Fall 2011, "The Food Issue" by Lakeside School

MADE YOU LOOK

JOHN GRADE

FROM GALLERY TO GLACIER: Sculptor John Grade’s “Seeps of Winter, 2008-2011” is shown here installed at Suyama Space, a Seattle gallery, but the 50 x 30 x 10 foot-work of cast pulp, cellulose, glassine, and fumed silica will be temporarily sited on a glacier in the Central Cascades in April 2012. One of a series of sculptural installations Grade designed to degenerate in desert, forest, and alpine landscapes, “Seeps of Winter” was inspired by bogs he saw in Western Ireland. Grade gave the Mark J. Bebie ’70 Memorial Lecture on the Lakeside campus October 5. More on his talk and the Lakeside Lecture Series on page 7.

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Christian Fulghum ’77

Connie Ballmer

Natasha Smith Jones ’89

Chair Peter M. Polson ’91

Vice Chair/Treasurer Jill S. Ruckelshaus

Alumni Assoc. President Lynn Hogan Henry L. (“Skip”) Kotkins, Jr. ’66 Mark Klebanoff ’80

Vice Chair/Secretary

Michael Larson

Robert M. Helsell ’55

Connie Mao, MD

Immediate Past Chair Christopher H. Ackerley ’87

Elizabeth Anderson (“Wispy”) Runde ’77

Rodney A. Bench

Charles Stevens

Samir Bodas

Stephen V. Sundborg, S.J.

Margaret Breen

Edward Taylor

PA President-Elect

Bertrand Valdman

Theiline (“Ty”) Wyckoff Cramer ’78

David W. Wiley ’71

Christopher J. Elias, MD, MPH

Parents Association President

Gretchen Williams

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Lakesiders are raising it and braising it. Dishing it up and fishing it up. Plucking it, picking it, and plating it. Food is the professional world of an amazing array of our alumni, and it’s the theme of this issue of Lakeside magazine. Being Lakesiders, food stimulates our intellect as well as our palates. We take it seriously, but we have some fun with it, too: • For our cover story, we take you along on the journey of the latest Global Service Learning trip, where Middle Schoolers learned about the culture and lent their labor in the orchards of Eastern Washington, studying the relationship between immigration and agriculture. Page 28. • We’ve mapped out a culinary tour of alumni in the world of food. They are providing folks delicious edibles in many guises, and also helping people find ways to better feed themselves. Page 16. • Food is the campus’ global community theme this year. We’re learning about food issues from nutrition to sustainability to hunger, and you can, too; check out the “syllabus.” Page 27. • For a real treat, don’t miss Colleen McCullough ’07’s poetic essay about her experience going “back to the land” at Wobbly Cart Farming Collective. Page 57. We hope that’s more than a full enough plate to satisfy! As always, we love to hear your thoughts, whether by phone, letter, or e-mail.

Learning goes to Broetje Orchards 28 Alums in the world of food 16 ■ Global community theme: food 27 DEPARTMENTS Inside Lakeside

EDITOR: Carey Quan Gelernter

Rebekah Denn, Trevor Klein ’03, Robynn Polansky

ALUMNI NEWS: Kelly Poort, Carol Borgmann, Bruce Bailey ’59

ART DIRECTOR: Carol N. Leong

PHOTOGRAPHERS: Tom Reese, Trevor Klein Illustrator: Fred Birchman

COPY EDITORS: Carey Quan Gelernter,

Trevor Klein, Corinna Laughlin

Head of school’s letter Board chair’s letter 5 New trustees 6 Speakers 7 Admissions news 8 College news 9 Commencement 13 Faculty news 14 Diversity 15

Sports

Q&A, athletics strategic plan 10 Spring highlights 12 Alumni News

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Reunion 2011 38 New Board members 41 Homecoming 42 Shellhouse celebration 42 Golf tournament 43 Class Connections 44 In Memoriam 52 Planned Giving 56 Personal Story 57 From the Archives 58 Calendar 59

Editor, Lakeside magazine carey.gelernter@lakesideschool.org 206-440-2706; 14050 1st Avenue NE, Seattle, WA 98125

WRITERS: Carey Quan Gelernter,

Cover story: Global Service ■

Carey Quan Gelernter

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FEATURES

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ON THE COVER

Hannah W. ’17 helps thin apples at Broetje Orchards, the newest Global Service Learning site.

photo by Tom Reese

Lakeside magazine is published twice yearly by the communications office of Lakeside School. Find past issues at www.lakesideschool.org/magazine

Contents

HEAD NOTE

by BERNIE NOE

he world is changing rapidly for Lakeside School students! The world’s hyperconnectivity now makes it possible for our students, via Facebook, Twitter, texting, and the blogosphere, to have access to people, ideas, and information in a way that was impossible as recently as five years ago. Further, the rapid development of high-quality online learning now makes it possible for our students to learn in a global Web-based classroom, using their phones or laptops as delivery mechanisms, wherever they are in the world at whatever time of the day or night they choose to take a class. Our students now have an unprecedented opportunity to learn about a wide array of subjects from experts around the globe and have an unprecedented opportunity to communicate their views to the larger world. As you might imagine, we at Lakeside School, as at our counterparts in schools around the world, are busy thinking about what this all means for our schools and how we educate our students. We are looking seriously, for example, into the idea of “flipped classrooms,” in which the information is presented to students via the Web at home and students spend their time in classrooms analyzing and processing information with their classmates. We know that our students can already find almost any information they need and their teachers therefore need to be much more concerned with developing each student’s ability to soundly analyze that information with others. We know that collaboration will be more important than ever, as it will become increasingly impossible for any one person to master a field of study. We have launched, in a consortium with leading independent schools from around the world, the Global Online Academy, in order to shape

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Thriving in a wired world

the future of online learning for our students. We are also examining the concept of blended classrooms, in which teachers, using now-available technologies, bring outside experts, via the Web, into their classrooms or take students on a virtual tour of a museum or historical site led by a local expert. We seek to graduate Lakeside students who have the skills and knowledge necessary to thrive in the wired world they will find upon graduation, and we are doing all in our power to make sure that we are providing them with an education that prepares them for the future. Most important, we continue to encourage our students to consider how they want to live their lives, and we talk to them often about what is a good life, a life rich in purpose and meaning. In this hyperconnected world it is more important than ever that our students take the time to reflect on who they are, on their obligations as citizens, and on how they want to live their lives. During their time at Lakeside they are exposed to writers, thinkers, and teachers who challenge them to examine their own values and life choices and who introduce them to the values and choices others have made. Our mission as a school is to nurture “the ethical spirits needed to contribute wisdom, compassion and leadership to a global society,” and we take this very seriously. We want our students to have the knowledge and skills it takes to lead in a global society and the moral compass necessary to lead in the right direction toward the betterment of all. I hope to see many of you at events this fall, and remember that if you would like to spend some time on campus call, e-mail, or text me and I will set that up—free lunch included! ■

BERNIE NOE

Head of School

FROM THE BOARD CHAIR

Excellence in athletics

went to a great party the other day! It was a beautiful fall afternoon on the Lakeside quad with hundreds of people milling about, enjoying music, and eating hot dogs. The anticipation was building for the Lakeside football game against Vashon Island, which we won 48 to 7! Joining rowdy Upper School students, alums, parents, faculty, and staff, excited Middle School students marched up en masse to enjoy the cool Upper School scene. It was probably the largest tailgate ever hosted at Lakeside and the sense of community support and enthusiasm was infectious. This event was one of the first of several improvements coming as part of the recently completed strategic athletics plan and represents what a strong athletics program can add at Lakeside. The Lakeside Board of Trustees supports the school’s goal of an excellent athletics experience for all students. If we have the best academic program, an excellent music and arts curriculum, and well-rounded extra-curricular offerings, then why shouldn’t Lakeside sports also be excellent? As Athletic Director Abe Wehmiller embarked on the strategic athletics plan last year, he reminded the Board of some important facts: More than 80 percent of our students participate in at least one sport each year, with more than 40 percent tackling two sports a year; we consistently have multiple teams or individual athletes vying for league, state, and national championships; and a survey last year of students and families found that there is a high level of satisfaction about Lakeside athletics. But there is room for improvement. Abe shared comparative research on what’s happening at other leading independent schools. While many athletics programs are exciting and innovative, we all know the stories of sports fervor run amok. The Board had many spirited conversations about resisting our culture’s pressure to make it all about winning, especially at the expense of other extra-curricular activities. We agreed we want to continue Lakeside’s tradition of welcoming all students to try a sport, no matter what their level of prowess or athletic ability. We also agreed to ensure that the level of academic rigor at Lakeside is not compromised just to win a title, and that Lakeside will not in any way lower admissions standards to recruit athletes. After carefully considering the recommendations of the strategic planning committee—which includes some coaches, parents and guardians, alums, faculty, administrators, and Board members—the Board found common ground in goals set in the strategic plan: • Provide great facilities and equipment so that our

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athletes can do their best work. • Hire and fairly compensate effective coaches who are engaged in the life of the school. • Promote and celebrate athletics throughout the Lakeside community (the tailgate, for example). • Create a progression from participation to development to high levels of achievement. Yes, a healthy emphasis on winning. For a Q&A The Board applauds the planning committee’s comprehensive look at with Athletic Director Lakeside’s athletics thus far, which Abe Wehmiller about the factors in much research and data new strategic athletics and a broad swath of opinions. The plan, see page 10. new strategic plan is ambitious, aiming for many improvements and new approaches. Lakeside has already commissioned a comprehensive survey of current athletics facilities. There are tantalizing new ideas for improved facilities, but costs are significant, so the Board is exploring what is feasible. Many Lakeside graduates’ strongest and fondest memories involve their experiences in athletics, and we want to give today’s students this opportunity for growth and great memories. It will take time to put all the pieces of the broad plan in place, but we are pleased at what’s already been accomplished. Stay tuned for exciting developments. And please join us soon on the sidelines to support the work of all our athletes. Go Lions! ■

CONNIE BALLMER

Chair, Board of Trustees

Head Note, Board Chair

INSIDE LAKESIDE

4 new trustees lend diverse expertise Four new members join the Lakeside Board of Trustees in 2011-12. Here’s a little background on each.

Samir Bodas

Lynn Hogan

Charles Stevens

Margaret Breen

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Samir Bodas, who begins a three-year term on the Board, is the CEO of Icertis, a startup focused on building solutions in the cloud. He began his career at McKinsey & Co., then spent several years in management at Microsoft. He was appointed CEO of Disha Technologies in 2003, grew the business five-fold, and managed its acquisition by Aztecsoft in 2005. In early 2007, he was appointed CEO of Aztecsoft and successfully guided the company to become the fastest growing publicly traded mid-cap IT services company. In 2009, he helped complete Aztecsoft’s acquisition by MindTree. Bodas received his MBA from the Wharton School of Business, and a BA in computer science from the University of Texas at Austin. He is a member of the board of directors of the Tateuchi Center, a multiple venue, multi-disciplinary performing-arts center scheduled to open in downtown Bellevue in 2013; and the Seattle chapter of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), a global mentoring and education nonprofit founded by a group of successful entrepreneurs and professionals with roots in the Indus region. He and his wife, Sarika, have two children at Lakeside, Isha ’17 and Aditya ’13, and are active members of the Lakeside parents community. Lynn Hogan, who begins a threeyear term, is associate vice president and chief advancement officer of UW Medicine. She oversees fundraising and alumni efforts for the University of Washington School of Medicine, UW Medical Center, Harborview Medical Center, and as one of three institutional partners, the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance. She formerly was vice president for development at Whitman College.

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Hogan received her BA from the UW and her MA and PhD in English literature from Syracuse University, where she was a National Defense Education Act Fellow. She has taught at colleges in New York, Alabama, and Washington. She is past chair of the Group on Institutional Advancement for the Association of American Medical Colleges, past president of the Northwest Development Officers Association, and past board member at Richard Hugo House, United Way of Walla Walla, and the Children’s Trust Foundation. She currently serves on the board of the Mirabella Foundation, established for the South Lake Union continuing-care retirement community. Lynn’s daughter, Sarah, is a fundraiser for Whitman College. Charles Stevens, who begins a three-year term, is founder and chairman of Moprise, an enterprise mobile applications start-up, and is a former corporate vice president at Microsoft. At Microsoft, which he joined in 1984, he held a variety of senior management positions in the sales, marketing, and product development groups, including managing Enterprise Sales and Microsoft’s Asia region, as well as leadership positions in Unified Communications, Enterprise Servers, Office Marketing, and database software. After leaving Microsoft in 2006, Stevens founded Moprise, which has a SharePoint application available on the Apple iPhone and iPad, and a new collaboration product, Coaxion. He attended Eton College and obtained his undergraduate degree at Bristol University, England, followed by an MBA from Harvard University. Stevens serves on the boards of United Way of King County and

Seattle Children’s Hospital, and previously was a board member of WebMD, Applied Voice & Speech Technologies (AVST), and Open Interface (sold to Qualcomm). He is married to Delphine Stevens and has three children who graduated from Lakeside: Leonora ’03, Nicholas ’06, and Amanda ’10. Leonora graduated from Georgetown University; Nicholas graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, and is currently attending graduate school at Stanford University; and Amanda is attending the University of Pennsylvania. Margaret Breen, presidentelect of the Lakeside School Parents Association, begins a two-year ex officio term. She is a business lawyer at Cairncross & Hempelmann, and previously had a solo corporate law practice after working at two large Seattle firms and as a law clerk to Judge Diarmuid O’Scannlain of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit. She holds a JD from the University of Chicago and an AB from Bryn Mawr College. She has served on the boards of the ARCS Foundation (Achievement Rewards for College Scientists, a funder of science research fellowships); the Junior League of Seattle; and Pike Market Child Care & Preschool. She was a founding member of the Washington Women’s Foundation (which “engages women in the power of collective giving”). She also has spent much time as an assistant scoutmaster, Sunday school teacher, sailing instructor, and baseball scorekeeper. She and husband Stewart Landefeld have three sons: Hackett ’10, Jamie ’13, and Owen Landefeld. ■

Lakeside Lecture Series John Grade gives Bebie talk

Seattle artist John Grade gave the Mark J. Bebie ’70 Memorial Lecture on the Lakeside campus October 5. Grade has exhibited in galleries and museums from as near as the Bellevue Arts Museum and as far as Galerie Ateliers L’H du Siège in France. His numerous prestigious awards include the annual $10,000 Willard L. Metcalf Award for “a young artist of great promise” from American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the $25,000 international Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award. Goodwin speaks on presidency

“The lessons of history: Doris Kearns Goodwin on the American presidents,” was the title of Goodwin’s October 27 talk, as the Belanich Family Speaker on Ethics and Politics. Doris Kearns Goodwin is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian who has been reporting on politics and baseball for more than two decades. She is the author of biographies of several U.S. presidents, including No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II, which won the Pulitzer Prize for history in 1995, and her most recent book, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. She is often tapped by the media to comment on presidential issues. Acox, Moyo to give spring lectures

This spring the Lakeside Lecture Series brings two more notable figures to campus: Clarence Acox and Dambisa Moyo. Acox is scheduled to give the Dan Ayrault Memorial Endowed Lecture on February 15, 2012. He is a musician, mentor, and educator who has infused Seattle with jazz for 40 years. A native of New Orleans, Acox came to Seattle in 1971 to revive Garfield High School’s music program. Garfield Jazz Ensemble is now the most traveled high-school band in the country and has taken first place four times at New York’s Essentially Ellington National Jazz Band Competition and Festival, the country’s most prestigious highschool jazz competition. Acox co-founded and serves as co-artistic director of the Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra. He was named educator of the year by Down Beat magazine in 2001. In 2008 Seattle Metropolitan magazine

named him one of the 50 most influential musicians in the history of Seattle music. Moyo, an international economist and author, is to give the BGI Lecture on Economics on March 28, 2012. In 2009 Moyo was named by Time magazine as one of the “100 most influential people in the world,” and she was nominated to the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders Forum. Her writing appears regularly in The Financial Times, The Economist and The Wall Street Journal. Her books include Dead Aid: Why Aid is Not Working and How There is a Better Way for Africa, which made the New York Times bestseller list; and How the West Was Lost: Fifty Years of Economic Folly—and the Stark Choices Ahead. All lectures begin at 7 p.m. (doors open at 6 p.m.) and take place at St. Nicholas Hall on the Upper School campus. ■

John Grade

John Grade’s work “The Elephant Bed, 2009 – 2010,” shown here on display in Brighton, England, is made up of 20 sculptures, each 24 x 6 x 6 feet, of corn-based plastic and biodegradable methylcellulose skins. “The sculptures degrade though contact with water,” Grade explains. “Half of the church (deconsecrated in 1990 to become Fabrica Gallery) has been flooded with a pool of India ink. Ink leaches upward into sculptures as they are gradually lowering into the ink during the run of the exhibition.”

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community this year.

Who are they, and where are they from?

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Applicants in 2007: 671 Applicants in 2008: 652 Applicants in 2009: 722 Total students offered admission: 169/831 (20%)

Applicants in 2010: 748

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TOTAL APPLICANTS IN 2011:

ENROLLED:

Students who accepted Lakeside’s offer (83%)

Previous schools

831

(All-time high)

Lynnwood

72 4,783

TOTAL NUMBER OF PREVIOUS SCHOOLS (WORLDWIDE): Shoreline

LONGEST DISTANCE TRAVELED TO ATTEND LAKESIDE (MILES):

Bothell

(LONDON, ENGLAND)

Redmond

PERCENTAGE OF STUDENTS FROM EACH SCHOOL TYPE:

Bainbridge Island

INDEPENDENT 42%

Bellevue

Seattle

CATHOLIC 10%

Mercer Island

PUBLIC 43%

Issaquah

OTHER 5%

They include:

46% MALE

49% STUDENTS OF COLOR ASIAN AMERICAN 21%

c54% FEMALE Connected students (those who have siblings already at Lakeside, or are children or grandchildren of alumni, trustees, faculty, or staff) who were offered admission/applied:

47/138 (34%)

MULTIRACIAL 16%

EUROPEAN-AMERICAN/ OTHER 51%

AFRICAN AMERICAN 8% LATINO 3% MIDDLE EASTERN AMERICAN 1%

A nationally ranked squash player A recipient of the prestigious Jack Kent Cooke Scholarship A recipient of the Mayor’s Scholars Award A writer of a 502-page novel A rock climber on the national and international levels A champion of two events at Pacific Northwest Swimming Championships A trilingual, award-winning mathematician A student who answered every question on the Independent School Entrance Exam (ISEE) correctly GRAPHIC BY TREVOR KLEIN ’03

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COLLEGE CHOICES, CLASS OF 2011 This fall the graduates of the Class of 2011 are pursuing their interests and developing their talents at a host of colleges and universities in the U.S. and abroad. American University 1 Amherst College 2 Bard College 1 Barnard College 4 Boston College 1 Brown University 3 Carleton College 3 Carnegie Mellon University 2 Chapman University 1 Claremont McKenna College 1 Colgate University 1 Colorado College 2 Columbia University 6 Cornell University 2 Dickinson College 1 Duke University 2

Fordham University 1 Gettysburg College 1 Harvard University 3 Haverford College 1 Johns Hopkins University 1 Lafayette College 1 Lewis & Clark College 1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 3 The Master’s College and Seminary 1 Middlebury College 2 Mount Holyoke College 2 Nagoya University 1 Northeastern University 1 Northwestern University 2 Pitzer College 2 Pomona College 3 Princeton University 3 Saint Mary’s College of California 1 Santa Clara University 4 School of the Art Institute of Chicago 1 Scripps College 2 Seattle University 1

Some members of the Class of 2011 wearing sweatshirts that show their college choices.

