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BOARD OF TRUSTEES Kat Alfond ’90 Sandeep Alva Karyn Campbell Katie Crumbo Carolyn Cullen ’87 Bob Cunha Cecily Cushman ’11 Chris Davenport ’89 Andrew Davis Paul John Ferri Tracy Gillette ’89 John Hayes The Right Rev. Robert Hirschfeld Burgie Howard ’82 Chris Keating ’81 Rob Kinsley ’88 Flip Kistler ’85 Alex MacCormick ’88 Chip Martin ’88 Kevin Mattingly Joe Miles ’82 R. Phillip Peck Nell Reynolds, Chair Andrew Sawyer ’79 Harry Sheehy Matt Storey Sander van Otterloo ’94 Richard Vieira Chance Wright ’14 Sung You ’01 Please send notice of address changes to the Advancement Office, PO Box 1879, Plymouth, NH 03264, or advancement@holderness.org. ©2021 Holderness School. EDITOR: Greg Kwasnik CONTRIBUTORS: Patrick Buckley, Rick Carey, Greg Kwasnik, Meghan McCarthy McPhaul, Matt Storey P ’20 ’23 DESIGN & PRODUCTION: Tessa Magnuson, Align Graphic Design, LLC

PHOTOGRAPHY: Thea Dodds, Greg Kwasnik, Max Paro, Emily Magnus ’88 P ’17 ’20. ON THE FRONT COVER: New students get a warm welcome to campus on move-in day, Sept. 2, 2021.

HEADMASTER EMERITUS The Rev. Brinton W. Woodward, Jr.

HONORARY TRUSTEES Warren C. Cook Bob Hall

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Jim Hamblin ’77 Piper Orton ’74 W. Dexter Paine III ’79 Will Prickett ’81 Gary Spiess

Students conduct a biology lab on Squam Lake in early October.

FEATURES HEAD TO HEAD

A DAY IN THE LIFE AT HOLDERNESS

CATCHING UP WITH JORY & MARTHA MACOMBER

2020–2021 REPORT OF APPRECIATION

DEPARTMENTS From the Schoolhouse..................................................................2 Around the Quad........................................................................ 20 Athletics........................................................................................26 Employee & Trustee Updates.................................................... 30 Alumni Profiles............................................................................ 34 In Memoriam.................................................................................38

REPORT OF APPRECIATION Financial Overview.............. 67 Profiles in Philanthropy...... 70 Power of Participation.........72 Thank You Donors................ 74 Thank You Volunteers......... 90

Class Notes.................................................................................. 42

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FROM THE SCHOOLHOUSE

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s I was reflecting on what to share in my secondto-last “From the Schoolhouse,” it seemed to me that during this time of leadership transition it might be appropriate to share some thoughts about Holderness leadership. Yes, Holderness is a school, but it is also a way of life, a lifestyle. In particular, when it comes to leadership, Holderness calls all of us to be moral leaders, not only now but for the rest of our lives. My thoughts on leadership are linked to several things: the exciting transition to a new head of school; a chapel talk Reverend Abby VanderBrug asked me to deliver; and ref lections from my dissertation research that I shared at former Associate Head of School Nigel Furlonge’s investiture as the new Head of School at Montclair Kimberley Academy. First and foremost, Holderness calls us to put others first: ▪

Our Motto: For God and humankind, a life lived for others.

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Our Mission: To work for the betterment of humankind and God’s creation.

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Our Vision: To strive to develop people (not just students but all of us) that the world needs most.

Leadership guru Jim Collins talks about how the greatest leaders have tremendous drive and are driven to serve beyond themselves. If we take advantage of it, Holderness sets us up well to serve others in formal programs like the Job Program, Project Outreach, and opportunities like the Vestry. Holderness calls us to be service leaders. Holderness leadership is directly connected to our annual leadership ballot to choose the school’s senior leaders. The leadership qualities assessed are Fairness, Initiative, Dependability, and Empathy. I would propose to you that the qualities of initiative and dependability are really important leadership qualities, but are relatively easy. If we can’t do those, then we can’t be leaders.

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Head of School Phil Peck Fairness and empathy, however, are moral leadership qualities that are truly Holderness. Webster’s dictionary says fairness is: impartial and just treatment or behavior without favoritism or discrimination. Holderness calls us not to show favoritism or discriminate against others. Empathy is the leadership quality that is perhaps most needed in today’s world. Holderness asks us to put ourselves in other people’s shoes. Linked to empathy is our intellectual core value of curiosity, which carries way beyond the classroom into everything we do. Yes, initiative and dependability are important, but should be a given to be a leader. Empathy and fairness are the qualities that we must apply to be Holderness

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Phil chatting with football players on KUA Day.

leaders and strive to be the people the world needs most. Holderness calls us to be fair and empathetic. Courage is a vital and yet much-less-discussed leadership quality. Every day, do we have the courage to do the right thing over the easy thing? Another leadership guru, Warren Bennis, frames courage in another way. He says, “managers do things right, leaders do the right thing.” Do we have the courage to do the right thing, even if everything around us tells us that we are naïve or even wrong? Holderness had the courage to open in-person last year even though many were saying we should not do that. Holderness asks us to have the courage to say something when somebody uses inappropriate or hurtful language. Our Honor Code calls us “to do the right thing, even if no one will ever know, and even if it comes at a personal cost.” Holderness calls us to be courageous. As moral leaders we must be able to communicate effectively with humility. One quality I have learned about in watching many successful and failed leaders of schools is whether or not they can communicate well (in writing, speaking, and listening) and put their egos in the back seats. The difference between arrogance and confidence is that arrogance is grounded in insecurity and confidence is grounded in humility. Daily I ask myself, am I insecure

or am I humble? Cornell West in Race Matters says it best: “Humility is the fruit of inner security and wise maturity. To be humble is to be so sure of one’s self and one’s mission that one can forego calling excessive attention to one’s self and status. And more importantly to be humble is to revel in the accomplishments of others...” Holderness calls us to be humble, confident leaders. So how do we do this? One way to do this is to look to our Holderness role models and mentors who exemplify these moral leadership qualities. This issue of Holderness School Today contains examples of many Holderness role models—past, present and future— who have given or give freely of themselves to make others better and to make Holderness better. So, Holderness calls us to develop “people the world needs most,” to be moral leaders. This is just one example of how Holderness is more than a school. Holderness is a lifestyle, and Holderness leadership is a life-long calling. As I approach retirement, I am still being called to be this type of leader as is John McVeigh as he begins his Holderness journey. I hope all of you will join us on this journey as members of the Holderness family. Phil Peck, Head of School ppeck@holderness.org

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wo heads are better than one. It’s an expression that’s taken on new meaning this year, as retiring Head of School Phil Peck works with his successor, John McVeigh, to prepare for the school’s July 1 leadership transition. While John will finish out the 2021-22 school year in his current role as Brooks School’s Associate Head of School for Faculty Affairs, he and Phil are in constant dialogue this year to make the transition as smooth as possible for the Holderness community. As part of that process, we asked Phil (PP) and John (JM) to sit down for a wide-ranging conversation just before the first day of classes this fall. Their hour-long conversation covered everything from the state of education in America to the opportunities and challenges facing Holderness School. It was an illuminating conversation that shed light on what they’re thinking as they prepare for a momentous change in their own lives—and the life of Holderness School.

What motivated you to enter education?

What motivated me were the amazing role models I had in high school. Just people who were such great mentors and coaches and teachers that just changed my life, and I thought if I could have that impact on students, what a gift. I was humbled by the idea but energized by the idea. How about for you?

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Definitely, for me, starting at home, in a household with two educators as parents who to this day are my heroes. Then, like you said, running into adults who changed and shaped my life for the better, and wanting to pass that gift on, knowing how profoundly it impacted me, how much it mattered to me, and how much I appreciated it and being drawn to the idea of being able to do that for someone else is an incredibly compelling why to get into this work.

In your view, what role does a head of school play in boarding school life?

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Wow. I’m going to defer first to the guy who’s been doing it a long time, and then I’ll share my two cents. As head of school you set a tone and you serve the community in a way that nobody else can. I think in a boarding school it’s even more so. What I realized very quickly as head of school is that everything you do is symbolic—and this is humbling—but everything you do is being watched. The parents are watching you, your colleagues are watching you, the students are watching you. So what do you wear? What do you say? How is your desk set up? What do you do with your house? What are the moments that you open your house, and why are you doing it? What are the things you come back in your remarks? How do you treat people? How do you manage your dogs? I never realized how important that was.

When I became head of school, I was getting hounded to have locks on the dorm doors. I wanted to have a school based on trust. I didn’t want, in the dorms, to have locks. So I think it was my third year, I actually changed the locks around so that the door into my assistant’s office is locked—you can’t get in there. But my door would never be locked. It’s open. So the door was always open. As you know, it’s a senior privilege to study in the Schoolhouse, so in the evenings students will be studying in my office. With that type of symbolism, I’ve had three requests for locks in 15 years. And the way you organize your office, what you put on the walls. All of those things matter. So that’s a little scary, the microscope that you just JM described, and a little exciting. It’s certainly humbling. Like you’re saying, how can I serve, number one, and that’s students and employees and alums and parents in whatever ways that I can? And how do I evangelize the mission and vision and spread the word about what we’re trying to do here? That’s exciting. We started this conversation about the why. That’s what fuels that kind of work, because if you’re relying on anything less—I think if anyone is trying to do this job right now in a transactional way is doomed to failure because it can’t, at least the way I hope to try to follow in your footsteps, it can’t be transactional. It has to be relational, it has to be transformational, it has to be around service. That’s exciting to me.

Well good, because you’ll be fabulous. Part of that modeling is what do you do when you fail? And I have failed, as my colleagues will share, a lot. But I was with a former colleague and I was teaching a course at Columbia in the summer, the leadership academy, and he said “Phil, I’ll never forget when you made that really bad decision on discipline and you not only went before the faculty and apologized, but you brought your board chair in to let us vent to him.” I’d like to think that’s not how I was a great model as head of school, but it was in my failing that I provided, thank God, a meaningful model. I think we need to be comfortable modeling that vulnerability, too, as head of school. For sure. You said it—setting the tone on that side,

JM we’re all going to make mistakes. I was just meeting with a team of folks here an hour ago and joked “I’m a human being. I’m going to make some mistakes,” and acknowledging that and giving folks permission to admit that is the only way to operate in an organization.

Because otherwise it becomes some sort of contest to hide the f laws and hide the faults and ultimately those are the moments that really can undermine a school and an institution and a community, is if you’re putting a false front as opposed to embracing our humanity and embracing that vulnerability, modeling it, acknowledging it. Not to say that we’re trying to make mistakes, but when they happen, we try to work through them together in ways that we hope we do with each other.

From your perspective, what unique role does Holderness play in the independent school world?

I love where we are with our motto, mission, and vision. The motto being For God and Humankind, the mission statement containing the words ‘To work for the betterment of humankind and God’s creation.’ And the vision to support the development of people— not students, but all of us—the world needs most. I think Holderness has the ability to be a model of what education can be. How can we be the school that God calls us to be? That shouldn’t be hubris, that should be a humbling calling that we have. What does our country call us to be around issues of social justice and issues around equity and inclusion? What does education call us to be? To be our very best. I think the calling that Holderness has moving forward is existential, because you’re never going to fully succeed in working to the high calling of God and humankind or the people the world needs most. It’s a lifelong pursuit to be your best. I’ve been struck by a lot of things in my time at Holderness. I was struck first by how many people love Holderness. When I was trying to decide whether I was interested in this job, how many people truly loved this school, the experience they had here. I don’t know if that’s necessarily unique but it’s rarer than I think I wish it were. It was so apparent to me what the school meant. I just met someone from the Class of 1957 as I walked in here, and felt it from him. I think that’s such an empowering moment as a school leader, to meet people who care so much about the school. I’m just getting started and I can’t wait to keep meeting people like that. That calling I think is one that’s been felt for a long time. And what’s also interesting from where I sit is so many things Holderness has done for a good while and are part of the fabric of Holderness I see schools trying to create right now. That’s a sign that I think Holderness has been ahead of its time for a long time, whether it’s experiences like OB or

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Senior Thesis, I think there are these deep, meaningful educational experiences that go beyond the classroom that independent schools are trying to come up with ways to do but Holderness does as part of who it is. So that’s a wonderful place to be—and, to your point—it’s also a calling, to continue to do that and not be complacent or satisfied or to think that box is checked. It’s not that kind of thing. It’s sort of a continuous process of doing that and examining ourselves and being honest about what the experience is like and how we can continue to improve and continue to set the pace in some of those ways.

now and how often I’m thinking about Holderness and how grateful I am to have this time to get to know you, get to know the people here, to start to meet all the people that I mentioned before who love this place so much. I can feel that building. I said during one of the interviews “People keep talking about how much they love Holderness. I’m just getting started, but I feel like I’m catching up.” I really do. I feel that care and that calling to be a steward for that and to come here and serve and try to do my best to help the school continue to be what it’s been for so many people. I think this will be a year unlike any other for me—kind of sharing that gratitude between two places and balancing my excitement for being here and getting to know people even more and to learn and to grow. So I couldn’t be more excited about that.

What are you most excited about this year?

This morning I was joking that being a head of school is becoming less and less popular, and I loved that there were 178 people interested in this job and I think this is the best job in secondary school education. People are tired of hearing me say that, but I really believe that. For me, what I’m excited about is savoring every moment. I have all these ‘lasts’—the last time we’ll have our opening chapel, so I could go on as long as I wanted to. But just savoring those moments. We were talking about dress code in a meeting a little while ago, and it was just fun to savor it in a way that I haven’t been able to. That’s what I’m so excited to enjoy—to suck the marrow out of Holderness during my last year. Part of what I’m really excited about this year is we’ve already had over two months together and we have an entire year to share and to learn from each other and I just think that’s awesome. I don’t know why this hasn’t been done more often, and you and I have talked about how I hope we can be a model of successful leadership transition in a school. It will be a lot of work but I think it will be enjoyable and I’m looking forward to that as well.

It’s sort of a mix of gratitude and excitement. The

JM gratitude I’m feeling is to Brooks, which has been an amazing place to me and the people who have meant so much, and I’m grateful to have a year to say thank you to people and have found ways already to start doing that. I’ve considered myself the luckiest guy in the world for a long time, and the opportunity to come here has only added to that. But Brooks took a chance on a very inexperienced teacher and coach and helped me. I think about what it’s meant to my family, what it’s meant to me professionally, personally, and so I’m excited to have a year to do what you’re doing and I’m going to enjoy a lot of those moments there. And I’m going to be balanced with this excitement that I can’t get off my mind right

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You’ve had 19 years at a really wonderful school, and I so respect your desire to savor that time that you have remaining at Brooks. But you’re bringing that here. You’re learning about Holderness. One of the things that I found compelling about your candidacy was that you were smitten. I felt like you and Kelly [John’s daughter] especially were smitten by Holderness and you need that. But you’re bringing so much from Brooks. You have a gift to Holderness that I didn’t because I was born and raised Holderness. You’re going to bring a lot to Holderness, and I’m excited to watch from the hill the things that you bring to Holderness, aspects of bringing the school forward, that I couldn’t possibly do. It’s going to be great. The partnership, and our work together, is right near the top of the list of things I’m most excited about. You’ve been so generous throughout this whole process and I think you touched on these transitions of heads of school, and its often not like that, for whatever reason. I am beyond lucky to have someone who’s been as generous as you are, who cares so much about this place, and who wants me to succeed and wants the school to succeed as much as you do. So thank you for that. You’re gracious. Thank you, and the feeling is mutual. n

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A DAY IN THE LIFE

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What’s a typical day like for a Holderness student? Full. On October 1, 2021, we set out to chronicle a day in the life of Holderness, from first light to lights out. It took three photographers 16 hours to capture the special moments that happen every day at Holderness—and we’re sure we missed countless more. While it would be impossible to truly capture the fullness of the Holderness experience, we hope these photos give you a sense of today’s tight-knight Holderness community—a community we know and love.

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MORNING Like most mornings, students began the day by grabbing breakfast in Weld Dining Hall. It was a busier morning than usual, as students took a break between classes to pose for the annual all-school photo on the quad.

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MID DAY It was a big day for learning on campus. An AP Bio class hiked across our wooded, 600-acre campus for a stream ecology lab; budding musicians recorded tracks in Carpenter Arts Center; and students conducted a chemistry lab in the brand-new Davis Center.

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AFTERNOON Once classes ended for the day, students walked (or biked) to their team practices. All Holderness students are required to participate in three sports throughout the year, from soccer and field hockey to fast-growing adventure sports like mountain biking and rock climbing.

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EVENING In the evening, students had time to meet up with friends or attend clubs and other gatherings. A number of students met for the Hispanic Heritage Dinner before study hall. All students checked into their dorms by 10 p.m., giving them enough time to hang out with friends before bed.

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MOUNTAIN DAY

Students hike past Star Lake on their way to the summit of Mount Adams on September 20, 2021.

On the crystal-clear morning of September 20, Holderness School’s 300+ students and faculty departed campus for the school’s annual Mountain Day. Spread out across New Hampshire’s White Mountains, members of the Holderness community ascended the highest summits of the Presidential Range, paddled down the Saco River, and scaled cliffs in Crawford Notch. Along the way, they took hundreds of photos, hiked a collective 1,367 miles, and discovered countless new friendships.

Martha and Jory Macomber with children (l-r) Sam, Anna, and Clark.

CATCHING UP With Jory and Martha Macomber

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t one point during Head of School Phil Peck’s conversation via Zoom with former faculty members Jory and Martha Macomber this past September, Martha turned the Macomber computer monitor outward so its camera could relay the view outside Jory’s office. No, Toto—we weren’t in Kansas anymore. Or New Hampshire. Spiking that southern horizon were the sere, jagged peaks of eastern Utah’s La Sal Mountains. It was indeed a lovely view, full of the hard rock and big sky and elbow-room spaces of the American West.

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And how did these two mavens of the Eastern independent school scene end up way out there? “Well, it’s sort of a love story,” Jory said. Flash back thirty-six years, to New Hampshire in 1985, and young Jory Macomber is a new- minted graduate of Dartmouth, where he had been named to three AllAmerican alpine ski teams, and a new member of Don Henderson’s history department. Another new member, arriving just the year before, was a Nordic ski team captain from Dartmouth—Phil Peck.

A similar background, and a similar outlook. “I always felt like Jory and I were well aligned in our thinking about Holderness, what we wanted for the school,” Phil said. For his part, Jory described himself as “Phil’s wingman” once Phil started f lying up in the school’s administrative ladder. But several other things had to happen first. In 1988, Jory left Holderness to begin work on a Master’s in education at Brown and also to help with the family construction business. During that time, he continued his long-term courtship with Martha Cornell, a Dartmouth classmate, who had grown up in California, and the two began dating during a shared semester abroad in Spain. Martha graduated with her history degree in 1986, and since then had been a social studies teacher in the Massachusetts public schools. They married in 1991—“I don’t think my mother ever forgave me for that delay,” Jory said with a laugh—and settled first in Brattleboro, Vermont, where Jory taught in a public high school while Martha worked in the admissions department at Landmark College. The next year Jory rejoined the faculty at Holderness. “Teaching in the public schools had been a goal of mine, but I found I was better suited for the independent setting,” he said. “Teaching, coaching, being a dorm parent—I liked being able to do all those different things.” During the 1990s, Jory would teach history and English, and coach varsity baseball and Eastern alpine skiing— posting a .650 winning percentage over 17 seasons in baseball, and nurturing 15 Junior Olympic medalists over twelve seasons in skiing. Martha would earn a Master’s in social work from Boston University, help establish a Montessori pre-school on campus, and prove herself among the most dynamic and welcoming of dorm parents. In 1998 she also became an associate professor of history at Plymouth State. And all the while, Jory and Martha raised three incredible children—Sam ’11, Clark ’14, and Anna. Two years later, Jory became the history department chair, and the next year Dean of Academic Affairs as well. By 2003, he was Dean of Faculty, a position that eventually expanded into Associate Head of School. And Jory was crucially Phil’s wingman in 2011 when Phil asked the school’s board of trustees if they wanted to keep the current Head around for another ten years. Yes, indeed, said the trustees. “Then I need to broaden my perspective,” Phil told them. “I need to know more about what I do.”

Martha and Jory Macomber

“Why don’t you go work on your doctorate and teach at Columbia?” suggested board chair Will Prickett ’81. “Jory could be acting head.” Indeed Jory could, seamlessly subbing in as Acting Head of School for 2012-13. By then Martha had served five years as board president of the Circle Program, a nonprofit dedicated to empowering, transforming, and enriching girls’ live through community, connection, camp, amd mentorship in New Hampshire; six years as board chair of the Holderness Central School; and four years as a faculty member in the Holderness School history department. “Then she blew the doors off the Head’s house during her year living there,” Phil Laughed. “She and Jory hosted 160 events there, and set the bar for what Robin and I try to do now. Martha is also an outstanding photographer and videographer. She helped Jory raise the Head’s Photo of the Day on the website to new artistic heights.” Phil was back the following year, during which Martha—as director of the Senior Thesis program—spearheaded the implementation of an academic adventure that has since become one of the cornerstones of the school. The Macombers would leave Holderness at the end of the 2014 school year, but by then, administratively, Phil and the Macombers had accomplished a lot together. During those years, for example, the number of women in leadership positions at the school had doubled to fifty percent. “I’m proud of that,” Jory said. “That was one of the best things we did.”

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Also “best” was the continued ascent of the snowsports program. Jory created the Director of Snowsports position, shifted the school from its four-year alliance with Waterville Valley to a more productive relationship with the Franconia Ski Club and Cannon Mountain, fortified the school’s snowboard, freestyle, and free-skiing programs, and in other ways strengthened Holderness’s position in offering—in Phil’s words—“the best snowsports program in America outside of a ski academy.” For Jory, the next three years would be devoted to the inside of ski academies. In 2012, the United States Ski & Snowboard Association had established its own small academy in Park City, Utah, and in 2015 Jory took charge of the USSA TEAM Academy as the association’s VicePresident of Career and Education. Martha did videography work for various Park City non-profits, but the couple stayed only a year because Vermont’s prestigious Burke Mountain Academy—where Jory had long been chair of the board of trustees—suddenly needed a head of school. In 2017, when Phil heard that Jory was leaving Burke after two successful years as head, Phil called the Macombers to ask if everything was alright. “Everything’s fine,” Jory said. “It’s just that Martha has found her dream job, and it’s time for me to support her.” In effect, Martha had been Jory’s wingman as he took on higher leadership positions in independent schooling and youth skiing. In 2017 it was his turn to be hers—and to pack up again for Utah. “I absolutely love what I’m doing, and I never would have gotten the job without the Master’s in social work I got twenty-five years ago,” said Martha, who is the University of Utah’s educational coordinator between the university and the Ute Tribe. “I help at all three high school campuses on the reservation with the college applications, the federal financial aid forms, and then ongoing support of the students we have at the university,” Martha said. “In various ways, I become embedded in their lives. It took me fifteen months to gain the trust of these families, and it is such a high honor now to be entrusted with these children by the parents of this other culture.” Of course, all Martha’s volunteer work with the Circle Program had been about helping kids overcome barriers. Here the stakes are even higher, the barriers

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more imposing. But given her energy, temperament, and generosity of spirit—yes, this is a dream job. Meanwhile their own kids are well launched. Sam ’11 is a lawyer clerking for a federal judge in Denver. Clark ’14 works at the Community School in Sun Valley, where he runs outdoor education trips and works as a pre-school teacher assistant. Anna is a sophomore at Skidmore College. And Jory stays busy in a household that divides its time between Park City and Moab. In 2017, he was hired as education director for the Kimball Art Center in Park City, but when the center’s executive director resigned during Jory’s first week there, Jory was immediately promoted to the top. There he rebuilt the leadership team and increased fundraising and attendance for a center that offers thirtyfive classes in various media, and also hosts an annual festival that draws some 50,000 visitors to Park City. Since December, 2020, however, he has been executive director of the Moab-based Canyonlands Field Institute, which offers outdoor education-style field trips to family, friend, and student groups—including groups from the Navajo and Ute tribes—across the Colorado Plateau. “We teach people how to connect to the plateau and each other,” Jory said. “We know from Out Back at Holderness that people can’t really care for the environment, the outdoors, without touching it. And by now,” he added, laughing, “I feel like I’ve earned my doctorate in running non-profits.” A non-profit, of course, is that sort of organization whose bottom line is not to make its owners or investors rich, but rather—in some important way—to make the world a little better. “At Holderness we have a school motto that urges people to live their lives for God and humankind, and a vision statement that says our aim here is to develop the sort of people that the world needs most,” Phil said. “I think we have two shining examples of that in both you folks.” And a marriage is its own sort of non-profit, one with two executive directors. Sometimes you take the lead, sometimes you f ly wing. You raise good kids, you make the world better, and you stay deeply in love. n

WE LOVE CATCHING UP WITH MEMBERS OF THE HOLDERNESS COMMUNITY, AND WE’RE LOOKING FOR YOUR INPUT.

Outdoor Chapel, Sept. 13, 2021.

Let us know if there’s a particular teacher, coach, or staff member you’d like us to catch up with, and we’ll do our best to see how they’re doing. Please send suggestions to communication@holderness.org

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AROUND THE QUAD

DAVIS CENTER DEDICATION October 23, 2021

ith sweeping autumn views of Stinson Mountain as a backdrop, the Holderness School community assembled on October 23 to officially dedicate the Davis Center, a new 35,000 square foot academic facility that’s home to the school’s math and science departments. Guided by the principles of innovation, collaboration, f lexibility, and connecting to the outdoors, the Davis Center was made possible through the generosity of countless donors by the Elevating Academics Campaign, a comprehensive fundraising effort dedicated to transforming learning spaces at Holderness. Speakers at the dedication ceremony included Head of School Phil Peck, Board Chair Nell Reynolds, former Board Chair Bob Hall, architect and board member Rob Kinsley ’88, and board member Andrew Davis, for whom the building is named.

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The dedication was an inspiring start for the new building, where future generations of Holderness students and teachers will benefit from state-of-the-art classrooms, labs, and community gathering spaces. n 2.

1. Students, teachers, trustees, and friends pose for a group photo during the Davis Center dedication. | 2. Head of School Phil Peck delivers remarks. | 3. Students cheer the opening of the Davis Center. | 4. Director of Job Programs Duane Ford ’74 leads a Holderness cheer. | 5. Board member Andrew Davis officially opens the Davis Center. | 6. Bottom Row (l-r): Andrew Davis, Board Chair Nell Reynolds, Board member Chance Wright ’14 and Davis Center architect and board member Rob Kinsley ’88 P ’19 celebrate inside the new building.

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AROUND THE QUAD

New Sustainability Coordinator Elizabeth McClellan tends to the school's garden this summer.

GROWTH MINDSETS: Sustainability at Holderness BY GREG KWASNIK

t’s a hot August morning on the Holderness campus, and Elizabeth McClellan has a lot on her mind.

The summer sky, hazy from wildfires burning thousands of miles away in California and other western states, hints at a future dimmed by the widespread effects of climate change. Just a week ago, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a report warning of “irreversible” warming in the coming decades, regardless of any future reduction in carbon emissions. And then, there are the woodchucks. As a summer project, Elizabeth—Holderness School’s new sustainability coordinator—decided to establish a vegetable garden on the south side of campus. In short order, she learned that a family of woodchucks had staked a competing claim to the plot. Over the course of the summer, Elizabeth

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watched as the woodchucks mowed down lush beds of kale and arugula, laid waste to rows of broccoli and caulif lower, and devoured fragrant patches of cilantro, parsley, and dill. It was like an agricultural remake of Caddyshack. “It’s been an ongoing feud with the woodchucks,” Elizabeth says, ruefully. In the grand scheme of things, the woodchucks are the least of Elizabeth’s worries. Heading into her first year as sustainability coordinator, Elizabeth—who also coaches field hockey and is an instructor for Knower Academics— is far more concerned with making Holderness a more sustainable and ecologically-conscious campus. In addition to expanding gardens, she has plenty of on-campus initiatives in mind, like revitalizing a composting program to process food waste and maybe even raising a few chickens. “I would love to get chickens for the school, but that’s maybe a pipe dream,” she says, laughing. “But we could have a campus-

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wide chicken naming contest, and maybe a little suggestion box. Fresh eggs!”

I’M EXCITED TO GET INTO IT AND JUST MAKE SUSTAINABILITY A PRIORITY HERE, PARTICULARLY THE LOCAL FOOD SYSTEMS AND AGRICULTURAL SIDE.”

Having grown up in the fertile Pioneer Valley of western Massachusetts, Elizabeth watched her mother tend a large household garden, and lived right next door to two farms— one that grew strawberries, and one cucumbers for pickles. As a tenth grader at Northfield Mount Hermon School, Elizabeth even used the school’s farm for a biology project to determine if human pregnancy tests work on pregnant cows. Like many rural kids, Elizabeth eventually decided to give city life a try. She moved to Rhode Island to attend Brown University, where she earned her bachelor’s degree in Literary Arts. After graduating in 2018, she took a job at the Penguin Random House Speakers Bureau in New York City, where she worked closely with Random House’s prominent authors. But everything changed when the COVID-19 pandemic hit in early 2020. In March of that year, Elizabeth decided to return to her agricultural roots, leaving the city to become a goat dairy apprentice at Villa Villekulla Farm in Tunbridge, Vermont. That spring and summer on the farm, Elizabeth learned how to milk goats, make cheese, muck pens, and keep the kids in line. “Goats are really mischievous—they get into a lot of trouble,” Elizabeth says. “They eat things they’re not supposed to, so you have to mitigate the dangers that they can cause.”

In the process, she learned how to care for animals humanely and use their products in a sustainable way. She hopes to impart many of the same hands-on, tangible lessons about sustainability to Holderness students. “I think there are a lot of aspects of academia that just feel not as critical as teaching kids how to live symbiotically with their environment and be good stewards of the earth,” Elizabeth says. “I’m excited to get into it and just make sustainability a priority here, particularly the local food systems and agricultural side.” Overall, Elizabeth is hopeful about the future—in both a global and local sense. Back in her campus garden, Elizabeth points to the many plants that have survived the Great Woodchuck Attack of 2021. There are tomato plants heavy with ripening fruit; a full row of eggplant; copious cucumbers; and even a few tiny watermelons bravely defying the odds of a short New Hampshire summer. By making sustainability a daily part of her students’ lives, Elizabeth hopes they’ll be inspired—despite similarly long odds—to change the world. “I’m hoping to get the kids interested in places where they might be able to look into policy, get involved in writing or calling their senators,” Elizabeth says. “Or thinking about ways that, on a larger scale, we might be able to focus on reducing emissions or thinking about how to make the country better.” n

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SUSTAINABILITY AT HOLDERNESS A

t Holderness, our mission urges us to work for the betterment of humankind and God’s creation. In that spirit, we take environmental stewardship seriously. Over the last decade, with leadership from science teacher and former Sustainability Coordinator Maggie Mumford, the school has taken great strides to make sustainability an integral part of the school’s physical infrastructure—and its culture. “Maggie Mumford, who

did this job before me and did an amazing job, is leaving me huge shoes to fill,” Elizabeth says. “She focused a lot on operations, infrastructure, and making sure buildings were meeting energy rating standards—in addition to leading the Environmental Club and coordinating Earth Day programs.” Here are just a few examples of the recent sustainability projects on campus.

SOLAR ARRAY Built in 2020, our 460-kilowatt solar array generates enough power to offset 30% of the school’s energy needs, including several dorms and the 35,000 square-foot Davis Center.

BIOMASS PLANT

In use since 2015, our biomass plant generates heat and hot water for the entire campus. It’s powered by wood chip fuel, a byproduct of local sustainable timber harvesting and sound forest management. The plant reduces the school’s yearly fossil fuel usage by 111,000 gallons of fuel oil and 10,000 gallons of propane.

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In 2014, the school installed 360 solar panels as part of the construction of the new outdoor hockey rink. This 99-kilowatt solar array, designed with input from students, generates up to 95,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity a year and supplies most of the rink’s energy needs.

SUSTAINABLE DORMS In 2008 and 2009, the school conducted sustainability audits of all buildings on campus, and implemented its recommendations while renovating Weld Dining Hall and the Hoit and Rathbun dorms. Two additional dorms constructed since then, Woodward and Pichette, both attained LEED Gold Certification through the U.S. Green Building Council.

CLIMATE ACTION GROUP We’re proud of our Climate Action Group, a collective of students who lead the way on student sustainability. Whether they’re organizing an Instagram-based thrift shop for unwanted items at the end of each semester, urging their classmates to upcycle their Nikes, or speaking at climate action events, they’re working hard to create the sustainable future they’ve envisioned.

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The Robert T. Low Turf Field—featuring brand-new turf and lights—plays host to a field hockey game against KUA on October 8, 2021.

A BRIGHT FUTURE FOR HOLDERNESS ATHLETICS BY GREG KWASNIK

ayla Liptak had only been on the Holderness School campus a few weeks this summer when she decided to jump into the Holderness 100, an annual 100-mile bike ride through the White Mountains.

lifelong fitness and a love of the outdoors. Throughout the process, Jenna has asked for significant input from her athletics staff—including newcomers like Cayla and Strength and Conditioning Coach Andrea Sweet.

“When I heard there was a 100-mile ride, I thought ‘What a way to see the neighborhood that was around me. Let’s give it a shot,’” says Cayla, the school’s new assistant athletics director and field hockey coach.

“I’m super psyched about both of their fresh eyes and new energy to see, what can we do? What’s possible for athletics here at Holderness?” Jenna says. “What can we say yes to, and what makes sense to say yes to that makes our experience for our whole community better?”

