Last April, St. Andrew’s-Sewanee School lost a good friend when Tim Graham, longtime director of development at the school, passed away. To honor Tim's legacy at SAS, the school’s trail system has been renamed in his memory. The Tim Graham Trail System includes 13 miles of forested trails that are used daily by students for mountain biking, climbing, and hiking and to get to environmental, biological, and archaeological research sites on the school’s 550-acre mountaintop campus.

Students will be working on the trails next week as part of the school’s annual Winterim, a break from normal coursework for a week of experiential learning. Under the direction of SAS mountain biking coach Speed Baranco, the students will install bridge railings and a boardwalk. In addition to providing valuable stewardship of the trails, the students will learn principles of construction, including materials selection and how to use a level and other hand tools.

Tim served SAS for 22 years (1995-2017). During his tenure at SAS, he helped the school to raise more than $37 million, affecting the experience of every student and ensuring the construction or renovation of every building on our campus. He was also the parent of two SAS graduates, Laura Beth Graham Matthews '01 and David Graham '06.

The campus trail system was previously known as the Mountain Lion Loop. The renaming in Tim’s honor is a reflection of his love of the Mountain, the local trails, biking, and hiking. Names of individual trails within the system remain in place.