Spring 2016, "Finding Success"

LAKESIDE SPRING|SUMMER 2016

Finding success

• Conversations with alumni • New approach on campus

MADE YOU LOOK

TOM REESE

Lion on the loose: Getting in and out of a lion’s head

proprietors hold out treats for it that are considered auspicious

can require a little maneuvering. It was all in a day’s practice for

and a small amount of money in red envelopes. “Traditionally, the

Middle School Kung Fu Club students. They were preparing for

lion eats a lettuce (representing money/prosperity) and/or oranges

a performance of the lion dance at a MS community meeting to

(symbolizing gold) as well as a red envelope containing ‘lucky

mark the Lunar New Year. The eight participants “were amazingly

money,’” says Law. “It will spit the lettuce into the audience or onto

dedicated. After school, during lunches, and during frees, they were

the doorstep of the establishment to bring good fortune. The kids

all coming in for more practice and instruction,” said Andy Law, the

did not receive a treat during the community meeting, but I gave

club’s director. As a tradition of Chinese culture and other Asian

performers lucky money to acknowledge their work and teach them

countries, the lion dances at the doorsteps of businesses, whose

about the family structure of kung fu.” ■

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Mapping out our lives

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Cover story

o you remember what as a 7th grader you imagined your future would be? Was it anything close to how things turned out?

We personally find it hard to get back into the head of our 13-year-old self, with life lying mostly ahead, shimmering with mysterious possibilities.

But recently we had a little help.

Success 14 ■ ■ CORINNE P. ’21

In 7th grade Life Skills, students were assigned to create a collage of their values on one side of a page and on the other side put their thumb prints and turn them into art related to their future goals. Here are two examples.

Broadening the definition on campus 14 Knute Berger ’72 talks with 5 fellow alumni 20

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Lakeside 7th graders do an art project that’s a variation on the classic middle school exercise of making life maps. They consider who they are – their core values – and illustrate where they want to be in 10 years, with goals from academic to fun.

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Leafing through a pile, we found ourselves charmed by their mix of youth and maturity, ambitions lofty, conventional, and quirky.

They went to the heart of this issue’s theme of learning to define success by your own terms.

Inside Lakeside

Head of school’s letter 4 Board news 5 Campus news 6 Faculty kudos 7 Lecture series 8 Sports highlights 10 DAA Award Jim Olson ’58 Retirements 12

Some snippets:

“Graduate with not only good grades but with no regret for anything I’ve done. Pursue the thing I love. Help others. Have friends that stay with me until the end. Explore all forms of music.”

“Develop a sophisticated app. Graduate from Ivy League (w/masters cum laude). Publish a book. Cox varsity team. Finish a knitting project. Do all 3 splits.”

“Get good grades. Make a new friend. See a rare bird. Own a farm. Graduate college. Show my ducks at a fair. Become fluent in French.

Get a turkey. Become an animal behaviorist.

Go to every continent.”

“Be on the varsity tennis team. Make money.

Have a family. Be successful. Go to Princeton.

Do well on the SAT. Go to at least 100 countries. Climb Mt. Rainier. Have kids. Find love. Learn how to water ski. Ski a double black diamond.”

“Acting professionally. Volunteering at clinic.

Be in Upper School musical. Have pets. Get married (?), settle down and retire. Repairing the ozone layer. Turning salt water to fresh water.”

They bear hints of how, over the course of our lives, an essential adolescent will remain at the core while what we want most from life may evolve.

TIA K. ’21

That’s something journalist, author, and civic voice Knute Berger ’72 helps us feel keenly in his essay conversations about personal success with five fellow alumni who’ve followed distinctive and not always straightforward paths. Page 20.

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Alumni news

Diversity celebration 26 Regional receptions 27 Seattle reception 28 Class Connections 32 In Memoriam 40 From the Archives 46 Calendar 47

It will take a while to see the results for these 7th graders, but Lakeside leaders have spent the year trying to reshape the school’s conversation, to better support students in that hard business of being truly themselves so they can define a success that’s their own.

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So what do you think – are you leading the life you thought you would back in grade 7?

We’d love to hear your stories. Please do share your thoughts, whether by email, Facebook, Twitter, or mail. ■ 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

by BERNIE NOE

The liberation of imperfection

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TOM REESE

he current generation of Lakeside students, like students across the country and even across the globe, are growing up in a success-obsessed culture, a culture where we often read about 20-something app developers who already have made their fortune; where celebrity for almost any or even no reason is an end in itself; and where we constantly compare ourselves with classmates and friends on social media, creating one-dimensional profiles to represent ourselves in the best possible light — at our most successful.

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So we work very hard at school, and I believe we have made some gains, to expand the definition of success for our students beyond success in one’s professional or financial life.

We define success as understanding that one is not perfect and never will be and that we will all make some mistakes in life even if we are trying to be saints, which most of us are not. We want Lakeside students to put themselves out there – to try new things and take appropriate risks – understanding that things will not work out some, or even much, of the time. We do not want our students to be what author William Deresiewicz calls “excellent sheep” or “world-class hoop jumpers,” students who are terrified of taking risks and just want to get their ticket punched in high school, college, and graduate school so they can get on with living a materially successful life.

In my convocation remarks at the beginning of the year, I explained to the students that we are all a mess sometimes and that is OK: It can be quite liberating to not feel you have to be perfect!

I also pointed out that once they understand that no one is perfect, they will become less judgmental of others.

We also define success for our students as engaging with the world and as taking responsibility for leaving some small corner of the world a better place than they found it, not just for themselves or their immediate families but for others. Being engaged with the world is the ethos of Lakeside School. In this issue of the magazine you will read about several alumni addressing social issues in this country, serving their country through military service, or trying to solve global issues.

And finally, we want our students to develop a set of principles that will govern their lives and then do their best to live ethical lives based on those principles. It is great to be smart and motivated, but unless directed by a clear moral compass, intelligence and motivation will not serve either our students or their society.

Through our Statement of Community Expectations, the moral thinking nurtured in classes, and our teachers’ guidance, the school contributes to our students’ development of their moral foundation. We are also trying to slow the pace of the school enough to give students more opportunity to be reflective about how they are living their lives and to understand that living a principled life is indeed living a successful life.

We, of course, want Lakeside students to be successful in the world as individuals who do not feel the need to be perfect, who take appropriate risks, and who, from a foundation of principles, take responsibility for their society.

I will miss Seattle’s early spring for my sabbatical, Feb. 11-May 10, when Killian and I are traveling the world, living simply, and meditating on life. I will be back at Lakeside May 11, and will enjoy reconnecting with the school community and seeing all the changes outdoors at that beautiful time of year. ■ BERNIE NOE

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Board approves micro-school concept Further research to determine viability of a smaller high school affiliated with Lakeside

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he Board of Trustees has approved the idea of opening a microschool for grades 9-12 that will offer a high-quality academic education in a central location at about $17,000 per year. In December the trustees authorized funds for research to gauge the feasibility of opening a microschool within two years.

The micro-school idea came out of the school’s mission to serve as many highly qualified students in this metro area as it can. With an 18 percent admit rate, Lakeside turns away a huge number of stellar students, and the Seattle area’s projected rapid growth promises to continue to fuel demand.

The micro-school would be separate from but affiliated with Lakeside, with a different educational model, admissions process, student-life program, and cost. The school would aim to enroll 40-60 students between grades 9 and 10 its first year, adding a full 9th-grade class of 40 per year until reaching capacity of 160 students. Its head of school would report to Lakeside’s head of school. A subcommittee of the Lakeside Board of Trustees would hold fiduciary responsibility and be responsible for hiring the head, while an independent advisory board would oversee academic programs and other school activities.

The micro-school would aim to preserve the fundamental component of Lakeside, a high-quality academic education, along with meaningful student-faculty relationships among a diverse body of students and adults. It would differ from Lakeside in more narrowly focusing on academics rather than providing a comprehensive slate of offerings; having somewhat larger class sizes, with the average of 20 compared with Lakeside’s 16; operating in a modest, leased space; and charging nearly 50 percent less for tuition.

Summer School Programs Director Sue Belcher has been appointed director of microschool research and development. The board approved $300,000 for the research and development phase, and a donor has given $1 million toward startup costs. Belcher will present her initial findings to trustees May 19. If the board

deems the findings promising, her work will continue. If trustees ultimately judge the school viable, it might open in fall 2017 or fall 2018.

The micro-school would be in the greater Seattle area; locations being considered include the downtown core and other in-city locales more central than Lakeside, as well as on the Eastside. These include neighborhoods that require lengthy commutes to Lakeside and where initial research indicates high family interest in a private school education.

Total costs are still being researched, but in the proposed financial model, the micro-school would break even within three years.

In considering how to serve more students in the metro area, Lakeside’s trustees considered several possibilities for expansion. One option was to expand on the current campus to accommodate an additional 200 students. When architects determined that would require retrofitting of existing buildings and a new academic building and performing arts cen- Sue Belcher ter on the Upper School campus at costs approaching $100 million, the trustees deemed that unfeasible and voted “no.”

The second option Head of School Bernie Noe presented was the micro-school, a concept he thought promising after 18 months of research on new school models.

Micro-schools are gaining attention nationally as a model that prizes academic excellence and innovation delivered at lower cost than most independent schools. A primary driver of the trend is that most families’ ability to pay the cost of a private education is not keeping pace with its rising cost.

That’s true at Lakeside as well. Despite Lakeside’s vigorous financial-aid program, which now distributes nearly $6 million in aid each year, too many families feel they cannot afford the tuition. For the micro-school, the idea is to set full tuition at an amount affordable to middle-class families, while setting a goal of providing financial aid as the school grows.

As at colleges, costs at independent schools have grown as they provide more services and amenities. Micro-schools seek to trim expenses in ways easier to do as a smaller, nimbler oper-

ation. They may rent a storefront, for example, rather than maintain a campus. They can hire fewer faculty who would wear more hats, such as taking on major administrative responsibilities, working longer hours for higher pay.

And they can emphasize academics while taking a cafeteria-menu style approach to other offerings. So, for example, if students are involved in off-campus performing arts groups or sports teams, they may prefer not to pay for a school that provides comprehensive arts and sports programs.

Belcher will assemble a group of national, regional, and local experts to work with her on curriculum that will be distinctive to the micro-school setting, taking advantage of its smaller size and flexible structure. “Options we’re exploring are using the city as a laboratory, integrating the city into the curriculum,” Belcher said. “Given our smaller number of students, we may be able to more easily set up internships for our students. We can also capitalize on online education, possibly partnering with Global Online Academy to expand elective offerings.”

The influential Michael Horn of the Clayton Christensen Institute, a think tank on disruptive innovation, speaking to Education Week, said of micro-schools: “This is the first innovation in the private system in the U.S. in a long time.” Horn was a key inspiration for Lakeside to start Global Online Academy.

For Lakeside, the ever-worsening traffic in greater Seattle is another large factor in favor of opening a micro-school. Belcher is looking for a site that would be more accessible to students in areas that now require school-bus rides of up to 90 minutes to reach Lakeside.

Belcher said public transportation will be a key consideration in choosing a site.

The goal is ultimately to offer another choice for high-achieving Seattle-area students: a school that is not less than but rather different from Lakeside and one that will meet individual students’ and families’ preferences and needs in terms of cost, location, and interests.

Noe said he does not believe Lakeside will suffer a decline in admissions. “Because Lakeside has a history of increasing numbers of applications and a generous endowment, I believe Lakeside School as it currently exists will continue to thrive and innovate,” he said, adding, “but some families may prefer a different set of choices for their students.” ■ Board news

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INSIDE LAKESIDE

Performing arts improvements on tap New GSL site in Tanzania

Global Service Learning will open a new site this summer in Tanzania, where Lakeside students will participate in two projects that help young, rural Tanzanians become familiar with using digital tablets.

In the Ngorongoro region, a project has introduced schools to mobile tablet labs that are not connected to the Internet but rather to a mobile “server” called Rachel that has been uploaded with free educational content including Khan Academy, Wikipedia, and Tanzania’s high-school curriculum and textbooks. In the Arusha region, a rural library provides access to Worldreader, a company that provides e-readers uploaded with books. In both cases, Lakeside students will instruct students and teachers how to effectively use the devices. Says Charlotte Blessing, global education director, “Our students’ tech skills and experiences are highly wanted by the new GSL partners.”

PA becomes PGA Lindsay Orlowski

Director of Visual and Performing Arts Andrew Krus directs students on and off the stage at the Middle School’s fall concert in Evans Theater, one of the performing arts spaces proposed for improvements.

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he Board of Trustees voted in February to move forward on a revised plan to improve Lakeside’s performing arts facilities. The plan calls for constructing both an addition to the Middle School that provides a larger rehearsal space and a new multipurpose building at the Upper School that houses a black-box theater and rooms for drama and music instruction, practice, and rehearsal. Also, St. Nicholas Hall will be renovated — improving its functionality as a theater performance space — as will the Middle School’s performing arts practice rooms and Evans Theater.

The board had initially considered building a new performing arts center at the Upper School to serve both Upper and Middle schools, but the price tag turned out to be too

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high at $41 million to $50 million. Guided by performing arts faculty and school leaders, architects at Miller Hull Partnership came up with a new alternative giving priority to the spaces most needed on campus, those for instruction and rehearsal.

For large performances, the school has the option of renting off-campus venues, such as Town Hall in downtown Seattle, and scheduling additional performances to accommodate audiences, both practices already begun this year.

The board approved having the architects proceed with schematic design and estimates to create a preliminary budget. Assuming the school approves that work and can raise funds, the architects will complete the design and permitting and then announce dates for groundbreaking and completion. ■

The Parents Association has been renamed the Parents and Guardians Association. The association’s membership — parents and guardians of current students — voted on the change in February. The change was aimed at making the association more inclusive. Earlier in the year, the association sponsored a workshop for the PA board on the topic of cultural competency.

Rummage redo

Rummage has been slimmed down to a one-day sale for the public, with a reduced amount of more selective merchandise on offer. Following a major review last year that included feedback from all sectors of the Lakeside community, the long-range planning committee recommended continuing the Rummage Sale but paring it back from two days once or twice a year to one public sale day in spring. The smaller scale will be a better fit for the time and resources of volunteers for this year-round operation.

This spring’s sale was March 19, with the Friends and Family Sale for the Lakeside community on the previous

night. You can find new guidelines for merchandise donations at www.lakeside school.org/rummagedonations.

Formal dances get new names, traditions

TOLO has been renamed Winter Ball and OLOT renamed Spring Fling at the request of students who asked for the name change and a stipulation that anyone can ask anyone to the dances.

Historically, girls asked boys to TOLO and boys asked girls to OLOT. “We would like these dances to be inclusive of all gender and sexual identities,” wrote the students who petitioned for the changes. “As seniors, we want everyone to feel included and welcomed.”

In approving the petition, Upper School Director Alixe Callen wrote, “We, the administration, are happy to support our students in their leadership to create a more inclusive environment for students.”

Coming soon: New lakesideschool.org

Look for a completely redesigned Lakeside website to debut this August.

Features of particular interest to alumni will include: • Mobile-responsive design that works on smartphones and tablets.

• Simplified navigation that helps users quickly find information they need.

• An alumni portal that features alumni news, events, profiles, and a password-protected alumni directory (login information will remain the same).

The new website will primarily be aimed at prospective families, who make up the vast majority of the visitors to the site. Areas of interest to applicants are highlighted: Lakeside’s classrooms, the faculty, and the student experience, which current students helped define in a series of focus groups at the start of the redesign. The new site also provides a landing page for current parents and guardians, with tailored news content, calendar, and direct links to information like grades, billing, and a parent/guardian directory on Veracross, the school’s information management system. ■

“Fertile Pond” by Jodi Rockwell

BARRY WONG

Faculty news

Landscapes,” at Gallery One in Ellensburg last fall, showing two series of wheel-thrown sculptures.

• Sandy Schneider, Middle School physical education department head, was selected as one of the seven inaugural inductees in the Washington State Girls Basketball Coaches Association Hall of Fame. It was the latest in a long line of honors for Schneider, including being inducted in the Hall of Fame of the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association (WIAA) in 2013. When her 26-year run as the face of Lakeside girls basketball ended in 2009, she had amassed a career record of 473-2051 while capturing nine Metro League crowns, eight Sea-King District 2 championships, and five WIAA 3A state titles.

• Rob Burgess, Upper School theater director and maintenance foreman, is appearing in the Seattle Repertory Theatre’s original world premiere production of “Sherlock Holmes and the American Problem” April 22-May 22.

Applause please …

• College counselor Catharine Jacobsen contributed to the wellreceived book “How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success,” by Julie Lythcott-Haims, the former dean of freshmen at Stanford University.

• Upper School arts teacher Jodi Rockwell co-founded an artist and writers residency called Rockland, which this winter began offering free support and two-to-four-week accommodations in the Victor Steinbrueck-designed Butterfly House in the Central Area. The competitive residency drew applicants worldwide.

More: www.rocklandresidency.com.

Also, Rockwell had a show, “Vessel

Table designed by Jacob Foran at Seattle Art Museum’s Party in the Park.

• Jacob Foran, Upper School arts teacher, was invited by the Seattle Art Museum to design a table display for its Party in the Park last summer at the Olympic Sculpture Park. He also has four works in his “Fragments” series that, as part of the city of Shoreline’s public art program Artscape, will spend a year half buried below the earth between Aurora Avenue North and Midvale Avenue North in Shoreline and at Shoreline City Hall Courtyard, 17500 Midvale Avenue North (www.jacobforan. com/blog).■ Campus notes, Faculty Kudos

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Lakeside Lecture Series

opics of the 2016-17 Lakeside Lecture Series will include the upcoming presidential election, the complexities of race in America, and the U.S. space program. All lectures take place on Wednesdays and are free and open to members of the Lakeside community.

