Commencement Exercises
MAY 10, 2015 Saturday, May 9, 2015 BACCALAUREATE SERVICE 5 pm, Venable Lawn
Sunday, May 10, 2015 COMMENCEMENT CEREMONY 10 am, Venable Lawn
COMMENCEMENT LUNCH for graduates and their guests served after the Commencement ceremony from noon until 2 pm Chalgrove Point, behind Settle Hall NO TICKETS REQUIRED
CURRENT EXHIBITS AT THE ESTHER THOMAS ATKINSON MUSEUM
student exhibition: Fine Arts Majors’ Thesis Projects May 1 – May 10, 2015
Justin Jones: A World Like No Other
Thomas Crenshaw:Painting with Ketchup
Also featuring the work from students in the Drawing II and the Multiple Images classes
the draper camera The first fast-action camera in the world was developed by John W. Draper (Professor of Chemistry, 1836–1839) while at Hampden-Sydney. Created from in-depth scientific and cooperative research, the camera is on display in the front gallery of the Museum. By using the camera and a departmental telescope, Draper wrote he took the first astronomical photographs. After leaving Hampden-Sydney College to become a professor at New York University Medical College, Draper was able to take the world’s first true portrait of a living person on September 23, 1839. the saber of latané Also on display are the officer’s saber and scabbard belonging to Captain William Latané, Class of 1853 (in Hampden-Sydney’s Medical Department). His death in the Civil War Battle of Old Church inspired a poem by John R. Thompson and artwork by William Dickenson Washington; engravings of Washington’s iconic painting became popular throughout the South. The saber is clearly visible in the engraving of Washington’s work on display.
2 3 Commencement Exercises MARKING THE CONCLUSION OF THE COLLEGE’S TWO-HUNDRED-FORTIETH YEAR Dr. Christopher B. Howard Presiding Dr. David A. Klein ’78 Dr. Herbert J. Sipe, Jr. Student Marshal Faculty Marshal
* PROCESSION Selections of brass music by Giovanni Gabrielli (1554-1612), Johann Pezel (1639-1694) and John Stanley (1713-1786) Performed by members of the London Giovanni Gabrielli Brass Ensemble, The Philadelphia Brass Ensemble and E. Power Biggs, Organist.
* INVOCATION The Reverend Dr. John M. Scholer Interim College Chaplain
NATIONAL ANTHEM Mr. David Madison Campbell ’15 Mr. Jamar Rodnique Simmons ’15 CONFERRING OF HONORARY DEGREES Mr. Thomas N. Allen ’60 Chairman of the Board of Trustees
COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS The Honorable Robert Hurt ’91 Congressman, Fifth District, Virginia
ANNOUNCEMENT OF AWARDS Dr. Dennis G. Stevens Provost and Dean of the Faculty
VALEDICTORY ADDRESS CONFERRING OF DEGREES Mr. Allen CHARGE TO THE CLASS OF 2015 Dr. Howard * BENEDICTION The Reverend Dr. Scholer * RECESSION Selections of brass music by Giovanni Gabrielli (1554-1612) Performed by the Empire Brass & Friends, Carl St. Clair, Conductor.
Music produced by Academy Sound & Vision Ltd. of London, Telarc International Corp. and Sony Classical Music Entertainment.
* Members of the audience will please stand, as they are able.
3 RECIPIENT OF HONORARY DEGREE AND COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER
ROBERT HURT ’91 Doctor of Humane Letters
A native of Pittsylvania County, ROBERT HURT returned to his hometown of Chatham to practice law in 1995. He lives in Chatham, Virginia, with his wife, Kathy, and their three sons, Charles, Clement, and John.
Congressman Hurt began his time in public service in 2001 as a member of the Chatham Town Council. From 2002 to 2007, he served in the Virginia House of Delegates, representing parts of Pittsylvania County, Henry County, and the City of Martinsville. Starting in 2008, Hurt represented the 19th District in the Senate of Virginia for two years, which included the City of Danville, Pittsylvania County, Franklin County and part of Campbell County. He was engaged in a general law practice in the courthouse town of Chatham from 1999 to 2010.
Congressman Hurt currently represents Virginia’s Fifth District in the U.S. House of Representatives. He is a member of the Financial Services Committee, which has jurisdiction over all aspects of the nation’s financial and housing sectors. Within the Committee, Hurt serves as the Vice Chairman of the Capital Markets and Government Sponsored Enterprises Subcommittee and serves on the Housing and Insurance Subcommittee, as well as the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee.
Congressman Hurt is proud to represent Prince Edward County and Hampden-Sydney College in Congress. He received a bachelor’s degree in English from Hampden-Sydney in 1991. He was a member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity and was involved in several student organizations during his time on campus. He has remained actively engaged with the College and always enjoys visiting with the students here and in Washington as part of the Washington Day Program.
4 5 RECIPIENT OF HONORARY DEGREE AND BACCALAUREATE SPEAKER
REVEREND VIRGINIA “GINI” DISTANISLAO Doctor of Divinity
VIRGINIA “GINI” DISTANISLAO is the priest-in-charge of The Episcopal Church of St. Paul and St. Andrew in Kenbridge, Virginia, where she has served since her ordination in 2008. She graduated from Mary Baldwin College in 1984 with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics. Upon completing her undergraduate studies, Gini became the President of Bon Air Title Agency in Richmond, Virginia, where she continues to work with real estate attorneys and professionals throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia. She is the current employer of six Hampden-Sydney graduates and has received numerous national awards for her work in the title insurance industry. In 2005, Gini, after many years of devotion and service to the church, decided to further her education by pursuing a path to ministry. She was the first to graduate from the School of Ministry Formation in the Episcopal Diocese of Southern Virginia and, along with her work in Kenbridge, currently serves on the Executive Board of the Diocese.
Gini’s son, Drew DiStanislao, and her nephew, John Moore, are both graduating from Hampden- Sydney this weekend. Her husband, Judge Phil DiStanislao (1977), father, Judge Ernest Gates (1947), four brothers, one brother-in-law, and five nephews all graduated from Hampden-Sydney College. Gini has a great love for the school and is honored to present the Baccalaureate address.
5 RECIPIENT OF HONORARY DEGREE
SIR GEORGE MILES HOBART-HAMPDEN Doctor of Humane Letters
GEORGE MILES HOBART-HAMPDEN, the tenth Earl of Buckinghamshire, is a descendant of John Hampden, one of the revered English patriots for whom Hampden-Sydney College is named. With over 40 years’ experience in the pensions and investment industries, he was until last year a Director of BESTrustees, a leading human resources consulting firm, with which he still works. In addition, he has been a Trustee, Director, or Chairman of several corporate pension schemes and merger committees, and a widely-sought consultant on such subjects as the exercise of discretionary trustee powers, deficit-recovery plan funding, trustee risk, and volatility-reducing investment policies.
In the realm of public service, he sat in the House of Lords from 1984 to 1999; there he contributed his corporate expertise as a member of the All-Party Group committees on occupational pensions and on ageing issues. He was also a member of the European Union Committees on Social and Consumer Affairs and Finance, Trade, and External Relations.
He has been a trustee of Buckinghamshire New University and is an Honorary Trustee of Illinois Wesleyan University. He has served as Chair of The Cook Society and the British Australia Society and was President of the Buckingham Conservative Constituency Association for twenty-six years.
Because Hobart, the capital of Tasmania in Australia, was named for his ancestor, the fourth Earl, he is a Patron of the Sleep Apnœa Trust there, the Tasmanian Early Settlers Association and the John Hampden Society. He is President of the Friends of the Vale of Aylesbury and of the Downend Police and Community Amateur Boxing Club.
He is an alumnus of Clifton College in Bristol and of Exeter University, where he took a bachelor’s degree in History with Honours. He earned a Master’s degree in British Commonwealth Area Studies at The Institute of Commonwealth Studies in London University’s Birkbeck College.
In his spare time he enjoys fly fishing, real tennis, reading, music, rugby football, and trekking.
6 7 RECIPIENT OF HONORARY DEGREE
THOMAS N. ALLEN ’60 Doctor of Laws
THOMAS NELSON ALLEN, a descendant of many of Virginia’s prominent families, is a founder and chairman of Clovelly Corporation, a Richmond, Virginia, real estate and investment firm started in 2001.
After stints as an account executive with an advertising firm in New York City and as a management consultant with Booz Allen Hamilton, he joined Richmond’s East Coast Oil Corporation, which operated a chain of retail gasoline and convenience stores in Virginia and North Carolina. He became its President in 1975 and its Chairman in 1978, running the business until its acquisition by the Israel-based Delek Group in 2001. While he was President of East Coast Oil, he took pride in amassing a significant collection of antique gas pumps, which he restored and preserved.
In one of his many areas of public service, he currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Trustees at Hampden-Sydney College. When he was on the Board of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, he was called upon in an emergency to become its interim director, a duty he fulfilled admirably, shepherding the institution through difficult times and a period of important planning for a major addition until a permanent director could be named. He has also served as Director of the Museum’s Foundation.
In addition, he has served with distinction on the boards of several Virginia charities, including the Richmond Symphony, the Boys and Girls Club of Metro Richmond, the Virginia Historical Society, St. Christopher’s School, and the Richmond Chamber of Commerce. He has led fund- raising campaigns for such institutions as the Richmond United Way, the Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges, and his alma mater.
