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HOLDERNESS SCHOOL TODAY THE MAGAZINE OF HOLDERNESS SCHOOL WINTER 2016

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INSIDE: r Marvelous Results r Catching Up with Jim Page r Reunion 2015 PRECIOUS OZOH ’16 AND HIS SOCCER TEAMMATES CELEBRATE THEIR FINAL VICTORY IN THE CLASS C NEPSAC CHAMPIONSHIP AGAINST TILTON SCHOOL.

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I’M TRUE BLUE

THE REC BUS, AS IT WAS FONDLY CALLED, TRANSPORTED KIDS FROM CAMPUS TO VARIOUS SKI RESORTS ALONG INTERSTATE 93 IN THE ’80S. WHAT BETTER WAY TO SPEND AN AFTERNOON DURING A NEW HAMPSHIRE WINTER THAN FIND SOME STEEP HILLS AND TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE SNOWY CONDITIONS!

ARE YOU TRUE BLUE?

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Marvelous Results Homegrown in our backyard, Holderness School’s snow sports program continues to thrive despite, or perhaps because of, the whirlwind of changes that have occurred over the past six decades. There’s a place for everyone and every discipline. BY RICK CAREY

ABOVE: Olympian Julia Ford ’

Catching Up with Jim Page

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Jim Page was at Holderness for eight years, and during that time, he claims, he learned just as much as the students he coached and taught. But the most important lesson he learned at Holderness came from his colleague, Don Henderson, out on Cartwright’s Hill.

BY RICK CAREY

Reunion and Homecoming Weekend 2015

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Being part of the Holderness community doesn’t end at graduation; once a bull, always a bull. What better time to embrace that identity than during Reunion and Homecoming Weekend? It was great to see everyone!

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D E PA R T M E N T S Board of Trustees Sandeep Alva Neale Attenborough Jonathan Baum Grace Macomber Bird Christopher Carney ’75, Treasurer Carolyn Cullen ’87 Russell Cushman ’80 The Rev. Randolph Dales, Secretary Victoria Frei Tracy McCoy Gillette ’89, Alumni Association President Robert Hall James Hamblin II ’77, Chairperson Jan Hauser Susie Hayes The Right Rev. Robert Hirschfeld, President Robert Kinsley ’88 Richard Nesbitt Peter Nordblom Susan Paine ’82 R. Phillip Peck Thomas Phillips ’75 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

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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, Hillary Beach, Robert Caldwell, Liz Kendall, Stacy Lopes, Liesl Magnus ’17, Clay Dingman DESIGN AND PRODUCTION: Clay Dingman, Barking Cat Productions Communications Design

PHOTOGRAPHY: Emily Magnus, Neal Frei ’03, Ken Hamilton, Liesl Magnus ’17 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: For almost 50 years our well-maintained trails and consistent snowfall have allowed us to host many Nordic competitions when others could not. Pictured here are two skiers from the 1974 Dartmouth Carnival, which was moved to Holderness due to spotty snow conditions in Hanover.

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FROM THE SCHOOLHOUSE

Excelling on Snow Several of my favorite Herb Waters’ drawings of Holderness School life feature skiers in the s, ’s, and ’s. Whether he captured alpine skiers behind the Chapel, or crosscountry skiers on the Quad, or an old woody station wagon loaded with skis, Waters revealed how deeply ingrained snow sports were in the life of Holderness. Of course snow sports today look much different than in the early years, but both eras possess a passion for snow and the outdoors.

This issue of Holderness School Today is focused on snow sports. For the feature, Rick Carey began by researching the history of snow sports and wrote about the richness of its traditions as well as the pivotal leaders who played a role in its evolution. It was no accident that snow sports became central to the school’s programs in the s and that they still matter now. And while the founders of the competitive program—Don Henderson, Don Hagerman, and others—deserve much of the credit for establishing a firm foundation for the program, there were countless others along the way who helped the program grow. In our Catching Up piece, we reconnect with Jim Page, who taught and coached at Holderness from – before going on to coach at the top levels of Nordic skiing. It is because of Jim and the dedication of countless other coaches that the Holderness Snow Sports Program continues to thrive.

How that culture manifests itself today is evident through several of the articles about campus life today and the profiles of present alumni who are excelling on the snow. Each of their stories demonstrates how Holderness nurtures a life-long love of skiing and snowboarding in many of its current students and graduates.

Finally, we want to share with you the future of snow sports at Holderness.

Holderness—working with the Franconia Ski Club, Cannon Mountain, and the US Ski Team—has created a world-class speed training venue at the revitalized Mittersill Ski Area.

Mittersill will not only provide our athletes

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At the opening of the new Fiore Rink at Alfond Arena, Phil celebrates another one of Holderness School’s favorite winter sports (more on the hockey rink in the next issue!).

with the best training venue in the East, it will also support junior racing development in New England. In addition, the snowboarding and freestyle skiing programs are on the move.

With phenomenal coaches—many of whom have coached at the national and international level—and outstanding facilities—including a new trampoline in Gallop—we are committed to providing one of the most exciting high school snow sports programs possible.

The Holderness Snow Sports Program is symbolic of what our school is about, not just because we strive to have programs that make us unique in the independent school world, but also because snow sports capture the spirit of the Holderness community: a community that embraces our spectacular environment in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, especially in winter; a community that isn’t afraid of taking risks to achieve excellence; and most

importantly, a community that finds joy and pleasure in life and in facing challenges.

Phil Peck Head of School

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FROM THE EDITOR

Discovering My Muse

Editor Emily Magnus in 1988 with fellow Nordie Cheri Walsh

Endurance sports release my muse. As I pay attention to my breathing and to the placement of my skis, ideas flow freely. One lead for an article presents itself, only to be tossed over my shoulder for a second better one as I climb an uphill. My muscles warm and the words in my mind line up and march logically to a satisfactory conclusion. I am a better writer because I am a runner and a skier.

During my first winter at Holderness, I decided to join the Nordic ski team, so classmates Bill Greene, Cheri Walsh, and Will Northrop patiently taught me the basics on the Holderness Upper Fields. They had all raced as children, growing up on trails from New Hampshire to New York and Colorado, and as juniors in high school they were reaching their peak fitness. I, on the other hand, was just learning to balance on one ski.

It didn’t happen over night, but during my junior and senior years, I made steady progress and soon fell in love with flying over the snow through the silent woods. I also fell in love with

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the people. There were some Nordies who took themselves too seriously, but for the most part I discovered a community that lifted my soul.

They laughed and celebrated, not just when they won, but when they lost as well. They played king of the snow pile after practice and flew off jumps doing -degree aerials they had no business attempting. And we had ridiculous racing suits made out of scraps of lycra in every shade of blue. It wasn’t about style or speed; it was about being unique and not taking ourselves too seriously. Despite the high caliber athletes who were on the team, we never stopped laughing.

So what did I learn from them—besides how to laugh? I learned the difference between V and V, how to apply wax, how to remove klister, how to pace for a K race. I learned how to dress for the cold and how to warm my hands when they turn into icicles. Better yet, I have a map of the Holderness trails imprinted on my brain and can run them in my mind whenever I need to escape from life’s little struggles.

More useful in my adult life, however, were the lessons I learned in perseverance and humility. Although I progressed as a skier and even skied for St. Lawrence University for a couple years after graduating from Holderness, my teammates operated at a different level. Carl Swenson ’ and Nikki Kimball ’ were on my team. Sohier Hall ’ was also a teammate. Just Google them and you’ll see what I mean. As a beginner, I was always trying to keep up with them, but for every stride they took, I had to take two, never maintaining balance long enough to copy their rhythm. I fell more frequently and was always out of breath. Some days, I barely hung on.

But hang on I did. And today, while my husband likes to call me stubborn, I prefer to think I persevere—on the trails, in races, in my writing, and in my work to build the communications department at Holderness.

The most important lesson I learned on the Holderness trails, however, was how to access my muse. Give me a problem to solve and a trail of indeterminate length, and I will return to you with a solution. The Central Artery, the long uphill to the Water Tower, the hairpin turns flowing back down to False Four Corners—they are the storyboard on which I post my ideas. When I fly down the last hill and emerge near the football field, chances are I’ll have a rough draft of a Holderness School Today article stored in my memory.

I’ve heard many alumni exclaim their allegiance to Holderness, and I am no different.

This school and its ski program made me who I am today. Perhaps I would have discovered my muse on a basketball court, or tucked under a napkin in some random alpine lodge, but I tend to think not. My muse thrives in the quiet woods behind Bartsch.

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

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Letters from Across the Decades Postponed Expectations I just received the mailing regarding “Holderness Events and Gatherings.” Reading through it, my eye was drawn to the February – Out Back Flashback. It reminded me of a letter I kept from my experience with what was then still called “Outward Bound” (OB) at Holderness.

In those days the entire junior class went on OB. I presume that’s still true today. My junior year I had planned to go to Europe skiing during spring break, so I elected to forego the OB experience my junior year as I didn’t want to jeopardize my European ski trip with something that might occur while out in the woods.

As a result, I went the following year, the winter of .

During OB, Beams and Clough always liked to throw participants a ‘curveball’. In the winter of  they decided to teach us about “postponed expectations.”

That year we were supposed to be picked up on the afternoon of the third day of solo.

Instead, on the morning of the third day, a silent individual skied into each camp.

Wordlessly a small packet of supplies was passed to us with the following note (see letter at right). Then just as quietly and quickly, the individual left.

I’ve kept the note all these years. Guess I’m a pack rat. Anyway I thought it might be something that one could include as a “flashback” at the February weekend. I doubt I will be attending, but I thought it might prove interesting for those there. Hence I am sending a copy to you.

A letter delivered to all Outward Bound participants in 1973

Geoffrey Klingenstein ’

Courtship on Mt. Lafayette When I read Emily Magnus’s column (Summer ), the following resonated with me: “In fact, what remains with me to this day is the hike down from Lafayette.”

My younger days included significant hiking in the White Mountains, following in the footsteps of my brother, Allen ’, six years older

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than I. He not only climbed in the White Mountains, but also worked for the Appalachian Mountain Club (amc) as one of the hut boys on Mt. Madison and on Mt. Lafayette. While on Lafayette, he courted his wife, Nancy, who was the assistant pastry chef at the Pinkham Notch facility. Amazing courtship.

After finishing supper in the Lafayette hut, Allen ran down the mountain, drove his car

around to Pinkham Notch and did his successful courting. Following this, he returned to Lafayette, climbed the mountain and was back in the amc hut in plenty of time for breakfast.

This is a true story, as far as I can remember but did not witness.

Rik Clark ’

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Marvelous Results THE SPECIAL SORT OF SNOW SPORTS PROGRAM INAUGURATED AT HOLDERNESS IN 1951 IS STILL GOING STRONG—STRONGER THAN EVER, IN FACT. BY RICK CAREY Holderness School’s first ski hill can still be found at the end of a dirt road off Mt. Prospect Road. Walk through ranks of white pines and hemlocks until you come to a lush, sun-spangled clearing that extends steeply up the slope of a hill. Walk another fifty yards and you’ll see another such clearing, about the same length and width, cut into the same north face of what was once known as Cartwright’s Hill. And if you take the time to explore the woods on either side of the hill, you’ll find the remnants of multiple ski jumps in varying states of decay.

These are scruffy sorts of clearings, overrun in the summer with what in New Hampshire is called puckerbrush: a tangle of fern, bramble, and blueberry, spiked with alder and Eastern cottonwood, splashed with day lilies and black-eyed Susans. It’s easy enough to see that these are abandoned ski slopes, albeit not entirely abandoned. Every once in a while they still get a good mowing, and the forest is held at bay. “We intend to keep the area available, just in case we find a use for it,” says Head of School Phil Peck.

An article on Ski Racing’s website this fall poses this question in its title: “Is an Academy Right for You?” The target audience is teenagers and their parents, and it describes three options for combining

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school and snow sports: traditional independent schools, ski racing academies, or ski academies with winter-term tutorials.

“Schools such as Holderness, New Hampton, and Gould Academy fall into the first category—traditional private schools,” says Ski Racing. “They offer terrific athletic programs, including ski racing and other snow sports, but only a fraction of the student body will be bringing a racing suit to campus.”

It’s good to be mentioned, and even better to be mentioned first. Former Headmaster Don Hagerman, were he alive today, would be pleased. That, after all, had been the whole point of bringing Don Henderson to campus back in 1951—to combine traditional independent school education and snow sports. Considering what has ensued, and what exists today, the occasional mowings of Cartwright’s Hill might not be a bad idea.

BLAZING NEW TRAILS Since the school’s inception in 1879, Holderness students have always skied, but it was not until 1936 that the school fielded its first ski team. Through the 1940s the school produced two Olympians—alpine racers Steve Knowlton ’41 and Bill Beck ’47— but basketball was the premier winter sport; ski team coaches came and went.

Meanwhile, Holderness was surviving only thanks to infusions of cash from the family fortunes of Headmaster Edric Weld and his wife Gertrude. Hagerman, as he succeeded Weld in 1951, knew that he would have to raise the school’s enrollment and increase its tuition if it was to survive. How to do both? His idea for saving the school was to make a virtue of its location by building a notable ski program, and he had found just the right man to do it. Don Henderson was well known in New England as a ski racer and former captain of the Middlebury College team. He was also a veteran of the 10th Mountain Division’s Italian campaign, had studied at the University of London, and was looking to get back to New England.

Don Henderson had only eight boys in his program that first year, and they trained at a narrow private trail and ski jump off Route 175. “It was more of a club than a team,” says Don Henderson from his home in Vermont, “and I faced obstacles as high as Everest in trying to build it into a team.”

Internally, these obstacles included the facilities problem; a debate team coach who disapproved of potential debaters skiing instead of competing; also a chaplain who frowned on young church-goers skiing on Sundays.

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Don tackled the facilities problem first.

In the spring and fall, he put volunteer students to work with handsaws, widening that glade trail on Cartwright’s Hill—a trail first begun in the late 1940s by Dick Cartwright ’38 when he had returned to teach for a few years. A bulldozer raised enough dirt for a ski jump, and a rope tow was jury-rigged around the wheel of an old pickup. “When we couldn’t afford antifreeze for the truck,” Don remembers, “we used to haul water from the brook, run the tow for an hour or so, and drain the radiator before going back to school.”

Another obstacle was that Henderson’s skiers had nowhere to compete, since other Lakes Region schools had grown weary of the school’s mediocre athletes and had stopped inviting Holderness to regular-season four-event meets (slalom, giant slalom, cross-country, and jumping).

Don invited them to Holderness once the ski hill was ready. They eventually came and quickly learned that this new coach had teams that were plenty competitive.

Unfortunately, the internal opposition persisted and was more difficult to overcome. Don Hagerman worked his diplomacy with the debate coach and the chaplain, but it was “only after several years of strenuous debate with the faculty that we were allowed to compete in the prep school championships,” Don says. “I think it was in 1958 that we won for the first time.

And then we kept winning, year after year.”

Don was blazing trails in the classroom as well. He pioneered the use of original documents in the study of history at the secondary level, and brought the same energy, ambition, and high expectations to that setting that he did to the ski slope. “I was never a red-hot student myself,” he says. “I just put in the work and learned how to succeed, and it was just as satisfying to me as a teacher to take a good student and teach him to be very good as it was to coach an athlete to that level.”

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The view from the top of Cartwright’s Hill

Perhaps what was most crucial to the program’s success, however, was a firm point of agreement between Don and the headmaster. “Realizing the value of our environment to attract people to Holderness,” Don wrote in 1972, “Mr. Hagerman has warmly encouraged the growth of skiing at Holderness while always keeping apparent the contention that we are a school first and have a ski team secondly. The recipe has brought forth marvelous results.”

FROM SKIMEISTER TO SPECIALIZATION The recipe and its results were indeed marvelous. Applications rose from both skiers and non-skiers. By the time Don Hagerman retired in 1978, the school had quadrupled in size. And, from 1956 to 1984, every winter Olympics included at least one skier coached by Don Henderson, nine of whom were Holderness alumni. Don as well took part in the Olympics. He took leaves of absence from Holderness to help coach the US National Team during the

1964 Olympics, and served as head coach of the 1969–70 US World Cup Team.

Part of Don’s original recipe for success included exposing his skiers to four events—slalom, giant slalom, jumping, and Nordic. “He firmly believed that a good skier would develop his talent by competing in all four events,” recalls team member John Holley ’61. “Slalom was for quickness and agility. Giant slalom was for fearlessness. Jumping helped skiers develop comfort in the air—a quality often needed in the GS. And cross-country built stamina.”

The status of “skimeister”—an athlete who had the best combined results in all those disciplines at the end of a meet—was what all serious skiers aspired to.

But by the 1970s, at the level of team competition, and even at Holderness, certain skiers were being steered into certain specialties.

Walter Malmquist ’74 (parent of Tenley ’09) had grown up around Hanover at a time when ski jumps were found all over New England, and he had taken his

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MARVELOUS RESULTS

“HENDERSON HILL—WHICH IT SHOULD BE CALLED—WAS A CLASSIC NEW ENGLAND SKI HILL. LOVED THAT ROPE TOW. DON (HENDERSON) WAS ALWAYS PROUD THAT HE MADE US WORK JUST AS HARD GOING UP THE HILL AS WE DID SKIING THROUGH HIS GATES—WHICH WERE MADE OUT OF PINE BOUGHS.” — CHUCK REILLY, CLASS OF 1974 first jump in the first grade. By avocation, however, he was an alpine racer, and he remembers his first day on the ski hill under the watchful eyes of the famous Don Henderson.

“I skied my heart out, the best I could, all day long, and I never got a look or a word from Don,” Walter remembers. “At dinner I sat at the German table with Mrs. Henderson, and after dinner I walked into the faculty lounge where Don and the rest were having coffee. ‘Well, what do you think?’ I asked him. ‘About what?’ he said.

‘About how I turned out today on the ski hill.’ He put his fingers to his chin, cocked his neck forward, looked me square in the eye, and said, ‘Well, I think we can find a way to make better use of your time.’”

Young Walter was flabbergasted: “I learned later that he and Jim Page had me in mind for doing Nordic combined, and they knew how much focus and commitment that would demand. And me? Well, who was I to question a guy who had just coached Billy Kidd to gold and bronze medals at the 1970 World Championships?”

Or to question history teacher Jim Page, who had skied on the US Nordic team in the 1964 Olympics, and who would go on to help coach the US team at all three winter Olympics in the 1980s. Nordic combined it would be, and Walter would become a member of the 1976 and 1980 US Olympic teams in that discipline, and would also be a ski jump team member in the 1980 Olympics.

When girls started appearing on campus in the late 1970s, it was no surprise

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that many of them were skiers. One of them could have been Maggie (Crane) Mumford, the daughter of Dr. Henry Crane, the school physician. But a Holderness admissions officer—”And I think he was acting just on his own agenda,” Maggie says—told her that the school would no longer allow students to be absent on Saturdays for ski events. She remained at Plymouth High School, went on to Williams College, raced on the US National Team for five years, and arrived belatedly at Holderness in 2000 as a science teacher and ski coach.

Eva Pfosi Merriam ’81, however, must have spoken to a different officer. The daughter of a ski instructor, she had grown up in Waterville Valley, losing her mother at the age of ten. “The ski school was my babysitter,” Eva says. She was in eighth grade when her family moved to California, where her father died in a plane accident. Suddenly she and her brothers needed a boarding school that would also serve as an extended family.

While Eva wanted to consider ski academies, “my family decided to send me to Holderness,” Eva says. “My grandfather wouldn’t consider a ski academy. ‘You go to school to get an education,’ he told me.”

When she arrived at Holderness, she recalls that it was a bit like dropping into Oz via tornado. “I was so clueless. What, there’s a dress code? And you have to pay to be here? Am I so dumb that we have to pay?” Meanwhile she only skied because she had so much fun doing it. The fact that she was very fast was to her incidental.

“After my sophomore year, I was invited to attend the national team ski camp,” she says. “Great, but I didn’t even know there was such a ski camp.”

She went to that camp and skied on the US Team for six years after Holderness, competing in World and Europa Cup events. Then she went to Dartmouth, where in 1987 she was Ski Racing’s Collegiate Skier of the Year.

Meanwhile, those terms “skimeister” and “combined” continued to fade in the vocabulary of snow sports, and young athletes everywhere were being advised to focus either on the agility of alpine racing or the stamina of Nordic. In faraway Washington state, a young Phil Peck was one of those athletes. He was a ski club member who most enjoyed downhill racing, but in his eighth-grade year at Charles Wright Academy, he set a high school record in the half mile. “That’s when my ski coach told me I was never doing alpine again,” Phil says.

At Dartmouth, Phil was a member of the 1976 NCCA Championship team, and he captained the team in his senior year. He went on to race in domestic World Cup races and in 1982 won the prestigious Dannon Race Series. That same year he was named an assistant World Cup and Olympic coach for the US National Team, working alongside Jim Page, who as the Nordic Director was his ultimate boss.

“It’s not as glamorous as it sounds, though—living out of a suitcase in European motel rooms,” Phil says. “By 1984 I was ready to get married and settle down.”

