Alumni Profiles

If anyone can say they’ve been surrounded by Saint George’s, it would be Genevieve Mann Morris ’90. Her mother Janet (Clarke) Mann graduated in the Class of 1964. Her father Paul Mann, an honorary alum, served as president of the Board of Trustees and has been a fixture on the board’s Finance Committee for over three decades. “My sister, brother, three cousins and uncle all graduated from Saint George’s too,” says Genny, who attended the school from Kindergarten through high school graduation.

Jean Brookbank '81 offered this tribute to her SGS English teacher Bette Jurgensen:
Today, Bette Jurgensen, my English teacher in my junior and senior years, is present for me through the books she assigned senior year: to our AP class, Sigrid Undset's "Kristin Lavransdatter" trilogy and later, to me, T.S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral.

Tom DePonty ‘99 has a passion for power… the electric kind. He’s energized about alternate forms of energy production, and his enthusiasm for the body politic and energy policy development has carried him to our nation’s capital as the public “face” for a new biomass energy company. “I think I have a passion for energy policy. If not, then I better get a different job,” Tom laughs.

In many ways, South Africa was a second home for Sarah Jackson. Her parents were born and grew up there. When she was 4, she lived in South Africa for nine months and attended preschool. Throughout her childhood, she regularly visited her grandparents in Johannesburg and outside of Capetown. Yet at the same time, the Spokane native wasn’t convinced she really knew the country that was part of her heritage and identity.