The Heart is an Organ

The Heart

is an Organ

The Ashburn Chapel organ, the impressive instrument whose mechanisms dominate the architecture of the building around it, is both a significant historical artifact and a steadfast part of the school’s Chapel program.

BY REBECCA A. BINDER

SCHOOL’S ORGAN, which was installed in 1938, has guided generations of Brooksians through every iteration of Chapel service, up to and including a pandemic that removed Chapel attendees from the chapel itself. The follow- ing pages are an appreciation of the instrument: its history at Brooks; how it works, and how it lives and breathes through the depths of the building itself; how it’s played; and what current students think of it.

An Early Push for Music

In the book “Thirty Years at Brooks,” faculty emeritus J. Tower Thompson connects the school’s acquisition of its current organ to both a growing interest in music among Brooks students and a growing Chapel program. Thompson writes of the “humble” beginnings of music at Brooks and notes that “the singing was undistinguished.” The school had no chapel from 1927 to 1931; evening prayers were conducted using an upright piano placed in an anteroom to the dining room and, later, in a common room in Old Whitney. Singing was not limited to these services: Early Brooks students, who, Thompson reminds us, lacked movies, televisions and radios, would hold “sing-songs” as a form of entertainment.

The chapel was built in 1931, Thompson continues, and violin teacher Alessandro Niccoli began playing at Sunday services accompanied by Latin and music teacher Richard Hyde, who played the school’s first “organ” — a small melodeon with a bellows pumped by manpower. The winter of 1931–1932, Thompson reports, saw an increase in musical interest at Brooks. The first school choir performed in Chapel that December, an orchestra materialized, and the operetta “Othello” was staged.

By the mid-1930s, the melodeon that introduced Brooksians to the idea of a chapel organ was no longer suitable for use. The father of faculty emeritus Arthur Milliken, the school’s first senior master and one of our founding faculty, donated a large mahogany reed organ from the family’s summer residence. In 1936, the Milliken family replaced that organ with a Hammond electric organ.

The chapel building was enlarged to double its capacity in 1938. Thompson writes that, to the school’s “lasting joy and

satisfaction,” an anonymous donor later acknowledged to be Mrs. Murray S. Danforth furnished the school with the organ that is still in use today. This gift, Thompson concludes, has “meant very much to all of us who have since attended the Brooks Chapel services.” Organist, choirmaster and math teacher Edward Flint, who arrived on the Brooks faculty in 1936, continued to nurture the school’s interest in music and the organ. Thompson writes of concerts by the Harvard University Glee Club, choral and orchestral concerts, and impromptu organ concerts following Sunday Chapel.

The school’s organ was dedicated in 1938. The inscription on the casing reads: “To the glory of God & in token of friendship & appreciation, this organ is gratefully given.” Inset: An archival photo of the school organ, which was installed in the chapel in 1938.

I find it great that such an old instrument can have such a profound effect on how Chapel is run. When Mr. Humphreville is playing, we’re talkative, but when he stops playing, everyone knows that it’s time for the service to begin and we focus on the speaker at the podium. The beauty of the instrument itself, though, is probably my favorite part. The often-understated difficulty of the instrument is an aspect that I think only musicians and direct viewers of the playing can appreciate, and this is the reason I enjoy listening to him play.

BRANDON SPECTOR-TOWNSEND ’23

Aeolian-Skinner

The organ in Ashburn Chapel resonates with care and though ulness. It was built by the Aeolian-Skinner company in 1938, when the building was expanded for the first time. Aeolian-Skinner organs, which are widely considered the best of their era, produce a unique sound because they were designed to play a wide repertoire of music. The company was known for focusing more on what the instrument would sound like to an audience than on whether the instrument would follow traditional expectations of how it was built. The final results speak for themselves: Aeolian-Skinner organs grace the halls of, for example, the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York, the Mormon Tabernacle in Salt Lake City, Utah, and Grace Cathedral in San Francisco. Aeolian-Skinner organs also inhabit smaller spaces more on scale with Brooks, including Trinity Church on the Green in New Haven, Connecticut, St. John’s Chapel at Groton School, and the Chapel of St. Peter and St. Paul at St. Paul’s School. School Organist Rob Humphreville explains that, although the Ashburn Chapel organ is neither the largest nor the loudest, it is of great historical significance. It was built during a time when organmakers were intentionally trying to build organs that pointed away from the electric “orchestral organs” that had come into vogue, and that hearkened back to a pre-electric, mechanical era. The school’s organ, which is “electro-pneumatic,” draws a middle ground, and produces a bright sound that in its time was remarkable and that helped usher in a return to mechanical organs.

The nameplate on the school’s organ.

A stop is a set of pipes that is controlled by a knob on the console. Each stop

sounds a different tone. When the organist pulls the stopknob out from the console, the stop is online—those pipes open and are able to sound when keys on the manual or pedal keyboards are pressed. An organist can have multiple stops online at once; if five stops are online, for example, then pressing a single key on a keyboard will cause five pipes to sound. The knobs that control the stops have names that reflect either the kinds of pipes they use or the sound they create; stops are labeled “flute” or “trumpet,” for example. Until the 19th century, composers rarely indicated which stops they intended organists to have online while playing a particular passage. Choosing stops, and knowing which combination of tones would make a passage shine, was considered part of the art of being an organist.

The Ashburn Chapel organ has four keyboards: three manual and one pedal.

Pressing the keys controls which pipes within the online stops sound. Each keyboard controls the valves of its own group of stops and pipes. The pedalboard controls the largest pipes, which produce the lowest tones. The organist can also

use couplers to move a stop to a keyboard

other than its own, leaving the original keyboard free to tackle complex passages.

Stops

Pipes Manuals

Pistons

An organist can bring stops online and offline by pulling and pushing the individual stop knobs on the console, but that takes time.

Pistons and toe studs allow the organist to

pre-program a combination of stops. In the middle of a performance, when the organist needs to switch their stop combination quickly, they can push the pre-programmed piston or toe stud to bring the necessary stops online and offline immediately.

The organ’s 1,444 metal and wooden pipes are located behind the

screen at the back of the Chapel dais. Each pipe acts as a whistle that produces a different sound when air is forced through it. The pipes vary in shape, material and size: Some are so wide and tall that they have to double back on themselves to fit inside the building; some are no larger than a pencil; some are built to produce sound that sounds like other instruments, like the trumpet. The longer the pipe, the lower the sound it produces. An electronic bellows located in the chapel basement pushes air through the pipes. Each pipe has a valve at its base, which is controlled by the organ’s keyboards, pedals and stops. When the organist opens the valve, air from the bellows enters the pipe and sound is created.

Toe Studs

DIAGRAM: BROOKS SCHOOL PIPE ORGAN

The console is the part of the instrument at

which the organist sits, and which they use to control the pipes. Consoles generally contain between two to four, and sometimes even more, manual keyboards, a number of stops and foot pedals that are used to play the lowest notes.

The two large foot pedals at the base of the organ console each control the volume of the instrument in different ways (unlike on a piano, striking a key with more or less force has no effect on the volume of the sound produced). The organ’s pipes are arranged into groups called “divisions,” some of which are housed inside

large wooden boxes. The expression pedal controls whether flaps

on those wooden boxes are open or closed, thus increasing or

decreasing the volume of the sound produced. The crescendo pedal,

meanwhile, controls the volume of the organ by bringing stops online or offline in a predetermined order.

Console

Couplers

Expression Pedal

Crescendo Pedal

Pedalboard

The King of Instruments

In vastly simple terms, a pipe organ is a collection of whistles connected to a bellows and controlled by a keyboard. The magic of the organ — the resonant power of which caused Mozart to call it “the king of instruments” — is in the nuances of that keyboard and the mechanisms that surround it. There’s no such thing as a standard organ. Every organ is, itself, a work of art, built to suit the size, acoustics and design of the space it will inhabit, the congregation that will gather to hear it, the music that will be played on it and even the musicians who will play it.

BROOKS SCHOOL PIPE ORGAN

PROFILE

School Organist Rob Humphreville

SCHOOL ORGANIST Rob Humphreville has manned the console of the organ in Ashburn Chapel since 1988. During his tenure at Brooks, he has also taught piano lessons and worked as a member of the classical languages faculty, and worked as the chair of the music department. Through all those roles, however, Humphreville has served as the school’s organist, a title of which he is proud. A native of New London, Connecticut, Humphreville grew up steeped in the Episcopal Church. He began studying piano under the tutelage of his church’s organist at 8 years old. When he turned 11 (“once my feet could reach the pedals,” Humphreville jokes), he also began studying organ. Some people in his family had attended Groton School, and when Humphreville himself began looking at schools, he says, he chose Groton in part because of its chapel and its organ (also an Aeolian-Skinner model). “I liked Groton, and I did a lot of things there,” Humphreville says. Beginning in his fourth-form year, he accompanied the school choir on the organ during Groton’s chapel services. “So as a kid, I got great training,” he says. “I played, I gave recitals, I wrote music. I was really active. I was happy to do that, and it was a good place for me.” Humphreville continued his education at Harvard College and majored in music while freelancing as an organist for various churches in the Boston area. Although he’s held other jobs — he’s run a real estate business and an editing business in Harvard Square— his freelance work as an organist has continued to this day, and now includes accompanying silent movies screened at Harvard and elsewhere throughout New England. “I just kept doing it,” Humphreville says. “That’s what I’ve done ever since. You know, I found something I love, I found a way to do it and make enough money to give myself options, and it’s my way of helping other people.” When asked why he feels drawn to the organ, Humphreville pauses. “You know, I think a lot of people play the organ because it’s mechanically very fascinating,” he says, “and there’s some of that. But one thing I like to do is accompany people. Accompanists are a very interesting group because they’re not the star of the show. I’m not the star of the show in Chapel — the students know who I am, they know I’m there, but I’m accompanying them.” Humphreville also values his time at Brooks. “This has been as regular a job as I’ve ever had,” he says, “and I love Brooks. The kids here are wonderful. They’re kind. They’re curious about the world around them. I’m very lucky to be part of this community.”

Spirit towels and other Brooks swag helped alumni get into their school spirit during Alumni Homecoming in September. The cornerstone of the day was the school’s induction of four alumni into the Brooks School Athletics Hall of Fame, which you can read about on page 52. BROOKS CONNECTIONS

IN THIS SECTION 50 Alumni News 56 Class Notes 78 In Memoriam

An Examination of the Lincoln Assassination

A Brooksian’s new book is the first to assert that the Lincoln assassination was an act of white supremacy.

John Rhodehamel ’66 has drawn praise for his new book, “America’s Original Sin: White Supremacy, John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Assassination,” which was published in September 2021. Rhodehamel, the former archivist of Mount Vernon and curator of American historical manuscripts at the Huntington Library, provides a compelling narrative history of the Lincoln assassination that refuses to ignore John Wilkes Booth’s motivation: his growing, obsessive commitment to white supremacy.

The facts of President Lincoln’s assassination are familiar to American schoolchildren: On April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln while Lincoln watched a play at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. Lincoln died the next morning, and Booth was shot after a days-long manhunt. Booth’s motivations for assassinating Lincoln have been obscured, though. Rhodehamel makes the case that Booth’s motivation for the assassination was his growing commitment to white supremacy. In alternating chapters, “Original Sin” shows how, as Lincoln’s commitment to emancipation and racial equality grew, so, too, did Booth’s rage and hatred for Lincoln. Rhodehamel traces the evolution of Booth’s racial hatred from his embrace of white supremacy as a youth through the Lincoln assassination.

“Original Sin” is the first book to explicitly name white supremacy as the motivation for Lincoln’s assassination, and Rhodehamel’s fellow scholars hail the work. Michael Burlingame, author of “Abraham Lincoln: A Life,” says that “[b]y emphasizing John Wilkes Booth’s devotion to white supremacy and the depth of his rage at Abraham Lincoln’s public call for black voting rights, Rhodehamel shows why the sixteenth president should be regarded as a martyr to African American civil rights.” Another reviewer, author Michael Woods, says Rhodehamel has “done a great service by bringing this point to a wide audience.” Author and scholar Harold Holzer, meanwhile, writes “[m]ost important of all, this book presents the Lincoln murder plot as it should be remembered: not a theatricalized act of madness, but as a sinful effort to sustain white supremacy and prevent or postpone the march toward equal rights in America. This page-turner is destined to occupy an essential place on the history bookshelf.” “This book presents the Lincoln murder plot as it should be remembered: not a theatricalized act of madness, but as a sinful effort to sustain white supremacy and prevent or postpone the march toward equal rights in America.”

HAROLD HOLZER

Journalism Award

Freelance journalist Alex Clapp ’09 was this year’s runner-up in the Pulitzer Center’s annual Breakthrough Journalism Award. The award recognizes and celebrates the achievements of Pulitzer Center-affiliated freelance journalists who report on underreported issues that affect us all. Clapp received the honor for an article titled “The Vampire Ship,” which was published as the lead story in the October 2020 issue of The New Republic. According to the Pulitzer Center, Clapp’s long read “impressed the judges with its movie thriller-esque narrative that unraveled a complex web of corruption and crime in Turkey, Greece, and the Middle East.” The piece, which, the Center says, Clapp worked on for a year, provides “the most complete account yet of a massive drug deal gone spectacularly bad.”

