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Remembering Steven J. Sotloff '02 Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of KUA's Return to Coeducation A Tribute to Thomas Mikula KUA Today and Tomorrow 2013 - 2014 Annual Report Class Notes

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HEAD OF SCHOOL Michael J. Schafer H’13, P’12,’15

EDITOR Julia Brennan

LAYOUT AND DESIGN Jessica Miller

CLASS NOTES EDITOR Nancy Norwalk

PHOTOGRAPHY Dave Arnold Julia Brennan Kit Creeger P’09 Jon Gilbert Fox Roy Knight P’10 David Nelson John Risley Eileen Williams P’15,’16

CONTRIBUTORS Adam Black ’85, P’17 Julia Brennan Kit Creeger P’09 Jane Carver Fielder H’13, P’90,’91 Michael J. Schafer H’13, P’12,’15 David Weidman

Front Cover: Steven Sotloff climbing Cardigan Mountain.

Back Cover: Photo by David Nelson.

FEATURES HEAD OF SCHOOL Michael J. Schafer H’13, P’12,’15

REMEMBERING STEVEN Steven J. Sotloff ’02 ― 1983 - 2014

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40TH ANNIVERSARY OF KUA’S RETURN TO COEDUCATION Julia Brennan and Jane Carver Fielder H’13, P’90, ’91

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KUA TODAY AND TOMMORROW Michael J. Schafer H’13, P’12, ’15 and Adam Black ’85, P’17

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A TRIBUTE TO THOMAS MIKULA Celebrating the life and impact of KUA’s 16th headmaster

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DEPARTMENTS SCHOOL NEWS 24 Library Opens in Miller Bicentennial Hall Farewell to “Taups” Cullman Scholars Commencement 2014 STEM 2013 - 2014 Athletics The Arts at KUA ALUMNI NEWS Reunion 2014 Dhamey Tensing Norgay ’89 Reflects on his return to The Hilltop Alumni Council News KUA Events

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2013 -2014 ANNUAL REPORT

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CLASS NOTES

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KIMBALL UNION CONVOCATION REMARKS BY HEAD OF SCHOOL MICHAEL J. SCHAFER H’13, P’12,’15 SEPTEMBER 7, 2014 Welcome to our Convocation, the coming together of our Kimball Union community of students and teachers for the formal opening celebration of our school year and work. As we join together, we reflect on the importance of our charge as learners and leaders in this community in the true spirit of our theme for the year: Inspire.

Convocations at colleges, universities, and schools with religious affiliations typically invoke the religious and faithful relationship of the work before them for the year together. At schools like Kimball Union, although we have religious roots, we tend to look more toward the spiritual—matters of the soul. How fitting it is then that the word for our current theme, INSPIRE, itself derives from breath and spirit, and that the example of inspiration that I will use today is a metaphor for the importance of taking in—breathing—our education into our very souls.

Convocation is, if you will, a kind of beginning with the end in mind. It is a celebration of the circularity of new beginnings—commencements—as much as it is about transitions to something new. The pursuit of academic knowledge is among our highest priorities, to be sure. But at the same time, for you, our students, we recognize the importance of the pursuit of selfknowledge at this time in your lives. Each of us, young and old, must try to learn and grow together to become our best selves. This Convocation is a moment in time for reflection and forward thinking about where we are and who we are, about where we learn and how we learn, and about how we can best learn together.

Today, I want to juxtapose something terrible, horrible, and unimaginable—something difficult to fathom or stomach, let alone understand: the brutal beheading of two journalists, James Foley and our own Steven Sotloff ’02, alongside something beautiful, graceful, and indeed, inspiring. By doing so, I am going to be talking to you—each of you, sitting here with us today—so that when we bear witness or when we study, think about, and talk over the problems of the world, perhaps they will not seem quite so remote or quite so fleeting or impersonal. My hope is that you will not respond with indifference or nonchalance because the issues seem outside of your realm or ability to resolve, and that you will understand that global events are actually about real people like us—that they may just hit home a little harder, whether they touch us in person and in real time, or are transmitted across the globe.

If there is a lesson to be learned in all of this, it is that education—that this education, this opportunity, this school, and this aggregation of people—is a gift. You and we have the power to change a person, a group, a community, and even a world. We are all just people, and these, as our alumni have said countless times, are the transformational years where change and growth are embedded and most profound.

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Here is one story of one person from this little school—this little village with one blinking yellow light at the bottom of the hill—that has reached around the world.

Heraclitus wrote, “We live in times of great change, and great constancy.”

And yet, how far have we come? Maybe from this Convocation onward, we can change the discourse and see the world and our possibilities in it anew?

We have talked often about KUA as a historic school, and indeed we are one of the oldest schools of our kind in the country, and one with the longest-standing tradition of coeducation, starting back in1816. This year marks the 40th year of our return to coeducation after a hiatus from 1937 to 1974. We are also a school with more than 500 alumni from across the globe, living their lives, sharing their world, and using what they have taken from their Kimball Union experience and how they have grown. Most recently, KUA has been thrust onto the world stage and into the history books for reasons that are truly beyond belief. A graduate prepared and inspired to follow his passions and make the world a better place, a positive example of all that is good about humanity, about whom I wrote during the school year when “courage,” was our theme—became a victim of brutality and hatred that is inhumane and beyond imagination. How do we make sense of this event, how should we talk and think about it, and how can we learn from it?

Why is this experience so important to consider as we start the year together on such a happy, and now sad, note? And why must we look at this happening and other current events as an inspirational backdrop to our year and whatever you as individuals set out to accomplish? Because as remote and impersonal as history and current events can seem, never before has history been so real, because it is about someone just like you, just like any one of us.

Thirteen years ago on September 11, 2001, right at the beginning of the school year, when some of you were only one or two or three or four years old, a senior named Steven Sotloff sat with his classmates and advisees here in this very hall, just as we do today. It was just after orientation, very much like the orientation you have just experienced.

Students and faculty had come from their first-period class to gather, because the news had just reported that the first of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City had been hit by an airplane.

Can you imagine the impression that these events would have on any student—new or returning, American or international, Muslim or Jewish, Catholic or Protestant? Can you imagine what was required for students new to the school and for those who had been here previously to witness, to come to understand, to comfort, and to begin again?

For Steven Sotloff, this event was an indelible moment in time, a catalyst for him finding a new direction in his schooling and in his all-too-short life. Working through the 9/11 issues and beyond, working through Steven’s own personal struggles as a student, KUA helped him pull together his love for people from all over, including his interest in the Middle East, where he continued his studies, learned Arabic, and traveled throughout the region. He told me that through football and rugby, KUA had prepared him for the physical and emotional tests he would face, and that KUA provided him the opportunity to explore his other talents—for art performances, for journalism, and even for curiosity or mischief. What better humanistic values were needed to draw upon in reporting on the human condition from the world’s most dangerous places? And further, he would ask: How is it that we still find ourselves after 13 years fighting

the same wars with the same hatred and misunderstandings? What have learned, and what must we learn?

Fast forward to the spring of 2012, when I sent out a notice to the entire KUA community that after more than 120 years, we would no longer be offering football. About an hour after the message went out, I received an email back from a graduate named Steven Sotloff, class of 2002. The email was angry. He was operating then on the ground in Libya during the liberation from the rule of Kadahfy and was very much in harm’s way.

I can’t recall if he was in Tripoli or Bengazi—it doesn’t really matter. With violence all around him and his safety in question, as it had been during most of his reporting for Time and other news organizations, he had received my message on his phone, and from his point of view, it was not a good one to receive.

He wrote: “Mr. Schafer, that is a bone-headed decision. Unless you have a physical substitute for football and this type of challenge, this is a horrible decision. If it weren’t for Kimball Union and football, I would not have the skills or the commitment to do this work, and if it weren’t for the pressure of football and the demands placed on me by my coaches, I would not be able to handle what I am managing to handle here.”

That email began a correspondence with me and other members of the school, many of his teachers who are still here, until Steven’s capture about nine months ago.

2012 was the year of courage. There were many alumni who shared their experiences of courage in the face of loss and triumph. But in announcing our “theme of the year” in a letter in Kimball Union Magazine, I focused on one alum: Steven Sotloff. I wrote about how he had told me that he was often under fire, and how amid the chaos and destruction he was reporting on, his thoughts would often turn to his most influential years, his years at KUA. He thought about the most influential people in his life, his KUA teachers— Mr. Hyjek, Mr. MacMahon, Ms. Ouellette, and Mr. Kardel, to name a few— his dorm parents and coaches, and his classmates from all walks of life.

He wrote about how Kimball Union had prepared him to “reach beyond his grasp,” to see the world through a different lens, and to commit to using what he had learned to help others. He cited his KUA teachers as role models for him, and his experiences—both profound and silly— as formative to his spirit as a friend to all. He spoke of his classes in government and history, and he wrote that one of his greatest achievements was receiving the Lawton Award in Journalism at KUA graduation.

In his correspondences with me, he wanted to make sure that you—today’s KUA students—know that you and all of us here hold the key to the future.

He wanted to make sure that you were being exposed to world issues, that you had the mindset and the tools, the perspectives and the inclination, to tackle difficult challenges, to question and seek understanding, to problem solve, and to improve writing and communication and debate.

Simply put: Are we preparing you for contributions to the world and the communities you will inherit and you will shape? Steven returned to KUA to run workshops here at Global Fair, which I know some of you attended.

I can recall his saying at the event that writing about the conflict was, to paraphrase an old expression, “perspiration and inspiration in equal parts.”

He recently wrote me that he would like to teach at Kimball Union when he returned from one last attempt to cover the conflict in Syria. He thought that teaching might be a great way to give back to the school that had set him on his path.

And then, we heard nothing until a video of the execution of his colleague James Foley showed Steven Sotloff and warned that he would be the next victim of beheading should the United States continue its bombing campaign against the ISIS Nation.

the globe, from educational organizations and association heads to his former teachers and classmates, and friends and alumni of Kimball Union, far and wide.

On September 5, I was in Miami with Steven’s family, friends, and colleagues, along with the governor, senators, the mayor, and rabbis. The brutal horror of his beheading at the hands of barbaric terrorists, the geopolitical implications for invasions, and the hatred and suffering of so many was nowhere to be seen or felt. The feelings of love poured into broken hearts, the focus turned to one man, one brother, one son, one cousin, one friend, one bar mitzvah, one journalist who lived out his dream of covering the world and exposing it so that what we have been witnessing—a great constancy of hate—could be overtaken by a heartfelt desire for peace and understanding.

Mrs. Sotloff came to the podium in front of thousands, and the world, and spoke about her son’s conviction, his past as a rambunctious student, unfocused and irreverent, his love for his grandparents, both Holocaust survivors, about Steven as a neutral reporter who concealed his faith for his protection, and about how at Kimball Union he grew from a boy into a focused and purposeful young man, how he developed deep relationships with faculty and friends from all over the world, and through football, rugby, and theater, developed the presence and resilience he would need to take on new challenges and discover the world, and through this experience, his love for human interest stories and the Middle East began to take shape.

She said that when Steven knew his fate was sealed and that he would not escape his captors, that he smuggled out a message of love to his parents and wishes for him to be remembered.

Later that afternoon, after the public service for Steven, I was invited back to the family’s house. It was an honor and an unimagineable gesture on his family’s part, given the incredible scrutiny and security of the event.

Echoing her remarks at Steven’s memorial service to all those assembled, Mrs. Sotloff said that through it all, Steven’s most influential growing experience was his three years at Kimball Union, where he learned to live with others; where he learned to separate facts from ideas and put them together in writing; where he got to own his learning as he revitalized the student newspaper; where he played football and rugby and had a role in the play Cabaret; where he found passion and direction and friendship and love in his teachers and mentors and friends where, as she said, “He grew from a boy into the man he became.”

Mr. Sotloff then said that in the note Steven had smuggled out, Steven credited his teachers, his Kimball Union friends, and his school as that which had inspired him. And, further, Steven requested that a fund be established in his name here at KUA to support current and future Kimball Union students in journalism and global studies; he wanted it to be a fund in honor of the Steven Sotloff class of 2002.

If you have ever doubted what we are doing here, what you are doing here, what you are capable of learning and doing, what and how and if your time will be of interest, influence, and even inspiration, what will give you the strength and will to dig in and dig deep, then today you have the inspiration of one man as an example to guide you. The power of education is truly right here. When you are in doubt, think about Steven and his journey.

From this very hall, one person just might change the world. No matter how far removed the world may seem, we are not passengers. You are not passengers on the journey. You are the authors of your own story. You, we, people, will all write and record—not simply bear witness—to history. You are the unbroken. You are in the driver’s seat, so don’t let the year, or the world, pass you by.

It is amazing how a little school in a little village can wrap around the globe—and what your education can do for you and what you can do for your education.

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WHEN THE TRAGIC NEWS OF JOURNALIST JAMES FOLEY’S EXECUTION ON AUGUST 19, 2014, REACHED THE KIMBALL UNION COMMUNITY, WE NOT ONLY GRIEVED HIS LOSS BUT WERE SHOCKED AND HORRIFIED TO LEARN THAT THE LIFE OF ALUMNUS STEVEN SOTLOFF ’02 WAS ALSO THREATENED. OVER THE NEXT WEEKS, WE JOINED THE NATION AND THE WORLD IN HOPING AND PRAYING FOR STEVEN’S SUCCESSFUL RELEASE. SADLY, WE LEARNED ON SEPTEMBER 2 THAT STEVEN HAD ALSO BEEN EXECUTED

BY THE ISLAMIC STATE OF IRAQ (ISIS).

Steven’s KUA yearbook photo

Since then, the outpouring of support for Steven’s family and for his alma mater has been truly heartwarming. We have received messages and condolences from his classmates and teachers, alumni, parents, friends, and fellow educators from across the country and around the globe. From the moment the news was released, our community came together to share memories and remembrances and to look for ways to ensure Steven’s legacy.

Just days after the news of his death, Steven’s father, Arthur Sotloff, reached out to Head of School Mike Schafer to tell him that Steven had smuggled a letter out of captivity last spring. In it, he had asked that, in the event of his death, a fund be established in his name at Kimball Union.

It is with great honor and tremendous humility that the Steven J. Sotloff Fund to Inspire Journalism and Global Scholarship has been established in honor of Steven.

The remarks that follow were made by Head of School Michael J. Schafer H’13, P’12,’15 and David Weidman, Assistant Head of School for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty, during the official announcement of the establishment of the Fund on September 9, 2014. We are happy to share with you on the following pages these memories of the boy Steven was and the man he became, as well as photos of Steven during his time on The Hilltop.

Additional photos and memories are posted at www.kua.org/remembering steven, on Kimball Union’s Facebook page, and at http://kimballunionrememberingsteven.com.

We are sharing these memorabilia with the Sotloff family and encourage you to add your own comments, memories, and condolences if you wish.

— JULIA BRENNAN, EDITOR

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REMARKS BY MICHAEL J. SCHAFER HEAD OF SCHOOL SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

I am not sure there are words to describe how our school community is feeling about the loss of Steven Sotloff. The pain and sorrow are profound. I had the privilege of attending his memorial service in Pinecrest, Florida, to celebrate the life of Steven with his family and friends. Despite the grief and sadness, the event was a wonderful testament to this remarkable young man and it was an honor to meet his family.

Today, we as a school want to share our happy memories of Steven, honor him for the extraordinary life he lived, for the courage he showed, and for the great passion and commitment he had for the causes in which he deeply believed.

Steven arrived as a sophomore at Kimball Union and graduated in the class of 2002. He is remembered for his sense of humor, although by his own admission, it was not always exhibited at the most optimal times! His yearbook recognized him for “best laugh.”

His image is scattered in many settings and roles throughout this campus. Steven lived large and took advantage of everything the school had to offer. He played a variety of sports including baseball, hockey, and wrestling before finally settling on his two great loves—football and rugby—where he made significant contributions as a varsity player. He was the type of athlete who also took to the stage, appearing, for example, in a performance of Cabaret.

Sotloff was a member of the Kimball Union Fire Brigade, an important volunteer arm of the Meriden Fire Department. He was a class representative to the Student Council and an admissions tour guide.

he was in Libya with very limited Internet access, Steven responded immediately and passionately. He shared with me that he felt his experiences playing football at KUA had provided him with the discipline, grit, teamwork, and determination he needed to do the work he was doing. We had many virtual discussions back and forth, and while we never quite resolved the football issue, we did come to a mutual understanding.

Our ongoing email correspondence gave me great insight into the man Steven had become and inspired me to include his story in a letter I wrote for the 2012 Kimball Union Magazine on the theme of courage.

I quote, in part, from my letter: His correspondences were short and infrequent yet nevertheless detailed and poignant amidst the destruction, chaos, and suffering he was observing. In the quieter moments of reflection, his thoughts turned to his years and experiences at Kimball Union, which for him were fundamental to his interest in world events, to his fortitude in persevering under very difficult conditions, and to his ability to convey ideas.

STEVEN WROTE ABOUT HOW KIMBALL UNION HAD PREPARED HIM TO REACH BEYOND HIS GRASP, TO SEE THE WORLD THROUGH DIFFERENT LENSES, AND TO COMMIT TO USING WHAT HE HAD LEARNED TO HELP OTHERS.

He wanted to make sure that our students were being exposed to world issues such as the Arab Spring as they were happening, and that a balanced perspective on our role in the world and in the transformational times were part of our students’ experiences. He wondered how technology was influencing our pedagogy and our students’ exposure to real-world issues.

But his real passion was the then-faltering student newspaper, The Kimball Union. As its editor, Steven played a critical role in revitalizing it. Worth noting is that even back then, as a young high school student, Steven had a broad perspective and was interested not just in featuring school news, but in tackling world issues and including editorials and opinion pieces. His teachers recognized him for reporting events on campus and for telling compelling stories about life beyond the campus through the written word—it was clear even then that he truly had a gift. Consequently, his significant efforts were acknowledged on graduation day with the Lawton Award for Journalism.

Fortunately for me, Steven’s ongoing interest in Kimball Union brought us together, as I was not here when he was a student—I came the following year. His first email to me was a response to an email communication I had sent to the KUA community to inform everyone that we had made the difficult but necessary decision to discontinue our football program. Despite the fact that Steven (bottom right) revitalized KUA’s student newspaper, The Kimball Union, and served as its editor.

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“WE WERE HUMBLED AND HONORED TO LEARN THAT EVEN IN HIS MOST DIFFICULT MOMENTS WHEN HE REALIZED THAT HIS SAFE RELEASE WAS UNLIKELY, STEVEN THOUGHT OF

Steven asked the important questions: Did KUA’s diverse international population make it possible for different points of view to be represented in class? Did we teach debate and emphasize writing and analysis, problem solving, presentation skills, and above all, critical thinking? Were we truly preparing young people for the world they will inherit—the world they will have the power to shape?

Steven wrote about how Kimball Union had prepared him to reach beyond his grasp, to see the world through different lenses, and to commit to using what he had learned to help others. He cited his KUA teachers as role models, and spoke of the importance of his classes in government, history, and English. He credited his ongoing and enduring relationships with students from across the globe, forged at KUA, as transformational in his world view. Together we agreed that no matter how the vehicles for learning change, as they must, our values must hold forth, hold steady, and guide us in a world that more than ever requires collaboration, communication, and character.

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We were humbled and honored to learn that even in his most difficult moments when he realized that his safe release was unlikely, Steven thought of Kimball Union. Steven’s father called us last week to say that Steven was able to smuggle out a document to his family last spring, and amongst his requests was that if he didn’t survive, a scholarship be set up in his name at Kimball Union. The Steven J. Sotloff Fund to Inspire Journalism and Global Scholarship will be just one of the legacies Steven leaves on this hilltop.

And so as we grieve as a community for the loss of Steven, we remember the boy he was, and we celebrate the man he became. Aptly, this year’s school theme is INSPIRE. Steven’s life and work are an inspiration to us all. We dedicate this year to him and in his spirit, to all those who, like him, dedicate their lives to making this world a better place.

REMARKS BY DAVID J. WEIDMAN

ASSISTANT HEAD OF SCHOOL FOR ACADEMIC AFFAIRS AND DEAN OF THE FACULTY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2014 I have had the privilege of teaching and working at Kimball Union for 25 years. I directed Steven Sotloff in our production of Cabaret. Like many boarding schools where faculty and students live and work together 24 hours a day, we at KUA build very strong connections with one another.

Remembering Steven, Casey Lawson, a ’01 graduate, sums it up well when he says, “Membership in this (KUA) family is not unlike that of any other. We savor victories and learn from defeats. We share values and promote ideals. We celebrate milestones and we mourn losses. We are all now mourning a great loss. It seems impossible that someone who went to a small private school in a sleepy little town in New Hampshire could be thrust into the international spotlight. A family remembers its own and tells that story.” John Farnsworth, Steven’s English teacher and dorm parent, recounts in a posthumous letter to Steven: “I always had a sense you wanted to make a name for yourself. I’m just sorry you won’t be able to tell the story of what getting there was like. You would have told it best.”

“STEVE EVEN LEARNED ARABIC IN ORDER TO TELL MORE STORIES ABOUT AN AREA OF THE WORLD AND ITS PEOPLE WITH WHOM HE HAD FALLEN IN LOVE, REGARDLESS OF THE INHERERENT DANGERS.”

Indeed, he would have. His advisor, Gino Riffle, remembers: “From the minute Steven showed up as a 10th grader at KUA until his death, he was a storyteller. Whether he was in the student center, cafeteria, dorm, or even the classroom, he always had a group of students or faculty engaged in some tale, whether it be about watching his house torn from its foundation as a hurricane ripped through his hometown of Miami, or about strolling the streets of South Beach trying his best to impress all of the beautiful people with his sly sense of humor.”

Steven walks with KUA classmates to a formal dinner.

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Steve even learned Arabic in order to tell more stories about an area of the world and its people with whom he had fallen in love, regardless of the inherent dangers. Gino says: “He was a man who knew what he wanted and did not care about the risk. He wanted to live his way.”

Many have described Steven as “brave.” And he most certainly was. His best friend, Jordan Loesser, recently said, “The most important thing to understand about Steven is the courage and drive he had to chase his dreams and passions.” But Steven told him he was drawn to covering the Middle East not only because of his Jewish heritage, but because of how the conflict was affecting the disenfranchised and the people on the street. “It’s a pleasure doing what I do and it is something the world needs,” Steven once said. Sandy Ouellette, a KUA nurse, recounts that when Steven came to do a workshop at our biennial Global Fair, he showed pictures of himself surrounded by smiling Libyan children.

Even as a teenager, Steven displayed a rare interest in worldwide current events. One of his remarkable traits was his willingness to pursue his passion in the face of considerable obstacles.

Through Steven’s hard work, and love for writing and journalism, The Kimball Union newspaper was reborn. In his senior year as coeditor, Steven published 12 issues. “The paper exceeded everyone’s expectations,” Steven once said. In a letter to the editors in the final issue of Steven’s senior year, Former Headmaster Timothy Knox commended the newspaper staff: “Your standard of journalism has been consistently high. You have encouraged Steven (bottom right) with fellow members intelligent of the KUA Fire Brigade discussion on matters of world importance, as well as presented thoughtful analysis of internal school issues. Each paper has included material ranging from serious to light hearted.” It was through the newspaper that Steven found his stride.

Sotloff was, however, not always a focused student. He admitted himself: “I was the class clown, especially in Spanish with Mr. Kardel.” His Spanish classmate, Saeger Philpot, recalled, “I think Kardel kicked him out of class at least once a week for dress code.” To this, Tom Kardel retorted, “Steven and journalism, yes; Steven and sartorial sense—probably no!” Paul Montcastle, Steven’s English teacher and dorm parent, remembers Steven’s mischievous streak: “One night when apprehended for being out of his room, Steven invited me to play a video game with him.

Steven often met the faculty’s impatience with his trademark smile or a shrug and the retort, ‘You can’t blame me for trying.’”

And in his senior year Steven joined KUA’s volunteer Fire Brigade. Chris Thayer, a fellow brigade member, remembers Steven fondly: He made almost every call and meeting. He always asked questions.

He always tried to learn. If he wasn’t sure, he would ask—that’s a rare quality in a young firefighter. He worked hard too, and loved to help— doing whatever Steven brought his passion, courage, and intensity was needed— to everything he did at KUA, including athletics. packing hose or He is pictured here on the JV football team (bottom whatever. He left) and in a rugby match. would rather make sure things were done right than just ‘done.’ If he missed a truck, he would be found sweeping the station, organizing gear, or sharpening tools.

Perhaps the KUA brigade gave him the ability to think through what he wanted to offer this world. I remember his working so hard at training that his eyeglasses were constantly almost falling off his face from sweat. He always ‘moved with purpose.’ As he had all these qualities when I knew him as a high school student, I can only imagine what an amazing man he grew to be.”

And of course, Steven’s obsession with football was legendary.

Gino Riffle recounts: “Every Sunday night during the fall I would knock on his door, and he would be in head-to-toe Dolphin paraphernalia. If they won, he would describe every play in detail. If they lost, he would show off his extensive vocabulary.

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I always told him that his ability to tell a wide range of stories came from the losses because that is when he exercised very descriptive language!” Steve’s football coach, Brian McMahon, tells “AT AN AGE WHEN WE this story: “The final game of the season was against Vermont Academy.

WERE OFTEN AFRAID We had been winless against VA for TO BE OUR AUTHENTIC many years. Few people could recall the last time we beat our archrivals. In SELVES OUT OF FEAR 2001, however, the seniors on the team OF RIDICULE AND were able to walk off the field knowing REJECTION, STEVEN they had accomplished what no KUA team in recent history had been able to HAD NO SUCH FEARS.” do. Looking at Steve, you would have thought we had won the Super Bowl! I still remember that day as if it were yesterday.”

Steven with Dexter-Richards dorm-mates during Winter Carnival

Surprisingly, Sotloff wasn’t satisfied with only one heavy contact sport; in his senior year, he went out for rugby. Brian reports:

He loved everything rugby—the hard work, the discipline, the pain, and of course, Match Day. A caption in Steven’s yearbook states, ‘Rugby is Life.’ In one year, Steve went from newbie to old pro. But that is Steve. He was always looking for the next challenge. He was not only a thinker, but also a doer.