While Cayla saw a bit more of the neighborhood than she anticipated—her group took a wrong turn somewhere near Sanbornton and added 15 miles to the ride—her enthusiastic, let’s-give-it-a-shot attitude perfectly exemplifies the energy and new perspectives driving Holderness athletics this season. Led by new Athletics Director Jenna Simon, the department is busy implementing an athletics master plan that emphasizes a holistic approach to high school athletics, with a focus on encouraging

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THE PLAN The school’s new athletics master plan has been several years in the making. In 2017, the school convened an Athletics Council to consider what the future of Holderness athletics could look like. The council decided athletics at Holderness should focus on five main areas: character development and athletic culture; strength and conditioning; nutrition;

Athletics Director Jenna Simon.

mental health; and coach development. During the 201920 school year, then-Athletics Director Rick Eccleston ’92 spent his Henderson Brewer van Otterloo Chair Year visiting schools and athletics facilities across the country to determine how to make the school’s vision a reality. His findings—based both on his chair year and long experience as a leader in Holderness athletics—were critical to formulating the new plan. “Rick laid really important groundwork over the past 10, 11, 12 years,” says Jenna, who served as interim athletics director during Rick’s chair year. Head of School Phil Peck agrees. “The work that Rick did during his chair year was pivotal in the five initiatives we are taking, and he did a lot of research around facilities that could support those exciting initiatives,” Phil says. “Rick Eccleston laid the foundation for the work moving forward.”

Helping to launch these new initiatives—and being part of a new athletics team—was an exciting opportunity for Cayla, who worked as a physical education teacher and lacrosse coach at The Bishop’s School in San Diego before coming to Holderness. “To have Jenna be in her first full year, myself, and Andrea, it feels like the chance to really build some momentum and think about ways we want to enrich the athletic experience as well as student life and the culture of Holderness,” Cayla says. In the future, Cayla hopes to help establish more programs like O-Hike and Mountain Day, where students can learn, explore, and challenge themselves in the outdoors. “I’m hoping to build some more programs that have to do with that outdoor education element—and that sense of wow, who we are is because of where we are,” Cayla says.

The ultimate goals of the athletics program moving forward, Jenna says, are twofold: to serve both the athletes who plan to compete at the collegiate level, and to teach all students healthy, lifelong habits for physical and emotional wellbeing. “Yes, many of our kids have goals to play something at the next level, but that’s not everyone,” Jenna says. “Just being outside, playing, having fun is an important part for almost everyone.”

THE PLAN, IN PRACTICE Barely a week into the fall athletics season, it was clear that the new master plan had begun to take concrete form. A nutrition station had been set up in Bartsch, with healthy snacks for athletes on the go; coaches had professional

Assistant Athletics Director Cayla Liptak (right) coaches a student-athlete.

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development time built into their weekly schedules; and each team would spend several sessions that fall learning about mindfulness with Sports Counselor Ginger Comstock. For her part, Cayla was busy establishing two studentathlete-led groups: the Captains’ Council and the new Student Athlete Leadership Team. The first group, the Captains’ Council, would teach leadership skills to the school’s captains and help them become better team leaders. The second group, the Student Athlete Leadership Team (SALT), would give voice to students who aren’t captains but still want to guide the school’s athletic culture. This group will act as an advisory board to the athletic department and serve as the voice of student-athletes at Holderness.

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For her part, Jenna is eager to see what Cayla can accomplish. “She has unbelievable energy,” Jenna says. “If you’re having a hard day, it would be impossible to not have that day f lipped around. It’s energy that we need all around campus, that everyone can benefit from.”

FINDING STRENGTH Jenna is just as excited by Andrea Sweet, the school’s new strength and conditioning coach. Andrea comes to Holderness from Phillips Exeter Academy, where she developed the school’s first-ever strength and conditioning program, worked with 45 athletic teams each year, and played a critical role in the design and completion of the school’s 9,000 square-foot fitness center. Earlier in her career, she even worked as the head strength coach for the Phoenix Mercury in the WNBA.

Strength and Conditioning Coach Andrea Sweet leads a practice in the weight room.

Holderness is lucky to have her on staff. “It's great having a person that understands and wants to work side-by-side with our coaching staff to make our student-athlete experience the best it can be," Jenna says. "And have them be the most prepared starting with safety and injury prevention.” This fall, Andrea spent much of her time holding weekly strength and conditioning sessions with each of the school’s athletics teams. For high school athletes, these sessions will pay dividends down the line in terms of injury prevention and healthy habits. “I really enjoy working with high school athletes because for a lot of them this is

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the introduction to strength and conditioning,” Andrea says. “At this point, you can really teach the foundational aspects of strength and conditioning and hopefully create good habits around that from a really young age.” Andrea also worked on strength and conditioning with the school’s mountain biking and rock climbing teams. In fact, it was the school’s enthusiasm for adventure sports like these—and its strong connection to the outdoors—that drew Andrea to Holderness. A veteran hiker with thruhikes of the John Muir Trail and Long Trail to her credit, in 2020 Andrea earned a Master of Outdoor Adventure and Expedition Leadership from Southern Oregon University. For her thesis, which examined women’s solo experiences in the outdoors, Andrea interviewed a number of female hikers and adventurers. “One of the biggest things that I heard from the women that I interviewed was that it was super empowering for them to go out and do these solo hikes and just have the confidence in themselves—to gain that confidence in themselves,” Andrea says. It’s an important finding—and it’s especially relevant at Holderness, where all juniors embark on a three-day solo during Out Back. Ultimately, though, Andrea hopes to serve as a role model for students of all genders. “Strength and conditioning is a very male-dominated career field, so I think it’s awesome to be a role model for all students—not just the female students—having a female strength coach,” Andrea says. The work that Jenna, Andrea, Cayla, and others are doing to revitalize Holderness athletics is coming at just the right time. Thanks to a transformational $6 million gift, the school’s athletic facilities are undergoing a rapid expansion. This fall, the school’s soccer and field hockey teams played on the new, lighted Robert T. Low Turf Field, and there are plans to build a second turf field, grass field, and softball field along Mount Prospect Road. The school is also harnessing its programmatic vision to consider what sort of facilities may best support student-athletes in the future. In a way, the work Jenna and her team are doing right now is building the foundation for those facilities—and laying the groundwork to make Holderness a model in high school athletics. “There’s so much going on to have our facilities be the best out there, and super competitive in the NEPSAC,” Jenna says. “And then making sure our programming leads that—that we’re doing the best that we can to prepare our students, and then have our facilities echo that goal.” n

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Students climb at Rumney Rocks, a world-class climbing destination minutes from campus. In addition to traditional team sports, Holderness has seen increased participation in adventure sports like rock climbing, mountain biking, and whitewater kayaking.

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WELCOME NEW FACULTY!

his fall, we are excited to welcome a vibrant new class of faculty to the Holderness community. Our new arrivals this year include a new dean of students, several classroom teachers, an assistant athletic director, strength and conditioning coach, and an interim chaplain. Let’s take a minute to get to know our newest Holderness educators.

DEAN OF STUDENTS MB DUCKETT IRELAND After an extensive nationwide search, Holderness is happy to introduce Mb Duckett Ireland as the school’s new dean of students and English teacher. Mb comes to Holderness from Choate Rosemary Hall, where she spent 11 years as a Form Dean, English teacher, coach, and mentor to students and colleagues. A key aspect of her role at Choate was to foster diversity, equity, and inclusion on campus. A longtime advisor to Spectrum, Choate’s Sexuality and Gender Alliance, Mb helped guide students’ successful activism and leadership on campus, and organized the school’s annual LGBTQ conference for 14 peer schools. She also served as chair of Driving Equity at Choate, an interdepartmental team created to heighten cultural competency through training, curriculum review, admission work, and hiring practices. During her time as chair, Mb helped drive the strategic vision for equity and inclusion at Choate, planned faculty cultural competency workshops, and acted as a resource for colleagues to incorporate topics of diversity in their curriculum. Mb holds a Bachelor’s Degree in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University and a Master’s Degree from the Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College. She lives on campus with her wife, Sarah Duckett Ireland, and their two-year-old daughter, Livi.

INTERIM CHAPLAIN ABBY VANDERBRUG Rev. Abby VanderBrug, an Episcopal priest, brings a wealth of pastoral experience to campus this fall. She comes to Holderness from Christ Church Greenwich in Greenwich, CT, where she served as the associate rector for children and family ministries and preschool chaplain. In her role at Christ Church Greenwich, Rev. VanderBrug collaborated with multi-clergy staff to lead liturgy, preach, and provide pastoral care. She also taught confirmation and baptismal preparation, served as chaplain for the Royal School of Choral Music program, and co-directed the St. Nicholas Children’s Choir. Prior to her role at Christ Church Greenwich, she served as deacon and director of Christian formation for children and families at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Grand Rapids, MI. During her time in Michigan, she was also chaplain for Bronson Hospital in Kalamazoo, MI, a Level 1 trauma center. Rev. VanderBrug earned her Master of Divinity from Emory University in 2017. As interim chaplain, she replaces Rev. Joshua Hill, who left Holderness this summer to become the rector of St. Alban’s Episcopal Church in Cape Elizabeth, ME.

ASSISTANT ATHLETIC DIRECTOR CAYLA LIPTAK With extensive experience as a physical education teacher, coach, and camp counselor, Cayla Liptak was a natural choice for assistant athletic director. Ms. Liptak comes to Holderness from The Bishop’s School in San Diego, where she was a physical education teacher and coach. Prior to her role in California, she spent several years as a physical education teacher and coach at Greenwich Academy in Greenwich, CT, and at The Chapin School in New York City. Ms. Liptak is also very active in the lacrosse world, having

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STRENGTH AND CONDITIONING COACH ANDREA SWEET Strength and conditioning are critical to the long-term health and success of any young student-athlete. That’s why we’re so excited to welcome Andrea Sweet as our new strength and conditioning coach. Not only does Ms. Sweet have amazing experience—she once worked as the head strength coach for the Phoenix Mercury, the WNBA team—but she has the skills to help Holderness achieve its long-term athletics goals. She comes to Holderness from Phillips Exeter Academy, where she was head strength and conditioning coach. Over the course of more than a decade at the school, she developed its firstever strength and conditioning program, worked with 45 athletic teams each year, and played a critical role in the design and completion of the school’s 9,000 square-foot fitness center. Ms. Sweet holds a Bachelor of Science in Applied Exercise Science from Springfield College, and a Master of Outdoor Adventure and Expedition Leadership from Southern Oregon University.

PHYSICS AUTUMN GLENN We’re excited to welcome Autumn Glenn to campus this fall as an interim physics teacher. Ms. Glenn comes to campus with an engineering background, having earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Brigham Young University and a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from The George Washington University. While earning her master’s degree, she conducted research into secondary f lows in curved tubes for applications to arterial f low and stent design, publishing her results in the International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow. More recently, Ms. Liptak has written and revised patent applications for inventors, attorneys, and law firms. She is currently working toward a Master of Arts in Teaching from Western Governors University, and will coach cross country this fall.

CHEMISTRY/BIOLOGY ANDREW GLEASON A 2021 graduate of Middlebury College, where he earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Biochemistry, Andrew Gleason will teach chemistry and biology at Holderness. While at Middlebury, Mr. Gleason worked as a research assistant for the biochemistry department, conducting experiments and analyzing data to support faculty research. A native of Middlebury, Vermont, Andrew captained his high school’s football, ice hockey, and lacrosse teams at Middlebury Union High School. He also spent several years as a youth ice hockey referee for the Middlebury Amateur Hockey Association. While a student at Middlebury College, he worked as a lift operator and snowmaker at the Middlebury College Snow Bowl. Andrew will live in Niles dorm and coach girls junior varsity ice hockey and boys junior varsity lacrosse. n

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served as youth program director and travel lacrosse coach for the Greenwich Youth Lacrosse Association and club lacrosse coach and assistant director at CT Comet Lacrosse Club LLC in Greenwich, CT. And she’s no stranger to New Hampshire, having worked as a program counselor and director, lifeguard, and fitness coordinator at Sandy Island Overnight Camp on Lake Winnipesaukee since 2012. Ms. Liptak is a graduate of Bowdoin College and holds a Masters of Education, Physical Education, and Sports Pedagogy from Manhattanville College. She will live on campus and coach varsity field hockey and girls varsity lacrosse.

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WELCOME TO OUR NEWEST BOARD MEMBERS

oining the Holderness Board of Trustees requires a lengthy orientation and comes with a steep learning curve—and that’s during normal times. But add in the complexities of operating a school during a global pandemic, and the last year has proven to be a true crash course in the ins-andouts of Holderness School for our new trustees. And a crash course is what our talented and devoted new board members received, gaining a thorough understanding of and appreciation for the strength of the community, culture, program, and finances of the school. While familiar with Holderness, our four

newest board members—Kat Alfond, John Hayes, Flip Kistler, and Chip Martin—saw the school through an entirely new lens, where the circumstances of urgent global events presented significant challenges and incredible opportunities for learning and growth. “In such a short period of time, during COVID no less, our newest board members have shown themselves to be remarkable contributors at all levels,” says Head of School Phil Peck. “They are great listeners, ask probing and relevant questions, and have taken on leadership positions—already! We are truly blessed to have such capable and on-mission leaders serving Holderness.”

Chip Martin ’88, P’20

Flip Kistler ’85

Portsmouth, NH

Dallas, TX

Kat Alfond ’90, P’23

John Hayes P’15, ’18

Atherton, CA

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The Mittersill Performance Center at Cannon Mountain is a spectacular building, in any season. Designed by architect Evan Mullen ’00, the 9,500-square-foot lodge, opening this winter, will be a game changer for our athletes. The new lodge features dedicated space for gearing and warming up, fitness and stretching, video analysis, coaches' offices, tuning, and more. Built in conjunction with Franconia Ski Club and the State of New Hampshire, the new lodge is open to the public.

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DOING GOOD SCIENCE— AND DOING GOOD BY MEGHAN MCCARTHY MCPHAUL

ot that long ago, Elizabeth Norton considered herself a steadfast, lifelong New Englander. She grew up in Campton, New Hampshire, graduated from Holderness School and Dartmouth College, and went on to earn a PhD from Tufts University Elizabeth Norton ’01 and complete postdoctoral training at MIT. Among her favorite things, she lists New England mountains and the Red Sox. But when Northwestern University offered her a job as an assistant professor and research lab leader, she headed west, carrying with her some lessons learned during her days at Holderness. “It’s about finding your people,” Norton says. “When I came to Northwestern and interviewed and met some of my colleagues for the first time, I thought, ‘These are going to be my people. We’re going to support each other and make each other better.’ It was the same thing at Holderness—I found people with whom I really connected. That has resulted in 23 years of friendship with people who make a huge difference in my life.” Connecting with people –whether it’s through her research, teaching, or mentoring others—is at the core of Norton’s work. As part of her role as an assistant professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Norton is the principal investigator of Northwestern’s LEARN (Language, Education, and Reading Neurosciences) Lab, where her research focuses on understanding reading and language development, as well as learning and developmental disabilities, including dyslexia and autism.

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Norton has long been interested in both language and science, and her connections with Holderness School teachers in these subjects impacted the trajectory of her professional life. “Norm Walker inspired confidence in me and pushed me to be better, and to take risks. Every time I write a scientific paper, a recommendation letter, almost anything—I hear him in my head,” she says. “My science teachers—Katie Gamble Marvin, Chris Little, and Paul Elkins—made sure to leave room in our lessons for questions and following our curiosity. They really laid the groundwork for me realizing that being able to ask and answer scientific questions was extremely satisfying. I really feel that all of these teachers had confidence in me before I had it in myself.” At Dartmouth, Norton created her own major, “Language and Brain Development,” to be able to pursue both interests. A two-year stint of teaching at the Landmark School in Beverly, Massachusetts—for students with dyslexia or other languagebased learning disabilities—further inspired her work. “I had a classroom full of high school students who were all very bright and all had different strengths, but reading the textbook was really difficult for them,” she says. “Seeing these students being held back by their difficulties with reading and language, I decided I wanted to get my PhD. And I realized the way to approach this is to catch these challenges early. Early intervention matters. The brain is more plastic and malleable early in life.” Now, Norton is leading three National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded studies at her lab, where the motto is “Do good science, and do good,” which Norton says means, “We try to do work that makes us all better people and helps improve things in the broader world.” That work focuses on ways to identify language and neurodevelopmental problems in children as young as toddlers and infants, using such tools as brain imaging and behavioral measures. Pre-Covid-19, her lab was also working to determine whether language assessments conducted by video chat were as effective as those done in-person. The findings were published as schools were shifting to remote instruction at the start of the pandemic, and Norton says, “A lot of researchers

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Dr. Elizabeth Norton is the principal investigator of Northwestern University's LEARN Lab.

and speech pathologists who use these assessments have told me that this paper was very important to them.” Norton feels strongly that access to information and early intervention services is critical. For this reason, she makes sure any journal article she publishes is freely accessible to the people who need it. She also works with grassroots parent- and teacher-led organizations, such as Decoding Dyslexia, to enact policy changes that may lead to early and accurate screening for dyslexia and other learning disorders. And she consults pro bono with area school districts to help set up screening for learning disabilities and to ensure educators have the best possible training in this area. This, too, stems from her time at Holderness. Norton was a day student and said her family could not have afforded to send her to Holderness without financial aid. She credits admissions officers Peter Barnum and Heather Cameron with working with her family: “I think that so many students could benefit from a place like Holderness. I really give them a lot of credit for helping me be the person I am now.” One of Norton’s favorite things about her work is mentoring, whether it’s undergrads, postdoctoral

students, or the teenagers who participate in the summer program she established at Northwestern for high school students from diverse backgrounds to learn about neuroscience and research professions. “I really love mentoring, and I think in part it comes from having good mentors, starting at Holderness. It was incredibly inf luential to me to have somebody who believed in me when I didn’t believe in myself, to see that they thought that I could do more and do better,” Norton says. “I have students in my lab who are first generation college students. To have the chance to show students that I believe in them, and that they can do more and do better—to help them feel that they belong and this is where they can do good work and do something that they feel confident in and feel good about doing—that’s really important to me. I’m trying to include a more diverse group of students who are very much underrepresented in science and try to understand the best that I can the challenges that they face. I really believe that we’re going to do the best science when we get the most diverse group of brains together and everyone can feel that their ideas are valued.” n

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FINDING BALANCE

Artist and Industrial Designer JooHyun Lee ’05 BY GREG KWASNIK “I like composing things. I like to put things in the perfect way that I feel like it’s balanced, and I think it’s quite a fun thing to do,” JooHyun says. “A lot of people these days are into interior design and home deco, and I wanted people to use these as their own objects and try to make their own composition.” Her creations have found a ready market through JHL Sustain, the workshop she created to make sustainably-produced objects for everyday use. “All of the works are practical,” JooHyun says. “I’m trying to make artwork that functions well in our lives these days.”

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n life—and in art—it’s important to find balance. At least that’s the philosophy guiding JooHyun Lee ’05, an artist and professor of industrial design living in Seoul, South Korea.

“I obtain peace when I make something. When I work at the bench you just have something new out of nothing,” JooHyun says. “That’s when I feel a little more balanced, after a hard day’s work. I like working in the studio.” Inside her studio, JooHyun works in a variety of media— wood, stone, metal—to craft beautiful but functional works of art. Her latest collection of work, ‘The Balance Objects,’ includes candlesticks, incense holders, shoehorns—even a modular dining set with bowls, saucers, and trays that can be arranged in an infinite number of combinations.

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Practicality has been a recurring theme in JooHyun’s professional life. In addition to her studio work, she’s a full-time lecturer of culture and design management at Yonsei University in Seoul, and consults as an industrial designer for various industries. In her industrial design work, she has designed and produced eyewear; worked on plant factory system design for indoor farms; and worked with the carbon fiber industry to develop new product designs while reducing that industry’s heavy water use. “When I work with manufacturing companies, I try to think about how I can make their production a little more sustainable,” JooHyun says. Looking back, JooHyun credits Holderness for launching her artistic career. “If I hadn’t gone to Holderness, I probably wouldn’t have chosen art as my profession,” she says. And in a way, Holderness is where the theme of balance began to assert itself in her life. Like all Holderness students, she worked hard to balance the competing demands of athletics and academics, playing cello in the All-State orchestra for three years while also participating in field hockey, snowboarding, and tennis. “I would say I was probably one of the worst players in sports but I did pretty well in art and music,” JooHyun says, laughing. She also says she was the inspiration for the school’s Art in the Afternoon program, which allows some students to forgo a season of athletics in favor of studio work. “Katherine [Field] and David [Lockwood] told me that because of me, they changed the system a little bit and had one season that can be used for art and music.”

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Some of JooHyun's latest work, "The Balance Objects," includes shoehorns and a modular dining set.

with each other,” JooHyun says. Later on, she continued to explore those ideas while earning her M.A. from the Royal College of Art in London. “I kept on going with this idea of finding my own balance by working with the materials and working with the body,” says JooHyun, who at the time was struggling to make the transition to a new country and competitive M.A. program. “I didn’t know anybody, and I didn’t know the UK culture. So I kind of developed theories of work that deals with meditation,” JooHyun says. “It was much about healing oneself.”

It was her art teacher, Katherine Field—a woman JooHyun calls “my second mother”—who encouraged her to apply to the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). “Katherine insisted I apply to RISD,” JooHyun says. That insistence paid off, as she was accepted to RISD and went on to major in Jewelry and Metalsmithing. She went on to win a prestigious Wingate Scholarship at RISD—given to only 10 graduating seniors nationally—upon graduation. That scholarship helped pay the rent for studio space in New York City, where she applied her skills in jewelry and metalsmithing to further her style. “At the time I was into conceptual artwork, which was in conversation with the human body, and how two people can interact

Today, JooHyun has found a new kind of balance as an artist, industrial designer, and professor. This summer, she held her fourth solo exhibition to display ‘The Balance Objects.’ In her other hours, she’s busy teaching, publishing, and obtaining design patents. She even finds time for a twice-weekly Pilates class, an athletic pursuit that helps balance out the aches and pains that come with demanding studio work. In a way, JooHyun’s very full life echoes the one she discovered at Holderness. “Holderness let me experience various different fields, basically. All the jobs I had to do. At the time I was so lazy and didn’t want to go, but all of these different experiences along with and including art and music let my life become fuller,” JooHyun says. “I am still interested in a lot of things and I think I became stronger after Holderness. I wasn’t afraid anymore to try something new. I appreciate that a lot.” n

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THIS BEAUTIFUL ADVENTURE BY RICK CAREY

or decades it was the first sign of spring at Holderness School: that moment during a winter all-school assembly when French and Spanish teacher Lew Overaker rose in a red sweater vest to hype the Service Committee’s sale of flowers for the annual Valentine’s Day Carnation Exchange. The Service Committee offered carnations in three colors, and Dr. Overaker’s pitch always went something like this:

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“Red, of course, is for love. I don’t need to describe that further. White is for friendship. You give white carnations to your roommates, your teachers, or your friends. But pink? Well, pink is a special color, reserved for those wishing to demonstrate some . . . p-o-s-s-i-b-l-e . . . interest.” It took Lew as long to say “possible” as it took the rest of the sentence. Each vowel, each consonant was elongated and given melody. The word emerged as a

Then, after assembly, there were Lew and his committee members at a table in the foyer of the Hagerman Center, dispensing hand-over-hand those vernal tokens of love, friendship, and possible interest. Born in 1942, Lew grew up in Springfield, Illinois, and gravitated to the study of French and Spanish because he was good at languages and wanted to see more of the world. He earned a B.A. in French at MacMurray College in Jackson, Illinois, and then a Master’s at Indiana University, where he continued his study of Spanish as well. For the next five years Lew was a doctoral candidate at Ohio State University while he taught French at Ohio Wesleyan University, then at MacMurray, then Ohio Wesleyan again. By 1976, though, his dissertation was still unfinished, meaning that he was ineligible for tenure at Ohio Wesleyan. Suddenly Lew needed a different job, and— remembering a happy trip he took to Vermont as a child with his family—he sent letters of inquiry (pink carnations, as it were) to a host of New England boarding schools.

inmates. When once Lew confessed to history teacher Don Hinman ’55 that he was not a very good field hockey coach, Don said, “Well, Lew, we’ve tried you at everything else.” And yet Pete Woodward—who succeeded Don Hagerman as headmaster in 1977—kept rehiring him, and Lew kept signing on again. Lew said once that it was not until 1982— on a rainy day when he was suffering through his sixth orientation hike—that he really felt at home at Holderness. “I was out there with [former English teacher] Mike Henriques ’76, and Mike produced some cupcakes that Ki Clough [wife of former assistant head Bill Clough ’55] had made especially for my birthday,” Lew said. “So we were all there in the rain, munching on these soggy cupcakes, and it suddenly occurred to me how much happier I was than I ever would have been at a dinner party at Ohio State with wine and cocktails.”

Meanwhile Don Hagerman was in the last year of his long tenure as headmaster at Holderness—and French teacher Emile Poisson had resigned unexpectedly to go into business in Laconia. Then, as now, Holderness faculty members were asked to do many things well: teach in the classroom, run a dormitory, coach a sport, and capably lead kids into and out of the woods. This candidate had never run a dormitory, and was not at all an athlete, nor an outdoorsman. Don Hagerman must have seen something in this unlikely Midwesterner that trumped his apparent drawbacks. In any event, in the fall of 1976, Lew arrived at a campus much more isolated than he imagined, working a job where the workday never ended, and being asked to take the lead in activities he had no mastery of. The stories are still told around Holderness campfires: Lew’s headlong solo bushwhack down a mountain and back to campus during an orientation hike because he was sure a bear was stalking him; the bat that came down his chimney one night and sent him f leeing in bathrobe and slippers to the door of biology teacher Don McNeill; the various sports teams where the asylum, by and large, was run by the

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IN MEMORIUM

voodoo love potion of curiosity, longing, hesitation, and warmth; as a charm delivered with such sweetspot pitch and comic timing that gales of laughter broke out before the first syllable was completed.

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Former chaplain Randy Dales recalls the wonder of it all. “I will never forget welcoming Lew to the Holderness faculty, hardly imagining he would become for me the symbol of Holderness,” he said. “No more HoldernessSchool-for-Boys jock image, but rather a sensitive, caring intellectual who was always ready to laugh at himself.” This intellectual became a giant in the life of the mind at Holderness. He was a charismatic teacher and department head who never stopped being a scholar as well. In 2001 he published in Marquette University’s Renascence magazine a theological analysis of a Flaubert novella that has become widely cited in the study of French literature. He earned over his career no less than twelve coveted grants for study in National Endowment for the Humanities summer seminars, dispensations that allowed him to see plenty of the world.

“I WILL NEVER FORGET WELCOMING LEW TO THE HOLDERNESS FACULTY, HARDLY IMAGINING HE WOULD BECOME FOR ME THE SYMBOL OF HOLDERNESS...”

The depth of Lew’s Episcopalian faith not only fueled his decades of work with the Service Committee, but made him an assistant to chaplain Rich Weymouth ’70 on the school campus and also head of the altar guild, secretary of the vestry, secretary of the liturgy committee, and an usher at the Church of the Holy Spirit in Plymouth. These and his academic accomplishments earned his election to the Guild of Scholars of the Episcopal Church in Manhattan, where he served as treasurer. What Lew Overaker was most revered for, however, was his ability on a personal level to make each and every student feel welcome and comfortable at Holderness—particularly those who (like himself) might not be the most natural fit at the school, or who for any reason were struggling. “Lew had an uncanny ability to do what Alice Jane Hinman [former assistant to the headmaster, and Don Hinman’s mother] encouraged me to do as Head of School,” said Phil Peck. “She said, ‘Be sure you love the unlovable boys.’”

Of course, it was never the cupcakes that kept Lew nested at Holderness for a career that would span 32 years. Instead, part of it was that bulldog tenacity that had kept him working on his doctorate so long at Ohio State—which in fact he earned in 1981, thereby becoming “Doc O,” but not returning to Ohio Wesleyan.

Whether boy or girl, lovable or unlovable, Lew offered unconditional friendship and support to each student he met. Latin teacher Doug Kendall called Lew the school’s Father Confessor. “He probably knew more than anybody else did about the kids here,” Doug said, “and his biggest contribution might be that he was such a good confidant and counselor.”

And another part was the conviviality and generosity of spirit that made him take so warmly to all people. Lew just liked all the people he knew at Holderness, and they in turn were all beguiled by his self-deprecating humor, his effervescent good cheer, and that radiant personal warmth.

Among the dozens of messages sent to Phil Peck by grieving alumni during the last days of October, perhaps one sentence from Nat Barker ’85 sums them up best: “A legendary teacher and friend to many of us as we navigated the complexities of high school, teenage awkwardness, and the journey that is growing up.”

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Even Lew’s own areas of awkwardness were developed into unique species of strength thanks to his humor and courage. When he mentioned one day that he had once picked up a tennis racket and filled in as a fourth for doubles, Lew was duly christened JV tennis coach. If the inmates ran that asylum, they always emerged sane and smiling at the end of the season. “Hysterical road trips and stories,” recalled former athletic director Will Graham ’85. “Lew asked me to fire him from the job on a weekly basis—no chance.” And if never an outdoorsman or accomplished athlete, he was an avid swimmer and a demonstrated risk-taker. For many years there was a photo in the Schoolhouse of a man leaping from a bridge into the Pemigewasset River. That photo was taken during an orientation hike, and the bridge was high enough for many students to shy away from such a leap. But if you looked closely, you could see that the plummeting man in swim trunks was Lew Overaker. He had climbed the rail of that bridge with a pink carnation of possible interest in his heart. Then he had taken that leap, just as he had so many years before in accepting Don Hagerman’s job offer at a little school in the mountains, where possible interest indeed blossomed into love. On the night of October 26, 2021, last rites were read over Lew Overaker by former Chaplain Joshua Hill. “We believe he tried to cross himself,” the chaplain wrote in an email that night. “Thank you all for joining this beautiful adventure of community and friendship.” n

WATER, WINE, AND BREAD Doc enters, cross held high above his head; Simply clad, he loves this weekly rite; Doc helps the priest serve water, wine and bread.

On Valentine’s for love there’s always red; Pink for possible interest; for friendship, white. Doc rises, speaks, cross high above his head.

Doc drops a gift, the Globe, before he’s fed. Each morn, his grade and joie de vivre unite The Breakfast Club at coffee, eggs and bread.

The Simple Heart of Flaubert lives; we’re led By Doc O’s mind—subtle, caring, right— Advancing Truth, cross high above his head.

Doc makes a pizza run. It’s time for bed, But Doc knows stomachs growl, the boys are tight; So he serves his dorm Pepsi, cheese, and bread.

Though brother, Mom, and Dad are long since dead, Doc’s not alone; friends visit any night... Mass ends; Doc leaves, cross high above his head. With style he’s served us water, wine, and bread.

-“Water, Wine, and Bread” from the book “Teachers” by Norm Walker.

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“A LEGENDARY TEACHER AND FRIEND TO MANY OF US AS WE NAVIGATED THE COMPLEXITIES OF HIGH SCHOOL, TEENAGE AWKWARDNESS, AND THE JOURNEY THAT IS GROWING UP.”