Belanich Family Speaker on Ethics and Politics | Sept. 28 Karl Rove and Howard Dean Karl Rove, who was former President George W. Bush’s deputy chief of staff, and Howard Dean, former Democratic presidential contender, will share the Lakeside stage (and probably little else) in a moderated Q&A session about the U.S. presidential election.

Dean, an MSNBC contributor, is campaigning for Hillary Clinton, whom he endorsed before she declared her candidacy. Republican Rove, a Fox News and Wall Street Journal commentator, has feuded with Ted Cruz (who accused Rove of lying) and Donald Trump (Rove: Trump’s “the dream opponent for the Democratic Party”; Trump: Rove’s a “biased dope”).

Rove, credited as the architect of Bush’s gubernatorial and presidential campaigns, is known for scorched-earth election tactics.

He was dubbed “Bush’s brain” and “the most powerful unelected man in Washington” before resigning in 2007 in the wake of furor over the firings of U.S. attorneys and the leak of a CIA agent’s name.

Dean, a physician and longtime governor of Vermont (1991-2003), where he waged an aggressive effort to expand the state’s health care coverage, ran for president as a populist candidate in 2004. He made inroads with a bold anti-Iraq War message but was beat out by John Kerry; Dean’s campaign derailed after “the scream,” an odd-sounding outburst during a speech that became labeled an 8

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Jelani Cobb, lauded for his vivid and astute writing on race, politics, history, and culture, speaks Feb. 15, 2017.

Karl Rove

Howard Dean

unseemly gaffe. But his use of the Internet to organize and raise money was ground-breaking and deemed instrumental for President Barack Obama’s later victory.

Dean founded the advocacy group Democracy for America, a progressive political action committee, then turned over control a year later after he was elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee. As DNC chairman he was known for building a database that tracks voters across the country and as architect of the so-called “50 state strategy” to make Democrats competitive in conservative states.

Austan Goolsbee

BMGI Speaker on Economics | Nov. 2 Austan Goolsbee

Six days before the Nov. 8 presidential election, Austan Goolsbee, who served as chairman of President Barack Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers and helped craft the administration’s stimulus spending plan, will discuss what he sees as the economic and political realities facing the president and Congress.

Goolsbee was the youngest member of Obama’s cabinet and served as council chairman from 2010-2011, after which he returned to the University of Chicago Booth

School of Business, where he is a professor of economics. He also advised Obama during his Senate race and during his 2008 presidential campaign.

Leaving in 2011 he said the economy was “a million miles” from its condition when Obama took office, though according to published reports, he’d favored even more and faster stimulus. Policy-watchers attributed his exit at least in part to frustration over the toxic atmosphere in Washington, D.C., that prevented taking necessary steps to better spur the economy.

On a lighter note, he was voted D.C.’s “Funniest Celebrity” in 2009; was named to Salon’s list of “15 Sexiest Men of 2010” (he remarked: “I didn’t even know Salon was printed in Braille”); and he and his college debate partner beat out Ted Cruz and his partner to win a National Debate Team of the Year competition in 1991. (Cruz, widely lauded for his debate skills, won a year later, after Goolsbee graduated.)

Mark J. Bebie ’70 Memorial Lecture | Feb. 15, 2017 Jelani Cobb

Historian, journalist, and author Jelani Cobb writes frequently about race, politics, history, and culture. He’s an associate professor of history and the director of the Africana Studies Institute at the University of Connecticut, a staff writer at The New Yorker, and the author of several books, most recently “The Substance of Hope: Barack Obama and the Paradox of Progress.”

In 2015, he received the Sidney Hillman Prize for Opinion and Analysis Journalism for his New Yorker columns; the prize jury said he combined “the strengths of an on-the-scene reporter, a public intellectual, a teacher, a vivid writer, a subtle moralist, and an accomplished professional historian.”

“No one has done a better job of placing those events (in Ferguson, Mo.) — and similar happenings in other places like Sanford, Florida; Cleveland, Ohio; and Staten Island, New York — in their broader context than Jelani Cobb,” the jury said. “ … Ferguson was not an aberration, he showed, but a microcosm of race relations in the United States — organically connected to the complicated legacy of segregation and the unpaid debts of slavery itself.”

Cobb has received fellowships from the

Dottie Metcalf-Lindenburger served as a mission specialist on a 2010 Space Shuttle resupply mission to the International Space Station, where she’s seen here. She’ll speak at Lakeside March 22, 2017.

Fulbright and Ford foundations. In addition to “The Substance of Hope” (Kirkus Reviews: “A rich, provocative meditation on the importance of Obama’s election”), he is the author of “To the Break of Dawn: A Freestyle on the Hip Hop Aesthetic” and “The Devil & Dave Chappelle and Other Essays.” His forthcoming book is “Antidote to Revolution: African American Anticommunism and the Struggle for Civil Rights, 1931-1957.”

Dan Ayrault Memorial Endowed Lecture | March 22, 2017 Dottie Metcalf-Lindenburger

Former astronaut Dottie Metcalf-Lindenburger’s multimedia presentation, with behind-the-scenes photos and video footage, will tell how a Vancouver, Wash., high-school science teacher followed her childhood dream to go to space.

One day, helping one of her students research a question (“How do astronauts go to the bathroom in space?”), she found herself on the NASA website, which led her to apply to its program for teachers to become astronauts. She was selected in 2004 as a mission specialist and after two

years in intensive training, she served as a mission specialist on STS-131 Discovery, a 2010 Space Shuttle resupply mission to the International Space Station.

For the final three shuttle missions she worked on the small team of astronauts who serve as the crew’s point of contact between NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston and NASA Kennedy Space Center on the Florida coast.

In 2012, Metcalf-Lindenburger commanded the NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations 16 (NEEMO 16) undersea exploration mission aboard the Aquarius underwater laboratory. The international crew of four aquanauts and two habitat technicians carried out simulated spacewalks to investigate the techniques and tools that may be used to work on near-Earth asteroids.

Metcalf-Lindenburger retired from NASA in 2014 and now is in graduate school studying earth science at the University of Washington. ■ Lectures begin at 7 p.m. (doors open at 6 p.m.) in St. Nicholas Hall. Seating is limited and is first come, first served. RSVPs are appreciated: development@ lakesideschool.org or 206-368-3606. Please contact us to request special accommodations or for more information.

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SPORTS ROUNDUP

by Mike Lengel

GIRLS SWIM AND DIVE SWEEPS STATE, ISIAH BROWN ’16 SETS ALL-TIME BBALL RECORD that had stood for 19 years, as well as the Lakeside record, which stood for 32 years. Along with being named the Metro League MVP this season and named to the All-Metro League 1st Team his sophomore and junior seasons, he holds Lakeside records for single-season points (867), singlegame points (53), and points per game (33.8). “It’s an honor, man,” he told The Seattle Times after breaking the career scoring record in a playoff game against Ingraham. “I’m very grateful to be able to share it with my teammates and my family.” Isiah will be attending Northwestern University, where he will play basketball this winter.

For more, including individual and team statistics from girls swim and dive, girls soccer, volleyball, football, girls golf, cross-country, and boys and girls basketball, visit www.lakesideschool.org/athletics.

Follow Lakeside Athletics on Facebook, or on Twitter at @LakesideLions. ■ clayton christy

Isiah Brown ’16 tries for a layup in a playoff match against Ingraham High School. His 29-point performance in this game secured his place as the Metro League’s career scoring leader.

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hat made this season of Lakeside girls swim and dive the most successful in the team’s history? For starters, each member of the team qualified for the Metro League tournament. After that, 18 swimmers qualified for the Sea-King District 2 tournament, then 13 qualified for the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association (WIAA) 3A state championships— the most state qualifiers the school has ever produced in the sport. The winning 200-medley team of Emily Prentice ’16, Helen Teegan ’16, Isabel C. ’19, and Abby Wagner ’16 broke the Sea-King record with the third-fastest time in 3A Washington history (1:47.60). The 200 free relay team won Sea-King and broke the state record by an astonishing two seconds. The 400 free relay won the 3A state championship and broke 10

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the Lakeside record in that event. In all, six team records were broken, five swimmers were named to the AllMetro team, and Lakeside swim and dive finished undefeated, capturing team championships at the Metro and Sea-King levels and its second consecutive 3A state championship.

“I think the success our girls saw,” said head coach Rob Sjoberg, “happened because they had a strong bond and an understanding that swimming is a team sport. They were swimming not for their own personal success but for the pride of the team.”

Speaking of record breaking, Isiah Brown ’16 will leave Lakeside as the most decorated basketball player ever to don the maroon and gold uniform. His biggest achievement came this season, when his career 2,372 points broke the Metro League career scoring record, a mark

Mike Lengel is the digital communications specialist at Lakeside School. Reach him at 206-440-2955 or mike.lengel@lakesideschool.org.

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The girls swim team prepares for a meet against Seattle Prep in September. The team would go on to break a number of records on its way to capturing its second consecutive state championship.

2016 DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI AWARD WINNER

by SHEILA FARR

Architect Jim Olson ’58 Jim Olson ’58 is the 49th recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award, which honors Lakeside and St. Nicholas alumni who make outstanding contributions to their professions or communities.

He was honored at a March 23 assembly, where he spoke with Upper School students.

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At left, a 2015 portrait of Distinguished Alumni Award winner Jim Olson. Above is one of the renowned architect’s recent projects, the JW Marriott Los Cabos Beach Resort & Spa.

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ne of the Northwest’s most esteemed architects, Jim Olson ’58 has built his career on creating spaces that are friendly to art — from luxurious homes for high-end art collectors to museums and religious spaces.

Olson’s virtuosity lies in designing structures that highlight their natural settings while paying homage to the exceptional artworks within.

His award-winning firm, Olson Kundig, for decades has been continuously named in Architectural Digest’s AD100 list of the world’s top architects and designers and for two years was named by Fast Company as one of the top 10 most innovative companies in architecture. In 2007 Olson received the American Institute of Architects Seattle Medal of Honor.

Light is the animating force of Olson’s work. Since the 1980s, when he assisted renowned light and space artist James Turrell in designing an exhibition, Olson has been aware of the way light powerfully — often subliminally — alters our experience of a place. “Spiritual architecture is a fascinating challenge because it goes so far beyond the

function,” Olson says. “It takes you to another place, an awareness of worlds beyond our own.”

When designing for any building, Olson considers the way light can uplift our spirits and awaken a sense of the divine. Yet sunlight also can be damaging to the fragile pigments of artworks, so must be deftly channeled and muted.

Olson builds illusion through layered compositions of glass, reflecting ponds, and terracing.

At Lakeside in the 1950s, Olson discovered his affinity for art. “I spent a lot of time in the art department, up in the attic of the school,” Olson recalls. “I found I was good at art but average at everything else.” He credits an encouraging teacher for helping point him in the direction of architecture. Yet he is also grateful for the rigor of his English classes. As an architect, the basics of grammar and letter writing are skills Olson relies on: “Those things help me all the time.”

Just a year after graduating from Lakeside, Olson made his first foray into architecture.

His father gave him $500 to build a bunkhouse on the family property in Longbranch, Wash.

Olson wanted to create a structure that looked like it grew there on its own, part of the forest.

“I have continued to rework and build upon this small building ever since,” Olson says of the cabin he now shares with his wife and granddaughters and which was featured in The New York Times in 2004. “I think of the building

almost as an extension of myself.”

In the more than half-century since he conceived that modest cabin, Olson has made his name designing elegant residences and public places, many of them places to showcase great art. His work has been documented in three books: “Art + Architecture: The Ebsworth Collection and Residence”; “Jim Olson: Art in Architecture”; and “Jim Olson Houses.” Some of his well-known projects include the awardwinning 1970s Pike and Virginia building at the Pike Place Market and the airy 1997 renovation of St. Mark’s Cathedral on Capitol Hill.

Olson’s museum designs include the Lightcatcher building at the Whatcom Museum in Bellingham, featuring a 180-foot-long translucent front wall. Olson’s work has been featured inside museums as well; his career was the subject of a 2011 retrospective exhibition that originated at the Museum of Art at Washington State University.

Among Olson’s current projects are a newly opened 14-acre, 300-room resort in San José del Cabo, Mexico; the Kirkland Museum of Fine and Decorative Art in Denver, Colo.; and residences in Seoul, South Korea; Jakarta, Indonesia; London, England; New York; and Mumbai, India. ■ Sheila Farr — a poet, author, and former art critic for The Seattle Times — writes about the arts from Seattle: sofarr@earthlink.net.

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GOODBYE GALLAGHER, GAUL,

pper School teachers Liz Gallagher and Jim Gaul and Director of Technology John Newsom retire at the end of this school year, having spent, between them, 63 years enlisting their talents on behalf of Lakeside students. We look at their legacies and at the creative pursuits they’ll tackle next.

Liz Gallagher Upper School math teacher * 1995 Backstory: At Mayfield School, a convent boarding school she attended from age 10 to 18, she helped all her friends with their math work — her introduction to teaching.

She wanted to be an artist but math seemed more sensible so she spent four years earning two degrees in theoretical math at the University of Oxford, studying art on the side. She worked as a programmer but switched to teaching high school for more time flexibility after becoming a mother.

After they moved to her husband’s hometown of Seattle, he pointed out Lakeside as “the place his parents should have sent him.” She spent two years as Forest Ridge Academy’s head of high school (but hated administration; “I’m too much of an iconoclast”) before being hired at Lakeside.

Known for: Her “frenetic energy” and noisy classes because of all the sharing and questions as she circles a beloved Harkness table.

Having taught almost every math class Lakeside offers and all levels; “You present it differently. I enjoy thinking like that.” Angie Orr, Upper School math department head, points to “her ability to work with students who know more math than our program offers as well as those who may have struggled with it in the past. Being a role model, especially for many, many, young women in mathematics. Her ability to break the mold stereotypes; she is a brilliant mathematician, artist, mother, and traveler. … We’ve lost count of the number of mathematicians, STEM students, and educators she has inspired through the years.”

Memories: “I really, really like trying to help an entire room full of kids understand a quite difficult concept; when they get it, and manage to solve problems with it and appreciate it, it’s just fun.” Leading spring trips to Italy as part of the then-Lakeside

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Noise levels rise in Liz Gallagher’s Upper School math classes because of all the sharing and questions as she circles the Harkness table.

What’s next: Taking on longer-term art proj-

ects, particularly sculpture, and more classes at Gage Academy of Art, and “I’m going to try to write an ideal textbook for high school math.

The changes we’ve made over the years, we have created a mighty fine curriculum. We should take it on the road; that this is the way to teach high school math in the modern world.”

Jim Gaul Upper School history teacher * 1988

Backstory: After graduating Boston College

Olivia Martins ’16

Jim Gaul: Known for teaching writing well, disarming humor, “bonehead quizzes.”

Intercultural Program, “a huge source of joy for me, exposing students to European culture and art and history.” As 12th grade coordinator from 1997 to 2004, starting senior buddies. Being a Lakeside parent (P ’00 and P ’09) for 13 years. Starting the Robotics Club. Also becoming a Lakeside student herself this year — enjoying taking honors chemistry (despite the first quiz being “a train wreck; I learned, you HAVE to do the homework”).

in 1964, he entered officer training school rather than get drafted and served in the Air Force in Vietnam and postwar as a liaison officer with the German Air Force. On the GI bill he went to grad school in philosophy and taught it at University of New Mexico, then taught expository writing at New York University while finishing a master’s degree there in American studies. At NYU, a chance friendship with a fellow grad student who was a Benedictine monk led him to teaching English at St. Benedict’s Prep, a Newark, N.J., high school for boys. He loved it but later moved to Seattle when his wife started a grad program at UW in 1988. Then-Middle School head Harry Finks hired him as a temp to teach English, attracted by Gaul’s

and NEWSOM experience at the predominantly black and Hispanic inner-city St. Benedict’s; Lakeside was newly trying to diversify and Finks saw Gaul as someone with experience outside the typical independent-school world. In 2003, Gaul moved to the Upper School and, as he had at the MS, taught both English and history at different times.

Known for: Always thinking about how

best to teach students writing, his favorite teaching activity and what he regards as his biggest strength (“when you teach writing, you teach thinking”). His “bonehead quizzes,” a low-stakes way for students to gauge understanding. Rigorous classes but also a disarming sense of humor that encouraged students to lighten up (“Hey, you’re doing fine! Really! Don’t become a Lakeside neurotic … worrying about things that don’t matter.

Relax.”). Creating, with fellow US teacher Bob Henry, a textbook for U.S. history that colleagues found “much more approachable and readable than any published textbook.”

Starting class with “pose and poll questions,” where kids answer electronically and see the instant breakdown of responses. Handing out business cards he had printed with “Stop talking” to help verbose freshmen learn to edit their writing. The stream of alums who stop by to tell him of studies, jobs, adventures (“He remembers them all!”).

Memories: His first year at Lakeside,

teaching 6th-grade students for the first time, he began a complicated lesson about Greek mythology, a deep interest of his, and seeing blank faces asked if there were questions; a student (a doctor today) responded: “Mr. Gaul, how many people live in China?”

“At that point, I knew I had to come up with another approach to sixth-grade English.”

The indelible lesson to him: “You have to pay attention to the learners.”

Says Henry, who started teaching at Lakeside the same day as Gaul: He became “a craftsman in the practice of sharpening intellect, imparting skill, encouraging confidence. Visit his class and you’ll become swept up in the mirth of learning that Jim conjures in flights of storytelling and philosophical jabbing. Index finger punctuating, he accentuates the complexity of the human condition that the study of history reveals.

‘Where would you have stood if you had

LINDSAY ORLOWSKI

Graham R. ’21 whispers a game tactic into club advisor John Newsom’s ear during a Dungeons and Dragons meeting this spring.

been born in the antebellum South?’”

Gaul: “People will say – you must have seen a lot of changes here. In some ways I have,” from technology to theories about curriculum and teaching, but “the challenge doesn’t change for the teacher. How do you foster intellectual development?”