The most salient and oft-mentioned of Steven’s qualities, however, is his compassion. Saeger Philpot states: “I remember him as an incredibly kind, inquisitive, and unique individual. At an age when we were often afraid to be our authentic selves out of fear of ridicule and rejection, Steven had no such fears. He marched to the beat of his own drum and was a friend to everyone. I can only hope I live my life with half as much passion.”

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Steve Sotloff cared deeply for his friends and would consistently speak up against injustice. In his letter to Steven, John Farnsworth describes him in this way: “Your resilience was your strength.

I remember your putting your arm around others in need and letting them know that you would be there for them. You had a tenderness and a desire to connect with others that was unlike most high school students. You appreciated their support for you and reciprocated the gesture so naturally.” John goes on to say, “I want you to know how much of an impact you had on me when I was trying to have an impact on you.” And Gino Riffle adds: “In a typical high school lunchroom, the same kids sit with the same kids. Steven was never at the same table. One day he would be with his football or rugby teammates, the next with his newspaper buddies, the next with his theater friends, the next with faculty or with students from different countries. One day I asked him why he bounced from table to table. He said, ‘Rif, look around. Look at the people at this school. Look at the opportunity I have to learn every day from so many. If I did not take advantage of this, why even go to this school? I could stay in Miami and just hang with all my Jewish friends. But I want more and I will have more.”

In his closing remarks as editor, Steven said of Mr. Riffle: “He was the first adult that I can remember who looked me in the eye and listened to every word I was saying for almost an hour and really worked with me to change some things for my betterment and comfort.” Gino concludes: ”Steven showed us that no matter who you are or where you come from, if you listen and you step out of your comfort zone, you will learn; you will grow; and you will experience life through a newer, larger lens. But you must be willing to take that leap—otherwise that lens will remain closed.”

“STEVEN SHOWED US THAT NO MATTER WHO YOU ARE OR WHERE YOU COME FROM, IF YOU LISTEN AND STEP OUT OF YOUR COMFORT ZONE, YOU WILL LEARN; YOU WILL GROW; AND YOU WILL EXPERIENCE LIFE THROUGH A NEWER, LARGER LENS.”

THE

Steven J. Sotloff Fund

TO INSPIRE JOURNALISM AND GLOBAL SCHOL ARSHIP KUA is honored to announce the establishment of the Steven J. Sotloff Fund to Inspire Journalism and Global Scholarship. Through its creation, the family’s hope is to promote and inspire future generations of Kimball Union students to follow Steven’s passion for global and cultural awareness and journalism. Even in the face of danger, Steven’s courage and desire to tell the world about the plight of the voiceless was nothing short of remarkable. The Fund will enable students to reach beyond their grasp, see the world through different lenses, and commit to using what they learn at KUA to help others and to make the world a better place.

Donations can be made to: Kimball Union Academy, Sotloff Fund, PO Box 188, Meriden, NH 03770-0188 or online at www.kua.org/stevensotlofffund Contributions are tax deductible and will be acknowledged accordingly.

Kimball Union will notify the Sotloff family when a gift is made.

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Kimball Union Academy reopened its doors to young women in 1974, it followed a trend among leading U.S. single-sex, independent schools and colleges in adopting coeducation. Unlike many other schools, however, KUA already had a deeply rooted history of being at the forefront of coeducation. Becoming coed again was a return to a strong tradition after a relatively brief hiatus in KUA’s long history.

From January 9, 1815—just two years after Kimball Union’s founding—until 1840, 85 young women attended the Academy, although they were not awarded diplomas. This eagerness to educate women despite the prevailing norms to the contrary can be largely attributed to the vision of Hannah Kimball, the wife of KUA’s founder Daniel Kimball, and to the commitment of the school leaders.

Hannah dreamed of a separate but equal female “department” at Kimball Union. After years of quiet planning, hard work, and financial commitment as the lead benefactor, Hannah’s dream was realized when the cornerstone for the third Academy building was laid on May 8, 1839, and women officially became students of the Academy.

By 1849 female enrollment had grown to 127 within a student body of 318; a new women’s dormitory was added in 1858. Kimball Union Archivist Jane Fielder notes in On The Hilltop (2013): “The new addition increased the size of the school, with students coming not only from New England, but many other states and Canada, an indication of Kimball Union’s excellent reputation at the time.”

Even in 1876, KUA historians noted the benefits of coeducation and the uniqueness of KUA. F.A. Wilson of Concord, New Hampshire, observed in his History of Kimball Union that “Kimball Union is the only institution of like grade in New England [where] the two sexes are associated and the same course of studies are open to both.”

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Many of the men who studied alongside the women at Kimball Union believed in coeducation, including KUA’s fourth principal, Cyrus S. Richards, class of 1831, who served at KUA from 1835 to 1871, and his son, the Reverend Charles H. Richards, class of 1854. Jane Fielder notes that Charles Richards’ Centennial Address at Kimball Union’s 1913 celebration included observations on KUA’s commitment to coeducation: Another marked feature of the Academy deserving special notice has been its coeducation. It is difficult for us to realize in our day the skepticism that formerly prevailed concerning higher education for women. In these times when the great women’s colleges are turning out mathematicians and philosophers and philologists by hundreds, and Cornell and Oberlin and the great state universities are offering their courses on equal terms to girls as well as boys, it seems a matter of course for a girl to seek as broad and complete an education as her brother.

The early women of Kimball Union went on to make their marks in the world—many as educators, nurses, missionaries, and homemakers, and some as pioneers and suffragettes. While at the Academy, however, their lives were often governed by rules related to “ladylike behavior.”

The most famous of these rules was Article 20. This article stated that “all calls, walks, rides, etc., between the members of the two departments, male and female, are strictly prohibited, except by special permission from the headmaster.”

Charles Ransom Miller, class of 1867, and later editor of the New York Times for 40 years, was infamous for reportedly parting ways with the Academy for violating this rule by holding hands with Frances Daniels, a classmate who later become his wife. Many years later, through his

daughter Madge Miller, Charles became one of the most important KUA donors of the 20th century. Miller Bicentennial Hall pays tribute to their legacy.

Although our early records for valedictorians and salutatorians are incomplete until 1859, KUA archives indicate that the first known female valedictorian was Harriet Cook Barrows, class of 1875.

The first woman salutatorian was Julia S. Haskell of the class of 1873. In all, there were 28 female valedictorians from 1875 through 1935 and 35 salutatorians.

Jane Carver Fielder notes that as KUA’s first lady, “one of Elva Mikula’s earliest challenges and greatest triumphs was helping to usher in Kimball Union’s return to coeducation…Elva created enduring traditions for the young women who came to KUA.” Among Elva’s many contributions was coaching the first field hockey team. Recalled Adrienne Stone Sausville ’76 in the Fall 1984 KUA magazine, “For the first year of field hockey, we only had enough players to field a team with no subs.”

Jennifer Borislow ’78 recounted a similar memory of her years at KUA during her commencement speech to the class of 2014 this past June:

Despite limitations of the era imposed on the young women students, the turn of the century brought a gradual increase in the privileges of female students. By this time, young women were being allowed more freedom of choice not only in academics, but also in their activities and social lives. During the 1920s and 1930s athletic offerings were expanded from intramural basketball, volleyball, tennis, snowshoeing, skiing, skating, and hiking to include competitions with other schools, at least in basketball.

My first year, there were just enough girls to form a field hockey team, so even if you had no idea what field hockey was about, you were handed a stick and some shin guards and sent to the field…There were no other fall sport options for girls at that time.

Soon, however, the challenges of the times were against coeducation.

With dwindling enrollments and an increased demand for single-sex schools, in the spring of 1935 the KUA trustees made the difficult decision to end coeducation. Kimball Union officially became a boysonly school and remained that way until the fall of 1974.

According to former faculty member Pollie Davie, the goal was to make KUA “not just a boys’ school with girls in attendance, but a good school for young people of both sexes.” In her History of Women at Kimball Union, Davie notes:

Over the years since “TODAY, KIMBALL UNION’S 1974, traditions like the GIRLS REPRESENT MORE Senior Girls’ Tea began, more sports teams were THAN 40 PERCENT OF THE added, girls’ dorms were built or renovated, TOTAL STUDENT BODY. THEY and classrooms and ARE LEADERS, SCHOLARS, stages benefitted from ATHLETES, AND ARTISTS the enormous talents of the young women WHO EACH LEAVE THEIR who attended. Kimball OWN UNIQUE MARK ON THE Union also attracted an increasing number HILLTOP AND JOIN GENERof dedicated and ATIONS OF OUTSTANDING gifted women faculty as administrators, KIMBALL UNION ALUMNAE.” coaches, and trustees.

Once again, women were very much a part of the Kimball Union community and Hannah Kimball’s vision was firmly reestablished.

When the decision that KUA, after approximately 40 years, would resume coeducation, the school was merely returning to a tradition that it had believed in from its founding: women, as well as men, have the right to a sound education and through this education, they can make important contributions to society.

Today, Kimball Union’s girls represent more than 40 percent of the total student body. They are leaders, scholars, athletes, and artists who each leave their own unique mark on The Hilltop and join generations of outstanding Kimball Union alumnae who contribute to whatever communities they join.

In the fall of 1974, with a new headmaster, Tom Mikula, at the helm and his wife, Elva, by his side, Kimball Union opened its doors again to women. Eleven young women eagerly enrolled. Upon their arrival on The Hilltop, these pioneering girls wrote the following letter:

Says Head of School Mike Schafer:

Then, once again, the winds of change blew on The Hilltop. On the heels of the Vietnam War and a period of social unrest throughout the country, many trustees, faculty, and students believed that to ensure the future success of the Academy and to follow an increasingly popular trend, the time had come for the reintroduction of women at Kimball Union. On February 2, 1974, following a lively debate at the Harvard Club in Boston, the Board of Trustees voted to reinstitute coeducation.

We are determined that this first coed class in 40 years at KUA be remembered for its achievements, contributions, and involvement in worthwhile endeavors. Since we are the first coeds, we feel we must try to be outstanding in order to help set the standards for the many coeds who will follow us. Although we are presently few in number, we have the KUA spirit; we coeds are here to stay.

In the Fall 1984 KUA magazine, Brenda Fox ’78 said, “I have always felt that Kimball Union was proud to have women attending classes again at the Academy.”

The legacy of remarkable women on The Hilltop, from Hannah Kimball to today’s outstanding female students, faculty, trustees, and alumnae, is one of leadership, engagement, and commitment. Our school has truly been defined and distinguished by our long and proud history of coeducation.

Kimball Union will be celebrating its 40th Anniversary of the Return to Coeducation throughout the upcoming academic year.

Look for emails and details at www.kua.org.

— JULIA BRENNAN AND JANE CARVER FIELDER H’13, P’90, ‘91 FA L L 2 0 1 4

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Women OF

The following profiles highlight just a few of the many talented and inspiring women who have graduated from Kimball Union Academy over the past two centuries.

May Belle Doremus

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Helen

Peabody

1844

Helen Peabody, class of 1844, the youngest of 14 children, came from a farm in Newport, New Hampshire. As a child, she had a deep interest in academics and was encouraged by her two brothers and two sisters, all graduates, to attend Kimball Union. From here, she studied at Mount Holyoke, where she graduated with high honors in 1848 and continued as a teacher there until 1855. She was then appointed the first President of Western Female Seminary (now the Western College Program at Miami University), in Oxford, Ohio. She held that position for 37 years and at one point, turned down an offer to become the first president of Wellesley College because of her deep love and commitment to Western College.

Mary Jane

Wilmarth

A native of Meriden, May Belle (Chellis) Doremus, salutatorian of the class of 1879, became the first female graduate of Middlebury College. She earned valedictory rights, but the Middlebury trustees gave the valedictory and salutatory honors to her male classmates; they felt the college had not authorized the faculty to give women such an honor, although they did elect her to Phi Beta Kappa. May Belle is also remembered as a teacher of President Calvin Coolidge at the Black River Academy in southern Vermont.

Carrie Coolidge

1881

Ruth

1922

Carrie Athelia (Brown) Coolidge came to KUA from Plymouth, Vermont, and also graduated salutatorian. From here she taught in schools in Vermont, and later was Superintendent of the Plymouth schools. Carrie married the father of President Calvin Coolidge who wrote in praise of his stepmother in his autobiography. “She was a graduate of Kimball Union Academy and had taught school for some years. Loving books and music, she was not only a mother to me but a teacher.”

1856

Mary Jane (Hawes) Wilmarth was a four-year student, who, after graduation, married and moved to Chicago where she led a quiet life raising three children. After her husband’s death in 1885, she devoted her life to social reform. She became a leader of early women’s clubs, labored hard for child labor laws, and attempted to secure a Saturday half-holiday for working women.

Her friend Jane Addams, a Nobel Peace Prize recipient, laid out her own plans to found Hull House in Mary Jane’s home and they marched together as fellow suffragettes. At the age of 75, Mary Jane became a member of the Progressive Party and was one of two women delegates-at-large from Illinois to the Progressive National Convention held in Chicago in 1912.

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1879

Benfield

Ruth (Wood) Benfield claimed that Headmaster Tracy was responsible for her lifelong success in public speaking, a course he taught. She was very involved in Recitations and Tracy would take the women to other schools for overnight competitions. She graduated magna cum laude from Syracuse University and received her Master’s degree at Columbia University. She was a music teacher at the Edgewood School in Scarsdale, New York for 40 years. In retirement, she co-authored a book, Early Detection of Breast Cancer, and her connection to Kimball Union took on a new dimension; in 1984 she was elected one of the Academy’s first women trustees and was the first alumna elected. She served until 1991 and received the Kimball Union Volunteer Award in 1996 and the Kimball Union Medal in 1997. Ruth hosted area receptions and helped establish the annual Service of Remembrance at KUA reunions.

Sarah

Lummus

1981

Heather

Johnson Carey

1986

Few KUA alumnae have reached across the years and more profoundly influenced the careers of young alums than Sarah Lummus. Not only has Sarah sought out graduates with an interest in science and mathematics, she has hired them as interns at Computer Solutions in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she is currently the CFO. After more than 30 years, she continues to be an active supporter of Kimball Union graduates.

Heather Johnson Carey came to Kimball Union in 1984. By her own admission, life at the Academy was not always smooth sailing. She will be the first to tell you that she was a late bloomer and that she didn¹t know what she could do until she was challenged here. Her uphill climb that started on our Hilltop has culminated in Heather conquering some very impressive peaks.

Upon graduating from The Hilltop, Sarah attended Colby Sawyer College. Majoring in business, she immediately put to use lessons assimilated from women here on The Hilltop. Charlotte MacKay had taught her that it was acceptable for women to like math and finance. Sarah notes that “Polly Davie, as a coach, teacher, and parent (I babysat her kids!) had it all. She projected herself as a well-balanced, successful woman and taught me to appreciate working hard.

I was not a brilliant A+ student. I did not test well, but I worked hard and that got me through. So yes, I got to this point by hard work, perseverance, and dedication, but also very important is loyalty. It goes both ways.”

Heather has a B.S. in elementary education from the University of Hartford, and a M.A. in Politics and education from Columbia University.

When Sarah enrolled in KUA in 1977, the program for women had just restarted, so there were only a few females. Each year more and more girls came to KUA, and the class of 1981 graduated a healthy number of women. Sarah recalls: “During my time at KUA, there was a much higher percentage of men than women. I learned to excel in a man’s world. As I’m writing this, I realize that the two industries that I’ve worked in are male dominated. My first job was as broker for E.F. Hutton, then with Dean Witter, and now I’m in software.”

KUA impacted Sarah’s life significantly—and it still does every day. She says: “I gained the confidence and life experiences that started me on a great path.

The friendships I developed at KUA are still strong, and thanks to Facebook I have not lost touch with those individuals.”

Sarah has continued to maintain contact with The Hilltop. As a past Alumni Council member, she is a regular at the Boston Harbor Cruise, the Boston Holiday Party, and numerous golf events; she is frequently here for reunions and homecoming.

In 2013 Heather Carey was appointed Executive Director for the MassTLC Education Foundation, where she is dedicated to ensuring all students have access to skills that prepare them for life in the 21st century.

She spent several years prior as SVP with MassTLC working on strategic expansion, organizational development, and policy issues related to workforce development.

Prior to her work in the tech sector, Heather worked with School and Main Institute, helping states and communities design and implement school-to-career initiatives, and as Senior Program Officer for KAPOW, she helped launch and grow a national business education partnership program.

“When I reflect back about the positive impact of KUA I think about the friendships that I built and cherish to this day. The girls I lived and shared my life with for those two years are some of the strongest, kindest, and most fun, loyal, wonderful women I have ever met in my life. I admire and am thankful for each of them,” said Heather recently.

A quote she uses as a guide in her life today is by Sir Kenneth Robinson, an English author, speaker, and international advisor on education, “If you are not prepared to be wrong, you will never come up with anything original.”

Robin

Starbuck Soloway Farmanfarmaian

1990

Robin Farmanfarmaian is not your average entrepreneur. After graduating from Boston University, she completed an executive training program at Harvard and a program in entrepreneurship at Singularity University, a new school with an incredible lineage. Founded by a consortium of dynamic companies such as Google, Nokia, Genentech, and Cisco, Singularity University is based at the NASA Research Park in the heart of Silicon Valley.

In her years since leaving The Hilltop, Robin has been a Vice President at Singularity University, a Founder of the Exponential Medicine Conference for physicians, and is currently working on three start-up companies: Co-founder and CBDO of Morfit, Executive Director of the Organ Preservation Alliance, and SVP of the biotech/medtech conference ArcFusion.

Robin’s most notable memories of The Hilltop include some that few alumni remember—hockey practices at 6:00 a.m.! For those with this experience, it will never be forgotten. Also shaping her future was equal treatment academically and in extracurricular activities such as sports and the newspaper.

She states, “KUA taught me the discipline needed to succeed as an entrepreneur—hard work, focus, dedication, and being well rounded pays off in any career. KUA also taught me the importance of a good network and what you’ve accomplished in your past as a reflection of your future.”

At the time of writing, Robin has just been named a finalist for a 2014 World Technology Award in Health and Medicine. Winners will be announced in November at the WTN (World Technology Network) Summit in New York.

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Cecilia

Retelle

Hannah

Fairbank

1994

It’s not often that the Academy produces an alumna who is both a scientist and a humanitarian.

But Hannah Fairbank is an environment and conservation professional with 15 years’ experience in natural resource management, biodiversity conservation, climate change, and international development fields. She is the Senior Biodiversity and Natural Resources Advisor at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). While she currently lives and works in Washington, D.C., she has also resided in Ecuador, Guyana, Colombia, and the Philippines.

After graduating from Kimball Union, Hannah earned a B.S. in geography and minored in biology and political science.

She later pursued a graduate degree in tropical ecology from the Universidad de San Francisco de Quito and Boston University. She completed a program in Mexico at the Instituto Cultural Oaxaca for Spanish language and Spanish culture immersion. Most recently, she earned a Master of Arts in law and diplomacy in international environmental policy and development economics from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.

While working for USAID, Hannah has also done much for her own country and for other nations. She recently coauthored what may prove to be the most transformative and important document for all future USAID programs. In March 2014 she coauthored the first USAID Biodiversity Policy.

This document provides a blueprint for how the agency will work to achieve its vision of conservation of biodiversity via sustainable, resilient development. Hannah Fairbank’s work has reached from our Hilltop in New Hampshire to the farthest corners of the world.

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2000

Fifteen months ago, Cecilia Retelle left her job as Senior Director of Policy for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington, D.C. to move to New York and cofound Ranku, Inc. with childhood friend, Kim Taylor. Ranku is a search engine for online degrees from traditional universities like Dartmouth and Boston College. Within 2 months of launching, the company was backed by Mark Cuban and Microsoft, amongst others.

They’ve since labeled their technology to the state of North Carolina and work with companies like Zappos and Hearst Magazines by making online degrees more accessible to their employees. Cecilia leads the business development portfolio that works with companies to power their tuition reimbursement program.

Since Ranku’s inception, Cecilia has been named to both the 28 Extraordinary Women in New York Tech list and the Silicon Alley 100 2013: The Coolest People In New York Tech list. Ranku has won multiple awards including U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Top 10 Startups and the SIIA Most Likely to Succeed.

Cecilia holds a Bachelor of Science in education from the University of Minnesota, a law degree from University of Denver - Sturm College of Law, and an M.Ed. from the University of Minnesota.

Amongst Cecilia’s fondest memories from her years at KUA is time spent with the Charpentiers. “They quickly became my family away from home. Whether it was a dinner at their apartment or getting on the ice or going to Dartmouth they were always there for me.”

She remembers Karen Custer as an important female mentor and role model. “I had Mrs. Custer for geometry. Geometry was the first ‘math’ class I had ever struggled with . . . I went to Mrs. Custer and shared with her the struggle and frustration I was dealing with every night when trying to complete homework . . . Geometry was my first-class period so she would meet me 30 minutes before class to go over the specific questions I had for that lesson. She would meet me every morning, we would answer my questions, and I would feel prepared for class. It got to the point that her persistence in believing in me gave me the confidence to know that even if I don’t understand or know how to do something initially, I know I can learn it. With starting a company in the last year, there are obstacles constantly of things that I have never done and don’t know how to do. However, I always find a way to find an answer and complete the task. Being solution -oriented has been pivotal for my career,” says Cecilia.

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TODAY& TOMORROW A REPORT FROM BOARD CHAIR ADAM BL ACK ’85, P ’17 AND HEAD OF SCHOOL MICHAEL J. SCHAFER H’13, P’12,’15 DEAR FRIENDS OF KIMBALL UNION: Greetings from The Hilltop! We are pleased to provide you with an update on the KUA strategic planning process.

Buoyed by our bicentennial celebrations and our record-breaking IMPACT campaign, the engagement of the KUA family has contributed to our current success in every area of school life. Not surprisingly, as we enter our Third Century, the Board of Trustees has challenged us all to charge forward. Under the leadership of the Board of Trustees, we are once again looking to put into place a strategic plan for the next three-to-five-year period.

Over the past year, as any good organization must, we have looked broadly outside our community at the trends and influences that will impact our educational program, and we have gathered data to analyze for use in setting specific goals and objectives for Kimball Union.

Through this process and during our last campaign efforts, together we have learned a great deal about our institution and what is most important for Kimball Union as a boarding school in the local, regional, national, and international landscape.

Recently, the trustees and faculty have engaged in retreats, school site visits, comparative data analysis, and discussions with outside constituents. In addition, we have conducted surveys of various

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members of our community including students, parents, alumni, faculty and staff, and the educational community at large.

As the next phase of planning commences this fall, we want to share some highlights of our constituent-wide quantitative survey, as well as some of our qualitative findings. These initial findings will serve as underpinnings to inform the future emphases and directions for the school, and address the resources required to implement our short-term goals for first decade of our Third Century.

O V E R A L L R AT I N G S Beginning in 2005, we asked KUA’s community to rate the school on how well we were doing in fulfilling our educational and community promises along three measures: • overall rating • comparison to other independent schools • willingness to recommend KUA This recent survey is the third time we have used this familiar yardstick as a way to evaluate our performance. The insights gleaned have given us the clarity and confidence to move forward with our strategic planning. We are delighted to report some of our findings; we can all take pride in them and know that they will help to shape our educational priorities for the future. We are humbled and

100% KEY: SURVEY YEARS

90%

2005 2008 2014

85%

80% 70%

90%

77%

75% 70%

60% 50%

86%

We asked your opinion about KUA’s “unrecognized strengths” and also characteristics that respondents said are very important—ones that are recognized and valued internally—but do not resonate enough with those who do not know us well.

40% 40%

30% 20% 10% 0% KUA overall rating: Excellent to Very Good

Comparison to other independent schools: Best/Well Above

• Our ethos of continuous improvement is recognized as a core value • KUA is viewed as a school “on the rise”UNKNOWN STRENGTHS

57%

56%

• KUA has beautiful, well-maintained, and well-utilized facilities

Willingness to recommend KUA: Definitely or Probably Recommend

• Programming that fosters leadership opportunities, collaboration, and cohesiveness • In-depth, applied, and theoretical learning • Education and practices on sustainability

pleased that again, all three ratings show strong improvement. These ratings reflect the effort and commitment to KUA of our alumni, parents, faculty, staff, administration, and especially students over the past ten years. This growth in appreciation and approval of KUA is statistically significant in ways that our consultants, based on their experience, view as “extraordinary.”

• Preparation for a future in a high-tech, global world through programs such as STEM

To help us identify the characteristics of KUA that carry the most meaning, we asked the KUA family, as well as other key constituents including educational consultants, college advisors, and colleagues, for their views.

• Creative expression and communication opportunities through writing and speaking programs

Universally “community” was cited as a core attribute. KUA’s community is unique, meaningful, and integral to our commitment to the growth of each individual. Yet, as strongly as we value community, we know that there is much more to the KUA experience driving the approval of our school.N E X P E R I E N C E We asked what makes KUA different from other places and what is most important about the KUA experience. The following characteristics were rated highly on both scales:

• Comprehensive college placement guidance with integrated advising

THESE RATINGS REFLECT THE EFFORT AND COMMITMENT TO KUA OF OUR ALUMNI, PARENTS, FACULTY, STAFF, ADMINISTRATION, AND ESPECIALLY STUDENTS OVER THE PAST TEN YEARS.

• Inspiration and encouragement of all to reach their highest academic potential • Support for instilling life-long interest in physical fitness and well-being

• Community in which everyone shares • Balance of excellence in academics, arts, and athletics to meet each student’s needs • Student body is diverse, engaged, happy, and contributing • KUA’s program has depth and breadth and is balanced • KUA has a global character and a focus on the world beyond The Hilltop • Moral growth and character development are important at KUA FA L L 2 0 1 4

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In discussing these and other topics with parents, alumni, and professional placement counselors, it became clear that KUA is much further ahead in several of these areas than most people know. In some cases, we are recognized among independent school professionals as leaders and innovators in these areas. There were also a couple of areas where our performance has lagged behind expectations. We are exploring these areas to better understand the issues and to develop plans to address them in our five-year strategic plan.

T H E B E N E F I T S O F AT T E N D I N G K U A Perhaps the most edifying finding of all is the incredibly rich and meaningful benefits our community ascribes to engagement in the total depth and breadth of the KUA experience. Listed below are the five major benefits that are attributed to the KUA experience. Under each are the specific beliefs held by our community that define the difference and the special “magic” of that experience.

KUA’S COMMUNITY IS UNIQUE, MEANINGFUL, AND INTEGRAL TO OUR COMMITMENT TO THE GROWTH OF EACH INDIVIDUAL.

