All boys. All boarding. Grades 9-12.
2000-present
David Cope ’03
Lieutenant, United States Navy
After graduating from the Naval Academy in 2007, I was commissioned as an ensign and served as a surface warfare officer SWO) onboard the USS Farragut, DDG 99 in Mayport, Florida. During my two years onboard I acted as the main propulsion officer, auxiliaries officer, and anti-submarine warfare officer. I conducted counter-drug operations in the Caribbean as well as joint operations with several South American navies and was awarded the Navy Achievement Medal. Following my tour onboard the Farragut, I laterally transferred to the engineering duty officer (EDO) community and was subsequently accepted to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to study in the navy's naval engineering and construction program. I am currently in the third and final year of the program, through which I will receive a MS in mechanical engineering as well as a naval engineer's degree. Once I graduate, I'll be working in ship and submarine design, repair and maintenance.
— David Cope
Woodberry Forest School is an exceptional private school community for high school boys in grades nine through twelve. It is one of the top boarding schools in the United States and one of the only all-boys, all-boarding schools in the country.
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