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Fall 2012 & Winter 2013
A COMMUNITY LIKE NO OTHER
Volume 2 Number 2
Behind Stowe WA L N U T H I L L S C H O O L F O R T H E A R T S
Fall 2012 & Winter 2013
Volume 2 Number 2 Elizabeth Bishop ’30 found a home at Walnut Hill, and it’s likely that she would feel equally at home in our community today. Originally a music student, Bishop had her first poems published in The Blue Pencil. She also submitted short fiction, plays, and book reviews, becoming editor in her senior year. Thomas Travisano, author of Elizabeth Bishop: Her Artistic Development (1988), maintains that “Bishop’s most versatile and prolific period as a publishing writer spanned the academic years 1927–1930, when . . . she attended Walnut Hill School.”
Travisano continues: "Bishop was obviously a most talented teenager when she attended Walnut Hill, with a keen eye, an inquiring intellect, a brisk sense of humor, a fine prose style, and serious literary ambitions. And she was working hard to refine her skills as she turned out stories, reviews, sketches, and poems for The Blue Pencil. . . . Her talent may have been brilliant, but she made herself a poet." Today, long after Bishop wrote the poem after which this magazine is named, talented young people still find a home at Walnut Hill, make themselves artists, then bring their talent and determination out to make a difference in the world at large.
MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE Michele Levy Chief Marketing Officer Betsy Blazar Marketing Communications Manager Amanda Grazioli Marketing Communications Associate DEVELOPMENT OFFICE Bruce Smith Chief Development Officer Jennifer TumSuden Director of Annual Giving Jillian Kohl Director of Alumni Relations Paul Fleming Database Manager Isabel Holmes Development Assistant EDITORIAL TEAM Judy Kiviat Editorial Assistant Betsy Blazar DeFrancis Carbone Design Reena Bammi Tom Kates Sharyn Peavey ’90 Photography
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A NOTE FROM STOWE
ALUMNI JOURNEYS
PERSPECTIVE
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Susan Gordon ’42 on social change
Q&A with Walnut Hill’s School Counselor and Director of Health Services
IN THEIR OWN WORDS
Community Council President and Vice President share their goals for the year
10 FALL TRADITIONS
11 APPLAUSE
18 SUMMER PROGRAM RECAP
20 MEET OUR NEW TRUSTEE
21 9TH GRADE EXPERIENCE
36 SEEN ON THE HILL
Visiting artists and master classes
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A look at our new program
ANNUAL REPORT
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FIRST-SEMESTER PERFORMANCES
CLASS NOTES
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A NOTE FROM STOWE
Photo by Sharyn Peavey ’90
Articulating Our Core Values This year, as we began to execute our new Strategic Plan, we set out to complete one of the first and most important tasks outlined in that roadmap: to identify and articulate a key set of institutional core values. Unlike a school’s mission, which states why a school exists, core values form the foundation on which we build and perform our collective work and conduct ourselves as members of a community. At the start of this school year, more than 220 members of the Walnut Hill community engaged in an insightful exercise in which we identified “growth, excellence, creativity, respect, and community” as the intrinsic core values of Walnut Hill School for the Arts. I am certain that for alumni, these core values resonate, regardless of how long you have been away from campus. These five values are most certainly confirmed in the work, spirit, and passion of the more than 300 Walnut Hill alumni I have encountered over the past 28 months. These Walnuts are positioned around the planet in a host of countries, engaged in a myriad of careers and creative pursuits. Their talents and skills span industries such as science, technology, and engineering; business, finance, and management; law, health care, and education; arts, culture, media, and entertainment. One value in particular resonates with the alumni I have met—community. Regardless of when they graduated, be it five months, five years, or five decades ago, our alumni are all consistent in their use of the word “community” to describe Walnut Hill. It is for this reason that we have decided to devote this issue of Behind Stowe to community. We wanted to explore what it looks like; to demonstrate how it lives and breathes on our campus and in our greater network of alums, parents, and friends; and more importantly, to illuminate how we view it as one of the key cornerstones of our vision for the future. As I find myself at the midway point of my third year at Walnut Hill, I continue to be both honored and humbled to serve as Head of School. Daily, I am inspired by this amazing community. It’s abundantly clear to me that our mission remains vital, and our future bright and exciting. Our continued success and excellence rests in large part with the many people who work with, support, and simply love being Walnuts.
Antonio Viva Head of School
Fall 2012 & Winter 2013
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SAVE THE DATE WALNUT HILL SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS
FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 2013 6:00 PM WGBH STUDIOS ONE GUEST STREET BOSTON, MA 02135 Join us for a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to celebrate an extraordinary community. The Walnut Hill Gala is a unique event, bringing together passionate individuals who share a commitment to one another, to art and creativity, and to the school that changed the trajectory of their lives. Experience the work of some of the most talented young artists in the world, in an innovative and inspiring setting. For information on lending your support to the Gala, please contact Bruce Smith at bsmith@walnuthillarts.org. We hope to see you there! Fall 2012 & Winter 2013
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A COMMUNITY LIKE NO OTHER by Michele Levy
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sk students, alumni, families, faculty, or staff what they consider to be the distinguishing characteristic of Walnut Hill School for the Arts and you are very likely to hear a single word: “community.” It’s a wonderful word, and it sounds great in a viewbook, but what does it really mean? After all, many schools and colleges claim that theirs is a unique community. It’s clear that when Walnuts talk about “community,” they are referring to something very different, something rarely found at any other school. Ask for a little more definition, and you will hear words and phrases like “open,” “accepting,” “inclusive,” “challenging yet supportive.” You may also hear people talk about the School’s first four core values of growth, excellence, creativity, and respect. These are all wonderful, and admirable, characteristics for a high school. However, they still don’t get to the heart of that fifth core Walnut Hill value, community . . . to that one single thing that engages and unites an extraordinarily diverse group of individuals in a powerful and compelling way. So what is that “one single thing”? Quite simply, a shared passion. The Walnut Hill community owes its strength and unique nature to the fact that the members of the community share a passion for making and celebrating art. Not just any art, but the very best art. Art that inspires, art that educates, art that entertains, art that brings joy to a world that desperately needs it.
underlying feeling: the sense of acceptance and community that I found while attending Walnut Hill. I loved going to a school where everyone was an artist. Even though the students differed in their majors, we were all there for a common purpose and united in our love of the arts.” It is precisely those bonds and that common goal that make it possible for the young artists of Walnut Hill to be so open, accepting, inclusive, and all of those other adjectives that are used to describe the community—in an almost nonchalant way. The unique nature of the Walnut Hill community is not necessarily taken for granted, but at this point, it is certainly expected. It’s completely “normal” to see theater students walking around with enormous rollers in their hair during a school day because they are playing a role that evening that requires a curly hairdo. It’s completely “normal” for large groups of students to be knitting scarves during assembly in order to meet their Knit-a-Thon goals. It’s completely “normal” for a music student to want to stay in and practice on a Friday night. And it’s not at all out of the ordinary to share a classroom or dorm common room with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered classmates.
What’s so amazing about the community at Walnut Hill is that these things do happen, every day, every week, and every year. And while any one of our values could be completely out of place at a typical American high school (and in some cases, incite bullying behavior), here in the supportive community that is Walnut Hill, they are “I always felt that Walnut Hill was a very warm and accepting completely accepted . . . because to a certain extent environment. As a gay student, I found that Walnut Hill was a place that they are superfluous. To not only tolerated my differences, but embraced and celebrated them. dedicate too much time It was a wonderful and supportive community to be a part of at a very and attention to differences would only serve to formative period in my life. Walnut Hill was a place where you could be distract from that paswho you wanted to be, a place where your talent, passions, and sion, that goal, we share. personality could blossom.”—Jonathan Parks-Ramage ’02 Furthermore, a community that does not celebrate its differences misses a crucial That shared passion, like the art it engenders, transcends opportunity for inspiration, learning, and creativity. so many of the factors that often create barriers at a typical high school. It transcends race, ethnicity, gender, In a 12-year longitudinal study that tracked 12,000 young sexual preference, age, geography, socioeconomic status, people from secondary school into young adulthood, experience level. It even transcends the individual art maJames Catterall, professor emeritus at UCLA’s Graduate jors and specific art interests. As Jessica DeKler ’00 tells School of Education and Information Studies, asked the us, “The list of what I loved about the School is endless. multilayered question, “Do the Arts Matter, Just How, However, I think every reason on my list ties back to one and for Whom?” The findings from the study, titled
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“Doing Well and Doing Good by Doing Art,” will not necessarily be surprising to anyone familiar with the Walnut Hill community: “Intensive involvement in the arts during middle and high school associates with higher levels of achievement and college attainment, and also with many indications of pro-social behavior such as voluntarism and political participation. . . . Arts-rich schools are seen to bear characteristics including a climate for achievement as well as instructional practices that may account for their advantages.”
“I feel that the leadership of the School took an interest in my person and abilities, and was very supportive of my studies and exposure in performance, even though I came in later than some other students. This was extremely helpful, as I had very limited training, and everyone pulled together
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“The arts serve to broaden access to meaning by offering ways of thinking and ways of representation through a spectrum of intelligences scattered unevenly across our population—for example resonating with the multiple and differing intelligences identified by Howard Gardner at Harvard. . . . Arts activities can also promote community—advancing shared purpose and team spirit required to perform an ensemble musical or dramatic
musician. I did the work and succeeded, but it would not have been possible without the joint effort of literally everyone around me. This I have not found anywhere else to this degree, before or after my time at Walnut Hill.”—Nils Neubert ’03
ABOVE Students rehearsing in the gazebo, 2011
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“Fifty years out and 25 classmates returned for Reunion. THAT’S community! In our day, it was caring teachers, living on campus together with rare time off campus, Sunday vespers, Friday night ‘spreads,’ study hall, Glee Club . . . all these built community and lasting friendships.”—Sarah Cross Mills ’62 work, or to design and paint an urban mural. Or the community formed when students attend to each other and each other’s work in individual pursuits such as visual art. With community may come empathy and general attachment to the larger values of the school and the adult society the high school students will soon join.” Lauren Bisio, a dance major at Walnut Hill from 1998 to 2001, sums up the essence of the Walnut Hill community with a particularly vivid anecdote. “When I describe the School to others, I usually describe one of my first experiences on campus: I was visiting the School
ABOVE Music ensemble in Boswell Hall, 1985
with my parents for a tour, and the admissions officer introduced a student with a bright blue Mohawk hairstyle to lead us around. He highlighted this student’s artistic and academic achievements and was proud to have him represent the School to this group of prospective families; I immediately knew I would feel at home at a school 6 | Behind Stowe
where each student was celebrated for their uniqueness rather than ostracized.” Her experience is emblematic of the experience many of our students have. Walnut Hill is a rare community partly because it accepts and celebrates not only what the members of the community share, but what they don’t. Walnuts know that wherever they come from and wherever they go, here on the Hill they are not only accepted, but celebrated, for what makes them different from their peers. Perhaps most fascinating and compelling about the Walnut Hill community is its power to transcend generations and traditional authority structures. Whether you are a second-semester freshman or a member of the Class of 1962 returning to campus for your 50th Reunion; whether you attended Walnut Hill as a young woman to be prepared for matriculation to a women’s college or came here as a young artist eager to follow your artistic passion; whether you have been on the faculty for 30 years or are the newest member of the staff . . . all of these individuals share a commitment to one another, to art and creativity, and to a school that in many instances changed the trajectory of their lives. Spend a few moments asking a current student or member of the alumni about their fondest memories of Walnut Hill, and there’s a good chance that they will mention a respected and beloved faculty or staff member. There is an extraordinarily strong bond that arises between the students at Walnut Hill, the faculty who teach them, and the staff who support them. Many alumni have pointed out that it’s the dedication of the faculty that creates and perpetuates that bond. As Kate Hutter ’00 commented, “Students are easily excitable, but when you see that the teachers are just as excited and interested in what you are doing . . . that is when it clicks.” Like the students, the faculty, even the academic faculty, share a passion for the arts. The academic faculty understand what it means to teach young artists, and have chosen to teach at Walnut Hill because they not only recognize the importance of training the next generation of artists and creative problem-solvers, but also because they appreciate the curiosity, dedication, and collaborative nature of the students they teach. The arts faculty are themselves artists, who absolutely appreciate the journey each young artist takes at Walnut Hill and beyond. www.walnuthillarts.org
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In return, and perhaps in gratitude, Walnut Hill continues to cherish traditions like the Boar’s Head Dinner, Class Night, Tree Day, and Candlelight Ceremony. Those traditions have, through the ages, provided a much-needed impetus to take a break from our busy individual lives and to come together to mark key milestones in the School year. Today, more than ever, those special events “It was a huge surprise to find myself in an environment that so remain a powerful reminder perfectly suited me. I had never imagined such a mix of people, such of what we share and value as a community. a wealth of artistic opportunity, and such a carefully and consciously
humane and supportive high school environment. No, it wasn’t perfect, but I felt like I won the lottery when I arrived at Walnut Hill, and the feeling never really left me the whole time I was there, nor has it to this day.”—Courtney Greene ’94
form as a girls’ school. The School’s old yearbooks are filled with photos of actresses and singers. The Blue Pencil, still published today, was established on campus over 75 years ago. The work of prominent American artist and 1901 alumna Marian L. Pooke adorns the walls in Boswell, Eliot, and Stowe. This very magazine is named after a poem written on campus by Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Elizabeth Bishop ’30. Furthermore, a look back across the graduating classes of Walnut Hill reveals artists, arts supporters, and many, many Walnuts engaged in creative pursuits, both personally and professionally. What we’ve seen over the past 30 years is that more and more of the alumni who knew Walnut Hill as a girls’ school have increasingly embraced and supported the passion for the arts that pervades the Hill today.
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One would expect that the notion of shared passion, especially a shared passion for the arts, would apply only to more recent students and alumni, those who have come to Walnut Hill because it is a haven for young artists. However, it’s important to remember that the arts were cultivated at Walnut Hill even in its initial
It is no accident that “community” is one of the five values that we as a school have recognized as core to our identity. A strong community is clearly an important component of the Walnut Hill experience, and has been so for nearly 120 years. The individuals who make up the community may have shifted over the years, and their reasons for joining the community may vary tremendously. But whether they are finding Walnut Hill for the first time, are finding their way back after a long time, or never really left, the extraordinarily diverse members of this unique community quickly find that their shared passion for the arts, combined with their long-standing commitment to creativity in its many forms, creates powerful bonds that truly do transcend and transform. ♦
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LEFT Candlelight Ceremony 1968; Candlelight Ceremony 2012 Fall 2012 & Winter 2013
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IN THEIR OWN WORDS
New Connections Every Day . . . A Strong Community Every Year
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community like Walnut Hill does not just “happen.” It is rooted in mission and nurtured by the people and practices of the School. It draws strength from tradition, and its core values are passed from generation to generation. One of the keepers of “community” at Walnut Hill is the Community Council (also known as “CC”), the student governing body of the School. A representative body, the CC acts as the official liaison between the student body and the School administration. The CC “strives to create a more purposeful, open, and effective School community.” The heads of all student committees and associations serve on the council. Each year, the CC develops a theme for the year, a rallying cry and guide for all of the Leadership students. The theme for the 2012–2013 school year is “connection.” CC President Audrey Emerson ’13 explained that for her and the other Leadership students, connection has three dimensions to it:
1. Connection to each other. How do you affect each other and how does that make a difference? Teamwork. Coming together. Staying focused. Getting things done. Being approachable and kind. Being a good leader. DOING.
2. Connection to the School. What is your role in the School and in the community? Are you aware of your impact? Are you taking care of yourself? BEING.
3. Connection to the world. What impact do you want to have in the world? Why do you do what you do? How does art play into that? CREATING CHANGE.
