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July 2019 ALUMNINEWS Governor’sat the School Contents 1 From the President 2 Brandon Michael Hall 4 Keep Your Eye on These Govies 4 Class Notes 4 Departmental and Campus News 6 Class of 2019 Your Art Area Fromthe Show your love for your department by giving 8 Destinations: Class of 2019 directly to their discretionary fund. Your Decision Day 2019 gift will support entry 10 fees, field trips, and other opportunities vital to the Dear Alumni, 14 Become a Class Agent Govie curriculum. As we bring the 2018-2019 academic yearPresident to a close, I encourage you to make a special effort to stay it gives me great pleasure to bring you greetings from connected with us for the next several months, as the 15 Furthering Education the Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities! It’s 2019-2020 academic year will mark the 20th year of the been one of the most outstanding years of activity on residential high school. A number of special events the campus with students and faculty performing and and performances are scheduled for the year-long On the Horizon Scholarships 15 presenting their work throughout the state and across celebration, including a Founder’s Day Convocation, the grand opening and ribbon cutting for the new Music Give future Govies the the globe. building, a Showcase Fundraiser on Hilton Head Island, 15 Get Your Govie T-Shirt opportunity to follow their art, pursue their We were pleased to graduate 109 Govies at the Peace and a student/alumni performance showcase at the dreams, and acheive Center in May and, with over $27 million in scholarships, Peace Center. 16 #GovieDay their goals by donating their awards and achievements are representative of to the Virginia Uldrick As always, I invite you to join us for a performance or Scholarship Fund. true scholars and artists of the highest caliber. The Class of 2019 included a US Presidential Scholar in the Arts, event on the campus. It’s always a pleasure to meet our seven gold and seven silver medalists in the Scholastic alumni and I look forward to continued interaction with Back Cover National Art & Writing Competition, three 2019 Youn- those of you who visit often. As always, I thank you for How You Can Help gArts Finalists, forty-two inductees into the National your support of the Governor’s School, and I hope to Honor Society, and seven National Merit Finalists. see you soon! Thank you for your continued support of Guest Artists the Governor’s School. The guest artist fund Collaborations throughout the state continue to brings master artists to extend the reach of the Governor’s School as we fully Sincerely, campus to work directly engage our mission with the students and teachers of with our students. South Carolina. We recently hosted the Dance Teacher This is one of the most as Artist Institute on the campus as well as our fourth unique opportunities annual teacher retreat for arts teachers from around the given to Govies and you state. Our Outreach programs continue to serve more Cedric L. Adderley About the Cover can help make it happen! students in high-need areas of the state with summer The tradition continues! Each year the graduating class signs a initiatives in five counties, including new programs in rubber duck at the Senior Send-off dinner. The duck floats in the TIME TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE! GIVE AT GSAFOUNDATION.NET Marion and Jasper counties. fountain on graduation day. July 2019 1 BRANDON MICHAEL HALL In April, Brandon Micheal Hall, star of the CBS series God Friended Me, was back on campus for the first time since he graduated in 2011. Brandon was selected as the recipient of the 2019 President’s Alumni Award. This award is bestowed on an accomplished graduate who has shown a commitment to the arts and artistic achievement while embodying the Governor’s School’s key values. This includes continuing to cultivate a personal responsibility for intellectual growth, maintaining a keen intellectual curiosity about the world, and evolving positively as a thinker and artist, while also contributing in positive ways to the community. This school gives these kids the one degree to follow their dreams. While he was on campus, Brandon spent time reuniting with his former teachers, doing interviews, and leading a master class with our Studio IV Drama students. He said that while he was honored to receive the alumni award, the real reward for him was getting to work with our Govies. At the Artists In Bloom event, Brandon spoke with emotion about the impact the school made on him during his high school career. He shared how it takes one degree for water to turn from boiling to steam, and steam can power a locomotive. “They gave me one chance to follow my dream. I came to this school, and I worked hard, and I did it. And I’m still doing it.... This school gives these kids the one degree to follow their dreams.” 