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LA LUMIERE MAGAZINE Refining character, scholarship, and faith • Shifts in perspective Cultivating compassion • The pioneer days of La Lu
Refining character, scholarship, and faith • Shifts in perspective Cultivating compassion • The pioneer days of La Lumiere
(Left to right) Kate Hershberger ‘18, Natalia Trejo-Bax ‘19, Dr. Richard Beyogle, Keyvan Jalinous ‘18, Reyna Rodriguez ‘18, and Nick Rogers ‘18 enjoy free time together outside on the last day of school in 2018.
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EDITOR & DESIGNER Devon Carlson ‘12 SPECIAL THANKS TO Peter Gubernat Photography Andrew Hoyt Adam Kronk Susie Yemc Ana Kleihege ‘15 La Lumiere Magazine is published in-house for alumni, students, parents, and friends of La Lumiere School. Every effort is made to contact all alumni germane to the magazine feature and contents. We welcome communication about our alumni accomplishments, news, and current contact information to assist us in our ongoing efforts to improve alumni data.
...what we aim to awaken is the thrill of discovery and the sense of inquiry and purpose that drives our students’ scholarship.” – ANDREW HOYT “LEARNING AND LIVING,” P. 10
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Follow La Lumiere School on Instagram @lalumiereschool, Twitter @lalumiereschool, and at facebook.com/lalumiereschool BOARD OF TRUSTEES 2018-2019 Meg (Linnen) Caplice ‘81, P’10, ‘12, ‘14, ‘17, ‘19 Rick-jan Dekker P’13, ‘14 Mary Jane Eisenhauer, Ed.D. P’16, ‘18, ‘21 Connie (Devers) Falcone ‘83, Chair, P’19 Terri Carmichael Jackson, J.D. P’17 Dan Kerrigan ‘80 Keith Krause ‘94 Adam Kronk, Head of School Johanna Miller Shetal Patel P’19, ‘20 Jeff Rea P’20 John Rose ‘94 Colleen Smith P’14, ‘16, ‘19, ‘21 Kevin Sullivan ‘83 Bridget (Adam) VanEekeren ‘88, P’13, ‘16, ‘17 Daniel P. Walsh, Jr. ‘95 Rev. Wayne F. Watts H. David Wood ‘77 We would also like to express our appreciation to the following La Lumiere School Board of Trustees member who recently stepped down: Victor Smith ‘86, P’18
10 THE SCHOOL
FEATURES
6. A Message from the Head of School 7. Campus Updates 18. Halyomorpha Halys
8. Refining our Mission
by
CHARLES MACRI ‘21
by
ADAM KRONK
Further articulating why we’re here and how we think about character, scholarship, and faith.
25. Overcoming Challenges through Head’s Cup
10. Learning and Living
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ZIHAN SUN ‘21
ANDREW HOYT
26. La Lu Life Photo Contest 28. Celebrating the Class of 2018 36. The Year in Pictures
How growth in our understanding of who we are is developing scholarship for students and teachers at La Lumiere.
EVENTS
14. Sandy Island
38. 40. 41. 42. 43.
Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony Raising Funds Fly Me to the Moon Benefit 2018 Golf Outing Parents Weekend
ALUMNI 44. Alumni Updates
ANNUAL REPORT 52. A Message from the Chair 53. Giving
THE LAST WORD 59. An Excerpt from the Senior Chapel of YE TAO ‘19
by
QUENTIN FUNDERBURG ‘21
When what you see isn’t what you get, sometimes the only solution is a shift in perspective. 20. On Her Way to Starrdom An interview with SAVANNAH STARR ‘19 on her work in the arts at La Lumiere and beyond. 30. Commencement Address for the Class of 2018 by
DR. CAROLYN YAUYAN WOO
Four powerful pieces of life advice given by one of the world’s most impactful changemakers. 50. The Pioneer Days by
JUDY ZIMMERMANN MAGENIS
A reflection on the earliest years and legacy of La Lumiere School.
A MESSAGE FROM THE
HEAD OF SCHOOL
back?” Yet, whether we’re adolescents or adults, it’s undeniable that we’re imperfect—and the best shot we have at growth is hearing what we can do better from those who care about us. And, of all places, a school ought to be an environment where every single person is committed to growing into more complete versions of ourselves. So bring on the feedback!
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his year our school community is focusing on three phrases in our daily interactions to hold each other accountable as we work to become the best versions of ourselves. Whether you’re a student, faculty member, parent, trustee, alum, or friend of La Lumiere School, we encourage you to use these statements in your daily interactions. We seek the light in one another. It’s easy to get bogged down in someone else’s shortcomings or focus on friction points, especially with folks we know very well. Instead, we strive to have a positive default setting, assuming the best of intentions and seeking what’s of value in the actions of the people we’re around each day. This one is easy to say and hard to live out, but if we keep reminding each other, it just might become a habit. We’re here to get better. When I was in high school, I wasn’t there to get better. I was there to get an A. And anything short of that caused a visceral reaction, rarely leaving room for me to ask how I could improve or what I could learn from a teacher’s comments on my work. As adults, we usually aren’t too thrilled when someone starts a conversation by saying, “Can I give you some feed-
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Bring your own Doritos. I used to work with homeless adults, and a colleague of mine who taught a class for recovering addicts always started by asking, “If you go to a party and really hope they have Doritos there, what should you do?” Inevitably there would be a short, bewildered silence before she exclaimed, “Bring your own Doritos!” The premise here is similar to the bumper sticker slogan, “Be the change you wish to see in the world.” This quote is often attributed to Gandhi, but the closest thing he ever said to those actual words was much more profound: “If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him.” Around school, the concept is that it’s one thing to criticize what you don’t like, but it’s another to say what you’re willing to do to make it better. And it’s good training for life. The character formation that happens here is incremental, shaped by countless daily inputs and decisions. It’s a privilege to live and work in a place where who we are and how we do what we do matters. Gratefully,
Adam Kronk
CAMPUS UPDATES
Kennedy House Dedication In July 2018, two extended families who have been central figures in the history and success of this institution gathered. Three generations of Kennedys and Walshes came together to dedicate the Head of School’s house on 650 N, officially naming it Kennedy House, “In honor of Dr. Jim and Betsy Kennedy and Family, for their commitment and service to La Lumiere School.” The home was constructed in 2012 thanks to the generosity of the Walsh family, and has since served not only as a residence for Heads of School and their families, but also as a perfect setting for hosting celebrations, potlucks, and gatherings of all sorts for the school. (Left to Right) Betsy Kennedy, Dan Walsh, and Patti Walsh gather next to the newly-minted Kennedy House in July 2018.
Heating and Cooling Upgrades Thanks to the generosity of those who attended our annual spring event, the classrooms “up top” now have air conditioning, which certainly helps make blazer days more tolerable for teachers and students alike during the warmer months on campus. The project also included some much-needed upgrades to the heating and cooling in other rooms throughout the academic building. Tweaks like these to the amenities help to eliminate physical distractions and keep everyone focusing on the tasks at hand.
Wastewater Treatment Plant If you’ve been to campus in the past handful of months, you may have spotted two triangular buildings across from the fitness center. No, they aren’t solar panel arrays or postmodern greenhouses. Together they make up our new wastewater treatment plant, which uses Algaewheel, an award-winning, hybrid technology that integrates algae into a proven attached growth process to enhance treatment efficiency. This new plant, which replaces the previous, outdated one, offers reduced costs and enhanced water quality. It uses daylight to power a self-regulating ecosystem that delivers advanced treatment with little energy use. We’re proud to have this cutting-edge, sustainable approach to this important part of the physical plant operation of the school.
A digital rendering of the new wastewater treatment plant shows wheels of algae processing water inside the facility. Each of the two buildings measures 50 feet long and 26 feet deep.
Street Light Installation A small but significant victory just off of our campus, but critical to our safety, was getting a street light (not a traffic signal, but something to illuminate the intersection at night) installed at the corner of US-20 and Wilhelm. It makes that turn easier to see, which, in addition to the rumble strips, signifies two steps in the right direction to make that stretch of road safer. The school continues to meet with INDOT to make sure we (and they) are doing everything possible to improve the routes our families drive each day. FALL 2018 | 7
Refining our
Mission
This past spring, we set out to further articulate the mission of our school—which of course has character, scholarship, and faith as its three core elements. After a thorough process of input and reflection (including a survey of our entire school community and a facilitated retreat looking at the results with our board, key faculty and staff, and student leaders), we are proud to announce the following updated mission statement:
At La Lumiere School, we form character, cultivate scholarship, and explore faith in order to grow into more complete versions of ourselves. A few things to highlight: The words “we” and “ourselves” mean that this isn’t a oneway street where teachers do something to or for students. Every member of our school community is invited to take part in continued growth across all three dimensions. The sense of the importance of community came through loud and clear in the feedback we got.
BY ADAM KRONK, HEAD OF SCHOOL
The verbs in front of each element—“form,” “cultivate,” and “explore”—are both accurate and aspirational and serve to infuse more intentionality into what we’re trying to do here each day. “Grow[ing] into more complete versions of ourselves” is a never-ending process and is by design a non-prescriptive pursuit. It’s also a head nod to the concept of the formation of the whole person and the hope we all have to live healthy, balanced lives.
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another need that became clear
during this process was defining what each
element of our mission (character, scholarship, and faith) means. Incorporating the responses we got from so many community members, we have crafted these short statements about each:
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We believe that character is best formed in a community founded on authentic relationships and trust. We structure experiences that encourage students to develop the agency, grit, and self-discipline to take ownership of their lives and the empathy, integrity, and courage to advocate for others. Through both success and failure, we teach students to act ethically and prudently with an orientation toward the common good.
As a community of learners, we engage in civil discourse, listen charitably, work to be responsibly informed, and encounter the world with genuine interest. Our faculty guides students as they hone academic skills and habits of mind, and we have high expectations for how all students will grow and learn. Meaningful learning takes place when the dynamic between teacher and pupil is close-knit, and personal connections foster a process which engages students’ experiences and interests to draw forth their best efforts. Beyond content mastery, our scholars develop a sense of wonder and an appetite for lifelong learning.
Earnest exploration of faith is an integral part of education. Here, we strive to practice and live out our own faith lives, even as we explore our beliefs. No matter what their religion, each member of our school family belongs. Together, we seek spiritual understanding through an appreciation of the beauty of the natural world, a commitment to justice and service, and the pursuit of an active and authentic spiritual life centered on reflection, selfawareness, and hope. The Catholic faith serves as the bedrock of this pursuit, and its vision of the dignity of the human person gives us faith in one another, informing what we value and how we act.
The next step in boldly pursuing this mission is to set strategic objectives and define how each facet of our school fits into a cohesive vision of human flourishing. Stay tuned for next steps as we work to steward the legacy of La Lumiere School: the contributions of young people whose character, scholarship, and faith make them forces for good in the world.
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Learning and Living How growth in our understanding of who we are is developing scholarship for students and teachers at La Lumiere. BY ANDREW HOYT, ASSISTANT HEAD OF SCHOOL, ACADEMIC DEAN
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n a recent Thursday evening, I found myself sitting in the Fine Arts Building along with dozens of parents, students, and fellow faculty members, awaiting the announcement of this year’s winner of our annual Poetry Out Loud competition. Over the preceding 45 minutes, eight students had declaimed sixteen poems, interpreting everything from Lord Alfred Tennyson to Sara Teasdale to Oliver de la Paz. The performances elicited laughs, sighs, and a healthy dose of snapping (in lieu of applause). Like many in attendance, I suspect, I had no idea which student would win and advance to the state competition. While Ms. Frankle tallied the final votes from our panel of visiting judges, a 9th grade student took the stage and, with total authority and confidence, read an original poem of her own to the gathered crowd.
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the roster, make the difference. A long-standing lodestar of our academic philosophy has been that genuine relationships and meaningful learning go hand in hand. Our teaching faculty have high expectations for our students because we know them and believe in them; and we have high expectations for ourselves as educators precisely because we care so much about our students. It’s this dynamic in which we help them develop strong habits of mind and academic skills, and encourage them to be responsibly informed while inculcating a sense of wonder and curiosity about the world around us. At its core, scholarship is a discussion about the nature of our world, and La Lumiere fosters an academic culture that prepares students to be responsible participants in that discussion. In our courses, we help students form habits of mind and sharpen skills through substantive discussion As the student smiled and soaked up the snaps, I among students and teachers. When we’re at our best, marveled at the fact that a young student could share what we do in the classroom extends beyond instructional such personal art with the entire school community. My time; conversations about philosophy or physics spill over thoughts turned to our mission to “cultivate scholarship” onto the athletic fields or into the lunch table discussions in at La Lumiere. It’s on nights like these, where bright-eyed the Moore House. young students stand in front of one another to celebrate I recently heard a parent of two La Lumiere students the sweetness of the word, both written and spoken––to describe a group text among evoke “tarantulas on the lifestudents that included his buoy” and to lament “the days children. The students were degone by”––when you can see bating lingering questions from Our approach to education scholarship growing right in their senior ethics class over views the learning that we front of your eyes. But just what text. If I were their teacher, I’d kind of scholarship do we value do together as a community be thrilled to hear that news. here? And how exactly do we Indeed, in the Social Science as intrinsically valuable.” cultivate it? department this year, our teach Bryan Smith, long-tenured ers have placed a major emphascience teacher and administrasis on facilitating rich dialogue. tor at La Lumiere, once told me that when we talk about They have pursued professional development together, the academic program at La Lumiere, there’s a temptation written grants for further training, and set departmental to go straight to the numbers––but the statistics don’t adgoals in order to hone their skills and share best practices equately capture what makes our school unique. Sure, we about leading effective discussions. Those conversations offer an impressive number of AP and advanced courses for might take the form of a Socratic discussion in AP U.S. a school our size, and our curriculum includes an impressive History, a civil debate in ethics class, or a simulation of an 18th-century salon in World History II (complete with breadth of offerings for students’ interests. Our average class costumes and refreshments). size (10.4 students) is a great asset, and our faculty members Of course, a critical facet in all of this is guiding teach an average of 40 students across 3.5 sections. These students in making meaningful connections with the numbers suggest ideal conditions for effective teaching and content. Across our curriculum, we want our students to learning. do more than master the material. I’m fond of the notion What gets lost in focusing on figures like this, however, that a La Lumiere education is not primarily about what is the dimension of our school that we believe most defines teachers cover in class but about what students discover for our success: the authentic relationships at the core of our themselves while they are here. We want our students to learning community. The interactions in and around the be responsibly informed; what’s more, we aim to instill in classroom, not the course title or the number of names on 12 | LA LUMIERE MAGAZINE
them a sense of scholarship that fosters a sense of wonder and an appetite for lifelong learning. La Lumiere is lucky to have faculty who model this for our students. Inspired by his interest in project-based learning and sustainability, science faculty member Brett Balhoff attended a conference at The Island School in the Bahamas last summer, challenging himself to think critically about how our La Lumiere community could learn how to “live well in a place.” Upon his return, he charged his ecology students to explore ideas that would help us to care for our beautiful campus in sustainable ways. His goal? Student-led conservation and sustainability projects rather than faculty-driven initiatives. Whether it’s a rising senior spending the summer as an intern at Notre Dame’s QuarkNet lab, a group of students requesting an AP Music Theory class to take their knowledge to a new level, or a junior exploring his options for an independent study in mathematics because he has completed both AP Calculus AB and BC already, what we aim to awaken is the thrill of discovery and the sense of inquiry and purpose that drives our students’ scholarship. Over the past couple of years, the English Department developed a writing portfolio program to elevate the place of writing in our curriculum and to showcase students’ best work. Formally introduced last year, the portfolio allows students to select pieces of writing in four categories from the academic year––from any of their classes or even writing done outside of class––and then guides them through the process of revising, publishing, and reflecting on their work. Whether they include a lab report, a chapter from a novel, a research paper for their European History course, or a literary analysis essay from English class, the choice is entirely theirs. You’ll see two examples of writing portfolio material in this magazine. As a submission to their 9th grade portfolios, Charlie Macri and Quentin Funderburg both chose to revise works of creative nonfiction written for their English class. Quentin’s fascination with maps and atlases led him to further develop an essay on a particularly interesting cartographic anomaly, while Charlie improved an essay on the brown marmorated stink bug to demonstrate how he had grown as a writer over his freshman year. The writing portfolio evinces another strength of our academic program: the opportunity for students to reflect on how their intellectual interests and academic skills have developed during their time here. With teachers who have witnessed students’ progress and encouraged them along the way, our students can reflect on their own growth. In our Advanced Art classes, for example, Ms. Wall’s stu-
dents fine-tune fashion designs, curate portfolios of their own artwork, or write and score screenplays, sharing the narrative of their artistic development with one another and critiquing one another’s work. In this year’s magazine, senior Savannah Starr reflects on her own journey as an artist, including completing college coursework over the summer and being a leader in the arts here in the La Lumiere community. One thing that we say quite often at La Lumiere is that we cultivate scholarship together as a community of learners. Ever since I arrived here, I’ve been impressed by the extent to which our students and teachers live out this concept. In a recent meeting, a social science teacher referenced John Dewey’s “Pedagogic Creed,” noting that education isn’t only about preparing our students for college or for the world beyond. Our approach to education views the learning that we do together as a community as intrinsically valuable. Or, as Dewey puts it, education “is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.”
