Fall 2012, "Doing the Right Thing"

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• A year of thinking ethically • Alums make the tough calls

Doing the Right Thing

INSIDE » Props to Bruce Bailey ’59 | Athletics Center sneak peek

MADE YOU LOOK Mia K . ’15

Double Take: Mia K. ’15, left, was enjoying the sunset with her family at Renton’s Coulon Park on Easter Sunday when she came upon these statues, dressed for the holiday, complete with Easter baskets.

She instantly knew she had a good subject for her assignment to take a “nontraditional portrait” for her photography class. “I didn’t have my tripod with me, so instead, I set the aperture, shutter speed, and focal

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ON THE COVER

Photo illustration by Tom Reese

EDITOR: Carey Quan Gelernter

Amanda Darling, Bronwyn Echols, Trevor Klein ’03

ALUMNI RELATIONS NEWS: Kelly Poort, Carol Borgmann, Leslie Schuyler, Bruce Bailey ’59 ART DIRECTOR: Carol N. Leong

CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER: Tom Reese GRAPHIC ARTIST: Lindsay Orlowski

COPY EDITORS: Corinna Laughlin, Carey Quan Gelernter

PHOTO COORDINATION: Lindsay Orlowski

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length” and after posing with her sister, Mikayla, at right, she signaled for a family member to push the shutter.

Her photography teacher, Dale Bauer—who will retire at the end of this year, his 50th at Lakeside—calls the photo “a nice example of being able to respond spontaneously to something that strikes you as a good idea and having the skills you need to get the result you want.”

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Are you a good person?

Talk about going to the heart of the matter—Lakeside student filmmakers posed that question last spring to their teachers and friends. Their video project was one highlight in a year of deep thinking about all things ethical.

In our cover story, beginning on page 20, you can follow the journey.

Lakeside can take some pride in being ahead of the curve. Of late, we’ve seen a growing national debate about how, and whether, schools can teach character and ethics—prompted in part by cheating scandals at some of the nation’s most prestigious high schools and colleges, and new findings about how aspects of character are key to children’s success in school and life.

A recent article in The New York Times reported on research that shows “frequently reinforcing standards, to both students and teachers” improves the ethical climate but that “most schools fail to do so.”

But, as you know, Lakeside is not like most schools. In this issue you’ll hear from students and adult leaders who are putting ethics and character front and center.

Student leaders like Houston Warren ’13, who tells why students intend to keep dialogue about ethics going “constantly, if possible.” And adult leaders like Head of School Bernie Noe, who got this whole year’s journey going with a challenging question (page 20), and tells us why creating an ethical environment is the school’s No. 1 goal, on page 4.

We also asked some alumni known from their Lakeside days for strength of character— a judge, a nurse, a religious leader, a nonviolence activist, among others— about how they’ve wrestled with hard ethical questions. Find their thought-provoking answers on page 30.

So, what about you? Are you a good person? We’re betting you’ll be asking yourself this question, and finding some new inspiration, as you read this issue of Lakeside magazine.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS FEATURES Cover story ■ ■

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A year of thinking ethically 20 Alumni make the tough calls 30

DEPARTMENTS Inside Lakeside

Head of school’s letter 4 Board chair’s letter 5 New Athletics Center 6 Admissions 8 College choices 9 Sports 10 Global community theme 11 New trustees 12 Campus news 13 Faculty kudos 15 Lecture series 15 Diversity news 16 Distinguished Service Award Commencement 19

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Alumni News

Reunions 34 Homecoming 37 Bruce Bailey ’59 celebration 38 New Alumni Board members 40 Alumni Row 42 SWEATT 42 Golf 43 Class Connections 44 In Memoriam 52 38

Planned Giving 56 Personal Story 57 From the Archives 58 Calendar 59

Carey Quan Gelernter

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

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HEAD NOTE

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by BERNIE NOE

Intentional integrity

e are living in an ethically challenging period. It is difficult for our students to pick up a newspaper or magazine or to turn on the news without encountering some sort of scandal relating to some aspect of life in America. It must seem to them, at times, that there are very few honest people left in the world. Add to this a popular culture that advocates at every turn that life is about how one looks, what one owns, or how much money and power one has, and our students face quite a bleak moral landscape.

A recent Pew Family research study of 1,000 college presidents found that the majority believe that academic dishonesty is on the rise, especially Internet plagiarism.

A different Pew study of 5,000 graduate students found that 56 percent of business school students and 53 percent of engineering graduate students admitted to cheating on a test or paper in some way in the previous year.

In this environment, it is more important than ever that we create an ethical environment for our students. Lakeside School was founded in 1919 by Frank Moran with the vision that the school would hold its students to a high ethical standard. Ever since, Lakeside has labored to make that vision a reality.

Moran did not believe in a lot of rules but rather in “expectations” that the students would be expected to honor. To this day we do not have pages of rules for our students to follow but rather a set of expectations. Each faculty and staff member

is responsible for interpreting these expectations in myriad situations and for holding students accountable for their actions when they fail to meet those expectations.

Lakeside School is not a utopia: We do have incidents of academic dishonesty, theft, and other violations of our community expectations. As you will read in this issue, however, we are very intentional in our efforts to teach our students right from wrong and to impress on them the importance of living an ethical life. Each year, every teacher speaks to his or her class

about academic dishonesty, and in a variety of forums throughout the year we talk about what it means to live a life of integrity. We seek to graduate young men and women who are equipped with the moral compass necessary to guide their considerable talents in a positive direction.

This past summer I read a magisterial work by Steven Pinker titled The Better Angels of Our Nature. Pinker definitively concludes that virtually all categories of violence have declined across the globe because of what he calls the “civilizing effect,” a combination of moral teachings, enhanced empathy, increased literacy, and a revolution in the global understanding of human rights (read the book if you question his conclusion!). At Lakeside, we have an important role to play in cultivating the “civilizing effect” among our students, by making clear our expectations that their behavior toward adults and peers will be respectful and honorable and that they will be honest in all their dealings with others.

Day by day, in every class, on the playing fields, in the hallways and theaters, it is our responsibility to nurture our students’ best selves.

We have a responsibility to graduate ethical leaders and citizens who will go forth from our school to make a principled contribution to their city, to their country, and to the world. This is our most important educational goal for our students, and to this end we direct much of our effort at Lakeside School.

Have a great winter, everyone.

I look forward to seeing many of you on campus this year! ■

BERNIE NOE TOM REESE

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Head of School

FROM THE NEW BOARD CHAIR

“Why are you a trustee?”

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hear this question often. Life is busy between my day job and time with my wife raising our 2-year-old.

I may never be a Lakeside parent. But I’m at Lakeside most weeks. Why? First, Lakeside shaped the arc of my life. My work in technology, my love of the outdoors, my interest in photography, and my passion for education are all tied to teachers and experiences at Lakeside. I want others to have that same education. I’m especially excited that our commitment to financial aid means more and more capable students can attend Lakeside regardless of their family’s ability to pay. That is very important to me.

Second, Lakeside’s mission is compelling. I think a lot about how to graduate students who will “contribute wisdom, compassion, and leadership to a global society.”

Lakeside is the most mission-driven organization I know. As trustees, we are always asking, “How does this fit with our mission?”

This passion for the mission is shared by trustees who have no personal connection to the school as parents or alumni: the president of one university and the vice provost of another; a seasoned educational fundraiser; the leader of a global development program.

Together, the 25 trustees from different backgrounds come to the table because we care about Lakeside’s mission and the way it manifests in academic excellence, global service, diversity, the arts, and athletics.

“What do you do as a trustee?”

We split our time between three roles. As fiduciaries we are stewards of the school’s finances and resources, we make sure we have the right head leading the school, and we oversee operations. As strategic planners we work with the head and administration to create a longterm plan and evaluate new programs to start (or end).

And as generative thinkers, we are a sounding board and help frame problems and opportunities with the administration.

One example of our fiduciary work is the comprehensive annual evaluation of the head of school. Last year’s head review included 50 pages of feedback from faculty, staff, parents, students, and trustees. That feedback ties directly back into the head’s annual goals, which are developed with the Board. We are thrilled to have Bernie Noe at the helm today. Bernie shared highlights of this year’s goals recently on the website (find the link at www.lakesideschool.org/magazine).

Swing through campus any week, and you’ll see other examples of the Board working as fiduciaries. You might

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find the Global Education Committee reviewing policies to keep students safe abroad; the Schools Committee discussing class sizes and teacher loads; or the Assets Committee tracking faculty compensation to make sure we’re competitive in hiring and retaining great teachers.

The Board’s strategic and generative work is equally important. In past years, our strategic planning exercises have led to the creation of the Summer School, Global See page 12 for a related Online Academy, and the expansion story introducing new of Global Service Learning programs. members of the Board of Discussion is ongoing about the need Trustees and new Board to balance affordability and financial aid with our desire to invest in new Chair Peter Polson ’91. and existing school programs.

In our generative role, this year trustees brainstormed with the administration about future graduation requirements, as preparation for a complete review of our curriculum next year.

We see the results of our Board service each year when we spend a day visiting classes. Observing students actively engaged in a biology lab, a drama rehearsal, or a history discussion reminds us that everything we do is to serve the students.

That is our ultimate responsibility and our deepest obligation: to make sure that Lakeside thrives today and will continue to thrive long after we are gone. ■

Peter Polson ’91

Chair, Board of Trustees

Head Note, Board Chair

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by Amanda Darling

New athletics center is a go

LMN Architects

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n September, the Board of Trustees approved the construction of a new Athletics Center that would break ground next March and be completed by March 2014.

Plans are for a two-story, 63,500 square-foot structure to be located on the same site as the existing Ackerley Athletic Center. The building will have virtually the same footprint as the current one but make more efficient use of space; it will look the same from outside, but it will look very different from inside.

Cost is estimated at $22.1 million. At press time $21.1 million had been raised, including a $16 million gift from a group of anonymous donors. Fundraising will continue through the school year.

The Board’s decision to move ahead with the project was based on an athletics strategic plan completed in May 2011 after two years of research. The plan is a five-year map to achieving excellence in the interscholastic athletics program.

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provide student-athletes with “facilities that attract, serve, and inspire students, coaches, and fans.”

To support this goal, an athletics facilities master plan was prepared by LMN Architects, the Seneca Group, and Lease Crutcher Lewis—the same team that worked on the renovation of Bliss Hall, completed in 2010, and the renovation and addition to Allen-Gates Hall, completed in 2011.

The Board reviewed all the findings and concluded that building a new Athletics Center should be a priority.

An important consideration is that the center will serve the entire student body: All Upper School students take physical education and 80 percent participate in interscholastic athletics.

Students from the Middle School will also be able to use the building during crunch times in overlapping seasons, allowing Middle School students to remain on campus instead of being

bused to off-campus facilities.

An extra benefit: As the largest gathering space on campus, capable of holding all students, faculty, and staff, the new center will be available for all-school gatherings of up to 1,000 people, including Convocation, reunions, lectures, and Rummage.

“Designing this new facility has allowed us to think deeply about how our physical plant can best support the continued growth of our athletics program,” says Athletic Director Abe Wehmiller. “We so often have to adjust our program to fit space. Now, we’ve been given a unique opportunity to reverse that and figure out what spaces we need to fit our program. The end product is going to help us become more efficient and effective, and I think our students are going to feel that in very concrete ways.” ■ Amanda Darling is communications director at Lakeside School. You can reach her at amanda. darling@lakesideschool.org or 206-440-2787.

☛ READ MORE: A pancake breakfast at Homecoming offered alumni a chance to learn about and support the new Athletics Center; see story on page 37.

LMN Architects

At a glance New athletics center highlights: •A fieldhouse and gymnasium with full-size practice areas that provide space for multiple teams to practice simultaneously.

•Arena seating in the competition gym for up to 800 fans.

•A redesigned strength and conditioning space featuring equipment for strength, cardio, and circuit training.

•A spacious sports medicine facility.

•Two distinct clas sroom spaces that will be used during the day for physical education and health classes and that can merge in the afternoon for large team meetings.

•A third larger and tiered classroom space that will be used primarily for film sessions and presentations requiring a higher level of audio/visual support.

•A padded mat room designed primarily for wrestling practice that will also be used by other teams for stretching and by PE classes for yoga.

•Larger and more efficient locker rooms for students, coaches, and visiting teams.

•Communal coaches’ offices that will allow them to be more accessible to students and more integrated into school life.

Athletics Center Projected Timeline: March 2013: Construction begins after the close of winter sports.

November 2013: First construction phase, including the competition gym and many of the supporting spaces, is completed in time for the 20132014 winter sports season.

March 2014: Fully completed center opens, including the fieldhouse and strength and conditioning space.

•Offices and meeting spaces for athletics and PE staff.

•Larger lobby areas, which will improve the fan experience and will double as a gathering space for special events.

•Increased storage and utility spaces.

☛ Find more details at www.lakesideschool.org/athleticscenter.

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SPORTS ROUNDUP

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by TREVOR KLEIN ’03 and Chris Hein

Lions bring home hardware From left, Ethan Gottlieb ’12, Daley Seaton ’12, and Gaby Joseph ’14 celebrate Lakeside’s win in the spring’s Metro League soccer championship.

fter winning its race at the NW Junior Regional Championships, Lakeside’s girls lightweight 4+ rowed its way into the USRowing Youth National Championships on Melton Lake in Oak Ridge, Tenn. The boys soccer team won the Metro League championship, and the tennis team finished its season at a stellar 11-2, also taking the Metro League championship, with three players advancing to the state tournament. Here are more details from the spring season:

SPRING SPORTS HIGHLIGHTS BASEBALL Overall Record: 7-12

Metro League Honors

All-League 1st Team: Trevor Langlie-Miletich ’12 Honorable Mention: Clayton Brock ’12, Andrew H. ’14

Overall Record: 1-12

GIRLS LACROSSE Overall Record: 13-3

Division 1 State Consolation Winner

WSLA All-State: Sarah Drucker ’12, Makayla DeJong ’12, Emily Kim ’12, Kaylee Best ’12, Natalie F. ’13, Jo C. ’13 WSLA All-Conference (North Sound Division): Sarah Drucker ’12, Makayla DeJong ’12, Emily Kim ’12, Sammy M. ’13, Kaylee B. ’13, Natalie F. ’13, Amerra S. ’14 US Lacrosse All-Academic Team (Washington State): Natalie F. ’13, Jo C. ’13, Sammy Mc. ’13, Avalon I. ’13, Rebecca L. ’13 US Lacrosse All-American Team (Washington State): Makayla DeJong ’12

BOYS LACROSSE Overall Record: 3-11 WHSBLA All-State Second Team Honorable Mention: Connor H. ’13

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BOYS SOCCER Overall Record: 11-5

Metro League Mountain Division Champions WIAA 3A State Qualifiers

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Metro League Honors

First Team: Daley Seaton ’12, Jay Bensal ’12, Liam Jernudd ’12, Paul Picciano ’12, Seyi A. ’14 Second Team: Walt Mehring ’12 Honorable Mention: Charlie Devine ’13, Thayer Fisher ’13, Wyatt Paul ’15

TRACK & FIELD Metro League Championship Meet

Allanah Whitehall ’12 1st Place – 100 meters (12.21) 4th Place – 200 meters (25.68) Peyton J. ’14 4th Place – 400 meters (1:00.17) Andrea M. ’15 3rd Place – 1600 meters (5:12.30) 2nd Place – 3200 meters (11:12.21) Ericka A. ’13 4th Place – Shot Put 4kg (3007.00) 3rd Place – Discus 1kg (86-06) Mirutse H. ’13 4th Place – 800 meters (2:00.43) Brian Masterson ’12 2nd Place – 3200 meters (9:24.42) 4x200 Relay Team: 2nd Place – 1:46.70 4x400 Relay Team: 1st Place – 4:06.50

Sea-King District 2 Meet

Allanah Whitehall ’12 2nd Place – 100 meters (12.60) Peyton J. ’14 4th Place – 400 meters (58.62) Andrea M. ’15 2nd Place – 1600 meters (5:06.19) 2nd Place – 3200 meters (11:02.31) 4x200 Relay Team: 2nd Place – 1:45.04 4x400 Relay Team: 3rd Place – 4:05.06 Brian Masterson ’12 2nd Place – 3200 meters (9:18.10)

State Championship Meet

Allanah Whitehall ’12 4th Place – 100 meters (12.46)

Andrea M. ’15 4th Place – 3200 meters (11:09.78) Brian Masterson ’12 10th Place – 3200 meters (9:29.30)

CREW USRowing NW Junior Regional Championships Girls Lightweight 4+ 1st Place – 7:46.40 Boys Lightweight 4+ 4th Place – 6:58.46

USRowing Youth National Championships

Girls Lightweight 4+ Final 4th Place – 7:53.285

TENNIS Overall Record: 11-2

Metro League Team Champions Lakeside 6, Seattle Prep 5 in Metro League championship match

WIAA State Appearances

Shea W. ’13 (Singles) Helena E. ’13 (Doubles) Megan Hodge ’12 (Doubles) 2012 Metro League Jill Curran Award Recipient Shea W. ’13 ■

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Molly Guo ’14 and the coed tennis team secured top billing in the Metro League for the f irst time since 2009.

Trevor Klein is digital communications specialist at Lakeside School: 206-4402955 or trevor.klein@lakesideschool. org. Statistics compiled by Chris Hein, assistant athletic director at Lakeside School: 206-440-2750 or chris.hein@ lakesideschool.org.

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by Amanda Darling

Waste not, want

hake.”

“Fold.”

This year’s global community theme kicked off with Lakeside faculty and staff watching a short video that demonstrated how Americans can reduce their annual consumption of paper towels by 571,230,000 pounds, simply by using one fewer a day. How? After you wash your hands, shake them 12 times, then use a single folded paper towel to dry.

Within a day, the garbage cans at Lakeside were noticeably less full.

The concept that simple actions have real consequences is at the heart of this year’s theme: waste.

Now in its fourth year, the theme project is a way for Lakeside faculty and staff to build community as they study together about a topic of global significance. Assignment choices, or “touchpoints,” include films and books, field trips, talks, and volunteer opportunities related to waste.

Global Education Director Charlotte Blessing, who leads the theme project, says some of the touchpoints can be resources for teachers to use with students and all can help faculty and staff to “be reflective about our own habits” and encourage looking for sustainable solutions.

The capstone of this year’s work will be an event in April where faculty and staff decide on three realistic strategies to reduce waste at Lakeside.

Here are a selection of touchpoints that alumni may be inspired to try as well. You can find the full list—along with a link to the “shake and fold” towel-saving video—on our Web page, lakesideschool.org/ magazine.

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These Global Service Learning students, here creating a village dump in Senegal, will share their experiences with Lakeside adults studying waste as this year’s global community theme.

How a Sea Captain’s Chance Discovery Launched a Determined Quest to Save the Oceans, by Captain Charles Moore and Cassandra Phillips. His discovery of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in the Pacific Ocean inspires “a fundamental rethinking of the Plastic Age and a growing global health crisis.”

• The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters, by Rose George. “Everything that matters about how people do— and don’t—deal with their own waste ... Moving from the deep underground sewers of Paris, London, and New York—an infrastructure disaster waiting to happen—to an Indian slum where ten toilets are shared by 60,000 people.”