Discovery of “self ” as part of a community of learners • KUA students discover aspects of themselves that they might not otherwise have developed • KUA students become different/better people than they would have become elsewhere • KUA’s education and lifestyle help students identify the person they want to be

Discovery of “the other” as part of a community of learners • Through engagement in arts, athletics, and academics, KUA students discover aspects of the human experience they might not have otherwise explored

Personalized opportunities for emotional and intellectual growth • KUA is a place where every student can shine • KUA develops the whole person—mind, body and spirit • KUA students have 24/7 access to a diverse, talented, dedicated faculty who are teachers, mentors, and friends committed to their learning and growth • Students are happy • Athletics teach valuable life lessons such as perseverance, discipline, and teamwork

Preparation and leadership • Students leave KUA confident and prepared for success and for leadership roles in college and in life

Learning in KUA’s nurturing and inspiring environment • KUA’s location gives students room to grow in an environment that is free from urban distractions • The beauty of KUA’s campus is inspiring

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THE MANNER BY WHICH WE PREPARE OUR STUDENTS FOR LIVES OF COMPETENCE, COMPASSION, AND ACCOMPLISHMENT OFFERS A COMPELLING REASON FOR OUTSTANDING YOUNG PEOPLE—THOSE AS CLOSE AS OUR BACKYARD AND THOSE IN A FAR CORNER OF THE GLOBE—TO CHOOSE TO GROW ON THE HILLTOP IN MERIDEN, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

O P P O R T U N I T I E S F O R G R E AT E R F O C U S A N D I M P R O V E M E N T Informed by this study, the faculty and trustees have undertaken collaborative work and identified some key areas to study in greater depth as we move forward with our strategic planning this fall.

The overarching goals the strategic planning process will be: • A renewed, focused commitment on Kimball Union as a boarding school • A strategic approach to selectivity in enrollment management and financial-aid cost management • Pursuit and support of talented faculty and students

THROUGH ENGAGEMENT IN ARTS, ATHLETICS, AND ACADEMICS, KUA STUDENTS DISCOVER ASPECTS OF THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE THEY MIGHT NOT HAVE

• An integrated curriculum with: OTHERWISE EXPLORED.

• Individualized academic programs that allow for 21st-century core competencies

across the board and in areas of academic concentration

• An expansion of our global outreach and international partnerships

• A curricular focus on STEM, sustainability, and real-world problem solving through experiential learning for

college preparation and global leadership

• Leadership and service programming

• A continued emphasis on collaboration, personal relationships and community engagement within the curriculum

and co-curricular requirements

• An integrated advising program from point of entry through college Taken together, our performance ratings, the unique characteristics and distinct qualities that define us, and the benefits that individuals acquire from the KUA experience make it clear that KUA’s relevance is increasing in today’s world. The use of data and metrics to test our assertions is an important part of the next phase of our planning to better understand what we can and must take on in the coming months.

The manner by which we prepare our students for lives of competence, compassion, and accomplishment offers a compelling reason for outstanding young people—those as close as our backyard and those in a far corner of the globe—to choose to grow on The Hilltop in Meriden, New Hampshire. We will continue to say “Kimball Union—the Best Environment for Learning.” And with help from all of you, we will prove it every day.

We look forward to sharing our vision and our plans for the future as the strategic planning process comes to fruition this fall.

Thanks to all for your participation.

Sincerely,

ADAM BL ACK ’85, P ’17 CHAIR, BOARD OF TRUSTEES

MICHAEL J. SCHAFER H’13, P ’12, ‘15 HEAD OF SCHOOL

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A TRIBUTE TO

THOMAS M. SEPTEMBER 26, 1926 – MARCH 24, 2014 The following are Head of School Michael J. Schafer H’13, P’12,’15’s remarks at Tom Mikula’s memorial service, held April 12, 2014 in Williamsburg, VA. Tom Mikula will be forever known on The Hilltop as an important and influential leader of Kimball Union Academy.

Mikula was a teacher through and through. He first taught at “TOM LITERALLY CHANGED THE Philips Academy COURSE OF OUR SCHOOL AND in Andover, Massachusetts, MADE KIMBALL UNION A VITAL then at Hanover AND GROWING ENTITY POISED High School in FOR MODERN TIMES.” Hanover, New Hampshire. There, he and his wife, Elva, became integral supporters of Dartmouth College students through the Tucker Foundation and the A Better Chance program (ABC), which assists academically gifted students of color in creating a path to higher education. In 1973, Tom Mikula was unanimously selected by KUA’s Board of Trustees to become the Academy’s 16th head—only the fifth of the 20th Century.

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and a pivotal time for the Academy. Tom led Kimball Union through the turbulence and social unrest of the Vietnam War era, which played out across many school campuses. He oversaw the return of coeducation to KUA after a 40-year hiatus and led the first-ever capital campaign. Tom literally changed the course of our school and made Kimball Union a vital and growing entity poised for modern times.

During his tenure at KUA, Mikula accomplished a great deal. Among the highlights were his boosting of the image and prestige of the school, and the significant increase in the enrollment and caliber of the student body. Tom oversaw two major fund drives the Elizabeth Dorr Coffin Library and the Hazelton House dormitory. Six major buildings were renovated.

Tom also strengthened the relationship between KUA and Dartmouth College.

In 1975, Mikula formed the National Advisory Council Scholars’ Program. It was designed to find bright, educationally disadvantaged students in the rural states of northern New England and give them an education that would develop and challenge their considerable talents. The program’s first three scholars went on to Harvard, Berkeley, and Yale; they then became influential leaders at Kimball Union who were committed to bringing ABC and Native Americans students here.

During Tom’s time on The Hilltop, the Kimball Union Fire Brigade was founded. According to Tom: Early in my tenure, one of our students turned on a false fire alarm. As punishment, he was required to clean fire trucks and serve with the Meriden Fire Department. When other students asked if they could serve in a similar way, we instituted the Kimball Union Fire Brigade. To this day, the Kimball Union Fire Brigade remains our best and most meaningful service to the local community and our most effective tie to the town. Few people remember that this service began as a punishment for pulling a false alarm.

Tom embraced a philosophy of education that linked learning, action, and social justice. He challenged everyone at KUA be a lifelong learner. He stated:

MIKULA

KIMBALL UNION’S 16TH HEADMASTER, 1974 – 1989 We are today too much a society of spectators; we too often shun involvement. . .I believe that a person benefits as he [or she] becomes involved, that he profits and leaves a part of himself in every activity and with every person with who he relates. The person who gets involved and gives of himself, I firmly believe, will be rewarded in full measure, heaped up, pressed down, and running over. I hold this as a fundamental truth, applicable to everyone at Kimball Union—students, faculty, and administration alike.

“WHAT IS GOOD ABOUT KIMBALL UNION TODAY IS THE SAME AS WHAT WAS GOOD ABOUT KIMBALL UNION 40 YEARS AGO, 80 YEARS AGO, 170 YEARS AGO. WE HAVE GOOD PEOPLE GATHERED TOGETHER . . .”

— TOM MIKULA

Mikula observed: “What is good about Kimball Union today is the same as what was good about Kimball Union 40 years ago, 80 years ago, 170 years ago. We have good people gathered together as teachers and students, and we provide an opportunity for all to live together, work together, and learn together. . .That is what teaching is ultimately about.”

Tom was dedicated to learning, hard work, and excellence. He modeled integrity, character, self-discipline, and persistence. The positive effects of his passionate calling live on in those he taught and inspired, and in those with whom he collaborated for the betterment of our Academy. Mikula served until 1989, when he retired and was granted an honorary degree from KUA. Tom Mikula’s mission and values still influence our KUA community. Indeed, many of the traditions and relationships forged during the “Mikula era” still flourish in abundance through our people, our enduring programs and recognition awards, and the endowed resources and facilities that have been given in his name.

Some of us may think that the world, in general, and independent school education specifically, are more complex today than during the time Mikula led KUA. With increasing pressures, regulations, technology, and global uncertainty, maybe they are. But even if times were different during Mikula’s tenure, people are not. And as black-and-white as Tom could appear in the way he lived and led, his inner strength stemmed from how he managed his commitments and the “gray” in life. His palette was abundant with colors that endure in all of us and at Kimball Union, despite the passing of time.

PHOTOS: Top left: Tom in his mathematics classroom; Top right: L-R Jim Gray ’66, H’14, P’02,’04, John Pope ’49, Tom Mikula H’89, Mike Schafer H’13P’12,’15; Center: Tom at work at his desk in BUILDING HERE; Bottom left: Tom and Elva biking in Plainfield with Mount Ascutney in the background.; Tom at KUA’s Commencement in 2009.

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These are just a few excerpts from the many heartwarming tributes and memories we received from alumni and friends upon hearing of Tom Mikula’s passing:

“… Tom instilled in me, and I’m sure thousands upon thousands of others, a thirst for kn owledge and a drive toward excellenc e in all we do.

He also always coup led the betterment of ourselves wi th giving back to the greater good which I believe he felt should be ev eryone’s highest calling. I’ve never forgotten the man, or the message . Tom and his teachings will live on in anyone lucky enough to have met him. He really was a “giant of a man” …”

One of the ongoing debates in history is whether the story of humankind is shaped more by individuals or more by forces. As I have grown older. . . and older. . . and older, I’ve migrated more to the “forces” side of the argument. Tolstoy’s idea that our history is like a large river little influenced by the efforts of individuals seems apt, but Tom Mikula still gives me pause. Mr. Mikula was one of those rare individuals who, through force of will and an imperturbable sense of right, took a cause—in our case, a school, Kimball Union Academy—on his back, changing its course and vastly improving its prospects. Never underestimated the dangers that faced KUA; those were times when many schools simply disappeared. Our school soon thrived, and because it thrived all of us were better and stronger people. And that, of course, was just what Mr. Mikula had in mind. He wanted to make the world a better place, school by school, student by student, and teacher by teacher. And he did. ― Hap Ridgway, former faculty and Assistant Headmaster, 1974-89

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e in ber the sparkl “… I remem . I s bright smile his eye and hi his encourag greatly valued rite riting. I now w ment in my w ok bo d essays an travel articles, of is at world th reviews. In a as w it ith cr uelty, ten riddled w ne know someo comforting to s hi t people with who cared abou .” heart and soul ns ’87 ― Tracy A. Bur

…. (He) took on a difficult job at a difficult time and, in my mind, “righted the ship” when things were getting a little crazy. He and his wife were certainly pivotal people in my education … ― Linda Brockelman Ogden ’80

participating In June 1969 when I was program at n in the ABC orientatio o my room int Dartmouth, Tom came with me, ing and spent some time talk C stuAB like he did with all of the doing. His dents, to see how I was reassuring presence and voice were to ease the and caring and helped t being in a fel I tremendous anxiety home. He m fro strange place far away includple peo meant a lot to a lot of having for ing me and I am thankful had him in my life. ― Don Lowery ’73

I am so very sad to learn of the passin g of Tom Mikula.He was a tremendous mentor and absolutely amazin g man. Rod and I speak of him often.

He will never be forgotten by us. ― Bert McLai n, past faculty

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If Tom Mikula were to walk across the campus today and view the facilities that have materialized since he left, I know in my heart that he would feel relieved, grateful, and extremely happy. In more than one sense, Kimball Union Academy represents the fulfillment of his dreams. Tom did have a blueprint in his mind when he arrived in the summer of 1974…it was not, however, etched in granite. He knew the nature of his ultimate objective and sought the advice of others to aid him in his quest…

Tom frequently referred to Camelot throughout his KUA career … Tom’s dream becomes really clear when one reads about the Arthurian legend … ‘and there was not a more congenial spot, a land of happy endings’ … Tom, may the wind be always at your back.

― Dhamey Tenzing Norgay ’89, Bhutan

Tom M ikula w as a p steadyin owerful g force on the while I w H as there. illtop H and yet h e did not e was revered hesitate time wit to spe hu ored tha s students. I am nd th honof ’89 an e is part of ou r Class d that th e “midd hill” do le of r mitory c o mplex w the spent 3 years wa here I s named I happily for him. reflect o n the tim to spend es I got persona lly with with his him and wife as we them he lped to s ll. The two of hape ma lives. He ny youn will be m g issed. ― Jim Jo nas ’89

― Stephen “Bish” Bishop, past faculty and Assistant Headmaster, 1963 - 2000 Excerpt from his remarks at Tom’s Celebration of Life, June 7, 2014, Meriden

School Tom ser ved as Head of ed. I when my daughters attend when I also had contact with him cil. Tom was on the Alumni Coun and led ser rai d was a tireless fun that gn pai cam the last capital tic hle At re funded the Whittemo nCe ts Ar Center and Flickinger nt me ire ter. On the wall of his ret Vir rg, apartment in Williamsbu all Kimb ginia he displayed both Elva and he t tha s Union Medal denced were awarded. This evi KUA. of e lov the Mikula’s deep ― Allan Munro ’55, P’81, ’11, ’13

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… Mr. Mikula was a great mentor who guided and prepared us to take on many of life’s challenges. For me, Mr. Mikula’s teachings have and continues to play an important role in shaping my life, giving me the opportunity to attend KUA and learn from this great school. Above all, I remember Mr. Mikula as a man who was compassionate and had a big heart.

THOMAS M. MIKULA

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THE JACOB A. SCHILTKAMP LIBRARY AND LEARNING CENTER IN MILLER BICENTENNIAL HALL OPENS While the official opening and dedication of the new Jacob A. Schiltkamp Library and Learning Center took place over Family Weekend on October 17, 2014, Kimball Union students and faculty have been enjoying these wonderful new facilities since earlier this year. Following a ceremonial book passing from the Elizabeth Dorr Coffin Library to the new library in Miller Bicentennial Hall in on February 3, 2014, the Jacob A. Schiltkamp Library and Learning Center welcomed students and faculty with a brief ceremony.

Librarian Marianna McKim and Director of Studies Cynthia Howe shared thoughts on the significance and educational value of the new facilities.

“The library’s move into Miller will afford us new opportunities to connect students with our rich resources and to make the library an integral part of students’ education, as well as to enrich the lives of all in the school community,” said Marianna McKim. “It’s my hope that this space will spark your imagination, lead you to discover new areas of knowledge, and incite you to pursue deeper understanding of your existing interests.”

“We set about planning a facility that would be welcoming, accessible, and in the center of academic life—a place frequented by anyone who wanted to request assistance, but also a place filled with people who wanted to offer support to others,” said Cynthia Howe of the Learning Center. “We have endeavored to keep the needs of all learners in mind and that integration has been a guiding force.”

The Concordians concluded the ceremony with “Alma Mater” and Student Body Presidents Tori Pipas ’14 and Marc Maggiore ’14 made it official with ribbon cutting before students and faculty toured the new facility.

Plans for the official dedication on Friday, October 17 were well underway as we went to press for this edition of Kimball Union Magazine. Look for updates and photos at www.kua.org and on KUA’s Flickr site.

ABOVE CENTER: Ceremonial book passing from Elizabeth Dorr Coffin Library to the new Joseph A. Schiltkamp Library on February 3, 2014; ABOVE: “Academia Concordia” installation by former faculty David Stern P’09 created of oak, basswood, and gold leaf.

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Today, the Library serves the school community’s curricular, research, and recreational needs. The collection is comprised of some 14,000 volumes in

print and thousands of items in other formats, including videos and sound recordings. Many resources are accessible through a dozen scholarly databases available to KUA students and faculty on and off campus. In addition, the library has computers, printers, and a copier for use by students and faculty. It is a warm and welcoming space that respects the original architecture of the building and includes warm woods, natural stones, soaring ceilings, and sweeping views.

It features original art by alumni including Toby Bartles ‘96, Jae Hyun Jin ’14, a rotating collection of prints by world masters, and a beautiful wood sculpture by former faculty, David Stern P’09.

The Library is made possible through a gift from Robin and Arrien Schiltkamp P’12,’16 in honor of Arrien’s father. “Our love for the school, its impressive faculty and visionary leadership, encouraged us to want to play a part in the new, larger and more integrated library,” said Arrien Schiltkamp, “More choices in books and other publications will make it possible for the students and the faculty to be engaged in more projects and research which in turn will provide them with more chances to read, learn, and publish.”

With the completion of Phase 2 of the Miller renovation project, Miller Bicentennial Hall is now home to The Jacob A. Schiltkamp Library and Learning Center, 19 humanities classrooms, technology classrooms and offices, a multi-media classroom, exhibit spaces, individual and group study spaces, and the beautiful new Class of 2014 board room and meeting space.

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FAREWELL TO

“ Taups”

MIKE TAUPIER H’14, P ’98,’01 RETIRES AFTER 33 YEARS OF SERVICE

Over the course of his long and distinguished career on The Hilltop, Mike Taupier has worn many hats, but he will proudly tell you that first and foremost, he is a teacher. “There is no vocation where the rewards are as great as teaching, and for teaching here at KUA that has been doubly true,” said Mike recently.

Mike began his career at KUA in 1981 as a true “triple threat” faculty member; he served as teacher, coach, and advisor—and in many other capacities as well. He taught math and was for a time the math department chair; he was a baseball coach and advisor for tennis, outing club, and recreational skiing; he was a college counselor; and he served as theater technical director. He worked on the Curriculum Review and Schedule Design committees.

Mike Schafer, when he was appointed Kimball Union’s 18th Head of School in 2003, created a new role and appointed Mike, KUA’s longest serving faculty member, as “Senior Master” to serve as one of his key advisors. In this capacity, Taups took on another role—the “Pronouncer of Names” at graduation. Mike’s longtime colleague and friend, history teacher John Custer, while paying tribute to Mike this spring, noted that Taups was the ideal

choice for this position, with his trademark mellifluous voice and commitment to pronouncing each name perfectly.

In 2008 KUA called on Mike to serve in a different capacity—as Assistant Director of Alumni Relations. While he gave up his time in the classroom to do so, it was clear that his two-and-ahalf decades on The Hilltop and the many connections he had made with thousands of students uniquely qualified him for the position. Mike took on this role with his usual dedication and commitment, among other things mastering Facebook where he became “friends” with generations of KUA alums and friends, helping to link them back to the Academy, and the Academy back to them.

He helped to organize reunions and countless gatherings, and met with alumni from all over the country and even the world. He is a welcoming ambassador when former Wildcats return to campus; he always makes time to show them around proudly and talk about the programs and the many changes and enhancements to our campus.

John Custer recently described Mike as a “Renaissance man who goes out of his way for those around him.” He remembered Mike’s interest in history, astronomy, and weather forecasting.

He also recalled Mike’s famous “Public Service Announcements” at all-school meetings, which included cautionary tales and parables on topics such as hunting season safety (the “Stay-Outof-the-Woods” speech), winter roadcrossing protocol (“If the snow plow

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can’t stop, they may not find you until spring,” he would warn), and the ever-famous “Stage Coach ticket” metaphor, reminding students to pick up after themselves because, he would say, “there is no first-class ticket here.”

Kimball Union was a family affair for the Taupiers. Erin ’98 and Anna ’01 both attended KUA and Mike’s wife Jane worked at Kimball Union Daycare for many years. The family lived on campus until Mike built their home in Meriden in 1991.

Mike received many well-deserved accolades and recognitions over the years. A classroom in Miller Bicentennial Hall was donated and named in his honor. He was recognized with an honorary degree at his final commencement in 2014. His request to return to the classroom to teach a class during his final year at the Academy was honored and on the day he taught his last class, the entire school lined the stairs of Miller Bicentennial Hall to “clap him” out of the building.

“Mike truly represents the essence of the Kimball Union faculty model,” says Head of School Mike Schafer. “He has been a teacher, advisor, mentor, coach, and friend to thousands of students during his three decades on The Hilltop. The strong loyalty, deep appreciation, and ongoing friendship these students demonstrate attest to the important impact Mike has had on their lives. And while Mike’s formal role at KUA will end with his retirement in October, we know that he will remain connected to the KUA community in countless ways.”

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2014 CULLMAN SCHOL ARSHIPS AWARDED In 1984, in appreciation of the many ways Kimball Union had prepared them for college and work, and following their parental role models who believed in the opportunities that KUA offered young people regardless of their station in life, Hugh Cullman ’42 and his brother Paul ’43 provided significant endowment funds to allow exceptional students an opportunity to not only attend the Academy but also extend their learning outside the formal classroom and far from The Hilltop.

It began as a program modeled after the well-known Morehead Scholars Program at the University of North Carolina and was first named the National Advisory Council Scholars. While the application, selection, and award process have evolved over the years, the original intent has remained the same: identify gifted students and give them the opportunity not only to engage in a superlative independent school education, but to augment that education with travel, leadership, and personal growth opportunities.

In its 25-year history, the Cullman Scholars Program, as it is now known, has allowed 103 KUA students to study and travel to over 30 countries and 11 states. Scholarship recipients have pursued their passions through incredible and amazing adventures, taking them from Fiji to France, from the Galapagos to Greece, and from Tanzania to Thailand. Whether protecting endangered sea turtles, or praying for peace in a Sri Lankan monastery, whether shooting “football” goals with orphaned South African children or shooting the rapids on the mighty Amazon, it is not hard to imagine the profound impact these experiences have had on these exceptional young people who, in turn, have pursued excellence in their further studies and chosen line of work.

2014 Cullman Scholars (L to R): Grace Cahill ’16, Ryan Shumway ’15, Maya Karosas ’15, Mackenzie Keegan ’15, Erika Madrian ’15, Mallory Schell ’15, Kathy He ’15, Nate Lang ’15

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2013 CULLMAN SCHOL ARS THE 2013 CULLMAN SCHOL ARS SHARE THEIR EXPERIENCES IN THEIR OWN WORDS.

LION HERFORT ’14 ADDRESSED ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES IN ICEL AND Last year I applied for the Cullman Scholarship for a summer trip to Iceland with National Geographic. The program seemed like a perfect fit for my academic interests as it focused on sustainability, as well as the environment and its protection.

I was overjoyed then when I was awarded the scholarship and was given the chance to travel to Iceland on July 15-29, 2013. As my departure grew closer, I started to think more and more about what I wanted to gain from the trip. The first goal was a broader perspective on environmental issues, as well as on renewable energy practices. I hoped that by seeing first hand the direct effects of global warming, I would gain awareness as well as experience to bring back to the KUA community. The second goal was more personal; I wanted to use the experience to help guide my future plans for college.

With these goals in mind, I boarded my flight to Reykjavík on July 15 and started my journey. The first few days were spent getting oriented with Icelandic culture as my group of 14 explored Iceland’s capital city. After four days in Reykjavík, a rugged tour bus took us into the countryside and we began our journey around the country. This is where my trip truly began.

One of our first stops was the Hellisheidi geothermal power plant. It is the biggest in Iceland and produces much of Reykjavík’s hot water and electricity. It was impressive to see how water heated by the earth was converted into human needs without a substantial impact on the environment. The procedure eradicates carbon dioxide emissions completely in the production of energy, making Iceland one of the greenest nations in the world. My trip allowed me to experience this first hand, providing me with a broader perspective on what it means to be energy efficient.

I also saw through direct experience why it is so important to practice sustainability, as I was able to hike on a glacier during the second week of the excursion. I learned that over the past 100 years, these glaciers in Iceland and around the world have been shrinking at an exponential rate because of the burning of fossil fuels and rising global temperature.

These changes translate to higher sea levels and shrinking coastlines. In fact, National Geographic estimates that sea levels may rise as much as 6.6 feet by the year 2100. Coastal cities around the world such as New York would be at risk, as hurricanes and other natural disasters would be deadly.

I was able to see how the glacier we were hiking on had shrunk; the sides of the valley were scarred from where they had been several years ago. To halt or even slow down this trend, the world needs to become more environmentally conscious. Iceland provides a great example, but most countries still lag behind.

My trip featured more than just an emphasis on environmental issues; another focus was simply discovering Iceland. The scenery and natural landscape were incredible, for the most part untouched by human development.

As we travelled around the country, we made frequent stops to take in and explore some of Iceland’s many natural attractions. These included black sand beaches, thundering waterfalls (including the biggest in Europe), as well as a boat ride to explore a glacial lake.

However, sooner than I could comprehend, my trip was coming to an end.

Accordingly, I had to shift my focus to completing my assignment.

All National Geographic participants have to complete a project, and I chose to study geothermal energy. I examined how the process of geothermal energy production works, and interviewed people to get opinions on the effect and utilization of the resulting energy. Although this project was difficult, it was very gratifying. I learned a lot and discovered that I truly enjoy working on the topic of renewable energy and environmental protection. Largely because of this Icelandic experience I plan to continue my education in this field as I move onto college. I am grateful to have found something I truly care about, and I owe it all to the Cullman family for giving me this experience.

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LINDSEY L ANDEWEHRLE ’14 VOLUNTEERED IN NEW ZEAL AND How was your Fourth of July, people asked me when I got home from cultural exchange and community service trip Fiji and New Zealand. It’s a funny story actually, because I didn’t have a Fourth of July. On July 3, I flew into LAX, met the group I would be spending the next four weeks with, and boarded our flight to Nadi, Fiji. It never really occurred to me that we would cross the international dateline, but I fell asleep on the plane on July 3 and when I woke up, it was suddenly July 5! By crossing the international dateline, we had lost an entire day, the day that happened to be our national holiday!

We landed in Nadi, took a flight to Aukland, New Zealand, and then drove down the coast to our first destination in The Bay Of Islands.

When we arrived in our town, Russell, in the Bay of Islands, we headed up to our service project at the Kiwi Preservation Foundation.

The purpose of the Foundation is to plant indigenous greenery in the landscape to encourage the return of native birds and animals, in particular the Kiwi bird.

Over the next five days we worked at this site, shoveling mulch, planting greenery, and building trails. This work also helped the group bond tremendously.

The rest of our time in New Zealand was so action-packed, there was hardly room to breathe. Some of our best adventures included a dolphin tour boat ride, a trip to naturally heated sulfur springs, museum tours and a sustainable eel farm tour While all of these experiences were breathtaking, my favorite day was the one we spent black water rafting. The rafting consisted of repelling 100 feet into a chasm, exploring mysterious tunnels and caves, and climbing into black inner tubes to float back down the rapids. After this escapade, my friends and I were standing at the bottom of the cave, looking at the sky hundreds of feet above us, and I realized I would never experience something quite so wonderful with anyone else. I also realized there was no one else I’d rather spend it with . . . it was a realization I kept with me the rest of the trip as I did unbelievable things with spectacular people.

