Simply an old piece of cloth to the uninitiated.

For Chaplain Peter Hartwig though, wearing a priest’s collar that once belonged to school co-founder Thomas Wetmore for his own ordination was more than an ode to the past. 

Peter’s spiritual journey is very much still developing as we’ve all been witness to these past five years.  

Coleman Davis ’18 remembers being an impressionable freshman at Christ School in the fall of 2014. 

The right teacher – David Williams in Biology – sent him on a path that Coleman pursues to this day. 

Coleman is a first-year student at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and has been awarded a $10,000 annual renewable scholarship based on merit. 

Proof positive that the world becomes an infinitely smaller place when relationships made at Christ School are the basis. 

Tray Mauney ‘23 played quarterback for two other colleges – Lafayette College (Pa.) and Anderson University (S.C.) – before reuniting with his high school coach for this season at Pace University in Pleasantville, New York. 

Although Peter Hartwig discovered that the road to ordination in the Episcopal Church is not easy, he is pleased that he will reach the hallowed achievement of priesthood inside St. Joseph’s Chapel on Friday. 

Mr. Hartwig was named Christ School’s Chaplain in April 2024, but his path to ordination began much earlier.