On the Mountain Spring 2016

On the Mountain

THE STORM KING SCHOOL JOURNAL SPRING 2016

NEW ENGLAND

CHAMPIONS SKS Legacies

STUDENTS CHASE FACULTY —into the frigid Hudson FOR A GOOD CAUSE

BOARD OF TRUSTEES Officers

Lawrence “Lon” Gratz ’61 Chair Roger D. Auerbacher ’66 First Vice Chair Joseph W. Blount ’74 Second Vice Chair Alan Serinsky ’70 Third Vice Chair Michele T. DeFreece P ’14 Secretary Myles Megdal Treasurer Jonathan W. R. Lamb ex officio – Headmaster Trustees

Hilary Ackermann P’12 Ila Barton ’92 Scott H. Cantor ’73 - ex officio Bruce Hanson ’62 Kenneth Wang ’69 Scott Rutter ’73 Thomas Sheppard Trustees Emeriti

Maia Brogan - Honorary Michael Brower ’63 Robert Corey, III ’63 Jack D’Angelo H’13 Harrison M. Davis ’56 Thomas Delaney ’58 Stephen Duffy ’71 Peter Duggan H’58 Lawrence Fain ‘58 Michael Fischer ’82 Stanley Freilich P’11 Herbert Gelhardt ’48 B. deRacey Gilbert ’60 Margaret Harbison Norman Jeavons ’48 Hon. Harold Kennedy ’73 Peter Lamb ’72 Bettina Murray GP‘20 Arthur Reis ’75 David Riker ’50 John Settel ’50 Jeremiah H. Shaw P‘95 Karl Soderlund P‘91 James Sollami P’02,‘08,‘09 Robert D. Williams Jr. ’54 Suzanne Van Der Woude P‘74,’75 Peter Wunsch ’73

The Storm King School does not discriminate against any individual on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, martial status, national or ethnic origins, age, disability, or any other classification protected under state or federal law.

Contributors: This journal is the result of an enormous SKS community effort.

Contact info: OTM Editorial office: The Storm King School 314 Mountain Road Cornwall on Hudson N.Y. 12520 845-534-7892 www.sks.org otm@sks.org Send updates to: Anne Fulton P’09 afulton@sks.org or via the SKS Alumni Directory at sks.org/alumni-directory

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On the

The Storm King School Journal SPRING 2016

FEATURES 6 Lessons from the Hardwood New England Basketball Champions Learn the Lesson of the Hardwood

On the Mountain, the journal of the Storm King School is published for alumnae, parents, grandparents, and friends of the Storm King School. The purpose of this journal is to communicate the school's values and culture with accurate and objective stories about members of the school's community, past and present.

9 Going the Extra Mile Perseverance and talent carry Storm King student to the Rhode Island School of Design

10 SKS Legacies: Inheriting Tradition Five families with SKS roots share their stories

18 Science Chair: Paul Feffer, Ph.D. Stanford-trained physicist sparks passion for science among students on the Mountain

DEPARTMENTS 2 Letters 4 From Spy Rock Head of School Jonathan W.R. Lamb, reflects on life at SKS.

22 Mountain Road PHOTO: Kalydosos Kudayah '16 safe at home plate.

ON THE COVER: Faculty take the plunge to help cure cancer (pg. 32).

ON THE BACK: Students from the class of ’71 climbing the wall.

From the Classroom: Place-based Learning, Filmmaking on the Mountain , Athlete Profile, Students Attend Diversity Conference in Virginia, Globetrotters, Newburgh Community Service, Creative Tech., Our Town, Esse Quam Videri, Taking the Plunge for Cancer

34 The Common Room Alumni Connections: A message from Alumni Association President Scott Cantor ’73, Alumni Profile: Richard Wormser, Our Common Ground: Luke Sollami ‘08, We Are SKS: Joseph '85 and Malcolm '87 Phillips, Why I Give: Ross Sober ’92, Reunion Awards 2016, Events & Notes, Save the Dates

52 Class Notes 54 Memorial Rock

Letters/Comments DEAR OTM,

1966 Soccer team. Left to right top row: Reffler, Capers, Nickel, Fisk, Connor, J., Monsted, Morgan, Cosgriff T., Mabon, Carnes, Welch, Auerbacher, Mr. Huntington. Bottom row: Koch, Speed, Noonan, Chachis, Kehew, Coxon, Terry, Xaivaividhya, Woodruff, Phornphiboon, Connor T.

Many things change in 50 years and it is with wonderment that I can still recall so many memories of my two years on the Mountain. For the past few weeks I have been able to reconnect with several of my classmates as we prepare for our 50th reunion in June.

With the help or Roger Auerbacher, Henry Paul, Vance Brawley, Glenn Taylor* and Bobby Ross Carnes ’66 Monsted, we hope to have a memorable class get together. In a paragraph or two it is hard to relay what we remember about those days 50 years ago.

Storm King was an oasis of quiet, removed from the civil strife racking America and the agony and outcry of a war going on in a place we knew nothing about. Time with classmates on the soccer field, basketball court or baseball fields were what most interested me. As a “townie” my experience on the Mountain pretty much ended at 6:00 when my dad picked me up behind the gym to take me home. Eating in the dining room was a rare occasion for me, but, the evening of November 9, 1965 is hard to forget. We had

a soccer game and I decided to eat dinner with the team. As I was finishing some Boston Cream Pie and looked out on the Hudson Valley, we could see all the beautiful lights in the valley on this crystal clear evening. Around 7:00 we saw a cascade of lights going off until the only things illuminated were the automobile lights on both sides of the river and the Mid-Hudson Bridge. That was the night the lights went out in NYC. Another memory was a new interest I acquired about different cultures. SKS had students from many different states and countries. With students from Kuwait, and Thailand I had a new perspective that would change my view on the world and allow me to experience it in new ways. I remember how soccer star, Vudtichai Phornphiboon from Thailand, showed me how he could bring my six foot frame down to his 5’5”size with a neatly placed kick to my thigh. I have never challenged another “Thai boxer” to a boxing match.

ROSS CARNES ’66

* It is our sad duty to inform the reader that Glenn E. Taylor III ‘66 passed away peacefully in his sleep on February 18, 2016 (pg. 54).

While going through my memorabilia, I noticed that I had received a medal from Storm King School in 1962 indicating I was awarded placement of my name on the Traditions Cup. The School has lost track of such an award. Therefore, I would like to know if any other alumni have received this award in the past. If anyone has a recollection of such an award, I would like to know what it signifies. Unfortunately, SKS has lost some of its history due to fire or some other cause.

Thank you in advance for any assistance.

BRUCE HANSON ’62

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Bruce Hanson's medal

DEAR OTM,

The Quarry: Graduation Issue Volume XLII No. 5 June 1954

DEAR MR. HANSON, SKS Response: Research in the SKS archives has found that the Traditions Cup was presented to SKS in 1954 by “an anonymous friend of the school..…for upholding the traditions of Storm King…and as a symbol of high character and good scholarship.” Awarded by a vote of the faculty, Robert Williams ’54, editor of the Quarry and recipient of the Journalism Award, was the first to receive the Traditions Cup. We would like to hear from alumni with the names of other recipients, and we would like to know when the Traditions Cup award was last given. The Spy Rock Cup appears to be its successor. It states that it was “presented to the boys of the Stone School, Charles Bedford, 1919” and it was first awarded in 1970.

Selected by vote of the faculty and staff, the Spy Rock Cup is awarded to a senior whose performance and contribution to the School have fostered its best interests and traditions.

Please contact us with information that will help reconstruct our history: OTM Journal, The Storm King School, 314 Mountain Rd, Cornwall on Hudson, New York 12520.

Telephone: 845-458-5396 Email: otm@sks.org

Received the magazine and was impressed with the overall style and content, well done on a tight budget. Congratulations to the Team who puts it together, [it] flows well with the mixture of current and past, with a nice array of pictures. — Glenn Taylor ‘66

“Mr. Van Dyck was patient, persistent, and determined that each student completed his classes successfully with a firm grasp of each period of history under study.”

— LARRY SMITH ’52

VAN

A BELOVED TEACHER AND ALUMNUS IS HONORED ON THE OCCASION OF HIS 75TH CLASS REUNION

Nice job on the latest OTM. —William McDonald ‘64

It was really quite spectacular.

—David Van Dyck ‘40

I can’t recall EVER receiving such a nice and well laid out periodical from Storm King…Kudos! —Rick Reynolds ‘71

On the Mountain

THE STORM KING SCHOOL JOURNAL FALL 2015

I was reading the new issue of On The Mountain and felt overwhelmed at the appreciable “step up” this issue represents. There is something for everyone… —Peter Wunsch ‘73

On The Mountain reserves the right to publish none, parts or all of the contents of a letter.

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From Spy Rock HEAD OF SCHOOL JONATHAN W.R. LAMB

Dear Storm King Community, As we enter the spring of our 148th year, I am happy to say that Storm King School is thriving. With enrollment reaching 170 students, we are as large as we have ever been and pushing the limits of many of our current buildings. Exceptional energy is bubbling up from all facets of our program.

Anniversary outlined goals to increase endowment for scholarship and faculty salaries, and build new facilities between 1958 and our 100th birthday in 1968. The fund raising goals were slightly different than today’s. For example, the cost of a new library then was estimated to require $135,000 and a new gymnasium, $265,000!

While much has changed since Storm King’s Centennial Campaign, there remain themes about what a Storm King education provides. Here are some lines from the brochure which demonstrate those enduring values: “A school is measured by the quality of its teachers.”

“It has been a tradition at Storm King School to pursue a concept of learning that is broader than solely college preparation…Its larger objectives seek to develop intellectual curiosity, independent thinking, and a true desire for learning”.

– Warren Leonard, Headmaster

Headmaster Jonathan Lamb and his wife Toni.

Students are researching solutions to real world problems through their year-long cornerstone and capstone projects. Some examples include the impact of music and dance on children at a young age; the reasons behind colony collapse in bee hives; the impact of smoking on teens; how to raise scholarship funds for a non-profit school; how ‘gaming’ impacts teenagers and many other topics. The thoughtfulness and wisdom many students are showing and developing in these projects is outstanding.

In addition, the beauty and depth of music and art on campus, our service work in nearby communities like Newburgh, the success of our athletic teams as shown not

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just in victories but also positive character, the learning opportunities provided by school trips to Peru, Iceland, and Cuba have combined to generate a wonderful excitement at Storm King.

This edition of On the Mountain reflects on our past and our future. While much is made these days of 21st century ideas, knowing where we come from is often the key to understanding where we are going.

As our Sesquicentennial approaches, such reflection is only natural.

Recently, a colleague came across a capital campaign brochure from 1958, ten years before the school’s centennial year.

The Storm King School – Toward the 100th

Storm King remains a school rooted in the fundamental relations between teacher and student. As boarding school teachers, we serve as mentors in the classroom, coaches on the field and the court, and counselors in the dormitory and elsewhere. A Storm King School education has always been about more than just preparing our students for college, it is about helping them gain the skills, attitudes, and temperament for a successful life.

Six decades ago, the Storm King Faculty and Board envisioned a school that sought “to develop the total personality of the adolescent [boy] by encouraging him to play an important part in the affairs of the School and to enter into the framework of its worthwhile human relationships.” It offered an education “that fosters through learning and intellectual curiosity, respect for individual differences, individual ini-

tiative, and recognition of individual responsibility for the group.” Storm King continues to develop these traits and characteristics in the young men and young women who walk our campus in 2016.

The decade that followed the publication of the Toward the 100th Anniversary brochure was a tumultuous one which required students be prepared to solve global problems involving the environment, domestic and international political relations, learning to use new technol-

ogies, and evolving social and ethical questions and many others which are remarkably similar themes to those our current students will face. Storm King is as dedicated to preparing our students for full and complete lives as we were in 1958.

We are confident that our approaching Sesquicentennial Campaign will be successful in developing resources to help strengthen our school for the Storm King community that will follow us.

In the coming months we will be sharing more of our ideas of our plans to celebrate

our 150th birthday. We will also have more to say about how we address both the challenge of growth and the new educational landscape of this century. We welcome your ideas, thoughts, and support to make sure we hold on the best of our past as we build a school that prepares our students for the new world they will encounter through their lives.

The Storm King School Sesquicentennial

Kick off Reunion 2017 The sesquicentennial will reflect on

150 YEARS of extraordinary

Storm King School history

150 YEARS OF STORIES

Tell us yours at

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New England CHAMPIONS learn the lesson of the

HARDWOOD "Success is often dependent upon a person’s willingness to make sacrifices, and a team’s achievements rely upon individual members accepting their roles and working together toward a common goal. Developing bonds that transcend a sport is usually reserved for teams that endure something difficult together and somehow find a way to overcome adversity; a truth that also relates to life."

By Peter Rowe Freshman phenom, Jayden Figueroa chases after the ball during the semifinal game

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asketball practice had been canceled, and the athletes sat solemnly in a circle at centre court.

Two straight resounding defeats had created turmoil. On January 13th, Hamden Hall had pounded Storm King 81-58, outclassing and outhustling them.

Then days later, South Kent School followed it up with a 60-45 win in which the Blue and White had put forth an embarrassingly marginal and poor effort.

Storm King held a 10-3 overall record and remained unbeaten in the Hudson Valley League as the defending champions.

All shouldn’t have been so bleak, but the coaches and players knew that something was wrong. This was not a championship team. For all the hard work everyone had put in since the start of the season, including sacrificing Thanksgiving break in order to practice, there was something missing.

There was no love for each other or any joy in the game. When the team experienced questionable calls by referees, they talked back. When things didn’t go their way, the players stopped trying. They lacked mental toughness. The coaching staff, Alan Lewis and Peter Rowe, had broken clipboards, given emotional speeches and tried every motivational tactic they could muster.

This meeting was for the players; the coaches sat back and listened. But this time, one thing was clear—the messages were being heard, and the team left with new resolve: “We are supposed to be backing each other up. Play each play. We are supposed to care about one another. We are supposed to give our best. Basketball is supposed to be fun.”

There are times in life where things are going to go against you. When things aren’t fair. When all you can do is battle back, give your best and keep trying. Hopefully your friends, teammates and family will stand with you. This is a life lesson that extends well off the hardwood.

Storm King rallied. Applying a number of new offenses and pressure defenses, they began to claim signature wins: on the road defeating Watkinson 70-56, at home beating New England contender Chase Collegiate 74-57; and securing a 20-point win over HVAL (Hudson Valley Athletic League) rival Oakwood Friends School.

Storm King was putting up 70-point games

because the team was sharing the ball and running the court. They were playing team defense. They were listening to their coaches. More importantly, they were learning to work together.

They ran off their remaining games for

England Prep tournament.

Playing at Green Farms Academy against Rocky Hill School from Providence, the first round was no contest. Storm King easily beat the Rockies 62-32.