We later travelled to Raglan where we spent five days exploring beaches learning to surf and working at Xtreme Waste, the town’s main waste plant. We learned all about how the waste site operates sustainably and then went to work planting trees, sorting garbage, and organizing the recycled shop. After Raglan, we travelled to Aukland, New Zealand’s biggest city, and from there, off to Nadi, Fiji.

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Fiji was just as action packed and incredible as New Zealand.

We went scuba diving, purchased “sulus”—the traditional garb of Fijian men and women—and spent a week in a homestay in Nativi village.

The days in Nativi were filled with either going across the river to the local elementary school to teach English or staying in the village to build a kitchen that was our project for the week. The evenings were filled with sports, dances, and other activities with the village members. We also spent a lot of time bonding with our host siblings. These children were my constant companions, teaching me the ways of the village and as many inappropriate Fijiian words they could trick me into saying (this did get them into some trouble when I accidentally told their mom her sulu made her look like a fat donkey)! My time in Nativi also included conquering my fear of spiders. Lucky for me, Fiji is filled with enormous, yet harmless, tarantula looking spiders. Also lucky for me, I woke up one morning with three of them in my sleeping bag. Besides the spider incident, in a blink of an eye, my time in Nativi was over, and even worse, my entire trip was over. I couldn’t believe the phenomenal things I had experienced or the extraordinary friends I had made. The end of our trip did go out with a bang though, as our bus literally caught on fire on the way to the airport and we nearly missed our flight.

While we eventually did make it to the airport, I could barely wrap my head around how fast my four-week service trip had flown by. I learned a lot about myself on the trip, and my interest in environmental science was piqued through the sustainable service work we did. My passion for working with children was also strengthened, and I know that whatever profession I pursue, it will involve kids. I learned about responsibility and about being a global citizen, a long-lasting lesson that I brought back to KUA and will take with me for the rest of my life. I cannot thank the Cullman family enough for giving me memories that will stay with me for a lifetime; my perspective on the world has been forever changed.

HENRY VANSANT ’14 AT TENDED A RUNNING AND SERVICE C AMP IN PERU If there were an ideal way for me to introduce myself to you all, it would be this: Ayin Punchay Cunchay. Nokak Sutimi Enrique Vansant.

Nokak Gustani phaway. That would be if I were speaking the Incan language Quechua. In English, I would say: Good Morning. My name is Henry Vansant. I like to run.

My love of running started long before I came to KUA. On the playground as a child, my friends were stronger, more aggressive, and more adept at basic ball sports. The only advantage I had in recess activities was that I could run forever.

When I discovered my middle school’s cross-country team, and learned that it was solely running, I knew I had to switch from football. By the time I entered Kimball Union as a freshman, I had a couple seasons under my belt, but I was still unaware of my potential as an athlete. After a very successful rookie season, I wanted to become the fastest runner I could possibly be. When I was at Point A, I wanted to reach Point B as fast as possible. I wanted to be a road warrior, a speed demon, and victor of countless races. I wanted to be a champion.

This was my mind set when I applied for, and won, the Cullman Scholarship during my junior year. I was to attend the STRIVE running and service camp in Iten, Kenya. Knowing my goals as an athlete, I discovered the perfect program. Training in Kenya? A runner’s paradise!

However, because of election violence, the trip was moved to its sister site: Pisac, Peru. At first, I was frustrated; what famous runner has come from Peru? However, I realized that I would still be training at high elevation, gearing my respiratory system for instantaneous improvement. I would also be able to practice my flawed Spanish for senior year, so I made light of the situation and trained for the trip with the same diligence as before.

I began to realize that the trip was going to be more than just three weeks of running when my program asked its participants to raise at least $250 before leaving the States. As a group, we were also strongly encouraged to bring school supplies and other donations in our luggage. At the time, I did not realize the impact these donations could make; they seemed almost obligatory. My childhood was very comfortable—school, dinner, and medical care were never in serious doubt. I was eager to shed my sheltered attitude and broaden my perspective on the world.

When I got to Lima, I met my coaches, two ambitious young men named Nic and Tyler. Nic was an experienced traveler, and could navigate any chaotic situation thrown at our group. Tyler was the runner; he had just graduated from Tufts after an extremely successful collegiate career, and was set on changing the world one mile at a time.

Within the next 12 hours, I had met all my fellow runners, peers who had similar aspirations of athletic domination. Within a few hours, we had bonded over running mishaps, crazy school stories, and card games.

When we got to Pisac, we met the college interns who were already in town—runners whose goals ranged from making the varsity team to making the Olympic trials. All of these characters were my mentors; as we shared experiences of pain and laughter, and witnessed bizarre instances, such as 30+ parades in a 24-hour span. We were united by a collective goal of realizing our individual potential.

During the three weeks of the program, I made a lot of progress physically.

However, the greatest growth occurred in my psyche. The workouts took only a small part of my time; during weekday mornings, I taught English classes to second-graders. After weekday lunches, the group would return to the school to either work on the track we were constructing, paint and clean the community center we had renovated, or lead community-wide English classes. The kids were eager to learn, and I was amazed at how enthusiastic they were. Their happiness was radiant; even though our society would classify these people as “poor,” they were rich in love and energy.

For the community center, we used the money we had fundraised for books, tables, chairs, and even a plasma television. When the center celebrated its first day of service, I saw many of my students using the brandnew toys and books; I was moved by the fact that they cared. I was moved by their desire to broaden their horizons. And I was moved by the fun they infused in their education.

Throughout the trip, I began to realize it was not Point B that mattered; it was the journey to Point B that will resonate through my memories.

I won’t remember the exact time of my half-marathon run from Pisac to Calca; instead, I will remember sneaking past a herd of enraged bulls with Mariele Hall, the 2013 Big 12 Conference champion and a possible contender for the Olympic qualifiers. I will remember the beautiful river valley with cliffs that towered above the farmland, and the juicy guinea pig I devoured afterward the run. I won’t remember the exact mileage of each run; instead, I’ll remember the night we spent in the mountains above Pisac with a family who did not speak Spanish; they knew only Quechua.

I will remember the potato picnic at 14,000 feet in the air, and the hike up a small bluff littered with poisonous cacti—all in an effort to stand in the presence of gargantuan snow-capped peaks, 16,000 feet above sea level, simply to be serenaded by a cool wind.

I will remember the silence one can only experience when truly enveloped in the wonder of a specific moment. Whether that moment was swimming in an alpaca sacrificial pond, climbing the mountain that was the Incan manifestation of invincibility, dancing to Andean music in eccentric dress, watching second-graders eat maple syrup for the first time and scream “¡Qué rico!,” sharing the wonder of Nicolas Cage with my peers, or meditating above Machu Picchu, I will remember the times that made up the journey. I realized that I want my life to be defined by chains of joyful experiences, not by miniscule Point Bs. I brought this view back with me to Meriden. I now view my time at Kimball Union not as a launching pad to college, but as a four-year journey of love and fun. I try to live by this ideal everyday, and it has already changed the way I interact with the environment around me.

Once back, I was more attentive and enthusiastic towards my schoolwork, focusing on the concepts more than the grades. By valuing the pursuit, I was able to fully enjoy my senior season, blessed by the greatest team any captain could ask for.

So, Kimball Union, I will leave you with this thought: don’t just focus on the endpoint. Value the journey. Love the process. Running is all about movement and progress; it’s the sport that focuses on the journey, not the final destination. This concept can be expanded to life! Life is just like running; it is a constant voyage toward an end. Make the most of it. The Cullman Scholarship is for those who seek to improve not just themselves, but the whole community as well.

I want to thank the Cullman Family for changing not only my life through their generosity, but the lives of all Cullman scholars as well. To the community that has supported me for four exciting years, I also extend my gratitude with a simple Quechua phrase, Sur’pikey wikey. Translation: Thanks, bro!

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MARC MAGGIORE ’14 VOLUNTEERED IN THE GAL APAGOS ISL ANDS When I heard about the Cullman Scholarship opportunity during my sophomore year, I knew I wanted to apply. But I’m a procrastinator and I never actually wrote the essay. By the time the application for the scholarship came due in my junior year, I knew I didn’t want to miss this chance again. I made plans to write my essay about five different times, but once again, I was a procrastinator. I didn’t actually start my essay, or even know where I wanted to go, until the night before the applications were due. (I’m not recommending this strategy, by the way.) But when I did finally hand in my application, it was easily one of the best essays I have ever written in my life.

I was granted the opportunity to travel to the Galapagos Islands and work as a teacher’s assistant in a classroom. On July 13, I flew out of Boston into JFK and then to Guayaquil, Ecuador.

My ability to speak Spanish was first tested at the Guayaquil airport—I had never spoken Spanish for more than an hour in one day. I had a significant amount of trouble finding where to check my luggage until I asked a 16-year-old boy, who explained that I needed to look for a big yellow sign that said “Galapagos” in bold letters. I had apparently walked by it multiple times.

I finally boarded my plane from Guayaquil to San Cristobal. I landed at the one-runway airport of beautiful San Cristobal, where I met up with other volunteers from Projects Abroad. We were all taken to our host families and when I arrived at my family’s home, they showed me around and then to the room where I would be staying for the next three weeks.

We then ate a typical Galapagos lunch: a bowl of soup and a plate of rice, vegetables, and a little bit of meat or fish. After lunch, I talked with my host parents and found out that both of them were teachers, which was perfect for me, as I want to major in special education in college. My host mother teaches at a high school in the morning and at the university in the evenings.

Roque, my host father, is a special education teacher; he goes to each of the schools on the island during the day and works with many different kids.

In the afternoons, he is head of the Special Olympics organization on the island. I felt blessed to have some of the best host parents.

I went to bed Sunday night and woke up Monday morning to the sound of roosters crowing. I took a cold shower in the morning—my host family did not have hot water. (Note: If you ever need a way to wake up in the morning, take a cold shower!)

I went to work the next day and was placed in a classroom of about 18 six- and seven-year-old kids. I arrived right before recess and immediately went outside to play with them. When recess was over, all the children were lined up outside the classroom. The profe had gone downstairs and I was trying to keep the six-year-olds under control when she quickly ran back upstairs and exclaimed, “Ya!” All the young Ecuadorian children hurried downstairs and outside. I turned to the profe and asked, “What is going on?” She said one word: “Tsunami.” I thought to myself, “I am not going to die on this island!” The children were immediately counted, then told to run up the hill to the police station. They jogged, some even walked; I sprinted. I offered my hand to children who were tired and tried to motivate them to run faster, before the waves came and swallowed us.

When we finally reached the police station, the kids were counted again.

I motioned to go farther up into the mountains, but the profe said that everyone was fine where we were. The kids were kept busy playing games, but I was still terrified. I kept looking out to the horizon and there weren’t any waves, so I thought it must be a false alarm. We stayed and played games until the police drove us back to the school.

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we have another.” This was my first day as a volunteer on San Cristobal!

I grew close to all the children in my classroom and also to the teacher.

Periodically, I would see my host father while at school, because the class included one autistic boy and another undiagnosed boy. I helped set up activities, grade homework, and assisted where needed. Before I left on my trip, I had put together five teaching lessons with books and follow-up activities. Unfortunately, I was only able to do one lesson with the kids, but I know the teacher appreciated them and planned to use the other four in the future.

At school, the morning consisted of classes that started at 7:00 am. The teacher would put up the agenda for the day. The kids usually started in their workbooks, which covered everything from learning to rhyme to counting. Around 9:00, it was snack time. Each day, a different parent would make a meal for all the children. After they finished eating, it was time for recess—my time to shine! I loved playing games with the kids.

Whether it was pushing them on the swings or just playing tag, it was always fun. After recess, the kids would go back inside and do some more activities until noon.

After the day was over, I would head home and eat lunch with my host family. With all those meals, I began to know them really well—so well that one day I cooked an “American” meal for them.

Another part of my day was coaching soccer from 3:00 to 5:00 pm. I helped coach all ages. (I use the word “coach” very loosely; even though I was a JV2 superstar at KUA, the two kids from Germany, the guy from Denmark, and the two head coaches were slightly better at coaching and speaking Spanish than I was.)

After the day was done, some of us would stay and play 3-on-3 soccer, causing me to miss eating dinner with my host family, but they always held a plate for me.

Weekends, I would go to the beach and scuba dive with my host father or some friends. The wildlife in the Galapagos Islands is some of the most diverse on the planet. There are sea lions everywhere. I don’t mean just on the beach—I mean EVERYWHERE—including playgrounds and benches in the market center. While scuba diving, I got to swim with some of the ocean’s most beautiful creatures, including sea lions, turtles, and many different kinds of fish.

By the end of my three weeks, I had met some amazing people from all over the world, seen some of the most beautiful animals, practiced my Spanish, worked with some fantastic children, and most of all, built an unforgettable connection with my host family.

I would like to thank the Cullman family for giving me this once-in-alifetime opportunity that has shaped my life for the better.

SHUITAN LU ’14 CONDUCTED FIELD RESEARCH AT YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK Hiking up the rugged mountain range with a compass and a topographic map, I strode onto the dusty trail like an explorer. The field research course I participated in at Yosemite National Park was more than fascinating. The program consisted of a field research course and a nine-day backpacking trip into the backcountry of the Sierra Nevada.

When Mr. John Custer spoke passionately in history class about the creation of Yosemite National Park, and as I looked at the black-andwhite picture of John Muir and Teddy Roosevelt standing on Glacier Point with Yosemite Falls cascading behind them, I felt compelled to go to this place.

Arriving at the base camp at the end of the July, I met the entire group and our instructors. With not much spare time, the first thing to keep us busy was “gearage.” Following orders, we dragged everything out of the cabin and dumped it onto a canvas tarp. In order to make sure that everyone stayed safe and comfortable during the trip, the staff thoroughly scrutinized everything—from backpacks to trash bags.

The scene looked like a flea market.“ Ounces add up to pounds, and pounds add up to pains,” we were advised.

The hiking was more strenuous than I had anticipated. The first two hours passed with endless chitchat and laughter, but the talk gradually faded as fatigue overtook us. Going up was grueling, and all of us were shocked by our appetites! Surprisingly, we were the first group with no leftovers—leaving us little to clean up, which is a complicated process in the backcountry.

“Leave No Trace,” or LNT, was one of the themes of our trip. The natural environment is much more fragile than we think, and LNT is an ethic designed to minimize the impact of recreational outdoor activities on the environment. The methods used to take care of our wastes—trash, food, and human— may appear odd, but we gladly accepted them as new experiences.

Taking care of trash was painless: all we had to do was put it into a sealed bag. Food residue, on the other hand, was not so easy. We were not permitted to rinse our bowls, because any greasy crumbs or cheesy sauce would be alien to the natural environment. The required way to clean the bowls was by licking them, and the more food we licked off, the less next morning’s breakfast would smell like turkey and gravy.

Human waste was the biggest challenge. By the third day, we were all obsessed with LNT. People licked their pots with joy and ate food that fell on the ground, yelling “LNT!” Before the backpacking trip, our research group had had an ambitious plan, but our fixed route and limited resources caused us to simplify the research question to: “How does the pH of the lakes affect the vegetation around them?” Some tools kept telling us the lakes were as basic as detergent, yet some groups found lots of insects and micro invertebrates in the water. Eventually our project became “the relationship between slopes and species richness,” and the result showed that there was no correlation. Our frustration was clear, and one of our leaders told us: “It’s good. That’s your discovery. There IS no such relationship; you wouldn’t know that if you didn’t study and collect data.

It is not what you expect, but it is the result.”.

Endless walking during the day created unavoidable exhaustion at night, but even sleeping could be challenging.

The temperature dropped from 90 degrees during the day to 40 during the night. I slept under a clear starry night. I saw shooting stars slide through shining diamonds, without even time to make a wish. There were billions of stars and each of them had a different story.

One day one of our leaders told us a true story about a student who had come to Yosemite on a scholarship. The group was sitting around the campfire after dinner when the kid suddenly asked our leader, “What are those spots?” Thinking the boy was referring to the fire, she replied, “They’re sparks.” “No, I mean up there,” he said, pointing to the sky.

“Eh…stars?” she pondered. The kid looked up again and exclaimed: “Oh…so those are stars!” The boy had never left Oakland, where the glow of city lights and air pollution blocked these twinkling eyes.

After our camp quieted down, looking at those same stars I couldn’t suppress my emotion. Since when did access to a starry night become a privilege? Isn’t the beauty of nature a treasure that belongs to all humans? If people who live in a crowded, polluted urban area don’t have a chance to appreciate spectacular natural wonders, should we criticize them for not being concerned about the environment?

The last day of our trip was filled with excitement and sadness. When we were finally just one mile from civilization, we took a long break. We realized it was not a normal water break when the leader asked us to put down our packs. “This is my favorite part of this trail,” he said, pointing to the path in front of us that crossed a green meadow. “This is it—the very last part of the trip. So I want each of you to reflect. This [memory] will always belong to you.” As we walked this stretch, we kept our distance from one another. It was the first completely quiet and peaceful moment of the past nine days; no one around me was talking.

It had been an incredible journey: the breathtaking landscape in the backcountry, the demanding but rewarding hike, the talented people around me, their different stories and attitudes toward life. Strictly enforcing LNT, I could take away nothing except fragments of memories. Now when those moments fade away, I can still remember the lessons I learned: the philosophy behind research is a quest for reality; inequality is cruel but inevitable; I had acquired an incentive to study natural science when I stood at Tuolumne Peak, looking toward the endless vast mountains; and I was moved by everything I saw in the park. I felt a responsibility to conserve the landscape for the generations of my children and the children of my children. The trip was over, but my quest to look at the future was only beginning.

After the final, peaceful moments of hiking, a bus took us back to base camp. Rushing to the dining room, ravenous, we devoured six 12-inch pizzas. Following the feast, we had the most glorious shower, which everyone had been craving for days. Most of us spent the entire afternoon in the shower! I desperately scrubbed the filth from my skin as if two inches of mud were stuck onto it. The unforgettable memories of the trip could not be washed away like the dirt on our feet; instead, the entire experience crystalized, like this, into a piece of treasure. I want to thank Mr. Cullman for the opportunity to embrace the beauty of Yosemite.

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VICTORIA PIPAS ’14: HOME TO MENORC A March of 2013: I was enjoying my junior year of high school at Kimball Union as a mature sixteen-year-old who juggled a rigorous course schedule, participated in a plethora of clubs and organizations, could run a half-marathon, and became queasy at the thought of sleeping somewhere other than her own bed for an extended period of time.

That’s right: I was a hopeless homebody who had cunningly avoided leaving the safety of my home and my loving family for much more than a night. I maxed out at about four days, and that was at my grandparents’ house. After a scarring summer camp experience in first grade, I had a nauseating fear of leaving my parents. It was completely irrational, but even sleepovers with my friends made me anxious.

However, when presented with the opportunity, the shortsighted “Tori” in my head applied for a Cullman Scholarship. This scholarship offers students the chance to travel anywhere in the world and participate in any organization in a paid-for session during the summer.

I had found a Roman archaeology program on a Mediterranean island, and without much thought to the possibility of actually receiving the scholarship, I applied.

You can imagine the feelings I had when my name was announced at the March All-School meeting as one of the six scholarship recipients. First: Yes, I got it!!! Going to Spain!!! Second: Ooooh boy. Going to Spain. By myself. Across the ocean. For three weeks. Why did I apply for this? As June second approached and people were wishing me well on my trip, I would smile deceivingly: Yes, I’m so excited to fly halfway across the world and travel alone for the first time in my life.

Before I knew it, my parents were driving me to the Dartmouth Coach station. I started to realize that it was going to be impossible for me to will the car to break down. Well, I thought, maybe they cancelled the bus unexpectedly. Or maybe all of Spain will be smothered in a volcano eruption. Anything. But somehow, I managed to get on the bus and pull away, waving at my tearful mother through the window. And you know what? The moment my mother left my sight, all the panic dissolved.

Suddenly, I wasn’t a nervous little girl being dropped off by her parents.

I was a world traveler, boarding a plane to Spain.

Fast forward a day: I arrive in Menorca, Spain, perhaps the perfect island.

The countryside is hilly and dotted with cows; the coasts are rocky; the streets are cobbled;and the water is a perfect crystal blue. We students are greeted by our instructors, Fernando and Cristina. Fernando speaks only Spanish, but when he finds me napping, his favorite English phrase becomes: “Come on Veeectoria!!!! Gett upppp!!!” Cristina is an oliveskinned beauty with curly black hair and a dimpled smile that never seems to disappear. She is our teacher at the “City” dig in the Ancient Roman city of Sanisera.

The Balearic island, I soon discover, was once home to three Roman port colonies: Mago, Iamo, and Sanisera. Maó had become the modernday Mago, and Ciutadella, the smaller, more peaceful city, had become modern-day Iamo. However, that left one colony unaccounted for: Sanisera. Pliny the Elder had made mention of three colonies in his Historia Naturalis, yet only two had ever been discovered. In the 1970’s, archaeologists began excavating around the small bay of Sanitja at the northwestern tip of the island. What they found was unprecedented: the lost city of Sanisera. Our instructor, Fernando, had recommenced archaeological work there in the late 90’s, and in 2004, the Sanisera Field School had become an international reference center for students.

That is how our small group comes to be digging up pieces of Roman amphorae and tableware in 2000-year-old dirt.

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Every day, we students wake up early for a Spanish breakfast of very strong coffee, juice, and a few biscuits.

We then drive across the hilly countryside in a decaying bus, to the Bay of Sanitja. Here is Sanisera, the city we excavate.

Excavating, I soon discover, is not for the feeble: it consists of about 95% pickaxing and 5% brushing off valuable artifacts. But finding that one small bit of bronze is worth the backbreaking labor. Pottery here is plentiful, and most of the pieces are small and insignificant and end up in the dirt pile. However, large chunks of thick, red amphorae are collected in rubber buckets and toted back to the lab. Also saved are unique pieces, like those with shiny orange glaze or decorative engraving.

All of this pottery must be scrubbed clean, classified, labeled, and inventoried before it can be donated to the Museu de Menorca.

Those activities fill our afternoons each day. My favorite of them is labeling: each piece is swiped with a small strip of glue and inked with its site number. I love the precision and satisfaction of labeling hundreds of the smallest pieces with a quill and ink. Who knew?

As students, we also learn to categorize the pottery: first, as amphorae (large storage vessels), tableware, or roof tiles. Then, each of those groups is subcategorized based on its characteristics. We learn that Roman Ebussitan amphorae came from Ibiza and can be identified by their chalky white clay. African tableware has burnt black rims from oxidation during the firing process. I even write two songs to help our group remember the identifications, sung to the tunes “Be Our Guest” and “I’ll Make a Man Out of You.” However, my songs don’t do me much good during our end-of-session pottery quiz, on which I score 6.5 out of 10. Cristina assures me that in Spain, that score is certainly a sufficient passing grade.

Ciutadella, the charming port town where the group resides for the three weeks, is perfect. Picture your favorite European destination, complete with cobblestone streets, cafés, gelaterias, and dockside seafood restaurants. Now subtract nearly all of the tourists, and you have Ciutadella. The entire island has a population of about 94,000, which is 15,000 less than that of Manchester, New Hampshire. With the exception of July and August, the island is mostly tourist free, and the cafés are filled not with fanny-packed Americans, but with native Menorcans. I love running along the stone, seaside boardwalk at sunset, then heading back to the residence for a cold shower and a quick dinner.

Then our group of students heads out to patronize our favorite café for the rest of the evening. The hours slip by, with the sun acting as a deceiving timekeeper—the summer sun never seems to set on the island.

This trip was an “immersion” in every sense of the word. I was immersed in the study of ancient Roman civilization, Menorcan culture, the Spanish language, college-student life, and, most important, my own independence. Menorca is a place I can now call home.

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VALEDICTORY ADDRESS VICTORIA PIPAS ’14 I am honored to be representing my class. Thank you to every one of you in the audience today for contributing to us, the class of 2014, and to who we are today.

On senior skip day, after a rousing session of elementary school-level games in the barn, I sat down with a few seniors in the dining hall. I found myself thinking about how graduation was in eight days and how I had little to no speech material. So I went to the experts. I asked the seniors around me, “What would you guys like to hear in a graduation speech?” Jim Herbert looked at me and in his deep and thoughtful voice responded, “Well, everybody always talks about the past or the future. You could talk about the present.” The present struck me as the most important place to be. To me, presence means awareness of the world around me, observation of myself, and appreciation of both. So here we are, and here I am, right here, right now, to share with you.

The easiest way to appreciate the “now” is to experience it. I invite you to join me here in this special moment. If it helps, close your eyes. Just be. Be right here, on the quad, where we have walked and built igloos and now we sit with the grass beneath us. Feel the presence of your advisor, your mentor, in the audience. Be aware of the person sitting right next to you; hear his or her breathing. Be present in yourself. Feel the sensation in your limbs and the emotions that might be coursing through you. Observe your breath. The Dalai Lama says, “As you breathe in, cherish yourself. As you breathe out, cherish all beings.”

This day is commencement. It’s hard not to be sad today. I’m sad, but I am also overjoyed in our presence here.

We have been present in moments here for years. Collectively, that’s a lot of moments. Join me in experiencing the KUA moment. Stampede to cookie break and then stand in the slowly moving lunch line. Sit respectfully at All School Meetings and then paddle your heart out in the Tower cup canoe races.

Sleep-in on Thursday mornings, but make it to your 8 am classes (well, try your best). Hit the ball into the corner of the net, and rest on the long bus ride home. What is your favorite way to BE at KUA? I asked this question to my freshman sister, Stephi, and she answered assuredly, “Walking down from the gym when the sun is setting, listening to Beyoncé. That’s the best.” We are present in these KUA moments. Each of them is as valuable as the next, because collectively, they form our identities.

When we’re present in this moment, life is not just about what we’ve done, but who we are. Class of 2014, who are we? Not just the numbers and stats on our age, gender, and nationality. But who we really are: what we believe in and what we stand for. We believe in friendship and action. We are accepting and honest, kind and witty, strong and beautiful, passionate and creative. We are the class that is so tightly-knit that our combined leadership crushed the destructive YikYak in 24 hours, although we weren’t quite able to pull together a Tower Cup win …

Collectively, this is who we are. Who have YOU become here at KUA? This place asks us to take risks. KUA has given us each the space to appreciate ourselves for whomever we want to be. And in the same way that we appreciate ourselves, our presence in this moment allows us to appreciate those around us. Voltaire said, “Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.” The most important gift that KUA has offered us is appreciation. When we are truly HERE, we can see how wonderful WE are. We see the self, but we also see the selves around us, and the community that we form.

