HATS OFF Classal Mninotes to Our ALUMNI GRADUATES!
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Alumni WASHINGTON EPISCOPAL SCHOOL We are grateful to the fi ve faculty and staff members who are retiring at the end of the 2017-2018 school year. Together, their number of years in service to WES totals 89 years. Their steadfast dedication is remarkable. Please join us in wishing them an enriched retirement, fi lled with what makes them happy! HATS OFF CLASSAl mniNOTES to our ALUMNI GRADUATES! Thomas Carney ’17 [email protected] Emelia Isola [email protected] Harry Akins played on the Bullis varsity hockey team, and his club team made it to the regional CBHL fi nals.Tayo Ball played on St. Albans’ JV lacrosse team. Thomas Carney plays bassoon in the Gonzaga symphonette. This summer he will work on his aunt’s congressional campaign in Maine, followed by a family trip to southeast Asia. Joanna Dematatis played varsity basketball and JV lacrosse at Holton-Arms. Karim Elkassem was a member of Churchill High School’s swim team. The team had an undefeated season, won the presti- gious “Metros” swim meet, and won The MD State Championship. Karim swam in the 500 free style, recording a personal best. Emelia Isola played on Walter Johnson High School’s undefeated JV lacrosse team. Lily Talieh Congratulations to the Class of 2010 (l-r, top to bottom): Alexis Doyle ’10 • Anthony was in a play at Holton-Arms in the spring. Maddie Voth continues to Ware ’10 • Sammi Stroman ’10 • Patrick Lansdale ’10 • Jonathan Butturini ’10 • Mike take cello lessons and is in the literary media and communications depart- Schmandt ’10 • Lindsay Bratun ’10 • Daan Groenhuijsen ’10 and family • Susannah ment (writing and fi lm) at Duke Ellington School for the Arts. Recently, Bane ’10 • Jane Boyton, Lynn Mahaffie, Shelby Mahaffie ’10, Matt Mahaffie, and Grace Mahaffie ’14 she was on the sound crew of a documentary that was fi lmed in Alabama with her class. She will be a production assistant for a fi lm in Cornwall, England this summer. Ben Wills is thriving at Forman. He played varsity Capitol Hill this fall with Madeira School. Felicia Gelos played clarinet in football, and varsity ice hockey. He enjoyed his photography class and St. Andrew’s Episcopal School’s orchestra as well as in the symphonic rock made honor roll. Nate Zola played JV lacrosse at Landon and is on two orchestra. She played in the band for the school musical. Katie Hester is lacrosse travel teams. in the a cappella club at St. Andrew’s along with Caroline Milne and Julia Topetzes. Caroline Milne played a nun and bar patron in St. Andrew’s Maddie Blonder production of Sister Act in February. She and Felicia Gelos will take a ’16 [email protected] Spanish exchange trip to Cantabria, Spain for two weeks this summer. Luke Murrell is a master scuba diver and will spend six weeks in the Brit- Maddie Blonder is starting a new organization at Stone Ridge to help ish Virgin Islands this summer diving. He plans to study marine biology support countries without access to clean water. She is also working on a in college. He played hockey for Wilson High School. Seb Murrell rowed 7-week campaign for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, raising money crew for Wilson High School. Pascale Schmidt’s painting was on display at for childhood cancer. She played ice hockey for Stone Ridge with Char- Holton-Arms’ upper school spring art show and was featured on the pro- lotte Mensforth and Becca Ehrhardt this year. Maddie, Sarah Myhre, motional poster. Her foundational drawing for the painting won second and Kim Ross are all spending a month in Australia as part of a summer place at Congressman Raskin’s (D-MD 8th District) art competition and exchange program. Peter Connolly played on Georgetown Prep’s rugby will be displayed in his offi ce for one year.Geoffrey Shaiyen played on St. team and played varsity football. He served on student government John’s JV basketball team. as class representative. Ben Deobald went to Spain for two weeks this summer with Georgetown Prep. Nellie Dick joined the Pre-collegiate want more info? www.w-e-s.org/alumni Regional Equestrian team. She looks forward to having an internship on summer 2018 | 20 summer 2018 | 21 Alumni Class Notes Ryan Kyle Samantha Liggins Douglas Chen-Young ’15 [email protected] ’14 [email protected] ’12 [email protected] Grace Recka Louis Akins was the captain of his Patricia Massaro pitched softball Cameron Harris and Claire van [email protected] U16AA hockey team; they won for the GDS varsity team, which Stolk were inducted into the St. the state finals. He also played won the ISL (Independent School Andrew’s chapter of the Cum Laude Laura Abbott, a rising junior at on the Bullis varsity hockey team. League) championship this year. She Society. Grace