Dr. Randolph Ashton (’99) attended Governor’s School in its early days. He remembers learning from gifted teachers like Pat Taylor, John Wilkes, and Phil Tharp, and running for legendary track and field coach Jim Holdren. “While the building was not as nice as GSGIS’s current location, the people and the learning atmosphere were still the […]
Kate Lipper-Garabedian (’99) is one of the Governor’s School alumni making good on part of the school’s mission: she is running for office this November. Kate was a student at Governor’s School in its early days, when it was still housed in the Thomas Jefferson building. Though she, like many, remembers the lack of toilet […]
Ross Savedge graduated from Governor’s School in 1999. He remembers the school as “competitive and full of the widest variety of interesting, intelligent students one could ask for. Teachers and school administration trusted the students, and in return, we liked and trusted them. Everyone was treated with respect. And everyone was friendly and interesting.” He also has warm memories […]
We owe a special thank you to our alumni this year for their exceptional contributions to the Governor’s School Foundation. This fiscal year, a full 31% of all alumni donated alumni donated a combined $81,000. That’s more than $10,000 over our previous record for alumni giving set in 2013-14. During the campaign, we got life […]
Jessie Abbate (’99) began doing infectious disease field work in the French and Italian Alps in graduate school. She was awarded a Chateaubriand fellowship in 2011 to finish her doctoral dissertation with a French collaborator. Landing a post-doc position at the premiere ecology lab in France (CEFE), located in Montpellier, she moved shortly after graduating with her […]