On the pages that follow, we offer you a glimpse into the life of our community of learners by sharing the work of some of our students, each engaged in meaningful exploration of subjects that interest them and dedicated to exploring how to become the best versions of themselves through the cultivation of scholarship.
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SANDY ISLAND When what you see isn’t what you get, sometimes the only solution is a shift in perspective. BY QUENTIN FUNDERBURG ‘21
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hroughout time, archaeologists have pondered and scoured the Earth for the oldest map in history. Many maps have the potential to possess this title. Astonishingly, their dates of origin range from one million years ago to only around 600 BCE. A fitting consideration for this title is a map from the Navarra region of Spain. The minuscule five- by seven-inch pebble depicts rough, rigid carvings of a vast landscape. Countless rushing rivers cascade through the rocky hills, as the cave of San Gregorio juts above the surrounding land. Ibex herds and red deer trot and skip through the long, waving grass of the flooded land. This rock dates back to nearly 13,660 years ago, having been carved by a prehistoric hunter-gatherer from present-day Spain. Hunter-gatherers cannot travel far from their home. They are trapped by their knowledge of the area in order to get home. Hoping for food, a man might depart from his cozy abode, ready to hunt. He spots his prey––four gray, round rabbits. To us, we can envision their soft, powdery fur, white, gray, and velvety. We can see their structure, a pudgy torso, with legs made of spring, and their floppy ears. However, to this man, these figures are streaming balls of white. So, running after their springing legs, the man loses track of his surroundings and finds himself near 14 | LA LUMIERE MAGAZINE
A NEW MAP OF THE TERRAQUEOUS GLOBE, EDWARD WELLS, 1700
a strange unknown creek, deep and blue. Boggled by his extraterrestrial surroundings, he notices the rabbits have fled, and he loses hope. The rabbits’ fast scurries have taken the man too far from his homely abode. The best he can hope is to return the way he believes he came. IN 1772, JAMES COOK set sail from Plymouth Sound on the expedition of his life. James Cook was an English sailor, explorer, navigator, and cartographer. In his time, he circumnavigated the world twice, but died in Hawaii on his third attempt at exploration. His first voyage began in Plymouth, in the United Kingdom, where he drifted off into the Atlantic. Continuing south, he cruised past the Cape of Good Hope and sailed off through the southern
location, between 19°-20°S and 163°50’-164°15’ E. From there it was left alone, with no one caring to occupy or populate the land.
Indian Ocean. Sails unfurled, the open Pacific awaiting, he floated towards New Caledonia, where, in September of 1774, he interacted with the natives and gathered biological samples. As he drifted across the churning waters, he and his crew continued west, into the vast, aquamarine Coral Sea. But through this, he didn’t actually complete his mission. South of Australia, which he had previously discovered on his first voyage, there supposedly lay land. His expedition did not end there. From New Zealand, Cook and his crew crossed the Pacific, made it around Cape Horn, and traveled north, back to Britain. But before any of this he made a peculiar journal entry. His writing spoke of an island off just west of New Caledonia. He simply called it a “Sandy Island” and gave its approximate
BESIDES THE hunter-gatherers’ map, maps come in varying sizes. The most common map you’ll see in a school classroom, museum, or council hall is the world map, which simply consists of data plotted onto a geographical plane in the form of Earth’s continents. You can compare the data across the whole world, which gives you a better understanding of the relationships in it. However, people create maps for various meanings. For example, I draw out my room to understand where my bed, reading chair, bookshelf, and desk go. I do not need the rest of the house because, in this situation, only my room matters. Besides Earth, you can even expand further to have a map of space. Your horizon has shifted outside of the known world, and now explores the great vastness of space. Stars, galaxies, planets, quasars, and dark matter lay just past our reach. But other than the small and the large, there are inbetweens. The world, according to the United Nations, contains 196 countries, and each of these could have their own map. The USGS, or the United States Geological Survey, devised a system to survey the entire country. It began in 1876, as America continued to expand. Their system divided the US into 7.5-minute latitude by 7.5-minute longitude blocks of land called quadrangles. The system evolved as America grew, and today the plan covers the entire US. The USGS has covered the United States in thousands of maps. Even further, there are regional, state, neighborhood, park, and lake maps, and they all contain a different view of the world, comprising more than we know, or too little. IN 1876, A BRITISH whaling ship called Velocity sloshed through the Coral Sea. As the nineteenth-century sailors traveled on their journey, they passed by the same island that James Cook had passed nearly one hundred years ago. After their hunt, spearing at blues, humpbacks, and killers, one crewman recalled the island. He proclaimed “heavy breakers” and “sandy islets” when referring to the island. He gave nothing more, and nothing less. FALL 2018 | 15
Perspective depends on your view, but more importantly, on what you do not view. The absence outside the map should force you to imagine and feel inspired to discover what is beyond its reach.
ONE CONUNDRUM in the world of mapmaking is distortion. Because of the Earth’s curvature, no one can create a map without distortion of the plane. Imagine you take an orange peel. The popping fire orange beats into your eyes. Taking this perfect peel, you split it in half as spritzes of oil burst from its pores. You attempt to flatten the peel, but fail to succeed. Like the orange peel, a globe will not perfectly flatten. So as a solution, the sphere is commonly projected upon another shape to create a flat surface. Gerardus Mercator presented the Mercator projection to the world in 1569. Mercator projected the globe onto a cylinder, so that lines of latitude and longitude could be straight, and square to one another. At the time, often called the Age of Exploration, explorers sloshed and sailed through the dangerous, choppy sea to reach mysterious sandy shores, populated by “Indians” that lived off the land. When traveling roughly 3,716 miles, a small shift in trajectory can lead vastly off path. So, the Mercator projection allowed sailors to navigate by the same angle throughout the sea. The seamen 16 | LA LUMIERE MAGAZINE
wouldn’t traverse the shortest path, but they would arrive on the correct shore. However, because of the distortion of latitude and longitude, the Earth’s poles––the North and South––vastly expand to fit the rectangular map. Because of this, Greenland, a country northeast of Nunavut, appears quite enlarged. You could compare Greenland, a land of ice and tundra, to Africa, a land of wild diversity of people, culture, and geography, simply by their size. In the Mercator projection, the two look almost identical in size, but in reality, or on a globe, Greenland is nearly onefourteenth the size of Africa. NEARLY A CENTURY LATER, in 1974, a conspicuous finding was made. At the time, the Australian Hydrographic Service began the sea floor mapping of its surrounding waters. Before the seventies, people used sonar on the water to calculate the vast depths of the ocean floor. Sonar, or “Sound Navigation And Ranging,” is the process of sending out sound waves so they can reflect back and be collected. Diving in and
through the water, the Australian Hydrographic Service sonar reached the twilit sea floor. The sound waves returned to the surveying ship where they reverberated back to the seamen. After winding and traversing the open sea, the ship arrived on dry soil. The sonar was analyzed with a new innovation, the computer. After submitting the data however, the results showed an unimaginable geographic phenomena. Where Sandy Island supposedly sat, body-crippling depths of 4,882 to 7,720 feet lay. Perplexed by their findings, this service, or the AHS, baffled over this supposed “floating island.” It seemed implausible for such a thing to exist. No island before had been known to bob across the water. Further investigation had to be done. WHEN YOU PICTURE A MAP, where do the continents go? Do you place the Americas in the East or the West? It is commonly seen in the West, or America, that the Prime Meridian, or zero degrees longitude, is the center of the map. However, in countries more in the East, or Asia, people consider the International Date Line, one
their expedition, the crew spotted the discrepancies between maps as well. So, they sailed towards the contended location. Finally, on November 22, 2012, no island appeared. It was as if a cloud, dense and dark, had encapsulated the isle, but as the fog cleared, had taken the isle away with it a long time ago.
MAP OF OCEANIA, EDWARD AUGUSTUS PETHERICK, 1897 Sandy Island would be located somewhere between New Caledonia and the eastern coast of Australia
hundred eighty degrees longitude, the center of their maps. The people of these areas picture their world surrounding them. They are the center. So, logically, they tabulate their maps to plot their home in the center. Similarly, eurocentrism is the bias toward centering the map on the Prime Meridian, which runs through Europe. Furthermore, eurocentrism concentrates on the history and culture of Europe as the most important of the world. This began during colonial times, since the world, including Europeans themselves, saw Europe as the most advanced continent because it collected a vastly greater empire than the rest of the world. Throughout history and to this day, Europe is still seen to most as the ‘elite’ or ‘best,’ in whatever sort of matter. For these reasons, many cartographers continue to place Europe in the center. Also, many people will also unintentionally see Europe differently than the rest of the world because of its simple placement on the map.
AT TURN OF THE CENTURY, everyday people began to notice the mysterious Sandy Island. Amateur radio enthusiasts were on a mission to find a remote location to send a radio signal from and had stumbled upon the Chesterfield Islands, a small group of atolls in the Coral Sea. However, upon examining several atlases, they discovered this mysterious Sandy Island nearby, but it seemed to appear and disappear from map to map. Trusting that if Sandy Island appeared on at least one map, it must have existed, therefore it may have been too close to the Chesterfields to consider them “remote enough,” so the enthusiasts decided to abandon ship. Later, in 2012, the RV Southern Surveyor of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), cruised along the Coral Sea researching tectonic movements and plates. Throughout the ship’s life, lasting from 1972 to 2014, it undertook research on oceans, geography, ecosystems, and fish. On
SANDY ISLAND WAS ALWAYS lost. However, it still holds an identity. Even though this bare, white-beached island doesn’t exist, the island is ingrained in the memories of people. Its purpose isn’t to exist, it is not to exist. The reality of this island dissolved to nothing, and it left us in awe. These peculiarities showed us that the universe is never what it seems to be. Meaning has meaning, until meaning has no meaning. Our understanding is understood until realizations, discoveries, and faults are made and change our perspective. Our knowledge can only reach a specific extent, until our understanding falls short. None of these maps guide you towards absolute understanding. They continue to perplex you and let you ponder their differences and the similarities, the absences and the appearances. You may perceive their purposes are to show you what is included in the map, and that is true. However, you would have missed the other half. Perspective depends on your view, but more importantly, on what you do not view. The absence outside the map should force you to imagine and feel inspired to discover what is beyond its reach. FALL 2018 | 17
Halyomorpha Halys Often times, little things make a big impact. BY CHARLES MACRI ‘21
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onsider the Halyomorpha Halys, or the brown marmorated stink bug, for a long moment. These nuisances notoriously aggravate homeowners due to their infamous reproduction rates. On average, these pests reproduce approximately four times per year. Each time a female stink bug reproduces, clumps consisting of twenty to thirty brand new eggs release. Halyomorpha halys, or stink bugs, accidentally introduced themselves outside of Pennsylvania in New Jersey by hitching a ride as stowaways in packing crates in the late 1990s. By 2004, homeowners noticed the Asian creatures in West Virginia and Delaware. By 2007, homeowners noticed them in Ohio and New York. It was only a matter of time before tens of millions of these insects would migrate throughout the country in search of warmth and shelter. As of today, homeowners in forty-three states are experiencing the nuisance of stink bug infestations in their homes. Stink bugs are agricultural pests. Like other pests, including ants and termites, the brown marmorated stink bug often enters structures in large numbers, making the
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pests difficult to control once inside. Stink bugs, scavengers, squeeze through the tiniest openings: cracked siding, the space around window-unit air conditioners, outdoor electrical outlets, and even closed chimneys because of their minuscule size. Although these pests measure only the size of a postage stamp in length, they truly pack a powerful punch. They may seem like tiny, innocent creatures zooming and whirring around your bedroom nightstand, but the distinguishing quality of stink bugs––their foul-smelling odor almost impossible to eliminate––sets them apart from any other bug. Their name originates from their smelly defense mechanism. This mechanism is the reason you are not eating them for dinner. This mechanism emits strong, pungent, deterring odors from their body glands, much like how a skunk defends itself by utilizing rancid sprays. To trigger this scent something must strongly disturb, threaten, or crush them. The smell varies depending on the species and the person’s olfactory senses. Interestingly enough, the composition of this odor is commonly found in food
additives and is also present in cilantro. The smell of these minuscule bugs tends to linger on, and on, and on. Although simply a nuisance pest for homeowners, the brown marmorated stink bug has become a serious problem for the agricultural industry in the United States due to the damage they cause to crops and plants. In general, it is often difficult to examine the damage done by these tiny pests, at least at first. Stink bugs, red-eyed and angry, binge on peaches, apples, apricots, cherries, berries, peppers, beans, and pecans, as they relentlessly consume them for
...we stride through our days focusing on the “bigger things” that seem to have bigger implications in our life. Because of this, in some cases, we completely ignore what may seem mundane and unimportant.
every meal. In the southern states, brown marmorated stink bugs cause significant damage and losses in field corn. The injury the brown marmorated stink bug does to corn, for instance, is invisible until the ear is husked, at which point certain kernels will reveal themselves to be sunken and brown, like the teeth of a demon. The shuck of the corn additionally stops developing, exposing the grain to bird and insect damage. The resulting scars additionally appear on peaches, tomatoes, apricots, plums, and other fruits. This is because the brown marmorated stink bug uses its mouth to pierce the skin of the fruit, like a vampire sucking on your blood. Their toxic saliva grips onto the cells of the fruit, developing a hideous scar causing the fruit to distort into a shape that resembles the face of a cat. Thus, biologists additionally title stink bugs as “cat-facing insects”. Heavy stink bug populations not only reduce yields, but also the quality of the grain. We sometimes underestimate the influence of these little things. While this may seem small, the ripple effects of these bugs is truly extraordinary. Take the mantis shrimp, flourishing in the warm summer waters of the Indian and Pacific Oceans, for example. These marine crustaceans truly pack an enormous punch, and only measure the length of a pencil, or the iPhone you likely have nearby. These tiny creatures sport the animal equivalent of tiny boxing gloves––dactyl
clubs––capable of crushing through the protective shells of crabs and snails. Their clubs can accelerate to a whopping fifty miles per hour, summoning vibrations of violent shockwaves underwater that ripple innocent crabs across the undersea waters into smithereens. These dominant powers of force summon penetrating moaning cries, their piercing yearning tongue heard underwater for miles and miles. It is a feat of force humans can barely comprehend. It is like a one hundred fifty pound man generating three hundred seventy-five thousand pounds of sheer force in just a fraction of a second. These clubs are often compared to bullets fired out of rifles, tearing effortlessly through soft tissue, but only fired once. These tiny creatures utilize these weapons approximately fifty thousand times per day per molt, although they only measure to around ten centimeters in length. Often times, little things make a big impact. Too often we underestimate the power of a mantis shrimp, or the smell of a stink bug, or the power of a touch, or the words “I love you,” or a listening ear, or an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which potentially turn lives around. In that context, the arrival of the brown marmorated stink bug from Asia is truly unremarkable. What is remarkable is how much we have done to address these tiny creatures, and how it broadly affects our lives and mental state. It is not the big things that add up in the end, it is the hundreds, thousands, or millions of little things that separate the ordinary from the extraordinary. It is the mundane events in life we tend to overlook because they are too little to take the attention of our time. Then, we wake up one day and realize that a lousy paper cut turned into a finger infection, or we got fired, we got divorced, we lost a loved one, we were told we had a major health issue all because of one foolish mistake. We allow such incidents to occur because we stride through our days focusing on the “bigger things” that seem to have bigger implications in our life. Because of this, in some cases, we completely ignore what may seem mundane and unimportant. Enjoy and cherish the little things in life, for one day you will reflect back and realize they were big things. What might seem small still carries out a great deal of significance. Pay attention to the little things as they mount into greater form, just like how a few thousand stink bugs turn into billions.
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ORBIS SERPENTIS 2018 watered down acrylics 8.5” x 11”
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Starrdom BY DEVON CARLSON ‘12
SAVANNAH STARR is in her fourth year at La Lumiere, a member of the Class of 2019, and known for her serious skills in drawing. A regular participant in Fine Arts Fridays and a founding member of the La Lumiere Arts Council, Savannah is used to packing her days with art-related extracurriculars, not just doing it for the experience, but doing it simply because she can’t imagine spending her time any other way. She’s a member of the Teen Arts Council at the Lubeznik Center for the Arts in Michigan City, Indiana, which is a group that helps talented local high school students jumpstart their art careers by giving them opportunities to work in a gallery setting, show their work, and be involved artistically in the local community. She also spent the summer before her senior year at Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), taking two courses over an intense five-week period, earning her 10 credit hours in college-level art courses. In June, she wrote to me saying that she was working on a realistic stippling piece that was taking her so much time to perfect, she was forced to work on it even during her bus commutes to and from class. “I’ve been up late working on my homework the past few nights,” she said, “but I think La Lumiere has definitely gotten me used to an intense workflow. I feel much less exhausted because it’s all art homework and not something that confuses me, like physics.” We sat down after the fact to talk about the work she completed during her summer at SCAD and where she wants to take her future in art. (She also confirmed: she really was working on that stippling piece every bus ride. You can see how impressive it is by giving it a look on page 23.) Here’s what she has to say about her experience as an artist.