However, stiffer challenges lay ahead as

Tournament MVP, junior Eli Barnett breaks free in the closing seconds

"Most of the students were away on the spring break, however the gymnasium was somehow full. Parents, faculty and local families attended in droves." wins and beat Darrow 77-43 in the HVAL semifinals. Playing in front of a raucous home crowd, Storm King outran rival Oakwood Friends School 61-46 for their second consecutive HVAL championship.

But the nets were not cut down. Recently honored by NEPSAC (New England Preparatory School Athletic Council) as Coach of the Year, Al Lewis decided there would not be a final celebration because there were larger battles ahead: Storm King School had earned a second seed in the New

the team hosted long-term rival Wooster School of Danbury, CT. Most of the students were away on the spring break, yet the gymnasium was somehow full. Parents, faculty and local families attended in droves.

The three-member officiating crew dictated the early play. They called an extremely tight game and each team spent most of the first half at the foul line. Storm King trailed Wooster by 10 points at the half, managing only 21 first-half points.

Coach Lewis, recipient of NEPSAC's 2016 Coach of the Year award, shares his opinon(s) with the referee

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They were able to close the gap midway through the second half to 6 points before Wooster burst ahead again. Storm King trailed by 13 points with 8:39 left in the game. However, Blue and White began to take advantage of their size. Behind the inspired play of sophomore center Jah’ Bral Davis, they began their comeback.

Davis was fouled and made his first freethrow attempt. Teammate Chris Quartey converted on the missed free throw to bring Storm King within 10. Later in the game, trailing by 8, Chris Quartey received the ball in the post. He fed a cutting Jah’Bral Davis to close the gap to 45-39.

Wooster converted on a lay-up. Sharpshooter Jose Figueroa missed on a 3-point field goal, then Jah’Bral Davis continued his late-game heroics. He stole the ball and missed a turnaround jump shot. Wooster rebounded, then Davis stole the ball again, this time hitting. Storm King trailed by 6 with 5:26 left to play. Emotions got the best of the Wooster's Head Coach, who was hit with a technical foul. Figueroa who had struggled with his outside shot through most of the game hit both free throws.

Storm King retained possession of the ball. This seemed to get the team on track, as Jose Figueroa hit on a step back 3-point shot on the next play. Now 47-46, Storm King trailed by 1. For the next few minutes, the lead changed hands. However, freshman swingman Jayden Figueroa hit backto-back field goals to give Storm King a 57-54 lead. Wooster scored on the next trip down the court to trail by 1. Max Kopnin, Team's leading scorer, junior Jose Figueroa

Sophomore Max Kopnin and junior Chris Quartey drive the ball

who had led the Storm King defensive effort throughout the game, converted on one of two free throws to give Storm King a 58-56 lead with 18 seconds left. However, Storm King’s final defensive stand was stellar as they trapped Wooster in the corner and forced a turnover; Elijah Barnett slammed the ball home with no time remaining for the exclamation point as the crowd cheered furiously. Storm King advanced to the NEPSAC championship with a 60-56 win.

The New England Prep School Championship was held at Wheaton College outside of Boston. Storm King faced the number one seed, Bancroft School. The Blue and White got off to a good start and drew first blood converting on an early hoop. The tournament MVP, 6'5'' point guard Elijah Barnett, kept Storm King competitive with his weaving through the Bancroft defense in the first half. But early foul trouble on center Jah’Bral Davis and continued shooting woes from Storm King’s leading scorer, Jose Figueroa, put Storm King in a deep hole. Trailing by 13 at the half, Storm King found themselves with their back against the wall for the second consecutive playoff game. As Head Coach Al Lewis noted, “the thing that struck me about the two tournament games is that at no time during those two games did the team have a sense of panic

or desperation.” Making key defensive adjustments, Storm King fought back. “Never once did I doubt that we were going to win this championship,” added Coach Rowe. “I knew we were going to make a run.” It wasn’t until 9:32 was left in the game that Storm King took their first lead since the opening hoop. Jose Figueroa hit a deep three and then followed it up on the next possession with a pair of free throws. Jim Ning, Mingwei Wang and Chris Quartey contributed valuable play off the bench, but it was the stellar 17-point, second-half performance of Jose’s younger brother, Jayden Figueroa, that helped Storm King rally. Storm King’s defense stymied Bancroft. A late drive and score by Max Kopnin put Storm King up by 3. And they held on for the win. Coach Lewis summarized the effort, “Everyone finally found their role as we envisioned it, and the product was more than Wooster or Bancroft could handle.”

Storm King ended the season as New England Champions. More importantly, the boys discovered how to make sacrifices and work together as a unit. By never giving up, the members of Storm King’s basketball team had learned some of life’s more valuable lessons.

Final Score: 60-57

PALMER SMITH ’16

GOING THE EXTRA MILE Perseverance and talent carry SKS senior to the Rhode Island School of Design this fall

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t takes a special tenacity and grit to complete a 75-mile ultramarathon race. The sport is dominated by runners who tend to be older than 35, and many are well into their 40s and 50s. It is very rare to find a teenager on the starting line of these races; it is even rarer to find one who has completed five 75-mile races by the time he finished his junior year of high school.

Storm King’s Palmer Smith is one such young man.

Palmer came to Storm King in the fall of 2014 trying to rekindle his passion for education. He found peace in running and was dominant in Hudson Valley Athletic League cross-country competition during his junior year. He set the Storm King course record last year.

However, it was Palmer’s passion for the arts that drove him to succeed. Running has helped in fueling the creative side of Palmer’s personality.

Palmer joined SKS and enrolled in the Academic Support Program for help with his dyslexia and metacognitive skills. “When I first met Palmer, we talked about his vision for college, and he said, ‘I want to go to RISD’ (the Rhode Island School of Design, one of the top three art schools in the United States, if not the world),” said John Caruthers, who chairs the arts program at SKS. Mr. Caruthers, choosing his words carefully, told Palmer, “That’s an ambitious choice, we better get to work right away, then.” Palmer’s response? “Sure, but I need to run this afternoon.” Mr. Caruthers marveled as Palmer “… went to run up and down Black Rock Forest, in and around the town of Cornwall, back up to school, into the woods to circle the mountains a few more times.” He said, “I didn’t see him until the next day. I knew I was dealing with an ambitious young man. This is going to be a fun challenge.”

Storm King is a popular stop for college admission personnel who come to SKS to meet with students and review their portfolios. This year’s visit by RISD gave Palmer the opening he needed HOMETOWN : Manasquan, NJ

OVERALL GPA: 3.5

to introduce his work to the highly selective admissions staff of his “dream university.”

He had done some nice drawings in class, but because Palmer spent his earlier high school years in different schools, he did not have much of his prior work. We had to start from scratch. We first needed to define what “focus on a dream” actually means.

Through running ultramarathons, Palmer had an idea of what concentration, focus and steady work meant. But knowing what that means and actually doing it is a big difference. With much personal attention, Palmer began to understand where he was in his artistic development and where he needed to be in order to build a portfolio that would be accepted by a top art school.

“Besides technical instruction, most of my time with Palmer was spent talking about inspiration, innovation, and vision. I showed him artists that inspired me, and he found artists that inspired him. I hope our long conversations helped Palmer to understand the road that artists travel to define a personal vision,” said Mr. Caruthers.

Palmer’s other interest, in theater, added a performance quality to his artwork. For one project, he created a “drawing machine” that took a cooperative approach with nature to create artwork. Using sticks and string, Palmer built a “drawing machine” that suspended locally gathered mushrooms that have been dipped in pigment he made from plants. The machine drops the mushrooms onto paper, allowing nature to make its own mark with this “adaptive technology.” There were many times the drawing machine fell apart or projects came to a dead end. Yet Palmer persevered.

In April, Palmer received an email from RISD. He was accepted. RISD praised his innovative approach to art. This alignment of RISD’s approach to education and The Storm King School’s mission, I think, said a lot about who we are as a school, our arts program and where we are going in our educational mission.

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SKS Legacies

Inheriting Tradition

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n the February 15, 1945 edition of the long-running school newspaper The Quarry, a photograph of 10 boys, some seated and some standing, all in jackets and ties as was the custom, captured the School’s future. They were the sons, brothers and nephews of alumni at that time, and the paper anointed them “Heirs of the Storm King Tradition”. In the ’60s, descendants of our alumni were called Chips, as in “chips off the old block”.

Today, we refer to them as legacy students.

These students represent what is timeless about Storm King – community, mentorship, place – as well as the bright hope for our institution’s continued development and success.

Countless such legacies have graced the Mountain. As we reflect on our roots in anticipation of the 150th anniversary, here is a closer look at four families, including a couple of those mentioned in that 1945 Quarry photograph, and how they have kept the Storm King tradition alive.

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By Xenia Ferencevych

Bettina Murray TE Renee Tobin P’20 Rory Tobin ’20

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SKS Legacies

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engen is the Shinto Goddess of Fujiyama, Japan’s highest to the school, but being here on the weekends never afforded them mountain. It is also the name given to the Ledoux family a bird’s-eye view of classes or activities. home, built in 1904 by Louis V. Ledoux, an avid Japanese Indeed, Rory assumed she would graduate from the public art collector and grandson of the School’s patriarch, Dr. school system in Cornwall. But then, while at Cornwall Middle Louis P. Ledoux. Just a stone’s throw away from campus, the stately School, she met and befriended Pierce Pramuka ’20, the son of Sengen is today, the residence of the Tobins: Renee, Brad and their the School’s Admissions Director, Marek Pramuka. After getting daughters Rory, Brean and Farrah, the to know SKS a bit better through them, she youngest Ledoux family descendants. saw it as a viable alternative and enrolled The Tobins have been living at the home in the fall of 2015. for about four years. Prior to leaving Man“In Rory’s case, we just had a gut feeling hattan, they were weekenders, as so many that this was going to be the right place,” old Mountain families are. However, “jugsays Renee, “She’s got a great sense of comgling the estate,” as Renee puts it, became munity and she’s very open to all different a challenge, and they decided to try a yearpeople, she’s fascinated by all different round residency. Growing up, she had cultures. So, we were kind of stumped that spent time at Sengen and was very familiar we didn’t think of it right away.” Halfway with the area. Her childhood playmates through the academic year, Storm King included the Duggan and Cobb children, had already exceeded Renee’s expectafellow SKS families. tions.

Bettina Murray, Ph.D., Renee’s mother Renee has also joined the SKS commuand former wife of the late Richard Sands nity by way of the Parents’ Association, a (the son of Renee Ledoux Sands, Louis V.’s commitment she consciously makes with all granddaughter), has also spent nearly a of her children. “The great thing about this lifetime here, visiting “beaus” while a Parents’ Association is that they’re really student at the Chapin School in the late open to all our ideas and suggestions.”

“I’m very proud of being a ’50s, as a newlywed, during her marriage “I was delighted,” says Bettina of learndescendant of the founder of the to second husband Brean Murray (who ing about her granddaughter’s decision to School, but want to make my assumed Sengen’s stewardship) and today. attend Storm King, “And I think, too, it’s own mark and impression.”

Brean encouraged Bettina to become a been an excellent choice for her. She opmember of the Storm King Board of Trusterates very well in this kind of environ—RORY on being a SKS student and ees (1985–1990). ment.”

Dr. Louis P. Ledoux’s great-great-great“I liked the School very much and I While Rory demurs from naming a fagreat-granddaughter thought there were a lot of possibilities out vorite class, she admits to feeling great there, and I think the School is at a point affection for her adviser, Karen Ruberg, now where they are capitalizing more on who teaches 8th grade English and Social these possibilities,” she says. During her Studies. Since SKS is located in the scenic tenure on the Board, Bettina was involved Hudson Valley, the place-based learning in parent outreach and fundraising, adcomponent of the curriculum has also vancing the mission of SKS and cultivating been positive for Rory, who loves the outtheater arts at the Walter Reade, Jr., doors: “Having that as an educational exTheatre, built in 1983. perience just makes it even more exciting It should be noted that L. Pierre for me.”

Ledoux, Renee’s great uncle, was also a With her parents’ support, Rory has Storm King Trustee in the ’60s. Both he and been augmenting her academic program his son, Andre Ledoux, were among the with community service opportunities honored guests at the Centennial celebraoffered at the School. She is also working tions on May 20, 1967. on a cornerstone project to raise funds for Generally speaking, members of the a new SKS scholarship that will be granted Ledoux family have always been involved to a deserving student from Newburgh. with SKS in some capacity since its foundHow appropriate, then, that Rory’s ing. However, not since the days it was still tenure at Storm King will dovetail with the known as the Cornwall Heights School (1867-1914), has a direct Sesquicentennial—a time when we celebrate the founding of this descendant been a student here. Until now. institution by her great-great-great-great-grandfather. One “I didn’t even imagine going to this school,” says Renee’s cannot imagine a better ambassador for the family that has given 13-year-old daughter, Rory. They knew about SKS and their ties its time and talents to generations of students.

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SARAH L’HEUREUX ’74

JOHN M. L’HEUREUX ’43

the family’s Puddin’ Stone Farm. He courted and married his wife, Marie, and raised two sons and daughter Sarah.

Also wanting independence after SKS, Sarah attended Sarah Lawrence College and, in her words, “bombed out.” What she really desired was “Once I was here, he was absolutely delighted. He really enjoyed it.” to pursue the moun—SARAH on her father’s reaction to her attendance at the newly coed SKS taineering and music that had enchanted her while at Storm King. At the arah L’Heureux has a special place state-of-the-art learning laboratory. A urging of Tyson Atherholt ’74, she moved in SKS history. She is considered year after his time at SKS, like so many in to Colorado where she managed a the first female legacy student. his cohort, John enlisted in the military. folk-music coffeehouse and he was the Her father, John Mabon L’HeuSarah L’Heureux was an artist during sound technician. reux, attended in the run-up to America’s her time at Storm King. She played guitar, For four years in Colorado, she worked involvement in World War II. She, in turn, wrote her own songs, and staged imat the coffeehouse, tended animals on a was here at the tail end of the Brogan promptu concerts with fellow guitarist small dairy farm, climbed the Rockies (“it years, shortly after the school started acVance Cannon ’75. “There was nothing to was exquisite”) and briefly dated musicepting girls. (Her uncle William was also do in the evenings, so people would cian Dan Fogelberg. a student here in the 1940s.) come,” she says. She acted in plays directSarah returned to New York because of Both John and Sarah came to Storm ed by English teacher Gary Bowen and a “nagging sense that [she] had to go to King under similar circumstances: the student director Mike Rengers ’73. college and time was wasting.” Inspired to public schools were not a good fit for Having no formal theater on campus get on with her career, she completed her them. While her paternal grandfather, then, shows would take place on a makeeducation degree at St. Joseph’s College Colonel Alfred J. L’Heureux, actively shift stage in Orr Commons, the gym or on Long Island and spent 33 years as a sought a higher class of education for her in the gym lobby. special education teacher, mostly at the father, Sarah says she “fell between the In 1972, when Sarah entered SKS, the Monroe Woodbury schools. cracks” at Monroe Woodbury High School school had been coeducational for only “[I] first taught high school and I just in the early 1970s: “My parents decided two years. “There were eight girls and a drew upon the great examples of teaching that a smaller private education would be hundred-and-thirty-something boys,” that I saw here. We had some wonderful better for me.” she laughs, adding, “We got lots of attenteachers,” says Sarah who cites Tom This is where their stories diverge a tion, that’s for sure. You never had to sit Donahue (Spanish) and Tom Rokjer bit. John L’Heureux was an athlete at there by yourself.”