Mahaffie traveled Vanderbilt University, departs in July Zoe Barnette and Alicia Pané and also made the ISL all-league team. to Italy with the Georgetown Day for a semester abroad in Sydney, two Stone Ridge classmates were Ryan Kyle was captain of the Sidwell School’s Chamber Choir during Australia. Robert Bork will be an interviewed in March by their former Friends varsity track team and winter break. She was a Silver Key intern in the office of Senator Chuck English teacher for The Atlantic plays oboe in the chamber orches- recipient in the GDS Scholastic Grassley (R-Iowa) this summer. He magazine about naming their gen- tra. Georgia McCally and Emma Art Awards for her indoor still life. will study at Oxford, England for eration. Zoe competed in the Junior Stanfill played on the Bullis lacrosse Grace performed in the GDS one- the fall semester with UVA. Olivia Olympics in February for fencing team this year – they won the ISL act plays, sang with the A Cappella Heflin completed her sophomore and has an internship this summer Championship. Hadley Nolan played group, and was on dance team. She year at University of Pennsylvania at Walter Reed Medical Center do- for Holton-Arms’ nationally-ranked will attend NYU in the fall (Silver and will head to Sydney, Austra- ing research on proteins. Andreas lacrosse team this spring. They School of Social Work). Anna-Sophia lia for a semester abroad in July. Christofides is active in track and played in the ISL AA championship Massaro had a role in Madeira’s William Howell completed his field at Walt Whitman High School, game. She had two photographs production of The Addams Family second year at Parson School of and still composing music. Alex on display at Holton’s art show this in February. Congratulations to Elen Design. Laurence Ruberl was stage Davidson was chosen as one of spring. Morinsola Tinubu and Juliet Stepanyan on winning a National manager for the Earlham College two students at St. Albans who will Faris were selected as “Monitors,” Merit Scholarship! She graduated presentation of Macbeth in March. study at Knox Grammar School in a selective leadership position at from Sidwell Friends School in June This summer he has an internship at Sydney, Australia for a month this Episcopal High School. Morinsola and will attend Washington & Lee NASA in Maryland. Erni Whitaker is July. Juliette Faris is Vice President was also elected co-president of a University in the fall and plans to a chemistry and philosophy major at of TableTalk EHS, an organization at new club called the Black Student study engineering. Tayyaba Tareq Bates College. Episcopal High School. In this role Association, and will be a dance will attend University of Maryland, she oversees much of the planning team captain in the fall. Sophie College Park, and plans to major in Peter Abdow of community-building events and Whiteway played varsity lacrosse kinesiology while continuing to vol- ’11 [email protected] takes photos. Piers Greenan was at Holton-Arms School. Ryan Zaimi unteer for the fire department.Ben Sarah Bair [email protected] inducted into the National Honor coached JV tennis at Bullis and plays Weinberger played varsity lacrosse Jake Bredhoff Society at Gonzaga College High soccer. for Bullis in the spring. [email protected] School. Alya Ahmed Sarah Bair traveled to six European ’13 [email protected] countries after completing her junior Genevieve Dickinson year at Emory University. She met [email protected] up with her WES exchange student Sterling Myhre in Paris. Sarah was selected to be [email protected] Jack Szulc-Donnell one of 14 George Washington [email protected] Carver interns for The World Food Prize Internship Program this sum- Alex Alagia and Katherine Bowles mer. Claire Collins’ boat (Princeton) stopped by WES in January and won the Ivy Championships for the attended the Geography Bee. third year in a row and finished 5th at Top-bottom, l-r: Thomas Carney ’17 with LaKisha Yirenkyi at WES • Emelia Isola ‘17 Katherine is a two-time WES Geo the Championship regatta. Congrat- after her Walter Johnson JV lacrosse game in April with Meredith, William, and Bill Bee champion. She attends Miami ulations to Sarah Dickey who was Isola, and Mehdi Elkassem, Ali Bratun (not pictured) • Louis Akins ‘15 playing USA of Ohio and is a member of Delta recognized as a University Scholar Hockey • Hadley Nolan ‘15 and teammates appeared in The Washington Post this Delta Delta sorority. Sarah Collins (top 2% in cumulative undergradu- spring. (photo by Toni L. Sandys/The Washington Post) • Bullis varsity lacrosse team stopped by WES in May and chatted ate academic standing by school) at members Georgia McCally ‘15 (third from left) and Emma Stanfill ‘15 (second from (in French!) with French teacher University of Pittsburgh.