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The Leadership students, led by Emerson and Vice President Shelly Pires ’13, have put programs and processes in place to reinforce and deliver on that theme throughout the year. For example, Emerson conducts a monthly “State of the Hill” survey to gauge the well-being of the community, and the health of students’ connection to that community. She and Pires have also established regular check-ins with the administration and with their fellow Leadership students. Head of School Antonio Viva regularly visits CC meetings, and Leadership students meet one-on-one with Emerson or Pires every three weeks. They have also expressed a desire to “take it off the Hill,” to make sure that Walnut Hill students engage in the broader community of Natick, Boston, and beyond.
while setting expectations for new students in an engaging and welcoming way. Simply, yet powerfully, the core values are passed to a new set of Walnuts. ♦
TOP An instructor giving an equipment lesson to Class of 2013 Leadership students (from left to right) Keene Carter, Marybeth Dull, JJ McGlone, Sarah Tollman, and Owen Alderson BOTTOM Students climbing ropes course at the Leadership retreat
The CC’s hopes, dreams, and plans are probably best expressed in the letter on the facing page, which Emerson and Pires sent to newly admitted students before the start of school. The letter captures the essence of the Walnut Hill community, www.walnuthillarts.org
Dear Future Walnut, From both of us, the Community Council President and Vice President, as well as the rest of the Walnuts here on the Hill: welcome! We hope this letter finds you having a fun and relaxing summer. Don't worry, we're not here to remind you to do your summer reading. We're writing this in the hopes that you're just as excited about your arrival on the Hill as we are. You and the experiences you carry with you are unique, but we feel certain in saying that Walnut Hill isn't quite like any other place out there. When you first arrive, you might feel a bit overwhelmed by how much we have going on here, not to mention how many different people you may meet. Everyone comes from different places and from different walks of life, but we all have one thing in common: we chose to be here because we love creating art! The enthusiasm and determination that drives one to come to Walnut Hill is visible in every student you meet. Maybe you're feeling nervous about coming here-- we definitely did. After all, choosing to come to an art school is a big choice to make, but once you're here, we know you'll be happy you made it. Being around so many creative people can be crazy sometimes, but we can assure you it's always fun, and there's always something new to learn. Here, you'll be able to see your fellow Walnuts transform: not-so-regular high school students one moment, incredible artists the next. You'll feel the awe of watching your best friends show a side of themselves you don't see every day. That's part of the magic of Walnut Hill. Right now, it might seem like this big adventure you're about to embark on is taking forever to begin, but trust us; the year goes by fast. We encourage you to savor every minute of it. Once the buzz of arriving here wears off, remind yourself of why you decided to come here. Stay open to anything and everything. Take your time walking to class to appreciate the sound of someone practicing the piano nearby. Stop and take a look at a mural a visual artist is painting. Order takeout with friends and eat outside. Get a group together and play soccer on the field when the weather is nice. Let the things that gradually become normal to you become new again every day. Everyone comes to Walnut Hill for art, but we each stay at Walnut Hill for our own reasons. You'll discover these reasons during your time here, and as each year passes, you'll find a new way to appreciate this place, a way you hadn't thought of before. Each day, you'll form new connections to the school and the people around you. Learn to love each moment of it. If at any point you feel lost, both of us are here to help you in any way we can-- just email us. We can't wait to meet you in person here on the Hill. Until then, have a great summer! Sincerely,
Audrey Emerson Community Council President Theater '13 aemerson@walnuthillarts.org
Fall 2012 & Winter 2013
Shelly Pires Community Council Vice President Creative Writing '13 spires@walnuthillarts.org
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FALL TRADITIONS
Cherished Traditions Unite a Community
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raditions are a powerful way to strengthen community, and that's certainly the case here at Walnut Hill. Each fall, we celebrate long-standing traditions like the Boar’s Head Dinner, Mountain Day, and Class Night. Sometimes we even add new traditions, like the Carnival held to welcome new and returning students in September!
CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Ariana Cubillos-Voegler '13, Alex Galletto '14, and Daria Ilina '14 at Fall Carnival; signs at the base of Mount Monadnock; seniors climbing; seated at the table for Class Night Dinner; all posing for Class Night Dinner; Boar's Head processional
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Lydia Zimmer ’07 and Sophie Zimmer ’13 Make Headlines on Two Coasts
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isters Lydia Zimmer and Sophie Zimmer (above) are making headlines on two coasts. Sophie (who also attended Walnut Hill Summer Dance ’12) danced a solo choreographed by Lydia at the Young Company of Halifax Dance end-of-season showcase last spring. Lydia, meanwhile, was a continent away, dancing in San Diego. Since moving to California, Lydia has performed her solo “Memoriae,” set to music by German composer Marsen Jules, at Live Arts Los Angeles, at Celebrate Dance in Glendale, and as part of Malashock Dance’s Hidden Agendas, “an evening of personal, intimate and revealing dance works exploring emotional manipulation, physical longing and secret rendezvous.”
Visual Art Faculty Member Holly Worthington Featured in Benefit Auction Work by Holly Worthington, faculty member in Walnut Hill’s Visual Art Department, was recently featured in a Benefit Auction for the Photographic Resource Center at Boston University.
Sarah Tollman '13 and Tess Bissell '13 Win Student Advocate Awards Sarah Tollman and Tess Bissell earned Student Advocate Awards from Arts|Learning of Natick for their work in leading Walnut Hill’s Community Service Association. Tollman and Bissell championed a broad set of community service projects, including a 16-week arts education program at Lilja Elementary School in Natick that involved 20 Walnut Hill students and more than 40 elementary school students who took classes in theater, dance, writing, and visual art. The pair also led a highly successful scarfknitting fundraiser and coordinated a project with the Town of Natick to paint bicycle helmets for young riders. Fall 2012 & Winter 2013
Shengliang "Niu Niu" Zhang ’14 Makes North American Recital Debut Shengliang "Niu Niu" Zhang made his North American recital debut at NEC’s Jordan Hall in September. The concert was presented by the Artemisia Foundation, which “introduces young, brilliant pianists in highly visible concert venues to help launch their careers, and gives them chances to serve their communities through outreach concerts in schools, nursing homes, and hospitals.” Zhang also performed at a benefit concert for Dharma Drum Mountain in San Francisco in November.
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Yi-Hsuan Chiu ’13 Wins Third Place in Scholarship Competition
Walnuts Named Finalists in the Williams Chorale Bacardi Fallon Performing Arts Scholarship Competition Clarinetist Nicholas Davies ’12, violinist Matthew Woodard ’12, bassoonist Jacob Thonis ’12, double bassist Yi-Hsuan Chiu ’13, and vocalist Tatum Robertson ’13 were named finalists in the Williams Chorale Bacardi Fallon Performing Arts Scholarship Competition. This annual scholarship competition is open to high school juniors and seniors around the country who are pursuing vocal or instrumental studies. Chiu ultimately won Third Prize and a $1,000 scholarship.
Lana Caplan, Visual Art Faculty, in Beijing
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i-Hsuan Chiu (second from left) won Third Prize and a $1,000 scholarship in the Williams Chorale Bacardi Fallon Performing Arts Scholarship Competition. Pictured with Chiu are (left to right) scholarship chairman Mark Umberger and Bacardi Fallon Foundation principals Karen Bacardi-Fallon and Stephen Fallon.
Sara Newkirk '95, Voted One of Billboard’s Women in Music 2012 A principal in William Morris Endeavor's music department, WME partner Sara Newkirk describes herself as the quarterback of a team that oversees the careers of such artists as Usher, Lady Gaga, Bruno Mars, Carly Rae Jepsen, and Pharrell Williams. A six-year WME veteran, Newkirk currently runs the non-touring initiatives for the talent firm's music department, where she manages the branding and marketing efforts for numerous clients. 1 2 | Behind Stowe
Visual Art faculty member Lana Caplan was invited to do a residency at Beijing’s Inside Out Art Museum, where she created new work for a group exhibition. The work included two video installations: one interactive piece (video projection controlled by a rider on a bicycle in the museum), and a two-channel piece (two video monitors hung together). While in Beijing, Caplan was also invited by the Chinese government to make a five-day cultural exchange trip to Huangshan with Chinese artists. See video from her trip at www.ioam.org.cn/.
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Walnut Hill Musicians Win Harvard Musical Association High School Achievement Awards Juree Kim ’14 won First Prize and Nicholas Davies ’12 was awarded Second Prize in the 2012 Harvard Musical Association High School Achievement Awards. Kim will perform in a Harvard Musical Association concert to celebrate the honor. Her achievement is especially notable as First Prize is typically won by older students.
Laura Love ’10 Continues Her Successful Modeling Career
Laura Love has been featured in a variety of advertising campaigns, including for Etro Fall 2012 and Vera Wang Spring 2013. Love recently completed the Selfridges campaign with photographer Bruce Weber, which will be seen in 350 theaters in London. She reports, “This one I actually dance in, which brings everything full circle back to Walnut Hill.”
Do you have a notable accomplishment to share? If so, please send the details along with a high-resolution photo (at least 300 dpi and no less than 5 inches wide) to alumni@walnuthillarts.org.
Adam Schnell '99 Premieres the Riverside Dance Festival Dance faculty members Diane Arvanites and Nikki Sell taught at the very first Riverside Dance Festival, a new summer-intensive program at the Riverside Theatre in Vero Beach, Florida. The program was initially conceived by Adam Schnell (pictured with Alynn Parola ’12 and Melanie Benker ’12), director of Riverside’s dance conservatory, who wrote a proposal for a dance festival as part of his undergraduate arts management program.
Daniel Russell Cooke ’11 Featured in Pointe Magazine
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aniel Russell Cooke recently made his professional debut with Ballet Memphis. Cooke documented the beginning of his professional career—including work on the company’s mixed-repertory program The River Project—in Pointe magazine.
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Edward Spots '09, Named Alvin Ailey II's New Company Member Edward Spots, who received a scholarship to study dance at the Ailey School in 2010 and became an apprentice in 2011, was recently named Ailey II’s new company member.
Jaehyuck Choi '13 Places First at the National Composition Competition Composition major Jaehyuck Choi placed first in his grade level at the Music Teachers National Association’s Massachusetts composition competition, and progressed to winning the Northeast Regional Division—the second year he has won at both levels. His piece will now be judged in the national competition. He has been a busy composer...Jaehyuck also won Second Place and an Honorable Mention at the Pike's Place Young Composers Competition and was featured in the New York City–based Korea Times as well as in the classical music magazine Eum-Ak Chun Chu. He also traveled to Seoul, where Maestro Peter Eotvos and the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra performed his work, and where he once again participated in a private master class with Maestra Unsuk Chin.
Do you have a notable accomplishment to share? If so, please send the details along with a high-resolution photo (at least 300 dpi and no less than 5 inches wide) to alumni@walnuthillarts.org. Please feel free to contact us with any questions about submitting photos—we love hearing from you and want your accomplishment to shine! 1 4 | Behind Stowe
Ronan Noone, Creative Writing Faculty, Produces Plays in New York and London Award-winning playwright Ronan Noone, a member of Walnut Hill’s Creative Writing faculty, had two plays go into production recently. Brendan, described as “a funny, evocative and wonderfully touching play about love, loss and coming to terms with leaving the past behind you,” was presented as part of New York’s first annual Irish Theatre Festival. The Atheist was presented at the Lion and Unicorn Theatre in London.
Sage DeagroRoupp on Prairie Home Companion Sage Deagro-Roupp (Summer Opera ’11) was heard on Garrison Keillor's Prairie Home Companion.
Judith Hoag '81 on Popular New ABC Series Congratulations to Judith Hoag, who has a recurring role on the popular new ABC series Nashville.
Tao Ni '01 Named Associate Principal Cellist of the LA Philharmonic Tao Ni has been named associate principal cellist, Sadie and Norman Lee Chair of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
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Voice Student Bosba Sisombat '15 Featured Voice student Bosba Sisombat was featured in the Phnom Penh Post.
Blake Hinson '06 Joins New York Philharmonic Blake Hinson has joined the New York Philharmonic bass section.
Ashley Blanchet '05 Stars on Broadway
Stephanie Stigliano's Work Abroad Visual Art faculty member Stephanie Stigliano taught at the Gwoździec Painted Ceiling Workshop in Szczebrzeszyn, Poland, which is sponsored by Handshouse Studio and the Museum of the History of Polish Jews. The ceiling painting will be installed into the timber-roof structure as part of the core exhibition at the Museum of the History of Polish Jews, scheduled to open 2013 on the site of the former Warsaw Ghetto. While in Poland, Stigliano traveled to Ciekoty to see her work in Korespondencja, an international book arts exhibition on display at the House of Glass. She also participated in Par Avion, an interactive art exchange that celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Boston/Strasbourg Sister City Association.
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Young Concert Artists Series Spotlights Two Walnut Hill Musicians The 2012–2103 Young Concert Artists Series spotlights two Walnut Hill musicians: The December concert featured the premiere of a work by David Hertzberg ’08, the YCA’s new composer-in-residence, and in April 2013, pianist George Li ’13 will be featured in a noontime recital in collaboration with the Morgan Library and Museum.
Ashley (Williams) Blanchet is appearing in Annie on Broadway.
Bailey Moon '11 Dances with American Ballet Theatre and Royal Ballet in Indianapolis
Ken Tighe, Visual Art faculty, featured in the recently published book 100 Boston Painters
Bailey Moon danced a new piece by Margo Sappington with members of the American Ballet Theatre and the Royal Ballet in Indianapolis City Ballet’s Evening with the Stars.
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Susan Gordon ’42: A Step Ahead of Social Change by Molly Clark
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here is one thing that is immediately apparent when meeting Dr. Susan E. Gitt Gordon ’42 and her husband, Dr. Edmund W. Gordon: they remain as committed to each other, and to social justice, as when they met over 64 years ago. Director of Alumni Relations Jillian Dr. Susan and Professor Edmund Gordon in the early 1950s Kohl and I had the pleasure of visiting with Susan and Edmund at their home in Pomona, New York, to learn about Susan’s impressive career in medicine and research, and to understand what fuels their passion for social justice. Susan’s life choices, philosophy, and character have been strongly influenced by the close relationship she had with her father, Josiah W. Gitt, who was very progressive for his time. It was her father who brought her to Walnut Hill in 1938. He and a friend embarked on a journey to visit schools all over the country, and they determined that Walnut Hill would be the best place for Susan to thrive academically. Susan spent her entire high school career at Walnut Hill, where she lived in Stowe and excelled in her classes. After graduating, she continued her studies at Mount Holyoke College. Susan was inspired to apply to medical school upon completing fieldwork experience with a family friend who was a physician and ran his own hospital. After seeing her mentor work with children and having the chance to help treat them herself, Susan knew that her passion was to provide pediatric care. She began studying at Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania in a class of approximately 20 women who were breaking with current societal norms to become physicians. Susan, like her father, became associated with the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), a Quaker organization that includes people of various faiths who are committed to social justice, peace, and humanitarian service. While on a mission in Omaha, Nebraska, she met her future husband. Kindred spirits when it came to their belief in activism for issues of social justice, the two quickly fell in love. Interracial marriage did not reach full legality in the United States until 1967, but 1 6 | Behind Stowe
Susan and Edmund had the courage and commitment to weather the criticism and discrimination they faced. At this point in the conversation, Edmund asked Susan, “Do you want to talk about why you chose Howard University [to finish earning the medical degree]?” She turned to him and responded without hesitation, “Because of you.” Edmund chuckled and Susan turned back toward us, commenting, “As you can see, he is a very nice man. I wanted to be where he was.” After two years at Women’s Medical College, Susan transferred to the Howard University College of Medicine, and in 1948 married Edmund. Susan completed her Doctor of Medicine degree at Howard University. One would assume that being at a traditionally black university would have been intimidating for a white woman. However, Edmund and Susan found that the black community embraced their relationship, whereas they came up against great resistance in the white community. “This was the late 1940s; at the time, in our nation’s capital, we could not be seen downtown or go to the movies or a restaurant together,” explained Edmund. “There was a rich and very vital black community at Howard, and so we often stayed on campus and spent time with our peers at the university.” After medical school, Susan received an internship at Bronx Hospital. Although she developed a strong rapport with her pediatric patients and their families, some of her male colleagues at the hospital resisted working with a female physician. However, she quickly established a reputation for herself as a skilled diagnostician, which quieted the doubters. “The mothers especially appreciated working with a woman doctor,” said Susan. “Parents are so frightened when they show up with a child with a high fever. They felt I knew what I was doing. It was clear that I was genuinely concerned about their children and would figure out how to relieve their discomfort.” Susan and Edmund’s first child was born at the end of her internship at Bronx Hospital. Even so, Susan’s career did not slow down. As she began her medical residency in Rockland County, New York, Edmund stayed at home for three years with the youngster. Dr. Gordon started a private practice after the birth of their third child. The Gordons have four children in total, two sons and two daughters, as well as nine grandchildren and two greatgrandchildren. Edmund told us, “When we started our family, Susan made the decision to identify herself as black so that www.walnuthillarts.org
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our children would have no ambiguity about their own identity. She felt that was very important.” As a result, all of their children have an enormous sense of pride for their black heritage. In fact, two of their children went on to become professors in African American studies and African Diaspora studies. In 1958, Susan became an associate professor of pediatrics, first at New York Medical College and then at Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons. For 25 years she taught at these two institutions and their teaching hospitals, Metropolitan
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Hospital, the Children’s Hospital of the New YorkPresbyterian Hospital, and Harlem Hospital. She has also served as a member of the National Panel on the Measurement of the Program Effects of Head Start.