Further, Clapp published a guest opinion essay in the New York Times on August 27. The piece is titled “The Fires in Greece Are a Terrifying Warning.” In the essay, Clapp recounts decades of Greek privatization, austerity and underinvestment in environmental protection, and advocates for a shi in Greece’s government spending toward the mitigation of the climate crisis and away from its outsized military budget.

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A Brooksian’s Documentary Screens in New York

“REFUGE,” a documentary produced and directed by Din Botsford Blankenship ’03, had its world premiere in November at DOC NYC, the largest documentary film festival in the United States. The documentary draws the viewer into an uncommonly diverse small town in Georgia, and explores the unlikely friendship that grows between a successful Kurdish doctor and a white supremacist. “REFUGE” was awarded Special Mention in the U.S. Competition, one of only two awards given in the U.S. Competition. “We invested so much of ourselves into making this film,” Blankenship reflects. “Being able to finally share it with the world after four years of bringing it to life was so special.”

Blankenship was previously profiled in the fall 2019 issue of the Bulletin, when the documentary was in production. An architect by training, Blankenship made the career shift into filmmaking when she was approached by Erin Bernhardt, with whom she partnered on the documentary.

Save the Date GIVING DAY!

Our annual Giving Day is scheduled to take place on February 10, 2022. This one-day event, in which we strive to accrue as many donations to the Brooks Fund as possible, is a tremendous help in meeting our annual fund and institutional budget goals. Please be on the lookout for class competitions, challenges and gi -matching opportunities, and get ready to give back to Brooks!

Coming Home (Finally!)

This fall’s homecoming festivities were a truly momentous occasion.

Brooks joyously welcomed alumni back to campus for homecoming festivities on September 25, 2021. The return to Great Pond Road was notable because it was the first in-person alumni event the school had been able to host since the COVID19 pandemic took hold of campus in March 2020.

“To be on campus with fellow alumni and the students and faculty felt so special. It was long overdue,” says organizer and former Associate Director of Alumni Relations Carly Churchill ’10. “The alumni got to see the work being done on campus, catch a football game and cross-country race, get some new Brooks gear and see old friends.”

The event felt as if it was ushering in a new era of community and togetherness at Brooks, as community members of all ages congregated to celebrate a gorgeous fall day on campus. In a nod to the increased capacity for off-campus engagement that the school had to practice in the depths of the COVID-19 pandemic, the day’s events also included a virtual 5k open to Brooksians who were not able to travel to Great Pond Road. On-campus amenities and events included a hospitality tent with refreshments set up at the football game, the Brooks School Athletics Hall of Fame induction ceremony and a dinner.

This year’s inductees with Director of Athletics Roberta Crump-Burbank. From le to right, KenRick Skerri Jr. ’87, Alison Vaill Mastin ’89, Crump-Burbank, L. J. Harrington ’80 and Lori Harrington, wife of posthumous inductee P. J. Harrington ’82.

Athletics Hall of Fame Induction

The centerpiece of homecoming festivities at Brooks was the induction of four alumni into the Brooks School Athletics Hall of Fame. This year, in recognition of their exceptional contributions to the quality and tradition of Brooks athletics, the school inducted Lawrence J. Harrington III ’80, Patrick J, Harrington ’82 (posthumous), Alison Vaill Mastin ’89 and KenRick P. Skerri Jr. ’87. The induction ceremony took place under a tent erected on the school’s tennis courts, and approximately 50 of the inductees’ loved ones gathered to help the honorees celebrate. Director of Athletics Roberta Crump-Burbank, who knew all of the inductees personally, delivered hear elt remarks about each of them.

Lawrence J. Harrington III ’80

L. J. Harrington [1] played soccer and basketball at Brooks. “L. J. was born to be a point guard,” former Brooks coach and faculty emeritus Ray Broadhead ’70, P’94, P’99 remembers. “He played with tremendous intensity and showed court sense beyond his years.” With Harrington at the helm, the 1980 Brooks 1st basketball team played all the way to the New England Class C championship game before losing to rival The Governor’s Academy. “He was always a team player,” says former teammate Peter Guyer ’80, “dependable and fiercely competitive while always maintaining his trademark humor.”

Patrick Harrington ’82

Patrick Harrington [2] played soccer and basketball, and he was known for his personality and sense of humor. As an athlete, he stopped at nothing. Speaking on Harrington’s basketball career, Broadhead shares that Harrington played in the era prior to the installation of the threepoint line, and believes that his scoring statistics would have been much higher today. Harrington and his teammate Harold Starks ’82, who was inducted into the all of fame in 2002, led the 1982 boys 1st basketball team to 18 straight wins before falling to an overtime loss in the New England Class C championship game. Basketball continued to be a passion for Harrington, and he went on to build a successful and memorable career as a coach before his tragic death in 2014.

KenRick Skerri Jr. ’87

KenRick Skerri [3] played football, basketball and lacrosse during his Brooks tenure, earning seven varsity le ers. In each sport, but especially in football, he played with exceptional speed, valuable versatility and a team-first mentality.

CALL FOR ALUMNI AWARD NOMINATIONS

We’re already planning for Alumni Weekend, which will take place June 10–11, 2022. A highlight of the weekend is the awarding of three alumni awards: the Distinguished Brooksian award, the Alumni Shield award and the Alumni Bowl award. Descriptions of each award follow. If you’d like to nominate a member of a Brooks alumni class year ending in 7 or 2 for either the Alumni Shield or the Distinguished Brooksian awards, please contact Director of Institutional Advancement Gage S. Dobbins P’22, P’23 at gdobbins@brooksschool.org or (978) 725-6288 by February 1, 2022.

THE DISTINGUISHED BROOKSIAN award honors a member of the Brooks community whose life and contributions to society exemplify the nobility of character and usefulness to humanity embodied in the spirit of the school.

THE ALUMNI SHIELD award recognizes an alumna or alumnus who graduated from Brooks less than 25 years ago who has made significant contributions in the field of his or her endeavor.

THE ALUMNI BOWL is awarded to that member of the alumni community who has tirelessly and loyally supported the school through their though ul and exemplary service and dedication as a volunteer. We do not accept nominations for the Alumni Bowl.

Teammate Bob Wagman ’87 shares, “While Kenny certainly had loads of natural talent, he worked as hard as anyone to make himself be er every day. He pushed himself at morning run, watched film and did all the li le things necessary to become a great football player.”

Alison Vaill Mastin ’89

Alison Vaill Mastin [4] played field hockey and ice hockey and rowed crew at Brooks. She earned 10 varsity le ers on her way to receiving the 1989 Athletic Prize at Prize Day. A four-season captain, she consistently led her teams with spirit and by example. Classmate Leah McLaughlin ’89 shares, “Alison was an absolute inspiration to all of us for her generosity of spirit and her commitment to excellence — on the field and in the classroom.”

1. Lawrence J. Harrington III ’80 2. Patrick Harrington ’82 (right) 3. KenRick Skerri Jr. ’87 4. Alison Vaill Mastin ’89 1

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Eight Brooksians Join Alumni Board

The alumni board welcomed a fresh crop of alumni leaders this year.

Marquis Daisy ’01

Student/Alumni Connection Committee Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Marquis Daisy ’01 joined ESPN Films in 2014 as a producer for the network’s “30 for 30” documentary franchise. He produced films such as “Bernie and Ernie,” “The ’85 Bears,” “The Dominican Dream” and “VICK.” In addition, Daisy directed “Rand University,” which chronicles the turbulent career of the NFL hall of famer Randy Moss; “Baltimore Boys,” the story of East Baltimore’s Dunbar High School basketball program; and “Black Hoosiers,” the story of NBA hall of famer Oscar Robertson. His most recent work is a collaboration between ESPN’s The Undefeated and The National Geographic Channel, titled “The March on Washington: Keepers of the Dream.” Prior to joining ESPN Films, Daisy worked at HBO Sports, where he helped on platforms such as “Inside the NFL,” “Costas Now,” “Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel” and the 24/7 boxing series, as well as on documentaries such as “Bird & Magic: A Courtship of Rivals” and “Namath: From Beaver Falls to Broadway.” Daisy is a Williams College graduate.

Richard Andrew S. Farrer ’96

Giving Committee Andrew Farrer ’96 was born in Nashville and grew up in Exeter, New Hampshire. After graduating from Brooks, he earned a degree in classical studies from Rollins College in 2001 before enlisting with the United States Marines. He had three deployments with 3/8 India Co. as an infantry machine gunner. He was a highly decorated member of the service who earned, among numerous other accolades, the Purple Heart Medal before his honorable discharge in 2008. After his service to our country, Farrer worked as a chef for 10 years and became associated with a number of nonprofit organizations. He currently serves as the senior vice commandant of the Marine Corps League Stones River Detachment in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, as well as the judge advocate of the Marine Corps League Department of Tennessee. He is a lifetime member of the VFW, an elite recruiter of the year in 2021, was recently re-elected as chaplain for the the VFW Department of Tennessee, and is a certified national recruiter. Farrer holds an MBA in healthcare administration from Ashford University.

Rachel Feingold ’14

Student/Alumni Connection Committee Rachel Feingold ’14, who was adopted from China as an infant, grew up in Lynnfield, Massachusetts, and was a day student at Brooks. She went on to attend Boston University, where she studied mathematics and statistics as an undergraduate, continuing on to receive her master’s degree in applied business analytics. Feingold currently works as a strategy and operations analyst at HubSpot, a software company in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In her free time, Feingold likes to go to spin classes, try new restaurants in Boston and walk the galleries of the Museum of Fine Arts. Feingold fondly recalls taking part in the Brooks Winter Term course “The Art and Science of Baking,” and meeting students from all over the country and world that she wouldn’t have otherwise met.

Chongchong Liu ’13

Student/Alumni Connection Committee Chongchong Liu ’13 grew up in Beijing and graduated from Brooks before studying economics and classics at Northwestern University. Liu credits Dr. Deborah Davies, who taught her classics at Brooks, with developing her interest in the subject. Liu enjoyed playing tennis at Brooks and living on campus as a boarding student. She now lives and works in finance in New York, where she plays tennis, runs and explores museums.

Kathy Palmer Smith ’88, P’18, P’20, P’22

Student/Alumni Connection Committee Kathy Palmer Smith ’88, P’18, P’20, P’22 returned

to Brooks when her husband, Director of Rowing and mathematics faculty Tote Smith, joined the faculty in 2016. Her children Nate ’18 and Tobey ’20 are also Brooks graduates, and her child Laura is a current sixth-former, student government president and a school prefect. Kathy Smith has worked at Indian Mountain School and for Mass. Audubon in various roles, including lower school science teacher, prekindergarten teacher and field teacher. The Smiths are resident dorm parents in Thorne House, and Kathy has been “happily and deeply” involved in the school’s rowing program. She reports that she is grateful to be back at Brooks with her family, and that she feels “lucky to be able to walk the fields and trails of our wonderful campus.”

Eric Shah ’85

Career Advisory Committee Eric Shah ’85 is president of Symbex Corporation, which owns and operates businesses in the Southern California area. He attended Pomona College after graduating from Brooks and worked for a few years in the software industry before earning his MBA from UCLA. Shah has been married for more than 29 years and has a grown daughter in the United States Air Force. He enjoys woodworking and rooting for his Los Angeles Rams.

Adam Smith ’07

Career Advisory Committee Adam Smith ’07 grew up in Haverhill, Massachusetts, and now lives in Savannah, Georgia, with his wife and two dogs. At Brooks, Smith was a proud four-year resident of Thorne House and a school prefect. He then attended the University of Virginia, where he studied classics and linguistics. He returned to Brooks for a year to teach the philosophy of religion before moving to Brooklyn, New York, to work as chief technology officer for a high-growth food and beverage startup. He transitioned to self-employment in 2019 and now focuses on management consulting and real estate businesses.

Gary Witherspoon ’80

Events Committee Gary Witherspoon ’80 is the 11th of 13 children born to the late Mary and Willard Witherspoon. His brother Willard ’69 and niece Winifred Alicia ’95 also attended Brooks. A former award-winning journalist, Witherspoon spent 30 years at daily newspapers along the East Coast. He was a member of the Pulitzer Prize-winning team at Long Island Newsday that covered the downing of TWA Flight 800 in 1996. In 2016, he joined the communications team at the Maryland Department of Transportation, and since 2018 he has served in communications and outreach for the Purple Line, a light rail project under construction in suburban Washington, D.C. Witherspoon is a singer and deacon at St. John Baptist Church in Columbia, Maryland, where he lives with his lovely wife, the former Famebridge Payne. He has three sons, Jordahn, Ahmadee and Jackson; a daughter, Clark; and two grandchildren, Vanessa and Jeremiah.

