1. FEATURE STORIES
New Faculty 2
Web Site Award 3
Maker Night 4
Sports 5
Commencement 6
Boarding at SP 10
Blue-Gold Reunion 11
Alumni Updates 12
in this [fall 2015 vol. 27 no. 1] issue:Kinetic Sculpture
Wins Again
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Brooklandville, MD
ST. PAUL’S SCHOOL fall
Year
15 S E E K T RU T H, K N O W L E D GE A ND E XC E L L E N C E ;
L I V E BY FAITH, C O MPA S SIO N AND INTEGRIT Y.
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St. Paul’s expansive 64-acre Brooklandville campus
bears little resemblance to the cramped quarters at
Old St. Paul’s Church in downtown Baltimore where
the school was founded for orphaned boys 166 years
ago. The location and student base may have changed
over the years, but an essential similarity remains at
the School’s core.
“Providing education and opportunity for deserving
youth in the city has been at the heart of the school’s
mission since its founding,” says David Faus, St. Paul’s
Headmaster. That mission continues to touch and, in
many instances, forever change the lives of St. Paul’s
students at various junctures in their lives.
FORMATIVE EXPERIENCES,
TANGIBLE REWARDS
Jesse DeOms ’07 was first introduced to that mission
in high school as he volunteered at Bridges, a year-
round educational and support program for Baltimore
City youth ages 9 – 18 launched at St. Paul’s in 1993.
While Jesse originally intended the volunteer gig
simply as a way to fulfill his community service re-
quirement, the experience had a profound impact on
his life—eventually, he says, changing its course.
Jesse recalls accompanying Bridges’ participants
on a field trip to the beach, and delighting in the ex-
citement of the kids, some of whom had never before
seen the ocean. “I remember thinking: This is so cool
that we get to experience this together,” he says.
Years later, as Jesse neared the end of his under-
graduate college experience and began seriously
considering his next move, the positive associations he
felt for Bridges came flooding back. It wasn’t as though
the gifted math and science student who had triple-
majored in applied math, economics and engineering
science at Vanderbilt University didn’t have many
options. But the option that seemed most appealing
had far less to do with his math prowess than it did with
his prior service involvement.
“During my senior year of college, I was reflecting
on the experiences I’d had in my life so far, and what
situations, challenges and communities I’d found most
stimulating and that created most personal growth
and positive energy. I very confidently settled on my
experiences at Bridges as being the time and experience
where I felt most alive,” Jesse says.
With that in mind, Jesse applied to Teach for
America, which trains and places college graduates
with demonstrable leadership skills in low-income
public schools for two years. He was accepted, landing
at Baltimore City’s Mergenthaler Vocational-Technical
High School where he taught ninth grade physics
for three years. He now teaches high school math at
Thurgood Marshall Academy, a public charter school
in South East Washington, D.C.
“It’s hard work, but it’s the best work that I can
think to do,” Jesse says.
Jesse does receive tangible rewards from his hard
work. This past spring, for instance, he saw the first
group of freshman he taught walk across the gradu-
ation stage. “It was a really cool moment,” Jesse says,
and one in which he found pride in knowing that he
was one of many adults who supported those kids in
reaching a significant milestone.
A DELAYED DISCOVERY OF GRATIFICATION
THROUGH SERVICE
Sean Foley ’05, can relate. He works as an individual
support specialist with the Baltimore-based nonprofit
Thread, which recruits students from three Baltimore
City public high schools in the bottom 25 percent of
their class facing barriers like homelessness, legal trou-
bles, and addiction. With a strong volunteer network
(consisting of Johns Hopkins’ students), the nonprofit
seeks to radically reconfigure these teens’ support sys-
tems and see them through high school graduation and
beyond. Thus far, 100 percent of the 48 kids recruited
in the first class graduated from high school—on time.
All matriculated to college or a trade program.
Recently, Sean received a phone call from a Thread
recruit who had challenged his resolve, and with whom
he had become personally invested. Thread tailors its
program to students’ needs and, for this particular stu-
dent, that meant Sean would pick him up at his house
in the morning, get him breakfast, and make sure he
had a bus pass to get home after school. That same
young man was calling to ask Sean to save a particular
date in August—when he’d be graduating from high
school. Foley, describing his overwhelming emotional
response to the good news, says he knows he’s in the
right profession. But that wasn’t always the case.
“This could be one of the last things I would have
projected myself doing out of high school. Now, I can’t
imagine doing anything else,” he says.
Sean describes his younger, teenage self as a
typical high school boy who grudgingly fulfilled his
community service requirement. After graduating
THE POWERFUL IMPACT OF GIVING BACK
TO BALTIMORE
1. Marques Dent ’02
educates East Baltimore
students.
2. Jesse DeOms ’07
celebrates receiving his
John Hopkins M.Ed. with
his Mervo students.
3. Jake Hooper ’15 with
students at the camp
he organized and ran
this summer.

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from college with an English degree, he returned to
St. Paul’s where he served initially as a long-term mid-
dle school substitute and assistant soccer coach. There,
Bridges executive director Rob Paymer, ’98, also a
former fellow St. Paul’s soccer coach, tapped him to
become a Bridges Public Service Fellow. He ended up
staying in the one-year position for three years. “I have
to credit Rob for facilitating this passion in me, and for
being able to see that this was something I would enjoy
and excel at,” Sean says.
STRETCHING YOURSELF
Jake Hooper ’15, didn’t procrastinate when it came to
completing his community service requirements at
St. Paul’s, but he does admit to being nervous about
how he’d fit them in before graduation. “In the end, it
wasn’t a big problem,” says Jake, who not only put in
countless service hours during high school, but also
performed them in an environment that was new to him.
“I tell the students: Stretch yourself beyond what
you’re comfortable with,” says Molly Robertson, St. Paul’s
interim Director of Service Learning.
Jake clearly followed that cue. A suburban kid with a
carefree presence, Jake admits to not knowing how to
parallel park a car; he’s rarely had to. His parents in-
sisted on driving him to Paul’s Place, a center in South-
west Baltimore City that aims to improve the quality
of life for children and adults living in and near its
communities—and where Jake volunteered extensively
during high school.
“Going down there gave me a different perspec-
tive. It was pretty shocking. Most of the houses around
the site are boarded up, kids are playing in the street,”
Jake says.
During summers when he was in high school, Jake
volunteered for a camp at Redeemer Church in North
Baltimore, where kids served at Paul’s Place would
come, free of charge, for one week. When the former
director left for a new opportunity, she turned to Jake
and another high school volunteer, asking them to
co-direct the camp this summer.
Jake and his co-director spent from January
through June preparing. They fundraised, secured
30-some volunteers, planned activities, purchased food
and arranged transportation for campers, and took
care of every other detail the camp required to run
smoothly.
The camp went well, and Jake and his co-director
were asked to return next year. Jake already knows
what he’ll do differently. He’ll take his volunteers
down to Paul’s Place before the start of camp.
“Until you’re there, you really don’t understand
the conditions these kids live in and where they’re
really coming from,” he says.
LEARNING LIFE LESSONS IN THE CLASSROOM
Marques Dent ’02, does understand. He grew up in
East Baltimore’s Ednor Gardens-Lakeside community,
a relatively quiet urban enclave bordered by neighbor-
hoods where crime was not uncommon. But that didn’t
absolve the St. Paul’s ‘lifer’ from learning lessons at
school about giving back. In fact, he credits the guid-
ance of his math teacher, Skip Darrell ’60, with setting
him on a life-long course of giving back.
“Mr. Darrell was a friend first, despite his instruc-
tor status. When I was a 15-year-old at St. Paul’s, he
helped guide my energy into positive actions,” says
Marques, a graduate of Tennessee State University,
former decorated officer in the U.S. Air Force, and
legislative assistant.
