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Head of School Mark Anderson chats with the three current colleagues and also former students from the class of 2016—Mesha Mosley, Freddy Ryle, and Justin McLellan—about returning back, how Sanford prepared them for college and advice for students going to college.
Episode Guide
1:00: Head of School Mark Anderson introduces Mesha, Freddy, and Justin.
5:20: How does it feel returning back to Sanford?
9:08: Are there skills you learned and practiced at Sanford that prepared you for college life?
13:45: When you think back on your time as a student and the Sanford you see now, what changes have you noticed?
24:00: What advice would you give juniors and seniors entering the college search process in this environment?
28:23: What message would you send to the rest of you classmates from the class of 2016 about their Alma mater?
Download the transcript for this episode here or read below.
Welcome to Sanford Spotlight. The podcast that helps you get the greatest benefit from your Sanford School experience. Listen in to learn about Sanford's people, programs, news and events. Today's host is Sanford Head of school, Mark Anderson.
All right, we're live. We are live. And welcome to Sanford Spotlight. It's been a while since I've done a podcast episode. This is actually our first version of 2020 with COVID. And wanted to fire up the podcast once again, and bring some guests to the table. It's been a busy fall, so we've missed podcasting, missed so much of what we had been doing in previous years. But we're going to get back to a bit of normalcy.
And I'm excited to welcome three guests who know Sanford so very well, three of my current colleagues and also former students, who are Sanford alums. A little mini version of a Sanford Alumni Reunion in the class of 2016. So we could just bounce around the table, if you could introduce yourself, and what you're doing at Sanford this year.
So I'm Mesha Mosley. I graduated in 2016. My older brother also went to Sanford. He graduated in  2014. I went to USC,  Southern California, not South Carolina, and graduated, after graduation in 2020, COVID hit. So now I'm back in Delaware and I'm here at Sanford while I get my Master's degree and pursue my career in sports reporting.
Excellent. And what are you doing for us this year, Mesha?
I am an Upper School teacher's aide. So I help do anything really the Upper School needs, sub, front desk, coverage, helping hand, anything really.
Making sure all those upper schoolers are staying socially distant?
Absolutely.
Washing hands and all that other good stuff. Awesome, thanks for being here today.
And my name's Freddy Ryle and I also graduated class of 2016, the best class to come to Sanford.
[INTERPOSING VOICES] 
One of them, he tried to be one.
That was politically correct right there.
I went on to George Washington University, where I studied sociology and creative writing, also graduated in 2020 in a COVID year. And I'm fortunate enough to be back teaching eighth grade English in the Middle School. So yeah, glad to be here.
Back where it all began.
Back where it all began.
Quite literally.
I'm Justin McLellan, also a 2016 grad. Like Mesha, my older brother went here and graduated with Mesha's older brother in 2014. I just recently graduated from the University of Notre Dame. And I am back here at Sanford as working in the communications and technology department, so helping out with all the technology changes that we're undergoing this year, and on the communication side as well, which means that I'll probably be editing this podcast after we record it.
And thank you in advance for your hard work.
Of course.
Actually, Justin was also in my classroom first thing this morning. So he's got a double dose of me. He was helping me in the leadership class I teach, helping me set up the Swivl, and giving me a tutorial so that I could get that going, so my remote learner could see and hear better. So all of that worked well. W