THANK YOU

The school would like to thank the following alumni who have concluded their dedicated and valuable time on the alumni board:

Peter Dunn ’82, P’11, P’13, P’15, P’18 Stephen Taber ’72 Kingsley Woolworth ’00

Marquis Daisy

Andrew Farrer

Rachel Feingold

Chongchong Liu

Kathy Palmer Smith

Eric Shah

Adam Smith

Gary Witherspoon

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As a committed Brooks supporter who nonetheless points out an occasional shortcoming (but hopefully not negatively), I (Rob

Walker H’66, P’94, GP’18) probably can’t speak completely objectively. However, I contend the Bulletin may be the best school publication of its kind, catching the pulse and flavor of Brooks in a beautifully presented, fresh and engaging way. Our school has responded to the COVID-19 challenges boldly and imaginatively, and in general is forging ahead with exciting transformative programs, physical and academic. So in reading through the recently arrived issue I wasn’t surprised by its excellence but was especially moved by the article about our own Carlo Zezza’s extraordinary personal hands-on contributions to the Brooks crew program. Some of us recall Carlo’s outstanding rowing career, begun at Brooks and then as a Harvard varsity eight stroke, followed much later by his numerous accomplishments as an internationally ranked sculler. Beyond that, he is a recognized rowing authority with books on training and other aspects of the sport. I was so moved that I interviewed Carlo for the second installment of our class recollection series, which you will find within these pages of notes. Our class may be diminishing in numbers, but not in spirit, indicated by increasingly frequent exchanges

between Hal Hamilton, O.K. Niess, Carlo Zezza, Carter Harrison GP’20, Burr Allegaert, Pete Ward and myself. We hope more of you will join in. And I should also mention the pleasure of my contacts within other classes, notably the classes of 1956, 1958, 1963, 1964 and 1966. I am a proud honorary member of the class of 1966 but sadly missed joining in on their virtual 55th reunion. In particular, I see David Grant ’56 on a regular basis and was flattered by his invitation to join his recent class Zoom reunion. As an outgrowth of that, Gerry Emme ’56 made the trip over from Watch Hill, Rhode Island, to nearby Newport for a lunch, over which we enjoyably revisited the old Brooks and talked about our present lives. Turns out that in the small world department, Gerry’s daughter, the mother of two Janney Brooksians, played paddle tennis with my brother’s wife in Marblehead, Massachusetts. In early September 2021, before school reopened,

Call for New Correspondents

We thank the following class correspondents, who recently stepped down, for their years of service: Cliff Irons ’63, Pradeep Kapadia ’74, P‘04, P’09, Kevin O’Meara ’80, Alison Vaill Mastin ’89, Ginger Pearson ’99 and Ellie Barker ’12. If you’re interested in serving your class as correspondent, please contact Assistant Director of Alumni Programs Angela Augusta at aaugusta@brooksschool.org.

that brother (Stow Walker ’71) and I visited Brooks. We viewed the dramatic new main entrance, ongoing construction projects and the campus in general, including a stop at the attractively enlarged Ashburn Chapel. We had a warm reception and informative tour

from Carly Churchill ’10. Finally, our 70th reunion is on the horizon in 2023, and I am determined to make it. How about you? In other class news, Carter Harrison reports, “I saw Max Geddes P’90 at my cousin Randolph Harrison’s funeral, and we reminisced over Brooks times. I mentioned to him that I had some photographs of us roughhousing in our third-form dorm, taken by my Brownie camera. They are only 2"x 3" but good fun to look at. Naturally, I thought of Hal Hamilton; he is the only elegant one of this ribald group.”

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Meaningful Memories

Members of the class of 1953 reflected on their time at Brooks some 68 years a er Prize Day. The following is an interview class correspondent Rob Walker ‘53, H’66, P’94, GP’18 conducted with Carlo Zezza ’53.

WALKER: How did you come upon Brooks?

ZEZZA: Two uncles had been to Groton and knew Brooks’ headmaster, Frank D. Ashburn.

WALKER: What were your very first impressions?

ZEZZA: It was a beautiful campus and there was a lot of personal attention compared to the junior high school I came from.

WALKER: Did you have any reservations?

ZEZZA: No; I liked being there.

WALKER: During your time, did the general syllabus present any problems? Who were your best teachers?

ZEZZA: The syllabus was fine and the teachers were great; Root, Flint, Waterston, Parkman and Baade all made a mark on me. When I wanted to learn classical Greek, Doc Scudder set up a class for me with faculty Chychele Waterston as my fellow student. This led to a rewarding four years of Greek at Harvard, for which I am grateful.

WALKER: Sports at Brooks would set you on a personal quest. Can you describe the various stages of your relationship to rowing?

ZEZZA: Spock, Holcombe and Kingsbury set me on a rowing career. Rowing at Brooks led to rowing at Harvard, where I stroked for the freshman and varsity crews. After a 41-year hiatus, fair success has followed as a masters competitor (masters=old folks).

Rowing brought me my second wife. Margarita is Latvian by birth and a former world champion for the Soviet Union. She filled a very large hole left by Susie’s passing after 50 years together. Margarita and I share our training. In my case because of attrition, and in her case because of talent, we continue to win races in the United States and in Europe.

WALKER: How much did the coaches play a part in your various activities?

ZEZZA: For Spock and Holcombe, see my previous response. I was never gifted with hand-eye coordination. I think Eusden and Cronin suffered my presence on their teams because they didn’t have much choice. I was glad to play, but would have been happier rowing year-round.

WALKER: Any regrets with your relationship with the school? In the past, you wished for scholarships for legacy students. Does this still hold true?

ZEZZA: I have no regrets at all with regard to Brooks. I believe less in legacy preference than I once did, but I do believe that the school is

enriched by financial aid to deserving students.

WALKER: What was your relationship to the Chapel?

ZEZZA: I enjoyed the choir and had enormous respect for Ed Flint as our organist and choirmaster. He combined art, discipline and care. Truly a model.

WALKER: What were the funniest moments of your sterling career, and what did you think of your classmates?

ZEZZA: I made friends with most of my classmates and regret that my subsequent career cut loose so many threads. Funny moments? Blank mind, but there was plenty to smile about.

WALKER: Looking back, what values did you take away from Brooks? How did they serve you in life?

ZEZZA: The value of caring. Then, and I like to think to this day, Brooks has never imposed a sink-or-swim regime on its kids. Later as a general manager, I encouraged mutual aid as opposed to competition among rivals, maybe too much so, but it made for happier and, I think, more effective organizations. The initial example came from Brooks.

“Then, and I like to think to this day,

Brooks has never imposed a sink-or-swim regime on its kids.”

55 William P. Kelle wpkelle @a .net Bud Raleigh shares, “I decided I needed to reach out to someone my age about what to do about my 20-year-old long-term care insurance policy, the premiums of which are threatening double-digit annual increases. Surely others in the class of 1955 are faced with the same dilemma, I reasoned. While buying such a policy seemed like a good idea at the time, it’s apparent now that insurance companies are opting out of the market. My insurer stopped selling LTC policies six years ago, so there are no longer younger people to pay the premiums, while we older premium payers are also expected to vanish. A call to Sandy Clough on Cape Cod assured me that I’m not the only one facing higher longterm care premiums. Additionally, he’s found that such companies can be slow to pay claims! What to do? Continue to pay the premiums? Cash it in for a lump sum payment? Reduce coverage? We left the question somewhat unresolved and moved on to current events. But if any classmate has a thought about what to do with this kind of insurance policy, I’d appreciate a call at (781) 875-1473. Sandy reported that his daughter is no longer cooking on the 160-foot charter motor yacht, which is similar to one featured on the Bravo television series ‘Below Deck.’ So, the class party on the yacht that Bill Kelle previously suggested on this page is off. The good news is that the party’s loss saves us $150,000, plus tips for the crew: money we may need to pay longterm care insurance premiums! Sandy also reported that swimmers attacked by great white sharks on the Cape may now call for help on newly installed telephones at beach parking lots. The phone call is free! Please enjoy the pool, Sandy!”

56 David A. Grant P’84 dgrantnewport@gmail.com As the summer of discontent draws to a close, once again, the stalwart class responders of our class have submitted updates and some photos to let us all know how things are going. To wit: Skip Morse and his marketing firm, Morse Marketing International, LLC, are back to work again. Skip is assisting the chief marketing officer of Sacred Heart University on the launch of the SHU Community Theatre. This is a newly renovated 100-year-old theatre now with 400 seats in the bustling center of downtown Fairfield, Connecticut. Theatre programming combines entertainment and education for audiences of all ages through movie screenings, major film events, live performances and student community learning experiences. Good luck, Skip. At least now you will get a vacation. This time, we have both Bride brothers responding, a major event! Here from Jim Bride: “For what it’s worth, I’m sharing a photo of Ginny and me on the U.S. Open course with the trophy at the base of our feet. The photographer was an official from the U.S. Open shooting scenes for the 2022 tournament while we were playing golf. Because the photographers interrupted our play, they offered to take a photo of us on the Primrose Hole, no. 1, which will be incorporated into the 2022 June Open. Incidentally, because of my age and 50 years as a club member, I have been asked to be a volunteer country club ambassador for those visiting the facility, which I take as a point of necessity for those over 80! In any event, Ginny and I are still playing lots of golf; I find after my COVID-19 experience a year ago, my game has actually improved.” Good news, Jim! Keep feeling better and go for the pin. And, brother John Bride, all the way from California, has this to report: “I wanted to send along some recollections motivated by a Pittsburgh Steelers pre-season football game this weekend. After working as a lawyer at the FCC and learning the ins and outs of broadcast regulations, I was hired by Group W, Westinghouse

Top to Bo om: Dom Habsburg ’56 shares this shot

of Bran Castle at night. ■ Ginny and Jim Bride ’56 celebrating on the golf course. ■ Phil Ottley ’56

recovering from a bad fall.

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Broadcasting, at its television station, KDKA-TV2 in Pittsburgh, as an account executive. Within three years, I bought a radio station just outside Pittsburgh that started my ownership in broadcast facilities. I have always had a soft spot for my time in western Pennsylvania and developed many relationships that last to this day. When I came across the football game being televised by KDKA-TV this past Saturday, I was drawn to it by my work there. I recognized the play-by-play announcer, who had worked with me when I owned WMBA many years ago, and watched as Brooks graduate Pat Freiermuth ’18 caught two passes for touchdowns. It brought back memories of playing football at Brooks years ago. And seeing a Brooks graduate make it to the NFL! I think he is the first from Brooks to do so. To round out the day, my granddaughter, Adelaide, celebrated her 12th birthday.” So good to hear from you, John. I know your team members remember your prowess on the football field. Ever-faithful classmate Peter

Jones ’56, P’94, P’01 let us know of his summer and fall plans, always on the modest side: “My notes this time will be very similar to my last ones. Leslie and I returned to Quogue, New York, after being at Florida’s Jupiter Island Club and stayed there for the entire summer. As usual, we often saw Palmer Jones

O’Sullivan ’94 and Ellio Jones ’01. To add more Jones news, my brother Frick ’51 and I talk every other Sunday. As mentioned in my last notes, we had planned to go to France this month but we had to cancel the trip. I asked my doctors if we should go and they all said no. We will go September 2022. We have already made plans to spend January and February of 2022 in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, and in March we will go to St. Croix, in the U.S. Virgin Islands, where Leslie and her sister own a condominium. And in April, we go back to the Jupiter Island Club. All that seems a long way off, however.” All the way

from Maine, Curt Scribner P’83 chimed in: “Not sure it is class notes-worthy, but I have just returned from a visit to Stowe, Vermont, where I left some items for their historical society. While there, I met a gentleman named Charles Lusk, who is the cousin of

Jim Lusk and Graham Lusk ’53. Of interest, he informed me that

Harold Boeschenstein ’49, of Brooks math and science fame, is in a retirement community in Stowe called Copley Woodlands. Said he was well and alert.” Ah, yes, Curt, we remember him. Your note prompted a response from Robin

Marvel P’91, GP’23: as follows: “Thanks Curt! I spent my sixthform year living on the second floor of Rogers House (located next to the auditorium), and Harold had his space next to me. He worked hard to keep me out of trouble! Rogers House was across the road from Thorne House, which was very active! My grandson, Connor Spear ’23, is spending his fifthform year in Peabody House, and the auditorium as we knew it and Rogers House are no longer standing. Hard for me to describe a dormitory now gone.” Hmm, Robin, Thorne was active senior year? I was prefect there. Oops. Fellow Rhode Islander George Waterston is, once again, having some corrective surgery: “I am getting more surgery November 3, 2021. This time it will be a total left hip replacement by Dr. Michael P. Bradley from Ortho RI at the South County Hospital in Wakefield, Rhode Island.” Good luck, George. Bradley did my right knee in 2017. A very good surgeon! Another regular correspondent, Phil O ley, has had quite a summer of discontent himself after his bathroom fall, as reported in our last notes. His update is as follows: “All is well, here in Sun Valley, Idaho. Been in my wheelchair for three months due to my accident with my solar plexus. I have eight stitches in my head and my left foot isn’t working, but it will. Gray, at Distillery, is doing very well. Heidi and Ed are at Good Riddance, who buy and sell furniture for people to look at and buy. Lalyn and Norman are at East Hampton, New York, on weekends, otherwise at Darien, Connecticut. All is well here and out West. Cheers to all there. Pictures to follow.” Our fine class Zoom host, Ellery McLanahan, tells of a trip he planned with his wife, Kay, to wit: “Kay and I have rented a cabin right on the north rim of the Grand Canyon for a visit in October 2021. Instructions received are very specific: Come down the cabin steps and make sure to turn right or left. The hotel worries about guests going straight ahead.” Yeah, Ellery,

ya think? Dominic Habsburg, a constant correspondent, sent in a short update on Bran Castle along with a gorgeous picture taken at night. “It is still standing tall, bright and welcoming. We have had enough visitors this summer to stay afloat and care for our staff. Our vaccination program has been a great success attracting people across many borders to come for free COVID-19 vaccinations.” Good for you, Dom, and all responsible for the outreach! And, in a short

string between Dom and George Waterston about Vlad the Impaler (not sure how that came up), Habsburg concluded with: “I learned that he was a real person in history when I was 8. He is considered a Romanian hero because he made order. He also frightened the Ottoman vizier into retreat when the latter came upon a forest of 1,600 of his men impaled. He was brutal, as were the ways of the times. The reason he became so well-known and remembered is because, at that time, Saxon woodcut printing and distribution came into use and has survived to this day. Also, the Saxons hated him. Another anecdote in that sense was about my grandmother, Queen Marie. When the camera came into use, she was a star. She was flamboyant, beautiful and a queen; what more could a reporter want? The press coverage helped her greatly in the unification of Greater Romania, for which she is credited.” Classmate Bartle Bull had a most significant opinion piece published in the Wall Street Journal on August 21, 2021, about Afghanistan and the current situation facing women in that country. Congratulations!