Smith College 2 St. John’s University - Queens 1 Stanford University 5 The George Washington University 2 Tufts University 1 Tulane University 2 University of California at Berkeley 2 University of Notre Dame 1 University of Oregon 1 University of Pennsylvania 3 University of Portland 1 University of Southern California 4 University of Washington 7 Vassar College 2 Washington and Lee University 1 Washington State University 2 Washington University in St. Louis 5 Wellesley College 2 Wesleyan University 1 Western Washington University 1 Whitman College 5 Yale University 1

Admissions, college choices

SPORTS Q&A

by TREVOR KLEIN ’03

New strategic plan: building the future of lion athletics

ast year, Lakeside set out to achieve a lofty goal: a comprehensive evaluation and restructuring of the interscholastic athletics program, beginning with a new mission and vision. The first phase of this project is now complete: a detailed strategic plan that will guide decisions around Lakeside athletics for years to come. Leading the project is Athletic Director Abe Wehmiller, who sat down to answer our questions. The following is an edited excerpt of that conversation.

Q. First, what is this strategic plan?

A. This plan maps out the direction Lakeside wants to take with our interscholastic athletics program for the next five years—building on our strengths, addressing areas where we feel like we need some work, and coming up with a concrete plan of how to do that work.

Q. How did this plan come about?

A. In the spring of 2010, our all-school evaluation by PNAIS (Pacific Northwest Association of Independent Schools) raised some questions about how well we were compensating our coaches, how well our facilities were serving our needs, and how well athletics was fueling school spirit. Those questions made us want to do a little more research, so we hired a consulting firm, Personal Perceptions Northwest. They did a wholesale evaluation, talking to our student-athletes; coaches; faculty, staff, and administrators; and parents and guardians. From there, we put together a strategic planning group of 14 individuals—representing a wide cross-section of student-athletes, parents and guardians, staff, and alums—who used that information to create a new mission and vision for the program, as well as strategies and tasks that need to be accomplished to realize that mission and vision.

Q. Why is a successful athletics program so important to the school?

A. We see our interscholastic athletics program as being on par with the school’s other cocurricular programs, such as Global Service Learning, our local service learning program, or any of our arts programs. We want all programs to be excellent here, and athletics should be no exception. 10

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Over 80 percent of our students participate in athletics, so it ought to be a quality program. It’s been a really strong program to this point, and we think we can make it even stronger through these efforts.

Q. What might require spending money, and where will that money come from?

A. There are two key areas that definitely have a price tag. One is restructuring how we employ our

A snapshot of Abe Wehmiller

At a glance: New athletics plan highlights

As outlined in the new athletics mission statement, the main goal of the strategic plan is to provide our student-athletes with the following: •A progres sion from participation to development to high levels of achievement; •Coaches who are highly effective and committed to engaging in the life of the school; •Facilities and equipment that attract, serve, and inspire students, coaches, and fans; and •Active promotion and celebration of the program within the school community.

coaches to make sure we’re attracting, retaining, and developing excellent coaches. When you’re looking to employ the best, you have to pay them accordingly. The second involves taking a long, hard look at our facilities, and what might be needed to better serve our needs. Once we identify the range of costs, the Board and our development office will explore possibilities for funding.

Q. What facilities might need to be constructed or renovated?

A. We’re just now completing an athletics facilities master plan. LMN Architects, the firm that also worked on Bliss Hall and is working on Allen-Gates, is helping us identify where the current pressure points in our facilities are; where we are getting a lot of usage; and where we would have more usage if we had the space. That could mean fields, gym space, tennis courts, a swimming pool—we’re looking at our needs across the board, and how to address those needs in the right order. We’ll start thinking about what is realistic given both costs and our geographic footprint.

Q. Could there be changes in the leagues in which Lakeside participates?

A. Not immediately. We continually monitor our league participation both at the Middle School and at the Upper School. We’re pretty satisfied with where we are. At the same time, we always want to be thinking about what other possibilities are out there, and to be mindful of providing a good experience for our studentathletes.

Q. How will coaching be structured to attract and retain the best?

A. Our focus is on compensation, evaluation, and professional development. So, we want to pay a stipend that’s going to make it attractive to be here; set expectations and evaluate against those expectations; and then provide resources to help coaches develop. We hope that with those three things, we’re making this an attrac-

tive and exciting place for coaches to work. The other piece of the plan has to do with creating a new position called a program head: one coach in each individual sport program who works with me and our two assistant athletic directors to manage all the different pieces of that particular program. Program heads will be responsible for developing the teaching philosophy for their teams at all grade levels, and for working with their coaching staffs to employ that philosophy on a daily basis. The idea is to run each of our sport programs in an integrated fashion, just as we do with our academic departments. Our program heads will be our department heads, so to speak.

Q. Will we be recruiting athletes to Lakeside, and if so, how?

A. Our hope is that in creating a stronger and more visible athletics program that we begin to attract more students to Lakeside who have an interest in athletics. Does that mean that we’re going to go out and actively recruit them? In some ways, yes, just as we actively do with scholars and artists. We’re always trying to better market ourselves to talented kids—kids who can take advantage of this place and thrive here academically, and who can enrich this community with their gifts. When students with an interest in athletics show an interest in Lakeside, we’ll make sure they have the opportunity to meet with coaches and tour the campus with students who are participating in athletics here. We want to have a thriving visual arts program; we want to have a thriving music program; we want to have a thriving theater program—and we want to have a thriving athletics program. If we want that to happen, we need to attract and enroll students who are interested in those programs.

Q. Will we in any way lower the admissions bar for athletes?

A. No. When we say we’re going to strengthen our athletics program, there’s a tendency for

•Mother says he has been obsessed with sports since childhood •First job out of college: sports writer for the St. Paul Pioneer Press •BA s in history and African American studies, Duke University; Master of Education in Intercollegiate Athletic Leadership, University of Washington •Came to Lakeside in 2004 as assistant Upper School director and head boys basketball coach •Earlier was teacher, coach, administrator at Maryland’s Bullis School and Dallas’ Greenhill School •A competitive runner; has completed three marathons with a PR of 2:54 •A fan of any and all teams from Duke, UW, and hometown of Philadelphia

people to think of all the things that are wrong with pro and college sports and are now filtering down to high-school- and middle-school sports: that if you’re going to be stronger athletically, you’re somehow compromising the academic component of your institution. That’s faulty logic. What we’re looking to do is expand the number of active student-athletes who are in the admissions pool, so that when the decisions are made, we have more to choose from. The students we’re going to choose are going to be academically capable, and are going to want to be at a place like this.

Q. How can alumni be involved—

what does this all mean for them?

A. I hope it serves as a point of connection for alumni. When we talk about a community rallying around athletics to create school spirit and pride, we’re including alums in that community. Being here in the stands and cheering on a team is a great way to reconnect with campus life. Events like Homecoming and some of the tailgates that we’re doing this year are great opportunities to come back and reconnect with classmates, former faculty, and the school as a whole. ■ Sports

SPORTS ROUNDUP

by TREVOR KLEIN ’03 and Chris Hein

Lions clock winning times on land and water The girls lightweight 4+ receives a trophy and medals for winning its event at the Northwest Regionals in May, sending the group to the USRowing Youth National Championships.

hree Lakeside boats earned national recognition in June, with two making it to the Grand Finals at the USRowing Youth National Championships on Melton Hill Lake in Oak Ridge, Tenn. A track star from the Class of 2011 posted first-place times in the league, district, and state championship meets, and the boys soccer team finished at an impressive 12-3-2. Here are more details from the spring season:

SPRING SPORTS HIGHLIGHTS BASEBALL | Overall Record:10-11

Metro League Honors

All-League 1st Team: Andrew S. ’14 All-League 2nd Team: Nick Busto ’11

SOFTBALL | Overall Record: 4-10

Metro League Honors

Mountain Division MVP: Donna Leet ’11 All-Metro: Donna Leet ’11 All-Mountain Division: Madeline D. ’12, Laura L. ’13

GIRLS LACROSSE Varsity “A” (Division 1) | Overall Record: 9-3-2

Division 1 State Runner-Up

First Team All-State: Emma Dorland ’11, Betsy Wade ’11 Second Team All-State: Madeline Hurlbut ’11, Sarah D. ’12 US Lacrosse All-American Team Honorable Mention: Emma Dorland ’11

CHRIS HEIN

Metro League Mountain Division Champions WIAA 3A State Quarterfinalists Metro League Honors Mountain Division MVP: Louis Schott ’11 First Team: Carter Appleton ’11, Louis Schott ’11, Guy Thyer ’11, Jay B. ’12 Second Team: Liam J. ’12, Walt M. ’12, Paul P. ’12, Daley S. ’12

TRACK & FIELD Metro League Championship Meet Madeline Rathbun ’11 1st Place – 800 meters (2:21.03) 1st Place – 1600 meters (5:05.50) Jessica Badgeley ’11 1st Place – Pole Vault (10’)

Allanah W. ’12 2nd Place – 100 meters (12.38) 3rd Place – 200 meters (26.02) Sea-King District 2 Meet Madeline Rathbun ’11 1st Place – 800 meters (2:12.24) 1st Place – 1600 meters (5:08.14) Peyton J. ’14 2nd Place –400 meters (58.43) State Championship Meet Madeline Rathbun ’11 1st Place – 800 meters (2:12.58) 4x400 meter team 5th Place – 4:00.91

CREW USRowing NW Junior Regional Championships Girls Lightweight 4+ – 1st Place Boys Varsity 4+ – 2nd Place

BOYS LACROSSE | Overall Record: 3-14

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TENNIS | Overall Record: 6-2 Metro Championships Aditya B. ’13/Christine Wong ’11 1st Place – Mixed Doubles ■ Trevor Klein is communications assistant at Lakeside School: 206-440-2955 or trevor.klein@ lakesideschool.org. Statistics compiled by Chris Hein, assistant athletic director at Lakeside School: 206-440-2750 or chris.hein@lakesideschool.org.

Rockin’ the renovated shellhouse: Middle School rowers

Varsity “B” (Division 2) | Overall Record: 3-8-1 Second Team All-State: Annabel B. ’14

Overall Record: 12-3-2

Boys Lightweight 4+ – 2nd Place USRowing Youth National Championships Girls Lightweight 4+ (Petite Final) – 1st Place Boys Lightweight 4+ (Grand Final) – 6th Place Boys Open 4+ (Grand Final) – 6th Place

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warm up on the new second floor of the Ayrault Shellhouse. The renovated facility includes a strength and conditioning area, new locker rooms, audio visual equipment for classroom-style learning, an off ice for coaches, and increased storage. The ergometers can now be linked and connected to the Internet for races and games, during which the projectors and screens can simulate on-the-water experiences. Read about the grand opening ceremony on page 42.

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Weston Gaylord, center, was chosen by his classmates to speak at the Commencement ceremony for the Class of 2011. To his left are Nick Busto and Lily Ghebrai, to his right, Camilla Gardiner and Manu Gandham.

Congrats, authentic Class of 2011 by ROBYNN POLANSKY

BY THE NUMBERS In the top 5% of students in state, according to National Merit Scholarship Corporation: 60%. In the top 1%: 28% Rank among classes in state for National Merit Scholars: 1 Percent given Honors Award by Superintendent of Public Instruction: 82% Place, in the country, of the Lakeside Chess Team led by members of this class: 6 Number invited to take American Invitation Math Exam (open to top 0.1% of U.S. high-school math students): 4 Read the full list at www.lakesideschool.org/magazine

VIEW MORE Go to www.lakesideschool.org/magazine to see: Than Healy’s entire speech; a multimedia gallery of Commencement; and Assistant Head of School Anne Stavney ’81’s speech from Middle School Closing Exercises.

akeside’s Commencement exercises celebrated the Class of 2011 on June 9. Family, friends, and members of the school community gathered on the quad to honor the 127 graduating seniors. In his highly anticipated annual address, Upper School Director Than Healy designated this class as “authentic.” Calling them “a group that has been characterized by genuineness and integrity,” Healy commended the graduates on a bevy of accomplishments in academics, the arts, athletics, and more. Addressing their classmates were Tiffany Lieu ’11, outgoing president of Upper School Student Government, and Weston

Gaylord ’11, who noted how they “have transformed unbelievably from stressed-out, wide-eyed, still-adjusting freshmen to calm, comfortable, experienced seniors.” He encouraged them to “understand and try to remember” these transitions, and celebrate their Lakeside experience. Also speaking were Board of Trustees Chair Connie Ballmer; Megan Coughlin ’87, president of the Lakeside/St. Nicholas Alumni Association; and Anne Stavney ’81, assistant head of school and Middle School director. In his send-off, Head of School Bernie Noe encouraged the graduates to “choose a good life … a life of joy, a life of meaning.” ■ Sports, Commencement

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maintenance foreman, who wrote its clever lyrics.

Applause please …

UPPER SCHOOL

CHARLENE AGUILAR,

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director of college counseling, was invited to join the University of Chicago’s new advisory board. •She’s quoted in, and was a consultant for, the well-reviewed new book College Admission: From Application to Acceptance, Step By Step (Three Rivers Press). •She was named community education and leadership development chair for Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Foundation, the prominent national Latino civil rights organization.

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teacher Emily Pérez’s book of poetry, Backyard Migration Route, published by Finishing Line Press this fall, is described by reviewers as “farranging poems about growing up between languages and cultures” and “a story of mestizaje. That is, a quintessential American poem.” COLLEEN KYLE ,

Upper School history teacher, was one of four teachers selected to travel to China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan this summer through the Cultural Exploration of Greater China foundation. •She authored an AP U.S. History guide for Bedford/St. Martin’s titled Strive for a Five. Upper School physical education department head—a multisport standout as a Lakeside student and eight-time track and ﬁeld All-American at Occidental College—was inducted into the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association Hall of Fame.

DOUG PORTER ’80,

Upper School ceramics and sculpture teacher, was artistin-residence last summer at the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts in Helena, Mont., with 10 other artists from around the world.

JACOB FORAN,

SANDY SCHNEIDER,

SEAT TLE CHILDREN’S THEATRE’S new stage adaption this fall of the beloved classic Harold and the Purple Crayon was the inspiration of three familiar SCT personalities, including Rob Burgess, Lakeside theater director and

assistant athletic director for the Middle School, was inducted into alma mater Bishop Blanchet High School’s athletics Hall of Fame. Her 26 seasons as Lakeside’s girls basketball coach, the last in 2009, included a state-record 56game winning streak, with 473 victories and ﬁve state titles. Q

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Online Academy launches under new director

lobal Online Academy debuted its first five courses in September, under the leadership of its newly appointed director, Michael Nachbar, the former assistant director of Lakeside’s Middle School. One of the courses, Global Health, is being taught by Lakeside Upper School science teacher Jake Clapp, and 12 Lakeside students are among those enrolled in the “virtual school,” a consortium of 10 leading independent schools. The academy was established in March after a conference convened by Lakeside. Founding member schools are, in addition to Lakeside: Albuquerque Academy (Albuquerque, N.M.), Catlin Gabel School (Portland, Ore.), Cranbrook Schools (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.), The Dalton School (New York City); Germantown Friends School (Philadelphia), Head-Royce School (Oakland, Calif.), King’s Academy ( Jordan), Punahou School (Honolulu), and Sidwell Friends School (Washington, D.C.). TREVOR KLEIN ’03 Lakeside Head of School Bernie Noe has been named president of the academy’s board of trustees. In addition to Global Health, the inaugural courses, which run September 6-December 16, include Math for the Computer Scientist (taught by a faculty member of Dalton); Media Studies (Germantown Friends); an advanced Spanish elective on current events in Spanish-speaking cultures (Punahou), and Urban Studies (Catlin Gabel). Nachbar, who led efforts by Lakeside administrators to create the academy, has a bachelor’s degree in psychology and English from Indiana University and a master’s degree in Education Leadership, with a concentration in private school leadership, through the Klingenstein Center at Columbia University’s Teachers College. Before joining Lakeside in 2008, Nachbar taught at Village Community School in New York for seven years. He is also a Teach for America alumnus. “These courses are bringing together students from all over the world,” Nachbar says. “Kids are learning from perspectives different from their own and working together in ways they never have before. It’s an incredible experience for young learners to participate in, and one that’s allowing them to develop new 21st-century skills.” Q For more information, visit www.globalonlineacademy.org. And look for a report on the academy’s first year in the spring issue of Lakeside magazine.

