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HOLDERNESS SCHOOL TODAY THE MAGAZINE OF HOLDERNESS SCHOOL WINTER 2015

CHAPEL LANE PO BOX 1879 PLYMOUTH, NH 03264-1879

INSIDE: r Ready for the Long Haul r Reunion 2014 IT’S 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 ’18 WALKS ON A WIRE 20 FEET IN THE AIR AT LOON MOUNTAIN’S 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. What’s next? BY RICK CAREY

ABOVE: Taken just before Knowlton Hall burned in , 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 .

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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It’s a view of campus few of us ever get to see firsthand. But thanks to aviators throughout the centuries, bird’s-eye views have been captured many times—including 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 ’75, Treasurer Russell Cushman ’80 The Rev. Randolph Dales, Secretary Victoria Frei Nigel Furlonge Tracy McCoy Gillette ’89, Alumni Association President Douglas Griswold ’66 Robert Hall James Hamblin II ’77, Chairperson Jan Hauser The Right Rev. Robert Hirschfeld, President Robert Kinsley ’88 Richard Nesbitt Peter Nordblom Susan Paine ’82 R. Phillip Peck Thomas Phillips ’75 Jake Reynolds ’86 Ian Sanderson ’79 Andrew Sawyer ’79 Jenny Seeman ’88 Harry Sheehy Gary Spiess Poppy Staub ’85 Jerome Thomas ’95 Sander van Otterloo ’94 HEADMASTER EMERITUS The Rev. Brinton W. Woodward, Jr. HONORARY TRUSTEES Warren C. Cook Piper Orton ’74 W. Dexter Paine III ’79 Will Prickett ’81

3 From the Schoolhouse 4 From the Editor 5 03264: Letters to HST 30 Around the Quad 34 Sports 41 Update: Current Faculty and Staff 46 Update: Trustees 48 Alumni in the News 59 2013–14 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 Office, PO Box 1879, Plymouth, NH 03264, or advancement@holderness.org. © 2013 Holderness School EDITOR: Emily Magnus ’88 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 ’17, Minh Tran ’16 Holderness School Today is printed on sustainably produced, chain-of-custody stock certified 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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FROM THE SCHOOLHOUSE

Building Our School At Holderness, we believe that everyone— every person, every program, and even the school itself—should be engaged in a leadership journey. Within that phrase, the word “journey” is as important as the word “leadership.” A leadership journey cannot be purchased or won and it does not have a conclusion. The practice and the hard work involved in a person’s, or a school’s, life-long journey are what develop outstanding leaders.

As you’ll 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 reflect. As John Dewey said, “We do not learn from experience; we learn from reflecting on experience.” At Holderness this means that every three to five years we commit to creating and/or reviewing our strategic plan. We use the strategic plan to critically assess, benchmark, change, and dream—building off 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 : dormitories (including Rathbun and Hoit).

As we look ahead, there are programs, facilities, and human resources that you’ll 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 year’s recipient of the Distinguished Service Award), is developing and continues refine.

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The Distinguished Service Award honors an alumnus or alumna who has significantly and positively affected 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 year’s recipient Dean of Residential Life Duane Ford ’74.

There are also articles introducing a number of new staff, 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 ’, Munchie Williams ’, Jed Hoyer ’, and Dexter Paine ’—to name a few—have all become leaders in their given fields, 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 results—just 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 plan—one that is firmly 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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FROM THE EDITOR

Plan B

Ian MacIntyre ’79 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 ’ pushed the throttle and guided the plane to sixty, seventy, eighty miles per hour, the wall of trees at the far end of the field grew closer. But before I could panic, Ian tilted us skyward. Air lifted the wings, and we soared over the Pemigewassett River and I-. Looking north, only the oxbow lakes of the Pemi and a few farmers’ fields interrupted the endless view of the vast New Hampshire forests.

Just that morning at : am when my alarm had gone off, my day had stretched before me with predictability. There were photos to sort, articles to edit, and layout issues to solve—not the least of which was to come up with a subject for a “Catching Up” 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 Head’s Holiday—just 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 fields, 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 fly 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 takeoff, 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 Ian’s 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 wasn’t just human power and ingenuity that allowed us to fly above campus;

Mother Nature and her air currents had just as much control. It was with her blessing that we flew 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 didn’t want to miss the chance to trade memories with a fellow alumnus. The Hagerman Science Building was new when I was a student in , 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 well—the cobalt blue glasses and the big silver trays, the automatic doors leading in and out of pantry. Our conversation was laced with “Do they still…” and “I remember…”

It wasn’t until I returned to my office much later that day and began looking at the photographs from our flight that the pieces suddenly snapped together. Just the evening before, I had been looking at an aerial photograph of campus from the s. 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 haven’t seen campus in thirty years or more. Would they like to “Catch Up” with campus also? Plan B was established.

It’s 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 offer the unexpected at just the right moment. It’s almost as good as a Head’s Holiday.

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

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Alumnae Respond to “Outstanding Female Leaders” 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 autumn’s splendor.

From the Class of ’59 The last issue of Holderness School Today brought an increase in letters. To begin, many responded to the magazine’s theme of women in leadership. Carolyn Campbell ’ wrote, “Thank you for your thoughtful essay on women in leadership in the most recent hst. It parallels nicely with Emma Watson’s comments to the UN in September: www.cbsnews.com /news/emma-watson-gives-powerful-speechabout-gender-equality-at-united-nations/. As a woman, the differences 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 efforts. 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.”

Kate MacIlvain Smith ’ also responded to the article. “What a thought-provoking hst,”

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she wrote. “The 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 way—no arrogance, no ignorance, and no victimizing the female. It was great…Phil Peck’s and Rick Carey’s articles remind me that while time has passed, issues are still there, and there is plenty of work to be done.”

Lastly, Nina Perkins Newman ’ wrote, “I just received my copy of hst and loved it— especially the focus on women in leadership.

Working at an all-girls school, we discuss this topic often, and I feel blessed to have benefited from a Holderness education. I had a number of leadership opportunities, but in some ways it wasn’t 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 significant role in ensuring that we are educating and empowering our girls. Our mission is that our students become (as our founder wrote) ‘women of conscience and action.’”

More Praise for Alice Jane Hinman Rik Clark ’ was also moved to write to us.

After reading about the passing of Alice Jane Hinman, Rik wrote, “During my three years as a student from  to , 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 staff and faculty; they were family to all of us with our bumps, warts, and acting out. For me and for my  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.”

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of you have asked me, ‘What can I do to support Holderness?’ “ Many Here’s what you are already doing. You come here for this weekend, many of you from across the country—as far away as Alaska—to 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 financial support. You are already helping us by being the proof that Holderness isn’t just a once in a lifetime experience, rather it is an experience that lasts a lifetime.”

– HEAD OF SCHOOL PHIL PECK, CONVOCATION SPEECH

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FROM THE 25TH AND 50TH REUNION YEARBOOKS: those moments are not impressive “ Individually, enough to express. But together they have never left my memory and have influenced, in both an obvious and subconscious way, many of the decisions that I have made and continue to make every day.”

– KATIE ZOCK-BUTTERWORTH ’89 wasn’t a single experience but a series of “ 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 God’s truth.”

– RICHARD EBERHART ’64 runs through the New England landscape with “ Long Phil Peck and crew were really the first time I can remember the sensation of true inner peace through exercise and focus.”

– TOM DONOVAN ’89

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are all travelers—time travelers really—and we are happy “ 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.”

– DIRECTOR OF COLLEGE COUNSELING BRUCE BARTON, CONVOCATION SPEECH

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READY FOR THE LONG HAUL The 2014 Strategic Plan—a.k.a. the ’03 Strategic Plan 4.0—has kicked into gear.

It’s a plan that reflects both this moment in Holderness School history and the low-profile 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 2001—when he succeeded the retiring Pete Woodward—than 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, fifteen years.

They were asked to be bold in their dreams for the school, to submit what Phil called BHAGs—“Big Hairy Audacious Goals.” Here’s what some of them proposed: r “As best as we are able, given geographic and financial realities, we will embrace and promote diversity as a goal in attracting and retaining our student body (e.g., gender, cultural background, geography, religion)….” r “We will mandate a public academic presentation by every student every year (e.g., senior speech, newspaper, arts, etc.).” r “We will address day care concerns for faculty and staff.” r “We 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).” r “We will make our school more like home by improving the quality of residential life along the ‘Sargent Model’ (i.e., addition of common rooms, increased faculty housing, 8:1 student faculty ratio, elimination of Hill dormitories across Rt. 175).”

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ties (e.g., artificial turf, enclosed rink).” r “Increase size of Chapel and Weld to accommodate our entire community.” r “Substantially raise endowment to support people, programs, and facilities.”

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 ’76 and board members Piper Orton ’74 and Kristin Nordblom ’79. 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 didn’t invent the idea (or the acronym) of a BHAG. It came out of an influential 1994 book by Jim Collins and Jerry Porras, Built to Last—a book about not just success in the business community, but enduring success. It approaches that sub-

ject by working backwards: first, find eighteen companies who have achieved such success (Apple, Boeing, Sony, etc.); second, find what’s common to their cultures, planning, and decision-making processes. Then you’ll be on to something.

One such common element, the authors found, is a willingness to dream big—to posit goals that bristle with ambition. As an example, Collins and Porras cite Boeing’s 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 fiery 1882 destruction of the Livermore Mansion, the new school’s classroom/dormitory building, put an immediate crimp in that plan. The mansion was replaced by Knowlton Hall, and through the first 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 “time-telling” and “clock-building” 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 “having a great idea or being a charismatic visionary leader,” while that latter involves “building a company that can prosper beyond the presence of any single leader and through multiple product life cycles.” 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 firm 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 Gertrude’s) each year—which it did. And even if it meant putting all students to work doing maintenance and clean-up—which 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 school’s first 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 fields, and a classroom building to balance Carpenter Hall on the other side of the Schoolhouse. “It will be noted that this Development Program contains no provision for endowment,” wrote Weld. “While such a fund would be a great asset, the Trustees have after careful deliberation decided to seek to provide first, the buildings, facilities, and teaching staff required to enable Holderness to offer to one hundred boys each year an education of the highest standard at moderate cost.”

It was a wonderful exercise in vision, and the campus-that-could-have-been is lovely to behold in Larson’s 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 “an education of the highest standard” at below market cost really didn’t qualify as a “great idea,” as Collins and Porras use the phrase. Weld’s 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 school’s first successful capital campaign. A small and modest

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BUT PHIL PECK WAS ADAMANT. “IT’S GOING TO BE OUR PLAN, NOT MINE,” HE REPLIED. “WE ALL NEED TO OWN IT.” endowment was born, though the school remained in debt.

A NEW HOLDERNESS, AND AN OLD ONE Meanwhile, Don Hagerman didn’t 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 divided—and stubbornly indecisive—on the issue.

Even during the interview process in 1977, Don’s successor, The Rev. B.W. “Pete” Woodward, said truthfully that he’d be happy to lead Holderness as either a boys’ school or coed. “Once I got on the job, though, I became convinced that Holderness—in the long run—would be a better school if it were coed,” Pete says. “At the board’s second meeting that year, I said as much. One of the trustees turned to me and said, ‘Well, I knew this would happen.’”

Indeed that was the tipping point. There would be no more committee work on the matter. The headmaster’s recommendation swung the board to a firm majority in favor of the new model, and in the spring of 1978 the Holderness School for Boys became simply a school.

“I wish there had been widespread consensus in the community about that move, but there wasn’t,” Pete says. “And 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.”

Pete was similarly swift and decisive on another controversial topic of the time—

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religion. “If it’s not going to be an Episcopal school,” Pete had said to the trustees during a job interview, “I don’t want to come.”

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 Pete— secure in his vision for the school, and with enough support from the trustees—rode it out, and within a few years the chapel was again an integral part of Holderness.