Back in Baltimore, Marques has taken his former
math teacher’s lessons to heart. In addition to serving
as a board member and a coach for Northwood’s youth
baseball league, where he took his first swings as a kid,
in 2010 Marques founded DENT (Delivering Educa-
tional Needs Together), offering Baltimore City resi-
dents training in informational technology. To date,
DENT has trained, certified, and employed over 450
individuals, 60 percent of whom are ex-felons. DENT
also has organized back-to-school drives, equipping
thousands of Baltimore City students with school
supplies, as well as holiday food drives—with generous
support from St. Paul’s families.
Marques also makes frequent return trips to his
alma mater, having lunch with and guest lecturing in
classes where he once sat on the other side of the desk.
Asked what message he imparts, he responds: “Once you
leave St. Paul’s, you’re still a representative of St. Paul’s.
Make sure you give back.”
St. Paul’s is pleased to introduce the outstanding new
faculty joining the School this year.
UPPER SCHOOL
We are pleased to welcome DEVERE BEARD ’88 back
to St. Paul’s, the starting point from which he went on
to earn his B.A. from Dartmouth and his M.S. from
Johns Hopkins. After a twenty-year career in teaching
and technology that has taken him to independent
schools and IT companies (including Apple and Dell)
on both coasts, Mr. Beard is excited to be returning to
his alma mater to teach Information Technology and
Computer Science while coaching basketball.
With a resume that includes marathon running,
distance biking, and vineyard labor as well as poetry,
theater, and radio work, VIRGIL BLANC brings a va-
riety of personal experiences to his classroom teaching,
even as he brings a variety of teaching experiences to
his work with St. Paul’s students. In addition to tutor-
ing at Yale, whence he received his B.A., Mr. Blanc has
worked and taught with Hopkins’ Center for Talented
Youth on a number of courses at Franklin and Marshall
during the summers. As a French Baccalaureate diplo-
mate, he also is excited about the prospect of working
and coaching with our IB students.
JEREMY HART’s life has taken him to varied
assignments—from the Scottish Parliament to the
Public Defender’s Office in Washington DC—but in
his internship at St. Paul’s, he has returned home to
the independent school world where he and his fam-
ily have a long history of service, most notably at the
Peddie School. A graduate of JMU, Mr. Hart will be
working in the College Counseling Office and teach-
ing a course in History. We are happy to have him also
helping the football and basketball programs.
As an Appalachian Trail thru-hiker, NATE SELL
has plenty of stories to share with the boys, and as the
new chaplain for the Upper School, he will have plenty
of opportunities to share them. He is driven to recre-
ate the powerful adolescent learning experiences that
he and his father both enjoyed with important mentors
and teachers. Chaplain Sell has followed his calling
into school ministry after finishing his bachelor’s
at Sewanee and earning his master’s from Princeton
Theological Seminary. He is a great proponent of
outdoor and experiential learning, and he is looking
forward to coaching lacrosse next spring and leading
our summer service learning trips.
With his background in swimming at LaSalle
College and the University of Rhode Island, SEAN
TUCKER is happy to bring his strong work ethic and
positive attitude to our athletic program. With his
penchant for integrating technology into the class-
room, Mr. Tucker is glad to bring his content-rich,
activity-based teaching style to our boys. And with re-
search and teaching skills learned at the University of
Pennsylvania and honed in public and private schools
from D.C. to Philadelphia, he is eager to continue to
grow as a professional teacher here at St. Paul’s.
DAN ZIMMERMAN has immersed himself in
Spanish language, literature, and instruction, having
taught everyone from beginners to advanced students
over the last seven years at the University of Virginia
while earning his M.A. and working on his Ph.D. He
has roots in our area, having attended Gettysburg
and grown up in Pennsylvania, but his work and
volunteering have taken him around the world—from
classrooms in Valencia to orphanages in Nicaragua. In
making the transition to St. Paul’s, Mr. Zimmerman
is excited about being able to focus on the student-
teacher relationship and the teacher-coach experience
as he looks forward to helping out with the hockey and
baseball programs. We are happy to have him join us
this year.
MIDDLE SCHOOL
MICHAEL GOLDFARB returns to St. Paul’s Middle
school after a year at the Harvard Graduate School of
Education where he earned an Ed.M in School Leader-
ship. This recent professional development in the form
of course work and an administrative internship at a
local Boston school will serve Michael well in his new
role as Middle School Dean of Academics and Faculty.
In addition, he will teach 7th grade English and coach
middle school basketball. We are excited to have
Michael back in our middle school community.
MARI MIYAKE, a native of Japan, earned her BS
in Early Childhood Education from Towson University.
Over the past 15 years she has taught and tutored
students in Japanese from kindergarten through high
school. She had great success as a teacher at the Japa-
nese Language School of Baltimore at Towson University
where the majority of her students chose to obtain addi-
tional Japanese language instruction after spending time
in her classroom. Mari will be a 6th grade advisor and
will serve as an assistant middle school coach during two
of our athletic seasons. Her energy, smile, and enthusi-
asm for her native language and culture will be a great fit
for our excellent middle school language program.
LOWER SCHOOL
An experienced early education teacher, KAREN
JOSEPH joins the St. Paul’s Kindergarten this year.
Karen has taught children ages three to six for the past
decade, including most recently as a pre-kindergarten
teacher at St. Paul’s Plus. In graduating with a degree in
education from Calcutta University, she won the gold
medal presented to the student with the highest GPA.
Karen is an accomplished pianist and musician who has
directed theatrical productions at her previous schools.
NEW FACULTY BRING WIDE RANGE OF EXPERIENCE, ENTHUSIASM
AND EXPERTISE TO ST. PAUL’S
After seven years of inspiring in St. Paul’s students a love
of animals, plants, and the wonders of the natural world,
Lower School science teacher Pat Kraemer retired at the
end of the 2014-15 academic year. For her tireless ef-
forts in helping St. Paul’s youngest students understand
how they can help take care of our planet, Ms. Kraemer
received the School’s Cathy McAuliffe Environmental
Leadership Award in 2014.

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For the second year in a row, the St. Paul’s Schools’
STEM Club entry in the American Visionary Art
Museum’s East Coast Kinetic Sculpture Race Champi-
onship won a major award in the popular competition,
with “Rainbow Fish” taking home the 2015 Art Award.
Last year’s St. Paul’s entry, “Fire,” an all-wheel drive
sculpture built from aluminum and featuring spinning
flames on the front and back, won the Championship’s
coveted Engineering Award.
“Winning these two awards in consecutive years
is an example of our School’s commitment to excel-
lence in both academics and the arts,” said Headmaster
David C. Faus. “Congratulations to the students and
teachers for their outstanding work.”
Kinetic Sculptures are amphibious, human-pow-
ered works of art custom built for the race. The eight-
hour Kinetic Sculpture race covers 15 miles—mostly on
pavement, but also including a trip into the waters of
the Inner Harbor and through mud and sand.
This year’s entry, “Rainbow Fish,” standing 16 feet
tall and 13 feet long when assembled, is an impressive
feat of engineering an design. Members of the STEM
Club spent months conceptualizing, designing, and
manufacturing the sculpture. They learned design and
fabrication skills from welding and plasma cutting to
gear ratios, chain tensioners, and how to properly use
lock washers.
Team members include:
Michael Acker ’16
Andrew Adachi ’16
Andrew DiFurio ’15
Jay Hedeman ’17
Simon Hetzler ’15
Ben Ishak ’18
Jenna Johnson ’15
Ben Noon ’16
Weld Robinson ’16
Joe Sollers ’15
Alden Strueber ’16
Emma Tong ’17
Kavie Yu ’16
Mr. Scott and SPSG faculty advisor Sofia De Jesus
expressed appreciation to St. Paul’s parents Suzanne
and Gabe DiFurio and 21st Century Group engineer-
ing for contributing workshop space, materials, tools
and time.