Meet the Middle School’s new assistant director, Jamie Asaka ’96

amie Asaka ’96 freely says that she was “a handful” when she was a student at Lakeside. She was even voted “class clown” in the senior class poll. But that’s actually part of what equips her so well to be the Middle School’s new assistant director, succeeding Michael Nachbar, who left to become the director of Global Online Academy (see page 14 for more on Nachbar). In her new job, Asaka draws on the wisdom she acquired from navigating her own rocky adolescence. She gives great credit to the crucial support she had from key Lakeside faculty and staff, and hopes to be an equally strong role model for Lakeside’s Middle School students. Asaka has a bachelor’s degree from Pitzer College, a master’s degree in education administration and principalship from Seattle University, and a master’s degree in social work from the University of Washington. She taught in the Teach for America program in Chicago and for two years at Seattle Public Schools’ Meany Middle School (since closed), then returned to Lakeside in 2003 as a Middle School life skills and English teacher. She also coached MS soccer, basketball, and lacrosse. Since 2008 she has been chair of the Upper School Student Support Team, co-chair of the US Student Life Department, and Family Support Program coordinator. Asked what excites her most about her new post, she says, “I really love middle-school-age

students,” partly because her first teaching job was at a middle school and partly because for her those were the most challenging years. “Young people of that age are so consumed with questions of identity, physical and emotional changes, and the transition to greater independence,” she says. The key is “allowing them to have some freedom and flexibility to explore who they are within some safe responsible boundaries. I’m excited to approach the work with that understanding.” ■

Review of diversity plan launches This fall Lakeside began a strategic review of its diversity and inclusion efforts, as the school prepares to hire a new director of diversity. The impetus is the retirement last June of T.J. Vassar ’68, the school’s longtime diversity director. Before making a new hire, Head of School Bernie Noe says,“We wanted a clear sense of what we want the person to do when he or she starts.” Lakeside’s commitment to diversity as a major component of its mission will not change, Noe says. But with Vassar’s retirement, it’s a logical time to set next goals and to consider strategies for reaching them, says Noe, noting that the school’s diversity efforts have not been examined in a systematic way for about four years. “The strategic review will be a major undertaking that involves faculty, staff, students, and members of the Board of Trustees and Alumni Board,” he announced at the opening-of-school meeting in late August. A group of administrators began groundwork last spring, including visiting other schools and researching other diversity leadership models. In October, the all-school diversity committee, made up of members of the faculty, staff, and administration and including department heads of both the Middle School and Upper School, convened to launch the review. On Nov. 29, a day reserved for professional development activities, representatives from various facets of the Lakeside community will gather to give input and discuss ideas. “We’ll finish that day with a clear direction of what we want to do,” Noe See page 51 in the says, “and then Class Connections sort out how to give life to this section of this sense of direcmagazine for more tion.” The school about T.J. Vassar’s expects a new plans in retirement; diversity plan read this magazine’s and a new direcprevious profile tor to be in place of Vassar at www. by fall 2012. ■

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From salmon to

sushi, mushrooms to mangoes, heirloom

beef to artisan ravioli: whatever the food, a Lakesider somewhere is involved with it.

Lakesider food

stories cover the globe from Portland to the

Philippines, Vermont to Uganda, and of

course all over Puget Sound.

Come along on our

armchair culinary tour.

Word to the wise:

Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t start this voyage on an empty stomach!

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by REBEKAH DENN illustrated by FRED BIRCHMAN

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Here’s the key to the Lakeside Culinary Tour map. At each stop, meet an alum in the food world.

Winemaker Chuck Reininger ’77 with his wife, Tracy, at Reininger Winery, their highly respected Walla Walla winery. He’s known for vintages that reflect and respect the region.

Chris Canlis ’63 serves on the board of Canlis, the quintessential fine-dining restaurant that bears his name. He and wife Alice ran the restaurant for 30 years; now sons Mark and Brian handle day-to-day dining decisions.

John Bonica ’69 owns Tappi restaurant in Twisp, featuring Italian country-style foods, many from his family recipes, and Italian wines.

Ted Andrews ’72 is president of HerbCo, a Duvall-based company providing fresh organic herbs year-round to more than 2,700 supermarkets.

4 Kim Tomlinson ’76 owns two neighboring restaurants in Poulsbo: Burrata Bistro, an Italian restaurant that’s been described as the city’s hottest spot to eat, and its sister restaurant, the Spanishinfluenced Paella Bar. She had previously spent 20 years with Seattle’s Queen City Grill.

Gordon Hull ’79 was an environmental geologist for King County and a homebrewing buff who, after taking an apprentice brewing program, made his

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Courtesy of Chuck Reininger

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Charles “Chuck” Reininger ’77 began his career as a climbing guide on Mount Rainier. Now he is head of the highly respected Walla Walla winery that bears his name. It’s not as much of a jump as it may seem: Both jobs involve a reverence for nature and a love of new challenges. Reininger settled in Walla Walla with his wife, Tracy, who has deep family roots in the town. (Their children are sixth-generation residents.) He’d majored in business, and originally planned to open a brewery, but fell into helping friends out at the Waterbrook winery and “absolutely fell in love” with this very different drink. He had to learn to understand the soil and weather, to contemplate the effects of each day’s rain or sunshine, to assess the incline of every slope where his vines grew. “It evoked the same feelings that I get when I’m, say, at 17,000 feet, on a peak, sitting on a ridge with a storm rolling in.” Reininger learned the artisan side first, the intuitive feel of winemaking, then bolstered it with technical winemaking classes. He’s known for vintages that reflect and respect the region where he lives. Asked about his own favorite among his creations, he says it’s “whichever wine pairs best with friends and food that I’m with, but also the wine I’m learning the most from—and to me that means the most adventurous one.” He currently has a special small release called Desiderata, a blend of all the noble Bordeaux varietals, named for a poem a classmate once gave him. The name is Latin for “desired things”—“Three years of Latin at Lakeside; Mr. [Ken] Van Dyke will hopefully be proud of me.” Even after years in the field, “It’s the learning that really makes this job fun, and the adventure of learning.”

avocation his vocation. Hull worked at a brewery before taking on the challenge of making mead, a wine produced from honey. His well-received company, Heidrun Meadery, just moved onto a 16-acre farm in Point Reyes Station, Calif., where he’ll also raise his own bees and grow his own flowers for honey. (Hull is the brother of Dan Hull, profiled on page 21.) tip: Skeptics FYI: This is not your great-great-greatgreat-great-great-great grandfather’s cloying sweet medieval drink. Heidrun mead is “more of a refreshing Champagne style.”

Burke Shethar ’81 runs the Madrona, Montlake and Pied Piper Alehouses in Seattle, “family-oriented, community watering holes where we serve good micros and comfort food.”

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One aspect may surprise many: “Making wine is very much a blue collar job,” Reininger says. “People think it’s very romantic. It is if you love hard physical work and you don’t mind getting dirty.” T i p : Technical knowledge of wine is fine to have, but don’t be afraid to use your intuition.

Otherwise, “it’s easy to forget about the natural observations and just listening to the fruit itself.”

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Katherine Alberg Anderson ’89 pushes the boundaries between edible and ornamental plants at her “Marigold and Mint” shop in stylish Melrose Market on Seattle’s Capitol Hill. A taste of her gorgeous produce shows up regularly at Sitka & Spruce, the award-winning restaurant next door, whether it’s soda syrup made from her rose geranium leaves or snippings from the perennial herbs she grows on her farmland in the Snoqualmie Valley. At the shop, the seed heads from her giant sunflowers double as snacks. Anderson always knew she had an affinity for gardening and plants. “I really grew up doing that with my dad,” venture capitalist Tom Alberg. “He’s always been farming on some level; when we lived in Broadmoor he had a plot growing vegetables—which did not make the neighborhood association happy.” After an initial career in journalism, “I sat down and wrote myself a letter” figuring out what she loved doing—an exercise that led her to a graduate degree in landscape architecture. Later, “The idea popped into my head to start a flower farm.” For a few years she sold wholesale to florists, “but I wanted to do something a little more complex, I guess, than just handing over what I’d grown.” ➢

Katherine Alberg Anderson ’89 pushes the boundaries between edible and ornamental plants at her Marigold and Mint shop at trendy Melrose Market on Capitol Hill. 23

Cara Maestretti Figgins ’84 and brother Gregory Maestretti ’85 are vice presidents of Partners Crackers in Kent, a family business producing artisan-style specialty and organic crackers, flatbread, and granola, using all-natural ingredients and impressively green production standards. They’ve won numerous national awards for delicious and healthful ➢ Food map

➢ POINTS OF interest products, including a Walla Walla sweet onion flatbread cracker and a harvest fruit granola.

Amy Reed Morel ’91 raises Belted Galloway cows in Vermont with her husband, producing beef for their local general store and restaurant as well as selling directly to customers. Their beef was served last spring at the prestigious James Beard House in New York City as part of a Vermont Heirloom Farm dinner. “We are trying to be a part of the trend that is rejecting factory farming. We feel that system is untenable and we want to be a part of the solution.”

Tip: “We encourage anyone who isn’t already doing so to look into finding locally produced grass-fed beef in their area. If possible, develop a relationship with a farmer. It is extremely gratifying to know who is producing your food!”

Wendy Weiden ’94, above, says that food has been a defining aspect of her life since her essay on baking a Bon Appétit cover recipe got her into college. She has worked with both established companies and entrepreneurs to develop special and sustainable foods and businesses,

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Students in FareStart’s culinary and job training program during lunch service at the FareStart Restaurant. Lauren Young ’85 and Daniel Johnson ’89 f ind reward in furthering the cause of this nonprof it.

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Then the space opened in Melrose Market and she jumped at the opportunity. The year-round shop stocks Anderson’s own products from spring through late fall. She forages on her 100 acres of hillside and works a few long days at the farm each week, in addition to working shifts at the store. And all her disparate interests come together in the column she writes for Garden Design magazine, “Notes from a Flower Farm.” G a r d e n t o o l t o l i v e b y: “Buy a Hula Hoe. It’s a perfect weeder, you can weed

standing up ... It’s perfect for a two-acre farm and perfect in your home garden.”

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Lauren Young ’85 says she’s more on the quiet side, while Daniel Johnson ’89 is the extrovert. They complement each other like Brie and Bordeaux in the development office where they both work at FareStart, a nonprofit providing culinary training and job placement for homeless and

For an interactive map of alumni working

in the food industry—and to find out how to add yourself to that map—check out the alumni homepage at www.lakesideschool.org/alumni.

disadvantaged people. The program has won both national and local acclaim, with local star chefs volunteering for regular fundraising dinners and with an award from the James Beard Foundation, the Oscars of the food world. Young said she didn’t start out as a food person, graduate school in Italy notwithstanding. She worked in development at Lakeside after returning to the U.S. But at FareStart, she’s been exposed to people “for whom food is the reason they get up in the morning,” who have shown her that “you can make a very powerful connection with other people by feeding them something special.” She’s loved seeing students who had no initial interest come out of the program “with real skills and a knowledge they can support themselves and succeed.” Even if they go on to careers unrelated to the restaurant world, “it’s all about the confidence and feeling of self worth and knowing you can achieve that. Food is just one way of learning that about yourself, but it’s a very powerful and accessible tool that way.” And one other big thing has changed since she started the job; her expanded interest in food means, “I definitely eat out more.” Her co-worker Johnson, a former journalist, values being able to see the impact he makes with his work at FareStart. Every Friday the whole staff gathers to congratulate the people finishing the program that week. “You hear all the stories you could imagine,” Johnson says: ‘I was completely and utterly addicted to crack cocaine.’ ‘I was on the verge of killing myself.’‘I was selling my body.’‘I just got out of the Army after two stints in the Gulf War and Iraq and I could barely think straight.’ To know that this 16 weeks has begun giving them the path to a positive transition—it’s the best thing ever.”

Tip: “If you don’t recognize and/or can’t pronounce an ingredient, is it really something you want to be putting in your body?”

Karl Uri ’94 is regional marketing coordinator for the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute.

D O N ’ T M I S S : Chef Matt Costello will be FareStart’s guest chef December 15.

His seasonal meals cost beaucoup bucks at the luxurious Inn at Langley on Whidbey Island; here they’ll run just $24.95 (and for a good cause!). Reserve early; these sell out fast: www.farestart.org.

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Dan Hull ’77 fell into a lifetime career through the father of a Lakeside classmate who happened to be superintendent of a salmon cannery in Bristol Bay, Alaska. “It was common back in those days for high school and college kids to work in the salmon canneries in the summer, or to fish,” he says. He got his start at the cannery, then started fishing Bristol Bay for herring. In 1986 he took his boat to Cordova, an area blessed with great fish, gillnetting salmon and longlining halibut. “Along the way, I got a degree at Dartmouth and a Master of Marine Affairs at UW.” He’s been involved in the policy and management of fisheries as much as the actual work on the water, serving on the North Pacific Fishery Management Council, the federal regulatory body for all federal fisheries in Alaska. “I think early on, it was just the young man’s dream about doing something with my hands, being involved in something that was a bit on the wild side,” he says. “When you’re young you have all this energy, and ➢

from Williams-Sonoma’s Peppermint North Poles (chocolate-coated peppermint sticks) to a grass-fed beef hotdog producer. She’s on the board of the Seedling Projects supporting sustainable food, and is working toward a master’s degree in Sustainable Public Administration at Presidio Graduate School, focusing on food systems.

Dan Hull ’77 both f ishes and is involved in f isheries policy in Alaska.

11 Meadow Linn ’96 runs a catering business and writes about cooking and living well for the lifestyle section of the Seattle Chinese Times. She blogs about food and life at savortheday. blogspot.com, and she’s collaborating with her mother on a book about the connection between food and the mind, body, and spirit. 12

Vanessa Brewster Laughlin ’99 works for Starbucks as a ➢ Global ServiceFood Learning map

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product manager on the company’s Food Category team, helping develop and manage lunch foods in more than 5,200 U.S. stores. (The tasty new Bistro Boxes? That’s her work.) She’s based in the SoDo corporate offices.

Tip: “Always consider the rich food culture in smaller restaurants, cafes, bakeries and delis located deep in Seattle’s many unique neighborhoods, not just the well-known downtown spots. It’s almost always worth the drive.”

James Allard ’84 was inspired by a trip to Japan to start Blue C Sushi, where the seared tuna slider, at right, is a new menu item. Below are stir fry green beans, spicy tuna and cream cheese roll, Boston roll, chicken udon, and gyoza. He and his partners have since also opened Boom Noodle and Tokyo Sweets.

Courtesy of Blue C Sushi

Katherine Cole (née Raff) ’91 is the wine columnist for The Oregonian newspaper and for MIX, Portland’s magazine of food and drink. She has an “Oregon Uncorked” app in process, a guide to the state’s best wines and wineries, and her book Voodoo Vintners: Oregon’s Astonishing Biodynamic Winegrowers was published earlier this year.

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being contained by four walls and an office wasn’t quite the avenue I wanted to go.” He soon learned that “there’s an intellectual side to it as well, that was just as exciting as the fishing.” Hull is back in Seattle several times a year to attend fisheries meetings and visit family, but “Anchorage is home,” and he fishes out of Cordova. The younger of his two sons, 11, loves to fish. “He’s been out with me in Prince William Sound and out on the Copper River. He loves to see what comes out in the shrimp pots, whether it’s an octopus or a crab.” His favorite meal: Did we even have to ask? “Grilled Copper River king salmon!” T i p : “Fishing is the best job for (someone with a) liberal arts education, because you have to understand the biology of the fish and the markets and management and politics and industry.”

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Wilfred Wong

Tip: “Get to know your local wine merchant, preferably at a small bottle shop in your neighborhood. As this person grows familiar with your price range and personal tastes, he or she can steer you toward wines that will satisfy you. Don’t be afraid to experiment, because

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James Allard ’84 started his career as a lawyer and then moved to the high-tech world. Then he became an entrepreneur—but not in the way other Internet-age classmates might have expected. Allard had studied Japanese in college and took a year off from graduate school to live in Japan for an immersion program in language and culture. While he was there in the early ’90s, “I saw the style of dining called ‘Kaiten Sushi’ where the sushi travels around on a conveyor belt and thought it was the coolest idea ever.” His only prior restaurant experience was as a dishwasher, but he kept thinking about bringing an upgraded version of kaiten-style dining to the U.S. In 2003, he joined with two business partners (one was Lakeside classmate Russell Horowitz ’84) to found Blue C Sushi. The hip, affordable, approachable sushi restaurant became a fast hit with diners of all ages, and the partners moved on to open Boom Noodle, featuring Japanese ramen and other noodle dishes, as well as Tokyo Sweets, selling Japanese-style hand-held crepes. The partners have 10 outlets in all, in addition to selling sushi and edamame puree at Whole Foods in Interbay. They’re contemplating expanding to other states.

some of the best deals are from lesser-known regions or grape varieties. And don’t be shy if you’re on a budget; there are some phenomenal wines out there in the $10-to-$15 range.”

Courtesy of Michael Asuncion

Cred from his tech years still comes into play. Blue C has piqued intense industry interest for its use of RFID (radio-frequency identification) computer tags to track its sushi’s freshness and sales figures. And Allard has kept his Lakeside connection in more than one way: Daughter Anneka is in the class of ’17, and Allard recently took on the job of head coach to the varsity girls soccer program. H i s c u r r e n t B l u e C fa v e s : “I am on a big

seared tuna kick right now. Also the V-8 roll (tempura-battered green beans or asparagus, cucumber, avocado, burdock root, pico de gallo) is unconventional as sushi but is really good, and healthy!”

Michael Asuncion ’01’s company, Silca Coffee Roasting Company, named after Silang and Cavite, his family’s town and province in the Philippines, is working on launching a brand called Kick-Start Coffee abroad.

Kramer Gillin ’02 recently worked in Dushanbe, Tajikistan for the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. He’s currently in graduate school for geography at the University of WisconsinMadison, where he hopes to focus on the political ecology of rangelands in northern Afghanistan, looking at property laws and nomadic herders’ access to grazeland for their animals, and conflicts between the nomadic herders and settled farmers.

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When Michael Asuncion ’01 arrived in Seattle as a high-school student, he already had a wellbrewed interest in coffee. His parents have been in the coffee industry for more than 30 years, and they came to Seattle because of its coffee connection. . The family owns a small farm in the Philippines, and buys other beans for higher-end specialty coffees directly from other farmers in the area, exporting mainly to institutions and businesses. “We’re vertically integrated, from the farm to the roasting to the distribution.” Asuncion’s parents returned to the Philippines after he graduated from Lakeside. After college, he first entered the world of finance, working as an investment banker for Lehman Brothers in San Francisco and in Hong Kong. His master plan was always to return to his hometown, to “take whatever I learned abroad and bring it back.” Back home in the Philippines, he could have continued with a career in finance, especially given that his grandfather opened the first bank in his hometown, where an uncle is the mayor. But as the only son in his family, he felt a cultural responsibility to take on the coffee business, to build on his parents’ achievements and ➢

15 Daniel Levin ’03 is co-founder of Eltana on Capitol Hill, featuring handrolled wood-fired bagels that were recently named the city’s best by Seattle Weekly. Best bite: “My personal favorite is an ‘everything’ bagel with spicy garlic cream cheese.” ➢ Food map

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Donn Etherington ’73 grows three varieties of cherries suited to his 22 acres of high-elevation land near Wenatchee: sweethearts (a bit tangy), lapins (milder than sweethearts, with less acid), and Rainiers (sweetest, with higher sugars). He also oversees a farmworkers’ camp (more on page 28).

