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Jordan Rogove ’93 is all smiles in front of a wall of DXA Studio buildings and designs. Rogove is an architect and co-founder of DXA, and his story begins on Page 28.
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When prospective parents come to Country Day to learn more about the school and see firsthand what makes us special, the open lockers make an impression, as does the sight of seniors and second graders walking the same hallways side-by-side. What makes the deepest impression on these newcomers, however, is something as simple as it is moving: Our students are happy. They enjoy school. For many people, this very idea is a contradiction in terms. For them, school isn’t something one enjoys; school is something one endures.
it is heartening to see in our own community men and women who devote their professional lives to creating new and enduring spaces for fellowship and beauty to flourish
The question then becomes, why do our students enjoy school? What makes Country Day different? The answer, in no small part, lies with what we call education of the whole child. Put simply, this means that we emphasize science and math, but not at the expense of art and theater. We believe that healthy bodies complement healthy minds, and vice versa in a virtuous circle. This also means that students who excel at math aren’t simply put on a narrow, predetermined academic track. Talents for printmaking and precalculus are not mutually exclusive. The alumni featured in this issue of Connections are a testament to this, and to the value of encouraging young people to pursue what fires their imaginations, widens their worlds, and feeds their inner sense of personal growth. Surely, this was instrumental in enabling them to realize happiness within school. In the following pages, you’ll read about architects, builders, and interior designers, and every one of them echoed an observation
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made by Andrew Jarvis ’70. A good architect or designer, Jarvis said, needs to be good at art and math and to feel equally at home with both. Each one also credited Country Day with allowing the full breadth of their gifts to flourish. Todd Black ’84 owns his own interior design firm in New York City. “One of the most important things I came away with was the idea that there were no boundaries, and the world was there for me to expand myself and my horizons. That’s an amazing thing for a young kid to realize, and I think one of the most amazing things you can give to anyone,” Black said. Rachel Haynes is a Class of ’04 grad and an architect in Lancaster. “The school helped me become an independent person accountable for my every action. You couldn’t drift into the background. It was always about what are you going to bring to table. That definitely made me a more mature person at a younger age. I never felt lost or stalled, and there were so many teachers who were so supportive in helping you figure out who you wanted to become,” Haynes said. In an era in which many things built by human hands, from the norms of political discourse to the international order that has kept the peace for 75 years, seem more vulnerable and ephemeral than we ever imagined, it is heartening to see in our own community men and women who devote their professional lives to creating new and enduring spaces for fellowship and beauty to flourish.
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DRC elections: ‘People aren’t just angry, they’re outraged’ Michael Deibert ’92 discussed DRC elections. 1/5/18 | CNN
Newsroom Heidi Rhodes Burakiewicz ’93 was the lead attorney for federal employees suing the White House during the government shutdown. 1/24/19 | LA Times
PEN America Literary Award finalist English teacher Meghan Kenny was a finalist in the 2019 PEN America Literary Awards for her debut novel, “The Driest Season.” 4/25/19 | LNP
Work still needed to help students afford college Jeremy Raff ’07 writes that low-income students deserve the same opportunity for success as their wealthier peers.
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Designed to instill a love of learning, facilitate teamwork, project management and build resilience.
Middle School Trips
Field trips play an integral part in the LCDS Middle School experience because they supplement and reinforce the curriculum. Of the eighth-grade trip to Echo Hill, Luke B. ’23 writes, "It was cold and wet, but the weather could not dampen our spirits." Team-building can be a difficult task, but the seventh grade accepted that challenge at Refreshing Mountain Retreat and Adventure Center. Fears were faced when flying down ziplines, and bonds were made around a
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The children of Lower School delighted their audience with “Children of the World,” a multicultural medley of song and dance numbers from Germany, Japan, South Africa and more. After school, Lower School offers clubs that are designed to instill a love of learning, facilitate teamwork, project management and build resilience. “With the Crazy 8 Math Club and the 24 Challenge Math Club, the goal is to make math super fun, and change kids’ attitudes toward it,” said Lower School Head Caroline Badri. “Another really cool thing about the math clubs is that we have three Middle School volunteers who are club alumni, so to speak, and liked it so much that they’ve come back to help teach the younger children. “It’s all about learning how you, as an individual, learn. The earlier we can develop this skill, the more fun learning becomes for everyone.” 6 | CONNECTIONS |
fun-filled campfire. Meanwhile, the sixth grade learned about many different aspects of nature, in addition to team-building skills and how to work together, on its trip to Outdoor School at the Penn State Nature Center at Shaver’s Creek. Nisha M. ’25 explains, "It was a great way to become more independent and self-reliant while also having fun the entire time."
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SANDRA UWIRINGIYIMANA Sandra Uwiringiyimana, author of “How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child,” spoke with students and shared her moving story of growing up in The Democratic Republic of the Congo, where she survived the Gatumba Massacre, then immigrated to America and overcame her trauma through art and activism.
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Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night”
The Lancaster Country Day School production of Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” April 25-27 was a period piece set in the 1920s, the era of Art Deco and women’s suffrage. Director Kristin Wolanin said, “This is the 20s of Gatsby, and gangsters and flappers.”
Wolanin continued, “What I want is for the actors to explore the time period. For example, women got the right to vote. How does living through that kind of social change affect someone like Olivia, who’s being courted by one person while she’s in love with another? And the whole idea of ‘ dating’ was new. How does that affect how people pursue who they’re interested in?” With a sparse, Bourbon Street-inspired set, the show used the 20s setting not just because the costumes are fun, but
because it offered her cast — all students in the year-long Shakespeare course — a way to engage with the material in a way they otherwise wouldn’t. Said senior Kendall Kubis, “Part of what’s been so great about the class is that we’ve taken the time to learn the context and draw new meaning from the text, actually understanding what the lines mean as opposed to just memorizing and reciting the words.”
While interrogating social norms is a worthy academic exercise, it’s also secondary to putting on an entertaining show. And with a love triangle, mistaken identities galore, and a sanctimonious prig battling a cohort of libertine pranksters, “Twelfth Night” has been delighting audiences for more than four centuries. “The whole experience has been a lot of fun, and it’s a funny show,” Kendall said.
Our love and thanks go out to the following faculty and staff members for their service to our school. Jo Anne Farley 36 years Kindergarten Faculty Jim Keweshan 25 years Maintenance Supervisor Karen Roosa 14 Years Assistant Librarian Dulcey Antonucci 7 years Director of Communications Jeanine Bonner 4 years Upper School Faculty Harry Myrick 2 years Upper School Faculty Bridget Umble 1 year 2018-19 Teaching Apprentice Hong Wang 1 year Language Faculty ne w f aculty & sta f f
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GIRLS’ TENNIS | The girls’ tennis team earned second place in the L-L League Section 3. Cassidy G. ’21 and Kendall K. ’19, participated in the District III Singles Tournament, with Kendall advancing to the quarterfinal round. L-L League Section 3 All-Stars: Kendall K. ’19, Cassidy G. ’21
The eighth-grade FLL team competed in the World Championships in Detroit, where FTC team member Olivia G. ’20 finished as a dean's list finalist.
GOLF | The golf team finished second in L-L League Section 4. Matt B. ’19 and Nick H. ’19 finished second and third, respectively, in Section 4 scoring average. Matt, Nick, and Phoebe S. ’22 earned medals and qualified for the PIAA District III Championships. L-L League Section 4 All-Stars: Nick H. ’19, Matt B. ’19 CROSS COUNTRY | Arielle B. ’21 placed 14th at the L-L League Championships and placed 15th at the PIAA District III Championships running for McCaskey. She was an L-L League All-Star.
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In May, physical education teacher Jim Phipps received the Dick Green Community Service Award. Presented by Tennis Central, a nonprofit organization within the USTA Foundation, the annual award is given to the person who most enriches the Lancaster community through tennis. In February, Head of Middle School Meg Reed presented on culturally responsive literacy for the Middle School years at the national conference for Horizons in Baltimore. Kindergarten teacher Betsy Hedbavny presented about the One Hen project at the Global Educators Conference in Atlanta. An organization in Africa that trains women and children in entrepreneurship, the One Hen Project has been a focus of the LCDS kindergarten classroom. The students learn basic economics, social entrepreneurship, and global interconnectedness, as well as raising money for the One Hen Project. 8 | CONNECTIONS |
VOLLEYBALL | Playing for the Lancaster Catholic High School girls’ volleyball team, Isabel H. ’21 and Bella D. ’21 were L-L League Section 3 All-Stars.