He is a graduate of Hampden-Sydney College and the University of Virginia Law School, and studied law at the London School of Economics.
7 AWARDS PRESENTED AT COMMENCEMENT
Given annually in memory of Dr. Edgar G. Given in memory of Thomas Edward Crawley, Gammon, Class of 1905, pastor of College Church Class of 1941, who served the College as teacher, 1917–1923, and President of the College 1939–1955, scholar, musician, and dean from 1946 until 1984, to the member of the graduating class who has best to that professor most distinguished for devoted served the College. Character, scholarship, and service to the ideals of Hampden-Sydney College athletic ability are considered. and the education of its sons.
Given annually to the junior or senior who has Given annually in honor of its first president, shown the most constructive leadership during the Algernon Sydney Sullivan, by the New York school year. The Harrison Award was established Southern Society. This award is given to a member through the generosity of the late Mr. Frederick of the graduating class distinguished for excellence Nash Harrison of Richmond, Virginia, of character and generous service to his fellows. in memory of his mother. Other recipients may be chosen from friends of the College who have been conspicuously helpful to the . institution in its effort to encourage and preserve a high standard of morals. Given by the Eta of Virginia Chapter in recognition of intellectual excellence. The award is made possible by the generosity of the alumnus, Class of 1943, Given by the Senior Class at Commencement to a whose name it bears. member of the College’s faculty, administration, or staff who in the eyes of the Class members has contributed during their four years most Given annually to “a Hampden-Sydney faculty significantly to the College, its students, member in recognition of outstanding classroom and the community. contribution to the education of Christian young men.” The Cabell Award was created by the THE HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE Robert G. Cabell III and Maude Morgan Cabell MAN-OF-THE-YEAR AWARD Foundation to assist the College in attracting and Given to a member of the Senior Class at keeping professors of high ability and integrity. Commencement. The award is given to a member of the graduating class who best exemplifies the ideals of Hampden-Sydney College in the eyes Given annually in memory of Robert Thruston of the College’s students, faculty, and staff. The Hubard IV, a member of the Class of 1935 and recipient has distinguished himself as an individual a professor of political science from 1946 until who has demonstrated high standards of honor, 1982, to that member of the faculty or staff most integrity, and character. distinguished for active devotion and service to the College and its ideals.
The Bibles presented to graduating seniors at Commencement were graciously donated by William M. Passano, Jr. ’53 in loving memory of his mother IDA KEMP PASSANO.
8 9 AWARDS PRESENTED TO SENIORS AT FINAL CONVOCATION APRIL 23, 2015
WILLARD F. BLISS AND ETTA SAWYER HART JOHN MARSHALL AWARD FOR BLISS HISTORY AWARD EXCELLENCE IN WRITING IN POLITICAL Hunter Willem Gibson SCIENCE Tucker Scott Atkins BROWN TEACHING FELLOWSHIPS Dontae Leon Buck THE SHELLEY A. MARSHALL SHORT STORY AWARD GERALD T. CARNEY RELIGION AWARD Ryan Christian Cowen Hunter Thomas Martin ROBERT H. PORTERFIELD ‘29 DRAMA WILLIAM C. CHEWNING, JR. AWARD AWARD Zachary Alan King Andrew Alexis Ward Ryquan D. Wheeler THE COHEN CITIZENSHIP AWARD Damien Rashad Sharp PSYCHOLOGY DEPARTMENT AWARD Bryon David Hines C. T. CRAWLEY MUSIC AWARD Jacob Watkin Roden-Foreman Henry Gilliam Nicholson II RHETORIC 310 BEST SPEAKER AWARD HARDY CROSS AWARD IN PHYSICS Brian Dean Collins Zachary Alan King MARY SAUNDERS CRITICAL ESSAY PRIZE LEWIS AND NELL DREW STUDENT Conway Haynes Shelton GOVERNMENT AWARD Sydney C. Henriques SENATE MEMBER OF THE YEAR AWARD Michael Stephen Adams, Jr. GEMBORYS-CHOATE-BOUIN-SWENSON AWARD FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES THE GRACE AND HASSELL SIMPSON PRIZE Matthew Geyer Watson FOR EXCELLENCE IN ENGLISH Lukas Richard Epps-Dawson WILLIAM R. HENDLEY AWARD IN ECONOMICS KEARFOTT STONE MEMORIAL AWARDS Alan Lewis Rice David Madison Campbell Parker Alexander Dunaway JAMES R. T. HEWETT BIOLOGY AWARD Edward Davis Carter STUDENT GOVERNMENT OUTSTANDING CLUB/ORGANIZATION AWARD IFC MEMBER OF THE YEAR AWARD Robert Arthur Keefe John Alexander Collie Michael John Salita
WEYLAND THOMAS JOYNER PHYSICS WALL STREET JOURNAL STUDENT AWARD ACHIEVEMENT AWARD Carson Tyler Maki Connor David Bradley
JAMES MADISON AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN POLITICAL SCIENCE John Edward Wirges
9 SENIORS PARTICIPATING IN GLOBAL EDUCATION AND STUDY ABROAD PROGRAMS Daniel Shane Alexander...... Spain James Raymond Hughes...... Germany
Zachary Todd Attkisson...... Spain Jahangir Iqbal...... China
Christopher Evan Boden...... England Robert Arthur Keefe...... Spain
Doran D. Bouchard...... Germany James Whitfield Lawrence...... Germany
John Patrick Brandt...... Spain Merrik Todd Lindblom...... Germany
William Luis Brantley...... England John Michael Nicholson...... Spain
Gray Fairfax Bryant...... Spain Justin Auchincloss O’Neill...... England, Spain
Thomas Ewing Bulleit III...... England Tyler Prescott Parham...... China
Gregory Scott Casey, Jr...... England Edward Kyung Park...... South Korea
Timothy Mark Coleman...... Ecuador Gavin Desmond Paul...... England
Andrew Sean Cooney, Jr...... Ireland Rodney Carson Pitts...... Ireland
Joshua Adam Craycroft...... Spain Orion Davis Ray...... Germany
Thomas Olsen Crenshaw...... Spain Hunter Elgin Retan...... Spain
Nicholas Ronald Davis...... Ireland Alan Lewis Rice...... Spain
Parker Alexander Dunaway...... Italy Brett Nelson Roberts...... Spain
Bobby Thomas Edwards...... Spain Jacob Watkin Roden-Foreman...... Scotland
Lukas Richard Epps-Dawson...... England William Douglas Russell, Jr...... England
Perry Michael Ferrell...... Poland Felix M. M. Sermon III...... France
Andrew George Fisette...... England Henry Francis Sewell III...... Ireland
Patrick Houghton Flanagan, Jr...... Ireland Harrison William Smith...... Spain
Tyrone William Freston...... England Quentin McCall Smith...... New Zealand
Joshua Ryan Gaskill...... Kenya Matthew Robert Sydnor...... Spain
Hunter Willem Gibson...... Ecuador Braxton Bragg Wallace...... Argentina
Samuel Thomas Haden...... Spain Matthew Geyer Watson...... Spain
Parker Lansfield Harrell...... England Ryquan D. Wheeler...... England
James Gambrill Hendrickson, Jr...... Ireland Clay Kevin White, Jr...... Ireland
Sydney C. Henriques...... Spain
10 11 CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES MAY 10, 2015
DOCTOR OF HUMANE LETTERS THE HONORABLE ROBERT HURT ’91
DOCTOR OF DIVINITY REVEREND VIRGINIA “GINI” DISTANISLAO
DOCTOR OF HUMANE LETTERS SIR GEORGE MILES HOBART-HAMPDEN
DOCTOR OF LAWS THOMAS N. ALLEN ’60
This circa-1850 view shows the Union Seminary building (now Venable Hall, before which the graduation ceremony takes place) and two professors’ houses. The sketch from which this lithograph was made was perhaps done from memory (not unusual in those days), since it is correct in large details but inaccurate in small ones.