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CLASS NOTES Milestones DEATHS Serge A. Mailloux ’68: April 6, 2018 Robert B Skeele ’47: May 24, 2020 Robert M. Benjamin ’45: September 6, 2020 Carlton G. Hoagland ’53: October 9, 2020

Brendan Meryman ’08 and Rebecca Gever: May 9, 2021 at The Inn at Grace Farm, Fairfax, VT Emma (Locke) McGreal ’09 and Michael McGreal: May 14, 2021 at Montage Palmetto Bluff, Bluffto, SC

LeBaron F. Chambers ’64: January 9, 2021

Laura (May) Higgins ’99 and Nick Higgins: May 21, 2021 at City Winery, Nashville, TN

John F. Harper (TR): January 23, 2021

Abby Campbell ’04 and John Maguire: May 22, 2021

Lars H. Hansen ’52: March 14, 2021

Pau Figueroa ’10 and Alexander Saadi: May 23, 2021 in Mexico

Jamie K. McDougall ’95: May 11, 2021

Todd Davis ’07 and Beatrice Ray-Davis: June 26, 2021 in Plymouth, MI

Roberto J. van Tienhoven ’55: May 15, 2021

Brian Tierney ’12 and Alyssa Moore: July 1, 2021 at Meadowlark Botanical Gardens, Vienna, VA

Mary Elizabeth Nordstrom (PEM P’76): May 19, 2021

Dew Wallace ’98 and Ally Wallace: August 21, 2021 at Riverside Farm, Pittsfield, VT Matthew Burzon ’03 and Erika Burzon: August 21, 2021 in Dandy, VT Annie (Hanson) Gilmore ’07 and Chase Gilmore: August 21, 2021 at Our Lady of the Snows, Woodstock, VT Jenn Cameron ’10 and Devon Cudmore: August 28, 2021 in Cornwall PE, Canada Robert Maguire ’00 and Julianne Lenehan: August 28, 2021 in Martha’s Vineyard, MA

BIRTHS AND ADOPTIONS Avi Aronson ’08 and Kali Nadeau: Bodhi Rose Aronson on August 15, 2019 Andrew Herring (EM) and Jena Herring: Flora Nour Herring on March 11, 2021

Patrick J. Brill ’50: June 16, 2021

Gabrielius Maldunas ’11 and Edita Navickaite-Maldūnienė: July 17, 2021 in Birzai, Lithuania

Edward "Ted" E. Stone ’79: June 19, 2021

C.J. Chartrain ’09 and Allisa Meg: July 17, 2021

William O. Wuester ’58: July 14, 2021

Haley Hamblin ’08 and Josh Raab: July 24, 2021 in Stockbridge, MA

Ryan "Goldie" Goldsmith (EM) and Jenna Goldsmith: Mary Elizabeth Goldsmith on April 1, 2021

Joanna P. Drummond (PEM): July 28, 2021

Ally (Keefe) Collins ’02 and Shane Collins: July 29, 2021 at China Peak Mountain Resort, Lakeside, CA

Ramsay (Hill) Chodounsky ’02 and David Chodounsky: Colter Potter Chodounsky on April 8, 2021

Holly Block ’09 and Mike El-Saleh: July 31, 2021 at View Point Hotel, York, ME

Putney (Haley) Pyles ’97 and Kevin Wendell: Julia Wendell on April 8, 2021

Douglas H. Rennie ’50: August 24, 2021 Marla (Dalley) Stringfellow ’92 P’12: August 24, 2021 Lew Overaker (PEM): October 26, 2021 Larry Roberts (PEM P’71): November 25, 2021

MARRIAGES AND UNIONS Kelsey (Muller) Rospos ’09 and Alex Rospos: July 18, 2020 in Bend, OR Katie (Smarse) Edney ’05 and Ryan Edney: March 19, 2021 in Tillcoultry, Scotland UK Morgan Coleman (PEM) and Justin Storm: April 13, 2021 in Sycamore Point, AZ

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Henry Worobec ’06 and Emily Cleveland: July 31, 2021 in Pony, MT Morgan (Bayreuther) Philbrick ’14 and John Philbrick: in Caratunk, ME August 1, 2021 John McCoy ’10 and Sarah McCoy: August 7, 2021 at The Woodstock Inn, Woodstock, VT Abby Alexander ’10 and Kevin Molinaro: August 8, 2021 Margaret (Thibadeau) Renzi ’11 and Nick Renzi ’12: August 13, 2021 at Brewster Academy, Wolfeboro, NH

Beckett Noyes ’08 and Ashton Noyes: Arthur Guy Noyes on March 15, 2021 Kory Himmer ’07 and Kristina Himmer: Cameron David Himmer on March 29, 2021

Ashley (Currier) Trainor ’03 and John Trainor: Theodore "Teddy" John Trainor on April 15, 2021 Sam Woolf ’04 and Cristina Skordas: Harper Carlee Woolf on April 23, 2021 Dave Seamans ’07 and Erica Seamans: Harper Marie Seamans on April 28, 2021 Jamie Wallace ’05 and Stephanie Satya-Morrissey: Mark Watt Wallace on April 29, 2021 Bubba MacMahon ’04 and Krissy McNeill: Rory Katherine MacMahon on May 17, 2021

Peter Schlech ’05 and Emily Similis: Michael Thomas Schlech on May 17, 2021 Anna (Lockwood) Kelly ’03 and Ryan Kelly: Georgie Lockwood Kelly on May 25, 2021 Jesse Straus ’06 and Madison Straus: Hughes Alexander Straus on May 30, 2021 Bill White ’06 and Mariel Waerenskjokd: Chloe Aase Waerenskjokd White on May 31, 2021 Francis Chapuredima (PEM) and Robinah Zendera Chapuredima: Munesu Akudzwe Chapuredima on June 2, 2021 Lauren Sirignano (EM) and Paul Sirignano: Alta Davis Sirignano on June 4, 2021 Drew Wallace ’98 and Ally Wallace: Wyatt Overton Wallace on June 5, 2021

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Heather Keslin ’04 and Matthew Sharbaugh: Pierce James Sharbaugh on June 9, 2021 Nathaniel Campbell ’97 and Jennifer Campbell: Emery Lynne Campbell on June 11, 2021 William Bentley ’00 and Juliet Bentley: Wynn "Winnie" Woodland Bentley on June 11, 2021 Kara (Herlihy) Young ’03 and Ry Young: Robert "Rip" Taylor Young on June 18, 2021 Emilie Lee ’99 and Kristo Torgersen: Torren Magnus Torgersen on June 21, 2021 Samantha (Shlopak) Larson ’07 and Jasper Larson: Finn Wilder Larson on June 24, 2021 Gavin Bayreuther ’12 and Erin Bayreuther: Brooke Lovejoy Bayreuther on June 30, 2021

Allie Skelley (PEM) and Stefanie Skelley: Livia Carter Skelley on July 9, 2021 Kerry Douglas ’02 and Andrew Pearce: Dylan Julienne Pearce on July 16, 2021 Lina (Encalada) Goodwin ’09 and Tyler Goodwin: Watson Edward Goodwin on July 21, 2021 Paul Cocchiaro ’05 and Kara Sullivan: Ava Sullivan Cocchiaro on July 29, 2021 Luke Kelly ’06 and Olivia Kelly: Fiona Violet Bernice Kelly on August 17, 2021 Ariana Nicolay ’04 and Joseph Curran: Lucy Simone Curran on August 20, 2021 Elizabeth Krainchich ’07 and Lauren Krainchich: Eloise Elizabeth Krainchich on August 31, 2021

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amazing he ever spoke to us again—but boy did

home. Her son Henry has finished college and

we all laugh! Please consider sharing any fond/

now is working toward a master’s degree in

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funny memories for the next HST issue. ~ Bill

landscape architecture. My granddaughter

Bill Briggs

Megan is in her senior year at the University

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of Boulder. Bebe is still working for a company

I was very happy to receive a letter from

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She operates out of her own home, a practice

Frank Page who said “Perhaps I could just

Rik Clark

we’re seeing a lot more of with others as well.

summarize my life since school, where I was

capeclarks@aol.com

Her husband Jimmy still commutes to Boston

always called Mac. First, I wound up in the

with people who are management consultants.

but is soon retiring from his job and will be

US Air Force, including a year in Korea.

William B. “Bart” Chase writes: “We

up here full time. I get the news from time

This was followed by studies in creative

have made a recent change in residence to

to time from Facebook about my classmate

writing, then aeronautical engineering, and

an assisted care facility, very close to our

William “Chico” Laird who is bearing up

finally the University of Florida, degree in

former condo. Health reasons mandated the

well in his efforts in dealing with current

architecture. Worked in Tampa for a while,

change. We are managing fine. Not as many

family health issues. He continues to be in

then San Francisco for five years. There I

responsibilities. Thank goodness for the work

our thoughts and prayers. My heart goes out

met an English girl, Shirley. We married,

of our two daughters, otherwise the change

to this year’s Holderness grads and faculty

moved to Britain where we have lived since

would have been impossible. The presence of

during these unsettling times. I’m pleased that

1965. Master’s in urban design at Edinburgh

the pandemic has made life a lot different,

the seniors at the school were able to engage

University, lived and worked around Scotland

but we adhere to the rules of the road very

in sharing together their treasured in-house

and England. Two daughters. One daughter,

carefully. Got our two Pfizer shots, so are

Commencement event when so many other

her husband and two young people (no longer

pretty safe. Have just been blessed by the

schools in the region couldn’t. As a member

children) live just next door, which is handy

birth of our third great-grandchild, so there

of the Class of ’50, I have fond memories of

during these ‘lockdowns.’ Strange to think

is a great deal of additional happiness in our

the time my mates stepped up to the altar in

that everyone in the world is now suffering

family. Again, many thanks to Rik Clark for

the Chapel to receive their “diplomas” from

from the same problem, the pandemic. I don’t

his constant toil for the class of 1948.” … For

NH Bishop Charles Francis Hall. Those

actually remember much about school. My

all of us, the COVID-19 pandemic turned

were glorious times. ~ Frank Hammond

favorite master was Theron Abbey, English

our worlds upside down. As I write this in

lit and writing. My roommate was Peter

early July of 2021, normalcy is beginning to

Bardach, who died a couple years ago. I had

reappear. Holderness has emerged stronger

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my f lying license then; I once f lew a student

with a new Head of School, John McVeigh,

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and a master’s wife to a football match. I

following Phil Peck in July 2022. Travel is

Terry Weathers

also will never forget f lying an open-cockpit

beginning to beckon for my wife Sandy and

tmw@sisqtel.net

Stearman biplane over the glorious fall colors.

me; golf continues to be fun with room for

As they keep saying, stay sage.” … A funny

improvement and the presence of decent

memory came to me the other day about Peter

health is one of our blessings. ~ Rik Clark

Bardach. Peter did not like bugs—not one bit. I (and another classmate whose name

’52 INTERIM CLASS CORRESPONDENT Terry Weathers

escapes me) thought it would be funny to pull

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a gag on Peter. We snuck into Schoolhouse

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one night, turned on all the lights and opened

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the windows. It was the time of year when

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June bugs would come out in the evening and would f ly toward any lights. As they f lew in

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and encouraging your classmates to

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reconnect in the HST class notes.

the window, we used pieces of wood that we removed from the classroom desk tops to swat

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for more information. Thank you!

and stun the beatles. We gathered the stunned

Frank Hammond

beetles in a bag then snuck into poor Peter’s

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dumped the now crawling beetles onto the foot

I continue to enjoy the luxury of being

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of his bed and then pulled the sheets back up.

“propped up” by family and friends during

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We laid in bed that night listening for Peter

these relatively quiet times here in New

and encouraging your classmates to

to settle in for the night. What a shock he

London. My daughter Bebe and her gang

reconnect in the HST class notes.

had when he slipped his feet into the bed. It’s

have taken over the family Old Main Street

bedroom. We pulled down his bed sheets,

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big one. We managed to fit in the last fix, a

note: Nils is our only classmate for whom the

for more information. Thank you!

new kitchen, just before my 80th birthday. I

contact address is lost. I have tried to locate

have a son, mentioned above, from my first

him with the search engines on the Internet

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marriage who’s about to turn 41; he and my

without a trace. If anyone has a hint of how to

daughter-in-law have two kids, Jack who’s now

contact him, please let either Holderness or me

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six and Rose, who’s about to turn four. He’s a

know. As a follow up to Tom’s mention of

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mechanical engineer; his company was sold

Philippe Coupey, Philippe responded to my

and encouraging your classmates to

and he was laid off just as the pandemic began

request for notes sent by airmail to him in

reconnect in the HST class notes.

and then was able to find an even better job,

Paris with this: “Thank you for your letter

and even closer to their home just outside

which I received today. Nothing much is

for more information. Thank you!

Rochester, NY. My wife has just sold her

happening here. We’ve been sitting together in

business designing and building Japanese-

zazen (i.e., practicing) throughout the

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inspired gardens, which she started here in

confinement. I caught the COVID. Terrible

mid-coast Maine twenty years ago. When we

thing, it really shakes you up. Until I learned it

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met, I had never even thought about going to

was the COVID and not something else. This

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Japan: I think I’ve been nine times now in the

way I could share it with all the others. I don’t

and encouraging your classmates to

11 years we’ve been together. She’s been going

think so much of my own death; there’s one

reconnect in the HST class notes.

there since the late 70s, even living there for

moment when we all die, and if it’s triggered

four years in the early 80s. She speaks and

off the COVID, then so be it. I know that what

for more information. Thank you!

reads Japanese, which is great for me—I’m

I say about the COVID makes people angry.

definitely past the age for learning a new

Even when I talk on television. So be it.

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language. The only class member I’ve ever run

Otherwise, I am fine now, and am off to teach

into is Phil Coupey; I was living in Paris in

Zen at the Gendronniere temple, then to

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1965 and he recognized me one evening when I

Germany for the same. With ordinations and

Dick Meyer

was with some friends at my favorite café.

all. And finally, to Corfu in Greece for a rest.

richard419@roadrunner.com

Such a long time ago! I gather from reading

Back in Paris by early-mid September. Bye for

the class notes that Phil has been a life-long

now and best regards to all of you. P.S. My

I ended the last notes, written in January, with

practitioner of Zen; it’s also been a focus for

book, In the Belly of the Dragon, is getting

the hope that by the time you read them we

me since I came back from that time in Paris.

good reviews in the States, in the

could take our masks off. As I write this six

Holderness was a life-saver for me. I had been

contemplative media.” Our faithful respondent

months later, we have just recently taken them

at Gould Academy here in Maine for two years;

Tom Anthony replied: “Well, Dick, there isn’t

off. However, in April, after my shots, when

my parents realized it wasn’t the right place for

much going on and there aren’t all that many

inside seating was still a novelty, out of the

me and somehow heard of Holderness, and

of us either! Susan and I are going back to

blue Tom Prescott contacted me, and we had

particularly Don Hagerman. Two things

Portugal in September for two weeks. While

lunch. It was the first time we had seen each

stand out in my early memories at the school:

we have the tickets, it is entirely possible that

other in 65 years, and the first inside

on the first evening for new students, we were

some fresh disaster will strike. For now,

restaurant meal I had eaten in over a year.

getting ready for a meeting in the living room

though, we are planning on two weeks in

Tom followed up our meeting with this

at Livermore Hall. There weren’t enough seats

Cascais, west of Lisbon. We were in Michigan

interesting letter: “First, thank you for doing

for all of us and suddenly I heard Mr.

for our granddaughter’s high school

such a great job as class correspondent; I

Hagerman say ‘Tom, would you mind getting

graduation in June; ironically, we were among

always look forward to finding out who you’ve

another chair from the other room?’ He knew

a live audience of 3,000 for 650 seniors who

heard from and what’s happening with them.

my name—extraordinary! At Gould, we saw

had Zoomed their senior year of high school.

And also, definitely how you are and what you

the headmaster twice a year: in the fall at

She made it and is much relieved by not having

are up to. My wife and I and my son and

some kind of welcoming address and in the

to go back to remote schooling. I’ve started on

daughter-in–law and their then two-year-old

spring at a commencement ceremony. The

a fairly major wood-carving project and as

son rode on the railroad in Portland that

other memorable thing about my early days at

soon as lumber prices recede I will be

you’ve shared a lot about; that was five years

Holderness was that within the first week, I

constructing a framework to hold the piece I’m

ago and it’s a very happy memory. Good work!

had a real friend: Nils Kahl*. His family was

carving. Otherwise, it’s building more stone

I’m living in Camden; my second wife Leela

from El Salvador and so he came home with

walls, planting more growing things and

and I bought a house on a small pond just ten

me for Christmas. Gould had not been a good

within what is possible, with hope for stability

years ago and have done four renovations on it,

experience in that respect. Classmates I’m

and the motivation to right the multitude of

including one in which we tore off the second

curious about are Josh Edgerly and Duncan

things that haven’t been attended to for

f loor with its gambrel roof and then ‘built it

Syme of Vermont Castings fame (we have a

everyone everywhere—especially here at

back better’, including a full attic—that was a

Vigilant in our living room).” *correspondent’s

home.” … Since making email contact with

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Dick Endlar a while back, he has also become

installation on a cold November day and

a regular contributor, and keeps me supplied

disassembly on a cold January day. All the

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with jokes and videos. Here is what he wrote:

pieces comprising the arches are PVC pipe.

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“Sorry I’m so late; must be old age. But as they

Strings of lights are attached and must be all

Bob Backus

say on the golf course, ‘At least we are looking

in alignment when it is assembled. To keep the

robertbackus05@comcast.net

down at the grass.’ I sold my condo in Newton,

alignment, the mating parts are numbered,

MA, and am now full-time in East Sandwich,

and after the first assembly, we drill the joints

Greetings from a ’57 alum who remembers, as

on beautiful Cape Cod. I am proud to say I now

and slide a nail through the hole so nothing

my classmates will, the days when we skied on

have three great grandchildren, and they are

twists or comes apart. Each arch is 12 feet

wooden skis and played tennis with wooden

great. The one problem is I never see them as

wide, 13 feet high and the assembly is 56 feet

racquets. I made a quick return to the campus

much as I would like. I try to remember that

long with nearly 400 lights. The arches are

last month, had a chance to meet up with Phil

my children—and my grandchildren—have

spaced five feet apart with guy wires between

Peck and got a guided tour of the new science

their own lives to live, and the grandchildren,

the arches, so if one arch is ripped out, they all

and math building. What a superb addition

three out of seven, work full time. I hope to

get ripped out. The entire consist runs through

to the beautiful campus. I was Skype chatting

survive today’s storm here on the cape, and get

the tunnel. It is both fun to watch and to

with my son, a long time resident of London,

back to a routine I can handle. Stay well, class

experience from within the cars. Elsewhere,

UK, and the father of a four year old grandson,

of 1956.” … I inquired whether he still

our EMT grandson and his fiancé bought their

and a not yet two year old daughter. He is

wintered in Florida. He replied: “Yes, I’m in

first house. Daphne and I finally got to see it a

married to a Hong Kong native who, being

Naples, on the west coast. If you ever get down

short while ago. The lot size is about an acre

native Chinese, and a reporter having written

that way, give me a buzz, and maybe we can get

and the house has been divided so he has a

some coverage of the Chinese government

together. Hope this storm doesn’t get me—I’m

tenant whose rent payment just about covers

policy in Xinjiang, alas may no longer have the

100 yards off the ocean, which is a bit rough

the mortgage. Smart kid. The Michigan

option to return to her native city to live. She

right now. Stay well. I’ll try to get you some

grandson, age 25, got his name on a company

is fearful that she could return, but maybe not

jokes—I get a lot of political jokes, but don’t

patent. He wrote the program for a machine

be allowed to leave again. It may therefore be

want to offend you not knowing which way you

that separates cancer cells from blood samples

that some day, they may relocate to the US,

think.” … Dick Endlar’s response was written

for researchers. Another smart kid.” … Brud

but in the meantime, he asked what the cost of

the day before hurricane Elsa was due in New

Folger sent in his note just as I was putting

attending Holderness would be, which I found

England. Dick Meyer added: “I am writing

the above notes together, so he gets to bring up

heartening. I have now served four terms in

this the day after the hurricane came through.

the rear: “Your passionate request for a note

the New Hampshire House, that immense 400

About two inches of rain fell locally here in

has me on my iPhone picking away at the letter

member legislative chamber, but did not run

Portland, but there was no wind to speak of.

board. The most relevant Holderness news is

this last time. I miss it, but we narrowly failed

My restoration project on a wooden car at the

my recent conversations with Gordie Eaton

to get the majority, so I would have lost my

Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad is not going as

’58. He and Karen moved to Hood River, OR

committee chairmanship, plus all the hassle of

well as I had hoped for a number of reasons.

where his son and family live. He and I

trying to meet in person, but not at the State

Time will tell if this is the end of my

recently told each other what great impact and

House. I continue to enjoy a warm friendship

involvement with the railroad. However, there

inf luence Don Henderson and wife Pat had

with my fellow dorm mate and debate partner,

are two other wooden cars that need only

on each of us as students and ski team

Josh Young. Josh and his wife Hollis live in

moderate repairs which I have asked to be

members. We agreed Don was one of the most

North Andover, MA, but have a second home

brought in (in succession) that I could make

inf luential people in our lives as young men.

in New Boston. We have a tradition of getting

look nice. A steam engine that has been torn

Gordie, George Pransky ’58, and I, all get

together to take in a ball game at the Delta

down, inspected, repaired, and is now being

together at a CSF Middlebury annual

Dental Stadium in Manchester, home of the

reassembled takes up a lot of space that was

gathering. I read the obits of classmates sadly,

Double AA Fisher Cats. This summer we’ve

supposed to be for my workshop. When it is

but try to dwell on the happy, and fun

added a trip to the Red Sox new Triple AAA

finally moved out, I plan to wash the f loor

memories! I try to live by the knowledge that

club in Worcester. I hope others of the class of

(there are collection trenches in the f loor) and

we only die once but live every day, so I do all I

’57 will send me some news I can include in the

use the space to fabricate a new light tunnel to

can to make the best of each one!” … After

next issue of HST. By the way, when I do get

replace the one destroyed last holiday season

submitting the above, I received the following

back to the campus, and get asked about my

when the cupola on the caboose of the last

note from Josh Edgerly: “Thank you for the

class year, I then immediately hear, "Oh, then

train on the last run caught on the tunnel that

note. It would be nice if you could stop by

you were in Bill Clough’s class." Bill, I would

was distorted due to high wind and just ripped

sometime or give a call.”

sure like to hear from you. ~Bob Backus

it to pieces. On the remake I plan to use screwed fittings instead of slip joints that don’t slip hardly at all, making assembly and disassembly difficult, especially for

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Gordi Eaton, Tim Dewart, Steve Carpenter,

mankind is! O brave new world / That has such

Mark Fairbanks, John Greenman, Mike

people in’t!" That brave new world was, for

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Kingston, Bill Biddle, John Bergeron,

most of us, a banquet table of affirming

Bill Biddle

Brooke Thomas, Bruce Leddy, George

experiences. But for others, it turned out to be

williambiddle@myfairpoint.net

Pransky, and Erl Solstad. Another third of

an unwanted and uncomfortable 4-year

R. Brooke Thomas

our class is deceased. As Don Latham said in

trudge. Some, upon graduation, may have

rbthomas@anthro.umass.edu

an email to us, “Enjoy Life! This is not a dress

thought, as Reverend Dr. King would later say,

rehearsal.” If you’re in that still-here but silent

“Free at last. Thank God almighty, free at

On July 14th, thirteen members of the class of

third of us, consider checking in. It may soften

last!” Then, at graduation, we little realized

1958 met via Zoom, our president Mike

your resistance, ease your discomfort about

that the Exodus from Holderness was, as for

Kingston hosting. Our first order of business

joining us, to know that we’re not competing

the biblical Hebrews, less a freedom than an

was in response to Phil Peck’s announcement

with one another. We don’t gather at these

entrance into the next round of challenges.

that he’ll soon retire. He’ll be missed, but we

Zoom meetings and bray about our

Our recent open discussions of our shared past

want particularly to acknowledge and thank

increasingly minor triumphs so much as grin

at Holderness would not, in all likelihood, have

another whom the school will lose at the same

grimly about our increasingly annoying aging.

taken place had the COVID-19 pestilence not

time: Robin Anne Peck has quietly served

Actually, though, this time we pretty much left

drawn us together in the convenient reunion of

Holderness School for 37 years. Over those

the present alone to talk about the past. We

Zoom. But the tenor of the conversation also

years, Robin has graciously opened her home

acknowledged the many joys and quiet

stopped a few of us in our tracks. Several of us

for many wonderful events and gatherings. In

pleasures of our time back then, but also—

who’ve spoken a lot at previous Zoom meetings

addition, she has warmly welcomed students,

though the word itself didn’t come up — the

sat mute at this one. It was a cleansing

alumni, (and others) to stay in her home on

ambiguity some endured in our collective

experience. We learned that Mike Kingston,

countless occasions during that time. To many

boarding school experiences. It’s a lot easier to

our host, was speaking to us from his place in

of those people she served as a second mother.

speak of one’s triumphs on the football field,

northeasternmost Vermont, that Biddle and

Her quiet but loving presence will be missed as

the rink, the slopes, the art room, Vera’s

Thomas also favor Vermont (which is,

she and Phil retire in June 2022. We’ve just

scullery, or the classrooms, than it is to speak

incidentally, the safest, because most

learned of a greater loss, for our class of ’58.

of the things we didn’t or couldn’t speak of

vaccinated, place in the country). John

Bill Wuester died of heart failure on July 14th

then. In our Zoom gathering in July, we

Bergeron, who lives nearby in Canaan, New

even as we on Zoom were lamenting his

remembered how much some of us loved, and

Hampshire, has tracked down Andy Stewart

absence at our electronic gatherings. At earlier

some hated, the ritual and regimentation of

out in the brush near Cardigan Mountain

in-person reunions, John Greenman noted,

daily school life. A member of our class has

where he is avoiding the nuisance of intrusive

“Bill’s salty comments and off-beat sense of

shared with us that he hated his time at

electronic technology (and thus our Zoom

humor often enlivened gatherings.” Both Mike

Holderness and “had no fun at all.” As we met

meetings). Andy is a performing musician;

Kingston and John Greenman remembered

on Zoom we recollected bachelor Saturday

we’d like to hear more about that. Bruce

Bill’s play at left wing on the soccer team and

movie nights with the late David “Beef ”

Leddy who practiced law on the coast of

especially, memorably, his scoring an

Boynton in the Schoolhouse; perpetual

Maine, has, in retirement, taken his hard-to-

unassisted goal on a corner kick. Bill was a

neckties on our dingy-collared shirts; kneeling

warm hands and feet to live in Fort Myers, FL.

winning courtroom attorney, a success in a

(or not kneeling) in chapel; late November blue

With the heat waves aff licting North America,

career, Kingston notes with considerable

fingered, drippy-nosed training runs on the JV

he may need never have left. Don Latham

respect, that is a “tough row to hoe.” Bill’s wife

soccer field and the cross country trails. Daily

missed the meeting but has mentioned in

Jocelyn says that Bill’s ashes will be committed

rituals imposed on us both a stability and

emails operating both a pickup truck and a ’56

to the waters of Lake Winnipesaukee next

predictability that comforted. But they also

Jaguar XK140 roadster on nice days. Do you

summer. Greenman and his wife Patty caught

imposed an inf lexible sameness that the less

remember Rip Richards’ ancient green pickup

a ride out to the Wuester island with Bill in his

risk-averse among us chafed against or got into

truck? A theme may be emerging: Mark

speedboat on one occasion, and other

trouble f louting. We listened to but saw no

Fairbanks is assembling albums of photos,

classmates will remember going out to the

irony in the Padre’s meal-time graces: with

stories and memories to leave so his children

island in winter, by car, over the ice. Our

him we blessed those cold steel platters of

and grandchildren will have not only a record

sympathies to Jocelyn. Presumably,

crunchy-edged room-temperature over-fried

of family history and of Mark himself, but also

condolences can be sent to his wife and

eggs to our use and ourselves to God’s loving

of the world our generation lived in. Bill

daughter via email (jwuester@earthlink.com).

service in the morning. And then we battered

Biddle’s engaging his grandchildren in

And a quick word of both greeting and

one another at sports and bullied the more

on-going back-and-forth letter writing to

thank-you to Jerry Ashworth, ‘59 for his

vulnerable among us in the afternoon as if it

encourage them to make writing (and the

enthusiastic endorsement of our column in the

were all one. Many of us, upon arrival and

thinking that goes with it) a regular part of

Fall 2020 issue of HST. We were one third of

assimilation at Holderness, thought, with

their lives. Gordi Eaton moved lock stock and

our original class on July 14th: Doug Rand,

Shakespeare’s Miranda, "How beauteous

barrel from Middlebury, VT, to Hood River,

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’58

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OR, to be able to spend extended time with his

COVID, for the time being in full retreat.

the all-to-familiar back problems, however,

grandchildren (one wonders if it’s turning out

Jeanne and I had an easy time with the

he has discovered that drinking good red

to be an awful lot of free babysitting). Do you

virus since Florida was not very restricted

wine and eating oysters can keep the spine

have a strategy to keep in touch with and to

and by the time we returned to Maine life

well lubricated. A recent trip downeast gave

contribute to the mind work and memories of

was back to normal. … It was satisfying to

Steve the opportunity to contact Charlie

your grandchildren? How, and about what, do

hear from quite a few classmates giving me

Emerson who seems to be doing well. Steve

you communicate with your next generations?

news to report. First on my list of heroes is

and I frequently eat oysters together and Steve

John Greenman recalled an episode that

Buster Welch checking in from the center

has graciously invited any past graduates of

revealed a more complex Don Hagerman than

of North America, somewhere in western

the Frog Pond butt-booze sessions to join us

many of us remember. The headmaster was a

Canada. Drought conditions have made the

in Portsmouth. … Speaking of Steve, I recently

large, calm man, reserved, slow to speak, using

area a declared disaster area as is much of the

joined him and Chris Palmer at a retirement

his mouth mostly to hold his pipe. Once

entire western United States. An upcoming

party for Pete Barnum at Holderness at the

though, after mid-winter exams including a

canoe trip on the Weir River should provide a

end of June. The old school has weathered

long weekend ski trip to Cranmore, there was a

chance to get wet. Life on the old homestead

well since we graduated. There are so many

fresh snowfall on Sunday night, and at

has become a constant battle with critters

new buildings that we could easily get lost. …

assembly Monday morning, Mr. Hagereman

of many persuasion, but an active cat and

One final note, I am making John Cleary ’61

asked for volunteers to help pack the slope at

a 22 rif le help alleviate the situation. … I

an honorary member of our class of ’59. Ever

Cartwright Hill. Not one hand was raised. By

last saw Duncan Hunter at Holderness two

since I mentioned Hugh Barndollar putting

lunchtime that day, a sign-up list for the ride

years ago at our 60th reunion having sadly

Rip Richards over the boards during hockey

to ski Cannon had disappeared. One faculty

lost his wife. He has returned to his roots in

practice, I have received a f lood of emails

member said, “I never saw him so mad.” John

NH from his previous RI home. It is always

from former Holderness hockey players. John

continued: “After lunch, there was a sizable

a good thing to be at home. … And now from

had some great hockey stories to tell. By the

group of us out to pack the ski hill. Later, I

the hallowed halls of the US Senate comes a

way, our class of 59 team had major success in

came to appreciate how give and take is

note from Charlie Murphy. Part time working

sending players to division one schools. John

necessary in any community and how Mr.

for 87 year old Senator Grassley, his team of

Cleary to St. Lawrence, Charlie Witherell

Hagerman was teaching us that we couldn’t

the venerable senator and the venerable staff

to Cornell, Stanley “Grinner” Kellogg to

just take. There were times we had to give for

member could be the oldest team on Capitol

UNH, and Bruce Vogel to UCONN. As for me,

the sake of the school and each other. It was a

Hill. Keep it up, Charlie. We need you there.

I went to one Dartmouth freshman practice

valuable lesson.” If you carried away from

When not on the Hill, Murph and his wife

section before the track coach yanked me

Holderness with you an appreciation for the

Robin have been spending time in the Blue

off the ice. So much for my hockey career

mountains, hills and forests of our land, you

Ridge Mountains getting ready for hunting

but it all turned out well. Thanks to all of

might enjoy reading books by the nature writer

season. It is encouraging to know you still

you for your support of this issue of the HST

Robert Macfarlane, especially “The Wild

have a good eye and a steady hand. … It is

newsletter. Keep up the good work!! ~Jerry

Places” and “Underland”. Helen Macdonald’s

always a pleasure to hear from Ken Lewis

“H is for Hawk” and “Vesper Flights” are some

who has been spending time between Naples,

other instances of superb writing in

FL and his home on Long Island. In his email

’60

appreciation of what we must strive to

to me, he makes mention of Cush “Spud”

CLASS CORRESPONDENT

preserve. What are you reading these days, and

Andrews. I never knew that Cush spent a

Gerry Shyavitz

what thoughts or feelings do your readings stir

year at Holderness as a staff support person

g.shyavitz@comcast.net

up for you? Willing to share these? Keep in

after leaving Colby. Well, he certainly was

touch with us, R. Brooke Thomas, 39 Long

a good addition to our class. … By the way,

Thanks to those who responded with my

Hill Road, Leverett, MA 01054-9748 and Bill

Henry Whitney says hello to all of us from

request for updates on your life. And for

Biddle, 2310 Roy Mountain Road, East

Argentina. If we ever have another reunion,

those who didn’t, we still love you, but how

Ryegate, VT 05042.

your wish of reconnecting might come true. …

about next time? We really want to know how

Once again, I have heard from Lee Miller who

you are and what you have been doing for

’59

has moved from Hilton Head to Greenville,

these past many years. Below are those who

DE to be nearer his family. Having recently

responded, and to all, I wish everyone good

CLASS CORRESPONDENT

sold his oceanside condo in Ocean City, MD,

health and the hope that I may see you some

Jerry Ashworth

the Millers are looking forward to increased

time at Holderness in the near future. … Ross

ashworth.kemah@gmail.com or

travel. It is getting tougher and tougher to

Deachman said: “Shy, all is well here at the

jashworth617@gmail.com

navigate through airports these days so I

Deachman house in Holderness. We skipped

wish them success. … The final bit of news

Florida last year (2020) out of an abundance

Greetings, summer is well underway here in

comes from our nearby neighbor, Steve

of caution. I started to close my law practice

Maine. Life seems to be back to normal with

Barndollar. As of now, Steve is undergoing

in September 2020 and by early November my

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son, John, expressed an interest in opening a branch office in Plymouth. His main office is in Manchester. My partner, Tom Cowie,

CLASS NOTES

got diagnosed with stage four lung cancer in December and had passed by March 31. Only 67; we had been partners for 30-plus years. His daughter Eliza Cowie is a 2012 graduate of Holderness. My son has gone forward with his plans and now owns my office. He still lets me hang out there. Nancy, my wife, is doing great. After this summer on Squam, she is looking forward to January, February, and March in Cocoa Beach, FL. My best to you and yours and all my classmates from 1960.” … Next, I heard from Arthur “Spike” Hampson who reports: “Yes, I most certainly have plans for the summer, but for you to understand them I first must give a little history. My

Arthur "Spike" Hampson '60 and his bike "Tonto" at Cave Lake, NV

motorcycle trip around South America came to an end in September 2019 when I shipped

of ridiculous lockdowns in Europe. If Europe

schedules. Trust you and your family are well.

the cycle from Suriname to Miami. That

never opens this summer, I’ll just continue

We have a couple teaching at Holderness living

had been such an enjoyable tour that the

touring in North America and probably even

at the Parsonage here in town. I haven’t met

following spring—in the midst of the COVID

make my way back to the east coast for a while.

them yet but am looking forward to welcoming

pandemic—I delivered Popeye (my name for

On the other hand, if travel into Canada opens

them. Keep the faith, John.” … Last but not

the Suzuki V-Strom 650) to Savannah for

up, I’ll strike out for Alaska. If it doesn’t (and

least I heard from Loren Berry who said:

shipment to Southampton in England. In spite

it probably won’t) there will still be plenty to

“Good to hear from you. I hope you and Pearl

of the virus, I was able to f ly to England in

see here in the lower 48. I find motorcycling to

are well. Esther and I are fine and thankful

early July and over the following four months

be the most exhilarating thing I can do at this

we four have survived this pandemic. Our

made a tour around the UK, Ireland, France,

advanced age. I have to be especially careful

children and grandkids are vaccinated and

Spain, and Portugal. In November, Popeye

because any crash—even at a relatively slow

raring to resume a more normal life. Esther

got stored at a Harley repair ship in Lisbon

speed—will likely put an end to the wandering;

and I hope to travel to Deer Island after Labor

with plans for me to return in April for more

my body is too breakable. I have a whole list

Day for a short visit. Keep safe.” … And so,

touring in Europe. When April arrived, two

of rules to follow in order to lessen the risk of

these are the responses from my classmates.

problems cropped up: I had to deal with

going down—things like no passengers and no

Looking forward to getting more responses

a health issue and Portugal was closed to

excess luggage, a limit of four hours per day

in the future. Responding to my requests is a

American visitors. It took a month to sort

in the saddle, avoid cities as much as possible,

way of staying young and returning to those

out the health matter, but still Portugal was

slow down whenever a vehicle is waiting to

early years. We could use an infusion of youth

closed. One day in May I happened to come

enter at a side street, etc., etc. Anyway, life

now. P.S. to my daughter Sara when she said

across a Suzuki V-Strom that a local fellow

is good.” … I received a nice note from John

“Dad, I hope I am not still working when I am

was trying to sell. Although aged (2009), it

Dunklee. “Gerry, always good to hear from

80!” Her words, just say I love it! ~ Gerry

was in good condition and completely fitted

you. I am winding up my stint as the acting

out for touring. I bought it and resolved to do

town administrator. Our real administrator

a tour around the American West until such

is back in form and working again. I have a

’61

time as Portugal opened for Americans, at

backup generator project for the church and

INTERIM CLASS CORRESPONDENT

which point I would return to UT, store the

am consulting on a proposed library/meeting

Gerry Shyavitz ’60

second cycle (named Tonto because he doesn’t

hall project for the needs committee. I took

g.shyavitz@comcast.net

have to wear a mask), and f ly to Portugal. The

over chairmanship of the Historic District

grand tour of the American West is underway.