SOCCER | The girls’ soccer team finished fifth in the L-L League Section 4. The Cougars earned a place in the quarterfinals of the District III Tournament. L-L League All-Star: Anna S. ’20 L-L League Academic All-Star: Lexi J. ’19 The boys’ soccer team finished third in the L-L League Section 4. The Cougars earned a place in District III semifinals and qualified for the PIAA State Tournament. L-L League All-Stars: Evan P. ’19, Mason L. ’19, Luke M. ’19, Jack K. ’19 L-L League Academic All-Star: Matt G. ’19 FIELD HOCKEY 1st Team L-L League Section 3 All-Stars: McKayla F. ’19, Lauren W. ’20 2nd Team L-L League Section 3 All-Stars: Annabelle C. ’20 Honorable Mention L-L League Section 3 All Stars: Whitney F. ’20, Gaby K. ’19 L-L League Academic All-Stars: McKayla F. ’19, Alexa S. ’19, Sara Paige S. ’19
DISTRICT III CLASS A CHAMPIONS On Feb. 28, the varsity girls edged Greenwood, 35-30, at the Giant Center, to win the District III Class A girls basketball championship and earn a second school record.
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SQUASH | The boys’ squash team went 2-2 and the girls went 0-3 at the U.S. Squash National High School Team Championships in Hartford, Conn. ICE HOCKEY | Playing for the Penn Manor Comets, Jack K. ’19 was selected to participate in the CPIHL All-Star Game.
SWIMMING | At the L-L League Championships swimming for McCaskey, Christian F. ’20 placed sixth in the 100 freestyle (49.98) and eighth in the 50 freestyle (22.77), while Owen W. ’20 placed second in the 100 butterfly (53.37) and fifth in the 100 backstroke (55.83).
GEORGE M. ’19 and Jonah R. ’20 took the L-L League AA Flight 1 doubles title.
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JONAH R. ’20 earned L-L League and District III singles titles.
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With their 51-43 win over Halifax in the District III-1A championship game at the Giant Center Feb. 27, the varsity boys became the first Country Day team to take the District crown.
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BOYS’ LACROSSE | Country Day lost to Hershey in the finals of the District III Class AAA tournament, finishing the season second in the L-L League Section 2 with an overall record of 16-5 and earning a berth in the PIAA 2A State Tournament, where they fell to Crestwood in the quarterfinals.
BASEBALL | McCaskey/LCDS finished fourth in the L-L League Section 1 with an overall record of 9-12.
GIRLS’ LACROSSE | The Cougars finished fifth in the L-L League Section 1 with an overall record of 10-9.
Jonah R. ’20 fell in the quarterfinals of the PIAA State AA Singles Tournament to the eventual state champion. Rebert ended the season with a 23-3 overall record, and was the L-L League AA Flight 1 and District III AA Singles Champion. Rebert and teammate George M. ’19 took the L-L League AA Flight 1 Doubles title as well.
TRACK & FIELD | Arielle B. ’21 earned the sixth place medal at the PIAA District III Track & Field Championships as part of the McCaskey girls 3,200 meter relay. McCaskey finished third in the L-L League Section 1 with an overall record of 4-2. | CONNECTIONS |
BOYS’ TENNIS | Country Day finished third in the L-L League Section 3 with an overall record of 16-5.
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A Warm Saga from the Land of Fire and Ice Adapted from Haley M. and Anna S. ’20
For the first time in LCDS history, a group of 23 students and four chaperones travelled to Iceland over spring break, a truly incredible experience. After leaving the Viking museum (and doffing their Norse battle gear), students explored the city of Reykjavik and learned about the country’s history, including the majestic Hallgrímskirkja cathedral and the Reception House of Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir. At the Whales of Iceland Exhibition they saw realistic, life-sized models of 23 species of whales and dolphins. They also traveled to Iceland’s second largest city, Akureyri, and stopped at Grábrók crater
and admired the breathtaking landscape of mossy lava fields. It was one of many stops amid the mountains, waterfalls, caves, and ridges that form Iceland’s rugged geography. Another day, they tried out fishing for cod, the staple of Iceland’s national economy. At night, the Northern Lights defied description, vibrant and active as a once in a lifetime sight. Perhaps the most enduring lesson this tiny island in the North Atlantic taught the students was that nature’s beauty is good for the spirit.
Cod is the staple of Iceland’s national economy.
THE UGANDAN-MEXICAN-PENNSYLVANIAN AXIS Adapted from David W. ’19 Since the 1980s, Lancaster Country Day’s Model United Nations class has traveled every year to The Hague for an international five-day conference. This year, the class traveled instead to the conference in Doha, Qatar, to represent the Republic of Uganda and Mexico. LCDS was in a unique position this year, as it represented two countries — which held, at times, opposing viewpoints — simultaneously. In addition to the conference, the group visited the historic Souq Waqif market, toured the Museum of Islamic Art, went “dune bashing” on a desert safari and rode camels.
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“Men tend to want a separate little throne room. Women tend not to want to interact with that situation. Usually it takes a few meetings to tease that out. “Sometimes we joke that we’re therapists and marriage counselors as much as we are architects,” said Rachel Haynes ’04, architectural designer at Tippetts/Weaver Architects Inc. in Lancaster. The first thing one notices when talking to Haynes is the unmistakable enthusiasm of someone who genuinely loves what she does and the people she works with. Her passion and her commitment are paired with a sincere interest in and empathy for other people, whether her clients or her students. Haynes is wholehearted and perceptive, and for all her training and natural acumen, she is at least as adept at counseling and psychological inquiry. “An architect needs to see 10 steps down the road. You’re thinking in three dimensions constantly, and you’re aware that the repercussions of one little move can have a huge ripple effect on any number of other things, so you’ve always got to be thinking way ahead, and you need to be able to see the whole picture comprehensively,” said Haynes, who earned her bachelor’s in
architecture from Syracuse University with a minor in landscape architecture from SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, which is closely tied to Syracuse. “A lot of people stay away from architecture because they’re scared off by the math or what they think the math involved is,” Haynes said, stressing that while math skills are certainly important, it’s not as if architects are crunching numbers for a moon landing. For the past eight years, Haynes has devoted at least one night a week to helping steer the next generation of architects in the right direction. Or steering the next generation of engineers away from architecture. She leaves work early every Tuesday to teach at the ACE Mentor Program for high school students interested in architecture, construction, and engineering. | ISSUE NO. TWELVE SUMMER 2019 |
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Haynes does this for free, and brings to bear the same talents that enable her to educe clients’ specific wants from their hazy, half-formed notions of what they think they want. With her students, Haynes’ role is at least as much guidance counselor as it is teacher in the traditional sense. “I feel like it’s so important for kids to know just how many options there are out there. A lot of my students on the first day of class raise their hand when I ask who wants to be an architect. By the end of the class, almost no hands are up, and that’s exactly the point,” Haynes said. “There are a lot of kids who know that being an architect is a job, and they think that’s what they want to do, but it often turns out that what they thought of as architecture is actually civil engineering, or mechanical engineering, or being an estimator. “People don’t generally go to school to be an estimator, but that’s a career that suits certain people’s skills and that they really enjoy,” she continued. “I want to save kids the heartache and the money of picking the wrong school and the wrong career path.” Working for Tippetts/Weaver, Haynes has designed or managed more than a dozen major projects. Two of her most recent jobs positively brimmed with Country Day 14 | CONNECTIONS |
connections: Atlee Hall Law Offices (Bill ’60 and son Mark ’91), and Williams Forrest Digital Solutions (Dave Barr ’92 and wife Louise Barr ’90, parents of Mae ’21, and Evie ’27). “Historically,” she said, “architecture has been about apprenticeship and passing down knowledge from generation to generation. That’s part of what I love so much about my firm. The principals are great mentors who are all about cultivating real experiences. It’s an old-school approach of, ‘We’re going to invest in you and encourage you to make your own contacts and become part of the community.’”
The really fun part is sitting down with the client and figuring out people’s individual ideal world and helping them realize it.
