FROM THE HEAD OF SCHOOL
KENT DENVER SCHOOL
PERSPECTIVE Summer 2019
LOOKING AHEAD KDS MOVES FORWARD ACCORDING TO PLAN, p.18
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Lasting Impact. This year, Mr. Gaffney’s Engineering: Design & Build class built a floating dock for the upper reservoir for the legacy project. The dock will be anchored by the boathouse to help students launch canoes. Pictured left to right: Charlie Wilkinson ’19, Josh Melvin ’19, Pace Billings ’20, Tucker Joseph ’19, Miles Cummings ’19, Mark Walvoord ’19 (who designed the dock and oversaw its construction) and Charlie Bragg ’19. Photo: Evan Gaffney
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Summer Perspective advisors Rand Harrington Phil Klein Amy Vucci Magazine editors Lisa Mortell Jan Thomas ’76 Design & layout Andi Todaro Contributing photographers Ryan Casey/CHSAANow James Dahlen ’19 Miya Dickman Evan Gaffney Andrew Goldblatt ’19 Kirsten Landry Carol MacKay Photography Lisa Mortell Mary Fran Park Jan Thomas ’76 Amy Vucci Doug Wells Denise Wylde Contributing writers Phil Klein Lisa Mortell Jan Thomas ’76 Amy Vucci
KENT DENVER SCHOOL
PERSPECTIVE Features
Summer 2019
TAKING FLIGHT 14 There are 119 young alumni in the Class of 2019, each with a different
and fascinating story to tell. Here is one of them.
YOU, MR. LANG 17 AsTHANK venerable School Counselor Patrick Lang prepares for retirement
after 29 years at Kent Denver, students, alumni, parents and colleagues eagerly thank him for his invaluable service to our community.
A CONVERSATION WITH THE HEAD OF SCHOOL 18 So many wonderful enhancements are happening at Kent Denver!
Head of School Rand Harrington explains the thought process—and strategic vision—behind these exciting transformations.
TURNING POINTS 20 Kent Denver—and its predecessors, Kent School for Girls and Denver
Country Day School—have been buoyed by the spirit of philanthropy since their founding. Revisit some of our history’s most exciting turning points in this photo essay.
CELEBRATING DECADES OF FRIENDSHIP 26 The bonds of friendship that begin at Kent Denver often last long
Cover photo: Friendships Thrive Here. How fun to look at the early days of what often are lifelong friendships! Years from now, these Class of 2024 students will remember their times together at Kent Denver with delight. Photo: Lisa Mortell
CONNECT
after graduation. Journey with four alumni from the Class of 1976 as they travel through life…and around the world.
Departments 4 Tribute 5 From the Head of School 6 Campus News 6 Tradition 11 Sports Recap 23 Class Notes 2018-19 Board of Trustees Dr. Rand Harrington, Head of School
Visit Kent Denver social media to learn more about what’s happening on campus.
facebook.com/kentdenverschool facebook.com/kentdenveralumni twitter.com/KDSsundevil vimeo.com/kentdenverschool instagram.com/kentdenverschool
Sarah Anschutz Hunt ’89, President Michanda Lindsey, Vice President Bruce McGrath ’72, Secretary Tom McGonagle ’77, Treasurer Michele Bergner Tully Bragg Kathy Safford Coors ’90 Denny Coughlin ’93, Alumni Rep Tracey Davis-Wifall, Parents’ Assoc. Rep
Javier Del Castillo Julia Sayre Donnelly ’98 Jeremy Flug K.C. Gallagher ’87 Jon Hauser Grant Ho ’19, Student Rep Lynn Luce Kitt ’87 Lisa Love Tony Mayer Kristin McKissick Heather Mulvihill
Arthur Nelson Jay Rolls Caroline Kurtz Rassenfoss ’78 Amy Slothower ’90 Sarah Rockwell Soane Laton Spahr Holly Smiekel, Faculty Rep Jennifer McIntosh Waters ’88 David Windfeldt ’89
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Great plans succeed when teams have strong leadership and clear direction. Associate Head of School JERRY WALKER is at the helm of each of Kent Denver’s exciting Campus Transformation construction projects, successfully piloting each to completion.
Photo: J. Dahlen ’19
TRIBUTE
FROM THE HEAD OF SCHOOL
From the Head of School MANAGING CHANGE
I joined the Kent Denver community in 2014. This spring, for the fifth time in my 25-year education career, I observed Kent Denver students go through the process of selecting classes for the coming school year. The decisions were easy for some. But, as you might imagine, making what felt like momentous choices were difficult for others.
Photo: L. Mortell
Obviously, the sheer number of academic, arts, athletics and extracurricular options available to our students was one reason for hesitation and secondguessing. Another is that our students are thoughtful, reflective young adults. They know that making smart choices requires setting priorities. In most cases, particularly for our Upper School students, those priorities reflect their personal visions for the future. So, it’s fitting that students were making these pivotal decisions just as the latest addition to our extraordinary Campus Transformation opened its doors. The Bruce McGrath Welcome Center and Upper School Classroom Building is an important midpoint in the evolution of our 1960s-era campus to one capable of delivering a dynamic, meaningful, 21st-century learning experience. This new building—along with the Middle School and Visual Arts buildings that preceded it and the Hunt Center, Rollins Center and renovated “old” Upper School building that, with our full community’s support, will soon follow— reflect an unwavering commitment to Kent Denver’s Vision. Excellence in Scholarship and Character is, and will always be, the metric we use to decide whether or not to take something on.
Which brings me back to my observation of students struggling to decide what classes to take or what extracurriculars to join and what to leave behind. Making a decision when the results of your choice are unknown is scary. But that’s how we grow. That’s how we evolve. Earlier this year, I joined alumni who came to campus to say goodbye to the old Upper School building. As they walked through the hall reminiscing about beloved teachers and favorite classes, they also noted how narrow the hall seemed and how small the classrooms were. While they didn’t notice those features as students, the need to enhance our learning environment was clear. This issue of Perspective includes stories about those enhancements and about the spirit of community philanthropy that funds our continuous improvement. It also includes stories you may not have heard before about the people who make Kent Denver a wondrous place to learn, work and revisit year after year. I hope you enjoy this publication! I look forward to talking with you about the life choices you’ve made at Homecoming and Reunion Weekend, October 11–13. Go Sun Devils!
