President and CEO Alan Levine ’85S has been with Ballad Health for over two years but has over 25 years of hospital operations experience. Ballad Health represents 21 hospitals and over 3,000 physicians and providers in East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia.
In 2015, Melissa Diaz Salas ’20 moved from Peru and started her five-year Upper School journey at Farragut. Although she had to learn a new culture and did not know much English, Diaz thrived and became the first female in her Peruvian family to attend college.
Ethan Lipsky ‘18 and Michael “Mike” Harris ‘76N
On June 27, 2020, Ethan Lipsky ‘18 and Michael “Mike” Harris ‘76N met up at the U.S. Naval Station in Rota, Spain, to celebrate their “Farragut Brotherhood.” This was the first time they had met. Harris and Lipsky’s dad, David ‘75N, were Farragut teammates on the BlueJacket football and track teams. Farragut Alumni
Skip Thaeler ’66S and wife Kim
After Homecoming 2019, Farragut alumnus Skip Thaeler ‘66S wrote this poem about brotherhood and why alumni come back to Farragut year after year.
Jim Brown ’90N is a Chief Engineer with Schuyler Line Navigation Co. He works aboard the SLNC Magothy ship that was chartered this past February as part of best boarding school in US Sealift Command’s Operation Deep Freeze. The operation was sent for the annual resupply mission for the National Science Foundation’s U.S. Antarctic Program.
L-R: Robert Klingel, Jr., Bradley Klingel, and Rick Klingel ‘97, top, and Robert Klingel Sr.
The Klingel family, a long time supporter and Farragut family including alumni and current students, was recently highlighted on the local Tampa Bay news for their manufacturing companies that distribute plastic and rubber devices all over the world
The Kohler family funds the LTC Rudolph W. Kohler ‘58S, USA (Ret.) Athletic Scholarship Fund and the LTC Rudolph W. Kohler ‘58S, USA (Ret.) Music Scholarship Fund.
George J. Michel Jr. ‘49S and wife Paula
After a career as a CEO, he offers time, talent, and treasure to AFA
George Michel ‘49S has been many things in his life: MIT grad, prep school intelligence officer, titan of industry, sailing yachtsman, philanthropist, volunteer leader, and mentor. Not to mention a husband, father, and grandfather.
Before all these things, he was an Admiral Farragut Academy cadet.
In this Spring/Summer 2020 edition of Reveille, we feature the Class of 2020 graduation, 75 things you may not have known about Farragut in St. Petersburg, a recap of the Careers in Aviation Expo, proud accomplishments from our teachers and students, alumni class notes, the foundation annual report, and more! Read more