11 COLLEGE BELL TOWER
12 13 BACHELOR OF ARTS
MICHAEL STEPHEN ADAMS, JR. CODY AUSTIN BECKETT Henrico, VA Raleigh, NC Varina High School Leesville Road High School Government Economics Cum laude Minor in Law and Public Policy JEFFREY THOMAS ARMSTRONG II JOHN CASE BENDALL Charlotte, NC Richmond, VA Charlotte Latin School St. Christopher’s School Economics History Minor in Military Leadership & National TUCKER SCOTT ATKINS Security Sarasota, FL Riverview High School FREDDIE DION BERRY Government Powhatan, VA Powhatan High School KOLIN MICHAEL ATKINSON Government Purcellville, VA Fairfax High School GARRETT PRICE BIRNBAUM Foreign Affairs Moseley, VA Minor in Military Leadership & National Cosby High School Security and History Mathematical Economics Minor in Religion ZACHARY TODD ATTKISSON Ashland, VA PHILIP HENRY BLANE II Hanover High School Charlottesville, VA Economics and Business Lyman Ward Military Academy English PAUL WESLEY BANKS Minor in History Richmond, VA Mills E. Godwin High School CHRISTOPHER EVAN BODEN Economics Washington, DC St Stephens & St Agnes School BRYAN OMAR BARAHONA Government Richmond, VA Minor in Rhetoric Meadowbrook High School Summa cum laude Economics and Business Minor in Spanish WILLIAM CALHOUN BOINEST III Cum laude Sandy Hook, VA Goochland High School MICHAEL SCOTT BAZEMORE Foreign Affairs Mechanicsville, VA Atlee High School DORAN D. BOUCHARD Economics and Business Clinton, NC Sampson Early College High School German
13 CONNOR DAVID BRADLEY GREGORY SCOTT CASEY, JR. Midlothian, VA Alexandria, VA Trinity Episcopal School Gonzaga College High School Economics and Business English Summa cum laude Minor in History First Honor ANDREW WILLIAM CLARK DAVONTE RAMON BRADLEY Fort Howard, MD Mechanicsville, VA Sparrows Point High School Collins Hill High School Economics and Business Philosophy Minor in Visual Arts Minor in Creative Writing JOHN FULLER CLARK BRYSON TUCKER BRADSHAW Roanoke, VA Appomattox, VA North Cross School Appomattox County High School History Economics Minor in Rhetoric WILLIAM LUIS BRANTLEY CHRISTIAN LEE CLIFTON Memphis, TN Danville, VA Christian Brothers High School George Washington High School History Economics Summa cum laude BOYD WAYNE COGGINS III STEVEN JOSEPH BROWNING Charlotte, NC Amherst, VA Myers Park High School Amherst County High School History Economics TIMOTHY MARK COLEMAN DONTAE LEON BUCK Vienna, VA Baltimore, MD James Madison High School Baltimore City College Government Religion Minor in Public Service Minor in Rhetoric and Public Service Cum laude THOMAS EWING BULLEIT III BRIAN DEAN COLLINS Lexington, KY Montpelier, VA Sayre School Patrick Henry High School History Economics and Business Minor in Visual Arts Minor in Rhetoric Summa cum laude ANDREW BLAKE CARREY Third Honor North Chesterfield, VA Deep Run High School ANDREW SEAN COONEY, JR. English Charlotte, NC Minor in Rhetoric Charlotte Latin School Economics and Business Minor in Rhetoric
14 15 RYAN CHRISTIAN COWEN PARKER ALEXANDER DUNAWAY Smithfield, VA Baton Rouge, LA Nansemond-Suffolk Academy Christian Life Academy Economics and Business History and Latin Cum laude Minor in Music Cum laude THOMAS OLSEN CRENSHAW Richmond, VA JEFFERSON CLAY EASLEY, JR. Douglas S. Freeman High School Hickory, NC Visual Arts Hickory High School History HUNTER DAVID CROSBY Minor in Rhetoric Glen Allen, VA J. R. Tucker High School BOBBY THOMAS EDWARDS Economics Pendleton, NC Ridgecroft School WILLIAM HAROLD CULLY III English Studley, VA Minor in Rhetoric Hanover High School Economics and Business WESLEY GWALTNEY EDWARDS Minor in Spanish Suffolk, VA Cum laude Nansemond-Suffolk Academy Psychology WILLIAM RYAN DAUGHERTY Peachtree Corners, GA LUKAS RICHARD EPPS-DAWSON Darlington School Greensboro, NC Government The Early College at Guilford Government and English WILLIAM ANDREW DISTANISLAO Summa cum laude Petersburg, VA St. Christopher’s School MICHAEL WILLIAM FLAGG History Millwood, VA Minor in Rhetoric Clarke County High School Economics and Business ZACHARY STEWART DODSON Minor in Military Leadership & National Eastville, VA Security Broadwater Academy Economics PATRICK HOUGHTON FLANAGAN, JR. Minor in Law and Public Policy Charlotte, NC Myers Park High School JOSHUA CALEB DOGGETT Economics Mechanicsville, VA Minor in Rhetoric Atlee High School Economics and Business KEITH BARRETT FLYNN III Matthews, NC PETER WAYNE DOOLEY Providence Day School Glen Allen, VA Economics Deep Run High School Government Minor in Rhetoric and Public Service
15 TYRONE WILLIAM FRESTON SAMUEL THOMAS HADEN East Granby, CT Yorktown, VA Hyde School Homeschool for Virginia Foreign Affairs Spanish Minor in History and Classical Studies MICHAEL FRANCIS FUNK Magna cum laude Chantilly, VA Middleburg Academy CHRISTOPHER BERNARDO HALL Psychology Stafford, VA North Stafford High School JAMES DOUGLAS GALYON III Government Greensboro, NC Minor in Military Leadership & National Walter Hines Page High School Security History and Economics Cum laude CHRISTIAN EDWARD HAMLETT Midlothian, VA JOSHUA RYAN GASKILL Cosby High School Chesapeake, VA Mathematical Economics Hickory High School Classical Studies WILLIAM BRIAN HANNON Minor in Military Leadership & National Free Union, VA Security and Rhetoric Western Albemarle High School Summa cum laude Government HUNTER WILLEM GIBSON PETER RAPHAEL SEMMES HANSEN Virginia Beach, VA Warrenton, VA Norfolk Academy Fresta Valley Christian School History Greek Minor in Military Leadership & National Minor in Spanish Security and Latin American Studies Summa cum laude Summa cum laude Senior Fellow LEON DARNELL HARGROVE, JR. Interdisciplinary Honors in History and Raleigh, NC Government & Foreign Affairs Middle Creek High School Second Honor English XAVIER QUINN GRAY PARKER LANSFIELD HARRELL North Chesterfield, VA South Boston, VA James River High School Halifax County High School Psychology Economics Minor in Rhetoric Cum laude JAMES GAMBRILL HENDRICKSON, JR. In absentia Bethesda, MD Mercersburg Academy JARED MICHAEL GREGORY Economics and Business Richmond, VA J. R. Tucker High School ANDREW ROBERT HERLONG Economics and Business Charlotte, NC Charlotte Catholic High School Economics and Business In absentia
16 17 TILLMAN CLAY HEUER ROBERT ARTHUR KEEFE Virginia Beach, VA Richmond, VA Ocean Lakes High School Douglas S. Freeman High School Economics Economics BRYON DAVID HINES JOSEPH DENNIS KERNAN Charlotte, NC Derwood, MD Providence High School Gonzaga College High School Psychology and Philosophy Psychology Magna cum laude Senior Fellow LEONARDO AUGUSTO PECHARKI Interdisciplinary Honors in Philosophy and Psychology KOWALSKI Curitiba, Brazil RICHARD DAVID HOAGLAND, JR. Deep Run High School Wakefield, VA Foreign Affairs Tidewater Academy Minor in Law and Public Policy Government Minor in Military Leadership & National NATHANIEL RUDESILL KREY Security Richmond, VA St. Christopher’s School THOMAS ADAMS HOWELL Economics Richmond, VA The Steward School JAMES WHITFIELD LAWRENCE History Midlothian, VA Midlothian High School JAMES RAYMOND HUGHES Economics Raleigh, NC Minor in Visual Arts Middle Creek High School Economics and Business DANIEL STEPHEN LEDGER Minor in Military Leadership & National Kenbridge, VA Security Nottoway High School Economics NELSON THOMAS IPPOLITO Smithfield, VA GREGORY JABRIL LEWIS Smithfield High School Mechanicsville, VA Psychology Hanover High School Economics and Business DAVID NORFLEET JERNIGAN, JR. Cum laude Kill Devil Hills, NC First Flight High School MERRIK TODD LINDBLOM Mathematical Economics and Mathematics Waukesha, WI Waukesha South High School DYLAN COSLEY JOHNSON Government Rectortown, VA Minor in Military Leadership & National Salisbury School Security Government ERIC JOSEPH LOEHLE JUSTIN ALEXANDER JONES Gainesville, VA Midlothian, VA Battlefield High School Matoaca High School Economics and Business Visual Arts