Dr. Rand Harrington Head of School
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Middle School Director Carrie Green and Upper School Director Eric Chandler recently announced that Ruth Miller, B.A., M.Ed, will join Kent Denver faculty in the fall as math department chair for our 6–12 program. “Ms. Miller is an extraordinary educator with extensive experience teaching in independent schools and proven success in math department leadership,” Ms. Green says. “She’s taught classes ranging from fundamental mathematics to AP Calculus and AP Statistics, and she’s superb at helping both middle and high school students thrive in math.” Prior to coming to Kent Denver, Ms. Miller chaired the Math and Computer Science department at Greenhills School, a position she held since 2011. During her tenure, she taught Algebra I, AP Calculus AB and BC, and AP Statistics, collaborated with science faculty to shift towards an integrated, STEM-based approach to coursework and introduced a comprehensive, 6–12 computer science program. “Chairing math departments and creating solutions to typical math department challenges is what Ms. Miller is all about,” Dr. Chandler says. “At her professional core, she is a teacher who works to create the very best learning experiences for her students every day in every class.”
Learn more about our math program at www.kentdenver. org/academics
Ms. Miller’s math instruction philosophy can be summarized in less than a dozen words. “I don’t believe there’s such a thing as a non-math person,” she says. “I think that it’s my job as a math teacher to make sure I help kids explore different ways to look at problems until they become clear.”
“Our teachers have a dedicated advocate who is eager to collaborate with them to further strengthen our math program,” says Head of School Rand Harrington. “Ms. Miller has developed an exceptional skill set over her many years of teaching and leading math departments and we couldn’t be more excited to welcome her visionary leadership in STEM education.”
Photo: L. Mortell
RUTH MILLER JOINS KDS A S M AT H D E PA R T M E N T CHAIR
TRADITION
Campus News
SENIOR GIVING One of the final, yet most lasting, marks Kent Denver seniors make on their alma mater is their collective decision to support the school as they depart with four-year pledges to the Kent Denver Fund. This helps provide the additional funds necessary to support the students, teachers, coaches, deans, advisors and programs that make Kent Denver an extraordinary school that, each year, proudly celebrates 100% college acceptance for the graduating class. “The Class of 2019 had already started their contributions as this issue of Perspective went to press,” says Phil Klein, Director of Development. “Since this tradition started, the majority of seniors have taken part, with participation reaching as high as 80%.” Mr. Klein says senior gifts will be recognized in the upcoming annual report, due to be distributed in the fall. “Noting senior gifts in the annual report is another longstanding tradition,” he adds. “One of the hallmarks of a Kent Denver graduate is an awareness of the profound impact one person and one act of philanthropy can have on a school, an organization, a country and the world. We often ask our students to be the change they want to see. Each year, these gifts remind us our youngest alumni are setting out to do just that.” Thank you, seniors, for your ongoing support of Kent Denver School!
BABIES, BABIES, BABIES!
On October 1, Upper School math teacher Julie Van Wright and her husband, Kit, celebrated the birth of their first child, Colby Thomlin Van Wright.
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STUDENTS ELECT 2019–20 ALLSCHOOL LEADERS Each spring, key student leadership roles are filled through all-school elections. Recently, several juniors campaigned for All-School Co-President and Student Representative to the Board of Trustees, plastering the campus with campaign posters, networking with peers and delivering short speeches to assemblies in the Upper and Middle Schools.
KENT DENVER TOPS COLORADO FOR STEM, SECOND YEAR RUNNING! In March, Denver Business Journal ran a list of the “Best Colorado High Schools for STEM in 2019,” again recognizing Kent Denver as #1 in the state. This designation was based on a combination of factors including U.S. Department of Education data, AP math and science course enrollment, standardized test scores, student interest in STEM college majors and more.
After a thoughtful and overwhelmingly positive campaign, students selected Layton Purchase ’20 and Natalie Gendelman ’20 as All-School Presidents and Jeremy Gart ’20 as Student Representative to the Board of Trustees.
Outstanding faculty, innovative curriculum and ample opportunities for independent learning are key to Kent Denver’s continued success as a STEM leader in Colorado.
History teacher Lee Barrow ’03 and his wife, Betsy, introduced their second child, Wells Camden Barrow, who was born on December 21. “Like a true student,” Lee remarks, “he arrived at 8 a.m. on the dot.” Cour tesy of L
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Kent Denver’s Chief Innovation Officer Michael Ehrenfried and his wife, Maggie, welcomed their firstborn, Michael Joel Ehrenfried, III, on April 3 at a healthy eight pounds and 21 inches. Cour tesy of M
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Science department chair Jeff Caulfield and his colleagues in science and math departments are also honored by the #1 position. “We work every day to meet the intellectual and emotional needs of our students,” Dr. Caulfield says. “Some students take advantage of opportunities through the Institutes, while others connect in the classroom with our amazing faculty and their incredible peers. Regardless, we hope all will develop a true appreciation for and understanding of the world around us.”
“Congratulations are due to all the candidates,” says Upper School Director Eric Chandler. “This year’s speeches were the best ever. Each speech exuded a love of Kent Denver and our community and articulated a desire to serve meaningfully and make things even better. I very much look forward to working with next year’s leaders. It is going to be a great school year!”
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“Schools need to be proficient in teaching STEM concepts in a variety of formats to a variety of learners,” explains Chief Innovation Officer Michael Ehrenfried. “In addition to access to expert-led courses, our students have the ability to be in the driver’s seat and explore, create and discover concepts through self-directed learning in our Institutes for Experimental Research and Technology and Design. Additionally, clubs such as robotics draw out the competitive and collaborative nature of students, allowing them to apply their learning.”
Congratulations to the new parents! Kent Denver is delighted to welcome these babies to the Sun Devil family.
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KENT DENVER HOSTS HISTORIC TOURING ANNE FRANK EXHIBIT In April, Kent Denver became the first school in Colorado to host a special viewing of Anne Frank: A History for Today, an extraordinary traveling exhibit that has garnered international acclaim for its power and depth. The exhibit was on display in the Bruce McGrath Welcome Center and Upper School Classroom Building from April 15-19. Created in Amsterdam, the exhibit provides both an in-depth look at Anne Frank’s life and a fascinating examination of the global environment before, during and after World War II. Several Upper School students were trained as docents by Anne Frank House representatives to guide guests through key portions of the exhibit. In addition to daily access for Kent Denver students and a special evening tour for alumni, parents, families and guests, students from a number of other Metro Denver schools visited campus to experience the exhibit while it was here.
NEW SCHOOL SCHEDULE DEBUTS IN 2019-20 Like most leading independent schools, Kent Denver routinely reevaluates its school schedule every 7–8 years. When a new schedule is introduced—as we will do in fall 2019—the changes reflect growing knowledge about how students learn as well as campus enhancements and other changes to school communities. Chief Information and Innovation Officer Michael Ehrenfried, Middle School Division Head Carrie Green and Upper School Division Head Eric Chandler led a schedule committee that included teachers from both divisions and each department, as well as coaches and administrators. The committee began work in the fall of 2017. For the next 12 months, they met with peers at other leading schools; read books, papers and studies about how people learn and the best use of time; gleaned insight from student surveys; and investigated schedule options that new learning spaces such as the Middle School, Visual Arts and Upper School classroom buildings made available for the first time.