Commission a couple of months ago. I am

Want to connect with your classmates?

I’m writing to you from Morro Bay, CA, and

busier in retirement than when I was wiring.

Consider becoming a class correspondent

on this cloudless, fog-free day I will soon run

The waterfront is ready for the kids’ inf lux.

and encouraging your classmates to

the coastal road of Big Sur north to Monterey.

All are now working at summer jobs and need

reconnect in the HST class notes.

It seemed crazy to buy a second motorcycle on

the dock and boats for relaxation. Pat and I

a different continent, but it has turned out to

have planned cruises in November, February,

for more information. Thank you!

be a very satisfactory solution to the problem

and April all moved from COVID-interrupted

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Reporting on the class of '61, I almost forgot

(COVID cases were miniscule), and went

released for the purpose of possibly connecting

to contact the class in my new position as

shopping when we had to. Spent the lock-down

to classmates—to classmates only. They will not

“temporary class correspondent.” I did reach

taking care of medical issues (Mohs surgery on

appear in this Class News column. Hopefully

out to the class, and my fear of being fired

nose for cancer, foot surgery for bunion). Got

this will stimulate more notes to me that I

was premature. So, only John Holley, and

our shots quickly and were able to help seven

can pass on to the Holderness community. It’s

my old roommate, John Cleary responded

of our friends get their appointments. Now

interesting how I scan the classes either side of

this time. I will try for a better turn out next

we are back to “normal”—the “new normal”

’63 for news of folks I know. If you do likewise,

time. Wishing the entire class of '61, good

and returning to life as we remember it.

please send me some material. I am about to

health and will try to entice all of you to send updates in the future. ~Gerry … John Cleary

get more aggressive in going after news. I’d

’62

appreciate even second-hand information.

writes, “Greetings Gerry from the deep South. I certainly do not want you to fear being fired

Want to connect with your classmates?

80. Boys, we are not far behind and most any

from your correspondent role for my class of

Consider becoming a class correspondent

birthday nowadays is jarring. Stay healthy

'61. So, here is my latest news. Fortunately, I

and encouraging your classmates to

and let’s hear from you! This summer finds me

remained busy with work during our recent

reconnect in the HST class notes.

seriously overextended: I’m on the board of a

COVID restriction. Because I usually worked

local non-profit art gallery. I’m a docent at the

alone in the woods (pushing the “jungle” back),

for more information. Thank you!

1813 old jail and museum just up the street.

I really did not worry about being vulnerable. Moreover, our local hospital performed a

Bill Clough mentioned the shock of turning

I’m in charge of hiring music (two stages,

’63

eleven bands plus street musicians). Once a

marvelous job of vaccinating our entire area. Previously, some of us would meet weekly

CLASS CORRESPONDENT

groups. Twice a year I give an adult ed class

at our local farmers’ market over delicious

David Pope

about the local geology. And I help my two sons

coffee and “fat pills” and solve all the world’s

popemaine@gmail.com

with their respective construction projects.

problems. But that enjoyable event was shut

week I play tennis and music with respective

This last item is by far the most rewarding

down for about four months. Instead, three

First a note from Bill Clough ’57, our alpine

of us continued to meet at another location,

ski coach senior year: He and Ki send their

brought our own coffee and chairs, solving the

best from New London, NH, where he and his

world’s problems at a safe distance. My only

brother still operate a maple orchard. He is

’64

real emotional setback was the elimination

active volunteering in conservation work in

CLASS CORRESPONDENT

of zydeco/cajun dancing. So, I danced in my

western ME where he spent a good deal of his

Guy "Sandy" Alexander

kitchen with my very reluctant, four-legged

career as head of Gould Academy. … And just

salex88@comcast.net

beastie while washing dishes. (Dancing,

before COVID hit I also caught up with our

thankfully, has resumed state wide.) This

Nordic coach of that year, Don Stephenson

Bill Baxter writes: “No new news from out

weekend (July 11th) I f ly to Denver/Boulder,

’55. He lives in Gilford, NH, and only recently

here in WA. Still trying to get in three rounds

CO for a new, non-invasive “procedure”

stopped alpine skiing. He knows David Stamps

of golf per week at our condo on Desert Canyon

supported by Medicare, to eliminate tremors

’64, who also lives in Gilford. Don and his

Golf Resort here in western WA.” … From

in one of my hands. Up to now my life has

brother Wendell Stephenson ’54 are earlier

Terry Morse in Moab: “Bottom line—we are

become too interesting as I try to not lose

Holderness grads. Their sister briefly dated

doing well. Almost finished with our remodel

grasp of anything—cups, utensils, tools, nuts

our own Ned Gillette and, in the small world

of our new digs. We are now located about 10

and bolts, etc. I even had to switch writing

department, Wendell lives in a house that my

minutes away from Moab proper on five acres

with my left hand to my right. It’s a three-day

wife and I rehabbed 25 years ago here on the

up on a ridge line which gives us unbelievable

event with a very low recovery period if any. If

coast of Maine. … If you are reticent about

views with sunrise and sunset privileges. Have

I remember correctly, the last time we crossed

writing about yourself, please consider recalling

some outdoor stuff and punch list items left

paths was an evening listening/dancing to Li’l

a story about classmates, teachers, and coaches.

but nothing too serious. Totally downsized

Anne and Hot Cayan playing a night club in

I heard from John Werner, who fondly

neo-industrial modern remodel on a log cabin.

Cambridge. I believe that you were there with

remembers the mentoring of Rip Richards.

Happy to be out of town a bit and really love

your daughter? Thanks for volunteering to

John lives in Vermont and “is alive and well and

our new home. Had a little hitch in my giddy-

fulfill the role of our class correspondent. …

still kicking!” … Nick Hadgis writes from Bryn

up in April when I fell while carrying a cabinet

John Holley said, “Well, you did remember.

Mawr, PA, and Lake Winnipesaukee area, NH,

with one of our workmen. Broke my left leg,

Good job. We fared well with the pandemic.

that he was a dean at Widener University in

dislocated the left ankle and ripped the patella

We live in a quiet neighborhood with many

Chester, PA until 2015. … The mail from class

tendon off the patella on my right knee. Had

elderly people who were super careful. Took

of ’63 seems to have dwindled like the spring

surgery on the right knee, left leg had to heal

walks every day (mask and distancing), took

rains, so please drop me a line if you haven’t. I

by itself. Glad to say I’m almost 100% now and

two mini vacations to the Oregon Coast

will circulate email addresses—that have been

back on my bike, hiking, etc. Must say though,

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and fun. Till the next round! ~ David Pope

it is easy to lose muscle mass when you get to the number 75. Family all great. Anne Vitte is back to her art in her new studio—so as they

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say, ‘life is good.’ Missing our foreign families as daughter Natasha ’91 and family live in BC, Canada, and son Peter ’93 and his family live in Chile, neither of which are open to us yet. Had the oldest Sine ’88 and family (Portland, OR) in Moab for a week in March which we loved. Road trip this fall in Southwest and working on figuring out where our next ‘big’ adventure will take us.” … Richard Seltzer brings us up to date on his latest publication: “Shakespeare’s Twin Sister, a fifth novel of mine, will soon be published by All Things That Matter Press. This and the other novels (Parallel Lives, Beyond the 4th door, and Nevermind) can be read in any order. They are independent stories, with overlapping themes and styles. Each novel presents a different

Day 1 Eagle Creek on the Missouri River sketch by John Coles ’68

view of reality, a different way of trying to understand the mysteries of life. Shakespeare’s

Unfortunately, the lederhosen had not been

twin sister wakes up in the body of a 99-year-

broken in and the leather gave him a severe

’68

old woman in a nursing home in 1987. She has

case of a burning rash that lasted for quite

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quite a story to tell: the coming-of-age story

a while.” … As for me, “Sandy” Alexander,

John Coles

of Kate, a brilliant young girl who poses as

I attended the service for Jim Hammond

johncolesart@gmail.com

a boy to get an education. The story of twins

at Holderness. It was great to see Loli

separated at birth sorting out the mystery

Hammond as well as Bill and Ki Clough. The

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of their otherworldly connection to one

service was very well done, with several friends

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another. The lifelong three-way love story of

and colleagues there to share wonderful

and encouraging your classmates to

Kate, Molly and Kate’s brother, Will. A story

stories. The campus looked great and I had

reconnect in the HST class notes.

of soul projection and transference linking

the chance to talk for a bit with Phil Peck.

individuals to one another and connecting past to present. And the story of Bill, the young

for more information. Thank you!

reporter Kate tells her story to, who falls in

’65

Tom Quayle writes: I have been meaning to

love with the soul he finds in the body of an

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email you for some time. We are one of the

old and dying woman. This outlandish view

Tom Butler

families that had one of our children move in

of Shakespeare’s life and times stays true to

dgriswoldvt@gmail.com

with us during the height of the pandemic.

the facts, while presenting explanations that are intriguingly plausible. Like ‘Shakespeare

They decided to buy a house where we live,

’66

Aurora, Ohio, and where our daughter grew

in Love,’ this is a humorous, romantic take on Shakespeare the man. Like ‘Yentl,’ a brilliant

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child in Chicago for the last ten years and

young woman finds creative ways to succeed

Doug Griswold

finally decided to pull the plug and move back

in a man-dominated world. Like ‘Outlander,’

dgriswoldvt@gmail.com

home. It took much longer to buy a house than

it links present and past.” … And last but not least, Jeff Hinman shares a memory of

up. She had been living with her husband and

anyone could imagine. So after ten months

’67

they bid and finally got a house and moved

Jim Hammond: “On our introduction to mountain day in the fall of ’62, we were bussed

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1982. We retired about four years ago. Sold

to Mount Monadnock to climb and commune

Jamie Hollis

our house and moved to a quasi-retirement

with a small part of New Hampshire’s great

jameshollis@comcast.net

community in Aurora. It has worked out well

out. Judie and I have lived in Aurora since

outdoors. I believe that it was Jim Hammond

although four adults and a three year old child

who made that trip with us, and he was

living together for ten months had its ups and

wearing lederhosen in an effort to look

downs but it is great to have them nearby. Our

like a sophisticated man of the mountains.

older daughter lives in Chicago although she

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is making noise about moving back to Ohio as she can do her job working from home.

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… In June I spent a week canoeing on the Upper Missouri River with several friends and Tom Cooper ’72. We discussed our friends and teachers at Holderness. ~ Jon Coles

’69 CLASS CORRESPONDENT Jonathan Porter

Morgan Dewey ’73 on Mt. Mansfield, VT in 2016

jwoodporter@cox.net

’70

Dick Conant ’73 at the top of Mount Washington partially bitten off by a snapping turtle on live

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TV in Boston in the sixties. Bled like hell per

Consider becoming a class correspondent

Mr. Merrill! Scott writes under the heading

and encouraging your classmates to

of “general nonsense” the following stream

reconnect in the HST class notes.

of consciousness: “The ‘butt room’ and John

Reynolds. Tuckerman’s Ravine; missed skiing

for more information. Thank you!

it three years in a row now. Maybe too decrepit to make it up again? Peter Terry, you almost

’71

killed my grandma; you signed my yearbook

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word, she damn near collapsed. Every once

Dwight Shepard ’72

in a while, a saying from the distant past will

shepdb@comcast.net

f lash past. Recently, ‘it is better to light one

‘best of f/*/% luck” and when she saw that

candle than to curse the darkness’ surfaced. I Want to connect with your classmates?

think it came from the TV in the soda fountain

Consider becoming a class correspondent

room in the cellar of Weld. There were only

and encouraging your classmates to

two channels that worked, and one was ‘Uncle

reconnect in the HST class notes.

Puss’(Gus), the other some religious show.

My drink was grape soda and chocolate chip

for more information. Thank you!

ice cream f loat. Last day of Outward Bound, it got warm. We were on that long straight

Recently found in the Lakes of the Clouds AMC hut was a guestbook listing Holderness Class of '73 overnight team leaders for a trip up Mt. Washington.

’72

abandoned rail bed headed for school, and I

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before the soda fountain closed and get me

Dwight Shepard

one of those f loats.” … I reached out to Peter

same room? Boy did that permeate wool

shepdb@comcast.net

Terry, noting that attempted “Grandma-cide”

jackets. Anyway, typing skills at the beginning

is a crime in most states and generally frowned

of the PC age was an excellent happenstance”...

’73

upon. Peter’s f lippant response was “Ha!” He

I had forgotten about typing class and John

will be assigned to hard labor on Outdoor

had to explain to me that “Swisher Sweets”

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Crew at our 50th or maybe even made to do

were some type of horrible cheap cigarettes;

Dick Conant

pantry and serve Scott at his table. Peter hopes

hmm, sounds healthy enough. … Morgan

rconantjr@msn.com

to make it to the reunion and assures that he

Dewey chimed in: “Your hiking pictures

will take his punishment without whining. …

reminded me how much I love to hike. In

Dear Classmates, great response from the

John Lord also responded to Scott’s musings:

2016 my wife Loretta and I completed hiking

class of 1973! I’m going to lead off with Scott

“What was the name of that ‘smoker’s pit?’ I

all of the 48 peaks in New Hampshire over

Morrison since his email made me laugh the

joined that group just as a social butterf ly,

4,000 ft. It was a highlight of my life. While

most and got the most follow-on responses.

and then almost became a smoker the rest of

staying at Lakes of the Clouds AMC hut on our

Scott and I traded recollections of Mr. Gilbert

my life. Swisher Sweets (oxymoron?). Enjoyed

Presidential traverse I found a page from the

Merrill ’75’s excellent ecology course and

Mr. Stuart Porteous ’72’s humor in the smoky

Guest Book Register from September of 1972.

his story of how his nose got the way it was—

dungeon. I think the typing class was in the

Recognize any names in the photo? I find that

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got it in my head that I was going to get back

coach! They’re now living in Woodstock, VT.

attending concerts again and traveling. Along

in my life in many positive ways!” … I can’t

It was a really pleasant visit and it’s always

those lines, I am out for a climb with my eldest

believe Morgan found the register page from

nice to find how the years smooth everything

son on Mt. Rainier in Washington State in

the 1972 senior leader team-building event.

over. And along the lines of connecting with

August. Hoping for good weather, not too hot

Check it out here along with a shot of Morgan

people, I am finding my work for the school

or cold. We were blasted off the mountain by

climbing Mt. Mansfield, VT back in 2016. …

rewarding indeed, from keeping up with

an early September snowstorm when we made

Daryl Bradley wrote: “Heading back out into

Pat Henderson to finding common ground

our first attempt a couple of years ago. And

the world to shoot landscape photography. I’ve

with many alums who are older than we. We

then last year, well you know that story … I

not really tried this before and so my attempts

have so many stories of growing up on that

heard from a couple of your classmates. Bill

may prove more amusing than fruitful. For

hill overlooking Plymouth, and even though

Guild, who roomed with Bryce Muir, and

one thing the equipment is monstrous as it

the years can shift the issues, in the end the

shared the Coach and Mary Jane Hinman

is all film cameras, and I tend to pack heavy.

lingering experience is mostly similar. Faculty

outhouse with me and my roommate Jaime

Even at the ripe old age of 66. Hmm, where are

who cared, and enough challenge, space, and

“Kirk” Kirkpatrick ’73 in ’72–’73 writes:

my kids!” … I responded like the old mother

physical exercise to become our best selves. It’s

“I am delighted to hear from you. I stay in

hen I have become with the following sound

also been fun crossing class borders with our

contact with Bryce and I frequently think of

but idiotic advice: “Daryl, start with shooting

younger ’74ers, most recently a Zoom evening

the times we all spent in the Hinman outhouse

f lora, it doesn’t move much and then move

with Josh Hancock ’74 who has beautifully

pretending to be barnacles and denying

on to easy fauna, maybe chipmunks before

melded his love of cars with the big screen in

that there was a stolen roast beef, purloined

moving up to the big leagues: grizzly bears,

Hollywood. I predict more of these uniting

from the kitchen in a nighttime adventure,

elk, feral cats and such.” Daryl reassured me

sessions as we approach 2023.” … And finally,

in the closet.” Bill got me reminiscing about

that he would avoid/run from anything feral

in order to keep beating the drum for our

probably my most notorious stunt senior

in New Haven; those feral chipmunks have

50th reunion, this unsolicited advertisement

year. I managed to smuggle back a fifth of

a hell of a bite. … Mike Mixter writes from

from Peter Garrison: “Interesting situation

Cruzan rum from spring break, and in a fit

out Colorado way: “That summit picture sure

to watch unfold how individuals move their

of casual stupidity I tried one night to drink

brought back memories of scampering around

lives forward after COVID. I have been

myself out of Holderness or into a hospital,

the White Mountains as a kid with my father

moving in slow motion to ramp up normal

maybe both. I was told afterwards, when I

and brothers. I remember an August Mt.

life again. Recently I was in ID to visit my

dragged my carcass into Weld for breakfast

Washington summit, and the observatory hand

daughter and family who had moved there

the next morning, that I provided the evening’s

railings covered in ice, and wandering the

from Southern California. Never had been,

entertainment. Can’t stomach the taste of

summit in a down jacket. On the way down, we

and enjoyed my visit immensely. Nice part of

rum to this day. … Also heard from Chuck

encountered people ascending the mountain in

the world! That was the first major trip I had

Reilly with news from the Reilly clan. Chuck

shorts and tee shirts, with a paper sack lunch

done in 16 months. A reminder to our class

writes: “I am still going at it with Dacon,

in hand. We tried to tell them what it was like

that we are two years away from our 50th

building as many commercial facilities as

on the summit. Not much news here. Slipping

reunion. Please keep in mind setting time

possible here in New England. Three grown

into retirement as COVID transformed my

aside so we can have as many attendees as

kids: Carlin just got engaged on the beach at

full-time job to extreme part-time. Doing a

possible. It would be great to reconnect with

Drakes Island in ME. She is a VP and director

lot of bike riding and hiking this summer to

old friends.” … Classmates, I had a really good

at Media Hub in Boston; Chad ’09 is a Bitcoin

replace hours at the desk. Still playing music,

time putting these notes together. Although

consultant and partner at BitCoinShield Inc.

but enjoying hauling gear less by the day. And

we were part of a small school, everyone

in Somerville; and Chris is an office leasing

I continue to support my talented painter

had different experiences and travelled in

stud at Cummings Park in Woburn, MA. Pam,

partner Patrice on her ongoing art journey.”

somewhat different trajectories. It takes a

my significant other for 36 years, is on the

… Tim Scott shares: “So, here’s one to jog the

village at our age to put the collective memory

tennis circuit and dog squad with two Sunkist

memory. At the Holderness retirement party

back together. Keep the stories coming! That’s

goldens.” Chuck caught up with Bruce Gamble

for Peter Barnum, long time admission and

all folks (until next time) ~ Dick Conant

this spring through Phil Peck. He is amazed

advancement guy (41 years) at the school, I ran into Mark and Shelli Perkins. Mark,

how their two lives, athletic endeavors, and

’74

careers have mirrored each other. Chuck also

as you may remember, was drafted in 1971 during our junior year and went off to teach

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fellow Hobart alum Mark Sanderson and

and coach at the US Military Academy. No

Dick Conant ’73

his growing family. Chuck leaves off with

Vietnam for them, luckily. Looking back, they

rconantjr@msn.com

the following: “Our 50th is coming up ladies

were surely barely older than we, and Shelli

keeps in touch with former roommate and

and gents. As your former ‘Social Chairman,’

was the unwitting subject of many adolescent

Class of ’74, hope this finds you all well and

crushes. Mark the Narc was one not so secret

enjoying, or at least managing, the return

please plan accordingly and don’t miss it.” … We received a nice note from David Rossetter

nickname; but a great lacrosse player and

to “normal.” I know I am looking forward to

who says: “Survived the COVID pandemic with

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CLASS NOTES

my years at Holderness just keep resurfacing

CLASS NOTES

Pam in Tucson. It was a long, hot, dry, smoky summer of 2020. We hunkered down against

’78

the disease while we watched a fire consume

CLASS CORRESPONDENT

a big percentage of the Santa Catalina

Luther Turmelle

mountains. That meant no escaping to altitude

lturmelle@sbcglobal.net

for hiking and cooler weather. Much better this summer after our shots with driving trips

Classmate Don Whittemore is busy this

to Colorado and Wyoming for cool recreation.

summer doing what he does best: Playing an

We are loving retirement in southeast Arizona.

important role in keeping the western United

We volunteer (docent) at the Arizona-Sonora

States from burning to a crisp. “Fire season is

Desert Museum, play lots of music—especially

in full swing and,thanks to climate change, I

up at our family place in Jackson Hole with

have good job security,” Whit writes from his

my son, Ben Rossetter ’02, hike, and do lots

home in Colorado. “I f ly in a fire detection and

of astronomy in our observatory. Hoping to

intelligence aircraft, mostly in Colorado, but

do more traveling once that industry settles

occasionally get to work fires in California,

down a little more.” … And finally, I would

Montana, Wyoming, Utah and New Mexico.”

like to thank Josh Hancock for sharing his

Don says his family is doing well. His daughter

varied career with the Holderness community

is a smokejumper in Missoula, his middle son

via a video event this past spring. Tim Scott

runs a coffee shop in Boulder, and his youngest

’73 and I were able to listen in and we really

son is off to Whitman College in the fall. “And

enjoyed catching up with a number of your

thanks to everyone getting COVID puppies,

classmates in the general bull session after

my wife’s dog training business is booming,”

Josh’s presentation. If anything good came out

Whit says. Don offered a special shoutout to

’80

of COVID, these Holderness Zoom gatherings

Hratch Astarjian ’79, “for setting our team

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are definitely top of the list. I hope the school

up with best-in-class Bose A20 headsets.”

Jack Dawley

continues them going forward. Take care, stay

Hratch works for the famed Framingham,

jdawley@northlandresidential.com

safe and healthy and I hope to hear from some

MA audio company. “I can still rock out to

more of you when we have the next call for

Marshall Tucker’s Fire on the Mountain when

Graham Walsh reported in on his birthday

class notes. Best, Richard “Dick” Conant ’73

I’m f lying over a fire on the mountain,” Whit

from the mid-coast of Maine, with Coast his

writes. … As for your faithful scribe, I visited

Portuguese water dog, to wish all of you a

’75

campus in June for former Spanish teacher

wonderful summer 2021 and more. Graham

Jim Hammond’s memorial service. It warmed

“heads into the 10th year of working for the

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my heart to see a full Chapel of The Holy Cross

storied (over 145-year-old) weekly newspaper

Consider becoming a class correspondent

to show the Hammond family just how much

covering Lincoln County Maine, the Lincoln

and encouraging your classmates to

Jim meant to Holderness. Jay Mead and I

County News.” He is “enjoying as much time

reconnect in the HST class notes.

represented the class of '78 and several faculty

on the ocean as possible on my restored 1967

members of our era were also in attendance.

27-foot pleasure version of your classic Maine

for more information. Thank you!

Pleased to reconnect with Bill Clough, Bill

lobster boat, White Lady.” … Tony Boynton

Burke, Mark Perkins, Fred Beams and

has retired after 38 years in the greater

’76

Don Hinman after the service. ~Luther

Boston insurance world after the sale of his

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’79

home in Chatham, Cape Cod. More time on

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“My wife is a realtor in Chatham, so my new

reconnect in the HST class notes.

Hratch Astarjian

job is digging holes for ‘For Sale’ signs!”

hihratch@gmail.com

Tony reminds us all that Gary Thulander

Jack Dawley '80, Charlie Tarbell, Peter Noyes '79, Woody Peirce '73, Frank Pfosi '80, and honorable classmates Kris Jennings and Johnny Damonwith wives, girlfriends, dogs, and others gathered in June with Chris Coffin '79 on Winter Harbor in Tuftonboro.

insurance agencies. He’ll be full time at his the boat and f ly fishing coming up,” he writes.

’81 is running the nearby Chatham Bars Inn

for more information. Thank you! Hratch Astarjian reports, “I’m still living

and doing a great job … Jeff Boal reports:

’77

in central MA and working for Bose,

“I had a pleasant afternoon this past July

managing global sales and marketing for

catching up with Ed Biddle whose family has

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aviation products. Working from home for

long summered on Jamestown Island at the

Peter Grant

the past 10 months has been mostly good

bottom of Narragansett Bay. His daughter

pete@grantcom.us

but, like many, I am ready for a return to

made what was an awesome pie made with

normalcy. I hope you are all well and safe!”

local blueberries and honey! One of my

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CLASS NOTES James Mason ’80 with his wife Sara, daughter Caroline and son Welles

Graham Walsh ’80 with a beautiful shot of two herons near his home in mid-coast Maine

Tony Boynton ’80 with a big catch. distinct fall memories while at Holderness was pressing apples to make cider. The trees were just to the east of Weld Hall and they made delicious cider that when combined with raisins could ferment in the bottom of one’s closet. Now some 41 years later I find myself in the position of having the same experience, albeit on a larger scale and without the challenges of secrecy. Our dry heritage-

Graham Walsh ’80 enjoys his time boating on mid-coast Maine

style cider ‘TurnCoat’ will launch this fall/ winter and we will be sure to send some up to Holderness for everyone to taste. If ever in the area check us out at Fox Hill Farm in Jamestown, RI.” … Leslie Wright checks in to report that, like many of us, she spent the past 18 months learning how to do her job at Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, VT via Zoom and Teams and to fundraise without live events. She also learned how to teach skiing without getting within six feet of her students! Her foundation for female athletes,

Martin Ferrero ’80 and his family

Stride, (stridefoundation.org) is going strong

Graham Walsh ’80 on the mid coast of Maine with his Portuguese Water Dog, Coast

and will celebrate its 20th year empowering

with Caron Treatment Centers in PA, my wife

girls through sports and mentoring. Way to

Kristina, 11-year-old daughter Chloe, and I

With many fond memories of my classmates

go Leslie! … Jack Dawley, Charlie Tarbell

moved back to Oregon last Fall. We live on

(and faculty) of the class of 1980, wishing

’79, Peter Noyes ’79, Woody Peirce ’73,

the spectacularly beautiful southern coast

you all the best! Go Sox! … James Mason

Frank Pfosi and honorary classmates Kris

in Bandon. With 26 years in the field, I now

reports that after 13 years with Prudential

Jennings and John Damon gathered with

serve as the clinical director of digital health

Private Capital I took an early retirement in

wives, girlfriends, dogs, and others in June

with Recovery Centers of America. This week

late 2020 and have now begun doing some

with Chris Coffin ’79 on Winter Harbor

we make our annual sojourn to Cape Cod to

consulting while seeking out my next gig. I’m

in Tuftonboro for weekend of camaraderie,

spend ten days with members of my family.

playing a lot of golf, broadening my network

swims, sunset cocktail cruises, and this gang’s

Will hopefully be spending some time with my

and looking for new challenges. A recent trip

usual frivolity. All was great fun, with long

oldest and dearest friend of 45 years, former

to Jamaica helped with the decompression.

evenings of embellished stories from the past

co-captain of the Holderness Varsity football

I’ve begun to do some volunteering with

as well as a few newly made ones for the list!

squad, Greg White! Man, we are old! Lastly,

the Southeastern Junior Golf Tour and will

… From Marty Ferrero: “Hi Jack! Hope you

I am full of gratitude for the experiences,

begin a Habitat for Humanities house build

are well. Life is good for this alumnus of the

education, and life lessons learned after four

in the Atlanta area in late Summer early

Class of ‘80. Hard to believe it’s been over

years at Holderness. Grateful too for the last

Fall. I’d love to hear from any Holderness

40 years since we graduated! After ten years

28 1/2 years of a life in recovery. So many gifts!

alums if they’re in the Atlanta area.

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INTERIM CLASS CORRESPONDENT Chris Pesek ’82 chrispesek7@gmail.com Want to connect with your classmates? Consider becoming a class correspondent and encouraging your classmates to reconnect in the HST class notes. Contact us at alumni@holderness.org

Tamerlane Bey ’83 submitted by Peter Hewitt ’83

Tommy Maher ’84 submitted by Peter Hewitt ’83

Jane (Randolph) Jensen having done this for

and early adoption of personal computers

us and apologize to those whose services I’ve

the other day. It reminded me of sitting in

’82

forgotten. I invited folks to submit news on

the basement of Weld in spring of ’82 or ’83

routines that keep up their well-being. Ellen

with one of the few new ‘desktop’ computers

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Hodges wrote in that she is lap swimming

someone had acquired. Mr. Donahue (I

Chris Pesek

daily. Tipton Blish shared that he enjoys

think) set us to work creating programs to

chrispesek7@gmail.com

podcasts during the daily morning dog walk

print mailing labels and eventually ‘finding

and has also switched his bedtime reading

the polynomials to the nth degree.’ I learned

Greetings from Beantown. As a very recent

from journals and magazines to novels. I,

I did NOT want to major in computer

2020 transplant to Boston, I am doing my

Peter Hewitt, am still probably asking too

science! Mr. Donahue, some may remember,

best to learn the ropes here and kicked off the

much of every day and thus remind myself

is the math teacher with a particularly strict

summer with a game at Fenway Park against

to not lose sight of the top two priorities: get

attitude toward students without socks.”

the New York Yankees with my son Marty:

myself outdoors before sunrise daily, and to

… Amy (Gridley) Baildon is experiencing

Fenway franks, Cracker Jacks, rain delay,

be kind—not to be confused with nice. I also

gratitude and keeping things simple.

several rounds of ‘the wave’ by the enthusiastic

invited memories of staff and faculty who

crowd, the 7th inning stretch, two nail-biter

made a contribution to our time at Holderness.

final innings and the Boston team won it in 10.

Tipton found Mr. Beams’s mathematics

’84

In a span of three years, I have a daughter up

teaching valuable during his “double math”

Want to connect with your classmates?

here at school in Boston, a son in the Bronx,

junior year, done at least partially to avoid

Consider becoming a class correspondent

NY and my youngest son starting at UVM in

the arts, and yet now our classmate writes of

and encouraging your classmates to

the fall so I am preparing for some East Coast

having a wish that someone had forced him

reconnect in the HST class notes.

fun this fall and throughout the year. I have

to take music. My gratitude goes out to Mr.

been remiss in getting my summer note out to

Lockwood, whose budding music theory

for more information. Thank you!

my classmates so I am asking for forgiveness

class, of which I was the sole, not quite soul,

now and will ask for belated updates here to

student, enabled me to sidestep humanities

include in the next issue of HST. Please send

and thus prepare me for a summer at Berklee

’85

me a note so I and other classmates can see

School of Music, his alma mater. Thank

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what you’re up to. Bob Kenney and I will

you Jack Dawley ‘80 and Chris Zak ‘86. …

Katsu Nakamura

be headed to New Hampshire and Vermont

Bill Stringfellow writes: “Hello friends, I

katsu.nakamura@ieee.org

this fall with mountain bikes and with skis

currently reside in Laconia, NH with my wife,

when the snow comes, so please reach out

Marla (Dalley) Stringfellow ’92. Imagine

if you would like to join us. ~Chris Pesek

the irony of the guy who did not come within

’86

a parasang of having a date during my time

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’83

as a student marrying a Holderness girl. I

Chris Zak

am only 28 miles away from campus and I

chriszak@gmail.com

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would welcome the opportunity to ride with

Peter Hewitt

Peter Van Vleck Hewitt from Bartsch/

Laura (Cooper) Page writes in from Boston.

phewitt21@mac.com

Gallop down route 175. It would have to be

We are still living in the Northshore of Boston

a ride not a race. My devotion to cycling

but spend a lot of time up in Sunapee NH over

Greetings all. Thanks to past class

is sincere, however, I cannot reach Pete’s

the summer. My youngest daughter, Annie,

correspondents for keeping us in contact with

commitment level of shaving my legs. … We

is entering her freshman year at Holderness

valued lessons and experiences of our past. I

heard from Jane (Randolph) Jensen who

and will join Mary who will be a senior. My

can recall Karin Clough, Jud Madden and

“had a funny conversation about coding

oldest daughter, Ellie, graduated in 2020 and

for more information. Thank you!

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amazing. On our most recent trip this summer to see the parents and my sister Kelley Heather (Johnston) LaRowe. We had a great breakfast and conversation, so great to catch up.” … Toby Lewis wrote that “the Lewis family is managing well through the COVID adventure. Both kids heading off to college in the fall, Griffin ’20 back to Trinity, playing lacrosse and hoping for a more normal year.

The class of ’85 had a mini reunion at Tuckermans Ravine in April 2021. L to R Ian Sinclair, Nat Barker, Dan Taffee, Ted Wardlaw, Angus Christie, Ted Fine, Tiffany (Beck) Teaford, Ev Hatch, Will Rose (missing Bob Zock and Missy (Wakely) Christie)

Loved getting to see my classmate Chris Childs ’86 for an interstate commerce transaction at the Maine—NH border. It was great to catch up in person!

Fiona westbound to Pomona College, also throwing the lacrosse ball around. And my wife Patricia is staying in CT with our yellow lab Shelby until the COVID dust settles. I

Hey 87! It’s our reunion year—35 years of

remain working in Abu Dhabi (UAE)” … Eric

is starting her second year at Colby. Time

living since our Holderness days! Hard to

Grace relocated to Boise, ID a few years back

f lies! My sister, Sarah (Cooper) Connell ‘87,

believe, and I hope that many of us are able to

to take over leadership of the Land Trust

is still living in Vancouver and has five kids

return to campus next spring and be together

of the Treasure Valley. “We are working to

ranging in age from 14 to 22. They are coming

again after so long. Cilla Foster and I hope

balance the conservation opportunities and

to visit us at the end of the summer, and we

to rent a house on Squam for it, so we plan

needs with the overwhelming population

can’t wait as it has been two years since all of

on being there! I suspect that while we are

growth in southwest ID. It’s a fun challenge,

the cousins have seen each other. Hope to see

all much older, we will fall right back into

and now with COVID somewhat behind us,

you at Reunion! … Robert “Cort” Pomeroy

our high school days (that would be funny).