THE ART OF ENGINEERING:
ST. PAUL’S KINETIC SCULPTURE TAKES HOME
MAJOR AWARD FOR SECOND STRAIGHT YEAR
REVAMPED WEBSITES
TAKE HOME SILVER AWARD
The Council for Advancement and Support of Education
(CASE) has named St. Paul’s and St. Paul’s School for
Girls a Silver Award winner for best website in its 2015
Circle of Excellence Awards Program.
More than 720 higher education institutions,
independent schools and nonprofits worldwide submit-
ted more than 3,200 entries for Circle of Excellence
consideration in nearly 100 categories. Judges gave 307
awards: 93 bronze; 106 silver, 91 gold and 17 grand gold.
In the best website category, the St. Paul’s Schools
were recognized from almost 90 entries; this is just
the third CASE website award won by an independent
school in the last 10 years.
“Effective communication with our many con-
stituencies is one of St. Paul’s highest priorities,” said
Headmaster David C. Faus. “Our new website helps
us share important information with parents, alumni,
and prospective families.”
The October 2014 launch of the coordinated
St. Paul’s/SPSG sites was the culmination of a months-
long process that involved extensive use of web analytics
from the schools’ previous sites, feedback from em-
ployee and admissions surveys, and focus groups with
teachers, parents, and staff.
The CASE judges recognized the joint SP/SPSG
sites for effectively coordinating with one another and
communicating the schools’ unique enrollment model,
for efficient use of resources and for efforts to consoli-
date parent information in one place.

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Novelist and essayist Moshin Hamid enthralled faculty
and students with a talk on February 27 during a visit
to St. Paul’s sponsored by the Monitor and the Writing
Center. Hamid, on a national book tour for his new
collection of essays, Discontent and Its Civilizations:
Dispatches from Lahore, New York London, is also
the author of Moth Smoke, How to Get Filthy Rich in
Rising Asia and, most notably to St. Paul’s English stu-
dents, The Reluctant Fundamentalist. Hamid at times
spoke of his work in personal terms, with an outlook on
the world shaped by having lived in his native Pakistan,
London and the United States. He even confessed to
courting his wife under the guise of a writing an essay
for Time Magazine, using the pretext of a non-existent
assignment to visit her in Italy.
For Hamid, novels and stories provide narratives to
help us make sense of a complex world. A novel is “like
a building that readers walk into, an invitation to watch
things happen.” He likes readers to use their imagina-
tions to interpret the behavior of his characters and to
shape their own endings of his books—reassurance, no
doubt, for readers uncertain about the unformed mo-
tives of the protagonists in Hamid’s novels. Society, he
believes, needs writers and artists to “stumble around”
and occasionally produce something useful, on page,
screen, stage, canvas or some other medium.
The process of constructing a story for readers
was especially engaging for many listeners. Hamid,
who studied creative writing at Princeton with ac-
claimed American novelists Joyce Carole Oates and
Toni Morrison, advised aspiring writers to “read a lot,
and let stories play out in your head...the power you
have to tell your story is a great opportunity.” Writers
share the human tendency to harbor romantic notions
of “who we are,” and they can employ their writing to
express those notions. When asked if he feels “foreign”
when in the U.S., Hamid replied that he feels a bit that
way not only in America but in Pakistan, too—”but
everyone feels a bit foreign, a bit different”—a feel-
ing that’s part of the universal human condition that,
ironically, unites us in a shared sense of connectedness
and bestows an ability to tell unique stories.
Thanks to the leadership and generosity of the parents
of the Class of 2015, a new 250-square foot scoreboard
with electronic captions has been installed at Tullai
Field. The scoreboard is one of a number of projects,
also including restoration and improvement of the
School’s ropes course and the purchase of an industrial
laser cutter to support the STEM program, being
funded through the Senior Parent Gift.
“St. Paul’s is tremendously appreciative of the
generosity demonstrated by the parents of the Class of
2015,” said Headmaster David C. Faus. “The variety of
projects they are supporting is a testament to the well-
rounded seniors in the class, and to the well-rounded
experience the School provides all our students.”
The new scoreboard, which features customized
panels recognizing St. Paul’s and Martin D. Tullai Field,
made its debut at the first varsity lacrosse game of the
season. It replaced a 13-year-old scoreboard that served
the School well, but was a technological relic. In keep-
ing with St. Paul’s “green” philosophy, that board was
completely recycled.
The Senior Parent Gift Committee, chaired by
Bettina and Karl Kokinakis, generated support from
100 percent of the senior class parents to date, and
exceeded its ambitious $150,000 goal by more than
$10,000. Committee members were: Carol and Sam
Caballero; Stacey and Todd Grandy; Voula and Alec
Hajimahalis; Christine and Frank Koster; Kelly and
Chris McGovern; Missy and Rich Moreland; and Kris-
tin and Pat Pollard.
The Senior Parent Gift is a designated contribu-
tion to the Annual Fund given by the parents of gradu-
ating seniors. It is a wonderful way for parents to honor
their graduating sons and to leave a valuable legacy for
future St. Paul’s students. Recent Senior Parent Gift
projects have included the creation of a student learn-
ing center on the fourth floor of the Upper School,
renovations to the Hamilton Lawn, the Lower School
Discovery Center, and support of the Annual Fund.
“RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST” AUTHOR SHARES
WRITING INSIGHTS
CLASS OF 2015 PARENTS SET
NEW GIFT RECORD
Almost 400 members of the St. Paul’s Schools com-
munity, including Lower and Middle School students
and parents, along with Upper School volunteers, par-
ticipated in an evening of creative, hands-on STEM
activities at Family Maker Night on April 21.
Activities included Cottonball Catapults, Marsh-
mallow Towers, LED origami, and more than two
dozen others. Upper School chemistry teacher David
Chalfoun conducted an ongoing chemistry project
that culminated with kids making themselves foaming
candy that they could eat afterwards.
“The biggest goals are, one: to get kids interested
in what’s out there in the world of science; two: to allow
families to work on small projects together; and the last
thing: to showcase what we do here as a community,”
Mick Scott, St. Paul’s Director of STEM Initiatives, told
the student journalists of St. Paul’s school newspaper,
The Page.
Planning is already underway for next year’s
Maker Night. Members of the community who would
like to suggest and/or run a station at Maker Night
should contact Mr. Scott, who hopes Maker Night will
help inspire a new generation of STEM students.
“My goal as STEM Director for St. Paul’s is to
increase students’ interests and abilities in science
and mathematics, because I have a commitment that
we change the world and make it a better place,”
Mr. Scott said.
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With faculty and staff, Senior parents, and the Board
of Trustees leading the charge, the School had another
banner fundraising year in 2015, receiving more $2.4
million in gifts from over 1,700 donors. The Annual
Fund, the Bridges program, and the School’s endow-
ment were the major beneficiaries of this generosity,
with the Annual Fund topping $1.4 million for the
second straight year, bridges raising nearly $700,000,
and the endowment receiving almost $200,000. Mean-
while, the class of 2015 set a new record for the Senior
Parent gift, raising more than $160,000 with 100 per-
cent participation.
These numbers cannot truly capture the impact
of this generosity on the broader St. Paul’s community.
Examples range from the highly visible—witness the
classy new scoreboard on Martin D. Tullai field, funded
through the Senior Parent gift—to the largely invisible,
such as installation of LED fixtures to increase energy
efficiency and reduce operating costs, funded through
an endowment to promote campus “green” initiatives.
