“Kenan loves Woodberry,” said Justin. “He’s built a great friend group, and he’s being exposed to things he never would have done before — like playing the bagpipes and getting out on the golf course. And now he has friends from all over the country and from around the world. As parents, we love the culture and the legacy, hearing about how many kids have a father or grandfather who went there.”
While Kenan has immersed himself in student life, Justin and Donyal have also found ways to get involved. They hosted new boys in their home over the summer so the boys could get to know one another before school started, and they joined the school’s Advisory Council.
We love the school so much, and we want to be committed, not just for Kenan’s sake, but also for his younger brother, who is already talking about going there,” said Donyal. “It just felt like the right thing to do, to continue to learn at a deeper level about what is going on at the school and how the students are doing. In sending Kenan to Woodberry, we definitely wanted to see him become more confident and have more of a voice and use it. Those things have happened, and I’m confident they will continue to happen.”
Justin and Donyal Andrews first became aware of Woodberry when their oldest son, Kenan ’25, was considering boarding schools. At the time, they didn’t feel ready to see their son go away to high school, and they weren’t sure he was ready for it either. Over the next few years, though, Woodberry’s name kept coming up among their friends in Atlanta, so when Kenan started talking about boarding school, they’d become more open to the possibility.