This moment is the best we will ever have; here, we can appreciate and take forward all of our own strengths and the strengths of those we love. We can let go and forgive others and ourselves for any shortcomings. And we can choose to create a future where we are not confined by the past, but free to be the best of who we are. Let’s give our full gratitude in this moment to all of the people and experiences here that have made us “us.” And welcome to your next moment.

I’ll leave you with this final thought from Thich Nhat Hanh: “Happiness is possible only when you stop running and cherish the present moment and who you are. You don’t need to be someone else. You’re already a wonder of life.” Thank you.

PHOTOS, L-R: Senior Class Speaker Bennett Grigull ‘14; Commencement Speaker Jennifer Kurth Borislow ‘78, P’07, 10,; Mike Taupier H’14, P’98,’01 and Jim Gray ‘66, H’14, P’02, ‘04 receive honorary degrees.

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SENIOR AWARDS VALEDICTORIAN - Victoria Pipas SALUTATORIAN - Tiange Hu SENIOR CLASS SPEAKER - Bennett Grigull DEPARTMENT BOOK PRIZES

Arts Department

The Schubert Award for Visual Arts - Chandler Song The Music Award - Jim Herbert and Owen Winslow The Dance Award - Olivia Schlanger The Theater Award - Molly Adams

History Department

The Stephen Bishop History Award for Seniors, in honor of Stephen Bishop, History Teacher from 1963-2000 - Will Jenkins

Mathematics Department

The Senior Mathematics Prize - Louise Zhang

English Department

The Lionel Mosher Award in English - Amanda Hilton The Flora Clough Class of 1884 Composition Prize - Victoria Pipas

Science Department

CUM LAUDE HONOR SOCIETY

Juniors and seniors are selected for their high scholarship, character, and love of learning.

Seniors Inducted in 2013

Molly Adams Cherry Cheng Tiange Hu Victoria Pipas John Henry Vansant Louise Zhang

Seniors Inducted in 2014

Morgan Dewdney James Herbert William Jenkins Min Jae “Jeff ” Kim Gus King

Lindsey Landwehrle Shutian Lu Chandler Song Gyb Spilsbury Alexis Wyatt

SENIOR CAPSTONE

This spring, twelve seniors pursued their interests in a discipline of their choice in greater depth as part of our Senior Capstone Program:

The Senior Environmental Science Award - Shutian Lu The Senior Science Award - Tiange Hu

Alyson Blumenthal, Anna Hadlock, Amelia Landenberger, Shutian Lu, Olivia Schlanger, Alihan Seyrek, Storm Sideleau, Chloe Tyler

The Flora Clough Class of 1884 Library Prize

With Honors: Cherry Cheng, Aaron Glaeser, Jim Herbert, Grace Voorhees

The Academy’s Fire Brigade Firefighter’s Award

GRADUATION AWARDS

Student Senate Award

Henry Mann Silver Awards Molly Adams, Lindsey Landwehrle, Mike Robertello

Hong-Jin Kim International Student Award

The Class of 1895 Award Tiange Hu

Community Service Award in Honor of Georg Feichtinger

The Royal Burnham Townsend Class of 1911 Award Adrian Callies

Ray Freeman Jenney Class of 1909 Good Citizen Award

The Class of 1920 Award Teagen Burnham

George C. Akerstrom Award for Boys

The Porter Award - Est. 1966 Marc Maggiore

George C. Akerstrom Award for Girls

The Mikula Award - Est. 1987 Alexis Wyatt

Female Outstanding Athlete

The Charles Alden Tracy Award - Est. 1990 Victoria Pipas

Olivia Schlanger

Michael Robertello

Victoria Pipas and Marc Maggiore Umut Kaplan

Min Jae “Jeff ” Kim Shutian Lu

Morgan Dewdney

Kaitie Sanders

Lindsey Landwehrle

Male Outstanding Athlete

Malik Abu

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COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY MATRICULATION CL ASSES OF 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014 During the past four years, 354 graduates matriculated to the following colleges and universities. The remaining students chose a different path: post-graduate year, work, international travel/study, or other alternatives before beginning post-secondary education.

Albright College Alfred University Allegheny College American University (4) Assumption College Augustana College Babson College (2) Bard College Bates College (5) Beloit College Birmingham-Southern College Bishop’s University (2) Boston College (3) Boston University (8) Bowdoin College Brandeis University (4) Brown University Bryant University (2) Bryn Mawr College California State University, Fullerton Carleton College Carnegie Mellon University Case Western Reserve University (2) Castleton State College Champlain College (2) Clark University (2) Clarkson University Colby College (4) Colgate University College of Charleston College of William and Mary Concordia University - Ann Arbor Concordia University - Montreal (5) Connecticut College (5) Curry College Dartmouth College (4) Dickinson College (2) Drew University Drexel University (2) Duke University Eckerd College Elmira College (2) Elon University (5) Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - FL Emmanuel College (4) Emory University (4) Endicott College (3) Eugene Lang College Florida Institute of Technology Fordham University Franklin and Marshall College Franklin Pierce University Gardner-Webb University Georgetown University Georgia Institute of Technology Gettysburg College (3) Goldey-Beacom College Goldsmiths College, University of London Goucher College (2)

Grinnell College Hamilton College - NY (2) Hampshire College Harvard College High Point University (2) Hobart and William Smith Colleges (4) Indiana University at Bloomington (2) Ithaca College (5) Johns Hopkins University Keene State College Kenyon College (3) Lake Forest College (4) Lasell College Lehigh University (3) Lewis & Clark College Linfield College Loyola University Chicago Maryland Institute College of Art Massachusetts College of Art and Design Massachusetts Maritime Academy Mercyhurst University Meredith College Merrimack College (3) Miami University, Oxford Michigan State University Middlebury College (2) Missouri State University Mount Holyoke College (2) Muhlenberg College Nazareth College (3) New York University (2) North Carolina A&T State University North Carolina State University (2) Northeastern University (3) Norwich University (4) Oberlin College Ohio Wesleyan University (3) Parsons The New School for Design Pennsylvania State University, Erie: The Behrend College Pennsylvania State University, University Park Princeton University Providence College (5) Purdue University Quinnipiac University (2) Reed College (2) Regis College Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Rhodes College Rochester Institute of Technology (4) Roger Williams University (2) Rollins College Sacred Heart University (2) Saint Anselm College (3) Saint Joseph’s College-ME Saint Louis University, Madrid Saint Michael’s College Salve Regina University Savannah College of Art and Design

Schreiner University Skidmore College (6) Smith College South Plains College Springfield College St. Lawrence University (9) St. Mary’s College of Maryland St. Olaf College Stetson University Stevenson University Suffolk University (5) Syracuse University (7) The Catholic University of America The George Washington University (4) The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology The University of Alabama The University of Georgia The University of Northwestern Ohio (2) The University of Tampa Trinity College (9) Tufts University Union College (2) University Laval University of California at Berkeley (4) University of California at Davis University of California at Irvine University of California at Los Angeles (2) University of Colorado at Boulder University of Connecticut University of Delaware (2) University of Hartford (2) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign University of Maine (2) University of Maine at Farmington University of Maryland, Baltimore County University of Massachusetts, Amherst (2) University of Miami University of New England (4) University of New Hampshire (15) University of North Carolina at Wilmington University of Richmond University of Southern Maine University of St. Andrews (3) University of Stirling University of Toronto University of Vermont (5) University of Wisconsin, Madison (2) Utica College (2) Vassar College (3) Villanova University Washington State University Wellesley College Wesleyan University Westminster College Wheaton College MA (7) Whittier College Wilfrid Laurier University Wingate University Yale University F A L L 2 0 1 4 39

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KUA STEM PROGRAM IS ON THE MOVE KUA’s dynamic STEM program is poised to move into a new home in the former Coffin Library building.

Since the National Science Foundation coined the term in the 1990s, STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) has become an increasingly popular focus in schools across the country in response to the new educational demands of rapidly developing technology and the need for better trained students to fulfill American workforce needs.

At KUA, STEM is offered as an afternoon activity throughout the school year. Since its inception, with the arrival of math and science teacher Tom Pasquini (PhD, MIT) in 2009, one of the signature efforts of the KUA STEM initiative has been participation in the Real World Design Challenge (RWDC). This state and national competition provides high school students with an opportunity to work on real-world engineering challenges in a team environment. KUA’s STEM team has won the New Hampshire RWDC for the last three years, and finished third in the national competition in Washington, DC last year!

Now, with the completion of the Miller Library Center and the vacancy of the former Coffin Library, STEM is excited to take occupancy of that unique space with the promise of turning it into a 21st century design center inspired by the many “Hacker-”, and “Makerspaces” that have become active nationally and serve as incubators for start-ups and other entrepreneurial ventures.

“The space is all about creation—about finding a place where you can build, where you can make, where you can invent,” says Dr. Pasquini.

Designed for maximum flexibility of use and space, the facility is well supplied with computer stations, 3-D printers, laser cutters, and a video production space, as well as more traditional tools for use by our innovators of tomorrow. The completion of ongoing renovations to the interior of the former library will allow the STEM faithful to make themselves at home in the new design center later this fall.

This new space is made possible thanks to a generous grant from the Barker Foundation.

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SCHOOL NEWS

Congratulations

TO OUR 2013 - 2014 CHAMPIONSHIP TEAMS!

Girls’ Varsity Soccer: Lakes Region League Co-Champions, NEPSAC Class C Semi-Finalists Boys’ Varsity Soccer: Lakes Region League Champions, NEPSAC Class B Semi-Finalists Girls’ Varsity Basketball.:NEPSAC Class C Champions Boys’ Varsity Basketball: NEPSAC Class AA Finalists Boys’ Varsity Hockey: Lakes Region League Champions, Belmont Hill Nichols School Tournament Champions, NEPSAC Small School Champions Girls’ Varsity Alpine: Lakes Region Champions - Slalom and Giant Slalom Boys’ Varsity Alpine: Lakes Region Champions - Slalom

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On Sunday, January 12 the KUA Boys’ Hockey team faced off against Governor’s Academy at Fenway Park with the entire student body and faculty and staff plus over 300 alumni, parents and friends cheering them on.

Hockey East teams playing at Fenway the day before had battled rain, thunder and lightening, and delays, so the Wildcats waited on tenterhooks to learn whether their game would go on as scheduled. Fortunately Mother Nature smiled and the skies cleared and temperatures in the 40s made the ice playable and the viewing pleasant.

The Wildcats dominated from the beginning, ending the game with a 9-0 victory to the roars of cheering fans.

A.J. Greer and Tyler Bird each had two goals, Ben Finkelstein had a goal and two assists and J.D. Dudek assisted on the first three goals before missing the second and third periods due to injury. Paul Leger and Gavin Nieto split the shutout in KUA’s net, improving their team’s record to 13-3-3.

It was a day to remember for the Wildcats and their fans!

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Mike Schafer, Dave Winslow ’81, Scot Barry ’81, Joe Thibert ’81, P’17, Bob Fitzgerald ’82, JD Dudek ’14, Woodie Haskins ’69, Ray Jacques ’81, Steve Baker ‘81

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WILL SHEFF ‘94 AND HIS BAND

OKKERVIL RIVER: A C O N C E RT O N T H E H I L LT O P On January 11, the Kimball Union community was treated to an evening of first class entertainment

by Will Sheff ’94 and his well-known Indie band Okkervil River. Will had spent a fair amount of time in Meriden over the past year researching and filming a video called “The Silver Gymnasium,” a retrospective on his years growing up on The Hilltop while his parents, Paul and Jaime were faculty members at KUA. It is also the name of Okkervil River’s latest album named after KUA’s gym which has been described as a coming-ofage-album. Students were all given Okkervil River t-shirts prior to the concert which rocked the Flickinger Auditorium for the evening.

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SCENES FROM REUNION 2014 June 6-8: Kimball Union alumni gathered back on The Hilltop, many with their spouses and families, to share memories, visit with friends, and see the changes that have taken shape on campus.

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Above, top row - KUA Exchange presenters Dahmey Norgay ’89 and Lucinda Williams Bliss ’83; bottom row - Steve “Bish” Bishop H’00, KUA Exchange presenter Aston Ballou ’88

Above: Alumni lacross game; the next generation of KUA lacrosse players.

Above: Award recipients, top left - Doug Beapure ’84, P’13,’15 (The Sportsmanship Award); top right - James E. Gray ’66, H’14, P’02,’04 (The Alumni Achievers Award); bottom left - Kathryn F. Munro H’13, P’11,’13 (The Volunteeer Award); bottom right Timothy J. Herbert ’83, P’09,’11,’13 and Sarah Griffiths Herbert ’84, P’09,’11,’13 (The Volunteer Award)

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CLASS OF 1944 - Bob Russell; CLASS OF 1954 - Back row (L to R): Roland Worthington, Dick Carolan, Russ Fletcher, Steve Tompkins; Front Row (L to R): Dave Michael Charlie Batchelder, Jack Lebrun; CLASS OF 1974 - Back row (L to R): Harry Robinson, Kathleen Robinson, Bob Blood, Andy Knott, Jayne Knott; Front row (L to R): Joan Bishop, Steve Bishop, Georg Feichtinger; CLASS OF 1984 - (L to R): Kearney Brooks, Sally Herbert, Doug Beaupre, Don Norton, Kate Whybrow, Mark Espenshade; CLASS OF 1989 Back row (L to R): Gage; Front row (L to R): Robyn Robyn Sachs Carpenter, Andrea Bueno Keen, Melissa Longacre, Mike OBryon; CLASS OF 1994 - (L to R): Will Sheff, Peter Coughlin; CLASS OF 1999 - (L to R): Zach LeBlanc, Hector Castillo; CLASS OF 2004 - ( L to R): Alicia Sargent, Dylan McGraw, Stephen Rogers, Lynn Gray; CLASS OF 2009 - Back row ( L to R): Zach Musgrave, Steve Kontos, Mike O’Connell, Elisha Kahan, Neil MacKenzie, Ben Newton, Andrew Weitzel, Nick Hayes; Front row (L to R): Caitlin Michaels, Iver Hulleberg, Tim Adams, Patrick Callahan, Geoffrey Ballou

To view the complete collection of Reunion weekend photos, as well as many other great KUA photos, visit www.flickr.com/kimballunionacademy/sets.

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FROM BHUTAN

TO MERIDEN, REUNION 2014 While alumni came from far and wide to celebrate Reunion 2014, the Norgay family’s journey from their home in Bhutan certainly qualified them for the “farthest distance traveled” award. Dhamey Norgay came to celebrate his 25th reunion with his wife Sonan and their children. He presented at KUAExchange, sharing the work he is doing to help sherpas and their families following the tragic death of 16 sherpas on Mount Everest in 2013. He also shared a brief video about The Noble Traveller, his family-run adventure company based in the Kingdom of Bhutan. Dhamey is the youngest son of the legendary Tenzing Norgay Sherpa.

Upon returning home, he sent Head of School Mike Schafer this note.

Dear Mike: Greetings. It was such a pleasure to meet you and Gayle on campus over the weekend. On behalf of my family, I would like to say a big thank you to you and your team for organizing such a memorable visit for us back on campus. For me, after 25 years, it felt like coming back home—amongst dear friends and mentors who have and continue to show so much compassion, support and inspiration.

While I have been following up on key events and changes on campus on-line, I was simply amazed to see first hand the world class improvements you have implemented, I was also very impressed with the faculty and staff I met. Thank you for all that you have, and continue to do to make KUA such an inspiring learning environment for students to excel.

Sonam and the children thoroughly enjoyed their time on campus—after all these years of me talking about KUA, they finally got to experience a glimpse of what I was fortunate enough to experience so many years back. My hope is that one day, my children will be able to attend this great school, too.

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DHAMEY TENSING NORGAY ’89 REFLECTS ON HIS RETURN TO THE HILLTOP

REUNION

2015 JUNE 5-7

Come back to The Hilltop for All Class Reunion 2015! Relive your KUA days with classmates, friends, faculty, and family.

Don’t miss the action-packed weekend of events, food, and fun.

Look for more details soon at www.kua.org/reunion

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ALUMNI COUNCIL NEWS The Alumni Council proudly recognized the following alumni award winners at Reunion Weekend this past June: THE SPORTSMANSHIP AWARD Doug Beaupre ’84, P’13,’15 THE VOLUNTEER AWARD Timothy J. Herbert ’83, P’09,’11,’13 Sarah Griffiths Herbert ’84, P’09,’11,’13 Kathryn F. Munro H’13, P’11,’13 THE ALUMNI ACHIEVERS AWARD James E. Gray ’66, H’14, P’02,’04 Each year, the Alumni Council has the honor of receiving individual nominations and selecting from those nominees to present awards in the above categories. The council has been an integral organization for the Academy since its founding in 1906.

In recent years, the council has added many new members, and membership currently stands at 27. The vibrancy and effectiveness of the Alumni Council is directly related to the number and class representation of the council members. You can nominate an alumnus or alumna for award consideration by e-mailing the Alumni Council at alumnicouncil@kua.org.

To learn more, or, if you have an interest in becoming an active member of the Alumni Council, please contact Greg Pollard at gpollard@kua.org or 603-469-2126.

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A LETTER FROM THE EDITOR It is with mixed emotions that I share the news of my retirement at the end of 2014. While I am looking forward to this exciting new chapter, leaving Kimball Union is certainly bittersweet. It has been such a privilege to watch this remarkable school grow to new heights and to share news of it with alumni, parents, friends, and prospective families. I have never felt prouder to represent Kimball Union and never more certain of its bright future. I look forward to reading about its continued success on these pages and enjoying happy memories of 11 wonderful years on The Hilltop for years to come.

Julia Brennan, Director of Communications

LET TERS TO THE EDITOR Send your letters to Editor, Kimball Union Magazine, PO Box 188, Meriden, NH 03770-0188 or kua@kua.org

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KENNEBUNKPORT, ME July 29, 2014 Hosted by Caroline and Hans Olsen ’81

STOWE, VT August 2, 2014 - Hosted by Dawnmarie and Adam Black ’85, P’17

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BRING ALUMNI, FAMILIES, & FRIENDS TOGETHER

N A N T U C K E T, M A August 5, 2014 Hosted by Mary Howell and Jeff Shapiro P’17 and Dr. Robert and Lois Shapiro GP’17

C H AT H A M , M A August 7, 2014 - Hosted by Liz and Jim McNair P’12,’14

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BOSTON, MA HARBOR CRUISE September 9, 2014 - Hosted by Kerry and Bob Fitzgerald ’82

Your life, your legacy.

Rob Snow ’85

learned early from his parents about using an insurance policy as a way to “give back” to Kimball Union Academy, and as a means to convey his gratitude for the two years he spent on campus.

His parents were strong advocates of philanthropically supporting one’s school each year. Using a life insurance policy enabled Rob to make a meaningful gift to KUA without a large upfront payment.

To learn more about supporting KUA with a planned gift, please visit the planned giving pages at www.kua.org, or contact Dan LeClair, Director of Planned and Leadership Giving, at (603) 469-2129 or dleclair@kua.org.

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Your will, your legacy.

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will is an important part of your financial plan. Have you taken the time to draw one up? If you have, is it up to date? Life gets busy and we often lose track of some of the important details. Without a will, you and those you love most might be surprised at how your assets are actually divided.

They may go to beneficiaries you never intended or even be retained by the state.

If you don’t have a will, be sure to make one as soon as possible. If yours has not been reviewed for a while, make sure that it still reflects your wishes. Sometimes just a codicil is all that is needed to bring it up to date.

While you are reviewing your plans, please consider including Kimball Union in your will. An estate gift can meaningfully ensure that your Kimball Union legacy endures. To learn more about how easy it is to include KUA, please visit the planned giving pages at www.kua.org or contact Dan LeClair, Director of Planned and Leadership Giving, at 603-469-2129 or dleclair@kua.org

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1941 CHARLES K. MALLET T P. O. Box 382 South Berwick, ME 03908 202-365-0179 charleskmallett@yahoo.com Plan to attend our 75th Reunion in 2016. Big plans are underway for a gala event! • DICK MCCRUDDEN recently spoke to an audience of 500 about the early days of skiing (1940s and 1950s) in Aspen, CO, and his experiences during that time with the 10th Mt. Division.

The lecture was in connection with Warren Miller’s film “Climb to Glory.” Dick’s talk can be seen on youtube.com under Dick McCrudden.

1943 J A M E S B . TAY LO R 287 Surplus Street Duxbury, MA 02331-1701 781-934-2375 never.die@verizon.net

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1946 SHERMAN BALDWIN 123 Pleasant Street Bass River, MA 02664-4548 508-398-6423 shermanbaldwin@msn.com

1947 ALL AN MUNRO ’55 (SUBSTITUTE CL ASS REPORTER)

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Barbara and PETER NEWTON invited AL MUNRO ’55 to lunch at their home in Cape Coral, FL, last March. Barb is an operating nurse who is now retired but volunteers at the Cape Coral Hospital’s pulmonary and cardiac center and was wearing her stethoscope as she prepared to leave, after fixing a delicious lunch for Peter and Al. The Newtons searched Sanibel and Captiva, FL (where they lived previously), high and low for a house with a seven-car garage to house Peter’s car collection, which includes his pride and joy—a Rolls Royce Cornice convertible. With no luck on those islands, they finally found the perfect house in Cape Coral. Pete has won many awards with his cars. The trophies are tastefully displayed around the house. Their dogs, Sammy and Molly, are adorable. • BOB HOPKINS is ready to play golf after a slight health setback but is waiting for the snow to clear from his Darien, CT, home so he can start chipping and putting. He finds his drives are not carrying as far in his eighties as they did earlier in his golfing career. He sends along this remembrance of Batch’s service: DAVE BATCHELDER Remembered—When we saw the John Deere tractor, green with yellow trim, in front of the old white church, those of us attending Dave Batchelder’s March 15 memorial service knew we were in the right place. Schatzi had parked it there as if to bear his splendid spirit onward. There were at least 150 at the service in the Congregational Church of Salisbury, CT. David’s kinfolk made up a large group, along with friends and neighbors from Salisbury. Dartmouth classmates, along with BILL BOYNTON’S son, Andy, and MIKE TAUPIER, one of KUA’s faculty, were there, too. Dave’s son, Deke, and Bob Hopkins spoke briefly on behalf of David during the service. It was a bright sunny day with over a foot of snow covering those Berkshire foothills, a great day to remember one of KUA’s finest. • In a note from TED HAZEN from Texas, he says that he moved into a retirement community in Bryan, TX, in February 2013. It has “good quarters, good food and congenial residents.” What more could Ted wish (thazen1929@gmail.com)? • In a telephone call with WILLIAM CALDWELL in Cary, NC, reports that a son in Charlotte and a daughter in Greenville live close by. His son works for US Bank in the ATM Division. His

daughter and son-in-law operate two fitness gyms in Apex and Greenville, NC, has four grandchildren: his daughter has a boy and a girl; his son has two boys. We talked about his two years at KUA as a returning veteran and playing basketball. He was in the publishing business and went through a number of consolidations as that industry restructured.

Marilyn and he traveled often to Texas until he ended his publishing consulting career in 2002.

• STURDY CORBETT is happily retired in Stuart, FL. He followed his father (class of 1914) to Yale, having grown up in Norton, CT, and living across the street from Bob Hopkins.

They went together to KUA. Sturdy has three grandchildren. We had fun comparing notes on how we both got to KUA and other similarities, even though we were seven years apart. • BOB BIGELOW has fond memories of playing football at KUA and being on the New England Championship ski team. He was one of the six to seven veterans at KUA, having served in the US Navy during WWII. He went on to Middlebury after KUA. • Lois and WALT DEMERS are keeping busy with their 14 grandchildren and a great grandchild. With four daughters living within five miles of them and a son only thirty miles away, family activities are constant. Walt is still playing golf, and they live on the Maine coast so summers are always hectic…and fun! He was sorry to learn of Dave Batchelder’s passing as “Dave was one of those unforgettable men.” He would always hear from Dave when Dartmouth beat Yale, but “it was strangely quiet when the opposite happened.” He ended with “good luck with the class of ’47. We really are a pretty good bunch.” So true. • PETE HASLAM circulates between his home in Stowe (two months), a winter home in Vero Beach, FL, and a summer home at Caspian Lake, Greensboro, VT, about forty minutes from St. Johnsbury. He bought an insurance agency from a fellow UVM graduate, operating it until 1994 when he sold it to his son. He enjoyed serving on the board of Union Bank, Morrisville, VT, for 29 years. He voted for the mandatory 72-year retirement age when he was younger and regretted it when he reached 72 years old. His daughter lives in Virginia and his son lives close by. Patricia and he have four grandchildren. He remembers CHIEF BREWSTER saying that he wanted a band

playing at the Vermont Academy-KUA football game. Since Pete had a dance band in high school, Chief gave him three weeks to get the band together. He did and produced “a lot of noise.” He also remembers his job of shoveling manure at the farm and how the odor stayed with him all the way back to the dorm. • When KENT MCCRAY thinks back on how the class first met in the fall of 1944 at Chellis Hall, he reflects on the friendships made during his KUA years. He particularly remembers how close he became with Bill Boynton, TONY COLBY and Dave Batchelder and how those relationships remained close over the last 65 years. When he sees the word “friend” he always thinks of Bill, Tony, and Batch. He says: “Although they are no longer with us, they remain in my heart forever.”