What’s next: He’s not sure and “that’s part

of the excitement. It won’t be teaching, not because I’m turned off, but I don’t want to hide out in an area where I’ve been very comfortable.” He’ll start by “disciplining myself and be more productive writing.

Essays on politics, history – Montaigne’s notion of the essay as trying out ideas. Seeing where they go, where they take you.”

JOHN NEWSOM Director of technology * 2002

Backstory: With a master’s in curriculum and instruction from University of Washington, he joined Teacher Corps, a predecessor of Teach for America. After studying media production at Bellevue Community College, he started at Bellevue School District as audiovisual coordinator in 1974. He became an early innovator in the use of computers in education and eventually helmed the district’s instructional technology efforts, which included upending the lab model of computer use by introducing computers directly into classrooms in 1987. He created the tech-support struc-

ture for the district’s teachers and staff and designed several school levies that enabled bringing technology into the schools.

Known for: Completing the implementation of Lakeside’s laptop program (in its third year when he came) so that it supported the curriculum and instituting summer tech training for faculty and staff.

Moving the school to an integrated information management system. Supporting the development of a teacher Web portal, which he named the Souk (a diplomat’s son, Newsom lived in the Middle East).

Starting, with Upper School English teacher Erik Christensen, an interdisciplinary class on chaos theory and literature, in 2008. Always being willing to support and encourage students in independent technology courses. Lauren Bricker, Upper School computer science teacher: “It allowed the program to grow tremendously and it’s one of the reasons we now have a Computer Science 5 course.” His irreverent quick wit; geeky, ironic sense of humor; and laid-back style.

Memories: Three of his favorites: advising the Middle School Dungeons and Dragons Club; introducing coding at the Middle School, which contributed to gender equity in computer science classes at the Upper School; and “the rich experience” of the chaos theory and literature class, begun out of his and Christensen’s mutual love of the topic and authors including Jorge Luis Borges and Franz Kafka. Christensen: “John pioneered the practice of starting every class with an introductory graphic — usually a comic or a photograph — that presented students with a fun (and often funny) puzzle to decipher. They had to figure out each day how the graphic was connected to the day’s reading. This always piqued our curiosity, brought a spirit of play and inquisitiveness into the room, and helped launch rich and flexible discussions about complex topics.”

What’s next: Fascinated by science fiction since childhood, he’ll now have more time for long-form writing. He’s working on fan fiction with the working title “Lady of Cardolan,” taking off from a single line in “Lord of the Rings.” He’ll continue a poetry project, “Casualties” (“our generation had casualties”), and breeding West Highland white terriers. ■ Retirees

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ÜA broader definition of success Lakeside seeks to fight perfectionism and help students focus on what leads to a truly sucessful life

by CAREY QUAN GELERNTER

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the first day of school for teachers and staff this fall, five Lakeside administrators sat onstage as their impressive resumes were read aloud. Each then spoke of the less-perfect reality behind those resumes: Things they felt vulnerable about. Times they had failed, sometimes spectacularly.

One spoke of tanking as a college coach, another of being arrested for fighting in junior high. One of his college freshman GPA that didn’t crack 2.0.

Another of concern that spending her entire career at Lakeside might signal a lack of guts. One of her humiliation, as a 20-something academic star, when she couldn’t control her first classroom and veteran teachers she’d scorned had to rescue her.

They talked, as well, about how they used what they learned from their failures to ultimately build lives they consider successful.

The exercise was orchestrated by Meredith Bledsoe, Upper School counselor, to set up the year’s special focus that had just been announced by Head of School Bernie Noe. Each year Noe picks one for

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the school, and for 2015-16, he called on the educators to “be intentional in our efforts to broaden our definition of success for students.”

Bledsoe patterned the presentation on one dubbed “Fail Forward” at the University of Washington, which was inspired by similar “resilience projects” at Stanford and Harvard universities. The colleges are seeking to address counterproductive stress induced by high-powered students’ perfectionism. Some students were becoming so risk-averse in their quest for narrowly defined achievement that, as a longtime Yale professor termed it in his much-discussed book, they were becoming “excellent sheep.” Good at jumping through hoops but not so good at questioning why they were jumping, or the nature of the hoops.

There are times at Lakeside, said Bledsoe, that “the intensity or achievement-oriented focus can spiral out of control and take on a life of its own.

Achievement is wonderful – but how can we make it not someone’s sole focus?” Bledsoe, whose Ph.D. is in counseling psychology, suggested part of the ➢

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Üa broader definition of success answer is found in the work of author and TED Talk luminary Brené Brown. Brown’s vulnerability research differentiates between healthy striving toward self-defined goals – which allows for taking creative risks and moving on from inevitable failures with selfworth intact – and unhealthy comparing one’s self with others, which leads to feelings of “I’m not (fill-in-the-blank) enough.”

Traced to the great recession

Facebook status: “a mess”

The broadened definition of success idea had been taking shape, building in urgency, over several years and was telegraphed in Noe’s commencement speech in June, when he told the Class of 2015: “We all know that we don’t always feel as cool or confident as the persona that we project on Facebook, or Instagram, or Snapchat.

We are insecure about some things, confused about some things, and in some ways we feel like we’re a mess. … Let’s start putting that on Facebook. Status: a mess, or somewhat a mess.

Could be liberating!”

He told the new grads that he feared Lakeside might not have provided an explicit counter message to popular culture’s and wanted to share his view of what it would truly mean to live a successful life. The three keys, he argued, do not involve money, or even professional achievement, but instead: loving as many people as they can, as deeply as they can; seeking and finding who they are meant to be in this world, regardless of pay or social status; and developing an interior life, so that they regularly reflect on what they want and why they want it and what are the right actions they should take.

He spotlighted examples of people leading successful lives, not of wealth but of passionate conviction and giving back value to the world, including longtime Middle School teacher Tom Rona ’72.

“Tom is a brilliant guy who went to Lakeside with Bill Gates and carpooled with him. …

I (once) asked Tom if he was ever tempted to join Microsoft in the early days. In that serene Tom Rona way he answered, ‘No, I’m doing what I was meant to do.’ That was all he said and we kept on hiking, and 25 years’ of Lakeside students and all of Tom’s colleagues are the recipients of his love for them and for teaching.”

Noe decided to give that graduation speech in part to “convey that there are so many ways to define success in your life. Being a good parent, a good friend. … That’s success, in its most profound sense.”

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And he wanted all to build on the previous year’s theme of slowing the pace of school life, reducing the homework load. With more time to reflect, students might find it easier to find their own paths and “can come to view success differently than they do at the moment.”

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There’s a palpable

sense in America right now that this

generation won’t be as successful as their parents.”

And many "Lakeside parents, and to some extent, students, are terrified about that.” bernie noe

Head of School

In August, as faculty and staff gathered in St. Nick on the first day back at school, he reminded them of the speech.

“We have created a culture at this school that celebrates those who achieve in some specific area – academics, arts, chess … .

There’s nothing wrong with celebrating these external achievements, AND we should make more effort and broadly define other kinds of achievement.” Specifically, to “celebrate more publicly and write about more in our comments” those “internal qualities like kindness, compassion, reverence, joy.”

Ask Noe to trace the origins of his thoughts on success and he points to the Great Recession of 2008-2009 as a clear demarcation.

It engendered fear of the future at a time of severe competition for entrance to elite colleges.

“There’s a palpable sense in America right now that this generation won’t be as successful as their parents.” And many “Lakeside parents, and to some extent, students, are terrified about that.”

Lakeside, Noe sensed, was not as cranked up as most high-achieving schools on the East Coast or parts of the West Coast like Palo Alto, Calif., where the media spotlight shone on the cluster of suicides of students at hypercompetitive public high schools.

But the effects at Lakeside were real. The reaction, Noe says, was “‘I better make sure I take every lesson, every right course for my transcript, I don’t want to make any mistakes.’

This perception leads to this ‘excellent sheep’ phenomenon,” referring to the book by William Deresiewicz, “Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life.”

The irony, which Noe repeatedly tried to impress on parents, was that in the changing economy and world, getting into an Ivy League college, following a traditional standard career path, will not be the sure way to professional success. “It’s not just about grinding away; it’s learning how to think and step back in a situation and decide, ‘what value can I add here?’ ” It’s asking great questions more than knowing “right” answers, which requires free thinking, the antithesis of hoop jumping.

Noe credited Caryn Abrey, science department head, for coining the phrase “We have to broaden the idea of what is success” in a meeting where the Upper School department heads wondered how to support “ordinary” bright students at a school where superstardom is beginning to seem normal. “We have enough students that are extraordinary in

particular ways,” says Abrey, “that it’s easy to highlight them. They’ve made some incredible new invention that gets them on late night talk shows. They win international math competitions. They started their own corporations. They’ve gotten perfect scores on exams.

They’re completely worthy of noting and celebrating. But the hard part is if you’re the kid who’s doing hard work and not achieving on that level. …”

The pressure to achieve is not new at Lakeside. So many alumni he speaks to, Noe says, feel they “should be doing something truly amazing, not just settle for a quietly decent life – that unless they are doing something all their Lakeside friends are going to think is unique and cool, they don’t necessarily feel that great about it.”

When Shaun Griffen ’75 reflected on all the illustrious alumni featured in past issues of this magazine and plaintively ruminated about the struggles and quiet victories of less showy alums, she was flooded with responses by simpatico alumni.

Still, veteran teachers see the pressure as having increased. Abrey, in her 11th year at Lakeside, says: “It’s always been intense but I feel like it’s gotten more intense than it used to be.”

Possibly playing a role: The student body, at least in academic terms, has gotten evermore rarefied, as competition to be admitted to Lakeside has stiffened.

Abrey says that’s what led to the department heads contemplating, “Can we think about success in terms of happiness balance?”

Edging up to failing forward

Lakeside had been nibbling around the edges of the problem for some time. There was a year the school emphasized character and considered how best to help students develop it, to put achievement in the context of a moral framework. Another year paid special attention to encouraging creativity and innovation, which require a willingness to take risks and fail.

Upper School students themselves came up with Real Talks, a voluntary forum where they can “peel off the masks” before peers to reveal challenges and lessons learned, countering what they described as a need “to present a perfect image of themselves in order to live up to the expectations that come with the prestige of the school.”

Then in fall 2014, Middle School Assistant Director Ted Chen, Bledsoe and a few other Lakesiders attended the UW’s first Fail Forward event. (Chen’s late wife, Laura, had

worked on the UW project.)

Inspired, the Lakesiders talked of bringing something similar to Lakeside. Chen told Bledsoe she could count on him to go up onstage. Four other Lakeside leaders, while nervous, also agreed to participate.

Noe recounted how he’d fallen in with the wrong crowds in youth and had a “completely undistinguished” secondary school resume; how he kept quiet about his working-class roots in a factory town and felt unease in the world of independent schools until well into his adulthood. “I hated doing it,” Noe later said about his stage appearance, “but it was important.”

Chen told how, at his “ridiculously competitive pressure cooker” of a high school, “We had class rankings, I knew exactly what number I was.” It wasn’t until he crashed in college as a freshman that he found his way to learning not rooted in rote pursuit of accolades. His young wife’s death in 2014 changed his view of success immensely: “How do I be a good person, and care for those who I love? That’s what’s important to me now.”

The challenge was how to share these ideas with students.

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We have to broaden

the idea of what is success.”

caryn abrey

Science department head

New tone at convocation

Noe struck the new tone at convocation and to parents at Back-to-School Night. Traditionally his convocation remarks include noting some of the glitziest accomplishments of incoming students, typically academic, athletic, and arts championships and awards, and sometimes an impressive charitable endeavor.

This time, Noe made a point of calling out incoming students’ character qualities: “You have been characterized as patient, kind, gentle, strong, modest, capable, curious, collaborative, concerned about others, striving to be the best person you can be, and a support for others.”

Reprising his graduation message, he began what would be a steady drumbeat throughout the year of anti-perfectionism.

His speeches got favorable attention from parents and students alike, but he was realistic about how quickly the sentiments would gain acceptance.

As Melissa Walsh, PAWPRINT editor and parent of a senior, expressed, “People said they thought it was funny and spot-on. Did that change their hopes of where their kids go to college? No.” Still, she said of a broadened concept of success, “I’m glad at the very least it’s being talked about.”

Noe News is Good News

Oct. 5, Noe debuted a regular email news vehicle to students: Noe News is Good News, lighthearted but pointed. The first included a goofy selfie and signed off with “Have a great week — and continue to work on not being perfect.”

A few weeks later, Noe News gave this shoutout about Lakeside’s director of athletics: “This week I received a lovely letter from an O’Dea High School parent who was at the football game last Friday night.

She had a little child with her and locked her keys in the car, and a nice guy named Chris Hartley, who was managing everything at the game, went out into the parking lot with her and helped her get into the car. I learned later that it took about 20 minutes that Chris did not have at the time. Chris’s act of kindness is more important than anything I did last week and is the kind of act that makes the world a more ➢ Success

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Üa broader definition of success positive place for everyone.

Let’s all follow his example!”

Students were listening while waiting to hear more. “Posting an ugly selfie is a solid start,” wrote Isabella McShea ’16 in the Nov. 3 Tatler. The senior’s guest editorial credited Noe and other “figures of authority at our institution that are attempting to break through the perfectionist culture” but called for more actions.

The DNA of Middle School

Inroads were easiest to make at the Middle School. As Chen, the Middle School assistant director, says, trying new things is what middle school is about.

Middle School Life Skills classes specifically teach “the growth mindset,” drawing from findings on how best to promote resilience by Stanford researcher Carol Dweck.

Her studies revealed that wanting to be perfect stops people from reaching their potential because they focus on demonstrating their inherent ability (a “fixed mindset”) rather than on learning and on developing (“the growth mindset”).

Asked about a lesson involving the shortcomings of a historical figure, 8th grader Emma Earnshaw explained as if on cue, “Nobody’s perfect — they tell you that a lot at Lakeside. Everyone makes mistakes. You can’t always do everything right.”

With the resilience message well inculcated at the Middle School, its director, Elaine Christensen ’82, told her staff about the work of psychologist Richard Weissbourd, a professor whom Chen had studied with in the School of Education at Harvard. Weissbourd directed a major survey that drew national attention for its finding that the majority of middle- and high-school students believed their parents and teachers were more concerned about their children’s achievements than about their being caring people.

Christensen echoed Weissbourd’s call to instill “kindness as a cultural norm,” and added that in community meetings, while the previous year they’d regularly shared stories of resilience, now they would share stories of kindness.

Around midyear Christensen, who is also Lakeside’s director of professional development, signed up for vulnerability researcher Brown’s online course for leaders.

She encouraged others to do the same and announced that Lakeside would reimburse the modest cost.

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I’m both struck and

worried by the extent to which

students measure their own worth by which colleges admit them.”

ARI WORTHMAN

Director of College Counseling Risks and college

At the Upper School, the curriculum review already in motion designed deliberate ways to build assignments that reward experimentation, collaboration, taking creative risks, and asking good questions and not just giving “the right” answers.

One challenge was that any change had to consider how college admissions might be affected.

Director of College Counseling Ari Worthman decided to confront what he termed “an unhealthy culture” that had developed around college admissions at Lakeside.

In his back-to-school Inside Lakeside column, he wrote: “As I start my fourth year at Lakeside, I’m both struck and worried by the extent to which students measure their own worth by which colleges admit them.

In response to rejection from a coveted college, students often ask ‘what was wrong with me?’ and ‘why wasn’t I good enough?’

Students frequently tell me they’re ‘not the kind of student who attends (insert name of less selective school here)’ and that they’ve failed because they weren’t admitted to an Ivy League university. … On the other hand, I’ve also had students who do get into their dream schools tell me that only with their acceptance did they finally feel validated (‘I feel so much better about myself after getting into Harvard’ and even ‘I’m relieved after getting into Stanford to know that I actually am smart’).”

Worthman stepped up the education of families and students both about the reality of singledigit acceptance rates at the most selective colleges and about how decisions are often about factors having little or nothing to do with a student’s character or academic qualities – such as the ability to pay full tuition, legacy status, athletic recruiting, majors, and ability to donate large sums.

He asked parents and guardians to “take every opportunity to remind your student how much you love them and are proud of them – and that this love and pride … are completely untethered to which colleges admit them.”

Changing attitudes about college is a huge hurdle, of course.

Says Wendy Ruppel, president of the Parents and Guardians Association: “Lakeside is a really hard place to convey effectively to high powered parents what is best for their child.

I think Lakeside does a really good job of it.”

Still, “Parents want the best school, the best programs. If parents believe the best schools are the Ivy League schools and to get there you have to be perfect, that will drive them.

If Lakeside can get the message out that ‘best college’ is defined by what fits an individual student best, that will help change the measure of the success.”

Ruppel continues, “When we were doing the curriculum review, the faculty was saying, ‘Lakeside itself constitutes a great education; it should be seen as a destination, not a steppingstone.’ So many parents see it as a steppingstone to the ‘right college.’ ” For some families, different influences can be at work.

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My parents serve as my

daily motivation

because I strive to repay them for

everything they have done for me by excelling in education ...

My hard work is rewarding because I realize that I am the happiest in the moments when my parents are also happy.” r ya n t.

Lakeside junior

Junior Ryan T’s parents emigrated from Mongolia. As he wrote in an essay for American Cultural Studies class: “… I see them working long and tiring shifts at their manual labor jobs that they clearly do not enjoy, all so they can set me up to succeed.

“I remember how great my parents felt when I got into Lakeside, and I felt great too, because I made them proud. I fully understand how ‘tiger moms’ and other stereotypes about Asian parents came to fruition because most of the time these parents were immigrants who worked multiple low paying blue-collar jobs, so their children would not have to. My parents serve as my daily motivation because I strive to repay them for everything they have done for me by excelling in education like my sister did.

My hard work is rewarding because I realize that I am the happiest in the moments when my parents are also happy.”