SPEAKERS ACTIVITIES • Dress up in repurposed threads for a recycled Halloween costume contest (no purchases allowed).

• Visit “Plastics Unwrapped,” an exhibit that runs from December 20 through May 27 at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, which addresses the history, science, engineering, health and environmental impacts of plastics and how people can make a difference by being responsible consumers and recyclers (www.burkemuseum.org).

• Participate in a “repair café”: Volunteers with skills will help others repair such items as clothes, furniture, bicycles, electrical appliances, with the goal of “saving” possessions by giving them a new lease on life.

• Clean up litter and debris from Carkeek Park beach and the Duwamish River.

FILMS The lineup of shorts and feature films includes these, available either online or at a local video store.

• Into Eternity: A Film for the Future, about storage of radioactive waste.

• Dive! which explores the culture and realities of dumpster diving. http://divethefilm.com/ • The Architects of Waste, a profile of a Dutch architectural firm that creates buildings from locally recycled materials.

• A Truck that Runs on Chocolate, about two adventurers who set off on a journey in a truck powered by chocolate.

BOOKS

Among the choices (with descriptions from Amazon. com): • Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash, a “surprising tour of the world of garbage” by Pulitzer-Prize winning author Edward Humes.

For the first time this year, students and alumni become the “teachers” in several of the touchpoints.

• Students who traveled to Global Service Learning sites in Senegal, Costa Rica, and China will describe their experiences with their projects that addressed waste in the developing world.

• Annie Leonard ’82 will visit campus to talk with faculty, staff, and students about The Story of Stuff, her popular short film about the environmental and human costs of conspicuous consumption, and the nonprofit that it inspired: the Story of Stuff Project, which provides resources to support learning and action on behalf of change. Her newest film with Free Range Studios, The Story of Change, urges viewers to “put down their credit cards and start exercising their citizen muscles to build a more sustainable, just and fulfilling world” (more at www.thestoryofstuff.com). ■

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INSIDE LAKESIDE

by Bronwyn Echols

WHO’S NEW ON THE BOARD Leadership on the Lakeside Board of Trustees shifted in June with the addition of new members and a new Board chair. Here’s more about each: Peter Polson ’91 is the new

Board chair, succeeding Connie Ballmer, who continues in an officer’s position as immediate past chair. Polson is CEO of Dashwire, a software company that develops solutions to make smartphones easier to use. He previously cofounded Junxion, later purchased

by Sierra Wireless; and worked at J.P. Morgan in New York and Nextlink and Monet Mobile Networks in Seattle. He graduated summa Peter Polson ’91 cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Middlebury College, with a bachelor’s degree in environmental studies, and he received an MBA with high honors as a Tuck Scholar at Dartmouth College. He writes about why he’s a trustee and more about what the Board does in his first “From the Board chair” letter, on page 5.

Polson is just beginning his second term as a trustee; the preceding three years he was an ex officio representative to the Board from the Lakeside/St. Nicholas Alumni Association.

Carey Crutcher Smith ’77 was elected as a trustee by the Board at its May meeting and begins her first three-year term. Smith, a three-sport athlete at Lakeside, was an Alumni Board member from 1989 to 1992. The parent of two Lakesiders (’11 Carey Crutcher and ’14), she has Smith ’77

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served in many volunteer roles: Living Our Mission campaign, Parents Association, and Annual Fund. A committed donor to the Annual Fund over the years, she helped to spearhead her class’s endowed fund. Smith is director of marketing for Lease Crutcher Lewis, joining her father, Jim, and cousin, Bill, in the family firm.

Her numerous Lakeside connections include her brother Jim ’75 and sister Page ’79, and a niece and three nephews (’08, ’09, and ’13).

Another special connection is that Smith’s mother, Barbara Lease Crutcher ’50, received the Lakeside Board’s highest honor—the Willard J. Wright ’32 Distinguished Service Award—in the same spring as her daughter was elected as a trustee (see page 18 for a story about the award).

Kelli Curtis

begins a two-year ex officio term on the Board as the president-elect of the Parents Association. A University of Washington Kelli Curtis graduate with a degree in journalism, Curtis worked in high tech as a product and project manager for more than 15 years before retiring and returning to school for a vocational degree in environmental horticulture. She has owned POTS2GO for eight years; the Seattle-based company specializes in creating containers with unusual and distinctive plant species. She has been a master gardener, as well, for 12 years. Her work has been recognized in magazine features, and she created a design display for

the Northwest Flower and Garden Show in 2008. She has two children at Lakeside, Gavin Blake ’14 and Anna Blake ’17. She’s been active in the Parents Association in many roles, including class representative, liaison to development, nominations chair, and logowear chair.

Artemios (“Tim”) S. Panos ’85

begins a two year ex officio term in his role as president-elect of the Alumni Association. Panos is a principal of Panos Properties LLC, a family-owned investment company with interests in commercial real estate, public Artemios securities, and (“Tim”)Panos private equity.

The company owns, develops, and invests in commercial retail properties in the Puget Sound region. Panos directs all aspects of the company’s investment, development and financing activities. From 1996 through 2002, Panos was an investment banker for Lehman Brothers in New York.

He served as a vice president in the Global Leveraged Finance Group, arranging growth and acquisition financings for leveraged companies and financial sponsors. Panos holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and a BA in economics and philosophy from Trinity College.

He also completed the General Course at the London School of Economics. He and his wife Rebecca live in Medina with a son, 9, and twin daughters, 7. He is an avid soccer fan and skier. ■ Bronwyn Echols is secretary of the Lakeside Board of Trustees. She can be reached at bechols@lakesideschool.org.

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Board of Trustees Peter M. Polson ’91

Chair

Theiline (“Ty”) Wyckoff Cramer ’78

Vice Chair

Connie Ballmer

Immediate Past Chair Jill S. Ruckelshaus

Vice Chair/Secretary

Mark Klebanoff ’80

Treasurer

Christopher H. Ackerley ’87 Rodney A. Bench Samir Bodas Margaret Breen

Parents Association President Kelli Curtis

Parents Association President-Elect

Christopher J. Elias, MD, MPH Christian Fulghum ’77

Alumni Association President

Robert M. Helsell ’55 Lynn Hogan Natasha Smith Jones ’89 Henry L. (“Skip”) Kotkins Jr. ’66 Connie Mao, MD Artemios (“Tim”) S. Panos ’85

Alumni Association President-Elect

Elizabeth Anderson (“Wispy”) Runde ’77 Carey Crutcher Smith ’77 Charles Stevens Stephen V. Sundborg, S.J. Edward Taylor Bertrand Valdman

On leave 2012-2013 David W. Wiley ’71

Campus news

Adam Weintraub

Lakeside Peru Semester will offer students a chance to spend a semester in a town in the Andes, 12 miles from the archaeological site of Machu Picchu, seen above.

New GSL site in Ecuador

Global Service Learning will add new site this summer: Aqualongo, Ecuador.

The mountain hamlet of about 50 homes is approximately 45 miles from Quito and 10 miles from Otavalo, a highland town of about 50,000 primarily indigenous people. Otavalo is famed for its market, one of the largest in South America, dating to pre-Inca times.

Ecuador will be the seventh overseas GSL site for Upper School students; the others are in China, Dominican Republic, India, Morocco, Peru, and Senegal. In Ecuador, Lakeside will partner with the nonprofit Tandana Foundation. The foundation promotes cross-cultural understanding by raising funds to finance summer enrichment programs for indigenous Ecua-

doran students, and recruiting and placing volunteers and interns for the programs.

This summer 12 Lakeside students will live with host families in Aqualongo and teach at a village camp for high school-age students.

Alumna Tylie Cramer ’06 will be among their three leaders.

Why Ecuador? Charlotte Blessing, director of global education at Lakeside, said GSL had been looking for a second site in a Spanish-speaking, Latin American country because Lakeside has many students who study Spanish.

The Peru GSL trip has consistently high numbers of applicants and the Ecuador site has similar attributes to that site, including opportunities for hiking in spectacular countryside. Also, there is a strong partnership available in The Tandana Foundation and, Blessing says, “The partner is key.”

GSL has begun to focus each trip around a theme that frames

the service learning projects and curriculum. The theme of the new trip is indigenous community development.

Peru Semester set for 2014

Lakeside Peru Semester, a new opportunity for students to spend a semester going to school and living with a host family in a Peru town, is set to open in fall 2014.

The location is Ollantaytambo, a town of 4,000 in the Andes about 37 miles from the city of Cusco and about 12 miles from Machu Picchu. This is also the site of the current GSL Peru trip, which has been offered since 2005.

Lakeside is inviting other top independent schools to join the Lakeside Peru Semester program, which will allow for a broader pool of applicants. Each member school will be able to send two students each semester. Lakeside intends to

recruit up to 19 other independent schools. Tuition will be about $21,000 per semester, with each school responsible for meeting the financial aid needs of its students.

Charlotte Blessing, Lakeside’s director of global education, said the difference between Peru Semester and GSL is that, “GSL students get a taste, while the semester program students will get a deep cultural and language immersion experience while developing their global citizenship skills.”

Lakeside Peru Semester will occupy a unique niche, she says, in that “service learning plays a significant role in the curriculum.

Each student will engage in a service learning project, which could for example be related to education, health, or sustainable agriculture.” The program will be one-of-a-kind: There are no other high-school immersion semester programs in Spanish-speaking, Latin American countries.

For more about Lakeside Peru Semester, check out the website: www.lakesideperusemester.org.

Lakeside plans for growth

Lakeside School plans to modestly increase the size of the student body beginning next September, eventually adding between 31 to 55 students.

The first phase of growth will add 31 students, spread between the two campuses, which would mean 270 Middle School students and 555 Upper School students.

After two years the school will do a “pulse check,” assessing impacts on space, staffing, and culture (such as how well faculty know the students). The check will inform the decision if and when to move to a second stage— increasing by up to 24 additional students, to reach a total of 55. ➢ Inside Lakeside, campus news

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The Board of Trustees commissioned a growth study in 2011 in response to increasing admissions pressure: Lakeside has many more highly qualified applicants than spaces available.

Research by a team of administrators on potential costs, benefits, and impacts on facilities and finances determined early on that an aggressive plan for growth was not a viable option. But the team concluded that a more incremental expansion could allow for substantial benefits and opportunities, such as making it feasible to add more high-level math and language classes, and serving more students in the Seattle metropolitan area, a key part of the school’s mission.

Birage Tandon named chief financial officer

Birage Tandon joined Lakeside School as its chief financial officer in late August.

Tandon previously was chief financial officer and director of finance for Bellevue Christian School, a 60-year-old institution serving 1,100 students, preschool to grade 12, on four campuses, with an operating budget of $15 million.

In announcing its selection, the Lakeside search committee noted Tandon’s experience carrying out strategic financial and physicalplant planning to guide the growth of the school; building an Birage Tandon effective business office and overseeing financial, human resources, and auxiliary programs portfolios; and hands-on managerial experience “with every aspect of the kind of complex financial and physical assets management, accounting, cash-flow, investments, and auditing work that a school of Lakeside’s size and stature requires.”

Before joining Bellevue Christian, Tandon worked at St. Andrew’s Housing Group as an accountant and was regional financial controller for the Xerox Corporation in New Delhi and Mumbai, India. She holds two degrees from the University of Delhi: a bachelor’s of commerce with honors from Jesus & Mary College and an MBA in finance and marketing from the Faculty of Management Studies. She also has extensive volunteer experience with 14

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relief and development NGOs in the developing world and with local nonprofits. The search committee noted Tandon’s expressed passion for the world of education, adding that “we are sure that she will bring to Lakeside the perfect blend of commitment to that world and ability to provide the sound financial and physical underpinnings that make what we do possible.”

Tandon succeeds Sylvia Pautler, director of business and operations, who retired after 19 years of service.

tems, including expert staffing of a Board committee begun to manage the growing asset pool.

Pautler told the campus community: “I’ve been in a school since I was 5 years old. I’ve attended eight, graduated five, worked in four, and had three careers. Yes, it’s time for me to ‘get out of school.’

“I’ll be hanging out downtown discovering all the things there are to do!”

Sylvia Pautler: She gave things the business

When Sylvia Pautler was first hired at Lakeside School as assistant business manager in 1993, she was given a closet for an office and an ancient computer. A year later she became director of business and operations and began a wholesale transformation of those business operations.

Pautler retired from Lakeside August 31.

At a gathering honoring her, the Board of Trustees noted its appreciation of (as Matt Griffin ’69 put it) “her help in keeping the business parts of the school running like a business.”

Her unusual career progression gave her a broad understanding of Sylvia Pautler the educational, financial, and structural systems of schools. She started as a teacher and principal before becoming a business officer and earning a master’s in nonprofit management.

The Board recognized her long list of accomplishments, including her leadership in: tackling deferred maintenance of campus infrastructure and bringing an ethic of stewardship to physical assets (managing the Campus Renewal Program in the mid-1990s to upgrade campus buildings and then managing even more extensive construction and renovation projects made possible by two capital campaigns); modernizing business and accounting practices and employee policies; and upgrading the management of financial resources and sys-

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Mourning Monty Carter

The Lakeside community mourned the loss of Monty Carter, the Upper School Arts Department’s music director in drama, who drowned in a swimming accident in the Wenatchee River July 8. A memorial service for him was held at St. Nicholas Hall August 5.

Carter was the music director for six consecutive Lakeside musicals, beginning with Cabaret in 2007, and followed by Urinetown, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Fame, Fiddler on the Roof, and Oliver. At his service students and alumni sang Fiddler’s “Sabbath Prayer” in his honor.

Carter, 43, was remembered as a gifted pianist and teacher. Al Snapp, US Arts Department head, noted how well he supported every student he taught and that both vocalists and musicians performed superbly under his direction.

Carter was also was a longtime faculty member at The Northwest School and performed locally, including in various Seattle Opera productions. ■

Faculty news

Applause please …

COLLEEN KYLE, Upper School History Department head, won the 2012 World History Association Teaching Prize. Her award-winning lesson for her 9th-grade class on Jesuits in China was deemed a great example of using primary sources of historical research in the classroom. It was influenced in part by her travels in China on a fellowship in summer 2011. The lesson—“Should They Stay or Should They Go?: The Jesuits, the Qing, and the Chinese Rites Controversy,” will be published in the fall 2012 World History Bulletin.

ROB BURGESS, Lakeside theater director and maintenance foreman, was featured this fall in The Strawberry Theater Workshop’s This Land |Woody Guthrie, a play about the American folk artist, at Erickson Theatre Off Broadway.

And Chicago Children’s Theatre this fall is producing Harold and the Purple Crayon; Burgess wrote the lyrics for this stage adaption of the book, originally for Seattle Children’s Theatre. And Burgess will play Fezziwig in this year’s production of A Christmas Carol at ACT Theatre. And Seattle Children’s Theatre this spring will produce another stage adaption Burgess collaborated on: Adventures with Spot. It runs March 21-April 28, 2013.

CHARLENE AGUILAR, director of college counseling, was voted chair of the 30-member national board

of Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), considered the nation’s leading Latino legal civil rights organization.

DEB JOHNSTON, an Upper School history teacher, was a hit at the inaugural International Big History conference in Michigan this summer. Johnston’s on an international team piloting the Big History Project (bighistoryproject.com), sponsored by Bill Gates’73, which next fall releases its free courseware. Johnston presented a teaching strategy called “Little Big Histories,” which asks students to research an aspect of the contemporary world, tracing an object back into deep time, and used Jonah W. ’15’s paper on Cheez-Its as an example. The project got a standing ovation; Cheez-Its became the conference’s fun leitmotif.

EMILY PÉREZ, Upper School English teacher, was invited to compose poems about the work of a group of Seattle Latino artists and read them at a literary event at Columbia City Gallery.

BRIAN CULHANE, Upper School English teacher, had his poem “Declaration to a Shade” published by Slate.

You can read both their poems on our website, www. lakesideschool.org/magazine, or by viewing these QR codes:

Lakeside Lecture Series Navy Seal Eric Greitens, philanthropist Melinda Gates

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he Lakeside Lecture Series is presenting two can’t-be-missed speakers this spring: Eric Greitens is scheduled to give the Mark J. Bebie ’70 Memorial Lecture Feb. 13, 2013, and Melinda Gates to give the Dan Ayrault Memorial Endowed Lecture April 24, 2013.

Eric Greitens is a Navy Seal who, after returning from Iraq, used his combat pay and the disability pay of two friends to found The Mission Continues, a nonprofit organization that helps empower wounded and disabled veterans to embark on new lives and serve and lead in communities across America. He’s also the author of the The Heart and the Fist: The Education of a Humanitarian, the Making of a Navy SEAL, a bestseller that provides insights into service and leadership during challenging times.

A Rhodes scholar, Greitens earned a PhD at Oxford University, writing a dissertation on humanitarian movements and relief work, and did humanitarian work in Rwanda, Croatia, and Gaza. He became an “advocate for using power, where necessary, to protect the weak, to end ethnic cleansing, to end genocide,” according to The New York Times, but wondered how he could “ask others to put themselves in harm’s way” when he hadn’t done so himself and so became a Seal, serving in Afghanistan and Iraq. The idea of The Mission Continues is that public service can be a vehicle providing wounded vets a path back to society; it grants six-month fellowships to vets who present solid mission plans for work in the community, and will sponsor about 500 fellows in 2012, according to Time magazine.

Greitens continues to study and teach public service as a senior fellow at the Truman School of Public Affairs at the University of Missouri and at the Olin School of Business at Washington University.

Melinda Gates is co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Guided by the belief that every life has equal value, Bill and Melinda Gates created the foundation to help all people lead healthy and productive lives.

In July 2011, Melinda Gates made headlines by spearheading the London Summit on Family Planning with the U.K. Department for International Development to deliver contraceptives to an additional 120 million women in the developing world by 2020.

Participants from developing countries, international agencies, foundations, and the private sector made new commitments that will seek to address the policy, financing, demand, and delivery barriers to women accessing contraceptive information, services, and supplies. The foundation will have invested more than $1 billion in voluntary family planning services by 2020.

While involved in many of the organization’s endeavors, Gates has stated that empowering women in the developing world to decide whether and when to have a child so that they can create transformational improvements in their family’s health and prosperity is a critical driver of her work at the foundation.

Gates received a bachelor’s degree in computer science and economics from Duke University in 1986 and a master’s in business administration from Duke’s Fuqua School of Business in 1987. After joining Microsoft in 1987, she distinguished herself in business as a leader in the development of many of Microsoft’s multimedia products. In 1996, Gates retired from her position as Microsoft’s general manager of information products. Since then, she has directed her energy toward the nonprofit world. ■ Both lectures begin at 7 p.m. (doors open at 6 p.m.) and take place at St. Nicholas Hall on the Upper School campus.

Seating is limited and is first come, first served. RSVPs are appreciated: development@lakesideschool.org or 206368-3606. Please contact us as well if you wish to request special accommodations or for more information.

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Meet Christel McGuigan “Multiculturalism is who I am.”

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hristel McGuigan, Lakeside’s new director of equity and instruction, came to the field somewhat serendipitously, but her background and upbringing provided a natural pathway.