I’ve been looking at your piece Orbis Serpentis, which you did over the summer at SCAD, and am really amazed by the light in it. You made it so dimensional just by doing your shadows and highlights in different colors. I think for most people, creating something like that is a concept they wouldn’t even be able to wrap their heads around. When you sit down to work on a piece like this, do you think, “Okay, what am I specifically going to do to give this snake dimension?” Or does it just flow? When I did this piece in particular, I had a lot of space around the image. I was making notes like, “This is my light source.”
I have to constantly remember where the light is coming from. But then once I figure that part out, I can just play with it. Especially with realistic pieces or semi-realistic pieces like this one, when I look at pictures I can break down colors. For example, I looked at a lot of photos of people and noticed there’s a lot of purple in skin, so I started coloring purple into skin. Sometimes I feel like I need to highlight with warmer colors, depending on the situation. I feel like this is my ideal style, what I want my work to look more like. It’s very atmospheric. My professor said the lighting on this one was my strong point. FALL 2018 | 21
Was the snake piece an assignment or thought up organically? It was partially the assignment, and partially—I don’t know where it came from. The assignment was to do a repetition of an object, so I was like, “Oh! Snakes! Obviously.” I don’t know why that was obvious, but I was just like, “I have to do this!” We had to focus on movement and color—complementary colors. I thought, why do a green snake when I could do a purple and blue snake? So I totally shifted it. I don’t know why, but the first thing I thought of was a snake wrapped around someone’s legs. So I started with that at the top of my image, and then I started drawing squiggly lines for all the snakes and I ended up really liking it. At that point, I was just doodling while the professor was explaining the assignment in class. It was something that was somewhere in my head and somehow ended up on the paper. It makes me think of how, in any creative field, when you have an assignment or when you give yourself parameters, you can come up with some really cool things simply because you’re forced to. Yeah. When I was at SCAD, I felt like I had more creative
capacities beyond what I had done before. I knew I had to fulfill every assignment but I still wanted to do it while staying true to my own style, and instead of just doing explicitly what I would come up with on my own, I had to stay within those parameters. Tell me more about this sketch piece [Gotham Graffiti]. We had to collage an abstract image, focusing on textures, but we could do a theme if we wanted. Most people chose nature or animal prints, but I was like, “I’m gonna do Batman! I’ve gotta do Batman!” Most of it ended up being symbols for the villains and Batman. I really wanted to play with texture in a realistic way, kind of like graffiti, like how I did the Joker’s laugh. I didn’t even realize it was Batman-themed until you said something! That’s kind of what the point of the assignment was. The goal is to not be able to tell what the objects are—it’s supposed to be abstract. You might be able to pick out specific things, like a deck of cards or a penguin, but I tried to blend them all together in the collage so that it’s harder to interpret. I also didn’t notice the penguins until you just said that, either. When you’re the artist, you know everything that you put into a piece. But when you’re a viewer, you can only see it from your outside perspective. This is Batman in a way I’ve never seen it before, and I think anyone can appreciate this, whether or not they like Batman. Tell me more about your process for creating this piece. It’s pen and ink, but we had to start by printing off images and cutting out pieces to put into our collage shapes. We had to design the shapes without knowing what textures would go where. Somewhere in
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my sketchbook I have the original collage. Then I had to draw the final product in pen and ink. And what about the stippling project [Gerard Way]? That must have been time-intensive. It was. That was our first project. The first day we were there, our professor said we had to make three thumbnails using different techniques like hatching and stippling. I was up way too late trying to finish them, getting too detailed, and the professor actually liked the very first one I did the best. I did all that work on the other two! So I made this one [Gerard Way] larger and I felt like I had to do really well on it—it was my first assignment at SCAD! So I spent, I think, 25 hours doing all the dots. The darkest parts took forever. To fill in those parts I needed to utilize all the time I had, so I was working on it on the bus to and from class. We had to use only the smallest three Micron pen sizes to do it. The professor could tell based on the dots if you used anything different. I really like details, so this piece gave me the chance to show that I’m really good at that, even though I’ve only done a couple realistic pieces.
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So, among all the pieces you’ve ever done, do you have a favorite?
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Honestly, I think it would be the snake one. I tend to be kind of doubtful of my projects, thinking, “I could add this here,” or, “I could add that there,” but this one, for some reason—I hated it. I finished the top half and then I left it alone. I walked away, came back into the class and took a look at it, and I was like, “This is so cool!” From there, I was so happy. I realized it was my favorite thing I’ve ever done. I’m usually wanting to show pieces that show off how I’m good at doing details—I’m a perfectionist. But this one just has a vibe. It’s happy but it’s creepy. It has snakes, and people don’t usually like snakes. It’s ominous, but in an inviting way. Yeah—that’s what I wanted to do. I think it’s sort of a culmination of all my ideal art styles. It’s got lighting and colors
and details. It just came out of nowhere, and I never expected it to be this good. It is really good. Is drawing something that has always been in your life? I’m imagining young Savannah Starr as a drawing prodigy in 2nd grade or something like that. I never really got into it until about 5th or 6th grade, and that’s when I started consistently doing it outside of school. I watched the How to Train Your Dragon movies and was really inspired by the animation, so that had me doodling, which eventually turned into drawing a lot. Your work definitely hints at an animation style from time to time. Are you interested in pursuing that more? I actually want to go into animation as my major in college. I’m working on storyboarding right now so that I can animate, because I learned some of the animation programs over the summer. I did more video editing than animating, but animating is my ultimate goal.
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Any shout-outs or important influences? Again, the thing that really pushed me into art was How to Train Your Dragon. I feel weird talking about it, but I saw this movie when I was 10 years old with my grandparents and, for some reason, it just changed my whole perspective. People used to be like, “You’re so smart. You’ll be an engineer. Use your math and science,” but I would think, “I really need to do art!” When I saw the second movie, because I had already started drawing, I honed in on the technical advances they had made. It was really watching the progression between the movies that got me interested in animation. Even the littlest things lately make me inspired. I’ve been going to a lot more galleries and doing things with the Teen Arts Council that I’m on at Lubeznik Center, and I always have to carry a notebook or a sketch pad with me. Being surrounded by anything—movie-related or musicians, anything—really can inspire me in funny ways. Tell me more about the Teen Arts Council. How did you get into that and what role do you play in it? We made an Arts Council here at La Lumiere a couple years ago and that’s when I was getting serious about going to art school. We had Fine Arts Fridays at school and I was really starting to ask myself how I could get more involved with art in the community. One of my friends at La Lu had been on the Teen Arts Council [at Lubeznik Center] the year before and encouraged me to try to join it. I had already been participating in their gallery the past couple years, but then I joined the Council over the summer of 2018 since I already knew some of the people there. I used to go to school with some of the other kids on the Council, so it’s great that I’ve been able to reconnect with them. We meet typically once a month, but we’ve recently been meeting more often because a lot of events have been happening. We went to EXPO Chicago together, we had a table at the Lubeznik Art Festival—I stayed up so late making prints for that.
former La Lu student who has worked at Lubeznik has told me a lot about her experience working in the gallery, curating, things like that. And I think that sounds so interesting. I’d love to do that before I go to art school! I think that would be a great opportunity. There are so many artists thriving at La Lumiere— obviously you spend tons of time outside school working on these things, too—so how has art at La Lumiere influenced your practice? My sophomore year, [Katie] Wall started as the art teacher. Right away she said, “You should take Advanced Art next semester and Art Portfolio even though you’re only a sophomore. Start working toward building your portfolio now!” She really encouraged me to get back into what I was doing after I was feeling down about it for a while. My junior year I was taking a lot of AP classes, but I was still really focused on art. Because of that focus, this year I was able to shift more toward art, and I feel like I’m less worried about the difficulty of the classes I’m taking and more about what I’m getting from them and how they’ll benefit me. It really shifted my perspective on how I need to prepare for my future. Where do you envision yourself going to art school? SCAD is my top choice, but School of the Art Institute of Chicago is my top choice for a school close to home and depending on scholarship opportunities. I’m also looking at Rhode Island School of Design and Ringling College of Art and Design.
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I covered all my expenses and still made some money after that! I have several prints left over, but now anything I sell just adds to my income. It was cool because I got myself out of the hole I was in preparing for it all. Right now we’re working on a collaborative project with another artist where we’re doing a piece for the new hospital [in Michigan City]. I’m really excited about it. We’re doing so much more for the community. We also give back to Lubeznik as well—it goes both ways, since they do things for us like provide train fare to visit expositions in Chicago. We’re doing some docent training for the next exhibit, so I’ll be able to take visitors around during the winter. And if I have time this next summer, I’d like to try and do an internship there. Another 24 | LA LUMIERE MAGAZINE
Savannah’s artwork online at slspianist.wixsite.com/savanimation or by visiting her Instagram account, @starrsketches
Overcoming Challenges through Head’s Cup A reflection on her first experience playing Head’s Cup games by ZIHAN “COCO” SUN ‘21, written during her Freshman English as a Second Language class. Pictured: Coco (left) with her friend Vy Truong ‘18 at the 2017 Senior Bonfire.
Separated into four groups and competing with each other, participating in Head’s Cup games teaches me the importance of cooperation and prompts me to challenge myself; the uniforms of La Lu, especially the Head’s Cup one, remind me I am a member of a team. One day, gathering in the open space next to the tennis court and preparing for competitions, we begin our first game as a team. We have to divide into pairs and hold a plank, and then a person will be chosen to walk through the bridge made from these planks. This is impossible, I think. How can two students handle the weight of a person with a wooden board? In other words, I
don’t feel confident enough about holding the plank steadily when she steps on it. I fear being a drag on my team. The game begins, and at the same time, laughs, cheers, shouts, and echoes resound back to us, reducing my worry. While the person comes near to me, I hold the plank tightly while I catch my partner’s eyes—I can find worry in her eyes too, but after that, we both smile because we knew we would make it. The weight adds to our plank, causing a slight drop, and she immediately walks through. It’s as challenging as I had thought it would be, but not terrifying at all. Two girls wearing the same color shirt burst into laughter, running to the next spot to take on another challenge with confidence and smiles.
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# L A LU LIFE
A PHOTO CONTEST FOR STUDENTS wasn’t expected to garner much participation, based on the fact that they had plenty of other things to think about (including—but not limited to—long school days, extracurricular activities, and homework). But given positive encouragement and the right incentives (opportunities to earn gift cards or cash), students got out their cameras, went on campus adventures, and snapped away during the spring semester. The competition was run by the Marketing Department and aimed to “give students and faculty a chance to have their voices heard and their visions recognized.” Selected submissions were posted on La Lumiere’s social media accounts with the tag #LaLuLife, illustrating student life from the student perspective. Submitted photos were required to represent one of the following:
student life, activities, or sports at La Lu, what makes La Lu valuable and unique, the beauty of our campus, the accomplishments of our students, or the very best of everything La Lumiere.
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Out of a total of 115 submissions, here are some standout selections.
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1. Photo by Ana Havens ‘21 and Elijah Mustillo ‘20, February 2018 2. Photo by Jasmin Khalil ‘19, January 2018 3. Photo by Grace Renbarger ‘18 and Jack Breitowich ‘18, May 2018 Full-page photo by Zhuohao “Chris” Li ‘19, May 2018. Chris won the semester’s grand prize in the photo contest.
C E L E B R AT I N G T H E
Class of 2018 A commencement ceremony focused on compassion and embracing others was a fitting way to send off this group of students, who so effortlessly demonstrated kindness toward each other and dedication to the La Lumiere ideal throughout their time on campus.
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he 63 students making up the Class of 2018 hail from five states and ten different countries. Now, they find themselves in their first year at universities with an equally diverse geographic distribution: from UCLA and USC on the West Coast; to University of Michigan and Washington University in St. Louis in the Midwest; to TCU and Vanderbilt in the South; to Boston College and Yale on the East Coast. Some are enrolled in large, public research universities while others have chosen small, private liberal arts colleges. Four members of the Class of 2018 will continue their education at institutions outside the U.S. Laid out in the following pages is the class’s commencement address given by Dr. Carolyn Yauyan Woo, former President and CEO of Catholic Relief Services, which details four powerful pieces of life advice. (Read Dr. Woo’s bio on page 30.) You will also find major senior award winners on page 35.
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Dr. Carolyn Yauyan Woo Dr. Carolyn Woo served from 2012-2016 as President & CEO of Catholic Relief Services (CRS), a global humanitarian agency reaching more than 130 million people in more than 100 countries on five continents. She currently serves as the Distinguished President’s Fellow for Global Development at Purdue University. Before leading CRS, Carolyn served from 1997 to 2011 as Dean of the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business. During her tenure, Mendoza was frequently recognized as the nation’s leading business school in ethics education and research. It was rated as the top undergraduate business program by Bloomberg Businessweek five years straight starting in 2010. Carolyn was born and raised in Hong Kong and immigrated to the United States to attend Purdue University, where she received her bachelor’s, master’s, and doctorate degrees, and joined the faculty. She was selected as one of 40 Young Leaders of American Academe by Change Magazine, the journal of the American Association for Higher Education, and her research earned multiple Best Paper Awards from the Academy of Management. Carolyn was the first female dean to chair the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business and directed its Peace Through Commerce initiative. She helped launch the Principles for Responsible Management Education for the United Nations Global Compact. Carolyn was invited to present in Rome at the release of Pope Francis’ encyclical on the environment in June 2015. Representing CRS, Carolyn was featured in the May/June 2013 issue of Foreign Policy as one of the 500 Most Powerful People on the Planet and one of only 33 in the category of “a force for good.”
his is a tremendous privilege to be here with you. I came to La Lumiere a couple of months ago to meet with Lily [Kennedy] and Adam [Kronk] and I was so taken by this school, by its mission, by the culture, by the sense of belonging and community. And just seeing the students that are here...to honor your commitment to be here for the graduating seniors as others will be for you––there is something that tugs at my heart. What a wonderful place for young people to be formed to know all of the wonderful things. Before I go into my comments, I just want to say that Jacqueline and Adam [Kronk] went to Cambodia and left everything behind, before they had their children, to help run a not-for-profit which was started by a young woman. And the mission of this particular not-for-profit is to educate young girls because girls in Cambodia come from poor families and many of them do not have the opportunity to go to school. Sometimes parents cannot afford fees, and when young girls start to develop their period, they actually don’t have the wherewithal to go to school because they don’t have any feminine products. Just think about that as an obstacle. And where did they find the money to support this particular cause? They started a touring business where American tourists came and they led them on bicycle tours around Cambodia so that they could generate the revenue to send the girls to school. Just think about the passion behind it, the creativity behind it, and also the fun behind it. I think they also had a program where if the girl had perfect attendance she would get a bike when she graduated. So you talk about how to solve problems, how to empower people. In some ways it is a simple model but there is so much power in it. And so, today, we celebrate you. You’re on a journey and some of you will do that sort of work. And I think many of you, not just not-for-profit, you could go into government, you could go into business, you could go into all sorts of ventures. All ventures can be for good if you have the right heart and the right intention. And what a special day for the parents. I have been in your seat as a graduate, I’ve been in the seat as a faculty member, as a guest, but I have also been in those seats as a parent. There is nothing that compares to the experience of a parent going through this. It is such a holy day. It is a day of recognizing all of the blessings in our lives and the power of love on this journey. For graduates, it’s not just the diploma––it’s not just an entry or pass into college and onto bigger things––but I think it is knowledge itself. It is such a powerful key. It is the key to knowing the world; it
is the key to knowing people, their behaviors, and their incredible discoveries and creations. It’s the key also for locating yourself in the world. What do you want to do? What part of it fascinates you? Where do you want to locate yourself in your career as far as your academic studies go? And, most importantly, it is the key to giving back. I think you have learned that the fuel to this knowledge requires discipline. What forges this knowledge? It is really the discipline that you applied in learning, and hopefully curiosity as some degree of the fun in learning. So, congratulations, and really look forward to fun and good things to come.
