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HOLDERNESS SCHOOL TODAY THE MAGAZINE OF HOLDERNESS SCHOOL WINTER 2015
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INSIDE: r Ready for the Long Haul r Reunion 2014 ITβS THE HOLDERNESS SCHOOL BIG DIG. SINCE SEPTEMBER, CONSTRUCTION CREWS HAVE BEEN DIGGING TRENCHES AND INSTALLING NEARLY 16,000 FEET (ABOUT THREE MILES!) OF PRE-INSULATED STEEL PIPE THAT WILL CARRY HOT WATER FROM THE NEW BIOMASS PLANT TO EVERY BUILDING ON CAMPUS. ABOVE, A CREW GETS READY TO CROSS MT. PROSPECT ROAD.
r Catching Up with the Campus
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NINTH GRADE IS ALL ABOUT TRYING NEW THINGS: NEW SCHOOL, NEW TEACHERS, NEW FRIENDS. AND INTO THAT MIX HOLDERNESS THROWS A ROPES COURSE. HERE PISETH SAM β18 WALKS ON A WIRE 20 FEET IN THE AIR AT LOON MOUNTAINβS ADVENTURE PARK.
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Ready for the Long Haul Every strategic plan needs time-tellers and clock-builders. Fortunately, Holderness has had both, and through their leadership and the input of literally hundreds of loyal supporters, Holderness has continued to grow and develop from a place of strength. Whatβs next? BY RICK CAREY
ABOVE: Taken just before Knowlton Hall burned in οοοο, this photograph focuses on the original center of campus with the Quad situated between the hall and the Chapel of the Holy Cross. To the right of Knowlton Hall stands a grove of elms that succumbed to Dutch Elm Disease in the following decades. More pictures of campus follow on page ο ο.
Reunion 2014 Smiles, surprised looks of recognition, and the warm embraces of old friends. Reunion and Homecoming Weekend is a special time of year at Holderness, made more special this year with the addition of Convocation.
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Itβs a view of campus few of us ever get to see ο¬rsthand. But thanks to aviators throughout the centuries, birdβs-eye views have been captured many timesβincluding the above photograph from 1931. In this article, take a look at the historical photos of what the campus used to look like, and then catch up with what it looks like today. BY EMILY MAGNUS
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D E PA R T M E N T S Board of Trustees Sandeep Alva Jonathan Baum Grace Macomber Bird Christopher Carney β75, Treasurer Russell Cushman β80 The Rev. Randolph Dales, Secretary Victoria Frei Nigel Furlonge Tracy McCoy Gillette β89, Alumni Association President Douglas Griswold β66 Robert Hall James Hamblin II β77, Chairperson Jan Hauser The Right Rev. Robert Hirschfeld, President Robert Kinsley β88 Richard Nesbitt Peter Nordblom Susan Paine β82 R. Phillip Peck Thomas Phillips β75 Jake Reynolds β86 Ian Sanderson β79 Andrew Sawyer β79 Jenny Seeman β88 Harry Sheehy Gary Spiess Poppy Staub β85 Jerome Thomas β95 Sander van Otterloo β94 HEADMASTER EMERITUS The Rev. Brinton W. Woodward, Jr. HONORARY TRUSTEES Warren C. Cook Piper Orton β74 W. Dexter Paine III β79 Will Prickett β81
3 From the Schoolhouse 4 From the Editor 5 03264: Letters to HST 30 Around the Quad 34 Sports 41 Update: Current Faculty and Staο¬ 46 Update: Trustees 48 Alumni in the News 59 2013β14 Report of Appreciation 80 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 Oο¬ce, PO Box 1879, Plymouth, NH 03264, or advancement@holderness.org. Β© 2013 Holderness School EDITOR: Emily Magnus β88 EDITOR EMERITUS: Jim Brewer ASSISTANT EDITORS: Rick Carey, Robert Caldwell, Stacy Lopes, Lauraine Paquin, Judith Solberg, Courtney Williamson, Amy Woods, Clay Dingman DESIGN AND PRODUCTION: Clay Dingman, Barking Cat Productions Communications Design
PHOTOGRAPHY: Emily Magnus, Courtney Williamson, Ken Hamilton, Art Durity, Liesl Magnus β17, Minh Tran β16 Holderness School Today is printed on sustainably produced, chain-of-custody stock certiο¬ed to Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) standards. HST is printed using only wind-generated renewable power, and inks derived from vegetable sources. ON THE FRONT COVER: Footprints outside of Weld Hall on a snowy winter morning.
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Building Our School At Holderness, we believe that everyoneβ every person, every program, and even the school itselfβshould be engaged in a leadership journey. Within that phrase, the word βjourneyβ is as important as the word βleadership.β A leadership journey cannot be purchased or won and it does not have a conclusion. The practice and the hard work involved in a personβs, or a schoolβs, life-long journey are what develop outstanding leaders. As youβll read in this issue, one of the most important ways we work to become good leaders is to schedule time into our routines during which we can critically reο¬ect. As John Dewey said, βWe do not learn from experience; we learn from reο¬ecting on experience.β At Holderness this means that every three to ο¬ve years we commit to creating and/or reviewing our strategic plan. We use the strategic plan to critically assess, benchmark, change, and dreamβbuilding oο¬ our strengths and correcting our weaknesses. The result of this school-wide mindset is a Holderness School that we hope is constantly evolving and is always in a state of becoming, becoming the best school we can be for our remarkable students and families. Over the years, a number of programs have developed out of our strategic plans including the van Otterloo Henderson Brewer Chair Program; the audit and review process for academic departments; the Montessori pre-school for employee children; and the Senior Thesis Program. The strategic planning process is also responsible for the renovations in Weld and the creation of the ο ο:ο dormitories (including Rathbun and Hoit). As we look ahead, there are programs, facilities, and human resources that youβll read about in this issue of hst that continue to build on our strengths. Take for example, the article on the leadership program that Duane Ford, dean of residential life (and also this yearβs recipient of the Distinguished Service Award), is developing and continues reο¬ne.
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The Distinguished Service Award honors an alumnus or alumna who has signiο¬cantly and positively aο¬ected the health and well-being of the school. From his exuberant teaching of the HOL-DER-NESS cheer to his passionate development of the leadership program, few give back to the school with as much enthusiasm as this yearβs recipient Dean of Residential Life Duane Ford β74.
There are also articles introducing a number of new staο¬, faculty, and trustees. They were asked to join the Holderness community because of their knowledge and skills; their leadership in the coming years will be essential for building our school in all the right directions. And even after graduation our students take their leadership roles seriously. Bro Adams βοο, Munchie Williams βοο, Jed Hoyer βοο , and Dexter Paine βοοβto name a fewβhave all become leaders in their given ο¬elds, and not just because they are smart. As individuals they have taken the time to plan strategically, focusing on accomplishing goals that do not deliver immediate results but instead require time to develop and ultimately produce better and longer-lasting resultsβjust like our strategic plan.
The past twelve months have been an exciting time at Holderness, as we have listened to a wide range of ideas, synthesized them, and developed a new planβone that is ο¬rmly rooted in tradition but seeks to advance the school. We look forward to implementing these plans that will make a Holderness education the best it can be and make Holderness School a leader in the independent school world.
Phil Peck Head of School
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Plan B
Ian MacIntyre β79 taxis across the Lower Fields during his visit to campus in September.
If I leaned far to the right, I could just see the end of the Lower Fields over the nose of the plane. As Ian McIntyre βοο pushed the throttle and guided the plane to sixty, seventy, eighty miles per hour, the wall of trees at the far end of the ο¬eld grew closer. But before I could panic, Ian tilted us skyward. Air lifted the wings, and we soared over the Pemigewassett River and I-οο. Looking north, only the oxbow lakes of the Pemi and a few farmersβ ο¬elds interrupted the endless view of the vast New Hampshire forests. Just that morning at ο:οο am when my alarm had gone oο¬, my day had stretched before me with predictability. There were photos to sort, articles to edit, and layout issues to solveβnot the least of which was to come up with a subject for a βCatching Upβ piece. The due date had been that day, and yet there were no interviews, no research, no photographs. I needed to cut the article and come up with a Plan B. Although it was still early in the fall, I secretly wished for a Headβs Holidayβjust a one-day break during which I could clear my desk and wrap my head around this unresolved issue. But by mid-morning, all predictability vanished. coo Steve Solberg received an email
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from an alumnus who wanted to land his plane on the Lower Fields. In return for the use of the ο¬elds, he was willing to help someone from Holderness shoot aerial photos of campus. Within minutes, a plan began to unfold. It would be me. I was the one who was going to ο¬y over campus. In the air, Ian unlatched the window, and as I leaned through the opening and focused my camera on campus, I repressed my memories of the conversation I had had with Ian ten minutes earlier. Just before takeoο¬, he had proudly explained that his plane was made almost entirely out of canvas and could easily be repaired with duct tape and parts from any napa auto parts store. Duct tape? Really? I focused instead on snapping as many photos as possible. It was my chance to help record campus at that moment in time. With over one hundred photos recorded, Ian guided the plane back to solid ground. The power of the engine and Ianβs excellent piloting skills had kept us aloft, but as we came down over the trees, I felt for a moment the air playing with the wings of the plane. It was a subtle reminder that it wasnβt just human power and ingenuity that allowed us to ο¬y above campus;
Mother Nature and her air currents had just as much control. It was with her blessing that we ο¬ew that day. With grass beneath our feet once again, I invited Ian and his wife Holly to campus for a tour. There were plenty of things I needed to do before the end of the day, but I didnβt want to miss the chance to trade memories with a fellow alumnus. The Hagerman Science Building was new when I was a student in οοοο, so Ian did not share my memories of the new labs and auditorium; but both Ian and I did recall studying in the basement book stacks when the library was in Livermore. Sit-down dinners in Weld were the same for both of us as wellβthe cobalt blue glasses and the big silver trays, the automatic doors leading in and out of pantry. Our conversation was laced with βDo they stillβ¦β and βI rememberβ¦β It wasnβt until I returned to my oο¬ce much later that day and began looking at the photographs from our ο¬ight that the pieces suddenly snapped together. Just the evening before, I had been looking at an aerial photograph of campus from the οοοοs. Our own aerial tour, while providing similar views, gave Ian a chance to catch up on all the changes to the campus since his graduation. There were others like him, I thought, who havenβt seen campus in thirty years or more. Would they like to βCatch Upβ with campus also? Plan B was established. Itβs not every day that the pieces of Holderness School Today fall so easily and beautifully into place, but Holderness does have an almost magical ability to provide. The daily work is sometimes grueling, the hours are sometimes incredibly long, but Holderness has never failed to oο¬er the unexpected at just the right moment. Itβs almost as good as a Headβs Holiday.
Emily Adriance Magnus βοο Editor, Holderness School Today emagnus@holderness.org
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Alumnae Respond to βOutstanding Female Leadersβ Feature
ABOVE LEFT: The cover of the last HST for which we received several words of praise for our coverage of women in leadership. ABOVE RIGHT: The headstone of Alice Jane Hinman next to Trinity Chapel decorated with autumnβs splendor.
From the Class of β59 The last issue of Holderness School Today brought an increase in letters. To begin, many responded to the magazineβs theme of women in leadership. Carolyn Campbell βοο wrote, βThank you for your thoughtful essay on women in leadership in the most recent hst. It parallels nicely with Emma Watsonβs comments to the UN in September: www.cbsnews.com /news/emma-watson-gives-powerful-speechabout-gender-equality-at-united-nations/. As a woman, the diο¬erences in how we think continue to become more clear to me. You [Phil] have always been and always will be one of the men who take it upon themselves to support the development of female leadership, and I commend you for your continued eο¬orts. There are many stories that I am sure you have heard and many stories that I could tell you about my experiences as a woman of sport, the sciences, and business. A closer look reveals a striking reality. Gender division is built into our culture.β Kate MacIlvain Smith βοο also responded to the article. βWhat a thought-provoking hst,β
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she wrote. βThe articles on women in leadership at Holderness and beyond were so exciting that I sent the kids to the basement to watch television as I read several excerpts of the articles out loud to Smitty. They evoked passion in me and gave me such reassurance that Holderness is looking at a very important issue in such a refreshing Holderness wayβno arrogance, no ignorance, and no victimizing the female. It was greatβ¦Phil Peckβs and Rick Careyβs articles remind me that while time has passed, issues are still there, and there is plenty of work to be done.β Lastly, Nina Perkins Newman βοο wrote, βI just received my copy of hst and loved itβ especially the focus on women in leadership. Working at an all-girls school, we discuss this topic often, and I feel blessed to have beneο¬ted from a Holderness education. I had a number of leadership opportunities, but in some ways it wasnβt the title or the role as much as the feeling that the faculty believed in me. I graduated feeling like I could accomplish anything and that expectations were high. I thought you
would be pleased to know that I have accepted the position of assistant head of school for institutional advancement and play a signiο¬cant role in ensuring that we are educating and empowering our girls. Our mission is that our students become (as our founder wrote) βwomen of conscience and action.ββ
More Praise for Alice Jane Hinman Rik Clark βοο was also moved to write to us. After reading about the passing of Alice Jane Hinman, Rik wrote, βDuring my three years as a student from οοοο to οοοο, Alice Jane, she was Mrs. Hinman to us students, and Coach Hinman were vital to what happened every day on campus. They were more than staο¬ and faculty; they were family to all of us with our bumps, warts, and acting out. For me and for my οοοο classmates, a link to our days as students is lost but not forgotten. What is so important to each of us is what she was to each of us and that, now, she is at peace.β
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of you have asked me, βWhat can I do to support Holderness?β β Many Hereβs what you are already doing. You come here for this weekend, many of you from across the countryβas far away as Alaskaβto greet each other and see your teachers. Hundreds of you have signed up to be Senior Thesis mentors. Ten of you are present or past trustees. Many more of you are past, present, and future parents of Holderness students. And hundreds of you also provide ο¬nancial support. You are already helping us by being the proof that Holderness isnβt just a once in a lifetime experience, rather it is an experience that lasts a lifetime.β β HEAD OF SCHOOL PHIL PECK, CONVOCATION SPEECH
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FROM THE 25TH AND 50TH REUNION YEARBOOKS: those moments are not impressive β Individually, enough to express. But together they have never left my memory and have inο¬uenced, in both an obvious and subconscious way, many of the decisions that I have made and continue to make every day.β β KATIE ZOCK-BUTTERWORTH β89 wasnβt a single experience but a series of β There experiences with the same man, Father Richard Payne. We had long theological discussions, often while wandering around campus at night, but sometimes in the chapel. These laid the foundation of my life spent pursuing Godβs truth.β β RICHARD EBERHART β64 runs through the New England landscape with β Long Phil Peck and crew were really the ο¬rst time I can remember the sensation of true inner peace through exercise and focus.β β TOM DONOVAN β89
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are all travelersβtime travelers reallyβand we are happy β You and feel honored to be your hosts. You are the folks who allow us to connect with our roots, to tell us things about this school and your experience that we otherwise would not know. That is a gift we gladly accept and embrace.β β DIRECTOR OF COLLEGE COUNSELING BRUCE BARTON, CONVOCATION SPEECH
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READY FOR THE LONG HAUL The 2014 Strategic Planβa.k.a. the β03 Strategic Plan 4.0βhas kicked into gear. Itβs a plan that reο¬ects both this moment in Holderness School history and the low-proο¬le visionary behind it all. BY RICK CAREY
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o sooner had the horizon presented itself to newly-appointed Head of School Phil Peck in 2001βwhen he succeeded the retiring Pete Woodwardβthan he began rising on tiptoe, straining to peer over it. He began asking people within the community what sort of place they might like Holderness to be in, say, ο¬fteen years. They were asked to be bold in their dreams for the school, to submit what Phil called BHAGsββBig Hairy Audacious Goals.β Hereβs what some of them proposed: r βAs best as we are able, given geographic and ο¬nancial realities, we will embrace and promote diversity as a goal in attracting and retaining our student body (e.g., gender, cultural background, geography, religion)β¦.β r βWe will mandate a public academic presentation by every student every year (e.g., senior speech, newspaper, arts, etc.).β r βWe will address day care concerns for faculty and staο¬.β r βWe will increase non-tuition revenue to cover roughly 25% of annual expenses (e.g., the Holderness Fund, major gifts, alumni, parents of alumni, grants, and planned giving).β r βWe will make our school more like home by improving the quality of residential life along the βSargent Modelβ (i.e., addition of common rooms, increased faculty housing, 8:1 student faculty ratio, elimination of Hill dormitories across Rt. 175).β
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r βWe will upgrade speciο¬c athletic facili-
ties (e.g., artiο¬cial turf, enclosed rink).β r βIncrease size of Chapel and Weld to accommodate our entire community.β r βSubstantially raise endowment to support people, programs, and facilities.β This particular roster was compiled by a group of faculty and board members during a brainstorming session led by then acting Academic Dean Jory Macomber. Similar lists came from groups led by Dean of Faculty Mike Henriques β76 and board members Piper Orton β74 and Kristin Nordblom β79. Phil also met with students, and he rather expected to encounter BHAGs related to food, sports, dress code, or intervisitation. Instead no less than two thirds of the students wanted more rigor in the math and science curricula. They were all part of a small army of stakeholders, what might be described as the Mother of All Committees, whose ultimate goal was to make such dreams as tangible as possible. It was a process unprecedented in Holderness history, and it explains a great deal about where we are today.