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LEFT: Don Henderson watches his athletes practicing slalom through tree sapling gates at Cartwright’s Hill. RIGHT: When girls arrived on campus in the late 1970s, many of them joined the ski teams and trained and competed right alongside the boys. Above are Ann Ogden ’82 and Betsy Larny ’82.

So—like Don Henderson—Phil Peck came to Holderness to teach history when he was ready to settle down. He also assumed the helm of a Nordic program that in 1966 had separated entirely from its alpine counterpart, though the two worked together in continuing Holderness’s domination of the prep school championships through the balance of the century.

The original school campus was only 15 acres, but in 1933 Edric Weld, with ski trails in mind, had purchased an additional 200 on the east side of Route 175. By the time Phil arrived, thanks to Don Henderson and his army of volunteers, the Nordic program was well-established and boasted miles of groomed trails cut through the woods northwest of the ski hill. Today those trails are the envy of other schools—even the ski academies, many of which have long offered dedicated Nordic programs.

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“Our trail network is top-notch,” says current Nordic head coach Pat Casey, who came to Holderness in 2011 to teach science and run the Nordic program after four years of coaching the US National Team and working the 2006 Vancouver Olympics. “The terrain is such that it allows athletes to be effortlessly fast and develop into balanced, agile skiers. For grooming, terrain, and snow, this is as good as it gets in the East.”

Those top-notch trails, along with topnotch coaching, have produced world-class racers, and three national team members: Wendy Reeves ’81, Ian Harvey ’86 (1992 Olympics, biathlon), and Carl Swenson ’88 (1994 and 2002 Olympics, Nordic).

A KALEIDOSCOPE OF DISCIPLINES As snow sports began to be more specialized at Holderness and elsewhere, they also began to diversify.

One day in the early 1990s, an ex-Marine named Alan Smarse took his two young children, Sean ’04 and Katie ’05, to Mount Sunapee Ski Area. “There were several inches of fresh snow on the ground, and the skiers were not having fun with that,” Alan says. “Then we saw two or three snowboarders go by under the lift, and they were just loving life. We could tell.”

Snowboarding? Alan learned next that his kids’ fourteen-year-old babysitter was a snowboarder. He asked if she could give them lessons on this new implement. He also asked if he could be included.

At that time snowboarding was an insurgency, an edgy and youthful counterculture defined in opposition to what was perceived as the Old World conservatism of the alpine and Nordic ski worlds. Many ski areas banned snowboarders. Those that allowed the practice often required CONTINUED ON PAGE 13

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BY KEYING YANG ’17 My skiing experience at Holderness didn’t start with Coach Mumford’s instructions about making better turns; instead it began more simply—she first had to teach me how to unclip my ski boots and shove my feet into those tight metal and plastic cages. Oh! And she also taught me to reach around the loops of my ski poles so that I didn’t leave them uphill hanging.

Fully equipped—with goggles, helmet, mittens, boots, and skis—I stepped onto snow for the first time in November of my ninth-grade year. I looked through the filtered lenses of my goggles—which turned the snow a pinkish color—and wondered what I had gotten myself into.

“Are you going to make me go down those slopes today?” I asked and pointed at the blue trails leading up the slopes of Loon Mountain.

“Oh yes and I am going to push you off to give you some momentum to start,” Coach replied.

“What…” I stammered. “I think I am gonna quit…I can return my equipment within seven days, right?”

“I’m kidding you. Let’s find you an easy slope!”

“Big on sports, especially winter sports” and “really good ski programs” are words that I naively believed were an invitation to sign up for the school alpine team two years ago. Later a certain level of ignorance allowed me to confidently remain on the team with people who had been skiing since the age of three.

But if it weren’t for Coach Mumford, who patiently taught me the nuts and bolts of the sport, I never would have survived.

There were a few of us on the team that year who didn’t have extensive experience on snow, so we took time off from gates training to practice at our own level. I rode up the magic carpet and snow plowed my way down the bunny slope on the first day. The next day I was tricked into riding to the top of the mountain. Of course I did make it down—or I would still be on the mountain right now—only it took me two hours. Wiggling

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my arms, I paralleled my skis on the third day. It was on the tenth day that I pushed and dragged my tails around part of the slalom course. It was a very significant moment for me when I postured myself at the starting line and positioned my ski poles outside the stick that they told me would mark my starting time. I felt like a professional at my first race.

There are other memories from that first season that have stayed with me. I always laugh really hard when I tell friends about how I did a split against a tree the first time I went into the woods after a fresh layer of snow. But I also tell them about my moment of epiphany when I felt the difference between carving into the snow and pushing my skis around a turn. It didn’t take long to launch this snow sports beginner into an utter zealot for winter.

I realize my experience is significantly disparate from that of other exceedingly good racers; they endure endless practices just to close up on a split second and sacrifice whole weeks of school away at ski races for just one good run. Only I realize that for most of them it isn’t about the results but about the feeling of shuttling through gates. And we share something else: when you are up on the mountains, isolated in your own helmet, yet so connected to the stillness of the snow-capped forests, it is like being in another world. The iciness seems to freeze the dynamics of life on the mountain, yet skiers (especially freestyle skiers), overcome the cold, spurring passion all over the mountain.

Starting a new sport doesn’t seem to be hard anymore, and the more I come to appreciate the elegant turns other people make, the more I know that I am learning and getting better. I am grateful that I learned to alpine ski, and I sincerely hope more beginners experience what I have, because this experience is so unique. It’s great to know that Coach Mumford has established a beginner winter sports program so that students like me can experience little bits of every winter sport at Holderness.

Maybe I will never be able to contribute to the school by producing outstanding race results, but my point of view is part of the composition of the school.

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1882: The Norske Ski Club in Berlin, NH is the first modern ski club in America and is organized by resident Norwegians.

It remains the oldest US ski club with a continuous history.

1905: The National Ski Association is founded at Ishpeming, MI with Carl Tellefsen, former jumper and head of the Ishpeming Ski Club, elected first president, following the first national jumping championship at Ishpeming.

1911: C.A. Lund of St. Paul, MN founds a ski factory, later called the Northland Ski Company. Its hickory skis dominate the market for another 30 years.

1911: The first run of the world’s first downhill classic, the Roberts of Kandahar Cup, runs over the Plaine Morte Glacier in Montana, Switzerland. The winner is Cecil Hopkinson.

1924: The first Olympic Winter Games are held at Chamonix, France, with Nordic ski events only. Norwegians take home 11 of the 12 gold medals.

1927: On March 8, the first modern downhill race in the US is run on Mt. Moosilauke, NH, by the Dartmouth Outing Club.

The winner is Charles N. Proctor of Dartmouth.

1929: The first ski train in the United States runs from Boston to Warner, NH. 1932: North America’s first rope tow is invented by Alex Foster and installed at Shawbridge, Quebec. It is powered by a Dodge automobile, jacked up on blocks, with a rope looped around a wheel rim.

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and employed David Dodd, a local mechanic, to construct it for them on a sidehill owned by farmer Clinton Gilbert.

1937: The world’s first chairlifts are installed at the ski resort in Sun Valley, ID, then owned by the Union Pacific Railroad.

1938: The first US aerial tramway is installed at Cannon Mountain, Franconia, NH. 1938: The first US Ski Patrol is established at Stowe under Minot Dole as the chairman of the national committee.

1942: The Tenth Mountain Division is activated at Camp Hale, Pando, CO. The National Ski Patrol is named an official recruiting organization, and Minot Dole rounds up 2000 volunteers and sends them to Pando in two months.

1952: The first artificially-made snow is made at Grossinger’s resort in NY. Two years later Fahnestock, NY becomes the first ski area to make snow on a regular basis.

1965: Sherman Poppen, a chemical gasses engineer in Muskegon, MI, creates the first snurfer by binding two skis together and attaching a rope to the nose for control. A year later, more than 500,000 snurfers are sold.

1967: The first World Cup race in America is held at Cannon Mountain and is won by Jean-Claude Killy, father of Rhadames Killy ’85.

1972: Dimitrije Molovich founds the first snowboard company, Winterstick.

1977: Jake Burton moves to Vermont, where he begins building laminated hardwood prototypes for what will later become Burton snowboards. He also attaches bindings to the top of a snurfer for the first time in history.

1982: The first National Snowsurfing Championship is held in Woodstock, VT. Events included slalom and downhill. Racers are said to have been clocked at speeds over 60 mph.

1989: Numerous major ski resorts including Squaw Valley, Sun Valley, Mammoth Mountain, Vail, and Snowbird lift their bans on snowboarding.

PHOTOGRAPHS COURTESY of the Vest-Telemark Museum (skis), the Woodstock Historical Society (Gilbert’s Hill ski tow), and the Muskegon Area Sports Hall of Fame (Snurfer ad).

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But more and more young athletes were climbing aboard, enough so to make an impression on Holderness Headmaster Pete Woodward at a mid-1990s alumni event at Waterville Valley. “All the alumni were on skis,” Pete remembers, “but all the kids were on snowboards.”

Pete was also getting requests from his current parents to offer a snowboard program, and inquiries from perspective families inclined that way as well. So in 1995 Pete Woodward set up a recreational snowboard program at Holderness with just a handful of kids, run by a local coach and chaperoned by math teacher Jeff Nielson, whose son Chris ’02 was a snowboarder.

Meanwhile, Pete also established a new position at Holderness, Director of Snow Sports, and named history teacher and alpine coach Jory Macomber to the post.

Jory had been one of Burke Mountain Academy’s first alumni, and then an AllAmerican racer at Dartmouth.

Two years later, when that local snowboard coach broke his leg midseason, Alan Smarse stepped in to help. By then Alan Smarse was at Loon Mountain coaching snowboarding himself, teaching with the special awareness of skill progressions available only to an adult learner.

But Jory wanted more than just an interim coach. “Jory saw that it was only a question of whether Holderness was going to lead or follow in this new discipline,” Alan says. “So he asked me to draw up a proposal for three different kinds of programs at Holderness—basic, intermediate, and one that would mirror the Eastern alpine program, competing at the highest levels—and then show it to Woody.”

Alan did so, and Pete Woodward unhesitatingly chose the third. “But only under two conditions,” Alan recalls. “First,

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he said that I had to run the program, and second—none of the kids were allowed to wear baggy pants. Then Woody went to the trustees and said, ‘I solved our snowboard problem. I hired a Marine.’”

In fact, Pete liked the man he saw as a disciplinarian in charge. “But they still didn’t trust us at first,” Alan says. “For our first three years we were not allowed to drive in vans that could be identified as Holderness in any way.” Fortunately, Alan says that despite the stereotypes, he never had any trouble with those first snowboarders; the school’s selectivity ensured that the snowboarders it accepted were also good students and good citizens.

It helped also that snowboarders, like other winter athletes at Holderness, had to play other seasonal sports. “If they only wanted to snowboard, I told them to go to a ski academy,” Alan says. “Just the same, our program took off. Within four years we had forty kids in the program, and we had established ourselves in a position we still maintain—the top prep school snowboard program in the nation, bar none. We’re the only one who has ever sent anybody to the World Cup.” Indeed Converse Fields ’08 is a member of the US Snowboard Racing Team and will be on the World Cup circuit this season, while Chris Allen ’10 and Ryan Rosencranz ’12 are among the top six in the nation in their disciplines and have been members of the US Junior Worlds Team. Chuckie Carbone ’11 won three NCAA national titles in snowboarding in 2013 for the College of Idaho.

Meanwhile, the versatility and stunt capacity of the snowboard has fostered a kaleidoscope of competitive disciplines— alpine, freeriding, halfpipe, slopestyle, snowboard cross, etc.—and has prompted a similar explosion in the various ways freestyle skiing can be performed.

“New snow sports are evolving all the time,” says current Director of Snow Sports

Georg Capaul, a naturalized Swiss who came to Holderness after coaching US Olympic, World, Junior World, and PanAmerican Championship alpine teams.

Georg made sure that Holderness was the first prep school to offer a freeride program, and he teamed with Alan Smarse in forging a partnership with Waterville Valley Academy that allowed Holderness students to train there with famed freestyle coach Nick Preston (who coached Olympic mogul gold medalist Hannah Kearney).

Nowadays Holderness athletes continue to work with Preston at his training facility, Freestyle America. “Nick will be our coach for the dryland stuff, and also a consultant as we build our own facility,” Alan says.

“My vision is for one program of eight disciplines; half free ski and half freestyle snowboarding, all training together.”

“Young people gravitate to these exciting new sports, and acrobatics is where snow sports are moving to now,” says Georg Capaul. “The challenge for prep schools, and it’s not easy, is to find good coaches as these new disciplines arise, and to keep an open mind.”

Sometimes, however, finding good coaches and keeping an open mind means sticking with tradition. While the rest of America has largely abandoned ski jumping, Holderness hasn’t cut their program.

Litigation and insurance costs forced the closure of most jumps in the 1970s, and the NCAA dropped the sport in 1982; but alpine and Nordic racers at Holderness still travel to Proctor Academy throughout the winter to use one of the only ski jumping facilities left in the Lakes Region. Latin teacher Doug Kendall sponsors the activity and is a good enough jumper “to get kids to the first level,” he says. Walter Malmquist, a volunteer heart-broken by the eclipse of the sport Don Henderson steered him to, has coached jumpers through the higher levels, as has Jason Densmore, the father of Parker ’15. “I tell our racers that this may

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BY THE NUMBERS 2015 Nearly half of all the students at Holderness participate in one of the eight snow sports programs. And how many coaches are needed to coordinate this daily pilgrimage to the snowy hills? 24. Seven of them are also full-time faculty.

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be the last chance they have to try this,” Doug says.

Indeed. The balance between traditional and innovative disciplines continues, and may be just as important as the balance between mind, body, and spirit.

A DIFFERENT FORMULA Fabián Štoček ’13 is a junior now at Dartmouth, preparing for a career carrying out research in neuroscience. He’s president of the Outing Club’s environmental studies division and of the college’s Council on Climate Change—and also one of the Big Green’s top Nordic racers. He posted three first-place finishes at the Junior Nationals in 2014, won a 10K Winter Carnival race in 2015, and was key to Dartmouth’s sixth place finish at the NCAA championships last winter.

“I love to ski, but if I were single-minded about it, it would have been better for me to stay home in the Czech Republic,” says Fabián. Instead his curiosity and intellectual ambition prompted him into an exchange program in Hopkinton, NH. At Nordic races in New Hampshire, he met Pat Casey and his skiers. Holderness became a natural

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next destination for an athlete who also loved being a student.

Eva Pfosi Merriam recalls the benefits of a similarly balanced program and remains grateful. “I think I received about the same level of training and support as I would have at a ski academy, but so much more because the program is so wellrounded,” she says. “You’re seen as a whole person, while at a ski academy, it’s all about results. If you have a bad day, it’s actually comforting that half the student body is clueless about skiing.”

Even among the half involved in snow sports, some are almost as clueless—at least to begin with. Unlike a ski academy, Holderness is a place where elite athletes train side by side with the less accomplished, including complete novices. No harm to the elites, says Pat Casey, and a circumstance of great benefit to the novices.

“Every day these kids see how the top skiers wax and put their gear on,” he says. “They see how early the best are out the door, how late they stay on the trails. They see how they can do all that themselves, and it breeds improvement, nurtures confidence.”

This also requires coaches who are content to teach across a broad spectrum of backgrounds and abilities. At Holderness that’s business as usual for mature athletes who are also classroom teachers, and it’s often a circumstance they prefer. “I gravitated to the secondary level because this is such a magical age, where people aren’t set in their ways yet,” says Phil Peck. “And what a joy it is to work with someone who’s never skied before, and to be able to share your passion with them.”

Maggie Mumford, who went into medicine after her years on the national team and spent fifteen years away from the sport, is one of the coaches for the alpine team. This year she is piloting a program that introduces students to all the snow sports, giving them opportunities to not only try alpine skiing but Nordic skiing, snowshoeing, and skating as well. “I like working at this level,” she says. “We have kids who have never even seen snow before, but we also have racers who have come down from the Eastern team, either because of burn-out or frustration with their results. And it’s amazing—and incredibly fun—to watch this group pull together as a team each year.”

That sort of diversity and the eschewing of single-mindedness are the common threads that connect Fabián Štoček’s contemporary era to that of Eva Pfosi Merriam. Such threads run counter to broad cultural trends toward specialization and the celebration of monomania. Those who are indeed single-minded about a particular snow sport are well accommodated at ski academies, and in the past 35 years these schools have surpassed Holderness in the production of Olympic and national team members—as they should.

“That’s not our niche, what the ski academies do,” Georg Capaul points out. “Here academic excellence is primary, along with a willingness to join other students in other team sports. It’s a different sort of

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“SKIING FOR HOLDERNESS WAS CHALLENGING, BUT TRYING TO REACH THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF SKI RACING IS CHALLENGING ANYWHERE, AND I WAS ABLE TO PERSEVERE BECAUSE HOLDERNESS MADE ME MORE THAN JUST A SKI RACER. IT MADE ME A WELLROUNDED PERSON, AND THEREFORE A WELL-ROUNDED ATHLETE.” — JULIA FORD, CLASS OF 2008 formula that works very well for us.”

Nonetheless Holderness has a couple of current US Ski Team members besides Converse Fields among its recent alumni: alpine racer Julia Ford ’08, who skied in the Sochi Olympics, and freestyle skier Sophia Schwartz ’09. In addition, last year Jory Macomber was named head of school of the USSA TEAM Academy in Park City, UT. When asked about Julia, Jory thinks she made the right choice in staying at Holderness. “It depends on the individual athlete,” Jory says. “For Julia, it was important to be near home and play different sports. She was happier there, and the emotional part of it matters.”

Sophia cites not just the emotional part, but every aspect of the balance she found here. “My outside interests make me a better skier, and vice versa,” she says. “Being a successful athlete is a lot about taking care of yourself as a whole person, and I am thankful to have learned this during my time at Holderness.”

FROM CARTWRIGHT’S TO MITTERSILL It’s not just the disciplines that have changed; the facilities have changed as well. Gone are the days when the skiers warmed up by hiking out to Cartwright’s Hill. Most teams now practice at Loon Mountain in Franconia, where the snowmaking is good, and the terrain parks offer something for every level. It is only the Eastern alpine skiers that head further north to Cannon Mountain, and most recently to Mount Mittersill.

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For decades, Mount Mittersill in Franconia Notch, next to Cannon Mountain, has looked a lot like a gigantic version of Holderness School’s Cartwright’s Hill: slopes overgrown in puckerbrush and used only by a few backcountry skiers willing to hike to the top and take their chances. The area opened in 1946 as one of the top ski destinations in the East, but closed after a series of bad winters in 1984, only a few years before Cartwright’s Hill was being put to rest as well.

Now Mittersill belongs to Cannon Ski Area, and since the 2009–10 season, its slopes have been open to the public again and subject to constant improvement—enough so that last year the US Ski Team announced that Mittersill would be one of its official training sites, one of only four such in the nation, and the only site east of the Rockies. Thanks to Holderness School’s partnership with Cannon and the Franconia Ski Club, Mittersill will also be a regular training site for the school’s Eastern ski program.

Craig Antonides ’77, a fast Eastern skier coached by Don Henderson, is now himself director and head coach of that program.

“We don’t have to recruit,” Craig says. “The program recruits itself, and good skiers show up on our doorstep. But even so, Mittersill is a game-changer for us.”

This is thanks primarily to Baron’s Run. With a slope length of 4,152 feet and a vertical drop of 1,148 feet, it’s a superlative speed venue for giant slalom and super GS. The trail has few intersections and can easily be closed off for training purposes. A

second trail, Taft Run, is better suited to slalom and GS and will be equipped with a new T-bar by the 2016–17 season. “It’s going to provide a quick turnaround for skiers and will provide maximum training volume and intensity,” says Georg Capaul.

Together these slopes provide Holderness access to terrain that for developmental purposes outstrips anything boasted by the ski academies. “This assures Holderness an enhanced leadership role in ski racing in the East,” says Jory Macomber.

And if Holderness holds onto this niche, and the ski academies hold on to theirs, there will continue to be some jousting back and forth, as the ski academies add new academic buildings and invest more heavily in the classroom side. That side of it remains this school’s clear priority, but at the same time, says Phil Peck, “We’re committed to fielding a snow sports program of national caliber. If we’re going to do it, we’re going to do it as well as we can.” It’s a delicate balance; quality is important but so are tradition, versatility, and diversity.

Back where it all started, though, it’s still happening just as it began. Each winter—on a Sunday, perhaps, or during a block of free periods—Holderness students hike to the top of Cartwright’s with their skis or snowboards in hand, or strapped to their backs, and get in a run or two.

They’re not in racing suits. They come just for the fun of it. Just for the sheer joy of that thrilling descent.

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Catching Up With Jim Page LAST OF THE SKIMEISTERS Former history teacher and Nordic coach Jim Page bridged two different eras in ski racing. Then he rose to the top in coaching and international sports leadership. But his zest for skiing (and the rest of it), he credits to a certain moment with Don Henderson. by rick carey JIM PAGE STILL REMEMBERS THE ASTONISHMENT he felt one

Jim said from his home in Colorado. “That you could love the sport in

day in the late 1960s at the Holderness Ski Hill, which was once known as

that way, and pursue it just for the love of it.”

