RE Log Fall 2018

)$// Ransom Everglades LOG 41 Ransom Everglades Head of School Penny Townsend honored 20 faculty DQG VWDɣ ZLWK <HDUV RI 6HUYLFH $ZDUGV and recognized departing members of the RE community during the annual Head of School’s Luncheon on June 7. )HOORZ IDFXOW\ DQG VWDɣ JDYH VWDQGLQJ ovations to science faculty member Robert “Doc” Crabtree (pictured above, right), who retired from teaching after 36 years, and Interim Athletic Director Andy De Angulo, who was headed to his $VWURQDXW IURP &RFRQXW *URYH HQWKUDOOV 5( VWXGHQWV Retired NASA astronaut and Coconut Grove native Winston E. Scott captivated the Ransom Everglades student body with KDUURZLQJ WDOHV RI KLV VKXWWOH MRXUQH\V 2QH RI WKH QDWLRQ¶V ¿UVW African-American astronauts, Scott executed three spacewalks and logged more than three weeks in space. 5HFRJQL]LQJ )DFXOWy DQG 6WDȧ +HDG RI 6FKRRO EHVWRZV DQQXDO DZDUGV IRU yHDUV RI VHUYLFH alma mater Belen Jesuit after 18 years at RE. Penny Matthews and Katrina Patchett (pictured above, left) were ap- plauded for their 30th years at Ransom Everglades; Ellen Grant, who was not in attendance, received the traditional 25th anniversary gift: an RE captain’s chair. Maria Abrante, Daisy Armas, Maria Elena Gonzalez and Barbara Share reached their 20th years and Ericka Anderson, Mosi Blake, Josh D’Alemberte, Ana Meneses and Shelly Stamler earned recognition for 15 years. Susan Barry, Kathryn Bufkin, Youming Che, Alicia Fisher, Branly Fontaine, Eric Lefebvre, Paul Natland ’02 and Isis Perez Gonzalez received silver bowls for 10 years of service. Ransom Everglades also recognized Michelle Black, Jennifer Carey, Cecilia Calleros ’94 , Marty and 3DXO (ONLQV 0HUF\ *ULɤWKV 6WHSKDQLH Lewis and Lindsey Wagner, who de- parted RE. Scott, who attended what was then George Washington Carver +LJK 6FKRRO VSRNH WR 8SSHU 6FKRRO VWXGHQWV DW WKH /HZLV Family Auditorium on Feb. 8 and met with Middle School students later that day in Swenson Hall. “I am at home,” he said. “I could walk to the house I grew up in from this campus in probably 15 minutes!” He also attended Coral Gables High, Florida State and the 8 6 1DYDO 3RVWJUDGXDWH 6FKRRO ,Q ɲɺɺɳ KH ZDV DFFHSWHG WR 1$6$¶V DVWURQDXW SURJUDP DQG ÀHZ RQ WKH VKXWWOHV (QGHDYRU (nine days) and Columbia (16 days). He shared how he and a fellow astronaut exited a shuttle and anchored their space boots to the craft in order to jointly grab a lost, malfunctioning satellite with gloved hands. “It was wobbling kind of all over in space... and we couldn’t catch it,” he said. But “this thing cost $10 million. We had to bring it back home.” Scott’s visit was part of the school’s celebration of Black History Month. Ernest Green, one of the “Little Rock Nine” – the group of the students that desegregated Central High School in Little Rock, Ark., in 1957 – also spoke at Ransom Everglades.