Columbus Academy March Alumni Newsletter

March 2025

Save the Date for Alumni Weekend 2025!

Alumni Weekend is always a great time to reconnect with old friends, relive cherished memories and see how your alma mater has evolved. Whether it’s revisiting favorite spots on campus, catching up with beloved teachers and advisors or hearing from current student leaders, coming back reminds us of all the meaningful connections that make our community special. All alumni are welcome and encouraged to participate in this year’s on-campus festivities, with a specific emphasis on graduates whose class years end in a 5 or 0. Their milestone class reunions will be held off-campus throughout the weekend. Special activities are also planned for the Class of 1975’s 50th reunion and legacy classes marking their 60th, 65th and 70th reunions.

Registration details will become available in the early summer. In the meantime, be sure to visit the official Alumni Weekend homepage where you can view recaps of past years, including photo albums.

If your class is celebrating a reunion and you haven’t heard from your respective class agents about what is planned, please reach out to Director of Alumni Relations Michael Haddock or just reply to this newsletter.

ALL DAY 4 CA on April 16-17

Calling all Vikings! Mark your calendar for this year’s All Day 4 CA. This is the day we ignite our Viking spirit and demonstrate the extraordinary power of the Academy community. For 25 exciting hours, more than 1,000 alumni, faculty, staff and families worldwide will unite to support our excellent school. To kick off the day, a group of passionate alumni and school families have contributed generous matching gifts that will instantly amplify your support of the areas you care about most – Arts, Athletics, Curricular Innovation, Faculty or Tuition Assistance. Proceeds benefit the 2024-25 Annual Fund, and

more information about this year’s matches and participation challenges will be coming soon!

Let’s show the world what it means to be a Viking. Every gift makes a difference, and we’re counting on you to help us make this year’s All Day 4 CA the most successful yet!

Academy Alumni in the News

Asim Haque ’98 recently testified to the U.S. House Committee on Energy and the Commerce’s Energy Subcommittee about progress made and challenges related to meeting the country’s accelerating demand for electricity. Haque is the Senior Vice President of Governmental and Member Services for PJM, a regional transmission organization that coordinates the movement of wholesale electricity in all or parts of 13 states and the District of Columbia (including Ohio).

For more alumni press clips, click on the following links:

If you have clips (either in print or on the web) to pass along for future issues, please send them to info@columbusacademy.org.

Viking Vantage

This month’s Viking Vantage recognizes Larry Turton ’72. After graduating from Columbus Academy, Larry earned a B.A. degree in field biology and zoology from Ripon College. He then attended the Midwestern College of Osteopathic Medicine and Surgery in Chicago and completed a residency in emergency medicine at the Toledo Hospital and St. Vincent Trauma Center. After 40 years of practicing administrative and clinical emergency medicine in Ohio, he is now an assistant professor in emergency medicine at the Ohio State University Department of Emergency Medicine and Residency Program. He is a residency-trained and board-certified specialist in emergency medicine with 42 years of practice experience and is a fellow in the American College of Emergency Medicine.

Larry resides in New Albany with his wife of 44 years and has two sons, Joe and Bob ’01. He has two other family connections in brother Jeff ’70 and father Bob ’47.

To learn more about Larry’s story, click here.

Boys Basketball Playing Saturday for First State Title

As mentioned in a recent community-wide email about our boys basketball team’s historic season, Saturday’s Division V championship game will be just the second time Columbus Academy has played for a state hoops title. If you are planning to attend, wear your CA spiritwear and note that signs, pom poms, foam fingers, etc., are allowed but no noise-makers. Here are the keys details:

WHEN: 10:45 a.m. Saturday, March 22
WHERE: University of Dayton Arena
TICKETS: OHSAA.org/tickets (Academy section is top half in green)
BROADCAST: Spectrum News 1 and OHSAA Radio Network
LIVESTREAM: OHSAA.tv ($9.99 for non-Spectrum customers)

We have already shared some of the press coverage this year’s squad is generating but here is a story you probably haven’t seen yet about how a group of seniors on the team make weekly visits to a local senior living center.

Inaugural Alumni Pickleball Outing

Thank you to everyone who joined us for the first-ever Academy Alumni Pickleball Outing (view pictures)! More than 40 enthusiastic players attended, including 14 faculty and staff, plus alumni spanning 40 years from the classes of 1979 to 2019. Special thanks to Alumni Board members Ted Lin ’00 and Mer Levine ’99 for assisting at the registration table. With such great energy and positive feedback, the Alumni Board will seek to bring this event back in the future.

Send In Your Class Notes

We love keeping in touch with our alumni, and we want to hear all of your latest news.

Have you recently changed your name? Moved to a new home? Been promoted? Changed your line of work? Please go to the Alumni Updates Form to share these details. Providing the school with this information will help ensure you receive reunion updates, regional event invitations and the latest news from your alma mater!

Have you recently earned a new title or degree? Have details about an exciting trip or recent accomplishment to share? Gotten engaged or married? Added a new little Viking to your family? Please use the Class Notes Form to share these exciting life updates for inclusion in the class notes section of an upcoming edition of Academy’s magazine.