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GRIT. IT’S IN OUR DNA.

Learning at Holderness involves challenge, collaboration, perseverance, struggle, and ultimately accomplishment.

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Leading on Home Ground Holderness School’s strategic plan calls for us “to educate all for their journeys in a changing world.” What does this look like and what resources are needed? It’s questions like these that new Director of Teaching and Learning Nicole Furlonge has spent the last year trying to answer. BY JANA F. BROWN

ABOVE: nyu postdoctoral fellow Ido Davidesco speaks with a ninth-grade biology class about his research and how it applies to adolescents and education.

Joining the Global Conversation

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Since the Klingenstein Center at Teachers College, Columbia University opened in 1977, over 20 teachers from Holderness have participated in its various programs. What’s the connection and what has it meant to this little New England school? BY EMILY MAGNUS ’88

Catching Up with Jim Nourse

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Since leaving Holderness in 1998, former Dean of Faculty Jim Nourse has continued to be a champion for education—through mentoring teachers and serving as the principal of several public schools. He’s also left a little time for hiking. BY SUZANNE DEWEY

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D E PA R T M E N T S Board of Trustees Sandeep Alva Neale Attenborough Grace Macomber Bird Christopher Carney ’75, Treasurer Carolyn Cullen ’87 Bob Cunha The Rev. Randolph Dales, Secretary Andrew Davis Victoria Frei Tracy McCoy Gillette ’89 Robert Hall, Chairperson Jim Hamblin ’77 Jan Hauser Susie Hayes The Right Rev. Robert Hirschfeld, President Chris Keating ’81 Peter Kimball ’72 Robert Kinsley ’88 John Liu Alex MacCormick ’88, Alumni Association President Sue MacGrath Kevin Mattingly R. Phillip Peck Thomas Phillips ’75 Nell Reynolds Andrew Sawyer ’79 Jenny Seeman ’88 Harry Sheehy Gary Spiess Poppy Staub ’85 Jerome Thomas ’95 Sander van Otterloo ’94 HEADMASTER EMERITUS The Rev. Brinton W. Woodward, Jr. HONORARY TRUSTEES Warren C. Cook Piper Orton ’74 W. Dexter Paine III ’79 Will Prickett ’81

3 From the Schoolhouse 4 From the Editor 20 Around the Quad 34 Sports 42 Update: Trustees 44 Alumni in the News 53 Report of Appreciation 78 Class Notes 95 At This Point in Time

Holderness School Today is published three times a year by Penmor Lithographers. Please send notice of address changes to the Advancement Office, PO Box 1879, Plymouth, NH 03264, or advancement@holderness.org. © 2017 Holderness School EDITOR: Emily Magnus ’88 EDITOR EMERITUS: Jim Brewer ASSISTANT EDITORS: Suzanne Dewey, Andrew Herring, Stacy Lopes, Kim Merrow, Clay Dingman DESIGN AND PRODUCTION: Clay Dingman, Barking Cat Productions Communications Design

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FROM THE SCHOOLHOUSE

Nurturing a Culture of Intellectual Joy In February our whole school was engaged in our yearly Poetry Out Loud competition. At the finals, with everyone present in Hagerman, we had our first ever tie, a twelfth-grader and a ninth-grader! The competition was great, but equally impressive was what happened at the Head’s House after the performance. We were serving brownie sundaes for the Hill Dorm students and Hill alumni, when the students in the living room started reciting poems to each other. It was a moment of authentic intellectual joy, joy that comes from genuine curiosity and a passion to learn and grow. These moments abound at Holderness.

Intellectual joy has always been a part of the culture at Holderness, and it is what drives our teachers to propose new subjects and develop new programs. Joe Abbey supported the debate team, Don Henderson taught document-based history, and Jim Brewer developed Senior Colloquium. The list of passionate teachers and engaging programs is endless. On page  you can read about the newest courses that teachers and students have initiated, not because they believe the classes will look good on their resumes or college applications, but because they find joy in these teaching and learning opportunities.

This issue of Holderness School Today is really about that joy. There is a story about alumna Ali Power, who is celebrating the publication of a new book of poetry, and there’s another one about a very recent graduate, who is so passionate about robotics that he donated his graduation award stipend to the school to help us create a robotics lab. There’s also an article introducing our newest trustees, who have already shown their love for Holderness through their engagement and through asking the right questions.

Creating a vibrant learning culture, not just academic rigor, is part of our strategic plan. As you will read in this issue, we have asked Dr. Nicole Furlonge to lead our new Center for Teaching and Learning; her charge is to sup-

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Head of School Phil Peck with former English teacher and master storyteller Jim Brewer at the 50th dinner during Reunion and Homecoming Weekend

port not just student learning but faculty learning as well.

Fortunately, we have faculty members who are hungry to learn and grow. Columbia’s Klingenstein Institute has been one of the supporting pillars of that growth; many Holderness faculty and board members have not only participated in their dynamic programs but played leadership roles as well. In addition to reading about this important relationship between the two academic institutions, you can also catch up with Jim Nourse, who almost  years ago proposed graduation by “exhibitions;” he planted the seed for what has become  participation in our Senior Thesis program.

In our most recent strategic plan we intentionally chose curiosity for one of our core values. It is a very appropriate Holderness word because it calls us all to be life-long learners. It is a lifestyle, not just an end in itself. Join us,

through the pages of this magazine, on our journey of intellectual curiosity!

Phil Peck Head of School

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FROM THE EDITOR

Better Together

Editor Emily Magnus with her two daughters, Lilly ’20 and Liesl ’17, at the Cheri Walsh Eastern Cup Nordic Race on the Upper Fields at Holderness

“We are better together,” Director of Strategic Marketing and Communications Suzanne Dewey often says. Our team is stronger when we work together. And that’s not true just of the current team but through time as well; the long, and sometimes short tenures, of individuals in the Communications Office have woven together, overlapping and supporting the next individuals who carry on.

Think back to when Jim Brewer and Rick Carey first published this magazine and began sharing the stories of Holderness School with alumni, family, and friends. They established a tradition of consistent reporting, shedding light not just on the successes of the school but sometimes its struggles as well. Their ability to tell stories has never been duplicated, as hard as some of us try.

The first website for Holderness was created

by Steve Solberg in  when he joined Rick Carey and doubled the number of staff in the Communications Office. The advent of the digital camera allowed Steve to document the

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daily lives of our students and share his photos with families and friends; sending children away to boarding school no longer meant long months without seeing or hearing any news.

The tradition of storytelling became visual as well as literary.

Courtney Williamson joined the Communications Office in . Her introduction of social media feeds helped us reach new audiences; Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Smugmug channels, as well as our website, have allowed our community to choose how they want to receive their news and what they want to learn. Additionally, Courtney played an important role in creating our current strategic plan—a document that has given Holderness and everyone who works here very specific directives and goals. Fortunately, while the tools are new, the storytelling tradition has remained in tact, weaving through all that we do.

Our most recent leader, Suzanne Dewey, who started in August , has brought the stability and strength we need to grow and sup-

port Holderness in the st century. In the s Suzanne taught Spanish at Holderness but then went on to consult and work in several communication offices throughout New England. Her easy laughter and positive energy have kept us focused throughout the year, making the strategic goals of the school a reality.

Under her leadership, we are well on our way to unifying our message and developing consistent lines of communication between departments.

After spending the last six months shorthanded—the third member of our communications team went to work with the technology department this past fall—Suzanne and I are grateful to be fully staffed again.

Michelle Wood joined us in late March and will be providing the support we need to develop, grow, and maintain the best communication tools for our community and for the new audiences we want to reach around the world.

Michelle comes to us from Boston where she has been building and maintaining websites as well as designing, coding, and implementing responsive email marketing campaigns. She will be in charge of managing our digital presence.

Better together also means including our audience in some decisions. As we grow and adapt to new methods of communication, your opinion matters. Please be on the lookout in the next six months for a survey asking about how you want to receive news about Holderness!

I am amazed by how much has changed in the last five years. But despite all the tools the Communications Office has added to its repetoire, none of them would be useful without a team of humans, real people doing real work, together. I’m grateful for the team of people with whom I work, and have worked, and look forward to seeing what we can accomplish.

Emily Adriance Magnus ’ Editor, Holderness School Today emagnus@holderness.org

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COME BACK FOR BLUE HOMECOMING AND REUNION WEEKEND

SEPTEMBER 22–24, 2017

Join us as we celebrate the reunion classes (ending with 7s and 2s), and as we welcome all of our alumni, family, and friends back for a weekend of fun, friendship and celebration. Here’s a list of what’s been scheduled so far!

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 r All School Assembly r Class Visits r Campus Tours r 50th and Above Cocktail Reception r 50th and Above Dinner r All Alumni Welcome Back Reception

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 r Campus Tours r Panel Discussion with Current Students and Faculty r Alumni Convocation r Class Pictures r BBQ Lunch r Afternoon Games r All Alumni Reception and Dinner SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 r Farewell Brunch

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Director of Teaching and Learning Nicole Furlonge

Leading on Home Ground WITH THE CENTER FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING IN PLACE, HOLDERNESS IS PUTTING INTO PHYSICAL PRACTICE ITS EDUCATIONAL VISION FOR THE FUTURE. BY JANA F. BROWN

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DOLESCENTS HAVE LONG BEEN STUDYing the brain in high school biology classes—learning to identify the cerebellum, the frontal lobe, the hippocampus, the brainstem. Meanwhile researchers have, in turn, been studying adolescents, trying to understand what makes them tick.

A more recent trend in education has closely tied adolescent brain research to the way students learn, and consequently the way teachers teach. At Holderness School, this phenomenon is presenting itself not only in the classrooms, but in the way teachers themselves receive professional development and how they transform their own teaching methods to meet the needs of today’s students.

One of the goals of the current strategic plan is for Holderness to “educate for the emerging world,” developing programs that reflect 21st century realities and how students must learn differently to adapt to them. This includes consideration of facilities, classroom design, and training for teachers that invests in “the tools and education they need to become innovative and visionary leaders” in their profession.

“The vision for Holderness is to prepare all for their journeys in a changing world,” says Head of School Phil Peck. “How do you educate for an emerging world? We need curriculum, facilities, and faculty equipped to prepare students for it.”

Last summer, Holderness took a step toward its goal, appointing faculty member Nicole Furlonge to head the new Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL), to be housed in Alfond Library. Eventually, says Phil, the school will raise money for a

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22,000-square-foot “learning commons” to further promote innovation, collaboration, and flexibility.

The appointment of a thought leader to reimagine teaching and learning at Holderness—in a space dedicated to that pursuit—is a demonstration of the school’s commitment to educating for the everevolving world. Nicole holds a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, and serves as a lead English teacher at the Klingenstein Summer Institute. She previously designed an in-house professional development program at Princeton Day School in New Jersey, and worked at Lawrenceville School, where, among other duties, she was involved in a peer observation program aimed at understanding the ways in which teachers engage students.

“That was instrumental in getting me to retool my thinking about how my discipline was connected to other disciplines,” says Nicole of her work at Lawrenceville. “It was interdisciplinary, so I was sitting in a calculus class, where the frame became about the design of the class, teaching methods, student engagement, and how students show their learning. There was a world of teaching and learning that was opened up to me when content wasn’t my primary observation focus.”

Established under the strategic plan’s goal of creating and sustaining a culture of learning, the Center for Teaching and Learning will be the touchstone for teachers and students, a place focused on the pursuit of learning. Students entering the CTL will still be surrounded by books and e-resources but also will have access to

academic support services. For faculty, the CTL will serve as a laboratory for ongoing professional development.

Nicole describes the establishment of the physical space dedicated to teaching and learning as moving away from a model that assumes professional development happens away from the school setting.

“A colleague might share what he or she learned at a conference, but that model does not in itself allow for individual learning to impact faculty practices,” she says. “What we are saying is that professional development is important. We are asking what happens if we have ongoing professional learning where we work. In that model, the school becomes a learning lab, and teachers become professional learners and designers of their students’ learning experiences.”

Built-in learning—not just formally at the CTL—is what Nicole and others envision for Holderness, an environment in which the lunch table or a department meeting become more deliberate opportunities for discussion than ever before. It is Nicole’s job as director of the CTL to facilitate that environment. The second objective is to ensure that the re-imagined engagement of teachers trickles down to students, whose learning will be enhanced by the way their teachers approach the classroom setting. The essential question regarding students: How do they learn?

Fifth-year science teacher Alexandra Disney is one teacher who has answers.

Alexandra recently completed her master’s in science education at Montana State University, where her capstone project

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Science teacher Alexandra Disney “doing” science with students on the Quad

focused on open-inquiry learning in a science classroom and how it impacts science as a way of knowing. Open-inquiry, explains Alexandra, means that students design their own questions, collect their own data, and analyze and communicate their responses. It veers significantly from the traditional “cookie-cutter labs” of the past, where teachers defined the questions and procedures and students collected the data. This means that the curriculum is no longer set in stone. There is no standard syllabus; it is coursework in flux.

“We are shifting the focus in the science classroom from students learning about science to students doing science,” explains Alexandra. “I can teach them about science all day, but by doing science they can then learn about it in a way that makes sense to them. It is a whole shift in the mindset of my role as a teacher and their roles as learners. It’s a much more student-focused classroom.”

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students’ understanding of the atom. They designed their own lab, in which they devised a method for desalinizing seawater. One homework assignment about the atom involved light and electromagnetic radiation, an online simulation, and practical applications, such as thinking about the way the microwave works at home. The idea is to help students understand the practical concepts of science with the hope that the knowledge will “stick.” It’s the subtle difference between gathering knowledge and learning how to think.

“I have noticed over the years,” says Alexandra, “that I have fewer students asking the ‘why do we need to know this’ question. If they walk out of the class with an understanding from a scientific perspective of how to ask appropriate questions and how to solve them, that’s a good thing.”

Self-directed learning is a key to this revolution in education. As director of the CTL, Nicole is facilitating the ability of teachers, like Alexandra, to understand how the brain works and, therefore, how

students best learn and retain information.

This includes helping faculty members with ways to encourage self-reflection among their students.

“There is a shift in understanding that work in and of itself does not breed success,” says Nicole. “Effective teaching or learning work paired with appropriate feedback and reflection yields effective learning. We are looking at revising the effort rubric, so that it shifts from communicating to students that they should work hard and instead communicates to them how they can work strategically well. That may seem like a small change, but the center has been crucial in adjusting that conversation for an eventual cultural shift.”

A big part of effective teaching and learning in a student-centered classroom environment is recognizing that not all students learn the same way. Last year, Holderness piloted an academic support program with Knower Academics to help students who self-identify as wanting additional support. The program not only helps students build the skills necessary for academic success—organization, time management, note-taking, memory strategies, and reflective practices—but also provides them with the academic support for subjects that may be challenging for them. The program officially launched this fall, offering support packages that range from two to four sessions per week and include evening study group sessions plus one-on-one engagement. The program also supports students who are not struggling with grades but with the stress of performing well academically.

“It’s not triage; it’s education,” says Kayte Knower, president of Knower Academics. “We are just one of the resources students have for learning and teachers have for teaching, because helping students understand themselves as learners helps the teachers too.”

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“SELF-DIRECTED LEARNING IS A KEY TO THIS REVOLUTION IN EDUCATION. AS DIRECTOR OF THE CTL, NICOLE IS FACILITATING THE ABILITY OF TEACHERS, LIKE ALEXANDRA, TO UNDERSTAND HOW THE BRAIN WORKS AND, THEREFORE, HOW STUDENTS BEST LEARN AND RETAIN INFORMATION.” Academic Dean Peter Durnan has been instrumental in establishing the academic support program and recognizes the importance of “slowing down” the learning process for students.

“As we learn more about how kids’ brains develop, we are better able to support their learning,” says Peter. “We can slow down, talk about the art of teaching, and—at the Center for Teaching and Learning—hear about the science of learning.”

Peter also talks about repurposing Alfond as a place that can accomplish more contemporary goals. It doesn’t just apply to the physical space but to the tools available within that space; being a nimble learner, applies to teachers today more than ever. He points out that he often grades essays on an iPad, while his students revise their papers using YouTube tutorials created by their teachers. As learning evolves, so does teaching.

Keeping the adult community curious, says Peter, is vital.

Recent programming initiated by Peter, Nicole, and others includes a visit by two neuroscientists to explain to teachers and students how brains learn and to give them a glimpse into scientific research on the brain. Meanwhile, teachers are encouraged to read the New York Times to learn about the latest advancements in brain science.

Another goal for the CTL, says Nicole, is not just to find ways to individualize learning through understanding the brain, but also to connect Holderness to a larger conversation about learning. Nicole hopes to develop partnerships with other schools and organizations for collaboration and

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sharing, with the ultimate goal of enhancing programming at home. Early examples of this larger plan include Holderness serving as a host for the nonprofit Girls Who Code, an organization dedicated to closing the gender gap in technology by supporting girls’ interest in STEM work. Students from Holderness Central School will be welcomed at Holderness to increase their access to resources that encourage this interest in technology.

Another part of the mission, explains Nicole, is getting students to partner more intentionally in their own learning. At Parents’ Weekend, students typically sit in on parent-teacher conferences, but a notable difference moving forward will feature more teachers asking students to prepare for the conferences, encouraging them to be increasingly self-reflective in their learning. This has been happening at Holderness for some time, but Nicole hopes to expand the practice.

“The difference is that the student in the room becomes a more active participant and creator in the conversation around learning,” Nicole explains.

But the Center for Teaching and Learning isn’t there just to encourage the active participation of students; it’s there to encourage the faculty to reflect as well.

In an effort to reinforce among adults at Holderness the concept of their own lifelong learning and reflection, this year Holderness launched collaborative feedback groups to train faculty to provide thoughtful peer review.

Through her work as CTL director, Nicole has also made available to faculty

opportunities for one-on-one instructional coaching. This voluntary training helps teachers add to their skill sets in areas they have self-identified as in need of enhancement. This can include teaching practices, assignment design, course content, and a number of other areas. Nicole observes the teachers’ classes with the individual instructor’s goals in mind, then talks with the teacher about strategies for change. The practice creates a sustained conversation around one’s teaching and professional growth.

“We would love to hear from faculty that they are not ending the year wondering how they are doing,” says Nicole. “We want them to get ongoing feedback and learn to put themselves in a position to solicit that feedback.”

Additionally, meetings of the Academic Committee, consisting of department chairs and program directors, have been reorganized to provide another venue for professional development. The twicemonthly meetings have begun to re-educate department heads on how to observe and provide feedback to their colleagues in a way that will ultimately impact entire departments.

Nicole, along with Dean of Faculty Tobi Pfenninger, also is working to develop a curriculum specifically for new faculty members, helping to acclimate them to Holderness. Faculty members new to teaching will receive support that helps them build teaching and learning toolkits, including best practices in the classroom and ongoing professional development opportunities to learn about cognitive science and

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LEADING ON HOME GROUND: NEUROSCIENCE

WHERE LEARNING AND BRAIN RESEARCH MEET Although students spend a great deal of time studying, most students spend very little time thinking about the ways in which they study. Is intelligence fixed? Does highlighting improve recall? Should students adjust their study methods to fit their learning styles?

This spring Ido Davidesco, who is a postdoctoral fellow at New York University, and Efrat Furst, PhD, who is a visiting scholar at Harvard University and a teacher at Middlebury College, met with students to help them answer some of these important questions about how we learn.

In ninth-grade biology, Ido talked to students about neurons in the brain and how different types of classroom instruction will activate those neurons more than others. He explained that his research has found that lectures and reading are not as good at promoting brain activity as discussions and videos.

how it impacts the classroom. Teachers with two to five years of experience will meet monthly to discuss leveraging feedback, while department chairs will meet frequently to develop new approaches to peer observation, including the cultivation of an open-door culture. The goal, Nicole

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Ido also gave students a chance to see their own brain activity. With portable EEG (electroencephalogram) equipment, Ido showed students the difference between brain activity when a student’s eyes are open and when they are closed and what happens when two students listen to the same music. Surprisingly, music helps synchronize the brain activity of two people. While this idea is still in its developmental stages, it might be used to help students learn.

“When we communicate with each other, if we are attentive and really engaged, our brain waves actually ‘couple’ and allow us to learn and create more enduring memories from the experiences we have,” explains Director Teaching and Learning Nicole Furlonge, who invited the two scientists to Holderness.

Efrat, meanwhile, met with mostly senior classes, discussing different ways to learn and what makes an effective study

explains, is for teachers to be on the cutting edge of their profession, like doctors who understand that old techniques might work, but also know they must stay up-to-date to treat their patients properly.

“We are a school that is really committed,” Nicole adds. “When someone signs

on as a faculty member or student, we are saying we will not just push you through; we are committed to your growth. The center formalizes that internally, and is also saying to the outside world that we are a place that wants to be involved in the conversation of teaching and learning.”

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FACING PAGE: Efrat Furst discussing women’s issues in STEM with a group of students; ABOVE: Ido Davidesco showing students their brain waves on a portable EEG; AT RIGHT: Jared Carr ’20 wearing the EEG headset during a demonstration in his biology class

technique. As she explained to students, Efrat began her career working in a lab that was studying the very basics of how memory is created in the brain. With her scientific knowledge, Efrat then switched fields and started teaching.

“There’s a lot of work to do to bring science into the classrooms,” says Efrat. “Scientists do great science but they do not necessarily know how to communicate it to teachers. And also the other way around. When teachers go into classrooms and start to apply things, it’s different than how it works in a lab. There needs to be some kind of communication. It’s not the work of the scientist, and it’s not the work of the teachers, so this is what I do.”

Efrat took the students through several memory tests that demonstrated the ability of the brain to remember more easily when the thing that is being remembered is associated with meaningful content. For example, given a list of fifteen words, students were asked to try to remember some of the words just with visual cues—i.e. Is the word upper case or lower case?

Other words she asked them to remember using rhyming. The last group of the words she asked them to remember using defining characteristics—i.e. Is the word describing a vehicle?

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The words in the list that the students were most likely to remember were in the last group.

Efrat also joined a group of girls at lunch, who meet on a regular basis to talk about women in STEM fields. As part of her senior thesis project, Hannah Fernandes ’17 founded the group; she is interested in supporting girls who are passionate about science and math at Holderness. Efrat was there to encourage them. She also talked to them about the gap in confidence that often exists between men and women; women are not usually limited by their ability, she says, but in their sense of self. Confidence matters.

Fortunately, this is just the beginning. Through this ongoing collaboration, Holderness hopes to continue educating its students about the science of learning and the brain.

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HEAD OF SCHOOL PHIL PECK

MATH TEACHER ELIZABETH WOLF

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THE KLINGENSTEIN CENTER HAS SUSTAINED A REPUTATION FOR DEVELOPING MORE INFORMED AND BETTER PREPARED LEADERS TO CONFRONT INDEPENDENT AND INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL CHALLENGES AND POSSIBILITIES IN A RAPIDLY-CHANGING WORLD.

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DIRECTOR OF TEACHING AND LEARNING NICOLE FURLONGE

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Joining the Global Conversation IN A WORLD THAT IS INCREASINGLY INTERCONNECTED, PARTNERSHIPS AND THE SHARING OF IDEAS HAVE BECOME CRITICAL TO THE HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS. FORTUNATELY, HOLDERNESS SCHOOL’S NETWORK IS STRONG. TAKE, FOR INSTANCE, OUR CONNECTIONS TO THE KLINGENSTEIN CENTER. BY EMILY MAGNUS ’88 THE KLINGENSTEIN CENTER AT COLUMBIA University’s Teachers College runs a summer program for teachers who have just finished the first three to five years of their career. Over the past three years, six Holderness faculty have participated in this intense two-week program. Six others have participated in a year-long fellowship, while three more have received master’s degrees.

Holderness School’s connection to the Klingenstein Center, though, does not end with graduates of their programs. Over the last decade, three faculty have returned to the programs as lead teachers in the summer institute. Conversely, two faculty from the center have served on the Holderness Board of Trustees—including the director of the program, Pearl Rock Kane.

What’s the connection? The Klingenstein Center is a prestigious program with international recognition and close to 4,000 alumni in 49 states and territories and 54 countries. How has our little boarding school in northern New England been blessed to participate in such important programs?

It is due in part to Head of School Phil Peck, who first became involved in Klingenstein as a fellow in 1991–92.

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“The program blew the doors off my classroom,” Phil recalls. “I returned to Holderness and began to see the teaching that was happening, not just in my classroom, but also in the community. It became important to me to acknowledge all the programs that people were initiating and supporting that were helping the school to move forward.”

Phil later returned to teach at the institute, mentoring young history teachers and co-teaching with the center’s director Pearl Rock Kane. He is currently a mentor in the two-summer master’s program, which meets for six weeks each summer and also includes independent research and field-based analysis. His passion for the center is clear.

“In order to stay relevant in today’s world, we need to be constantly remaking ourselves,” says Phil. “Klingenstein models this relationship between leadership and learning and challenges its graduates to use curiosity as a tool for change and progress. For a small school to have multiple faculty graduating from this program is an honor.”

These faculty in turn have become spokespeople for the institute. History

teacher Tyler Cabot, for example, applied for and then attended the Klingenstein Summer Institute (KSI) last summer, hoping to gain clarification into the next steps of his career.

“KSI confirmed for me that teaching is what I want to do for a career,” says Tyler.

“Everyone in the program wants to get better at what they are doing, and I left with a lot of energy for my work.”

Tyler was familiar with the program because of his father, who was a Klingenstein fellow, but he heard more about it through his department chair, Kelsey Berry.

“There’s a lot of talk about how to bring lessons learned back to school,” says Kelsey, who participated in the summer institute in 2014 and will be attending the Klingenstein Center’s master’s program this summer. “The program totally changed the way that I prepare to teach, but it has also given Tyler and me a common language for talking about classroom planning and student learning.”

Take for example CFGs, or collaborative feedback groups, which organize teachers into groups outside of their academic departments for the purpose of reviewing

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FACULTY PARTICIPANTS IN KLINGENSTEIN PROGRAMS r JAY STROUD: Full-year fellowship (1981–82) r JANICE NIELSON: Summer Institute for Early Career Teachers (1983) r JIM NOURSE: Full-year fellowship (1983–84) r PHIL PECK: Full-year fellowship (1991–92); lead history teacher and philosophy

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teacher for the Summer Institute for Early Career Teachers (1992–2002); mentor in the two-year master’s program (2005–present) KATE KNOPP: Full-year fellowship (1994–95) ORIS BRYANT: Summer Institute for Early Career Teachers (1999) WILSON EVERHART: Summer Institute for Early Career Teachers (2001) NIGEL FURLONGE: Summer Institute for Early Career Teachers (2000); full-year fellowship (2005–06); lead history teacher for the Summer Institute for Early Career Teachers (2003–10) JORY MACOMBER: Two-summer fellowship (2003–04) DUANE FORD: Two-summer fellowship (2003–04) CHRIS DAY: Full-year fellowship (2005–06) STEVE SOLBERG: Two-summer fellowship (2005–06) SUSIE CIRONE: Summer Institute for Early Career Teachers (2008) ELIZABETH WOLF: Summer Institute for Early Career Teachers (2010) KELSEY BERRY: Summer Institute for Early Career Teachers (2014); two-summer fellowship (2017–18) ALEXANDRA DISNEY: Summer Institute for Early Career Teachers (2015) TYLER CABOT: Summer Institute for Early Career Teachers (2016) JINI SPARKMAN: Summer Institute for Early Career Teachers (2016) JORDAN GRAHAM: Summer Institute for Early Career Teachers (2017)

lessons on which they would like feedback.

A science teacher might meet with teachers of English and Music History to discuss the format of a science lab that hasn’t been as effective as it should be. It’s a process in which KSI students participate multiple times throughout their program.

Now it is a process Holderness faculty are utilizing as well. This fall, Director for Teaching and Learning Nicole Furlonge, who herself has been a master teacher in the summer institute for several years, introduced the process to the faculty and assigned them to groups that have met throughout the year. Chair of the Math Department Elizabeth Wolf was grouped with English teacher Bruce Paro, history teacher Andrew Sheppe, and art teacher

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Alli Plourde. As one of the six KSI alumni on campus, Elizabeth was responsible for guiding her group through their first meetings.

“It’s led to some really good conversations that have put aside content so that we can focus on how students learn,” says Elizabeth. “Some of us are often isolated because we are the only ones teaching a class—Alli Plourde, for example, is the only one who teaches Studio Art—so these conversations get us out of our silos and encourage us to participate in dialogues that don’t normally occur.”

Kelsey agrees. “It’s an intellectual inspection of teaching,” she says. “CFGs provide us with the time and the method to think about teaching beyond content and curriculum.”