Honorary Degree by Mount Holyoke. On December 7, 2006, she was honored, along with her husband, by the Rockland County Commission on Human Rights and inducted into the Rockland County Civil Rights Hall of Fame. The Gordons felt it was very important to teach their children to have respect for all people, to have concern for social justice, to use their minds critically to solve problems, and to be active, responsible citizens. In acknowledging and championing these values, the Gordon children established the CEJJES Institute and Library in 2000. The institute continues their parents’ life work in the promotion of social justice, particularly as it pertains to health, education, and the environmental and material well-being of marginalized communities, with special attention to the well-being of children. The institute works primarily in collaboration with communities of color, particularly those of African descent. CEJJES promotes social justice and universal liberation by engaging in education, critical thinking, and activist research, and by strategizing and organizing with those communities of color. Within the institute is the Charles White Gallery, which holds the largest collection of artwork by Charles W. White, one of America’s most renowned and recognized African American and Social Realist artists.
With everything that Susan has achieved, it is difficult Even with her busy home life and career, Susan made to identify her greatest accomplishment, but there is time to volunteer in the communities she cared about, no doubt in Susan’s mind: it is her children. Susan and including with such organizations as the NAACP, the Edmund are immensely proud of each of their children Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy, and various PTAs. and the fine people they have grown up to be. It is no In her retirement, she has continued to stay very active. wonder—they had amazing role models in Susan and She was elected to the East Ramapo Central School Edmund to emulate. ♦ District Board of Education and served for nine years, three of those years as president. The Health Center of the Lexington School for the Deaf, where she served for over 20 years as a member and past president of their board, was named in her honor. In 1999, she was the recipient of the Children’s Champion Award, given by the Early Child Consortium of Rockland County, and in 2000 the classrooms and computer center of the Martin Luther King Jr. Multi Purpose Center, Inc., in Spring Valley, New York, were dedicated as the Susan G. Gordon, M.D., Education Corridor. She also received the Lewis Hine FROM LEFT TO RIGHT Johanna Gordon (daughter) with granddaughter Jade, Susan Gordon, Jessica Gordon Award and was conferred an Nembhard (daughter) with granddaughter Susan Rosa, and Daysi Garth Gordon (daughter-in-law) with granddaughter Ishan. Circa 1998.
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ach year, more than 200 young artists spend some of their summer on the Hill in intensive programs designed to help them advance their studies in dance, creative writing, music, voice, and theater. The summer program is a wonderful introduction to the Walnut Hill community. In fact, 20% of the students admitted to Walnut Hill for the 2012–2013 school year attended one of our summer programs!
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ON CAMPUS
Meet Our New Trustee
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eter Tollman is a senior partner at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG). He has held a number of leadership positions in the firm, including leading its global Biopharmaceuticals Sector, its R&D business, and, currently, its People and Organization Practice in the Americas. He has authored publications on various aspects of business strategy, organization design, and competitive dynamics.
Peter Tollman P’13 Senior Partner and Managing Director Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
Peter’s work has spanned the globe. He has been involved in several corporate transformations, mergers, and large-scale implementation projects, and has managed issues of corporate and business-unit strategy, organization design, and operational effectiveness. Peter joined BCG in 1989. Outside of BCG, he was founding managing director of a health-care investment company, MPM Capital. He received his Ph.D. in engineering from the University of Cape Town and his M.B.A. with distinction from Columbia Business School. He sits on the Board of Governors of the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance at the Hebrew University.
ABOVE North House Dormitory's 2012 window painting, winner of the Dean's Special Prize awarded by Melissa Cassel
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The 9th Grade Arts Experience—What does it mean to think and work like a Walnut? by Ben Gregg
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pend enough time here and you find that, regardless of the arts or academic discipline, thinking like a Walnut involves being comfortable with ambiguity, open to invention, observant, and intellectually persistent. And to work like a Walnut is to engage deeply in
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arts departments. In these workshops, the arts faculty and some older students in the particular majors engaged all of the 9th graders in hands-on activities and discussion about their work. From workshop to workshop, we found common themes of discipline,
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process, to practice like crazy, and to revise, revise, revise. These are lessons that students learn through weeks and months and years with our faculty. But, we wondered, could we help our youngest students get a jump start on these lessons? Could we help them more powerfully process all the rich experiences they would have here and find their way to understanding what these habits mean for them and their work? These questions gave rise to a new project this fall: the 9th Grade Arts Experience. With the help of the arts faculties, we designed five workshops for the entire 9th grade, one in each of the Fall 2012 & Winter 2013
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sculpture in and around the museum, we took in a special exhibition by contemporary sculptor Julianne Swartz entitled How Deep Is Your, and played a team drawing game in which groups of students were challenged to draw one of the works in the park cooperatively. Through it all, we hope the 9th graders found valuable points of entry for their own journey as thinking and working Walnuts. ♌
technique, and persistence emerging, but also a lot of talk about the value of curiosity, play, and accident in art making. Students improvised theater scenes, modern dances, and self-portraits. They crafted towers in clay and images with words. They watched as faculty and senior students worked the same musical phrases over and over to get just the right gesture and line. We wound up our fall 9th Grade Arts Experience with a rainy but playful trip to the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in Lincoln, Massachusetts. In addition to touring the world-class collection of
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RIGHT Kate Cutler ’58 and Carol Hauptfuhrer ’65 near Kate’s cottage in Bay Head, NJ. The two hit it off at a Walnut Hill event in Philadelphia and stayed in touch for several years before making the visit pictured here finally happen! Interestingly, both now work in the arts despite having attended Walnut Hill long before it made the transition to arts training.
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BRITTA BJORNLUND BLUM paid an impromptu visit to campus in August, accompanied by her daughter, Cynthia Carroll, and her two granddaughters, Kiersten and Britta. Jillian Kohl and Bruce Smith gave them a tour, and the entire family was impressed by the School’s updates in facility and program. As an alumna, Britta herself thinks very fondly of the School and says that even though she went to Smith College, Walnut Hill is home to some of her best memories.
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KATHERINE “KAY” KINNEY HOLT retired this year after 18 years of keeping a bedand-breakfast called The Fitch House in Mansfield, CT.
1955
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SALLY SCHWABACHER HOTTLE spent two weeks hiking in Spain this October, traveling the Camino de Santiago route, one of the most important Christian pilgrimages during medieval times and still much sought after today.
1959
SARAH LORD CORSON wrote that summer life from her home near Mount Desert Island, ME, was busy with events and visiting friends and relatives, but she still found time to relax by rowing her skiff in the harbor—in between walking and hiking in Acadia National Park, riding the ferry, and biking about on Little Cranberry Island.
1963
CAROL BOOTH welcomed her third grandchild on October 26 and is sorry to report that she probably will not make it to Reunion in the spring.
and the futile actions of Sisyphus. She continues to work on her stand-up comedy act “Motherhood: Cry Until You Laugh.”
1972
NANCY SCRANTON SPORBORG was on tour from July through November with her book It’s Not About the Hike, the motivational story of two ordinary women (Nancy and coauthor Pat Piper) who start out walking the sidewalks of their hometown and end up climbing 190 mountains through all four seasons.
1965
HELEN HORROCKS GEMMITI is traveling a lot these days, most recently to Florida. She enjoyed gardening throughout the summer season.
1966
SUZANNE ELMS-BARCLAY is trying to find the fine line between Don Quixote’s quest for civil behavior
ABOVE Nancy Scranton Sporborg's '72 book cover
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1976
LISA LEINBACH HUERTAS writes that her son, David, is now at the Culinary Institute of America and her daughter, Kyra, recently started at Wellesley College. After attending the Nantucket Atheneum Dance Festival in July, Lisa assumed a new position as director of
ABOVE Britta Bjornlund Blum ’41 (far right) on campus in August, accompanied by her daughter, Cynthia Carroll, and her two granddaughters, Kiersten and Britta.
development at the Palm Beach Opera in August, transitioning from her post as a development officer at the Scripps Research Institute. She is looking forward to working in the arts once again and having more opportunities to visit the Walnut Hill campus with her daughter so close by.
1979
ELIZABETH RAMSEY MIDDOUR is the mother of two small children and an artist who works with lighting to create representative artwork.
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1980
LAURIE ROOP SINGLETARY returned after a decades-long sabbatical from the stage to play Molly in Organic Seed, one of five new, very short one-act plays presented at the Boston Actors Theater for the last two weekends in July.
1981
DONNA KAPLAN FIGUEROA works as a nurse at Loudon Community Health Center in Leesburg, VA, and has completed her graduate work toward becoming a midwife.
1983
ELIZABETH GANZI recently launched SloweGANZI International, her latest global special event marketing sports and entertainment company, which is based in Washington, DC, and Lagos, Nigeria. Having finished its work on the London Olympics, the company is currently developing event programming for the 2014 World Cup Brazil and the Rio Olympic Games of 2016.
RIGHT Rose Ann Serpico ’87 gave birth to Guy Serpico Powers on March 19, 2012.
1986
ARIADNE KIMBERLY-HUQUE and husband Zia are still based in London and have just finished building a school with a 1,000-student capacity and scholarships for 100 students per year. They are now forming a trust that works with the education of orphaned children. Both projects are in Bangladesh, and the pair hope to create similar projects in Mexico. They were planning a 2013 move to Wyoming, but (as is often the case) their plans have changed and they will likely not return for another two to three years, although their house is almost finished. Ariadne says, “Education is certainly our passion, and the arts are always in my heart.”
BELOW Through a happy coincidence of schedules, Pam Apostol Kukla ’63 and her 13-yearold grandson, James, were able to spend some time in Iceland with former Dean for External Relations Martha Kleinman and her husband, Ron.
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1988
LIBERTY BRADFORD CONBOY now goes by Liberty Mitchell—she took her birth name as she is developing a one-woman show about her life called The Pornographer’s Daughter. ZOE HURWITZ DUNN welcomed beautiful daughter Greta Mae Ruth Dunn on May 13, 2012. KIRSTEN PATCHES ELLIS is the lead singer for the political punk band Naked Aggression. By day, she is a special education teacher with the Los Angeles Unified School District. Her band
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performed on December 21, 2012, at the Key Club on Sunset Boulevard in L.A. ANDREA WELCH HOLMBECK moved from Idaho to South Carolina in May so that her husband, a chemical engineer, could take a new job. The pair have been blessed with three lovely, happy, and healthy children: Benjamin (5), James (3), and Claire (2). Andrea reports that she now dances only with her children, and their artistic tools are confined to crayons and safety scissors.
1989
KRISTIN EATON BELL reports that all is well at home with her children and chickens. Her husband just finished editing the movie The Amazing Spider-Man, and they were able to attend the premiere! This summer, they embarked on a long overdue family vacation, renting an RV and venturing north across the country through Wyoming, Montana, and the Dakotas, ending up in New Hampshire to visit family before flying back to Los Angeles. JENNIFER LEVITSKY CURREN is the director of Footsteps Family Dance Center in Columbus, OH. After attending Walnut Hill, Jennifer obtained a B.F.A. in dance education from Ohio State University. She went on to teach at the Delaware County Cultural Arts Center, the Martin Luther King Cultural Arts Center, and a Columbus-area studio for 11 years, where she served as the ballet department head and assistant director. Her students have won numerous awards at 2 4 | Behind Stowe
regional and national dance competitions in various dance forms and have gone on to dance in New York, Las Vegas, and Chicago; on cruise ships; in tap, hip-hop, contemporary, and ballet companies; and even as teachers and studio owners themselves! DEBRA SPARKS DAWSON works with her husband at Dawson Law Firm, P.C., in western New York. RALPH FARRIS’S postclassical string quartet, ETHEL, had an eventful summer that included the release of the group’s third album, Heavy. They performed on more than 15 dates across the country between September and December.
1990
BETSY COMSTOCK lives in Los Angeles and is currently working on the TV show The Newsroom as an assistant editor in the postproduction department.
1992
RANDALL AVERS wrote to announce the release of his third solo CD in mid-October. Man on the Moon came out on the Clear Note Classics label, and the disk centers on the solo guitar music of American jazz giant Ralph Towner, who personally assisted in the creation of the recording. Man in the Moon is the product of three years of research that began with an artist grant by the Norwegian Arts Council for Randy to study Towner’s music and his compositional
and improvisational style. Randy currently resides in Norway with his wife and two sons, ages 6 and 3. NICOLE GALLANT CRISS and her husband welcomed son Ethan into the world on September 15, 2012. He was 8 lbs., 15 oz., and joins older brother Roman. ALBERTO LOPEZ was a featured performer, along with Gavin Russom, in LCD Soundsystem’s film Shut Up and Play the Hits, documenting the band’s farewell show at Madison Square Garden. Alberto is looking forward to the release of the Crystal Ark’s self-titled debut album (available on 10/30/12 through DFA Records), another project collaboration with Gavin. Alberto also composed music and was music director for dancer/ choreographer Kimberly Miguel Mullen’s 45-minute solo dance piece Yemanjá: Mother of the Deep. He keeps busy producing recordings and touring as a musician with artists from Brazil, Cuba, Spain, and the United States.
ABOVE Ethan Bennett Wright was born on January 14, 2012, to parents Vanessa Johnson ’97 and Richard Wright.
1993
JONAH FREEMAN and his artistic partner Justin Lowe were featured on the cover of the September 2012 Modern Painters magazine. They were also highlighted in a September 2nd New York Magazine post. The two installation artists had a show at the Marlborough Chelsea Gallery in New York this fall. ROZ FULTON-DAHLIE is now a professor of lighting design and technology at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA). Her lighting and video design work can be seen with companies such as PlayMakers Repertory Company at UNC, Chautauqua Theater Company, North Carolina Opera, Carolina Ballet, Duke University, and Guilford College. LINDSEY GATES-MCKINLEY just finished a run of Charles Winn Speaks and recently filmed a movie starring Russell Crowe.
1994
After launching and managing the Parents Fund at Wellesley College, COURTNEY GREENE moved into a role in Reunion Giving at the Harvard College Fund. She writes, “Beautiful and brilliant classmates: we have less than two years until our 20th Walnut Hill Reunion. Bring your entourage and let’s make it massive!”
CHARLIE HESS, a former Dorm Parent in Stowe, now works for Howard Stern.
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WILL JAMISON is the assistant vice president of Chicago operations at the Hope Institute for Children and Families, acting as primary liaison with the Chicago Public Schools. He is involved in the management of Chicagoarea programming for Hope, including the Hope Institute Learning Academy, an inclusive K–5 public elementary school for more than 400 children of all learning abilities.
RIGHT Chelsea Morse ’98 (right) and former longtime Walnut Hill faculty member Jackie Sand.
1996
JOSEPH SYWENKYJ stopped dancing years ago but now travels around Eastern Europe to pursue photography and has even photographed in Iraq.
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VANESSA JOHNSON gave birth to her first child, Ethan Bennett Wright, this year.
CAROLINE LOCKE FLANDERS recently finished law school and is awaiting her bar exam results. Keeping busy with her children, ages 4 and 2, she is not currently involved in theater but hopes to get back to it soon!
JACK MCCOLLOUGH, one half of the duo behind fashion powerhouse Proenza Schouler, was featured in the New York Times in September. In fact, their clothing line has been praised in the media many times and has become a favorite of numerous celebrities. He and partner Lazaro Hernandez are working to define and expand their brand.
RICHARD EHMCKE lives in Denver and is still working in design and production, having just finished a European tour.
1998
AMY FORTIER reconnected with Walnut Hill this past summer when she called the Bookstore to order a T-shirt for a student of hers who attended the Youth Dance Program on campus. Amy currently owns her own nonprofit dance studio in New Hampshire and recently welcomed a baby daughter, Evelyn.