Fewer hoops, more reflection

The part of the effort that the school could most directly control is slowing the pace, specifically by reducing homework and mandating homework hiatus days. Noe began the initiative last year, galvanized by hearing from graduating seniors in exit interviews that “they could handle the pace so long as they had complete support at home and ‘nothing went wrong.’ … And all the seniors seemed to agree

that support at home meant parents or guardians who took care of all their home needs: food, cleaning, transportation, financial resources, etc. I found myself wondering what it must be like for our many students who do not have that full home-support team.”

This year, Noe asked teachers for a renewed effort. In the class he teaches, he told them, he saw the benefits of trimming homework by 15 percent.

“The students had read almost everything I had assigned. They appeared to be more reflective. We had the best discussions I can recall in the course ever. I do think that less can be more. Giving kids more time to actually think is important to do.”

He also suggested that some kids are probably wired to be go-go-go, no matter what the school does.

When undergrad alumni returned to Lakeside this winter for the traditional College Chatter sessions, Noe asked them about pace, perfectionism, and whether “you feel like you’re on a treadmill and can’t get off.”

Many endorsed more balance, but there was also this point of view: “I don’t want to get off the treadmill; it’s inspiring me to be successful — at the goal that I work for, not just make a lot of money. I don’t want to be content — always striving for more.”

A work in progress

As the year went on, miracles were not wrought. Still, there is faith that the steady layering of the broadened ideas and values onto the fabric of Lakeside culture is imprinting.

“On some level they’re internalizing it,” says Chen. Given students’ youth, it’s still early, Noe says, to know for sure, but “we have at least introduced the notion that you should be trying to find some balance in your life.

“Even if they’re not necessarily doing it now, they know it’s of value and it’s important.” ■

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ead of School Bernie Noe’s sabbatical, his first ever, came about because he followed his own advice of “reflecting on what’s important in life, at every stage. Literally, it’s almost a daily practice. It’s a way to make sure you are not pulled off center by anything — by wealth, jealousy, prestige, envy.” This reflection led him to decide to take a three-month sabbatical this spring.

He and his wife, Killian, an ordained minister, planned to spend a week in a monastery in New Mexico; a stint helping Syrian refugees in Macedonia and the Isle of Lesbos with Save the Children; “walking, biking, reading, thinking” while following the route of St. Francis of Assisi in Italy; and finally, three weeks they’re leaving open. The theme of the sabbatical is “Simplicity, Silence, Service, and Suds.” (His return in May will be after deadline for this issue of Lakeside magazine.

Look for a report in the fall issue.)

“You never know this for sure — God willing, I am going into the last third of my life,” Noe says. “I want to make sure with whatever ability I have, I’m using it the way I should be. And not squandering it. That’s why we’re doing it.”

Carey Quan Gelernter is editor of Lakeside magazine.

Reach her at 206-440-2706 or carey.gelernter@ lakesideschool.org.

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Ülife on their own terms Author and journalist Knute Berger ’72 and five fellow alumni explore the changing meaning of “making it”

by KNUTE BERGER '72

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though others will try to define it for you.

At least that’s the lesson I learned from my own life, and in talking with a diverse and interesting group of fellow Lakeside alums about what their expectations of success were when they were in school and how life reshaped it.

When I attended Lakeside in the early 1970s, the voices in my head were those of my parents. They were medical professionals, with advanced degrees from Ivy League schools, yet chose career paths that weren’t

oriented toward making money. Both were in research and, in my father’s case, medical illustration, too. They often lived from grant to grant. In their spare time, they pursued art intensively. Success wasn’t having a swimming pool in our South Seattle backyard; it was contributing to science and making art.

The definition of success they passed on was this: Find something you love to do, do it extremely well, reach your potential, and leave the world a little better than you found it. I’ve tried to live up to that, but some parts of the formula were clearer than others. For example, when I was in school, I was constantly told I was not living up to my academic potential — I was the recipient of more than one “gentleman’s D’s” back when Lakeside was an all-boys school. I had little clue of how to tap something as

Now: Jabe Blumenthal ’78, at left in his new passive solar home in Madrona, became wealthy after shepherding

Microsoft’s Excel into everyday life, then taught at Lakeside, and now is deeply involved in environmental issues and progressive politics. 1974: Below, in 8th grade, on a Lakeside outing.

vague as “potential,” which was invisible to me. On the other hand, pursing my passions came naturally. If you had asked me my senior year what my professional goal was, I would have said poet. Writing was all I wanted to do; being read was all I hoped for.

Did grades or SAT scores ever make someone a better poet?

In later years, I felt further unfettered by some of the traditional notions of success because they seemed far out of reach in any competitive sense. I was in the class between Paul Allen ’71 and Bill Gates ’73. In terms of wealth, philanthropy, transforming the world, you could not pick two greater examples who were nurtured on the Lakeside campus. They set an achievement bar so high I couldn’t hope to get over it, so I found a certain equanimity in knowing I could walk happily under it. The way their success was popularly measured was not the way I measured mine.

Success is a slippery thing — difficult to measure with metrics of adolescent performance, tougher still to judge given fortune and life’s challenges and pressures. As a high school senior, how many of us can imagine the types of success that come with aging, with being parents and grandparents. How do you anticipate the deep satisfaction of having a small child look up at you with unconditional love in her eyes?

I think success today has challenges particular to our times. Income and opportunity inequalities have raised the stakes in our economy. Systemic issues, like racial and gender disparities, remain serious and unsolved.

As the middle class has eroded — it is now a shrinking minority in this country — many have felt more sink-or-swim pressures to make the high incomes necessary to live even a modest life in a Seattle where Ballard bungalows can sell for over $700,000. We’re becoming a have-and-have-not economy.

And too, we’re bombarded with social media in which we subtly one-up each other with images and reports of European vacations, second homes, fabulous meals, and adorable cats. Researchers have concluded that Facebook delivers “envy triggers”: How many birthday greetings did you get relative to others, how many Friends do you have?

A Psychology Today article concludes that Facebook “can lead to users judging themselves more harshly and feeling that they have failed to accomplish enough in life.”

Re-looking at success — and by impli-

cation, failure — is crucial to help keep us grounded, to prepare us to seize opportunities and have the resilience to ride out life’s vicissitudes. In talking with fellow Lakesiders, it seems that lives are often hard to predict, hard to quantify, harder still to plan. And our sense of success morphs over time, especially as personal values come into focus. Success is not a guarantee given with

elsewhere. He took a job at Microsoft in its fledgling era because he needed work and had contacts through Lakeside friends. He made $20,000 a year and slept at the office with his fellow workers, and he became the man who shepherded Excel into everyday life. Blumenthal left the company wealthy, then returned to Lakeside to teach for almost a decade and head the science department. He has also been deeply involved with environmental issues and progressive politics. He’s on the board of the nonprofit Climate Solutions and co-founder of Progress Alliance, an organization that is attempting to facilitate large-scale social change in Washington.

His current sense of success has been shaped by experience. In startups, for example, success and failure are not a particularly useful way of looking at what you’re doing, he says. You try something, learn something, then move on.

And in the realm of climate or social change, how do you measure success when the problems are long term and systemic? How do you get people to trust government? How do you get people to understand economic inequality if they don’t understand the economy? Blumenthal describes it as Lakeside archives, 1974 the “slow, amorphous work of geta diploma, never was, never will be. Success, ting people to change how they think.” Such it seems, is less a goal than an occasional things are multidecade, complicated projects. wrestling partner, but the rules of the match “If I woke up and asked if I was successful in change as we adapt and grow. getting people to change the way they think For some alums, the definition of success about government, I’d go out and shoot seemed pretty clear in high school: Get into myself,” he says. Fortunately, Blumenthal gets the best college possible, or at least the one of out of bed feeling energized. He knows he your choice. Such pressures push students, has to take the long view. parents and teachers to shape their experiLooking back, Blumenthal believes much ence to that end. Jabe Blumenthal ’78, of what he’s been able to do is the result who is in the position of having been both a of “dumb luck” and the fact that he didn’t Lakeside grad and a member of the faculty get locked in on a particular direction too from 1994 to 2003, says, “It’s traditionally early. He also advises that if students “meet been a more is more, achievement über alles someone who is pretty impressive, glom onto type of school.” That approach, he says, them.” That could be a phenomenal teacher, “won’t produce another Bill Gates.” mentor, or fellow student. Stick with people Blumenthal in many ways reflects a who can teach you something, inspire you, classic Lakeside success story. He joined give you energy.

Microsoft in the early 1980s after considerWhen measuring his own success, Bluing other careers such as biochemistry and menthal says that on a bell curve of money, even a job on Wall Street, where after his last happiness, and doing good, his goal is to be interview, he threw up on the way home. “A located on the right side of the middle on sign from God,” he says, and he sought work that curve. ➢ Success

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Now: Michelle Perkins ’92, here at her Lake Forest Park home, takes pride in her career as a firefighter and paramedic for Seattle Fire Department.

1992: Below, Perkins at Lakeside’s WIAA 3A girls basketball state championship (holding the winning trophy is teammate Jill Kirkpatrick ’92). Perkins went on to play as a Husky.

Ülife on their own terms Michelle Perkins ’92, a star Lakeside basketball player, was more specific about her high school goal: success was defined as getting into Stanford to play ball there. Perkins came to Lakeside to play basketball. And she did. The Lakeside team during her era was stellar, and Perkins, according to her advisor Bruce Bailey ’59, was “...perhaps Lakeside's most talented b-ball player ever.”

For Perkins, who is African-American and Filipino, it was difficult to be a student of color at a time there weren’t many others at Lakeside. She took pride in her athletic performance. It was part of who she was, why she was there. She played the role of ambassador for the school on the court. She remembers when she was playing games in places like Rainier Beach, she was aware of being good but not a showboat; more Russell Wilson than Cam Newton. Other than her play, she says her only concession to expressing a big personality was having a star at the dot on the “i” in her name on her jacket. She says she became very good at wearing a mask.

She also says she spent a lot of class time with her head down, intimidated by her classmates’ academic performances and “their relaxed, smart confidence.” Perkins was highly aware that she was a “scholarship kid” in the “dumb” math class. She says, “For me, there was no hiding,” and at first she adopted a “shame posture.” She was sometimes put in awkward classroom situations. She remembers being called upon by an English teacher during a discussion of a book in which one of 22

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the characters spoke in a dialect. Rarely called upon, she was suddenly expected to speak up for black people: “Black people talk differently, are they stupid?” the teacher asked Perkins in an insensitive attempt to call out people who think so. She eventually learned, though, to share herself and her life with others at school and came to understand “they didn’t want me to be in the image of everyone else.”

Perkins — heavily recruited by colleges around the country — saw her Stanford dream evaporate due to injuries. She needed a full scholarship somewhere and got one to the University of Washington, where her basketball career continued. She laughs when she says the only thing Lakeside hadn’t prepared her for was “dating UW football players.”

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After four knee surgeries and her UW playing career, she was still determined to prove herself. At a local gym, she played pick-up games with folks available during the day— real-estate salespeople, bartenders, and firefighters. On a bet, she decided to try out for the fire department. She won. Today, she’s been a firefighter and paramedic with the Seattle Fire Department for 17 years. She takes pride being in a job that is nontraditional for women and people of color. In her 20s she was able to buy a house and support her family. “I’m successful,” she says. Perkins wanted to go to Stanford, even had Olympic hopes, but her plans were derailed by injury, so she had to adjust. Success is not in the specific goal, she learned, but “in the recovery when you fall short.”

An alum with Olympic dreams who did go to Stanford is Emery Wager ’03. He didn’t make the former — he was a competitive sailor — and he downplays his mechanical engineering degree from the latter. When Wager was at Lakeside, going to college wasn’t a sign of success, it was simply expected and “there was a big push” that things like grades, test scores “be at the center of the universe.”

That universe shifted for Wager after college when he discovered the importance of something beyond a college degree.

In 2008, he ran into a friend at a party who was about to graduate from college.

His friend said he was going to join the U.S. Marine Corps. That was the first time Wager had talked to a peer who was choosing to join the military, and their conversation planted a

Now: Emery Wager ’03, at right, in front

of Marine Corps mementos and awards at his Green Lake home. Now working in tech, he just wrote a novel based on his experiences as an officer leading troops in Afghanistan.

1998: Below, in 7th grade.

seed. That grew into an intense feeling that he wanted to “do his part” with his generational cohort, and that if he didn’t he’d regret it for the rest of his life. So he joined the Marines, became an officer, and for five years led troops during two tours in Afghanistan. What he learned about leadership and the “slap in the face” of real life, he says, “were so much more valuable than what I learned in college.”

One thing he learned is that in the military, success is something you have to battle for on a daily basis. “You ask yourself, where is the battle won or lost today? What do I need to be involved in to be successful today?”

He says it sounds superficial, but in military thinking, you look for and go to the “point of friction.” He adds he also learned the value of supervision, which he says often translates today as “micromanagement.” Wager found value in military organization, the benefit of being watched and guided by superiors who can improve your performance. They can help you fix problems, and it made him “happy that doing a good job was observed.”

Today, Wager works for Gravity Payments, a Seattle company that handles credit card electronic transactions for merchants, which gained national attention for instituting a $70,000 minimum wage for all employees. Wager, in Lakeside archives leading young soldiers who didn’t go to college, believes college is often overrated and that in a practical sense, an elite college gives only a slight, temporary advantage in the hustle for a job. There are many career opportunities for those who take another path.

He has written and self-published a novel, “How to Name a Generation,” based on his own experiences that he hopes will help young people who might be considering something other than a traditional college track as they make life-altering decisions.

Wager is a believer in business writer Jim Collins’ so-called Hedgehog Concept: Find career success at the intersection of something you are passionate about, something at which you can be the best in the world, and something that you can make money from. The money part, says Wager, often doesn’t get brought up

at Lakeside, which he says emphasizes “finding your passion.” But once you do, making a living won’t necessarily follow, so that needs to be considered more seriously. For Wager, getting outside the prep school and college bubble, he says, “had the most positive effect.”

Lakeside is a secular institution, despite having a chapel and a hall named “Bliss.” But in the case of two alums I talked to, Lael Plunkett Atkinson ’80 and Mark Fefer ’82, spiritual paths have been important to defining and evolving their sense of success.

Fefer was a journalist and jazz musician in New York who came back to Seattle to edit Seattle Weekly in the ’00s and is now in marketing and communications at the law firm of Davis Wright Tremaine. But in his personal life, he decided to become an observant Jew. At Lakeside his sense of success was maximizing his talent, but now, he says, following

this religious path challenges him. “It is an outstanding way to feel like a failure every day,” Fefer says. “The demands Judaism places on you — for complex ritual observance, for continual learning of very difficult texts, for meeting high standards of thought and behavior — are pretty close to unmeetable, at least for a latecomer like me.”

But he goes on: “One of the things Judaism teaches is that the challenges you've been given are the challenges you're meant to have, and the situation you're in is exactly the one you're supposed to be in.” That, he says, is not a prescription to be passive: “You can shape your lot, you can overcome, but your present is also exactly the one you're supposed to be in. I think focusing on fully inhabiting yourself, rather than chasing someone else's — including a college admissions committee's — definition of success, will be better in the short run and the long.” ➢

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Ülife on their own terms Atkinson, who lives simply in a 600-squarefoot condo in Fremont, says that for the past 20 years, she’s been a “church mouse.” She became a minister in the United Church of Christ and

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Now: At top, Mark Fefer ’82, near his Orthodox

Jewish neighborhood in South Seattle. A journalist and jazz musician in New York, then Seattle Weekly editor, today he works for a Seattle law firm and has become an observant Jew. 1982: Above, playing drums his senior year.

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for years was at the ground zero of her faith, the Old South Church in Boston where, she says, colonists had the meeting to decide to throw tea into the harbor. She had been involved in the church as a child, going to Plymouth Congregational in downtown Seattle. Atkinson grew up in Washington Park, attended Lakeside, then Vassar. “I realized that there might be other paths to happiness than money and a big house,” she says. Her senior quote, often attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson, was “What is behind us and before us are tiny matters compared to what is within us.”

After Vassar, she moved to Boston and worked as a software administrator at Bain Capital during the Mitt Romney years. She felt the allure of golden handcuffs, then they didn’t feel right, and she quit and went to work for the city of Boston helping the elderly poor get social services. “My whole world blew open,” Atkinson says, shattering her understanding of people and poverty. “It was hard, beautiful work,” she says, filled with grit, humanity, and beauty. Eventually, she went to divinity school and focused on service through the church.

She relished working with people oneon-one and delivering sermons, but the long, weary hours of meetings and fundraising

and administrating wore on her. So did the rub of being a part of church structure. “The authority and presumed inerrancy of a single religious tradition [were] too constricting for me to be a part of at this time,” she says.

She’s back in Seattle now, having quit the ministry. “I de-frocked myself.”

She has set up shop as a life counselor and officiant, a kind of civilian pastor. She calls her business WELCOME2WE. She says it is “the essence of compassion at the base of the Christian tradition that inspires me to move in this direction.” She says she’s working with fellow alum Leigh Savidge ’76, one of the screenwriters and an executive producer of “Straight Outta Compton,” on a foundation devoted to early childhood education in Seattle’s Central District. She’s co-writing a book she describes as like “Tuesdays with Morrie,” only this time the thoughts on life exchanged are between an ex-pastor and a prison inmate she has befriended. “My high road,” she says, “has been walking it one by one with people.

It’s the value of taking it one life at a time.”

She speaks with intensity, passion, and a strong ability to connect one-on-one. She laments the common definition of success as being material, and I thought her observation leaves us with wise words that should bring

balance to debates over the meaning of success. “Lost is the delight in being an honorable person,” she observes. “Are you someone who is trustworthy, generous, kind, compassionate — where has the value of these things gone?” These are the things she seeks and finds in others and standards she holds herself to. “Success is integrity — I have peace of mind. You can’t buy that.

When you have it, you feel like the richest girl in the world.” ■ Now: At top, Lael Plunkett Atkinson ’80, in Fremont near her 600-square-foot condo, has refashioned life as a kind of civilian pastor after 20 years as a “church mouse.”

