Holderness School Today: Fall 2009 by Holderness School

H OLDERNESS S CHOOL TODAY Fall 2009

ARE WE HAVING FUN YET? Rediscovering the links between passion and learning.

INSIDE: Senior Honors Thesis Catching up with the Furlonges In Memorian: Sean Glew Commencement & Reunion â&#x20AC;&#x2122;09

So Hee Park ’12 provided some of the fine dancing that made last spring’s production of Chicago such a hit. See the story on page 25. Photo by Steve Solberg. Front cover: English teacher Janice Dahl is one half of the team teaching a new course called Western Civilization. Here she brings her subject matter down to floor level. See the story on page 10. Photo by Art Durity. Back cover: You can’t really understand Norman MacLean’s A River Runs Through It, says English teacher John Teaford, without knowing how to cast a fly rod. So Jordan Camp ’11 tries his luck. Photo by Steve Solberg.

Holderness School Board of Trustees Holderness School Today

Nelson Armstrong (Secretary)

Volume XXVII, No. 1

Frank Bonsal III ’82 F. Christopher Carney ’75 (Alumni Association President) Russell Cushman ’80 The Rev. Randolph Dales Nigel D. Furlonge

Features

Douglas H. Griswold ’66 James B. Hamblin II ’77 (Treasurer) Pearl Kane

Wouldn’t it be great? A few years back Chris Day and some other history

Peter K. Kimball ’72 Peter L. Macdonald ’60

teachers wondered if it might be possible to improve the

Paul Martini

school’s Senior Project program. Senior Project is now

Richard Nesbitt

Senior Honors Thesis, a program that puts Holderness in

Peter Nordblom Wilhelm Northrop ’88 (Vice-Chairperson)

the vanguard of a new movement towards kindling

R. Phillip Peck

intellectual passion in American independent schools.

Tamar Pichette William L. Prickett ’81 (Chairperson) Jake Reynolds ’86

Breaking down the silos

The Rt. Rev. V. Gene Robinson (President)

The existence of Senior Honors Thesis is having a positive

Ian Sanderson ’79

effect on the school’s entire curriculum: more real-world,

Jennifer A. Seeman ’88

more interdisciplinary, and better aligned with Special

John A. Straus

Programs.

Rose-Marie van Otterloo Ellyn Weisel ’86

Great good fortune Nigel Furlonge once viewed Holderness as a homonym for

Headmaster Emeritus The Rev. Brinton W. Woodward, Jr.

“wilderness.” He and his wife Nicole are well content teaching now at the Lawrenceville School, but they return

Honorary Trustees

regularly to this home in the wilderness.

Warren C. Cook Mayland H. Morse, Jr. ’38 Piper Orton ’74

W. Dexter Paine III ’79

IN MEMORIAM: Sean Glew, 1969-2009 History chair Sean Glew fell ill almost as soon as he

The Rt. Rev. Philip A. Smith

first arrived at Holderness last fall, and he passed away this

Gary A. Spiess

summer. In that very brief time he dispensed undying

The Rt. Rev. Douglas Theuner

lessons in humor, grace, and courage.

Departments

Holderness School Today Editor: Rick Carey Editor Emeritus: Jim Brewer Assistant Editors: Dee Black, Robert Caldwell, Jane McNulty, Phil Peck, Judith Solberg, Steve Solberg, Jo-Anne Strickland, Tracy White, Amy Woods Photography: Steve Solberg, Art Durity, Rick Carey, Phil Peck HST is printed on recycled paper three times each year by the Imperial Company. Please send notice of address changes to Jo-Anne Strickland, Alumni Office, Holderness School, P.O. Box 1879, Plymouth, NH 03264, or jstrickland@holderness.org. Jo-Anne may also be contacted at 603-779-5220.

From the Schoolhouse

Letters

Commencement ’09

Honor Roll

Around the Quad

Sports

Update: Faculty & Staff

Update: Former Faculty

Reunion ’09

Alumni Relations

Alumni in the News

Report of Appreciation

Class Notes

At This Point in Time

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From the

Schoolhouse

Above, faculty members Tiaan ’89 and Lindley ’89 van der Linde in Nepal. To the left and below, images from Tiaan’s slide show.

WO WEEKS AGO IN

CHAPEL

WE HEARD

TIAAN

VAN DER

LINDE

’89 give a talk/slide show about his Master’s thesis research

in Nepal. His Chapel talk was inspired by programs and

Head of School Phil Peck listens to Tiaan van der Linde’s report on his Master’s project and hears qualities that resonate throughout the whole Holderness community.

experiences that are both truly intellectual and truly Holderness. For example: •

This past summer’s All-School Read, The White Tiger,

which tells a story set in South Asia; •

The implementation of the Senior Honors Thesis program,

with its emphasis on field research; •

This coming spring’s Artward Bound, the theme of which

will be exploring new cultures. Of course Tiaan didn’t mention that trekking through Nepal felt surprisingly similar to OB. I could not be more proud of or thankful for the way that the life the mind is celebrated at Holderness. Academic rigor at Holderness is a given; we have an impressive number of AP classes in every discipline. What is really exciting about what is happening at Holderness now is that academic rigor alone is not enough. In this issue, you’ll read about the many ways in which Holderness is working to become the most intellectual community it can be. Peter Barnum, who was our Director of Admissions for 25 years, used to say that his ideal student was one whom you could put into a Volkswagen bug, drive across country (without a radio), and have both of

you end up liking each other more than before

the journey began. What he didn’t say, of course, was that such an outcome could only happen if the youngster had passion, curiosity, interest in others, empathy, a sense of humor, and asked questions. The common goal of our faculty and the programs they provide is to nurture these qualities to the extent that our students become truly intellectual, truly interesting, and truly passionate about ideas. Whether it is the way the Special Programs are evolving, or the new Western Civilization course for ninth-graders, or Senior Honors Thesis, or the All-School Read, or poetry contests, or simply the conversations held at tables in Weld Hall, I think you will see that the life of the mind is thriving at Holderness.

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Don and Pat Henderson accept the Theuner Award for service to Holderness at the 2008 Commencement.

Editor’s note: The following is a letter written by former history teacher and ski coach Don Henderson to former English teacher Norm Walker. Norm received the letter in July after

lucky I am and how beautiful everything is. Norm, Pat and I wish you and Phyllis the very best recovery and good luck.

the appearance of the spring issue of HST, with its article on Norm and fellow English teacher Jim Brewer [“Peregrines

Fondly, Don Henderson

in Flight”]. Norm was deeply grateful for the letter and says that it’s the first time he has ever heard Don relate anything

Editor’s Postscript: Don is correct that Mount Belvedere had

about his experiences in World War II. The letter appears in

been assaulted before—three times, to be exact—and that

HST with Don’s permission.

regiments of the 10th made a bayonet attack without covering artillery fire.Over the next three days the Germans

Dear Norm, I

HAVE KNOWN

launched seven counterattacks against the troops holding the JIM

FOR OVER FORTY YEARS, AND IN SPITE OF

his tragic affliction and son’s death, I have never heard him

peak. By the third day the division had suffered 850 casualties, including 195 dead, and had captured over 1,000 pris-

complain once. What he endures every day is plenty more

oners. The 10th held the peak, went on to shatter the

than most people can take. And you have had a late life-

German’s Apennine Mountain line, and then opened a path

awareness call—life can be capricious, cruel, and brief. I got my awareness call in April of 1945. At 19, I was

into the Po Valley for the US Fifth Army. The final phase of the war in Italy had begun.

already a seasoned combat infantry rifleman. On April 2, the 10th Mountain Division was ordered to take Mount Belvedere, a dominant peak in the northern Apennines. It had been attacked before, but to no avail. And it was stopping the Allied advance. This attack of 15,000 men took place at night with no artillery preparation, a surprise attack. The peak was heavily fortified and thoroughly plotted for German artillery fire. The affair went on for three days, all of which I spent in a foxhole—we had to dig every time we moved. When it ended, there wasn’t a tree standing for half a mile and half my company was dead or wounded. I made it, but two weeks later a shell burst sprayed my squad with shrapnel and I spent the next eight months in the hospital. So I had plenty of time to grasp the meaning then of what you told Rick Carey last spring: “This has been the best three months of my life.” I began looking at every day as the best day of my life. I still do. At least once a day I nod and remind myself of how

Holderness School Today

Wo u l d n ’ t I t B e . . . If American independent schools were true communities of scholars, where learning took precedence over SATs, where real intellectual passion fueled achievement, and where students could share those passions? And wouldn’t it be great if, on the strength of an innovative senior-year program, Holderness were one of the schools ahead of that curve? Story by Rick Carey

CHRIS DAY

REMEMBERS IT, THE IDEA STARTED TO TAKE SHAPE AL-

most spontaneously in history department meetings during the mid2000’s. “We began asking ourselves questions: ‘Wouldn’t it be great if…?’” he says. The most persistent of those wouldn’t-it-be-great

questions involved Senior Project. “Wouldn’t it be great,” Chris says, “if all

those projects involved serious research and learning about something that a student was passionately interested in? Some did—but not all. What if they were all like that?” Senior Project dates back to 1962, when

involve an internship at a business or non-profit. It

Holderness began allowing some seniors to carry

might involve earning certification in mountain res-

out an independent project in lieu of a spring sport.

cue, say, or SCUBA diving.

This option was formally endowed in 1969 by Mr. and Mrs. Norman McCulloch in memory of their

Reporting requirements varied, and the program was open-ended and flexible enough to allow

son Bill ’70. The program originally released par-

a motivated senior a way to combine individual

ticipating seniors from all classes in May in order,

passion with some effective form of experiential

wrote headmaster Don Hagerman in 1970, “to pur-

learning or public service. Those same virtues,

sue special interests not possible in the normal lim-

however, also ensured that some projects became

its of the school curriculum.” Eventually, for some, Senior Project became

more like a vacation dressed up in scholarly frills. “To put it gently,” says retired English teacher Jim

aligned with the Special Programs carried out in

Brewer, “the results of Senior Project over the

March, existing as an alternative to Senior

years tended to be uneven.”

Colloquium. For others—who might be skiing during Special Programs, say, or pursuing research or

Chris Day and his colleagues, however, weren’t responding to what Senior Project wasn’t.

activities unavailable in March—Senior Project

They were more interested in what it could be—

would still be done in May. “But it was the arrival

and by extension, what sort of place Holderness

of Advanced Placement [AP] courses,” says

School could be.

Director of Communications Steve Solberg, “that pushed the program out of May for many seniors.” This endowed and formal version of the pro-

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IN 1999

EDUCATION HISTORIAN

ARTHUR G. POWELL

paused to regard all the ways in which American

gram, however, was never defined strictly as an

independent schools had changed during the 20th

intellectual experience. Instead, by definition and

century (“Reflections on a Century of Independent

endowment, it was an outside-the-curriculum sort

Schools,” Education Week, October 20, 1999).

of thing. It might involve volunteer work. It might

Over the decades, Powell argues, independent

G R E AT ?

James Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Leary delivers the oral presentation of his Senior Honors Thesis on the role of athletic directors in building successful school sports programs.

schools had largely abandoned their original commitment

unpleasant tasks).”

to social exclusivity and moved closer to the cultural mainstream. “In many respects,” he says, “the prep

Learning, therefore, is a means to reaching other goals (building a good work ethic, getting into Harvard,

schools now resemble affluent public schools without

earning one’s fortune, etc.), and no one ever promised it

vocational education.”

would be fun. It’s all part of that mainstreaming process

Yet independent schools remain distinct in the public

he describes, one that recognizes that these days admis-

mind, Powell adds, because of what they have retained—

sion to an Ivy League school has more to do with great

most prominently a commitment to higher academic stan-

SATs and AP test results than blood lines. This is fairer,

dards, and the test scores to prove it: “Throughout this century, independent

more democratic, to be sure, but the process has also “increased, I believe, the barriers that prevent [indepen-

schools have relied heav-

dent schools] from becoming more ambitious educational-

ily on standards set up

ly.”

outside themselves—the prewar College Boards,

HISTORY

the postwar SATs, and

if” posed about Senior Project reached the ears of Head of

especially Advanced

School Phil Peck, who had been thinking along those

“WHAT-

same lines himself. Phil encouraged Chris to bring the idea before the Academic Committee. He and the history

sort can legitimize and

department did so, proposing something different enough

make accountable

from Senior Project to require a different name: Senior

schools’ work with criti-

Thesis. “The history department offered to give up some

knowledgeable parents

electives in order to implement something that they hoped

and college-admission

every senior would take advantage of,” Phil says. “It

This is good only so far as it goes, Powell

would be a year-long course framed around all the research, writing, and speaking skills that seniors would need in college.”

believes, and in his mind it doesn’t go far enough.

It actually wasn’t an entirely new idea. Fifteen years earlier former science teacher and Dean of Faculty Jim

There is an unfortunate distinction to be made, he writes,

Nourse—inspired by the call of school reformer Ted Sizer

“between the independent schools’ heavy emphasis on

that students should be allowed to demonstrate mastery of

academic achievement and their much weaker emphasis

subject matter in some public way—had proposed that

on cultivating enduring interests of mind.”

each senior should finish the year with the sort of standing

The italics are his, and he asserts that the latter aim celebrates that “reflective intellectual life which lies at the

exhibition that scientists prepare when presenting papers at a professional conference.

heart of all school encounters with the liberal arts.” That life, if it’s vibrant, bubbles forth in different sorts of activ-

“That idea never gained traction with the faculty as a whole, but several of us embraced it in our courses,” says

ities: public actions such as painting a watercolor, writing

Phil, who required exhibitions himself in the Advanced

a letter to the editor, leading an informal discussion on

Russian Studies course that he taught then.

some public issue; private ruminations on all the things

And Senior Thesis, as an idea, dovetailed nicely with

we read, watch, listen to, or talk about; such goal-directed

a new wrinkle then-Dean of Academic Affairs Janice

events as solving a problem or working out a puzzle; or

Pedrin-Nielson had added to Senior Project. She called it

actions that have “no tangible end product except the

Intellectual Odyssey, and it required just the sort of

enjoyment of the activity.” Independent schools are favorably tailored to foster

searching, academically rigorous project that Chris and others dreamed about for every senior. Each year, howev-

just this sort of thing, but Powell is dismayed to observe

er, only a handful of seniors chose to undertake such an

that most do not. Partly this has to do with attention to

odyssey. “But the results were always very exciting,” Phil

those test scores: “Academic achievement has always

says.

trumped intellectual engagement, because the results of academic performance have important short-term conse-

Meanwhile the Strategic Plan of 2003 was being implemented, one whose first goal was “to foster an

quences on college admission. The long-term results of

enhanced culture of intellectual achievement.” It promised

intellectual engagement are notoriously vague and hard to

more specifically that Holderness would “maximize its

measure.” And partly, he says, this gets tangled up with another worthy independent school characteristic retained from old-school models: a commitment to character develop-

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SAW TO IT THAT THE

examinations of the right

officers.”

CHRIS DAY

Placement. External

cal constituencies such as

Program founder Chris Day

TEACHER

commitment to enhancing, supporting, and celebrating the intellectual growth and academic and creative achievements of each student.” The words “intellectual” and “academic,” however,

ment—“Especially in the first half of the century, religion,

were not to be taken for synonyms, nor are they to be

team sports, and even academics were considered charac-

now. “Holderness has always done a great job developing

ter-building mainstays (the latter because they taught dis-

the academic side of each student’s potential,” says Pearl

cipline and perseverance in the face of difficult or often

Kane, Director of the Klingenstein Center at Columbia’s

Teachers College and a Holderness trustee since 2002.

constituted a successful Capstone program, and to see

“We wanted to go beyond that by fostering the sort of

what other schools were doing along that line,” Chris

intellectual learning that can’t be contained within a

says. “One thing that struck me was the degree to

classroom, that spills over into conversations in the

which a good program really has to percolate upwards

dorms and the dining hall about ideas and national

from the culture and circumstances of each particular

issues.”

school. You can’t just try to replicate what one school

The terms are used, in other words, as Arthur G.

is doing and expect it to work at yours.”

Powell uses them, to distinguish between what must be done, say, to prepare for an AP exam, versus what

Chris returned to Holderness in 2006, immediately leading the implementation of a pilot version of

might be done if learning were less of a task and a

Capstone. Granting that any good program was

means to an end, were less the sort of duty that builds

unique to its own school, he had nonetheless defined

stern character, and were more of a sheer indulgence,

a number of characteristics common to all effective

more the kind of self-sustaining passion that asks

programs while he was at Columbia. At the same

“what-if” questions all the time, just for the specula-

time, Janice Pedrin-Nielson and the Academic

tive joy of it.

Committee had produced a set of characteristics com-

In very much a grass-roots fashion, beginning

mon to successful Intellectual Odyssey projects.

long before the publication of Powell’s influential

Remarkably, there was an almost complete conver-

article, Holderness had set its course on becoming

gence between these two separate visions. The result

“more ambitious educationally,” on planting the seeds

was seven guiding principles for the new program, all

of “enduring interests of mind” in its students. And its

comfortably tailored to Holderness’s culture and cir-

reformers were nearly unanimous in the belief that

cumstances:

Senior Project, after a little re-imagining and revision, could be the tide that lifts all boats.

A student’s personal interest or passion leads to an essential question that directs the project.

CHRIS DAY’S

PROPOSAL FOR

SENIOR THESIS

DID NOT

get beyond the Academic Committee. There were too

There is research and directed learning in order to

many as yet unanswered questions about staffing,

answer the question.

costs, scheduling, and program design. But Phil Peck and others thought it was worth some more thought—

There is mentoring by at least one adult who has

and worth getting good answers to those questions.

experience in the field.

Phil encouraged Chris to apply for a grant from the Maine-based E.E. Ford Foundation, whose broad-

There is an experiential component along with the

based mission is the improvement of American inde-

research that adds a “reality check” to the course of

pendent schools. The grant came through, along with

the research or learning.

financial help from such enthusiasts as former trustee Dexter Paine and his wife Susan, and also current

There is both a written report and a public presenta-

trustee John Straus and his wife Diane.

tion.

There is an unfortunate distinction to be made, Powell writes, “between the independent schools’ heavy emphasis on academic achievement and their much weaker emphasis on cultivating enduring interests of mind.” That provided start-up money for a program that now went by a different name, thanks to its latest re-

There is also a final product that may come in the

imagining—not Senior Thesis, but the Capstone pro-

form of a scholarly paper, a high-quality perform-

gram, this term more suggestive of both a climactic

ance, a work of art, or another finished piece of high

event and an element that works in concert with other

quality.

parts of the curriculum. The funding also paid for a year of research and study (an intellectual odyssey, as

The final product is presented to a real audience that

it were) for Chris at Pearl Kane’s Klingenstein Center

is appropriate to the event.

during the 2005-06 school year. “It gave me a chance to really focus on what

The pilot version of the program ran in tandem

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Its real purpose is to rebuild the links between learning and those things children originally bring to it: playfulness, curiosity, and genuine personal investment. with Senior Project in the spring of 2007, attracting 32 partici-

do with an understanding of what the program is all about, and

pants who began their work during the Special Programs peri-

how it works—understanding also that the challenge is worth

od and then—as with Senior Project—completed their projects

it, that there’s a real payoff for all the work and discomfort.”

as a responsibility above and beyond their regular five-subject

Steve understands that it’s going to take time, as it did for Out Back, for Senior Honors Thesis to become part of

course load. In 2007-08 Capstone entered the curriculum as a formal

Holderness culture, and that the whole community needs to

program, itself a semester-long spring course, while Senior

understand the program better. There are two key constituen-

Project was officially retired. With space in the daily schedule

cies, though, whose understanding is crucial. One is younger

dedicated to Capstone, seniors were able to meet with faculty

students, and making sure that all of them saw some Capstone

mentors as part of a small group of other Capstone students. In

presentations last spring will help a lot in cultivating that

that setting the program’s 30 participants were able to share

understanding. So will direct marketing: Steve went into junior

research techniques, review each other’s work and progress,

English classes year before course sign-ups in the spring to

and simply support each other throughout the semester. In

discuss the program and, he says, “encourage participation for

May each student sent out invitations to his or her final pres-

practical reasons (college admissions) and for philosophical

entation, and these were held at various times and in various

reasons on behalf of independent learning.” And so will the curriculum reform propelled by the 2007

settings throughout the campus.

Strategic Plan, one whose first goal is to “nurture and inspire

Last year Chris Day became Director of College Counseling, and Steve Solberg—a 2008 graduate of the sum-

intellectual achievement and exploration throughout the

mer Klingenstein program—took over the reins of the

Holderness community.” Senior Honors Thesis is now viewed

Capstone program. The program itself continued to evolve: its

as the climactic event in this exploration, and the school’s

research and experiential components were front-loaded to the

leadership is working to point the subject matter of each

beginning of the semester, and the format of the presentations

course, and the manner in which it is taught, towards prepara-

was overhauled. “The invitation method got us a focused and

tion for that event. This year, for example, all ninth-graders

appreciative audience,” says Steve, “but to expand the pro-

will take Western Civilization, a new course that not only inte-

gram over time, we needed everyone to see and appreciate

grates art, literature, and history, but that emphasizes the

what was possible. So we modified the school schedule to

research, organization, writing, and presentation skills that will

accommodate two ‘Afternoon at the Capstone’ events. All the

later be crucial to Senior Honors Thesis [see the accompnay-

presentations were mounted during those times, and we made

ing article on page 10].

it mandatory for everybody to attend at least two. That not only ensured bigger audiences, but helped younger students to

The second key constituency are those college admission officers, and hence the recent name change. “We found that the term ‘Capstone’ didn’t really mean anything to the col-

understand the program better.”

leges,” Chris Day says. “It was hard to describe and quantify

Surprisingly, and at the prompting of the Board of Trustees’ Academic Committee, Steve has also found it neces-

to their admission officers, especially since it was a course that

sary to rename the program: no longer Capstone, but Senior

took place after they had made their decisions. But if you call it ‘Senior Honors Thesis,’ then it’s easy for a college to see

Honors Thesis. An intriguing irony is concealed in that.

that this candidate is going to do some serious independent ENROLLMENT

SENIOR HONORS THESIS

LAST SPRING WAS

22.

involve writing a thesis, and that this is a course taught at the

ambitious nature of projects that ranged from athletics to med-

honors level of the curriculum.”

icine, the environment to politics, community service to science. The results, not unexpectedly, varied in quality.

It’s a matter of nomenclature, finally, and one that recognizes that 20th century independent school success story

Nonetheless Steve would have liked to have had more of

described by Arthur G. Powell: a commitment to academic

them, as would the rest of the school’s leadership.

rigor that is accountable to college admission officers. The

By now the rigor, of course, is built into the program— vacation-seeking spring swooners need not apply.

“We’ve

course may occur on the far side of that admission process, but a candidate who has signed up for it has another Honors-level

raised the bar on the standards for this program over its short

credit in waiting on his or her transcript, and—since character

history, and by now the bar is pretty high,” says Steve. “In his-

matters as well—the candidate also demonstrates the disci-

torical terms, I think it’s helpful to remember Out Back. Ten

pline and resolve to sprint all the way to the finish line in

days sleeping out in the snow in March? Are you kidding me?

spring and not slack off. The colleges like that.

Out Back wasn’t all that popular when it first began. It

college-preparatory work in the spring, that the work will

Steve and other faculty members were entirely happy with the

Therein lies the irony. “If Senior Honors Thesis makes

remains an optional program, but it’s part of our culture now,

the kids who take it more likely to get into the colleges of their

and 95 per cent of our juniors choose that option. Partly that

choice, great,” says Steve Solberg. “But its real purpose is

has to do with positive peer pressure, but a bigger part has to

more subversive than that.”

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Starting with passion: The Senior Honors Thesis program at Holderness School

Amelia Simmons

(Reprinted by permission from the Union Leader newspaper, July 7, 2009.)

“The program in many ways turns traditional education on its head.” - Steve Solberg Program Director

MELIA SIMMONS OF SANDWICH, NH, DREAMS OF being a surgeon someday, and also of being a mother. She wondered if those dreams could really be combined. Ian Nesbitt of Williamstown, MA, who is an AllNew England nordic skier, wanted to know if Holderness School’s nordic race course could be adapted to support the large national and international events in which he hopes someday to compete. And So Hyun Lee of Kyungkido, Korea, who won the top drawing award at last winter’s New Hampshire Juried High School Art Exhibit, was intrigued by the role of accident and serendipity in the creative process. These were three Holderness School seniors whose dreams and passions also raised questions, and who were therefore natural candidates for Holderness’s innovative Senior Honors Thesis program. “If a senior chooses to go into the program, which runs during the spring semester,” says program director Steve Solberg, “then he or she will carry out a lot of independent scholarship on some subject of intense interest to that person. The program’s first guiding principle insists that the student’s interest or passion leads to an essential question, and this question is what directs the project.” The thesis project then becomes one of five courses that a Holderness student takes in the spring. This course, though, takes place outside the classroom. Students’ research might sometimes take them off-campus, or might involve travel during Holderness’s two weeks of vacation in March. “There is a serious academic side to the program,” says Solberg, “but we also want there to be an experiential aspect to it that guarantees ‘realworld’ engagement. Often students need to find and interview experts in the fields related to their questions. They might need to arrange some sort of internship during March, or carry out directed learning here in the local area during the course of the semester. But we like there to be some sort of a fieldwork component.” The student is mentored throughout the project by a faculty member who also has knowledge of the student’s subject, and each student is also part of a small group of other Senior Honors Thesis members. Solberg says that these groups meet periodically “to introduce the latest research techniques, review progress, conduct peer editing and feedback, and provide an atmosphere of accountability and support throughout the year.” At the end of the semester there is more accountability. Each student submits a written report

and provides a public presentation to some portion of the school community. There is also a formal final product. “This might come in the form of a scholarly paper,” says Solberg, “or a high-quality performance, or works of art, or some other finished piece of high quality.” The final product is also, at last, an answer. Amelia Simmons discovered that there are a number of young female surgeons who also are mothers, and who have advice about succeeding at both. Ian Nesbitt immersed himself in the complex rules of course design set forth by the International Ski Federation and found ways that Holderness’s nordic course might feasibly be adapted. So Hyun Lee found that serendipity is something that happens in the borderland between tradition and coincidence in art, and is one of the engines driving tradition forward. Each student can now take those answers to college, whether that be Williams (both Amelia and Ian) or the Parsons School of Design (So Hyun). “More important, though, are the skills they developed in the course of carrying out the project,” says Solberg. “Skills like initiative, discipline, creativity, and resourcefulness.” He notes that more and more colleges are looking for students who have carried out this sort of climactic academic experience. Senior Honors Thesis is now in its fourth year of implementation at Holderness, but Solberg adds that it doesn’t exist for the sake of college admission officers. “The program in many ways turns traditional education on its head, starting not with a set curriculum provided and dictated by the school, but instead with an individual student’s passion,” he says. “As a result, each participant in the program develops not only important skills, but also a deep and abiding intellectual curiosity in their topic, as well as a sense of responsibility for their own learning.”

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Breaking Down the Silos: How dialogue between the disciplines, connections to Special Programs, and big doses of the real world break trail towards Senior Honors Thesis.

SENIOR HONORS Thesis—as an intellectual exercise—is its breadth. Nearly any project that a student might design will draw on a wide spectrum of skills, concepts, and subject areas, and the certainty of that is already having an effect on the school’s curriculum, which itself is steadily growing broader, more challenging, and more interconnected. Let’s start with a brand new course this year, Western Civilization, required for all ninth-graders and taught jointly by English teacher Janice Dahl and history teacher Renee Lewis. “So, for example, as we study Greek history, we’ll also read The Odyssey,” says Renee. “Roman history will be supplemented by Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, and the Middle Ages by the poetry and prose of that era.” Interdisciplinary to its core, the course will also cover art history. At its most fundamental level, though, it will be a course in how to learn, how to be a student at Holderness. “We’ll teach note-taking, research skills, Western study habits, grammar, oral presentaCivilization tions, test preparation, and so forth,” students Janice adds. “We’ll start them right off Lauren with the sort of higher-order thinking and Stride ’13, left, and the ability to make connections that stuXajaah dents will need later for Senior Honors WilliamsThesis.” Flores ’13. Students are also being asked to make connections not just between different subject areas, but between different experiences—the classroom, for example, and a Special Program such as Out Back. English III teacher John Teaford, for example, asks his students to bring something back with them from Out Back, something that in some way acted as a talisman for them during that experience. John’s students first write essays on the psychology of talismans or good luck charms, and then make oral presentation on their personal objects. John himself takes photographs of each with his or her object, and these combine with the essays and transcribed presentations into a set of summary exhibits. “The important thing in the presentations is that the talk is not about yourself,” John says. “Instead it’s about the object, and through that we glimpse the personality. It might be something as simple as a stick that tripped you, or the Red Sox cap you always wear. Or something very moving—like Niko Uola ’07’s ‘Lion of Finland’ medallion, worn by his grandfather as a member of the Finnish resistance during World War II.” Sometimes the outdoors is itself your subject matter. Lindley van der Linde ’89 teaches Advanced Placement (AP) Environmental Science, where her students get out of their seats and learn what fieldwork is like. “We teach how natural systems work, so it’s very place-based,” she says. “We learn how to measure the health of a system by its water quality, or the health of a habitat by variables of light, soil quality, moisture, species diversity, and so forth. Then we use a lot of statistics in evaluating our data.” Students eventually carry out final projects, such as that done last spring by Erica Hamlin ’10 and Faith Barnum ’09. They went online and out into the local farming community to examine the advantages and drawbacks of buying locally grown foods. NE OF THE MOST APPEALING CHARACTERISTICS OF

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Reggie Pettitt teaches a complementary course, Advanced Environmental Science. “This is just as much a course suitable for the brightest and the best as AP Enviro,” Reggie says, “with the advantage that you as a teacher can be more responsive to the immediate issues of the day, and to opportunities that might arise, than you might be within a prescribed AP curriculum.” Some of those opportunities will involve common ground between art and science, ground that Reggie himself ranged over during his sabbatical last year in the Henderson/Brewer Chair Program in a study of the literature and films of the North. The new chair of the math department, Mike Peller, looks forward to teaching two new honors-level math courses—Multi-Variable Calculus and Calculus-Based Physics—that will range far beyond theoretical math into nitty-gritty issues of science, technology, and engineering. “Math and science should be taught together,” Mike says. “You need math in order to accomplish real science, and science in turn drives the need for ever more sophisticated mathematical tools and models.” Mike says that his students will be tackling real-world problems, helping the school’s science classes to process their raw data, and sharing information about their work and findings on a WikiSpace page that they’ll construct themselves. Perhaps no department benefits from strong doses of the real world so much as the foreign language department. For the past two years a number of the school’s Spanish students have gotten plenty of that during a 15-day summer excursion to Antigua, Guatemala. “We take students at all levels and each student gets forty hours of one-on-one language instruction,” says Tobi Pfeninger, who accompanies the Holderness group to the Escuela San José el Viejo. They get more than that as well: field trips that open windows into Meso-American history, geography, geology, and culture; and nitty-gritty challenges on the order, say, of visiting an Antigua market, bartering for a piece of fruit, preparing the fruit as part of a meal, and finally presenting an oral report on that fruit in Spanish. “They also come back with a new appreciation,” laughs Tobi, “for such gifts as clear running water, for example.” Head of School Phil Peck likes what he sees, all across the curriculum, and has an evocative phrase—“breaking down the silos”—to describe a wholesale dissolution of boundaries: between English and history; between speaking and writing; between math and science; between the hard sciences and the humanities; between the classroom and everything else (the outdoors, the market, the engineering lab, etc.). “It’s happening in and between the departments themselves,” he adds. “Department chairs are out visiting the classes of teachers in their departments and really growing into their roles as instructional leaders. Teachers themselves are visiting classes outside their departments. We have a new sense of dialogue between the disciplines, and between individuals who are really passionate about teaching and about learning.”

The mind of program director Steve Solberg is, well, aglow with hopes for Senior Honors Thesis.

Its real purpose, most directly, is to find the answer to a question that a student really wants answered. Last year, for example,

Holderness to become among the most intellectual independent schools in America.”

Nate Fuller wondered what it might take to develop and reside in an environmentally sustainable dormitory. Sumner Ford wondered if

actions or policies on the part of the state could truly create financial

Hagerman introduced Senior Project as a way to allow students to

WOULD CLOSE SOMETHING LIKE A CIRCLE.

FORTY

YEARS AGO

DON

equity in schools. Julian Barthold was curious about the interplay

“pursue special interests not possible in the normal limits of the

between technical advances and human physiological limits in under-

school curriculum.” With Senior Honors Thesis, those “normal lim-

sea exploration. Sophia Schwartz wanted to know if ski helmets

its” become wide enough to accommodate special interests, at least

could be made more effective in preventing concussions. And off

of an intellectual persuasion, and the preparation for their pursuit will

they went.

begin in the ninth-grade year within that curriculum.

At the same time, and beyond that, its real purpose is to rebuild the links between learning and those things that children originally

Powell observes that a school’s success in creating this kind of engagement, and sustaining such a culture, is notoriously hard to

bring to it—things such as playfulness, curiosity, and real personal

measure—hence the appeal of academic measuring instruments like

investment—before learning was re-defined along the way as a suck-

the SATs and AP exams, and the crisp numbers they provide. But

it-up process of grinding your way through the next test or big paper.

Pearl Kane has a simple number-based method for measuring the

To that end, of course, it’s all well and good that Senior Honors

success of Seniors Honors Thesis. She says, “We’ll look to see how

Thesis grades arrive after college admissions are wrapped up.

many choose to do it in the coming years.”

And the program’s real purpose, fundamentally, is to create and

Steve Solberg surveys the last several decades of independent

sustain across the whole campus the sense of intellectual engage-

school education and recalls how instrumental independent schools

ment, those enduring interests of mind, that Powell sees as the real

as a group were in fostering the growth of AP courses and testing,

purview of independent schools. If that occurs—and as the school’s

both in their own ranks and in public schools. He acknowledges and

curriculum as a whole becomes more integrated, more interdiscipli-

honors that growth, but thinks it’s time for places like Holderness to

nary, and more focused toward Senior Honors Thesis as its culminat-

be less like public schools, and more like communities of passion,

ing Outback-of-the-Mind sort of experience [see sidebar]—then the

intellect, and learning—schools such as Chris Day, Phil Peck, and

new program will become, well, the capstone to a culture of what

Pete Durnan dream about; places that Arthur G. Powell describes as

Powell describes as “reflective intellectual life,” one catching up all

“private schools with public purposes.”

Holderness community members within it. Academic Dean Pete Durnan sees it just that way, describing his

Steve smiles as he thinks about it, probably in much the same way that Chris Day and his history department colleagues smiled

hopes for a program that will stand, he says, as “the culmination of

some years ago as they asked what if. “Wouldn’t it be great,” Steve

our academic curriculum, the highest expression of student intellec-

says, “if it were the independent schools that established this model

tual life.”

of learning for its own sake, rather than for a test score? Wouldn’t it

Phil Peck adds, “High academics are a given at Holderness, and they always will be. But Senior Honors Thesis holds the promise of

be great if it all came full circle like that, and Holderness was out there ahead of the curve?”

something more, not the least of which is my hope that it will help

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Catching up with... Nigel

Nicole

Furlonge

The Academic Dean of the Lawrenceville School in New Jersey leads a workshop for parents during that school’s Parents Weekend.

Great Good Fortune

The Furlonges know themselves to be very fortunate in having attended great schools and in having taught at great schools. That doesn’t stop them from questioning how learning best happens in the first place, nor from insisting on greater access and equity in education. Story by Rick Carey Photos by Paloma Torres

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ORMER

HOLDERNESS

TEACH-

instead just a matter of nailing good

ers Nigel and Nicole

grades. So we wonder where and how

Furlonge are in the middle

does that happen?”

of an intense period of

experiential learning right now. So are Logan and

Lucas Furlonge, four and two, respec-

It’s just the sort of question that absorbs dedicated teachers—even those who never initially imagined themselves as teachers. Since 2007 Nigel has been

tively. “Nicole is home-schooling them,

the Academic Dean of the Lawrenceville

and it’s great to see the curiosity they

School in Lawrenceville, New Jersey.

bring to each day of their lives,” Nigel

But after attending the Boston Latin

says. “It’s making me think hard about

School, and in 1994 earning a B.A. in

the design of the academic and intellec-

American history from the University of

tual experiences our schools provide.”

Pennsylvania, Nigel had determined

Nicole is thinking hard as well.

only that he didn’t want to work in a

“Just the other day Lucas asked me who

cubicle somewhere. He knew hardly a

made this house, and what tools did he

thing about independent schools, but on

use,” she says. “He’s already asking

a whim went to an independent school

self-prompted critical thinking-level

job fair someone had told him about.

questions, and we hope he’ll still be doing that in high school. But so often

“I’d certainly never heard of Holderness, which sounded sort of like

that curiosity and willingness to take

‘wilderness’ to me,” Nigel laughs. “Phil

risks gets lost along the way. It becomes

Peck was standing all alone at the

Holderness table at the end of the day, and look-

opportunity to live in a different part of the coun-

ing forlorn. I went over and asked him, ‘You hav-

try and learn about a different school.” They took advantage of another such oppor-

ing a good day?’” It turned out, actually, to be a very good day.

tunity in 2007, when Nigel was offered his current

Nigel came to the wilderness to teach history and

position at Lawrenceville. He has earned Master’s

also serve not only as the school’s first Director of

degrees from Villanova (American history) and

Diversity, but its first African-American teacher. “I actually felt guilty, assigning such respon-

Columbia (educational leadership), and has the same summer job that Phil Peck once held:

sibilities to someone just out of college,” Phil tells

Master History Teacher at Columbia’s

Nigel. “But I was also so impressed—and

Klingenstein Summer Institute. Since 2004 he has

inspired—seeing the courage with which you took

also served as the lead teacher at Milton

all that on.”

Academy’s Boarding School Conference.

“Well, everything was so different for me,”

Meanwhile Nicole has earned a Ph.D. in

Nigel says. “Living in a small town, teaching and

American literature from Penn. She went to

coaching for the first time. There wasn’t time to

school with Nigel at Boston Latin and Penn, and

focus on any one issue. And there were students

then accompanied him to that fateful school fair

of color there, kids who needed someone else

in 1994.

with similar identity issues to theirs. I felt I had

And she knows something very personal

something to contribute, and of course that’s what

about fate. Besides mothering and teaching, she’s

any faculty member needs—the sense that they’re

now working on a book—a history of the Lund Family Center in Burlington, Vermont, a place

making a difference.” Phil can see in retrospect that Nigel—and

founded in 1890 as the Home for Friendless

Nicole, who married Nigel in the Chapel of the

Women, and the place from which Nicole herself

Holy Cross in 1996, and then joined him on the

was adopted. “My birth mother,” says Nicole,

faculty that fall—made a huge difference. “We’ve

“was a teen-aged girl who went there to have her

gone from having just a handful of kids of color

baby and then yield it up for adoption. And I was

on campus to a very robust diversity program, one

very fortunate to be adopted. Most families were

that has racial, ethnic, and international dimen-

interested only in white babies, and my story—as

sions,” Phil says. “Your vision was a large part of

a person of color adopted into a family of color—

that.”

is one that’s not really represented in our accounts of that time. So this is a place that in a very strong

IN 2000

THE

FURLONGES

LEFT FOR

ST. ANDREW’S

sense of the word is home for me, and I may be

School in Maryland, where Nigel swiftly rose to

coupling this history with some reflections on my

the position of Director of Academic Studies. “It

own experience there.”

wasn’t that there was anything wrong at Holderness,” Nigel explains. “We just had an

Nicole returns to that home now at regular intervals to comb through the Lund Center’s

Lucas, left, and Logan are Nicole’s current star pupils.

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Nicole taught popular English classes at Lawrenceville before dedicating herself to schooling Logan and Lucas.

The Furlonges are well content at Lawrenceville. At some undefined point in the years ahead, however, they see themselves at a very different sort of school.

archives, and she has also located her birth

there. First you provide support, and then you

mother. “We corresponded for a time, and then

introduce the challenges, and the result is a cul-

she stopped,” Nicole says. “She still feels guilty

ture of learning that tends to focus naturally not

about everything, still suffers from the stigma

on board scores, so much, as creativity and risk-

attached to being a teen-aged mother and giving

taking.”

a baby up for adoption.” The Furlonges are well content at Lawrenceville. At some undefined point in the

you develop these branches into other areas that

very different sort of school. It’s a vision ener-

the child didn’t even know were there. The

gized, perhaps, by the sort of dire straits in

school very effectively stretches the imagination

which Nicole began her life, and the great good

regarding what’s possible.”

fortune that ensued. “Nicole and I both have been lucky to have

Nigel suggests that an important element of that holisticness has to do with what

attended great schools, and to have worked at

Holderness students do outside the classroom in

great schools,” Nigel says. “But there’s a whole

Special Programs such as Project Outreach, Out

world of schools—and communities—out there

Back, and now Senior Honors Thesis as well.

where kids struggle every day with issues of

Nicole hastens to include the Job Program.

access and equity, and we’re thinking that we

“It not only breaks through stigmas and class

should spend some time as well in places like

assumptions, but provides an experience very

that.”

much like the world we live in, where the small decisions you make each day really do make a

THE MEANTIME THE WHOLE FAMILY IS SPENDING

a little more time at Holderness. Nigel joined the school’s board of trustees in February, 2007, and—when possible—Nicole and the kids

difference. That just doesn’t happen at the same level anywhere else.” Their vision for the school is a holistic one as well, one that answers as much to diversity,

accompany him to board meetings. “It’s like

opportunity, and access as to the life of the

getting two terrific trustees for the price of

mind. “We hope Holderness continues to be a

one,” laughs Phil, who also notes that Nigel has

place where people from different walks of life,

secured another first, now as the first former

of different ethnicities and races, can come

Holderness teacher to serve on the board.

together and learn,” Nicole says. “And it goes

Nicole, our unofficial consultant, applaud the

both ways. A school that may not look like the sort of place that might benefit, say, students of

current Strategic Plan’s emphasis on the intel-

color, can actually be of tremendous benefit.

lectual life of the school. “Compared to other

The school has to be always mindful of what it

schools,” Nigel says, “Holderness really excels

is to live in a diverse world, and we hope that

in its ability to focus on what kids do well, to

remains a central tenet.”

focus on their strengths, and then build from

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what a child brings in to the school and then

years ahead, however, they see themselves at a

Both our current board member and

“There’s a powerful holisticness to the Holderness program,” Nicole adds. “You take

Former English teacher Norm Walker’s book Teachers has just been reprinted in a new edition (see page 36). It’s a collection of essays and poems about other educators who have inspired him. Below is Norm’s essay on Nicole.

Tattoos A Profound Consideration

FURLONGE IS A TRUE INTELLECTUAL AND A loving human being—a wonderful combination in a secondary school teacher. In class she tackles challenging books such as Beloved, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Jane Eyre, Heart of Darkness, and Ellison’s Invisible Man; she demands scholarly inquiry and research; and she inspires creative thinking and writing, especially poetry. At the same time, the door to her home is open to all students, especially to minorities who need emotional and practical support in private schools, if not in all American schools. But as significant as Nicole’s empathy for needy youngsters is, her real gift to a school community is her tough love in the classroom. There is nothing soft about her teaching style—she expects and gets “honest-to-God scholarship” from her students, or else! Significantly, she models the behavior she expects in every lesson, in every faculty meeting, and in daily discourse with students and faculty. Perhaps her most exemplary performance occurred on the day she spoke in assembly about tattoos. When I learned the subject she was scheduled to cover, I thought to myself, “What on earth can this beautiful young female intellectual have to say about tattoos!?” I tried to think how I—an over-the-hill male dinosaur—would probably say something awkward like, “Tattoos—bad; don’t get one, kids!” After all, marking and piercing one’s body, the most recent version of teen-age rebellion, can have serious health implications. These fads that periodically crop up in the adolescent culture tend to create another set of headaches for teachers. For Nicole, another opportunity! She began with slides of various tattoos from around our campus, then segued to a painting and discussion of Queequeg, the tattooed sailor in Moby Dick. Before long she was asking the audience to reflect upon ways we create meaning, often on and around our own and other people’s bodies. We had to consider the nature of skin or clothes or any outer image each of us presents to the world, including the “whiteness” of the skin of most of the bodies in that assembly. Of course, the novel she was introducing to the students raises serious questions about “whiteness,” so when all was said and done, she had moved from looking at tattoos to a profound consideration of the relationship between the outer reality and the inner life of each individual. Along the way she pointed out that as a college student she had resisted reading Moby Dick, wondering why she was required to read a book so remote from and so irrelevant to her own experience. In graduate school under a demanding ICOLE

professor she began to appreciate what she had missed earlier. Ironically, a month or so after the assembly on tattoos, she lectured on the novel at the Melville museum in New Bedford. Her performance at that assembly was breathtaking; she invited us all to see first-hand how the true scholar works. In that brief space of time she had done more for the young people than I could have if I had given fifty lectures on the dangers of tattoos. The students who had listened to Nicole would not be likely to get a tattoo on a lark—they would have to think about what message they were sending to the world about themselves. Presently, she is working on a doctoral project at the University of Pennsylvania. In the interpretation of AfricanAmerican literature she emphasizes and interdisciplinary approach—using music, visual arts, and film. She has published articles in prestigious journals and given presentations at conferences, one on Herman Melville’s ideas about race in constructing an American identity. —From Teachers by Norman M. Walker (second edition, iUniverse, 2009)

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Commencement 2009

A Rainy Final Stroll Through the Terrace

“

From our first tour

of campus, to our final stroll off the Livermore

Common through these rows of white chairs to the Quad, Holderness has been the terrace to

”

our vine.

—Jake Manoukian ’09

Nels Armstrong: Special Assistant to the Vice President at Dartmouth, Holderness trustee, and the featured speaker at Commencement ’09.

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KNEW WE WERE GOING TO GET HERE.

DON'T

CALL ME A PROPHET, BUT LAST YEAR IN

chapel I said that we would be sitting here on Livermore Common sooner than we

would think. For some of you, Commencement has not come quickly enough, and

for others, it is here too early; but I hope we can all agree that we wouldn't mind if this day slowed so that we could enjoy our final hours as students of Holderness School. The impact that the school has had on all of us is undeniable. We have all developed into better students, athletes, and friends than we were when we first arrived on this campus. We will leave today ready to attack the opportunities that await us with zeal and determination. As we seek to further better ourselves in different contexts, there will be many people left here that we have had an impact on. I hope that you all learn from us. I hope that you will remember Trudy Crowley and Meghan McNulty, and remember how beneficial laughter can be. Remember Jake McPhee and George Weaver, and never underestimate the power of a second chance. Think of Chris Grilk,

Eijk and Rose-Marie van Otterloo receive the Theuner Award for service to Holderness from The Rt. Reverend Doug Theuner. The award also doubles as an umbrella.

and always remember to protect the ones you love. Think of his brother Dave, and remember to leave the couch once in a while; interesting stuff happens outside. The Class of 2009 has members from as far away as Kyungkido, South Korea, and from as near as the Head

Jake Manoukian accepts the Marshall Award from history teacher Chris Day.