Tip: To gauge a cherry’s freshness, look to its stem: It should be pliant and green. A brown, brittle stem signals fruit past its prime.

“We’re vertically integrated, from the farm to the roasting to the distribution,” says Michael Asuncion ’01 of Silca Coffee Roasting Company. Above, sister Carolyn Asuncion—she graduated Lakeside Middle School in 2002—and their master coffee roaster look at roast levels; below, coffee cools; at bottom, ripe robusta coffee cherries at their farm.

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eventually help care for them as they age. As a kid, he remembers running around the farm, jumping on coffee sacks in the warehouses, and helping pack the beans. Now, at 28, he’s president of the company— one of the youngest people at his level in the industry. He renamed the business Silca Coffee (silcacoffee.com), after Silang and Cavite, his family’s town and province, where they have such a rich heritage. “I want to take our company to a different level,” he says. He’s also working on launching a brand called Kick-Start Coffee abroad, “the premise is starting new things over conversations and coffee.” Asuncion returns to Seattle occasionally—he was in town recently for his 10-year Lakeside reunion—and to attend Coffee Fest. He says he’s fueled by the brew, both literally and figuratively, drinking five to six cups a day. “It’s not work anymore, it’s my life.” B e s t c o f f e e : He favors an all-organic

Philippines brew called Barako, which means bold and strong.

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When you buy a mango or a passion fruit, think of Erica Bliss ’03. She’s working with small farmers growing those fruits in Uganda, as a mobilization manager for TechnoServe, an organization helping people in poor areas of the developing world build their businesses and communities. Her current project, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and The Coca-Cola Company, aims to double the income that 17,000 small-holder farmers earn from fruit. Latest success: “Coca-Cola, under its Minute Maid brand, just launched a mango drink in Uganda that will be using mangoes from our farmers.” Bliss splits her time between working in cities with buyers, and in the fields with farmers. Among

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her duties, she trains farmers on negotiation and markets, occasionally helps out with a demo on pruning or proper harvesting techniques, works to improve the supply chain, and even helps out formulating drinks. An econ major, Bliss first worked for Accenture in project management and strategic analysis for large corporations. But a friend introduced her to TechnoServe, which has “a wonderful volunteer consulting program,” and she was hooked. “I’ve traveled a lot in life but this was my first time in Sub-Saharan Africa. Uganda is beautiful and tropical. There is poor infrastructure, especially in the rural areas,” she says, “to the point where I drive through rivers and sand to get to some of the farmer meeting places.” She mentors some young Ugandan woman on career development—the average woman there has seven children—and “I also host fun events like sheep roasts where we build a grill and roast a whole animal on special occasions.” Her favorite foods, though, are still hometown eats: “My dad’s pecan pie, Ben & Jerry’s Half Baked, and Eltana bagels. I’ve been eating mashed bananas (staple food here) for two years, I’ll go for almost anything else at this point.” T i p : “Currently neither our mangoes nor our passion fruit are sold in the U.S.,” Bliss says, “but if anyone’s interested in buying some dried fruit or juice, I can arrange that!”

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Some talk the talk, but Jake Greenberg ’75 also walks the socially conscious walk. Greenberg owns Portland-based Classic Foods, a $4 million specialty food supplier, especially known for its fresh, seasonal pastas. (No. 1 seller: ravioli made with locally grown roasted organic butternut squash, gorgonzola, parmesan, pecorino, and roasted garlic.) Fresh from Lewis and Clark College with a degree in business administration, Greenberg got a job in a restaurant and ended up running it. Then, at age 27, with $1,000 in the bank, he set out on his own, at first selling soup bases. Now Classic Foods boasts more than 500 Northwest restaurants as clients. Greenberg sources ingredients from small local organic growers whenever possible. He whips up the weekly artisan pasta list himself from what he finds ➢

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18 David Knudsen ‘77 is president and CEO of Olympiabased Ostrom Mushrooms, largest mushroom producer in the Northwest. The company, founded in 1928, is currently owned by three families, two of them with Lakeside ties: The Knudsen family, whose share is equally owned by siblings David, C. Calbert Knudsen Jr., Colin Knudsen ’74, and Page Knudsen Cowles ’73; and St. Nicholas grads Mary (Black) Lindley ’44 and daughter Jayne Lindley ’71. The Knudsen family has also been growing wine grapes in the Willamette Valley since 1972. “Knudsen Vineyards currently grows for Argyle, named Oregon’s premier winery by Wine Spectator magazine in 2000, and is a primary grape source for their world-class méthode champenoise sparkling wine and pinot noir offerings,” David says. ■

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Jake Greenberg ’75 owns Classic Foods, known for fresh, seasonal pastas made in an eco-friendly plant. Clockwise from top, egg pappardelle, tomato angel hair, squid ink linguine, and spinach fettucine, with spinach angel hair at left. 21

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inspiring that week at a farmers market where he was one of the founding vendors. He frequently donates food, services, and support to social causes from the local AIDS hospice to community food banks. Classic Foods operates out of a new eco-friendly manufacturing plant Greenberg had rehabbed from a decrepit one-time ice house in a distressed inner-city Portland neighborhood (“I didn’t want to go to the suburbs”). Its abandoned loading dock became a garden that grows herbs for Classic’s pastas. The local press reports that the neighbors are thrilled. If he can secure funding for solar roof panels, he’ll be in line for LEED’s top platinum rating. He’s also lining up vendors for a small midweek farmers’ market on his property. “Poverty is a real issue in this neighborhood, which is Oregon’s most ethnically diverse, and we need to educate young people that food doesn’t just come out of a vending machine or McDonald’s,” Greenberg says. “Education, as well as donating food through gleaning, will be a big part of this market. “We want to build community and bring some good fresh produce into the neighborhood.” T i p : Forget shopping lists; “Learn to say, ‘I’m going to

see what the best-looking stuff at the market is, I don’t know what I’m cooking ’til I find it.”

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Food writer Rebekah Denn, winner of two James Beard Awards, blogs at eatallaboutit.com.

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A year of learning about FOOD!

Queen of the Sun: What Are the Bees Telling Us? (2010), “a profound, alternative look at the global bee crisis; beekeepers, scientists and philosophers reveal both the problems and the solutions in renewing a culture in balance with nature.” What’s On Your Plate? (2009), “a witty and provocative documentary about kids and food politics. Filmed over the course of one year, the film follows two 11-year-old AfricanAmerican city kids as they explore their place in the food chain.” Babette’s Feast (1987). In a small 19th-century Danish village, a French woman who has taken refuge there prepares a transformational feast of a lifetime for the members of a tiny church. Food Matters (2008), a documentary about the impact of the current state of the food supply on people’s health and nutrition. Book talk: Small groups

Lisa Boone

What’s On Your Plate?, a 2009 documentary about kids and food politics, is one of f ilms featured as part of this year’s global community theme.

his year’s global community theme is “FOOD!” and Lakeside’s faculty and staff already are sinking their teeth into the subject. Each year they pick a global issue they will study together in interesting, useful, and practical ways. Assignment choices, or “touchpoints,” this year include food-related films, books, talks, theme meals, and volunteer opportunities. We’re guessing that many of this year’s assignments are ones alumni may also want to digest, or even cook up their own versions. Check them out: Track your food and drink intake for one

week. (Calorie counting not required.)

Food film festival .

These films are among those being screened and discussed (descriptions are drawn from imdb.com):

will pick one of these food-related nonfiction works to discuss: What I Eat: Around the World in Eighty Diets by Peter Menzel and Faith d’Aluisio. Portraits and profiles of 80 people from 30 countries and the food they eat in one day. A History of the World in Six Glasses by Tom Standage. How beer, wine, spirits, coffee, tea, and cola have influenced the course of history. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver. When the author and her family move from suburban Arizona to rural Appalachia, they commit to spending a year eating a locally produced diet. The Omnivore’s Dilemma (Young Reader’s Edition) by Michael Pollan. This adaptation of Pollan’s bestseller (shorter, simpler,

updated from the adult version, and with photos and other visuals) encourages awareness of the personal and global health implications of food choices. A “ hunger banquet ”: To build

awareness of hunger issues and global poverty, each person attending the “banquet” is assigned a role: 15% are in the high-income group, sit at a table, and enjoy a threecourse meal; 25% are in the middle-income group, sit in chairs, and eat rice and beans; and 60%, representing the low-income group, sit on the floor and receive rice and water, as “for one meal, they suffer the fate of the millions of people throughout the world who live in poverty.” The Oxfam organization provides instructions on how organizations or individuals can host their own hunger banquets: http://actfast.oxfamamerica.org/ index.php/events/banquet or search “hunger banquet” online. Volunteering opportunities at Shore-

line Food Lifeline on a designated evening and Saturday. This nonprofit organization, dedicated to ending hunger in Western Washington, encourages the food industry to donate unmarketable but usable food it would otherwise discard; 94% of the food distributed is donated by local, state and national contributors. A conversation with Ben Resnick, Lake-

side Food Service director, about Lakeside’s efforts toward “sensible sustainability” in the food served here. Discussion topics include the school’s commitment to reduce sugar and sodium levels and preservatives; its suppliers and sources for ingredients; and the value of using local farms. ■ Food map, Global food theme

A farm worker thins Fuji apples from the top branches while Lakesiders tackle lower branches at Broetje Orchards, about a half-hour from Pasco.

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Students learn about labor & life in Washington orchards

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Lakeside students work at Broetje Orchards, the newest Global Service Learning site, as they explore the link between agriculture and immigration.

“I

’ll never look at an apple the same way again.” “I can sum up what I felt like in one word: ‘foreign.’ Everyone is speaking Spanish, it’s really hot, and it feels like we’re not in Washington but ‘way down yonder.’ ” “I’m sure we were all really tired at the end of the day—and the people here have to do this every day. We should appreciate them a lot more. It shed a new light.

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The 12 Lakeside Middle School students are sitting around the ranch-style retreat house, perched on a hill overlooking what’s the

equivalent of the village square—the chapel, school, and corner store of Vista Hermosa, the small community for the workers of Broetje Orchards. Several days have passed since they arrived at the orchards near Prescott, a half-hour’s drive from Pasco in Eastern Washington, as part of the inaugural Broetje Orchards Global Service Learning trip. It’s 8:30 p.m., they’ve ﬁnished cooking dinner and cleaning up, and they’re having a meeting to reﬂect on the last two days. So far they have visited a migrant workers’ camp of tents and trailers near Wenatchee, run by a Lakeside alum. Risen before dawn to thin apples alongside the Broetje farm work-

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ers. Toured the Broetje warehouse. Heard that perhaps 70 percent of this country’s agricultural workers are undocumented. Tried their Spanish as they played with toddlers at a day care for the workers. Spent the afternoon at the sprawling Sunday ﬂea market in Pasco, “a little Mexico.” Leader Meera Patankar, who was also their 6th-grade social studies teacher, is guiding their discussion: “Getting up at 4:15 a.m. to work in the orchards, how did that feel? What did you notice about the people and culture of work in the orchards?” They ﬁrst write in their journals, and then it’s time to share: “Getting up in the dark to go to the orchards

COUSCOUS Made painstakingly from scratch and adorned with everything from whole chickens to clusters of salt, the rich powdery-wheat dish is served customarily on Friday, the holiest day of the week for Muslims. It is both a religious meal and a token of hospitality.

was so disorienting. I lost a sense of time.” “You could see how far people will go to provide for their families—up on ladders, with no shade, in the hot sun.” “Life for a migrant worker is really hard. A lot of people complain but I don’t think their lives are as hard as migrant workers.” Broetje Orchards is Lakeside’s newest Global Service Learning site. As with all GSL trips, the aim is to be immersed in another culture while contributing to a service project. In this case, the culture is that of migrant and agricultural workers primarily from Mexico. The two-week experience, which includes class time before and after their stay in Eastern Washington, focuses on the connection between agriculture and immigration, exploring questions like: Who picks our produce? Where do they come from? Why are they the ones who pick it? How do they get here? Broetje Orchards (pronounced Bro-chee), where the students are based for a week, is an $80-million-a-year operation that includes 6,000 acres of apple and cherry orchards and employs more than 1,100 year-round staﬀ and another 1,500 seasonal workers. The family-owned business has an unusual business model based on Christian principles, though workers, students, and other volunteers of all faiths are welcomed. That model was developed after the Broetjes began noticing in 1984 that the labor market had changed from white seasonal workers to young Mexican males. They journeyed to Mexico to investigate and found that the workers coming to their doors were “economic refugees.” That changed how they saw their role as employer. Today Broetje provides jobs, housing, schooling, and social services to its workers and their families. It donates up to 65 percent of annual proﬁts from its brand FirstFruits of Washington to local, domestic, and international social justice causes. Now the GSL students, all of whom just graduated from 6th grade, are going on their own journey to understand the economic forces at work. What follows is a chronicle of their journey, glimpsed through excerpts from the blog they kept, journals, and a Lakeside magazine reporter’s notebook.

Broetje’s operation includes 6,000 acres of apple and cherry orchards. This woman is one of more than 2,600 workers—1,100 year-round, another 1,500 seasonally—that Broetje employs.

Days 1-2, July 25-26 - Getting ready Tomorrow we are heading out to the orchards. These two pre-trip days we’ve spent have been really fun. We learned more about the orchards and about how charitable it is to its workers and to other organizations around the world. Also, we learned about the life most migrant workers have from a documentary and the ﬁrst portion of a movie called La Misma Luna. Here are some questions I have about the orchards: How many of the workers are undocumented immigrants? Do all workers choose to stay at the orchards year round?

– Susanna

CLEARLY THIS GSL TRIP is not going to duck the hard immigration issues that polarize this country. The documentary, American Harvest, makes the point that American agriculture is highly dependent on undocumented workers, as globalization puts pressure on prices and wages. The students are moved by The Circuit, Francisco Jiménez’s largely autobiographical story of the harsh life of a migrant child, and they are disturbed by its ending, when immigration authorities come for the boys. ±

BREAD AND TAGINE We helped with the grinding of the couscous grains in the village with the Women’s Association. The couscous is placed in a large communal plate, covered in delicious meats and vegetables, then inundated with a sauce made with chicken stock.

You cannot have a true Moroccan meal without bread. I can hear it now, the crackling of the crust and the steam wafting out of the soft dough. We all dive into the tagine (slow-cooked stew), soaking up sauce, picking up pieces of chicken ±

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From left, trip leader Meera Patankar and students Bella DeVaan and Hannah Wang look for blemished, misshapen, or too-small Fuji apples, which they must twist off without removing the stems from the trees. It’s hot, tedious work that chafes f ingers. ± HARVEST

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Patankar asks the students to consider “what is an economic refugee?” and suggests they think of the questions they’ll want answered at the orchards. Two they come up with: “What percentage of the workers are legal?”and “How do they get here?” She elicits from them that many have family members connected with agriculture—from parents and grandparents who own farms that employ workers from Mexico, to a Chinese immigrant father who recalled being frostbitten and fearful of leeches as he worked in rice paddies as a child. Patankar just ﬂew home three days before from a village in the highlands of Guatemala, where she

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or lamb, or scooping up vegetables. You rip off a piece of bread and with the ﬁrst three ﬁngers on your right hand, you take the bread and “pinch” or “scoop” up the food in your section (eating out of any other member’s part of the dish is considered very rude).

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studied intensive Spanish for two weeks. Assisting Patankar are a second leader, Katie Furia ’05, a University of Washington international studies graduate who led the GSL Peru trip last year and speaks fluent Spanish; and two student counselors, Bram DonsBorreguero and Emma Dorland, both newly minted Lakeside grads fluent in Spanish. Even before these two pre-trip days, Patankar set the stage for students to “connect the dots between agriculture and immigration.” She took them to a local Safeway and Whole Foods, where they combed the stores’ data sheets and tracked the miles traveled for different fruits and their prices.

TEA Every household has a pot of tea simmering over the ﬁre at all hours of the day, just waiting for a visitor to wind up at the door. Most commonly it’s green tea infused with leaves of mint

These houses are among those Broetje provides for workers, including this man on horseback. Broetje follows a Christian-based model called “servant leadership,” and provides social services, schooling, and housing.

DAY 3, July 27 - Visiting the migrant camp It’s a long drive to our ﬁrst stop at a migrant camp in Wenatchee. There are a lot of white tents and a building with a bathroom in it. The camp holds 380 workers in trailers and tents. We see kids playing on scooters and a bike while we’re eating lunch. We visit a cooking trailer where women are making fresh tortillas for lunch.

– Ella

DONN ETHERINGTON ’73 is a cherry orchardist who also manages a farmworker housing camp near Wenatchee, open from June to November for migrants who come ﬁrst for the cherry harvest and then for apples and pears in the fall. A classmate of former GSL director Vicki Weeks, Etherington had extended an invitation to Lakeside students. He explains by phone that the camp came about some years ago after a state crackdown on substandard housing on farms. Farmers just shut down the housing, and “workers were living along riverbanks, in the backs of cars, with no running water, no toilets, no cooking facilities.” Then-Governor Gary Locke secured funds for oﬀ-farm migrant housing. Etherington was hired to direct the Chelan County camp. It’s one of only a few in the state, he says; they charge $4 per person per night or $12 per family. Etherington says he and a Broetje representative are both ±

and enough sugar to bake a cake. The tea needs to be properly rinsed out several times with boiling water; the first rinse is flushed back into the mixture after the final rinse. Once the leaves are thoroughly soaked and the chunks of sugar fully dissolved, a cup is poured out and then back

in, to fully mix the ﬂavors that will come together to create magic. The individual serving the tea pours a sip to taste. If it is satisfactory the tea can ﬁnally be shared. Q Francis Wilson ’13, Julia Tombari ’13, Rebecca Ramos ’13, Sylvia Xu ’12

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board members of the Washington State Farmworker Housing Trust, which advocates for better housing for migrant workers, both for social justice reasons and because housing is crucial to attracting the workers the harvest depends on. According to the trust, Washington farmers face growing competition domestically for labor and globally for price and market. Etherington invited the students because he thought it would be educational for them to see a more typical housing experience of migrant workers than at Broetje, which is unusual in providing affordable apartments for migrant workers and small three- and four-bedroom homes with small gardens for the permanent workers. There is more need for housing, he says, than there is available room in the migrant camp. 34

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Day 4, July 28 - Touring Broetje Roger and Laura from Broetje Orchards came to talk about Broetje stories and values. Then we watched a video on Washington apples, visited the warehouse, the orchard vista, the pre-K, and the day camp.