Haynes can barely contain the joy in her voice as she describes the charge she gets out of coming to work each day. “I can’t resist! I love what I do!” Architecture is about problem-solving, Haynes said, and the rewarding part comes through discovery and collaboration. “For me, the joy of solving that puzzle doesn’t come from me imposing a design on someone,” she said. “The really fun part is sitting down with the client and figuring out people’s individual ideal world and helping them realize it. “It’s all about what they want and need, not what I would want if it were my house or my company,” Haynes said. The ideal result
Two recent jobs Haynes designed or managed include Williams Forrest Digital Solutions (Pages 12-13) and the Atlee Hall Law Offices (Pages 14-15), both in Lancaster. Photos courtesy of Toby Richards Photography.
is a “reflection of exactly how the client wants to portray themselves to the public. My role is to help them project the image they want. I want them to feel proud of how it feels and looks. It’s not about being showy. It’s about having pride in yourself and expressing that in a concrete way.” She credits the limitations imposed upon her at Syracuse for helping her learn to navigate complex problems and persevere in the search for novel solutions. “Some people feel stifled or suffocated by having to adhere to certain rules, but I always found them liberating,” Haynes said. “It’s the rules that make the game. Without the rules, there is no game.” Haynes was in Upper School when she first knew she wanted to be an architect.
Some people feel stifled or suffocated by having to adhere to certain rules, but I always found them liberating. It’s the rules that make the game. Without the rules, there is no game.
“I took a ton of art classes with Susan Gottlieb and created lots of art in different mediums. That was fun and satisfying, but I wanted something I could count on as a career, and I was also good at art and math, so [architecture] just made sense,” she said. Haynes already had more than a passing acquaintance with what would become her calling. Her dad, Cliff, is a contractor, and she spent a summer working with him to learn construction techniques. “It’s important to understand how designs are put together and to recognize the potential
practical limitations of your ideal design,” she said. Haynes also spent a day shadowing and later a summer interning for architect Richard Levengood (father of Lara ’98 and Richard ’02, as well as a former president of Country Day’s Board). “At Country Day there was a real focus on public speaking and presentations. It wasn’t about being showy; it was being able to conduct yourself and make an argument in a way that made you proud. “The school helped me become an independent person accountable for my every action,” Haynes continued. “You couldn’t drift into the background. It was always about what are you going to bring to table. That definitely made me a more mature person at a younger age. I never felt lost or stalled, and there were so many teachers who were so supportive in helping you figure out who you wanted to become.” For future architects, Haynes has a message: “Be brave and boldly reach out to a firm and find a mentor who will help you. There’s nothing like immersing yourself in that setting. “Any student is welcome to reach out to me,” she said. “I’m all about helping.” rhaynes@tippettsweaver.com
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ob Brandt ’71 has devoted his professional life to raising the walls and roofs that give lasting form to his clients’ visions and wishes. An architect by training and a general contractor by trade, Brandt’s days are filled with parallel lines. It’s fitting, then, that his first taste of the job parallels so closely that of his fellow alum, onetime employee and Connections Co-star, Jordan Rogove ’93 (see Page 28 for more on Rogove). Both men began with a grounding in the practical side of building and architecture before taking their own, unique paths. The buildings on the following pages were all built by Brandt’s firm, Benchmark Construction. ANN B. BARSHINGER CANCER INSTITUTE Lancaster, Pa.
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CAPTURING SPACE INTRIGUED ME. We pick up Brandt’s path on his way through the Rocky Mountains, during the Ford Administration. After his freshman year of college, Brandt hitchhiked to Denver to visit some Country Day friends going to school out there, briefly continuing his studies in Colorado before transferring to Temple University and earning his B.S. in architecture. A short time later, Brandt came to meet Bob Wohlsen. The owner of one of Lancaster’s largest and oldest construction firms asked the young, somewhat drifting architect if he’d like to come work at Wohlsen, and Brandt got his first experience of the job he still shows up to with a smile more than three decades later. Brandt is the founder and chairman of Benchmark Construction, whose work is familiar to everyone plausibly reading Connections, even if they don’t know it. To name just one example of too many to list here, Benchmark built the Parents’ Fieldhouse, the site of every Country Day graduation, first day of school celebration and varsity basketball home game since 1991. “As a kid I really enjoyed building tree houses and club houses and backyard tents. Capturing space intrigued me,” Brandt said.
“In high school, particularly once I got to Country Day in 10th grade, my favorite classes were art and geometry. Calculus and algebra always seemed to escape me, but geometry I loved and it just made sense, which fits with the capturing space concept.” He recalls “being sort of lost academically” before coming to Country Day as a sophomore. His strengths had never shone particularly brightly on standardized tests, and as one of a faceless crowd of students at a large public school, he also hadn’t been especially encouraged to imagine the future of a high-achieving college-track traveler. “Because of Country Day’s size, I got a lot of individual attention and formed relationships with teachers that I wouldn’t have otherwise and never had before,” Brandt said. “They took a general interest in me, and not just in me, but in all of us. What really happened to me at Country Day was that I got a second chance [academically] and earned board scores high enough to get into college.” Brandt initially attended college in West Virginia, where the bit of initial intimidation he felt quickly vanished. “It was during the first semester and I remember thinking, ‘Are you kidding me? This is easier then junior year at Lancaster Country Day.’” He transferred to Temple, where he found a building full of epiphanies and acquired the tools to answer a professional calling.
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“The day I walked into the architecture studio at Temple, everything, the sights, the smells, the sound of the place, the energy, I thought maybe this is what it’s like in heaven and I knew from the first instant this is where I belong. “You could feel the creativity at Temple, feel the problem-solving and see the challenges,” he continued. “You were confronted with real-time, on-time criticisms. How creative was your design? How practical was it? I was so excited because it dawned on me: This was school, but I could use my hands and use my brains and use my thoughts to accomplish what I had to do. What I didn’t have to do was read 175 pages of some book and then memorize and regurgitate it according to someone else’s formula or rules. “Here, I could respond in my own way after being judged by my peers and professors on questions that were practical, that I could relate to and that had some connection to real life as I understood it.” Though an architect by training, Brandt felt — and still feels — a deeper affinity for general contracting, which allows him to marshal his natural gifts in concert with his learned skills to realize a greater potential. “Maybe I’m not the greatest designer but I’ve got an ability to read plans and prepare them well,” he said. “Understanding architecture gave me an early leg up when you’re talking about what a general contractor does. That is, you have to be good at estimating, you have to be effective at interpreting plans, and the ability to visualize things in three dimensions helps tremendously. “Knowing what the challenges of architecture are gave me a leg up as well. It helped me be empathetic in understanding what difficulties they were confronting on a given project,” he said. Two of Brandt’s inborn skills that helped him and his company succeed are the ability to keep a lot of plates spinning at once and a knack for sizing up people quickly and accurately. “This business is like a three-legged stool. You got your architect, your client, and your general contractor and sometimes it can get a little scratchy between those three.”
The value of being an effective communicator, he said, is incalculable. “One thing I’ve always been able to do is carry on three conversations at once and understand them.” “If you don’t communicate effectively and quickly, and identify problems effectively and quickly, this isn’t the most forgiving job in the world.” But, he said, if you can, “Then this is an awesome business.” “Part of what makes it so great is that it puts you in touch with such a broad spectrum of people, from the guy digging the ditch to the owner of the most complex HVAC system to the guys at the bank and on and on. You just get a dousing of all sorts of people and that keeps it fascinating.” Benchmark’s culture, of which Brandt is especially proud, “comes from my mother and my dad,” he said. “It’s as simple as the Golden Rule and telling the truth, and I live by it and tell my guys the same. It’s our job to please the clients. Being honest and up front with them is just a given.” Brandt also shared his fond remembrance of Country Day, as well as advice for Upper Schoolers aspiring toward architecture or the building trades. “I just have such warm feelings for Country Day,” he said. “It was just very transformational for me, a great, great experience and I’m immensely grateful for it. I’m also grateful for Mr. Jarvis, who took me under his wing and was a heavy influence on me from the day I met him until the day he died. I loved him.” His geometry teacher, Sharon Distasio, also made a lasting impression on the young man with a gift for spatial relations. For today’s young people, Brandt’s advice was simple and powerful. “This is one of the most interesting businesses you could be involved in,” he said. “If you have the interest, if you think this is something you want to do, don’t short-sell yourself. Be courageous. Pursue it.”
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the architect will see you now By Michael Schwartz ’98
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n 1998, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center hired EwingCole to design its first new building outside Manhattan. Andrew Jarvis ’70 is the director of the firm’s health care practice, and before he put pen to paper, he visited their treatment centers where he sat and listened and took in the full measure of what he did not want to see in the new building. “I watched as patients came in for radiation therapy and one of the first things they saw was a row of horrifying face masks, just ghoulish things that looked like death masks. I saw how patients were asked to sit in hospital gowns, which is essentially being naked, in a room full of fully dressed strangers. It was just a basic indignity,” Jarvis said. “The caregivers thought it was normal and the patients thought it was to be expected. Those were the kinds of things Jim and I hated and that we set out to improve,” Jarvis said.