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57 George W. Reithoffer greit60@gmail.com It has been many years since we graduated from Brooks, and what is appropriate and what is not appropriate has changed. I could only guess what would happen if we used any of the nicknames we went by in 1957. If you called me “Kraut” or “Khrushchev,” I would have reported this slight to Mr. Ashburn to be noted in the Ashburn report. DavidBalding was “Panda,” which is an endangered species. Charlie Jencks was the “Moose,” which is a rather stupid mammal. He fooled us all. Mike Simpson got Mr. A.’s attention when he put to verse the following: “Was it Simp, a Blimp or just a stray balloon?” A sizeable balloon, I might add. Hugh Eaton P’88 was “the plumber.” In today’s climate, that might be a slight to all plumbers, or an indication that we thought he would never grace the hallowed halls of Yale or get an MBA from Harvard. The list of nicknames goes on. In summary, the times were different. Wishing the best to all in the class of 1957.

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59 George F. Kilborn g @comptoncapital.com ■ Eugene E. Record

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JimmyWalker survived the hurricane on New York’s Long Island. Tony Milbank and his wife are enjoying their many grandchildren. And I (GeneRecord) took nine grandchildren to the Galapagos Islands to celebrate my 80th birthday!

60 John Rowland P’91 john.rowland@comcast.net We were all deeply saddened by the passing of two very good friends, our longtime class correspondent Bob Turner and close classmate CharlieBascom. Charlie died on March 29, 2021, while Bob died on July 27, 2021. “Wow, we have lost quite a few this year. Bob was a nice guy and always stayed in touch with our classmates,” noted Charles Eaton. “One of the nicest guys in our class. A sad loss,” Henry Wheelwright echoed about Charlie. Henry also recalled a funny story from our youth. “I remember when Charlie blew out the toilet at Logan with a cherry bomb and we hustled to our flights as the troopers were arriving.” JohnDrum shared, “This is really sad for me. Charlie and I shared an apartment after Brooks when we were both at Boston University. He and Chrissie would come out and stay with me in California and I would stay with them in Marion, Massachusetts. We had many good times together.” WilliamFerris wrote these kind words to me: “I was deeply saddened to learn of Charlie Bascom’s death. He was a special friend to all our class, and your bond with each other was especially deep. Marcie and I will hold his family in our thoughts and prayers.” Perhaps the saddest comments on Charlie’s passing came from Bob himself before his own death. “So many adventures. So much life. I truly believe I learned as much from Charlie as anyone, maybe including my parents. Gyro Gearloose? Sure, but with a heart, and so much fun. Those three-hour-long rock ’n’ roll tapes at our apartment at 143 Mass Ave. were an instant party. And no Lester Lanin — we’re talking Chuck Berry and Jimmy Reed and Slim Harpo. At Brooks, we spent hours listening to Miles Davis’s ‘Kind of Blue’ album on weekends. Hitchhiking into Boston to catch the Duke Ellington band at Storyville. And, as we were on our way back in the wee hours, Charlie told the North Andover cop we were headed back to campus — at Rogers Hall. ‘Rogers Hall,’ says the cop slowly and thoughtfully — ‘that’s a girls school.’ Somehow Charlie still got the officer to let us

Gene Record ’59 celebrating his 80th birthday in the Galapagos Islands with his nine grandchildren!

Top to bottom: Maya Fulton, daughter of Travis Fulton ’61, sits on a bench created and designed by

Travis for one of her clients. ■ John McClellan ’61

shared this photo and its geographical coordinates: Lat 39º 58’ 12” N. Long 105º 23’ 25 W Elevation 8020 ft.

take a cab back to campus. Charlie, Jon Bingham and I, in separate dormitories, stringing speaker wire late at night over the utility poles so that two of us could be woken each morning to music selected by the third. (I thought Jon knew what he was doing with power lines.) Then there’s the saga of that threesome hopping a freight in Haverhill, Massachusetts, one day. A few miles down the track, Charlie dismounted with more aplomb than either Jon or I could muster. If one wants access to various buildings and offices at an institution, what does he need? It’s a key, of course, to the KEY ROOM. No problem. Holidays at the Barbizon Plaza. A few memories, to be joined by many more, I imagine. Charlie was indeed one of a kind.” Several classmates shared their condolences when Bob succumbed to pancreatic cancer this summer. JosephHammer wrote, “Very sad news about Bob and, even though it was expected, it is always difficult when it happens. I had the feeling at that visit several weeks ago, as we hugged goodbye, that it might be our final time together. He gave me two old vintages of Lascombes to take with me. I will really miss him. He was obviously a very special person and friend.” CharlesLadd said, “This is terrible news. He was a great journalist. My mother sent some of his writings to me over the years.” JohnDrum said, “Bob was a terrific guy. I wish I had gotten to know him better.” Richard Dow noted, “I was particularly taken by Bob Turner’s obituary in the Globe that you sent recently. I barely knew him, but felt an admiration for him in reading about him and learning about him. I particularly admire his politics but also his persistence in pursuing his interests in nature, journalism and politics, i.e., humanity.” Arch Brown agreed: “So often I read an obituary of an acquaintance and I say, ‘I wish I knew all this before now. It would have been so interesting to have talked about their life experiences.’ It makes me want to create a biography of everyone we know. Bob is a perfect example of this!” While George Hunt simply said, “Bob was a good fellow from the very beginning at Brooks.”

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Trav Fulton’s daughter Maya is an interior designer in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Trav submitted a photo of a bench that she commissioned him to design and build for one of her clients. “We enjoy teamwork,” he said.

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62 Richmond Viall P’93 castingabout4ever

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John McClellan wrote in with a wonderfully thoughtful update: “I grew up a child of bohemian artists, first in the West Indies (like who was it who came to Brooks from St. Croix?), then in Paris, until I went to Brooks. Never liked the place much, always felt alone there and missed the unchained freedoms I had enjoyed in my previous, real life. I did love the beautiful landscapes around the campus, did fairly well in my studies and got into Harvard. Mr. Symonds arranged for me to spend a year at Merton College at Oxford reading Chaucer with Profesor Nevill Coghill. But the life of a scholar was too tame for me, and I spent most of the year in Paris carousing wildly with my old French friends from my school days. At Harvard, I lived off-campus and mostly majored in psychedelic drugs and rock ’n’ roll, wasting my time at that divine Citadel of Learning. I did, however, manage to get into Columbia Law School. I also found and married my lifemate, Rosalind Brown, and our happy union has miraculously continued to this day. Law school was okay for a while; really tough academic competition, which, aside from Barto Farr at Brooks, was new for me. But then the Vietnam War triggered the great student rebellion of 1968–69. I dropped out of school and went to work for the National Lawyers Guild. We were the legal arm of SDS, and I worked closely with Bernadine Dohrn. Most people today don’t know what SDS was, but I bet most of you guys do. Bernadine moved on to found the Weather Underground, and I followed her there for a while, but it quickly became so radical and violent that many members, including Bernadine, had to go “underground” indefinitely. Bernadine was on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list

“I have never done much in the career/professional world, but I spent many happy years raising our two children at home, wandering the wild landscapes, taking pictures, writing and practicing. There is no money in such a life, but great satisfaction.” JOHN MCCLELLAN ’62

for years after that. Rosalind and I backed off at that point. This was no way to change the world. Maybe the world doesn’t want or even need all that much changing anyway. So we moved back up to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where Roz developed her fantastic light shows and founded Dance Free. She did light shows for Rod Stewart, Buffalo Springfield and the Who, among many others. I got a Master of Fine Arts in black and white photography at M.I.T. with Minor White. I also studied film and photography with Bob Fulton, the legendary older brother of Trav Fulton ’61. Then we moved out West, and our real life began. We loved living in the mountains, close to the natural world, and began to seek a deeper meaning there. This search led us to the Lama Foundation in northern New Mexico, where we lived for two years. We published ‘Be Here Now,’ and we invited many of the greatest first-generation spiritual teachers (the first to come and teach in North America), from Sufis to Zen and Tibetan Buddhists. And Indians from the Taos Pueblo came and held Native American Church meetings. We found lifelong teachers in both the Rinzai Zen and Tibetan schools. I continued attending peyote meetings for the next 20 years. And we were serious ‘back to the land’ hippies. We bought some land near Taos, raised goats for milk, meat and cheese, and built a house. We had a big garden that fed us well, and I planted marijuana most years for a cash crop. We loved our life there, really loved it, for 12 years. Roz was the director of the Taos Valley School; however, we had a couple of young children by then ourselves, and they needed better schools than we were able to create. So we moved up to Boulder, Colorado. This worked well, as both sons got college degrees, and our youngest a doctorate in music from Yale University. Roz became director of the Colorado University environmental center and went on to start her own foundation in recreation and conservation issues in Colorado. I have never done much in the career/professional world, but I spent many happy years raising our two children at home, wandering the wild landscapes, taking pictures, writing and practicing. There is no money in such a life, but great satisfaction. We shifted our Native American practices from the NAC to the Sundance and have danced every year up on the Rosebud reservation since 1990 or so. Travis, one of my lifelong friends, even came up one year to check it out. Today we live in a very beautiful secluded valley in the mountains above Boulder. We have taken a few paths less traveled, as Robert Frost would say, but they have proved to be good, and we have been blessed. Now as the age of 80 approaches for all of us, we must begin to wonder: What will come next?”

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Top to bottom: Peter “Bones” Rathbone ’64, P’04, P’15 and his first grandchild, Olivia, in Santa Barbara,

California. ■ Mike Hajjar ’65 and Fred Shrigley ’64

outside Fred’s recently reopened establishment, The Rhumb Line, in Gloucester, Massachusetts.

