of pens, note pads, hand warmers, beef jerky, hardy candy and other treats.

All were mailed to Donaldson with instructions to share with his unit.

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Matt Rouse probably wondered if he would ever reach his destination of Cuzco, Peru.

His group from Trinity Baptist Church flew from Ra-leigh to Atlanta and, after a five-hour layover, boarded a plane for the seven-hour flight to Lima. From there they were bused to a youth hostel, where he caught an hour’s nap before getting back on the bus at 3:30 a.m. for a return to the airport.

At 6:00 a.m., 21 hours after leaving Raleigh, he was finally on the last leg of his trip from Lima to Cuzco.

But he’ll tell you in a heartbeat that it was well worth it!

Matt spent the next week doing mission work at an or-phanage in the Peruvian countryside. He built a fence, cleared land for a hut in the village, built a wall, cleaned up a soccer field to accommodate the Vacation Bible

School that his group hosted for the local children…You name it, Matt Rouse did it – and without com-

plaining. But how could he possibly complain after observing the children he was serving?

“These children live in poverty, but they don’t even know it,” he said. “They think that what they have is the best. They don’t think they’re lacking anything.”

“They do anything and everything their parents ask them to do,” Matt added. “Despite their frugal means, they want to share more than any American kid I’ve ever met!”

The 10-day trip included a visit to the architectural masterpiece Machu Pichu, the last stronghold of the Incas located at an elevation of almost 8,000 feet. And Matt spent a day touring Lima, the capital of Peru, before heading home.

But, truth be told, it was the children of the rural countryside that made the greatest impression on him.

“It was incredibly humbling to see how happy and thankful these children were for what little they had,” he said. “It was simply amazing.”

Matt Rouse’s Mission Trip to Peru

Alumni Chip Cervi and Luke Petty, seniors at Sanderson High School, were selected to attend the Governor’s School of North Caro-lina, the oldest statewide summer residential program in the nation for academically or intellectually gifted high school students.

Chip attended Governor’s School East, held at Meredith College, for Mathematics. Luke attended Governor’s School West, held at Salem College in Winston-Salem, for English.

For Chip, the son of a math teacher and an accountant, math has always come easily. But he readily admits that the six-week cur-riculum, including daily classes in quantum computing and combinatorics – a word that wasn’t even in his vocabulary before Gover-nor’s School – were challenging,

“I learned a lot this summer,” Chip said. “One of the things I learned is that I’m not as smart as I thought I was!” Another thing he learned is that he wants to double major in computer science and mathematics, and he’s already at work on college applications.

One hundred miles away, meanwhile, Luke Petty was enmeshed in the Governor’s School West summer program.

A concentration in English that explored the theory behind non-fiction was aug-mented by classes in philosophy and sociol-ogy. Highlights of Luke’s summer include poetry workshops and the day that Darryl Hunt, a man wrongly incarcerated for 19 years for a crime he didn’t commit, came to speak to students.

The entire program, Luke said, “was awe-some! Everyone was there because they wanted to learn. It was a very enthusiastic environ-ment!” He intends to keep in touch with a number of Governor’s School classmates. “I now have friends in all parts of North Caro-lina,” he said, “including places I had never even heard of!”

As his senior year of high school unfolds, Luke is already thinking about college. He plans to major in English and sees law school in his future.

Chip Cervi and Luke Petty Attend NC Governor’s School

A huge part of Governor’s School is making new friends, and that was certainly the case with Chip Cervi and Luke Petty. Chip (back row center) and friends at Governor’s School East show off their certificates while Luke (back row, far right) gathers with friends at Governor’s School West.

Therice Morris: Life After St. Timothy’sIt took a little bit of sleuthing, but we finally tracked down Therice

Morris.Therice went on to Cary Academy after St. Timothy’s, graduating

in 2009 and heading to Brown University to concentrate in electrical engineering

“I was heavily involved with the FSAE team, which builds and races formula-style race cars,” she said. “I studied abroad in Beijing, China for a summer, perfecting my Chinese skills, and I attended Cambridge University for my junior year.”

Therice graduated Magna Cum Laude from Brown with the Outstanding Senior in Electrical Engineering Award.

After graduation, she interned at a patent attorney’s office as a technical specialist, then enrolled at Stanford University to work on a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering. She is currently researching fiber optic sensors for aircraft navigation.

She reports that her sister Meghan, also an STS alum, is living near Denver and work-ing as a public defender in the Colorado Court of Appeals.

After a week of hard but rewarding mission work, Matt Rouse and his dad Shannon spent a day at Machu Pichu, once home to the Incas.


Meredith Burke Takes an Adventurous Gap Year

When Meredith Burke graduated from Saint Mary’s School in 2014, she put her college plans on hold. Instead of moving into a dorm at UNC-Chapel Hill, she began a gap year that would take her to Latin America, Utah and South Africa.

She spent what would have been her fall semester in a group program called Adventures Cross Country, traveling to Costa Rica, Ecuador and Peru for service projects and adventures.

“We worked on a sea turtle conservation project in Costa Rica,” Meredith said, “volunteered in indigenous villages in the Ecuadorean Amazon, and volunteered at an orphanage in Peru.”

In the spring she did a leadership semester with Colorado Outward Bound School in southeast Utah, backpacking, canyoneering and white water rafting.