– Rebecca

The Lakesiders hear some facts and figures that address some of the students’ initial questions. National estimates are that 70 percent of farmworkers in this country are undocumented. Broetje follows the law in hiring and requires applicants to show documents indicating their legal status, but legally cannot challenge the validity of their paperwork if it

appears in order. While raids by immigration authorities were common in the 1980s, these days Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) more typically audits businesses to review if employees are properly documented. A national “Take Our Jobs” campaign in July 2010 by the United Farm Workers was designed to show the public that undocumented workers do the work that few Americans are willing to take on. The campaign advertised for harvest workers but in the end, few Americans showed up and even fewer stayed. Broetje’s main office is only steps from the warehouse and the day-care center. The walls display photos portraying the many global humanitarian charities Broetje funds, including a medical clinic in Haiti and a teen center in India preventing sex trafficking. The charities are recommended by Broetje workers. On one table is an altar that co-owner Cheryl Broetje had set up after seeing similar ones in towns along the U.S.-Mexico border: Clustered with a Bible and a candle to Mother Teresa is this message in Spanish: “Our Lady of Guadalupe, we pray that you care for our brothers who put their lives in danger crossing the border in search of bread every day.”

Susanna L. and Ella S. cool off with sno-cones at the Pasco Flea Market, which the students likened to visiting a foreign country.

Days 5 and 6, July 29-30 First days in orchards, day care We split into groups, one going to the orchards, the other to the day care. I was in the day care group. We helped them with circle time, reading, snacking, art, lunch, and other activities. Then it was nap time. We rubbed their backs to help them go to sleep. It’s harder than you think.

– Sophia

Thinning [apple trees] isn’t very hard or fun. It is just very tedious. Even though some people do this for a living, they were still happy about it. They were singing and talking rapidly throughout the day no matter what the weather or the time was.

– Hayden

Day 7, July 31 A day of rest, at the flea market Everyone is so relieved that it’s a rest day. After an eventful trip to the Pasco Flea Market (in which we feasted on sno-cones), we stopped at Albertsons to restock our pantry. Dinner was burritos with corn, guacamole, salsa, watermelon, and brownies. We finished La Misma Luna, and played more games before bedtime. Broetje is turning out to be EXTREMELY fun. I love it here!

– Bella

The flea market is a sprawling assortment of booths shaded by tarps, just off the freeway in Pasco; Sunday’s the

Kevin Y., left, and Hayden C. look over the assortment of DVDs at the Pasco Flea Market. DVDs, many of them pirated, were a big item here, along with a wide variety of goods from live chickens to cowboy boots.

big day, when everything is for sale from cowboy boots and prom dresses to pirated DVDs, live chickens, and Mexican food, from elotes (corn on the cob) to birria de chivo (goat stew). The sounds of Spanish ring out, in music from ranchero to pop, and vendors calling out their wares—“tacos, tacos, un dólar, un dólar!” Patankar stops at a churro stand where a Pasco High School senior is frying up the dough in a huge vat of oil. “It’s like a little Mexico here,” the student says. To her, she adds, “it’s boring and normal.” In the discussion later that night, it’s clear that the flea market is not boring or normal to the Lakeside Middle Schoolers. “The whole place was alive and bustling, fun and cheerful. Not like Albertsons for example, where there’s no life. I’m not hating on Albertsons, but you didn’t hear loud stereos playing wailing Mexican music,” says Hannah W. ➢

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Day 8, August 1 - Orchards and day care

Once again the students divide into groups, one to the orchards, one to the day care. The students destined for the orchards arrive at 8:30 a.m., as the workers are taking their lunch break. They’re warming tacos over burners, sitting on lawn chairs and atop coolers they’ve pulled from the backs of trucks and cars that line the narrow dirt roads. Some workers explain that they live in Pasco and work year-round. Soon the time of thinning will be over and the harvest will begin in earnest, with many hundreds of workers joining them. The day is heating up now, and the workers are wearing long pants and scarves over their heads to shield themselves from the sun. For safety reasons, the Lakeside students aren’t allowed to climb the ladders, and to avoid pesticide exposure, they work only in the organic orchard. They’re supposed to look for apples that are blemished, misshapen, or too small, twist them off without taking off their stems, and toss them to the ground. “You have to control the top or the stem breaks off,” Bella D. says. The students are careful because the foreman looks on the ground for stems. They don’t want other workers faulted for their mistakes.

Day 10, August 3 – At Jubilee Youth Ranch, back at the retreat We sheared the trees, then we helped move the field’s irrigation pipes. At noon, we returned to the retreat house. Eva and Laura from FirstFruits came over and talked about the entire Broetje experience, as a kind of wrap-up speech to the whole trip. They shared their stories about living as migrant worker children, and now I feel that coming to Broetje gives us all valuable experience teaching us about our food and where it comes from, the lives and hardships of those who pick and process it, and it will always impact our thoughts and lives from here on out.

– Hannah

Laura told us about the time when she and her family crossed the border. This really hit me because her dad went to America to get a job to make enough money to get them

Day 9, August 2 – At the elementary school

across and then when he did Laura was 2 and her little brother

Today we got up around 6:45 a.m. and went to Vista Her-

the daughter’s hand when they crossed the border in the des-

was just a baby and her mom had to carry the son and hold

mosa Elementary. It was so different from any sort of classes

ert. They almost got caught but her mom held her hands in

I’ve ever been to, because they just talked non-stop, and the

front of the baby’s mouth so he wouldn’t cry and expose them.

teachers didn’t get very mad at them. We went to the soccer fields and played soccer. It was us and the little local kids on one team, against the 12- and 13-year-old local boys on another. They beat us 2-6. :-{ All in all, it was a very fun day.

– Anne

– Hayden

Day 11, August 4 – Saying goodbye Today we left Broetje at 8:30 a.m. First we had to give Vista Hermosa Elementary a thank you banner and some art supplies, which they loved. We all got to take home a bag of Broetje Red and Golden Delicious apples for our families to try. We are very exhausted, but happy to be home (despite some culture shock).

– Aaron

Day 12, August 5 – Wrapping up at Lakeside

Bella D. writes about the flea market in her journal. The students keep individual journals and also take turns as daily group journalist and daily photographer, with their contributions posted on the trip blog.

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Back on campus, Patankar has the kids prepare a slide show for fellow students to capture what Broetje GSL was all about, and write up final thoughts, especially reflecting on what they felt were the most meaningful parts of the trip. It is no surprise that, in the end, what made the deepest impression was people they met, and especially other children: Wrote Bella: “Carol was a little girl at Vista Hermosa Elementary School. She said that three years ago, she moved to Washington from Oaxaca, Mexico. As she told me this, I couldn’t help but imagine a little three-year-old girl sneaking across the border to reach a better life. It made my heart ache, but at the same time it made me so happy for Carol: she had become fluent in English in less than three years!” “I met a kid named Leo who had very long hair,” wrote Aaron B. “Later I learned the meaning behind his hair. His father was

Student teams prepare meals and clean up at the retreat house. From left, Sophia L., Hannah W., Ella S., Kevin Y., Miles C. (visible behind Kevin’s ear), Rebecca D., and Aaron B. dive into a dinner of burritos, guacamole, chips and salsa, corn, watermelon, and brownies.

Learn more: • Broetje Orchards:

www.firstfruits.com

• Washington State Farmworker Housing Trust:

www.farmworkerhousingtrust.org •American Harvest, 2008, a documentary about

immigration as it relates to the people who pick the fruits and vegetables that are on Americans’ tables. www.americanharvestmovie.com • The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant

Francisco Jiménez, University of New Mexico Press, 1997.

Child,

• La Misma Luna (Under the Same Moon), 2007. A young Mexican boy searches for his mother, who is living illegally in L.A. Fox Searchlight Pictures.

Kevin Y. pats the back of one of the children at the day care until the boy falls asleep at naptime.

deported four years ago when he was too young to remember. And ever since his mom made him grow his hair to show his dad whenever he gets back that they have been waiting for him.” And Hayden C. wrote this: “A boy our age said that he was an illegal immigrant like it was nothing. I asked him, ‘Well aren’t you scared of the migra?’

(The migra is the government, specifically the I.C.E., Immigration and Customs Enforcement.) And he said, ‘Yeah, but I’d much rather be deported back and have lived here than to not have lived here.’ ” ■ Carey Quan Gelernter is communications associate at Lakeside School. You can reach her at carey.gelernter@lakesideschool.org or 206-440-2706. Global Service Learning

Steve Johnson ’01, left, with former faculty member Ken Van Dyke.

REUNION 2011

by KELLY POORT

A group hug from the Class of 1976 outside Moore Hall.

Class of ’61 leads the way

he 2011 reunion celebration began on June 9 with members of the Lakeside and St. Nicholas Classes of 1961 on campus to celebrate their 50th reunion and lead the Class of 2011 in the Commencement procession. The next evening, 400 alumni, faculty, staff, and friends gathered to celebrate all classes ending in 1 and 6. Class photos and revelry in the Wright Community Center were followed by dinner and a slideshow from the Jane Carlson Williams ’60 Archives in the gym. The Class of 1986 was applauded for its attendance record, the Classes of 1961 were again celebrated for their milestone reunion, and all in attendance rose to honor Stuart Anderson, Lyman Black, and James “Doc” Rolfe, members of the Lakeside Class of 1941, on their 70th reunion. ■

Kelly Poort is assistant director of development, alumni relations. She can be reached at 206-440-2730 or kelly.poort@lakesideschool.org.

Members and guests of the Class of 1956.

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John Pope ’81, left, with former faculty member and crew coach Frank Cunningham, a special guest of the Class of 1976.

Members of the Class of 1941 celebrating their 70th reunion, from left: Lyman Black, James Rolfe, and Stuart Anderson.

Jessica Cox ’06, left, with Vicki Weeks ’73, who retired in June as associate director of Global Service Learning.

Head of School Bernie Noe (back center) with members of the Class of 2006.

Siege (Christopher James) ’81 in his letterman’s jacket.

Members of the Lakeside Class of 1961 celebrating their 50th reunion.

Members of the Class of 2006, from left: Connor Bench, Anna Moseley, Cara Beth Rogers, Alex Krengel, and Welles Wiley.

Members of the Class of 1991, from left: Allison Thoreson Bhusri, Fred Northup, Phil Aupperle, and Fred Wolf.

Members of the Rolfe family, from left: Stu ’71, Laurie ’66, Nancy ’91, and James ’41.

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Members of the Class of 1986 celebrate their 25th reunion and award for most classmates in attendance.

Members of the St. Nicholas Class of 1961 toasted to 50 years since their graduation.

The Lakeside and St. Nicholas Classes of 1961 outside of McKay Chapel before leading the Class of 2011 in its Commencement processional.

From left: Maureen Wiley ’01, Winf ield Martin ’01, Andrew Howard ’01, Elizabeth Bolen ’01, Brendan Grady ’01, and David Clough.

From left: Gillian Cho, David Cho ’96, Jasper Chen ’96, Tracie Anne Caller, Michelle Lau Pilling ’96, and Cameron Pilling.

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ALUMNI Lakeside/St. Nicholas Alumni Board

2011-2012

NEWS 2011-2012

LAKESIDE/ ST. NICHOLAS ALUMNI BOARD Christian Fulghum ’77

President

Megan Coughlin ’87

Immediate Past President

Artemios (Tim) S. Panos ’85

Mission & Governance Chair Vanessa Brewster Laughlin ’99

Activities Chair

John Patton ’88

Cameron Colpitts ’01

Nancy Anderson Crystal Ondo Daly ’80 ’99

Emily Pease ’75

Erin Pettersen ’04

Welcome, new Alumni Board members

he Alumni Board is off to a busy start this year planning alumni events, working to engage alumni in the life of the school, and finding new and creative ways to help build an even stronger alumni community. Lakeside School and the alumni relations office are grateful for the time and effort members of the alumni board give to serving our alumni community. If you or someone you know is interested in serving on the board, please contact the alumni relations office at alumni@lakesideschool.org. We welcome our five new members and hope you enjoy getting to know them!

Connections Chair Kelly Poort

Alumni Office Liaison Bruce Bailey ’59

(Honorary Member) Patrick Chinn ’86

Janene Collins ’87 Cameron Colpitts ’01 Nancy Anderson Daly ’80 Scott Larson ’89 Kyle Lobisser ’02 Lisa Marshall Manheim ’98 Fred Northup ’91 Crystal Ondo ’99 Siri Oswald ’90 Emily Pease ’75 Lindsay Clarke Pedersen ’92 Erin Pettersen ’04 Ben Resnick ’02 Betsy Hawkanson Ribera ’90 Heather Hewson Rock ’80 Adam Selipsky ’84 Jimmy Thomas ’79

■ Cameron Colpitts ’01 graduated from Brown University with a BS in electrical engineering and earned his master’s in electrical engineering from the University of Washington. After graduation, he worked as an engineer at Raytheon, and more recently as a business analyst at Lake Partners Strategy Consultants. Currently he is working with a small team designing a wireless device he hopes to bring to market. In his free time, he enjoys ceramics, listening to music, and taking long bike rides. ■ Nancy Anderson Daly ’80 earned a BA in American Studies from Stanford University in 1984. She worked in sales for IBM and alumni relations for Lakeside, then stayed home full time to be Mom to Caroline, John, and Joe. Having just completed 10 years on the Children’s Hospital Board, she is excited to be back on the Alumni Board after a 25-year break. Daly currently lives in Bellevue and works as a personal trainer and tennis instructor. In her spare time she plays competitive tennis and is working hard to lower her golf handicap. ■ Crystal Ondo ’99 is an associate in the business practice at Perkins Coie, where she focuses primarily on licensing, technol-

ogy, and energy law. She received her bachelor’s degree from Princeton University in 2003 and a law degree from Boston College in 2008. After law school, Ondo lived in Geneva, Switzerland with her husband and former Lakeside classmate Edward Wenger ’99. The couple returned to the Seattle area in 2010 with their two children, Max, age 4, and Isla, age 2. Ondo enjoys cooking, skiing, reading, and spending time with her kids. ■ Emily Pease ’75 took a gap year after graduation and moved to New York to pursue her passion in dance. She graduated with a BFA in dance from Tisch School of the Arts at New York University in 1979; was a member of a small modern dance company based in New York City; and toured and taught in the United States and Europe for about nine years. After officially “retiring” from performing, she went to nursing school at Hunter College of the City University of New York, graduating in 1991 with a BSN, and soon after became an international board certified lactation consultant. After 30 years in New York, she managed to convince her die-hard New Yorker husband and girls to move back to the Northwest in 2006. She now

runs the Breastfeeding Center for outpatient lactation services at Swedish Medical Center. She lives on Phinney Ridge with her husband, two daughters, ages 17 and 13, and various animals. She has rediscovered skiing, dances for fun, and practices yoga along with gardening, cooking, and spending time at her family’s cabin on Guemes Island. ■ Erin Pettersen ’04 grew up in Kirkland and earned a BA in history from Whitman College, where she was also a member of the varsity swim team. In 2008, she moved to Telluride, Colo. to enjoy a year of coaching skiing before moving back to Seattle to pursue a career in advertising. She landed at a local advertising agency called DNA Seattle, where she has worked as an account executive for two years. Pettersen has also remained involved with Whitman by serving on the board for the W Club, which provides support for varsity athletics through alumni engagement. She enjoys spending her free time riding her bike and cooking for family and friends. Erin is the daughter of Palmer Pettersen ’71 and Marcia Pettersen ’69, and a sister to Mick ’99 and Piper ’03. Reunions, Alumni Board

HOMECOMING 2011

HOT WEATHER, hot teams

Members of the alumni soccer game’s winning “even” team, from left: back row, Loren Bors ’02, Luke Rona ’00, Donald Bressler ’02, and Mark McIntyre ’00. Front row, Will Strong ’02, Kelly Kosco ’04, Laura Fine ’04, Corie Geballe ’02, Jared Drake ’96, and Andrew Kenef ick ’80. Not pictured: James Allard ’84.

akeside’s annual Homecoming celebration took place on a sunny Saturday in late September with unprecedented warm temperatures. The festivities began with a spirited alumni coed soccer game between players from “odd” and “even” years. A high level of play kept the score close throughout the game. In the end, a late goal by

Luke Rona ’00 and great goal tending by Loren Bors ’02 resulted in a 3-2 win for the “evens.” The Parents Association’s Friends of Lakeside Athletics (FOLA) provided burgers on the quad to the crowd of alumni, students, parents, and friends, who then cheered on Lakeside’s girls

varsity soccer team in its 1-1 tie with Auburn Mountainview High School. The Lakeside varsity football team came out strong against Port Townsend High School, handily winning the matchup 47-24. To view photos from Homecoming 2011, visit www.lakesideschool.org/ alumni. Q

A NEW SHELL, A MODERN SHELLHOUSE | Alums take up oars to celebrate

Elaine Schneider Christensen ’82 christens the new eight-person rowing shell that was named in her honor to recognize her many contributions to the Lakeside rowing program.

READ ABOUT ALL

the cool new additions

to the shellhouse in our sports section, page 12.

by CAROL BORGMANN

arly on a sunny Saturday morning in June, 40 alumni rowers gathered at Lakeside’s rowing hub in Kenmore for a vigorous morning on the water. Eight boats of Lakeside alumni, some who had not rowed in more than 30 years, eagerly took to the water and headed out to Lake Washington. When they returned, these tired rowers were joined by more than 100 other rowing fans to open the newly renovated A.D. Ayrault, Jr. Shellhouse, to dedicate the Elaine Christensen shell, and to celebrate the rich history of rowing at Lakeside. Q Carol Borgmann is director of major and planned giving. You can reach her at 206-440-2931 or carol.borgmann@lakesideschool.org.

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Susan Ayrault, Frank Cunningham, and Craig Hopkins cut the ribbon for the grand opening of the newly renovated Ayrault Shellhouse.

22nd ANNUAL CLAUDE JOHNSON MEMORIAL GOLF TOURNAMENT

by BRUCE BAILEY ’59

he wet Northwest

June could not dampen the spirits of the nearly 100 golfers who gathered for the annual Claude Johnson Memorial Golf Tournament. Foursomes comprised of alumni, Winners of the competitive division, from left: Ben Meisel ’95, Dave Irish, Bill Jukes, Scott Hannah ’95

parents of alumni, faculty, staff, students, and friends of Lakeside competed in the scramble tournament in competitive and recreation divisions. The highlight of the day came when Todd Raymond’s tee shot on the $10,000 holein-one prize hole landed just eight inches from the pin! The tournament backdrop was once again the beautiful Caledon Golf Course in Arlington. Our thanks to Jolene and Bruce McCaw ’64 for making this magniﬁcent facility available for this annual event. Q

Bruce Bailey ’59 is executive secretary to the Alumni Association. He can be reached at 206-440-2855 or bruce.bailey@lakesideschool.org.