Rows of white chairs: The commencement address of school president Jake Manoukian

of School's house. We have people from as different cultures as Lithuania and Saudi Arabia, but we also represent places of familiarity such as Pittsburgh and Manhattan. Our personalities range from

Jack Dings to Allison Robbins to Jamie Mills, yet we all manage to fit together to create a dynamic, motivated group, connected through Holderness School.

History teacher Susie Cirone was ably assisted by Nico in presenting the Ned Gilette Award to Tasha Rivard.

This moment is the pinnacle of our connection. Soon, we will depart to strive for continuous improvement apart from the bonds that we have forged over the past years. While I will miss the support system that we have created, I know that it has properly prepared me for the challenges that I will face in the future. From our first tour of campus, to our final stroll off the Livermore Common through these rows of white chairs to the Quad, Holderness has been the terrace to our vine. We have all grown and our connections have only made us stronger. And like the vines on the walls of Wrigley Field, our class will forever remain a part of Holderness, connected by the relationships that we have made. While it may not be quite as sunny as I had imagined, it is almost time to take our final stroll. Thank you to everyone who has made our stay here productive and enjoyable; and thank you to our families for all of the care that you give to us. And lastly to my family that is the Class of 2009, good luck and God bless.

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Dallas Award winner Elena Hayssen with science teacher Mike Carrigan.

Both remarkable and necessary: One parent’s testimony

OU ALL HAVE HEARD ME SAY MORE THAN ONCE DURING THE PAST FOUR

years, “I love Holderness for the school it was and the opportunities it provided to me when I was a high school student, but I love it more

today for the school it has become and the preparation and opportunities it provides to my daughter.” To follow up on that, as well as to thank you all again, Nancy and I appreciate the superior opportunities that Holderness provides to its students. In a time when the college admissions process is much more competitive for college applicants, Holderness places students at the most selective colleges. College alumni/ae offices tell many of their alums that they would not qualify for admission at their alma maters simply because the standards

“

have risen due to the increasing numbers and improving qualifications of applicants since we applied. Despite alums’ resistance to those facts, those facts and

I love

Holderness for the

school it was and

the opportunities it

provided to me when I was a high school student, but I love it more today for the school it has

their consequences are undeniable. By all measures Holderness provided Tenley fabulous academic and athletic preparation for college. While she entered Holderness with doubts and humility regarding her abilities, she has since developed greater confidence in her talents and competencies. Her competencies, goals, and confidence as she looks forward to her first college classes are more lofty and more realistic than mine were— clearly derivatives of her Holderness mentors and experiences—as well as compelling testimony to the fact that the current Holderness foreign language, math, science, English, art, and athletic programs are all clearly more expansive and higher quality than the very fine programs I was offered as a Holderness student back in the early 1970s. Nancy and I share her confidence that she is well prepared to manage and make the most of her college opportunities and experiences. It seems to me that while the fundamentals, principles, and pedagogies of instruction at Holderness remain similar to the foundations of the school’s academic and athletic programs as they were in the 1970s, it is clear that instruction and experiences at Holderness have been enhanced tremendously (e.g., AP programs, community service programs, plays, concerts, and athletic contests in more sports, as well as contests with schools outside the Lakes Region league). Congratulations and thanks to you all for making that happen. That is both remarkable and necessary for the school to accomplish in order to maintain

become and the

its place as a premier preparatory school.

preparation and

Don Henderson, Jim Page, Bill Biddle, Jay Stroud, Alan Whatley, Bill Clough

opportunities it

doubt that Holderness has improved its programs and the opportunities it presents

”

provides to my daughter.

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There is no doubt that Holderness was a great school when Don Hagerman,

’57, Bill Combs, Fred Beams, and John King were faculty members. There is no

its students today.

With great appreciation and thanks, Walter Malmquist ’74

So Hyun Lee receives the Gallop Award from English teacher Peter Durnan.

Book Prizes â&#x20AC;&#x2122;09 Anderson Memorial Scholarship

Hyun Jung Chung

Elementary Math Prize

So Hee Park

Advanced Math Prize

Tenley August Malmquist

Intermdiate French Prize

Colin Phillips, Gabrielle Jillian Raffio

Elementary Latin Prize

Amanda Claire Engelhardt

Advanced Latin Prize

Laura Olivia Pohl

Elementary Spanish Prize

Desmond J. Bennett

Intermediate Spanish Prize

Lucas Paul Schaffer

Advanced Spanish Prize

Tenley August Malmquist

Connor History Medal

Jordan L. Cargill

Ashworth Award for US History

Jeffrey Robert Regan Wasson

Ashworth Award for European History

Meghan Ann McNulty, Jacob Bradshaw Manoukian

Music Award

Taylor Curtis Caggiula

Whiting Prize for Art

So Hyun Lee

Ceramics Prize

Elizabeth Ann Pettitt

Photography Prize

Elena Crawford Hayssen

Fiore Cup for Theater

James Wesley Conklin

Science Prize

Elena Crawford Hayssen

Spargo Award for Science

Tenley August Malmquist

Renssalaer Medal (Math & Sciences)

Sarah Ashby Sussman

English Prize

Jacob Bradshaw Manoukian

Poetry Prize

Meredith Tracy Peck

Writing Prize

Abigail Jane Alexander

Harvard Book Prize

Abigail Jane Alexander

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Commencement Awards ’09

Richard C. Gallop Award For creative and community leadership So Hyun Lee

Distinguished Alumni Award

Dana H. Rowe Memorial Award

For exemplifying the highest standards of the school

For academics, athletics, and love of life

William Clough ’57

Meghan McNulty

The Rev. B.W. Woodward, Jr. Prize

Clarkson Award

For achievement in the junior year of college

For the ability to persevere

Anna Parrott ’06

Gedville Gineityte

The Right Reverend Douglas E. Theuner Award For increasing and furthering the mission of Holderness Eijk and Rose-Marie van Otterloo

Haslam Award For contributions to the life of the school Allison Robbins

M.J. LaFoley Award For outstanding character in the 3rd or 4th form Samuel Macomber

Marshall Award For contributions to the life of the school Jacob Manoukian

Faculty Award

Dallas Award

For highest scholastic average in the 6th form

For dedication to the ideals of the school

Kelsey Nichols

Elena Hayssen

Coach’s Award

Walter Alvin Frost Award

For contribution to the spirit of Holderness

For reaching the highest standards of the school

Jamie Mills

Sophia Schwartz

Ian Nesbitt

Webster Cup Award For excellence in athletics Mark J. Haggarty Hadley Bergh

Special Faculty Award For contributions to the Holderness community Kelsey Nichols

Ned Gillette Spirit Award For leadership and a spirit of adventure Anastasia B. Rivard

Don and Pat Henderson Award For contributions to the welfare of the community Amelia Simmons

Ian Nesbitt accepts the Coach’s Award from science teacher/head nordic coach Lindley van der Linde ’89.

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Frost Award winner Sophia Schwartz with Head of School Phil Peck.

Where We Go From Here Abdallah

Aliraza

College Destinations for the Class of ’09

Ian Nesbitt

Williams College

Kelsey Nichols

St. Lawrence University

James O’Leary

UNH/ Fairfield University

Meredith Peck

Smith College

Joe Pestana

Montana State University

Nate Petrocine

University of New Hampshire

Andrew Reilly

Elon University

Chad Reilly

Colby-Sawyer College

Anastasia Rivard

Colby College

Allison Robbins

Wellesley College

Jamie Rosenfield

University of Colorado at Boulder

Amanda Ryan

St. Lawrence University

Sophia Schwartz

Dartmouth College

Ebony Sellers

Southern University and A & M College

Bentley University

Justine Seraganian

Colby College

Faith Barnum

University of New Hampshire

Amelia Simmons

Williams College

Julian Barthold

Northeastern University

Stephen Smith

Montana State University

Hadley Bergh

Colorado College

Jenna Stearns

Dartmouth College

Holly Block

University of Tampa

Chas Stewart

University of Puget Sound

Cody Bohonnon

University of Denver

Allison Stride

Elon University

Justin Booska

American University/ Brandeis University

Satchel Summers

Ursinus College

Zander Borsiczky

Concordia University

Abby Thompson

Simmons College

Chris Borsoi

Junior Hockey (NH Jr. Monarchs)

Eric Tillotson

Clark University

Taylor Caggiula

University of New Hampshire

George Weaver

West Virginia University

Hannah Carr

University of Vermont

Dan Wright

James Madison University

Kevin

St. Lawrence University

Chapin

Curtis Christian

Franklin Pierce University

James Conklin,

University of New Hampshire

James Cooney

George Washington University

Laura Cote

University of Denver

Trudy Crowley

University of Vermont

Lane

Curran

Megan Currier

Bates College University of New Hampshire

Jack Dings

Roanoke College

Lina Encalada

University of North Carolina, Wilmington

Sumner Ford

St. Lawrence University

Nate Fuller

Bates College

Nick Garafalo

Amherst College

Lauren Giles

Lynchburg College

Gedville Gineityte

Skidmore College

Andrew Grace

Blair Academy (PG year)

Chris Grilk

Stonehill College

David Grilk

St. Lawrence University

Mark Haggarty

Concordia University

James Halsey

University of New Hampshire

Toby Harriman

Academy of Art University

Laney Hayssen

Bucknell University

Becca Hildreth

Boston University

Bennett Hrabovsky

Montana State University

Morgan Irons

Chapman University

Rob Kelley

Drew University

Lily Kendall

University of Montana

Cam LeBlanc

Bentley University

Hun Jae Lee

Case Western Reserve University

So Hyun Lee

Parsons School of Design, New School University

Emma Locke

Babson College

Pam Louden

Stonehill College

Tenley Malmquist

Dartmouth College

Jake Manoukian

Middlebury College

Emily Marvin

St. Lawrence University

Jimmy Mathews

Tufts University

Meghan McNulty

St. Michael’s College

Jake McPhee

University of Miami

Ben Middleton

University of British Columbia

Jamie Mill

Simmons College

Caitlin Mitchell

Lafayette College

David Morgan

Villanova University

Kelsey Muller

Wesleyan University

Nick Neron

Concordia University

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High Honors: Fourth Quarter GRADE 9 Mr. Nathanial G. Alexander Miss Ariana Bourque Miss Samantha R. Cloud Miss Benedicte Nora Crudgington Miss Abigail K. Guerra Miss Yejin Hwang Mr. Nathaniel W. Lamson Miss Kristina Micalizzi Miss So Hee Park Mr. Ryan M. Rosencranz

GRADE 10 Mr. Desmond J. Bennett Miss Madeline Margaret Burnham Mr. Jordan L. Cargill Mr. Se Han Cho Miss Amanda Claire Engelhardt Miss Cassandra Laine Hecker Mr. Carson Vincent Houle Miss Kristen Nicole Jorgenson Mr. Samuel C. Macomber Mr. Christopher S. Merrill Miss Hannah Otto Miss Elizabeth Ann Pettitt Mr. Colin Phillips Mr. Lucas Paul Schaffer Miss Emily Roberts Starer Miss Margaret Mooney Thibadeau Miss Haleigh Elizabeth Weiner

GRADE 11 Miss Abigail Jane Alexander Mr. Christopher W. Bradbury Miss Elizabeth Hope Brown Miss Hyun Jung Chung Miss Sarah R. Clarkson Miss Paulina Figueroa Mr. Brian Mullin Friedman Miss Mary Jo Germanos Mr. William James Hoeschler Miss Erika Margaret Johnson Mr. John Scott McCoy Mr. Wesley Mitchell-Lewis Mr. Scott W. Nelson Miss Georgina I. Ogirri Miss Emily Hope Pettengill Miss Mireille Cecile Pichette Miss Laura Olivia Pohl Miss Gabrielle Jillian Raffio Mr. Jack Kevin Saba Miss Chelsea Stevens Miss Sarah Ashby Sussman Miss Caroline Patricia Walsh

GRADE 12 Miss Hadley Jardine Bergh Mr. William Cody Bohonnon Mr. Justin Seth Booska Mr. Zander Tomas Borsiczky Miss Isabelle Lane Curran Miss Elena Crawford Hayssen Mr. Bennett Joseph Hrabovsky Miss Pamela Jean Louden Miss Tenley August Malmquist Mr. Jacob Bradshaw Manoukian Mr. James Randall Mathews Miss Meghan Ann McNulty Mr. David C. Morgan Miss Kelsey Anne Muller Miss Allison Bennett Robbins Miss Sophia Isabelle Schwartz Miss Justine Marie Seraganian Miss Amelia Field Simmons Miss Jenna Ariana Stearns Mr. Charles Prescott Stewart IV Miss Allison Elizabeth Stride Miss Abigail Elizabeth Thompson

Honors:Fourth Quarter GRADE 9 Mr. Jonathan P. Bass Miss Josephine McAlpin Brownell Mr. Peter Ferrante Miss Mardene A. Haskell Miss Rachel Huntley Mr. Brandon C. Marcus Miss Carly E. Meau Mr. Oliver J. Nettere Mr. James O. Robbins Miss Erica Holahan Steiner Mr. Brian Alden Tierney

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GRADE 10 Miss Juliet Dalton Mr. Nicholas Dellenback Miss Samantha Devine Miss Emery Durnan Miss Sarah E. Fauver Miss Kathleen N Finnegan Mr. Nicholas James Hill Ford Miss Pauline Germanos Mr. Nicholas W. Goodrich Mr. Chandler S. Grisham Miss Paige Nicole Hardtke Miss Emily M. Hayes Mr. Andrew V Howe Mr. Samuel Newton Leech Mr. James McNulty Mr. Abe H. Noyes Miss Charlotte Plumer Noyes Miss Charlotte Kies O'Leary Mr. Ethan Patrick Pfenninger Mr. Adam Sapers Mr. Nathaniel Owen Shenton Mr. Isaac Simes Mr. Nicholas E. Stoico Mr. Ryan Vaughan Tesink Mr. Niklaus Carl Friedrich Vitzthum

GRADE 11 Miss Karen Frances Abate Mr. Francis Michel Ahia Mr. Alvaro Apraiz Miss Sydney Tovah Aronson Miss Ashleigh M. Boulton Mr. Philip Klein Brown IV Miss Julia E. Canelas Miss Julia Capron Mr. Byung Kyu Chun Mr. Nicholas J. Cushing Mr. Ivan Delic Mr. Mark D. Finnegan Jr. Miss Andrea Kourajian Fisher Miss Erica F. Hamlin Miss Brette Harrington Mr. John Knox Cochran Hyslip III Mr. Matthew Nolan Mr. Benjamin Christopher Osborne Mr. Jung Woo Pyo Mr. Eric Rochefort Mr. Jacob Scott Miss Ji Eun Sung Miss Marion Thurston Miss Aubrey Frances Tyler Miss Kristen L. Walters Mr. Jeffrey Robert Regan Wasson Mr. Carter White

GRADE 12 Miss Faith Elizabeth Barnum Miss Holly Maria Block Mr. Taylor Curtis Caggiula Miss Hannah Evelyn Carr Mr. James Arthur Cooney Miss Megan Barrett Currier Miss Lillian Margaret Kendall Miss Emma Champion Locke Miss Emily Standish Marvin Mr. Michael Jacob McPhee Mr. Benjamin Dodge Middleton Miss Jamie Youngblood Mills Miss Caitlin Jane Mitchell Mr. Ian McKee Nesbitt Mr. James Michael O'Leary Mr. Andrew James Reilly Miss Anastasia Briana Rivard Miss Ebony R Sellers Mr. Eric Loren Tillotson

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Academics

Advanced Enviro Science students see how green a home can be.

“HYBRID-MODULAR”

MODEL

HOME

to make it simpler, improve quality, and pro-

wasn’t only beautiful—it boasted the

duce homes that were greener, more energy

highest level of green building certifi-

efficient, and cost-effective.”

cation from LEED (Leadership in Energy

and Efficient Design) for Homes and

That involves more than just extra care, however, and Reggie’s students got a first-

BuildGreen NH. Even more impressive,

hand glimpse of the technology of energy

many of the construction details that

efficiency as it’s applied to home construc-

improved the energy performance of the

tion: how to locate a home in respect to such

home didn’t actually cost more. They just

environmental factors as solar gain and

required more attention to quality control

windbreak, for example, or how to ensure an

and diligence during the construction

air-tight building envelope. A cut-away wall

process.

cross-section illustrated both that sort of

The home was being toured by Reggie Pettitt’s Advanced Environmental Science class, and the tour guide was Amy Clemens, sales director of ABODE, a Plymouth-based

envelope and the home’s cutting-edge mechanical systems. For the AES students it was a practical glimpse of how science and economics can

home construction firm that specializes in

intersect at the small-business level. It was

LEED-certified homes. At least that’s been

also a reminder of the environmental impact

the case since 2007, when ABODE’s princi-

of even modest structures and the growing

pals decided to abandon business as usual.

importance of sustainability issues in every

“The goal was to reinvent the process of

aspect of human enterprise.

home construction,” she said. “They wanted

A dedication runs through him: English teacher John Teaford honored by The Dial.

S A PUBLICATION,

THE DIAL

IS NEARLY AS

old as Holderness School, and each edition provides the best record subsequent

began a new adventure of teaching root words, writing, and one of his favorite books, A River Runs Through It. As an avid outdoorsman,

generations will ever have of the annual days of

world traveler, and elite athlete, he brings a tan-

our lives. The 2009 edition is another fine one,

gible, physical quality to his teaching of

thanks to Caitlin Mitchell, Meredith Peck, and

English. Upon entering his classroom students

Tizzy Brown, and above all Lina Encalada, as

senses are filled with a happy jumble of exotic

well as faculty advisor Doug Kendall.

treasures collected on his expeditionary travels.

And thanks to its dedication page, The Dial also provides a permanent record of the

Often the classroom extends to the outdoors as students try their hands at fly casting or build-

faculty or staff members who loom particularly

ing fires on the Quad. And of course there is

large in the minds of the senior class. The 2009

Out Back. Even now he can tell you how many

Dial is dedicated to English teacher John

days until he sends the next class of nervous

Teaford, who shares the moment (left) with sen-

juniors into the mountains. With thanks for all

ior Justine Seraganian.

he has done to extend our horizons, the class of

“He was a welcome addition to Holderness School in 2005,” reads the book’s inscription.

2009 dedicates this year’s Dial to John Teaford.”

“Coming fresh from the Colorado powder, he

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The ’09 All-School Read:

Tasha Rivard ’09, right, was the opening act for an evening of stunning poetry.

The White Tiger is the tale

T’S FUN TO ALL BE ON THE SAME PAGE, OR AT LEAST

into the same book, and each year the Holderness

community ensures this by choosing one book for

everybody to read over the summer. Proposals for which book may come from any member of the community, and this year more than fifty were submitted to the Secret and August Committee that collects the proposals and weighs them against each other. And some of the proposals involved some weighty tomes: Correlli's Mandolin, for example, or War and Peace. Then there was more light-hearted fare, like that suggested by Sophia Schwartz ’09, The Last of the Really Great Whangdangdoodles. Some books are already being widely read. Students were passing around copies of Three Cups of

Former US Poet Laureate Donald Hall returns to Holderness.

Tea, our Head of School’s clear favorite in the contest. Quite a buzz also surrounded Portuguese novelist Jose Saramago's recent masterpiece Blindness, favored by the now not-so-secret member of the selection committee, senior Meghan McNulty ’09 (also touted by retired legend Norm Walker and pro-

IS CRIME, HE SAID, WAS

leukemia in 1995. “Happiness”

DWO—“Driving While

was recited from memory by

Old.” That was the con-

Tasha Rivard ’09, who then

clusion poet Donald Hall had to

stepped aside for Mr. Hall’s poet-

draw at the end of his reading of

ry, prose, and warm personal

an essay from his memoir

anecdotes. “He read poems of

Unpacking the Boxes. The essay

cemeteries and sex, and his lan-

recounted an episode in which

guage challenged, enriched, and

the frail 81-year-old was first

shocked us,” said Director of

pulled over for speeding and then

Communications Steve Solberg.

asked to get out of the car and

Afterwards Mr. Hall took

walk a straight line. Mr. Hall’s

questions. He was asked about

health is such that he rarely walks

his influences: from 16th century

in straight lines any more. So he

greats like Andrew Marvell and

was cuffed and carted down to

John Donne to modernists “with

the station. Mr. Hall’s account of

a good ear,” like Ezra Pound. He

the incident, though, was funny,

was asked about his good friend

humane, and forgiving. Donald Hall made a return

of living poets until his death in 2005: “He was one of those rare

be that the school will remember

poets who are so good that he

these visits with as much wonder

makes it look easy.”

Happiness, wrote Jane

Hall recently completed a term as

Kenyon (and as recited by

the US Poet Laureate, and is part

Tasha), comes even to those in

of the conversation as the fore-

deep despair, even to the rain

most poet of his generation.

falling on the open sea, even to the wineglass weary of holding

stage in an easy chair next to a

wine. Mr. Hall ended the evening

floor lamp and a rug, and it

very tired, captured by just that

seemed like he was reading to us

sort of weariness, but still a

all from his living room. But the

prophet of the wise and compli-

evening began actually with a

cated sort of happiness that his

poem written by his wife, the

wife once affirmed.

poet Jane Kenyon, who died of

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of Director of Residential Life Duane Ford ’74. But the winner—announced at an all-school assembly in late April—was The White Tiger, the first novel of Indian writer Aravind Adiga. The book won this year's Man Booker Prize, an award given annual-

Robert Creeley ’43, who stood

Night last May, and it may well

He sat on the Hagerman

Malcolm Gladwell's recent book, Outliers, a favorite

alongside Mr. Hall in the top rank

visit to Holderness for a School

as it recalls Robert Frost’s. Mr.

posed by new faculty member Kristi Magalhaes). Both students and teachers were also enjoying

Nominator Emily Magnus ’88, the winning book, and committee member Meg McNulty ’09. ly to the best novel written in English in the Commonwealth of Nations. “Adiga ushered me into a world I had not known before—the life of an Indian servant,” wrote English teacher Emily Magnus ’88 in her winning proposal. “The story is told from the perspective of a man who claims to have murdered his boss. He claims at various times to be an entrepreneur, a thinking man, a man who sees tomorrow, and a murderer. The book exposes the complicated caste system of India and the effect technology and modern society have had on the way of life in India." So The White Tiger it is, or was, and we hope you enjoyed your visit to India.

The Arts

Below, Go-to-Hell Kitty (Meredith Peck ’09) meets with a reporter (Chris Daniell ’12) To the right, Lucy Copeland as Roxie and Will Hoeschler as Billy Flynn entertain the media.

If you’d’a seen it! Chicago and all that jazz brought to spectacular life in the spring musical.

URDER, FAME, FORTUNE—AND, YOU KNOW, ALL THAT JAZZ—

came to the Hagerman Center stage last April. Chicago,

the 1996 musical penned by John Kander and Fred Ebb,

has been produced often enough already to have won six Tony awards, two Oliviers, and a Grammy. Besides its killer music and punchy dancing, however, the show brings a bit of real-life Chicago history back to life. Its protagonists Roxie and Velma had real-life counterparts in accused murderesses Beulah Annan and Belva Gaetner, both of whom were converted into celebrities by sensationalizing Chicago Tribune reporter Maurine Watkins. Watkins later wrote a stage comedy about their cases, one that reached Broadway in 1926. A film version was made two years later, and a second version, Roxie Hart, starred Ginger Rogers in 1942. But you didn’t need to know that to enjoy all the panache that theatre director Monique Devine and her student cast brought to the show. Lucy Copeland ’10 (Roxie) and Lane Curran ’09 (Velma) brought a persuasive combination of vulnerability and fierceness to their roles, while Will Hoeschler ’09 skillfully portrayed reporter Billy Flynn’s ego-driven manipulativeness. The large ensemble behind them was solid throughout. It wasn’t a pretty picture of the media’s respect for the facts, or of Jazz Age Chicago, but it made for an entirely entertaining evening of student theater. If you’d’a’ been there, if you’d’a’ seen it, I betcha ya would’a’ felt the same.

Lane Curran as Velma, on the loose and caged. Aggrieved husband Amos Hart (James Conklin ’09) performs Hart’s “Mr. Cellophane” number.

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School president Justin Booska

Community

Justin Booska with his mother and two representatives from the freshman class: Josie Brownell and Chris Bunker.

earns ’09 Brooks Award.

HO BETTER THAN OUR NEWEST STUDENTS TO DECIDE

who among the senior class has done the most to

make them feel welcome at Holderness? So it is

that each year it’s the school’s ninth-graders who vote on the recipient of the Bob Brooks Award, and so it was that this year its recipient was Justin Booska. “It comes as no surprise that the Bob Brooks Award is bestowed on a senior who has spent four years at Holderness pouring his heart into every endeavor he takes on,” read Justin’s commendation at last spring’s Senior Dinner. “Displaying both a seriousness of purpose and a tireless attention to detail, he led by example and always encouraged both his classmates and those older and younger in the classroom, on the fields and the rink, in every corner of Weld Hall, and throughout the campus. The cry of ‘BOOOOSKA’ has become a well-known salute to his dogged determination, one hundred percent effort, and the outward projection of inclusiveness of the people around him.” The Brooks Award is given in honor of Bob Brooks, who worked at Holderness for seventeen years, the last twelve as equipment manager. He was known for his accurate memory for names and the warmth and affection he extended to all his colleagues and students.

Don’t fence him in Gallop’s papier-mâché Blue Bull wanders the campus in a long-running (sorry) senior prank.

NE OF THE MORE ICONIC SCULPTURES TO COME OUT OF

the Carpenter Arts Center over the years would be the

papier-mâché Blue Bull that stands on its hind legs,

with a great white “H” splayed over its breast, in a corner outside the weight room in the Gallop Athletic Center. It’s tall, sturdy, and stationary—at least until it busted out of Gallop and went roaming the campus last spring. First the Bull made like a mountain goat and appeared suddenly one morning in the bell cupola (bull cupola?) atop Weld Hall. Then it made like Romeo, appearing another morning on the roof of Niles Dormitory with a prom invitation in one hoof. Then it made like the Head of School, appearing at the table in the Schoolhouse used that day for a 7:15 AM meeting of the Administrative Team. Investigation into the phenomena revealed that the Bull had inside help: seniors Toby Harriman, James Halsey, and Cody Bohonnon. The incidents went down as a smart, longrunning senior prank, one that easily satisfied the school’s traditional criteria for a good prank—i.e., it’s a surprise, it involves planning, nobody is hurt or offended, and it’s funny. These days the Bull is once again safely pastured in Gallop, though now with some strange-but-true stories rolling around between its horns.

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The Stone Chapel: Where the changing of the guard is marked by a cairn of stones.

“STONE CHAPEL”

IS AN ANNUAL END-OF-YEAR VARIATION

on school gatherings at the Outdoor Chapel. During the

Stone Chapel members of the senior class, one by one, add

stones to a cairn that grows into a symbol of all that they have given to Holderness, and all that they leave behind. “It’s a time of reflection and transition,” says Director of Communications Steve Solberg, “as the seniors and the school begin to look around and understand the positive effect these leaders have had on us, and how much our community will change as

Service

they move on to new challenges.”

Bibles for China:

IRECTOR OF

COMMUNICATIONS STEVE SOLBERG,

during his first year at Holderness in 2002, used to

Hyun Jung Chung ’10 raises funds for Bibles

wonder why it took everybody so long to clear out

for cash-strapped Korean Chinese churches.

of the Hagerman Center after Friday morning all-school assembly. “It didn’t long,” he says, “to determine that it was the doughnuts.”

MASS MIGRA-

For years the Service Committee has been buying and

tion is going

re-selling Dunkin Donuts in the lobby of Hagerman in order

on in Asia,

to raise money on behalf of local charities. This year they

one that is largely fly-

raised over $1,500 and donated much of it to a couple of

ing under the radar of

terrific social service organizations.

Western news media.

The Circle Program is based in Plymouth and helps

This would be the

“socially and economically disadvantaged New Hampshire

flight of North Korean

girls” overcome challenges as they grow into adults. The

refugees, many of

program provides year-round mentoring and also a residen-

them starving, across

tial summer camp on Spectacle Pond in Groton. Some 215

the border into China.

girls have attended that camp since its founding in 1993.

There are now more

The Mayhew Program (their logo is to the lower right)

than thirty million

is located in Bristol, NH, and provides corresponding serv-

such refugees in

ices for “at-risk New Hampshire boys.” The program is

China.

available as a life-long support community for its clients,

In May Hyun

and is noted for the success of its four-week residential

Jung Chung, who hails

summer camp on Mayhew Island in Newfound Lake.

from Seoul in South

Both programs have made positive differences in the

Korea, gave a chapel

lives of hundreds of young people, and Jim Nute—execu-

talk about volunteer work that she has been doing in China to help refugees: distributing food and clothing and helping to educate people about health issues. Almost all the North Koreans, however, are illegal immigrants. In China they live furtive lives, but find some sort of community in Chinese Korean churches. After her talk, says H.J., “Many students supported me and donated a dollar with great enthusiasm.” She combined that money with funds awarded to her in a

Hyun Jung Chung delivers Bibles to the grateful pastor of a Chinese church.

tive director of the Mayhew Program—is grateful for all the donuts that have been sold at Hagerman. “This level of support would be outstanding and transformational in any circumstance,” he says, “and it is especially so in these difficult times.” You can learn more about these programs at www.circleprogram.org or www.mayhew.org. Steve knows about them, and he doesn’t mind the bottleneck any more in Hagerman.

scholarship from the Se Jong Corporation to buy three hundred Bibles for China’s cash-strapped churches. “Over this past spring vacation,” reports H.J., “I went back to the border of China and was able to distribute these Bibles to the many North Korean refugees there. Thank you to all the people who supported me in making

The good that doughnuts do

this project successful.”

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One bite at a time A crew of Holderness volunteers get to work in New Orleans—and get appreciated.

Service

ORLEANS

still rebuilding, and members of

the Holderness commu-

the Hon. Cynthia Lewis, and Monique. “We have not had a moment to spare!,” wrote

nity are still pitching in.

Monique to the volun-

Last winter Paul Clark

teers’ families. “Below

’10 gave a chapel talk on

you will find photos

the city’s continuing

from our meeting with

struggles, and this sum-

the City Councilwoman,

mer—immediately after

the Hon. Cynthia Lewis,

commencement—theatre

who presented proclama-

director Monique Devine

tions from the city on

traveled to the Big Easy

our behalf.

with a group of students

absolutely delightful and

in order to do volunteer

impressed upon the stu-

She was

reconstruction work for

dents how important our

Habitat for Humanity.

work was for the morale

New Orleans took

of the people of her city.

notice. City Counselor

When talking about what

Cynthia Lewis swung by

a daunting task it is to

the job site to issue

rebuild, she told us to

proclamations of appre-

remember this saying,

ciation to Monique and

‘How do you eat an ele-

her student volunteers:

phant?

Sam Nungesser, Dillon

time.’ We can make a

Corkran, Paul Clark,

difference.”

Chris Grilk, Nick Cushing, Megan Currier,

Sports

One bite at a

“When talking about what a daunting task it is to rebuild, she told us to remember this saying, ‘How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.’ We can make a difference.” Field Hockey:

Seventeen straight tourney appearances and then three Academic All-Americans.

AST FALL MARKED ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL YEAR FOR

the Holderness field hockey team. A very young

squad responded to the leadership of its only

three seniors to play well enough to qualify the NEPSAC championship tournament—the team’s 17th straight appearance in that event. But this spring that season got even better when those senior tri-captains—in the photo, left to right, Allison Robbins, Sophia Schwartz, and Jenna Stearns— were all recognized as NFHCA Academic AllAmericans for their accomplishments in the classroom as well as the hockey pitch. Still leading, still winning—which is how legacies get built.

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Sports Spring 2009: The Season in Review

Jake Manoukian ’09 was one of two Coach’s Award winners in baseball. Both Chad Reillys were on campus last spring as the varsity challenged the alumni in lacrosse: Chad, Jr. ’09 and Chad, Sr. ’74.

Baseball

Cycling

The varsity baseball team finished 5-7 in the Lakes Region this

To the uninitiated, co-ed varsity cycling can appear to be a fast-

season. Five of the seven losses were by two runs or less as the

paced, high-speed gladiatorial contest. Not every new athlete takes

league was very tight this year. The two highlights were come-

to it readily. For a novice cyclist to progress from, “How do I clip

from-behind wins versus KUA

into my pedals?“ to, “How do I win this sprint?“ is a rare occur-

and New Hampton. The team’s

strength was its defense as shortstop Chandler Grisham and second

rence. For novice competitors to learn the ropes, to acquire a taste

baseman Ryan Tesink both made the all-league team and helped

for the heat of competition, and to end the sea-

the Bulls average less than two errors per game.

son on the podium is nothing short of remark-

Senior Satchel Summers led the teams in innings pitched and

able. So often, this progression seems to be the

strikeouts. Colin Higgins had the lowest ERA, and Jake

norm for Holderness cyclists, as demonstrated

Manoukian had the highest batting average on the team.

by this year’s award winners:

Sophomore Carson Houle belted the most extra-base hits and Sam

Julien Moreau-Giroux; Coach’s Award, Betsy

Macomber had the highest OPS average. Manoukian and Kevin

Pettitt.

Chapin ’09 shared the Coach’s Award, and Ryan Branton, another sophomore, was the Most Improved player. The Bulls started six

Most Improved,

Even more important may be the way cyclists learn to look out for their teammates.

sophomores, so the future will be exciting.

They work hard but never at the expense of

by Jory Macomber

others. They strive to learn the secrets and techniques of their sport, and then go out of their

The JV baseball team enjoyed an undefeated season this year,

way to share those secrets with their team-

wrapping things up with an 8-5 thrashing of St. Paul’s. The team’s

mates. With race wins by Ian Nesbitt and

10-0 record reflected the deepest talent level we have had at the JV

Jordan Cargill, and appearances on the podium

level in many, many years.

by Lily Kendall, Betsy Pettitt, Julien Moreau-

Seniors like Rob Kelley and Mark Haggarty led the way both

Giroux, and Julia Capron, Holder-ness cycling

with the bat and the glove. Solid pitching was turned in by Shiloh

continues to be a highly competitive and successful team. With this

Summers, Tucker White, Nate Lamson, and Sam Nungesser. Our

philosophy in mind, the Holderness cycling team promises to be a

outfield play was handled by Chris Merrill, Nick Stoico, Klaus

force to be reckoned with for many seasons to come.

Vitzthum, Mac Dudley, Chris Daniell, Will Marvin, and Nate

By John Teaford

Betsy Pettitt ’11 went from novice rider to podium finishes.

McBeath. Behind the plate, Nick Dullea was a star. Season highlights included the spanking of Cardigan Mountain School twice, the first one via the Ten-run Rule (also known as the “Mercy Rule”) at Cardigan on their Parents’ Weekend. The coaches would like to thank the players for their effort and attitude. by Bruce Barton

Golf The co-ed varsity golf team finished the year strong by winning the Lakes Region Championship for the third year in a row. Our captains, Andrew Reilly and Toby Harriman, finished in first and second places respectfully. Posting an impressive 9-3-2 record for

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Sports the season, our squad continued to dominate the links. Unfortunately next year the team will be looking to replace four spots as Andrew, Toby, Cody

The girls varsity lacrosse team always rose to a challenge. At the start of the season, when we lost our returning goalie, we had two players volunteer to jump

Bohonnon, and Tenley Malmquist will be graduat-

in, and they both did a great job all season. The same

ing. With young talent on the JV squad practicing hard

could be said of our overall team. After an initial loss

throughout the summer, we look forward to returning

to NMH, they proceeded to win their next nine games,

to the course with another outstanding team next year.

defending their Lakes Region title, and in the process,

by Thom Flinders

grabbing two victories over arch-rival St. Paul’s School.

Lacrosse

Offensively, the girls had an overpowering fast

The boys varsity lacrosse team posted an impressive 9-5 record this spring. We played a tough schedule and worked our way to become one of the top twelve teams in New England private schools. This year’s team will be remembered for beating opponents by a

Co-Captain Toby Harriman ’09 posted a second at the Lakes Region championships.

fairly strong margin on good days and losing to others by only a point or two on the bad days. The Bulls showed good improvement over the course of the season, and will bring back a solid core group next year. We had our share of all-league honors: Jack Dings, Nick Neron, and Steve Parsons all received first team recognition; David Morgan won the prestigious Academic AllAmerican award; and we also had four other honorable mentions for all-league: Matty Chartrain, Francis Ahia, James O’Leary, and Mark Finnegan. Next year’s captains are Francis Ahia, Phil Brown, and Nick Parisi. by Lance Galvin ’90

The boys JV1 lacrosse program had an outstanding season. The team’s record was twelve wins and one loss. By far the highlight of the season was the furious fourthquarter comeback victory in overtime at Cardigan Mountain School. We came back

All-league defenseman Nick Neron ’09 helped lift boys lacrosse to a top regional ranking.

from seven goals down and avenged our only loss of the season. Special Kudos to the leadership of our excellent group of seniors: Justin Booska, Chris Borsoi, Andrew Grace, James Halsey, and Cam LeBlanc. The team will

Hadley Bergh ’ 09 led girls lacrosse in a successful defense of their Lakes Region title. She also won the Webster Cup for excellence in athletics.

break and drew from an arsenal of eleven different settled attack plays, resulting in an average of seven different goal-scorers per game. Defensively, the Bulls were fast and physical—especially in their home game against KUA, when the Wildcats couldn’t score after the first four minutes of the game. While we are sad to see the seniors leave, we are heartened by the play of the younger girls and look forward to next year. by Cynthia Day

By the end of the season, the girls JV lacrosse team accomplished their coaches’ goals of helping each athlete improve her basic skills, raising the level of play as a team on the field, and giving each girl lots of game-time in a fun and supportive environment. We ended the season with an impressive 15-2 record. We could not have asked for better or more creative leadership from captains Elena Taylor and Morgan Markley. High scorers included Chuckie Carbone and Morgan Markley. During each practice we were impressed by the team’s ability to multitask—such as playing while discussing most embarrassing moments. Other highlights included creaming the boys JV team in a scrimmage, eating ice cream, enjoying the team dinner at the Markleys’, defeating Proctor by a large margin after a close game, and losing a close game against Pinkerton. Many thanks to Coach Sue Sampson for dedicating her precious time, to all of the parents, and to manager Sam Cloud. by Lindley van der Linde ’89

Rock Climbing

forever remember the inspiration, humor, and motiva-

This spring the co-ed rock climbing team had a great

tion of these seniors, particularly Andrew Grace, the

go of it. Early snow melt, lots of sunny days, and

winner of the Coach’s Award.

enthusiastic climbers made for an action-packed sea-

by Duane Ford ’74

son. Throughout the course of the spring we spent many days at our local crags on Rattlesnake Mountain

This year’s undefeated boys JV2 lacrosse team was

and in Rumney, as well as lots of time bouldering and

led by goalie James Robbins. His quick hands and ball

traveling to the “big stone” locations in North Conway.

awareness allowed for quick clearing through defense-

Improvement prevailed across the board: all six

men Chris Allen, Calime Littlefield, and Julien

of our climbers exhibited huge progress in climbing

Barthold—all new to Holderness lacrosse. An impact

ability and gusto. And it wasn’t until the last week of

defensive midfield player was Ryan Rosencranz ,who

school that the black flies became prohibitively obnox-

picked up the long pole for the first time this season.

ious! A great job done by all.

Thanks also to help from such as Charlie Defeo,

by Travis Piper

Peter Ferrante (winner of the Coach’s Award), Oliver Nettere (winner of the Most Improved Award), and Ian Sumner, the Bulls were able to control each game in the transition through superior stick work and ground ball work. Without the contributions of Nick Goodrich, our team’s leading scorer, and Mitch Shumway, responsible for many assists, the Bulls could have been a .500 team instead of having a perfect season. I applaud this team for their hard work and motivation. They will lead future Bulls in all areas of school life. by Sean Smarz ’04

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Softball As the season started, the varsity softball squad had most of its starters returning and some talented new players to add to the line-up. There was great potential to build on the upward trend that started in 2008. It takes willingness to learn, dedication, focus, and a blend of hard work from individuals with true teamwork in order to realize potential. Ending the season with a 4-7 record, the team’s

Captain Chas Stewart ’09 led boys tennis to a 10-2 record. Rock climbing guide (and former English teacher) Richard Parker helps Bennett Hrabovksy ’09 up a steep pitch.

First-year junior Brette Harrington was awarded the

results in games were often as expected: victorious in most of the games when it should have been, defeated in games

Coach’s Award, and sophomore Casey Powell earned the

where the opponent had more depth. This year’s team

Most Improved. Senior Amanda Ryan played #1 singles

never reached its full potential, and due to our inconsisten-

this season and provided several dramatic matches. First-

cies, we lost many of our more competitive games. We

year junior Lucy Copeland

look forward to different approaches and results in 2010.

Bee Crudgington are poised to give the line-up some valu-

by Doonie Brewer

able depth next season.

and freshmen Pippa Blau and

by Chris Stigum

Tennis The boys varsity tennis team was 10-2 this season with a second-place finish in the Lakes Region. Individuals on the team won three of four categories of competition at the Lakes Region tournament: second singles (Pancho Apraiz), and both first and second doubles (Dylan Zimmermann and John McCoy; and Zander Borsiczky and Abe Noyes, respectively). Chas Stewart was both a coach’s captain and a player’s captain—a player, a teacher, a role model, and a respected peer. Netmen who followed his lead and thus contributed to our team’s success were Nick Ford, Will Hoeschler, Will Gribbell, Se Han Cho, and

Chris Bunker.

This could well be the best-skilled group of eleven boys that the school has put in boys varsity uniforms in recent years at Holderness. The core group of players mentioned above have some unfinished business to attend to next year! by Reggie Pettitt

The girls JV tennis team had an outstanding season! The snow melted early this spring, and we were blessed with many warm days to play tennis. Everyone, including the ten new players on the team, worked hard and improved significantly during the season. Highlights of the season included a win against a talented Vermont Academy team, many home matches with great fans, and a team record of 9-0! At the Lakes Region tournament, which was hosted by KUA, Holderness was the only school to play in all four championship games. Denelle Cohen came from behind to beat her opponent and receive the #2 singles award. The team captain and #1 singles player, Morgan Irons, received the Coach’s Award. With so many players worthy of the Most Improved Player award, the team voted—and Yejin Hwang was the named the Most Improved Player for the 2009 season! Thank you to everyone who cheered us on this season! by Tobi Pfenninger

The boys JV tennis squad had a great time on the way to a winning season. With only one senior on the team, it was a young and inexperienced group, but everyone engaged the steep part of the learning curve with purpose. The team

The Coach’s Award winner in girls tennis was Brette Harrington ’10.

finished the season 6-5 while managing to put all twelve players on the court in every match. At the end-of-season Lakes Region tournament, the Bulls proved they were the top team in the region, winning three of the four draws. Sophomore Alex Obregon won the second singles tournament; junior Ivan Delic and senior Abdallah Alireza teamed up to win the first doubles draw; and juniors Alex Gardiner and Ben Osborne joined forces to capture the second doubles title. This was a remarkable finish to a fun and successful season.

Mary Jo Germanos ’10 won the Coach’s Award in softball.

by Mike Carrigan

The

girls varsity tennis team closed out the 2009 season

with a record of 6-3. Holderness earned a doubles sweep at the Lakes Region tournament as captain Megan Currier and her partner Sarah Clarkson took the # 1 doubles title. Meanwhile juniors Karen Abate and Laura Pohl took the # 2 title.

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IN MEMORIAM: SEAN GLEW 1969-2009

Sean was present, and sharing laughter, at Commencement in May. To the left, he stands with Nicki at his side and with three friends on the Glews’ day of arrival last fall.

Hope, Caring, Laughter, and Love Sean Glew arrived last September as the new chair of the history department, and in October fell mortally ill. He died on July 12, 2009, but not before exerting a profound impact on the Holderness School community.

EAN

GLEW

AND HIS WIFE

NICKI

JOINED US AT

the beginning of the last academic year, along

with their children Molly and Mason. They

came to us from Eaglebrook—a great school in

The updates to Sean’s CarePage website reflected the highs and lows of a battle with cancer.

western Massachusetts—and brought with them an

They always, however, demonstrated an abiding

abundance of energy and experience with kids, with

hope, a sense of perspective, a deep gratitude for the

curriculum, with coaching, and with life. Their

caring of others, and an overwhelming love for fam-

impact on students and colleagues was immediate.

ily. These are qualities we all aspire to, and which

Sean took on the challenges of teaching and coach-

were demonstrated again and again for us as Sean

ing Holderness kids and being the new history

and his family battled his illness. All who read these

department chair with enthusiasm, skill, and deter-

entries—and spoke with Sean or Nicki over the past

mination. We were excited with the start he and his

several months—could not help but be moved. One

family made at Holderness, and saw great things on

has only to read the many comments entered by

the horizon.

those following Sean’s treatment to see the deep

Unfortunately, though, his long-term impact on our community will not come in the form of new

respect and caring he inspired. Sean came back into the classroom in January,

courses or a stronger program, but instead some-

overcoming everything to do what he was born to

thing much more profound. His impact will be in his

do: teach. Sean taught not just because it was a job,

and his family’s strength and example in facing a

a vocation, something that he was good at. He

heart-breaking illness that sadly took his life this

taught because it was his avocation, something that

summer. And it will be in his example as a teacher,

he loved. There is inspiration and example there,

spending his last few months in a classroom, doing

too, for all who respond to the call to teach.

what he loved to do. In October, before they could even get fully settled into their new home, Sean was diagnosed

We look back now at what might have been: for Holderness, for Nicki, and—perhaps most sadly— for his children Molly and Mason. But we also look

with a rare and aggressive form of cancer. His bat-

back with a deep sense of love and respect for the

tles—in the form of several rounds of chemotherapy

example that Sean and his family have provided us

and radiation treatments—forced him out of the

over the past year. We are better people—fathers,

classroom in the fall, but not out of our thoughts. In

husbands, brothers, sisters, teachers, and friends –

response to Sean’s

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Laugh, Love, Live” signs, photos of which were posted on a blog Kevin had created.

brother Kevin’s call, the

for having known him and for having watched him

Holderness community came together during the all-

take on this challenge with hope, caring, laughter,

school photo to proudly display “Hi, Sean—Smile,

and love. God speed, Sean.

back up the mountain and met us. I couldn't believe it, and neither

A Short Time, An Enduring Legacy

could anyone else in our group. It was really incredible. It exemplifies how strong a person he was, and I learned that in only the first days I met him. I can't imagine everything else he was capable of." •

Head of School Phil Peck speaks at the memorial service for Sean Glew and reflects on how well Sean brought the school’s mission to life.

experience in sports." •

cally endure, never once complaining."

THE CONTEXT OF A CARING COMMUNITY

HOLDERNESS

FOSTERS

the resources of... spirit."

share some reflections on behalf of the Holderness community.

