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Fay School Magazine

Design projects in our Innovation Lab deepen students’ connection to curriculum while encouraging them to think, engage, create, and problem-solve in new ways.

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Alumni Making a Positive Difference

Meet four alumni who are making the world a better place.

Ann Wardwell Director of Advancement

Primary School Update: It’s a Small World

Hands-on projects are helping Kindergarten students learn about the many communities to which they belong.

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16 Nicole Casey Assistant Director of Marketing and Communications Daintry Duffy Zaterka ‘88 Communications Associate

Warrior Spirit

Gigi Parris ’96 fights to keep families together as a public defender in the New York City family court system.

Robert J. Gustavson, Jr. Head of School

Erin Ash Sullivan Editor, Director of Marketing and Communications

Learning Outside the Box: Innovation Across the Curriculum

Lower School Update: Finding Your Inner Panda

Lower School Wellness class is a place for students to build resilience, practice empathy, and explore the thorny issues of adolescence in a safe and supported atmosphere. Page 18

Upper School Update: No Ordinary Coronary

Seventh graders in Adel Collins’ Life Science class learned about cardiovascular disease, delving into the causes and effects of a global health issue.

Rebecca Lombardo Director of Annual Giving Susan Conti Director of Parent Relations and Advancement Events

Connecting to Our Community: A Partnership with the Southborough Senior Center

Stephen Gray Senior Advancement Officer Magazine Design Michéle Page Design Communication

Learning went both ways this year as our Upper Schoolers partnered with neighbors through the Southborough Senior Center. Page 28

Looking Ahead: The 2020 Strategic Plan for Fay

Fay School shares its vision for the future.

Photography Ellen Harasimowicz MacKenzie Hennessey

Commencement 2017

Congratulations to the Class of 2017! See photos from all our end-of-year events. 50 Page 36

Class Notes

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Head’s Notebook

22 Fay in Brief/Welcome to New Trustees 28 Sports Spotlight 30 Color Competition 32 Our Favorite Foods, Then and Now 48 Alumni Events 58 Planned Giving Profile: Joyce Barton Bertschmann P’07 60 In Memoriam Inside Back Cover: Faculty Profile: Lauren Cilley

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Head’s Notebook Gaining Perspective

’m pleased that this issue of Fay Magazine includes our 2020 Strategic Plan (page 26), which was shared with all Fay constituents in early June. The Plan’s introduction states, “Looking to the future, we believe that the best way to equip students to lead productive, fulfilling lives is to provide them with essential foundational skills: to be critical thinkers, creative problem solvers, and articulate speakers; to be culturally competent and have a global perspective; and to demonstrate resilience, empathy, and integrity.” These 21st-century goals are consistent with the sort of educational philosophy Thomas Jefferson envisioned nearly two hundred years ago, happening in a place where “we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it." Discernment requires effort. It’s much easier to remain entrenched and inflexible, secure in the laziness of simplistic and reactionary opinions. In order to adapt and respond to today’s rapid pace of change, our children must be willing to acknowledge complexity and work through the disequilibrium that is caused by cognitive dissonance. They must be comfortable being uncomfortable, open to new ideas, confident but not certain. As one of my teachers once put it, “Certainty is the death of thought.” Our children will not be able to think critically and solve problems creatively unless they can step outside of themselves and see things from different points of view. Uninformed opinions often stem from provinciality, and narrow-mindedness breeds arrogance. The skill of perspective taking is essential to developing informed positions of one’s own. Breadth of vision

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In order to adapt and respond to today’s rapid pace of change, our children must be willing to acknowledge complexity and work through the disequilibrium that is caused by cognitive dissonance. depends upon an earnest desire to understand the full context and a willingness to consider the validity of other viewpoints. Cultivating respect for a variety of perspectives is a central component of cultural competency, and empathy is based on the understanding that everyone does not necessarily share the way we perceive, interpret, and define reality. We want our children to listen intently to others, with genuine interest and generosity of spirit. Although they won’t always end up revising their opinions or changing their minds, they should seek to learn something new from each interaction and encounter. And when they disagree, they should be able to do so in a civil and respectful manner, exhibiting both confidence and humility. Integrity means knowing what we believe and why we believe it, and acting in a manner consistent with those beliefs–while also remaining open to the possibility that there might be more to learn. We hope our children will maintain ongoing intellectual curiosity, an interest in considering other points of view, and a willingness to grow and evolve as a result of the deeper understanding that comes from gaining perspective.

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Learning Outside the Box: Innovation Across the Curriculum

hat do Mexican sugar skulls, shoebox racecars, hand-painted clocks, and the windows of Notre Dame have in common? They were all subjects for design projects this year as design thinking pushed its way out of the Innovation Lab and into the curriculum across the divisions. by Daintry Duffy Zaterka ’88

Design/build projects at Fay are about much more than breaking up the regular routine with hands-on fun. The process of designing, building, and creating engages students with the material at a deeper level, challenging them to think and problem-solve in ways that will help them become more effective and resilient as learners. “It’s not about making stuff; they’re not all going to become engineers,” notes Head of School Rob Gustavson. “Rather, students participate in these projects to learn habits of mind, envisioning something they want to create and applying problem-solving skills as they figure out how to make that vision a reality.”

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“I HAVE NOT FAILED. I’VE JUST FOUND 10,000 WAYS THAT DON’T WORK.” –Thomas Edison

Curricular design projects provide an ideal context for developing many of the skills that are increasingly acknowledged to be essential for success in today’s world. “We want our students to be curious, creative, and imaginative,” says Director of

Innovation David Dixon. “We also want them to be persistent and develop grit as they work through challenges. It’s important that our students not see failure as an ending, but as a starting point.” www.fayschool.org | 3

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Primary School: No Fear of Failure

What makes Primary School students the ideal target audience for the Innovation Lab? They’re itching to try new things and fearless of failure. “I get 40 questions for every two students,” says Design, Technology, and Innovation teacher Allison Bishop: “‘What’s that?’ ‘How does it work?’ ‘Can I do that?’ ‘How do I do that?’”

Allison and David brought several design/build projects to the Primary School this year that connected to the students’ science, math, and language arts studies while also reinforcing creative problem-solving skills. The second graders participated in a Wacky Car Race Challenge, for example, where students turned a shoebox into a racecar using string, masking tape, plastic cups, wheels, straws, wooden skewers, and weights. The challenge was to use a pulley to move the car up a hill and stop at the top before plummeting off the cliff on the other side. There were numerous kinks that could hinder a car’s success. If the axle was too narrow, the wheels would rub against the sides of the car, causing

friction and slowing the vehicle. If the pulley string was too short, the car wouldn’t make it to the starting line. If a student put too much weight in the plastic cup, the car would be pulled over the cliff. As the students designed, tested, and refined their cars, they experienced the scientific principles of force, friction, and momentum first-hand. “The children were so intense and engaged,” recalls David. “There was a sense of great satisfaction when their cars worked because they had persevered through the challenges.” Later in the year, world languages teacher Erin Overstreet worked with Allison on a project to complement the second graders’ Spanish studies. Students learned about the Moorish architecture of the Alhambra in Granada, Spain, focusing on the symmetrical geometric designs of the palace’s thousands of tiles. Using a computer program called 2D Design, the second graders learned how to draw triangles, rectangles, circles, and squares, and they created their own tiles that were produced using the laser cutter in the Innovation Lab. The final product is a 6x6-foot tile mosaic hanging by the main stairs in the Primary School building featuring a tile contributed by each second grader. “Through this project,” says Erin, “the students engaged with the original art in a more thoughtful way and made meaningful connections.”

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By Lower School, students are using design as a way to differentiate their work and make it unique to them. When third graders enriched their study of analog time-telling by building their own functional clocks, the components of each clock were exactly the same, but the results were entirely distinct. Students could change the shape of the numbers, choose different types of tick marks to go around the edge, and even change the shape of the clock face itself. Each clock face was produced with the Innovation Lab’s laser cutter and hand-painted in the art room, and, Allison notes, “You can see the kids’ ideas and personalities shining through.” As part of their reading of the 1961 classic, The Phantom Tollbooth, sixth graders used the Innovation Lab’s green screen to literally create their own adventures within the book. Sixth grade reading and writing teacher Lara Gleason challenged each student to write a new adventure for Milo, the book’s protagonist, who encounters unusual characters in a world full of idioms, puns, and wordplay. Each student’s story was written in the style of the author, Norman Juster, and accompanied by illustrations in the pencil-sketch style of illustrator Jules Feiffer. Together, Lara and Allison taped the students reading their chapters in front of the green screen, and in post production, they added the Feiffer-inspired sketches, creating the effect of the students actually reading from

inside the story. “The project gave the students a more authentic sense of purpose and elevated the experience,” Lara notes.

Lower School: Making it Personal

The fifth graders in Danny Chin’s French class expanded their study of Parisian architecture with a project where they designed, cut, and painted their own rose windows, inspired by the circular stained-glass windows found in Gothic cathedrals and chapels like Notre Dame and Sainte-Chapelle. Using the 2D Design program and geometry skills learned in math class to navigate the shapes and degrees of rotation, each student designed a pie-shaped piece of stained glass that could be rotated and replicated to form the circular design of a rose window. The teachers used the Innovation Lab’s laser cutter to produce each design in acrylic, and the students used nail polish to give the final product both the glossy bright color and the imperfect rippled quality of 13th-century stained glass.

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Upper School: Design as Empathy

By Upper School, Creators Class is part of the regular rotation schedule, and students are learning how to design for a specific audience rather than just themselves. David Dixon focuses on the importance of the “design brief” as a way for students to begin to understand the requirements of a particular challenge and the needs of the project as expressed by the “client.” The projects that students tackle across the grades range from tea-light candle holders that must be both safe and attractive to totem poles and clocks. Most importantly, the skills that students develop over the course of these projects—creativity, resourcefulness, resilience, and empathy—come into play when they tackle creative challenges in other academic disciplines. In Cassandra Papalilo’s Algebra 2 class, students incorporated this year’s schoolwide theme of “Making a Positive Difference” by taking pictures from past ninth grade service trips to the Dominican Republic and reproducing them entirely with equations. Using 11 different parent functions —lines, quadratics, hyperbolas, logarithms and

exponentials, to name a few—students painstakingly created an equation for each line and shape within the photo and plugged it into Desmos, an online graphing calculator. Two students logged over 500 equations each! The Desmos image was then transferred to the 2D Design program, and the images were sent to the laser cutter to be etched into wood. “The process felt overwhelming in scale at times,” says Cassandra, “but the students felt so accomplished when they were finished.” In Deb Smith’s English class, ninth graders delved into the imagery of Macbeth to find a visual symbol that represented the play. Deb asked her students to avoid the obvious images of daggers and crowns and to identify something unique that spoke to them. Using CAD software, each student created a design that included the image along with text from the play, and then each design was cut into plexiglass. “The project was a good exercise in creating a visual representation of complex ideas,” says Deb. Through projects like these, Fay’s teachers are showing students how to think like designers, and the result is often a seismic shift in perspective. A blank slate is not a cause for panic: it’s an opportunity for creativity. “Not knowing” is not a lack of intelligence: it’s the beginning of a journey. And failure is not a source of shame but rather an opportunity to evolve and improve.

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Design in the Real World: Fay Students Partner with Retailer FatFace Fay students walked in the shoes of real-world designers this spring, when the members of the Accessory Design Club seized the opportunity to design clothing and beach accessories for FatFace, a lifestyle clothing and accessories retailer with stores in the US and UK. The challenge: to design a beach accessory that reflects the company’s mission of promoting a healthy and happy lifestyle. Students could choose to design a child’s beach accessory to raise awareness of sun exposure, a teen beach accessory to raise awareness of FatFace’s commitment to sustainability, or an adult beach accessory addressing the issue of water pollution and clean beaches. Students worked on their projects each week with David Dixon, Fay’s Director of Innovation, and Allison Bishop,

Fay’s Design, Technology and Innovation teacher. The students also drew on the expertise of several design professionals who shared their advice on good design throughout the project. Michelle Quick, Professor of Accessory Design for the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), visited the club in April with a presentation on fashion accessory design. Sarah Barnwell-Smith, a shoe designer for New Balance and graduate of SCAD, also shared her portfolio with students and spoke about how to present ideas and the importance of designing to the design brief. Steve Berry, Head of International FatFace in the UK, visited Fay earlier this year, and Spenser Guay, Store Manager at FatFace in Lynnfield, visited the club to share a history of the brand to inform the student designs.

On June 4, students presented their final designs to David, Allison, Michelle, Sarah, and Spenser at a special gathering at the Lynnfield FatFace store. Students presented their design boards and talked about their inspirations, with some students submitting multiple designs. Final projects included designs for “smart” beach bags, a bucket hat that promotes clean beaches, beachwear that creates tan line tattoos, LED “lit” sunglasses, and a relaxed-fit beach cover-up. The design judges were incredibly impressed with the diversity and depth of the final projects. As David noted at the presentations, “This is a wonderful story of what happens when professional designers, businesses, and educators collaborate so that our young people can experience what it is like to think and act like entrepreneurs and innovators.”

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by Daintry Duffy Zaterka ’88

Commencement speaker Gigi Parris ’96 fights to keep families together as a public defender in the New York City family court system. It was a summer internship after freshman year in college that gave Gigi Parris ’96 the first glimpse into her future career. Working with Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) in Brooklyn Family Court, Gigi worked on cases that involved getting children out of foster care and reuniting them with parents or family members who wanted to care for them. “I remember meeting with a mother who had a terminal illness and a number of children, and sitting there, speaking to her, I made this really valuable connection. I thought, if I can help in any way, then this is a career path that I need to look at.”