Kent spends his time reading, watching sports, old films, television westerns, some of which are his own like “Bonanza” and “The High Chaparral.” He is working on a book about his life in television starting in live television with such talents as: Bob Hope, Red Skelton, Milton Berle, Groucho Marx and more, to working on memorable shows with an incredibly talented man, his partner and best friend Michael Landon. • Dot and JOHN PER-LEE recently moved from their home of many years to a condominium on the edge of Emory University campus. John spent his entire career at Emory University. Dot still drives so they can visit friends and avoid being homebound. John says, “in our mid-eighties, our classmates and spouses are trying to keep physical and mental decline at bay. Peter Newton keeps in touch with John. He was saddened to learn of David Batchelder’s passing which was not only sad for his KUA class but also his entire Dartmouth class. Batch kept track of and reported on all those who communicated with him and did so several times a year for over 30 years. Bob Hopkins, one of Batch’s closest friends, gave the eulogy at his memorial service. (Copies of Bob’s eulogy were sent to each classmate by KUA.) • HARRY MONTAGUE is still living on his farm in Westford, VT. He has been retired from farming for a number of years but is continuing his small business of selling guns, ammunition and reloading materials. He has been doing this for 55 years. He tried to get back to the 70th Reunion but was “having hardware added to his body.” His youngest son, who lives in Claremont, NH, helps out around the farm off and on. He has another son and daughter. He attended the 65th Reunion and visited with Kent McCray who he remembers as a big and good football player. He also sang bass with Kent in the church choir. • In Medina, WA, JERRY LINDSAY reports on Father’s Day that his two

grandchildren will be visiting and they ensure the Lindsay name is being passed on. He has three children, two daughters and a son. He has been married to Madeline since 1951. They moved to Washington in 1951 to manage the family grocery business. Jerry eventually became a stockbroker in the ’70s. He remembers that BILL BOYNTON sailed away in Maine and did not come back. Sadly. • ERICH SCHMITT’S last visit to KUA was for the class’s 60th Reunion He tries to get to the area so he can visit SALLY AND IKE TOWNSEND ’38. He was interested in KUA’s commitment to raising pigs because in his early ’50s he bought a farm in Pennsylvania to raise “feeder pigs.” He would raise them to about 50 pounds and then sell them to farmers who grew them into the hundreds of pounds. KUA’s sustainable farm raises half a dozen pigs and many chickens. They consume student’s left over food and then the students consume them. Erich had a number of interesting jobs, ranging from working in foundries to designing hardware for telephone lines to teaching school to raising pigs and farming. He had an agricultural degree from UVM and was on the UVM ski team. This allowed him to start a ski club in Naugatuck, CT, and help with the ski club in Hamden, CT. Besides a daughter in Seattle and a son in Harrisburg, he has two grandchildren and a great-granddaughter. • NATE WHITESIDE spent most of the winter in Boca Grande, FL, in order to avoid the tough winter in his home state of Michigan. While he grew up in Illinois, his father took him on a tour of New England prep schools. He saw and fell in love with KUA. He has visited KUA often and still remembers the activities of the Outing Club. His oldest son, JIM ’79 attended KUA, as did his brother, PETER ’53. He has four children spread out across the country with a number in Colorado where he enjoyed skiing. • I spoke with GREGG WHITNEY just as he had returned from his summer camp on Lake Winnisquam. He met his wife, Marianne in 1982 and married in 1985.

Both had lost their spouses and met at church.

She had lived in Springfield, MA, in her former marriage, where Gregg grew up so they had many mutual friends. Between them they have three children from their former marriages, eight grandchildren and nine great grandchildren so he gained “more than just a wife.” He is retired from GE and very enthusiastic about life and his family. He attended one day of the KUA Bicentennial Celebration last June. At Brooksby Village in Peabody, MA, where Marianne and he live, they enjoy an active life. Gregg has a walking group that covers the rail trail and the fruit farm over many acres. He says KUA means a lot to him and is “one of the better things that

happened in his life…he left with a lot more self-confidence than when he arrived.” • For those of you who I called, and missed your views, until next time, when I hope we connect.

It was fun talking with all of you.

1948 DONALD A. SPEAR 777 Stevens Avenue, Apt. 414 Portland, ME 04103 207-518-9093 donspear@maine.rr.com With the 85th anniversary of my birth coming up in November, I am cognizant of the fact that time is short but still, I confess, I did not attend the All Class Reunion – I had a broken nose, only figuratively speaking, of course. You see my bid to reprise my role of a decade ago at the first All Class Reunion as a Maine humorist was rejected and I was not given a spot on the weekend programs and activities. Although my feelings were hurt, I am not sulking for I am looking on the sunny side of life. Having my balloon thusly punctured, I am no longer faced with the expense of buying new hats for my head which has now shrunk back to its normal size. The other plus for my loyal readers is that I cannot criticize you for not attending the reunion. • The lament in the last issue for help in supplying fodder for these columns garnered only one response. DREW SLEEPER was kind enough to call from Abilene, TX (2149 Post Oak Drive – 79605) where he has lived ever since 1975. We chatted for some time while he brought me up-to-date on his life since 1948.

He was one of the 17 classmates who went to Dartmouth in the fall, but in 1951 when it looked like he might be drafted into the Army, he joined the Air Force where he was a fighter pilot for nine years and then a bomber pilot. He was the base commander at Camp New Amsterdam in Holland from 1970 until assigned to the air base in Abilene in 1975. Upon his retirement in 1981 after a 30-year career, he worked for the city of Abilene in its Waste Management Department. Drew is married (1951) to a lovely Canadian lady, Evelyn; and they have three charming daughters. He re-connected with Dartmouth in 1964 through the Bootstrap Program. • We have lost two more classmates, BUD WATSON and TRUMAN WAY. Before I write about them, I have an apology to make to the family of our late classmate, DAVID Q. LEWIS. In transmitting my previous column to the Alumni Office, with my limited abilities at the computer, I managed to omit the references to Dave’s school activities which I usually FA L L 2 0 1 4

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include in my words of remembrance; so, with my apologies to the family, here they are. Dave came to KUA as a junior and resided on the bottom floor of Bryant in our senior year. As a floor-mate, perhaps I got to know him better than some of you, but he was a great guy to have around and to be around. He was one of whom it was easy to say, “He’s my friend.” At school, he participated in recreational skiing, and was a member of the Outing Club as well as the Glee and Debating Clubs. He was on the business staff of The Kimball Union. He pursued a business administration degree at Colorado College where his studies were interrupted by a stint in the Air Force. He graduated in 1955 and began a career in insurance with the Tolley Insurance Agency of which he later became the principal owner before selling it in 1984 to enjoy an extended retirement with his family. • WILLARD HAROLD “BUD” WATSON JR. — Bud died peacefully October 19, 2013. He attended the University of Bridgeport in Bridgeport, CT, and served in the US Army in Alaska. Upon his discharge, he joined the family business, Watson’s Department Store in Bridgeport. After several years of working at Watson’s, he became a traveling salesman. He was a tireless community volunteer.

Bud and his family were members of Brownson Country Club in Huntington, CT, where he also served on its board of directors. Additionally, he served as treasurer of the Huntington Volunteer Fire Department. After his retirement, he moved to Perkinsville, VT, where he was active in many organizations. In 2002, he was honored by the Springfield Chamber of Commerce as Citizen of the Year. He was outgoing and kind, had a wonderful sense of humor, and made friends easily wherever he went. He loved his family, golf, and classic cars. He attended many car shows and often won prizes for his own collection of classic Fords, one of which he always drove to our reunions. Bud was survived by his wife, Joan, of 62 years, and their four children: Jody Dodge, Willard H. Watson, III, Kimberly Lewis, John Watson, and ten grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Bud entered KUA in 1943 as what was then called a “prep.” He was one of those rare specimens, a five-year veteran. His sports through those many years included football, hockey, soccer, baseball, and lacrosse. He was a member of the Outing Club, the staff of The Concordia, the choir, the Chapel Guild, the Debating Club, and the Photography Club. • A TRUMAN WAY III. — Truman, who was born in Burlington, VT, died on July 5, 2013. After KUA he joined the US Navy. In 1955, after his discharge and attendance at the State of Vermont Police Training School in Montpelier, he joined the Vermont State Police from which he retired at 88

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the rank of lieutenant after 30 years of service.

During that career he was deeply involved with the scuba diving team and the mountain rescue team. In 1986, he became chief of police for the city of St. Albans, VT, from which he retired in 1989. During his career as a police officer, Truman received many certificates and awards from different law enforcement agencies. He was a member of the Fair Haven American Legion Post 49. He enjoyed years of RV’ing across the country. Among his survivors is his wife, Shirley H. Way, whom he married on October. 27, 1962; a son, L. Alan Way; and a daughter, Susan W. Hawkins, both by a previous marriage. At KUA, which he entered as a junior in 1946, Truman played football, soccer and baseball. He was a skier and captain of the varsity ski team in his senior year. He was active in the Outing Club and in the band, orchestra, Glee Club, and choir.

• My remembrances of deceased classmates will be longer since only the name and date of death are now published in the magazine. The Alumni Office does send me copies of the obituaries that it obtains from a program to which it subscribes.

If any of you would like a full copy of that obituary rather than my summary, please contact me at one of the choices listed in the heading to this column. • MUSINGS FROM MAINE: We were 79 strong in June of 1948. Now there are only 27 of those who graduated for whom we have contact information. That is all the more reason for keeping in touch with one another through this column. Although it would be great if you are in a position to continue to contribute to the school, like through the Annual Fund, I do not seek nor will I solicit gifts. I only want news from you. My affiliation with MOOSE, the acronym for Maine Organization Of Storytellers Enthusiasts, has led to the “big time” for me. I was a featured performer (my bit was an hour and a half show) on May 31 at the Piscataquis Heritage Annual Hot Air Balloon Festival in Dover-Foxcroft, ME. Those of you who have computers and are so inclined can Google both MOOSE and the name of the Festival (and you, BID GUILD, for your information I was actually telling stories and not just filling up the balloons with hot-air legalese). PUNDITRY FROM THE PONDERING PUNDIT ~ ON AGING: • Aspire to inspire before you expire. • Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting. • The irony of life is that, by the time you’re old enough to know your way around, you’re not going anywhere. • We were taught to respect our elders, but it keeps getting harder to find one • Every morning is the dawn of a new error. • (and, courtesy of Jay Leno, my favorite): “What with hurricanes, tornados, severe thunderstorms, mud slides, flooding, out-of-control fires, tearing

up the country from one end to the other; the threat of terrorist attacks and bird flu and other animal diseases being transmitted to humans; are we sure this a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?” Until the next issue: Be of Good Cheer, Do Good Works, Stay Healthy, Keep in Touch, and just Keep On, Keeping On.

1949 R O B E R T K E L LY 192 Governor’s Lane Shelburne, VT 05482 802-985-9555 bobkelly8@comcast.net I am sorry to report that DAVID DEAN’S wife Joan died in February, after an 11-year struggle with Alzheimer’s Disease.

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F O S T E R K AY 4380 North Main Street, Apt. 303 Fall River, MA 02720-1712 508-567-1397 fosterkay@earthlink.net

1952 KARL A. BRAUTIGAM 378 Flax Hill Road South Norwalk, CT 06854-2420 203-866-5812 karllass@webtv.net

1953 S TA N F O R D B . V I N C E N T 20 Daniels Road Falmouth, MA 02540-1931 508-457-6237 stanvincent3511@verizon.net

1954 ROY SIMMONS has received an honorary PhD degree in humane letters from Syracuse University for his work as an artist and his coaching career. Roy coached lacrosse at Syracuse from 1971-1998.

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WA R R E N D . H U S E 252 Pleasant Street Laconia, NH 03246-3033 603-524-6593 Those of us who remember STEVE PLUMMER ‘45, who was our glee club and band director, will be saddened to learn that he died May 16, 2014. Steve was also organist and choir director at the Meriden Congregational Church, so many of us heard his excellent playing every Sunday for a number of years. My own recollection of Steve is at a piano recital he gave at the Plainfield Town Hall, with the Maxfield Parrish scenery on display, at which he played Debussy’s “Golliwogg’s Cakewalk,” among other selections. I knew Steve had stayed with music, but I was surprised to learn that he had a full career as a professor at the Berklee School of Music in Boston, retiring in 1992.

An obituary is available on line at www.kua. org. • As these notes are written, in mid-June, the Northeast survived a nasty winter, with what seemed like endless snow and frigid temperatures. Attendance at spring 55th college reunions for many of us gave a promise of more amicable weather. • AL MUNRO writes: “In early December around the time of the KUA Boston Christmas party, RON HARRISON, HOWIE GOLDBERG, Al Munro and NORM LETARTE met at Smith and Wollensky for lunch.

Tales of past KUA events flowed as Norm remembered ski stories and Howie rattled off tennis victories. Ron expressed his interest in the KUA basketball team that eventually played in the finals of the New England Prep School Association Championships, losing to Cushing, a team KUA had beaten earlier in the season. George and Al just marveled at how good Howie and Ron were…once. JOHN BOOTH had arranged the luncheon but then had a conflict and cancelled. He did not get off lightly during the meal. • PAUL BUCKLEY attended one of the boys’ hockey tournaments in Boston after the Christmas break. The team had a successful season winning one Christmas tournament, the Lakes Region (again) and the final tournament of the year. Paul brought one of his sons who had a great college career as, I think, a goalie. • JACK LEBRUN ‘54 and Al Munro took CHARLIE BATCHELDER ‘54 to the KUA-Brewster boys’ ice hockey game at Brewster. Charlie hosted dinner but Jack and Al had to resist his libation offerings or would “still be driving around Lake Winnipesaukee.”

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living in it for 41 years (plus 10 years in another house a few blocks away). From there we moved into an apartment in Waltham. Back to my roots. My grandparents lived there, and my Dad grew up there. It was the best thing we ever did. We are right on the Charles River with an east, north and west exposure. Beautiful sunrises and sunsets. The best part is no maintenance responsibilities.

Allan F. Munro ’55, and daughters Lauren Munro Dole ‘83, Robin Munro Gronlund ’81 and Becca Munro Horning.

We can walk to almost everything we need. During the move I did a little too much heavy lifting. That caused an variants over the years. • From JOHN BOOTH: increase in my heart murmur which led to a valve “Winter was long in Maryland also. Bonnie and repair in December.

All’s well in that department I traveled a bit, mostly to see grandchildren. now.

This spring we took a river cruise down the It’s hard to believe that one is in college. We Danube.

It started in Budapest. We stopped in are all getting up in years. June 2015 will be our Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria and ended in Bucharest.

60th from KUA. Let’s start to make plans to We then spent a few days hunting for Dracula in go back. We still have Five Gables Inn & Spa Transylvania.

The countries had beautiful scenery and would love to have any ’55er as our guests, and the soil is very fertile.

It looks like they could I’ll contribute your room charge to the KUA grow anything.

However, It was sad to see the alumni fund. Hope all are well and having fun.” disheartened people in most of the areas we • During the past “wretched winter weather,” ED visited.

Their economies are very bad right now BOADWAY made his final, “downsizing” move with high unemployment, and the governments to “nicer and quieter quarters in Claremont, are very corrupt. From what we were told but still has 500 tightly-packed storage boxes the quality of their manufactured goods is so to pick through. A church yard sale will be poor, that once they lost their customers in the heavily-laden this summer! ‘The spirit is willing, Communist bloc, they couldn’t find a market for but the flesh is weak.’ However, he is still on their goods. Therefore factories that employed the organ bench in Ludlow, Vt., recently gave thousands either went down to a few hundred a recital in Brattleboro, and attended Steve employees, or closed all together. Having lived Plummer’s funeral in Plainfield on May 21.” • under Communist rule for so long the people, RON HARRISON is “still teaching watercolor painting in Salem to all levels and loves it because unlike Americans, have no idea how to cope with the situation. I don’t see the situation getting it is great to see the students’ progress and better in the near, or not so near future. Sheila have them realize they have moved forward in and I just came back from my 55th reunion their skills. Last summer the US Navy selected at Colgate. Since we were engaged my senior two of my historical watercolor paintings to year, Sheila spent a great deal of time there, and help illustrate its ‘webinar’ on the War of 1812, knew my roommates and friends quite well, so which is also known as ‘the Navy’s war.’ Last it was great for both of us to see one of my fall Mary Jane and I journeyed to San Diego roommates and some of my close friends from for the annual conference of the American those days. The weather was beautiful, and the Society of Marine Artists, where I presented. We setting was spectacular. The buildings they have preceded that with a trip to tour the National added to the campus are very complementary Parks, beginning in Arizona and ending up in architecturally. • WARREN HUSE is still South Dakota. We were disappointed in May compiling two pages of local history each week when, having planned a Rhine River cruise; we for the local daily newspaper. This spring, he had to cancel two days before when I came had to learn another new computer program and down with pneumonia. Luckily we had taken out now uploads his material to the electronic edition travel insurance. Coming up this July is the super as well as to the print version. Warren enjoyed competitive Marblehead Arts Festival where I his 55th reunion at Dartmouth in early June, have never been rejected in 15 years and have at which Al Munro was also present — and, as ribboned.” Note from Warren: If you haven’t usual, was one of the movers and shakers on checked Ron’s website (www.ronharrisonart. the reunion committee. His performance as the com) lately, I recommend taking a look. He’s beverage chairman was stellar. put up an extensive selection of his artwork that is well worth a visit. • HOWIE GOLDBERG reports, “We sold our house last spring after FA L L 2 0 1 4

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1956 STEPHEN H. BISHOP JR. 79 West Central Street Natick, MA 01760-4333 508-655-7245 breakers@aol.com JACK KIDD is still working, running his tree

service business. He has grandchildren and greatgrandchildren, too numerous to count. • I would love it if someone would take over these class notes. Anyone interested, call the Alumni Office.

1957 CURTIS BROCKELMAN P. O. Box 94 Waccabuc, NY 10597 914-763-5050 pigbrock@aol.com

1958 F R E D E R I C F. H E A P 210 North Street Hingham, MA 02043 781-789-9697 ffheap@yahoo.com After a long tenure as class reporter, JOHN FLOYD-JONES has retired. I, FRED HEAP, have agreed to take the class reporter position on again but I need your help, mainly news.

Also, as I have said in the past, I will never call for donations or money. I am interested in class news and keeping up on where everybody has moved to, doing in retirement, etc., and keeping the class list up to date. • Fred and Sheila Heap sold their Inn on Nantucket on October 2012 and have retired to Hingham, MA, near their daughters and grandkids. During the fall and spring we are trying to attend four soccer games in two towns on Saturday. (An unknown fact. I was the starting fullback for the Babson Institute Soccer Team in the fall of 1962 and 1963.)

These kids are a lot better than I was. Sheila and I have not quite decided what we are going to do with our retirement, though we take a lot of cruises. The next one is to fly to Barcelona and come back across the Atlantic Ocean to Fort Lauderdale in late fall. We also have done some RVing in a Roadtrek 190 V. Still trying to figure at all out. I attended the KUA All Class Reunion both last year and this June. Last year it was quite hot; there was a great turnout, especially with schoolmates I have not seen since we were schoolmates. This year I had a great tour showing all the changes that have taken place.

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and library. Baxter is now executive offices, the stone building is admissions, and next to the hockey rink there is an indoor soccer field. As you know, football is gone, and the swimming pool is gone. I think the insurance companies had something to do with it. The basketball gym is still there. Twenty percent of the students are from foreign countries, and KUA is co-ed.

• From EDWARD MULLEN, “Fred, thanks for assuming the role of class reporter for our class.

Not a lot of news in my regard this spring. Have granddaughter in Yarmouth, ME, heading for Syracuse next fall and grandson in Hingham, MA, considering KUA next year. Gail and I are doing fine. Recently spent some time with ALLAN SWANSON. We were really sorry to hear about BOB BROCHU’S death. Allan was with him at a KUA reception the night before he died.

Thanks again and it looks like you are enjoying your grandchildren as we are.” • News from JOHN THEES: “Elyse and I celebrated 25 years of marriage last March and are looking forward to many more happy years together. I continue to sing with two adult choral groups and now volunteer a couple of hours a day a couple of days a week to a local charitable organization in their resale/recycling facility. I am usually the only male on site when working so I get most of the heavy lifting work. It helps me a little with fitness and it keeps me out of trouble. I also occasionally dabble in community theater when there is a role for someone my age. They don’t occur that often. By the time this is published in September Elyse and I will have taken our annual road trip to Oklahoma and Colorado to visit and stay with friends and family. It is always fun to see everyone and it has the added bonus of getting us out of the Texas summer heat for a few weeks. We plan to go to Spain in the fall.

Elyse has never been there and it has been about 50 years since I was last there.”

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J O N AT H A N E . M I TC H E L L 4 Wesley Drive Londonderry, NH 03053-3544 603-216-5369 cottageretreatja@comcast.net

1961 WILLIAM S. HAGAR 194 South Mendon Road Rutland, VT 05701-6531 248-496-5147 whagar467@comcast.net DAVE DOVE writes that he enjoyed attending his 50th at Beverly, MA, recently. He is retired

Phil Morse ’60 with the Red Sox trophy.

from GE after 31 years of service, and resides to the north of Cincinnati. He still does virtual tour photography for realtors, and has a website www.daviddovephotography.com. Dave enjoys golf in the summer, and stays in shape by use of a fitness center year-round. Dave and Kathy vacation in Aruba in January on years when finances permit it. • A short note from BOB BENTLEY reveals that he is now retired and has found some consulting work with a group in Cambridge that is developing systems to reduce train accidents. Bob is planning to attend reunion next year, our 54th. • FRED SOULE continues living in the North Carolina foothills, and states that his only regret for the location is that the distance to KUA makes attendance at special events difficult. Fred has finally retired from the hospital administration business, and enjoys golf and hiking with his wife Sue, and building homes for Habitat for Humanity. He also enjoys traveling and taking history classes at the local community college. Fred and Sue are planning a few weeks’ trip to Croatia in the fall.

They also enjoyed hiking King Ludwig’s Way in Bavaria last year. • TONY GILMORE continues his activities as district governor for the 60 clubs in the NH-VT Rotary Organization. He reports, “As a past district governor and distract disaster chair, I kept busy raising money for Colorado’s floods in the summer, followed by Typhoon Hyian in the Philippines soon after. I took on spearheading a Rotary Global matching grant to spend nearly $800,000 for maternal and pediatric clinics in Mongolia. The fund raising for that

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grant is nearly complete and I expect I will make the trip to Mongolia when the equipment arrives.

Somehow I have managed to stay busy since I retired in 2008 with Rotary-related trips to the Philippines and Thailand, mission trips to Haiti (3), Honduras (2) and the DR (1). Wife Liz and I have two daughters and three grandkids and will be celebrating our 48th wedding anniversary this year. At some point we may slow down . . . but not yet. Best to all of our class.” • Jeninne and I are happily relocated to Rutland, VT, as of last August, where we enjoy seeing much more of our two older children and their kids. Jennifer, Brenton (12) and Audrey (7) are just over a mile away. Scott (class of ’90) comes up regularly from Ellington, CT, with his wife Leeann, and daughter Meredith (6). We all enjoy skiing together at Okemo, where I was able to get 23 days in last year. I plan to play golf in the area this summer, but have not settled on a club as yet. This is due in part to time spent getting the yard in shape, as well as shopping to purchase a boat and revisit some activities and locations which I enjoyed in New England prior to my KUA years. We left behind in Michigan our youngest child Jill, and she will be adding to our grandchild population in September. In July we have planned a windjammer cruise in Penobscot Bay departing Rockland on the 28th. During the week we will celebrate the 10th wedding anniversary of my younger sister Peg and her husband Rico Byam who were married by the captain 10 years ago. Joining us are my older sister Jan and her husband Slate Altenburg as well as other guests on the boat. We hope to see much more sun than fog but will be prepared for both.

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Kimball Union Academy is excited to celebrate and welcome members of the class of 1965 back to Meriden for their 50th Reunion, which will take place the weekend of June 5-7, 2015.

• HERB SEARS continues to practice law and is engaged in international business activities.

He and his wife, Ann, are based in Exeter, NH. They also split time between Maine, Vermont, and Florida. Herb’s daughter, Emily, will be getting married to Matt Joy at Mad River Glen in Vermont this fall. His son is recently engaged as well. He and his fiancée, Rachel White, plan to marry this coming January in Portland, ME. Herb very much looks forward to seeing many of his fellow class of 1965s back on the Hilltop for their 50th Reunion next June! • DAN ROGERS was sorry to learn of the death of FRED THORNTON in April. Fred was a resident of Hagerstown, MD, and was retired from the Maryland Department of Rehabilitation Services.

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He collected classic motion picture and film memorabilia. His wife Allison survives him.

Dan retired from his career as a principal structural engineer in 2004. For the last five years he has served as the part-time stated clerk of Albany Presbytery and expects to continue to serve in that capacity for another five years or so.

Dan and Laura continue to live in Latham, NY, and are active volunteers in their church and the community. They have three grandchildren— two whom live with their older son and his wife in Cranford, NJ, and one whom lives with their younger son and his wife in San Francisco, CA. Dan and Laura are in Meriden often to visit Laura’s mom Kay where she continues to reside in the MacLeay House on the KUA campus.

Dan enjoyed visiting with classmate Herb Sears at the Alumni Weekend in 2013 and looks forward to seeing many other classmates at our 50th reunion in 2015.

1966 D A L E L . M E LT Z E R 60 Veterans’ Way Hampstead, NH 03841 603-489-2696 dale444@aol.com

1968 DON “TOOT” CAHOON has been presented

with the John “Snooks” Kelley Founders Award by the American Collegiate Hockey Association.

This award goes annually to someone in the coaching profession who contributes to the overall growth and development of hockey in the US.

I participated for the first time in the KUA alumni ski race this past winter at Whaleback. Traveled to New Hampshire from my home in Dorset with RICHARD GILLESPIE ’72. Whaleback was not used by KUA when I was in Meriden. The conditions were perfect. A dual slalom was set up and a good turnout of alumni as well as a handful of current KUA team members. I liked the format, “take as many runs as you want till you get a time you like.” It was fun to run into an old acquaintance who was a star skier at KUA and Middlebury, TOM EASTON ’62, retired from the FBI and now flying corporate jets for part time income and fun.

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THOMAS HURST P. O. Box 136 Greensboro, VT 05841-0136 802-533-2613

1971 S TA N F O R D B R A D E E N 44 Laurel Hill Drive South Burlington, VT 05403 802-863-2740 smbradeen@bradeen.net

1972 R O B E R T W. C L A R K P. O. Box 626 Waynesville, NC 28786-0626 828-452-4551 bcfromwnc@gmail.com

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MALCOLM E. COOPER JR. P. O. Box 352 Dorset, VT 05251-0352 802-867-2528 mcoop@jkadams.com

SCOT T NOONAN 413 Essex Street Swampscott, MA 01907 781-596-2959 jandsnoonan@comcast.net

CULLY ERDMAN is still alive and well, having survived a bout with lung cancer a few years back. He owns and operates Slickrock Adventures which is an adventure business based out of Moab, UT, offering guided raft trips and apparently these days focuses on a winter program located on an island he owns 60 miles off the coast of Belize. Warm weather and warm water on this beautiful barrier reef provide the perfect setting to learn sailboarding, kite boarding, sea kayaking, snorkeling, rum drinking and other tropical island activities. •

Editor’s addition: Jeannine and ROBERT BLOOD celebrated their 30th wedding anniversary with friends and family in Bermuda at the end of May. • From DANA MANN: “Enjoyed a great day, June 7, for the 40th Reunion on the Hilltop.

