On the Mountain
THE STORM KING SCHOOL JOURNAL FALL 2015
HEADMASTER Jonathan W.R. Lamb DIRECTOR OF LEADERSHIP SUPPORT & ALUMNI RELATIONS Lynn Crevling ’72 ANNUAL GIVING & SPECIAL EVENTS MANAGER Norm Rasmussen DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATE Anne Fulton P’09 DIRECTOR OF MARKETING Marek Pramuka P’20 DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS Xenia Ferencevych
Board of Trustees 2014 – 2016 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 – Trustee Ila Barton ’92 – Trustee Scott H. Cantor ’73 – ex officio – Trustee Bruce Hanson ’62 – Trustee Kenneth Wang ’69 – Trustee Scott Rutter ’73 – Trustee Thomas Sheppard - Trustee 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
SPRING MUSIC AND DANCE RECITAL 2015 Top: Students perform Rock that Body as glowing stick figures. Bottom left: Caroline Hecht Sings Once Upon a Dream. Bottom right: Students perform a unique twist on Beat It directed by Dance teacher Jeanette Perk.
EDITOR MAREK PRAMUKA CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Lynn Crevling ’72 Xenia Ferencevych Michael Fischer ’82 Anne Fulton P‘09 Gabrielle Garcia ’15 Joseph Graziosi Jonathan W.R. Lamb Norm Rasmussen Steven Sims ’69
CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS John Carruthers Lynn Crevling ’72 Taras Ferencevych Kevin Jacobson Jonathan W.R. Lamb Michaeala Pramuka P‘20 Norm Rasmussen Toni Scherrer COPY EDITORS Lynn Crevling ’72 Xenia Ferencevych Anne Fulton Norm Rasmussen Marek Pramuka P‘20 Michaela Pramuka P‘20 GRAPHIC DESIGN Michaela Pramuka P’20 CONTACTS The Storm King School 314 Mountain Road Cornwall on Hudson, N.Y. 12520 845-534-7892 www.sks.org SEND LETTERS AND ALUMNI NEWS TO: Lynn Crevling ’72 lcrevling@sks.org SEND CHANGES AND UPDATES TO: Anne Fulton P’09 afulton@sks.org or via the SKS Alumni Directory at sks.org/parent-page/ alumni/alumni-directory/
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On the Features
The Storm King School Journal FALL 2015
38 New Leadership at SKS 40 Looking Forward 21st Century Learning and Living at SKS. Over the last year, SKS has undergone the largest capital improvement transformation since the construction of the Walter Reade Theatre in the 1980s. The academic program has also been updated and tailored to better shape this century’s global citizens.
42 David Van Dyck A Beloved Teacher and Alumnus Honored on the Occasion of His 75th Class Reunion
Departments 2 Letters
26 Our Common Ground My Culture of Change by Steven Sims ’69
4 From Spy Rock Head of School Jonathan W.R. Lamb, reflects on why life at SKS is spectacular
28 The Common Room Reunion, new Storm King Alumni Association formed in Korea, Alumni Profile: Stephen Paley ’60, lasting legacies, Why I Give: Michael Fischer ’82,
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SKS Sports Hall of Fame
A message from Alumni Association President Scott
44 Off the Mountain
Cantor ’73, Save the Dates, Events & Notes
46 Class Notes 10 From the Classroom Growing the future: 8th Graders Learn in Nature
12 Mountain Road Commencement, Acorn Study, Studying American History in our own backyard, New SKS Math Team,
48 Memorial Rock 50 Report of Giving A Message from the Chair of the Board
56 I am sks: Marge Kovacs
Paradise Island, Community Service, Bye Bye
57 The Archives
Birdie, Artist in Residence Bill Wood ’67, SKS
Words of Wisdom and Inspiration from Storm
Accreditation Renewed, School Store Gets a Makeover,
King’s Past
Marge Kovacs Retires, Farm Project, By the Numbers, A Year to be Great
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Letters PEMBERTON H. LINCOLN, JR. ’60
Dear Mr. Jonathan Lamb, In your thoughtful note of December 17, 2014, you requested some of my memories of SKS in the late 50s and early 60s. In all honesty, I had to clear cobwebs – 55 years has a way of fading memories. For this exercise there might be little chronological order. It may be a bit verbose, but you’re the one that asked!
