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Jacob Geiger ’05 Joins Communications Office
Woodberry Forest School welcomed Jacob Geiger ’05 to the faculty on January 4, 2016. Headmaster Byron Hulsey ’86 appointed Jacob as the school’s first-ever director of strategic communications. In that role, Jacob oversees the communications office and works closely with the headmaster and other senior leaders to set Woodberry’s communications and marketing priorities. The move comes as Woodberry is developing a strategic plan that will guide major decision making in the coming years.
"I'm very happy that Jacob has joined the Woodberry community," Dr. Hulsey says. "I look forward to working closely with him as we explore new ways to communicate the enduring value of Woodberry Forest to our internal community and beyond."
Jacob graduated magna cum laude from Woodberry and received the Vivian Slaughter Memorial Medal at graduation. At Woodberry Jacob played baseball, was a writer and editor for The Oracle, and was active in the Rapidan program and debate team. He then studied journalism and European history at Washington and Lee University, where he graduated summa cum laude and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa and Omicron Delta Kappa. He worked as a business journalist at SNL Financial before moving to the Richmond Times-Dispatch in 2011. There he held several reporting and editorial positions, writing primarily about business and politics.
Jacob and his wife, Keri, a public health nurse, live in the Route 15 house.
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Jacob graduated magna cum laude from Woodberry and received the Vivian Slaughter Memorial Medal at graduation. At Woodberry Jacob played baseball, was a writer and editor for The Oracle, and was active in the Rapidan program and debate team. He then studied journalism and European history at Washington and Lee University, where he graduated summa cum laude and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa and Omicron Delta Kappa. He worked as a business journalist at SNL Financial before moving to the Richmond Times-Dispatch in 2011. There he held several reporting and editorial positions, writing primarily about business and politics.
Jacob and his wife, Keri, a public health nurse, live in the Route 15 house.
Woodberry Forest School is an exceptional private school community for high school boys in grades nine through twelve. It is one of the top boarding schools in the United States and one of the only all-boys, all-boarding schools in the country.
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