17 JOHN BRADY MACKO ANDREW FLEMING MASER Kill Devil Hills, NC Newport News, VA First Flight High School Hampton Roads Academy Economics and Business Mathematical Economics Minor in Mathematics ROBERT JOHN MAHANEY III Charlotte, NC ZACHARY HOWARD MATTHEWS Providence High School Sandston, VA Government Benedictine College Preparator History NICHOLAS JOHN MANUEL Minor in Military Leadership & National Virginia Beach, VA Security James River High School Psychology NICOLAS DANIEL MELENDEZ-CUEVA SCOTT EDWARD MARKLAND Arlington, VA Stephens City, VA Potomac School Sherando High School Government Psychology Minor in Rhetoric Minor in Rhetoric CHARLES JORDAN MILLER HUNTER THOMAS MARTIN Durham, NC Nathalie, VA Charles E. Jordan High School William Campbell High School Psychology Religion Minor in Visual Arts
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18 19 JOHN THOMAS MOORE JOHN MICHAEL NICHOLSON Powhatan, VA Richmond, VA Blessed Sacrament-Huguenot Douglas S. Freeman High School History Economics Minor in Spanish PRESTON FOSTER MOORE Cum laude Abingdon, VA Abingdon High School JOSEPH WILLIAM NIXON Economics and Business Sedley, VA Minor in Law and Public Policy Southampton High School Psychology ROBERT GEORGE MULL IV Wheeling, WV JERRY LAWSON OLSON, JR. Linsly School Hampton, VA Economics and Business Southampton Academy Minor in History History Cum laude TYLER PRESCOTT PARHAM CONOR SCOTT MURRAY Danville, VA Charlottesville, VA Tunstall High School Western Albemarle High School History Economics Minor in Asian Studies and Rhetoric In absentia OSCAR EUGENE PARKER IV BLAMOH NAGBE Wakefield, VA Stockbridge, GA Tidewater Academy Mundy’s Mill High School Economics and Business Economics JORDAN CLARKE PECHT NASH JOHNSON NANCE Richmond, VA Calhoun, GA Goochland High School Calhoun High School Economics Economics Cum laude Cum laude MITCHELL ALLEN PEREIRA II MAXWELL SCOTT NEWLIN Midlothian, VA Gum Spring, VA Midlothian High School Blessed Sacrament-Huguenot History History Minor in Classical Studies and Visual Arts Minor in Visual Arts EVAN TODD PINEKENSTEIN HENRY GILLIAM NICHOLSON II Danville, VA Raleigh, NC George Washington High School N. B. Broughton High School Government Economics and Business Minor in Music RODNEY CARSON PITTS Charlotte, NC Virginia Episcopal School Economics Minor in History
19 FREDERICK CHARLES POTTER ROBERT DONALD RHYNE III Haymarket, VA Wake Forest, NC Battlefield High School Wake Forest-Rolesville High School Economics and Business Economics Minor in Visual Arts ALAN LEWIS RICE SEAN WILBURN POWLEY Winston-Salem, NC Wake Forest, NC Mount Tabor High School Stonewall Jackson High School Economics Economics and Business Summa cum laude TYLER RITTENHOUSE PRIEBE TYLER DAVID RITTER Forest Hill, MD Climax, NC C Milton Wright High School Ragsdale High School Government Economics Minor in Visual Arts RYAN REAGAN RIVAS MICHAEL BRANDON Fredericksburg, VA PROKOPCHAK Massaponax High School Powhatan, VA Philosophy The Steward School Summa cum laude Economics and Business Senior Fellow Interdisciplinary Honors in Philosophy and English MATTEO RANDAZZO Richmond, VA BRETT NELSON ROBERTS Collegiate School Winston-Salem, NC English Mount Tabor High School Minor in History Economics Summa cum laude SAMUEL THOMAS RAPOPORT Suffolk, VA DAVID LLEWELLYN ROBERTS Nansemond-Suffolk Academy Waterford, VA Economics and Business Loudoun Valley High School History ORION DAVIS RAY Hillsborough, NC GREGORY ANTONIO ROBINSON Cedar Ridge High School Kingston, Jamaica History Campion College Minor in Law and Public Policy Economics and Business Minor in Spanish HUNTER ELGIN RETAN Williamsburg, VA JACOB WATKIN RODEN-FOREMAN Warhill High School Dallas, TX History Winston School Psychology BENJAMIN LEWIS RHODES Magna cum laude Gloucester Point, VA Hampton Roads Academy SHREVE WESTWOOD ROHLE History Mechanicsville, VA Minor in Law and Public Policy Hanover High School Economics and Business
20 21 WILLIAM DOUGLAS RUSSELL, JR. SAMUEL MILLER SILVERNAIL Suffolk, VA Leesburg, VA Nansemond-Suffolk Academy Heritage High School Economics Government and Economics Minor in Visual Arts Cum laude QUENTIN McCALL SMITH Roswell, GA BENJAMIN DHANASAR SAMLALL Roswell High School Warrenton, VA Psychology Fauquier High School Minor in Rhetoric Economics and Business Cum laude JOHN ARTHUR SCHRAFT III TAYLOR ALEXANDER SMITH Virginia Beach, VA Whitsett, NC Ocean Lakes High School T. Wingate Andrews High School Mathematical Economics Economics and Business Minor in Mathematics Cum laude ROBERT DOUGLAS STACK Waxhaw, NC FELIX M. M. SERMON III Providence Day School New York City, NY Economics Mount Vernon High School Foreign Affairs ROBERT BOOKER STEELE Colonial Heights, VA HENRY FRANCIS SEWELL III Colonial Heights High School Atlanta, GA Economics St Pius X Catholic High School Minor in History Economics and History EVANS DANIEL TANNER III TARUN SHARMA LaCrosse, VA Great Falls, VA Brunswick Academy Langley High School History Economics Minor in Law and Public Policy and RUSSELL WAYNE TAYLOR Rhetoric Buckingham, VA Buckingham County High School DAMIEN RASHAD SHARP Classical Studies Warrenton, VA Fauquier High School DAVID LOUIS THALHIMER Government Richmond, VA Minor in Rhetoric Collegiate School Economics CONWAY HAYNES SHELTON Mocksville, NC ERIC RALPH VAN BUSKIRK, JR. Davie High School Lynchburg, VA English E. C. Glass High School Minor in Visual Arts History Minor in Religion LIANG SHU Emory, VA Patrick Henry High School Economics
21 JONATHAN MICHAEL WADE ROBERT WILLIAM WENTZ IV Washington, DC Portsmouth, VA Benjamin Banneker Academic High School Nansemond-Suffolk Academy Philosophy Economics and Business HOLTON LEE WALKER RYQUAN D. WHEELER Lynchburg, VA Morningside, MD Brookville High School Dr. Henry A. Wise Jr. High School Economics Psychology Minor in Theatre CHARLES ABBOT WALLENBORN, JR. ZACHARY THOMAS WHITAKER Crozet, VA Roanoke, VA Western Albemarle High School Patrick Henry High School Economics Psychology Minor in Rhetoric Minor in Rhetoric ANDREW ALEXIS WARD CLAY KEVIN WHITE, JR. Roanoke, VA Suffolk, VA Cave Spring High School Nansemond-Suffolk Academy History Economics and Business Minor in Theatre GEORGE NEWELL WHITING III REAVES KITSON WARD Charlotte, NC Callaway, VA Myers Park High School Christchurch School Economics History Minor in Spanish MASON TAFF WATKINS CORY DANIEL WINGO Midlothian, VA Farmville, VA Midlothian High School Fuqua School Psychology Government Minor in Rhetoric Minor in Military Leadership & National Security MATTHEW GEYER WATSON Roanoke, VA JOHN EDWARD WIRGES North Cross School Virginia Beach, VA Foreign Affairs and Spanish Landstown High School Cum laude Foreign Affairs Minor in Military Leadership & National ANDREW WILLIAM WATTERS Security and Rhetoric Raleigh, NC Summa cum laude Ravenscroft School Honors in Government & Foreign Affairs Government Minor in History ROBERT MAXWELL ZBINDEN Crozier, VA BRENNAN TAYLOR WEAVER Goochland High School Suffolk, VA Foreign Affairs Nansemond-Suffolk Academy Minor in Military Leadership & National Economics and Business Security Minor in Religion Magna cum laude
22 23 BAGBY HALL
23 BACHELOR OF SCIENCE