Like all of us, we have struggled over the past couple weeks to

"We all watched in awe as Sean pushed his body to the

extreme throughout the year, showing us what was possible to physi-

"WITHIN AM HUMBLED, HONORED, AND SADDENED TO BE HERE TODAY AND

"Nobody was more passionate about fitness, curious about

sports, or interested in how a student was growing from his or her

•

"Mr. Glew took extra steps that not many people in my life

have taken for me. It takes a very special person to care for others like

make sense of the tragedy that has befallen the Glew family and all of

you did. ‘Hi, Sean—Smile, Laugh, Love, Live’—that quote will forev-

us who loved Sean.

er be etched in my memory. You were the best advisor and teacher I've

In reflecting on Sean's impact, I was struck by the irony that

ever had. You will be greatly missed!”

somebody could be with us for such a short time and yet have such a lasting legacy. For me that legacy is intertwined with our mission. A little over a year ago two events occurred which were different and yet from my perspective and the perspective of Holderness School will forever be intertwined.

•

"I have never met anyone who could stare death in the eyes

and laugh about it. In class you would say things such as, 'You guys! Like my new haircut?' It was difficult for many in the class to grasp the concept that you were there to live life to the fullest and to embrace every moment as your last. Your optimism and positive out-

First is that last May, Holderness School adopted a short but we

look on life will forever serve as an example for us all. Mr. Glew, you

hope substantive mission: "Within the context of a caring community,

stand as an inspiration and, as Mrs. Glew put it so perfectly, "We have

Holderness School fosters equally the resources of the mind, body, and

a lot to live up to."

spirit in each student, instilling in all the resolve to work for the betterment of humankind and God's creation."

OUR

Also a little over a year ago Sean and his beautiful family—Nicki, Molly, and Mason—came to live and work at Holderness. In Sean's tragically short life, he gave meaning to that mission for every member of the Holderness family.

MISSION CONCLUDES:

"...INSTILLING

IN ALL THE RESOLVE TO WORK

for thE betterment of humankind and God's creation." A little over a year ago, we enthusiastically offered Sean a job as our history department chair. It was because of his passion for every aspect of boarding school life. Immediately as the year began, we were

Using the mission statement, I'd like to share some quotations

ecstatic with how much care and passion Sean brought to the class-

from students and colleagues to show how Sean achieved the remark-

room, to his coaching, and to his dormitory. Little did we know that

able accomplishment of bringing the Holderness mission to life.

the real lesson he would teach us would not be in any of those settings.

OUR

sion and into our community, and he showed us how to live a life that

Even though Sean is no longer with us, he breathed life into our misMISSION READS:

"WITHIN

THE CONTEXT OF A CARING COMMUNITY

Holderness fosters the resources of the mind." •

truly "works for the betterment of humankind and God's creation."

"Mr. Glew was such a caring teacher with a positive attitude

at all times regardless of any circumstance. I had many great experi-

Thank you, Sean, for teaching us how to "Smile, laugh, love, and live."

ences in his class, and they will always be remembered." •

"One of the greatest things about Mr. Glew was that he knew

so much about so many different things. In a conversation, he could go from teaching Cold War History to talking about sports, to bringing up current events, to explaining the country's current economic situation. All without thinking twice." •

A colleague said, "It was at the end of the year at

Holderness, and I passed Sean on several occasions, sitting in the faculty lounge in Schoolhouse, feverously correcting—probably papers and exams. He looked so much smaller than I remembered him, even a few months before, but he looked determined and thoughtful and totally connected to what he was doing. It was moving and inspiring to me—I was feeling tired and sorry for myself at the end of the year, and here Sean was, fully understanding of what was going on, yet still fully engaged in writing, correcting, cajoling, and praising. Teaching. Sean was a teacher through and through, and an inspiration to those who make teaching their profession."

"WITHIN

THE CONTEXT OF A CARING COMMUNITY

HOLDERNESS

FOSTERS

the resources of... body." •

“The most incredible instance I remember on [Orientation]

hike was when we were about a quarter up the mountain and [Mr. Glew] told us he had asthma and wasn't breathing well, so he was going to go back down. But when we were five minutes from the top, the group was resting, and he met us there. He had hiked all the way

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Homage to the vessel, a painting for the lakes

The Arts

HOTOGRAPHY AND CERAMIC ARTS

teacher Franz Nicolay was one of three artists invited to exhibit their

work at the Chi Lin Gallery in Meredith, New Hampshire, during August and

September. Franz contributed tea bowls and sculpture that he described as “paying homage to the vessel.” Franz alludes in his artist’s statement for the exhibit to the special spiritual power of a plain clay vessel. “Echoing cupped hands in its simplicity, its gesture and clarity of purpose are elemental in form and function,” he writes. “This concave container of clay carries sustenance, on all levels of understanding, with unassuming grace.” Meanwhile painter and sculptor Kathryn Field was one of four well-known Lakes Region painters—the others were Frances Hamilton, Sallie Wolf, and Woolsey Conover—to donate paintings to be auctioned off as a fundraiser for the Squam Lakes Conservation Society. She also had an August-

“Fish,” the painting donated by Kathryn Field as a fundraiser for the Squam Lakes Conservation Society.

September solo exhibit of her new work at the Patricia Ladd Carega Gallery in Center Sandwich, NH.

Franz Nicolay speaks at the opening of his exhibit at the Chi Lin Gallery. Above, “Twisted,” one of the ceramic pieces included in that show.

Read, speak, publish (in no particular order). Rick Carey in a funny hat and with a SNHU MFA student after that school’s commencment exercises.

IRECTOR OF

PUBLICATIONS RICK CAREY,

who also teaches writing in Southern New Hampshire University’s low-resi-

dency MFA program, is staying busy as both a writer and a speaker. The July on-campus residency period of the MFA program features

In September, in Marlborough, NH, Rick was one of the writers featured at the

public readings by all faculty members, and

Monadnock Literary & Arts Festival, along with naturalist Sy Montgomery, poet Baron

of Iowa,” which is forthcoming in the promi-

Wormser, and novelist Katherine Towler. Rick

nent literary magazine Hunger Mountain.

read from his most recent book, The

Then Rick served as the commencement speaker for the program’s second graduating

Philosopher Fish: Sturgeon, Caviar, and the Geography of Desire (Counterpoint, 2005), and

class. He warned that writing is lonely work

also from a work in progress—Their Town—

and that great writing commonly goes unrecog-

which concerns a gun rampage in Colebrook,

nized. Finally he quoted Brother Thomas, the

NH, in 1997. Next March he is scheduled to spend a

whose pottery was on display in the Edwards

day at the University of Maine as part of that

Gallery last fall. Money or fame is not the

school’s Visiting Writer series.

point, Thomas wrote: “The thing we all strive

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ate what is beautiful, and live for what unites and does not divide.”

Rick read a new short story, “Our Own Version

Benedictine monk and philosopher of art

for is to shape our humanity in the image of God, to do good, stand up for what is true, cre-

New talent comes aboard in music, math, history, and English.

NE OF THE NICE THINGS ABOUT

including AP and regular calculus, cal-

filling faculty openings at

culus-based physics, and multi-variable

Holderness is that there are

calculus. Mike has a B.A. from

always so many good and willing can-

Harvard University and previously

didates to choose from. This year was

taught math and physics at both

no exception, and we’re proud to wel-

Sonoma Academy and Northfield-

come the following educators to the

Mount Hermon.

Matt LaRocca at the Outdoor Chapel.

Holderness community: Kelsey Sullivan Matthew LaRocca

Kelsey is Mike Peller’s fiancé, and she

Matt LaRocca will be covering for

will be joining the history department.

music teacher Dave Lockwood while

Like Mike, and not coincidentally, she

he is away next year on the

arrives from Sonoma Academy. There

Henderson/Brewer Chair Program.

she taught history, coached lacrosse

Matt graduated from Middlebury and

and soccer, and worked in the Dean’s

holds a Master's in music from

Office.

Katie Smarse

Carnegie Mellon University. He comes to us with background and experience

Kaitlyn Smarse ’05

in music composition, string perform-

Katie Smarse is no stranger to our

ance, and voice, and spent last year at

campus, having graduated from

the North Valley Music School in

Holderness in 2005. Since graduating

Whitefish, MT, as faculty-in-residence.

recently from Bates College, she has

Matt will live off-campus.

been student-teaching in Lewiston, Maine, and coaching snowboarding at

Michael Peller

Loon Mountain. Katie will serve as a

Mike Peller will become our new

dorm parent in Pfenninger; coach soc-

chairperson of the math department

cer, snowboarding, and lacrosse; and

and teach higher-level math courses,

teach one section of English. .

OMEHOW THIS ATHLETIC ACHIEVEMENT—NOT BY A

faculty member, exactly, but rather by two faculty members’ dog—got overlooked in the spring issue

of HST. But that’s okay. Digby is still the champ, and it’s

Mike Peller and Kelsey Sullivan as they head out on Orientation Hike.

actually nice to see some snow again in these pages after a wet and soggy

summer.

Digby belongs to faculty members Tiaan ’89 and Lindley ’89 van der Linde, and he currently reigns supreme as “Most Athletic” in Vermont Sports magazine’s annual dog photo contest. Tiaan and Lindley were out at Kingdom Trails in East Burk, VT, for some nordic skiing with their child Linden. Lindley was towing Linden in a nordic baby buggy, and Digby was helping out by towing Lindley. Then-math teacher (and ace photographer) Neal Frei ’03 was in the vicinity with his camera. The photo got sent in to Vermont Sports. Now Digby has bragging rights. The prize? Vermont Sports swag and a one-year

Digby named alpha pooch of Vermont canine athletes.

subscription. The glory? Priceless.

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One More Chord to Strike Norm Walker publishes more poetry and prose, establishes a scholarship fund, and shows his chops in the classroom again.

“G

OOD TEACHERS ARE ARTISTS,” WROTE

NORM

Walker in the first edition of Teachers, a book

he authored and published in 2001. “Artists do

not punch a time clock at nine a.m. and five p.m.; they are often so committed to their work that the creative process never really ends. There is always one more chord to strike, a word or phrase to change, one last touch with the brush or chisel….” That’s true enough for this teacher/artist, who is also an accomplished poet, and who retired in 2004 after twenty years as an English teacher and near-invincible football coach at Holderness. Now a selection of Norm’s poetry is slated to appear in the next edition of The Poet’s Guide to New Hampshire, a highly selective anthology published by the Poetry Society of New Hampshire and edited by fellow poet John-Michael Albert. And this fall has seen the publication of a second—and expanded—edition of Teachers, which is a series of profiles

Above, Norm Walker at work in AP English in October; to the right, at a soccer game vs. KUA with former math teacher (1994-98) Bob Brownell, who currently teaches at Belmont Hill.

of the men and women who have inspired Norm in his own teaching. The profiles are accompanied by poems that are profiles in another form, sharp-eyed biographical lyrics that combine with the essays to probe the mysteries of human identity, the relationships between art and teaching, and the boundaries of the human spirit. While the book’s first edition was devoted to Norm’s colleagues at Holderness, the second also includes colleagues from his years of teaching in Massachusetts public schools. The new edition appears on the heels of a busy summer for Norm, one that included an appearance at the Norman M. Walker Scholarship Fund Golf Tournament at the Maplegate Country Club in Bellingham, MA. Proceeds from the well-attended tournament benefited the scholarship, which is dedicated to help middle income students who would otherwise be unable to come to Holderness—dedicated, in other words, to those “journeymen” and “journeywomen” so admired by this teacher/coach/artist. Proceeds from the sale of Teachers (which can be purchased online from Amazon) are also benefiting that fund. “Great teachers model the reflective life,” Norm writes in his book. “They make us think about what we are doing on the planet and how to invest our actions with meaning.” This great teacher continues to battle illness and continues to revel in that life, returning to campus on KUA Day in early October. And just to prove that there is always one more chord to strike, he stepped in as guest teacher that day in Peter Durnan’s and Doonie Brewer’s English classes. The maestro was back at work.

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Woodward, D.D. Former headmaster Pete Woodward is awarded an honorary doctorate from Endicott College.

EADMASTER

EMERITUS B.W. “PETE”

Woodward, Jr., who stood at the helm of the

school from 1977 to 2001, was the recipient

of an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from

NEASC,

“Reverend Woodward currently serves on

the Board of Trustees of the Perkins School for the Blind, as Board Chair for Whole Village Family Resource Center, and as Trustee of Trust Funds for

Endicott College at that school’s commencement

the Town of Holderness. He is a member of the

last May.

Board of Directors for the American Association for

“Under your leadership and through the accreditation process, several hundred international

International Educators and is Headmaster Emeritus of the Holderness School. Other organizations he

schools have adopted American standards of excel-

has served include the New England Association of

lence and have earned the prestigious recognition of

Schools and Colleges, the Headmasters Association,

the New England Association of Schools

the Governing Board of the National Association of

and Colleges,” reads Endicott’s citation to

Episcopal Schools, and the Governing Board of the

the award. “You have played a critical role

Associate Alumni of General Theological

in establishing networks that facilitate the

Seminary.”

exchange of ideas, and you have challenged educators to set and meet high

Pete had previously earned a Master’s from the General Theological Seminary in New York, and in

standards and to seek creative solutions to

speaking with HST this summer, he recalled a grad-

problems.”

uate student there named Fiddle who refused to

In a press release about the award the college noted how busy Pete continues to be in his, ahem, retirement. Besides serv-

accept the doctorate he had earned. “He didn’t want to be known as Fiddle, D.D.,” Pete explained. Well, an honorary degree in stand-up comedy

ing currently as Director of the

may still be a long way off, but we know Pete will

Commission for American and

keep trying.

International Schools Abroad for the

Still having too much fun to decide Emily Zabransky shows new paintings, prints, and ceramic works at Edwards Art Gallery.

ORMER FINE ARTS TEACHER

EMILY ZABRANSKY

(1988-2000) returned to Holderness last April and May as one of three school-affiliat-

ed artists whose work was assembled in a popular

multimedia exhibit at the Edwards Art Gallery. Joining her work was that of two alumni: glassblower Jeff Mentuck ’86 and mixed-media artist Sophie Nicolay ’00, who is one of Emily’s former students. You can see examples of Jeff ’s and Sophie’s work on page 45. A well-known multimedia artist herself, Emily has exhibited her work in galleries and museums throughout the United States. The Edwards show included paintings, prints, and ceramics, all animated by the artist’s characteristic humor and sense of whimsy. “I blame the fact that I taught art—drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture, and ceramics—as the reason why I never settled on an individual medium for myself,” she says. “I so thoroughly enjoy working with each and every material.

Emily, left, was joined at her show’s opening by former Director of Alumni Relations Peg Hendel.

Actually, it isn’t quite honest to say ‘working,’ I ‘play’ with art.”

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Alumni Relations To the left, Chris Carney ’75 with Bear; below, Jim Connor ’74.

REUNION ’09

Cynthia Sweet ’94, left, and Liz Hogan ’94 with former faculty member Marty Elkins.

Executive Director of Advancement Robert Caldwell, Ashley Boulton ’10, and Carter White ’12.

Lee Bright ’49, daughter Kristin Connor, and Piper Orton ’74.

Storyteller and teaching icon Jim Brewer. Director of Alumni Relations Tracy White with Lee Bright.

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Director of Annual Giving Jane McNulty with former Spanish teacher (and teaching icon) Jim Hammond.

Alumni Association President Chris Carney at the Saturday banquet.

Rob Frost ’89 and Amanda Black ’89 with Phil Peck. To the right, Rick Eccleston ’92 and family.

Bike riders at rest.

T HAS BECOME A

HOLDERNESS

tradition to mark your

Below, with the Brights, Pat and Tex Coulter ’49; right, Azikiwee and Xavier Anderson.

reunion with a special gift,

and every year at reunion we recognize those classes that have had the greatest impact on Annual Giving with the Reunion Challenge Awards. This year while many independent schools are experiencing a precipitous decline in support, Holderness finished the year strong. 71% of our donors gave the same or more than they gave last year with only 20% of our donors decreasing their gift. Year after year in good economic times, and not so good economic times, alumni giving continues to be an essential and critically important aspect of supporting the Holderness experience.

Reunion Challenge Awards: For the highest participation rate, the Class of 1959 with 48% participation! Also worthy of mention tonight is the Class of 1949 with 40% participation!

Tamsen Plume Anderson ’89.

For the most dollars raised in support of the Holderness Annual Fund, the award goes to the Class of 1979 with over

Head of School Phil Peck

$49,000! We’d also like to recognize four alumni who have more than 25 years of consecutive giving to the Annual Fund: Mr. Woodrow B. Thompson ’64, Mr. Robert Bradner ’64, Mr. William A. McCollom ’64, and Mr. Lee C. Bright

’49.

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It’s a tie! Two great members of the Board of Trustees share the 2009 Distinguished Service Award. T

O THE LEFT,

PIPER ORTON ’74

RECEIVES A

Distinguished Service Award from Phil

Peck at Reunion ’09. The Director of Women’s Health Programs at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital had just completed sixteen years of service on the Holderness Board of Trustees, including a landmark term as board chair. She was the recipient of the Distinguished Alumna Award last year. Piper shared the award with Zach Martin ’84, who had also just retired from the Board, and whose leadership as board treasurer was crucial in protecting the fiscal health of the school during the most difficult economic times since the Depression. Zach was unable to attend the Reunion events.

And regarding the 2010 Distinguished Alumni Awards for Distinction or Service . . .

Holderness and service to the greater community.

The

Awards Committee consists of the Head of School, Assistant Head of School, President of the Alumni Association, Director of Alumni Relations, as well as former and current faculty members.

DISTINGUISHED ALUMNUS/A: Awarded to an alumnus/a who has displayed outstanding leadership and service in his/her community or in his/her professional field.

DISTINGUISHED SERVICE: Awarded to an alumnus/ae in a reunion class, who through his or her devotion and dedicated service has significantly and positively affected the health and well-being of the school.

Nominations are accepted

THE REVEREND B. W .”PETE”

throughout the year and

WOODWARD, JR. PRIZE:

reviewed on an annual basis

Awarded in recognition of a

in early March. The awards

Holderness graduate in his/her junior

and their description follow.

year of college for academic performance, exceptional leadership, and contributions made to his/her college community.

The Nitty-Gritty

Holderness School recognizes its alumni/ae for service to

The Categories

The Awards Committee

WE NEED YOUR NOMINATIONS! Your help is needed to ensure the list of nominees is robust. Please review the qualifications for each award and take a moment to nominate an alumnus or alumna deserving of recognition. Thank you for your interest and assistance, and for providing:

NOMINEE

YOUR NAME

YOUR EMAIL

YOUR TELEPHONE #

Please include a supportive paragraph about why the nominated individual deserves recognition.

Return your nomination information to the Director of Alumni Relations, P.O. Box 1879, Plymouth, NH 03264-1879 or email alum@holderness.org.

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Hey, how about coming to Reunion in October? Does that float your boat?

RESERVE EARLY

ALUMNI

BEAT THE

WEEKEND

LEAF

2010

AVE THE DATE! Holderness School wants you to be part of the excitement and will be trying something new on

October 1-3, 2010. Reunion 2010 will begin

on Friday, the 1st with the Walker Golf

PEEPERS!

OCTOBER 1— OCTOBER 3

Tournament and kick into high gear on Saturday with a full day of campus-related activities. We are celebrating a reunion year with the ‘00s and’05s and welcoming all alumni/ae back to Holderness for Alumni Weekend. with next year’s reunion classes holding their reunions during the regular school year.

INVITING ALL HOLDERNESS ALUMNI/AE FOR THE

TO RETURN

FUN!

CELEBRATING ENDING WITH

REUNION YEAR

FOR

CLASSES

“0” or “5”

You’ll get to see your favorite teachers in action and the school in full operation. You’ll be able to watch games, attend classes, and eat

KEY ACTIVITIES

lunch with current students. But there will also be time for you to catch up with your friends

FRIDAY AFTERNOON GOLF TOURNAMENT

OWL’S NEST GOLF CLUB

from your class, reflect on your lives since Holderness, and share your stories. It’s what

SATURDAY TOURS, PANELS,

AND

SCHOOL ATHLETIC EVENTS

we hope will be the best of both worlds, and we look forward to welcoming you to campus in the fall. It’s important to note that October is a beautiful and therefore busy time in New

SATURDAY EVENING REUNION CELEBRATION DINNER

OWL’S NEST

RESORT

Hampshire, with leaf-peepers flocking up to see the state in its full autumn regalia. Therefore, we urge you to make your reservations early. Bookmark our Reunion Website and check in often for the latest news and information on Reunion 2010.What follows are links

ROOMS

AVAILABLE AT LOCAL

INNS

AND

HOTELS:

http://tinyurl.com/lvtpst

AS WELL AS

OWL’S NEST

RESORT:

http://tinyurl.com/msc26T, or

Rayna Kenney, 603.726.3076 x 228

and contact numbers to local chambers of commerce. If you would like to coordinate with your classmates, please reach out to the alumni

For more information contact Tracy White in the Alumni Office at 603.799.5228 or alum@holderness.org.

office for assistance. Thanks for coming!

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Service “Where is the –?”

Sarah Hendel ’02 finds that she needs to be flexible as a Peace Corps volunteer in Turkmenistan.

Since September, 2008, Sarah Hendel has been living and working as a Peace Corps volunteer in a small village in rural Turkmenistan. There she teaches English in a public school system that runs six days each week. Students attend school until the age of seventeen, at which time they may take a battery of exams for admission into universities or institutes. “While technically free,” says Sarah, “there is a disappointingly high level of bribery and nepotism in the exam process.” She says pedagogy is based on “the Asian model of memorize and recite.” Students memorize and repeat whole texts, responding to questions with pre-formulated answers. Textbooks are in short supply, and most Turkmen teachers of English practice the translation of English into Turkmen to the exclusion of its opposite. “The result is that many students can’t translate Turkmen into English,” she says, “or even pronounce English words.” The following is an excerpt from a blog Sarah is writing. It describes in more detail the conditions under which she works and her efforts to teach English in a more freestyle, conversational manner.

CHOOL CONDITIONS CAN BE A BIT ROUGH—

it’s cold in winter and hot in the spring

and the fall. The floors are ripped up and

sport several holes (I laugh when I think of all the lawsuits people could come up with in America), and the windows stick and are mostly cracked. It is a good school comparatively, though, and the atmosphere is good. Many classes have adequate, if old, visual aids. Some rooms have new desks, while others have old; I’m not sure if there is a method to deciding who gets new ones. The school has a computer room, but it currently has only two working computers, both new. It has two old ones that still have slots for floppy disks (I mean the REAL floppy disks) that don’t work. When classes come in, they look at textbooks

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Above, Sarah stands with her Turkmen host family. To the left, she appears with one of her English classes.

about computers, and some of them pretend to type on keyboards. I think they may be getting new computers soon. I have a program for practicing English grammar, so if they get computers I might try and book time for my advanced students. I may also include a little computer teaching as well. Classes usually have about thirty students—they are allowed to divide them if there are more than thirty, although lack of teachers and classrooms mean that this doesn’t always happen. Students regularly miss class if their parents are sick or they are needed at home. On any given day it seems seven to ten students are missing from one class. Since I live in an agricultural village, this is a much different account than you might hear from a volunteer in a city or county center. Unlike my Peace Corps friend who lives in a more urban area, I often have students miss two or three days of my clubs. I stress the importance of not missing

When classes come in, they look at textbooks about computers, and some of them pretend to type on keyboards.

days, but I also try to be flexible, since I know they are dealing with competing priorities. Today I sat in on my ex-director’s class. He has taken

ly they usually don’t seem to mind too much when I deviate. Today I used the passage in the book as a starting off point, but as I began to have the students repeat after me, I

over as English teacher for the 7th and 8th-form students

realized the “Bicycle Poem” had more than 3 different (and

since stepping down as director. I was impressed with his

major) mistakes. So I moved on to vocabulary, and asked the

teaching methods—his English is weak but conversational,

students about their bikes, etc. The book then wanted me to

but his technique in class was (in my opinion) better than sev-

have the students ask each other for directions, but the dia-

eral other teachers I had seen. Instead of focusing on only one

logue wasn’t going to teach them anything, so I taught them

or two of the best students and asking them questions, he

TURN RIGHT, TURN LEFT, GO FORWARD, GO BACK by

moved around the room and involved the whole class. And he

directing people around the room. Then I drew a town grid on

drilled things in by asking questions over and over, until they

the board and had students add buildings and businesses.

got it, instead of moving on when only one student got it

Then each student had to ask someone else “Where is the –?”

right. And he had the students translate into English, not into

and the other student had to give directions using the words I

Turkmen. Finally, while he went over one of the poems in the

taught. I also took the opportunity to ask them what they were

book, for the most part he used it only as a way to introduce

going to do at their destination (buy bananas, send letters,

new grammar and vocabulary. And perhaps the most impor-

etc). I was pretty proud of myself, actually! I managed to fill

tant part, it was definitely a fun class for the students.

a 45-minute lesson with no pre-planning and still stick to the

Afterward I went to sit in on another teacher’s class, but (not unexpectedly) she just wanted me to teach, though to be fair the students wanted me to teach too. There is often an

day’s topics. And I think I saw the teacher taking notes. It was fun to work with new students and teachers, and felt like a pretty successful day!

assumption from teachers that I will pick up the book and stick to its activities—they hand it to me and point to where they left off. Obviously, that’s not how I work! And fortunate-

Have no regrets

Kellan Florio ’01 completes his year in South Africa as a volunteer for Grassroots Soccer, which combats AIDS. But it’s not easy to let go, as he relates in this last entry to his blog on the experience.

June 9, 2009

Dear All,

Y INTENTION WAS TO SEND ANOTHER LONG-WINDED,

leaving for the airport in just

detailed account of my recent adventures and expe-

over 24 hours. Just typing those

riences here in South Africa before packing my bags

words is so surreal…. So as I

Let them wear cake: Kellan, right, with one of the youths who conspired in the surprise party given Kellan by his “ever-inspiring Youth Venture kids.”

for home, but I promise you I won’t. I wanted to tell you all

pack my bags and recount the

about the April elections here and the country’s reaction to

past nine amazing months here

seeing Zuma take power; the amazing work the Youth

in Port Elizabeth, I can’t help but be thankful for leaving in

Venturers are doing—both the ones who won the competition

such bittersweet fashion. I’m thankful because I know it can

and even the ones who did not; my experience suiting up each

be easy to grow tired of a place and have one foot out the

weekend with the Zwide Celtics in the local township soccer

door before the time comes to go. I’ve seen it happen with

league; my work as a math tutor for grade-12 students every

other jaded GRS interns. But for me, the opposite is true.

Saturday morning in the township of New Brighton; my road

Over the past few months my roots have grown deeper and

trip to Kimberley and Bloemfontein in central South Africa to

stronger here making it heart-wrenching to leave such an

help out with a voluntary counseling and testing soccer tour-

amazing place with even more amazing people. It’s as if I’ve

nament (like the one we did in Port Elizabeth in November);

been gaining momentum every day in making this place my

and finally going back to the drawing board on our second

new home to the point that leaving now feels like I’ve

VCT tournament in Port Elizabeth scheduled for June 16th, a

watched the first 23 episodes of a 24 season and now the

week after I leave.

power is being shut off permanently.

Unfortunately, or fortunately, all these happenings and others have not afforded me the time to sit down at my computer and really do them justice. It’s late Monday night as I type, which means I’ll be

My teammates, my colleagues, my friends, my girlfriend (a pretty recent development adding an extra “wrench” into the mix) and the ever-inspiring Youth Venture kids have dug their way deep into my heart. In fact, just this afternoon after

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Alumni in the News running errands for an hour with Siya, I returned to the office only to

see if it happens, but either way, it’s going to surely be the most bitter-

find it decorated with ribbons and balloons and packed with the Youth

sweet day on my record. When I finally get settled stateside come late June, I hope I’ll find

Venturers and their friends. They greeted me with a thunderous “Surprise!” and followed with an organized program of speeches,

the time and energy to fully reflect on what the past year has meant to

toasts, poems, songs, cards, and plenty of cake. Words cannot describe

me. It’s so hard to imagine being back behind a desk in New York in

how touched I was. When it was my turn to speak, I had to pause for

just over a month, but so it goes... I’m about to call it a [late] night and my head is spinning just

what felt like an eternity before I could even compose myself enough to utter a sound. I cried in front of the whole group, but I didn’t care

envisioning the goodbyes I’ll face tomorrow. But if I ever had any questions about if I had lived my life to the fullest while I was here, I

one bit. Tomorrow will be filled with more goodbyes, the most painful

think the raw emotions I am experiencing now are making it pretty

being Siya and Lynette. It was already going to be a super-hectic day,

clear to me that I’ve done just that. Like my high school soccer coach

and then I was just informed yesterday that my soccer team is organiz-

used to say before every match—have no regrets. Well, I have none. I

ing a farewell “tribute” match for me, calling in some of the Zwide

am satisfied. It’s time to go...

Celtics “legends” of the olden days to take on the young guns. We’ll

The Arts

T-shirt revolutionary

Every successful book demands a sequel— particularly if there really are a lot more things you can do with a t-shirt. No one knows better than author, editor, and designer Megan Nicolay ’97.

2006

THE SUCCESS OF

MEGAN NICO-

lay’s book Generation T: 108 Ways to Transform a T-Shirt (Workman

Publishing) propelled her on a nation-wide

and lacing, and then there is the panorama of

the Martha Stewart Show. Now she’s back

possibility to which a tee may be scrunched

with a sequel, and we’ll let Amazon.com tell

or sewed.“There’s fashion, of course: all-new

you more about the new book (and its prede-

halters and tank tops, sexy gaucho pants, a

“Megan Nicolay revolutionized the T-

baby-doll dress, twisted shrug, and hooded scarf,” says Amazon. But beyond that, there

shirt,” says Amazon. “She repurposed it,

are also baby jumpers, bibs, and blankets:

reinterpreted it, reinvented it—and created

plant hangars, wine cozies, and toilet seat

the #1 craft book in the nation, Generation

covers; aprons, grocery totes, and steering

T, which continues to dominate. Now she

wheel covers; and oh, so much more. Don’t

explores new ways to slash a tee, scrunch a

EVER throw out a T-shirt.

tee, and sew a tee with Generation T: Beyond Fashion. A collection of 120 projects

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The book provides some basic how-to information on knotting, sewing, braiding,

book tour and to a personal appearance on

cessor).

DIY. The result is hip, imaginative, crafty, and very green.”

Megan is also an editor at Workman and lives in Brooklyn, New York. Since the pub-

for every occasion, it takes the humble yet

lication of Generation T, she has been teach-

ever-malleable tee in dozens of new direc-

ing workshops and consulting at craft events

tions—from baby gifts to pet accessories,

throughout the country. And she is a found-

stuff for the home, the car, the road, the

ing member of the Department of Craft, a

boyfriend. The rallying cry is: Don’t buy;

New York City-based craft collective.

Jeff Mentuck ’86 & Sophie Nicolay ’00 make up two thirds of an all-Holderness spring show at the Edwards Art Gallery.

AST

APRIL

AND

MAY

the school’s Edwards

Art Gallery hosted an

exhibit by three Holderness-

“The glass studio is an applied physics laboratory that focuses on the forces of heat, gravity, and persever-

affiliated artists. One was

ance,” he said. “My design

former faculty member

sense constantly strives to

Emily Zabransky, who

balance the elements of

taught fine arts here from

form, color, and composi-

1988 to 2000, and the others

tion in a way that remains

were alumni: glass-blower

both contemporary and clas-

Jeff Mentuck and mixed-

sic.”

media artist Sophie Nicolay, one of Emily’s former students. Jeff is the owner of

Above, a landscape by Sophie Nicolay and a glass vase by Jeff Mentuck. To the right, Sophie at the show’s opening with her father, photography teacher Franz Nicolay.

Sophie Nicolay won the Graphic Design Department Award at the Rhode Island School of

Marblehead Glassworks in

Design in 2005, and is cur-

Massachusetts, and he has

rently an art director for

exhibited his extravagant

Martha Stewart Living

vases, jars, and other cre-

Omnimedia. She contributed

ations up and down the East

drawings and mixed media

Coast. He was drawn to

work to the Edwards show.

glass-blowing, he says, by

its combination of science, art, and danger.

Franz Nicolay ’95, keyboard player for The Hold Steady and several other groups, is now a solo artist and music critic as well.

RANZ

NICOLAY

CONTINUES

thematic preoccupations in ref-

to stay busy as a musi-

erence to other writings by the

cian. His solo album,

cultural critic Theodor Adorno

Major General, was Uncut’s

and literary theorist Edward

“Debut Album of the Month” in

Said.

July. His band The Hold Steady taped an appearance on The

“What Dylan has not done

Tonight Show that ran in

al world of Messaien or the Ives of the Universe Symphony,”

play keyboards for two other

Franz writes. “His relaxed,

bands: the World Inferno

mature pleasures are resolutely

Friendship Society and Guignol.

earthbound, even as he looks

as a writer as well. In July an

forward, with puzzlement, resignation and curious interest to

article he wrote on Bob Dylan’s

a personal sort of Elysian

latest three albums—“Love,

Fields.”

Death, and Knock-Knock Jokes: Adorno, Said, and Late Style in

Messiaen or Ives

is ascend into the sort of ethere-

August. And he continues to

Now he’s making headway

Why Dylan isn’t

He has also written music criticism for another webzine,

Dylan”—appeared on the

Impose. You can find the Dylan

webzine Spectrum Culture. The

piece at www.spectrumcul-

article examines Dylan’s current

ture.com.

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Alumni in the News

Sports Brilliant, star-crossed, and controversial

Shadowed by illness and facing a second suspension, Tyler Hamilton ’90 announces his retirement from competitive cycling.

BRILLIANT, STAR-CROSSED,

one crash, he engineered a now-famous

international sports came to

142-kilometer solo break to win stage 16

an abrupt end last April

and finish fourth overall. He had to with-

when Tyler Hamilton

draw from the 2004 Tour de France due to

announced his retirement from competitive

injury, but in the individual time trial at the

cycling after testing positive for the steroid

2004 Olympics he claimed America’s first

DHEA.

gold medal in cycling.

The banned substance was contained

Then the controversy began. A new

in an herbal supplement that he knowingly

method of testing for homologous blood

took in order to treat clinical depression—a

doping revealed the presence of a second-

disease for which he was diagnosed in

ary population of red blood cells in Tyler’s

2003, at a time when he was approaching

veins during that race. Because those cells

the height of his fame as “one of the best-

counted for less than five percent of Tyler’s

known and most accomplished American

sample, though, the test registered as nega-

cyclists of his generation [‘Hamilton says

tive according to the protocol of the time.

he’s retiring from cycling,’ ESPN.com,

The World Anti-Doping Agency protested

April 18, 2009].” For a time it seemed that only bad

B. Gibson photo

Despite breaking a collarbone in a stage

and controversial career in

that any secondary cells should constitute a positive result. They won that argument,

luck was keeping Tyler from challenging

but in Tyler’s case there had never been a

Lance Armstrong at the very top of that

follow-up to confirm the results, and by

generation. After his years at Holderness,

then the original blood sample had been

and after a back injury had put an end to

destroyed. Tyler kept his gold medal and

his ambitions as an alpine ski racer, Tyler

continued to race, unaware that he had fall-

led the University of Colorado to an

en under suspicion.

NCAA cycling championship in 1993. Later he was a support rider for two of

A second blood sample taken at the 2004 Vuelta a España also revealed sec-

“I had a chance to ride with him earlier this summer and see him relaxed and happy, which is all he’s looking for right now. He’s still a great guy and I hope he finds happiness and can move on.” — Craig Antonides ’77 Armstrong’s winning US Postal Service teams in the Tour de France. Tyler joined the CSC team as its top racer in 2001 and quickly demonstrated

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ondary cells, albeit at a lower level than at the Olympics. This time, though, the results were confirmed and made public, and Tyler was hit with a two-year suspen-

extraordinary grit. He fractured a shoulder

sion from competition. He appealed the

in the 2002 Giro d’Italie, yet still finished

decision, bitterly attacking the science

second. The next year he won the Liege-

behind the test and eventually spending

Bastogne-Liege race and entered the Tour

more than $1 million on legal fees in his

de France as one of the event favorites.

defense.

Finally he lost that appeal on a 2-1 split decision. To this day he

California.”

asserts his innocence from blood doping, but his reputation was further

In fact Tyler finished 83rd out of 84 riders in that event last

tarnished when his name turned up in the records of a Spanish physi-

February. He had been tested during the race with negative results.

cian implicated in providing banned substances and blood injections to

Then it was later revealed that he had tested positive for DHEA in a

a host of prominent cyclists.

surprise out-of-competition test conducted two weeks before the

Tyler returned to international competition in 2008, signing with

California event. Facing a second ban of eight years for an additional

the US-based Rock Racing Team. In July, at the age of 37, he won the

drug offense, Tyler chose to simply admit the violation and retire from

Tour of Qinghai Lake in China. That August, in Greenville, South

cycling.

Carolina, he finished first at the US professional road race champi-

Nonetheless the US Anti-Doping Association took up the case and

onships.

handed down its expected penalty last June. “The eight-year suspension

By then, however, he was five years into an illness that he had

is unfortunate and disheartening,” Tyler said in a statement afterwards.

kept secret from all but his family and a few close friends, and one that

“At this time, however, my focus remains on my mother, my family,

runs through generations in the Hamilton family. Both his mother and

battling my depression, and getting better. This has been an extremely

maternal grandmother had suffered from depression, and his grand-

difficult and trying period, but I am determined to get through it.”

mother had committed suicide. ESPN reports that his older sister also

Craig Antonides ’77, his friend and former coach at Holderness,

struggles with the illness. “I couldn’t fix it for him,” Jennifer Linehan

hopes that such determination bears fruit. “He’s had quite a roller-coast-

said in a telephone interview. “He had to fix it for himself.”

er ride in his cycling career,” Craig said to HST in August. “I had a

That’s hard to do. Tyler had been taking Celexa, a prescription

chance to ride with him earlier this summer and see him relaxed and

anti-depressant, but the drug began to feel less effective to him in a

happy, which is all he’s looking for right now. He’s still a great guy and

year—2008—in which his marriage ended (amicably) and his mother

I hope he finds happiness and can move on.”

was diagnosed with breast cancer. He doubled the dosage, struggled

Meanwhile the Tyler Hamilton Foundation, founded in 2003, con-

with Celexa’s side effects, trained erratically, and then stopped taking

tinues to raise funds for the Multiple Sclerosis Society and to help ama-

the medication altogether: “A big, big mistake,” he told ESPN, “some-

teur cyclists rise through the ranks. Its founder—memorialized in his

thing I might never forgive myself for.”

Wikipedia biography as “a courteous, affable cyclist and spokesperson

He says that he turned to Mitamins, an herbal anti-depressant, in a

for the sport”—rose nearly to its highest peak, but then fell swiftly and

fog-headed sort of desperation. “Did I take it knowing it was on the

sadly down a very dark side of that mountain. Now he has only his

banned list?” he said. “Yes. Did I take it because it was performance-

famous grit, but enough of that, Craig hopes, to get him back on his

enhancing? Absolutely not. You can look at my results at the Tour of

feet.

Gold Ski X2

Julia Ford ’08 earns her second consecutive Gold Ski Award as the top junior alpine skier in the East.

OW SHE HAS A MATCHED PAIR.

year it was pretty unexpected since the

April Julia Ford ’08 claimed

actual award had been lost for so long,

the Eastern Ski Writers

but now that it’s getting established

Association Golden Ski Award as the

again, the Eastern skiers are gunning

top female junior alpine skier in the

for it. I’m proud to represent the East.

East for the second consecutive year.

This is a big honor.”

Julia is in her third year with the US Ski Team program, and was earlier

In the 1960s the Golden Ski Award was established in memory of

named Junior Alpine Skier of the Year

snowsports journalist Don A. Metvier.

by Ski Racing magazine. She nearly

It was awarded to the top male and

swept the top of the junior podium at

female skiers in the East until 1975,

the Nature Valley US Alpine champi-

when the Golden Ski itself was lost.

onships in Alyeska, AK. There she fin-

Two years ago the New England Ski

ished as the top junior in slalom and

Museum was given some artifacts that

giant slalom, and second among jun-

included the original Golden Ski. This

iors in the downhill. It’s probably most

prompted the ESWA to revitalize the

impressive, though, that she placed in

honor, awarding it now to the top jun-

the top ten of all competitors in each of

ior racers.

those races. Julia also won the Nor Am Cup

Julia is the third two-time winner in the history of the award. Nolan

super combined title, which earns her a

Kaspar of Burke Mountain Academy

World Cup starting spot in the disci-

was named the top male skier.

pline for the 2010 season. The points helped lift her to second in the overall Nor Am standings. “This is a really cool award to win and does a lot of great things for skiing in the East,” said Julia. “Last

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2008-2009

YEAR

GLANCE

g i f t s t o t h e h o l d e r n e s s a n n u a l fu n d : $ 1 , 0 3 8 , 6 5 9 Unrestricted Annual Fund

$969,799

Restricted Annual Fund

total:

$68,860

$1,038,659

g i f t s t o e n d o w m e n t a n d s t ra t e g i c p r i o r i t i e s : $ 2 , 8 3 4, 4 9 2 Day Student Room Renovations (Parentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Auction) Financial Aid

$28,000 $2,452,502

General Campaign

$236,939

Weld Renovation Project

$93,333

Endowment for Chapel Maintenance

$22,578

Campaign for Holderness: Other

total:

$1,140

$2,834,492

total all new 2009* gifts: $3,873,151 * G i f t s r e c e i ve d 7 / 1 / 0 8 - 6 / 3 0 / 0 9

WELCOME

Dear Members of the Holderness School Community:

The relative calm of summer offers an opportunity not only to relax and

recharge a bit but also to reflect on the last academic yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s accomplishment.

Looking back on the year ending June 30, what stands out so conspicuously

at Holderness are the record breaking levels of giving.

In this period of eco-

nomic uncertainty, you have made Holderness a philanthropic priority and,

more than ever, we are exceedingly grateful.

For the first time in its history, the Holderness Annual Fund exceeded the $1 million threshold.

cent were first time donors to the annual fund.

commitment.

Of all gifts received, ten per-

An additional seventy percent of donors increased or sustained their level of

We hope you take justifiable pride in being an invaluable part of such a historic and meaningful achievement.

Whereas this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s accomplishments may seem counterintuitive in a year that has seen so many economic indicators plum-

met, it is nonetheless a hallmark reflection of our giving and thoughtful School Community.

In the following pages, we pay

tribute and honor those who have expressed their resounding and very tangible approval of the Schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mission, the

extraordinary commitment of its faculty and the strength of its programs.

There is a premium at Holderness on commitment and participation.

viduals; they make our School stronger as a whole.

These characteristics allow each of us to grow as indi-

Likewise, when each of us participates in the Holderness Annual Fund,

our collective commitments have a meaningful and widespread impact. Together, we have accomplished much more than

anyone of us could accomplish alone.

Thank you for your generosity and the essential part you have played in keeping Holderness vibrant and accessible.

Thank

you for what you do for Holderness.

Peter K. Kimball '72

Trustee Chair, Development Committee

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PARENTS

The parents of our current students make a bold and important statement of their approval and faith in the Holderness Experience with great generosity for the Annual Fund.

Special thanks to our parents

for helping to provide and enhance the daily experience of each and every Holderness student.

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Mr. and Mrs. Richard Curran

Mr. Joseph Ahia and Ms. Marie Gaestel

Mr. and Mrs. Christopher L. Cushing '78

Mr. and Mrs. Muntasir M. Alireza

Mr. and Mrs. Russell G. Cushman '80

Mr. and Mrs. Mutasim M. Alireza

Mr. and Mrs. John Dalton

Mrs. Susan Grant Allen '82 and Dr. Charles B. Allen

Mr. Mark H. Daniell and Ms. Karin Sixl-Daniell

BG and Mrs. Joseph Anderson

Dr. Suzanne Daningburg

Mr. and Mrs. Peter Barnum

Mr. and Mrs. Michael DeFeo

Mr. and Mrs. Lionel O. Barthold

Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Doyle

The Honorable and Mrs. Charles F. Bass '70

Mr. Donald M. Dudley

Mr. and Mrs. James R. Bennett

Ms. Meg Dudley

Mr. Peter Bergh and Ms. Janet Prince

Mr. and Mrs. Paul V. Dullea

Mr. and Mrs. Christopher D. Blau

Mr. Peter Durnan and Ms. Kristen Fischer

Mr. and Mrs. David Block

Deborah and Peter Fauver '65

Mr. and Mrs. David M. Bohonnon

Ms. Dawn M. Fernandez

Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Bozich

Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Ferrante

Mr. and Mrs. William M. Bradbury

Mr. and Mrs. Mark D. Finnegan '79

Mr. Christopher B. R. Brown '71 and Dr. Jocelyn Chertoff

Mr. Robert Fisher and Ms. Barbara Kourajian

Ms. Chess Brownell

Mr. Christopher J. Ford and Ms. Alison M. Hill

Mr. Thomas H. Brownell

Mr. and Mrs. James J. Ford Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. David Bunker

Mr. Thomas H. Friedman and Ms. Rosemarie Mullin

Mr. and Mrs. Carl V. H. Burnham III

Mr. and Mrs. Joel Gardiner

Mr. Brian Cameron

Mr. E. C. Goodrich and Ms. Kathleen Maher

Ms. Joanne Cameron

Ms. Susan Gribbell

Mr. and Mrs. Gregory Camp

Mr. William Gribbell

Mr. and Mrs. Stu Campbell

Dr. and Mrs. John Grisham

Mr. and Mrs. John N. Canning Jr.

Dr. and Mrs. Douglas Halsted

Dr. Theodore H. Capron and Ms. Margaret A. Frankhauser

Mr. and Mrs. Timothy W. Hardtke

Ms. Susannah Cargill

Ms. Lisa Harriman

Ms. Cynthia Carr

Mr. Wilson Harriman

Mr. Gary Carr

Mr. and Mrs. Robert R. Haskell II

Ms. Claire H. Cassidy

Mr. and Mrs. Brion G. Hayes

Mr. and Mrs. Peter Chapin

Mr. and Mrs. James A. Hayssen

Dr. and Mrs. Won Jin Chung

Mr. Frederick B. Hecker

Mr. and Mrs. George Clark Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Hildreth

Mr. Charles G. Clarkson

Mr. and Mrs. Jay Hoeschler

Mrs. Marilyn Clarkson

Ms. Carol J. Holahan

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Cloud

Ms. Betsey Holtzmann

Mr. Robert J. Cooney

Mr. Ronald Houle and Ms. Ann Foster

William and Susan Copeland

Mr. John Howe

Ms. Mary Corkran

Ms. Joanne Hrabovsky

Mr. and Mrs. Sewell H. Corkran

Mr. and Mrs. William W. Humphrey Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Cowie

Mr. and Mrs. Allan Huntley

Ms. Nancy Cress

Mr. and Mrs. John K. C. Hyslip II

Mr. and Mrs. David Crowley

Mr. Stephen Johnson and Ms. Hannah Nichols

Ms. Olivia Crudgington and Mr. Scott Harrop

Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Jones

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Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Jorgenson

Mr. and Mrs. Steven C. Pettengill

Ms. Penny L. Kane

Mr. Huy Thach Pham and Ms. Karin Render

Mr. and Mrs. John P. Kelley

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas N. Phillips '75

Ms. Kimberly Kelly

Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Pichette

Mr. Douglas R. Kendall and Ms. Diane Roberts

Mr. and Mrs. William Powell

Mr. Sam Kinney Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Raffio

Mr. and Mrs. David Knapp

Mr. and Mrs. Charles D. Reilly '74

Mr. and Mrs. Roger Lamson

Dr. and Mrs. Daniel S. Robbins

Mr. and Mrs. Arthur R. LeBlanc III

Mr. and Mrs. Alain Rochefort

Mr. and Mrs. Jay N. Leech

Mr. and Mrs. Dana Rosencranz

Mr. and Mrs. Emile J. Legere

Mr. James Rosenfield and Ms. Dana L. Conroy

Lynne Mitchell and Dick Lewis

Mr. Steven M. Ryan and Ms. Ann Meeker

Mr. and Mrs. Douglas R. Locke

Mr. and Mrs. Michael Sapers

Mr. and Mrs. Brett D. Long

Mr. and Mrs. Peter Schaffer

Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Long

Mr. Andre A. Schwartz and Ms. Virginia Egger

Mr. and Mrs. Christopher MacKenzie

Mr. Keith R. Sellers

Mr. George C. Macomber and Ms. Martha Macomber

Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Shenton

Mr. and Mrs. Walter A. Malmquist II '74

Dr. and Mrs. Timothy M. Sievers

Dr. and Mrs. Paul Manoukian

Mr. and Mrs. Gregory L. Smith

Mr. and Mrs. Neil Marcus

Mr. and Mrs. S. Wells Smith

Mr. and Mrs. Keith Markley

Mr. and Mrs. Brian L. Starer

Jonathan and Sarah Marvin

Mr. and Mrs. Harry Stearns Jr.