She tells people, “I was born and raised in Hawaii but I’m not Hawaiian; I speak Spanish but I’m not Hispanic.” Her father is Filipino; his parents immigrated to Hawaii when it was still a territory to work on the pineapple plantations. Her maternal grandmother was an Austrian who married a white American stationed with the military in Hawaii. Her husband is a quarter native Hawaiian and the rest a mix of Irish, Chinese, French, and Portuguese.

She’s always had an interest in different cultures. While she started out planning to become an accountant, two stints studying in Mexico led her to change direction in her senior year at the University of Hawaii and ultimately earn a master’s in Spanish and Latin American literature. “When you learn a language, you become very intimate with its culture,” says McGuigan (pronounced mik-gwig-un). “To live that culture in a Spanish-speaking country was a passion of mine.”

After she began teaching Spanish in 2004 at The Bishop’s School, a well-respected Episcopalian school in La Jolla, Calif., she had to adjust to a very different cultural experience. Growing up in Hawaii, “It was such a multicultural environment; most everyone is racially and ethnically mixed and share elements of each other’s cultures.”

Now, for the first time she found herself in an environment of often being “the only one in the room” of a different ethnicity or socioeconomic class.

A majority of the students were affluent and white and she was one of only a handful of teachers of color, while her working-class background also distinguished her. “I began

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CHRISTEL mcguigan: “Diversity work is never done. It’s so dynamic, fluid, and it’s ever changing.”

to reflect on my identity in this new environment. If I was feeling uncomfortable, were some students also feeling the same way?”

Knowing of her interest in exploring issues of diversity and identity, her dean of faculty sent her to the Summer Diversity Institute of the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS).

“I came back to Bishop’s energized and with ideas to engage the community in dialogue and strategic thinking about diversity and equity,” and that led eventually to her being appointed as the school’s first director of diversity development.

In 2008, she was named to Call for Action, the national group that advises the NAIS board on diversity and equity.

The following year she moved to Greenhill School, regarded as one of the top schools in Dallas, to become director of multicultural programs, including academic, extracurricular, and other campuswide programs, for students, faculty and staff, and families. She also taught Spanish at the school, which spans grades pre-K through 12. Like Lakeside, Greenhill had a reputation for taking diversity seriously, she says, especially notable given the conservative climate of Dallas.

One of her major initiatives there was to lead the faculty in a comprehensive evaluation of multicultural education. Under her leadership, Greenhill developed a new definition for multicultural education: “teaching and learning that explores varied perspectives and fosters cultural competence” in a way that “emphasizes

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how to interact, negotiate, and communicate with people from diverse groups to promote honor, respect, and compassion.”

That involved looking at curriculum and teaching practices and providing practical workshops for teachers on how to translate ideas for inclusive practices into the real world of the classroom. “Some departments took it and ran with it, and are transforming their teaching practices as well as their curriculum.”

In her proudest accomplishment, she also coordinated the NAIS Assessment of Inclusivity and Multiculturalism (AIM) at both The Bishop’s School and Greenhill School. AIM is a voluntary, comprehensive assessment that to date has been completed by more than 90 independent schools nationally and internationally.

It allows schools to benchmark themselves against others and use results to create diversity and inclusion strategic plans. As a member of Call to Action, McGuigan also had a hand in updating and revising AIM. Back in 1992, Lakeside underwent an earlier version of the assessment.

Greenhill’s head of school, Scott Griggs, praised McGuigan’s “excellent and tireless” leadership in accomplishing AIM, “which will guide our diversity efforts in the years to come,” and praised her for “challenging us to live our mission and inspiring us to consider different perspectives and deepen our understanding of diversity.”

McGuigan’s job at Lakeside will be somewhat similar to her role at Greenhill. She’ll

☛ For more about Lakeside’s diversity efforts, see our Web page: www.lakesideschool.org/diversity.

assist in recruiting and hiring faculty of color, and developing student leadership in matters related to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

One difference is that here she’ll have an even greater role in researching best practices in inclusive teaching and educating faculty and staff about the role of social and cultural factors in both teaching and learning. This will support Lakeside’s move into its “next phase” with a new Diversity and Inclusion Initiative (see accompanying story).

Inclusive teaching, McGuigan says, is “about providing a learning environment in which all students from diverse backgrounds and experiences are affirmed and valued. Do teaching materials and curriculum content present diverse perspectives? Are teaching and assessment strategies varied? Do students feel empowered to contribute their own interpretations and perspectives on events, concepts, and issues? Do students see themselves positively reflected back at them in what they study, in who is teaching them, and in who they see as role models of the school? Do teachers know their students and their families to better understand their needs? These are just a few of the many questions that we ask to provide a more meaningful and authentic learning experience for our students.

“Obviously we are not going to be able to incorporate each and every cultural background; however, we can certainly continue to examine what we do to provide an education that is representative of the larger community. And as we look to the future, we look for ways to provide the necessary knowledge, attitudes, and skills our students will need to succeed in a more global and interconnected community.”

While much has been accomplished at Lakeside, “Diversity work is never done,” McGuigan says. “It’s so dynamic, fluid, and it’s ever changing. The demographics are changing. The composition of the school community is constantly changing, with new students and new teachers and staff moving into our community.

“We have to always be asking ourselves, how can we best work and learn together as a diverse community?” ■

Diversity at Lakeside: The next five years Last fall the Lakeside community came together to decide on the broad outlines of a next-generation diversity initiative focused on race and class.

With the retirement of longtime diversity director T.J. Vassar, Head of School Bernie Noe believed it was the right time to take a look at diversity goals for the next five years.

Another spur to action was the conversation Noe had last year with groups of students of color. At Noe’s invitation, they shared with school directors their belief that students could use more help in gaining a deeper understanding of race and class and learning to deal with one another more sensitively.

Noe decided to bring the community together to decide the goals by following a model of consensus-based decision-making.

(You can read more about how that works at consensusbook.com).

On Nov. 29, 2011, all faculty and administrators, along with a representation of staff, alumni, students, parents and guardians, and trustees, spent the day devising and agreeing on the broad outlines of new goals in the areas of: hiring; creating inclusive communities of students, faculty and staff, and families; and teaching practices.

During the rest of the school year, volunteer work groups followed up to flesh out these plans. The Diversity and Inclusion Initiative was formally adopted by the Board of Trustees at its September 2012 retreat.

A few of the initiative’s key goals: Faculty hiring: Establish a more robust and nuanced system that will track promising diverse candidates and support those hired.

Inclusive pedagogy (teaching and learning): Identify fundamental skills and behaviors, both explicit and “hidden social, behavioral, and organizational expectations,” that lead to successful learning at Lakeside, and put into effect classroom practices to develop these skills and behaviors.

Inclusive student culture: Carve out more structured time for student discussion and reflection, including more opportunities for student-led diversity initiatives and mentorships.

Inclusive family culture: Create opportunities for deeper parent/guardian engagement, notably by developing a bolstered advisory program in grades 5-12 that loops in students’ families.

Access and affordability: Consider how Lakeside can absorb all costs of events, goods, and activities required for full participation in curricular programs, and streamline requests for financial assistance.

The new plan takes stock of, and aims to build on, what’s already been accomplished at Lakeside, including: a student body that approximately reflects the ethnic representation of student age population in this area (see details on page 8); curriculum that already has been broadened in recent years, for example in terms of languages taught and the authors of assigned reading; and the inclusion of “cross-cultural competence”— the ability to understand and interact effectively with people of different cultures and backgrounds—among the criteria that teachers are evaluated on.

With new goals set, school leaders created a job title and description for the person who would be charged with leading the initiative: director of equity and instruction. The change in title reflects a significant shift, with “instruction” included as an explicit part of the job duties.

Having a director who promotes and supports curriculum development and inclusive teaching practices is considered a leading-edge trend for independent schools.

In April, Christel McGuigan was chosen as the new director, and she began at Lakeside July 1. In his letter to the Lakeside community, Head of School Bernie Noe wrote that the search committee believed that McGuigan’s track record of leadership showed “Christel is ideally suited for this important work.”

You can read more about McGuigan in the accompanying profile and find out more about the Diversity and Inclusion Initiative report at www.lakesideschool.org/diversity.

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by Bronwyn Echols

THE WILLARD J. WRIGHT ’32 DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD June 7, 2012

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Barbara Lease Crutcher ’50

This citation, written by Board Secretary Bronwyn Echols, was read at Commencement.

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arbara Lease Crutcher ’50 has been one of Lakeside School’s most dedicated and effective supporters in the four decades since her alma mater, St. Nicholas School, merged with Lakeside. She has done more than almost any other alumna to keep alive the St. Nicholas spirit and to inspire her St. Nicholas class’s active support, and she has achieved the highest levels of leadership at Lakeside. Her exceptional record of service—on behalf of both schools and the city of Seattle—testifies to her devotion to our community and the common good. “Barbee,” as she is known to most everyone, attended St. Nicholas from 1945 to 1950. A “born leader,” according to her yearbook, Cantoria, she held every office in student government, finishing up as president her senior year. A loyal Smith College graduate, she served on Smith’s Alumnae Association Board of Directors and was chair of its Board of Counselors. Her strong family ties to Lakeside include three children—James ’75, Carey ’77, and Page ’79—and five grandchildren who have attended the school.

Barbee served on the Lakeside/St. Nicholas Alumni Association Board from 1970 to 1973, during the schools’ merger and the interesting, challenging early years of coeducation. An unequivocal supporter of the merger, she has written: “My continued association with . . . Lakeside . . . is a testimony to the privilege I feel for receiving my education at St. Nicholas [and] the inspiration and aspiration instilled there. My respect for the quality of excellence that continues at Lakeside is multifold. The St. Nicholas legacy is alive and well at Lakeside and continues to enrich the lives of the young men and women who attend the school today.”

A member of Lakeside’s Board of Trustees from 1975 to 1984, after serving on just about all of its committees Barbee became the Board’s first woman president, 1980-1982. From 1976 to 1978, she co-chaired Lakeside’s first significant capital fundraising—the Campaign for Building and Endowment, which resulted in three new buildings on the Lakeside campus: Pigott Memorial Library, the Fieldhouse, and St. Nicholas Hall. She has continued her philanthropic efforts for Lakeside ever since, and the Barbee Lease Crutcher ’50 Scholarship Fund honors her long association with and service to Lakeside.

Because of Barbee’s very productive involvement, St. Nicholas Class of 1950 initiatives have prospered—everything from Annual Fund asks to the St. Nicholas Scholars program, and from class reunions to the St. Nicholas centennial celebration held in 2010 at the original building on Capitol Hill. In all of her work on Lakeside and St. Nicholas schools’ behalf, Barbee 18

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Barbara Lease Crutcher ’50, 2012 Distinguished Service Award winner

has been a potent, solid, steady force encouraging cooperation and completion of essential programs.

Barbee’s work on behalf of Seattle’s parks, gardens, and open space has added to her legend. She was a leader and major fundraiser for the Seattle Commons initiative in the mid-1990s and then turned these same energies toward establishing the Seattle Parks Foundation. As the foundation’s most effective major fundraiser over the years, she helped to garner tens of millions of dollars for park enhancement projects, and she helped spearhead the creation of Lake Union Park, which opened in 2010.

Leadership and loyal dedication, linked together, benefit powerfully the institutions lucky enough to find these qualities in the people who support them. On this score, over its 90-plus years Lakeside School has been extraordinarily fortunate, and today we honor one of our very best exemplars, Barbara Lease Crutcher ’50, with the Willard J. Wright ’32 Distinguished Service Award to recognize her steadfast, wise, and incredibly productive service not just to Lakeside School but also to the spirit of St. Nicholas School and to greater Seattle. Nihil est virtute amabilius. ■

The rain that fell as the Commencement ceremony began didn’t dampen spirits of the Class of 2012.

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Congrats, “warmhearted” Class of 2012

BY THE NUMBERS In the top 5% of students in state, according to National Merit Scholarship Corporation: 58% Rank among classes in state for National Merit Scholars: 1 Number of senior class playwrights who had their work professionally produced through ACT Theatre’s Young Playwrights program: 3 Number of national top-10 finishes by the Lakeside chess team led by members of this class: 4 Number of Metro League individual and team championships: 34

☛View more: Go to www.lakesideschool.org/magazine to see Than Healy’s entire speech and a photo gallery of Commencement. Go to page 29 for more on Bernie Noe’s speech.

n June 7, Lakeside’s 86th CommenceO ment exercises celebrated the graduation

of the Class of 2012. Skies dripped as the ceremony began but the sun broke out as if on cue as students lined up to receive their diplomas. As Connie Ballmer, outgoing chair of the Board of Trustees, noted, “the liquid sunshine and a sea of ponchos” donned by students and guests just made the occasion even more memorable.

Following his tradition of picking a single adjective to characterize the 132 seniors of the graduating class, Upper School Director Than Healy designated the Class of 2012 as “warmhearted.” He noted the word is “defined as being marked by kindness, sympathy and generosity.”

Healy opened his address with an account of Lakeside’s hard-fought state swimming championship in the spring, explaining that it is “symbolic of this class because it encapsulates three key elements that define them: They are extraordinarily accomplished and successful, they are playful and relaxed, and they have displayed a wonderful care, support and sensitivity

towards each other.”

Grace Evelyn Levy and Kody Oliver Burleson, chosen by their graduating classmates to speak, shared humorous reminiscences, and Isabel Skilton, outgoing president of Upper School Student Government, passed on a lesson from her Global Service Learning trip to the Dominican Republic about committing to going outside one’s comfort zone and being open to others.

Ballmer presented Barbara Lease Crutcher ’50 with the Willard J. Wright ’32 Distinguished Service Award for her contributions to the school and greater Seattle community. (See accompanying story.)

In accepting the award, Crutcher said she found it almost odd to be acknowledged for volunteering since it’s something that enriched her life and she urged the graduates to apply their “time and talents in your community,” noting that “in many ways we’re a team for humanity.”

Sounding a similar theme, Head of School Bernie Noe encouraged the Class of 2012 to become selfless leaders to create a more just and equitable world. ■ Service award, Commencement

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Head of School Bernie Noe leads a discussion in his perennially popular elective, Genocide in the Modern World. He says its central question is, “Why do people participate in acts of genocide? It puts students in the position of f iguring out, ‘what would I do?’ ”

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“Are our students ethical?”

In summer 2010, at a big-picture goals meeting of Lakeside administrators, Head of School Bernie Noe raised the question.

It wasn’t the first time. Looking back, he says, he’s probably had this discussion 10 times since he became Lakeside’s head in 1999.

He believes Lakeside students to be the most ethical of any he’s worked with. He credits parents, Lakeside, and “Seattle’s general culture” of politeness: “It’s a smaller city, a lot of people know each other. You’re not going to get very far if you treat people badly.”

But he asked the question, Noe recalls, as “a temperature check. Where are we strong, or not so strong? Because I believe you can’t stop being vigilant about it.

“It’s great to be talented, smart, athletic, all the many things we hope our students are or become, but if they’re not ethical they’re not contributing to the world.”

As he asked the question that day, he drew on several years of discussions he’d had as a board member of the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS). Its president, Pat Bassett, has been urging independent schools to move away from the “value-neutral” approach of more recent years, noting that emphasizing character was a hallmark of early independent schools, albeit in those days with an attitude of noblesse oblige.

So-called “character education” got a bad name in the ’80s in some circles, when it became caught up in the culture wars and identified with the religious right.

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But with a fresh spate of bad behavior in the news, Bassett called for schools to become a bulwark against the “toxic culture” of shallow, selfish thinking, and designated character as “one of the 6 Cs” essential for 21st-century students—along with critical thinking, creativity, communication, collaboration, and cosmopolitanism, or cross-cultural competency.

Lakeside is, of course, a secular school. Noe—who was raised Catholic, served as administrator at a Quaker school, Sidwell Friends in Washington, D.C., and is married to a pastor of an ecumenical faith community—notes that “we tell students that values matter in your life, but we don’t tell them specifically what values they need to have” other than those embodied in Lakeside’s Statement of Community Expectations, which all students must sign every year. They’re expected to be “honest, respectful, inclusive.”

And so that summer day in 2010,

character the directors began citing all the evidence they saw that their students were ethical. Students treat each other courteously. Students complete required local service learning hours and often more. When they return from global service trips their writing reflects a deepened awareness of how people in the developing world live and the comparative wealth they themselves enjoy. This evidence was reassuring.

And yet…

Noe’s question would become the spark leading to a year of deep-diving into how character and ethics are practiced and manifested at Lakeside.

That day the question touched a chord in Bryan Smith. As Upper School assistant director, student life is an area he oversees. As an adolescent, he’d found his own moral compass with the help of educator mentors who gave him the support he needed to speak up against the racism he saw all around him and

Lakesiders spend a year diving deep into how character that he somehow knew was wrong. & ethics are taught, learned, The opportunity at Lakeside to help students build character seemed clear to him: “We needed a more and lived at the school. structured approach to how we do this in the community. We needed to reinforce the foundation.”

During the fall of 2010, two more events added momentum: Harvard professor Michael Sandel, a powerful speaker on ethics, inspired students to talk about his ideas for weeks, and even today.

Not long after, then-Middle School Director Anne Stavney (now head of The Blake School in Minneapolis) came back from a conference that featured Bassett, the NAIS president, and another Harvard professor, Richard Weissbourd. She championed their message of the need to teach not the “what” but the “how” of moral practice, and their insistence that ethics should be the touchstone for everything a school does. She shared these thoughts in a

Lakeside e-newsletter.

And so, with the beginning of fall semester 2011, teachers, staff, and students embarked on a year of taking a “temperature check—where are we strong, or not so strong.” Before it was over it would involve: • Teachers reading, thinking, and talking about the ways they already teach character, and what more they could do.

• Student leaders helping to revamp freshman orientation and retreat, and class meetings to emphasize students’ role in making Lakeside an ethical community; organizing an assembly featuring students talking about their ethics and making a video of students and teachers answering questions such as “Are you a good person?”

All this came amid a nonstop cascade of scandals nationally and ➢

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Upper School Assistant Director Bryan Smith assembles senior mentors as they prepare to help lead the 9thgrade retreat. Smith is heading efforts to embed character education more deeply into Lakeside student life.

Research finds that people who focus of their character on being good are .... happier internationally, from Wall Street shenanigans that nearly toppled the financial and more successful. system; to Penn State, where an investiga-

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tion found leaders ignored child abuse for fear of bad publicity; to colleges lying about their students’ SAT scores; to SAT cheating at some of the nation’s most highly regarded schools. The news was a continuous spotlight on what happens when that ethical compass goes missing.

What follows is a look at how the year unfolded.

director, has always been open about her rocky experience as a student at Lakeside and how she was a “handful.”

A family divorce and ethnic identity questions played a part. She tells the gathering that she credits those at Lakeside who cared enough to “praise me in public and call me out in private.” She says, “I had a complicated life, our students have complicated lives.”

The ethics kickoff, Smith reads a paper he wrote for a Aug. 29, 2011 college assignment to attend a function for a group outside his own and to reflect “The students are watching.” on being an outsider. As a white male The opening day of the school year for faculty always centers on a theme that will from a middle-class family in the South, be the focus of the year’s professional devel- he hadn’t often felt like an outsider, but when he attended an African-American opment. This year it’s “Ethics at Lakeside.” church service, he did. That experience Bryan Smith and Jamie Asaka ’96 ultimately led him to examine a lot of the open by telling deeply personal stories about how mentors helped them find their expectations and mores he’d grown up with, and to his a desire to be a teacher authentic selves, their ethical core.