I’m glad to be back meeting with supporters

writes in from Groton MA. My daughter

Dix Wheelock wrote that his twins, Will and

and project partners face-to-face.” … Zeke

Anna is a junior at Providence College, Grace

Lila, are starting as freshmen at Holderness

Sieglaff moved back to Florida. “I am wearing

is a freshman at Tulane, Henry is a junior at

this fall; yet another classmate who gets the

many hats these days, selling real estate on

Groton. Heading into a sabbatical year after

opportunity to be a Holderness Bull again

Boca Grande, guiding for Tarpon using f lies,

20 years at Groton. My wife Amanda and I

through their children—that is going to be

as well as managing Eleven Experience’s

are looking forward to spending chunks of

a blast… This past summer Cilla and her

saltwater angling programs. I really enjoyed

time in Italy and Santa Barbara, CA. … Matt

oldest, Tristan, went on a three-week road

spending time on the water this tarpon season

Reynolds writes in from Atlanta, GA. While

trip searching for the right college. Cil and

with Dix Wheelock, Blake Swift ’86 and

I have not recently been able to connect with

Dave are also hoping to bring their family

Andrew McDonnell ’85. I’m told that Chris

Holderness alums in person, I feel I am still

back east to Vermont down the road — new

Zak ’86 will be coming next year; I hope so.

connected with the school thanks to the

chapter, new beginnings, and a time to be

Blake and Andrew each brought their sons,

excellent work of the alumni office and those

closer to home, family and east coast friends.

who both were able to successfully land their

who manage Holderness’ social media—keep

Cilla expects to continue to make her books

first tarpon on a f ly rod; I think they’ll be

up the great work! I am still based in Atlanta

and bring her business full circle back to

back!” … and Joan (Horan) Twining wrote,

and continue to work as a psychotherapist for

Vermont where it all started. Exciting for us

“I am enjoying the college phase with a rising

adolescent and young adult men. My oldest

to have them back on the East Coast. … Kim

junior (UNH) and senior (Elon). Loving every

daughter is going off to UVA this fall after

(Roberts) Smock and husband Curt are living

minute of this almost post-COVID summer on

taking a gap year, and the other three still live

in Evansville, IN and Kim works for a farmer’s

Cape Cod. Continuing with some landscape

at home. We are currently enjoying our usual

energy cooperative. “We’ve moved all over the

design projects as well as doing more oil

family vacation to Acadia in Bar Harbor with

country over the years with my work including

painting and finding a few sales in summer

family and friends before going back to the

California, Minnesota, Alaska, and Illinois.

art shows. Looking forward to some time in

heat of Atlanta! If any Holderness alums are

Dylan, our oldest, is 24, living in Phoenix,

Northeast Harbor, ME/Acadia for our 25th

passing through Atlanta, please look me up!

AZ, working for the state, and is recently

wedding anniversary. Time f lies.” … And for

engaged. Our youngest, Kelley, is 17 and will

me, I have been working this past spring/

’87

be a junior at (gasp!) Proctor Academy. With

summer helping Brown’s Outdoor Leadership

Mike Henriques ’76, Karin Clough ’83

program through the challenges of COVID.

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and Buz Morison ’76 all at Proctor, it felt as

It has been fun to be with and work directly

Kathryn (Lubrano) Robinson

though the Holderness spirit and community

with students again, especially in the outdoors

kathryn.robinson@gmail.com

had been watching over her! We get up to

and in a community—something they all

New Hampshire frequently and have watched

desperately need in their lives again. Good

the growth at Holderness; the campus looks

for me to dust off my backpack and outdoor

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(Roberts) Bogardus ’91, I reconnected with

skills again, too. Hoping that many of us can return to Holderness next spring for our

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35th! Until next time, take care. ~ Kath

’88 CLASS CORRESPONDENTS Christina “Nina” (Bradley) Smallhorn nsmallhorn@me.com Alex MacCormick amaccormick@centerlanellc.com Lisa (Hand) Cicero wrote that she was “with Renee Dupre spending time together in So. Cal. We were blessed with the love

Renee Dupre ’88 and Lisa (Hand) Cicero ’88 enjoying a day in Southern California

and laughter of Liz Ganem this weekend. Love connecting with Holderness friends.” … Stewie, a.k.a. Chris Stewart, traveled

Tracy (McCoy) Gillette ’89 showing no fear

quite a bit during COVID: “Had some good times this winter with Bruce Bohuny ’87, Ward Blanch ’89, and Steve Jones ’87 in

completed Certification in College Counseling

Jackson Hole. Scott ‘Spo’ Esposito was also

via Berkeley Extension and hope to work

in town for my birthday this spring. Going to

in the college office at the local high school

see Pixie (Spencer) Brokaw ’90 in August

where our oldest will be a senior. Our younger,

when she is in town. Busy times for all of us

Serena, and I had an amazing visit with

in the overwhelmed resort communities. My

Holderness in February. David Flynn showed

son is a man; so weird.” … Baja, a.k.a. Alex

us around and the campus looks incredible.

MacCormick, is enjoying life in CO, Long

The friendliest kids around. Touring around

Island, and Nantucket. Alex Jr. recently graduated from high school and Molly will be starting her junior year at USC. … Peter

brought back a f lood of memories. Henderson

Paula (Lillard) Preschlack ’88 and her horse "Cheeky"

Driscoll, his son Donovan, and Daisy (the

Hill living and the icy steps on the side of Schoolhouse are still very much there. We are so lucky to be part of the Holderness

dog) are in Annapolis, MD still. “My parents

high school junior) are awesome. I have been

community. Send me notes throughout

are visiting now. Hello to everyone! Had a

so lucky in life! Some of you may remember

the year and I will compile as we go.

great Fourth of July at Bethany Beach in

that my sister, Pamela Lillard, gave us a

Delaware.” … Lee Hanson wrote: “My family

concert at Holderness in 1987. She brought

moved from CA to Franklin, TN after I’d

down the house with, ‘Yonder comes Miss

’89

been in Manhattan Beach, CA for 27 years.

Rosie.’ Tragically, Pam died in May, and I have

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My wife Jayme, sons Regan (age 10) and BIG

been organizing and uploading her amazing

Brad Greenwood

Mark (age five), along with our dog Steve are

songs, which bring back such memories of

brad@greenwoodbiz.com

loving our new digs. We move into a house

being with all of you in that time of life. I

we are building at the end of July. Come visit

hope you’ll look for her music on Spotify and

2021 is well underway and that means that

us in TN!” … Paula (Lillard) Preschlack

Apple music and enjoy her passionate lyrics,

most of us in the class of ’89 are celebrating

wrote a note to the Holderness community:

gorgeous voice and lighthearted humor, a

a milestone birthday: 50. How did that

“Dear Friends, in June I stepped down from

combination so like adolescence itself! What

happen?? A group of us got to get together

a rewarding but super demanding 25-year

a rough year and a half we have all lived

for a special one recently in Telluride, CO to

career as a teacher and head of school at Forest

through, with the 2020 pandemic. I am sure

have some fun and raise a glass for the one

Bluff School in Lake Bluff, IL. I’m thrilled to

it’s taken a toll on every one of us. So I say:

and only Miss Glitter herself, Tracy (McCoy)

turn my attention to writing and speaking

buy the sports car, romance your spouse, tell

Gillette! It was a fast and furious weekend

about Montessori education full-time. It’s

your kid she/he’s your hero, be brave and

with too much fun and adventure. We did a

a dream come true to be a writer. Finally,

make a new friend. Go outside and marvel at

hike, the Via Feratta, a mountain bike ride,

I’ll finish the book I’ve been working on for

nature’s beauty. Carpe diem. Love, Paula” …

and even managed to fit in some partying with

several years! My husband, Jim, son Stanley

As for me, Nina (Bradley) Smallhorn, my

her friends and family from near and far. Todd

(NYU) and daughter Lillard (equestrian/

family and I are still in Corte Madera CA. I’ve

Herrick ’87 and Todd Hopgood ’87, as well

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Want to connect with your classmates? Consider becoming a class correspondent and encouraging your classmates to

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reconnect in the HST class notes. Contact us at alumni@holderness.org for more information. Thank you! Jake Norton provided us with a quick update: “We took the second half of 2019 and first half of 2020 off to travel around the world with our two kids (11 and 13) and our 14-year-old dog. We spent five months in Europe, mainly in the Balkans, and then were in Puerto Rico

A birthay celebration with (L to R) Chris Davenport ’89, Ivar and Janice Dahl, Tracy (McCoy) Gillette ’89, Todd Hopgood ’87, Jesse Davenport, Brad Greenwood ’89 and Todd Herrick ’87

for a few months when COVID hit. I happened to be in NH shooting the OB50 film when things got really interesting, and we made a quick turn around and came back home to Evergreen, CO, where we are still. Life has been different for sure—this is by far the

Taryn Darling ’93, Amy (Zekos) Dolan '93, and Ginny (Kingman) Schreiber ’93 in Seattle, WA, February 2020.

as Amanda Black, Jen (Comstock) Reed,

longest time I’ve gone without getting on a

Sara (deLima) Tansill, Chris Davenport,

plane since I was 10 or so. But it’s been a good

Janice and Ivar Dahl, and yours truly were

time, with my wife just recently becoming

Theatre production with the help of Broadway

there to celebrate our little firecracker. It

the executive director of The dZi Foundation,

Ondemand’s streaming platform. It was

was a special couple of days capped off with

which empowers communities in rural

a unique experience for sure, but I am so

a rainbow like only Telluride can provide! I

Nepal. I launched a new website in December

grateful that I was able to give my students

hope everyone else is doing well and having

(jakenorton.com) with a focus on writing and

an opportunity for community and creativity.

as much fun as we did. ~ Brad Greenwood

sharing stories from my experiences around

In WA, we are still not permitted to sing

the world. And the kids keep growing—as

in schools, so I am currently working on

they do—so we’re staying busy, happy, and

directing a virtual, pre-recorded and edited

doing our best to stay sane as well.”

musical product of "Schoolhouse Rock, Live."

’90

Each singer’s vocal tracks will have to be

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’93

individually recorded and layered on top of

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together, not to mention adding the vocals to

reconnect in the HST class notes.

Lindsay (Dewar) Fontana

the video. I am estimating that it will take me

linds_dewar@yahoo.com

hundreds of hours to put everything together

for more information. Thank you!

each other in order for us to simulate singing

by June, so wish me luck and my sanity. Ginny (Kingman) Schreiber wrote:

My family and I count our blessings every

’91

“Greetings from Seattle/Bellevue, WA.

day though, as my husband and I are both

Like everyone else, I have been adjusting

working from home and my kids are healthy.

Want to connect with your classmates?

to my new COVID lifestyle of teaching and

I am hoping to get back to New England this

Consider becoming a class correspondent

directing theatre virtually while supporting

summer after vaccines, as last summer’s trip

and encouraging your classmates to

my three boys’ remote school. It has been

was canceled. I was lucky enough to have

reconnect in the HST class notes.

a tough, interesting year for the arts world

lunch with Amy (Zekos) Dolan, who was

and I recognize daily how lucky I am to still

visiting Seattle, and Taryn Darling before

for more information. Thank you!

be able to direct my middle school students.

the pandemic in February 2020. We’ve been

Our musical, The Wizard of Oz, was canceled

hunkering down and isolating ourselves at

’92

last May due to the pandemic, which was

home for the most part of the past year, so

devastating to me and my students after

it was fun to see so many ’93 classmates on

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four months of rehearsals. I spent a lot

Nat Faxon’s Zoom with the Alumni Speaker

Lindsay (Dewar) Fontana ’93

of time this past summer in trainings for

Series. There was a lot of energy about many

linds_dewar@yahoo.com

video editing and learning about alternative

of us coming back for our 30th reunion! I

options for performing. This fall, I directed

hope to see you all there in June, 2023.”

our school’s first ever live-streamed Zoom

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CLASS CORRESPONDENT Carolyn “Ramey” Harris-Tatar rameyht@yahoo.com

’95 INTERIM CLASS CORRESPONDENT Amanda (Knox) Hoffman ’96 bostonknox30@gmail.com Want to connect with your classmates? Consider becoming a class correspondent and encouraging your classmates to

Putney (Haley) Pyles ’97 daughter Julia born April 8, 2021. Seen here with her big brother Peter.

Celebrating the marriage of Dew Wallace ’98 from R to L Eric Mueller ’98, Hacker Burr '98, Bob Lowe P ’25, Pete Barnum P ’05 ’07 ’09, Mike Dodge ’98, Ben Luntz ’98, Terry Connell ’98, Russ McIlvain ’98 few this time around—thanks to Bryan Landers for ensuring that we had at least

reconnect in the HST class notes. Contact us at alumni@holderness.org

my eldest daughter Charlotte’s boarding

one! He wrote in to share a link to his recent

for more information. Thank you!

school plans and I’m excited to reconnect

album of Bulgarian folk songs with modern

with him to hear all about his new endeavor.

arrangements for voice and banjo that features

’96

Joe Graceffa and I chatted early in July. He’s

him and his wife: https://www.dearlittlemoon.

settled in with his wife, daughter and son

com/ … As for my family, we welcomed a little

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in Maine and is reconnecting with his East

girl, Julia, into our family in April. She is

Heather (Pierce) Roy

Coast roots after being in LA for nearly two

sweet and sassy and we are all in love. Over the

heatherbpierce@hotmail.com

decades. Summer is ephemeral in Vermont. I

spring and summer months, we have enjoyed

Amanda (Knox) Hoffman

do my best to take advantage of every minute

family and friend reunions. We continue to be

bostonknox30@gmail.com

and spend abundant time on Lake Champlain

cautious and wear our masks; thank goodness

and in my garden. It feels comforting to be in

for the COVID vaccines and modern medicine.

Updates have been abundant, albeit less

an environment where I know my neighbors

Wishing everyone health and safety ~ Putney

formal than a written email this session while

and have begun to get a feel for what our

my Holderness “world” seems to be growing

land experiences during each season. This

here in Vermont. I’ve had a wonderful time

summer, our well is at no risk of running dry,

’98

getting to know Katie Bohlin ’00, married

our grass has begun to establish roots and the

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to Andy Bohlin ’01. Andy’s mother, Martha

winter moths have chewed their way through

Putney (Haley) Pyles ’97

actually sold our house in Sherborn prior

the lush canopy of green above our heads—

putneypyles@gmail.com

to our move to Vermont and Katie owns a

expanding the sun’s reach during daylight. I’m

lovely store (Mysa) in Shelburne, an adjacent

reminded regularly that our climate is heaving

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town to Charlotte. Katie’s daughter Regan

under the pressure of human impact as the

Consider becoming a class correspondent

and my youngest, Lilly attended camp

wildfires in the west leave our skies hazy. A

and encouraging your classmates to

together this summer and have a budding

dramatically stark contrast to the historic

reconnect in the HST class notes.

friendship. Augusta Comey visited in July

royal blue clear summer backdrop. ~Amanda

with her daughter Norah. Lilly and Norah had a sleepover while they were visiting and

for more information. Thank you!

devised a plan that would land them both at

’97

Hi all. As I sit to write this note, I’m reminded

Holderness when they are eligible to attend.

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that we will be reading it when the days are

I love the thought of the two of them bonding

Putney (Haley) Pyles

short and the colder weather has descended.

the way Augusta and I did all those years

putneypyles@gmail.com

So, I’m hopeful that you are in this moment

back. Last week, I had a new friend for coffee

enjoying the warmth and long summer days.

and as he was leaving, I mentioned my time

When I last wrote my HST update, it was

Just a quick reminder that I’m temporarily

at Holderness. He grew up with Kate Stahler

January and there was fresh snow on the

helping out with the class correspondent role

’94 and Nat Faxon ’93 and was thrilled to

ground. Today, I’m listening to rain fall

for your class, and if anyone is interested

make the connection. Will Richardson and

outside (yet another rainy summer day!)

in stepping in, please reach out. Here’s

I have plans to connect in August to discuss

but at least it’s a warm one. Updates were

what your classmates had to say. Dustin

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“Living on a small island off the coast of

’03

British Columbia during a global pandemic is

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highly recommended. It has been a great year

Nick Payeur ndpayeur@gmail.com

with the family (my parents also hunkered

Neal Frei nealfrei@gmail.com

down here on Haida Gwaii for the winter), celebrating all the ‘can-do’s.’ Time on the

Jay Connolly was in Newport last weekend

water and on the land has helped us stay sane

and just so happened to run into Tyler

this year as we navigated the restrictions

Stubbs ’01, who was home from the west

and regulations. It’s been three years since

coast with his wife and daughter. Nate

we’ve seen Jarret Hann and his wife Jess

Parker came down to visit, as well as Jess

(Ippolito) Hann ’03, so we have our fingers

(Fishkin) Klass ’02 for the meet up. ‘Short

crossed for border restrictions being lifted so

and sweet, but we spent a half hour or so

we can connect in Arizona this winter. I’m

together on the beach at Sail Newport

Williamson writes: “I am about to enter my

teaching physical education and coaching and

with all our kids. Pretty awesome!’

19th year as a French and Spanish language

enjoying keeping our kids (Claire, eight, Sean,

acquisition facilitator at Leavitt Area High

six) active and adventuring. … Jarret Hann

School in Maine! I’m also the Nordic ski

says: “Jess (Ippolito) Hann ’03 and I have

’04

coach. I had the privilege of returning to

been in Williamsburg, VA for 10 years now.

Want to connect with your classmates?

Holderness last February for the Cheri

We’ve hosted alums, including Dave Madeira

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Walsh Eastern Cup as the technical delegate

’03, Anne (Palm) and Joe Mormina, my sis

and encouraging your classmates to

(TD).” … Kathryn (Bridge) Angelo shared

Christine (Hann) Cunningham, Shawna

reconnect in the HST class notes.

the following: “I don’t have any updates in

(Pauley) Sharkey ’03, and three fifths of

particular but our son, Cameron is turning

the Weymouth clan. We’re usually in NH

for more information. Thank you!

two in November and he’s such a joy. We

during July, and in a couple of weeks (from

moved to a new home last summer and have

writing this) I’m scheduled to give Chris

enjoyed being able to host more family visits

Mounsey golf lessons in Gilford. Lastly, Jess

’05

especially in recent months. Our new home

and I used 2020’s copious indoor time to

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is still in the Denver area of Centennial.”

start a nutrition/supplement DTC company

Brie (Keefe) Healy

Thanks for sharing this news ~ Putney

called Skipwith Organics. Hope to catch up

healey.brie@gmail.com

Bob Lowe, Dick Wallace P ’98 ’05 and Pete Barnum join in the festivities at the wedding of Dew Wallace ’98 in Pittsfield, VT

with folks at Reunion.” … As for me, Karyn

’99

(Hoepp) Jennings, after 13 years as the digital

We heard from Corinthia Benison who

marketing director at the Manchester Radio

is “pleased and excited to reconnect as a

Want to connect with your classmates?

Group, I accepted a new position that has

Holderness alum. My three-year experience

Consider becoming a class correspondent

brought me back up to the NH Lakes Region.

at Holderness was life changing. After

and encouraging your classmates to

I’m now the director of marketing for the Dow

graduating in ’05 I went on to receive a full

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Realty Group. Our main office is in Wolfeboro,

athletic scholarship to University of Delaware

but we also have offices in Meredith,

where I majored in political science and

for more information. Thank you!

Portsmouth and North Conway. I now work

government while playing for the women’s

part time from home and then move around

basketball team. After graduating college

’00

to the other offices. If anyone is ever looking

in 2010, I returned to NYC where I began

for property, let me know. We are the #1 realty

working in healthcare and sustained a

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team in NH, so they keep me very busy. My

successful career for the past 10 years. I

Andrew “Sully” Sullivan

daughter Avery is now five and heading to

enjoyed traveling and visited Costa Rica,

MyIreland20@gmail.com

kindergarten in the fall. We’ve had a great

Thailand, Portugal, Madrid, and London.

year so far! Hope everyone is doing well!

Recently, I took a leap of faith and embarked

’01

on starting my own business. It has always

’02

been a passion of mine to assist and advocate

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of ref lecting on my life and the community

KarynPJennings@gmail.com

Betsy Pantazelos

that helped raise me and want to give back.

b.pantazelos@gmail.com

As a previous healthcare professional and

for those who need help. I have done a lot

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Christine (Hann) Cunningham writes:

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startup nonprofit founder, my childhood,

enjoyed our summer getting out and about

photography, poetry, music, and art museums.

and the opportunities it afforded me laid

again, including visiting my parents on the

My husband taught poetry again (virtually

the foundation of the woman I have become.

Cape, having a summer Friendsgiving (make-

this year) for Artward Bound 2021 and we are

I am currently in the process of getting my

up from 2020), and traveling to CA in July

both hoping to make it to campus to teach

organization off the ground; while it is both

to celebrate my sister’s, Ally (Keefe) Collins

for AB 2022!" … To share my update with

new and exciting it is challenging work to say

‘02, wedding! We also took short trips to San

you, my husband and I recently moved out of

the least, but it is all for the good. I want to

Francisco and Yosemite while in the area.

Boston and up to North Conway, NH and I

give a special thanks and congratulations to Phil Peck and Peter Barnum P ’05 ’07 ’09

am pretty excited to be up in the mountains

’06

and closer to skiing! I just started a new job at

on their retirements. I am looking forward to visiting soon and reconnecting with

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Director of HR. Let me know if anyone is ever

my Holderness family.” … We heard from

Casey Gilman Clgilman5@gmail.com

in the area and wants to meet up—I always

the Omni Mount Washington Resort as their

Gerald Carter who is “currently in Arizona

love a good Holderness reunion! ~Casey

fulfilling my first residency of three at Grand

Jesse Straus reports: “My wife Madison

Canyon University located in Phoenix, AZ.

and I welcomed our baby boy, Hughie, to

My research falls within the guidelines

our family on May 30th and shortly after

of performance psychology.” … Emma

made the permanent move to Martha’s

(Schofield) Phipps writes: “We are getting

Vineyard.” … Annie (Muse) Kearney writes:

CLASS CORRESPONDENT

used to life as a family of four but enjoying

“Hello everyone! Still working as a freelance

Taylor James

every minute of it! Valorie is now seven

researcher and writer, focusing primarily

taylorveronicajames@gmail.com

months old and Sloane is two and a half years

on youth development and social welfare.

old. They got to spend time with their cousins:

My husband, son, and I are moving back to

Henry (son of George Schofield ’00) and

France for our final year abroad early August.

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Lila (daughter of Tim Schofield ’04).” … Pete

We will be living in Cergy-Pontoise, which is

CLASS CORRESPONDENTS

Schlech and his wife Emily welcomed their

about a 40-minute fast train outside of Paris.

Baird (Meem) Anderson

second child, Michael Thomas Schlech on May

We will also be welcoming our daughter in

bairdmeem@gmail.com

17th of this year. Mom, dad and Ruby (age 2)

early October! If anyone is making their way

Jessica White

are all doing well. We still live in Yardley PA,

through Paris/France, please let me know, I

white.jessica.madigan@gmail.com

and I f ly full time for Delta and part time as an

always love a Holderness meet up!”... Carlie

instructor pilot in the Air Force Reserve. Hope

(Bistow) Febo and her husband welcomed

to get a chance to travel back to Nova Scotia

"our beautiful daughter, Luna, in August

’09

to visit the parents or Los Angeles/Little Rock

2020. What a year to have a baby! We are

CLASS CORRESPONDENT

to see brother alums Michael ‘07 or Austin

all healthy and grateful. My husband and I

Allison (Stride) Lloyd stride.ally@gmail.com

“A.J.” Schlech ‘97 later this summer. … For

both work as artists in the Boston area and

me, Brie (Keefe) Healy, my family and I have

we have been loving introducing Luna to

’07

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reconnect in the HST class notes. Contact us at alumni@holderness.org

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CLASS CORRESPONDENTS

for more information. Thank you!

CLASS CORRESPONDENT

Elise (Steiner) Hacker elisehsteiner@gmail.com

Lilly Patterson

’15

Wes Mitchell-Lewis writes: “Excited to spend

lgp011@bucknell.edu

another summer in NH this year! Hopefully it

CLASS CORRESPONDENT

’20

will be filled with even more boating, hiking,

Hope Heffernan hopeheffernan@gmail.com

CLASS CORRESPONDENT Abby Vieira

camping, and mountain biking than last summer. I’ve been lucky to take advantage

Qianyi Zhang writes: “After living in

of the trails all over NH. I also just began a

Rhode Island for the past couple years, I am

new job remotely and plan to stay that way

moving to Seattle for architecture graduate

Isabel Cole shared: “I am currently spending

for the foreseeable future. Now that the world

school at University of Washington, and

my summer in Plymouth, MA working at

is feeling a little more normal I’m hoping

Keying Yang ’17 is moving to San Francisco

Plimoth Patuxet museum. I am the historical

to organize a few trips soon.” … Elizabeth

for work this fall. In June, we took a trip

horticulture intern and work alongside the

“Tizzy” Brown has been living in DC for over

to WWOOF in Waianae, HI. We worked

curator of museum gardens and horticulture

ten years and is the director of a small non-

and camped on a farm for three weeks. We

staff to gain inside knowledge of how gardens

profit that serves women working in politics.

had a wonderful time learning about the

and landscapes are planned, maintained

Hawaiian agriculture and culture, and had

and interpreted in Plimoth Patuxet’s unique

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many adventures exploring the island.”

living history exhibits. I work alongside

CLASS CORRESPONDENTS

’16

learn about 17th century native and colonial

Cecily Cushman cncushman@gmail.com Jamie McNulty jamcnulty20@gmail.com

Want to connect with your classmates?

theories.” … Over this summer I am planning

Consider becoming a class correspondent

on working and preparing for my first year

and encouraging your classmates to

of college. Also looking forward to our senior

reconnect in the HST class notes.

reunion later this summer! ~ Abby Vieira

’12

abigail.e.vieira@gmail.com

staff in the exhibits and behind the scenes to plant species and gardening techniques and

’21

’17

CLASS CORRESPONDENT

Kristina Micalizzi kmicalizzi08@gmail.com

CLASS CORRESPONDENT

adamsteelemc@gmail.com

CLASS CORRESPONDENTS Alex Leininger leiningerbalex@gmail.com

Adam McNabney

Elizabeth Johansson

’13

ecjohansson17@gmail.com

INTERIM CLASS CORRESPONDENT

’18

Alex Leininger ’12

CLASS CORRESPONDENT

leiningerbalex@gmail.com

Stuart Clifford stugclifford@gmail.com

Want to connect with your classmates?

Sarah Rogers

Consider becoming a class correspondent

sarahro524@gmail.com

and encouraging your classmates to

Luke Valentine

reconnect in the HST class notes.

lukevalentineoms@gmail.com

Bernadette “Bee” McLaughlin reports: “After spending the last year in Alaska taking

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classes online, teaching first graders remotely,

Want to connect with your classmates?

in Burlington, VT to finish up my senior year

Consider becoming a class correspondent

of college at the University of Vermont.

and getting my pilot’s license, I am now back

and encouraging your classmates to

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2020–2021

REPORT OF APPRECIATION

Report of Appreciation

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DEAR FRIENDS

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Matt Storey with wife his Jessica and their children, Carter and Rachel.

hen you ask students and alumni why they chose Holderness, many will say they were impressed with the community, and the strength and resolve of that community was never more apparent than it was this past year. In the depths of the global pandemic, economic turmoil, and uncertainty about the future, you, the Holderness community, rose to the occasion. A record number of donors supported the school, resulting in the highest-ever number of gifts and dollars to the Holderness Fund, and allowing Holderness to safely offer in-person classes for the entire school year. You provided the technology that connected international students to their advisors and peers when they were unable to travel back to campus; financial aid that enabled us to enroll and retain talented students from all backgrounds; and the resources to launch new grade-specific programming that supported students’ social and emotional wellbeing during a year filled with pandemic-related stress and anxiety.

development opportunities for faculty and library resources to support teaching and learning; the construction of the Mittersill Performance Center; and transformational upgrades to our Nordic trails and athletic fields. Class Agents and Correspondents helped alumni reconnect when travel was restricted and road trips were replaced with computer screens, and parent volunteers planned activities to welcome new students and ease the burden on those living far from home. Your commitment to this community, expressed in so many ways, was remarkable, and in the following pages we salute you and your inspiring loyalty and generosity. Thank you for supporting Holderness and for the care that you show its people. With appreciation,

On Day of Giving, you took our goal of 1,200 donors to heart and exceeded it by more than 400 and f looded social media with your love of Holderness. Your support also made possible the completion of the Davis Center and the air bag jump for our freeski, snowboarding, and big mountain teams; professional

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Matt Storey P ’20 ’23 Chair, Advancement Committee

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TOTAL FISCAL YEAR GIVING:

$3,772,114

GIFTS & PLEDGES TO ENDOWMENT

2,802

HOLDERNESS FUND

$295,029

Gifts

$1,939,173

CAPITAL CAMPAIGNS

$1,537,912

2,086

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Donors

DONORS BY CONSTITUENCY* 82

Grandparents Households

212

491

1,365

Parents of Alumni Households

Alumni

Current Parent Households

151

HOLDERNESS FUND DONORS 2017–2021

Friends

Foundations and Organizations

84 Current & Past Trustees

Current & Past Faculty/Staff

*Donors have been counted in all constituency categories in which they qualify.

HOLDERNESS CAPITAL GIVING

Robert T. Low Turf Field

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Mittersill Performance Center

Air Bag

Hagerman Center Renovation

DAY OF GIVING FEBRUARY 16, 2021 $644,074

$312,386

Giving in 2020

2021 DAY OF GIVING TOTAL

70.8%

Day of Giving Donors were Alumni

1,506

1033

Donors in 2020

133

First Time Donors

270

2021 DAY OF GIVING DONORS

Total # of gifts

1,602

236

1,506

FY 2021

189

193

50 19

s 70 19

10 20

FY 2018

FY 2017

20 20

795

Donor increase over 5 years

734

donors who hadn’t given in 10–33 years made at least one gift

DAY OF GIVING FEBRUARY 15, 2022

From Bartsch to Beijing, share your love and show your support for the Holderness School community.

Join us on Day of Giving and help Holderness go for the gold!

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879

FY 2019

1,033

FY 2020

Alumni Participation by Decade

PROFILE IN PHILANTHROPY Dalton Thomas ’61 BY PATRICK BUCKLEY

REPORT OF APPRECIATION

of Oneonta-Starr Ranch Growers LLC. The company grows and ships 15.5 million cartons of apples, 2.5 million cartons of pears, and 2 million cartons of cherries to customers in the United States and internationally each year. Founded by Dalton’s father, Paul “Tommy” Thomas, Oneonta started exporting Washington apples in 1934 and is one of the largest privately held produce companies in the state. Dalton retired in 2018 after 55 years in the fruit business, and the company is now under the leadership of his two sons. Dalton was named the winner of the Washington State Governor Trader of the Year Award in 2006, and in 2018 he received the first Impact Award at the Asiafruit Congress, recognizing contributions to developing an export market for Washington and other U.S. fruit to Asia. Oneonta won the first bid from the Central Trust of China to provide apples to Taiwan in 1972. Dalton Thomas ’61

alton came to Holderness in the fall of 1960 for a postgraduate year. He played football and lacrosse, but his biggest passion was skiing, where he learned under the great Don Henderson. Dalton’s love for athletics continues to this day, and for this reason he chose to support the school’s athletics initiatives, designed to elevate our facilities, grow our world-class snow sports program, and promote our multi-sport athletic philosophy. Dalton says, “Holderness gave me the opportunity to participate in sports and have a structured education both in class and in athletics. Athletics at the high school level is an excellent way for students to prepare for the future! Athletics teach teamwork, discipline, time management, and how to handle defeat. I chose Holderness because it was a small school where I could get individual help with my studies and play sports year round!” After Holderness, Dalton earned a degree from the University of Washington and served as the President/Owner of Oneonta Trading Corporation in Wenatchee, WA, parent company

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He was also honored as the 2019 Apple Citizen of the Year at the 100th Apple Blossom Festival luncheon and parade. Dalton and his wife Pam have four children: Heidi, Shelly, Jim, and Brad, as well as nine grandchildren. They split their time between Washington and Scottsdale, AZ, where Dalton enjoys playing golf, shooting clays, and going to baseball spring training games. Dalton believes in giving back to his community. In 1997, he and his brother Herb donated funds to help construct and maintain the Wenatchee Valley College baseball field, named after their father. He was later inducted into the WVC Athletics Hall of Fame. Two years ago he provided the funds for Wenatchee High School to upgrade the recreation park baseball field, including an Astro turf infield and complete indoor batting facility and coaches office building. After being given the opportunity to hit during the winter months, the students raised their overall batting average by 20 points! Dalton has supported a number of other local causes and has served on the boards of the YMCA, the Wenatchee Golf & Country Club, and the Washington Athletic Club in Seattle. We are deeply grateful to Dalton for his generosity and for his passion for Holderness athletics. n

PROFILE IN PHILANTHROPY Katie Crumbo P ’21 BY PATRICK BUCKLEY

olderness is fortunate to have a Board of Trustees comprised of engaged alumni, parents, and friends who bring a wide variety of skills and experience to the table. We all have been trying to keep up with the latest medical news during the ongoing pandemic, so Holderness is grateful for the contributions of trustee Katie Crumbo P ’21, a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania’s nursing program and a nurse practitioner at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

“Early in the pandemic—I’m not sure we even called it a pandemic then—I began thinking about returning to Vanderbilt,” Katie says. “It didn’t seem right to sit on the sidelines when you could see doctors and nurses working so hard across the country. Returning to assist with a COVID vaccine study was a way that I could contribute. My group was fortunate to participate in the Moderna phase III vaccine study. As you know, the study was a success.” Katie shared her story from her clinic in Nashville during chapel last spring. She introduced several of her colleagues who had been involved in the research that made the Moderna vaccine possible. Her talk coincided with the arrival of vaccines for all our students who were over 16 years old before they departed campus at the end of the school year. This opportunity to vaccinate our employees and students allowed us to safely gather in-person for year-end events, including prom and Commencement. “Holderness has terrific wellness initiatives, but the best part is that each student is known and valued as an individual,” Katie says. “The smaller school size creates an environment where the Health Center treats students as individuals.” Asked where Holderness could do more, Katie says, “I think mental health care for adolescents and young adults cannot be over-sourced in any community. When students are home for only three months, this

puts enormous pressure on boarding schools to offer comprehensive and accessible mental health resources.” Katie serves on the Board’s School Life Committee, which supports the faculty and staff in sustaining and enriching essential programs such as athletics, advising, residential life, equity and inclusion, spiritual life, and leadership. The committee reviews these programs on a rotating basis with particular attention to two or three programs throughout any given school year. “The qualities that make the Holderness Board exceptional are thoughtful decision-making that considers all aspects of the Holderness community’s well-being,” Katie says. “Sitting on the Board gives you an enormous appreciation for how hard the faculty and staff work to make the Holderness community a place where everyone can thrive.” Katie adds, “The Holderness Board has been a venue for me to contribute years of governance experience from serving on the Board of University School of Nashville (Tennessee). Private schools such as these primarily depend on the financial support of student families and alumni, of course, so being a knowledgeable stakeholder and providing financial stewardship is simply vital.” We are tremendously grateful to Katie and her husband Kevin for their support of Holderness and for sharing their son Charlie ’21 with us. “New Hampshire is a long way from Tennessee,” Katie says. “The Holderness students, staff, and faculty calmed our early fears of a fourteen-year-old boy a long way from home. Setting Holderness apart, in my view, has been its remarkable balance of being close to every student yet allowing each to find the independence of a boarding school life. n

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Katie worked at Vanderbilt for two decades in HIV vaccine research before retiring to tend to her children and an ill parent. At the outset of the pandemic, she returned to Vanderbilt to be part of the Moderna COVID vaccine research team. As a research nurse practitioner, her role throughout the study spans from education to vaccine administration.