“For 50 days we lived outside, learning how to work together and lead, as well as learn the skills neces-sary for backcountry travel,” she explained. “We learned about knots, rock climbing, rappelling and how to captain a raft through white water.”

And if that wasn’t enough to quench her thirst for adventure, it was definitely sated when she went to South Africa to spend six weeks on a game reserve.

“I participated in a volunteer project to monitor wildlife to help with research and management,” said Meredith. “Volunteers go out on drives to find the focus animals and take data on their locations and behavior.” Lions and leopards were two of her focus animals, and she had ample opportunity to photo-graph them.

“It was beneficial to our research and it helps with identification, particularly for the leopards,” she said. Her travels behind her for the moment, Meredith has begun her first semester in Chapel Hill.

Stump Brothers: Graduating,

Continuing and Starting College

There seems to be a revolving door at the home of Melinda Stump, mother of three STS alumni.

In May, her oldest son Jamie graduated from Virginia Tech where he majored in Engineering (Science & Mechanics) and minored in Physics and Math.

In August, her youngest son Samuel started his freshman year at NC State University. (See STS Class of 2011 Heads to College, beginning on page 6.)

Maintaining the status quo was middle son David, who returned to Virginia Tech for his junior year where he is majoring in Packaging Systems and Design in the College of Sustainable Biomaterials.

“I’m so proud of all my boys!” Melinda said. “Seriously, I credit a lot of their success to the great start they got at St. Timothy’s!”

STS Alumni Shine At Sanderson

Among the 23 Junior Marshalls at Sanderson High School last year were seven STS alumni from the Class of 2012:

Robyn SawyersAna SheridanCatherine AllenErin PerryChip CerviAnne ElkinsCameron OsieckiThis is an honor and recogni-

tion of the top students in the junior class.

More Alumni News On Page 23!

There’s nothing we like more than alumni news! This update from alumni mom Dee Penven-Crew made us so happy that we just had to share it!

Remember those Penven-Crew kids from the 1990s?

Caitlin Penven-Crew began her dance educa-tion at Arts Together in 1991 and her academic education in Patty Asher’s kindergarten class at St. Timothy’s in 1993. She was a dance/dance education major at UNC-Greensboro until a broken tailbone from a nasty fall during an ice storm forced her to change course.

A lifelong love of dance had fostered in Caitlin a love of human anatomy. After taking no sci-ence classes for many years, she took nothing but science for two years. She graduated with a degree in dance with a minor in Biology.

She was among 60 students out of a field of 600+ accepted at Elon University’s Doctor of Physical Therapy program.

“Four years later, resplendent in her graduation robes,” Dee wrote, “Caitlin received her hood in December of 2014. The celebration continued with a 10-day family trip through the UK over New Year’s.”

Dr. Penven-Crew is now a physical therapist at High Point Regional in Greensboro.

McCale Penven-Crew’s time at St. Timothy’s began in a pre-kindergarten classroom in 1996.

He is now a senior at William Peace University, As a junior last spring, he maintained a 4.0 GPA and received a series of accolades – Dear John letters, his mother calls them.

The first letter began, “Dear John, Based on your exemplary academic performance, you have been selected to serve as a University Marshall for the 2015 calendar year. This honor is bestowed upon the five students in both the sophomore and junior classes who have the highest grade point averages.”

The second letter read, “Dear John, Because of your exemplary college achievements, we invite you to join the North Carolina Psi Chapter of Alpha Chi, a national honor society that accepts only the top 10 percent of juniors, seniors and graduate students in all academic fields….”

“The hits,” his mother said, “just keep on com-ing. Are we proud? You bet!”

McCale is scheduled to graduate next May with a double major in Political Science and Communica-tions.

Caitlin Penven-Crew (left) and her brother John (above), students at STS in the 1990s.

Jamie Stump (left) on graduation day at Virginia Tech. David Stump (right), is a junior at Virginia Tech

Reconnecting with the Penven-Crew Family

Meredith (second from right) dressed in indigenous clothing for a wedding in Ecuador.


The only rain in weeks fell on the opening day of school on August 19, but it did little to damp-en the spirit of students – or their parents! It was “all hands on deck” for faculty and staff – offer-ing directions to new families, manning the carpool line, staffing the “Coffee and Kleenex” table for pre-k and kindergarten parents, greeting new and familiar faces in the classrooms, helping students navigate their new schedules… All things considered, it was a very successful opening to our 58th year of education.

Dark Skies, Bright Smiles Mark Beginning of 2015-2016 School Year


Dark Skies, Bright Smiles Mark Beginning of 2015-2016 School Year


Headmaster and Faculty Cups AwardedCynthia Woodward and Kate Sabiston were awarded the Headmaster’s

Cup and Faculty Cup at an end of year assembly in June.The Headmaster’s Cup is bestowed upon an eighth grade student who

best exhibits the outstanding qualities of a St. Timothy’s student. Teachers nominate candidates for this award. The candidate with the most nomina-tions is awarded the Headmaster’s Cup, with the runner-up receiving the Faculty Cup.

The Headmaster’s Cup went to Cynthia, with Kate taking home the Faculty Cup.

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Cynthia Woodward (left), recipient of the Headmaster’s Cup, with Kate Sabiston (right), who was awarded the Faculty Cup.

