Stephen G. Hill, Groton School, Class of 1980
January 16th, 2012Stephen G. Hill is currently the President of Music Programming and Specials of BET Networks. A native of Washington, D.C., Hill attended the Groton School from 10th through 12th grade (form 4 through form 6), graduating in the Class of 1980. Hill received a Bachelor’s Degree in Applied Mathematics/ Economics from Brown University in 1984.
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Ntozake Shange – writer/creator “for colored girls…” 1975
November 10th, 2010Ntozake Shange understands what it means to be a prep school negro. Daughter of a surgeon and a psychiatric social worker, Shange attended an all-white school in St. Louis during the mid-1950s, graduated from Barnard College and earned her Master’s degree from the University of Southern California in American Studies. But for a long time Shange suffered from her own isolation. The language of survival Shange needed to create led to the 1975 hit Broadway play, “for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf”, which has recently been adapted into a film (For Colored Girls by Tyler Perry).
Click link below for an excerpt from this week’s issue (Nov 8, 2010) of The New Yorker magazine.
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Imani Perry, Cambridge Friends School class of ‘86 and Concord Academy class of ’90
September 13th, 2010Imani Perry, author of Prophets of the Hood: Politics and Poetics in Hip Hop (Duke University Press, 2004) and the forthcoming More Beautiful and More Terrible: The Embrace and Transcendence of Racial Inequality in the United States (New York University Press, 2011), takes us back to her first day of kindergarten and some of her defining moments in high school.
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Dr. Robin Wallace, Germantown Academy class of ‘89
August 16th, 2010“My high school taught me the basics – follow through!”
Robin Wallace is Doctor of Oriental Medicine for Concentra New Mexico treating work injuries with Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture. The competitive environments of Germantown Academy motivated her to value the quality of setting and meeting goals or as she now calls it, intention.
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Kristin Haskins-Simms, Germantown Friends School class of ‘89
July 29th, 2010Upon graduating Germantown Friends School (GFS), Kristin Haskins wasn’t sure which career path to follow. She attended the University of Pennsylvania and received a BA in English with a minor in French. She lived in New York for several years and worked in finance until she circuitously rediscovered the artistic talent that was first recognized and nurtured at GFS. Today Kristin is a graphic and clothing designer.
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Napoleon Bonaparte Byars – Charlotte Catholic HS class of ’72
July 25th, 2010Napoleon Byars is a member of the faculty in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. An award-winning professor and favorite among students, he credits his success in the classroom and life to the role models at Charlotte Catholic High in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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Ayana Christie, Northfield Mount Hermon School class of 2007
June 28th, 2010Ayana Christie believes it was destiny that brought her to prep school. However, it was the choices she made that determined the outcome. Ayana is on her way to graduate from Dartmouth College in 2011 with a B.A. in English.
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Marcus Mabry, The Lawrenceville School class of ’85
June 21st, 2010Marcus Mabry, award-winning author and journalist and currently the international business editor at The New York Times, was a scholarship student at Lawrenceville School. Today he serves on the school’s board of trustees, as well as, The Oliver Scholars Program, which provides support to African American and Latino students to gain admission to some of the best independent schools and then guides them through the college admissions process.
In his essay below published in 1988 during his third year at Stanford, a young Mabry captures the essence of what it meant for him to be a PSN.
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Tony Whitfield, Germantown Friends School class of ‘72
June 14th, 2010Philadelphia native, Tony Whitfield is a man of multiple talents and personas – a photographer, artist, designer, writer, educator and administrator. Receiving a scholarship to attend a predominantly white prep school during the civil rights movement, Whitfield learned to embrace his differences and strike a balance among the various worlds he lived in.
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Naheem Harris, Poly Prep Country Day School class of ’04
June 6th, 2010“I essentially had three personalities: ‘Student Naheem’, ‘Neighborhood Naheem’, and myself… and it hurt that I spent a majority of the day not being myself.”
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