In between are myriad projects and activities large
and small that add enhance the experience of students,
teachers, parents, and graduates: a digital camera and
sound equipment for the Upper School film club; a fac-
ulty summer research grant to explore…; improvements
to the School’s IT network to improve bandwidth; a
mentoring program for Middle School students; new
soccer goals for the Lower School.
Financial aid for qualified students is an area that
has received increased support in recent years, enabling
the School to meet the growing need for assistance
that every independent school has faced since the 2008
recession. More than a third of the current families
receive some amount of financial assistance, a figure
that is in line with peer schools locally and nationally.
The School’s endowment includes 30 separate funds
that, collectively, generate nearly $250,000 to support
financial aid. This includes funds restricted to children
or grandchildren of alumni (The Alumni Scholarship
Fund and John Boyce Memorial Scholarship Fund);
funds restricted to students in specific grades (e.g., The
Sarah Thompson Scholarship Fund and Polk Memorial
Scholarship Fund); and many undesignated financial
aid funds (e.g., the Thomas Scheffenacker Memorial
Fund and S. Atherton Middleton Memorial Fund).
In addition to these endowed funds—many of
which continue to grow each year through additional
gifts—the School received almost $100,000 in annual
fund contributions in 2015 to support student financial
aid. “Gifts that support financial aid strengthen and
enrich our community—most obviously by helping us
to more of the very best students regardless of need,”
said Headmaster David Faus Philosophically, these
gifts also connect the School to its historic roots in
downtown Baltimore, as a school for the least fortunate
children in Old St. Paul’s parish, all of whom were in
need of financial assistance.
“On the heels of another successful fundraising
year, I extend my sincere thanks to all who said ‘Yes’ to
St. Paul’s in 2015,” said Headmaster David Faus. “I am
especially grateful to the School’s faculty and staff for
their strong support (99%) for the Annual Fund, which
I view as a resounding statement of their commitment
to our mission, their students, and each other.”
“YES-SAYERS” MAKE A DIFFERENCE
FAMILIES BRING THE WORLD TO ST. PAUL’S
AT INTERNATIONAL BLOCK PARTY
Already a highlight of the school calendar in just its
second year, the joint St. Paul’s/SPSG Parents’ Associa-
tion International Block Party drew hundreds to the
Ward Center for an evening celebrating the diversity
of national origins represented within the schools.
Students, parent and faculty shared their roots by
showing off a famous family dish or performing a tra-
ditional song and dance.
FALL 2015
COLUMNS, a newsletter for parents, alumni,
and friends, is published by St. Paul’s School.
St. Paul’s welcomes applicants of all races, religions,
and ethnic origins.
FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CALL 410.825.4400
EDITOR: Jamie Smith
PHOTOGRAPHY: Emily McCafferyDESIGN: Hwa Lee
2015-16 Arts Calendar
OCT. 14-NOV. 20
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Joint Middle School Art Show
Ward Center Gallery
Joint Upper School Production
“Shrek: The Musical”
Ward Center Theater
Joint Upper School Choral Concert
Old St. Paul’s Church
Middle School Concert
Chapel
Lower School Concert
Chapel
Reception for Upper School Art Show
(Show runs Dec. 2 through Jan. 6)
Ward Center Gallery
Joint Upper School Winter Production
Ward Center Theater
Joint Middle School Art Show
Ward Center Gallery
Joint Middle School Production
“Into the Woods”
Ward Center Theater
Joint Upper School Juried Art Show
Ward Center Gallery
Joint Upper School Spring Production
Ward Center Theater
Upper School Choral Concert
Chapel
Lower School Art Show
Ward Center Gallery
Middle School Concert
Chapel
Jazz Band Performance
Ward Center Octagon
4th Grade Production
Lower School Choral Concert
Chapel
SPORTS
1. Varsity lacrosse had a strong season, earning the MIAA’s #2
seed and falling to eventual champ St. Mary’s in the semifi-
nals. Carter Flaig ’15 set St. Paul’s all-time points and goals
records (245 and 158, respectively). A.J. Barretto ’15 set
the season and all-time records for saves (211 and 569).
Flaig, Barretto and Alex McGovern ’15, earned first-team
All-MIAA honors, with Barretto and McGovern also being
named Under Armour Senior All-Americans.
2. Varsity baseball went through a rollercoaster season,
playing the MIAA’s top teams extremely tough, before
suffering one-run losses in three of their final four games
to narrowly miss a playoff berth.
3. The St. Paul’s Crewsaders battled the unseasonably cold
winter as well as the mid-Atlantic’s top programs in an
successful season.
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Following a cold, snowy winter and a rain-filled spring,
the sun shone brightly on the June 6 Commencement
ceremony of the St. Paul’s School Class of 2015. After
gathering in the Chapel for the unveiling of the plaque
that bears their names, the 88 members of the St. Paul’s
Class of 2015 processed in brilliant sunshine to their
seats outside Brooklandwood.
In the Commencement address, Allan Koikoi
demonstrated the poise familiar to those who have
seen him excel on the playing fields. He thanked the
faculty for their efforts in educating the class, thanked
the School’s maintenance staff for their tireless behind
the scenes efforts, thanked his classmates for the
experiences they shared, and most of all thanked the
graduates’ families.
“The diplomas we receive are a symbol of perse-
verance, not just yours but your family’s perseverance,”
he said. “This accomplishment is much bigger than
you, and this ceremony isn’t just your celebration. It’s
your family’s.”
Chris Chasney received the Kinsolving-Hamilton
Award for embodying the ideals in the School Prayer.
The Arthur B. Kinsolving Fellowship Award for best
representing St. Paul’s School was presented to Carter
Flaig. The Alumni Medal recognizing the student with
the highest GPA in the class over four years of Upper
School was awarded to Ethan Pronovost.
The 88 graduating seniors from the St. Paul’s Class of
2015 will attend 69 different institutions in 24 states.
More than 60 percent of the Class reported earning
merit-based college and university scholarships.
St. Paul’s Director of College Counseling Jake
Talmage and the School’s four other college counselors
work closely with every senior and his family to deter-
mine which higher education option offers the best
possible fit. This degree of individual attention leads
to students pursuing a very wide range of colleges and
programs, and making independent decisions about
which school is right for them. Eleven members of the
Class of 2015 are headed to schools that no St. Paul’s
graduate has attended in at least five years, and an ad-
ditional seven will be the first St. Paul’s alumnus ever
to attend their college or university.
“We start fresh with each student, help him focus
on what’s going to be most important to him in col-
lege, and then help him find the school that best meets
his needs,” said Director of College Counseling Jake
Talmage. “This year our seniors sent 572 applications
to more than 215 colleges, schools or programs, and re-
ceived 318 offers of admission. Eighty-seven percent are
going outside of Maryland to continue their education.”
Talmage noted that the economy continues to play
a significant role in students’ college choices. Some opt
to stay closer to home to limit travel expenses. Others
take advantage of the trend for large public universi-
ties to offer generous financial packages to recruit
highly qualified out-of-state students. Regardless of
where St. Paul’s students matriculate, they are finding
success.
“Our surveys of recent graduates indicate that
they are doing very well in college. Much of that is
attributable to the outstanding preparation for higher
education that St. Paul’s provides its students,” said
Talmage. “I think another reason is that we’re helping
them enroll in the schools that are right for them, and
provide them the opportunity to find success.”
Mr. Talmage and the College Counseling Office
welcomed numerous members of the Class of 2016 to
campus in mid-August for the St. Paul’s Summer College
Application Camp, which has become a national model
for helping students gain a head start on the application
process before beginning their busy senior years.