Pete’s own charisma played no small role in the success of these initiatives. He settled in with all Don Hagerman’s expansive warmth, and also a touch of genius at the podium. Listening to his self-effacing humor and his sure instinct for just the right phrase, you couldn’t 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 down— once Holderness had settled into its new identity as a coed school and its old identity as an Episcopal one—the 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 Back—born during the Hagerman years— was supplemented with the rest of today’s 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 school’s resources for financial 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 head’s office, looking out the window, shrugging his shoulders, and wondering, “Now what?” But instead he stood on tiptoe, ready to try something completely different.

A MORE NIMBLE PLAN John Bird, who came to campus as a consultant and the point man of Phil’s new effort, knew just what to do. In the 1980s he was head of Tulsa, Oklahoma’s 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 first 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, 1987’s Strategic Planning for Independent Schools.

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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 “the first real park in this country—a democratic development of highest significance.” 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 CONQUEROR’S DOMESDAY BOOK was a survey of the

Crown’s 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 City’s Central Park. r 1944: DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER’S 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,” says Assistant Head of School for Institutional Advancement Robert Caldwell.

It all began with the universities, but very soon independent secondary schools joined the effort to adapt—albeit with some difficulty—corporate 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.

“You start with articulating the good things that a company—or school—is doing, and then the things that it’s not so good at,” says Leslie J. Pelton, the principal of LJP Consulting. “Then 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?”

It’s 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: “One good way to get that information is to gather the organization’s stakeholders and get them all into the same room. That’s not so hard with a business, but with a school—well, it’s run by the head, its board, and its administrative teams, but it has so many different owners and stakeholders beyond that, and so many different perspectives to offer by way of information.”

“In a school, unlike a corporation,” adds Robert Caldwell, “power is very diffuse.”

Indeed that phrase “so many” 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, staff, students, parents, alumni, trustees, and friends of the school, Phil insisted on a big cross-section—as 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. “It’s going to be our plan, not mine,” he replied. “We all need to own it.”

Among the throng was Piper Orton ’74, 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-profits, 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. “You have to make choices,” she says. “There might be ten different things that your organization does, and certain constituents will really value certain of these things, and—especially if you have a very inclusive process—there will be demands that all these things appear in the plan. With so many different points of view to capture, you run the risk of not being bold enough in terms of what your goals try to accomplish.”

There will also be an urge, from one quarter or another, to impose a hierarchy on those goals. “But you can’t do that,” says John Bird. “Any goal in a strategic plan has to be top priority. A sequence is okay—first this, then that. But you can’t support one goal as more important than another. It’s all crucial, or it shouldn’t be there. And you certainly don’t want anything in there just for PR purposes.”

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 once—instead 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, five 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 “Social House.”

This building was designed to contain the rectory, library, infirmary, dining hall, game room, and offices. 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 floated in discussion: “Embrace and support school-wide diversity”; “Provide more public opportunities to celebrate the life of the mind”; “Reassess the importance and feasibility of affordable on-campus daycare”; “Raise the level of annual fund giving by twenty percent a year”; “Assess what adjustments must be made in the facilities of the residential community”; “Ensure that Weld Hall and the chapel are able to accommodate the entire school community”; “Review and strengthen curricula, particularly math and science” (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 ’03 Strategic Plan and says, “In certain respects, that plan was primitive, especially when you consider how far we’ve come since then. For one thing, it didn’t really provide direction to the administrative teams on how to achieve those objectives.

We just left it to them to figure it out.”

But it demonstrated that the process could work, that all those people really

could be brought into line behind five major initiatives, and could also be bold in what was to be pursued under the aegis of those initiatives. And best of all—instead 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 down—the 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 five years, he also left the plan open to revision on the fly.

And with that, the great capital campaigns of the last three decades of the 20th century—and the strategic planning associated with them—faded into Holderness history. “Under the old model, you’d lock onto a certain goal and raise money on behalf of it,” says Robert Caldwell. “But then if something changes— in the school, the environment, the market—that 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 reflect the times, echoing the voices of different eras and different ideals. However, at their core many of the plans return again and again to the school’s founding principles. While the words of the past are more elegantly composed than today’s curt bullet points and declarative sentences, many of the goals remain eerily similar. Side by side, here’s how the plans measure up.

ON COMMUNITY r 1936: “The school plan calls for additional buildings suffi-

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 extent…There is nothing of the ‘institution’ about Holderness” (Excerpted from a 1936 bulletin: “Holderness School: What it is What it Plans to be”). r 2014: “We cultivate the bonds that unite us and the role that those relationships play in elevating learning and how we live” (the first of three core values adopted in the 2014 Strategic Plan).

ON RELIGIOUS STUDIES r 1936: “Commencing with the youngest boys in the second

form, a course in religion is a regular part of the curriculum in each of the five 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 Today” (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 2014–15 Curriculum Guide).

ON A HOLDERNESS EDUCATION r 1936: “Boys 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 today” (1936 Bulletin). r 2014: “It is imperative to educate global citizens and to foster the connections, understanding, and sense of responsibility that will be required to achieve this goal…We will integrate concepts of social justice, specifically 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 humanity” (2014 Strategic Plan).

ON WINTER SPORTS r 1932: “Along with the development of the mind will go the

development of the body, and a taste for outdoor life—an 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 Team” (Excerpted from a 1932 Bulletin). r 2104: “Design and implement initiatives to enhance Holderness’s 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 facility” (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 (TODAY’S 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 don’t care what the temperature is a long as it is below freezing” (1936 Bulletin). r 2014: “We will develop a multi-sport full-participation athletic performance program focused on supporting the 21st century athlete and build a state-of-the-art fitness center for all” (2014 Strategic Plan).

ON CLASSROOMS r 1936: “A 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 activities” (1936 Bulletin). r 2014: “Build 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 design” (2014 Strategic Plan).

ON THE ENDOWMENT r 1936: “It 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 first, the buildings, facilities, and teaching staff required to enable Holderness to offer one hundred boys each year an education of the highest standard at moderate cost…If Holderness is true to its high calling, gifts and legacies from loyal alumni, grateful parents, and true friends will build an endowment fund” (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 flexibility to respond to such changes, you can be much more nimble in your advancement efforts in support of those goals.”

This meant that in the Advancement offices in Livermore, there was no more finish line, as there had been with those capital campaigns. “Instead we work constantly hand-in-hand with the academic departments, the administrative teams, to help create the infrastructure they need on an ongoing basis,” Robert adds. “It’s very process-driven.”

It also neatly aligns with another finding 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 ’03 plan was revised in five 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 flexibility and opportunism displayed by Apple et al., Collins and Porras write that an organization “must be prepared to change everything about itself except its basic beliefs.”

And a great part of the ’08 process involved the school’s basic beliefs—defining, clarifying, rendering them more accessible, and therefore also more permanent. The school’s mission statement, several pages long, was condensed into a single paragraph. A half dozen core values were defined and set down into language that the hundreds could support.

But by then, every five years seemed like a long time. “Just recently, five to ten years was the norm for the life of a strategic plan,” says Leslie J. Pelton. “Then that

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shrank to five to seven, and now it’s more like three to five.”

We’ll take three. “That’s good for accountability as well,” says John Bird.

“Heads change, board membership changes, but if you have a plan for a threeyear timeline, you’ve got to act on it. You can’t lay it aside for whoever’s next.”

In 2011 Leslie teamed with Board Chair Will Prickett ’81 to arrive at a third iteration, and the 2014 Strategic Plan—version 4.0— has been produced under the leadership of board chair Jim Hamblin ’77 and former trustee Will Northrop ’88. The mission statement is now a single muscular sentence, and the core values have been condensed to three: Community, Character, and Curiosity. It’s all on behalf of keeping these beliefs front and center. “Language that’s lengthy and complicated is harder to rearticulate,” notes Robert Caldwell. “It’s got to be succinct—and inspirational.”

Of course we’re now on the eve of that year back in 2002 when groups of faculty and trustees were asked to come up with Holderness’s 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 findings. 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 school’s 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 artificial 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.

It’s not precisely everything that this group (and others) laid down on paper, but it’s 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? “At this point we’re standing on the shoulders of giants,” says Will Northrop of the document proceeding out of the committee work of this summer and fall. “But this is still a stretch, a challenge to the whole community to take some very large steps forward. There are no slam dunks here.”

The plan’s vision statement has shrunk from the original three paragraphs to a terse single sentence: “Holderness School will redefine leadership and intellectual development, preparing all for their journeys in a changing world.”

To Jim Hamblin, that word “redefine” is the crux of it, the spark plug to a new and even more powerful motor. “Basically every element of this plan is a BHAG, or near to it,” he says. “We’re staying within our traditions, our values, but building on our strengths— student leadership, outdoor education, project-based learning, multi-sports athletics, and so forth—to redefine how these things are done in a global, fast-changing world, and to establish Holderness as magnetic north for where you go to find the best models for these programs.”

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“THERE ARE A LOT OF PHILANTHROPIC CHOICES OUT THERE, BUT WHAT DISTINGUISHES THE MOST COMPELLING IS AN ESPECIALLY BOLD AND INSPIRATIONAL VISION. THAT’S WHERE PEOPLE SEE THE OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THE THINGS THAT MATTER TO THEM.” – ROBERT CALDWELL Phil Peck nods in approval at Jim’s mention of strengths. “Much of the previous versions of this plan went towards addressing problems,” he says, referring to items that came up in the “weakness” category of a SWOT analysis. “For the first time in our history, we’re strong enough to start with the things that we do well, to lead with our strengths, and climb even higher from there.”

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 fitness center; an enhanced Eastern free skiing program; an increase in fund-raising revenues to $8 million annually—and more.

It’s a characteristically ambitious docket that once again arrives feeling like it’s everybody’s idea, thanks to all who took part in shaping it. But don’t forget the head of school, advises Jim Hamblin. “The vision for this process, the guidance for where we want to go with it, it comes from Phil,” he says. “It doesn’t happen by itself.”

MULTIPLE PRODUCT LIFE CYCLES Phil’s is a style of leadership whose time has arrived, Will believes. “If you have a situation that requires a major change in the

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character of an institution, and you don’t have a lot of time to come to a decision about it, then one person who’s willing to take it all on his or her shoulders is one solution,” he says. “But once you reach a position of strength, about who you are and what you do—and that pretty well describes Holderness during the majority of my tenure on the board—then what you’re essentially doing in strategic planning is refining things, and this has been done very successfully.”

Edric Weld had to figure 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 ones—charismatic, visionary leaders who had good ideas and were ready to say, “We’re doing this, and that’s it.” There wasn’t time to fiddle around.

Is there time now, as the world both shrinks and speeds up? There is if a solid consensus lies behind an organization’s mission and values, and if an ongoing (and bold) process of “multiple product life cycles” is plugged into that consensus. Phil Peck saw an historic opportunity for building such a consensus in 2001—a consensus whose foundations were laid by previous

heads—and he acted on it to become the school’s first Built to Last-style clock-builder.

Or maybe not. Of course a good clockbuilder enables an organization to “prosper beyond the presence of any single leader.”

It’s where an organization wants to be, but Holderness might be even more fortunate than that. Pete Woodward—once he said we’re going coed and we’re attending Chapel—made his peace with committees and proved himself a capable consensusbuilding clock-builder in executing those capital campaigns of the ’80s and ’90s. On the other hand, when Phil became head, he wanted to start with a “do-what-we-say-wedo” campus ethos, and on behalf of that took on his own shoulders, time teller-like, the expulsion of 26 students in 2001–02, 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 words—time-teller and clock-builder in one versatile, all-purpose package.

Supported as it is by the iron resolve and the penetrating vision of the school’s leaders, the strategic planning process, in all its renditions, has stood the test of time.

Holderness School now sits on a firm foundation both because of its charismatic leaders and its engaged community. And from Phil’s 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 eye…Remember that game?

perspective of campus. But what is also clear is

Can you find Schoolhouse? Where’s Hagerman

Holderness’s connection to the natural world. De-

Auditorium? In what year does I-93 first 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 fire

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

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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 fields 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 1960— all making room for a growing student body. Shortly after this photo was taken, Bartsch was built next to the new athletic fields.