64 Peter “Bones” Rathbone P’03, P’15

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Fred Northup has written a full length musical, “David: The Faces of Love.” It premiered via livestream on September 28, 2021. See more at: worthamarts.org/events. According to the press release, “David: The Faces of Love” tells of the searing, glorious, tragic and always moving love that the Biblical great, King David, shares in friendship, passion and family relationships. Twenty percent of all receipts will go to either Homeward Bound or BeLoved Asheville, two groups working to eliminate homelessness. Northup is an

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Asheville, North Carolina, native and the former dean of St. Mark’s Cathedral in Seattle, Washington. His musical partner, Drew Banzhoff, is a prodigy currently enrolled at the North Carolina School of the Arts. More than 25 local performing artists, including choristers, musicians and actors, will be featured in this world-premiere event under the direction of Mike Yow. You will recall that in my notes for the spring Bulletin, I alluded to my recent diagnosis of esophageal cancer. At that time I had virtually sailed through my six weeks of chemo and radiation, and was awaiting a surgery date for the esophagectomy itself. I was staying active with three sets of tennis three times a week, so I felt in good shape to face the next step. Little did I realize how the scenario would unfold when I checked into Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles on May 10, 2021. If all went well with the procedure, I would be in for a seven-to-10-day stay before being released to continue my recovery at home. It seemed a likely outcome after the surgeon pronounced the operation a success, and pathology came back with the report that I was cancer-free. The day before my scheduled discharge, a small, previously undetected tear in the esophagus appeared. That changed everything, as a second esophagectomy was scheduled, and as it turned out, emergency procedures were required. Now I was in for the long haul, and what an ordeal it turned out to be: 28 days in the ICU and a total of 59 agonizingly long days spent in the hospital. One of the more depressing aspects of this type of cancer is that you are not allowed to swallow anything for months on end, moisture coming only from ice chips which, once melted, are spat out. Fortunately that restriction has been recently lifted. My wife, Alanna, was an absolute saint throughout. Staying in a small hotel within walking distance, she visited me for several hours every day. On a number of occasions she was joined by our children, Sarah, Vanessa ’04 and Dylan ’15, when their schedules allowed. Every time it seemed that I was ready to be released, a complication would arise and another week would go by. Finally, at long last, on July 8, 2021, my freedom from captivity was granted. Despite a constant stream of prescription meds administered by Alanna, being tethered to a feeding tube 16 hours a day, many bandage applications and other medical needs, recovering at home is a far preferable option. There have been other recent setbacks, with esophageal stents, a second set needed as healing wasn’t complete with the initial one. They must remain in place for eight weeks before removal. I am looking at October 14, 2021, as the date for surgical removal of the remaining two stents, and my sincere hope that the worst of the nightmare is over and that I can begin my full recovery in earnest! I echo Queen Elizabeth’s 1992 sentiment, that this has been my “Annus Horribilis,” without a doubt! My spirits have been lifted by the loving concern and support from my family, as well as so many friends, including a number of Brooks alums. By far the most positive and celebratory note of the year for us was when our daughter Sarah gave birth on August 30, 2021, to our first grandchild, Olivia Rose, weighing in at an impressive 11 pounds, 2 ounces. She and her husband, Jason, are beside themselves with happiness, as are we all. It has been a wonderful and uplifting distraction from this past arduous year. Living only 10 minutes away, we look forward to being pressed into grandparenting duties on a regular basis over the coming months and years. Chas Detmar, my fourth-form roommate, wrote the following to me in early August 2021: “I am pleased to report that my 9,500word paper, ‘An Adaptational Theory of Consciousness,’ has been accepted for publication in The Journal of Consciousness Studies, which (to quote from its webpage) is ‘an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated entirely to the field of consciousness studies.’ My paper is a biological account of consciousness that differs from other theories by integrating arguments about the mechanism, function and evolution of consciousness. The development of awareness in the individual is also explained. It is, I believe, a revolutionary theory that will be influential in philosophical and neurobiology circles. Oscar Root would be proud. I have been studying consciousness ever since I first read Freud’s ‘The Ego and the Id’ in the third form at Brooks. After I retired from teaching high school in North Carolina, I had time to gather my thoughts and write a book on the subject. But without the right kind of academic credentials, I was getting nowhere with the academic press. I decided to condense the book into an article-length paper and try my luck with the J Cons. Stud. After several rounds with the referees’ comments and criticisms, the managing editor accepted it. I don’t have a date for publication yet, but the editor thinks it will be at the end of this year or the first part of next. Any interested Brooksians can email me at charlesdetmar@

hotmail.com, and I will send them a reprint as soon as I have any, perhaps in six months. Depending on how the academic world receives my paper, perhaps I will have enough cred to be able to try my book with the academic press again.” On a final note, and I am sure I speak for many fellow alums, it has been a distinct pleasure to

have had Carly Churchill ’10 as our alumni relations liaison for the past several years. For the class of ’64 she has always been ready and able to accommodate our various Brooks-related needs in a timely fashion and has been responsive to any and all requests, large or small. She shall be missed, but we wish her great success at her new school with its varied challenges and new opportunities.

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67 Talbot T. Goodyear P’08, P’09

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■ Richard H. Turner P’99

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Joe Ripley writes, “This summer, my wife, Sandy, and our terrier dog, Benji, and I took a 10-week, 10,000-mile motorhome trip from Seattle, Washington, to the East Coast (Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina) to visit friends and family (13 visits in all). One of the highlights was visiting Annie and Alex Jordan in late July 2021. Some of the other highlights included The Ark Encounter, the Billy Graham Library, The Biltmore, The Hermitage and the Colorado National Monument. The last rivals the Grand Canyon for beauty and drama. Adventure included the fact our engine air-conditioner broke down after three days (we substituted the 2x80 method) and the fact we had to replace our toilet, which broke on a Saturday. We got it replaced at ‘Gramps’s RV Parts and Service’ the next day and drove away with all arms and legs still intact. Part of our zigging and zagging was to accommodate visits to the towns named ‘Ripley’ in Ohio, West Virginia, Tennessee and Mississippi. I have no known relationship to any of them, but it was fun and interesting. We recommend the Museum of the American Revolution in Yorktown, Virginia, but were disappointed in the Crystal Bridges American Art Museum in Bentonville, Arkansas. They were the first place we encountered that required masks, and by then we were focusing on getting home. Traveling in a 1993 Bounder motorhome may not be the best way to see the country, but it sure comes close. It was probably the trip of a lifetime, although we may make it back to Antioch, Illinois, for another family reunion next year (Sandy is in charge of it).” David Wi er writes from Florida to announce his big news: “After 20-plus years of commercial real estate appraising, I officially retired July 6, 2021 — gold watch and all. Connie, who has done this for 35 years, is slowly weaning herself by doing only the larger horse farms. No bank work or litigation (expert witness). Less stress. I am quite enjoying being an unproductive member of society. I spend more time with my bird dog, laugh at the news, tie flies and have more time for hunting and fishing. After years of going up to our family’s cattle ranch in California, Connie and I plan to do a ‘final tour’ at the Lone Pine in northern California in early October 2021, as the property is under contract for sale to close by March 2022. I am grateful that this will be the 70th year since I first went up. A lifetime of memories. Now we are after some much-delayed bucket list adventures in New Mexico and Alaska for 2022. The plan for the future is to fix up the farm, find a place on the water further north with the change of seasons, and pursue philanthropic endeavors that are important to us. Hope to see you all, either at the 55th or on a Zoom call. Connie loves my Brooks reunions, and, as it happens, I love her prep school reunions (October this year at Graham Eckes in Palm Beach, Florida).” And, good news from Tom No ebohm: He recently had a stent procedure in the States, and is now recovering comfortably back at his home in Guatemala.

Sandy and Joe Ripley ’67 visited Annie and Alex Jordan ’67 in late July 2021 during a summer road trip.

68 George F. Johnson P’02 g johnson3@gmail.com Send us your news!

69 Peter Van K. Doyle peterdoyle215@gmail.com Leaves will be off our New England trees by the time you see this short report, but I am happy to say that summer was a welcome, if temporary, break in terms of COVID-19. Now that face coverings are back

for nearly all of us, it seems that we will need to buckle down for another winter of ups and downs. I am glad that I reached again last week to my bookcase for another attempt at completing classmate Luke Menand’s “The Metaphysical Club.” It’s my fourth effort, and while it is always satisfying to visit that book, my limited scholarly abilities fall short, and getting to a cover-to-cover read is an aspiration still. Luke won a Pulitzer for this opus in 2002 and I wouldn’t be surprised if he gets another bunch of prizes for his book that was published last year. He is a genius. I would give anything to listen to Luke unpack his insights on what happened at the Capitol on January 6, 2021. My corner of the world is splendidly peaceful and uneventful. Consulting business in full gear at 100 percent capacity. Lots of travel with Ellen in recent months, despite all of the fits and starts in the aviation industry. Our gardens on our farm are thriving, the deer herds make daily appearances and we are poised to happily hunker down for another winter in our beloved New England, where forest fires and floods are a long way away.”

70 Peter G. Toohey gtoohey@me.com Peter Schiff P’99, P’04 sends in an update: “The short version is: I’ve been married to Lisa for 45 years. Three children, two of whom attended Brooks. Ten grandchildren. Still working, but not as much. Moved to Florida and am downsizing on Long Island, New York. Life is good!”

71 Townsend U. Weekes Jr. t65weekes@gmail.com Ike Northup writes, “Those of you old enough to remember my father, faculty emeritus Nooney H’71, P’64, P’71, may also recall he started the Lawrence Project, a program where one afternoon a week students from Brooks would tutor children in nearby Lawrence, Massachusetts. What you may not know is that he had to overcome substantial resistance from coaches who could not imagine letting students miss one day a week from practice, and others who thought the whole idea silly. With the help of Mr. A., the program started, and during some weeks would involve 60 or more Brooks students. To honor my father and mother, his children created a fund at Brooks to help with funding service programs. I write all this because in the past month, two of my father’s former students, whom he taught more than 50 years ago, honored him with a contribution to that fund. I cannot express how much this means to our family, and I wanted to share with the greater community. As for me, recently retired, Beth and I split our time between Newland, North Carolina, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. My family arrived at Brooks in 1959 and I grew up mostly on campus, so my return there is always poignant. The routing of the main entrance through our former front yard and the absence of the Barn were noted when I was there last week; the boathouse remains the same.”

From left to right: Arnie Cogswell ’74 and Fred Gardner ’74 reunited in North Carolina in August 2021 for the first time in 35 years.

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74 William J. Loughlin Bill.Loughlin@comcast.net ■ Ross M. Povenmire

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My wife and I (Bill Loughlin) were pleased to welcome Pradeep

Kapadia P’04, P’09 to our home in Sudbury, Massachusetts, for a surprise visit! A few hours were definitely not enough to properly catch up. It also reminds me that as we begin to either retire or just slow down a bit, maybe our travels can include looking one another up. Please let me know about changes to your contact information so that we can all be up to date! Watson Courtenay shares, “I’m enjoying my transition into semi-retirement. In March 2021, I sold the marketing firm I co-founded 24 years ago to my partners and then immediately accepted an interim position as the marketing director

at Shippers Solutions, which is owned by Brooks classmate and good friend Henry Camp P’17. My oldest son, Tyler, married his sweetheart in August 2021; my daughter, Alex, works at Creighton University in the student life department; and my other son, Matt, and his wife are expecting their first child in December 2021. Very exciting times, indeed.” And, Mike Muto joins his classmates in expressing his sadness for the passing of Chris Kauders. Mike says that Chris was exceptional in many ways and will be missed. Mike has been at Brigham and Women’s Hospital since graduating from medical school in 1983. He completed his residency in OB-GYN and his fellowship in GYN Oncology in 1987 and remained on staff at BWH and Dana Farber Cancer Institute. Now in his 38th year in the same institutions, he is strongly considering retirement. He plans to join me on a long and deliberate slide into old age.

75 Christopher C. Abbo P’10, P’14

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Greetings to the form of 1975, and I hope these notes find you all in good shape. I write at the tail end of another summer and beginning of fall, having just a few weeks ago visited the Brooks School campus to witness the transformation of the campus we all knew. The Frick Dining Room, the Dalsemer Room and the current Alumni House have been torn down to make room for a new and vastly improved admission building that will have a swell view of Lake Cochichewick. If that isn’t enough to entice prospective Brooksians, I don’t know what is! With this comes the full pedestrianization of the center of campus in front of the Head of School’s House and the Ashburn Chapel, turning it into a proper “Main Street.” The main entrance off Great Pond Road has also been refashioned and is completely different and very attractive. While I was in North Andover, I was fortunate enough to have dinner with

classmate Lincoln Ying P’24 and his daughter, Kaisi ’24, who was about to join her fourth-form classmates in person, having spent her thirdform year studying remotely from China. It was great to see Lincoln and Kaisi, although a story Lincoln shared made me feel as though I had not done enough, as oblivious as I was in those days, for our foreign fellow students. It turns out that Lincoln was given permission to stay at school, as opposed to fly back to his native Hong Kong, for Thanksgiving during our senior year. In fact, he stayed in his dorm room and, in the absence of anyone inviting him to their house, he took all his meals at McDonald’s down by the high school. It was a cold fall, as Lincoln remembers, and he walked to and from Mickey D’s for breakfast, lunch and dinner! He allowed that by the time he walked back to Brooks after dining under the Golden Arches every meal, he was already hungry again. I only wish now I had known and could have had him back to Manchester, Massachusetts, and my family’s Thanksgiving. Lincoln hasn’t eaten at a McDonald’s since! I have been in touch with George Griswold, who is weathering the storms in Metairie, Louisiana, having had an active summer. Ida slammed ashore and George and Tracy were without power for more than a week (GTG Jr. smartly had a generator) and water for a few days. Laissez les bons temps rouler! I had the pleasure of cruis-

ing with Capt. Francis W. Murray IV aboard his yacht “Etika” out of Padanaram, Massachusetts, with another friend, and it was most enjoyable. Wisner now qualifies, as many of us do or will, as a senior citizen, and our conversation naturally revolved around current ailments and the new Medicare and supplemental insurance we are purchasing to address and cover them! Whoever said there isn’t humility in getting older?! Bruce Fleming and his wife, as I write this, have just returned from a splendid 10-day trip to Ireland, where he hit a little white ball around some of the greenest pastures in the olde sod! He played courses in both the northern and southern part of the country and exclaimed it to be one of his “top five vacations!” I have had some professional interaction earlier this year with Bill Davis, who is going gangbusters at his Stance Capital, which is focused on current ESG investing, so he is doing both well and good! You can read all about his good work at www.stancecap.com. Finally, I would be remiss if I didn’t thank Bill Nahill, who is helping unearth the missing among us! Bill has identified, with my help and that of Brooks, 17 or so names of missing in action classmates. He is tracking them down so we may include them in the groundswell of good will and interest in our 50th Brooks reunion in 2025! Please, if you are reading this, respond to Bill’s outreach; this is not about trying to squeeze money out of reluctant classmates (although that would be nice, too...), but

Chris Abbott ’75, P’10, P’14 (right) with Lincoln Ying ’75, P’23 (left) and his daughter, Kaisi ’23, at Karma in Andover.

rather make sure we have current contact information and can invite the missing into our happy throng of ’75ers as we prepare for the big reunion! Before you know it, Giving Day 2022 will again loom large. February 10, 2022, is upcoming, and I am hopeful the fabulous form of 1975 can again lead the way to give back to the Brooks that did so much for us! Our trusted team of Mal Stone, Bill Nahill and I will be gently reminding you of your opportunity to again support the efforts of our dominating class of 1975! Have a wonderful fall; stay positive and test negative!