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Jim Harden is an executive at Memorial Sloan Kettering and in charge of the new building. He was given carte blanche to come up with a better design for a cancer center, and recruiting Jarvis was the first step in that process. The pair worked hand in glove, propelled by a shared vision and sensibility. “We mapped how every step could be uplifting and beautiful, instead of demoralizing and frightening,” Jarvis said. Jarvis’ approach of rethinking, if not abandoning the status quo, was exactly what Harden had in mind, but not all of his colleagues shared his enthusiasm.
We mapped how every step could be uplifting and beautiful.
The buildings on the following pages were all designed by Jarvis, head of EwingCole’s health care practice. ABINGTON-JEFFERSON HEALTH ASPLUNDH CANCER PAVILION Willow Grove, Pa.
“The doctors and nurses were completely inured to what we found objectionable and sought to change. Initially, some of the clinical staff were skeptical and resistant and I got into a few arguments along the way,” Jarvis said. “Their basic objection boiled down to, ‘Our job is to cure cancer. I'm sorry if the process isn't more pleasant for patients, but we know what’s best for their care.’ “I listened to their concerns and I came up with ways to make the care delivery process better for them, too. I saw these cancer centers could be better for everyone,” Jarvis said. The patients couldn’t speak for everyone, but they spoke for themselves and said that Jarvis was indeed correct. One woman receiving treatment at the new Memorial Sloan Kettering Center told Harden, “When I'm here, I feel like I don’t have cancer. I mean, I know I have cancer, but when I'm here, somehow I feel better about myself, my disease and my future.” Feedback like this gratified both client and architect and affirmed that the new approach was the right one. Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center now has 10 new cancer centers outside Manhattan. Jarvis has designed nine of them. Born with a gift for art and math in equal measure, and to a father and mother who shared and encouraged those gifts, Jarvis followed where his talents led and has designed more than 150 buildings in his 40-plus years as an architect. For the last 20 of those years, he has concentrated on medical facilities as the director of EwingCole’s health care practice. This concentration offers more than just professional fulfillment. “What excites me about designing for health care is that I believe — and there’s scientific evidence proving this — that good design can improve health care outcomes,” Jarvis said. It takes a deep understanding of and empathy for the people who will spend so much time in the space designed for them. “It starts with patient experience,” Jarvis said. “Patients coming to a hospital or other health care facility are experiencing stress; they’re ill or they’re worried they may be ill. If they’ve got cancer they’re in genuinely low spirits. They’re often scared; they may be in pain; they may have a physical disability from their illness. And they may have lost control over their daily lives. That is, they are forced to 24 | CONNECTIONS |
come daily for treatment and they may not be able to go to work or do other things they'd rather do. They’re at low ebb. “Our job,” he continued, “is to alleviate the emotional assault of illness.” “It’s really important that the moment a patient arrives, he or she feels a sense of caring and compassion. It isn’t about decorating the lobby. It’s about anticipating every experience a patient is going to have on their journey through the building. At every point, what are they thinking, what are they feeling, and how can we affect that in a positive way? “Whatever you can do so they’re not feeling like they’re in a hospital, because there’s a self-fulfilling prophecy at work of, ‘I must be sick; I’m in this horrible place.’”
What excites me about designing for health care is that I believe that good design can improve health care outcomes.
There’s a well-known and well-documented phenomenon called anticipatory nausea. Jarvis went on to describe the archetypal case involving a patient and her nurse in California. The patient was getting chemo every day and over the course of her treatment
SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL UPSTATE CANCER CENTER Syracuse, N.Y.
came to form a very close bond with her nurse. Chemotherapy has an emetic effect on nearly everyone who receives the treatment, and this patient was no different. Her nurse had seen her throw up many times and had helped her get through that, and a great deal more, in the course of her therapy. The patient was tremendously grateful for the nurse’s help and felt a deep personal connection with her. One year later, the patient, disease-free, bumped into that nurse in the grocery store and after some initial pleasantries, proceeded to throw up right there in the aisle. So strong was her association between her nurse and vomiting that the mere sight of the nurse without any other causes was enough to induce throwing up. The moral, Jarvis said, is that if you believe you’re going to be sick, you will likely become sick. This isn’t just conjecture, he said. What’s equally true and powerful is the inverse: If you believe you’re becoming well, you’re far likelier to see that belief turn into reality. People also call it the placebo effect, Jarvis said, but that phrase has a connotation of a patient being tricked with a sugar pill or deceived in some way and then something positive happening due to their ignorance or deceit.
“That’s why I prefer the term anticipatory wellness,” he said. “It isn’t just a matter of semantics; it’s a more positive framework for thinking about your design.” Effecting this positivity entails “making it easier for doctors and nurses to do their best work. Their jobs are stressful, nearly all the time. If we can design a space where we make sure nurses spend less time hunting for clinical supplies, then that’s more face time that they can spend with patients. “It’s not just about using time more efficiently, though that’s important too,” Jarvis continued. “A major problem is patients falling. If a nurse is there in the room, patients won’t try to get out of bed by themselves. Nurses will also talk more with families, who can share in giving care to the patient. Patients are more satisfied with the quality of care. Finally, nurses are less fatigued, and have more energy to do their best work. “The most important goal is to create beautiful experiences that convey the compassion and quality of care.” Andrew’s father and formative Country Day Headmaster John Jarvis was animated by his love of creating and sharing beautiful experiences. The elder Jarvis was a natural teacher, but drawing, painting, building and even masonry came just as easily to the Scotsman. He and Andrew would go out on artistic excursions, drawing downtown Lancaster together or heading out to the country to capture the Strasburg Railroad with pencils or watercolors. “We would draw or paint the same thing,” Jarvis said, “and I wound up drawing and painting a lot like him.” John was a direct influence on Andrew becoming an architect in other ways. “While we were still at Episcopal [Academy], before he became the headmaster at Country Day, Dad was helping raise funds for a new chapel designed by Vincent Kling and Dad had this model made out of balsa wood that he would show to potential donors. You could take off the roof to see what the inside looked like. “I remember Dad showing me the model and saying, ‘Architects design buildings; engineers figure out how to make them stand up.’ | ISSUE NO. TWELVE SUMMER 2019 |
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“I was about 5 or 6 years old at the time and that’s when I first knew I wanted to be an architect,” Jarvis said. Sixty years later, his passion remains undimmed. “It never feels ephemeral,” Jarvis said. “I’ve designed more than 150 buildings and I remember them all and very clearly remember what went into the thinking of all of them.” Also unchanged is the gratification of solving an architectural puzzle, of balancing a client’s needs and desires with his own vision. “It’s the greatest sense of satisfaction to see something you’ve conceived get constructed. I enjoy the construction almost more than the finished product,” Jarvis said. “When the building’s finished and occupied, there’s a joy in seeing it used, of course, but there’s also a sense of loss because it’s no longer yours. That building belongs to someone else now and it always will.” Jarvis has fond memories of Country Day and firm advice for Upper Schoolers considering a career in architecture. “What was so distinctive and meaningful were the relationships you had with teachers,” he said. “It was a small school and mine was a small class. I was one of 17 students in my grade and when there’s so few of you, you can’t be anonymous and there’s an expectation of you doing your best in everything, whether you’re good in that subject or not.” As for future architects, “Unless you’re really good in math and really good in art, don’t get starry-eyed about it,” Jarvis said. “However, if those are skills you have and you have a genuine passion for both, I would encourage anyone to become an architect. I can’t imagine doing anything else.”
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It isn’t about decorating the lobby. It’s about anticipating every experience a patient is going to have on their journey through the building. MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER MSK WESTCHESTER West Harrison, N.Y.
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FOR REAFFIRMATION OF THE CORE OF HIS DESIGN PHILOSOPHY, ROGOVE NEED ONLY LOOK OUT HIS WINDOW.
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ordan Rogove ’93 was seated at the DXA Studio conference room table, waxing lyrical about natural light being a necessity for a beautiful and balanced space, and the importance of making new structures fit naturally into their surroundings. Just then the sun came out, and glinting over Rogove’s shoulder is a majestic skybridge straddling 32nd Street 10 stories above the pavement.