A First for the STS Band ProgramWesley Major qualified for the 2015 North Carolina All State Honors

Band.“He was officially ranked the sixth best tuba in the state,” said STS

Band Director Susan Fritts, “as a sixth grader!”Wesley participated in the All State Clinic at UNC-Greensboro on

May 1-3, with a concert capping off the weekend on Sunday after-noon.

Titan trumpeter Rollie Tillman placed 18th in the state competition, narrowly missing the cut for state honors. “Rollie did an outstanding job!” Fritts said of Rollie, who made school history as the first STS student ever qualifying for All State honors.

Wesley Major was ranked sixth best tube in the state as a sixth grader.

Katharine Priu Wins State DAR Essay Award

Katharine Priu made it to the top tier of the competition.

After winning the local chapter as well as state competition of the American History essay contest sponsored by the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), her eighth grade essay was forwarded for national con-sideration.

The topic was “A Child’s Jour-ney through Ellis Island.”

Martha Ellington of the local Micajah Bullock Chapter of the DAR presented Katharine with chapter honors at the STS semes-ter awards assembly in February.

First in MathSTS students are First in Math! Last spring students in Mrs. Angie

Austin’s first grade math class were recognized as Top Team (first grade) in NC. Students in Mrs. Deb Bar-deen’s class were recognized as Top Team (second grade) in NC for the same week.

And St. Timothy’s School ranked #7 of all schools in North Carolina!

In addition, a number of STS stu-dents received individual recognition from First in Math: Neal Wasudev, Owen Treadway, Mac Cobb, Dan Rajaratnam, Darcy Keegan, Lachlan Cross and Sean Manuel.

The online program is geared toward solidifying math skills.

Chorus and Ensemble Score Superior RatingsThe STS Middle School Chorus and the STS 7th and 8th Grade

Vocal Ensemble received superior ratings at the Kings Dominion Choral Festival last spring.

“I am very proud of our student musicians,” said Joe Farmer, STS Chorus Director. “They gave their very best and the judges recog-nized their outstanding effort.”


Community Service at STS: Spring Projects Reflect Student Commitment Fourth graders selected Back-

pack Buddies for their spring ser-vice project. They were asked to do chores at home and bring in any money earned. With those earnings, breakfast and snack foods were purchased and stu-dents filled bags in an assembly line at school.

Student Council raised close to $3,000 through the annual Balloon Day fundraiser. When it came time to allocate the funds, students decided they didn’t want to simply donate the money – they wanted to do something with it. The result was a Stop Hunger Now Pack-a-Thon that sent 10,000 packets of dried nutritional meals to loca-tions around the globe. In only two hours after school one day, 50 students measured, weighed, sealed, and packed the meals.

And there were more service projects, including the annual middle school talent show which raised over $1,000 for the American Red Cross’s effort in earthquake-stricken Nepal. And every other Wednesday, middle school students gave up their break time to prepare and pack 40 “lunches to go” for delivery to the emergency shelter at the Raleigh Rescue Mission.

Drama Students Perform Peter Pan

For the second consecutive year, Amy Murphy accomplished the impossible by successfully triple-casting the school’s annual drama production. With three grades enrolled in drama classes, she divided the scenes of Peter Pan equally. The transitions were seamless and the young actors performed to two standing room only crowds in the auditorium at William Peace University.

Above: Student Council selected Stop Hunger Now for its spring service project.Right: Henry Absher adds his contribution for Backpack Buddies.

Mrs. Austin and Her Pen PalsAt the end of last school year, Angie

Austin invited her first graders to be her summer pen pals. Much to her sur-prise and delight, two of her students – Charlotte Fusco and Haddie Horton – took her up on that offer.

“I didn’t send any letters first,” Mrs. Austin said. “They were the ones who took the initiative!”

At first, she responded immediately. Then summer travels, coupled with a post-al forwarding order when she moved to a new house, slowed her response time. But the letters from her students kept coming.

Charlotte and Haddie are in second grade now, but they got together with their former teacher at lunch one day to catch up where they left off after their last letters.


The festivities leading up to eighth grade graduation actually began in May with the traditional three-day trip to Washington, DC. Final exams followed and, finally, graduation day arrived.

It began with an 8:00 a.m. breakfast, followed by graduation rehearsal in the courtyard and an impromptu photo of the alpha-omegas, those students who were at St. Timothy’s from kindergarten through eighth grade.

Students were dismissed at noon, returning at 5:30 p.m. for a professional group photo.With acolytes leading the processional and the sounds of piano and trumpet filling the air, 48 students

solemnly filed in and took their seats. An hour later, they recessed as alumni with diplomas in hand.It’s a routine that’s been repeated on campus since 2006, and one that we never tire of watching.

STS Class of 2015: Our Tenth Year of Eighth Grade Graduates

Eva Guarino receives her diploma.

Well over half of the STS Class of 2015 were alpha-omegas, enrolling in kindergarten and graduating from the eighth grade: Murat Adibelli, Carly Bierer, Emily Burroughs, Katie Burroughs, Warren Fusco, Anna Guarino, Kody Haglund, Jake Hamilton, Carter Holjes, Justin Jefferies, Peter Lane, Rom Lewis, Grace Patton, Grace Raphun, Shelby Reaugh, Elizabeth Riddick, Lilly Roth, Kate Sabiston, Victor Samia, Marianna Schantz, Rob Treadway, Sydney Tucker, T.J. Walch, Ruth Anne Warner and Duncan Wegner.