RESCUED FROM CATASTROPHE Phil Peck didnβt invent the idea (or the acronym) of a BHAG. It came out of an inο¬uential 1994 book by Jim Collins and Jerry Porras, Built to Lastβa book about not just success in the business community, but enduring success. It approaches that sub-
ject by working backwards: ο¬rst, ο¬nd eighteen companies who have achieved such success (Apple, Boeing, Sony, etc.); second, ο¬nd whatβs common to their cultures, planning, and decision-making processes. Then youβll be on to something. One such common element, the authors found, is a willingness to dream bigβto posit goals that bristle with ambition. As an example, Collins and Porras cite Boeingβs decision in the 1950s to bet on an expensive new technology (jet aircraft) in dominating a very underdeveloped commercial airline market. Way back in 1879, Holderness School began with a BHAG, you might say, and within it the germ of a strategic plan: to become one of the best independent schools in New England, but to do so charging a tuition substantially lower than that of other schools. The ο¬ery 1882 destruction of the Livermore Mansion, the new schoolβs classroom/dormitory building, put an immediate crimp in that plan. The mansion was replaced by Knowlton Hall, and through the ο¬rst two decades of the 20th century, Rector Lorin Webster made a name for Holderness by showcasing its athletic teams and choirs. Then an underinsured Knowlton Hall burned to the ground in 1931, just as a new head of school, The Rev. Edric Weld, moved into the rectory. This was much more than a crimp. Another idea out of Built to Last is the distinction the authors draw between βtime-tellingβ and βclock-buildingβ at the
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When Knowlton Hall burned to the ground in 1931, Holderness took the time to create an entirely new plan for the layout of the campus. The above building, sketched by architect Jens Fredrick Larson, was designed to replace Schoolhouse. Larson proposed that the left wing of the building contain an auditorium and dorms; the center and right side of the building house classrooms; and the right wing also contain dorm rooms. While the strategic planning was philosophically solid, the funds to construct this building were never raised, and Schoolhouse remains at the center of campus to this day.
leadership level. The former, write Collins and Porras, means βhaving a great idea or being a charismatic visionary leader,β while that latter involves βbuilding a company that can prosper beyond the presence of any single leader and through multiple product life cycles.β Both approaches work, but clock-building, they say, is a better bet to work longer. Soft-spoken and absent-minded, Edric Weld could not be described as immediately charismatic. The visionary part was there, though. Weld stood ο¬rm against a board of trustees inclined towards closing the debtridden school. He was convinced that Holderness could bounce back, even if it meant dipping into his own family money (and his wife Gertrudeβs) each yearβwhich it did. And even if it meant putting all students to work doing maintenance and clean-upβwhich it did. Sometimes charisma manifests itself slowly, as a function of character, and in fact Weld acquired charisma through two decades of extraordinary commitment and resolve and through the devotion he elicited from his students and faculty. He
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replaced Knowlton Hall with Livermore Hall, a building designed by famed architect Jens Fredrick Larson, and even in the midst of the Depression he built the schoolβs ο¬rst dedicated dormitories, Niles and Webster, classic structures also designed by Larson. A 1936 master plan called for a new heating plant, and the construction of more Larson buildings: two additional dormitories to mirror Niles and Webster on the other side of the playing ο¬elds, and a classroom building to balance Carpenter Hall on the other side of the Schoolhouse. βIt will be noted that this Development Program contains no provision for endowment,β wrote Weld. βWhile such a fund would be a great asset, the Trustees have after careful deliberation decided to seek to provide ο¬rst, the buildings, facilities, and teaching staο¬ required to enable Holderness to oο¬er to one hundred boys each year an education of the highest standard at moderate cost.β It was a wonderful exercise in vision, and the campus-that-could-have-been is lovely to behold in Larsonβs drawings. But Holderness had not a penny in its endow-
ment, and Weld could only procure enough money for the heating plant. By the time of his retirement in 1951, the rector had concluded that providing βan education of the highest standardβ at below market cost really didnβt qualify as a βgreat idea,β as Collins and Porras use the phrase. Weldβs parting advice to his successor, Don Hagerman, was to raise tuition. This next headmaster arrived on campus with built-in charisma. Talk to him, and you knew you were the most important person in the world to him at that moment. His great right hand would swallow yours in a handshake, and you knew its warmth was real. Don was also far-seeing enough to know that Weld was right about the money. Over the 1950s, Don and his trustees slowly raised tuition, and also enrollment. Subsequently they chose to keep dormitories and faculty residencies small and home-like, beefed up the snow sports program, built Weld Hall and the Bartsch Athletic Center, and in the 1970s conducted the schoolβs ο¬rst successful capital campaign. A small and modest
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BUT PHIL PECK WAS ADAMANT. βITβS GOING TO BE OUR PLAN, NOT MINE,β HE REPLIED. βWE ALL NEED TO OWN IT.β endowment was born, though the school remained in debt.
A NEW HOLDERNESS, AND AN OLD ONE Meanwhile, Don Hagerman didnβt know what to do about coeducation. In 1969, he agreed to admit Hannah Roberts, the daughter of math teacher Larry Roberts, on an experimental basis. A small number of other girls were admitted during the 1970s on the same basis. Meanwhile committees were formed, studies commissioned, polls conducted, reports handed in. But the school remained sharply dividedβand stubbornly indecisiveβon the issue. Even during the interview process in 1977, Donβs successor, The Rev. B.W. βPeteβ Woodward, said truthfully that heβd be happy to lead Holderness as either a boysβ school or coed. βOnce I got on the job, though, I became convinced that Holdernessβin the long runβwould be a better school if it were coed,β Pete says. βAt the boardβs second meeting that year, I said as much. One of the trustees turned to me and said, βWell, I knew this would happen.ββ Indeed that was the tipping point. There would be no more committee work on the matter. The headmasterβs recommendation swung the board to a ο¬rm majority in favor of the new model, and in the spring of 1978 the Holderness School for Boys became simply a school. βI wish there had been widespread consensus in the community about that move, but there wasnβt,β Pete says. βAnd if I had waited for that consensus to exist, it might never have happened, or else happened too late for us to compete with other schools going coed.β Pete was similarly swift and decisive on another controversial topic of the timeβ
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religion. βIf itβs not going to be an Episcopal school,β Pete had said to the trustees during a job interview, βI donβt want to come.β During the Hagerman years the chapel had grown quiet, but Pete immediately reinstituted mandatory chapel attendance twice each week, and in 1978 brought back the theology requirement for graduation. In fact these aroused more protest within the community than coeducation, but Peteβ secure in his vision for the school, and with enough support from the trusteesβrode it out, and within a few years the chapel was again an integral part of Holderness. Peteβs own charisma played no small role in the success of these initiatives. He settled in with all Don Hagermanβs expansive warmth, and also a touch of genius at the podium. Listening to his self-eο¬acing humor and his sure instinct for just the right phrase, you couldnβt help but want to pitch in and work with this guy. The longterm commitment was there as well, as it had been for Weld and Hagerman: charisma, in other words, that both sparkled and slow-burned. And once the shouting had died downβ once Holderness had settled into its new identity as a coed school and its old identity as an Episcopal oneβthe headmaster was able to ease into a style of leadership that drew more on support and buy-in for new initiatives, at least from the most immediate stakeholders. A service requirement was implemented, and Out Backβborn during the Hagerman yearsβ was supplemented with the rest of todayβs Special Programs. Pete eventually worked fruitfully with committees of trustees and faculty in planning and carrying out two great capital campaigns, one in the 1980s, another in the
1990s. These not only raised such buildings as the Hagerman Center, the Alfond Library, the Gallop Athletic Center, and Connell Dormitory, they vastly increased the schoolβs resources for ο¬nancial aid, built up the endowment, and at last retired its debt. When Pete retired in 2001, he left to Phil Peck a school that, after 120 years, had at last been rescued from the catastrophes of the Livermore Mansion and Knowlton Hall. Holderness was secure, prosperous, and comfortable in its own skin. So Phil was next in line after a series of three brilliant, long-tenured, inspirational leaders. You could have forgiven him for walking into the headβs oο¬ce, looking out the window, shrugging his shoulders, and wondering, βNow what?β But instead he stood on tiptoe, ready to try something completely diο¬erent.
A MORE NIMBLE PLAN John Bird, who came to campus as a consultant and the point man of Philβs new eο¬ort, knew just what to do. In the 1980s he was head of Tulsa, Oklahomaβs Holland Hall School at a time when a woman named Susan Stone was the vice president of his board of trustees. Together they became among the ο¬rst to adapt a new business-based model of strategic planning to the independent school environment. Ms. Stone, in fact, would go on to write one of the textbooks still used for this process, 1987βs Strategic Planning for Independent Schools. βThe emergence of strategic planning in higher education coincided with the diο¬culties experienced throughout education in the β70s and β80s when endowments began to ο¬uctuate, student demographics changed, and funding became inconsis-
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HISTORIC STRATEGIC PLANS STRATEGIC PLANNING IS NOTHING NEW. Our Founding Fathers did it in 1787 when they created a plan for our new government, and so did Frederick Olmsted and Calvert Vaux in 1858 when they proposed a design for Central Park that according to Olmsted was βthe ο¬rst real park in this countryβa democratic development of highest signiο¬cance.β These men and women, not unlike those at Holderness, envisioned something greater than themselves and set out to bring their ideas to life. While not always popular or well-known at the time of their creation, some of the greatest strategic plans changed the course of history. Below are just a few of the greats: r 1066: KING WILLIAM THE CONQUERORβS DOMESDAY BOOK was a survey of the
Crownβs holdings throughout England and the taxes due. It was used primarily for reasserting the rights of the Crown after the Norman conquest. r 1600: THE EAST INDIA COMPANY ROYAL CHARTER was granted by Queen Elizabeth
I and later renewed by James I. It gave the group a 15-year trade monopoly that was parlayed into a global empire lasting over 270 years. r 1787: THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES set forth a plan for an independent
government that not only provided stability to the new nation but also allowed for change and growth. r 1858: THE GREENSWARD PLAN, PROPOSED BY OLMSTED AND VAUX, was used to expand
and improve New York Cityβs Central Park. r 1944: DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERβS NATIONAL SYSTEM OF INTERSTATE AND DEFENSE
HIGHWAYS funded the construction of interconnected national highways, setting up cooperation among the states and providing for military mobility, emergency evacuation, and interstate commerce. r 1948: THE MARSHALL PLAN, OR EUROPEAN RECOVERY PLAN, was a four-year plan
that was established to help rebuild European economies after WWII.
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tent,β says Assistant Head of School for Institutional Advancement Robert Caldwell. It all began with the universities, but very soon independent secondary schools joined the eο¬ort to adaptβalbeit with some diο¬cultyβcorporate strategies to this more volatile environment. A central element of this new planning model was the good news/bad news SWOT process, with the acronym standing for Strength/Weakness/Opportunity/Threat. βYou start with articulating the good things that a companyβor schoolβis doing, and then the things that itβs not so good at,β says Leslie J. Pelton, the principal of LJP Consulting. βThen you look outside the organization. What sort of opportunities are out there on the horizon, and what sort of dangers are lurking there as well?β Itβs a neatly systemized way of navel-gazing and weather reporting all at once, but its success depends on the quality of your information. Leslie continues: βOne good way to get that information is to gather the organizationβs stakeholders and get them all into the same room. Thatβs not so hard with a business, but with a schoolβwell, itβs run by the head, its board, and its administrative teams, but it has so many diο¬erent owners and stakeholders beyond that, and so many diο¬erent perspectives to oο¬er by way of information.β βIn a school, unlike a corporation,β adds Robert Caldwell, βpower is very diο¬use.β Indeed that phrase βso manyβ was, to Phil Peck, the key to it all, because in fact power was shared that broadly. As he and John Bird surveyed the ranks of stakeholders, as they began picking out a cross-section that would represent faculty, staο¬, students, parents, alumni, trustees, and friends of the school, Phil insisted on a big cross-sectionβas many as seven hundred people, all told. Too many and too unwieldy, advised John, who had seen the planning process stall at other schools working with much smaller groups. But
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Phil was adamant. βItβs going to be our plan, not mine,β he replied. βWe all need to own it.β Among the throng was Piper Orton β74, who had been one of those girls admitted by Don Hagerman on an experimental basis. By 2002, when the strategic planning process really started, Piper was treasurer of the board of trustees, an experienced leader of non-proο¬ts, and someone also well-versed in these new methods. If John Bird was uneasy about the size of this committee, Piper was worried about the many sizable interest groups it contained. βYou have to make choices,β she says. βThere might be ten different things that your organization does, and certain constituents will really value certain of these things, andβespecially if you have a very inclusive processβthere will be demands that all these things appear in the plan. With so many diο¬erent points of view to capture, you run the risk of not being bold enough in terms of what your goals try to accomplish.β There will also be an urge, from one quarter or another, to impose a hierarchy on those goals. βBut you canβt do that,β says John Bird. βAny goal in a strategic plan has to be top priority. A sequence is okayβο¬rst this, then that. But you canβt support one goal as more important than another. Itβs all crucial, or it shouldnβt be there. And you certainly donβt want anything in there just for PR purposes.β So a group a good deal more numerous than the New Hampshire legislature was assembled in the fall of 2002, though not at all at onceβinstead in various subcommittees, as it were, many in themselves cross-sections of the whole. There were wrong turns, cul de sacs, and switchbacks. But by the following spring, without undue controversy, ο¬ve broad goals had been hammered out and agreed upon. In themselves, the goals were more or less as general as Piper had feared, but the
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A second drawing by Larson that appeared in the 1932 strategic plan was labeled βSocial House.β This building was designed to contain the rectory, library, inο¬rmary, dining hall, game room, and oο¬ces. It was erected and henceforth named Livermore Hall in 1932, and in the decades since then it has served the Holderness community in each one of these capacities.
magic was in the objectives listed beneath each goal, objectives that were narrowly targeted and gave at least tentative substance to many of the BHAGs that had been ο¬oated in discussion: βEmbrace and support school-wide diversityβ; βProvide more public opportunities to celebrate the life of the mindβ; βReassess the importance and feasibility of aο¬ordable on-campus daycareβ; βRaise the level of annual fund giving by twenty percent a yearβ; βAssess what adjustments must be made in the facilities of the residential communityβ; βEnsure that Weld Hall and the chapel are able to accommodate the entire school communityβ; βReview and strengthen curricula, particularly math and scienceβ (thank you, students); and more. Trustee Gary Spiess was board chair then, and co-pilot with John Bird of that whole process. He looks back at the β03 Strategic Plan and says, βIn certain respects, that plan was primitive, especially when you consider how far weβve come since then. For one thing, it didnβt really provide direction to the administrative teams on how to achieve those objectives. We just left it to them to ο¬gure it out.β But it demonstrated that the process could work, that all those people really
could be brought into line behind ο¬ve major initiatives, and could also be bold in what was to be pursued under the aegis of those initiatives. And best of allβinstead of being put in a binder and stored on a shelf, the fate of so many strategic plans at other organizations, once the shouting has died downβthe plan was put to work, slapped on the table for progress reports at the start of each administrative team meeting in succeeding school years. It helped, of course, that the document had wholesale community ownership. None of those administrative teams felt like they were outside the process, that this had been imposed top down. It also helped that Phil had not only promised a review and revision process in ο¬ve years, he also left the plan open to revision on the ο¬y. And with that, the great capital campaigns of the last three decades of the 20th centuryβand the strategic planning associated with themβfaded into Holderness history. βUnder the old model, youβd lock onto a certain goal and raise money on behalf of it,β says Robert Caldwell. βBut then if something changesβ in the school, the environment, the marketβthat goal may suddenly be less CONTINUED ON PAGE 24
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PLANNING STRATEGICALLY Holderness has had a long history of thinking strategically. Take a look in the Holderness Archives, and plans for the future of Holderness stretch back to the early 1900s. Many of the plans for the school reο¬ect the times, echoing the voices of diο¬erent eras and diο¬erent ideals. However, at their core many of the plans return again and again to the schoolβs founding principles. While the words of the past are more elegantly composed than todayβs curt bullet points and declarative sentences, many of the goals remain eerily similar. Side by side, hereβs how the plans measure up. ON COMMUNITY r 1936: βThe school plan calls for additional buildings suο¬-
cient to accommodate one hundred boys. Beyond this number the school as a matter of policy does not intend to grow. Springing directly from its small size are advantages which Holderness School has capitalized to the fullest extentβ¦There is nothing of the βinstitutionβ about Holdernessβ (Excerpted from a 1936 bulletin: βHolderness School: What it is What it Plans to beβ). r 2014: βWe cultivate the bonds that unite us and the role that those relationships play in elevating learning and how we liveβ (the ο¬rst of three core values adopted in the 2014 Strategic Plan).
ON RELIGIOUS STUDIES r 1936: βCommencing with the youngest boys in the second
form, a course in religion is a regular part of the curriculum in each of the ο¬ve forms. The titles of these courses are suggestive: The Use of the Bible and Prayer Book; The Life of Jesus Christ; A Survey of the Bible Stressing the Development of Religious Ideas; History of the Christian Church; and The Christian Approach to the Problems of Todayβ (1936 Bulletin). r 2014: Students must take at least one semester-long theology course. Course choices include World Religions and Theology and Ethics (from the 2014β15 Curriculum Guide).
ON A HOLDERNESS EDUCATION r 1936: βBoys are trained to think accurately. They are provided
with essential foundation material in the form of concrete information. They learn the value of studying the past in order to understand the present and steer a wise course for
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the future. They develop an intelligent sensitivity to the changes taking place in the world todayβ (1936 Bulletin). r 2014: βIt is imperative to educate global citizens and to foster the connections, understanding, and sense of responsibility that will be required to achieve this goalβ¦We will integrate concepts of social justice, speciο¬cally notions of empathy and fairness, throughout our curricula, seeking to promote understanding of how to learn and lead in a complex, inter-connected world, and to educate our students toward a richer humanityβ (2014 Strategic Plan).
ON WINTER SPORTS r 1932: βAlong with the development of the mind will go the
development of the body, and a taste for outdoor lifeβan appreciation of its invigorating and refreshing qualities. The woods, which run right down to the school, the rolling hills, and the dry northern winters make it possible for Holderness to specialize in winter sports. The school is especially fortunate in having as one of its younger trustees John Carleton, a former member of the American Olympic Winter Sports Teamβ (Excerpted from a 1932 Bulletin). r 2104: βDesign and implement initiatives to enhance Holdernessβs position as the leading boarding school snowsports program in the United States by pursuing, at a minimum, the following initiatives: build a new Eastern free skiing program; improve coaching strength and school training schedules; and continue to partner with key stakeholders to ensure the long-term success of the Mittersill training facilityβ (2014 Strategic Plan). r 1936: Every boy is expected to devote his afternoon to out-
door exercise of some sort, whether it be touch football,
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WINTER SPORTS CIRCA 1936: A VIEW OF THE TRIPYRAMIDS FROM THE NORTHERN SLOPES OF MT. TECUMSEH (TODAYβS WATERVILLE VALLEY SKI RESORT).
trying for a varsity team, hiking, horseback riding, or whatever other occupation may be in season. In winter it is skiing and skating, and Holderness boys donβt care what the temperature is a long as it is below freezingβ (1936 Bulletin). r 2014: βWe will develop a multi-sport full-participation athletic performance program focused on supporting the 21st century athlete and build a state-of-the-art ο¬tness center for allβ (2014 Strategic Plan).