Photos: J. Thomas
Highlights of the new schedule include two late starts per week; a common free period so Upper School students can meet with teachers, Cont. on next pg.
S C H O O L N E W S PA P E R D O E S N ’ T S H Y F R O M M A J O R I S S U E S BY REAGEN HAECKER ’19
In my interview for Editor-in-Chief, I was asked if the newspaper should publish articles on controversial topics. I answered with a resounding “yes.” Through my experience with the newspaper, I came to further realize our duty as journalists to present all viewpoints, especially those that prompt debate. I found it necessary for the Sun Devils’ Advocate to publish controversial topics in order to spark conversations in our community.
Photo: R. Haecker ’19
When we decided to dedicate an entire issue of the Advocate to the discussions surrounding gun violence in our country, we were open to all submissions from students, but we made sure to create balance. If we published an article on one position, we published another on the opposite position.
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Read the Advocate online at www. kentdenver.org/ advocate
While opinionated pieces like these can often create backlash, it is crucial to engage the Advocate’s readers in these conversations. In doing this, we encourage all members of the Kent Denver community to form their own views on controversial but important topics.
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ALUMNI NEWS
Sarah MacDougall Hirshland ’93 R E C E I V E S 2 0 1 9 D I S T I N G U I S H E D A L U M N I AWA R D
“Historically, we have always been very proud of the success of our U.S. Olympic teams and can recall those moments of glory that we all shared as a nation,” Dr. Harrington said. “It only took one individual, who horribly abused his position of power, to damage the entire reputation of this important institution. So, to restore faith in the organization and to lead the organization back to its former glory, the U.S. Olympic Committee recruited a person with the highest possible character, a leader with impeccable integrity—and a graduate of the Kent Denver School, Class of 1993—Sarah MacDougall Hirshland.” Ms. Hirshland began her term as CEO of the USOC in August 2018. As CEO, she oversees the USOC in its stewardship as both the National Olympic Committee and the National Paralympic Committee for the United States, while leading the organization in delivering on its mission to support America’s elite athletes and inspire all Americans. Prior to her work with the USOC, she served as chief commercial Never miss an event! Check the Alumni Connection e-newsletter and our alumni officer for the U.S. Golf Association. page for the latest news. www.kentdenver.org/alumni
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In introducing her to the full student body during the Ethics Day opening assembly, Head of School Rand Harrington noted how relevant it was to have Ms. Hirshland attend at an event that had The Ethics of Power as its theme.
“It is no surprise that Ms. Hirshland was a standout athlete here at Kent Denver. She played on the girls’ soccer team that won a state championship, and she was a superb field hockey player. She also served as a peer counselor and was a member of the school newspaper staff before attending and graduating from Duke University,” Dr. Harrington added. “I would like to say that, on behalf of the entire Kent Denver community, we are proud of all that Ms. Hirshland has accomplished, and we look forward to seeing the positive impact she will have on the USOC organization.”
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Kent Denver students, faculty and staff were delighted by the choice for this year’s Distinguished Alumni Award. As chief executive officer of the U.S. Olympic Committee, Ms. Hirshland is well known both the national and international stage.
SPORTS RECAP
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Boys’ Soccer Wins Another State Title!
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After beating Colorado Academy again in the semifinals—fully avenging last year’s overtime playoff loss to the Mustangs—the Sun Devils faced defending state champions Liberty Common in the CHSAA 3A finals. Thanks to two goals by Pace Billings ’20 and outstanding play by the entire squad, Kent Denver came away with a 2-1 win. This is Kent Denver’s fourth boys’ soccer state title in the last five years. Since the program’s first championship run in 2014, Kent Denver has posted an amazing 92-3-3 record while playing in 3A’s most competitive league. Coach Arty Smith—along with his assistant coaches and amazing student-athletes— has built an outstanding tradition of excellence, teamwork and sportsmanship. Additionally, Coach Smith was named 2018 3A Coach of the Year!
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While there were many thrilling moments in boys’ soccer’s undefeated 2018 season, a defining win for the Sun Devils came in early October when they faced Colorado Academy with the Metro League title on the line. Things looked dire when Kent Denver fell behind 1-0 late in the game, but the Sun Devils scored twice in the final three minutes for one of the most thrilling wins in the program’s history.
CROSS COUNTRY
Cross Country’s young runners saw great improvements over the course of the season under the leadership of coaches Corky Dean and Mary Fran Park. Jonathan Bennett ’21 qualified for the 3A State Meet, where he ran the hilly, three-mile course in a time of 18:28.
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FOOTBALL (8-2)
FIELD HOCKEY (13-2-2)
State Runners-Up Since his freshman year at Kent Denver, Jackson Klutznick ’19 has been a leading force on the boys’ golf team. This year, in his fourth and final appearance in the 3A state tournament, Klutznick brought home the individual title, winning the two-day tournament by three strokes. The Sun Devils also finished as 3A team runners-up for the second year in a row.
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The Sun Devils swept their regional tournament and finished fourth overall at the 3A state tournament. William Coors ’19 and Casey Klutznick ’21 won the state title at #3 doubles.
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After a somewhat challenging regular season, volleyball finished the year with three strong wins at the Metro League tournament. With all but one starter returning next year, the future is bright for coach Emily Danitz and her young squad!
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For a schedule of sports events please visit www.kentdenver.org/athletics
VOLLEYBALL (7-16)
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After a strong regular season in which they outscored opponents by a 33-7 margin, field hockey lost a heartbreaking, 1-0 game in the state semifinals to eventual champion Regis Jesuit. One bright spot for the team came in the state quarterfinals, where a win over East helped coach Kathy James reach the impressive milestone of 300 wins as a high school coach. “Coach James has been the ‘dean’ of Colorado field hockey coaches for years and has worked hard to advance the sport in our state,” says Athletics Director Scott Yates. “This 300-victory milestone is not only a reflection of the great coach that she is, but it demonstrates the true dedication she has had for her teams, Kent Denver and the sport of field hockey.”
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Sun Devils’ football went 5-0 in league play, winning the Colorado Conference title for the fifth-straight year. The team opened the playoffs against Faith Christian—a team they beat in a close game earlier in the season—but ultimately fell by a score of 9-7 in the rematch. After the season ended, Kent Denver learned that coach Scott Yates will be inducted into the National High School Athletic Coaches Association’s Hall of Fame. Coach Yates has been the head football coach at Kent Denver School since 1980. With over 330 wins and three state titles, he has built one of the most successful programs in the history of prep football in Colorado.