The connections between Klingenstein and Holderness extend to the board level as well. Pearl Rock Kane stepped in to fill a two-year term in 2003 when a board member left unexpectedly; she ended up serving for eight years. She was the chair of the Intellectual Life Committee and was instrumental in nurturing the Senior Thesis Program.

Kevin Mattingly has graciously volunteered his time as well. At Klingenstein, he was a lead science teacher for 17 years and has been teaching in the master’s leadership program for the last ten. Although his term on the board just commenced this fall, Kevin has made several visits to campus over the past several years, leading faculty in-service meetings on cognitive science and student learning as well as advising on the science curriculum and the facilities needed to support it.

“Pearl and Kevin both constantly ask questions and have pushed us not to be comfortable or complacent,” says Phil.

“Their leadership has helped unite the board and push us as a learning community in the right direction.”

That direction shares many goals with the Klingenstein Center. Student learning and teacher education are the focal points at both schools, while leadership and diversity are important cornerstones. Take a look through the programs of both organizations and you’ll see the similarities.

According to the center’s website, “In 1977, the Klingenstein Fund established the Joseph Klingenstein Fellows at Teachers College, Columbia University, the first university-based leadership training for those in the independent school field. The Fellows Program began with twelve participants and over the years Klingenstein Center offerings have grown to include five programs serving early career teachers, mid-career educators and administrators and heads of schools…The center has sustained a reputation for

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“IN ORDER TO STAY RELEVANT IN TODAY’S WORLD, WE NEED TO BE CONSTANTLY REMAKING OURSELVES. KLINGENSTEIN MODELS THIS RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LEADERSHIP AND LEARNING AND CHALLENGES ITS GRADUATES TO USE CURIOSITY AS A TOOL FOR CHANGE AND PROGRESS.” — PHIL PECK developing more informed and better prepared leaders to confront independent and international school challenges and possibilities in a rapidly-changing world.”

Sound familiar? “It’s the same thing we talk about at Holderness,” says Kelsey.

“You can’t be a leader without being a learner as well. The two are inseparable.”

Diversity studies play a significant role in the KSI curriculum as well and are beginning to find their way into the Holderness curriculum. During the summer institute, all students are required to create a diversity action plan to present to their top administrators upon return to their schools. As they write, they draw upon the presentations—from organizations like GLSEN and perception.org—that they have heard throughout their fellowships.

“There is an immense emphasis on content and philosophy in most programs,” says English teacher Jini Sparkman, who attended the summer institute with Tyler last summer. “What isn’t done is examine ourselves. We don’t take the time to examine our racial biases or sexual identity and the ways in which those impact our teaching. KSI does that.”

Jini is making sure it happens at Holderness as well. When she returned to campus in the fall, Jini took on the role of director of equity and inclusion.

Throughout the year, Jini has created a series of School Nights and presentations that challenge students to think about the ways in which they experience privilege and to identify their conscious and unconscious biases. In particular, at the end of February, Jini organized a full-day confer-

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Director of Equity and Inclusion Jini Sparkman speaking at an assembly this fall

ence in which students led workshops based on their own interests and questions. Topics included “Islamophobia and the Privilege of Not Being Feared,” “The Privilege of Beauty,” and “G.P.S. Gender and Privilege in STEM.” Students participated in the Privilege Walk and the American Dream Board Game as well as listened to keynote speaker Dr. Eddie Moore, Jr. “There’s a misconception that you can just teach social justice,” says Jini. “I believe it has to be in the social fabric of the school and in the day-to-day occurrences. Conferences and workshops help, but right now there is a critical mass of KSI graduates at Holderness who can help

change the culture of the school. We’re not avoiding it anymore, because we are not afraid anymore; people are willing to be disturbed.”

Klingenstein has provided Holderness with the opportunity to be part of a global conversation about education, a conversation that emphasizes curiosity, leadership, and diverse opinions. It’s a network in support of outstanding teaching and educational leadership, one that extends throughout the independent and international school world. Because of Klingenstein, Holderness has a seat at that table.

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Catching Up With Jim Nourse NAVIGATING LIFE’S TERRAIN Jim Nourse has always enjoyed climbing mountains, both metaphorical and real. The mountains he has climbed recently are closer to home and are not quite as tall, but they nevertheless have had their own challenges and have certainly kept Jim busy. by suzanne dewey FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 60 YEARS, JIM NOURSE was not present

Moore ’04—nurtured and educated at Holderness. [NOTE: Andrew is now

at the start of school in September. No longer a student, a teacher, a

on the Holderness faculty, teaching history, coaching and living in a dorm.

coach, a dean of faculty, a director, a principal or an educational consult-

He returned to campus as a faculty member in 2010 with his wife Kristin

ant, he had no official obligations. He decided, however, that he still

and two young sons.]

needed a monumental challenge. So why not, at the age of 66, take on the Long Trail from Canada to the Middlebury Gap? Take it on alone.

For 15 days last September, Jim hiked the oldest, long-distance trail in

Back on the Long Trail hike, Jim encountered a person a day on the old trail, and they were often surprised that he was going southward because the more typical direction is south to north. Jim stated that transitioning

the United States. Constructed in the first decades of the last century, the

from private education to public education, also atypical, provided him

Long Trail is a narrow footpath that follows the main ridge of the Green

with a more intimate vantage on teaching that could be applied systemati-

Mountains, crossing over Vermont’s highest peaks. The Green Mountain

cally to training teachers (executive director at Upper Valley Educators

Club constructed and maintains the trail and describes it as “backcoun-

Institute) and then serving as a principal (Lebanon High School, Lebanon,

try on its way to Canada; this ‘footpath in the wilderness’ climbs rugged

NH, and Frances Richmond Middle School, Hanover, NH).

peaks and passes pristine ponds…It is steep in places, muddy in others, and rugged in most.”

Jim shared his Long Trail story with me as we recently connected over

Jim is no stranger to teacher education: while at Holderness he was a Klingenstein fellow at Columbia University. That fellowship further informed his sense of what learning and teaching can look like. It also

dinner. In some ways, his 148-mile trek on the Long Trail is a metaphor

introduced him to his personal educational heroes: Grant Wiggins, Ted

for his career as an educator. After graduating from Williams College, Jim

Sizer, and Deb Meier. Jim worked to develop a capstone program for sen-

started his career in college admissions (Hobart and Vassar), then moved

iors. He was adamant that it should encompass self-directed and

into teaching starting at Seven Hills School in Cincinnati as a science

experiential learning culminating in a demonstration of knowledge.

teacher. Through his younger brother, Bart, Jim learned about Holderness

Sound familiar? Jim’s long-ago vision planted the seed for today’s Senior

and joined the faculty in 1981. During his 17-year tenure at Holderness, he

Thesis program at Holderness.

taught, coached, ran a dorm, and finally served as dean of faculty.

Jim believes that teaching is an art form and requires intentional

Married to Sally Shipton, the couple also saw their three children—Sarah

work, and even passion, to succeed. “The best teachers I know are con-

(Sheppe) Okun ’96, Andrew Sheppe ’00 and Katharine (Nourse)

stantly growing and doing things differently…They understand the human

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Jim and his wife Sally in front of Schoolhouse in 1991

side of change.” As Jim shared this assessment, I realized Jim’s own

teaching and the work that needs to be done in the field. An audience

words describe him.

member wanted to know how the film could be screened more broadly

While formally retired, Jim continues to work hard to help shape a

because the collected attendees were the proverbial choir. Ever resource-

vision. He relates how young people today tell him that teaching is not

ful, Jim was prepared for that question and had small business cards

cutting edge and it isn’t a very exciting profession. Jim counters that

available for anyone who wanted to share the film at their own schools.

youthful commentary by collaborating on a project with his brother, Bart.

While on his solo hike, Jim encountered considerable rain, making the

The project is a documentary, Passion to Teach, which focuses on skillful

sometimes 18-inch wide, rocky pathway slick and treacherous. At one

classroom “mavericks”—educators who change the system through their

point, Jim took a 15-foot tumble down a cliff. As he tells it, he was alone,

example. Mavericks impact students with their innovative, patient, rela-

and it was too early on his adventure to quit, so he simply pushed on,

tionship-focused approach that reaches students where they

recalling the Out Back motto: “Enjoy when you can; endure when you

are—specifically and most adroitly through experiential learning. The film

must.” He was indeed injured but, by his assessment, not dangerously.

profiles one classroom teacher and portrays a demonstration project that

Only on his return home two weeks later did he realize how much dam-

she facilitates for her students creating a simulation of immigrants enter-

age he endured. He injured his shoulder to the point where he could not

ing the United States to find jobs and become citizens. It is a fascinating,

achieve even half of its normal rotation; he needed several weeks of

intimate view of teaching and learning, using the students’ voices for

physical therapy to regain normal motion.

much of the narration.

Jim recently screened the film to a room full of seasoned educators at the Upper Valley Educators Institute to generate a discussion around

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In the 1990s, Jim mentored me as a young teacher at Holderness. He helped me understand that less is more and the best way to teach is to help students learn by doing. Along with Phil Peck, then the dean of fac-

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Jim and Sally during a month-long cycling trip in Montepulciano, Italy during the fall of 2015. The trip was planned in celebration of their full retirement.

ulty, I learned life-long lessons about backward planning, finding passion

unwrapping, and then applying, the Tuck lessons on change and innova-

and focusing on the individual student. I also learned that teaching is a

tion from the business world to their own schools/districts.” Jim’s role

profession that has no end. Students evolve, recesses occur, new science

with the Tuck institutes focused on helping to design the program and

alters our practice, and you can always do more. Was that what Jim

then evaluating each session, making recommendations for improving the

thought about when he fell down the cliff, alone, in pain but resolute to

experience. Reflecting on the experience, Jim states, “I found it quite fas-

move forward?

cinating. I think educators have a good deal to learn from the more

Jim has the unique vantage of seeing education from various roles. He

innovative businesses.”

has been in the private realm, the public arena, in systems, in an institute

Jim will say that he is retired and enjoying more time with Sally and

and has served as a consultant. He relates that one of the more interesting

hosting children and grandchildren in their Lyme, New Hampshire home.

experiences he’s been fortunate to have is working at Dartmouth’s Tuck

Yet knowing Jim’s joy in teaching, and understanding his tenacity and

School of Business in their Executive Education group. For three years

passion—as evidenced by his Long Trail hike—one has to wonder if Jim is

(2013–15), Jim worked with Tuck faculty as they hosted four-day summer

just in a dormant mode and considering his next steps. It is hard to imag-

institutes for educational leaders from around the country, mostly from

ine a world in which Jim isn’t pushing, coaxing and planting seeds toward

public school systems. Taught by Tuck faculty, the institutes focused on

educational systems that nurture thinking, reflection, self-agency and the

managing schools and school systems for innovation and change.

value of experiential learning.

“It was so intellectually stimulating and the participants felt it was extremely worthwhile,” confers Jim. “The institutes were put on hold, but I thought they had great promise. The participants were quite invested in

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Scenes from Project Outreach 2017

CLOCKWISE, FROM ABOVE: Students paint a hallway at UTEC, an agency in Lowell, MA, that challenges youths “to trade violence and poverty for social and economic success”; During a homeless walk in Boston, students had the opportunity to hear the first-hand accounts of a homeless man; On their return from Lowell, the ninth-graders helped clean classrooms around the Holderness campus; They also helped to keep the campus paths clear during the March snowstorm.

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CLOCKWISE, FROM ABOVE: The ninth-graders in Lowell, MA, take a break between volunteer assignments; Louis Liu ’20 organizes a food pantry in transitional housing run by Lazarus House in Lowell, MA; Ruby Mundy-Shaw ’20 shovels mulch at Mill City Grows, an organization that wants to “improve physical health, economic independence, and environmental sustainability through increased access to land, locally-grown food, and education.”

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Scenes from Artward Bound 2017

CLOCKWISE, FROM ABOVE: During Artward Bound, two groups of students worked with Music Director Andrew Morrissey on drumming and rhythm; Matt Butchma ’19 and his classmates work on paper collages with artist Stacey Lucas; Izak Furey ’19 and Nick Fenn ’19 host the first set of student performances during AB; Potter Ara Cardew helps Siggy Fitzgerald ’19 learn to use a potter’s wheel; Students write poetry during a workshop with slam poet Anthony Febo.

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CLOCKWISE, FROM ABOVE: Blacksmith Garry Kalajian demonstrates how to flatten a metal rod; Anna Macomber ’19 drills holes in the handle of a spoon during a workshop in the Forge; Improv actors from Chicago work with students on the Hagerman stage; Allegra Driscoll ’19 tries out a pair of wings created by AB students during afternoon workshops; KC Carter ’19 and Westy Davis ’19 take their turn participating in improv exercises.

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Scenes from Out Back 2017

CLOCKWISE, FROM ABOVE: Audrey Simonson ’18 and Anna Jones ’18 get ready to depart on their ten-day adventure; Lindsey Hyland ’18 gives an all thumbs up after a quick and successful stream crossing; Leaving campus on March 6, the juniors are clearly ready for their adventure; Solo rations; Andrew Sheppe ’00 and Chrissy Lushefski’s group eat breakfast the morning before Solo.

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CLOCKWISE, FROM ABOVE: Mountain Safety Research (MSR) snowshoes, with their extra teeth for traction, are standard Out Back issue; Ryan Trieu ’18 experiencing the best of winter in New England; Traditional Out Back gloves turned into works of art; Entertainment around the evening campfire!

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New Courses Respond to Student and Faculty Interests

Robotics teacher Paul Baier working with students in the new robotics lab

“This is us at our best,” says Dean of Academics Peter Durnan. “Our new courses haven’t been dictated from above; instead they’ve grown out of student interests and faculty passions.”

At Holderness this means the development of Snow Science, a course designed by science teacher Alexandra Disney, who took a similar course while getting her master’s degree at the University of Montana. It also means adding Introduction to Psychology; Assistant Athletic Director Chrissy Lushefski was a psychology major in college and was interested in sharing her knowledge with students. Paul Baier was also interested in sharing his knowledge. In his case he wanted to teach students about robotics and computer programming.

“It’s one of those classes in which kids are engaged and working for  minutes,” says Paul.

“Consistently, we find ourselves saying, ‘It’s the end of class already?’”

History teacher Tyler Cabot agrees. He taught Political Media: The Election this fall.

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presidential election, students spent time examining different types of media from radio to television to political cartoons.

“My initial goal was to help students understand how media influences politics,” says Tyler.

“But I think through the course of the fall, the students also became more educated consumers and better able to see different points of view on both sides of the aisle.”

And while the new curriculum keeps the classes interesting and fresh for the students, it does require extra preparation on the part of the teachers. Lesson plans need to be created and revised depending on how the material is received by students; group dynamics need to be reconsidered for different classroom formats; and different forms of assessment need to be developed to suit the cross-disciplinary nature of many of the courses.

“The teachers deserve a lot of praise for the extra work they’ve been doing—during the summer, in the evenings, and throughout the year,” says Peter.

Students have also been instrumental in developing courses. Thanks to the initiative of several of our gifted art students, art teacher Alli Plourde is offering AP Studio Art this year and will be helping several students submit portfolios to the College Board in the spring.

Enlightenment and Romanticism—a course which studies the two movements through poetry, literature, and art—was developed based on student interest in extending discussions begun in AP European History. In addition, both the English and History Departments have continued to add electives for juniors and seniors. New courses this year have included Post War Intellectual History; History of Art; Elves, Muggles, and Space Exploration; Shakespeare on Page and Screen; and Humanity’s Monsters.

“While Advanced Placement English courses remain a staple of the English curriculum, we have grown our non-AP selections as well,” says Peter. “The interesting thing is that students aren’t just choosing an AP course or an elective but are finding ways to take both because they find the choices so compelling.”

In addition to offering more electives, the courses are also no longer focused on one discipline. More frequently the courses cross department boundaries and offer a variety of views. History of Art explores history through the lens of art, while stem: Robotics takes students through aspects of science, engineering, computer programming, and math.

“We don’t really know what this will mean in the future,” says Peter. “Do we even need departments any more or are they just standing in the way? How will outcomes be measured and how will students receive credit? The possibilities are endless and could result in big changes in the way faculty teach and students learn.”

Which is perhaps the biggest takeaway.

Learning is changing, and Holderness is responding, one student request or teacher passion at a time.

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A Gift from Zhaowei

LEFT: Julia Tran ’18 and Craig Cullen ’17 work on the base of their robot in the new robotics lab; RIGHT: Zhaowei Yu ’16 in 2016 in the library basement

Last spring in Holderness School Today, Geoff West ’ shared the story of the fledgling Robotics Club and the students’ desire to establish a robotics course for –. At that time, they were using their free time to build their robots in the windowless and unfinished basement of the library; their equipment was outdated, left over from the days when Senior Colloquium was part of Special Programs.

“Mr. Flinders allowed us to use his personal workshop to cut materials, and Mr. Carrigan let us borrow equipment from the physics room,” recalls Zhaowei Yu ’, who was an original member of the club and currently attends the University of California at San Diego where he is pursuing an engineering degree. “Proctor also helped us by giving us a nicely made robot race court and suggested an alliance between the two schools during competition.”

It was a great start, but funding for the program was limited; there was also no space on campus to store the equipment or build, experiment, and test their robots. The basement of Alfond was it.

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So what changed? With a tight budget and space at a premium, how did the Robotics Club convince the school to approve a course, as well as continue to support the club?

The passion of the students certainly helped, as well as faculty interest, but a gift from Zhaowei made up the difference. In May of  at Commencement, Zhaowei, who was a junior at the time, was presented with the Faculty Award, one of only a few awards that includes a financial gift. Traditionally the money goes toward the student’s tuition; Zhaowei, however, had already paid his tuition for the – school year. Could he, he asked, give the money back to the school to fund a robotics lab?

“I believe that communicating with robots and computers and having them do our bidding will be the way to accomplish things in the near future,” says Zhaowei. “Therefore it’s beneficial to get a head start.”

Thanks to Zhaowei, over the summer the old computer lab in the basement of Hagerman was converted into a robotics lab, and this year students have had that head start. High tables

were installed and six kits were bought;  students the first semester and nine students the second semester—as well as the members of the already existing Robotics Club—have had a chance this year to build robots and learn basic computer programming.

“When Zhaowei was in the robotics club, he would grab hold of an idea and wouldn’t let go of it; he would often take the group’s robot back to his room and rebuild it four or five times,” says Mr. Flinders. “His donation has provided the space and equipment for a whole new set of students to discover the passion he developed at Holderness.”

This year, while Zhaowei is taking classes in quantum mechanics and C language programming, the students at Holderness are learning to program their robots to follow white lines on a carpet, push heavy loads, and dunk balls in baskets. The club is also entering First Tech Competitions at the local and state level. Thanks to Zhaowei, Holderness students will be ready for that future that Zhaowei imagines.

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Gallery Opens in November with “Holderness Collects” What do a page from the Gutenberg Bible, a funerary object from the Han Dynasty, and an oil painting of Daniel Webster have in common?

They are the diverse markers of cultural change and identity in the rich history of the world.

They were also on display in the Edwards Art Gallery this winter. “Holderness Collect” was an exhibit of the artwork the school has acquired over the past century—oil paintings given by alumni, ceramics donated by a gallery in Boston, wood engravings left by a retiring teacher.

To understand the exhibit, let’s first go back to  when Director of the Edwards Art Gallery Franz Nicolay had just been hired to teach ceramics. “At first it wasn’t even considered a collection,” says Franz. “But when the Alfond Library was built and the Schoolhouse was renovated, there was a conscious decision by the school to develop a collection.” In part, this was due to the need to decorate the new buildings, but there was also a growing desire for professional works of art to be integral to the life of the school.

“Art plays an imperative role in helping us to understand ourselves culturally,” Franz explains.

“The art at Holderness is a backdrop for our lives, but it also starts conversations and helps us to see things from different perspectives. The Holderness collection is used frequently as a teaching tool, not just in art classes but in history and English classes as well.”

Holderness School’s collection includes works of art and artifacts from all over the world and from as far back as  bc. Perhaps one of the most compelling pieces in the collection is a page from the Gutenburg Bible that was given to Holderness by former Head of School Pete Woodward in honor of the Alfond family. Perfectly preserved, the page has Latin text printed on both sides and is accented in places by red and blue ink, making it just as much a work of art as an historical document.

Another rare piece is a funerary object, or mingqi, from the Han Dynasty in  bc.

Depicting a farmer checking on his livestock,

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Selections from the winter gallery exhibit. LEFT: A page from the Gutenberg Bible stands in a wooden frame surrounded by ceramic pieces; RIGHT: A minqi from the Han Dynasty

the sculpture was meant to provide the deceased with service and guardianship. Dean Mullavey ’ donated the mingqi to Holderness during one of his frequent visits to campus.

Mullavey was also a Canadian potter and Chinese antiquities collector; he was honored for his artistry in an alumni exhibition in .

Other pieces in the collection have more direct ties to the heritage of the school. Prior to working at Holderness, renown artist Herb Waters was employed by the Works Progress Administration’s Federal Art Project, which supported artists during the Great Depression and provided a way through which the culture and history of the time could be recorded. In  Herb Waters was hired to teach art at Holderness, but he continued his career as an artist, creating wood engravings and watercolors of the New England landscape and the people who inhabited it. Many of his works of art include scenes from Holderness—the Chapel of the Holy Cross, the hockey rink, and Schoolhouse—and are now part of the Holderness collection.

In contrast to the Herb Waters wood engravings are the wide range of ceramics pur-

chased from local artists as well as from the Pucker Gallery in Boston.

“Bernie and Sue Pucker [the owners of the gallery] have been incredibly generous,” says Franz. “Each year we select pieces from their extensive collection for our opening exhibition in the fall. Then at the close of the show, we purchase one item; they in exchange, donate one additional item for our collection. It’s been a very important exchange that has kept our art collection growing.”

And what was Franz’s favorite piece in the show? “Mein Liebe Junge” by Carsten Stehr. It’s a painting that filled the back wall of the gallery during the show and currently hangs in the Alfond Library. In the painting Stehr explores his understanding of the heritage of the generation of Germans who lived after World War II. “It’s a direct expression of his internal response to a political event,” Franz explains.

“But at the same time, he leaves enough unanswered questions in his piece that we can look at it and personally engage with it. It’s interactive and leaves room for dialogue.”

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Five Things to Know About Equity Education 2. What we think we know isn’t enough.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche once said, “The problem with stereotypes is not that they are not true. It is that they are incomplete.” There’s danger in telling a single story and in not knowing the whole truth. Truth is complex and complicated and messy. Our individual experiences, though immensely valuable, offer us only one insight into a vast and barely imaginable world.

Is seeking the truth uncomfortable?

Absolutely. However, in the same way that solving a calculus problem or strapping on skis for the first time creates initial anxiety, the outcomes far surpass any immediate discomfort. As the many truths of others are revealed through dedicated time and active listening, fear and distrust dissolve and possibilities emerge.

In February classrooms around campus were turned into seminar rooms in which students chose the topics and led discussions focused on issues of privilege.

by jini sparkman On Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Director of Equity and Inclusion Jini Sparkman organized a teach-in. Teachers throughout campus offered oneday classes that honored the ideals and legacy of Dr. King. Then in February, Jini organized a daylong student-led conference on privilege, with workshops including “Islamophobia and the Privilege of Not Being Feared,” “White Privilege : Getting in on the Conversations,” and “Does it matter? Inter-racial Dating.” Below are Jini’s reflections on why days like these are so important.

Why teach social justice? Why is it so important that we set aside time in classrooms and in our lives to think about equity? Below are just five of the ideas we’ve been discussing at Holderness, both in adult conversations as well as in our conversations with our students.

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1. We can’t opt out.

In most graduate programs for educators, emphasis is placed on knowing the content of a given discipline and developing one’s educational philosophy. And with our peers, we talk about what we are teaching and why. What we don’t talk about are the ways in which our own preconceived notions might influence how we teach. In other words, we never take the time to examine ourselves. We don’t contemplate the societal norms that influence our own racial biases, gender concepts, or sexual identity and the ways in which those can impact our teaching.

In addition, we are models, and students learn as much from what we do as the content we teach. In order for education to be fair and equitable, we must first recognize the ways in which our own lived experiences influence our decisions in the classroom, on the playing fields, and in our dorms.

3. Utopia does not exist in the real world.

Classrooms can be controlled, but the world into which students enter cannot be; and students need to know how to react and respond.

No matter how idealistic experiences inside a classroom might be, students come from, return to, and transition into communities and environments that will challenge their beliefs and morals. If they have not already spent time discussing and reasoning through their beliefs and how they want to respond, it will be more difficult for them to respond appropriately and intentionally when they are challenged.

4. What’s going on outside the classroom is just as important as what is going on inside the classroom.

Our students come to class with stories of their own; these stories at best shape how they receive what their teachers say, challenging or confirming what they already know. At worst, however, their stories may be all they can think about and may make learning next to impossible. The worlds they come from may not be

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TOP RIGHT: During the February studentled conference, students played the American Dream Board Game in which students are assigned different personas; movements during the board game are directly affected by the privileges of that persona. BOTTOM RIGHT: Liz Casey ’17 and Hannah Fernandez ’17 led a workshop on gender and privilege in STEM.

safe or kind or respectful of their identity, and these realities do not disappear when they cross the threshold of a classroom or campus. If teachers do not take the time to know and understand the concerns of their students and the worlds from which they come, if they do not listen to their students’ stories, no matter how interactive and engaging that teacher may be, learning may be impossible. Students need to be listened to and heard and known.

5. Media is filled with confirmation bias.

You only have to look as far as your own Facebook or news feed to recognize that the Internet knows you and your habits. Visit a clothing website one day, and the next time you click on your news feed, ads for those same articles of clothing pop up in the margins of your screen. Advertisers are excellent at using confirmation bias, showing us those things that confirm our current beliefs or current buying habits. And it’s easy to spot. What’s not as easy for us to spot is that news organizations do the same thing; they deliver to us the news stories that confirm our current beliefs in order to increase traffic to a given site.

We live in an interactive world without rules or oversight. Our students need to know how to navigate this world and name it, to recognize the bias within the information they are receiving, and to develop the desire to seek out opposing, or at least multiple, views in order to make informed decisions.

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We are stronger together. Holderness School’s mission is “For God and Humankind.”

Social justice, equity work, and unity are what we do. If we do not take the time to explore these issues and challenge ourselves to have difficult conversations about race and gender and

sexual identity and religion and privilege and ability, then we are not living up to our mission.

We don’t always get it right, but we are learning. We are dedicated to creating a more equitable, just, and inclusive future for all of our students and our world.

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Students Teaching Students

Eleni Spiliotes ’20 helps Wyatt Furlonge with his makeup before a student-directed performance of “The Three Little Pigs.”

Eleni sits facing Wyatt, a small boy with curly hair and slight limbs that never stop moving.

Face paints, brushes, and makeup sponges are scattered on the table between them. The chatter of children’s voices and their uninhibited laughter echo off the basement walls.

Wyatt continues to wiggle, barely containing his excitement for the performance ahead.

“Look at the pink spot,” Eleni tells him patiently. Wyatt does his best to stare at the pink spot on the end of Eleni’s nose, a spot she put there to give Wyatt a focal point. Painting his cheeks and forehead, tracing a snout over his nose, Eleni carefully transforms him into a pig.

Eleni Spiliotes is a ninth-grader at Holderness. With an interest in acting and performing arts, she joined the Art in the Afternoon program this fall not knowing what to expect. She has loved every minute of it.

While the Art in the Afternoon program has existed for several years, this fall Theater Director and chair of the Art Department Monique Robichaud was determined to incorporate service to others into the program. She

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considered several different possibilities, but with the help of her students, she settled on running an after-school theater program. Their students? The children of Holderness faculty and staff—including Wyatt Furlonge, son of faculty members Nicole and Nigel Furlonge.

The end goal? A performance of the tale of “The Three Little Pigs” for the Holderness community.

“I liked learning my lines,” shares Reid Donovan, daughter of math teacher John Donovan. “I also like being on stage.”

Claire Eccleston, daughter of Athletic Director Rick Eccleston ’, agrees, “I really like the play, and the students are really nice.”

During their weekly after-school meetings, the Holderness students helped the faculty children learn their lines, make their costumes, and create the sets. Improv games and other activities introduced them to acting terms and techniques.

“It was really fun to see them get so involved in learning their parts,” says Izak Furey ’. “Not only did they learn the words, but they were just as curious about how to say them as well.”

“It’s been really rewarding teaching them,” Eleni says. “I see the kids around campus now, and they hug me; it’s their favorite day of the week, so now it’s mine.”

The challenge of the program was figuring out who could do what; because the program included faculty children from – years old, there was a huge range of ability.

“We realized very quickly that some of the children couldn’t read, so then we had to figure out how to help them memorize their lines,” says Monique. “And when we started making the sets, we had to think about that too. The straw house for the youngest children needed to just be plain yellow, but the older kids could make the houses of sticks and bricks more detailed.”