ANDREW TAYLOR ARNOLD NATHAN ROBERT CHAMBERLIN Danville, VA Chesterfield, VA Chatham High School Matoaca High School Physics Computer Science RUSSELL LEE AYSCUE III MATTHEW DAVID CHAPMAN Lynchburg, VA Williamsburg, VA Virginia Episcopal School Jamestown High School Chemistry Chemistry Summa cum laude Honors in Chemistry PETER RUSSELL CLARKE Virginia Beach, VA WILLIAM JUSTIS BANNING Kempsville High School Newport News, VA Physics Hampton Roads Academy Minor in Chemistry Biology JOHN ALEXANDER COLLIE JOHN PATRICK BRANDT Danville, VA Farmville, VA George Washington High School Cumberland High School Biology Biology Minor in Chemistry Minor in Chemistry Magna cum laude Cum laude Senior Fellow JUSTIN C DECHIRICO Interdisciplinary Honors in Biology and Chemistry Williamsburg, VA Hampton Roads Academy DAVID MADISON CAMPBELL Biology King George, VA Minor in Environmental Studies King George High School Physics JOSHUA TAYLOR DIMMICK Minor in Music and Mathematics Chesterfield, VA Cum laude Cosby High School Biology EDWARD DAVIS CARTER Charlotte, NC CHRISTOPHER L. EVANS Myers Park High School Arnold, MD Biology Broadneck Senior High School Minor in German Applied Mathematics Summa cum laude Honors in Biology CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL FERRANTE MITCHEL DOMENIC CAVALLARIN Jamestown, NC Coquitlam, BC Canada Wesleyan Christian Academy Blue Ridge School Biology Biology Minor in Chemistry Magna cum laude Senior Fellow Interdisciplinary Honors in Biology and Chemistry
24 25 PERRY MICHAEL FERRELL JAHANGIR IQBAL Mocksville, NC Sterling, VA Davie High School Thomas Jefferson High School for Science Mathematical Economics and Applied and Technology Mathematics Applied Mathematics and Computer Science ANDREW GEORGE FISETTE Summa cum laude Milton, GA West Brunswick High School BENJAMIN LACY JENKINS Chemistry Mobile, AL St. Paul’s Episcopal School BRANDON KYLE FOX Chemistry Hampton, VA Hickory High School ERIK WILLIAM KELLOGG Biology Ashland, VA Minor in Chemistry Patrick Henry High School Biology AARON SALIM GILANI Minor in German Chester, VA Honors in Biology Cosby High School Biology SEAN GORDON KELLOGG Magna cum laude Ashland, VA Senior Fellow Patrick Henry High School Interdisciplinary Honors in Biology and Psychology Biology Minor in German GRAYLAND WYNDELL Honors in Biology GODFREY, JR. Chesapeake, VA ZACHARY ALAN KING Oscar Frommel Smith High School Richmond, VA Biology Mills E. Godwin High School Minor in History Physics and Applied Mathematics Cum laude Minor in Astronomy Summa cum laude JEFFREY DALTON GRAY Newport News, VA RICHARD JOSEPH MAGG, JR. Menchville High School Church Road, VA Biology Kenston Forest School Summa cum laude Chemistry Senior Fellow In absentia Interdisciplinary Honors in Biology and Physics CARSON TYLER MAKI WILLIAM JOSEPH HANCOCK III Virginia Beach, VA Harrisonburg, VA Frank W. Cox High School Turner Ashby High School Physics and Applied Mathematics Physics Summa cum laude Minor in Astronomy Honors in Physics WILLIAM TUCKER HUDGINS, JR. JOHN ROBERT McGHEE III Blackstone, VA Charleston, WV Kenston Forest School George Washington High School Biology Physics
25 ANDREW WILLIE OLIVER GARRETT R. SALYER Moseley, VA Williamsburg, VA Clover Hill High School Lafayette High School Biology Biology DANIEL OSARFO-AKOTO ROBERT LLOYD STEPHENS New Rochelle, NY Williamsburg, VA Varina High School Lafayette High School Biology Biology Magna cum laude Honors in Biology KEVIN CAMERON WADE, JR. McLean, VA EDWARD KYUNG PARK McLean High School Virginia Beach, VA Mathematics and Classical Studies First Colonial High School Physics SPENCER THOMAS WILES Minor in Mathematics Belmont, NC Magna cum laude South Point High School Biology GAVIN DESMOND PAUL Summa cum laude Midlothian, VA Blessed Sacrament-Huguenot STEPHEN LESTER WOODALL II Biology Raleigh, NC Minor in Religion St. David’s School Cum laude Biology Minor in Chemistry and Astronomy TERRENCE SAMUEL ROBINSON Magna cum laude Bridgeport, CT Honors in Biology Central Magnet High School Biology JAMES FRANKLIN WOODWARD, JR. Mechanicsville, VA MICHAEL JOHN SALITA Atlee High School Henrico, VA Computer Science Mills E. Godwin High School Applied Mathematics and Mathematics Minor in Religion and Visual Arts Cum laude
26 27 CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES AUGUST 20, 2015 (Degree requirements will be completed after May 2015)
DANIEL SHANE ALEXANDER LEVI DYLAN FULLER Lynchburg, VA Honaker, VA Virginia Episcopal School Honaker High School English English Honors in English ALEXANDROS ACHILLEAS MAXIMILIAN ANTWERPES GEORGIOU Mainz, Germany Hayes, VA Kenston Forest School Gloucester High School English Economics and Business JUSTIN THOMAS BAUERSACHS BENJAMIN MICHAEL GILLIS Glen Allen, VA Lexington, KY Deep Run High School Lexington Catholic High School Foreign Affairs History Minor in Law and Public Policy Minor in Environmental Studies GRAY FAIRFAX BRYANT SYDNEY C. HENRIQUES Irvington, VA Richmond, VA Episcopal High School Douglas S. Freeman High School History Mathematical Economics In absentia JONATHAN ASHER JUMP JOSHUA ADAM CRAYCROFT Center Cross, VA Winston-Salem, NC Matthew F. Maury High School Westchester Country Day School History Economics HUNTER ALEXANDER LEWIS JOSEPH WILLIAM DRUHAN Newport News, VA Purcellville, VA Menchville High School Loudoun Valley High School Biology and Psychology Applied Mathematics Minor in Astronomy JAMES G. MONCURE Richmond, VA JOSHUA DILLAN FISHER-BURKS Deep Run High School Midlothian, VA Psychology Midlothian High School Minor in History Economics and Religion DAVID CLIFTON NOFTSINGER, JR. RICHARD DOUGLAS FOLEY, JR. Richmond, VA Richmond, VA Collegiate School Benedictine College Preparator History History
27 JUSTIN AUCHINCLOSS O’NEILL WESLEY CRAIGE SPROUSE Bronxville, NY Chesterfield, VA Bronxville High School Clover Hill High School English Psychology ROBINSON SAGAR BRAXTON BRAGG WALLACE New Delhi, India Chesterfield, VA Virginia Episcopal School Benedictine College Preparator Physics Chemistry Minor in Mathematics HARRISON WILLIAM SMITH S. Portland, ME Hyde School Economics and Business Minor in History
THE BIRTHPLACE Built in 1756 and renovated in 2000, the Birthplace is nicely furnished for conferences. The Birthplace was originally the plantation office of Nathaniel Venable at his home, Slate Hill, which stood about three miles south of Hampden-Sydney. It was in this office that final plans for the opening of the College were made. In 1944 the owners of Slate Hill gave the office building to Hampden-Sydney, and it was moved to its present location.
28 29 Hampden-Sydney College in 1840: from left to right, Steward’s Hall (The Alamo, 1817, 1830), The College (Cushing Hall, 1822-1833), and the 18th-century buildings.
THE SENIOR GIFT: THE CLASS OF 2015 ANNUAL SCHOLARSHIP IN HONOR OF DEPUTY CHIEF GEE