(Social Studies) among her favorites.

Storm King. He played golf and football John would drive his daughter and her Prior to John’s death in 1988, he and “in the days when they had football classmate Ella Jean Rarick ’74 to school his daughter attended several SKS Reteams,” says Sarah. She adds that he every day from Central Valley. During unions together. They would arrive towasn’t very strong academically, perhaps Sarah’s junior year, she was moved up to gether then split up into their respective even dyslexic, but he made long-lasting 12th grade, ultimately graduating at the groups. “He loved reunions,” says Sarah, friendships with his teachers—especially tender age of 16.

“My dad was a real talker.” with French instructor and football coach At this point, the paths of father and The Storm King legacy that John left Howard Stiles who would spend holidays daughter start to run parallel again. John his daughter is still paying dividends. A with John’s family and visit them in Highreturned from World War II where he few years ago, Sarah’s best friend was land Lakes. served in the Pacific theater (Burma and looking for a better educational opportuStorm King was an all-boys institution China) to find he wasn’t cut out for a 9 to nity for her son. She directed them to SKS, when John boarded in the Old Main Build5 job. “He always wanted to work outand today, Nicholas “Nick” Budich ’17 is ing. In 1941, Colonel L’Heureux helped doors and be independent,” says Sarah. thriving. “He’s very happy,” Sarah says fund then-headmaster Anson Barker’s As a result, he began an egg business on with a smile.

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ott Tuthill Greene was just a child when he first arrived at SKS. “I started coming when I was eight or nine years old for Alumni Day, where it was always a tradition to have a baseball game between the old boys and the varsity baseball team,” he says, “And one of my first memories of Storm King is watching my uncle Mott pitch against the Storm King varsity baseball team.”

Both Motts inherited their names from their ancestor Morris Tuthill, who was nicknamed “Mott” and whose Washingtonville roots extend deeply. For several generations, this nearby town was their family seat.

In 1939, Lynne Greene became the first in his family to enter Storm King School. His son Mott speculates that this was probably because his parents wanted a better education for him. Lynne was elected to the Cum Laude Society (the prep school equivalent of Phi Beta Kappa), played football and soccer and acted in the Players Club drama group.

Lynne’s roommate senior year was John “Jack” (“Trout”) Hemingway ’41, the son of great American novelist Ernest Hemingway. “My father said, every couple of weeks, a package would arrive for Jack and it would be a new chapter from a novel that Hemingway was writing,” says Mott, “And he never let anybody see it.”

Lynne’s younger brother, Mott Preston Greene, began Storm King in the autumn following Lynne’s graduation. “He loved it!” exclaims his nephew, “He was actually a great athlete; he played both football and baseball for Storm King and went on to play varsity football at Colgate afterwards.” The Quarry cites that Mott P. lived in Tower House, was the Assistant Head Boy, Players Club member, on the Dance Committee and Manager of the Senior Store.

Fast-forward to the fall of 1960, when at 14, “full of fear and anticipation,” Mott P. Greene became the third member of his family to attend SKS. It was an obvious move for father Lynne, who, at the suggestion of a teacher that his son could use a more challenging academic environment, “immediately thought of Storm King.”

Mott T. Greene lovingly describes his years

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on the Mountain. From the stunning vistas surrounding campus, to the strong sense of community and work ethic instilled by headmaster Warren Leonard, to the formality of nightly dinners and the social consciousness of the faculty, it is clear that Mott does not take for granted his SKS experience.

When listening to him thoughtfully tick off the names of faculty who most influenced him, Bettison Shapiro (Biology), Avahlee Shapiro (Chemistry), Herb Sauer (Math), Arnold Toback (American History), Ernest Krag (Sociology), and Coach Charles Huntington, one cannot ignore the admiration in his voice.

Especially, when it comes to Ernest Krag. “He treated us like adults,” says Mott. In addition to teaching, Mr. Krag led the Auto Club, fixing up old engines and cars and empowering the young men to choose how best to repair the machines.

“If you were a young person trying to attain maturity, being offered a chance of making a consequential decision is a really big deal, and not something that normal K–12 public education makes room for,” says Mott.

He stayed in touch with Mr. Krag for a decade following high school and says, “I wouldn’t have ever become a historian without him.”

Mott completed his PhD in the History of Science from the University of Washington in 1978. In 1983, he was awarded the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship, which led him to a 27-year career teaching at the University at Puget Sound, where he had an endowed professorship in Science and Values. Recently capping over 20 years of research, Mott has published his book Alfred Wegener: Science, Exploration and the Theory of Continental Drift, the only comprehensive biography of Wegener’s life and work.

In 1991, Lynne, Mott T. and Dale Greene (Mott P.’s son) attended the SKS Alumni Reunion. It was Lynn’s 50th and Dale’s 10th.

Dale came across an old photo of his late father hanging in Orr Commons and was momentarily taken aback by his own resemblance to him.

An administrator witnessed this, and gave Dale the photo as a keepsake.

“It was one of the best experiences of my life,” says Dale of his time at the School, citing

greater individual attention and athletics as powerful factors.

Arriving in his junior year, Dale chose to board and became a prefect in McConnell his senior year. He played soccer and lacrosse, and was a member of the very competitive ski team led by Jack America. “To this day, I can remember some of the drills we did in the Commons,” he says. It was a passion that compelled him years later to become a professional ski instructor in the Catskills.

Dale recalls faculty members Herb and Tommye Sauer, Dee

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WATSON GEROULD “GERRY” CLARK III ’48

erry Clark’s great aunt has left an enduring mark on our school. We remember her annually when bestowing the Miss Margaret Clark Faculty Excellence Award on a deserving former teacher at Reunion. Her emblem, originally designed for The Echo school newspaper, is the official SKS crest. Margaret Clark taught manual training (wood and metalworking), mechanical drawing and art for 44 years, the longest faculty tenure on the Mountain to date.

By the time Gerry arrived at Storm King as an 8th grader, she had retired to their grandparent’s house in Tenafly, NJ, and it was Nelson Clark, their father’s much younger brother, who played the most influential role in their time at school. “He was much closer to me than my father,” says Gerry. The closeness in age between all three Clarks engendered a lifetime bond.

Nelson, known as “Skippy,” came to SKS in the fall of 1932 and quickly established himself as a leader. He was named Head Boy and captain of the basketball team during the 1934–35 season, worked on The Quarry and performed in the Players Club.

From the moment Gerry set foot on campus in 1943, he was smitten. “I liked everything very much and Mr. Barker …

Kolewe, Terry Ulram and Austin Wicke as being mentors, and Keith Halpin, Michael Fischer ’82, Dee Kolewe ’81, Day Kolewe ’81 and Eric Maxwell ’81 as friends.

From academics to activities like choir, sports and the literary magazine Onset, Dale reflects positively on his time on the Mountain 35 years ago: “It was a good move for me, and I’m certainly grateful to my parents that they gave me the opportunity to go there.”

WILLIAM “BILL” GOODMAN CLARK ’50

was a very good headmaster.” In fact, the Clarks ended up good friends with Anson Barker, vacationing in Cape Cod together.

Before moving to The Cottage, Gerry spent several years in Old Main and has good memories of being allowed to smoke (with parental permission) on the first floor of the building.

The community at the time totaled about 50–60 boys, including Gerry’s roommate Doug Dayton ’48. “Because it was such a small school, everybody took part in the governance of the school and everything that went on.”

This ethos was encouraged and cultivated by Headmaster Barker.

Both Bill and Gerry made the most of their time while at SKS, where they overlapped for two years. Both maintained high scholastic averages and participated in the Players Club, Dance Committee, Senior Store and football. As a senior, Bill received the school’s Journalism Cup for his time as Editor-in-Chief of The Quarry.

“We held our own with schools a lot larger than ours,” says Gerry about athlet-

ic competitions, noting there was no formal league at the time, but they would scrimmage against schools like Hackley School and New York Military Academy.

Gerry was known for his debating skills and credits Malcolm Dyar for always provoking “good discussion” inside the classroom and out.

After SKS, Gerry was on track to study pre-law at Williams College, but transferred to Rutgers for a semester. He went on to complete his degree at Cornell, where Bill ultimately joined him. After graduation, the brothers entered the U.S. Air Force and flew missions at the end of the Korean War: Gerry stationed in Japan doing weather reconnaissance, Bill in Washington State supplying atomic energy posts in the Pacific.

Gerry would be done flying by one o’clock every day, and to pass the hours, he and his comrades would play bridge, a card game he learned at SKS thanks to “Father Knickerbocker,” which saved him from boredom during his duty in Asia. After returning from active duty, he would volunteer with the SKS Alumni Association under President John “Jack” Kayton ’26.

Nelson attended Williams College and then served as an officer in the U.S. Army in World War II. Upon his return, he settled in Tenafly with his wife, Betty, and their kids. Nelson worked with Gerry’s father in the insurance business and later, moved to Whiting, NJ, where the 95-yearold Mountaineer lives today.

Bill also entered the insurance business and was employed by General Reinsurance for many years. He lived in Tuxedo Park,

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NY, with his first wife, Barbara, and their three sons. Later, he settled in Greenwich, CT, with his third wife, Tanya.

“Bill and I were very close up until he

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died [in 2014],” says Gerry emotionally.

In 2000, Gerry and his wife, Gail, retired and, eschewing Florida (or what he calls “God’s waiting room”) now live in

dam Horowitz and Joe Underwood, whose grandfather Irwin (“Poppy”) is Adam’s uncle, may have over 30 years between them, but their Storm King stories could be one and the same.

Both entered SKS after attending schools on Long Island, in search of a smaller academic setting and better student-to-teacher ratio.

“I guess I needed to have a little more hands-on with my studies,” says Adam, who came here as a junior, “And going to Storm King at the time was the right move for me. [The] small community, which was really like your home and your family … is what I needed to move my life forward, and it worked.”

When asked about his first impressions of SKS, Joe echoes his uncle’s words: “I really liked the environment and the smallness of the classes. I could tell when I visited here, it was one big family—everyone was so close—and I’ve really liked that feeling, almost like a ‘homey’ feeling.”

They both discovered wrestling at SKS, a formative and beneficial experience.

Adam’s wrestling coach, Jack Armitage, played a big role in his life, as did Jack America and Assistant Headmaster Dee Kolewe.

“He had a son that wrestled a couple of years before me,” says Adam of Mr. Kolewe, “[He] was tough on me but very fair. He was a really terrific guy.”

When Adam learned his nephew had started wrestling, “he was happy and excited,” says Joe. It was not just a new physical endeavor for Joe, however. When he began wrestling in 10th grade, he took the leadership skills taught by Coach Joseph Graziosi that season and applied them to his class work and other team sports. “Eventually, I was captain of the baseball team … and this year, captain of wrestling.”

And then there are the lasting friendships both have made while at SKS. Joe is considered one of the most likeable members of our community. He came here in 9th grade and befriended many along the way. Some have moved on (he still keeps in touch with Lily Snyder ’14) and some came into his life just this year (new

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Damariscotta, Maine.

They spend time enjoying their four children and seven grandchildren, all of whom visit them as often as possible.

student Cole Jemal ’16 is a “good friend”).

However, the classmates who have been with him from the start are the ones that he feels closest to: “All the freshman that came up with me through the four years, it’s going to be tough leaving and saying good-bye to them.”

Adam is still in touch with his classmate Adam Grossman ’84, who lives in Kentucky with his family and regularly visits New York.

“We always get together and have drinks and dinner,” says Horowitz, “Still to this day, he is a great, great person and a lifetime friend.”

About eight years ago, both Adams and Chad Merrill ’84 spontaneously travelled to Barcelona, Spain, visiting their good friend Lorenzo Quinn ’84 (son of late actor Anthony Quinn).

It was as if no time had passed between them; they reminisced and enjoyed Lorenzo’s extended family in a quintessentially European fashion: “There were 20 of us sitting down for lunch for about four hours,” laughs Adam.

In 1988, Adam graduated from the University of Arizona and now works at Brean Capital in New York City, where he lives with his wife, Janice, and their young sons, Henry and Alex.

Joe, who entered as a student in the Academic Support Program (formerly the Mountain Center), graduates this year as a member of the National Honor Society with a list of accolades. He has been accepted early decision to Scranton University and is awaiting word on an ROTC scholarship. He plans to study criminal justice, attend law school and have a career in the U.S. Military’s J.A.G. Corps.

Adam, who was back at SKS a couple of years ago to show his family our beautiful campus, couldn’t be happier for his nephew: “Joe has really grown tremendously. He will be very successful in his life … I’m just so proud of the boy.”

2016

BY THE NUMBERS

$7.9 Million

Amount of money invested in upgrades toward the physical plant since 2012

Elevation in the village of Misminay, Peru where Storm King students planted trees, potatoes and carried lumber as they made their way toward Machu Picchu.

12,139 ft

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51

goals scored by junior Cierra Martin during the Girls soccer season, a Storm King record.

130

hours spent

IN REHEARSAL BY EACH STUDENT AS THEY PREPARE TO PERFORM FOOTLOOSE: THE MUSICAL.

The number of pigs Chef Mo’s new mobile smoker (a gift from Ken Ryan ‘72) is able to roast in a single setting (Don’t believe us? Come to the 2016 alumni reunion and see for yourself).

24-0 Total wins and losses accumulated by the Boys varsity basketball team in HVAL play since 2014.

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WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT -

Paul Feffer, Ph.D. SCIENCE DEPARTMENT CHAIR

BY XENIA FERENCEVYCH —

Dr. Paul Feffer has always liked to make things. As a boy, his father, a professor of orthopedic surgery, brought home real mercury (you know, the toxic stuff), so that his son could make a barometer. Later, inspired by Carl Sagan’s television series, Cosmos, he took an interest in the skies, and picked up rocketry. While in high school, he had a summer job working for an architect creating a scale model of a hotel. And then, he taught himself to program computer software at the dawn of Apple and Microsoft when very few knew how to use a computer—and even fewer knew how to teach programming.

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As a doctoral student studying at the University of California at Berkley, Dr. Feffer collaborated with scientists on three continents to build and launch a one-of-a-kind High Resolution Gamma-Ray and Hard X-Ray Spectrometer (HIREGS). Twice. (He calls it “an instrument” but most of us would call it “Wow!” More on this later.)

With the advent of Storm King’s new Q-terms this spring, Dr. Feffer is proposing student projects such as making robots using resources like the School’s 3-D printer, creating a museum-quality scientific display and building an architectural model of the school's campus.

Making things has helped Dr. Feffer understand the world—a curiosity that tends to lead people to the sciences. “I was always interested in physics and science, and astronomy and astrophysics,” he said. And while he’s always been keen on science, the path to teaching it and sharing it with young people has been a little less clear-cut.