Linking the two buildings on either side of the street, the three-story art deco bridge has massive windows and a copper-clad façade weathered Statue-of-Liberty green. The firm that designed what The New Yorker called “the Chartres of aerial tunnelry” would, six years later, design the Empire State Building. Which means that for reaffirmation of the core of his design philosophy, Rogove need only look out his window. “Architecture is an artform; it’s a way to express ideas. There are lots of raw ideas out there floating around and you need to take them and do something with them, turn them into something,” Rogove said. “I have no idea where something is going to end up when I start it. It’s a highly iterative process and a lot of it is being open to new possibilities and going in a new direction because something occurs to you and you think, ‘Hey, this would be interesting to explore.’”
| Jordan Rogove in front of a wall of DXA Studio buildings and designs. Rogove is an architect and co-founder of DXA. opposite
| The three-story Gimbels pedestrian skybridge straddles West 32nd Street near Broadway. Designed by the same firm that six years later would design the Empire State Building, the skybridge dominates the view from DXA Studio.
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| A wooden model of a DXA project. below
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Allowing the artistic process to unfold naturally would be enough to prevent Rogove from starting with a specific end in mind, but the second essential part of his approach makes any kind of mechanistic process impossible.
“When we moved in, there were all these armed guards because there were millions of dollars of fur coats in here. I never did understand their business model, and I guess they didn’t either, which is why we’re here now,” Rogove said.
“Every building should be influenced by the site where it’s located,” Rogove said. “And this part of the design takes a lot of time, because you have to visit the site and really become familiar with it. Eventually, it starts to tell you” what direction to go, but one has to keep listening because there’s often more than one right direction.
Rows of neat, elegantly plain tables abut one another to make massive, continuous desks where more than two dozen of the colleagues and friends who make up the DXA crew come early and stay late (“We’re a family,” Rogove explained. “And we have a keg.”) working to manifest beauty and function in a perpetual quest for that white whale that is perfect balance.
Rogove’s work spans a vast range. For example, he led the team that won the competition for the 19,500-seat Prudential Center arena in Newark, home of the NHL’s New Jersey Devils. More recently, on the other side of the size spectrum, Rogove designed the Mt. Pleasant Church conversion on the Upper West Side. That project renovated the 19th-century Romanesque Revival building to include both residential and worship space. Rogove spoke to Connections at DXA Studio, the firm he co-founded in 2011. Its elevator opens into a bright, airy room where natural light spills in from the north through huge windows, and gently reflects off the ceilings of what, in its previous incarnation, was a department store stockroom where the owners kept the windows boarded up to hide the merchandise.
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Models of projects built and of visions never realized line the window sills. The disappointments embodied in the latter are everfresh, and it takes little prompting to elicit an exegesis of the circumstances, from clients’ shaky finances to losing out to a competing contest submission, that conspired to scuttle the potential design.
But while his recall for what could have been is photographic in its thoroughness, his recollections are not those of a jaundiced man. Rogove is warm, welcoming, kind and quietly self-possessed. Those innate qualities and an inexhaustible abundance of new ideas make Rogove THE BOLDER THE VISION ill-equipped for brooding; there’s THE MORE HUSTLE THAT’S too much cool NECESSARY TO SEE IT THROUGH, stuff that’s yet to BUT THAT’S ALSO JUST PART be done.
Rogove is a native Lancastrian whose wife and business partner both come from York. MeetOF BEING AN ARCHITECT. Those who would ing them involved aspire to be crossing more than the Susquehanna. His wife, Laura, he met in architects should prepare by being builders first, Italy, and DXA co-founder Wayne Norbeck he Rogove said. He spent parts of several years met at Virginia Tech, where they both studied working for general contractor Benchmark Construction (Class of ’71 grad Bob Brandt’s architecture. company. See Page 16 for Brandt’s story). Rogove’s son is 7 years old and he’s already His hands-on experience gave him a fuller showing a fascination with making models appreciation and understanding of what’s and drawing plans that his dad recognizes all required to turn ink into steel, and an too well. “I did the exact same thing when I architect’s drawing into a real-life structure. was his age,” Rogove said. The same thing that But it did more than that. Immersion in would eventually lead him to know with total the practical realities of getting a building certainty that he wanted to be an architect built supplemented a part of his college when he grew up. “I think I was 8. I knew architecture education he found — and still it then.” finds — wanting.
“There was basically a complete neglect of teaching the practical parts of what life for any architect working outside academia deals with as a routine fact of working life,” Rogove said. “There are kids graduating with architecture degrees who the only thing they’ve designed is a poet’s cabin made of balsa wood. And I know it sounds like I’m putting it down but the truth is I loved that whimsical and romantic part of the curriculum. My point is just that you can do both, and omitting the practical from the course does students a disservice because it forces them to learn those same lessons on their own, in the real world, where the learning is a much rougher experience than it is in school.” As visiting professor of practice at his alma mater, Virginia Tech, Rogove always makes sure real life is part of what his students learn. Indeed, designing a building is only one part of seeing that design get built. Rogove has become expert at negotiating the municipal bureaucracy to get projects approved. He’s had to. “I remember at Country Day studying Christo and reading an interview where he was talking about what went into creating ‘Running Fences,’” Rogove said. Christo’s art instillation was an 18-foot high fence that ran for 25 miles in Northern California, and which he dismantled 14 days after its completion. “He said that he spent five percent of the time imagining and designing the artwork and 95 percent of the time jumping through bureaucratic hoops to get it installed.
“That was a sobering quote to read,” Rogove said. “And it’s true that the bolder the vision the more hustle that’s necessary to see it through, but that’s also just part of being an architect. So much of it is, at root, about problem-solving and finding an interesting way of thinking about an issue. Doing that successfully requires you to be somewhat of a Renaissance man because you have to use so many different skills and so many divergent approaches.” While navigating the push and pull of artistic vision against building permits or clients’ budgets or any number of competing elements, it is vital to keep sight of a simple truth, Rogove said.
Rogove reflected — and rhapsodized — about his time at Country Day. “My Country Day experience was a great one. My class remains close; I mean, my best buddy, Huff [Huffy Huffnagle ’93] I’ve known since we were kids. John Jarvis created a lot of love and a lot of support, and the culture of the school kind of flowed from him. So there was encouragement no matter what you were interested in, and small class sizes meant you couldn’t hide.
“And Chip [Smedley], man, I love that guy,” Rogove continued. “In every class, but in his in particular, there were high expectations and a rigor that I wasn’t really aware of until I got to college and found it easy compared “Beauty has such a tremendous value. When to Upper School. When I teach, I try to you consider something beautiful, your emulate what Chip did, which is to never talk relationship with it changes considerably. down to students. He treated us with respect In every project and we responded BEAUTY HAS SUCH A we design, there’s in kind and that’s TREMENDOUS VALUE. WHEN some element of something that beauty, and that a lot of students YOU CONSIDER SOMETHING could come from never experience, BEAUTIFUL, YOUR s om e t h i n g a s but every time I seemingly simple RELATIONSHIP WITH IT try it, it always as getting more works.” CHANGES CONSIDERABLY. sunlight in. “You want to keep the people who will be living or working in the building in mind, and to try to visualize better circumstances for them,” Rogove continued. “Especially in New York City, you want to design places to be a respite, and to find architecture that accentuates the beauty of everyday experience.”
awa r d - w i n n i n g The Midtown Viaduct Grand Prize 1st Prize New York, NY | 2019
In February, DXA Studio won the Midtown Viaduct competition for a pedestrian bridge linking Moynihan Station and the High Line. The award-winning design will extend approximately a half mile above, around and through the heart of Midtown Manhattan.
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odd Black was 22, having just moved back to his parents’ Willow Street home after living in Italy and San Francisco, and he sat down and drew a three-column list to figure out what he wanted to do with his life. At the top of each column, the Class of ’84 grad wrote a word: Movies, Fashion, and Design. Beneath each he listed everyone he would want to work for in his dream world. Under Fashion was Calvin Klein; under Movies was Martin Scorsese, and so on. Once he had his dream list, he sent out resumes to every name on it. A New York designer wrote back, and Black the interior designer was born. The film and fashion worlds’ loss was design’s gain, and for 30 years, Black has devoted his professional life to leaving spaces more beautiful than he found them.
Opposite | This Key West, Fla., house was inspired by the charms of Morocco, and the realization of a fantasy for the owners who had fallen in love with Casablanca. New construction, the villa’s playful interior was created in coordination with the architectural design. The interior finishes and extensive tile work were designed by Black and created in Morocco by local craftsmen. P 34-35 | A house in Southampton, N.Y., driven by the concept of the weekend cottage, chic yet low maintenance. The interior incorporates the colors of sea and sky, creating a place where inside and outside meld.