The students also quickly learned to plan enough curriculum for the hour-long class and create a safe and comfortable space for the children.

“They learned what ice breaking activities worked and what activities were appropriate with the different age groups,” says Monique.

“On planning days, we spent a lot of time timing activities and pretending we were six-year- olds.”

But despite all these challenges, the success of the program was clear on the night of the performance. All the children knew their lines, knew when and where to exit and enter, and knew how to project their voices. Any shyness they might have felt during rehearsals disappeared as they took on the personalities of their characters and entered into the world of the three little pigs. And the Art in the Afternoon students? They stood in the wings, proud of all their students had accomplished in just six short weeks.

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Strategic Planning Scorecard: Educate for the Emerging World The Scorecard is a series of articles in which Head of School Phil Peck discusses what Holderness School is doing to move forward on the initiatives outlined in the  Strategic Plan.

Holderness School’s vision statement reads: “Holderness will redefine leadership and intellectual development, preparing all for their journeys in a changing world.” Aligned with this vision, one of the four goals is to “Educate for the emerging world: we need curricula, facilities, and faculty equipped to prepare our students for the emerging challenges of their lifetime.” In the last two years much headway has been made.

In Jana Brown’s article about the Center for Teaching and Learning, she explains that we have created a new position, the director of teaching and learning, which Dr. Nicole Furlonge has filled. Nicole still teaches, advises, and does extracurricular work, but her primary responsibility is to be a thought leader for Holderness. How does the latest research on curriculum, cognitive science, and classroom design inform how we teach? She is working closely with Dean of Faculty Tobi Pfenninger, Academic Dean Peter Durnan, and the department chairs to discuss how research and best practices can inform how we teach.

We have also been hard at work developing plans and raising funds for a ,-squarefoot academic building that will house science and math. The science department spent over a year exploring where science education is going and how that might look at Holderness. What kind of space is needed for students who want to conduct scientific research for their senior theses? How does digital technology inform lab work in biology and chemistry? What type of lab spaces will we need in order to partner with local conservation organizations? Only after exploring these types of questions internally did the science department visit exemplary science facilities at other independent schools and colleges. The design continues to evolve as we

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Through new positions, plans for a new building, and the growth of professional development, Holderness continues to apply the themes of innovation, collaboration, and flexibility to all areas of of its academic program.

better understand the educational needs of our community.

Because the new building will add almost a third more learning space on campus, we are asking each academic department to consider how teaching and learning is evolving in their discipline. Once we answer those questions, we will start looking at Hagerman, Alfond, Carpenter, and the Schoolhouse to see how the themes of innovation, collaboration, and flexibility can be applied to the rest of the learning spaces on campus. With the moving of Hoit Dormitory, we will also create an Academic Quad and an outdoor classroom. No question, this will be an ambitious transformation of every learning space on campus.

In my  years at Holderness, one of the things that has always inspired me is my colleagues’ insatiable desire to learn and grow.

Nicole, Tobi, Peter, department chairs, and Associate Head Nigel Furlonge are working to figure out new and dynamic ways to support that learning. In addition to supporting graduate work and more traditional forms of

professional development, we are looking at exciting in-house opportunities such as weeklong graduate school courses. How does the latest research in cognitive science inform our assessments? How does Carol Dweck’s growth mindset and Angela Duckworth’s research on grit inform the way we teach and learn, inside and outside the classroom? In addition, we are doing more collaborative work teaching each other in areas where individuals have expertise or have received training at a conference. As adults we will be learning differently than we have traditionally.

To support this vision for our programs and the facilities needed to house those programs, we are engaged in an ambitious fund-raising campaign, striving to raise  million in the next three to five years. The goal is to help us be the best and boldest version of ourselves— one that is deliberate and intentional about providing learning opportunities for all who are fortunate to be part of this community.

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Fall Sports: Boys’ Varsity Soccer

The boys’ varsity soccer team ended their season with a 0-1 loss to Hebron in the NEPSAC Class C semi-finals. The Bulls were hoping to defend last year’s championship title, but Hebron had the goods to beat the boys and then go on to win the title over The Masters School. Although their 8-8-2 final record doesn’t look impressive on paper, the team had some good wins and were in tight battles in every loss. Thanks to an outstanding defense and excellent net minding, the team never gave up more than two goals in any game.

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Fall Sports: Girls’ Varsity Field Hockey

The girls’ field hockey team had a terrific season with a final record of 13-3-1 in the regular season. In the NEPSAC Class C Championship they were defeated by the Tilton Rams in the quarterfinals.

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CLOCKWISE, FROM ABOVE: Sukh Mathon ’17 sinks a basket during a game against Brimmer and May; Coach Woody Kampmann talks strategy with the boys’ varsity basketball team; During the NEPSAC championship quarterfinals, Matt Pasic ’18 puts pressure on the New Hampton goalie; The Bulls celebrate a goal against Hebron Academy in November.

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CLOCKWISE, FROM ABOVE: Elise Yabroudy ’18 watches her teammates on the ice during a varsity game against Southfield; Bella Smith ’18 dodges an opponent from Proctor during a girls’ varsity basketball game; varsity player Lauren Steele ’19 faces Proctor on home ice; KC Carter ’19, who scored 427 points on the court this year, defends the ball during a game against Governor’s.

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Student-athletes who choose winter mountaineering for a winter sport have the opportunity to see many of New Hampshire’s most scenic places. In addition to seeking out the area’s best ice climbing, the group also does some hiking and back-country skiing as well. In the pictures on the left, students are following the Cog Railway up to the summit of Mt. Washington, New England’s tallest peak.

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From November through April, the Eastern alpine athletes are seeking snow wherever they can ďŹ nd it. ABOVE: Skiers get in some early season turns in Colorado; BELOW: Later in the season they enjoy skiing on their home hill, Mittersill at Cannon Mountain.

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CLOCKWISE, FROM ABOVE: Caroline Ferri ’18 hangs out in the starting area before a varsity alpine race; Varsity racers take a break with their coach Conor O’Meara; Diego Zesati ’18, whose hometown is Mexico City, gets ready for an alpine race at Crotched Mountain; Charlie Struzziero ’20 holds steady in the gate at the start of a varsity alpine race.

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CLOCKWISE, FROM ABOVE: Liesl Magnus ’17 skates to the finish of the girls’ opening nordic race at Holderness in January; Amanda Vansant ’20 powers through the NEPSAC championship diagonal race in late February; Gus Whitcomb ’20 waits for his start at the Cheri Walsh Eastern Cup race; At NEPSAC Championships, the girls on the nordic team celebrate their victory in the 3x3k freestyle relay; their win in the relay secured their championship title for the season.

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Holderness Welcomes Six New Board Members

Bob Cunha P’19, ’16

Andrew Davis P’19

Chris Keating ’81

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perspective rooted in an understanding of educational board work.”

“Holderness has, quite literally, changed our lives,” says Bob Cunha. “Our children found the exact place they were meant to be, and it’s supportive, service-oriented, and challenging. As a trustee, I hope that I can contribute to Holderness a small fraction of what the school has already contributed to my family.” As a managing director of Eaton Vance, an asset manager in Boston, and having served on numerous non-profit boards—including Milton Academy, the Eliot School and the Points of Light Foundation—Bob brings a wealth of independent school board experience.

At Bob’s first board meeting, both Bob Hall and Phil Peck were appreciative of his probing questions and thoughtful insights.

Andrew Davis comes to us with a variety of board experiences, both in higher education and independent schools. According to Phil Peck, “Andrew’s insights into what is necessary for a school to be relevant and sustaining for decades to come will be vital for Holderness.” When asked about his recent appointment to the board, Andrew stated, “It is an honor to be

included as a member of the Holderness board.

I look forward to continuing the process at which this board has already succeeded, as anyone who is involved with Holderness knows. Yet the future forces all institutions to learn and adapt. I look forward to helping Holderness do just that, assuring its continued role as a schoolof-choice for all its constituencies.”

Having led the public defender’s office for the State of New Hampshire, Chris Keating is a true champion for social justice. “I am one of four generations in my family to attend Holderness, so the school means a lot to me personally,” this humble alumnus says. “But more importantly, I believe in the school’s values surrounding community and responsibility.

Particularly today, we need to support institutions that teach young people about our world’s inescapable network of mutuality.” It’s quite clear that Chris, who received the Holderness Distinguished Alumni Award in , truly embodies our motto—to work for the betterment of humankind and God’s creation.

Although he’s neither an alumnus nor a current or past parent, Dr. Kevin Mattingly’s connections to Holderness School are long and

We are more than a school that serves students.

We are a community made better by the engagement of our students, alumni, parents, and all of those we encounter on snowy trails or next to crackling fireplaces. It’s no coincidence, then, that we are governed by a group of people who are the very essence of this community. The Holderness Board of Trustees is made up of alumni, current and past parents, and some we’ve met over the years who share an affinity for Holderness.

Because we said goodbye to several board members last spring, we spent much of our fall and winter welcoming an incredibly talented and dedicated group of community members to the Holderness Board of Trustees: Bob Cunha P ’, ’, Andrew Davis P ’, Chris Keating ’, Kevin Mattingly, Sue MacGrath P’, and Nell Reynolds P’, ’.

When asked to comment on our new class of trustees, Board Chair Bob Hall P ’, ’ proudly stated, “I am thrilled to work with our new trustees, who bring us a national

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Kevin Mattingly

Sue MacGrath P’18

storied. Whether it’s been working shoulder to shoulder with Phil Peck as part of Columbia’s Teachers College Klingenstein Program or with Nigel and Nicole Furlonge at Lawrenceville School, Kevin is one of the country’s thought leaders on how cognitive science informs teaching and learning. Having Kevin on our board will be a boon to our faculty and to our commitment to intellectual engagement. “As we move forward with our learning master plan and a new academic facility,” says Phil Peck, “we are blessed to have Kevin’s wealth of experience to help guide us through this exciting time.”

Hailing from Montana, Sue MacGrath’s background as an attorney and current parent, her love for the outdoors, and her prior experience with educational and not-for-profit boards makes her a natural for the Holderness Board of Trustees. Known for her thoughtful questioning, Sue says she is “excited to have the opportunity to serve as a trustee at such an important and dynamic point in the school’s history as outlined by the goals and objectives of the strategic plan.” Both Bob Hall and Phil Peck agree that Sue’s passion for academic and

intellectual life will help support many of our exciting programs and initiatives.

Nell Reynolds treasures her new role in the community: “I am loving my brief time on the board thus far. It is wonderful to be able to get to know the people and programs at Holderness on a deeper level.” Nell brings the experiences of an educator, current parent, and independent school board member, allowing her, according to Phil Peck, “to substantively contribute to every conversation at the board level.”

These new trustees represent nearly a quarter of the Holderness Board of Trustees, and while such transition may cause trepidation for some organizations, Holderness School is in able hands as each and every board member cares deeply for our school and is aligned with our mission and vision. As both Phil Peck and Bob Hall can attest, Holderness School is poised to redefine leadership and intellectual development as we work for the betterment of humankind and God’s creation.

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Common Ground

Ali Power, who recently published her first volume of poetry, A Poem for Record Keepers

Ali Power ’01 Ali Power ’ is a rising poet who cherishes the common ground that unites people into communities. She’s about to stake some of that out in her day job as well. by rick carey As a general rule, writers—poets especially— are among the most solitary of artists. But there are a number of exceptions, and several have already touched the budding career of Ali Power, who has published poems and interviews in such venues as the Brooklyn Rail, Interview Magazine, lit Magazine, and the pen Poetry Series. Last May Ali came out with her first full-length volume, A Poem for Record Keepers (Argos, ).

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She didn’t come to Holderness with poetry in mind, but it worked out that way. She was born in Laconia, NH, and her parents kept a condo in Waterville Valley, on whose ski slopes they spent a good part of each winter. “And as long as I can remember,” Ali says, “it was just presumed that I’d attend Holderness and ski there.”

Which she did, even though she lived for most of her childhood at Rye Beach. There, as it happened, she lived within hailing distance of the home of the teacher and poet who would become her ninth grade English instructor— Norm Walker. She didn’t know Mr. Walker in those days, but her father had read the poetry of Robert Frost to her, and she had written some poetry of her own as a child. “My father would cue my sister and me to recite ‘Stopping

by Woods On a Snowy Evening’ during car rides to Waterville or Sugarloaf,” Ali says.

By the time she enrolled at Holderness, she was writing more poetry and well primed not only for a Frost-minded maestro such as Mr. Walker, but also his poetry-loving colleagues in the English department. “Norm Walker, Bruce Barton, Peter Durnan, Kathy Weymouth—I won’t ever forget their encouragement,” Ali says.

“Also there was Nicole Furlonge, who was the faculty advisor of Mosaic when I was co-editing that magazine my senior year. She was especially supportive, as was Franz Nicolay.”

At Boston College she spent a semester in Rome, studying poetry, philosophy, and the Italian language. She came home to write a senior thesis of original poetry, returned to Rome to teach for a year, and then moved to New York City to join an arts and publishing scene more vibrant than anywhere else in the country.

She interned at a publishing house and in  got hired at Rizzoli Publications, a house famous for lavish, richly illustrated books having to do with art, fashion, photography, design, and literature.

“I was lucky,” Ali says. “At the more old school-run houses, you work your way up

according to a rigid timeline. At Rizzoli I was able to climb the proverbial ladder very quickly.”

In short order she was an editor and at work on a book she dreamed up herself—a large-format illustrated volume on people she reveres. Published in  and authored by Jenni Quilter, The New York School Painters & Poets: Neon In Daylight explores common ground between two generations of fine artists (e.g. Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, then Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg) and poets who were all seizing the principles of European modernism and recasting them into a distinctly American sort of palette and language. They all were also unusually collegial, often working jointly or communally.

They are also some of the poets Ali loves best and who exert a strong influence on her work: among them, Frank O’Hara, John Ashbery, and from the younger generation, Bernadette Mayer and Paul Violi. Take a look at a number of Ali’s poems today, and you’ll find some of the distinguishing strengths of the New York School in the poems’ conversational informality, spare diction, and often surreal leaps in subject matter and word play.

In  Ali completed a two-year mfa program in poetry at The New School in New York City, and since the fall of  she has been the co-curator of kgb Monday Night, a poetry series performed at the Manhattan location that is both a popular bar and the headquarters of a literary magazine.

Ali’s day job, though, has taken a sharp turn.

Last year she left Rizzoli and acted on a passion kindled during an internship at Boston College, one with former wbz news anchor Jack Williams. Williams was the originator of wbz’s groundbreaking Wednesday’s Child series, which helped older special-needs children in the state’s foster-care system to find adoptive homes.

It was Ali’s job to track down some of those children, interview social workers, and see how things had turned out.

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“I really admired people who were doing social work,” Ali says. “I loved working at Rizzoli, but I reached a point where I was reassessing how I was spending my time.”

She found that in the business of publishing, the learning curve had flattened out for her, that the fun no longer exceeded the stress.

Instead she decided to pursue her msw— Master’s in Social Work—at New York University, and in her first year trained as a case manager at a home for adults with mental illness, all formerly homeless, and with whom she ran a writing group. After finishing her degree in , she plans to work as a psychotherapist in a communal setting, perhaps with those who are incarcerated.

Poetry remains center stage, of course, especially since A Poem for Record Keepers debuted last May at number  on the national bestseller list for poetry from small presses. Okay, that’s an oxymoron—poetry and best-seller lists—but such lists exist, and such a showing for a debut collection is rare. She is at work now on a second collection.

One of the things she loves about the New York School of poetry is that collegiality celebrated in Neon In Daylight, that sense of community and mutual support, which no doubt is also part of what has drawn this particular poet into social work.

And it speaks to one reason why she so admires Robert Creeley ’. “I discovered when I was studying in Rome that he went to Holderness, and he’s truly a legend,” Ali says.

“He was one of the few who were able to bridge poetry schools in the ’s and ’s when no one was talking to each other. He was friends with Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams and the Beats and the New York School. I tell all my poet friends that I went to the same high school as Creeley!”

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d o rl o o There were things I meant to bring but it doesn’t matter I know enough to know this I’m still not used to how dark it gets but I like it and I like that everything is so effusively green chrysoprase, jade, myrtle, hunter, mint hills almost teal in the shade I keep saying “I forgot what it feels like—” because things that happen attach onto you like spores then disintegrate at various rates this is how forgetting happens but some things stick with you like a chemical half-life some things can only be destroyed by being dug up which is to say remembered this is what psychotherapy teaches “we repeat only what we cannot remember” Freud says back in Brooklyn two Brits I met at a bar asked me why Americans are so obsessed with therapy is therapy so American? they had such ideas now I’m in between frequencies en route to being reset the dirty plastic lawn chairs I brought out from the barn are now clean and glistening in the rain it’s in places like this that Schuyler was meant to be read last night I left one fire for another today our weekend guest’s dog killed the rooster Sarah had to finish the job sharpened her knife then cut off its head and buried it I didn’t see any of this I was inside trying to write Iris told me later she told me Sarah was crying Sarah’s the flower farmer she’s already tan and it’s only the beginning of June but it’s summer here this is the best way I can describe it to you

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Chris Keating, winner of Dartmouth College’s 2016 Leslie B. Granger ’18 Award that recognizes work on behalf of social justice

Chris Keating ’81 The recipient of Dartmouth’s  Granger Award for Lifetime Achievement, Chris Keating ’, has plenty of lifetime left to devote to the New Hampshire justice system and its most vulnerable clients. by rick carey As a  alumnus of Dartmouth, attorney Chris Keating is younger than most who receive lifetime achievement awards—in his case, the  Leslie B. Granger ’ Award, one of several awards recognizing work on behalf of social justice presented annually by the college. Maybe he’s also a little more puzzled by it than most.

Chris grew up in small-town north-central New Hampshire—Woodstock, specifically— and came to Holderness because it was nearby and it was in the family. Very much so, in fact: Chris was preceded by his grandfather James Keating ’ and his father Robert Keating ’; he was succeeded by his sisters Kelly Watts ’

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and Kathryn Keating ’, and then his niece Taylor Watts ’.

At Holderness Chris was the youngest in his class, only  when he graduated, and then he did a year at England’s Denstone College as part of the English-Speaking Union Secondary School Exchange Program. Once back home, he went to Dartmouth, where he saw fellow students building shanties on the Green in protest of the college’s investments in then apartheid-ruled South Africa.

Suspicious of the relationship in America between power and justice, he went on to the University of Maine’s law school as a way, ultimately, of both making a living near home and working on the side of justice. The choice to become a public defender was easy for him.

“It just seemed like the keenest, most direct way to help people who were really in a lot of trouble, and it gave me a constructive outlet for my anti-establishment rants,” he says.

And while work as a public defender may be the least lucrative of a young lawyer’s options, there is at least a purer clarity to that work. “A

prosecutor is a servant to a lot of important masters: justice foremost, ethics included, then the victim’s interests, then what the police might want, then what your boss wants, then what the law requires, and what the public expects, all not necessarily in that order,” Chris says. “As a defender you have just two masters: your client’s interests and ethics. It’s a less complicated equation.”

He began practicing in Keene in , but within three years, he was opening—in Littleton—the first dedicated public defender office in the state’s underserved North Country.

He continued to work above the notches, trying cases ranging from heroin possession to firstdegree murder, even as he rose to executive director of the New Hampshire Public Defender Program (in ). In  he became executive director of the New Hampshire Judiciary Council.

A -member board of judges, legislators, lawyers, and private citizens, the Judiciary Council is in one role a deliberative body that makes recommendations to improve the justice system, and in another a state agency that funds and supports the Indigent Defense Fund,

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the Contract Attorney Program, the Public Defender’s Office, and other resources for those who typically can’t afford legal counsel.

Because council members are not state employees, there is less political pressure on what they do or how they go about it. This is one circumstance that has helped New Hampshire, Chris says, “to post a good track record, all in all, in acknowledging its constitutional obligations to the indigent accused in providing good, quality representation.”

He lays all the credit for the council’s success at the feet of Nina Gardner, Chris’s predecessor as E.D. of the Judicial Council (and also the spouse of Richard Gardner ’). “Nina ran the council for twenty years, and she’s the real hero in this story,” Chris says. “It was Nina who secured the funding for expanding our programs that support the indigent throughout the state.”

Chris admires his predecessor’s achievements and entirely discounts his own. “I’m afraid my record is not newsworthy,” he said when first contacted by hst.

But his peers disagree. Chris has previously won the New Hampshire Bar Association’s Dufresne Award, given for professionalism in the practice of law “as part of a common calling to promote justice and public good.” He has also been named a Champion of Justice by the NH Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers for “demonstrated achievement in the practice of criminal defense and outstanding service to the organization and community.”

While E.D. of the state’s Public Defender program, Chris succeeded in expanding the program’s staffing, training, and litigation resources, building it into one of the nation’s top defender’s offices. Dartmouth, in presenting its Granger Award, described Chris’s work leading the Judicial Council: “Under his tenure, New Hampshire established eligibility guidelines and performance standards for attorneys providing representation for the indigent accused, increased funding for appointed counsel in major crimes cases, and created mechanisms to fund representation in capital post-conviction proceedings. In addition to his

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efforts in support of equal justice in criminal cases, Chris has worked to increase the role of Court-Appointed Special Advocates to provide critical services to children in protection-fromabuse cases, and was an advocate on behalf of restoring and funding the right to assistance of counsel for parents accused of abuse or neglect.

Chris’s advocacy helped support increased funding for civil legal services for the state’s most disadvantaged citizens.”

It’s a decade and more of newsworthy help for New Hampshire’s disadvantaged, under-represented, and most vulnerable, and a legacy the

seled conviction to find a job, get an apartment, secure a student loan. A lot of poor people have ended up without defense under this system— and with criminal records.”

A larger iniquity exists at the national level, where the federal government funds and supports a training center for prosecutors, but nothing of the sort for defenders. This reflects one sort of disconnect, Chris believes, between the justice system and a public perhaps too quick to be punitive.

“There’s a lack of understanding of how we’re all stakeholders in this,” he says. “I think a broad-

There’s a lack of understanding of how we’re all stakeholders in this.

— CHRIS KEATING council E.D.’s own successor will find daunting.

By the time this article appears, Chris will have begun his appointment (by the Chief Justice of the NH Supreme Court) as director of the state’s Administrative Office of the Courts, which provides support services to judges, clerks, and staffers throughout the state system.

All this is to say nothing of Chris’s public service and volunteer work. He serves on the state’s Access to Justice Commission Steering Committee, chairs the Citizen Advisory Board for the Women’s State Correctional Facility, chairs the Domestic Violence Fatality Review Board, and serves on the Board of Directors of the NH Bar Foundation, the charitable arm of the state’s bar association.

What keeps Chris so self-deprecating, perhaps, are the injustices he hasn’t been able to redress. “For example, fifteen years ago, the state separated misdemeanors into two classes—a Class A misdemeanor carries the potential of jail time; a Class B doesn’t,” says Chris. “But a Class B also doesn’t carry with it a right to the assistance of counsel, and the socio-economic consequences of a Class B conviction can be severe. It’s hard in the aftermath of an uncoun-

er capacity for empathy—for both the accused and the accuser—would lead to a better understanding of how best to keep us all safe.”

There, quite briefly, you have one of Chris’s anti-establishment rants—and insight into a personal capacity for empathy that has over the past three decades so successfully (whether he admits it or not) made justice in New Hampshire more equal for all. editor’s note: Chris Keating was also awarded the Distinguished Alumni Award at Holderness Commencement in .

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After the Bomb Went Off Peter Cooke ’62 Peter Cooke ’ learned at a young age about what it felt like to be different. Since then he’s spent a lifetime teaching different folks to get along. by rick carey So you’re seventeen, and a pipe bomb goes off in your left hand, blowing part of that hand away. Life-changing? Yes, indeed—young Peter Cooke just couldn’t guess how at the time.

Peter grew up in Armonk, NY, one hour north of New York City, as a self-described “troubled youth, someone you’d categorize as ‘at-risk’ these days.” At the age of , he was sent by his parents to a canoe camp in Canada that helped such kids. Later he came to Holderness as another sort of place to settle down. It was during a summer break from Holderness that the bomb went off.

“It was the third pipe bomb that I had made, and all I was doing was making noise for the Fourth of July,” Peter says. “I soon realized my life was going to be different.”

At Holderness Peter had earned varsity letters in football and baseball in his sophomore year. After the accident, he had to give up football for soccer, and in baseball he had to switch from third base to pitcher (in fact throwing a no-hitter in his first start). The accommodations required of him off the playing field, however, were trickier. “I was dating, you know, and suddenly I had these identity problems,” he says. “I kept my hand in my pocket a lot. And as I look back on it now, I realize that this was most likely the genesis of my interest in diversity.”

Peter took a roundabout route into the issue, though. He went from Holderness to what was then the Babson Institute (now Babson College) to learn business, and from there—in —to Proctor & Gamble’s Montreal office. This was the time of the fractious national debate about Quebec’s proposed secession from Canada, and Peter ran a division

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Peter Cooke and his wife Jane heli-skiing and cat skiing in Alberta, Canada in 2014

that was half Anglophone and half Francophone. When he left P&G in  to earn a master’s in organizational development from Antioch, he did his practicum in accommodating diversity. Next he joined Outward Bound’s Professional Development Program division. As head of their Diversity Task Force, he was tasked with getting the organization’s all-white staff ready to attract people of color.

“One OB program I participated in involved counselors from the summer camp Seeds of Peace,” Peter says. “The objective was to mold Palestinian and Israeli counselors into a more solid team, one better able to lead the camp’s mix of Palestinian and Israeli kids. After leaving Outward Bound, I wanted more multi-cultural opportunities like that.”

By then he was beguiled by the personal and philosophical challenges of forging collaboration out of conflict, unity from diversity.

Broadly speaking, he liked coaching people who, for whatever reasons, were hesitant to pull their hands out of their pockets in cooperative handshakes.

In founding Cooke Associates in , he launched a consulting firm—then based in Manchester, NH, and now in Hooksett—that specializes in matters of strategic planning and culture-building, especially as they relate to matters of diversity education, cultural competencies, and social justice. The firm works with community entities or organizations of either the for-profit or non-profit cast in forging common sets of values and goals from disparate populations. Over the years CA clients have included—to name just a diverse few— Doctors Without Borders, Harvard University, the State of New Hampshire, New American Africans, and the pax World Management investment firm.

Meanwhile today’s world is rife with the sort of violent conflict that has set large numbers of people on the move and made immigration one of the more divisive social issues of the time.

Many such immigrants qualify for refugee status, and for the past several decades the United Nations, the US State Department, and various social agencies have cooperated in defining

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certain communities sprinkled across the US as “resettlement cities”—i.e., places where new arrivals may avail themselves of a trifecta of affordable housing, public transportation, and job opportunities.

Or at least give it their best shot, since a refugee’s road is a hard one. “These are people who in every case are vetted more than you’d think, over a period of two to four years, by the Defense Department, Home Security, the cia, the fbi,” Peter says. “They’re required to repay their air fare to the federal government. They receive social services for roughly six months from their host cities, but then, very soon, they’re on their own.”

Manchester, NH, is one such resettlement city, a community that for many years has welcomed various refugee immigrant groups.

Under the resettlement program, people have moved there from war-torn countries in the Balkans, South America, the Middle East, and Africa. “But with nativism on the rise in the US, here in this nation of immigrants,” Peter says wryly, “the whole process has become something of a political football.”

Today Peter finds himself a key player in that game. In  Cooke Associates was hired to facilitate a strategic planning process for Welcoming Manchester, an immigrant integration initiative. This effort involved leaders from both the resident and immigrant populations.

Funded jointly by the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation and the Endowment for Health, the program is also being carried out in similar form in three other “welcoming” cities— Nashua, Concord, and Laconia. These four welcoming cities are under the umbrella of Welcoming New Hampshire which is under the umbrella of Welcoming America.

Facilitating that strategic plan was a ninemonth job. Now the plan is being implemented, and Peter is co-chair of one of the plan’s goal groups—work that he provides on a pro bono basis. “Well, I’m  now and I’m scaling back my regular business anyway,” Peter

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Peter and Bhutanese refugees during a truth and reconciliation training exercise in Manchester, NH

says. “Sometimes opportunities like this lead to a new client, but the point here is to contribute to the success of this initiative. We’re all volunteers, and though it’s slow going, it’s very rewarding.”

It’s particularly slow in Manchester, thanks to a lack of support from some in the local government. Claiming insufficiencies in jobs and human services, the city recently called for a moratorium on the several hundred refugees brought in each year to the city. “Without the city’s full support,” Peter says, “it all gets ten times more difficult.”