ANDREW GLICK recently joined the Los Angeles Philharmonic as associate manager of artistic planning. During his first week on the job, he ran into CHARLIE HODGES at Walt Disney Concert Hall—it’s a small Walnut world! Charlie recently deferred from Pratt University’s master’s program in industrial design to serve as Ballet Master for
LEFT From left to right: David Sanderson, Antonio Viva, Susan Hayes ’65, Ellie Sanderson ’52, Robin Bagley ’53, Mimi Dye/ Dunham ’51, Happy Griffiths ’55, Bruce Smith, Cynthia Jones ’50, Susan Hunter ’65, Lola Baldwin ’51, Lola's granddaughter Alexandra Perry Baldwin, and Skip Baldwin at an alumni luncheon in New Hampshire on July 19, 2012
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PERSPECTIVE
Meet Eve Berman, School Counselor, and Ros Gendreau, Director of Health Services Each issue, we turn the spotlight on an individual or team whose work, while crucial to the School, may not be highly visible to our external community. This issue, we take a look at health and wellness, with Ros Gendreau, RN, BSN (Director of Health Services), and Eve Berman, LICSW (School Counselor).
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Tell us about your work. What’s your role at Walnut Hill?
Ros: I primarily take care of kids medically.
We are the first line of defense. The nurses and physical therapist work together to assess and treat injured students. We see a lot of stress and overuse injuries that are often part of being an engrossed artist in almost every discipline. We see lots of stomachaches and colds, but we also see the college stress, the social stress, the school stress. Many of these kids are far from home, and they have lots of somatic complaints. It’s our job to tease that out, to figure out what’s really going on, and to decide when to involve other members of the community. To that end, we also attend meetings of the SRC (Student Resource Committee), which take place twice a week. At these meetings, an extended group of adults spend time discussing kids who may need extra support.
Eve: My main responsibility here is to support the kids in whatever way I can from an emotional, social, and mental health point of view. One of the most common issues I deal with is student stress. There’s a high level of drive here and I often find myself talking to kids about managing their stress, addressing their super-high expectations, finding balance, things like that. I try to take a practical approach. I’m always sure to check in about their basic self-care: Are they getting enough sleep? Are they getting any exercise? Are they eating well?
Ros: Working here is very different from working in another school. It took a while for me to figure out how to support these kids. They are unique in that they are teenagers AND artists. And as adults, we need to know how to support them without hampering their growth
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as artists. My approach has been to say, “You can do your art, but you still need to stay healthy. You need to eat, to sleep, to spend downtime doing other things.” Part of our role is helping them manage their passion for their art while staying healthy.
Eve: It’s been interesting. I’ve learned so much about the various disciplines. What it means to be in the dance world, for example. What it means to be a parent of a dancer. What it means to be a musician. To see the challenges specific to the various majors. Also, working with the international students and those from different cultures has been fascinating. When I first arrived, none of the international kids would come see me. In many cultures there’s a stigma about seeing a counselor, but that’s changed over time. Now I meet with many internationals. I love that.
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What’s your background . . . what did you do before you came to Walnut Hill?
Eve: I’ve been at Walnut Hill for 13 years, and I have worked in school counseling for close to 25 years. I have a B.A. in psychology from Bates College and an M.S.W. from Boston College School of Social Work. Ros: I originally went to nursing school at UMass Lowell to become a midwife, but one of my professors told me, “You have to work with teens.” After nursing school, I initially worked on a locked pediatric psych unit, then moved to pediatric ICUs (intensive care units). That was really hard emotionally and I wanted to get out of the ICUs. I joined the Walnut Hill community six years ago and am so glad I did. This is a great place to work.
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What do you enjoy about your work here at Walnut Hill?
Eve: We are lucky to have great communication and integration with the rest of the faculty and staff here. I really value the teamwork approach. For example, I am really impressed with the SRC meetings. It’s an hourlong meeting, with up to 12 adults in a room, talking about one kid who needs more support. Sometimes the students are worried about it because they think they are in trouble. But really, it’s a time when the adults come together and develop recommendations regarding what we can do to support them and what we think they need to do to support themselves. Ros: You know, it’s interesting. The student population has really evolved. It’s not the same kids who were here when I arrived. We need to evolve with the kids and with the times . . . we need to keep up.
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Many of our alums point to “community” as a distinguishing characteristic of the Walnut Hill experience. But community means different things to different people. In your opinion, what is it that makes the Walnut Hill community unique?
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Eve: These kids have the advantage of having a focus, and a place where they can develop their talents. Wouldn’t it be great if all teens had that! I think our adult population is very special as well. They are a group of educators who in their own way parallel the talent level of the student body. I was so moved by the values exercise we did at the beginning of the year. It made me realize, and appreciate, that I go to work every day with a group of people who share my values. Like me, they all have the authentic desire to nurture kids and, I believe, make the world a better place through this experience.
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How do you see your role in supporting and sustaining that unique community?
Ros: When I think about “community,” I think first about the kids. These teenagers are like no other teenagers I’ve ever encountered. They treat each other so well. Sometimes, I worry about disease transmission from the abundance of hugs—they are so close! We are just a different place . . . we are a place for artists. Once they figure out this is the community for them, they just thrive. I’ve had so many parents come to me and say, “This is the perfect place for my child.” Eve Berman and Ros Gendreau
Eve: I understand how those parents feel. They will
Eve: I agree. We are able to create the programs
do whatever they can to help their kids succeed. We all take pride in these kids. Walnut Hill is not my family, but there’s a lot of that same energy here. When I was in high school, I certainly never thought about the adults, and I certainly didn’t think the adults thought about me! I think the kids would be amazed to know how much we care about them. Some of these kids don’t even know that I know who they are . . . but I’m so proud of them.
and approach that we feel best meet the needs of the kids and of the community. We are never bored!
Eve: I feel lucky that I get to do this for a living. It’s
The administrative team clearly understands that, and provides us with so much support to be creative and innovative in our work. So I would say that one of the best things about working here is the trust and autonomy we enjoy.
really deeply fulfilling work. Ros: Agreed.
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Boston Alumni Event, July 31, 2012
CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Amanda Bertone ’05, Kate Crowley ’06, Melissa Cassel, Anne Murphy, Julie Goldman ’07, Emily Hatch ’07; Melissa Cassel, Xander Szabo ’01, Emily Hatch ’07, Evelyn Shields ’99, Jo-Ann Pinkowitz ’66, Antonio Viva, Bruce Smith, David Glista ’09, Paulina Haduong ’09, Julie Goldman ’07, Amanda Bertone ’05, Kate Crowley ’06, Myron Lewis, Kate McKay ’81, Alexandra De Collibus ’93, Jillian Kohl, Marcia Hall ’58, Deanne Rosenberg ’57, Courtney Greene ’94, Sudabeh Gozashti ’80, Anne Murphy, Baila Janock ’58, Isabel Holmes; Judy Racely ’51, Marcia Hall ’58, Courtney Greene ’94, Deanne Rosenberg ’57; Pam Kukla ’63, Judy Racely ’51, Baila Janock ’58
the L.A. Dance Project. The “curatorial collective” was founded by choreographer Benjamin Millepied, who retired as principal dancer last October from New York City Ballet, he is perhaps most known for his work in the Hollywood film Black Swan, where he met his wife, actress Natalie Portman.
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Charlie is thrilled to participate in this venture, for which Millepied says he will “create new dances, revive seminal works, and generally kick up dust by collaborating in unusual ways with various arts organizations.”
but feel disconnected from their bodies. She experienced this after giving birth to her son Xander (now 4 years old). She blogs at spiritmovesdance.com as a launching pad for her practice.
MARGARET POOLEY GOODMANSON is still dancing, but not in the technical sense. Since 2005, Margaret has trained in Kripalu Yoga Dance, Reiki, and Reiki Healing Dance, and is in the process of launching an Embodied Movement coaching practice based on that work. Her goal is to work with women who want to dance
ASHIMA SCRIPP was appointed artistic director for the Walden Chamber Players for their 2012–2013 season. She has served as the group’s associate artistic director since 2010 and has dedicated her career to the performance and advancement of chamber music. In her work with Walden, she has developed and produced many of the group’s educational
residencies and programs, including the Concord Academy Chamber Music Workshop and the Albany Chamber Music Initiative. Ashima is an active soloist and chamber musician and serves on the cello and chamber music faculty of the Longy School of Music and Concord Academy in Massachusetts.
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CATHERINE GIARRUSSO and JANE GUYER FUJITA are working on a feature film here in Boston for the Hallmark Hall of Fame series of TV movies. Called The Makeover, the movie stars
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Julia Stiles, David Walton, Camryn Manheim, and Frances Fisher. Catherine is excited to be working directly for the director as his assistant, and Jane is serving as the film’s dialect coach. Catherine’s own student film, Cleaning House, continues to be available online as part of 2012 NewEnglandFilm.com. The film was selected for participation after winning “Best Storyline” at the 2012 Boston International Film Festival, where Catherine was thrilled to have the support of current Walnuts at the screening.
2000
MAXINE KUO is backpacking around the world after turning down a job offer with an orchestra.
2001
ABBY ARESTY’S doctoral dissertation was featured on the front page of the Seattle Times and on NPR’s All Things Considered in the fall. Her project, a musical composition of natural sounds at the
BELOW Abby Aresty ’01 at the Washington Park Arboretum in Seattle
Washington Park Arboretum, ran through the month of October. CONSTANTINE BAECHER returned to the Tahoe Youth Ballet as guest teacher and choreographer this past June, after having danced with the Royal Danish Ballet from 2003 to 2011. In a special evening of performance and celebration in Tahoe, he was joined by Yannis Adoniou and his own Kunst-Stoff Dance Company from San Francisco. BEN BOLTER relocated to Chicago last summer to start a new position as an orchestral conductor at the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University. BROOKE LIEBERMAN COLLINS welcomed daughter Isadora June Lieberman Collins, who mostly goes by Dora Collins, on December 3, 2011. Brooke and Dora joined other New Yorkers at the Alumni Event in October. TAO NI was recently appointed associate principal cellist of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
ZOE GHERTNER is one of six finalists vying for the opportunity to shoot a feature for W magazine’s September 2013 issue. One of her photographs was featured in the New York
gulies, called A Coney Island Christmas, and the Geffen is a really great playhouse.” He hopes to see everyone on campus in May for their 10th Reunion.
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JONATHAN PARKS-RAMAGE’S new musical film, The Devil’s Bitch, was accepted into the 2012 Friars Club Comedy Film Festival and screened in October. The film features many Broadway stars, including fellow Walnut Hill alums MATT RISCH ’00 and KYLE BROWN ’04.
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JACOB FRIED has been teaching at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston for the past five years. His artwork was featured on the Huffington Post’s website last May.
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Times on October 10, 2012, in an article about the W contest and the magazine’s active recruitment and nurturing of young photographers.
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2003
TY FREEDMAN was sorry to miss the L.A. Alumni Event in November, but he had just been cast in a show at the Geffen Playhouse. He writes, “The play is the newest play by Donald Mar-
JAZIMINA MACNEIL was a participant in the Summer Festival at the Marlboro Music Festival in the UK. ABIGAIL MILLER received her J.D. from St. John’s University School of Law this past June. NILS NEUBERT is currently an apprentice artist at the Caramoor Festival and gave recitals together with his wife, pianist Yuri Kim, at the Summit Music Festival in August. He made an unscheduled debut as the Evangelist in the Schutz St. Matthew Passion at Trinity Wall Street in April, and in September he began his last year of coursework for his doctorate. This coming
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season will be his second as a regular soloist with Bach Vespers in NYC, and he continues to sing in operas, oratorios, and recitals both in the United States and in Europe. PETER VAN DAMM has been working at Innovative Artists since late May, as assistant to theatrical agent Gary Gersh, head of the New York office. Peter writes, “We work with a lot of veteran actors such as Patti LuPone, Donna Murphy, Joel Grey, Denis O’Hare, etc. I’m having a great time and learning a lot!” JANNA WHITE has spent the past three years splitting her time between western Massachusetts and India while working as a freelance writer and book editor. She writes, “I enjoy the work immensely, and I appreciate the flexibility it allows— particularly the ability to work remotely!”
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KYLE BROWN continues to perform in Priscilla Queen of the Desert on Broadway. SARAH CHASIN is currently living in Kyrgyzstan, where she is working for USAID— otherwise, she says, “I
would have made it to Walnut Hill for a visit this summer!”
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AMANDA BERTONE now works in the Walnut Hill School Admission Office as the Assistant Director of Admission, focusing on the Dance admission applicants. Before coming to Walnut Hill, Amanda completed her M.B.A. at Endicott College and worked for Betsy Johnson as the Boston store manager. ASHLEY (WILLIAMS) BLANCHET graduated from the University of Michigan with a B.F.A. in musical theater and recently finished the Broadway run of Memphis. This fall, she is in the ensemble of the Broadway musical revival of Annie. LILLIAN ROSS CONRAD graduated from St. Edward’s University in May 2011, and shortly after that she married Elliot Conrad, whom she met through fellow Walnut Kate Kelley ’06. Lillian is currently working for NYC Wine Co., a school on 23rd Street that teaches people about wine and sake. JOSHUA FINN recently switched jobs and now works at Paradigm Talent Agency.
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DASHA KITTREDGE graduated from NYU in 2009. Last year, she did a spot on TV’s Nurse Jackie and reports that watching Edie Falco work was surreal. In June, Dasha shot a small part in the upcoming indie feature My Man Is a Loser, in which she has a scene with John Stamos and Michael Rapaport. She moved to L.A. this summer and played the lead in an interactive horror play called Delusion: The Blood Rite, produced by Neil Patrick Harris and Jon Braver. The show did so well that it was extended through November. Dasha tells us she has stayed connected with many Walnuts throughout the years and they even helped her with her move. LEVI MARSMAN danced in the Radio City Christmas Spectacular for two seasons after leaving Ailey II, and went back to school to finish his minor before accepting his B.F.A. in dance performance and choreography from Fordham University. Since then, he’s been in the front of the studio more, working as assistant choreographer to the noted Christopher L. Huggins. Levi has helped him set works on the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Dance Theatre of Harlem, Movements Dance Company of Jamaica, and various dance studios across the country. Pursuing his own voyage into the realm of choreography, he is now freelancing and dancing on the side.
ARIANA MURPHY is a social studies teacher and performs weekly at a magnet improv theater in NYC.
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ZOE BOUCHER has been working at the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, VT, since 2011. She initially received a fellowship to come to VSC for two months as a resident, and then she was offered a position on staff. Her work there has included sculptures made with latex and light; large installation works made with paper; two new series of works on paper; and a new series of sculptures as well. In addition, this position gives her the opportunity to meet 50 new artists every month, coming to the center from across the United States and from abroad for residencies. Zoe also runs a successful online store selling handmade jewelry made from materials that come from around the world. LIAM BURKE was interviewed by the Boston Globe in October about his fellowship at the prestigious Carnegie Academy, where he teaches at a Queens public elementary school and performs in the Ensemble for Academy Carnegie Juilliard Weill (ACJW) Music Institute. Liam graduated from Juilliard’s accelerated five-year master’s program in music.
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CHRIS GEARY was recently accepted to the Yale graduate theater program on full scholarship—one of only 16 spots! Chris has studied at Fordham Lincoln Center and is pleased to be successfully continuing his theatrical career. BLAKE HINSON now plays double bass in the New York Philharmonic. Blake attended Walnut Hill for two years before he left to attend the Curtis Institute—but once a Walnut, always a Walnut!
2007
SARAH KOENIG-PLONSKIER is the concertmaster at Juilliard this year. Over the summer, she played with the orchestra at the Olympic Games in London. KRISTIN PARKER performed as Natalie in Next to Normal at Arkansas Repertory Theater and then at the Kauffman Center in Kansas City in May. Shortly afterward, she began rehearsals for an off-offBroadway run as Catherine in Proof, opposite Naomi Bailis’s acting teacher Alan Langdon as Robert, at the Connelly Theater in the East Village.
KARISSA BARNEY and fellow Walnut TORY STOLPER ’09 were recently seen starring in a web series that launched online in July. They are trying to raise funds through Kickstarter to get production going.