ARRIVING AT SKS Following 12 years of schooling on the West Coast where he received his B.S. in Physics from Stanford University and PhD in Physics from the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Feffer was restless. He’d been offered work in Pasadena, California at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, but doing “more of the same” did not hold any interest for him.

Besides, he had aging parents back on the East Coast whom he wanted to attend to. They were both educators. His physician father taught at George Washington University, while his polyglot Yugoslavian mother “dabbled in teaching various languages.” After caring

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for them, maybe someday he’d head back.

Dr. Feffer had certainly felt the pull toward education during his early adult life—he’d been a teacher’s assistant in graduate school and also helped develop a weekend program teaching physics to at-risk junior high schoolers. And yet, his next move after California was not to the classroom. Instead, Dr. Feffer moved to the New York metro area and made the leap from academia to business.

Specifically, he pursued a combination of IT consulting and investment management in the banking and finance industry. His consulting company was called Positron Investments, Inc.—a nod to his study of positrons, “the anti-particle equivalent of an electron” in graduate school.

Later, he held the post of Chief Technology Officer at a small pharmaceutical distributor. Working with a team of computer programmers based in India, he developed the enterprise systems for managing customers, orders, vendors and inventory.

Somewhere along the line, however, that niggling interest in education cropped up again. He wanted to teach high school students.

“I saw it as a good thing to do,” said Dr. Feffer, “But the opportunity never really came up until several years ago when I decided, ‘Well, let me teach a college course’—I taught an engineering course at Rockland Community College—and I enjoyed that. That’s when I left my ‘industry’ job and started looking at schools in the area.”

Shortly thereafter, on the verge of entering an inner-city public school teachers program, he got a call from Headmaster Jonathan Lamb (Assistant Head at

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the time), inviting him to check out Storm King School.

CHARLIE BROWN AND HIS FOOTBALL For a high school physics teacher who never studied physics in high school (he chose biology instead, followed by physics in college), Dr. Feffer has quickly adapted. He also teaches computer science, manages the SKS Observatory and chairs the Science Department.

Though he commutes 45 minutes to work from Valley Cottage, N.Y., each day, Dr. Feffer stays late to coach the Tennis team and Outdoor Adventure, all part of the boarding school package. He doesn’t mind the long hours, and his weekend tennis game has improved.

But the pedagogical craft is not an easy one to hone.

Dr. Feffer likens teaching to Charlie Brown kicking a football. That is, it’s like trying to kick a football that keeps getting pulled out from under him.

Since answering Headmaster Lamb’s invitation to come to the Mountain and join the faculty in 2013, Dr.

’15 Top: Dr. Feffer and Mr. Rowe observing their 2015 HVAL Champion Tennis team. Bottom: Dr. Feffer during an astronomy club meeting.

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Feffer has been “upping his game” one metaphorical kick at a time.

Not only has he had to figure out how to best teach physics on the high school level when not every student has yet been introduced to calculus, an essential building block of physics, but he’s also learning how to effectively reach our diverse student population.

“Every year, I’ve adjusted the bar a little bit. I think this year I’ve hit on the right pacing and what [the students] can do. I’ve been trying different textbooks … and starting this [winter] … I’m creating my own virtual textbook in the form of PowerPoint slides.” Visual images, in his experience here at SKS, tend to be more powerful purveyors of information than words.

But the quiet authority with which he conducts his classes is also a powerful tool.

When one observes him teaching, whether deconstructing the conservation of momentum or energy on the white board, or introducing rotational kinematics from handwritten notes, Dr. Feffer’s kind smile and relaxed style invite his students to engage with him.

With the project-centered curriculum becoming a standard at Storm King these last few years, Dr. Feffer is even more excited about his later-in-life career. The possibilities are many.

His computer science students are making their own websites, programming Arduino circuit boards and learning about computer ethics (think Edward Snowden, WikiLeaks and the self-driving car).

Big ideas, such as creating a preprogrammed miniaturized satellite called a “CubeSat” to send into space and monitor from the classroom, animate this normally reticent scientist.

Ultimately, it is the experiential assignments that fit best with Dr. Feffer’s own history as a PhD candidate; a time when he studied X-ray and gamma-ray emissions from the sun, galactic center, and other astronomical objects using data collected with a balloon-borne spec-

’92 Top: The entire science and support team in Antarctica next to the HIREGS before the first launch. Below: Dr. Feffer with HIREGS after its second flight.

trometer flown over Antarctica called HIREGS. The time when he helped to create and launch “an instrument.”

HARNESSING THE SUN There exists a fascinating PowerPoint presentation that chronicles the fruition of Dr. Feffer’s graduate work on HIREGS. It shows photographs and video of him and his collaborators—scientists, and electrical and mechanical engineers—in Antarctica, assembling their spectrometer and sending it off on a long duration balloon flight (LDBF), getting it as close to the sun as possible. (Studying the sun in Antarctica is ideal because it’s visible 24 hours per day during the summer season.)

You can see military planes—presumably carrying the spectrometer’s various shields, detectors and computers created in labs in California and Toulouse, France—landing on a snowy runway at the McMurdo Station on Ross Island.

Dormitories, labs and dining facilities catering to military and scientific personnel fill the screen, as do images of Dr. Feffer’s colleagues inside in their workspaces, busily testing and putting together the parts in preparation for the launch.

Suddenly, spectacular satellite photos of the sun appear.

Then comes the big day: shots of parka-clad folks joining the spectrometer with a parachute that’s connected to a gigantic, deflated high-altitude helium balloon, readying it for its LDBF. The mammoth balloon fills up with helium gas delivered from tanks, and rises until it becomes full size.

It detaches and everyone cheers.

When asked what he felt at this very moment, Dr. Feffer replies with his characteristic earnestness: “I think at this point I was running back to the building.

I wanted to see the launch, and I had my camera and I was taking pictures, but then I went back to start monitoring, making sure the instrument was working.”

Yes, but this was the culmination of years of blood, sweat and tears; three months on a remote island, on an even more remote continent; what was he feeling?

“At this point, I’m worrying if there might be bugs in the software that I didn’t find,” Dr. Feffer laughs, referring to the computer program he developed to record their findings.

In January 1992, HIREGS circled Antarctica in 14 days, travelling about 5,000 miles. Then the crew repeated the experiment the following year. A summary of the findings is located at:sks.org/faculty/paul-feffer

HE CONTINUES TO MAKE THINGS At home with his wife and young daughter, he is an avid home improver, enjoying, in his words, miscellaneous do-it-yourself projects.

Here on the Mountain, however, he is making scientists. By mentoring students in the classroom and on the tennis court, introducing them to the principles of science and technology, mixing in cutting-edge, handson projects and showing them the stars, he is filling our young men and women with the curiosity needed to better understand the world around them.

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Mountain Road

From the Classroom 8TH GRADE HISTORY AND ENGLISH TEACHER

BY KAREN RUBERG

The Storm King School’s 8th grade class has been digging into its environs in order to understand concepts across the curriculum. Rather than discuss broad themes from a general textbook of history, language arts, and science, students use the Hudson River Valley (HRV) as the “text.” They immerse themselves in the local environment and experience the actual place.

It is in this immersion that each student gains a deeper understanding of the HRV and sees the textbook concepts come alive.

In general, using the landscape as a foundation for the curriculum is known as “Place-Based Learning.”

The HRV, and specifically The Storm King School, offer diverse cultural opportunities for our 8th graders. Place-Based Learning is a perfect fit for our class; the rich heritage of the valley makes for a wonderful outdoor classroom. All the while, students learn how to think critically, to communicate effectively, and to collaborate successfully.

We began the year asking the question, “How did the HRV come to be?” With this guiding us, we read from texts that were specifically focused on the geology of the HRV. From there, the class set out to places like Minnewaska State Park, where actual evidence of geologic formations exists. Rather than simply read about erratics and striations, we touched and felt them. To experience the science of the HRV is transformational. After en-

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countering the glacial evidence at Minnewaska, the students returned to the classroom to develop presentations and shared with classmates the understanding they had gained.

As we explored the early inhabitants of America, our class asked the question, “Which Native American groups lived right here?”

We zoomed in on the Lenape, the Wappingers, and the Iroquois, examining how the geography of the Hudson Valley influenced the lives of these early Americans. One central question for this study was, “To what extent does geography influence culture?”

Why does it make sense for civilizations to want to settle near the Hudson River? What is unique about the HRV that might allow a culture to not simply survive, but to thrive? We visited places like Bowdoin State Park, Bear Mountain, and Black Rock Forest.

Students learned about the native peoples’ respect for nature and they practiced the art of hunting and shelter-building.

The theme of “place” anchors all of our inquiries. A special visit to the United States Military Academy (USMA) at West Point

focused on the role of the Hudson River in the Revolutionary War. As we moved around the post to several redoubts and forts, guided by USMA History Professor LTC Dave Siry, students were able to see the geostrategic importance of the river and to understand the importance of the location of the fort at West Point. Standing at the top of Fort Putnam and looking down at the river afforded the students the perspective to understand why the Hudson River was considered to be the “key to the continent.”

We are also studying the history of the Storm King School.

The students have spent time looking at yearbooks and issues of The Quarry, asking questions about the School’s evolution and its connection to the land.

Through this in-depth research, we hope that they will begin to see how they fit into its history. Ultimately, the students will work together to create a kind of museum that highlights SKS’s rich past.

They will design and create a way to present the history of the School. They have already begun working with our inhouse archives, discovering local history through annals found at the Cornwall Library and the Cornwall Historical

Society, and interviewing alumni and other stewards of Storm King’s nearly 150 years on the Mountain. As they delve deeper, they will be charged with creating a unique way to celebrate the School’s Sesquicentennial.

Place-Based Learning provides more texture than a typical classroom. Students are challenged to not simply memorize facts but to ask questions that search for a deeper understanding. It is through that process that they ultimately learn more about their identities in various contexts: who they are at home, at SKS and in the HRV.

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FILMMAKING ON THE MOUNTAIN “Quiet on the set!” This well-known directorial command resounds around campus often these days. It always comes from SKS Video Production teacher Zhenya Kiperman. Mr. Kiperman, a professional filmmaker, has been working with his students on writing, producing and filming short, two-character scenes.

Students are required to develop a script, inspired by personal experiences, that features simple dialogue and a story that is set indoors. Scenes are shot in busy interior sites around campus during the academic day to assure the best lighting.

Not having a dedicated space for filming is one of the challenges Mr. Kiperman is embracing: “We try to make films on loca-

tion, real places and we need control of these real places at the time of the shoot.”

Thus, his consistent insistence on a noiseless set.

Senior Pedro Silva, a former child actor in Portugal, is very familiar with the conditions of a film set, but was not aware of the creative and technical work involved in making scenes come to life.

“I showed up, did my lines and then went home,” said Pedro of his early experiences. As a student of Mr. Kiperman, he has pitched, developed and written a script, directed scenes, operated a camera, lit a set AND acted. Sometimes, doing several things at once!

“I feel like my acting improved because

of it and I obviously appreciate directors a lot more,” admitted Pedro with his trademark smile.

In addition to his class, Mr. Kiperman is advisor to the new Video Production club.

Club members assist in making promotional videos for the School, develop short films and transmit live sporting events via web streaming site thecube.com.

Mr. Kiperman, who spent nearly 20 years teaching in higher education, is new to SKS this year. He candidly called teaching high school “a steep learning curve”, but is impressed with the caliber of Storm King students who, according to him, are as good, or better than some of his former college students.

Athlete Profile: ALLY GUAN '16

by Jenna Cunningham '16

Senior Ally Guan completed her third season as a member of the fencing squad, coached by Christina Massiala-Vaka. Ally was first intrigued by the sport because “it just looked cool.” When asked what she liked about fencing and why she had decided to continue, Ally answered that “it’s unique in that it’s a very individualized sport.”

Fencers have three different weapons to choose from: foil, épée, and sabre. Each weapon has a different set of rules and strategies. “My primary is foil, but I can fence all three,” says Ally. This is the case with many of Storm King’s fencers: each HOMETOWN: Qiqihar, China

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has a primary weapon, but they are often versed in more than one. Ally may continue fencing in the future – she will be attending Cornell University in the fall, and plans to major in business.

The fencing squad showed an impressive performance at a February 26th match - the first one hosted by our school this century.

Storm King has a rich fencing history. The sport enjoyed its heyday in the 1950s under the leadership of Headmaster Burke Boyce (1952-1956), a member of the 1924 U.S. Olympic Foil Team.

OVERALL GPA: 4.5

WILL ATTEND: Cornell University

Students Attend Diversity Conference in Virginia

Last October, a group of SKS students experienced a full day of empowerment, bonding and inspiration during a Diversity Conference held at St. Stephen's & St. Agnes School (SSSAS) in Alexandria, Virginia. The conference's theme, “Stand Up; Speak Out, Speak Up; Stand Out,” was designed to empower students to become leaders in their schools and communities.

Students spent the day attending hands-on workshops where they explored what it looks like to “stand up and speak out,” and to create positive change in their communities. They were engaged in activities such as “What would you do?” role playing for difficult situations; making a public service announcement (PSA); and learning what it means to be an “upstander” for what you believe in. They also delved into issues including peer pressure, how to be an ally, what it means to be a bullied, standing up for those less fortunate and advocating for causes you believe in.

SKS student, Pierce Pramuka ’20, had this to say about his experience: “The conference gave us the opportunity to reflect on our values and empowered us to act as future leaders. One of our classmates (Naunet Leonhardes ’20) gave a memorable speech during the closing ceremony. I believe we represented our school very well. By the end of the conference, every attendee knew of Storm King and we left with a lot of knowledge and skill to bring back to our community here on the Mountain.”

NEWBURGH ARMORY

UNITY CENTER SERVICE

Globetrot ters SKS students were given the opportunity to participate in three global trips during the past six months.

Students traveled to Peru on a service expedition, to Cuba for a cultural excursion and to Iceland where they attended a student leadership summit. The goal of these excursions is to foster understanding of global citizenship and form meaningful relationships and friendships with local people through volunteer opportunities. Storm King students were given a chance to reflect on issues of personal identity and interdependence in a global context and to develop a sense of social responsibility through engagement with local communities.

Community service by Storm King students at the Newburgh Armory Unity Center (NAUC) has continued this academic year.

Last fall, the Cross Country team began our season of good works with food distribution to the needy. The program is called “Free Farmstand” and occurs in conjunction with the Hudson Valley Food Bank. Students had a chance to visit with Newburgh Mayor Judith Kennedy who attended the event that day, and also learned about the Food Bank’s program from Food Sourcing Coordinator Carrie Jones Ross. Meanwhile, on Saturdays throughout the year, students volunteer to teach “Kitchen Chemistry” classes at NAUC to youngsters in grades 1-6. It’s part of NUAC’s Saturday Academic Enrichment Program. Our students and faculty conduct fun science experiments with the children.