Construction on the US Capitol building didn’t deter the enthusiasm of eighth graders when they toured Washington, DC – their last field trip together as STS students.

Graduation day started with a breakfast for the Class of 2015.

The crucifer and torch bearers led the procession of eighth graders into the courtyard.

Students were all smiles before lining up for the graduation processional.


It was a homecoming for alumna Ashley Edmonds Boswell as she addressed the STS Class of 2015 at graduation in June.

Boswell is the founder of Shepherd Youth Ranch, a Christian-based non-profit organization that uses equine-assisted therapy to serve children suffering from trauma and their families. It was only natural, therefore, that she would weave horses into the theme of her graduation remarks.

“Tonight I want to share with you some valuable lessons I learned about character here at St. Timothy’s,” she began. “These are the same lessons that horses have taught me in my line of work.”

BE HONORABLEThe first lesson Boswell learned from both St. Timothy’s

and her horses is to be honorable. “Horses don’t lie… they can’t,” she said. “They are honorable creatures.”

Humans, on the other hand, can be unclear and even untruthful. “We have all told a fib, a little white lie,” she said. “Lying becomes habitual in our society, but the goal is to catch yourself, tell on yourself and make it a habit to tell the truth instead.”

Telling the truth makes you honorable and trustworthy.

BE PRESENTHorses live in the here and now, Boswell explained. This is how they

have survived predators for years in the wild. They don’t have the privilege of daydreaming about their future or the burden of worrying about their past.

“Too often we worry or daydream about the future and forget to stop and smell the roses,” she said

Part of being present also means looking past yourself and what you want to serve others instead.

“Be a friend to someone in need, take time to cheer someone up, pray for someone,” she said. “Help your mom, take out the trash, be kind to your brother or sister, and thank your teachers for serving you.”

BE LOviNG AND FORGivE“I can honestly say that the friends I made here at St. Timothy’s last a

lifetime,” Boswell said. “I still keep in touch with many of them today.” She told how a former STS classmate recently reached out and asked

if she would give him advice about an equestrian facility he was work-ing on in Hong Kong as the principal architect. Boswell immediately dropped everything she was doing, researched what her friend want-ed, and got back to him with answers.

“Life is really all about relationships and the love and commitments we make to our friends and family,” she said.

The other side of loving others has to do with forgiveness, and Boswell said she doesn’t think you can have one without the other.

“Recently I was bucked off one of our rescue horses that occasionally has a fear of pressure from humans because he was once neglected and abused” she explained. “This day, I put a little bit of pressure on him with my seat and legs and asked him to speed up. He responded with a reactive hop and then another until I lost my balance and squeezed to hold on….so basically I accidentally put more pressure on him until he bucked straight up in the air and I landed on the ground.”

Boswell immediately looked at the horse and said, “I’m so sorry. I didn’t mean to do that.” The horse looked back at her as if to say, “Me, too. I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to do that. It was just a reaction.”

“We immediately forgave each other and moved on in our relation-ship,” she said. “I got back on and off we went without incident.”

In life, Boswell told the graduates, there will be times when you will

“fall off the horse.” Those you love will let you down. “Forgive them immediately,” she urged. “Realize that they are not perfect, only our Lord is perfect.”

Forgiveness isn’t for the person who wronged you. Forgiveness is for you. “It allows you to let go of hurts, move on, and love and ride again,” she said.

BE YOuRSELFBe yourself, because everyone else is taken!Just like humans, God created every horse to be unique. Some are

shy, some friendly, some introverted, some extroverted, some impul-sive, some fearful, some playful and some calm.

“My job as a professional horse trainer is to bring out the best quali-ties in every horse so that they can be the best they can for every child they meet,” she said,

“You, too, are unique,” Boswell told the students. “God gave each of you specific talents, gifts, passions and dreams.”

One of her favorite hymns, All Things Bright and Beautiful, was learned in St. Timothy’s chapel. “This song resonates deep within my soul,” she said

At a very early age, Boswell realized that she had a passion for all of God’s creatures, particularly horses.

“I also knew that I had a deep-seated desire to help hurting chil-dren,” she said. “Today, I do exactly what I was meant to do – coun-seling youth who have experienced trauma and pairing them with horses who have also experienced trauma. I love what I do and who God made me to be.”

Figure out what it is that you love and what you do well, she told the graduates. “Be who you were meant to be… yourself.”

Boswell ended with her hopes for the STS Class of 2015.BE HONORABLE: Tell the truth no matter the cost.BE PRESENT: Show up and serve others.BE FORGIVING: Forgiveness makes you loving and lovable.BE YOURSELF: Don’t try to be something you are not. Instead, use

your God-given abilities, gifts and talents to make a difference in someone else’s life or the world.

“And remember, when challenges come your way and try to unsettle the person you are meant to be,” Boswell said, “don’t quit. Do not give up, be who you were meant to be, and do it long enough to be good… even great!”

Alumna Ashley Edmonds Boswell Delivers Commencement Address

With Headmaster Tim Tinnesz and Joe Diab, chair of the St. Timothy’s Board of Trustees, looking on, alumna Ashley Edmonds Boswell delivered the 2015 commencement address.


Family BINGO Night is a decades-long tra-dition at St. Timothy’s. Held every spring, it’s an evening of fun and fellowship for the entire family.

Refreshments, raffles and 10 games of BINGO bring out a capacity crowd of students, parents, and even alumni each year.