ON CLASSROOMS r 1936: βA third need is a new classroom building to supple-
ment the wooden schoolhouse that has served the school so well almost since its founding. Physics and chemistry are now being taught in cramped laboratories in the gymnasium; there is no room in which music and piano practices can be held without disturbing other activitiesβ (1936 Bulletin). r 2014: βBuild a science facility devoted to innovative and collaborative learning that will not only transform our sci-
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ence curriculum, but all of our campus spaces through thoughtful landscape, building, and classroom designβ (2014 Strategic Plan).
ON THE ENDOWMENT r 1936: βIt will be noted that this development program con-
tains no provisions for endowment. While such a fund would be a great asset, the trustees have after careful deliberation decided to seek to provide ο¬rst, the buildings, facilities, and teaching staο¬ required to enable Holderness to oο¬er one hundred boys each year an education of the highest standard at moderate costβ¦If Holderness is true to its high calling, gifts and legacies from loyal alumni, grateful parents, and true friends will build an endowment fundβ (1936 Bulletin). r 2014: The Endowment of Holderness School currently stands at $47,820,681.00.
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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 21 appropriate. This way, by working in concert with a strategic plan that is always reevaluating its objectives and has ο¬exibility to respond to such changes, you can be much more nimble in your advancement eο¬orts in support of those goals.β This meant that in the Advancement oο¬ces in Livermore, there was no more ο¬nish line, as there had been with those capital campaigns. βInstead we work constantly hand-in-hand with the academic departments, the administrative teams, to help create the infrastructure they need on an ongoing basis,β Robert adds. βItβs very process-driven.β It also neatly aligns with another ο¬nding from Built to Last: successful organizations leave room in their planning for experimentation, trial and error, and quick changes of direction.
MAGNETIC NORTH Indeed the β03 plan was revised in ο¬ve years, in 2008, as Phil promised. Piper Orton was board chair then, and she partnered with John Bird in leading hundreds of us once again through that process. Regarding the ο¬exibility and opportunism displayed by Apple et al., Collins and Porras write that an organization βmust be prepared to change everything about itself except its basic beliefs.β And a great part of the β08 process involved the schoolβs basic beliefsβdeο¬ning, clarifying, rendering them more accessible, and therefore also more permanent. The schoolβs mission statement, several pages long, was condensed into a single paragraph. A half dozen core values were deο¬ned and set down into language that the hundreds could support. But by then, every ο¬ve years seemed like a long time. βJust recently, ο¬ve to ten years was the norm for the life of a strategic plan,β says Leslie J. Pelton. βThen that
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shrank to ο¬ve to seven, and now itβs more like three to ο¬ve.β Weβll take three. βThatβs good for accountability as well,β says John Bird. βHeads change, board membership changes, but if you have a plan for a threeyear timeline, youβve got to act on it. You canβt lay it aside for whoeverβs next.β In 2011 Leslie teamed with Board Chair Will Prickett β81 to arrive at a third iteration, and the 2014 Strategic Planβversion 4.0β has been produced under the leadership of board chair Jim Hamblin β77 and former trustee Will Northrop β88. The mission statement is now a single muscular sentence, and the core values have been condensed to three: Community, Character, and Curiosity. Itβs all on behalf of keeping these beliefs front and center. βLanguage thatβs lengthy and complicated is harder to rearticulate,β notes Robert Caldwell. βItβs got to be succinctβand inspirational.β Of course weβre now on the eve of that year back in 2002 when groups of faculty and trustees were asked to come up with Holdernessβs big hairy dreams for the future. And how have the three previous versions of the Strategic Plan performed in moving us along toward the dreams, say, of that Macomber group? Pretty darn well, as it turns out. Diversity? The enrollment now includes students from 23 states and 19 countries, with 16 percent hailing from abroad. Public academic presentations? The whole senior class now undertakes Senior Thesis, with each student at the end leading a seminar in which to share and defend his or her ο¬ndings. Day care concerns? Faculty families have available to them now, on campus, not just a day care facility, but a Montessori school. Non-tuition revenue growth? That part of the schoolβs revenue now covers 27 percent of its expenses. A school more like home, with an 8:1 studentfaculty ratio in the residences? That now exists nearly campus-wide, with the con-
struction of the Pichette and Woodward Faculty dorms, and the renovations of Hoit and Rathbun. Upgrading athletic facilities? Low Field is artiο¬cial turf, though the school has resolved that the renovated hockey rink will remain unenclosed. Fitting the whole community into Weld Hall and the Chapel? Weld has been renovated to accommodate us all, though Chapel has been tweaked to do so only by replacing its pews with folding chairs. Itβs not precisely everything that this group (and others) laid down on paper, but itβs nearly so. And the tougher math/science courses that students requested? A process of curriculum enhancement, departmental audit, and intra-department evaluation has made those departments as rigorous as any in the school. So what now in 2014? βAt this point weβre standing on the shoulders of giants,β says Will Northrop of the document proceeding out of the committee work of this summer and fall. βBut this is still a stretch, a challenge to the whole community to take some very large steps forward. There are no slam dunks here.β The planβs vision statement has shrunk from the original three paragraphs to a terse single sentence: βHolderness School will redeο¬ne leadership and intellectual development, preparing all for their journeys in a changing world.β To Jim Hamblin, that word βredeο¬neβ is the crux of it, the spark plug to a new and even more powerful motor. βBasically every element of this plan is a BHAG, or near to it,β he says. βWeβre staying within our traditions, our values, but building on our strengthsβ student leadership, outdoor education, project-based learning, multi-sports athletics, and so forthβto redeο¬ne how these things are done in a global, fast-changing world, and to establish Holderness as magnetic north for where you go to ο¬nd the best models for these programs.β
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βTHERE ARE A LOT OF PHILANTHROPIC CHOICES OUT THERE, BUT WHAT DISTINGUISHES THE MOST COMPELLING IS AN ESPECIALLY BOLD AND INSPIRATIONAL VISION. THATβS WHERE PEOPLE SEE THE OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THE THINGS THAT MATTER TO THEM.β β ROBERT CALDWELL Phil Peck nods in approval at Jimβs mention of strengths. βMuch of the previous versions of this plan went towards addressing problems,β he says, referring to items that came up in the βweaknessβ category of a SWOT analysis. βFor the ο¬rst time in our history, weβre strong enough to start with the things that we do well, to lead with our strengths, and climb even higher from there.β In other words, these objectives come with springs built into them, primed for launch by years of good practice; objectives for the new plan include, for example, campus-wide curricular programs in leadership, character development, and social justice; a broad-based environmental curriculum and a commitment to green building and transportation; a new science facility and a state-of-the-art ο¬tness center; an enhanced Eastern free skiing program; an increase in fund-raising revenues to $8 million annuallyβand more. Itβs a characteristically ambitious docket that once again arrives feeling like itβs everybodyβs idea, thanks to all who took part in shaping it. But donβt forget the head of school, advises Jim Hamblin. βThe vision for this process, the guidance for where we want to go with it, it comes from Phil,β he says. βIt doesnβt happen by itself.β
MULTIPLE PRODUCT LIFE CYCLES Philβs is a style of leadership whose time has arrived, Will believes. βIf you have a situation that requires a major change in the
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character of an institution, and you donβt have a lot of time to come to a decision about it, then one person whoβs willing to take it all on his or her shoulders is one solution,β he says. βBut once you reach a position of strength, about who you are and what you doβand that pretty well describes Holderness during the majority of my tenure on the boardβthen what youβre essentially doing in strategic planning is reο¬ning things, and this has been done very successfully.β Edric Weld had to ο¬gure out how to keep Holderness solvent in a hurry, and he took on his shoulders making students pitch in to run the campus (as well as erasing red ink with his own money). Don Hagerman took on his own shoulders substantial increases in tuition. Pete Woodward took on his own shoulders the shift to coeducation and reviving Chapel services. To get back to Built to Last, Holderness needed time-tellers in those days, and good onesβcharismatic, visionary leaders who had good ideas and were ready to say, βWeβre doing this, and thatβs it.β There wasnβt time to ο¬ddle around. Is there time now, as the world both shrinks and speeds up? There is if a solid consensus lies behind an organizationβs mission and values, and if an ongoing (and bold) process of βmultiple product life cyclesβ is plugged into that consensus. Phil Peck saw an historic opportunity for building such a consensus in 2001βa consensus whose foundations were laid by previous
headsβand he acted on it to become the schoolβs ο¬rst Built to Last-style clock-builder. Or maybe not. Of course a good clockbuilder enables an organization to βprosper beyond the presence of any single leader.β Itβs where an organization wants to be, but Holderness might be even more fortunate than that. Pete Woodwardβonce he said weβre going coed and weβre attending Chapelβmade his peace with committees and proved himself a capable consensusbuilding clock-builder in executing those capital campaigns of the β80s and β90s. On the other hand, when Phil became head, he wanted to start with a βdo-what-we-say-wedoβ campus ethos, and on behalf of that took on his own shoulders, time teller-like, the expulsion of 26 students in 2001β02, and also moved Sunday Chapel to Monday morning, when the whole community could attend. Those were controversial decisions, but Phil stuck by them and rode out the storm. Sometimes you can get both, in other wordsβtime-teller and clock-builder in one versatile, all-purpose package. Supported as it is by the iron resolve and the penetrating vision of the schoolβs leaders, the strategic planning process, in all its renditions, has stood the test of time. Holderness School now sits on a ο¬rm foundation both because of its charismatic leaders and its engaged community. And from Philβs perspective, peering over the horizon, Holderness School has a very good shot at being around for a long time to come.
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Catching Up With the Campus I spy with my little eyeβ¦Remember that game?
perspective of campus. But what is also clear is
Can you ο¬nd Schoolhouse? Whereβs Hagerman
Holdernessβs connection to the natural world. De-
Auditorium? In what year does I-93 ο¬rst appear?
spite the creep of urban growth in many parts of
The physical changes to the Holderness campus
the world, Holderness remains nestled in the
tell the story of both hardship and growth. The ο¬re
White Mountains, still surrounded by vast acres
of 1931, the increases to enrollment, the improve-
of wilderness. The balance of tradition and growth
ments to transportation, and the introduction of
lives not just in our strategic plan but in the phys-
coeducation have all left their mark on the aerial
ical plant as well.
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1938 Livermore Hall stands where Knowlton Hall once stood. The face of the new building was rotated 90 degrees to embrace the expanding campus with the Quad in front of Schoolhouse at its center. Webster was also built facing the new Quad, and Niles was in process.
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Along with the construction of I-93 came the opportunity to create proper playing ο¬elds both near the highway (the Lower Fields) and just across Route 175 from the main campus (the Upper Fields). Hoit and Marshall Dormitory and an addition to Schoolhouse were added to the campus in the 1950s, while Rathbun was dedicated in 1960β all making room for a growing student body. Shortly after this photo was taken, Bartsch was built next to the new athletic ο¬elds.
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1980 With the introduction of girls to Holderness, the school expanded quickly, replacing the tennis courts on the north side of campus with an additional academic buildingβHagerman Centerβand expanding the south side of campus to include several new dorms with attached faculty residences.
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120 BROWNIES, 4 GALLONS OF ICE CREAM, 10 LARGE BOWLS OF POPCORN, 75 LITERS OF WATER AND SODA, 30 POUNDS OF ICE AT THE HEADβS HOUSE PARTY THE FIRST SATURDAY
TEN MOUNTAINS SUMMITED BY NEW STUDENTS
DURING O-HIKES INCLUDING CHOCORUA, WHITEFACE CARRIGAIN, AND THE HANCOCKS
580 PHOTOS FROM 10 COUNTRIES 12,480 HITS 16% OF STUDENT BODY IS INTERNATIONAL
TAKEN DURING OPENING WEEK
CANADA, CHINA, KENYA, GUATEMALA, SOUTH KOREA, TANZANIA, NIGERIA, TAIWAN, CHINA, AND VIETNAM
ON OPENING DAY PHOTO GALLERY AT HOLDERNESSSCHOOL.SMUGMUG.COM
FALL OF 2014 ENROLLMENT GRADE 9: 47 (27 BOYS, 20 GIRLS); GRADE 10: 81
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89 280 STUDENTS (42 BOYS, 39 GIRLS); GRADE 11: 70 (44 BOYS, 26 GIRLS); GRADE 12: 82 (43 BOYS, 39 GIRLS)
OF WHICH 239 BOARD AND 41 ARE DAY STUDENTS
TOTAL FACULTY AND STAFF, INCLUDING 22 NEW FACULTY AND STAFF SINCE JANUARY 2014 STUDENTS ON CAMPUS FOR PRESEASON ATHLETICS, INCLUDING
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COOKIES BAKED BY CHEF DE SUCRE (AKA LARRY GOSSELIN) FOR OPENING DAY
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CLOCKWISE, FROM ABOVE: Ninth-grader Lolo Zabeleta hanging out with her parents before leaving on O-Hikes; science teacher Thom Flinders, math teacher Elizabeth Wolf, and English teacher Brian Collins with their O-Hike group on the summit of Sandwich Dome; Larry Gosselin with his ο¬rst trays of cookies for the new school year; tenth-grader Yiyang Mao, precariously balancing her equipment for O-Hikes but maintaining a beautiful smile; senior leaders at the schoolβs entrance awaiting new students on opening day; senior leaders on the Quad checking the new studentsβ registration boxes.
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Chuseok Chuseok (Korean: μΆμ), originally known as hangawi (νκ°μ), is a major harvest festival and a three-day holiday in Korea celebrated on the ο¬fteenth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar. At Holderness we celebrated with a magniο¬cent feast at the Headβs House. The students helped cook the food which included songpyeon (rice dough kneaded into small round shapes and ο¬lled with sesame seeds, chestnuts, red beans, or other similar ingredients), kimchi (a traditional dish of fermented vegetables), renkon chips (fried lotus root), kimchi jeon (Korean pancakes), dumplings, Korean beef, and rice noodles.
CLOCKWISE, FROM RIGHT: Songpyeon, a Chuseok staple; the celebration begins as students gather in Mr. and Mrs. Peckβs dining room; Keying Yang β17 shares her knowledge of the dishes with Tia Tang β18.
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Training Student Leaders, One Summer Vacation at a Time βItβs a great program at the worst time of year,β Dean of Residential Life Duane Ford βοο says as he begins to describe the senior leadership retreat Holderness established four years ago. The retreat begins three hours after graduation. All of the newly named senior leadersβthe president, vice president, Weld Hall supervisors, and house and ο¬oor leadersβ along with all the faculty remain on campus and spend two days meeting, working together, and planning for the following year. The teachers are exhausted from grading papers and preparing for graduation; they want nothing more than to catch up on sleep and spend time with their families. The students are also exhausted and eager to return home; but instead they have postponed their summer escapes to prepare for the leadership roles they will take on in the fall. Yet, despite the physical and mental fatigue they might feel, the faculty and leaders dig deep into their reserves and pour their energy into the retreat. In fact, the two days after graduation have become an essential and productive part of the Holderness leadership program. βDuring the spring leadership retreat,β says Charles Harker, who was elected president of the school last April, βwe were able to reο¬ect on our experiences from last year and realize what kind of school we want, not just for our class but for everyone in the Holderness community.β And that sense of community is stressed not just in their conversations but also their actions. In addition to participating in roleplaying activities and group discussions with Duane Ford, College Counselor Bruce Barton, and School Counselor Carol Dopp, the students spend time in May giving back to the community that elected them. As soon as Commencement ceremonies are ο¬nished and the last student has left campus, the leaders enter the dorms and begin to cleanβthrowing out trash, recycling what can be reused, and organizing the remaining furniture. In addition, this year after Commencement, the rising lead-
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Dorm parents from the Woodward Faculty Dorm discuss dorm logistics with senior leader Jack Herrick.
ers washed, dried, and sorted clothing and goods both donated and left behind in the dorms and in the academic buildings. By the end of their second day, the students had ο¬lled οο large containers that were given to seven local charities. Also integral to the program is building the bonds that help the leaders face what can sometimes be a lonely and frustrating pursuit. To aid in the growth of this bond, Charles Harker spent several hours with his fellow leaders developing a theme that would guide them through their year. Ultimately they chose the words trust and cooperation. βWe feel trust has always been a huge part of the Holderness community, and itβs key that we as seniors establish trust with everyone right oο¬ the bat,β says Charles. βObviously, there will be setbacks, but at the end of the year, weβd like to say thereβs a larger element of trust in faculty-tostudent and student-to-student relationships.β βOne of the beautiful things,β adds Duane Ford, βis that we werenβt even there for that. The students came up with the theme on their own.β Of course, the May training is just the beginning. In autumn the student leaders give up another two days of their summer vacation to arrive early to campus for more workshops
and planning; they also meet weekly throughout the school year. While much of their meeting time is spent on practical mattersβ scheduling issues, disciplinary casesβthere is also time to reο¬ect on their developing leadership skills. This year the student leaders will also participate in a nine-week mindfulness training course with Erin Woo. βMindfulness is paying attention to what is happening right here and now, with interest and kindness,β writes Erin Woo, who received her training through the Mindfulness in Schools Project and maintains a website www.mindfulnesswitherin.com. βWe worry less about what might happen or about what has already happened and we feel calmer. We are able to think more clearly and we are more open to life.β And while the spring retreat and the mindfulness training are two more ways Holderness helps the οο senior leaders to succeed, by giving up the ο¬rst and last two days of their summer vacation, they learn one of the most important characteristics of eο¬ective leadership: selο¬essness. βIn the end,β says Dean of Students Kathy Weymouth, βit is through selο¬essness and respect that they become successful leaders and champions of the school.β
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AT FIRST IT WAS JUST A WHISPER at the lunch table. The football team was winning. As the season continued, their momentum built. And on November 9, they did something they have not done in over a decade; they beat Proctor 36-32.