dorm over the hill side, another white “old” three story home well kept. I was assigned a front third floor room that looked to the north. I had the best view of the hockey rink, the mountains and the bend in the Hudson River beyond. On the weekend prior, we had a chance to go home for a visit. While there, I had gathered up photos of my first 12 years, to be put into an album at school. If memory serves, we are back at school and the dinner bell rang for the evening meal. During this time, the fire alarm sounded and we scrambled outside to find our Tower House on fire. By the time I got down to my dorm it was fully engulfed in flames, but I wanted to go upstairs to save my pictures. In the heat of the flames someone stopped me with a very strong bear hug. The heat from the fire was so intense that we all were
1960 Undefeated Varsity Soccer team. Pemberton Lincoln, top row fourth from the right.
I believe it was a bright sunny day the end of July when my father and I saw the sign, turned right off Rt. 9W and then left onto a pristine campus, tucked into the mountain side. On the right was a large field with soccer nets, coming from freshman football it was strange, but ex-
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citing. The view in the front window was a very large white building. It reminded me of home, but larger. To the left was a large barn Gym. When we walked in, you could smell the old wood and the sweat from many years of use. I was assigned to the Tower House
Pemberton Lincoln’s senior photo 1960.
forced to the top of the hill where the road is. You could hear the fire trucks in the distance. All clothes, memorabilia, family treasures, books and homework were lost. (We were only allowed to use FIRE as an excuse once for not handing in homework.) To this day, any fire brings back that memory and frightening reality it was and is! Eight to twelve students per class gave everyone individual attention and the knowledge that their future was important. That meant a lot to me. I also remember how very helpful Mr. Dunn, Mrs. Krida, and Mrs. Silver (the nurse who brought me back to life from pneumonia) were. The pneumonia came from running the entire distance of Mountain Road, just to see if I could do it. It was a cool rainy day and I was not appropriately dressed! Mrs. Silver made sure I had my homework assignments and they were completed during the three weeks I spent in the infirmary. Under the tutelage of Robert Went, coach and my favorite Earth Science teacher, I enjoyed playing right defensive guard on a soccer team that went two years undefeated even playing with the West Point Plebes. The coach that truly understood my competitive spirit was Mr. Toback. He often tested me and made me stronger for it. I have enjoyed tennis since then. At our 50th alumni weekend, I met up with Mike Spitz, my doubles partner, and we reminisced about the great times on the court. As you can see Mr. Lamb, you have brought out a lot of great memories of my younger life. I will continue to have great respect for all those I came in contact with at SKS. Very Sincerely, Pemberton H. Lincoln, Jr. ’60
EDDIE ROMANIK ’14 Hello Norm Rasmussen, I loved SKS from day one, until I graduated. I did a post graduate year after graduating high school and it benefited me in so many ways. Coach Lewis was a major part of that reason. When I visited SKS on an open house visit for the first time, I spoke to Marek [Pramuka] and Coach Lewis. I knew I was going to have a great year because of how welcoming and educated they were. I started training with Coach in September to be fully prepared for basketball season in November. We hit it off immediately. He is a great coach, teacher, and overall a great person. He was an amazing role model and someone who gave me such good advice. I do plan to stay in touch with SKS in the future. I came to a basketball game this year and talked to Coach Lewis a few times over the year. He truly had an impact on my future with athletics and academics. I was so excited when I found out we won the basketball championship and hope for nothing but success in athletics, academics, and everything else for SKS in the future. Best of luck in your new position for the upcoming school year, and please give my best to everyone!
P.S. The school has come a long way in helping young
Sincerely, Eddie Romanik ’14
minds obtain a great education. Yes…co-ed, new buildings, and continuation with great teachers and staff.
EDDIE ROMANIK ‘14 AND COACH LEWIS
We are delighted to publish reader letters to On The Mountain. While your letters have not appeared on these pages for a while, alumni, parents and friends of Storm King School are always encouraged to write us about news, views, concerns and of course, SKS memories! Letters and comments may be sent to lcrevling@sks.org, subject heading “Letters/OTM” or by post: Letters/OTM c/o The Storm King School 314 Mountain Road, