The scholarship I had at Virginia is very good about keeping alumni involved and informed as to the happenings of the program.  Today, I received mail listing the high school seniors who were recently named Scholars after a grueling weekend of exams, dinners, and interviews.  As I always do, I scan the list for other South Carolinians because there never were many of us at Virginia.  Sure enough, there was a guy from Greenville, SC.  He goes to Christ Church Episcopal School.

The name of the school sounded eerily familiar, which is strange indeed because why would I have ever heard of Christ Church Episcopal School in Greenville?  I know no private schools; I’m not religious; Greenville, SC is clear across on the other side of the state from Charleston … why was this name so familiar to me?

Then I realized that CCES was where Dr. Cox went to be Headmaster after he left the president’s job at SCGSSM.  Such a small world…

This then reminded me of a recent encounter where I met someone random at a party, and it turned out that he was college friends with a high school friend of mine.  Really, we ARE all connected in strangely familiar ways.