Gigi Parris in 1996

Gigi honed her leadership skills at Fay, where she graduated in 1996 as the Founders’ Medal winner and ninth grade class president. “At Fay, I cultivated many values that I still hold dear, such as the importance of hard work and community service,” she says. After Fay, she went on to Deerfield Academy and Harvard University. She earned her J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law in 2006. Although she continued to volunteer in college as a foster care case reviewer with the Massachusetts Department of Social Services, she was initially lured by the prospect of working in corporate law at Paul, Weiss in New York. Gigi “stuck it out” in corporate law for a few years, but it was the pro bono opportunities that she saw while at Paul, Weiss that really captured her interest. In 2009, Gigi became a staff attorney at The Bronx Defenders, a nonprofit that provides “innovative, holistic, and client-centered criminal defense, family defense, civil legal services, social work support, and advocacy to indigent people of the Bronx.” As a staff

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ALUMNI PROFILES

Alumni Stories: Making a Positive Difference Fay’s schoolwide theme this year has been “Making a Positive Difference,” and across the grade levels, our students have explored ways that they can make the world a better place. In this issue of Fay Magazine, we turn to our alumni for stories of how they have sought opportunities in a wide range of fields to improve the lives of others.

attorney, her job was to defend parents accused of abuse or neglect. Humanizing those parents before the court is one of her greatest challenges. Family court does not have the same presumption of innocence that underpins the regular judicial system. To protect children, allegations are assumed to be true. “However, a family is a system,” says Gigi, “and we can’t only care about one player in the game, so my job is to break down the stereotypes, assumptions, and negative connotations that come with being accused.” In 2014, Gigi moved to the Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem, another public defender organization, to assist in building its family defense program by supervising and mentoring young attorneys. Gigi knows that she’s working in a field where victories are hard-fought and sometimes hard to come by. One of Gigi’s longstanding clients, who has since passed away, struggled with drug addiction. The client’s parental rights to two older children had been terminated, and she was fighting hard to maintain her sobriety to parent two younger children. When she gave birth to a baby who tested positive for drugs, her children were placed in foster care. Gigi worked alongside the client as she continued to fight for her sobriety and bring her children home. “I think of her case a lot,” Gigi says, “because she was such a fighter.” While she didn’t ultimately win that client's case, Gigi has learned through hard work that victory doesn’t always come in traditional forms. “It can come in smaller packages, like having the opportunity to prove who you are to the court or that what you are accused of doesn’t define you as a person,” she says. “[My client] felt like a winner at the end of the day, and I think of her a lot because I think we have a similar warrior spirit. That spirit is what encourages me and pushes me to fight even harder.”

“Each and every one of us is capable of making a difference in this world. You don’t have to do something earth shattering in order to have an impact. Recognize that across the board of life, little things have great impact, so never sell yourselves short by questioning your ability to cause ripples or create waves.” —Gigi Parris ’96

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Passion and Perseverance: Gregg Beloff ’83 In 2005, Gregg Beloff ’83 founded Bio-Ball, the single largest fundraising event for Massachusetts Special Olympics, raising over $1.8 million to date.

When a college friend at Middlebury asked Gregg Beloff if he’d be willing to coach a basketball team, he quickly agreed. It wasn’t until he showed up at the first practice that he realized it was a Special Olympics team. “I loved it,” says Gregg, who went on to coach Special Olympics athletes for the next 20 years. However, the demands of a growing family eventually started to conflict with weekend-long basketball tournaments, and Gregg wondered if there was another way he could help. As co-founder and managing director of Danforth Advisors, a company that provides financial and operational support to the life sciences industry, Gregg decided to harness the biotech industry’s spirit of volunteerism to create Bio-Ball. Bio-Ball is a oneday basketball tournament where individual biotech and pharmaceutical companies partner with a Special

Greg Beloff ’83 presents a check to Special Olympics Massachusetts representing the funds raised from this year’s Bio-Ball event. Picture: Bobby Guliani

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Olympics basketball team to form an integrated team. This year, 16 teams competed in the event, participating in individual skill and 5-on-5 competitions. At the end of the day, a championship game determines the winner of Bio-Ball. Though Bio-Ball has been running strong for thirteen years, the first year of the event was a nonstarter. “We just couldn’t get it off the ground,” says Gregg, but he stuck with the concept. The following year, eight teams participated, raising $24,000 for Special Olympics. Gregg sees many parallels between the spirit of perseverance that characterizes the biotech industry— where treatments can require 10 years of development—and the ethos of the Special Olympics organization. “Special Olympics is a change organization that sees athletics as a means for inclusion,” a lesson that Gregg learned early in his time at Fay, where he found himself studying alongside students from a diverse range of backgrounds. “Integration and inclusion were a part of daily life when I was at Fay, and that’s also what we’re striving for at the Special Olympics,” he says. “We want to level the playing field, roll out a ball, and let them play.” In January, Gregg accepted the role of Chairman of the Special Olympics Massachusetts Board of Directors. In this role, he will help the organization increase awareness, raise funds, and fulfill the Special Olympics mission of challenge and inclusion.

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MAKING A POSITIVE DIFFERENCE

Ensuring Access to Essential Care: Christina Bethke ’92 Through her work with the United Nations When reading about large populations of people ravaged by disease or displaced by violence, it can be easy to feel paralyzed by the scale and scope of the problem. For Christina Bethke ’92, these very human tragedies are the motivation to take action and find solutions. As a public health professional, Christina has spent the past seven years on the front lines of community health—in Liberia during the Ebola crisis, and most recently in Jordan, working with Syrian refugees. After graduating from Vanderbilt University, Christina completed her master’s degree in social work and public health at Boston University. She moved to Liberia to work for Last Mile Health, a nonprofit dedicated to increasing access to health care in that country. As Ebola began to spread through Liberia in early 2015, Christina helped to overhaul the community health worker program, making sure that health workers were trained to educate their communities about the cause of Ebola, how to prevent its spread, and how to manage suspected cases.

Population Fund (UNFPA), Christina Bethke ’92 is helping to ensure that displaced Syrian women and girls living in refugee camps have access to health and reproductive care.

After a move to Jordan in 2016, Christina began working for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), a department of the United Nations that focuses on issues of reproductive health, gender-based violence, and youth empowerment. Her focus: displaced Syrian women and girls living in Zaatari Camp and Azraq Camp, both located in Jordan.

facilities, as a way to provide health education and support in the form of group activities and job training. “Our goal is to provide pathways so women and girls can find and receive the support they need,” she explains.

Christina’s role with UNFPA has been multifaceted. She has helped to coordinate the delivery of reproductive health kits and other essential supplies to health partners in Syria. She has helped ensure the delivery of essential sexual and reproductive health care services to displaced women and girls. She has also been actively involved in the establishment of safe spaces for these women and girls, often located close to the camps’ health

Christina acknowledges that “success” in such a challenging situation is a constantly moving target. “It’s a lot of adapting and adjusting,” she says, especially because her organization must work in concert with other service providers. “I enjoy that collaborative feeling that we’re all in this to provide the best intervention we can, and I appreciate that our partners are always trying to push that line closer to the ideal.”

A woman and her child walk along the ‘Champs Elysees,’ the main street in the Zaatari Camp for Syrian refugees in Jordan. Picture: Russell Watkins/Department for International Development

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Community Builder: Ahmed Martin ’98

Ahmed Martin ‘98 is using his background in urban planning to develop businesses that address the health and nutritional needs of urban communities.. Above: Ahmed Martin at a 2011 groundbreaking for the Columbus Square housing development, which was part of an overall redevelopment project for the North Side of Pittsburgh. Picture: J.L. Martello/18ricco

After Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in 2005, Ahmed Martin ’98 saw an opportunity to combine his professional skills and personal commitment to the greater good. “I was curious to understand what was happening on the ground as opposed to what I was seeing on TV,” says Ahmed. Ahmed’s path to New Orleans started at Fay, where he assumed a leadership role as the Red Team Color President. From there, he went on to Brooks School and then Wesleyan University, where he graduated with a degree in history and discovered an interest in urban planning. “I became interested in the development of cities and the idea that if communities want to improve themselves they need to be more knowledgeable about how their built environment is created.” After Wesleyan, Ahmed was selected as a Rockefeller Foundation Scholar at the Center for Urban Excellence (CUREx) at the University of Pennsylvania, an urban planning graduate program formed in the aftermath of Katrina to place development professionals into organizations to help rebuild New Orleans. In New Orleans, Ahmed worked with The Road Home Program, coordinating the dispensation of state and federal funds to homeowners and The New Orleans Neighborhood Development Collaborative. While there, he assisted the Community Development Corporation in designing and constructing 50 affordable housing units and developing another 400 units. In 2010, Ahmed moved to Pittsburgh, where he has held

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urban development leadership roles in both the nonprofit and for-profit sectors, an experience that he describes as deeply satisfying. Ahmed is currently expanding his commitment to community development to focus on projects that improve the whole health of community members. Ahmed is investing in a partnership between the Urban Civic Group and 123 PHHC, a home health agency in Pittsburgh, to develop a next-generation housing strategy that incorporates telehealth technology. He is also an investor in CORE (Creative, Organic, Ready to Eat) Meals, a locally-sourced, dairy-free, gluten-free, organic, prepared meal service designed to combat poor nutrition in urban areas. “I’ve always had a desire to fight for the underdog,” says Ahmed. “There are critical issues related to black access to health, food, and shelter, and it makes me feel good to be a part of creating solutions in whatever small way I can.”

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MAKING A POSITIVE DIFFERENCE

A Change Agent on the Global Stage: David McKean ’72 David McKean ‘72 has used his long career in the State

Department and recent tenure as U.S. Ambassador to Luxembourg to influence the direction of U.S. policy and its image abroad.

David McKean and John Kerry

The political winds of change made David McKean’s tenure as Ambassador to Luxembourg a relatively brief one: he was sworn in March 14, 2016 under President Obama, and his tenure ended January 20, 2017, with the election of President Trump. Even so, the experience of serving as the senior state department official in the small but strategically located European country made a lasting impression. Ambassador McKean’s strong policy background, which included four years as the Director of Policy Planning for the U.S. State Department, made him uniquely qualified to represent U.S. policy positions to the government in Luxembourg City. However, he also enjoyed his additional responsibilities of sharing U.S. culture, responding to the consular needs of U.S. citizens in Luxembourg, and acting as a resource for American companies that might be interested in investing in Luxembourg and vice versa.

During his time in Luxembourg, McKean was surprised to learn how much American participation in World War II still resonated. As ground zero for the Battle of the Bulge, Luxembourg was occupied by the Germans, liberated by the Allies, and then partially occupied and liberated again before the end of the war. “When you travel to small towns in the north, you’ll still see an American flag flying in the town square,” he notes. Among his many achievements, McKean looks back on his time as Director of Policy Planning for the State Department as the most challenging and rewarding professional experience of his career. In collaborating with “25 of the smartest people I’ve ever known,” McKean’s team tackled

issues from normalizing relations with Cuba, to the unfolding situation in Syria, to engagement with China. “We didn’t solve every problem, but we were always able to put options before the Secretary [Secretary of State John Kerry] and help to chart a path forward.”

David McKean ’72 speaks during a Memorial Day ceremony at the Luxembourg American Cemetery and Memorial in Luxembourg, May 28, 2016. Picture: U.S. Air Force/Staff Sgt. Joe W. McFadden

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If you could design your ideal community, what essential items would it include? You might start with a neighborhood of homes and add a grocery store, a library, and a school. Once all the basic services were covered, what would you add to make it perfect for you? A gourmet coffee shop? A dog park? A 24-hour gym? Fay’s Kindergarten students explored these very questions this spring as they explored the idea of community and worked together to create their own neighborhood. by Daintry Duffy Zaterka ’88 Tiny Town, as it was fondly called, was constructed from paper-covered blocks and recycled materials. While it contained many of the basic elements that you would expect in a community, the Kindergarteners also incorporated custom features: a rock climbing wall, a duck pond, and a ring toss game for everyone to enjoy. The construction of Tiny Town kicked off the children’s study of community, and the experience of cooperatively building and designing the town was the perfect metaphor for understanding how a community works. “We wanted the children to understand that they all help and contribute to a community,” says Kindergarten teacher Alyssa Fucci. “Although each child built a specific element of the town, everyone could use and benefit from the final product.”

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PRIMARY SCHOOL PROGRAM UPDATE

While Tiny Town represents an idealized version of a neighborhood, the goal of the project was also to help students understand community on a broader level. “Kindergarten is the perfect time for a project like this because the children have a beginning awareness that life is about more than just them,” notes Head of Primary School Teri Lawrence. “The world is opening up, and the circles that surround a child are getting bigger. It’s important to help children understand that they belong to multiple communities.”

“I liked visiting Mr. Sargent because he teaches a lot of sports, and I like sports.” —Camden Feingold ’26

Already familiar with the tightly-knit Primary School community, Kindergarteners embarked on learning more about the larger Fay community. In small groups, the children ventured out to interview community leaders, such as Head of School Rob Gustavson, Director of Admission Beth Whitney, Lower School P.E. teacher Will Sargent, Director of Auxiliary Programs Chris Ridolfi, Director of Athletics Rob Feingold, Nurse Sue, and Chris Hill in the Facilities Department. Not surprisingly, the Health Office and the Facilities Building were the biggest hits, as both workspaces featured a slew of fascinating tools that the children could see and touch. Students learned about the scope that Nurse Sue uses to look in ears and throats, and they loved visiting Facilities and seeing the golf carts, woodworking room, giant lawn mowers, and rings of keys that correspond to all the doors and buildings around campus. They were especially thrilled to be presented with their own “Kindergarten Key” at the end of the visit.

Tanaka ’19 —also visited the children. After reading a picture book about life in Tokyo, the girls taught the Kindergarteners a Japanese hand game similar to Rock, Paper, Scissors, some basic Japanese words, and how to make origami flowers.

discussed the towns they live in, and they learned how to find the state of Massachusetts on the map. Sharing facts about other states that they had visited with their families help expand children’s understanding of the different parts of the United States and where the U.S. is on the map in relation to other countries.

“I liked learning about Thailand. You can ride elephants to school!” —Ellie Kane ’26

Fay’s international community proved to be an asset when it came time to learn about life outside the United States. Three Upper Schoolers from Mexico—Maria Martin ’17, Camila Capdevielle ’17, and Almudena Sierra ’18—visited Kindergarten to read a picture book about Mexican history and traditions. Students had a chance to ask questions, learn about Mexico’s geography, sing and dance to a traditional Mexican song, and even create their own mariachi guitars. Three students from Japan—Himeno Hashimoto ’17, Hailee So ’19, and Emily

Kindergarten students “visited” seven countries in all, adding a flag and a stamp to their classroom passports for each visit. On a “trip” to Brazil, they learned about Carnivale and made masks complete with feathers and jewels. In Thailand, they learned about using elephants as a mode of transportation and the Thai New Year’s celebration, Songkran, which is celebrated with a three-day water fight. In Australia, students learned about aboriginal paintings and created their own dot paintings and stories.