BOYS’ BASKETBALL (18-6)
The Sun Devils started their season with nine straight wins, thanks in large part to the dynamic duo of seniors James Doyle and Coby Gold, who both averaged over twenty points a game. However, when Gold was sidelined by an injury in January, many players stepped up to fill the void left by the loss of the Sun Devils’ co-captain. The team posted a thrilling one-point win over Faith Christian in the district tournament to advance to state, and welcomed Gold back as they won their opening round game against DSSTByers. While they were ultimately eliminated in a close game in the second round, the team will be remembered for its grit, heart and senior leaders!
SPORTS RECAP
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After placing third at their district tournament, Kent Denver’s climbing team competed at the state championships with their largest contingent ever! The Sun Devils’ qualifiers were Max Elder ’22 and Robert Fraser ’20 (JV division) and Andrew Goldblatt ’19, Matthew Klein ’19 and Jake Larimer ’22 (Varsity division). Elder finished second in the JV division and Goldblatt finished 10th in varsity.
SWIMMING & DIVING
Third Place at State The Kent Denver Swim and Dive team pulled off a ‘Three-Peat’ by winning the Tri-Peaks League Championship for the third year in a row—and the fourth time in five years. To secure the title, they prevailed over 11 teams, besting second place Salida by a 101-point margin. At state, the small but mighty Sun Devils’ team swam well and came away with a third-place finish for the second year in a row.
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HOCKEY (13-7-1) With only one ice hockey classification in Colorado, the Sun Devils routinely faced off against some of the state’s biggest high schools this year. Their successful 2018–19 season had many highlights—including a thrilling, overtime win over Rampart that closed out the regular season. Entering the playoffs as a #16 seed, the team came out strong with an opening round win over Aspen High School before being eliminated by #1 seed and eventual state champions Regis Jesuit in the quarterfinals.
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GIRLS’ BASKETBALL (11-13) After several key players graduated from last year’s quarterfinalist team, Sun Devils girls’ basketball worked hard to find their rhythm over the course of the 2018–19 season. A pair of clutch, late-season wins helped the team qualify for their district tournament where they qualified for state. Although they fell in the first round of the playoffs, the young Sun Devils gained valuable tournament experience in the process. With four of the team’s top five scorers returning next year, the future is bright!
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ROCK CLIMBING
National Signing Day Highlights Student-Athletes
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Kent Denver’s National Signing Day celebration on February 6 recognized 10 student-athletes who were recruited by colleges thanks in part to their extraordinary successes in athletics. Parents, teachers and classmates gathered to support the following seniors as they officially signed Letters of Intent to continue their athletic careers at the college level next fall. • Michael Bowler: Marist College, Lacrosse • Charlie Bragg: Colorado College, Lacrosse • Madeleine Hunt: Denison University, Field Hockey • Tucker Joseph: College of Wooster, Lacrosse • Joey Licht: MIT, Football • Seth Lindsey: Union College, Lacrosse • Henry Rogers: Colby College, Baseball • Josie Schaffer: Davidson College, Tennis • Zach Schlichting: Claremont McKenna College, Football • Dylan Wells: Colorado College, Lacrosse SUMMER 2019
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Taking Flight There are 119 young alumni in the Class of 2019, each with a different and fascinating story to tell. Here is one of them. You are the youngest of three Kent Denver alumni, your older sisters Grace ’15 and Mary ’17. What impact did that have on your Kent Denver experience?
DANIEL CHAO ’19: Passionate.
Eloquent. Competitive. Energetic. Whether pursuing a rigorous, 12th-grade academic course load, working as a software developer for a local technology company, captaining Kent Denver’s Speech and Debate and Cross-Country teams, attending practices for Mock Trial, or running half marathons for fun, Chao has piled up an impressive list of accomplishments while becoming a master of time management. He found time in his busy day to sit down with Perspective to both reflect on his seven-year Kent Denver journey and share thoughts on his future in college—he’s heading to Stanford next year—and beyond.
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[In elementary school] I was cautious of doing stuff that Mary and Grace had done, but I eventually realized that many of my passions and their passions are the same. They really carved a path for me here at Kent Denver, whether that be the “Chao Dynasty” in Speech and Debate—because we’ve been doing it now for nine years—or that we all found a passion for history at Kent Denver. If you had to describe yourself in a headline, what would you choose? In English 11, we wrote six word memoirs. Mine was “Either entirely obsessed or utterly disinterested.” I think I’ve been able to find the places that I get really excited about, and I love those. I want to do more of those. There are other things that I’m like, ‘Eh, maybe not!’
What are your time management secrets? Progress is really fulfilling to me, as is knowing that I actually have time to do all the things that I want. I just don’t have time to procrastinate! I do what I need to get done for the next day, and I don’t look too far ahead. That kind of immediacy is what defines my time management. How did you get started in computer science? I published my first iOS app to the App Store in fifth grade—a reading calendar app that helps keep track of reading minutes for elementary students who have to turn that in for part of their grade. I always lost my piece of paper,
What does your typical school day entail? I have normal classes for a senior this year. After school, I either Photo: C. MacKay
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Grace and Mary being so successful made me want to match that. We all pushed each other to be better, and it stuck with me that I can push myself to be better too!
have Speech and Debate or Mock Trial practice or I go to work as a software developer for Four Winds Interactive, a company that creates software that powers digital signage. I work as an in-house contractor 18-20 hours a week—which is a lot along with having to keep up with school.
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so I made an app to email my reading log to the teacher.
How has Speech and Debate shaped you?
I like the idea that we can make things to solve problems with computers, so I carried that into middle school and high school. I took Kent Denver classes including AP Computer Science and an Advanced Topic Seminar on servers and data structure. I taught myself some stuff as well, and learned through jobs and internships.
I started in eighth grade with the Speech and Debate elective and I compete now in Extemporaneous Speaking and Informative Speaking. I have had the profound opportunity to have a lot of competitive success on the national circuit, but it has primarily been an incredible educational opportunity that has given me the power to communicate. I can get up and talk about issues with poise and eloquence. I can write commentary for the newspaper. I can run warm-ups for the crosscountry team. And, I can do all these things without fearing that what was said was not the same as what was understood.
What do you plan to study in college? I’d like to study the rigor and algorithmic nature of computer science and the more nuanced societal aspect of business to create some sort of intersection between the two. I don’t think one is necessarily complete without the other. You can’t have a business without a product, and you can’t have a product without a business. I have aspirations to innovate and create. I see computer science as a tool to be able to achieve an end that I have not quite figured out yet.