The people around us are not random. They are God’s gifts to reveal who He is in our own lives.” I WANT TO SHARE JUST FOUR POINTS I have learned in my journey. First, I want to begin with a story. I am sure that when you leave here you will have all sorts of questions: Will I make it? I did well at La Lumiere, but will I do well in my next step? I came from such an incredible community where everybody is kind, everybody takes the trouble to get to know you, but now I am going into, sort of, “the real world” where people are probably competitive. Are they kind? Can I trust them? Will they make a place for me? Will they be kind to me? Will they like me? There are all these questions about the next step. So, I want to locate myself when I was your age starting my first days at Purdue University. As Adam [Kronk] told you, I was a foreign student. I grew up in a city. The first task I have is to read a map to go to this place to sign up for my courses. And I was early as a foreign student so there were not a lot of other people around. So, I was ready to go, but map reading was not one of my skills. When you grow up in a city you just memorize bus routes. “Take bus 11A, go to that tall building and take a right.” There are no maps, just bus routes. I went to sign up for classes and somehow ended up at the music organization and band’s office. So, I went in
there and I said, “I’m here to sign up for courses.” I’m sure they must have known something with wrong, so they said, “Ms. Woo, this is not the place where you sign up for courses.” I was probably homesick and nervous and scared. Tears just started coming down. And at the back of my mind was: a person who couldn’t find the right place to sign up for courses will certainly fail. This is a big leap––I can’t read a map, I can’t find the right building, I can’t sign up for courses. I am about to fail. You know how all this thinking comes together. Big tears came and I already felt like a failure on my first day. But a receptionist there was so kind. She said, “You’re not far from the building. Let me take you to where you need to sign up for courses.” And she did two other things. First of all, she asked me, “Do you have a religion?” I said, “I am Catholic.” So she called the Catholic center on campus and said, “We have a new student here, you really should meet her. Her name is Carolyn, she will come by to see you. I will give her directions.” The second thing she did was ask me what my intended college was and she called the academic advisor. I just want to say that the priest that greeted me that day, 40-some years ago, is still a very good friend. The Catholic center there welcomed me. They made me part of their family. I got all of the treats that people sent to the priest there. And for my academic advisor––a wonderful professor by the name of Glen Griffin––not only did he help me with the courses, but that night he and his wife, Florence, came to pick me up at the dorm to take me on a tour of campus and to Horticulture Park. And every year for my birthday, he and his wife would welcome me and my friends from the dorm for cake and coffee. That was his gesture to me. I cannot tell you how many kind people I encountered. The counselor in the dorm, my classmates, other people in the residence hall who took me to their homes, a lady at church who invited me to her home for Thanksgiving dinner, so on and so forth. In all of the positions that I have––nominations to serve on different boards, for different awards, as many of you have received––I always remember there is somebody behind the scenes saying good things about you. Extending a hand, bringing honor to you. It is somebody else who does it––you don’t nominate yourself. This is the crux of my first point. And that is that in many ways, we live in a world that has a lot of issues, a lot of disagreements, FALL 2018 | 31
resentments, some degree of exclusion. The lack of peace, the lack of civility at the level between people, between political parties, between people of different ideologies. Even to the extent that there are wars and major conflicts around the world. We think about that and we shake our heads but the first point I want to recover is that there is a lot of kindness out there. There’s a lot of goodness in people and we have also been the beneficiary of people’s generosity, sometimes in ways that we don’t even know. We don’t really know the faculty member who went out of their way to make sure a student learned. We sometimes don’t see the registrar who makes sure you are all set for courses or the financial aid person who really dug deep to find financial aid for you. Behind my whole education is an anonymous donor who gave a fellowship. So, I could never be cynical. I hope that you look into your lives and never be cynical, because you have to recover all of the good things which have happened in your life and the people behind them. Never be cynical, no matter how broken the world is––always recover. Know the goodness and generosity and compassion in people. THE SECOND POINT, THEN, is turning the table. I mentioned the kindness of other people, so the question to you is, therefore, who are you to other people? Or, how are you to other people? What are your relationships? What is 32 | LA LUMIERE MAGAZINE
the quality of those relationships? I was in some airport riding in a shuttle train and there was one of those advertisements of the mall inside the airport. And it said, “Style is the way to tell people who you are without speaking a word.” I looked at that sign and I said, “What a terrible statement: ‘Style is the way to tell people who we are without saying a word.’” But then, it caught me. If it’s not the word “style,” what word would I give it? What is the way we tell people who we are without speaking? And, in fact, I invite you to hold on to that question and have your own answer. Sometime this weekend, talk to your classmates, talk to your parents, talk to your
…the most important letter of recommendation is actually that which will come from the poor. How did you treat them and what would they say about you?”
grandparents and ask them, “What would be your answer to Carolyn Woo’s question?” My own answer is that I think “relationship” is the way we tell people who we are without speaking a word. I know nowadays there’s a lot of breaking of promises on campus. You tell someone on Monday that Thursday or Friday you want to do something. “Are you in for this? Do you want to come do this with us?” Someone says yes. But then Thursday comes along and you’ve found something better to do on Friday that does not include the friend, so you write an email: “Oh, I’m sorry, I have studying to do tomorrow.” That is a reflection of how we manage relationships. In fact, God comes to us through relationship. God reveals Himself in relationship. The Trinity is a relationship. Making Adam and Eve together to go through life is about relationship. Jesus coming into the world to be with us is a relationship. The Apostles are another one. And when Jesus had them go to work, he said, “Go out two by two.” So, I just want to say, the people around us are not random. They are God’s gifts to reveal who He is in our own lives. C. S. Lewis has a line which says, “Other than the Eucharist, the holiest object you can engage is the person next to you.” That there is “no ordinary person.” Pope Francis always uses the word “engage.” He
tells us to go out and engage people, particularly people we don’t know very well. And the theologian Bonhoeffer actually defines “engagement.” He says, “‘Engagement’ is to look at a person. Each face is unique, tells a story, and we cannot stereotype when we look at someone’s face.” The second [way he defines “engagement”] is to listen to the person. The third is to share and talk with the person, because in talking and sharing, you deposit something of yourself in that person and you take something of that person into yourself, and this changes both parties. And the fourth thing he says is that it is not enough to just be with the person, you have to be for the person. In fact, in all of my leadership roles––and it starts with student organizations actually––I have found that we want a lot from people. We tell them what to do, we have performance objectives, we have performance reviews, and so on. So we know what we want from people. But people actually do not respond the best that they can unless they also know what you want for them. I am sure in a place like La Lumiere your faculty has been very demanding, sometimes against your wishes, sometimes more than what you think they should expect from you. But in the back of your mind you know that they want the best for you. And that’s why they want what they want from you. At my own graduation there was a speaker, Stephen Smith––this was decades ago––who said something that I have never forgotten. He said, “Charisma”––think about charisma, it’s not really in Jay-Z, Beyoncé, or whatever––“Charisma accrues to people who can attract other people.” And he said, “Charisma is the ability to take people as you find them, to like them for who they are, and to not despise them for what they are not.” I used to go to a lot of dinner functions, and I am just not really keen on dinner functions. There’s a lot of small talk. I used to move the table assignments around so I could sit with my friends and usually they were the ones who would laugh the loudest at the table. A very terrible habit, actually. But I finally realized that that is very immature, that my job was to be a host and that’s not a good way to do it. So I decided that I would be committed to my table, wherever I was assigned I would stay there, and whoever were my guests I would pay attention to them. So I started this thing where––and I am a nosy person by nature––you could put anyone in front of me and I could start a conversation: “Oh, where are you from? What do you do? Why do you choose to do that? Do you have a FALL 2018 | 33
family? How did you meet your husband? What do you want for your children? What do you want for your grandchildren? If you could live any place in the world, where would it be?” I could just go on and on. I am curious; I really do want to know. I really learn a lot from people. At the end of it they would say, “She is very smart.” I didn’t say one word that was smart. I didn’t make one opinion. I didn’t make one declarative statement that shows that I was smart. But when you do honor to other people, they are lifted up. And as a result, they also reflect that grace to you. That is my second point: who you are in your relationship really matters. And to actually remember that as people are answers to our prayers, we, too, are the answer to other people’s prayers. We don’t realize that, but every morning, just remember: you are the answers to people’s prayers on God’s behalf. A kind word, an extra gesture, other things. THE THIRD POINT I HAVE is about success. I think all of you will succeed because you have already succeeded. You know what it takes, you have the natural gifts, and you have such a great foundation. I think we are meant to enjoy our success. I think God wants us to succeed. Because developing our gifts, developing our gifts so that they can be used, so that we can help in God’s work is what God intends us to be. But I just want to have a few side notes to that success. The Gospel seldom asks us to be successful, but it asks us to be fruitful. Think about your favorite fruit. Mine is a peach, right in July and August when it is so sweet and the juice just runs down your chin. There is a sense of, “what a wonderful gift”. I think we are to be fruitful, which means that we are to be of value, of contribution to other people. That’s, in the end, what success is about. I think we also need to enjoy our success and our achievement, but there are two things that diminish it. Sometimes we diminish our own achievements because they are not as great as somebody else’s or it didn’t come as early––the recognition––as somebody else’s. Somehow, we take a haircut on ourselves because of other people, how we compare ourselves relative to other people. And that is really a useless activity. Don’t compare. Just enjoy your achievement on an absolute level. The other way we can diminish it is when we use it as a club over other people. We use our own achievements and whatever gifts that we have to diminish others. So, don’t diminish yourself and don’t diminish other people by your achievements. 34 | LA LUMIERE MAGAZINE
More important than achievements, for me, when I look at a resume, I have the question––and it is never reflected in a resume––I ask, “How did you honor the responsibility that was given to you? How did you honor the fact that someone trusted you and gave you responsibility? How did you honor the people who depended on your service? How did you honor your colleagues? And more importantly, how did you honor yourself ?” They look at me kind of like, “Oh, my gosh, what does ‘honor’ mean? What does it mean to honor the trust that was given to me?” I think that is very important. The third thing––going back to the Gospel, Matthew 25, where Jesus basically said that the worth of all of our work in a lifetime is how we treat the poor––I know many of you will be seeking recommendation letters on your journey, but the most important recommendation is actually that which will come from the poor. The marginalized. The people who couldn’t give you anything. How did you treat them and what would they say about you? That’s the ultimate recommendation. THE FOURTH AND FINAL THING is that I went into college with a lot of worries. I worried myself to death. I had only one year of tuition. What would the second year look like? I went to graduate school. Would I make it in graduate school? I would worry about getting a job and worry about getting tenure in my job. I was a basket of worries. I was a worrier. One thing I have learned is that we never go through life alone. God is with us. God made a promise: “I will never leave you orphans.” And if there is anything you know about God, it’s that He keeps His promises. He didn’t just say it for the fun of it or for you to have a good day. He means it. And the second [thing I have learned] is that the God who makes this promise is a very generous God. And I truly believe that when we pray and don’t get what we want, it’s because He has something better in mind. So, go into the world. Go into college. Class of 2018 La Lumiere students who never leave behind your L’s––do go out, do remember the kindnesses of others. In your own place, manage your relationships with care, with love. Think about success, not only in terms of your own achievements––do enjoy them––but think about how God always defines that achievement. And finally, invoked or not, God is there with you, so go with God.
ALUMNI MEMORIAL AWARD OLIVIA ROSE DYBING Bestowed each year in recognition of the senior student who best portrays the La Lumiere ideal, this award is given as a tribute to deceased alumni and students whose character, scholarship, and faith are respectfully acknowledged and finally remembered.
Olivia Dybing at Parents Weekend before the Senior Bonfire in 2017.
HEAD PREFECT ELIZABETH “LILY” KENNEDY
Lily Kennedy (center) with classmates Emily Smith (left) and Grace Renbarger at girls’ soccer senior night in 2017.
HONORARY SENIOR MEDAL RECIPIENT ROXANNE COOPER Roxanne Cooper (right), who goes the extra mile to care for campus, being awarded the Honorary Senior Medal at Commencement in 2018.
Awarded to a member of the La Lumiere community whose contributions and dedication to the school are worthy of special recognition.
OUTSTANDING SENIORS WERE ALSO AWARDED THE FOLLOWING HONORS FOR DISTINGUISHED ACHIEVEMENT:
James R. Moore Scholar-Athlete Award Elizabeth Grady Kennedy George McClain Eisenhauer Head of School’s Award for Growth and Development Ethan Daniel Paff Qihao Xue Senior Award for Stellar Academic Performance Olivia Rose Dybing
Senior Award for Service to Younger Students Jack Eliot Breitowich One of Us Award Joshua Paul De St. Jean Alan R. Hannan Unsung Hero Award Emily Marie Paff Trustees’ Award for Leadership Based on Character Elizabeth Grady Kennedy
THE YEAR IN PICTURES
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athletic hall of fame
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n February 17, 2018, alumni and their families returned to campus for the 5th bi-annual Athletic Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony to recognize the outstanding contributions of their classmates and coaches to the La Lumiere athletic program. The commitment, achievement, and sense of sportsmanship displayed by the honorees during their time at La Lumiere set the standard for the young athletes who follow in their footsteps today.
1975-76 Soccer Team members (left to right) Guy Lenardo, Mark Marsch, Jon Hicks, Shawn McArdle, Dave Collins, David Wood, Larry Sullivan, Pete Rentschler, and Peter Grote
Individual inductees (left to right) Dan Rosshirt, Chris Balawender, Mike Delgado, Michael Kennedy, Dan Hillenbrand, Joe Linnen, and Victor Smith
Athletic Hall of Fame Guiding Principles
Inductees are chosen based on a level of excellence and commitment to a particular sport (e.g. captain, team MVP, state-wide or national recognition, etc.), especially as it relates to other teammates and the level of competition during the candidate’s era. Consideration is also given to candidates who participated in multiple sports during their careers, even if their level of success varied in those sports. Finally, the committee attempts to select candidates that result in a class of inductees that appropriately represent the range of sports at La Lumiere School. To view all photos of the event, visit https://lalumiereschool.smugmug.com/Hall-of-Fame-2018/ 38 | LA LUMIERE MAGAZINE
Individual Inductees (Pictured left to right)
Chris “Doc Booms� Balawender Faculty Football, track & field Mike Delgado Class of 1985 Football, wrestling, baseball Jim Gaffigan Class of 1984 Football, wrestling, track & field Mike Grote Class of 1985 Football, basketball, baseball Dan Hillenbrand Class of 1984 Soccer, wrestling, track & field Michael Kennedy Class of 1986 Soccer, basketball, baseball, track & field Joe Linnen Class of 1984 Football, basketball, baseball Dan Rosshirt Class of 1984 Soccer, basketball, baseball Victor Smith Class of 1986 Football, wrestling Dave Webster Class of 1984 Football, wrestling, track & field
Team Induction 1975-76 Soccer Team This soccer team boasts participation in the first ever soccer state championship, hosted by Indiana University, and was the only athletic team of this era to compete in state-level competition and advance.
Raising Funds to invest in education at La Lumiere It’s no secret: boarding school operating expenses are vast, and sometimes our needs – which generally include new equipment, more personnel, capital improvements, greater space, innovative teaching technologies, etc. – must be relegated to wish list status as we determine where to prioritize spending. Tuition generally covers over three-quarters of this spending. However, as a school with an intentionally small enrollment that nonetheless grows year after year in the quality and quantity of its offerings, we have to increasingly rely on the gifts of generous donors to cover our expenses. That’s why fundraising efforts play a critical role in the growth and operation of La Lumiere School. But beyond their monetary value alone, our two primary fundraising events each year serve as a celebration of another of La Lumiere’s greatest values: community. When we join together as a La Lumiere family we share stories of years past, remember the innocence and mischief of our high school years, and spread the exciting news of our children’s achievements today. We reflect on the multitude of ways La Lumiere has served our families – from giving us and our kids the skills to succeed in college and in our careers, to providing us with a broader sense of family that fosters the confidence and connection we need to grow as better, more compassionate individuals – and, in so doing, recognize the pricelessness of a La Lumiere education. Yet, as most things do, this education comes at a cost. Attendees of the Fly Me to the Moon spring fundraiser and the 24th
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annual Golf Outing played a crucial role in helping to offset this cost by participating in a live auction, silent auction, and paddle raise in support of scholarships and capital improvements at La Lumiere School. Fly Me to the Moon, held May 5, raised over $110,000 in total, including $47,000 during the paddle raise to help fund the installation of air conditioning in several rooms in the original academic building (see p. 7 for more information about campus updates). The 24th annual Golf Outing, held September 21, raised $65,500 for the Scholarship Fund during the paddle raise, with a grand total of $125,000 in funds raised. Without the generous donations made at these events and beyond, making critical updates and additions to our facilities wouldn’t be possible. Neither would we be able to ensure the accessibility of a life-changing education at La Lumiere to those who may not otherwise be able to afford the great expense that it presents. On the following pages you’ll find event photos and dates for next year’s fundraiser events. If you’re interested in making a gift to La Lumiere School in the meantime, we invite you to visit lalumiere.org/give. (Note: Donations made at Fly Me to the Moon are covered in the Annual Report for 2017-2018 [see p. 53-57], but donations made at the 24th annual Golf Outing fall during the fiscal year of 20182019 and will be included in the 2019 La Lumiere Magazine.)
F LY M E TO THE MOON Spring Fu n d r a i s e r WHEN May 5, 2018 WHERE Blue Chip Casino Michigan City, IN EVENT CHAIRS Carrie Coslov Amie Harkness (parent of Haley ‘19, Joe ‘21, Alexa ‘22) Johnine Killeen (parent of Devin ‘21)
Fly Me to the Moon...raised over $110,000 in total, including $47,000 during the paddle raise to help fund the installation of air conditioning in several rooms in the original academic building.” To view all photos of the event, visit https://lalumiereschool.smugmug. com/Spring-Event-2018/ FALL 2018 | 41
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The 24th annual Golf Outing...raised $65,500 for the Scholarship Fund during the paddle raise, with a grand total of $125,000 in funds raised.�
WHEN September 21, 2018 WHERE Long Beach Country Club Long Beach, IN
The Class of 1968 celebrated their (and La Lumiere’s first ever) 50th reunion
Donations listed on p. 56 from the Annual Report are from the 2017 Golf Outing only. The 2019 La Lumiere Magazine will include donations from the 2018 Golf Outing.