Katie Crumbo P ’21

THE POWER OF PARTICIPATION Every gift matters. You’ve probably heard this before and asked, do they really? That’s not just pithy marketing—it’s an actual fact. Annual gifts, even at modest levels, can have just as much impact as major gifts when they are pooled together.

In 2020: the majority of those gifts were

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Holderness Fund donors increased by New donors contributed more than

$250

$230,000

GIFTS OF

$1–$25 TOTALED

GIFTS OF

$26–$50 TOTALED

$12,153

$17,763

or less

which was used to purchase new technology, conduct weekly COVID tests, and provide additional financial aid

GIFTS OF

$51–$100 TOTALED

GIFTS OF

$101–$250 TOTALED

$64,616

$131,906

enough to purchase

enough for tables,

Amount dedicated to air

the equivalent of nearly

masks, gloves, and

chairs, lights, and

purifiers and ventilation

full tuition, room, and

disinfectant wipes,

heaters so we could

equipment for several

board for two students.

plexiglass shields for

set up tents for

buildings, and upgrades

Weld, and food for

outdoor classes and

to wireless technology in

students in quarantine.

student activities.

the Chapel so it could be used as a study space.

Participation is never more important than it is on Day of Giving, so save the date!

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A yearbook photo and personal snapshots from the years Lars Hansen ’52 spent at Holderness.

Lars passed away on March 14, 2021, at the age of 87. After graduating from the University of Virginia, he was a partner for 25 years with Howard R. McPeck & Co., a Washington, DC, real estate brokerage firm, before beginning his own firm, Hansen Associates.

Lars generously donated his entire estate, including his apartment and furnishings, and a life insurance policy to Holderness to establish a scholarship fund. He hoped his gift would help Holderness continue to be a place where all students feel included, just like it was for him. If you would like to learn more about the Balch Legacy Society and the mutual benefits of supporting Holderness and your family through life income gifts and bequests, please visit www.holderness.planmygift. org or contact Tim Scott ’73, Advisor to The Balch Legacy Society, at (603) 662-6287 or tscott@holderness.org.

THE BALCH LEGACY SOCIETY honors individuals and families who support Holderness School through a planned gift, such as a bequest, retirement account, charitable remainder trust, or gift annuity. Balch Legacy Society members provide educational opportunities for future generations of students and inspire generosity in others. Making a planned gift earns donors membership in the Balch Legacy Society, named for the family that donated Livermore Mansion and the surrounding land that became the home of Holderness School. For more information on the mutual benefits of supporting Holderness and your family through life income gifts and bequests, please visit www.holderness.planmygift.org or contact Advisor to The Balch Legacy Society Tim Scott at (603)662-6287 or tscott@holderness.org.

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Lars Hansen ’52 only attended Holderness for one year, but the experience had a significant impact on his life. He described Holderness as a safe and inclusive place that opened the world to him. He made the most of his time on campus, playing tennis, taking part in the Bull, yearbook, and debating, and was the secretary-treasurer of the camera club. He was also voted “best dressed” and “most modest.”

Thank You To Our

2020–21 DONORS These lists reflect gifts received between July 1, 2020 and June 30, 2021. Every effort has been made to ensure accuracy. Please accept our apologies for any errors or omissions and notify Patrick Buckley, Director of Stewardship and Operations, at pbuckley@holderness.org. n = member of 1879 Society, achieved through five or more consecutive years of support ✝ = deceased

ALUMNI 1944

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John Skeele

1945

Dewey Dumaine n Brad Langmaid Bill Lofquist n Kim Mason n Paul Needham Wendell Stephenson n

Brooke Thomas Jon Wales n

1959

1949

Bob Armknecht Josh Edgerly Gardner Lewis Dick Meyer n

Anonymous Steve Abbey n Cushman Andrews n Jerry Ashworth n Steve Barndollar John Clough n Charlie Emerson n Dick Floyd Jay Gerard n Duncan Hunter Lee Miller n Mark Morris n Charley Murphy n Chris Palmer n

Bill Baskin n Jim Coulter n

1957

1960

Bob Backus Bill Clough n Ron Crowe n Bob Lucas n Dwight Mason n Hartley Webster n Jay Webster n Josh Young

Loren Berry n Ross Deachman n Alan Dewart n Brian Dewart n Dick Gardner n Nick Johnson n Peter Macdonald n Gerry Shyavitz n Charley Witherell n

Robert Benjamin Mac Jacoby ✝

1955 1946 Joe Massik ✝

1947

Fletcher Adams n Arnold Bieling n Bill Byers n Peter Wilson n

Bill Briggs

1956 1948 Rik Clark n

1950 Chico Laird Dave Luce n Dave Wise n

1951 Fred Carter n Dick Daitch n Terry Weathers

1952 Jay Harris

1953 Elvin Kaplan n

1954 Rick Carter

1958 John Bergeron n Bill Biddle Tim Dewart n Tony Dyer n John Greenman Mike Kingston n Don Latham n Bruce Leddy n Doug Rand n

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1961 Tom Brown n Rick Churchill n Win Fuller n John Holley n Lee Katzenbach n Dave Norton Dudley Rice Bill Seaver

Mark Shub Chris Smith Dalton Thomas Ray Wilson n

1962 Anonymous Freeman Allen n Bill Barker n Chas Bradley Peter Casey Dave Floyd n Jim Gardner n Jon Huberth Monty Meigs Dave Putnam n Steve Rand David Soule n John Swift n Bill Wells n Eric Werner n Pete Willcox n

1963 Jim Allen n Peter Chapman n Joe Downs n Jim Drummond Stephen T. Gregg n Nick Hadgis n Dick Joyce n George LeBoutillier n George McNeil n Jeff Milne n David O’Connor David Pope Gary Richardson Alan Sayer n Steve Wales n

1964 Sandy Alexander n Bill Baxter n Baer Connard Jeff Lathrop Terry Morse n Dan Redmond n Jim Ricker n Sam Stout n Woody Thompson n

1965 Bro Adams n Pierre Bonneau Tom Butler Bill Carter Peter Fauver n Judge Godfrey Terry Jacobs Jim McGill Dave Nichols n Cleve Patterson n Randy Randlett n Charlie Reigeluth n Jim Rosenblum Si Seiter Steve Smith

1966 Bob Childs n Greg Connors n Peter Conti Tom Doyle n Stephen Foster n Doug Griswold

1967 David Cumming Luke Dowley n Jamie Hollis n Phil Magnuson Graham McIlwaine Dave Peterson Dave Upton Peter Whitney n Steve Worcester

1968 John Coles Bruce Flenniken Charles French n Steve Hirshberg Fred Naess Dave Potter Jim Stearns n Jack Taylor n Bruce Thompson n

1969

Ben White Terry White Chris Williams

1972

1975

Anonymous John Elder n Sue (Glidden) Francesco Eric Haartz n Gary Hagler n Chuck Kaplan n Peter Kimball n Chris Latham n Dan Murphy n Dave Nicholson n Sam Osborne Stu Porteous n Mark Rheault n Dwight Shepard n Bob Spaulding Sandy Wood n

Perry Babcock n Chris Carney n Tom Carney Mike Conway n Ed Cudahy Larry Diggs n Terry French n Steve Little Jim McDonald Charles McIntosh Linda (Fogg) Noyes Tom Phillips n Jack Sanderson n Rick Shipton n Ken Sowles n George Weaver n

1970 Arja Adair n Cam Brown n Ted Coates Jim Cousins n David Donahue n Alan Dorman John Duncan Jeremy Foley n Kirk Hinman n Doug Moore Jon Norton n Peter Prime n Joe Spaulding Gerry Weston Rich Weymouth n Peter White n Peter Wiswell n

1971 Hannah Roberts Artuso n Alan Ayers Roger Clarkson Stu Goodwin Rob Hier Lew Hinman Jeff Little Rolf Madsen Roy Madsen n Will Parish Bill Phippen n Phil Savignano

1976 1973 Dick Conant n Cos Cosgrove n Morgan Dewey n Peter Garrison n Geoff Klingenstein n John Lord n Scott Morrison Leslie Orton n Sam Richards n Henry Robinson-Duff Jim Sargent Tim Scott n Peter Terry Stan Theodoredis

1974 Mike Coffin Jim Connor Duane Ford Luke Fowler Bruce Gamble Josh Hancock Peter Macone Walter Malmquist Steve Morse n Piper Orton n Chuck Reilly Dave Rossetter n Jack Thomas n Brian Tuck Alan Weathers

Tom Armstrong n Charlie Bolling Paul Dean Bob Garrison n Chris Guider n Mike Lynch n Doug Mow Dave Phippen n Will Pingree n Mike Robinson n

1977 Bradford Bruner n Ben Campbell n Dave Dewey n Peter Grant Jim Hamblin n Christy Houpis Michael Kraft Randy White

1978 Anonymous John Alden Bob Biddle Paul Bozuwa Scott Brown n Chris Cushing Blaise deSibour n Bruce Edgerly Chris Goodhue J.D. Hale

Nat Hancock Hal Hawkey n Mitch Kamarck Dave King Colin MacLeod Matt Paige Fred Roys Kirk Siegel Scott Sirles ✝ n Prescott Smith Keith Suttenfield Luther Turmelle Don Whittemore Margo (Farley) Woodall n

1979 Hratch Astarjian n Tim Brook Chris Coffin Clare Eckert Mark Finnegan n Bob Golden Cynthia Makris Cullen Morse n Will Neff Kris (Van Curan) Nordblom n Pete Noyes n Heidi (Hammond) O’Connor n Mike O’Connor n Dexter Paine n Jay Pingree n Ian Sanderson n Andrew Sawyer n Mike Silitch David Slaughter n Jim Stringfellow n Mike Warren n John Wellman

1980 Anonymous Joy (Andresen) Anderson Jeff Boal n Russell Cushman David Reed n Sara Richards Don Smith n Skip Strong Dave Stutt Matt Upton

1981 Anonymous Bill Baskin n Boyd Boggess Andy Clutz n Alan Eifert John Gerli Win Idle n Chris Keating n Pete Lamson Christine Louis n Sarah (Jankey) Medlin n Mike Murchie n Will Prickett n Andy Rogerson Kevin Rowe n Brian Rutledge Hilary (Frost) Warner David Wood n

1982 Pam Bergeron Frank Bonsal n Steve Bridge Charlie Brown n Leigh (MacNeil) Canfield Mark Cavanaugh n Joe Cerutti n Lisa (Weeks) Clute Peter Coolidge n Tim Ehrlich Miles Glascock n Sean Haberle Ann (Ogden) Hausslein Burgie Howard Steve Johnston Ben Lewis n John Macy Dave Marsden Pennie McEdwardRand Joe Miles n Deborah NicholsMcDonald Susan (Levin) Paine n John Pawlick Chris Pesek George Samaras Emily (Conant) Spinna

1983 Amy (Gridley) Baildon Tip Blish n

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Towny Anderson Whitney Barnard Tim Bontecou Craig Colgate Bill Gleason Doug McLane n Marco Pittore Steve Powell John Swann n

David Taylor n Roger van Voorhees Rick Wellman n

Todd Boes n Erik Burbank Chris Del Col Charley Hanson Chris Hopkins n John Leggat Peggy (Lamb) Merrens n Stephanie Paine Jennifer (Smith) Schiffman n Chris Smith Willie Stump

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1984 David Finch Dilcia (Pena) Hill Steve Lunder n Zach Martin n Ernie Milani Hilary (Snyder) O’Connor Tait Plowden-Wardlaw Eric Prime n Peter Radasch n Max Saenger Heidi (Gatz) Weeks Craig Westling

1985 Anonymous (4) Nat Barker n Jeff Beattie Phip Bourne Heidi (Ludtke) Campbell Angus Christie n Melissa (Wakely) Christie n Mike Collins David Considine Colby Coombs n Gary Crichton n Mimi (MacNaught) Denton Anne Desjardins n Vanda (Lewis) Dyson Braden Edwards n Ruth (Levine) Ekhaus Kris (Pfeiffer) Figur Ted Fine n Peter Fish Kathy (Keller) Garfield Roger Gonzalez Jim Goodbody

Allyn Hallisey n Jennie (Webster) Hartley Ev Hatch Elizabeth Heide n Carl Hillegass Tim Jones n Jeff Kaufmann Martha Ellen Kesler Rhadames Killy Gillie Kirby Flip Kistler Stew Mason Doug Massey Andrew McDonnell Michelle Morrison Katsu Nakamura n Freddy Paxton Mary Post David Pritham Will Rose Rob Rumsey Ian Sinclair n Kirsten (Orcutt) Singleton Jenn Smith Poppy Staub n Dan Taffe n Chuck Taylor Tiffany (Beck) Teaford Jeff Tracy Jean-Louis Trombetta Bob Zock

1986 Topher Childs Kristin (Washburn) Covert Malcolm Davidson Clay Dunn Sym Gates Dave Hinman Taylor Hubbard Owen Hyland n Caroline (Bloch) Jones Christina (Stewart) Kane Lee (Fuller) Lawrason n Bill Macy n Laura (Cooper) Page n John Prokuski Jake Reynolds n Matt Reynolds n Howard Snyder

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Blake Swift n Mike Taffe Tim Wei Ellyn (Paine) Weisel n Molly (Adriance) Whitcomb n

1987 Anonymous (3) Bob Abbott Kirsten Adaniya Mark Aldrich John Alfond Stephanie Andelman Polly (Pratt) Boeschenstein Bruce Bohuny Cricket (Keleher) Braun Todd Burgess Kim (Morton) Case Jenny Clark Chris Cripps Carolyn (Colket) Cullen n Ace Eaton Brandon Fleisher Cilla Foster Eric Grace Gail Guerrero Todd Hopgood Suzie Jacinthe n Stan Jackson n Dan Kenerson Heather (Johnston) LaRowe Tim Lesko Dana Plasse Stasia (Talbot) Prigge Michael Reilly Kathryn (Lubrano) Robinson n Kim (Roberts) Smock Ian Spencer Jamie Spiess Joan (Horan) Twining Andy Twombly n Dan Webster Brett Weisel n Dix Wheelock Peter Wieland Zim Zimmermann

1988 Anonymous Eddie Anderson n

Will Antebi Dean Bellissimo n Elizabeth (Sponenbergh Litzell) Brickman n Lisa (Hand) Cicero Jen (Stewart) Crosby n Iain Daniels n Jess Dion n Chris Doggett n Peter Driscoll n Renee Dupre n Jake Eismeier Geordie Elkins n Scott Esposito n Jason Evans n Tom Fletcher Nate Foran n Liz Ganem n Greg Gaskill Russ Gates Sohier Hall Lee Hanson n Chris Hayes Jenny Holden Todd Holmes n Brett Jones n Chris Keeler n Sage (Chandler) Kennedy n Drew Kesler n Rob Kinsley n Chris Klein Pam Lehmberg Alex MacCormick n Emily (Adriance) Magnus n Tom Mahon n Chip Martin n Julie (Wood) Matthews n Erika (Ludtke) McGoldrick n Will Northrop n Jeff Nuckols n Ali (Christie) Paysee n Elizabeth Pierce n Paula (Lillard) Preschlack n Jason Regan n JD Rif kin n Rob Sarvis n Hans Schemmel n Matt Schonwald n

Jenny (Alfond) Seeman n David Smail n Nina (Bradley) Smallhorn n Lauren (O’Brien) Smith n Chuck Staples n Chris Stewart n Carl Swenson n John Taggart Chris Teufel Erik Tuveson n Steve Walker n David Warren n Peter Webber Karen Woodbury

1989 Anonymous Lauren (Parkhill) Adey n Scott Beckman Chris Bither Amanda Black n Ward Blanch Matt Boggess Nina (Barker) Brogna Chris Davenport n Shields Day Christy (Wood) Donovan n Mike Erlanger Jennie (Legg) Gabel n Meg (St. John) Gally Kimberly Gannett Tracy (McCoy) Gillette n Brad Greenwood n Angus Hamilton Jen (Walker) Hemmen Alix (Rosen) Hong n Max Jacome Nikki Kimball n Ian Kirkwood Todd Maynard n Matt Mole n Brandon Perkins Sarah (Trainor) Pf laum n Jen (Murphy) Robison n Rex Salter n Ben Spiess Sara (deLima) Tansill n

Dani (Wolf) Taylor Te Tiffany n Todd Wagner Katie ZockButterworth

1991

1993

Kelley (Roberts) Bogardus Michael Brogna Rice Bryan Leah (Merrey) Burdett n Kent Corson Keri Dole Brendon Donnellan n Jon Hatch Stefan Kesler Paul Laf lam n Serena (Black) Martin Rebecca (Anderson) Morrison Yasuna Murakami n David Rayburn J.H. Sava Jon Sawyer Martha (Maher) Sharp David Tuveson

Anonymous Meg Brady Stacey (Brown) Daffron Taryn Darling Aimee (Anderson) Davidson Ryan Dunn Pam Erlanger Kate (Rapelye) Farrington Megan Flynn Lindsay (Dewar) Fontana n Katie (McQuilkin) Garnett n Amy (Wales) Gochman Rick Harnum Lianne (Hockmam) Lambert Tom LeBosquet Katie (Boggess) LeRoy Eric Oberg Schuyler Perry n Emily (Wenzel) Reis n Gerry Rinn n Jobu Roach

1990

1992 Anonymous Nici Ash-Colby

Ginny (Kingman) Schreiber n Kate (McIlvain) Smith Daiyu Suzuki Karrie (Stevens) Thomas Theo (Doughty) Torchio Brooks Wales n Paul Weske n Jenny Whelan Kevin Zifcak n

1994 Travis Aldrich Melissa Barker n Sam Bass Bunge Cook Brendan Falvey T.G. Gallaudet Dan Harrigan Ramey Harris-Tatar n Matt Kendall n Peter LaCasse n Beth Lambert Rogan Lechthaler n Kristin (Soto) MacLaggan Jason Myler n Nina (Perkins) Newman Josh Povec n Pete Scoville n Tori (Duncan) Sharp John Spiess Kate (Stahler) Starrett n Sander van Otterloo n Dave Webb n

1995 Bri Adams n Henry Adams n Bogdan Chekomasov Matt Daigneault n Abbey DeRocker Laila (Schmutzler) Forster Leandra (Collier) Fremont-Smith Hope Gaston Laura Hanrahan Jake Hinman Kate (San Soucie) Labaugh Dan Lewenberg

Gretchen Metz n Jessie Morton Beth Powell James Asania Smith n Adam Sullivan n Jerome Thomas Alexis Wruble

1996 Anonymous (2) Alec Brewster Alison (Megroz) Chadbourne Augusta (Riehle) Comey n Sam Daigneault Tim Davidson n Tim Duffy David Flynn n Bjorn Franson n Joe Graceffa Lydia Griffin Lara (DuMond) Guercio Chris Haas Katie (Waltz) Harris n Amanda (Knox) Hoffman Ryan LaFoley n Ollie Lemire Steph (Pisanelli) Lyons Justin Martin n Mike Martin Liz (Fox) McGlamery n Kevin Meier Nathalie (Milbank) Nolte n Field Pickering n Will Richardson n Heather (Pierce) Roy n Stacey (Eder) Smith n Reece Spinney Dahlberg Molly Stahler Bo Surdam n John Van Slyke

1997 Erik Bass n Katherine (Donnellan) Beebe n Tad Davis Ben Dulac Matt Goldberg n Andy Humphrey

Kris Langetieg n Andrew Marshall n Maura (Kearney) Marshall n Liz Meck Andrew Miller n Shannon Mullen Megan Nicolay Sam Pope Putney (Haley) Pyles Allison (Seymour) Reilly Dennis Roberts n Juley (Perkins) Sadler n Gasper Sekelj n Tarun Shetty

1998 Kathryn (Bridge) Angelo Zach Antonucci n Hill (Molt) Bulmer Jim Chalmers n Alexis (Griffin) Collins Terry Connell n Sarah Crane n Canute Dalmasse n Angi Francesco n Adam Goldberg Jim Jung n Ben Luntz Mirte Mallory Eric Mueller n Megan (Bristow) Patten Hilary Patzer James Rawlings Stoney Stoneberger Dew Wallace n Dustin Williamson Gillian (Howe) Wolfe

1999 Kirstin Bass Jamie Bradley Zach Brown Caroline Casey Tom Child Tim Connell n Abby (Richardson) Considine Megan (Bitter) Griffith Heather (Davis) Guptill Julia Haley n Ben Hicks John Hindess

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Kat Alfond n Kate Arecchi Jeff Barlow n Pixie (Spencer) Brokaw Dave Colleran n Courtney Fleisher n Lance Galvin Andrea Hamlin-Levin n Tegan (Hamilton) Hayunga Caroline (Clutz) Keeney n Megan (Sheehan) Kristiansen n Miguel Martin Alison (Merser) Moore Geoff Perham Nina (Cook) Silitch n Polly Spencer Aaron Woods

Aimee (Lamarine) Barrett Sam (Woodbury) Dearborn Neal Dessouky Rick Eccleston n Hugh Griffiths Devie Hamlen Sarah Hindmarsh Joe Howard Ed Howe Andy Katchen Jamie Klopp n Nick Leonard n Liz Lyman Andy Martin Ryan McPherson Fritz Muench n Akira Murakami n Jake Norton n Drew Palmer Jesse Perkins Krissy Pozatek n Lincoln Sise Eric Thielscher Stu Wales n Kelly (Mullen) Wieser

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Kathleen (Blauvelt) Kime n Robbie King n Devon (Douglas) Leahy Emilie Lee Wes Lowrie Quentin McDowell Page (Connolly) Minshall n Darren Moore Adrian Mott Scott Norris Colin Rodgers n Kate (Richardson) Surdam n Kim (Racine) Tinstman Joel von Trapp Andrew Walter Colin Wehrung

2000 Sam Atwood Tim Barnhorst n Katie (Bristow) Bohlin Hedda Burnett n Ted Finnerty Charley Lodi Sarah LoMonaco Evan Mullen Tim O’Donnell Jason Rowe Mike Schnurr n Andrew Sheppe n Jake Spaulding Sully Sullivan n Ryan Tyler Heidi Webb n RC Whitehouse n Jung Min You

2001 Anonymous Anthony Aceto Betsy (Cornell) Aceto Dave Almquist Blake Barber Liz (Wheeler) Besse Andy Bohlin Em (Warner) Caldwell Jennifer Crane n Christine (Hann) Cunningham Erin (Simes) Daigneault Kellan Florio n

John Glidden Karyn (Hoepp) Jennings n Evan Kornack Adam Lavallee n Ira Marvin n Natalie (Babony) McRae Anne (Palm) Mormina Joe Mormina Chris Mounsey Rachel (Goldberg) Nissi Liz Norton n Patrick Regan n Alex Smith Joy (Domin) Southworth Ben Stonebraker Tyler Stubbs n Tyler Weymouth Craig Wright Sung You

2002 Melissa Adams n Joel Bradley Ramsay (Hill) Chodounsky Ave Cook n Kerry Douglas n Andrew Everett n Maddie (Rappoli) Fiumara Ally Keefe Frank Mundo Christopher Nielson n Lilly Nigro Betsy Pantazelos n Eamonn ReynoldsMohler Chris Rodgers Joe Sampson n Andrew Stif ler Channing Weymouth n Mike Whalley

2003 Bryce Connery Jay Connolly Kevin Curran Sean Delaney Charlie Erdman n Brenna Fox Neal Frei n Robin (Stefanik) Green n

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Emily (Noyes) Grunow Anna (Lockwood) Kelly Dave LaPointe n Nick Leonard Dave Madeira n Linden Mallory Mitch Mitchell-Lewis Brendan Murphy n Amy (Laverack) Nordblom n Alex Palmisano n Nate Parker Nick Payeur n Sam Rigby Matt Sopher n Ben Taylor Ashley (Currier) Trainor Kara (Herlihy) Young n

2004 Anonymous Seth Aronson Carling (Delaney) Bennett Geoff Calver n Dave Campbell n Casey Carroll Sang Yeb Chung Mattie (Ford) DiNapoli Ashley (Hedlund) Healy n Kate Kenly-Tith Heather Keslin Joy (Erdman) Larkin n Blair (Weymouth) Monaco Katharine (Nourse) Moore Ariana Nicolay Todd Nordblom n Allie O’Connell Marta (Heinen) Robinson Marina (Chiasson) Sharpe n Justin Simon Alan Thompson n Cameron Williams

2005 Chris Blaine n Gerald Carter Caitlin (Connelly) Cooper n

Willie Ford Jenn (Calver) Gaudet n J.J. Hall n Mike Hardiman Brie (Keefe) Healy Hannah Hickok Kwan Kim Han Min Lee Jason Merritt n Becky Millson n Kathleen (Crane) Mitchell n Brendan O’Riordan n Emma (Schofield) Phipps n Emily Sampson n Lauren (Frei) Sleiman n Stan Smith Mike Tucker n Jamie Wallace n Susan (Taylor) Wasp

2006 Anonymous (3) Lucy (Randall) Archibald n Dorian Bakogiannis n Blair (Thompson) Bruning Molly (Nissi) Craig Carlie (Bristow) Febo Casey Gilman n Tai Haluszka n Tory Hayssen Chris Hoffmeister Chris Howe Luke Kelly Betsy Laurin n Reed Laverack n Jeff Meyers n Ben Mitchell-Lewis n Ben Motley n Hilary Nichols Anders Nordblom n Krista (Glencross) Officer Anne Richardson n Jesse Straus n Ben Tomaszewski Ben Trook n Grady Vigneau CJ Vincent n Lauren Wright

2007 Anonymous Reed Branton Cambria (Hempton) Brockman Hannah Corkery Phoebe Erdman n Tyler Gosselin n Annie Hanson Ax Hayssen Mike Heyward Taylor James Ga-Hwui Kim Jamie Leake n Kourtney (Brim) Martin n Stephen Martin n Sarah Morrison Marina Pappas Jaime (Dusseault) Roberge Christopher Roche Ethan Somers Ben Tyler

2008 Anonymous (2) Mike Antoniou Polly Babcock Annie Carney n Chris Cummings Bobby Curran Margot Cutter Christopher Dean Brittany Dove John Duhamel Julia Ford Morgan Frank Landry Frei n Sacha Gouchie Haley Hamblin n Ryanne Haskell Jessie (Potter) King-Geovanis Craig Leach Dan Marvin n Baird Meem n Tim Nolan Hannah O’Brien Alex Osborne Brett Phillips Greg Ramey n Tim Regan Stephen Rudberg n Taylor Sawatzki n

Ben Schreiber Kathryn (Cheng) Sullivan Jessi White n Haley Wilich

Aubrey Tyler n Julia (Canelas) Vrucinic Gabbie (Raffio) Weisburger n

2011 2009

2010 Anonymous Tizzy Brown n Paul Clark Mark Finnegan n Andrea Fisher Brian Friedman n Elise (Steiner) Hacker Erika Johnson Evan Marcus John McCoy Wes Mitchell-Lewis Laura Pohl n Ashby Sussman

Madde Burnham Chuckie (Carbone) Crowley Cecily Cushman n Juliet Dalton n Amanda Engelhardt Nick Ford Nick Goodrich Chandler Grisham Paige Hardtke Emily Hayes n Lauren Hayes Carson Houle n Andrew Howe Paige Kozlowski n Alex Kuno Sam Macomber n Jamie McNulty n Henry Miles Abe Noyes Charlotte Noyes n Ethan Pfenninger Cole Phillips n Derek Pimentel Casey Powell Brooke Robertson Adam Sapers Nick Stoico Jean-Philippe Tardif Margaret Thibadeau Jaclyn Vernet n Klaus Vitzthum n

2012 Anonymous Gavin Bayreuther n Abby (Guerra) Bohlin Keith Bohlin Josie Brownell n Owen Buehler Maggie Caputi Bee Crudgington n Peter Ferrante Lily Ford Mike Gassman Hannah Halsted n Matthew Kinney n Haley Mahar Brandon Marcus

2013 Jake Barton Sarah Bell Elena Bird Kelly DiNapoli Stepper Hall n Jeff Hauser Kails Lazzaro Jesse Ross n KJ Sanger

2014 Morgan Bayreuther n Becca Begley n Reed Carpenter Ben Coleman n Hedi Droste n Matt Gudas Celeste Holland n Drew Houx Suzanna Liddle Clark Macomber n Eliana Mallory Tess O’Brien Garrett Phillips n Spencer Pierce n Elizabeth Powell Lea Rice n Allie Solms Alex Spina Patrick Toomey Mikaela Wall Bobby Wassman Chance Wright Jingyi Wu

2015 Anonymous (2) Sarah Alexander Michael Beutner Emily Clifford n Carter Daume Charlie Day Grace Eagan Charlotte Freccia

Meg Grzywacz Lily Hamblin Charles Harker n Hope Heffernan n Sasha Jones Jack Kinney n Ben Luz Luke Randle Katie Remien n Jake Rosencranz James Rowe Anna Stanley

2016 Anonymous Maggie Barton Hannah Benson Lexi Black Kyra Borsoi AJ Chabot Will Coleman Grace Collins Maggie Cunha n Grace Lawrence Jessie Montague Chris Sargent Ellery Smith Julia Thulander

2017 Kelley Attenborough Camilla (Ketola) Brill Jack Brill Katie Campbell Julia Cantin Jon Courchesne Henry Day Cam DiGiacomo Sarah Gudas Dan Hauser n Giuliana Kevlin n Perry Lum n Elliott McGuire Max Paro n Connor Preston Laura Rinehart n Geoff West Celine Yam n

2018 Anonymous Aldie Anderson Ellie Batchelder Will Bayha n Justin Boes

Phoebe Day Nick Grammas Will Harker Cooper Jay Conner Mayes Peter Reynolds Audrey Simonson Luke Valentine Abby Wiseman Alex Wisnes

2019 Anonymous (2) Keenan Alnahas Jamie Bayha n Beckham Bayreuther Abby Boes Drea Chin Charlie Cunha Dylan de Vries Griffin Doherty Bryn Donovan Tanner Ensign Buzz Fisher Izak Furey Lily Gillette n Spencer Glascock Pat Heffernan Jake Madigan Tori Michienzi Lilly Patterson Cate Pollini Kathryn Potter Avery Reynolds Jack Spence Taylor Teich Michael Trask Kitt Urdang Lexie von der Luft Andrey Yao

2020 Anonymous Rudy Beer Delaney Dolan Seth Gray Ellie Page Eleni Spiliotes Carter Storey Abby Vieira Gus Whitcomb Andrew Yang

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Faith Barnum Hadley Bergh n Cody Bohonnon n Chris Borsoi Taylor Caggiula Curt Christian Megan Currier Jack Dings Sumner Ford n Laney (Hayssen) Forton n Nate Fuller Andrew Grace Chris Grilk Dave Grilk n Toby Harriman Bennett Hrabovsky Cam LeBlanc Ally (Stride) Lloyd Tenley Malmquist Jake Manoukian n Jimmy Mathews n Emma (Locke) McGreal Meg McNulty Ben Middleton Ian Nesbitt n James O’Leary n Meredith Peck n Andrew Reilly Emily (Marvin) Rider Stephen Smith Abby Thompson Geordie Weaver

Will Marvin Kristina Micalizzi n Sara Mogollon n Katie (Leake) Parker Nick Renzi Ryan Rosencranz Abby Slattery Erica Steiner Steph Symecko n

CURRENT STUDENTS Anonymous (6) Grace Adams ’24 Ly-Ly Atchariyachanvanit ’21 Alex Baber ’21 Jack Bayreuther ’21 Davis Blair ’24 Noelle Boes ’22 Aaron Borgani ’24 Mack Bowen ’22 Brooke Chandler ’21 Cosette Charron ’23 Maya Clemente ’23 Delia Cooper ’23

Charlie Crumbo ’21 Megan Cunningham ’23 Topher Davenport ’21 Coco Diemar ’22 Charlie Dobson ’22 Hannah Donahue ’23 Nate Dudley ’22 Addy Durant ’23 Allie Eichler ’22 Tiffany Feng ’21 Phoebe Fisher ’23 Jobe GemmellHughes ’21 Teddy Gillis ’24 Nina Grappone ’23 Evan Gras ’24