We love our traditions at St. Timothy’s, but we’re always open to new ideas. Last year, we launched an event that is sure to become a new STS tradition: Step and Stack.

It was an obstacle course. It was a pancake breakfast. Actually, it was an obstacle course and a pancake breakfast!

On a Saturday morning last spring, students completed an obstacle course designed by Ath-letic Director Tracey Woodward. With staggered starting times and challenges to meet their age levels, participants from four to 14 years old fol-lowed a course that spanned the entire campus.

There were sprints and hurdles and obstacles of all sorts – tires, wading pools, hoses, ropes – just about anything that Woodward could conceive.

Proceeds from the obstacle course were donated to No Kid Hungry NC.

After “stepping” through a series of obstacles, participants headed to the dining hall for a “stack” of pancakes as the Titan Athletic Club hosted its annual pancake breakfast.

Pancakes, sausage links, fruit, coffee and orange juice were served by an outstanding team of parents and faculty, with proceeds benefitting the Titan athletic program.

It was a great day to be a Titan!

BINGO! We have a winner! Actually , there were many winners at Family BINGO night with 10 games and 10 raffle baskets.

An old Tradition Continues, A new Tradition Begins

The Headmaster’s Office had a new occupant on two occasions last year as Chase Pettersson and Huntley Carr each assumed the role of “Headmaster for the Day.” At the Founders’ Day fundraiser last winter, DeAnna and Carl Pettersson, as well as Danette and Greg Carr, were high bidders on the opportunity for their sons to experience a thrilling day in the life of Headmaster Tim Tinnesz. Both students agreed on one thing: admin meetings are not so thrilling!

Chase Pettersson (left) and Huntley Carr

After “stepping” through the obstacles, participants headed to the dining hall for a “stack” of pancakes.

STS Replaces Tinnesz With New Headmaster – But Just For A Day!


N E W S f r o m T H E f r i E N d S o f S T . T i m o T H y ’ S

Beginning with a faculty breakfast before the start of each school year and ending with a gradu-ation reception in June, the many volunteers of Friends of St. Timothy’s provide priceless services to our school.

They are the organizers of the Back to School BBQ, Fall Festival and Family BINGO. They serve pizza every Tuesday, sell cupcakes every quarter, and provide a spectacular faculty lun-cheon three times a year.

And they start laying the groundwork each summer for Founders’ Day, a major fundraiser held each winter.

Each spring, we celebrate these Friends at a Volunteer Appreciation Breakfast. It’s a special time to recognize the incoming and outgoing Executive Board of Friends of St. Timothy’s, as well as every parent who has volunteered one hour or countless hours during the school year.

Parent ambassadors play a vital role in the admissions process at St. Timothy’s. They escort parents from classroom to classroom during A Day in the Life open houses, they provide campus tours during fall and spring open houses, and they serve as mentors to newly-enrolled families. The program, introduced sev-eral years ago, continues to expand each year.

The incoming-outgoing Board of Friends includes (left to right) Shannon Helm, assistant treasurer; Kristin Holder, secretary; Cissy Lewis, outgoing president; Lisa Meadows, president; Olga West, treasurer; Michele Schneider, vice-president; and Jeanette Gray, outgoing treasurer.

Garden Bed is Dedicated to Jeff and Lynne SandersLynne Sanders was a first grade assistant when her husband Jeff was stricken with cancer,

and circumstances forced her to leave her beloved job with the school. She was gone but never far from the hearts and minds of students and faculty.

When the STS learning garden was constructed with proceeds from Founders Day 2014, naming rights to the flower beds were offered. Steve and Lori Powell took the high bid on one of them and dedicated it in memory of Jeff and in honor of Lynne.

At the invitation of the first grade faculty and the Powell family, Lynne Sanders returned to campus one day last spring for an intimate and informal dedica-tion of “her” flower bed. The plan was for all to enjoy lunch together in Debbie Potter’s class-room afterwards.

En route from garden to classroom, Lynne was discovered by a group of third graders, her former students, who couldn’t let her go without hugs and well wishes!

Friends of St. Timothy’s Honored at Volunteer Breakfast


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hosted two summer camps. Then she and her husband got in the car and drove through rural Virginia, visiting sites like the historic home of President James Monroe and the Walton Mountain Museum.

“My favorite part of the sum-mer was driving off the GPS grid and stumbling upon a dirt road at the top of a mountain covered in butterflies,” she said. “I had to get out of the car to keep them from being run over!” The experience, she said, “was so much better than the Smithsonian butterfly exhibit in DC… which I still highly rec-ommend!”

Headmaster Tim Tinnesz spent 15 days unplugged from email and cell phones while hiking and traveling in Wyoming, Montana and Washington. He spent the first half of his vacation with extended family in the Grand Tetons, Yel-lowstone National Park and Glacier National Park. Then he forged on with a friend to the Cascades and Olympic National Park. “It was over 40 total miles of hiking with alpine lakes, snow-capped peaks, bald eagles, mountain goats… even a couple of bear sightings!” he said.

katherine Lee spent the summer preparing to move to Raleigh for her new position as a third grade teacher, but she still managed a short vacation. “I was blessed to be able to spend three days traveling up and down the coast of Maine with a friend visiting small towns and beautiful lighthouses,” she said. “It was the highlight of my summer and it made the list of most stunning places I have been!”