It is freeing and empowering be able to communicate effectively—without it, I would be entirely lost. Although I obviously love the team and the competition, the ability to communicate and articulate complex ideas has been more important. Photo: M. Baus
I started my current job at Four Winds as an intern two summers ago and worked full time this summer. I focus on one feature or one bug and then I’ll be reassigned to a different project or a different category of the organization. I’m glad I’ve had the opportunity to test my skills in an actual corporate environment.
Who are some of the teachers who have shaped you the most? Mr. Collamore’s 8th-grade Algebra B was such a different math class for me because it was about formula and rigor. I discovered in that class that there is a much more procedural side to math and even the most complex problems can be distilled to more simple manageable steps.
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What was your experience with athletics at Kent Denver? I started with a wayward stint in tennis. I was the secondto-last seed on the JV-2 ladder—so basically the worst person on the team. It’s a phenomenal program, but it just wasn’t for me. My sophomore year, I joined the cross-country team at the behest of both my mom and my sister who wanted me to actually do something with my body. At first I thought I would be running in the slow group and not really focusing on running fast. And then I realized that, being such a competitive person, I could not do that. I just wanted to prove myself wrong and do those things that I thought I couldn’t do. As much as I hate to admit it, now I love running. I also found that the cross-country team is an exceptional place again when it comes to the camaraderie on our team and with other teams. We have this big sign that says GO TEAM that we bring it to every meet and hold it up for everyone. There’s something about how much it hurts your body to be doing it and you’re surrounded by everyone else who’s hurting and the spirit makes for a phenomenal team atmosphere in a challenging environment.
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What things do you hope to take with you from Kent Denver into your college career? Kent Denver taught me how to write and how to think—to reason and analyze from different perspectives. I hope to take this camaraderie and intellectual curiosity from Kent Denver along with my friends and all the memories and traditions that I have here. Where you are hoping to be 20 years after graduation? I want to be respected as some sort of visionary or innovator. I want to be somebody who doesn’t just create a product to run a business but as somebody who has been able to develop this profound idea about how society works and been able to do something with it. A small anecdote that I can think of is that I want to be invited for the Distinguished Alumni Award on Ethics Day! What advice would you give to today’s sixth-graders? I think one of the biggest pieces of advice I would give is that you have to keep an open mind. Even if you love robotics or hate math your 6th-grade year, so much changes between now and when you are a senior. Stay curious and don’t feel like there is a path you have to stay on.
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It would be unfair for me to say math was my entire experience. Ms. Halverson’s AP U.S. History class made me think like a historian. She made history an actual academic exercise and not just memorizing or regurgitating facts or trying to figure out how to do well on the test.
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I’m not sure I really acknowledged its importance until I took Mr. Ellis’ AP Calculus BC class where we focused on how there’s a right way to say a formula and a right way to use a derivative. If you’re not saying it right, you’re not using it right. So, for my mathematical perspective, both having the rigor of algebra in Mr. Collamore’s class and seeing the effects of being specific with language in nuance and notation in Mr. Ellis’ class was a huge learning experience for me.
TRIBUTE
There will be void in this school without you. I will miss you dearly. I would not be where I am today without you. Thank you for your constant support and encouragement. I wish you all the best, my friend. — Cheryl Askay
Patrick, Thank you for your many years of service to not only the KDS community, but Breakthrough students as well! We greatly appreciate the additional student support you (and your wife) provided. Many times, our student support budget was spent on students you let us know needed the support. You are such a wonderful and calm presence! We will miss you. — The Breakthrough Team
“Thank you for talking with me through the best of times and the worst of times.”
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Patrick Lang is my friend and colleague. He has helped so many people—students, parents, and faculty. In fact, he has helped all of us, whether we know it or not….To the man behind the scenes, to the sometimes un-thanked and unacknowledged friend, colleague and wise counselor who has helped us all: let’s now give our thanks and acknowledgement to Mr. Lang, who retires at the end of this year.
— Eric Chandler, Excerpt from Upper School
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Thank you for all you’ve done for Kent Denver students, families and community, and best wishes as you move on to your next chapter!
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Patrick, I extend my deepest thanks for all that you have done for Kent Denver over the years. You have given so much to our community and I am so grateful for that. Along with the entire Board of Trustees, I commend you for your 29 years of service to the school and wish you a well-earned and happy retirement. — Sarah Anschutz Hunt ’89, President–KDS Board of Trustees
— Nell and David London
— Current Student
YEARS!
As this issue of Perspective went to press, Kent Denver Counselor Patrick Lang was preparing to begin retirement after 29 years of dedicated service to our school. Almost 100 students, teachers, faculty and staff wrote notes and tributes for Mr. Lang’s online retirement card in May. Here are a few excerpts:
Dear Patrick, There is something sacred about the relationship between a head of school and the school counselor. This was especially true during my first few years here at Kent Denver when your wise counsel helped me to navigate the ups and downs of school leadership. As with many families and colleagues, your steady presence in times of crisis was a great comfort. Regardless of the circumstances, your arrival in any room with that twinkle in your eye and comforting smile always brought peace and calm. There may be no other individual in the history of the school that has had such a long-term positive impact on our community. Your work to support our families, our students, and our colleagues happened mostly out of sight, hidden from the public eye. As a result, it gives me great pleasure to have this opportunity to publicly thank you for all you have done over your long tenure at our school. Thank you, Patrick. — Your friend, Rand
Thank you for all you’ve done at Kent Denver over the years. May you have a blessed retirement! — KDS Parents
Thank you for sharing your wisdom with our entire community. — KDS Parents
What a wonderful contribution you have tirelessly made to our Kent Denver Community. Thank you for your years of dedication. We are so grateful. Thank you. Blessings in this next chapter. Your kindness and encouragement will never be forgotten.” — KDS Parents
Dear Mr. Lang, I always appreciated seeing you on campus! You were a constant warm and welcoming presence, and I know you touched the lives of countless students. I wish you all the best!
Patrick, I’m honored to be your friend and (now former) colleague. I can’t thank you enough for all you’ve done for me and our students over the years. You are my role model for kindness, selflessness, generosity and patience. You set the bar high. I wish you all the very best!! Much love. — Jonny FM
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A CONVERSATION WITH THE HEAD OF SCHOOL Perspective editors recently sat down with Head of School Rand Harrington to discuss the many, amazing transformations underway at Kent Denver. Our discussion touched on new buildings, enhanced programming, the new school schedule and, importantly, how all of these changes are tied to the school’s strategic plan. Here are excerpts from that conversation: Editors: There’s a lot happening at KDS these days: new buildings, a new school schedule, Institutes, and more! How did you decide what needed to change? Dr. Harrington: There are many different ways to go about managing change. My own belief is to start by focusing on strengths (instead of weaknesses) of which our school has many: strong teachers, motivated students, a beautiful campus, supportive community and parents willing to partner with us. Building on those strengths, one can then see ways to better support what we do best, especially in the face of all the emerging challenges facing schools today. We value students and their health so let’s find better ways to support them—create a wellness program. We value learning—so let’s make our school environments more conducive to learning. We value student initiative—so let’s support more independent work and create a schedule to better support more collaboration and choice. In short, schools should model what we would wish for our students: continuous improvement through self-examination.