He firmly believes it shouldn’t be. The Welcoming Manchester plan stresses not so much the positive value of diversity in a community, nor the importance of social justice, but rather, Peter says, “economic well-being for all.”

For this he cites the turnaround of Rust Belt cities like Dayton and Detroit, achieved in both cases by tapping into an immigrant labor pool.

He cites research showing immigrants are nearly twice as likely to start a business as US-born residents; that a quarter of American high-tech

startups created between  and  were started by immigrants; that immigrant-owned businesses pay out  billion in payroll each year; that  percent of Fortune  companies were founded by immigrants or their children.

“Immigration and workforce diversification create jobs and improve infrastructure,” Peter says.”These new arrivals are extremely ambitious, very hard working, and add value to both the workforce and the city.”

In today’s political climate, though, sometimes he feels like he’s back to handling bombs again. But now he knows exactly who he is, and what’s at stake, not just in Manchester, but elsewhere in America—and both hands are out of his pockets, working to make differences a strength.

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Attentive to Every Pitch Jed Hoyer ’92 hst sports reporter Mia Gusmelny* sat down with Bruce Barton and David Lockwood to talk about their experiences coaching Jed Hoyer ’, general manager of the World Champion Chicago Cubs.

MIA GUSMELNY: Jed Hoyer played baseball for

Holderness when you were both coaches. How long did he play on the varsity team?

BRUCE BARTON: I’m trying to think if it was possible for him to get in as an eighth-grader from Plymouth Elementary School. He was a four-year guy. No question about that.

MG: What positions did he play?

DAVID LOCKWOOD: Pitcher, catcher, shortstop.

I don’t remember if he played outfield.

BB: He might have played a little bit of

second base.

DL: Yeah, if Jimmy (Gibbons) ’ was playing shortstop; he would have played second base if Rice Bryan ’ was pitching.

BB: All over the place. That kid was all over the field.

MG: Do you remember which one he liked

the best?

DL: I think he liked pitching.

BB: And why do you say that, Dave?

DL: He had the most control over it. And in

terms of actual control (in the pitching sense), he was phenomenal. I don’t know if you remember, but there was a game when he didn’t throw a ball until the third inning.

BB: I do remember that. Nothing but strikes.

DL: It might have even been the last batter of the third inning before he threw a ball.

BB: I know he enjoyed being the shortstop.

Growing up, his favorite player was a shortstop for the Cincinnati Reds, Barry Larkin. And I think, too, as a shortstop, he really felt like he was the general on the field. So no matter where the ball was hit, he was going to be helping to direct players. And I don’t mean it in an

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over controlling way. It didn’t really matter where he was; he understood that there was a level of control at shortstop, from the mound, behind the plate, from the outfield—if he ever played there—second base. Every position, he was attentive to every pitch at every position.

DL: A smart player. If he was running the bases and saw that a base was uncovered, he was gone. He picked up all that stuff. Really knowledgeable, even as a freshman…a real student of the game.

MG: What was he like as a player both in terms

first. Or if he’s at the plate, and we as coaches hadn’t called a play, they might. It’s that one step ahead that you were talking about.

DL: He was intense. There was one time I thought about bringing my keyboard out and playing the national anthem before the game.

“Coach, no. No, coach, don’t do that.” It was too loopy.

BB: It was all business. He was one of those guys who might come back and talk about the game after it happened. You know, two days later. “We had that situation…you think next time, we might…”

of baseball skills and the intangibles?

BB: Very fiercely competitive. It was not only

him, but there was sort of a cadre of kids for whom the game was being played on a different level. He had three, maybe four other teammates with whom he could share a glance and they knew. So let’s say he’s at shortstop and Jim Gibbons is on the mound. Jimmy comes set, he looks at Jed. He knows exactly whether to throw home or throw to first if someone’s on

BB: In terms of intangibles, his parents came to every game. Rarely did they stand together.

Bobby, his father, would typically be behind the backstop. He had a particular nickname for his son.

DL: Which no one else used.

BB: And whenever you heard Bobby come up with that, “C’mon…

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over 150 years ago, this man led his family to make an investment that is still paying dividends and is still directly impacting the learning experiences of Holderness students.

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Please consider making a similar investment by becoming a member of the Balch Society at Holderness School.

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the rev. lewis p. w. balch, jr., circa 1867

the balch society honors a group of forward-thinking individuals who support Holderness School by combining charitable giving goals with estate and ďŹ nancial planning goals.

When you make a planned gift, you creatively support the school, yourself, and your loved ones, while inspiring generosity in others. Joining the Balch Society involves no dues or solicitations, but members will be included in Balch Society communications and invited to participate in special events.

The most important beneďŹ ts? Giving Holderness School strength and providing educational opportunities for generations of students. Design a plan today that works for you and your family.

For more information, contact Pete Barnum, Director of Leadership Giving, at 603.779.5221 or pbarnum@holderness.org.

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BB: Slim was the nickname. Jed snapped a little

higher to attention because Bobby knew him so well. Bobby was a good cheerer, but when you heard, “C’mon, Slim,” it was with double meaning; it was both to support him and in some instances to guide him back.

MG: In talking with other former players, they

mentioned something called Bartonskyball.

What is that exactly?

BB: Bartonskyball was a game we would pull out when the field conditions were too wet to play. So instead of hitting from home plate out

BB: If someone hit a ground ball, there would

be a series of fielders in front of the backstop.

You had to field it cleanly and that was an out.

We had some intense little games.

MG: Jed went on to play for a successful

Wesleyan baseball team. Did his experience at Holderness prepare him for that?

DL: Hard to tell. New Hampshire baseball…it’s not a hotbed. But I think, overall he had a good experience playing here.

BB: And I think he would say that, too. It was a very successful team, so by the time he graduated from here, he was used to playing and having success. It was a good four-year run

…there was sort of a cadre of kids for whom the game was being played on a different level. Jed had three, maybe four other teammates with whom he could share a glance and they knew. — BRUCE BARTON to the field, we basically would turn from home plate to the backstop. And it was about controlling your swing, fielding balls cleanly, and (getting hits) depending on where you hit the ball. Dave usually was the pitcher, the crafty lefty, and it was a lob pitch. And your job was to put that ball onto the screen of the backstop.

If you hit it over the backstop…

DL: It was an out.

BB: If you hit it wide of the backstop, it was a foul ball. And then for various points on the backstop you were awarded single, double, triple, or home run. I think we even had grand slam.

DL: For a home run, you had to hit the wood on the top brace.

BB: That was the only home run ball. And we had pretty good fun.

DL:Very competitive. Kids would get really into it.

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when he was here, and that extended into his time at Wesleyan.

DL: Yeah, they got to the World Series.

BB: His junior year, I think they made it to the ncaa World Series.

MG: Given that northern New Hampshire is

not exactly a hotbed of baseball, were you surprised that Jed went on to a career in professional baseball?

DL: Yes and no, I’d have to say. You would never expect someone to become the general manager of the Chicago Cubs, much less have the Chicago Cubs win the World Series. Or to be in his position with the Red Sox. That kind of stuff, there’s so many different things that have to happen. But he certainly had the smarts and the work ethic.

BB: It’s interesting that at one time, he served temporarily as general manger of the Red Sox

with Ben Cherington. Ben is, I think, from Lebanon or Hanover, so the two general managers of the Red Sox were New Hampshire— central New Hampshire—kids. That was unique. It doesn’t surprise me he did it, in all the ways that Dave just said. He bounced around after he graduated. He was an admissions officer at Kenyon College, back at Wesleyan, and then sort of said he’d done enough of that and moved to Boston, hopeful that he would find something, and it took a while for him to find something. Once he found it within baseball, there was no question it was going to blossom because he had all those things. But this wasn’t a straight line from baseball in his past to baseball in the present.

MG: Have you stayed in touch since he

graduated?

BB: Not as much as I’d like. He’s a tough man to get a hold of.

DL: He came back and spoke here a few years back.

BB: For a sports assembly.

DL: I met up with him when I took two of my kids down to Spring Training a dozen years or so ago.

BB: When he was just starting with the Red Sox and then into his first few years there, he would still come home to New Hampshire for vacation, and he’d work out in our gym. And I can remember learning that somehow Jed was over in the gym, and my son, who was eight or nine at the time, suddenly got up, threw his jacket on, took his Red Sox cap, ran over, and had Jed sign it. Jed’s on a treadmill, and he’s signing the underside of Jake’s Red Sox cap.

Jake came running back, so excited. *David Lockwood’s anagram for Emily Magnus

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SUPPORTING HOLDERNESS Dear Holderness Family,

We are also grateful for the many ways in which you have enriched our school through your service:

Thank you for helping Holderness achieve a

r Volunteering for the Exam Bake and Ice Cream Social

record-breaking year! We’d like to take this

r Encouraging prospective students to apply

moment to celebrate you—alumni, parents,

r Reaching out to fellow classmates to raise money and share news

grandparents, faculty, staff, and friends—

and important milestones

who have demonstrated an extraordinary commitment to our com-

r Hosting Holderness events

munity. Together we have achieved great things.

r Planning reunions on campus and in your community

In addition to the Holderness Fund, many of you made gifts that moved us forward in key strategic areas:

r Hosting students who are exploring their passions during their

Senior Thesis experiences

r Donations to our scholarship funds enable us to enroll bright and

eager students from all economic backgrounds.

The following pages represent our greatest asset—loyal and enthusi-

r Gifts for library resources enhance teaching and learning.

astic supporters like you. We are able to deliver on our mission—

r Support for sabbaticals and professional development help us recruit

transforming the minds, bodies, and spirits of our students and

and retain talented teachers who inspire and guide our students. r Gifts to the Athletic Department fund health and safety improve-

inspiring them to work for the betterment of others—thanks to you and the generosity of so many members of the Holderness family.

ments and fuel success on the court, field, and ice. r Contributions in support of outdoor leadership help us take

With appreciation,

advantage of our amazing location. r Your generous participation in the Mittersill project has created a

world-class training facility in the East for Holderness ski racers, coaches, and thousands of others. r Endowment gifts support Holderness in perpetuity and position

Tom Phillips ’ P ’ ’ Chair, Advancement Committee

us to remain financially sustainable in a competitive secondary school market.

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GIVING TO HOLDERNESS Holderness relies on philanthropy to fund  of the cost of educating our students. In – more donors gave to the Holderness Fund than ever before. Thank you, and thanks in advance to everyone who has made a gift during the – academic year. We look forward to expressing our appreciation after the close of the fiscal year on June . Thank you for making the Holderness experience possible!

$7,225,964.49 GIVEN DURING FISCAL YEAR 2016 (JULY 1, 2015 TO JUNE 30, 2016)

$1,467,631.49

$1,089,535.00

given to the Holderness Fund

given by the Holderness community to Mittersill

$3,454,062.80

$1,130,664.00

given to endowment

given to facilities

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HOLDERNESS FUND $1,467,631.49

OVER 1,400

total raised for the Holderness Fund in  in unrestricted

members of the Holderness community

support of students, faculty, and programs

supported the Holderness Fund in 

945

ALUMNI GIVING GROWTH 2012–16

number of alumni

DOLLAR GROWTH: 30.15%

who gave in 

1506 DONOR GROWTH: 17.47%

Holderness Fund gifts received in 

HOLDERNESS FUND 2016 GIVING BREAKDOWN

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Alumni

35.26%

r

Current Parents

32.66%

r

Parents of Alumni

23.69%

r

Friends

5.02%

r

Foundation/Matching Gifts

3.36%

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MITTERSILL PARTNERSHIP Mittersill provides Holderness access to one of the best speed training venues in the country. The Holderness champion for this project was board member and past parent Grace Bird.

For many decades to come Holderness will be indebted to Grace for making this vision a reality.

– phil peck

Ski racing has officially returned to Mittersill at Cannon Mountain for the first time since the s! This world-class venue has already hosted the Kenney Memorial Technica Cup, the unh Winter Carnival, the Hochebirge Masters, the ncaa Alpine Skiing National Championships, and MJ’s Race, just to name a few!

The addition of Baron’s Run, Taft Slope, and the Valar T-bar are providing our students and coaches—along with thousands of others—additional access to the mountain, more runs, and better snow.

The trail improvements—increased snowmaking and upgraded safety features—make Mittersill the best speed training venue for juniors in the East, and we are so fortunate that it is right in our backyard!

The project was a wonderful collaboration between Cannon Mountain, Franconia Ski Club, Holderness School, the State of New Hampshire, and the US Ski and Snowboard Association, and we could not have done it without you! Thank you!

Jory Macomber P ’ ’ ’

Grace Macomber Bird P ’ ’

David Fitzgerald P ’ ’

Head of School

Trustee

Campaign Chair

Burke Mountain Academy

Holderness School

Franconia Ski Club

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DAY OF GIVING We are overjoyed with the results of our second annual Day of Giving! You helped us, over the course of  hours, raise over , in support of the school we love.

$183,831.45

732

80

total given

total donors

first-time donors

$242.20

$100

average gift

most popular gift

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CLASS OF 1988 highest participation rate (over  and , raised)

GIVING SPANNED EIGHT DECADES from the Class of  to the Class of 

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STUDENT VOICES Last year students hand wrote more than , thank you cards expressing their appreciation for the generosity of alumni, parents, grandparents, faculty and staff, and friends. Below are some of our favorites.

Holderness has pushed me out of my comfort zone on numerous

One of my favorite parts about Holderness is going to Cannon

occasions, whether it be reciting poetry during our Poetry Out

Mountain every day in the winter with the Eastern Ski Team. Next

Loud competition or camping in the winter woods for eleven days

year, I hope to continue my ski career in college, but that won’t be

on Out Back. Holderness is a place of incredible opportunity and

possible without Holderness. Thanks again for the energy, effort,

is able to stay that way and improve, thanks to your support.

and leadership you give to our school. – class of  student

– class of  student Your generosity has turned “interesting” classes into “favorite” Attending Holderness has brought me into contact with people

classes. Thank you for fueling the programs that I love. – class

from all over the country and all over the world, and that has

of  student

helped me to learn. Thank you for making Holderness a possibility for some of my closest friends who would not otherwise have

Everywhere you go on campus, there are faculty interacting with

been able to come here. – class of  student

students. Sometimes you will see Ms. Pope on the Quad kicking a ball around with some students, or you might see Mr. Sheppe

When I first came to Holderness, I was struck by the kindness

engaged in a spirited discussion with a student in Weld.

and sense of community that I felt here. This feeling of together-

Everywhere there are examples of a school based on an under-

ness and respect is present at Holderness every day and in

standing between faculty and students, and it is donations like

everything that happens here…I am truly grateful for your sup-

yours that make it possible. – class of  student

port of Holderness. Thank you. – class of  student

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THANK YOU VOLUNTEERS! HEADMASTER’S LEADERSHIP COMMITTEE

The hlc is an exciting new volunteer

fundraising committee dedicated to encouraging Holderness alumni, parents, and friends to join the philanthropic leadership of Holderness School.

A highlight of the past year was witnessing the important launch of the

P ’, Paul John Ferri P ’ ’, Andrew and Nell Reynolds P ’ ’,

Headmaster’s Leadership Committee. Their engagement was excep-

Saraellen Sargent P ’

tional and laid the foundation for the hlc to become a cornerstone of our advancement efforts in the coming years. – phil peck

CO-CHAIRS Tracy McCoy Gillette ’ P ’, John and Susan Hayes P ’ ’ COMMITEE MEMBERS Grace Bird P ’ ’, Patricia Bozich P ’ ’, Benjamin ’ and Karyn Campbell P ’, Carolyn Cullen ’

CLASS AGENTS

FY16 SUCCESS Together members of the hlc: r Conducted  personal peer-to-peer solicitations r Raised , from  members of the Holderness community r Inspired  families to increase their philanthropic support from the previous year

Class agents are representatives from each class year who assist the school

by promoting the Holderness Fund and the Day of Giving to their classmates by generating awareness and participation and inspiring gifts. Thank you to all the class agents for their continued dedication to Holderness. If you would like information on becoming a class agent, please contact Neal Frei ’ at nfrei@holderness.org.

In terms of fundraising and class participation, it’s incredible what peer-to-peer encouragement can do.

Class agents are crucial to the success of the Holderness

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– brendan murphy ’, class agent

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THANK YOU VOLUNTEERS! PARENTS

Thank you to our parents who contributed treats/goodies,

volunteer hours, or donations to make the annual Exam Bakes and Ice Cream Social possible (and delicious)! Your contributions to the Winter Parents’ Weekend raffle were invaluable as well. Thank you!

SENIOR CLASS GIFT

The Senior Class Gift is an annual fundraising effort

led by seniors in which they present a gift to Holderness School in the name of their class. These future alumni begin participating in a long tradition of giving back to Holderness and supporting the students who come after them.

The Class of  raised more than ,

: pm, had prevented , bottles from going

through a bake sale, a candy cane fundraiser,

to waste. Once again the Senior Class Gift was

photo sales during Winter Parents’ Weekend,

matched by trustee Chris Carney ’ P ’ and

and t-shirt sales. With the money they raised,

his wife Karen. Thank you to Chris and Karen

the students purchased a water bottle filling sta-

and the Class of  for this wonderful gift to

tion for Schoolhouse, which by March  at

Holderness School!

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KEY: r = five or more consecutive years of

support for the Holderness Fund; † = deceased

CURRENT STUDENTS Lexi Black ’ AJ Chabot ’ Class of  Lily Gillette ’ Henry Hall ’ Noa Lin ’ Yiyang Mao ’ Ellery Smith ’

CURRENT PARENTS Anonymous () Bruce and Eneida Aguilar P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Theodore W. Anastos P ’ Alden and Emily Anderson P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Anthony J. Antonellis P ’ Mr. and Mrs. William Antonucci P ’ ’ ’ Mr. and Mrs. T. Neale Attenborough P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Barton P ’ ’ r Mr. David C. Batchelder and Ms. Melissa R. Paly P ’ ’ Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bateman P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Timothy A. Bayha P ’ Mr. and Mrs. John M. Bayreuther P ’ ’ ’ Mr. JB Bell and Dr. Janice McVay Bell P ’ ’ Mr. and Mrs. David F. Benson P ’ Mr. Scott Berube P ’ Mr. Gary Black Jr. P ’ ’ ’ † and and Mrs. Heather Black P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. Bonsal III ’ P ’ r Mr. and Mrs. William Booker P ’ Mr. Joel Bourassa and Ms. Alice Pearce P ’ Mr. and Mrs. David S. Brumbaugh Sr. P ’ Mr. and Mrs. F. Burkitt P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin K. Campbell ’ P ’ Ms. Elizabeth H. Carter P ’ ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Alan J. Chabot P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Chernin P ’ ’ Ms. Andrea J. Chin P ’ Mr. Keith Clark and Ms. Patricia Preston P ’ Mr. and Mrs. D. Clarke P ’ Mr. and Mrs. John S. Clifford P ’ ’

Mr. Craig G. Coleman and Dr. Kristin Coleman P ’ ’ r Mr. Craig W. Cullen Jr. and Mrs. Carolyn C. Cullen ’ P ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Cunha P ’ ’ Mr. and Mrs. Ivar Dahl P ’ Mr. Max Dannis and Ms. Linda S. Gatter P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Christopher E. Davenport ’ P ’ r Mr. Andrew A. Davis P ’ Ms. Sydney Davis P ’ Ms. April De Simone P ’ ’ Mr. John G. de Vries P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Hugh J. Deery P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Peter Dobyns P ’ ’ Mr. and Mrs. Timothy P. Doherty P ’ Dr. John E. Donovan II and Ms. Kara B. Hamill P ’ ’ Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence F. Ensign P ’ Mr. Paul J. Ferri P ’ ’ Mr. and Mrs. Paul E. Finn Jr. P ’ Drs. J. Rush and Phoebe Fisher P ’ ’ ’ Mr. David Fitzgerald and Dr. Mia Fitzgerald P ’ ’ Mr. Joel M. Furey P ’ Ms. Tracy M. Gillette ’ P ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Miles B. Glascock ’ P ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Peter A. Grammas Jr. P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Alexander L. Gray P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Timothy A. Gudas P ’ ’ Mr. Matthew A. Guyette and Ms. Laurie E. Brooks P ’ Mr. Brian Hall and Mrs. Laura Hall P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Hall P ’ ’ r Mr. and Mrs. C. Hagen Harker P ’ ’ r Mr. and Mrs. William E. Hauser P ’ ’ r Mr. and Mrs. David J. Hepler P ’ Mr. Timothy Hoeffner P ’ ’ Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Horner P ’ ’ Mr. and Mrs. Randal Houseman P ’ ’ r Mr. Gui Jiang Huang and Ms. Xiao Jing Li P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Christopher P. Hutchinson P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Hyland P ’ ’ Mr. and Mrs. David L. Ilsley P ’

Mr. and Mrs. Christopher S. Jay P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Bruce R. Johansson P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Scott B. Jones P ’ ’ Mr. and Mrs. Stephen F. Keating P ’ Robert ’ and Rebecca Kinsley P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Joseph G. Lacasse P ’ Mr. Brian S. Lash P ’ ’ ’ Mr. and Mrs. David P. Leatherwood P ’ ’ ’ r Mr. and Mrs. John C. Lin P ’ ’ Mr. Brady Lum and Rev. Jill Morehouse-Lum P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Kevin A. Macdonald P ’ Mr. Roderick A. MacLeod P ’ ’ Mr. and Mrs. George C. Macomber Jr. P ’ ’ ’ r Ms. Mara M. Mactaggart P ’ Mr. Christopher D. Madigan and Ms. Melanie M. Garger P ’ Mr. Kurt H. Magnus and Ms. Emily A. Magnus ’ P ’ r Mr. Jun Mao and Ms. Meifang Yang P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Philip D. Mason P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Darrell Matthews P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Greg Mayes P ’ Ms. Marlene McGunigle P ’ G. Hayden and Ruth Turner McLaughlin P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Sean P. McLaughlin P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Steven C. Merrill P ’ ’ ’ r Christine and Josiah Miles ’ P ’ ’ ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Alexander B. Montague P ’ Mr. Andrew M. Moors and Ms. Joanne M. Skalos P ’ Dr. and Mrs. Todd M. Mosenthal P ’ ’ Ms. Lisa Mure P ’ ’ r Mr. Hung N. Nguyen and Mrs. Chau T. H. Tran P ’ Mr. Eric M. Nicholson P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey L. O’Hara P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Christophe C. Oliver P ’ Mr. Robert D. Peatman P ’ ’ Mr. and Mrs. Dean A. Penny P ’ ’ William and Maura Perkins P ’ Ms. Kim W. Perry P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Peter C. Pollini P ’

These lists reflect gifts received between July , , and June , . Every effort had been made to ensure accuracy. Please accept our apologies for any errors or omissions and notify Patrick Buckley, Director of Stewardship, at pbuckley@holderness.org.

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Mr. and Mrs. Alden H. Sawyer Jr. P ’ GP ’ r Mr. James O. Schaeffer P ’ r Mr. and Mrs. David W. Schoeder P ’ r Mr. and Mrs. George H. Schofield P ’ ’ ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Roger D. Scoville P ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Norman W. Seiter ’ P ’ ’ Mr. and Mrs. Russell Seybold P ’ Dr. Mahesh Shrestha and Dr. Nancy R. Orendain P ’ Mr. and Mrs. James P. Sinclair P ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. Siragusa P ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Donald M. Smith ’ P ’ ’ r Mrs. Dorothy Smith P ’ ’ GP ’ ’ ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Stephen W. Smith P ’ ’ Mr. and Mrs. Dana C. Solms P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Raymond M. Soto P ’ r Mr. and Mrs. David B. Soule ’ P ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Gary A. Spiess P ’ ’ ’ r Mr. Orson L. St. John Jr. P ’ r Mr. and Mrs. John C. Stahler P ’ ’ Ms. Elizabeth Steele P ’ r Ms. Charlotte M. Stetson P ’ r Mrs. Charlotte Stewart P ’ ’ Ms. Sandra Stone P ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Richard H. Stowell ’ P ’ r Mr. and Mrs. John A. Straus P ’ r Mr. Paul Summers P ’ ’ r Ms. Rebecca Summers P ’ ’ Mr. and Mrs. Peter B. Surdam P ’ Mrs. Barbara Sutphen P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Stephen S. Swenson P ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Swidrak P ’ ’ r Dr. Thomas J. Swift P ’ Mr. and Mrs. David D. Taylor ’ P ’ r Mr. and Mrs. John Taylor Jr. ’ P ’ ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Richard G. Thibadeau P ’ r Ms. Nancy Thurrell P ’ ’ Mr. and Mrs. Henry D. Tiffany P ’ r Mr. and Mrs. John D. Todd P ’ r Mr. David L. Torrey P ’ r Mr. and Mrs. David Trook P ’ Ms. Susan M. Trujillo P ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Tucker P ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Eijk A. d. M. van Otterloo P ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Richard H. Vernet P ’ r

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Mr. James Vincent P ’ r Mr. Constantine G. Vlahakis P ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan C. Wales ’ P ’ ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Stephen W. Wales ’ P ’ ’ Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Walsh P ’ ’ r Mrs. Lisa Wardlaw P ’ ’ Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Wear P ’ r Mr. and Mrs. George S. Weaver III ’ P ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Hartley D. Webster ’ P ’ ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Jerome P. Webster Jr. ’ P ’ ’ ’ ’ r Ms. Elizabeth S. Weekes P ’ r Mr. Yaoqing Wen and Ms. Yuqin Xie P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Wenzel P ’ ’ r Rev. and Mrs. Richard C. Weymouth ’ P ’ ’ ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Christopher R. White P ’ ’ Mrs. Patricia Williams P ’ Mrs. Deborah Williamson P ’ r Ms. Mary W. Woods P ’ r Mr. Arthur Woolf and Ms. Celeste Gaspari P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Wright P ’ ’ r Mr. Bernhardt K. Wruble and Dr. Jill Wruble P ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Philip C. Wysor P ’ Mr. and Mrs. James M. Yarmon P ’ r Mr. Xubo Yu and Ms. Yanmei Meng P ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Zinck Jr. P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Zock P ’ ’ ’ ’ r

GRANDPARENTS Anonymous () Ms. Wendy Adams McCain GP ’ Mr. and Mrs. Vanderpoel Adriance III P ’ ’ GP ’ r Ms. Gillian M. Crawford Aguilar GP ’ Ms. Judith Beams GP ’ Ms. Kathryn Bertelli GP ’ Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Blair GP ’ Mr. and Mrs. Frank Blatz GP ’ Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence M. Blau GP ’ Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Borek GP ’ Mr. and Mrs. Bob Brooks GP ’ Dr. and Mrs. Lennig Chang GP ’ ’ Mr. and Mrs. William B. Chappell GP ’ Ms. Mary Murray Coleman GP ’

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Mrs. Hope Cruickshank GP ’ ’ Mr. John K. Dineen GP ’ Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F. Doyle ’ GP ’ ’ r Mrs. Phoebe Driscoll P ’ GP ’ ’ ’ Mr. and Mrs. Paul Ferri GP ’ ’ Dr. and Mrs. John R. S. Fisher GP ’ ’ ’ Mrs. Helga Garger GP ’ ’ Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Gewirz GP ’ Mr. and Mrs. Frank Gudas GP ’ ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hamill GP ’ ’ Mr. and Mrs. Harry L. Hampton Jr. GP ’ ’ ’ ’ Mr. and Mrs. Charles Harker GP ’ ’ Mrs. Mary Hayes GP ’ ’ Mr. and Mrs. David Hill GP ’ Mr. and Mrs. Gary Hull GP ’ Ms. Barbara Jarabek GP ’ Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Keating ’ P ’ ’ P ’ GP ’ r Camille Kelly GP ’ Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Kent P ’ ’ GP ’ ’ ’ Mr. and Mrs. Bernd P. Kuehn GP ’ r Dr. and Mrs. Sam Kinney GP ’ ’ ’ r Mr. Shen Lin GP ’ ’ r Mrs. Louise T. Loening P ’ ’ GP ’ Mr. and Mrs. Edward L. Lovejoy GP ’ ’ ’ r Mrs. Ann Macomber GP ’ ’ ’ ’ ’ r Mr. George Macomber GP ’ ’ ’ ’ ’ † r Mr. and Mrs. Quentin A. Malmquist P ’ ’ ’ GP ’ r Ms. Frances H. Maroni GP ’ Mr. and Mrs. Tom B. McIlvain Jr. ’ P ’ ’ GP ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Francis W. Murray GP ’ Mr. Russell C. Orton ’ P ’ ’ GP ’ ’ † and Mrs. Mary Orton Mr. and Mrs. Preston S. Parish P ’ ’ ’ GP ’ ’ ’ r Mrs. Nancy D. Perreault GP ’ ’ Ms. Penny Pitou P ’ GP ’ ’ Ms. Sharon N. Regal GP ’ ’ Ms. Mona Roberts GP ’ ’ Mr. Douglas L. Robertson Sr. P ’ GP ’ ’ ’

Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Rowe Jr. P ’ GP ’ r Mrs. Mary T. Sargent GP ’ ’ ’ r Mr. and Mrs. FA Seamans GP ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Sheffield Jr. GP ’ ’ ’ Mrs. Dorothy Smith P ’ ’ GP ’ ’ ’ r Ms. Betsy Stevens GP ’ Ms. Elizabeth Suter GP ’ Mr. and Mrs. Ogden White Jr. GP ’ ’ ’ r Ms. Jane Whitmore GP ’ ’ r

FACULTY AND STAFF Anonymous () Mrs. Bonni Acton Mr. Craig C. Antonides ’ Mr. Joseph Arsenault Mr. Michael Barney Mrs. Joan L. Barnum P ’ ’ ’ r Mr. Peter Barnum P ’ ’ ’ r Mr. Bruce Barton P ’ ’ r Mrs. Sarah Barton P ’ ’ r Ms. Hillary J. Beach Ms. Kelsey Berry Mrs. Pamela D. Bliss Mr. Patrick J. Buckley Mr. Robert M. Caldwell r Mrs. Kristina J. Casey Mr. Patrick B. Casey Ms. Angelica Colarusso Mrs. Lori Comeau Ms. Paula Currie Mrs. Janice Dahl P ’ The Rev. Randolph Dales P ’ ’ ’ r Dr. John E. Donovan II P ’ ’ Ms. Carol L. Dopp Mr. Paul V. Dullea P ’ ’ Mr. Peter J. Durnan P ’ ’ Mr. Richard Eccleston ’ r Ms. Kristen Fischer P ’ ’ Mr. Duane M. Ford ’ P ’ ’ ’ ’ r Mr. Neal J. Frei ’ r Dr. Nicole Furlonge r Mr. Nigel Furlonge r Ms. Nicole Glew Mr. Alexander A. Hall Mr. Peter J. Hendel P ’ ’ r Mr. Andrew L. Herring Mr. Randal Houseman P ’ ’ r

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Mr. Robert W. Kampmann Ms. Elizabeth A. Kendall Mrs. Kathleen H. Kime ’ Mr. John C. Lin P ’ ’ Mrs. Marilee C. Lin P ’ ’ Mrs. Stacy S. Lopes Ms. Emily A. Magnus ’ P ’ r Ms. Kimberly Merrow Mr. Franz C. Nicolay P ’ ’ ’ ’ Mr. Kerry J. O’Connell Mr. R. P. Peck P ’ ’ r Mrs. Robin A. Peck P ’ ’ r Mrs. Karen D. Penny P ’ ’ Mr. Reggie Pettitt Jr. P ’ ’ ’ Mrs. Tobi A. Pfenninger P ’ ’ r Mr. Andrew P. Sheppe ’ Ms. Jini Rae Sparkman Mrs. Sarah T. Svindland Ms. Nancy Thurrell P ’ ’ Mrs. Kathy Weymouth P ’ ’ ’ r The Rev. Richard C. Weymouth ’ P ’ ’ ’ r Ms. Elizabeth M. Wolf

EXTENDED FAMILY Anonymous () Ms. Jill Alfond Dr. and Mrs. Stanley Baldwin Bank of America Employee Giving Campaign Ms. Sandra Blanchard Brown Advisory Mr. and Mrs. Joseph P. Buckley Mrs. Virginia Burnham r Mr. and Mrs. Harold R. Byers Ms. Rosemary S. Cancian Ms. Barbara J. Dillon Ms. Sarah N. Dipity The Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire r Mr. and Mrs. Wilson C. Everhart Jr. r Mr. Claude J. Ouellette and Ms. Ann-Marie Favreau Mr. and Mrs. John E. Fitzmaurice Ms. Beth Fossett Mr. and Mrs. George J. Gagne Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Goodwin The Haartz Corporation r Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Haertl Ms. Jenna Hall

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Seth P. † and Lucy E. Holcombe † in honor of her father, William Spaulding Eaton, Class of  † Dr. and Mrs. Howard Holderness Jr. r Ms. Elaine J. Keeler Miss Margaret T. Keith Mr. and Mrs. William Kietzman r Mr. and Mrs. Timothy M. Kingston r Mr. Jason M. Lonergan and Ms. Joanne S. Lake Mr. and Mrs. Paul Lemere Mr. Daniel LeBrun Ms. Lisa Lovett Mr. and Mrs. Robert Low Mrs. Phyllis R. Manley Mr. Paul D. Maroni Mr. and Mrs. Ira J. Marvin Mr. Mark Massey Ms. Ellen McCauley McGarty Ms. Leslie A. McCrea Ms. Margie Mullin Mr. Jeffrey Nadeau Ms. Carol Nichols Mr. and Mrs. William A. Oleksak Dr. Lewis J. Overaker Mr. Roger A. Page and Ms. Rachel L. Ouellette-Page Ms. Jane E. Pauley Mrs. Jillian Pereira Mr. and Mrs. Normand R. Rainville Mr. Alex Ray Mr. John Collins and Ms. Cynthia L. Reed Mrs. Louise J. Reed Mrs. Marel Rogers Mrs. Anneliese Schultz r Ms. Kieran Sequoia Ms. Fredye J. Sherr Mr. and Mrs. Alan H. Soanes Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Solberg r Mr. and Mrs. Ross H. Stough Mr. Jeremy K. Stubbs Mr. and Mrs. Charles T. Sussman r Mrs. Jane S. Theuner Ms. Christina Valar Breen Mr. Steven G. Woodsum and Ms. Anne R. Lovett

FOUNDATIONS Anonymous ()

amg Charitable Gift Foundation The Cushman and Pamela Andrews Family Fund Baltimore Community Foundation Barbara Bradley Baekgaard Family Foundation Baugh Foundation, Inc. r The Brooks Foundation The Columbus Foundation and Affiliated Organizations r Shelby Collum Davis Charitable Fund, Inc. The DuPage Community Foundation The Andrew J. Eder Family Foundation, Inc. r Evergreen Foundation, Inc. r Ferri Family Foundation Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund r Fiduciary Charitable Foundation Firehole Foundation r Bernard & Sarah Gewirz Foundation, Inc. The Glass Foundation Inc. Harweb Foundation r Seth P & Lucy E Holcombe crt Lucy E. Holcombe Trust Jacob L. and Lillian Holtzmann Foundation r The Jarabek Family Charitable Foundation Kinsley Family Foundation The Seymour H. Knox Foundation, Inc. The Loring Wolcott & Coolidge Charitable Trust-I Lovett Woodsum Family Charitable Foundation, Inc. Lubrano Family Charitable Foundation The Lunder Foundation The Maine Community Foundation, Inc. r Christopher T & Wesley M Maloney Foundation Inc. Marr Charity Trust Fund r The Martin Foundation Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust The Noboru Murakami and Hiroko Murakami Foundation National Philanthropic Trust The New Hampshire Charitable Foundation The New York Community Trust r Paine Family Trust r Pine Level Foundation, Inc. Preston S. and Barbara J. Parish Foundation Princeton Area Community Foundation The Redmond Family Foundation

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Robert J. Rohr, III and Mary C. Rohr Charitable Trust r Schwab Charitable Fund Sheffield Foundation Silicon Valley Community Foundation Starkey Foundation sts Foundation r Sweet Peas Foundation Target The U.S. Charitable Gift Trust United Way of Rhode Island United Way of the Capital Region The van Otterloo Family Foundation r Vanguard Charitable Vermont Community Foundation Tom Wilson Foundation Inc. Wurster Family Foundation

Wells Fargo Educational Matching Gift Program r

TRIBUTES

The Abell Foundation Inc. Aetna Foundation, Inc. r Apple Inc. Babson Capital Management llc Bank of America Charitable Foundation r Benevity MG bny Mellon Corporation’s Community Partnership The Coca-Cola Foundation Matching Gifts Program The Dorsey & Whitney Foundation r Edison International r Entergy GE Foundation r Goldman, Sachs & Company Google Matching Gift Program Microsoft Corporation Millennium Pharmaceuticals Morgan Stanley & Company, Inc. New Balance Athletics, Inc. Patagonia The Pfizer Foundation, Inc. Piper Jaffray Raytheon Company Red Wing Shoe Company Foundation r Scopia Capital llc Silicon Valley Community Foundation MG State Street Foundation, Inc. UBS Matching Gift Program

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Ms. Taisa A. Haluszka ’ Gifts Received in Honor of the Class of 2019

Miss Lily P. Gillette ’ Gifts Received in Honor of Miss Alexis M. Anastos ’17

Ms. Kathryn Bertelli GP ’

Gifts Received in Honor of Bill and Ki Clough

Mr. and Mrs. David S. Hagerman ’ r Gifts Received in Honor of Mr. Alden M. Anderson III ’18

Ms. Mary Murray Coleman GP ’

Gifts Received in Honor of Prof. Millard F. Coffin III ’74

Mrs. E. H. M. Coffin P ’ r Gifts Received in Honor of Mr. Peter Barnum

Mr. and Mrs. Frederick M. Hall P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Quentin R. McDowell ’ Mr. and Mrs. Normand R. Rainville Mr. and Mrs. Gerald P. Rinn ’

Gifts Received in Honor of Miss Taren Cook ’14

Mr. Joseph G. Cook and Ms. Amanda O’Sullivan P ’ Gifts Received in Honor of Mr. Christopher Day

Mr. and Mrs. Kellan M. Florio ’ r

Mr. and Mrs. Walter M. Bird III P ’ ’ r Mr. Keith Clark and Ms. Patricia Preston P ’

Gifts Received in Honor of Miss Sarah Bell ’13

Gifts Received in Honor of Mrs. Cynthia Day

Mr. JB Bell and Dr. Janice McVay Bell P ’ ’

Mr. Keith Clark and Ms. Patricia Preston P ’

Gifts Received in Honor of Ms. Kelsey Berry

Gifts Received in Honor of the Birthday of

Gifts Received in Honor of Mr. Peter Barnum, Doc, and the C&B

MATCHING COMPANIES

Gifts Received in Honor of the Class of 2006

Mr. and Mrs. Alexander L. Gray P ’

Mr. Christopher T. duPont ’67

Mrs. Louise T. Loening P ’ ’ GP ’ Gifts Received in Honor of Mr. James L. Blake

Mr. Landry Frei ’ r

Gifts Received in Honor of Jeroo Eduljee

Ms. Asania A. Smith ’ r Gifts Received in Honor of Mr. William R. Branton ’07

Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Jones P ’ ’

Gifts Received in Honor of Mr. Wilson Everhart III

Mr. and Mrs. Wilson C. Everhart Jr. r Gifts Received in Honor of Mr. James E. Brewer II

Mr. and Mrs. George F. LeBoutillier ’ P ’ r

Gifts Received in Honor of the Faculty

Mr. and Mrs. Peter Y. Rapelye P ’ ’ ’ Gifts Received in Honor of Mr. Georg Capaul

Mr. and Mrs. Walter M. Bird III P ’ ’ r Mr. David Fitzgerald and Dr. Mia Fitzgerald P ’ ’ Mr. and Mrs. Peter F. Schibli P ’

Gifts Received in Honor of Mr. Philip T. Fiore ’55

Mr. and Mrs. Donald B. Hinman ’ P ’ r Gifts Received in Honor of Mr. Duane M. Ford ’74

Mr. and Mrs. Alexander L. Gray P ’ Gifts Received on Behalf of Miss Drea Chin ’19

Ms. Andrea J. Chin P ’

Gifts Received in Honor of Ms. Tracy M. Gillette ’89

Gifts Received in Honor of the Class of 1960

Mr. and Mrs. William W. Niles III ’ r

Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. Greenwood ’ r Mr. Mark Kristiansen and Mrs. Megan L. Kristiansen ’ r Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Perkins ’

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Mr. David Robison and Mrs. Jennifer E. Robison ’

Gifts Received in Honor of Mr. John C. Lin

Gifts Received in Honor of Mr. Reggie Pettitt Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. David R. Hardy P ’ r

Gifts Received on Behalf of Mr. Spencer L. Glascock ’19

Gifts Received in Honor of Mr. David M. Lockwood

Mr. and Mrs. Miles B. Glascock ’ P ’ r

Anonymous Mr. and Mrs. Walter M. Bird III P ’ ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Caldwell r Mr. Landry Frei ’ r Dr. and Mrs. Gary J. Frei P ’ ’ ’ r Mr. Colin H. G. MacKenzie ’ Mr. Jesse C. Perkins ’ Mr. and Mrs. Dennis S. Roberts Jr. ’ r Mr. Jeremy K. Stubbs Mr. Averill H. Cook ’ and Ms. Heidi T. Webb ’ r

Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Caldwell r Mr. Landry Frei ’ r Mr. Ian M. Nesbitt ’ r Mr. Jesse J. Ross ’

Gifts Received in Honor of Mr. and Mrs. Donald C. Hagerman

Dr. and Mrs. Stanley Baldwin Gifts Received in Honor of Jim and Loli Hammond

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Anonymous

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Mr. and Mrs. Christopher S. Williams ’ Gifts Received in Honor of Mr. Jesse McDougall ’97

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Dr. Elvin Kaplan ’ and Ms. Cecily Monro r Gifts Received in Honor of Mr. Colin Hoeffner ’19

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Gifts Received in Honor of all Holderness Alums Serving in the Military and Law Enforcement

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Gifts Received in Honor of Mr. John Teaford

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Gifts Received in Memory of Mr. Robert (Brooksie) Brooks

Gifts Received in Memory of Dave Goodwin ’37

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Mr. Constantine G. Vlahakis P ’ r Gifts Received in Honor of Joan Channing Lovette Weymouth’s Wedding this Summer!

Ms. Lisa Lovett Gifts Received in Honor of The Rev. Richard C. Weymouth ’70

Mr. and Mrs. Alexander L. Gray P ’ The Rt. Rev. and Mrs. Robert Hirschfeld Gifts Received in Honor of Mrs. Margo F. Woodall ’78

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Gifts Received in Memory of Mr. Weston E. Lea ’03 Gifts Received in Memory of Mrs. Ellen G. Fabian-Barry

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Mr. and Mrs. Richard V. Fabian Jr. ’

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Gifts Received in Memory of Mr. Alfred N. Fauver

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Anonymous Mr. and Mrs. David H. LaPointe ’ Mr. and Mrs. James W. Leonard P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Robert Low Mr. Brendan B. Murphy ’ and Ms. Etifwork Y. Ahmed r Ms. Mary Anne Murray-Carr P ’ r Ms. Cassandra G. Nehring ’ Mr. Christopher M. Rodgers ’ r Mr. Justin M. Simon ’

Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey J. Myler ’ r Gifts Received in Memory of Mr. Donald E. Backe ’53

Mr. and Mrs. Carlton G. Hoagland ’ r

Gifts Received in Memory of Ms. Erin E. Maroni ’02 Gifts Received in Memory of Mr. Edward (Ned) F. Gillette ’63

Mr. Peter W. Janney ’ Gifts Received in Memory of Mary Baxter Foley

Mr. Jeremy N. Foley ’ r

Gifts Received in Memory of Edward R. Gleason ’66

Estate of Mrs. Madeleine R. Gleason P ’ † Gifts Received in Memory of Mr. Gordon R. Borek ’13

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Gifts Received in Memory of Mr. Sean A. Glew

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Ms. Sandra Blanchard Ms. Rosemary S. Cancian Mr. John Collins and Ms. Cynthia L. Reed Mr. and Mrs. Peter J. Cote P ’ Ms. Barbara J. Dillon Ms. Sarah N. Dipity Mr. and Mrs. John E. Fitzmaurice Mr. and Mrs. George J. Gagne Ms. Elaine J. Keeler

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Gifts Received in Memory of Mr. Todd E. Swift ’87

Dr. Thomas J. Swift P ’ r Gifts Received in Memory of Mr. Sanford M. Treat III ’78

Mr. and Mrs. G. Paul Bozuwa ’ Mr. and Mrs. Judson D. Hale Jr. ’ Ms. Cynthia A. Makris ’ r Gifts Received in Memory of Robert H. and Clara Knight Turner

G. Hayden and Ruth Turner McLaughlin P ’ Gifts Received in Memory of Mr. Norman M. Walker

Mr. Andrew B. Bohlin ’ and Ms. Katie A. Bohlin ’ Mr. and Mrs. Steven Davis P ’ Ms. Lauren Henchey ’ Joseph ’ and Janelle Howard Mr. and Mrs. Clark T. Irwin P ’ ’ Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Mahon Jr. ’ r Mr. Andrew A. Marshall ’ and Mrs. Maura K. Marshall ’ r Gifts Received in Memory of Ms. Cheryl L. Walsh ’88

Gifts Received in Memory of Mr. Jonathan M. O’Connor ’94

Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey J. Myler ’ r Gifts Received in Memory of Mr. C. P. Reed Jr. ’66

Mr. and Mrs. James B. McGill Jr. ’ r Gifts Received in Memory of Mr. George (Rip) S. Richards

Mr. and Mrs. David B. Dewey ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Zock P ’ ’ ’ ’ Gifts Received in Memory of Mr. Clifford A. Rogers ’47

Mrs. Lisa J. Cicero ’ Mr. Brian C. Wogensen and Ms. Elizabeth M. Ganem ’ r Mr. Peter M. Kennedy and Mrs. Sage H. Kennedy ’ Ms. Nikki A. Kimball ’ Mr. Jonathan Segal and Ms. Pamela V. Lehmberg ’ Mr. Kevin McGoldrick and Mrs. Erika S. McGoldrick ’ r Mr. Mel S. Walker ’

Mrs. Marel Rogers Gifts Received in Memory of Mr. Frederick A. Wies Jr. ’58 Gifts Received in Memory of Mr. Eric R. Rush ’95

Mr. and Mrs. Harold R. Byers

Ms. Priscilla J. Bloomfield ’ Mr. Daniel D. Shin ’ and Ms. Isabella Boylston

Gifts Received in Memory of Mr. Loys A. Wiles

Gifts Received in Memory of Mr. M. L. Strang Jr. ’80

BALCH SOCIETY

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Mr. and Mrs. Theodore B. Alfond P ’ ’ ’ r Mr. James E. Brewer II P ’ Mr. Jeffrey Schutz and Ms. Charlotte Caldwell P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Stephen G. Carpenter ’ Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Clark ’ r

Mrs. Judy H. Cleary Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth L. Cutler P ’ r Ms. Abbey E. DeRocker ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Claude Desjardins P ’ r Mr. David B. Dewey ’ and Mrs. Suzanne Romero Dewey r Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F. Doyle ’ GP ’ ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Paul Elkins P ’ Mrs. Ann M. Gallop P ’ Mr. Peter S. Grant ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Frank M. Hammond ’ Mr. Lars H. Hansen ’ r Mr. Maclear Jacoby Jr. ’ Dr. and Mrs. John L. Jamieson ’ Dr. and Mrs. Harry P. Jeffries ’ Mr. and Mrs. Lee W. Katzenbach ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Keating ’ P ’ ’ ’ GP ’ r Dr. and Mrs. John P. Kistler P ’ Ms. Antonia B. Laird P ’ ’ r Dr. and Mrs. Albert C. Lesneski P ’ Ms. Christine R. Louis ’ r Mr. Peter L. Macdonald ’ and Ms. Dora L. Beatty r Mr. Joseph M. Massik ’ Dr. and Mrs. Richard G. Obregon P ’ r Mr. and Mrs. James S. Parkhill P ’ ’ Mr. and Mrs. William L. Prickett ’ P ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Jon Q. Reynolds Jr. ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Kevin P. Rowe ’ P ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Harrison J. Sargent ’ Mr. and Mrs. Timothy G. Scott ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Dwight B. Shepard ’ r Mr. James C. Stearns ’ r Mr. and Mrs. John A. Straus P ’ r Dr. and Mrs. John S. Swift Jr. ’ r Mr. George F. Theriault Jr. ’ and Mrs. Celia J. Weeden Theriault Mr. and Mrs. Alexander A. Uhle Mr. George B. Upton ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Hartley D. Webster ’ P ’ ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Jerome P. Webster Jr. ’ P ’ ’ ’ ’ r The Rev. and Mrs. Brinton W. Woodward Jr. P ’ ’ ’ Mr. Stephen A. Worcester ’ Mr. and Mrs. Joshua A. S. Young ’

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Mr. Christopher G. Biggi ’ † Mr. Maurice F. Blouin P ’ ’ † Mr. and Mrs. Lee C. Bright ’ † Mr. Robert E. Cleary Jr. ’ † Mr. Cyril Cogswell † Mr. and Mrs. John M. Cole P ’ ’ GP ’ ’ † Mrs. Anne S. Combs † Mr. Charles K. Dodge Jr. ’ † Mr. and Mrs. James F. Edwards ’ † Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Gleason P ’ † Dr. and Mrs. Harry B. Goodspeed P ’ † Mr. Howard T. Greenley  P ’ † The Rt. Rev and Mrs. Charles F. Hall † Mrs. Lucy E. Holcombe † and Mr. Seth P. Holcombe † Ms. Trit Johnson † Mr. and Mrs. Hugh K. Joyce P ’ ’ GP ’ † Mr. Theodore W. Libbey ’ † Mr. Burton N. Lowe ’ † Mr. and Mrs. Stanley F. Marr  † Mr. Guenter H. Mattersdorff ’ † Mr. Mayland H. Morse Jr. ’ GP ’ † Mr. Rupert L. Nichols P ’ † Mr. Rupert L. Nichols Jr. ’ † r

ALUMNI

1947

Bill Briggs r 1935

Don Smith

Jim McKee r

Sigourney F. Nininger ’ † Mrs. and Mr. Lois B. Odence GP ’ ’ ’ ’ † Mr. Seth S. Pope Jr. ’ † Ms. Phyllis Reader † Mr. and Mrs. Frank L. Rudderham ’ † Mr. George F. Sawyer P ’ GP ’ ’ ’ † Mr. Hugh C. Sherwood ’ † The Rt. Rev. Philip A. Smith † Mr. and Mrs. Edric A. Weld ’ † Mr. and Mrs. Wendell W. Witter GP ’† Mr. Robert C. Wood ’†

TRUSTEES Mr. Sandeep D. Alva P ’ r Mr. Theodore N. Attenborough P ’ Mr. Jonathan R. Baum P ’ ’ Mrs. Grace Bird P ’ ’ r Mr. F. Christopher Carney ’ P ’ r Mrs. Carolyn C. Cullen ’ P ’ r Mr. Russell G. Cushman ’ P ’ ’ r The Rev. Randolph Dales P ’ ’ ’ r Mrs. Victoria T. Frei P ’ ’ ’ r Ms. Tracy M. Gillette ’ P ’ r Mr. Robert J. Hall P ’ ’ r Mr. James B. Hamblin II ’ P ’ ’ r

Frank Hammond Chico Laird r Dave Luce r Dave Wise r

1948 1938

Bob Hardy r Ep Moulton

Anonymous Rik Clark r

1951

Fred Carter r Dick Daitch

1949 1940

Jack Barton r Russ Orton † 1944

Burton N. Lowe† John Skeele r

Bob Barrows r Bill Baskin r Bob Bradner r Jim Coulter r Tom Jeffries James Whitaker

1952

Lars Hansen r Jay Harris r Bob Keating r Peter Poole 1953

1950

Bigelow Green r Doug Hamilton r

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Carl Hoagland r Elvin Kaplan r

Mrs. Jan Hauser P ’ ’ r Mrs. Susan B. Hayes P ’ ’ The Rt. Rev. Robert Hirschfeld Mr. Peter K. Kimball ’ r Mr. Robert A. Kinsley II ’ P ’ Mr. Alexander C. MacCormick ’ r Mr. Richard Nesbitt P ’ Mr. Peter C. Nordblom P ’ ’ ’ Mrs. Susan L. Paine ’ P ’ r Mr. R. P. Peck P ’ ’ r Mr. Thomas N. Phillips ’ P ’ ’ r Mr. Ian C. Sanderson ’ r Mr. Andrew H. Sawyer ’ P ’ Mrs. Jennifer G. Seeman ’ r Mr. Harry Sheehy III Mr. Gary A. Spiess P ’ ’ ’ r Ms. Margaret W. Staub ’ r Mr. Jerome Thomas ’ r Mr. Sander J. van Otterloo ’ r Honorary Trustees

Mr. Warren C. Cook P ’ ’ r Ms. Piper S. Orton ’ r Mr. W. D. Paine III ’ P ’ r Mr. William L. Prickett ’ P ’ r

Pete Robertson r John Robinson r 1954

Rick Carter r Dewey Dumaine r Brad Langmaid r Bill Lofquist r Kim Mason Paul Needham Wendell Stephenson

Tom Henderson Don Hinman r Reed Thompson r Peter Wilson r 1956

Dick Endlar John Jameson Gardner Lewis r Dick Meyer r 1957

1955

Fletcher Adams r John Allbee r Peter Atherton r Arnold Bieling r Bill Byers Hank Granger r

Bill Clough r Ron Crowe r Rick Fabian Bob Lucas r Dwight Mason r Pieter Van Zandt r Hartley Webster r

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Jay Webster r Bob Weiss r 1958

John Bergeron r Jim Collins r Tony Dyer r John Greenman r Mike Kingston r Don Latham Bruce Leddy r George Pransky Doug Rand Jon Wales r 1959

Steve Abbey r Cushman Andrews r Jerry Ashworth r Steve Barndollar r John Clough Charlie Emerson r Dick Floyd r Jay Gerard r Lee Miller r Mark Morris r Charley Murphy r Chris Palmer r Lee Shepard r Bruce Vogel Buster Welch r 1960

Loren Berry r Ross Deachman Alan Dewart r Brian Dewart r Dick Gardner r Spike Hampson Nick Johnson Peter Macdonald r Bill Niles r Len Richards r Gerry Shyavitz r Charley Witherell r 1961

Tom Brown r

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John Cumming Bob Hall John Holley r Lee Katzenbach r Dave Norton Peter O’Connor r Ray Wilson

Bill McCollom r Terry Morse r Dan Redmond r Jim Ricker r Sam Stout r Dick Stowell r Woody Thompson r

1962

1965

Free Allen r Bill Barker r Dave Floyd r Jim Gardner r Monty Meigs Bob Nields Dave Putnam r David Soule r John Swift r Bruce Upton r Bill Wells r Eric Werner r

Bro Adams r Tom Butler Bruce Crane Peter Fauver r Terry Jacobs Jim McGill r Tom Miller Bill Morton Dave Nichols Rupert L. Nichols † r Cleve Patterson r Charlie Reigeluth r Jim Rosenblum Si Seiter Kevin Wyckoff r

1970

1966

1971

Bob Childs r

Hannah Roberts Artuso Chris Brown † Jeff Little Rolf Madsen Roy Madsen r Bill Phippen Ged Smith David Taylor r Rick Wellman r

1963

Flash Allen r Peter Chapman r Joe Downs r Jim Drummond Steve Gregg r David Hagerman r Sandy Hewat Dick Joyce George LeBoutillier r Brett Lunger Tom McIlvain r George McNeil Jeff Milne r Morgan Nields David Pope Gary Richardson r Alan Sayer r George Textor r Steve Wales 1964

Sandy Alexander r Bill Baxter Craig Blouin Baer Connard

Greg Connors r Tom Doyle r Stephen Foster r Peter Janney Paul Reed † 1967

Luke Dowley r Jamie Hollis r Jerry Layman 1968

Anonymous () John DeCiantis Charles French r Steve Hirshberg r Jim Hudson Jim Stearns r Jack Taylor r Bruce Thompson r

Dwight Shepard r Bob Spaulding r Sandy Wood

1969

Tim Bontecou Jack Copeland Bill Foot r Stan Jackson Larry Jamieson Doug McLane John Swann

1973

Arja Adair r Jim Cousins David Donahue r Alan Dorman Jeremy Foley r William Hill Kirk Hinman r Doug Moore Jon Norton r Peter Prime Gerry Weston Rich Weymouth r Peter White r Peter Wiswell

1972

Tom Cooper r John Elder r Bill Emerson Eric Haartz r Gary Hagler r Chuck Kaplan Peter Kimball r Chris Latham r Dan Murphy r Dave Nicholson r Stu Porteous r

Dick Conant Cos Cosgrove r Peter Garrison r Roland Glidden Geoff Klingenstein r John Lord r Leslie Orton-Mahar r Sam Richards r Tim Scott r 1974

Hazard Campbell Mike Coffin r Duane Ford r Josh Hancock r Walter Malmquist r Steve Morse Piper Orton r Chuck Reilly Dave Rossetter r Chris Williams 1975

Perry Babcock r Jay Butler Chris Carney r Tom Carney Mike Conway r Ed Cudahy Larry Diggs r Peter Fife Terry French r Mac Jackson Jim McDonald Charles McIntosh Linda Fogg Noyes Eric Pendleton Tom Phillips r John Putnam r David Rust Jack Sanderson Ken Sowles r

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Peter Thomsen George Weaver r 1976

Tom Armstrong r Henry Bliss Charlie Bolling Jim Doble Bob Garrison Chris Guider Craig Houghton Mike Lynch r Steve Mackintosh Dave Phippen Will Pingree r Mike Robinson r Brad Tanner Jess Tucker 1977

Anonymous Craig Antonides Rob Bacon Bob Bohner Ham Boynton Bradford Bruner Ben Campbell Jody Collins Dave Dewey r Peter Grant r Jim Hamblin r Mark Melvin Tig Smith 1978

John Alden r Bob Biddle Paul Bozuwa Scott Brown Chris Cushing Blaise deSibour Bruce Edgerly Randy Fiertz J.D. Hale Hal Hawkey r Mitch Kamarck Matt Paige David Parker

Kirk Siegel Scott Sirles Don Whittemore Margo Farley Woodall 1979

Hratch Astarjian Tim Brook Mark Finnegan r Cynthia Makris r Cullen Morse r Will Neff Kris Van Curan Nordblom r Pete Noyes r Heidi Hammond O’Connor r Mike O’Connor r Dexter Paine r Jay Pingree r Ian Sanderson r Andy Sawyer Jeff Scowen Mike Silitch David Slaughter r Tom Steele Jim Stringfellow r Mike Warren r 1980

Jeff Boal Russell Cushman r Jack Dawley David Graff Kevin Mahaney David Reed r Don Smith r Skip Strong 1981

Bill Baskin r Andy Clutz r Herb Durfee Win Idle Chris Keating Christine Louis r Sarah Jankey Medlin r Mike Murchie r

l Today magazine. Finished size is 11.0 inches tall by 9.0 inches wide.