Asaka, the new Middle School assistant and role model.

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“Our students do watch us,” he says, echoing the title of an influential book, subtitled Schools and the Moral Contract.

Smith has been gathering string for a year now and today has a collection of articles for the teachers to read and discuss. Among them are articles on super-achieving students who have no time to reflect; “snowplow” parents who want to remove every obstacle for their children; the development of empathy; how and why some ordinary people become “heroes” and good Samaritans while others don’t.

One article names four aspects of character that schools should help students cultivate: Intellectual character: the disposition to be “curious, open-minded, reflective, strategic, skeptical, and truth-seeking.” Moral

Middle Schoolers love just hanging out in Assistant Director Jamie Asaka’s off ice. This typical lunchtime group ricocheted from talking about school dance behavior to stereotypes to gender roles. Asaka’s approach to character education is to become a trusted mentor.

☛ Find the ethics video, news articles, and assembly speeches at www.lakesideschool.org/magazine. character: to seek the good and right and give priority to moral over non-moral considerations. Performance character: includes such qualities as perseverance, diligence, courage, resilience, optimism, initiative, attention to detail, and loyalty—qualities that are only good when they serve good ends but are “necessary to make the other dimensions of character effective.” Civic character: to consider the common good and to work toward it in collaboration with others.

One article notes research on the impact of character on outcomes in life.

In a cross-cultural survey, parents were asked to complete the sentence: “I want my child to be …” Japanese mothers would finish the sentence with the word “successful,” American mothers would finish the sentence with the word “happy.”

But research indicates that people focused on being good turn out not only to be good but happy and successful in disproportionate numbers.

The teachers’ small-group discus-

As a longtime coach of lacrosse, soccer, and basketball, Asaka sees many character lessons played out on the f ield. Like when the long-unbeaten varsity girls lacrosse team lost in the semif inals last year and had to summon pride, will, and gumption to play all-out for third place. “It was really hard. And they did it.”

sions are frank and heartfelt. Not all the questions have answers. There are some difficult, hot-button issues.

They note, for example, that there is sometimes a perceived conflict between becoming a good person and high achievement.

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Ben J. ’13 records a student answering questions about ethics.

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leaders to include more character education curriculum.

Students’ ethics initiatives launch September 2011

By August 31, the first day of school for Upper School students, almost 10 months have passed since the students spent a rapt two-and-a-half hours with Michael Sandel, the famed professor who teaches Justice, the most popular Harvard course ever. But the experience is still fresh in the minds of the 16 Upper School student government leaders.

After the assembly, kids could be heard buzzing for weeks about scenarios Sandel posed. Would they turn a runaway train onto a side track where it will kill one per-

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son but save five others? Would they push a fat person onto a track below to stop the train?

They’re divided about whether Navy SEALs on an anti-Taliban mission whose remote hiding place is spotted by two goat herders should kill them; and whether their decision changes knowing that in real life the SEALs didn’t kill the herders, the Taliban killed three SEALs, and 11 would-be rescuers died as well. Representing the majority view, one student said: “How far would you take it to ensure your safety? Would you kill a whole village?

How many herders would there have to be before you wouldn’t kill them?”

But they split most over whether they’d turn in a sibling for a crime. A slim majority would not. “My loyalty is more to my

family than to American society,” said one, while another said he would turn a brother in “in a second; if he’s going to be a threat to others he’s lost his moral compass.”

At the end, Sandel suggested: “What did we learn? That numbers aren’t everything; principles count. That loyalties compete with doing justice.”

This year the Upper School student government leaders decide they want to use Sandel’s assembly as a model to create one of their own.

“Michael Sandel did something incredible, really cool: He created a dynamic in which people were thinking about their beliefs, speaking on them, and learning from others’ beliefs,” says Houston W. ’13, student government treasurer who’s also varsity lacrosse team captain

Erik Christensen, Upper School English Department head, says curiosity is an important ethical responsibility. “I bristle when people are passive, incurious, complacent; it shuts down thinking.”

“It really is a learning moment.

It’s impressive to see the reflection that goes on.” ˜ emma page ’12, judicial committee chair 2011-2012

and blood-drive captain.

“We want to create the dialogue again, constantly if possible.”

They decide to make a video to show at a student-run assembly and at a professional development day for faculty scheduled for January.

The group comes up with questions to ask students and teachers on the video: •Do you consider yourself a good person?

•What could you do to be better?

•Has being at Lakeside influenced your ethics?

•What is your most important ethical value?

Finding Kind at the Middle School Oct. 12, 2011

At the Middle School, one of the first big events of the year is a girls-only viewing of Finding Kind, a highly touted documentary about “mean girls” and a discussion with its director, who is showing it in schools across the country.

Because there hadn’t been a particular

incident that prompted the showing at Lakeside, Asaka says, “The girls were able to go into it not feeling defensive, but with an open mind” about its message about the long-term impacts of how girls treat each other. And it gives them a common language to talk about the subject.

“Kids will gossip, judge, label, because they’re trying to figure out who they are and where they fit in,” says Asaka. At this age they crave attention, and that can be positive or negative.

So she offers them opportunities to “display acts of kindness” and take leadership to contribute to the common good in ways small but deliberate, as simple as putting them in charge of devising a solution to messy backpack-strewn hallways, and running the first fall school dance when a DJ fails to appear.

She routinely sends letters of praise home to reinforce the positive. “Over time, that sets the tone on how to act.”

But she also always keeps in mind that kids are still developing. “In my view, some of the best learning comes when you fall short, when you fail, when you disappoint. A lot of this I learned from coaching,” says Asaka, who is the varsity

Mehak Anwar ’12

Emma Page ’12’s four years on the Judicial Committee deepened her conviction about why honesty is important to the quality of life.

girls lacrosse coach and also has coached soccer and basketball.

Adults, she says, often “want kids to not have any problems, to always be great.

That’s not reasonable.”

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First Judicial Committee meeting of the year Dec. 6, 2011

“A student lied to a teacher about their whereabouts during a missed class. When questioned again at a later time, the student was again untruthful. Using the principle outlined in the Community Expectations that, “individuals are expected to be honest and forthcoming about their own actions,” the Judicial Committee decided that the student had committed a violation. As a consequence, the student received four hours of Just Deserts [work detail] and must write a letter of apology to the teacher.”

The most highly sought-after elected position for students is a seat on the Upper School’s Judicial Committee.

You might think that students would shy from sitting in judgment of fellow students. But the position is attractive because it equates to real-world power; decisions make a difference in students’ lives, explains committee chair Emma

• “Pretty good, for a 16-year-old.”

• “Greater devotion to the well-being of other people.”

Page ’12, elected to the committee four years straight.

More students than faculty are voting members: There are four students, one representing each grade, and two teachers. The senior student is always the chair. The Upper School director has the final say but rarely changes a decision.

The Judicial Committee and the document that guides it, the Statement of Community Expectations, date to 1997 and are considered the school’s ethical foundation.

Initiated by then-Head of School Terry Macaluso as part of a move to put in place clearer and more consistent expectations and disciplinary guidelines, they were debated and created by a task force of administrators, teachers, parents, students, and trustees.

Middle School Director Elaine Christensen ’82, who was involved in forming the Judicial Committee, says she believes it’s “one of the most powerful representations of how much we trust students, how much we rely on them taking responsibility for their actions.”

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mittee hears from the student, decides whether the community expectations statement has been violated, if the offense deserves a consequence, and if so, what that consequence should be—which can be anything up to expulsion.

Hearing a case rarely takes less than 90 minutes. Decisions hardly ever line up as the adults versus the kids; if anything, the student representatives are more likely to take the harder line.

Says Page: “Students may feel, I took the same test and I didn’t cheat, and I had three essays to write the same day.”

The vast majority of cases, she explains, involve cheating on tests or plagiarism, typically “spur of the moment—it’s 2 in the morning, they haven’t finished a book and think, ‘I’m going to go to SparkNotes and hope no one notices,” Page says. The second biggest category is dishonesty, typically lying to an adult.

“Lakeside kids tend to think of themselves as ethical and academically successful,” Page says, “and when they find themselves in a position when they are not being academically successful they aren’t really prepared to deal with that. They know cheating

is wrong. They have been in enough environments where they have been told that. But they don’t necessarily get the chance to internalize it. They often haven’t had to confront the decision in a personal way. In a high-pressure situation, kids will make a decision they will then regret.”

9th-grade class meeting Jan. 25, 2012

Students are sprawled on the floor of the chapel, in small groups with their advisors, to talk about case studies Smith adapted from the Center for Spiritual and Ethical Education. In one, “Steve,” who got straight A’s in middle school and has defined himself as the “smart kid,” becomes unmoored when he isn’t getting the same good grades as a new 9th grader.

In a second, senior “Amanda”—active in sports, academic star, musician, involved with outside clubs such as Free Tibet—is so busy she fails to complete the school’s required service hours and is in danger of not graduating. She wants her parents to sign off that she’s done the hours and promises to complete them the

summer after she graduates.

In science teacher David Joneschild ’90’s group, at first the students don’t get why the “perfect student” is an ethical question, then one says the situation could lead him to cheat.

Joneschild: “Is it an issue of character? How one sees oneself?”

He asks if they are at all like Steve. About half the kids smile or laugh a little. “I was the smartest kid at my school last year,” one boy says. There are knowing looks all around.

What should Steve do? “Suck it up,” says one. “Come to the realization that he was a big fish in a small pond before and now he’s swimming in a big ocean and has to deal with it.”

Joneschild suggests that maybe Steve is seeing himself in a onedimensional way. A boy brings up the name of a kid the previous year who went back to public school because he couldn’t deal with not being the smartest anymore.“That’s mean,” says a girl.

When representatives from all the small groups report to the whole 9th-grade class, one says half his group thought it was alright for Amanda to lie to the school because she was

the 8th-grade power brokers in their middle school and ask, would they follow Machiavelli’s playbook if they were a leader?”

At first, “Most of them will say yes, it’s practical. But there’s always a quiet kid who will usually be the ethical voice.”

Kyle is also on the Judicial Committee and teaches ethical leadership at Rainier Scholars, an enrichment program for talented students of color.

Before she came to Lakeside in 2009 she taught at Deerfield Academy, the venerable boarding school in Massachusetts, where she was co-chair of a strategic plan that, by order of trustees, included a vision for a “more intentional program of ethical learning.”

This year she and a Deerfield philosophy teacher decide to collaborate on a presentation about ethics at the annual conference of NAIS, joining Smith and the head of leadership development for Rainier Scholars.

What most captures audience interest is Lakeside’s Judicial Committee. Other schools may have similar bodies but typically students are the minority voice. The affirmation is

• “It’s where I grew up. So it shaped who I am as an individual. My morals, they sort of tie along with that.” lying for the greater good—organizations like the Tibet group wouldn’t have her services, if she had to cut the time she dedicated to such activities.

Another group reasoned that, on the one hand, Amanda was “not hurting anybody and if she doesn’t graduate, she’s damaging her career, but in the long term, if your parents let you get away with whatever, they’re teaching you that you can get away with anything if you have good intentions and don’t get caught.”

Ethics presentation at NAIS March 2, 2012

Upper School history teacher Colleen Kyle has long been interested in ethics—in the classroom and out.

“All of us in the humanities deal with the ethical dilemmas that characters and historical figures face and how they resolve them,” she says.

One of her favorite lessons for 9th graders is to compare the cynical powerbroker Machiavelli and Mencius, the Confucian philosopher from the Han Dynasty. “I ask them to think about

• “People should respect each other.”

gratifying, says Kyle. And yet …

“What makes us a great institution at Lakeside is great rigor in always questioning, is there a better way now?”

What she’d like to do next: “We could be more deliberate about giving our students the tools to ask ethical questions and process ethical questions productively.

“I think there’s a lot of relativism in our culture. There are benefits to that. But one of the results is that we raise more ethical questions than we can answer. There can be two or three or more ways that are all ethically viable.”

She’s ready to tackle this. “Every teacher cares about this … we can figure out ways we can address some of the challenges our students face in a communitywide way.” Maybe it could be a new class, or woven into existing classes, maybe an all-school professional development day involving students.

She goes back to Noe’s question. “I’m glad Bernie keeps asking that question.

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Houston Warren ’13 records Amerra Sheckles 14’s thoughts. Warren’s own key value: “It takes courage to be a good person when it is easy to not be, to go out of your comfort zone, to do what is best for others, and to set a path for yourself. …

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extremely powerful in that process.

“When institutions go wrong, like Penn State, you are reminded again how significant” that is.

The ethics assemblies March 6 and 7, 2012

Houston Warren ’13 has spent 10 hours editing two hours of footage down to six minutes, and the ethics video is ready to debut at the student assembly.

Most teachers and students say they think they are good or relatively good people, yet have many ways they think they could be better: Be more patient, compassionate, less judgmental, less greedy; make more time for their friends or those beyond their families and Lakeside.

Some think Lakeside helped them form their ethics; others say their ethics were firmly in place before they set foot on campus.

Four students have been chosen by the student government leaders to give short speeches on ethics. Teacher Tom Doelger, also asked to speak, tells an evocative tale about a snowball, cruelty, and kindness.

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diverse student viewpoints, such as they heard at the Sandel assembly, and ties this to the challenges posed to his Christian beliefs: He thought in black and white until he came to Lakeside and since then has been routinely questioned by his friends, most of whom are agnostic and atheist. That has served to force him to vet his assumptions and has made his convictions stronger.

Ericka A. ’13 recounts her experience at the national Student Diversity Leadership Conference for kids of color at independent schools.

At first she thinks a student is rude for barreling ahead to speak before the crowd, and then sees him with compassion when he tells of his great isolation and pain at not being accepted by others.

Page tells how her four years on the Judicial Committee “made me a more thoughtful, ethical human being” saying, “I have learned more in a few dozen sporadic meetings with that group than I have in any other class or activity in which I’ve participated.”

Both the video and the speeches get huge applause.

The next day, the Upper School teach-

ers see the video again at a faculty meeting and revisit what they’d written earlier in the year about helping navigate ethical situations with students. It’s a much-truncated version of activities that Smith had planned for the January professional development day for both Upper and Middle School teachers, which had to be canceled because of a snow storm.

The YEAR ENDS June 2012

As the year comes to a close, despite the missed opportunity of the January day, school leaders are feeling pretty good about what got done.

Says Noe: “Institutions signal what they value through what they spend their time and energy discussing. If we were never to discuss values with faculty, you’d have to draw the conclusion that values don’t matter to us. Our discussions kept before the student body the fact that ethics matter.”

And this is not the end of ethics discussions at Lakeside.

“You’re not going to change the entire mindset of the school via one assembly,” War-

Upper School history teacher Colleen Kyle shares a laugh with students working on the student newspaper Tatler, which began to publish an ethical advice column after Harvard professor Michael Sandel’s popular campus talk on ethics in 2010.

ren says. “Our goal for the next few years in student government is to go beyond planning events to have a role in defining the character of the school and the character of the students here.”

One way, he says, will be to boost support for the Student Awareness Council, which focuses on issues of race, class, gender, and sexual orientation. Warren says he learned a lot at the SAC retreat earlier in the year, and came away with the conviction that “if you think about what others see versus what you see in day-to-day situations, you’re acting in a way that’s more aware, by its nature” and that promotes ethical behavior.

Page, though graduating Lakeside and heading to Wellesley College, passes on to faculty her message about the need for greater awareness of the issues of fear of failure and vulnerability of students.

Kyle is ready to enlist fellow teachers in taking next steps, Asaka is cooking up more character-building leadership opportunities for students, and Smith is ramping up an ethical leadership training program for student leaders that will include pairing senior mentors with 9th-grade advisory groups.

Commencement June 7, 2012

As part of the June Commencement ceremony, two graduating seniors give a humorous address that includes a goodnatured poke at the head of school: “He doesn’t think of us as the ‘Class of 2012.’ To Bernie, we’re a community of hungry intellects whose pursuit of common purpose forms a community of compassionate souls who, as graduates, will join the community of mankind as

Lakeside leaders explain how the Judicial Committee works as part of a presentation on ethics at a national education conference.

exemplary representatives of the great Lakeside community.”

The laughter indicates that they’ve hit their mark. And when it’s Noe’s turn at the podium, it’s as if they’ve cued him.

He evokes Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning, a book he teaches in his class Genocide in the Modern World. As a prisoner in Auschwitz, Frankl concluded that to live a life of meaning, we must ask ourselves not what we want from life, but instead, what does life require of us?

Noe notes that the Class of 2012 is leaving Lakeside at a time when the global community is facing serious issues: environmental degradation, a growing disparity between rich and poor, inequities in access to education, political polarization in the United States, and global inequities between men and women.

“The world will require you to sacrifice,” he says. “The times will require your inspired, selfless leadership. I know you will provide it to create a more just and equitable world for everyone.”

It’s a pretty somber note for a graduation, but a fitting one for the close of a year spent thinking about character. And it’s in character for Noe. The emphasis on “sacrifice,” though, seems to go even a little farther than usual for Noe. Later, asked why, he says: “I really believe we need leaders who

sacrifice and lead others to sacrifice. We need ethical, selfless leadership. And gosh our kids have had a steady diet of seeing the opposite …”

“We’ve gotten to the logical extreme of everybody getting everything they want.

Nations and cities and institutions go through cycles. We are at the apex of the ‘get everything for yourself ’ cycle. It needs to change. There’s no future for the world in it.

“I do think our kids are going to have to accept this notion that they, yes, will get some of the things they want in life, but they also have to consider the good of the whole.”

Does he think they’re ready for that?

“I don’t think anyone is ready for it. It’s a great idea in the abstract. But I will say this: I do see Lakeside students more often than not living out their concern for the whole. These kids have as good a chance of any around, of carrying that belief system into the world.” ■ Carey Quan Gelernter is editor of Lakeside magazine.

You can reach her at carey.gelernter@lakesideschool. org or 206-440-2706. Tom Reese is a freelance photographer. You can reach him at tom@tomreesephoto.com.

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carla erickson orlando ’80: “I think real character is when we are genuine and can lead our lives from the very core of who we are.”

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ow do questions of character play out in the workaday world? How do you make the ethical choice when the momentum is moving the other direction?

We asked Lakeside alumni to consider these weighty issues through the lens of their working lives. Some have found examples of character and ethics in the unlikeliest of places: in the prosecutor who decided to spare the life of the Green River killer, in the deliveryman who didn’t hold a grudge, in the ways that families grieve. You may not agree with their views in all cases. But you can be sure they did not come to them lightly.

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For nurse practitioner Samatra Doyle, questions of character and ethics mean walking a fine line between being a clinician who relies on science and a human being driven by compassion.

But compassion toward whom? It’s not always clear-cut.

About nine months ago, a young mother came into Doyle’s care suffering cardiac arrest, septic shock, and leukemia; she was also on a ventilator. The care team agreed the combination was not survivable. Medically speaking, palliative care was the clear option.

But the family asked for more time. They were going to pray, ’round the clock.