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October 12-13, 2018 Although cold and rainy weather threatened to keep many visitors inside on Friday evening, dedicated Lakers soldiered on to carry out the Senior Bonfire and Parents Weekend activities as planned. Intentional changes to the schedule of events put students and their activities into the spotlight: Science Olympiad gave a demonstration of some of the projects they’ve been working on; the Art Room turned into a gallery for showcasing student work; solo musicians and music class groups alike performed an eclectic mix of song in the Student Activities Center; parents had the opportunity to meet with the teachers of their students to learn more about what’s current in classes. At the Senior Bonfire, many torches didn’t survive their journey through the woods in the rain. But the students supported each other by stopping to light and relight each
other’s torches along the way, and the Facilities Crew was on hand at the bonfire ring to help ignite the fire. It may very well have been the coldest Senior Bonfire night on record, but that didn’t deter the crowd. Seniors and their guests alike brought attitudes of persistence and determination, unwilling to let weather get in the way of the fulfillment of this awe-inspiring tradition. The following day’s chill was comparable but the sky was clear, making for a perfect autumn day, crisp and cool, during which to gather for a morning of Parents Weekend activities. Following an early Mass in the FAB, parents and students were invited to participate in La Lumiere’s first-ever Head’s Cup Carnival for the whole family, where parents and siblings were encouraged to compete on and earn points for their student’s team. The carnival included lawn games like bag toss and closest-to-the-pin golf, an indoor ping pong tournament, and a students-only soccer match. See more photos at https://www.lalumiere.org/news/2018/10/17/ parents-weekend FALL 2018 | 43
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Life after high school takes us in many directions— sometimes to the farthest corners of the globe. Read on to see where your classmates are now and what’s new in their families and careers.
Jerome Rand ‘97, a Petoskey, MI native, stands aboard his boat “Mighty Sparrow,” which he sailed on a journey around the world. Read his alumni update on the next page.
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Ted Stepanek and his wife, Joy, live on-campus at Lyon College where he is employed in the Communications Services Department. Ted also volunteers as the Drum Major in the Lyon College Pipe Band. His most recent endeavor is learning how to hand-carve wooden spoons and kitchen utensils.
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Dan Kerrigan was recently named CEO at the Hong Kong unit of SBI Securities.
Literacy and environmental advocate Jen Cullerton Johnson has written a nonfiction children’s book entitled Seeds of Change. Jen donates a percentage of every book sold to help the environment and on every school visit or workshop, plants a tree with participants to promote environmental conservation. Jen currently lives and teaches in Chicago, IL. You can learn more about her work at www.jenculltertonjohnson.com.
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Jim Gaffigan received a 2018 Grammy nomination for his comedy album “Cinco,” bringing his Grammy nomination total to 3.
1985
Todd Western was inducted into the SemiPro Football Hall of Fame on June 22, 2018 in Canton, Ohio. During his
Heather (Bankowski) Anaya and her family moved to St. Charles, IL in June 2018 for career and family opportunities. She is joining the Northwestern University Regional Medical Group and will be in a maternal fetal medicine practice at both Delnor Hospital (Geneva, IL) and Central Dupage Hospital (Winfield, IL). Melissa Machaj-Abbs welcomed a new daughter, Aria Rose Abbs, on October 11, 2017. Her children are Josephina (9 years), Chloe (7 years), Cohen (4 years), and Aria (1 year). See their family photo on p. 46.
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induction speech, Todd gave a special shoutout to La Lumiere School, long-time football coach Chris “Doc Booms” Balawender, and teammate Avery Holt ‘85.
Jerome Rand recently completed a solo nonstop sail around the planet. His journey on his 32-foot boat took him 29,805 miles over 271 days. For more information about Jerome’s incredible travels, visit www.5thcape.com.
1998
Kathryn (Uryga) Snyder writes: “I am in a bittersweet part of my life. I
recently lost my husband, Sam, to health complications in December 2016, however this April (2018) I am celebrating 15 years of service at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, my last service anniversary at IPFW before we turn into PFW (Purdue University Fort Wayne) in July 2018! My son and I are currently enjoying Erin’s House for Grieving Children to assist with the grief and we are staying very positive. We are looking forward to a bright, new future and keeping with us many memories of Sam.”
1999
Tessa (Rampage) Wardrip was promoted to Director of Customer Development on national accounts at Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits on July 1, 2018. She is responsible for a team of six covering Walgreen’s, Rite Aid, Meijer, and Aldi national retailers.
2003
Major Pete Balawender, USMC, and his wife, Caitlyn, welcomed a new baby, Noah, on November 10, 2017.
2005
Hillary (Guenther) Knight moved to Michigan City, IN with her family and opened her dental practice, Harbor Country Dental, in New Buffalo, MI in January 2017. She gave birth to twin babies Grace and Daniel in October 2017. Steve Streeter and his wife, Katelyn, welcomed Zoe Rae Streeter into the world on August 7, 2018 at 12:03 a.m. She weighed 8 lbs even.
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Caroline Coleman married Charlie Saltzman on June 2, 2018 at Hidden Vineyard in Berrien Springs, MI. The happy couple currently resides in downtown Chicago. Fellow La Lu alums Deirdre Burke ‘07 and Lexi Curry Smith ‘08 were bridesmaids in Caroline’s wedding.
2009
Patrick Firme recently started his third year as an admission counselor at Southwestern University, right outside of Austin, Texas. When he’s not recruiting students, he is performing with his sketch comedy group, Aglet. In May, Aglet performed in the ninth annual Austin Sketch Fest.
Patrick Firme ‘09 (left) and Dr. Pete Campbell (faculty). “I attended the Summer Institute for the Association of College Counselors in Independent Schools (ACCIS) at Trinity University in San Antonio,” said Dr. Campbell. “On the post-Institute college tour, we toured colleges in the Austin area including Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas, where Patrick Firme, Class of 2009, is a member of the Admissions Office staff.”
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Cui Cui received both her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from Valparaiso University. In 2016 she began working for Adidas Group Asia Pacific as a product manager. She currently works in marketing at the Adidas Group Creation Center in Shanghai, communicating with Above: Melissa Machaj-Abbs ‘95 (center) and her growing family. designers and factories to ensure apparel samples Anthony Bachner are ready for the Asia Pacific Market graduated from the to review and purchase. University of Denver in 2017 and works as a financial analyst at a Elaine Fehrs received her Bachelor’s real estate private equity fund degree from Lewis and Clark called Stonetown Capital, based in College in 2014 and graduated with Denver. On the weekends, he works her Master’s from University of in Colorado Springs as a skydiving Wisconsin Law School in 2017. She instructor at Out of the Blue now works as an Assistant District Skydiving. Attorney for Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. Dereck Luo graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Mercedes Gumm graduated Computer Engineering in 2016 from Purdue University in 2014 as and a Master’s degree in 2017 from a Bachelor of Science in Animal the University of Illinois UrbanaScience, and is now attending St. Champagne. He currently works as a George’s University School of software engineer at IBM. Veterinary Medicine in Grenada, West Indies. She will graduate in After graduating fom Earlham College January 2019 and then plans to take in 2015, Sydney McBride accepted a job within the federal government a one-year post-baccalaureate as a Public Health Veterinarian fellowship in eldercare. In June 2016 involved with regulatory medicine. she became a licensed nursing home She also plans to enlist in the administrator, and in December Commissioned Corps of the U.S. 2016 became a certified professional Public Health Service as a veterinary in aging services risk management. officer. In early 2018 she took a position as the Interim Executive Director/
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Administrator of Quaker Heights Care Community, a stand-alone, faith-based, not-for-profit eldercare community in Southwest Ohio. Most recently, she completed her Master’s degree in Health Care Administration at the University of Cincinnati in August 2018. Although a 2011 La Lumiere grad, JaeShin “Andy” Yoo only recently completed his undergraduate degree at Purdue University, in May 2018, after taking two years away to complete his mandatory military service in South Korea. Andy majored in Industrial Engineering and Computer Science at Purdue, and now works as a quality engineer at a tier-one supplier for Tesla called Daehan Solution in Fremont, California. His job is to detect and prevent malfunctions during the manufacturing process to comply with Tesla’s quality expectations.
2012
Lincoln Kavinsky graduated from Beloit College in 2016 and is currently in his first semester of medical school at Tulane University, to graduate in 2022. After commissioning as an active duty U.S. Army Cyber Officer in 2016 and marrying fellow La Lu alum Daisy Costello ‘13 in 2017, John Lake graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a Master of Science in Engineering degree in December 2017. He was recently promoted
to first liutenant and is currently stationed at Fort Gordon, GA for a the Cyber Basic Officer Leader Course. Jacqueline Lange graduated from Regis University in 2016 and is now pursuing a Doctor of Pharmacy degree at Lipscomb University. She is taking part in the Vanderbilt Program in Interprofessional Learning, which
operates out of the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and brings students from different medical professions together to work in interprofessional clinical teams.
2013
Ade Aruna played college football at Tulane University following his graduation from La Lumiere, where he was a basketball player and did not begin playing football until his senior year. In April 2018, he was drafted by the Minnesota Vikings to play in the NFL. Ade unfortunately tore his ACL during a preseason game against Jacksonville in August 2018 and will have to use this season to recover. After graduating from Austin Peay State University in 2017, Mickey
Macius will use his fourth year of eligibility to play football at Michigan State while earning an M.B.A. He will provide depth at quarterback for the Spartans. Nicole Newell graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Business Management from DePaul University in spring 2018. While at DePaul, she received the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Education, placing her at the top 10% of the Driehaus School of Business. She interned for McNabola Law Group, a personal injury/ medical malpractice firm, during the summer of 2016 and continued to work there as a law clerk for the next two and a half years. Nicole is now a law student at Western Michigan University.
2014
Connor Anthony graduated from Loyola Marymount University in 2018 and is beginning a position at Merrill Lynch Wealth Management in San Diego. He won the 2018 LMU Entrepreneurship Consulting Competition. Kelly Barr graduated with Latin honors from Washington University in St. Louis in 2018. Her senior honors thesis, titled “An Irish Exit: Modeling the EU Referendum in Northern Ireland,” was selected as the top thesis in her department and was subsequently awarded the Outstanding Honors Thesis award, with prize money and a note on her transcript. Following graduation, she accepted
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employment as the South Bend organizer for the Indiana Democratic Party, and worked on the campaign trail until the midterm election. She previously worked as a policy intern at the U.K. Parliament and a political organizing intern at the American Civil Liberties Union. Justin Dekker graduated from Indiana University School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering in 2018. After studying web design, data analytics, and programming at IU, he started a company called WebSense Technologies, LLC to do independent contracting work assisting with marketing solutions. He plans to work on this business throughout his future, and will also be starting a fulltime software engineering position at Avanade, a global IT consulting and technology services company, in Chicago, IL. Sadiq Ochu Inuwa is in his last year at Montana Tech of the University of Montana, where he majors in Management of Natural Resources. He is a two-time Academic AllConference winner in the Frontier Conference and was recently inducted into the Sigma Beta Delta Honor Society. After graduation, he hopes to become a petroleum landman––which identifies ownership rights of surface and subsurface minerals––for a gas and oil company. A 2018 graduate of the Krannert School of Management at Purdue University, Katarina McGuckin is
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beginning her career in the Rotational Development Program at Faurecia, the 6th largest international automotive parts manufacturer in the world. Daniel Mockaitis graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 2018. He received a job offer from McKinsey & Company in New York after completing an internship there during the summer of 2017, and will begin working as a product engineer at McKinsey Digital, the company’s technology consulting division, in fall 2018. Neal Patel was part of a student team of biomedical engineers at Purdue University that developed a breastfeeding simulation system to better train perinatal nurses on accurate breastfeeding techniques. Taylor Schaetzle graduated from from Emory University with a B.S. in Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology this spring and has headed off to Indiana University School of Medicine in Fort Wayne, IN. Passionate about mental health advocacy and the relationship between neuroscience and mental disorders, Taylor is leaning toward specializing in psychiatry or neurology. Bella Schuster graduated from North Carolina State University with a Bachelor’s degree in Animal Science and minors in Agricultural Business Management and Leadership in May 2018. She is now pursuing a Master’s in Higher Education Administration at Georgia Southern University with the
ultimate goal of working in collegiate student affairs. Bella received a fullride scholarship for her Master’s degree after accepting a position with GSU’s Campus Recreation and Activities Center as a Facility Operations Graduate Assistant.
2015
Sameer Sawaqed, who currently attends Loyola University in Chicago, recently started his own online fitness coaching business to teach positive weight-loss techniques. Munis Tutu transferred from Loyola Marymount University to Carleton University (Ottawa, ON) for the 2017-2018 school year as a basketball player. He played on the Canadian men’s basketball team in the 2018 Commonwealth Games and was a top performer for the team, which went all the way to the gold medal game against Australia. Rowan Whalen, a senior at Santa Clara University, spent the summer of 2017 as a Global Fellow through Santa Clara’s Leavey School of Business, working at an NGO dealing with environmental education for children in Kolkata, India. During the 2018-2019 school year he will take on a Community Fellowship through the Leavey School’s Neighborhoods Prosperity Initiative working as a policy intern for the Silicon Valley Council of Nonprofits.
2016
Shan “Jenny” Xue studied abroad in Spain during the 2017-2018 school year and
had an opportunity to meet La Lu classmates Anika Gnaedinger ‘16 in Paris and Bego Gomar Pérez-Manglano ‘16 in Valencia. Jenny has served as a Resident Assistant and a fitness instructor at Purdue University, where she has made the Dean’s list each semester since her
Bego Gomar Pérez-Manglano ‘16 (left) and Jenny Xue ‘16 inValencia, Spain. “I got to stay with her family, and it felt like high school holiday weekends again,” Jenny said. “Us international students always needed a place to go for the weekend!”
freshman year.
2017
Jaren Jackson, Jr. played basketball for Michigan State University during the 2017-2018 school year. The Spartans made it all the way to the Sweet 16 in the 2018 NCAA tournament, and Jaren was drafted fourth overall by the Memphis Grizzlies of the NBA shortly thereafter. Jaren is cited by many sports writers as having the skills and positive personality to put the Grizzlies back into the spotlight. twitter.com/jarenjacksonjr Noah Schuster recently completed his first year at DePauw University, where he studies biochemistry and has made the Dean’s list each semester. In spring 2018 he began conducting his own research on the soil resistome with the intent of discovering ways in which antibioticresistant genes might be transferred among microbial species. Noah spent the summer of 2018 at DePauw, carrying out research on the Ebola virus alongside a professor of biochemistry. They hope to discover more about the virus’s reproduction in order to identify potential antiviral drug targets.
IN MEMORIAM We would like to express our sympathies to the families and friends of the La Lumiere School community whose loved ones have passed away. If you know of those we have not recorded or hear of others in the coming months, please notify us. Nancy Anderson Michigan City, IN – Aug. 29, 2018 Mother of Jack Anderson ‘12NG and Teagan Anderson ‘19NG
Michelle Kaser Dye La Porte, IN – Sept. 2, 2018 Mother of Cody Dye ‘13 and Cassidy Dye ‘14
Spencer Mugford ‘16NG Farmington, CT – May 2018 Son of Charles Mugford (faculty) and brother of Aubrey Mugford ‘14
James Bachner Chicago, IL – Apr. 3, 2018 Father of Anthony Bachner ‘11
Robert Hershberger Greencastle, IN – May 20, 2018 Father of Kate Hershberger ‘18
John Scott Perney Chesterton, IN – Nov. 15, 2017 Father of Chad Perney ‘08 (faculty)
William Brockway (faculty) Michigan City, IN – Dec. 16, 2017 La Lumiere faculty and brother to David Brockway ‘86
Paul Lawler, Jr., M.D. Chicago, IL – Oct. 1, 2018 Father of Paul Lawler, III ‘74; Peter Lawler ‘75NG; and Warren Lawler ‘77NG
Robert Perney Chesterton, IN – Nov. 8, 2017 Grandfather of Chad Perney ‘08 (faculty)
Paul Dudek Riverside, IL – July 28, 2018 Father of Amelia Dudek ‘16 FALL 2018 | 49
TH E P I O N EE R DAYS A letter from JUDY ZIMMERMANN MAGENIS in response to the mission and identity survey sent to current and alumni families in March 2018.
I
became a member of the La Lumiere community when James R. Moore and Billie [Moore] became friends with my parents in 1963 and learned about the school’s mission while attending mutual family gatherings with the Moores, La Lumiere events, and graduations (my brother Bob swept the awards in ‘78). In December of 1972, Dick Magenis and I were privileged to hold our wedding evening’s reception in the Main House, as it was called then, during the worst snow storm for La Porte in 20 years. Mr. Moore rode a tractor to fetch Ruth Lee, the head cook, from her home to make our wedding supper. He shoveled walkways and snow plowed a single lane down the roads to allow guests to find a plowed parking lot. A very random example of the grit of the school’s founding father, if you need more evidence of his grit: he and Billie would go without salary every summer until the money from fall tuitions arrived. The ensuing years were filled with so many good memories of being part of the community: following the sports teams and rooting for “our boys”; inviting the single (male) teachers and coaches over for dinner when they were free; making treats for the denizens of Newman Dorm; hosting fish fries on our back patio using all the fish caught from Lake La Lumiere by students; accepting Mr. Moore’s offer(s) of employment. As a graduate of Indiana University with majors in English and Education, I had the opportunity to be the first librarian (which involved sorting boxes of donated books and classifying them by the Dewey Decimal system; teaching ESL––giving Nori [Onishi] the chance to practice reading comprehension, writing and casual conversation, and assuming the role of Infirmarian––the Infirmary was in the lower level of Newman and required being on duty 22 hours a day for medical needs of our community).