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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 building—Hagerman Center—and 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 HEAD’S 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

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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 first 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 school’s entrance awaiting new students on opening day; senior leaders on the Quad checking the new students’ registration boxes.

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Chuseok Chuseok (Korean: 추석), originally known as hangawi (한가위), is a major harvest festival and a three-day holiday in Korea celebrated on the fifteenth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar. At Holderness we celebrated with a magnificent feast at the Head’s House. The students helped cook the food which included songpyeon (rice dough kneaded into small round shapes and filled 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. Peck’s dining room; Keying Yang ’17 shares her knowledge of the dishes with Tia Tang ’18.

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Training Student Leaders, One Summer Vacation at a Time “It’s a great program at the worst time of year,” Dean of Residential Life Duane Ford ’ 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 leaders—the president, vice president, Weld Hall supervisors, and house and floor leaders— 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.

“During the spring leadership retreat,” says Charles Harker, who was elected president of the school last April, “we were able to reflect 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.”

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 finished and the last student has left campus, the leaders enter the dorms and begin to clean—throwing 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 filled  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.

“We feel trust has always been a huge part of the Holderness community, and it’s key that we as seniors establish trust with everyone right off the bat,” says Charles. “Obviously, there will be setbacks, but at the end of the year, we’d like to say there’s a larger element of trust in faculty-tostudent and student-to-student relationships.”

“One of the beautiful things,” adds Duane Ford, “is that we weren’t even there for that. The students came up with the theme on their own.”

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 matters— scheduling issues, disciplinary cases—there is also time to reflect on their developing leadership skills. This year the student leaders will also participate in a nine-week mindfulness training course with Erin Woo. “Mindfulness is paying attention to what is happening right here and now, with interest and kindness,” writes Erin Woo, who received her training through the Mindfulness in Schools Project and maintains a website www.mindfulnesswitherin.com. “We 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.”

And while the spring retreat and the mindfulness training are two more ways Holderness helps the  senior leaders to succeed, by giving up the first and last two days of their summer vacation, they learn one of the most important characteristics of effective leadership: selflessness.

“In the end,” says Dean of Students Kathy Weymouth, “it is through selflessness and respect that they become successful leaders and champions of the school.”

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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 kickoff before a game against Cardigan Mountain School; undefeated in the Lakes Region, the girls’ cross-country team celebrates their fourth-place finish in the Division III NEPSAC Championship race; Risa Mosenthal ’17 drives the ball towards the goal during a game against St. Paul’s School; Malik Love ’15 and James Tyrrell ’15 celebrate after a touchdown against Proctor in the last game of their outstanding season.

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ABOVE LEFT: Charles Harker ’15 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: It’s almost a goal! The ball rolls just outside the post during a girls’ JV field hockey game against New Hampton. BELOW RIGHT: Geoff West ’17 coasts into the finish during a race at KUA.

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CLOCKWISE, FROM ABOVE: Paul Sampson ’17 competes for possession of the ball with players from Proctor; goalie Cole Donovan ’16 practices defending the goal during warmups; Emma Abrams ’15 on the Lower Fields during a fierce struggle with New Hampton; girls on the varsity soccer team celebrate after Nikki Blair ’15 scores a goal during the same game; students from KUA and Holderness take off from the start of a race at KUA, just behind the turf where the boys’ varsity soccer teams battle for the ball on KUA Day.

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ABOVE LEFT: Seungmin Jung ’16 cheers for her teammates on the JV soccer team during KUA Day. ABOVE RIGHT: Sean Cashel ’15 climbs with his teammates at Rumney Cliffs. BELOW LEFT: Storm Thompkins ’17 keeps the ball away from New Hampton during a game on the Lower Fields. BELOW RIGHT: Nathan Sampo ’16 dribbles the ball away from KUA on the Lower Fields.

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JUNIOR THOMAS JACKSON LEADS THE boys up the first hill in the Division III NEPSAC Championship race in November at Vermont Academy.

Jackson finished 28th overall with a time of 19:15. Over his right shoulder is Charles Harker ’15, who finished 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, finishing 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 master’s in teaching Spanish but on tales of her travels and her personal experiences.

Most significant among her experiences was her trip to Europe to study bilingualism and multilingualism. “In Europe languages are constantly in contact with one another,” says Jean.

“Everyone has strong feelings, and people’s reasons for speaking different languages are often fascinating.”

For example, one friend’s 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.

“My friend said her daughter won’t let any of the languages cross over to other parts of her life,” says Jean. “For her each language is tied very closely to the places and people with whom she originally learned them.”

Another woman from Paris with whom Jean spoke was fluent 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.

“These personal perspectives were so diverse and unique,” says Jean. “It was exciting to be immersed in such a language-conscious culture.

In the United States, how often do we talk about language?”

Her experiences with st century learning were invaluable as well. Although earning her master’s 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 Boquería in La Rambla, Barcelona.

Jean, this resulted in a more diverse learning experience.

“One of the best things about online learning was that I got to work with people from different backgrounds with different perspectives from mine,” says Jean. “I became good friends with many of them, though I never actually got to meet them.”

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 flip 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.

“There was a huge learning curve for me when I took my first online course,” says Jean.

“It took me a while to understand how to access what I needed on the Rutgers’ website, how to upload and download my work, and

how to participate in online discussions with my classmates.”

“But online courses are becoming more and more prevalent in colleges and universities,” observes Jean. “Holderness School and Holderness students would benefit 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.”

Jean will be working on her final portfolio presentation for her master’s program while resuming her work here at Holderness—a challenging task that she’s 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 first things she shared with her students in Schoolhouse this fall.

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Holderness Welcomes New Recruits

(L–R) Jini Rae Sparkman, Alan Thompson ’04, Woody Kampmann, Jeremy Stubbs, Brian Collins, Caroline Phillips, Leigh Anne Connors, Joe Arsenault, Jermetrius Troy, and Pat Saunders

On August , schedules for the – 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 Women’s Studies Program and working in the Athletic Department. Prior to working at psu, Ms. Sparkman received a bachelor’s degree in literature and film and a master’s in education from psu. Originally

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from Texas, Sparkman is looking forward to developing the varsity girls’ basketball program as well as the JV girls’ soccer program. Jini was a varsity starter at Graceland College in Lamoni, IA, her first year of college, and played two more years in the basketball program at Trine University in Indiana. She’s 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 five 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 “Five Fables” (Broadkill Review), the essay “Earthquake Weather” (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 girls’ basketball team and living off campus.

In the Math Department we have several new recruits as well. First off is Joe Arsenault, a graduate of the University of New Hampshire. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics in secondary education in  and a master’s degree in teaching in . In college, he played basketball, soccer, football, and softball and was a member of Off the Clef, an a cappella group.

He will be living in Lower Niles, coaching JV boys’ soccer, and JV boys’ 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 specifically, 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 off campus and coaching the Eastern ski team as well as the JV girls’ lacrosse team.

The third and final 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 “We, 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.”

His philosophy will no doubt carry him through the time that he spends at Holderness.

Mr. Stubbs will be living in Upper Webster, coaching boys’ 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 boys’ 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 , 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 Tilton’s first 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 boys’ 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 girls’ 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  Ivy League title, which boosted them to a spot in March Madness.

Alan Thompson, a Holderness graduate from the Class of , will also be joining our coaching staff. 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, don’t hesitate to shake hands with the newest editions to our family and welcome them into the Holderness community!

English teacher Brian Collins on the first day of classes in September.

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Serving the Community One Book at a Time Mary joined the Holderness staff in  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 student’s education. And while it would have been easy for Mary to stick with what she knew, she embraced the new trends—making room for cds, subscribing to Netflix, 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 ’92) had a plan.

Mary Kietzman

During Mary Kietzman’s long tenure as librarian at Holderness, she commuted from her house on Langdon Street, through town, and up Chapel Hill—on foot. Even in the middle of winter, Mary made the walk, bundled in her purple down coat, arms crossed to ward off the cold. Along the way she stopped to pick up the school’s seven daily newspapers. Some days, she even picked up an extra – if a teacher needed them for a class.

For  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 ’s when libraries were for books and card catalogs were made out of paper. She graduated with a master’s 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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, Mary’s 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 ’) had a plan. First, they measured the shelves of books in Livermore, then took the measurements to the new Alfond Library. Then, on April ,  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.

“We were all so excited,” recalls Mary.

“Everyone was running everywhere but somehow in the organized chaos we got the job done, or very nearly.” 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 final 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 .

Libraries are no longer just for housing books, concluded the committee; instead they are places for people to collaborate and create.

“Under Mary’s leadership last spring,” says her assistant Chris Stigum, “we significantly weeded our selection of books and brought in additional cubicles for individual work spaces and additional tables for collaborative projects.”

We will miss Mary’s cheerful presence in Alfond and her willingness to help with research projects and inter-library loans. But fortunately, she won’t be far off. 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 , –july ,  Phyllis Walker arrived at Holderness School in  with her husband Norm and nine children. She was never officially 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 couldn’t be ignored, Phyllis’s contributions were much more reserved.

“She definitely didn’t seek the limelight,” remembers Holderness English teacher and friend Sarah Barton. “But she was always present and open. As her granddaughter Colleen said at her memorial service, Phyllis ‘would feed you before you even knew you were hungry.’”

“She was very much her own person,” adds Director of College Counseling Bruce Barton.

“Creative, loyal, loving, and wholly dedicated to those around her, Phyllis was a rock.”

Dorm mother, substitute nurse in the health center, contributing artist, and friend. Phyllis Walker’s roles were many. And wrapped up within everything she did was a desire to find beauty, both in the people and physical world around her.

When Holderness music teacher David Lockwood visited his upstairs neighbors in Rathbun in the ’s, Phyllis would often show him her latest yard sale find. And while at first glance the scavenged lamp or chair may not have seemed to be much of a find, with a little paint or refinishing, Phyllis would transform them.

“She was an artist in her own right, seeing beauty in the smallest things—the light on water, the mist over the bog,” says former Holderness art teacher Kathryn Field.

In fact, the school’s 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 Phyllis’s 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 Kathryn’s Art in the Afternoon students. The murals now decorate the walls of the tunnel under Route  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.

“Phyllis taught me about going on when you are in pain, holding up your head, and looking toward the sky,” says Kathryn. “She 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.”

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. “Two weeks after our daughter Cordy was born,” wrote former Holderness science teacher Paul Elkins in an online tribute to Phyllis, “my grandfather passed away, and to help us attend the funeral etc., Phyllis offered to take Cordy for the day.

Who else would new parents completely trust to care for their new baby but Phyllis?”

When Phyllis’s husband officially retired from teaching at Holderness in , 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.

“Her role in his health care was extraordinary,” says Kathryn. “Norm 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.”

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 year’s 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  and later obtained an undergraduate arts degree from Colorado College and a master’s degree in architecture from the University of Pennsylvania. Rob is the president of lsc Design, an architecture and engineering firm 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 fly-fishing. 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 Rob’s professional guidance and architectural opinion. It has since then been a natural progression as Rob has

Rob Kinsley ’88 and Vicki Frei P ’03, ’05, and ’08

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.”

Sander van Otterloo is also a graduate of Holderness. After leaving Holderness in , he received a BA from Colorado College and a

I’ve been really impressed with the work that has already been done on the [school’s] strategic plan. It represents a signficant 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. — ROB KINSLEY ’88 become more involved with the school and taken an interest in its direction.

“I’ve been really impressed with the work that has already been done on the strategic plan,” says Rob. “It represents a significant 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  and, most recently, was named the school’s 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 (five). This summer Dusty, a Tibetan terrier, also joined their family.

“My role as an educator and my years as a student at Holderness give me an insider’s perspective that helps me in my work with the board,” says Sanders. “I hope to aid the Holderness faculty in promoting a vibrant, challenging, and rewarding academic experience for the students—an experience that should poise them to flourish at any future academic institution. I also look forward to bolstering the evaluation process and encouraging professional development opportunities for Holderness faculty.”