“They truly believed God would heal her from leukemia and cardiac arrest, which to me is not fathomable,” Doyle said. “It’s really, really different from what I believe.”

But as she watched, she began to see how important this was for them, no matter what the outcome.

“People have to heal how they want to heal.”

The days wore on, the team was getting uncomfortable.

“How much time do you get for prayer while your patient is on a machine, nonresponsive?” she wondered. “It’s not ethical to do that. Or is it?

“You learn that things aren’t always very clear. They’re messy.”

After about a week, the family reluctantly agreed to withdraw the breathing machine.

Within an hour, the patient was gone. Eventually the family was at peace. It took them awhile.

“You have to give people the space to deal with their illness however they can,” Doyle said. “People just deal in different ways and I hadn’t encountered this way before.”

Stephen Matchett ’74 Alternatives to Violence Project, California

If you can, perhaps you should. That’s the conclusion Stephen Matchett has come to, after a path of many twists and turns.

For 14 years, he was an appellate lawyer practicing criminal defense. During a sabbatical, he discovered two things: He found great fulfillment doing volunteer work, and he was able to subsist without a regular salary.

He was fortunate enough to have bought a building some years earlier, thanks, in part, to inherited wealth.

“My tenants are subsidizing my volunteer work,” he said. “Time was I would really guilt trip myself about that.”

Samatra Doyle ’96: “ You learn that things aren’t always very clear. They’re messy.”

Now he embraces it. A life of relative privilege has allowed him to forgo his legal career and become a full-time volunteer with the Alternatives to Violence Project, a program that teaches inmates and others how to avoid conflict.

Initially a trial program in just two or three prisons, the all-volunteer workshops are now offered in 16 California prisons. For both inmates and facilitators it’s transformative, he says.

Doing this work, he realized there was something else he could and should do–give up his car, and not Stephen take rides from others.

Matchett ’74 “It’s the closest thing in my life to what Quakers call a ‘leading,’ a spiritual call,” he explained. “Climate change is a fundamental and huge thing we’re confronting. There’s going to have to be this huge transformation of how we exist on the planet if we want to keep going with human existence.”

And because he could get where he needed to go on foot or via public transportation or bicycle, he decided there was only one ethical choice for him: he would.

Carla Erickson Orlando ’80 Educator, spiritual leader The way Carla Erickson Orlando remembers it, questions of faith and spirituality have nagged at her forever, even as an adolescent, when such matters weren’t often discussed among her classmates.

As a young woman, she put much of that aside to pursue a career in education at Seattle University. For years, she worked in student development, climbing the ladder. But something was missing.

“At the end of the day, in very quiet moments, I felt there was some growing dissatisfaction,” she said.

Part of it was about work. Part of it was about something larger.“I wondered what am I going to be, and who am I, anyway?” she recalled.

Around that time, she had twin daughters, and left work to care for them. Finally, she took the time to confront the things that were nagging her. She had the freedom to explore a spiritual path.

“I had to let go of all the exterior activity and follow a kind of deeper interior,” she recalled.

It was life-changing. She educated herself

and sought out spiritual mentors, stumbling onto the work of a theologian who focused on the spirituality of the child. It was the answer she had been seeking.

Since then, she’s developed a program for children at St. Therese Catholic Church. She leads workshops for students and educators on spirituality, leadership, and decision-making.

It is an unusual calling. But that’s what happens when you ask the right questions.

“I think real character is when we are genuine and can lead our lives from the very core of who we are,” she said. Now, she can help others answer the very questions that nagged at her: Who am I? What am I called to do in my life?

Catherine Ruckelshaus ’79 National Employment Law Project

When Cathy Ruckelshaus graduated from Stanford Law School, she could have chosen a job at a white shoe law firm, representing bigtime clients. But she didn’t.

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“Most of my growing up years, my dad talked a lot about how important it was to serve your country and give back,” she explained.

For her, that has meant representing lowwage workers in claims against employers. Her clients are home health care workers and janitors, migrant farm workers and landscapers.

Some of them are undocumented. There are those who would question whether representing undocumented workers is really a way to serve the country.

“The law is, if you work you have to get paid at least the minimum wage,” she explained. “Otherwise employers will seek out just those workers they can underpay and the wages for everybody will drop.”

In two decades of practice, she said, it is her clients who have taught her the most about character.

Like Faty Ansoumana, from Senegal. The first time they met, he was reading Camus’ The Stranger. He was working 80 hours a week delivering groceries in New York, but he wasn’t getting a wage—only tips. He could have been bitter, but he wasn’t.

“He would just shake his head and say, ‘I don’t think this is right,’ ” Ruckelshaus said.

It’s something she noticed with many of her clients. They may have experienced terrible strife back home, and dis- Catherine crimination here, yet they Ruckelshaus ’79 focus less on themselves and more on sending money to family in need back home.

“They just have this sort of bigger-picture wisdom that some of us lose out on,” she said.

“The fact that most of them do not hold grudges or have any anger about their situation has been very powerful to me.”

Now, as she looks around and notices all the low-wage workers that are a part of our daily lives, she thinks about that lesson. And she is reminded to focus on what really matters.

Jasper “JJ” Chen ’96 Psychiatry Resident, DartmouthHitchcock Medical Center

Classmates remember Jasper Chen as a student of great character, as someone who gave of himself freely, who stood up for what was right and fair and just. They knew he would succeed.

But somewhere along the way, Chen lost track of who he really was. As he discovered,

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jasper “jj” chen ’96 was a surgeon who switched to psychiatry to be the kind of healer who’s “true to my own character.”

being true to yourself is the real test of character.

In medical school, Chen fell in love with surgery. He became a surgical resident and loved performing operations. He was saving lives. But something was wrong.

“I felt I was missing talking to patients and getting to know them as human beings,” he said.

It was a gut-wrenching realization. He had spent years preparing to be a surgeon. He didn’t want to disappoint his family. But something had to change.

He switched to psychiatry–a drastic leap in some ways, one that would prolong his education. But he knew it was right.

“I wasn’t being true to my own character,” he said. “I had to listen to myself as who I really was. It was more the role of being a supportive guide who can help others discover themselves.”

As he thought more about the decision, he realized something: Being true to himself was actually good for other people, too. Psychiatry allows him more time—to learn about the healing potential of physical fitness and share that with patients; to play the piano in nursing homes.

“I think a lot of healing can occur in music,” he said.

And that, he realized, is what being a physician is all about. Being the best healer you can be, in whatever way works.

Maleng made a widely quoted pronouncement: He wouldn’t make any deals with Gary Ridgway.

But the defense team wanted to keep Ridgway off death row. They had an idea: At the time, he was only charged in four murders. He would confess to more if the state agreed to life in prison.

“Absent a confession, these cases would never be solved,” O’Donnell explained. Dozens of families would continue to wonder what happened to their loved one. On the other hand, Maleng had made a promise. He’d take a lot of heat if he didn’t pursue death. “If Ridgway wasn’t the worst of the worst, who was?”

O’Donnell said.

“Norm had to make a very tough decision.”

In the end, Maleng concluded that solving all those old murders was most important.

O’Donnell and the prosecution team felt the same way, but some members of the public were outraged. Prosecutors around the state felt the consequences, as well, as it became harder for them to seek the death penalty. Yet Maleng did not waver.

“He was one of those guys,” O’Donnell said of Maleng, “who said you do what’s right and that’s the easy path.”

And that, he added, is a true test of character.

Sean O’Donnell ’90 King County Superior Court Judge starting Jan. 1

Maren GraingerMonsen ’80 Director of the Program in Bioethics and Film at Stanford University

Not long after he began working for the King County Prosecutor’s Office, Sean O’Donnell was assigned to help prosecute the Green River killer.

At the time, elected prosecutor Norm

Maren Grainger-Monsen went through medical school before she fully understood that being a physician wasn’t necessarily the way to improve health care. Not in a broad

SEAN O’DONNELL ’90 supported taking the Green River killer off death row so he would reveal more of his victims.

sense, anyway. Instead, she tries to do it through films that explore big ethical questions.

With each film, Grainger-Monsen tries to create empathy, to invite viewers to walk in someone else’s shoes.

Which, it turns out, isn’t easy—especially for the filmmaker.

For her film, Revolutionary Optimist, she traveled back and forth to India over several years, following families and Maren Graingerchildren working in a Monson ’80 brick kiln.

“It’s indentured servitude,” she said. “Basically slave labor.”

Grainger-Monsen tells the story of a teenage girl who quit school to work in the kiln, though she dreamed of becoming a tailor—a way out of dire poverty.

It was painful to watch her struggle. If you’re a relatively well-off American watching this unfold, your first instinct might be to rescue this girl.

You’d want to buy her a sewing machine,“to help her in this very direct way,” she said.

But the more time she spent there, the

more she realized that “one sewing machine is not the solution. The solution is to get all these kids back in school to learn to read and write. It’s quite a powerful realization. It’s just a larger, slower process.”

“We’ve been learning,” she said, “that it doesn’t help just to save one kid.”

Instead, you show the world what it’s like to walk in the shoes of that desperately poor teenage girl.

Noah Bopp ’92 School for Ethics and Global Leadership, Washington, D.C.

On Sept. 12, 2001, teacher Noah Bopp stood before his 10th graders, all of them angry and scared and confused about the tragedy that had unfolded the day before.

“Rather than being aware of the difference between a Shia Muslim and a Sunni Muslim or understanding what the Taliban was … they knew zero,” he said. “What I remember explaining to them is why this had nothing to do with the prophet Nostradamus.

“I realized we have to do something different about the way we educate kids in this country. The world has fundamen-

tally changed and we’ve got to change as a result.”

Several years later, he founded the School for Ethics and Global Leadership, a semester program for high-school juniors.

“We have a lot of leaders out there,” he said.

“A lot of them do really bad things. We should be asking ourselves what kind of a leader do we want to create?”

The students debate some of the biggest international ethics questions of the day, whether they involve debates over sending aid to Pakistan or the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. They talk about tools to maintain an ethical course in the face of Noah Bopp ’92 political pressure.

“As an educator, I don’t care what your answer to the question is,” he said. “I don’t care whether you turn out to be a Democrat or a Republican. I want you to be ethically strong and internationally aware. I trust as an educator that what is right will rise to the top.” ■ Maureen O’Hagan is a Seattle Times reporter and freelance writer. You can reach her at mohagan_2000@yahoo.com.

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Celebrating 2s and 7s

n June 7, members of the St. Nicholas and Lakeside School Classes of 1962 led the Class of 2012 in the traditional Thursday procession to the Commencement ceremony. The next day, a record crowd of more than 400 alumni and friends from classes ending in 2s and 7s came together on Lakeside’s Upper School campus to celebrate their reunion. During Friday reunion festivities, Barry Erickson ’82 joined Bruce Bailey ’59 at the podium to recognize those who traveled the farthest to attend the reunion. They also celebrated the Class of 2007 for the largest fifth reunion attendance in recent history, and the Class of 1992 for the most attendees. All the alums cheered Robert Arenz ’42, celebrating his 70th reunion. Reunion festivities continued through the weekend for all the classes.

Next year’s reunion dinner will take place June 14, 2013, for classes ending in 3s and 8s. Save the date! ■ Members of the Class of 1987, from left, Jim McDermott, Evan Humphreys, and Jay Dotson.

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From left, Jamila Godfrey ’92, Synelle Hoover, Michelle Perkins ’92, and Scott Hildebrandt.

Below, members of the Class of 1982, from left, Ingrid Helsell Jarvis, Tierna Bravo Buchmayr, and Mary Cleveland Brown.

More than 400 alumni and friends enjoyed dinner in the gym with their classmates and saw a slideshow from the Jane Carlson Williams ’60 Archives at Reunion 2012.

Members of the Class of 1977 “Bad,” from left, Tracy Hearing Michigami, Robin Appleford, Chris Larson, and Lisa Cowles Stix.

Below, members of the Class of 1967, from left, William Clise, Paul Seligmann, Richard Neill, and Cam Hazen.

Members of the St. Nicholas Class of 1952, from left: Jill Bekins Anthony, Robin Ryan Blanchett, Peggy Cahill Martin, Katharine Alexander Golding, and Mary Ashley Williams. Below, members of the Class of 2007, from left, Victoria Verstegen, Deborah Min, Scotty Greenberg, Christine Gilbert, and Erin Crall.

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Members of the Lakeside and St. Nicholas Classes of 1962 began their 50th reunion celebration with a luncheon on campus before leading the Class of 2012 in its Commencement procession.

Members of the Class of 1997, from left, Craig Benjamin, Trevor Parris, Ian Babbit, and Seth Meisel. Below, Bruce Bailey ’59 (center) with members of the Class of 2007 and students in his last advisor group at Lakeside, from left, Margot Malarkey, Maggie Fisher, Shea Velling, Lindley Mease, Estee Ward, and Eva Mrak-Blumberg.

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Robert Arenz ’42 celebrated his 70th reunion.

Members of the St. Nicholas Class of 1947, from left, Margretta Hillman Stanton, Hazel Burnett, Joanne Habegger Fisher, and Kris Kristoferson Hausmann. Below, from left, Ernesto Garcia, Jesse Dixon, Upper School History teacher Bob Henry, Katie Rice ’02, Robin Stewart ’02, Corie Geballe ’02, and Katie Furia ’05, program assistant for Global Service Learning and Peru Semester.

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Lion Pride at Homecoming

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From left, Emile Pitre ’96, Jamie Asaka ’96 (Lakeside’s Middle School assistant director), Tommy Wood ’95, Brandon Rembe ’98, and Stren Lea ’98, at the fundraising breakfast on Homecoming morning.

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lumni came to Lakeside’s campus on Saturday, October 13, with great L-I-O-N pride. The day began with a special fundraising pancake breakfast where alumni and friends heard an update about the new Athletics Center and made contributions to the project. After breakfast, a fearless group of alumni faced off

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Vanessa Brewster Laughlin ’99 and Andrew Laughlin ’98 share a laugh with Head of School Bernie Noe at the Homecoming pancake breakfast. In the background are Andrea Gurvich Lieberman ’80 (back to the camera) and Jens Molbak ’80.

on the soccer field in the annual odds vs. evens game. The odds came out on top in this lively match (with help from some fillers from the evens). Families danced to the kid-friendly pop music of Recess Monkey, who performed in the Wright Community Center. Everyone enjoyed burgers, bouncy toys, and games in the gym as

they bid farewell to the old gym and fieldhouse.

Newport High School prevailed over Lakeside’s varsity girls soccer team 4-2. The day ended with the varsity football game against Cleveland High, won by Lakeside 52-0. As always, Homecoming was an occasion for fun and high spirits. ■

☛ SEE PAGE 6 for a story on the new

Athletics Center.

To view all the photos from Homecoming 2012, please visit www. lakesideschool.org/

alumni.

Members of the winning “odds” alumni soccer team (which included a few “even” players), back row from left: Terry Kegel ’99, Dan Benedetti ’01, Noah Jaffe ’01, Walt Mehring ’12, Andrew Bowker ’12, Julia Morse ’85, Eric Ayrault ’83. Front row from left, Mark Sherman ’81, Curt Thiel ’80, David Sommerville ’80, and Carl Brown ‘79.

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Lakeside honors Bruce Bailey ’59

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fter 42 years of dedicated service to Lakeside School, Bruce Bailey ’59 retired in June. More than 200 alumni and friends gathered at the school on May 19 to thank Bailey for his guidance, coaching, and caring over the years. The lively celebration was filled with many heartfelt testimonials and topped off with the L-I-O-N-S cheer, led by Barry Erickson ’82. Guests ranged from the Class of 1959 to the Class of 2011.

Bernie Noe, head of school, said,“We all hope that we will leave some sort of mark on something in life. Bruce, please know that your wisdom, your loyalty, your talent, and your commitment have shaped this institution for the past half century.

You are indeed Mr. Lakeside and you are, my friend, irreplaceable.”

Noe also shared some stats about the “stats guy”: • Years Bailey served as president of the Class of 1959: 4 • Number of varsity letters Bailey won as a student: 8 •Years Bailey served as advisor to the senior class (a post he was the first to fill): 12

•Number of different athletic teams Bailey has coached at Lakeside: 4 (tennis, volleyball, baseball, basketball) •Number of district tournaments to which Bailey took his basketball teams: 13 •Number of state tournaments to which Bailey took his basketball teams: 8 •Number of titles Bailey has held at Lakeside: 13 •Number of directorships Bailey has held at Lakeside: 8

Bruce Bailey ’59 stands with a replica of Bliss Hall, painted by Karen Lewis ’83. Its roof lifts off to reveal a storage box for the many notes of thanks Bailey received.

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Members of the Bailey family, from left, brother Thatcher Bailey ’72, wife Heidi Barrett, daughter Kathryn ’09, Bruce, sister Barb Bailey ’61, and sister Mary Ann Bailey.

Younger alumni coached by Bailey, from left, Madeline Barnes ’10, Bailey, and Kyra Ray ’10.

Alumni coached by Bailey, from left, back row: Rob Outcalt ’81, John Gerberding ’83, Bruce Moses ’83, Bill Ruckelshaus ’83, Anthony Katsaros ’84, Bailey, Chris Dickinson ’90, Sean O’Donnell ’90, Megan Coughlin ’87, Henry Albrecht ’87, Jack Baldwin ’88, John Streidl ’89, Patrick Chinn ’86, John Bracken ’77, Fred Buckner ’79, Bill Tocantins ’74, and Doug Porter ’80; from left, front row: Mark Sherman ’81, Joe Barer ’87, Barry Erickson ’82, Jon Diamond ’82, Evan Johnson ’81, Kris Moe ’81, and Tom Weeks ’74.

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Welcome new Alumni Board members

akeside School is pleased to welcome 13 new members to the Alumni Board. The Board is off to a busy start this year planning events and looking for new ways to help build an even stronger alumni community. Lakeside and the alumni relations office are grateful for the time and effort members of the Alumni Board give to supporting the school and 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.

Shael Anderson ’90 has nearly 20 years of international and domestic start-up experience. After spending five years developing his own business, he spent the next three years in Malaysia for Columbia Asia, a firm that builds hospitals. Upon his return to the U.S., Anderson worked for six years at ShareBuilder. Over the past six years he has been a consultant helping earlystage companies take their products to market. In his free time Anderson likes to golf, tailgate at University of Washington football games (his beloved alma mater), and travel.

Blake Barrett ’02 is a marketing manager at Microsoft on the Windows business side and is co-owner of FUNBOY LLC, a lifestyle apparel brand.

Prior to joining Microsoft, he worked at IAC Interactive Corp. as an online advertising account executive. He has an MBA from the Foster School of Business at the UW and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Southern California. Barrett was married in the summer of 2012 and enjoys adventure, travel, swimming, and boating.

Donald Bressler ’02, a proud Seattle native, grew up in West Seattle.

He is a graduate of the Lakeside Educational Enrichment Program (LEEP) and Willamette University, where he earned a BA in rhetoric and media studies. Bressler has worked in childcare as a community center director, in retail, and in corporate management. Currently he is maintaining his residential real-estate business with Windermere while working in property management.

In his free time, he plays soccer and is an avid Seattle Sounders fan.

Lee Brillhart ’75 graduated from Pomona College and the UW Law

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School. He is currently president of LyfeBank. For the past 25 years, Brillhart has worked with early-stage companies in senior management and director positions, focusing on sales and marketing, product and technology development, and equity financing.

Products of that work include seven patents and two national product design awards. Brillhart has two daughters, Emma and Alice. He is an avid participant in a wide range of athletics and has strong interests in the arts and healthcare solutions for the most disadvantaged in society.

Shael Anderson ’90

Blake Barrett ’02

Maureen Wiley Clough ’01,

a graduate of Tufts University, is a business development manager with Concur, a travel and expense management software-as-a-service company.

Before Concur, she worked with local start-up zulily, and spent two years working for Bloomberg in New York City. Clough lives in Madison Park with her husband David and schnauzer Gunnar. She says she’s excited about reconnecting with Lakeside and is honored to have been named to the Alumni Board.

Chris Fitzgerald ’89 is an associate at Lake Partners, a strategy consulting firm, working with clients in diverse industries. He previously spent a decade at Microsoft, working in both program and product management for consumer products. Fitzgerald holds an MBA in technology management from the UW and a BA in cognitive psychology and English from Amherst College. He lives in Madison Park with his wife Meg, two goats, and two human children ages 10 and 13. Most of his free time is spent driving, coaching, or otherwise wrangling them.

Donald Bressler ’02

Lee Brillhart ’75

☛ Find the full Alumni Board roster on page 59 Leslie Flohr ’79 graduated from Scripps College with a degree in art history and humanities. In 1986, she founded the national corporate and hospitality art division for an art and framing wholesaler, and left as vice president of corporate sales in 2009.

Currently she provides sales management consulting for small businesses and startups. She is investigating how to transfer her business and cooking experience into the world of organic/artisanal foods, a lifelong passion. She lives in Shoreline with husband Scott Reid, son Clayton, age 10, a dog, and a cat.

Adam Hartzell ’91 is a vice president and banker with J.P. Morgan Private Bank in Seattle. He covers individuals, families, and foundations throughout the Pacific Northwest.

Hartzell joined the Private Bank from Calyon Securities in New York, where he spent 13 years specializing in international investments. He served as an account manager for mutual funds, hedge funds, and state pension funds across the U.S. He received his BA in international relations with minors in economics and Japanese from Occidental College. His mother Linda taught drama at Lakeside from 1977 to 1992.

Claudia Hung ’89 holds an SB in electrical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MBA from Kellogg Graduate School of Management. She is currently a senior manager at Intellectual Ventures, where she facilitates the development and operation of a multibillion-dollar international licensing program. Her prior experience ranges from making woofers every six seconds, to management consulting, to strategic planning for the Andre Agassi Foundation, to launching a store at Amazon, to marketing mix modeling at WaMu. Claudia and her husband, Tim, live in Bellevue with their two children, Benjamin, 4, and Hailey, 2.

Phil Manheim ’00 is a business and technology consultant with Slalom Consulting, currently on an

Maureen Wiley Clough ’01

Chris Fitzgerald ’89

Leslie Flohr ’79

Adam Hartzell ’91

assignment at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied computer science engineering. After school, he moved to New York for two and a half years to work as a Web developer at an online retail startup. He lives in the Capitol Hill neighborhood and spends his free time traveling, playing recreational sports, practicing the violin, or coaching his Little League baseball team in the Central District.

Bridget Morgan ’98 is an associate attorney at Bush Strout & Kornfeld, where she practices commercial bankruptcy law. She received her bachelor’s degree from Seattle University and her JD from UC Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law. After law school, she served as an AmeriCorps volunteer at the Legal Aid Society of Hawaii, then moved into private practice. She volunteers for Washington’s Family Law CASA program and for Consumer Education and Training Services (CENTS).

Morgan lives in Seattle with her husband Kevin and their dog, Dre Boy. Ulrike Ochs ’81 received her BA and MD from Northwestern University’s six-year program in medical education. She completed a residency in pediatrics at the UW and a residency in dermatology at Washington University. She practices dermatology at Virginia Mason Medical Center, where she has been section head of dermatology since 2002. She is an assistant clinical professor of dermatology at the UW. Ochs lives in Laurelhurst with her 8-year-old twins, Demi and Dane.

Spafford Robbins ’77 grew up in the Denny Blaine neighborhood.

He is a UW graduate in geography.

After spending many years in Asia based in Hong Kong, working for Hill & Knowlton Public Relations, he has been selling residential real estate in Seattle since 1996. He is affiliated with On the Boards, Seattle Chinese Garden, and Coyote Central. Robbins lives in the Madrona neighborhood. ■

Claudia Hung ’89

Phil Manheim ’00

Bridget Morgan ’98

Ulrike Ochs ’81

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Alumni battled the current varsity lacrosse team in the annual scrimmage.

Members of the alumni team, from left to right, Joe Baldwin ’85, Greg Maestretti ’85, Will Ostrander ’91, Chris Fitzgerald ’89, David Axelrod ’05, Jeremy Lott ’95, Ian Redman ’01, Allen MacKenzie (Head JV/assistant varsity coach), and Casey Schuchart ’96.

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ormer Lakeside lacrosse players gathered for the traditional scrimmage against the current varsity team at the annual SWEATT (Sports Will Engage Alumni Today and Tomorrow) event. Head lacrosse coach Chris Hartley welcomed the alumni back and gave a brief summary of the Lions’ season. A very competitive scrimmage followed with the varsity eking out a 6-4 win. The

alumni team was led by such past stalwarts as Greg Maestretti ’85, Will Ostrander ’91, Chris Fitzgerald ’89, Ian Redman ’01, Casey Schuchart ’96, Jeremy Lott ’95, David Axelrod ’05, and Joe Baldwin ’85. The game was followed by a barbecue sponsored by the parents of the current players, during which the teams shared stories about the Lakeside lacrosse traditions. ■

Beautiful Day, Flat Water…

Alumni and students enjoyed some friendly competition during the annual day on the water.

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ome two dozen alumni rowers participated in the annual Alumni Row at the Ayrault Shellhouse on May 12.

After breakfast, Middle School Director Elaine Schneider Christensen ’82 gave an overview of the improvements that have been made to the Lakeside rowing program in recent years, including the dramatic renovation of the boathouse.

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Alumni rowers included, back row from left, Bruce Moses ’83, Brett Faulds ’99, Morgan Asbridge ’04, Kjell Oswald ’92, Joe Levy ’91, Crystal Ondo ’99, Blake Barrett ’02, James Rawson ’93 (head boys coach), R.J. Cadranell ’83, Tom Alexander ’66, Whit Hammond ’96, Elaine Schneider Christensen ’82, front row, Claire Jamieson ’11, Tracy Michigami ’77, Ed Wenger ’99, Liza Shoenfeld ’05, Elizabeth Bayley ’92, and Alexa Helsell ’98.

Boys’ coach James Rawson ’93 and girls’ coach Libby Weick updated alumni on current season happenings. Then the alumni, spanning the years 1966 to 2011, were matched up into three eights and took to Lake Washington. The spirit of friendly competition and the perfect weather and water conditions were highlights of the day. ■

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espite an iffy weather report

and wet conditions, a full field of 90 participants teed off at the 23rd Annual Claude Johnson Memorial Golf Tournament on June 23. Bruce McCaw ’64 was on hand to welcome the players, giving participants the opportunity to thank Bruce and his wife, Jolene, for generously providing the magnificent Caledon facility for the tournament in recent years.

The scramble format of 23 teams toured the Caledon course in both recreational and competitive

Tournament winners in the competitive division for the second year in a row, from left, Bill Jukes, Scott Hannah ’95, Ben Meisel ’95, and Tom Michel.

divisions. All went well until, with three holes to play, a sudden and major rainstorm made finishing difficult. The highlight of the day was Patrick Chinn ’86’s near holein-one shot that came just three inches short of the $10,000 prize.

Thanks to all of the golfers who braved the rain for a fun day on the links. ■

Tournament results Competitive Division

Scott Hannah ’95, Ben Meisel ’95, Bill Jukes, Tom Michel

1st place:

Recreation Division 1st place:

Walt Suman ’74, Scott Shutes, Steve Kilbourn, Bruce Barnett Long Drive Men:

Winners in the recreational division, from left: Walt Suman ’74, Steve Kilbourn, Scott Shutes, and Bruce Barnett.

Ronnie Cunningham ’86 Long Drive Women:

Mary Pelly Fitzgerald ’91 Closest to pin:

Chris Hein Most lost balls:

Dahlia Liao Mak ’92

Most creative golf at tire:

Guy Thyer ’11 and Ben Feldman

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On June 9, 42 alumni and friends gathered at The Ruins to celebrate the 45th reunion of the Lakeside and St. Nicholas Classes of 1967. Stephen Hall Jr. reports that the evening was successful and fun!

1972

Jeri Robinson Smith writes, “The Class of 1972 celebrated on a warm evening in August with a fabulous catered event. St. Nicholas classmates joined in, some for the first time in 40-plus years. We renewed our Lakeside/St. Nicholas connections, shared fun memories, and toasted our good fortunes.”

1974

Richard Hartung writes, “About a dozen Class of ’74 classmates enjoyed an evening of great conversations and an excellent meal (put together by Lysa Hansen) in September, in what has turned into an annual summer get-together for these alums.”

1947

Members of the Lakeside Class of 1947 and their spouses at their 65th reunion gathering in June, Jeanette Lewis, Marian Berge, Gary Lewis, Bill Berge, Chuck (Charles) Pigott, Yvonne Pigott, Joe Holmes, Diane Holmes, Chuck Shannon, and Fran Shannon.

Attendees at the Class of 1967 reunion gathering, from left, John Friedlander ’67, Steve Hall ’67, Dick Bangert ’67, and Dawn Bangert.

1978

Congratulations to Kirk Johnson who was named director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in July.

Kirk was formerly the chief curator and vice president of research and collections at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science.

This spring, John Beezer returned to Seattle after three years of working for LimeWire in New York City. While at LimeWire, John discovered he was working with fellow Lakesider Dan Pasette ’91 during a chat over beers at a company party. John is now vice president, product development at ScreenPlay Labs, where he is developing systems for Internet television.

1988

Paul Harper completed his PhD in business administration at the Darden School of Business, University of Virginia, and has taken a faculty position in strategy, entrepreneurship, and ethics at the Katz School of Business, University of Pittsburgh.

1991

Mark Kratter currently resides in Beverly Hills, Calif. with his wife, miniature

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Classmates and friends at the 1967 reunion gathering, from left, 1967 student body president Dick Glenn ’67, John Reynolds ’67, Catherine Hazen, Janet Reese Backus ’68, Cam Hazen ’67, and Tom Backus ’67.

dachshund, and pet cockatiel. In addition to overseeing development and daily operations as the CEO of Emergence Entertainment—an allpurpose entertainment company that he founded to produce feature films, reality shows, and video games—he works full-time as a screenwriter for other studio-based production companies. He’s written screenplays for everyone from Louis Leterrier (director of Clash of the Titans and The Incredible Hulk) to Clark Peterson (who landed Charlize Theron her Oscar for Monster). Recently, he finished a script-for-hire heist thriller for Steve Jones (who produced Al Pacino’s last HBO project) and signed on to adapt a graphic novel for Stephen L’Heureux (the producer of Sin City 2).

St. Nicholas women from the Class of 1972, from left, Patricia Barr, Anna Mary Auslander Thorson, former faculty member Lois Salisbury, Satya Ambrose, Susan Tomlinson Gorman, Julie Topp Faison, Jeri Robinson Smith, Nancy Carlisle Henry, Peggy O’Neil Shortt, Nicki KorenJutte, Alethea Prineas Platis, Louise Pierce van Delft, Ann Jordan Knight, Judy Jones Raykovich, and Carla Wessel Rockwell.

1992

Sechin Tower (son of former Lakeside teacher Hugh Tower) has released his debut novel Mad Science Institute, a young adult science fiction thriller set in a present-day college

Members of the Class of 1972 gathered for a reunion in August.

Chapin Henry ’87 celebrated his class’s 80’s heritage with a handmade guitar that he christened at their 25th reunion celebration.

Members of the Class of 1987 celebrated at their Saturday night reunion gathering. town. “Above all, I wanted this to be a fun, fast-paced action story,” says Sechin, “but I did have an ulterior motive, to make science and learning seem fun for a generation that takes it for granted. Lizard monsters and robots aside, the main character’s story is essentially about making the

adjustment to college life. I wanted it to provide a sort of mythologized road map for aspiring college students, most of whom don’t really know what to expect when they get there.” Mad Science Institute follows the adventures of Sophia “Soap” Lazarcheck, a girl genius with a knack ➢

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1998

Mike Lee and his wife are excited to share news of the birth of their son, Calder Tatsuya Lee. Calder was born March 18 at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York City weighing 8 lbs., 2 oz. Mike reports that they have already begun working on his “L - L - L I O” chant.

2001

Attendees at the March nuptials of Ron Koo ’96 and Lisa Olmos, from left, Margaret Trzyna Marks ’01, Bethany Mito Lee ’96, Lisa Olmos de Koo (bride), Ron Koo ’96, Sarah Koo ’06 (sister of the groom), Peter Weed ’96, and Aaron Levine ’96. for making accidental explosions, and her cousin Dean, a tough-but-troubled firefighter who finds himself unexpectedly in charge of a small college program founded by famed inventor Nikola Mad Science Tesla. They Institute, a young are drawn into a adult science f icconspiracy involving tion thriller and lizard monsters, the debut novel of experimental Sechin Tower ’92. weaponry, and a doomsday machine that could destroy all of civilization.

Baby Theron Arthur Dickenson was born April 23 to Lissa Wyckoff Dickenson and her husband, Dan. Lissa is a special education teacher with the Bellevue School District and Dan is the CEO and owner of Reboot Networks; they live in Magnolia.

1994

Windland Diana Sue Rice was welcomed to the world July 5 in Atlanta, to Capt.

William Scott Rice, MPA and Dr. Zakiya Pressley Rice (former Princeton women’s varsity basketball player). Her “All-Star Stats” were weight, 7 lbs. 9 oz., and length, 20 inches.

1995

Katie Monroe Hetherington and her husband, Jim, are thrilled to announce the arrival of Miles Cline Hetherington, born on October 2, 2011.

1996

Theron Arthur Dickenson, son of Lissa Wyckoff Dickenson ’92 and her husband Dan.

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Miles Cline Hetherington, son of Katie Monroe Hetherington ’95 and her husband Jim.

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Ron Koo and Lisa Olmos were married in March at Congressional Country Club in Potomac, Md. Lisa is a 1996 graduate of Sidwell Friends School, where Lakeside’s Head of School Bernie Noe was her college adviser. This was fortunate because Ron and Lisa met while in college at Harvard. They now live in Santa Monica, Calif. Lisa is an assistant professor of ophthalmology at University of Southern California Keck School of

Ann Browning has been living in New York City since 2001—just two weeks before the 9/11 attacks, bonding her instantly to the city. The majority of her past 12 years in finance have been spent in the hedge fund industry, most recently at top hedge fund D. E. Shaw & Co. Earlier this year, she was delighted to be invited to join the marketing/IR team of Greg Lippmann’s non-Agency RMBS, CMBS, and Structured Credit hedge fund, LibreMax Capital, LLC. Outside of work, she is an active member of the advisory committee of the Manhattan Institute Young Leaders Circle (free market think tank), serves on the Ann Browning lives Next Generation in New York City Committee of 100 and enjoys tourWomen in Hedge ing the city on her cherry-red scooter Funds (nonprofit), when she’s not and is vice chair working and volunof the Younger teering.

Members Committee of The Downtown Association (one of the oldest private social clubs in New York). She is also deeply involved with her mother Liz Browning’s mental health advocacy work.

To relax, she jumps on her cherry-red scooter and fights New York traffic—“it’s a real ‘hog,’ at 125 cc.”

See 2003 notes for news on Jane Repass Klein.

2002

On June 16, Mark Middaugh married Brandon Berkeley at Pocono Lake

Windland Diana Sue Rice, daughter of Capt. William Scott Rice, MPA and Dr. Zakiya Pressley Rice ’94, was born July 5.

Attendants at the wedding of Mark Middaugh ’02 and Brandon Berkeley (bottom center) included Molly Middaugh ’05 (back center).

2000

Lakeside alumni and current students working on Jay Inslee’s gubernatorial campaign include, from left, Jean Larsen ’10, Mark McIntyre ’00, and Ben D. ’13. Not pictured, but also working on the campaign, are Leo Z. ’13 and George Rowe ’11.

Blake Barrett ’02 and Raquel Johnson were married in the San Juan Islands this summer.

Preserve, Pa. Mark and Brandon were introduced by Brandon’s Yale roommate, Dawn Lippert, when they were living in Washington D.C., where Mark was a legislative assistant to Rep. Rick Larsen (D-Wash.) and Brandon was a vice president at the Albright Group. Mark and Brandon now live in Woodside, Calif., where they have completed their first years at Stanford Law School (Mark) and Stanford Business School (Brandon). Attending the bride was Molly Middaugh ’05, who is a senior staff scientist with Cardno Entrix, a natural resource consulting firm in Los Angeles.

Blake Barrett married Raquel Johnson at his family’s home in the San Juan Islands. The couple met at the University of Southern California and then both moved to Seattle to pursue their MBAs at the University of Washington. Blake is a marketing manager at Microsoft and Raquel works in health care.

2003

Trevor Klein and Jane Repass Klein ’01 were married June 23 in Seattle. Other Lakeside alumni in attendance were Elizabeth Repass de Velasco ’98, ➢

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SEND US YOUR NOTES We want your notes and photos!

Events big and small, personal or professional, are always of interest.

Send us a baby announcement and photo, and we’ll outfit your little one with a Lakeside hat. E-mail notes and photos to alumni@lakesideschool.org.

general surgery residency at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York.”

Trevor Klein ’03 and Jane Repass Klein ’01 were married June 23 in Seattle.

Kevin Klein ’07, Thomas Buck, Elizabeth Lardy Repass ’95, and Matt Lutton.

2007

Burn Magazine, “an evolving magazine for emerging photojournalists,” recently honored a number of photographers for their work. Matt Lutton won the Emerging Photographer Fund grant for his work in Serbia. Congratulations, Matt!

2004

David Smith writes, “I learned to row at Lakeside from Jim Bargfrede in 2001, when he coached our novice crew to silver at Northwest Junior Regionals. I haven’t stopped rowing since, with the goal to represent the United States in international competition as part of the Rowing National Team. Sam Cunningham, myself, Bob Duff, Shane Madden, and our coaches Craig Hoffman and Ed Bell qualified our lightweight men’s quad for the 2012 World Rowing Championships in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. It was my first national team. We raced well, missing the A final by 1/1000th of a second in a photo finish, and earned second place in the B Final, 8th overall. I’m moving to Philadelphia to continue to train with Coach Hoffman for the Olympic team in Rio 2016.”

Paul Strombom shares, “I graduated from the Tufts University School of Medicine this spring and am starting my

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Carsten Belanich recently returned from an eight-month, round-the-world cruise with Electronic Attack Squadron ONE THREE ONE aboard USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN. They primarily supported troops on the ground in Afghanistan, operating out of the North Arabian Sea and the Persian Gulf.