Cartwright’s Hill. There Jim saw Don Henderson all alone, carving fast turns down that short little slope, and then taking the hill’s rope tow to

IT BECAME A REVELATION THAT HELPED EASE Jim Page’s transi-

the top again.

tion from world-class athlete to successful teacher and coach. But in a

At the time, Don was the head of the history department and the director of the snow sports program at Holderness—a program he had built pretty much from scratch. The former Middlebury ski team captain

way, Don Henderson was there even earlier, from Jim’s time as a junior alpine racer competing against Don’s Holderness teams.

“It was almost indescribable how impressive they were as a team,” Jim

was already so well known as a ski coach that he had been asked to serve

recalled. “They showed up as a group in these sharp blue and white

on the staff of the 1964 US Olympic team, and was soon to be named—

sweaters, and then worked and skied as a team. You could tell they were

during a year’s sabbatical from Holderness—head coach of the 1969–70

very well coached.”

US World Cup team. And here he was shuttling back and forth on this little backyard hill in the woods.

Jim forged life-long friendships with several of the athletes on those teams, one of whom was Buster Welch ’59. And in the spring of 1965,

“Don, what are you doing?” Jim asked.

while Jim was in graduate school studying education at Wesleyan

“Well, I just love to ski,” Don replied. “Especially if I can get out here

University, his wife Ginny received a letter from Buster’s wife Kathy, a

before the kids do.”

letter that Ginny read and discarded. Jim fished it out of the trash and

Before the other kids, that is, Jim thought to himself, smiling.

found that Kathy had mentioned an opening for a ski coach at

Jim Page already had a great resume in skiing as well—though he

Holderness.

didn’t mention any of that during a conference call last August in Phil

“I said, ‘Holy cow, I know how to ski,’” Jim laughed. “I sent Don

Peck’s office. Jim had been twice a team captain, three times an All-

Hagerman a note, he came down to visit, and I had a job before anyone

American, and three times an NCAA individual champion in Nordic skiing

else in my class.”

at Dartmouth in the early 1960s. He was also a good enough alpine skier

So Jim joined Don Henderson’s coaching staff—and also his history

and jumper to win the title of Skimeister at the 1962 and 1963 NCAA

department—at a time when skiing as a sport was becoming more special-

championships; he was, by the way, among the last to claim that title.

ized, with the alpine and Nordic worlds breaking apart from each other.

Then he joined the US Nordic combined team in 1963 and represented the nation at the Innsbruck Olympics in 1964—yes, where Don Henderson

AS IT TURNS OUT, ONE OF THE LAST of the great Skimeisters has

helped coach the alpine team.

no regrets.

Jim knew skiing as a challenge, a struggle, an avenue to either victory

“Most of that combination stuff disappeared quite appropriately,” Jim

or defeat, and at the Olympic level, one of the fronts in the Cold War. But

said. “In those days we were a little bit good at everything and not really

fun? Someone like Don Henderson would come out to this obscure hill

good at anything.”

and ski—like a kid—just for the fun of it? “That was a revelation to me,”

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Meanwhile, Jim was amazed at how broadening, in many useful ways, were the tasks of teaching and coaching. “I got a great education at Dartmouth, but I have to say I learned more at Holderness,” he said.

“So how do you go about it?” Phil asked. “What do you see as making an organization successful, sports or otherwise?”

“Well, you have to be clear about who’s in charge, what your goals are,

“How to be organized, how to speak to a group, how to best help people

and what the plan is for reaching them,” Jim said. “Then you have to stick

learn and improve—all that happened there.”

to those goals. You can’t give in to questioning or vacillating.”

A lot of other things happened in turn. In 1973 Jim and Ginny left

It’s a sort of resolve that Jim was able to foster in his independent

Holderness so Jim could assume the reins of the Dartmouth Nordic pro-

work with the US and Canadian Olympic committees—and as interim

gram. Six years later he led the Big Green to a national championship

director of US fencing at the 2008 Beijing Olympics—but not so much

and two Eastern Intercollegiate Ski Association titles. He was EISA Coach

with the Russian committee running up to the 2014 Sochi Olympics.

of the Year in 1974, and coached a young Phil Peck, who was a member of

“They weren’t willing to take a systematic approach to team improve-

that 1976 NCAA championship team.

ment,” Jim said. “They were just interested in short-term answers.”

Jim rejoined the US National Team in 1979 as the Nordic program director and Nordic combined coach. He coached in the 1980 Lake

THE REST OF THE PAGE FAMILY HAS DONE VERY WELL since

Placid Olympics and then took charge of the integrated Nordic team pro-

Holderness as well. Ginny audited classes at Dartmouth and earned a

gram. Eventually he became managing director of sports performance for

Bachelor’s degree and later a Master’s degree in social work at the

the US Olympic Committee, and then assistant director of the USOC.

University of Utah. She began by doing drug and alcohol counseling, and

He returned to Holderness in 2002 as that year’s commencement

then joined the Center for Creative Leadership in Colorado Springs. After

speaker and in 2005 went solo as a consultant for Olympic sports organi-

a career coaching CEO’s and such in leadership practices, she opened her

zations. “At the USOC level you work with all sorts of different Olympic

own consulting business. Among Ginny’s current clients is one Phil Peck.

sports,” he explained. “Some of them are organized very well, and some

“So how’s that going?” Jim asked.

not. So it’s always a topic of conversation among us why some sports suc-

“Well, I’m still here,” Phil laughed.

ceed and others don’t. I acquired a good general knowledge of how to go about it, and other committees started bringing me in.”

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Their daughters Jenny and Heidi were small children when the Pages came to Holderness, and son Jimbo was born during their time here.

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jim climbed the coaching ladder to the highest levels of international sports leadership management.…he and phil [peck] agree that daily contact with young people is a longterm way to stay young yourself, at least in spirit.

Jim and Ginny Page: (left) at Holderness in the 1960s and (right) in the winter of 2015 Jenny owns and runs several Rocky Mountain-area lifestyle magazines.

Jim learned to love those kids—not just the elite ski racers, and not

(Her daughter Keaton McCargo is a teammate of Sophia Schwartz ’09 on

just the star history students—but those kids in the corner working out

the US Freestyle Team, and daughter Page attended Holderness for a

their own sorts of destinies. “I always really liked the teaching part of it,”

year.) Heidi has a doctorate in psychology and does parole evaluations for

Jim said. “And I always thought I’d be going back to it someday.”

the California prison system, while Jimbo—fluent in Mandarin,

Instead he climbed the coaching ladder to the highest levels of inter-

Cantonese, and German—lives in Singapore with his Cantonese wife and

national sports leadership and management. He has no regrets, but Jim

is Volkswagen’s director of marketing and public relations in East Asia.

and Phil agree that daily contact with young people is a long-term way to stay young yourself, at least in spirit.

DURING THEIR FIRST TWO YEARS AT HOLDERNESS, the Pages

And Jim has managed that pretty well. Phil remembers a day they spent

lived in Hoit, but then they switched to Marshall House, a little dorm that

together at Holderness a couple of years ago. They rode mountain bikes up

once stood off the north end of Livermore Hall. Built in 1936 as a tempo-

to the wind turbines lining the ridges around Tenney Mountain, a jaunt

rary facility to house an overflow in enrollment, the rickety old building

requiring over a thousand feet of vertical climb. “Jim was 71 years old then,

survived decades of budget cycles and facilities plans until it was finally

and it was just remarkable, how easily he handled that,” Phil said later.

razed in 2003. For all its bursting pipes and paper-thin walls, “a lot of Marshall’s former occupants,” said Phil, “have fond memories of it.”

So do the Pages. “Marshall had a special aura to it,” Jim said. “It was

Their inspiration? It’s no surprise that both Jim and Phil look to Don Henderson. Jim remembers Don Henderson, and how in certain ways he indeed was—and remains—childlike. “Don was youthful, brimming with

off by itself in this little corner of the campus, and I think it attracted kids

enthusiasm, curious about everything,” Jim said. “I’m hopeful that I’m like

who were themselves a little bit off in the corner.”

that, that I’ve lived my life that way.”

“You are, Jim,” Phil said. “You’re still just a kid.”

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dutch morse ’38 believed his ethics were built on “a foundation that this wonderful school has established and has maintained for all who may be privileged to receive it.” Dutch advised and supported Holderness as a trustee for more than two decades, and was also a proud grandparent of an alumna. Through his Balch Society membership his story comes full circle, and his planned gift now strengthens the foundation of Holderness School.

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mayland h. “dutch” morse ’38 with headmaster emeritus rev. b. w. woodward jr. at his induction

the balch society honors a group of forward-thinking individuals who support Holderness School by combining charitable giving goals with estate and financial 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 benefits? 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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are an important part of our community and part of the “ You effort to do what is right. Just because you’ve graduated doesn’t mean you can’t be with us, be part of this community—not only literally today here on campus, but in your lives at home.”

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city boy in me needs to breathe that fresh air “ The again. I am extremely excited to visit the place that had such an impact on the man I am today.”

– ANDY COLLADO ’00

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Thomas Notter Phillips ’75, you are a fine example of the kind of citizen Holderness School seeks to develop. You exemplify success in business, community life, and family life. And because you have involved your life with Holderness, this school is itself a more successful enterprise than we ever could have been without you.”

– HEAD OF SCHOOL PHIL PECK, PRESENTING THE DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD AT REUNION CONVOCATION

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I think about all the informative moments in my four years “ When at Holderness, they were too many, too hard to separate, and too hard to rate. It was four years of hard but rewarding work. The complete life experience molded me into a well-educated young man, ready to face the world.”

– DAVID NICHOLS ’65 IN THE 2015 50TH CLASS REUNION YEARBOOK

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

Benchmarks The  Strategic Plan asks us to, “Design and implement initiatives to enhance Holderness’s position as the leading boarding school snow sports program in the United States.” The challenge is for all snow sports, but a vital part of snow sports at Holderness is the Eastern skiing program. And the best way to support the Eastern ski team, is to partner with key stakeholders to ensure the completion and long-term success of the Mittersill training facility and the supporting programs.

Outcomes As Rick Carey’s article states, Mittersill will be a premiere speed venue for training in the East; Baron’s Run is the only homologated Super G between White Face in Lake Placid, NY and Sugarloaf in central Maine. The lower run, the Taft Trail, which has been nicknamed “The Taft Superslope,” is the widest ski trail in NH, and will have up to four lanes of training available.

This will allow our skiers to triple the number of quality training runs they get each day.

Finally, aligned with the mission of Holderness, “to work for the betterment” of others, the facility will allow for as many as twenty junior training camps each winter— quadrupling the number held last winter. Thus Mittersill will not only help Holderness skiers, but will also provide junior racers throughout the Northeast with one of the finest speed training venues in America.

Again, relative to our strategic plan, we are redefining our racing facility by partnering with the Franconia Ski Club, the US Ski Team, Cannon Mountain, and the State of New Hampshire. In redefining how we embrace these partnerships, we are not only continuing to be a

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What’s the score? In this issue we take a look at the Mittersill Speed Training venue.

leader but also providing a model for other independent schools in the country.

Measuring Progress Of course, raising  million is no easy feat. The state of New Hampshire provided the initial  million to rebuild the lift to the top of the mountain, but since then, Holderness has partnered with fsc, ussa, and the New Hampshire government to raise additional funds.

At the forefront of this effort has been a Holderness parent, David Fitzgerald P ’ and ’, who has chaired the fundraising effort and was recently the president of the Franconia Ski Club. In addition, Grace Bird, a current board member and a Holderness parent of two alumni ’ and ’, has helped to lead the charge on the Holderness side.

In May a Holderness parent put forth a , challenge gift to not only get snowmaking on Baron’s Run but also to challenge the Holderness community to raise an additional , to pay for snowmaking on the whole mountain. The Holderness team rose to the challenge and raised an additional ,.

The project received an additional boost in early September when Cannon and the Franconia Ski Club received a federal grant of , from the Northern Border Regional Commission to help “support the development of New Hampshire’s North Country.”

Iteration While much progress has been made, and our skiers will be able to take advantage of this spectacular training venue, we still have work to do. This fall, winter, and spring we hope to raise the additional , to install the Taft ski lift next summer and fall.

In addition, while the Eastern ski program is the cornerstone of the snow sports program at Holderness, we are also mindful of the need to be proactive with our other snow sports programs such as freestyle skiing, snowboarding, Nordic racing, and even jumping. Exciting work aligned with our strategic goals is being done in each of these areas as well, and you will find stories about these developments throughout the rest of this issue of hst.

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Wings and How to Earn Them You’ve seen the still photos and watched the televised events and video clips–athletes soaring high off ramps and into the air on skis, executing hair-raising flips and/or twists and/or rotations, and then somehow (usually) landing catlike on those skis and gliding on. If you’re like most of us, you ask, how the heck do they do that? And how do they learn to do it without landing on their heads?

Freestyle and freeride skiers (and some snowboarders) at Holderness have been doing it safely for almost a decade, and they’ve been learning it from one of the best coaches in the business. Nick Preston—besides being the head coach of snow sports at Waterville Valley Academy—has been running his Freestyle America Training Center in Waterville Valley since , from the very dawn of this marriage between acrobatics and snow sports. This makes it the oldest operating camp in America, and some of Nick’s former students include  Olympic gold medal mogul skier Hannah Kearney,  snowboarding Junior World slopestyle champion Jamie Crane-Mauzy, and Holderness alumna and current US National Team freestyle skier Sophia Schwartz ’.

Fortunately for Holderness, at the start of the new year, Nick agreed to take on a new title and has a new place to train some of his athletes. With freestyle skiing growing in popularity, the number of athletes at Holderness who need trampoline time is also increasing. So, while students were away on winter break, Nick, as a program consultant for Holderness, worked in conjunction with Snowboard and Freeski Director Alan Smarse to remodel one of the squash courts in Bartsch into a trampoline room. An excavator—small enough to fit through a standard doorway—dug a hole below floor level, and the trampoline was installed flush with the slate in the lobby. It’s a small renovation that will have a huge impact on any Holderness student who is interested in performing aerialist tricks. Nothing will stop them now, except perhaps gravity.

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Jack Tegan ’18 (left) and Jack Finn ’17 (right) getting in some preseason practice on Nick Preston’s trampoline in early fall

So how indeed do these and others learn to do what they do? “Well, we start with just basic tumbling—front, side, and back rolls [on mats],” says Nick, who finds that while a few of his athletes arrive with experience in acrobatics—whether from gymnastics, diving, or trampolining—the vast majority, some ninety percent, come to the discipline with only their snow sports experience.

Then the transition from earth-bound tumbling to air-borne acrobatics takes place on a trampoline. “That’s where we get into the motor patterns that allow you to get air, to accurately time the apex of your jump, to create twists and allow flips, to go inverted and off-axis,” Nick says.

It’s a series of fine progressions to ever more complex maneuvers, and once the fundamentals are grasped and demonstrated, athletes move from the trampoline to better facsimiles of a ski park or mogul slope environment. “We start working off water ramps, or into air bags,” Nick says. “And we want to see hundreds of these maneuvers done safely before we even think about practicing on snow.”

There’s also the mental aspect of reaching such heights, performing such tricks, assuming such risks. “Well, at first there’s really not a whole lot to think about,” Nick says. “Your body is in a learning mode, and it all comes pretty naturally to most people. The mind doesn’t come into play, usually, until that point when it all becomes competitive.”

That’s when strategy becomes important, when crucial decisions have to be made about what tricks to try on the next run, whether to go for broke or play it safe. “Then, in the long term, you’re also setting goals,” Nick adds. “You have to work your way through the ups and downs, persevere through the setbacks, and eliminate the negative self-talk.” It’s an interface between mind and body—at times it’s synergistic, at others civil war.

But first you have to earn your wings, and how fortunate Holderness snow sport athletes are that a coach like Nick Preston is their guide.

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Opening Day 2015

CLOCKWISE, FROM ABOVE: Precious Ozoh ’16 with new student Sam Sheffield ’19 on opening day; new students with their senior leaders Tyler Slusarczyk ’16 and Alex Lash ’16 before O’Hike; Tory Dobyns ’17 and James Sullivan ’17 working out a logic problem in Ms. Stigum’s class on the first day of school; senior leaders Drew Hodson ’16 and Lewis Mundy-Shaw ’16 leading the new students in field games on the Quad; Mr. Lin’s O’Hike group on Dickey Mountain.

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CLOCKWISE, FROM ABOVE: Wei Hao Cai ’18 preparing for his first Holderness hike; Ly Cao ’18 and Tia Tang ’18 hanging out at their first Holderness cookout; proud new members of the Holderness community, KC Carter ’19 and her family on opening day; senior leaders at the entrance to school, waiting eagerly to greet our new students.

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Back to the Basics

Inside Snowworld, the world’s only indoor FIS racecourse, Landgraff, Netherlands

Take a step back, reevaluate, go slowly, and understand the mechanics of every movement.

Summers are all about working on technique.

And while there are plenty of coaches around to help with that, if you are a skier or snowboarder, finding snow tends to be a bit more difficult in the East. Some athletes go out West to Alta and Whistler. Others take trips to Chile. Holderness, in conjunction with the Franconia Ski Club, offers a two-week trip to Europe to ski on the glaciers.

But even so, some of the best training our alpine athletes found this summer was inside.

In Landgraff, Netherlands, like in many places, they make snow. But at Snowworld, they also enclose it; with five slopes and eight lifts, it is the only indoor fis racecourse in the world.

“It was great for slalom training,” says Snow Sports Director Georg Capaul, who took  skiers there for the first time this summer. “In the summer it is hard to find a hard enough surface for slalom training—even the glaciers are too soft—but indoors it is easy to produce the right consistency.”

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The pitch of the course at Snowworld is also ideal; its gradual slopes make taking a step back and evaluating technique much easier. The skiers can run lots of drills and figure out the right angles for their skis and how to hold them in place for the fastest times.

But spending every day indoors can be confining and slightly depressing for athletes who are used to the wind blowing fresh mountain air in their faces. So during the second half of their trip, Holderness athletes traveled to SaasFee, Switzerland and skied on the glaciers of the Swiss Alps.

Of course, the skiing is amazing, but Georg and fcs Director Rich Smith see other benefits as well.

“Skiing is Europe’s sport,” says Rich. “Our kids are exposed to the culture of European skiing and get to see the routines and training drills of the top skiers in the world, including Lara Gut. They learn not just how to ski but how to take care of themselves if they want to make it to the next level.”

For those students who choose not to travel, there are still plenty of ways for them to get in summer training. Tony Time is available to all.

Before students leave campus in May, they have

the option of meeting with Strength and Conditioning Coach Tony Mure who will assess their skill levels and create individualized plans for them.

But even better is if they can make it to campus and train with him in person. “Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday evening, all summer, Tony’s here for two hours,” says Georg.

“He’s great about pushing the kids and helping them learn how to measure the intensity of their workouts.”

The Nordic skiers train during the summer as well. This past summer, Head Nordic Coach Pat Casey offered Tuesday workouts to any interested locals—Holderness or otherwise.

Workouts ranged from hikes up Welch and Dickie to roller skis on the highway up to Waterville to hill bounding up the Holderness ski hill. In addition to a handful of Holderness kids, Pat was joined by athletes from Sandwich, Plymouth, Rumney, and Meredith.

Many of the same kids also joined him at Dublin School for the New Hampshire Development Ski Camp. For a week in August, Pat and several other area coaches— including Holderness ski coaches Kristina Casey and Peter Hendel, and alumna Molly Whitcomb ’—trained skiers from around the state.

“New Hampshire has really good yearround facilities for training,” says Pat, who started the camp in  in partnership with Dublin School. “Last year we just wanted to test the waters, but interest is high and we hope to continue to build the program.”

So it’s not just about training our own skiers but about building a community of Nordic skiers in New Hampshire, one that feeds not just Holderness School’s team but all the programs in the state.

“It doesn’t need to be exclusive,” says Pat. And that’s the point of all the Holderness programs; there’s a program for every level; all that’s needed is passion and a willingness to learn.

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USSRT Welcomes Karina Bladon ’16 and Converse Fields ’08 “Few people her age work as hard,” says Alan Smarse. “She holds herself to higher standards and is harder on herself than anybody else.”

That explains why the United States Snowboard Racing Team (ussrt) has invited Karina Bladon ’ to be a part of their team.

Established in April, the ussrt is a nonprofit organization that is working in conjunction with the ussa and usasa to build an internationally competitive group of athletes.

According to their website, the goal of the ussrt is to “promote, build, and sustain the original snowboarding sport of racing the clock.”

In other words, the ussrt wants to support snowboarders who are passionate about carving turns and racing through gates in the style of slalom and GS skiers—a discipline that has taken a backseat to the more visually impressive snowboarding events of slopestyle, snowboard cross, and halfpipe.

Through financial assistance and coaching, the ussrt hopes to support the top ten alpine snowboarders in the US. They have also chosen to support a junior development team that they hope to send to the World Junior Championships. Karina was selected for this team.

According to her bio on the ussrt website, Karina “grew up chasing her three older brothers [including Christian ’ and Jay ’] on a snowboard through the woods and the ice in Stowe, VT and Loon Mountain, NH. She won her first racing championship at the usasa Nationals at age , and took silver at the Canadian Nationals at age .”