TOURNAMENT RESULTS COMPETITIVE DIVISION

Ben Meisel ’95, Scott Hannah ’95, Bill Jukes, Dave Irish

1ST PLACE:

RECREATION DIVISION 1ST

Winners of the recreational division, from left: Eric Mickelson, Daniel Baker ’02, Robbie Baker, Tony Schueler

PLACE: Robbie Baker, Daniel Baker ’02, Eric Mickelson, Tony Schueler LONG DRIVE MEN:

Reid Rader ’03 LONG DRIVE WOMEN:

Jennifer Mapes (Upper School lab assistant) CLOSEST TO PIN:

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David Minthorn, deputy standards editor of the Associated Press and author of AP’s “Ask the Editor,” was featured in a June Washington Post article. Each year, Minthorn and two colleagues update the AP Stylebook, the go-to guide for correspondents and editors. Since taking over the “Ask the Editor” column four years ago he has answered more than 8,000 queries from writers around the world.

1964

William “Bill” Dare is now living in retirement in Thailand following an 18-year stint teaching English in Japan. Bill and his Thai wife, Leung, and 5-year-old son Jorgen, live a comfortable three-hour bus ride north of Bangkok. “The house we built is a mix of Thai and Western styles, and it’s located just down the road from a historic park whose Khmer ruins are the best-kept tourist secret in Thailand. A mini-Angkor Wat without the crowds!” Bill and Leung would dearly enjoy seeing anyone from the larger Lakeside community, “no ifs ands or buts about it. Bai lod! (Get on your way!)” Peter Isaacson has been awarded his second Fulbright to study and teach a course this fall with palynologist Dr. Mercedes diPasquo in Diamante, Argentina. The course deals with Devonian age rocks in nearby Uruguay and Paraguay. His first Fulbright was to communist Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic) in 1987.

1961 Members of the St. Nicholas Class of ’61 gathered for a photo on the cliff

overlooking Discovery Bay during their class reunion gathering at Chevy Chase, near Port Townsend. Top row, from left: Mary Anne Genung Boardman, Laura Beth Mason Foster, Marina Zuetell, Linda Emery St. Clair, Mary Wheatman Rockwell, Susan Haslund Hall, Suzie Nickum, Eleanor Wolgemuth O’Keefe. Front row, from left: Tandem, Connie Burns, Hanni Crissey, Barbara Bailey, Jeannie Kotkins Rosen, Sis Ambrose Woodside, and Cynthia Hixon Flagg.

Members of the Class of 1967 at a recent class lunch include, from left: Paul Douglas, Steve Haynes, Jim Kamihachi, Brook Nelson, John Friedlander, Cam Hazen, and Dick Bangert.

1967

Members of the Class of ’67 gathered for lunch in August when Jim Kamihachi was visiting Seattle. Dick Bangert shared that they had a great visit and all are looking forward to their 45th Class Reunion next June.

1968

See the Former Faculty & Staff section for news from T.J. Vassar.

1969

In May, John Weeks (parent of Lucas ’10 and Roz ’14) was granted his second honorary doctorate for his work to create

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Members of the Lakeside Class of 1971 gathered around the tombstone (their class gift as Lakeside’s last all-male class) at their 40th reunion in June.

better health care through integrating complementary, alternative, and integrative therapies and practitioners with the mainstream of U.S. medicine. The degree was granted by National University of Health Sciences in Lombard, Ill. His ﬁrst was in 1991 from Bastyr University. John enjoys the irony that after dropping out of Stanford University he has ended up working with academics for most of his professional life. He currently writes the main policy and business newsletter in the ﬁeld and runs a consortium of health professions educators.

1971 Purer than the Purest Pure, a CD of Daniel Asia’s choral music includes “Why (?) Jacob,” the work that former faculty member Peter Seibert and Lakeside commissioned in honor of the opening of St. Nicholas Hall in 1979. The CD was recorded in association with the BBC and features the BBC Singers, Britain’s foremost professional chamber choir, performing seven of Asia’s choral works.

Members of the Class of 1982, from left: Heidi Molbak, Elaine Schneider Christensen, Sid Winf ield, Drea Cable Olmstead, and Alison Cobb Herber. there, which provided the only sober moment of the evening for this reporter. A parting note: the newly renovated Bliss Hall is a marvel, but the unforgettable boy’s lavatory in the basement is no more.”

1973 See the Former Faculty & Staff section for news from Vicki Weeks.

1974 Members of the Lakeside class of 1974 and spouses got together for a minireunion in mid-August. Classmates from across the U.S. and around the world enjoyed a beautiful summer evening, a delicious meal organized by Lysa Hansen, and the view of Puget Sound from Richard Hartung’s home. Web Augustine, an executive recruiter and startup consultant living in Menlo Park, Calif., has just published a wonderful, hardcover book of 1,400 quotations called $500,000* Worth of Inspiring Quotations For Our Times *Far more practical wisdom and wit regarding life, love, attitude, happiness,

Members of the Class of 1974 gathered for a mini-reunion in August. success, character and more than you would gain from earning BA, MA and PhD degrees! Available through Amazon.com or lulu.com.

1976 David Tanaka shared, “27 dapper 1976ers were present at the Friday reunion reception and dinner. It was evident that we were delighted to see each other again for our 35th. There were friendly crowds of celebrants from other classes throughout the Refectory and we mixed freely with them and the current and retired teachers. Frank Cunningham, former English teacher and crew coach, honored us by sitting with our class for dinner in the gym. He is well and only last year celebrated his own 70th high-school class reunion in Massachusetts. It was pointed out that our class is only halfway

“All agreed our classmate Kim Tomlinson is a chef extraordinaire as we savored the reunion feast at her Burrata Bistro in Poulsbo. The chocolate torte alone was worth the ferry ride and enhanced our happy conversations about times old and new. Following the meal, Tom Morgan graciously invited us to visit his nearby home, where the hours together slipped by along the waterfront at sunset. Reﬂecting on the day’s events, a member of the party observed, ‘It just keeps getting better!’ Many thanks to Kim and Tom and all the classmates present who celebrated the 35th-year mark,” writes Laura Burns Carroll.

1979 See 1980 notes for news from Joshua Hirschstein.

1980 The Spring 2011 Mines Advisory Group (MAG) newsletter features a Lakeside husband/wife team as “extraordinary Americans.” Joshua Hirschstein ’79 and Maren Beck and their children Ari and Zall are gaining some attention with their business and the support ±

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From left, unnamed studio engineer, John Emch ’89, reggae singer Anthony B, and People’s Records head Devon D at a recording session in Kingston, Jamaica.

they offer to hill-tribe economies in Laos and Vietnam. MAG is a non-political, Nobel-Prize winning (1997) international organization that provides help to civilians recovering from war. In Laos and Vietnam MAG focuses on removing unexploded ordnance that, 30 years after being dropped, still kill and maim hundreds each year.

1982 Friends from the Class of 1982, Elaine Schneider Christensen, Heidi Molbak, Sid Winﬁeld, Drea Cable Olmstead, and Alison Cobb Herber continued their

annual tradition of meeting (with their families) for a weekend on Whidbey Island this summer.

1984 Two alumni coaches faced off in September when Jeb Binns ’91 and his Highline High School varsity girls soccer team took on James Allard and the Lakeside team. The Lions won the game 2-1 in James’ debut as Lakeside’s girls soccer head coach.

1986 Cherilyn Lacy writes, “I am still living in beautiful upstate New York with my husband, Mark, and children, Henry and Madeleine, where I am chair of the History Department at Hartwick College. In January 2012, I hope to take a group of students to France to learn about history, immigration, and national identity. One of my fondest memories of Lakeside is of canoeing and camping with Bob Mazelow, and I look forward to introducing my children to camping this summer in the Catskills.”

1989 From left, Lakeside varsity girls soccer coach James Allard ’84, Bruce Bailey ’59, and Highline varsity girls soccer coach Jeb Binns ’91.

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John Emch kept busy in New York City this summer as the founder of a new music festival called “Dub Invasion,”

which took place September 6-16 in New York City and Boston (www.DubInvasion. net). The festival was the largest of its kind in the U.S. and included an international list of legends from the music genre known as dub, a style invented in Jamaica in the 1970s that has inﬂuenced many music genres around the globe. During the festival, Emch performed with his group Subatomic Sound System and played guitar for one of his idols, with whom he recently had the honor of collaborating, Grammy-winning artist Lee “Scratch” Perry, one of the inventors of reggae music and the producer of Bob Marley’s early hits (www.SubatomicSound. com). Emch is looking for like-minded partners and sponsors to help expand the festival and its diverse culture for a tour around the country in 2012. He has also been continuing steady output of his record label Subatomic Sound, releasing collaborations with one of his favorite singers, Anthony B from Jamaica, as well as artists from Africa, South America, India, and Europe. He continues his radio show on BrooklynRadio.net and has been curating DJ sessions for the Brooklyn Bridge Park ﬁlm series, which ended with a special presentation by Spike Lee.

1991 See 1984 for news on Jeb Binns. Fred Northup Jr. and his wife Ashley welcomed their second child, Frederick Bowen Northup III. Bowen is super adorable, making Fred and Ashley twofor-two, according to both grandmothers. To feed all these hungry kids, Fred continues to run Southdown Creative, and his company doubled in size in 2011 (that’s right: it’s now TWO employees!). He’s also a busy charity auctioneer, and looks forward to helping you raise a record amount of money at your next nonproﬁt fundraiser. The New York Times featured Katherine (Raff) Cole’s book Voodoo

Frederick Bowen Northup III, son of Fred Northup Jr. ’91 and his wife, Ashley.

welcomed daughter Meryl Victoria to their family on June 23 in Geneva, Switzerland. The Walls moved to Geneva in 2010 for Ashleigh to work on opening Expedia’s first Swiss office. Preston continues to grow his Seattle-based real estate business, Walls Property Management, from Europe. The family has been enjoying extensive travel and plans on returning to Seattle in June of 2012.

1996

Cristin Haggard Gordon-Maclean married Andrew Gordon-Maclean on August 6 in Zanzibar.

1997

Shaun Spearmon and his wife, Brooke, were blessed with the birth of their little girl, Ava Noelle, May 4.

Ava Noelle, daughter of Shaun Spearmon ’97 and his wife, Brooke.

Theresa Wagner was named head coach of the Dartmouth women’s soccer team after three years as assistant coach at Stanford, where she helped the Cardinal reach the 2009 and 2010 NCAA title game. Theresa married former San Diego men’s soccer player Alex Romagnolo in July. Earl Golla and his wife, April, welcomed their daughter Jordana Sloane Golla into the world on April 17. Earl is an aerospace business development manager for Victrex Polymer Solutions and April is a pediatric oncology nurse at Seattle Children’s Hospital.

1999

Preston Walls ’94 and his wife, Ashleigh, with daughter Meryl Victoria.

Vintners: Oregon’s Astonishing Biodynamic Winegrowers in the August article “A Seasonal Thirst for a Good Read.”

1994

Seth Gordon directed the 2011 hit movie Horrible Bosses starring Jason Bateman, Charlie Day, Jason Sudeikis, Kevin Spacey, Colin Farrell, and Jennifer Aniston. Preston Walls and his wife, Ashleigh,

Chris Greenman reports: “Unfortunately, no babies yet! However, I’m really enjoying my time as a chief resident in internal medicine at Oregon Health and Science University in Portland. The interns are awesome! Next year, I have the good fortune (we do this thing called the “match” in medicine) to return to Seattle to be a cardiology fellow at the University of Washington. I feel it’s a little late in life to try out being a “Dawg” for the first time, but here goes... I look forward to reconnecting with people from Lakeside, old and new.”

2000

Lakeside alumni at the February wedding of Steven Halter Womack Jr. and Jenny Mowrer Womack included Marc Mowrer ’97, Emily Caplan Reed, Jennifer Redinger,

Jordana Sloane Golla, daughter of Earl Golla ’97 and his wife, April. Jeffrey Redinger ’03, Catherine Buck, and Kianoush Naficy.

2001

Matt Mullarkey has been working as a principal state attorney for the Attorney General of Rwanda at the Ministry of Justice in Kigali, Rwanda for the past year after graduating from Pepperdine University School of Law and passing the California Bar in 2010. Matt negotiates and drafts contracts for infrastructure development and finance for the Rwandan ➢

BABY PICTURES Have you added a little lion to your pride?  Send us an announcement and photo of your baby to alumni@lakesideschool.org and the alumni relations office will celebrate the birth or adoption of your little one with a Lakeside gift. Alumni news

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2004

Charlotte Elizabeth Helmick, daughter of Meredith Snyder Helmick ’98 and her husband, Jay, born in December 2009. government with investment groups and other African nations, while trying to work in some fun of hiking volcanoes in Congo and rafting the Nile in Uganda. Matt will work in Rwanda until the end of 2011 before coming back to Seattle to take the Washington Bar in early 2012.

2002

Sarah K. Estill is forsaking Colorado for Cambridge, Mass. She will be studying criminal justice policy reform at the Harvard Kennedy School and training for the Boston Marathon. Michelle Moore, left, is a fashion editorial and high-school senior portrait photographer working in both Seattle and Los Angeles. She had Kristen Marie Photography the pleasure of shooting her first magazine cover last October with 90210 star Jessica Lowndes. Michelle

Jenny Mowrer Womack ’00 married Steven Halter Womack Jr. on February 19.

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Ellie Bors has spent the year in Wellington, New Zealand, on a Fulbright Fellowship working alongside scientists at the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research. Her project focuses on deep-sea population genetics and ocean conservation. Keeping up her musical interests as well, Ellie will perform this fall in a trio at the New Zealand School of Music. In Wellington, Ellie met Laura Kehrl ’06, who is also a recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship to New Zealand! Laura is studying the dynamics of the Franz Joseph Glacier at Victoria University in Wellington. When the new year rolls around, Ellie will return to the Joint Program in Oceanography at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution to resume her PhD studies. A September article on GeekWire featured Seattle startup Approvee, founded by Brewster Stanislaw and Joey Kotkins. “Approvee is the best place to find recommendations for everything from movies to restaurants, sourced directly from your friends and curated for quality; find out more at approvee.com,” says Brewster, who notes the company was launched into private beta in September.

2005

In August, Liza Shoenfeld was featured on Radiolab, a science radio show broadcast on several hundred public radio stations around the country (www.radiolab. org). The episode is called “Damn It, Basal Ganglia!” Liza talks about her research and the crazy thing

that happened to her when she was at her grad school interview at University of California, San Francisco.

2007

Kietrie Noe, who recently graduated from Barnard College, landed a job in public relations with LaForce + Stevens in New York City, where she lives with Chas Todd. She and Mary Padden spent the summer of 2010 working for the nonprofit education program Haiti Partners in Kabwa (Cabois in French), a village at the epicenter of the 2010 earthquake. Hearing about the food theme of this issue of Lakeside magazine, Kietrie offered to share food-related photos she took in Haiti. “Mary and I have written a lot about the way food is shared in Haiti and the way U.S. foreign policy affects its production,” notes Kietrie, who’s now writing a book on their experiences there. Alex Moore-Porter’s Azusa Pacific University basketball jersey was placed in the Ring of Honor display at the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame in Knoxville, Tenn. to commemorate Azusa Pacific’s 2011 National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) women’s basketball national title. The Ring of Honor recognizes young players for their achievements in the sport. Peter Nowadnick graduated in June from Dartmouth College, where he majored in economics, minored in

Sarchin Fellowship to pursue his doctoral studies in Aeronautics and Astronautics at the University of Washington, which he began in September. Ellen Fitzharris graduated from Macalester College in May. She graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, and was the top senior in the Psychology Department. Ellen worked for a nonproﬁt organization in Minneapolis, Minn. during the summer and is now heading to Hawaii for three months to nanny for a friend on the Big Island. She has lofty ambitions of learning to surf during her time there.

Kietrie Noe ’07 took these photos of an outdoor market in Port-au-Prince and, at left, of a neighbor in the Haitian village where she and Mary Padden ’07 spent two months teaching English. English, and rowed varsity crew all four years. In July, Peter began working for General Electric in its Financial Management Program. Lauren Sanchez graduated with high honors from Middlebury College, where she majored in Environmental Studies and biology, with a minor in Spanish. She spent the ﬁrst part of her summer at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences to publish her senior honors thesis on carbon dynamics at Harvard Forest. After researching at Harvard for two summers, her thesis journey was a great culmination of her undergraduate career. Lauren then led the Costa Rica ﬁeld studies programs for Overland, based out of Williamstown, Mass., before heading off to Fez, Morocco to teach environmental studies and Spanish at the international American School. Sander Lavine graduated summa cum laude in physics from Skidmore College, where he was admitted to both the math and physics national honor societies, Pi Mu Epsilon and Sigma Pi Sigma. He received departmental honors, as well as the Eleanor Samworth Prize in Physics awarded to the distinguished graduate for the current year. In addition, he has received the Theodore H. and Marie M.

Danny Abrahms graduated from the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California with a degree in Critical Studies. ➢

Danny Abrahms ’07 is acting in Los Angeles.

MovieTime David Fine writes, “Beau Lewis, Peter Furia, and I have completed our ﬁrst feature documentary, SALAAM DUNK (www.indiegogo.com/salaam-dunk). We premiered the ﬁlm at the Los Angeles Film Festival in June and now have three more great festivals lined up (Chicago

International, Doha Tribeca, and the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam). I shot, directed, and edited the ﬁlm, Beau was a producer and traveled to Iraq with me, and Peter was a co-producer and did the ﬁlm’s color correction.” All are from the Class of 2000.

David Fine ’00 pictured with players from the American University of Iraq – Sulaiman’s women’s basketball team when he travelled back to Iraq in May to visit with the team and show them the f ilm.

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Fourteen current and future alumni from the Classes of 2007-2012 gathered on McGilvra School Field in May for an evening of stickball. From left, Duncan Hussey ’09, Will Kitchell ’09, Chris Pigott ’09, Billy Crutcher ’09, Matthew Pigott ’12, Leland Stratton ’09, Eli Bench ’07, Aaron Gottlieb ’07, Luke Hussey ’07 (kneeling), Carlos Betancourt ’07, Nate Leonard-Berliner ’07, Chas Todd ’07, William Guyman ’09, and Micah Larus-Stone ’09.