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CLOCKWISE, FROM ABOVE: Ninth-grader Andrew MacLeod prepares for the kickoο¬ before a game against Cardigan Mountain School; undefeated in the Lakes Region, the girlsβ cross-country team celebrates their fourth-place ο¬nish in the Division III NEPSAC Championship race; Risa Mosenthal β17 drives the ball towards the goal during a game against St. Paulβs School; Malik Love β15 and James Tyrrell β15 celebrate after a touchdown against Proctor in the last game of their outstanding season.
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ABOVE LEFT: Charles Harker β15 celebrates his victory at the Lakes Region Championships by taking a bite out of his edible medal. ABOVE RIGHT: Head coach Jermetrius Troy and senior Jack Kinney celebrate their victory against Proctor Academy. BELOW LEFT: Itβs almost a goal! The ball rolls just outside the post during a girlsβ JV ο¬eld hockey game against New Hampton. BELOW RIGHT: Geoο¬ West β17 coasts into the ο¬nish during a race at KUA.
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CLOCKWISE, FROM ABOVE: Paul Sampson β17 competes for possession of the ball with players from Proctor; goalie Cole Donovan β16 practices defending the goal during warmups; Emma Abrams β15 on the Lower Fields during a ο¬erce struggle with New Hampton; girls on the varsity soccer team celebrate after Nikki Blair β15 scores a goal during the same game; students from KUA and Holderness take oο¬ from the start of a race at KUA, just behind the turf where the boysβ varsity soccer teams battle for the ball on KUA Day.
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ABOVE LEFT: Seungmin Jung β16 cheers for her teammates on the JV soccer team during KUA Day. ABOVE RIGHT: Sean Cashel β15 climbs with his teammates at Rumney Cliο¬s. BELOW LEFT: Storm Thompkins β17 keeps the ball away from New Hampton during a game on the Lower Fields. BELOW RIGHT: Nathan Sampo β16 dribbles the ball away from KUA on the Lower Fields.
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JUNIOR THOMAS JACKSON LEADS THE boys up the ο¬rst hill in the Division III NEPSAC Championship race in November at Vermont Academy. Jackson ο¬nished 28th overall with a time of 19:15. Over his right shoulder is Charles Harker β15, who ο¬nished eighth overall with a time of 17:59. Charles later competed in the Meet of Champions with the best prep school racers in New England, ο¬nishing 18th with a personal record of 17:23.
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Experience Required Experience is often the best teacher. Take for instance, the education of Spanish teacher Jean Henchey. If you ask her to describe her van Otterloo Henderson Brewer Chair year, her stories focus not on course reading assignments for her masterβs in teaching Spanish but on tales of her travels and her personal experiences. Most signiο¬cant among her experiences was her trip to Europe to study bilingualism and multilingualism. βIn Europe languages are constantly in contact with one another,β says Jean. βEveryone has strong feelings, and peopleβs reasons for speaking diο¬erent languages are often fascinating.β For example, one friendβs three-year-old daughter speaks Portuguese, French, and English. But she limits her use of each language to certain groups; with her nanny she speaks Portuguese, with her parents at home she speaks English, and in school she speaks French. βMy friend said her daughter wonβt let any of the languages cross over to other parts of her life,β says Jean. βFor her each language is tied very closely to the places and people with whom she originally learned them.β Another woman from Paris with whom Jean spoke was ο¬uent in English because as a child her father would only allow the family to speak English at home due to his loyalty to the American and British troops during World War II. Yet another woman proudly spoke only Catalan and not Castilian Spanish; it was her way of expressing her loyalty and personal connection to her Catalonian heritage. βThese personal perspectives were so diverse and unique,β says Jean. βIt was exciting to be immersed in such a language-conscious culture. In the United States, how often do we talk about language?β Her experiences with ο οst century learning were invaluable as well. Although earning her masterβs in teaching Spanish from Rutgers University, Jean never once set foot on the campus. Rather, all her classes were online. For
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Spanish teacher Jean Henchey at Mercat de San Josep de la BoquerΓa in La Rambla, Barcelona.
Jean, this resulted in a more diverse learning experience. βOne of the best things about online learning was that I got to work with people from diο¬erent backgrounds with diο¬erent perspectives from mine,β says Jean. βI became good friends with many of them, though I never actually got to meet them.β For many this experience has become the conundrum of modern education. Online courses are more convenient because work can be done when and where a student wants; internet cafes and living rooms have taken the place of traditional classrooms. Online courses also allow for people from all areas of the world to contribute to classroom conversations and participate in learning opportunities. On the ο¬ip side, personal connections are lost, or at least limited to the virtual world. Online courses also require a great deal of self-directed learning and computer savvy. βThere was a huge learning curve for me when I took my ο¬rst online course,β says Jean. βIt took me a while to understand how to access what I needed on the Rutgersβ website, how to upload and download my work, and
how to participate in online discussions with my classmates.β βBut online courses are becoming more and more prevalent in colleges and universities,β observes Jean. βHolderness School and Holderness students would beneο¬t from the introduction of several hybrid courses in which students could meet once or twice a week in a classroom but also have online commitments. These types of courses could help prepare our students for the reality of the hybrid and online courses they will encounter in college. Furthermore, hybrid classes have the potential to relieve some of the stresses involved in scheduling classes.β Jean will be working on her ο¬nal portfolio presentation for her masterβs program while resuming her work here at Holdernessβa challenging task that sheβs excited to take on, fueled as she is by the memories and experiences from her Chair year. Her paper diploma will certainly be of value (in fact her academic work was strong enough to get her into the Phi Sigma Iota World Language Honor Society!), but it is the experiences that have stuck with her and were the ο¬rst things she shared with her students in Schoolhouse this fall.
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Holderness Welcomes New Recruits
(LβR) Jini Rae Sparkman, Alan Thompson β04, Woody Kampmann, Jeremy Stubbs, Brian Collins, Caroline Phillips, Leigh Anne Connors, Joe Arsenault, Jermetrius Troy, and Pat Saunders
On August ο, schedules for the ο οοοβοο school year were sent out, and students reading them encountered many unfamiliar names. We are looking forward to getting to know the new recruits in person, but for now, here is a quick overview. Joining us in the English Department is Jini Rae Sparkman, who comes to us from Plymouth State University where she has spent the past four years teaching in the English Department and Womenβs Studies Program and working in the Athletic Department. Prior to working at psu, Ms. Sparkman received a bachelorβs degree in literature and ο¬lm and a masterβs in education from psu. Originally
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from Texas, Sparkman is looking forward to developing the varsity girlsβ basketball program as well as the JV girlsβ soccer program. Jini was a varsity starter at Graceland College in Lamoni, IA, her ο¬rst year of college, and played two more years in the basketball program at Trine University in Indiana. Sheβs coached all levels of basketball from instructional through high school in both Texas and Indiana. Ms. Sparkman will be living in Pichette Dorm. Also joining us in the English Department is Brian Collins, who is not entirely new to Holderness. A year ago he moved to the area with his wife, Director of Strategic Marketing and Communications Courtney Williamson,
and his daughter, Grace Collins, who will be a junior this year. We are excited that he too has decided to join the greater Holderness family! Brian earned his PhD in literature at the University of California, taught college for ο¬ve years at ucsc and Haverford, and then became an independent school teacher at Cate School. He has also taught at Phillips Exeter Academy and Horace Mann School. Recent writing includes the story βFive Fablesβ (Broadkill Review), the essay βEarthquake Weatherβ (Licking River Review), and articles on the global economic crisis for Los Angeles Review of Books and The New Inquiry. He will be coach-
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ing the JV girlsβ basketball team and living oο¬ campus. In the Math Department we have several new recruits as well. First oο¬ is Joe Arsenault, a graduate of the University of New Hampshire. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics in secondary education in ο οοο and a masterβs degree in teaching in ο οοο. In college, he played basketball, soccer, football, and softball and was a member of Oο¬ the Clef, an a cappella group. He will be living in Lower Niles, coaching JV boysβ soccer, and JVο boysβ basketball. The second new member of the Math Department is Leigh Anne Connors, a graduate of Plymouth State University who calls Lake Placid home. She received a Bachelor of Science in mathematics and completed a minor in economics. Athletics, skiing speciο¬cally, have always been important to her. She was captain of the ski team at psu and also played soccer and lacrosse. She will be living oο¬ campus and coaching the Eastern ski team as well as the JV girlsβ lacrosse team. The third and ο¬nal new member of the math department is Jeremy Stubbs. Mr. Stubbs graduated from Oklahoma State University with a Bachelor of Science in mathematics. After graduation, he became an upper school mathematics teacher at Charles Wright Academy. His philosophy is that βWe, as teachers should strive to have each question lead to deeper questions, ones that lead to more discovery and wonder for the student and teacher.β His philosophy will no doubt carry him through the time that he spends at Holderness. Mr. Stubbs will be living in Upper Webster, coaching boysβ cross-country running in the fall and leading the Outing Club in the spring. Across the road in Bartsch there are several new additions to the Athletic Department as well. While this talented bunch will focus much of their energy on coaching, they will be helping out in the dorms, teaching, and working in the Admission Department as well.
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Joining us from Cheshire Academy is Jermetrius Troy, who will be the new football and JV boysβ basketball coach. Mr. Troy is familiar with the independent school way of life, not just as a faculty member but as a student as well. He graduated from Tilton School in ο οοο, and during his time on their football team, he earned all-New England and allleague honors. During his second year as captain of the team, he led them to Tiltonβs ο¬rst and only New England Championship. He, his wife Felicia, and their son Jaxson will be living in lower Rathbun. Mr. Troy will also be teaching theology. Woody Kampmann, one of two new Admission hires, will also be our new head varsity boysβ basketball coach. A Hobart graduate, Woody has excellent basketball credentials, including coaching for Cornell, Hobart, and Williams. Another Admission hire, Pat Saunders, will also be doing double duty as the assistant varsity girlsβ basketball coach. Pat began his basketball career at the New Hampton School, where he played on the varsity A team for two years. From there he went on to play at Princeton University. As a Tiger, Pat was a four-year starter and two-time captain. He helped the Tigers capture the ο οοο Ivy League title, which boosted them to a spot in March Madness. Alan Thompson, a Holderness graduate from the Class of ο οοο, will also be joining our coaching staο¬. An alumnus of the University of New Hampshire and a veteran of the unh hockey team, Alan will be serving as assistant athletic director, as well as coaching three seasons in the true spirit of the Holderness multi-sport athlete. Look for him on the football, hockey, and baseball sidelines, coaching the Bulls to new levels of excellence. If you are on campus, donβt hesitate to shake hands with the newest editions to our family and welcome them into the Holderness community!
English teacher Brian Collins on the ο¬rst day of classes in September.
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Serving the Community One Book at a Time Mary joined the Holderness staο¬ in οοοο when the library was located in the Webster Room in Livermore and the book stacks were in the basement in what is now the health center. But shortly thereafter, under the direction of then Dean of Faculty Jim Nourse, Holderness began discussing plans for a new library. When the library was completed in
integral parts of a studentβs education. And while it would have been easy for Mary to stick with what she knew, she embraced the new trendsβmaking room for cds, subscribing to Netο¬ix, and teaching the students to use electronic card catalogs and digital periodicals. Never territorial or stuck in the past, Mary loved being a part of the changes in the library.
The task was to move the books from Livermore to Alfond Library, and Mary and Bev Eccleston (wife of former history teacher Tom Eccleston and mother of current Athletic Director Rick Eccleston β92) had a plan.
Mary Kietzman
During Mary Kietzmanβs long tenure as librarian at Holderness, she commuted from her house on Langdon Street, through town, and up Chapel Hillβon foot. Even in the middle of winter, Mary made the walk, bundled in her purple down coat, arms crossed to ward oο¬ the cold. Along the way she stopped to pick up the schoolβs seven daily newspapers. Some days, she even picked up an extra οοβοο if a teacher needed them for a class. For ο ο years Mary led the school library through numerous changes, always with an eye toward serving the community and implementing forward-thinking programs. Mary began her career as a librarian in the βοοs when libraries were for books and card catalogs were made out of paper. She graduated with a masterβs degree in library science from the University of Michigan, then shortly after began to work at Plymouth State University and later at Ashland Elementary School.
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οοοο, Maryβs role in the transition came right out of the Holderness playbook. The task was to move the books from Livermore to Alfond Library, and Mary and Bev Eccleston (wife of former history teacher Tom Eccleston and mother of current Athletic Director Rick Eccleston βοο ) had a plan. First, they measured the shelves of books in Livermore, then took the measurements to the new Alfond Library. Then, on April ο, οοοο Mary and Bev activated the community. Never mind the sleet and freezing rain falling from the sky, students, faculty, and anyone else who was willing showed up to form a line from the doors of Livermore to the doors of Alfond. Boxes of books were passed person to person from one building to the other, shuttled through the door, and unpacked onto the waiting shelves. βWe were all so excited,β recalls Mary. βEveryone was running everywhere but somehow in the organized chaos we got the job done, or very nearly.β The new library had plenty of space and featured a state-of-the-art self-checkout system. It felt like a dream come true, Mary remembers. Over time, the needs of the students changed. Computers, online resources like JStor and Proquest, and e-books became
This was especially true of her ο¬nal year at Holderness. At the request of cfo Peter Hendel and coo Steve Solberg, Mary established a committee to determine what the Holderness library should look like in ο οοο. Libraries are no longer just for housing books, concluded the committee; instead they are places for people to collaborate and create. βUnder Maryβs leadership last spring,β says her assistant Chris Stigum, βwe signiο¬cantly weeded our selection of books and brought in additional cubicles for individual work spaces and additional tables for collaborative projects.β We will miss Maryβs cheerful presence in Alfond and her willingness to help with research projects and inter-library loans. But fortunately, she wonβt be far oο¬. In fact, in the fall, as the mountain bike team made its way through town, they spotted Ms. Kietzman taking a walk on Warren Street. They all shouted a cheerful hello and received one in return from her. Mary has also been to campus to visit several times this fall and is just a call away when Chris has questions. And how does she get here? Yes, by taking that familiar walk through town and up Chapel Hill.
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Phyllis Walker: In Memoriam june ο, οοοοβjuly ο ο, ο οοο Phyllis Walker arrived at Holderness School in οοοο with her husband Norm and nine children. She was never oο¬cially employed by the school, but that does not diminish the compassion and care she contributed to the community. While Norm coached football and taught English with a loud and commanding voice that couldnβt be ignored, Phyllisβs contributions were much more reserved. βShe deο¬nitely didnβt seek the limelight,β remembers Holderness English teacher and friend Sarah Barton. βBut she was always present and open. As her granddaughter Colleen said at her memorial service, Phyllis βwould feed you before you even knew you were hungry.ββ βShe was very much her own person,β adds Director of College Counseling Bruce Barton. βCreative, loyal, loving, and wholly dedicated to those around her, Phyllis was a rock.β Dorm mother, substitute nurse in the health center, contributing artist, and friend. Phyllis Walkerβs roles were many. And wrapped up within everything she did was a desire to ο¬nd beauty, both in the people and physical world around her. When Holderness music teacher David Lockwood visited his upstairs neighbors in Rathbun in the βοοs, Phyllis would often show him her latest yard sale ο¬nd. And while at ο¬rst glance the scavenged lamp or chair may not have seemed to be much of a ο¬nd, with a little paint or reο¬nishing, Phyllis would transform them. βShe was an artist in her own right, seeing beauty in the smallest thingsβthe light on water, the mist over the bog,β says former Holderness art teacher Kathryn Field. In fact, the schoolβs art studios were a place of comfort and peace for Phyllis. When she had time, she would visit Kathryn, sharing a cup of tea and a few moments of creative collaboration. During Artward Bound, she often joined the students, learning to work with
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stained glass, photography, or whatever other medium was chosen that year. When Phyllisβs husband Norm died, both she and Kathryn found solace in art. In order to honor his memory, the two women collaborated on a series of murals with Kathrynβs Art in the Afternoon students. The murals now decorate the walls of the tunnel under Route οοο that lead to the east side of campus. For Kathryn her connection to Phyllis may have begun in the art room, but it extended beyond the walls of Carpenter. βPhyllis taught me about going on when you are in pain, holding up your head, and looking toward the sky,β says Kathryn. βShe knew the power of positive thinking and shared it freely. Generosity, kindness, and caring are the words that come to mind when I remember my friend.β Phyllis also understood the importance of family. In addition to caring for her own nine children, Phyllis was also a mother to the children on the Holderness campus. βTwo weeks after our daughter Cordy was born,β wrote former Holderness science teacher Paul Elkins in an online tribute to Phyllis, βmy grandfather passed away, and to help us attend the funeral etc., Phyllis oο¬ered to take Cordy for the day. Who else would new parents completely trust to care for their new baby but Phyllis?β When Phyllisβs husband oο¬cially retired from teaching at Holderness in ο οοο, she and Norm moved to Rye, NH where Phyllis was able to dedicate herself fully to her gardens and her children and grandchildren, and later to the care of her husband during his lengthy struggle with cancer. βHer role in his health care was extraordinary,β says Kathryn. βNorm was a large man and Phyllis was a small but mighty woman who did everything possible to care for him. It was her greatest last campaign.β In July Phyllis died after a brief illness, surrounded by her children and looking forward to her reunion with her beloved Norm.
Phyllis with her husband Norm in front of Hoit Dormitory.