As a junior at Holderness, Karina hopes to represent the US at Junior Worlds this year.

If she does, she will be the fifth Holderness School snowboarder to do so, joining Ryan Rosencranz ’, Jamie Mills ’, Katie Smarse ’, and Sean Smarz ’.

Karina won’t be alone on the ussrt either.

Alumnus Converse Fields ’, a member of the elite team, will be training with her this winter.

Hoping for a slot on the US team for the Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea in

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Karina Bladon (top) and Converse Fields (above) at the 2015 USASA National Championships held at Copper Mountain, CO

, Converse is currently competing on the World Cup circuit.

Converse was at Holderness when Karina’s brother Jay was here, and he remembers watching Karina race when she was just beginning. “It’s been awesome to watch her grow as a person and as an athlete,” he says.

He is also excited to be a part of the ussrt.

“The biggest thing this year is just having a team,” Converse says. “It will be great to have

people to train with and travel with. It’s also great for the next generation of snowboarders.

When I was a kid, I looked up to the guys on the US Ski Team. Now kids like Karina have a team of alpine snowboarders to look up to.”

And if all goes well this winter, and in the winters to come, Karina will be one of those athletes as well; she too will have a generation wanting to follow in her tracks.

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All The Learning We Can See by nicole brittingham furlonge, english department chair Take a stroll through Carpenter Arts Center and browse the vibrant student gallery. The miniatures hanging on the walls this fall are “Line and Color Personified” artworks, visual responses to our All-School Read, Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See. Drawing on theories of line personality and color psychology, teacher-artist Alli Plourde asked her students to—in this their first lesson related to Doerr’s novel—conceptualize, plan, and create pieces that effectively personify someone close to them. After completing the pieces, students wrote reflections on the people represented in the drawings. This assignment invited students to engage in creative inquiry as they connected with the way Marie Laure, a blind character central to the novel, “sees” auras of color in relation to the people in her life.

These line drawings are but one way in which the All-School Read has been visible on campus this year. The public presence at Holderness of All the Light We Cannot See this fall speaks to a key purpose in having an AllSchool Read: to emphasize reading as a social practice, as a way to build, engage in, and cultivate community around story.

We know historically and cognitively the power of story. Narrative is a key mode through which humans communicate and process information; it is how we make sense of the world, and, as cognitive scientists insist, how we most effectively make learning stick.

Our community’s learning around the AllSchool Read aims to cultivate a lifelong practice and love of reading.

The novel also served as a platform for personal reflection and department collaboration during the opening faculty meetings. Maggie Mumford’s Anatomy and Physiology class referenced the novel in their discussions of the brain. The novel resonates in the photographs students in Franz Nicolay’s Advanced

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CLOCKWISE, FROM TOP: Details from student artwork, “Emma,” by Lily Lin ’19; “Hannah,” by Samantha Smith ’16; and “Jake,” by Ryan Steele ’16.

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Photography class created and recently displayed in Schoolhouse. During a Thursday Chapel, student Keying Yang ’ performed “Clair de Lune,” a lovely and musically challenging Debussy composition that resonates in Doerr’s novel. What constitutes honor in the novel was a topic of sit-down dinner conversations following Nigel Furlonge’s chapel talk on honor earlier in the fall. And at a second dinner, colorful graphics of the electromagnetic spectrum generated conversations about the significant gap between the light we can see and the light we physically cannot see.

And what better way to share ideas than to broadcast—or, in this case, podcast—them? In English classes with Jini Sparkman, Bruce Paro, and me, tenth-graders wrote, designed, and recorded podcasts—our st century democratized form of radio broadcasting—to share their thinking about this novel with the Holderness School community. We explored prevalent objects in the novel—fliers drifting from the hatches of fighter planes; shells and gems collected and categorized; radios that are tinkered with, confiscated, and used in strategic ways. Each student partnered with one to two other classmates, selected an object from the novel on which to focus, conducted research and interviews, and engaged in a collaborative effort resulting, ultimately, in a podcast.

It’s no wonder that All the Light We Cannot See has fueled so much inquiry and creativity.

Two of the novel’s key protagonists are remarkable teenagers—the demographic of our student readers. As Director of College Counseling Bruce Barton described in his proposal to the Secret and August Committee—the group charged with the important task of selecting the All-School Read each year—Doerr’s novel is a “page-turner [that] focuses on two young people, one German and one French, coping with wwii and its implications…Mix into this the mystery of a rare jewel and you have a fabulous story of two teens whose personal destiny involves the other.”

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Detail from “The One of a Kind Girl,” by Erica Ashby ’18

What is also quite striking about this novel—and what, to me, has made it such a compelling text to explore, discuss, and teach— are the many ways in which it thinks through and across multiple disciplinary lenses. As Doerr reflects, “I have always felt that it’s a little artificial to divide the sciences and the arts on college campuses. I’ve looked for ways to unite those two things in all five of my books. I’m doing that with Werner as much as with Marie, but trying to say, ‘Here’s something I’m amazed at by the world,’ and I’m trying to use narrative to help get other people amazed by those things, too” (www.powells.com).

It is exciting to think about what this kind of interdisciplinary engagement looks like—in learning and in life. Not only does this novel present a compelling story crafted masterfully, it also challenges us to read, inquire, and create flexibly, openly—to train our sights well beyond the immediately visible. editor’s note: This article first appeared in Holderness School’s online faculty forum, The Lamp in November .

INTERESTED IN GIVING BACK AND WORKING WITH HOLDERNESS STUDENTS? Become a Senior Thesis Mentor! Your expertise is needed for everything from interviews to job shadowing to project development.

For more information email the co-directors of the program, Monique Devine and Sarah Barton, at seniorthesis@holderness.org.

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CLOCKWISE, FROM ABOVE: Cross-country runner Dougie Deluca ’16 breaks his concentration momentarily to wave for the camera; junior Connor Preston ’16 fights for the ball during NEPSAC semi-finals against Beaver Country Day; Elizabeth Johansson ’17 is greeted at the finish line by Coach Lin and teammate Malcolm MacDonald ’16; Henry Hall ’16 gets air on the single track trails behind Bartsch.

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CLOCKWISE, FROM ABOVE: The varsity field hockey team celebrates a goal against Proctor; Lolo Zabaleta ’18 conquers the cliffs in Rumney; junior Hannah Fernandez delivers a throw-in on the turf this fall; Brendan Johnson ’16 breaks through Tabor’s defense on Tabor Day in November.

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Please Welcome Our New Faculty!

From left to right: Nigel Furlonge, Bruce Paro, Chrissy Lushefski, Colleen Finnerty, Paul Baier, Kayla Wagner, Jordan Graham, Hal Gartner, Conor O’Meara, John Donovan, and Nicole Furlonge.

Paul Baier: Math, Girls’ JV Ice Hockey, Webster Dorm Adjunct. Paul Baier is excited to join the Holderness community. He is coming from Washington, CT where he taught algebra and geometry. Before teaching he had a career in professional ice hockey. He graduated from Brown University after attending St. George’s School and Deerfield Academy. He lives off campus and is joined by his fiancé Tatiana. Paul Baier enjoys taking things apart, building things, and all outdoor activities. He is looking forward to getting to know the Holderness community and getting on the ice with the Superstars this winter!

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John Donovan: Math, JV Baseball, Sargent Dorm. John Donovan grew up in New York on Long Island. His undergraduate degree is from Hartwick College and his graduate degrees are from suny Buffalo. He has taught math and math education for  years at colleges in New York, Maine, and New Hampshire. He and his wife Kara have five children—Reid (eight), Dalton (), Bryn (), Cole (), and Jonathan (); they also have a yellow lab named Luna. Cole is a senior at Holderness, and Bryn is in ninth grade.

Colleen Finnerty: French, Field Hockey, Girls’ Varsity Ice Hockey, Pfenninger Dorm. A  graduate of St. Mark’s School in

Southborough, MA, Colleen is no stranger to boarding school life. While a student at St. Mark’s, she held a number of leadership positions and was a tri-varsity athlete. After St. Mark’s, Colleen went on to study at Bowdoin College, graduating Phi Beta Kappa this past May with degrees in psychology and French.

During her four years at Bowdoin, Colleen was a member of the field hockey and ice hockey teams, captaining both teams in her senior year and collecting a diii National Championship, two nescac Championships, several ncaa tournament runs, and All-nescac and AllAmerican honors during her eight seasons as a collegiate athlete. A native of Hopkinton, MA,

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Colleen enjoys spending time with her three siblings and her pup, Riley.

Nicole Furlonge: English Department Chair, Mosaic/Yearbook. Nicole Brittingham Furlonge is thrilled to return to Holderness School where she began her career and where she married Nigel in the chapel  years ago.

During her extended sabbatical from Holderness, she taught at St. Andrew’s School (DE), where she served as the English Department Chair and Director of Diversity; at The Lawrenceville School, where she was an English teacher and mentor to new faculty; and most recently at Princeton Day School, where she served as English Department Chair and worked closely on designing in-house professional development systems for faculty. In the summer, she serves as a lead teacher in English for the Klingenstein Summer Institute. Nicole earned a Master’s in English from the University of Michigan and a PhD in American Literature from the University of Pennsylvania. Nicole is also mom to three children—Logan (), Lucas (eight), and Wyatt (four); they are her best teachers and are constant reminders to her of the importance of playfulness, imagination, and laughter.

Nigel Furlonge: Associate Head of School, History, Boys’ JV Basketball, Furlonge Dorm.

After graduating from the Boston Latin School () and the University of Pennsylvania (), Nigel began his career at Holderness School, where he taught American History and served as the Co-Director of Diversity. In , he transitioned to St. Andrew’s School in Delaware. He continued teaching history, while serving as the Chair of the Honor Committee and the Director of Studies. Nigel received an MA in American History from Villanova and an MEd from Columbia University, receiving a Klingenstein fellowship in –. These advanced graduate degrees helped prepare him for his appointment as the Academic Dean at The Lawrenceville School in . Immediately before returning to Holderness, Nigel was a

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founding team member of the Christina Seix Academy where he served as Director of Admissions, Dean of Students, and Director of Residential Life between  and . He is joined by his three rambunctious children— Logan (), Lucas (eight), and Wyatt (four), and an equally rambunctious wife, Nicole (age unknown).

Halley Gartner: Math, Football, JV Baseball, Upper Webster Dorm. Halley is a graduate of the Peddie School and earned a BS in Biostatistics from Elon University. Recently, he worked at Cardigan Mountain School during their summer session in the new teaching program. At Holderness, he plans to spend his free time running and hiking.

Jordan Graham: History, Football, Outing Club, Lower Niles Dorm. Jordan joins the Holderness community from Missoula, MT, where he earned his BA and Master’s in history from the University of Montana. Jordan is a certified Wilderness First Responder as well as a licensed Whitewater River Guide and Swiftwater Rescue Technician. In addition, Jordan has coached with the San Diego Chargers and with the University of Montana football teams. Jordan lives in Lower Niles with his wife Allison (a registered nurse) and their dog Winston.

Chrissy Lushefski: Assistant to the Athletic Director, Girls’ Varsity Lacrosse, Dahl Dorm Adjunct. Chrissy Lushefski grew up in Rumson, NJ and graduated from Dartmouth College with a psychology major and education minor. She also played on the Dartmouth women’s lacrosse team for four years. Her past experiences in education include time in the Horizons Student Enrichment Program and the East Harlem School. She also enjoys outdoor activities such as hiking, skiing, and running.

Conor O’Meara: Comparative Religion, History, Skiing, Upper Niles Dorm. Conor O’Meara enjoys skiing the slopes in the winter and sailing the seas in the summer. He joined

the Holderness faculty after graduating from Fairfield University last spring. At Fairfield University, Conor coached soccer at Fairfield College Preparatory School and acted as a coleader of Eucharistic Ministry.

Bruce Paro: English, Boys’ JV Hockey, Boys’ Varsity Lacrosse. Since earning a BA and MA from the University of New Hampshire, Bruce Paro has been teaching for  years, starting at Berwick Academy in Maine in  and then transitioning to New Hampton School in . He stayed at New Hampton for sixteen years, taking on roles as Director of Admissions, Director of Athletics, head boys’ soccer, hockey, and lacrosse coach while always teaching English. He then spent twenty years at Pomfret School where he continued to teach English, and coach soccer, hockey, and lacrosse.

He was also the Director of Athletics. Bruce presently lives off-campus in New Hampton with his wife Pam Mulcahy, their -year-old son and Holderness student Max, and golden retriever Misty.

Kayla Wagner: Associate Director of Admission, Skiing, Lacrosse. Before coming to Holderness School, Kayla worked as an Admission Assistant at New Hampton School, where she graduated in . She received her BS from the University of New Hampshire in Outdoor Education with a minor in Geography. Her passion for adventure sports led her to work as an adventure educator for the past two years in Colorado. Kayla was born and raised on Newfound Lake in Bristol, NH, and is excited to be back in the Northeast.

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Even In the Midst of Evil

Author Rick Carey

by rick carey On August , , in the little New Hampshire town of Colebrook, way up near the Canadian border, four of the town’s leading citizens were gunned down by an assault rifle.

It began in the parking lot of a local supermarket. That was where State Trooper Scott Phillips pulled up near a pickup truck belonging to -year-old carpenter and millwright Carl Drega. Phillips meant to talk to Drega about threats he had made against lawyer Vickie Bunnell, who had once been a selectman in the neighboring town of Columbia—where Drega lived—and who had gotten tangled up in Drega’s many disputes with the town about property rights.

Phillips never had a chance to start that conversation. Drega climbed out of his truck with a semi-automatic AR- he had purchased at a Massachusetts gun show, and Phillips fell wounded. Fellow Trooper Les Lord was killed as he pulled into the parking lot after Phillips. Drega then finished off Phillips, climbed into that trooper’s cruiser, and drove with his rifle to downtown Colebrook, to the building that housed the News and Sentinel newspaper and Vickie Bunnell’s law office.

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That was just the beginning of a three-hour incident in which two more people were murdered—Vickie, then Sentinel Editor Dennis Joos, who tried in vain to wrest Drega’s gun from him. The incident would span four different shooting scenes, and several law enforcement officers would be gravely wounded before Drega was shot and killed at the site of an ambush he had cleverly devised in the Vermont woods.

It happened on a Tuesday afternoon, and I heard about it as I drove at the end of a work day along the shores of Squam Lake from Holderness to my home in Sandwich. I remember feeling much like I had upon hearing about the Kennedy assassination in .

Not in America, I thought then. Not in New Hampshire, I thought in . Not something like this.

In fact all America was shocked by the Colebrook shootings—all the world, even.

Reporters and photographers poured into the North Country from up and down the East Coast by car, van, small plane, helicopter. The story dominated the national evening news for several days, and features appeared in Time, life, and Newsweek. For months afterward, letters of sympathy arrived at the News and Sentinel from all over the nation and from countries in Europe, Africa, and South America.

I was working on my second book then, Against the Tide (Houghton Mifflin, ), and preparing to write my third, The Philosopher Fish (Counterpoint, ). Both books, essentially, are about people trying to survive in the midst of dying fisheries. The Colebrook incident remained stuck in my memory, though, and then came the Columbine shootings in . Thirteen died there, and with that, Colebrook vanished from the nation’s memory.

I had a feeling then that there were more shootings to come—alas, I was right—and that assault rifles and public places were destined to be part of the signature crimes of our time.

These are circumstances that endanger us all,

and I began to wonder what it would be like to suddenly find oneself in a combat zone. What would you think, feel, see, do? Then, for the rest of your life, what would be the consequences of that experience, and the choices you made? And for the community at large?

My next book, I decided, would also be about survival, but this time it would concern ordinary people trying to survive in the midst of dying friends and colleagues.

I began the research for In the Evil Day (ForeEdge, ) in . It took  years because, well, the research proved so difficult and painful. This is a small state, and I came across many people who in some way had been touched by the incident. One of the officers gravely wounded that day was a brave State Trooper named Jeff Caulder. Jeff recovered from his wounds and provided a heart-stopping interview. Now he’s retired from law enforcement and has two children at Holderness: son Chris ’ and daughter Sydney ’.

I found that the consequences of gun violence are even worse than I imagined. I also found the story not nearly so dark as I had imagined. This was thanks to the astonishing courage and grace of the people who found themselves under attack that day: not just the cops, but the friends and colleagues, the bystanders and potential victims, the journalists and the emts.

Colebrook, as a community, was splendid that day—enough so, even in the midst of evil, to restore your faith in humanity.

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Mary S. Richards: In Memoriam november , –june ,  Mary S. Richards died peacefully surrounded by her children on Sunday, June , , at the age of . She would have been pleased to know that the peonies and roses were in full bloom, the birds were singing, and the sky was picture perfect blue.

Mary was born in New York City, NY, in , to Samuel and Caroline (Mead) Bartlett.

She spent her formative years at South Kent School in South Kent, CT and North Eastham, MA. Mary attended St. Mary’s School and then Wells College, graduating Cum Laude in . Mary then pursued her Master’s of Science in Nursing degree at Yale University, graduating in .

Mary married George S. “Rip” Richards in June . Together they moved to New Hampshire and joined the faculty at Holderness School. Mary began her nursing career at Sceva Speare Memorial Hospital in Plymouth, NH where she worked until she and Rip started their family.

Mary was very involved in raising her five children as well as parenting other school, neighborhood, and faculty kids. She liked to find ways to enrich her children’s lives with trips to their grandparents’ house on Cape Cod and Philadelphia, with road trips to Florida, with picnics to Squam Lake’s Dog Cove, and with hikes in the White Mountains. Then, when her youngest child was school age, Mary returned to nursing at Holderness Central School.

Mary was seldom idle: instead, she constantly looked for ways to be helpful and became an integral part of many organizations.

She was a leader in Girl Scouts, an organizer for the Pemigewasset Valley Pony Club and Welsh Pony Society, and spent winters at the Tenney Mountain Ski School desk while her kids explored every inch of the mountain.

After Rip retired from Holderness, the couple moved to a farm in North Pomfret, VT and embraced an agrarian life. Mary worked at

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the Dartmouth College Infirmary, “Dick’s House,” and joined the North Pomfret Ladies Circle, for whom she spent hours sewing quilts and preparing for fundraising strawberry suppers. Mary and Rip grew vegetables, harvested hay, raised chickens and beef cows, and tended to aging livestock. In , Mary and Rip moved to Sterling Springs in Wilder, VT. We will miss and always remember Mary’s gentle and caring ways and her never-ending patience. She never thought about herself; instead she put the needs of others first and inspired them to make a difference. Ever thankful, she quickly brought a balanced perspective to any conversation, often pointing out that “things could have been worse.”

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on hinman: I completely stunk at hockey. I’d come from a public school in my junior year, and, in the early years of Holderness, I suppose I was all wrong in so many ways, right down to the clothes I wore and the sports I played. It was tough. But Mr. Hinman couldn’t have cared less; he kept playing me and kept treating me like I could skate. In the end I got a most improved player award—and walked away with stories of a coach who knew the true meaning of fair play.

– lisa (hall-allen) sargent ’

ABOUT THIS PROJECT This project was initiated over a year ago by several alumni including Tim Scott ’73 and Bob Bradner ’49. As explained in the last issue of HST, Tim wanted to honor the Hendersons while they are still alive; Bob, in turn, asked that we honor other faculty, especially those who are not as well known. Therefore, in the last issue, we featured reflections on the Hendersons—stories of appreciation, reflections on experiences, and words of wisdom; in this issue, we will follow through on Bob Bradner’s idea and will feature the memories and stories that honor other faculty and staff. The people who work for Holderness are the very thing that make the school a special place; it is with pleasure that we take the time to honor their work.

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uss salmon: Russ’s Spanish class was excellent. When you walked through the door, you spoke only Spanish from day one to the last day of class. My interest in Spanish is still strong today and is a direct result of his instructional style.

– ken gates ’

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uring my four years at Holderness, my overall sense of all the adults teaching and guiding us kids was that they worked together effectively to create a cohesive spirit of community, consideration, and analytical learning. Hence I didn’t develop as strong an appreciation for each of them as individuals as, in retrospect, I might have done in another setting. Still, there are six who do stand out as particularly memorable and influential. A few comments about each follow. carmen sarno: Two years of Biology (a small advanced lab course the second year) under his instruction almost veered me into a science career. Quietly pressing us to think carefully through the interpretation of data, to collect data precisely and with ruthless honesty, and to love the surprises and complexities of the living world, his classes were a formative experience as well as enjoyable. john cameron: We couldn’t pull any wool over his eyes, especially in the use of language.

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what we were saying or writing, Mr. Cameron was the perfect English teacher. cesar justo noble: The man with the most over-the-top name in the world, yet so approachable, humble, and fun that I’d gladly have taken more years of Spanish from him.