Michael Stephen Adams, Jr. Christian Edward Hamlett Orion Davis Ray Kolin Michael Atkinson James Gambrill Hendrickson, Jr. Hunter Elgin Retan Justin Thomas Bauersachs Richard David Hoagland, Jr. Benjamin Lewis Rhodes Freddie Dion Berry James Raymond Hughes Brett Nelson Roberts William Calhoun Boinest III Benjamin Lacy Jenkins Gregory Antonio Robinson John Patrick Brandt David Norfleet Jernigan, Jr. Jacob Watkin Roden-Foreman Steven Joseph Browning Robert Arthur Keefe Shreve Westwood Rohle Thomas Ewing Bulleit III Erik William Kellogg William Douglas Russell, Jr. Edward Davis Carter Sean Gordon Kellogg Robinson Sagar Boyd Wayne Coggins III James Whitfield Lawrence Tarun Sharma Timothy Mark Coleman John Brady Macko Damien Rashad Sharp Brian Dean Collins Carson Tyler Maki Liang Shu William Harold Cully III Scott Edward Markland Samuel Miller Silvernail William Andrew DiStanislao Hunter Thomas Martin Quentin McCall Smith Peter Wayne Dooley Zachary Howard Matthews Andrew Alexis Ward Joseph William Druhan Charles Jordan Miller Mason Taff Watkins Jefferson Clay Easley, Jr. Joseph William Nixon Matthew Geyer Watson Christopher L. Evans Daniel Osarfo-Akoto Andrew William Watters Michael William Flagg Tyler Prescott Parham Clay Kevin White, Jr. Patrick Houghton Flanagan, Jr. Jordan Clarke Pecht Spencer Thomas Wiles Tyrone William Freston Tyler Rittenhouse Priebe John Edward Wirges Hunter Willem Gibson Matteo Randazzo Robert Maxwell Zbinden Aaron Salim Gilani Samuel Thomas Rapoport
29 SENIORS ELECTED TO ACADEMIC HONOR SOCIETIES
ALPHA PSI OMEGA Gregory Antonio Robinson William Luis Brantley (Theatre) Shreve Westwood Rohle Edward Davis Carter Andrew Alexis Ward William Douglas Russell, Jr. Brian Dean Collins Ryquan D. Wheeler John Arthur Schraft III Lukas Richard Epps-Dawson Tarun Sharma Christopher Michael Ferrante CHI BETA PHI Brennan Taylor Weaver Joshua Ryan Gaskill (Science) Clay Kevin White, Jr. Hunter Willem Gibson Russell Lee Ayscue III Jeffrey Dalton Gray John Patrick Brandt OMICRON DELTA KAPPA Peter Raphael Semmes Hansen David Madison Campbell (Leadership) Jahangir Iqbal Edward Davis Carter Kolin Michael Atkinson Zachary Alan King Mitchel Domenic Cavallarin Russell Lee Ayscue III Carson Tyler Maki John Alexander Collie John Patrick Brandt Alan Lewis Rice Christopher Michael Ferrante William Luis Brantley Ryan Reagan Rivas Aaron Salim Gilani Dontae Leon Buck Brett Nelson Roberts Grayland Wyndell Godfrey, Jr. David Madison Campbell Spencer Thomas Wiles Jeffrey Dalton Gray Edward Davis Carter John Edward Wirges Zachary Alan King John Alexander Collie Carson Tyler Maki Brian Dean Collins PHI SIGMA IOTA Daniel Osarfo-Akoto Peter Wayne Dooley (Foreign Languages) Edward Kyung Park Parker Alexander Dunaway Bryan Omar Barahona Robinson Sagar Lukas Richard Epps-Dawson Edward Davis Carter Michael John Salita Christopher Michael Ferrante William Harold Cully III Spencer Thomas Wiles Josua Ryan Gaskill Samuel Thomas Haden Stephen Lester Woodall II Hunter Willem Gibson Erik William Kellogg Aaron Salim Gilani Sean Gordon Kellogg ETA SIGMA PHI Sydney C. Henriques John Michael Nicholson (Classics) Gregory Jabril Lewis Gregory Antonio Robinson Parker Alexander Dunaway Scott Edward Markland Matthew Geyer Watson Joshua Ryan Gaskill Alan Lewis Rice David Llewellyn Roberts Ryan Reagan Rivas PI MU EPSILON Kevin Cameron Wade, Jr. Michael John Salita (Mathematics) Tarun Sharma Jahangir Iqbal OMICRON DELTA EPSILON Spencer Thomas Wiles Zachary Alan King (Economics) John Edward Wirges Carson Tyler Maki Bryan Omar Barahona Robert Maxwell Zbinden Robinson Sagar Cody Austin Beckett Michael John Salita Garrett Price Birnbaum PHI ALPHA THETA John Arthur Schraft III Brian Dean Collins (History) Andrew Sean Cooney, Jr. John Case Bendall PI SIGMA ALPHA Ryan Christian Cowen William Luis Brantley (Political Science) William Harold Cully III Boyd Wayne Coggins III Michael Stephen Adams, Jr. James Douglas Galyon III James Douglas Galyon III Kolin Michael Atkinson Christian Edward Hamlett Hunter Willem Gibson Christopher Evan Boden Sydney C. Henriques Samuel Thomas Haden Timothy Mark Coleman James Raymond Hughes Brett Nelson Roberts Peter Wayne Dooley David Norfleet Jernigan, Jr. John Edward Wirges Lukas Richard Epps-Dawson Gregory Jabril Lewis Robert Maxwell Zbinden Christopher Bernardo Hall Andrew Fleming Maser Damien Rashad Sharp Preston Foster Moore PHI BETA KAPPA Matthew Geyer Watson Robert George Mull IV (Scholarship & Character) John Edward Wirges Henry Gilliam Nicholson II Russell Lee Ayscue III Robert Maxwell Zbinden Jordan Clarke Pecht Christopher Evan Boden Alan Lewis Rice Connor David Bradley
30 31 PSI CHI INTERNATIONAL SIGMA TAU DELTA THETA ALPHA KAPPA (Psychology) (English) (Religion) Aaron Salim Gilani Daniel Shane Alexander Garrett Price Birnbaum Xavier Quinn Gray William Luis Brantley Dontae Leon Buck Bryon David Hines Lukas Richard Epps-Dawson Hunter Thomas Martin Nicholas John Manuel Conway Haynes Shelton Gavin Desmond Paul Scott Edward Markland Michael John Salita Jacob Watkin Roden-Foreman SOCIETY FOR COLLEGIATE Brennan Taylor Weaver Quentin McCall Smith JOURNALISTS (Journalism) Parker Alexander Dunaway Lukas Richard Epps-Dawson Tyler Prescott Parham Mason Taff Watkins John Edward Wirges
PROGRAMS COMPLETED BY GRADUATING SENIORS
THE CHARLES F. McRAE PROGRAM IN RELIGION AND SOCIETY Hunter Thomas Martin Gavin Desmond Paul Damien Rashad Sharp
THE WARREN W. HOBBIE PROGRAM IN BUSINESS ETHICS John Patrick Brandt Dontae Leon Buck Gregory Jabril Lewis Tarun Sharma
New College was the result of the crusading fund-raising efforts of President Jonathan Cushing; it is now named in his honor. Begun in 1822 and completed in 1833, it replaced the 18th-century buildings and set a new north-south orientation for the campus. This woodcut, the earliest known image of Hampden-Sydney College, appears in Henry Howe’s “Historical Collections of Virginia” (1845); the drawing probably dates to his visit in 1843.
31 HONORS SCHOLARSHIPS HELD BY GRADUATING SENIORS
THE D. MAURICE ALLAN SCHOLARSHIP THE PATRICK HENRY SCHOLARSHIP
Jahangir Iqbal Russell Lee Ayscue III
Brett Nelson Roberts Brian Dean Collins
Robert Maxwell Zbinden Lukas Richard Epps-Dawson
Christopher Michael Ferrante THE RICHARD MORTON VENABLE Perry Michael Ferrell SCHOLARSHIP James Douglas Galyon III John Patrick Brandt Joshua Ryan Gaskill William Luis Brantley Hunter Willem Gibson Samuel Thomas Haden Aaron Salim Gilani Bryon David Hines Grayland Wyndell Godfrey, Jr. Zachary Alan King Jeffrey Dalton Gray Robert George Mull IV Christian Edward Hamlett Gavin Desmond Paul James Raymond Hughes Michael John Salita David Norfleet Jernigan, Jr.
THE MADISON SCHOLARSHIP Gregory Jabril Lewis
Edward Davis Carter Carson Tyler Maki
John Michael Nicholson Edward Kyung Park
Ryan Reagan Rivas Alan Lewis Rice
John Edward Wirges Jacob Watkin Roden-Foreman
Tarun Sharma
Quentin McCall Smith
Matthew Geyer Watson
Spencer Thomas Wiles
Stephen Lester Woodall II
32 33 ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIPS HELD BY GRADUATING SENIORS
THE DANIEL POPE ALLEN SCHOLARSHIP THE AYLETT B. COLEMAN SCHOLARSHIP Nicholas John Manuel Zachary Thomas Whitaker
THE JAMES ALLEN ENDOWED THE C. BARRIE COOK SCHOLARSHIP SCHOLARSHIP Matthew Geyer Watson John Patrick Brandt THE CRAIGIE INCORPORATED THE LESTER E. AND FRANCES PRICE SCHOLARSHIP ANDREWS SCHOLARSHIP Jared Michael Gregory Daniel Stephen Ledger THE THOMAS EDWARD AND ROBERTA A. THE DON POWELL BAGWELL, SR., CRAWLEY MEN’S CHORUS SCHOLARSHIP SCHOLARSHIP Benjamin Lacy Jenkins Hunter Thomas Martin THE JAMES W. AND PATRICIA H. DENNIS THE WILLIAM C. BOINEST SCHOLARSHIP SCHOLARSHIP Timothy Mark Coleman Bryon David Hines
THE JAMES BAKERS BOWERS MEMORIAL THE JESSIE BALL DUPONT SCHOLARSHIP SCHOLARSHIP Conway Haynes Shelton Joshua Taylor Dimmick THE ANDREW H. EASLEY & ANNE O. THE LOUISE STEEL BOWERS MEMORIAL EASLEY SCHOLARSHIP SCHOLARSHIP Daniel Shane Alexander Peter Wayne Dooley Preston Foster Moore THE W. ROBERT (BOB) AND ANNA BELLE EASON SCHOLARSHIP THE BRANCH BANKING AND TRUST Conway Haynes Shelton SCHOLARSHIP Lukas Richard Epps-Dawson THE JULIA BOLTON FLEET SCHOLARSHIP Michael Stephen Adams, Jr. THE ROBERT C. AND DORA J. BUNTS SCHOLARSHIP THE S. DOUGLAS FLEET SCHOLARSHIP Gavin Desmond Paul Tucker Scott Atkins