Returning for a second term on the board is Vicki Frei. While Vicki did not go to Holderness herself, her three children did— Neal ’, Lauren ’, and Landry ’. And it was while they attended Holderness that she served her first term on the board (–). A career

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nurse, Vicki earned a BS in nursing from Texas Woman’s 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.

“Holderness has been, and continues to be the best experience for our family—ever—as students, parents, and board member,” says Vicki. “As 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 staff development.”

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 . Falcon is a private equity firm which manages approximately  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 first became involved in the education field when a Falcon summer intern from Haverford College said that he was establishing schools in northern Ghana. “Research has shown that children who receive early education are more likely to continue going to school through high school,” Sandeep shares. “Falcon was already looking into investment opportunities in Africa, and when we heard about our intern’s program, we decided to help. We have continued to back him and help him build approximately one school every year.” According to their website, the Titagya Schools currently operate four schools serving  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.

“Watching Harrison develop and learning about the school’s emphasis on community, left me wanting to help out in any way I could,” says Sandeep. “I have been really impressed with everyone at the school.” 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 school’s investments and financial management.

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Not As Pretty a Route As It Used To Be Jed Hoyer ’92 The route Jed Hoyer ’ has chosen for lifting the Chicago Cubs into World-Series contention is the right one, says baseball analyst Rany Jazyerli.

As the  Major League Baseball season approached its midpoint in July, the Chicago Cubs were in last place in the National League’s Central Division, . games behind the Milwaukee Brewers. By then it had been nearly three years since Jed Hoyer had been hired as the Cubs’ general manager (and his friend Theo Epstein as team president).

The Cubs have not won the World Series since , 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-suffering Red Sox fans. So they were hired by the Cubs to do it again. But in the first two seasons of the Epstein-Hoyer era, the Cubs lost more games () 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 find 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. “The Red Sox aggressively traded for quality players nearing free agency,” wrote Jazayerli, “knowing 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 Sox—end a World Series drought.

they’d receive in compensation when the free agents left.” In effect, instead of surrendering prospects, they recycled them, thereby finding 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 financial muscle; and the free-agent compensation rules have changed, with much less in return for losing free agents.

“So yeah, this isn’t the same job Epstein and Hoyer signed up for in Boston,” said Jazyerli. “In 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 it’s not their fault that it’s not as pretty a route as it used to be.”

That path now involves not sweating the wins or losses—instead taking plenty of the latter and thereby earning a raft of draft picks at the top of the first round each year.

“Add it all up,” said Jazayerli, “and in two years the new front office has turned a middleof-the-pack farm system into one of the game’s best, behind only the Twins, according to Baseball Prospectus.” That’s all they need to contend, he adds—not now, but surely by .

And maybe last July’s head-to-head interleague series with the Red Sox was a harbinger of things to come. The defending—but struggling—World Series champs hoped to post some easy wins against the Cubs, but instead Jed and Theo’s team came into Fenway and swept all three games.

That won’t help the Cubs’ position in the draft this year, but even so—we doubt that Jed minded so much in this case.

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“Critical to Our National Welfare” Bro Adams ’65 Bro Adams ’ 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 humanities—at least in part—to teachers in those subject areas at Holderness.

“Certainly my interest in an academic career had very much to do with the education I received at Holderness,” said William D. “Bro” Adams to hst in . “I 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.”

Vietnamese combat unit; that encounter also had value to Bro. “It made me serious in a certain way,” Bro said, “made the world questionable and provocative in a way I’m sure never would have happened had I not had that experience.”

Bro’s fourteen-year stint at Colby was eloquent with the importance he attaches to the humanities. He led a -million capital campaign—the largest in Maine history—that included the expansion of the Colby College Museum of Art, a -million gift to the Lunder Collection of American Art, the creation of an arts/humanities center and a film studies program, and the expansion of the school’s 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. “People 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 disciplines—including, and in some cases, especially, with the humanities—are preparing to engage the challenges of life.

— BRO ADAMS At that time, Bro was vice president of Wesleyan University. He had just been hired as president of Bucknell University and within five years would assume the presidency of Colby College. He was in the midst of a meteoric academic career—and very serious intellectual encounters—that had taken him from the study of philosophy at Colorado College to a doctorate at the University of California-Santa Cruz’s 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 first lieutenant on the Cambodian border, Bro advised a South

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plines—including, and in some cases, especially, with the humanities—are preparing to engage the challenges of life,” he said from that forum.

“They are creative and flexible thinkers; they acquire the habits of mind needed to find 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.”

It was the right sort of philosophy—backed by the right sort of resume—for President Barack Obama as he nominated Bro last April to be the neh’s tenth chairman. “Bro brings demonstrated leadership and decades of experience as an administrator at major universities and liberal arts institutions,” said President

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Obama. “His clear dedication and lifelong commitment to the humanities make him uniquely qualified to lead the nation’s cultural agency.”

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 confirm Bro’s appointment as chairman.

It’s another sort of advanced placement, and the broadest forum yet for nurturing the creativity and flexibility that first beguiled Bro Adams in a Schoolhouse classroom.

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“Basically the ’Hood Pope” Munchie Williams ’98 Munchie Williams ’ 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 off to a slow start against Team Texas Elite on a court in a decommissioned Air Force hangar in Sacramento, CA. “We’re down -, and I don’t see anyone encouraging his teammates,” he said. “If it’s about you, that’s fine. But in order for you to be successful, we have to be successful.”

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 Children’s 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  article, “In Search of the Next Andrew Wiggins,” reporter Reeves Wiedeman writes that Munchie started a scan-affiliated basketball team, Team Scan “as 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.” It worked.

Munchie soon found himself with such a powerhouse team—the nation’s top-ranked group of high school sophomores in — that Nike offered 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 profile for Team Scan—especially with a win at the Peach Jam, “a de facto national championship tournament held each July in North Carolina”— would cover the costs of the program and make his athletes all the more desirable to good boarding schools and solid academic institutions—just as Munchie had planned.

The bad news was that such extraordinary success also elevated Team Scan into that parallel basketball universe—once dominated by the Amateur Athletic Union, now by leagues sponsored by the likes of Nike, Adidas, Under Armour, etc.—where high school hoops don’t much matter, nor admission to academicallyminded colleges with modest sports programs.

Instead it’s all about scholarships to the ncaa Division I Final Four perennials, and then maybe—after just a year in college—a ticket to the nba, as with Andrew Wiggins, who in  “solidified his position as the most hyped prospect since LeBron James with  points in the Peach Jam final.” Suddenly, it was more difficult for Munchie to focus his players on educational goals.

The Times article describes Munchie’s difficult straddling act as he tries to lead his team to success at this rarified level at the same time that he struggles to stay in touch with the fundamental point of fielding the team. Team Scan had a successful inaugural season in eybl, going -—but then fell just short of a Peach Jam championship.

Along the way, however, there were missionrelated successes. “Among Williams’s favorite players was Joel Villa, who arrived at scan from the Dominican Republic five years ago barely able to speak English, but recently graduated from Proctor Academy and is going on to play at Endicott College.”

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: “Williams’s goal of winning the

Munchie coaches basketball as a way of “reverse-engineering” his own path to Holderness and Wesleyan.

Peach Jam,” wrote Wiedeman, “often diverged from his players’ desire to boost their individual stats, which they viewed, not unreasonably, as their best chance to earn scholarships.” The article ends with Munchie thinking about getting out of the eybl and rebranding Team Scan as the ProScholars Athletics Cardinals.

No matter what, he’s going to keep emphasizing education and life beyond basketball.

“Sometimes in life, the ball isn’t going to fall your way,” he told Team Scan after one defeat.

“At the end of the day, you’re going to college for free. You might play basketball overseas or in the nba. If you don’t do that, you’re gonna get a good job. You’re probably gonna get a Master’s degree for free. You’re gonna come out with no debt. And then you’re gonna get out to adulthood, and I guarantee you’re probably gonna make more money than us.”

Of course the money isn’t the end goal either—the end goal is living the sort of dignified, productive life Munchie is leading, with a breadth that touches and encompasses so many others: “Munch is basically the ’hood pope,” said Andre Charles, one of Williams’s Wesleyan friends. “He’s constantly trying to do good deeds.”

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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 ’92 Krissy Pozatek ’ has found that the task of raising brave children begins with brave parents—parents 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 Pozatek’s second book, Brave Parenting: A Buddhist-Inspired Guide to Raising Emotionally Resilient Children (Wisdom, ). 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 child’s 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. “Controlling a child’s environment and keeping all pain at bay isn’t

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feasible,” she says. “We can’t 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 children’s lives. It’s compassionately encouraging them to be brave.”

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, ).

Krissy’s first 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 specifically 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 stuff ten years ago, they never would have needed thera-

py. “So I saw I had material for a much more general audience,” Krissy says, “and also that there was a demand for it.”

Hence Brave Parenting, a book that extends many of the ideas of The Parallel Process, and fortifies them with a Buddhist’s resolute acceptance of the inevitability of pain. “By admitting the fact of impermanence, that no one has complete control of the events in anyone’s lives, we can more easily recognize the importance of kids learning to navigate their own terrain,” she says. “In 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, they’ll 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.”

Interestingly, Krissy says that the lessons of Out Back and the Job Program loom large in her thinking, especially in their emphasis on perseverance. “It doesn’t matter whether you’re having a good day or a bad day, or if you’re comfortable doing that sort of work,” she says of the Job Program. “You still show up and get it done. If that’s hard for you, resources are available for your support, but not for an easy exit. You have to stick with it.” 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 lives—and in that way get an early start on surviving the big wilderness.

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A Governor of Snow Sports’ Highest Governing Body

Dexter, on the left, with former USSA President/CEO Bill Marolt at the June FIS conference in Barcelona.

Dexter Paine ’79 Dexter Paine ’, recently named a vice president of the fis Council, assumes an international role in the oversight and management of snow sports.

Sometimes, if you’re good enough at solving problems and making things work at the national level, you get booted upstairs to the international arena. With Dexter Paine, we’re talking about sports—not politics. But of course this doesn’t make it any easier.

Dexter has been chairperson of the US Ski and Snowboard Association (ussa) since  and previously was president of the ussa Foundation, its fundraising arm, from  to . In June, at the th International Ski Congress in Barcelona, Spain, Dexter was first named to the International Ski Federation’s fis

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Council, and then installed as one of the council’s four vice presidents.

“The fis is the governing body for skiing and snowboarding globally, and yes, there are always issues to resolve,” Dexter told hst. “This is especially true in regard to the Winter Olympics, where fifty 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. It’s surprising how much the idea of ’relevance’ in snow sports has to do with culture, geography, and history.”

Culture, geography, and history have had much to do with the shape of Dexter’s 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 Dexter’s siblings: Betsy ’, Stephanie ’, and Ellyn ’. He skied on the alpine team, played soccer as well, and was the school’s vice president.

He went on to Williams, where he kept on racing and maintained his ties to Holderness.

He married Susan Levin ’ and served ten years on the school’s board of trustees (–).

He was board chair during his last four years and earned the school’s Distinguished Alumnus Award in . One of Dexter’s three children, Samuel, graduated last June from Holderness.

At the same time, Dexter has built a career in finance that has led to his position as chairman and ceo of Paine & Partners, a New York-based investment management firm that works primarily—and internationally—in the food and agribusiness sectors.

Savvy in business and unwavering in his support for this school, Dexter’s deepest philosophical loyalties lie in the sport into which he was born. “Skiing has given me wonderful opportunities, all through my life,” he says.

“First, to go to Holderness, and then on to Williams, and I’ve 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, and—hopefully—of making a difference.”

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 up—the  Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea. There Dexter will not be just a spectator—he’ll 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 didn’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.

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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 ďŹ nancial planning goals.

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

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

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

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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 ’75 Jim McDonald ’ is enjoying a career in anthropology that’s taking him around the world. A recent visit to North Africa introduced him to what some call “the Moroccan exception.”