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RACHAEL COX reported to AMANDA BERTONE ’05 that she is now working in the marketing department at Ballet West in Salt Lake City. BARNEY JOHNSON is attending graduate school at UC Santa Barbara for music composition. He writes: “I am doing great! I live out
New York City Alumni Event, October 2, 2012
CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Ethan Van Ness ’09, Nami Miwa ’12, Margeaux Maloney ’10, Amelia Sturt-Dilley ’11; Brooke Stone ’02, Jonathan Parks-Ramage ’02, Deborah Siegel ’02; Daniel Salas ’12, Nikki Duquette ’12; Su Hyun “Jackie” Cho ’11, Jim Woodside, You Jung Choi ’11, Ka Yeon Nam ’11; Ashley VanEgeren ’00, Joshua Holden ’01, Isaac Spencer ’00; Adam Griffin ’88, Julie Saltman ’90
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Los Angeles Alumni Event November 13, 2012
here now and it’s absolutely wonderful: the weather is amazing and the student body is incredibly open-minded. I currently work at the Ramada hotel as a front desk agent, to pay for rent, and am working on a major orchestral piece that I will enter into a competition in the fall. I moved out here a year ago after completing undergrad at SUNY Purchase, and will probably stay here for another four to five years since I’m doing a joint master’s-doctorate program.” BARRETT WEED understudied four of the women in Lysistrata Jones on Broadway last season and is playing Nadia in Bare off-Broadway in this upcoming season.
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GEORGI DIMITROV was a recipient of the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation’s Graduate Arts Award. He attends the USC Thornton School of Music.
LEFT TO RIGHT, BY ROW: Joe Cabral, Van Hansis ’00, Matt Risch ’00, Jillian Kohl; Riley Critchlow ’05, Betsy Comstock ’90; Luke Rothschild ’89, October Crifasi ’88; Antonio Viva, Ramsey Brown ’00; Christine Krench-Retzer ’93, Alberto Lopez ’92; Josh Finn ’05, Riley Critchlow ’05, Dasha Kittredge ’05, Briga Heelan ’05, Ross Phillips ’06; Kate Hutter ’00, Eric Mason, Luke Rothschild ’89
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PATRICK MCGUIRE was the 2012 recipient of the Robert Sherman Education and Community Outreach Grant from the McGraw-Hill Foundation. He had a very busy fall, and in October he was the featured Young Artist on Robert Sherman’s series on WQXR and sat on a panel of students presenting to the freshman colloquium class about outreach opportunities at Juilliard. He also played Charles Wuorinen’s Cyclops 2000 with Axiom, Juilliard’s
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LEFT Antonio Viva, celebrity chef Zac Young ’01, Jillian Kohl, and Bruce Smith at David Burke Kitchen in New York City
group dedicated to the classics of the 20th and 21st centuries. CAMERON MEYERS graduated from Brown University with a degree in geology and is currently back at Brown at a research laboratory in the geology department.
2009
KATIE KOZUL received a traineeship with Hubbard Street Dance Company in Chicago, with a guarantee of a spot in the second company for next year. CASSIE LEVINE recently finished her junior year at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music while she worked on a regional premiere of a show called Life Could Be a Dream at the Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati. Over the summer, she worked at
The Muny on a new show called Pirates (which is a revamped version of Pirates of Penzance). SCOTT SHEDENHELM appeared in a production of The Music Man that traveled through the United States and Canada in the spring of 2011. He was also in the Paper Mill production of Newsies that fall, with cast members making appearances on The View and in the opening sequences of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. He was in Music Man again during the summer of 2012 in Washington, DC. TORY STOLPER’S vocal group, the SoCal VoCals, was featured on TV’s The Singing Bee. Tory was recently seen alongside fellow Walnut KARISSA BARNEY ’07 in a web series that launched online in July. Her acting teachers at USC have commented that Walnuts are so professional and talented—a real compliment to Joe Cabral’s training and to Walnut Hill in general! ETHAN VAN NESS is in his last year at Manhattan College in NYC. He spent the summer doing research through a grant and is now attending classes as well
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as commencing a second research study on the relationship between Coptic Christians and Muslims in Egypt. He is also employed by the Manhattan College Holocaust, Genocide and Interfaith Education Center as the assistant to the director.
2010
EDDY KIM took a leave of absence from Berkelee School of Music so he could complete his service with the Korean Army. Eddie auditioned for Superstar K4 (the Korean version of American Idol) this year and placed in the top 10. Judges even selected him as the most memorable contestant during the audition process!
play. Fellow Walnut DANNY HUTCHINS will be directing the performance in NYC on January 12, 2013, at 2pm and 8pm, as a fundraiser for Artists Striving to End Poverty. Renee writes, “Danny and I are very excited about this and are very grateful for our four years at Walnut Hill for helping us get where we are now! We are very dedicated to ASTEP, and we want to share this event with everyone we can, especially our friends at Walnut Hill.” JAKE THONIS was the winner of the 2012 Walden Chamber Players Young Artist Competiton. Ashima Scripp ’98 said of his winning performance: “Jake’s playing showed real confidence. . . . Jake really struck us as a mature performer.” As the winner
2011
BAILEY MOON performed in a ballet gala in Indianapolis in September. One of his teachers (a former colleague of our own Michael Owen) is on the board of the Indianapolis City Ballet and asked Bailey to be in a piece that Margo Sappington created, along with six dancers from ABT and one from the Royal Ballet.
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ALISON REMMERS was asked to stay for the winter as a trainee at Pacific Northwest Ballet.
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of the competition, Jake received a $500 cash prize and joined the Walden Chamber Players in a performance of the Quartet in C major for Bassoon and Strings by François Devienne at the Andover Newton Theological School’s Wilson Chapel.
RENEE RICHARD has turned a piece she was working on during her last school year at Walnut Hill into a full-length
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In Memoriam
We fondly remember the following members of the Walnut Hill community. EDITH CECIL FLYNN ’32 died on August 28, 2012, at Chester River Manor in Chestertown, MD, at age 98. Born on October 22, 1913, in Lafayette, LA, she was the daughter of the late Lamar and Anna Mae (Fisher) Cecil. Edith lived near Chestertown since 1975. Her daughter, Martha Flynn Cunningham ’63, remarked that her mother would want people to know how special Walnut Hill was to her. “She came to Natick all the way from Houston, Texas. She often said her teachers at Walnut Hill were wonderful and prepared her so well for Smith College. I know she was very proud to have gone to Walnut Hill.” In addition to her daughter, Edith is survived by a son, two granddaughters, and three great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband, Roger G. Flynn, in 1989 and a son, Roger G. Flynn Jr., in 1969.
KATHARINE SCHLEMM LENFESTEY ’33, a homemaker and avid gardener, died on February 6, 2012, of complications from a stroke. She was born in Brookline, MA, but after the death of her parents was raised by relatives in Duxbury, MA. After earning a bachelor’s degree in 1936 from Wheaton College in Norton, MA, she studied in Germany. “She was an early feminist and adventurer. Her flying lessons were cut short by the onset of World War II,” said her daughter, Marion W. Bernard, who lives in Waterville, OH. “She traveled the country alone by car in the 1940s, paddled the Danube River, and worked as assistant to the fashion editor of Mademoiselle magazine in New York.” Katharine was married in 1946 to John F. Lenfestey, who was a purchasing agent for Owens Corning. The couple lived in Duxbury, as well as Chappaqua, NY, and Toledo, OH, before moving to Baltimore, MD, in 1976. Katharine maintained an interest in politics and had been active in human rights and environmental issues.
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In addition to gardening and bird-watching, she liked to swim and play tennis. “She lived independently in her home until she was 95, with assistance in later years from her wonderful friends and neighbors,” her daughter said. “During her long life, she survived cancer, two heart surgeries, and two strokes.” In addition to her daughter, Katharine is survived by a granddaughter. Her son, John H. Lenfestey, died in 2004. PRISCILLA E. LEAVITT ’36 passed away on June 24, 2012, at Exeter Hospital in Exeter, NH. Born on January 19, 1919, in Natick, MA, she was the daughter of the late Alfred E. and Blanche (Metcalfe) Edwards. Priscilla’s childhood passion for reading and learning became the fuel for what would become a successful career as a librarian in private industry and in the Weston and Needham public schools; she would go on to become the superintendent of elementary libraries and media specialist in Needham, MA. Much of Priscilla’s social life as a youth revolved around activities held at the Natick Baptist Church and at the Rainbow Girls Assembly, where she served in leadership as a Worthy Advisor and Past Grand Drill Leader. The demanding Walnut Hill curriculum made her library science major at Simmons College quite easy. Priscilla was a faithful and dedicated wife, loving mother of two sons, and able homemaker. After the
children had grown and Priscilla had returned to work, her husband decided to pursue a career in Germany. Priscilla took an early retirement in order to join him abroad. Upon their return to the States, Priscilla and Carleton relocated to New Hampshire. They were among the first seniors to complete a computer course at the University of New Hampshire, and to own both a PC and a laptop. She continued to be an avid reader, bridge player, and bird-watcher. Priscilla was predeceased by her husband in 2005. She is survived by her sons, her grandchildren, and five great-granddaughters. MARGARET “PEGGIE” WEBSTER HAMMOND ’39 passed away peacefully on June 26, 2012, at Traditions of Dedham, MA. She graduated from Wellesley College in 1943 and met Robert “Bob” Hammond soon thereafter while studying at the TobeCoburn School of Fashion Design in New York City. They were married in 1944 and settled down in Worcester, MA, where Bob enjoyed a busy practice as an ob-gyn. She was a lifelong member of Wesley United Methodist Church and volunteered at the Worcester Art Museum and the Girls’ Club while raising four children. She also enjoyed membership in the Junior League of Worcester, Wellesley College Club, Hall Club, and Shakespeare Club. An active alumna of Walnut Hill, Peggie was delighted when two of her daughters (Martha
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Hammond Kerr ’62 and Louisa Hammond Garrison ’67) attended her alma mater. Peggie traveled extensively with her husband and cherished her summers at their family cottage on Lake Webster, where she enjoyed tennis, swimming, and sailing. In her later years, she was an active member of the Southgate Community in Shrewsbury, MA, and was greatly comforted by her friends there following the loss of her dear husband of 50 years in 1994. She is survived by three daughters, a son, 11 grandchildren, and 11 great-grandchildren. JANE LOUISE RENINGER BURTIS ’42 died peacefully at Crosslands in Kennett Square, PA, on May 4, 2012, surrounded by her children. She was 87. Jane was the second daughter of Brigadier General Henry A. and Helen Marion (Wallace) Reninger. Born and raised in Pennsylvania, she attended public schools through the ninth grade in Allentown. She then was enrolled for one year as a day student in Bethlehem at Moravian Academy, the oldest girls’ school in the country. Jane finished her high school education at Walnut Hill School and then studied child psychology at Mount Holyoke College. On April 7, 1945, Jane married Stokes Fenimore Burtis Jr., a Princeton graduate, who was then a 2nd Lieutenant in the U.S. Army at Aberdeen Proving Ground
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in Maryland. At the end of the war, the couple joined Stokes’s parents in Winston-Salem, NC. During their six years there, their two daughters were born, and Jane was active as a community volunteer. As a member of the Junior League of Winston-Salem, she relished her role as a radio broadcaster, reading to children selected books and other educational material as part of their school programs. Shortly after the family moved to Swarthmore in 1953, their son was born. In addition to being a homemaker, Jane volunteered for many local organizations, including serving as a deacon and on several committees for the Swarthmore Presbyterian Church. Like her mother, Jane was a member of the Pennsylvania Chapter of the Colonial Dames of America and supported their mission of education of American history and historical preservation. When her children were grown, Jane was employed part-time in the Alumni Office of Swarthmore College for eight years. Until her death, she also thrived on the many close relationships formed through her garden, bridge, and book clubs, as well as her tennis group. Jane was predeceased by her husband and is survived by two daughters, a son, and a grandson.
BETTE JANE EPSTEIN FINKELSTEIN ’56 of Chestnut Hill, MA, passed away on October 3, 2012. She enjoyed diverse interests in her life. Daughter Dr. Macie Finkelstein said, “She was an avid bridge and golf player, better at both than she let on. She loved reading, movies, and dessert! She was involved with multiple charities over the years, most recently working for the celebration of life at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center oncology department.” Bette was a beloved wife, devoted mother, dear grandmother, and loving sister. She is survived by her two daughters and her son and their spouses, four grandchildren, and her sister. MARGO SWEET ’63 died suddenly on September 8, 2012, at her home in Waltham, MA, after suffering a heart attack at age 66. She grew up in Attleboro, MA, the daughter of the late Marian (Rickenbaugh) Sweet of Norton, MA, and the late William Otis Sweet of Reno, NV. As a child, Margo treasured summers spent with her family in Pittsburgh, NH. After graduating from Walnut Hill School, she attended Skidmore College, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in government. One of the highlights of Margo’s life was a summer in the early 1970s spent helping Brad Washburn of the Boston Museum of Science map the Grand Canyon. She devoted herself to work in
the fields of public service and education. In 1983, she earned a master’s degree in public administration from the University of South Carolina and then worked as a paralegal in the state Attorney General’s Office. Returning to the Boston area, she worked at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and as the publications manager at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (Laxenburg, Austria). For the past nine years, she worked in the Office of Development and Alumni Relations at Brandeis University, where, among other responsibilities, she helped manage the development newsletter and contributed to Brandeis Magazine. Margo will be remembered as a good-hearted, generous person who gave much of herself to others, even when she was facing challenges of her own. She was an indispensable supporter and caregiver to family members and friends in need. In her spare time, Margo was an avid reader of mysteries and serious fiction, enjoyed traveling throughout New England, and loved animals and nature. She leaves a sister, brother-in-law, nephew, and niece, and was predeceased by another sister, Susan Sweet Lombard ’61 of Lyman, NH.
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Master Classes: Learning from Working Artists Dance majors had the opportunity to participate in a hip-hop workshop with Elizabeth Bernstein, a dancer and choreographer whose career clearly illustrates the variety of options open to young dancers today. Bernstein is the founder/choreographer for the Hip-Hop Mamas, an adult dance company in residence at Dancers Workshop that performs at area festivals and fundraising events. She is guest faculty at Mass Ballet, and her choreography has been produced through a variety of projects. She is also on staff at the Healing Garden of Harvard, MA, as administrative and marketing assistant, and an arts therapist to those with breast cancer. Her undergraduate degree is from Cornell University and her M.B.A. from Penn State University. Hal Grossman led a master class in the Walnut Hill Music Department. Grossman, a violinist, has appeared with American and Canadian orchestras, including the Rochester Philharmonic and the North Carolina, Illinois, Lima, Guelph, and Battle Creek symphonies. Grand Award Winner of the Lima Young Artists Competition and Silver Medalist of the Stulberg International String Competition, he has served as the concertmaster of the Estranach Festival Orchestra in Luxembourg and has also held that position with the Illinois, Boise, Lansing, and Saginaw Bay philharmonic orchestras. He has been featured at numerous music festivals, including the Casals (Puerto Rico), Evian (France), and, in the continental United States, Aspen, Lancaster, Breckenridge, Fontana, Great Lakes, Manitou, and Garth Newel.
Tommy Neblett, Summer Dance Guest Faculty
Tommy Neblett visited Walnut Hill as guest faculty for the Summer Dance Program. Neblett is the assistant director of the Dance Division at Boston Conservatory, as well as co-artistic director, with Diane Arvanites (also on the faculty of Walnut Hill), of Prometheus Dance Company and the Elders Ensemble (a group of postprofessional dancers ages 60–90).
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Summer Writing Guest Artists The Summer Writing Program welcomed visiting artists Anne Sanow (for a reading from her work) and filmmaker Steve Collins (for a screening of his feature film Gretchen). Anne Sanow’s book Triple Time, a collection of linked stories set in Saudi Arabia, won the Drue Heinz Literature Prize, the L. L. Winship/ PEN New England Award for Fiction, and other honors. She has had stories and novel excerpts published in numerous journals and magazines, and her work has received two special mentions in the Pushcart Prize anthologies. Anne has taught fiction courses and workshops at Washington University in St. Louis, Carlow University, Cornell College, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, where she was twice a writing fellow. Steve Collins wrote and directed the feature film Gretchen, which won Best Narrative Feature at the Los Angeles Film Festival and currently screens on the Sundance Channel. He studied film at Wesleyan University and received an M.F.A. in film production from the University of Texas at Austin. While in graduate school, he directed the short
film Lonelyland, which was also purchased by the Sundance Channel. Collins has taught filmmaking at UT Austin, at a therapeutic boarding school, and at Wesleyan University, where he presently teaches screenwriting and film production. His second feature film, You Hurt My Feelings, opened theatrically in May.
