RE Log - Fall 2022

FALL 2022 Ransom Everglades LOG 69 Robert E. DePriest, a former FBI Crisis Management Coordinator and Special Agent, was appointed Director of Security at Ransom Everglades on July 15. Robert, who most recently served as Senior Director of Security at the Pine Crest School, spent more than two decades with the FBI as a special agent. During his tenure with the FBI, he developed and executed the FBI Crisis Response Plan for large-scale critical incidents as Crisis Management Coordinator, and he helped coordinate the FBI response to a number of tragic events in Florida. He also served as the Special Operations Group Team Leader for the agency, managing a highly trained covert surveillance team; a Principal Firearms/Tactical Instructor; and the Hazardous Evidence Response Team Senior Team Leader – a post that earned him the Federal Hazmat Team Lead at Super Bowl XLIV. Robert earned a BS in mechanical engineering from The Catholic University of America after his years at RE, where he played football on the same team as David Clark , RE’s new Chief Operating Officer and Interim Head of the Upper School. RE administrators worked with Robert as a consultant in the spring; he visited RE’s campuses at that time to help the school begin to strengthen its crisis response plan and internal response volunteered last spring with the school’s chorus, and I plan to sponsor a theater club after school next year. I also tutor kids and deal poker a few nights a week for a local bar-poker league. My mom and best friend, Toby, turned 80 in April and is doing great. She moved in with me seven years ago after dad passed. My daughter, Lily, just graduated high school with a 4.0 and is taking a gap year before college. She already has two jobs and will probably surpass my teaching salary before long. I have been in a relationship with a wonderful guy named Elliot for five years. Hope to see everyone in 2025 for our 40th reunion.” 1986 REUNION APRIL 2023 Class Agents: Pam Pennell Kelly (pam@kellyart.com) , Lissette Suarez Stancioff (lissettestancioff@gmail.com ) David Clark received a warm wel- come upon his return to RE from so many members of our community. His classmates from 1986 in particular are so proud to see him as our school’s Chief Operating Officer and Interim Head of the Upper School. (See page 6.) Several informal gatherings took place with the most recent one in early August where he and Robert DePriest were honored. L-R standing: David Clark, Brian Heller, Roland Samimy, Cristi Mendoza Edmunds, Elaine Broad, David Arnold and Nick Ferber . L-R seated: Dustin Nason, Christy Hertz, Lissette Suarez Stancioff, Melissa Krinzman and Robert DePriest . Read more about David on page 8. structure. “His guidance has been invaluable, and we are confident his daily presence and concentrated efforts will significantly bolster our emergency preparedness,” Interim Head of School Rachel Rodriguez said when Robert was appointed. Nicholas J. Graham writes, “Last fall, I was very excited to join FiscalNote in Washington, D.C., as their new Vice President of Corporate Communications & Public Affairs. I joined FiscalNote the very same day they announced their in- tent to become a publicly listed company, and it’s been a whirlwind of financial communications and investor relations activity ever since. It’s a fascinating and rapidly growing global company that enjoins three of my great career passions: policy, politics and technology. Check us out at fiscalnote.com. ” William Holly and Melissa Krinzman , see Rudy Prio Touzet ’76 Jason Kurtz writes, “It’s been an excit- ing year in the Kurtz family. I helped my father write a book with advice to folks starting their business careers ( Fast Start to Career Success ), I launched a podcast about life in retirement ( What’s Next When Every Hour is Happy Hour ), and my twin sons are headed off to college (one to Indiana and one to Oregon). I’m looking forward to empty-nester life and hope it will allow my wife and me more time to travel (and hopefully get back to the RE campus for the first time in many years).” Matt Marcus writes, “For those of you suffering in the summer heat, I penned this beautiful poem to remind you of the chill that will soon fill the air! May this be an homage to my favorite English teacher, the late Dan Bowden: