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themselves in a lot,” she recalls. “Sportsmanship and the whole team spirit thing, Foxes versus Hounds — that was amazing. It was a serious friendly rivalry, a great thing.”
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Penny Denègre did not attend Foxcroft, but she is intimately connected to the school. She is a Foxcroft School trustee and parent of alumna Aidan Denègre Moylan (2007). She became Joint MFH of Middleburg Hunt in 1991. She and fellow MFH Jeff Blue have made it their habit to promote foxhunting to juniors in the community. The art exhibit at the NSLM came about when Denègre and Marcy Harris, the local co-chairs of the Community Relations Committee for Foxcroft’s centennial, suggested a show of local artists. Mia Martin Bickman (’78), one of the steering committee co-chairs, took the ball and ran
with it in true Foxcroft fashion — straight to Claudia Pfeiffer, the George L. Ohrstrom, Jr. Curator of Sporting Art at the National Sporting Library & Museum. “We had no idea that our suggestion would turn out to be as fantastic as the exhibition put on by the Sporting Library,” Denègre says. “Foxcroft is a terrific school. But even more, what I think its greatest contribution is that it builds character in the students. These girls learn about integrity, giving back to the community, caring for people in the community, and they learn about being involved with the land and with conservation. Miss Charlotte was a visionary, no doubt about it. It has been proven that single-gender educational experiences for girls are wonderful — they can excel in all facets of life.” Lauren Giannini is a freelance writer and photographer. She writes about horses and foxhunting from Northern Virginia.