{"id":1418,"date":"2026-01-07T16:11:01","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T21:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/mhight\/?page_id=1418"},"modified":"2026-01-07T16:30:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T21:30:33","slug":"alumni-2002-03","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/mhight\/alumni-2002-03\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni-2002-03"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Phil 385 ‘Philosophy of History.’ (Left to right<\/em>):\u00a0Jared Stearns, Chris Russo, Patrick\u00a0Comerose, Ben Fulton (seated), Griffin Brownlee, Carl ‘Nick’ Wallace, and Zack Embry.\u00a0<\/p>

In the College Church classrooms that opened new that year.<\/div>\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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The fall of 2002 was the start of my second year at Hampden-Sydney. I had not yet developed the idea of posting class pictures so that alumni (and others) might come back and view them in later years. In addition, I did not have a proper camera. So I have put together what I have (including taking pictures of physical pictures) to post. I shall include the class roster even when I lack the pictures.<\/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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WCul 103-06 ‘Western Culture 1815-present.’ Class list: William ‘Billy’ Ayer, John Biddle, Ken Bradley, James Champion, Michael Gardner, Robert George, Patrick Gipson, David Gonzales, Mark Kearney, John Neal, Claude ‘Gray’ Pembroke, Ken ‘Justin’ Poole, James Riley, Michael Roberts, and Paul Scarborough.<\/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.’ Class list:\u00a0Zak Anderson, Thomas Barrow, Andrew Cheely, Matt Clark, Steve\u00a0Crossland, Bryan Dunkum, Leigh Gardner, Robert ‘Matt’ Gaunce, Bryan\u00a0Gough, John ‘Spencer’ Hopkins, Thomas ‘Graham’ Johnson, Monti Mercer,\u00a0Kris Moore, Justin Paciocco, Shawn Shurm, Bill Simonson, Patrick Taylor, and\u00a0Michael Trenta.<\/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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WCul 103-07 ‘Western Culture 1815-present.’ Yes, I taught two sections of WCul that semester!\u00a0Class list:\u00a0Robert Ackley, Brian ‘Greg’ Adolph, Jeff Burchett, Garrison\u00a0Cox, Christian Davidson, Adam Deyerle, Fielding Fitzpatrick, Joel\u00a0Hopkins, Angus McClellan, Charles Murphy, Joshua Rains, Buren Renick,\u00a0John Simpson, Joseph Slough, Robert Smith, Richard Walsh, and Killian\u00a0Zimmerman.<\/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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Spring 2003<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Phil 4xx ‘Capstone: Berkeley.’ (Left to right<\/em>):\u00a0Shawn Connors, Hight, Charles Smith, Robert Park, Prof. Ian Tipton (guest scholar, University of Wales, Swansea), David\u00a0Gonzales, Prof. Steve Daniel (guest scholar, Texas A&M University), and\u00a0Andrew Sinclair.<\/p>

The 2003 Berkeley seminar was my first time teaching in the Philosophy Capstone program, an exciting and innovative program that has helped many students become better thinkers and philosophers over the year. You can support this high quality endeavor even today by giving to the ‘PCF’ (Phil0sophy Capstone Fund) through Institutional Advancement at the College. Direct (some of) your donations to continuing philosophy education!\u00a0<\/p>

Students get to work one-on-one with international rank scholars in the field–something truly rare at the undergraduate level!\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 capstone crew on the second floor of Morton, M217, talking Berkeley and immaterialist metaphysics.<\/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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Not the best picture, but better than nothing! (Left to right<\/em>): David Gonzales, Charles Smith, Andrew Sinclair, Prof. Daniel, Prof. Tipton (seated), Hight, Shawn Connors, and Robert Park.\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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Phil 303 ‘Empiricism and Kant.’ (Le<\/em>ft to right<\/em>):\u00a0Charles Smith (seated), David Gonzales, Jeff Burchett, Shawn\u00a0Connors (seated), Robert Park, Griffin Brownlee, Matt Clark, and Patrick Taylor.<\/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>):\u00a0Cary Ferguson, Chris McShane (crouching), Scot McMurtrie, Bill Carneal, David Jones (crouching), Mike Jones, Michael Bregman (legs extended), Robert Ackley, Jonathan Siddon (seated), John Eppler, Will McNaughton, Spen Custis, Justin Poole, Jedd Askew, and Spencer Lippman. Not pictured: Mike Gardner, Joe Jackson, Scott Russo.<\/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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In 2002 I was asked to assist with Hampden-Sydney’s Ethic Bowl team, taking the role as the sole coordinator in the fall of 2002. At that time the program was new (sponsored by the VFIC–the Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges) and just getting started. I was still new as well, and especially new to the program. We figured it out eventually…. Here the 2003 team stops for a quick photo at the tournament.\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<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fall 2002 Phil 385 ‘Philosophy of History.’ (Left to right):\u00a0Jared Stearns, Chris Russo, Patrick\u00a0Comerose, Ben Fulton (seated), Griffin Brownlee, Carl ‘Nick’ Wallace, and Zack Embry.\u00a0 In the College Church classrooms that opened new that year. The fall of 2002 was the start of my second year at Hampden-Sydney. I had not yet developed the idea […]<\/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-1418","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/mhight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1418","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=1418"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/mhight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1760,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/mhight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1418\/revisions\/1760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/mhight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}