76 William A. Parker P’14 parkerhqj@me.com Michael Wyman writes, “Greetings, classmates! I have been remiss in writing for many years now. I’m still living in the Chicago area with my wife of 32 years, Janet. We have two daughters: Charlotte, 25, just started grad school for her master’s in architecture at Rhode Island School of Design; our younger daughter, Jenna, 22, is in her senior year at Amherst College. I am still in the recruiting business to pay the bills, but my true passion continues to be coaching rowing. I was so drawn to the sport at Brooks and in college, and I’m now in my 12th year of coaching novice boys with New Trier High School here on Chicago’s North Shore. In addition to that, this year I co-founded a new non-profit in Evanston, Illinois, called ‘North Channel Community Rowing,’ that is introducing much-needed diversity, equity and inclusion to the sport of rowing in our community. We are teaching underrepresented kids of color in 6th through 8th grade how to scull, providing free swimming lessons, and will soon be offering tutoring and mentoring services. It has been going very well thus far and is extremely rewarding.”

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78 Carl V. Nablo carl_nablo@hotmail.com Greetings to the class as we approach the fall here in Scottsdale, Arizona. We will hopefully have a houseful here in January 2022 for the annual Car Auction week. Jay

Hellmuth, Renny Ponvert P’10 and BlakeAuchincloss will be in attendance. Hopefully COVID-19 issues will not interfere with our plans. Tom Crowell wrote an amazing note to Stan Kaplan P’78, Rich Kaplan’s dad, to articulate to Rich as part of our “Kappy’s letters” effort. Tom has been amazingly active commuting between Vermont and Jackson, Wyoming. Besides that, he is finishing studies in sustainable energy management, renovating a house and land, and caring for his 94-year-old mother. Tom sounds great and keeps in touch with Blake Auchincloss and others in our class. Jay Hellmuth writes: “Mostly staying safely at home. I enjoyed watching the European Football (soccer) Championship this past June 2021 and now the start of the English Premier League, the Champions League and USA men’s national team World Cup qualifying. I still have an auto race addiction, so I stayed up the whole 24 hours of Le Mans race in August 2021 and am now enjoying the battle for the Formula One championship between the teams of Mercedes and Red Bull with their respective drivers, Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen. I plan on attending the USA F1 race in Austin, Texas, in October 2021. The delta variant had cancelled some of my summer visits (a college friend in New York and a former student’s wedding in Seattle, Washington), but recently I did get to visit another college swim teammate in Indianapolis, Indiana, where Porsche had its Luftgekhult celebration. I also visited a friend from my church in Dallas, Texas; now she is in St. Louis, Missouri. I mourn the passing of Charlie Watts, the drummer for the Rolling Stones. I have tickets for their ‘No Filter’ tour planned for 2020 but delayed until now because of COVID-19. He was the stylish, musical backbone of the band. It will not be the same (but nothing ever is). I wish everyone good health until we can get together again for our reunion in 2023.” The class of 1978 is now approaching its 45-year and 50-year reunions in the coming years. All members of the class have also passed the 60th birthday hurdle! These lifelong relationships have been literally a brotherhood for many of us. My strongest advice is to pick up the telephone and reach out to classmates you may have wanted to chat with in the coming months. As a classmate has said: If you want to maintain a friendship, be a friend. That’s all for the class, and thanks for all the great notes from classmates.

Former faculty Tom Burgess P’89, H’89 and David Churbuck ’76, P’05, P’07 in Massachusetts’ Cotuit Bay.

79 Robert W. Phinney robert.phinney@

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Andy Hobbs shares, “Now that I’m 60, I want you to know that I am a lucky man! I just celebrated 34 years of marriage with my bride (she said it’s felt like her whole life, which I interpret as having done well); all three of my sons are living

within 10 minutes of us here in Jupiter, Florida; and we celebrated the birth of my first grandson five months ago. He’s my namesake, Andrew IV. We call him IVy and he’s perfect. Golf, surf, old-man hockey with a few cold beverages, and a bit of real estate biz with my youngest son keep life pretty balanced.” Briggs Kilborne submits, “Alas, news from the Kilborne Household. Dana and I are still living between Florida’s Merritt Island and West Palm Beach, although last fall we purchased a house on Lake Toxaway in North Carolina. Lake Toxaway is about an hour southwest of Asheville and, at 3,000 feet elevation, the weather is magnificent. It is the new home base for summer sports camp. Our three children are all respectable (mostly) adults. Nikki is a manager with Accenture out of Charlotte, North Carolina. Mckenzie is with Capital One in Richmond, Virgina (data science area), and Briggsie is at University of Florida and DJing clubs on the weekends. Dana added a bank charter to her trust company, so it is now Cypress Bank and Trust with offices around Florida. I continue to invest in real estate and early stage tech companies, often acting as chief financial officer until a full-time person is required. Off hours activities are classified. Best to all.” Greg Willis writes, “How time flies with this crew passing 60, but what great memories of our time at Brooks. I was pleased to see that the Dalsemer Room was torn down; way too many memories of being in that room! I had a big year, with 60 on the books and 33 years in a great marriage to Lois, and I’m very happy to share that our daughter Taylor and son-in-law Andy, who live close by, are expecting our first grandchild (daughter) in October 2021. It’s still hard to imagine — they grow up fast. Our son Malcolm and fiancé Hilary are getting married in early January 2022 in Palm Beach, Florida — would love to catch up with any ’79ers when there. Still working away; I recently led the launch of IBM’s Cloud for Telecommunications and am happy to be able to start to get back on planes to meet with partners and clients. Would love to catch up with anyone coming through Darien, Connecticut, or New York.”

Left to right: Briggs Kilborne ’79 with his two daughters, McKenzie (right) and Nikki (left), at McKenzie’s

graduation from the University of Florida with a master’s degree in information systems. ■ Gary Witherspoon ’80 and brother Mike on their trip to West Africa in August 2021. ■ Penny Jackson Trask P’83,

P’84, who grew up on the Brooks campus in Thorne House with her father, former faculty Frank Jackson ‘33, visited campus with her son, Andrew Jackson ‘83, and daughter, Phyllis Jackson Allen ’84.

80 David B. Elmblad dave@elmblad.com Gary Witherspoon writes, “My brother Mike and I traveled to West Africa in August 2021, to explore our heritage, based on DNA results from Ancestry.com. Here, I was rocking the Brooks B in Accra, Ghana, on a street named for one of the country’s best known entrepreneurs. According to the Columbia Business School research archive, the late Dr. Esther Ocloo was ‘one of Ghana’s most prominent entrepreneurial and philanthropic figures. She is known for establishing Ghana’s first food-processing enterprise, as well as her work in improving the lives of African women. Aljazeera News says she founded Nkulenu Industries and ‘grew into a global inspiration.’ Esther Afua Ocloo launched her entrepreneurial career as a teenager in the 1930s on less than a dollar. She quickly became one of Ghana’s leading entrepreneurs and a source of inspiration around the world. In addition to her own business, she taught skills to other women and co-founded Women’s World Banking (WWB), a global micro-lending organization ... managing a loans portfolio of more than $9 billion.’”

81 David S. Bonner dsbonner@gmail.com Send us your news!

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82 John S. Runnells P’17 john_runnells@yahoo.com My daughter, Hunter Runnells ’17, scored a nursing position with the NYU Langone Health System, Main Campus, in New York. She is rooming with classmate Emma Martin ’17.

83 Andres C. Hurwitz andreshurwitz@yahoo.com Send us your news!

84 Ashley W. Sco P’11, P’14 ashley@chezsco .com Send us your news!

85 Craig J. Ziady P’18, P’20, P’22

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Marc Cooper shares an exciting development: “I am thrilled to announce a strategic alliance

DAVID COHEN ’91, P’23

Outreach Through Sport

David Cohen ’91, P’23 is the chief executive officer of Doc Wayne Youth Services, Inc., a nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide access to brighter futures for youth around the world and strengthen the field of mental health by using revolutionary sport-based therapy and clinical initiatives. Cohen has been inspired by the lessons he learned playing sports at Brooks, and his work at Doc Wayne allows him to provide critical mental health services through that lens.

Cohen came to Brooks as a soccer player under the eye of former boys 1st team coach and legendary faculty Dusty Richard. He left campus having absorbed lessons about the ways in which sports encourage bonding, trust and collective responsibility; he’s now turned that idea into his life’s work. Cohen is the chief executive officer of Doc Wayne Youth Services, Inc., a Boston-based youth services organization with a vision to level the playing field of mental health globally by harnessing the power of sport-based therapy. Doc Wayne’s clinicians, known as “coaches,” lead programs in a gym or on a field at community and residential treatment centers and many are embedded into school curricula. Doc Wayne, along with Cohen himself, has earned multiple accolades and awards for its work. Cohen received the school’s Alumni Shield award in 2016.

Finding A Path

Cohen started to learn the lessons of sports while playing soccer at Brooks. “When I got to Brooks, and when I was in preseason with that group of guys, there was a lot of talk about commitment,” Cohen says. “It was a unique experience where we agreed as a team how we wanted to carry ourselves and what we hoped to accomplish beyond just scoring goals and wins and losses. We committed to one another that we were going to represent each other the best we possibly could. That carried with me through all of my sports and through my coaches and mentors. And, I think if you ask a lot of former Brooks athletes, a lot of the values that we learn — who we are, how we carry ourselves today — we learned through those special moments with our teams and our coaches.”

Cohen continued his soccer career in college; he graduated from Babson College and, after spending some time in the workforce, received his MBA from Bentley University in 2001. He became involved with a few different business ventures that weren’t able to survive economic recession, and also spent time back at Brooks coaching soccer and working in the school’s development office before, he says, he “ran into this opportunity at Doc Wayne.” Although he wasn’t very familiar with the human services field, he was inspired by his meeting with Susan Wayne, the organization’s founder. “It sort of seemed like all the stars had lined up nicely for me to give it a shot,” Cohen says. He acknowledges the risk of moving from the for-profit to the nonprofit space, and says that he thought about his values and sense of fulfillment in his work. “I had this idea of making my millions,” he says, “but I also saw the importance of being happy and thinking about life in general. We

were starting a family. There’s a lot more to it than just the dollar.”

Under Cohen’s guidance, Doc Wayne has seen rapid success. The annual budget has grown from $150,000 to $2.4 million, and there are now 20 full-time staff. “It’s been exciting,” he says. “I often say it’s unfortunate that there’s a need for what we do, but the world has changed quite a bit, and it’s a good thing that our team is in place to be there for the youth and families that need us the most.”

Using Sport as a Tool

Doc Wayne’s mission speaks to Cohen because he values the guidance and support he received through playing sports himself. “I was very fortunate,” he says. “Growing up, I had places to go, people to lean on, places to turn to. As an athlete, also, I had always thought about doing something to give back. When we talk about Dusty and the teams that I’ve had, we realize that a lot of kids haven’t had that strong adult support in their lives. And so, if there’s a way for me to piece that together so that kids out there who may not have opportunities, or may be struggling and not know where to turn — finding a way to alter that trajectory was really appealing to me.”

Cohen speaks proudly of Doc Wayne’s multifaceted programming. For example, Doc Wayne implements group therapy through its Chalk Talk™ program; individual therapy; non-clinical therapeutic mentoring; and therapeutic recess programming within public schools. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has also highlighted Doc Wayne’s telehealth services and a global training platform called “The Champions Network™,” which teaches clients how to layer trauma-informed clinical and social-emotional learning goals onto a sports framework. Cohen believes that this external outreach and training is crucial. “High-profile people are coming out and talking about their own challenges,” Cohen says. “I think a lot of young people are seeing that it’s okay to talk. And that’s a good thing, and we’re limited by our capacity. We’re also trying to help adults who work with kids, and enhance their toolkits by training as well.” Cohen points out that The Champions Network™ has reached more than 70,000 kids and coaches in more than 25 countries in a short period of time.

Cohen remains excited by Doc Wayne’s evolution over his tenure as CEO. Of his 20 team members, he says he’s “so inspired that these are the future licensed mental health counselors or social workers who are going to make a big difference in people’s lives, no matter where they are in the future. Getting them to think out of the box by being a part of Doc Wayne will help them do great things for years to come.”