Listed below are the four-year colleges and uni-
versities at which members of the Class of 2015 will
matriculate. A school listed in bold signifies that more
than one student is attending:
• American University
• Auburn University
• Bates College
• Boston College
• California Institute of Technology
• Christopher Newport University
• Clemson University
• Coastal Carolina University
• Colgate University
• College Prep Year
• Delaware Valley College
• Drew University
• Duke University
• Elon University
• Emory University
• Fairfield University
• Florida Institute of Technology
• Harvard University
• Hobart and William Smith Colleges
• Howard University
• Indiana University at Bloomington
• Loyola University Maryland
TAKING THE NEXT STEP:
CLASS OF 2015 HEADS FOR COLLEGE
St. Paul’s School Class of 2015
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• Lynchburg College
• Marquette University
• Miami University, Oxford
• Morgan State University
• Oberlin College
• Princeton University
• Rhodes College
• Roanoke College
• Sacred Heart University
• Samford University
• Sewanee: The University of the South
• Southern Methodist University
• St. Lawrence University
• St. Mary’s College of Maryland
• St. Thomas Aquinas College
• Stetson University
• Stevenson University
• Syracuse University
• Texas Christian University
• The George Washington University
• The University of Georgia
• The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Towson University
• Tulane University
• United States Military Academy
• United States Naval Academy
• University of California, Los Angeles
• University of Kentucky
• University of Mary Washington
• University of Miami
• University of Mississippi
• University of Pennsylvania
• University of Pittsburgh
• University of Richmond
• University of South Carolina
• University of Vermont
• University of Virginia
• Ursinus College
• Vanderbilt University
• Vassar College
• Virginia Wesleyan College
• Wake Forest University
• Washington College
• Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Allan Koikoi ’15 started at St. Paul’s in Fifth Grade.
He became a member of the Vestry, a campus tour guide,
and a three-sport varsity athlete who earned a football
scholarship to Miami University (OH). Allan was elected
Commencement speaker by his classmates; excerpts of his
address follow.
Graduation day is finally here. All of our hard work
has paid off, and we get to enjoy the fruits of our labor.
All the difficult times of struggle and discomfort have
come to a close, at least for this chapter of our lives,
and we can look back and think, “That wasn’t so bad.”
The long nights at your desk studying, weren’t so bad.
Those hot summer practices or cold brutal winter ones,
weren’t so bad. And those long hours perfecting what-
ever craft that is your passion, weren’t so bad.
These memories of struggle may be coming back
to your mind, but, I ask that you not dwell on those
not-so-good moments. I ask that you channel the emo-
tions that are brought about from those thoughts and
use them to fuel the emotions of this celebration today.
Today is the day that you can look back on those memo-
ries and say, “I made it through.” “I know it wasn’t easy,
but I made it through.”
Today is the day we are celebrated. So take a mo-
ment and celebrate. Celebrate your accomplishments,
celebrate your milestones, celebrate your triumphs,
and wear your accolades on your sleeves. Celebrate
with your loved ones and whoever else is special to you,
because I guarantee there’s a good chance you’re where
you are today because of them, because of your family.
Your family is your gravity, they can lift you up,
and they can keep your grounded. Your family is the
mechanic that keeps you in tune. When you’re crying
or feeling sad they fix your leaky pipes. When you’re
feeling down they give you a tune up and get you back
up on the road. And when you’re going too fast they
slow you down and keep you at the right pace. But
they’re way more than that. Your family is you, and you
are your family.
This is not just our graduation, it’s theirs too.
These diplomas aren’t just yours; they’re your family’s
as well. Because they are way more than just a piece of
paper rolled up and tied in a ribbon, it’s a symbol of per-
severance, not just yours, but your family’s perseverance.
So I ask that when you walk across this stage and accept
your diploma, remember that this accomplishment is
much bigger than you, and that this isn’t just your cer-
emony, it’s your family’s.
As I stand up on this stage I reflect on the difficult
times my family and I have gone through. But I realize
they were placed in my life for a reason, and because
of that I now see the beauty of those situations. The
beauty of the fact that we don’t always have it easy but
somehow we always get through. The beauty of that no
matter what material thing we were lacking, the one
thing we never lacked was each other. …
I now see that the only reason I made it this far
was my family. Seeing my support group and foundation,
people keep telling me how blessed I am, but seeing
how many people don’t have that necessity sometimes
I just feel lucky. I just feel like one of the “lucky ones”. I
feel lucky that I made it to my graduation day because
I’ve seen so many people with the same foundation
as me come up short. Sometimes I wonder how I got
this far, I wonder how I am so lucky to live the life I
do today. I feel lucky to have been born the son of two
immigrants, work ethic was something I saw every day,
it was impossible not to copy. I feel lucky that I made it
to this stage because statistically and logistically it just
wasn’t supposed to happen.
How did I make it this far? It could have only been
by luck or chance.
I remember wanting to give in, failure tapped me
on the shoulder and asked for a dance.
I escaped a school system that told me I couldn’t make it,
you know,
the type of system that just give knowledge to kids
and doesn’t think twice about how they distribute it.
My momma asked me how was school one day,
I told her I hate it.
The Principal hates me, and my teacher said
we’re going to amount to nothing,
I asked how could she say that, I told her momma
I wanna be something.
Fast forward, many sacrifices later I ended up
at this place,
St. Paul’s School also known as my saving grace.
I never quite understood how I got here;
my rap sheet from elementary school had to strike
schools with fear.
Rewind the clock back 10 or so years and take a glance
at my life,
you’ll see painted a situation that just doesn’t seem to
the present alike.
How I am so lucky is a question that lingers in my mind
at night,
maybe… just maybe I rolled the dice just right.
Suddenly I remember that I’m not lucky, and I’m
reminded that I am blessed. My life has a purpose and
my job is to fulfill that purpose. And knowing that and
keeping it in the back of my head gives me peace of
mind. I say this to remind you that all of us have a pur-
pose, and we have been given the opportunities we’ve
been given for a reason, not just by luck or chance. They
did not just fall into our laps, they were placed there.
Before I end, I have to give a thank you to the class
of 2015. Thank you for simply being who you are. Who
we are as individuals is what helped shape this class and
made it such a unique group. I wish you good luck in
your futures in whatever you do, I ask that you never
change, never lose that special quality that makes you
who you are. But most importantly I ask that you never
stop following your dreams.
“MY SAVING GRACE”

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1. The Class of 2015 processes 2. Ms. Adachi helps Ethan Pronovost 3. Headmaster David Faus 4. Christina Kemmerer and Ted Watson ’07 in the faculty processional. 5. Old St. Paul’s Rector
Mark Stanley, Chair of the St. Paul’s Trustees, offers the Invocation. 6. Carter Flaig receives the Kinsolving Fellowship Award 7. In the Chapel before Commencement 8. Ned Moreland ’15
9. Malcolm Jews ’15 10. Presenting the colors. 11. Kevin Warshaw ’15 and Rick Brocato 12. Henry Townsend ’15
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AWARDS PRESENTED
AT MIDDLE SCHOOL CLOSING
WILLIAM S. POLK AWARD (MOST IMPROVED)
Ryan William Evans
GUY H. TALBOTT CITIZENSHIP AWARD
Leo Joseph Michael Kelly, IV
MARC NASRALLAH AWARD
Ian Scott Coleman
CHARLES EMIG SPIRIT AWARD
Mason James Woodward
KINSOLVING/HAMILTON AWARD
George Louis Baker. IV
S. ATHERTON MIDDLETON AWARD
Philippe Nathaniel Soudry
ACADEMIC PRIZES
MATH PRIZE
Ian Scott Coleman
SCIENCE PRIZE
Nicholas Adam Hill
SPANISH PRIZE
George Louis Baker, IV
JAPANESE PRIZE
Jack Thomas Burke
ENGLISH PRIZE
Carson Elijah Frey
HISTORY PRIZE
Blake Ian Dudley
ART PRIZE
Leo Joseph Michael Kelly, IV
MUSIC PRIZE
Nicholas Adam Hill
THEATRE PRIZE
Blake Ian Dudley
WOODWORKING PRIZE
Ian Scott Coleman
SPIRITUALITY PRIZE
Charles Maxwell Fish
JOHN ROBERT FRENCH ’50 PRIZE
Troy Lewis Barthelme
FORM LEADERS (HIGHEST GPA)
5TH GRADE
Kevin James Plank
6TH GRADE
Colin Patrick Russell
7TH GRADE
Nathaniel Gregory Beal
8TH GRADE
George Louis Baker, IV and
Ian Scott Coleman
Middle School ClosingLower School Closing
The St. Paul’s Class of 2019 as they finish Middle School and prepare to move up.