Courtney Neville ’16

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Whimsy creative Purpose tech makes an impression &

Students experiment with circuitry as they build a piano made of apples .

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embers of the Storm King School community have been delighted and surprised by public art projects making their way into life on y ult ac campus this year. Whether it’s a motion F r ts ,A sensor Lite Brite™ display welcoming folks n e ra inn to the dining hall or “New York, New York” F ra Ta played on a piano made of apples during Parents’ Weekend, we have been the lucky beneficiaries of ideas and inspiration coming out of the new Creative Tech(nology) class.

The course was designed and is taught

by Art teacher Tara Finneran, who has been making interactive works for 8 years.

She honed her understanding of its educational applications during a pilot program at the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU. Ms. Finneran calls the melding of technology, art and ideas “the future of education”, marking a departure from traditional learning solely for the sake of a diploma, to an authentic, self-generated pursuit of a higher objective.

Hence, she stresses to students that projects should not only be fun or “whimsical” but created for the greater good. The question always being asked is, “How are you helping someone?”

Students are first given art and design-based objectives (using light, pattern changes, e.g.) and then the tools to carry out the objectives. The imagination piece is up to them.

Over the last couple of months, students have experimented with infrared lights and sensors, a MaKey MaKey invention kit, a 3-D printer, LED lights, paper circuitry with copper tape, a vinyl cutter to create paper engineering structures, and processing soft-

ware which focuses on coding and programming animation.

For their final coding projects, for example, students were tasked with personifying a design, presenting their animation and examining coding challenges they may have faced.

Senior Cole Jemal chose geometric shapes to represent “life”.

The result was two different-colored, computer-generated spheres passing a static yellow triangle from left to right that never meet.

“So, these spheres will never be at the same exact place, at the same speed, at the same time,” explained Cole during his class presentation, “Because they’re different, that’s how life is, no one’s the same.”

Sophomore Jack Besterman who played the MaKey MaKey apple piano, emphasized that classmates helped each other with designs by making suggestions and lending moral support.

“All of the big projects that we do are a group effort,” said Jack, “Everybody puts in their best work.”

The advent of Creative Tech at SKS is something of a minor miracle. Due to an abundance of art offerings this fall (Photography, Digital Design, Visualizing the Written Word and Advanced Art) there was no room in the regular class schedule for Creative Tech.

However, Ms. Finneran was able to carve out time after school for interested students (8 in all), who will receive ½ an art credit in lieu of taking sport this trimester.

Ms. Finnerman is the founder of Real Futures Art and Technology lab serving the Hudson Valley as an incubator for new ideas on the creative uses of digital media, visual arts, multimedia, telecommunications, and computer and natural sciences. She is currently launching the first ever Summer Session, this July 2016 which will be held inside Storm King's very own Allison Vladimir Art Center.

For more information or to apply go to: www.realfutures.us

"...the melding of technology, art and ideas {is} the future of education..."

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FALL DRAMA PRODUCTION

FULFILLS ITS PROMISE

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hornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play “Our Town” (1938) was performed November 13th-15th at the Walter Reade, Jr. Theatre to very appreciative audiences, many of whom were new to the story.

“I think this play, and the way the kids performed it really touched people,” said Anne Fulton, who co-directed the production with Karen Eremin.

The play within a play takes place in fictional Grover’s Corners, N.H., and is comprised of three acts that tell the story of life, love, and loss over the course of a dozen years (1901-1913).

The most emotional part of the play, and surprising to the uninitiated viewer, is Act III, when we learn several beloved characters have died. They appear on stage, and speak from their graves.

One of the characters, Emily Webb revisits her life as a 12 year old, but the experience is too much for her to endure, and she returns to her grave.

For sophomore Bridget Wickiser who played Emily’s mother in law, Mrs. Julia Gibbs, the most challenging part of her role was subtly portraying a person who has passed.

“A lot of times we forget [death] is there,” she said.

Considered avant-garde in its day, “Our Town” does away with major set pieces and the cast mimes instead of utilizing traditional props, a metatheatrical device.

“Doing without most of the trappings of theatre compels the audience into just feeling the emotions from the characters,” said Mrs. Fulton, “The characters drive the entire production, rather than having any kind of spectacle – there is none.”

“You’re seeing the characters for exactly who they are and exactly how they’re supposed to be,” added Bridget.

22 student actors participated in the production led by their co-directors, and assisted by technical director and lighting designer Liz Connell, and parent volunteers Alan Douches P’20 and Andrea Stene P’19. This SKS Visual and Performing Arts production is considered one of the more successful ones in recent history, helped by the play’s universal message and the quality of performances.

English teacher Jeremy Freeman concurred: “The play did exactly what theater should do, in my opinion. I was entertained, of course, but I was also given a wonderful pause and an opportunity to consider the great mystery of what it means to be alive in this world. What I sometimes might perceive in daily life as boring, routine, ordinary is merely an illusion. The extraordinary is always available if I choose to look for it.”

Pictured: Scott Rolon ’18, Amelia Douches ’20

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Esse Quam videri To be, rather than to seem

BY JOSEPH GRAZIOSI, SKS ATHLETICS DIRECTOR

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he Storm King School Department of Athletics has been enjoying one of its best years in 2015–2016. It started in the fall with the girls varsity soccer team, who finished their regular season with an 8-1-1 overall record and enjoyed an undefeated record in the Hudson Valley Athletic League (HVAL). Our girls advanced to the HVAL semifinals where, after a very competitive match, they lost to Marvelwood on penalty kicks. These SKS athletes worked together so capably and efficiently, and they developed such affection for one another, that, even in defeat, their devotion was evident to all on the field.

The boys varsity soccer team conquered the seemingly insurmountable by learning to “control the uncontrollable” and demonstrating great maturity.

With a late-season surge, our boys found themselves in the HVAL Championship Final for the fourth time in the past five years. Trailing 4-0 at halftime, they battled back to tie the match, only to lose 5-4 in double overtime. After the game, a Storm King boy assisted Marvelwood’s star player who was suffering from leg cramps off of the field, prompting their athletic director to write, “This is the best thing I have ever seen in all my years around athletics.”

The boys’ cross country team captured Storm King’s lone championship in the fall at the HVAL Championship Meet at Darrow School. Our guys had won all but one of the league invitational meets during the regular season and travelled to Darrow to face their main rivals on their home course. The skillfully trained SKS team defeated the competition so soundly that Darrow’s athletic director said the finish line looked like a blue-and-gold wave. Our boys showed passion and dedication leading them to a top-10 finish in the New England Championships to go along with their HVAL Title.

At the start of winter term, Storm King’s wrestling program began what was considered to be a rebuilding season with seven freshmen and two soph-

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omores in the line-up. These young men decided in November that they would not be denied their third consecutive HVAL Championship and did exactly what it would take to attain this goal. As they went through the season, winning time and again, our boys found themselves undefeated in the New England Preparatory School Athletic Council and New England’s top Class B ranking with only archrival Marvelwood in their way. SKS never wilted and finished with a 10-0 New England record and their fourth HVAL Championship in five years. Given a challenge, this team rose to the occasion and met it.

Storm King’s boys varsity basketball team has been the dominant program in Western NEPSAC (New England Preparatory School Athletic Council) for the past two seasons. They rolled through the HVAL and finished the regular season 10-0 in league play and easily won the HVAL Championship Tournament. In a packed gym, SKS routed Oakwood Friends School 61-46 as our entire community came together in a sea of blue and gold.

There was an incredible outpouring of school spirit as “Storm King” was chanted at top volume. The team went on to win the Class D NEPSAC Championship 60-57 versus Bancroft School.

Our fencing team hosted Storm King's first fencing tournament at SKS in this millennium. The day’s MVP award undoubtedly went to Gracy Zhao '19, who, in her three bouts, not only went undefeated, but her opponents weren’t even able to score a single touch against her. Also undefeated was Michelle Chen '19, who had two amazing come-from-behind victories.

The outstanding performances of these teams only scratch the surface of what’s happening in SKS Athletics. From the elegance and dignity exhibited by our volleyball teams to the spiritedness of our JV basketball team, to the collaboration within our JV soccer and girls’ basketball teams, Storm King student-athletes have brought honor to our school this year. They are learning valuable life lessons while forming unforgettable friendships.

Although we count our many victories with pride, the cornerstone of the Storm King School Department of Athletics has been—and will always remain—character development. The program implements the School’s core values of truth, respect and responsibility while personifying our motto: “Esse quam videri,” or “to be, rather than to seem (to be).” This is why we play.

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Taking the Plunge Faculty take the plunge to cure cancer!

On Wednesday, April 13th, six SKS teachers jumped into the Hudson River from Cornwall Landing for a good cause: curing cancer. It was the very exciting culmination of a weeks-long fundraising initiative taken by the Storm King School chapter of the National Honor Society (N.H.S.).

“I wanted to thank all of the members of [the] community who participated and supported Take the Plunge,” said English teacher and N.H.S. advisor Peter Rowe, adding that the campaign and the plunge event were in support of President Barak Obama's initiative to cure cancer.

The fundraiser was something of a bidding competition. Out of tens of volunteer faculty and staff, the top 5 with the most donations pledged in his or her name, were to make the jump into the Hudson.

Fulfilling this promise were Mr. Rowe, along with Dean of Students Alan Lewis, Dean of Academics Harold Heno, Dance teacher Jeanette Perk, and Math teacher Molly Meehl. Joining them in solidarity was another Math teacher, Jim Bennett.

As the school gathered at the boat launch on the sunny but chilly and windy morning, Mr. Rowe acknowledged N.H.S. service members Kalydosos Kudayah ’16 and 11th grader Alex Gillespie, who spearheaded the campaign.

“I don’t think anybody’s singlehandedly responsible for the idea, we all just put our heads together,” said Alex, who included classmate and fellow N.H.S. member Catherine Pomeroy in the planning process.

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ment, the brave “plungers” ran into the choppy Hudson waters together. After a quick spell, they returned to shore, cold and wet, but energized by the experience.

“I signed up to be a part of this fundraiser because cancer has affected all of us,” said Ms. Perk. “It was a special moment running into the Hudson, and hearing the students cheer our names. It made me even happier to be a part of this wonderful community!”

In all, the effort generated around $2,000 in donations. “I was surprised that we made as much as we did, especially in the last hours,” said Kalydosos.

Alex concurred saying the last few days were “really exciting” with the roster of plungers changing with each successive donation.

Take the Plunge is but the first in a series of SKS N.H.S. fund raising campaigns in support of the President’s cancer cure mission. Several more are planned for this year.

Photos: 1. Ms. Meehl, Mr. Rowe, Mr. Lewis, Mr. Heno, Ms. Perk and Mr. Bennett 2. The rescue crew 3. The plungers head in while the crowd roars in delight! 4. Sporting overalls, Mr. Lewis leads the pack, followed closely by Ms. Perk and Mr. Heno in their dry suits... 5. Ms. Perk's dry suit turns into a buoy and she starts to float down river.

Luckily, Ms. Meehl is there to "save" her. 6. Ms. Heno assists Mr. Heno in the removal of his dry suit which kept his clothes perfectly dry...

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Alumni Connections SKS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT SCOTT CANTOR ‘73

Dear Storm King Community, It was just at the end of February that my son and I made the timeless and majestic cruise up Route 9W to Storm King School. Nathaniel (Class of 2026)​ and I love feeling a part of the Storm King family and, as usual, we were treated with warmth and kindness.

After a brief Alumni Association meeting which affirmed our ongoing and unfolding process of participating and uniting with the lives and direction of the School, we made our way to The Annual Alumni Basketball Day game.

Stepping into the gym, the sights, sounds, smell, the feel of the air, touches a place deep inside. Like much of the Mountain, it is a safe place, a timeless place. For a good while, as if by magic, all is one, all is Storm King, no time has gone by, no then and now. Then the horn sounds, the game begins and we are the returning alumni and they are the current school.

It’s fun to run that floor, watch my little guy play. I have a secret: I know all those students we are playing and in the stands are future alumni and someday they will seem ancient to my son’s future Class of 2026. I also

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know that their voices, like the voices of all who have come before them, will still bounce off those gym walls, reverberate in the classrooms, dance in the dorms and echo all over the mountain top.

A dozen or so of us gathered together again with the school for Career Night on March 31st. We shared our experiences, strengths and hopes in small groups with our current students who are our future alumni.

Then, in June, many of us - sons and daughters of the Mountain - will be at Reunion 2016 to re-connect, to hear the sounds of today and years past on this ancient spot.

In June 2018, Storm King School will celebrate 150 years here. Please don’t miss any of it.

Best wishes to all.

Scott Cantor ’73

Come to the Storm King School Alumni Association Meetings!

An active community of alumni is vital to our school’s success!

ONE SCHOOL YOUR SCHOOL THE SAME SCHOOL

The Mountain is calling you.

Be involved.

We need you.

The Alumni Association President is an Ex Officio member of the SKS Board of Trustees and represents alumni views to the Board of Trustees and communicates Board policy to alumni.

Meetings are held quarterly, typically in conjunction with other alumni events or activities.

All alumni are welcome to attend. By attending and participating in the SKS Alumni Association, we communicate our views, pass along our ideas, and help current and future generations of SKS students.

For information on meeting dates, contact Lynn Crevling ’72 at lcrevling@sks.org or 845-458-7517

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ALUMNI PROFILE:

Filmmaker

RICHARD L. WORMSER ’51 —

Richard Wormser’s senior profile in the June 9, 1951, graduation issue of The Quarry calls him “a leader,” and adds, “Without Dick in school, it just wouldn’t have been as much fun, for he always liked to start new things.

Maybe they all weren’t accomplished, but it got the boys talking.”

THE QUARRY EDITOR WAS ON TO SOMETHING For his part, Dick Wormser could not have conceived at the time of his graduation that his life would be spent creating things that boys and girls, men and women, talk about. Nor could he have known that he would start things that would inspire people to think and reflect. And surely, he could not have imagined that through his graceful and prolific storytelling, he would go on to chronicle several generations of important and meaningful history, always with social justice as his muse. But after a bit of searching, and with the help of some good teachers, that is exactly what happened to him.

BACK TO SCHOOL For only the second time in 65 years (2001 being the first), Richard Wormser returned to the Mountain on Thursday, February 18th, 2016. He graciously accepted an invitation to conduct a residency in the Visual and Performing Arts Department and share his story with the student body.

Richard’s distinguished career as a documentary filmmaker and author was the perfect fit for our film and history students, many who were excited to meet a professional of his caliber and delighted to learn that student life at SKS when he attended was a lot like theirs today.

Richard shared snippets of his life as a Storm King student, including a challenging beginning when, as a self-described “short kid,” he had difficulty fitting in and adjusting. That is, until then-Headmaster Anson Barker had him stay at school over a holiday break, after which he “sobered up and got serious.” Junior and senior years saw him more deeply involved in athletics and school activities. At the time, he considered Lionel “Rebel” Rowe ’51, Henry (Hank) “Checker” Becker ’51, Bruce Dolph ’50, Alfred “Al” Vail ’49 and Hubert Gins ’49 to be his good friends.