Good friends, food and fun. Looking forward to my next visit.”

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1976 C . D O U G L A S M AT T E R N 15 Culver Street, #76 Plaistow, NH 03865 603-382-5269 mattern71385@yahoo.com

1977 J O H N M . S H AW J R .

2 Peders Place Chelmsford, MA 01824-4651 978-761-0313 Johnshaw59@gmail.com “All is well from northern Vermont,” writes DAVE “DUCK” DANFORTH. His daughter KRISTIN ’98 and her husband now have two children and just recently moved to Jericho, VT, while son CODY ’09 graduated from St. Lawrence and has been in Aspen, CO, for a year now “working, boarding, lax, golf and just living the tough life!” He spent some time last summer with ED and Amy STANSFIELD ’78 and THE FLICKINGERS down on Block Island and continue to see them regularly. • DONNER CARR is living nearby with son DONNER ‘06, living on the farm and working the land.

• MEREDITH JUDY LIBEN, who just returned to her new Hartland, VT (where she has two dogs and two goats), home after working with Alaskan educators in May, is a grandmother.

“Very young, wouldn’t you agree?” she writes, but says nine-month-old Avi Liben is a very happy baby. She is a national consultant on reading, literacy, and education reform with NYC-based Student Achievement Partners. She fondly remembered Tom Mikula: “He was my first and only fabulous math teacher when he taught us algebra II his first year as headmaster.

He made everything coherent and sensible—and beautiful. Plus he let the 11 of us first returning girls use his bathrooms at the headmaster’s house that first year.” • ANNA WOLTERBEEK continues to live in New Zealand, where she runs a rural lifestyle property on the southern part of the country’s North Island. She and her partner, a “Kiwi policeman” as she says, “live with two gorgeous middle-aged German shepherd dogs, four smoochey adult cats, nine free-range chooks, four sheep and lovely gardens, glasshouse and surrounding mountains where we live.” The couple visited the States in spring 2013, where they visited the FEICHTINGERS,

KATHY LINDQUIST-PUTNAM, and Meredith

Judy Liben. She hopes to return in a couple of years “and hope to catch up with at least JOYCE HESTER LINDSEY, and maybe ROBERT WESTLAKE at that time, both of whom I have happily had continued friendship with over the years.” She also writes that despite having had her third ACL on her left knee in February, she would love to welcome visitors. “New Zealand really is a gorgeous mystical place to live, so anyone wishing to come visit and travel around should definitely come and look us up! My email address is aewrootbeer@gmail.com.” • I can attest to the country’s beauty, as my wife and I spent two weeks in the spring visiting my oldest son on his semester abroad adventure.

Unfortunately I did not look up Anna, meaning I’ll have to return—and I would because it is that spectacular. My son will be a senior at St. Anselm, daughter a junior at UMass, and the youngest a sophomore at a school to be named.

All is well in Chelmsford, where I’ve been for 20 years, and working as PR/communications director at MGH Institute of Health Professions in Boston, a health sciences grad school on the water in the Charlestown Navy Yard where I can see the USS Constitution from my window.

1978 PRISCILL A BOGGIS EBERT 29 Birmingham Drive Northport, NY 11768-1045 631-744-7254 priscilla.ebert@gmail.com

1979 CL ARE DINGWELL 10 Harmony Drive Londonderry, NH 03053-3911

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1981 ROBIN MUNRO GRONLUND has been appointed associate vice president of marketing and creative services at Middlebury College.

Previously, she was the director of marketing at the University of Vermont, Division of Continuing and Distance Education.

1982 TODD SEGAL 422 Holland Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90042-3256 818-434-9189 todd.segal@yahoo.com

1983 L AUREN MUNRO DOLE 31 Touchstone Lake Oswego, OR 97035-1905 503-534-1396 lauren.dole@me.com LUCINDA WILLIAMS BLISS: “I live in Bath, ME, with my husband and two sons. I’m an artist focused primarily on painting and drawing; my work is represented by Aucocisco Galleries in Portland, ME. New drawings based on the experience of running farmland and engaging in conversations with farmers will be featured in the upcoming journal, Maine Farms. I also teach art and visual culture at Union Institute and University and in the New Hampshire Institute of Art MFA. My new hobby (obsession!) is running, which I discovered three years ago. I’ve been training and racing steadily since then. I blog about my running, art, and life adventures at lucindasrunningblog.com<http:// lucindasrunningblog.com>. My son, Lincoln, just graduated from Boston University and my other son, Raymond, is a student at Wheaton College in Massachusetts.” • SCOTT CHESLEY: “I live in Ipswich, MA, with my wife Bonnie and our two children, Madelyn, 12, and Max, 8. Bonnie is a school psychologist and I am a freelance editor for medical white papers. Madelyn participates in track and basketball and Max plays basketball, soccer and baseball. I am also a coach for Max’s teams. I still am very much involved with music and sing and play the guitar in a band performing my original music. The band is called ‘My Slash On You’ (the name is from a song title from the 60’s band, Love). We play all around in Boston. I recently started a Sound Cloud Account and have posted eight original songs. You can Google my name on Sound Cloud to find the account.” • PETER FRANCE is still on his bike and still in his studio. He has posted photos of his work on PeterFrance.com. • CHRIS BURNS reports all is well is southwest Connecticut. His three children are in the final push to finish school and get into the swing of summer. Chris attended KUA’s 200-year anniversary where he spent time with fellow classmates GREG NARDONE and ROB MCLAUGHLIN. Seeing the two of them was not

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like 30 years had passed. Greg and Rob are exactly the same. Chris is staying in touch with GEORGE KANDO but getting together has proved difficult. • ROB BOLLER lives in Tenecula, CA (SoCal) with his wife and two young sons. He is president and general manager at Wilson Creek Winery as well as senior fellow at Eneref Institute. Rob and Caroline are both avid runners and also enjoy skiing. Some other recent activities he has enjoyed with his family include: sampling home brew root beer with the boys, enjoying local beer brew, hot air balloon rides, gourmet and reasonably priced food at his winery, visit to USS Midway Museum, and trips to the beach. • TIM HERBERT AND SALLY ’84 have been blessed with living in beautiful Plainfield. They run their farm and the KUA Equestrian Program. All three kids are now graduated from KUA. ADDIE ’09 is in Burlington working and pursuing her music passion. CHARLOTTE ‘11 is at St. Lawrence University and will be spending the summer in DC for an internship in entomology at the Smithsonian. JIMMY ‘14 will be a freshman at Bard College. • ROB MARGETTS: “I still keep in contact with WHITNEY, SHOKI and IAN and see them from time to time. Whitney and I both lived in Atlanta, GA, for about 10 years until I moved to Waco, TX, this past year. Whitney attended my son’s graduation from college last month in North Carolina. I am an international franchising and operations specialist and am still working on becoming a mad scientist. I also have a few websites and tons of blog sites: www.batkar.artistwebsites.com (I try to do some art crud/try is the word).” http://rmargetts. blogspot.com. • JON JOHNSTON lives in Fulton, NY, with his wife and three children.

He and his brother are owners of Johnston’s LP Gas Service, a propane gas business. • SUE KNAPP: “Last year, I started my second stint on the KUA Alumni Council, so I’m able to catch up on KUA news and events regularly.

The campus looks great, and the community is thriving. I’ve lived in the Upper Valley since early in 2001 when I started working at Dartmouth. I live in Wilder, VT, and I have an eight-year-old son. We spend our time bouncing between swim lessons and karate classes. I work at the Tuck School of Business handling communications for their Center for Global Business and Government.” • ELIZABETH GORIN ALLEN: “My husband and I live above Malibu in the Santa Monica Mountains close to nature and the ocean and enjoy daily hikes. We work in Hollywood and have a company that specializes in design and visual effects, www. cinergycreative.com. We just completed construction on a new home and hope to 94

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reinvent ourselves as winemakers starting a vineyard on our property.” • EMILY MOORE DEVEY: “I work at Salisbury School, an all-boys boarding school in Connecticut where I am the associate director of College Advising. My husband is the head of school across town at the Indian Mountain School, a PK-9 school. My daughters also attend IMS, although the eldest just graduated last Friday. We spend a lot of time in Jamestown, RI, over the summers to enjoy some time outside the school bubble.” • ELISE STIGUM: “I am relocating to the New Hampshire Upper Valley along with four dogs, two cats and a horse. I have secured a nursing position at the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center.” • NICK SONDER: “I have been living in Truckee, CA, for the past 18 years. It’s a small ski town just 13 miles north of Lake Tahoe. My family and I love it here. My wife, Chelle, and I have two teenagers that keep us very busy. I own a very small architectural practice specializing in high end custom home design around the lake, ski areas and golf communities in the area. I do think of KUA often as it was such a great experience. One of these days I hope to make it to a reunion and see all my old friends.” • KIRK MOORE: “I am living in the Salt Lake Valley, loving the skiing, mountain biking, road biking. Best in the world.

We have two kids: Sydney, 11, and Michael, 6.

Trying to keep up with all their activities in the summer, all while also trying to stay busy at work. As we all do at times in our lives, we go through some struggles and ours right now is my Dad coping with some significant medical issues, Mom trying to come to grips with it, looking for a bigger home to meet all our needs, adjusting to the different social situation, and so on. Also, has anyone heard from HELEN (ROSEMARY) TULLOH ’82? We were in Navy Flight training together and it would be great to reconnect. Last I heard she was in Maine. I might be heading that way to ‘learn’ something new from a Plastic Surgeon in the Portsmouth, NH, area.” • NED TROUP: “I’m doing great living back in my hometown of Berlin, CT. Recently remarried and loving my “Brady Bunch” family- which consists of four kids (ages 19, 15, 9 and 6) and two dogs. After this seemingly never-ending long winter, I’m enjoying the long awaited warm weather playing golf with my wife and kids and spending time at our family cottage in Westerly, RI, and swimming with our dogs. I’ve been trying to get together with HUGH CUSHING but busy schedules have proven it difficult. • CHRIS TRIPP: “I live in West Roxbury, MA, with my wife Kelley and three children. Aidan is 11, Evan is 9 and Lia is 7 and by far the toughest one in the house. The boys play lacrosse and

baseball. Lia has been performing Irish Step for three years now and is also involved with gymnastics. Yes, we are busy people but love it all. Looking forward to fun weekends over the summer; the boys begin their Junior Bruins hockey season on August 10; as much as I love the game, that is much too soon. I see PETE FRIEDMAN occasionally as he lives nearby. I also speak with and see TIM BROWN and TOM GRADY on occasion; they are in the area as well.” • PERRY ROTH lives near Lincoln Center, opposite the ABC building where they film The View. He is a true New Yorker without a car for over 15 years. This independence allows for the wonderful spontaneity of meeting friends and social acquaintances on the street. At 40, Perry made a career change from stock analyst to real estate broker. After nearly 10 months he received his first commission check, and is now one of the top brokers in Manhattan. He is working for Halstead Property, a leading residential real estate firm, and leading a team of five brokers. One thing that Perry has not mastered is the art of living with someone or something. He is single and without a pet or a plant in his spacious, by Manhattan standards, one-bedroom apartment with terrace. He has signed up for Netflix, so maybe there is a light at the end of the tunnel.

As the saying goes, you’ve got to walk before you run! • PETER FRIEDMAN: “We live about a mile apart from Chris and get the families together when we can. I, Tim Brown, Tom Grady, and TRIPPA all went to UConn after KUA. We all get together over the summer when JEFF NELSON comes to visit. Everyone looks great, and is doing well. I live in Brookline with my wife Pam, and three kids, Jack (13), Anna (10), Julia (6). All are active with busy schedules so we divide and conquer. Hockey is still a big part of our lives as I coach and still play to stay in shape. • STEVE COOPER reports, “I live and work on Cape Cod. I work for an underground utility construction company that specializes in horizontal directional drilling. It is very challenging and rewarding. I have a 14-year-old son who is the best. It’s interesting how he keeps everything in perspective for me, as I see him grow up. I haven’t been to KUA in a long time, or even an alumni outing. I did play in a golf outing about 10 years ago and it was great to catch up with a bunch of people.” • LAUREN MUNRO DOLE— “My husband, Trux, and I have lived in Oregon for 17 years. We have enjoyed exploring the Northwest through camping, hiking, downhill and cross-country skiing, fishing, mountain biking and sea kayaking. We are parents to an amazing little boy, Gage, who would be 13 years old this year. Gage spent 6

years of his life fighting his nemesis, a cancerous tumor on his spine, Ewing’s Sarcoma. At the age of 9, Gage passed on Valentine’s Day 2011. Trux applies his wisdom from our journey to his career in healthcare transparency, Healthsparq, helping people make smart health decisions. This year I have found the strength to begin investigating career paths to honor Gage’s spirit.

In the meantime I support other families and volunteer fundraising for CureSearch, funding Childhood Cancer Research. In May, for my 50th birthday, I traveled to Sanibel Island, FL, for a week with my father, ALLAN F. MUNRO ’55, and my sisters ROBIN MUNRO GRONLUND ’81 and Becca Munro Horning.” • GREG NARDONE attended the KUA 200-year celebration and he enjoyed spending time with his ’83 classmates and others. It was brutally hot so to cool off and for old time’s sake, a few of them even took a dip in the brook down by the covered bridge! He enjoys living just outside of Boston with his wife Lisa and their two daughters. His oldest daughter will be attending Syracuse University this fall where Greg and CHRIS BURNS went and where Greg met his wife Lisa . . . Greg keeps in touch with CHRIS HARRIS and ROB MCLAUGHLIN who are doing well.

1984 Thank you to ERIC LOWMAN who has been the class reporter since 2009. He is unable to continue. Please call the Alumni Office if you would like to take over this position.

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JENNIFER B. TRUMAN, after 20 years, has

given up her position as class reporter. Thank you Jennifer for all your help. Please contact the Alumni Office if you would like to take over.

1986 K AT H L E E N M I L L E R R E I N K E 1465 Old Farm Lane Saint Joseph, MI 49085 269-408-8090 kcreinke2@hotmail.com Editor’s addition: Meghan, daughter of KELLI JEKANOWSKI TRAINOR has signed with Epic Records. Meghan released a debut single “It’s All About That Bass” in June 2014 and, at this writing, is #1 on iTunes.

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BRENNA HEGGIE KELLEY 3 Roberts Lane Cape Elizabeth, ME 04107 207-799-1879 bghkelley@gmail.com

M E L I S S A A . LO N G A C R E 596 Stage Road Plainfield, NH 03781 603-675-9974 Mlongacre@myfairpoint.net

Hello Class of ’88! ABBY O’STEEN REEDER shared the following. “I am still in Asheville with my husband and four children who are now 16, 14, 12, and 10. Tom is a consulting mechanical engineer, and I am still at home with our kids.

We love life in Asheville and the outdoors here with tons of hiking and cycling. Life is full, walking with each of our children through their various activities—rowing, swimming, ballet, basketball, etc. We are also grateful to be on the path to adopting one child or a sibling set from Ethiopia. It’s been a long wait already, but we look forward to making room for them in our hearts and in our home. Every child deserves a family, and we are grateful for even the process that has helped us as a family to look outside ourselves and consider the needs of orphans worldwide. Greetings to the class of 1988; I am grateful for our shared KUA roots!” • KEVIN SCHROEDER writes, “I made it back to the reunion last summer and it was so great to reconnect with those who made it. We currently live in Hanover, PA, snack food capital of the world! Utz chips and Snyders pretzels are made around the corner! Wife, Nikki, Olivia, 13 years old, Owen, 10 years old. Busy with cheerleading, golfing, swimming, trampolining, etc. all summer.

I have been working for Alkermes, Inc. for the past four years and love every day of it. I try to keep active with biking and swimming. My running and soccer days are behind me now (bad hip). Anyone who wants a place to stay while visiting Hershey Park, Gettysburg battlefields, Baltimore or Washington, all are very close by.

Our e-mail address is kandnschroeder@comcast. net if you want to touch base. • My (BRENNA HEGGIE KELLEY) latest news is that my family relocated back to Cape Elizabeth, ME. We are now settled into our new home and are so happy to be back in northern New England where we really feel at home. This fall my youngest son will be going to kindergarten. I have been at home with the boys for 11 years. I am in the process of reinventing my career self and am going back to work part-time. Best to you all and please share your news!

So great to see some of you again at our 25th reunion! I hope more of you make it to the next one! The campus looks great and we even got a great surprise—Goat Milk Soap pack from the Jonas Family! (They upped the ante for those of you who couldn’t make it.) The friends and memories made at KUA really do last a lifetime.

• I got to see one of my KUA friends and see her baby bump for real! ROBYN SACHS CARPENTER and her husband Dan are living on the Cape and are expecting their first child.

Robyn is a surgeon and works at the hospital in Hyannis. I couldn’t be happier for them! • DHAMEY NORGAY and his family also attended the reunion and get the award for longest trek to get to Meriden! Dhamey gave a great presentation about the adventure travel company he and his wife operate and his work with the Sherpas on Mt. Everest. They currently live in Bhutan. • RAY MANN and his family attended as well. I think Dhamey’s and Ray’s kids had a great time checking out the campus. Ray and his wife work in NYC and enjoy time at their lake house in the country. Ray works in insurance.

• ANDREA BUENO KEEN and her husband attended. Andrea is a full time mom and does a little bit of consulting. They were very excited about having solar panels installed right before reunion! • MIKE O’BRYON and his son attended.

Mike works for the State Department and he and his wife Diane have lived in Afghanistan, Germany, and are headed to Mozambique next.

Mike had attended the memorial service of MR. MIKULA at William and Mary since they are both alums. • We recreated Densmore Beach on Saturday afternoon as HILLARY MATHEWSON MOULLIET, JEN BIUSO DUNN, LISA CENCI SHERMAN, ROBYN SACHS CARPENTER, and LEWIS and Elaine GAGE and I soaked up some rays in the quad (yes, the campus now has a quad!). • Jen and her husband moved their three girls to San Antonio, TX in November. They enjoy seeing green after all their years in Phoenix!

• Lisa and her husband are living in Burlington, VT. Lisa’s husband is in a band called Pony Truck and they had a gig playing at Higher Ground! • Hillary is living in South Carolina with her family and is a busy mom running her own business! Lewis and his wife have two boys and live in Massachusetts. He works for TJX but would much rather talk about his band or his skiing adventures! • FA L L 2 0 1 4

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the headmaster’s house. • Jesse and her husband run a school—I think she said she teaches 17 kids in a one-room school house type setting.

All three of her kids were in the school this year.

She has taken a break from her singing career with the Bramble Jam. • Kate has taken a break from being a veterinarian and is spending lots of time with her kids. She and her family live in Maine. I particularly enjoyed her story of trying to take her kids swimming at the old swimming hole down by the covered bridge in Meriden!

Ellen has three adorable kids that keep her very busy. • JOSH CASEY and MARY MERRILL joined us Saturday night. Mary and her husband just moved but she is still at the Belmont Day School. Josh Casey brought his fiancé and they are deep into planning for their wedding this summer. They live in Boston. • Also had a few updates from ’89ers that couldn’t make it to the reunion . . . JIM JONAS sent a note. His family of 10 was on the Mike Huckabee Show this spring.

Check out the Goat Milk Stuff Facebook page if you haven’t already—beautiful children and goats! Thanks for the gift packs Jim—how thoughtful of you! Next time I hope you can hand them out in person! • MATT PEREL is the director of CRM Sales at mcaConnect in Houston. His daughter just graduated from middle school and his wife will be teaching her figure skating at a university model school in the fall. Matt would love to catch up with anyone visiting Houston and may try to catch up with you on his travels to your city! • DOUG GRADY has given up his high altitude mountain guiding work he did in his 20’s to become a parent and lawyer. He is litigating patents and technology at a large firm in Seattle. He tries to climb and ski regularly as well as spends lots of time with his kids Harlan (8) and India (5).

He looks forward to getting back to guiding someday. • ROBIN AMISON REINHART and her husband have three busy boys. She spends lots of time overseeing Cub Scouts and planning camping trips with them. Her oldest son just graduated from high school and is about to become an Eagle Scout. She consults for the HR Department at Daiichi Sankyo and in her spare time spends as much time as she can gardening and fostering animals of all kinds for the two animal rescues she works with. She invites anyone visiting New Jersey to stop by for a dip in the pool and to sample some of the veggies from her garden! • CANDI OSGOOD STRICKLAND and her family are leaving their beloved Alaska to head back east. They will be settling in Manassas, VA. • RON NORTON, his wife Kara, and their two girls live in Cohasset, MA. Ron has started several consulting companies that he has sold 96

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to start his current project SharingCounts.

Check it out online. He still gets together with WALLY HALLERAN, MATT WEINBERG, BEN FRIEDBERG, and PHIL STAMATACKY. • KURT DE POY and his wife are living in Dallas, TX. Kurt has two children and enjoys coaching his son’s basketball team. He works for an oil and gas company and has taken up long distance running in his spare time. • Finally, a couple Facebook gleans . . . KEITH BAKER and his family live in Mashpee, MA. Keith has also taken up running and finished his first half marathon this spring! • PAUL FITZGERALD received his MEd in counseling psychology this spring. He also completed Boston’s Run to Remember.

• ADRIAN GUNN and his wife Nicole had a baby boy, Emmett. • Life here in Plainfield is good. The Garden Center is having a busy spring! Please don’t make me resort to having to guilt you into keeping in touch—although that worked well! Drop me a line.

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JUNE 5-7, 2015

Kimball Union Academy is excited to celebrate and welcome members of the class of 1990 back to Meriden for their 25th Reunion, which will take place the weekend of June 5-7, 2015.

• MATT BROMLEY has reported in. Matt and his wife Brittany live in Bedford, NY, with their daughter Charlotte and their 100-pound dog Finch. The Bromleys spend a lot of time gardening, skiing and keeping their 220-year-old house from falling down. The 25th Reunion is already on their calendar! Matt is in Manhattan during the week and can connect with any KUA alums who are around.

1991 M E L I N D A LO N G A C R E TA B E R P. O. Box 155 Plainfield, NH 03781 603-675-5707 mtaber@plainfieldschool.org Hello everyone! Spring came late to the KUA Hilltop this year but it was encouraging to see all the orange and black uniforms on the lacrosse and baseball fields. If you are in the area, you should stop and see the new renovations to Miller Student Center. It looks amazing! I will be starting my 19th year of teaching at Plainfield Elementary School this fall. It’s always fun to hear what’s going on at KUA from the faculty kids. As I continue to coach and hold extracurricular activities after school, I am finding less free time. I would like to pass off the role as class reporter to whoever would like to take on the job. Please contact the Alumni

Office if you are interested! Hope everybody has a wonderful summer!

1992 KEVIN D. WICKLESS 34 Wales Road Norwich, CT 06360-9410 860-383-4708 kwickless@gmail.com Another year—wow! • It’s been some time since we have had class notes. I have attended the KUA reunion the last two years. The first for the 20th reunion and last year for the Bicentennial which was held in the Akerstrom Arena and was absolutely amazing. It was Ken Burns meets Oprah Winfrey. All kidding aside, I need to highly recommend that every KUA alum make the trip to the Hilltop. It is an energizing and inspiring experience for anyone who has ever attended our school; I promise no matter what your experience at KUA, no trauma will result from a trip to beautiful Meriden, NH, and you will leave with a warmed heart. I believe that reconnecting with people after 20 plus years is an uplifting and mind blowing experience.

• AQUEEL ISMAIL writes: “Greetings from Singapore. If anyone finds her or himself in these parts, do get in touch.” • MATT KYRIAX adds: “Still in Hood River, OR; director of golf at Indian Creek Country Club. Working towards PGA Class A rating. Snowboarding all winter and golfing all summer. Life is simple and good.” • MOLLY BOURNE recently sold her house in Hanover and is moving up the road to Lyme, NH. • TERESA BERLIN reports that DR. AMELIA GRABE LANE has moved back to New Hampshire with her family and two twin daughters. • HEIDI ESTY RASBURY has been in touch with KRIS JONAS LYDEN who lives in New Hampshire and is married with a son. Kris works in banking and lives in Sunapee, NH. • ESTRELLA WOODS — TBT for KUA folks who were around with KEVIN BAGGALEY and his Salada tea sayings — a tea bag seen recently: “Travel light, live light, spread the light, be the light.”

1993 K AT H E R I N E M C K I N N E Y L ANDRIGAN 4784 Heatherwood Court Boulder, CO 80301 303-530-1074 mckkatherine@hotmail.com Hello class of ’93! I am so excited to announce that Steve and I welcomed our second baby boy,

Peter Michael Landrigan, on March 13, 2014, at 2:36 a.m. He weighed 6 lbs., 11 oz., 19 ¼ in.

Everyone is great and Liam (three years old) loves being a big brother! I hope everyone is well and I look forward to hearing your news the next time around. Cheers!

1994 H A N N A H T. FA I R B A N K 2145 Califonria Street NW, Apt. 207 Washington, DC 20008-1816 202-257-0074 hannahfairbank@gmail.com

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1996 B I A N C A FA J A R D O S A U L 17 Milton Street Lawrence, MA 01841-4250 978-494-0544 bianca.saul@gmail.com Editor’s additions: TOBY BARTLES recently had an art exhibit at the Ava Gallery in Lebanon, NH, after winning a juried exhibit. • CHRIS YOSHIDA has been hired by Deutsche Bank AG as global head of rates sales and will be working in the New York office. Chris had been working at Morgan Stanley in England for the last 11 years.