Jayson Williams and Jack Cook lead
the procession.
Kinsolving/Hamilton Award winner
Lou Baker
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Early reference to boarding at St. Paul’s appears in the
minutes of the November 9, 1906, trustees’ meeting,
when Headmaster Miles Farrow “reported that the
boys were universally happy; that there had been no
cases of homesickness, which indicated to his mind
that the boys were well satisfied with the home being
provided for them.” Starting in 1922, on the Rogers Av-
enue campus in Mt. Washington, students supervised
the dormitories, put the younger boys to bed, got them
up and helped with discipline. Three dorms were on
second floor of the school building: one for the older
boys, another for “intermediates,” and a third for the
“Little Weeds.”
Rogers Avenue averaged 60 boarders annually; by
1934, the number of day students equaled the number
of boarders. Strange occurrences included David
Scott ’32 being accidentally shot in the stomach by a
classmate showing off a pistol in the dormitory, (Scott
survived and graduated).
Eventually a Boarders’ Council became part of the
student government, with elected representatives from
each form, or grade, in the dorm. Boarders babysat
for the masters—a “treat” that, according to Thom
Hook ’41, might yield 25 cents for the evening and a
chance to listen to big band tunes on the radio.
The boarders created their own campus culture,
reinforced by books assigned in class that were set in
boarding schools, such as The Catcher in the Rye and
A Separate Peace. Characters abounded: “The ‘Turkey
Gobbler’ dragged his weary bones into C Dorm last
October and has yet to be moved from the vicinity,”
said the yearbook of one boarder. “During the win-
ter his buck-teeth could usually be seen emerging
from behind the nearest basketball.” Richard Bland
Mitchell ’42 of Little Rock (no relation to your current
alumni director) was known as the “Arkansas Traveler”
who liked “plug cut tobaccy” and played “mountain
music on his harmonica.”
Russell Beers ’60 recalls the boarders living in
both Ordeman Hall (former home of the bookstore,
senior room, wood shop and fifth grade) and Brook
landwood, where upperclassmen lived on the third
floor. Bob Hunt ’68, who boarded from the sixth
through the ninth grades, recalls the “pay phone for
the occasional call home,” and weekends with “tennis
courts, a gym for basketball, a football field for touch
football… it was heaven.” Ping-pong reigned, and 10-
cent Pepsis generated enough of a profit to purchase
a pool table. “Mac the barber would come to the dorm
on Monday nights, cut our hair and tell us dirty jokes,”
Bob remembers. “Each week we put our laundry in
bags; it would go and come back all done up, typically
with plenty of starch.” His roommate set a fire in the
dorm, and when a firecracker exploded on the second
floor, the culprit was exonerated by an alibi until his use
of a delay fuse was discovered. “I know Farnham War-
riner contributed to my tuition costs, and others may
have as well,” says Bob, who was embraced by St. Paul’s
when his father died suddenly. “My memories of being
a St. Paul’s boarding student are of a loving, secure, and
fun community. I miss those days, which were a godsend
to a poor and fatherless boy.”
Hartwell Harrison ’68 recently fessed up to “bor-
rowing” the school banner the day after his graduation,
from the porch of the mansion. “So, when the sun had
risen over the hill, there I was sitting on my front porch
and there was the banner.” (Hartwell, boasting a re-
markably clear memory at sunrise following graduation
festivities, returned it 36 years later, enclosing with it an
annual rental fee of $10). Will Marshall ’71 remembers
“a motley collection of misfits, rebels, abandoned chil-
dren or those who couldn’t get into fancy New England
prep schools, and kids with some kind of family tie
to St. Paul’s.” Will, who says St. Paul’s turned his life
around, found his tie via Glen Yarbrough ’48, the pop
folk singer-guitarist who had dated his mother.
In the mid-1960’s, $4 million was budgeted to
build a dorm for 100 boarders, to be one of the most
modern in Baltimore. Plans were canceled, however,
when both local and national trends indicated declin-
ing interest in boarding. “Though a handful of board-
ers lingered, the trustees voted to suspend the board-
ing department at the close of 1970,” wrote Angelo
Otterbein ’91 in We Have Kept the Faith. Jeff Seal ’73,
Steve Blizzard ’73 and Pat Harrigan ’73, finished their
days on the third floor of Brooklandwood, closing the
long and rich tradition of St. Paul’s boarding students.
A HOME AWAY FROM HOME AT ST. PAUL’S
(Reprinted from the “Crusader Connection” e-newsletter)
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FROM THE MOST RECENT EDITION ABOUT STUDENTS WHO BOARDED AT ST. PAUL’S.
Blue-Gold Reunion Weekend, May 1-2, 2015, was a great
success. Almost 200 alumni visited campus for all or part
of the weekend, from the Headmaster’s luncheon and
lacrosse game on Friday, to croquet and class dinners on
Saturday. Alumni Association awards included:
DISTINGUISHED ALUMNUS
WICK SOLLERS ’73
Managing Partner of the Washington, D.C., Office of
King Spalding; St. Paul’s Trustee.
OUTSTANDING ALUMNUS DAVID HEIN ’72
Humanities professor at Hood College and renowned
historian
DISTINGUISHED YOUNG ALUMNUS
JASON CALDWELL ’05
Associate at Lazard Asset Management
HONORARY ALUMNUS MARGOT REILING
St. Paul’s Faculty, 1965-1994
First female honorary alumnus
In addition, the School initiated a new tradition,
recognizing those who have served St. Paul’s for at least
45 years by engraving their names on capstones in the
Chapel courtyard. Capstones were unveiled on Friday of
Blue-Gold Reunion Weekend in honor of:
LOUIS DORSEY CLARK (58 YEARS)
Mr. Clark joined the St. Paul’s faculty in 1927. During
his tenure, he filled most every role: chair of the history
department, assistant headmaster, senior master, dean,
archivist, and coach.
MITCH TULLAI (51 YEARS)
Mr. Tullai started at St. Paul’s in 1953 as Athletic Director
and eighth grade history teacher. He remained AD for a
quarter-century and coached varsity football for 41 years.
In 1992, Mr. Tullai was named an honorary St. Paul’s alum-
nus, and the varsity football and lacrosse field at St. Paul’s
and the Head Coaches’ Cup are named in his honor.
CLIFFORD LOW ’65 (46 YEARS AND
COUNTING)
Mr. Low is has served as Science Department Head,
Chair of the Curriculum and Discipline Committees,
Acting Head of the Math Department, Dean of Stu-
dents, and advisor to both the Honor and Spirit Councils.
Cliff taught chemistry for many years and was our
School’s first network administrator. Today Cliff contin-
ues as the theater manager, tech coordinator, and stage
lighting and sound director at the Ward Center. He was
a Kinsolving Fellow, has chaired Selection Committee
of the St. Paul’s School Athletic Hall of Fame, and holds
the distinction of being the School’s senior master.