THE WILLIAM CARROLL CHEWNING, JR., THE COLONEL GUSTAV H. FRANKE, JR. MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP AND MARY W. FRANKE SCHOLARSHIP Daniel Stephen Ledger John Brady Macko
THE CLASS OF 1953 SCHOLARSHIP THE THOMAS EDWARD GILMER Edward Kyung Park SCHOLARSHIP Edward Kyung Park THE CLASS OF 2006 SCHOLARSHIP IN MEMORY OF PETER BANCE, JR., THE SCOTT C. GOODMAN ’82 SCHOLARSHIP SCHOLARSHIP Alexandros Achilleas Georgiou Nash Johnson Nance
33 THE HORACE A. GRAY FAMILY THE LAWSON-JOHNSTON SCHOLARSHIP SCHOLARSHIP Hunter Thomas Martin Andrew Blake Carrey THE FREDERICK BRUCE LEYS MEMORIAL THE CHARLES CALLAWAY GUTHRIE SCHOLARSHIP SCHOLARSHIP Joshua Caleb Doggett Alexandros Achilleas Georgiou THE AFLRED L. LORRAINE, JR. MEMORIAL THE HAMPTON SCHOLARSHIP SCHOLARSHIP Andrew Willie Oliver Jared Michael Gregory
THE FRED H. HANBURY, JR., SCHOLARSHIP THE LOWE-DRAPER SCHOLARSHIP William Tucker Hudgins, Jr. Zachary Thomas Whitaker
THE HARRISON INTERNATIONAL THE WILLIAM WEBSTER LUCADO SCHOLARSHIP MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP Andrew George Fisette Wesley Craige Sprouse Ryquan D. Wheeler THE LUCAS FAMILY SCHOLARSHIP THE HATTEN SCHOLARSHIP Bryan Omar Barahona Grayland Wyndell Godfrey, Jr. THE JAMES J. MARSHALL, JR., THE WARREN W. HOBBIE SCHOLARSHIPS SCHOLARSHIP IN BUSINESS ETHICS Carson Tyler Maki William Luis Brantley Dontae Leon Buck THE SAMUEL MCDOWELL MARTIN AND Gregory Jabril Lewis VIRGINIA K. MARTIN SCHOLARSHIP Tarun Sharma Boyd Wayne Coggins III
THE SAMUEL S. JONES PHI BETA KAPPA THE THOMAS T. AND MARTHA L. MAYO SCHOLARSHIP IN NATURAL SCIENCES SCHOLARSHIP Stephen Lester Woodall II Brett Nelson Roberts
THE JOHN G. KIEFER SCHOLARSHIP THE MCGUIRE-BOYD SCHOLARSHIP Tyler Rittenhouse Priebe James Douglas Galyon III
THE ROBERT WATKINS KING THE MR. & MRS. CHARLES V. MCPHILLIPS SCHOLARSHIP SCHOLARSHIP Leon Darnell Hargrove, Jr. Samuel Thomas Haden
THE EDWARD P. AND MOREEN E. KINNEY, THE G. TYLER MILLER SCHOLARSHIP JR., SCHOLARSHIP John Alexander Collie Mitchel Domenic Cavallarin THE MINISTERIAL AND MEDICAL THE KIRBY INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS SCHOLARSHIP SCHOLARSHIP Spencer Thomas Wiles Robinson Sagar
34 35 THE PHILIP MORRIS SCHOLARSHIP THE RICHARD OWEN “RICK” SNYDER ’74 Timothy Mark Coleman MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP Scott Edward Markland Evan Todd Pinekenstein
THE FRED MAY MORTON AND MARY THE SPRINT FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIP MORTON PLATT SCHOLARSHIP Cory Daniel Wingo Andrew William Clark THE HUGH R. STALLARD SCHOLARSHIP THE MAURICE NOTTINGHAM, JR., Lukas Richard Epps-Dawson SCHOLARSHIP Aaron Salim Gilani THE C.V. STARR SCHOLARSHIP Stephen Lester Woodall II THE WALLACE C. NUNLEY SCHOLARSHIP Robert John Mahaney III THE GEORGE ELLIS SUMMERS SCHOLARSHIP THE ELBERT P. OSBORNE, JR., Terrence Samuel Robinson SCHOLARSHIP John Alexander Collie THE SYDNOR FAMILY SCHOLARSHIP Shreve Westwood Rohle THE HON. WILLIAM L. OWEN SCHOLARSHIP THE GRAVES H. THOMPSON ’27 Hunter Thomas Martin SCHOLARSHIP Russell Wayne Taylor THE PATTERSON SCHOLARSHIP Holton Lee Walker THE KATHERINE S. AND PAUL S. TRIBLE SCHOLARSHIP THE WILLIAM C. PEAKE ’51 SCHOLARSHIP Peter Wayne Dooley Brian Dean Collins THE PAUL TRIBLE PUBLIC SERVICE THE PREMED SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM SCHOLARSHIP Daniel Shane Alexander Christopher Evan Boden
THE JOHN B. AND PEGGY C. SCHUG THE ALBERT JAMES TRUITT AND SCHOLARSHIP JULIA HARRISON TRUITT MEMORIAL Connor David Bradley SCHOLARSHIP Terrence Samuel Robinson THE BRADLEY SCOTT SIMMS Jonathan Michael Wade SCHOLARSHIP Ryan Reagan Rivas THE VERIZON SCHOLARSHIP Xavier Quinn Gray THE JOHN SMITH SIMPSON, JOHN DABNEY SIMPSON, AND JAMES LUPTON SIMPSON THE VIAR SCHOLARSHIP MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP Samuel Miller Silvernail Jahangir Iqbal
35 THE H. EWING WALL SCHOLARSHIP THE JASPER DENNIS WILSON Andrew Taylor Arnold SCHOLARSHIP Leon Darnell Hargrove, Jr. THE WELLS FARGO SCHOLARSHIP Conor Scott Murray THE JESSIE REAMES YOUNG AND CHARLES REAMES YOUNG SCHOLARSHIP THE ALLEN GOOLSBY WEST ENDOWED William Andrew DiStanislao SCHOLARSHIP John Case Bendall
ANNUAL SCHOLARSHIPS HELD BY GRADUATING SENIORS
THE ALUMNI PRE-LAW SCHOLARSHIP THE JAMES H. AND ROSA W. HATCHETT Lukas Richard Epps-Dawson ANNUAL SCHOLARSHIP John Alexander Collie THE BERNARD E. AND EDNA B. BAIN ANNUAL SCHOLARSHIP THE MEMORIAL ANNUAL SCHOLARSHIP Nicholas John Manuel Andrew George Fisette Terrence Samuel Robinson THE RUSSELL DEVIN TURNER ’92 THE CLASS OF 2005 SCHOLARSHIP SCHOLARSHIP Sydney C. Henriques Zachary Thomas Whitaker
VFIC SCHOLARSHIPS HELD BY GRADUATING SENIORS These scholarships are funded through the Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges.
Philip Henry Blane II (Bank of America Scholarship) Christopher Evan Boden (Mars Scholarship) Grayland Wyndell Godfrey, Jr. (Altria Scholarship) Nelson Thomas Ippolito (Ferguson Scholarship) Gregory Jabril Lewis (Greater Richmond Regional Scholarship) Joseph William Nixon (Camp Foundation Scholarship) Jonathan Michael Wade (Mars Scholarship) Andrew Alexis Ward (AEP/Appalachian Scholarship)
36 37 ACADEMIC REGALIA
The pageantry and dress of the academic procession standing. It is black for all degrees, with pointed have been inherited from the medieval universities sleeves for the bachelor’s degree, long closed sleeves of the 11th and 12th centuries. Academic life as we with a slit at the arm or wrist for the master’s degree, know it today began in the Middle Ages, first in the and full bell double sleeves for the doctor’s degree. Church, then in the guilds. In the teaching guild Bachelor’s and master’s degree gowns have no the master of arts was the teacher and the bachelor trimming. For the doctor’s degree, the gown is faced was the apprentice of the master; their dress was the down the front with velvet and has three bars of outward sign of privilege and responsibility. velvet across the sleeves in the color distinctive of the Principal features of academic dress are the gown, faculty or discipline to which the degree pertains. the cap, and the hood. Since the 15th century, The Cap:Under Roman law a freed slave won the both Cambridge and Oxford have made academic privilege of wearing a cap. The academic cap is a dress a matter of university control, even to its sign of freedom of scholarship and the responsibility minor details, and have repeatedly published and dignity with which scholarship endows the revised regulations. American universities agreed wearer. Old poetry records the cap of scholarship as on a definite system in 1895. In 1932 the American square to symbolize a book. The color of the tassel Council on Education presented a revised code sometimes denotes the discipline of the degree. which, for the most part, governs the style of The Doctoral Hood:The doctoral hood is trimmed academic dress today. with one or more chevrons of a second color on The Gown:The flowing gown comes from the 12th the ground of a primary color. The color facing century. While it originally may have been worn as the hood denotes the discipline represented by a protection against the cold of unheated buildings, the degree; the color of the lining designates the today it has become symbolic of the democracy of university or college from which the degree was scholarship, for it covers any dress of rank or social granted.
