May 26, 2015

Today, we are highlighting the achievements of the CS Seminar class of 2011. These students are graduating from high school and have compiled a very impressive list of college acceptances and achievements. Joseph (Junior) Ametepe is graduating from Brookwood High School in Georgia and will be attending Georgia Gwinnette College on a full soccer scholarship. […]

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April 21, 2015

1) Samantha Stratton (Seminar class of 2011) was just named a Distinguished Scholar for the 2015 graduating class of Salem High School. This award is given to students who show exceptional character and will graduate with above a 4.0 GPA. Sam is an International Baccalaureate student, has been in the National Honor Society all four […]

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March 31, 2015

Celine Anderson (Seminar class of 2011) is hard at work on her senior project at Community High School: “The Roanoke Rover,” an annual journal about Roanoke’s culture and history. Celine has participated in several research projects about Roanoke, including an investigation of Roanoke’s history of urban renewal with Matt Ames. The investigation included collecting oral […]

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February 10, 2015

Susanna Thornton (Seminar class of 2000) has returned to the Roanoke Valley and is operating an organic CSA business called Thornfield Farm. She will be hosting a farm stand at Community School on Tuesday afternoons beginning April 7. Visit www.thornfieldfarm.com to learn about her enterprise or to place your order for a farm share. Stop […]

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January 13, 2015

Congratulations to CS alumna Anne Peyton Brothers (Seminar class of 2011) on winning first place last month in the English Speaking Union Southwest Virginia Branch’s Shakespeare Competition. She will be traveling to New York City this spring to compete in the national Shakespeare event. Anne Peyton represented Patrick Henry High School where she is currently […]

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January 6, 2015

1) Kate Bondurant, who attended CS during elementary and middle school, was on the CS campus in December volunteering in our classrooms. She is in the second year of her master’s in public policy at the University of Virginia and holds a bachelor’s in political science from the University of South Carolina. For her master’s […]

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November 4, 2014

1) Ayn Cates Sullivan, who attended CS in the 1970s, is the recipient of several awards for her children’s books, including two Gold awards from the Mom’s Choice Awards, Winner at the London Book Festival (2012), Honorable Mention at the Los Angeles Book Festival (2012-2013), and Winner at the Beverly Hills Book Awards. She is […]

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October 28, 2014

Sarah Sachs (Seminar class of 1998) is an upper school art teacher at Garrison Forest School in Owings Mill, Maryland. She teaches darkroom photo, digital photo, jewelry, and sculpture, as well as working as a freelance photographer in Baltimore. Sarah holds a M.F.A. from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) and a B.A. in […]

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October 21, 2014

1) Houston Johnson (Seminar class of 1996 and Extended Studies Program class of 2000) was recently interviewed for the program “With Good Reason” on public radio where he discussed his research on the history of American aviation. He is an Assistant Professor of History at Virginia Military Institute. You can listen to the podcast at […]

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October 14, 2014

1) Alex Bentley (Seminar class of 2008) recently moderated some of the presentation sessions at the second Biology of the Pit Vipers Conference at the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma. This is particularly impressive given that he is a college freshman. Alex, whose passion for snakes is well known around our school community, chose to […]

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