Will Prickett r Kevin Rowe r Ty Wallace Hilary Frost Warner Dave Wolff David Wood r

1985

1982

Frank Bonsal r Charlie Brown Mark Cavanaugh r Joe Cerutti Lisa Weeks Clute Peter Coolidge r Miles Glascock r Ben Lewis Bob McKersie Joe Miles r Susan Levin Paine r George Samaras Erica Weber Scatchard 1983

Tippy Blish r Jamey Gallop r John Leggat Peggy Lamb Merrens r Stephanie Paine r Jennifer Smith Schiffman r Willie Stump 1984

Joe Barbour Mich Dupre r Matt Flaherty Fred Ludtke Steve Lunder Zach Martin Ernie Milani Tait Plowden-Wardlaw Eric Prime r Peter Radasch r Max Saenger Greg Thulander Heidi Gatz Weeks Craig Westling

Anonymous Peter Biddle Phip Bourne Angus Christie r Missy Wakely Christie r David Considine Colby Coombs Gary Crichton Mimi MacNaught Denton Anne Desjardins Vanda Lewis Dyson Braden Edwards Ted Fine Kathy Keller Garfield r Allyn Hallisey Jennie Webster Hartley Ev Hatch Elizabeth Heide r Tim Jones Martha Kirby Charlie Lamson Doug Massey Andrew McDonnell Katsu Nakamura Fred Paxton Will Rose Rob Rumsey Ian Sinclair r Kirsten Orcutt Singleton Poppy Staub r Dan Taffe r Chuck Taylor Jean-Louis Trombetta Beau Woodrum Bob Zock r 1986

Geoff Bride Bill Clough Kristin Washburn Covert r Malcolm Davidson Bob Gregg Dave Hinman Taylor Hubbard Owen Hyland r

Caroline Bloch Jones Lee Fuller Lawrason r Bill Macy r Laura Cooper Page r Jake Reynolds r Matt Reynolds r Poppet Seymour Howard Snyder Blake Swift r Mike Taffe Ellyn Paine Weisel r Molly Adriance Whitcomb r 1987

Polly Pratt Boeschenstein r Bruce Bohuny Cricket Keleher Braun Carolyn Colket Cullen r Todd Hopgood Suzie Jacinthe r Stan Jackson r Tim Lesko Kathryn Lubrano Robinson Andy Twombly r Brett Weisel r Zim Zimmermann 1988

Anonymous () Eddie Anderson Dean Bellissimo Elizabeth Sponenbergh Litzell Brickman Lisa Hand Cicero Jen Stewart Crosby Jess Dion r Chris Doggett r Hannah Beck Doubleday Peter Driscoll Renee Dupre r Geordie Elkins Jason Evans r Tom Fletcher Nate Foran r Liz Ganem r

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Greg Gaskill Russ Gates Sohier Hall r Lee Hanson r Chris Hayes Mike Hillegass r Jenny Holden r Todd Holmes r Brett Jones r Chris Keeler Sage Chandler Kennedy Drew Kesler r Rob Kinsley Chris Klein Pam Lehmberg Alex MacCormick r Emily Adriance Magnus r Tom Mahon r Christopher Martin Julie Wood Matthews r Erika Ludtke McGoldrick r Jeff Nuckols Mark Oliver Ali Christie Paysee Elizabeth Pierce r Paula Lillard Preschlack Jason Regan Mark Richards JD Rifkin Hans Schemmel r Matt Schonwald Jenny Alfond Seeman r David Smail r Lauren O’Brien Smith Charlie Staples Chris Stewart r John Taggart Erik Tuveson r Steve Walker David Warren Peter Webber Karen Woodbury

Chris Bither Amanda Black r Ward Blanch Chris Davenport r Shields Day r Christy Wood Donovan r Mike Erlanger Jennie Legg Gabel Meg St. John Gally r Tracy McCoy Gillette r Brad Greenwood r Jen Walker Hemmen Alix Rosen Hong Max Jacome Nikki Kimball Mimi Maloney Matt Mole Brandon Perkins Sarah Trainor Pflaum Jen Comstock Reed Jen Murphy Robison Rex Salter Ben Spiess r Sara deLima Tansill Te Tiffany r Katy Zock-Butterworth

1989

1991

Anonymous () Lauren Parkhill Adey r Tamsen Plume Anderson

Kelley Roberts Bogardus Rice Bryan Leah Merrey Burdett

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1990

Kat Alfond r Kate Arecchi Pixie Spencer Brokaw Dave Colleran r Pepper deTuro r Courtney Fleisher Lance Galvin Jeff Gregg Andrea Hamlin-Levin r Tegan Hamilton Hayunga Caroline Clutz Keeney Megan Sheehan Kristiansen r Alison Merser Ginger Reoch

Peter Christensen Kent Corson Brendon Donnellan r Kris Graton Fields Jason Gordon Stefan Kesler Paul Laflam Brooke Moran Becca Anderson Morrison r Yasuna Murakami r Michael O’Keefe Jodi Whitehead Oliver David Rayburn Terra Reilly Keri Dole Renganathan Eric Rohr Jon Sawyer Adam Wysor

Lincoln Sise Eric Thielscher r Stu Wales r Kelly Mullen Wieser Maggie Zock

1992

1994

Anonymous Nici Ash Nellie Chandler Bailey Sam Woodbury Dearborn Rick Eccleston r Jen Fournier Hugh Griffiths r Devie Hamlen r Sarah Hindmarsh Joe Howard Ed Howe Jed Hoyer Andy Katchen r Jamie Klopp r Amos Kober Nick Leonard r Liz Lyman Andy Martin Ryan McPherson r Fritz Muench r Akira Murakami r Julia Martin Murphy Jake Norton Drew Palmer Jesse Perkins Bret Pfeifle Krissy Pozatek

Anonymous Sam Bass Erin Conley Kendra Cargill Epstein Brendan Falvey T.G. Gallaudet Dan Harrigan Ramey Harris-Tatar Liz Hogan Matt Kendall r Peter LaCasse r Beth Lambert Rogan Lechthaler Jason Myler r Nina Perkins Newman Josh Povec Rick Richardson r Pete Scoville Kate Stahler Starrett Melissa Barker Tamplin Sander van Otterloo r Dave Webb r

1993

Megan Flynn r Jon Moodey Eric Oberg Schuyler Perry r Emily Wenzel Reis Gerry Rinn Ginny Kingman Schreiber Theo Doughty Torchio Tommy Valeo r Brooks Wales Kevin Zifcak r

1995

Bri Adams r Henry Adams r Hannah Bass

Cil Bloomfield Matt Daigneault r Abbey DeRocker r Leandra Collier Fremont-Smith Katie Lyman Sanna McCoy Gretchen Metz Jessie Morton r Brit Fairman Munsterteiger Monica Palmgren Asania Smith r Adam Sullivan r Jerome Thomas r Alexis Wruble 1996

Anonymous Carolyn Campbell Alison Megroz Chadbourne r Josh Clifford Tim Davidson r David Flynn Katie Waltz Harris r Nick Kaulbach Ryan LaFoley r Emily Evans MacLaury Justin Martin r Liz Fox McGlamery Nathalie Milbank Nolte r Field Pickering r Will Richardson r Heather Pierce Roy r Stacey Eder Smith r Molly Stahler Bo Surdam r Jay Tankersley 1997

Erik Bass Katherine Donnellan Beebe r Nathaniel Campbell Tad Davis Tyler Gallaudet Matt Goldberg r

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Andy Humphrey Elizabeth Meck Knight Kris Langetieg Andrew Marshall r Maura Kearney Marshall r Andrew Miller Megan Nicolay Putney Haley Pyles r Allison Seymour Reilly Dennis Roberts r Juley Perkins Sadler r Gasper Sekelj Brian Werner 1998

Matt Anderson Zach Antonucci r Kathryn Bridge Jim Chalmers r Terry Connell r Sarah Crane r Canute Dalmasse r Mike Dodge Katy Gannon Adam Goldberg r Jim Jung Mirte Mallory Eric Mueller r Dew Wallace r 1999

Tim Connell r Abby Richardson Considine Kim Cousins Emily Riehle Dixon Julia Haley r Kathleen Blauvelt Kime Robbie King r Quentin McDowell Page Connolly Minshall Colin Rodgers Sara Roitman Kate Richardson Surdam r Neely Wakeman

Colin Wehrung Joel Yarmon r

Jed Warsofsky Channing Weymouth

2000

2003

Tim Barnhorst Katie Bristow Bohlin Hedda Burnett r Jonathan Campbell Sean Clifford Andy Collado Josh Cooper Ted Finnerty Chris Ryan Mike Schnurr Andrew Sheppe Jake Spaulding r Sully Sullivan Heidi Webb r RC Whitehouse

Tauheedah Alexander Bryce Connery Neal Frei r Robin Stefanik Green r Emily Noyes Grunow Dave LaPointe Wyatt Lewis Dave Madeira Linden Mallory Brendan Murphy r Grace Nehring Amy Laverack Nordblom Nate Parker Nick Payeur r Dave Potter Ashley Currier Trainor

2001

Anonymous Andy Bohlin Bill Bristol Jennifer Crane r Kellan Florio r Karyn Hoepp Jennings Adam Lavallee r Ira Marvin Liz Norton Patrick Regan r Tyler Stubbs Sung Min You

2004

2002

2005

Melissa Adams r Peter Bohlin Ave Cook r Kerry Douglas Andrew Everett r Maddie Rappoli Fiumara Sarah Hendel Ally Keefe Alex Knecht Eliza Lockwood Betsy Pantazelos Chris Rodgers r

Chris Blaine r Jenn Calver r Caitlin Connelly Cooper r Robert Crane Lauren Frei r Susie Griffin J.J. Hall Mike Hardiman Hannah Hickok Brie Keefe r Jason Merritt Kathleen Crane Mitchell r

l Today magazine. Finished size is 11.0 inches tall by 9.0 inches wide.

Anonymous Seth Aronson Geoff Calver r Dave Campbell Joy Erdman Larkin r John Leavitt Todd Nordblom r Allie O’Connell Jenn Reilly Marina Chiasson Sharpe r Justin Simon

Brendan O’Riordan r Emily Sampson Emma Schofield r Stanley Smith Susan Taylor Mike Tucker r Jamie Wallace r Allie Wasilewski

Tyler Gosselin Annie Hanson Pete Harriman Kory Himmer Jamie Leake Kourtney Brim Martin r Stephen Martin r Christopher Roche

2006

2008

Anonymous () Dorian Bakogiannis Carlie Bristow Colin Edge Casey Gilman Tai Haluszka Tory Hayssen Lauren Henchey Christopher Howe Annie Muse Kearny Kristin Keohan Ben Kirtland Betsy Laurin Jeff Meyers Ben Mitchell-Lewis Ben Motley Hilary Nichols r Molly Nissi Anders Nordblom Lucy Randall r Anne Richardson Jeff Rudberg Nicholas Schoeder Jesse Straus r Blair Thompson Jesse Thompson Ben Tomaszewski Ben Trook CJ Vincent Bill White Lauren Wright

Anonymous Annie Carney Christopher Dean Maggie Dembinski Julia Ford Landry Frei r Dan Marvin Baird Meem Beckett Noyes Taylor Sawatzki Jessi White Haley Wilich

2007

2010

Anonymous () Reed Branton Eun Gi Chung Phoebe Erdman r

Anonymous Tizzy Brown Julia Capron Dillon Corkran

2009

Cody Bohonnon r Lina Encalada Sumner Ford r Dave Grilk Toby Harriman Tenley Malmquist Jake Manoukian Jimmy Mathews Jake McPhee Ben Middleton Caitlin Mitchell Ian Nesbitt r James O’Leary Meredith Peck Sophia Schwartz Allison Stride George Weaver

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Nick Dullea Mark Finnegan Evan Marcus John McCoy Em Pettengill Elise Steiner Ashby Sussman Aubrey Tyler

Elena Bird Michael Finnegan Stepper Hall Macy Jones John Musciano Jesse Ross Max Sturges 2014

2011

Anonymous Chuckie Carbone Cecily Cushman r Juliet Dalton Sarah Fauver Katie Finnegan Nick Goodrich Emily Hayes Carson Houle r Paige Kozlowski Jack Long Colin MacKenzie Sam Macomber r Jamie McNulty Charlotte Noyes Alex Obregon Cole Phillips Derek Pimentel Margaret Thibadeau Jaclyn Vernet r 2012

Gavin Bayreuther Josie Brownell Maggie Caputi Ian Ford Hannah Halsted Matthew Kinney Brandon Marcus Kristina Micalizzi Nick Renzi Ryan Rosencranz Steph Symecko Isabel Zaik-Hodgkins 2013

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Anonymous () Morgan Bayreuther Corey Begley Becca Begley Hedi Droste Clark Macomber Thorn Merrill Spencer Pierce Lea Rice 2015

Anonymous () Sarah Alexander Nikki Blair Emily Clifford Lizzy Duffy Charles Harker Pete Hastings Hope Heffernan Carson Holmes Abby Jones Sasha Jones Jack Kinney Kai Lin Christina Raichle Katie Remien Jake Rosencranz

CLASS AGENTS Cushman Andrews ’ r Buster Welch ’ r Gerry Shyavitz ’ r John Holley ’ r Mark Shub ’ David Hagerman ’ r George LeBoutillier ’ r George Textor ’ r Jim Ricker ’ r

Jim Rosenblum ’ Jon Norton ’ r Peter Prime ’ Gerry Weston ’ Chris Latham ’ r Sam Osborne ’ Tim Scott ’ r Jay Butler ’ John Putnam ’ r Bob Garrison ’ Rob Bacon ’ Margo Farley Woodall ’ Hratch Astarjian ’ Bill Baskin ’ Lisa Weeks Clute ’ Chris Pesek ’ Susan Fine Taylor ’ Joe Barbour ’ Angus Christie ’ r Fred Paxton ’ Ian Sinclair ’ r Lee Fuller Lawrason ’ r Carolyn Colket Cullen ’ Tim Lesko ’ Alex MacCormick ’ r Heather Marcroft Vitella ’ Ian Frank ’ Jim Queen ’ Michael O’Keefe ’ Jen Fournier ’ Jess Colby Harris ’ Andy Katchen ’ r Lindsay Dewar Fontana ’ Anne Blair Hudak ’ Jon Moodey ’ Schuyler Perry ’ r Ramey Harris-Tatar ’ Liz Hogan ’ John Farnsworth ’ Katie Waltz Harris ’ r Nick Kaulbach ’ Sarah Crane ’ r Julia Haley ’ r Heidi Webb ’ r Kellan Florio ’ r

Adam Lavallee ’ r Liz Norton ’ Ave Cook ’ r Kerry Douglas ’ Maddie Rappoli Fiumara ’ Neal Frei ’ r Brendan Murphy ’ r Nick Payeur ’ r Brian Sweeney ’ Krissy Weatherbie ’ Willie Ford ’ Kathleen Crane Mitchell ’ r Brendan O’Riordan ’ r Emily Sampson ’ Jay Bladon ’ Betsy Laurin ’ Anders Nordblom ’ Scottie Alexander ’ r Mike Heyward ’ Katie Oram ’ Haley Hamblin ’ Gretchen Hyslip ’ Jake Manoukian ’ Caitlin Mitchell ’ Abby Alexander ’ Ashleigh Boulton ’ Cecily Cushman ’ r Jamie McNulty ’ Matthew Kinney ’ Alex Leininger ’ Kristina Micalizzi ’ Steph Symecko ’ Olivia Leatherwood ’ Emily Clifford ’

CLASS CORRESPONDENTS Bill Briggs ’ r Rik Clark ’ r Bill Baskin ’ r Frank Hammond ’ Al Teele ’ Berton Chillson ’ Bill Byers ’ Dick Meyer ’ r

Frederick Ellison ’ Jerry Ashworth ’ r Len Richards ’ r David Hagerman ’ r Sandy Alexander ’ r Terry Jacobs ’ Peter Janney ’ John Pfeifle ’ John Coles ’ Jon Porter ’ Peter Weiner ’ Dwight Shepard ’ r Dick Conant ’ Walter Malmquist ’ r Mac Jackson ’ Charlie Bolling ’ Biff Gentsch ’ Peter Grant ’ r Luther Turmelle ’ Greg White ’ Bill Baskin ’ Chris Pesek ’ Fred Ludtke ’ Jean-Louis Trombetta ’ Chris Zak ’ Alex MacCormick ’ r Jen Murphy Robison ’ Courtney Fleisher ’ Terra Reilly ’ Kelly Mullen Wieser ’ Lindsay Dewar Fontana ’ Sam Bass ’ Ramey Harris-Tatar ’ John Farnsworth ’ Heather Pierce Roy ’ r Putney Haley Pyles ’ r Tara Walker Hamer ’ Brooke Aronson McCreedy ’ Sully Sullivan ’ Karyn Hoepp Jennings ’ Adam Lavallee ’ r Sophie Moeller ’ Betsy Pantazelos ’ Nick Payeur ’ r Ryan McManus ’

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Brie Keefe ’ r Annie Hanson ’ Jessi White ’ Meg McNulty ’ Allison Stride ’ Abby Alexander ’ Ashleigh Boulton ’ John McCoy ’ Em Pettengill ’ Cecily Cushman ’ r Mandy Engelhardt ’ Sam Macomber ’ r Jamie McNulty ’ Matthew Kinney ’ Alex Leininger ’ Kristina Micalizzi ’ Steph Symecko ’ Kelly DiNapoli ’ Olivia Leatherwood ’ CoCo Clemens ’ Tess O’Brien ’ Sam Paine ’ Garrett Phillips ’ Elizabeth Powell ’ Stephen Wilk ’

REUNION PLANNING Bill Briggs ’ r Rik Clark ’ r Bill Baskin ’ r Brad Langmaid ’ r Bill Lofquist ’ r Bob Armknecht ’

Dick Stone ’ Bob Backus ’ Bill Clough ’ r Ron Crowe ’ r Steve Carpenter ’ George Pransky ’ Cushman Andrews ’ r Jerry Ashworth ’ r Buster Welch ’ r Mark Shub ’ Peter Chapman ’ r David Hagerman ’ r George LeBoutillier ’ r Tom McIlvain ’ r Morgan Nields ’ George Textor ’ r Steve Wales ’ Sandy Alexander ’ r Jim Ricker ’ r Stephen Foster ’ r Peter Janney ’ Graham Hill ’† Jon Porter ’ Stu Goodwin ’ Dick Conant ’ Tim Scott ’ r Stan Theodoredis ’ Duane Ford ’ r Walter Malmquist ’ r Bob Garrison ’ Biff Gentsch ’ Vicky Anderson Duffield ’ J.D. Hale ’

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Scott Sirles ’ Luther Turmelle ’ Margo Farley Woodall ’ Lou D’Angio ’ Herb Durfee ’ Chris Little ’ Christine Louis ’ r Joe Barbour ’ Fred Ludtke ’ Bob Gregg ’ Dave Hinman ’ Owen Hyland ’ r Bill Macy ’ r Greg Redmond ’ Chris Zak ’ Alex MacCormick ’ r Will Northrop ’ r Chris Stewart ’ r Amanda Black ’ r Jennie Legg Gabel ’ Tracy McCoy Gillette ’ r Jen Murphy Robison ’ Aaron Woods ’ Kelley Roberts Bogardus ’ Michael O’Keefe ’ Terra Reilly ’ Jess Colby Harris ’ Nat Faxon ’ Schuyler Perry ’ r Sam Bass ’ Ramey Harris-Tatar ’ Liz Hogan ’

Nina Perkins Newman ’ Katie Waltz Harris ’ r Nick Kaulbach ’ Emily Evans MacLaury ’ Liz Fox McGlamery ’ Heather Pierce Roy ’ r Reece Spinney Dahlberg ’ Putney Haley Pyles ’ r Sarah Crane ’ r Tara Walker Hamer ’ Julia Haley ’ r Kathleen Blauvelt Kime ’ Brooke Aronson McCreedy ’ Andy Bohlin ’ Karyn Hoepp Jennings ’ Neal Frei ’ r Nick Payeur ’ r Ryan McManus ’ Brian Sweeney ’ Krissy Weatherbie ’ Meg McNulty ’ Caitlin Mitchell ’ Allison Stride ’ Jamie McNulty ’

EVENT HOSTS Barbara Baekgaard GP ’ ’ Annie Carney ’ Chris ’ and Karen Dempsey Carney r Megan Currier ’

Russell ’ and Eliza Cushman r Courtney Fleisher ’ Tracy McCoy Gillette ’ P ’ r Casey Gilman ’ Bob and Joanie Hall P ’ ’ r Kelley Keohan ’ Bev LaFoley P ’ ’ ’ Eliza Lockwood ’ Jory and Martha Macomber P ’ ’ ’ r Tenley Malmquist ’ Baird Meem ’ Liz Norton ’ Robin and Phil Peck P ’ r Tom ’ and Tracy Phillips P ’ ’ r Bernard and Sue Pucker Greg Ramey ’ Jeffrey and Nancy Randall P ’ r Andrew ’ and Tisha Sawyer P ’ Stephanie Symecko ’ Charlie ’ and Merrill Woodworth

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Milestones

LEFT: Channing Weymouth ’02 married Luke Warner on August 27, 2016 in Middlebury, VT; RIGHT: Pack ’04 and Paige Janes welcomed their daughter Cotton “Coco” Elizabeth Janes into their family on July 25, 2016.

IN MEMORIAM Joseph Atherton Gilman III ’50, March 28, 2016 Bryan Kirkpatrick (former employee), September 15, 2016 John “Jack” R. Campbell ’46, October 4, 2016 Chris Brown ’71, October 7, 2016 Denault “Denny” M. Blouin ’58, October 19, 2016 James Conklin ’09, October 28, 2016 Lawrence B. “Laurie” Van Ingen III ’72, November 30, 2016

BIRTHS Justin Ciampini ’03 and Fauve Castagna: Nicolas Joseph James Ciampini, May 27, 2016 Hedda Burnett ’00 and Ben Schippers: Wyatt Burnett Schippers, June 6, 2016 Ashley (Currier) Trainor ’03 and John Trainor: Quinn Simms Trainor, July 10, 2016

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Evan Kornack ’01 and Kinsey Kornack: Haven Ludlow Kornack, July 17, 2016 William Bentley ’00 and Juliet Bentley: William “Liam” Wayne Bentley III, July 22, 2016 Pack Janes ’04 and Paige Janes: Cotton “Coco” Elizabeth Janes, July 25, 2016 Rachel Goldberg Nissi ’01 and Nordo Nissi: Max Goldberg Nissi, August 10, 2016 Shawna (Pauley) Sharkey ’03 and Dan Sharkey: William “Liam” Sharkey, August 13, 2016 Kathryn Hendel Paik ’96 and Laurence Paik: Mattis Hendel Paik, August 28, 2016 Geoff Calver ’04 and Catharine Calver: Sarah “Sadie” Catharine Calver, September 26, 2016 Katie Sweeney Lepak ’00 and Peter Lepak: Brooke Alexandra Lepak, October 1, 2016

Kate Lynch ’97 and Jim Mamos: Molly Britten Mamos, December 2016 Blair (Weymouth) Monaco ’04 and Greg Monaco: Morgan Tyler Monaco, December 29, 2016

MARRIAGES Cambria (Hempton) Brockman ’07 and Ross Brockman, June 27, 2015 Morgan Frank ’08 and Catherine Frank, August 23, 2015 Paul Baier (employee) and Tatiana Udalova Baier, July 16, 2016 in Rhode Island Aaron Kupperman ’02 and Alicia Breakey, July 30, 2016 in Canterbury, NH Brendan O’Riordan ’05 and Katie (White) O’Riordan, August 6, 2016 in Chestnut Hill, MA Josh Povec ’94 and Maria (Millard) Povec, August 6, 2016 in Belfast, ME

Mike Whalley ’02 and Cate Doucette, August 6, 2016 on Squam Lake in NH Ramsay Hill Chodounsky ’02 and David Chodounsky, August 12, 2016 in Crested Butte, CO Christopher Little ’81 and Beth Grosart, August 13, 2016 at Whitney’s Inn, Jackson, NH Jason Rowe ’00 and Amanda Jensen, August 13, 2016 in the Portland Waterfront Historic District, Portland, ME Seth Warner ’96 and Kim Wright Warner, August 13, 2016 at the Labish Center, Salem, OR Joanna Weatherbie ’04 and Jonah Clements, August 19, 2016 in Charlottetown, PEI, Canada Sophie Nicolay ’00 and Nicholas Emlen, August 20, 2016, in Seeconk, RI Channing Weymouth ’02 and Luke Warner, August 27, 2016 in Middlebury, VT Trevor Dean ’00 and Janet Francis, August 27, 2016 at The Delta Fredericton Hotel, Fredericton, NB, Canada Bob Johnsen ’68 and Valeria Campos, September 3, 2016 Blair Thompson ’06 and Quig Bruning, September 10, 2016 in Bremen, ME Carling Delaney ’04 and Dane Bennett, September 17, 2016 at Piney River Ranch, Vail, CO Kory Himmer ’07 and Kristina Brennan, September 23, 2016 Bubba MacMahon and Krissy McNeill, September 25, 2016 in Minneapolis, MN Ashley Saba ’05 and Dennis Winders ’05, October 8, 2016 in Waterville Valley, NH Josh Thompson ’03 and Christine Thompson, October 15, 2016 at the Salem Cross Inn, West Brookfield, MA

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’35 On December 5, James E. McKee Jr., turned 100!

’45 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 for more information. Thank you!

’46

continue to be blessed with good health and active lives. We will, again, spend three winter months in Palm Springs, hoping the Patriots do well in Super Bowl LI on February 5, 2017.

CLASS CORRESPONDENT Rik Clark ’48 capeclarks@aol.com

’49 CLASS CORRESPONDENT Bill Baskin ’49 william_c_baskin@sbcglobal.net

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 for more information. Thank you!

’50

’47 (reunion)

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CLASS CORRESPONDENT Bill Briggs ’47 magdalenabriggs@ymail.com

’48 Stan Patterson’s widow, Katharine Chambers Patterson, died on August 29, 2016. (Stan, our bagpiper playing classmate, died in 2011.) Sandy and I enjoyed keeping in touch with Katie in her Carmel, CA, home. … A late October telephone conversation with 1948 class president Michael Goriansky revealed that despite his poor eyesight, “everything is fine and my health is pretty damn good.” … We keep in very close touch with Bunny and Bart Chase and enjoyed our 2016 visit with them in Palm Springs, CA. Bart continues to be a passionate Green Bay Packers fan.

Unfortunately, travel limitations will prevent Bart from attending our 70th in 2018. … Sandy and I

CLASS CORRESPONDENT Frank Hammond ’50 fhammond64@comcast.net

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’52 (reunion) CLASS CORRESPONDENT Al Teele ’52 859.734.3625

’53 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 for more information. Thank you!