1980: Left, a yearbook candid of her.

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Knute “Skip” Berger’72 did not become a poet. He is a Seattle writer, columnist, and commentator whose main focus is Pacific Northwest politics and heritage. He writes the award-winning Mossback column for the nonprofit website Crosscut.com, is editor-at-large and columnist for Seattle Magazine, and is a regular commentator on Seattle’s NPR affiliate, KUOW. He is author of the regional bestseller “Pugetopolis: A Mossback Takes on Growth Addicts, Weather Wimps, and the Myth of Seattle Nice” and the 50th anniversary history book “Space Needle: The Spirit of Seattle.” He was writer-in-residence at the Needle in 2011-12 with a desk on the Observation Deck. Previously, Berger was editor-in-chief of Seattle Weekly and founder of its sister paper Eastsideweek. He got his start as a published writer at Tatler. He lives with his wife, Carol Poole, a psychotherapist and author, in Madison Park. You can reach him at knute.berger@crosscut.com.

Now: Knute Berger ’72 at left. 1972: In a candid from the Numidian.

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T.J. Vassar ’68 Alumni Diversity Celebration 2016

by KELLY POORT

Powerful togetherness

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n January, alumni, teachers, students, and friends gathered in McKay Chapel for the 2016 T.J. Vassar ’68 Alumni Diversity Celebration. Formerly the Alumni of Color Reception, the event was renamed to honor T.J. Vassar’s legacy and to celebrate all forms of diversity at Lakeside. The highlights of the evening were two rousing performances by the Acafellas, Lakeside’s male a capella group, and Cole Abram ’16’s reading of her powerful poem “A Letter to my Unborn Child.”

Alumni from the Classes of 1959–2011, from as far away as Australia and Dubai, were joined by the Vassar family for a celebratory evening.

Visit www.lakesideschool.org/alumni to view more photos. ■

Asha Vassar Youmans ’89, left, and trustee Natasha Smith Jones ’89.

In town from Dubai, Kia R. Davis ’95, left, chats with Jazmyn Scott ’97, center, and L’Erin Donahoe Asantewaa ’97.

Sarah Leung ’94, center, with classmate T.J. Vassar III ’94 and his wife, Elizabeth.

From left, Margo Hoffman Jurgens ’98, Alumni Board member Maurice Drayton ’89, and Alumni Board member Meghan Mullarkey Kiefer ’98.

From left, Chibuzo Ukachi Okoro ’09, Alumni Board member Dan Shih ’90, and Ellis Hazard ’10.

From left, Wanda Bertram ’10, Khatsini Simani ’10, and Graeme Aegerter ’11.

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REGIONAL ALUMNI RECEPTIONS

From San Francisco to NY

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HE HOTSPOTS: Alumni from the Classes of 1949-2011 gathered in February at the beautiful Pacific Heights home of Hallie Mitchell Hoffman ’93 and Auren Hoffman for the 2016 Bay Area alumni reception.

In April, Kathryn Patton Beal ’90 and Bruce Beal hosted New York alumni at midtown Manhattan’s Harvard Club, a social club for affiliates of the university that’s on the National Register of Historic Places.

Bay Area alums got school updates from Upper School Director Alixe Callen, and chemistry teacher – and newly named assistant Upper School director – Hans

de Grys shared how technology has and hasn’t changed the teaching of science. New Yorkers heard from Acting Head of School Booth Kyle and science teacher Devin Parry.

(Head of School Bernie Noe, who was on sabbatical this spring, is looking forward to catching up with alums in both cities next year.)

The buzz: Many SF alumni are working in clean, renewable energy or companies focused on smart buildings; many are at very small startups. Almost any young alum you talked to had, at some point, worked at Google. ■ See more photos at www.lakesideschool.org/ alumni . Alumni in the Bay Area and New York can easily connect via alumni Facebook groups for their regions.

Classmates from 2006, from left, Bennett Blau, Drew Rowny, Shane Easter, Carolyn Asuncion, Lisa Baldini, and Sarah Koo.

From left, Justin Norden ’09, Hal Wright ’10, and Kyle McAndrews ’11.

Bay Area hostess Hallie Mitchell Hoffman ’93, Margaret Campbell Miller ’93, Wendy Weiden ’94, and Shannon Fitzgerald ’94.

Merritt D. Benson ’49, Ned Sander ’90, Brad Benson, and Jonathan Wright ’86.

From left, in New York City, Kathryn Patton Beal ’90, Kara Schocken Aborn ’91, David Williams ’91, and Mark Reed ’89.

From left in New York City, Manu Gandham ’11, Upper School science teacher Devin Parry, Mie Morikubo ’11, Alex Xu ’11, Betsy Wade ’11, and Erika Liu ’11.

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SEATTLE RECEPTION 2016

by KELLY POORT

Classmates from 1973 Michael McNutt, left, and Michael Cooper.

From left, Lisa Hong ’95, Camberley Crick ’96, Brianna Reynaud ’96, Rachel Rogge Hilliard ’95, and Masayo Arakawa ’96.

Celebration in the Glasshouse

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n February, a record crowd of some 400 alumni, faculty, and friends made their way through the galleries at Chihuly Garden and Glass and into the Glasshouse for the 2016 Seattle Area Alumni Reception. In the shadow of the Space Needle and beneath a 100-foot-long suspended glass sculpture (conveniently hued in maroons and golds), alumni from the Classes of 1948 to 2015 gathered to celebrate. Acting Head of School Booth Kyle shared an update on the happenings at Lakeside; Alumni Board president Crystal Ondo ’99 encouraged everyone to get involved with the school; and the Acafellas, Lakeside’s male a cappella group, wowed the crowd with performances of “Shboom” and “Trouble.” ■

Sibling revelry

Former Lakeside teacher Ken Van Dyke with Ann Scott Tyson ’70.

From left, Michael Dunn ’06, Vicki Weeks ’73, and Ned Dunn ’70.

From top: Hayley Johnson ’06 and Colin Johnson ’04; Nick Oki ’10 and Alexander Oki ’08; Alex Wenger ’02 and Edward Wenger ’99.

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Caroline Johnston Hauge ’85, Alumni Board member Tim Panos ’85, and Ulrike Ochs ’81.

Celina Schocken ’91, Upper School science teacher David Joneschild ’90, Trea Schocken Diament ’95, and Eleni Carras ’91.

Members of the Class of 2011, from left, Bitania Wondimu, Graeme Aegerter, and Claire Jamieson.

Members of the Class of 2002, from left, Shanthi Raghu, Allison Wood, Margaret Hardy, and Mary Moore.

From left, Amanda Stevens ’10, Cameron Kneib ’10, and Miranda Timonen ’08.

Alumni Board members Michelle Chang Chen ’90 and Dan Shih ’90, Andrea Fall Zachary ’90, and Ted MacGovern.

Classmates from 1988, from left, Lisa Black, Lisa McMahon-Myhran, and Elizabeth Joneschild.

Members of the St. Nicholas Class of 1964, from left, Susan Hagist, Claire Creighton, and Candy White Charlwood.

Kietrie Noe ’07, Alumni Board member Bruce Bailey ’59, and Molly Levine ’09.

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From left, L’Erin Asantawa ’97, Erin Crall ’07, and Jazmyn Scott ’97.

From left, Gero Bergk ’14, Upper School computer science teacher Lauren Bricker, Nikhil Khanna ’14, and Henry Fulghum ’14.

Bruce McCaw ’64, left, and Bill Bain ’48. From left, Lakeside trustee Natasha Smith Jones ’89, Stan Shields ’87, and Asha Vassar Youmans ’89.

From left, Upper School English teacher Lindsay Aegerter, Corie Geballe ’02, Ernesto Garcia, Jeff Redinger ’03, and Navya Prakash ’10.

Sarah Levy ’77, left, chair of the Lakeside Board of Trustees Ty Wyckoff Cramer ’78, center, and Ellis Hazard ’10.

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Kirsten Aoyama ’86 and Eric Jensen ’83.

From left, Middle School librarian Janelle Hagen, Middle School history teacher Merissa Reed, Upper School English teacher Emily Chu ’05, Shelby Cooley ’05, Liza Shoenfeld ’05, and Jenny Northrup ’05 share a laugh.

From left, Alumni Board member Christine Gilbert ’07, Laura Hammarlund, Alumni Board member John Hammarlund ’79, and Mark Davidson ’79.

Classmates from 1985, from left, Elizabeth Richardson Vidgor, Kelly Overly, Julia Morse, and Polly Hogan.

From left, Middle School PE department head Sandy Schneider, Erika Fisher ’09, Molly Levine ’09, Patrick Lestrange, and Elise Drake ’09.

The Acafellas, Lakeside’s male a capella group, performed for the crowd. From left, Jordan Edwards ’01, Annemieke Beemster Leverenz ’01, Whitney Moller Howe ’01, Jared Howe, Collin Jergens ’01, and James Hurdelbrink ’01.

From left, Upper School math teacher Liz Gallagher, former faculty member Dwight Gibb, and sisters Emily Mockett Hutcherson ’88 and Carolyn Mockett Holtzen ’92.

From left, Ben Stephens ’77, Colin Johnson ’04, and Acting Head of School Booth Kyle.

From left, John Schmale ’10, Kevin Kennedy ’09, Sam Fein ’10, Nic Lane ’10, Andrew Runde ’10, Jamari Torrence ’10, Rachel Taylor ’10, and Remington Schneider ’10.

From left, Alumni Board member Michelle Chang Chen ’90, Chris Zachary, Andrea Fall Zachary ’90, Betsy Hawkanson Ribera ’90, and Sally Mansf ield Martin ’90.

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CLASS CONNECTIONS

in a Lakeside trophy case. Did it really belong next to those elegant trophies and shiny medals? Amidst the rows and rows of polished plaques and banners cataloging years of championship titles and winning times? My conclusion: of course, it did! Personal fitness is not the most glamorous athletic endeavor; not a lot of notoriety there, or medals to be won. I know Ron was proud of the Most Improved Player award because I remember him telling me so. But the fact remains, he never sought out notoriety, never wanted the spotlight, was modest to a fault, and never really competed again in organized sports. And yet, he was the finest athlete I have ever known.”

Athletic Director Chris Hartley, center, shares the story of Ron Lorentson ’62 with the Lakeside football team as varsity football coach Casey Selfridge, left, and Tim Howland ’62 look on.

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Arthur Clark’s book “Eyes of the Tiger: China 1944-1945” (available on Amazon) tells the story of his experience as an Air Force intelligence officer as his unit, the 35th Photo Reconnaissance Squadron, traveled from the U.S. across the Atlantic Ocean, through the Mediterranean, Suez Canal, Red Sea, Arabian Sea, across India, and over the Himalayan Mountains into China.

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Judy Parsons writes, “’Tis fun to read about alumni. I’m still working as a talent and entertainment agent, but gave up designing and operating safaris to Africa. I’m blessed with top musical talent in Tucson and am active in the jazz community. I do travel to the Phoenix area and to Seattle placing music — my latest project is ‘A Conversation with Edith Head,’ about the Oscar-winning costume designer, aptly portrayed by Susan Claassen in this one woman show.”

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In October, the National Business Aviation Association presented the 2015 Meritorious Service to Aviation Award to Joe Clark. Joe is CEO of Aviation Partners Inc. (API) and chairman of the Aviation Partners Boeing joint venture. He pioneered the blended winglet technology that saves fuel and enhances the performance of aircrafts.

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Ron Lorentson ’62 received this ball, signed by each of his teammates, when he was named the “most improved player” on the 1961 Lakeside football team.

1962

In October, Tim Howland shared the story and legacy of his teammate, classmate, and friend, the late Ron Lorentson, with the current Lakeside football team. Tim also brought the football that Ron received when he was named “most improved player” his senior year – he was the team’s leading rusher and leading scorer – which will reside in the trophy case in The Paul G. Allen Athletics Center this year. Ron passed away in 2014 but is remembered fondly by his former teammates for his lifelong passion for athletics and physical fitness.

Tim writes that Marsha, Ron’s wife of 47 years, discovered the long forgotten football in their attic and asked if he could find a home for it at Lakeside. “I tried to picture this grubby, old, beat-up football

1967

Richard Neill writes, “I was invited

by Sustainable Native Communities Collaborative to make a series of short films about recent efforts to create new, sustainable housing on Native American lands around the country.

After completing the films, I saw there was the potential for reaching a broader audience on PBS and proposed it to the PBS Natural Heroes series, where it was accepted for inclusion in their current series. The resulting film, “Native American Green,” will be broadcast over coming months on PBS stations around the country. Check your local PBS listings for dates and air times or visit the Natural Heroes website: http://naturalheroes.org/videos/nativeamerican-green/.”

1974

About a dozen alums from the Class of ’74 got together in early September for what has now become a small annual event.

Alums enjoyed lunch arranged by Lysa Hansen and beautiful views on a sunny afternoon from the home of Richard Hartung. Along with comparing notes on children, there were plenty of chats about how best to take care of parents as they age — the “sandwich class” in action.

1976

Leigh Savidge received an Oscar nomination for best original screenplay for “Straight Outta Compton.” He also served as co-executive producer of the film.

of Washington’s game against California to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Washington’s victory over Oklahoma in the Orange Bowl. The game became famous for the “Sooner Schooner” which took to the field after Oklahoma scored what appeared to be a decisive field goal late in the game. The Schooner was called for a penalty that took the points off the board, forcing Oklahoma to rekick. Washington blocked the second attempt and went on to win the game.

Bill was a reserve quarterback on the team that featured the nation’s No. 1 defense with 17 players who went on to the NFL. The team finished second in the nation that season.

A dinner for Lakesiders and friends in New York, hosted by Matt Griffin ’69 and Evelyne Rozner, included, standing from left: Elias Rothblatt ’08, Zill Stehlik, Rives Kitchell ’04, John Thompson ’04, Evelyne, Matt Romein, Greg Romein, Sam Jones ’06, Zach Bench ’03, Mac Schneider ’07, Nick Donald ’07; sitting, clockwise from lower left: Lauren Whatley ’07, Maggie Fisher ’07, Lauren McAndrews ’08, Erin Corr ’08, Alex Nordstrom ’08, Isabelle Phelps ’08, Brett Eisenhart ’08, Welles Wiley ’06, Anna Moseley ’06. Picture taken by Matt Griffin ’69, at right.

1977

In December, Storme Webber received one of two 2015 James W. Ray Venture Project Awards. Recipients of this joint award, given by the Frye Art Museum and Artist Trust, will have their work featured at the Frye. The Venture Project Awards “support individual and collaborative projects by artists in all disciplines whose work demonstrates artistic excellence and exceptional originality.”

1978

Kirk Johnson, director of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, hosted a three-part NOVA series, “Making North America,” on PBS.

1980

Scilla Andreen, CEO and co-founder of IndieFlix, was named one of the Puget Sound Business Journal’s 2015 Women of Influence.

Eleanor Moseley Pollnow writes, “I’m a working actor in Seattle, and next up I’ll play Linda Loman in ‘Death of a Salesman’ at ArtsWest Playhouse (a beautiful theater in West Seattle) April 28-May 29. In the fall, you can catch me in ACT’s mainstage

production of ‘Liaisons Dangereuses.’

Lakeside’s drama class with Linda Hartzell clearly made an impact!”

See 1982 notes for news on Wade Praeger.

1982

David McCabe writes, “I had occasion to swim across Lake Washington with Eric Ayrault ’83, Bruce Moses ’83, Stowe Talbot, and Wade Praeger ’80. Brian Miller provided support, encouragement, and transportation. The Open Water Swim was a fundraiser put on by the Swim for Children’s Guild of Seattle Children’s.

These Lakesiders entered the water early in the morning on Aug. 23 at Matthews Beach (west shore of Lake Washington) and emerged 35 to 55 minutes later at O.O. Denny Park (east shore of Lake Washington). It was a nice swim. It was great to see old friends.”

1983

See 1982 notes for news on Bruce Moses and Eric Ayrault.

1984

In September, Bill Walsh joined his teammates from the 1985 University of Washington football team during halftime

In January, Anthony Katsaros, who had held the Lakeside basketball record for career points scored since 1984, joined a ceremony for senior Isiah Brown, who had recently broken Anthony’s record. Many of Anthony’s teammates from 1984 were present.

Isiah, who will play basketball at Northwestern University, went on to become the Metro League’s all-time leading scorer later in the season.

1988

Martha Brockenbrough’s book “The Game of Love and Death” won a 2016 ➢

Class rings

For St. Nicholas alumnae who never had the opportunity to own a St. Nicholas school ring, now is your chance. The original ring made by Carroll’s Jewelers has been recreated, as well as a pendant. Both are available in 14k yellow or white gold, at cost (prices range from $300 to $600). Those who have already ordered have been thrilled. If you are interested or have questions, contact Jeri Robinson Smith ’72 at springpad1@msn.com or 503-5227955.

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Anthony Katsaros ’84, left, and senior Isiah Brown. Isiah set a new Lakeside basketball record for points in a career, passing Katsaros’ previous record.

Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award.

1989

Ned Baldwin writes, “After graduating from Yale in 2000 with an MFA in fine art, I proceeded to squander same while working in various restaurants around New York City and in the wilds of Brooklyn.

During that time, and with the help of my wife, Jordana, I produced two kids (Hazel and Irving) who are now 8 and 11. They both go to the Village Community School in the West Village. Irv plays lacrosse (you can do that here before high school) and Hazel is a ballerina. They are both awesome and I’m a proud dad. Turns out I like working in restaurants as much as I like eating in them, so last January I signed a 10-year lease on a spot in lower Manhattan. We opened in June and were awarded two stars by Pete Wells of The New York Times after just three months.

The restaurant is called Houseman.”