TOP Steve Collins BOTTOM Anne Sanow
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The Theater Department has hosted a wide variety of master classes, including those led by Brent Wagner, chair of Musical Theatre at the University of Michigan; Kaf Warman, acting teacher at Carnegie Mellon University; and Cary Libkin, head of Musical Theatre at Penn State University. In addition, theater seniors participated in a master class with Anthony Rapp and Adam Pascal, iconic stars of the Tony Award–winning musical sensation Rent. The Broadway stars were on campus for a special concert to mark the 15th anniversary of The Center for Arts in Natick.
Photo: Scott Bump LEFT Maria Freda, Adam Pascal, and Antonio Viva at TCAN's Gala ABOVE Anthony Rapp and Adam Pascal singing together in concert
Creative Writing Department Hosts Amaranth Borsuk Poet, scholar, and book artist Amaranth Borsuk joined members of the Creative Writing Department to lead a master class and read from her work. Amaranth Borsuk’s writing focuses on textual materiality—from the surface of the page to the surface of language. She is the author of a book of poems, Handiwork (Slope Editions, 2012),selected by Paul Hoover for the 2011 Slope Editions Poetry Prize; a chapbook, Tonal Amaranth Borsuk and Allison Avila-Olivares ’13 Saw (The Song Cave, 2010); and, with Brad Bouse, the hybrid digital/print artist’s book Between Page and Screen (Siglio Press, 2012). She is the 2011 recipient of the Gulf Coast Poetry Prize for “A New Vessel,” selected by Ilya Kaminsky, and her poems, essays, and reviews have appeared widely in print and online. She recently joined the faculty of the M.F.A. in Creative Writing and Poetics program at the University of Washington at Bothell.
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Joe Walsh '06 Visits Campus
Joe Walsh ’06, principal dancer with Houston Ballet, returned to the Hill to lead master classes in the Dance Department. Walsh also shared his experiences with the whole school in a special assembly with Q&A led by Diane Arvanites and Michael Owen.
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Please visit walsh.walnuthillarts.org to watch an on-campus interview with Walsh as well a video of his master class.
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Annual Report of Gifts: July 1, 2011–June 30, 2012 To the Walnut Hill Community, with Gratitude Walnut Hill is a diverse community brought together by a shared passion for arts and education. The young artists here receive superior training, and their peers, teachers, and administrators welcome them into a nurturing community that takes their artistic endeavors as seriously as they do. It is my great privilege to witness this passion on campus every day and to have the opportunity to connect with alumni and families across the globe. The touchstone for Walnuts everywhere leads back to this powerful sense of community. Walnuts worldwide contributed over $2 million in gifts during 2011–2012, including an increase of $200,000 in unrestricted gifts over the previous year. This generosity in giving was matched by an outpouring of spirit, as we reached new heights of donor participation. Alumni donors increased by 35%, parent donors by 29%, and faculty and staff donors by 26%. Our goal in 2011–2012 was largely focused on such an increase, for the very reason that participation in philanthropy is crucial to maintaining the vitality of the whole Walnut Hill community. This year, as we set into motion a new Strategic Plan, Securing Our Place in the World, participation and passion are all the more important. The gifts of those who support Walnut Hill today combine with the past gifts of alumni, families, and friends who have enabled the School to thrive for nearly 120 years. Together these contributions help enhance our programs, support our people, and renew our physical plant. What’s more, your gifts today empower Walnut Hill to respond with vigor and creativity to the vast challenges and opportunities before us. Thank you for your support of our mission. I look forward to meeting many more Walnuts and their families in the coming year and along the transformative journey ahead.
Bruce Smith P'16 Chief Development Officer
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144 more alumni made gifts in 2011–2012, a 35% increase from the previous year!
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Donors Through the support and enthusiasm of Alumni, Parents of Alumni, and Friends, Walnut Hill continues to grow. Each gift has a positive impact on our students and our programs. We applaud the following donors for their contributions in 2011–2012. $50,000+
$2,500–$4,999
Anonymous The Cox Foundation William C. and Martha Whiting Cox ’51* Sandra and Kevin Delbridge P’00/’05T+ Francis O. Hunnewell Trust Robert E. Keiter Milliken Foundation Janet and John Pattillo T+ Charlie and Ann Thacher T+
Eleonor Alger Jane Stocker Barrett ’56^ Patricia Davidson ’83T+ Charlotte Hall ’50T^* Sayles and Maddocks Family Foundation + William Vickery Antonio Viva
$25,000–$49,999 Marcia Hall ’58^+ Anne Morgan T+ The Nuzzo Family Foundation Virginia Hodgkins Somers Foundation
$10,000–$24,999 Catherine Chan T+ Peter and Karen Dartley P’91 Nathena Fuller ’37^* Jane Oxford Keiter ’60^* Cheryl Marotto P’99T^+ Betsy Paine McClendon ’65T^* Linda Harper McLane ’66T^* Cynthia Newell Oliver ’62 Morgan Palmer + Elizabeth Wijkman Treitler P’88 Michael and Louisa von Clemm Foundation Louisa von Clemm Stefanie von Clemm Margaret Fallon Wheeler ’62^* and William A. Wheeler III
$5,000–$9,999 Anonymous Daniel Bernstein + Lucinda Weil Bunnen ’48 Jennifer Caldwell ’78 Molly Hunter Dobson ’40^* Lenira and Hugo Fleck P’11T Sally Winter French ’49^* and Holger Nissen Collie and Charlie Hutter P’00 Stewart and Rhonda Lassner P’01/’05+ Julie Nevius Young ’56 Fall 2012 & Winter 2013
$1,000–$2,499 Anonymous Elizabeth Spiegel Anderson ’83* Bethany Andres ’00 Robin Rolfe Bagley ’53, P’78* Lynda Beck T and Susan Ratnoff + Janet Brittle Dorothy Braude Edinburg ’38, P’66* Bruce Figueroa T Virginia Turner Friberg ’62* Nicole Gakidis ’81+ Louisa Hammond Garrison ’67^* Olive Milne Glaser ’47^* Kathryn Orbeton Greenberg ’65 Nancy Sawtelle Harris ’62 Sherry Howell Hatch ’52, P’79^* Carol Hauptfuhrer ’65^ Helen Burghardt Hayashi ’90 Blake Hinson ’06 Charlotte and William Hinson Charitable Foundation Sally Schwabacher Hottle ’55* Nancy Wright Howard ’61* Paul and Barbara Jenkel Cynthia Rolfe Jones ’50* Martha Legg Katz ’48+ Elizabeth Lummus Keenan ’53^* Judith Spicer Knutson ’61+ Tony and Mallen Komlyn P’88+ Marianne Durham Lakatos ’37^ Sandra Stone Linker ’53* Lois Aronson Lopatin ’58^* Gary Marple and Meredith Rutter Katrina Noelle Marr Marcia Hunter Matthews ’63* Cynthia McGrath Nancy Nevius Milczanowski ’53* Sarah Cross Mills ’62^+ Bob and Gretchen Morrison P’76
Arthur Nelson ^+ Dorothy Bigelow Neuberger ’54T^* Janet Carol Norton ’88 Joanne Holbrook Patton P’80+ Harald and Maria Paumgarten Fin and Trish Perry P’90* P & N Enterprises Lori Renn Parker and Marsten Parker P’06+ Mary Bartlett Reynolds ’48^ Michele and Ron Riggi P’05T DeAnne Rosenberg ’57^+ and Myron Lewis Carolyn Rusk ’48^* Margaret Sarkela and John Curtis P’04+ Ruth Stoller Scheer ’57^ Breda Shernan P’99 and Howard Levine Gerald and Susan Slavet Bruce Smith and Katherine Malin Susan Barnes Titus ’61 Kristine and John Van Amsterdam Barrie Osborn Vanderpoel ’58 Linda Roberts Williams ’70 Suzanne Smith Yeaw ’49^*
$500–$999 Anonymous (2) Lola Fortmiller Baldwin ’51^* Doreen and William Biebusch Joseph and Betty Ann Bonis P’11 CBAI Foundation for Community Banking Melissa Cassel + Jennifer Caudle ’95T Matan Chorev ’01T Alice Dodds ’42^* Aaron Dworkin and Afa Sadykhly Barbara Kline Eldridge ’53+ Richard and Ann Faulstich + Rosemary Jaicks Flinn ’47* Mary Forsberg ’69* Carolyn Fleming Fruci ’81 Anne Havens Fuller ’49* J. Ritchie and Carla Garrison P’00+ Gail Kleven Gelb ’65
Elizabeth Haartz ’75 Justine Hand ’88T^+ Randall and Roma Hansis P’00 Harriet Lipton Harris ’54 Judith Hoag ’81 Lisa Leinbach Huertas ’76+ Luisa Hunnewell Katherine Hutter ’00 Allison Stokes Perry Iantosca ’90T* Alice and Jeremy Jacobs Baila Issokson Janock ’58^ Jennifer Jewiss ’84^ Anita and Devon Kinkead P’10 Sabreena Kiviat Kropp ’94^ Pamela Apostol Kukla ’63^* Marianne Scheft Kurtz ’66 Seung Yong Lee and Jun Hee Lim P’11 Elise Legere ’74 Jordan McCullough ’94 Susan Scott McInnis ’56+ Franklin Mead and Penelope Bragonier T+ Lyle and Anne Micheli Cherry Talbott Morjikian ’56 Barbara Holden Moulton ’49* Joel and Joyce Nelson P’94* Carol St. Germaine O’Neil and Jack O’Neill Susan Rothschild Peirson ’55^ Elizabeth Ruff Sarah Tracy Russell ’56* Eleonore Phillips Sanderson ’52^* Joseph Schrade P’83* Carolyn Kinsey Singers ’42^* Patricia and Steve Snider ’50+ Victoria Stolper ’09 Nancy Connelly Truesdell ’66 James and Joan Vernon Richard and Jeanette Walsh P’06+ John and Noa Williams
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Parents 2011–2012 Parents make an extraordinary investment in Walnut Hill the second their child enrolls. We are most grateful to the following families for their generosity and support of the Annual Fund. Anonymous Lloyd Alderson and Katherine Ruiz de Luzuriaga P’13 Joseph and Heather Alston P’14 Kevin and Jennifer Anderson P’12 William Avila and Irma Olivares-Avila P’13 Robert and Colleen Beasley P’13 John and Deborah Benker P’12 John and Melissa Bissell P’13 Marc and Arlyn Brierre P’12 Joanne and James Brown P’14 Ugun Byun and Hyekyung Kang P’13 James Cameron and Sigrid Johannessen-Cameron P’12 Guoxiang Cao and Hao Jin P’15 Andrew and Elizabeth Carter P’13 JungJe Cho and Youngsoo Lee P’14 Dae Youn Choi and Sun Bin Park P’15 Seung Jin Choi and Jung Mi Park P’12 Sung Young Choi and Soon Joo Youn P’13 John and Kim Christopher P’13 Joong Mo Chung and Seon Young Bang P’13 Virgil and Brenda Collins P’13 Bruce and Karla Cook P’15 Jim and Kim Covino P’12 Rosemarie Danner and Walter Kearney P’16 John and Sharon DaSilva P’14 Wayne and Beth Davies P’12 Jane and David Dehaven P’14 Deborah Drisko P’12 Wendelyn and Don Duquette P’12 Christopher Eliot and Patricia Stuart P’15
Charles Giesige P’12 Janice Giesige P’12 Scott and Donna Goodell P’12 Zhongjun Han and Rongchun Wang P’15 Kostadin Haralampieva and Tania Haralampieva P’12 John and Jill Harrison P’12 Yuna and Toshi Hayashi P’13 Heather Herath P’12 Ronald Herath P’12 Shintaro and Setsuko Hori P’14 Linda and William Hughes P’13 Daniel and Sherry Hutchins P’12 Lisa Johnson Quinlivan P’13 Betsy and Andrew Kessler P’14 Chul Heung Kim and Sun Hoo Park P’13 David and June Kim P’14T Hyunil Kim and Mi Ran Song P’14 Joo Young and One Hoh Kim P’14 Kwan Ho Kim P’11/’12 Sun Hee Kim and Sang Yun Na P’13 Sun Ho Kim and Moon Jung Jung P’13 Nathan Kimball and Nancy Hair P’13 Randall and Jean Koury P’12 Pierre and Kehree Lacasse P’13 David and Manni LaCount P’12 Timothy LeBlanc and Audre Eikinas-LeBlanc P’13 Seong-Keun Lee and In Hae Cho P’12 Richard and Darryln Leikauskas P’13 Craig Leon and Laura Donoso P’12 Xiaojian and Katie Li P’13 Loren and Corinne Lidsky P’13
We have a new giving site! It is easier than ever to make a gift to Walnut Hill. Visit giving.walnuthillarts.org on your computer or smartphone. Timothy and Terri Ellerbe P’15 Robert and Jeanette Emerson P’13 Nina Esile P’12 Greg and Hannah Friedman P’15 Jeff and Deborah Friedman P’13 Mary and James Fuller P’13 Leonardo and Cynthia Galletto P’14 Cicley Gay P’14 Hugh and Deborah Gelch P’13T
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John Lilley and Natasha Davison P’13 Chae-Sung Lim and Soo-Jung Lee P’14 Jin-Seok Lim and Eun-Suk Go P’13 Lawrence and Shannon Majewski P’13 Joseph Maloney P’14 Mary Ann Mayer P’14 Melissa McAllister P’14 Kevin and Susan McDonald P’13 Frank and Caroline Murtagh P’13
Elizabeth and William Near P’14 H. Michael O’Brien and Susan Reisler P’13 Robin Okun P’13 Carol and Tim Olmstead P’14 Erik and Mary Olson P’12 Juan and Jean Ormaza P’13 Dong Young Park and So Young Jeong P’14 Joung In Park and Young Sil Jeong P’14 Helen Patton ’80, P’15 Kim Pike and Brian McCormick P’12 Adam Pires and Cheryl Ferrari-Pires P’15 Lori and David Place P’14 Peter Ramsey and Isabel Phillips P’14 Katrina Rivers P’13 Michael and LisaDawn Rounds P’12 Amy and Ralph Salas P’12 Mhayse and Tanja Samalya P’13 Eileen and James Samels P’14 Andy Scarlatos and Jeanne Bachman-Scarlatos P’13 Daniel and Kira Seabolt P’12 Michele Senibaldi P’14 Mark and Maria Shepherd P’15 Jeffrey and Ahn Silverstein P’14 Ellen Simon P’13 JoEllen and David Staub P’13 Kevin and Tonya Stump P’14 Heung Soo Sung and Hee Kyung Jung P’13 Michael and Susan Thonis P’12 Peter Tollman and Linda Kaplan P’13 Karen Toole P’12 Patrick and Carmel Tracey P’12 Kelly and Matthew Tresca P’13 Henry Voegler and Leonor Brown P’13 Jennifer Weyler P’12 Christopher Wilk and Christine Standish P’12 Randall and Greta Wilkening P’12 Joanna Wills P’14 Philip and Donna Wilson P’14 Royce Wolfe and Donna Harris P’12 Craig and Martha Woodard P’12 Michael Wright P’14 Yong Soo Yang and Myeong Soon Jeong P’13 Jai Chan Yoo and Eun Young Jung P’13 Kenneth Zaslav and Erica Mindes P’12 Yongjun Zhang and Qi Ye P’13