“I wish the world was fair.” —Oliver Kim ’26

To wrap up the unit, the students read Wish by Roseanne Thong, a compilation of wishing traditions from around the world, and Alyssa asked each student to write out a wish for their community. Their wishes mirrored the scope of the unit, with some thinking close to home, while other children reflected on their global community. “As you learn more about the world, you realize that you can get from here to there in a pretty short amount of time,” says Teri. “All of a sudden, that big sphere seems a little smaller.”

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Are you a monkey or a panda? A monkey jumps from one activity to another, always thinking about the next task, while the panda is serenely focused on the present. If you’re not sure which of these terms describes you—or even why the question is important—ask a Fay third grader. This exploration is just one component of the Lower School Wellness program, which helps students build resilience, practice empathy, and explore the challenges of adolescence in a safe and supported atmosphere.

Finding Your Inner Panda: Promoting Wellness in Lower School by Daintry Duffy Zaterka ’88 Wellness in the Lower School is part of the weekly class rotation, and the curriculum features developmentally targeted topics that include mindfulness, conflict resolution, peer pressure, and stress management. There is also flexibility to respond to the specific needs of the group, and the teachers adjust their plans if they sense that the class will benefit from addressing a particular topic that day.

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Grade Three: The Mindful Monkey In a technology-obsessed culture where multitasking is supposed to be the most important skill, it is becoming increasingly clear that students no longer know how to single-task. To counter this trend, Fay’s Wellness faculty have made mindfulness, the state of being focused on the present, the central focus of the third grade curriculum. To understand the concept, third graders read Lauren Alderfer’s Mindful Monkey, Happy Panda, which tells the tale of an unfocused monkey and his zen panda pal. When the monkey asks the panda for the secret to his calm happiness, the panda explains that he is always present in the moment: when he works, he works, and when he plays, he plays. In third grade, mindfulness practice often starts with the tapping of the singing bowl, a bell-like, metal bowl that produces a long melodic hum. Students listen to the chime and focus on the sound. In other mindfulness exercises, students imagine that they have a steaming cup of hot chocolate in their hands. They inhale deeply to draw in the rich aroma and exhale deeply to cool off the drink. Without realizing it, they are practicing deep breathing, a tool they can use to regulate their emotions and maintain focus. Throughout the year, students strengthen their “mindful muscle,” challenging themselves to see how long they can stay in a mindful state.

Grade Four: Exploring Empathy

In fourth grade, Wellness class provides a framework for students to discuss the changing dynamics of friendship, gender roles, and stereotyping. Using the prompts “boys are supposed to be…” and “girls are supposed to be…,” students examine

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stereotypes about the strengths and attributes of boys and girls. Fourth graders also focus on the issue of empathy. In one activity, students discuss ways to turn statements like “Stop being a cry baby!” or “Don’t be dumb!” into expressions of empathy. Students also engage in role-plays and skits to practice empathetic behavior.

Grade Five: Practicing Perseverance

In fifth grade, the Wellness program focuses on skills to help students to deal with an increasingly challenging academic program and the introduction of interscholastic sports. This year’s fifth graders focused on perseverance and positivity: they learned about Kayla Montgomery, a young woman diagnosed with multiple sclerosis who went on to become one of the fastest runners in her home state of North Carolina. The students wrote letters to Kayla reflecting on how her story has motivated them to persevere, and they ran a morning meeting on the topic of perseverance. In the spring, fifth graders divide into gender-specific groups for a month-long puberty seminar focused on how one’s body grows and changes throughout adolescence. Discussions about puberty can be a source of anxiety for parents and students alike, but by fifth grade, Fay students have built a level of trust and comfort within their Wellness groups that facilitates authentic questions and meaningful reflection.

In sixth grade, students begin to rely more on peer groups as a source of information and advice but are also challenged by changes in the social structure. Single-gender classes provide a supportive atmosphere to discuss peer pressure, relational aggression, social media, stress management, and physical boundaries. “Removing the boy/girl dynamic makes it easier for students to ask questions without fear of being judged,” says Wellness teacher Molly Murphy. A highlight of the year is the visit from the Improbable Players, a performance group that addresses substance abuse, addiction, and its impact on the family. At this age, many parents believe their children are too young to be exposed to discussions about drugs and alcohol. However, the early and proactive approach to the topic is designed to help students feel prepared when they are faced with difficult choices. The benefits of the Lower School Wellness program can be clearly seen as students enter Upper School. At an age when kids start to close in, share less, and internalize more, Fay students who have participated in Wellness classes are still open to discussing the sticky topics that accompany the adolescent years. “When I meet with the seventh grade girls, it strikes me how courageous, vulnerable, and kind they are,” says Wellness Department Chair Hope Rupley. “They feel so connected, and there is such a sense of belonging. That is the beauty of what they have created.”

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No Ordinary Coronary

Cardiovascular disease is a global health concern affecting tens of millions of people around the world each year. For seventh graders in Adel Collins’ Life Science class, it became the focal point for an in-depth study of organ systems, an exploration of how lifestyle choices affect long-term health, and an investigation into how biomedical engineering can make a positive difference in the lives of others. by Daintry Duffy Zaterka ’88 Life Science teacher Adel Collins chose to focus on cardiovascular disease because it offered the opportunity to not only learn how a critical organ system functions, but to examine risk factors and their long-term implications. “At first, students think they’re just learning about the circulatory system,” says Adel, “but when we introduce the risk factors and patient profiles, the students start to see how cardiovascular disease affects us, our families, and millions of people around the world.”

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The dissection was a new addition to the unit this year, and it provided students with a better understanding of how the organ functions. “It’s one thing to talk about what valves and chambers look like,” says Adel, “but it’s another thing to cut a heart open and hold it in your hands.”

Cause and Effect

At first glance, cardiovascular disease might appear to be an issue that would be difficult for twelve and thirteen year old students to identify with, but the next phase of the project focused on the risk factors for cardiovascular disease, many of which have their foundation in the lifestyle habits and choices that these students are already making every day.

Understanding the Organ System The cardiovascular system includes the heart and blood vessels, and in a healthy body, these organs work in concert to circulate and transport essential nutrients. Cardiovascular disease (CVD) can cause a ripple effect of symptoms throughout the body: chest pain, shortness of breath, pain or numbness in the arms or legs. Students began their explorations by first learning about the function of the cardiovascular system. The study was enriched by the opportunity to dissect a pig heart, chosen because it is similar in size, structure, and function to the human heart.

Using data from the World Health Organization, students studied the main risk factors for CVD—smoking, physical inactivity, high cholesterol, obesity, diabetes, and high blood pressure—and their prevalence in different parts of the world. Class discussions examined the difference between modifiable and non-modifiable risk factors, driving home the idea that in many cases this is a preventable disease. “I want students to understand that they have control over their health,” says Adel, “by exercising, eating well, and taking care of themselves.” Students also heard from two doctors on the front lines of treating patients with CVD. Dr. Michele Goh, parent of Isabelle Aish ’19 and Jonathan Aish ’24, and Dr. Karen DeFazio, parent of Sofia Mongillo ’19, visited the seventh graders to share anonymous patient profiles that ranged from drug-induced cardiac arrest to an individual who was able to manage high cholesterol with drug therapy. Dr. Goh and Dr. DeFazio discussed the choices that each patient could have made to decrease their risk and the treatment options available to them. Their perspectives as practitioners gave the students food for thought.

Engineering Solutions to Save a Life Cardiovascular disease leads to a condition called atherosclerosis, the buildup of plaque on artery walls. It becomes harder for blood to flow through the narrowed passages, creating the potential for heart attack or stroke. The final stage of the project, called “No Ordinary Coronary,” challenged students to consider cardiovascular disease from the perspective of a biomedical engineer by designing and building a device to treat a blocked artery. In small groups, students researched a specific risk factor, and using statistics about gender, age, and geography, each group developed a fictional patient profile complete with a family health background. Helping this fictional patient became their real challenge. In their groups, students designed, tested, and re-designed a balloon catheter that could open a blocked artery—in this case, a plastic tube packed with frosting to simulate arterial plaque. Students chose from a range of low-tech supplies to build their design, including pipe cleaners, wires, balloons, paper clips, tape, straws and rubber bands. Each item had a specific cost, and students had to stay within a set budget for their design. Students tested their designs on the frosting-blocked artery and measured the change in rate of water flow. Based on their results, students redesigned their devices to achieve improved results. Adel pointed out to her students that while they were conducting the design and test process twice, a real biomedical engineer might repeat the cycle hundreds of times. It was a real-world lesson in persistence. “The mindset for a lot of students is that if the final project isn’t perfect, it’s a failure. But it’s not about pass or fail,” says Adel. “It’s about process, documentation, and improvement.” www.fayschool.org | 19

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Learning Across the Generations: Fay Ninth Graders Partner with Southborough Senior Citizens What do you get when you pair a group of inquisitive senior citizens with a class full of energetic teenagers? A unique opportunity for teaching and learning—in both directions. by Erin Ash Sullivan

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Vivid memories and tales from the past helped history come alive for Fay’s ninth graders earlier this year, when they partnered with local senior citizens for a day of storytelling and sharing. The event was part of a yearlong partnership between Fay and the Southborough Senior Center, which featured lectures and workshops that enabled the students and the seniors to serve as both teachers and learners. The project was spearheaded by Upper School history teacher and Service Learning Coordinator Emily McCauley, who was looking for meaningful ways that her students could make a positive difference in the local community. “An important part of service learning is expanding students’ horizons and helping them to understand the experiences and perspectives of others,” Emily says. “I thought that planning some events with the Senior Center would be a great way for students to build connections with the community.”

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“There was rationing. And it wasn’t fun.”

“I remember standing outside my house in Belgium and seeing the German planes flying overhead. Now that was a sight.”

“I was cleaning the house. And my nine year-old came home from school, and out of nowhere, he told me that President Kennedy had been shot.”

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With this goal in mind, the project began in September, when the seniors came to campus for a morning lecture about Fay’s collection of presidential letters, followed by a luncheon in the Root Meeting Room and a tour of campus.

The third event took place in April, when the seniors returned to campus—this time with music as the focus. Music teacher Stephen Buck gave a short presentation on choral singing and how he works with developing singers at Fay. Then he led the seniors through a brief warm up and introduced two songs, “The Orchestra Quodlibet” (Traditional) and “Shine On Me,” a spiritual by Rollo Dilworth. At that point, Fay’s Chamber Singers joined the seniors for a group rehearsal and mini-concert (which also included some musically-inclined members of Fay’s faculty and staff).

That gathering was followed by a February workshop where seniors met with Fay’s ninth graders. As witnesses to pivotal events of the 20th century, the seniors shared their personal memories as well as their reflections on how media coverage of newsworthy events has changed over the years. The seventeen senior citizens who shared their stories were peppered with questions from the students: What was the most important world event that took place during your childhood? What do you remember reading about in newspapers and hearing on the radio? What musicians did you listen to when you were our age? The seniors’ stories were lively and covered a variety of topics: victory gardens and rationing, an escape from WWII Belgium, the day when President Kennedy was assassinated, and bomb shelter drills, just to name a few. One senior citizen even brought in his slide rule to share as a hands-on example of how much technology has changed since his childhood!

The response to these events has been unequivocally positive— from the faculty, who have enjoyed sharing their expertise with the broader Southborough community; from the students, who were fascinated to hear the first-person accounts of events pulled from the pages of their history texts; and from the seniors, who have loved learning more about their young neighbors just around the corner. Emily is already making plans for a follow-up series of events in the coming year that will expand and deepen this partnership: “It’s exciting to consider all the ways we can enrich each other’s lives.”

While the students were fascinated by these first-person historical accounts, the learning was by no means one-sided. As the morning progressed, the seniors were eager to ask their own questions of the students and intensely curious about the lives of the ninth graders, many of whom were boarders from across the United States and around the world. Seniors asked the students what it felt like to be a boarder so far from home, what it is like to be a teenager in the United States today, and their opinions about American politics.

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FAY IN BRIEF FAY LOWER SCHOOL STUDENTS FEATURED ON CBS BOSTON’S “THE SCIENCE OF SPORTS” Fay went a little bit Hollywood this spring when CBS Boston featured Fay classrooms and students in a “Science of Sports” segment with Olympic marathoner Shalane Flanagan (pictured above). The segment, which highlighted the difference between everyday runners and elite marathon runners, whose feet touch the ground for 30% less time than their everyday running counterparts, is part of a series of educational segments that showcase the connections between sports and science. The segment can be viewed on YouTube by searching “The Science of Sports: Running with Shalane Flanagan” or by visiting https://youtu.be/Il5rzx4iKsA.

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FAY ADVENTURES ABROAD: UPPER SCHOOLERS TRAVEL TO FRANCE Over Spring Break, Fay faculty members Alina Argueta and Emily Gifford led 29 Upper School students on an unforgettable trip to France, where they explored the country’s culture, language, landmarks, history, and cuisine. The group started and ended their trip in Paris, where they toured the Arc de Triomphe, ChampsÉlysées, Notre Dame, and the Louvre. Students pedaled through the vast gardens of Versailles on bicycles and enjoyed a drawing lesson at Montmartre from a local artist. From Paris, students visited the châteaux of the Loire Valley on their way to Normandy, where they explored the island monastery of Mont St. Michel and learned about the interconnectedness of American and French history as they visited the American War Cemetery and Omaha Beach. Alina and Emily, whose carefully curated tours have recently included trips to Spain and China, are already planning next year’s adventure to England in the spring of 2018.

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ANNE BISHOP PAVILION DEDICATED AT HARLOW CIRCLE At a chilly ribbon-cutting ceremony in December, the pavilion in front of the Primary School Building was officially dedicated to former Head of Primary School Anne Bishop through the generosity of current parents Martha and Michael McNally and their children Cooper ’19, Jordyn ’21, and Reese ’24. Anne Bishop, the McNally family, Director of Finance and Operations Alan Clarance, Head of Primary School Teri Lawrence, and Head of School Rob Gustavson were all present for the dedication. All three of the McNally children were shepherded through Primary School under Anne’s leadership. “One of the reasons we applied to Fay was the way Anne addressed our kids and shook their hands when they first met,” says Martha. “That moment helped us realize that Fay was not only going to teach our kids the ABCs but also how to respect their teachers and each other.” The McNallys’ desire to create a legacy to Anne on campus was rooted not only in gratitude for the role she played in their children’s Primary School experience, but also out of a deep respect for her years of dedication to the School. “Nobody sticks with anything for 33 years anymore, and I want my kids to appreciate the importance of dedicating yourself to something,” says Martha. “Anne played

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such a pivotal role in the creation of the Primary School, and it’s fitting that her name should be here.” The pavilion felt like an especially appropriate location to dedicate, notes Martha, as it stands just outside the Primary School doors, where Anne greeted the students every morning.

hired in the summer of 1992 as a dorm parent and coach, Bruce quickly found a home in the Office of Admission overseeing the financial aid program and interviewing prospective families. In 1998, Bruce moved into the classroom and taught history at a variety of grade levels before becoming department chair in 2009, where he currently oversees faculty and curriculum development in Primary, Lower, and Upper School. However, teaching is still Bruce’s first love, and he has a particular soft spot for the sixth graders in his social studies class. “They have the enthusiasm that you find in younger students but also the maturity, curiosity, and interest in having more adult conversations,” he says. “A conversation might be their first exposure to a particular idea, and that’s exciting because you can see the wheels turning and the lights going on. It’s very cool to be a part of those moments.” Outside the classroom, Bruce coaches football and lives in the dorms with his wife Kelly and daughters Paige and Piper ’23. Currently, he and his family live in the Village Boys’ Dorm with Fay’s youngest boarding boys.