1990

Dan Shih writes, “I have an exciting announcement to share: I’m running for an open seat in the Washington state legislature for the 43rd District. As you may know, I’ve long been committed to public service. I have Lakeside to thank for instilling that value in me. While juggling a law practice and a family, I do substantial

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Members of the 1984 basketball team, from left, Mike Sherman ’85, John Gerberding ’83, Erik Seiffert ’84, Will Shortt ’84, Bill Walsh ’84, Anthony Katsaros ’84, coach Bruce Bailey ’59, John Ruljancich ’84, and Paul Johnson ’84.

pro bono work and volunteer for important causes that I am passionate about.

That includes serving on the Lakeside alumni board as well as the boards of the ACLU of Washington, API Chaya (which helps survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking in marginalized communities), QLaw (the LGBTQ bar association), and others. I’m running for state office to make an even bigger difference and to improve the lives of more people in Washington. Learn more at www.danshih.com.”

1993

Aditya Sood won a Golden Globe for producing “The Martian,” which was also nominated for Best Picture at the Academy

Aditya Sood ’93 and his wife, Becky, welcomed son Benjamin in June.

Awards. He also produced the film “Deadpool,” which came out in February 2016. In even more exciting news, Aditya and his wife, Becky, welcomed Benjamin, their first child, June 17.

1994

Evelyn Spence Callahan and her husband, Will, welcomed daughter Charlotte Rae Callahan on Nov. 16. She joins big brother Alexander.

1995

Katie Monroe Hetherington and her husband, Jim, along with big brothers Miles and Evan, are thrilled to announce the arrival of Alice Oliver Hetherington, born Oct. 18.

1996

See 1999 notes for news on Gary Kegel.

Aditya Sood ’93 with his Golden Globe for producing “The Martian.”

1997

Jake McKinstry was named one of the Puget Sound Business Journal’s “40 Under 40” in 2015. He is a principal with Spectrum Development Solutions, a Seattle-based real estate development company.

1998

Jordan Swanson writes, “A recent Tuesday afternoon call from Managua, Nicaragua, to Tempe, Arizona, was an unusual customer looking for an unusual business. In Nicaragua, a surgeon working to strengthen access to surgical care travels regularly back to the U.S. for regular — but short — trips and was looking for car insurance to specifically cover his occasional driving. In Tempe, a young entrepreneur has helped launch a company that is disrupting the car insurance market by pricing insurance based on miles driven. Imagine the surprise to both, Stephen Green ’07 the entrepreneur and Jordan Swanson ’98 the surgeon, when in reviewing the billing address discovered the Lakeside connection. Just two Lakeside grads, doing things that wouldn’t have been technologically possible five years ago, who had a chance encounter based on mutual need...” Jordan is working in Nicaragua as a surgeon and, in partnership with the Nicaraguan Ministry of Health, USC, and Operation Smile, to strengthen access to surgery and advance the quality and outcomes of surgery across that country. He shares,

Charlotte Rae Callahan, daughter of Evelyn Spence Callahan ’94 and her husband, Will.

“More people die in the world each year of conditions treated by surgery than from AIDS, TB, and malaria combined.

The poorest third of the people in the world only receive about 3 percent of the surgical procedures in the world, despite that surgery is increasingly seen as costeffective. Worse, about 50 percent of surgical deaths occur among this poorest third. Nicaragua faces a number of these challenges. We are launching initiatives to build comprehensive care for children with cleft and congenital anomalies and enable advanced orthognathic and craniofacial surgical treatment for them; eradicating the backlog of untreated patients in Nicaragua; and developing new tools and training programs to surgical providers across the country. It has been a challenging, humbling, but very meaningful opportunity for my family and me.”

1999

Jenny Lawson and husband Steve Sheahan welcomed their second daughter, Melia Sol, into the world on Oct. 21.

2015 was a busy year for the Kegel family.

Terry Kegel married Anna Fleming on June 28, Gary Kegel ’96 married Alisha Perry on Aug. 30, and Ilana Kegel ’04 married Amit Singh on Sept. 19.

2000

At the Capital Challenge Horse Show in September, Alexis Taylor Silvernale won the World Championship Hunter Rider (WCHR) Developing Pro Challenge and also claimed the WCHR Developing Pro National Championship. Alexis is

Jordan Swanson ’98, left, is a surgeon in Nicaragua. the owner, head pro, and head trainer at Aleron Training Stables in Kirkland.

2001

See 2002 notes for news on Dan Benedetti.

Liza Buzytsky writes, “Since finishing my MFA in May of 2015 in fibers & materials studies at Tyler, I’ve begun working as communications director for Clodagh Design in New York. In addition to delivering design that supports wellbeing and can transform people’s lives, Clodagh Design is involved in a number of philanthropic initiatives including the Thorn Tree Project, a not-for-profit grassroots organization building schools in rural Kenya. I work on developing Clodagh’s mission and vision as a designer and as a ➢

Alice Oliver Hetherington, daughter of Katie Monroe Hetherington ’95 and her husband, Jim.

Melia Sol, daughter of Jenny Lawson ’99 and Steve Sheahan.

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Ilana Kegel ’04 married Amit Singh on Sept. 19.

Kaci Callahan Benedetti ’02 and Dan Benedetti ’01 with son Grayson. community leader. I also live in Brooklyn, teach yoga and meditation, and continue to make my own art and design work, which you can find on my website www. buzytsky.com.”

New York Times bestselling author Tommy Wallach’s second novel, “Thanks for the Trouble,” was published in February. It’s a “unique story of first and last loves.”

2002

Kaci Callahan Benedetti and Dan Benedetti ’01 welcomed their son Grayson Aldo Benedetti in October. The family lives in Boston, where Dan is completing a three-year fellowship in pediatric oncology at Harvard.

Mairead Case’s novel “See You in the Morning” came out recently from Featherproof books, and she’s felt lucky to see several Lakesiders on book tour, including Rob Leitzell and Alison Myers Berkley in Brooklyn and Lakeside teacher Brian Culhane in Seattle.

2003

Ben Flajole married Brittany Blondino on Oct. 10 in Seattle. Lakeside alums from seven different classes attended.

Ben reports that one of many highlights was the best-man toast delivered by his brother, Pat Flajole ’05.

2004

After 10 years teaching math at Lakeside (and five years as a student), Siva

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Sankrithi will retire at the end of the 2015/2016 school year. He notes that he’s spent over half of his life at Lakeside.

He plans to devote himself fully to caring for and teaching his 2-year-old son and spending time with family.

Gary Kegel ’96 married Alisha Perry on Aug. 30.

See 1999 notes for news on Ilana Kegel.

A member of the US LM8+, David O. Smith brought home the bronze medal from the Rowing World Championships in Lake Aiguebelette, France. You can find the race online to check out the photo finish.

In November, veterans Andy Bench and Carsten Belanich came back to campus to participate in the Veterans Day assembly at Lakeside Middle School, sharing with current students why they chose to serve in the military.

In a November Seattle Times article about his new Hulu streaming series, “RocketJump: The Show,” Freddie Wong credits Lakeside arts teacher Al Snapp for inspiring his exploration of video while he was a student. “He was a really big part of getting technology in that high school,” Wong said. “And at Lakeside they let us do our own thing.”

Erin Pettersen married Keith Jarrett at the Inn at Ship Bay on Orcas Island on July 11.

Doug Rooke married Holly Andersen on Aug. 16 in Denver.

Terry Kegel ’99 married Anna Fleming on June 28.

Kate Zyskowski married Justin Schram in Colorado on Aug. 8. The couple recently returned from a year and half in Hyderabad, India, where Kate, an anthropologist, was completing her doctoral dissertation fieldwork and Justin was the chief medical officer for a diabetes prevention technology startup.

2005

Aubrielle Houston Kituuma and her husband, Nathan Kituuma, welcomed the birth of daughter Emani Kituuma on April 3.

Mike Stennis was included in NewsOne’s profile “5 Millennials Of Color Working On Hillary Clinton’s Presidential Campaign.”

He manages the scheduling desk in the vice chair department, which involves scheduling nationwide campaign events

in New Hampshire and South Carolina. Prior to joining the Clinton campaign he worked for the vice president’s office as special assistant to Jill Biden.

2006

Alex Potter and Natalia Martínez Munoz welcomed their second son, Oliver Elliot Potter, Dec. 29. He joins big brother Ian, 4½.

Lakesiders at the October wedding of Ben Flajole ’03 and Brittany Blondino Flajole included, front row from left, Annica Carlson Garfield ’08, Katie Furia ’05, Pat Flajole ’05, Ben, Brittany, Jeff Redinger ’03; back row from left, Drew Garfield ’05, Nolan Myer ’02, Tom Doggett ’03, Trevor Klein ’03, David Greenfield ’02, Nate Talbot ’02, Erica Coppel ’03, Thomas Buck ’03, Reid Rader ’03, Jennifer Redinger ’00.

Ian Bolliger, a graduate student in UC Berkeley’s energy and resources group, attended the 2015 U.N. Climate Change Conference in Paris in November. Ian is a researcher focusing on climate change and its effect on snowpack and water management. He is part of a group working on a project called Tiny House in My Back Yard (THIMBY), an off-grid tiny house they’re designing and building for the Berkeley Global Campus in Richmond, with sponsorship from the Sacramento Municipal Utility District and The Green Initiative Fund, among others. He and two others presented THIMBY at the Global University Climate Forum, an event put on by the International Alliance of Research Universities, during the U.N. conference.

2007

Lakeside and St. Nicholas alumni at the July wedding of Erin Pettersen ’04 and Keith Jarrett included, from left, Dean Ballard, Piper Pettersen ’03, Shannon Donegan ’04, Erin, Keith, Mick Pettersen ’99, Leif Ballard Pettersen, Robin Ballard ’99, Lucia Ballard ’02, Marcia MacDonald Pettersen ’69, Candie Taylor Miller ’69, Pam Nelson ’69, and Palmer Pettersen ’70.

Beatrice Liem-Fogarty and Colin Fogarty were married Oct. 17 at the Commander’s Mansion in Watertown, Mass. The couple met in college and celebrated their sixth anniversary together two weeks after the wedding. The 175 guests included some Lakeside friends. Beatrice and Colin thank their Lakeside friends, whether they attended in person or in spirit, for their love and support.

See 1998 notes for news on Stephen Green.

2011

Riley Corr and Ben Blumstein created ➢

SEND US YOUR UPDATES

Lakesiders at the wedding of Holly Andersen and Doug Rooke ’04 included, from left, Linus Chou ’04, Eugene Yi ’04, Carsten Belanich ’04, Josha Nathan ’04, Linnea Rooke ’05, Holly, Doug, Devin Beecher ’04, AnGee Baldini ’04, Alex Robertson ’04, Peter Meleney ’04, and Colin Johnson ’04.

Share your updates and photos with classmates and Lakeside/St. Nicholas friends! Events big and small, personal or professional, are always of interest. Send in your baby announcement and photo, and we’ll outfit your little one with a Lakeside bib. Email notes and photos to alumni@ lakesideschool.org.

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Oliver Potter, left, and brother Ian are sons of Alex Potter ’06 and Natalia Martínez Munoz.

a music video for Ben’s song “Foolish” (performing as Ben Zaidi). You can check it out on YouTube.

Caroline Skalley graduated from Duke University in May and is now in her first year of dental school at the University of Texas School of Dentistry in Houston. She is engaged to Colin Rog, a 2014 Duke graduate and second-year medical student at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. Caroline and Colin will be married Aug. 6 in Seattle.

2012

Emani Kituuma, daughter of Aubrielle Houston Kituuma ’05 and her husband, Nathan.

Upper School science teacher Hans de Grys shared the news that his former student Geoffrey Martin-Noble published a paper in the Journal of Physical Chemistry: “His paper is about finding molecules that might provide ‘a new strategy for lowcost, eco-friendly, and durable stationary electrical energy storage’ – in other words, finding materials for use in awesome new batteries.”

2013

While at Stanford for his college reunion, Upper School science teacher Devin Parry, far right, caught up with former students including, from left, Matthew Linker ’15, Genevieve Payzer ’15, Jenn Gates ’14, Juleh Eide ’13, John Kamalu ’14, and Peter Ballmer ’13.

Claire Revere won a gold medal last summer at the Ultimate Frisbee World Championships in London, competing for the U.S. on the mixed team. She and her teammates on Seattle’s “MixTape” club team took home the silver medal from the National Club Championships in October in

Frisco, Texas. Ultiworld named her to the All-Club 2015: 1st Team (Mixed).

2015

Lakeside science teacher Devin Parry writes, “I was on the Stanford campus for my 20th college reunion and arranged a get-together for Lakeside grads currently attending Stanford. Over coffee and snacks, 12 students shared with me their stories about college classes, roommates, choosing a major, playing sports, and, of course, reminisced about Lakeside days. I got to see Matthew Linker, Genevieve Payzer, Abrahm DeVine, Hallie Dunham, Cate Guyman, Mika Koch, CJ Paige, Jenn Gates ’14, John Kamalu ’14, Seyi Adekoya ’14 (he plays soccer at UCLA and was at Stanford for a game), Juleh Eide ’13, and Peter Ballmer ’13. It was a blast for me to hear about all of the amazing things my former students are up to!”

Jaclyn Verzuh competed for the U.S. Women’s team at the Ultimate Frisbee World Championships last summer in London, bringing home a silver medal. She plays on Seattle’s “Riot” club team, which qualified for and took home the silver medal from the National Club Championships in October in Frisco, Texas. Ultiworld named her as one of 14 All-Club 2015 Breakout Players. ■

Are you looking for your next great read?

Pick a book written by a fellow alum! Check out the new “Lakeside/St. Nicholas Alumni Authors” bookshelf on Goodreads. If there is an author or book we need to add to the list, email alumni@lakesideschool.org.

Alumni authors — Share your work with the alumni community! Make sure we add your work to the Goodreads list, share your new book and reading dates on Facebook, submit your announcements and cover art for class notes in Lakeside magazine, and send a copy of your book to the alumni office so we can add it to the alumni shelf in the library.

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“Thanks for the Trouble” is Tommy Wallach ’01’s second novel.

“See You in the Morning” was written by Mairead Case ’02.

Lakesiders at Kate Zyskowski ’04’s wedding in Colorado included, from left, Sam Haynor ’04, Laura Fine ’04, Phil Narodick ’04, Vicki Weeks ’73, Kate, Jonathan Gorder ’04, Meghan Auld ’04, Rives Kitchell ’04, and Dylan Byers ’04.

Beatrice Liem-Fogarty ’07 and her husband, Colin, at their wedding in October.

alumni musicians share talents with lakeside students

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his year, some talented alumni musicians returned to campus to share their work with students. Barret Anspach ’05, who has a Master of Music from The Juilliard School, is a composer of chamber music, orchestral music, pop music, and ballet. He composed the music for “Signature,” a world premiere ballet by Price Suddarth at the Pacific Northwest Ballet in November. Violinist Leslie Brown Katz ’73 is a tenured member of the Los Angeles Opera and a leading Suzuki technique teacher. She has served as lead violin for the Wayne Newton Show in Las Vegas and as concertmaster with

Barret Anspach ’05 (playing viola in the middle) participated in a joint practice with the Middle and Upper school orchestras.

the Norwejian Radio Orchestra in Norway. Julian Schwarz ’09 is an internationally touring cello soloist and recitalist. As first-prize winner in the Schoenfeld Competition in Hong Kong, he has performed with many prominent orchestras in the U.S. and abroad. He holds a Bachelor of Music from Juilliard and is pursuing his Master of Music. These alumni guests performed with and held master classes for the orchestras at both the Upper and Middle schools. Students have also benefited from Benton Gordon ’14, who has served as a substitute teacher and coach throughout the year. ■

Leslie Katz ’73 conducting a master class with the Middle School orchestra.

Julian Schwarz ’09, center, plays with the Upper School orchestra.

LGBTQ NIGHT OUT

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n December, Jamila Humphrie ’07 and Austen Brandford ’07 organized the first of what they hope will be an annual “Night Out” for LGBTQ alumni, at the Elysian Brewery. Did you know there is now a Facebook group for LGBTQ alumni to stay connected? Join the “Lakeside LGBTQ Alumni Group” for updates from the school and news from other members. ■

From left, Jamila Humphrie ’07, Emily Schorr Lesnick, Nathalia Roberts, Wally Euyang ’08, Zachary Buck, Alexia Diorio ’08, and Austen Brandford ’07 at the “Night Out” for LGBTQ alumni.

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IN MEMORIAM

ST. NICHOLAS ALUMNAE Virginia Burwell Callahan ’35• Sept. 26, 2015

If you have a remembrance to share about a St. Nicholas alumna or Lakeside alumna/alumnus for the next magazine, please email the alumni relations office at alumni@lakesideschool. org or call 206-3683606. The following are reprints of paid notices or remembrances submitted by family members. All remembrances are subject to editing for length and clarity.

Virginia Callahan was born Oct. 25, 1917, in Seattle.

She lived in the Washington Park neighborhood for most of her life. Gina graduated from the University of Washington and was a member of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority. In 1940, she married Charles Callahan, owner of C.W. Callahan Insurance Co. She was chairman of the Washington State Roadside Council and during World War II she received a citation from the mayor for her volunteer work at Harborview Hospital and the Officers’ Information Bureau. She was a member of the Sunset Club, Seattle Tennis Club, Seattle Garden Club, and Colonial Dames of Washington. She is preceded in death by her husband and her parents, William and Imogene Burwell. Gina had many friends as she had a kind and generous heart.