Life at La Lumiere was fulsome. Our first child Bridget was baptized in the chapel; Dick moved sprinklers all summer over the athletic fields in preparation for fall sports; he built the first backboard for the tennis courts (and he was not the most handy guy on the campus). In fall we would wait for his first pay check in September (we called it 10 times a day, as you worked at the pleasure of the headmaster who always did the best he could for you and yours). Now back to the gist of the survey: the La Lumiere that I remember focused on faith (the Catholic presence
Judy (center) and Dick Magenis (right) attend the baptism of their daughter, Bridget, in the La Lumiere chapel in 1975.
on campus of Mass every week that the whole community attended), finding the best faculty to bring out the best in the boys (and later the girls) in the classrooms, the dorms, and on the fields building character, using local resources that could meet the needs of specific classes with personal expertise (i.e. my dad taught History, Chemistry, and Chorus, and later my sister took over the chorus). The young men and women were held to a code that insured respect, honesty, and fortitude. I remember those times as La Lumiere’s pioneer days, for which I will ever be grateful. By the way: Dick was the only one to give John
Roberts a grade less than 100. One last memory: one very snowy night, Dick and I chose to venture out in our Volkswagen bug with little Bridget in the back seat. We slipped into a snow bank and got majorly stuck. Who should arrive just a moment behind in a La Lumiere truck at the corner of Wilhelm and 450 North? Paris Barclay and John Langley. As editors of the yearbook, they had stayed on campus to work on it. They rescued the bug with ease and sent us on our way. We were community; we were family. So many stories to share from the pioneer days. FALL 2018 | 51
ANNUAL REPORT Sources of Revenue
73.7%
Tuition and Fees
4.3%
Auxiliary Services
20.0%
Annual Fund and Other Donations
2.0%
Investment Income
A MESSAG E FROM THE CHAI R
On behalf of all of the Trustees, I would like to express sincere gratitude to the students, families, faculty, and alumni who have made tireless efforts in continuing to help shape the La Lumiere community. 18.9% Instructional Services
It was 55 years ago that La Lumiere welcomed its first class of students filled with excitement and perhaps a sense of adventure as they entered the pioneer days at this beautiful school in the woods dedicated to providing an exceptional college preparatory experience. Today, La Lumiere School can proudly claim more than 1,400 alumni who together form a special community marked by the desire to allow individuals to grow and yet remain deeply rooted in our shared traditions of character, scholarship, and faith. The evolution of La Lumiere has been characterized by progress that thoughtfully maintains important traditions while making room for innovations that benefit our students’ experience. Since Adam Kronk joined us two years ago as the sixth Head of School in La Lumiere’s history, we have been busy with many improvements. We have built a dorm; added air conditioning to classrooms; instituted Faculty Appreciation Week; modified the school day to allow more time for students and faculty to connect; remodeled the kitchen and food service system; and engaged the community through digital channels such as social media and our new website, just to name a few. As we take new steps of growth, let’s continue to support one another to be the best version of ourselves, both individually and as a community. One way to continue our momentum is to invest in the school. The dividends paid on a gift to La Lumiere are hard to calculate but can be measured in the progress you see around you or the smiles on the students’ faces as they come to campus. We are part of an extraordinary community dedicated to helping our students survive and thrive in high school and beyond. Thank you for your engagement, philanthropy, and loyalty to the mission and shared values of the La Lumiere family. Sincerely,
Connie Falcone Board of Directors, Chair La Lumiere School
Uses of Revenue
Student Activities
9.5%
Food Services
20.4%
Plant Operation
1.9% Admissions 40.3% General and Administrative 4.4%
Other Expenses
Financial Report 2017-2018 Sources of Revenue Tuition and Fees Auxiliary Services Annual Fund and Other Donations Investment Income
$ 4,986,432 290,513 1,353,676 133,744
Total
$ 6,764,365
Uses of Revenue Instructional Services $ 1,203,231 Student Activities 291,066 Food Services 602,847 Plant Operation 1,295,348 Admissions 119,367 General and Administrative 2,562,509 Other Expenses 283,276 Total
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4.6%
$ 6,357,644
2017-18 Giving by Level Founders Society $25,000+
Anonymous^ (2) Mr. Nafe Alick^ Mrs. William P. Linnen^ Linnen Memorial Fund Kerry (Gabriel) Turner ‘84 Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Valleau ‘80^ David and Bridget ‘88 Van Eekeren Mr. Guanglin Wang and Mrs. Jian Dong^ Mr. Martin J. Whalen and Ms. Kathleen A. Kennedy ‘83^
God’s Hand Society $10,000 - $24,999
Anonymous^ Traute Bransfield^ Jack and Meg ‘81 Caplice^ Connie ‘83 and Charlie Falcone^ Mr. Zhongzhu Guo and Mrs. Yezhi Qiu Mr. and Mrs. James Kaminski^ Dave Kirkby Mr. and Mrs. R. Keith Sandin ‘77 Dr. Scholl Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Victor P. Smith ‘86 Mr. and Mrs. Kevin M. Sullivan ‘83^ Mr. and Mrs. Daniel P. Walsh, Jr. ‘95 Dr. William E. Wolf and Dr. Renee Wolf H. David Wood ‘77 and Christina R. Thanstrom
Trustee Society $5,000 - $9,999
Anonymous^ Mr. and Mrs. Michael Beucler Mr. and Mrs. Charles K. Bobrinskoy^ Mr. Michael Conner and Mrs. Rudy Carlson-Conner Mr. and Mrs. Ambrose M. Conroy ‘90^ Raymond E. Daly Scholarship Fund Daniel Murphy Scholarship Foundation Rick and Elizabeth Dekker Mr. and Mrs. William Devers^ Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Kerrigan ‘80 Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Luck^ Mr. and Mrs. Mark E. McNabola ‘77 Mrs. Rosemary A. Mennen^ † David and Johanna Miller^ Mr. and Mrs. John E. Rose ‘94 Arlene, John, Sarah ’87, Merribeth ’90, and John ’94 Rose^ Mr. and Mrs. Scott Schermer Mr. and Mrs. Edward Smith TCF Foundation Employee Matching Gift Program^ Brad and Katie Toothaker Tom and Susie Yemc^
Leadership
Mr. and Mrs. Michael D. Shannon ‘73^ Jeanie and Jeff Shuck Mr. and Mrs. Velimir Vidakovich Mr. and Mrs. Elliott Visconsi^ Paul L. and Dana A. Whiting ‘87 ^ Izzy Zalcberg^ Mr. and Mrs. Michael Zweig ‘71^
$2,000 - $4,999 Anonymous^ Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Cary^ Carrie and David Coslov^ Ms. Candyce Discavage^ Don and Mary Jane Eisenhauer^ Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Everist, Jr. ‘73^ Mr. and Mrs. Michael W. Franke^ Ellen Frankle^ 1st Source Bank Joe ‘83 and Jane Gaffigan^ Dr. Richard Gnaedinger and Dr. Monica Ovalle^ Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hamilton Mr. and Mrs. Eric D. Harkness The Honorable and Mrs. John P. Hiler ‘71 ^ Hi-Tech Housing, Inc. Mr. Michael L. Igoe, Jr.^ Dr. and Mrs. Farid Jalinous^ Mr. and Mrs. Michael H. Kennedy ‘86 Mr. Keith Krause ‘94 and Ms. Mary Margaret Fehrman La Lumiere School Parents Association Mrs. Caryn M. Largura Larson-Danielson Construction Co., Inc. Mr. John T. McCarthy^ Mrs. Barbara J. Moore^ Mr. and Ms. Douglas B. Nelson Mr. and Ms. Kenneth F. Neuman^ Sagamore Institute Mr. and Mrs. John J. Schirger ‘84^ Mr. and Mrs. Robert Sturtevant Dr. and Mrs. Pietro Tonino^ Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. Whitlow ‘85
Lakers Club $250 - $999
Anonymous^ (2) Ken R. Andert^ Baird Foundation, Inc.^ Mark ‘99 and Jenifer ‘00 Balawender^ Paris ’74 and Christopher Barclay^ Dr. and Mrs. Raymond A. Bonomo ‘88^ Mr. and Mrs. Michael Brauser^ Mr. and Mrs. Kevin M. Brissette ‘77 Doug and Allyson Cayce^ Mr. Jie Chen and Mrs. Di Zhang^ Mr. and Mrs. Norman Cherrett Mr. David A. Collins ‘77 and Mrs. Patricia J. Julian Mr. Halden Conner^ Chris and Jill Craig Sally ‘79 and Ed Craig^ Mr. Robert C. Cronin ‘70^ Current Electric, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Michael E. Delgado ‘85 Jenny DePalma^ Mr. Steve DePalma Mr. and Mrs. John J. Edwards ‘79^ Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Edwards^ Mr. and Mrs. James Fife Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Finney The Honorable James P. Flannery, Jr. ‘68 and Ms. Carol F. Zigulich^ Mrs. Diane Gabriel Mr. and Mrs. Edwin A. Gausselin Dalia and Dale Goodman^ Mr. and Mrs. Michael Grote ‘85^ Mr. and Mrs. Timothy J. Grote ‘83 Michael and Nicole Guenin^ Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hackl ‘81^ Mrs. Gretchen R. Hannan^ Mr. Patrick M. Hartnett ‘78^ Mary Lou and Dick Hazleton^ Mike and Cindy Heffron^ Juliene and John ‘85 Hendricks Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Hostetler ‘77 Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Hurley ‘77 Mr. Jaren Jackson, Sr. and Mrs. Terri Carmichael Jackson Mr. Andrew E. Jones ‘98^ Ryugo ‘92 and Hana Kato ‘93^ Dr. Clifford J. Kavinsky and Dr. Evalyn N. Grant^ Kelly Keefe Kaye ‘87 and Stephen Kaye Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Killeen Dr. Robert O. Kinney ‘78^ Mrs. Aki Kobayashi Mr. and Mrs. Edward Kronk Brian Kubicki Mr. and Mrs. John Lake Mr. and Mrs. Mark Leyden ‘77^ Mr. and Mrs. Paul J. Leyden ‘78^ Mr. Wenhui Lou and
Headmaster’s Club $1,000 - $1,999
Anonymous^ Mr. Lee Breitowich and Dr. Kathy Breitowich ‘83 Mr. John C. Coughlin ‘80^ The Crowell Family^ Dr. Raymond E. Daly III^ Mr. and Mrs. George Demos ‘95^ Dr. and Mrs. Christopher S. Grandfield HBK Engineering, LLC, Ron and Meridith Kaminski Mr. and Mrs. EnRico Heirman Mr. Zhonglin Hua and Mrs. Jihong Chen Mr. and Mrs. Bradley Johnston ‘73^ Mr. and Mrs. Kevin J. Kearney ‘86 ^ Adam and Jacqueline Kronk La Lumiere School Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Kevin C. Nolan ‘72^ Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Rampage Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Rea^ Mr. David N. Rentschler ‘77^ Mr. Thomas M. Rosshirt ‘77 and Ms. Molly McUsic^ Mr. and Mrs. Matthew S. Rumely^ Ryan Fireprotection, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Uwe Schoberth Mrs. Britt Scott and Mrs. Jaqui Scott Dr. and Mrs. William Sexton^
July 1, 2017 to June 30, 2018 ^ Unrestricted Annual Fund Donor
†
Mrs. Jiayi Chen^ Ms. Kathleen A. Mack ‘81 Mr. and Mrs. Tony Macri Dr. and Mrs. Brian McGuckin Mr. and Mrs. Jay Miller Mr. Timothy J. Miller and Dr. Lisa Hendricks ‘84 Mr. James M. Morrison, Jr. ‘82^ Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Mustillo Mr. and Mrs. Jay A. Nawrocki ‘68^ Jonathan and Susan Nesbitt Mr. and Mrs. Michael F. Nolan ‘69^ Mr. James “Mac” O’Brien ‘70^ Mr. and Mrs. Michael Odar Mr. and Mrs. T. Michael Osterman ‘81^ Mr. Daniel J. Paff^ Ms. Georganne Palffy^ Mr. Robert E. Palffy^ Dr. and Mrs. Sachin R. Patel Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Paul ‘69^ Dr. Stephen R. Paul ‘74 and Ms. Janice B. Rodenberg^ Mrs. Gerhard Perschke^ Mr. Kevin Proud ‘99 Mr. and Mrs. Dennis M. Quirk ‘69^ Mr. and Mrs. Peter L. Ramirez ‘80 ^ Roger and Cathy Rhomberg^ Ms. Lori Risser^ The Honorable and Mrs. John G. Roberts, Jr. ‘73^ Dan ‘84 and Jean Rosshirt^ Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. Roszkiewicz^ Mr. and Mrs. Keith Schander Clem ‘69 and Viki Schaub^ John J. and Barbara L. Schornack Katherine Kerrigan Shannon ‘79^ Lorinda (Nina Cathcart) Shaw ‘83^ Mr. and Mrs. Randolph M. Smith ‘77 Mr. and Mrs. Geoffrey G. Sparrow ‘78^ Mr. and Mrs. Michael S. Sutter Mr. Zhigang Tao and Mrs. Hui Wang^ TMM Insurance Services, Inc. Dr. Jenny Tristano ‘01^ Mr. and Mrs. Michael Tristano^ Mr. Lawrence J. Troksa^ Mr. and Mrs. Gary Wagner Rev. Wayne F. Watts^ Mrs. Barbara Whitlow^ Jerry and Claudia Williams Mr. and Mrs. Bradley H. Wire^ Mr. and Mrs. Frederick D. Wojcik Mr. Taylor O. Wright IV ‘80^ Mr. Liusheng Yu and Mrs. Zhengqun Zhou^ Mr. Mohammed Zeitoun and Mrs. Samar Kebbewar^ Mr. Jun Zhang and Mrs. Yun Cai^ Dr. Qing Zhang and Mrs. Yin Yang
Contributors Club Up to $249
Mr. and Mrs. Charles T. Adam ‘85 Sandra J. Allshouse^ Amazon Smile^ Mr. and Mrs. Mark Anderson A & T Concrete, Inc. Sandra L. Bach^
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Corey Baker and Sandra Kirkby Baker Chris and Grace Balawender^ Mr. and Mrs. Brett Balhoff^ Dr. and Mrs. William Biehl Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Blas Mrs. Margaret Bolton^ Bore-It, Corp. Mr. and Mrs. Steve Brandt Mr. Edward J. Breslin^ David and Carrie Brockway ‘86^ Mary Brockway^ Mr. Timothy Bronn Mr. and Mrs. Matthew L. Buchanan^ John Buzia ‘78^ Dr. and Mrs. Peter Campbell^ Mr. Christopher Ciambarella and Mrs. Chen Tsai Li^ Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Coleman^ Complete Cleaning Service Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Crane Mr. and Mrs. Christopher E. Daly^ Mr. Raymond E. Daly, IV ‘69^ Mr. and Mrs. Michael E. Demski ‘79^ Mr. Peter Disser Mr. and Mrs. Willard R. Dorman ‘76^ Mr. and Mrs. Paul Duggan ‘77 ^ Rudy and Susie Eguizabal^ Tom Falcone^ Scott and Jenny Fogel^ Mr. and Mrs. Michael Foust Franciscan Health Michigan City, IN Jaime Frankle ‘04 Mr. and Mrs. Robert Funderburg^ Mr. and Mrs. Gregory P. Gillen Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Gold William and Mary Grimmer^ Marvin and Patricia Guenther^ Dr. and Mrs. John M. Hague^ Ms. Mary K. Hatzell Ms. Laura Herrod Brian and Anne Higgins Mrs. Irene M. Hirt^ Mrs. Rita J. Hollingshead^ Mr. Pat Holmes and Ms. Torie Jaques Horizon Bank^ Andrew and Bridget Hoyt Ms. Sarah Jones^ Mr. and Mrs. Jerrald T. Kabelin^ Kablelin ACE Hardware Clare Kaminski ‘10^ Mrs. Elizabeth Kennedy Pat Kennedy^ Tim Kleihege ‘80 and Katie Miller Kleihege ‘83 Dr. Hillary (Guenther) Knight ‘05 and Mr. James Knight^ Rick and Kitty Knoll^ Ruth Knoll Rich and Eileen Kochanny^ Mr. and Mrs. David Kozak^ Rozelle Langer^ Kasey ‘95 and Brian Leake Guy Lenardo ‘76^ Mrs. Margaret Lingle Will and Stacey Lingle Mickey Macius ‘13^ Mindy and Bonnie Macius^ Geoff and Katite (Grote) Mackey ‘86 Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Magill Mr. and Mrs. Gary A. Marfise^