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NINTH GRADERS TRAVEL TO THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC The ninth grade service learning trip to the Dominican Republic is always a highlight of the ninth grade experience, as it provides Fay’s oldest students with the opportunity to consider new perspectives about the world around them and hone their leadership skills. This year, ninth graders spent a week in the town of Monte Cristi teaching English to local children through Outreach360, an organization that uses education to combat rural poverty. Fay students immediately connected with the children and learned as much as they taught. Students also had a chance to immerse themselves in the unique culture of the island, from celebrating Carnaval and marching in the local Independence Day Parade, to exploring Hispaniola’s natural beauty with a sunrise hike up the towering mesa of el Morro.

TEN FAY STUDENTS SELECTED FOR MMEA CENTRAL DISTRICT MUSIC FESTIVAL This spring, ten Fay students (our largest group ever!) were selected to participate in the Massachusetts Music Educators’ Association Central District Music Festival, which took place on April 29 at Leominster High School. Almost a thousand students from across the state auditioned to participate, and less than half were accepted to the festival. Leading up to the concert, Fay students worked on their performance pieces with music teachers Stephen Buck and Lloyd Dugger, and all benefited from the performance experience. “It was such a great opportunity to perform a more challenging repertoire at a very high level,” notes Stephen. Congratulations to eighth graders Calvin Chen, Stephen McNulty, Giacomo Mazzarella, Prin Sukhum, David Owyang, Soo Ahn Lee, and Erin Choi, and seventh grade students Sophy Zhu, Hunter Gould, and Brendon Chung!

ZACH COLON '19 WINS NATIONAL GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP Fay seventh grader Zach Colon took home the trophy at the 2017 Drive, Chip and Putt National Finals at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia, on April 2. Zach took first place for the Boys 13-14 division after forcing a playoff against 13 year-old Clinton Daly from Charlotte, North Carolina. The Drive, Chip, and Putt Championship is held every year leading up to the Masters. This year, it drew approximately 8,000 young competitors from across the country, and Zach was one of 80 who made it through three qualifying rounds to play in Augusta. Zach, who also plays on Fay’s golf team, was presented his trophy by Masters champion Bubba Watson.

NINE FAY STUDENTS EARN PERFECT SCORE ON NATIONAL LATIN EXAM Twenty-nine Upper School students were honored in April for their participation in this year's National Latin Exam. The Fay students joined 150,000 students from around the world in taking this year’s exam, which is sponsored by the American Classical League and covers grammar, comprehension, mythology, derivatives, classical literature, literary devices, Roman life, history, geography, oral Latin, and Latin in the modern world. Nine Fay students earned the Summa Cum Laude award for earning a perfect score on the exam and received a gold medal for their

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accomplishment. Eight students received the Maxima Cum Laude Award, presented to students who missed only one question on the exam; three students received the Magna Cum Laude award for missing only two

questions; two students received the Cum Laude award for missing only three questions; and one student received a Certificate Of Merit for demonstrating outstanding effort. Gratulationes Discipuli!

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Fay Welcomes New Trustees This spring, Fay welcomed two current parents as new members to the Board of Trustees. They bring years of experience, wisdom, and expertise to our board, and we are grateful for their commitment to Fay.

Warren Lee P’17 Hong Kong Warren and his wife, Susanna Cheung, are parents of Madeline Lee ’17, who came to Fay in 2015 from Hong Kong as an 8th grader. A native of Hong Kong, Warren founded Yu Ming Investment Management Limited in 1997, and has been advising Hong Kong listed companies on corporate finance and takeover matters, with expertise in hostile takeovers.

John Simon P’18, ’22 Sudbury, Massachusetts John is the parent of two Fay students: Lauren, a fourth grader, and Emma, an eighth grader who will attend St. Mark’s School in the fall. John is currently the Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Xaleron Pharmaceuticals, a respiratory drug development company. Previously, John was a co-founder and member of the Board of Directors of Acton Pharmaceuticals, a Sequoia Capital company now owned by Mylan. Earlier, John was a Vice President at Sepracor, where he led the pulmonary group. John loves coaching his daughters, volunteers as a board member for Sudbury Youth Soccer Association, and is the Director of Girls Soccer. John and his wife Sonja live in Sudbury, Massachusetts.

Fay’s trustees assembled in May for their annual spring meeting. Back row, left to right: Bill Picardi, Warren Lee, John Simon, David Harris ’58, Dennis Hoffman, Flip Morgan ’62 (front), Brian Light (back), Vicky Robinson, Doug Loud ’56, Cathy Papadellis, Peter Hudson, Sarah Robbins Mars ’83, Chuck Pieper ’61, Jim Shay ’78, Melissa Bois, Rob Gustavson. Front row, left to right: Nell Reynolds, Jo Greystone, Yvonne Marsh, Carolyn Purcell (Trustee Emerita), Noreen Harrington, Ann Laquerre. Not pictured: Herb Camp ’53, Jae Hoon Kim ’85, Andrew Pilaro ’85, AE Rueppel, Harvey Steinberg, Rae-Eun Sung ’94, Albert Ting ’87, Faith Wallace-Gadsden ’98, and trustees emeriti William Burrill, Peter Drotch, John Egan, Brian Kelly, Tom McKean ’64, Chris Mabley, Dodie Perkins, Antony Pilaro, and Campbell Steward ’48. www.fayschool.org | 25

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The 2020 Strategic Plan for Fay School: Renewing our commitment to a timeless mission FAY SCHOOL celebrated its sesquicentennial in 2016, marking 150 years of excellence in teaching and learning. While the School has grown and evolved over the years, our mission and philosophy have remained remarkably consistent. The guiding principle established by founder Eliza Burnett Fay—“to lay a foundation for education in its broadest sense”—is at the heart of our current mission statement: “to educate each child to his or her full potential through a broad, balanced, and challenging program that establishes a solid foundation for a productive and fulfilling life.”

Today’s world may be very different than it was 150 years ago, but in a time marked by uncertainty and rapid change, Fay’s mission is as relevant as ever. Looking to the future, we believe that the best way to equip students to lead productive, fulfilling lives is to provide them with essential foundational skills: to be critical thinkers, creative problem solvers, and articulate speakers; to be culturally competent and have a global perspective; and to demonstrate resilience, empathy, and integrity.

As we embrace our history and uphold the traditions established by our nineteenth-century founders, we are keenly aware that the best way to fulfill our mission in the 21st century is to continue to evolve in a thoughtful and deliberate way. Fay is grounded in timeless, enduring values: an expectation of excellence, an emphasis on civility and respect, a focus on earnest effort and dedicated service. The best way to honor and preserve our legacy is to maintain a mindset of growth and development and to continuously reinvest energy and resources in our programs, people, and facilities. At its core, the 2020 Strategic Plan is designed to ensure that Fay School will continue to realize its single, most important goal: to provide students with the foundation for a meaningful life. The Plan is a road map for our ongoing improvement, with goals and strategies that will enable us to strengthen the educational program for our students, promote the ongoing vitality of our school community, and ensure the continued strength and sustainability of Fay as an institution for many years to come. It is the result of a yearlong process during which the Board of Trustees, in collaboration with faculty, staff, alumni, and parents, considered the School’s strengths and challenges and identified strategic priorities in five key areas: Enrollment, Marketing, Program, Access, and Financial Sustainability.

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STRATEGIC PLAN

Enrollment Objective: Sustain a strong school community and ensure financial stability by fully enrolling a wellmatched student body Strategies • Implement an enrollment model that leverages the relative strengths of Fay’s day and boarding markets and increases selectivity by limiting the number of admission entry points and sections at each grade level o Maintain admission entry points at Kindergarten and first grade, and at sixth, seventh, and eighth grade • Replace Pre-Kindergarten with a year-round early childhood program o Establish an Early Learning Center for children ages two years, nine months through age five • Expand the size and broaden the diversity of the boarding population o Increase boarding enrollment and include representation from a wider range of countries

• Develop and implement a comprehensive campus master plan that supports educational excellence o Renovate and upgrade current facilities o Repurpose existing spaces to meet emerging needs o Build new facilities to accommodate program development • Deepen engagement between members of the school community o Initiate programs that strengthen connections between day and boarding students, international and domestic students, older and younger students, and parents among the three divisions of the School

Access Objective: Make Fay accessible to a larger number of talented, well-matched students regardless of their families’ financial circumstances Strategies • Control growth in the cost of attendance

Marketing Objective: Increase the number of applications from qualified students at each admission entry point Strategies • Differentiate Fay from other independent schools and high-quality public school options o Utilize messaging pillars that articulate Fay’s defining qualities and attributes • Increase awareness of Fay in our target markets o Sharpen our messaging and tell our story clearly and consistently • Develop and strengthen our brand at home and abroad o Embrace inbound marketing as a central element of a comprehensive marketing plan

o Keep annual tuition increases at or below the rate of inflation • Increase the financial aid budget o Sustain a need-based financial aid budget at or above 15% of gross tuition • Increase the number of students receiving aid o Distribute financial aid to at least 25% of the student body

Financial Sustainability Objective: Accelerate improvement in the School’s financial strength and increase institutional resilience and agility Strategies • Implement a sustainable financial model

Program Objective: Thoughtfully adapt the educational program to achieve Fay’s mission and provide evidence of our value proposition Strategies

o Continuously improve operational efficiency and productivity o Achieve balanced annual budgets o Utilize a modest annual surplus to support strategic initiatives • Increase revenue from non-tuition sources o Identify new opportunities for ancillary income

• Regularly review, refine, and enhance the School’s program to ensure mission alignment and relevance o Increase funding for curriculum innovation

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very deep and talented Fessenden team. Fay trailed 2-1 with three minutes remaining but could not manage to get the game-tying goal past the Fessenden goaltender. Fay lost that game 3-1 but claimed second place in the tournament, the team’s best finish in the past ten years—and Jackson Coutu ’18 was honored with the tournament’s Most Valuable Offensive Player Award.

Fay athletes wrapped up another great season with strong performances by athletes at every level of competition.

eading the pack was girls varsity tennis, which marked its ninth consecutive undefeated season with a 7-0 record. Varsity softball also celebrated a winning season (5-1), as did girls varsity lacrosse (6-4), whose record was particularly impressive given that there were a significant number of young players new to the team. Boys varsity lacrosse had their best season in recent memory with an 8-2 record, and the team took second place at the 2017 New England Junior School Lacrosse Tournament in May. After losing their first game to Fessenden, Fay came out strong, winning their next three games in a row versus Fenn, Indian Mountain, and Hillside to earn a spot in the championship game. In the final game, Fay played inspired lacrosse and went toe-to-toe with the

Varsity baseball finished the season with a 3-8 record, while the nearly 60 runners on Fay’s track and field team put in strong performances at their meets. The 2016-17 school year marked the fifth year of Fay’s 5/6 athletics program—and, as Director of Athletics Rob Feingold notes, the results have been tangible and noteworthy. Our focus on our fifth and sixth grade athletes, with a developmentally appropriate approach to skill development and team play, has resulted in stronger, more committed athletes in the Upper School. “By the time they enter Upper School,” Rob notes, “they’re already playing at a higher level. Committing to team play for four or five years instead of only three gives our athletes a unique opportunity to hone their skills.” Rob adds that an equally important benefit are the bonds that the fifth and sixth grade athletes develop with their coaches, many of whom are also Lower School teachers. “Our teachers are connecting with the students both on and off the field,” he says, “and the fact that they’re building those relationships in multiple contexts is really powerful.” www.fayschool.org | 29

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he 2017 Founders' Day Color Competition was delayed by rain, but that certainly didn't dampen the spirits of the Red and White Teams as they dove into battle under the leadership of Red Team President Alexandra Mohn and White Team President Mwicigi Wainaina. Enthusiastic participants from all three divisions gave their all as they jumped in sacks, ran in relay races, sprinted down the field, tossed bean bags, and pulled as one in the tug-of-war. Despite a valiant effort on the part of the White Team, the Red Team carried the day with an impressive 1,047 points!

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Our Favorite Foods, Then and Now No matter the decade, food has always been a hot topic of discussion at Fay—and whether you’re a member of the Class of 1957, 1987, or 2017, it’s safe to assume that you have strong opinions about your meals in the Dining Room!

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FAVORITE FAY LUNCHES OF THE PAST (in order of most favorable mentions)

Bubblegum Stew Shepherd’s Pie Dagwood Sandwiches American Chop Suey Spanish Franks Swedish Meatballs Dirt Pudding, Pistachio Pudding Cake, and Hermits 8. Turkey Tettrazini Honorable Mention: Homemade Chocolate Chip Cookies

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This spring, we embarked on an in-depth survey of our current students to learn more about their opinions about the food at Fay and to identify areas of improvement. Students in grades three through nine submitted their feedback on Fay’s overall food quality, identified their favorite and least favorite meals, and suggested changes. The survey got us thinking about what our alumni remember about their dining experiences at Fay—so we followed up with a completely unscientific survey on our Alumni Facebook page to see which dishes alumni remember most fondly. Their recollections were vivid and (occasionally) mouthwatering!