’54 CLASS CORRESPONDENT Berton Chillson ’54 bbmchill56@aol.com

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Joseph A Gilman III ’50 passed away in March 2016.

’55 CLASS CORRESPONDENT Bill Byers ’55 bill.byers36@gmail.com

’56 Last spring I received Bob Armknecht’s note after the deadline, but I sent his correspondence in anyway, and I think it got there in time to be published. This time he was the first and quickest to write: “I’ve learned my lesson. You told me my last offering was too late! I’m fully retired now and have been for many years. I am living in Westport, MA, in the house we built over 25 years ago and am still enjoying wonderful autumn sunsets. I have taken up ocean

cruising as a vacation option. In 2016, we cruised from Florida to Singapore and are looking forward to a trip from San Francisco to Sydney in the winter of 2017. I had hoped to get back to Holderness for our 60th, but family illness interfered. My best to you and all those classmates who keep in touch.” … Tom Anthony wasn’t far behind. He wrote, “Sorry, Dick. Any contributions I might make for the next HST are almost exactly the same as the ones I made the last time, with the exception that we’re going to Sicily instead of Portugal next spring. Happy Guy Fawkes Day.” … Dick Meyer wrote, “I’m still a volunteer at the Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad and am currently restoring the 1913 caboose I wrote about last spring. It’s a big job and

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Fred Carter, representing the Class of 1951 at its 65th reunion

progress is slow, but mostly steady. We had to remove the cupola in order to pass the car under the door into the shop, and we have just finished fabricating the framework for the new cupola; however, we had to make it removable so we will be able to take the car out again. The original caboose probably had oil lamps, and no electricity, but we will use 120-volt antique style lamps for night use that are powered by a generator. We will also add a 12-volt horn system, rear lights for backing up the train, and a wireless microphone and an audio amplifier so both voice and music can be piped throughout the consist. Train rides are narrated, and we put on Polar Express rides between Thanksgiving and Christmas. The sound system is powered by a 120-volt, 1000-watt inverter running off several 12-volt batteries and a charging system that must be plugged in each night to keep the batteries up to

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snuff. A separate 12-volt system supplies power to the horn and backup lights. I do the design and engineering work, but my crew includes an artist and a mixture of mechanics and carpenters. I invite any alumni visiting the Portland area to contact me for a tour of the museum—and a ride on the train from May through October.”

CLASS CORRESPONDENT Dick Meyer ’56 richard419@roadrunner.com

’57 (reunion) CLASS CORRESPONDENT Frederick Ellison ’57 greatspeak03@yahoo.com

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Don Latham notes, “As the dust settles from all the activity in the house surrounding the Thanksgiving holidays—during which Jen and I had the entire family here—we are mindful of the words in the Humanist blessing we use each year. It seems to say it all, and I would like to quote it here: ’On this Thanksgiving Day we express deepest gratitude for the many good things of life that this family shares: for this plentiful food and drink; for our dear friends and relatives wherever they may be; for this beloved home with its treasured associations; for the health and happiness and laughter we have known within these walls. And we are grateful, too: for earth and sky and sun; for radiant colors and flowing waters; for singing bird and billowing cloud; for the rest-

ful night and its great gift of stars; for our fellow beings, who help sustain us with their work and who surround us with their warmth; for good books, good music, and good company. In all these things and many more, we rejoice today, and with the hope that all families everywhere may enjoy an abundant and happy life.’ My very best to all my classmates of 1958.” … Craig Blouin ’64 sent in this note about his brother, Denny, who died recently in Halifax, NS: “From Holderness, Denny went on to Kenyon and transferred to Bowdoin. After a couple years of teaching at the secondary school level, he pursued a master’s in creative writing at Syracuse University. He then taught English at the University of Montana for several years. His involvement in radical politics brought that job to an end, and he went north to the mountains of British Columbia, where his son was born. He took up the practice of Buddhism and eventually moved to Boulder, CO. Around 1980 the head of his order asked Denny and his wife to go to Halifax to nurture a new center.

Along with his ongoing involvement with the Buddhist community in Halifax, he served as a writing/language consultant for businesses and educational institutions.” … Doug Rand was recently awarded the “All In!” Volunteer Award for 2016 by the Bozeman Dharma Center. The Bozeman Dharma Center recently wrote of Doug’s commitment to service: “Doug has been on every shift for the first 12 months of our service to the Community Cafe.

We always have marvelous and compassionate people who help on the First Friday team, but Doug is the only person to have been there every time. And he is almost always the first person to respond to the monthly call for

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volunteers. Doug consistently serves with dignity and devotion as Head Dish Pitter. Doug is a bighearted man who has faithfully fulfilled the commitment from the Bozeman Dharma Center to the Community Cafe every month of the year since we began.”

’59 Sorry for missing the last HST issue, but incoming notes are scarce, and without your help there’s not much I can do. So here goes: Old Niles neighbor Buster Welch has decided to hang it up.

In years past, he has been guiding fishing trips in northern Canada with much success. In fact, I read of his last trip in the Dartmouth alumni news in which he was with some Dartmouth alumni. The report that came back was that a great time was had by all. Buster, in case you do not know, is a firstclass fisherman, and I’m sure his fame is well known in many angling circles. I’m sure he will miss his guiding trips, but I’m also sure that Buster will continue looking for the one that got away long into the future. … I also heard from fellow track star Charley Murphy, who as far as I know may still be working for Senator Grassley on a part-time basis.

Charley informed me that I would be hearing from him in the near future. Well, I’m still waiting. That is how things get done in Washington—just kick the can down the road a little further. …

Interesting news from Steve

Barndollar: he just returned from a month in Israel and Jordan.

Steve and wife Karin have a real interest in seeing progress in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. He has held many seminars in Portsmouth, NH, on this issue.

Sad to say, at this time, he is not too optimistic on any progress being made. I think it would be of interest to all at Holderness if I could get Steve to express his views to the school on this matter. … Lee Miller reported from South Carolina, “There was a great deal of devastation on Hilton Head Island as a consequence of Hurricane Matthew in the beginning of October. Our roof was partially damaged, and we had to wait two months to get it repaired! All in all, we consider ourselves lucky.” … As for me, the summer was as pleasant as ever.

In July, I went on a horseback riding trip along the St. Lawrence River in Quebec for a week. It was a great riding experience with some pretty experienced riders and some very spirited horses.

In September, Jeanne and I spent 12 days in England. Most of our time was spent in Cornwall and the Cotswolds with stops in Oxford, Bath, and London. An unexpected invite into the Dean’s residence at Christchurch College at Oxford was the highlight of the trip. It was a unique experience for sure that was chock full of history. On a parting note, the last page of the previous HST issue contains an article about John “G.I.” Winant who was a trustee

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of Holderness in the 1930s. He is mostly unknown today, but during World War II, he was perhaps the best known American in the U.K. He is a true American hero, who replaced a true American villain, namely, Joseph Kennedy. Winant was a fascinating individual, and it is my opinion that our school should do something to keep his memory alive. The best place to find out more about Winant is in an excellent book entitled Citizens of London. It’s a great read. So much for now. Try to keep me posted on any news.

CLASS CORRESPONDENT Jerry Ashworth ’59 ashworth@maine.rr.com

’60 CLASS CORRESPONDENT Len Richards ’60 lenrichards@mac.com

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John Holley reports, “It has been a busy year visiting with kids and grandkids, traveling, and enjoying our volunteer activities. We escaped the Portland rains in February with a trip to San Jose del Cabo and then went south to Sedona. During the summer, we enjoyed Oregon’s blue skies with trips to Astoria and Bend. This fall, we again returned to Mexico for a week in Puerto Vallarta and then flew east to visit two nephews, a senior at Princeton and a sophomore at Wesleyan. In between, we saw my daughter and her family and celebrated her

Bill ’61 and Sherry Seaver enjoying the warm weather in Mexico

oldest son’s 18th birthday. Phew.

Now it’s time for Thanksgiving and Christmas. In between the trips, we enjoyed Candace’s and my kids and grandkids—going to school events, sports games, and celebrating special days. Candace continues on the Board of the National Crime Victims Law Institute, and I have returned to being treasurer of the Wilsonville Rotary. We are looking forward to visiting Cuba in February and returning to Amos Tuck (Dartmouth) for my 50th reunion in October.” … “I have settled into a comfortable existence here in southeastern Louisiana,” writes John Cleary. “I continue to dance Cajun and zydeco as much as possible, participate with our parish’s master gardener program, and help land owners to enhance the ’value’ of their stewardships with my big-boy toys. Most importantly, I find myself fulfilling two purposes: validating people and tweaking smiles on their faces, and helping to preserve the health of our spaceship Earth.

More specifically, I began diving into how to create self-sustaining ponds. (Self-sustaining translates into no outside, manufactured sources of energy, usually electricity.) I spend hours researching native water flora that specialize in consuming nutrients created by every other living entity.

Important, of course, is creating a visual impact to affect the viewer’s soul time and time again. Life is good as I remain healthy.” … Bill Seaver shares, “This year Sherry

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John Coles ’68 worked on applying new gold-leaf to the New Hampshire State House dome in Concord during the summer 0f 2016.

and I have begun to realize that we are getting older and a bit creakier. Thus, we are starting to look at what it will take to stay in our house for the next 25 years (if we are so lucky). We are in the process of putting railings on all stairs and smoothing out the various bumps/level differences in our 30-year-old blue stone walkway. We are also investigating connecting the garage to our house and putting in an elevator while we are at it. We may even get a master bedroom suite out of this round of remodeling. Both of us enjoy our frequent walks around the neighborhood and getting to know our new neighbors. We are blessed to live in this community and appreciate it more every year. I am still co-

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leading the weekly Buddhist group as well as helping asylees (asylum seekers) and refugees.

Recently, I realized that I have been attending my men’s group every Sunday night for over 20 years and cherish the deep friendships I’ve built there. This fall, the people who were my hiking companions 40 years ago held a reunion during which our conversations resumed as if we had last talked last week; however, our hiking goals are much more modest at this age. Sherry continues to focus on ways of applying alternative and complimentary health concepts, both for her own health and to help others. Cancer, while always a background concern, seems to have truly faded into the background. We continue to trav-

el a good bit of the year, including several weeks at our favorite time share resort on Cape Cod. This year we also traveled to Japan, Washington, DC, Charlotte, NC, and Orlando, FL. In California, Abby has now settled next to Swamis Beach, an internationally recognized surfing spot. Her birth mother, Mama Flor, will join us in Concord to celebrate Christmas and then continue on to California with Abby to see where she now lives. This is a lifetime opportunity for Mama Flor as it is her first trip outside Columbia.

Dana and Alicia are engaged and planning an October 2017 wedding. In the meantime, they are starting to fix up their condo in Somerville, MA. Dana is working as a graphic designer, and Alicia as a pediatric occupational therapist. Friends have become ever more important in our lives; we cherish many milestones and celebrations, while we mourn the goodbyes to some others, some of whom have left us and their loved ones way too soon. We have enjoyed wonderful visits from friends near and far and would love to see you, if you find yourself in the Concord area or anywhere else we are traveling.”

’62 (reunion) 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 for more information. Thank you!

’63 In late October, David Hagerman and Pete Barnum visited Pat and Don Henderson at their home in Ely, VT. “They both seem well. We shared stories of skiing on the old rope tow and paid tribute to

many of the people who made Holderness so special for students and faculty alike,” David wrote.

CLASS CORRESPONDENT Dave Hagerman ’63 david.s.hagerman@gmail.com

’64 CLASS CORRESPONDENT Sandy Alexander ’64 salex88@comcast.net

’65 CLASS CORRESPONDENT Terry Jacobs ’65 haj3@jacobswyper.com

’66 CLASS CORRESPONDENT Peter Janney ’66 pj@apllon.com

’67 (reunion) CLASS CORRESPONDENT John Pfeifle ’67 603.938.5981

’68 John Coles reports, “I gold-leafed the New Hampshire State House in Concord this summer with two others. Working on the state house was great. My current project at the moment is tinting marble for a Harvard Medical School building constructed in 1906. Recently, I did see Paul Madden briefly who said he will come to the 50th reunion if Grafton Biddle comes.” … Bob Johnsen shared, “I married Valeria Campos on September 3.

She, her two daughters, and I are renovating and expanding an abandoned foreclosure here in Sarasota, FL, in which the four of us will live. I am also learning Portuguese, as that is their pri-

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mary language.” … Fred Naess wrote in, “Fred Naess here. I have lived in the Colorado Rockies near Denver since 1987. I retired from airline piloting to instruct aviation and aerospace science at the Metropolitan State University in Denver, beginning in 2005.

Recently I retired from there to train airline pilots in a flight simulator at one of the Denver area airports. I have two sons and two grandsons (ages eight and five); my wife Leah is a soon-to-retire technical writer.” … Dave Potter said, “All’s good with me out here in Carmel, CA. I’m happily married to Janine Chicourrat who lived one mile away from me in Monterey; we met, however, 10 years ago in Dubrovnik, Croatia, while I was doing a project with USAID. She runs a large hotel here in Monterey, and I’ve been in local government as an elected or appointed official for 30 years. I am just finishing 20 years as a county supervisor representing Big Sur, Carmel, Pebble Beach, Pacific Grove, and Monterey. I’ve been in the Monterey area since 1972 and have been a building contractor the entire time. I return to my home town of Hingham, MA, where we have an apartment, once a month to visit with my mother, who still loves a bourbon and water nightly and will be 100 in May. Trust all’s well with you, and if you’re ever out this way give me a call, and we can catch up.” … Steve Hirshberg notes, “The first full year of retirement has quickly flown by, because I have been keeping busy every minute. My ongoing outdoor volunteer projects include serving on the trails committee for the Georges River Land Trust, Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, Maine Audubon, and on the board of the Georges River Chapter, Trout Unlimited. Also,

Head of School Phil Peck with former Spanish teacher Jim Hammond and Tom Doyle ’66 during the 50th Reunion Dinner in September

I’ve been hiking, fishing, and chipping away at my re-reading list of favorites such as Moby Dick and Edith Hamilton’s Mythology. Our one-year-old grandson Ben and his parents are living in nearby Camden, so life is good.”

CLASS CORRESPONDENT John Coles ’68 j.coles@rcn.com

’69 CLASS CORRESPONDENT Jon Porter ’69 jwoodporter@cox.net

’70 CLASS CORRESPONDENT Peter Weiner ’70 prepco@ncia.net

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Lewis G. Hinman notes that much water has gone over the dam since his last update. “I am semi-retired since 2014, although it seems to be much more ’semi’ and less ’retired’,” he writes. “I am doing some consulting in business development and am involved on a couple of boards for start-up green companies—lots of time but also energizing work. My daughter Lindsay was married in April in a wonderful setting at an art museum; the happy couple lives in Washington, DC. My son Tyler lives in San Francisco, works for Lumosity, and is living life large.

Krista and I are in the midst of building a new home on the coast in Maine—not a small undertaking as those who have done it will attest. We hope to break ground in March and celebrate next Thanksgiving as residents of

Maine!” … Roger Clarkson shares sad news: “Chris Brown, our VP at Holderness senior year, succumbed to pancreatic cancer at the beginning of October. He was well respected here in Hanover, NH, and was known as an avid local supporter and coach of track and field, lacrosse, and hockey for several generations of local kids.

He traveled far and wide in support of his own kids’ athletic pursuits, including several trips to the Olympics. His daughter Tizzy ’10 was also a graduate of Holderness! A front-page article about his accomplishments appeared in the Valley News, including a picture of him and his wife from a recent trip to Cuba.

He lived life to the fullest and accomplished a lot in a life that was too short.” … Will Parish reports, “Mac (30) is at Stanford Business School, filling in the gaps in his business knowledge after three years with Kiva and two years with CrowdCube Spain.

Nate (26) is teaching sixth-grade

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George Fox ’75 and Chris Fraker ’75 on Nantucket

math and science at Gateway Middle School in San Francisco.

Julie is on the Trust for Public Land California Advisory Board. I am a co-chair for the Environmental Literacy Steering Committee that is advancing environmental literacy in California public schools.”

’72 (reunion) God bless those of you who responded to my request for class notes. As I write this column, the 2016 holiday season is upon us.

By the time you read this, it will undoubtedly be the middle of ski season. The big news in David Nicholson’s family is that his middle son, Scott, was married June 25, to Kelsey Stone of Concord, MA. The wedding was held in Manchester, VT, “and we were fortunate to have perfect weather,” David writes. “Scott is in his second year of business school at Darden and will start at BCG (global management consultants) in Boston this coming June.” I assume Dave means the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia. Dave adds that he had a wonderful visit with Tom Cooper and his wife Emily at their home in Dorset while in Vermont, and too short a visit with Will Graham and his wife Marguerite in July. “We’re planning to see more of them now that Will has retired and moved back to South Dartmouth, MA,” Dave writes. Will, by the way, has a new email address and it is:

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Dick Conant ’73 and his eldest son, Richard III, on top of Mt. Elbert in Colorado during a hiking adventure in September 2016

Wlg275midd@gmail.com. … Eric Haartz recently attended a huge antique-car flea market and show in Hershey, PA, as a vendor.

While this is an annual trip for him, this year classmate John Chisholm accompanied him.

There, John and his brother Manson ’68 and his wife disappeared a lot to browse for car parts of their interest, mostly focused on late 1950s to early 1960s British Rover-DaimlerJaguar cars. “John’s unerring sense got him some great deals on little (but important) parts and tools. I was peddling specialty top materials for pre-1940 cars, which gets into some wonderfully arcane things. The three days of flea-marketeering went by with alarming swiftness. Per the classic adage, we had fun the whole while,” Eric says. … Peter Kimball and I got together for lunch in Chatham

when he was vacationing on Cape Cod this summer, and I learned he was pressed back into service on Holderness School’s Board of Trustees. Peter “remains impressed with the direction and future plans for our school. A comprehensive strategic master plan identifies a number of projects that look out a decade and beyond in a thoughtful and deliberate way. A new academic building adjacent to the Schoolhouse and upgrades to Bartsch are in the pipeline.

Updates and changes to meet the needs of the future are inevitable, but Holderness has held firm to its core foundation. It’s all really good.” … Philip Edwards, who graduated from Michigan State University, where he was a National Ski Club champion, writes that he and his wife, Cathy, moved to Denver seven years ago,

after living in Grosse Pointe, MI, where he used to sell auto parts to GM, Ford, and Chrysler, and started a company called Fido, Inc. in 1983—dental care for dogs (www.fidobones.com). Philip writes, “We currently manufacture 100 products and sell worldwide to places including the TJX Companies and pet shops.” Phil and Cathy have two children— Chris, a ski and raft guide, and Jennifer, who works at Nike. Phil loves skiing at Vail, the Denver Broncos, golf, and sailing. … On a sad note, Laurie Van Ingen passed away on November 30.

His wife shared this with us: “Laurie and I retired to Durango, CO, in November of 2015 after 38 years in the oil industry. Laurie spent his short retirement hiking, fly fishing, and volunteering at the Durango Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad as a train rail ranger. The

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thyroid cancer he was treated for in 2008 from overexposure to radiation from Chernobyl while living in Norway in the ’80s changed, and it became extremely aggressive in October 2016. In one short month it became impossible to continue fighting.

Laurie had such fond memories of Holderness, and I know some of his classmates would like to know.” … As for me, well, my wife Lucy and I retired last spring and moved from Longmeadow, in western Massachusetts, to Duxbury on the south shore of Massachusetts, where we live two miles away from our son Ted, his wife Jess, and their two children, Libby, 3, and Josie, who was born in September. We live in an over55 community called Duxbury Estates, where we don’t have to do lawn mowing, raking, or snow shoveling. Our daughter Lisa still lives in Denver, and we still have a summer house on Cape Cod, less than an hour away. Our new address is 23 Carriage Lane, Duxbury, MA 02332; phone 781422-3379. Our email remains the same. I don’t think retired life can get any better than this.”

CLASS CORRESPONDENT Dwight Shepard ’72 shepdb@comcast.net

’73 Let’s start with my news. I managed to slog through the New York Marathon back in November 2015, an incredible experience running through the five boroughs with 50,000 other runners! I also managed a trip out West to hike the state high points in Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah with my eldest son who lives in Ogden. Kings Peak in Utah was wild, with waist-deep snowdrifts and hurricane-force winds! …

While transiting Colorado to Mt.

Holiday cheer from the Head’s Holiday Party with Linda Gatter P ’17, Laura Mammarelli P ’91 ’08, and Vivica Duffield ’75

Elbert, we passed within 100 miles of Michael Mixter in Durango. Michael writes that all is well. He has been in Durango for 26 years now and just recently moved into a new house built on his property. I’ll keep a visit in mind should my future wanderings bring me back to that part of the world. … I also heard from Peter Garrison, who has recently made a change in latitude from Panama to Exeter, NH. Peter writes that all is good in Exeter and that he enjoys being back in New England after many years abroad. … Tim Scott writes, “My proximity to Holderness continues to offer opportunities to stay connected, even as our graduation date drifts ever farther into the past. In September, Phil Peck invited me over to do a Thursday evening Chapel Talk, reprising a sermon that I delivered in August at our local church. We didn’t spend much time in chapel in our Holderness days; it was a throwback to ancient times and more something to be avoided back

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then. Today, the entire school gathers in the chapel twice a week, and it was a deeply humbling experience to stand there attempting to share my thoughts, even as my eleven minutes were all that stood between the students and their dinner. My talk was titled “Drinking From Wells Other People Dug,” and it reflected, in part, on how lucky we all are that people before us made things possible for us to enjoy today. It was so when we were at Holderness and is equally true today. Thank you, Phil, for the opportunity to share.” … I will leave off here and wish you all the best for 2017. Keep in mind that our 45th is coming up in 2018 and I, for one, ain’t getting any younger! Best to all, Dick.

CLASS CORRESPONDENT Dick Conant Jr. ’73 rconantjr@msn.com

’74 CLASS CORRESPONDENT Walter Malmquist ’74 wmalmquist@kingcon.com

’75 Mac Jackson writes, “The ski season has started, and Tom Phillips just had a World Cup party we should all hear about in the next issue! Sorry, Tom. I couldn’t make it, as my ski season is off and running! Hope to have a Holderness gathering in the Mad River Valley area this winter. Stay tuned! I met the new Nordic coach at GMVS, Colin Rodgers ’99. I am now an ambulance driver for the Mad River Valley Ambulance Service.

They want me to be an EMR guy, too, but that is way too technical for my brain! My business has a new website, check it out— www.macsmowingllc.com.”

CLASS CORRESPONDENT Mac Jackson ’75 skifarmer@live.com

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Pat and David Williams P ’78 at the Head’s House Holiday Party in December

’76 CLASS CORRESPONDENTS Charlie Bolling ’76 chasgolf7@aol.com Biff Gentsch ’76 eventproducts@aol.com

’77 (reunion) CLASS CORRESPONDENT Peter Grant ’77 pete@grantcom.us

’78 Time for a quasi-baby boomer music-themed version of class notes for the 1978 crew. Randy Fiertz is still making sure we all “Fly Like An Eagle,” albeit from a different location. He and his wife Carol moved to Seattle last winter—after 18 years in Washington, DC, and two years in India—to enjoy the mountains and waters of the great Northwest. He is still with the FAA and responsible for safety oversight and federal grants for airports in seven states. “It is no coincidence that they all have great ski areas,” Fiertzy writes. …

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Kirk Siegel and his wife Martha got together with classmate Bob Biddle in August 2016. They met at the Cannon Tram parking lot and hiked to the summit of Lafayette in 1 hour and 59 minutes, Siegs says. “Great to catch up, and to re-live memories of Mr. Biddle (Bob’s late father and legendary Holderness English teacher Bill Biddle), like lugging alpine skis up the Franconia Ridge and skiing off the back side on spring corn.” … Scott Sirles, our own answer to Ted Nugent, reports that he and classmate Manly Ishwardas bought a lake house on Lake Warren outside of Keene. “The house is beautiful and has the nicest view and location right on the lake,” Scott says.

I guess we know where to host the next class get together, eh, Sirlesy? In other news, Scott reports that his granddaughter is now five and visited for Thanksgiving. “She is growing up fast and bigger than most her age,” Scott says of his granddaughter. “She is wearing size 7–8 clothes and is sharp as a tack.”

Scott says his golf game is getting better because he’s playing more

Kirk ’78 and Martha Siegel with Bob Biddle ’78 on the summit of Mt. Lafayette in August 2016

often these days. … Hal Hawkey says his life in “Rocky Mountain Way,” also known as Denver, is going well. “I’m still doing my financial planning/wealth management/insurance thing with Northwestern Mutual,” Hal reports. “My wife Jackie is still doing the private real estate investment thing with a group in Denver. My daughter Sarah is a junior at Elon University in North Carolina but is currently studying abroad in Prague for the semester.” Hal says he and Jackie spent Thanksgiving in Berlin and Prague visiting Sarah. The couple’s other daughter, Grace, is a senior in high school at Kent Denver, and has just learned that she was admitted to Elon, early

decision. Hal recently saw J.D. Hale, at a wedding in Vail. The wedding was for the daughter of a mutual friend, a classmate of Jud’s at Bates College. Some sad new for Hal, though. One of his cousins, Laurie Van Ingen ’72, died of cancer on November 30, in Durango, CO. … Speaking of Jud, both he and Chris Goodhue checked in with news and reflected upon our time at Holderness and the “Ties That Bind” our class together. First, the news from Goodie: “I’m still living in Central Massachusetts on Adams Pond Farm with my lovely wife of 26 years, Celeste.” Chris is a vice president with a NYC-based information technology think tank that focuses on helping senior IT exec-

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utives in large-scale global enterprises develop a more informed perspective on the evolution and impact of technology. His wife is a full-time executive recruiter running her own business. The couple has two boys in college and one in high school.

“Christopher William is a junior at Montana State University studying earth science,” the lad’s proud father reports. “He is an avid skier, biker, climber, photographer and all around adventurer. Sam is a freshman at the University of Utah, studying business. For the first time in many years, he spent the fall not on the gridiron running routes, but in the mountains on his bike rolling the single track. He’s loving it and is looking forward to carving up the Wasatch backcountry and shredding the terrain park in Park City this winter. Tom is a junior at Saint John’s High School in Shrewsbury, MA—studying hard, running cross-country, skiing, and playing lacrosse. I guess I had that much energy at one time.” Chris says his boys have a passion for music. “One of the highlights of being together are the jam sessions, which are especially memorable when their 93-yearold music-loving grandmother gets to hear them,” Chris says.

“We are still involved in threeevent water skiing and continue to host our regular tournaments in the summer at our site. But with the kids spreading their wings and doing other things, it’s not such a commitment anymore, and we’re finding time for other activities. Celeste is playing a lot of tennis and riles the competition throughout Massachusetts. I am spending as much of my free time as possible on two wheels, in the woods predominantly, with a dedicated local posse of younger riders. I can’t keep up, but it’s still fun trying.” He thinks of

Holderness alumni hiking in the Alps near L’alpe d’Huez, France. Left to right: (kneeling) Walter Dodge ’83, Charley Hanson ’83, (standing) Bob Zock ’85, a cardboard cutout of Mark Cavanaugh ’82, Chris Del Col ’83, George Samaras ’82, Peter Wensberg ’84, Jamey Gallop ’83

Ace Eaton ’87 and Tim Lesko ’87 at a Vikings vs. Giants Monday Night Football game in Minneapolis in early October 2016

Holderness frequently. “I drive by almost every weekend in the winter en route to our place in Franconia and reflect on what a special time it was for me, even though it was only a year and a half of my high school experience,” he writes. “The class of 1978 is a special band of brothers and sisters, and while I rarely see them these days, a special kinship remains. I’m grateful that a good number of us can at least stay in touch on social media.” … J.D. Hale was also in a reflective mood. “Life continues to evolve,” he says. “I thought as all the kids left our home, we’d be less busy. It just is not the case, not yet anyway.” Jud’s 26-year-old son Charlie is living in Los Angeles with his girlfriend, who is an actress; he is an executive in a 25person start up called Olumia, which is a health and wellness app. “Charlie manages the developers and tries to keep the money guys happy in St. Louis,” Jud writes. Son Dalonn, also 26, lives nearby in Medford, MA, with his girlfriend. “He works for Massachusetts Governor Charlie

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Baker coordinating and overseeing the state’s handicap requirements around the state,” J.D. says. Daughter Rosie, 24, lives out in Denver “near Hal [Hal Hawkey], near Whit [Don Whittemore], near Cush [Chris Cushing], and a few other alumni and is just loving the area. She hikes, ATVs, flies, skis on weekends, and works at a brand marketing company called Monigle as an associate manager for client experience,” Jud says.