Leo Fridley graduated from the University of Rochester last spring with a degree in Financial Economics and minor in Russian Studies. Leo is now continuing his studies at Rochester’s Simon Graduate School of Business where he will complete his MBA this June with a concentration in finance. He spent his first post-Lakeside summers in Seattle as a legal clerk and interning with Nordstrom. Most recently, Leo spent the summer working in Bohemia, N.Y. as a financial analyst for North Atlantic Industries, an electronics manufacturer in the defense and aerospace industry.

2009

Joey Kotkins ’04, left, and Brewster Stanislaw ’04, cofounders of the social recommendation company Approvee, which launched in September. Earlier this year he wrote, produced, and starred in a television sitcom pilot entitled Buckley, which he is currently submitting to ﬁlm festivals. Andrew Locke graduated with honors from Middlebury College with a double major in economics and neuroscience. As a captain of Middlebury’s basketball team he achieved Academic All-American honors and led the team to their second-ever conference championship and the school’s ﬁrst Final-

COURTESY OF FULBRIGHT NEW ZEALAND

The 2011 U.S. grantees to New Zealand at the Fulbright Awards Ceremony at the New Zealand Parliament include Ellie Bors ’04 (front right) and Laura Kehrl ’06 (front left). Ambassador David Huebner (front and center) is the U.S. ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa. Four appearance. He was named Defensive Player of the Year in the New England Small College Athletic Conference. Andrew is now working as the director of ﬁnance and deputy headmaster at the MacDella Cooper Academy in Monrovia, Liberia.

Lindsay Hull graduated summa cum laude from the Tufts School of Engineering

Vidya Rajan spent six weeks in Nairobi, Kenya this summer working on a project associated with Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA), an organization that was founded by development economists looking to ﬁnd sustainable solutions to problems of poverty in the developing world. The project she was involved with was a trade credit initiative that gauged the impact of giving loans to small-scale retailers in Nairobi. The retailers made payments on the loans through use of mobile banking, a system that enabled them to text funds from their mobile phones without needing a bank account. Vidya enjoyed the work immensely, and was amazed that economic development could be approached from an academic standpoint with such tangible results. The experience was unforgettable and she can’t wait to go back. Q

2011 Jack Wilson, Kellan Larson, Travis Smith, and Kendal Young, friends since grade school who are known as the “Ballpark Boys,” visited 30 Major League Baseball parks in 54 days this summer. The friends logged nearly 14,000 miles and raised funds for the Martinez Foundation through sponsorships and donations. They were thrilled to meet Edgar Martinez and present him with a check for $10,000 at Safeco Field upon their return to Seattle.

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FORMER FACULTY & STAFF Vicki Weeks ’73 writes, “After 13 years working at Lakeside in capacities ranging from English teacher to student activities and community service coordinator to helping create and then run the Global Service Learning (GSL) program, I decided to leave to run my own business. I plan to consult with other schools who want help with their experiential programs, especially in the global arena. I’m also interested in working with individuals, families, and other groups who want to spend some time living and working with people from other cultures, whether it be during a gap year, short vacation, or more extended time period. I’m really excited about this next venture and would be happy to talk to any alums about it.” T.J. Vassar ’68, who retired as director of diversity last June, writes: “What has T.J. been up to since his ‘retirement’? Well, here is a look: •I have really gotten to know my grandchildren a lot better. •I have been to a family reunion in Oklahoma where the temperature was between 109 and 115 degrees each day. •I have been to a Seattle School Board meeting after 30 years of not attending such a meeting. The meeting that I went to just happened to also be one where the board was considering matters pertaining to Teach For America. •Interestingly, I had sent a letter to the Seattle Public Schools superintendent essentially asking her to cast her eyes to the non-public schools in the area. People are attending non-public schools in droves and I asked her to visit the schools and find out why. •I have also been meeting with community members about various issues. I have met with several people who are trying again to bring charter schools to this state. I am also meeting with people who want to reenergize diversity in the public schools, too. •I met with some of my classmates—Bill Sroufe, Bill Purdue, Robert Livingston, Steve Eckholm—and we all came out to see the new Bliss renovation and to see

Retiring faculty members with a combined 57 years of service to Lakeside, from left: Brenda Brock, Vicki Weeks ’73, and T.J. Vassar ’68. Edgar Romero. Most of our classmates had not seen him since we graduated in the 1960s. It was great to see him, meet his wife, and catch up on all the things he has been doing, especially given his work teaching mathematics to people in Central America, despite the complications of teaching them with Sandinistas and other fighters in their midst. •I also reconnected with two Lakeside classmates who were also college classmates of mine. Robert Livingston, a radiologist, and I were roommates our first year at Harvard. In 1968, we traveled to Cambridge together with another one of our classmates, Corbet Clark. Corbet Clark has also been a big part of the independent school world in the Northwest. Corbet has been the long-time chaplain at the Oregon Episcopal School, and he recently earned his PhD. David Schuldberg, who is a college professor in Montana, also attended Harvard from our Lakeside class. Brenda Brock, who first joined Lakeside as Upper School library director in 1986, is now head librarian at Episcopal School of Baton Rouge, La. She reports: “I am firmly ensconced in a place I was meant to be: Louisiana, the place of my birth, and not to mention ... the sun, the humidity, and the people who speak to my soul. I am loving the school, the community, and the equally fabulous student population.

Once again I have the privilege of working with students who are smart, thirsty to learn new things, and in this case full of “Yes, Ma’am’s” as opposed to “yeah.” I now have a student advisory board that serves as a focus group for moving the facility and the services in a new direction and they are excited about making the spaces more user-friendly, as am I. We have begun the journey, nay, challenges of launching an affinity group for students of color, called Umoja, and to my wonderment it includes a very diverse group of students and it was yet another opportunity for me to use my “learning from Lakeside” to move them in a different, considered, direction. It has been, as the students would say “all good.” I will be taking four students to the People of Color Conference (PoCC) in December so hopefully I will see some (Lakesiders) there in Philly. While I miss my friends and family in the Pacific Northwest I have come to realize the sun and warm rains serve me better.” Chuck Forsman, maintenance foreman at Lakeside since 1977, retired in June, noting that it was going to be a big change, given that he hadn’t even “had a sick day since sometime in 1982”! Chuck played in the 2011 Claude Johnson Memorial Golf Tournament, where he received a lifetime pass to the event from tournament marshal Bruce Bailey ’59. ■ Alumni news

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ST. NICHOLAS ALUMNAE The following remembrances were submitted by families and friends of St. Nicholas alumnae and Lakeside alumni. If you have a remembrance to share about one of the following individuals, or if you are a family member and have an obituary that you would like to have published in the next magazine, please e-mail the alumni relations office at alumni@ lakesideschool.org or call 206-368-3606. All remembrances are subject to editing for length and clarity. Your thoughts and memories are much appreciated.   J. Richard McCurdie ’56

Eleanor Ann Fulton ’68 • May 15, 2011

Eleanor Ann Fulton, beloved professor and friend, passed in peace May 15, surrounded by her family. She is survived by her husband, daughters, sisters, nieces, and nephews.

Marcia “Jean” Littler Fry ’40 • March 2, 2011

Jean Littler Fry passed away gently and peacefully at her daughter’s home on Bainbridge Island on March 2. Born to A.A. “Bob” and Lina Littler in Seattle on August 8, 1921, Jean spent her formative years in North Seattle, often spending summers at Wing Point on Bainbridge. Her father owned the Littler apparel stores in Seattle and Pebble Beach, Calif., and the family spent many memorable times in nearby Carmel, Calif. Jean graduated from St. Nicholas School in 1940. She attended Pine Manor College in New England and the University of Washington, where she was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority and majored in English literature, something that fed her soul. Jean met Laurence G. Fry (Laurie) at Queen Anne High School in her early teens. They married in 1942, their union remaining strong for 64 years until his death. Shortly after the birth of their youngest child, they moved to Port Madison on Bainbridge, where they kept horses and participated in boating and water sports. Jean taught Sunday school at the Port Madison Lutheran Church and enjoyed participating in the Olive Kerry Guild on behalf of Children’s Orthopedic Hospital. Jean and Larry were very involved in the opening of the Pacific Science Center at the Seattle World’s Fair, as well as other civic and social events. A consummate artist, Jean enjoyed reading, creative writing, and crossword puzzles. A skilled joker and clever wordsmith, Jean often elicited gales of laughter from her children, their cousins, and many friends. With a keen and witty sense of humor, she effortlessly concocted high hilarity with her brilliant play on words. Jean was always available to listen and dispense wisdom to her many friends, who were indeed blessed by her loyalty as a devoted confidant. Jean’s waters ran deep. She maintained friendships dating as far back as John Hay Grade School. She was a kind, gentle lady with a youthful spirit, never speaking a harsh word about anyone—truly lovely inside and out. Jean was preceded in death by her husband Larry and son Robert. She is survived by two daughters, Marcia Fletcher of Bainbridge Island and Lael (Michael) Grove of Edmonds, and three grandchildren, Terri Jo (Fry) Bala of Kent, Jacob and Abigail Grove of Cle Elum, and Abi Grove of Edmonds.

Carleta “Hank” Meyer ’40 • June 26, 2011 Carleta “Hank” Meyer was born on October 5, 1922

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in Seattle, the daughter of Carl and Leta Williams. She attended St. Nicholas School and the UW. She married the love of her life, Lt. Philip Carl Meyer, in 1941 and they were blessed with three children: Melinda, Melissa, and Tooey. Carleta and P.C. were active Seattleites with countless friends and community involvements. They lived on Capitol Hill before moving in their retirement years to the family residence on Bainbridge Island. Carleta was a lifelong Husky fan, avid at crosswords and playing mah jongg. She was a member of the Seattle Yacht Club and the Sunset Club. Carleta is survived by her daughter, Melissa (Tim) Crawford; grandchildren, Bo (Laura) Weingaertner, Jamey (Davina) Weingaertner, Trev Meyer and Tegan (Cam) Clise; and the adored greatgrandchildren, Lily, Mindy, Nate and Hank Weingaertner; Carly and Lauren Weingaertner; and Taylour, Codie, and Broden Clise.

Elizabeth “Betsy” Seaver Minor ’44 • August 25, 2011

Elizabeth (Betsy) Minor died on August 25 at the age of 84. She is survived by her husband of 61 years, Stan; daughters Chrissie (David Markovitz) and Marianne; son Tim (Cindy); and grandchildren Ben (Emily) and Adam Markovitz, Addie and Cole Bortz, and Tucker and Lily Minor. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., Betsy spent the first 13 years of her life in Wichita, Kan., before moving to Seattle to live with her aunt and uncle Connie and Sam Stearns, and cousin Sam Stearns Jr. After attending St. Nicholas, Pine Manor College, and the UW, she married Stan in 1950. Among her many charitable endeavors were stints as board chairman of Seattle Children’s Hospital and the Seattle Garden Club, and board member of the Bloedel Reserve on Bainbridge Island. Betsy was truly lovely and caring, and will be greatly missed.

Margaret Huntoon Wallon ’34 • June 26, 2011

Margaret Huntoon Wallon, the last surviving grandchild of pioneer Washington Territory businessman Henry Elliott Holmes and Kate Turner Holmes, died at home in the presence of her family on June 26 at age 95. Margaret attended St. Nicholas and later taught 3rd grade there. She was an avid reader and insatiably curious about developments in the world and in the large extended family of which she was the matriarch. That family, which includes nieces, nephews, and cousins too numerous to tally, spans the globe from Australia to Germany to all regions of the United States. Margaret was born in Seattle on June 17, 1916. Her father was Richard Waldron Huntoon and her mother, Ruth Holmes Huntoon. Margaret’s grandfather, Henry Elliott Holmes, settled in Walla Walla in the 1870s. He later moved to Seattle,

where he cofounded Stewart & Holmes, a wholesale drug company. Margaret lived most of her life in Seattle. She graduated from Garfield High School and from UW. In 1940 she married George Buck Jr. In addition to teaching at St. Nicholas, she taught at Annie Wright Seminary and Epiphany Day School. In 1967 she married Lewis Wallon. She always felt blessed that she had been able to travel extensively in Europe and to visit Africa, China, Central

America, and Australia. She liked nothing better than quiet days spent at the Puget Sound property purchased by her grandfather in 1904. She is survived by four children: Richard Buck, Peter Buck, Barbara Buck, and Deborah Buck, and by three stepchildren: Mary Wallon, Lewis Wallon Jr., and Anne Wallon Grimes. She is survived by nine grandchildren, including Elizabeth Ridgeway ’01 and Jane Ridgeway ’05, and by eight great-grandchildren.

LAKESIDE ALUMNI   Donald MacMillan Bradley ’46 • February 13, 2011

Donald MacMillan Bradley was born February 4, 1929 in Seattle and passed away February 13 in Palm Desert, Calif. He was preceded in death by his parents, George Donald Bradley of Pentwater, Mich. and Jean Primrose Dawson of Petrolia, Ontario, Canada. Don married Louise McDowell in 1951 and divorced in 1958. They had one son, Christopher Donald Bradley, now of Vashon Island. Don attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass. and Lakeside, where he graduated with the Class of 1946. After graduating from the UW, he enlisted and spent four years in the U.S. Air Force, mostly at Elmendorf AFB, Alaska. Don was a member of the Seattle Yacht Club and enjoyed boats, as well as board games, especially “Rail Baron,” and crossword puzzles. He traveled extensively, including Hawaii, Mexico, Germany, France, Italy, Greece, and Spain. Among his jobs in later life, he worked as a loan officer at Washington Mutual and as an auditor for the Washington State Ferries. He also worked in real estate. Don retired in 1994 and relocated to Whidbey Island, where he lived until 1999, when he moved to Palm Springs. He subsequently moved to Cathedral City, Calif., where he resided until his death. Don will be remembered by his family and friends for his friendly, outgoing nature, and for a lot of things that were uniquely his, such as a drink he liked to fix which he called his “Orange Supreeze.” He loved cars, particularly Packards, and was an excellent cook, but abhorred recipes that called for more than six ingredients.

Tom McGrath Collins ’55 • July 17, 2011

Thomas McGrath Collins, 74, passed away unexpectedly on July 17 at his home in Kingston, Wash. He was born on July 1, 1937 in Seattle to Frederick and Katherine (McGrath) Collins. He was preceded in death by his parents and his sister, Mary McCollum. Tom was a star athlete and honor-roll student during his years at Lakeside, where he graduated in 1955. He graduated from Stanford University in 1959. He served in the Army after graduation. His passion for literature was unparalleled and he shared his love of the written word with his nieces and nephews. He was a kind-hearted man with a ready laugh who

never forgot a birthday. He loved watching all sports and spending time with his family. Survivors include his brother and sister-in-law, Frederick and Janet Sue Collins of Bellevue, and his beloved nieces and nephews.

Jacobe Daniel Foster ’97 • July 30, 2011

Jacobe Daniel Foster, born June 14, 1979, was the beloved husband of Michele and father of two daughters; son of Donald and Zinda Foster of Seattle; and grandson of Donald G. Foster Sr. of Salinas, Calif. and Joan Castaneda of Friday Harbor. Jacobe leaves his family and friends, co-workers, and many acquaintances with the joy of his spirit, which he took with him everywhere. He was a graduate of Lakeside and was a Morehead Scholar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he completed his studies in 2001 with a BS in Mathematical Sciences. At UNC Jacobe was co-captain of the track team during his senior year. After graduating college, Jacobe worked for the U.S. government for a period of time before starting his own IT business, which facilitated his love of travel and took him all over the world. Wherever he traveled, those he encountered knew they had met a special individual; and wherever he traveled, he left a trail of love, joy, and good humor. Jacobe’s passion was flying. He was a licensed pilot and spent many hours restoring his own 195 Cessna classic taildragger aircraft. On any Saturday you could find him—sometimes with his oldest daughter, Kiara, by his side—at the airport working on his plane or teaching his daughter to fly. Jacobe’s family was large and he will be missed by the many aunts, uncles, cousins, and chosen family he leaves behind.

Robert Joel Habegger ’45 • May 26, 2011

Bob Habegger was born in Fort Wayne, Ind. on May 18, 1927, but considered himself a Seattle native, since his family moved here when he was two years old. He died unexpectedly at home on May 26. He attended Roosevelt High School, and graduated from Lakeside in 1945. Bob enlisted in the United States Navy. When he was discharged, he entered Whitman College, where he was a member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity and received a BA in business in 1949. While in graduate school at the UW he participated in The Reserve Officers’ Training ➢

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➢ IN MEMORIAM: alumni Corps (ROTC) and was awarded a Distinguished Military Graduate designation; he entered the U.S. Army Reserve as a second lieutenant and was put on active status and then served for 1 1/2 years in the Army Transportation Corps in Korea. Bob was a special agent for Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co. He earned his Chartered Life Underwriter (C.L.U.) designation and his Chartered Financial Consultant (Ch.F.C.) designation and was a life member of the Million Dollar Roundtable. Although he graduated from Whitman, he did some graduate work at the UW and was a life member of the UW Alumni Association, and for more than 50 years was a devoted Husky fan, especially of football and basketball. He was a longtime member of the Washington Athletic Club and belonged to the Seattle Tennis Club and St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church. Bob was a loving husband and father with a beautiful smile and infectious laugh. He was known for his integrity, honesty, and loyalty. Bob was predeceased by his parents, Joe and Ruth Habegger, and his eldest daughter, Ann. He is survived by his wife of 60-plus years, Peggy; two daughters, Jane (Bill) Lynch of Olympia, and Sally of Seattle; a sister Joanne Fisher (Harold) of Mount Vernon; numerous nieces and nephews; and lifelong friends.