Dr. Harrington: I have always felt a sense of urgency around our work in education. If you have an opportunity to serve kids better today, why wait? That said, the school spent a number of years laying the groundwork for the changes you see today, the seeds of which can be seen in the last strategic plan. Once the Board of Trustees committed to updating our old Middle School building that really set the ball rolling, as we needed to think about our programmatic vision and making sure that we continue to address the needs of our students. Schools don’t get an opportunity for major facility improvements very often, and we wanted to make sure we made the right decisions moving forward. This required us to engage and learn from other great schools around the country. As we started to ask our community to invest in the school it was imperative that we were thinking both long term and strategically. This is both difficult and exciting due to the level of disruption that is going on in the field of education. In the end, we have doubled down on our Core Values while at the same time embracing some forms of innovation that will keep us at the forefront of education and learning. Schools are complex systems which means they are heavily interconnected. This also speeds the pace of change since there are so many opportunities that arise that cannot be ignored. One example is how new spaces allow us to use our time more efficiently. That fact led us to our current initiative to update our daily schedule.
"The world [... ] is always changing, and that keeps us focused on always being the best school we can be."
Editors: The changes seem to be happening very quickly. Why move so fast?
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Editors: That’s a lot to take on managerially and financially. How is the school paying for this?
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Dr. Harrington: The Board of Trustees voted unanimously to fund these changes with a three-year capital campaign in June 2016. Importantly, tuition doesn’t pay for construction. The Next 100 Years Campaign will raise $31 million to support the buildings, programming and people who make this all possible. We’re already 85% of the way toward our goal, and this fall we will ask every member of the community—parents, alumni, grandparents and friends—to join us in this historic effort. Editors: From the outside looking in, it looks like the big effort is over. The new Middle School building and new Welcome Center and Upper School classroom building are open. The last bit of construction is underway. The new schedule launches next school year. Are you finished? Is this a wrap? Dr. Harrington: Not yet! This fall we will complete and open a new athletics administrative suite, the Scobie Center for Student Life, the Hunt Center for Entrepreneurial Education, and the Rollins Center for Technology and Design. We will open the renovated Upper School wing, which will include 10 new classrooms and an additional gradelevel gathering area, in spring of 2020. Editors: KDS is getting a lot of recognition: #1 STEM high school in Colorado, Colorado’s best private high school, Colorado’s best college prep school, etc. How do you measure success? What keeps you and your colleagues focused on always getting better? Dr. Harrington: Success happens when the students we serve leave here with the academic and social-emotional skills they need for the next chapter in life. We measure our effectiveness primarily by asking our young alumni two questions: First, do you feel you were well prepared for college? And second, do you feel the college you chose was a good fit for you? The resounding answer to both of these questions is consistently “yes.” The world into which we send our students is always changing, and that keeps us focused on always being the best school we can be. That said, there are many other metrics that we also use to measure our success including our annual health and wellness surveys, our ability to attract and retain the very best teachers, as well as several overall financial health benchmarks that we have adopted over the years.
Editors: You mentioned Kent Denver’s strategic plan. How often do you update it, and how does that happen? Dr. Harrington: Strategic planning is a multi-year process and is a collaboration between the Board of Trustees and Administrative Team. It’s a three-part process. First, we gather data internally and externally to understand at a deep level how well we are delivering on our Vision and Core Values. Second, we reaffirm our Vision and Core Values, including an exploration of potential evolutions to our Vision. Once our vision is affirmed, we explore a range of strategic options that will allow us to improve and grow to meet our students’ needs. We are currently in the first year of putting together our next strategic plan that will help guide the school through 2025 and beyond. Editors: You’ve been at KDS five years now. If you could have a do-over and change one decision you made during that time, what would you change and why? Dr. Harrington: There is probably a snow day or two that I might have called differently! Weather in Denver can be tricky and I have seen our professional forecasters get things completely wrong on occasion. It is also certainly true that regardless of the decision one makes you can never make everyone happy. Editors: What do you hope students remember most about their time at Kent Denver? Dr. Harrington: Mostly I hope that students understand how much we care about them. Growing up (and parenting for that matter) are not easy. However, the greatest growth comes from navigating through, rather than steering around conflict. Looking back, I hope that our students and families recognize that we have their long-term best interests in mind and that we do care about their future success. I also hope that students find joy in their experience and that they learn to cherish and appreciate those lifelong friendships that began while attending Kent Denver. Editors: Last year, we asked students to describe Kent Denver in three words. Now it’s your turn. What are your three words? Dr. Harrington: Community, Community and Community!
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TU R NI N G POIN TS: A HISTORY OF TRANSFORMATION THROUGH PHILANTHROPY Since our founding nearly 100 years ago, philanthropic investments have allowed Kent Denver to grow, evolve and thrive. As our campus undergoes its most significant transformation since the move to Blackmer Farm in the 1960s, we honor and celebrate a few of the philanthropic turning points that have created today’s KDS.
▲ 1922 The Kent School’s three founders raised $25,000 to purchase a building on Sherman Street that would house their school. Gifts of $25, $100 and more propelled a revolutionary vision of a providing Denver girls with an academically rigorous education. 20
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“Kent Denver belongs to you—our school community. We are profoundly grateful for the spirit of philanthropy that has allowed us to thrive in our first century and will sustain us as we look to the next 100 years!”
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Andrews Black and Tom Chaffee dreamed of opening a boys’ school focused on “pursuit of excellence in education.” Inspired by this vision, local families invested philanthropic resources to launch the school. Opening with seven boys and four teachers, DCD quickly grew into a thriving institution by the late 1950s.
THE MOVE TO BLACKMER FARM In 1960, Kent and DCD trustees raised $1.4 million to purchase more than 200 acres in Cherry Hills Village. Over the next several years, the two institutions embraced a generous, “can do” spirit of giving to build school facilities before merging in 1974.
2001 GATES SCIENCE AND MAGNESS TECHNOLOGY CENTERS With donations of more than $5 million, the outdated science building from the 1960s was renovated and absorbed into a much larger facility featuring new technology and lab spaces along with a connection to the Upper School wing.