“People getting involved in their community is essential,” Cohen concludes. “I don’t just mean donating money, but also volunteering time, expertise and resources. We’re only here for a short period of time; what are we doing with that time? Are we making a difference? Are we having a significant impact? Whether it’s feeding people at a soup kitchen or donating goods, or being on a board, it all helps.”

“I think if you ask a lot of former Brooks athletes, I think a lot of the values that we learn — who we are, how we carry ourselves today — we learned through those special moments with our teams and with our coaches.”

DAVID COHEN ’91, P’23

Left to right: Katharine Wallace ’86, Andrea Botur ’86, Tiffin Tebodo ’86, Julia Pitkin Healy ’86 and Shelagh Stone ’86 in California’s Napa Valley. Top to bottom: Juli Gardner Spencer ’93 and Alison Lockwood-Nguyen ’93 recently posed with their children after their families got together for a

barbeque. ■ Andrew Farrer ’96 is the co-host of The

Scuttlebutt Podcast, which captures the stories of our veterans.

“The pandemic forced us to postpone our annual Brooks School Girls Gathering for the past two years, so reuniting was extra special this October. California’s Napa Valley was our destination, and it proved to be a spectacular spot

to reunite.” ANDREA M. BOTUR ’86

between my company, Tissue Plus™, and Emerald Brands, a division of Paradigm Group. Emerald is the industry leader, providing the largest offering of made-inthe-USA sustainable products. Beginning in the fourth quarter, Tissue Plus™ will begin manufacturing a number of Emerald’s tissue and towel products at our Bangor, Maine, factory. Shortly after, we will be expanding production to include a new operation in the mid-Atlantic area, where the company plans to produce a broader range of SKUs that will be sold to retail stores, hotels, offices, restaurants and many other locations along the East Coast and across the country. As one of the newest Emerald Sustainability Accredited members, I am excited to offer Emerald’s exceptional quality and environmentally friendly products to corporate clients, food service, jan/san and many other customers. Sustainably made products are produced from agricultural waste and are one of the fastest growing segments of the tissue, paper and packaging industries. Tissue Plus™ will be making a meaningful contribution to the health and well-being of our environment, planet and people by producing top quality Emerald Brand products. I would love to share more information with anyone in the Brooks community who is interested in learning more about my new collaboration or sustainably made paper or plastic products. I can be reached at marc@tissueplus.com.”

Rodney Rowland P’14 writes, “I have been working on solving a serious threat to Strawbery Banke Museum in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where I have worked for more than 30 years. My new title is director of facilities and environmental sustainability. In this new role, I head up our Sea Level Rise Initiative, which is designed to study and respond to the terrible surface and groundwater flooding that is impacting our historic houses. The initiative also includes a commitment to teach what we learn about this important topic. I just co-curated a new exhibition that will chronicle this process over the next three years. Lots of lecturing to get out our story, too. Free tours for any Brooks alum who is in the area!”

86 Andrea M. Botur abotur@mac.com Here we are again … finally! The pandemic forced us to postpone our annual Brooks School Girls Gathering for the past two years, so reuniting was extra special this October. California’s Napa Valley was our destination, and it proved to be a spectacular spot to reunite. We enjoyed amazing wine tasting, dining, vineyard walks, but most of

Peter “Bullet” Shih ’87 passed away in March 2020. A remembrance of his life is on page 78.

all sharing our stories and laughter together in person again was most cherished and meaningful.

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87 Tyrone K. Neal tyrone.neal@JRNInc.com Send us your news!

88 Danielle F. Dellovo dee.dellovo@gmail.com Send us your news!

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91 Erin Beach erinbeach@optonline.net Jackson Marvel writes, “After living on the Hotchkiss School campus for 16 years, we moved to Barrington, Rhode Island, this summer. I am still working at Hotchkiss remotely with bi-monthly visits to campus. We are slowly but surely getting adjusted to living off-campus.” Northwestern Mutual is honoring Boston-based wealth management advisor Jim Pe orelli P’25 for his commitment and drive to help families and businesses plan for and achieve financial security. As part of this recognition, Jim will be inducted into the company’s elite membership, the 2021 Forum Group.

Reed Bundy ’96 writes, “Standing at the same spot at Bishops, 25 years later!”

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93 Sarah Hallowell Visagie Shvisagie@gmail.com Juli Gardner Spencer writes, “In early September 2021, Alison

Lockwood-Nguyen and her family came over to our house for a barbecue. We recently connected, as both our families have relocated to Massachusetts’ North Shore as a result of the pandemic. It was great to see Alison and our kids bond in a matter of seconds!” Meanwhile, I had a great chance to catch up this summer with Sam Viall Ward, since we moved to San Antonio, Texas, last year. We had so much to catch up on! Our husbands are Facebook friends and often share each other’s posts. Soon we hope to get the families together!

94 Andrew A. Garcia andrew.a.garcia@gmail.com Send us your news!

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96 Richard Andrew S. Farrer vols266@gmail.com ■ Christopher S. Rheault

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It has been a great year so far! Katrina and I (Andrew Farrer) celebrated three years of blissful marriage; I was re-elected to the position of chaplain for the VFW, Department of Tennessee; I was also elected to the role of VFW certified national recruiter due to the recruitment of 119 VFW members in 2021; I continue to help veterans as a board member of 38oifoef. org; I am a founding member of the newest VFW in Tennessee (VFW, Stones River Post #12206 in Murfreesboro); I am the co-host of The Scuttlebutt Podcast (it’s a podcast that captures the stories of our veterans); as an ordained minister, I have had the pleasure of officiating at 20-plus weddings in Alabama, Tennessee and North Carolina; and lastly, I took part in a wonderful program called Save A Warrior, the original, warrior-led, timeless journey for active duty military, returning veterans and

Top to bottom: Bill McMahon ’02 with his wife, Ana, and two children Benjamin, 4, and Harriet, 2, during

this past summer. ■ Joe Malarney ’06 married

Elizabeth Getzoff on June 26, 2021, at the Union League in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Several Brooksians were in attendance, as seen here. Top row from left to right: Peter Field ’07, Ryan Riffe ’06, Becky Shirley ’10, Kevin Izzo ’06, Joe and Elizabeth, Ricky Croteau ’06, Emma Parkinson ’07, Tim Doherty ’01, Katie Smith ’07. Bottom row from left to right: Dan Doherty ’06, Michael Bruno ’06, Phil Field ’05, Alex Vendola ’06.

first responders who feel desperately alone. We offer an alternative holistic service that equips veterans, military personnel, police, firefighters and other first responders with a community of support and effective techniques to overcome the symptoms associated with post-traumatic stress and moral injury. I am also honored to be a part of the giving committee on the Brooks alumni board. I want

to thank Catherine Cannon-Francis for the opportunity and nomination. I look forward to helping Brooks and its alumni. Katrina and I look forward to seeing y’all at Alumni Weekend in June 2022.

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Zac Gordon ‘06 married Bridget (Harriss) Gordon on June 12, 2021, at her parents’ home in Newbury, Massachusetts. Pictured from left to right: Konrad Makowski ’78, Tyler Powell ’07, Alex Ducas ’06, Chris Mercurio ’06, Zac Gordon ’06, Bridget (Harriss) Gordon, Lindsay Wagner Turner ’06, Emily Walker Lau ’06 (who served as the officiant), Phillip Field ’05, Charlie Cottingham ’08, Francis Goelet ’07, Breck Denny ’06, McCabe Walsh ’06 and Duncan Will ’06.

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02 Ashley V. Banker ashley.banker@gmail.com Bill McMahon writes, “My wife, Ana, and I have been fortunate to have two amazingly smart and beautiful kids to get us through these last 18 months. A summer filled with swimming, rock climbing and visiting family has made us appreciate the little things in life. Benjamin turned 4 and, despite a washout birthday barbecue in July 2021, he’s spent the majority of the summer swimming and hiking. Our youngest, Harriet, 2, has begun mastering the art of storytelling and will likely be negotiating a Netflix series this fall based loosely on her life.”

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09 Brian C. Wilber Bwilber32@gmail.com Allie Katz lives in London, works as a marketing consultant and recently got engaged. Congratulations, Allie!

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Brittany Hart Belcher ’09 and husband, Ryan Belcher, at their wedding ceremony with Brooks alums Chelsey Feole Bettencourt ’06, Taylor DiGloria ’06, Monica Berube Thibault ’08, Annie Barron ’09, Bridget Lahey ’10 and Brooks faculty member Andrea Heinze P’19.

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Charles and I (Lulu Stelle) got married on August 7, 2021, in a lovely little ceremony here in our local north London town hall!

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Brooks squash stars Aly Abou Eleinen ’18 (left) and Christy Lau ’21 had a chance to catch up when they both competed in the Ivy League scrimmages at Yale University in early November.

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17 Julia S. Moore mooremonkeys@gmail.com Gabi Hillner writes, “The infamous ‘real world’ has begun, and I, like many other college graduates, am trying to find my place in this new chapter. In early August 2021, I passed my NCLEX and became a registered nurse in the state of Massachusetts! I was recently offered a job and will start my career as a nurse in October 2021 at Massachusetts General Hospital. I look forward to this new start and am excited to be working in Boston!”

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LOWEY BUNDY SICHOL ’92

Sparking Entrepreneurship in Children

Lowey Bundy Sichol ’92 found her love for creative writing at Brooks. Now, she’s using her talent to inspire children toward entrepreneurship, focusing on children from underrepresented communities.

Lowey Bundy Sichol ’92 is an award-winning author of inspiring children’s books about entrepreneurs. Her path to that accomplishment was unexpected, but she traces it back to the English classroom at Brooks.

Sichol describes herself as a student at Brooks by saying she was “always a math and science person.” Now, however, she’s a writer. “The thing I can absolutely point it back to is the English classes at Brooks,” Sichol says. “I never considered myself a writer, but the English classes at Brooks brought the writer out of me.” She speaks fondly of her time with two of the school’s faculty emeriti, Mark Shovan and E. Graham Ward. “I remember sitting in Mr. Ward’s creative writing class and thinking that it was really fun,” she says.

Sichol went on to college at Hamilton College, and then received her MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College before pursuing a career in marketing. “And then life, as it often does, took a left turn,” she says. Her husband, Adam, gained admission to Tuck, and Lowey, Adam and their newborn twins found themselves moving back to Hanover, New Hampshire. Sichol pivoted and founded her own company: a specialized writing firm that composes MBA case studies for top business schools.

“This Just Does Not Happen.”

“I was writing case studies about Google and Nike and LEGO,” Sichol says, “and as my children got older and I became obsessed with all the good children’s books out there, I kept thinking that someone should write books for kids about how these companies came to be.” Sichol put out feelers on the idea, but received little interest from her network. Ten years later, she couldn’t shake the thought of writing children’s books about business and entrepreneurship, so she mustered up the determination to give it a try again. She gave herself six months to write the books, get an agent and get a publishing deal.

A six-month deadline to write a book, find an agent and secure a publishing deal is already an ambitious timeline. Sichol, though, beat that mark handily: She wrote her first book, “From an Idea to Google,” in six weeks. She got an agent a week later, and she received

multiple publishing offers when the book was pitched two months later. “This,” Sichol explains, “just does not happen.”

These days, Sichol is the successful author of the first business and entrepreneurship book series for children. The series is called “From an Idea to …”. Each of the four books in the series charts the path that an entrepreneur took toward creating their own company. For example, “From an Idea to Disney” recounts the story of Walt and Roy Disney, and inspires children to pursue their own dreams and ideas, and to change the world through entrepreneurship. The series has won an abundance of awards and was hailed widely by reviewers. For example, Mrs. Mommy Book Nerd Book Reviews called the series “inspiring, honest and interesting. From an Idea to … books are the kind of books that create young entrepreneurs and inventors.”

A Window And a Mirror

Sichol’s newest book, “Idea Makers: 15 Fearless Female Entrepreneurs,” which will be on shelves in February 2022, shares the stories of 15 of America’s most impactful female entrepreneurs. “Idea Makers” includes profiles of a diverse group of women, which, Sichol says, is intentional.

She references the work of Dr. Rudine Sims Bishop and her groundbreaking work in multicultural children’s literature research. “Dr. Bishop says that children’s books need to be both windows and mirrors,” Sichol says. “What she means by that is that they need to show kids what’s out there, and kids also need to be able to see themselves in books. So while I was introducing the concept of entrepreneurship and making your idea turn into something amazing, the reality is that there were no girls in my books and no people of color in my books. I would visit a school and have to bring in other stories about great female founders, and that sat really loud for me because my books weren’t mirrors for everyone.”

Sichol connected with Kathleen King, the founder of Tate’s Bake Shop, which produces the popular, thin cookies in green packaging. Sichol compiled King’s profile with 14 other profiles of female entrepreneurs to form “Idea Makers.” And, Sichol says, she’s working with Random House on a picture book called “Cookie Queen,” scheduled for publication in 2023, that tells King’s story to the youngest children. “You never know until you try,” she says, “and you have to not be scared of failing.”