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Maschmeyer Mr. Richard S. McAdams^ Sarah McAdams ‘83 Mr. and Mrs. Daniel R. McArdle ‘70^ Mr. and Mrs. Thomas McNamara^ Ms. Marje Monroe Mr. and Mrs. Sean Murphy^ Mr. William Murphy ‘68^ Carole and Rick ‘69 Newcombe^ Mackenzie K. O’Brien ‘11 ^ Mr. and Mrs. Vishad Patel^ Barbara Pevitz^ Henry Pevitz^ Stan Pevitz^ Piazza Produce Mr. and Mrs. Bradley Poore^ Pressel Enterprises, Inc. Dr. and Mrs. Richard A. Prinz, Sr. Ms. Kerry E. Quirk ‘05^ Rieth-Riley Construction Co., Inc Mr. Steve Rentschler ‘73^ Mr. Robert Rohr and Ms. Megan Stiphany Mr. and Mrs. Bronson Rose ‘96^ Ms. Elissa Ross^ Royal Excursion John ‘69 and Christine Rumely Mr. and Mrs. Rafael Saenz De Santa Maria Zubiria^ Salesforce Foundation^ Jodi Schneider^ Mr. and Mrs. Prafulla Shintre^ Mr. and Mrs. John C. Shoop^ Ms. Andrea Smith Don D. Snedden^ Mr. and Mrs. Kevin C. Spingler^ Katherine Bankowski Stahoviak ‘05^ Dr. and Mrs. Dennis Streeter Larry and Bonnie Sullivan Dr. and Mrs. David R. Surma John and Ann Sweeney^ Jason ‘98 and Lyndsay Tincher^ Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey A. Tincher ‘99^ Mr. Brian P. Tonino ‘12 Mr. James A. Tungate ‘04^ John and Rachel Uryga Mr. Edo Velo ‘96 Mrs. Cynthia Vranas Olsen Mr. and Mrs. Michael Webster ‘83^ Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. Webster^ Wells Fargo Foundation Education Matching Gift Program^ Mr. and Mrs. Howard Westbrook Will Whalen ‘14 Mr. Khuong Dao Xuan and Mrs. Hoa Pham^ Joe Yast ‘70 and Helen Krowicky^ Mr. John R. Yast ‘75^ Mrs. Maidena Young Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Zeedyk Mr. YuYang (Peter) Zhang ‘16 Lauretta Zusel^
Giving by Constituency Board of Trustees
Anonymous Jack and Meg ‘81 Caplice Rick and Elizabeth Dekker Don and Mary Jane Eisenhauer Connie ‘83 and Charlie Falcone
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Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Kerrigan ‘80 Mr. Keith Krause ‘94 and Ms. Mary Margaret Fehrman Adam and Jacqueline Kronk David and Johanna Miller Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Rea Mr. and Mrs. John E. Rose ‘94 Mr. and Mrs. Edward Smith Mr. and Mrs. Victor P. Smith ‘86 Mr. and Mrs. Kevin M. Sullivan ‘83 David and Bridget ‘88 Van Eekeren Mr. and Mrs. Daniel P. Walsh, Jr. ‘95 Rev. Wayne F. Watts H. David Wood ‘77 and Christina R. Thanstrom
Emeritus Trustees
Anonymous Dr. Raymond E. Daly III The Honorable James P. Flannery, Jr. ‘68 and Ms. Carol F. Zigulich Joe ‘83 and Jane Gaffigan Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Hurley ‘77 Mrs. William P. Linnen Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Paul ‘69 Mr. David N. Rentschler ‘77 Arlene and John Rose Larry and Bonnie Sullivan
Former Trustees
Anonymous Paris ’74 and Christopher Barclay Mr. and Mrs. William Devers The Honorable and Mrs. John P. Hiler ‘71 Mr. and Mrs. James Kaminski Mr. and Mrs. Michael H. Kennedy ‘86 Mr. and Mrs. Mark Leyden ‘77 Mr. Richard S. McAdams Carole and Rick ‘69 Newcombe Mr. and Mrs. Dennis M. Quirk ‘69 Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Rampage John ‘69 and Christine Rumely Mr. and Mrs. John J. Schirger ‘84 John J. and Barbara L. Schornack Mr. and Mrs. Randolph M. Smith ‘77 Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Valleau ‘80 Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. Webster Joe Yast ‘70 and Helen Krowicky
Faculty and Staff
Sandra J. Allshouse Ken R. Andert Mr. and Mrs. Brett Balhoff Mr. and Mrs. Matthew L. Buchanan Dr. and Mrs. Peter Campbell Jenny DePalma Rudy and Susie Eguizabal Tom Falcone Jaime Frankle ‘04 Mr. and Mrs. Robert Funderburg Mike and Cindy Heffron Mr. Pat Holmes and Ms. Torie Jaques Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Hoyt Adam and Jacqueline Kronk Will and Stacey Lingle Mr. and Mrs. Jay Miller Ms. Marje Monroe Mr. and Mrs. Sean Murphy
Mr. and Mrs. Vishad Patel Mr. and Mrs. Bradley Poore Ms. Andrea Smith Mr. and Mrs. Bryan P. Smith Don D. Snedden Mr. Brian P. Tonino ‘12 Jerry and Claudia Williams Tom and Susie Yemc
Former Faculty and Staff
Chris and Grace Balawender Mark ‘99 and Jenifer ‘00 Balawender Mr. Edward J. Breslin Mary Brockway Mr. Christopher Ciambarella and Mrs. Chen Tsai Li Ms. Sarah Jones Mr. and Mrs. Michael H. Kennedy ‘86 Pat Kennedy Dave Kirkby Mr. and Mrs. Michael F. Nolan ‘69 Mr. and Mrs. Kevin C. Spingler Larry and Bonnie Sullivan
Current Parents
Anonymous Mr. Nafe Alick Mr. and Mrs. Mark Anderson Sandra L. Bach Mr. and Mrs. Michael Beucler Mr. and Mrs. Steve Brandt Mr. Lee Breitowich and Dr. Kathy Breitowich ‘83 Jack and Meg ‘81 Caplice Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Cary Mr. Jie Chen and Mrs. Di Zhang Mr. Michael Conner and Mrs. Rudy Carlson-Conner Carrie and David Coslov Mr. and Mrs. Christopher E. Daly Jenny DePalma Mr. Steve DePalma Don and Mary Jane Eisenhauer Connie ‘83 and Charlie Falcone Mr. and Mrs. James Fife Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Finney Mr. and Mrs. Robert Funderburg Mr. and Mrs. Edwin A. Gausselin Mr. and Mrs. Gregory P. Gillen Dr. Richard Gnaedinger and Dr. Monica Ovalle Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Gold Dr. and Mrs. Christopher S. Grandfield Michael and Nicole Guenin Mr. Zhongzhu Guo and Mrs. Yezhi Qiu Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hamilton Mr. and Mrs. Eric D. Harkness Ms. Mary K. Hatzell Juliene and John ‘85 Hendricks Mr. Zhonglin Hua and Mrs. Jihong Chen Dr. and Mrs. Farid Jalinous Mr. and Mrs. Michael H. Kennedy ‘86 Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Killeen Tim Kleihege ‘80 and Katie Miller Kleihege ‘83 Mrs. Aki Kobayashi Mr. and Mrs. John Lake Mrs. Caryn M. Largura Mr. Wenhui Lou and Mrs. Jiayi Chen Mr. and Mrs. Tony Macri
Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Magill Mr. and Mrs. Michael Maschmeyer Sarah McAdams ‘83 Dr. and Mrs. Brian McGuckin Mr. Timothy J. Miller and Dr. Lisa Hendricks ‘84 Ms. Marje Monroe Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Mustillo Mr. and Ms. Douglas B. Nelson Mr. and Ms. Kenneth F. Neuman Mr. and Mrs. Michael Odar Mr. Daniel J. Paff Ms. Georganne Palffy Mr. Robert E. Palffy Dr. and Mrs. Sachin R. Patel Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Rea Ms. Lori Risser Mr. and Mrs. Rafael Saenz De Santa Maria Zubiria Mr. and Mrs. Scott Schermer Mr. and Mrs. Prafulla Shintre Jeanie and Jeff Shuck Mr. and Mrs. Edward Smith Mr. and Mrs. Victor P. Smith ‘86 Dr. and Mrs. Dennis Streeter Dr. and Mrs. David R. Surma Mr. and Mrs. Michael S. Sutter Mr. and Mrs. Velimir Vidakovich Mr. Zhigang Tao and Mrs. Hui Wang Brad and Katie Toothaker Mr. Lawrence J. Troksa Kerry (Gabriel) Turner ‘84 Mr. and Mrs. Elliott Visconsi Mr. Guanglin Wang and Mrs. Jian Dong Mr. Martin J. Whalen and Ms. Kathleen A. Kennedy ‘83 Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. Whitlow ‘85 Mr. and Mrs. Frederick D. Wojcik Mr. Khuong Dao Xuan and Mrs. Hoa Pham Tom and Susie Yemc Mr. Liusheng Yu and Mrs. Zhengqun Zhou Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Zeedyk Mr. Mohammed Zeitoun and Mrs. Samar Kebbewar Mr. Jun Zhang and Mrs. Yun Cai
Mr. and Mrs. Michael W. Franke Ellen Frankle Mrs. Diane Gabriel Mr. and Mrs. Gregory P. Gillen Dr. Richard Gnaedinger and Dr. Monica Ovalle Dalia and Dale Goodman Dr. and Mrs. Christopher S. Grandfield William and Mary Grimmer Mr. and Mrs. Timothy J. Grote ‘83 Marvin and Patricia Guenther Dr. and Mrs. John M. Hague Mrs. Gretchen R. Hannan Juliene and John ‘85 Hendricks Brian and Anne Higgins Mrs. Irene M. Hirt Mrs. Rita J. Hollingshead Mr. Michael L. Igoe, Jr. Mr. Jaren Jackson, Sr. and Mrs. Terri Carmichael Jackson Mr. and Mrs. Jerrald T. Kabelin Mr. and Mrs. James Kaminski Dr. Clifford J. Kavinsky and Dr. Evalyn N. Grant Mrs. Elizabeth Kennedy Tim Kleihege ‘80 and Katie Miller Kleihege ‘83 Rick and Kitty Knoll Ruth Knoll Mr. and Mrs. John Lake Mrs. William P. Linnen Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Luck Mindy and Bonnie Macius Mr. and Mrs. Gary A. Marfise Mr. Richard S. McAdams Mr. John T. McCarthy Dr. and Mrs. Brian McGuckin Mr. and Mrs. Thomas McNamara Mrs. Rosemary A. Mennen † Mrs. Barbara J. Moore Mr. and Mrs. Sean Murphy Jonathan and Susan Nesbitt Mrs. Gerhard Perschke Dr. and Mrs. Richard A. Prinz, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Dennis M. Quirk ‘69 Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Rampage Roger and Cathy Rhomberg Arlene, John, Sarah ’87, Merribeth ’90, and John ’94 Rose Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. Roszkiewicz Mr. and Mrs. Keith Schander Mr. and Mrs. Scott Schermer John J. and Barbara L. Schornack Mr. and Mrs. John C. Shoop Mr. and Mrs. Bryan P. Smith Mr. and Mrs. Edward Smith Dr. and Mrs. Dennis Streeter Mr. and Mrs. Robert Sturtevant Larry and Bonnie Sullivan Dr. and Mrs. David R. Surma Mr. and Mrs. Michael S. Sutter John and Ann Sweeney Dr. and Mrs. Pietro Tonino Mr. and Mrs. Michael Tristano Kerry (Gabriel) Turner ‘84 John and Rachel Uryga David and Bridget ‘88 Van Eekeren Mr. and Mrs. Gary Wagner Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. Webster Mr. and Mrs. Howard Westbrook Mr. Martin J. Whalen and Ms. Kathleen A. Kennedy ‘83 Mrs. Barbara Whitlow Tom and Susie Yemc
Alumni Parents
Anonymous (3) Mr. and Mrs. Charles T. Adam ‘85 Chris and Grace Balawender Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Blas Mr. and Mrs. Charles K. Bobrinskoy Mrs. Margaret Bolton Traute Bransfield Mr. Lee Breitowich and Dr. Kathy Breitowich ‘83 Mary Brockway Jack and Meg ‘81 Caplice Doug and Allyson Cayce Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Coleman Mr. David A. Collins ‘77 and Mrs. Patricia J. Julian Mr. Michael Conner and Mrs. Rudy Carlson-Conner Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Crane The Crowell Family Dr. Raymond E. Daly III Rick and Elizabeth Dekker Mr. and Mrs. William Devers Don and Mary Jane Eisenhauer Scott and Jenny Fogel
July 1, 2017 to June 30, 2018
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Dr. Qing Zhang and Mrs. Yin Yang
Grandparents
Ms. Candyce Discavage Mrs. Diane Gabriel Mary Lou and Dick Hazleton Mr. and Mrs. Jerrald T. Kabelin Mrs. Elizabeth Kennedy Mrs. William P. Linnen Mrs. Maidena Young
Giving by Class Year 1968
Jim Flannery Bill Murphy Jay Nawrocki
1969
Ray Daly Rick Newcombe Mike Nolan Michael Paul Dennis Quirk John Rumely Clem Schaub
1970
Bob Cronin Dan McArdle Mac O’Brien Joe Yast
1971
Jack Hiler Michael Zweig
1972
Casey Nolan
1973
Rick Everist Brad Johnston Steve Rentschler John Roberts Mike Shannon
1974
Paris Barclay Steve Paul
1975
John Yast
1976
Randy Dorman Guy Lenardo
1977
Kevin Brissette David Collins Paul Duggan Tom Hostetler Chris Hurley Mark Leyden Mark McNabola Dutch Rentschler Tom Rosshirt Keith Sandin Dolph Smith David Wood
1978
Pat Hartnett Rob Kinney Paul Leyden Geoff Sparrow
1979
Sally (Dorman) Craig Mike Demski John Edwards Kitty (Kerrigan) Shannon
1980
Chuck Coughlin Dan Kerrigan Tim Kleihege Peter Ramirez Rob Valleau Taylor Wright
1981
Meg (Linnen) Caplice Bob Hackl Kathy Mack Mike Osterman
1982
Jim Morrison
1983
Kathy (March) Breitowich Connie (Devers) Falcone Joe Gaffigan Tim Grote Kathleen Kennedy Katie (Miller) Kleihege Sarah McAdams Nina (Cathcart) Shaw Kevin Sullivan Bo Webster
1984
Lisa (Hendricks) Miller Dan Rosshirt John Schirger Kerry (Gabriel) Turner
1985
Charlie Adam Mike Delgado Mike Grote John Hendricks Rich Whitlow
1986
Dave Brockway Kevin Kearney Michael Kennedy Katite (Grote) Mackey Victor Smith
1987
Kelly (Keefe) Kaye Dana (Weninger) Whiting
1988
Ray Bonomo Bridget (Adam) Van Eekeren
1990
Marc Conroy
1992
Ryugo Kato
John Buzia
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1993
Hana (Ikeda) Kato
1994
Keith Krause John Rose
1995
George Demos Kasey (Ryan) Leake Dan Walsh
1996
Bronson Rose Edo Velo
1998
Andrew Jones Jason Tincher
1999
Mark Balawender Kevin Proud Jeff Tincher
2000
Jeni (Shreve) Balawender
2001
Jenny Tristano
2004
Jaime Frankle James Tungate
2005
Hillary (Guenther) Knight Kerry Quirk Katie (Bankowski) Stahoviak
2010
Clare Kaminski
2011
Mackenzie O’Brien
2012
Brian Tonino
2013
Mickey Macius
2014
Will Whalen
2016
Peter Zhang
Gifts in Memory or Honor In honor of David Kirkby with love from Corey Baker and Sandra Kirkby Baker Mrs. Margaret Bolton in honor of Caitlyn R. Bolton and Nathaniel S. Bennet Mary Brockway in honor of David Brockway ‘86 Mr. Halden Conner in memory of Cory Zalcberg ‘12 The Crowell Family in honor of Vivian Crowell
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Horizon Bank in memory of Cory Zalcberg ‘12 Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Edwards in memory of Cory Zalcberg ‘12 Mrs. Irene M. Hirt in memory of Fred Hirt Mr. Richard S. McAdams in honor of Kate Hershberger ‘18 Mrs. Gerhard Perschke in memory of Gerhard Perschke Henry Pevitz, Rozelle Langer, Lauretta Zusel, Barbara Pevitz, Stan Pevitz, and Jodi Schneider in memory of Cory Zalcberg ‘12 John J. and Barbara L. Schornack in memory of Mark Schornack ‘85 Mr. and Mrs. John C. Shoop in honor of Jacob ‘98, Bekah ’00, and Elizabeth ‘04 Shoop Izzy Zalcberg in memory of Cory Zalcberg ‘12
Clint and Angie Cary Rick and Elizabeth Dekker Charlie and Connie ‘83 Falcone (2) Jim and Karen Fife Diane Gabriel (4) Brian and Anne Higgins (2) Chris ‘77 and Becky Hurley (4) Michael ‘86 and Colleen Kennedy Ronald and Ruth Knoll Billie Moore (2) TMM Insurance Services, Inc. (2) Doug and Rebekah Nelson (2) Jeff and RaeLee Rea Tom Rosshirt ‘77 and Molly McUsic Elliott and Maura Visconsi Dick and Betty Webster Marty Whalen and Kathleen Kennedy ‘83
Hole Sponsors
Walsh Construction, Dan ‘95 and Katie Walsh
A & T Concrete, Inc. Bore-It, Corp. Chikaming Dental Center, Lee and Kathy ‘83 Breitowich Clint and Angie Cary Complete Cleaning Service Current Electric, Inc. D & M Excavating, Inc. Franciscan Health Michigan City, IN Caryn Largura Mark ‘77 and Maureen Leyden Miller’s Construction Service, Inc. Piazza Produce Pressel Enterprises, Inc. Rieth-Riley Construction Co., Inc Royal Excursion Schander Remodeling, Keith and Ginger Schander Marty Whalen and Kathleen Kennedy ’83
Birdie Sponsor
Special Thanks
Gifts In-Kind Anonymous Mr. John Benish Mr. Keith Krause ‘94 and Ms. Mary Margaret Fehrman
2017 Golf Outing Event Underwriters Larson-Danielson Construction Co., Inc. 1st Source Bank Hi-Tech Housing, Inc.
Eagle Sponsor
Bradley Company, Brad and Katie Toothaker Scott and Tamra Schermer Gibson Insurance
Par Sponsors
HBK Engineering, Ron and Meridith Kaminski McNabola Law Group, Mark McNabola ’77 Neuman, Anderson, Grieco, McKenney, P.C., Kenneth and Lisa Neuman Ryan Fireprotection, Inc. Victor ‘86 and Kathleen Smith Tom and Susie Yemc
Faculty Golf Sponsors
Rick and Elizabeth Dekker Michael ‘86 and Colleen Kennedy Betsy Kennedy Billie Moore (2) Jonathan and Susan Nesbitt Current Electric, Inc.
