{"id":1392,"date":"2026-01-01T11:28:37","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T16:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/mhight\/?page_id=1392"},"modified":"2026-01-02T15:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T20:21:09","slug":"alumni-2015-16","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/mhight\/alumni-2015-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni-2015-16"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Phil 102-03 ‘Introduction to Philosophy.’ (Left to right, standing<\/em>): Mathis Nedell, John Ames, Nick Tremaglio, Julian Blanton, Timmy Morris, Dalton Hall, Graham Ferguson, Zach Shields, David Bushhouse, Austin Wallace, Eduardo Valentin-Morales, Ryan Maguire, Noah Cook, Griffin Salyer, Blake Martin, Zach Wiggin, and Hunter Staton. (Kneeling, left to right<\/em>): Stewart Thames, Kole Donaldson, and Phillip Reavis. Not pictured: Christopher Nance.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Phil 102-04 ‘Introduction to Philosophy (Sci-Phi).’ (Standing, left to right<\/em>): Michael Allison, Nathaniel Higginbotham, Parker Hartline, Alex Byrne, Nathan Cox, Ryan Quick, Connor Eads, James Files, Tyler Hines, Vlad Paraschiv, Noah Brooks,\u00a0 Brady Updike, William ‘Buck’ Wellman, and Myles Hopkins. (Crouching, left to right<\/em>): David Dipboye, Nick Matullo, and Thaddeus Roberts.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Phil 305 ‘Contemporary Philosophy.’ (Left to right<\/em>): Harrison McNabb, Colin Williams, David Dipboye, and Alec Gouaux.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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WCul 103 ‘Western Culture 1800-present.’ (Standing, left to right<\/em>): Sam Melson, William Scott, David ‘Griff’ Fleenor,’ Peter Yukich, Parker Smith, Aaron Dawley, Ryan Rodes, Ryan Gale, Hunter Alcorn, Luke Paris, and Auberon Crocker. (Kneeling, left to right<\/em>): Parker Levy, Robby Petit, Brennan Aust, Brandon Solomonov, and Bennie ‘Tre’ Williams.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The class put western culture ‘on trial’ and staged a public event. Here the students are after the event, which was held in Parents & Friends in Venable Hall.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Hight routinely gives lectures and talks. In the fall of 2015 he was asked to be the keynote speaker at the Virginia Philosophical Association meeting. He delivered an ‘after dinner’ style talk entitled “How to Ruin an Otherwise Good Time at the Movies: A Philosopher Looks at Star Wars.” This was right before the release of the new Star Wars movies (the 4th movie, or ‘Episode 1’).\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Phil 201 ‘Formal Logic.’ (Left to right<\/em>):\u00a0Logan Leathers, Brad Chester, Connor Burke, Triston\u00a0Stegall, Noah Brooks (seated), Taylor Hevener, Harrison ‘I regret this shirt’\u00a0McNabb, and Ethan Sabo. Not pictured: Carrick ‘I won’t oversleep ever again’\u00a0Irwin, Gabriella Gruder-Poni, James Files, and Tyler Langhorne.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Phil 102 ‘Introduction to Philosophy.’ (Left to right<\/em>):\u00a0Houston McDowell, Daniel Waltz, Hunter Hoffler, Peter\u00a0Keenan, Mark Mason, Cecil Tiblin, Auberon Crocker, Tanner Thompson,\u00a0Stuart Cheney, and Justin Jarrett. Not pictured but with us most of the\u00a0way… John Harold, Sam ‘Nash’ Johnson, Asanda Msimango, and Daniel Villery.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Paula had surgery on her Achilles tendon, and here Liesl keeps her company in the sun, hoping that all logic students will do\u00a0all<\/em> of the homework….<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Phil 302 ‘The Rationalists.’ (Left to right<\/em>):\u00a0Kole Donaldson, Ben Bashore, Kevin or Davis ‘what do you\u00a0want to be called anyway?’ Dipboye, Joe Bean (seated), Colin Williams,\u00a0and Alec Gouaux. Not pictured: Logan Leathers.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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We had a great WiF (World in Flames) crew for the year, playing once per week in ‘The Bunker’ in the basement of the Hight House. (Left to right<\/em>): James Crandall, Alex Abbott, David Hart, Logan McDonald, Ryan Gale, and Auberon Crocker.\u00a0<\/p>

Below: the players contemplate strategies in Europe, mid-war.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Fall 2015 Phil 102-03 ‘Introduction to Philosophy.’ (Left to right, standing): Mathis Nedell, John Ames, Nick Tremaglio, Julian Blanton, Timmy Morris, Dalton Hall, Graham Ferguson, Zach Shields, David Bushhouse, Austin Wallace, Eduardo Valentin-Morales, Ryan Maguire, Noah Cook, Griffin Salyer, Blake Martin, Zach Wiggin, and Hunter Staton. (Kneeling, left to right): Stewart Thames, Kole Donaldson, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1392","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/mhight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/mhight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/mhight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/mhight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/mhight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1392"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/mhight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1582,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/mhight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1392\/revisions\/1582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/mhight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}