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Diverse Talents and Willing Hearts; A Warm Welcome to Our New Trustees This yearβs new trustees possess a diverse and rich set of personal and professional experiences that will bring new skills and energy to our board. Here are a few details about their lives and their connections to Holderness. Rob Kinsley graduated from Holderness in οοοο and later obtained an undergraduate arts degree from Colorado College and a masterβs degree in architecture from the University of Pennsylvania. Rob is the president of lsc Design, an architecture and engineering ο¬rm in downtown York, PA. Rob also jointly manages the Kinsley family of construction and real estate development companies. When Rob is not working on the family business, he enjoys outdoor pursuits including backcountry skiing, trail running, mountain biking, rock climbing, and ο¬y-ο¬shing. He lives on a farm outside of York with his wife, Rebecca, his three kids, and a menagerie of farm animals. Rob credits Head of School Phil Peck for his return to Holderness. For the past ten years Phil has kept in touch and visited Rob whenever he is in Pennsylvania. When the new dorms were built, Phil asked for Robβs professional guidance and architectural opinion. It has since then been a natural progression as Rob has
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grounds, and as the facilities are designed, it will be important to make sure they are of Holderness while at the same time remaining dynamic and progressive.β Sander van Otterloo is also a graduate of Holderness. After leaving Holderness in οοοο, he received a BA from Colorado College and a
Iβve been really impressed with the work that has already been done on the [schoolβs] strategic plan. It represents a signο¬cant uptick in the development of the buildings and grounds, and as the facilities are designed, it will be important to make sure they are of Holderness. β ROB KINSLEY β88 become more involved with the school and taken an interest in its direction. βIβve been really impressed with the work that has already been done on the strategic plan,β says Rob. βIt represents a signiο¬cant uptick in the development of the buildings and
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mals degree from Dartmouth College. Sander has been an English teacher at Shore Country Day since ο οοο and, most recently, was named the schoolβs director of placement. His experiences in education make Sander an excellent addition to the board of trustees as we work to
strengthen our instructional programs. Sander and his wife, Erin, live in Marblehead, MA, with their two daughters, Fiona (eight) and Nola (ο¬ve). This summer Dusty, a Tibetan terrier, also joined their family. βMy role as an educator and my years as a student at Holderness give me an insiderβs perspective that helps me in my work with the board,β says Sanders. βI hope to aid the Holderness faculty in promoting a vibrant, challenging, and rewarding academic experience for the studentsβan experience that should poise them to ο¬ourish at any future academic institution. I also look forward to bolstering the evaluation process and encouraging professional development opportunities for Holderness faculty.β Returning for a second term on the board is Vicki Frei. While Vicki did not go to Holderness herself, her three children didβ Neal βοο, Lauren βοο, and Landry βοο. And it was while they attended Holderness that she served her ο¬rst term on the board (ο οοοβοο). A career
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nurse, Vicki earned a BS in nursing from Texas Womanβs University and an MS in nursing from the University of Texas-Arlington. Blessed with a bright personality and Texan drawl, Vicki is interested in all facets of student and employee life, advocating for the well-being and development of all community members. βHolderness has been, and continues to be the best experience for our familyβeverβas students, parents, and board member,β says Vicki. βAs I begin my second term, the parts of the strategic plan I am most interested in are the sections that address the balanced lifestyle, the science component, and the staο¬ development.β The last new member of our board is Sandeep Alva, who is a managing partner of Falcon Investment Advisors, llc which he founded in July ο οοο. Falcon is a private equity ο¬rm which manages approximately οο billion and invests in private subordinated debt and equity issued by leading middle market companies. Mr. Alva has served on the board of
directors of numerous companies, including current portfolio company WL Plastics. Mr. Alva ο¬rst became involved in the education ο¬eld when a Falcon summer intern from Haverford College said that he was establishing schools in northern Ghana. βResearch has shown that children who receive early education are more likely to continue going to school through high school,β Sandeep shares. βFalcon was already looking into investment opportunities in Africa, and when we heard about our internβs program, we decided to help. We have continued to back him and help him build approximately one school every year.β According to their website, the Titagya Schools currently operate four schools serving οοο students; trains early-education teachers in a more interactive pedagogy; and partners with the government to scale up the number of highquality pre-schools and kindergartens in Northern Ghana. Then as Sandeep came to know Holderness through his son Harrison, who is a senior this
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year, he decided to help out here as well. βWatching Harrison develop and learning about the schoolβs emphasis on community, left me wanting to help out in any way I could,β says Sandeep. βI have been really impressed with everyone at the school.β And while he admits that he is not an educator, he is looking forward to working with the endowment and acting as an advisor for the schoolβs investments and ο¬nancial management.
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Not As Pretty a Route As It Used To Be Jed Hoyer β92 The route Jed Hoyer βοο has chosen for lifting the Chicago Cubs into World-Series contention is the right one, says baseball analyst Rany Jazyerli. As the ο οοο Major League Baseball season approached its midpoint in July, the Chicago Cubs were in last place in the National Leagueβs Central Division, οο.ο games behind the Milwaukee Brewers. By then it had been nearly three years since Jed Hoyer had been hired as the Cubsβ general manager (and his friend Theo Epstein as team president). The Cubs have not won the World Series since οοοο, a stretch of futility unparalleled in professional sports. Jed and Theo, however, had previously combined to deliver a couple of World Series championships to long-suο¬ering Red Sox fans. So they were hired by the Cubs to do it again. But in the ο¬rst two seasons of the Epstein-Hoyer era, the Cubs lost more games (οοο) than in any two-year span in team history. Now the three-year record for losses is about to be broken. Uh-oh. Time to panic? Not so fast, wrote analyst Rany Jazayerli last March on the sports/pop culture website Grantland.com. There are reasons, notes Jazayerli, why Jed and Theo cannot be expected to turn the Cubs around as quickly as they did the Red Sox. First, they inherited a much better team (and farm system) in Boston than Chicago. Second, they were ahead of the rest of the league in their use of statistical analysis to ο¬nd undervalued free agents. Third, in Boston they had more money to spend in signing high draft picks. Finally, they were prescient in their willingness to trade good minor leaguers for veterans who were approaching the end of their contracts. βThe Red Sox aggressively traded for quality players nearing free agency,β wrote Jazayerli, βknowing that the prospects they gave up would be replenished by the prospects
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Jed and his friend Theo Epstein, left, are trying to do for the Chicago Cubs what they did for the Red Soxβend a World Series drought.
theyβd receive in compensation when the free agents left.β In eο¬ect, instead of surrendering prospects, they recycled them, thereby ο¬nding players like Jacoby Ellsbury, Clay Buchholz, and Jed Lowrie. Now, in Chicago, Jed and Theo are in part victims of their own success. These days everyone is using the sort of analytics Epstein/Hoyer brought to Boston; the new collective bargaining has made it harder for bigmarket teams in Boston or Chicago to use their ο¬nancial muscle; and the free-agent compensation rules have changed, with much less in return for losing free agents. βSo yeah, this isnβt the same job Epstein and Hoyer signed up for in Boston,β said Jazyerli. βIn the past, teams could rebuild and contend at the same time, because there were shortcuts to take. Now the shortcuts are gone, forcing teams to choose one path. The Cubs have chosen the right path, and itβs not their fault that itβs not as pretty a route as it used to be.β
That path now involves not sweating the wins or lossesβinstead taking plenty of the latter and thereby earning a raft of draft picks at the top of the ο¬rst round each year. βAdd it all up,β said Jazayerli, βand in two years the new front oο¬ce has turned a middleof-the-pack farm system into one of the gameβs best, behind only the Twins, according to Baseball Prospectus.β Thatβs all they need to contend, he addsβnot now, but surely by ο οοο. And maybe last Julyβs head-to-head interleague series with the Red Sox was a harbinger of things to come. The defendingβbut strugglingβWorld Series champs hoped to post some easy wins against the Cubs, but instead Jed and Theoβs team came into Fenway and swept all three games. That wonβt help the Cubsβ position in the draft this year, but even soβwe doubt that Jed minded so much in this case.
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βCritical to Our National Welfareβ Bro Adams β65 Bro Adams βοο assumes the helm of the neh with a well-tempered faith in the power and importance of the humanities. Its seeds were planted here. The new chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities owes his enthusiasm for the humanitiesβat least in partβto teachers in those subject areas at Holderness. βCertainly my interest in an academic career had very much to do with the education I received at Holderness,β said William D. βBroβ Adams to hst in οοοο. βI was fortunate enough to be in an advanced-placement history class taught by Don Henderson, and of course I remember Jim Brewer with a sense of respect and gratitude. And there were others, people who provided me with what were among my most serious intellectual encounters.β
Vietnamese combat unit; that encounter also had value to Bro. βIt made me serious in a certain way,β Bro said, βmade the world questionable and provocative in a way Iβm sure never would have happened had I not had that experience.β Broβs fourteen-year stint at Colby was eloquent with the importance he attaches to the humanities. He led a οοοο-million capital campaignβthe largest in Maine historyβthat included the expansion of the Colby College Museum of Art, a οοοο-million gift to the Lunder Collection of American Art, the creation of an arts/humanities center and a ο¬lm studies program, and the expansion of the schoolβs curriculum in creative writing. As senior president as well of the New England Small College Athletic Conference, Bro joined the national debate on the value of a liberal arts education. βPeople who engage in a profound way with a broad range of disci-
This former student of Don Henderson and Jim Brewer is now chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities, supporting their side of the
People who engage in a profound way with a broad range of disciplinesβincluding, and in some cases, especially, with the humanitiesβare preparing to engage the challenges of life. β BRO ADAMS At that time, Bro was vice president of Wesleyan University. He had just been hired as president of Bucknell University and within ο¬ve years would assume the presidency of Colby College. He was in the midst of a meteoric academic careerβand very serious intellectual encountersβthat had taken him from the study of philosophy at Colorado College to a doctorate at the University of California-Santa Cruzβs History of Consciousness program; from a Fulbright Scholarship in France to teaching stints at Santa Clara University, the University of North Carolina, and Stanford University. It was a career undeterred by three years in the US Army, including a tour of duty in Vietnam. As a ο¬rst lieutenant on the Cambodian border, Bro advised a South
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plinesβincluding, and in some cases, especially, with the humanitiesβare preparing to engage the challenges of life,β he said from that forum. βThey are creative and ο¬exible thinkers; they acquire the habits of mind needed to ο¬nd solutions to important problems; they can even appreciate the value of making mistakes and changing their minds. I am convinced that this kind of study is not merely defensible, but critical to our national welfare.β It was the right sort of philosophyβbacked by the right sort of resumeβfor President Barack Obama as he nominated Bro last April to be the nehβs tenth chairman. βBro brings demonstrated leadership and decades of experience as an administrator at major universities and liberal arts institutions,β said President
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Obama. βHis clear dedication and lifelong commitment to the humanities make him uniquely qualiο¬ed to lead the nationβs cultural agency.β The neh is a grant-making institution dedicated to supporting research, education, preservation, and public programs in the humanities. In July, the U.S. Senate voted to conο¬rm Broβs appointment as chairman. Itβs another sort of advanced placement, and the broadest forum yet for nurturing the creativity and ο¬exibility that ο¬rst beguiled Bro Adams in a Schoolhouse classroom.
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βBasically the βHood Popeβ Munchie Williams β98 Munchie Williams βοο is the hero of a New York Times article that explores the pluses and minuses of Elite Youth Basketball as a path to education and life beyond basketball. The New York Times article opens with a description of Coach Terrance (Munchie) Williams, his team oο¬ to a slow start against Team Texas Elite on a court in a decommissioned Air Force hangar in Sacramento, CA. βWeβre down οο -ο, and I donβt see anyone encouraging his teammates,β he said. βIf itβs about you, thatβs ο¬ne. But in order for you to be successful, we have to be successful.β Munchie grew up in a tough neighborhood in the Bronx, but he was also one of those smart (and lucky) kids matched up with a New England boarding school (in his case, Holderness) by the Supportive Childrenβs Advocacy Network (scan). He starred in basketball here, and then at Wesleyan University. After Wesleyan, and volunteer work with Teach for America, he returned to the Bronx to work for scan. In the July οο article, βIn Search of the Next Andrew Wiggins,β reporter Reeves Wiedeman writes that Munchie started a scan-aο¬liated basketball team, Team Scan βas a way of reverse-engineering his own path: He wanted to help local kids turn their above-average jump shots into scholarships for private schools and colleges. He brought on three friends from Wesleyan, who began mentoring kids from the neighborhood and cold-calling boarding schools throughout New England on their behalf.β It worked. Munchie soon found himself with such a powerhouse teamβthe nationβs top-ranked group of high school sophomores in ο οοο β that Nike oο¬ered Team Scan crates of sneakers, entry into the Nike Elite Youth Basketball League, and tens of thousands of dollars to travel to eybl events around the country.
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The good news was that this sort of proο¬le for Team Scanβespecially with a win at the Peach Jam, βa de facto national championship tournament held each July in North Carolinaββ would cover the costs of the program and make his athletes all the more desirable to good boarding schools and solid academic institutionsβjust as Munchie had planned. The bad news was that such extraordinary success also elevated Team Scan into that parallel basketball universeβonce dominated by the Amateur Athletic Union, now by leagues sponsored by the likes of Nike, Adidas, Under Armour, etc.βwhere high school hoops donβt much matter, nor admission to academicallyminded colleges with modest sports programs. Instead itβs all about scholarships to the ncaa Division I Final Four perennials, and then maybeβafter just a year in collegeβa ticket to the nba, as with Andrew Wiggins, who in ο οοο βsolidiο¬ed his position as the most hyped prospect since LeBron James with ο ο points in the Peach Jam ο¬nal.β Suddenly, it was more difο¬cult for Munchie to focus his players on educational goals. The Times article describes Munchieβs diο¬cult straddling act as he tries to lead his team to success at this rariο¬ed level at the same time that he struggles to stay in touch with the fundamental point of ο¬elding the team. Team Scan had a successful inaugural season in eybl, going οο-οβbut then fell just short of a Peach Jam championship. Along the way, however, there were missionrelated successes. βAmong Williamsβs favorite players was Joel Villa, who arrived at scan from the Dominican Republic ο¬ve years ago barely able to speak English, but recently graduated from Proctor Academy and is going on to play at Endicott College.β Munchie has also expanded his Team Scan program to eight teams, and a hundred players, some starting as early as the fourth grade. But coaching the team was its own sort of straddling act: βWilliamsβs goal of winning the
Munchie coaches basketball as a way of βreverse-engineeringβ his own path to Holderness and Wesleyan.
Peach Jam,β wrote Wiedeman, βoften diverged from his playersβ desire to boost their individual stats, which they viewed, not unreasonably, as their best chance to earn scholarships.β The article ends with Munchie thinking about getting out of the eybl and rebranding Team Scan as the ProScholars Athletics Cardinals. No matter what, heβs going to keep emphasizing education and life beyond basketball. βSometimes in life, the ball isnβt going to fall your way,β he told Team Scan after one defeat. βAt the end of the day, youβre going to college for free. You might play basketball overseas or in the nba. If you donβt do that, youβre gonna get a good job. Youβre probably gonna get a Masterβs degree for free. Youβre gonna come out with no debt. And then youβre gonna get out to adulthood, and I guarantee youβre probably gonna make more money than us.β Of course the money isnβt the end goal eitherβthe end goal is living the sort of digniο¬ed, productive life Munchie is leading, with a breadth that touches and encompasses so many others: βMunch is basically the βhood pope,β said Andre Charles, one of Williamsβs Wesleyan friends. βHeβs constantly trying to do good deeds.β
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Cultivating the Courage Not to Intervene
In both her books and her practice, Krissy Pozatek, a family therapist, draws on the enduring lessons of Out Back and the Job Program.
Krissy Pozatek β92 Krissy Pozatek βοο has found that the task of raising brave children begins with brave parentsβparents who are strong enough to let kids work things out for themselves. This is not to suggest a correlation between what was once called juvenile delinquency and what is still called asthma, but an interesting analogy is suggested by the focus of Krissy Pozatekβs second book, Brave Parenting: A Buddhist-Inspired Guide to Raising Emotionally Resilient Children (Wisdom, ο οοο). Childhood asthma and other allergy-related disorders, the theory goes, are the result of households that are just too clean and of parents who are too vigilant in protecting children from pets, dirt, and germs. Without some level of contact with harmful microbes, some believe, a childβs immune system never learns to distinguish between them and harmless grains of pollen or dust. Similarly parents today, Krissy believes, are too vigilant in protecting children from disappointments, obstacles, and frustrations, and in this way accidentally protect them from learning how to handle them. βControlling a childβs environment and keeping all pain at bay isnβt
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feasible,β she says. βWe canβt prepare the world for our children, so instead we should focus on preparing our children for the world. The solution is not removing impediments from our childrenβs lives. Itβs compassionately encouraging them to be brave.β These days Krissy runs a thriving parent coaching practice from her home in Kirby, VT, and has recently been a visiting professor at Middlebury, her alma mater. But she began her career doing adolescent treatment and wilderness therapy. There she saw the same patterns repeating themselves in parent-child relationships, and she wished that there was a book she could recommend to her families in therapy. She ended up writing the book herself: The Parallel Process: Growing Alongside Your Adolescent or Young Adult Child in Treatment (Lantern, ο οοο). Krissyβs ο¬rst book is an instruction manual for troubled families and helps them strike the right balance between support, autonomy, and responsibility in the home environment. The book was written speciο¬cally for families in therapy, but some of her readers told her they wished they had read her book sooner; in other words, if they had just known the stuο¬ ten years ago, they never would have needed thera-
py. βSo I saw I had material for a much more general audience,β Krissy says, βand also that there was a demand for it.β Hence Brave Parenting, a book that extends many of the ideas of The Parallel Process, and fortiο¬es them with a Buddhistβs resolute acceptance of the inevitability of pain. βBy admitting the fact of impermanence, that no one has complete control of the events in anyoneβs lives, we can more easily recognize the importance of kids learning to navigate their own terrain,β she says. βIn many ways this mirrors wilderness therapy and is an approach that can be employed with young children. If our kids face small hurdles, small pains, at a young age and learn to overcome these obstacles, theyβll be much better equipped to face larger trouble later in life. The end goal is for kids to develop the internal resources to launch themselves into adulthood.β Interestingly, Krissy says that the lessons of Out Back and the Job Program loom large in her thinking, especially in their emphasis on perseverance. βIt doesnβt matter whether youβre having a good day or a bad day, or if youβre comfortable doing that sort of work,β she says of the Job Program. βYou still show up and get it done. If thatβs hard for you, resources are available for your support, but not for an easy exit. You have to stick with it.β Teachers at Holderness, in other words, have learned to let their students smooth out the wrinkles and get over the humps on their own. Parents, Krissy argues, have to be brave enough to do something very similar with their children; parents must allow their children to come face to face with the pathogens of their emotional livesβand in that way get an early start on surviving the big wilderness.