Mr. Robert Mathews and Ms. Heidi Whitman

Mr. and Mrs. R. James Steiner

Mr. and Mrs. J. Scott McCoy

Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Stevens

Mr. and Mrs. Brian J. McNulty

Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Stewart III

Mr. and Mrs. Michael E. McPhee

Mr. and Mrs. William F. Stride III

Mr. and Mrs. Stephan McSherry

Mr. Paul Summers

Mr. and Mrs. Edward Meau

Ms. Jennifer S. Sylvester

Mr. and Mrs. Steven Merrill

Mr. and Mrs. David D. Taylor '71

Mr. and Mrs. David J. Micalizzi

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Thibadeau

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Michel

Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Thompson

Mr. and Mrs. Peter C. Middleton

Mr. David P. Thurston '68

Mr. and Mrs. Alan G. Mitchell

Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Tierney

Mr. Carlos Mogollon and Ms. Elspeth Hotchkiss

Mr. and Mrs. Geoffrey L. Tillotson

LTC Brian F. Morgan USA (Ret) and Mrs. Nancy Y. Morgan

Mr. Richard G. Tyler and Ms. Frances M. Belcher

Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Muller

Mr. and Mrs. Richard H. Vernet

Mr. and Mrs. Peter W. Nelson

Mr. and Mrs. Hans C. Vitzthum

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Nesbitt

Mr. and Mrs. Patrick F. Walsh

Mr. and Mrs. Eric Nettere

Mr. and Mrs. Rick E. Walters

Mr. and Mrs. Henry Nichols

Mr. and Mrs. Robert R. Wasson

Mr. and Mrs. Scott S. Nolan

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Wear

Ms. M. Lee Nordblom

Mr. and Mrs. George S. Weaver III '75

Mr. and Mrs. Peter W. Noyes '79

Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Q. White

Mr. William L. Nungesser

Dr. and Mrs. Gregory J. Wilkin

Dr. and Mrs. Richard G. Obregon

Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Wright

Mr. and Mrs. Michael O'Leary

Mr. and Mrs. Frank P. Zarzeka Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Mark J. Parisi

Mr. Kim E. Zimmermann '83

PARENTS

Mr. Kyun Je Park and Mrs. Hye Kyung Shin Mr. and Mrs. Steven M. Parsons Mr. and Mrs. David Patten Mr. and Mrs. R. Phillip Peck Mr. and Mrs. Joseph J. Pestana III Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Petrocine

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One of the requirements to receive a Holderness diploma is service to the greater community. While the requirement ends at graduation, the following alumni continue to give generously in the same spirit that is so important both then and now. The great support from our alumni body is a wonderful gesture of thanks and continued approval of the Holderness mission.

Class Of '35

Dan Tahara

Bigelow Green

Hank Granger

Doug Hamilton

Don Hinman

Class Of '45

Chico Laird

Reed Thompson

38% Participation

Dave Luce

Peter Wilson

Class Of '37

Harry Emmons

Dave Wise

50% Participation

Mac Jacoby

Dave Goodwin

Fred See

50% Participation Jim McKee

Class Of '56 Class Of '51

14% Participation

30% Participation

Doug Auer Gardner Lewis

Class Of '38

Class Of '46

Fred Carter

100% Participation

18% Participation

Nick Nichols

Dick Meyer

Bob Hardy

Dave McGrath

Terry Weathers

David G. Wiggins

Dutch Morse

Frank Perkins

Class Of '52

Class Of '57

Granny Smith

Class Of '47

29% Participation

52% Participation

Bud Snow

38% Participation

Jay Harris

Bob Backus

Bill Briggs

Bob Keating

Bill Clough

Class Of '39

Weld Coxe

Peter Poole

Ron Crowe

50% Participation

Jack Hill

Al Teele

Rick Fabian

Bob Lucas

Ep Moulton

John Tytus

Perry Jeffries

George Vinall

Bob Masters

Class Of '53

Steven Hall

Don Smith

37% Participation

Dwight Mason

Don Backe

Pieter Van Zandt Hartley Webster

Class Of '40 33% Participation

Class Of '48

Carl Hoagland

Jack Barton

36% Participation

Elvin Kaplan

Jay Webster

Russ Orton

Rik Clark

Burt Kettle

Bob Weiss

Michael Goriansky

Pete Robertson

Class Of '41

Tom Loemker

John Robinson

Class Of '58

33% Participation

Stan Patterson

Russell Stackhouse

45% Participation

Class Of '49

Class Of '54

Bill Biddle

45% Participation

24% Participation

Jim Collins

Class Of '42

Bob Barrows

Bob Carson

Tim Dewart

50% Participation

Bill Baskin

Rick Carter

Tony Dyer

Ted Libbey

Bob Bradner

Dewey Dumaine

John Greenman

Lee Bright

Brad Langmaid

Charlie Kellogg

Class Of '43

Tex Coulter

Bill Lofquist

Mike Kingston

30% Participation

Ed Fine

Kim Mason

Jim Rocks

Tom Jeffries

George Huckins Dick Marden

John Bergeron

Don Latham Bruce Leddy

Brad Wagoner

Peter Kulla

Class Of '55

George Pransky

Dick Warner

Peter Spalding

33% Participation

Brooke Thomas

Class Of '44

Class Of '50

John Allbee

22% Participation

42% Participation

Peter Atherton

John Skeele

Patrick Brill

Arnold Bieling

Fletcher Adams

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Steve Thompson

Class Of '62

Cleve Patterson

Bill Foot

Jon Wales

36% Participation

Charlie Reigeluth

Doug McLane

Free Allen

Kevin Wyckoff

Class Of '59

Bill Barker

72% Participation

Chas Bradley

Class Of '66

16% Participation

Steve Abbey

Peter Casey

18% Participation

Arja Adair

Cushman Andrews

Frank Castle

Marsh Adair

Charlie Bass

Jerry Ashworth

Bruce Hauck

Greg Connors

Jim Cousins

Steve Barndollar

Monty Meigs

Tom Doyle

David Donahue

John Clough

Bob Nields

Stephen Foster

Jeremy Foley

Class Of '70

Peter Coughlin

Dave Putnam

Drew Hart

Kirk Hinman

Charlie Emerson

Chris Slade

Paul Reed

Rich Weymouth

Bob Fiore

David Soule

Dick Floyd

John Swift

Class Of '67

Class Of '71

Jay Gerard

Bruce Upton

5% Participation

13% Participation

Dick Gray

Eric Werner

Luke Dowley

Chris Brown

Jamie Hollis

Stu Goodwin

Chris Hoyt Duncan Hunter

Class Of '63

Ken Lewis

35% Participation

Class Of '68

Roy Madsen

Dick McIninch

Flash Allen

28% Participation

Bill Phippen

Rob Hier

Lee Miller

Peter Chapman

Anonymous

David Taylor

Mark Morris

Joe Downs

Hank Anderson

Rick Wellman

Charley Murphy

Jim Drummond

Jim Burnett

Jay Orr

Steve Gregg

Charles French

Class Of '72

Chris Palmer

Nick Hadgis

Rick Hall

26% Participation

Lee Shepard

David Hagerman

Steve Hirshberg

Tom Cooper

John Southard

Sandy Hewat

Jon Howe

John Elder Will Graham

Bruce Vogel

George LeBoutillier

Jim Stearns

George McNeil

Jack Taylor

Eric Haartz

Gary Richardson

Bruce Thompson

Gary Hagler

30% Participation

George Textor

David Thurston

Loren Berry

Steve Wales

Class Of '60

Class Of '69

Alan Dewart

Peter Kimball Chris Latham Dan Murphy

Dick Gardner

Class Of '64

15% Participation

Dave Nicholson

Nick Johnson

26% Participation

Tim Bontecou

Stu Porteous

Peter Macdonald

Sandy Alexander

Craig Colgate

Mark Rheault

John Mossman

Craig Blouin

Jack Copeland

Dwight Shepard

Len Richards

Jeff Hinman

Howard Spencer

Jeff Lathrop

Charley Witherell

Bill McCollom

Class Of '61

Dan Redmond

Terry Morse

29% Participation

Jim Ricker

John Cleary

Dick Stowell

John Cumming

Woody Thompson

Bob Hall John Holley

Class Of '65

Bill Macurda

18% Participation

Dave Norton

Bro Adams

Peter O'Connor

Jim McGill

Bill Seaver

Ren Nichols

Dalton Thomas

Dave Nichols

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Class Of '73

Jim Hamblin

Peter Kessler

16% Participation

Randy White

Pete Lamson

Hilary Snyder O’Connor

Christine Louis

Jon Pirtle

Dick Conant

Zach Martin

Peter Garrison

Class Of '78

Sarah Jankey Medlin

Eric Prime

Roland Glidden

16% Participation

Will Prickett

Peter Radasch

Geoff Klingenstein

John Alden

Andy Rogerson

Craig Westling

John Lord

Reese Brown

Kevin Rowe

Leslie Orton-Mahar

Scott Brown

Brian Rutledge

Class Of '85

Sam Richards

Chris Cushing

Todd Senniff

15% Participation

Tim Scott

Blaise deSibour

Ty Wallace

Phip Bourne

Bruce Edgerly

Hilary Frost Warner

Anne Desjardins

Elizabeth Heide

Class Of '74

Randy Fiertz

13% Participation

Hal Hawkey

Class Of '82

Braden Edwards

Mike Coffin

Kirk Siegel

16% Participation

Tim Jones

Walter Malmquist

Scott Sirles

Susan Grant Allen

Charlie Lamson

Mark McWilliams

Andrew Wilson

Piper Orton

Frank Bonsal

Jenn Smith Schlegel

Mark Cavanaugh

Ian Sinclair

Chuck Reilly

Class Of '79

Lisa Weeks Clute

Poppy Staub

Jack Thomas

25% Participation

Peter Coolidge

Bob Zock

Clare Eckert

David Lindahl

Class Of '75

Mark Finnegan

Joe Miles

Class Of '86

24% Participation

Bob Golden

Susan Levin Paine

22% Participation

Perry Babcock

Lance Mahaney

Chris Pesek

Peggy Hartman Bakula

Jay Butler

Cynthia Makris

Erica Weber Scatchard

Sara Madden Curran

Chris Carney

Cullen Morse

Susan Fine Taylor

Clay Dunn

Mike Conway

Kris Van Curan Nordblom

Ed Cudahy

Peter Noyes

Class Of '83

Dave Hinman

Sym Gates

Chris Fraker

Dexter Paine

23% Participation

Owen Hyland

Terry French

Doug Paul

Tippy Blish

Bill Macy

Mac Jackson

Jay Pingree

Jenny Rubin Britton

Laura Cooper Page

Jim McDonald

Ian Sanderson

Chris Del Col

Greg Redmond

Eric Pendleton

Andy Sawyer

Walt Dodge

Jake Reynolds

Tom Phillips

David Slaughter

Charley Hanson

Matt Reynolds

Gregg Sage

Tom Steele

Peter Hewitt

Blake Swift

Jack Sanderson

Jim Stringfellow

Tom Hildreth

Ellyn Paine Weisel

Ken Sowles

John Wellman

Chris Hopkins

Molly Adriance Whitcomb

Jud Madden

Chris Zak

George Weaver

Class Of '80

Ward Malmquist

Class Of '76

13% Participation

Newell McCaw

Class Of '87

9% Participation

Ed Biddle

Jeff Rollins

11% Participation

Tom Armstrong

Peter Burghardt

Mark Schibli

Kim Morton Case

Ike Carpenter

Russ Cushman

Willie Stump

Chris Cripps

Bob Garrison

Jack Dawley

Zimbo Zimmermann

Ben Mathes

David Reed

Mike Robinson

Carolyn Colket Cullen Stan Jackson

Matt Upton

Class Of '84

Jamie Spiess

Andrew Warner

21% Participation

Joan Horan Twining

Joe Barbour

Brett Weisel

Class Of '77

Class Of '81

Ed Canaday

11% Participation

25% Participation

Doug Davis

Class Of '88

Ben Campbell

Bill Baskin

Mich Dupre

25% Participation

Dave Dewey

Jay Cleary

David Finch

Jason Evans

Peter Grant

Andy Clutz

Dilcia Pena Hill

Bill Green

Howard Greenley

Win Idle

Steve Lunder

Lee Hanson

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Jenny Holden

Martha Maher Sharp

John Coyle

Dew Wallace

Brett Jones

Rob Wolf

Matt Daigneault

Dustin Williamson

Rob Kinsley

Class Of '92

John Farnsworth

Class Of '99

Pam Lehmberg

20% Participation

Laura Hanrahan

11% Participation

Alex MacCormick

Ben Casey

Asania Smith

Tim Connell

Emily Adriance Magnus

William Chapin

Adam Sullivan

Abby Richardson Considine

Chip Martin

Thad Foote

Brandon Wagner

Julia Haley

Will Northrop

Hugh Griffiths

Sarah Walker

Robert Henderson

Elizabeth Pierce

Devie Hamlen

David Smail

Jay Hart

Class Of '96

Colin Wehrung

Nina Smallhorn

Andy Katchen

23% Participation

Joel Yarmon

Chris Stewart

Heidi Hamilton Kerko

Alec Brewster

Andrew Kesler

Abbey DeRocker

Kathleen Blauvelt Kime

Jamie Klopp

Carolyn Campbell

Class Of '00

Nick Leonard

Alison Megroz Chadbourne

25% Participation

Class Of '89

Liz Lyman

Tim Duffy

Katie Bristow Bohlin

21% Participation

Akira Murakami

Laura DuMond

Hedda Burnett

Lauren Parkhill Adey

Lincoln Sise

David Flynn

Jonathan Campbell

Courtie Barnes

Eric Thielscher

Joe Graceffa

Ryan Carey

Chris Davenport

Stu Wales

Lydia Griffin

Trevor Dean

Shields Day

Kelly Mullen Weiser

Chris Haas

Levi Doria

Erik Tuveson

Christy Wood Donovan

Katie Waltz Harris

Chris Emerson

Steph Pisanelli Lyons

Ted Finnerty Charley Lodi

Greg Eccleston

Class Of '93

Jennie Legg Gabel

14% Participation

Justin Martin

Meg St. John Gally

Pam Erlanger

Field Pickering

Rob Maguire

Tracy McCoy Gillette

Nat Faxon

Will Richardson

Tim Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Donnell

Brad Greenwood

Megan Flynn

Stacey Eder Smith

Jake Spaulding

Nikki Kimball

Anne Blair Hudak

Bo Surdam

Ryan Tyler

RC Whitehouse

Todd Maynard

Schuyler Perry

Jen Comstock Reed

Emily Wenzel Reis

Class Of '97

Lindley Hall van der Linde

Kate McIlvain Smith

12% Participation

Tiaan van der Linde

Tommy Valeo

Erik Bass

Class Of '01

Abbie Wilson

Tad Davis

27% Participation

Kevin Zifcak

Matt Goldberg

Natalie Babony

Robert Johnson

Andy Bohlin

Class Of '90 15% Participation

Heidi Webb

Kat Alfond

Class Of '94

Maura Kearney Marshall

Betsy Cornell

Dave Colleran

17% Participation

Andrew Marshall

Jennifer Crane Kellan Florio

Pepper deTuro

Melissa Barker

Putney Haley Pyles

Courtney Fleisher

Bunge Cook

Mark Walrod

Sarah Cripps Fox

Carey Emerson Davey

Sam Glasgow Jarret Hann

Andrea Hamlin-Levin

Dan Harrigan

Class Of '98

Karyn Hoepp

Tegan Hamilton Hayunga

Jason Myler

20% Participation

Evan Kornack

Caroline Clutz Keeney

Nina Perkins Newman

Zach Antonucci

Adam Lavallee

Megan Sheehan Kristiansen

Ed Pike

Kathryn Bridge

Ira Marvin

Aaron Woods

Sander van Otterloo

Hacker Burr

John Nichols

Dave Webb

Jim Chalmers

Liz Norton

Class Of '91

Thayer Oberg Wollenberg

Terry Connell

Patrick Regan

10% Participation

Sarah Crane

Patrick Richardson

Peter Christensen

Class Of '95

Canute Dalmasse

Joy Domin Southworth

Lex Leeming

19% Participation

Adam Goldberg

John Ziadie

Yasuna Murakami

Anonymous

Ben Luntz

Brent Radcliffe

Bri Adams

Mirte Mallory

Class Of '02

Eric Rohr

Cil Bloomfield

Hilary Patzer

9% Participation

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Peter Bohlin

Class Of '04

Class Of '06

Tanner Mathison

Ave Cook

10% Participation

9% Participation

Christopher McManus

Maddie Rappoli Fiumara

Geoff Calver

Jay Bladon

Kroger Schwartz

Ramsay Hill

Casey Carroll

Casey Gilman

Bill Silengo

Eamonn Reynolds-Mohler

Joy Erdman

Abigail Kendall

Kelly Walsh

Chris Rodgers

Pack Janes

Betsy Laurin

Ryan McManus

Lucy Randall

Class Of '08

Class Of '03

Nate Smith

Jesse Straus

10% Participation

14% Participation

Evan Warner

Sam Weaver

Mike Antoniou

Jay Connolly

Class Of '05

Class Of '07

Annie Carney Kathryn Cheng

Casey Carr

Maddie Baker

Neal Frei

7% Participation

12% Participation

Nick Leonard

Jenn Calver

Reed Branton

Maggie Dembinski

Anna Lockwood

Lauren Frei

Kourt Brim

Morgan Frank

Alex Palmisano

Elizabeth Kutch

Phoebe Erdman

Landry Frei

Nick Payeur

Emma Schofield

Cambria Hempton

Kelly Hood

Matt Sopher

Jamie Wallace

Zachary Lynch

PARENTS

ALUMNI

Holderness parents value the relationship to our school well beyond their children's student years, as evidenced by their continued loyalty and generosity to the Annual Fund. Whether the gift is an everyyear thank you to Holderness for a job well done, or a special gesture to a son or daughter, the combined giving from alumni parents represents a significant factor in the success of the Annual Fund. Thank You!

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Mr. and Mrs. Stuart F. Bloch

Mr. Jacques Adam and Ms. Claire E. Sherwood

Mrs. Mary B. Boggess

Dr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Adams

Mr. and Mrs. James L. Bolton Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Vanderpoel Adriance III

Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. Bonsal Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Theodore B. Alfond

Mrs. Luette C. Bourne

Mr. and Mrs. Gerald W. Anderson

Mr. and Mrs. John F. Boyle

Mr. George H. Andrews

Dr. and Mrs. Heinz H. Brennwald

Dr. and Mrs. Demetri Antoniou

Mr. James E. Brewer II

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Armstrong

Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell Brim

Mr. and Mrs. Gerard Baker

Mr. Charles E. Brown

Mr. and Mrs. Harold A. Baker

Mrs. Greta P. Brown

Mr. and Mrs. Alan H. Banister

Mrs. Barbara Bruner

Ms. Wendy D. Barclay

Dr. and Mrs. Frank J. Bruns

Mr. and Mrs. James S. Barker

Mr. Christopher F. Burr

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen J. Barnhorst

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen R. Burzon

Mr. and Mrs. Carroll C. Barrows

Ms. Charlotte Caldwell and Mr. Jeffrey Schutz

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas P. Beal Jr.

Dr. and Mrs. Roderic A. Camp

Mrs. Brenda M. Beckman

Mr. and Mrs. Leonard B. Campbell

Mr. and Mrs. John Bladon

Mr. and Mrs. Georg Capaul

Mr. Quentin Blaine and Dr. Marcia Blaine

Mr. F. Christopher Carney '75 and Ms. Karen Dempsey Carney

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Ms. Linda C. Carpenter

Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Gary

Mr. Edward C. Cayley

Mrs. Sheila Gates

Mr. and Mrs. Seng H. Cheng

Mrs. Robert S. Gillette

Mr. and Mrs. Gary Cilley

Mr. and Mrs. Paul Gilman

Dr. and Mrs. Richard B. Clutz

Ms. Karen Goncalves

Mrs. E. H. M. Coffin

Mrs. Elinor R. Goodwin

Mr. and Mrs. Tristram C. Colket

Mrs. Nancy Gordon

Mrs. Rosemary Conard

Mr. and Mrs. Al C. Graceffa

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen J. Connolly IV

Mr. and Mrs. Pepi Gramshammer

Mr. Philip R. Connors

Mr. Robert E. Gregg Jr.

Mrs. Grace R. Conway

Mr. and Mrs. Frederick W. Griffin Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Warren C. Cook

Mr. and Mrs. William B. Gutfarb

Mr. Charles F. A. Cooper

Dr. and Mrs. Klaus F. Haas

Mr. and Mrs. Matthew B. Corkery

Mr. and Mrs. Denison M. Hall

Mr. Joseph Costa and Ms. Eva H. Bleich

Mr. and Mrs. Elton W. Hall

Mr. and Mrs. E. John Coyle Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen F. Hall

Mr. and Mrs. James H. Crook Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Hallock

Mr. and Mrs. James Cruickshank

Mr. and Mrs. James B. Hamblin II '77

Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth L. Cutler

Mr. and Mrs. James W. Hammond

Mr. and Mrs. Brooks Cutter

Mr. and Mrs. Ulf B. Heide

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Daigneault

Dr. Mark Hempton and Ms. Lorie A. Dunne

Mr. and Mrs. James E. Dalley Jr.

Ms. Jean Henchey

Mr. and Mrs. Michael Daly

Mr. and Mrs. Peter J. Hendel

Mr. and Mrs. Louis A. D'Angio

Mr. and Mrs. Donald H. Henderson

Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Davis

Mr. Douglas Hill and Ms. Alexandra T. Breed

Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Davis

Dr. and Mrs. Ronald C. Hillegass

Mr. and Mrs. Jan Dembinski

Mr. Hazen Hinman

Mr. and Mrs. Claude Desjardins

Mrs. Winifred B. Hodges

Dr. and Mrs. Cameron K. Dewar

Mr. and Mrs. Samuel S. Holdsworth

Mr. and Mrs. Frederic P. Dodge

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hood Jr.

Mrs. Elizabeth Kelly Domin

Dr. and Mrs. David H. Hopkins

The Rev. and Mrs. John C. Donovan

Mr. and Mrs. David W. Hosmer Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Harold J. Doria

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph L. Howard

Mr. and Mrs. Scott H. Doughty

Dr. and Mrs. Robert C. Hoyer

Mr. and Mrs. Harrison Drinkwater

Tom and Susan Hyde

Mr. and Mrs. Peter Dusseault

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Ippolito

Mr. and Mrs. Paul Elkins

Mr. and Mrs. Lennart B. Johnson

Dr. and Mrs. Roger H. Emerson Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon A. Jones

Mr. and Mrs. David Erdman

Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Kent

Mr. Frederic P. Erdman

The Rev. and Mrs. Walter W. Kesler

Ms. Zoe Erdman

Mr. and Mrs. William S. Kimball

Dr. and Mrs. Nathan Anthony M. Estes III

Mr. Samuel G. King

Dr. and Mrs. Donald M. Ettelson

Mr. Robert E. Kipka

Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Evans

Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Kraft

Mr. and Mrs. William H. Everett

Mr. and Mrs. John A. LaCasse

Mr. and Mrs. Adrian Fishman

Mrs. Antonia B. Laird and Mr. Hurley Ryan

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph V. Flaherty

Dr. and Mrs. Charles H. Lambert

Mr. and Mrs. Brendan M. Florio

Dr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Lamson

Mr. and Mrs. John F. Foran

Mr. and Mrs. David P. Laurin

Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Fox

Mr. and Mrs. Andy L. Lavallee

Dr. and Mrs. Gary J. Frei

Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Laverack

Mrs. Ann M. Gallop

Mr. Dean E. Lea and Ms. Debra M. Gibbs

Mr. and Mrs. Leonard B. Galvin

Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Lechthaler

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ALUMNI

Dr. Byung Chul Lee and Dr. Soon Ki Hong

Dr. and Mrs. William G. Phippen

Mr. and Mrs. James W. Leonard

Mr. and Mrs. Frederick B. Pickering Jr.

Dr. and Mrs. Albert C. Lesneski

Mr. Charles W. Pingree

Mr. and Mrs. Alan D. Lewis

Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Pistey

Mr. and Mrs. Paul E. Lindgren

Ms. Penny Pitou

Mrs. Polly S. Lit

Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Pomeroy

Mrs. Elaine Little

Mr. and Mrs. Bayard F. Pope III

Mr. Frederic B. Lowrie Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Richard G. Powers

Mrs. Mary Lou S. Lowrie

Mrs. Dorothy E. Prime

Mr. and Mrs. Peter H. Lunder

Dr. and Mrs. Howard G. Pritham

Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey C. Lyman

Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey L. Randall

Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Lynch

Mr. and Mrs. Peter Y. Rapelye

Mrs. Virginia A. Lyon

Mr. and Mrs. James S. Regan Jr.

Mr. J. Thomas Macy

Mr. and Mrs. George S. Richards

Mr. Howie Mallory and Ms. Nora Berko

Mr. and Mrs. David L. Richardson III

Mr. and Mrs. Quentin A. Malmquist

Dr. and Mrs. Derek P. Richardson

Mr. and Mrs. William E. Mandigo

Mrs. Charlotte Rising

Mr. and Mrs. David H. Martin

Mr. and Mrs. Laurence H. Roberts Jr.

Mr. Thomas J. Martin

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen N. Roberts

Mr. and Mrs. David R. Marvin

Dr. and Mrs. Robert J. Rohr III

Mr. and Mrs. Alan Mather

Mr. and Mrs. David M. Ross

Ms. Susan Mathison

Mr. and Mrs. C. Edward Rowe Jr.

Dr. and Mrs. W. S. McDougal

Mr. and Mrs. Hal L. Rubin

Mr. and Mrs. John F. Meck

Mr. and Mrs. John S. Rudberg Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Mello

Mrs. Barbara M. Rumsey

Mr. and Mrs. Anthony E. Merrey

Mr. and Mrs. Paul D. Rutledge

Mr. James W. Meryman and Ms. Laura Mammarelli

Mr. and Mrs. T. Anthony Ryan

Mr. and Mrs. Andrew L. Meyers

Mr. and Mrs. Alden H. Sawyer Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Richard F. Morse Jr.

Mr. James O. Schaeffer

Mr. and Mrs. George B. Motley

Dr. and Mrs. Walter F. Schlech III

Mr. Frederick V. S. Muench

Dr. and Mrs. Robert C. Schnurr

Dr. and Mrs. Noboru Murakami

Mr. and Mrs. David W. Schoeder

Mr. and Mrs. James J. Murray

Mr. and Mrs. George H. Schofield

Ms. Mary Anne Murray-Carr

Mr. and Mrs. Gary A. Schonwald

Dr. Daniel Muse and Dr. Ann McLean-Muse

Mr. and Mrs. Roger D. Scoville

Mr. and Mrs. Melvin E. Myler Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Seamans

Dr. and Mrs. David Nagel

Mr. and Mrs. Todd N. Seymour

Mr. and Mrs. Mark R. Neagley Mr. and Mrs. Peter B. Nichols Mrs. Kristin Nordblom '79 and Mr. Peter C. Nordblom Mr. and Mrs. Everett R. Nordstrom Mr. and Mrs. Edward J. Norton Ms. Barbara R. Noyes Mr. and Mrs. Bradley P Noyes Mr. David B. O'Brien and Ms. Donna M. Kasianchuk Mrs. Gail F. Paine Mr. and Mrs. Preston S. Parish Ms. Suzanne D. Parish Mr. and Mrs. James S. Parkhill MajGen and Mrs. Charles R. Parrott Mr. and Mrs. E. Allan Patzer Mr. and Mrs. John B. Pepper Mr. and Mrs. Mark B. Perkins

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PARENTS Mr. and Mrs. Michael B. Sherman

ALUMNI

Mr. and Mrs. O. Alan Thulander

Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Shnayerson

Mr. Henry D. Tiffany III

Mr. and Mrs. William H. Silengo Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. John D. Todd

Mr. and Mrs. Peter E. Silitch

Mr. David L. Torrey

Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. Siragusa

Mr. and Mrs. William R. Tower Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Alan F. Skelley Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. David Trook

Mr. Robert Smith and Ms. Carol Van Bommel

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Tuveson

Dr. W. Brooks Smith Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Eijk A. de Mol van Otterloo

Mr. and Mrs. Raymond M. Soto

Mr. James Vincent

Mrs. Emily V. Spencer

Mr. and Mrs. Curt M. Vinson

Mr. and Mrs. Mark L. Sperry III

Mr. Constantine G. Vlahakis

Mr. Orson L. St. John Jr.

Mr. Richard C. Wallace

Ms. Elizabeth M. Steele

Mr. and Mrs. Larry D. Walrod

Mrs. Charlotte Stewart

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Walsh

Ms. Sandra Stone

Mrs. Lisa Wardlaw

Mr. David Stonebraker and Ms. Leslie A. Guenther

Mr. and Mrs. N. Thomas Warner

Mr. and Mrs. Eric L. Straus

Mr. and Mrs. Winthrop M. Wassenar

Mr. and Mrs. John A. Straus

Mr. and Mrs. Paul Weaver

Mr. and Mrs. A. Herman Stump Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. John Weeks Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Duncan D. Sutphen III

Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Wenzel

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen S. Swenson

Mr. and Mrs. John W. L. White

Mr. and Mrs. Edward M. Swift

Mrs. Deborah Williamson

Mr. David A. Teiger

Mr. Bernhardt K. Wruble and Dr. Jill Wruble

Dr. and Mrs. Christopher M. Terrien Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. James M. Yarmon

Mr. and Mrs. David R. Thielscher

Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Zock

GRANDPARENTS

We offer our sincere thanks to all of the grandparents of current students and alumni who continue to show their commitment to the Holderness Experience. Thank You!

Mr. Howard Bean

Mr. and Mrs. Karl Kelly

Dr. and Mrs. J. Edward Perreault

Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence M. Blau

Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Kent

Ms. Penny Pitou

Mrs. Barbara Boucher

Mr. and Mrs. Sam Kinney

Mr. and Mrs. John D. Pope

Mr. and Mrs. John L. Boyle

Mr. and Mrs. Bernd P. Kuehn

Mr. and Mrs. Barry Protage

Mr. and Mrs. E. Paul Casey

Mrs. Polly S. Lit

Mr. and Mrs. Louis J. Raffio

Mr. Robert Cornell

Mr. and Mrs. George Macomber

Mrs. Dorothy W. Reeves

Dr. Robert W. Cornell

Mr. and Mrs. Quentin A. Malmquist

Mr. and Mrs. Walter B. Reilly Jr.

Mrs. Hope Cruickshank

Mr. and Mrs. Don Marchand

Mrs. Ruth Robbins

Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Dudley

Mr. and Mrs. Alan Mather

Mr. and Mrs. Noah Rosenbloom

Mr. and Mrs. Vincent W. Durnan

Mr. and Mrs. Gerald E. McNally

Mrs. Fannette Sawyer

Mr. and Mrs. Ronald S. Edwards Jr.

Mrs. Withrow W. Meeker

Mr. and Mrs. FA Seamans

Mr. and Mrs. Harold Erdman

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Metzger

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Smith

Dr. and Mrs. S. Peter Gibb

Ms. Shirlee Mitchell

Mr. and Mrs. Bayne A. Stevenson

Mr. and Mrs. Neil E. Harlan

Ms. Virginia B. Newman

Mrs. Barbara Stewart

Mrs. Mary Harriman

Mr. and Mrs. Bradley P Noyes

Mrs. Caroline Hartwell Stewart

Mr. and Mrs. Donald H. Henderson

Dr. and Mrs. Gonzalo M. Obregon

Mr. John E. Sylvester Jr.

Mr. Hazen Hinman

Mr. and Mrs. Preston S. Parish

Mr. and Mrs. Pendleton P. White

Mr. and Mrs. Howard M. Holtzmann

Ms. Suzanne D. Parish

Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Woolson Sr.

Mrs. Judy Janes

Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Payne

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F A C U LT Y

salute

AND

the

S TA F F

following

employees

for

showing

their

deep

commitment

and

unwavering

support

through all they do for Holderness School. Thank You!

Mr. and Mrs. Peter Barnum

Mr. and Mrs. William Kietzman

Ms. Donna L. Black

Mr. George C. Macomber and Ms. Martha Macomber

Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Bliss

Mrs. Emily Adriance Magnus '88 and Mr. Kurt H. Magnus

Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Caldwell

Mr. and Mrs. Brian J. McNulty

Mr. and Mrs. Georg Capaul

Mr. Wayne Oldack and Ms. Veronica Mueller

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Cirone

Mr. and Mrs. R. Phillip Peck

Mr. and Mrs. James E. Dalley Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Solberg

Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Day

Mr. and Mrs. David Strickland

Ms. Carol L. Dopp

Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Thompson

Mr. and Mrs. Paul V. Dullea

Ms. Elaine Tibbetts and Mr. David Uhlman

Mr. Peter Durnan and Ms. Kristen Fischer

Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Tierney

Mr. Neal J. Frei '03

Mr. Ryan N. Tyler '00

Ms. Jean Henchey

Mr. Tiaan van der Linde '89 and Mrs. Lindley van der Linde '89

Mr. and Mrs. Peter J. Hendel

The Rev. and Mrs. Richard C. Weymouth '70

Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Jorgenson

Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Q. White

Mr. Douglas R. Kendall and Ms. Diane Roberts

Mr. and Mrs. Aaron H. Woods

EXTENDED

The

Extended

F A M I LY

Family

group

friends

who

have

contributed

generously

help

ensure

the

continued strength of Holderness School. Former trustees, former faculty and staff, businesses, and friends of the school are all part of this family and deserve hearty thanks!

Ms. Keri-Sue Baker

Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Otto

Mr. and Mrs. R. Arthur Bradbury

Mrs. Marjorie H. Randall

Mrs. Eleanor H. Bright

Mr. and Mrs. Paul Scanlan

Mr. and Mrs. John Buckley

Mrs. Anneliese Schultz

Mrs. Virginia Burnham

Mrs. Diane H. Shank

Mr. and Mrs. Harold R. Byers

Mrs. Barbara Smith

Mr. and Mrs. Geoffrey K. Caldwell

The Rt. Rev. Philip A. Smith

Mr. and Mrs. Howard Champagne

Mr. and Mrs. Alan H. Soanes

Mr. and Mrs. Frederick L. Chipman

Mr. and Mrs. Winston W. Staples

Mr. Allan H. Davis

Mr. and Ms. Thomas Steketee

Mr. and Mrs. Josiah H. Drummond Jr.

Mr. Charles T. Sussman

Mr. Wilson Everhart III

Dr. Jephtha Tausig-Edwards

Mr. and Mrs. Wilson C. Everhart Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Gordon VanderBrug

Mrs. Seth P. Holcombe

Mr. Christopher Weld Jr. Esq.

Mr. Howard Holderness Jr.

Mr. Ogden White Jr.

Miss Margaret T. Keith Dr. and Mrs. Joseph L. King Mr. and Mrs. Eric Lee Mr. and Mrs. Robert Low Mrs. Phyllis R. Manley Ms. Katherine Gamble Marvin and Mr. Ira J. Marvin '01 Mr. Christopher T. Meier

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F O U N D AT I O N S

The following foundations and trusts shared their resources with Holderness to keep the school healthy and vital:

The Acorn Foundation

Martin Foundation

The Casey Family Foundation

The New Hampshire Charitable Foundation

The

The New York Community Trust

Colket Foundation

The Fidelity Charitable Foundation

The Noboru Murakami and Hiroko Murakami Foundation

The Gary-Williams Foundation

Preston S. and Barbara J. Parish Foundation

The Ulf B. & Elizabeth C. Heide Foundation Charitable Trust

The Redmond Family Foundation

Hazen B. Hinman Sr. Foundation

The Seymour H.

Lindgren Foundation

The

Knox Foundation, Inc.

Smith-Denison Foundation

The Agnes M. Lindsay Trust

Suzanne and Jeffrey Bloomberg Foundation

The Lunder Foundation

Sweet Peas Foundation

Maine Community Foundation

Richard Van Lunen Charitable Foundation

Marr Charity Trust Fund

The

Weld Family Foundation

M AT C H I N G

COMPANIES

Our thanks to the companies listed below for matching their employee's gifts to Holderness School with a gift of their own.

Aetna Foundation, Inc.

Suntrust Bank

Avaya

Takeda Pharmaceuticals, Inc

Bank of America

Chevron Texaco Inc.

BP America

The Prudential Foundation

The Capital Group Companies

Travelers Foundation

Covidien Employee Matching Gift Program Deutsche Bank Dorsey & Whitney LLP Eaton Vance Management Edison International Fidelity Foundation General Electric Foundation GlaxoSmithKline Foundation Goldman, Sachs & Company Grantham, Mayo, van Otterloo & Co. LLC Ipswitch, Inc Lehman Brothers Mellon Charitable Foundation Merrill Lynch & Co. Foundation, Inc Microsoft Corporation Milliken & Company New York Life Foundation Northrop Grumman Foundation Pfizer Foundation Pitney Bowes Matching Gift Program Starbucks

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GIFTS

Each

year

KIND

Holderness

receives

wide

range

non-cash

gifts

and

donated

services.

Among

the

wonderful contributions this past year were a wood splitter, a treadmill for the gym, and sweatshirts for the field hockey team. Thank you for your thoughtful gifts to Holderness School.

Mr. and Mrs. Jesus Apraiz

Mr. and Mrs. David M. Lockwood

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bradner '49

Ms. Shirlee Mitchell

Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Cleary Jr. '62

Mr. and Mrs. James A. Mueller '69

Mr. and Mrs. Russell G. Cushman '80

Mr. and Mrs. Peter W. Noyes '79

Mr. Peter Durnan and Ms. Kristen Fischer

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Raffio

Ms. Caroline Fentress '91 and Mr. Christopher O'Donnell

Mr. R. Steven Rand '62

Ms. Kathryn Field

Dr. and Mrs. John S. Swift Jr. '62

Mr. Michael E. Goriansky '48

Mr. George B. Upton '62

Mrs. Tegan Hamilton Hayunga '90 and Mr. Blake Hayunga

Mr. Bruce R. Vogel '59

Mr. and Mrs. Michael Kingston '58

Mr. and Mrs. Morgan D. Wheelock '87

Mr. and Mrs. Arthur R. LeBlanc III

Mr. Zachary D. Zaitzeff '93

THE

CAMPAIGN

FOR

HOLDERNESS

Through a growing comprehensive campaign, Holderness has progressed in the important work of making the components of our Strategic Plan a reality. The first project, the renewal of Weld Hall, was completed during the summer of 2008, supporting long-term core values and bringing the family back into

family-style

dinners.

Other

campaign

priorities

include

growing

the

Holderness

Annual

Fund,

increasing endowment for financial aid, transforming residential life, modernizing our math and science classrooms, upgrading athletic facilities, and expanding the chapel. Holderness gratefully acknowledges those donors listed below, whose generosity will help us secure a vital future grounded in our core values and strategic goals.

Campaign for Holderness: Financial Aid

Campaign for Holderness: General Campaign Fund

Mr. and Mrs. William C. Baskin III '81

Anonymous

Mr. and Mrs. Zachary S. Martin '84

Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. Bonsal III '82

Mr. Ted Nixon â&#x20AC;

Dr. and Mrs. Gary J. Frei

Ms. Piper S. Orton '74

Mr. and Mrs. James B. Hamblin II '77

Mr. and Mrs. Eijk A. de Mol van Otterloo

Mr. and Mrs. Peter J. Hendel Mr. and Mrs. Peter K. Kimball '72

Campaign for Holderness: Residential Life

Mr. and Mrs. Paul E. Lindgren

Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Tierney

Ms. Christine R. Louis '81 Mr. and Mrs. Wilhelm E. Northrop '88

Campaign for Holderness: Weld Hall Renovation Fund

Mr. and Mrs. R. Phillip Peck

Anonymous (2)

Mr. and Mrs. William L. Prickett '81

Ms. Katharine B. Alfond '90 and Dr. Joseph Donahue

Mr. and Mrs. Ian C. Sanderson '79

Gordon Research Conferences

Mr. Un Shik Shin and Mrs. Chijoo Limb

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FOR

HOLDERNESS

Campaign for Holderness: Other Anonymous Mr. and Mrs. George Clark Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Roger H. Emerson Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Paul E. Lindgren Mr. Ted Nixon †

ENDOWMENT

FUNDS

When members of the Holderness community contribute to the Holderness Endowment, they provide essential

support

its

annual

operations,

financial

aid

program,

and

other

areas

designated

priorities by the Board of Trustees. We are most grateful for the following donors who made gifts to our endowment funds during the 2008-2009 school year.

Charles W. and Anne S. Combs Scholarship Fund Mr. Charles W. and Anne S. Combs †

Norman M. Walker Scholarship Fund Anonymous Ms. Hedda Y. Burnett '00

Cheryl Walsh Memorial Scholarship Fund Holderness Nordic Club

Mr. Jonathan H. Campbell '00 Mr. and Mrs. Bruce A. Chalmers Mr. and Mrs. James B. Chalmers '98

Class of '82 Scholarship Fund

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Cocchiaro

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Cerutti Jr. '82

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Daigneault

Don and Ibba Hagerman Scholarship Fund

Mr. and Mrs. Steven Davis

Dr. and Mrs. Stanley Baldwin

Mr. Levi Doria '00

Mr. Robert C. Hall '61

Mr. Christopher L. Emerson '00

Mrs. Caroline Emerson Davey '94 and Mr. Ian Davey

Mr. and Mrs. Alan H. Soanes

Mr. George H. Helmer

Mr. and Mrs. Richard H. Stowell '64

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Marr

Mr. and Mrs. Andrew F.S. Warner '80

Mr. Jonathan N. Nichols '01

Mr. and Mrs. Hartley D. Webster '57

Mr. Timothy O'Donnell '00

Mr. and Mrs. Peter B. Wilson '55

Mr. Christopher M. Rodgers '02 Mr. and Mrs. John S. Rudberg Jr.

Endowment: Chapel Maintenance

Ms. Joy Domin Southworth '01 and Mr. Ryan Southworth

Charlie Dodge '44 †

Mr. and Mrs. Hartley D. Webster '57 Mr. Robert C. Whitehouse III '00

General Endowment Anonymous

Pichette Scholarship Fund Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Pichette

Gertrude and Edric Weld Memorial Scholarship Fund Mary Anne Bodecker †

Richard R. Hall Scholarship Fund

Charlie Dodge '44 †

Mr. Robert C. Hall '61

Jim & Loli Hammond Faculty Fund

Stephen Wells Smith Memorial Scholarship Fund

Mr. Stephen T. Gregg '63

Mr. and Mrs. S. Wells Smith

Nicholas Bright '75 Scholarship Fund

Straus Family Scholarship Fund

Mrs. Nicholas Bright

Mr. and Mrs. John A. Straus

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ENDOWMENT

FUNDS

The Lewis J. Overaker Scholarship Fund

Mr. and Mrs. Kirk G. Siegel '78

Mr. Fletcher W. Adams '55

Mr. James S. Stringfellow '79

Mr. Erik J. Bass '97

Mr. David S. Stutt '80

Mr. Quentin Blaine and Dr. Marcia Blaine

Mr. Mark D. Walrod '97

Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin F. Casey '92

Mr. Robert C. Whitehouse III '00

Mr. and Mrs. Bruce A. Chalmers

Ms. Abigail C. Wilson '93

Mr. and Mrs. James B. Chalmers '98

Dr. and Mrs. James K. Wolcott

Mr. and Mrs. Gary Cilley Mr. and Mrs. Bruce J. Edgerly '78

Weston Lea & Michael D'Amico Memorial Scholarship Fund

Mr. Edmund M. Finnerty '00

Mr. Dean E. Lea and Ms. Debra M. Gibbs

Dr. Courtney L. Fleisher '90

Mr. Nicholas E. Leonard '03

Mr. David Flynn '96 and Ms. Amy Leo Mrs. Tegan Hamilton Hayunga '90 and Mr. Blake Hayunga

William D. Paine Memorial Scholarship Fund

Mr. Robert P. Henderson '99

Mr. and Mrs. Russell C. Orton '40

Mr. and Mrs. William H. Henderson Mr. and Mrs. Dunning Idle IV

Woodward Scholars Fund

Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Kenney '82

Anonymous

Ms. Carolyn Kimball and Mr. Alexander Macquisten

Charlie Dodge '44

Mr. and Mrs. Lance D. Mahaney '79 Mr. Ira Marvin '01 and Ms. Katherine Gamble Marvin Ms. Katherine Gamble Marvin and Mr. Ira J. Marvin '01 Mr. and Mrs. Josiah E. Miles '82 Mr. and Mrs. Peter B. Nichols Mr. and Mrs. Mark B. Perkins Mr. and Mrs. William L. Prickett '81

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TRIBUTES

AND

MEMORIALS

The following people have made a gift to Holderness School in the past year as a sign of respect and affection for a friend or family member, or in celebration of a special day, or to honor the memory of a loved one. We remain deeply grateful to be included in these relationships.