Carsten Belanich ’04 met Miss America 2011, Teresa Scanlan, on board USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN during a tour with Electronic Attack Squadron ONE THREE ONE. His and Scanlan’s grandparents are from the same small island in Croatia.

Zachary Stiggelbout ’08 (left), Matthew Ricci ’08 (center), and Brian Luscombe recently launched social forum Yakka.

Flora Weeks capped a remarkable golf run by winning the Washington State Women’s Golf Association Championship in August, defeating the five-time winner of this prestigious tournament. Flora played golf all four years at Middlebury College where she was team captain, three-time Academic All-American, and finished in the top 20 at three Division III national championships. After her graduation and before the Washington state tournament, Flora was a group leader on Lakeside’s Global Service Learning trip to China.

2008

Anne Burton graduated summa cum laude from Colby College in May. She earned Phi Beta Kappa honors and double-majored in economics and government and minored in administrative science. She started work at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington, D.C. in June.

Matthew Ricci and Zachary Stiggelbout are excited to announce the launch of Yakka, a social forum. On Yakka members can create visually appealing forum-like discussions in boards. Within usergenerated boards members can post media, gain audience through several

Barry Smith, bjsmith@barrysmithmed.com

Members of the lightweight men’s quad at the 2012 World Rowing Championships, from left, Bob Duff, Sam Cunningham, Coach Craig Hoffman, David Smith ’04, and Shane Madden.

Owen Wurzbacher ’09 (center) at the 2012 Ivy League Championships.

media sharing channels (Facebook, Twitter, Google+), and find content posted by others that they feel is worth engaging with. Utilizing a limited profile tied to Facebook accounts, they have aimed to create a public space where people can feel comfortable interacting with others with no immediate social connections other than shared interests.

Michelle Berry graduated from Stanford

University in June, with a major in human biology. After graduation she participated in a summer internship with American Prairie Reserve in Montana, pursuing interests in conservation and wildlife preservation. She will be starting a master’s degree program in environmental studies at Stanford this fall.

Catherine Olsson has finished her fourth year at Massachusetts Institute of

Technology studying computer science with a double major in brain and cognitive science, and is entering a fifth-year master’s program in engineering in June 2013. While in college she completed software engineering internships at Akamai in Cambridge, at Amazon in Seattle, and at Raytheon BBN in Washington, D.C., and conducted experimental psychology research with MIT professors Laura Schulz and Rebecca Saxe. She has also spent time singing a cappella, doing community service with Alpha Phi Omega (a coed service fraternity), and participating in student government. After graduation she hopes to earn a PhD researching computational models of vision and cognition.

Christopher Lyles graduated from Loyola Marymount University, where he received a BS in accounting. This summer he finished up his internship with Deloitte in Seattle, where he also received a fulltime offer. He has returned to Loyola Marymount to pursue an MBA and will start full time at Deloitte in fall 2013.

Marie Johnson graduated early, receiving her BA in February from Barnard College of Columbia University, where she majored in economics. She was the captain of the Columbia sailing team. She also was on the executive board of Columbia’s Women’s Business Society, serving two years as alumni chair, then vice president external. Marie interned for two summers at Goldman Sachs and accepted a full-time offer to join its sales and trading division in New York City after graduation. Prior to beginning work there in July she spent three months traveling in Australia, New Zealand, South America, and Morocco.

2009

Congratulations to Owen Wurzbacher, who was named co-captain of the Harvard men’s swimming and diving team for the 2012-13 season. Owen competed in the individual medley and breaststroke this season. He placed 13th in both the 100 and 200 breast at Ivies with times of 56.47 and 2:03.17, respectively. ➢

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CLASS CONNECTIONS politics and foreign relations. In Boston, she volunteers for African Community Economic Development of New England (ACEDONE); Haley House, a soup kitchen and community organization; and in the Education Department of the Suffolk County House of Corrections.

See page 57 for news on Khatsini Simani.

2011

Lily Ghebrai ’11, a student at Middlebury College, with two Kurdish soldiers in Shiraz, Iran in 2011.

2010

Brooke Loughrin was selected by the United Nations Association of the United States of America (UNA-USA) and the U.S. State Department as the first-ever U.S. Youth Observer (http://www.unausa. org/membership/us-youth). As the U.S. Youth Observer, she attended events in New York City during the United Nations General Assembly week, as well as a number of side events around the Social, Humanitarian, and Cultural Affairs Committee (Third Committee) of the General Assembly in October. In her role, she will also travel to speak to UNA-USA chapters around the country, blog, tweet, and discuss her experiences with the media and the general public, and advise UNA-USA on potential future youth roles at the United Nations. Brooke

Brooke Loughrin ’10, right, met with Susan Rice, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, in her role as the first-ever U.S. Youth Observer. She was selected by the U.S. State Department and the United Nations Association of the United States of America to advise on future youth roles at the U.N.

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is a junior in the Presidential Scholars Program at Boston College, where she studies political science and Islamic Civilizations and Societies. She is the editor-in-chief of Al-Noor: The Boston College Middle East and Islamic Studies Journal, vice president of the Boston College Iranian Culture Club, and an Undergraduate Research Fellow. Her research focuses on political cultures of the Middle East; comparative study of religion, civil society, and politics in the Middle East; and Iran’s social history and contemporary domestic

Lily Ghebrai writes, “This semester, I am organizing and fundraising for a trip to the Dominican Republic. I am one of the two leaders of this 12-person trip, which will examine the tourism industry in the DR, and the consequent effects on the rural communities. Furthermore, I am one of the heads of the Amnesty International chapter at our school, and we are planning a Jamnesty event! This event features spoken word, musical and dance performances, as well as narrative pieces— in the name of human rights and raising awareness about racial injustice in the U.S. justice system. Next summer, I hope to travel to Palestine with an organization called Existence is Resistance.” ■

FORMER FACULTY & STAFF Gretchen Orsland “folded up my graduation robe and put it into the giveaway box” after almost 20 years as Upper School drama teacher.

Gretchen Orsland In announcing retired after almost her retirement in 20 years of teachSeptember, she ing drama. wrote to faculty and staff colleagues: “After many delightful, all-encompassing, dynamic, student-fueled years, it is time to clean up my e-mail and find some order amongst the manila folders. Now I will work on the essence of what lies ahead.

My family stays close (we are again in the Ballard place—all of us) and life is full.

I look forward to outings to the theater, always looking for a story full of grit,

on the Young Playwrights Program; and developing curriculum for energetic, interested students was a highlight.”

She adds that, “I will be around on occasion to see a play, a game, eat a good lunch, and talk.”

LAKESIDE ARCHIVES

Lance King, above in the 1980s, is now enjoying retirement after 38 years of teaching English and humanities at the Middle School.

LAKESIDE ARCHIVES, CIRCA 1990s

“My love of teaching science to high-school students” brought Stephen Fisher back to teach this year. perseverance, curiosity, and compassion. Yes, I read the article, and yes, I went to Town Hall to listen to Paul Tough [author of a new book, How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character, much discussed recently at Lakeside]. It is a challenge to discover new roads while loving the structure of the old. I still love teaching … and working

with all of you. The gifts I have gotten from so many wonderful students and colleagues make me rich.” She shares that, “In addition to teaching, I loved directing many musicals and plays—favorites include Twelfth Night, Radium Girls, Fiddler on the Roof, Twelve Angry Jurors, The Matchmaker, Pippin, and Cabaret—and collaborating with ACT Theatre

Since Stephen Fisher retired two years ago, his primary occupation has been studying (mostly) Latin at the University of Washington. “The first year I was a student in the foundational 100-level Latin sequence, comprising largely Latin grammar—a terrific intellectual challenge, and a pure delight. The second-year sequence was devoted to reading original selections from ancient authors: Catullus, Horace, Caesar, Ovid, Vergil. This was even more difficult (indeed, really hard) but hugely rewarding.” This year, though, he’s back at Lakeside filling in for Upper School science teacher Hans de Grys, who is on a one-year leave.

“What brought me back? Primarily, my love of teaching science to high-school students. ‘Then why did you leave?’

Because I’m acutely aware of the brevity of life, and when I do this, I’m unable to do anything else.”

Lance King, Middle School English and humanities teacher who first began teaching at Lakeside in 1974, retired in June. These days he’s enjoying camping with his wife, doing house projects, and finally getting to enjoy the art studio he built in his backyard last year. At a good-bye ceremony acknowledging his 38 years of service—“never missing a day of work”—King was lauded for devoting his life and career to helping young people learn the love and joy of reading, writing, and books. Colleagues spoke of his humility and old-school work ethic in fostering the intellectual and emotional growth of his 5th- and 6th-grade students, and how “he sees, empathetically and wisely, the intrinsic humor in his students’ middle-school lives, helps them enjoy themselves even in the midst of their drama, and supports them with calm, witty fatherliness.” ■

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IN MEMORIAM

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.

Robert Isaacson ’59 April 6, 2012 Mary Morrill Spens ’36 April 21, 2012

Joyce Werttemberger Jolley ’49 • August 9, 2012

Joyce W. Jolley died peacefully at her home on August 9 after a brief illness. Born Joyce Allene Werttemberger on January 29, 1931 to Richard and Mildred “Mickey” Werttemberger in Seattle, she grew up in the Magnolia neighborhood, where as a teenager she worked at her parents’ Magnolia Pharmacy. She also fondly remembered summers spent at the family’s summer home on Lake Sammamish. Joyce attended Queen Anne Grade School and graduated in 1949 from St. Nicholas School, where she first acquired the nickname “Wert,” by which she would be known to friends for the rest of her life. At the University of Washington she was a member of Delta Gamma sorority; after graduating from the School of Dental Hygiene in 1954, she began a career of more than 50 years as a dental hygienist. In August 1957 she married Jack Jolley; they lived most of their lives in Bellevue, where they raised five children and were longtime members of Sacred Heart Parish. Joyce loved to travel and had grand adventures around the world with Jack and with many great friends. In recent years she was active in Lake Washington Garden Club and The Sunset Club, and enjoyed frequent reunions with her St. Nicholas and Delta Gamma friends. Jack preceded Joyce in death in December 2004. She is survived by her brother and sister-in-law Dick and Yvonne Werttemberger and sister-in-law Dorothy Jolley; her children Jack (Pam), Elizabeth, Monica VanOver (Larry), Bill (Margo), and Sheila (Zeljko Pavlic); eight grandchildren: Jack and Will Jolley, Duncan ’07 and Claire Mackenzie, Lucija Pavlic, and Layla, Ben and Lee Roy Jolley; eight nieces and nephews; and many wonderful friends. She will be buried in Ritzville, Adams County, near the site of her grandparents’ homestead wheat farm.

Paula Pomeroy LeFavor ’67 • May 14, 2012

Paula Pomeroy LeFavor, 62, passed peacefully May 14 in Seattle, with her family by her side. Paula was born August 23, 1949 in Seattle to Allan and Loretta (Tyler) Pomeroy. Her father served as Seattle mayor from 1952-1956. She graduated from St. Nicholas School in 1967 and attended Seattle University. Paula married her high-school sweetheart, Keith LeFavor, on August 17, 1968 and they raised their family in Seattle’s Mount Baker neighborhood. Paula was a member of the Washington Athletic Club and the Junior League

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of Seattle, and volunteered at Cloud 9, a nonprofit thrift store. Paula enjoyed cooking and graduated with honors from the Bon Vivant School of Cooking.

She found joy in her family and spending time at their Manchester beach home. Paula was a wonderful wife, mother, and friend. She is preceded in death by her parents Allan and Loretta Pomeroy and brothers Allan Merritt Pomeroy and Bennett Fisher. Paula is survived by her loving family, husband Keith LeFavor, daughter Lori LeFavor, and son Brian LeFavor. Her laughter, humor, kindness, generosity, courage, and love will be remembered.

Harriet McCord Pattison ’43 • April 19, 2012

Harriet McCord Pattison, born in Seattle on May 6, 1924, died peacefully at home with family by her side on April 19. Married in 1947, she was preceded in death by her husband, Frank Pattison. Harriet is survived by her brother Evan S. McCord, sister-in-law Meredith Gaskill, four children Cindy Metler (Dick), Dick Pattison (Patsy), Brad Pattison, and Scott Pattison (Julie); 10 grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren; and many cousins, nieces, and nephews. Harriet’s parents were born in Seattle; her great-grandfather, John Harte McGraw, was the second governor of the state of Washington. She was raised on Capitol Hill, then at the family home in The Highlands. She graduated from St. Nicholas and the University of Washington, where she met Frank through a common friend while skiing. They started married life at the Edgewater Apartments in Madison Park. Six years later they crossed the lake to Medina, where they built their own home, raised their four children, and lived for 47 years before returning to Madison Park. Harriet loved being active—skiing, boating, golfing—and had a keen interest in all things new, including sewing machines, cameras, computers, and gadgets. She had gumption, never letting life’s adversities overshadow her optimism, and is remembered for her soft and genuine smile. She was dedicated to helping all she knew to grow, thrive, and see the good in themselves. Harriet was understated and thrifty. She was down-to-earth and eschewed the limelight. She was always open to a little fun and excitement even if, at times, it involved breaking an “unreasonable” rule or two along the way.

Harriet developed many dear and close friendships over the years and tended each friendship with care.

She was devoted to her family—kind, loving, attentive, and supportive at every turn. She quietly showed us

all, with grace and light humor, how to live life fully.

“Nan” adored her grandchildren, taking special joy with the arrival of new babies to her family.

Rachel Francis Nieding Waddingham ’28 • August 10, 2012 Rachel (“Rae”) Waddingham, a resident of Richmond Beach Rehabilitation Center in Shoreline, passed away on August 10 at Northwest Hospital at the age of 101. Rachel Francis Nieding was born on December 31, 1910 in El Paso, Texas. Rae was the daughter of Burton Budd Nieding and Mary Francis (Shephard) Nieding. When Rae was very young she moved to Alaska with her family. Her father was a mining engineer with the famous Kennecott Copper Mining Company. While growing up in Alaska, Rae enjoyed many outdoor adventures. In 1927, she moved to Seattle and graduated in 1928 from St. Nicholas School. At the age of 19, Rae met her future husband, Stanley Harris Waddingham, on a blind double date with friends. After a short courtship, they eloped in January 1930. Rae and her husband settled in the Laurelhurst area of Seattle where Rae was a homemaker and a staunch member of the community for nearly 80 years. She had two children, Gary Burton and Judith Ann, and was a devoted mother. She was a charter member of the Laurelhurst Beach Club and

had great appreciation for gardening, cooking, and Washington Husky athletics. Rae was a charming and elegant woman with a gracious manner. Her attention to detail and ability to recall specific facts was simply amazing to her family and friends till the end of her life.

Rae enjoyed family trips to Orcas Island and Beverly Beach on Whidbey Island, but some of her favorite “outings” during her later years took place just blocks from home when she accompanied her grandchildren and great-grandchildren to the Laurelhurst Beach Club for an afternoon of fun and sun. These outings always culminated with “Grandma Rae” returning home and offering everyone cookies and ice cream cups to be eaten with the classic wooden paddle spoon. Rae was preceded in death by her husband Stanley in 1983 and her son Gary in 2001; also preceding Rae in death were her parents and her only sibling, her sister Ruth Margaret Edwards, in 2010. She is survived by her daughter Judith Ann Bruner; her four grandchildren Dan (Laura) Waddingham of Seattle; Julie (Ron) Miller of Plummer, Idaho; James “Ty” Bruner of Spokane; and Anthony (Adrienne) Bruner of Florida. Also surviving her are eight great-grandchildren, three greatgreat grandchildren, several nieces, and a nephew.

You will be missed so much, Rae. Your gracious touch will never be forgotten.

LAKESIDE ALUMNI Edward Brady ’49 • March 8, 2012

Edward Brady, 80, was born in Tacoma on September 17, 1931 and passed away in Scottsdale, Ariz. on March 8. After graduating from Lakeside School he earned a degree at the University of Washington and then served as an intelligence officer in the United States Air Force. He worked for 16 years as an investment banker at Blyth & Co. He was a 15-year member of the Washington Athletic Club and a 57-year member of the Seattle Tennis Club. Always athletic, he was an avid participant in tennis, squash, pickleball, golf, and skiing. Backgammon was also a favorite. Ed is survived by his two sons, Michael Edward and Sean Chase, and two young grandchildren, Sean Edward and Catherine Chase.

Bryan Briscoe ’80 • July 12, 2012

Bryan Lowry Briscoe of Edmonds passed away unexpectedly on July 12 at the age of 49. He was born in Seattle on October 16, 1962 to DeWayne Briscoe and Patricia Lowry Briscoe, grew up in Medina,

and attended Lakeside School. Bryan attended the University of San Diego and earned his degree at the University of Southern California. Bryan worked in realestate property management for many years and was turning his gift for photography into a second career.

Bryan is remembered as a loving son, husband, and father and will be greatly missed. Bryan had many friends and touched all with his kindness, humor, and care. Bryan is survived by his parents and his stepfather Jay Rusling, his wife Jennifer Briscoe, son Bryan Briscoe, daughter Lindsey Briscoe, and stepdaughter Renee White. He is preceded in death by his brother, Kevin Briscoe.

Stephen Chase ’63 • July 6, 2012

Stephen Mack Chase was born on February 22, 1944 in Ellensburg to Goodwin and Gudrun Chase.

He attended Lakeside School and then University of Washington for journalism. He volunteered to go to Vietnam. His officer training was in Quantico, Va. and at the Monterey Language Institute [now named the ➢

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➢ IN MEMORIAM: alumni Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center].

He was a company commander and received a Purple Heart, a Military Service Award, and a Silver Star. After his tour of duty he served as a social aide at the White House during the Nixon Administration. Upon retiring he studied banking and money at the UW, earning a master’s degree. He had a stellar career at the Office of the Controller of Currency. He became the head of the western division, one of the three regional directors reporting directly to the head of the Federal Reserve.

Stephen was an accomplished piano player and a lover of the arts. He was a man of integrity with a strong sense of honor. He will be greatly missed by his family and friends. Stephen leaves behind his wife, Irena; daughter, Jillian; sister, Christine; niece, Anne; and nephew, Chase.

Charles Clark Jr. ’71 • May 24, 2012

Charlie flew west May 24, 2012 after a brief illness. Born in Seattle on January 29, 1953 to Myra and Spencer Clark, he was the youngest of four siblings. Charlie attended Lakeside School but graduated from Salisbury School in Connecticut in 1971. He returned to the Pacific Northwest to attend Western Washington University in Bellingham and graduated with a BA in business administration. Charlie loved the outdoors and this led to a career in land real estate. He spent many days with his partner Silvia at Lake Chelan, where they restored an old Airstream motor home. Charlie loved to entertain.

From setting the table, to arranging flowers, to carving the meat, Charlie always took the lead. He was enthusiastic, kind, gentle, and fun-loving, a man with many longtime friends who enjoyed his company; whether skiing or boating, Charlie was always a welcome addition. He will be forever missed. Charlie is survived by his daughter, Chelsea Clark; his longtime partner, Silvia Roberts; sisters Maggie Clark and Linda Helsell; brother Joe Clark; nieces Tina Messing, Ingrid Jarvis, and Alexa Helsell; nephew Spencer Helsell; and great nieces and nephews Sophie and Sylvie Messing; George, Henry, and Hazel Jarvis; and Cole and Annabel Helsell. Also surviving him are Leah Clark and aunties Leslie Adams, Anne Fletcher, and Jean Marie Adams.