Faculty Dinner Sponsors Anonymous (3) Joe and Elizabeth Blas (2) Lee and Kathy ’83 Breitowich Timothy Bronn
Nambé and the Hillenbrand family for the beautiful golf prizes Matt Marvin Sauers Buick Andy Vanderboegh
Raffle Donors
Mike and Shelli Beucler Ed and Kelly Gausselin Patrick Kennedy Jaren and Terri Jackson
Auction Donors
Anonymous Mr. Grant Bender Mr. and Mrs. Michael Beucler Lee Breitowich and Dr. Kathy Breitowich ‘83 Mr. and Mrs. Christopher E. Daly Dwell Vacations, Meg and Jorge Alvarez Heritage Restaurant and Cavier Bar, Guy W. Meikle ‘95 Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Kerrigan ‘80 Mr. and Mrs. Peter M. Krop ‘83 La Lumiere School Long Beach Country Club Lost Dunes Golf Club Mr. and Mrs. Tony Macri Mr. and Mrs. Mark E. McNabola ‘77
Morris Park Country Club Mr. and Ms. Douglas B. Nelson G Plunk Custom Woodworking, Gary Plunk Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Rea John ‘69 and Christine Rumely Mr. and Mrs. John J. Schirger ‘84 Limelight Catering, Britt and Jacqui Scott David and Bridget ‘88 Van Eekeren Mr. and Mrs. Daniel P. Walsh, Jr. ‘95
Auction Purchasers
Ken R. Andert Mr. and Mrs. Michael Beucler Jack and Meg ‘81 Caplice Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Cary Chris and Jill Craig Ms. Pam Devitt Connie ‘83 and Charlie Falcone Joe ‘83 and Jane Gaffigan Michael and Nicole Guenin Mr. Andrew E. Jones ‘98 Mr. and Mrs. James Kaminski Ron and Meridith Kaminski Mr. and Mrs. Michael H. Kennedy ‘86 Mr. Steve Mason Mr. and Mrs. Michael Odar Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Rea Mr. and Mrs. John E. Rose ‘94 Mr. and Mrs. Scott Schermer Mr. and Mrs. Edward Smith Mr. and Mrs. Kevin M. Sullivan ‘83 David and Bridget ‘88 Van Eekeren Mr. and Mrs. Velimir Vidakovich Jerry and Claudia Williams Susie and Tom Yemc
Paddle Raise
Anonymous Nafe Alick Ken R. Andert Mr. and Mrs. Michael Beucler Lee Breitowich and Dr. Kathy Breitowich ‘83 Mr. and Mrs. Kevin M. Brissette ‘77 Jack and Meg ‘81 Caplice Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Cary Mr. Michael Conner and Mrs. Rudy Carlson-Conner Chris and Jill Craig Rudy and Susie Eguizabal Don and Mary Jane Eisenhauer Connie ‘83 and Charlie Falcone Jaime Frankle ‘04 Mr. and Mrs. Timothy J. Grote ‘83 Mr. and Mrs. EnRico Heirman Mr. Jaren Jackson, Sr. and Mrs. Terri Carmichael Jackson Dave Kirkby Mr. Stephen Kaye and Mrs. Kelly Keefe Kaye ‘87 Mr. and Mrs. Michael H. Kennedy ‘86 Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Kerrigan ‘80 Mr. Keith Krause ‘94 and Ms. Mary Margaret Fehrman Mr. and Mrs. Edward Kronk Adam and Jacqueline Kronk Mr. and Mrs. John Lake Kasey ‘95 and Brian Leake Mrs. William P. Linnen
Mr. and Mrs. Mark E. McNabola ‘77 David and Johanna Miller Mr. and Ms. Douglas B. Nelson Mr. and Mrs. Michael Odar Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Rea Mr. David N. Rentschler ‘77 Mr. and Mrs. John E. Rose ‘94 Ms. Elissa Ross Mr. and Mrs. R. Keith Sandin ‘77 Mr. and Mrs. Keith Schander Mr. and Mrs. Scott Schermer Mrs. Britt Scott and Mrs. Jaqui Scott Mr. and Mrs. Michael D. Shannon ‘73 Mr. and Mrs. Edward Smith Mr. and Mrs. Randolph M. Smith ‘77 Mr. and Mrs. Victor P. Smith ‘86 Don D. Snedden Mr. and Mrs. Kevin M. Sullivan ‘83 Larry and Bonnie Sullivan Mr. Brian P. Tonino ‘12 Brad and Katie Toothaker John and Rachel Uryga David and Bridget ‘88 Van Eekeren Mr. and Mrs. Velimir Vidakovich Mr. and Mrs. Daniel P. Walsh, Jr. ‘95 Mr. Martin J. Whalen and Ms. Kathleen A. Kennedy ‘83 Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. Whitlow ‘85 Jerry and Claudia Williams H. David Wood ‘77 and Christina R. Thanstrom Susie and Tom Yemc
Candyce Discavage Charlie and Connie ‘83 Falcone (2) Jim and Karen Fife Diane Gabriel (4) Rich Gnaedinger and Monica Ovalle (3) Chris and Jennifer Grandfield Michael and Nicole Guenin Kabelin True Value Kevin and Ginger Kearney Ed and Margaret Kronk (2) Margaret Lingle Michael and Anne Maschmeyer Brian and Kathy McGuckin Patricia McTigue David and Johanna Miller Doug and Rebekah Nelson (2) Jeff and RaeLee Rea (2) John ‘69 and Christine Rumely Scott and Tamra Schermer (5) Uwe and Lynda Schoberth Bill and Ann Sexton Jeff and Jeanie Shuck (2) Mike and Jerri Sutter (4) John and Ann Sweeney TMM Insurance Services, Inc. Elliott and Maura Visconsi (2) Doug and Lael Wojcik (5)
Fly Me to the Moon Spring Event
Anonymous Bartlett’s Gourmet Grill and Bartlett’s Fish Camp Belly Flop, Britt and Jacqui Scott Blaze Car Wash, Tony and Julie Macri Bleu Lotus Yoga, Lynda Schoberth Jack and Meg ‘81 Caplice The Chicago Cubs David and Carrie Coslov Michael and Joanne Crehan East Wind Studios Connie ‘83 and Charlie Falcone Firefly Adventures LLC, the Shuck Family Flik Hospitality Group Float Sixty Mike and Jill Foust Amy Gawronski Greenbush Brewing Co. Michael and Nicole Guenin Haymarket Brewery & Taproom Hearthwoods Custom Furnishings La Lumiere School Long Beach Country Club Lucrezia Cafe Mike and Anne Maschmeyer Mesa Luna Restaurant Nicholas J. Salon, & Spa, Sonia Stancombe G Plunk Custom Woodworking. Gary and Cherie Plunk John ’94 and Kristen Rose Sand Creek Country Club Uwe and Lynda Schoberth Stop 50 Wood Fired Pizzeria Tango Design, Katie Toothaker Toast Hotel Group, Robert
Webster Sponsor Anonymous David and Bridget ‘88 Van Eekeren
Sullivan Sponsor
Clint and Angie Cary David and Carrie Coslov Bob and Helena Hamilton Eric and Amie Harkness Caryn Largura (2) Plenty Consulting, Jeff and Jeanie Shuck Dan ‘95 and Katie Walsh Tom and Susie Yemc
Kennedy Sponsor
Jack and Meg ‘81 Caplice Don and Mary Jane Eisenhauer Charlie and Connie ‘83 Falcone Tim Miller and Lisa Hendricks ‘84 Ken and Lisa Neuman Scott and Tamra Schermer Brad and Katie Toothaker Marty Whalen and Kathleen Kennedy ‘83
Kronk Sponsor
Anonymous (2) Mark and Julie Anderson (2) Aaron and Kathleen Crane Steve DePalma
and Collette Kemper Trattoria Enzo David and Bridget ‘88 Van Eekeren Zorn Brew Works
Auction Item Purchasers
Sandra Bach
Anonymous (2) Nafe Alick Ken R. Andert Jack and Meg ‘81 Caplice Clint and Angie Cary Norm and Alicia Cherrett Dave and Carrie Coslov Chris and Jill Craig Connie ‘83 and Charlie Falcone Eric and Amie Harkness Juliene and John ‘85 Hendricks Dan and Johnine Killeen Caryn Largura Jay and Sandie Miller Mike Monaco Ken and Lisa Neuman Matthew Ruder Scott and Tamra Schermer Uwe and Lynda Schoberth Larry and Sherry Swank Brad and Katie Toothaker Elliott and Maura Visconsi Rich and Liz Whitlow ‘85 Tom and Susie Yemc Dennis Mariana Zeedyk
Special Thanks
Paddle Raise
Additional Underwriting
Carrie Coslov, Amie Harkness, and Johnine Killeen, Event Chairs
Auction Item Donors
Anonymous Ken R. Andert Dr. and Mrs. William Biehl Lee Breitowich and Dr. Kathy Breitowich ‘83 Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Cary Mr. and Mrs. Norman Cherrett Mr. and Mrs. David Coslov Rick and Elizabeth Dekker Mr. and Mrs. Michael E. Delgado ‘85 Mr. Steve DePalma Mr. Peter Disser Don and Mary Jane Eisenhauer Connie ‘83 and Charlie Falcone Mr. and Mrs. James Fife Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Finney Mr. and Mrs. Michael Foust Mr. and Ms. Edwin A. Gausselin Dr. Richard Gnaedinger and Dr. Monica Ovalle Dr. and Mrs. Christopher S. Grandfield Mr. and Mrs. Timothy J. Grote ‘83 Mr. Zhongzhu Guo and Mrs. Yezhi Qiu Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hamilton Mr. and Mrs. Eric D. Harkness Mr. and Mrs. EnRico Heirman Juliene & John ‘85 Hendricks Ms. Laura Herrod Mr. Pat Holmes and Ms. Torie Jaques Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Hoyt Mr. Zhonglin Hua and Mrs. Jihong Chen Mr. and Mrs. Michael H. Kennedy ‘86 Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Kerrigan ‘80 Tim Kleihege ‘80 and Katie Miller Kleihege ‘83 Mr. Keith Krause ‘94 and Ms. Mary Margaret Fehrman
Adam and Jacqueline Kronk Mr. and Mrs. John Lake Kasey ‘95 and Brian Leake Will and Stacey Lingle Mr. and Mrs. Tony Macri Sarah McAdams ‘83 Mr. Timothy J. Miller and Dr. Lisa Hendricks ‘84 Ms. Marje Monroe Mr. and Ms. Kenneth F. Neuman Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Rea Mr. Robert Rohr and Ms. Megan Stiphany Mr. and Mrs. John E. Rose ‘94 Mr. and Mrs. Keith Schander Mr. and Mrs. Scott Schermer Mr. and Mrs. Uwe Schoberth Dr. and Mrs. William Sexton Ms. Andrea Smith Mr. and Mrs. Edward Smith Mr. and Mrs. Victor P. Smith ‘86 Mr. Brian P. Tonino ‘12 Dr. and Mrs. Pietro Tonino John and Rachel Uryga David and Bridget ‘88 Van Eekeren Mr. and Mrs. Elliott Visconsi Mrs. Cynthia Vranas Olsen Mr. and Mrs. Gary Wagner Mr. and Mrs. Howard Westbrook Mr. Martin J. Whalen and Ms. Kathleen A. Kennedy ‘83 Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. Whitlow ‘85 H. David Wood ‘77 and Christina R. Thanstrom Susie and Tom Yemc Mrs. Maidena Young Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Zeedyk
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THE LAST WORD An excerpt from the senior chapel of YE “SUMMER” TAO ‘19, a Residential Life Prefect for the 2018-2019 school year and a native of Qingdao, China. Pictured: Summer (left) with fellow prefect Brenna Hudson ‘20 at the 2018 Golf Outing.
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y life can be summarized by three parts: ordinary, procrastination, and ordinary procrastination. Although everyone procrastinates sometimes, I take it to the next level. In Chinese, we call it tuo yan zheng. What made me think that no one could save me from procrastination was Mr. Perney’s birthday last month. I wrote down how much I appreciated that he appeared in my life and I wanted to tell him when I went to school the next day, or I would send him a message. But I believe that, until now, he hasn’t received that message. Fortunately, I didn’t procrastinate on my prefect application. I prepared the questions I needed to answer and the questions I wanted to ask. It turns out that it’s good not to procrastinate. But, in fact, this is the only thing I have not procrastinated on over the last three years. Procrastinating is ordinary. Many people do it. But the consequences can be profound. Ordinary things can be good and bad. I remember when I was a freshman, the Head Prefect, Frannie [Eisenhauer], made me feel like I was a part of this community. Frannie’s cheerful character deeply affected me. I was the only Chinese freshman in cheerleading. We had to remember a lot of cheers in the first few weeks. It was really hard for me. But the biggest challenge for me was that we didn’t get papers with the words on them. All we could do was listen and remember them. Frannie helped me to correct my pronunciation and remember all the words, and she was the first American to say hi to me outside of practice. Every time she said hi to me, I just wanted everyone to look at me. “See? Frannie said hi to me! Our senior Head Prefect said hi to a freshman!” Saying hi to others might just have been an ordinary action for her. But for me, it was super important. It was like a signal to prove that I was accepted by this community. I really appreciated this action by her, which was completely ordinary and still very meaningful. What teachers do is very ordinary. Teachers all over the world do the same things. But I appreciate their ordinary actions because these actions bring about immediate results: education and the feeling of being cared for. Like Mr. Perney. He may not know how important he is to me and how much he has affected me. Every time
advisory ends, when I leave the Student Center, no matter what he is doing, he will stop his work, look at me, and say, “Bye, Summer. Love you. Have a good day.” He makes me feel like I am not a dispensable person in this advisory group, but rather that I am actually a part of it. This is ordinary for Mr. Perney, but, again, it’s very important and makes me feel like a part of this community. I used to think that only parents would teach us the most basic way of doing things, and that teachers at school would only teach us more professional knowledge––until I met Mr. Perney. He’s like an old father. He doesn’t expect me to be rich, he only wants me to be happy. He doesn’t require me to be at the top of the class, but he wants me to do my best to help those people who are in need and to be grateful to people who have helped me. There are still a lot of people who I want to thank even though I haven’t mentioned their names. But, because of my procrastination, by the time they graduate, I still won’t tell them how much I’m grateful for them. I never expect that one day I might become a “culture maker,” like Mr. Kennedy said, but I really want to do my best, at least, to help a person like my former self. All the things I mentioned are little things. There are no particularly big things that have happened in my life. It’s all these little stories that have made the present me. I don’t have a special experience I can share with you, or the process to success. These four years have actually been a very ordinary four years in my schooling experience. But I believe “ordinary” is not a bad word to describe these four years. Most people in this world are ordinary. Ordinary does not mean that we are doing nothing. We still work hard every day. I have always been accustomed to thinking that I’m no different from the Summer of 2015. Probably most people also think so about themselves, feeling like they haven’t changed. In fact, we’re much better than before, although we still feel like life is a struggle. Like Homer Simpson said: “No brain, no pain.” No pain, no gain. No wonder we’ve been suffering for most our lifetime. Last, I want to use Mr. Perney’s words to end my senior chapel: love you all, make good choices, have a wonderful day, and embrace the ordinary––because this is where we live most of our lives. FALL 2018 | 59
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