IN MEMORIAM

IN HONOR

In Memory of Robert (Brooksie) Brooks

In Honor Of Peter Durnan and Kristen Fischer

Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Zock

Mr. and Mrs. Vincent W. Durnan

In Memory of Berit Johnson Campbell '84

In Honor Of Duane Ford '74, Tyler Lewis, and Carol Dopp

Mr. and Mrs. Lennart B. Johnson

Anonymous

In Memory of Mike D'Amico '03

In Honor Of Cameron LeBlanc '09

Ms. Mary Anne Murray-Carr

Mr. and Mrs. Arthur R. LeBlanc III

In Memory of Canute E. Dalmasse

In Honor Of James O'Leary '09's graduation

Mr. Canute H. Dalmasse '98

Anonymous

In Memory of John Haartz '35

In Honor Of James and Charlotte O'Leary

Mrs. Marjorie H. Randall

Mr. and Mrs. S. Peter Gibb

In Memory of Don Hagerman

In Honor Of Lewis J. Overaker

Mr. Robert C. Hall '61

Mr. Fletcher W. Adams '55

Mr. and Mrs. Alan H. Soanes

Mr. Erik J. Bass '97

Mr. and Mrs. Richard H. Stowell '64

Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin F. Casey '92

Mr. and Mrs. Andrew F.S. Warner '80

Mr. and Mrs. Bruce A. Chalmers

Mr. and Mrs. Hartley D. Webster '57

Mr. and Mrs. James B. Chalmers '98

Mr. and Mrs. Peter B. Wilson '55

Mr. and Mrs. Gary Cilley Mr. Edmund M. Finnerty '00

In Memory of Weston Lea '03

Dr. Courtney L. Fleisher '90

Mr. Dean E. Lea and Ms. Debra M. Gibbs

Mr. David Flynn '96 and Ms. Amy Leo

Ms. Mary Anne Murray-Carr

Mrs. Tegan Hamilton Hayunga '90 and Mr. Blake Hayunga

Mr. Christopher M. Rodgers '02

Mr. Robert P. Henderson '99

In Memory of John Manley '42

Mr. and Mrs. Dunning Idle IV

Mr. and Mrs. William H. Henderson

Mrs. Phyllis R. Manley

Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Kenney '82 Ms. Carolyn Kimball and Mr. Alexander Macquisten

In Memory of Rowena Meier Mr. Christopher T. Meier

Ms. Elizabeth Lyman '92 and Ms. Jennifer Mahan Mr. and Mrs. Lance D. Mahaney '79 Mr. and Mrs. David H. Martin

In Memory of Dave Robertson '61

Mr. Ira Marvin '01 and Ms. Katherine Gamble Marvin

Mr. Robert C. Hall '61

Ms. Katherine Gamble Marvin and Mr. Ira J. Marvin '01

In Memory of Rosamond Langmaid Snyder

Mr. and Mrs. Peter B. Nichols

Mr. and Mrs. Josiah E. Miles '82

Mrs. Hilary Snyder O'Connor '84 and Mr. Charles L. O'Connor

Mr. and Mrs. Mark B. Perkins Mr. Matthias J. Reynolds Jr. '86 and Ms. Jennifer Nava Ide

In Memory of Bill Sutphen '79 Mr. and Mrs. Duncan D. Sutphen III

Mr. James S. Stringfellow '79 Mr. David S. Stutt '80 Mr. Mark D. Walrod '97

In Memory of Cheryl Walsh '88

Mr. Robert C. Whitehouse III '00

Holderness Nordic Club

Ms. Abigail C. Wilson '93

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AND

MEMORIALS

Dr. and Mrs. James K. Wolcott

Mr. Christopher L. Emerson '00

In Honor Of Mr. William L. Prickett '81

Mr. Robert Maguire '00

Ms. Karyn P. Hoepp '01

Dr. Jephtha Tausig-Edwards

Mr. Jonathan N. Nichols '01 Mr. Timothy O'Donnell '00

In Honor Of Mr. Norman M. Walker

Mr. Christopher M. Rodgers '02

Mr. Jonathan H. Campbell '00

Ms. Joy Domin Southworth '01 and Mr. Ryan Southworth

Mr. and Mrs. James B. Chalmers '98

Mr. Henry D. Tiffany III

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Cocchiaro

Mr. and Mrs. Hartley D. Webster '57

Mr. Averill H. Cook '02 and Ms. Heidi T. Webb '00

Mr. Robert C. Whitehouse III '00

Mrs. Caroline Emerson Davey '94 and Mr. Ian Davey Mr. Trevor S. Dean '00

In Honor Of Alexis Wruble '95

Mr. Levi Doria '00

Mr. Bernhardt K. Wruble and Dr. Jill Wruble

BALCH

S O C I E TY

The Balch Society honors a group of forward-thinking individuals who have included Holderness in their estate plans by indicating a bequest for Holderness in their wills; by setting up trusts, annuities, or life insurance policies naming Holderness as beneficiary; or by joining the Schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pooled income fund. We are grateful to our Balch Society members for helping to ensure the Holderness Experience for the students of tomorrow.

Mrs. Barbara Lawrence Alfond

Mr. Guenter H. Mattersdorff '44

Mr. James E. Brewer II

Mr. Albert O. Merrill '43

Mr. Lee C. Bright '49

Mr. Mayland H. Morse Jr. '38

Ms. Charlotte Caldwell

Mr. Rupert L. Nichols Jr. '65

Mr. Stephen G. Carpenter '58

Mr. Sigourney F. Nininger '41

Mr. Richard C. Clark '48

Mrs. Judith W. Parkhill

Mr. Robert E. Cleary Jr. '62

Mr. William L. Prickett '81

Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth L. Cutler

Mr. Jon Q. Reynolds Jr. '86

Ms. Abbey E. DeRocker '95

Mr. Harrison James Sargent '73

Mr. David B. Dewey '77

Mr. Timothy G. Scott '73

Mr. Thomas F. Doyle '66

The Rt. Rev. Philip A. Smith

Mrs. Ann M. Gallop

Mr. James C. Stearns '68

Mrs. Constance Hall

Dr. and Mrs. John S. Swift Jr. '62

Mr. Frank M. Hammond '50

Mr. George F. Theriault Jr. '61

Mr. Lars H. Hansen '52

Mr. and Mrs. Alexander A. Uhle

Dr. J. Lawrence Jamieson '69

Mr. George B. Upton '62

Dr. H. Perry Jeffries '47

Mr. Hartley D. Webster '57

Ms. Trit Johnson

Mr. Jerome P. Webster Jr. '57

Mr. Lee W. Katzenbach '61

Mr. Edric A. Weld Jr. '42

Mr. Robert M. Keating '52

The Rev. Brinton W. Woodward Jr.

Mrs. Wendelyn W. Kistler

Mr. Stephen A. Worcester '67

Dr. Albert C. Lesneski

Mr. Joshua A. S. Young '57

Mr. Theodore W. Libbey '42 Mr. Burton N. Lowe '44 Mr. Peter L. Macdonald '60

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HOLDERNESS

VOLUNTEERS

PARENT

VOLUNTEERS

The 2009 Parentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Association Auction, Flower Power, raised over $28,000 to help fund the Day Student Room Renovation. Thanks to the many volunteers that made this weekend a success. Holderness parent volunteers are ever present; for phonathons, at Exam Bakes, Tabor Day, on the fields both home and away, providing sustenance and support for our student/athletes, and hosting our students who live far away for long weekends and vacations. A hearty thank you to the countless parents who give so generously in so many ways!

Parents' Association Leadership 2008-2009

Tom Friedman and Rosemarie Mullin Ron Houle and Ann Foster John and Lori Hyslip Chris and Terrie Leake Peter '79 and Nanny Noyes

EVENT

HOSTS

Holderness is blessed with alumni and families who love to stay connected with the school. Each year as we plan our travel schedule, it is heartwarming to see how willingly they open their doors to the Holderness community. This past year we caught up with alumni, parents, and friends across the country. A special thanks to the following people who helped make these events memorable.

Norm Walker Scholarship Golf Tournament

Chairman Russell Cushman '80

Denver Reception

Hosts Gretchen and John Swift '62

Southern California

Hosts Caroline Fentress '91 and Christopher O'Donnell

San Francisco Reception

Host Blake and Tegan Hamilton Hayunga '90

Lecture Series San Francisco

Host Bruce Vogel '59

NYC Reception

Host Zach Zaitzeff '93

Charles Riverboat Cruise

Hosts Eliza and Russell Cushman '89

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ALUMNI

VOLUNTEERS

The following alumni gave generously of their time on behalf of Holderness supporting our fundraising efforts as well as fostering connections between alumni and the school. We are deeply grateful for all that

these

individuals

for

the

good

Holderness.

Thank

you

our

Class

Agents

and

Correspondents! Class Agents 2008-2009

Ms. Katherine M. Arecchi '90

Mr. Adam L. Lavallee '01

Mr. Robert A. Backus '57

Mr. Nathan C. M. Beams '90

Ms. Elizabeth S. Norton '01

Mr. William E. Biddle III '58

Mr. Ian A. Frank '90

Ms. Kerry C. Douglas '02

Mr. Michael Kingston '58

Mr. James C. Queen Jr. '90

Ms. Madeline C. Fiumara '02

Dr. Harold E. Welch '59

Mr. Michael P. O'Keefe '91

Mr. Neal J. Frei '03

Mr. John C. Holley Jr. '61

Ms. Jessie H. Harris '92

Mr. Nicholas D. Payeur '03

Mr. Mark G. Shub '61

Mr. Andrew S. Katchen '92 *

Mr. Nathaniel R. Smith '04

Mr. Charles C. Bradley Jr. '62

Ms. Lindsay K. Fontana '93

Mr. Brian D. Sweeney '04

Dr. and Mrs. John S. Swift Jr. '62

Ms. Anne B. Hudak '93

Ms. Joanna Weatherbie '04

Mr. David S. Hagerman '63

Mr. Jonathan C. Moodey '93

Ms. Mary K. Weatherbie '04

Mr. James C. Ricker '64 *

Mr. Peter K. Woodward '93

Ms. Kathleen A. Crane '05

Mr. Rupert L. Nichols Jr. '65

Mrs. Ramey Harris-Tatar '94

Mr. William W. Ford '05

Mr. Stephen M. Foster '66

Ms. Elizabeth Hogan '94

Mr. Brendan W. O'Riordan '05

Mr. John D. Pfeifle '67

Mrs. Janine Perkins Newman '94

Ms. Emily M. Sampson '05

Dr. James S. Burnett '68

Mr. John P. Farnsworth '95

Mr. John H. Bladon '06

Mr. Gerald D. Weston '70

Mrs. Katherine Waltz Harris '96

Miss Elizabeth Laurin '06

Mr. Christopher R. Latham '72

Ms. Julia C. Perkins '97

Mr. Anders P. Nordblom '06

Mr. Samuel P. Osborne '72

Ms. Sarah C. Crane '98

Mr. Prescott C. Alexander '07

Mr. Peter R. Garrison '73

Ms. Julia L. Haley '99

Ms. Katherine Oram '07

Mr. Timothy G. Scott '73

Mr. Andrew D. Sullivan '00

Miss Haley B. Hamblin '08

Mr. Walter Malmquist II '74

Ms. Heidi T. Webb '00 *

Miss Gretchen E. Hyslip '08

Mr. E. E. Butler Jr. '75

Mr. Kellan M. Florio '01

Mr. John L. Putnam '75 Mr. Robert E. Garrison '76 Mr. David B. Dewey '77 Mr. John B. Neal '77 Ms. Margo Farley Deselin '78 Mr. Matthew R. Upton '80 Mr. William C. Baskin III '81 Ms. Christine R. Louis '81 Mrs. Susan Grant Allen '82 Mrs. Lisa Weeks Clute '82 Mr. Christopher J. Pesek '82 * Mrs. Susan Fine Taylor '82 Mr. Joe D. Barbour '84 Dr. Angus A. A. Christie '85 Mr. Frederick D. Paxton III '85 Mr. Blake H. Swift '86 Mr. Christopher P. Zak '86 Mrs. Carolyn M. Cullen '87 Mr. Timothy S. Lesko '87 Mr. Alexander C. MacCormick '88 Ms. Amanda R. Black '89 Mrs. Jennifer Legg Gabel '89

* Decade Chair

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Class

ALUMNI

VOLUNTEERS

Class Correspondents 2008-2009

Mr. Peter S. Grant '77

Mr. Mark D. Walrod '97

Mr. David P. Goodwin '37

Mr. Luther P. Turmelle '78

Mrs. Tara Walker Hamer '98

Mr. Theodore W. Libbey '42

Mr. Gregory A. White '80

Mrs. Brooke Aronson McCreedy '99

Mr. Guenter H. Mattersdorff '44

Mr. William C. Baskin III '81

Mr. Andrew D. Sullivan '00

Mr. Robert S. Masters '47

Mr. Brent D. Jennings '82

Ms. Karyn P. Hoepp '01

Mr. William C. Baskin Jr. '49

Mr. Christopher J. Pesek '82

Mr. Adam L. Lavallee '01

Mr. Terry M. Weathers '51

Mr. Justin F. Madden '83

Ms. Elizabeth S. Pantazelos '02

Mr. Allan N. Teele '52

Mr. Fred H. Ludtke III '84

Mr. Nicholas D. Payeur '03

Mr. Donald E. Backe '53

Mr. Jean-Louis Trombetta '85

Ms. Ryan B. McManus '04

Mr. William S. Lofquist '54

Mr. Matthias J. Reynolds Jr. '86

Ms. Brianne M. Keefe '05

Mr. Richard S. Meyer '56

Mrs. Kathryn L. Robinson '87

Ms. Jessica Saba '06

Mr. Charles W. Kellogg II '58

Mr. Alexander C. MacCormick '88

Ms. Annie E. Hanson '07

Mr. Gerald H. Ashworth '59

Ms. Tracy McCoy Gillette '89

Ms. Kelly P. Hood '08

Mr. Leonard B. Richards III '60

Dr. Courtney L. Fleisher '90

Miss Taylor V. Sawatzki '08

Mr. Mark G. Shub '61

Ms. Terra E. Reilly '91

Mr. David S. Hagerman '63

Mrs. Kelly Mullen Wieser '92

Mr. Guy E. Alexander Jr. '64

Ms. Lindsay K. Fontana '93

Mr. Harry A. Jacobs III '65

Mr. Samuel Bass '94

Mr. Peter W. Janney '66

Mrs. Ramey Harris-Tatar '94

Mr. James E. Hollis III '67

Mr. John P. Farnsworth '95

Mr. Jonathan W. Porter '69

Ms. Alexis S. Wruble '95

Mr. Dwight B. Shepard '72

Mrs. Emily T. MacLaury '96

Mr. Timothy G. Scott '73

Ms. Heather Pierce Roy '96

Mr. Walter Malmquist II '74

Mrs. Katherine Putney Pyles '97

2008-2009

TRUSTEES

No Report of Appreciation would be complete without extending our gratitude to the members of our Board of Trustees. These individuals give generously of themselves in countless ways to support and steward Holderness School ensuring that we move forward together as a caring community, committed to balance, and working together “for the betterment of humankind and God’s creation.”

Mr. Nelson Armstrong

Mr. Peter K. Kimball '72

Mr.

William L. Prickett '81

Mr. Frank A. Bonsal III '82

Mr. Peter Macdonald '60

Mr.

Jon Q. Reynolds Jr. '86

Mr. F. Christopher Carney '75

Mr. Zachary S. Martin '84

The Rt. Rev. V. Gene Robinson

Mr. Russell G. Cushman '80

Mr. Paul J. Martini

Mr.

Jeffrey W. Rollins '83

The Rev. Randolph Dales

Mr. Richard Nesbitt

Mr.

Ian C. Sanderson '79

Mrs. Patti Emerson

Mr. Peter C. Nordblom

Mr.

John A. Straus

Mr. Nigel Furlonge

Mr. Wilhelm E. Northrop '88

Mrs. Rose-Marie de Mol van Otterloo

Mr. James B. Hamblin II '77

Ms. Piper S. Orton '74

Mrs. Ellyn Weisel '86

Ms. Elizabeth H. Heide '85

Mr.

Dr. Pearl Kane

Mrs. Tamar Pichette

R. Phillip Peck

Listings in this report reflect gifts made to Holderness during the fiscal year July 1, 2008 through June 30, 2009. Every effort has been made to ensure accuracy. Please accept our apologies if an error or omission has occurred and kindly notify the Development Office at 603-779-5220.

Holderness School Today

Milestones

IN MEMORIAM Jacob Lynch '34

George Fenn Lewis '44

Richard Flanagan '53

January, 2009

February 28, 2008

December 28, 2008

Arthur R. Machell, Jr. '40

John "Moose" Greenley '49

Harlan "Tony" L. Goodwin, Jr. '54

November 17, 2008

May 1, 2009

August 22, 2008

Arthur Machell '40

George Cranston '53

Duncan S. Brewer '78

November 17, 2008

May 21, 2009

March 11, 2009

Kate Stahler '94 to Nikolai Starrett

Kathleen Blauvelt '99 to Ryan Kime

Katie Bristow '00 to Andy Bohlin '01

June 6, 2009

July 18, 2008

September 13, 2008

Las Vegas, NV

Boston, MA

Basin Harbor Club, Vergennes, VT

Shannon Blair '95 to JosephTaji

Tish Clark '99 to Ian Boone '99

Allison Woodside and Jake Spaulding '00

June 19, 2009

July 3, 2009

July 11, 2009

The Spring House, Block Island, RI

Chatham Bars Inn, Chatham, MA

Capitola, CA

NEWLY MARRIED

Lara DuMond '96 to Brian Guercio

Heather Davis '99 to Shawn Gulla

Joy Domin '01 to Ryan Southworth

September 12, 2009

August 2, 2009

August 25, 2008

Middlebury College Chapel, Middlebury, VT

Grand Isle Lake House, Grand Isle, VT

Lauren Weschler to Jay Tankersley '96

Jessica Burrow to Elliot Helmer '99

August 22, 2009

July 25, 2009

April 25, 2009

Lake George, NY

Pitcher Inn, Warren, VT

Mizner Country Club, Delray Beach, FL

Jessica Cumberbatch to Matt Anderson '98

Sara Roitman '99 to Damien Ellens

September 13, 2008

August 22, 2009

Sandy Bay Yacht Club, Rockport, MA

Chelsea Hoopes '02 and Josh Silver

Maddie Rappoli '02 to Jake Fiumara

Yale Club, New York City

NEW ARRIVALS Jeannette Cavanaugh and Mark Cavanaugh '82

Jennifer Legg Gabel '89 and Christopher Gabel

Charles Leo Cavanaugh

William Gabel

Emily Wenzel Reis '93 and Keith Reis Henry Johnson Reis

January 23, 2009

March 24, 2009

June 8, 2009

Katrise Burgess and C. Todd Burgess '87

Jenna and Jon Wales '89

Lisa Castor and Dave Castor '94

Dylan Tanner Burgess

Timothy Robert Wales

Kylie Castor

October 11, 2008

January 23, 2009

November 23, 2008

Jennifer and Mark Richards '88

Janet Eccleston and Rick Eccleston '92

Lindsay Falvey and Brendan Falvey '94

Jeremy Melaku Richards

Michael Thomas Eccleston

Wyatt Walker Falvey

May, 2008; adopted November, 2008

May 6, 2009

May 28, 2009

Lauren O'Brien Smith '88 and Stewart Smith

Basey and Jamie Klopp '92

Elizabeth and Dan Harrigan '94

Tague Kennedy Smith

Oliver John Klopp

Reese Carrie Harrigan

April 2, 2009

May 14, 2009

August 29, 2009

Amanda Rising Black '89 and Mark Breen

Hilary Taylor Comerchero '93 and Ron Comerchero

Teryn and Matthew Kendall '94

Harrison Van Lear Breen

Sadie Stokes Comerchero

Birch Keegan Kendall and Cormac Baten Kendall

January 2, 2009

June 12, 2009

May 13, 2009

Jesse Davenport and Chris Davenport '89

Christie Oberg and Eric Oberg '93

Elizabeth van Otterloo and Sander van Otterloo '94

Archer Davenport

Libby Anne Oberg

Nola Victoria Rose van Otterloo

January 16, 2008

November 24, 2008

June 21, 2009

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Ramey Harris Tatar '94 and Nicholas Tatar

Kristin and Tom Antonucci '97

Kim Racine '99 and Christopher Tinstman

Samuel Tatar

Julia Antonucci

Tanner Rowan Tinstman

June 17, 2009

November 14, 2008

April 24, 2009

Reece Spinney Dahlberg '96 and Chris Dahlberg

Sachie Hayashi '97 and Christopher Kelly

Lindsey and Tim Barnhorst '00

Catherine Grace "Gracie" Dahlberg

Hana Hayashi Kelly

Brooklyn Sara Barnhorst

October 22, 2008

March 25, 2009

May 21, 2009

Stephanie Pisanelli Lyons '96 and Thomas Lyons

Megan Humphrey and Andy Humphrey '97

Catherine Marie Lyons

Hadley Winn Humphrey

August 6, 2009

August 26, 2009

Heather Pierce Roy '96 and Dan Roy

Allison Seymour Reilly '97 and

Lily Louise Roy

Oliver Lincoln Reilly

April 23, 2009

February 19, 2009

Matthew Reilly

ALUMNI HOMECOMING WEEKEND! Enjoy Holderness and the White Mountains October 1-3, 2010

Celebrating a Reunion Year for classes ending in 0 or 5. All classes are invited to enjoy the festivities of the weekend.

Holderness School Today

Class Notes

’35-’39 CLASS CORRESPONDENT Dave Goodwin '37 200 Alliance Way, Unit 308 Manchester, NH 03102-8404 E-mail: ddgoodwin@verizon.net

Would you like to become a correspondent

’40

for your class and contribute to the

Holderness School Today? If so, please contact our Director of Alumni Relations, Tracy White, at alum@holderness.org.

Would you like to become a correspondent

’41

for your class and contribute to the

Holderness School Today? If so, please contact our Director of Alumni Relations, Tracy White, at alum@holderness.org.

’42 CLASS CORRESPONDENT Ted Libbey '42 5305 Kenwood Ave Chevy Chase, MD 20815-6601 Phone: 301-652-2361 E-mail: LibbeyTW@aol.com

Would you like to become a correspondent

’43

for your class and contribute to the

Holderness School Today? If so, please contact our Director of Alumni Relations, Tracy White, at alum@holderness.org.

’44

Russia at the time of the revolution and I think I am

Gus Mattersdorff '44 930 Bullock St. Lake Oswego, OR 97034-4914 Phone: 503-636-8084 E-mail: g.h.mattersdorff@mattersdorff.com

Terence Mitchell sends this news:

’45

"Following the sad recent death of Bill

Matthey, I began to reminisce about the long asso-

ciation between the Matthey and Mitchell families. Colin Mitchell '44 and I first met Bill and his family in the 1930's in London (South Kensington) when we were all at the same kindergarten. Our parents got to know each other at that time, and when, thanks to Edric and Gertrude Weld, Colin and I came to Holderness in 1940, our parents told the Mattheys about it. Bill's father Fernand was Swiss,

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CLASS CORRESPONDENT

right in remembering that his sister Irene was born

Bob Masters '47

in Egypt, but Bill himself was born in the USA, an

PO Box 287

American citizen by birth. Fernand, who was a

Richfield Springs, NY 13439-0287

banker, was a distinguished figure and Natalie was a

Phone: 315-858-1330

sweet motherly woman. I think the Mattheys intended to come to America as soon as the war started, but they were not able to do so as a family until 1943. I believe Bill, as a US citizen, was not permit-

’48

ted to cross the Atlantic in a foreign vessel in

CLASS CORRESPONDENT

wartime and they had to wait to get passage on a US

Rik Clark '48

ship. When I came back to Britain in 1945, shortly

PO Box 899

before catching the boat (an L.S.T.) in New York, I

Osterville, MA 02655-0899

spent a week with the Mattheys in Alexandria, VA,

Phone: 508-428-5262

where they were living. They were a very hospitable

E-mail: capeclarks@aol.com

family, and I felt absolutely at home with them. Bill and I went on outings, and one of my recollections is that when we took the bus into DC, the road from Alexandria into Washington ran under one of the

Bob Barrows' new hip has not interfered

’49

with his golf game, although the joint

"squeaks every once in awhile." The weather in

sides of the Pentagon, with a bus stop in it. The war

Weddington, NC, allows him to play twice a week

against Japan was still going on at the time. Colin

all year round. … Judy and Bill Baskin very much

and I have kept up with Bill ever since the war, and

enjoyed attending the Class's 60th reunion weekend

apart from the three of us getting together whenever

in June. A special treat was having head of school

he came back to Britain, I have appreciated the

Phil Peck attend the off-campus Class Dinner on

opportunities of the Holderness reunions to have

Friday evening. Meanwhile, Bill's participation in

relaxed times for conversation and reminiscence.

the various functions of his parish church in

Bill had had an adventurous life in his profession

Branford, CT, has been occupying more and more of

and was an intriguing and well informed raconteur.

his time. … Jeanne and Bob Bradner reached their

Considering the fact that we first met over seventy

golden wedding anniversay benchmark in the sum-

years ago, he was undoubtedly my oldest friend out-

mer of 2008. Their three children put on a dinner

side my family. I will certainly miss him."… Harry

party in Winnetka, IL, that was "an absolute pleas-

Emmons writes: "At the age of 82 I'm in reasonable

ure." Bob journeyed east in June of this year, to

good health enjoying retirement and playing paddle

attend our 60th reunion Class Dinner. And Bob has

tennis and indoor tennis. Also force myself to work

published his grandfather's diary of a 1916 trip that

out at our YMCA three times a week. Not doing

he and his family took to Alaska. "It was a seven-

much traveling these days – too much of a hassle

week jaunt, much of it through some pretty raw

with security, etc. My wife Roz and I celebrated our

country, and he was a pretty good reporter." … Lee

50th anniversary a few years ago.

CLASS CORRESPONDENT

his mother Natalie was Russian. I think they met in

She keeps busy

painting and with civic activity. The five grandchil-

Bright, who has been battling kidney disease for several years, and is now on thrice weekly dialysis,

dren are away at college and it seems it was only

nevertheless flew from his home in Pembroke Pines,

yesterday they were living close by and always pop-

FL, to Cleveland, OH, in November of 2008, to hear

ping in. We miss them.

a performance by the Cleveland Symphony

Life is good here in Darien

and we love it."

Orchestra of the Brahms Concerto for violin and Beethoven's Eroica Symphony No. 3. And then,

Would you like to become a correspondent for your

accompanied by his terrific daughter Kristin, Lee

class and contribute to the Holderness School

attended our 60th reunion weekend in June of this

Today? If so, please contact our Director of Alumni

year, followed three weeks later by another escape

Relations, Tracy White, at alum@holderness.org.

from Florida for a week at Lake Winnipesaukee and a week at Boothbay Harbor in Maine. As Lee puts it:

Would you like to become a correspondent

"I'll take a rainy day in New Hampshire to anything

for your class and contribute to the

South Florida has to offer. And there is no way to

’46

Holderness School Today? If so, please contact our

duplicate a genuine Maine lobster." … Ted Clifton

Director of Alumni Relations, Tracy White, at

continues to be busy following the academic, athlet-

alum@holderness.org.

ic and working careers of his son, two daughters, six

’47

daughter and her family summer near him on Cape

grandsons and two granddaughters. Ted's younger

Cod. … Tex Coulter had a cardiac catheter ablation

procedure in May of 2008. And although he had to

– then back home to the 'sunny South'."

produce seven responses, not so lucky this time, but I have something to report. Jen Murphy Robinson

soldier through the after-effects, which he said left

'89 and her husband, David, hosted a superb 'Maine

him "operating in second gear," he and Pat toured

CLASS CORRESPONDENT

the west coast of Ireland in June with their daughter

Frank Hammond '50

Event' get-together, primarily for alumni/ae living in

and her husband, and attended an impressive funeral

PO Box 192

Maine. It was a perfect night, one of the few it did

service at Arlington National Cemetery for Pat's

New London, NH 03257-0192

not rain in July. They have a lovely older home and

brother in October. And at our 60th reunion weekend

Phone: 603-526-6001

a great barn in Cumberland, ME, not far from

in June of this year, Tex and Pat were playing tennis

E-mail: fmh@tds.net

Portland, but secluded enough that it could be a million miles from anywhere. When I received the invi-

on the school's courts, and livening up all of the

’51

tation, it reminded me that I had remarked last fall

White Mountains. Alwynne reports that it is a much

CLASS CORRESPONDENT

for our own mini-reunion. I contacted Tracy White

better facility for Ed, and that he seems to be more

Terry Weathers '51

to ask if it would be alright for me to do a little

comfortable there. … Joan and Tom Jeffries inter-

9964 Sniktaw Lane

drumming among classmates, and she responded,

rupted a move to Falmouth, ME, in order to attend

Fort Jones, CA 96032-9745

"Yes. And while you're at it would you contact the

and celebrate our 60th reunion in June. Tom reports

Phone: 530-468-2234

classes around you." Both Dave Wiggins and Dick

that sailing the Maine coast continues to be a great

E-mail: terry@sisqtel.net

reunion events. … Ed Fine has moved to a new nursing home facility in Boscawen, NH, which has many amenities, including a beautiful view of the

Ned Kyle reports that Edie has been recovering from three extensive neck and spinal surgical procedures. And although she and Ned are otherwise well,

Stone responded. Dave and I e-mailed several times, but Blue Hills, where he lives, is far enough away

joy, "until the fog rolls in and you are relying on your GPS screen and your own limited vision." …

after discovering so many of the class of '56 live or at least summer in Maine that we should get together

’52

that he did not want to attempt driving back late at

CLASS CORRESPONDENT

day. Long story short, we tried to arrange lunch, but

night, so he and his wife did not attend. However, he was going to be at the Portland Museum of Art one

one of the procedures triggered cancellation of a trip

Al Teele '52

our schedules just did not work out. On the other

to the Orient that they had booked for 2008. Ned

636 Greenbriar Drive

hand, Dick Stone and his wife, Lorraine, did make it

says that they will attempt to get away for a trip this

Harrodsburg, KY 40330-1276

to the Maine Event. They live fairly far away also,

fall. In June, the Penobscot Bay YMCA conducted

Phone: 859-734-3625

but not as far as Wig. We had a great time reminisc-

its 12th Annual Boat Auction, a charitable fundraiser

E-mail: roseb@kycom.net

ing and talking about living in Maine. Probably 50

conceived and created by Ned. … An Istanbul-to-

alumni/ae and their spouses were present. To my

Florida cruise cancellation early this year left Heidi

’53

surprise, Peter Eastman '45 was there. I have

and Peter Spalding "sitting in Maine raking leaves as the ice melts in the lake." But Peter reports that a

known him for several years from our volunteer work together at the Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad,

cruise from Auckland to California has been booked

CLASS CORRESPONDENT

but I did not have a clue he was a Holderness alum-

for December, and that the Spalding families are all

Don Backe '53

nus. When we lived in various parts of the country,

well. … Jane and Don Wyeth have been busy doing

703 Melrose St.

both Daphne's and my colleges would hold these

charitable fund raising, and caring for a wirehair fox

Annapolis, MD 21401-3303

local events. These are a lot of fun, don't take as

terrier puppy. Their 2009 travels have included a pil-

E-mail: donbacke@aol.com

June. In July, their younger son and his family accompanied Jane and Don to Austin, TX, to attend the wedding celebration of their oldest son's

much time and travel as a full reunion, serve to renew old friendships, and acquaint you with other

gimage to Israel in April, and visiting France in

’54

classmates. They are definitely worthwhile.

CLASS CORRESPONDENT

youngest daughter. … John Greenley passed away

CLASS CORRESPONDENT

Dick Meyer '56

on May 1, following a relatively brief bout with can-

Bill Lofquist '54

137 Trickery Pond Lane

cer. A military police veteran when he joined the

2240 Kuhio Ave Apt 3604

Naples, ME 04055-3401

Class of 1949, with a larger-than-life person and per-

Honolulu, HI

sonality, Moose also represented his generation of

Phone: 808-744-7419

the Greenley family at Holderness with considerable

E-mail:

distinction. He will be remembered fondly as our

btlofquist@verizon.net

classmate who lived life to the fullest – before, during and after the time when we were privileged to know him.

’55

CLASS CORRESPONDENT

CLASS CORRESPON-

Bill Baskin '49

DENT

218 Damascus Rd

Bud Hatch '55

Branford, CT 06405-6109

6316 San Bonita Avenue

Phone: 203-488-0566

Saint Louis, MO 63105-3116

E-mail: wbaskin.td53law58@aya.yale.edu

Phone: 314-725-7425 E-mail: prohatch@yahoo.com

Chico Laird reports: "The Lairds continue

’50

to enjoy retirement in Tennessee. The kids

are all gainfully employed – one of them was 'down-

sized' 11 months ago and just started with a new

As class agent I sent

’56

a request for updates

and stories to the same sus-

company last month. I got a new shoulder last

pects as previously, and, as

month – to go with my new knees ten years ago –

previously, received nothing

and am rehabbing quickly! We still find excuses to

for my troubles. Although the

return to New England for our annual 'salt water fix'

last time a second request did

Bill Summers '51 coordinated an excellent mini-reunion for the class of 1951, where participants proudly posed with the class banner.

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Class Notes

E-mail: richard419@roadrunner.com

for paradise." … And Don Latham gave us another

E-mail: cwkellogg@hotmail.com

good update: "Jen and I truly enjoyed ourselves last

’57

Would you like to become a correspondent

October at our 50th Reunion. We were only sorry we

for your class and contribute to the

had to leave the evening festivities early as our son

By the time this issue of HST arrives, the

Holderness School Today? If so, please contact our

was flying into Manchester from Philly that evening

50th Reunion. The next set of class notes will be

Director of Alumni Relations, Tracy White, at

to attend a wedding the next day. It was especially

rich with desriptions of memories and reconnections.

alum@holderness.org.

meaningful to meet at the school at that glorious

Stay tuned!

’59

Class of 1959 will have celebrated their

time of year with the students there as well and

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It has certainly been an interesting summer

renew old friendships as though no time had passed

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from many regards. … Brooks Thomas

at all. As for updates: Jen is still teaching and I am

Jerry Ashworth '59

has had his share of adventures, which he describes

still enjoying retirement to the fullest. Between

PO Box 2

as follows: "For another summer I am on the

keeping my hand in art by attending all-day studio

Ogunquit, ME 03907

Yucatan Peninsula studying the effects of mass

sessions every Thursday, singing with a barbershop

Phone: 207-361-1105

tourism on the Maya and other residents of the town

chorus as well as a barbershop quartet ('The

E-mail: ashworth@maine.rr.com

of Tulum. Three of us from UMass are conducting

Whistlestop Four'), keeping my skills up by substi-

the research with colleagues and students from two

tute teaching locally, doing some carpentry, being

Mexican universities. The work is fascinating, trying

'Grampa' to four grandchildren, serving as chairman

to keep track of all the changes embedded in gossip,

of the Duke University Alumni Admissions

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response from Ross Deachman. He reports

there is not much new in Plymouth/Holderness. He

rumor, and multiple stories about the same event.

Advisory Committee for the state of New

is still practicing law after 42 years but starting to

Nearly every day a story comes up that is stranger

Hampshire, and auditioning for musical theater –

contemplate the alternative. Nancy and he go to

than fiction concerning events in people's lives. The

most recently playing the part of Fagin in 'Oliver' – I

Florida for two months each winter to get away from

main drawback is the unending heat: it gets so warm

tend to wonder how I ever had the time to teach art

the ice, snow, and cold. He still serves on the local

your shadow sticks to the asphalt. Our main focus is

full time for 40+ years! Jen and I look forward to

school board (20 years in October) and has just got-

how tourism development is disrupting the local

returning to Holderness once again this October.

ten active again with Habitat for Humanity. Their

environment. Tulum is an incredible location in

This year we hope to have Justin Orr '59 from St.

three granddaughters fill any spare time. Ross looks

terms of a convergence of natural and cultural fea-

Louis with us." … And from a near northern part of

forward to seeing a lot of classmates for the 50th.

tures. There is the Meso-American Reef just off

Vermont, Bill Biddle has sent along the following

He had a chance to visit with many folks at the service for Don Hagerman. … Your humble and obedi-

shore that rings some of the best beaches on the

items: "My brother Dave (Proctor '68) and I spent a

Caribbean coast. Miles of lagoons in the Sian Ka'an

week in June up in Averill, VT, on the Canadian bor-

ent Class Correspondent apologies for the lack of

Biosphere lay to the south, and a major Maya

der fishing Great and Little Averill Ponds for lake

notes in the last issue that carried such. I was up to

archaeological site is just to the north. The limestone

trout, and my wife Sharon and I spent a fine evening

my eyeballs transitioning my office at BNY Mellon

underneath the town and vicinity has one of the most

there again in August visiting Louise and Michael

to a couple of successors (plural). I'm now retired

extensive subterranean rivers systems in the world,

Kingston at their camp. We talked about many

and recommend it, but, needing something to keep

which drains a huge, unpolluted aquifer lying inland.

things, mostly about our lives since our school days.

me out of the new casino down the river, agreed to

I provide this detail because all of these resources

I continue to teach English at Lyndon State College,

run for Oakmont Borough Council in the fall. What's

are being threatened by an expanding tourism indus-

probably will until I drop or go daffy. Our daughter

not to love about high stress coupled with no pay? In

try that seeks to place new hotels as close as they

Wendy, who did a Klingenstein summer fellowship

the unlikely event of victory I'm going to demand a

can get to the attractions. While Mexican environ-

with Phil Peck years ago, now lives year round on

recount. Other than that, I plan to enjoy getting in

mental laws are quite good, unfortunately money

Martha's Vineyard and teaches high school history in

reasonable shape, realizing one can't expect mira-

can frequently be used to circumvent them. We are

the school system there. My new passion is food

cles, fishing and flying a bit more, working on a

looking at the effectiveness on non-governmental

writing. North Country Cooking serves the Northeast

long-neglected reading list, and trying to whip the

organizations (NGOs) to try to stop the destruction,

Kingdom of Vermont, the North Country of New

house into some sort of order. … Here's a suggestion

but a combination of powerful interests with short-

Hampshire, and comes out six times a year. It focus-

and a request: please add an email address to your

term profit motives is very difficult to rein in. It will

es on the local-vores, healthy food, hunted and

listing in the online alumni directory. That will assist

be a real tragedy if this place is severely compro-

fished food, foraged food, organically-raised food,

in contacting you and cut down on the Alumni

mised, especially so since everyone knows what is

and great ways to cook all of them. I write a regular

Office's workload, not to mention the additional

going on and the ultimate consequences it will bring.

column, 'Old Dog in the Kitchen', and a few

expense of snail mail. … There is only about a year

Turning to the people who live and work in this sin-

unsigned other pieces in each issue. Talking to folks

– and do we ever know how fast a year can go –

gle industry zone, almost everyone is being hurt

about food, photographing their work, and then writ-

until our 50th reunion. I hope all of the Class of

with the downturn of tourists caused by the swine

ing about it is as much fun as I've ever had that I got

1960 will consider attending. It's always a low-key,

flu scare and the economic recession. In spite of the

paid for. See you all in October!" … Gordi Eaton

fun time. Our hardworking Director of Alumni

economic success of tourism here, the industry has

said he enjoyed a great deal of the summer exploring

Relations Tracy White tells me it is scheduled for

been incredibly stingy in redistributing its earnings.

the Wind River Range in western Wyoming, a won-

October 1-3, 2010. I like the change from June, as

As a consequence health care, social services, and

derful place to get away from the crowds of

the weather should be more reliable, and the foliage

housing for the scores of low-paid families who

Northern New England. "I have continued doing

gorgeous. That's one of the things I've missed living

work in tourism and related businesses is minimal.

business development for a number of European

in boringly brown Western Pennsylvania for the past

This is the underbelly that most tourists never see. It

companies, most of them French, as it turns out. I

44 years.

is compounded by the ever-present drug trade, grow-

am trying to keep in shape but injuries keep crop-

ing violence and domestic abuse, and now a sense of

ping up to foil my ambitions. I do hope to see a

insecurity about their immediate future. Sorry to

number of you at school this fall."

burden my classmates with this unpleasantness but

CLASS CORRESPONDENT Len Richards '60 1025 Washington Ave

that is what is on my mind at present. For those who

Oakmont, PA 15139-1119

might want to come here to play golf as well as to

CLASS CORRESPONDENT

Phone: 412-826-9227

relax from the pressures of our modern life, golf

Charlie Kellogg '58

E-mail: lenrichards@mac.com

courses are sprouting up all over. Unfortunately they

4 Alpine Road

are filling in mangroves and shedding fertilizer into

Manchester, MA 01944-1045

the sea which ends up killing off the reef. So much

Phone: 978-526-8241

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Director of Alumni Relations, CLASS CORRESPONDENT

Tracy White, at alum@holder-

Mark Shub '61

ness.org.

66 Long Wharf Boston, MA 02110-3605 E-mail: mshub@lslawfirm.com

Would you like to

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"Hey Dudes," writes Peter Cook. "Having

tribute to the Holderness

vacationed with our family at some dude

School Today? If so, please

ranches in Montana and Wyoming over the years,

contact our Director of

my wife Jane and I are very excited about going to a

Alumni Relations, Tracy

cattle (1000 head) working ranch in Colorado this

White, at

September. It will be our first real husband-and-wife

alum@holderness.org.

vacation in awhile. While we will have to fix a fencepost here and count cattle there, it will involve much more fast riding than a typical dude ranch. Plus, we will catch up on our reading while looking

Clifford "Cliff"

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Buell reports: "Well,

Chris Brown '70 with sons Douglas and Roger, at Douglas' graduation from St. Lawrence University.

I guess there's no longer any chance of dying young.

at the beautiful Rocky Mountain landscape. Best to

Playing a lot of golf and squash, and I've gotten into

all."

target and skeet shooting. Emelie (19) is a sophomore at UNH, a rock climber, and Alex (24) lives

Would you like to become a correspondent for your

and works in NYC – big mountainbike racer and

class and contribute to the Holderness School

climber. Eileen volunteers and golfs. We look for-

Today? If so, please contact our Director of Alumni

ward to traveling around off-summer and figuring

Relations, Tracy White, at alum@holderness.org.

out how to write Part II of our lives."

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South Windsor, CT 06074-1583

Dave Hagerman '63

Phone: 860-644-8430

PO Box 147

E-mail: jwoodporter@cox.net

Jon Porter '69 121 Rockledge Drive

Lyme Center, NH 03769 Phone: 603-646-2251 E-mail: david.hagerman@dartmouth.edu

Chris Brown writes: "I am still a Professor

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of Mechanical Engineering at WPI, where I

teach a course on Technology of Alpine Skiing and

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do technical recreation research on ski equipment and ski technique. I also teach courses and do research on design, manufacturing, and surface

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metrology. In the photo are my two sons Douglas

Sandy Alexander '64

and Roger. Douglas was graduating from St.

180 Jobs Creek Road

Lawrence this spring, where he was captain of the

Sunapee, NH 03782

ski team. He will be teaching and coaching at the

Phone: 603-763-2304

Berkshire School. Passing by there this spring, Bill

E-mail: salex@tds.net

Clough '86 was the first person I met. Roger graduated from Dartmouth in '04, where he was NCAA

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slalom champion. He spent a couple of years on the US Ski Team after college and now works in Washington, DC, for Senator Patrick Leahy.

CLASS CORRESPONDENT Terry Jacobs '65

Would you like to become a correspondent for your

127 West Highland Avenue

class and contribute to the Holderness School

Philadelphia, PA 19118-3817

Today? If so, please contact our Director of Alumni

Phone: 215-247-9127

Relations, Tracy White, at alum@holderness.org.

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CLASS CORRESPONDENT

Director of Alumni Relations, Tracy White, at

Peter Janney '66

alum@holderness.org.

for your class and contribute to the

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102 Lothrop Street Beverly, MA 01915-5230 Phone: 978-969-1163 E-mail: PJ@ApLLon.com

Well folks, the weather sure has been crazy

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this year. Here it is late August, and

Massachusetts has just had its first heat wave since July 2008. Who knows what the weather will be like

Would you like to become a correspondent

by the time this column appears. … Speaking of the

for your class and contribute to the

Bay State, Tom Cooper writes from the Boston area

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that he is currently working for Boston College in

Chestnut Hill where he is a senior editor. "My wife and I have two kids, both now in college. I trade emails with Cameron Brown '70 and occasionally see Terry White '74 on bike rides up in Vermont. So much for life in the fast lane." … The ever-faithful David Nicholson writes from Grafton, MA, that his eldest son, Dave, is happily working on Summer Street and living in the North End of Boston. Dave's middle son, Scott, is trying to find his challenge in life after graduating from Colgate. He has Marine Corps officer candidate school high on his list, Dave says. His youngest son, Brad, is teaching rock climbing in Burlington, VT, this summer and continuing at the University of Vermont this fall. Dave's wife, Suzie, works for National Amusements keeping Showcase Cinemas very visible on the web. "We were lucky enough to squeeze four days of skiing in at Alta last February, but that's it for travel this year," Dave says. … Mark Rheault writes from Carver, MA, that he is in his tenth year as the technology director at the Rising Tide Charter Public School in Plymouth. "It's my fifth career but the one I am enjoying the most," Mark says. "I simply took an interest in computers that's been a hobby since eighth grade and turned it into a job I love. Life has really been an amazing journey and I'd like to think full of personal growth. Those who really knew me will be surprised to hear that I don't smoke, don't drink, and regularly go to the gym for racquetball, group power, and Zumba. I'm finding the 50s to be better then ever." As if this isn't enough, Mark is also a private pilot. "Not only is the view of Cape Cod from the air amazing but landing at Provincetown airport sure beats sitting in traffic," Mark says. Mark's son Greg, 23, is in his second year at the University of Maryland higher education masters program, and his daughter Jenn, 21, is a senior at Curry College soon to be deployed in the Army. "I am lucky that I married my best friend and even after 33 years of togetherness Laurie and I are happier then ever," Mark says. "We recently moved to South Meadow Village, an over-55 community in Carver, where it's like living at a club. We love it here. Life is very simple, not to mention the economic benefits of downsizing. We still spend summer weekends in Wellfleet and get at least a weekend a month getaway even in the winter." Mark is also sad to have lost touch with his friends from the past, but is working on reconnecting. He invites any of us to check out his Facebook page at www.facebook.com/mrheault "I'd welcome adding you as a

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Class Notes

fri

end if you were interested." … Laurie Van

news stories. If you have a minute, check out the

Ingen writes from Grapevine, TX, that his 29-

"real-time news" on the left-hand side of the home

for family visits in San Diego and New England."

page at www.masslive.com. I blog news stories as

What a great adventure, Peter! Good for you. …

year-old son got married to his girlfriend of seven

still likely to go back and forth between the States

years in San Antonio this past November. "Had a

soon as they happen, which is kind of cool. No

John Lord shares the news that he recently visited

great time at the wedding," Laurie says. "My 26-

longer do I have to wait a day after editing stories to

Chile for five days with his daughter Julianna, where

year-old daughter is in her fifth year of teaching

see them in print. Lucy is retiring as manager of the

they stayed at the Explora Hotel Torres Del Paine.

middle school at a local private school and really

Mashantum Tennis Club on Cape Cod at the end of

The occasion was Julianna's completion of a 90-day

enjoying it." … From Upperville at the base of the

the year, but will undoubtedly be back next summer

NOLS (National Outdoor Leadership School) course

Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia, Sandy Wood

as a consultant to help whomever the club hires.

near the park, which, in case you are unaware if it, is

writes that he and Sally are staying pretty close to

That's it for this time. Thanks to those of you who

an extremely strenuous program. John comments

home these days. "My daughter, Sidney, graduated

wrote. I look forward to hearing from others next

that "It is incredible what getting 'out-of-the-box' a

from Groton this year and, after a European holiday

time.

few times in life does for one – kind of like a mini OB, save for the fully stocked restaurant." Thanks

in June, she is in Kenya doing good deeds at a

John! … Next I heard from David (Steph)

Masai village in the Great Rift Valley," Sandy says. "She has decided to take a 'gap year' and, instead of

CLASS CORRESPONDENT

Massarano with news that he and Pres Parish reunited at Pres' cabin in Vail for some turns this

going to George Washington University this fall,

Dwight Shepard '72

will do some more traveling and get a job. As a par-

84 Ely Road

past February. Regretfully, he notes, Pres has gone

ent, I like the job part. As a former student, I like the

Longmeadow, MA 01106-1834

to the dark side and snowboards, albeit with great

travel part. I shall stay at home and live vicariously

Phone: 413-567-1803

style. Pres completes his renegade transformation by

through her travels while hoping that her job will

E-mail: shepdb@comcast.net

wakeboarding in the summers on Lake Charlevoix in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Steph contin-

help pay for my retirement. Wishful thinking! Once a parent, always a banker." … Peter Kimball, who continues to work for Harvard University in Cambridge, MA, says his service on the Board at

Greetings, '73ers, from what has become

ues: "And I, for winking at his discord, have lost a

the mostly soggy White Mountains of New

kinsman, all are punish'd." … And last, my very reli-

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Hampshire. I take full responsibility for it, as I

able pen pal Pete Terry weighed in with lots of

Holderness continues to be a wonderful experience.

bought an antique '69 Boston Whaler on eBay to

news. First, that he made it back to New England

"The school has never looked better," Peter says.

restore and, of course, play in the lake (Kezar, just

from North Carolina for five weeks last summer to

"Admissions are strong. The students are engaged.

across the Maine Border). Needless to say, the boat

teach at the Middlebury Language Immersion Camp

The faculty is stimulating." And, Peter adds, for the

had the reverse effect of bringing along an umbrella,

at Hampshire College in Amherst, MA. He reports

first time in the school's history, The Holderness

so it rained record amounts. Imagine what we would

that it was a great, if grueling, experience, and that it

Fund exceeded $1 million, "which speaks volumes

talk about if it weren't for the weather. I so pity

was good to be back in New England after so many years. He even 'snuck' back into his hometown of

about the school's leadership and direction, and the

those people in Southern California. My last-ditch

commitment of those who understand all that the

attempt to elicit notes from you before I "retire"

Keene, NH, for a day. He has recently been in touch

school offers." … As for the Dwight Shepard fami-

worked reasonably well. I heard from six of you

with Jesse Nichols who lives happily in Denver

ly, my wife, Lucy and I continue to be empty nesters

with new and noteworthy happenings and updates

with his family, and reports that it has been great

big-time. Not only do neither of our two kids live at

from two more, all of which follows. … Lynne

reconnecting with him. This summer Peter has been tutoring, teaching tennis at the Wake Forest

home, but neither of them even live in the

Jackson dropped me a card from south coastal

Northeast! My daughter, Lisa, quit her New

Maine where she runs a café and catering business.