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FAY FOOD TODAY Fay’s dining menu has evolved significantly over the years. Shepherd’s Pie and Dagwood Sandwiches have given way to tacos, chicken tenders, a salad bar, and daily soup options. Chef Wayne Scire and his staff continue to enhance the menu in response to our students’ changing tastes and preferences. The results from this year’s survey indicate that Fay students’ current favorite meal by a landslide is General Tso’s Chicken, a lightly battered fried chicken in a sweet and tangy sauce served with steamed broccoli and white rice. Other favorites include grilled cheese, chicken tenders, pizza, and Swedish meatballs. The salad bar also received high marks. Predictably, fish entrees were students’ least favorite, with fish sticks and baked fish both earning the proverbial fisheye. Based on the survey, Chef Wayne came up with a list of menu enhancements that the dining staff began rolling out this spring. The salad bar now features broader options for vegetarians or those who would like an alternative to the entree. Additions include a lean protein option such as shredded or chopped chicken, hard-boiled eggs and hummus, more chopped fresh fruit, and limited selections of deli meat and cheese so students can make their own sandwiches. Fridays will be a “student choice” day, where students will vote for Friday’s meal at lunch on Monday. This fall, there will also be several enhancements for our boarders, including an omelet station on the weekends and weekly themed dinners to celebrate events like St. Patrick’s Day and Red Sox Opening Day.

Alumni Remember: What were your favorite dishes at Fay?

“American Chop Suey with toast points. I believe there is a photo of me in the yearbook stuffing my face with that dish.” —Tom Higgins ’87

“Anything Lew Maida cooked, but especially Bubblegum Stew and American Chop Suey. I remember distinctly sitting at the head table with Betty Scattergood, the ringing of the chimes, sitting ramrod straight in our chairs, and being taught the proper way to eat soup with a spoon—at right angles to the body and bowl! I hear her voice in my head every time I eat soup to this day!” —Kristen Atenasio Melnick ’88

“Hermits! I used to wrap extra in paper napkins and slip them into my blazer pocket for later.” —Rachel Levin ’89

“Not necessarily the food but the experience... like sitting at Dick Upjohn's table and getting the ‘No Thank You’ helping." —Lochlain Lewis ’78

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Meet Chef Wayne

hef Wayne Scire arrived at Fay this year with over 30 years as a professional chef in noted restaurants and resorts around the world. He began working in restaurants at 13, starting as a dishwasher and salad artist. He built his reputation as a Sous Chef at French Hotel Bora Bora Le Meridien, and he received the rank of Chef de Cuisine Le Meridien Coronado California in 1996. He has served at establishments including Morton’s of Chicago Steakhouse, Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse and Wine Bar, Le Meridien Hotel in Coronado, California, and Crown Plaza Boston. He has appeared on Good Morning San Diego NBC and Sacramento’s Fox40 as a guest chef. Now, he brings the same energy and enthusiasm honed at top dining establishments to Fay’s Dining Services, where he is working hard to make food aficionados out of some of the toughest critics around: middle schoolers!

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CURRENT FAVORITE FAY LUNCHES

General Tso’s Chicken Chicken Tenders Grilled Cheese Swedish Meatballs

Pizza Hamburger/Cheeseburger Stuffed Shells Cheese Ravioli

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Fay School 151st

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Commencement 2017

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Fay Celebrates its 151st Commencement

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Ryan Jeffrey Estella Proctor Academy

Mingqian Irvin Li Deerfield Academy

Luca Haolin Steinert Middlesex School

Connor Quinn Flaherty St. Mark’s School

Yanyang Jeremy Lu Undecided

Yuyang Gloria Sun Phillips Exeter Academy

Nilufer Gulal Choate Rosemary Hall

Maria Martin Escalente Colegio Vista Hermosa

Himeno Hashimoto Northfield Mount Hermon School

Alexandra Brennan Mohn Suffield Academy

Kenfari Tsedek Makonnen Swan Hebron Academy

Laura Molly Herrman Worcester Academy Katherine Danforth Holding Blair Academy

Class of

2017

Alan Abdrazakov Loomis Chaffee School

Taat Noon Chanshanwut St. Mark’s School

Rachel Oluwafunmilayo Adelakun Lawrenceville School

Vivek Chandiram Chatani Suffield Academy

Luma Xavier Allen St. Mark’s School Connor Patrick Arcara St. Sebastian’s School Colette Lynn Auyang Middlesex School Cristina Marie Bevacqua Middlesex School Lily Grace McCarthy Bradway Worcester Academy Kai Brown Northfield Mount Hermon School Camila Alessandra Capdevielle Colegio Vista Hermosa

Jun Ha Andrew Cheon St. Mark’s School Jaeyun Noah Choi Mercersburg Academy

Chung Eun Bona Hong Phillips Exeter Academy Hannah Rose Hudson Berkshire School Derin Muzaffer Iscan Cambridge School of Weston Mika Iwasa Concord Academy Samuel Philip Jacob Worcester Academy Zilai Amy Jin Peddie School Nicharee Cherie Jiraphanphong Concord Academy

You Min Choi Amanda Kikonyogo Fairmont Preparatory Academy Suffield Academy

Ramachandra Neal Moy Northfield Mount Hermon School Hyun Ho Steve Nam Phillips Academy Derek Zeus Ng Choate Rosemary Hall Catherine Ann Pellini St. Mark’s School Ulisses Franco Pereira Hopkinton High School Kofi Prempeh Church Farm School

Keagan Ming Hui Tan Concord Academy Hien A. Truong Kent School Mwicigi Wainaina Hotchkiss School Avery Lauren Walker Middlesex School Ruocheng Wang Choate Rosemary Hall Nalinda Wanikpun Loomis Chaffee School

Noah James Quinn Loomis Chaffee School

Quinn Marlowe Silas Welliver Suffield Academy

Pearson Armour Ridgley* Tabor Academy

Zhao Rong Matthew Weng Loomis Chaffee School

Samantha Elizabeth Rivet New Hampton School Jackson Bryant Rother Deerfield Academy Kian Sahani St. Mark’s School

Yubing Yang Pomfret School Henry Yi Cheng Yong Jr. West Point Grey Academy (Canada) Jiweon Ryan Yoo Northfield Mount Hermon School

Jeffrey Harrison Cui Phillips Exeter Academy

Seong Jeung Sam Kim Brooks School

Hannah Joy Deng St. Paul’s School

Seo Yeong Shauna Kwag Blair Academy

Jadenne Sama Northfield Mount Hermon School

Elizabeth Josephine DeSimone Brooks School

Juho Daniel Lee Kent School

Sophia Christiane Shay Suffield Academy

Fangzheng Kevin Zhou Kent School

Sze Wing Madeline Lee Deerfield Academy

Hin Ho Richard Shum Tabor Academy

Kexu Scout Zhou Episcopal High School

Yeheun Laura Lee Phillips Academy

Jingyun Kelly Song Phillips Academy

Yuanbao David Dong Luther College High School

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Xiyuan Cindy Zhang Governor’s Academy

Yanhong Sarah Zhou St. George’s School

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Secondary School Destinations

Ivan Belyaevskiy Suffield Academy

Arya V. Ika St. Mark’s School

Sean Ryan Quinlivan Rivers School

Robyn Ainsley Campos Suffield Academy

Daiou Sevilla Jin Middlesex School

Adriana Chavez The American School Foundation

John Jordan Algonquin Regional High School

Luke Anthony Rizzotti Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School

Erin Choi Phillips Exeter Academy

Hyuk-Joong Oliver Kim Brooks School

Arnold Chung Suffield Academy

Anthony J. Kim Phillips Academy

Christopher Francis Connolly Framingham High School

Pitipat Mac Kongsomjit Williston Northampton School

Jackson Samuel Coutu St. Mark’s School

Julia Lee Laquerre Suffield Academy

Marcus Xavier D’Angelo Medfield High School

Holden Alexander LeBlanc Worcester Academy

Jessica DiPietrantonio Noble & Greenough School

Siena Rae Liberatore St. Mark’s School

Amelia Theresa Duane Maynard High School

William John McCarthy* Middlesex School

Elizabeth Claire Flathers* St. Mark’s School

Sophia M. McGeehan Framingham High School

Thomas Joseph Flathers* St. Mark’s School

Meenakshi Raghu Menon* Middlesex School

Marley Alexandra Froe Undecided

Almudena Moran Sierra Instituto Mexicano Regina

Federica Garcia Idyllwild Arts Academy

Demitra Moutoudis Dana Hall School

Sarah Grossi Bancroft School

Luke Nemsick Salisbury School

Andrew Haggerty Commonwealth School

Luca Delio Nicastro Lincoln-Sudbury Regional H.S.

Maxwell Walker Miller Hamann Moses Brown School Niya Harris Phillips Academy Juan Pablo Herrerias American School Foundation

David Owyang Phillips Academy Nisha Reddy Pedda Middlesex School Patrick Joseph Quinlivan Milton Academy

Jillian Taylor Robertson* Middlesex School Alisia Jolie Russomanno Algonquin Regional High School Nicholas Salvemini St. John’s High School Gurkeerat Singh Sawhney St. John’s High School Wongsapat Beam Sereeyothin Middlesex School Carmela Rose Silvia Marian High School Emma Christina Simon St. Mark’s School James Waterman Swent IV Thayer Academy Joseph Eli Tilzer Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School Stella Tosti Notre Dame Academy

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2018

Jorge Nicholas Trad Instituto Cumbres Bosques Quynh H. Quinn Truong Loomis Chaffee School Rohin Jay Warner Concord Academy Richard Lewis Waterfall* Brooks School Mathias William Zawoiski Westtown School Pinrui Annie Zhou St. Paul’s School

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Class of

2014 “What I mean when I tell you to move through the world like kings and queens is that you should take dominion over the power you have to make a change as you commence to the next stages of your lives. Dare to become all you are capable of being while using the tools that have been bestowed upon you. Be the individuals to whom we turn for leadership: those who strive to effectuate change, who seek responsibility for facing challenges head on, and who do not shy away from the weight of the crown.” —Commencement speaker Gigi Parris ’96

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Michael Barshteyn Temple University

Liam Fitzgerald Northeastern University

Jenn Breen Bucknell University

Strat Forrester University of Mississippi

Tyler Bui Baylor University

Isabelle Giordano Dartmouth College

Liam Busconi College of the Holy Cross

Ian Gobron Kenyon College

Mahan Chanrai Rollins College

Nicholas Hadlock Fairfield University

Kaige Jack Chen Emerson College

Katie Hartigan Boston College

Shiqi Kitty Chen University of Pennsylvania

William Hollinger Tufts University

Amanda Christy Bucknell University

Ivy Hong Rhode Island School of Design

Warren Dev Gap year in Japan; Dickinson College

William Jarvis Franklin and Marshall College

Nicholas Drepanos Northeastern University Andrew Estella Swarthmore College Margaret Fearey Middlebury College

Celine Kim Cornell University Steven Kim Carnegie Mellon University Min Ji Cindy Koh Brown University

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College Destinations

Andrew Laquerre American University

Sarah Pearson University of Pittsburgh

Delaney Tantillo Tufts University

Annie Dawon Lee UC Berkeley

Neil Pedda Colby College

Matthew Thalmann Northeastern University

Stephanie Li Boston College

Colin Rioux Santa Clara University

Jillian Venditti University of Tampa

Wenhao Leo Liang Cornell University

Savion Rivers Williams College

Afoma Maduegbuna Williams College

Douglas Robbins George Washington University

Francisca WeirichFreiberg Princeton University

Gabby McCarthy Dartmouth College

Abbey Rogers Union College

Carrie Moore Emory University

Sophie Ruzecki Hamilton College

AJ Nasworthy University of Vermont

Jack Shakin Boston College

Jeremy Navarro Middlebury College

Mary Sherwin Connecticut College

Daisuke Negishi Seton Hall University

Suzy Shin Columbia University

Joseph Pape Tulane University

Morgan Smith Trinity College

Min Joon Park New York University

Sarah Smith Franklin and Marshall College

Noah Winer Indiana University Flaura Xia Parsons School of Design Sunnie Zhang New York University Zixuan Oasis Zhen Wellesley College

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Founders’ Medal winner Derek Ng ’17 with Jim Shay, President of the Board of Trustees, and Head of School Rob Gustavson.

Amanda Kikonyogo, winner of the M.J. LaFoley Poteris Modo Velis Award.

Stephen McNulty ’18, Grade 8 Top Scholar and winner of the Annie Leavitt Memorial Award and the Harvard Club Book Award.

Head of School Rob Gustavson with Kathy MacLeod, longtime member of Fay’s Admission Office staff and recipient of this year’s Laura Ducey Dedicated Service Award.

Niya Harris ’18 receives the Henry U. Harris Sr. Award from David Harris ’58, son of Henry Harris and Fay’s former President of the Board of Trustees.

NINTH GRADE SPECIAL AWARDS PRESENTED AT COMMENCEMENT The following ninth grade awards are selected by the entire Upper School faculty, except for the Head of School Award and the Harlow Flag award, whose recipients are selected by the Head of School.

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2017 Awards The White Team won this year’s Redmond Cup! Mwicigi Wainaina ’17 and Alexandra Brennan Mohn ’17 (outside) hand over the duties of White Team and Red Team President to Juan Pablo Corvera ’18 and Shane Kelly ’18, respectively.