Maize ...... Agriculture Green ...... Medicine White ...... Arts, Letters, Humanities, Pink ...... Music Commerce, & Accountancy Apricot ...... Nursing Drab...... Business Silver Gray ...... Oratory (Speech) Lilac ...... Dentistry Olive Green ...... Pharmacy Copper ...... Economics Dark Blue ...... Philosophy Light Blue ...... Education Sage Green ...... Physical Education Orange ...... Engineering Peacock Blue ....Public Administration Brown ...... Fine Arts, Architecture Salmon Pink ...... Public Health Russet ...... Forestry Golden Yellow ...... Science Crimson ...... Journalism Citron ...... Social Work Purple ...... Law Scarlet ...... Theology Lemon ...... Library Science Gray ...... Veterinary Science
37 A BRIEF HISTORY OF HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE Hampden-Sydney College’s heritage is deeply rooted in end of the present campus for some seventy-five years the history of both Colonial America and the Presby- before relocating to Richmond. The Medical College terian Church. The founders of the College chose the of Virginia was established (1837) at Richmond as the name Hampden-Sydney to symbolize their devotion medical department of Hampden-Sydney. to the principles of representative government and The College matured physically and academically full civil and religious freedom which John Hampden through the first half of the nineteenth century, enjoy- (1594–1643) and Algernon Sydney (1622–1683) had ing the services of some remarkably gifted leaders. outspokenly supported, and for which they had given Jonathan P. Cushing, a Dartmouth man and the first their lives, in England’s two great constitutional crises layman to be president, oversaw the abandonment of of the seventeenth century. They were widely invoked the College’s original buildings in favor of the hand- as hero-martyrs by American colonial patriots, and some Federal architecture which still distinguishes the their names were immediately associated with the campus. The world-renowned chemist, Dr. John W. cause of independence championed by James Madison, Draper, built the first camera in America and used it to Patrick Henry, and other less well-known, take the world’s first astronomical photographs while but equally vigorous, patriots among he was a professor at Hampden-Sydney from 1836 to the College’s early Trustees. Indeed, 1839; he later took the first photograph of a the original students eagerly commit- living person. ted themselves to the revolutionary During the Civil War the students organized a effort, organized a militia company, company, with President J. M. P. Atkin- drilled regularly, and went off to son as captain. Officially named the the defense of Williamsburg “Hampden-Sydney Boys,” they saw and of Petersburg, in 1777 and action only in the battle of Rich 1778 respectively. Their uniform Mountain (June 10–11, 1861); cap- of hunting shirts—dyed purple with tured as a body, they were paroled the juices of pokeberries—and grey trousers by General McClellan on the condi- prefigured the College’s traditional John tion that they lay down their colors, garnet and grey. Hampden arms and return to their studies. First proposed in 1771, the College After the Seminary moved was formally organized in February 1775, when the to Richmond in 1898, a most Presbytery of Hanover, meeting in Nathaniel Ven- generous alumnus, Major R. M. able’s Slate Hill plantation (about two miles south Algernon Venable, bought its buildings and gave of the present campus), accepted a gift of one hundred them to the College. Sidney acres for the College, elected Trustees, and named as Throughout the twentieth century, Rector (later President) the Rev. Mr. Samuel Stanhope handsome and practical buildings Smith, valedictorian of the Princeton class of 1769, who (among them, most recently, as a result of a success- had been actively promoting the idea of establishing a ful campaign that raised over $100 million, a new college in the heavily Scotch-Irish area of south-central 83,000-square-foot library, a new stadium, and an Virginia since he began his ministry there in 1772. expanded athletic center) have been added to the Within only ten months, Smith, intending to model campus, while Hampden-Sydney’s academic, social, the new college after his own alma mater, secured an and cultural programs have been continually enriched adequate subscription of funds and an enrollment of and expanded, strengthening the coherent tradition of 110 students. Students and faculty began gathering in liberal arts education which remains the hallmark of the fall of 1775; the first classes were held on November the College. Its success in forging good men and lead- 10. The College completed its first full year in 1776 and ers is widely recognized. has never suspended operations. Hampden-Sydney looks into its third century with In 1783, Hampden-Sydney’s viability, severely tested a wholesome optimism, bred of a sober integrity of by the Revolutionary War, was ensured by the grant mission coupled with a history of sound development, of a charter from the General Assembly of Virginia. and made possible by an extraordinary succession of Union Theological Seminary of Virginia (1822) was leaders and benefactors of rare ability, commitment, founded at Hampden-Sydney and occupied the south and vision.
38 39 PRESIDENTS OF THE COLLEGE SAMUEL STANHOPE SMITH, B.A., D.D., LL.D...... 1775–1779 JOHN BLAIR SMITH, B.A., D.D...... 1779–1789 DRURY LACY, D.D. (Vice President and Acting President) ...... 1789–1797 ARCHIBALD ALEXANDER, B.A., D.D., LL.D...... 1797–1806 WILLIAM S. REID, D.D. (Vice President and Acting President) ...... 1807 MOSES HOGE, D.D...... 1807–1820 JONATHAN P. CUSHING, B.A., A.M. (Acting President) ...... 1820–1821 (President) ...... 1821–1835 GEORGE A. BAXTER, D.D. (Acting President) ...... 1835 DANIEL LYNN CARROLL, B.A., D.D...... 1835–1838 WILLIAM MAXWELL, B.A., LL.B., LL.D...... 1838–1845 PATRICK J. SPARROW, D.D...... 1845–1847 S. B. WILSON, D.D. (Acting President) ...... 1847 F. S. SAMPSON, D.D. (Acting President) ...... 1847–1848 CHARLES MARTIN, A.B., LL.D. (Acting President) ...... 1848–1849, 1856–1857 LEWIS W. GREEN, B.A., D.D...... 1849–1856 ALBERT L. HOLLADAY, M.A. (Died before taking office) ...... 1856 JOHN M. P. ATKINSON, B.A., D.D...... 1857–1883 RICHARD McILWAINE, B.A., D.D., LL.D...... 1883–1904 JAMES R. THORNTON, A.M. (Acting President) ...... 1904 W. H. WHITING, JR., B.A., A.M., LL.D. (Acting President) ...... 1904–1905, 1908–1909 J. H. C. BAGBY, M.A., M.E., P.D. (Acting President) ...... 1905 JAMES GRAY McALLISTER, B.A., B.D., D.D., LL.D., D. L...... 1905–1908 HENRY TUCKER GRAHAM, B.A., B.D., D.D., LL.D...... 1909–1917 ASHTON W. McWHORTER, B.A., A.M., P.D. (Acting President) ...... 1917–1919 JOSEPH DuPUY EGGLESTON, A.B., A.M., LL.D...... 1919–1939 EDGAR GRAHAM GAMMON, B.A., B.D., D.D., LL.D...... 1939–1955 JOSEPH CLARKE ROBERT, A.B., A.M., P.D., L.D., LL.D...... 1955–1960 THOMAS EDWARD GILMER, B.S., M.S., P.D., D.S...... 1960–1963 WALTER TAYLOR REVELEY II, B.A., B.D., P.D., LL.D., D.L...... 1963–1977 JOSIAH BUNTING III, B.A., B.A. (Oxon.), M.A. (Oxon.), D.L...... 1977–1987 JAMES RICHARD LEUTZE, B.A., M.A., P.D...... 1987–1990 JOHN SCOTT COLLEY, B.A., M.A., P.D., L.D. (Provost & Acting President) ...... 1990–1991 RALPH ARTHUR ROSSUM, B.A., M.A., P.D...... 1991–1992 SAMUEL VAUGHAN WILSON, B.A., LL.D...... 1992–2000 WALTER MICHAEL BORTZ III, B.S., E.D., LL.D...... 2000–2009 CHRISTOPHER B. HOWARD, B.S., M.Phil., M.B.A., D.Phil...... 2009–2009
39 ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS OF THE COLLEGE Thomas N. Allen ’60, Chairman Christopher B. Howard, President Dennis G. Stevens, Provost and Dean of the Faculty W. Glenn Culley, Jr., Vice-President for Business Affairs and Finance Richard P. Epperson III ’79, Director of Athletics Anita H. Garland, Dean of Admissions V. Dale Jones, Vice-President for Strategy, Administration, and Board Affairs H. Lee King, Jr. ’94, Vice-President for Institutional Advancement David A. Klein ’78, Dean of Students
TRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE John B. Adams, Jr. ’71, Richmond, Virginia John E. Mansfield, Jr. ’78, Gainesville, Georgia J. Trevor Boyce ’83, Poquoson, Virginia David J. McKittrick ’67, Richmond, Virginia Lawrence B. Caplin ’86, Warrington, Pennsylvania Charles V. McPhillips ’82, Norfolk, Virginia Bradley H. Cary ’85, Suwanee, Georgia W. Sheppard Miller III ’79, Virginia Beach, Virginia Cynthia L. Citrone, Southport, Connecticut Bartow Morgan, Jr. ’94, Lawrenceville, Virginia Richard P. Cook ’99, Birmingham, Alabama Gordon C. Nash ’71, Chocowinity, North Carolina Jon M. Daly ’78, Winston-Salem, North Carolina Tayloe N. Negus ’88, Richmond, Virginia Nathan J. DaPore ’00, Charleston, South Carolina Jon A. Pace ’82, Atlanta, Georgia John W. Drescher ’70, Virginia Beach, Virginia William L. Pannill ’77, Martinsville, Virginia John C. Ellis, Jr. ’70, Virginia Beach, Virginia Charles W. Payne, Jr. ’88, Fredericksburg, Virginia H. Todd Flemming ’85, Orlando, Florida Myron L. Rolle, Tallahassee, Florida Andrew W. Freitas ’92, Vienna, Virginia Gordon D. Schreck ’65, Charleston, South Carolina John L. Gibson III ’82, Virginia Beach, Virginia David W. Shelor ’72, Salem, Virginia Everett A. Hellmuth III ’75, Alexandria, Virginia Robert D. Taylor ’73, Richmond, Virginia Eugene W. Hickok, Jr. ’72, Richmond, Virginia Navin Thukkaram, Park City, Utah John Hillen, Oakton, Virginia James C. Wheat III ’75, Richmond, Virginia John G. Macfarlane III ’76, Darien, Connecticut David G. Wilson, Jr. ’63, Richmond, Virginia
TRUSTEES EMERITI Raymond B. Bottom, Jr. ’51, Hampton, Virginia J. Robert Bray ’60, Portsmouth, Virginia George B. Cartledge, Jr. ’63, Roanoke, Virginia W. Birch Douglass III ’65, Richmond, Virginia Robert W. King, Jr. ’52, Charlotte, North Carolina Willette L. LeHew ’57, Norfolk, Virginia Henry H. McVey III ’57, Ware Neck, Virginia William F. Shumadine, Jr. ’66, Richmond, Virginia Henry C. Spalding, Jr. ’60, Richmond, Virginia Joseph F. Viar, Jr. ’63, Alexandria, Virginia
CHAIRMAN EMERITUS PRESIDENTS EMERITI William C. Boinest ’54, Richmond, Virginia Walter M. Bortz III, Charleston, South Carolina Samuel V. Wilson, Rice, Virginia 40 PB