2 SCGSAH Alumni Newsletter July 2019 3 In May, Historic Columbia an- nounced Cory J. France (Music, DEPARTMENTAL KEEP YOUR EYE 2009) as its new director of mar- keting and communications. In ON this role, Cory will lead Historic CAMPUS NEWS Columbia’s marketing depart- We are very excited to share THESE GOVIES! ment and will serve as a spokes- that Dr. Jennifer Thomas has person for the organization. accepted the position of Dean Visual Arts alumnus (2018) Wes and Vice President for Arts and Quattlebaum won the South Carolina Justina Adorno (Drama, 2009) has Academics at the Governor’s State Award at ARTFIELDS! Wes created landed a role that could possibly School. Dr. Thomas was our this winning piece, Self Portrait, as his change her career. Justina will be founding Department of English senior concentration project which was starring in Grand Hotel which is Chair and served as Academics Our 26 Visual Arts seniors had a very productive year also selected for the 18th Annual SCGSAH produced by Eva Longoria and and Humanities Chair. and were recognized in several significant competitions Visual Arts Student Exhibition last May. stars Demian Bichir and Roselyn regionally and nationally. In the Scholastic Art Awards they It was his first time creating a woodblock Sanchez. Learn more here. received 59 awards in the region-at-large competition and print. 5 awards in the national competition. They participated May was a great month for 2004 We are pleased to announce and placed in the 29th Annual Upstate High School Art Music alum Jonathan Ice. He was that Faye Schober has accept- Exhibition and the 2019 Converse College Young Women The Alliance for Young Artists & Writ- promoted to Major in the USAF ed the position of Vice Presi- in Art exhibition. One student, Kushbu Jivan, was a 2019 ers has announced that Da’Shawn and graduated from the USAF dent for Finance and Admin- YoungArts Finalist and participated in National YoungArts Mosley (Creative Writing, 2012) has F-15E B-course. He is one of istration. Ms. Schober comes Week in Miami. In addition to having three outstanding been selected by author and writer about five people on active duty to us with an extensive back- student exhibitions in the Lipscomb Gallery during their Kiese Laymon as one of the 2019 who has flown both the U-2 and a fighter and the only ground in finance and account- senior year, they also created site-specific drawings for a recipients of A Suite of One’s Own: former “space-man” flying the Strike Eagle. ing with Branch Banking and year-long exhibition at the NEXT Innovation Center. A Writer’s Residency. Made possible Trust Company (BB&T) as well by the support of Amazon Literary 2002 Music alumnus Kevin Brown as with the Greenville County Partnership and The Roosevelt Hotel, this annual writer’s has been selected to join the Disabilities & Special Needs residency enables two alumni of the Scholastic Art & Writ- administration team at Lavilla School Board. ing Awards to travel to New York City and spend five nights of the Arts in Jacksonville, Florida, as at the historic Roosevelt Hotel. Over the course of the resi- one of two assistant principals. Kevin dency, Da’Shawn will be granted the time and space to fo- says he “... is truly excited to have cus on his writing projects, and will receive opportunities to the opportunity to work with and Our 43 Music seniors have placed in regional and national meet with literary professionals. More here. support some of Jacksonville’s most competitions, performed with various ensembles including talented teachers and students!” the Carolina Youth Symphony and the Greenville County Congratulations to 2018 Govie Drama Youth Orchestra, and participated in master classes with Alumna, Kelis Herriott! Kelis was recently Just as she did at the Governor’s such luminaries as the Berlin Philharmonic Woodwind crowned Miss South Carolina Plus School, 2016 Music alumna Sarah Quintet, Louise Toppin, Ivano Ascari, and Paul Sanchez. America for 2019. She also took first place Massengale enhances the learn- Many of them participated in the music tour of Germany in the Talent Contest, singing “Don’t Rain ing experience for teachers and over spring break, presenting public concerts in Leipzig, on My Parade” from the musical Funny students at the University of South Dresden, and Berlin. After graduation, they will attend Girl. Carolina. Learn more here. prestigious schools in the United States to pursue majors in music and in other areas of study. Berkeley Symphony has announced that Joseph Young (Summer Honors Our 16 Drama seniors had Program, 1999) has been named an incredible year filled Music Director of Berkeley Symphony Class Notes with high-caliber guest beginning with the 2019-2020 Where Are They Now? artists — David Rambo, Season.