Technology teacher Meg Mans-field spent four days sampling the fruits of Napa Valley vineyards and a day touring San Francisco.

What happens when two librarians go on an Alaskan cruise? They check out the public libraries at every port!

School librarian Sarah Stanley and her husband, a librarian at Campbell University, enjoyed photographing libraries from Vancouver to Anchor-age as much as they enjoyed photo-graphing glaciers from the vantage point of a helicopter.

Science lab teacher Perry Suk spent a special weekend in New York celebrating her husband’s birthday – a “big” one! – with a family trip to his childhood neighborhood in the Bronx. “He had not been back in over 30 years and was pleasantly surprised at the condition of his fam-ily home, although he swears it used to be much bigger!” she said. They enjoyed other parts of New York,

from the Chelsea Highline to the Brooklyn Bridge, with lots of good eating and adventures in between.

Middle school math teacher Claire elliott and her family visited New York City, Niagara Falls and Caro-lina Beach, went camping in the mountains and tubing down the Neuse River “It was nice to recharge our batteries,” she said. “We were ready for the new school year!”

Better at the Beachdeanna Lord spent most of the

summer at her Bald Head Island home making center activities for second grade, doing projects for professional development and read-ing. “Some people might think this is boring,” she said, “but I had a great summer!”

kim Balentine, middle school art teacher, spent the summer in her Beaufort home painting and ic-ing her knee as she recovered from surgery. Spending about eight hours a day on her art, Kim lost track of how many paintings she produced. “Maybe 22?” she estimated. Nine of her paintings were sold before she even left Beaufort.

Cathy Clement, Director of Ad-missions, carried on the family tradi-tion of a week on the Outer Banks with her children and grandchildren. This year three-month-old grandson Evan made his debut at the annual family gathering.

Annette Tucker, communications coordinator, spent her favorite week of the year in Atlantic Beach where they celebrated five family birth-days and Father’s Day. “We fished, boated, swam, boogie boarded and had a fun time showing our northern relatives the North Carolina coast,” she said. “We saw dolphins, huge stingrays, sea turtles, and yes, a couple of sharks!”

First grade teacher debbie Potter owns a condo in Southport and, as her colleague Sharon Carlson explained, “It’s my job to keep her company!” They enjoyed daily picnic lunches on the Oak Island beach, returning to Southport in late afternoon for dinner and bike A Reunion in Manteo

Science teacher Michaela Iiames and her husband went to Manteo one weekend this summer to see STS students Chloe and Emma Lias perform in the symphonic outdoor drama, “The Lost Colony.” Eighth grader Emma was featured as a dancer and a colonist with sixth grader Chloe playing the role of a colony child.

The Lias sisters were not the only familiar faces that Iiames saw in the crowd.

Fourth grade teacher Lori Reedy and her husband Jeff, celebrat-ing their 40th wedding anniversary on the Outer Banks, were also in attendance.

After the performance, all gathered for a group photo.

Sarah Stanley in Alaska

Perry Suk in Manhattan

While in Maine, Katherine Lee photographed this lighthouse featured in the movie “Forrest Gump.”

Sharon Carlson and Debbie Potter at the beach


riding until dark. The two report they are now experts in staking a beach umbrella in the sand and are happy to share their technique if asked. “Our umbrellas never blow away!” Debbie said.

on the moveTwo of our faculty have new ad-

dresses, and one of them is Learning Specialist Lindsay Behrens. She and her husband spent the summer mov-ing into a new house and preparing their former residence for sale.

First grade teacher Angie Austin will insist that she spent most of the summer packing and unpacking boxes for her family’s August 8 move. When pressed, however, she admits to a family trip to Washington, DC for sightseeing and a Nationals game, a 40th birthday celebration with her sister on Grand Cayman in the Caribbean, a few days at Disney World with her mother and sons, and a road trip to Holland, Michi-gan for a visit with the in-laws. But the highlight of her summer, Angie said, was “getting together with life-long friends at a reunion of day camp counselors at the 25th anniversary celebration of the Finley YMCA.

Movement and drama teacher Amy Murphy helped her fiancé move into the home they will share after their December nuptials. Plan-ning that wedding, monitoring the enhancements to the campus per-forming arts classroom, and being a “swim team mom” to her daughter Rose rounded out her summer.

fun with familyKindergarten assistant deb Bar-

deen spent lots of time at the pool with her daughter Gracie May, as well as working on some house projects. She also made a trip to New York to visit family and friends.

April Cervi spent a relaxing sum-mer with her family, both oceanside and poolside. With her son Jarrett attending a summer session at Old Dominion and son Chip away at NC Governor’s School, she got a taste of what next year will be like when she’s an empty nester: quiet!

Colleen Camaione-edmonston, middle school grammar/literature teacher, watched her three children compete in swim, dive and tennis. The family vacationed on Topsail Island, where they successfully avoided sharks, as well as Montreat, where they hiked the trails and ran the 4th of July 5K – and ran into STS families and alumni! She and her husband capped off the sum-mer with a trip to the mountains to celebrate “20 adventurous and

blissful years of marriage!”Math teacher Melynda Foye and

her husband spent most of the sum-mer on the road with daughter Jil-lian and her lacrosse team, Carolina Fever, as they played tournaments in Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina. “Jillian had a blast,” Me-lynda said, “and we had fun using Yelp to find great places to eat after the games!” The Foyes were able to squeeze in some beach fun for Jil-lian and her friend Brianna Briggs, another Titan alumna.