His clarity of voice and intent, combined with his love of Spanish literature, opened up another world to this small-town boy. He was always encouraging, even as we frequently needed correction, improvement, and reminders to complete the reading (Don Quixote de la Mancha is a long book, especially in Spanish!). conchita spaulding—or as she said, “Espalding:” She was from Madrid and my goodness, her voice was like bells. She imparted a great love of Spanish history, culture, literature, and poetry to us. harald haugan: Whether in Sacred Studies class or as a track coach, “Whitey” Haugan was explicit and consistent in his focus on teaching us to create and maintain positive relationships. Relentlessly optimistic in expression, but never with false brightness, I had great respect for him. And sometimes, I remember the simple little things, like four of us students squeezing into his Simca  (Google it) enroute to breakfast with him and his wife.

– jim emerson ’

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im and loli hammond: Jim Hammond made sarcasm a true art form, and he and his family are a lot of fun to hang out with. Jim and Loli Hammond later became dorm parents for my daughter Jessie, who graduated in . Last September at a class reunion, in Jim’s presence, I told someone that Jim had been responsible for my daughter’s spiritual and intellectual development—which sent Jim into a fit of mocked gagging.

– jeff hinman ’

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oe abbey: During a literature class, Mr. Abbey stated, “Every person has a moment of artistic genius within them.”

I’m not sure anything I’ve done to date qualifies, but that statement still guides me today.

– bob keating ’

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ill clough: I have a great memory of Bill leading us on a coed Outward Bound trip for a week or so. Before we left, we were each given a pair of wwii, sawed-off, Tenth Mountain Division, white, wooden skis. It was my first experience with back–country skiing, and it was a very memorable experience. bill biddle: Mr. Biddle took the Holderness Outing Club on many overnight hikes, but the one that sticks with me most, was a three-night winter hike in the Presidentials.

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We camped in the frigid Randolph Mountain Club Hut, replete with a frost-covered organ.

Somehow a mattress started to smolder, so it was removed and put out in the snow.

I don’t know how Bill Clough and Bill Biddle, and others, were able to take so much time away from their families to be with us. As if that wasn’t enough, they endured miserable weather and very cold camping conditions, just to give us unusual, outdoor experiences.

– ben white ’

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red beams: I had Fred for math my junior year, and it did not come easily to me. I spent a lot of time with Fred in his apartment getting extra help, and I would like to thank him again for helping me. gene wittman: Not only was Gene Wittman my French teacher junior year, but he was also my wrestling coach and my friend. I was not a stellar wrestler by any means, but he nurtured me along just the same. We spent many an afternoon in the sauna shedding pounds before a wresting match, and we played racquetball at Plymouth State. My father had died several years before, and my mother died that junior year at Holderness, so I was very grateful for faculty members such as Gene Wittman who took an interest in me.

– peter terry ’

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illiam s. crosbie: In September , Holderness had an enrollment of  boys, roughly  of whom were signed up for second-year Latin. That brought us under the purview of William S. Crosbie, universally known as “Bing” (think White Christmas crooner).

Bing was the master of Lower Webster and the drama coach for the annual Gilbert & Sullivan production. Most of all, though, he cared about teaching Latin.

In an era when there were no honors or advanced placement courses and very little

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remedial tutoring, he reached into the future and created his own advanced teaching.

Based on his own criteria, he plucked three of us—Peter Bardach ’, William Baskin Jr. ’, and me ’—out of that second-year Latin class and made us an offer we couldn’t refuse: turn our regular Latin period into a study hour and join him in his personal living room for private lessons during the pre-dinner study hall time. We accepted without knowing what we were getting into.

In those days the second-year Latin curriculum was anchored in reading only the first four books of Caesar’s “Gallic Wars,” plus some upgrading of the grammar you allegedly learned in the first year. With Bing, the socalled dead language came alive. He had served as an infantry soldier in the World War II western European campaigns, and he shared with us first-hand experiences of the territory and the weather: what rivers Caesar had crossed, what sight lines there were, how to get around the hedgerows. All of these factors and more were still issues , years later.

During those pre-dinner lessons, we managed to read all seven books of the “Gallic Wars”

and added some Cicero, some Suetonious, and a few samples of other authors. All of this was academically exciting and frankly made us feel good about ourselves. You didn’t boast about it to classmates; you lived with it inside.

We also dealt with the grammar side. Each weekend throughout the year Bing gave us  English sentences of increasing complexity to be translated into Latin and submitted in writing.

This was hard work, and there was no way to slip through it. We had to plan our Saturday– Sunday time to allow enough hours to sit down and get it done. But we did learn Latin grammar.

Personally, I am not sure I ever worked harder in an academic course.

Hindsight tells me that Bing gave us time that was not required of him, not just as a favor but because it gave him the chance to put his foot on the academic accelerator pedal and teach with enthusiastic abandon. His was only one special example of the many Holderness teachers who lived then, later, and now. The best teachers are always the ones who truly love what they teach.

– bob bradner ’

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SAVE THE DATE! THE SECOND HOLDERNESS SCHOOL DAY OF GIVING!

FEBRUARY 17, 2016 LEARN MORE AND FIND A REGIONAL EVENT NEAR YOU AT HOLDERNESS.ORG/DAYOFGIVING2016

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Committed to the Success of the School Holderness School is made stronger by our students and their families. We are lucky that they have chosen to join our family and that they are caring, friendly, and committed to the success of the school. You can see it at various events across the country; you can see it on the sidelines of athletic contests; and you can see it at our board meetings.

Carolyn Cullen ’, Neale Attenborough, and Susie Hayes are three current parents who have accepted the invitation to join the Holderness School Board of Trustees. While they each bring a particular set of skills, perspectives, and experiences, they share a mutual desire to celebrate and strengthen our little school in the White Mountains. As current parents, their voices are critical to the strong and balanced governance of our school.

Making her debut during the spring  Board of Trustees Meeting, Carolyn Cullen in very little time made it clear that she speaks with both a measured perspective and true care for Holderness. Indeed, this care not only comes from being the mother of Craig ’ but also from being an active alumna, representing the class of . Head of School Phil Peck says that Carolyn “has a strong background with independent schools in the Philadelphia area, as well as a deep appreciation for the arts.

She also brings a breadth of experiences and insights that will move us forward.”

Joining Carolyn is Neale Attenborough, father to Kelley ’. Neale brings a great deal of financial management and board governance experience to the board, having founded and led several successful corporations, including Golden Gate Capital, a San Francisco-based private equity firm. His understanding of independent schools, just like Carolyn, is robust as he has served on the boards of both the Pingree School and Brookwood School, where he was also the chair. When asked about Neale Attenborough, former Board Chair Will Prickett called him an exemplary board member and role model.

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Trustees and their families during Holderness Parents’ Weekends: Neal Attenborough (top); Susie Hayes (bottom left); and Carolyn Cullen (bottom right).

Rounding out our newest slate of trustees is the incomparable Susie Hayes. Splitting her time between Colorado and nearby Squam Lake, Susie brings a tremendous amount of energy to our school, where she is often seen helping out on campus and cheering on Annie ’ and Jack ’. Susie also has roots in the non-profit world. Combining her passion for education and business expertise, Susie recently founded Access Opportunity, an organization that invests in low-income, highpotential students so they can lead change in their lives and their communities. Commenting on Susie’s recent appointment, Board Chair Jim

Hamblin said that “Susie, and her entire family, have truly embraced and appreciate the experience that is Holderness. We look forward to enjoying her guidance and input as a trustee.”

With these three current parents and now board members, Holderness continues to move in a direction that remains consistent with our time-honored values while stretching to achieve our bold vision of redefining leadership and intellectual development for all.

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OR MANY ALUMNI, their love of snow sports didn’t end when they graduated from Holderness. Many have found ways to continue competing, and the lucky ones have channeled their passions into careers. The interviews that follow on the next several pages represent just a few of their stories. This is by no means a comprehensive list;

our class notes and social media postings proudly share an endless list of accomplished skiers and snowboarders and industry specialists. From equipment designers to World Cup racers to high school coaches, our alumni continue to embrace snow sports and find ways to build careers in the snow around the world.

My Extended Family Clark Macomber ’14 A freshman at St. Lawrence University and a member of their Division I ski team

Hyland ’, and Michael Beutner ’. These guys are still some of my best friends.

What is one of your favorite memories of your Holderness coaches?

What snow sports did you do while at Holderness?

I was on the Eastern ski team.

Where did you practice? What were your workouts like?

We skied at Cannon. During the summers I usually trained with Tony Mure three days a week. We would meet after dinner and he would guide me through ski-specific strength training exercises. When I am home during vacations, I still stop by Holderness and train with Tony. While I was at Holderness I was also on the mountain biking team in the fall. For me, it was one of the best forms of cross training.

Clark Macomber during MJ’s Race last winter at Cannon

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In March last year, we had finished training for the day and we wanted to go glade skiing. We’d heard about an area to the right of the tramway, but we didn’t know how to find it. Coach Moody volunteered to show it to us. He took extra time out of his busy schedule and we had an amazing time just skiing for the fun of it.

Why skiing? What keeps you coming back?

When I started at Holderness, I wasn’t much of a skier. Previously, I had put most of my energy into hockey, but by then I was pretty much done with it. So I decided to ski. I loved going to Cannon and exploring the mountain. I also loved the people and the community. I fell in love with skiing first, and racing later.

What is your most vivid memory of snow sports at Holderness?

How did Holderness support/encourage/

MJ’s Race in . I won but I was more excited about being a part of the event and being a part of Bev LaFoley’s extended family. Winning was just a small part of an incredibly fun and important day.

During my senior year, I did a lot of training and traveling with Coach Jeff Harold. I will never forget the van rides with Jesse Ross ’, Stepper Hall ’, Max Lash ’, Chris

develop your love of skiing?

Holderness prepared me well for skiing, but college is a whole different level. I am lifting three times per week and doing agility training twice a week—and that is during the off-season.

What are you up to currently? Do you have any important goals looking forward?

I’m looking forward to skiing for St. Lawrence and going to the college carnival races.

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Because of Craig Chris Davenport ’89 Professional skier, guide, author, sports announcer, and speaker. accomplishments: Two-time World Champion skier; First person to ski all fifty-four of Colorado’s ,-foot peaks in less than one year What snow sports did you do while at Holderness?

Eastern alpine skiing Where did you practice? What were your workouts like?

We did dryland behind Bartsch and on the sand hill near the Nordic trails. I also played soccer in the fall. During the ski season we trained at Waterville Valley, which was a great hill for us due to its good terrain and close proximity to school.

Chris Davenport, Bella Coola, Canada

Why alpine skiing? What keeps you

What is your favorite skiing memory—

What is your most vivid memory of skiing

coming back?

Holderness or otherwise?

at Holderness?

I’m passionate about the mountains. I love all mountain sports and just being out in nature.

Skiing teaches us so much about ourselves and what we are capable of, and it gives young athletes lots of confidence and self-esteem. Then there is the teamwork, integrity, and commitment that comes with being a ski racer. It toughens you up and focuses your energies.

Ski racing was the best thing that ever happened to me.

When I’m on campus I always run out on the Nordic trails and visit the old Holderness ski jumps and ski hill. When I was a student, we were able to use the old rope tow a few times to both alpine ski and suit up for the small Nordic jumps. I am so proud of the fact that the high school I went to had its own ski hill and rope tow, and it’s my hope that someday we can bring those back to working order.

The team camaraderie for sure. We were such a close-knit group of athletes during the years I was there, and many of my teammates remain my closest friends. We traveled together, studied together, tuned skis together, and got each other fired up at the start of races. It was truly the “time of my life.”

What do you remember about your Holderness coaches?

I can’t say enough about Craig Antonides. He was in his second year of coaching when I arrived, and really it’s because of him that a very strong group of racers arrived at Holderness in , , and . Craig was fair but tough, an excellent coach, and a great mentor. People often ask me if there was one person in my life who helped set me on the path to becoming a pro athlete, and my answer is Craig.

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What are you up to currently? Do you have How did Holderness support/encourage/

any important goals looking forward?

develop your love of skiing?

Oh geez, that’s a long one. Have a look at this video series I recently helped produce that follows the different aspects of the ski industry in which I’m involved: www.redbull.com/facesofdav. In the fall I went to Antarctica for my fifth time to guide a ski trip there on the Antarctic Peninsula with some clients. Lots and lots of penguins.

Holderness was the perfect blend of academics, athletics, and outdoor pursuits for a young person like myself. I loved sports, especially skiing, and Holderness empowered me to excel and challenge myself, while at the same time holding me to a high academic standard—which I was certainly not going to screw up for fear of not being allowed to ski. I also loved my teachers and the way the subjects were presented to us in such an open and fun fashion.

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The Advantages of Being a Holderness Athlete Nikki Kimball ’89 Orthopedic physical therapist, professional endurance runner for hoka one one, public speaker on depression and suicide. accomplishments: Winner of the Western States -Mile Endurance Race, , , ; Winner of Marathon Des Sables, ; Winner of the Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc, ; Holds female record for completing the -mile Vermont Long Trail in  days,  hours, and  minutes What snow sports did you do while at Holderness?

Cross-country skiing all three years and Nordic jumping my senior year. I distinguished myself by being particularly bad at jumping!

Where did you practice? What were your workouts like?

We primarily trained on the cross-country ski trails but Phil [Peck] and Steve [Gaskill] were great about getting us off campus to find interesting and often adventurous training opportunities. We also did appropriate indoor strength training, outdoor roller skiing, and other adjuncts to ski training. Each workout had a purpose, and the coaches would explain the purpose in a way that gave Holderness athletes a huge advantage in future sporting pursuits. My three years at Holderness gave me a fantastic science-based academic education both inside the classroom and outside.

What is your most vivid memory of Nordic skiing at Holderness?

Definitely one late fall workout in which we crossed the Pemigewasset remains a lifelong favorite of mine! Phil took us on a trail run in which we put our shoes and socks into garbage bags while we crossed the river in an attempt to regain dry feet at the far end. Cheri Walsh ’ was the first in the water. Sensing an opportunity to incur an adrenaline rush, Cheri climbed up a cliff overlooking the water and hurled

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Nikki Kimball refueling during her attempt to break the speed record on the Vermont Long Trail (photograph by Roger Crowley).

herself into the Pemi. As soon as her mouth cleared the water’s surface all we could hear were screams of surprise at the much-colderthan-expected temperatures. Phil, equally surprised, suggested the rest of the team ford the river a bit downstream where the water would not be above head level. We all crossed, emerging with numb legs, bruised from collisions with underwater rocks we could not feel—and huge smiles. Though I believe this run stretched Phil’s limits for keeping workouts safe, it foreshadowed a life of adventure, with its mitigated risks, that later became both a passion and career for me.

Many of the experiences of teenagers’ lives are overly protected. Life always contains risk, and I believe Phil helped me to learn that while adventure is central to an enjoyable life, risks may lie where not expected, and that one can experience amazing adventures while adjusting plans to facilitate safer exploration. Phil showed us that day that dangerous conditions can occur in seemingly innocuous settings, and that changing plans to allow safer passage (in this case going downstream and missing the exciting cliff jump), will allow one to enjoy many future adventures. No one was in any real danger that day because there were plenty of people to rescue a hypothermic runner if need-

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ed, and because he was willing to adjust the plan to suit the conditions. As I continue to explore back-country areas on foot and skis, I recognize that knowing how to balance safety and adventure is one of my most precious gifts.

What do you remember about your Holderness coaches?

My sophomore year I was lucky to have Phil Peck and Steve Gaskill as coaches. I do not think a better coaching pair could exist.

Though each man is a learned and inspirational coach on his own, together they were amazing.

Phil’s unique strength lay in his ability to connect with his athletes on a level that far transcends the sport. He sensed the emotional needs of his athletes as well as the ways in which life outside of sport can affect performance and general well being. Steve’s singular strength was the depth of his scientific understanding of physiology and his ability to apply this knowledge to the physical training of individual skiers. He is a born teacher who gave me an understanding of endurance athletics I could not have learned from a book or in a classroom.

Why Nordic? What keeps you coming back?

I love endurance sports and I love to glide on snow. What could be better?

What is your favorite Nordic skiing memory—Holderness or otherwise?

In , having returned to cross-country ski racing, I went to Ketchum, ID to race the Boulder Mountain Tour with a group of Bozeman friends. Peter Hale, a long time figure of the sport, arranged a condo for our group. The race occurred under a full moon, and after the awards ceremony, we heeded Peter’s suggestion to ski the trails of Sun Valley Resort again. The night was magical with good friends sharing the beauty of the moonlight reflecting off crystals in the snow.

During the ski, I thought of my missing Holderness best friend, Cheri Walsh ’; I

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Nikki and her brother Bill Kimball, who joined her on her record-setting run of the Vermont Long Trail in 2012 (photograph by Roger Crowley).

remembered the line, “I am the diamond glints on snow,” from a poem read at her funeral.

Peter passed away a few years after that Sun Valley trip from an aggressive form of skin cancer. They were both beautiful, loving, generous people who shared a deep love of cross-country skiing. The memory of that moonlit ski has forever linked my memories of Peter and Cheri, fixing them with a beautiful picture of snow, light, and grace.

What are you up to currently? Do you have any important goals looking forward?

While I continue to race ultra marathons and practice physical therapy, I am shifting my athletic career to include more coaching and public speaking. My running career has given me a public platform from which I hope to give back to society for the many pieces of good fortune I have enjoyed.

Primarily I aim to use any power I may have to help open discourse and dissolve the stigma

related to major depression and suicide. I am alive because of the support of a few people who have shown me how to manage the disease and stay true to who I am during times in my life when I have been very difficult to befriend.

I can never repay what I owe them, but I can help others to recognize that a high-quality life can coexist with the disease.

Major depression can be a death sentence if not treated. However, for many sufferers, understanding friends and family can positively affect the course of the disease. Knowledge of the disease and the many successful interventions available saves lives. Ignorance of the same leads to further suffering and even death.

I hope to help increase public understanding of major depression because of my certainty that a broader understanding of the disease will decrease rates of suffering and death resulting from untreated depression.

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The Accomplishments of a Professional Dishwasher There is always something to keep working on, and if I am having a bad day, there is always something else to focus on. Freeskiing is play, and our world needs more unregulated play!

How did Holderness support/encourage/ develop your love of skiing?

Sophia in Tuckerman Ravine, New Hampshire

Sophia Schwartz ’09

What is your most vivid memory of skiing at Holderness?

Holderness gave me balance and made me tough. I’ve always loved skiing, but having other interests keeps me passionate. At Holderness, I played field hockey and lacrosse. I was a biology nerd and a pro dishwasher. I had friends that celebrated my on-snow accomplishments and friend who couldn’t care less. In addition, coming from the sunny soft Rocky Mountains, I didn’t know how to ski on ice. The tough Eastern conditions demanded that I learn grit and how to fight through mistakes.

At Holderness, I was part of the Eastern Freestyle Program that partnered with Waterville Valley bbts. I was primarily a mogul skier but also competed in halfpipe and slopestyle.

My freshman year, Eastern Championships were held in Waterville Valley. During my first run, I crashed pretty hard doing a back flip on the bottom jump. Luckily, I still had a second run. It was cold and windy. I was nervous and a little beat up. I remember standing in the start gate and looking out over the White Mountains covered in snow. I thought of all the other frozen days I had come out to train, and all the times I had skied the course. I pushed off and skied my best run of the day and earned my first podium of the season. To this day, I still try to take in the view from the top of the course.

Where did you practice? What were your

What are your memories of your

workouts like?

Holderness coaches?

What are you up to currently? Do you have

I trained at Waterville Valley Ski Resort. We got out of class at : and hustled up to the mountain, eating lunch on the bus. I would warm up by doing short swing turns on a groomer run, before heading over to our mogul course on True Grit. Our team would lap the mogul course or hike a jump for the afternoon.

If we didn’t have evening classes, we would go to Nick Preston’s trampoline center and practice our tricks in a safe environment.

The Eastern Freestyle team was coached by Waterville coaches Nick Preston and Rob Day. My memories are full of sushi dinners on the road before and after competitions and constant heckling. They pushed me to be the best I could be, but I always felt they cared for me as a person and had my back no matter what.

any important goals looking forward?

Student at Dartmouth College majoring in neuroscience; member of the US Freestyle Ski Team. accomplishments:  Lake Placid, NY World Cup Fourth Place;  Megeve, France World Cup Sixth Place;  US National Dual Mogul Champion What snow sports did you do while at Holderness?

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Why skiing? What keeps you coming back?

Mogul skiers have to be able to do it all. We have to be both technical skiers and jumpers.

What is your favorite skiing memory— Holderness or otherwise?

It was my first ever World Cup start. The Deer Valley World Cup in  was a night event, and I had always dreamed of skiing under the lights. As I stood in the start gate, I did my typical gaze out over the terrain below. Only lights from houses spotted the hills. There was a huge crowd of over , people. I had stood in that crowd at the bottom of the course before, but in that moment, I had the opportunity to be at the top. I was so happy and appreciative to be exactly where I was standing.

Honestly, I had a disappointing winter last year, so my goal last summer was to take full advantage of off-season training. I wanted to fix some fundamentals and keep building on my run.

After doing all the work, it has been fun to get to put that competition adrenaline boost to use and see how I stack up against the best. This winter I’ll continue to train and race with the US Ski Team; I hope to make it to the Olympics in South Korea in .