As a member of the Players Club drama group, Richard remembered acting in Joseph Kesselring’s Arsenic and Old Lace and Thornton Wilder’s The Happy Journey to Camden and Trenton. He was on the board of The Quarry and played sports such as basketball, tennis and golf, to name a few.

For a kid from New York City who did not have a very auspicious beginning in high school, his later years at Storm King were marked with academic, athletic and social success.

On the first afternoon of Richard Wormser’s residency, Palmer Smith ’16 and a few select film and history students viewed a portion of The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow (2002). It is Wormser’s four-part Peabody Award–winning series about the human and civil rights struggle of black Americans between 1865 and 1951.

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Palmer was astonished by Wromser's depth of research ino the subject and how he had thought to include an interview with a member of the Ku Klux Klan. The presentation of the “other side of the story” so impressed the SKS senior that Wormser allowed him to view the entire interview.

“I thought it was incredible,” said Palmer of the experience, “I thought it was the heart of something … it was important.”

That evening, Richard presided over an all-school presentation of his work in the Walter Reade, Jr., Theatre—a rather poetic turn of events, for it was on Walter Reade, Jr.’s, ’35 recommendation that Richard was accepted to SKS so many years ago.

The film shown that night was Farmville: An American Story (1999). It is a movie about the student strike in Farmville, Virginia, that resulted in the integration of a high school— just one of a litany of works by Wormser that explore the African American experience.

Kalydosos Kudayah ’16 very much liked the interview style of the film: “I was able to understand what was going on through the perspective of people who had actually experienced the civil rights reform in the educational system in the 1950s and 60s and who helped pioneer integration in the American school system,” said Kalydosos, “I learned that the process was extremely student-driven.”

The audience listened, watched and sat rapt, then followed up with questions. One female student was spotted waiting patiently afterward until the last of the fans trickled out of the theater. She stood there for so long only to utter a couple of sincere and heartfelt words of thanks.

Such appreciation for Richard Wormser’s work is the result of a half century of his search for a worthy story.

SHAMOKIN, PENNSYLVANIA After graduating from Storm King, Richard received a degree from Bucknell University, then after a stint at Georgetown Law School, completed his master’s degree in Sociology at Fordham University.

Then it was off to the Sorbonne in France for his PhD. Jean Wahl, the existentialist philosopher and friend of Jean-Paul Sartre, was his professor. While Wahl was a positive influence, Richard wasn’t necessarily hooked on academia. In his words, “The appeal of the bohemian life was stronger.”

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for the Beat Generation and big thinkers. And Richard, well, he fell in with writers William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg.

“We would gather in [Burroughs’] room about once a week and he’d read from The Naked Lunch which is what he was writing at that time, and Allen would read poems that he was writing and I really liked that,” said Richard, “I probably could’ve been a very good writer but I didn’t have the discipline to stay there.”

In what turns out to be a twist, the next step in Richard’s career path made him a writer in the end: a non-fiction writer of documentaries and books. It was a step that brought all the loose strings together for Richard—he saw lives he had never seen before, not even in Paris—and he needed to tell stories about them.

It happened in America’s coal country: Shamokin, Pennsylvania.

Richard came to Shamokin thanks to a former college professor who was looking for a reporter and photographer for the weekly Shamokin Citizen.

“I thought I had to get a job,” said Richard.

He was soon attracted to the town’s workforce: the coal miners. He befriended them, went down into the mines, took pictures, studied their history, drank beer and played cards with them, even dated a blind coal miner’s daughter.

Richard pitched the idea of profiling these miners and their lives in the Shamokin Citizen. The publisher allowed him three articles, and due to the success of the series, eventually expanded it to 18.

His first foray into filmmaking happened shortly after he left the paper. It was a half-hourlong documentary that evolved out of an article he authored about institutionalized, mentally disabled children. The film was called The Toymakers (1967).

At around this time, Richard began working for the Walter Reade Organization, which had partnered with Janus Films to make educational movies. While there, he met Bill Jersey who was working with Canadian filmmaker Graeme Ferguson (co-inventor of IMAX). Bill was impressed with Richard’s first movie and hired him to help.

Richard worked on several films learning the art of sound, fact editing, assistant editing and more. It was a seminal moment in his career, as Bill Jersey is considered one of the founders of the modern documentary. He became Richard’s mentor.

“It was a lot of fun. I really enjoyed documentary filmmak-

ing,” said Richard.

Over the years, the two have steadily collaborated on projects, including The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow, and most recently on American Reds about the U.S. Communist Party.

According to his website, Richard has written, directed and/or produced over 100 programs for a variety of institutions, including subjects that are educational and governmental. He is the author of young adult and adult non-fiction literature. His work is funded mainly through grants from organizations such as the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and others.

The subjects of his works can be parsed: African Americans struggling for human and civil rights, people emotionally, developmentally and socio-economically challenged, the plight of the Native Americans, little known history surrounding wars and the underbelly of politics, among others.

But taken as a corps, they are one story: a spotlight on the underprivileged, underachieving, unknown or underserved members of society. They are many layers of that original story that intrigued Richard Wormser in Shamokin— people and situations he has never seen before but that he must write about and record for posterity. His stories are compelled by his need to get the word out, to get people talking.

From court to field, Storm King Athletics invigorate campus life and instill core values.

BACK TO THE MOUNTAIN “The seed from [SKS teacher] Dave Van Dyck ’40 got me interested in history and to love history,” explained Richard Wormser on the Friday of his Storm King residency, “I was really enthusiastic about the course, obviously, it’s one of the steps on the road to where I went eventually with the documentaries.”

He recounted his memories of Mr. Van Dyck and Headmaster Barker (“I really enjoyed his Latin classes”) during a break in his visit with students. By this point, he had met with the Pop Culture in Film class, two sections of Global History and presented to the entire student body the evening before.

“We’ve had some really good conversations with the kids,” he said. The “we” is he and his French-born wife of 35 years, Annie Heminway, who had been accompanying him throughout.

She is warm, effusive and erudite and has her own notable career as a French language teacher to university students and adults. She is based at New York University.

Later, they headed off to their final encounter, a visit with Zhenya Kiperman’s Video Production class. The class had just finished a months-long student movie in four chapters called Small Talks.

Catherine Pomeroy ’17 who authored the film’s “Snuggle Bunny” chapter, said Mr. Wormser’s contribution to the class that day was incredibly insightful: “He is more about content, and we are more about the technical aspect of it, but it was really interesting to learn how to develop a story, how to pull in your audience within the first five minutes of the film, especially a documentary,” she said, “That’s what you need to do to get an audience member interested in your idea.”

Mr. Kiperman captured the visit in three words: “Meaningful. Memorable.

Educational.”

In a way, Richard Wormser has come full circle. Ushered and uplifted by teachers and mentors from Storm King on, he now enjoys a second career as an educator, designing courses and teaching sociology and communications at Fordham University and in the Criminal Justice Department at the University of New Haven.

He is also still telling stories that get folks talking.

As we work towards our goal of creating even greater opportunities for our athletes and coaches, thank you for helping to build a championship program with your gift to The Storm King Fund.

The Storm King Fund

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OUR common Ground

Luke Sollami ’08

BY Luke Sollami

Here at The Storm King School, I have encountered various roles and experiences that helped shape my unique perspective on life. In chronological order, I have been a son of an administrator and trustee, brother of two SKS students, graduating student in the class of 2008, then after graduation, a first-year dorm parent, coach, and science teacher.

Being part of this community on the mountain since 1999, I can remember what it was like to view our beautiful campus from a tenyear-old's perspective—how the young children of today’s faculty must see it now. Most indelible in my mind is the brick patio and bumpy stone walls in front of Orr Commons where I often played in the shade of the birch and pine trees (replaced now by the new Gazebo). I remember interacting with high school students and friends of my older brother, who was an SKS freshman at the time. I also recall being amazed by our community’s diversity: a student from Japan showed me how to ollie on a skateboard, and I played soccer with a student from South Korea. These are just some of the vivid and happy childhood memories I have. It was truly remarkable to spend time with, learn from, and grow alongside such a globally diverse group of young men and women. These experiences at SKS opened my eyes to a larger world view and helped me appreciate other cultures and belief systems I might not have otherwise been exposed to.

As a former student and current teacher, I have spent years on the SKS campus, witnessing many of the changes that have occurred here over time. My perspective is constantly evolving, yet I can still describe the yin and yang of my personal experience in both roles—of learning behind a desk and then teaching in front of a blackboard.

I think life as a Storm King School student today is best summarized by one word: complicated. Questions constantly run rampant through our students’ minds. Questions such as: What am I going to do with the rest of my life? Where am I going to college? What options do I have in terms of a professional career?

Am I going to be successful? These questions are staggering, especially as students are just beginning to discover themselves.

Life as a teacher is much simpler. For us, there is only one question we ask ourselves—and it is essential: How can we best serve our students? This is one of many commonalities our dedicated and hardworking faculty and staff share here at SKS. It is difficult to imagine any other school or institution where the teachers are so unanimously invested in their students’ personal growth, professional development, and general well-being. I have been on the receiving end of such guidance, having been supported and mentored by great SKS teachers like Mr. Scott Hunt, Ms. Heidi Howland, and Mr. Shohei Matsuda, to name a few. I can honestly attribute much of who I am today to them.

In my relatively new role as a teacher, I often encounter moments when I realize newfound appreciation for the great teachers I had in my time as a student at Storm King. I recall how Mr. Matsuda had driven my fellow students and me hours to and from a game, only to return to campus late at night and wake up early the next morning to lead an exciting and productive class.

These days, when making the long trek to Darrow for an athletic event, I’m the coach behind the wheel. I am also the one who must drive the students back to campus late at night and deliver a lesson in class the next day. I pray for stamina and remember the awe-inspiring efforts the teachers on our mountain have put forth—and continue to put forth—for our students. This is our common ground.

Our Common Ground is specifically designated for our Alumni and their voices.

If you would like to write an Our Common Ground article, contact Lynn Crevling at 845.458.7517 or lcrevling@sks.org

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Luke Sollami ’08 is the SKS Academic Support Program Teacher, Science Teacher, and Assistant Coach of the Boys Varsity Soccer and JV Basketball teams.

As a Storm King student, he received the Headmaster’s Cup and was voted “Most Likely to Succeed” by his classmates.

Top: Denise, Luke ’08 and Logan ’09 Middle: 2015 JV Basketball team coached by Mr. Leppla and Luke Sollami Bottom: Luke teaching a class

We are SKS

The Phillips brothers: Joe ’85 & Malcolm ’87

Where I’m From: JP Born in Washington, D.C. but moved away when I was two.

Was raised in, and my heart is still in, New York’s Mid-Hudson Valley.

MP Born in Poughkeepsie, New York, raised in Wappingers Falls, Hyde Park, and Newburgh. Graduated with a degree in Computer Science and Mathematics from a college in Iowa where I also met my Australian ex-wife. We raised our family of five kids in Sydney, Australia (15 years) and Millington, New Jersey (8 years).

I now consider Sydney’s northern beaches home.

Why I Came to SKS: JP My mom had heard bad things about Newburgh Free Academy.

MP I followed my brother, Joe, to Storm King School. Joe seemed to be enjoying Storm King and it was a beautiful campus. I heard SKS was far better than local options.

My Best Memories of SKS: JP The fellow day student friends I made: Tyresse Horne ‘85, Danny Mojica ‘85 and David Merrick ‘86, with whom I still try to keep in touch. Also, the easy rapport I had with teachers. I especially developed good relationships with Mr. Swanhall, Mr. Dewart, Ms. McAlear, Mr. Hersey, Mr. Vollmuth and Mr. Sauer. I am also indebted to my French teacher Ms. Williamson, who introduced me to the music of Georges Moustaki.

MP The small classes of English where I committed to memory Jack London’s poetry, Mrs. Meynardie’s African Asian studies, and the biology classes where we actually went out to bogs to do experiments; and the drama classes where we went to New York City’s Broadway, were some of my favorite memories.

I also deeply appreciated my experience running in cross-country with [brother]Joe and Danny Mojica ‘85, playing soccer, skiing, baseball, and tennis with Placido Acevedo ‘84.

I also was fortunate enough to have followed my brother into the computer lab along with another friend Dave Merrick ‘86. A computer lab in the 1980s was quite advanced at the time for any school. We used to challenge each other with extolling the benefits of the TRS80 color computer’s 6809 CPU versus the Apple IIE 6502 CPU. Many years later when I was working on Wall Street, I caught up with Dave who had become a Senior IT Executive at Credit Suisse.

I also met my first true love at Storm King as a senior participating in drama class. Kate Ryan ’89 ... wow... (heavy sigh).

Educational and/or Career Highlights I Am Most Proud of: JP This one is still ongoing: I (with the help of my brother Malcolm and others) am building a website for science education, which hopefully, will turn into a worldwide scientific collaboration

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effort.

MP Working eight years on Wall Street at JP Morgan and Citibank in New York City, and also in Sydney’s investment banking community; working at Macquarie Bank and Morgan Stanley without having attended an elite university; all while building our house at 27 years old and raising a family of five. Also I look forward to participating in my brother Joe’s software project which is a worldwide scientific collaboration effort.

How SKS Shaped who I am: JP SKS gave me the resources and freedom to pursue goals of my own choosing. I showed interest and aptitude in programming, so one afternoon, Mr. Hersey showed me the basics of the programming language Pascal. Before that, I programmed exclusively in Basic. That opened my eyes: I learned about data-structures, pointers and memory management. This gave me the tools to work on a chess program for a couple of years, into my freshman year of college. Don’t be impressed by my chess program: it was slow and stupid, even relative to the chess programs of that era.

My point is that before, I had no idea how to begin to even write one. And then, with just a marginal amount of additional effort, a teacher opened up a new vista. I have been working on the science education website, in one guise of another, for about 20 years. I first learned the tenacity to follow a project for the long haul at SKS. MP SKS gave me the knowledge that I can compete with and against privileged kids of the world if given a fair chance. It also was a very beautiful and safe place to grow up being a young black American male. I never felt racism and felt included even though there were less than 10 black students in the entire school. I was also given the opportunity to learn English and French in small classes, perhaps there were 8 to 10 kids in every class, so small it felt like a family. The computer lab always had computers available and we were able to try different things. Looking back it was a gorgeous and safe school.

My Advice for SKS Students: JP Use the time and resources that SKS provides you to follow your (constructive!) passions. No great surprise here: for me it was computers. Your passion may be something else, but do use SKS to help you find it and pursue it.

MP Take time in a school to explore different things, fully embrace the opportunities. It'll be scary at first, for sure! Stay focused, stay focused, stay focused - get the right people around you and find and follow your dreams. Remember to live with integrity and imagine a positive story about you on the front page of The New York Times.