(University) tennis camp, and also held a Spanish

Hampshire social worker's job over a year ago, and

She lives in Saco on the river of the same name,

Camp for kids for one week at his school (Summit).

has become somewhat of a snowboarding bum in

where it finishes its lingering trip from Mount

He also escaped to Hilton Head for a week to simply

Keystone, CO. Last winter, she was a part-time

Washington to the Atlantic Ocean. Her husband Tom

bask by the pool. A busy man indeed, Terry! Terry

snowboard instructor. This year, she hopes it will be

runs a graphic and screen-printing business in

adds a postscript that, 35 years ago, he worked for

full time. My son Ted is living in the Minneapolis

Biddeford and they are keeping well and busy. She

two seasons at Bill Hart's Camp Mowglis over on

area working for a credit union, while his wife, Jess,

sends her very best to all. Thank you, Lynne. …

Newfound Lake, and during those summers Leslie

is in her third-out-of-four years of veterinary school.

Sam Richards shared the news that he just finished

Orton Maher would pick him up on his rare days

I am still paid by The Republican newspaper of

his 29th year as an educator, and also confirmed my

off and they would hang out together. Since she

Springfield, MA, but I work full-time blogging our

thoughts about connections and how the threads

lives near to where he was teaching that summer in

The following Bulls were at the 2009 Vail Lacrosse Shootout:

Jamey

Gallop '83, Duane Ford '74, Burgie Howard '82, Craig Westling '84, and Will Graham '72.

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continue as long as we live.

2008, she once again stopped over to 'rescue him'

Thanks for keeping in the

and they had a long lunch, catching up on the years.

loop, Sam! … Peter Garrison

In his words, 'it was a rare treat.' … Yes, the older

writes that "I now have two

we get the more fun these planned and unplanned

grandsons, aged 2 years and 6

reconnections can be. I have enjoyed getting to

months. These little gems are

know some of you again, as adults, during these

the best! Such energy and

many years as your class secretary. They call it the

smiles that melt. My wife and

'Bacon Effect' (as in Kevin), as we find new and fas-

I have sold our home in San

cinating strings of connection that span the miles

Diego (I have lived here now

and the years. For example, last December I enjoyed

32 years) and on Tuesday we

a long Christmas party conversation with David

move to Panama. Yes,

Douglass '53 whose wife Barbara taught here at the

Panama! She grew up there

Academy for many years. Not surprisingly we share

and still has a large family

an admiration of Don and Pat Henderson and it

contingent in Panama City, so

was fun to make that connection in a place far from

we decided to leave the US

Holderness. In addition, I see Dave Gregory of the

for a while and find a much

MWV Ski Team nearly everyday at the 121 gym.

simpler way of life. I think

He, along with Tyler '69 and Terry Palmer '70,

this journey will work out just

was a ski coach there for a while right after we were

fine. We are very excited to

gone. I am not sure I would like to be 16 again,

move to the tropics. We are

though at times I would like to be that age, knowing

what I do now. But only for a moment. … Finally, I

Jef Sharp and Dave Francis come to mind. Just

was pleased to hear from Scott Morrison, who lives

went to Boulder with my wife Michelle to help our

happily in idyllic Middlebury, VT, with his family,

little baby turn 21 – double ouch. Turning 21 in

which includes four wonderful kids (aged 21, 19,17,

Boulder is hard to beat. She is a psych major and a

and 13), all of whom remain his friends – who can

junior at CU. Not much else to report, other than

say that, today? I remember his eldest, Althea, from

that in the time since Holderness I have started run-

our 1993 reunion, when my son Charlie was smitten

ning, and this time without some ballistic coach on

by her and her red cowboy boots!

As is so true with

my tail, and not after a grueling soccer or lacrosse

many of us, Scott recounts that when asked what

practice. And, since I quit butts about nine years

Holderness meant to him, his reply is always that,

ago, I see the advantage that would have made as an

"If it were not for our school he would have wound

athlete. Duh! Just another 20 pounds to get down to

up, 1) dead, or, 2) a grease monkey or fry cook in Worcester, MA." He continues: "The school changed my life and gave me the path to the beginning of an independent and fulfilled life." He is still moving houses, whole or in pieces, all across the USA.

A rare family photo of all the Fords at the UNH Fund Raiser. (L-R: Lori Ford, Julia Ford '08, Willie Ford '05, Mattie Ford '04, Lily Ford '12, and Duane Ford '74)

my wrestling weight. Only problem is that I have developed a strong love for India Pale Ales, so my exercise program is more like a break-even program. Better than nothing. Heck, I even bike ten miles on Sundays now! I see the light." … Brad Bruner

Scott says that all he really cares about is skiing, and

clients. I've been worming my way into the outdoor

reports: "Not much, here, that is worthy of class

he hits the boards at least 30 times a winter,

industry since about 2006, when I began working at

news. I would like to congratulate Craig Antonides

"attempting" (in his words) to ski like an 18-year-

a local REI store. I spent 2008 producing The BOSS

on his 25 years of coaching. What a milestone. I did

old. Thanks, Scott, for being in touch. … It is the

Report, an industry newsletter published by a

have to look up 'pedagogical' however. Maybe now

first of September, the sun is shining, I am begin-

Charlotte company. This was great fun, because I

he'll chill out on those rides up Mt. Washington – I

ning my 11th year at Fryeburg Academy, and I am

was able to attend two Outdoor Retailer shows in

get depressed every year when I see the picture that

proud to report that we have built three wonderful

Salt Lake City. This allowed me to do some rock

he has done it again. Cheers to Craig, well done.

new facilities on my watch. Please stay in touch

climbing at SnowBasin with Jeff Lowe's crew and

Stay hydrated." … Peter King writes: "Still living

with one another and don't ever forget how lucky we

catch up with Bruce Edgerly '78, who runs

on the left coast (LA). The state coffers are dry, but

were to have been at Holderness during those years,

Backcountry Access, a very successful provider of

plenty of sunshine to enjoy while waiting for the

even if we didn't believe it at the time.

safety and rescue gear, bindings, and other equip-

California economy to rebound. Weather pundits

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ment for backcountry skiing. I also caught up with

speculate that we will have a wet winter – looking

Donny Whittemore '78 during a visit to OIA's

forward to breaking out the skis for another season

Tim Scott '73

headquarters in Boulder in late January. He is happy

at Mammoth. Just celebrated my fourth wedding

PO Box 93

as a clam fighting forest fires and helping victims of

anniversary – appears that I got it right this time.

Jackson, NH 03846-0093

natural disasters, including those made homeless by

Visited with Peter Walstrom in Colorado on the

Phone: 603-383-9318

Hurricane Katrina. Working with OIA is great fun. I

return trip from Sturgis Bike Week in August 2008.

E-mail: tgscott@countryconsultinggroup.com

went to DC on April 21 to tag along as industry

Great to reminisce with PKW. The stories seemed

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execs lobbied Congress on their legislative agenda,

extraordinary in the recounting. I am still in the legal

which includes boosting investment in local, state

business with the city of LA and my wife, appropri-

and national parks, and securing tariff relief on some

ately named Sue, is a graphic designer. All the best."

popular outerwear and footwear products that I sus-

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pect are well known to the Holderness crowd. If

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Walter Malmquist '74

anyone is in San Diego, I'll be there Sept. 29th to

Peter Grant '77

2727 Wild Hill Rd

Oct. 4th. In any case, I'd love to hear from anyone

6 Quail Ridge

Bradford, VT 05033

else working in the industry. Best regards. Peace of

Concord, NH 03301-8425

Phone: 802-222-4282

the Lord." … Jody Collins sends: "I am selling

Phone: 603-715-5445

E-mail: wmalmquist@kingcon.com

high-end advertising to the health care industry in a

E-mail: peterg@theeditors.com

local health magazine. Ouch! Found a few folks on Would you like to become a correspondent

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Facebook or vice versa – Vicky Anderson Duffield,

for your class and contribute to the

Preparing the latest edition of class notes

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for the Class of '78 has led me to one con-

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clusion: Somebody has kidnapped the fun-loving

Director of Alumni Relations, Tracy White, at

classmates I used to know. Maybe it's because we're

alum@holderness.org.

all nearing the big 5-0; indeed, some of us are already there. Or maybe it's just the recession that has dampened folks' spirits this time around. But

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regardless of the reason, dear friends, we've become

for your class and contribute to the

staid suburbanites. Of course, there are a few excep-

Holderness School Today? If so, please contact our Director of Alumni Relations, Tracy White, at

tions. … Dave Parker checks in from Washington

alum@holderness.org.

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kayaking with his 14-year-old son. Somehow, Dave

menting the comings and goings of The Missing

negotiate for world peace, but we'll cut him some

Class of '77. I recently spent some time with Mike

slack on that one. In addition to all that outdoor

Granger while he was in Charlotte, NC, checking

activity, Dave has a new e-mail address: davidpark-

Charlie Lunan writes: "Thanks for all the

neglected to leave enough time over the summer to

work you do. It must be frustrating docu-

out on a simulator for US Airways. He looked great,

er@windermere.com … Andrew Wilson's job has

and is happily married in Maine, but I'll let you get

headmaster at the Grier School in western Pennsylvania continues to read like a travel log. The

the details from him. I am working as a contractor, providing editorial services to Boulder-based

Holderness Trustee Chris Carney '75 with his

job takes him all over the world, recruiting girls to

Outdoor Industry Association and a handful of other

daughters, Elizabeth and Annie '08

attend the school, but as a change this year, Andy

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school senior this year "and is looking at a lot of

200,9 edition. As a result I contacted Tracy White

New York and New England small liberal arts

at Alumni Relations and talked myself into finding

schools." Jud, somewhere in the Toronto, Ed Cayley

out what everyone is up to. I feel a bit of a hyp-

is smiling broadly at that last reference. A most

ocrite, though, as I have never once written an

important announcement for all seniors, indeed!

update for HST. Therefore it is only fair that I let

Rosie is playing varsity soccer and will be one of

you know what I have been up to. I am currently liv-

her school's lacrosse captains in the spring. Last, but

ing in Snowmass Village, CO, just a few miles from

not least, there's the youngest Hale, Lacey, who will

where I grew up. My wife Jackie (a native of

be a freshman in high school this year. When Jud

Middlebury, VT) and I have a 17-year-old daughter,

isn't doting on his kids, he's busy running into some

Brianna, whom we could never convince to try out

of our old pals from other Holderness graduating

for the Nordic ski team (she plays defense on the

classes. "I noted this morning that Craig Antonides

Aspen Leafs ice hockey team). I have been in the

'77 came in fifth in his age category in the Mount

property management business for the past 20 years

Andrew Wilson '78 skiing the Great Divide last

Washington Hill Climb this past Saturday (August

and have a small business, with myself as the only

season.

15)," Jud writes. "I couldn't be there this year due to

employee. I seem to work a lot, but always enjoy

my hip surgery in March – but I will be back next

time off with family. That said, I want to thank all of

year." Jud said he also has crossed paths with John

you who were able to respond to my email. It is

and his wife and their daughters took a vacation of their own, travelling to Germany, Austria, and Switzerland for two weeks. … Hal Hawkey checks in from Denver to report that while summer may have been uneventful, he has a busy fall schedule. "I've got an 8th grader this year, so we've got to do the high school interview thing," Hal writes. "Visiting Squam in September for a family wedding, and hoping to stop by the school. No sightings of Holderness alums this summer except through Facebook!" … In other Class of '78 news involving the Mile High City, Nat Hancock and his wife are preparing to send their only child, Richard, off to the University of Denver, where young Mr. Hancock will study international relations on a four-year ROTC scholarship. After they go on a road trip from upstate New York to Denver, Nat and his wife are planning a ski trip to the Rockies this winter: "It's funny how my older siblings lobbied my son hard on accepting Denver, and soon thereafter plans were in the works for a family reunion in Colorado this winter," Nat writes. "I have a nephew that goes to Colorado College, so, there's two reasons for us to congregate in Colorado. I wouldn't be surprised if I run into a classmate or two during our visits to Colorado over the next few years." Nat says he is in regular contact with Colin Bruce (a.k.a. Spud) Macleod. The two of them get together every August when Colin drives his mother up from Virginia for the racing season at Saratoga. "Colin lives in Middleburg, VA, and has a son, James, who I believe is entering fifth grade," Nat writes. "Colin and I have gotten together a few times over the past several summers for a canoe trip in the Adirondacks. We didn't last year or this year, but perhaps summer 2010 is a possibility." … Meanwhile, back on the

Neal '77. "John Neal was over with his family for

really great to hear from everyone. So in no particu-

dinner last week – and reports he went to Turkey

lar order: … Kudos to Will Neff, Andy Sawyer,

this summer to hang with his neighbor/friend – the

Heidi and Mike O'Conner, and Mark Finnegan,

backup center for the Utah Jazz," Jud writes. "Can

who made it to the 30-year reunion. (If you were

you picture John waltzing around with this rock star:

there and I missed your name, forgive me, but kudos

John at whatever height that works for downhill rac-

to you as well!) Will Neff is still in Houston, where

ing – and this 7 footer? I cracked up." Jud's travels

he works for the Kanaly Trust Company. He spends

for Rosie's soccer games also allow him to meet up

his fun time participating in triathlons with the

with Prescott Smith every so often. "I usually see

Houston Racing Triathlon Club (www.houstonrac-

Prescott on the soccer fields somewhere – watching

ing.com). He says he dined with Rob Lowe and

our daughters," Jud writes. "I am dressed in spandex

family after one such race, at their home in Katy,

normally – and he usually has a nice tweed jacket, a

TX, and has also recently heard from old roommate

little ascot, and a light bourbon on the rocks (kid-

Jeff Scowen. … John Wellman writes in that his

ding). We find a way to bring all of you up, and

oldest daughter (one of two daughters, four step-

enjoy that." … Lest any of you doubt Jud's story,

daughters, and four grandchildren!) has taken on his

here's Pres' account of his summer: "I didn't see any-

passion for hiking in the White Mountains. … Ghia

one or anything at all except for the bottom of a few

Szwed Truesdale, currently living outside of Boston

bottles of rum, scotch, California Reds, and some

with her two children Alden (14) and Jackson (11),

particularly fine bottled beers," our own Mr. Smith

is staying busy. She participates on several boards,

writes. "Nothing worth writing about. I did get a

including The Cloud Foundation, The English

sunburn, but it faded away." … As for your humble

Speaking Union, and The Zabuli School for Girls. In

scribe, I'm headed back to school. I've enrolled in

her free time she has arranged funding for films such

the master's program in Interactive Communications

as Henry's Crime, co-produced a WWII film (The

at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, CT. If I finish the program on time, I'll get my masters the same year as my oldest child, Zack, gets his undergraduate degree from Loyola University in New Orleans. And on that note, as they say in the Crescent City, let the good times roll, gang – I'm LT and I'm outta here.

mundane suburban side of life, J.D. Hale was taking his son Charlie back to Hobart for the start of his sophomore year in late August. Charlie is a soccer player like his old man,and Hobart's soccer team spent eight days in Ireland playing semi-pro teams. Charlie has a tad more skill than Jud used to exhibit on the playing fields at Holderness: He played in the U20 National final four over the summer. Anyway, when Charlie and his teammates got back from Ireland, Jud spent part of the last week of August moving him into his dorm, aptly named 'Hale Hall.' And no, to answer the question I'm sure all of you are asking as you read this, Jud says he didn't dip into the Yankee Magazine fortunes in order to get his son into Hale Hall. Of course, Jud and Cindy's brood doesn't stop at Charlie. Daughter Rosie is a high

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CLASS CORRESPONDENT Luther Turmelle '78 49 Williams Road Cheshire, CT 06410-2746 Phone: 203-271-0041 E-mail: l.turmelle@att.net

I was sad to see that

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no one was able to

write in for the Winter, 2009, edition of HST, but pleased to read the nice piece on Michael Silitch in the Spring,

Stephen Weinroth '79 and his family at the Oqunguit, ME, playhouse: Erich (14), Sophy, Stephen, and Caroline (15).

Comfort Circle) and recently made a CD with

57 Hunter Lane

'Supermaster' division – 40 years old and older).

Hernan Romero "(Styx + Stone"). As I said, she is

Glastonbury, CT 06033

Braden Edwards '85 and Matt Flaherty '84 were

busy, but loving every minute of it. She occasionally

Phone: 860-659-1840

also there. Go, Blue!" … Erik Burbank writes: "I'm

sees Bill Clifford who is Executive Director of the

E-mail: baskinWC@aetna.com

World Affairs Counsel in Boston (www.worldboston.org). … Mark N. Mead is currently at the Carolina Center for Integrative Medicine, and is active in the area of integrative cancer care. He is Associate Editor of the Integrative Cancer Therapies

still in the Portland area doing my part to stimulate the economy, producing commercials, and living life

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with my wife Terri and kids Sulo (13) and Elle (11). As for down time, I've spent most of my weekends this summer on my back, legs protruding from under

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a car and sweating like early season football. Not

medical journal and has written and contributed to

Brent Jennings '82

exactly the beach, but its been a blast watching my

several books in the medical field. He is living in

57 Spring Rock Rd

son drop the hammer at short tracks around New

Durham, NC, with his wife Sabine and children

East Lyme, CT 06333-1451

England with the PASS Modified Tour. We've been

Tristan and Isabella, and still enjoys a myriad of out-

Phone: 860-739-2709

deep into the stock car racing thing for the last ten

door activities, including tree house building. …

E-mail: jennings0057@myeastern.com

years. First with Sulo and Elle in karts, and now

Kris (Van Curan) Nordblom will be visiting Colorado College this fall, where her son will be rooming with the son of Chug Sides at the college. After a hiatus Kris is getting back into the graphic

with Sulo in the full sized cars." … Jeff Rollins "I'm taking my Save Our Snow Global

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Cooling tour back east for the

ClimateRide.org. Also, working to raise money for

reports: "SO great to get these email chains – frankly it beats the tar out of the drone of all the regular work e-mails, which start to sound like Charlie

arts. She and her family divide their time between

awareness, meaningful legislatio,n and solutions to

Brown's teacher. Things are well with us. Just rolled

Holderness and Cambridge, MA. … My old room-

climte disruption," writes Alison Gannett. … Peter

off the Board at Holderness after eight years – will really miss the trips up there. The school looks great.

mate Steve Weinroth says he is just returning from

Hewitt writes: "My son is 6, short, and fast of foot

a great visit to the family home in New Hampshire

and tongue. He and his sister, 10, who is more cau-

If you ever get a chance to go by, the new and reno-

with wife Sophy and children Caroline and Erich.

tious, participated in the Suzuki 10-piano concert

vated buildings will blow you away. Still living in Delaware with Kim and the kids: Kaitlyn (15),

They took leave of the DC environs for the visit to

held here in Sacramento, CA, this past weekend. See

the lake (Winnipesaukee), and to Maine for a lobsta'

it on YouTube. It is an event to behold. She and I

William (13), and Morgan (11). Now gearing up for

feed. … Dave Slaughter is living in Maryland with

again enjoyed a July of piano camp in Bennington,

fall sports – volleyball, football, and soccer. It is a

his wife Blair and two girls Natalie and Cecilia. He

VT, where she is a camper and I am on faculty. I

good thing that Kim had the dominant athletic

is working for Lafarge, where he is the Vice

now begin a two-semester teacher credential pro-

genes, because they are all very competitive and are

President of EUS Ready Mix. He travels to France

gram that will have me being a full-time student.

on the starting lineup." … Tamerlane Bey sends: "I

for business and hopes to hook up with Mike Silitch

Goal: teach mathematics in high school (and physi-

am doing well – living in Orlando, FL, with my wife

on a future visit. … It is really great to hear from all

ology and cycling and music). My wife Anh Nhi

Tracie of 11 years now! We have a son who is in

of you! If I have omitted anything that I shouldn't

enjoys her radiology practice, which is what has us

NYC making strides as an aspiring actor, model,

have, or if you have thought about something else

in CA. I welcome alum visitors, especially the

internet wiz, and college freshman (fullsail online)!

you would like to include next time, please let me

singers and players. Make your joyful noises." …

Here are some links to where people can see what I

know.

From Jane Randolph Jensen: "My daughter is 9

am up to. Enjoy: http://tbeyart.50megs.com,

and refuses to play an instrument, doesn't like to run,

http://orlandoarts.ning.com/profile/tamerlane, or

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and knows all the words to most Monkee's songs,

http://myspace.com/thetogetherbrothers, Facebook

Cullen Morse '79

which she sings constantly – off key. Where did I go

and LinkedIn networks." … I'm headed back to

PO Box 9933

wrong? Or right? Classes start for me this weekend.

Holderness on September 9 to bring Brendan

Aspen, CO 81612-7306

I direct a graduate program in educational policy at

Madden '11 to orientation. He will be a junior and

E-mail: cbmaspen@hotmail.com

the University of Kentucky, which includes college

has hopes of playing football, hockey, and lacrosse.

student affairs as well as social foundations of ed

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(history, philosophy, etc.) and comparative ed. I'm

Spain and Italy, which gets me to Europe about once

Jud Madden '83

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a year. I'm also continuing my research (I'm an

2637 Wellington Rd

Greg White '80

anthropologist by training) in coal mining communi-

Cleveland, OH 44118-4120

11 Lancashire Dr

ties in Appalachia. We're eating well despite budget

Phone: 216-371-3771

Mansfield, MA 02048-1766

cuts – my husband is a chef who also works with

E-mail: justin@landskronerlaw.com

Phone: 508-337-8798

local sustainable cuisine projects. Welcome to any-

E-mail: GgNH@aol.com

one who wants to venture to horse country. No, I

currently working on a grant with colleagues in

don't have tickets to the Derby, and I'm not sure if

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Claire Grossin writes from Paris last win-

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ter: "Here in Paris, we have cold weather

Not one of 1981's more stellar efforts on

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Calipari can make a difference to Kentucky basket-

class notes this time. Hopefully that means

ball, but we can certainly show you some Southern

and lately wind gusts around France that have

people were too busy on vacation to send in their

hospitality." … Back in June, several Holderness

caused havoc! People without power or water for

news! Christine Louis is enjoying her position as

alumni found themselves back in their lacrosse uni-

days now. Today's delight was a string of strikes!

Director of Donor Relations for Greater Worcester

forms and back together at the Vail Lacrosse

The French absolutely love to go on strike; seems at

Community Foundation. … Bill Baskin and Ty

Shootout in Vail, CO. It's a great opportunity to test

times at the drop of a pin! We've had snow, too. The

Wallace managed to align the stars, planets, and

out old skills, see old friends, and make new ones.

ski season this year is going to be great. Have lots of

and rain. We've had exceptionally cold temperatures

their families' respective calendars for a short time

From Jamey Gallop: "I attach a photo taken last

children in my classroom who are going on skiing

in the early summer and enjoyed a trip on the

month in Vail, CO – Holderness alumni participating

vacations soon. We had snow in Paris a few weeks

Connecticut River. As more evidence that time con-

in the Vail Lacrosse Shootout. I was able to recruit

ago. What a sight! Just to give you an idea, snow in

tinues to go too fast – Bill's son Buck will be a

Burgie Howard '82 for the Williams team, but that

Paris is a rarity."

freshman at Choate this fall.

was still not enough to get past Middlebury. (Duane Ford '74 and Will Graham '72 played in the

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'Grandmaster' division – 50 years old and older;

Fred Ludtke '84

Bill Baskin '81

Burgie, Craig Westling '84 and I played in the

34 Old Chester Rd

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Gladstone, NJ 07934-2032

(12), Madeline (10), and Stephanie (8). They are all

with alums on Facebook." … Zach Siegleff reports:

Phone: 908-719-6336

growing up so fast. It is hard to believe I will have a

"All is well with me and my family. We have made

E-mail: FHLIII@aol.com

middle-schooler this year! One fun part of their get-

it through our first year of the new business, Out

ting older is that two out of the three are now

There Outfitters, in Wayne, PA. We even finished

Braden Edwards is "still living in San

SCUBA certified, and we are having fun travelling

above our forecast! I recently spent the week in

Franciso with my wife, Carolyn, and our

together doing some of that. I also have a business I

Saranac/Lake Placid, NY, with Brett Jones '88 and

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three children (Jack, Charlotte, and Sophie). Ran

do out of my home, and am the current president of

his family, where I competed in my first Xterra

into Jaime Gallop '83, Craig Westling '84, Matt

the Junior League here in Greensboro. Plenty to

offroad triathlon. Very pleased with my result, as I

Flaherty '84, and Will Graham '72 at the Vail

keep me busy and keep my mind working and grow-

finished in the top half of 120 racers, despite run-

lacrosse event in July. These guys all looked great.

ing. Holderness seems like so long ago, yet I still

ning off course for a mile. Brett ran the 5k trail run

We started a non-profit this year for youth sports in

love to hear how well it is doing." … Matt

the day before, and won his age group! I have been

the Bay Area (www.sfbays.org). Program will sup-

Reynolds made his annual summer road trip from

bitten by the tri-bug, and plan to do four next sum-

port under-served youth sports programs. Our organ-

Atlanta to Bar Harbor with his wife, three girls, and

mer."

ization is sponsoring the first ever men's division 1

Golden-doodle. "On my way up to Maine through

lacrosse game this fall in San Francisco, featuring

New Hampshire, I was able to catch up with Norm

Brown vs. UNC. Details are at www.sflacrosse.com

Walker, who just released a new edition of his book

– should be a great event for sports fans in Bay

'Teachers' (available on Amazon). As a teacher

Kathryn Lubrano Robinson '87

Area." … Tim Jones writes: "Just ran into Phil

myself, I am really enjoying the stories and poems

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Kistler in West Chop, Martha's Vineyard. Hadn't

about Holderness teachers past and present. I spent

Providence, RI 02906

seen him in 24 years. Spent a night catching up with

the past year being a full time stay-at-home dad,

Phone: 401-274-0980

him and who each of us keeps in touch with. Trying

which was a great experience. On the career front,

E-mail: Kathryn.robinson@gmail.com

to pull it off for the 25th in 2010." … Colby

I'm beginning a two-year pastoral counseling resi-

Coombs writes: "Life in the US' greatest state,

dency this fall. I hope to eventually work again in a

Alaska, continues to amaze me and makes me appre-

school setting that combines my interests in both

ciate the wonderful wilderness. So few places left in

teaching and counseling." … Chris Childs writes:

now lives in Monterey Bay in California. Chris

the world that are beautiful, vast, and untouched. It's

"This summer has been a very busy summer in the

works for Sweet Leaf Tea Co, a startup out of

true, it comes with a price – there are no roads or

way of work. I am still working for SMITH Optics,

Austin, TX. When not at work, Chris spends a lot

cable cars or huts, and enjoying the wilderness

which just launched a new RX glasses line that has

time surfing, mountain biking, seeing live music,

means flying in little planes, big backpacks, and

kept me busy with all the rain! My family and I fin-

and travelling. … Liz Ganem enjoyed a restful sum-

After over ten years, we were able to track

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down our old friend Chris Keeler, who

crossing rivers, swatting mosquitoes, not being on

ished the summer by visiting Matt Reynolds and his

mer with family and tried to improve her surfing

top of the food chain. It is not for everyone, but my

family up in Bar Harbor, ME. Lots of fun and laughs

skills. Liz writes: "Our little boy, Finn, just turned 3

wife and three-year-old love it, and so do the fifty

to be had! Looking forward to the ski season begin-

and is giving us a run for our money, but he's a great

guides that work for Alaska Mountaineering School.

ning!"

kid and tons of fun. We relaxed here in LA this summer, spending a lot of time swimming. On a recent

Off to the Arrigetch, Gates of the Arctic National Park for nine days to finish off the guiding season,

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trip up north to Marin County, I spent a few minutes

and then start coiling garden hoses in preparation for

Matt Reynolds '86

with Nina Bradley Smallhorn at her club pool,

winter. We have been spending Januarys in Hanalei,

879 E Rock Springs Rd. NE

watching our kids swim and having a good chuckle

Kauai, where the surf is big and the town is just like

Atlanta, GA 30306-3043

over our being moms. We also talked about how

home in Talkeetna – laid back and reggae on NPR.

E-mail: mattreynol@gmail.com

Ritt Kellogg Fund grant review process, and hope to get another batch of ambitious, wilderness-based applications for next year."

great the reunion was and how excited we were for the next one. It's always good to reminisce about

We enjoy visiting campus every February for the

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From Andy Twombley: "After trying to

Holderness." … Joel Rifkin writes: "Our kids are all

train on my own this summer for cycling

doing fine. Working like crazy all the time; the

events at the World Police & Fire Games (one of the

Karate school continues to grow, as does my wife's

largest sporting events in the world with 10,000

construction business. My wife and I and our kids

competitors), I finally enlisted the help of Tyler

enjoy dirt-biking in the desert most weekends when

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Hamilton '90 (thanks to Phil Peck). In the month

it is not so hot." … Chris Doggett: "I'm living on

Jean-Louis Trombetta '85

leading up to the Games, Tyler provided me with

Boston's North Shore with my family and still

3rs Calle Oriente #27

some great training, and reconfirmed a lot of tactics

enjoying being outdoors as often as possible. I took

Antigua

which had become rusty. I felt great going into the

my two older boys backpacking recently and they're

E-mail: jeanlouistrombetta@gmail.com

week of racing. Unfortunately the skills were still a

hooked on it. Also, did some rock climbing a few

little rusty. I would have been happier if I had spent

weeks ago for the first time in many years – I'm

Elise Mott writes: "I have been busy this

a little more time on the bikes instead of the ground.

clearly yearning for the simpler days. Speaking of

summer chasing after my toddler (Henry

I managed two crashes; a spectacular one in front of

which, Dave Smail and I live about a mile apart,

will be two in October), and Leila is eight and

the crowd at the Crit and a nasty, near-rib-breaking

and we see him and his family often. I hope every-

preparing for third grade. I am still teaching at The

one in the cross country. Overall I finished, or would

one from the class of '88 is doing well!" … Liz

Fenn School – just beginning my fifteenth year

have finished, well. I managed a 10th-place in the

Litzell Brickman writes: "All is well here in New

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there. Time flies. When I have extra time (yeah,

mountain bike, dropping from 7th after the crash,

Jersey. I'm working for Aetna, have two kids that

right) I have been doing some writing on mother-

would have finished top 15 in the Crit and haven't

keep us laughing, and am coming up on two milestones – my 40th birthday and 10th wedding

hood, and am contemplating creating a blog some-

seen the results for the road race, but that was mid-

time. I have been in touch with other '86 classmates,

pack. Tyler is opening up an online training site in

anniversary. It seems like once you reach this stage

including Jenny Ellis and Lee Fuller, and Facebook

September (www.tylerhamiltontraining.com). I

of life, you move in warp speed! When you're a kid,

has been a fun way to reconnect with friends as

would highly recommend checking out his site.

the summers feel like they last forever. Now you

well! When is our next reunion? Hope everyone is

Without a doubt he's an excellent coach and pro-

blink and somehow the fall's here." … Tom

well." … Caroline Bloch Jones writes: "It sounds

vides world-class experience and insight. Thanks

Fletcher is enjoying another Alaskan summer with

like life is keeping you busy, as I think it is for all of

again for the help. I hope to get back to Holderness

his kids. … Sohier Hall likes to hike up Mt. St.

us. Facebook has been fun, finding old friends, has-

this fall; I owe Phil Peck a ride, and my nephew is

Helens with his 10-year-old daughter. … Lauren

n't it! I am kept busy by my three children, Duncan

starting as a freshman. It's also been fun to reconnect

O'Brien Smith gave birth to a baby boy on April 2,

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Hamilton '90 (thanks to Phil Peck). In the month

here in New Jersey. I'm working for Aetna, have two

leading up to the Games, Tyler provided me with

kids that keep us laughing, and am coming up on

some great training, and reconfirmed a lot of tactics

two milestones – my 40th birthday and 10th wed-

which had become rusty. I felt great going into the

ding anniversary. It seems like once you reach this

week of racing. Unfortunately the skills were still a

stage of life, you move in warp speed! When you're

little rusty. I would have been happier if I had spent

a kid, the summers feel like they last forever. Now

a little more time on the bikes instead of the ground.

you blink and somehow the fall's here." … Tom

I managed two crashes; a spectacular one in front of

Fletcher is enjoying another Alaskan summer with

the crowd at the Crit and a nasty, near-rib-breaking

his kids. … Sohier Hall likes to hike up Mt. St.

one in the cross country. Overall I finished, or would

Helens with his 10-year-old daughter. … Lauren

have finished, well. I managed a 10th-place in the

O'Brien Smith gave birth to a baby boy on April 2,

mountain bike, dropping from 7th after the crash,

2009, Tague Kennedy Smith. LOB writes: "So,

would have finished top 15 in the Crit and haven't

while I am waiting up late at night to pick up my

seen the results for the road race, but that was mid-

stepdaughter from the high school dances and help-

pack. Tyler is opening up an online training site in

ing my son Jack tape his new lacrosse stick before

September (www.tylerhamiltontraining.com). I

practice (they are obsessed with that tape stuff), try-

would highly recommend checking out his site.

ing to prepare something that resembles dinner for

Without a doubt he's an excellent coach and pro-

everyone at 8 o'clock at night if we are lucky, I am

vides world-class experience and insight. Thanks

changing poopy diapers and loving it! Tague is great

again for the help. I hope to get back to Holderness

and has already told me he is aspiring to a

this fall; I owe Phil Peck a ride, and my nephew is

Holderness School scholarship – four year." …

starting as a freshman. It's also been fun to reconnect

Brett Jones recently met up with some former

with alums on Facebook." … Zach Siegleff reports:

alums at West Chop in Martha's Vineyard. Joining

"All is well with me and my family. We have made

Brett were Pam Lehmberg, Tim Jones '85, and

it through our first year of the new business, Out

Matt Schonwald '88 with daughter Charlotte "cut-

Serena Black Martin '91. Brett is actively growing

There Outfitters, in Wayne, PA. We even finished

ting up" the rug.

his mullet for his Joe Dirt Halloween costume, while

above our forecast! I recently spent the week in Saranac/Lake Placid, NY, with Brett Jones '88 and his family, where I competed in my first Xterra offroad triathlon. Very pleased with my result, as I finished in the top half of 120 racers, despite running off course for a mile. Brett ran the 5k trail run the day before, and won his age group! I have been bitten by the tri-bug, and plan to do four next summer."

now lives in Monterey Bay in California. Chris works for Sweet Leaf Tea Co, a startup out of Austin, TX. When not at work, Chris spends a lot time surfing, mountain biking, seeing live music, and travelling. … Liz Ganem enjoyed a restful summer with family and tried to improve her surfing skills. Liz writes: "Our little boy, Finn, just turned 3 and is giving us a run for our money, but he's a great kid and tons of fun. We relaxed here in LA this summer, spending a lot of time swimming. On a recent

CLASS CORRESPONDENT Kathryn Lubrano Robinson '87 87 Transit Street Providence, RI 02906 Phone: 401-274-0980 E-mail: Kathryn.robinson@gmail.com

After over ten years, we were able to track

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down our old friend Chris Keeler, who

trip up north to Marin County, I spent a few minutes with Nina Bradley Smallhorn at her club pool, watching our kids swim and having a good chuckle over our being moms. We also talked about how great the reunion was and how excited we were for the next one. It's always good to reminisce about Holderness." … Joel Rifkin writes: "Our kids are all doing fine. Working like crazy all the time; the Karate school continues to grow, as does my wife's construction business. My wife and I and our kids enjoy dirt-biking in the desert most weekends when it is not so hot." … Chris Doggett: "I'm living on Boston's North Shore with my family and still enjoying being outdoors as often as possible. I took my two older boys backpacking recently and they're hooked on it. Also, did some rock climbing a few weeks ago for the first time in many years – I'm clearly yearning for the simpler days. Speaking of which, Dave Smail and I live about a mile apart, and we see him and his family often. I hope everyone from the class of '88

Jenny Holden '88 has been going to Rwanda in the summer to help a friend with Global Grassroots.

is doing well!" … Liz Litzell Brickman writes: "All is well

his wife Meredith is training for triathlons and a 5mile ocean swim in St Croix in October. … Chris Stewart reports that his son JB is now playing pee wee tackle football out in East Hampton, NY. … Renee Dupre writes: "Hello friends, missing postpractice Pemi swims and the crisp New England fall with old friends. The bread! Good ole Holderness fun!" … Mark Richards writes: "My big news of late is that last November, my wife and I welcomed our new son home, our first child. We adopted a 6month-old boy from Ethiopia. He just turned 15 months and he's doing great, getting into everything and driving our cats and dog a little crazy. We've tried not to change our lifestyles totally, but it is an amazing change and so far it's been great." … Pete Webber is still representing the class of '88 in Boulder, CO, where he's a professional trail designer with the International Mountain Bike Association. His daughter Ella is 6 years old and getting it done in the first grade. Nice! … Nina Bradley Smallhorn is loving the Bay Area. "We moved to Corte Madera in June." … Geordie "Beast" Elkins enjoyed spending some of his summer in New Hampshire. He promises to be at the next reunion (less than four years away – mark your calendars!). … That's all for now. Check out our page on Facebook: Holderness '88.

CLASS CORRESPONDENT Alex MacCormick '88 354 Lattingtown Rd Locust Valley, NY 11560 Phone: 212-468-7002 E-mail: amaccormick@jmpsecurities.com

’89 CLASS CORRESPONDENT Tracy McCoy Gillette '89 Unit D

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2782 Kinnickinnick Rd

class of 1990, start your planning for Reunion 2010,

Pennsylvania this past spring. Nici speaks with

Vail, CO 81657-4174

and check this issue of the HST for special

Marla Dalley Littlefield on the phone and sees

Phone: 970-476-4094

announcements about plans for our reunion next

Erin Potter Jasmin regularly. She also spent the 4th

E-mail: gillette@vail.net

year! So long from Chicago.

of July with Aaron Daigneault and his four boys! Like Devie, Nici is having a great time with the

Preparing for my request for notes this

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"high school reunion" on Facebook. … Tyler Wood

time, I browsed the Holderness website pic-

Courtney Fleisher '90

and his finacee, Azgari Mowmita, welcomed a baby

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tures from reunion in the spring, realizing that our

1041 W. North Shore Avenue, Apt 2N

boy on July 24, 2009. Tyler is very busy with the

20th is coming up this year!

Chicago, IL 60626-4626

investment bank specializing in energy and cash

I wasn't alone in my

marveling about the passing of time, and I hope all

E-mail: courtneyfleisher@alumni.bates.edu

those who responded, and many more, will make the trip back. … Miles Barnard has been putting forth such an effort to get his update in to me that I am pleased to share his news with our class this time.

management that he founded, and which is headquartered in Naples and Palm Beach, FL. Tyler says

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he has some great partners and things are really busy these days. Their website is www.integratedenergygroup.com and they have clients across the United

Early this year Miles launched a website

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(www.southforkstudio.com) where you can learn

Terra Reilly '91

to Asia over the next year and a half, spending more

about and view beautiful and ecologically-responsi-

E-mail: sansivera@hotmail.com

time in Bangladesh so his son will learn Bengali and

ble projects his award-winning landscape architecture firm has completed.

Miles and his wife, Lex,

still live in Chestertown, MD, but they travel to their summer home in Telluride, CO, and back to New

States and into Europe. Tyler will be branching out

Mandarin. … Oscar Gonzalo checked in from Just a few of you wrote in, so hope to hear

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more from you next time! We did hear from

Spain just to say hello to everyone. … I have spent a lot of time driving through the Holderness campus

Alex Seabolt, who moved off Nantucket with his

lately as my daughter, Ella, is attending Montessori

Hampshire every year, and Miles tries to get in fly

dog, Bart, last fall and is now living in

School there up on the 'Hill.' Her school is affiliated

fishing whenever possible.

Newburyport. He is glad to not have to deal with a

with Holderness now, and I have seen many alums

boat or plane every time he wants to go somewhere.

at drop-off and pick-up who also have children

He has filled the hole

Pepper deTuro left when he didn't call to wish Miles a happy birthday this year with contact with

Alex is still working in construction and Andy

going to the school, including Rick Eccleston,

Jared Lenz (who I hope to see this fall when I trav-

Katchen is his new financial advisor, so they are

Lance Galvin '90, Lindley Hall Van der Linde '89

el to Montana). Miles has also been in touch with

always in touch now. Alex also stays caught up with

and husband Tiann '89, and Cara Cargill Inwood

Tyler Hamilton, but he is on a quest to find Alex

Fritz Muench and Bret Pfeifle. … Aimee

'89. I am off to my brother Ryan's '94 wedding in

Wirts – he's offering a reward to anyone providing

Lamarine Barrett sent in some photos from a June

Texas soon, and hope to send in a photo of all the

information that leads to the successful contact with

visit with Lizbie Sawyer Porter and her son

alums there for the next HST. Keep in touch, and if

our 'lost' classmate. … A Colorado contingency of

Charlie, who visited with Aimee and her family in

you are not on Facebook yet or not connected with

Tim Hartman and Ben Eaton may travel back east

Lizbie's hometown of Pittsfield, MA, this past sum-

your Holderness friends there, look me up!

for reunion. Down in the city, Tim, his wife, and son

mer. Aimee's son Eddie is 22 months old, and

are packing up the home Tim has known for the past

Lizbie's son Charlie is 3 years old. They played at a

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11 years for new digs in the Montclair neighborhood

local playground, went strawberry picking, and the

Kelly Mullen Wieser '92

of Denver. Up in the mountains of Crested Butte,

girls even had a night out! Aimee says that it was

12 Willis Court

Ben is still creating beautiful functional and sculp-

great to laugh and catch up and she is looking for-

Campton, NH 03223

tural ironworks that you can explore at www.get-

ward to their next get-together when Lizbie is back

E-mail: kelly@wiesermail.com

bentllc.com. … Back in New England, Sarah

in town to support her family as they compete in a

Cripps Fox recently celebrated a huge and joyous

local triathlon. Lizbie, husband Philip, and Charlie

milestone – the one-year anniversary of the end of

live in Lexington, MA, and Lizbie teaches elemen-

About two years ago, I first heard the siren

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song that is Facebook. The name intrigued

me; I fondly recall the Holderness "facebooks" of

her cancer treatments! However, a related, sad

tary school at Nashoba Brooks School. … Devie

anniversary follows this November, as Sarah's fami-

Hamlen is still working at the New Hampshire

my era: dog-eared photocopies of student mug shots

ly remembers the passing of her mother just ten days

Public Defenders in Rockingham County and loving

inexpensively bound and distributed at the start of

after learning her breast cancer had metastasized. In

doing criminal indigent defense work. He spent a

each school year. Today's social networking site

between, Sarah's twins will turn two in the greatest

week out in Boulder last winter, where his good

bears little resemblance to these memories, and the

month of the year, October (no bias on my part, real-

friend had a dinner party in which Jon Hatch '91

scope of the controversies that surround Facebook

ly). Sarah has been taking advantage of Facebook to

was in attendance, in full Holderness regalia. Devie

certainly exceeds that of these early predecessors.

find Holderness folks again. … Cindy Romero

says it was great to see Jon and catch up on old

Some worry about privacy issues, concerned that the

recently relocated to the state of Virginia. She

times living on the 'Hill.' Devie, like Alex, is living

potential to mine data available through Facebook

writes: "I recently received my EMT license, and

in Newburyport, MA, and loves reconnecting with

could lend itself to the creation of a Big Brother

besides teaching, I volunteer with two local fire and

Holderness people on Facebook (me, too, though I

rivaling George Orwell's character. Others fret about

rescue stations. In the fall I begin the fire academy,

was a reluctant joiner). … Jamie Klopp and his

the loss of productivity when workers use this site;

and in the spring of '10, I will commence my law

wife, Basey, welcomed little Oliver John Klopp to

certainly many of us can relate to what I call the

degree." … This year should be very busy for

the family in May. The Klopps live in Bend, OR. …

black hole phenomenon whereby hours of time are

Ginger Reoch as she teaches 5th grade in Hollis,

Krissy Pozatek is still living in Vermont with her

seemingly inexplicably lost through Facebook's lure.