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A Governor of Snow Sportsβ Highest Governing Body
Dexter, on the left, with former USSA President/CEO Bill Marolt at the June FIS conference in Barcelona.
Dexter Paine β79 Dexter Paine βοο, recently named a vice president of the fis Council, assumes an international role in the oversight and management of snow sports. Sometimes, if youβre good enough at solving problems and making things work at the national level, you get booted upstairs to the international arena. With Dexter Paine, weβre talking about sportsβnot politics. But of course this doesnβt make it any easier. Dexter has been chairperson of the US Ski and Snowboard Association (ussa) since ο οοο and previously was president of the ussa Foundation, its fundraising arm, from ο οοο to ο οοο. In June, at the οοth International Ski Congress in Barcelona, Spain, Dexter was ο¬rst named to the International Ski Federationβs fis
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Council, and then installed as one of the councilβs four vice presidents. βThe fis is the governing body for skiing and snowboarding globally, and yes, there are always issues to resolve,β Dexter told hst. βThis is especially true in regard to the Winter Olympics, where ο¬fty percent of the medals awarded have to do with snow sports and the fis. Which sports do we include, for example, and which not? Free riding and free skiing are very popular here, for example, but not so much in Europe. Ski jumping is much bigger there than in the U.S., where we have fewer facilities. Itβs surprising how much the idea of βrelevanceβ in snow sports has to do with culture, geography, and history.β Culture, geography, and history have had much to do with the shape of Dexterβs life as well, including his life-long commitment to snow sports. He grew up in North Conway, NH, the
birthplace of American skiing, and never wanted to go anywhere but Holderness, where both the academics and the skiing were top-drawer. That was the case also with Dexterβs siblings: Betsy βοο, Stephanie βοο, and Ellyn βοο. He skied on the alpine team, played soccer as well, and was the schoolβs vice president. He went on to Williams, where he kept on racing and maintained his ties to Holderness. He married Susan Levin βοο and served ten years on the schoolβs board of trustees (οοοο βο οοο ). He was board chair during his last four years and earned the schoolβs Distinguished Alumnus Award in οοοο. One of Dexterβs three children, Samuel, graduated last June from Holderness. At the same time, Dexter has built a career in ο¬nance that has led to his position as chairman and ceo of Paine & Partners, a New York-based investment management ο¬rm that works primarilyβand internationallyβin the food and agribusiness sectors. Savvy in business and unwavering in his support for this school, Dexterβs deepest philosophical loyalties lie in the sport into which he was born. βSkiing has given me wonderful opportunities, all through my life,β he says. βFirst, to go to Holderness, and then on to Williams, and Iβve met so many wonderful people through the sport. It was something I was incredibly passionate about as a young person, and this work I do at the administrative level is just a way of giving back, andβhopefullyβof making a diο¬erence.β The passion still burns, and Dexter still skis as often as he can each winter. He and Susan have a place in Switzerland, where skiing is at their front door, and his only hiatus from the slopes last winter was the two-and-a-half weeks he devoted to attending the Sochi Olympics. Next upβthe ο οοο Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea. There Dexter will not be just a spectatorβheβll be one of the architects of this most powerful, and politically delicate, of sporting events.
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paul and marty elkins were part of the Holderness community for a combined forty-one years. Through teaching, coaching, and dorm parenting, they tirelessly gave to students, faculty, and friends. But the Elkins didnΓ’€™t stop giving to Holderness when they moved on. Instead they became members of the Balch Society, supporting the school for as long as the doors of Schoolhouse remain open. 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5
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the balch society honors a group of forward-thinking individuals who support Holderness School by combining charitable giving goals with estate and ΔΕΉ 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 beneΔΕΉ 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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Through a Fresh Ethnographic Perspective
The West and the East have been holding a long conversation in Morocco, one that began with the Romans and the ruins that Jim visited in Volubilis.
Jim McDonald β75 Jim McDonald βοο is enjoying a career in anthropology thatβs taking him around the world. A recent visit to North Africa introduced him to what some call βthe Moroccan exception.β Jim McDonald knows full well that if youβre in a foreign country and you see a political demonstration taking shape in the streets, itβs time to run the other way. βBut the anthropologist in me wants to grab a camera and stick around,β he admits, βwhich is what I did.β Westerners with cameras are particularly at risk, but it wasnβt Egypt in ο οοο; it was Morocco in ο οοο, and that made all the diο¬erence. βOne of the marchers ο¬ashed a peace sign at me,β Jim says. βThese were young people who
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were marching to Parliament; and they were met by grenadiers who were not in riot gear, who seemed pretty relaxed, in fact. I learned later that the marchers were college graduates who wanted government jobs.β Jim is used to assessing human behavior. After Holderness, he studied the archeology of the American Southwest at the University of Arizona. By the time he was earning his doctorate from Arizona State, however, he had shifted his focus to cultural anthropology and used his ο¬uency in Spanish to underpin years of ο¬eld work among family and peasant farmers in central and western Mexicoβuntil Mexicoβs drug wars made the work too dangerous. Later, in Guatemala, he worked with a ο¬eld school that included undergraduates from the University of Texas and Southern Utah
Universityβwhere Jim is now the dean of humanities and social sciencesβresearching issues of governance between the state and indigenous Mayans. The students published chapters on that research in a recent book, Crisis of Governance in Maya Guatemala. βSome of itβs stunning work,β he says. βThese are young people who beneο¬t, perhaps, from not wearing the blinders possessed by those of us who are steeped in the ο¬eld.β And what about his own blinders? Those have come oο¬ thanks to the Fulbright Specialist Program that sent him to Morocco. His six weeks at the Ecole de Gouvernance et dβEconomie in Rabat treated him to βa part of the world,β he says, βthat I could look at through fresh ethnographic eyes.β
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Morocco, as a case study, proved interesting, not least because it largely avoided the wave of unrest that came to be known as the Arab Spring in ο οοο. No one would have predicted this during the harsh οο-year rule of Moroccoβs King Hassan II. But with Hassanβs death in οοοο, his son Mohammed VI ascended to the throne, and, over time, engineered an historic set of constitutional reforms. These, among other things, guaranteed a more independent judiciary, civil and social equality for women, the rights of indigenous Berbers, and freedom of speech and thought. As a result, Jim found himself living and teaching in one of those rare oases of calm in the Middle East and North Africa: a place where Islam, an old-fashioned monarchy, and Western ideas of human rights are working in harmonyβor at least seem to be. Of course, Mohammed VI has his critics; there are those who say that the countryβs secret prisons are still being used, that corruption remains rife, that the interests of a narrow political elite still trump all else. But the anthropologist in Jim McDonald sees more substance in Mohammedβs reforms. βHeβs walking a ο¬ne line, itβs true, between the interests of the people and those of his privileged inner circle,β he says. βAnd there simply arenβt enough
McDonald aboard the train to Marrakesh.
the modern nation-state still is. βAt the end of World War II, the U.N. had a membership of οο states,β he says. βIn ο οοο, there were οοο; the great majority of them, therefore, are post-war,
Chinese universities. In that country, another sort of experiment in modern nation-building and governance is going on, and no doubt Jimβs ethnographic eyes are getting refreshed all over again.
At the end of World War II, the U.N. had a membership of 51 states. In 2013, there were 193; the great majority of them, therefore, are post-war, post-colonial. These are all countries that are new, young, and fragile, just trying to figure things outβlike we still are. β JIM MCDONALD jobs for this better educated younger generation. So that pot is bubbling. But the king has been too consistent in these reforms for them simply to be Kabuki theater.β Itβs a work in progress, says Jim, and he reminds us how half-baked this whole idea of
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post-colonial. These are all countries that are new, young, and fragile, just trying to ο¬gure things outβlike we still are.β These days, Jim can be found travelling back and forth to China, where heβs setting up partnerships between Southern Utah and
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Bulls Recognized for Collegiate Athletic Results Northeast Conference record books to surpass the ο ,οοο-point threshold.β Francis ο¬nished the year with a lifetime οο.ο shooting percentage, averaging οο.ο points per game and ο.ο rebounds per outing across οο ο career games and οοο career starts.
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Migle Vilunaite works on a Habitat for Humanity home in Troy, NY, during her spring break.
Itβs no secret that Holderness School athletes are strong, capable, and passionate. At all levels Holderness student-athletes are being recognized and awarded for their outstanding skills and sportsmanship. Here is just a sampling of the alumni who delivered impressive results during the ο οοοβοο school year.
Sophia Schwartz β09 Sophia Schwartz was named to the US Freestyle Ski Team last year and spent this past year competing at the World Cup level. According to The Dartmouth, βSchwartz said competing in the World Cup was actually less intimidating than she expected it to be. βRight now, the level of skiing in the U.S. is so high that even at the lower levels of competing Iβve encountered pretty impressive competition, so thatβs made the World Cup less intimidating,β Schwartz saidβ (βBig Green Skiers Fly
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Through Moguls at World Cup Eventβ ο/οο/οο). When Sophia isnβt training and competing around the world, she is studying neuroscience and biology at Dartmouth College with plans to graduate in ο οοο.
Alex Francis β10 At Bryant University Alex Francis was named to both the United States Basketball Writers Association (usbwa) and National Association of Basketball Coaches (nabc) All-District Teams. According to Bryantβs website, βFrancis saw his best season yet as a senior in ο οοοο οοο, ο¬nishing the year with οοο points and ο οο rebounds while shooting a career-high οο.ο percent from the ο¬eld (ο ο ο-οοο). The all-conference ο¬rst teamer also posted a career high on the block (ο ο) and career low in turnovers (οο) en route to becoming just the third player in Bryant history and sixth player in the
Playing basketball for Virginia Intermont College, Radville Autukaite was chosen as the Appalachian Athletic Conference Champion of Character. βWhether it is on the court while encouraging her teammates to push themselves to unknown limits,β writes the collegeβs website, βor oο¬ the court where [Radville] has organized several service projects and taken time to coach an area youth womenβs basketball team, she truly puts forth the eο¬ort to make those around her better.β In order to be nominated for the Champion of Character Award, βThe studentathlete must maintain a minimum grade point average of ο.ο on a ο.ο scale and must have achieved junior academic status.β Autukaite played in οο games last season and scored οοο points, averaging ο.οο points per game. This year Radville will continue her basketball career at Reinhardt University in Georgia.
Mac Caputi β11 In ο οοο Mac Caputi played on both the football and lacrosse teams at Bowdoin College. In football Caputi threw a Hail Mary pass that drew national attention, appearing on espnβs top plays and accumulating almost οο,οοο views on YouTube. According to the schoolβs website, Bowdoin was βtied at ο ο with οο seconds remaining in the fourth quarter of the οο οth football meeting between Bowdoin and Colby; Bowdoin held the ball at the Colby οοyard line. Deciding to go for the win, Caputi lofted a Hail Mary to the end zone, where teammate Daniel Barone wrested the ball away from the Colby defense to give the Polar Bears the win.β In lacrosse Caputi started in all οο games of the spring season and scored his lone
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goal of the season during triple-overtime against Williams, providing Bowdoin with the winning point.
Gavin Bayreuther β12 As a hockey defenseman at St. Lawrence University, Gavin Bayreuther scored his ο¬rst collegiate goal in his ο¬rst game against the University of Maine on October οο, ο οοο. He went on to score in ο ο out of οο games last season; his nine goals and ο ο assists for οο points were all Saints records for a rookie defenseman. He was οοth overall in points among all ecac players, second in assists, third in power play points, and ο¬rst in scoring by defensemen and third among all rookies in overall scoring among league players. At the end of the season, Bayreuther shared the ecac Rookie of the Year Award with Quinnipiac forward Sam Anas.
Charlie DeFeo β12 As a sophomore Charlie DeFeo started οο of οο soccer games for the University of Vermont last year, helping the college to post a ο-ο-ο record and close out the season as the number four seed in the conference playoο¬s. DeFeo ο¬nished the year with seven points on two goals and three assists. He was also named to the America East All-Conference First Team and recorded a point in four straight games from October οο to October ο ο.
Migle Vilunaite β13 In her ο¬rst year playing for Skidmore College, Migle Vilunaite was selected for the All-Rookie Team in the Liberty League. βVilunaite started οο games for Skidmore and averaged ο.ο points per game and ο.ο rebounds per game, while also blocking six shots,β says the schoolβs website. βShe tallied a career-high nine points twice this season in wins against Hamilton College and Salem State University and posted a career-high οο rebounds against Oneonta State.β In addition to playing basketball, Vilunaite is majoring in international aο¬airs.
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COLLEGIATE ATHLETES CLOCKWISE FROM THE TOP: Charlie DeFeo at UVM; Alex Francis at Bryant University; Mac Caputi at Bowdoin College; Gavin Bayreuther at St. Lawrence University.
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Living the Dream, Step One
Tad wants to coach Division I college baseball, and it would be hard to ο¬nd a better start to his resume than his current job at Notre Dame.
Tad Skelley β07 As Director of Baseball Operations at Notre Dame, Tad Skelley βοο is learning the ropes in one of the most challenging support jobs in the country. Tad Skelley knew he wasnβt in Kansas anymoreβor in his case, his native New Englandβwhen he was asked to name his favorite football team. βPatriots,β he answered. βOkay,β his questioner said, obviously puzzled. βAnd what college are they?β Tad was in Indiana. βItβs a whole diο¬erent culture here,β Tad says. βIn New England, the emphasis is on professional sports. Here itβs all about college.β
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And in Indiana, the college to which most people refer is Notre Dame, where last summer Tad was named director of baseball operations. And no longer is it true that college baseball is the last stop for kids with no shot at the majors. These days, more and more top prospects are choosing college instead of the minor league farm systems. Jeο¬ Samardzija, an All-Star pitcher for the Cubs (traded in July by Jed Hoyer βοο to the Athletics) is a Notre Dame alumnus, and this spring alone, three Irish pitchers were signed to Major League organizations. βIf you have an education, then you have options in case baseball doesnβt work out for you, and thatβs a selling point for us at Notre Dame,β Tad says.
Tad knows all about the juxtaposition of academics and athletics. His own bio on the Notre Dame website notes that βSkelley was a three-sport standout in football, hockey, and baseball at the highly academic and athletic Holderness School, winning the Webster Cup as the schoolβs top athlete.β Tadβs college play was also very high quality. A second baseman and team captain, he led Wheaton College to three conference championships and posted a career .οοο batting average. After Wheaton, he spent a year selling sports signage and graphics, and then a year coaching and teaching at the Cardigan Mountain School. But what he wanted to do was coach baseball at the Division I level, and on behalf of that dream, he left cms for a drive through nine diο¬erent sec and acc conference prospect camps in the South. He needed to meet coaches and show them what he knew about baseball. βI drove all the way to Mississippi and worked two camps,β he says, βand then I got the call from Notre Dame.β As Director of Baseball Operations, heβs not quite coaching yet, but heβs accomplishing all the behind-the-scenes work for which a coach is responsible: planning practices, coordinating video sessions, organizing camps, scouting and working with recruits who come to camps on campus. He also arranges all the travel, lodging, and meals involved in a long οο-game schedule in a glamour conferenceβthe Atlantic Coastβ that spans the whole eastern US. This is the part the fans donβt see, and playing at Wheaton didnβt quite prepare Tad for steering a dreadnought like Notre Dame. βI had no idea what has to be done to keep this program running,β he says. βBut itβs a blessing that I can learn it all in a place like this; of course itβll be tremendously useful wherever I go next.β Maybe that will be a place where theyβve heard of the Patriots, but then again, maybe not. As Tad discovered on his drive to Mississippi, itβs a big country, and full of opportunity.
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enior Thesis projects; brownie nights; the biomass
Looking ahead, like the new Holderness student who
initiative; Houseman dormβs facelift; scholarships;
straps on his or her backpack at the start of Orientation
faculty salaries; Special Programs; ο¬nancial aid:
Hike and boldly faces new experiences, we too have the
what do they all have in common? YOU!
opportunity to embark on a great journey, one ο¬lled with promise. The road may be familiar for some, but
Your generous support of Holderness makes all this
it presents several challenges: (1) to make sure that a
and much more possible. Last year, with your help, the
Holderness education remains accessible to a broad
Holderness Fund raised nearly $1.5 million to support
range of prospective students, and (2) to maintain the
Holderness faculty, students, and programs. In addition,
excellence of a Holderness School education. It wonβt
the Parentsβ Auction during Winter Parentsβ Weekend
be easy, but we can meet our goals if we work together.
provided over $30,000 in net revenue, and our board of trustees provided a $20,000 challenge gift that
Thank you for everything you do. We are ready for the
stimulated a record number of alumni donors to give
next part of the journey, and we are honored to be
to the Holderness Fund.
making it together, with you. Holderness. Not just for today or tomorrowβ¦for a lifetime.
But the numbers tell only part of the story. Your gifts provide for excellence in education, opportunities for personal growth, and sustenance for the mind, body, and spirit. On the following pages, you can glimpse the moments that you helped create and hear the
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voices of the students whose lives youβve changed.
Holderness Fund Chair
Your gifts matter.
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As it is said in the theatre, βThere are no small parts.β This year, the Holderness Fund has stepped out of the shadows
GIFTS BY CONSTITUENT
and onto the main stage. Your gift plays an increasingly larger role in the life of the school, this year covering 11% of total expenses and supporting everything from ο¬nancial aid to the Senior Thesis Program to brownies in the dorm
PARENTS OF ALUMNI: 25.3%
after a long week.