MALCOLM ‘87

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Why I Give

BY ROSS SOBER ’92

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t’s not hyperbole when I say that two years at Storm King School changed the course of my life. For the better. I was lost. Expelled from a public high school that I never felt like I fit into anyway. Never having achieved good grades or cultivating many friendships, I had no confidence to rely upon. My wonderful parents provided a loving home but were not equipped to foster the environment I needed for success. And I certainly wasn’t mature or educated enough to know what I needed. I found myself surrounded by kids that would give me attention but lacked any moral compass or aspirations. Misery does love company, after all.

Upon entering SKS (against my will initially, but what did I know?) I found like-minded people. Smart kids that didn’t fit in. Even smarter educators that remembered what it was like to be a high schooler. A full staff invested in my success, but not limited to achieving good grades. A staff that didn’t isolate themselves from us but rather treated us as peers. Most importantly, peers that would keep us accountable. A school-wide policy of rewarding honesty. A free-thinking environment that matched my nontraditional brain. One thing that I found that truly surprised me was the gen-

Ross Sober ’92 with his boys.

erosity of strangers.

During my time at SKS, the school was afforded a grant that initiated the Henderson Outdoor Program. With this grant money, a whole new realm was opened up to me. The School purchased Trek mountain bikes, built a climbing wall and took a dozen or so kids on a twoweek backpacking trip in the Southwest.

I didn’t know that I liked mountain biking. I didn’t know that I liked hiking or climbing. I didn’t know that I loved spending time in the woods. I didn’t even know that I liked exercise! And I

didn’t know the generous donors that made it possible.

So, why do I give money to The Storm King School? After my two years at SKS, I was no longer lost. I established lifelong friendships, including with my educators and mentors. I gained an understanding of the value of accomplishment. I gained the self-confidence that comes from doing things for myself, rather than because my parents told me to. I earned the respect of my peers. I held myself to a higher standard. And I carry these measures of success with me

every day. It gives me great pride to be able to donate money to the school that helped me be able to earn it in the first place. I am not able to donate the large sums of money that I benefitted from during my time at SKS. But perhaps the money I do donate will alter the course of someone who needs it as much as I did. Maybe that person will share in the common experience that unites all SKS alumni. Maybe a young person will be struck by the generosity of a stranger and will feel inclined to do likewise in their lifetime.

Ross Sober is the co-founder and sole owner of LR Technologies LLC, which provides custom audio, video, home entertainment, video surveillance, voice and data networks and automation services to individuals and businesses in the Baltimore, Maryland, area. He is married with two sons and can be reached at Rosssober@gmail.com

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The Millennial Gazebo Project: REBIRTH OF A SPECIAL PLACE ON CAMPUS

BY NORM RASMUSSEN, ANNUAL GIVING & SPECIAL EVENTS MANAGER

Alumni, friends and past faculty members remember SKS through two main avenues—their relationships with others and the buildings and spaces on campus.

Whether it’s the classroom where you received an unexpectedly excellent grade or the patio where you stole your first kiss, the structures and landscape of Storm King’s campus create lasting and real memories.

During the summer of 2015, there was a change in part of our school’s landscape: the necessary removal of several dead or ill trees. Among them were the maple and pine trees on Ledoux Terrace in front of a busy Orr Commons. It’s a space that many recall as being very special.

As we looked through our archives and yearbooks, we saw pictures of generations of Storm King community members spending time under those trees. Alumni gatherings, teachers conducting classes, friends connecting between class periods and more recently during the warmer months, students and faculty dining at colorful picnic tables under the branches.

It became clear that this was an area that needed to be revitalized in the wake of such a loss. In the early fall of 2015, our Assistant Headmaster for Finance, Ray Hecht, approached me with the idea of building an alumni-funded gazebo to put in place of the trees on the terrace. It was envisioned to match the style of the Duggan Bell Tower in the middle of campus, a sort of partner structure that would be the scene of future SKS memories.

Everyone got excited about the prospect of an alumni-student partnership—and each played a role in creating the gazebo by participating in the fundraising effort and/or giving toward the

construction.

The Development Team also wanted to make sure we were doing our part for the wider community. The School has volunteered with Habitat for Humanity of Greater Newburgh for a number of years, thanks to the leadership of our History and Social Science Chair, Jonathan Meisel. What better way to “pay it forward” than to donate 10% of our goal to Habitat for Humanity and aid in its revitalization efforts?

Thus, the Millennial Gazebo Project was launched on October 1, 2015, with the aim of raising $20,000 by the end of the calendar year. Through phone calls, email blasts, Facebook posts and tweets, we are proud to report that by New Year’s Day 2016, we surpassed our goal.

Thanks to alumni, friends, parents, trustees, faculty, staff and other supporters of Storm King School, we raised $23,634.

It was a multifaceted community effort that has benefitted not only the students on campus, but also Newburgh residents in need.

We were able to achieve our goal, in part, due to the introduction of engraved brick pavers for gifts of $100 or more. These pavers will be laid in the ground around the gazebo: lasting tributes by our supporters and examples of their good will and devotion to enhancing the School.

Thanks to all who made the Millennial Gazebo Project a resounding success!

P.S. There was such a demand for these brick pavers that we are still offering them to our SKS supporters for donations of $100 or more. If interested, please contact Norm at 845-458-7522 or nrasmussen@sks.org.

From the Archives The Storm King School traces its beginning to Dr. Louis P. Ledoux, a graduate of Amherst College and Union Theological Seminary. He was called to the Cornwal Presbyterian Church in the year of 1858 and in 1867 bought what was known as the Wood Farm on Deer Hill. On this spur of Storm King Mountain he prepared boys for the New England colleges. He was a teacher of unusual genius and strong character.

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Reunion Awards 2016 Each year during Reunion Weekend, the Storm King School community is invited to recognize individuals who have significantly contributed to the School. The following are this year's honorees:

The Founders' Cup Award ROGER AUERBACHER ’66

Roger enjoyed athletics as a student at SKS: he was a tenacious soccer and hockey goalie and winner of the 1966 Hockey Cup. Roger has continued to contribute to SKS since his graduation. He served as Class Agent for many years before he was invited to join the SKS Board of Trustees in 2004. As a trustee, he has served on virtually every committee: Buildings and Grounds, Strategic Plan and Long Range Planning, Development, Trustees and Governance, Finance, Admissions/Marketing and Alumni Committee. He also chaired the Technology Committee in 2008.

Roger helped guide the School through four Headmasters, a recession and some difficult years. As an active member of the Board of Trustees, he shares responsibility for the success that SKS enjoys today. In 2013, he assumed the position of first Vice Chair of the Board. Roger’s nominators said that he has never turned down any request made to him to help; that he keeps his eyes on the real issues and is always looking out for the future of SKS. “Roger, in his own quiet and often self-deprecating way, has always been thoughtful about the issues. … He is usually the last one to speak up with a thoughtful synopsis and approach to the topic at hand, followed by saying ‘That’s just my two cents.’ His ‘two cents’ is always right on target.”

The Storm King School Sports Hall of Fame CHARLES HUNTINGTON Coach and Athletic Director (1959–1969)

TOM KELLOG TERRY ’66

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Mr. Huntington, who passed away in 1999, is the first posthumous recipient, and the first coach and athletic director, to be inducted into the SKS Sports Hall of Fame. His nomination to the SKS Sports Hall of Fame arose from a grassroots campaign by the Class of 1966 and is supported by other athletes from his time at SKS. In that decade, he served as Business Manager, Dean of Students, teacher of freshman History, Director of Athletics and coach of three Varsity sports: soccer, hockey and lacrosse. He developed champion soccer teams and formidable hockey teams, and he was responsible for bringing lacrosse to SKS as a varsity sport in 1965–1966. His nominators said that, regardless of the time of day/night or how long it would take, Charles Huntington was always there and eager to listen, discuss and sort out issues for anyone in need. Charles’ wife, Janet, and eldest son, Dana, will accept the award on his behalf during Reunion Weekend.

Tom Terry earned 11 varsity letters in his four years at SKS; was captain of the Hockey Team as a junior; and was co-captain of Varsity Soccer and Hockey Teams and captain of the Tennis Team as a senior. Tom’s nominators described him as an outstanding athlete and a dynamic leader. One of his nominators referred to him as the “playmaker” in soccer that “quarterbacked” the team from the left wing, making the corner kicks that set the team up for success. On the ice, he was described as “the thinking heart of the team that everyone looked up to organize the offense and key the defensive transition.” Tom, it was said, was one of those special leaders and players who had the ability to make everyone around them look better.

DAVID COXON ’66

David earned 11 varsity letters throughout his time at SKS, was co-captain of the Varsity Soccer and Hockey Teams, won MVP in both sports, was a Hudson Valley All-Star in Hockey and received the SKS Best All-Around Athlete Award. David’s nominators called him a quintessential quiet leader who was kind and compassionate and set an example in his commitment and gentlemanly manner. Headmaster Frank Brogan issued a commendation of David saying “… Adding to a natural sense of strength and coordination, a determination, a will to win, he has often lifted the spirit of his teams and the spirit of the school by his own spirit and courage. … Dave’s modesty and gentleness off the field have been characteristics. … He has cared about this school and his contributions to it.

Because he has cared, the school, and all who are a part of it have been better than they might have been.”

THE 1965–1966 VARSITY SOCCER TEAM

The 1965–1966 Varsity Soccer Team, coached by Charles Huntington, was described as one of the strongest teams that Storm King School had ever fielded, with seven letterman from the year before to fill spots on the starting line. Spirit, determination, work and confidence proved to be a winning formula under the leadership of Coach Huntington. Boasting a strong forward line and a stout defense, great performances were noted by Tom Terry, Dave Coxon (Soccer Award winner), Tom Cosgriff, Doug Capers and many others. Vudtichai Phornphiboon regularly confounded defenses with his singular ability to ambidextrously move the ball and take accurate shots with both feet. Not only did the 1965–1966 Varsity Soccer Team win the league championship, but they also won games against college freshman from Hofstra University, New Paltz, and Stevens Tech by a combined 11-1 margin.

REUNION 2016: JUNE 10 th-12 th

The Mountain is calling. it's not too late!

Please register ONLINE at www.sks.org/reunion or CALL Norm Rasmussen 845.458.7522

5O th REUNION the class of 1966!

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1 George Klein’73 and JP Sayegh ’18 2 Jim Bennet faculty, Mark Fadeev ’15, Norm Rasmussen staff, Johnathan Flores ’12, Roger Auerbachar ’66, George Klein ’73, Ken Ryan ’72, Lily Snyder ’13, John Witte P’20, Luke Sollami ’08 3 Mark Fadeev ’15 Alumni Basketball Game 4 Lily Snyder ’13 and Luke Sollami ’08 5 Back row: Kevin Wilkins, Austin Ohayon ’13, Johnathan Flores ’12, Amani Greene ’13, Sam Vilceus ’11, Trevor Hughes ’13, Scott Cantor ’73, Lily Snyder ’13, Kevin O’Brian , Kevin Houston, Front Row: Nathaniel Cantor 2026 (not pictured Phil Cunningham ’72) 6 Amani Greene ’13 with the ball 7 Florida Alumni Gathering Front row sitting: Lynn Crevling ’72, Elia Zinn ‘95 Middle row sitting: Michelle DeFreece P’14, Ila Barton ’92, Dominique DeFreece ’14, Mike Stang ’96 and Katie Stang Standing: Joe Blount ’75, Ken Wang ’69, Dave Feltman ’72, Hank Paul ’66, Steve Singer ’71, Alan Serinsky ’70, Dolly Serinsky, Marcos Behar ’75, Norm Rasmussen, Lon Gratz ’61, Jon Lamb, Rich Romano ‘58 8 Career Night Standing: Joe Underwood ’16, Catherine Pomeroy ’17, Gary Springer ’72, Seated: Harold Blank ’65, Pierce Pramuka ’20, Scott Cantor ’73, Phil Cunningham ’72, Nathaniel Cantor ’26 and Easton Pramuka ’27 9 Kelly Cabral Daniels '83, Harold Blank '65, Richard Grossman '79, Phil Cunningham '72, Gary Springer '72, Christine Lug Watson '94, Sarah Fulton '09, Kelly Seiz '10, Diana Zhang ’10 (not shown: Jack Downing ’71) 10 Board member Michele DeFreece P’13 at Suny Delhi 11 Gabby Garcia ’15 Venice, Italy 12 Andrew '80 and Wes '45 Gardiner in Palo Alto, CA 13 Mr. Ferencevych, Aurora Chen '14, Gianni Jiang '14, Lorenzo Li '13 14 Dick Broughton '54 and Marek Pramuka P’20 15 Col. Vance Mckean ’36 Dana Point, CA 16 Ken Stuart '65 in Angor Wat Cambodia 17 Michael Jagerman '73 with wife Ruth and Lynn Crevling ’72 in Mission Viejo, CA 18 Traveling Flag, Jon Lamb in Bermuda with the Evans Family 19 Lynn Crevling ’72 and Bruce Dolph '50 in Hermosa Beach, CA 20 Headmaster Jon Lamb, Toni Scherrer with Dianne and Bill Uhler '65 Lebanon, PA 21 Pem Lincoln '60, Headmaster Jon Lamb, and Francis Broadway '72 in Akron, OH 22 Mac Gayden '58 and Marek Pramuka P’20 in Nashville, TN 23 Charlotte and Rich Romano '58, Lynn Crevling '72 and Richard '59 and Gail Epstein, Florida

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SAVE THESE DATES! FRIDAY, JUNE 10-12, 2016 – Reunion Weekend. Honor years end in “1” or “6”, but all classes are invited to re-connect and have fun. Don’t miss the pig roast on Saturday! Register: www.sks.org/reunion EARLY AUGUST 2016 (DATE TBD) – SKS Connect Storm King’s first-ever networking event for alumni and friends. More details to come.

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21-22, 2016 – Homecoming! Return to campus and meet with students, fellow alumni, and relive your SKS days. Tour and observe classes on Friday and then enjoy a varsity soccer match and alumni v. student game on Saturday.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2016 – Annual SKS Holiday Party in NYC. It’s a night of drinks and hors d’oeuvres in Manhattan with fellow members of the Storm King community that will get you in the holiday spirit!

SUNDAY, JANUARY 8, 2017 – Alumni Basketball Day. Face off against our students and faculty and see if you have what it takes to take home the title.* SATURDAY, JANUARY 14, 2017 – 2nd Annual Battle of the Belters. Come to enjoy a dynamic singing competition and leave having supported a student-run project to raise funds for a new SKS scholarship.*

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THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 2017– Career Night. Are you interested in sharing your career with current SKS juniors and seniors? Join us for an evening of mentoring and mixing. *Date subject to change. Check website before registering.

To inquire about the above alumni events, or to RSVP pleasve contact: Norm Rasmussen nrasmussen@sks.org or 845-458-7522.

