Dear St. Andrew's Families,
Homecoming at many schools is traditionally a time when alumni come back, cheer on some teams, and remember the good old days. We'll have a little bit of that this weekend, but many people have worked very hard to reinvent the model here at St. Andrew's and our alumni couldn't be more excited.
Our faculty will grow by 50% over the next 48 hours as alumni return from all over the country and the world. Students have already taken workshops from members of the Cypress String Quartet and heard from Cora Currier '05, one of the brightest young investigative journalists on national security issues in America. Tomorrow, they'll hear from my classmate, Eva Sayre '97, who came to St. Andrew's from a small town in Pennsylvania and went on to earn two Magna Cum Laude degrees from Duke, work in consulting in the Middle East and is now an award-winning film producer based in Dubai.
Tomorrow morning, students will take workshops on writing from LA Times columnist Meredith Blake '97, Cora, Georgie Devereaux '01, who recently won the Academy of American Poetry prize and teaches at NYU, or Kathy DeMarco van Cleve ’84 who teaches creative writing at the University of Pennsylvania.
Or maybe they'll take stage fighting in Shakespeare's plays from Dan Hasse '10 who just won a grant for screenwriting from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (he's multi-talented), or acting lessons from Phil Smith '83 who won a Tony Award in 2011. Workshop leader Paul Bramble '95 is a construction executive, but spends his free time as a wildlife photographer and just had a photograph published in National Geographic.
There's more than 20 more architects, painters, filmmakers and musicians joining these incredible and generous alumni and they're all coming here excited to share, give back, and inspire your kids.
All the best,
Will Robinson '97
Communications