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2006 A cornerstone of the $20 million Campaign Kent Denver, the new arts center transformed students’ visual and performing arts experience. The 500-seat Anschutz Family Theatre is the heart of the building, providing a creative and community gathering space that is among the finest in the nation.
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SCHADEN DINING HALL Donations of more than $5 million created the nation’s first LEED-Platinum dining hall. This innovative facility not only transformed dining and nutrition—its expanded capacity also eliminated the need for multiple Upper School and Middle School lunch periods, allowing new flexibility in scheduling and programs.
2013 YATES PAVILION, HORN FAMILY FIELD, DUNCAN CENTER This three-part, $4.6 million project met the need for an additional gymnasium and turf field for Kent Denver athletes, added much-needed classrooms and transformed the school’s library into a modern, innovative learning hub.
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◀ 2017-Today THE NEXT 100 YEARS CAMPAIGN Kent Denver is transforming 100,000 square feet of new and renovated learning spaces. In addition to new Middle and Upper School buildings, we will renovate the athletics administrative suite, create new space for the Hunt Center for Entrepreneurial Education and Rollins Center for Technology and Design, and create the Scobie Center, a hub for wellness and student support.
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ALUMNI NEWS
Class Notes
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Cecilia “Ceci” Ashley Wells ’61 passed away on April 8, 2019. Melissa Pinkston Williams ’65 now lives in New Mexico. She is the founder and program & PR director of Journey Santa Fe, a weekly community conversation that focuses on people and organizations “trying to affect change for the greater good” in New Mexico (www.journeysantafe.com). She has two sons (Owen, a Hollywood director and producer, and Ben, a newspaper publisher in South Africa) and four grandchildren.
Lin Brown Boucher ’70 is a pastel artist living in the desert southwest. You can see her art on her website: linboucherfineart.com Laurie Emrich ’71 still lives in Washington, DC where she works in social justice philanthropy. She is also a proud member of the board of the Global Fund for Women, which gets money and attention where it will make the biggest difference in the fight for women’s and girls’ rights. She would love to hear from some of her classmates, so give a holler to onlyconnect53@gmail.com Cordelia “Cordy” Gould Kelly ’74 founded Kelly’s Four Plus Granola, a smallbatch hand-baked granola company that now sells its products online (Amazon and www. kellysfourplus.com) and at markets, including Whole Foods, throughout the New England and North Atlantic area. Cordy’s business partners are her two oldest sons! Glenn Abrams ’75 writes, “Check out Delicious Medicine: The Healing Power of Food by Tina “The Medicine Chef” Martini, a beautiful new book I recently edited, designed and published. It includes 24 delicious Phyto recipes for radiant health. Take a look at Amazon’s ‘Look Inside the Book’ feature!”
In addition to working as the events and social media manager at Timbuk Toys, Paul Belden ’76 - known to his fans as Mr. Paul - presents weekly Story Playtimes at Timbuk Toys’ various Denver-area locations. Paul’s performances include storytelling, puppetry, magic, songs, juggling, balloons and more! Class of 1976 grads Sarah Chabot May, Katherine MacDonald Meier, Mary Kent Sayles, and Kiki Woodard-Sayre celebrated their sixtieth birthdays with a group hike on the Tour du Mont Blanc. Read more about their adventures on page 24.
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Bart Berger ’67 received the 2019 Colo. Preservation, Inc. “Dana Crawford Award for Excellence,” which celebrates his dedicated achievements in historic preservation. Bart founded the Denver Mountain Parks Foundation to restore and revitalize the historic Denver Mountain Park system, was on the board of directors for History Colorado for 21 years (serving as chairman for six) and currently is on the board of HistoriCorps. He also manages his family’s Centennial Farm near Estabrook.
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Les Berry ’75 is currently working at Denver International Airport as the Director of Strategy and Programs within Business Technologies. Les oversees several of the innovations coming with airports Great Hall Renovation including 176 Self Bag Drop Units and giant LED displays throughout the main terminal. Les is happily married to Anita West Berry, has two adult daughters, and enjoys traveling and home renovation in his free time.
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Diane Carpenter Peiker ’53 passed away on Oct. 22, 2018.
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Sarah MacMillan-Taylor ’88 had her work featured at the Portland Art Museum Delve Readers Seminar in October-November 2018. She shares, “This set of prints is in the permanent collection at PAM, Oregon, but it is always nice when students dust them off and play with them!”
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Kaveh Rastegar ’93 released his first solo album, Light of Love, in the fall of 2018. In addition to his solo recording, Kaveh is the bassist for the Grammy-nominated quintet Kneebody as well as a member of John Legend’s bandstand and has collaborated with artists including Bruno Mars, Meshell Ndegeocello, and Cee Lo Green.
Amara Martin ’97 is the Executive Director of Dress for Success Denver.
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Angela Clark ’02 was recently sworn in as an Assistant State’s Attorney in Chicago, IL. Crystal Paul-Laughinghouse ’04 currently lives in Seattle with her husband and works as a reporter at The Seattle Times.
Lauren Parker Johnson ’ 04 writes: “I got married in June 2017 and now help manage my husband’s 5th generation cattle ranch, the Flying Diamond Ranch located in eastern Colorado. It’s been quite the transition from city life to ranch life, but I love learning about the agriculture and beef industries through my work! I’m passionate about giving consumers an eye into day-to-day life on the ranch through our social media pages.” Alex Harding McDermott ’06 has two kids, ages 1 and 3, and is a licensed psychologist in private practice in Denver. Patrick Murray ’09 and Kathleen Hickey Murray ’09 welcomed Ruth Parker Murray into the world in March. Patrick shares: “Ruth was born healthy and beautiful, and mama did an amazing job!”
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Alumni Weekend 2019 will take place in the fall in 2019—October 11, 12 and 13— so that alumni can see campus at its liveliest and visit with favorite teachers and current students. Graduates from the 4s and 9s classes, please contact Elyse Rudolph at erudolph@kentdenver.org if you’d like to help plan your class’s milestone reunion party.
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Class of 1985 grad Liz Prato’s second book, Volcanoes, Palm Trees, and Privilege: Essays on Hawai‘i will be published by Overcup Press in April 2019. Hawaiian history, pop culture, and contemporary affairs are masterfully woven with her personal narrative of loss and survival in linked essays, offering unique insight into how the touristic ideal of Hawai‘i came to be, and what it is, at its core. Bestselling author Cheryl Strayed calls it, “Searching, wise, intimate and illuminating. Liz Prato’s [book] is a complicated love letter to a place and powerful reckoning of a life.”