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$250–$499 Carrie Hubbard Adams ’47* Susan Little Adamson ’46^* Alchemy Foundation Jill Springer Andrews ’86 Jocelyn Scheffel Ballantine ’89 Jeanne and Lee Barbieri Sarah Dewey Blouch ’60* David and Diane Brooks P’99 Ann Winans Carson ’49 Mary Turner Cattan ’60* Elisabeth Christensen Mark Churchill + Natalie Foster Colmore ’59 Elizabeth and Todd Cook Jay and Diane Crawford-Kelly + Joan Vincent Donelan ’51 Anthony and Linda Donn Denis Dubois and Sally Carter-Dubois P’99+ Sarah Ducas Eck MacNeely Architects Inc. Dorothy Sanborn Elliott ’66 Andrew Faulkner Julie Faulstich + Nancy Fenton ’64+ Charlotte Young Gregory ’62 Sara Hayden Garrod ’52 James and Laurel Giarrusso P’99+ Mary Beth and Don Hasselbeck John Haverly Soo Hyun Jamie Kim ’12 Molly Burns Kirkpatrick ’95 Martha Berger Kleinman ^+ Bryan and Jillian Kohl Janet Murphy Leavitt ’62+ Sara Backes Leighton ’48 Cordelia Seeley Lenz ’45* Bill and Birdie Levine P’09 Reilly and Beth Lewis P’96 Nancy Long ’62 Diane and Richard McCullough P’94+ Michael McGovern ’99 Robert and Joanne Moss Mary Barlow Mueller ’65 Anne Siedenburg Noser ’53 Siobhan O’Neill ’84 Claudia Orlandi ’64 Stephanie Bonnell Perrin ^* Jo-Ann Edinburg Pinkowitz ’66^+ Elizabeth Moorman Post ’77 Emily Freeman Rasi ’38* Ron and Heather Reid + Fall 2012 & Winter 2013
Suzanne Hiss Roos ’51* Sylvia Burleigh Sanchez ’46^+ Shaun Santello Jo Anne Jolicoeur Schiller ’56 Carol Richardson Sewell ’65 Nancy Stone Shilts ’59 Sally Butler Signore ’67* Lionel and Vivian Spiro Mary Ellen Murphy Stahlman ’80 Jessie and Chris Sullivan Elizabeth Taylor-Huey ’62 Douglas and Louise Thiltgen P’87* Jennifer Wells ’87^ Benjamin Williams * Louise Williams P’71^ Marily Dwight Wilson ’55
Laura Brown-McKinnon Michael Bucco Brenda Buhler ’80* Amelia Burroughs ’91 Joe Cabral Laura Cahners-Ford ’66+ Sarah Morrison Cail ’76+ Nancy Wiggin Cameron ’50 Alice Foster Camp ’44 Anthony Caprio Emily Carey P’06 James and Dana Dee Carragher P’96+ Kevin Carson and Debra Ruf-Carson P’07 Kim Celi Catherine Chaffee
Samuel and Laurie Docknevich Martha Downes and Peter Conley Steven Durning and Dawn Hammond P’10+ Andrea Scudder Evans ’64+ Sarah Jayne Everdell ’67* Donna Farrell and Charles Jobson Ralph Farris ’89T Sarah Williams Farrow ’61 Jennifer Fink ’84 Elisabeth West FitzHugh ’44^* Patty and Tom Fleming Jane McGown Flynn ’59 Richard Flynt P’00 F. H. Perry Builder, Inc. Susan Rosenbaum Fraga ’73+
DID YOU KNOW? The Class of 2012 topped the charts with 46 donors! 1962 boasted 29 donors. 2011 had 21 donors. 1965 had 17 donors, besting 1951 by one donor. Your gift matters. Show your support and help your class top the list. $100–$249 Anonymous Eleanor Pope Abel Ammen ’46, P’79^ Raymonde Arseneau James Atwood Mary Molder Baird ’47 Jennie Lee Colosi Balboni ’73 Isabel Curtis Baldridge ’68 Ellen Brooks Baldwin ’54^* Yvette Beckles Joseph and Elizabeth Bellino P’11 Annetta Smith Benedict ’63 Deborah Benjamin Lois Rozefsky Berg ’54 Sharon Kenney Biddle ’61 Elisabeth Brawner Bingham ’47 Shirin Heinrichs Bird ’49+ Seron Nelson Birnbaum ’94 Sheila Bonnell and Mon Cochran Constance Judkins Bowman ’40^* Caroline Boyd and Doug Tricarico Margaret McNeil Boyer ’54^* John Brooks ’97 Daphne Brown ’66+ Whitman Brown Marion Browning ’74
Carol Chandler Sarah Chasin ’04 Elizabeth Ellis Cherry ’52 Sau Lan Choi Alison Clapp ’68 Barton and Sharon Clark P’83+ Caroline Brawner Clifford ’80 Anne Gagnebin Coffin ’57* Jane Woodman Cohen ’70 Carol Cronk Cole ’50^* Deborah Coon Colgan ’81 Jennifer Colone Joseph and Margaret Ann Comito P’93+ Judith Perry Connolly ’54* Nancy Moser Converse ’49+ Lucy Lee Coombs ’42* Constance Cross ’59^* Patrick Curry ’07 Marjorie Heinrich Damon ’60 Sue Ellen Taylor Damour ’60 Mary Jane Kase Davis ’55 Elisabeth de Gramont ’02 Adriane Aldrich de Savorgnani ’58+ Angela de Visser Deborah Dacey DelGaudio ’77 Barbara Coryell Devor ’42^ Diane Huston Dobbins ’60*
Nancy Fraser Susan Frawley ’72+ Louise Hodgkins Freeman ’51^* Constance and Michael Fulenwider Mary Lyon Fuller ’59 Avery and John Funkhouser Joseph Gagne and Susan Beebee Dominika and Brett Gaines ’81 Adrienne Jabush Gang ’66 Edward and Mary Geary P’06 Ros and Nicki Gendreau Andrew Gesell Susan Gibson Judith Wernick Gilmore ’60 Joan Girgus and Alan Chimacoff * Robert and Kathy Glista P’09 Mary and Bill Gnichtel + Angela Gooch Kristin Goodwillie P’02 Rochelle Wise Gorgos ’65 Elaine Platt Goss ’66+
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ANNUAL REPORT
ANNUAL GIVING PERCENT INCREASE (by fiscal year) ALUMNI PARTICIPATION 2011 2012
+35%
PARENT PARTICIPATION 2011 2012
+29%
FACULTY AND STAFF PARTICIPATION 2011 2012
+15%
CASH AND PLEDGE PAYMENTS 2011 2012
+25%
Harvey and Adrienne Gossett P’91 Courtney Greene ’94^+ Benjamin Gregg Mary Gregg ’83* Robin Griffey ’74 Happy Anthony Griffiths ’55 Judith Gross ’42 Andrew and Elizabeth Hahn Suzanne Stevens Hamblett ’59 Ann Bigelow Hamilton ’47* Greg Hampton Joan Han and Jack Tsao Richard Harper ’02 Rachel Herbert ’03 Amanda Hiatt Janet Cook Hicks ’62 Helen Platt Higgs ’53+ Miriam Elder Hilton ’42 Susan Roberts Hines ’64 Kathleen Hogan Gerald and Betty Holling P’83 Mingde Hong and Kun Yan P’11 Belinda Horton ’89 Hollis and Edie Hunnewell Oakes Hunnewell T Anne Clarke Hunt ’68
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Douglas and Joanne Hunt Nancy Bere Janus ’55 Nicole Johnson ’91 Randall Johnson Jon and Myla Kabat-Zinn P’02 Anne Stern Katzenberg ’44 Marsha Burden Kelley ’64 Nancy Kindelan and Charles Combs Richard Kittredge and Tanya Korelsky P’05 Margaret Eaton Koerner ’42* Anne Krauss Keats Johnson Landis ’70 Eve Larner ’86^ Patricia Lawless Luis and Stephanie Leguia P’09 Ania Leonard Laurence Lesser and Masuko Ushioda Joel Levin and Susan Chase Levin P’02+ Michele Levy Jean Lieberman Virginia Rouse Lippetz ’63 Judith Blustein Liss ’64+ Kathy Liu + Judith Hedstrom Loomis ’55+ Cynthia Lord ’66+ Lissa Loucks ’84 Judith Caldwell Lucek ’70 Mary MacCready ’67+ Jill Mack Rhonda Mah
Pamela Fineman Maltz ’63 Sarah Young Manning ’62 Constance Miller Manter ’59 Amelia Marks ’66^+ Melissa Marotto ’99+ Angela and Dennis Martinez Laura Brush Matson ’75 Meghan Hoover Maughan ’97 Judith Moser McCutcheon ’52* Catherine McKay ’81 Marilyn Hedstrom McKenzie ’49 Sally Burch McLagan ’49* Mary Lee Fauver Merrill ’51 Florence Metcalf and Lee Carmichael Carolyn Walstrom Meyer ’60 Merrill Lynch Margaret Cowan Moller ’40^+ Robin Bayne Morgan ’95 Suzanne Morrow Douglass and Elsie Morse P’89 Jane Herrick Mueller ’68 Jane Moffat Mueller ’48 Deborah Murray ’76 Katherine Bell Murray ’50 Katie and Mike Myer Barbara Shoemaker Newell ’53 Jeanne Ames Niederer ’49 Christopher Nishimura ’11 Paula and Drew Niziak Marie and Mark O’Connor Shannon O’Connor Peter Oddleifson and Kay Wallace
Kendra and Patrick O’Donnell Jane Dielhenn Otis ’61+ Michael Owen Richard and Coreen Packer Mary and Rob Paine P’65/’69+ Nancy Pawle ’47+ Carol Alger Peschel ’62 Maura and William Peterson Mary Jo Phillips Bill and Suzie Prescott + Ann Price ’59 Ann Racine-Bessey ’62 Jonathan and Rana Rappaport Patricia Blanchar Redstone ’58 Gwen Reichert ’03 Jeannie Taussig Robertson ’39+ Ruth Rose Robins ’49 Anne Rookey Cheryl Finkelstein Rosenberg ’70 Beth Rothermel ’83 Arlene Saxe Rothschild ’51* Luke Rothschild ’89 Ruth Braidy Rothseid ’70* Stacy Kaufman Rubin ’87 Julie Rubinger ’05 Richard and Noriko Rubinger P’05 Thomas and Joan Rudd P’09 Laura Rutherford Ann Greenhalgh Sachs ’53, P’80 Ann Samuels P’88* Mary Hyman Samuels ’36 Jacquelyn Sand and Gus Freedman P’95 www.walnuthillarts.org
Helen Sanger ’41 Anne Fairbanks Sayers ’60* Ann Scheffler Henry Schniewind Sara Sessions ’87 Nancy Patterson Sharp ’44+ Laura Shedenhelm P’09 Laura and Bill Shucart Alan and Judith Siegel P’02 David Sinnott and Francesca Morselli-Sinnott Steven and Susan Skold P’11 Tina Willis Slosberg ’62+ Beverley Smith ’67* Cyrus and Ruth Smith Helen Bryan Smith ’49 Rebecca Smith Riley Smith ’03 Ellen Sollima Elizabeth Fenn Spiess ’61 Mary St. Jean and Mark St. Jean Charles Stampler P’64+ Pamela Garland Stebbins ’59 Richard and Connie Stebbins P’09 Joan Corcoran Steiger ’56 Annette Stephan Melanie Stern ’71 Terri White Stevens ’61 Nancy Brown Stevenson ’34 Brooke Stone ’02 Stratus Technologies, Inc. Jason Stumpf and Margaret Funkhouser Carolyn Suffern ’62 Elizabeth Grady Sullivan ’72 Target Corporation + Marianna Bate Taylor ’44^ William Tessmer Ann Colucci Thompson ’67^ Carol Skillin Thwaits ’54, P’76* Suzanne Tisne ’61 Kathan Tracy Carol Trust ’61* Lawrence and Paulita Tsen Jennifer TumSuden Hillery Barker Tura ’68 Elizabeth French Van Gundy ’65* Leah Poole Vartanian ’65 Patricia Smith-Petersen Ventry ’64* Deborah Viles ’63 Dylan Vizy ’87 Barrett Weed ’07 Vicki Coorssen Whalen ’66 Mary Bigelow Wheat ’51
Fall 2012 & Winter 2013
Wendy and Robert B. Wheeler T^* Hilary Fearon White ’62 David and Roberta Whitney P’10 Charles and Carol Wilson P’91+ Jane Lewis Wilson ’61 Nancy Wilson Ellen Winner and Howard Gardner Marilyn Falk Wolpert ’57^* Janet Elder Yeutter ’62 Jonathan and Susan Young P’01 Edward and Sandy Zaritt P’96+ Nancy Zwieback ’82
$1–$99 Anonymous Anita and Stephen Adelson Burleigh and Joan Anderson P’86 Erika Anderson ’12 Sophia Anderson ’12 Sue Ellen Beardsley Andrews ’75 Richard Arminio Karen Koehler Arras ’68, P’93 Diane Arvanites and Tommy Neblett P’05 Gayle Barlow Atkinson ’66^ Juliet Morse Aucreman ’89 Naomi Bailis Marcia and Wilmer Baker Natalie Bigelow Barlow P’65/’66 Lisa and Herbert Batchelder ’65, P’00 Virginia Batson ’92 Carol Zins Battle ’65 Heidi Bauer ’11 Emily Wells Bechtold ’40 Leo Belanger Kristin Eaton Bell ’89 Lois Bell Rose-Antoinette Bellino ’11 Melanie Benker ’12 Evan Bennett Shayna Bentkover ’04 Eve Berman + Kim Bonasera Bickford ’76+ Marjorie Birkinbine ’62 Joan Bissell-LaPrade ’96 Jean Gyger Black ’48* Rashida Black ’97 Caroline Blake Brian Blanchfield Betsy Blazar Arifa and Thomas Boehler P’93 Vascen and Pamela Bogigian Zsolt Bognar ’00
Lizzie Bonis ’11 James and Leslie Bothwell P’11 Morgan Bothwell ’11 Katharine Bragg ’11 Stephanie Brandaleone Natalie Brierre ’12 Robert Brooks ’92 Bonnie Brown Kyle Brown ’04 Barbara Brown Watts ’46+ Suzanne Bucceri Kellie Burdg Cynthia Waterhouse Burdsall ’51 Marie Burk Wendy Burke Susan Eckstein Burtt ’77 Anne Buschenfeldt * Ian Buttermore Kai Cameron ’12 Elizabeth Main Cannon ’45^* Karen Salovitz Cardinell ’77 Judith Lynch Carpenter ’54 Jane Carver
Sarah Chamberlin ’71+ Elizabeth Chang ’11 Katherine Chatel ’01 Elizabeth Critchley Childs ’62 Sarah Chin ’11 Rocco Chodat ’12 Emily Chu ’11 Betty Chung Molly Clark Prilla Coffin ’62 Carol Erlanger Cohen ’50 Brooke Lieberman Collins ’01 Judith Neely Coltman ’75 Jeremy Conn ’94 Stephanie Williams Convey ’57 Christie Coon ’60^ David Cornelius ’11 Amanda Correa Sarah Perry Correia ’72 Sarah Lord Corson ’59* Leah Keever Cotton ’43 Rory Coughlan
ENDOWED FUNDS Endowed Funds provide a long-lasting legacy of support. The following funds were strengthened by additional gifts in 2011–2012. Francis Oakes Hunnewell Scholarship Fund Treitler Family Scholarship Fund Catherine Nelson Nevius Scholarship Fund Wendy A. Wheeler Scholarship Fund Lucinda Weil Bunnen Scholarship Fund Robert E. Keiter Scholarship Fund Lakatos Scholarship Fund Class of 1965 Scholarship Fund Sarah Morrison Cail Scholarship Fund Delaney Building Endowment Fund Jane Byron Taylor-Wydra ’64 Scholarship Fund Sandra Lea Williams ’58 Scholarship Fund H.W. Pike Scholarship Fund Sarah Gayley Scholarship Fund Class of 1942 Scholarship Fund Wells Family Scholarship Fund
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IN HONOR OF Friends and family have honored the following individuals by making a gift to Walnut Hill in their name. In Honor of Abby Miner and Zoe Friend ’03
In Honor of Lola ’51 and Skip Baldwin
Catherine Lyon-Hart
Marily McCoid Kerney
In Honor of Anne Murphy Courtney Greene
In Honor of Betsy McClendon ’65 Caroline Boyd Florence Metcalf
In Honor of Charlotte Doyle ’88
In Honor of Meg Wheeler ’62 William Wheeler
In Honor of Nini Colmore ’59 Mary Lyon Fuller
In Honor of Patty Thom
Kristin Leutz
Helen Burghardt Hayashi
In Honor of Hope D. Webbe ’01
In Honor of Rosie Salvucci ’10
Milliken Foundation Lindsay and Daphne Webbe
In Honor of Joe Keefe Kristine Keefe Van Amsterdam