BLUE-GOLD REUNION WEEKEND REUNITES CRUSADERS
FROM ACROSS THE DECADES

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1 Classmates from the 50th Reunion Class of 1965
2 Alyson Wells, Rob McDavid ’91, Brett Wells ’90
3 Director of Alumni Relations Charley Mitchell ’73
4 Alumni Award Recipients David Hein ’72, Wick
Sollers ’73, Margot Reiling, and Jason Caldwell ’05.
5 Alumni Lacrosse game.
6 Varsity Lacrosse team takes the field.
7 Members of the 2010 MIAA Champion varsity
lacrosse team.
8 The Class of 1965
9 Jason Cadlwell introduced to receive
the Distinguished Young Alumnus Award.
10 11 Headmaster David C. Faus unveils the new
Chapel courtyard capstones honoring those
with 45 years of service to St. Paul’s.
12 Cliff Low ’65 and Ned Kissinger ’95
13 Former English teacher Edward Brown and
Matt Nuzzi ’00
14 Steve Gillman ’05 and Fraser Dachille ’05
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ALUMNI UPDATES
1950s
DON MALKEMUS ’52 dropped by campus
after a 63-year absence. A resident of
Powhatan, VA, Don was in the last
graduating class at the Mt. Washington
campus on Rogers Avenue. He had a
long career in sales before starting his
own tree business, and now oversees 5
children, 13 grandchildren and a handful
of great-grands. We hope Don will return
in the fall to see old friends, perhaps at a
ROMEO lunch.
1960s
BOB HEAPS ’69, now resident in New
Orleans, launched his new wine store,
Grande Krewe, on Bastille Day. “We
think you will find the store very au-
thentic, true to New Orleans, and with
about 100 champagnes, just a fun place
to shop for wine,” says Bob of the store,
at 511 Marigny (corner of Marigny and
Decatur).
A few guys from the CLASS OF ’69 gath-
ered in June to mark the 3rd anniversary
of their 45th reunion, at their old Windy
Valley haunt: L-R: MATT FENTON, SCOTT
HOPKINS, MITCH KOPPELMAN, CAREY DEELEY,
ELLIS WOODWARD, PAUL ZELLER.
1970s
BILL BARTGIS ’70 lives in Ellicott City and
works as a defense contractor support-
ing an intelligence community customer.
JIM GRANT ’72 continues with commis-
sions from individuals, choruses, cham-
ber ensembles and orchestras who have
performed his music throughout the
world. He’s a past first-prize winner of
the Louisville Orchestra competition
for new orchestral music and, in 2002,
was one of five American composers to
win the Aaron Copland Award. Jim, a
member of the Old St. Paul’s choir dur-
ing his days at St. Paul’s, lives and works
in Oxtongue Lake, ON, and Sarasota,
FL, with his wife, fine-art photographer
Elizabeth Siegfried.
“Limited seating, no climate control, no
snacks, no facilities, but a great view,”
reports RAND KOHLER ’73 of his “flight”
aboard Victoria Falls “Airlines.” Rand’s
overflight of Victoria Falls was a high-
light of his travel through South Africa,
Zambia, Botswana and Zimbabwe with
his partner of 24 years, Scott Gordon.
KIRK CULBERTSON ’73 is the controller
at Baltimore Community Lending in
downtown Baltimore. “It’s a small, fo-
cused operation with only seven staff,”
says Kirk. “Nice, quiet, efficient and
friendly. I hope to stay with this job
until I can’t work anymore.” Kirk’s chil-
dren, Mitchell and Amelia, are top stu-
dents at Riderwood Elementary School.
Three Crusaders and their brides met
up at Sanibel over spring break: L-R: AL
WALLER ’73, CHUCK DONOFRIO ’73 and AMOS
“HUTCH” HUTCHINS ’73. At SPSG, Al’s wife
Edee is a former dean of students and
arts chair; now she’s class dean for the
10’s and a senior advisor for multiple
departments.
1980s
TIM DOWNES ’84 has left his post as athletic
director at Emory for the same position
at the Westminster Schools in Atlanta.
The Daily Record has named STEVE
SILVERMAN ’84 a 2015 Influential Mary-
lander. The editors chose 51 honorees in
10 categories, based on the prominence
of their roles, activities and community
involvement. Steve handles complex
civil and criminal litigation throughout
Maryland and the United States, in-
cluding serving as lead counsel for the
plaintiffs in the NFL pain killer class
action litigation and co-counsel in the
NHL concussion litigation. He’s been
named one of the top 100 trial lawyers
in Maryland for 9 consecutive years, one
of the top 10 criminal defense attorneys
in the Northeast and one of the top 100
lawyers in the Northeast United States.
Last year Steve received a Governor’s
Citation for his service to Marylanders
and the judiciary.
1990s
ANTHONY SCHWEIZER ’92, a St. Paul’s
national trustee, generously hosted
a Boston-area alumni gathering last
winter. Anthony is a financial advisor at
UBS Financial Services.
PATRICK DOYLE ’93 lives in Glen Rock, NJ
and has been building the lacrosse pro-
gram in that small town. Patrick, who
has 4 children (3 girls and a boy, ages
11, 9, 7 3), has been with Pfizer since
graduating from Duke in 1997. “I would
love to stay connected, and I do try to
drop-in for football or lax games when I
am in town,” he says.
HARRIS THOMPSON ’96 is back in the area
to focus on acquisition and growth for
Pivot Physical Therapy, which has 1,000
employees in ten states, and son K.C. be-
comes a Crusader this fall in our second
grade. “I’m proud to have played on Mr.
Tullai’s last football team!” says Harris.
STEVE BEAUCHAMP ’97 is a support advi-
sor for Maller Wealth Advisors, where
he works with Peter Maller to deliver
financial planning services to clients.
TODD BROOKS ’99 was recently named
a partner of the Whiteford Taylor
Preston law firm. Todd is a litigator in
the Baltimore office of the firm, with
a focus on bankruptcy litigation and
appellate practice, and he routinely han-
dles appeals as an Assigned Public De-
fender. In June, he and a colleague won
an appeal before Maryland’s high court
concerning a criminal defendant’s right
to a hearing when evidence supporting
a claim of innocence is discovered after
the defendant’s trial and conviction.
Todd credits St. Paul’s for his penchant
for spending full days reading, analyzing
issues and writing.
2000s
KENNY MOORE ’02 and his wife are proud,
new parents of twins who arrived in
June. Kenny works in the corporate
finance department of TEKsystems, a
leading provider of IT staffing, IT talent
management and IT services.
JAMES KUSNER ’03, a firefighter, is with
Truck Company 10 on West Lafayette
Ave. “Truck 10 carries a great deal of
respect and tradition with its name and
goes to more structure fires than any
other truck company in the city,” he says.
“‘Business’ last spring was steady, with all
the tension in our neighborhood; Fred-
die Gray was arrested only a few blocks
from our station. I still feel lucky to be
able to help people in the manner I do
for a living.” James recently bought a
house in Towson and will marry Kristin
Kennedy in November 2016.
LAWRENCE STATEN ’03 chairs the history
department and teaches sixth grade
civics and upper school government
at Washington Latin Public Charter
School in Washington, D.C. He serves
on the academic committee and coaches
the middle school baseball team, unde-
feated the last two seasons.
JORDAN EBERLEIN ’04 is working with Proj-
ect RED, based in El Salvador, where he
lived for 9 months before moving to San
Antonio, home of much of the Project’s
network and support base. “We work
with families adversely affected by a
new law allowing the government to
remove children from orphanages and
send them to live with biological rela-
tives,” explains Jordan. “Many of these
relatives are abusive, neglectful or too
poor to care for themselves, let alone
these new and vulnerable tenants.” Jor-
dan hopes to expand Project RED to his
home town of Baltimore.