Jim McDonald knows full well that if you’re in a foreign country and you see a political demonstration taking shape in the streets, it’s time to run the other way. “But the anthropologist in me wants to grab a camera and stick around,” he admits, “which is what I did.”

Westerners with cameras are particularly at risk, but it wasn’t Egypt in ; it was Morocco in , and that made all the difference. “One of the marchers flashed a peace sign at me,” Jim says. “These 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.”

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 fluency in Spanish to underpin years of field work among family and peasant farmers in central and western Mexico—until Mexico’s drug wars made the work too dangerous.

Later, in Guatemala, he worked with a field school that included undergraduates from the University of Texas and Southern Utah

University—where Jim is now the dean of humanities and social sciences—researching 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. “Some of it’s stunning work,” he says. “These are young people who benefit, perhaps, from not wearing the blinders possessed by those of us who are steeped in the field.”

And what about his own blinders? Those have come off thanks to the Fulbright Specialist Program that sent him to Morocco.

His six weeks at the Ecole de Gouvernance et d’Economie in Rabat treated him to “a part of the world,” he says, “that I could look at through fresh ethnographic eyes.”

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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 . No one would have predicted this during the harsh -year rule of Morocco’s King Hassan II. But with Hassan’s death in , 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 harmony—or at least seem to be.

Of course, Mohammed VI has his critics; there are those who say that the country’s 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 Mohammed’s reforms. “He’s walking a fine line, it’s true, between the interests of the people and those of his privileged inner circle,” he says. “And there simply aren’t enough

McDonald aboard the train to Marrakesh.

the modern nation-state still is. “At the end of World War II, the U.N. had a membership of  states,” he says. “In , there were ; 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 Jim’s 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 out—like we still are. — 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.”

It’s a work in progress, says Jim, and he reminds us how half-baked this whole idea of

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editor’s note: Jim was one of the three editors of Crisis in Governance in Guatemala (University of Oklahoma Press, ). In July, that book was awarded the Knudson Latin America Prize from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication for its “original contribution” to knowledge about Latin America.

post-colonial. These are all countries that are new, young, and fragile, just trying to figure things out—like we still are.”

These days, Jim can be found travelling back and forth to China, where he’s setting up partnerships between Southern Utah and

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Bulls Recognized for Collegiate Athletic Results Northeast Conference record books to surpass the ,-point threshold.” Francis finished the year with a lifetime . shooting percentage, averaging . points per game and . rebounds per outing across  career games and  career starts.

Radville Autukaite ’11

Migle Vilunaite works on a Habitat for Humanity home in Troy, NY, during her spring break.

It’s 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 – school year.

Sophia Schwartz ’09 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, “Schwartz said competing in the World Cup was actually less intimidating than she expected it to be. ‘Right now, the level of skiing in the U.S. is so high that even at the lower levels of competing I’ve encountered pretty impressive competition, so that’s made the World Cup less intimidating,’ Schwartz said” (“Big Green Skiers Fly

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Through Moguls at World Cup Event” //). When Sophia isn’t training and competing around the world, she is studying neuroscience and biology at Dartmouth College with plans to graduate in .

Alex Francis ’10 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 Bryant’s website, “Francis saw his best season yet as a senior in , finishing the year with  points and  rebounds while shooting a career-high . percent from the field (-). The all-conference first teamer also posted a career high on the block () and career low in turnovers () 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. “Whether it is on the court while encouraging her teammates to push themselves to unknown limits,” writes the college’s website, “or off the court where [Radville] has organized several service projects and taken time to coach an area youth women’s basketball team, she truly puts forth the effort to make those around her better.” In order to be nominated for the Champion of Character Award, “The studentathlete must maintain a minimum grade point average of . on a . scale and must have achieved junior academic status.” Autukaite played in  games last season and scored  points, averaging . points per game. This year Radville will continue her basketball career at Reinhardt University in Georgia.

Mac Caputi ’11 In  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 espn’s top plays and accumulating almost , views on YouTube. According to the school’s website, Bowdoin was “tied at  with  seconds remaining in the fourth quarter of the th football meeting between Bowdoin and Colby; Bowdoin held the ball at the Colby yard 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.” In lacrosse Caputi started in all  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 ’12 As a hockey defenseman at St. Lawrence University, Gavin Bayreuther scored his first collegiate goal in his first game against the University of Maine on October , . He went on to score in  out of  games last season; his nine goals and  assists for  points were all Saints records for a rookie defenseman.

He was th overall in points among all ecac players, second in assists, third in power play points, and first 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 ’12 As a sophomore Charlie DeFeo started  of  soccer games for the University of Vermont last year, helping the college to post a -- record and close out the season as the number four seed in the conference playoffs. DeFeo finished 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  to October .

Migle Vilunaite ’13 In her first year playing for Skidmore College, Migle Vilunaite was selected for the All-Rookie Team in the Liberty League. “Vilunaite started  games for Skidmore and averaged . points per game and . rebounds per game, while also blocking six shots,” says the school’s website. “She tallied a career-high nine points twice this season in wins against Hamilton College and Salem State University and posted a career-high  rebounds against Oneonta State.” In addition to playing basketball, Vilunaite is majoring in international affairs.

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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 find a better start to his resume than his current job at Notre Dame.

Tad Skelley ’07 As Director of Baseball Operations at Notre Dame, Tad Skelley ’ is learning the ropes in one of the most challenging support jobs in the country.

Tad Skelley knew he wasn’t in Kansas anymore—or in his case, his native New England—when he was asked to name his favorite football team. “Patriots,” he answered.

“Okay,” his questioner said, obviously puzzled. “And what college are they?”

Tad was in Indiana. “It’s a whole different culture here,” Tad says. “In New England, the emphasis is on professional sports. Here it’s all about college.”

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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. Jeff Samardzija, an All-Star pitcher for the Cubs (traded in July

by Jed Hoyer ’ to the Athletics) is a Notre Dame alumnus, and this spring alone, three Irish pitchers were signed to Major League organizations. “If you have an education, then you have options in case baseball doesn’t work out for you, and that’s a selling point for us at Notre Dame,” Tad says.

Tad knows all about the juxtaposition of academics and athletics. His own bio on the Notre Dame website notes that “Skelley was a three-sport standout in football, hockey, and baseball at the highly academic and athletic Holderness School, winning the Webster Cup as the school’s top athlete.”

Tad’s 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 . 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 different sec and acc conference prospect camps in the South. He needed to meet coaches and show them what he knew about baseball. “I drove all the way to Mississippi and worked two camps,” he says, “and then I got the call from Notre Dame.”

As Director of Baseball Operations, he’s not quite coaching yet, but he’s 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 -game schedule in a glamour conference—the Atlantic Coast— that spans the whole eastern US. This is the part the fans don’t see, and playing at Wheaton didn’t quite prepare Tad for steering a dreadnought like Notre Dame. “I had no idea what has to be done to keep this program running,” he says. “But it’s a blessing that I can learn it all in a place like this; of course it’ll be tremendously useful wherever I go next.”

Maybe that will be a place where they’ve heard of the Patriots, but then again, maybe not.

As Tad discovered on his drive to Mississippi, it’s 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 dorm’s facelift; scholarships;

straps on his or her backpack at the start of Orientation

faculty salaries; Special Programs; financial 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 filled 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 won’t

the Parents’ Auction during Winter Parents’ 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 tomorrow…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

Ellyn Paine Weisel ’86

voices of the students whose lives you’ve changed.

Holderness Fund Chair

Your gifts matter.

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As it is said in the theatre, “There are no small parts.” 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 financial 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

Parents’ Auction: Unrestricted Fund

$20,303

Subtotal:

ALUMNI WHO ARE CURRENT PARENTS: 0.6%

$1,443,456

GIFTS TO ENDOWMENT AND STRATEGIC PRIORITIES: Parents’ 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 SCHOOL’S 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 ’08 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

offering 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 we’ll send you a kit.

pool of resources to call on.

INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY: Last year travel brought Phil

PARENTS’ 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

them—alumni, parents, and friends, all vying for the

warm cookies, boutonnieres or long-stemmed roses—

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 2013–14.

84 PERCENT 84 PERCENT

OF 2013–14 SENIORS ON FINANCIAL AID WERE ELECTED SCHOOL LEADERS. OF RETURNING STUDENTS ON FINANCIAL AID EARNED ACADEMIC HONORS IN 2013–14.

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AS WE NEAR THE END OF THIRD QUARTER MANY OF US ARE ANXIOUSLY PREPARING FOR OUT BACK….SO WHILE I AM NERVOUS ABOUT HYPOTHERMIA AND BEARS, I CAN’T WAIT… 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 HEAD’S 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! IT’S 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 ’89 FROM ESTER,

CELEBRATE HIS TWENTY-FIFTH REUNION. CLOSE BEHIND HIM WERE BEN SPEISS FROM ANCHORAGE, ALASKA, AND ULIE VON BLUMENCRON ’94 FROM MECHERNICH, GERMANY.

CLASS OF 1979 CLASS OF 1949

WINS THE AWARD FOR TOTAL GIVING

STILL GOING STRONG

WITH 71 ACTIVE MEMBERS—WON THE AWARD

MAKING A GIFT TO MARK THEIR SIXTY-FIFTH REUNION.

REACHING NEW HEIGHTS: THE CLASS OF 1979—

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 = five or more consecutive years of

support for the Holderness Fund; † = deceased

CURRENT PARENTS Anonymous () Mr. John Abrams and Ms. Alison J. Bell P ’ Ms. Ramsey M. Alexander P ’ Ms. Rachel A. Alva P ’ Mr. Sandeep D. Alva P ’ Mr. and Mrs. T. Neale Attenborough P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Peter A. Baker ’ P ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Barton P ’ ’ r Mr. David Batchelder and Ms. Melissa R. Paly P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bateman P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan R. Baum P ’ ’ r Mr. and Mrs. John M. Bayreuther P ’ ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Peter T. Begley P ’ Mr. and Mrs. David F. Benson P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Austin M. Beutner P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Gary Black Jr. P ’ ’ ’ Mr. and Mrs. John Bladon P ’ ’ ’ r Ms. Diana A. Boateng P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. Bonsal III ’ P ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Kevin M. Bozich P ’ ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Dirk Brandwijk P ’ Mr. Chandler R. Brill P ’ Mrs. Dorothy Brill P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Michael T. Cantara P ’ Mr. and Mrs. David C. Caputi P ’ ’ ’ r Ms. Elizabeth H. Carter P ’ ’ Joseph and Ann Casey P ’ ’ Mr. and Mrs. Michael S. Cashel P ’ Dr. Dong Hyun Cha and Mrs. Ji Yeon Lee P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Alan J. Chabot P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Walter Chapin P ’ Mr. Ngan V. Chau and Mrs. Mai H. Pham P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Chernin P ’ ’ Mr. and Dr. Craig G. Coleman P ’ ’ Mr. Brian M. Collins and Ms. Courtney Williamson P ’ Mr. Joseph G. Cook and Ms. Amanda O’Sullivan P ’ Mr. and Mrs. James A. Craver P ’ Mr. Craig W. Cullen Jr. and Mrs. Carolyn C. Cullen ’ P ’ r