FRIENDS: 8.3%
GIFTS TO THE HOLDERNESS FUND: Unrestricted Fund
$1,389,975
Restricted Fund
$33,178
Parentsβ Auction: Unrestricted Fund
$20,303
Subtotal:
ALUMNI WHO ARE CURRENT PARENTS: 0.6%
$1,443,456
GIFTS TO ENDOWMENT AND STRATEGIC PRIORITIES: Parentsβ Auction: Non-tuition Financial Aid
$10,000
Endowment: Financial Aid
$653,610
General Campaign/Other
$26,718
Subtotal: TOTAL ALL NEW 2014* GIFTS:
ALUMNI: 56.1%
$690,328 $2,133,784
*Gifts received from July 1, 2013 to June 30, 2014
FOUNDATIONS/MATCHING GIFTS: 1.1% CURRENT PARENTS: 8.5%
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WOMEN OUTPERFORMED MEN FOR HOLDERNESS FUND PARTICIPATION IN
OF THE REUNION CLASSES
WITH ALUMNAE
75%
ALUMNI GIFTS INCREASED
FROM 589
IN 2009 TO 794 IN 2014
AN INCREASE OF ALMOST 35 PERCENT
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THE HOLDERNESS FUND COVERED
11 PERCENT OF TOTAL EXPENSES
IN 2014, UP FROM 9.7% IN 2009
AN IMPORTANT HEALTH INDICATOR IS THE PERCENT OF CURRENTUSE GIFTS THAT CONTRIBUTES, WITH TUITION AND ENDOWMENT INCOME, TOWARD TOTAL EXPENSES. HOLDERNESS SCHOOLβS STRENGTH REQUIRES THE FUND TO INCREASE ITS SHARE AS A REVENUE SOURCE.
TOTAL GIVING IN 2014 WAS
OVER $1.44M A FIVE-YEAR
INCREASE
OF OVER
37%
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FRANCHISE EVENTS: Young alumni in Boston and New
SENIOR THESIS MENTORS: As we began to actively seek
York City coordinated simultaneous viewing parties in
exciting new partnerships between students and our
support of our own Julia Ford β08 as she competed in
extended Holderness community, the Senior Thesis
the Sochi Olympics last winter. Grass roots communi-
Program came into sharp focus. With 48 volunteers
ty outreach is what Holderness is all about! If you want
oο¬ering to mentor students during this intellectual
to gather your local Bulls to celebrate (well, any-
journey, the 85 seniors in the Class of 2014 had a rich
thing!), let us know, and weβll send you a kit.
pool of resources to call on.
INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY: Last year travel brought Phil
PARENTSβ ASSOCIATION: In 2014, parents brought a touch
Peck to Asia, and Jory Macomber to Europe and the
of home to campus just when we needed them most.
Middle East. Everywhere they went, Bulls welcomed
Whether it was pumpkins or wreaths, ice cream or
themβalumni, parents, and friends, all vying for the
warm cookies, boutonnieres or long-stemmed rosesβ
chance to introduce new friends to Holderness.
the parents invested their time and took their payment in smiles.
40%
OF OUR STUDENT BODY, REPRESENTING THIRTEEN STATES AND EIGHT COUNTRIES, RECEIVED FINANCIAL AID IN 2013β14.
84 PERCENT 84 PERCENT
OF 2013β14 SENIORS ON FINANCIAL AID WERE ELECTED SCHOOL LEADERS. OF RETURNING STUDENTS ON FINANCIAL AID EARNED ACADEMIC HONORS IN 2013β14.
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AS WE NEAR THE END OF THIRD QUARTER MANY OF US ARE ANXIOUSLY PREPARING FOR OUT BACKβ¦.SO WHILE I AM NERVOUS ABOUT HYPOTHERMIA AND BEARS, I CANβT WAITβ¦ I KNOW YOUR SUPPORT IS VITAL IN MAKING PROGRAMS LIKE THESE POSSIBLE
AND THAT IS WHAT MAKES HOLDERNESS
SUCH A GREAT PLACE TO BE.
HOLDERNESS SCHOOL IN ONLY ONE YEAR HAS HELPED ME BECOME A STRONGER PERSON. IT WAS IN THE NORDIC TEAM THAT I FOUND MY PLACE AND FOUND OUT THAT NO MATTER HOW THE ELEMENTS CHALLENGE ME, I CAN PULL THROUGH. GENEROUS GIFTS LIKE YOURS HELP PUT STUDENTS ON SIMILAR PATHS AND SET THEM UP TO BE THE BEST PEOPLE THEY CAN BE.
CLASS OF 2017
AS A SENIOR IN MY LIFE THIS YEAR I PLAYED ICE HOCKEY FOR THE FIRST TIME
THE UPCOMING SPRING IS A LITTLE BITTERSWEET. ALTHOUGH I CANNOT WAIT FOR THE SCHOOL PLAY OR SPRING HEADβS DAY, I SIMPLY CANNOT IMAGINE MYSELF SOMEWHERE ELSE;
THE FRIENDS I HAVE MADE HAVE BECOME LIKE FAMILY AND MY DORM LIKE HOME.
AND I HAD THE BEST TIME! ITβS SO GREAT THAT HOLDERNESS HAS THE FACILITIES FOR INEXPERIENCED STUDENTS LIKE ME TO LEARN NEW SPORTS!
ONE DAY DURING PROJECT OUTREACH WE PACKAGED ALMOST 7000 POUNDS
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT. OF FOOD FOR DISTRIBUTION. WE APPRECIATE YOUR DONATION BUT THE MOST IMPORTANT PART TO STUDENTS LIKE ME IS KNOWING THAT WE HAVE SUCH KIND-HEARTED PEOPLE BEHIND US. THANK YOU FOR BEING PART OF OUR COMMUNITY.
CLASS OF 2015
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IN GIVING TO HOLDERNESS YOU HELP US
GIVE BACK TO THE WORLD. CLASS OF 2017 HOLDERNESS IS A DREAM FOR SOME KIDS AND YOUR SUPPORT OF FINANCIAL AID HAS MADE IT A REALITY FOR ONE OF MY FRIENDS.
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CLASS OF 1954 WHEN ONCE IS NOT ENOUGH
COMING BACK FOR BLUE
FROM FAR, FAR AWAY
67% OF THE DONORS
SOME OF OUR ALUMNI COME BACK FOR BLUE FROM GREAT
IN THE CLASS OF 1954 MADE MULTIPLE GIFTS TO CELEBRATE THEIR 60TH REUNION.
ALASKA, TRAVELED THE FURTHEST WITH HIS FAMILY TO
DISTANCES. THIS YEAR, TE TIFFANY β89 FROM ESTER,
CELEBRATE HIS TWENTY-FIFTH REUNION. CLOSE BEHIND HIM WERE BEN SPEISS FROM ANCHORAGE, ALASKA, AND ULIE VON BLUMENCRON β94 FROM MECHERNICH, GERMANY.
CLASS OF 1979 CLASS OF 1949
WINS THE AWARD FOR TOTAL GIVING
STILL GOING STRONG
WITH 71 ACTIVE MEMBERSβWON THE AWARD
MAKING A GIFT TO MARK THEIR SIXTY-FIFTH REUNION.
REACHING NEW HEIGHTS: THE CLASS OF 1979β
FOR TOTAL GIVING WITH $88,529.46 RAISED TO SUPPORT THE HOLDERNESS FUND.
THE CLASS OF 1949 WON THE
HIGHEST PARTICIPATION AWARD WITH
47 PERCENT OF THE ALUMNI
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KEY: r = ο¬ve or more consecutive years of
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CURRENT PARENTS Anonymous (ο ) Mr. John Abrams and Ms. Alison J. Bell P βοο Ms. Ramsey M. Alexander P βοο Ms. Rachel A. Alva P βοο Mr. Sandeep D. Alva P βοο Mr. and Mrs. T. Neale Attenborough P βοο Mr. and Mrs. Peter A. Baker βοο P βοο r Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Barton P βοο βοο r Mr. David Batchelder and Ms. Melissa R. Paly P βοο Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bateman P βοο Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan R. Baum P βοο βοο r Mr. and Mrs. John M. Bayreuther P βοο βοο r Mr. and Mrs. Peter T. Begley P βοο Mr. and Mrs. David F. Benson P βοο Mr. and Mrs. Austin M. Beutner P βοο Mr. and Mrs. Gary Black Jr. P βοο βοο βοο Mr. and Mrs. John Bladon P βοο βοο βοο r Ms. Diana A. Boateng P βοο Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. Bonsal III βοο P βοο r Mr. and Mrs. Kevin M. Bozich P βοο βοο r Mr. and Mrs. Dirk Brandwijk P βοο Mr. Chandler R. Brill P βοο Mrs. Dorothy Brill P βοο Mr. and Mrs. Michael T. Cantara P βοο Mr. and Mrs. David C. Caputi P βοο βοο βοο r Ms. Elizabeth H. Carter P βοο βοο Joseph and Ann Casey P βοο βοο Mr. and Mrs. Michael S. Cashel P βοο Dr. Dong Hyun Cha and Mrs. Ji Yeon Lee P βοο Mr. and Mrs. Alan J. Chabot P βοο Mr. and Mrs. Walter Chapin P βοο Mr. Ngan V. Chau and Mrs. Mai H. Pham P βοο Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Chernin P βοο βοο Mr. and Dr. Craig G. Coleman P βοο βοο Mr. Brian M. Collins and Ms. Courtney Williamson P βοο Mr. Joseph G. Cook and Ms. Amanda OβSullivan P βοο Mr. and Mrs. James A. Craver P βοο Mr. Craig W. Cullen Jr. and Mrs. Carolyn C. Cullen βοο P βοο r
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Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Cunha P βοο Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Curtis P βοο Mr. and Mrs. Bart C. Cushing P βοο Mr. and Mrs. Russell G. Cushman βοο P βοο βοο r Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas B. Cutler P βοο Mr. Max Dannis and Ms. Linda S. Gatter P βοο Mr. Tuan A. Dao and Ms. Le Tuyet P βοο βοο Mr. and Mrs. Samuel D. Daume Jr. P βοο Ms. Martha Davis P βοο Mr. Staige Davis P βοο Mr. and Mrs. Alwyn R. Dawkins P βοο βοο Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Day P βοο βοο βοο Mr. and Mrs. Joseph P. DeLuca P βοο Mr. Jason A. Densmore III P βοο Mr. and Mrs. Edward X. Droste P βοο Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Duο¬y P βοο Mr. Peter J. Durnan and Ms. Kristen Fischer P βοο βοο r Mr. and Mrs. Edward P. Eagan P βοο βοο Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Erhard P βοο Mr. and Mrs. Paul E. Finn Jr. P βοο Dr. J. Rush Fisher and Dr. Phoebe Fisher P βοο βοο Mr. and Mrs. Jeο¬rey Fleet P βοο Dr. Michael L. Freidberg P βοο Mr. and Mrs. Craig Gardner P βοο Mr. and Mrs. David D. Garner P βοο Mr. and Mrs. David W. Garrett P βοο Mr. and Mrs. Steven B. Gewirz P βοο Mr. Martin Gibson and Ms. Tracy Schrans P βοο Mr. and Mrs. Joseph L. Gillis P βοο βοο Dr. and Mrs. John Grisham P βοο βοο r Mr. and Mrs. Stephen J. Grzywacz P βοο Mr. and Mrs. Timothy A. Gudas P βοο βοο Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Hall P βοο βοο r Mr. and Mrs. James B. Hamblin II βοο P βοο βοο r Mr. and Mrs. C. Hagen Harker P βοο βοο Dr. Lee J. Harmatz and Dr. Monica Philipkosky P βοο Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas G. Harmon P βοο Mr. and Mrs. Peter G. Hastings II P βοο Mr. and Mrs. William E. Hauser P βοο βοο r Susie and John Hayes P βοο βοο Mr. and Mrs. Paul M. Heο¬ernan P βοο Mr. and Mrs. David J. Hepler P βοο
Mr. and Mrs. Edward D. Herrick Jr. βοο P βοο Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F. X. Hodson P βοο Mr. Joseph Holland and Ms. Frances A. Witte-Holland P βοο Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Horner P βοο Mr. and Mrs. Randal Houseman P βοο βοο r Mr. and Mrs. Clark O. Houx P βοο βοο Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Hyland P βοο βοο Mr. Allen L. Jarabek Jr. P βοο β Mr. Ye Jiang and Mrs. Li Wang P βοο Mr. James R. Johnson P βοο Cort and Suzanne Jones P βοο Mr. and Mrs. Patrick S. Jones P βοο βοο Ms. Kimberly Kelly P βοο βοο Dr. Kwan Mo Kim and Mrs. Kyung Shin Choi P βοο Mr. and Mrs. Sam E. Kinney Jr. P βοο βοο r Mr. and Mrs. Bernard H. Knighton P βοο Mr. and Mrs. Joseph G. Lacasse P βοο Mr. Brian S. Lash P βοο βοο Ms. Stephanie R. Lash MD P βοο Mr. and Mrs. David P. Leatherwood P βοο βοο βοο r Mr. Richard A. Liddle and Ms. Jenny Morrill-Liddle P βοο Dr. John Y. Liu and Ms. Helen X. Q. Hua P βοο Mr. Roderick A. MacLeod P βοο βοο Mr. Kurt H. Magnus and Mrs. Emily H. Magnus βοο P βοο r Mr. Howie Mallory and Ms. Nora Berko P βοο βοο βοο r Mr. and Mrs. Leo E. Marien P βοο Mr. and Mrs. Philip W. Mason P βοο Mr. Kevin J. McGuire P βοο Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin M. McLane P βοο G. Hayden and Ruth Turner McLaughlin P βοο Mr. and Mrs. Edward Meau P βοο βοο r Mr. and Mrs. Peter K. Merrill P βοο Mr. and Mrs. Steven C. Merrill P βοο βοο βοο r Mr. and Mrs. Frank Michel P βοο βοο r Mr. and Mrs. Vincent P. Michienzi Sr. P βοο Mr. and Mrs. Alexander B. Montague P βοο Dr. and Mrs. Todd M. Mosenthal P βοο βοο Mr. Robert Backus and Ms. Michelle Mraz P βοο Ms. Lisa Mure P βοο βοο Mr. Randy T. Siegel and Ms. Elizabeth Norgren P βοο
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Terry Morse r Dan Redmond r Jim Ricker r Dave Stamps Sam Stout r Dick Stowell r Woody Thompson r 1965
Bro Adams r Tom Butler Bill Carter John Christy Bruce Crane Peter Fauver r Ron Hall Terry Jacobs Jim McGill Ren Nichols β r Cleve Patterson Randy Randlett Charlie Reigeluth r Si Seiter Kevin Wyckoο¬ r
Fred Naess Jim Stearns r Jack Taylor r Bruce Thompson 1969
Tim Bontecou Craig Colgate Bill Foot r Stan Jackson Chip Maxο¬eld Doug McLane r Jonathan Swann 1970
Marsh Adair Bob Childs Greg Connors r Tom Doyle r Stephen Foster r Drew Hart r Paul Reed
Arja Adair r David Donahue r Jeremy Foley r Kirk Hinman r Jon Norton r Peter Prime Rich Weymouth r Peter White r Peter Wiswell Arja Adair r David Donahue r Jeremy Foley r Kirk Hinman r Jon Norton r Peter Prime Rich Weymouth r Peter White r Peter Wiswell
1967
1971
John Armstrong Luke Dowley r Jamie Hollis r
Chris Brown r Rob Hier Lew Hinman Jeο¬ Little Rolf Madsen r Roy Madsen Brad Mills Will Parish r Bill Phippen David Taylor r Rick Wellman r
1966
1968
Anonymous Charles French r Steve Hirshberg r Jon Howe r Tim Mabee
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Mike Conway r Ed Cudahy Larry Diggs Chris Fraker Terry French r Mac Jackson Eric Pendleton Chris Phillips Tom Phillips r John Putnam Gregg Sage Jack Sanderson Ken Sowles r George Weaver
1972
Tom Cooper John Elder r Will Graham r Eric Haartz r Gary Hagler r Peter Kimball r Chris Latham r Dan Murphy r Dave Nicholson r Stu Porteous r Mark Rheault Dwight Shepard r Bob Spaulding Laurie Van Ingen
1976 1973
Cos Cosgrove r Morgan Dewey Peter Garrison r Roland Glidden Geoο¬ Klingenstein r John Lord r Leslie Orton-Mahar r Sam Richards r Tim Scott r Stan Theodoredis
Tom Armstrong r Tori Bullen Paul Dean Bob Garrison Mike Lynch Dave Phippen Will Pingree r Mike Robinson r Steve Rossetter Jesse Tucker
Mike Coο¬n r Chris Edwards Duane Ford r Josh Hancock r Charlie Harris Robert Hirshberg Walter Malmquist r Piper Orton r Dave Rossetter Court Tower Ben White Chris Williams 1975
Perry Babcock Jay Butler Tom Cargill Chris Carney r Tom Carney
1979
Clare Eckert r Mark Finnegan r Bob Golden Cynthia Makris Cullen Morse r Kris Van Curan Nordblom r Pete Noyes r Heidi Hammond OβConnor r Mike OβConnor r Dexter Paine r Jay Pingree r Ian Sanderson r Andy Sawyer David Slaughter r Jim Stringfellow r Mike Warren 1980
Dave Dewey r Peter Grant r Jim Hamblin r Scott Latham r Mark Melvin Tig Smith
Jeο¬ Boal Russell Cushman r Jack Dawley David Reed r Don Smith r Matt Upton Andrew Warner
1978
1981
John Alden Bob Biddle Reese Brown Blaise deSibour Bruce Edgerly Chris Goodhue J.D. Hale Hal Hawkey r
Peter Baker r Bill Baskin r Andy Clutz r Win Idle Christine Louis r Chip Mahoney Sarah Jankey Medlin r Mike Murchie r Will Prickett r
1977 1974
Kirk Siegel Scott Sirles Sandy Treat Andrew Wilson r Margo Farley Woodall
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Zach Martin Eric Prime r Peter Radasch r Paula Morrison Simmons Greg Thulander Heidi Gatz Weeks
1982
1985
Stephanie Sandler Bonavire Frank Bonsal r Mark Cavanaugh r Joe Cerutti Lisa Weeks Clute Peter Coolidge r Miles Glascock Burgie Howard Ben Lewis John Macy Bob McKersie Joe Miles r Susan Levin Paine r Chris Pesek George Samaras Erica Weber Scatchard Emily Conant Spinna Susan Fine Taylor
Angus Christie r Missy Wakely Christie r Colby Coombs Mimi MacNaught Denton Anne Desjardins Vanda Lewis Dyson Keith Eaton Ted Fine Kathy Keller Garο¬eld r Ev Hatch r Elizabeth Heide r Tim Jones Fred Paxton Ian Sinclair r Jenn Smith r Poppy Staub r Dan Taο¬e r Jean-Louis Trombetta Martha Kirby Yuste Bob Zock r
Blake Swift r Mike Taο¬e Ellyn Paine Weisel r Molly Adriance Whitcomb r 1987
1983