ME, while continuing her own studies toward a mas-

hubby and two girls, and loving it! She has been in

And finally, social networking sites like Facebook

ters degree in literacy. … Unfortunately I missed

touch with many Holderness buddies and visited

have created a completely new set of conundrums

Ginger when I was in Portland briefly, traveling

Meg Lattanzio on Cape Cod this past summer.

concerning what is socially acceptable: To friend or

after my 15th-year reunion from college. Although I

Krissy and Kate Barker Romm took a trip down to

not to friend? That is the question; Do I really need

didn't make it back to Holderness this spring, I did

the Holderness campus this past June with all their

to know what you ate for breakfast for the fifth time

have a chance to see Mr. Peck when he was in

kids, and had a great time! … Nici Ash Bohlmann

this week?; and, What will people think I do all day

Chicago this winter for an event after a conference

is living in Pomfret, CT. Her girls are now 4 and 6

if I publish results from yet another inane quiz?

in the city. I also traveled to Colorado this summer

and she spends a lot of time driving to soccer, dance

Nevertheless, Facebook can be an invaluable tool for

for the Bar Mitzvah of my nephew, son of my broth-

class, and sleepovers. Nici visited with Maggie

the class correspondent, providing an easy way to

er, Brandon Fleisher '87.

Zock in New Hampshire this past summer. I also

find old friends and acquaintances and catch up with

saw Maggie just before she started nursing school in

them through messages and photos. I am deeply

Other news to follow in

our next HST edition (gotta keep you reading). So,

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lately as my daughter, Ella, is attending Montessori School there up on the 'Hill.' Her school is affiliated with Holderness now, and I have seen many alums at drop-off and pick-up who also have children going to the school, including Rick Eccleston, Lance Galvin '90, Lindley Hall Van der Linde '89 and husband Tiann '89, and Cara Cargill Inwood '89. I am off to my brother Ryan's '94 wedding in Texas soon, and hope to send in a photo of all the alums there for the next HST. Keep in touch, and if you are not on Facebook yet or not connected with your Holderness friends there, look me up!

CLASS CORRESPONDENT Kelly Mullen Wieser '92 Aimee Lamarine Barrett '92 with son Eddie, 22

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months, and Lizbie Sawyer Porter '92 with son

Campton, NH 03223

Charlie, 3.

E-mail: kelly@wiesermail.com

touch with many Holderness buddies and visited Meg Lattanzio on Cape Cod this past summer. Krissy and Kate Barker Romm took a trip down to the Holderness campus this past June with all their kids, and had a great time! … Nici Ash Bohlmann is living in Pomfret, CT. Her girls are now 4 and 6 and she spends a lot of time driving to soccer, dance class, and sleepovers. Nici visited with Maggie Zock in New Hampshire this past summer. I also saw Maggie just before she started nursing school in Pennsylvania this past spring. Nici speaks with Marla Dalley Littlefield on the phone and sees Erin Potter Jasmin regularly. She also spent the 4th of July with Aaron Daigneault and his four boys! Like Devie, Nici is having a great time with the "high school reunion" on Facebook. … Tyler Wood and his finacee, Azgari Mowmita, welcomed a baby boy on July 24, 2009. Tyler is very busy with the investment bank specializing in energy and cash management that he founded, and which is headquartered in Naples and Palm Beach, FL. Tyler says he has some great partners and things are really busy these days. Their website is www.integratedenergygroup.com and they have clients across the United States and into Europe. Tyler will be branching out to Asia over the next year and a half, spending more time in Bangladesh so his son will learn Bengali and Mandarin. … Oscar Gonzalo checked in from Spain just to say hello to everyone. … I have spent a lot of time driving through the Holderness campus

Hilary Taylor Comerchero '93, Ron Comerchero, and their daughter Sadie.

About two years ago, I first heard the siren

Team. He is looking forward to the Norm Walker

song that is Facebook. The name intrigued

Scholarship Golf Tournament this September. …

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me; I fondly recall the Holderness "facebooks" of

Matthew McCarthy also plans to tie the knot with-

my era: dog-eared photocopies of student mug shots

in the year. From Montpelier, VT, he writes: "Three

inexpensively bound and distributed at the start of

months ago I opened a high-end beer bar (taproom)

each school year. Today's social networking site

named Three Penny Taproom. Things are going real-

bears little resemblance to these memories, and the

ly well for us. I am engaged to be married next

scope of the controversies that surround Facebook

September to a wonderful tattoo artist named Esmé

certainly exceeds that of these early predecessors.

Hall. We live just outside of Montpelier, deep in the

Some worry about privacy issues, concerned that the

woods, raising her son Leroy. We are home-school-

potential to mine data available through Facebook

ing him, which has been very valuable to all of us."

could lend itself to the creation of a Big Brother

… Finally, in other "nuptial news," Abbie Wilson

rivaling George Orwell's character. Others fret about

plans to marry Rafael Khusnutdinov, whom she met

the loss of productivity when workers use this site;

in Basra, Iraq, while working for Save the Children

certainly many of us can relate to what I call the

in 2003. They live in DC, where Abbie works for the

black hole phenomenon whereby hours of time are

International Foundation for Electoral Systems as

seemingly inexplicably lost through Facebook's lure.

Project Manager for West Africa, an organization

And finally, social networking sites like Facebook

dedicated to promoting democracy and human rights

have created a completely new set of conundrums

in Africa. … Charlotte Connors also writes from

concerning what is socially acceptable: To friend or

Washington: "My husband and I moved a year ago.

not to friend? That is the question; Do I really need

I'm working for ACCION International, a microfi-

to know what you ate for breakfast for the fifth time

nance organization, doing their DC communications

this week?; and, What will people think I do all day

and traveling quite a bit – Arequipa, Peru, in the fall!

if I publish results from yet another inane quiz?

We just bought an old row house in Capitol Hill and

Nevertheless, Facebook can be an invaluable tool for

are beginning a rather huge renovation. We are lov-

the class correspondent, providing an easy way to

ing DC so far!" … Anne Blair Hudak is still serv-

find old friends and acquaintances and catch up with

ing as an assistant athletic director in Hanover, NH.

them through messages and photos. I am deeply

She writes: "Having 1,000 Dartmouth athletes to

appreciative of all fellow alumni who welcome the

look after has been a great experience. Most recently

contact, as I really enjoy learning news of my class-

I have been teaching a leadership course to the soph-

mates. … Carsten Steffen finishes his residency in

omores who are on campus for the summer. There

anesthesiology at the end of August and is very busy

are a few Holderness alumni on campus I run into

studying for his final exams. He and his wife bought

every now and again. Kelly Hood '08 is in the study

a house two years ago outside of Cologne and are busy making improvements to it. … Also from across the pond, Justin McAleer writes that he is working in London in corporate development for a telecommunications company called TeliaSonera. He has been living in Europe for the past 10 years, residing in Italy, Sweden, and Switzerland. This September he is marrying in Italy and will likely move to Stockholm, Sweden, his future bride Leila's native country. They hope to move to the US within the next two years. … Peter Woodward is also planning to marry soon; he and his fiancée will wed in Belize in January. He still lives in Wakefield, MA,

Karrie Stevens Thomas '93 with Finnegan (grand-

Katie McQuilkin Garnett's '93 daughter Callie

and sells shoes throughout New England and New

son of Brooke Thomas '58).

and son Liam enjoy the beach in Florida.

York for Etonic Running, Lotto Soccer, and Lotto

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lounge outside my office on a regular basis." Anne

time to play. We just got back from a week of white-

been interesting to spend some time in an Alaskan

and her husband recently celebrated their first

water and wilderness on the Main Salmon River in

city for school. It's such a unique place. I could

anniversary in the Lakes Region; Mark used to work

Idaho, which was amazing! We bike, fish, and ski as

spend some time there, but not too much time, I

at New Hampton, so they both know the area very

much as we can and have two geriatric dogs we treat

think. I am enjoying my summer and my wife Elizabeth and I are awaiting the birth on our first

well. In March, they traveled to Colorado to ski with

like babies. I've also become really involved with a

Jake Hinman '95 and his wife, and enjoyed "real

local non-profit that promotes access to local food

child. Elizabeth is due August 28th, so it's the home

powder." She keeps in touch with Job Roach who is

and education about sustainable agriculture. My hus-

stretch and we're preparing for a new chapter. For

living on the coast in Massachusetts. He writes: "I

band is a chef, so it resonates with us both tremen-

work, I'm developing properties in Boston. It's work

am now a proud father of three: my four-year-old

dously." … Daiyu Suzuki now lives in New York

that I really enjoy, so all in all things are going

daughter Skye, my 22-month-old son Grayson, and

City with his wife and 19-month-old daughter, while

great." … Marc Ellison writes: "All is well on my

my three-month-old daughter Alia. I am now a

pursuing a doctoral degree in education policy at

end. Still here in Boston, not sure why I haven't left

media consultant for Yellowbook out of

Columbia University. They are expecting their sec-

the cold northeast yet! I've been keeping very busy

Bridgewater, MA, and am enjoying the line of

ond child in late September. … Also in New York,

lately running marketing programs for Moet

work." … Further up the coast, Tom LeBosquet

Zach Zaitzeff writes: "It was great to see all the

Hennesy in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. My

writes that he is working in Portsmouth, NH, as an

Holderness alumni at my bar this past spring.

son recently turned two this spring, so I'm excited to

emergency physician, and living with his girlfriend

Schuyler Perry works a few blocks from me. We

get him on the slopes this winter. Hope all is well

Katie and dog Greta. He has been biking recently

sometimes grab dinner and go for an occasional jog.

with everyone."… Dave Castor reports that "The

with Robbie King '99. … Also practicing medicine,

The other week, I went to see Andrew Kelly and

Castor family (Dave, Lisa, and baby Kylie) has

Katie McQuilkin Garnett just started in a new

Dan Harrigan '94 in South Dartmouth, MA." … In

moved to Sierra Vista, AZ, for another military

pediatric group in April. She recently spent time in

baby news, Hilary Taylor Comerchero and her

move. It's nice to be back in the land of Olive

New Hampshire with her in-laws and also took a

husband Ron welcomed Sadie Stokes Comerchero

Garden and Lowes." … Tori Duncan says: "I am

family trip to Seattle and the San Juan Islands. …

on June 12. She weighed six pounds, 15 ounces.

still on safari with my family in South Africa. We

From Salisbury, CT, Kate McIlvain Smith writes

Hilary writes: "She is a delightful baby which makes

have had an amazing month visiting Kenya and

that she and her husband "recently returned from

us very happy and grateful! We are spending the

South Africa and will send pictures of all we have

vacation in Colorado to participate in the Triple

summer focused on Sadie, growing our children's

seen as soon as we get home. My five-year-old

Bypass, a 120-mile ride through the Rockies. It was

foreign language learning center in these uncertain

twins, Sam and Catherine, have asked, 'please do not

our first time doing this ride and may become an

economic times (www.wonderslanguage.com), and

talk about leaving in a few days because we do not

annual event. Smitty is about to start his second year

trying not to stress about the whole California budg-

want to go.' I know what they are feeling!" … Matt

at Salisbury School. We are living in a dorm with

et thing, since I also work at Cal State San Marcos.

Kendall writes to say: "I don't think I've ever sub-

our two kids, Tiller, three, and Eleanor, one-and-a-

And hooray for So Cal in the summer! What beauti-

mitted anything, but I've got some news worth shar-

half. Quite an adjustment going from day to board-

ful days." … Emily Wenzel Reis also recently wel-

ing. My wife Teryn and I welcomed Birch Keegan

ing school, but we are enjoying more family time

comed a new baby into her family. Henry Johnson

Kendall and Cormac Baten Kendall, identical twin

and the beautiful area of the Berkshires." …

Reis was born on June 8, a very healthy nine

boys, into the world on May 13th. I've included a picture of the four of us on a recent trip to Maine.

Lindsay Garre is also teaching, and will begin her

pounds, 14 ounces. According to Emily, "his sister

10th year at The Chestnut Hill School and continue

Madeline (22 months) is in love with him and every-

All is well. Things are very busy as you can imagine

living in Boston's South End. She saw Katie

thing baby-related. She diapers, feeds, and burps her

but we're enjoying the chaos. Still living in

Boggess LeRoy and her six-month-old daughter

dolls and animals right alongside me. It's very cute

Manhattan after being here for ten years, wow!" …

Charley over the Fourth of July. She looks forward

and a good laugh helps me get through the sleep

Beth Lambert writes: "I'm still living in

to an upcoming visit from Karen Cooper Cox and

deprived delirium I'm in!" … Evan Fink currently

Connecticut. I am currently writing a book on the

her two children, Jonathan and Colby. … Starting

lives in northern New York by the St. Lawrence

epidemic of chronic childhood illnesses in American

his second decade in teaching at Worcester

River with his two children, Sarah (three) and

children. It is being published by Sentient publica-

Academy, Kevin Zifcak, his wife Sarah, and their

Nathan (19 months). He's looking forward to cele-

tions, and is due out in May 2010. Also finishing up

children Lily, three, and Josh, 14 months, live just

brating his 10-year anniversary in October, and he

grad school and taking care of my two rugrats,

outside Worcester, MA. … Also working in educa-

just finished a stint as the First Assistant Chief and

Aubrey, who is four, and Morgan, who is two. Sorry

tion, Ginny Kingman Schreiber is in her second

EMS Captain in the fire department. … After teach-

I missed reunion, but promise to make it to #20!" …

year teaching middle school drama at the Forest

ing and living in New York City for seven years, I

Melissa Barker says: "Life in Boulder continues to

Ridge School of the Sacred Heart in Bellevue, WA.

now reside in Westport, CT. I am taking time off

be busy and active. I had a chance to visit my sister,

She is instructing and directing three days a week,

from education to raise my two sons, Lucas (two-

Allie Barker '98, at her homestead in Chickaloon,

and spends the rest of her time with her two-year-old

and-a-half) and Nicholas (almost a year), who keep

AK, this summer. I am so impressed with what she

son Alden. They traveled to Maui to get some sun

me busy. I am looking forward to attending Abbie

is doing up there – living off the land and off the

this winter – "the only way to truly get through the

Wilson's wedding in Plymouth, NH – without the

grid! We ran into Tim Duffy '95 in Valdez when we

Seattle winter" – and went home to see family this

kids! – and celebrating alongside Naomi Sager

rented sea kayaks from his company Pangaea

past June. … Sky Kubby writes: "I'm still thawing

Richardson and Katharine McQuillkin Garnett.

Adventures. I spent the rest of the summer road bike

out from those cold Waterville Valley ski days. The

Please send class notes and photos for future edi-

racing, mountain biking, backpacking, and just

family is headed to Bali in two weeks to start a

tions to linds_dewar@yahoo.com.

enjoying life in the mountains. Oh, and of course

clothes." … Amy Zekos Dolan also owns her own

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Education. I am thrilled to be done (finally!)." …

business, a retail paper store which sells cards, jour-

Lindsay Dewar Fontana '93

Sander van Otterloo also has exciting news: "My

nals, and gifts as well as wedding invitations and

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wife and I joyfully added wee Nola to our family on

custom stationery. She also runs her own letterpress

Westport, CT 06880-3826

the 21st of June (Best father's day present ever!).

workshop in her store for complete custom work.

E-mail: linds_dewar@yahoo.com

Our daughter Fiona celebrated her third (yikes!)

finishing up my Master of Natural Science/Science

clothing import business with my wife's handmade

birthday on July 5th. I am teaching 7th and 8th

Her store, noteworthy*, just turned a year old in June. She writes: "We've been having a blast. Jenny O'Keeffe just walked into the store yesterday – totally randomly – while on a road trip and we had a

Dan Harrigan sends the following: "Good

grade English at Shore Country Day School in

to hear from you. Those pictures were from

Beverly, MA. All is well! Best to all the Holderness

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a trip I took in June with my wife's family. We took

peeps." … Eddie Pike says: "I am still playing cops

bit of an 'I know you' moment! It was great! My

a boat from Ketchikan to Juneau, stopping to fish,

and robbers – I am the School Resource Officer at

husband and I have no kids, which leaves us tons of

kayak, swim etc. It was a great trip. It must have

the Dover High School. It's a good gig. I am also the

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South Africa and will send

1043 Poplar Avenue

pictures of all we have seen as

Boulder, CO 80304

soon as we get home. My

E-mail: sam.bass@comcast.net

five-year-old twins, Sam and Catherine, have asked, 'please

Ramey Harris Tatar '94

do not talk about leaving in a

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few days because we do not

Needham, MA 02494

want to go.' I know what they

Phone: 781-292-4301

are feeling!" … Matt Kendall

E-mail: rameyht@yahoo.com

writes to say: "I don't think I've ever submitted anything, but I've got some news worth sharing. My wife Teryn and I

Dan Shin writes, "Everything is good. I'm

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still at JP Morgan in NY and I see Erik

Bass '97 speaking to Jamie Dimon a lot in the hall-

welcomed Birch Keegan

ways. I just got back from LA, actually, where I saw

Kendall and Cormac Baten

Rick Richardson '94 make himself a peanut butter

Kendall, identical twin boys,

jelly sandwich. I may see Zach Zaitzeff '93, Fritz

into the world on May 13th.

Muench '92, Skyler and a few others tomorrow

I've included a picture of the

night for a couple drinks. Sorry this is so random!"

four of us on a recent trip to

Random is good, Shinny! Thanks for your news. …

Maine. All is well. Things are

Jason Peck says: "I am living in Denver and have

very busy as you can imagine

been working in Admissions at the Kent Denver

but we're enjoying the chaos.

School. I had a fun summer playing in the moun-

Bethany Powell '95, Blair Hall Endean '96, Shannon Blair Taji '95, Alexis

Still living in Manhattan after

tains and am gearing up for the students to come

Wruble '95, and Jess Morton '95.

being here for ten years,

back. I see Alec Brewster '96 in Denver and hang

wow!" … Beth Lambert

with Farny (John Farnsworth '95) a bunch when I

a t

rip I took in June with my wife's family. We

took a boat from Ketchikan to Juneau, stop-

ping to fish, kayak, swim etc. It was a great trip. It must have been interesting to spend some time in an Alaskan city for school. It's such a unique place. I could spend some time there, but not too much time, I think. I am enjoying my summer and my wife Elizabeth and I are awaiting the birth on our first child. Elizabeth is due August 28th, so it's the home stretch and we're preparing for a new chapter. For work, I'm developing properties in Boston. It's work that I really enjoy, so all in all things are going great." … Marc Ellison writes: "All is well on my end. Still here in Boston, not sure why I haven't left the cold northeast yet! I've been keeping very busy lately running marketing programs for Moet Hennesy in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. My son recently turned two this spring, so I'm excited to get him on the slopes this winter. Hope all is well with everyone."… Dave Castor reports that "The Castor family (Dave, Lisa, and baby Kylie) has moved to Sierra Vista, AZ, for another military move. It's nice to be back in the land of Olive Garden and Lowes." … Tori Duncan says: "I am still on safari with my family in South Africa. We have had an amazing month visiting Kenya and

writes: "I'm still living in Connecticut. I am current-

am back East. I hope everybody is well!" … This

ly writing a book on the epidemic of chronic child-

summer I saw Jess Morton, Blair Hall Endean '96,

hood illnesses in American children. It is being pub-

and Bethany Swain Powell at Shannon Blair Taji's

lished by Sentient publications, and is due out in

wedding! It was a beautiful wedding on Block

May 2010. Also finishing up grad school and taking

Island, RI. It was during the 24 straight days of rain.

care of my two rugrats, Aubrey, who is four, and

The skies opened up for a few hours to pristine blue

Morgan, who is two. Sorry I missed reunion, but

skies for the wedding! It was incredible. Congrats,

promise to make it to #20!" … Melissa Barker

Sha! … Blair Hall Endean has left us and moved to

says: "Life in Boulder continues to be busy and

New Zealand with her hubby who was on the win-

active. I had a chance to visit my sister, Allie

ning team of the Volvo ocean race! Her son Ollie is

Barker '98, at her homestead in Chickaloon, AK,

as cute as can be. We'll miss her, but now have a fun

this summer. I am so impressed with what she is

place to visit! … Jess Morton recently finished grad

doing up there – living off the land and off the grid!

school in design. She's staying in the Boston area for

We ran into Tim Duffy '95 in Valdez when we rent-

now. We hope she stays! … Bethany Powell's move

ed sea kayaks from his company Pangaea

to Russia has been put on hold and she's freelancing

Adventures. I spent the rest of the summer road bike

in Washington, DC. It was great to see her! … I'm

racing, mountain biking, backpacking, and just

currently torturing myself with training for the

enjoying life in the mountains. Oh, and of course

Reach the Beach relay from Franconia Notch to

finishing up my Master of Natural Science/Science

Hampton, NH. Maybe I'll see some of you out there.

Education. I am thrilled to be done (finally!)." …

I hope everyone is well!

Sander van Otterloo also has exciting news: "My wife and I joyfully added wee Nola to our family on

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the 21st of June (Best father's day present ever!).

Alexis Wruble '95

Our daughter Fiona celebrated her third (yikes!)

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birthday on July 5th. I am teaching 7th and 8th

Medford, MA 02155

grade English at Shore Country Day School in

E-mail: awruble@wso.williams.edu

Beverly, MA. All is well! Best to all the Holderness peeps." … Eddie Pike says: "I am still playing cops and robbers – I am the School Resource Officer at the Dover High School. It's a good gig. I am also the

Another summer has passed and more

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babies have been born! Steph Pisanelli

Lyons writes that they are happy to announce they

Assistant Coach of the high school hockey team.

had a little girl, Catherine Marie Lyons, who was

Other than that, family is great. Still living in

born on August 6 at the American Hospital in

Maine." … As for me, we welcomed tater-tot #2 to

Istanbul. "We're all doing great and welcome any

our family on June 17th. Samuel joins big brother

visitors passing through the city!" … Dave Flynn

Ben and is a chill, happy baby. Our two dogs aren't

became the Director of Admissions at the Storm

sure multiple kids is such a good idea, but otherwise

King School in New York in July 2008, and has

life is great! Sorry we missed reunion, but the arrival

enjoyed his first year in that role– truly following

date of the munchkin obviously precluded our atten-

the steps of Pete Barnum! … Reece Spinney

dance. Hope everyone is well!

Dahlberg and her husband Chris welcomed Catherine Grace Dahlberg "Gracie" on October 22,

Matt Kendall '94 and wife Teryn with their new identical twins Birch Keegan Kendall and Cormac

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2008.… My husband Dan and I enjoyed the birth of

Baten Kendall.

Sam Bass '94

our first baby, Lily Louise Roy, born April 23, 2009.

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works as an Account Manager for CMA Consulting Services. "Same old," he says. … Adam George spent the summer working in Chamonix, France, but will be back in the fall. … Congratulations to Allison Seymour Reilly. She sent the exciting news that "in February we welcomed a baby boy, Oliver, to our family! Been having a fantastic summer with the little man and are constantly amazed how he is changing and growing every day – and getting chubbier and chubbier! Still living in Jackson, WY, but possibly looking to move back to the East Coast or London." … Sarah Duffany is also out west in Park City, UT, and working for the US Ski Team as the Women's Alpine Manager. "I have an exciting winter ahead as I will be up in Vancouver for their entire Olympic Winter Games. We have one of the best teams in years and are hoping for some great results

Lily Louise Roy was born in April to Dan and

Wylder Smith and Charlotte Harris get acquainted while Stacey Eder Smith '96 and Katie Waltz Harris '96 catch up. ple over the last nine months – so much love from

this year!" … Andy Humphrey sent in exciting

so many people who want to check in about Dad

news last week that he and his wife welcomed new

[Norm Walker]. He is well, living in Rye with mom

baby (their third!), Hadley Winn Humphrey, into

and working a couple days a week at the golf

their family on August 26th. Congratulations! … On

course. These summer days have been filled with

Thursday, May 21, Mark Walrod graduated and

many visits to Rye with the baby. … From my good

It's hard to believe that four months have passed

received a number of awards from Albany Medical

friend Jim Chalmers: "Had a great time at the

already! Take care, Heather and Emily.

College. … Finally, Shannon Mullen sends: "I

alumni cookout a few weeks back. Ran into Coach

spent the first few months of 2009 traveling on the

Caputi (head football coach at Bowdoin) and found

Heather Pierce Roy '96.

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east coast of Australia and circumnavigating New

out his son is going to Holderness this fall, and it's

Emily Evans MacLaury '96

Zealand's breathtaking South Island. I'm back in the

always great to see Pete Barnum. Katie and I have

1618 Juliet Avenue

New England area where I'm reporting stories for

been on wedding tour this summer; when all is said

St. Paul, MN 55105-2117

National Public Radio and its member stations in the

and done we will have been to nine. As well, we are

E-mail: emaclaury@gmail.com

region, and exploring other professional interests in

headed to Ireland in the fall for a vacation." … Alex

writing and film production. In late September, I

Cooper is living a life us New Englanders surely

Heather Pierce Roy '96

traveled with my family, including Kelly Mullen

envy come January! "Ben and I are living on a sail-

Hillside School

Wieser '92 and Evan Mullen '00, to Texas in late

boat based out of Tortola in the British Virgin

404 Robin Hill Road

September for the wedding of my brother Ryan '94

Islands running charter vacations. It's just the two of

Marlborough, MA 01752

and we all enjoyed catching up with fellow alums

us; he's the captain and I'm hostess and chef, typical-

E-mail: heatherbpierce@hotmail.com

Marc Ellison '94, Kendra Cargill '94, and Liam

ly catering to six guests at a time. It's lots of work

Cargill '99." … That's all for now. If you have any

and lots of fun. We've been living on the boat for a

It's a crisp, cool morning here in Boston,

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updates to share for the next round of HST notes you

year and a half, cruising the Caribbean and having a

and there seems to be a hint of autumn in

can reach me at putneypyles@gmail.com.

blast. We're off from mid-July through September

forward to fall in New England. In the meantime, I

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hope to enjoy the last few weeks of summer and

Putney Haley Pyles '97

relaxing for the summer." … Another very good

beach time at the Cape and I hope you do, too. Here

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friend who I get to see once a year or so, Gillian

are updates from a few of our classmates. … Sachi

Hanover, MA 02339-2136

Howe, is lighting up the US with her gorgeous

Hayashi writes: "I am doing well. I live in

E-mail:

Princeton, MA, next to Wachusetts Mountain Ski

putneypyles@gmail.com

(hurricane season) so we then spend time in Europe

the air. After six years on the west coast, I'm looking

and Cape Cod, catching up with old friends and

Area. I have a 20-month-old daughter, Hana, and a five year old English Bulldog, Mr. Lou." … Parker Stafford continues to live in Saratoga Springs and

Hello, class of '98!

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In addition to all

the fun real-time updates I get to see on Facebook now, I also got some real 'love' from so many people who wrote personal notes about happenings in their lives. Thank you to everyone! Stories, photos, news galore! My husband, Chris, and I are very busy with our little Vivian, while I am running my photography business full-time now; I am shooting family portraits every weekend in addition to over a dozen weddings, including

Chris and Reece Spinney Dahlberg '96 have Gracie prepped for Holderness!

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Kathryn Field, current art teacher at Holderness! I have also heard from so many peo-

Senior Dinner is always a treat. This year two of our special guests were Shannon Mullen '97 and Kelly Mullen Wieser '92, pictured here with an engaging group from the class of '09.

mer just showed in time for

generosity of people all over the world, and I've seen

the fall! I am still busy work-

their hearts. This journey has been amazing. As for

ing with my family's business,

what is next: a season where I am based in

managing the truck leasing

Holderness, speaking and teaching about The World

arm of the truck dealership.

Race." … John 'Ham' Hamilton is raising a big

Ben is the General Manager

family with his wife, Elizabeth: "All is good with

and oversees most of the retail

the Hamilton family here in the Finger Lakes. Our

side of the company. I have

three boys are growing like weeds and behaving too

been sailing in some ocean

much like their father, that is to say: devilish! Hunter

races this summer; we won

just turned five and will start kindergarten this fall.

our class in the Marblehead to

Lawson will be three in November and is talking up

Halifax race and came in 6th

a storm, and still behaving like a puppy dog. Benton

in the division. It was pretty

is one and a half and runs around like a mad man

wild considering we were rac-

playing and wrestling with his brothers. Our busi-

ing against some professional-

ness is growing and continuing to prosper. The Inn

ly sailed boats and we are a

and Restaurant are truly developing a great reputa-

bunch of amateurs! I have also

tion, and our wedding business is soaring. We spend

started a small company on

a lot of time on the lake in the summertime hanging

the side that I am calling Fish

out on our boat so all in all life is fantastic. We can't

Bone Metal Works. Right now

complain and we enjoy our journey. Sure would love

its concentration is on jewelry

to see you and the rest of the Holderness clan some-

Tom Antonucci '97 with his wife Kristin and daughter Julia (born

but eventually I hope to

time." … Dustin Williamson just completed his

11/14/2008).

encompass some of my larger

Master of Arts in French from Middlebury College.

voice. "I'm up to no good. I'm in a duo called Tumbledown House which plays 'dirty saloon jazz' – a modern spin on Old West themes. We will tour nationally from September-December to promote our debut, self-titled CD. We're booked out to Boston from Bozeman, MT, so now we just need to find a van – that we can live in. Yes, I'm probably too old for this and my thighs look nothing like Tina Turner's, so this will be a tough tour. We'll be at The Lizard Lounge in Cambridge on Oct. 7th and The Living Room in NYC on Oct. 10th – unless everything falls to hell. Please tell everyone you know to come to these shows, including your mother's nextdoor-neighbor's housecleaner and that kid whose name you still remember from kindergarten. Info is at our website where we blog about our own vanity, boxing matches, gardening, and other such things of little interest to others: www.tumbledownhouse.com. Thank you for this shameless plug and we hope to see you out there. God knows we'll need all the help we can get, so if you have a grandmother we can stay with in Sheboygan, WI, that'd be great." … Nate Hicks is busy and well, and just up the road from us: "Things in Maine are good, now that sum-

sculpture. I see Jim Chalmers from time to time and he seems to be doing well

"It was four summers of intense work but now it is all done. Can't wait for next summer when I can

working for his uncle and father; in all truth I think

actually have a summer vacation. I am starting my

he plays more golf than anything!" … Dew Wallace

seventh year teaching French and Spanish at Leavitt

is keeping the world fit; as well as himself! "I'm

Area High School in Turner, ME. I've also been the

doing great. I'm in Kenya right now working for a

cross country running and Nordic ski coach since I

London-based company called Wildfitness. We run

started at Leavitt." … Hilary Patzer writes from

fitness holidays around the world with a very 'evolu-

Minnesota: "I just graduated from my 3+ year mas-

tionary' approach. So I get to travel loads, and it's a

ters program in acupuncture and Oriental medicine.

nice change from dodging bullets in Iraq. I will be

I'm going to stay in Minnesota and am opening my

back to Boston in September to pursue a MS in clin-

own practice (Jada Holistic Healing). I also continue

ical exercise physiology at Northeastern University,

to cross-country ski race, and have had a ton of fun

living with my brother Jamie Wallace '03, and run-

and success with that (although it is no longer my

ning my own fitness company called Upstream. So

main focus). Life is awesome and I really enjoy

very excited, and after a long time things are really

what I'm doing! Since I graduated four days ago, I

shaping up." … Angi Francesco is illuminating the

am eager to get into the field and touch the many

world with her warm heart and beautiful smile: "I

lives of my patients." … And, of course, Erik Dane!

am writing to you from the island of Ometepe in

"I'm living in NYC and working at a creative music

Lake Nicaragua. I've been living at an orphanage on

and lifestyle marketing agency called Cornerstone,

the island for the last three weeks, working in the

where I oversee the online marketing department. I

kitchen and hanging out with the kids. This is my

still see Jimmy Jung on a daily basis, and was peri-

last ministry location on The World Race. I am heading home to Holderness on September 2nd, after having visited 20 countries. This year has been incredible. From hiking the Great Wall of China to rafting through class V rapids on the Nile River, from the Taj Mahal to Mayan ruins, I have seen so much. I have taught English to college students in China and seen the devastating effects of malaria and HIV in Africa. I've lived in Eastern Europe in places that were so far behind the Iron Curtain that the revolution still seems like news to some. I've preached and

Abby Copeland '98, Megan Bristow Patten '98, and Kate Richardson '99 on a happy occasion!

taught bible studies in more places with dirt floors than without. I've experienced the

Hilary Patzer '98 with her family, shortly after receiving her masters in Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine.

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odi

cally hanging with Wes Lowrie'99 whenev-

Holderness, aside from Coach Low and Peter

er I travelled to Seattle for business. I'm still

Barnum, who I speak with a few times a year. It is

Roitman's wedding in NYC, then back out to

amazing how consuming family life and working at

California before Labor Day! If anyone is out in

riding my bike a lot and trying to get in as much

renting a tux this week and heading down to Sara

golf as possible during this beautiful summer.

a boarding school really is, but we couldn't be happi-

Utah this winter and needs a place to crash for a

Otherwise, all is good!" … Thanks again for all the

er." … Andrew Walter writes: "After leaving

storm or two, hit me up; I'll be back out there come

thoughtful responses! Best, Tara.

Holderness back in the fall of '07, I moved out to

Thanksgiving. Long-term plans include buying a

Utah for a series of incredible winters at Alta and

house, getting a dog, starting a farm, and opening a

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Snowbird. Back-to-back years of over 700" of snow

cafe and market. I'll be calling you all for business

Tara Walker Hamer '98

has spoiled me rotten and I'll be going back for more

investment opportunities! Wish everyone the best in

5 Tideview Drive Unit #5

this winter. I spent most of last summer in the

their own grand adventures!" … Erika Langetieg

Dover, NH 03820

Hawaiian Islands, working for Nugget Mott's step-

sends this news: "I've recently been relocated to

Phone: 603-707-0030

father Bill Stepchew '75 in Kauai a little bit, but

southern California by my company. I'm in the mid-

E-mail: taraphotography@gmail.com

mostly reading on the beaches and hiking most of

dle of transition, so maybe I'll have some more news

the island. Spent about a week on the Na Pali Coast

once I'm settled!" … Emily Lockwood sends this

Hello, everyone! I would like to thank all

in the magnificent Kalalau Valley trading tobacco

news: "After almost ten years in DC, I moved out to

of you who wrote in. It has been so much

for pizza and wandering naked around the jungles

Denver in June. I'm still in politics, working for

and beaches. Then went and stayed with a college

EMILY's List, an organization that elects

out what you are all up to these days! I have truly

buddy in Oahu and worked at his glass studio weld-

Democratic women to office. I'm doing a lot of hik-

enjoyed taking on the role as our class correspondent

ing driveway gates and creating huge stained glass

ing and running – getting ready for my first

and I look forward to hearing from more of our class

installments. Worked at the studio for two weeks and

marathon in October! Hope everyone is well." …

in the future. So without further ado, here is what is

got some great surfing in, trips to the north shore,

Jon Boyle writes: "Greetings, everyone. I hope this

going on with the class of '99. … Zach Brown

nights out eating incredible sushi, and days on the

finds you all well. I'll just thank Brooke up front for

writes: "I am working in commercial real estate as

beach snorkeling and generally living the island life.

helping me get my act together and write in. I am

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fun getting back in touch with all of you and finding

the Assistant Property Manager for the Ferry

Then went and visited a friend in Maui for a week,

currently still in Iraq; however, by the time this mag-

Building for Equity Office Management, LLC. My

spent a couple days on Mt. Haleakala, drove to

azine is published I will be home. Our 12 months

wife and I live and work in downtown San

Hana, and convinced a clueless tourist that the land

will come to an end in early October, but I actually

Francisco, and currently only have a 5-year old deaf

he saw from the top of Haleakala was NOT

hope to be home by the end of September. The

chihuahua named Cheechoo. Michelle works for

California, but was in fact the Big Island! Retreated

deployment has had its challenges and rewards, but I

Zinio, a digital magazine publisher. We have a fairly

back to the States and spent a good part of the sum-

think it's safe to say that I cannot wait to be reunited

mellow life, enjoying the city; Michelle likes to ride

mer working at the Alta Lodge cooking, and at

(permanently) with Maggie, Jack, and Susie. I was

horses and I am still DJ'ing in the city when I can. (I

Snowbird waiting tables for the summer crowd. Got

fortunate enough to take my two weeks of leave at

feel like I'm writing a personal ad!). One of my cur-

a lot of great hiking in as well, exploring the

the tail end of July and early part of August. This

rent responsibilities at work is managing the

Wasatch without any snow! Have spent the past

coincided with Jack and Susie's 2nd birthday. It's

LEED® (Leadership in Energy and Environmental

three falls working in California for friends who run

hard to believe that they are two already. As for our

Design) Certification process for the Ferry Building.

their own farms and provide CSA shares to locals.

future, Maggie and I have decided to transition out

The Ferry Building is an iconic mixed-use commer-

Have really enjoyed farming, cooking and eating

of the Army and rejoin the civilian sector. Where

cial property in downtown San Francisco, and when

fresh foods, and the incredible culture of Northern

this will take us is unknown, but we are very much

the certification is complete, it will be the oldest

California. This past winter I moved down-canyon

looking forward to NOT saying goodbye to each

LEED® Platinum Building in the world!" … Matt

and now rent a room with some friends in an awe-

other for a year at a time anymore. I was sorry to

Coffman sends this news: "After September 11th, I

some house at the base of Little Cottonwood

miss everyone at the reunion, but it sounds like you

enlisted in the US Army, but delayed leaving until I

Canyon. I got a last minute spot in the US National

all had a great time. Maybe our 15th in 2014. Again,

could graduate from Colorado College in 2002. I

Freeskiing Comp at Snowbird thanks to Em Riehle,

I hope all is well and look forward to linking up

shipped out to basic training in June of that year, and

and went on to qualify fourth and finished in the

with you when I get home. Take care." … Neely

eventually became a Green Beret (US Army Special

middle of the pack after the semi-finals. Just missed

Wakeman writes: "Summer has been flying by. In the midst of enjoying the beach and the ocean I've

Forces). I did two tours in Iraq (2005-06 and 2007-

skiing in the finals, but was psyched to have skied

08) and a short tour to another garden spot of the

my line and not rag dolled down the mountain! Was

been getting everything in order before grad school

world in 2006. I married Marcedes Heggen of

psyched to see Nugget and Wes Lowrie come out

starts. I'm beyond elated to go back to school.

Denver, CO, in Oct. '08; got out of the Army in

this winter; both of them got 50" of snow during

Sounds a bit dorky, I know, but I'm excited to get

April of '09; currently attending University of

their week-long visits, Wes came back out in late

my MS in nursing and pursue a career in a field I'm

Colorado post-bac program for medical school." …

March and got another 50" of snow over the WEEK-

so incredibly passionate about. Nurse Neely at your

Joel Yarmon send this news: "I'm in San Francisco

END! I moved back east this summer to spend the

service! Andy Dank Wally and Wes 'Bad' Lowrie

and work for a seed-stage venture capital firm. Still

summer on our lake house in Maine, build a garden

came to visit me last week in the city on their way

skiing in the winter, I learned to fly last summer and

for my family, and generally work as little as possi-

down to Sara Roitman's wedding in NYC. It was

am having a blast." Joel also informs me that he

ble. Had a blast at reunion earlier this summer, so

wonderful to see them. Minus dress code and inter-

plans to "make it for the 100th (reunion) without a

great to see so many old friends – reunion MVP

vis, things were pretty much the same. A great crew

doubt." … Quentin McDowell writes: "I am at

goes to Chuck Norris for showing up! After a very

and a great time. Speaking of which, it was so fun to

Mercersburg Academy and enjoying the boarding

wet June and July, no business waiting tables, and

see everyone at reunion in June. Holderness is so

school life. Along with running our summer pro-

literally watching grass grow out of my shoes due to

special in the fact that it harbors such an intelligent,

grams, I am also coaching the boy's soccer team. I

the wet gardening project, I met up with a good col-

fun, and genuinely great group of young adults. I am

am able to travel for the school quite a bit and just

lege buddy and was offered a job leading trips for

always amazed that no matter what class people are

returned from a trip to Asia and another to Europe

kids at Camp Dudley in Westport, NY. For the past

from, they are truly a treat to meet. I had a fantastic

(where I caught a couple of big soccer games in

three weeks I have been showing kids around the

time hanging out with all them." … Abby

between meetings.) On the home front, my wife

coast of Maine on sea kayaks, backpacking in the

Richardson Considine sends this news: "I am liv-

Lauren is pregnant with a little boy and due any day.

Adirondacks, mountain biking in the NE Kingdom,

ing in the South End of Boston with my husband

We already have a 2-year-old daughter, Nina, who is

and climbing in North Conway. Having never been

and working in Newburyport for an architectural

the most fantastic girl I have ever met. I have been

to camp as a kid, it was a blast immersing myself in

firm." … Page Connolly Minshall writes: "We had

terrible about keeping in contact with anyone from

the tradition and fun that is summer camp. I'll be

a great time seeing everyone at reunion. We also saw

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my MS in nursing and pursue

Kim Racine '99, Christopher Tinstman, and their newborn, Tanner.. anyone is out in Utah this winter and needs a place to crash for a storm or two, hit me up; I'll be back out there come Thanksgiving. Long-term plans include buying a house, getting a dog, starting a farm, and opening a cafe and market. I'll be calling you all for business investment opportunities! Wish everyone the best in their own grand adventures!" … Erika Langetieg sends this news: "I've recently been relocated to southern California by my company. I'm in the middle of transition, so maybe I'll have some more news once I'm settled!" … Emily Lockwood sends this news: "After almost ten years in DC, I moved out to Denver in June. I'm still in politics, working for EMILY's List, an organization that elects Democratic women to office. I'm doing a lot of hiking and running – getting ready for my first marathon in October! Hope everyone is well." … Jon Boyle writes: "Greetings, everyone. I hope this finds you all well. I'll just thank Brooke up front for helping me get my act together and write in. I am currently still in Iraq; however, by the time this magazine is published I will be home. Our 12 months will come to an end in early October, but I actually hope to be home by the end of September. The deployment has had its challenges and rewards, but I think it's safe to say that I cannot wait to be reunited (permanently) with Maggie, Jack, and Susie. I was fortunate enough to take my two weeks of leave at the tail end of July and early part of August. This coincided with Jack and Susie's 2nd birthday. It's hard to believe that they are two already. As for our future, Maggie and I have decided to transition out of the Army and rejoin the civilian sector. Where this will take us is unknown, but we are very much looking forward to NOT saying goodbye to each other for a year at a time anymore. I was sorry to miss everyone at the reunion, but it sounds like you all had a great time. Maybe our 15th in 2014. Again, I hope all is well and look forward to linking up with you when I get home. Take care." … Neely Wakeman writes: "Summer has been flying by. In the midst of enjoying the beach and the ocean I've been getting everything in order before grad school starts. I'm beyond elated to go back to school. Sounds a bit dorky, I know, but I'm excited to get

Chadbourne '96, and Sarah Sisk '01. We ate tons

a career in a field I'm so

of pulled pork, Rick ran around in a gigantic bra,

incredibly passionate about.

and Anne and Neely practiced yoga moves after

Nurse Neely at your service!

doing keg stands. I would send pictures but none are

Andy Dank Wally and Wes

appropriate." … James Bradley writes: "I am now

'Bad' Lowrie came to visit

living in Portland, OR, and love the change from

me last week in the city on

Denver, where I was living previously for five years.

their way down to Sara

I live two miles from downtown Portland but have

Roitman's wedding in NYC. It

access to miles and miles of quiet trails and roads

was wonderful to see them.

for wonderful outdoor activities. Things in life are

Minus dress code and intervis,

great, though the recession has taken its toll on my

things were pretty much the

former company and I was laid off about 6 weeks

same. A great crew and a great

ago. The timing could not have been better, howev-

time. Speaking of which, it

er, as I have been able to travel more, enjoy the

was so fun to see everyone at

summer in Portland, and spend lots of time with

reunion in June. Holderness is

friends and family. I'm hoping to get back into a job

so special in the fact that it

in the next 3-4 months, but hopefully not before I

harbors such an intelligent,

end up traveling more! If anyone is in the area and

fun, and genuinely great group

wants to get together, or is thinking of traveling to

of young adults. I am always

Oregon, please reach out anytime (jamesrobert-

amazed that no matter what

bradley@gmail.com). Hope all is well with you, and

class people are from, they are

best regards." … Kim Racine sends this news: "Hi,

truly a treat to meet. I had a

I'm sad to have missed the ten year reunion, but I

fantastic time hanging out with all them." … Abby

had recently had a baby boy named Tanner. He just

Richardson Considine sends this news: "I am liv-

turned four months and is such joy to have in my

ing in the South End of Boston with my husband

life. After getting my master's in business adminis-

and working in Newburyport for an architectural

tration, and working here in Denver for a few years,

firm." … Page Connolly Minshall writes: "We had

I decided to go back to school to become a nurse. I

a great time seeing everyone at reunion. We also saw

am taking my last few prerequisites and will hope-

a lot of Holderness friends at the Tish Clarke and

fully start a nursing program next summer.

Ian Boone wedding on the Cap,e and Heather

Motherhood keeps me pretty busy, but I'm also train-

Davis' wedding in Vermont. I just started a new job

ing. I ran the St. George marathon last fall and hope

in Washington, DC, and my husband and I bought

to run the Denver half in a few months. That's pretty

an old row house that we are in the process of fixing

much it. I can't wait for ski season to start!" …

up! If anyone is in the DC area, I'd love to catch

Caroline Casey writes: "All is well here in

up." … Adrian Mott sends this news: "I've recently

Mammoth! My boyfriend and I made a trip down to

moved back to Cambridge from the Bay Area; I'm

Argentina this summer for just over two weeks and

engaged and getting married next June. For work,

had a great time! We were able to do some skiing

I've been working on a small web application devel-

and really enjoyed the people, food, wine, and

opment company with my cousin, called Firelight

scenery. We definitely want to make a trip back.

Labs. I also write a food and cooking blog called 'The Fresh Dish': http://thefreshdish.com." … Graham Boardman writes: "Things are great with me – living/working on the North Shore, trying to enjoy what's left of summer. Apparently Andy Walter is rollerblading across country. He recently asked me to join him in his adventure but I had to decline as things are busy here with work." … Kate Richardson writes: "I just got back from a family gathering at our summer place in the Catskills. Many Holderness friends were in attendance – my four siblings – Anne '06, Will '96, Ricky '94, and Patrick '01 – and also Neely Wakeman, Payson Cushman '01, Carlie Bristow '06, and Megan Bristow '98 – now

Fort Walton Beach, FL, airport on July 22nd: Jack Boyle '99 reunites with

Megan Bristow Patten!, Bo

his wife Maggie and their twins Susie and Jack, after ten months apart. A

Surdam '96, Allison Megroz

happy moment indeed!

