Ascalon Spring 2016

oFF-CAMPUS oPPoRTUnITy

Spring 2016

THE ROGERS ENDOWMENT FOR PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES

Jeffrey Kimbell ’89 hosts SG students on a whirlwind tour of Washington politics ROGERS SCHOLARS IN THE NATION’S CAPITAL

It’s a leap of faith from the Hilltop to the Hill

ASCALON

And then St. George the dragon slayer drew his mighty sword Ascalon…

beltway bound In March, a group of 10 history and government students at St. George’s — nine juniors and a senior—traveled to Washington, D.C., as participants in a hands-on interactive program made possible by the William S.R. Rogers Endowment for Public Policy Studies, brainchild and creation of Jeffrey Kimbell ’89 along with a cadre of fellow SG alumni and Washington colleagues

It’s no news flash that St. George’s School is more than 125 acres on a hilltop overlooking the atlantic Ocean. It is more than its celebrated buildings, rambling athletic fields, technology-driven facilities and vibrant arts center. It is even more than King Hall at high noon, though you’d have a hard time convincing a surge of famished students midway through the academic day of that. there are layers to the St. George’s experience that go deep, and one of those layers, arguably the core of the school’s identity and sense of community, is its alumni base — historically, of course, philanthropically, one hopes, and collaboratively as well. we say collaboratively, because when St. George’s alumni share their professions and accumulated life lessons with the school that spawned them, they bring to the table a perspective and a measure of authenticity unavailable within the confines of a campus classroom. and

P.O. Box 1910 • Newport, Rhode Island 02840 • 401-847-7565 • stgeorges.edu

when they allow themselves to be exemplars in real time of what a student might consider doing once he or she leaves this place, they offer an invaluable dimension to the curriculum so painstakingly crafted by educators here to direct a given student’s course of study. those alumni become extensions of the teaching staff, partners in a way, embraced by current faculty for the unique possibilities they represent in the promulgation of the school’s academic mission. SG trustee Jeffrey Kimbell, a member of the Class of 1989, would argue that the dynamic works both ways, that you simply give back in direct proportion to what the school and its teachers gave you years before. Kimbell lives in washington, D.C., where as president of Jeffrey J. Kimbell & associates he represents some 25 handpicked clients in the life sciences community seeking legislative and policy (Please see “Beltway” on the back)