Two quotes reveal a great deal about the founder of the New York firm T W Black Inc. Winston Churchill’s words greet visitors to Black’s website: “We shape our homes and then our homes shape us.” The second bit of wit and wisdom comes from Oscar Wilde and enjoys marquee billing on Black’s senior page: “I have the simplest of tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.” Are these a pithy distillation of his own philosophy?
for someone; it’s me bringing out their personality and reflecting that in the design.” Black doesn’t want for confidence, speaking with the easy self-assurance of someone with nothing to prove, who knows he’s good at what he does and feels no need to strut. He earned bachelor’s degrees in fine art and English literature from Franklin & Marshall College and his master's in the history of European decorative arts from the Cooper He witt, S mithsonian Design Museum. Asked if he had ever had a moment when he was helping out a friend and thought, “You know, if I had to hire an interior designer, I would absolutely hire me,” Black’s reply came instantly, with a laugh.
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“All the time,” he said. “But it’s not my house.”
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know is what is their lifestyle? Do they have young kids? Do they like to host dinner parties? People live their lives differently, and their homes need to — or should — reflect that.” “I think my own preferences veer toward the family-friendly, which means dog- and kid-friendly. A place that’s lived in, where sometimes there’s someone spilling grape juice, and maybe the dog makes a mess on the floor.” At that moment, Black’s 9-month-old Jack Russel terrier, Loki, was living up to his Norse-god-of-mischief namesake, busily undoing the knots of Black’s shoes. “I like the result to be functional,” Black continued. “I think that’s how people live these days. They want — generally speaking — to live somewhere that’s beautiful and comfortable, but comfortable first. This isn’t 18th century France.” “People look to their homes as sort of an encampment against the world,” Black said and laughed. “That sounds horrible to say, but it’s true. They want to be in a safe place that makes them feel at ease. And this is true anywhere but much more so in a city like New York: Your house is your own place where you can be free from the hustle and bustle of the outside world.” Black himself lives in a flat overlooking Riverside Park, the 4-mile strip of verdant serenity between Manhattan’s West Side and the Hudson River. “Every night I get the sunset,” Black said. “So I’m lucky, because there are a lot of places in New York that are nice inside, but your only view is a gray cityscape, and you never see the sun.” Architect and fellow alum Andrew Jarvis ’71 (see Page 22 for Jarvis’ story) said the sine qua non for being a good architect is an equal aptitude for math, particularly geometry, and art. Do those same rules apply to design? “Absolutely,” Black said. “I would not be where I am without my art history background and having spent the time I have all around the world, whether Milan or Paris or San Francisco.
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“Design is always a puzzle. It’s never easy,” he continued. “Just seemingly basic things like how do I fit the furniture so people aren’t tripping over it. I spend a lot of time playing around with what fits where, and eventually you always come up with a solution. It’s a matter of having a good sense of spatial relations. “I can walk through a space in my dreams and see how everything is supposed to fit together,” Black said. Which is a great gift. Right? “It’s not great when you’re trying to sleep!” Equally important as being able to think in three dimensions is the ability to see, Black said, though he said it in a way that suggested his verb began with a capital S. “I just had my third interview to become a docent at the Met, and it’s fascinating to watch how people pass through the museum,” Black said. “One of the most important things is the ability to look around and actually see what’s around you. Most people walk around blindly, but it’s when you start to notice and appreciate a little detail on a building and things like that that you really open up to the beauty all around you. “That’s of paramount importance to architecture and to design. Just being able to stop and see. It’s like listening for a musician.”
“My approach is constantly evolving, and the more you see, the more possibilities there are. I can’t overstate the value of travel and experiencing different places and cultures,” he said. When he reflects on his time at Country Day, Black sums it up with a single word: “Amazing.” “It gave me the courage to explore the world,” he said. “I’m a kid from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and I’m living in Paris and flying to Egypt, and I’m experiencing things I would never have imagined, and I’m incredibly grateful for that. “One of the most important things I came away with was the idea that there were no boundaries, and the world was there for me to expand myself and my horizons. That’s an amazing thing for a young kid to realize, and I think one of the most amazing things you can give to anyone.” Black has a special place in his heart for John Jarvis, who, for as encouraging and horizon-expanding as he was, nevertheless set a boundary that Black remembers fondly to this day. “It was Mr. Jarvis who told me after I showed up to school in black however many days in a row, ‘This is not a funeral. You cannot wear just black to school any more.’”
For aspiring designers, Black had ready adBlack’s jobs run the gamut from penthouses vice. “The most on the Upper West important thing Side to cottages in the i can walk is travelling. Hamptons to villas in Live abroad. Key West. He doesn’t through a space Experience anhave one approach, he other culture. said. Every job is difin my dreams and Learn another ferent, and the client’s language. See wants and the space see how everything what the world guide him more than has to offer. any set process. is supposed “I’m absolutely “I don’t have a style so a better designer to fit together much,” he added. than I was 10 years ago, and Black then proceeded to it’s not about knowledge; it’s about expeexpound on his style, which, it turns out, he rience. You’ve got to have your heels on absolutely does have. “I would describe it ground,” he continued. “There is no shortcut. as Tailored Masculine. Bespoke. Definitely not floral. Definitely not girly. And I tell “And you’ve just got to get out of your new clients up front that if that’s what they space,” Black said. “There’s so much going want, then they don’t want me. on. There’s so much to see.”
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madelyn kate renĂŠ gosselin
allison bash messick
haidong eric ye
sophia blanca hawthorne
william harrison messick
jeffrey ye
regina faith henry
emily kate morales
junhao justin zhang
nicholas mathai hooper
quinn alexander muzzio
eric david zuckerman
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american university boston university brown university bryn mawr college bucknell university coastal carolina university cornell university dickinson college east carolina university elizabethtown college elon university fordham university high point university johns hopkins university lewis and clark college millersville university muhlenberg college n c state u n ive rs it y n ew yo r k u n ive rs it y n o rthweste r n u n ive rs it y oklahoma city university queens university of charlotte rhode island school of design shippensburg university syracuse university temple university texas christian university thaddeus stevens college the pennsylvania state university tulane university university of california san diego university of delaware university of miami university of new hampshire durham university of rochester university of south carolina university of tennessee knoxville u n i v e r s i t y o f v i r g i n i a u r s i n u s c o l l e g e wa k e f o r e s t u n i v e r s i t y washington university in st. louis west chester university west virginia university williams college xavier university
alexandra jaramillo
david del terzo matthew gerace
alexa stadel
courtney corrado
the trustee prize
faculty award
thomas mchenry westbrook
Awarded to the seniors with the highest grade point average.
Given to the student who embodies what the faculty most respects in a scholar and a person, an individual who has a true love of learning and is a model citizen.
ruth s. hostetter award
head of school award
This award honors the memory of a Shippen School graduate from the Class of 1931 and recognizes a senior who, over an extended period of time, has worked selflessly and enthusiastically to enhance the school community.
alexa jane stadel
william harrison messick david louis winner
david winner
courtney anne corrado
meet the class of 2019 award recipients
david julius robert nes gulick del terzo
matthew joseph gerace
Presented annually by the Head of School, this award recognizes the seniors most deserving of special praise for exhibiting qualities such as leadership, school spirit, persistence and civic virtue.
ann musselman award alexandra elisabet jaramillo
Given in honor of Ann Musselman, who was an LCDS teacher for 30 years, this prize is awarded to the student who has enthusiastic curiosity, takes intellectual risks, loves to learn and lives life to the fullest. | ISSUE NO. ELEVEN FALL 2018 |
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class notes We recognize that social media is an easier way than Class Notes for our alumni to stay in touch. Please see Page 2 for a listing of LCDS social media accounts. You’ll notice alumni news and updates moving more onto these networks, even as Class Notes continues to be a place to see some alumni submissions, reunion updates and event pictures. To submit a class note for print or web publication, contact the Alumni Office at dandridgea@lancastercountryday.org.
1940s
1950s
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Sally Rohrer Peterson graduated
Margaret Haller Hannum
from the Shippen School/Lancaster Country Day in 1944, going on to play field hockey and lacrosse at Vassar College before graduating with a degree in zoology in 1948. She then moved to Long Island, N.Y., to become a research assistant at the Carnegie Institute in Cold Spring Harbor, an early hub of scientific exploration. In her lab she met another young scientist, Peter A. Peterson; they married in 1948. Sally went on to earn two master’s degrees, one in botany and the other in library science, and the couple had two daughters, Sara and Susan. In 2017, Peter passed away, and Sally continues to live in Sonoma, Calif.