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Mr. and Mrs. Bradshaw Langmaid Jr. ’ P ’ r Mr. and Mrs. David P. Laurin P ’ r Mrs. Gail L. Lavallee P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Laverack P ’ ’ Mr. Dean E. Lea and Ms. Debra M. Gibbs P ’ r Mr. and Mrs. George F. LeBoutillier ’ P ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Lechthaler P ’ Mr. and Mrs. James W. Leonard P ’ Lynne Mitchell and Dick Lewis P ’ ’ ’ r Mrs. Louise T. Loening P ’ ’ GP ’ Mr. Frederic B. Lowrie Jr. P ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Peter H. Lunder P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey C. Lyman P ’ ’ Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Lynch P ’ r Mrs. Virginia A. Lyon P ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm W. MacNaught P ’ Mr. J. T. Macy P ’ ’ ’ r Mr. and Mrs. John S. Madden P ’ ’ ’ GP ’ Mr. and Mrs. Quentin A. Malmquist P ’ ’ ’ GP ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Walter A. Malmquist II ’ P ’ r Mr. and Mrs. William E. Mandigo P ’ r Mr. and Mrs. David H. Martin P ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Paul J. Martini P ’ ’ r Mr. and Mrs. David R. Marvin P ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan W. Marvin P ’ ’ ’ r Mr. and Mrs. John Scott McCoy P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Duncan C. McDougall P ’ ’ Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B. McIlvain Jr. ’ P ’ ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Douglas McLane ’ P ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Michael E. McPhee P ’ r Mr. and Mrs. John F. Meck P ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Mello P ’ r Mr. James W. Meryman and Ms. Laura Mammarelli P ’ ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Andrew L. Meyers P ’ r Christine and Josiah Miles ’ P ’ ’ r Mr. Carlos Mogollon and Ms. Elspeth Hotchkiss P ’ r Ms. Dianne Moore P ’ Dr. and Mrs. Steven J. Morris P ’ r Mr. and Mrs. David Morrison P ’ r

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Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Pistey P ’ r Ms. Penny Pitou P ’ GP ’ ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Pomeroy P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Richard G. Powers P ’ ’ Mrs. Dorothy E. Prime P ’ r Dr. and Mrs. Howard G. Pritham P ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Raffio P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey L. Randall P ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Peter Y. Rapelye P ’ ’ ’ Mrs. Marilyn G. Redmond P ’ Mr. and Mrs. James S. Regan Jr. P ’ r Mr. George (Rip) S. Richards P ’ ’ ’ † Mrs. Mary S. Richards P ’ ’ ’ Mr. and Mrs. David L. Richardson III P ’ ’ Dr. and Mrs. Derek P. Richardson P ’ ’ ’ ’ ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Gary B. Richardson ’ P ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Theodore M. Riehle III P ’ ’ Dr. and Mrs. Daniel S. Robbins P ’ ’ r Mr. Laurence H. Roberts Jr. P ’ ’ ’ r Dr. and Mrs. Robert J. Rohr III P ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Ross P ’ r Mr. and Mrs. David B. Rossetter ’ P ’ Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Rowe Jr. P ’ r Mr. and Mrs. James M. Rowley P ’ GP ’ Mr. John S. Rudberg Jr. P ’ ’ r Mrs. Barbara M. Rumsey P ’ Mrs. Dorothy Rutledge P ’ r Mr. Steven M. Ryan and Ms. Ann Meeker P ’ Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Ryan P ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Alden H. Sawyer Jr. P ’ r Mr. and Mrs. James O. Schaeffer P ’ r Mr. and Mrs. David W. Schoeder P ’ r Mr. and Mrs. George H. Schofield P ’ ’ ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Roger D. Scoville P ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Norman W. Seiter ’ P ’ ’ Mr. and Mrs. Russell Seybold P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Todd N. Seymour P ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Sherman P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Michael B. Sherman P ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Shnayerson P ’ Mr. Mark G. Shub ’ P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Peter E. Silitch P ’ Mr. and Mrs. James P. Sinclair P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. Siragusa P ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Gardner P. Sisk P ’

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Mr. and Mrs. Alan F. Skelley Jr. P ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Donald M. Smith ’ P ’ ’ r Mrs. Dorothy M. Smith P ’ ’ GP ’ ’ ’ r Dr. and Mrs. W. B. Smith Jr. PhD P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Raymond M. Soto P ’ r Mr. and Mrs. David B. Soule ’ P ’ r Mrs. Emily V. Spencer P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Gary A. Spiess P ’ ’ ’ Mr. Orson L. St. John Jr. P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Harry Stearns Jr. P ’ ’ r Ms. Elizabeth M. Steele P ’ r Mr. and Mrs. R. James Steiner P ’ ’ r Ms. Charlotte M. Stetson P ’ Ms. Sandra Stone P ’ r Mr. David W. Stonebraker and Ms. Leslie A. Guenther P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Richard H. Stowell ’ P ’ r Mr. and Mrs. John A. Straus P ’ r Mr. Paul Summers P ’ ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Peter B. Surdam P ’ Mrs. Barbara Sutphen P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Stephen S. Swenson P ’ r Mrs. Barbara R. Swift P ’ Dr. Thomas J. Swift P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Carl Symecko P ’ ’ r Mr. George J. Tankersley Jr. P ’ ’ Mr. and Mrs. David D. Taylor ’ P ’ r Mr. and Mrs. John Taylor Jr. ’ P ’ ’ r Dr. and Mrs. Christopher M. Terrien Jr. P ’ r Mrs. Anne Thatcher P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Richard G. Thibadeau P ’ r Mr. Henry D. Tiffany III P ’ Mr. and Mrs. John D. Todd P ’ r Mr. David L. Torrey P ’ r Ms. Susan M. Trujillo P ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Ted Tucker P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Tucker P ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Robert Tuveson P ’ ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Eijk A. d. M. van Otterloo P ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Richard H. Vernet P ’ r Mr. James Vincent P ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Hans C. Vitzthum P ’ Mr. Constantine G. Vlahakis P ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan C. Wales ’ P ’ ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Stephen W. Wales ’ P ’ ’ Mrs. Phyllis Walker P ’ ’ GP ’ † Mr. Richard C. Wallace P ’ ’

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Mr. and Mrs. Larry D. Walrod P ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Walsh P ’ ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Winthrop M. Wassenar P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Wear P ’ r Mr. and Mrs. George S. Weaver III ’ P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Hartley D. Webster ’ P ’ ’ r Mr. Jerome P. Webster Jr. ’ P ’ ’ ’ ’ r Mr. and Mrs. John Weeks Jr. P ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Wenzel P ’ ’ The Rev. and Mrs. Richard C. Weymouth ’ P ’ ’ ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Christopher R. White P ’ ’ Mrs. Deborah Williamson P ’ r Dr. and Mrs. James K. Wolcott P ’ Ms. Mary W. Woods P ’ r Mr. Arthur Woolf and Ms. Celeste Gaspari P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Wright P ’ ’ r Mr. and Dr. Bernhardt K. Wruble P ’ r Mr. and Mrs. James M. Yarmon P ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Zock P ’ ’ ’ ’ r

GRANDPARENTS Anonymous Mr. and Mrs. Robert Abbott GP ’ Mr. and Mrs. Vanderpoel Adriance III P ’ ’ GP ’ r Ms. Barbara Baekgaard GP ’ ’ Mr. and Mrs. Harold A. Baker P ’ GP ’ r Mrs. Daniel Baker GP ’ Mr. and Mrs. Roger Beutner GP ’ Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Blair GP ’ Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. Bonsal Jr. P ’ GP ’ Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Borek GP ’ Mr. and Mrs. Peter Burno GP ’ ’ Mr. Donald Burns GP ’ Mr. John Carpenter GP ’ Mr. E. P. Casey GP ’ ’ ’ ’ ’ † Mrs. Mary Ann Casey GP ’ ’ ’ ’ ’ Dr. and Mrs. Lennig Chang GP ’ ’ Mr. and Mrs. William Chappell GP ’ Mrs. Evelyn Cohn GP ’ r Mr. Francis Coleman GP ’ ’ Mrs. Hope Cruickshank GP ’ ’ Mr. and Mrs. John Downing GP ’ Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F. Doyle ’ GP ’ ’ r Mrs. Phoebe Driscoll GP ’ Mr. and Mrs. James Duffy GP ’

Mr. and Mrs. George Edwards GP ’ Mr. and Mrs. Philip Feinberg GP ’ Mr. and Mrs. John Flynn GP ’ Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Gewirz GP ’ Ms. Ruby B. Gould GP ’ Mr. and Mrs. Frank Gudas GP ’ Mr. and Mrs. Roger W. Hamblin P ’ GP ’ ’ r The Rev. Cannon M. Hamilton GP ’ Mr. and Mrs. Harry L. Hampton Jr. GP ’ ’ ’ ’ Mr. and Mrs. Charles Harker GP ’ ’ Mr. and Mrs. David Hill GP ` r Mrs. Carol E. Holtzmann GP ’ r Mr. Howard M. Holtzmann GP ’ † r Mr. and Mrs. Gary Hull GP ’ Ms. Barbara Jarabek GP ’ Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Keating ’ P ’ ’ ’ GP ’ r Mrs. Linda Kelly GP ’ ’ ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Kent P ’ ’ GP ’ ’ ’ r Ms. Sally Kilfoyle GP ’ Dr. and Mrs. Sam Kinney GP ’ Mr. and Mrs. Bernd P. Kuehn GP ’ r Mrs. Frances A. Kurker GP ’ Ms. Judith Levin GP ’ Ms. Kathie Levison GP ’ Mr. Shen Lin GP ’ ’ Mrs. Louise T. Loening P ’ ’ GP ’ Mr. and Mrs. Edward L. Lovejoy GP ’ ’ Mr. and Mrs. George Macomber GP ’ ’ ’ ’ r Mr. and Mrs. John S. Madden P ’ ’ ’ GP ’ Mr. and Mrs. Quentin A. Malmquist P ’ ’ ’ GP ’ r Mr. Forrest E. Mars Jr. GP ’ Mrs. Virginia C. Mars GP ’ Mr. and Mrs. Edward Massey GP ’ Ms. Shirlee Mitchell GP ’ ’ ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Warren Mitchell GP ’ ’ Ms. Serena Montague GP ’ Mr. Richard Morrill Jr. GP ’ Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Murray GP ’ Mr. and Mrs. Russell C. Orton ’ P ’ ’ GP ’

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Mr. and Mrs. Preston S. Parish P ’ ’ ’ GP ’ ’ ’ r Dr. and Mrs. J. Edward Perreault GP ’ ’ r Ms. Penny Pitou P ’ GP ’ ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Barry Protage GP ’ ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Frank Quimby GP ’ Ms. Sharon N. Regal GP ’ ’ Ms. Mona Roberts GP ’ Mr. Joseph D. Sargent GP ’ ’ ’ † Mrs. Mary T. Sargent GP ’ ’ ’ Mr. and Mrs. FA Seamans GP ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Sheffield Jr. GP ’ ’ Mr. James Shipton GP ’ ’ r Mrs. Dorothy M. Smith P ’ ’ GP ’ ’ ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Bayne A. Stevenson GP ’ Hon. and Mrs. O. Alan Thulander GP ’ Mr. and Mrs. James Warren GP ’ ’ ’ Mr. and Mrs. Ogden White Jr. GP ’ ’ ’ Ms. Jane Whitmore GP ’

FACULTY AND STAFF Mrs. Joan L. Barnum P ’ ’ ’ r Mr. Peter Barnum P ’ ’ ’ r Mr. Bruce Barton P ’ ’ r Mrs. Sarah Barton P ’ ’ r Ms. Diana Brewer r Mr. Robert M. Caldwell r Mr. Richard A. Carey P ’ ’ r Mr. Frank Cirone r Mrs. Susan Cirone r Mr. Christopher Day P ’ ’ ’ Mrs. Cynthia Day P ’ ’ ’ Ms. Carol L. Dopp r Mr. Peter J. Durnan P ’ ’ r Mr. Richard Eccleston ’ Ms. Kristen Fischer P ’ ’ r Mr. Duane M. Ford ’ P ’ ’ ’ ’ r Ms. Nicole Glew r Mr. Peter J. Hendel P ’ ’ r Mr. Randal Houseman P ’ ’ r Mr. Douglas R. Kendall P ’ ’ ’ r Mrs. Mary Kietzman r Ms. Renee Lewis Mr. Tyler L. Lewis Mrs. Stacy S. Lopes Mr. George C. Macomber Jr. P ’ ’ r Mrs. Martha Macomber P ’ ’ r