Mary “Dick” Doran Kohli ’42 • Oct. 16, 2015

Mary “Dick” Kohli, born April 30, 1924, as Mary Elizabeth Doran, gently passed away at her home at age 91. All who knew her felt her grace and beauty and were charmed by her remarkable wit. Her parents Earl and Laura Doran nicknamed her “Dickybird” and her closest friends called her “Dick.” She was a member of the Delta Gamma Sorority at the University of Washington, where she met and fell in love with a dashing naval ensign, Daniel R. Kohli, M.D. After their marriage they lived in Washington, D.C., where Dick became an accomplished cook and hostess and organized intimate dinner gatherings as well as large memorable parties. They then spent four adventurous years on Oahu, Hawaii, where Dan was a physician for a large sugar plantation, they had two daughters, Laurie and Deborah, and Dick discovered the art of floral arranging. Returning to Seattle, they were blessed with their third daughter, Lisa, who in turn blessed them with their grandson, Travis McAusland. Dick and Dan raised their girls in Madison Park, Broadmoor, and then Bainbridge Island. Once their girls had grown, they returned to Dick’s beloved Madison Park. After 64 years of marriage, Dan passed away in 2009 and she missed him with all her heart. Dick was a longtime member of the Seattle Tennis Club, Sunset Club, Seattle Junior League, the Children’s Orthopedic Guild, and many other organizations. Despite her tiny stature, it was her determination to be strong, kind, and caring that marked her most. She is survived by her sister, Sarah Josephine “Sallie” Sorber, two nephews, and extended family.

Barbara Polson Kummer ’44 • Oct. 1, 2015

Barbara Polson Kummer, born Jan. 30, 1926, passed away peacefully at home. She was the daughter of Laura Skinner Polson and Harold Leonard Polson, a pioneer Seattle family. She married Robert Lombard

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Kummer in 1950, and they celebrated 54 years together before his death in 2005. She leaves a son Robert and his wife, Pamela. A graduate of Stanford University, she was a member of the Junior League of Seattle, the Sunset Club, and the Minnie Fortson Kirk Orthopedic Guild.

Ann Henry Bohart ’53 • Aug. 11, 2015

Ann Henry Bohart died peacefully surrounded by her family at age 80. She is survived by her loving husband of 60 years, Milton Hilber Bohart; children and their spouses, Corbin Bohart (Millicent), Langdon Bohart (Penny), and Kelly Riedinger (Ross); four grandchildren and two stepgrandchildren; siblings, Barbara Bender (Bob) and Chapin Henry III. Ann was born June 11, 1935, in Seattle. She attended the University of Washington as a Kappa Alpha Theta until 1955, when she married the love of her life, Milt.

The nucleus of her family, she is remembered by her three children as a caring and devoted mother who encouraged them to pursue their goals, filled their Shoreline house with laughter, and was always there for them. Ann was full of love and loyalty, evidenced in her lifelong friendships. She spent time generously on things she was passionate about, including Seattle Children’s Hospital, where she served on numerous boards and committees and thoroughly enjoyed her involvement and the impact her work had for children in the Pacific Northwest. Ann was a founding member of the Genevieve Henry Orthopedic Guild (named after her grandmother) and a member of the Seattle Junior League, the Garden Club of Seattle, the Seattle Golf Club, and the Sunset Club.

Susan Scripps Wood ’53 • Dec. 14, 2015

Susan Scripps Wood passed away suddenly at her Mount Vernon home. Susan lived a full and happy 80 years. She was happiest when surrounded by her adoring family and friends. She loved to entertain and was an extraordinary hostess. She brought joy to all who knew her. Susan was born in Seattle in 1935. After attending Briarcliff College for Women, Susan married the love of her life, Leighton P. Wood, in 1955. In 1964, they moved to Mount Vernon, where they published and eventually owned and operated the Skagit Valley Herald. Throughout her life Susan donated time and treasure to several local and national charities. She was especially passionate about Skagit Valley College, the Skagit Valley Hospital Foundation, and the arts.

She was also the board chair of Pioneer News Group for over 20 years. Susan loved spending time on family properties in the San Juan Islands and on Bainbridge Island. After 50 years in Mount Vernon, Susan and Leighton moved to Park Shore Retirement Community

in Seattle, where they enjoyed reconnecting with several childhood friends and classmates. Susan’s family will miss her bright red lipstick kisses, warm hugs, and hearty laugh.

In addition to Leighton, Susan is survived by her children: Stedem Wood, Marnie Roozen, Laura Wood, and Heather and Jon Berkley; as well as eight grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

Betsy Teeter ’69 • Jan. 11, 2016

Betsy Teeter of San Francisco passed away quietly at her home in Noe Valley at the age of 64. Cause of death was pulmonary thrombosis. Betsy was born in Seattle. A brilliant student, immediately after graduating St. Nicholas she

moved to San Francisco, where she became part of the 1970s music scene. Later she attended San Francisco State University, earning degrees in criminal justice and accounting in 2004. She did accounting for many businesses in San Francisco. She was a voracious reader, spectacular cook and hostess, a bon vivant in every sense of the word, and a generous friend. So many will miss her humor, wit, intelligence, and generosity.

Betsy is survived by her sisters Polly Teeter DeFeo of Seattle and Emily Teeter of Chicago, an aunt, cousins, and many friends. Remembrances to the SPCA of San Francisco.

LAKESIDE ALUMNI Albert Hughes ’40 • Aug. 17, 2015

Albert Hughes, 92, passed away peacefully at home in Seattle with his family by his side. Albert, a third generation Seattleite, was a loving and devoted husband, father, and grandfather.

Albert was raised in the Capitol Hill neighborhood and spent childhood summers on Angle Lake, at “The Farm.” He joined the Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity at the University of Washington and graduated from Stanford University in 1944 with a degree in economics. A distinguished World War II Army veteran, he served in the second wave of the Normandy invasion on Utah Beach. He received five battle stars for his service. Albert and his wife, Kitty, were married for over 49 years. They lived on “The Farm” for 20 years and later in Broadmoor and Madison Park. Albert worked for Salomon Smith Barney as a financial manager for 40 years. His interests included swimming, tennis, skiing, flying planes, chess, boxing, fishing, opera, the ballet, and being with and traveling with his family. He especially loved Hawaii. Albert was an honorary member of the Seattle Tennis Club, the Broadmoor Golf Club, and the Washington Athletic Club. He is survived by his loving wife, Kitty Kircher Hughes, sons Albert Hambach Hughes Jr. and John Theodore Hughes, daughter-in-law, Maria Hughes, and three grandchildren.

Stanton Patty ’44 • Sept. 2, 2015

“To Seattle Times readers of the mid-20th century, he was Mr. Alaska, that columnist so keenly tuned into the world of bush pilots and sourdough miners. To others, he was the bow-tied, crew-cut reporter who covered The Beatles’ first visits to Seattle, crafting these words about fans from a 1964 concert: “There was no escape. Scenes beyond the worst horror movies unreeled without letup … Almost no one could hear the shaggy-haired foursome. Earsplitting shrieks and screams rattled the building like the high-pitched howling of a cyclone.” Those were the words of Stanton H. Patty, who wrote for The Seattle Times for 34 years, serving, among other duties, as lead reporter on the 1962 World’s Fair. He also flew

to Vietnam to cover the war, traveled the Pacific Coast to help deliver Namu, the fabled killer whale, to a Seattle aquarium, and wrote travel stories from around the globe. Mr. Patty, who retired as the newspaper’s assistant travel editor in 1988 and moved to southwest Washington to be near his family, died of complications from diabetes in Woodland, Cowlitz County. He was 89. … Born in 1926 in Fairbanks, Alaska, Mr. Patty was the son of Ernest and Kathryn Patty. … Though Mr. Patty’s family moved during his high-school years to Seattle, where he earned a master’s degree in communications from the University of Washington, Alaska was a beacon throughout his life. He wrote a bylined column called “Alaska” for The Times, spinning tales about the state and its people. … the University of Alaska at Fairbanks … awarded him an honorary doctorate in 2005. …. In 2004, Mr. Patty published “Fearless Men and Fabulous Women: A Reporter’s Memoir from Alaska & the Yukon.” Three days before his death, he completed a book chronicling his world travels. His wife of 67 years, Mabel (“Mabs”) Patty, died in 2014.

Survivors include daughters Kathryn Danielson and Virginia DeFreitas; and a son, Stanton Jr.; along with five grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.”

— Excerpted from The Seattle Times

Raymond F. Ryan ’44 • May 15, 2015

Lt. Col. Ray Ryan was born Feb. 2, 1933, to Genevieve and Ray Ryan. His mother was a schoolteacher, his father was Snohomish County sheriff and later superintendent of the Monroe Reformatory. Ray enlisted in the Army and, over his 20-plus-year career, worked his way through the ranks to lieutenant colonel with assignments in Washington state, Texas, Oklahoma, Vietnam (two tours), Illinois, Germany, England, Colorado, and Alaska. Along the way he attended Washington State, University of Maryland, University of Texas, and Lower Columbia College. He had diverse assignments including anti-missile air defense (his command was on high alert during the Cuban Missile Crisis), tactical nuclear missiles, advising/training Vietnamese combat troops, coordinating Army and Air Force interaction for Europe, and being on the ➢ In Memoriam

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Army Air Defense Inspector General team. He was proudest of the fact that his assignments helped protect those at home through discouragement of aggression that might have led to the use of nuclear weapons. Ray was a three-time recipient of the Bronze Star, as well as the Republic of South Vietnam’s highest honor awarded to foreign combatants. After retiring from the military, he joined the Cowlitz County Assessor’s Office, where he eventually was elected county assessor and served from 1983 until retiring in 1998. During his tenure, he emphasized increased efficiency and accountability and fairness. Ray was well-known for the humor he brought to an often difficult task. He also was active in the Democratic Party. Many service groups benefited from his volunteer time, including his church and the Lions, Elks, Altrusa of Longview/Kelso, and the Go 4th Committee. Ray is survived by his wife of 60-plus years, Carol. They had three children: Richard (Marcia), Kathy (Steve), and Pat (Cheryl). He will also be sorely missed by his five grandchildren, six great-grandchildren, sister Rosemary Dahl (Ken), and numerous nephews, nieces, and extended family.

Frederick Hopkins ’45 • Sept. 2, 2015

Fred Hopkins was born June 8, 1927, in Seattle along with his identical twin Frank. He attended the United States Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point, New York, and served as an engineer aboard merchant vessels and as a reserve officer in the U.S. Navy. He attended the University of Washington where he was a member of the Psi Upsilon fraternity. After graduating he joined the fourth-generation family business, Seattle Boiler Works.

He was also a principal in Plywood Los Angeles in California and one of the four founders of Plywood Supply in Kenmore. He was a life member of the Seattle Yacht Club, Seattle Tennis Club, and Useless Bay Golf Club. Fred loved nothing more than being on the water and enjoying his summers with family at his beach house on Whidbey Island. Throughout his life Fred was known for his kindness. He is preceded in death by his twin Frank and younger brother Richard Hopkins. He is survived by his wife of 64 years, Maryhelen, son Fred (Lisa), son Jamieson, daughter Page Hopkins (Peter Macdonald), and four grandchildren.

Phillip Stanton Brazeau ’46 • Oct. 3, 2015

Phillip Brazeau, born in Neenah, Wis., moved to the Northwest as a boy with his family when his father managed the opening of the Everett Weyerhaeuser mill. At the University of Washington, he met Beverly, his beloved wife of 64 years. When duty called, Phillip earned his wings and flew Corsairs off the Philippine Seas naval carrier in the Korean War. After his service Phillip joined the FB Connelly Co. and rose to lead it and Connelly Acceptance Corp. as the companies’ president for over 20 years. His business activities also extended to the board of CA Newell Co. Phillip’s first love was his family. He had a passion for sailing, both cruising the islands and participating in the local racing scene; in 1972 he won Seattle Yacht Club’s Boat of the Year honors. He actively pursued other interests as well: accumulating enough operas to listen to a different performance each day of the year, collecting swashbuckling sea stories from around the world, and creating wonders in his basement workshop. Phillip was a deeply caring

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and thoughtful man and sought truth with an active mind and honest questions. He is survived by Beverly and their four children and grandchildren.

William Paul Cowals ’46 • Sept. 15, 2015

William Paul Cowals, 88, died in Poulsbo, Wash. Born June 6, 1927, in Yakima, he graduated from Whitman College and University of Washington, and worked for Lockheed as an engineer. He is survived by his sister, Catherine Bennett of Seattle.

Theron H. Hawkes IV ’47 • Nov. 12, 2015

Brooks Hawkes, a wonderful father, dedicated friend and husband, known by those who loved him as “Ace” and “Hawker,” passed peacefully at 85 with family at his side. Born in Seattle, son of Christina McMurtrie and Theron H. Hawkes III, Brooks attended Lakeside School, Garfield High School, University of Washington, and graduated from Wharton School of Business. He had a successful 50-plus-year career as an investment broker. As a pilot for life, he proudly served in the U.S. Navy as a jet fighter pilot and was in the first night-fighter jet squadron to land on aircraft carriers. Married in 1959 to Gretchen Davis, he is survived by two children, Carole H. Wallace (David) and Peter D. Hawkes (Dana), with three beautiful grandchildren, his daughter Karen E. George and her family. His brother Lawrence, wife Gretchen, and son Gordon H. Hawkes predeceased him. Brooks’ favorite pastimes were sitting in the “left seat,” skiing, playing tennis, and remarkable times with family and friends in the San Juan Islands.

David del Valle ’48 • Aug. 13, 2015

David del Valle was born March 27, 1931 in Colon, Panama, and passed away in Sonoma, Calif. David was the son of Vina and William del Valle. He was educated at MIT, University of Washington, and UCLA, where he graduated cum laude. David spent his career in the peripheral computer business, culminating in his own enterprise computer printer company in Seattle. He and Gail, his wife of 55 years, raised their family on Mercer Island and retired in 2008 to Sonoma. David especially enjoyed his time as a docent in Sonoma with the State Parks Department. David is survived by Gail, daughter Sara Craig (Johnny), sons Peter (Catherine) and William (Annjette), and seven grandchildren.

Xen Anthony ’49 • Jan. 17, 2016

Xen Anthony is survived by his wife, Valerie, son Marc Anthony (Chien-Ming Chen), grandson Jason Anthony, sister Harriet Botelho, brother James Anthony, and many loving relatives. He was preceded in death by his son Peter Anthony and parents Dr. Marc and Ruth Anthony. Xen was born in Spokane on Jan. 28, 1931.

He graduated from Harvard in 1953. He and Valerie were married in 1956 and lived in San Marino, Calif., for 10 years before moving to San Francisco. They had a second home in Inverness where Xen enjoyed landscaping and remodeling projects. Xen worked in retail and wholesale businesses until 1976 when Valerie founded Sterne School, a school for children with learning differences. Xen became business manager and so much more, always willing to do anything that needed to be done. He and Valerie retired in 2000 and divided their time between Inverness and Spokane before making Spokane their permanent home in 2005.

Blake HOWE BLAKE Howe ’51 • Feb. 24, 2015

Blake Howe was a lifelong resident of Seattle. He received a BA in history from the University of Virginia in 1955. From 1955 through 1958 Blake served in the U.S. Navy aboard the destroyer USS James C. Owens DD-776 in the Atlantic, including two cruises to the Mediterranean, one of which went through the Suez to Kuwait, several visits to Guantanamo, and liberty ports in Cuba, Haiti, and Jamaica. His last rank was lieutenant junior grade. After the Navy, Blake attended the University of Washington School of Law and spent his career working as a lawyer at the law firm that employed other family members, then for the city of Seattle, and later independently.

Blake was an Episcopalian until about 1987, then attended the University Presbyterian Church for approximately 22 years. More recently he attended the Plymouth Congregational Church. Blake’s passions were reading, broad intellectual interests, current events, travel, and bicycling. Blake did two two-week mission trips with church groups including one to Haiti and one to Cuba. In 2010, Blake moved into the Bayview Retirement Community. Last year Blake took a guided autobiography class at Bayview and wrote about the most important successes in his life, which included the following: “I was proudest of when I was leaving the ship for the last time, to be honorably discharged at my choice after three years aboard her – and the officers piped me off as my side boys…”

Blake was divorced and is survived by sister, Caroline, son James (Lyn), three grandchildren and many other loving extended family members. His son Tommy was a loving Down syndrome boy who passed away due to health problems at age 7.

John BURLINGHAM JOHN Burlingham ’52 • July 11, 2015

John Burlingham was born July 12, 1934, in Portland, the youngest of the three children of Mildred Copeland Burlingham and Ernest Vernon Burlingham. John graduated with honors from Amherst College where he showed a special interest in American literature and mathematics. John was drafted into the U.S. Army and served in the engineering corps at Fort Bragg, N.C. Then he earned an advanced degree in architecture from the University of Oregon and worked in Oregon as a licensed architect. In retirement, John enjoyed supporting his local community, especially the Oregon Historical Society, the Oregon Food Bank and the Veterans Affairs Medical Center. John enjoyed travel, Oregon history, classical music, opera, film, and literature. John is fondly remembered for his kindness, generosity, keen intellect, and subtle wit. He is survived by his sister, Jean S. Burlingham, and niece, Marion E. Cluff.

Robert F. STEWART ROBERT Stewart ’54 • Sept. 16, 2015

Robert Stewart, age 78, died while in hospice care in Pompano Beach, Fla. Son of Robert Harold Stewart, M.D., and Ruth Bryan Stewart, both deceased, and loving husband of Janet Trussell Stewart. He is survived by Janet, son Robert Glendon Stewart, daughter Annamarie Stewart Cockreham, and sister Ruth “Peach” Mullen. Born Dec. 31, 1936, in Seattle, Bob earned a degree in chemistry from Carleton College and a Ph.D. in chemistry from California Institute of Technology. He did

postdoctoral work at the University of Washington before taking a professor of chemistry position at Mellon Institute in 1965 and as a full professor of chemistry at Carnegie Mellon University from 1967 to 2005. Professor Stewart was best known for his research in crystallography using X-ray diffraction. He also consulted at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He retired in 2005, and he and Janet moved to Pompano Beach in 2015 to be close to their daughter Annamarie. He enjoyed gourmet food paired with fine wine and traveling to visit colleagues in Europe, Israel, and North America.