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The Dedication of a Lifetime Craig Antonides ’77 Head Eastern Ski Coach and Assistant Boys’ Varsity Soccer Coach at Holderness School. accomplishments: Has been coaching at Holderness since ; Holds ussa National Certification (Level );  nhara Coach of the Year; Coached the Holderness boys’ varsity soccer team to the  nepsac Class C Championships What snow sports did you do while at Holderness?

Eastern Skiing Where did you practice? What were your workouts like?

We practiced on the school ski hill (Cartwright’s Hill) and sometimes up at Cannon and Waterville. Conditions were often pretty rugged. There was not much grooming, and we had some pretty snowy winters back then.

Craig Antonides with his players during their run for the NEPSAC Championship Class C title in November

What is your most vivid memory of skiing

Why skiing? What keeps you coming back?

at Holderness?

It’s a lifetime sport, and I can’t think of anything I’d rather be doing during a long, cold winter. Being born in Aspen and then living in Waterville, I just got sucked into the environment and liked to be outside. There wasn’t much else to do growing up in Waterville.

Hiking out to the ski hill—ski boots already on our feet and skis over our shoulders. It was quite a warm-up, especially with fresh snow on the ground.

What do you remember about your Holderness coaches?

How did Holderness support/encourage/

Don Henderson was a great man—coach and teacher. I remember he always said, “Look ahead, turn early, and go like hell.” I had him in class and learned a great deal about writing— even though he taught history. I used to marvel at him working the speed bag in the climbing room for some upper body work. Trips to Cannon back then were quite an adventure. At the end of Don’s tenure we had Steve and Lori Smith as coaches, and they were great people and coaches as well.

develop your love of skiing?

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Out Back group which was just returning to base camp.

What are you up to currently? Do you have any important goals looking forward?

I’m in the midst of year number  at Holderness. I hope to stay healthy and see how long I can last.

The biggest thing was probably the friendships I had with my teammates and the thrill of competition; the environment was stimulating and fun.

What is your favorite skiing memory-Holderness or otherwise?

As a coach, one of my favorite memories remains coaching Willie Ford ’ to a J National Championship in giant slalom and then promptly whisking him back to school in a heavy snowstorm so that he could join his

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Developing the Discipline of an International Athlete How did Holderness support/encourage/ develop your love of snowboarding?

I came to Holderness a mediocre racer, but given time and structure, I was able to improve.

My teammates, some of whom were much better than me, helped push me and develop me as an athlete. It also helped that as I started to travel more, the teachers were forgiving and supported me in my efforts to be both a student and an athlete.

What is your favorite snowboarding memory—Holderness or otherwise?

Karina Bladon ’17 and Converse Fields at Echo Mountain in November

Converse Fields ’08

What is your most vivid memory of snowboarding at Holderness?

Professional snowboard racer and member of the ussrt. accomplishments: Four national championship titles in slalom and giant slalom What snow sports did you do while at Holderness?

Snowboarding. I skied when I was young but later learned to snowboard. My snowboard coach at home introduced me to Alan Smarse when I was a sophomore; he was a big part of the reason I ended up at Holderness.

It was at a New Hampshire series race at Ragged Mountain. I remember watching Coach Smarse setting the course in the pouring rain.

There was so much rain that when he drilled into the snow, water shot out of the hole. We all wore trash bags over our jackets all day.

What do you remember about your Holderness coaches?

What are you up to currently? Any important goals looking forward?

Last season I ended up third in the NorAm Cup overall and earned a spot on the World Cup circuit, so this winter I’ll be spending as much time as possible in Europe. If I do well, I am hoping to compete in the Olympics in Korea in .

Coach Smarse was tough; if you missed the bus, you missed it.

Where did you practice? What were your

Why snowboarding? What keeps you

workouts like?

coming back?

We trained at Loon, worked out in Bartsch, and did lots of running. There were always races at Copper Mountain in Colorado during Thanksgiving break. Coach Smarse also encouraged me to do football my sophomore year; after that I did rock climbing.

I was young when I started; my brother was snowboarding and I wanted to keep up with him. When I started at Holderness I was still doing everything—alpine, slopestyle, halfpipe.

At Holderness I started to develop a love for the feeling of carving turns. I loved, and continue to love, competing and all aspects of the sport.

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My best memory is probably taking my family with me to Turkey for a European Cup race. I didn’t even know they had snow in Turkey. We showed up a couple days early so we could preview the course. We had to drive up a volcano; it was like snowboarding on the moon. One guy took us under his wing and showed us around.

He got us coffee and tea and took us for several runs; he was like ski patrol or something and helped us cut the lift lines. We never got to see the racecourse but we had a really good time.

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hat a year for Holderness! Your support of

ners, Olympians, and we all had our solid foundation

our students, programs, teachers, and build-

built at Holderness.”

ings was exceptional—a testament to your

loyalty and commitment to Holderness School.

You provide students who would otherwise not be able to attend Holderness the opportunity to partici-

When we hosted our first Holderness Day of

pate in this life-changing experience. You also help us

Giving, you exceeded our wildest hopes. You

to develop opportunities for all students in which they

responded in record numbers, you set a new stan-

can discover their own leadership potential through

dard for the most money raised in support of the

programs like Project Outreach, Artward Bound, Out

Holderness Fund in one day, and you inspired the

Back, Senior Thesis, and the Jobs Program. Lastly your

entire campus with your outpouring of generosity.

generous support provides us with the means to

You also shared your stories with each other, reignit-

recruit talented faculty and keep our campus main-

ing friendships and recalling the special moments

tained, comfortable, and safe for our students.

that have left lasting impressions—moments that continue to shape who you are, even today.

You make it possible for us to uphold the Holderness journey.

When we asked you what unifies our community, you

Thank you for supporting Holderness, staying in

said it is not only the shared experiences on campus,

touch, and keeping Holderness in your hearts and

but also the strengths cultivated after graduation. As

lives.

one alumna wrote, “We are internationally known mountaineers, professional athletes, parents, physicians, attorneys, teachers, artists, business executives, financial gurus, lovers of the Earth, actors, Oscar win-

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HOLDERNESS RELIES ON PHILANTHROPY TO COVER 25% OF THE COST OF EDUCATING OUR STUDENTS, AND YOU RESPONDED, HELPING US FINISH THE YEAR WITH AN ALL-TIME RECORD OF 1,450 DONORS TO THE HOLDERNESS FUND. THESE DOLLARS SUPPORT EVERY ASPECT OF THE HOLDERNESS EXPERIENCE, AND WE WERE DELIGHTED TO SEE THIS COMMUNITY COME TOGETHER FOR THE BETTERMENT OF OUR SCHOOL. ALUMNI, PARENTS, FACULTY, STAFF, AND FRIENDS OF HOLDERNESS MADE THE FIRST EVER DAY OF GIVING AN OVERWHELMING SUCCESS. IN ADDITION, THE CLASS AGENTS PROGRAM WAS REINVIGORATED AND YOUR LOVE OF ALL THINGS HOLDERNESS HELPED MAKE THIS A BANNER YEAR FOR ALUMNI PARTICIPATION. THANK YOU. GIFTS TO THE HOLDERNESS FUND (CURRENT USE): Unrestricted Fund Restricted Fund Subtotal:

$1,515,363 $546,568 $2,061,931

GIFTS TO FACILITIES:

$743,627

GIFTS TO ENDOWMENT:

$402,492

GIFTS TO THE MITTERSILL PROJECT:

$1,391,000

TOTAL*:

$4,599,050

*Total gifts received during fiscal year 2015 (July 1, 2014 to June 30, 2015)

TOTAL GIVING

IN 2015 WAS OVER $4.5M A FIVE-YEAR INCREASE

OF OVER 36%

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GIFTS BY CONSTITUENT

ARE GIVING EVERY YEAR

CURRENTLY

80% OF ALUMNI

GIVE EVERY YEAR, UP FROM 70%

IN 2010

PARENTS OF ALUMNI: 18.71%

FRIENDS: 3.57% ALUMNI WHO ARE CURRENT PARENTS: 2.95%

ALUMNI: 34.61%

ALUMNI GIFTS INCREASED

FOUNDATIONS/MATCHING GIFTS: 4.73%

FROM 674

IN 2010 TO 928 IN 2015

AN INCREASE OF OVER 37 PERCENT

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THE MITTERSILL RACE AND TRAINING SLOPES AT CANNON MOUNTAIN IS A UNIQUE PARTNERSHIP BORN IN THE SPRING OF 2012 WHEN A COALITION REPRESENTING THE US SKI TEAM, THE FRANCONIA SKI CLUB, HOLDERNESS SCHOOL, THE KELLY BRUSH FOUNDATION, THE HOCHEBIRGE SKI CLUB, THE NEW HAMPSHIRE DEPARTMENT OF RESOURCES AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, AND SEVERAL OTHER NEW ENGLAND SKI RACING OFFICIALS ATTENDED AN OPEN MEETING IN BOSTON TO DISCUSS THE IDEA OF CREATING AN ELITE TRAINING VENUE IN THE NORTHEAST. SOCHI OLYMPIAN JULIA FORD ’08: “THERE IS NOTHING LIKE THIS IN THE EAST. IT’S AN OPPORTUNITY FOR HOLDERNESS SCHOOL, BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, FOR THE ENTIRE NEW ENGLAND SKI RACING COMMUNITY.” THIS VISION DOVETAILS WITH OUR 2014 STRATEGIC PLAN, WHICH CALLS FOR HOLDERNESS SCHOOL TO LOOK TO THE “WORLD BEYOND OUR WALLS,” AND TO “COACH THE MULTI-SPORT ATHLETE AT EVERY LEVEL.” THE MITTERSILL PROJECT WILL HELP OUR ELITE SKIERS TRAIN AT A WHOLE NEW LEVEL AND ALLOW HOLDERNESS TO PARTNER IN NEW WAYS WITH SNOW SPORTS AND ECONOMIC INTERESTS STATE-WIDE. THE PLAN WAS “MORE THAN AN OPPORTUNITY FOR HOLDERNESS SCHOOL, IT’S AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THE WHOLE COMMUNITY,” SAYS HEAD OF SCHOOL PHIL PECK. SAM MACOMBER ’11, DARTMOUTH SKI TEAM CAPTAIN: “MITTERSILL CREATES AN EXPERIENCE. EVERYONE IS HERE TO SKI FAST.” TO DATE HOLDERNESS SCHOOL’S TRUSTEES, ALUMNI, AND PARENTS HAVE COME TOGETHER AND CONTRIBUTED NEARLY $1.4 MILLION—INCLUDING ONE ANONYMOUS $250,000 CHALLENGE GIFT—TO A DONOR-DRIVEN INCENTIVE THAT ENSURED THE PROJECT’S MOMENTUM AT A CRITICAL MOMENT. THESE GENEROUS GIFTS WILL COVER THE COST OF THE SNOWMAKING SYSTEM. A GRANT FOR $150,000 FROM THE NORTHERN BORDERS REGIONAL COMMISSION FURTHER CONFIRMED THE IMPORTANCE OF THE PROJECT AS AN ECONOMIC DRIVER AND EXEMPLIFIES THE POWER OF PARTNERSHIPS. ELENA BIRD ’13, FORMER HOLDERNESS RACER: “IT IS A HUGE MOVEMENT FOR EASTERN SKI RACING, BEYOND HOLDERNESS BUT PIONEERED BY THE PARTNERSHIP WITH HOLDERNESS. YOU WILL NEVER KNOW THE BREADTH OF KIDS THIS VENUE WILL SERVE.”

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$143,907.29 WAS GIVEN BY

590 DONORS AND INCLUDED

67 FIRST-TIME GIFTS.

TWELVE PERCENT OF ALL ALUMNI MADE A GIFT. 1988 HAD THE HIGHEST PARTICIPATION RATE

WITH 74% OF THE CLASS MAKING GIFTS

FOR A TOTAL OF $9,202.27.

EIGHT DECADES OF ALUMNI CONTRIBUTED STRETCHING SEVENTY YEARS, FROM 1944–2014. CLASSES WITH THE HIGHEST PARTICIPATION WERE 1988 WITH 74%, 1992 WITH 35%, AND 1978 WITH 26%.

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KELLEY ROBERTS BOGARDUS ’91

FROM MY PERSPECTIVE, IT WAS AN OVERWHELMING SUCCESS,

FREQUENTLY. BUT THIS MADE ME TRULY NOSTALGIC!

AS IT PRECIPITATED EMAILS FROM MY CLASSMATES, MANY OF WHOM I HAVE

SO FUN TO RECONNECT WITH SO MANY. I WORK AT A BOARDING SCHOOL, SO I RELIVE MY HOLDERNESS DAYS

GLAD TO HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO

NOT SPOKEN TO SINCE GRADUATION. INDEED, A SPECIAL DAY FOR ME TO

A GREAT DAY, GREAT SCHOOL, GREAT CAUSE.

CHRIS GUIDER ’76

ALICIA CHABOT P ’16

REMINISCE ABOUT MY DAYS AT HOLDERNESS.

I THOUGHT THE SCHOOL DID A

SAMANTHA WOODBURY DEARBORN ’92

THE WORD IN A HAPPY, FUN WAY!

AT HOLDERNESS.

MAGNIFICENT JOB OF SPREADING THE AMOUNT WON’T BE MUCH, BUT IT IS GIVEN FROM MY HEART.

DEAN MULLAVEY ’48

THE OLDER I GET, THE MORE I REALIZE WHAT A GIFT OUR EXPERIENCE WAS

BILL HAUSER P ’13 ’17 ACROSS THE YEARS, ACROSS THE MILES ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS,

I SEE HOLDERNESS AS AN OASIS OF CIVILITY IN TODAY’S WORLD.

THE IMPORTANCE OF TOGETHER STANDS STRONG.

THOSE LEADING THE SCHOOL SEE IT THE SAME WAY;

MARTHA KESLER (FORMER FACULTY)

OUR JOB IS TO LET THEM SUCCEED.

FEELS REALLY GOOD TO BE DOING SOMETHING USEFUL

JOHN PUTNAM ’75

ALL TOGETHER.

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THE CLASS AGENT PROGRAM COMES TO LIFE! CLASS AGENTS ARE ESSENTIAL AMBASSADORS, CREATING THE BONDS THAT EXTEND OUR COMMUNITY FAR AND WIDE. LAST YEAR, 88 CLASS AGENTS WERE RECRUITED, OR RE-ENERGIZED, PROVIDING LEADERSHIP FOR 64 CLASSES. MANY CLASS AGENTS WERE TRAINED REGIONALLY, AND 98% OF CLASS AGENTS MADE A GIFT.

41 CLASSES (65%) INCREASED GIVING RATES OF PARTICIPATION 38 CLASSES (59%) INCREASED THEIR TOTAL CLASS GIVING

THE HOLDERNESS PROFESSIONAL NETWORK IS BORN THIS YEAR WE LAUNCHED HOLDERNESSCONNECT.ORG, AN INNOVATIVE ONLINE PLATFORM THAT PUTS THE POWER OF CONNECTION IN YOUR HANDS. TO DATE, OVER 500 USERS HAVE JOINED THE HOLDERNESS CONNECT COMMUNITY AND EVERY DAY OUR WORLDWIDE NETWORK GROWS. LOG ONTO HOLDERNESSCONNNECT.ORG.

RECONNECT: FIND AND THEN REMINISCE WITH YOUR CLASSMATES AND MEMBERS OF THE HOLDERNESS SCHOOL COMMUNITY. GIVE BACK: VOLUNTEER YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE TO HELP CURRENT AND FORMER STUDENTS. EXPAND: EXPLORE THE NETWORK TO CONNECT WITH MORE PEOPLE WHO SHARE YOUR INTERESTS. ADVANCE: ADVANCE YOUR PROFESSIONAL NETWORK.

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6909 CLASS OF 1996 REUNION CHALLENGE THE AWARD TO THE REUNION CLASS WITH THE MOST INDIVIDUALS PARTICIPATING IN THE REUNION CHALLENGE WAS THE CLASS OF 1996, WITH TWENTY-FOUR MEMBERS

OF THE CLASS PARTICIPATING.

MILES THE DISTANCE THAT HAN MIN LEE ’05 JOURNEYED FROM SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA TO ATTEND REUNION; HAN RECEIVED THE AWARD FOR THE ALUMNUS WHO TRAVELLED THE FURTHEST.

CLASS OF 1975 CLASS OF 1950 WINS THE AWARD FOR LARGEST GIFT WITH A GENEROUS GIFT OF $48,392.17, THE CLASS OF 1975 RECEIVED THE AWARD FOR RAISING THE LARGEST HOLDERNESS FUND REUNION GIFT.

STILL GOING STRONG THE CLASS OF 1950 WON THE

HIGHEST PARTICIPATION AWARD WITH

40 PERCENT OF THE ALUMNI

MAKING A GIFT TO MARK THEIR SIXTY-FIFTH REUNION.

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KEY: r = five or more consecutive years of

support for the Holderness Fund; † = deceased

CURRENT STUDENTS Sarah Alexander ’ Henry Hall ’ Fletcher Robbins ’ Jake Rosencranz ’ Will Starkey ’

CURRENT PARENTS Anonymous () Mr. John Abrams and Ms. Alison J. Bell P ’ Bruce and Eneida Aguilar P ’ Dr. Edmund P. Alexander P ’ Ms. Ramsey M. Alexander P ’ Ms. Rachel A. Alva P ’ Mr. Sandeep D. Alva P ’ Alden and Emily Anderson P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Michael T. Anderson P ’ Mr. and Mrs. William Antonucci P ’ ’ ’ Mr. and Mrs. T. Neale Attenborough P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Carlos Gonzalez P ’ Mr. and Ms. Bruce Barton P ’ ’ r Mr. David C. Batchelder and Ms. Melissa R. Paly P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bateman 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 Drs. Stuart Braun and Colleen Kelly P ’ Mr. Chandler R. Brill P ’ Mrs. Dorothy Brill P ’ Mr. and Mrs. David C. Caputi P ’ ’ ’ r Ms. Elizabeth H. Carter P ’ ’ Joseph and Ann Casey P ’ ’ r Dr. Dong Hyun Cha and Mrs. Ji Yeon Lee P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Alan J. Chabot P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Walter Chapin P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Chernin P ’ ’

Mr. and Mrs. D. Clarke P ’ Mr. John S. Clifford P ’ ’ Mr. and Mrs. Oswald Cocking P ’ Mr. Craig G. Coleman and Dr. Kristin Coleman P ’ ’ Mr. Craig W. Cullen Jr. and Mrs. Carolyn C. Cullen ’ P ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Cunha P ’ Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Curwen P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Russell G. Cushman ’ P ’ ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas B. Cutler P ’ Mr. Max Dannis and Ms. Linda S. Gatter P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Samuel D. Daume Jr. P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Alwyn R. Dawkins P ’ ’ Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Day P ’ ’ ’ Mr. and Mrs. Peter Dobyns P ’ ’ Mr. John E. Donovan II and Ms. Kara B. Hamill P ’ Mr. and Mrs. E. Porter Eagan P ’ ’ Mr. and Mrs. Paul E. Finn Jr. P ’ Dr. J. Rush Fisher and Dr. Phoebe Fisher P ’ ’ Mr. David Fitzgerald and Dr. Mia Fitzgerald P ’ Mr. and Mrs. David D. Garner P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Steven B. Gewirz P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Alexander L. Gray P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Walter S. Green P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Timothy A. Gudas P ’ ’ Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Hall P ’ ’ r Mr. and Mrs. James B. Hamblin II ’ P ’ ’ r Mr. and Mrs. C. Hagen Harker P ’ ’ Dr. Lee J. Harmatz and Dr. Monica Philipkosky P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Peter G. Hastings II P ’ Mr. and Mrs. William E. Hauser P ’ ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Paul M. Heffernan P ’ Mr. and Mrs. David J. Hepler P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Edward D. Herrick Jr. ’ P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Horner P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Randal Houseman P ’ ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Clark O. Houx P ’ ’ Mr. and Mrs. Christopher P. Hutchinson P ’

Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Hyland P ’ ’ Mr. Ye Jiang and Mrs. Li Wang P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Bruce R. Johansson P ’ Cort and Suzanne Jones P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Patrick S. Jones P ’ ’ r Ms. Kimberly Kelly P ’ ’ Dr. Kwan Mo Kim and Mrs. Kyung Shin Choi P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Sam E. Kinney Jr. P ’ ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Bernard H. Knighton P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Joseph G. Lacasse P ’ Mr. Brian S. Lash P ’ ’ Mr. and Mrs. John C. Lin P ’ ’ Dr. John Y. Liu and Ms. Helen X. Q. Hua P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Brady Lum P ’ Mr. Roderick A. MacLeod P ’ Mr. and Mrs. George C. Macomber Jr. P ’ ’ ’ r Mr. Kurt H. Magnus and Ms. Emily A. Magnus ’ P ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Philip W. Mason P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Darrell Matthews P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Greg Mayes P ’ Mr. Kevin J. McGuire P ’ G. Hayden and Ruth Turner McLaughlin P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Sean P. McLaughlin P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Edward Meau P ’ ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Steven C. Merrill P ’ ’ ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Alexander B. Montague P ’ Dr. and Mrs. Todd M. Mosenthal P ’ ’ Ms. Lisa Mure P ’ ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey L. O’Hara P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Michael R. O’Reilly P ’ Mr. Bruce Paro P ’ William and Maura Perkins P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Pfenninger P ’ ’ r Mrs. Claude Pichette P ’ Mr. and Mrs. William J. Pratt Jr. P ’ Mr. and Mrs. William L. Prickett ’ P ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Stuart A. Randle P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Ken Ransford P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Robert Remien P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Andrew M. Reynolds P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Richard Robinson P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Dana Rosencranz P ’ ’ r