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Mr. Eduardo S. Magalahes r Mrs. Kristin A. Magalhaes r Mrs. Emily H. Magnus ’ P ’ r Mr. Franz C. Nicolay P ’ ’ ’ ’ Ms. Jane E. Pauley r Mr. R. P. Peck P ’ r Mrs. Robin A. Peck P ’ Mrs. Karen D. Penny Mr. Reggie Pettitt Jr. P ’ ’ ’ Mrs. Tobi A. Pfenninger P ’ ’ r Mrs. Donna L. Rainville r Mrs. Judith B. Solberg r Mr. Stephen Solberg r Mrs. Sarah T. Svindland Mr. Leonard Thompson P ’ ’ ’ ’ ’ ’ Mrs. Margaret E. Thompson P ’ ’ ’ ’ ’ ’ Mrs. Kathy Weymouth P ’ ’ ’ r The Rev. Richard C. Weymouth ’ P ’ ’ ’ r Ms. Courtney Williamson Mrs. Amy Woods r

EXTENDED FAMILY Ms. Keri-Sue Baker r Dr. and Mrs. Stanley Baldwin Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bluestone Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Bruce III Mrs. Virginia Burnham r Mrs. Judith E. Caldwell r Cape Cod Marine Mr. and Mrs. David Cochran Mr. John A. Conway Craig’s All Natural llc The Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire r Mr. and Mrs. Wilson C. Everhart Jr. r Mrs. Kathryn Forbush Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Goodwin Mr. Robert Prescott and Ms. Pamela Gray Prescott PhD The Haartz Corporation r Ms. Sandra Hobbs Holderness Nordic Club Dr. and Mrs. Howard Holderness Jr. r Ms. Yujuan Hong Mr. and Mrs. Erik Host-Steen Mr. Stephen B. Jeffries John’s Wrecker Service

Miss Margaret T. Keith Mr. and Mrs. Timothy M. Kingston r Mr. and Mrs. Douglas R. Kruse Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Law Ms. Karen Gluch Lea Mr. Kirk Lea Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Leavitt Mrs. Barbara Ann Libbey Mr. and Mrs. Edwin R. Lofgren, Jr. Ms. Lisa Lovett Mrs. Phyllis R. Manley Mr. and Mrs. Richard Marr Mr. and Mrs. Christopher T. Meier Mr. Jeff Nadeau Pearl and Son Farms, llc Mr. Michael C. Phillips Mr. Alexander R. Pouch r.k. miles, Inc. Mr. Alex Ray Ms. Leslie Roach Mr. William C. Ryder Mrs. Anneliese Schultz r Mrs. Diane H. Shank Ms. Riann Siciak Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Soper Mr. and Mrs. Jay S. Stroud Mr. and Mrs. Charles T. Sussman r Mr. Douglas T. Tansill The Rt. Rev. Douglas E. Theuner † r Mr. John Turco Mr. and Mrs. Gordon J. VanderBrug r Mr. and Mrs. Chad Walker Mr. Steven G. Woodsum and Ms. Anne R. Lovett

FOUNDATIONS Anonymous () Acorn Foundation r amg Charitable Gift Foundation Barbara Bradley Baekgaard Family Foundation Baltimore Community Foundation Baugh Foundation, Inc. Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Stuart & Stephanie Bloch Family Foundation Boston Foundation, Inc. Buckingham School of Frederick County Maryland Casey Family Foundation

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Ethel D. Colket Foundation The Columbus Foundation and Affiliated Organizations The William F. Connell Charitable Trust The Lee F. & Phoebe A. Driscoll Foundation The Duke of Omnium Fund The Andrew J. Eder Family Foundation, Inc. Evergreen Foundation, Inc. Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund Firehole Foundation The Fund for Charitable Giving Gartner GE United Way Campaign Bernard & Sarah Gewirz Foundation, Inc. The Glass Foundation Inc. Gulf Coast Community Foundation Harweb Foundation r Jacob L. and Lillian Holtzmann Foundation r Pack S Janes Trust The Jarabek Family Charitable Foundation Kinsley Family Foundation Scott and Julie Latham Foundation Lubrano Family Charitable Foundation Lunder Foundation The Maine Community Foundation, Inc. r Marr Charity Trust Fund r The Martin Foundation The Noboru Murakami and Hiroko Murakami Foundation The New Hampshire Charitable Foundation The New York Community Trust Paine Family Trust r Preston S. and Barbara J. Parish Foundation The Pfizer Foundation, Inc. The Redmond Family Foundation Rhode Island Foundation Robert J. Rohr, III and Mary C. Rohr Charitable Trust r Schwab Charitable Fund Sheffield Foundation The Hildreth Stewart Charitable Foundation sts Foundation The Tankersley Family Foundation Tankersley Family ltd A Partnership The van Otterloo Family Foundation The G. and C. VanderBrug Family Foundation Vermont Community Foundation The Wallace Family Foundation

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Wen Foundation, Inc. Wurster Family Foundation

Gifts Received in Honor of Mr. Perry F. Craver ’14

MATCHING COMPANIES

Gifts Received in Honor of Mr. Daniel Do ’13

The Abell Foundation Inc. Adobe Aetna Foundation, Inc. r Ameriprise Financial Apple Inc. Bank of America Charitable Foundation r BP America Dell Employee Giving Program The Dorsey & Whitney Foundation r Edison International r GE Foundation Goldman, Sachs & Company Millennium Pharmaceuticals Netscout Systems Company The Pfizer Foundation, Inc. The Prudential Foundation r Red Wing Shoe Company Foundation r Starbucks State Street Foundation, Inc. Travelers Companies, Inc r Wells Fargo Educational Matching Gift Program r

Ms. Carol L. Dopp r

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Quimby GP ’

Gifts Received in Honor of Chris duPont ’67

Mrs. Louise T. Loening P ’ ’ GP ’ Gifts Received in Honor of Wilson Everhart

Mr. and Mrs. Wilson C. Everhart Jr. r Gifts Received in Honor of Mr. Duane M. Ford ’74

Mr. and Mrs. David C. Caputi P ’ ’ ’ r Gifts Received in Honor of Mr. Jack H. Gewirz ’16

The Rev. Cannon M. Hamilton GP ’ Gifts Received in Honor of Mr. Daniel N. Gibson ’14

Mr. Martin Gibson and Ms. Tracy Schrans P ’ Gifts Received in Honor of the Retirement of Jim Hammond

Mr. Doug Harris and Mrs. Katherine W. Harris ’ r Gifts Received in Honor of Mr. Donald H. Henderson

TRIBUTES

Mr. and Mrs. Richard H. Stowell ’ P ’ r

Gifts Received in Honor of Ms. Allison M. Barker ’97

Gifts Received in Honor of Mr. Hazen B. Hinman

Mrs. Virginia C. Barker P ’ ’

Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey H. Hinman ’ P ’ ’ r

Gifts Received in Honor of Mr. Peter Barnum

Gifts Received in Honor of Mr. Jacob J. Hinman ’95

Mr. Fletcher W. Adams ’ P ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Donald B. Hinman ’ P ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Normand R. Rainville r Mr. and Mrs. Chad Walker

Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey H. Hinman ’ P ’ ’ r

Gifts Received in Honor of Mr. Austin M. Beutner Jr. ’15

Gifts Received in Honor of Mr. Peter M. Milligan ’83

Mr. and Mrs. Roger Beutner GP ’

Mrs. Virginia A. Lyon P ’ r

Gifts Received in Honor of Jim Brewer

Gifts Received in Honor of Dr. Lewis J. Overaker

Mr. and Mrs. Gregory Connors ’ P ’ ’ ’ r

Mr. and Mrs. Robert P. Henderson ’ Mr. James R. Mathews ’ Mr. and Mrs. Brian M. Werner ’ ’

Gifts Received in Honor of Mr. Perry K. Kurker-Mraz ’14

Mrs. Frances A. Kurker GP ’

Gifts Received in Honor of Mr. Nathaniel H. Campbell ’97

Mr. and Mrs. Harry L. Hampton Jr. GP ’ ’ ’ ’

Gifts Received in Honor of Mr. Thomas N. Phillips ’75

Mr. and Mrs. Christopher W. Edwards ’

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Gifts Received in Memory of Ned Gillette ’63

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

Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Pistey P ’ r

Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Law

Dr. Thomas J. Swift P ’ Mr. Mel S. Walker ’

Gifts Received in Honor of Mr. William F. Prickett ’15

Gifts Received in Memory of Mr. David P. Goodwin ’37

Mr. and Mrs. George Edwards GP ’

The New Hampshire Charitable Foundation

Gifts Received in Memory of The Rt. Rev. Douglas E. Theuner

Gifts Received in Honor of Mr. John Teaford

Gifts Received in Memory of Mrs. Alice Jane Hinman

Mr. and Mrs. David Knapp P ’ r

Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Bruce III Mr. and Mrs. Robert Tuveson P ’ ’ r

The Rev. Randolph Dales and Ms. Marilyn Tyler P ’ ’ ’ r The Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire Mr. and Mrs. Eijk A. d. M. van Otterloo P ’ r

Gifts Received in Memory of M.J. LaFoley ’95

Gifts Received in Memory of Mr. Norman M. Walker

Mr. Daniel D. Shin ’

Mr. Brian Guercio and Mrs. Lara Guercio ’ r Mr. Brendan B. Murphy ’ and Ms. Etifwork Y. Ahmed r Mr. Ian M. Nesbitt ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Henry D. Tiffany IV ’ Mr. and Mrs. Michael A. Tucker ’

Gifts Received in Honor of Mr. Sander J. van Otterloo ’94

Mr. and Mrs. Eijk A. d. M. van Otterloo P ’ r Gifts Received in Honor of Mr. Norman M. Walker

Mr. and Mrs. Steven Davis P ’

Gifts Received in Memory of John Manley ’42

Mrs. Phyllis R. Manley Gifts Received in Honor of Mr. Jerome P. Webster III ’83

Mr. and Mrs. Daniel A. Webster ’ r

Gifts Received in Memory of Ms. Rowena D. Meier

Mr. and Mrs. Christopher T. Meier Gifts Received in Honor of Pete Woodward

Mr. Andrew Bogardus and Mrs. Kelley A. Bogardus ’

Gifts Received in Memory of Cheryl Walsh ’88 Gifts Received in Memory of Mr. Rupert L. Nichols Jr. ’65

MEMORIALS

Cape Cod Marine Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Leavitt Mr. and Mrs. Edwin R. Lofgren, Jr. Mr. Alexander R. Pouch Mr. William C. Ryder Mr. John Turco

Gifts Received in Memory of Mr. William W. Biddle

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

Mr. Benjamin L. White ’ and Ms. Judith B. Sohn-White ’

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bluestone Mr. John A. Conway Mr. Dave Endean and Mrs. Elizabeth B. Endean ’ Mr. and Mrs. Erik Host-Steen Ms. Leslie Roach Mr. Douglas T. Tansill Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Valeo Jr. ’ r

Gifts Received in Honor of Mr. Chance J. C. Wright ’14

Mrs. Virginia C. Mars GP ’

Gifts Received in Memory of Robert (Brooksie) Brooks

Mr. and Mrs. William H. Everett P ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Zock P ’ ’ ’ ’ r Gifts Received in Memory of Mrs. Berit A. Campbell ’84

Mr. and Mrs. Lennart B. Johnson P ’ r

Mr. and Mrs. Jason P. Evans ’ r Mr. Brian C. Wogensen and Ms. Elizabeth M. Ganem ’ Mr. and Mrs. Michael G. Hillegass ’ Mr. Peter M. Kennedy and Mrs. Sage H. Kennedy ’ Mr. and Mrs. Alexander C. MacCormick ’ Mr. Kurt H. Magnus and Mrs. Emily H. Magnus ’ P ’ r Mr. Kevin McGoldrick and Mrs. Erika S. McGoldrick ’ Gifts Received in Memory of Wes Lea ’03

Mr. Brendan B. Murphy ’ and Ms. Etifwork Y. Ahmed r Ms. Mary Anne Murray-Carr P ’ r Mr. Chris Talbert ’ Mr. Jarod M. Warsofsky ’