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CURRENT PARENTS Anonymous (11) Sarah and John Adams P ’24 Alison Akers P ’24 Andrew Akers P ’24 Kat Alfond ’90 and Joey Donahue P ’23 n Annie An and Allen Zhao P ’23 Nicole and Ted Anastos P ’17 ’19 ’23 Mary Beth and Jim Baber P ’21 Rachel and Nat Barker ’85 P ’21 n Jessica and John Bayreuther P ’12 ’14 ’19 ’21 Allison and Marc Belliveau P ’24 Soley and Richard Belt P ’21 Randa and Erin Blair P ’24 Wendy and Terry Blanchard P ’24 Amy Sullivan and Alex Bocock P ’21 Helena and Todd Boes ’83 P ’18 ’19 ’21 ’22 n Maria Ansari and Michael Borgani P ’24 Amy and Rob Boulanger P ’22 ’24 Jay Bowen P ’22 Melissa and Chris Bowler P ’18 ’21 Anne Marie and Kevin Brayton P ’21 Carrie and Tim Burr P ’23 ’24 Laura and Jim Byrne P ’24 Mary Ann and Mark Callahan P ’21 Kimberly and Craig Carchidi P ’22 Catrine and Peter Charron P ’23 Denise Elliott and Gerald Clemente P ’23 Kara and Dave Cole P ’20 ’21 Ellyn and Ray Colwell P ’21 Lori and Chris Croft P ’21 Katie and Kevin Crumbo P ’21 Beth and Mike Cunningham P ’23 Janice and Ivar Dahl P ’19 ’22 n Kate and Lloyd Dahmen P ’23 Erin ’01 and Joey Daigneault P ’23 Sam Daigneault ’96 P ’24 Jesse and Chris Davenport ’89 P ’19 ’21 n

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Alex Guest ’21 Kerry Guinee ’22 George Hillegass ’21 Annika Howard ’22 Amber Huang ’21 Russ Hutchinson ’22 Palm Jitklongsub ’21 Ben King ’22 Annie Kinsley ’22 Drayton Krahmer ’22 Sacha Levine ’22 Lisa Lin ’22 Adam McNabney ’21 Ahneka Noyes ’22 Mary Page ’22 Abby Palmer ’21

Caroline Palmer ’23 Chase Picard ’23 Alia Piccinni ’21 Adam Pilon ’21 Evan Plunkett ’23 Matt Pollini ’22 Emma Reynolds ’22 Molly Rhatigan ’24 Connor Roberts ’23 Gracie Roe ’21 Henry Roe ’24 Margot Roguet ’22 Tim Ryan ’23 Jessica Shi ’23 Aaron Shray ’21 Aye Srijomkwan ’21

Jody and Jack Diemar P ’22 Amy and Trey Dobson P ’22 Kara Hamill and John Donovan P ’16 ’19 ’23 Kerry and Brendt D’Orio P ’22 Carolyn and Rob Dowling P ’22 Marianne and Brian Doyle P ’24 Irina Saburova and Konstantin Driker P ’22 Julie Lapointe and Denis Dubois P ’22 Renee and Scott Dudley P ’22 Amy and Ben Durant P ’23 Katherine and Marc Edenbach P ’22 Maureen and Ehimen Edokpa P ’22 Marie-Elena and Robert Edwards P ’24 Laura and Jim Erlacher P ’23 Daphne and Kelleigh Faldi P ’24 Karrie Farley P ’22 David Feeney P ’24 Joyce Wang and Yi Feng P ’21 Phoebe and Rush Fisher P ’16 ’16 ’19 ’23 Amy and Dan Ford P ’23 Kristin and Sean † Fox P ’23 Jane Xia and Arwen Fu P ’23 Dawn and Tony Gagnon P ’21 Nancy Hughes and Craig Gemmell P ’20 ’21 Celena and Ed Gervais P ’22 Brian Gillette P ’19 ’22 Tracy Gillette ’89 P ’19 ’22 n Kevin and Laura Gillis P ’24 Monique and Greg Gramas P ’23 Beth and Tony Grappone P ’23 Krissy and Bryan Gras P ’23 ’24 Jennifer and Cary Greene P ’22 Libin Wu and Bo Guan P ’24 Stacey and Patrick Guinee P ’21 ’22 ’24 Tiffany and John Hammer P ’23 Kimberly and Joseph Harris P ’23 Jessica and Brent Heinzer P ’21 Sophie and Randy Hoder P ’21

Andrew Stodden ’24 Rachel Storey ’22 Calvin Sweeney ’24 New Tohsuwanwanich ’21 Maizley Tone ’22 Mac Upton ’23 Evan Vaillancourt ’24 Mae Whitcomb ’21 Jasmine Whittaker ’22 Ava Wilson ’21 Judy Yin ’22 Louise Zhou ’24 Terry Zhu ’23

Mara and Tripp Holton P ’23 Anne Lompo and Joey Hood P ’22 P ’24 Donna Gaudet-Hosmer and Andrew Hosmer P ’23 ’23 Jianjun Yu and Ling Hou P ’21 Dawn McGuire and Christy Houpis ’77 P ’21 Beatrice Howard P ’22 Lee and Robert Howe P ’24 Sandy and Bryan Huber P ’23 Joia and Tom Hughes P ’22 Kim and Chris Hutchinson P ’18 ’20 ’22 Mary and Ken Ierardi P ’24 Yvane Jean-Michel P ’23 Sarah and Bill Johnston P ’22 Ann and Dan Jones P ’23 Tracy and Eric Kanowsky P ’22 Abby Albee and Chris Keating ’81 P ’24 n Michelle and Joseph Keegan P ’22 P ’24 Karen and Dan Keene P ’23 Topsy and Andrew King P ’22 Becky and Rob Kinsley ’88 P ’19 ’22 n Nancy and Charles Krahmer P ’22 Gregg Landis P ’22 Kristen Lantz P ’24 Heather ’87 and Major LaRowe P ’23 Heidi and Bryant Lehr P ’24 Greeley Sachs and Seth Levine P ’22 Jenny Cheng and Guobiao Lin P ’22 Kristin and Bruce Major P ’24 MJ and Brendan McCarthy P ’22 Karin and Michael McMillen P ’23 Diane and Terry McNabb P ’22 Anna and Joseph Messina P ’22 Viktoria and David Metzner P ’24 Christy and Dono Miele P ’24 Emily and Andrew Miller ’97 P ’24 n Kristen and Craig Mooney P ’22 Erin and Mark Morales P ’24 n

Wendy and Steven Shray P ’21 Shauna and Mark Simmonds P ’23 Alison and Travis Spitzer P ’23 Julie and Mark Stiles P ’23 Kathy and Dave Stodden P ’24 Jess and Matt Storey P ’20 ’22 n Sara and Russ Strohecker P ’22 Shelly and Chris Swanson P ’22 Yvonne Van Gessel and Bryan Sweeney P ’24 Camilla and Mark Tarmy P ’24 Barbara Jobst and Markus Testorf P ’22 Lani Toscano and Wolfe Tone P ’22 Suzie and Matt Upton ’80 P ’23 John Urdi P ’22 Susan and Peter Vaillancourt P ’24 Jo Viney and Lawrence Wallach P ’24 Cindy Yang and Hongwu Wang P ’23 Yuan Mao and Zhonghe Wang P ’23 Celeste and Jim Wareing P ’24 Janet Casselman and Ted Watson P ’23 Kim Scott-Weiss and Jeff Weiss P ’24 Whitney and Paul Werner P ’23 Molly ’86 and Scott Whitcomb P ’20 ’21 n Bob Whittaker P ’22 Edith Iler and Jano Wiedemann P ’22 ’23 Nathalie and Bo Wilson P ’21 Haiqing Wang and Peng Yin P ’22 Sunny Sun and Jie Zhang P ’23 Jueyan Jin and Xing Zhou P ’24 Sissy Zeng and Jimin Zhu P ’23 Kyra Zorn-Hikmate P ’22

GRANDPARENTS Anonymous (3) Betsy and Van Adriance P ’86 ’88 GP ’17 ’20 ’20 ’21 n Elizabeth and Frederick Afragola GP ’23 Barbara Akers GP ’24 Lee and Nile Albright GP ’24 Barbara and Ted Alfond P ’87 ’88 ’90 GP ’23 Lynn and Ted Anastos GP ’17 ’19 ’23 Susan and Bill Barker ’62 P ’85 ’89 GP ’21 n Judy Beams GP ’18 Judy and John Benoit GP ’14 Jay Bertelli GP ’17 ’19 ’23 Kathryn Bertelli GP ’17 ’19 ’23 n Barbara Bissinger GP ’23 Ann Blair GP ’15 n Linda and John Byer GP ’21 Ruth Colket P ’87 GP ’17 n Fran Comstock P ’89 ’92 GP ’21 Alex and Sheelagh Cooper P ’86 ’87 GP ’20 ’22 Sally and William Coughlin GP ’23 Gene and Lloyd Dahmen GP ’23

Nancy and Jim Dalley P ’92 GP ’12 n Sally and Peter Darling P ’86 ’87 GP ’20 ’22 Baba Davenport P ’89 GP ’19 ’21 n Eleanor and Robert Diemar GP ’22 Sandy and Tom Doyle ’66 GP ’10 ’11 n Phoebe Driscoll P ’82 GP ’16 ’16 ’19 ’23 Gail and George Edwards GP ’15 Catherine and Richard Evans P ’88 ’96 GP ’23 n Barbara and Paul Ferri GP ’18 ’19 n Dolly and John Fisher GP ’16 ’16 ’19 ’23 n Camie and Dan Ford GP ’23 Janet Evans-Fuller and Win Fuller ’61 P ’88 ’96 GP ’20 ’21 ’23 n Janet and Bob Furey GP ’19 n Linda and Len Galvin P ’90 ’91 GP ’15 n Carolyn and Vinny Garofalo GP ’23 ’24 Margaret Gray GP ’17 ’20 n Donna and Robert Hamill GP ’16 ’19 ’23 Loli Hammond P ’79 GP ’14 Ellie and Paul Hardy P ’92 GP ’22 Pat Henderson P ’72 ’74 GP ’05 Margaret and William Heuss GP ’22 ’24 Peggy and Ron Hillegass P ’85 ’87 ’88 GP ’21 Sandra and Gary Hull GP ’15 Barbara Jarabek GP ’17 Peggy and Bill Kantaros GP ’23 Lynda Katz GP ’21 Anne Kinsley P ’88 GP ’19 ’22 n Linda and Bob Livingstone GP ’23 Terry and Ed Lovejoy GP ’12 ’14 ’19 ’21 n Sid Lovett GP ’01 ’02 ’04 † Cynthia and Quentin Malmquist P ’74 ’83 ’86 GP ’09 Douglas McArthur GP ’23 Janie and John McCoy P ’89 GP ’19 ’22 n Linda and Andy McLane GP ’17 ’25 Withrow Meeker GP ’09 Joanne Mitchell GP ’12 ’14 ’19 ’21 Shirlee Mitchell GP ’03 ’06 ’10 n Lee and David Page GP ’20 ’22 n Carol-Jean and Greg Plunkett GP ’23 Leigh Quinn P ’78 GP ’01 ’08 Denise and Richard Radkewich GP ’22 Jan Raftery GP ’22 Joan and Thomas Rouillard GP ’22 Betsy and Ted Rowe P ’81 GP ’15 n Mary Sargent GP ’08 ’15 ’16 n Kathy Scaramella GP ’19 Gus Seamans GP ’07 n Pam and Tom Sheffield GP ’14 ’16 ’19 ’21 n Dorothy Smith P ’80 ’85 GP ’07 ’07 ’09 ’12 n Barbara and Bill Starkey GP ’17 n Betsy Stevens GP ’18 ’19 Martha and John Storey GP ’20 ’22 n

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Leanne Morgan-Cedeno and Sergio Cedeno P ’21 Nancy and Ed Morris P ’21 ’23 Annabel and Michael Moynihan P ’22 Kristen and Frank Mulcahy P ’23 Beth and John Mullaly P ’22 Kathy Jou and Al Noyes P ’21 D’Lynn DeRosa-Noyes and Steve Noyes P ’22 Diana Oehrli P ’22 Jeanie and Peter Olson P ’23 Sam and Dave O’Neil P ’21 ’23 ’24 Holly and Jerry O’Neill P ’23 Laura ’86 and David Page P ’20 ’22 n Patty and Jonathan Palmer P ’21 ’23 Megan and Jon Parker P ’22 Wendy and Simon Parmett P ’24 Kristin and Scott Paton P ’21 Bridget and Craig Pattee P ’22 Kristin and Ernest Patterson P ’23 Molly and Jon Peacock P ’22 Jen Peatman P ’15 ’17 ’22 Bob Peatman P ’15 ’17 ’22 Maggie Peng P ’21 Paula and Andy Pereira P ’23 Amy Fraser and Jody Perkins P ’22 Donna and Raymond Piccinni P ’21 Jackie Taylor-Plunkett and Brandon Plunkett P ’23 Amy and Peter Pollini P ’19 ’22 Krissy Pozatek ’92 P ’22 n Meredith Pratt P ’24 Jean Zhang and Sam Qian P ’21 Jane Lewis-Raymond and Tom Raymond P ’23 Sandy and Gregg Rebar P ’24 Nell and Drew Reynolds P ’18 ’20 ’22 n Tim Rhatigan P ’24 Alex Riccio P ’23 Andrea and Dennis Roberts ’97 P ’23 n Tara and Oliver Robinson P ’24 Jen Robison ’89 P ’22 ’24 n Carol Bradford-Roe and Simon Roe P ’21 ’24 Betsy and Olivier Roguet P ’22 ’24 Julie and Ted Rolfs P ’21 Wendy Rouillard P ’22 Kendall Hoyt and Manning Rountree P ’23 Paulette and James Ryan P ’23 Tisha and Andrew Sawyer ’79 P ’18 ’20 ’21 n Susan Wade and William Scaife P ’22 Patty and Tom Severance P ’24 Lucinda and Tom Sheffield P ’14 ’16 ’19 ’21 n Xugang Wang and Wensheng Shen P ’20 ’24 Lisa and Tom Sherman P ’22 Ping Xie and Gaohong Shi P ’23

Fred Taylor P ’85 GP ’22 Irene and Leonard Thompkins GP ’17 Casey and Rich Thompson GP ’23 Peggy Tierney GP ’24 Kathie and Anthony Toscano GP ’22 Dick Tyson GP ’21 Virginia Urdi GP ’22 Joyce Wallace and Ralph Boykin GP ’20 Sue and Dave Wesoloski GP ’23 ’24 Donna Zannoni GP ’22 Tama and Mark Zorn GP ’22

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PARENTS OF ALUMNI Anonymous (11) Lynn Abood P ’19 Fletcher Adams ’55 P ’95 n Susan and Tom Adams P ’02 n Betsy and Van Adriance P ’86 ’88 GP ’17 ’20 ’20 ’21 n Ramsey Alexander P ’15 n Barbara and Ted Alfond P ’87 ’88 ’90 GP ’23 Wendy and Joel Almquist P ’01 Barbara Tentas and Bassem Alnahas P ’19 Erika and Mike Alusic-Bingham P ’20 n Sandeep Alva P ’15 n Emily and Alden Anderson P ’18 n Margaret and Demetri Antoniou P ’08 Linda Ardito P ’94 n Katherine Arthaud P ’13 n Louisa and Neale Attenborough P ’17 n Patience and Alan Banister P ’94 n Gini Barker P ’94 ’97 Susan and Bill Barker ’62 P ’85 ’89 GP ’21 n Joan and Peter Barnum P ’05 ’07 ’09 n Sarah and Bruce Barton P ’13 ’16 n Judy and Bill Baskin ’49 P ’81 ’89 n Melissa Paly and David Batchelder P ’15 ’18 n Amy and Tim Bayha P ’18 ’19 n Lisa and Pete Begley P ’14 ’14 Janice McVay Bell and John Bell P ’13 ’16 n Barb and Jim Bennett P ’11 Tricia and David Benson P ’16 n Carol and John Bergeron ’58 P ’82 ’84 n Virginia and Austin Beutner P ’15 Jane and Mark Biddle P ’19 Gay and Jerry Bird P ’07 ’13 n Heather Black P ’16 Jamie and Smed Blair P ’15 n Wendy and Chris Blau P ’12 ’20 Rick Blauvelt P ’99 and Candace Goodwin Dick Boardman P ’99 n Krissa and Jim Bolton P ’92 Helen and Frank Bonsal ’82 P ’17 n Christine and Willy Booker P ’19 Heather and Paul Booska P ’09

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Janice and John Booth P ’80 Cheryl Borek P ’13 Jill McCune and Scott Borek P ’13 Luette Bourne P ’85 n Trish and Kevin Bozich P ’12 ’15 n Miriam and Dirk Brandwijk P ’14 Dorothy Brill P ’17 ’20 Karen Brower P ’85 ’87 Charles Brown P ’98 Keyana Brown P ’20 Chess Brownell P ’12 n Susan Bruce and Rick Hauck P ’88 n Catherine and David Brumbaugh P ’17 Laurie and Frank Bruns P ’92 Daniel Burbank P ’83 Lisa and Carl Burnham P ’11 Nancy and Dwayne Burton P ’96 Jennifer and Olaf Butchma P ’19 Karyn and Ben Campbell P ’17 n Lisa and Tom Cantin P ’17 ’19 n Beth and David Caputi P ’11 ’12 ’15 n Chris Carney ’75 P ’08 and Karen Dempsey Carney n Liz Carter P ’15 ’18 Ann and Joe Casey P ’14 ’17 ’20 Chanda Termes and Edgar Cepuritis P ’20 Julie and Bill Chapin P ’92 Shirley and Seng Cheng P ’08 Celeste and Robert Chernin P ’16 ’17 Jocelyn Chertoff P ’10 n Melissa ’85 and Angus Christie ’85 P ’20 n Debora Bois-Cicalese and Bob Cicalese P ’17 Tricia Preston and Keith Clark P ’17 Karen and Roger Clarkson ’71 P ’02 Nancy and John Clifford P ’15 ’18 Ki and Bill Clough ’57 P ’80 ’83 ’86 n Robin and Dick Clutz P ’81 ’83 ’90 n Ruth Colket P ’87 GP ’17 n Fran Comstock P ’89 ’92 GP ’21 Cynthia and Stuart Conant P ’96 Margo and Greg Connors ’66 P ’93 ’96 ’97 n Brammie and Warren Cook P ’90 ’94 n Alex and Sheelagh Cooper P ’86 ’87 GP ’20 ’22 Jamie and Steve Corkran P ’10 n Andy Courchesne P ’18 Catherine and Jim Cousins ’70 P ’99 n Elaine and John Coyle P ’95 n Mary and Bud Crane P ’98 ’01 ’05 n Trish and Jim Cruickshank P ’01 n Carolyn ’87 and Woody Cullen P ’17 n Kathy and Bob Cunha P ’16 ’19 n Margaret and Dick Curran P ’09 Debbie and Billy Curran P ’03 ’04 ’08 Margaret and Chris Cushing ’78 P ’10

Eliza and Russell Cushman ’80 P ’11 ’15 Linda and Ken Cutler P ’98 n Lynn Tyler and Randy Dales P ’80 ’00 ’02 n Nancy and Jim Dalley P ’92 GP ’12 n Joan and John Dalton P ’11 n Linda Gatter and Max Dannis P ’17 n Sally and Peter Darling P ’86 ’87 GP ’20 ’22 Baba Davenport P ’89 GP ’19 ’21 n Felicite and Ian Davidson P ’96 Kate and Andrew Davis P ’18 n Lisa and Bob Dean P ’08 n George Denny P ’04 Kiki and Jason Densmore P ’15 Jane and Claude Desjardins P ’85 n Janet and Chip Dewar P ’93 ’96 n Amy and Daniel DiGiacomo P ’17 Teresa and Vincent DiNapoli P ’13 Janet and Fred Dodge P ’98 ’00 Susan and Timothy Doherty P ’19 Anne and John Donaghy P ’99 ’01 Wylie and Scott Doughty P ’93 Nancy and Leo Driscoll P ’17 n Phoebe Driscoll P ’82 GP ’16 ’16 ’19 ’23 Kristin and Ed Droste P ’14 n Sarah and Mike Duffy P ’15 Kate and Bill Duhamel P ’08 Becky and Paul Dulac P ’97 Candie and Paul Dullea P ’06 ’10 Cathi DuPuy P ’15 Kristen Fischer and Peter Durnan P ’11 ’14 Barbara and Peter Dusseault P ’07 Bev and Tom Eccleston P ’89 ’92 n Marty and Paul Elkins P ’04 n Cindy Cole and Fred Erdman P ’03 ’04 ’07 n Zoe Erdman P ’03 ’04 ’07 Jan and Peter Eschauzier P ’89 Catherine and Richard Evans P ’88 ’96 GP ’23 n Lin and Bill Everett P ’02 Barbara and John Faiella P ’98 Susan and Jerry Farnsworth P ’95 ’99 Tammy and Kevin Fascetta P ’19 Deborah and Peter Fauver ’65 P ’11 n Sarah Gates and Frank Feist P ’18 Melissa and Paul John Ferri P ’18 ’19 n Hilary and Mark Finnegan ’79 P ’10 ’11 ’13 n Barbara Kourajian and Bud Fisher P ’10 n Joan Fitzgerald P ’04 Terry Flaherty P ’84 Renee Fleisher P ’87 ’90 Lyn and Brendan Florio P ’01 n Karen and Jeff Foran P ’88 ’90 n Ali Hill and Chris Ford P ’11 n Lori and Duane Ford ’74 P ’04 ’05 ’08 ’12 Susan and Jim Ford P ’09 ’12 n

Pat Henderson P ’72 ’74 GP ’05 Sue and Pat Hendricks P ’19 Diane and Richard Hewitt P ’03 Alexandra Breed and Doug Hill P ’02 n Peggy and Ron Hillegass P ’85 ’87 ’88 GP ’21 Diana and Jim Hindess P ’99 Leah Hodari P ’19 Winifred Hodges P ’83 n Tim Hoeffner P ’17 ’19 n Carol Holahan P ’10 ’12 William Holden P ’88 Mara and Tripp Holton P ’23 Betsey Holtzmann P ’11 n Susan and David Hopkins P ’83 ’89 n Trina and Dave Hosmer P ’96 Ann Foster and Ron Houle P ’11 n Meredith and Randy Houseman P ’15 ’18 n Moe and Clark Houx P ’14 ’18 John Howe P ’06 ’11 Anne and Bob Hoyer P ’92 n Celina Li and John Huang P ’19 Lori and John Hyslip P ’08 ’10 Mary Idle P ’81 n Jane and Clark Irwin P ’01 ’04 Stephanie and Chris Jay P ’18 n Tina and Eric Johnson P ’20 Anita and Len Johnson P ’84 n Priscilla and Sheldon Jones P ’89 Sophie and Scott Jones P ’16 ’18 ’20 n Dick Joyce ’63 P ’93 n Lee Monro and Elvin Kaplan ’53 P ’88 n Donna Kasianchuk P ’08 ’14 The Keating Family Tory and John Kelley P ’09 n Diane Roberts and Doug Kendall P ’06 ’09 ’13 n Maria and Walt Kesler P ’85 ’88 ’91 Jean-Claude Killy P ’85 Millie and Bill Kimball P ’89 Anne Kinsley P ’88 GP ’19 ’22 n Wendy and Phil Kistler P ’85 Jean and David Knapp P ’11 n Dana and Pier Kooistra P ’20 Sandra and Gerald Kraft P ’77 Maureen Kuharic P ’98 Susan and John LaCasse P ’94 Lisa and Joe Lacasse P ’16 n Bev LaFoley P ’90 ’95 ’96 Toni Laird P ’77 ’83 Diana and Charles Lambert P ’94 Roger Lamson P ’12 n Lyndia and Tom Lamson P ’81 n Janie and Brad Langmaid ’54 P ’81 Brian Lash P ’14 ’16 ’18 Susan and David Laurin P ’06 n

Gail Lavallee and David Hanks P ’01 n Deb Gibbs and Dean Lea P ’03 n Terrie and Chris Leake P ’04 ’07 ’12 Stepper and George LeBoutillier ’63 P ’87 n Carole and Dick Lechthaler P ’94 Kate Evans and Tony LeMenager P ’16 Anne and Jim Leonard P ’03 Dick Lewis P ’03 ’06 ’10 n Jenny Morrill-Liddle and Richard Liddle P ’14 Marilee and John Lin P ’15 ’17 n Sally and David Lockwood P ’99 ’02 ’03 ’03 Larry Lougee P ’97 Ted Lowrie P ’99 n Paula and Peter Lunder P ’84 n Rebecca and Jeff Lyman P ’92 ’95 n Lynda and Kevin Macdonald P ’16 Rod MacLeod P ’16 ’18 Lulie and Malcolm MacNaught P ’85 Martha and Jory Macomber P ’11 ’14 ’19 n Tom Macy P ’82 ’84 ’86 n Melanie Garger and Chris Madigan P ’19 n Emily ’88 and Kurt Magnus P ’17 ’20 n Nora Mallory and Howie Mallory P ’98 ’03 ’14 n Cynthia and Quentin Malmquist P ’74 ’83 ’86 GP ’09 Nancy and Walter Malmquist ’74 P ’09 Karen Marshall P ’97 Hope and Chip Martin ’88 P ’20 n Lucy and David Marvin P ’01 n Sarah and Jon Marvin P ’08 ’09 ’12 n Mollie and Kim Mason ’54 P ’85 n Pam and Phil Mason P ’17 ’20 Susan Mathison P ’07 Janie and John McCoy P ’89 GP ’19 ’22 n Mimi and Scott McDougal P ’82 Catherine McGraw P ’19 Tanya and Todd McIntire P ’20 Shani and Ben McLane P ’17 Sue and Doug McLane ’69 P ’99 n Ruth and Hayden McLaughlin P ’17 n Susan Smiga and David McManus P ’18 n Jan and John Meck P ’97 n Carolyn and Lew Mello P ’03 n Laura Mammarelli and Jim Meryman P ’91 ’08 Sharon and Andy Meyers P ’06 n Noreen and Vinny Michienzi P ’14 ’19 Christine and Joe Miles ’82 P ’11 ’13 ’18 n Diane and Rich Moore P ’99 Vicki and Steve Morris P ’00 Barbara and Dave Morrison P ’07 n Anne and Terry Morse ’64 P ’88 ’91 ’93 n Carrie Charnley and Steve Morse ’74 P ’14 n

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Cindy Foster and Rae Andrews P ’08 n Rhonda and Luke Fowler ’74 P ’08 ’09 Marlene and Jeff Fox P ’03 Sue ’72 and Peter Francesco P ’98 Vicki and Gary Frei P ’03 ’05 ’08 n Rosemarie Mullin and Tom Friedman P ’10 n Janet Evans-Fuller and Win Fuller ’61 P ’88 ’96 GP ’20 ’21 ’23 n Lynda Gagne P ’20 Mai Leha and Alain Gagnon P ’18 Linda and Len Galvin P ’90 ’91 GP ’15 n Elizabeth and Jim Gamble P ’06 Geoff Gannon P ’98 ’01 Judith and Joel Gardiner P ’11 n Jo Ellen and David Garner P ’15 Linda and John Gaston P ’95 ’99 Sheila Gates P ’86 ’88 n Katie Hamilton Gewirz and Steven Gewirz P ’16 n Kelly and Miles Glascock ’82 P ’19 n Sharon and Darrell Glencross P ’06 Kathleen Maher and Chip Goodrich P ’11 n Nancy Gordon P ’91 ’93 Gayle and Gary Gosselin P ’07 Christine and Peter Grammas P ’18 n Liz and Alex Gray P ’17 ’20 n Karen and Stephen T. Gregg ’63 P ’90 n Martha Griffin P ’96 ’98 n Kasey and John Grisham P ’11 ’14 Natalie and Tim Gudas P ’14 ’17 Nan and Dalton Gustafson P ’20 Beatrice and Klaus Haas P ’96 Jan and Toby Hall P ’03 Joanie and Bob Hall P ’13 ’16 n Carrie and Jim Hamblin ’77 P ’08 ’15 n Sue Hamilton P ’98 Loli Hammond P ’79 GP ’14 Betty and Wayne Hann P ’01 ’01 Terrie and Jim Hanrahan P ’95 Laura Palumbo-Hanson and David Hanson P ’07 n Micki and Tom Hardiman P ’05 Anne and David Hardy P ’14 Ellie and Paul Hardy P ’92 GP ’22 Jane and Hagen Harker P ’15 ’18 n Jan and Bill Hauser P ’13 ’17 n Meredith Baker-Hayes and Brion Hayes P ’11 Susie and John Hayes P ’15 ’18 n Mary Ellen and Daniel Heffernan P ’19 n Betsy and Ulf Heide P ’85 Lorie Dunne and Mark Hempton P ’07 Jean Henchey P ’06 ’06 n Peg and Peter Hendel P ’96 ’02 n

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Teese and Todd Mosenthal P ’15 ’17 n Pam and Bill Mueller P ’98 Fritz Muench P ’92 n Maggie and Chris Mumford P ’08 ’20 Hiroko and Noboru Murakami P ’91 ’92 n Lisa Mure P ’14 ’17 n Lucy Murray-Brown P ’85 Mary Murray-Carr P ’03 n Ann McLean-Muse and Dan Muse P ’05 ’06 Diane and Mel Myler P ’94 n Mary and Dave Nagel P ’07 Beth and Dick Nesbitt P ’09 n Hannah Nichols P ’10 Madge Nickerson P ’85 n Franz Nicolay P ’95 ’97 ’00 ’04 n Kris ’79 and Pete Nordblom P ’04 ’06 ’08 n Alice Norton P ’89 ’92 Susan and Edward Norton P ’89 ’92 Sally Shipton and Jim Nourse P ’96 ’00 ’04 n Linda ’75 and Pike Noyes P ’03 Nanny and Pete Noyes ’79 P ’08 ’11 n Bill Nungesser P ’11 ’12 ’13 Sally and Richard Obregon P ’11 Heidi ’79 and Mike O’Connor ’79 P ’14 n Maggie O’Leary P ’01 Sarah and Mike O’Reilly P ’15 Leslie Orton ’73 P ’12 ’13 n Eleanor and Sam Osborne ’72 P ’08 ’10 The Paine Family Trust n Annie and David Palisi P ’19 Suzanne and Chris Palmer ’59 P ’92 n Pam Mulcahy and Bruce Paro P ’17 n Jessica and Jeff Patterson P ’19 n Midge Patzer P ’98 Robin and Phil Peck P ’08 ’09 n Karen and Dean Penny P ’15 ’18 Alice and John Pepper P ’75 Tobi and Rik Pfenninger P ’11 ’15 n Elizabeth and Mark Phillips P ’19 Tracy and Tom Phillips ’75 P ’11 ’14 n Claude Pichette P ’17 Linnie and Fred Pickering P ’96 n Suzanne and Richard Pierce P ’14 n Nancy and Walt Pierce P ’96 Xiaoli Qi and Stephen Pinkoski P ’08 Dick Pistey P ’93 n Cindy and Bill Powell P ’11 ’14 Darcy and Rick Powers P ’95 ’00 n Elizabeth and Will Prickett ’81 P ’15 n Ellen and Howard Pritham P ’85 n Leigh Quinn P ’78 GP ’01 ’08 Nancy and Jeffrey Randall P ’06 n Emily and Ken Ransford P ’16 Janet and Peter Rapelye P ’92 ’93 ’97 n

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Marilyn Redmond P ’86 n Nancy Reed P ’80 Amy and Jay Regan P ’88 n Karen and Michael Regan P ’01 ’08 Pam and Chuck Reilly ’74 P ’09 Butch Reilly P ’87 ’91 ’04 ’09 Amy and Michael Reilly ’87 P ’20 Chris Giurdanella-Renzi and Pete Renzi P ’12 ’14 ’17 Sybil and Buck Richardson P ’99 ’02 Ellie and Derek Richardson P ’94 ’96 ’99 ’01 ’06 n Trina and Gary Richardson ’63 P ’86 Helen and Ted Riehle P ’96 ’99 Larry Roberts P ’71 ’74 ’76 Monique Robichaud P ’08 ’11 n Peggy and Dale Rodgers P ’99 ’02 n Celia and Steve Rogers P ’18 Elizabeth and Brad Rohdenburg P ’20 n Mary Rohr P ’91 n Julia and Christopher Rose P ’20 Robin and Dana Rosencranz P ’12 ’15 n Sue and Eston Ross P ’13 n Pamela and Dave Rossetter ’74 P ’02 n Betsy and Ted Rowe P ’81 GP ’15 n Kate and Kevin Rowe ’81 P ’15 n John Rudberg P ’06 ’08 n Kathy Rush P ’95 Jackie and Tony Ryan P ’00 n Audrey and Dean Sampson P ’13 Craig Sanger P ’13 Sarael and Tom Sargent P ’16 n Nanette and David Schoeder P ’06 n Marie and George Schofield P ’00 ’04 ’05 n Krista and Roger Scoville P ’94 n Dori and Tim Seamans P ’07 Connie and Si Seiter ’65 P ’96 ’99 Bonnie and Mike Sherman P ’95 n Nancy Orendain and Mahesh Shrestha P ’13 Mark Shub ’61 P ’93 Erin and Eric Simonson P ’18 Beth and Alan Smarse P ’04 ’05 n Suzanne and Don Smith ’80 P ’07 ’12 n Dorothy Smith P ’80 ’85 GP ’07 ’07 ’09 ’12 n Laurie and Steve Smith ’65 P ’96 Kathy and Wells Smith P ’07 ’09 Lisa and Carl Soderberg P ’13 ’16 Jennifer and Dana Solms P ’14 Myranda and Jay Somers P ’07 Julia and David Soule ’62 P ’93 n Joyce and Joe Spaulding ’70 P ’00 Betsy and Gary Spiess P ’87 ’89 ’94 n Michelle and Dean Spiliotes P ’20 n Orson St. John P ’89 Janice and Lee St. Onge P ’17 n

