Fully 100% of this year’s class plans to go directly to college. The graduates will be attending some of Virginia’s top institutions, including the University of Virginia and the College of William and Mary, along with more than 25 other schools in 12 additional states that include California, Texas and Florida.

Local graduates are: Ann Norris Arnest (University of Virginia), daughter of Ms. Alice Moore of Kinsale; Catherine Ann Chilton (Virginia Tech), daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Chilton of Lancaster; Rebecca Todd Clark (Randolph-Macon College), daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Clark of Lively; Elizabeth Tankard Headley (Randolph-Macon Woman’s College), daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H.T. Headley of Kinsale; Elizabeth Neill Katona (College of William and Mary), daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Scot Katona of Dunnsville; and Catharine Palmer Ware (University of Virginia), daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Tyler Ware of Dunnsville.

The graduating boarding students include Vera Caralyne Attaway of Raleigh, NC (East Carolina University); Jessica Danielle Bailey of Agoura Hills, CA (University of California-Santa Cruz); Augusta Leigh Banner of Mason, TX (Savannah College of Art and Design); Anaheed Sona Berberian of Dhahran, Saudi Arabia (Louisiana College); Elizabeth Joy Brown of Berryville (University of Idaho); Yoon-Hee Chang of Dae-Jeoun, Korea (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute); Jennifer Lynn Clark of West River, MD (Smith College); and Ashley Class of Oakland, CA (California State University-Stanislaus).

Also: Lauren Elizabeth Glass of Richmond (Wofford College); Christine Jenna Hayward of Los Gatos, CA (University of Texas-San Antonio); Katherine Lanier Hotelling of Chapel Hill, NC (Wesleyan College, Georgia); Sunmi Lee of Seoul, Korea (Fordham University); Mary Lillian McClain of Richmond (John Tyler Community College); Haley Lorraine Nelson of Ashtabula, OH (Southern Illinois University); Frances Hailey O’Brien of Dallas, TX (University of Alabama); Susannah Hastings Orem of Reston (Roanoke College); Anne Stuart Parrish of Gordonsville (University of Alabama); Alice Caroline Place of Pinehurst, NC (University of Alabama); Ciara Alexandra Robinson of Alexandria (Mary Baldwin College ); Stephanie Lynne Rosen of Woodbridge (Lynn University); Rebekah Ann Rutledge of Alexandria (Baylor University); Danielle Ashlee Urey of Liberia (University of San Diego); and Nozomi Yamaguchi of Tokyo, Japan (Brooks Institute of Photography).

Dr. Carlotta G. Miles, a nationally known child advocate and expert on adolescent development, gave the commencement address. Sarah Belle Eason Parrott, an SMS alumna who chairs the school’s Board of Governors, joined Head of School Margaret R. Broad in conferring the diplomas.