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as the photography editor and editor-in-chief of
St. Mark’s. While his teachers saw the incredible
The Marque literary magazine, was a member of
potential in this science student, Halbert was
St. Mark’s top-ranked photography program, was
encouraged to embrace an interdisciplinary
named a Texas Imagemaker, and was a winner in
education. In the end, this approach paid off as
the national YoungArts competition.
Halbert picked up concepts and lessons from other fields that he then applied directly back to science.
When photography instructor Scott Hunt, Arnold E. Holtberg Master Teaching Chair, remembered
Now the School looks forward to the next
Halbert in the 2014 Marksmen yearbook, he
generation of students who will embrace the
made it clear how Halbert’s scientific passions
sciences as part of their education and ultimately
crossed over to the arts: “Halbert has a passion for
shape the future. In his commencement address to
researching and finding out the latest technological
the Class of 2010, Silicon Valley venture capitalist
advances—looking at what other contemporary
Steve Jurvetson ’85 told students that “we are
photographers are doing.”
entering an intellectual renaissance, interwoven across the sciences. Consider your destiny on this
Halbert quickly found his pursuits into the artistic
planet as something grand. Change the world for
world not as diversion or recreation, but as solid
the better.”
building blocks on which to grow his academic education.
Thanks to the vision of the Winn Family, St. Mark’s stands ready to prepare its students for
“My work in the arts provided challenges and opportunities that I could not find in the academic classroom,” he said. “The skills I learned in the photography lab have given me a different set of mental tools to approach complex problems.” By branching out into so many areas with ambition and success, Halbert has truly embodied the interdisciplinary ideal that is at the core of
St. Mark’s School of Texas
this renaissance.
(below) Halbert posing with his camera for a yearbook article.