HENRY VAN WAGENBERG ’04 co-founded
an after-school program in Berlin, Die
Lernwerkstatt (the Learning Workshop)
that tutors students in math, science,
English and computer programming.
MIKE O’NEIL ’05 is interning in the Political
and External Affairs Dept. at the Edison
Electric Institute in Washington. “I’m
trying to break into the energy industry
and am considering moving back to
Baltimore if the right opportunity arises,”
says Mike, who is tapping the Crusader
Network for suggestions.
DENMORE MCDERMOTT ’07 has left the
bucolic campus of his alma mater for a
new job at Millennial Media in Canton.
2010s
JACK GALVIN ’06 is engaged to Hope Adkins
and reports that “we haven’t set a wed-
ding date yet, but we’re shooting for late
May/early June 2016—at least a handful
of groomsmen are SP alum so there won’t
be a shortage of Crusies in attendance!”
Jack works at JBG, a commercial real
estate developer and owner in the DC-
Metro area. He’s on the commercial
management team and is responsible for
financial, operational and construction
management of a number of office build-
ings in Bethesda.
After conducting research at the Patux-
ent Wildlife Research Center on com-
mon and least terns on Poplar Island,
MD, as part of a restoration project in
the middle of the Chesapeake Bay, PAUL
MARBAN ’09 is starting in the Marine,
Estuarine and Environmental Sciences
graduate program at the University
Maryland, with a focus on ecology.
JEFF FOUNTAIN ’10 is working at Garrison
Financial in Hunt Valley, “living at home,
hopefully saving a few dollars so that I
can move out soon,” he says. Jeff, a key
player on the 2010 Crusader champion-
ship lacrosse team, turned out for the an-
nual alumni lax game during Blue-Gold
Reunion Weekend, after which he was
heard to mutter, “I must be getting old,
because I’m still sore!”
COLLIN SPOLETI ’10 has found employment
at Reelz, a national television network,
working primarily with buyers/planners
and advertisers to buy, book and run
commercial spots across the network.
“This involves lots of communication
between parties and making sure adver-
tisers are getting what they paid for, and
that their money shows up on screen
when it’s supposed to,” he says.

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ROBBIE WILSON ’10 is theater director at
the Harbu School in Owings Mills. His
participation in the alumni phonathon
during the Laker-Crusader Challenge in
May, in which we trounced the Lakers,
was much appreciated by his alma mater.
AUSTIN SAUTER ’11 has returned to St. Paul’s
as Alumni Giving Coordinator, working
with both annual giving and alumni rela-
tions and focusing especially on young
alumni. Austin, a 2014 graduate of
Towson University, comes from a line
of Crusaders: his brother Evan Sauter
is class of 2013; mother Kim is assistant
to the head of the Middle School; aunt
Jenn Schneider heads IT on campus, and
cousin Reagan is SP class of 2022.
MATT MOORES ’12 is in both an improv
comedy troupe at Johns Hopkins called
the Buttered Niblets and a sketch come-
dy group called Throat Culture. “I’m also
planning on starting a stand-up group,
but that’s TBD!” he says.
DEVIN SELDON ’12 received the Creative
Performing Arts scholarship at the
University of Maryland and has finished
a piece called “Sharing a Dance with You.”
He’s the president of Dynamic Dance
Team at Maryland.
DAVID TRIPLETT ’13, a student at Muhlen-
berg, recently opened in Anyone Can
Whistle. He’s working in a Circus com-
pany with shows in November and April
and performing and teaching dance to
elementary middle schoolers with a
community performance ensemble.
AJ BARRETTO ’15, a new cadet at the U.S.
Military Academy, received the inaugural
Cyrus Horine Award as the outstanding
goalie in the MIAAA conference. The
award was presented at halftime of the
conference championship game on
May 15 by JOHN HORINE ’79, who created
the award in honor of his father, Cyrus
Horine, an outstanding goalie at Gilman
and Princeton. John dominated face-
offs in the Crusaders’ 9-8 victory over
Boy’s Latin in the 1979 championship
lacrosse game.
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2016
FEBRUARY 19
Bull Roast
Pollock Gym
APRIL 15
Volunteer Breakfast
Brooklandwood
MAY 6-7
Blue-Gold Reunion Weekend
REUNIONS FOR ALL CLASSES ENDING
IN “1” AND “6”!
HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE:
Headmaster’s Luncheon
Varsity Lacrosse Game and Alumni Beer Garden
Alumni Cocktail Party
Alumni Lacrosse Game
Reunion Class Dinners
2015
OCTOBER 8
Legacy Cup Alumni Golf Tournament
Elkridge Country Club
DECEMBER 18
Alumni Holiday Bowl
Tullai Field
Alumni Hockey Game
Patterson Park
DECEMBER 22
Young Alumni Homecoming
Brooklandwood
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Brooklandville,MD
ST.PAUL’SSCHOOLfall
Year
15
SEEKTRUTH,KNOWLEDGEANDEXCELLENCE;
LIVEBYFAITH,COMPASSIONANDINTEGRITY.
extraordinarycontributionsthatfaroutstripthere-
quiredhours.OurmostrecentgraduatesfromtheClass
of2015volunteeredacumulative10,442hoursduring
theirfouryearsintheUpperSchool.
Thestartoftheschoolyearisanexcitingtime.Ihope
youwillvisitSt.Paul’ssoonandseehowwearebuilding
onourhistorictraditionswhilesimultaneouslyprepar-
ingforthechallengesofthefuture.
Sincerely,
DavidC.Faus
Headmaster
dearalumni,parents,andfriendsofst.paul’s,
Asvisitorstourthe
beautifulenviron-
mentthatourSchool
inhabitstoday,they
areusuallysurprised
tolearnofourhumble
originsinacramped
redbrickbuildingin
downtownBaltimore,
founded“forthe
maintenanceandeducationofpoorboys.”Inthe166
yearssince,St.Paul’shastransformedintoaflourishing
collegepreparatoryschool,butthatfoundingideal
ofenhancingeducationalopportunitiesfortheyouth
ofBaltimorestillfindsexpressioninmanywayson
ourcampus.
InthisissueofColumns,youwillreadaboutyoung
alumniwhoarededicatingtheircareerstothisvital
goal.Itisgratifyingtoheareachofthemcredittheir
experiencesatSt.Paul’sforinspiringthisdirectionin
theirlives.Itisequallygratifyingtoseethemanyways
today’sstudentsarebeingsimilarlyinspired.
IntheLowerSchool,studentsdonateanddeliver
lunchesforthehungrytoMannaHousethroughoutthe
year.Studentcouncilmembersdeliverstudent-made
craftstotheelderlyresidentsofBrightwood.Thechil-
drenparticipateinanoutreachprojectforaschoolin
Botswanabycreatinggamesandprovidingbooksfor
theclassroomthere,aswellascollectingpersonalitems
forteachers.
TheMiddleSchoolService-Learningprogramgives
boystheopportunityforleadershipastheylearnthe
importanceofbeingpartofsomethingbiggerthan
themselves.Theydevelopandapplyproblem-solving
skillstoreal-worldsituationsbydevelopingaplan
ofassistanceandimplementingitoverthecourseof
theschoolyearintheirworkatorganizationslike
McCormickElementarySchool’sfirstgrade,and
BaltimoreSprouts,asustainableagricultureprogram
inBaltimoreCity.
Ourservice-learningeffortsreachtheirculmination
inUpperSchool,whereeachstudentmustcomplete
atleast60hoursorapprovedservice,includingatleast
oneprojectperyear.Studentsservecommunitiesin
needandformmeaningfulconnectionswhilemaking