Roger Jones ’36 • April 29, 2012

After 92 great years, Roger sadly lost his battle with the flu and pneumonia after a 10-day stay at Virginia Mason Hospital. His family and friends were so grateful to be able to spend time with him until he passed, peacefully and without pain. We had the chance to tell him once again how much we loved him and what an honor it is to be a part of his legacy. Roger was born in Seattle to parents Harry B. and Beulah Jones and was the

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grandson of U.S. Senator Wesley L. Jones (R-Wash. from 1909 to 1932). He attended Lowell Grade School, Roosevelt High School, Lakeside School, University of Washington and UW Law School. He was a member of Psi Upsilon Fraternity. Roger served in the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Coast Guard (Lieutenant), and belonged to the Last Man’s Club of World War II. He married Jeanne Fisher, his college sweetheart, in 1942 and they shared a lot of wonderful experiences over their 59 years of married life. His business acumen served him well as owner and president of Seattle Tent and Awning Company for 25 years and chairman of Lake Union Drydock from 1990-2005. He was the local chairman and a national trustee of the Young Presidents’ Organization and served the community by being a 17-year trustee and five-year chairman of Northwest Hospital and a president of the Northwest Hospital Foundation. He joined Prospect Congregational Church in 1932 and served as church treasurer for 20 years. Music was an important part of Roger’s life. He brought joy to his family, friends, and to the residents of Horizon House by playing the piano frequently. He loved the water and boats, leading to a summer place on Bainbridge Island sharing swimming, fishing, sailing and boating with family and friends. Many friendships were formed on the golf course and at the card table (bridge and gin rummy). Roger was an avid enthusiast of all types of spectator sports, especially golf, Husky basketball and football, and the Mariners. He belonged to the Men’s University Club, the Tennis Club, the “380” Mens’ Luncheon Club, the Tyee Club, honorary member of the Sunset Club, and AA. He also served on many committees at Horizon House. He was preceded in death by Jeanne Fisher Jones, his devoted wife, by his beloved son Roger Wesley Jones Jr., and by his two older brothers, Harry and Bruce. He is survived by his two daughters, Stephanie Jones and Debbie Vitulli, and son-in-law, Joe Vitulli; six grandchildren and four greatgrandchildren.

Bowen King ’53 • August 5, 2012

Bowen King passed away on August 5 following a courageous battle with cancer. Mr. King was born in Seattle, the youngest of three children, to Mary Elizabeth Bowen and Winchester King. He attended Madrona Grade School, Lakeside School, Garfield High School, and graduated with a BA from the University of Washington (’57). He was a proud lifelong member of Psi Upsilon Fraternity (president ’56-’57) and active for many years in the alumni association, as well as a member of the College Club of Seattle (president ’83-’84). He was a first lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force,

serving as a flight navigator in the Air Rescue Service in Thule, Greenland and as a navigator in the transports from Dover, Del. to Europe. Upon completion of his Air Force duties, Mr. King settled on Mercer Island where he raised his family along with his wife Carol McKinstry.

They later divorced. Mr. King worked in production control and planning at Western Gear Corporation in Seattle and Everett, then in training with the Federal Reserve Bank in Seattle. In 1966 he joined Steam Supply & Rubber in Seattle, an industrial distributor of valves and controls, and became president of that company in 1976. For several years he served on the advisory councils of Dresser Industries and Automated Switch Company. Under Mr. King’s leadership, Steam Supply expanded with branch operations in Anchorage and Portland. In 1981 he formed Puget Investments, Inc., which he sold in 1997, and he and his wife Betse retired to their beach home in Indianola, Kitsap County.

Together they enjoyed family and friends and traveled to Europe, Africa, Central America, and the South Pacific.

In 2004 Mr. King repurchased the company’s name, Steam Supply, reestablishing a company first founded in 1915. Today Steam Supply continues with success as an outstanding distributor of industrial controls. In 2011 Bowen and Betse relocated to Skyline at First Hill in Seattle. Bowen is survived by his wife of 21 years, Betse Cody King; four wonderful children, David King Jr. (Beth) of Vancouver, Nancy Klicker (Kirk) of Walla Walla, Steve Tompkins (Hilary) of Shoreline, Mike Tompkins of Duvall; 10 grandchildren; brother, Wendy King (Suzanne) of Warrenton, Ore., and sister, Virginia Caley of Arizona.

Evan McCord ’46 • July 6, 2012

Evan McCord, born in Seattle on September 20, 1927, died of natural causes in New York City on July 6 shortly after swimming at a community pool. Evan was raised in Seattle, graduated from Lakeside School, served in the U.S. Army, and graduated from Yale with a degree in mathematics. He took up residence with his partner in Manhattan and had a distinguished career in a nascent industry—writing computer programs for financial systems at Curtis-Wright Corporation and then Continental Can Company. Throughout his life, Evan was curious, active, and fully engaged. He was an avid reader, prolific writer, and had a lifelong passion to learn. He regularly attended theater, opera, symphony, speakers’ forums, and events at museums and galleries. He enjoyed travel and collecting memorabilia. Though never a parent, he adored children, and, while staying with family on visits to Seattle, their pets. Evan was preceded in death by his sister, Harriet Pattison. He is survived

by his niece, Cindy (Pattison) Metler; nephews Dick Pattison, Brad Pattison, and Scott Pattison; his cousins Betsy (Baxter) Baalman and John Baxter; and many great nieces and nephews.

James Paul ’64 • April 26, 2012

James Cameron “Jamie” Paul (the greatest guy in the world) passed away on April 26 in the arms of every family member close enough to reach the UW hospital in time. Jamie was such “good company.” He made everyone sparkle in his presence. In his usual understated and gentlemanly way, Jamie demonstrated his lifelong, powerful determination to win his final race to live. He entered transplant surgery expecting a perfect result but ready for the worst. Jamie was the most mentally strong, gentle, caring, loving, unselfish person any of us has ever known. Jamie was the best husband, brother, son, grandson, brother-in-law, uncle, cousin, godfather, and friend that any human being could ever have, or hope to have. As Jamie hath taught us to live: “no fools, no fun.” Jamie stories, photos, and tributes from friends are being posted at http://www. forevermissed.com/jamie-paul/ and www.bartonfuneral. com. Jamie was predeceased by his sister Jennifer Paul Pelly and his parents Mary Hartley Paul and Thomas W. Paul. His survivors are his wife Sallie, his brothers and sisters-in-law Thomas (Tim) Cavour Paul and Deborah (Deb) Sheehan Paul, and Hartley Paul and Elizabeth (Betty) Shaw Paul; his brother-inlaw Charlie Pelly; his adoring and devastated nieces and nephew, their spouses and children Kellsey Paul Perkins (Carl and Johanna), Catherine (Katie) Hartley Paul, Mary Hartley Pelly Fitzgerald (Greg, Jennifer and Cate) and Cameron Pelly (Amy, Kaitlin, Morgan and Chase); Sallie’s brothers Danny W. Nicholls, retired U.S. Air Force colonel (Luke and Sophia), Leonard R. Nicholls (Sunan); and nephews Michael Nicholls (Kristine) and Ryan Nicholls (Katie, Andrew and Owen).

Kellsey Perkins, Patrick Badell, and Kyra Planetz are honored and thrilled to be Jamie’s godchildren.

Jamie is the grandson of Roland H. Hartley, who was governor of Washington state from 1925 to 1933, and Nina Clough Hartley and Catherine Mackie Paul and Joseph William Paul. Sallie stayed with Jamie virtually every night and day for Jamie’s three months in the hospital. He was hardly ever alone. Sallie’s close friend Gege Planetz; Betty Paul, who loves Jamie as a brother; Charlie Pelly, Katie Paul, Kellsey Perkins, and Mary Fitzgerald, all spent many hours with Jamie.

Jamie was thankful for his exceptional UW nurses and staff. He felt and reciprocated their love. ■

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PLANNED GIVING

by CAROL BORGMANN

Ed Ferry ’59: Pure Gold

DANiEL SHEEHAN

Ed Ferry ’59, who credits Lakeside School for laying the foundation for his success in life, has willed his Olympic gold medal to Lakeside School.

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hat is it like to stand on the gold medal podium at the Olympics? Ed Ferry ’59 can tell you. Just five years after graduating from Lakeside School, Ferry and his Stanford University crew coach Conn Findlay won a gold medal in coxed pairs at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.

“After I had rowed for a year, Conn asked me to row in a pair with him. He had already won medals in two previous Olympics, one with Dan Ayrault, future Lakeside head, as his partner. It was a young athlete’s dream. We rowed together for four years and I committed myself to train my absolute hardest. I knew we could not guarantee a win, even working as hard as we did, so I focused on trying my very best.”

Ferry is a member of the Founders Circle, a group of dedicated donors who have provided for Lakeside in their estate plans. His specific bequest to the school is his gold medal. “I valued the friendships and sports I experienced at Lakeside. I was not a very good student academically and got into a lot of trouble. Three teachers held out hope for me—coach Don Anderson mentored me; Fred Bleakney befriended me and taught me English, philosophy, and the joy of learning; and Headmaster Dexter Strong stood behind me and gave me a second chance.”

At Lakeside, Ferry was successful at football, basketball, and track. With Fritz Cantonwine ’59, he was co-captain of the football team that went undefeated for three years.

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Courtesy of Ed Ferry ’59

Ed Ferry ’59, left, after winning a gold medal in coxed pairs at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.

“Athletics were very important to me because my grades were mediocre and I wanted to be good at something.” At that time, Lakeside didn’t offer rowing as a sport, so it wasn’t until he got to Stanford that Ferry began to row.

He went out for football first, but quit after a week, and went out for crew the same day.

This decision shaped his life.

“Because of the deep Seattle tradition of rowing due to legendary Pocock boat builders and excellence of the University of Washington crew teams, I knew and respected the sport before I tried it. I learned the pursuit

of excellence, physical and mental discipline, and what is possible if you give your all to an endeavor. I was self-employed for my entire career because self-starting came naturally, honed by the discipline of crew. Another result of the sport was learning to live in the present.

If you miss a stroke, you can’t stop and dwell on it. One must live and be in the present rather than the past or future. This is a lesson I have carried throughout my life.”

During his four years at Stanford Ferry participated in the Navy’s Reserve Officers Training Program (ROTC), and after graduation served in active duty for two years. While on active duty, Ferry continued to focus on rowing. He won Olympic gold while serving in the Navy. Following his years of service, he earned an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business.

In the early 1970s, Ferry spent 2½ years living in a Volkswagen camper as he toured Europe, India, and Africa before settling in the Bay Area. His travels prompted him to start Tent ’n’ Trek, which took 34 high-school students each year to eight different countries on a six-week camping adventure. The trips had both cultural and athletic components, and most years, there were a few Lakeside students among the participants. After closing Tent ’n’ Trek in 1986, Ferry began building high-end speculative homes in Marin County. He and his wife Brenda live on Mount Tamalpais in a home that he built.

Ferry is also committed to giving back through community service. The activities that have been most meaningful to him include delivering groceries from the Marin County Food Bank to people confined to their homes, and tutoring high-school students to help them become the first in their families to attend college.

When asked why he decided to include Lakeside in his estate plan, Ferry said, “My time at Lakeside, especially running football wind sprints, laid the foundation for my success in life. For that I am grateful.” ■

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.

P.S. E R S O N A L

by Khatsini Simani ’10

More about Khatsini Simani ’10

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Presalynn Black-Simani

Khatsini Simani ’10 at this year’s High Point Health Fair at Neighborhood House, where she just finished a year working for AmeriCorps. Here she’s promoting West Seattle in Motion, a walking, biking, and carpooling initiative, and answering transportation questions from community members.

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The In-between: thoughts while on an alternative path

uestion everything.

Enter, exit, inspect, re-enter.

Demolish if necessary.

things I aspired to practice people heard, traded their stories for attention

while I was teaching I learned service is parallel shouldn’t it be?

Rebuild.

I was intrigued by the diversity of paths people had taken

In this time between filing papers, answering phones organizing events conversing with neighbors and yes scrolling, scrolling through Microsoft Outlook I learned to pay attention to the smaller things

The thirst to expand, to break from routine was everywhere.

And so I left college quietly like an exhale, ready to enter into something else unknown.

“I willingly commit To revising my path in life Again and again If today is only a draft…” rewriting and rewriting trying to resist temptations of affirmation of praise of ego or spell check! sharing my goals with those who were practicing

“Thank you.”

I change directions like children playing tag in a field. inspired to seek and create new opportunities I joined AmeriCorps as a test of commitment. And then once I let go of the need to go back to a place I felt I owed something to, of trying to understand everything at once, my ego died some along with my idea of community as an entity that is connected primarily by physical locations or bound by social labels.

“I’m giving forward what people shared with me”

Like listening I learned that poverty could be a state Of mental and physical dependency On outward systems to survive Or the inability to assert one’s agency Or the lack of tools to recognize its existence

Khatsini Simani is taking a gap year-and-a-half. After a year at Mills College she decided to refocus her educational path.

As an AmeriCorps volunteer, she worked at Neighborhood House, a nonprofit organization working to eliminate poverty and help families become selfsufficient. Simani assisted in the youth program with curriculum and community event planning and office administration.

Currently she is employed

by Alta Planning+Design, a firm with a mission to create active communities where bicycling and walking are safe, healthy, fun, and normal daily activities. She’s working in and around High Point—the same neighborhood where she grew up—on a campaign to encourage alternative modes of transportation. She wrote this poem as a way to “hopefully inspire others to pursue whatever it is they love to do, even if it takes them somewhere they never imagined.”

It didn’t have to be synonymous with having little money Or learning synonymous With paying lots of money Or success synonymous With holding lots of money In-between not knowing and believing everything is an experiment.

Imagine money no longer the elephant in your living room.

Imagine the clock turned from wall decoration to yo-yo.

Imagine 101 gray Dalmatians.

How strange and terribly exciting!

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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FROM THE ARCHIVES

BELOVED

Bleakney

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eloved by generations of Lakesiders, Fred

Bleakney taught English and philosophy here from 1930 to 1972 and was known for his remarkable athleticism, his playful wit, and perhaps most of all, his empathy and humility. Stories abound of how he jumped onto his desk from a crouching position to emphasize a point and recited verse while simultaneously writing something else on the chalkboard. His humility is well-described in the Distinguished Service Award he received in 1966: “All of us—student, teacher, janitor, headmaster, alumnus, parent—have come as equals to this man who would not set himself above the weakest of us.

A great teacher, he does not thrust his knowledge upon any one. A great human being, he does not assert his human-ness upon others.”

Students wrote to Bleakney for years after they graduated; some corresponded for a lifetime.

Letters contained news of good grades and marriages, but also of deaths, disappointments, and struggles. To so many, Bleakney was a moral touchstone.

Odette Allen, a graduate student in archives management who interned at the Jane Carlson Williams ’60 Archives last summer, has organized and preserved his papers. Allen discovered some little-known facts about him: Bleakney, who was also, at times, a trustee and Upper School principal, served as the school’s unofficial photographer in the 1930s; traveled to Asia in

Lakeside School Archives, 1952

the summer of 1934; and published articles in an Oregon education journal, one of which cleverly lambasted the “new type” of tests, true-false and multiple-choice, that had become popular in the early 1930s. Bleakney observed that such tests “leave no question in a pupil’s mind as to whether or not his answer is right. He can tell the difference

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Leslie A. Schuyler is archivist of the Jane Carlson Williams ’60 Archives at Lakeside School. 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.

between a plus and minus sign, while he may not

VIEW ALLEN’S SLIDESHOW

be able to tell the difference between his prosaic

Learn about Bleakney’s life and

and amateurish answer and the excellent literary

career at www.lakesideschool.

style of an accomplished student.”

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS 2012-2013 December

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College Chatter Luncheon & Assembly for Young Alumni (Classes of ’09-’12), Refectory & St. Nicholas Hall. Lunch at 11:45 a.m., assembly begins at 12:55 p.m.

february

Tell us who’s creative The theme of the spring 2013 issue of Lakeside magazine will be creativity, and we’re looking to feature alumni who are accomplished in the arts or creative in other endeavors.

Please send suggestions to alumni@ lakesideschool.org.

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LAKESIDE/ ST. NICHOLAS ALUMNI BOARD Christian Fulghum ’77

Mark J. Bebie ’70 Memorial Lecture featuring Eric Greitens, St. Nicholas Hall, 7:00 p.m.

President

Tim Panos ’85

President-Elect

MARCH

Lisa Marshall Manheim ’98

23 - 24

Crystal Ondo ’99

Mission and Governance Chair

Rummage Sale, Middle School gym

Activities Chair

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Cameron Colpitts ’01

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

Alumni Connections Chair Kelly Poort

Alumni Office Liaison

MAY

Members

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Shael Anderson ’90

Arts Fest, Upper School Campus

Bruce Bailey ’59

June

Honorary Member

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Commencement & 50th Reunion Luncheon, Upper School Campus

Donald Bressler ’02

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Reunion dinner for classes ending in “3” and “8,” hosted by Lakeside, Location TBA, 5:30 p.m.

Maureen Wiley Clough ’01

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Blake Barrett ’02 Lee Brillhart ’75

Nancy Anderson Daly ’80 Chris Fitzgerald ’89

Reunion 2013 Weekend

Dates to be determined for the Bay Area Alumni Reception, Seattle Area Alumni Reception, New York Area Alumni Reception, and Alumni of Color Reception. For more information on these and all alumni events, visit www.lakesideschool.org/alumni.

TBA

Questions? Please contact the alumni relations office of the Lakeside/St. Nicholas Alumni Association at 206-368-3606 or alumni@lakesideschool.org.

Leslie Flohr ’79 Adam Hartzell ’91 Claudia Hung ’89 Phil Manheim ’00 Bridget Morgan ’98 Ulrike Ochs ’81 Emily Pease ’75 Lindsay Clarke Pedersen ’92

REUNION 2013 June 14-16

Erin Pettersen ’04 Betsy Hawkanson Ribera ’90

Recognizing St. Nicholas and Lakeside alumni from classes ending in “3” and “8.”

Lakeside school invites all classes celebrating their reunion to a reception and casual dinner on Friday, June 14, 2013. 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 1963 will be honored at a luncheon and at the Upper School Commencement on Thursday, June 13, 2013.

Spafford Robbins ’77 Heather Hewson Rock ’80

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Join classmates on Facebook

Want to network with other Lakeside/St. Nicholas alumni? Go to

Stay connected with your classmates by joining the Lakeside School Alumni group on Facebook.

Interested in connecting with alumni in your city?

Contact the alumni relations office at alumni@lakesideschool.org or 206-368-3606 about setting up a Facebook group or organizing an alumni gathering in your area.

LinkedIn.com and join the Lakeside School/St. Nicholas School Alumni (Official Group). It’s a great way to connect with fellow alumni as well as enhance your LinkedIn connections. Help current students and young alumni in their search for internship or job opportunities; search for contacts using keywords such as location, profession, or company; network with other members; join in discussions on the discussion board; and post and view openings on the job board.

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