In Honor of John Curtis ’04
Richard Salvucci
In Honor of Sally Winter French ’49 Alice French Jacobs
In Honor of Sandra Delbridge P’00/05
Margaret Sarkela
Maria D’Angelantonio
In Honor of Kate Daly
In Honor of Stewart Lassner P’05
Jean Lieberman
Anita Adelson
In Honor of Van Hansis ’00 Angela Baldwin Yvette Beckles Kellie Burdg Sau Lan Choi Betty Chung Yvonne Ernofsson Annie Falano Lynn Gnirk Jennifer Hayes Amanda Hiatt George Hinds Dawn Horger Ester Huisman Bonnie Humphrey Naomi Japp Thomas Joyce Sandra Larmer Ania Leonard Michelle Mariano Natasha Meyers Tanya Meyers Eileen Monahan Victoria Mora Laura Nuechterlein Shannon O’Connor Stephanie Pollock Kelley Rothermel Debby Ruiter Jennifer Sarabok
Annette Stephan Julie Stephenson Angela de Visser Theresa Webber Michele Wilkie
In Honor of Wendy Wheeler Catherine Chan Nancy Fraser Joseph Gagne Allison Stokes Perry Iantosca Martha Berger Kleinman Cheryl Marotto Betsy Paine McClendon Dorothy Bigelow Neuberger Finley Perry Michele Riggi Jacquelyn Sand Margaret Fallon Wheeler Benjamin Williams
In Honor of William Ruff Elizabeth Ruff
IN MEMORY OF The following members of the Walnut Hill community are remembered by friends and family through gifts to the school they loved. In Memory of Betsey Berg and Jonathan Berg
In Memory of Francis O. Hunnewell
In Memory of Hilary Williams Pike ’71
In Memory of Marie Emmott Tessmer ’44
Lois Rozefsky Berg
Anonymous Eleonor Alger Luisa Hunnewell Tom Hunnewell Cynthia McGrath Anne Morgan Suzanne Morrow Morgan Palmer Harald Paumgarten Finley Perry Henry Schniewind Gerald Slavet Lionel Spiro Caroline Whitney
Louise Williams
William Tessmer
In Memory of Jared Nathan ’04
In Memory of Priscilla Cobb ’41
Sarah Chasin
Margaret Fallon Wheeler
In Memory of Louise Taylor P’64
In Memory of Sarah Gordon Gayley ’22
Marcia Baker Lois Bell Peggy Davin Joan Han Katherine Miller
John Haverly
In Memory of Eric Oddleifson Marie Burk Randall Johnson Elaine Kline Patricia Lawless Peter Oddleifson
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Martha-Ann Robinson Crevier ’65 Nicole Gallant Criss ’92^ Kathryn Crowley ’06 Kay Brown Cunningham ’46* Martha Flynn Cunningham ’63 Barbara McCorkindale Curtis ’40, P’70+ Hope Cushman ’53 Maria D’Angelantonio Karen Daniels ’66 Martha Nagle Dare ’56 Eva Davidson ’78 Peggy and Frank Davin Debra Sparks Dawson ’89 Maggie Day ’02 Alyce Delbridge ’05 Jessica Delbridge De Kler ’00 Evangeline Delgado ’11 Tia Dennis and Charles Morris Michael Dewar P’08 Kathryn Stark Dia Mel Lane Donoghue ’58 Scott and Wylie Doughty P’87 Nicole Douglas ’11 John Drisko ’12 Robert Duffy Michele Duggan Jean Scott Dybdal ’60 Mimi Dye/Dunham ’51* Leslie Eagle P’02 Easter Seals Massachusetts Jay and Candyce Emlen P’02 Arnold and Jane Epstein P’03 Catherine Epstein ’03 Yvonne Ernofsson Charles Estabrook Jake Evans ’12 Constance Crehore Ezer ’50^+ Annie Falano Kelly Wells Feeney ^+ Wendy and Charles Felton Susan Wells Ferrante ’63 Donna Kaplan Figueroa ’81 Heather Rafferty Finkel ’90 Caroline Locke Flanders ’95 Paul Fleming
Jennifer Emerson Foreman ’93 Sarah Pieksen Foster ’75 James and Hannah Fowlie P’04+ Catherine Layne Frank ’60 Turner Frankosky ’12 Ty Freedman ’03 Judith Nissen Freeman ’67+ Jane Guyer Fujita ’99 Anne Weaver Gabbett ’45 Emily Gannett ’98 Mary Garcia ’00 Niall-Conor Garcia ’06 Mary Heinrichs Garner ’46* Marjorie Coon Gauley ’63 Helen Horrocks Gemmiti ’65 Daphne Gerling ’95 John Giesige ’12 Geo Gillman ’12 Carol Hanson Girton ’41 Sarah Moore Gleason ’70 Lynn Gnirk Amber Gode Deborah Gold P’10 Rebekka Goldberg Joan Goldthwait ’62 Meredith Hudson Gontard ’86 Mario Gonzalez and Lisa Weber-Gonzalez P’11 Michael Gonzalez ’12 Morgan Gould Elizabeth Bjornlund Grater ’42 Zinta Grava Ann Livingston Gregg ’55* Cristin Gregory ’90 Denise Grothman Elizabeth and Salvatore Guerra Ashley Gunning Jennifer Haas-Scott ’01 Elizabeth Doonan Hampton ’70 John and Elizabeth Haney P’90 Laura Haney ’90 Gergana Haralampieva ’12 Jane Murray Hartley ’64 Sarah Cassidy Haughwout ’50 Jennifer Hayes ’05 Jennifer Hayes Montroe Headd ’70
Congratulations to the Class of 1962— our 50th Reunion class. The class had an overall 54% participation rate and raised a total of $29,222.50! Sarah Watson Healy ’63* Alice Garvin Hebert ’70 Sonja Randolph Heintz ’91 Amber Heinze ’88 Konrad Herath ’12 Eric Herbst ’09 Sarah Geraghty Herndon ’66+ Andrea Herrick ’87 Craig and Susan Hill George Hinds Joshua Holden ’01 Katherine Kinney Holt ’54+ Kevin Hong ’11 Louise Bachman Horak ’47 Dawn Horger Marion Cook Houston ’54 Stephanie Howard and Michael Delman Andrea Hudler Mary Ellen Hughes-Wasielewski Julia Hui ’85 Ester Huisman Victor Huls ’11 Bonnie Humphrey Frances Hungerford ’96 Susan Wickenden Hunter ’65+ Andrew Iannacci ’12 Elizabeth Ingalls ’65 Susan Jackson Theodora Hughes Jackson ’61* Arnold Jacobson P’84 Naomi Japp Prudence Costa Jenkins ’58 Sue Jensen ’68 Elizabeth Pool Johnson ’56* Vanessa Johnson ’97 Constance DuBose Jones ’38* Thomas Joyce
Joan Judson Tom Kardel Dennis and Karen Katz Henry and Elissa Katz Susan Wenman Kavalew ’84 Thomas Keenan Zane Kenig ’12 Rami Kim ’00 Judy and Steven Kiviat P’94* Michelle Klevsky ’12 Elaine Kline Rebecca Tannebring Kling ’51+ Barbara Knickerbocker ’68 Grace Koury ’12 Emmanuel Krasner and Patricia Frisella P’05 Cacia LaCount ’12 Lakes at Leesburg Residents Association Constance Waterman Lampert ’59 Ashley Landroche ’04 Jane Maletz Lane ’62, P’06 Sandra Larmer John and Dawnette LaRose Marie Dresser Larsen ’62 Michael and Suzanne Lascoe P’06 Nancy Cooke Latta ’57+ Ann Burrage Laughlin ’70 Katherine Leavey Elizabeth Fryling Lechner ’65 Monica Lee Kristin and Simon Leutz * Consecutive Donor for 20+ years + Donor for 10–19 years ^ Member of the Ellison Circle T Trustee Fiscal Year 2012
BEQUESTS We are especially grateful for the legacy of generosity left by the following individuals. Although no longer with us, they continue to shape our community. Joan Griggs Babbott ’44 Priscilla Cobb ’41 Fall 2012 & Winter 2013
Anne Barton Crolius ’40 Mary Esther Williams Dasenbrock ’39
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ANNUAL REPORT
Clare Lewis Lauren Lewis ’96 Marc and Linda Lieberman P’01 Todd Lindamood Mark Lindberg Susan Livingston ’56* Anne Lloyd ’12 Farin Loeb ’02 Anne Delamater Lovaas ’50 Sarah Hoenig Lovely Rebecca Lovingood ’57+ Dave and Joan Luciano P’08 Jose Luis Carol Travers Lummus ’55 Jane Noble Lundy ’58 Beverly Smerdon Luongo ’64 Kristin Vinje Lyden ’83 Catherine Lyon-Hart ’02 Bruce MacDougall and Margaret Hawthorn P’99/’02 Katherine Malone ’04 Christina Hill Maloney ’68 Ashlynn Manning ’00 Michelle Mariano Donna Gagliardi Marinofsky ’57 Cheryl and Gary Marsh Sophia Martins ’12 Corinne Bates Mayer ’82 Donald Mayer + Kelly Maynard ’86 Michael and Lori McBride Hunter McCormick ’12 Lindsey Rabold McCullough Sarah McLellan ’99 Julie McNamara ’10 Lauren Mefferd ’99 Mary Nelson Megias ’62 Desiree Sanchez Meineck ’92 Cynthia Watkins Melendy ’68 Eleanor Sager Mercer ’58 Susan Fancy Mercury ’74 David Meredith ’12 Gene and Christy Meyers P’97+ Natasha Meyers Tanya Meyers Elizabeth Ramsey Middour ’79 David and Norma Miller P’03 Emily Miller ’04 Katherine Miller Kelsey Miller ’02 Wendy and Jon Mishara Nami Miwa ’12 * Consecutive Donor for 20+ years + Donor for 10–19 years ^ Member of the Ellison Circle T Trustee Fiscal Year 2012 4 6 | Behind Stowe
Alice Burr Mobley ’63 Peter Molesworth ’11 Eileen Monahan Bailey Moon ’11 Annie Moor ’04 Victoria Mora Benjamin Moran ’12 John Moriarty ’12 Nancy Porter Morrill ’56^+ Cynthia Mulder Katherine Myles Mullen ’56 Anne Murphy * Jane Lister Murphy ’62 Katherine Nemetz ’11 Nils Neubert ’03 Jane Cushman Nickerson ’53+ Cornelia Thompson Northrop ’58 Laura Nuechterlein Sang Eun Oh ’12 Erika Olson ’12 Emily Orillac ’12 Ann Ostergaard ’54 Cole Parker Cynthia and Brooks Parker Kristin Parker ’06 Jonathan Parks-Ramage ’02 Alynn Parola ’12 Nancy Parsons Martha Corbosiero Patrick ’72 Joan Wilson Payne ’51 Sharyn Peavey ’90 Deborah Lawton Petruccy ’63 Takako Petulla Jordan Piantedosi ’06 John and Patricia Piekara P’00 Carolyn Brastow Pledger ’51* Caroline Pluta ’12 Susan Schumacher Pollard ’62 Stephanie Pollock Allison Posey Joseph and Diana Potenza Joan Potter ’49* Brock Putnam P’00 Rachel Raczynski ’11 Eric Ramsey ’99 Amy Rawstron ’81 Damon Reed ’58 Chris and Kathy Rehl P’02 Sheila Dickerson Reid Alison Remmers ’12 Diane Reppert P’09 Felicisimo Requiro and Janet Weinstein P’03 Renee Richard ’12 Winnie Willard Richardson ’73 Holly Woodward Rist ’78 Phyllis Tater Ritvo ’54
Louise Romanow ’68 Kelley Rothermel Leah Rothschild ’03 Savannah Rounds ’12 Ann-Elizabeth Rueppel Debby Ruiter John and Susanne Russo Donna Sacco ’78 Jennifer Salamone Daniel Salas ’12 Richard and Linda Salvucci P’10 Jennifer Sarabok Carl and Joan Saslow P’01 Ryan Saucier Adam Schnell ’99 Christine Schnelle-Carter ’74 Elizabeth Schofield Sally Knapton Schroeder ’75 Barbara Schade Schwallie ’54* Richard Schwartz Donna Scott Natalie Seabolt ’12 Elliot Seidman ’12 Robert and Judith Shamu P’85+ Jean Sherman Sharry ’70 Giselle Shepatin ’76 Linda Shih Rue Reinke Siegel ’55+ Nancy Wells Silvester ’67 Nancy and Paul Simard P’08 Francesca Sinnott Laura Skold ’11 Sarah Ward Slusher ’58 Angela Cox Smith ’79 Heather Archer Smith ’84 Laure Smith Marilyn Smith Barbara Faden Smithson ’64 Nancy Gilday Spark ’68 Natalie Sperduti ’02 Jenny Spicola ’11 Nancy Scranton Sporborg ’72 Carol Adams Stanford ’57 Ellen Van Alstyne Starratt ’55* Julie Stephenson Julie Stewart Carolyn Rolfe Stopford ’62 Susan Fish Strayer ’69 Joseph and Diane Strazzulla Chisato Suga ’11 Ann Swinscoe ’60 Ann Bailey Sziklas ’50 Lucy Tan ’06 Barbara Tarca Hope Fitzgerald Taylor ’60 Richard Taylor ’94 Robert and Sherrie Taylor P’94
Kalahn Taylor-Clark ’95 Elizabeth Tener ’61 Joan Blustein Tepper ’64 Joan McMaster Terry ’64 Lucy Terzis Kena Thompson Cornelia Lehmann Throssel ’65 Mary Shriner Thurlow ’73 Marian Hume Tibbetts ’56+ Ken and Linda Tighe Carol More Tilton ’56 Emily Tracey ’12 Alayne Tresch * Susan Woodward Twing ’63 Ashley VanEgeren ’00 Julia Mitchell Varriale ’70 Jaclyn Matayoshi Vary ’02 Marcy Rines Venezia ’74 Susanna Vennerbeck ’83 August Ventimiglia Maddie Verbica ’12 Sarah Vollmann ’88 Christine Waggoner ’95 Linda Damon Wakefield ’62 Barbara Wands Erica Wareham ’04 Shirley Warren and Jeff White Patrick Wasserman ’08 Kayce Waters P’87 Sarah Jane Watkins ’00 Pauline Carver Watson ’46, P’70 Tiffany Watson ’00 Theresa Webber Mary Munroe West ’51+ Allison Weyler ’12 Audrey White ’85 Linden Smith White ’89 Kevin Whitfield and Patricia Hills P’96 Dorothy Ritter Widergren ’46+ Mary Jenney Wilber ’48, P’71 Jacob Wilder-Smith ’12 Anya Wilkening ’12 Michele Wilkie Katherine Wilkins ’12 Nancy McClelland Wilson ’50 Paula Wilson ’97 TJ Witham Ellen Wolf ’90 Taylor Wolfe ’12 Jim Woodside and Holly Worthington P’05 Judith Wyer ’62 Suzanne McCabe Yamarone ’75+ Jake Youmell Cathy Yun Alex Zaslav ’12 www.walnuthillarts.org
Summary of Income and Expenses
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Income Tuition & Fees
78% $13,007,619
Other Income
10% $1,679,236
Current Use Gifts
6%
$1,009,185
Restricted Gifts
3%
$451,619
Interest & Dividends 2%
$367,711
Endowment Draw
$185,151
1%
Total Income
$16,700,521
Expenses Educational Expenses
32%
$5,288,758
Facilities 20% $3,222,513 Administrative Expenses 19%
$3,216,957
Financial Aid
18%
$2,994,275
Other Income Expenses
7%
$1,090,718
Debt Service & Fees
4%
$683,712
Total Expenses
Fall 2012 & Winter 2013
$16,496,933
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PERFORMANCES
A Sampling of Our First-Semester Performances
W
e’ve had a full fall season of wonderful Music, Theater, and Dance performances: see some sneak peek photos below. For a full performance review, stay tuned for our Spring/Summer 2013 issue.
CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Six Degrees of Separation, Composers' Concert, Nutcracker
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THERE ARE NO SMALL PARTS At Walnut Hill, there are no small parts. It isn’t just one thing that creates an amazing performance—every cue, light, note, step, and word contributes. Cast yourself in a supporting role and make your gift to the Walnut Hill Annual Fund. It all adds up. giving.walnuthillarts.org | 508.652.7835
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FROM THE ARCHIVES No matter how busy they are (and they are busy!), Walnuts have always made time for community service. Photo at far left: From 1943, students practicing first aid during WWI. At left: Emily Kessler ’14 painting helmets at Natick Days. In the last two years, Walnuts representing all arts areas have painted more than 200 helmets for distribution to young cyclists in Natick.
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