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

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PARENTS OF ALUMNI Anonymous Mr. Fletcher W. Adams ’ P ’ r Dr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Adams P ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Vanderpoel Adriance III P ’ ’ GP ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Theodore B. Alfond P ’ ’ ’ r Mr. John R. Allbee ’ P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Joel D. Almquist P ’ Ms. Jennifer M. Alosa P ’ Mrs. Barbara C. Anderson P ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Armstrong P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Peter A. Baker ’ P ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Alan H. Banister P ’ r

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Mr. and Mrs. Warren C. Cook P ’ ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Sewell H. Corkran P ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Rodney K. Corson P ’ ’ Dr. and Mrs. James L. Cousins Jr. ’ P ’ Mr. Thomas Cowie and Ms. Paula Tracy Cowie P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Eugene J. Coyle Jr. P ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Francis A. Crane P ’ ’ ’ r Mr. and Mrs. James H. Crook Jr. P ’ Mr. and Mrs. James Cruickshank P ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Richard Curran P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Bart C. Cushing P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Christopher L. Cushing ’ P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth L. Cutler P ’ r Mrs. Ione Cutter P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Daigneault P ’ ’ ’ r The Rev. Randolph Dales and Ms. Marilyn Tyler P ’ ’ ’ r Mr. and Mrs. John Dalton P ’ r Mr. Staige Davis P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Steven Davis P ’ Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Davis P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Claude Desjardins P ’ r Dr. and Mrs. Cameron K. Dewar P ’ ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Vincent DiNapoli P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Frederic P. Dodge P ’ ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Shaun K. Donnellan P ’ ’ ’ ’ The Rev. and Mrs. John C. Donovan P ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Harrison Drinkwater P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Edward X. Droste P ’ Mr. and Mrs. George P. Dulac P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Paul Elkins P ’ Dr. and Mrs. Roger H. Emerson Jr. P ’ ’ Mr. and Mrs. David Erdman P ’ Mr. Frederic P. Erdman and Ms. Cindy Cole P ’ ’ ’ r Ms. Zoe Erdman P ’ ’ ’ r Dr. and Mrs. Nathan Anthony M. Estes III P ’ Dr. and Mrs. Donald M. Ettelson P ’ ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Evans P ’ ’ r Mr. and Mrs. William H. Everett P ’ r Mr. and Mrs. John P. Faiella Jr. P ’ Deborah and Peter Fauver ’ P ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Mark D. Finnegan ’ P ’ ’ ’ r

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Mr. and Mrs. Preston S. Parish P ’ ’ ’ GP ’ ’ ’ r Dr. and Mrs. J. Edward Perreault GP ’ ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Edward L. Quinn P ’ GP ’ ’ Ms. Sharon N. Regal GP ’ ’ Ms. Mona Roberts GP ’ ’ Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Rowe Jr. P ’ GP ’ r Mr. Joseph D. Sargent GP ’ ’ ’ † r Mrs. Mary T. Sargent GP ’ ’ ’ r Mr. and Mrs. F.A. Seamans GP ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Sheffield Jr. GP ’ ’ Mr. James Shipton GP ’ ’ ’ r Mrs. Dorothy M. Smith P ’ ’ GP ’ ’ ’ r Janet St. Onge GP ’ Mr. and Mrs. Bayne A. Stevenson GP ’ Mrs. Phyllis Walker P ’ ’ GP ’ † Mr. and Mrs. Ogden White Jr. GP ’ ’ ’ Ms. Jane Whitmore GP ’

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Mr. Tyler L. Lewis Mr. John C. Lin P ’ ’ Mrs. Marilee C. Lin P ’ ’ Mrs. Stacy S. Lopes Ms. Emily A. Magnus ’ P ’ r Mr. Franz C. Nicolay P ’ ’ ’ ’ Dr. Lewis J. Overaker Mrs. Lauraine G. Paquin Ms. Jane E. Pauley Mr. R. P. Peck P ’ r Mrs. Robin A. Peck P ’ r Mrs. Tobi A. Pfenninger P ’ ’ r Ms. Monique Robichaud P ’ ’ Mr. Andrew P. Sheppe ’ Mrs. Judith B. Solberg r Mr. Stephen Solberg r Ms. Jini R. Sparkman Mr. Jeremy K. Stubbs Mrs. Sarah T. Svindland Ms. Nancy Thurrell P ’ ’ Mrs. Kathy Weymouth P ’ ’ ’ r The Rev. Richard C. Weymouth ’ P ’ ’ ’ r Ms. Courtney Williamson P ’ Ms. Elizabeth M. Wolf Mrs. Amy Woods r Mrs. Gayle E. Youngman

EXTENDED FAMILY Anonymous Ms. Jill Alfond Benevity Ms. Diana Brewer r Mrs. Virginia Burnham r Mrs. Judith E. Caldwell r Mr. and Mrs. David Cochran The Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire r Mr. and Mrs. Wilson C. Everhart Jr. r Mrs. Kathryn Forbush Mr. Robert Prescott and Ms. Pamela Gray Prescott PhD The Haartz Corporation r Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Haertl Ms. Sandra Hobbs Mrs. Seth P. Holcombe Dr. and Mrs. Howard Holderness Jr. r Miss Margaret T. Keith Mr. and Mrs. William Kietzman r

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FOUNDATIONS Anonymous () Acorn Foundation r amg Charitable Gift Foundation Barbara Bradley Baekgaard Family Foundation Baugh Foundation, Inc. r Bernard & Sarah Gewirz Foundation, Inc. Casey Family Foundation The Columbus Foundation and Affiliated Organizations r Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston, Inc. Ethel D. Colket Foundation The William F. Connell Charitable Trust The Lee F. & Phoebe A. Driscoll Foundation The Andrew J. Eder Family Foundation, Inc. Evergreen Foundation, Inc. r Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund r Fiduciary Charitable Foundation Firehole Foundation r Gartner GE United Way Campaign The Glass Foundation Inc. Hanover Insurance Group Foundation Harweb Foundation r

The Ulf B. & Elizabeth C. Heide Foundation Charitable Trust Jacob L. and Lillian Holtzmann Foundation r The Jarabek Family Charitable Foundation Kinsley Family Foundation The Seymour H. Knox Foundation, Inc. Lovett/Woodsum Family Charitable Foundation, Inc. Lubrano Family Charitable Foundation The Lunder Foundation The Maine Community Foundation, Inc. r Marr Charity Trust Fund r Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust The Noboru Murakami and Hiroko Murakami Foundation National Philanthropic Trust The New Hampshire Charitable Foundation The New York Community Trust Paine Family Trust r Preston S. and Barbara J. Parish Foundation Princeton Area Community Foundation The Redmond Family Foundation Robert J. Rohr, III and Mary C. Rohr Charitable Trust r Schwab Charitable Fund Sheffield Foundation Silicon Valley Community Foundation Starkey Foundation sts Foundation r Sweet Peas Foundation The T. Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving The Tankersley Family Foundation Tankersley Family ltd A Partnership Target Toocap Foundation The U.S. Charitable Gift Trust The van Otterloo Family Foundation r The Wallace Family Foundation Tom Wilson Foundation Inc. United Way of Rhode Island United Way of the Capital Region Vanguard Charitable Vermont Community Foundation Wen Foundation, Inc. Wurster Family Foundation

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MATCHING COMPANIES

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

Gifts Received in Honor of Mr. Stephen Solberg

Adobe Aetna Foundation, Inc. r Antonucci Insurance Services, Inc. Apple Inc. Bank of America Charitable Foundation r Benevity MG Chevron HumanKind Employee Engagement Fund Coach The Coca-Cola Foundation Matching Gifts Program Covidien Employee Matching Gift Program Dell Employee Giving Program Deutsche Bank The Dorsey & Whitney Foundation r Edison International r GE Foundation r Goldman, Sachs & Company HawkPartners LLC ibm Matching Grants Program ing Financial Services llc mfs Investment Management Matching Gift Program Microsoft Corporation Netscout Systems Company r nyse Euronext Foundation Inc. Patagonia The Prudential Foundation r Qualcomm Matching Grant Program Raytheon Company Red Wing Shoe Company Foundation r Rockwell Automation Scopia Capital llc Shell Oil Company Foundation Takeda Pharmaceuticals North America, Inc. tiaa-cref Employee Giving Campaign Travelers Companies, Inc. r UBS Matching Gift Program Wells Fargo Educational Matching Gift Program r

Mr. and Mrs. Roger Beutner GP ’

Anonymous r Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Caldwell r

Gifts Received in Honor of Mr. James E. Brewer, II

Mr. and Mrs. Christopher P. Zak ’

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

Gifts Received in Honor of Miss Emily E. Clifford ’15

Mr. and Mrs. Eijk A. d. M. van Otterloo P ’ r

Ms. Elizabeth H. Carter P ’ ’ Gifts Received in Honor of Gifts Received in Honor of Mr. Parker A. Densmore ’15

Mr. and Mrs. Philip Feinberg GP ’

Mr. and Mrs. David C. Caputi P ’ ’ ’ r

Gifts Received in Honor of Mr. Thomas Eccleston III

Gifts Received in Honor of Ms. Alexis S. Wruble ’95

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Marr

Mr. Bernhardt K. Wruble and Dr. Jill Wruble P ’ r

Gifts Received in Honor of Mr. Jack H. Gewirz ’16

The Rev. Cannon M. Hamilton and Ms. Eleanore Raven-Hamilton GP ’

MEMORIALS Gifts Received in Memory of Mr. Theron C. Abbey

Gifts Received in Honor of the Retirement of

Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Armknecht ’

Mr. James Warren Hammond

Mr. Doug Harris and Mrs. Katherine W. Harris ’ r

Gifts Received in Memory of Dr. Francis J. Aguilar

Gifts Received in Honor of Ms. Jessica D. Hinman-Maher ’98

Gifts Received in Memory of Mr. David W. Barrows ’82

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

Mr. and Mrs. Mark E. Cavanaugh ’ r

Gifts Received in Honor of Mr. Tyler L. Lewis and

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

Gillian Aguilar GP ’

Mr. Martin Gibson and Ms. Tracy Schrans P ’

Mr. Andrew C. Everett ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Zock P ’ ’ ’ ’ r

Gifts Received in Honor of Mr. Aiden D. O’Leary ’01

Gifts Received in Memory of Mrs. Barbara T. Bruner

Ms. Marjory B. O’Leary P ’

Mr. and Mrs. Bradford C. Bruner ’

Gifts Received in Honor of Dr. Lewis J. Overaker

Gifts Received in Memory of Ms. Thalia Christiansen

Mr. Matt J. Reynolds Jr. ’ and Ms. Jennifer Nava Ide r

Ms. Christine R. Louis ’ r

Ms. Renee Lewis

Gifts Received in Memory of Mr. Michael D’Amico ’03 Gifts Received in Honor of Mr. Jonathan B. Pistey ’93

Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Pistey P ’ r Gifts Received in Honor of Mr. William F. Prickett ’15

TRIBUTES

Mrs. Louise T. Loening P ’ ’ GP ’

Gifts Received in Honor of Mr. Bruce Barton

Gifts Received in Honor of Mr. William L. Prickett ’81 P’15

Mrs. Jane Ramsay

Mrs. Louise T. Loening P ’ ’ GP ’

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The Rev. Richard C. Weymouth ’70 and Mrs. Kathy Weymouth

Mr. Casey M. Carr ’ Ms. Brenna R. Fox ’ Mr. Greg Monaco and Mrs. Blair Monaco ’ Mr. Brendan B. Murphy ’ and Ms. Etifwork Y. Ahmed r Ms. Mary Anne Murray-Carr P ’ r Gifts Received in Memory of Mr. Jonathan M. Dunbar ’79

Mr. Michael D. O’Connor ’ and Mrs. Heidi O’Connor ’ P ’ r

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Ms. Nicole Ash ’ Mr. James S. Bolton ’ Mr. Thomas Dearborn and Mrs. Samantha B. Dearborn ’ Mr. John Harris and Mrs. Jessie H. Harris ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Jed D. Hoyer ’ Mr. and Mrs. Andrew S. Katchen ’ r Mr. Amos C. Kober ’ Ms. Dyan M. Lattanzio ’ Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey J. Myler ’ r Mr. James R. Norton ’ and Ms. Wende Valentine Mr. Paolo R. Wieser and Mrs. Kelly Wieser ’

Mr. Christopher M. Rodgers ’ r Mr. Christopher Talbert ’ Gifts Received in Memory of Mr. John S. Manley ’42

Mrs. Phyllis R. Manley Gifts Received in Memory of Ms. Rowena D. Meier

Mr. and Mrs. Christopher T. Meier Mr. and Mrs. Kevin E. Meier ’

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

Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey J. Myler ’ r Gifts Received in Memory of Mr. Stewart S. Pease ’35

Ms. Sarah Pease Gifts Received in Memory of Mr. Edward (Ned) F. Gillette ’63

The Redmond Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Richard H. Stowell ’ P ’ r Gifts Received in Memory of Mr. David P. Goodwin ’37

Lt. Col. and Mrs. Frederick E. Roys ’ Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey P. Seifert ’ Mr. Scott W. Sirles ’ Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Smith ’ Mr. Luther P. Turmelle ’ and Ms. Joan D. Shapiro ’ Mr. and Mrs. Donald G. Whittemore ’ Mr. Andrew M. Wilson ’ † r

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

Mr. Oliver J. Chapman and Ms. Kim W. Speckman ’ Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Zock P ’ ’ ’ ’ r

Anonymous Mr. and Mrs. David Cochran The New Hampshire Charitable Foundation

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

Gifts Received in Memory of Mr. Donald C. Hagerman

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

Mr. and Mrs. David S. Hagerman ’ r

Mr. Dan D. Shin ’

Gifts Received in Memory of Mr. John S. Hill ’47

Gifts Received in Memory of Mr. William M. Summers ’51

Mrs. Rosemary L. See

Ms. Christine R. Louis ’ r

Mrs. Paula M. Simmons ’

Mr. Gerald D. Carter ’ Mr. and Mrs. Steven Davis P ’ Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Mahon Jr. ’ Mr. Jacob B. Manoukian ’ Mr. Andrew A. Marshall ’ and Mrs. Maura K. Marshall ’ r Mr. Ian M. Nesbitt ’ r Gifts Received in Memory of Ms. Cheryl L. Walsh ’88

Mr. and Mrs. Nathan J. Foran ’ r Ms. Nicole Friederichs and Ms. Elizabeth R. Pierce ’ r Mr. Peter M. Kennedy and Mrs. Sage H. Kennedy ’ Mr. and Mrs. Alexander C. MacCormick ’ r Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Mahon Jr. ’ Mr. and Mrs. Hans C. Schemmel ’ r Gifts Received in Memory of Mr. Warren J. Witherell

Mr. and Mrs. William W. Niles III ’ r Gifts Received in Memory of Mrs. Alice Jane Hinman

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

Mr. and Ms. Bruce Barton P ’ ’ r

Dr. Thomas J. Swift P ’ r

Gifts Received in Memory of Mr. John C. Kelleher III

Gifts Received in Memory of Mr. Sanford M. Treat III ’78

Mr. Joseph P. Kelleher ’

Mr. and Mrs. John B. Alden ’ Mr. and Mrs. G. Paul Bozuwa ’ Mr. and Mrs. Christopher L. Cushing ’ P ’ Mr. Blaise deSibour III ’ Mr. and Mrs. Bruce J. Edgerly ’ Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Goodhue ’ Mr. and Mrs. Judson D. Hale Jr. ’ Mr. Mitchell D. Kamarck ’ and Mrs. UnJu Paik ’ Mr. David M. Lamb Jr. ’ Ms. Cynthia A. Makris ’ r Mr. Jay W. Mead ’ and Ms. Edie Farwell ’ Mr. and Mrs. David P. Parker ’ Mr. Peter C. Quinn ’

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

Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey J. Myler ’ r Gifts Received in Memory of Mr. Weston E. Lea ’03

Mr. Casey M. Carr ’ Mr. Thomas E. Child ’ Ms. Brenna R. Fox ’ Mr. Greg Monaco and Mrs. Blair Monaco ’ Mr. Brendan B. Murphy ’ and Ms. Etifwork Y. Ahmed r Ms. Mary Anne Murray-Carr P ’ r

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EVENT HOSTS Barbara Baekgaard GP ’ ’ Chris ’ and Karen Dempsey Carney r Bruce and Laurie Chalmers P ’ r Jim ’ and Katie Chalmers r Tracy McCoy Gillette ’ r Bob and Joanie Hall P ’ ’ r Bev LaFoley P ’ ’ ’ Robin and Phil Peck P ’ r Tom ’ and Tracy Phillips P ’ ’ r Bernard and Sue Pucker Jeffrey and Nancy Randall P ’ r Alex Ray Andrew ’ and Tisha Sawyer P ’ Charlie ’ and Merrill Woodworth

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Bigelow Green r Doug Hamilton r Frank Hammond Chico Laird r Dave Luce Doug Rennie Dave Wise r

Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld Brud Folger John Jameson Peter Kingston r Gardner Lewis r Dick Meyer r Tom Prescott

1940

1951

1957

Jack Barton r

Dick Warner †

Fred Carter r Dick Daitch Bill Summers † r Terry Weathers r

1944

1952

John Skeele r

Lars Hansen r Jay Harris r Bob Keating r Peter Poole

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

1953

1958

Carl Hoagland r Elvin Kaplan Pete Robertson r John Robinson r

John Bergeron r Jim Collins r Tim Dewart r Tony Dyer r John Greenman r Charlie Kellogg † r Mike Kingston r Bruce Leddy r George Pransky Doug Rand Brooke Thomas Jon Wales r

1935

Jim McKee r 1938

1943

1945

Harry Emmons r Mac Jacoby 1946

Joe Massik 1947

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

Rik Clark r John Codman Tom Loemker Dean Mullavey

1954

Rick Carter r Berton Chillson r Dewey Dumaine r King Hemming † Brad Langmaid r Bill Lofquist r Wendell Stephenson

1959 1955

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

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

1950

1956

Patrick Brill r

Bob Armknecht

1949

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

John Southard Buster Welch r

1963

1960

Loren Berry r Phil Brooks Ross Deachman Alan Dewart Brian Dewart r Dick Gardner Peter Macdonald r Bill Niles r Len Richards r Gerry Shyavitz Howard Spencer Charley Witherell r

Flash Allen r Peter Chapman r Joe Downs r Jim Drummond Steve Gregg r Nick Hadgis David Hagerman r Dick Joyce George LeBoutillier r Tom McIlvain r George McNeil Jeff Milne r David Pope Gary Richardson r Alan Sayer r George Textor r

1961

Tom Brown Rick Churchill Win Fuller r Bob Hall John Holley r Lee Katzenbach r Peter Keene Bob Keller Peter O’Connor r Dudley Rice Bill Seaver r Mark Shub Ray Wilson

1964

1962

1965

Free Allen r Bill Barker r Chas Bradley Dave Floyd r Jim Gardner r Bruce Hauck Monty Meigs Dave Putnam r David Soule r John Swift r Bruce Upton Bill Wells Eric Werner r Pete Willcox

Bro Adams r Tom Butler Bill Carter Bruce Crane Peter Fauver r Judge Godfrey Terry Jacobs Jim McGill Tom Miller Bill Morton Dave Nichols Ren Nichols † r Cleve Patterson Randy Randlett Charlie Reigeluth r

Sandy Alexander r Bill Baxter Barry Chambers Jeff Hinman r Jeff Lathrop Bill McCollom r Terry Morse r Dan Redmond r Jim Ricker Sam Stout r Dick Stowell r Woody Thompson r

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Jim Rosenblum Si Seiter Kevin Wyckoff r 1966

Bob Childs r Greg Connors r Tom Doyle r Stephen Foster r Doug Griswold 1967

David Cumming Luke Dowley r Jamie Hollis r Steve Worcester 1968

Anonymous Bruce Flenniken Charles French r Steve Hirshberg r Jon Howe r Tim Mabee Jim Stearns r Jack Taylor r Bruce Thompson 1969

Tim Bontecou Craig Colgate Jack Copeland Bill Foot r Stan Jackson Jonathan Swann 1970

Anonymous r Steve Ashley Charlie Bass Ted Coates Jim Cousins David Donahue r Alan Dorman Jeremy Foley r Dan Gregory Kirk Hinman r Jon Norton r

Peter Prime Joe Spaulding Gerry Weston Rich Weymouth r Peter White r Peter Wiswell

1974

Rob Hier Jeff Little Roy Madsen r Bill Phippen Ged Smith David Taylor r Rick Wellman r

Mike Coffin r Duane Ford r Bill Guild Josh Hancock r Douglas Lowerre Walter Malmquist r Steve Morse Piper Orton r Chuck Reilly Dave Rossetter Jack Thomas Charles Wakely Ben White Chris Williams