Tippy Blish Chris Del Col r Jamey Gallop r Derrick Hill Chris Hopkins Peggy Lamb Merrens Stephanie Paine r Jennifer Smith Schiο¬man r Willie Stump 1984
Joe Barbour Mich Dupre David Finch r Matt Flaherty Dilcia Pena Hill Steve Lunder Mace Macy
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1986
Peggy Hartman Bakula r Bill Clough Kristin Washburn Covert r Sara Madden Curran r Bob Gregg Dave Hinman Owen Hyland Lee Fuller Lawrason Bill Macy r Laura Cooper Page r Greg Redmond Jake Reynolds r Matt Reynolds r
Polly Pratt Boeschenstein Carolyn Colket Cullen r Todd Herrick Todd Hopgood Suzie Jacinthe Stan Jackson r Tim Lesko Kathryn Lubrano Robinson Andy Twombly r Dan Webster r Brett Weisel r Dix Wheelock
Erika Ludtke McGoldrick Will Northrop r Mark Oliver Ali Christie Paysee Elizabeth Pierce r Paula Lillard Preschlack Jason Regan David Rein Hans Schemmel Jenny Alfond Seeman r David Smail Nina Bradley Smallhorn r Lauren OβBrien Smith Charlie Staples Chris Stewart r Carl Swenson Erik Tuveson r Steve Walker David Warren 1989
1988
Eddie Anderson Jess Dion Chris Doggett Peter Driscoll Renee Dupre Jason Evans r Tom Fletcher Nate Foran r Liz Ganem Greg Gaskill Sohier Hall Lee Hanson Jake Hare Mike Hillegass Jenny Holden r Todd Holmes Brett Jones Chris Keeler Sage Chandler Kennedy Drew Kesler Rob Kinsley Alex MacCormick Emily Adriance Magnus r Tom Mahon Chip Martin Julie Wood Matthews
Lauren Parkhill Adey r Morgan Andreae Nina Barker Amanda Black r Ward Blanch Chris Davenport r Shields Day r Christy Wood Donovan Jennie Legg Gabel Meg St. John Gally r Tracy McCoy Gillette r Brad Greenwood r Alix Rosen Hong Nikki Kimball Todd Maynard r Sarah Trainor Pο¬aum Jen Comstock Reed Ben Spiess Sara deLima Tansill Te Tiο¬any Todd Wagner 1990
Kat Alfond r Pixie Spencer Brokaw Ren Chandler Dave Colleran
Pepper deTuro r Courtney Fleisher Jeο¬ Gregg Andrea Hamlin-Levin r Tegan Hamilton Hayunga Megan Sheehan Kristiansen r Alison Merser Aaron Woods r 1991
Anonymous Kelley Roberts Bogardus Rice Bryan Leah Merrey Burdett Caroline Fentress OβDonnell Lex Leeming Becca Anderson Morrison r Yasuna Murakami r Terra Reilly Keri Dole Renganathan Jon Sawyer Martha Maher Sharp 1992
Nici Ash Rick Eccleston Hugh Griο¬ths Devie Hamlen r Jay Hart Joe Howard Andy Katchen r Heidi Hamilton Kerko Jamie Klopp r Nick Leonard Liz Lyman Andy Martin Ryan McPherson Fritz Muench r Akira Murakami r Jake Norton Krissy Pozatek Lincoln Sise Eric Thielscher r Stu Wales r
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1996
1998
Megan Flynn r Rick Harnum Tom LeBosquet Jon Moodey Schuyler Perry r Gerry Rinn Ginny Kingman Schreiber Kate McIlvain Smith Karrie Stevens Thomas Tommy Valeo r Brooks Wales Kevin Zifcak r
Zach Antonucci Jim Chalmers r Terry Connell r Sarah Crane r Canute Dalmasse r Adam Goldberg r Jim Jung Russ McIlvain Eric Mueller r Hilary Patzer Stoney Stoneberger Dew Wallace
Bunge Cook Ramey Harris-Tatar Matt Kendall r Peter LaCasse r Rogan Lechthaler Jason Myler r Rick Richardson r Pete Scoville Melissa Barker Tamplin Sander van Otterloo r Uli von Blumencron Dave Webb r
Michael Burton Carolyn Campbell Alison Megroz Chadbourne r Josh Cliο¬ord Augusta Riehle Comey Tim Davidson Blair Hall Endean Bjorn Franson r Joe Graceο¬a Lara DuMond Guercio r Katie Waltz Harris r Ryan LaFoley Ollie Lemire Steph Pisanelli Lyons Justin Martin r Liz Fox McGlamery Nathalie Milbank Nolte r Field Pickering r Will Richardson r Heather Pierce Roy r Trina Hosmer Saxe Graham Seiter Stacey Eder Smith Bo Surdam r Jay Tankersley John Van Slyke
1995
1997
Bri Adams r
Erik Bass Katherine Donnellan Beebe r Matt Goldberg r Robert Johnson Elizabeth Meck Knight Andrew Marshall Maura Kearney Marshall Andrew Miller Juley Perkins Putney Haley Pyles r Dennis Roberts Andy Tankersley Brian Werner
1994
Henry Adams r Cil Bloomο¬eld Matt Daigneault r Abbey DeRocker r Leandra Collier Fremont-Smith Laura Hanrahan r Jessie Morton Brit Fairman Munsterteiger Dan Shin Asania Smith r Adam Sullivan Jerome Thomas
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Ira Marvin Liz Norton Patrick Regan r Joy Domin Southworth Tyler Weymouth 2002
1999
Anonymous Jamie Bradley Tim Connell r Robert Henderson Kathleen Blauvelt Kime Robbie King Page Connolly Minshall Kate Richardson Surdam Joel Yarmon r 2000
Hedda Burnett r Jonathan Campbell Sean Cliο¬ord Josh Cooper Ted Finnerty Chris Ryan Jake Spaulding r Sully Sullivan Ryan Tyler Heidi Webb r RC Whitehouse 2001
Anthony Aceto Betsy Cornell Aceto Jennifer Crane r Kellan Florio r Amanda French Adam Lavallee r
Melissa Adams r Peter Bohlin Ave Cook r Kerry Douglas Andrew Everett r Ramsay Hill Betsy Pantazelos r Chris Rodgers r Jed Warsofsky Channing Weymouth
2005
Chris Blaine Jenn Calver Caitlin Connelly Cooper r Willie Ford Lauren Frei r Brie Keefe Kathleen Crane Mitchell Brendan OβRiordan Emma Schoο¬eld r Stanley Smith Chris Talbert Mike Tucker Jamie Wallace r 2006
Casey Carr Jay Connolly Neal Frei r Dave LaPointe Anna Lockwood Dave Madeira Tristan Moore Brendan Murphy r Nick Payeur r Matt Sopher r Robin Stefanik
Ashley Babcock r Dorian Bakogiannis Colin Edge Tory Hayssen Christopher Howe Alex Martini Ben Motley Hilary Nichols Anders Nordblom Lucy Randall Anne Richardson Jeο¬ Rudberg Jesse Straus Lauren Wright
2004
2007
Geoο¬ Calver Dave Campbell Marina Chiasson Ashley Crook Mattie Ford DiNapoli Pack Janes Joy Erdman Larkin r John Leavitt Blair Weymouth Monaco Todd Nordblom Nate Smith
Scottie Alexander Phoebe Erdman Tim Hill Zachary Lynch Kourtney Brim Martin r Stephen Martin Sarah Morrison r Tad Skelley Kelly Walsh
2003
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Maddie Baker Margot Cutter John Duhamel Landry Frei r Beckett Noyes Hannah OβBrien Stephen Rudberg Jessi White 2009
Faith Barnum Hadley Bergh Cody Bohonnon Sumner Ford Jake Manoukian Jimmy Mathews Jake McPhee Caitlin Mitchell Ian Nesbitt r Meredith Peck Alli Robbins Justine Seraganian George Weaver 2010
Tizzy Brown Julia Capron Dillon Corkran Ivan Delic Andrea Fisher Brian Friedman Nate McBeath John McCoy Nick Parisi Gabbie Raο¬o Ashby Sussman 2011
Madde Burnham Mac Caputi Cecily Cushman Juliet Dalton Mandy Engelhardt Carson Houle Alex Kuno
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Sam Macomber Charlotte Noyes Ethan Pfenninger Margaret Thibadeau Jaclyn Vernet Klaus Vitzthum
Alex Leininger βοο Kristina Micalizzi βοο Steph Symecko βοο Kelly DiNapoli βοο Olivia Leatherwood βοο
CLASS AGENTS 2012
Austin Baum Gavin Bayreuther Josie Brownell Maggie Caputi Sam Cloud Bee Crudgington Thai Dao Ian Ford Matthew Kinney Sara Mogollon Jules Pichette Ryan Rosencranz Isabel Zaik-Hodgkins 2013
T.J. Ajello Elena Bird Dan Do Stepper Hall Olivia Leatherwood
CLASS VOLUNTEERS David Hagerman βοο John Pfeiο¬e βοο Bob Garrison βοο Alex MacCormick βοο Lindsay Fontana βοο Ramey Harris-Tatar βοο Abby Alexander βοο Ashleigh Boulton βοο Cecily Cushman βοο Mandy Engelhardt βοο Sam Macomber βοο Jamie McNulty βοο Peter Ferrante βοο Matthew Kinney βοο
Bill Baskin βοο r Brad Langmaid βοο r Bill Lofquist βοο r Cushman Andrews βοο r Jerry Ashworth βοο Buster Welch βοο r Sandy Alexander βοο r Jim Ricker βοο r Jon Porter βοο Duane Ford βοο r Walter Malmquist βοο r Joe Barbour βοο Fred Ludtke βοο Amanda Black βοο r Jennie Legg Gabel βοο Tracy McCoy Gillette βοο r Jen Murphy Robison βοο Sam Bass βοο Ramey Harris-Tatar βοο Liz Hogan βοο Nina Perkins Newman βοο Julia Haley βοο r Kathleen Blauvelt Kime βοο Brooke Aronson McCreedy βοο Ryan McManus βοο Brian Sweeney βοο Krissy Weatherbie βοο Meg McNulty βοο Caitlin Mitchell βοο Allison Stride βοο
CLASS CORRESPONDENTS Brad Langmaid βοο r Bob Backus βοο Mike Kingston βοο r Cushman Andrews βοο r Buster Welch βοο r
John Holley βοο r Mark Shub βοο David Hagerman βοο r George LeBoutillier βοο r George Textor βοο r Jim Ricker βοο r Stephen Foster βοο r John Pfeiο¬e βοο Jim Burnett βοο Chris Latham βοο r Sam Osborne βοο Tim Scott βοο r Walter Malmquist βοο r Jay Butler βοο John Putnam βοο Bob Garrison βοο Dave Dewey βοο r John Neal βοο Margo Farley Woodall βοο Matt Upton βοο Bill Baskin βοο r Christine Louis βοο r Lisa Weeks Clute βοο Chris Pesek βοο Susan Fine Taylor βοο Joe Barbour βοο Angus Christie βοο r Fred Paxton βοο Ian Sinclair βοο r Blake Swift βοο r Carolyn Colket Cullen βοο r Tim Lesko βοο Alex MacCormick βοο Amanda Black βοο r Kate Arecchi βοο Ian Frank βοο Jim Queen βοο Michael OβKeefe βοο Jess Colby Harris βοο Andy Katchen βοο r Lindsay Dewar Fontana βοο Anne Blair Hudak βοο Jon Moodey βοο Schuyler Perry βοο r Peter Woodward βοο Ramey Harris-Tatar βοο
Liz Hogan βοο Nina Perkins Newman βοο John Farnsworth βοο Katie Waltz Harris βοο r Nick Kaulbach βοο Juley Perkins βοο Sarah Crane βοο r Julia Haley βοο r Kathleen Blauvelt Kime βοο Kellan Florio βοο r Adam Lavallee βοο r Liz Norton βοο Ave Cook βοο r Kerry Douglas βοο Maddie Rappoli Fiumara βοο Neal Frei βοο r Nick Payeur βοο r Brian Sweeney βοο Jo Weatherbie βοο Krissy Weatherbie βοο Willie Ford βοο Kathleen Crane Mitchell βοο Brendan OβRiordan βοο Emily Sampson βοο Jay Bladon βοο Betsy Laurin βοο Anders Nordblom βοο Scottie Alexander βοο Mike Heyward βοο Katie Oram βοο Haley Hamblin βοο Gretchen Hyslip βοο Jake Manoukian βοο Caitlin Mitchell βοο Abby Alexander βοο Ashleigh Boulton βοο Cecily Cushman βοο Sam Macomber βοο Jamie McNulty βοο Peter Ferrante βοο
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REUNION PLANNING Harry Emmons βοο r Bill Briggs βοο r Rik Clark βοο r Bill Baskin βοο r Frank Hammond βοο Bill Summers βοο r Al Teele βοο Bill Lofquist βοο r Bill Byers βοο Dick Meyer βοο r Frederick Ellison βοο Charlie Kellogg βοο r
Jerry Ashworth βοο Len Richards βοο r David Hagerman βοο r Sandy Alexander βοο r Terry Jacobs βοο Peter Janney βοο John Pfeiο¬e βοο John Coles βοο Jon Porter βοο Peter Weiner βοο Dwight Shepard βοο r Dick Conant βοο Walter Malmquist βοο r Mac Jackson βοο Charlie Bolling βοο Biο¬ Gentsch βοο Peter Grant βοο r Luther Turmelle βοο Greg White βοο Bill Baskin βοο r Chris Pesek βοο
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Brooke Aronson McCreedy βοο Sully Sullivan βοο Karyn Hoepp Jennings βοο Adam Lavallee βοο r Sophie Moeller βοο Betsy Pantazelos βοο r Nick Payeur βοο r Ryan McManus βοο Brie Keefe βοο Annie Hanson βοο Jessi White βοο Meg McNulty βοο Allison Stride βοο Abby Alexander βοο Ashleigh Boulton βοο John McCoy βοο Em Pettengill βοο Cecily Cushman βοο Mandy Engelhardt βοο Sam Macomber βοο
Jamie McNulty βοο Peter Ferrante βοο Matthew Kinney βοο Alex Leininger βοο Kristina Micalizzi βοο Steph Symecko βοο Kelly DiNapoli βοο Olivia Leatherwood βοο
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AT THIS POINT IN TIME
A First-Rate Building that Answered Many Needs
This sketch of the main campus was included in a long-range plan for the school in 1977. The plan called for an entirely new academic building just north of Carpenter.
by liesl magnus βοο In οοοο, Holderness School was changing rapidly. Pete Woodward had recently become head of school and very strongly supported the introduction of boarding girls to Holderness. One result was that a team of architects were hired to look out over the campus and design a plan that they felt would best suit the growing needs of the school in the years to come. The architectural plans described the layout of a new building within the campus: βThe [new] academic building occurs at the north end of what the Architects have described as the βLivermore Spine,β a handsome linear space fronted by ο¬ne buildingsβ¦ The auditorium presents a curved brick faΓ§ade to the campus and allows the axis of the βLivermore Spineβ to hinge at that point and to continue on towards Bartsch.β While the Livermore Spine and its corresponding hinge never made it further than the
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plans, eventually a new academic building was built where the tennis courts had previously stood. The needs for the new building were relatively similar to the needs that we as a school have now: that is for a new auditorium and for new science laboratories and math classrooms. So, the Hagerman Science Center was built to support the small classes that educators all across the country felt would allow students to learn best. In addition to new lab technology, the new building also had a large auditorium that could accommodate school assemblies, theatrical performances, study halls, and the Gordon Research Conference during the summer. The construction, as the οοοο Campus Master Plan noted, βmade a ο¬rst rate building that answered many needsβ¦ and allowed [Carpenter] to become converted into a decent arts building.β Thus, the Hagerman Center came to be. However, that was almost οο years ago. And as the world moves faster and faster, the stan-
dards for education and for the buildings that accommodate learning have changed vastly. We ο¬nd ourselves once again considering how best to create a space that can best support the ideal practices and programs for Holdernessβs students. The new styles of learning and teaching put a heavy emphasis on stem: science, technology, engineering, and mathβfour subjects that are becoming more and more relevant and more and more integrated. The new learning models require larger classrooms that possess more open and ο¬exible ο¬oor plans in order to encourage the ο¬ow of ideas between groups of students. This plan has already been put into place by schools like the University of North Dakota, where they recently broke ground for what they are calling a βuniversal design approach.β It allows the building to be used for not only science and math, but for many other subjects as well. The school has also outgrown its auditorium. With a dance team, several performing arts courses each semester, and multiple full-length theatrical performances every year, the stage and its storage facilities are insuο¬cient. Although Holderness has always been able to function well without ostentatious facilities and amenities, it is our hope that a new science facility will soon be built on our campusβwith the kind of ο¬exible and innovative space that reο¬ects this century and that will transform Hagerman in the way that the building of Hagerman transformed Carpenter. Holderness has always been proud of supporting its students in the changing world. If we stay at the forefront of these changes, we will continue to produce exceptional students who will go on to become the leaders of the future.
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