Calling all Alumni
Click here to see a list of alumni for whom we have no current mailing address. If you are on the list or know contact information of someone listed, please contact us to update information.

 

 

Remember, Reconnect, Rejoice in 50 years of classical excellence!
Mark your calendars for
May 19, 2012
for a day of reconnecting:
Family picnic and carnival
during the day and a
formal reception in the evening
Check back
for more details



 

Alumni

The Alumni Office is dedicated to serving alumni and all members and friends of the Westminster School community.  Since the school’s founding in 1962, Westminster alumni have gone on to attend major universities, after completing their secondary studies at some of the finest high schools in the greater Washington metropolitan area.  Beyond the challenges of the classroom, Westminster graduates have pursued successful careers and their collective accomplishments uphold the “Westminster Way” as a growing tradition. 

In an effort to strengthen its connection with Westminster alumni and facilitate their connection with each other, the Alumni Office seeks your help.   First and foremost, we would like to hear from you and about you. Please update us by clicking here to send us your latest contact information. If you prefer, send an email to the Alumni Office.  Better yet, let us know when you can visit.  We’d love to see you again and catch up in person.

Contact us to:

  1. Submit photos of your Westminster days for our photo archives
  2. Submit a personal update for Class Notes
  3. Find an old friend or classmate
  4. Update us on your career
  5. Attend or help organize a reunion
  6. Learn more about plays and events at Westminster

We are always
delighted to hear from you!

 

  • Grace King, Class of 2002
  • Carrie Dann, Class of 1998

Grace King
Class of 2002

"My three years at Westminster were quintessential in shaping me into the person that I am today. More importantly, I gained an appreciation for the arts through a wide array of activities that I can recall fondly—from learning to dance the jitterbug, performing in the 8th grade musical, to participating in extemporaneous speaking exercises during enrichment classes."

Grace King went on to Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology after graduating from Westminster, and is now attending the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She will enter her junior year in Electrical and Electronic Engineering next fall, and will take business courses this summer at UC, Berkeley. Last summer Grace interned at the Brookhaven National Laboratory, New York, working in the collider-accelerator department. Grace has been elected an

officer of both the Society of Women Engineers and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. In her quieter moments, Grace enjoys the calming pleasure of playing piano, but for sheer exhilaration and adrenalin-pumping thrills, she has taken up sky-diving.

Although Grace attended only grades 6 through 8 at Westminster School, she increasingly recognizes and values those years. Here, in her own words, she reflects on the formative significance of her Westminster experience.

Carrie Dann and her sister, xx, graduate of the class of xxxx

Carrie Dann
Class of 1998

"Of the many things I gained from Westminster School – an understanding of Latin etymology, the ability to identify Greek column types, and an inexplicable fondness for plaid – first among them is a sense of history.  From classical mythology to American history, the curriculum at Westminster School always instilled in me the desire to understand the past and to see the present for myself.  I suppose that it makes sense, then, that I ended up becoming a journalist."

After graduating from Thomas Jefferson High School and attending the University of Virginia with no intention of going into news – or politics, for that matter – Carrie took an internship with NBC’s Washington bureau for a brief peek into a bubble which I never intended to enter.  Two years later, political director Chuck Todd, who noticed my unexpected appetite for writing about politics, recommended that I apply to be one of the network’s embedded reporters for the 2008 campaign.  For over a year she traveled nationwide with the candidates, spending four months in  snowy Des Moines to cover the early stages of the presidential primaries, and later racing from state to state to cover Republican nominee John McCain and former President Bill Clinton.  As an off-air reporter for NBC and partner National Journal, Carri covered campaign events in over 30 states, flew on both nominees’ campaign planes, and caught catnaps everywhere from the Ritz to a car parked in a cornfield.