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Several Inducted into The Cum Laude Society
On Monday night ten seniors and seven juniors were inducted into the Woodberry chapter of The Cum Laude Society. The Cum Laude Society was founded to “recognize scholastic achievement, encourage academic excellence, and praise excellence, justice, and honor.” Christopher Wadsworth, the executive director of the International Boys’ Schools Coalition, gave the keynote speech.
Seniors Class Inductees
David Breckenridge Caughman
Jonathan William Andrew Clifton
David Michael Cope
Robert Howell Crosby IV
Conner Gray Gentil
Gavin Andrew Kirk
William Shea Leatherman
Adlai Travis Mast IV
Famid Rahman Sinha
Paul Bernhardt Toms III
Junior Class Inductees
Andrew Conover Burns, Jr.
Charlton deSaussure III
William Mason Dutton
Henry Richmond Holderness
John Merrill Phillips, Jr.
Trevor Shaw Slaven
William Allen Stokes, Jr.
Student Members
John Daniel Baker III
William Jackson Gordon, Jr.
Jonathan Allen Hemler
Amy Jo Kendall
Ryan Wakefield McLarry
Alexander Heyward Merrill
Norman Greeley Nicolson
Samuel Allen Slater
Thomas Bird Storrs
Faculty Members
W. Edward Blain
Donald Brewster
Dennis M. Campbell
Leesa H. Campbell
Michael F. Follo
Marcus A. Hogan
Paul S. Huber III
Frederick W. Jordan
Karen E. Jordan
Robert J. Kendall
Brendan J. O’Shea
Paul A. Vickers III
About the Speaker
Chris Wadsworth became the first executive director of the International Boys’ School Coalition after a notable career in education. After graduating from Harvard College, he spent a year “under the watchful eye of senior faculty members” as a teaching fellow in history at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, his high school alma mater. He worked for Harvard College for six years, first in the Office of Admissions and Scholarships and later as an assistant dean in the Freshmen Dean’s Office. After he received masters’s degrees from Harvard University in teaching and history, Mr. Wadsworth became headmaster of Nichols School in Buffalo, New York, leading the day school “through a major transformation — from a one-campus school for 400 boys to a two-campus school for 740 girls and boys.” His next position, after ten years at Nichols School, was headmaster of Belmont Hill School, a boys’ boarding school in Belmont, Massachusetts.
In 1993, “attracted by an opportunity to head a leading institution in an Islamic country which is committed to being a secular democracy and which is destined to play an important geo-political role in the world during the coming century,” Mr. Wadsworth became headmaster of Robert College in Istanbul, Turkey. During his tenure there, he helped guide the school through major changes in policies, curriculum, and facilities, “while responding to minor physical but significant emotional and psychological problems experienced by many members of the community following a major earthquake near Istanbul in August 1999.”
Now Mr. Wadsworth is back in his home state of Massachusetts, where he lives with his wife, Lori. The Wadsworths are parents of two sons.
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Seniors Class Inductees
David Breckenridge Caughman
Jonathan William Andrew Clifton
David Michael Cope
Robert Howell Crosby IV
Conner Gray Gentil
Gavin Andrew Kirk
William Shea Leatherman
Adlai Travis Mast IV
Famid Rahman Sinha
Paul Bernhardt Toms III
Junior Class Inductees
Andrew Conover Burns, Jr.
Charlton deSaussure III
William Mason Dutton
Henry Richmond Holderness
John Merrill Phillips, Jr.
Trevor Shaw Slaven
William Allen Stokes, Jr.
Student Members
John Daniel Baker III
William Jackson Gordon, Jr.
Jonathan Allen Hemler
Amy Jo Kendall
Ryan Wakefield McLarry
Alexander Heyward Merrill
Norman Greeley Nicolson
Samuel Allen Slater
Thomas Bird Storrs
Faculty Members
W. Edward Blain
Donald Brewster
Dennis M. Campbell
Leesa H. Campbell
Michael F. Follo
Marcus A. Hogan
Paul S. Huber III
Frederick W. Jordan
Karen E. Jordan
Robert J. Kendall
Brendan J. O’Shea
Paul A. Vickers III
About the Speaker
Chris Wadsworth became the first executive director of the International Boys’ School Coalition after a notable career in education. After graduating from Harvard College, he spent a year “under the watchful eye of senior faculty members” as a teaching fellow in history at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, his high school alma mater. He worked for Harvard College for six years, first in the Office of Admissions and Scholarships and later as an assistant dean in the Freshmen Dean’s Office. After he received masters’s degrees from Harvard University in teaching and history, Mr. Wadsworth became headmaster of Nichols School in Buffalo, New York, leading the day school “through a major transformation — from a one-campus school for 400 boys to a two-campus school for 740 girls and boys.” His next position, after ten years at Nichols School, was headmaster of Belmont Hill School, a boys’ boarding school in Belmont, Massachusetts.
In 1993, “attracted by an opportunity to head a leading institution in an Islamic country which is committed to being a secular democracy and which is destined to play an important geo-political role in the world during the coming century,” Mr. Wadsworth became headmaster of Robert College in Istanbul, Turkey. During his tenure there, he helped guide the school through major changes in policies, curriculum, and facilities, “while responding to minor physical but significant emotional and psychological problems experienced by many members of the community following a major earthquake near Istanbul in August 1999.”
Now Mr. Wadsworth is back in his home state of Massachusetts, where he lives with his wife, Lori. The Wadsworths are parents of two sons.
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