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Other than that, I have been busy at work transition-

Aronson McCreedy, I moved back to the east coast

ing into a new role as the F&B Purchasing Manager

a year ago. My husband and I bought a house in

look forward to the 10th reunion for our class. I can't

for Mammoth Mountain. The ski season is coming

Norfolk, MA, where we have settled down after five

believe its less than a year away." … Hedda

weather, great friends and reggae filling the air. I

quickly around the corner and there is lots to do! If

years of constantly moving. We have two boys:

Burnett Schippers didn't seem to think she had

anyone from Holderness ever comes through

Jack, who is three, and Griffin, who is 18 months. I

much to report, but a new puppy and year two of vet

Mammoth, be sure to look me up!" … Emilie Lee

stay home with the boys, while my husband works

school seems like a ton to me: "Not much new to

writes: "I'm living in New York City and starting my

in Back Bay in the city. I wish I had more to report

report other than that I'm still out in Iowa, about to

second year at the Grand Central Academy of Art

on but life is pretty normal for us, which is actually

start my second year of veterinary school at Iowa

this fall. I'm loving the city and this chance to learn

a welcomed change from our crazy life in the mili-

State University. And I just got a puppy, which

more about drawing and painting! I keep my blog

tary! The only classmate I see on a regular basis is

makes two for me and Ben (yes, we're counting pup-

updated with new artwork if you want to see what

Doria DiBona Aronson who, for those of you who

pies instead of children). I just saw Heidi Webb in

I'm up to: blog.emilielee.com." … Cynthia Cruz

didn't know, has been my sister-in-law for the past

Vermont looking very pregnant and excited to meet

writes: "I'm enjoying the rest of my summer and

six years. Doria and my brother currently live in

her new little girl in September." … Josh Cooper

preparing for my last semester of nursing school. A

Gilford, NH, and both work as attorneys. Thanks

was able to shoot me a quick note from Colorado: "I

few years ago, I decided to return to school (after

again for all who wrote in!

am living in Denver and working as a project man-

getting an associates degree) to finish a Bachelor of

ager for Level 3 Communications." … Mike

Science in nursing. I also work full time as a para-

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Schnurr sent me a update and I was lucky enough

medic in the NYC 911 system, so you can imagine

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to catch up with him when I was visiting family in

I'm happy, have learned to live life to the fullest, and

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exam and was pretty brain dead: "I had a brutal

look forward to what ever it has to offer me." …

Brooke Aronson McCreedy '99

summer studying for the BAR exam and I'm glad

Joel von Trapp writes: "I'm doing fine; I am cur-

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that it is over. I will be returning to Georgetown to

rently living in Volos, Greece, studying architecture

Norfolk, MA 02056-1739

complete a masters in tax law this fall." … Heidi

and working as a stonemason/carver. I have been

E-mail: bharonson@hotmail.com

how hectic life is for me with all that and a family!

Cape Cod, MA. Mike had just finished the BAR

living here now for 4 1/2 years and definitely prefer the climate to that of the Northeast. If anyone ever finds themselves over here, don't hesitate to contact me. Holderness alums are always welcome guests!" … Robbie King sends this news: "After six years of

Webb had some very exciting news to share: "Life in Vermont is great. I'm still working for Middlebury College in the Advancement Office and Ave's still

Once again it's time to catch up with "old"

working in the commercial real estate business. Our

classmates and see what and how everyone

big news is that we're expecting a little girl on

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is doing. I am allowed to use "old" due to the fact

September 10th!" … Charles Lodi sent in a short

enduring people asking what I'm going to do when I

that our ten-year reunion is just around the corner.

note talking about meeting up with a gang of

grow up while I raced my bike, I just began a new

Make sure you pass the news on to any friends that

Holderness alum at Jake Spaulding's wedding. … My old neighbor Alex Cunningham sent me a note

job doing clinical ophthalmic research for Ora in

we haven't heard from in awhile, or even give them

Andover, MA. I'm still racing, now for Independent

my email. I am looking forward to seeing everyone

too: "My story is that I'm beginning at the MFA

Fabrication/Lionette's team, along with Tom

next spring. Enjoy the notes and keep'em coming.

Writing program at Columbia University in

LeBosquet '93, and hoping to finish the season #1

…Tim Barnhorst sends a quick note about his fam-

September, with an eye towards nonfiction book and

in New England. I worked this summer at Wheel

ily and a few other Blue Bulls: "Lindsey and I are

magazine writing." … Matt Powers has had a very

Power, a bike shop in Exeter, NH, and I took a sum-

both doing great. Our daughter, Brooklyn, is grow-

busy few weeks and I was very glad to hear that his

mer anatomy and physiology class, just to make sure

ing everyday. She's now a little over 3 months and

family is doing well: "Well, things have been pretty insane. My wife is still cancer-free after fighting

moss wasn't growing under my feet, now that I'm

continues to keep us on our toes. We recently had

not on a pro team. So far, so good in the real world.

dinner with Jeannette and Mark Cavanaugh '82

both skin and thyroid cancer over a year ago, after

Also, Cash for Clunkers changed my life. I finally

and their two boys, Charlie and Cole. I still keep in

being denied coverage by our health insurers. My

traded the Jeep I bought used the summer we gradu-

touch with Trevor Dean and Dan Cesere. I'm hop-

son is almost 3, and quite verbose. He has a faux-

ated from Holderness." … Colin Wehrung writes:

ing to see Trevor this month, and Dan has joined a

hawk currently. He wants a guitar for his birthday

"Unfortunately I have nothing exciting to report on

band out on Maui. We are all looking forward to Jon

and he already sings half my songs better than I do.

this time, like traveling through Asia or starting law

Boyle '99 returning home for good later this month!

I think I'll find myself holding gig bags and moving

school – oh wait, I have grown a goatee. That's kind

Hope all is well with everyone. I can't believe our

amps for his shows before I know it (don't worry,

of neat." … Julia Haley writes: "Loving life in

10th reunion is next spring!" Tim also includes a

that'll be when he's a teen). I've been touring a lot

NYC with my husband, Michael (Kathy Weymouth's

picture of Dan Cesere jamming with his band Black

and have been missing my family. PEOPLE, the LA

advisee at Salisbury, way back when). It's hard to

Powder. … Jake Spalding has been extremely busy

band I play bass in, has a new album out in

believe I've been here for almost five years! Each

and has a lot to write about: "I've been good. Still

September 2009 called The Cliche (for more info,

week I get a brief respite when I spend a few days in

living in downtown Boston where we bought a place

go to www.myspace.com/peoplerock). And I'm work-

DC for work. Since 2004, I've been with

in 2006. I was married on July 11th, 2009 to Allison

ing on an EP due out later this fall. We're living now

Environmental Defense Fund and am now working

Woodside. Allison and I have been dating since Zak

outside of Yosemite, and I commute four hours to

with their international climate team. Busy time to

Fishkin introduced us the first semester of freshmen

play in LA with PEOPLE (by far the best group of

be in this particular field! Many congratulations to

year at University of Colorado. Accordingly, we had

musicians and creative minds I've ever worked

all of our classmates who have gotten married,

the Honorable Reverend Zachary Fishkin wed us on

with). Check out my myspace for more info:

become parents, or otherwise in the last few years. I

a great sunny day in Capitola, CA. Yes, you read

www.myspace.com/mattpowers2" … R.C.

was disappointed that Michael and I could not make

that correctly, Reverend Zachary Fishkin of the

Whitehouse just snuck in under the wire and seems

our ten year reunion but 15 is on the calendar. Hope

Universal Life Church. Holderness was represented

to be doing awesome in NY: "I'm at Columbia

to see many of you before then. Best to all." …

by not only Zak and myself, but Billy Bentley,

Teacher's College, pursuing my masters in organiza-

Elliot Helmer writes: "I am still living in Delray

Charles Lodi, Eliza Collier, Spencer Jackson,

tional psychology. Great program, great professors. I

Beach, FL. I was recently married in August to

Brendan Dane, Scott Woodruff '03, and my father,

really like it so far. Dan and I moved here and we're

Jessica Burrow. I'm working as an estimator for a

Joe Spaulding. Brendan has joined Scott Woodruff's

loving it so far. He's working on 5th Avenue and I'm

commercial HVAC company. I've been scuba diving

band, Stickfigure, and in addition to attending they

going to class. We went from rural Vermont to the

with Rob Cetron most weekends lately. He recently

were also our wedding band! They are starting to do

heart of the city. It's quite a change. Other than that

moved down here to work for the Florida Panthers

a lot of concerts in the San Diego area. Keep an eye

not much to report, life is really good right now." …

Bank Atlantic Center." … As for me, Brooke

out for them. It was a wonderful day with good

It was good to hear from everybody and I am really

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looking forward to getting back to Holderness next

Joint Operations Center. Basically I am on call for

tries to form-tackle tourists in midtown, but other

spring for a visit. If anyone makes it down to San

when issues arise that the commanders need legal

than that they are all doing great. Was in Dallas a

Diego, let me know, and keep those notes and pic-

advice on. I will be here until March/April 2010 and

few weeks ago and caught up with Sam Glasgow.

tures coming. Don't forget you can also reach me on

then I head back to Fort Lewis." … Sophie Moeller

He has left the hedge fund biz and has taken up his

Facebook. Keep in touch.

writes: "I was living in Lake Tahoe for the past year

ballet career full time, which he is pretty ecstatic

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with Amanda French. I also ran into Ally Keefe on

about." … Kellan Florio writes: "I returned home in

a regular basis. I worked at a restaurant on the top of

June after spending 10 months in South Africa

Northstar ski resort, as well as taught skiing for

working for Grassroot Soccer, a non-profit that uses

Disabled Sports U.S.A. Far West at Alpine

the power of soccer to fight HIV/AIDS in Africa. I

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Meadows. Loved it there, but decided to mosey on

was involved in various projects including Grassroot

Andrew Sullivan '00

along. I just recently moved to the LA area. I LOVE

Soccer school programs, HIV-testing soccer tourna-

780W. G St., Apt. 184

my little apartment. I am only a block from the

ments, tutoring high school math, and working with

San Diego, CA 92101-1813

beach, which means I am just a block away from

youth in a social entrepreneurship competition. It

E-mail: myireland20@gmail.com

some purdy nice lookin' surfer duuudes. Still haven't

was very difficult to leave my second home in Port

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found Matthew McConaughey though. But anyone

Elizabeth, SA, but it was also nice to come home

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is more than welcome to come and visit! I am still

and start life again in New York, where I'm back

doing the acting thing. Just did a theater gig in

working in investment banking at Goldman Sachs –

as a graphic designer in Manchester, NH. Trying to

Fullerton, CA, last week and am going to continue

a difficult transition, to say the least."

enjoy this 'summer', if you can even call it that. I

to try and break into the LA scene. If anyone out

Hello, all! Well, a quick update on my life. I'm still living in Dover, NH, and working

recently met up with some Holderness alums, Anne

there wants to help, please let me know. It's always

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Palm Mormina, Joey Mormina, Betsy Cornell,

hard being the newby! Tomorrow I leave for Camp

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and Anthony Aceto. Anne and Joey are expecting a

Ronald McDonald for Goodtimes, to be a volunteer

little girl at the beginning of October. They are both

camp counselor. It is a camp for children who have

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really excited about their new arrival, but that isn't

been diagnosed with cancer and their siblings. I am

Karyn Hoepp '01

all the news they have. Joey got signed by the

thinking it is going to be a pretty profound experi-

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Philadelphia Flyers! He is headed down there in

ence. Other than that, I am livin' the good life." …

Dover, NH 03820-3152

September for training camp, so congrats and good

Tyler Stubbs writes: " I got engaged in June to the

E-mail: karynhoepp@gmail.com

luck to them! Betsy and Anthony are living in NYC

lovely Rachelle Reichert. We are tentatively schedul-

loving the city life. Betsy still works at Price

ing the wedding for September, 2011, in Newport,

Adam Lavallee '01

Waterhouse Cooper and Anthony is working at Bank

RI. A long engagement, I know, but we are young

227 W. Baltimore Ave.

of America. … Chris Grace writes: "I'm currently

and in love so what is the hurry? I will be able to tell

Lansdowne, PA 19050

in France, but I will be in Poland this year studying

you all about it at our ten-year reunion. Scary that it

E-mail: a.l.lavallee@gmail.com

for a master's in international relations at the College

is around the corner." … Pat Gannon has been hik-

of Europe's eastern European campus, outside of

ing the Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine.

Warsaw. The College of Europe is the EU's universi-

He writes: "I finish the 2178 mile journey on 19

Greetings, everyone! Thanks for getting

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back to me with all of your various notes;

ty for international relations/diplomacy, economics,

August and get ready for another ski season in

it's always a pleasure to hear what everyone is up to.

law, and history. Which will make it the sixth coun-

Montana. Hope all is well with you. I drove by

As a reminder to all, don't forget to update your

try I've lived in in four years (Spain, India, US

Holderness late last year and it looked like they were

email address on the Holderness Alumni website (or

[Texas], Guatemala, France, Poland)." … Joy

practically rebuilding Weld; always building some-

email Tracy White at alum@holderness.org). This

Domin writes: "My daughter Grace is now 10

thing I guess." … Ali Power is starting her MFA in

will ensure that everyone receives my prompts for

months old and cuter than ever. She gets around via

poetry this fall at the New School, and is still work-

your messages! … Christopher Nielson writes: "I'm

the 'crab crawl' and is minutes away from walking.

ing as an editor at Rizzoli International Publications.

currently writing from the Juno airport, on my way

We bought a place up north in Pittsburgh, and look

A small collection of her poems, YOU AMERICANS,

back to Anchorage, AK, from Skagway, where I have been working for the Park Service. My sister

forward to spending weekends away fishing, snow-

was published by Green Zone Press last December,

mobiling and ice fishing the lakes. My PT business

and she read with poet Bernadette Mayer at the

is doing well. I now do 'mommy and me' personal

Ladder Poetry Reading Series in New York in May.

training; doing push-ups with baby is the new

… Sung You writes: "I am currently on a vacation,

favorite workout." … Jarret Hann has some big

visiting my family back in Korea. My last day at

news! He recently got engaged to a fellow

Mass General Hospital was last Friday. Yay – I am

Holderness alum, Jess Ippolito '03! He writes:

enjoying my newly retired life! I will be going back

"Jarret Hann is training hard in hopes of defending

to school at the end of this month. I will be doing a

his 2008 Newfoundland Beermile title this

dual degree program (MBA/MS) at MIT Sloan busi-

September, and also wishing Joey Mormina best of

ness school and at Harvard Medical School. It

luck in the fall premiere of Dancing With The Stars

should be fun. I am very excited." … Evan Kornack

Canada." … Joey Mormina wanted to let me know

is still living in Boston, but has "finished up with my

that he recently ran into Jarret Hann and his fiancée

investment banking job and will be traveling to

Jess on a trip down to Massachusetts. They had

Nicaragua in mid-September for two months to

lunch above Biedermans, and just talked about Jess's

build a school with two friends. We are working

big move to Newfoundland and their upcoming

with BuildOn, which is an organization that has built

wedding. Jarret continues to shave his legs and still

over 300 schools worldwide." … Baer Denniston

enjoys playing board games in his spare time! …

writes: "All is well with me. I'm still kicking around

Pat Regan is currently deployed to Baghdad, Iraq,

NYC and working in the jewelry business, trying to

with I Corps out of Ft. Lewis, WA. He writes: "My

take over the world one rock at a time. I have been

wife and son moved out to Washington with me in

hanging out a bunch with Alex 'Smitty' Smith,

May, and after getting settled for a few weeks I left

Rachel Goldberg, Nick Choremi '02, and Lillian

to join I Corps in Baghdad. I am serving as an

Nigro '02, who are also roaming around the city

Operational Law Attorney in the Current Operations

these days. Smitty still gets confused sometimes and

Ariana Nicolay '04, Elizabeth Norton '01, Erin Maroni '02 and Betsy Pantazelos '02 in Napa Valley.

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and I made the drive up in June, which was a pretty

and working for a PR and marketing firm, specializ-

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amazing experience. Come October, I'll be back at

ing in event coordinating. Maddie Fiumara and I

Marblehead, MA 01945

the University of Oregon where I'll be teaching and

are always in touch and we've hung out this summer

E-mail: rbmcmanus@gmail.com

working towards my M. Arch."… Ally Keefe

with her husband Jake. I also see Andy Everett

replies: "After spending last year in Lake Tahoe,

from time to time; he's living in New York as well.

CA, I moved back to Cape Cod to help my father

Eliza Lockwood and I were together last weekend

Peter Schlech writes in: "I got my bache-

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lor's of history at Acadia University in

run his new restaurant on the Bass River Marina. In

as we were both bridesmaids in our college friend's

Wolfville, NS, this spring, and right now I am doing

addition to working at the restaurant, I finished up

wedding." … Geoff Mintz informs us: "I got a job

some flight training down in Jacksonville, FL, until

my pre-requisites for graduate school and will be

as a writer/reporter for the Vail Mountaineer, our

October/November. I went to Africa last spring to do

applying this fall for MSN Nurse Practitioner pro-

local paper. Have to work my tail off, but get to see

volunteer work for a month and that's about it!" …

grams." … Zach Zoulias writes: "I just moved to

and do all kinds of cool things, meet interesting peo-

Stan Smith reports: "I graduated Magna Cum Laude

Austria for an apprenticeship in winemaking. I'm

ple. Screwed things up with another girl. She threw

from Morehouse College this past May. Prior to

working in Burgenland for Hopler Wines. I received

all my stuff in the driveway like they do in the

graduating, I became a member of Phi Beta Kappa

my sommelier accreditation from the international

movies. Oh well. Can't wait for the snow to start

and Pi Delta Phi (National French Honor Society).

guild of sommeliers at the beginning of July, making

falling!" … Also from Colorado, Ramsay Hill

In September, I will be moving back to Boston and

me one of the, I believe, five youngest sommeliers

writes: "I am still living in beautiful Aspen, CO. I

begin working with State Street in the Global

in New England." Zach also reports that "Micum

coach J4s at Aspen Valley Ski Club with Fordy

Markets department." … Emily Sampson just fin-

McIntyre just moved out to Vail, CO, for a fellow-

Sinkinson, and work as an assistant for the 4th

ished up her senior at Bates College, completing her

ship at the Sebbin-Hawkins Clinic. They're the clinic

grade at Aspen Country Day School. I just saw

last field hockey and ski seasons. She graduated in

that the US Ski Team goes to for some of their ath-

David Madiera, Geoff Mintz, Fordy Sinkinson,

May along with Carrie Piper, Mikaela Pappas,

letic training, and

Britt Reugger, and Andy Gaylord because Dave

and Katie Smarse. She got herself a real-world job

apparently pretty prestigious. Theo Jordan just got

was here for a family reunion. I think Fordy took a

in Burlington, VT, working at the Howard Center, a

her wilderness first responder certification, and is

group shot. We should definitely be in HST! Hope

community mental health center, in the Autism

working at Lululemon in Boston and living in

all is well back east; we are continuing to dominate

Spectrum Program. She says: "The move was imme-

(though he won't admit to it) it's

Southie. She has an interview for Rocky Mountain

the Aspen area with Holderness faces!" … As for

diately after graduation (a week) and it has yet to

Ski Patrol I think, but you'd have to ask her about

me, Betsy Pantazelos, I finished up my masters in

sink in that my college days are over. The summer

that." … Whitney Connelly reports: "I'm working

publishing and writing this past May. I am now the

in Burlington has been busy and unfortunately rainy,

as an independent grant writer and part-time tutor

manager of the Patagonia on Newbury Street in

but I get to spend my time with two 4-year-old boys

for Sylvan Learning Centers. I just started year three

Boston (do come visit any time!). I spent most of

in the program that are my assigned one-on-ones,

of living in Florida (right outside Orlando) and I

my summer enjoying my free time, which allowed

who are both exhausting and adorable. I'm excited to

love the weather, but my boyfriend, Brian, and I are

me a much-needed trip to Napa Valley, CA, with

start my new life in Vermont and hope to see some

both New Hampshire kids at heart and plan to move

Elizabeth Norton '01. We met up with Erin

Holderness folk around!" … From Jenn Calver:

back up to the New England area in June, so he can

Maroni and Ariana Nicolay '04 for plenty of wine-

"I've spent the summer at home in Vermont, working

start grad school in Boston. Once we get situated I'll

tasting while out there. Perhaps the next trip will be

and relaxing before school starts again (I still have

be looking into getting my MFA in creative writing

to Austria to taste some of Zach's hard work! Hope

one more year at Trinity). I just ran into Ax '07,

as well. About nine months ago we adopted a one-

everyone is doing well!

Tory '06, and Laney Hayssen '09 in Martha's

present for Bella (my three-year-old golden). Jax

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great to catch up with Holderness grads!" … Corin

was abused, so it hasn't been easy helping him

Holiday Gathering: 12/20, 4:30-6:30 – Weld Hall

Benison: "I will be a senior this fall and it will be

and he and Bella play/sleep/eat together always!

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continue playing overseas after college, but I will be

year-old golden retriever named Jax as a Christmas

Vineyard while visiting friends from school – always

become a 'normal dog,' but he is doing so well now

my last season playing basketball for UD. Hoping to

Brian and I leave tomorrow for a 12-day European

Betsy Pantazelos '02

applying for several law schools. I keep in contact

vacation – hitting Amsterdam, Paris, and then end-

256 Summer St., Apt 1L

with Greg Johnson, Kate Kenly '04, G.dot

ing up outside of London for a friend's wedding.

Somerville, MA 02143-2204

[Gerald Carter], and Sharlyn Harper '06. I defi-

Should be a blast!" … From Chelsea Hoopes: "I

E-mail: b.pantazelos@gmail.com

nitely will try to make it up to Holderness soon!" …

was recently married to Josh Silver, August 22nd, on

HanMin Lee: "I just graduated from CMU and now

Lake George. We had a pretty solid Holderness

’03

I'm back in Korea preparing to serve the military for

turnout: Sarah Thompson, Jess Harris, and Lindsay Fairtile were in the wedding party and Jess Fishkin, Margot McGowan '03, Blake

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Barber '01, and Fordy Sinkinson all came to cele-

two years. I've recently met with fellow Korean Holderness alums, and since then I've been missing Holderness! Here is also a picture of the reunion we had last month." … J.J. Hall writes: "I just graduat-

brate with us! Ave Cook also stopped by during

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ed from Trinity College and have been hired by

some of the pre-wedding shenanigans. He should be

Nick Payeur '03

Lawyers Without Borders as the Kenya III Training

a daddy any day now, if not already!

36 Old County Road

Project Manager. I just got back from the 5th Annual

Congratulations, Ave and Heidi!" … Nate Glenney

Scarborough, ME 04074-9005

International Leadership Training Programme held

shares: "I just bought a house and moved into down-

E-mail: npayeur001@maine.rr.com

by UNESCO and am one of the co-founders of the

town Baltimore about six months ago. Gutted the place to the joists and rebuilt it. Still working for the same company, but on a project building a new hos-

Institute for Human Rights Collaboration (still in its Blair Weymouth is exhausting her NCAA

’04

eligibility, and playing a fifth year of

early stages)." … From Jason Merritt: "I just graduated from Hobart in May and our hockey team

Division I sports at UVA. She made the soccer team,

made it to the final four in my last year. I'm now

now ranked 11th in the country.

moving to NYC and working for HSBC. I'm living

and coming up against a lot of cultural and political

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to our five-year reunion next year." … From Noah

hurdles, but still I still think I made the right choice

Holiday Gathering: 12/20, 4:30-6:30 – Weld Hall

pital right now. Not too much else, hope everyone's doing well!" … Sarah Hendel reports: "Still in Turkmenistan teaching. Hitting a half-way slump

with Mike Tucker and we both are looking forward

in coming here. One year down, 16 months to go.

Anderson David: "Well, I live in the center of Copenhagen and I play pro hockey at night for the

Send peanut butter. Love, Sarah" … Kerry Douglas

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Herlev Hornets, and work at a bank during the day!

writes: "I'm still in New York City, living in Tribeca

Ryan McManus '04

Not too bad. I spent five weeks this summer in LA;

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early stages)." … From Jason Merritt: "I just grad-

and been helping with their monthly paper. I'm

uated from Hobart in May and our hockey team

excited to get back to Skidmore in the fall. Molly

made it to the final four in my last year. I'm now

Nissi spent the summer in NYC working for Saks

moving to NYC and working for HSBC. I'm living

Fifth Ave. Saw Henry Worobec, Jack Straus,

with Mike Tucker and we both are looking forward

Chris Howe, Dan and Steve Keslin, Kelley and

to our five-year reunion next year." … From Noah

Kristin Keohans, and Casey Gilman. Ashley

Anderson David: "Well, I live in the center of

Babcock and Lucy Randall are living together."

Copenhagen and I play pro hockey at night for the Herlev Hornets, and work at a bank during the day!

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Not too bad. I spent five weeks this summer in LA;

Holiday Gathering: 12/20, 4:30-6:30 – Weld Hall

what a place! We should move Holderness there –

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that way I definitely wouldn't have been voted 'least likely to return.' If anyone is travelling through

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Europe or just wants to visit Copenhagen, you are

Jessica Saba '06

all very welcome to contact me!" … From Caitlin

PO Box 293

The Weymouths gathered for Blair's graduation

Connelly: "I graduated from UNH in May with a

Waterville Valley, NH 03215-0293

from UVA this Spring. Tyler '01, Blair '04, Rich

degree in psychology, and then moved to

E-mail: Jessica.Saba@colorado.edu

'70, Channing '02 and Dean of Students Kathy

Farmington, CT, where I am working at Miss

Weymouth.

Porter's School in the Dean of Students Office.

volunteer work for a month and that's about it!" …

While here I am also coaching, living in a dorm, and

Stan Smith reports: "I graduated Magna Cum Laude

teaching a section of a Wellness course. I'm looking

It is hard to believe that junior year is

’07

already here. I will be returning to

Williamstown in the next few weeks from a summer

from Morehouse College this past May. Prior to

forward to our five-year reunion in June!" … Thank

on the Cape, where I have been teaching tennis. At

graduating, I became a member of Phi Beta Kappa

you to all my classmates who responded to my plea

the end of the spring, I declared Sociology and

and Pi Delta Phi (National French Honor Society).

for updates! After graduating from UVM in May, I

Political Science as my majors and a concentration

In September, I will be moving back to Boston and

came home to Cape Cod to help my family with our

in Leadership Studies. … Alyssa Block writes that she is not returning to school this fall; she is being

begin working with State Street in the Global

new seasonal restaurant (Summer Shanty in West

Markets department." … Emily Sampson just fin-

Dennis – come visit, I'll buy you a drink!). It has

swept away to Costa Rica by a boy, and they plan to

ished up her senior at Bates College, completing her

been quite the busy summer, but exciting at the same

travel around Central America. … Cambria

last field hockey and ski seasons. She graduated in

time. I recently ran into former Holderness faculty

Hempton will be studying abroad in Sicily until

May along with Carrie Piper, Mikaela Pappas,

members Mark and Edie Traina and their two

December. … Tanner Matheson is at the London

and Katie Smarse. She got herself a real-world job

beautiful daughters, Caroline and Lucy! I graduated

School of Economics. … Kyle Baker writes: "I just

in Burlington, VT, working at the Howard Center, a

with a BS in Dietetics, Nutrition and Food Science

transferred from Merrimack College, where I was a

community mental health center, in the Autism

with a minor in Community and International

Business Administration major and played lacrosse,

Spectrum Program. She says: "The move was imme-

Development, and come fall and winter I am looking

to the University of Southern Maine, where I will

diately after graduation (a week) and it has yet to

forward to using my degree. Some Holderness folk I

now be a marketing major and play hockey and

sink in that my college days are over. The summer

ran into here and there include: Tyler Munroe '05,

lacrosse. As far as my summers go, I was doing

in Burlington has been busy and unfortunately rainy,

Kelsey Smith '07, Morgan

but I get to spend my time with two 4-year-old boys

Frank '08, Greg Ramey '08,

in the program that are my assigned one-on-ones,

RJ O'Riordan '08, and many

who are both exhausting and adorable. I'm excited to

others who have made UVM

start my new life in Vermont and hope to see some

and/or Burlington their new

Holderness folk around!" … From Jenn Calver:

stomping grounds. It's been

"I've spent the summer at home in Vermont, working

great to hear from everyone,

and relaxing before school starts again (I still have

and stay I touch!

one more year at Trinity). I just ran into Ax '07, Tory '06, and Laney Hayssen '09 in Martha's

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Vineyard while visiting friends from school – always

Holiday Gathering: 12/20,

great to catch up with Holderness grads!" … Corin

4:30-6:30 – Weld Hall

Benison: "I will be a senior this fall and it will be

Back to Brunch: 1/10, 11:00

my last season playing basketball for UD. Hoping to

– Weld Hall

continue playing overseas after college, but I will be applying for several law schools. I keep in contact

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with Greg Johnson, Kate Kenly '04, G.dot

DENT

[Gerald Carter], and Sharlyn Harper '06. I defi-

Brie Keefe '05

nitely will try to make it up to Holderness soon!" …

PO Box 41

HanMin Lee: "I just graduated from CMU and now

West Harwich, MA 02671

I'm back in Korea preparing to serve the military for

E-mail: bkeefe@gwu.edu

two years. I've recently met with fellow Korean Holderness alums, and since then I've been missing Holderness! Here is also a picture of the reunion we

Krista Glencross

’06

writes: "I spent my

had last month." … J.J. Hall writes: "I just graduat-

spring semester in DC at the

ed from Trinity College and have been hired by

Washington Semester Justice

Lawyers Without Borders as the Kenya III Training

Program at American

Project Manager. I just got back from the 5th Annual

University, and went to inau-

International Leadership Training Programme held

guration. This summer I've

by UNESCO and am one of the co-founders of the

been interning at the New

Institute for Human Rights Collaboration (still in its

Hampshire Bar Association

Greg Johnson's '05 little boy Gregory Johnson III is ready for Holderness!

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Class Notes

plumbing and heating this summer and coaching

looking forward to the upcoming year. Anyway, I'm

tant coach for my old high school's varsity football

lacrosse camps, but plan on doing an internship next

writing to you from Hanover, NH, where I have

team last year and loved it, so I am doing that again

summer in the marketing/outside sales field." …

managed to make it through the first week of pre-

this year. We just started doubles on the 17th, so that

Tyler Gosselin says: "I've been on a six-month

season. I am extremely excited for my fall field

is what's keeping me busy at the moment." … Nick

internship at Congressional Country Club just out-

hockey season, and for another great year at

Martini is traveling the world! … Haley Wilich

side DC, and I'll be here through September. I'm tak-

Dartmouth. I have spoken with a few of my class-

says: "I am excited to start sophomore year at UVM.

ing the semester off for the internship, but I'll head

mates, and they too, seem to be having a great time

This summer has been wonderful and eventful. I

back to Clemson anyway in early October. Hope

with what they are doing. Here is what a few mem-

traveled to Thailand for 15 days with my mother and

everyone's doing well!" … Eliza Cooley just had

bers of the Class of '08 have been up to within the

explored Bangkok, the mountains, and a few gor-

another summer on the Vineyard. She had a great

past several months. … Brittney Dove writes: "Over

geous islands. After spending a few weeks in

job in an art gallery on the island. She is returning to

the course of this summer I have worked on several

Burlington, VT, with Baird Meem, Greg Ramey,

DU for her second year, and is going to either

major motion pictures, which has been a great expe-

Alex Osbourne, and RJ O'Riordan, I moved to

Hawaii or South America to do a WOOF program

rience. I have had the honor of working with actors

Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard, to nanny for four

over winter break. … Sarah Morrison writes: "I did

such as Kevin Costner, Tommy Lee Jones, Ben

weeks. Now I am back in Burlington, starting an

an abroad program in Mexico last summer, so I will

Affleck, Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Salma Hayek,

internship at the Vermont Business Roundtable, and

be at Vassar for the entire year. This summer I lived

Davis Spade, Mark Wahlberg, Tom Cruise, Christian

getting ready for classes to start." … Greg Ramey

in Manhattan in the NYU dorms for ten weeks and

Bale and many more. I have been a part of the film-

writes: "My freshman year was a blast. I left the

interned with a film production company. Alex

ing for five movies so far. It has been so much fun

warm weather at Rollins College and transferred to

Costa also lived in the NYU dorms, so we had a

and I have learned a lot about the industry this sum-

the University of Vermont and am happier than ever.

great time in the city together! I declared my major

mer. I am transferring from Roanoke College in

I have spent my summer working at a booking

as film. I might get a minor in Hispanic studies – I

Salem,VA, to Miami University in Oxford, OH,

agency for Nectar's, a nightclub in both Burlington,

haven't decided yet. I also got involved with ViCE

which I am very excited about. Hopefully I will find

VT, and on Martha's Vineyard in Edgartown, MA. I

(the Vassar College Entertainment committee), and I

a new direction in the fall and will be able to work

have been working with artists such as K'naan,

have had a great time organizing parties, concerts,

my summer experience into a potential major." …

Redman, Method Man, Ghostface Killah, as well as

film screenings, etc. through that." … Tim Klotz is

Brittney Tocci sends: "I just finished my freshman

with larger agencies representing other famous

returning from a five-week road trip in which he

year at St. Lawrence University. I took a bunch of

music performers. I have been living with Baird

logged 9,000 miles, with stops in Portland, San

different classes this past year, but in general I am

Meem, RJ O'Riordan, Alex Osborne, Kelsey Smith,

Francisco, and LA, and spent time in Yellowstone

studying biology and neuroscience/psychology for

and living next door to Haley Wilich. We have had

and the Grand Tetons. He is declaring a major in art

right now, with a minor in Spanish/global studies. I

many Holderness visitors and have had a lot of fun.

history and a minor in English. … Katie Oram will

felt really prepared for the amount of school work

I am looking forward to an eventful sophomore year

be returning to SLU in the fall. This past spring

and what-not because of Holderness, so it was a

and I hope to stop by Holderness soon." … Kathryn

semester (2009) she spent in Kenya studying abroad,

great transition for me academically. I played on the

Cheng reports: "I am back and loving Richmond.

and was able to travel a lot through out Kenya and

varsity women's soccer team this spring and I had a

It's really hot down here! I plan to double major in business and art. I joined the sorority Kappa Kappa

also Tanzania. She did three different home-stays, as

blast being a part of a team with great girls who love

well as an independent study with sea turtle conser-

the game. I skied a lot this past year; out west and in

Gamma." … Jesus Moore writes: "Hey guys, it's

vation on the coast of the Indian Ocean. She was

the Adirondacks of New York. This summer I am

Jesus Moore (a.k.a. Moose) and I am going into my

also able to climb Mt. Kenya and hike in the

landscaping in Franconia, NH, and helping out at

sophomore year at Fitchburg State College. I am at

Kakamega Rainforest. It was the best four months of

Tamarack Tennis Camp, while enjoying the weather

the start of camp and getting ready for my first game

her life! Then she spent the summer working at a hut

and trying to be a great aunt for my little niece. I am

next weekend. I started all ten games as a freshman

system in Maine. … Anya Bean says: "I'm headed

going back to school a week early because I am an

and I am looking forward to having a breakout soph-

into my sophomore year at UNH, and am pretty

Orientation Leader for the incoming freshman, and I

omore year. I just decided to go into the major of

excited! This summer I took a class at school,

cannot wait!" … Hannah O'Brien played in 13 of

human services and I think it is going to be a perfect

trained for skiing, and did some traveling." … Eun

the 15 games for the Colby Mules in field hockey

fit for me. I worked at the Lawrence YMCA this

Gi went to Peru and saw Machu Picchu last winter.

during fall of her freshman year. She also made the

summer and it was a great time. I am hoping to have

She stayed in Ithaca to take summer courses and

Colby ice hockey team. She faced Courtney Brim

a great school year and hopefully I will be able to go

now is in Korea. She is taking a semester off and

'07, her roommate at Holderness, in a game against

visit you guys soon. Miss you all and hope to see

staying in Korea until January. … Arla Casselman

Connecticut College. … Annie Carney reports: "I

you soon."

was bike touring and staying the night at many dif-

joined a business fraternity at school called Pi Sigma

ferent local farms this summer. She is living in the

Epsilon, and this summer I worked in Belgrade

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women's resource center this fall, and will hopefully

Lakes, ME, at Camp Runoia teaching sailing." …

Holiday Gathering: 12/20, 4:30-6:30 – Weld Hall

be off to Chile in the spring. … Mimi O'Connor is

Amber Stewart writes: "Let me tell you about my

Back to Brunch: 1/10, 11:00 – Weld Hall

spending her fall semester in London. … The Class

year. Took the year off of school and have been

of 2007 remains busy as we head into junior year.

working straight from September. Took two weeks

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off and I'm enjoying the sun and spending my days

Kelly Hood '08

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at the beach or on the boat." … Josh Corrigan start-

E-mail: Kelly.P.Hood@dartmouth.edu

Holiday Gathering: 12/20, 4:30-6:30 – Weld Hall

ed working construction in May when he got out of

Back to Brunch: 1/10, 11:00 – Weld Hall

school. He says: "We did a lot of remodeling, but

Taylor Sawatski '08

my favorite project was the new sugar house we just

E-mail: taylor.sawatzki@conncoll.edu

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finished in mid-August. In June, I took a vacation to

Annie Hanson '07

Nashville for the Country Music Festival with my

Phone: 617-721-6081

brother, sister-in-law, and a few friends. We had a

E-mail: Annie.E.Hansen@williams.edu

good time, and next year plan on going again for the

graphing calculators, a few members of the recent

third year in a row. In mid-July, I moved into a camp

graduating class are taking a more adventurous route

While most of the class of 2009 are moving

’09

into their dorm rooms and dusting off their

’08

Hey everyone, It's hard to believe that the

on Lake Champlain that one of my buddies' parents

before embarking on their higher education. …

Class of '08 is heading into our sophomore

own, and five of us have spent the last five weeks

Trudy Crowley is preparing to start her semester at

year of college already! It seems that many of my

living on the lake trying to make it on our own – it

sea before returning for the second semester as a

classmates are enjoying their experiences and are

has been eventful. I started helping out as an assis-

University of Vermont student. … Chas Stewart is

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living on the lake trying to make it on our own – it

fit for me. I worked at the Lawrence YMCA this

and Whistler this summer, Sophia has spent a week

has been eventful. I started helping out as an assis-

summer and it was a great time. I am hoping to have

working at a pediatric cancer camp, Camp Agape,

tant coach for my old high school's varsity football

a great school year and hopefully I will be able to go

where she interacts with terminally ill patients, most

team last year and loved it, so I am doing that again

visit you guys soon. Miss you all and hope to see

of whom are under 16. About the experience at the

this year. We just started doubles on the 17th, so that

you soon."

camp, Sophia says: "Seeing a 6-year-old girl who

is what's keeping me busy at the moment." … Nick

was told she was going to die last year come back

Martini is traveling the world! … Haley Wilich

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with a full head of curly blond hair and sing 'Dream

says: "I am excited to start sophomore year at UVM.

Holiday Gathering: 12/20, 4:30-6:30 – Weld Hall

Big' with her dad redefines you. I love that place and

This summer has been wonderful and eventful. I

Back to Brunch: 1/10, 11:00 – Weld Hall

hope to go every year for the rest of my life." Sophia

traveled to Thailand for 15 days with my mother and

is looking forward to starting at Dartmouth in the

explored Bangkok, the mountains, and a few gor-

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fall with Jenna Stearns, who has been training all

geous islands. After spending a few weeks in

Kelly Hood '08

summer and working hard at pre-season camp to be

Burlington, VT, with Baird Meem, Greg Ramey,

E-mail: Kelly.P.Hood@dartmouth.edu

Alex Osbourne, and RJ O'Riordan, I moved to Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard, to nanny for four

Taylor Sawatski '08

weeks. Now I am back in Burlington, starting an

E-mail: taylor.sawatzki@conncoll.edu

internship at the Vermont Business Roundtable, and getting ready for classes to start." … Greg Ramey writes: "My freshman year was a blast. I left the warm weather at Rollins College and transferred to

a goalie on the Dartmouth Field Hockey team. Sophia is taking off the winter and moving back out to Steamboat to train, compete, and push the envelope in the ever-evolving and progressing sport of freestyle skiing. … Although a majority of

While most of the class of 2009 are moving

Holderness alums choose to stay close to our New

into their dorm rooms and dusting off their

England roots and go to school in the Northeast

’09

graphing calculators, a few members of the recent

region, several members of the class of 2009 have

the University of Vermont and am happier than ever.

graduating class are taking a more adventurous route

traveled to other corners of the country to attend col-

I have spent my summer working at a booking

before embarking on their higher education. …

lege. Lily Kendall is attending the University of

agency for Nectar's, a nightclub in both Burlington,

Trudy Crowley is preparing to start her semester at

Montana at Missoula, and is really excited to live on

VT, and on Martha's Vineyard in Edgartown, MA. I

sea before returning for the second semester as a

the 9th floor of her dorm. … Joey Pestana, Steve

have been working with artists such as K'naan,

University of Vermont student. … Chas Stewart is

Smith and Bennett Hrabovsky are just a short

Redman, Method Man, Ghostface Killah, as well as

planning on studying guitar and recording some

drive south from Missoula, at Montana State

with larger agencies representing other famous

tracks for the fall, in the winter plans on going to

University in Bozeman. … Morgan Irons and

music performers. I have been living with Baird

Whistler, British Columbia, to get his snowboard

Brittany McDonald are both in California studying

Meem, RJ O'Riordan, Alex Osborne, Kelsey Smith,

instructor's certification, and later in the year hopes

very hard, and Ally Stride and Andrew Reilly have

and living next door to Haley Wilich. We have had

to travel to France to work on an organic farm

both headed south in search of warmer weather at

many Holderness visitors and have had a lot of fun.

before he enters the freshman class of 2014 at the

Elon, while Jake McPhee and Holly Block are real-

I am looking forward to an eventful sophomore year

University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, WA. …

ly seeking the heat in sunny Florida at the University

and I hope to stop by Holderness soon." … Kathryn

Jamie "Jeeg" Rosenfield has had an interesting

of Miami and the University of Tampa. Best of luck

Cheng reports: "I am back and loving Richmond.

summer, traveling to Germany, Austria, and the

to the class of '09 as they start college, and our

It's really hot down here! I plan to double major in

Czech Republic. He leaves in the fall for a back-

thoughts are with Andrew Grace during his PG

business and art. I joined the sorority Kappa Kappa

packing trip in Patagonia and then joins other

year at Blair Academy.

Gamma." … Jesus Moore writes: "Hey guys, it's

Holderness Alumi such as Nick Martini '08,

Jesus Moore (a.k.a. Moose) and I am going into my

Maddie Baker '08, Alyssa Block '07, and Cam

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sophomore year at Fitchburg State College. I am at

Riley '07 at the University of Colorado. … Sophia

Holiday Gathering: 12/20, 4:30-6:30 – Weld Hall

the start of camp and getting ready for my first game

Schwartz has had a busy summer, traveling to

Back to Brunch: 1/10, 11:00 – Weld Hall

next weekend. I started all ten games as a freshman

Egypt and Jordan shortly after graduation. Upon

and I am looking forward to having a breakout soph-

returning, Sophia moved out to Steamboat Springs,

CLASS CORRESPONDENT

omore year. I just decided to go into the major of

CO, with Alissa Pinkoski '08 and other friends to

Meg McNulty '09

human services and I think it is going to be a perfect

train for skiing. On top of ski training at Steamboat

E-mail: mmcnulty@smcvt.edu

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At This Point in Time...

SlowGrowing Fruit

N THIS ISSUE OF

HST,

WE PROFILE THE

move outside of the traditional educational

family, the Senior Honors Thesis. This is

model that meant so much to him.

meant to invigorate students intellectual-

ly, and which also exposes them to the type of

intrinsic to the “Holderness School experience,” and teach current students nostalgically

them during their college years. The Senior

about the earliest Out Back camps. However, in

Honors Thesis strikes me as a fitting counter-

the midst of the turmoil of the 1960s and

point for the original elements of Special

1970s, students and faculty struggled mightily

Programs, Out Back and Senior Project, which

to find common ground (as they did in schools

were outgrowths of a

everywhere). Hagerman writes of his frustra-

time when many stu-

tion to the trustees in 1969: “There was a time

dents were choosing

when teaching and headmastering were gener-

not to attend college

ally a pleasure, but this can hardly be said of

During World War II, Edric Weld

should be for breakfast to what the reasons are for teaching Sacred Studies, coeducation, and

dents to enter real life

why the penalty for smoking ‘pot’ is unreason-

immediately, with

able. There seems little time for getting to the

many moving from

job of learning in the traditional sense.”

directly into military

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the present. Everyone, both faculty to students, is questioning everything from what the menu

had to prepare his stu-

Holderness School

Yet those concessions did not come easily. Today we celebrate Special Programs as being

rigorous academic engagement that will face

at all.

The fact that our school survived that tempestuous era unscathed – even improved – does not mean that all of its graduates did. It is a sad fact that many alumni of the 1960s and 1970s never experienced the changes they inspired.

academic standards.” They represented a bold

newest member of the Special Programs

a culminating academic experience

An example, above, of an early Senior Project that really took off.

Archivist Judith Solberg notes that the roots of Senior Honors Thesis stretch back to an attempt to make school relevant to a rebellious and skeptical generation.

Students felt similar frustration, experiencing a true generation gap between themselves

service. Some three

and some more traditional faculty members.

decades later, Don

Student leaders, in particular, grappled with the

Hagerman was simi-

task of bridging the gap on a regular basis: in a

larly tasked with providing all of the schooling

time of pervasive experimentation, how could a

that many of his students would receive. The

leader ensure his peers’ safety without becom-

political and social upheavals of the 1960s and

ing a traitor to his own generational experi-

1970s were leading many students to lose inter-

ence? It is never an easy question to answer,

est in formal education even while still enrolled

and was perhaps most difficult in this era.

at Holderness School. Unlike Weld, however,

As at other schools, time has healed the

Hagerman faced a perplexing problem. While

once-broken relations between Holderness

his students had to be prepared for an era of

School students and faculty. Concessions on

social unrest and war (as they had in Weld’s

both sides led to the changes in curricula, daily

time), many also had first to be convinced that

life, and decision-making that inform the true

formal education could play a valid role in their

Holderness School experience even today. We

preparation. This, along with a new genera-

pride ourselves on the collaborative process

tional distrust, made his job difficult.

through which students and faculty support

Hagerman, perhaps somewhat euphemistically, acknowledged that “great concern seems

daily life at Holderness. However, the fact that our school survived that tempestuous era

evidenced by the boys about issues of educa-

unscathed – even improved – does not mean

tional philosophy.” He pushed himself to give

that all of its graduates did. It is a sad fact that

weight to students’ concerns, making changes

many alumni of the 1960s and 1970s never

to school life and curricula that were outside of

experienced the changes they inspired, and a

his comfort zone. Special Programs were a

good number have never returned. Perhaps

direct result of Hagerman’s attempts, in his

these reluctant pioneers will someday return to

own words, to “abolish meaningless traditions,

see what grew from seeds they planted, and to

[as] we continue to strive for the highest of

receive our thanks.

BRIDGING the GAP

The Holderness Annual Fund 2009-2010 funding

THE ANNUAL FUND

DIRECTLY SUPPORTS THE

people and programs at Holderness School,

tuition: 77%

from faculty salaries to financial aid, food and heat to course materials. The Annual Fund supplements tuition, endowment, and other

endowment income: 11%

sources of

funding, bridging the gap

between what tuition covers and the real cost

other sources: 5%

of educating our

THANKS

annual fund: 7%

students.

TO THOUGHTFUL AND RESPONSIBLE

stewardship, our school remains strong, even in these challenging financial times. But given rising costs and shrinking investments, the gap continues to grow. We need your support to fill

Sustaining the tradition of support for the people and programs that provide the core of the Holderness Experience.

w w w. g i ve t o h o l d e r n e s s . o r g

it, helping us to maintain the quality of our people and programs while keeping the Holderness Experience strong for current and future generations of Holderness students.

THANK

YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT.

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