UPPER SCHOOL AWARDS PRESENTED AT PRIZE DAY ARTS AWARDS

The Arline and Harvey Steinberg History Award:

Drama Award:

Fangzheng Kevin Zhou

Sophia Christiane Shay Art Award: Yuyang Gloria Sun Arion Foundation Award (Music): Alexandra Brennan Mohn

Mathematics Award: Yuyang Gloria Sun Annie Leavitt Memorial Award: Stephen Michael McNulty Philip G. Stevens ’14 Science Award:

Waldo B. Fay Memorial Award: Emma Barrett Reynolds Harvard Club Book Award: Stephen Michael McNulty Elizabeth Reinke Service Award: Kexu Scout Zhou Henry U. Harris Sr. Award:

ATHLETICS AWARDS

Yuyang Gloria Sun

Crump-Moody Award for Earnest Effort in Girls’ Athletics:

Wellness Department Award: Alexandra Brennan Mohn

Samantha Elizabeth Rivet

World Language Award:

Whitehouse Award for Earnest Effort in Boys’ Athletics:

Rachel Oluwafunmilayo Adelakun

Middle Floor Boys: Hin Ho Richard Shum

Kofi Oduro Prempeh

TOP SCHOLAR AWARDS

Sixth Form Girls: Nalinda Wanikpun

Highest Cumulative Averages

Annie Papadellis Award for Excellence in Girls’ Athletics: Elizabeth Josephine DeSimone

Grade Seven:

Niya Harris

DORM CITIZEN AWARDS:

Top Floor Boys: Keagan Ming Hui Tan

Zhouchen Jason Zhang

Top Floor Girls: Elizabeth Grace Bjorndalen Clark

Morris Award for Excellence in Boys’ Athletics:

Grade Eight:

Village Boys: Hien A. Truong

Stephen McNulty

Village Girls: Lorenza Enriquez

Connor Quinn Flaherty

Grade Nine:

Webster House: Sobenna Gwendolyn Egwuekwe

Derek Ng

ACADEMIC AWARDS Seaver R. Gilcreast English Award: Derek Zeus Ng ELP Award: Hien A. Truong

East House: Natalie Rie Cheng

SCHOOL COMMUNITY AWARDS Francis H. Tomes Memorial Award:

CHOATE PUBLIC SPEAKING AWARD:

Hoon HP Park

Nilufer Gulal

Scull Award for Composition:

Bruce Higbee Storkerson Memorial Award:

Colette Lynn Auyang

Natalie Anne Zaterka

Morrell Award for History: Aiden Warner

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Commencement 2017

Primary School Moving Up Ceremony

“Second graders: next year will bring a lot of changes, but you know what won’t change? Who you are and how hard you have worked this year—and, most importantly, that you have always given your best effort…Next year, think of all you learned in the Primary School, and just say that phrase, ‘I think I can.”’ —Teri Lawrence, Head of Primary School

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Commencement 2017

Lower School Closing Exercises and Special Awards

Sixth grade speakers Matthew Nemsick and Olivia Waterfall.

CITIZENSHIP AWARDS

Elise Rueppel, winner of the Elizabeth H. Scattergood Memorial Prize, and Nathan Kikonyogo, winner of the Eugene Kim O'Donnell Award.

“It is truly an honor to be affiliated with a school where good choices and effort are valued and expected. Each of you has made a unique contribution to this community, and today is our time to show you how proud we are of all of your work this year.” —Lainie Schuster, Head of Lower School

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Grade 3: Anna Percuoco Luca Conigliaro Grade 4: Josie Davis Evan DeMayo Grade 5: Maria Mironov Daniela Carvajal Grade 6: Dylan Prefontaine Kanav Sahani

EFFORT AWARDS Grade 3: Isabel Goddard Benjamin Morse Sophie Kamil

Grade 4: Owen Harrington Ashwini Menon Ava Maglieri Cayden Miu Grade 5: Nicole Qian Charlotte Crawford Charlie Kellett Grade 6: Lauren Glaser Casey Shapiro Caroline Hodi Avery King

SIXTH GRADE ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE AWARDS Erin Kim Jade Xiao

EUGENE KIM O'DONNELL AWARD

(Grade Five) Nathan Kikonyogo

ELIZABETH H. SCATTERGOOD MEMORIAL PRIZE

(Grade Six) Elise Rueppel

CLASS SPEAKERS Olivia Waterfall Matthew Nemsick

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Fayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Inaugural Alumni Hockey Game On February 25, 2017, twenty-one players from the classes of 1995 through 2014 faced off at Fay's first-ever alumni hockey game. The game, held at St. Markâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Gardner Hockey Rink, was refereed by Head of School Rob Gustavson and saw the return of beloved Coach Don Pacific, who came to cheer on many of his former players. Aubrey Baumbach '09 performed the ceremonial puck drop, and alumni generously made donations to the school in honor of Caitlin O'Hara '98. We would like to express our gratitude to Joe Palladino '98 and Jake Kim '07 for organizing this wonderful event, and we hope it marks the beginning of a great new Fay tradition!

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ALUMNI EVENTS

Alumni Reunion Day On Saturday, May 13, Fay welcomed alumni from classes ending in 2 and 7 back to campus for a day of reconnection and celebration. Alumni and their families participated in a range of activities designed to entertain and educate. They viewed the Advanced Studio Art Show (formerly known as Varsity Art) and visited the many booths featuring baked goods, fresh produce, and handmade items at the first-ever Fay Farmers Market in Harlow Circle, while younger visitors enjoyed a “Show and Touch” animal program featuring farm animals as well as some more exotic creatures. Those with a mind to re-live their Founders’ Day glory participated with their families in the Alumni Color Games. Primary School teacher Maria D’Eramo guided alumni through a “Paint and Sip” art activity in the Primary School art room, while Innovation Director David Dixon gave alumni a tour of Fay’s Innovation lab, instructing them on the use of the laser cutters and 3D printers as they created a memento of their visit to Fay.

The day concluded with the Fay Alumni Reunion Reception in the Primary School Commons, a building that fittingly combines old and new on Fay’s campus. Alumni, as well as current and former faculty members, gathered in front of the fireplace mantle preserved from the Common Room in Old Main to reconnect and reminisce. David Paquette ’87 presented Daintry Duffy Zaterka ’88 with this year’s Alumni Award, noting Daintry’s dedicated involvement with Fay as an alumna, current parent, and member of Fay’s Department of Marketing and Communications. “In her quiet, unassuming way,” he said, “Daintry is an expert in building community, listening to alumni, and celebrating those values that made our Fay experience so transformative.” Daintry Duffa Zaterka ’88 accepts this year’s Alumni Award.

Kinsley Burrill Perry '97 and Trevor Perry with Rob Gustavson.

Rich Rotman ’85, Jennifer Rotman, Cathy Logan, and Yuusuke Wada ’82.

Rich Rotman ’85, Andrew Pilaro ’85, David Paquette ’87, Rachel Sandler Diamond ’87, Holly Parmenter ’78, Ty Romijn ’87, Thor Benander ’87, Daintry Duffy Zaterka ’88, Yuusuke Wada ’82.

R EMEMBERING C HRIS P ILARO ’87 On Alumni Reunion Day, members of the Class of ’87 as well as current and former faculty members joined Andrew Pilaro ’85 in remembering his brother Chris ’87, who passed away earlier this year. Julie Cedrone, Minister at Pilgrim Church in Southborough, spoke about the tight bonds forged within the Fay community and read a letter from former Headmaster A. Brooks Harlow, Jr. ’49 that he wrote for the Class of 1987’s yearbook. Former faculty members Chips Norcross and Cathy Logan shared remembrances of Chris, as did current Associate Head of School Stu Rosenwald and Chris’s classmates. To read more about the life of Chris Pilaro, see In Memoriam on page 61.

Back row, left to right: Jon DeMello ’02, Dean Och ’02, Adam Och ’03, Kendall Tucker ’07, Stephanie Lee ’07, Brendon Stoner ’07, Jake Kim ’07, Matthew Haley ’02. Front row: Mariah Hayes ’07, Leigh Barton ’07, Hallie O’Connor ’07, Jillian Baumbach ’07, Jon Pezzoni ’07.

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Images by Michael Endicott ’69, clockwise from left: “Marrakesh Blues,” taken in Morocco; “After the Storm,” a photo that was developed from a shot of a cloth that covered a piece of scaffolding, and “Let Them Eat Cake.”

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DAVID SCOTT checked in with an update: “I retired 30 years ago and have lived in Melbourne, Florida ever since. This July, I am planning a river cruise from Budapest to Amsterdam, which I am looking forward to. I have two daughters and three granddaughters, all of whom live in the state of Virginia. The oldest granddaughter is a junior at Richmond University, and the other two are in high school. I am now in my 80th year and feel so fortunate to be able to putter around in my flower gardens in my spare time.”

DAVE WHITTEMORE reports that he and his wife Mary “enjoyed 10 fantastic days in Northern Italy with eight classmates, spouses, and friends of the Williams Class of 1961. We visited Bologna, Verona, and Lake Garda, with stops at wineries, a cheese maker in Parma, a factory that produces marble of all shapes and sizes, the first university in the world, a balsamic vinegar factory, and of course cathedrals. The food was spectacular. Go if you have the chance!”

CLASS NOTES

1969 GEORGE KING updated us with this news: “After 11 years as director of the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, I returned to New York to lead the American Federation of Arts, an international arts service organization based in New York City. Following that, I have been President of SNAP EDITIONS, a visual arts publications company that continued on page 52

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CLASS NOTES

58 YEARS LATER, A “NEW TEACHER” REVISITS FAY

teve Waters is the first one to admit that when he graduated from Yale in 1956, he was in need of a little guidance. “I took myself to the teacher placement office at Yale,” he recalls. “I had no idea what I was doing or where I would end up!”

Waters is a great guy, tall, fair, and somewhat handsome. He teaches history and does a fine job at it. His sense of humor is at the point of no return. He also has a wonderful way with children. If they make him mad, he calmly knocks them cold and peace is restored once more.”

Where he ended up was Fay and his very first teaching position. Under the guidance of Headmaster Harrison Reinke, Steve spent the first three years of his career teaching history to Fay boys and living in the dorms.

But unfortunately for the Fay boys, Steve was not long for Southborough. “After three years, I worried that I would become a lifer,” he recalls, and so he departed for Englewood School (later Dwight Englewood) IN A LIGHT-HEARTED ARTICLE where he taught for 11 years; then, he moved ENTITLED “FIVE BACHELORS on to St. Andrew’s School in Barrington, IN SEARCH OF A WIFE!” A Rhode Island, where he was head of school STUDENT WRITER NOTED for 21 years, and after that he served as head THAT “MR. WATERS IS A of school at Charles Armstrong School in GREAT GUY, TALL, FAIR, AND Belmont, California. At both St. Andrew’s SOMEWHAT HANDSOME. HE and Charles Armstrong, Steve championed TEACHES HISTORY AND the development of strategies to serve DOES A FINE JOB AT IT.” students with learning disabilities.

This spring, Steve and Alice, his wife of 53 years, returned to Fay to visit the campus and take in the many changes. We here at Brackett House were delighted at the opportunity to get a teacher’s perspective on what it was like to live and work at Fay in the 1950s. “I remember being surprised at the notion that boys as young as third and fourth grade could be sent away to live at boarding school,” Steve said. “I quickly learned that Fay was modeled on the tradition of the British boarding schools, and teachers like Doug Mann and Seaver Gilcreast were wonderful about helping me adjust to life at school.”

If the spring 1959 issue of The Pioneer is to be believed, Steve was a popular teacher. In a light-hearted article entitled “Five Bachelors in Search of a Wife!” a student writer noted that “Mr.

In a thank you note following his visit, Steve reflected on the many positive changes at Fay since his time here in the 1950s, noting, “For me, who has never left the profession for something other than ‘schools and kids,’ to see the changes from my beginnings to the present day is more than a matter of interest; it served as a reminder of what a blessing it is to serve in schools. Clearly Fay has survived, prevailed, and grown into a leadership role for the population it serves.”

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Tony Abbott ’49 with Alexandra Mohn ’17, one of the performers in this year’s spring musical, Bye Bye Birdie.

Damian Woetzel ’81 Named President of Julliard School In May, The Julliard School announced that Damian Woetzel ’81 would take over as its seventh president beginning July 2018. Damian is an internationally renowned dancer who spent 20 years as a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet. He currently serves as the director of the Aspen Institute Arts Program and the artistic director of the Vail Dance Festival. He holds a Master of Public Administration degree from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, was a visiting lecturer at Harvard Law School, and served on the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities from 2009 to 2017.

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produces catalogues and provides editorial support for museums, galleries, private collectors and others in this field. I am also the Executive Director of the Mystic Museum of Art, in Mystic, Connecticut. where I am in the process of revitalizing this wonderful seaside 105 years old museum.” MICHAEL ENDICOTT writes, “Over the past year, my artistic evolution has surprised even me when I look at what is hanging in the Edge of Frame Gallery now. Much of my work is quite abstract, and I am a solid Urban Nature Impressionist now. If you want to see a demo of how I play with the elements of light to alter our perception of the world around us, check out the SVOS Talk Art program at goo.gl/Kbmyas. I recommend a bowl of popcorn and your favorite libation for the half-hour show. If you are ever in San Francisco, I invite you to stop by the EoF Gallery. You can email me at michaelendicott@comcast.net to make sure I will be there and not out shooting. If you want to see to what I am up to, follow my daily postings on Instagram at MichaelBEndicott.”

1973 LAUREN COOK is living in Philadelphia and working as an archaeologist and environmental/historic preservation (EHP) specialist for Dewberry, Inc., a nationwide engineering company. He is also employed through them as a consultant to NISTAC, a program that supports FEMA public assistance projects. His most recent project involved research, recording, and analysis of an historic 19th-century shipwreck recovered during Hurricane Sandy-related construction on the New Jersey shore. JEFFREY JAY sent in a photo of himself with boxing great Sugar Ray Leonard! “In the photo, you can see me holding his first championship belt. Sugar Ray won world titles in five

weight divisions and an Olympic gold medal as an amateur in Montreal, after winning his five bouts in 5-0 decisions. Sugar Ray and I sparred in his gym and had lunch. These days, he spends his time playing golf and raising money for his foundation, which funds research in juvenile diabetes. We both also raise money for the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation, which is how we both first met.”

1978 From HOLLY PARMENTER: “It was a pleasure to represent our class at this year's 2017 reunion. Plans are in the works for our 40th reunion. I love keeping in touch with so many of you via social media, but I will send a class update to all through the mail as soon as I am organized! Best wishes to you!”

1982 JOSH FUTTERMAN is in the process of launching a new ecosystem accelerator and venture fund called The Gauntlet to jump start a powerful, diverse, cohesive tech community in Harlem, New York City. He keeps in touch with many classmates, most recently spending time with JIM EZRINE in Miami Beach. Josh and his wife, Isis, will be visiting ANNE DAVIS Gillet in the DC area in early July to celebrate her 50th birthday.

1984 CHRIS LAMAR-STERLING wrote in with this reflection: “Fay School made an important difference in my self esteem at an insecure time in my life (grades 7-9). And I remember the summer reading lists with fondness.”

1989 SARAH MILLARD has this update: “I'm still in Shanghai—it has been 10 years now. I will be home in New

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Hampshire this summer, and RISAKO YAMAMOTO '89 has already bought her tickets to come visit for a week, so I'm very excited!”

1990 JENNIFER SCHMIDT MORRISON writes in: "While visiting from Honolulu, I was so lucky to get to meet up with ELLYN JACOBS MURDOCK in Boston for the first time in over 20 years. Ellyn and I went on to Brooks together but hadn't seen each other since shortly after graduation. Ellyn has not changed a bit: same mannerisms, same haircut, same lip gloss,

same giggle; she looks great and it was so amazing to get to fill in the blanks of the last two decades. Here's hoping these reunions will turn into at least annual events, maybe with the next one even in Hawaii!"