Lynne and John Stahler P ’94 ’96 Patricia and Brennan Starkey P ’17 n Terry and Jim Steiner P ’10 ’12 Charlotte Stetson P ’90 Sandy Stone P ’02 n Diane and John Straus P ’06 Trish and John Stull P ’17 Wendy and Robert Sturges P ’13 ’16 n Paul Summers P ’09 ’10 n Rebecca Summers P ’09 ’10 Lynda and Peter Surdam P ’96 n Sally and Steve Swenson P ’88 n Elaine and Stephen Swidrak P ’14 ’14 n Barbara Swift P ’87 n Sally and Ed Swift P ’03 Tom Swift P ’87 ✝ n Lisa and Carl Symecko P ’12 ’16 Hua Zhang and Ju Tang P ’18 Deb and David Taylor ’71 P ’10 n Fred Taylor P ’85 GP ’22 Christine and Jack Taylor ’68 P ’03 ’05 n Laurie and Andy Teich P ’19 Laurie Thompson P ’04 Kim and Chris Tierney P ’08 ’12 Ginette and Tiff Tiffany P ’89 Kathy and Mike Trask P ’18 ’19 Annik Leblond and Marco Tremblay P ’22 Marcia and David Trook P ’06 n Beth and Tom Tucker P ’05 Joey and Bob Tuveson P ’88 ’91 n Fran Belcher and Rich Tyler P ’07 ’10 Elizabeth and Jeffrey Urdang P ’19 Kathleen Valentine P ’18 Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo P ’94 n Alison and Richard Vieira P ’20 n Merry and Grady Vigneau P ’06 Stephanie and Hans Vitzthum P ’11 Dino Vlahakis P ’02 Stephanie and Hans von der Luft P ’19 Susan Wagner P ’05 Carol and Jon Wales ’58 P ’89 ’93 n Judy and Steve Wales ’63 P ’92 ’93 n Melanie and Chris Waller P ’06 Ann and Larry Walrod P ’97 n Sue and John Walsh P ’88 Mary and Tom Walsh P ’01 ’07 n Lisa Wardlaw P ’84 ’85 n Vanessa and Win Wassenar P ’00 Ann and George Weaver ’75 P ’09 n Benson and Hartley Webster ’57 P ’85 ’87 n Patti and Jay Webster ’57 P ’83 ’91 ’92 ’08 n Liza Weekes P ’14 n Kathy and Rich Weymouth ’70 P ’01 ’02 ’04 n Cindy and Scott Wheeler P ’01

EXTENDED FAMILY Anonymous (3) Cynthia and Peter Amerman Jamie and Brent Anderson Nels Armstrong Tom Armstrong Louise Barzilay and Stephen Berenson Edwina and Bob Boose Susan and Arthur Bradbury n Lisa Bradner and James Burnham Debra Buchan Kathy and Joe Buckley n Ginny Burnham n Dorothy and Harold Byers Jennifer Carter Robinah Chapuredima and Francis Chapuredima Ellie and David Cochran Merry and John Conway n Alan Crocker April Currier Robert Dalton Suzanne Dewey n Deborah and Todd Dillon Tracey Drouin Riann Duffy Anne Murphy and Greg Englund The Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire n Kathleen Erickson Gisela and Paul Estes Lynn and Wil Everhart n

Sam Farrar Robert Fleck Nicole and Nigel Furlonge n Kathy and Steve Gaskill Ginny Gignoux Jaye and Charlie Goodwin n Pam Gray Prescott and Bob Prescott Tonya Haertl n Brooke Hagerman Jen and Peter Hall Sandra Hobbs Mary and Howard Holderness n Linda Hoyt Mae and John Hueston Jenny Hulse Caryn and Andrew Ines Judith and Steven Kampmann Reema Kasavich Peggy Keith n Jennifer and Tim Kingston n Greg Ladd Linda Larsh Lisa Lovett Stacey and Bob Low Chrissy Lushefski n Jessica MacGregor Phyllis Manley Courtney and Dan Marchetti Katie and Ira Marvin n Carol and George McAllister Maureen McClure Nicole McNabb Jenny and Chris Meier Kim Merrow n Molly Milner Richie Moore Hadley Bergh and Margot Moses Sarah Mongan and Jeff Nadeau n Reid Nadilo Yvette and Kerry O’Connell Wendy O’Connor Dan O’Neill Laurie and Richard Parker Karen Raftery Marel Rogers n Rachel Miller and Kent Rouillard Katie Shafer-Todd and David Todd Alec Sisco Duane Snell Karen Sobin-Jonash and Ronald Jonash Judith and Steve Solberg n Ellen and Alan Soucy Susan and Tom Stepp Leslie and Jay Stroud Katie Miller and Jeremy Stubbs

Brooke and Charlie Sussman Steve Sweedler Gretchen Swift n Connor Tedesco Sue Theuner n Kate Villa Mary Beth Ward and David Eck Ann and Bob Weston Liam White Michelle Wood and Clara Conklin Amy Woods Emily and Joe Zabransky

FACULTY AND STAFF Anonymous (5) Robin Appleton-Potter Joe Arsenault n Mike Barney n Peter Barnum P ’05 ’07 ’09 n Nicole Bartlett Bruce Barton P ’13 ’16 n Sarah Barton P ’13 ’16 n Kelsey Berry n Pat Buckley n Rob Bushaw Tyler Cabot Mike Carrigan n Ian Casey n Kelly Casey n Lori Comeau Leigh Anne Connors n Paula Currie n Janice Dahl P ’19 ’22 n Sam Daigneault ’96 P ’24 Lydia Darling Thea Dodds John Donovan P ’16 ’19 ’23 Carol Dopp n Ben Drummond Paul Dullea P ’06 ’10 Peter Durnan P ’11 ’14 Rick Eccleston ’92 n Kristen Fischer P ’11 ’14 Amy Flynn n David Flynn ’96 n Duane Ford ’74 P ’04 ’05 ’08 ’12 Lori Ford P ’04 ’05 ’08 ’12 Neal Frei ’03 n Joe Gaudet Allison Graham Jordan Graham Jean Henchey P ’06 ’06 n Peter Hendel P ’96 ’02 n Andy Herring n Josh Hill

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Kate and Chris White P ’06 ’08 n Laura and Tim White P ’08 Missy Wilich P ’08 Pat Williams P ’78 Debbie Williamson P ’98 Dominique and Sam Winebaum P ’06 Kathy and Rich Wiseman P ’18 n Frances Witte-Holland P ’14 Jane and Bill Wood P ’88 Mary and Bob Woods P ’10 Kathy and Pete Woodward P ’87 ’91 ’93 n Celeste and Art Woolf P ’04 Nancy and Bruce Wright P ’06 ’09 n Pam Wright P ’14 Jill and Bernie Wruble P ’95 Deborah Stephenson and Phil Wysor P ’91 Jia Ma and Bizhou Yang P ’20 n Vanessa Ai and Joey Yao P ’19 Nadene and Jim Yarmon P ’99 n Dana Zak-Armstrong P ’76 Betty Zimmermann P ’87 Debra and Christian Zimmermann P ’18 n Maureen and Bob Zock P ’82 ’85 ’89 ’92 n

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Meredith Houseman P ’15 ’18 n Randy Houseman P ’15 ’18 n Woody Kampmann n Doug Kendall P ’06 ’09 ’13 n Kathleen Kime ’99 n Tony LeMenager P ’16 John Lin P ’15 ’17 n Marilee Lin P ’15 ’17 n Pat Livingstone Stacy Lopes n Jennifer Martinez Christine McCormack Doug McCormack Michelle McElroy Darren Moore ’99 Erin Morales P ’24 n Pam Mulcahy P ’17 n Maggie Mumford P ’08 ’20 Shari Mumford Josh Nicolaisen Conor O’Meara Bruce Paro P ’17 n Max Paro ’17 n Phil Peck P ’08 ’09 n Robin Peck P ’08 ’09 n Karen Penny P ’15 ’18 Tobi Pfenninger P ’11 ’15 n Tim Platt Alex Riccio P ’23 Margot Riley n Whitney Rino Monique Robichaud P ’08 ’11 n James Ryan P ’23 Paulette Ryan P ’23 Walt Schaeff ler Marylena Sevigney Andrew Sheppe ’00 n Jenna Simon Justin Simon ’04 Lauren Sirignano Alan Smarse P ’04 ’05 n Beth Smarse P ’04 ’05 n Carolyn Soucy Jini Sparkman n Morgan Stepp Chris Stigum n Vicky Stigum n Mark Sturgeon Michelle Taffe Alan Thompson ’04 n Elaine Tibbetts Kim Tierney P ’08 ’12 Kelly van Lingen n Carlos Villafane Joanne Wernig

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TRUSTEES Kat Alfond ’90 P ’23 n Sandeep Alva P ’15 n Karyn Campbell P ’17 n Katie Crumbo P ’21 Carolyn (Colket) Cullen ’87 P ’17 n Bob Cunha P ’16 ’19 n Cecily Cushman ’11 n Chris Davenport ’89 P ’19 ’21 n Andrew Davis P ’18 n Paul John Ferri P ’18 ’19 n Tracy (McCoy) Gillette ’89 P ’19 ’22 n John Hayes P ’15 ’18 n Rob Hirschfeld n Burgie Howard ’82 Chris Keating ’81 P ’24 n Rob Kinsley ’88 P ’19 ’22 n Flip Kistler ’85 Alex MacCormick ’88 n Chip Martin ’88 P ’20 n Kevin Mattingly Joe Miles ’82 P ’11 ’13 ’18 n Phil Peck P ’08 ’09 n Nell Reynolds P ’18 ’20 ’22 n Andrew Sawyer ’79 P ’18 ’20 ’21 n Harry Sheehy n Matt Storey P ’20 ’22 n Sander van Otterloo ’94 n Richard Vieira P ’20 n Chance Wright ’14 Sung You ’01

HONORARY TRUSTEES Warren Cook P ’90 ’94 n Bob Hall P ’13 ’16 n Jim Hamblin ’77 P ’08 ’15 n Piper Orton ’74 n Dexter Paine ’79 P ’14 n Will Prickett ’81 P ’15 n Gary Spiess P ’87 ’89 ’94 n Pete Woodward P ’87 ’91 ’93 n

TRIBUTES IN HONOR OF PETER BARNUM P '05 '07 '09 Pam and Cushman Andrews ’59 n Pat Henderson P ’72 ’74 GP ’05 Jaime and Graham Roberge ’07 Nanette and David Schoeder P ’06 n Amanda and Te Tiffany ’89 n Judy and Steve Wales ’63 P ’92 ’93 n Benson and Hartley Webster ’57 P ’85 ’87 n IN HONOR OF IAN BELL '16 Janice McVay Bell and John Bell P ’13 ’16 n

IN HONOR OF SARAH BELL '13 Janice McVay Bell and John Bell P ’13 ’16 n IN HONOR OF KELSEY BERRY Sarah and Bruce Barton P ’13 ’16 n IN HONOR OF COCO DIEMAR '22 Eleanor and Robert Diemar GP ’22 IN HONOR OF GRIFFIN DOHERTY '19 Susan and Timothy Doherty P ’19 IN HONOR OF KATHRYN FIELD P '07 '09 Carolyn Campbell and Jonas Jeswald ’96 IN HONOR OF BRENNA FOX '03 Marlene and Jeff Fox P ’03 IN HONOR OF NEAL FREI '03 Liz and Alex Gray P ’17 ’20 n Rebecca and CJ Vincent ’06 n IN HONOR OF TRACY GILLETTE '89 P '19 '22 Anonymous Matt Mole ’89 n Jen Robison ’89 P ’22 ’24 n IN HONOR OF LAUREN HAYES '11 Meredith Baker-Hayes and Brion Hayes P ’11 IN HONOR OF PETER HENDEL P '96 '02 Elissa and Joel Bradley ’02 IN HONOR OF JOSHUA HILL Dick Lewis P ’03 ’06 ’10 n IN HONOR OF HOLDERNESS SCHOOL XC COACHES Mirte Mallory and Philip Jeffreys ’98 IN HONOR OF WENDY AND PHIL KISTLER P '85 Jim Stearns ’68 n IN HONOR OF ALEX KNECHT '02 Sandy Stone P ’02 n IN HONOR OF RYAN LAFOLEY '96 Jessica MacGregor

IN HONOR OF DAVID LOCKWOOD P '99 '02 '03 P '03 Sarah and Bruce Barton P ’13 ’16 n Dick Lewis P ’03 ’06 ’10 n IN HONOR OF SARAH MORRISON '07 Barbara and Dave Morrison P ’07 n

IN HONOR OF CHARLIE WEYMOUTH Lisa Lovett IN HONOR OF BRINTON "PETE" WOODWARD P '87 '91 '93 Janet and Chip Dewar P ’93 ’96 n Jim Stearns ’68 n IN HONOR OF ANDREW YANG '20 Jia Ma and Bizhou Yang P ’20 n

IN HONOR OF PHIL AND ROBIN PECK P '08 '09 Neal Frei ’03 n Nicole and Nigel Furlonge n

IN MEMORY OF JACK ARMSTRONG '47 Tom Armstrong

IN HONOR OF CECILLE ROBINSON '24 Lee and Nile Albright GP ’24 IN HONOR OF AMANDA RYAN '09 Withrow Meeker GP ’09 IN HONOR OF JENNY SEEMAN '88'S 50TH BIRTHDAY Barbara and Ted Alfond P ’87 ’88 ’90 GP ’23 IN HONOR OF ANDREW SHEPPE '00 Sarah and Bruce Barton P ’13 ’16 n IN HONOR OF CAROLINE SIMMONDS '23 Casey and Rich Thompson GP ’23

IN HONOR OF SUNG YOU '01 Louise Barzilay and Stephen Berenson

MEMORIALS IN MEMORY OF THERON ABBEY Judy and Bob Armknecht ’56

IN MEMORY OF BILL BARBOUR Sarah and Bill Baskin ’81 n Helen Pring and Tim Ehrlich ’82 Laura ’86 and David Page P ’20 ’22 n Dave Stutt ’80 IN MEMORY OF HUGH BARNDOLLAR '56 Karin and Steve Barndollar ’59 IN MEMORY OF DICK BLAUVELT P '83 '86 GP '99 Rick Blauvelt P ’99 Kathleen ’99 and Ryan Kime n IN MEMORY OF JUSTIN BOOSKA '09 Heather and Paul Booska P ’09 Jimmy Mathews ’09 n

IN MEMORY OF ROBERT "BROOKSIE" BROOKS Becca and Andrew Everett ’02 n Maureen and Bob Zock P ’82 ’85 ’89 ’92 n IN MEMORY OF JOHN CAMERON P '78 Margo and Greg Connors ’66 P ’93 ’96 ’97 n IN MEMORY OF JOHN CHRISTIE P '85 '88 Anonymous IN MEMORY OF MIKE D'AMICO '03 Neal Frei ’03 n Deb Gibbs and Dean Lea P ’03 n Jen and Nick Leonard ’03 Stacey and Bob Low Oriana Madeira and Dave Madeira ’03 n Nate Parker ’03 Molly ’86 and Scott Whitcomb P ’20 ’21 n

IN MEMORY OF JON BOURNE Ginny Burnham n

IN MEMORY OF MICHAEL DRUMMEY Ki and Bill Clough ’57 P ’80 ’83 ’86 n Margo and Greg Connors ’66 P ’93 ’96 ’97 n

IN MEMORY OF CHARLES BOVEY '77 Sue and Bradford Bruner ’77 n

IN MEMORY OF RUTH DUNBAR GP '11 Jean and David Knapp P ’11 n

IN HONOR OF KATE VLAHAKIS '02 Dino Vlahakis P ’02

IN MEMORY OF ROBERT BRADNER '49 Lisa Bradner and James Burnham

IN MEMORY OF JEROO EDULJEE Asania Smith ’95 n

IN HONOR OF RICH '70 AND KATHY WEYMOUTH P '01 '02 '04 Sarah and Bruce Barton P ’13 ’16 n

IN MEMORY OF JIM BREWER P '78 Jean and Bob Childs ’66 n Ki and Bill Clough ’57 P ’80 ’83 ’86 n

IN HONOR OF JUSTIN SIMON '04 Mary Beth and Jim Baber P ’21 IN HONOR OF MARK STURGEON Liz and Alex Gray P ’17 ’20 n

IN MEMORY OF HELGA GARGER P '13 '19 Melanie Garger and Chris Madigan P ’19 n Jake Madigan ’19

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IN HONOR OF PHIL PECK P '08 '09 Cynthia and Peter Amerman Elissa and Joel Bradley ’02 Jennie and Christopher Gabel ’89 n Jan and Toby Hall P ’03 Janet and Peter Rapelye P ’92 ’93 ’97 n Pam and Chuck Reilly ’74 P ’09 Merry and Grady Vigneau P ’06 Aubrey Wilkerson and Tim Wei ’86

Margo and Greg Connors ’66 P ’93 ’96 ’97 n Luke Dowley ’67 n Sandy and Tom Doyle ’66 GP ’10 ’11 n Barbara Barhydt and John Duncan ’70 Lori Rowe and Doug Griswold ’66 Cindy and Chris Latham ’72 n Stepper and George LeBoutillier ’63 P ’87 n Mary and George McNeil ’63 n Joyce and Joe Spaulding ’70 P ’00 Jim Stearns ’68 n Roger van Voorhees ’71 Kathy and Rich Weymouth ’70 P ’01 ’02 ’04 n

IN MEMORY OF GARY GARRATT '65 Marcea Wolfe-Carter and Bill Carter ’65

IN MEMORY OF M.J. LAFOLEY '95 Jessica MacGregor

IN MEMORY OF BIGELOW GREEN '50 Carolann and Chico Laird ’50

IN MEMORY OF PAUL LARSH '59 Linda Larsh

IN MEMORY OF DAVID HAGERMAN '63 Sarah Mongan and Jeff Nadeau n

IN MEMORY OF WES LEA '03 Neal Frei ’03 n Deb Gibbs and Dean Lea P ’03 n Jen and Nick Leonard ’03 Stacey and Bob Low Oriana Madeira and Dave Madeira ’03 n Mary Murray-Carr P ’03 n Nate Parker ’03 Molly and Scott Whitcomb ’86 P ’20 ’21 n

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IN MEMORY OF DON AND IBBA HAGERMAN P '63 GP '84 '05 Vicki and Josh Edgerly ’56 IN MEMORY OF JIM HAMMOND P '79 GP '14 Sarah and Bill Baskin ’81 n Ki and Bill Clough ’57 P ’80 ’83 ’86 n Augusta and Adam Comey ’96 n Margaret and Jim Connor ’74 Margo and Greg Connors ’66 P ’93 ’96 ’97 n Lori Rowe and Doug Griswold ’66 Elizabeth Heide ’85 n Betsy and Ulf Heide P ’85 Monica Garin-Laf lam and Paul Laf lam ’91 n Stepper and George LeBoutillier ’63 P ’87 n Karen Marshall P ’97 Carol and George McAllister Page and Thad Minshall ’99 n Heidi ’79 and Mike O'Connor ’79 P ’14 n Becky and Jay Pingree ’79 n Janet and Peter Rapelye P ’92 ’93 ’97 n Meg and Sam Richards ’73 n Kathryn and Ken Robinson ’87 n Judith and Steve Solberg n Jim Stearns ’68 n IN MEMORY OF DON HENDERSON P '72 '74 GP '05 Jean and Bob Childs ’66 n Mike Coffin ’74 Jim Stearns ’68 n Ben Trook ’06 n Sarah and Chris Williams ’74 IN MEMORY OF KENT HILLEGASS '87 Stella and Carl Hillegas ’85 P ’21 IN MEMORY OF HARRY JACOBS P '65 Sally Harrison and Terry Jacobs ’65 IN MEMORY OF JOSEPH KENNEDY Sarah Mongan and Jeff Nadeau n

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IN MEMORY OF PAUL AND BETTY STARKEY Patricia and Brennan Starkey P ’17 n Barbara and Bill Starkey GP ’17 n IN MEMORY OF TODD SWIFT '87 Barbara Swift P ’87 n Tom Swift P ’87 ✝ n IN MEMORY OF GEORGE TEXTOR '63 Stepper and George LeBoutillier ’63 P ’87 n

IN MEMORY OF JOHN MANLEY '42 Phyllis Manley

IN MEMORY OF NORM WALKER P '88 '89 GP '98 Meredith Savatsky and Jake Manoukian ’09 n Melanie and Chris Waller P ’06

IN MEMORY OF BILL MCCOLLOM '64 Mimi and Jim McGill ’65 Dale and Jeff Milne ’63 n

IN MEMORY OF CHERYL WALSH '88 Meredith and Brett Jones ’88 n Sue and John Walsh P ’88

IN MEMORY OF MORGAN NIELDS '63 Viktoria and David Metzner P ’24

IN MEMORY OF FRED WIES '58 Dorothy and Harold Byers

IN MEMORY OF BILL PAINE P '79 '80 '83 '86 Stephanie Paine ’83 and John Pier

CORPORATIONS, FOUNDATIONS, AND TRUSTS

IN MEMORY OF ALLAN PATZER P '98 Hilary Patzer ’98 IN MEMORY OF JOEL PETERSON '70 Dave Peterson ’67 IN MEMORY OF NANCY QUINN P '78 GP '01 '08 Leigh Quinn P ’78 GP ’01 ’08 IN MEMORY OF GEORGE "RIP" RICHARDS P '73 '76 '80 Meg and Sam Richards ’73 n Maureen and Bob Zock P ’82 ’85 ’89 ’92 n IN MEMORY OF LEN RICHARDS '60 Maureen McClure IN MEMORY OF CLIFF ROGERS '47 Marel Rogers n IN MEMORY OF ERIC RUSH '95 Kathy Rush P ’95

Anonymous (8) The Albright Foundation Trust Amazon Smile American Endowment Foundation Baugh Foundation, Inc. n Benevity Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation The Blackbaud Giving Fund Barbara Bradley Baekgaard Family Foundation Brown Advisory Inc. n The Carwill Foundation Colket Family Foundation n The Columbus Foundation and Affiliated Organizations n Cleveland H. Dodge Foundation, Inc. The Cushman and Pamela Andrews Family Fund of the DuPage Foundation n The Andrew J. Eder Family Foundation, Inc. Essex County Community Foundation The Ferri Family Foundation n Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund n Fidelity Giving Marketplace Golden Pond Foundation Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund Granite United Way Greater Worcester Community Foundation

National Philanthropic Trust Network for Good The New Hampshire Charitable Foundation n The New Hampshire Charitable Foundation’s Swenson Family Fund n Paine Family Trust n Pine Haven Foundation Trust PWS Trust Robert J. Rohr, III and Mary C. Rohr Charitable Trust Thomas J. Rolfs Family Foundation The Charles Schwab & Co. Inc. & Subsidiaries Schwab Charitable n Sheffield Foundation n Spitzer Family Foundation W. Paul Starkey Foundation n STS Foundation n The T. Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving TIAA Charitable The U.S. Charitable Gift Trust United Way of Rhode Island n The Van Otterloo Family Foundation n Vanguard Charitable n Walking Stick Family Fund

The George & Ann Weaver Charitable Fund n Karen and Hartley Webster Charitable Fund of the Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund n WEN Foundation, Inc. n Tom Wilson Foundation, Inc. n

MATCHING GIFT COMPANIES AND FOUNDATIONS Bank of America Charitable Foundation n Benevity MG n BNY Mellon Corporation’s Community Partnership Esurance Insurance Services, Inc. Fidelity Foundation Matching Gifts To Education n The GE Foundation HawkPartners LLC Millennium Pharmaceuticals New Balance Athletics, Inc. Patagonia, Inc. n The Progressive Insurance Foundation Raytheon Company The Charles Schwab & Co. Inc. & Subsidiaries

BALCH LEGACY SOCIETY Holderness is tremendously grateful to forward-thinking individuals who include the school in their estate and financial planning goals. Fletcher Adams ’55 P ’95 Barbara and Ted Alfond P ’87 ’88 ’90 GP ’23 Pam and Cushman Andrews ’59 Jeanne and Jerry Ashworth ’59 Susan and Arthur Bradbury Charlotte Caldwell and Jeffrey Schutz P ’98 Chris Carney ’75 P ’08 and Karen Dempsey Carney Jannell and Steve Carpenter ’58 Sandy and Rik Clark ’48 Catherine and Dick Conant ’73 Linda and Ken Cutler P ’98 Dick Daitch ’51 Abbey DeRocker ’95 Jane and Claude Desjardins P ’85 Suzanne and Dave Dewey ’77 Sandy and Tom Doyle ’66 GP ’10 ’11

Marty and Paul Elkins P ’04 Bruce Flenniken ’68 Ann Gallop P ’83 Peter Grant ’77 Frank Hammond ’50 Lars Hansen ’52 ✝ Elizabeth Heide ’85 Ellen and Larry Jamieson ’69 Ann and Lee Katzenbach ’61 The Kinsley Foundation Wendy and Phil Kistler P ’85 Toni Laird P ’77 ’83 Christine Louis ’81 and Dave Fredette Dora Beatty and Peter Macdonald ’60 Sue and Dwight Mason ’57 Sally and Richard Obregon P ’11 Judy and Sam Parkhill P ’89 ’95 Tracy and Tom Phillips ’75 P ’11 ’14 Elizabeth and Will Prickett ’81 P ’15

Robin and Jake Reynolds ’86 Kate and Kevin Rowe ’81 P ’15 Leslie and Jim Sargent ’73 Barbara and Alden Sawyer P ’79 GP ’18 ’20 ’21 Sheila Kackley and Tim Scott ’73 Lucy and Dwight Shepard ’72 Lee Shepard ’59 Jim Stearns ’68 Diane and John Straus P ’06 Gretchen and John Swift ’62 Sally and Alex Uhle Rebecca and CJ Vincent ’06 Benson and Hartley Webster ’57 P ’85 ’87 Patti and Jay Webster ’57 P ’83 ’91 ’92 ’08 Kathy and Pete Woodward P ’87 ’91 ’93 Steve Worcester ’67 Hollis and Josh Young ’57

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The Grey Rocks Foundation, Inc. The Gruben Charitable Foundation The Haartz Corporation n Hanover Insurance Group Foundation The Ulf B. & Elizabeth C. Heide Foundation Charitable Trust Jacob L. and Lillian Holtzmann Foundation n Honu Nai’a Charitable Fund of the Princeton Area Community Foundation Independent Charitable Gift Fund J.P. Morgan Charitable Giving Fund The Kinsley Foundation n The Seymour H. Knox Foundation, Inc. n The Loring Wolcott & Coolidge Charitable Trust-I n Lubrano Family Charitable Foundation n The Lunder Foundation n Maine Community Foundation n Marin Community Foundation Marr Charity Trust Fund n The Martin Foundation n Mitsubishi Electric Foundation Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust n The Noboru Murakami and Hiroko Murakami Foundation n

Thank You

VOLUNTEERS REPORT OF APPRECIATION

Holderness School gratefully acknowledges the many volunteers who play a key role in strengthening our community.

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT Alex MacCormick ’88

CLASS AGENTS Cushman Andrews ’59 Buster Welch ’59 Gerry Shyavitz ’60 Eric Werner ’62 Jim Ricker ’64 Cleve Patterson ’65 Doug Griswold ’66 John Coles ’68 Peter Prime ’70 Roy Madsen ’71 Tim Scott ’73 J.D. Hale ’78 Margo (Farley) Woodall ’78 Hratch Astarjian ’79 Jack Dawley ’80 Miles Glascock ’82 Burgie Howard ’82 Eric Prime ’84 Angus Christie ’85 Ian Sinclair ’85 Alex MacCormick ’88 Jen (Murphy) Robison ’89 Devie Hamlen ’92 Lindsay Dewar Fontana ’93 Anne (Blair) Hudak ’93 Schuyler Perry ’93 Ginny (Kingman) Schreiber ’93 Ramey Harris-Tatar ’94

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Liz Hogan ’94 Jessie Morton ’95 Andrew Miller ’97 Dennis Roberts ’97 Darren Moore ’99 Tim Barnhorst ’00 Heidi Webb ’00 Jennifer Crane ’01 Neal Frei ’03 Nick Payeur ’03 Dave Campbell ’04 Ashley (Hedlund) Healy ’04 Emily Sampson ’05 Ben Trook ’06 Annie Carney ’08 Greg Ramey ’08 Jake Manoukian ’09 Elise (Steiner) Hacker ’10 Cecily Cushman ’11 Jamie McNulty ’11 Celeste Holland ’14 Maggie Cunha ’16 Nick Grammas ’18 Lily Gillette ’19

CLASS CORRESPONDENTS Bill Briggs ’47 Rik Clark ’48 Bill Baskin ’49 Frank Hammond ’50 Terry Weathers ’51 Dick Meyer ’56 Bob Backus ’57

Bill Biddle ’58 Brooke Thomas ’58 Jerry Ashworth ’59 Gerry Shyavitz ’60 David Pope ’63 Sandy Alexander ’64 Jamie Hollis ’67 John Coles ’68 Jonathan Porter ’69 Dwight Shepard ’72 Dick Conant ’73 Peter Grant ’77 Luther Turmelle ’78 Hratch Astarjian ’79 Jack Dawley ’80 Chris Pesek ’82 Peter Hewitt ’83 Katsu Nakamura ’85 Chris Zak ’86 Kathryn (Lubrano) Robinson ’87 Alex MacCormick ’88 Nina (Bradley) Smallhorn ’88 Brad Greenwood ’89 Nina Cook Silitch ’90 Lindsay (Dewar) Fontana ’93 Ramey Harris-Tatar ’94 Amanda (Knox) Hoffman ’96 Heather (Pierce) Roy ’96 Putney (Haley) Pyles ’97 Sully Sullivan ’00 Karyn (Hoepp) Jennings ’01 Betsy Pantazelos ’02 Neal Frei ’03

Nick Payeur ’03 Brie (Keefe) Healy ’05 Casey Gilman ’06 Taylor James ’07 Baird Meem ’08 Jessi White ’08 Ally (Stride) Lloyd ’09 Elise (Steiner) Hacker ’10 Cecily Cushman ’11 Jamie McNulty ’11 Alex Leininger ’12 Kristina Micalizzi ’12 Hope Heffernan ’15 Elizabeth Johansson ’17 Stuart Clifford ’18 Sarah Rogers ’18 Luke Valentine ’18 Lilly Patterson ’19 Abby Vieira ’20

Sarah Adams P ’24 Alison Akers P ’24 Nicole Anastos P ’17 ’19 ’23 Rachel Barker P ’21 Soley Belt P ’21 Wendy Blanchard P ’24 Tracey Blandford P ’23 Alex Bocock P ’21 Amy Boulanger P ’22 ’24 Carol Bradford-Roe P ’21 ’24 Carrie Burr P ’23 ’24 Kimberly Carchidi P ’22 Jody Diemar P ’22

Leanne Morgan-Cedeno P ’21 Nancy Morris P ’21 ’23 Kristen Mulcahy P ’23 Kelley Murphy P ’22 Jeanie Olson P ’23 Gail Orr-Slider P ’24 Laura Page ’86 P ’20 ’22 Jen Peatman P ’15 ’17 ’22 Marcelle Pethic P ’24 Amy Picard P ’23 Donna Piccinni P ’21 Amy Pollini P ’19 ’22 Sandy Rebar P ’24 Nell Reynolds P ’18 ’20 ’22 Tim Rhatigan P ’24 Amy Robbins P ’18 ’20 ’23 Betsy Roguet P ’22 ’24 Patricia Roth P ’21 Paulette Ryan P ’23 Patty Severance P ’24 Steven Shray P ’21 Karla Siegel P ’22 Desiree Spinner P ’23 Kathy Stodden P ’24 Shelly Swanson P ’22 Bryan Sweeney P ’24 Lesley Switzer P ’21 Camilla Tarmy P ’24 John Urdi P ’22 Jim Wareing P ’24 Miwa Watkins P ’21 Whitney Werner P ’23 Molly Whitcomb ’86 P ’20 ’21 Kyra Zorn-Hikmate P ’22

WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU! What’s happening in your world? Holderness School Today wants to know! Have you: ▪ Changed your mailing address or email? ▪ Had an addition to your family? ▪ Volunteered for an important cause?

▪ Embarked on an exciting professional or personal adventure? ▪ Experienced a chance encounter with another Holderness alumnus or alumna?

Send your photos, updates, and news to alum@holderness.org. We look forward to hearing from you!

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PARENT VOLUNTEERS

Amy Dobson P ’22 Marianne Doyle P ’24 Renee Dudley P ’22 Katherine Edenbach P ’22 Elizabeth Eichler P ’22 Laura Erlacher P ’23 Daphne Faldi P ’24 Melissa Freelove P ’24 Dawn Gagnon P ’21 Tracy Gillette ’89 P ’19 ’22 Monique Gramas P ’23 Krissy Gras P ’23 ’24 Cary Greene P ’22 Sonya Hamori P ’24 Mel Hayes P ’17 ’21 Jessica Heinzer P ’21 Christy Houpis ’77 P ’21 Lee Howe P ’24 Joia Hughes P ’22 Edith Iler P ’22 ’23 Yvane Jean-Michel P ’23 Ann Jones P ’23 Dan Jones P ’23 Kathy Jou P ’21 Emily Lambert P ’22 ’24 Major LaRowe P ’23 Heidi Lehr P ’24 Jane Lewis-Raymond P ’23 Kristin Major P ’24 Dawn McGuire P ’21 Diane McNabb P ’22 Christy Miele P ’24 Kristen Mooney P ’22 Erin Morales P ’24

MARK YOUR CALENDAR FOR OUR BIGGEST REUNION EVER.

June 3–5, 2022

WE ARE INVITING THREE REUNION CYCLES BACK THIS YEAR!

Connect with Holderness friends and celebrate Head of School Phil Peck’s 38 years with Holderness at this year’s reunion!

▪ This will include all graduation years ending in 0, 1, 2, 5, 6, and 7. ▪ Welcome reception in the new Davis Center ▪ Numerous on and off campus activities will be available ▪ Dinner and dancing in Weld Hall ▪ A special celebration for the 50 th and above reunion classes ▪ Our largest-ever reunion. On-campus housing is limited, please register early! ▪ Take a campus tour ▪ Reconnect with classmates and faculty ▪ Make an impact by giving to the Reunion Challenge ▪ Visit www.holderness.org to learn more.

Students walk to get breakfast in Weld Hall, Oct. 1, 2021

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