1972

1975

Tom Cooper John Elder r Bill Emerson Will Graham r Eric Haartz r Gary Hagler r Chuck Kaplan 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

Perry Babcock Jay Butler Chris Carney r Tom Carney Mike Conway r Larry Diggs Terry French r Mac Jackson Ted McElhinny Tom Phillips r John Putnam Mathers Rowley Dave Rust Gregg Sage Jack Sanderson Ken Sowles r Guy Van Pelt George Weaver

1971

1973

Dick Conant 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 Peter Terry

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Tom Armstrong r Henry Bliss Charlie Bolling Tori Bullen Paul Dean Bob Garrison Chris Guider Craig Houghton Mike Lynch Steve Mackintosh Ben Mathes

Jane Sargent Mears Dave Phippen Will Pingree r Mike Robinson r Kim Speckman Brad Tanner Jesse Tucker

Craig Antonides Rob Bacon Bradford Bruner Ben Campbell Jody Collins Dave Dewey r Peter Grant r Jim Hamblin r Michael Kraft

Bob Golden Cynthia Makris r Cullen Morse r Will Neff Kris Van Curan Nordblom r Pete Noyes r Heidi Hammond O’Connor r Mike O’Connor r Dexter Paine r Jay Pingree r Ian Sanderson r Andy Sawyer Jeff Scowen David Slaughter r Jim Stringfellow r Mike Warren

1978

1980

John Alden Bob Biddle Paul Bozuwa Scott Brown Chris Cushing Blaise deSibour Bruce Edgerly Chris Goodhue J.D. Hale Hal Hawkey r Mitch Kamarck David Lamb Jay Mead David Parker Peter Quinn Fred Roys Jeff Seifert Scott Sirles Prescott Smith Luther Turmelle Don Whittemore Andrew Wilson † r Margo Farley Woodall

Jeff Boal Russell Cushman r Jack Dawley David Reed r Don Smith r Skip Strong

1979

1982

Hratch Astarjian Tim Brook Mark Finnegan r

Betsy Farny Baur Stephanie Sandler Bonavire

1977

1981

Peter Baker r Bill Baskin r Andy Clutz r Win Idle Chris Little Christine Louis r Chip Mahoney Sarah Jankey Medlin r Mike Murchie r Will Prickett r Andy Rogerson r Kevin Rowe r Brian Rutledge r Hilary Frost Warner David Wood r

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Frank Bonsal r Charlie Brown Mark Cavanaugh r Joe Cerutti Lisa Weeks Clute Peter Coolidge r Pat Driscoll Miles Glascock Burgie Howard Ben Lewis Joe Miles r Susan Levin Paine r Chris Pesek Susan Fine Taylor Andrew Vetterlein Mary Ann Zock 1983

Tippy Blish Chris Del Col r Jamey Gallop r Derrick Hill Chris Hopkins John Leggat Val Kamarck Lithgow Peggy Lamb Merrens Stephanie Paine r Jennifer Smith Schiffman r Willie Stump 1984

Joe Barbour Doug Davis Jemma Craig Driscoll Mich Dupre r David Finch r Dilcia Pena Hill Steve Lunder Zach Martin Ernie Milani Eric Prime r Peter Radasch r Paula Morrison Simmons Greg Thulander Heidi Gatz Weeks Craig Westling

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1985

1987

Nat Barker Angus Christie r Missy Wakely Christie r David Considine Vanda Lewis Dyson Keith Eaton Braden Edwards Ted Fine Kathy Keller Garfield r Allyn Hallisey Elizabeth Heide r Jeff Kaufmann Martha Kirby Katsu Nakamura Fred Paxton Rob Rumsey Ian Sinclair r Poppy Staub r Dan Taffe r Chuck Taylor Bob Zock r

John Alfond Polly Pratt Boeschenstein Cricket Keleher Braun Carolyn Colket Cullen r Todd Herrick Suzie Jacinthe Stan Jackson r Tim Lesko Toby Lewis Kathryn Lubrano Robinson Andy Twombly r Dan Webster r Brett Weisel r Dix Wheelock r

1986

Bill Clough Kristin Washburn Covert r Sara Madden Curran r Jenny Ellis Sym Gates Bob Gregg Sue Barriere Handfield Owen Hyland Caroline Bloch Jones Lee Fuller Lawrason Bill Macy r Laura Cooper Page r Greg Redmond Jake Reynolds r Matt Reynolds r Blake Swift r Mike Taffe Ellyn Paine Weisel r Molly Adriance Whitcomb r Chris Zak

1988

Eddie Anderson Will Antebi Dean Bellissimo Elizabeth Brickman Lisa Hand Cicero Jen Stewart Crosby Jess Dion r Chris Doggett r Hannah Beck Doubleday Peter Driscoll Renee Dupre r Jake Eismeier Geordie Elkins Scott Esposito Jason Evans r Tom Fletcher Nate Foran r Liz Ganem Greg Gaskill Sohier Hall r Lee Hanson r Jake Hare Chris Hayes Mike Hillegass r Jenny Holden r Todd Holmes r Brett Jones r Chris Keeler Sage Chandler Kennedy Drew Kesler

Rob Kinsley Chris Klein Pam Lehmberg Alex MacCormick Tim Magee Emily Adriance Magnus r Tom Mahon Chip Martin Julie Wood Matthews r Erika Ludtke McGoldrick Will Northrop r Jeff Nuckols Mark Oliver Ali Christie Paysee Elizabeth Pierce r Paula Lillard Preschlack Jason Regan Mark Richards Rob Sarvis r Hans Schemmel Matt Schonwald Jenny Alfond Seeman r David Smail r Nina Bradley Smallhorn r Lauren O’Brien Smith Chris Spahn Charlie Staples Chris Stewart r Carl Swenson r Erik Tuveson r Steve Walker David Warren Peter Webber Karen Woodbury 1989

Lauren Parkhill Adey r Chris Bither Amanda Black r Ward Blanch Nina Barker Brogna Chris Davenport r Shields Day r Christy Wood Donovan Jennie Legg Gabel Meg St. John Gally r Tracy McCoy Gillette r Brad Greenwood r

Jen Walker Hemmen Alix Rosen Hong Nikki Kimball Todd Maynard r Sarah Trainor Pflaum Jen Comstock Reed Jen Murphy Robison Ben Spiess Sara deLima Tansill Te Tiffany Heather Marcroft Vitella 1990

Kat Alfond r Dave Colleran r Peter Colpitts Pepper deTuro r Courtney Fleisher Lance Galvin Andrea Hamlin-Levin r Tegan Hamilton Hayunga Caroline Clutz Keeney Megan Sheehan Kristiansen Miguel Martin Ginger Reoch Aaron Woods 1991

Kelley Roberts Bogardus Mike Brogna Rice Bryan Leah Merrey Burdett Ashley Dwinell Clapp Brendon Donnellan Caroline Fentress O’Donnell Kris Graton Fields Jon Hatch Paul Laflam Serena Black Martin Brooke Moran Becca Anderson Morrison r Yasuna Murakami r Michael O’Keefe Terra Reilly Keri Dole Renganathan

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Nici Ash Nellie Chandler Bailey Jamie Bolton Kay Bruns Callari Sam Woodbury Dearborn Rick Eccleston Thad Foote Jen Fournier Hugh Griffiths Devie Hamlen r Jess Colby Harris Joe Howard Jed Hoyer Andy Katchen r Heidi Hamilton Kerko Jamie Klopp r Amos Kober Meg Lattanzio Nick Leonard Liz Lyman Andy Martin Ryan McPherson Fritz Muench r Akira Murakami r Jake Norton Drew Palmer Jesse Perkins Ken Pike Lizbie Sawyer Porter Krissy Pozatek Lincoln Sise Eric Thielscher r Stu Wales r Kelly Mullen Wieser 1993

Megan Flynn r Lindsay Dewar Fontana Katie McQuilkin Garnett Taryn Darling Hill Schuyler Perry r Emily Wenzel Reis Ginny Kingman Schreiber Kate McIlvain Smith

Asania Smith r Adam Sullivan Jerome Thomas Brandon Wagner

Juley Perkins Sadler Gasper Sekelj Andrew Tankersley Brian Werner

1996

1998

Sam Bass Bunge Cook Carrie Emerson Davey Becky Dion Kendra Cargill Epstein T.G. Gallaudet Dan Harrigan Ramey Harris-Tatar Liz Hogan Matt Kendall r Peter LaCasse r Beth Lambert Rogan Lechthaler Kelly Cornish McConnell Jason Myler r Nina Perkins Newman Josh Povec Rick Richardson r Pete Scoville John Spiess Kate Stahler Starrett Melissa Barker Tamplin Sander van Otterloo r Dave Webb r

Carolyn Campbell Alison Megroz Chadbourne r Augusta Riehle Comey Tim Davidson Tim Duffy Bjorn Franson r Joe Graceffa Lydia Griffin Katie Waltz Harris r Amanda Knox Hoffman Ryan LaFoley Justin Martin r Kevin Meier Nathalie Milbank Nolte r Field Pickering r Sam Daigneault Rhatigan Will Richardson r Heather Pierce Roy r Trina Hosmer Saxe Graham Seiter Stacey Eder Smith Bo Surdam r Jay Tankersley Koren Cargill Wall

Hacker Burr Jim Chalmers r Alexis Griffin Collins Terry Connell r Sarah Crane r Canute Dalmasse r Allison Faiella Julia Fairbank Katy Gannon Adam Goldberg r Tara Walker Hamer Jim Jung Mirte Mallory Russ McIlvain Eric Mueller r Hilary Patzer Dew Wallace

1995

1997

Bri Adams r Henry Adams r Cil Bloomfield Matt Daigneault r Abbey DeRocker r Leandra Collier Fremont-Smith Hope Gaston Laura Hanrahan r Sanna McCoy Jessie Morton Brit Fairman Munsterteiger Monica Palmgren Dan Shin

Anonymous r Erik Bass Matt Goldberg r Andy Humphrey Joe Kelleher Elizabeth Meck Knight Kris Langetieg Andrew Marshall Maura Kearney Marshall Andrew Miller Megan Nicolay Sam Pope Putney Haley Pyles r Allison Seymour Reilly Dennis Roberts

Carsten Steffen Theo Doughty Torchio Tommy Valeo r Brooks Wales Kevin Zifcak r 1994

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Chris Ryan Mike Schnurr Andrew Sheppe Jake Spaulding r Sully Sullivan Tyler Therriault Heidi Webb r RC Whitehouse 2001

Jennifer Crane r Baer Denniston Kellan Florio r Amanda FrenchGreenwood Karyn Hoepp Jennings Evan Kornack Adam Lavallee r Ira Marvin Liz Norton Patrick Regan r Joy Domin Southworth 2002

1999

Anonymous Tom Child Tim Connell r Kathleen Blauvelt Kime Robbie King Devon Douglas Leahy Emilie Lee Quentin McDowell Page Connolly Minshall Shahin Nemazee Kim Racine Colin Rodgers Sara Roitman Kate Richardson Surdam Neely Wakeman Joel Yarmon r 2000

Tim Barnhorst Hedda Burnett r Jonathan Campbell Ted Finnerty Jason Rowe

Anonymous Melissa Adams r Joel Bradley Ave Cook r Kerry Douglas Andrew Everett r Maddie Rappoli Fiumara Ramsay Hill Chris Rodgers r Carrie Smith Channing Weymouth 2003

Matt Burzon Casey Carr Brenna Fox Neal Frei r Kara Herlihy Wyatt Lewis Dave Madeira Linden Mallory Brendan Murphy r Amy Laverack Nordblom Nate Parker

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Nick Payeur r Robin Stefanik r Ashley Currier Trainor 2004

Geoff Calver r Dave Campbell Casey Carroll Marina Chiasson Mattie Ford DiNapoli Joy Erdman Larkin r Blair Weymouth Monaco Todd Nordblom Allie O’Connell Jenn Reilly

Tory Hayssen Kelley Keohan Kristin Keohan Ben Kirtland Betsy Laurin Ben Mitchell-Lewis Ben Motley Hilary Nichols Anders Nordblom Lucy Randall Anne Richardson Jeff Rudberg Nicholas Schoeder Jesse Straus Ben Trook CJ Vincent

2005

Chris Blaine Jenn Calver Gerald Carter Paul Cocchiaro Caitlin Connelly Cooper r Willie Ford Lauren Frei r Brie Keefe Jay Larrere Becky Millson Kathleen Crane Mitchell Brendan O’Riordan Jaime Pauley Emily Sampson Emma Schofield r Stanley Smith Chris Talbert Susan Taylor Mike Tucker Jamie Wallace r 2006

Dorian Bakogiannis Jay Bladon Carlie Bristow Colin Edge Brian Gamble Casey Gilman Krista Glencross Tai Haluszka Sharlyn Harper

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2007

Scottie Alexander Reed Branton Arla Casselman Phoebe Erdman Tyler Gosselin Annie Hanson Taylor James Jamie Leake Kourtney Brim Martin r Stephen Martin Tanner Mathison Sarah Morrison r Betsy O’Leary Ben Tyler Kelly Walsh 2008

Annie Carney Brittany Dove John Duhamel Landry Frei r Baird Meem Beckett Noyes Hannah O’Brien Stephen Rudberg 2009

Hadley Bergh Cody Bohonnon Lane Curran

Megan Currier Lina Encalada Sumner Ford Chris Grilk Dave Grilk Toby Harriman Laney Hayssen Tenley Malmquist Jake Manoukian Emily Marvin Jimmy Mathews Jake McPhee Ian Nesbitt r James O’Leary Meredith Peck Alli Robbins Sophia Schwartz Abby Thompson George Weaver 2010

Abby Alexander Dillon Corkran Ivan Delic Brian Friedman Nick Parisi Gabbie Raffio Ashby Sussman Aubrey Tyler 2011

Radvile Autukaite Madde Burnham Cecily Cushman Mandy Engelhardt Alex Gardiner Emily Hayes Carson Houle Paige Kozlowski Sam Macomber Jamie McNulty Charlotte Noyes Cole Phillips Emily Starer Margaret Thibadeau Jaclyn Vernet Klaus Vitzthum

2012

Austin Baum Gavin Bayreuther Ari Bourque Josie Brownell Maggie Caputi Hannah Halsted Matthew Kinney Haley Mahar Carly Meau Kristina Micalizzi Nick Renzi Ryan Rosencranz Connor Smith Alex Trujillo 2013

Michael Finnegan Stepper Hall Olivia Leatherwood Alex Lehmann Francis Miles Jesse Ross Max Sturges 2014

Chance Wright Ezra Cushing Tram Dao Celeste Holland Clark Macomber Eliana Mallory Garrett Phillips Allie Renzi Lea Rice Mikaela Wall 2015

Rhyan Leatherwood 2016

Chapin Leatherwood 2017

Jake Renzi

CLASS AGENTS Mike Kingston ’ r

Cushman Andrews ’ r Buster Welch ’ r Gerry Shyavitz ’ r John Holley ’ r Mark Shub ’ David Hagerman ’ r George LeBoutillier ’ r George Textor ’ r Jim Ricker ’ r Jim Rosenblum ’ Jon Norton ’ r Peter Prime ’ Chris Latham ’ r Sam Osborne ’ Tim Scott ’ r Walter Malmquist ’ r Jay Butler ’ John Putnam ’ Bob Garrison ’ Margo Farley Woodall ’ Hratch Astarjian ’ Matt Upton ’ Bill Baskin ’ Christine Louis ’ r Lisa Weeks Clute ’ Chris Pesek ’ Susan Fine Taylor ’ Joe Barbour ’ Angus Christie ’ r Fred Paxton ’ Ian Sinclair ’ r Lee Fuller Lawrason ’ r Carolyn Colket Cullen ’ Tim Lesko ’ Alex MacCormick ’ r Amanda Black ’ r Kate Arecchi ’ Ian Frank ’ Jim Queen ’ Michael O’Keefe ’ Jen Fournier ’ Jess Colby Harris ’ Andy Katchen ’ r Lindsay Dewar Fontana ’ Anne Blair Hudak ’ Jon Moodey ’ Schuyler Perry ’ r Ramey Harris-Tatar ’

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CLASS CORRESPONDENTS Harry Emmons ’ r Bill Briggs ’ r Rik Clark ’ r Bill Baskin ’ r Frank Hammond ’ William M. 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 ’ Jud Madden ’ Fred Ludtke ’ Jean-Louis Trombetta ’ Alex MacCormick ’ r Jen Murphy Robison ’ Courtney Fleisher ’ Terra Reilly ’ Kelly Mullen Wieser ’ Lindsay Dewar Fontana ’ Sam Bass ’ Ramey Harris-Tatar ’

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John Farnsworth ’ Heather Pierce Roy ’ r Putney Haley Pyles ’ r Tara Walker Hamer ’ Brooke Aronson McCreedy ’ Sully Sullivan ’ Karyn Hoepp Jennings ’ Adam Lavallee ’ r Sophie Moeller ’ Betsy Pantazelos ’ Nick Payeur ’ r Ryan McManus ’ 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 ’ CoCo Clemens ’ Tess O’Brien ’ Sam Paine ’ Garrett Phillips ’ Elizabeth Powell ’ Stephen Wilk ’

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

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Cartwright’s Hill: Holderness School’s Favorite Playground

When boys with saws and shovels weren’t powerful enough, Don Henderson employed the services of a local excavator. In the above photo, Don inspects the construction of the 30-meter jump next to Cartwright’s Hill in the late 1950s.

by liesl magnus ’ It’s eight o’clock on a Thursday night in the middle of February, and it’s time for the Calzone Challenge. The Nordic team is assembled at the top of the Holderness ski hill and everyone’s headlamps are off—yes, off. The air horn sounds, and the skiers melt into the darkness—their shouts of joy and cries of defeat punctuating the cold, crisp air. Three feet of ungroomed snow and unstrategically placed puckerbrush make for slow and unsteady progress. Attempting to avoid each other and the small trees scattered across the hill, the skiers fall over again and again.

It’s become a tradition on the Nordic team to pick one of the darkest nights of the year for a race down the ski hill. Skill and grace have very little to do with winning; the skier with the least fear and the most luck tends to win.

The prize? A calzone from Manny’s Pizzeria,

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door-to-door service courtesy of Head Coach Pat Casey.

After twenty minutes, everyone has made it down. The winner of the year’s competition is celebrating, and everyone else is taking stock of what was lost up on the hill, be it pride or the basket of a pole—the latter of which will be gone until spring.

The ski hill has been a playground for the Nordic team, as well as many backcountry skiers and snowboarders, for the past couple decades, but when it was first created, it was the alpine ski team that dominated the scene.

While two gentlemen with the last names of Huckins and Cartwright are credited with starting the clearing of the ski trails, it was under Don Henderson’s watchful eye, beginning in , that trail work—for both alpine and Nordic—began in earnest. At almost any time of year, boys from the school could be

found working with saws and shovels to build the network of trails.

In , a power line was installed, bringing electricity to the ski hill for the first time; the electric ski tow took Henderson and his crew of helpers most of the fall to put in place. The motor for the tow was replaced in  by a five-speed gearbox that had been salvaged from an old Ford truck. The challenge, though, was getting the motor up the hill. The school newsletter from that year described it as a job equivalent to building the pyramids of Egypt.

A year later, it was time for another improvement to the ski facilities at Holderness.

It was decided that it was time to build a new jump in the space between Huckins’ and Cartwright’s Hills. With knowledge he had gained during his time coaching the US Ski Team, Don employed a bulldozer and lots of energetic students to build a -foot modern jump with a sufficient landing area. In a head’s newsletter from the ’s, it was stated, “The new jump, the slalom, downhill and electric skitow will give us for the coming season better and more convenient facilities,” and Mr. Henderson said that “the new Holderness jump will be the best in New England.”

For many years the ski hill continued to be the primary training facility for the Holderness ski teams. However, as the ski areas north of campus improved, it was only the Nordic skiers who remained on campus for training. The rope tow continued to be used by recreational skiers on weekends through the s, but eventually it was closed due to the high cost of insuring it.

The old Ford motor still sits in the ruins of the engine house, and the poles for the rope tow still line Cartwright’s Hill. But thanks to the bravado and adventurous spirit of the Nordic team and other back-country skiers, it is not completely abandoned. In fact, with a bit of clearing and mowing this fall, the ski hill hasn’t looked better in years.The spirit of Don Henderson and his skiers lives on with every episode of the Calzone Challenge.

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THE REC BUS, AS IT WAS FONDLY CALLED, TRANSPORTED KIDS FROM CAMPUS TO VARIOUS SKI RESORTS ALONG INTERSTATE 93 IN THE ’80S. WHAT BETTER WAY TO SPEND AN AFTERNOON DURING A NEW HAMPSHIRE WINTER THAN FIND SOME STEEP HILLS AND TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE SNOWY CONDITIONS!

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Holderness School Winter 2016 Holderness School Today magazine. Flat size is 11.0 inches tall by 18.19 inches wide (includes 0.19 inches for perfect-bound spine); folded size is 11.0 inches tall by 9.0 inches wide. Artwork prints in four-color process and bleeds all four sides. Cover artwork; Cover II and Cover III.

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