Teaching and LearningChris Wilson, middle school

history teacher, switched gears this summer and tutored math. In addi-tion, he found great joy in dropping by the summer camps of his STS

colleagues to visit with students and alumni.

One of those colleagues was sci-ence teacher Judy Whitley, who conducted her annual volleyball camp at the beginning of the sum-mer. At summer’s end, she deposited her older son Lee at Georgia Tech for his freshman year.

Kindergarten teacher natalie Ma-yur conducted a Craft Readers sum-mer camp at STS, and continued

her graduate studies at NC State as she pursues a Masters in Elementary Education.

When he wasn’t at a work-related conference or seminar, Director of Technology eddie Cobb was on campus updating computers, supervising the conversion to fiber optic cables, and doing everything that needs to be done to keep our computers and internet service up and running all year.

Amelia Edmonston (left) with fellow Titans Margaret and Rosemary Raynal in Montreat

Dr. Albert Joseph Diab Foundation Professional Development Grants:

Teachers Return With ideas and inspiration After Summer Seminars

Erin Berry Spalinski went to Chicago courtesy of a Dr. Albert Joseph Diab Foundation professional development grant to attend the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) Interactive Institute on Number & Operations in the Classroom. “I know – it’s a mouthful!” Erin admitted. “It was a wonderful experience and I met some great teachers from all over the country.” She also participated in the NC Museum of Art’s Summer Educator Institute, spending three days learning how to better integrate arts into curriculum.

History teacher Peggy Todd attended a week-long Gilder Lehrman Institute seminar at George Washington University, funded by a Diab Foundation professional development grant. The seminar, designed specifically for teachers, focused on WWI and how to use primary sources in lessons for historical literacy.

Brandon Bogumil, middle school literature and grammar teacher, received a Dr. Albert Joseph Diab Foundation professional devel-opment grant to attend the Columbia University Teachers College Institute on Teaching of Reading in New York.

Archeoastronomy Lured Michaela iiames to irelandTo understand science teacher Michaela Iiames’s summer of 2015, you need to go back to the summer of

2014 when she was awarded a professional development grant from the Dr. Albert Joseph Diab Foundation. Iiames traveled to Pingree State Park, a satellite cam-

pus of Colorado State University, for a program called Astronomy in the Rockies.

For one week, the group of 15 participated in eight hours of classroom instruction each day, supplemented with day and night viewing with telescopes. “It was my first experience using a solar filter to view the sun during the day,” she said.

Upon returning to Raleigh, Iiames shared this experi-ence with STS parent and astronomy enthusiast Tom Barrett. He generously donated his Dobsonian telescope to the school and purchased a solar filter so students could enjoy daytime viewing of the sun on campus.

“The spring of 2015 found us viewing sun spots on the courtyard,” she said.

While preparing the astronomy unit for her students, Iiames stumbled upon the topic of archeoastronomy – the study of the role of astronomy in the lives of ancient peoples. She read about an ancient burial ground just north of Dublin, Ireland named New Grange that predates the pyramids by about 1,000 years.

“It was awe-inspiring for me to understand how people so long ago could not only construct such a mas-sive thing without the help of wheels or animals,” she said, “but also that they understood the movement of the celestial bodies in such an intimate way.”

Iiames was so intrigued by her study of New Grange that she decided to visit it for herself, incorporating a visit to the site into her two-week tour of Ireland in June.

John and Michaela Iiames at New Grange, an ancient burial site in Ireland that she discovered when planning her astronomy unit last spring.


Susan Fritts, STS band director, attended the Building Better Bands clinic in Winston-Salem in June, where she had the opportunity to meet and work with some of the most prestigious people in her field. She helped out with the Cardinal Gibbons Band Camp in July, and returned to Winston-Salem in Au-gust to work on the new All District solo rotation music. In between, she was on campus three days a week teaching flute lessons and flute en-semble – and spending a lot of time practicing her flute.

“It was great to meet with other history teachers from around the country,” she said. “At the end of the seminar, each teacher presented a lesson plan using primary sources. There were so many good ideas! I’m sure I’ll use what I learned in my classes.” The week also included visits to the National Archives and the Library of Congress.

Mary Cerrato traveled to Con-necticut for the American Classical League’s Summer Institute, an an-nual conference for Latin and Greek teachers. “I go regularly to keep up-dated and connected,” she said. This year, she was looking for information and ideas for the new STS sixth grade Latin curriculum and ongo-ing updates for using technology to

teach Latin. “I was also searching for new ways to incorporate classical art and paintings, as well as Greek and Roman mythology, in my teach-ing,” she said.

Art teacher Laura Bierer tutored budding artists and conducted her annual Artists and Authors summer camp. She took a trip to the Big Apple with her best friend and vacationed in Ohio, where she gifted her newly married niece with a painting she created for her. In ad-dition, Laura said, “I took my kids and myself to every kind of doctor for check-ups. We are all healthy!”

family milestoneserin Berry Spalinski decided to

teach herself to sew (still a “major work in progress,” she reports) and wrote a lot of thank you notes for gifts bestowed at her May wedding to David Spalinski.

Fourth grade teacher Caitlin Fo-lan and Davis Roach were married at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Winston-Salem on June 20, with a reception at the Old Town Club. They honeymooned in Dominica.