717-299-3798 phannum3@verizon.net
1948
Janice Westerman Johns has lived in the magnificent area of Sedona, Ariz., for 32 years. The beauty remains, however the ever-increasing influx of tourists has created previously unimaginable crowds while also providing a lesson in patience and perseverance. Her travels have taken her to Spain and Switzerland, where she studied at the University of Neuchâtel after graduating from LCDS.
1954
Sally Peterson’s love of reading and libraries has been a constant for her. Here she is with her son-inlaw, Raymond St. Francis and grandson, Theo.
Sally Rich Rohrer
502-895-2691 1955
Barbara Barlow, M.D.
717-299-3374 wicklawn1770@comcast.net
610-896-6468 Slater.Anne@gmail.com
717-507-8227 alixsroth@verizon.net
Eunice Fulton Blocker
Barbara Jaeger Gillis
Anne Campbell Slater
Alix Shuman Roth
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717-394-0847
continues as director of Injury Free (www.injuryfree.org) in 42 trauma centers in the U.S. and Canada. She is professor emerita of surgery epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. Her work for Injury Free has earned her the Volunteer Award from the American College of Surgeons and the Ladd Medal from the Academy of Pediatrics.
1960s
Barbara Barlow’s work for Injury Free has earned her the Volunteer Award from the American College of Surgeons and the Ladd Medal from the Academy of Pediatrics. Marty Mohn gave a TEDxLancaster Talk titled “From Hollow to Hero” on Sept. 22. Rick Manix and wife Leslie hosted trustee and past parent Gary and wife Debbi Langmuir and friends as part of Rick and Leslie’s donation to the FundFest 2018 auction.
In March, Helen May Page retired after 30 years with The Delaware Contemporary, formerly The Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts. She and her husband, John, are looking forward to traveling and spending more time with their sons and grandchildren in Anchorage, San Francisco and Scottsville, N.Y. 1962
Rick Manix and wife Leslie hosted trustee and past parent Gary and wife Debbi Langmuir and friends as part of Rick and Leslie’s donation to the FundFest 2018 auction, a prize of a four-course-meal. “My wife and I took Jib Ellis ’63’s daughter, granddaughter, and son-inlaw to dinner while in Lima, Peru. We had a lovely time,” Rick said. 1964
Phyllis Morgan-Rupert 717-768-3322 1966
Joseph A. Myers Jr. 717-394-9854 joemyers1@comcast.net 1968
Deborah Murray Martin 717-290-2082 debbie.martin@fandm.edu
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1980s
1971
1983
Melissa Byers
John F. Hinkle III
818-719-6550 melissabyers@earthlink.net
717-898-5728 jfh3rph@comcast.net
Melissa Byers continues to enjoy her
1984
work at the Television Academy as the producer of digital content. She employs a stable of writers all over the country, including a few of her former English students from Hempfield High School. She also interviews actors and creative artists from the television industry and writes about them for the Academy website.
Kathleen Murphy Jasaitis
Marty Mohn gave a TEDxLancaster
Joanna Underhill
Talk titled “From Hollow to Hero” Sept. 22 at the Ware Center. Her talk can be found on YouTube.
781-631-7899 kmjasaitis@comcast.net
1975
410-919-7219 dianedjordjevic@gmail.com
Dr. Joe Leonard took the first step toward retirement this month, shifting to 80 percent-time and reduced travel. This, plus having most Fridays off, should be an interesting change. He and his wife, Terry, still live in Ottawa, Canada, with their two cats. Terry remains quite active with a local theater group while Joe still misses the Montreal Expos.
Sarah Miller Dorgan 717-687-6466
717-468-3788 jomortonsalt@gmail.com 1987
Kristen K. Gedeon 703-283-6187 kristengedeon@hotmail.com
Bernadette Milner Gardner and Kristen Gedeon hosted a cocktail reception in April at the home of Bernadette and Eugene Gardner, celebrating the return of Jessica Bresler to Lancaster. Members of the Class of ’87 in attendance were
Jack Fulton 717-394-2255 jack.fulton@tecomet.com During Alumni Weekend 2018, the Class of ’88 gathered at Brian Rundle’s home. 1989
Margaret Hall Norton
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540-338-3630
310-415-7796 Debby@DebbyDodds.com
Peter Speitel, Jeffery Woodland, Eric Nordstrom (associate alumnus), Rory Connaughton (associate alumnus, Class of 1988), Bernadette Milner Gardner, Jessica Bresler and Kristen Gedeon.
Diane Eshleman Djordjevic
Eileen Eckenrode Vroom
Deborah Dodds
Bernadette Milner Gardner and Kristen Gedeon hosted a cocktail reception in April at the home of Bernadette and Eugene Gardner, celebrating the return of Jessica Bresler to Lancaster.
was given the Lancaster Bar Association Achievement Award for his work with the Southern Poverty Law Center, with Alabama’s Legal Services Corp., and his study of health care policy as a Fulbright Scholar, among many other achievements.
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1985
’87
William Watt Campbell
503-638-6127 Margie.Norton@cenveo.com
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Bob Porter Ellen Simpson ’73 joined members of the Class of 1968 gathered for their 50th reunion at Debbie Murray Martin’s home.
pistol3667@aol.com
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Los Angeles | April 7, 2019
Alumni gathered at Playa Provisions in Los Angeles. Thank you to John Heath ’05, Meredith Russo ’04 and Corie Patterson Burton ’02 for recommending Sunday brunch, complete with a bike ride afterward.
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places
regional receptions
New York, N.Y. | March 14, 2019
Alumni gathered at NYC 1803 in New York City. Thank you to Sarah Eaby ’09 for suggesting the venue.
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1990s 1990
Mary Fulton Gingrich 717-560-4908 maryfgingrich@comcast.net
Erica Clayton Wright has been promoted to acting director of the U.S. Department of Labor’s Women’s Bureau. Some of her previous public work included serving as communications director for Senator Rick Santorum, as well as deputy director and communications director for the Pennsylvania Commission for Women. 1991
Susan Hull Dworsak 717-464-3537 sdworsak@gmail.com 1992
Kate Matwiczyk Hemmerich kmatwiczyk@gmail.com In May, Michael Deibert began work as Caribbean correspondent for Bloomberg. Based out of San Juan, he covers Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Jamaica. 1993
Jennifer Gschwend McGough 610-430-7671 drgschwend@yahoo.com
Susan and Adam Griffith ’95 welcomed their second child, daughter Mia Vivian Griffith, on May 9.
1994
1996
Stacey Gregg
Dennis M. Baldwin
919-622-4284 sgregg13@yahoo.com
484-269-4309 fcsp3@yahoo.com
1995 Shayna Watson ’98 was ordained to The Sacred Order of Priests in Christ’s One Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church on Saturday, May 18 at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Cathedral in Harrisburg.
The Class of 1998 celebrated their 20th reunion at the home of alumnus Max Tribble in October.
krinato@gmail.com
415-845-7654 betsyahlstrand@gmail.com
1997
Jennifer Mikes 781-558-5293 jcmikes@gmail.com In February, Alison Bell started a new job at the National Pest Management Association as their state association meetings manager. She is learning a lot about association management and the pest world.
Adam Griffith completed his Ph.D. in geography from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in the fall of 2018. He now works with the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians preserving culturally and environmentally important plant species. Susan and Adam welcomed their second child, daughter Mia Vivian Griffith, on May 9. All are free to visit when in Asheville!
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Kerry Diamond Rinato
Betsy Wademan Ahlstrand
Mark Ewing 303-859-4994 photos@foresightphoto.com 1998
Alexandra Goodman agoodman@fraser-ais.com The Class of 1998 celebrated their 20th reunion at the home of alumnus Max Tribble in October.
Shayna Watson was ordained to The Sacred Order of Priests in Christ’s One Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church on Saturday, May 18 at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Cathedral in Harrisburg. 1999
Meagan W. Dodge 415-846-8715 meagan_dodge@yahoo.com
Alumni Coffee with Steve | December 19, 2018 Graduates from the Classes of 2015-’18 joined Head of School Steve Lisk for coffee before the Upper School Winter Assembly.