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Class Notes

Gabrielle Garcia ’15 realized that after committing to Sacred Heart University she did not want to put her dream of traveling the world on hold. It was then that she decided she was going to take an unconventional approach to college by spending her first semester (Fall 2015) abroad in Rome. She writes: “When I arrived, I fell in love with the culture and beauty of the eternal city instantly. In Rome I attended a host university through Sacred Heart, called John Cabot University. At first, I went through a bit of culture shock because I wasn’t used to being the international student or having to deal with the language barrier. At Storm King I was the native student. I didn’t realize until I went abroad just how hard and sometimes uncomfortable being the ‘outsider’ can be.” Meeting her new friend Buba working in the art therapy room of the Joel Nafuma Refugee Center in Rome, also made an indelible impression. “He showed me how to make bowls and necklaces out of newspaper and carve animals out of clay. Even though he spoke very little English, we become so close solely through body language and our common love for arts and crafts. Throughout my time there, the biggest and most influential lesson he taught me was how little words matter. He taught me that people do not need words to make a difference in someone’s life or to show kindness or happiness or gratitude.” Along with her volunteer work, Gabby continued dancing, joined the John Cabot University Business

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Club and did quite a bit of traveling across Europe. After returning to the States, she realized her passion for communication, marketing, and psychology and has decided to change her major to communications with a concentration in advertising and public relations, and a minor in psychology. She says, “I have enjoyed every step of the way and continue to look forward to more adventures!”§ Shauntiece Hunt ’01 is currently living in her hometown of Harlem, N.Y.C. Even after a decade and a half away from the Mountain she feels nothing but fondness for her time here: “I am so proud to be an alumna; people still don’t believe the stories I have. Although I’m not as successful as I should be, I’m still someone SKS can be proud of. Everything I do, and all the places I go, I leave an impression that will always make me memorable. I got that from Storm King. Every faculty member, coach, adviser, Dean and dorm parent invested in me, and I love them for that. SKS made my mom, family and friends proud of me. I am a role model in my family and I set a precedent where I’m from because of this journey.” Shauntiece hopes to see her friends at Reunion Weekend 2016. § Ross Sober ’92 pictured with his two sons, graduated with honors from The Storm King School, he then went on to graduate from The University of Maryland at Baltimore County with a BA in Biology and a minor in Philosophy in 1998. Ross later graduated from the electrician’s apprenticeship school and became a Master Electrician in 2006. In 2000, he co-founded Evolution Electric Contracting Company and sold his portion of the business to work in the home theater industry in 2003. In 2006, Ross co-founded LR Technologies LLC and is the sole owner today. LR Technologies provides custom audio video, home entertainment, video surveillance, voice and data networks and automation services to individuals and businesses in the Baltimore, Maryland area. Ross has been married for 18 years and has two sons aged 13 and 11 of whom he is very proud. He is happy to talk with fellow SKS’ers and can be reached at Rosssober@gmail.com §

Lisa Cohan Aronow ’75 celebrates 12 years in her second career this March. Of her journey, she remarks: “In the aftermath of 9/11, like many others, I reevaluated. Corporate America had been very good to me and my family, but the inexplicable loss of life gave me pause. I changed direction and made my avocation (gym rat) into my vocation (fitness professional). I started a company working with folks over the age of 60 who are post-rehabilitation: cancer, cardio, neuro, ortho, et al. Each day is a challenge, each client special. In 2014 my sweet husband died unexpectedly, but he left me with a passel of kids and grands, and life goes on. I am lucky, and grateful for each day. Peace.” § Rients van der Woude ’75 had occasion to welcome classmate Jimmy Houston ’75 and wife Jeri to his adopted Scandanavian hometown of Risør, located on the southeast coast of Norway. Their fortunate meeting at the 2014 SKS Reunion, culminated in another reunion a year later. Rients details the Houstoun’s three-day visit in 2015: “They arrived in the middle of August with their daughter Sharon (21). The first evening was calm and we had a power boat ride out to one of the outer islands along the coast where a friend of mine has a small cabin.

We brought food and drink, made an island stroll, peeled the shrimp, had drinks, prepared dinner, ate and watched the world spin until the sun went down. The second day started off easy but by mid-morning a breeze was picking up and it gave us the opportunity to go for a sail. Sharon had learned to sail at camp, and even though that was years ago, I put her on the helm as we got going so I could take care of the sails and ropes. We had a great sail with Jimmy, the deckhand, taking pictures. That evening my partner Annetje arrived from

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Holland and we all went out to dinner. The following day after breakfast they left heading towards Oslo and to catch up with Jeri’s sister and her Norwegian in-laws. It was great to visit with SKS family.” § Richard Shapiro ’69 keeps wonderful memories of the days he spent at SKS in the late 1960s. He still feels very connected to the School’s future success. Richard has spent recent years as a lawyer representing children blinded for life by a disease that is more than 90 percent curable. Currently, he is in trial representing a “beautiful nine year old girl” who was blinded when she was four months old. Richard says he loves his work and attributes part of his inspiration to the “fine teachers” he had on the Mountain. § Ross Carnes ’66 lives in Granbury, Texas. He recently wrote an update about his life post-SKS: “After graduation I attended Grove City College in Pennsylvania where I met the love of my life, Mary. While at Grove City I played varsity soccer and basketball. My basketball coach asked me to try out for the soccer team as a goalie and I said emphatically, ‘No!’ I had seen the beating our tremendous SKS goalie, Dave Coxon ’66, underwent in practices and games and wanted no part of it. But, I loved new challenges and tried out for the team as a sophomore.

I had the fortune to play on one of the best teams in school history which was nationally ranked and played some of the top teams in the east. In 2010 I was inducted into the Grove City Soccer Hall of Fame.

While I waited for my wife to graduate from

Ross Carnes ’66 and family

Grove City I joined the National Guard and started a job with J.C. Penney in Youngstown, Ohio so I could be near my fiancé. We married in 1972. From Youngstown we moved to Cleveland, Ohio and in 1973 to Hudson, Ohio where I stared my 33 year career with Allstate Insurance Company. We moved 4 times while raising our three kids. With stays in Detroit, Chicago and Roanoke, we finally settled in Dallas in 1988. We were fortunate to move to Dallas during the boom years and my position as in Human Resources for Allstate’s largest region kept me busy. In 2007 I retired, but needed something to do besides play golf. We had hosted an exchange student from Germany when my youngest daughter was in high school and the organization we used, CCI Greenheart needed coordinators to find host family for international students. Since then I have placed over 50 students from places like France, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Norway, China, Viet Nam, Brazil, Belgium, Czech Republic and The Netherlands. This has been rewarding work for me and allowed my wife and me to visit some interesting places like Argentina and Rome with CCI. Having traveled extensively in the Caribbean, Mexico and Europe the international wanderlust continues. We are blessed with three wonderful kids, and 5 grandkids. Fortunately, all are within a few miles of our home in Granbury, Texas, south of Fort Worth. We love spoiling them and watching them grow up. It is truly amazing how fast time flies and it is with great anticipation that I will get to catch up with some old SKS friends in June.” § Steve Croll ’64 recently moved from Shanghai, China to Bangkok, Thailand, saying that he is “much the better for the move having lived in the ‘Pearl of the Orient’ well past its sell date.” He adds, “China winters are cold, rainy and the air is rank with pollution. Bangkok is sunny and friendly as always....The food is superb albeit spicy. It’s best to keep a cold beer in hand at all times. Storm King has hosted

Thai students for many years. I remember meeting Surasak Visabhakti ’62, a fine soccer player for the Mountaineers in the early sixties. I look forward to meeting him again. I have been corresponding with my classmates regularly. My great friend Alan Coleman ‘64 came to visit this January. We scaled the heights...plumbed the depths and hoisted a beer or five. Both of us have a long history in Asia and a genuine affection for Thailand and its people. I would be pleased to host SKS alumni and students who are passing through Bangkok...come visit.” § Alan Coleman ’64 is now back in Santa Fe, New Mexico having been on a self-described travel adventure that ended in Bangkok and a renewal of a friendship of 50 years with classmate Steve Croll ‘64. Alan and his wife Cynthia left the US in early December on an adventure which took them from Santa Fe to Cape Town and on to a cruise ship to Singapore. He left Cynthia at that point to fly to Bangkok and start a new adventure with Steve. Steve and Alan had a great time together including an invitation to a private residence with some of his friends.

They lunched, dined and filled their stomachs with good wine and liquor. Alan promised to return to Bangkok next year for some more fun!

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Memorial Rock remembers him as a passionate and adventurous man with a great sense of humor who enjoyed work, travel, golf, boating, and cheering on the Villanova Wildcats.

Glenn E. Taylor III ‘66 of Woodlands, TX passed away peace-

on August 23, 2015 at the age of 91. While attending The Storm King School, Jim’s favorite sports were hockey and track, and he was also a member of the Players (Theater) Club. According to his yearbook, he was credited with forming “…the famous Cottage ‘21’ Club, a select organization, whose purpose is to further all types of ‘bull-sessions’ and discussions.” He was also “an active member of the newly-formed Rifle Club, one of the school’s main war activities”.” It was written that “His willingness to help others and his pleasant personality make his outlook for the future very hopeful indeed”.

After SKS, Jim served in the U.S. Army Company M 387th Infantry in World War II in both the European and Western Pacific theaters of operation. He spent his career in the lumber business until his retirement in 1993. An officer for the Mid-Hudson Lumber Dealers Association, Jim received their Lumber-person of the Year award in 1988. He served on the board of the Grinnell Library, was a member of the Greater Southern Dutchess Chamber of Commerce, and the Wappinger’s Lions Club.

Herbert Konrad, Jr. ’52 of Cape Charles, Virginia, passed away at home after a long struggle with cancer on February 11, 2016. Herb was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. on April 29, 1934.

He attended The Storm King School followed by Villanova University. He was an Army veteran, serving during the Korean War era and a member of the American Legion in Cape Charles and the Hawks Club in York. Herb established Allegheny York Co. in 1972, retiring in 2008. He was also owner of Golden Brew Distributing, Manchester, and part owner in other business interests. His family

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Glen Taylor ’66 and family 2015

James David Findlay ‘42 of Poughkeepsie, NY passed away

fully in his sleep on February 18, 2016.

Glenn was born on January 16, 1948 and had recently returned to Texas after almost 14 years of overseas living in Canada, Romania, Mexico and Singapore (twice). After graduating Storm King in 1966, he attended Georgia Tech (undergraduate) and University of Houston (graduate). Glenn attributed much of his academic success to Mr. Sauer “who provided a calm, focused, quiet and tireless intensity to achieve.” He also cited Mr. Broughton as an inspiration because he “provided a constantly probing and challenging attitude with the development of Team Solutions with strong communications.” As for his 1966 classmates, he credited them with making “growing up at SKS so much FUN.” Glenn had a prolific, 45-year oil and gas career during which he traveled between 100 - 200 days per year. He said he gained a true appreciation and respect for other rich cultures and an understanding of their differences and their impact on behavior.

Countries he frequented included Canada, Mexico and oilfields in Asia-Pacific, Middle East, Australia, Africa, Mediterranean, and Europe. Glenn’s work received acclaim, with recent awards including both The FMC Technologies Chairman’s award for Extraordinary Achievement, and the Outstanding Salesmanship for the development of the first subsea oilfields in Mexico and India.

After retiring, Glenn became a consultant. He enjoyed snow skiing, golf, tennis, hunting, fishing, gardening, parrots and cooking. With his wife Laurel, they raised 4 children, Glen IV, John, Christy and Jennifer now adults with their own families including 5 grandchildren, and one (Glenn V) on the way at the time of his death.

A recent note from Glenn’s eldest son expressed the joy and excitement with which his father anticipated his upcoming 50th reunion on the Mountain: I can’t thank you enough for this reunion journey. He lit up when discussing it with us and couldn’t wait to see you all. I remember him telling me how with just a simple phone conversation with some of you brought back all the memories and was as if you just picked up where you left off a “few” years ago…He would love to be there with you in person but will surely be there in spirit, have a cold one (an hour) for him. Please share any old stories that are still with you, we would love to have some new memories from the Storm King days. Thanks again for putting a smile on his face.

- Glenn Taylor IV, Houston, TX

Bernard Leon (Ben) Gold II ‘68 of Ann Arbor Michigan, succumbed to cancer with his family by his side on December 26, 2012, after a brief stay in hospice at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Ann Arbor.

Born on January 6, 1950 to Donnis and Allen Gold in Dallas, Texas, Ben attended The Storm King School followed by the University of Montana and Baylor College of Medicine. He was a fellow of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (AAAA&I). In addition to his private practice in allergy medicine, Ben was an Adjunct Professor of Medicine at the University of Michigan where he served as Director of the Allergy Clinic at the U-M Health Service.

Ben was known for his enthusiasm for teaching and for his photographs of various flying insects and their nests, which he cheerfully presented in his annual "bee talk." He was a man of few words but many interests. Cooking was a special passion. He had an extensive collection of cookbooks and loved creating or modifying recipes. Where many would open a cupboard and see only cans and boxes, Ben would see "casserole". He loved roasting coffee beans and experimenting with different blends. He also enjoyed card games, pottery, photography, botany, art, film-making, riding horses, sailing, kayaking, skiing, and entomology. He will be missed greatly by his wife Patricia, his children, and other family.

Cameron Ohl ’13 passed away on February 26, 2016. While a student at SKS from 2008-2013, Cameron participated in the Ultimate Frisbee and Cross Country teams and was the recipient of an English Book Award in 2012 and 2013.

Cameron also received the New York State Assembly Certificate of Merit in June of 2013. His parents, Paula and Brian Ohl were active members of The Storm King School Parents’ Association, with Paula serving as P.A. President in 2012-2013. A private visitation was held on Friday, March 4th at Flynn Funeral & Cremation Memorial Centers, Inc. in Monroe, NY.

On the Mountain seeks to acknowledge and remember SKS alumni, former faculty and staff, and community members who have passed away.

Please forward information, obituaries, photographs and remembrances to Lynn Crevling ’72:

"It is important for all of us to do whatever we can to ensure that Storm King remains a forever school. As graduates, we want many more students to have the opportunity that we have been lucky enough to experience. That's why I included SKS in my estate plan."

Arthur Reis ’75

1867 Society Live on at Storm King

Learn more at: 845-458-7522

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lcrevling@sks.org or call 845-458-7517.

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Peanut Butter Pie

A Dining Hall favorite scaled down for your kitchen, courtesy of SKS Sous Chef & Baker Andrew Comey.

Yield Approximately 6 servings

Ingredients 1 cup

whipping cream

4 oz.

cream cheese

1 cup

peanut butter

3 Tbs.

softened butter

6 Tbs.

sugar

1

8” pie crust

1/2 pkg.

Oreo™ crumbs

Roasted peanuts, chopped (optional)

Ganache 1 cup

chocolate chips

½ cup

heavy cream

Directions Whip the heavy cream and set aside. Cream the rest of

the ingredients until nice and fluffy. Fold in the whipped cream.

Place into a pie shell that has been lined with Oreo™ crumbs, spread until smooth, and then freeze until ready to glaze

with ganache. Make the ganache, bring the cream to a boil and pour over the chocolate and stir until combined. Glaze the pie with melted chocolate ganache, and sprinkle a border of chopped, roasted peanuts all around edge. If desired, place a rosette of ganache on each slice.

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