The youngest Hale, Lace, is a senior at Connecticut College in New London. “She plays lacrosse, and sings a cappella with the Shwiffs, Connecticut’s oldest a cappella group,” Jud says. “She is looking to either teach or get into marketing—after some travel this summer.” The family’s dogs, Wily and Penny Lane “get me into the woods every day in the Fells Reservation,” Jud writes. J.D.’s wife, Cindy, is a senior vice president of marketing at KHJ Brand Activation in Boston’s Seaport District, where she works on healthcare accounts. “She is the most passionate person I know

and it applies to branding and her clients,” Jud says of Cindy. Of course, we all know that Jud is a big shot at Yankee Magazine, which he says is “doing well despite all the change.” Now for some reflections from Jud; his sentiment really touches my aging journalist’s heart: “I do think of my classmates at Holderness often,” he writes. “And I want to still all live together (again) when we age. I do not want to move to a retirement community someday— just a big house with you all and some of my like-minded guys that ride bikes with me around here.”

Jud ends his update by reminding all of us in the Class of 1978 that “we had something special up there at Holderness. It lives within each of us, whether together or not.”

CLASS CORRESPONDENT Luther Turmelle ’78 lturmelle@spc.global.net

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Redmond. Our winters are dedicated to the Gunstock Ski Club where the kids all race. I bumped into Jory Macomber and other Holderness people at the Killington World Cup.” … And an update from Laura Cooper Page: “My daughter Ellie ’20 is a freshman at Holderness and is loving it! We will spend much of the winter skiing up at Cannon and will stop in a lot at Holderness to see her hockey games.”

CLASS CORRESPONDENT Fred Ludtke ’84 ludtke4@gmail.com

’85 CLASS CORRESPONDENT Jean-Louis Trombetta ’85 jeanlouistrombetta@gmail.com

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In August, Daiyu Suzuki ’93 published a book on the neoliberal dismantling of the US public education system, people’s resistances, and their implications for Japan. It has been on Amazon Japan’s best seller list in the Study Abroad category ever since, and he hopes his book will be translated to English soon.

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CLASS CORRESPONDENT Greg White ’80 ggnh@aol.com

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’81 CLASS CORRESPONDENT Bill Baskin ’81 william.baskin.law.90@aya.yale.edu

’82 (reunion) CLASS CORRESPONDENT Chris Pesek ’82 952.303.4755

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Peter Hewitt worked with Duncan Thorne ’82 for a week in October 2016, building a home in Stow, MA. “He is neighbor to Sheila Finnegan ’82,” Peter noted.

“I would have visited with her if I’d had more time.”

Though I haven’t been on campus for 10 years, I’ve been getting frequent updates from my nephew Ben Jerome ’18. So much sounds the same! … I had a great night at the 50th birthday party of Braden Edwards ’85 in Sausalito, CA. He is looking great and is still very active in the Bay Area lacrosse community. … This summer I had some good tennis matches with Brett Weisel ’87. He still has a rocket forehand, but the backhand not so much. I see Brett and his wife Ellyn Paine Wiesel often.

Their kids are incredibly kind and generous and are frequent babysitters for our two kids, Alexandra and Theo. … My number one lunch recommendation for travelers to San Francisco is Jamie Faber’s Delessio Market and Bakery on upper Market Street. It is awesome! Jamie is always great to see and looks like he could compete in the Tour de France tomorrow. … I am looking forward to connecting with Jake Reynolds on the slopes at Sugar Bowl and finally grabbing dinner with Clay Dunn. Clay is back in San Francisco working for AMGEN. … Lastly, I received this solid update from Owen Hyland: “I’m still living in Exeter, NH, with my wife Molly and three kids, Martha (10), Henry (eight), and Charlotte (six). I work at Portolan Capital Management in Boston and have regular lunches with Greg

CLASS CORRESPONDENT Chris Zak ’86 chriszak@gmail.com

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Austin (Ace) Eaton was thrilled when Tim Lesko came to Minneapolis in early October. “He had an extra ticket to the Monday night game between the Vikings and Giants, so I tagged along. It was great to catch up with Tim and check out the new US Bank Stadium. Of course, the conversation often circled back to Coach Norm Walker!”

’88 CLASS CORRESPONDENT Steve Walker ’88 stevewalkeremail@gmail.com

’89 CLASS CORRESPONDENT Jen Murphy Robison ’89 jennifermrobison@yahoo.com

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CLASS CORRESPONDENT Lindsay Dewar Fontana ’93 linds_dewar@yahoo.com

CLASS CORRESPONDENTS Karyn Hoepp Jennings ’01 karynpjennings@gmail.com

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Adam Lavallee ’01 a.l.lavallee@gmail.com

CLASS CORRESPONDENTS Sam Bass ’94 samuel.g.bass@gmail.com

Sophie Moeller ’01 508.685.1682

Ramey Harris-Tatar ’94 rameyht@yahoo.com

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’95 CLASS CORRESPONDENT John Farnsworth ’95 jpfarns@yahoo.com

Annabelle Grace, daughter of Andrew Everett ’03

’90 Courtney Fleisher reports, “After 26 years as the official Holderness class correspondent for the Class of 1990, I have decided it’s time to pass the baton. Nina Cook Silitch has agreed to carry the torch next! In my final edition of notes, I find it fitting that my last entry is about having been back on campus for the first day of school this fall. On our way back to Vermont from Maine, my husband and I stayed with Phil and Robin Peck.

We kept them up past midnight reminiscing, but by the time Peter and I awoke to make our way up the mountains in Franconia Notch State Park to celebrate our anniversary, Phil had already done his AM workout and was dressed in school attire. Passing through Plymouth before heading north on I-93, we were treated to a run-in with Tracy McCoy Gillette ’89 in the Chase Street Market after she had dropped her daughter off for another year at Holderness. The generations

continue, don’t they? I want to express what a joy it has been staying connected to classmates in this role over the years.” …

From Oakland, CA, Mike McDonald expressed that he, his wife Laura, son Zade (8), and daughter Colette (5) would love to connect with other Bay Area Holderness folks. If you’re looking for a job, Mike encouraged connecting with him on LinkedIn as he’s a lead recruiter at Pandora!

’96 CLASS CORRESPONDENT Heather Pierce Roy ’96 heatherbpierce@hotmail.com

’97 (reunion) CLASS CORRESPONDENT Putney Haley Pyles ’97 putneypyles@gmail.com

’98 CLASS CORRESPONDENT Tara Walker Hamer ’98 taraphotography@gmail.com

CLASS CORRESPONDENT Courtney Fleisher ’90 courtneyfleisher@alumni.bates.edu

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CLASS CORRESPONDENT Brooke Aronson McCreedy ’99 brooke.mccreedy@gmail.com

CLASS CORRESPONDENT Terra Reilly ’91 sansivera@gmail.com

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CLASS CORRESPONDENT Andrew “Sully” Sullivan ’00 myireland20@gmail.com

CLASS CORRESPONDENT Kelly Mullen Wieser ’92 kelly@wiesermail.com

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Andrew Everett writes: “My wife Becca and I had a little girl, Annabelle Grace, in December 2015. She’s super active and always keeps us on our toes.” …

Channing Weymouth writes, “On August 27, I got married to Luke Warner and we had some Holderness peeps there, including my whole family (obviously) but also Chris Rodgers and Blake Barber ’01, who were groomsmen.

The Lockwood kids (Anna ’03, John ’03, and Eliza) were there as were Dave and Sally and lots of other Holderness faculty (current and former). The wedding was held in Middlebury, VT, at the property of a Holderness alumnus (Evan Warner ’04, Luke’s cousin).

Anyway, it was a really fun time, and we lucked out with a gorgeous, sunny day. Luke and I are living in Southborough, MA, with our boxer puppy, Bear. I work in admission at St. Mark’s School, coach field hockey and lacrosse, and run a tenth-grade boys’ dorm.

Life is crazy, but so fun!” … Ally Keefe reports, “I’m still living in Reno and working downtown as a RN in the emergency room. I was happy to get a lot of mountain biking in this summer along with a trip back East to see the family.

My little sister Brie ’05 is engaged and is planning her wedding for next July in Vermont. During the same trip, Melissa Adams and I decided we need to go on an

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Here is a picture from graduation in 2006. (L–R) Annie Muse Kearney, Molly Nissi, Krista Glencross, Meagan Paxton, and Tory Hayssen

Justin Ciampini ’03 apple picking in October with his wife, Fauve Castagna, and their son, Nicolas

The Class of 2006 at their junior prom

adventure together and booked a trip to Vietnam for this spring.

We’ll definitely send you a picture from our trip!” … Ave Cook notes, “Heidi and I are still in Shelburne with no plans to move anytime soon! After leaving Middlebury over the summer, Heidi started a new gig working with her dad at Shelburne Farms. There’s a steep learning curve, but I think she’s really enjoying the challenge. As for me, I’m still with LandVest and loving it. No surprise, our two kids are growing fast. Fia started first grade this year, and Holden is at the local Waldorf School for preK. We see Hedda ’00 and Ben a fair amount, as well as Dave Madeira ’03 and his wife Ori. I also still keep in touch with a bunch of the Holderness guys scattered across the country.” …

Joel Bradley writes, “Elissa and I have moved to Norwich, VT, where we are blundering through the lessons of owning our first house, and experimenting with rural life after four years in Portland, ME. We built a sauna, have figured out our wood-burning operation, and so far, are

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unscathed by the chainsaw. We are enjoying the dirt roads and local trails immensely. I am working with Dartmouth internal medicine and pediatrics residents and Geisel medical students as part of a chief year focused on health care quality improvement and patient safety—teaching, learning, and for the first time, working under my own credentials as a pediatric hospitalist at DHMC and an adult hospitalist at the VA in White River Junction, VT. I am having fun thinking about the problem of information management and narrative medicine in the electronic health record, conceiving of how to better represent the lives and histories of patients within the troubling morass of modern healthcare informatics. At least I am finally using my English degree. I have had modest success tracking down Amy and Todd Nordblom ’03 and Ben Rossetter over the last few months, but apart from a delightful but brief run-in with Chris Rodgers watching a world cup ski race last March in Quebec, I have had few Holderness sightings.” …

As for me, Betsy Pantazelos, I’m still in New York City and working for Patagonia. I’ve lured a couple of alumni to the company in the

Blair ’04 and Greg Monaco with their daughter Morgan

last couple of years including Linden Mallory ’01, who I see in California when out visiting the Patagonia corporate headquarters, and Kerry Douglas who has just started working for Patagonia, also in New York City. I had a blast several months ago at a Holderness gathering hosted by Pete Barnum and Bruce Barton. It was just morning coffee with a few alumni, but it was decidedly one of the best ways to start one’s day!

It’s always good connecting with everyone, so if you find yourself near me, please reach out to visit.

CLASS CORRESPONDENT Betsy Pantazelos ’02 b.pantazelos@gmail.com

’03 Congratulations to Justin Ciampini and his wife Fauve Castagna, who gave birth to their first child, Nicolas Joseph James Ciampini, on May 27, 2016.

CLASS CORRESPONDENT Nick Payeur ’03 ndpayeur@gmail.com

’04 CLASS CORRESPONDENT Ryan McManus ’04 rbmcmanus@gmail.com

’05 Jenn Calver writes, “I recently moved back to Vermont from Michigan and am working at Dartmouth College and loving it. I had a great time seeing lots of Holderness people at Ashley Saba’s wedding in October. I just bought a house in Quechee, VT! Small world: my realtor was Roger Clarkson, a 1971 Holderness graduate and great guy. And I just got engaged!” Congrats Jenn! …

Ashley Saba-Winders shares, “I married Dennis Winders in October; we first met at Holderness freshman year! We celebrated with other Holderness alumni: Brendan O’Riordan, Ben ’06 and Matt ’07 Tomaszewski, Luke Urban ’08, Jaime Pauley, Susan Taylor, Jenn Calver, Kit Henderson-Adams, and Hannah Hickok…and Brooke, Jess ’06, and Jack ’10, of course!” Congrats to Ashley and

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Dennis! … As for me, not much has changed! I’m still teaching seventh and eighth grade science in Montpelier, VT, and living just outside of Burlington (in Richmond). In addition, I’m looking forward to finishing my M.Ed. program in interdisciplinary studies of education at UVM this spring and getting married in July!

It’s always so great to hear from fellow alumni, so feel free to reach out anytime, either for class notes or if you happen to be in the Burlington or Montpelier area!

CLASS CORRESPONDENT Brie Keefe ’05 brie.keefe@gmail.com

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Ashley Babcock is now living in Jackson Hole, WY, where she gets to see Alex Martini, Tory Hayssen, Ryan Caspar ’05, and Caitlin Mitchell ’09 often. “I love my Holderness friends; they’ve helped make a comfortable transition for me,” she writes. “I am attending Teton Science School’s Graduate Program for Field Science and Education. I’m looking forward to competing in big mountain freeskiing this winter and skiing the Tetons! Sorry to have missed you all at the tenyear reunion this year!” …

Nicholas Schoeder is living in Boston with Paul Cocchiaro ’05.

He has been working as a freelance photographer and boat captain. … Tory Hayssen is living and working in Wyoming. … Jess Saba moved back to Boulder, CO, from NYC to work in the natural

Cory Himmer ’07, Jeff Rudberg ’06, and Tyler Gosselin ’07 at Cory’s wedding

foods industry. “I’m currently developing the Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Philanthropy programs at 1908 Brands and work with CPG clients independently through my marketing consultancy, Good Point Projects,” she reports. “Lately, I have spent quality time with Ashley Babcock, Bruce Hamlin, Tory Hayssen, and Nate Bloomfield as they pass through Colorado.”

(L–R) Susan Taylor Wasp ’05, Blair Thompson Bruning ’06, Hilary Nichols ’06, Anne Richardson ’06, and Tai Haluszka ’06 posed for a picture while celebrating Hilary Nichols’ ’06 engagement to fiancée David Burman in Brooklyn, NY, in September 2016.

’07 (reunion) David Seamans reports, “After graduating from Holderness in 2007, I moved to Charleston, SC, to attend the College of Charleston with Brett Phillips ’08.

I recently attended Matt Tomaszewski’s wedding in Orlando, FL, with the Saba family and Avi Aronson ’08. Congrats Matt! After a weekend of Holderness love, I thought I would give an update to the Holderness community. I graduated from CofC with two degrees—one in physics and one in economics. After spending four years as a senior portfolio advisor and financial advisor at Merrill Lynch, I earned my CFP certification and helped start an alternative asset management company, Drift Capital Partners. Our alternative private credit fund is taking advantage of the small to mid-size business lending space that big banks have abandoned. We are excited about supporting businesses

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Alumni gathered at a show at the Improv Asylum in Boston to honor the life and memory of James Conklin ’09, who passed away unexpectedly in October.

nationwide while returning attractive absolute returns to our clients.” … Tyler Stearns updates, “I graduated from Kenyon College in 2011. Then I married Lauren Maggart Stearns in August, 2014. I graduated from Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences with PharmD in 2015 and am now in my second year of a psychiatric pharmacy residency at the William S. Middleton Memorial Veteran’s Hospital in Madison, WI.” CLASS CORRESPONDENT Annie Hanson ’07 annie.e.hanson@gmail.com

’08 Baird Meem writes, “A year ago I made a career change from advertising to early childhood education and couldn’t be happier. I work at Barrow Street Nursery School in the West Village in NYC and wear many hats in my position as Enrichment Coordinator. I am still loving life in NYC and frequently see many Holderness friends. I hope to visit Holderness very soon!”

CLASS CORRESPONDENT Jessi White ’08 white.jessica.madigan@gmail.com

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Several decades of alumni gathered in Aspen, CO, to meet Head of School Phil Peck and Director of Snow Sports Ivar Dahl in January.

This hardy group of alumni gathered in Vail, CO, in January for some mid-winter powder skiing!

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CLASS CORRESPONDENTS Cecily Cushman ’11 ccushma1@conncoll.edu

Jenna Stearns graduated from Dartmouth in 2013 and spent the last few years living and working in Waterville Valley, NH. She is now in her first year of dental school at the University of New England’s College of Dental Medicine. … Sophia Schwartz notes, “I am living in Steamboat Springs, CO, where I am still skiing moguls and loving it! I traveled to Australia and Switzerland this year for on-snow training camps. In April, I am rafting the Grand Canyon with some college friends. Life is full of adventures!”

CLASS CORRESPONDENTS Meg McNulty ’09 mmcnulty@mail.smcvt.edu Allison Stride ’09 astride@elon.edu

’10 CLASS CORRESPONDENTS Abby Alexander ’10 abigail.jane.alexander@gmail.com

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Ashleigh Boulton ’10 amayboulton@gmail.com John McCoy ’10 jsmccoy92@gmail.com Em Pettengill ’10 ehpettengill@gmail.com

’11 Amanda Engelhardt has been living and working in Boston for nearly two years. “I work for a company started a few years ago by a Holderness graduate, which has been a fun connection,” she writes. “It’s been so great being in Boston with so many young alumni!” … Madeline Burnham notes, “I recently moved to Denver and do software consulting for Oracle.

I had so much fun at our five-year reunion, so thank you to all who made it happen. Recently Margaret Thibadeau, Amanda Engelhardt, Emily Starer, Gabbie Raffio ’10, Emily E. and I met up in Nashville for our own mini reunion which was a blast. I would love a Denver Holderness gathering!”

Mandy Engelhardt ’11 603.726.3087 Sam Macomber ’11 samuel.macomber@gmail.com Jamie McNulty ’11 jamcnulty20@gmail.com

’12 (reunion) After graduating from Georgetown in the spring, Kristina Micalizzi spent part of the summer in Greece and then in Boston before moving back to Washington, DC. She has been working at a global consulting firm there since August and loves being back in the city. … Isabelle Zaik writes, “I’ve had a busy few months! After graduating from Westminster College in May with a marketing degree, I spent some time traveling around Thailand and climbing. After that I traveled all around Oregon, Northern California, and settled in Bellingham, WA, for the summer.

I’m now back in Salt Lake City for

the winter working at Backcountry.com and also working at a cat skiing lodge in the Uinta Mountains.” … Patricia Porta Barbarin graduated from college with a degree in chemistry. … After graduating from Boston College, Samantha Cloud decided to stay in Boston and now works in sales at HubSpot. …

Abigail Guerra is in flight school in Pensacola. “So far I have soloed a small aircraft,” she writes. “I just finished Aviation Preflight Indoctrination Training which was seven weeks of intense academics and learning different survival skills, like escaping from a submerged inverted helicopter also known as the ’helo dunker’. Now I am in primary training where I am learning to fly the T-6.” … Gavin Bayreuther is a senior at St. Lawrence University and is finishing up a sociology degree. He is the assistant captain of the hockey team that competes in the ECAC. … Jules Pichette reports, “I graduated from college and then took some time off to travel around Europe and New Zealand.

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cool.” … Stephanie Symecko is living in New Hampshire and working for BAE Systems. “I’m still getting used to the full time job life,” she says. “I saw many alumni and faculty (Amanda Engelhardt ’11, Emily Starer ’11, Emily Hayes ’11, Chris Bradbury ’10, Lori Ford, Sam Macomber ’11, Jory and Martha Macomber, Janice Dahl, and many more) at the Women’s World Cup races at Killington in November! I’m looking forward to a winter filled with of lots of skiing.” … Julia B. Potter writes, “I’m currently working for the woman with whom I’ve worked since my freshman year. I started at her fashion showroom, but she’s since transitioned to design and launched her own affordable luxury handbag collection that is handmade in NYC and called MR. She is also launching Sarah Jessica Parker’s handbag line. I’m the production and logistics manager for MR. I oversee production, manufacturing, and vendor relations for both brands as well as administrative and customer relations for MR. It’s been fun being back in NYC.” … Josie Brownell moved to Sun Valley, ID, after graduation to work for an environmental non-profit. She will be coaching skiing this winter and can’t wait for her first winter out there! … Sara Mogollón loves her “bomb job at Bloglovin’.”

CLASS CORRESPONDENTS Matthew Kinney ’12 425.736.2586 Alex Leininger ’12 alexbleininger@yahoo.com Kristina Micalizzi ’12 kristina@micalizzi.com Steph Symecko ’12 ssymecko@gmail.com

The great Class of 2011 at their fifth reunion

’13 Elena Bird is a junior at Dartmouth College, studying environmental earth sciences, mostly focusing on climate and ice. “I participated in Dartmouth’s tenweek earth science field camp this fall,” she reports. “We traveled from the Athabasca glacier in Banff, Canada, down to the Grand Canyon, studying rivers, rocks, and glaciers along the way.

Now, I am en route to Antarctica to take part in a research project examining the mechanics of ice sheets. I am in New Zealand about to board a C-17 cargo aircraft that will fly us to McMurdo Station, Antarctica. In a week, we’ll continue on to the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, where we will examine a borehole left by the collection of an approximately two-mile deep ice core in 2009.

Our goal is to figure out how crystal structure and impurities in ice affect the flow of the ice sheet, and with that, help climate scientists find more accurate climate records in ice cores.” … Libby Aldridge writes, “I spent this past summer working as an intern for

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Tizzy Brown ’10 with her mother and Academic Dean Peter Durnan at the Head’s House Holiday Party in December

Planned Parenthood in Boston. I shared an apartment with my great friend and Holderness classmate, Mackenzie Maher. This spring I will be graduating from Tulane University with a B.S. in public health and a minor in history. This fall I began my Master of Public Health through Tulane’s combined degree program, so I will be staying in New Orleans until I graduate from this program in the spring of 2018.” … Kelly DiNapoli notes, “I cannot believe I am in my senior year at the University of New Hampshire!

Studying hospitality here has been a blast, and I have been able to experience more than I would have ever imagined through opportunities in my major. Now it’s time to look for a job and have a successful last semester of school and skiing!” …

“It’s crazy that my senior year is a third done now,” reports Jeff Hauser from Nicaragua. “I’m on a trip working with a variety of villages to help address water rights and women’s health—eye opening to say the least. Good luck to all the Holderness seniors, who are

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going through college applications!” … Jesse Ross is two semesters away from finishing his undergraduate degree in environmental engineering at UNH. He has been improving his basketball game in order to prepare for a rematch with Robert Sullivan.

CLASS CORRESPONDENTS Kelly DiNapoli ’13 kac288@wildcats.unh.edu Olivia Leatherwood ’13 olivia.leatherwood@gmail.com

’14 Corey Begley is a junior at Maine Maritime Academy. This is his third year as part of the MMA football program. … Becca Begley is at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, where she was named a Helen Heath Scholar. She is on the all-academic team, is captain of the women’s ice hockey team, received an Eastern College Athletic Conference athletic award, and was named to the ECAC athletic honor roll.

In November, when the World Cup Race was held at Killington, Holderness friends, family, and alumni gathered at the home of Tom Phillips ’75 P ’11 ’14 to celebrate.

their equity research before an open audience. A simple majority of all directors determines whether or not WIS buys or sells a position.” … Maggie Peake’s recent single “Gold” just hit 1 million plays on Spotify!

CLASS CORRESPONDENT Hope Heffernan ’15 hheffer1@villanova.edu

CLASS CORRESPONDENTS CoCo Clemens ’14 conner.clemens@hws.edu Tess O’Brien ’14 tmobrien@uvm.edu Samuel Paine ’14 sfpaine@gmail.com Garrett Phillips ’14 gwphil14@stlawu.edu Elizabeth Powell ’14 epowell@conncoll.edu Stephen Wilk ’14 802.786.2255

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’16 Alumni gathering on the Pemi during Reunion and Homecoming Weekend

’15 Joe Wen reports, “I started my college career in 2015 at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, VA, after graduating from Holderness. I developed an interest in finance during my first year at W&L and am now an accounting and business administration major. Recently, I have been admitted into the Williams Investment Society, which is a student organization that manages $10 million of the university’s endowment in equity securities.

WIS employs a top-down invest-

ment procedure to identify superior companies trading at reasonable prices. This begins with an analysis of the overall industry outlook, reflecting current economic conditions and forecasts. If the particular industry is deemed attractive, the industry groups then screen for and perform in-depth financial analysis of the companies. A series of procedural checks foster discussion and debate and help insure research quality. Before a position can be voted on, industry groups must present and defend

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 for more information. Thank you!

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From the Archives: Holderness War Letters by kelsey berry The following was presented to the Holderness community during the Veteran’s Day Chapel on November .

Memorials are curious to an historian. What is their purpose? To glorify war? To remember sacrifice? The men and women who fight in wars, and more often their leaders, become the heroes in a national story. But, as you may have heard from some of your history teachers, we should be wary of making heroes or villains in history. It is always more complicated than that.

In our popular collective memory, World War II is a “good war;” America won. America beat the bad guys, and let’s not be under any illusion that Hitler was not a bad guy. But this is too simple a picture. America also dropped two nuclear bombs, the only two that have ever been used. America also allied with Stalin, who was a brutal dictator and committed genocide.

To believe America fought World War II for idealism, morality or democracy is too simple, a Hollywood version of this human catastrophe.

I think nothing debunks the “myth” of the good war better than the fact that in , when a ship carrying Jewish refugees from Germany sought asylum, it was not allowed into the United States, despite pleas for help for the  refugees. The ship was sent back to Europe.

This is a war that has a presence in our world today. Take a closer look at the stained glass windows on the sides of the chapel. They are each in memory of Holderness alumni who died in World War II. Their medals are even included on the bottom of each pane.

In her history of the school, former archivist Judith Solberg wrote, “The school deferred its building plans at that time, instead asking for contributions to a special scholarship fund for child refugees from Europe. By September of , the school was hosting three English boys and two German refugees as a part of its own war work; it also invited two

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ABOVE LEFT: Ernest A. Giroux ’40, was born in France, but was a resident of Lexington, MA. In his letter, “Ernie” writes from somewhere in France in the fall of 1944, a few months after DDay: “Our work in France has been largely with refugees and their problems, and dealing with them as the military situation has demanded…My father has been in France longer than I have, operating with a British unit. I saw him once in England, and he turned up in Normandy on a motorcycle one day, covered with mud. He has had some interesting, and sometime dangerous assignments. I hope to see him again soon, and visit some places of family interests, particularly my birthplace.” ABOVE RIGHT: Dabney Stone ’36, in uniform at Holderness, wrote from somewhere in Java in the spring of 1942: “I can’t say much about our activities because of censorship, but we’ve had some of the most exciting adventures imaginable. I’m very happy; never thought I would enjoy war and danger, but most of it is more or less romance for me. Of course there are times when I am just scared to death, but they’re brief moments and don’t occur too often.” Dabney Stone was awarded the Air Medal for his part in the first mass flight of bombers to the Philippines. The medal was awarded posthumously as he died in the war.

Japanese-American students from American relocation centers.”

Also of note, for some Holderness alumni, their experiences in the White Mountains served them well. Four Holderness alumni served in the th Mountain Division, a ski troop in the Italian Alps.

Of the approximately  Holderness alumni who served in the war effort,  went missing or were killed in action by . Over half of those killed had graduated within the

previous five years. There was a memorial service in May of , and the notice of Hedley de la Broquerie Young’s death follows: “When Hedley came to Holderness in  his main ambition in life was to ski (and skiing he always loved), but that was before many of us knew quite so much about Hitler.”

Another window is dedicated to Robert McDuffie ’. His mother sent a letter to thenHeadmaster Edric Weld, enclosing her son’s recommendation for the Silver Star from the

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ABOVE LEFT: Bob Lovett ’44 writes from Batangas in the Philippines in 1946, the year after the war ended: “Went mountain climbing the other day to go through some Jap caves at the top. Had only been a month and a half since the last Japs had been driven to finally surrender. It’s surprising how some of them are still afraid of the Americans and would rather live three or four to a cave in the hills and prey on isolated native huts to get their food and supplies.” ABOVE RIGHT: US Army private Robert McDuffie ’44 (with friends) was a member of the “Blood and Fire” 63rd Infantry Division.

War Department in July of . She wrote, “I do not know how these boys have the courage to do the things they have done in this war. I suppose part of it is youth, but of course it is more than that.”

Below the pictures included with this article, are quotes from the young men, recent graduates of Holderness, who went to fight for their country. Their words are not edited, but excerpted to focus on their service. These letters are part of a largely unread collection in our archives. They are all addressed to thenHeadmaster Edric Weld and were written from all over the world.

Perhaps when we celebrate Veteran’s Day, this is our task: to listen, remember, and reflect rather than glorify, make heroes, or judge.

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Detail from two stained-glass panels, commemorating Robert McDuffie ’44, in the Holderness Chapel.

McDuffie was killed in action on March 16, 1945, while storming an enemy pillbox near Ensheim, Germany; he was posthumously awarded the Silver Star. Facsimiles of McDuffie’s award ribbons appear in the stained glass at the bottom (L–R): Purple Heart, Silver Star, Croix de Guerre, Good Conduct Medal, Combat Infantryman Badge, and European–African–Middle Eastern Campaign Medal.

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