The importance of “Idea Makers,” Sichol’s latest book, is clear when she visits schools. She remembers visiting schools full of students from underrepresented backgrounds, including the children of recent immigrants, and she cites data showing that the rate of success among entrepreneurs is higher in the immigrant population. “No one’s telling these kids that they can dream big and that their ideas are amazing,” she says. “The only way to change the system is to show those windows and mirrors. You’ve got to be able to show kids what’s out there and tell them that you believe in them.”

“I just want to introduce this to kids,” Sichol concludes. “Kids want to know that their ideas matter.”

REMEMBRANCES

Peter S. Shih ’87

By John Barker ’87, P’21, P’23, Chris Dali ’87 and Eduardo Andrade ’87

Pete “Bullet” Shih ’87 passed away on March 17, 2020. Pete came to Brooks from Manchester Center, Vermont, in his fourth-form year. Many in the class will remember that Peter’s nickname was “Bullet.” Whatever the true origin of the name — a Vermont hunting incident, a childhood haircut, or a belt he wore with a shotgun’s firing cap — the name stuck. At Brooks, Pete was a member of the 1st squash and soccer teams. Bullet was inducted into the Athletics Hall of Fame in 2012 as the all-league manager of the 1986 boys 1st soccer team.

After graduating from Brooks, Peter went on to Georgetown University and later moved to Manhattan, where he worked on Wall Street. A developing passion for avant garde art led Bullet to leave New York for Budapest in the mid-1990s determined to become a professional artist. According to Chris Dali ’87, “[h]e was fiercely determined to move to Hungary and start a completely different career; Peter truly personified the nickname ‘Bullet’ through his resoluteness.”

In Budapest, Bullet became a fixture in the city’s vibrant underground art scene. According to a remembrance published by Brody House, the Budapest hotel in which he exhibited his work in what is today called “The Bullet Room,” Bullet was “a bon viveur polymath who had friends all around the world.” Bullet also supported other artists via his own gallery, PUCCS, in Budapest.

In Budapest, similar to his time at Brooks, Bullet enjoyed challenging conversations across a wide range of subjects and was especially knowledgeable about music, literature and all forms of art. He remained well-informed on global politics and economics, passions kindled at Brooks. Dali continues, “I have memories of frequently sitting with Peter during lunch at the small round tables to the side of Frick Dining Hall. Our lunchtime talks were often somewhat philosophical, as might often be the case for teenagers trying to smooth out the rough edges of their characters and refine the direction in which their moral compasses point. Friends and frequent lunchmates provided endless fuel for these, at times, heated conversations.”

Eduardo Andrade ’87 writes: “We were in touch during his struggle with cancer, trading messages about Georgetown basketball and the dreadful New York Jets, which we were both pathetically devoted to. We had many hijinx together in our age of innocence, and, while he will live through his art, I will always remember my friend for his devilish sense of humor, wit, and his compassion and love for me and his many dear friends. He was one of a kind.”

As remembered by his sister Polly Shih Brandmeyer, “If life’s journey is measured by friendship, well then by golly, Bullet lived the fullest and best life a man could ever hope to live.”

Bullet lost a hard fight with cancer in New York City in March 2020, and leaves his spouse, Madeline, and a young son.

Christopher P. Kauders ’74

By Chris Abbott ’75, P’10, P’14

Christopher P. Kauders ’74 died on July 31, 2021, at the age of 65 of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Born in Salem, Massachusetts, on January 20, 1956, Chris was a graduate of Shore Country Day School, Brooks, Northwestern University and Boston College, where he earned both his law and business degrees. He was an admired lawyer, mediator and arbitrator who spent 25 years guiding parties through contentious disputes to amicable settlement with his characteristic intelligence, empathy and kindness. He earned universal respect and admiration from peers, clients and adversaries.

Chris was married to Lee (née Stephens) in 1985 at Frank D. Ashburn Chapel, and they celebrated their 36th wedding anniversary in June 2021. Their daughter, Hannah Kauders of Brooklyn, New York, survives him, as does his seeing eye dog, Wally. Hannah delivered a eulogy at the Old North Church in Marblehead, Massachusetts, on August 27, 2021, that was a magnificent tribute both to her father and her own abilities as a writer and speaker. There were a number of

Brooksians in attendance. A full obituary for Chris is on the Eustis & Cornell Funeral Home website.

Chris arrived at Brooks along with several classmates from Shore. I am fortunate to have known Chris at Shore and attended many wonderful birthday parties at his family’s house in Marblehead. Chris was the son of Czech immigrants who escaped the Nazi invasion of Prague, and his family’s house was full of fascinating curiosities, from big-game hunting trophies to evidence of the fact that his father was the co-inventor of the projectile portion of the rocket launcher known as the “bazooka.” Imagine the appeal to a fifth-grade boy of meeting the man responsible for the bazooka!

Chris flourished at Brooks and was senior prefect in his sixth-form year. As both Shore and Brooks classmate Ben Sprague reflects: “Chris and I met in the fourth grade at Shore Country Day School, but it was during our Brooks years that we became close friends. Memories of those years include rooming together in the fourth form (Tuckerman), co-prefecting in the fifth form (Jackson) and sharing rigorous wrestling practices and matches under the guidance of E. Graham Ward. We took charge of a couple of campus work opportunities, including driving the school’s 1960s pickup truck delivering Cokes and cookies to all the dorms for their Saturday evening parties; I drove. Through college and beyond, our friendship grew. Notably, we served as best man in each other’s weddings, both of which were celebrated at the Brooks chapel and officiated by the Rev. George Vought.

I was so fortunate (thank you, Lee and Hannah) to have visited Chris in hospice at Beth Israel on July 24th. As tearful and sad as the occasion was on one level, we got to say goodbye to one another and, true to form (of the friend I’ve known these many years), Chris was still being Chris, the consummate friend, by offering insight, encouragement and advice right ’til the end. I have much to be grateful for in my life, but nothing more than his love and friendship. Chris has left such an impression on so many lives and serves as a shining example to all of us.”

It is difficult to fully capture all that Chris meant to so many people. He was an exemplary husband, father, friend, mentor and leader. He was smart, intuitive, analytical and precise with an amazing capacity for befriending people from all walks of life. He was also a fierce champion of disabled people, living as he did with the genetic eye condition retinitis pigmentosa. As Lee and Hannah wrote in his obituary, “He imagined heaven as a place where he would reunite with all his dogs over a cold beer!”

The world has lost a giant of a human being. Chris will be missed first and foremost by his family as well as his friends, classmates and admirers. He was eternally optimistic, had a great sense of humor and never took himself too seriously. He made the world a better place every day by sharing knowledge, acting as a teacher and mentor, and applying kindness to all he encountered. He lived his life true to the Brooks School motto, “victuri te salutamus.”

IN MEMORIAM

1942

FRANKLIN W. HOBBS III South Dartmouth, Mass. September 11, 2021

1944

PATRICK F. BOWDITCH Essex, Conn. November 19, 2021

1945

JOSEPH L. BRENT III Washington, D.C. January 21, 2020

1950

HECTOR P. PRUD’HOMME West Cornwall, Conn. September 22, 2021

1961

JOSÉ E. ANDRADE New York, N.Y. October 24, 2021

1974

CHRISTOPHER P. KAUDERS Marblehead, Mass. July 31, 2021

1978

PHILIP K. PORTER Brookline, Mass. January 25, 2021

1987

PETER S. SHIH New York, N.Y. March 17, 2020

1995

NICHOLAS SUNG Bra leboro, Vt. April 5, 2021

Former Faculty

PHILIP A. JONES ‘84 Northfield, Ill. October 9, 2021

Visiting musicians ARKAI (right, standing) work with Brooks student musicians in the Center for the Arts in November. The genre-bending violinist and cellist also performed their “Le ers from COVID” in a special concert in the Robert Lehman Art Center and performed for the school in Chapel.

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Chris Abbott ’75 Lowell C. Abbott ’10 Eduardo Sebastian

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Bettencourt ’06 India Birdsong ’99 Iris Rodriguez Bonet ’90 David S. Bonner ’81 Sewell Robinson

Bourneuf ’08 Andrea Botur ’86 Emily French Breakey ’03 Kaleigh Bullock ’07 Anthony H. Burnett Jr. ’19 Alexander Buttress ’12 Julia Caffrey ’10 Lexi Caffrey ’06 Felicia Cafua ’15 Catherine

Cannon-Francis ’96 Elizabeth D. Carey P Cailly A. Carroll ’06 Matthew Cascio ’91 Elsbeth Caulo ’17 Tamenang Choh ’17 Carly Churchill ’10 William Collier ’11 Kathryn Stone Conroy ’98 Charles Cornish ’06 Thomas Costin ’98 Charles C. Cottingham ’08 Amy Couture ’10 Sarah Crockett ’11 Katarina Curtin ’12 Dana D’Orio P Gerry-Lynn Laudani Darcy ’91 Emma R. Dawson ’18 Robert Breck Denny Jr. ’06 Christophe M. Desmaison and

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Tracy Fulgione Wit Gan ’12 Andrew A. Garcia ’94 Matthew A. Geremia ’10 Jonathan F. Gibbons ’92 and Sarah F. Gibbons P Timothy D. Glen II ’09 Matthew A. Godoff ’01 Emma M. Goff ’14 Jason L. Gold ’18 Coletrane S. Goodman ’15 Bethany A. Gostanian ’04 James T. Grainger ’05 James W. Greer III ’98 Christopher P. Halloran ’07 Henry R. Hawkings ’10 Jonathan P. Hendrickson ’08 William J. Herter ’00 Gabriella M. Hillner ’17 Jeffery M. Hudson Jr. ’88 Charles A. Hunt ’60 Ashley Hutchinson

O’Connor ’08 Jacob A. M. Iwowo ’18 Kevin E. Jacobs ’06 Peter D. Jones ’56 Jessica S. Kapadia ’04 Elizabeth Kearney Forbes ’98 Haley J. Keegan ’11 Abbey T. Kissel ’99 Frank A. Kissel Jr. ’96 Hannah Nichols

Landsberg ’08 Alison Pennelli Lawler ’01 Sean Leonard P Noelle Brussard Levis ’04 Nekima Levy Armstrong ’94 John Van D. Lewis ’65 Helen Lin P Christina Bradley Lincoln ’07 Greta J. Lundeberg ’97 Brittanye J. Mackey ’07 David J. Mackey ’01 Joseph R. Malarney Jr. ’06 Bailey M. Martignetti ’96 Max R. McGillivray ’12 Jesse McKallagat ’00 John A. McKallagat ’66 Alesandra V. Miller ’14 Sally Milliken ’88 and

James Dooling P Julia S. Moore ’17 Matthew J. Mues ’04 Jacqueline L. Murphy ’14 Sean P. Nagle ’99 Albert D. Nascimento ’10 Andrew O. Nash ’89 Julian Ng ’05 Vivian Ng ’01 Katherine M. O’Brien ’19 James T. O’Connor ’99 Kailey M. O’Neill ’19 Isabella L. O’Shea ’18 DooHyun Park ’07 Emma M. Parkinson ’07 Matthew R. Pendergast ’98 Julie Petralia Derderian ’99 William C. Phelps ’90 Gwen Spencer Picard P William Pitkin III ’89 Christopher M. Pope Jr. ’04 Peter B. Rathbone ’64 Zahid Rathore ’96 Michael J. Reed ’02 George W. Reithoffer ’57 Christopher S. Rheault ’96 Anthony J. Rich ’01 Delia E. Rissmiller ’03 Gee Yeon Ro ’09 E. Graye Robinson ’11 Emily C. Roush ’18 John S. Runnells III ’82 Eubene Sa ’07 Katharine Childs Sayles ’00 Rebecca Seston Schillaci ’01 Thomas M. Scott and Maureen

A. Scott P Anne F. Serrao ’20 Vivek Sharma P Katerina Markos Sheerin ’03 Sarah C. Shepard ’02 Lowell Bundy Sichol ’92 Connor M. Silva ’19 Allen W. Sinsheimer ’73 Abigail D. Skinner ’14 Kristin Homer Small ’04 Christopher J. Smith ’12 David A. Spector P Kevin J. Sullivan and

Jeannie M. Sullivan P Stephen H. Taber ’72 Jade M. Tate ’18 Katie Rogers Taylor ’92 Monica Berube Thibault ’08 Charles J. Thomas ’05 Isabella Speakman Timon ’92 William B. Townsend P Claire O. Trustey ’19 H. Lindsay Wagner Turner ’06 Sarah H. Visagie ’93 C. Stow Walker Jr. ’71 Robert S. Walker ’53, H’66 Lucas R. Walsh ’03 Michael J. Wanyo ’97 Quentin H. Warren ’73 Charles Wellso and

Carmel Wellso P William D. Werner ’73 Peter J. Wetzel ’97 Stephanie W. Whitehead ’96 James S. Williams ’12 Katherine E. Wilson ’19 Kingsley P. Woolworth ’00 Jennifer G. Yuil-Steinberg ’91 Craig J. Ziady ’85 and

Joan P. Ziady P Nicholas R. Ziebarth ’95

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