Bob never forgot his beloved childhood home of Puget Sound and the Olympic Peninsula, and always celebrated Christmas with a fresh cut Douglas fir.

James P. Rooney JAMES ROONEY ’56 • Oct. 3, 2015

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John R. Wilson ’56 • Dec. 14, 2015 JOHN John Wilson R. WILSON was born’56 Sept.

• Dec. 2, 1938, 14, 2015 in Seattle and passed away

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1938,He in Seattle and passed away in December at his Issaquah succumbed to a short (but in December at his Issaquah home.

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Heand is preceded death by his mother, Georgina Rowland Wilson, his father,inJohn Laurence Wilson.

Georgina Rowland and his father, John Laurence He is survived by hisWilson, wife, Benjamine H. Wilson, children, Wilson.

John He is survived by his wife, H. Wilson, John Wilson (Persephone), JulieBenjamine Benson (Adam), andchildren, Jenelle Arkills Wilson (Persephone), Julie Benson (Adam), and Jenelle Arkills (Bobby), eight grandchildren, and three cousins.

John graduated (Bobby), grandchildren, and three John graduated from The eight University of Puget Sound andcousins. was an Air Force Reservist from University of Puget Sound Air Force Reservist for sixThe years.

His professional career and withwas The an Boeing Company for six years. professional career with Theyears Boeing Company spanned overHis three decades including three in England. spanned over three including three years in England.

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Duncan Andrew Bayne ’57 • Sept. 28, 2015

Duncan Bayne, lawyer, actor, singer, carpenter, sailor, trustee, cook, and Episcopalian, died at home with his family at age 76.

Born Sept. 27, 1939, in Northampton, Mass., to the Rev. Stephen Fielding Bayne Jr. (later Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Olympia) and Lucie Gould Bayne, he lived in New York City as a child and moved to Seattle in 1947. He served for two years in the U.S. Navy in the Pacific before returning to the University of Washington for his B.A. and J.D. Duncan clerked for a year at the state Supreme Court, then in 1969 joined the firm now known as Davis Wright Tremaine. After retiring in 1989, he served as a trustee for the Casey Family Programs across the west. He was also a lay leader in the Episcopal Church, serving in regional and national positions over many years, including as vice chancellor of the Diocese of Olympia. Duncan loved military history and a good potboiler and is remembered by his many friends as an able seaman, a model-train enthusiast, and an infuriating grammarian.

He was a featured baritone with the Seattle Gilbert & Sullivan Society and volunteered with the Washington Talking Book and Braille Library, Habitat for Humanity, and Strand Helpers, who fed hungry and homeless Seattleites for years out of the kitchen at St. Mark’s Cathedral. He is survived by Mary (McCuskey), his wife of 51 years, daughters Martha, Emily Antezana (Marcos), and Charlotte, two grandchildren, and brothers Stephen III, Philip, and Bruce. His sister Lydia preceded him in death.

Robert Haven Enslow ’57 • Sept. 27, 2015

Robert Haven Enslow died from injuries suffered in a fall at his home in London. He was born in Seattle on June 7, 1939, the son of Robert and Lovette Enslow. He graduated from the University of Washington and studied at the Sorbonne in Paris. He spent his career primarily in finance and investment management, based in New York, London, Washington, D.C., and San Francisco, working at Chase Manhattan Bank, Crocker Bank, and Bechtel Corporation. His work with Bechtel took him to Turkey where he met people he admired and who became friends. He was the last director of the Office of Foreign Direct Investment at the U. S. Treasury Department, which he recommended be abolished, and, as he said, “They accepted my recommendation.” It was an exceedingly rare instance of a government agency recommending it be dissolved. In later years he was a principal of FundX (formerly DAL) in San Francisco. He attended the opera, symphony, recitals, and chamber music performances, and served as a trustee of San Francisco Performances. He was also a lifetime sailor and enjoyed a wide circle of friends who cherished his charm, intellect, attentiveness, loyalty, and sense of humor. He looked forward to bird shooting with friends in Washington state and England. At the close of day, he liked a good whiskey and some good wine. He was a member of Seattle Tennis Club, University Club in Seattle, Pacific Union Club in San Francisco, the Knickerbocker Club in New York, as well as clubs in London. He is survived by his wife, Jennifer, stepchildren Sophie, Nicholas, and Alexia Brandram, brother David Enslow (Bertie), nieces and nephews and extended family.

Jack Lynch ’57 • Sept. 23, 2015

Jack Omar Lynch Jr., inspiring father, beloved husband, proud

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veteran, renowned entrepreneur, and man of faith, passed away at the age of 76. Jack was born and raised in Seattle, attended Stanford University, and graduated from the University of Washington in 1961. After graduation, he served until 1963 as an officer in the U.S. Navy, primarily on the destroyer escort USS Finch in the South Pacific theater. After his service, Jack worked for his father at Lynch Furniture Manufacturing, assuming control of the company after his father died in 969. By the mid-1970s, Lynch Furniture had grown to the largest furniture company on the West Coast, enabling his election to the Young President’s Organization.

Jack also served with Kent Rotary and other charitable endeavors.

Jack also served as president of Lynch Land Company until his illness in 2012 forced him to retire. A lifetime sailor, Jack was never able to stray too far from the sea, ultimately living in Gig Harbor so he could spend time on his sailboat and walk the docks. Those who knew Jack well described him as a kind, smart, and compassionate man. Jack leaves behind his adored and devoted wife, Sharon, of 33 years; children Kevin, Kelly (Miguel Rodas), Shaunda (Chad Schmidt), and Jack III (Stacey), and five grandchildren. He is also survived by sisters Susannah Johnson, Janet Lynch, and Patricia Baer.

Jerome L. Fritsche II ’64 • Sept. 16, 2015

For 68 years Jerry Fritsche celebrated life to its fullest with pride, determination, and caring. A decorated Army captain in Vietnam, a knowledgeable capital markets business man, a devoted friend, and a big-hearted person, Jerry made people feel special. He had a large family of friends, and he’ll be missed.

Winlock Miller ’68 • Oct. 1, 2015

Winlock Miller, known affectionately by family and friends as “Lock,” was born Dec. 5, 1950, and was the older son of Pendleton and Elisabeth Miller. He was predeceased by his parents and his brother, Carey. His survivors include three cousins and five nephews and nieces. Lock graduated from the University of Rochester. While still in school, he spent several summers as an intern on the Juneau Ice Field conducting research under the auspices of the Foundation for Glacier and Environmental Research. He continued his affiliation with that organization, serving for many years as a board member and treasurer. Lock was an enthusiast for outdoor sports and became an accomplished skier and mountain climber. This interest led him to found Marmot Mountain Works, a company that specialized in clothing and equipment for mountaineering and skiing, and to create a guide service for kayaking. His mother, upon her death, created the Elisabeth C. Miller Botanical Garden Trust, a horticultural organization, and the Pendleton and Elisabeth Miller Charitable Foundation, which makes grants to area charities concerned with horticulture, public parks, education, and Northwest history. Lock served as president of both organizations from the time of their funding until his final illness.

Helen Marcy Golde ’81 • May 11, 2015

Helen Marcy Golde, age 52, died surrounded by loving family and friends. Helen was born in Seattle on May 6, 1963. She received a bachelor’s degree in biology from Carleton College in 1985 and a master’s degree in marine science from the University of

South Carolina in 1991. Helen had a successful career in marine science and policy. In 1992 she joined the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in Washington, D.C. She worked in the Office of National Marine Sanctuaries and served as the manager of the Coral Reef Conservation Program. In 2006, she became the deputy director for the Office of Protected Resources in the National Marine Fisheries Service, and worked tirelessly to recover threatened and endangered species. In 2001, Helen was selected for NOAA’s prestigious Leadership Competencies Development Program and served as a mentor to dozens of NOAA staff who credit her with teaching them how to be an effective leader, critical thinker, and collaborative partner. She nurtured a wide circle of friends and visited all seven continents.

Helen developed breast cancer in 2008 and the cancer returned in 2013. A dedicated scientist, she enthusiastically participated in clinical trials to help herself and others. Helen lived every day to the fullest and was focused on making an impact and connecting with others. She will be remembered for her intellect, compassion, perseverance, wit, generosity, zest for life, smile, and the love she spread. She is survived by her parents, Hellmut and Marcy Golde, siblings Chris and Peter Golde, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, cousins, and extended family.

Oliver D. Ochs ’85 • Sept. 23, 2015

Oliver Ochs died suddenly and unexpectedly while surfing on a beautiful beach in Portugal. Born in Tubingen, Germany, Oliver immigrated with his family to the United States at 10 months of age. Seattle was his home for most of his life.

Oliver graduated from Pomona College in 1989 and from the University of Washington School of Medicine in 1993.

He completed his residency in radiology at the University of Colorado and a fellowship in interventional radiology at the Dotter Institute in Portland. He practiced for 14 years as an interventional radiologist with Radia, his home campuses being Providence Regional Medical Center Everett and Swedish Medical Center, Edmonds. He became president of the medical staff at Providence and vice president and chief medical officer for Radia. Oliver was a man of great integrity, kindness, and generosity; a loyal friend who always saw the best in everyone.

His strong work ethic and dedication to patient care guided his practice, and his disarming charm put patients at ease. He loved outdoor activities ranging from sailing, heli-skiing, scuba diving, cycling, and climbing. Family was always paramount to Oliver, and his encompassing love for his children, Ellie and Cooper, could be heard in his voice whenever he spoke of them.

Grieving for Oliver are his two children, their mother, Mollie Ochs, his parents, Hans and Ute Ochs, sister Ulrike Ochs with Darren, Dane, and Demi Bandow, and Lisa Finch, along with extended family and many colleagues and friends.

Peter Michael Thomson Jr. ’85 • Sept. 14, 2015

Peter Michael “Mike” Thomson Jr. was born in Seattle on July 5, 1967. Mike graduated from Vassar College in 1990, majoring in economics, became interested in the culinary arts and graduated with honors from The Culinary Institute of America in 1995. He loved the wilderness and became an avid day hiker. His Oregon home was located just north of Florence, right on the Pacific

shores where he enjoyed the thundering power of the ocean, storms that brought dramatic lightning and rain, and the rainbows, sunshine, and fast moving white clouds that signified both hope and beauty. Mike’s playful nature, however, was best expressed in his world-class collection of Dr. Seuss and Disney art. Mike will be forever missed by his surviving relatives including his mother, Cay Fortune (John Shimer); his father, Peter M. Thomson Sr. (Sam); his brother Scott; and many cousins, aunts and uncles, nieces, and nephews. ■

FORMER FACULTY James Walter Wichterman • Dec. 3, 2015

James Wichterman passed after a rich life that touched and inspired many. Son of a first generation German immigrant and pharmacist, Jim was born in Ann Arbor, Mich. He enlisted in the U.S. Marines in 1945 and later attended Western Michigan University.

Soon after graduation, Jim married Flora Jeanne Rowe, his wife of 62 years who passed away in 2015.

They moved to Seattle in 1953.

Jim earned a master’s degree from University of Washington, then began teaching in 1958 at Mercer Island High School. Jim taught philosophy and coached football and swimming; he was recognized by Yale University in 1965 as one of the best teachers in the United States. Jim moved his young family to Germany for a year as a scholar in the Fulbright program in 1962 and took his family to England on a sabbatical where he attended Kings College and received his Ph.D. in philosophy in 1968.

Jim went on to teach at Lakeside School, where he was the chairman of the history department and dean of faculty. Jim taught and lectured at the Women’s University Club in retirement. The family lived on Lake Sammamish for 41 years. In 2000, he and Flo retired to Ellensburg and founded “Ravenshaven,” their place to garden, listen to classical music, read philosophy, and enjoy life. Jim was an avid outdoorsman, amateur photographer, and classical music aficionado. Jim is survived by his three sons, Erich (Marina), Fritz (Ann), and Christian, and four grandchildren.

His former students flooded the alumni group on Facebook with their fond memories of “Wichto.” To read them, visit “Lakeside School Alumni” group and scroll to the December/January postings.

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What we award

by Leslie Schuyler discussions or small committees of volunteers armed with GPAs and random teacher recommendations. By the mid’80s, administrators devised a checklist system they hoped would be more equitable.

Then in the late 1990s, a committee came together to evaluate the way Lakeside celebrated graduation. Faculty and administrators asked whether it was meant to honor individual achievement or to remind the community of the school’s core principles. The meaning and relevance of the awards was questioned as well.

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Among these Class of 1987 friends celebrating commencement are two who won awards that year. From left, Mieko Hart; John Swofford, one of f ive recipients for the Arts Award; Mary Sarigumba, holding the Athletic Cup she received; and Margaret Fuchs.

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Students expressed opinions mostly in favor of abolishment. Wrote one in Tatler: “The awards given to a handful of graduating seniors disappoint the 100+ students who do not get them,

akeside’s tradition of

cup, fellowship cup, physical training

diminishing those students’ enjoyment

bestowing awards to students at

cup, good citizenship cup, torchbearer’s

of what should be a wonderful day. The

commencement dates back to

cup, and popularity cup. There were

worthy goal of the awards — celebrating

the school’s earliest years. It changed

also the awards given during “class

the virtues of achievement in various

over time in response to evolving

day exercises” before graduation for

areas — could be attained in other ways.”

notions of what merited recognition and

particular sports, activities, art, and even

how best to reflect the school’s values.

for “the senior contributing the most.”

The awards appeared in Lakeside’s

In the spring of 2000, as a way to balance the achievement-heavy awards,

By the early ’70s, influences of the

the commencement committee created

infancy, during the 1920s. First there

counterculture movement were being

a new award to recognize a senior who

were the athletic, scholarship, and

felt at Lakeside. As a student editorial

“truly reflects in ongoing ways, the

spelling and penmanship cups. Then

in a 1971 Tatler explains, “The super

values we state as our ‘core values.’” The

came the Gold Star Awards, given to “a

conservative, East Coast boarding

Lakeside Award would be given to the

boy at the close of each quarter for his

school atmosphere has given way to an

student “who has brought to the school

literary and scholastic attainments; his

enlightened one where almost everyone

community an unusual generosity of

fondness for and success in outdoor

can do his own thing. … Less emphasis

mind and heart that enriches us all and

sports; his qualities of manhood, truth,

is placed on academic development and

has made our school a more human

devotion to duty, courage, sympathy for

more on total education.” Many school

place.”

and protection of the weak, kindliness,

traditions fell by the wayside, including,

unselfishness, and fellowship; his

by the end of the decade, almost all the

remained fraught with problems.

exhibition during school days of moral

awards. Only athletic, scholarship, and

Many faculty were concerned over the

force of character and of instincts

arts awards remained.

negativity it generated. So many students

to lead and to take an interest in his schoolmates.”

As Lakeside grew, so did the number of awards, such as the dormitory honor

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The selection process became

In spite of this, the selection process

seemed worthy of recognition but only a

more difficult as the student population

few awards existed. Angry debates were

increased. For a long time, it had been

not uncommon, and faculty members

fairly haphazard, consisting of faculty

felt hypocritical engaging in them ➢

2016 CALENDAR June

September

7

24 Annual Fund kickoff

9

Eighth grade graduation

Upper School commencement and 50th reunion luncheon

10 Reunion 2016 dinner hosted by

Lakeside for classes ending in 1 and 6 11 Alumni row and alumni lacrosse game 11-12 Reunion 2016 individual class events 30 Last day to contribute to the 2015-2016

Annual Fund

event (tentative)

2015-2016 breakfast and notewriting

28 Belanich Family Speaker on Ethics and Politics

featuring Karl Rove and Howard Dean

November 2

BMGI Speaker on Economics featuring Austan Goolsbee Questions? Please contact the alumni relations off ice of the Lakeside/St. Nicholas Alumni Association at 206-368-3606 or alumni@lakesideschool.org.

LAKESIDE/ ST. NICHOLAS ALUMNI BOARD OFFICERS Crystal Ondo ’99

President Artemios (Tim) S. Panos ’85

Immediate Past President John Hammarlund ’79

Mission and Governance Chair Meghan Mullarkey Kiefer ’98

Members of the Class of 1991 at their senior retreat.

Activities Chair Daniel Jeffrey Shih ’90

Connections Chair MEMBERS Bruce Bailey ’59

(Lifetime Honorary Member) Sophie Calderón ’00 Michelle Chang Chen ’90 Kate Coxon ’01 Meredith Dorrance ’87 Maurice Drayton ’89 Kathy Jobs Gerke ’81 Christine Gilbert ’07 Deanna Hobson ’93 Claudia Hung ’89 Trevor Klein ’03

REUNION 2016 WEEKEND June 9-12

Sadie Mackay ’09 Alexa Helsell McIntyre ’98

Celebrating St. Nicholas and Lakeside alumni from classes ending in 1 and 6

Lakeside School will host a reception and casual dinner on Friday, June 10, in The Paul G. Allen Athletics Center at Lakeside’s Upper School beginning at 6 p.m. All reunion alumni and a guest, plus current and former faculty and staff, are invited. Reunion volunteers are planning individual class events throughout the weekend.

In addition, the St. Nicholas and Lakeside Classes of 1966 will be honored at a 50th reunion luncheon and will lead the Class of 2016 into its commencement ceremony June 9. Contact the alumni relations office at alumni@ lakesideschool.org or 206-368-3606 for more information.

Tyler Moriguchi ’91 Alexander Oki ’08 Kjell Oswald ’92 Trevor Parris ’97

➢ FROM THE ARCHIVES: What we award while professing to “live” the school’s Statement of Community

Commencements began to focus instead on the characteristics of

Expectations. Even those who had fought to preserve the tradition

the class as a whole and celebrate the school’s continued efforts

began to reconsider.

toward making Seattle, and the world, a better place. ■

The first year of the Lakeside Award was also the last year for all awards. The lack of community reaction was a testament, perhaps, to the timeliness and appropriateness of the decision.

Leslie A. Schuyler is the archivist for 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 to donate, or visit the archives Web page at www.lakesideschool.org/archives.

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