In 1964, a twelve-year-old girl named Christie Cozad spent a year at King's High before returning to her native USA. That year made a huge impression on Christie and sowed the seeds of her future career, as well as a deep commitment to the wellbeing of girls and women.    

After her life-changing year at KHS, Christie and her family moved back to the USA where she settled across the street from the Neuger family. You could say this was another life-changing experience for Christie; she and Win Neuger were married in 1970 and have celebrated their Golden Wedding Anniversary. Win and Christie's education, careers and child-raising were complementary and shared. Win attained a Master's degree in business and entered into a career in investments while Christie had two children and then completed a Bachelor's degree in English at the University of Minnesota, doubtless influenced by Miss Burton's teaching at King's High! It was another King's High teacher, the Headmistress Miss Hare, who, in addition to being a strong female role model in an era when such people were rare, ignited Christie's lifelong interest in Biblical literature. Miss Hare taught Scripture, which we now know as RE, and this arguably led to Christie studying for her Master's degree in Divinity, and becoming ordained as a United Methodist Minister. From there, she completed a Ph.D. in Personality and Theology, enabling her to move into academia, including professorships in pastoral theology at three universities over her 30 year teaching career. With her specialist area being feminist theology and psychology, Christie has published and taught widely.  Although she has retired from active ministry, she continues to teach and write

Win and Christie now divide their time between homes in the USA and Warwickshire, and Christie has visited King's High on several occasions, once with two of her three grandchildren, who learned about her time at the school and what it meant to her.

Christie says of her time at King's High, 'For the first time, I really experienced a sense of community and deep friendship. I learned what it was like to be in an all girls' environment and how important that was in developing a strong sense of self and a deep belief in my own gifts and abilities. I also learned that, although we engaged in healthy competition in both the classroom and on the playing field, there was an even stronger sense of cooperation and collaboration. That experience has helped me to stand in solidarity with people, whether in the classroom, the counselling office, or in my own friendships. Learning the rich possibilities for women's lives in my time at KHS empowered me not only to take important risks in my own life and career, but to stand with other women as the world began to open up for us in the late 1960s and beyond.'
It was this gratitude, and fond memories of King's High, that led to Christie and Win being pleased to support the new library at the school's Banbury Road home. We as a school are in turn extremely grateful for their interest and beneficence, and hope they will be regular visitors to the school in future years.