1991 TRIS MILLARD checked in from New Orleans, with the news that he left J.P. Morgan seven months ago to start his own firm, Gulf Point Advisors. Tris always loves hearing from fellow alumni so if you are in New Orleans, look him up!

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Jeffrey Jay and Sugar Ray Leonard holding his first championship belt.

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Ellyn Jacobs Murdock (front) and Jennifer Schmidt Morrison, both Class of 1990.

Fighting Fake News: Ryan Riegg ’96 hen Ryan Riegg ’96 penned his first article last December, “Why Saudi Arabia may be preparing for war,” it was picked up by The Hill, where it quickly became the most popular article on the site. His second article, “Saudi’s religious restrictions cost it billions per year,” came out in January and made the front page of VOX, and his third piece, “What is Saudi going to do with its arms buildup?” made the front page of Newsweek.com in March. With this kind of traction, you might think that Ryan is a news correspondent for a major outlet, but that is not the case.

Ryan is a director of Aion Associates, a company that provides

consulting services to individuals and companies interested in developing markets in the Middle East, North Africa, and the Balkans. Based in the Balkans, Ryan was frustrated with the quality of Western news outlet coverage of the Middle East and decided to start a writers’ group called Lawyerence of Arabia, where people with insider knowledge of the Middle East and North Africa could share their honest experiences and opinions. Fighting the tide of “fake news” and biased coverage, Ryan hopes that the articles produced by his group will be a source for balanced and informed news about the region. For more of Ryan’s writing, visit the Lawyerence of Arabia Facebook page at Facebook.com/lawyerence.

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Journalist Courtney Body ’91 in a camp for internally displaced people (IDPs) outside of Mosul. “While I was there interviewing people,” she says, “a woman came up out of nowhere and handed me a baby, but she did eventually take it back.”

A Voice for the Displaced: Courtney Body ’91

ourtney Body’s Class Notes update could not have been a more perfect fit with this year’s schoolwide theme, Making a Positive Difference. A freelance journalist, Courtney spent four years at CNN in Atlanta and then six years in Afghanistan. She is currently based in Iraq and reporting on events in Iraq and Syria, focusing on telling the stories of families displaced by war. Courtney found her path early and marks the events of September 11 as the moment that crystallized her commitment to journalism. “I went to NYU and witnessed 9/11 happen while I was riding my bicycle downtown,” she recalls. “As an American journalist, I became very interested in the wars we then began fighting. I eventually went to Afghanistan and saw that the people there are not unlike you and me, that it's not all Taliban and burkas that one might see in the media, and I witnessed the

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accomplishments and mistakes the American government has made there.”

“I always look back and thank Fay for being such an international school and giving me a strong foundation at such a young age where I could learn about other cultures and people.” “I focus on human stories,” Courtney adds, “how Syrian teachers and parents try to educate their kids during the horrible war there, and here in Iraq, I'm focusing on the humanitarian issues for all the innocent civilians who have been forced to live under ISIS control in Mosul, which is now under intense violence as it's being liberated by the Iraqi forces. I always look back and thank Fay for being such an international school and giving me a strong foundation at such a young age where I could learn about other cultures and people.”

CHIP STONE writes, “I moved to Seattle early this year to take a job as Lead Brewer with Elysian Brewing. I work with a great team of brewers to make delicious beers during the week. On the weekends, my girlfriend and I are having fun exploring and discovering our new city, when the weather cuts us some slack and lets us outside.” Last October, MEREDITH BOWER HOLT became the Director of Membership & Development for the National Cannabis Industry Association in Denver after a decade of association management work in Washington, D.C. She writes that she is thrilled to bring her association expertise to an industry that's in a stage of both tremendous growth and that has benefitted her personally. Meredith has been featured in national news outlets discussing D.C.'s program and how cannabis has allowed her to dramatically reduce her prescribed opioids to treat a chronic pain condition. Meredith, her husband of nearly 7 years, Newton Holt, and their orange tabby cat Firn are happily adjusting to the laid-back lifestyle of Denver, and next season, Meredith hopes to get on skis for the first time since losing her leg. She's happily trying to decide where to donate all the business suits she'll never need to wear again. She can be reached at meredith@thecannabisindustry.org.

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ANDY KIM writes, “My wife just took up a job as one of the college counselors up at St. Paul's School in New Hampshire. I'll be working close by as one of the dermatologists at the Concord office of Dartmouth-Hitchcock. If anyone is up in our neck of the woods, we'd love to catch up!”

Update from KATHARINE BRINE: “I am a corporate recruiter at Simon-Kucher & Partners, a global consulting firm. Currently, I am living in Coolidge Corner in Brookline, and I married Josh Nason on June 17.”

2005 PHOEBE BACON sends this news: “I graduated from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in May, got married in June (with bridesmaid MILA BUCKNER '04, now a lawyer in San Francisco, by my side!), and am starting an obstetrics/gynecology residency in Boston this summer.” JANE SHIN writes, “I just graduated from the George Washington University Law School in May, and I plan on sitting for the D.C. Bar in July.”

2007 From JILLIAN BAUMBACH: “On Friday, November 25, 14 members of the Class of 2007 gathered together in Boston, many of whom hadn’t seen each other in years, to celebrate the Thanksgiving season. The night was filled with laughter and joy, as old stories from our Fay years were retold and the many memories of our classmates and teachers reemerged. It was exciting to reconnect with each other on a personal level and learn about the more recent successes of our peers. The Class of 2007 has traveled the world, immersed themselves in fields of study varying from music to engineer-

ing, and landed great jobs which have taken many outside of the greater Boston area to the cities of Philadelphia, New York, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles, to name a few. It was great to see everyone, almost 10 years after our graduation from Fay, and stroll down memory lane together.”

Kendall Tucker ’07 Named to Forbes’ “30 Under 30”

endall Tucker ’07, founder and CEO of Polis, a doorto-door canvassing app, was named to the 2017 Forbes Magazine “30 Under 30” list celebrating young entrepreneurs and innovators. The Polis app was created to help political campaigns organize and track the data analytics from their door-to-door canvassing operations. The app automatically creates efficient walk routes for each canvasser, allowing them to knock on 10% more doors per hour. The data they input into the app is automatically shared with headquarters, giving the campaign a valuable real-time win-

dow into the issues and their performance at a grassroots level. The desire for more and better data is clearly an issue that all parties can agree on, as Polis worked with 109 political organizations in the 2016 election cycle from across the political spectrum.

and social media to help companies knock on the right doors by identifying target customers that may already be interested in their goods or services.

However, Polis has big plans to expand its reach outside the political world. Tucker’s next move is to sell an enterprise-version of the Polis software to businesses that also run door-to-door sales operations like home security firms and solar companies. The pitch is that Polis can use data from online search forms

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2008 JAKE CAHILL is currently an AmeriCorps volunteer at Covenant Preparatory School, a tuition-free independent middle school for boys in Hartford, Connecticut. He teaches American history and pre-algebra, advises students, and serves as an assistant soccer coach.

2009 Olivia Fleming ’10 and George Mosko ’10 with art teachers Billy Claire, Jane McGinty, and Chris Kimball.

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Members of the Class of 2007 at a mini-reunion earlier this year. Left to right: Mike Abu, Brad Bero, Brianna Stefanini, Kristen Olsson, Chelsea Gruttadauria, Stephanie Lee, Patrick Ferguson, Kendall Tucker, Nivi Sundaraval, Dan Cmejla, Jillian Baumbach, Brendon Stoner, Annie Papadellis

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Head of School Rob Gustavson with Julia Wardwell ’09 and his sons, Jack ’12 and Henry ’17. Julia is currently the Youth Hockey Coordinator for the Boston Bruins; Henry is a rising sophomore at Deerfield Academy, and Jack is a rising sophomore at Michigan State University.

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This spring, AUBREY BAUMBACH worked for Fay’s Office of Advancement, helping on a range of alumni projects. She is also working steadily on her painting and recently shared a link to her website, www.aubreysodyssey.com. As Aubrey writes on her site, “I started painting because while recovering from my traumatic brain injury, which I sustained in November of 2013. I was looking for a new hobby, as I was no longer able to run or play sports, my previous love and passion; art seemed like a good idea.” A selection of Aubrey’s paintings is for sale on the site, with the goal of raising money for brain injury awareness and rehabilitation. This past spring, Aubrey created an original piece featuring Mortimer, the Fay Moose: the original painting, along with a limited series of reproductions, raised $8,750 for Fay!

2010 SOPHIA STEINERT-EVOY just completed her senior thesis in American Studies at Vassar College. She produced a podcast called A People Without, "a series on our personal relationships, histories, and geographies with America, Israel, and Palestine." You can find it at https://apeoplewithout.wordpress.com. CHRIS UHL graduated in May from Florida State University with a bachelor’s degree in sport management. He is now living in Dallas, Texas and is employed by the Dallas Cowboys as part of their operations and equipment staff. OLIVIA

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FLEMING and GEORGE MOSKO stopped by campus for a brief visit, and, Olivia wrote, “It was remarkable how many of the faculty were still there and remembered our time as their students, dorm parents, advisors, coaches and more! It was great to see all of the new

developments at Fay and delve into our childhood for an afternoon to visit a place that truly shaped us at such a young age.” Olivia just graduated from Vanderbilt with a degree in public policy and is headed to New York City, where she will be an incoming associate at

Capco, a financial management consulting firm. George just graduated from the University of Virginia with a bachelors of science in civil and environmental engineering with a focus in structural engineering; this fall, he will pursue his master’s degree at UVa.

Standing Up for Female Athletes: Isabelle Giordano ’14 ISABELLE GIORDANO ’14 was one of two local student athletes who represented her school at the Massachusetts Celebration of National Girls and Women in Sports Day at Faneuil Hall in Boston. Izzy, a member of Fay’s Class of 2014, graduated this June from Hopkinton High School, where she set nine track records (four individual and five as part of a relay team).

As co-captain of Hopkinton High School's track team, Izzy won the 1,000m and ran a leg on the winning 4x400m relay at the MIAA Division 3 Indoor Track & Field Championship and finished third at the All State Championship. At the New England High School Championships, Izzy took sixth place in the 1,000 meter, hitting a new personal record of 2:55.

At the New Balance Nationals, Izzy (as part of a relay team) earned the best time ever in Massachusetts in the Sprint Medley (200-200-400-800). Izzy is headed to Dartmouth College in the fall, where she will compete on Dartmouth's track and cross-country teams.

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Securing Opportunities for Future Students with a Planned Gift: Joyce Barton Bertschmann P ’07 hinking about Fay School always evokes pleasant memories for me. When we first toured Fay, the School’s core values struck me as timeless and focused on what’s really important. Effort grades provide such a valuable lesson in how hard work pays off.

Because Fay made all of these experiences possible for Leigh, I felt compelled to give back...to make the same opportunities available to other deserving students.

“Although it has been ten years since Leigh graduated, she still has many fond memories of Fay. She especially appreciated the wonderful support of teachers, even those with whom she never had a class; the flexibility in the curriculum which made it possible to add Latin II and Algebra II for students who had already completed the existing course offerings; and the many extracurricular activities she participated in, including choir, musical theater, competitive math team, and a wide variety of sports teams. Leigh also participated in a spring break trip to Spain led by two wonderful teachers, Ms. Argueta and Mme. Naumes. By the end of her three years at Fay, Leigh was well prepared for the next chapter of her academic life and beyond. “Because Fay made all of these experiences possible for Leigh, I felt compelled to give back, even if only in some small way, to make the same opportunities available to other deserving students. For these reasons, I have remembered Fay School in my will.” *** To explore further how a planned gift for Fay School may be right for you, please contact Stephen Gray, Senior Advancement Officer, at 508.490.8414 or sgray@fayschool.org. If you have already named Fay as a beneficiary in your will, please let us know. We would like to welcome you as a member of the School’s 1866 Society, which honors those who have provided a gift for Fay from their estate.

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1866 Society Honor Roll The 1866 Society pays tribute to those individuals who have helped ensure the continued vitality of Fay by providing a legacy gift to the School in their estate plans. Membership in the 1866 Society serves as an inspiration for all those who share Fay’s values and wish to make an invaluable contribution to securing Fay’s future. For information about the Society or legacy gift options, please contact Stephen Gray at sgray@fayschool.org or 508-490-8414. 1866 Society Members as of May 25, 2017

Mr. Kenneth A. Marshall, MD ’52, P’90 Watertown, Massachusetts

Mr. Robert S. Waters ’62 Vero Beach, Florida

Mr. Stephen P. Malasky ’81 North Palm Beach, Florida

Mr. Philip G. Stevens ’14, P’54* Maitland, Florida

Mr. Herbert L. Camp ’53, TR Irvington, New York

Mr. J. McKim Symington, Jr. ’62 McLean, Virginia

Mr. Edward T. Hall, FT* Edgecomb, Maine

Mr. and Mrs. John R. Camp ’16, P ’52, ’53, ’55* Middletown, Connecticut

Mr. David O. Whittemore ’53, P ’83, ’84 Marlborough, Massachusetts

Mr. W. Bristow Gannett, Jr. ’64 Missouri City, Texas

Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Robinson, Jr. P ’83 Stanardsville, Virginia

Mr. Charles E. Wood ’53 Southborough, Massachusetts

Mr. Thomas McKean ’64, TE Concord, Massachusetts

Lawrence A. O’Rourke P ’83 Framingham, Massachusetts

Mr. David Cheever III ’54 Belmont, Massachusetts

Mr. John D. Reichert ’66 San Pedro, California

Burton C. Gray, Jr. ’85 Washington, District of Columbia

Mr. Robert D. Gray ’55, FT Hobe Sound, Florida

Mr. LeRoy L. Walker III ’66 Stone Harbor, New Jersey

Ms. Susan Alfond P ’87 Portland, Maine

Mr. J. Thomas Chirurg ’56 Berkeley, California

Mr. Winfield A. Foreman III ’67 New York, New York

Dr. and Mrs. Craig Henderson P ’87 San Francisco, California

Mr. Lawrence J. Braman ’57 Cambridge, Massachusetts

Mr. Jonathan D. Chase ’68 Aventura, Florida

Dr. Reid B. Prichett ’87 Westfield, New Jersey

Mr. James F. Curtis ’57, FT Far Hills, New Jersey

Mr. Ford A. Edwards ’68 Reno, Nevada

Mr. Shelby K. Wagner ’87 Dallas, Texas

Mr. Leonard A. Grace ’57 Newport, Rhode Island

Mr. Edmund C. Lynch III ’68 Glen Cove, New York

Mr. Jason G. Duncan ’88 Hingham, Massachusetts

Mr. Will Brownell ’58 New York, New York

Mr. and Mrs. John L. Hettrick, Sr., P ’70* Buffalo, New York

Dr. and Mrs. Henry O. White FR Rockport, Maine

Mr. David W. Harris ’58, TR Stamford, Connecticut

Mr. and Mrs. Vincent P. Trunfio P ’71, ’75 Mr. Trevor P. Prichett ’89 Holliston, Massachusetts Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Dr. Frederick B. Brewster ’59 Silver Spring, Maryland

Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Werner P ’69, ’72* Mr. and Mrs. David W. McCoy P ’90 New York, New York Wellington, Florida

Dr. Edward C. Green ’59 Washington, District of Columbia

Mr. Harold A. Davis ’73 Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania

Mr. Glenn A. Prichett ’92 Dover, Massachusetts

Mr. Michael H. Holden ’59 Greenwich, Connecticut

Mr. Lawrence G. Davis ’74 Wilmington, Delaware

Mr. David Nelson P ’99, ’01, FT Framingham, Massachusetts

Mr. Daniel C. Burnes ’60 Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts

Mr. James C. Rhoades ’77 Lake Placid, New York

Mr. and Mrs. John A. Currie P ’02 Houston, Texas

Mr. Whitney A. Beals ’60 Southborough, Massachusetts

Mr. James P. Shay ’78, P ’15, ’17, TR Southborough, Massachusetts

Ms. BernaDette L. Session P ’02 Houston, Texas

Mr. R. Lansing Offen ’61, FT Scituate, Massachusetts

Dr. Katherine F. Worthington ’80 Hudson, Massachusetts

Mrs. Joyce Bertschmann P ’07 East Falmouth, Massachusetts

Mr. Peter G. DuPuy ’62* Keene, New Hampshire

Mrs. Claire Skrzypczak P ’76, ’78, ’81* Marlborough, Massachusetts

Mr. Michael G. Berolzheimer GP ’16 Stockton, California

Mr. Robert A. Pinkerton II ’17* Bay Shore, New York Mr. Robert Gilmor ’21* Newtown Square, Pennsylvania Mr. George A. Foreman, Jr. ’25* Kenmore, New York Mr. A. Watson Cocroft ’28* Providence, Rhode Island Mr. David R. Donovan ’29* Berryville, Virginia Mr. Robert M. Burnett ’30, P ’69* St. Croix, Virgin Islands Mr. Charles M. Fair, Jr. ’30* Wakefield, Rhode Island Mr. Efrem Zimbalist ’31* Solvang, California Prof. Michael D. Coe ’41 New Haven, Connecticut Mr. Forrest E. Mars, Jr. ’45* Big Horn, Wyoming Mr. Henry F. Wood ’45 Vero Beach, Florida Mr. George Adams ’46* Wrentham, Massachusetts Mr. Charles Bassett ’48* Acton, Massachusetts Dr. Anthony S. Abbott '49 Davidson, North Carolina Mr. Campbell Steward ’48, P ’78, TE Topsfield, Massachusetts Mrs. Carolyn Enders P ’51* Waterford, Connecticut

* denotes deceased

TE = Trustee Emeritus; FT = Former Trustee; FR = Friend; TR = Trustee

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In Memoriam SCOTT RICKETSON '45 March 15, 2017

MICHAEL BRODY ’53 April 3, 2017

Scott Ricketson died on March 15, 2017 at the age of 85. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he was the son of the late John Howland Ricketson and Anne Scott Ricketson. After graduating from Fay, he attended St. Mark’s School and Harvard University. He served in the U.S. Army and worked his entire career at John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company. Scott loved baseball, music of the 1930s and 1940s, and talking about his grandchildren. He is survived by his wife of 36 years, Elizabeth (Lisa) Whitman; two children, John H. Ricketson of Westford, Massachusetts, and Anne R. Avis of Palo Alto, California; and five grandchildren.

Michael I. Brody, 77, of Palm City, passed away unexpectedly April 3, 2017 at his residence. Michael lived in Palm City for eight years after relocating from the Philadelphia area. He is survived by his wife of 54 years, Judith Brody; son, James Brody, his wife, Karen and their children, Matthew and Kaitlin; daughter, Karen McIntyre, her husband William, and their son, Andrew. Michael was a member of the Stuart Corvette Club and the Isles Worth Community.

GRIFFITH ROSE ’49 April 12, 2016 Griffith Rose was born in 1936 in Los Angeles. After Fay, he attended Yale University in the early 1950s and also studied at the Hartt School of Music. He moved to Germany to attend the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Freiburg. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, he composed numerous pieces, among them viola concertos commissioned by the Composers Theatre in New York City and the ensemble 2e2m. The American Composers’ Alliance noted that his work was “often encoded with…significances that are known to the composer but may not be translated in listening…of numbers, names, lovers, friends, objects, games, works of art, quotations, and other systems of meaning.” Mr. Rose continued to compose into the 1980s and 1990s, and aside from a few trips to the United States for premieres and to visit family, he never returned to the States permanently. He passed away at his home in Paris on April 12, 2016.

LAWRENCE B. VAN INGEN III ’68 November 30, 2016 Lawrence B. “Laurie” Van Ingen III of Durango, Colorado, passed on Wednesday, November 30, 2016, at Mercy Regional Medical Center after complications from thyroid cancer. He was 63 years old. Laurie was born April 14, 1953, in New York City to the late Lawrence B. and Evelyn H. Van Ingen. After attending Fay, he graduated from Alfred University and received a master’s degree in geology at the University of Wyoming. Laurie married his college sweetheart, Laurie Noel, in 1977. They had two children before moving abroad with Mobil Oil in 1984. After living in Norway and a posting in Singapore, they settled in the DallasFort Worth area for 25 years. Laurie was a member of the St. Regis Yacht Club and the Anglers’ Club of New York, and he served on the board of Good Hope Plantation as well as several Christian ministries. He was an avid angler, railroad enthusiast, rockhound, skier, and hiker. After retiring to Durango in 2015, Laurie fulfilled his lifelong dream of volunteering as a Rail Ranger for the Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad and was able to share his passion for all things geological with visitors from around the world. Laurie is survived by his wife, Laurie, of 40 years; children Phil Van Ingen and Meg Fahrenbrook; sisters Anne Van Ingen, Mary Courtemanche, and Evelyn Fell; and nieces and nephews.

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RICHARD DOUGLAS WALES ’68 October 6, 2016 Rick Wales passed away peacefully, surrounded by his beloved wife, Betsy Halaby Wales, his adult stepchildren, Catherine, Ned, and Caroline Halaby, sister Kitty Wales, and oldest friend, Ned Walker. He was the son of Sonia Wales and Thomas C. Wales of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and brother of Tom Wales. A true Renaissance man, Rick could spout Coleridge, build a cabinet, and climb Denali. In his forties, Rick became a family man, embracing the roles of loving husband and stepfather. A talented photographer, he chronicled family events both big and small. An avid mountaineer, Rick summited Denali and several Cascadian peaks, often alongside his brother or nephew. He taught himself to draw, dabbled in carpentry, and experimented constantly with new technology. Near the end of his life, he dabbled in astrophysics. Rick worked at Fair Isaac for 17 years, most recently as Vice President of Engineering for the Software Tools division.

CHRISTOPHER PILARO ‘87 February 16, 2017 Christopher Anthony Pilaro—father, friend, filmmaker, philanthropist and fierce independent spirit—died February 16, 2017 at his home in Hailey, Idaho. He was 44 years old. Chris Pilaro was born in Paris, France, on July 6, 1972, and lived in Hong Kong; Southhampton, New York; Prescott, Arizona; Crested Butte and Ridgeway, Colorado; and Oakland, California, before settling in the Wood River Valley of Idaho in 2002. At Choate Rosemary Hall, Chris was a varsity lacrosse goalie and champion wrestler. At Prescott College, he trekked 30 days in Alaska's St. Elias Mountains and summited Mount Logan (19,551'), the largest mountain massif in the world and Canada's highest peak. He was an expert alpine skier, snowboarder, surfer, telemark skier, climber, and skateboarder.

As an Outward Bound mountaineering and rock-climbing instructor, he led dozens of trips around the West with a focus on at-risk youth. Through his work on several award-winning documentary films, Chris was a champion of the underdog and an advocate against injustice. Most recently, Chris was director and co-producer of "The Greater Good" (2011 Current TV), an investigation of vaccine safety. Chris believed deeply in the power of education. He served for 20 years as the Chair of the National Selection Committee for the Ron Brown Scholar Program, which has provided college grants to nearly 400 African-American high school students from around the country. Chris interviewed hundreds of applicants and in 2006 co-produced a book about their stories, I Have Risen. Throughout his life, Chris lived as if there was no guarantee of tomorrow. He was devoted to his two sons. He loved teaching them how to master the Hailey skatepark, ski on Baldy, fly-fish on the Big Wood, mountain bike out Croy Canyon, and travel the world. He is survived by his sons, Logan Fischer Pilaro and Zeppelin Anthony Pilaro of Hailey, Idaho; former wife Phoebe Izard Pilaro and rescue dog Shonipup; mother Linda Pilaro of New York City and father Tony Pilaro of Seoul, Korea; brother Andrew Pilaro ‘85, sister-in-law Fairley, and nephews Keeling, Chris, Finn ’16, and Boo Pilaro of Southhampton, New York.

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LAUREN KIERAN CAIN ’02 November 27, 2016 CAITLIN O’HARA ’98 December 20, 2016 Caitlin Elizabeth O’Hara was born on July 31, 1983 and passed away on December 20, 2016. An organ transplant is “a complicated concept,” Caitlin O’Hara once wrote. “Someone has to lose a life for you to get a chance,” she said in an essay she posted on the Cystic Fibrosis Lifestyle Foundation website while awaiting a double-lung transplant that would give her new hope. “As the old adage goes, there are no guarantees for anyone in life, and there is no guarantee that it will happen, that I will get to live an incredible life like I see my friends living.”

An AP art history class at St. Mark’s School set Caitlin on her way professionally. She attended George Washington University in Washington, D.C., until her health prompted a return to Boston. Drawn by its co-op program, she initially attended Northeastern University and worked as an intern at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Ultimately, Caitlin transferred to Boston College and received an art history award upon graduating. She worked as a gallery assistant at Polly Latham Asian Art in Boston and launched her own business, Knot Clothing. Switching to graphic design because it allowed her to work from home, she spent a few years with the Center for Digital Imaging Arts, which was affiliated with Boston University. In addition to her parents, Maryanne O’Hara (Bavaro) and Nick O’Hara, and her boyfriend, Andrew Sutryn of Wells, Maine, Caitlin leaves her grandmothers, Eileen Hore of Wexford, Ireland, and Florence Bavaro of Scarborough, Maine.

Diagnosed with cystic fibrosis on her second birthday, and initially not expected to live past 12, Caitlin had been on the transplant list nearly two years and eight months when the day for surgery finally arrived, a week before Christmas. Two days after the surgery, as complication followed complication, Caitlin died at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. She was 33 and had lived most of her life in Ashland and Boston.

Excerpted from Boston Globe, December 24, 2016

“I often said she was beautiful on the outside, but even more beautiful on the inside,” said her father, Nick. “Her caring heart for other people, and for other people’s plights, was always foremost.” To that end, she was a founder of Friends of the Prouty Garden, a group that tried unsuccessfully to save a place of tranquility she had treasured during her stays as a girl at Boston Children’s Hospital. “I walked into the Prouty Garden while somebody held the boxes attached to my chest tubes,” Caitlin told the Boston Globe in January 2015. “I found peace and reassurance. I felt the inspiration that nature gives you.”

Arline Clepelle Steinberg passed away on May 24, 2017. She was the wife of Fay Trustee Harvey Steinberg and a former co-chair of the Fay Grandparents’ Association. Mrs. Steinberg was a devoted mother to Brenda Steinberg of Framingham and Robert Steinberg of Newton and his late wife Wendy Steinberg; she also leaves her grandchildren, Melissa Kaufman ’02, Jonathan Kaufman ’05, Lea Steinberg ’14, and Jennifer Steinberg ’15.

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ARLINE STEINBERG former co-chair of the Fay Grandparents’ Association May 24, 2017

Faculty Profile:

Lauren Cilley Next year, Primary School teacher Lauren Cilley will take on the exciting new role of Program Coordinator for Fay’s new Early Learning Center (ELC), an early childhood program for children ages two years, nine months through age five. This is Lauren’s seventh year teaching at Fay, and we caught up with her recently to talk about the ELC, what fascinates her about early childhood education, and her dream road trip.

How will your role change as you take on the position of ELC Program Coordinator? This was my ninth year as a full-time classroom teacher. Next year, I’ll be planning curriculum, working with students and parents, and modeling teaching for our teachers and assistants. It will be rewarding to have one foot in the classroom and have an administrative role, too. What’s new and different about the ELC program? The program will still emphasize inquirybased learning and hands-on, play-based learning, but now it will be more accessible to a larger number of children. The ELC will also offer more hours and more flexibility for parents. Why is inquiry-based learning such a great way for kids to learn? With inquiry-based learning, we do all our literacy and number work within the context of topics that the children are authentically interested in. This fall, for example, was all about pets. What better way to learn how to write than by asking a pet owner a question that you are curious about and writing down the answer? During our pet project, the children also created an imaginary pet store

where they wrote numbers for the different costs of the pets in the store. The children’s inquiries are also scientific: they’re generating hypotheses, testing them, drawing conclusions, and communicating the information. What draws you to working with young children? In middle school, I had the opportunity to babysit during the day for a neighbor who had just had a baby. I looked after this little girl for three years, and I just fell in love with that age. Young children are so genuine, and they’re naturally curious and eager to learn. When they first learn their letters or learn how to write, they get so excited; it’s amazing to be a partner in that process and to guide them as they figure things out for themselves. What do you do outside of Fay? My husband and I love to travel. I’m going to Japan this summer, and we love to take road trips to national parks and go hiking. We just bought a house, so we’ll be doing a lot of work on that. What is your dream road trip? I would love to head up the west coast and drive through California, Oregon, and Washington.

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