2000s 2000
Nicole Richie 404-216-2053 nrichie617@yahoo.com
’00
Piera Moyer 610-413-0487 pieraesmesnyder@gmail.com
Ali Bergen has launched her own fashion line for women of all shapes and sizes. Check it out at meme-chose.com. 2001
Bianca M. Heslop BiancaMHeslop@gmail.com
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Ali Bergen has launched her own fashion line for women of all shapes and sizes. Check it out at meme-chose.com.
Elizabeth Sudhakar Vidor elizabethvidor@gmail.com. 2002
Corie Patterson Burton Corie.Burton@gmail.com
Lindsey Greco Strisik and husband Marshall Strisik welcomed their son, Brayden Rhett Strisik, in January 2019. 2003
Lauren Allwein-Andrews
Melisa Baez ’04 and Tim Snyder were married Dec. 2, 2017 in a private ceremony at San Juan Bautista church. On March 13, 2019, they welcomed a beautiful and healthy boy, Quincy Emanuel Snyder.
laurens99@hotmail.com 2004
Andrew England aengland1@gmail.com
Elizabeth Reidenbach 717-368-2025 Elizabeth.reidenbach@gmail.com
Melisa Baez and Tim Snyder were married Dec. 2, 2017 in a private ceremony at San Juan Bautista church. On March 13, 2019, they welcomed a beautiful and healthy boy, Quincy Emanuel Snyder. Melisa continues to work at ASSETS and Tim at LOA; both have found a love for this chapter in their lives.
Jarvis Scholar Luncheon | May 3, 2019
Lindsey Greco Strisik ’02 and husband Marshall Strisik welcomed their son, Brayden Rhett Strisik, in January 2019.
Shippen Luncheon | April 26, 2019 Graduates of the Classes ’69 and earlier gathered for the annual Shippen Luncheon.
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2005
Libby Roman Caldwell 717-669-8307 libby.roman@gmail.com
Christopher Young started a new job at Lancaster Behavioral Health Hospital. He also recently purchased a home in Lancaster with his fiancée and moved back to the area for the first time since graduating in 2005. Christopher graduated with a B.A. in psychology from Penn State Harrisburg in 2015 and will begin graduate studies in clinical psychology at Millersville University in August. 2006
Brendan Drewniany brendan.drewniany@gmail.com 2007
Katie Weida and husband Brian Danver welcomed their son, James Weida Danver, April 16. 2008
Erika Vernet 484-269-7483 Erika.vernet@gmail.com
Kate Roosa ’08 married Mike Habegger July 7, 2018, in Wilmington, Del., at Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library. Kate’s mother, LCDS librarian Karen Roosa, was a reader for the ceremony, and Kate’s brother, Andrew Roosa ’10, served as a groomsman. Cole Turula ’10, Kara Kennedy ’08, Elizabeth Raff (Arnold) ’08, Jeremy Raff ’07 and Tristan Bostock ’04 were in attendance. 2009
Kristen E. Casale kristencasale@gmail.com
2010s Christopher Young ’05 started a new job at Lancaster Behavioral Health Hospital. He also recently purchased a home in Lancaster with his fiancée and moved back to the area for the first time since graduating.
2010
Molly Umble UmbleME@hendrix.edu 2012
Kelsey Gohn 717-575-9034 kelseygohn@gmail.com In September 2018, Chris Andrews spoke with Upper School students on the topic of digital overuse and the value of human connection. Chris also announced the release of the “Let’s Talk” documentary in October 2018. He walked 3,200 miles across the United States to research the effects of digital overuse on our well-being. His spiritual and social journey challenges Americans to reimagine their relationship with technology and find balance in the digital age. This film meets Chris in Joshua Tree National park after 2,900 miles on the road. His message is simple: What is at stake is a connection to ourselves, to the people around us and to the world we live in. To learn more, visit www. letstalkusa.com.
Katie Jacobsen jacobsenk@lancastercountryday.org 2015
Elizabeth Warfel ewarfel@middlebury.edu Kate Roosa ’08 married Mike Habegger July 7, 2018, in Wilmington, Del., at Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library.
Chris Andrews ’12 spoke with Upper School students on the topic of digital overuse and the value of human connection.
Lancaster | December 14, 2018 Alumni, faculty and alumni spouses joined each other for a reception at Martin & Associates before the premiere showing of “Piano Men” at PRIMA’s permanent theater in downtown Lancaster.
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After seven years of training, William John Schlageter V ’15 competed on “American Ninja Warrior.” In December, he submitted a new application video, along with forms and a questionnaire, to the show. He learned he qualified to participate in Baltimore on March 28. “The whole journey has been the best seven years of my life,” he said. “I could not be happier to keep on bettering myself, continuing to push myself beyond my limit and get stronger.” Will was scheduled to appear NBC’s “American Ninja Warrior” June 17.
’15 Congratulations to Caroline Gardner, who was awarded a Fulbright English Teacher Award in Spain for 2019-2020.
Emily Churchill ’15 received three simultaneous nominations from the faculty she’s assisted, a record for the program.
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Congratulations to Caroline Gardner, who was awarded a Fulbright English Teacher Award in Spain for 2019-2020. Luckily for Horizons at LCDS, Caroline will be teaching for another summer before she sets off for this amazing opportunity! This year, as The University of Richmond has done annually for a long time, the faculty recognized a graduating senior who has impressed them with the assistance they’ve provided to student writers. Emily Churchill received an additional honor: She earned three simultaneous nominations from the faculty she’s assisted, a record for the program. Emily graduated summa cum laude this spring from the University of Richmond. Emily was also named IES Abroad Correspondent of the Year in 2018.
Lian Najarian, recent graduate from Lian Najarian ’15, recent graduate from Savannah College of Art and Design where she earned a B.F.A. in fashion marketing and management, presented a lunch talk for Upper School students.
Savannah College of Art and Design where she earned a B.F.A. in fashion marketing and management, presented a lunch talk for Upper School students in December. The title of her talk was, “The World of Fashion Marketing with Lian.” She spoke about her studies in fashion marketing as well as some extracurricular field experiences she had.
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cooking night on-campus
Lancaster | May 29, 2019 Alumni Max ’05 and Jen Weidman of JM Cottage Foods hosted a cooking night, teaching alumni and guests how to prepare a variety of appetizers and creatively display charcuterie.
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’27 In April, Corey Scull Brooks was among the top two percent of graduates, earning a Bachelor of Philosophy degree in communications rhetoric, sociology, and gender, sexuality, and women’s studies from the University of Pittsburgh. Corey will be taking a gap year working at Animal Friends, an animal welfare organization, before pursuing graduate work in communications and gender/sexuality studies. 2016
There is a new name in the Sewanee lacrosse record books as Grace Zechman became the all-time assists leader in program history when the Tigers defeated DePauw earlier this year.
In April, Corey Scull Brooks was among the top two percent of graduates, earning a Bachelor of Philosophy from the University of Pittsburgh.
Jane Zobian sharing the doll her grandmother gave her mom in 1985. Jane’s parents are Mrs. Megan Souders Zobian ’92 and Dr. David Zobian ’94.
Elliot Rhoads released his first EP, “Sell My Soul,” a four-song record that combines pop, R&B and electronica.
Grace had a career-high nine assists for Sewanee, contributing to her rank as third in Southern Athletic Association history.
Elliot Rhoads released his first EP, “Sell My Soul,” a four-song record that combines pop, R&B and electronica. The album is available now on all steaming platforms. 2018
Lauren MacKinnon lmackin1@villanova.edu
There is a new name in the Sewanee lacrosse record books as Grace Zechman became the all-time assists leader in program history when the Tigers defeated DePauw earlier this year.
@rhoadseworld
Sarah Frick was named to the dean’s list at Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame, Ind., for the 2018 fall semester.
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Elizabeth Long Byers ’39 ( January 8, 2019) Ellen J. Grove ’50 ( January 2, 2019) George Richard Proffitt ’17 (May 9, 2019) Hank Silver ’53 (May 12, 2019)
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Lancaster | April 18, 2019 Alumni gathered at Iron Hill Brewery in Lancaster for a networking luncheon and to support the Give 20 event, in which 20 percent of the restaurant’s food sales for the day were donated to LCDS.
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The three-story Gimbels pedestrian skybridge straddles West 32nd Street near Broadway. Designed by the same firm that six years later would design the Empire State Building, the skybridge that The New Yorker called “the Chartres of aerial tunnelry” dominates the view from Jordan Rogove’s DXA Studio. This photo was taken in 1944 by The Office for Metropolitan History and reprinted in The New York Times in 2014.
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