Thomas Garlough Johnson ’40 • May 15, 2011

Thomas Garlough Johnson, 89, passed away surrounded by his loving family. The son of Earl and Olga Fee Johnson, Tom was born December 24, 1921 in the Shaughnessy neighborhood of Vancouver, B.C. Tom lived in Vancouver, but at age 13 he began attending boarding school, at the Moran School on Bainbridge Island for one year and then at Lakeside, where he graduated in 1940. Tom went on to Whitman College, graduating in 1948. His college years were interrupted by four years serving with Gen. George Patton in the European Theatre of World War II. At Whitman, Tom met many lifelong friends, including Elaine “Lainie” Rydell. She and Tom were married in 1950 by Lainie’s father, Reverend Carl Rydell, in Tacoma. The couple lived in Seattle while Tom worked at The Bon Marché. After purchasing a luggage and leather goods store, Cuthbertson’s, they settled in north Everett. The store was eventually renamed Tom Johnson Luggage and Gifts, with locations in Everett, Bellingham, and Northgate. Tom and Lainie raised four sons and a daughter in Everett, then in 1978 moved to Port Townsend, where they had purchased a building on Water Street. In 2000 they moved to Bainbridge Island to be closer to family. Lainie passed away in 2005, and in 2009 Tom moved to Seattle. Tom loved dogs, gardening, cooking, and collecting antiques and art. He was always involved in community life, and had a particular interest in supporting the arts. Tom made many friends, especially at Lakeside, Whitman, Everett, and Port Townsend. Tom and Lainie enjoyed

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an active social life and were very hospitable, eager to share their lives with others. Tom is survived by his sons, Doug (Lynette) and children Mckenzie and Llewelyn; Scott (Marcia) and daughter Kimberly; Ross (Jane) and children Betsy Brown (Sam) and Bennett (Kelsey); Mark (Patricia Phillips) and children Carly and Lydia; daughter Sally Elliott (John) and children Lauren and Audrey; and great-grandson Jude Brown. Tom is also survived by his sister-in-law JoAnne Johnson; nieces Jayne Johnson, Nancy Arnautoff, Tammy Johnson, and Susie Browne; and nephew Tim Johnson. Tom was preceded in death by his wife Elaine, his parents Earl and Olga Johnson, and brother Richard Fee Johnson.

Christopher Guild Madden ’58 • June 7, 2011

Christopher Guild Madden was born August 22, 1940 in Boston. Chris lived a life full of adventure. He especially enjoyed traveling, hiking, climbing, bicycling, skiing, and kayaking around the world. He was an active member of many organizations, including the Mountaineers, Cascade Bicycle Club, and Seattle Mountain Rescue. He passed away unexpectedly on June 7 in Seattle. Chris grew up in the Hunts Point neighborhood of Bellevue and graduated from Lakeside and the UW. He served his country in the U.S. Air Force and eventually became a computer programmer for Boeing. He is survived by his wife Patti King; daughters Lisa (Gar) Rodside and Erin (Jason) Ellis; grandchildren Ashley, Gar, and Kaylee; stepchildren Nick and Leana Iacovino; and step-granddaughter Ava.

Walter Coy Meredith Jr. ’34 • February 26, 2011

Walter Coy Meredith, beloved husband, father, and grandfather, died on February 26 at age 93. Walter was born on April 27, 1917 in Tacoma to W. Coy Meredith Sr. and Sylvia Grinnell. He grew up delivering groceries for his father’s general store in Burton on Vashon Island. He graduated from the UW and continued his education at Harvard Business School. Walter served as a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy during World War II from 1942-1946. After returning, he married Marjorie Brownell and had two children, Marilyn and Jeffrey. He worked for Kelley Clarke and retired in 1982. He was an active member of the UW Alumni Association and a Tyee Club member for 50 years. He was also an active member of the Last Man’s Club, Rotary, Overlake Golf Club, Seattle Tennis Club, Rainier Club, and the Washington Athletic Club. His wife of 52 years preceded him in death in 1999. He was survived by daughter Marilyn (Stephen) Owen of Ft. Collins, Colo.; son Jeffrey Meredith of Seattle; grandchildren Kelly (Drew) Smith of Billings, Mont., Eric Owen of Montana, and Kristina (Jens) Olsgaard of Billings; and great-grandchildren Owen and Samantha Smith and Osa Olsgaard of Billings.

Robert Devereaux Mooney ’47 • August 12, 2011

Bob Devereaux Mooney was born in Seattle on June 5, 1929 and passed away peacefully on August 12 at the age of 82. He was a member of the Seattle Tennis Club and the University Club. Bob is survived by his wife, Jackie, daughter, Nan, and grandchildren, Leo and Clementine. Bob served Lakeside as a member of the Alumni Board from 1982-1985 and then as a member of the Board of Trustees from 1985-1998. He also served as a member of the Lakeside Now capital campaign committee from 19951999.

Desert, New Zealand, and the Mediterranean during the winters, always with friends. In retirement Jack continued to be a passionate supporter of downtown Spokane and remained active in city politics. Always quick with a smile and a positive thought, Jack was a kind, considerate, and thoughtful man. He was fair and respectful to everyone. It seemed as if he knew everyone everywhere he went and they were all friends. Jack is survived by his wife, Martha Lee; sons, Jack and Paul (Mary); and granddaughters, Stephanie Cuthbertson (Cory) and Meagan Appleby (Tom). He truly made all of us happy and will be remembered as “Happy Jack” Saad.

John Henry Osgood ’58 • June 7, 2011

Andrew W. Schmechel ’71 • June 6, 2011

John H. Osgood died on June 7 at age 71 at Providence Alaska Medical Center in Anchorage, after a very long illness. He was a 38-year resident of Anchorage. John was born in Tacoma on March 9, 1940. He was a 1958 graduate of Lakeside and received his BS at Washington State University. John was preceded in death by his parents, Lillian A.Van Woert and George H. Osgood. He is survived by his wife, Deidre Ganopole, his three daughters, Carrie Osgood of Anchorage, Kirsten Wolberg of San Francisco, and Carla Wyrick of Anchorage; three granddaughters, Alyssa Wyrick, Margeaux Wolberg, Annika Wolberg; his cousins, Marilyn and Bill Drescher of California, and his loyal dog Wolfie. John is also survived by many close friends for whom he cared deeply.

Jack D. Saad ’39 • April 17, 2011

Jack D. Saad passed away peacefully on Sunday April 17. He was born in Seattle to Ethyl and Paul Saad on August 15, 1921. Jack graduated from Lakeside in 1939 and from Whitman College in 1946. At Whitman he was president of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity and formed many lifelong friendships. His college career was interrupted by World War II, during which he served as an aviator and flight instructor for the U.S. Navy. He kept his pilot’s license current and flew for many years. Jack met Phyllis Lindquist at Whitman and they married in 1943. The couple had two sons, Paul and Jack. In 1948 the family moved from Seattle to Spokane, where Jack took over the family shoe business, which had started in 1914. In Spokane Jack quickly became involved in the downtown community. He was named “retailer of the year” in 1975 and was president of the Retail Trade Bureau in 1977. Jack changed careers in the late 60s, becoming a stockbroker with Harris Upham and later working with Horton, Geibb, and O’Rourke. Jack was a member of the Prosperity Club, Kiwanis, and the finance committee at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church. Jack often reached out to others and with several friends helped support Reverend Hamp’s kids’ summer camp. Jack married Martha Lee Redmond in 1977. They spent their retirement years at Hayden Lake during the summers and traveling to Carmel, Palm

Andrew W. Schmechel was born July 8, 1953, in Seattle, the son of Donald A. and Frances W. Schmechel. He died June 6 after a long struggle with cancer. Andrew graduated from Lakeside in 1971 and from Yale University in 1977, majoring in Japanese Studies. As a commercial fisherman in Alaska from 1970 to 1993, he fished for salmon, herring, halibut, sea urchins, black cod, and red snapper. He served as an observer on foreign fishprocessing ships in the North Pacific. His advice was simple: “Hang tough or hang tender—but let yourself off those tenterhooks in your soul. Let your soul grow, swell and it will bring gratitude to all. Be whole and behold.” His last fishing season was in Prince William Sound, where he aided in the cleanup of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, a project he described as “Sisyphean.” Andrew spent many boyhood summers at Crystal Springs on Bainbridge with family and friends, finding beauty in its wildness, water, and evening light, having numerous Huck Finn adventures in that magical spot. He returned throughout his life to touch this source of inspiration. He was a man of many journeys and voracious curiosity. He traveled widely, including working at Kibbutz Eilon on the Israel-Lebanon border. He lived for extended periods in Japan, traveling and teaching English. Andrew worked as an elementary and middle school teacher in the Seattle area from 1991 to 2002. Most recently, he worked as a caregiver at Evergreen Adult Family Homes. He was an avid volunteer in many arenas, including Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, and PTA. He also served on the board of Elderwise. He loved and was loved by the very young, and the very old. Andrew was a devoted father and a loving son and brother. He was a wonderful caretaker to many. He loved cooking, good food, and poetry. He had a great sense of humor. He loved to go to the mountains to ski, climb, and hike. He loved to swim, no matter the weather. Survivors include: sons Ben and Conrad; brother Donald E. Schmechel of North Carolina; sisters Susan Silverman of New Hampshire and Nancy Schmechel McClendon of Texas; former wives Fusayo Egawa of Japan and Margaret Bullitt of Seattle; four nieces, two nephews, and 10 grandnieces and grand-nephews. ■

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To find out more about naming Lakeside in your will, or to inform the school that you have already done so, please contact Carol Borgmann, director of major and planned giving, at 206-440-2931. To learn more about estate planning visit www.lakesideschool.org/ plannedgiving

PLANNED GIVING by CAROL BORGMANN

On the water or in the classroom, teachers and coaches lead the way

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PENNY LEWIS: A passage to learning

isit Penny Lewis at her house boat on Portage Bay and you immediately feel how at home she is by the water. Her adventures on the water began 28 years ago, when her daughter Karen (Lakeside Class of 1983) suggested she try rowing. Rowing was Karen’s passion and she had participated in the sport actively while at Lakeside. Lewis says, “Karen is very tall and wanted to compete in a sport. She had little experience playing basketball, but with rowing, all athletes started from the beginning and grew their skills together. She achieved great things including being chosen to compete in France at the World Rowing Junior Championships in 1983, coached by Martha Beattie, head crew coach at Lakeside and coach of the USRowing Junior Women’s National Team that year. Karen continued her rowing while at Brown University.” With her daughter’s encouragement, Lewis began learning to row at a local club in 1983. Soon she became a co-founder of Martha’s Moms Rowing Club—named in honor of Martha Beattie, the club’s first coach. The initial group included co-founders (and fellow Lakeside moms) Gretchen Hull and Dinny Polson, along with nine others. They never imagined that they were starting a tradition which over the years has taught more than 200 women to row and compete worldwide. For 15 years Martha’s Moms rowed out of the A. D. Ayrault, Jr. Shellhouse, Lakeside’s 56

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boat house at the north end of Lake Washington in Kenmore. They were among the earliest supporters of the Friends of Lakeside Rowing, a group of Lakeside parents who raised money to support the school’s rowing program. Dan Ayrault, Lakeside’s headmaster at the time and an Olympic gold-medal rower himself, thought the program was an excellent example of lifelong learning and gave it his blessing. The group now rows out of the Lake Washington Rowing Club on Lake Union. Because of her commitment to rowing, in 1985 Lewis was asked to join the board of the George Pocock Rowing Foundation—an organization that promotes access to and excellence in rowing. Lewis served on that board for 20 years. During much of the same period, from 1981 to 1990, she was also serving on the Lakeside Board of Trustees. In addition, Lewis began volunteering for the Lakeside Educational Enrichment Program (LEEP), the six-week summer program for rising 9th graders, operated in partnership with Seattle Public Schools. LEEP also offers support such as college counseling to LEEP graduates during their high-school years. T.J. Vassar, then-LEEP director, partnered with the Pocock Foundation to incorporate rowing into the program’s curriculum. The sport of rowing emphasizes the core values of LEEP—respect for yourself and others, active participation, risk taking.

Rowing has remained a key component of the LEEP summer activities. “Programs that give young people the chance to try rowing are transformative and I’m pleased to see this kind of outreach in action with both LEEP and Pocock’s Rainier Valley Rowing program,” Lewis says. Lewis has chosen to name Lakeside School in her will, among other organizations to which she has devoted her time, including: Overlake School, from which her son Greg graduated; the George Pocock Rowing Foundation; the Arboretum Foundation; Susan B. Komen Foundation; and Trust for Public Land. She says, “These are places that have made difference in my life and in the community and I am passionate about what they do.” “Part of my reason for naming Lakeside is because it was an important part of my life for a long time as a parent and a member of the Lakeside Board. I watched Karen and her friends blossom with all the opportunities and challenges they were offered by the school and faculty. What a wonderful place Lakeside is for so many young people! Because the teachers are the ones who often make the critical difference for students, I wanted to share some of my treasure to help ensure that the school will be able to attract and retain the best teachers possible for future students.” Lewis has directed her bequest to the Dexter K. Strong Faculty Endowment. ■

TELLING YOUR STORIES P.S., or Personal Story, is a personal essay written by a Lakeside alum. If you’re interested in contributing a short piece for a future issue, please write us at magazine@lakesideschool.org.

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by Colleen McCullough ’07

Colleen McCullough ’07 selling vegetables she helped grow as part of Wobbly Cart Farming Collective in the Chehalis River Valley.

Back to the land fter rainy days, my jeans would be so stiff with mud I could stand them up A on their own, and I would fall asleep listen-

ing to the patter on the tin roof over my head. On sunny days, I would swim in the river instead of showering under the spigot attached to the outside of our cabin, and would watch the tomatoes ripen from pale green to red on the vines. We woke every morning at sunrise, sliding on rubber boots and heading out to the dew-wet fields. It was here, more than anywhere I had been before or have been since, that I felt I lived with integrity. Working at the Wobbly Cart Farming Collective wasn’t my first experience with agriculture. As a kid, my family used to go to our friends’ farm in Iowa during the summer, where we never wore shoes and caught frogs in the shallows of their pond. And in the spring of my junior year at Lakeside I attended a semester program, The Mountain School in Vermont, where I lived with

45 high-school students, cutting trees in below-zero weather to heat the dorms and classrooms, and feeding the sheep buckets of root vegetables in the morning. I liked the way they bleated when I entered the sweet hay-smelling barn—the way they needed me, in the most visceral way. Growing up, we frequently took backpacking trips in the North Cascades and the Olympics, which accustomed me to the stickiness of sweat and dirt. So working on the small organic farm in rural Washington after I graduated from Lakeside did not feel to me like the non sequitur that it appeared to be to my peers. Two days after I graduated, I began my job at Wobbly Cart, living with the two young, college-educated farm owners, who exemplify a growing movement of young people into local, organic agriculture. We lived simply: While our farm produced thousands of pounds of vegetables, the three of us together produced less than

one small, desk-can of garbage a month. We hardly needed to buy anything; at the end of a day at the farmer’s market, we traded our leftover vegetables for other farmers’ goods; a pound of potatoes for a loaf of bread or for a block of homemade goat cheese. At a time when most of my high-school friends were enjoying their last summer together in Seattle, I was living two hours away in a community of small farms in the Chehalis River Valley. I spent my free time drawing as I sat on the abandoned train bridge over the creek, cooking, or chatting with Gregory, my neighbor who taught physics at the local community college, from whom I borrowed countless books. Some of these, like Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma, and Barbara Kingsolver’s Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, gave national significance to my unorthodox choice. Reading the news, I was surprised to find that, around this time, more and more students like me were becoming interested in food and agriculture. In the years since working on the farm, I have led Princeton University’s garden project, which grows food for one of Princeton’s dining halls; had lunch with Alice Waters, national leader in the organic and fresh food movement, when she came to campus; and launched an intercollegiate protest to reform agriculture subsidies with students from across the country and the political spectrum. But in this peaceful, rhythmic place, I learned that the food movement was, for me, not about being part of a national trend. It wasn’t even about the important issues of childhood nutrition, climate change, or international trade. It was much simpler than any of that. It was just a pure and sincere way of life, where I could swim in the river and listen to the rain on the tin roof. ■

More about Colleen McCullough ’07 A senior at Princeton University, where she’s majoring in philosophy, Colleen McCullough spends her free time drawing, gardening, and organizing events in support of agriculture reform through BigAgBill.org. She is planning to apply to law school in the winter. Planned Giving, Personal Story

FROM THE ARCHIVES

IT DOES

a mind good

and minds of thousands over the years—serving

HELP US SOLVE HISTORY MYSTERIES

formal, sit-down meals in earlier years, later

Who is that? What is that? When was that?

switching to cafeteria-style dining. In this 1968

Original records preserved in the school’s

photo, cook Katherine Bresee uses both hands to

archives can usually answer such questions

ﬁll pitchers with milk for thirsty Lakesiders. Q

about a photo or document. But sometimes

akeside’s kitchen has nourished the bodies

not, and we could use some help from you. Leslie A. Schuyler is archivist of the Jane Carlson Williams ’60 Archives at Lakeside School. You can reach her at 206-440-2895 or archives@lakesideschool.org. Please contact her if you have questions or materials that you wish to donate, or visit the archives’ Web page at www.lakesideschool.org/archives.

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS 2011-2012 December

14 College Chatter Luncheon & Assembly for Young Alumni (Classes of ’08-’11), Refectory & St. Nicholas Hall. Lunch at 11:45 a.m., assembly begins at 12:55 p.m.

January

8 24th Annual Alumni Basketball Tournament, Ackerley Athletic Center, 10:00 a.m. February

Bay Area Alumni Reception, location TBD, 6:30 p.m.

Dan Ayrault Memorial Endowed Lecture featuring Clarence Acox, St. Nicholas Hall, 7:00 p.m.

March

Seattle Area Alumni Reception, Location TBD, 6:30 p.m.

24 - 25

Rummage Sale, Upper School Campus

28 BGI Speakers Series on Economics featuring Dambisa Moyo, St. Nicholas Hall, 7:00 p.m.

April

New York Area Alumni Reception, location TBD, 6:30 p.m.

May

23 Artsfest, Upper School Campus, 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. June

Commencement & 50th Reunion Luncheon, Upper School Campus

8 Reunion dinner for classes ending in “2” and “7,” hosted by Lakeside, Upper School Campus, 5:30 p.m. 8 - 10

Reunion 2012 Weekend

REUNION June 8-10, 2012

Recognizing St. Nicholas and Lakeside alumni from classes ending in “2” and “7,” including the Class of 1977, as pictured above, back in the day.

Lakeside school invites all classes celebrating their reunion to a reception and casual dinner on Friday, June 8, 2012, on the Upper School campus. Reunion volunteers are needed to help plan their individual class events. If you are interested in volunteering, please contact the alumni relations office at 206-368-3606 or email alumni@lakesideschool.org. In addition, the St. Nicholas and Lakeside Classes of 1962 will be honored at a luncheon and at the Upper School Commencement on Thursday, June 7, 2012. Additional details to come!

Summer 2012

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Claude Johnson Memorial Golf Tournament

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For more information on these and all alumni events, visit www.lakesideschool.org/alumni.

to network, post job openings, and much more. Go to LinkedIn.com and join the Lakeside School/St. Nicholas School Alumni (Official Group).

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