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Dr. Jeffrey Lackner ’80 is Professor and Chief of the Behavioral Medicine Division at the University at Buffalo Jacobs School of Medicine. In December 2018, he was selected as the winner of the Buffalo Translational Consortium (BTC) 2018 Clinical Research Achievement Award. The work for which he received the award was based on the findings of a landmark NIH-funded clinical trial showing that behavioral selfmanagement treatment developed by his research team was highly effective in reducing gastrointestinal symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome.
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Siri DeMarche ’11 currently lives in Portland, OR where she works for the international vacation rental management company VACASA. She also completed an advanced certificate in “Coaching and Program Management” at the Institute of Rowing Leadership in Boston.
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Morgan Hoholik ’11, Paige Hoholik ’13, and their mom, Audrey Hoholik, have joined milehimodern real estate. Paige writes: “We loved our time at Kent Denver!”
Havana McElvaine ’13 was selected as a Marshall scholar, one of the highest honors available to college graduates in the U.S. She plans to attend the London School of Economics and Oxford University, where she will earn two master’s degrees: one in Inequalities and Social Science from the London School of Economics and a second in Evidence Based Social Intervention and Policy Evaluation at Oxford University. Upon graduation from Texas Christian University, Hayley McCurdy ’13 embarked on a 13-month fellowship in the Dominican Republic working for a micro-finance non-profit. She writes, “There, I focused on developing a low-cost financing instrument for solar panels. Currently, I am finishing up my first year at UPenn where I am pursuing a masters in Environmental Sustainability & Energy Management.” Rachel Prokupek ’15 is currently the Executive Director of Penn Appétit, a student-run food magazine at the University of Pennsylvania. Rachel spearheaded the production of Penn Appétit’s first cookbook, Whisk, published in the fall of 2018 by 14 student-cooks, designers, and photographers. The cookbook features 55 recipes that appeal to everyone from novice cooks to more adept home chefs. Rachel’s favorite recipe from Whisk is Nanny’s Chocolate Cake!
Andrea Qualman ’17 will hike Machu Picchu in August with a group of her Boston College classmates. As part of their trip, the group is raising money to support the B+ Foundation, an organization that advocates for and funds childhood cancer research and provides financial assistance to families in need after a child’s cancer diagnosis.
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Former middle school social studies teacher Polly Holyoke lives in Texas. She is the author of the Neptune Trilogy, an awardwinning series for middle grade readers published by Disney Hyperion. She and her husband love to travel and scuba dive together.
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Krista D’Alessandro ’11 graduated with a Master’s in Public Policy this spring from the McCourt School at Georgetown University, where she served as the Co-Director for the Policy Innovation Lab and as the Co-President for the Women in Public Policy Initiative. Also while earning her master’s degree, Krista worked as a Public Policy Fellow at the National Housing Trust, developed a data-driven mapping tool for the World Bank, and provided policy recommendations to the government of Ecuador on the issue of malnutrition.
After retiring from Kent Denver, former science teacher Kathleen Jones taught at the University of Northern Colorado for 13 years. She volunteers extensively in the Windsor community and serves as the unofficial CEO of Mary’s Cradle, a non-profit group that supports struggling families in the Windsor, Greeley and surrounding communities. Kathleen and her husband, Tom, another active member of the Windsor community, recently celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary.
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CE L EB R ATI N G DEC ADES O F F R I E NDSHIP ON THE TOUR DU MONT BLANC BY ELYSE RUDOLPH
When Class of 1976 graduates Sarah Chabot May, Martha Kent Sayles, Katherine MacDonald Meier, and Kathryn “Kiki” Woodard Sayre get together, laughter is the sound you hear most often. The lifelong friends recently gathered for lunch on the Kent Denver campus, and many of the stories they shared involved school-wide jokes, such as the time students put teachers on trial in Grant Hall for the crime of assigning too much homework. In the years since graduating, May, Sayles, Meier and Sayre have continued to meet up to laugh, reminisce about shared memories and make new ones. “Even though we all have our different lives,” Meier says, “we just pick back up again. That’s the beauty of our friendship.” For milestone birthdays in particular, the four Kent Denver classmates, along with two other longtime friends, like to plan adventures, like a 40th birthday celebration in Aspen and a 50th birthday trip to New York City. For their 60th birthdays though, they
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decided to embark on their most ambitious adventure yet: the Tour du Mont Blanc, a 100plus mile hike through the Alps. Mont Blanc is the highest mountain peak in Western Europe at over 15,770 feet. Getting around it on the famous trail involves at least ten days of hiking through France, Italy, and Switzerland. The friends spent two years preparing for their 2018 trip. They took practice hikes together and separately to build stamina and spent hours coordinating all the logistical details, from planning overnight stays in huts and hostels to conferring over their packing lists. When everyone finally arrived in Switzerland, their group was easily recognizable on the trails, thanks to the Colorado flag scarves Sayles gave to everyone in the group at the beginning of the trek. Other hikers dubbed them the Colorado Girls. The Colorado Girls quickly found their hiking rhythm. Each morning, the women would pair off for that day’s hike, organically rotating the pairs so that everyone could spend time together, not just as a group, but also one-on-one. Some partners walked
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Views of Mt. Blanc from above Courmayeur, Italy. From left to right: Katherine MacDonald Meier ’76, Kiki Woodard-Sayre ’76, Sarah- Chabot May ’76, Jan Cuneo, Kate Inskeep, Martha Kent Sayles ’76 Photo: K. Meier ’76
ahead and others came along more slowly, but no one was ever left behind.
woodstove for the Colorado Girls and several dozen other hikers.
Conversation and laughter were critical to surviving the more grueling parts of the trail. As May put it, “Talking meant you didn’t have to think about the steep trail.” And the joy they found in each other’s company kept discouragement and negativity at bay. In fact, no one remembers hearing a single negative remark on the entire trip. (Although when recapping the trip, Sayre notes, “I thought it!” as everyone else laughs.)
Most of all, the spectacular surroundings made the group feel more, rather than less energized each day. “The beauty would carry you on,” Sayles says.
Stops for food and rest in villages along the way also kept spirits high. One highlight was lunch on the trail at an old cheese farm, where the owners provided a hearty home-cooked meal made over a
What they most remember about the trip is the final day, which ended with everyone beaming in their final group photo from the trip. As Sayles put it, “To experience together something none of us had done before was part of our elation.” Now a year out from the trip, May notes that she misses the uninterrupted time with her Kent Denver classmates, and she misses the sense of purpose that came with preparing for and embarking on their 10day journey. It’s no surprise then that they’re already brainstorming their next milestone trip together.
<Hiking down into the Chamonix Valley, France. Photo courtesy of K. Meier. SUMMER 2019
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