Margaret's Scrapbook - 2003 onwards A pictorial review of my years as head of St. Margaret's People I've met, places I've been and big events in my life! 1989-1995   1995-2000   2000-2002
In June 2003 I took over the presidency of the National Coalition of Girls Schools, an organization that represents 100 institutions and more than 40,000 students nationwide. Left to right: NCGS Co-Executive Director Meg Milne Moulton, Margaret Broad, immediate Past President M. Burch Ford of Miss Porter's School, and NCGS Co-Executive Director Whitney Ransome.
				July 2003 - QMSGSA meeting Edinburgh, Scotland - (l. to r.) Avril Cooper (SMBSFG Valparaiso, Chile), Helen McDonald (SMS Berwick, Australia), Marlene de Villiers (SMS Bushey, England), Ann Mildenhall (QMC Wellington, New Zealand), Sally Duncanson (SMS Edinburgh, Scotland), Margaret Broad (SMS Tappahannock, Virginia USA), May Chew (SMS Singapore), Geoffrey Chapman (SMS York, England) - Not pictured but attending the meeting: Lyn McKay (SMS Aberdeen) and Caroline Lee (SMS Singapore).
September 2003 - Viewing the hurricane art that girls created with visiting artists Konst and Konstantina Konstantinov. One picture was chosen to be the image on a commemorative t-shirt. Waves lapped over the riprap, half way up to Latane Hall portico, and winds gusted to over 85 mph. Our only shore damage was erosion behind Anderton House, where we had an old sea wall, not riprap. The new riprap did its job of breaking up the force of the water as it pounded the shore. Trees fell around houses and cars, but we sustained no direct hits. All people, buildings, houses, cars, and boats survived intact. We never lost water, and power was restored four days later.
				November 2003 - A special day - St. Margaret's day! The extraordinarily talented Konstantinovs (see previous photo) have completed my portrait which now hangs in the main hall of St. Margaret's Hall. I am holding a Thistle from a photo taken in Scotland, the clouds are from my son Ben's Tibetan photos, the marsh grass is part of the wetlands we look out over from our house on Jeanette Drive.
March 2004 - Minimester Speaker's Bureau brings some welcome guests from our recent alumnae - Sarah Muller '01 and Cathy Ryan '01
				April 2004 - A friendship for life. Catching up on years of stories.   Robyn Knudsen Froerer '90 now based in San Francisco, shares an afternoon between conference sessions at NAIS and visits with my son Benjamin studying Chinese at UC Berkeley.
July 2004 - A moment of relaxation in British Columbia with friends Emerson and Kathy Hughes. We started by chartering a yacht (not the sailing kind) from Vancouver to explore the Gulf Islands of Vancouver Island, then on to Vancouver city, a two day vista dome train ride across the Canadian Rockies to Banff where we finished off with some not too strenuous hiking around Lake Louise.
				August 2004 - Our English niece, Agatha has been visiting Virginia for four years flying by herself from London every summer. This year's big treat was a visit to Walt Disney World in Orlando, along with her friend Catherine (daughter of Aylett Country Day School and now Stuart Hall Head Mark Eastham). Highlight of the trip was Animal Kingdom and an intimate moment with Miss Piggy and Kermit.
October 2004 - Ground breaking for the new McCuan House dorm - joining me to lift a beribboned shovel were Board of Governors Chair Sarah Belle Eason Parrott ’68, Lead Donors Patrick and Jill McCuan (Megan ’04), General Contractor Ken Miller (Taylor ’07), School President Annie Arnest ’05 and Chief Financial Officer Nancy Smith, who will manage the construction project.
				December 2004 - A change of pace on Christmas break catching up with SMS alumnae on St. Barthelemy with a lunch for Cariad Shepherd '04 and Kaoru Hoshino '03.
December 2004 - a quiet two week rest over Christmas and New Year in our island retreat at St. Barths surprises me with a chance encouter (while waiting for lost luggage at the airport) with Sandy Tsalapatanis '86 - she visited us a few days later with her son Justin.
				January 2005 - Pearl Rock Kane, Director of the Klingenstein Center for Independent School Education at Columbia University’s Teachers College selected me to share my professional expertise with Jason Colombe, a master’s degree student at Columbia University. He shadowed my every step for two days on campus.
March 19th, 2005 - Emily Gosse's wedding to Paul Kallaur at St. John's and the reception at the CTC at St. Margaret's. A magnificent reunion of St. Margaret's students and faculty: Back row, l to r: Margaret, Su Cheng '95, Andrea Gouldman '95, Anya Wehler-Schöck (ASSIST exchange student from Germany), the bride Emily Gosse '95, Sarah Nichols '93 , Claire Stephenson '01, Susan Stephenson - faculty, The Reverend Doctor Candine Johnson, who celebrated the wedding ceremony and current SMS chaplain; Front row: Sarah Fox '95, Carolyn Stephenson Gosse '99, Martha Frances Fortson '65 - Alumnae Association President 1999-2001.