People are completely dissatisfied
Caroline Paul Doyle (no relation to Eliza Paul), graduated in 2006. She was so proud of her alma mater that she has donated every year since and last year served as a booster during the Blues Unite campaign, urging her classmates to donate.
“The school wasn t able to find a single person from my class to serve as a booster,” Doyle said, adding that she did not donate this year.
Last year, 17 members of her class donated, this year, only six.
The school has averaged some 300 students between grades 9-12. This year, 268 students signed contracts for the 2021-22 year, according to a school newsletter.
Amid sex assault allegations, Asheville School alumni call for school head, board chair to resign Karen Chávez, Asheville Citizen Times
Three of the first women to graduate from Asheville School are demanding that the head of school and the head of the board of trustees mitigate mistakes in the handling of a recent alleged assault case or resign their positions.
Victoria Jayne, of Hickory, and two of her classmates – Janis Pulley and Frannie Doloboff Miller – from the distinguished class of 1974, sent letters to head of school Anthony Sgro and board chair Walter Cox Jr. on Dec. 22, expressing outrage at how the school handled the Title IX investigation into claims by Agnes Hill, now 17, that she was sexually assaulted as a freshman by an older male student. Jayne, an attorney, also reveals in her letter that she, too, was the victim of an alleged sexual assault while attending Asheville School.
Asheville School head addresses sexual abuse lawsuit in letter to school community Karen Chávez, Asheville Citizen Times
In response to a sex abuse lawsuit filed Dec. 15 by an alumnus against Asheville School, Dr. Anthony Sgro, the school head, penned a letter to the school community and spoke of other abuse allegations at least eight years ago by the teachers accused in the complaint.
Walter Triplette, who attended the elite, $63,000-a-year boarding school from 1965-70, alleges sexual abuse by Richard P. Woodhouse, a Spanish teacher, and William Crutchfield, a math teacher.
In an email addressed to the Asheville School Community, Sgrocalled Triplette s allegations “heart-wrenching.”