Francisco Jr., son of Francisco Ortiz-von Bismarck ’99

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ANNELISE ARMSTRONG GRANT 11 Congress Street Newburyport, MA 01950-2345 978-764-2368 annelise.a.grant@gmail.com Editor’s addition: KATRINA MOGIELNICKI SPADE has sent an update: “I thought KUA might be interested in the direction my life has taken since ‘the Hill.’ Last year, I graduated from architecture school at UMass Amherst, and as my thesis project I designed the Urban Death Project <http://www.urbandeathproject.org/>. Since then, I have continued to work on the project, and I was recently awarded an Echoing Green Climate Fellowship <http://www.echoinggreen. org/> to bring it from concept to reality. The project is a new system for the disposal of our dead in cities, utilizing the science of composting to safely and sustainably turn bodies into soilbuilding material. This compost is then used by nearby farms and community gardens. The project is envisioned as a place to honor the dead at a neighborhood scale, and it supports sustainable cities by engaging inhabitants in issues of soil heath, resource depletion, and climate change. It is important to note, however, that the Urban Death Project is not simply a process that will turn our bodies into soil-building material. It is also—crucially—a space for the contemplation of our place in the natural world, and a ritual to help us say goodbye to our loved ones by connecting us with the cycles of nature. At the heart of the project is a replicable four-story core that contains the process of decomposition. This core is currently being engineered to be replicated completely, however, the building that houses each core should be designed specifically for the neighborhood in which it resides. Hope you are all enjoying the beautiful summer weather!”

1997 DANIEL SHEFF 1400 Lowell Road Concord, MA 01742 860-417-9215 dansheff@gmail.com

1998 K R I S T Y W O LT E R 182 Bayleaf Drive Raeford, NC 283776-7689 850-855-2080 Editor’s additions: YUJI MISAU has sent an update: “After graduating KUA in 1998 I went to college in state of Oregon and right now I am living in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It has been almost 15 years since I have graduated from KUA and I never had a chance to go back to Meriden since. If anyone is coming to Argentina maybe I can provide some local Information.”

• From BRANDI VASSILIOU: “My kids and I

moved to Plainfield, NH, last August. I am now working at KUA in the Alumni and Development Office. I have kept up with several KUA people through Facebook. ERIC DUDENBOSTEL ’96 and his family moved to Ashburn, VA, and bought a house. JEN LUBAU ’00’S wedding to Hal Monsini was highlighted on two well-known wedding blogs. I cheered on DAVID FROTHINGHAM ’95 and GILLIAN FROTHINGHAM-GORDON ’96 at the end of the Prouty in Hanover, NH, in July. Gillian and her new husband have two dogs together. KATIE ANSON-CHAPMAN MANS and PETE MANS are expecting a second little girl in September.”

1999 MEGAN E. ROMIGH 27936 Calm Horizon Drive Menifee, CA 02594 850-855-2080 kmwol12@gmail.com I have been very busy moving in anticipation of getting married this fall to Sid Jackler.

Unfortunately, I can’t keep in touch with many classmates as my military service keeps me traveling and away from a steady address. I feel I must resign as class reporter. Anyone who is interested in taking my place, please contact the Alumni Office. • Editor’s addition: BRAD BAYER ‘99 graduated from the University of Denver with an MBA in finance at the end of 2013. He is now looking for a job, perhaps in oil and gas and studying for his CFA test.

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K E L LY FA R R E L L P. O. Box 213 Truckee, CA 96160-0213 kellyjanefarrell@gmail.com

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graduating from the University of Vermont, I was commissioned in the Army and served six years.

I was an airborne ranger and served a tour of duty in Iraq from 2006 to 2007 as Sapper platoon leader. I left the Army in 2010 and returned home to Alexandria, VA. I got married in 2012 and had a baby in 2013. Her name is Evangeline Albarelli and my wife’s name is Bette Albarelli.” • JASON FEITELBERG writes “KRISTIE KAGAN LEARY (Pat), LINDSEY WOLTER RATLIFF (Jordan), and MORGAN MILOWSKY NEEDS (George) all got together up in New York at Kristie’s and went four-wheeling. Jenna and I also got a new dog named Polar, she is an Alaskan Klee Kai and an all-around awesome pup.” • SCOTT LISTON and Whitney are doing well and recently celebrated their son Graeme’s first birthday! Scott says, “He moves around like a crazy person!” Scott also reports that ZAC STONE is engaged and getting

married in Nashville, TN, this fall at the Country Music Hall of Fame. Scott sees Morgan Milowsky Needs and George often and says they are doing well, moved out to Wayland, MA, with their daughter Siena. • NICOLE HERTZBERG writes “We are excited to announce the birth of our daughter Addison Marie Beavers on March 24, 2014. Her older siblings are two 1.5-year-old dogs (Bender and Fry), and they are delighted with the addition. I have been working as a professional research assistant for the University of Colorado School of Medicine. My lab focuses on B Cell Immunology, and our work has the potential to improve treatment for those suffering from lupus and type I diabetes. The work is very fulfilling, however I miss teaching high school science and may return to the classroom after spending some time at home with the little one.” • TORI KOHN says, “I am doing great and live in Fairbanks, AK, working as a geologist for the Bureau of Land Management. I am getting hitched August 30, 2014!”

• ETHAN BLOOMBERG writes, “I am still living on the beach near LA and loving life!” • FRANK BUTTARAVOLI is doing well and says, “We are closing on our new house and moving in next weekend.

Myself, wife (Jessica), and two-yearold daughter (Savannah Dorothy) are moving to the beach town of Hobe Sound, FL. My junk removal business, though not glamorous, is steadily growing.” • I (KELLY FARRELL) am still living in Truckee, CA, working as a college counselor.

My husband and I are expecting a baby girl this July! I run into WREN Caption: Class of 2000: Lindsey Wolter-Ratcliff, Jason JOHNS CAVALLO often who is Feitleberg, Morgan Milowsky-Needs, Kristie Kagan now the owner of a local ski/sports shop in Truckee, CA, called the 98

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Sports Exchange. She and her husband Rob are doing great! My parents are still working at the Dublin school and my brother; CHRIS FARRELL ’01 is working at Proctor Academy in Andover, NH. I got married last summer to Jarrod Millar and was able to catch up with (among quite a few) RAY SPRAGUE ’01 who was recently married to longtime, wonderful girlfriend, Jenny Aranson; ALEXIS FOREMAN, who is living in Ludlow, VT, and about to complete her first year of nursing school; ALIZA BOGDANICH, who recently accepted a job as a school counselor in upstate New York; SARAH SPRAGUE HOUDE ’99 with her husband Matt and their beautiful daughter Hazel (Haddie) and ROBIN LISTON ‘01, who is headed into his second year at PA school at Franklin Pierce College. Robin is engaged to current KUA faculty member ERIN MELLOW. It was great catching up with so many of you—let me know if you ever want to come to Tahoe to visit, we would love to have some KUA visitors!

2001 EMILY BOSWORTH-CLEMENS has her

own clothing design business, Crossfox, in Pittsburgh, PA.

2002 S T E V E N J . S O T LO F F 13250 SW 59th Avenue Pinecrest, FL 33156 786-302-0511 sotloffsteven@hotmail.com JESS CLEM is engaged to Eric James. • TONY BRAGG received a scholarship to continue

studies at RISD. • KUA note: The class of 2002 not only lost a friend and class mate when STEVEN SOTLOFF was murdered in September, but also their class reporter. Steve had served in that role since his graduation. We hope that a classmate will volunteer to continue in Steve’s footsteps to keep the class connected as class reporter. Please contact Greg Pollard at pollard@ kua.org or 603-469-2124 in you are interested or would like more information.

2003 CRAIG R. BL ANCHET TE 571 George Washington Turnpike Burlington, CT 06013-1534

2004 M E G A N T. B E N N I T T 204 Totoket Road

Branford, CT 06405-6427 203-376-9445 meg.bennitt@gmail.com LY N N M . G R AY 12 Harrington Street Newtonville, MA 02460-1526 603-809-6246 lmg.gray@gmail.com The class of 2004 just had its 10-year reunion.

Something else that is 10 years old? Facebook.

Wow, does time fly! But these 10 years postgraduation have treated many of us very well.

• Special Update: MEGAN BENNITT and KEMPER PIERCE (both of the class of 2004) have chosen our class’s 10th anniversary year to celebrate their upcoming nuptials (how appropriate). They will marry in Norwich, VT, in September. • MIKE MCKENNEY is an athletic trainer at Northeastern University in Boston and will be publishing his research in the Journal of Athletic Training this year. • CRYSTAL FRATES is engaged to JT McNeil and will be getting married this September in Woodstock, VT. She and JT just bought a house in Westwood, MA, and she works as an account executive at EMC. • ERIN BARNICLE LEVANT and her husband are still living and working in Hong Kong. They welcomed their daughter, Lydia Evangeline in November 2013. • NICOLE BRADSTREET completed her master’s in public policy at the George Washington University with a focus in global health last December. She is now working at the Sabin Vaccine Institute as a program officer for a typhoid project. She is engaged to Shane Trexler and is getting married at the Detroit Institute of the Arts in August. • DYLAN MCGRAW is living in Somerville, MA, and working at Pemberton Farms Marketplace as their front manager, social media coordinator and local/gluten-free buyer. He is also working as a student mentor at his fraternity, Alpha Phi Omega. • BRYAN FRATES is moving back East to Maryland from Utah where he just got a job as an assistant athletic director at The Calverton (boarding) School. He is also in the studio working on his second solo album which will be released in August. • JULIA BERNDT is living in Seattle working as a pediatric nurse practitioner at a community health center. She and her fiancé, Elliott James Rapp, are getting married this fall. • EMILY DEWEY is running her own online coaching business as a certified holistic health coach where she works with women to find balance and put an end to dieting drama in order to build better relationships with their food and their bodies. • PAT HALEY is living in Philadelphia and is just about to start his clinical rotation year of Physician Assistant School at

Drexel University. • BEN RIVARD is living in Champaign, IL, with his fiancée Jane Gomes. He just completed his first year of veterinary school at the University of Illinois where he is pursuing a career as an equine surgeon. He and Jane are getting married in June 2015 and plan to return to New England after graduation. • CHRIS HILL recently got engaged and is working as a project manager for one of the largest mechanical/ plumbing companies in New England. • LYNN GRAY is working in corporate communications for medical device company Boston Scientific and is pursuing her master’s at Boston University. • RYAN MACRAE is living in New Hampshire and working for a Texas-based oil and gas company.

He is currently working as part of a project team overseeing the construction of four new ships in South Korea. • CRAIG STROBL is currently living in Connecticut and working in medical device sales for Depuy Synthes Spine. • KATHLEEN NICHOLSON is teaching high school biology and chemistry at the Rivers School in Weston, MA. She just finished her second year in a master’s program for professional counseling and will be doing an internship at a special education school next year. She got married last summer and JOE WILLIAMS was the officiant. EILEEN WILLIAMS was the ring bearer and was a huge hit on the dance floor! • DREW CLANCEY is living in Boston and working for Forrester Research on their new business team. He will be moving to Chicago at the end of the year. • DAVE DEPAULA recently made the move into software sales for Smartbear Software. • MAK SHIBUYA is living in Portland, OR, and working as an architectural designer – about a year and one last exam away from getting his license as an architect. • SARA VINCENT received her MA in decorative art and design history with a concentration in European jewelry history from Parsons School for Design.

She received her graduate gemology degree from the Gemological Institute of America as a compliment to her MA and is working at her dream job in a world-renowned 5th Avenue gallery in NYC that specializes in antique jewelry and Imperial Russian fine and decorative art. • KATHERINE GOODRICH CLARK celebrated her two-year wedding anniversary with her husband, Jeremy Clark, this year and welcomed the arrival of their daughter Eve Morgan on April 5. Katherine lives in Vermont and works at Dutille Jewelry Design Studio in Lebanon, NH. • COREY HAYES has been living in Denver for the last 10 years and is running sales for USOC, a technology agency where ASHLEY MEUNIER is ironically a client. He is married to Liz Deets and they have a dog, Britta. • BRANDT NELSON is living in South Burlington, VT, with his wife Sara. Brandt works for Smith and Nephew selling both Trauma and Recon (which are total hips

and total knees). If you ever need one, you know who to call! • KATHERINE BEARDSLEE is living in Canaan, NH, in a house she and her partner, Eben, built two years ago. She has been running KB Flower Studio for four years now and has been training as a textile conservator on the side.

• DAN BUTTERLY has returned to the Upper Valley to attend the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. He just completed his first year.

• JULIAN CASEY, his wife and two dogs have been living in Northern California for the past six years where he has been a winemaker at several different wineries. They are moving back to Boston this July. Upon returning home, Julian will be continuing to work in the wine industry involved in sales/distribution or importing.

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KYLE WESSON has successfully defended his

PhD thesis on preventing drone hacking before a committee of professors and in front of his friends at The University of Texas in Austin.

Next up is a position with an employee-owned company in Virginia that does research and project management for the FAA. Kyle wants to apply his hard-earned knowledge about GPS and wireless technology to improve airline safety and security. • LIZ WILSON received a master’s in fine art in 2013 and is teaching art and exhibiting in the Durham, NH, area.

2006 L AURA BERNDT 345 West Main Street, Apt. 2E Chesire, CT 06410 laura.berndt33@gmail.com Editor’s additions: JOON PARK is on a twoyear arts fellowship in Berlin, Germany, after graduating from Boston College. • ANGELO RUFOLO is engaged to Vanessa Harrison. • LAURA BERNDT is engaged to Ben Simaitis.

2008 TA I N I X A 47 Park Place, Apt. 3 East Aurora, NY 14052 603-731-4055 nixatai@gmail.com I am deeply saddened by the passing of our classmate and friend BRITTANY TESTA. On behalf of the entire KUA community, our thoughts and prayers go out to all of her friends and family. • Starting in August 2014, ZACH DAYNO will be teaching at an elementary school in the Marshall Islands for a

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year. • LATISHA GOULLAUD is a preschool teacher in Allston, MA, and taking care of her two younger sisters. • TIMM KAMINSKI is finishing his master’s degree in psychology at the CAU in Kiel, Germany, and playing professional football for Team Germany. Timm also welcomed a healthy baby boy in May 2014. He and his wife, Inga, are very happy.

• NICK MILLETTE is living and working in Washington, DC. He is getting married to Sarah Weatherford in August 2014. • TAI NIXA moved to western New York in late fall 2013.

She is working in development at Explore & More Children’s Museum, focusing on grant writing, capital campaign administration, and event planning. The museum is moving to be the primary cultural attraction on Buffalo’s waterfront within the next few years. Tai is also still dancing. She took a modern dance workshop and several classes in Buffalo over the winter. She is also currently involved in the local theatre. • JAMES SCHMIDT recently took

Timm Kaminski ’08 and son

a new job in New York City as an environmental underwriter at Berkley Specialty Underwriting Managers, an insurance carrier. • JULIET TAYLOR is now working in digital marketing and relationship management at Brightcove (she was referred by DANA MERRICK ’06). She will also be spending part of her summer in Washington, DC, and Nantucket. SARAH CUTTS is working at KUA and is engaged to EVAN ROBERTS ’07.

2009 LEAH RANDALL 507 H Street SW Washington, DC 20024 802-356-3885 lrandall14@elon.edu TYLER BICKNELL is living in Dover, NH. He

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the spring of 2013 with a bachelor’s in business administration.

He is more than half way done earning credits for an MBA with a focus in international business. Tyler has been taking online classes through PSU. Additionally, he started his own business called Aesthetic Artwork by Amira Chichakly ‘09 Lawn Care, a sound effects editor/sound designer for LLC. Doing animated TV or film. She is really enjoying Landscaping and Property Management. He life in sunny LA, but regrets that she wasn’t is in the beginning stages of this venture and able to head back to the East Coast for our is very excited for its future. Tyler bartends reunion. • BRITA ULF graduated Northeastern on the weekends at a family owned restaurant University in December 2013 from a fivein Dover called Strafford Farms. • MEGHAN year program. In January, she moved to San GALLAGHER is living in Cornish, NH, working Francisco to work at Square which has been on the field crew at Edgewater Farm and as the an awesome experience. • BEN WYSKIEL exhibition coordinator for the Saint-Gaudens graduated from Roger Williams University in National Historic Site. She is preparing for her the spring of 2013 with a degree in business first solo photography exhibition, opening in finance. In September 2013, he started working January at KUA! • BEN NEWTON is currently living in Boston with fellow classmate ANDREW at Brown Brothers Harriman, an investment bank located in Boston’s Financial District. He WEITZEL, and is working in business analysis/ is on the trade’s team as a mutual and hedge marketing at Wayfair.com, an e-commerce site. fund accountant and has been enjoying his Over the summer, he took a trip to ski and time in the city. • After graduating from Elon explore Chile and a trip to Glacier, Yellowstone, University last spring EMILY CABLE moved to and Teton National Parks. Ben also attended Chapel Hill, NC, to work for UNC Hillel for the KUA reunion and really enjoyed seeing a year. She has moved back to Boston and will everyone! • NEIL MACKENZIE recently moved begin her master’s of public health at Boston to Burlington, VT, where he is living with fellow University in the fall. • EMILY BULKELEY alum ZACH MUSGRAVE. He will be starting graduated from Endicott College in May 2013. the Doctor of Physical Therapy Program at She received a bachelor of science in interior UVM in the coming weeks. • Since graduating design/interior architecture with a concentration college, HOLLY MCLAUGHLIN worked for in sustainable design. She loves living in the a youth adventure travel company, a social Back Bay of Boston, MA. Emily works partchange PR firm and lived on a sheep farm in time at ZeroEnergy Design, a contemporary, New Zealand. She has finally settled in New sustainable architecture and energy consulting York City, working at the Rainforest Alliance firm in Boston. She also works part-time at and dancing as much as she can. Should any J. Crew. In her free time she does freelance of you pass through New York, drop Holly a graphic design and freelance interior design. She line! She would love to see old classmates! • is currently working on the interior design for TESS FOURNIER moved to Los Angeles after a lobby and 21-unit residential housing project graduating with a BA in audio post production in the Boston Seaport District. • ANDREW from Emerson College in May. Currently she WEITZEL will be attending Syracuse Law School works as the transfer department manager/ in the fall. • JAKE GRAY graduated culinary assistant sound editor for an independent audio school at Massasoit Community College and post-production facility called Sonic Magic now owns and operates Jake’s Pizza Company in Studios. Tess hopes to eventually become

Buzzards Bay, MA. • KASIM EDEBALI is playing football for the New Orleans Saints. Congrats Kasim, what an accomplishment! • AMIRA CHICHAKLY is an assistant trainer for one of the top New York trainers of thoroughbred racehorses. She currently has 24 horses that are under her care. She also works part time for the track photographer and was only feet away from California Chrome in the Belmont Stakes. Amira has spent the past year improving her artwork and selling commissions. • CHRIS WOODBURN has been working for Burger King Corporation as a finance senior analyst in Miami. His focus is on corporate risk management and global strategic alignment. Chris’s hopes are to absorb as much information as possible until he feels ready enough to start his own full time business. He is living on Miami Beach with his girlfriend, whom he met on a foreign exchange program. He says his life wouldn’t be the same without his experience on the Hilltop.

If anyone from KUA is ever visiting Miami, reach out to Chris; he would love to catch up with old classmates. • LEAH RANDALL is living in Washington, DC, with many of her college friends.

She is working at LexisNexis where she works on combating issues of identity fraud specifically in government programs. Leah has recently gotten involved with an organization called CASA which finds adult mentors for children in the foster care system. Leah plans to move to California next year. • Editor’s addition: LIV FAUVER has received a scholarship to study dance at the Delfos School in Mazatlán, Mexico. • MIKE BASIST has graduated from the University of Arizona and accepted a fulltime sales position with the Phoenix Suns.

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this fall for a NCAA berth. • CLAIRE MENZEL was an intern last summer in Los Angeles with Powder Magazine. Her articles appeared a couple of times in the magazine. For those who are non-skiers, Powder Magazine covers everything one wants to know about skiing. • AMY MUNRO stayed in Saratoga Springs, NY, last summer where she is at school at Skidmore College to pursue two internships. In the morning she interns with the equestrian team exercising and caring for the school’s 30 horses. She is also a member of the equestrian team. In the afternoon she interns at Mannix Marketing, Inc. Glen Falls, NY. Mannix provides digital marketing services to corporations. • SHANNON DOHERTY spent last summer in Manhattan Beach, CA as an intern with Fox Sports. She loved it and thought twice about coming back. • ANNIE GRONLUND will graduate with a nursing degree next year; she spent the summer as a licensed nursing assistant on the surgery floor of Fletcher Allen Hospital in Burlington, VT. • CHARLOTTE HERBERT has resigned as class reporter. She has been very busy with college and an internship at the Smithsonian.

Thank you, Charlotte, for your help over the last three years. If someone is able to take over, please contact the Alumni Office.

Jennifer Lubao ’00 and Harold Monsini, daughter Ella Lubao, June 7, 2014

2013 JONATHAN MUNRO joined the Franklin and

Marshall Rowing Team in his freshman year, a sport with which he had little exposure. He warmed to the sport and was selected to the Mid-Atlantic Rowing Conference Novice All Conference Team (novice being “beginner”).

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D A N I E L LO W E N S T E I N P. O. Box 222 Garrison, NY 10524 914-806-7085 danny.lowenstein@gmail.com LUKE HAN will be attending the Harvard School of Dental Medicine beginning in August. • HILTON HART will be working as a software engineer at Belvedere Trading in Chicago.

• GREYDY DIAZ will be working with the Women’s Empowerment Project in Peru.

F O R M E R FA C U LT Y NEWS We are sorry to report that Mary Wolter, wife of JACK WOLTER (KUA 1993-98) and mother of LINDSEY WOLTER RATLIFF ’00, died on

July 14, 2014.

MARRIAGES GILLIAN FROTHINGHAM ’96 and Jon Gordon,

2011

June 21, 2014.

ALEX ADELABU spent last summer in Nigeria.

August 22, 2014.

He won a grant that will finance his academic endeavors there. He will see some of his family members who still reside in Nigeria. He previously worked as a volunteer intern at a homeless shelter in Houston. Alex is looking forward to another year on the Dartmouth soccer team as it competes

Wedding of Luther Brefo ’05 and Marina Artamonova ’03, fall 2013.

SETH BURROUGHS ’97 and Elli Papadopoulos, LUKE MILBURY ’98 and Laurel Dolan, January

2014.

NICK PICERNO ’98 and Lili Khozeimeh, May

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BIRTHS Coco and DOUG GOUDIE ’87, son Owen, March 2014.

Nicole and ADRIAN GUNN ’89, son Emmett.

Steve and KATE MCKINNEY LANDRIGAN ’93, son Peter Michael, March 13, 2014.

Ryan Elger’03 married Meaghan Christon in August 2014 (L-R: Brent Stafford ‘03, Ryan Elger ‘03, Meaghan Christon, Saeger Philpot ‘03, Chris Colvin ‘03)

MAY HERBERT LILLIE ’94 and JUSTIN LILLIE ’96, daughter

Anja Fern, April 18, 2014.

Michael and MEGHAN

Lydia, daughter of Daniel and Erin Barnicle Levant ’04

MAGUIRE TOOMEY ’98,

daughter Maia Stewart, May 1, 2014.

Jarrod and KELLY FARRELL MILLAR ’00, daughter Makenna, July 20, 2014.

Bette and NOLAN ALBARELLI ’00, daughter Evangeline, 2013.

NICOLE HERTZBERG ’00 and husband,

daughter Addison Marie Beavers, March 24, 2014.

Justin White and ELIZABETH MCNAMARA ’01, daughter MacKenzie Anne, June 15, 2014.

MARINA ARTAMONOVA ’03 and LUTHER BREFO ’05, daughter Mila Francis, June 11, 2014.

Jeremy and KATHERINE GOODRICH CLARK ’04, daughter Eve Morgan, April 5, 2014.

Nate Cook ‘01 married Kristen Keyes in February 2014

Daniel and ERIN BARNICLE LEVANT ’04, daughter Lydia Evangeline, November 2013.

MICHELLE LORION ’99 and Brent Booth,

August 16, 2014

Shannon and A. J. FITZPATRICK ’06, son Liam Eoghan, April 23, 2014.

KELLY FARRELL ’00 and Jarrod Millar,

Inga and TIMM KAMINSKI ’08, son, May 2014

Makenna, daughter of Jarrod and Kelly Farrell Millar ‘00

summer 2013.

JENNIFER LUBAO ’00 and Hal Monsini,

June 7, 2014.

NATE COOK ’01 and Kristen Keyes,

February 2014.

RAY SPRAGUE ’01 and Jenny Aranson, 2014.

MARINA ARTAMONOVA ’03 and LUTHER BREFO ’05, October 2013.

Mila, daughter of Luther Brefo ‘05 and Marina Artamonova ‘03

RYAN ELGER ’03 and Meaghan Christon,

August 2014.

NICOLE FORD ’03 and Richard Burley,

August 3, 2013.

NICK CUSTER ’05 and Katie Walrath,

August 23, 2014.

NICK NASSO ’05 and Megan Delaney,

March 12, 2014.

NICK MILLETTE ’08 and Sarah Weatherford,

August 2014.

ELYSIA DUTTON, Faculty, and Scott Burroughs,

October 2013.

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Nolan Albarelli ’00, wife Bette and daughter Evangeline Nicole Hertzberg ’00 and daughter Addison

IN MEMORIAM 1934 – JOHN B. DEMERS

July 26, 2014

1938 – LOUIS VAN DER BEEK

March 1, 2014

1939 – FRANK MARK

December 13, 2013

1940 – GEORGE HEBB

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1940 – HORACE LAMBERT

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1940 – ELIZABETH CHAPMAN ROOT

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1940 – ROBERT RUGGLES

October 24, 2013

1941 – MARIAN TIERNEY BARIBEAU

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1941 – RICHARD HINMAN

February 2, 2014

1941 – EDWIN C. ROCKWELL JR.

July 1, 2014

1941 – GORDON TROY

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1944 – JOHN WHITNEY

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1945 – STEPHEN PLUMMER

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1945 – THEODORE M. THOMAS

October 11, 2013

1945 – ALBERT WEBBER

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1947 – DAVID BATCHELDER

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1947 – JAMES COMISKEY

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1947 – JOHN GILMORE

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1947 – RONALD SMITH

September 15, 2013

1948 – WESLEY HOWARD

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1948 – WILLARD WATSON

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1950 – CHARLES ORDWAY

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1950 – GEORGE F. RAMBOUR

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1951 – WILLIAM DOUGLASS

March 17, 2012

1954 – JAMES CHADBOURNE

September 1, 2012

1956 – JOHN CAIN

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1957 – A. F. WHEAT

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Our core community values are: • Respect for oneself and others • Commitment and honesty and the highest ethical standards • Concern for the environment

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