Gifts Received in Memory of Mr. George (Rip) Richards

Mr. and Mrs. William F. Baxter ’ Mr. and Mrs. David B. Dewey ’ r

Gifts Received in Memory of Mr. William W. Sutphen ’79

Mr. Canute H. Dalmasse ’ r Gifts Received in Memory of Kip Garre ’92

Gifts Received in Memory of Mr. Sixto Rivera Jr. ’82

BALCH SOCIETY MEMBERSHIP

Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey J. Myler ’ r

Mr. and Mrs. Mark E. Cavanaugh ’ r

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

Gifts Received in Memory of Mr. Canute E. Dalmasse

Dr. and Mrs. John C. Macy II ’ Gifts Received in Memory of Joan Gibbs

Ms. Karen Gluch Lea

Gifts Received in Memory of Mr. Eric R. Rush ’95

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

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

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

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ALUMNI CLASS GIVING

1949

1955

1938

Bob Barrows r Bill Baskin r Bob Bradner r Lee Bright † Tex Coulter r Don Wyeth r

Bob Hardy Ep Moulton r

1950

Fletcher Adams r John Allbee Peter Atherton r Arnold Bieling r Bill Byers Hank Granger r Don Hinman r Reed Thompson r Peter Wilson r

1935

Jim McKee r

George Huckins r

Patrick Brill r Bigelow Green r Doug Hamilton r Chico Laird r Dave Luce Doug Rennie Dave Wise r

1942

1951

Ted Libbey † r

Fred Carter r Dick Daitch Nick Nichols Bill Summers r Terry Weathers r

1940

Jack Barton r Russ Orton 1941

1943

Al Merrill 1944

Burt Lowe † r Gus Mattersdorff † John Skeele r

1952

Lars Hansen r Jay Harris r Bob Keating r

1945

Harry Emmons r 1946

Joe Massik 1947

Bill Briggs r Jack Hill r Perry Jeffries Cliff Rogers Don Smith 1948

Anonymous r Rik Clark r Dean Mullavey

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1953

David Douglass Carl Hoagland r Elvin Kaplan Pete Robertson r John Robinson r Russell Stackhouse r 1954

Rick Carter r Berton Chillson r Dewey Dumaine r Brad Langmaid r Bill Lofquist r Wendall Stephenson

1956

Bob Armknecht Doug Auer † Dick Endlar Peter Kingston r Gardner Lewis r Dick Meyer r David Wiggins r

George Pransky Brooke Thomas Jon Wales r Bill Wuester 1959

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

1957

Bill Clough r Ron Crowe r Rick Fabian Bob Lucas r Dwight Mason Pieter Van Zandt r Hartley Webster r Jay Webster r Bob Weiss r Josh Young r 1958

John Bergeron r Bill Biddle Dave Boynton r Jim Collins r Tim Dewart Tony Dyer r Gordie Eaton John Greenman r Charlie Kellogg r Mike Kingston r Don Latham r Bruce Leddy r

1960

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

Tom Brown Win Fuller r Bob Hall John Holley r Lee Katzenbach r Bob Keller Dave Norton r Peter O’Connor r Bill Seaver r Mark Shub Dalton Thomas

1962

Free Allen r Bill Barker r Peter Casey Dave Floyd r Jim Gardner Bruce Hauck Monty Meigs Bob Nields r Dave Putnam r Steve Rand David Soule r John Swift r Bruce Upton Bill Wells Eric Werner r Pete Willcox 1963

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

Sandy Alexander r Bill Baxter Craig Blouin John Butler Dikkon Eberhart Roger Farwell Jeff Hinman r Jeff Lathrop Bill McCollom r

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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 † r Cleve Patterson Randy Randlett Charlie Reigeluth r Si Seiter Kevin Wyckoff r

Fred Naess Jim Stearns r Jack Taylor r Bruce Thompson 1969

Tim Bontecou Craig Colgate Bill Foot r Stan Jackson Chip Maxfield 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 Jeff 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 Geoff 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 Coffin 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 O’Connor r Mike O’Connor 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

Jeff 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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Andy Rogerson r Kevin Rowe r Brian Rutledge r Todd Seniff Dave Wolff David Wood

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 Garfield r Ev Hatch r Elizabeth Heide r Tim Jones Fred Paxton Ian Sinclair r Jenn Smith r Poppy Staub r Dan Taffe r Jean-Louis Trombetta Martha Kirby Yuste Bob Zock r

Blake Swift r Mike Taffe 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 Schiffman 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 O’Brien 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 Pflaum Jen Comstock Reed Ben Spiess Sara deLima Tansill Te Tiffany Todd Wagner 1990

Kat Alfond r Pixie Spencer Brokaw Ren Chandler Dave Colleran

Pepper deTuro r Courtney Fleisher Jeff 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 O’Donnell 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 Griffiths 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

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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 Clifford Augusta Riehle Comey Tim Davidson Blair Hall Endean Bjorn Franson r Joe Graceffa 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

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1997

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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 Bloomfield 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 Clifford 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 O’Riordan Emma Schofield 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 Jeff Rudberg Jesse Straus Lauren Wright

2004

2007

Geoff 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 O’Brien 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 Raffio 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 ’ Kristina Micalizzi ’ Steph Symecko ’ Kelly DiNapoli ’ Olivia Leatherwood ’

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 ’ John Pfeifle ’ Bob Garrison ’ Alex MacCormick ’ Lindsay Fontana ’ Ramey Harris-Tatar ’ Abby Alexander ’ Ashleigh Boulton ’ Cecily Cushman ’ Mandy Engelhardt ’ Sam Macomber ’ Jamie McNulty ’ Peter Ferrante ’ Matthew Kinney ’

Bill Baskin ’ r Brad Langmaid ’ r Bill Lofquist ’ r Cushman Andrews ’ r Jerry Ashworth ’ Buster Welch ’ r Sandy Alexander ’ r Jim Ricker ’ r Jon Porter ’ Duane Ford ’ r Walter Malmquist ’ r Joe Barbour ’ Fred Ludtke ’ Amanda Black ’ r Jennie Legg Gabel ’ Tracy McCoy Gillette ’ r Jen Murphy Robison ’ Sam Bass ’ Ramey Harris-Tatar ’ Liz Hogan ’ Nina Perkins Newman ’ Julia Haley ’ r Kathleen Blauvelt Kime ’ Brooke Aronson McCreedy ’ Ryan McManus ’ Brian Sweeney ’ Krissy Weatherbie ’ Meg McNulty ’ Caitlin Mitchell ’ Allison Stride ’

CLASS CORRESPONDENTS Brad Langmaid ’ r Bob Backus ’ Mike Kingston ’ r Cushman Andrews ’ r Buster Welch ’ r

John Holley ’ r Mark Shub ’ David Hagerman ’ r George LeBoutillier ’ r George Textor ’ r Jim Ricker ’ r Stephen Foster ’ r John Pfeifle ’ Jim Burnett ’ Chris Latham ’ r Sam Osborne ’ Tim Scott ’ r Walter Malmquist ’ r Jay Butler ’ John Putnam ’ Bob Garrison ’ Dave Dewey ’ r John Neal ’ Margo Farley Woodall ’ Matt Upton ’ Bill Baskin ’ r Christine Louis ’ r Lisa Weeks Clute ’ Chris Pesek ’ Susan Fine Taylor ’ Joe Barbour ’ Angus Christie ’ r Fred Paxton ’ Ian Sinclair ’ r Blake Swift ’ r Carolyn Colket Cullen ’ r Tim Lesko ’ Alex MacCormick ’ Amanda Black ’ r Kate Arecchi ’ Ian Frank ’ Jim Queen ’ Michael O’Keefe ’ Jess Colby Harris ’ Andy Katchen ’ r Lindsay Dewar Fontana ’ Anne Blair Hudak ’ Jon Moodey ’ Schuyler Perry ’ r Peter Woodward ’ Ramey Harris-Tatar ’

Liz Hogan ’ Nina Perkins Newman ’ John Farnsworth ’ Katie Waltz Harris ’ r Nick Kaulbach ’ Juley Perkins ’ Sarah Crane ’ r Julia Haley ’ r Kathleen Blauvelt Kime ’ Kellan Florio ’ r Adam Lavallee ’ r Liz Norton ’ Ave Cook ’ r Kerry Douglas ’ Maddie Rappoli Fiumara ’ Neal Frei ’ r Nick Payeur ’ r Brian Sweeney ’ Jo Weatherbie ’ Krissy Weatherbie ’ Willie Ford ’ Kathleen Crane Mitchell ’ Brendan O’Riordan ’ Emily Sampson ’ Jay Bladon ’ Betsy Laurin ’ Anders Nordblom ’ Scottie Alexander ’ Mike Heyward ’ Katie Oram ’ Haley Hamblin ’ Gretchen Hyslip ’ Jake Manoukian ’ Caitlin Mitchell ’ Abby Alexander ’ Ashleigh Boulton ’ Cecily Cushman ’ Sam Macomber ’ Jamie McNulty ’ Peter Ferrante ’

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REUNION PLANNING Harry Emmons ’ r Bill Briggs ’ r Rik Clark ’ r Bill Baskin ’ r Frank Hammond ’ Bill Summers ’ r Al Teele ’ Bill Lofquist ’ r Bill Byers ’ Dick Meyer ’ r Frederick Ellison ’ Charlie Kellogg ’ r

Jerry Ashworth ’ Len Richards ’ r David Hagerman ’ r Sandy Alexander ’ r Terry Jacobs ’ Peter Janney ’ John Pfeifle ’ John Coles ’ Jon Porter ’ Peter Weiner ’ Dwight Shepard ’ r Dick Conant ’ Walter Malmquist ’ r Mac Jackson ’ Charlie Bolling ’ Biff Gentsch ’ Peter Grant ’ r Luther Turmelle ’ Greg White ’ Bill Baskin ’ r Chris Pesek ’

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Jud Madden ’ Fred Ludtke ’ Jean-Louis Trombetta ’ Kathryn Lubrano Robinson ’ Alex MacCormick ’ Tracy McCoy Gillette ’ r Jen Murphy Robison ’ Courtney Fleisher ’ Terra Reilly ’ Kelly Mullen Wieser ’ Lindsay Dewar Fontana ’ Sam Bass ’ Ramey Harris-Tatar ’ John Farnsworth ’ Emily Evans MacLaury ’ Heather Pierce Roy ’ r Putney Haley Pyles ’ r Tara Walker Hamer ’

Brooke Aronson McCreedy ’ Sully Sullivan ’ Karyn Hoepp Jennings ’ Adam Lavallee ’ r Sophie Moeller ’ Betsy Pantazelos ’ r Nick Payeur ’ r Ryan McManus ’ Brie Keefe ’ Annie Hanson ’ Jessi White ’ Meg McNulty ’ Allison Stride ’ Abby Alexander ’ Ashleigh Boulton ’ John McCoy ’ Em Pettengill ’ Cecily Cushman ’ Mandy Engelhardt ’ Sam Macomber ’

Jamie McNulty ’ Peter Ferrante ’ Matthew Kinney ’ Alex Leininger ’ Kristina Micalizzi ’ Steph Symecko ’ Kelly DiNapoli ’ Olivia Leatherwood ’

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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 ’ In , 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: “The [new] academic building occurs at the north end of what the Architects have described as the ‘Livermore Spine,’ a handsome linear space fronted by fine buildings… The auditorium presents a curved brick façade to the campus and allows the axis of the ‘Livermore Spine’ to hinge at that point and to continue on towards Bartsch.”

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  Campus Master Plan noted, “made a first rate building that answered many needs… and allowed [Carpenter] to become converted into a decent arts building.” Thus, the Hagerman Center came to be.

However, that was almost  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 find ourselves once again considering how best to create a space that can best support the ideal practices and programs for Holderness’s students.

The new styles of learning and teaching put a heavy emphasis on stem: science, technology, engineering, and math—four 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 flexible floor plans in order to encourage the flow 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 “universal design approach.” 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 insufficient.

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 campus—with the kind of flexible and innovative space that reflects 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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