Kindergarten assistant Sherry Mitchell and her family spent five nights at a cousin’s cabin in the up-per peninsula of Michigan. “We had no electricity, no water and, most

life-changing, no wifi,” she said. “You can see how that went on day #5!” The family strife lessened when the Mitchells headed to their favorite place, Mackinac Island, to celebrate their 20th wedding anniversary.

Lori reedy and her husband spent the summer babysitting their first grandchild, Madison. The Reedys celebrated their 40th wedding anni-versary with a trip to Manteo.

Lori’s husband enjoyed the sum-mer with their granddaughter so much that “he applied for and got” the job of being her full-time nanny this year. “We call him the Manny!” she said.

Joanne Brown and her sisters took their mother to Atlantic Beach for her 90th birthday. “We walked down memory lane and recalled many fun events of our past,” she said. “Nothing like beach air in your hair and fresh seafood in your tummy!” Joanne also watched her extended family grow (and grow and grow) this summer: a great-nephew in June and twin great-nephews in July, with another due in September and a great-niece expected in January

No rest for The WearyKindergarten assistant Christy

Lingle learned the meaning of the term sweat equity as she remodeled her kitchen this summer. “My husband and I not only tore down cabinets but learned how to build shelves and cabinets,” she said. “We even did some electrical work.”

Second grade teacher diane Schroeder completed a summer professional development project of creating math centers… and learned how to pressure wash a house! “My house sparkles now,” she happily reported. Administrative assistant Judy Todd worked in her yard, laid hardwood floors, painted the din-ing room and den, recovered her dining room chairs, and re-uphol-stered sofa and chair cushions for a friend.

Jeff and Lori Reedy with their granddaughter Madison

Sherry Mitchell and family at a roadside “free wi-fi” spot.

Erin spent a lot of her summer hours writing thank you notes for gifts given at her May wedding to David Spalinski.

Tim Coleman, Head of Middle School, went to Guatemala at the invitation of Jump the World, the organization that arranges exchange students to St. Timothy’s each year. He toured schools in Guatemala City, visited Spanish colonial sites in Antigua Guatemala – and zip-lined down a moun-tain at a coffee farm! “The trip was amazing!” Coleman said. “I’m looking forward to welcoming our three new Guatemalan exchange stu-dents in a few months.”

His most vivid and meaning-ful experience, however, was working with Annini, an orga-nization that provides housing and care for orphaned chil-dren with physical and mental disabilities. He joined a group of teachers to help paint the interior of one of the Annini residences.

Caitlin Folan married Davis Roach.


Felicity Baker was so impressed by Ashley Boswell’s speech at her graduation in June that she went out to Shepherd Youth Ranch the next month to volunteer – taking her brother Cameron with her.

More Alumni News!

Nick Schantz, a senior at Cardinal Gibbons High School, received his private pilot’s license in June. Will he follow in the footsteps of STS alum and private pilot Nico Hillmann, who entered the United States Air Force Academy this semester?

David Foye (front and center) earned a leadership position at West Point this summer. He was responsible for 47 new cadets (plebes) entering the military academy. When that assignment ended, David did an internship in Hawaii before heading to Morocco for a semester of study abroad.

Each year Eddie Cobb, Director of Technology, hires the best and the brightest for his summer tech crew – STS alumni! This year’s crew included (left to right) Alec Dompka, Noah Lenhardt, William Daughtridge and Sam Futsch.

The STS Class of 2013 was well-represented at the inaugural Titan Athletic Club Golf Tournament in March. Cardinal Gibbons students (left to right) T.J. Buckley, Spencer Mangum, Blake Stone and Eric Farley were a formidable foursome on the links.

When Hans Bierer told his mother, STS art teacher Laura Bierer, that he was thinking of a career in the Coast Guard, she called upon the one person she knew who could give him the best advice possible – STS alum and U.S. Coast Guard Academy graduate Alex Sullivan. The timing was perfect since Alex was in Raleigh for a few days visiting family. The two met on campus and Alex gave Hans an insight into his daily life in the Coast Guard.

Olivia Busby knows where to go to earn her community service hours for Broughton High School! Not only did she volunteer at the Step and Stack spring fundraiser, but she returned a week later to help with the campus workday.

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Clarence Turnage retires from STS – Almost!

After 13 years as a campus security officer, Clarence Turnage retired last spring.

Recent surgery had slowed him down to the point that he found it hard to be on his feet all day directing traffic and patrolling the campus. Quietly and with little fanfare, he met with Headmaster Tim Tinnesz near the last day of school.

Tinnesz accepted Mr. Turnage’s resignation, but proposed a compro-mise: Would he return for a limited number of special events during the 2015-2016 school year? It was the best of both worlds for Mr. Turnage – returning to a place he loves and where he is much loved, but on a far less rigid schedule – and he readily accepted the proposal.

So on the first day of the new school year in August, Clarence Turnage was where he’s been every weekday for the past 13 years: directing traffic in the carpool lanes at St. Timothy’s.

And it’s a good thing he was there!“As we started off the year with new security guards for the first time in

13 years,” Tinnesz said, “we found that there were things that Mr. Turnage ‘always did’ that we never realized. He has been very helpful in walking our new security guards through his procedures.”

Happy retirement, Mr. Turnage. It’s great to have you back!

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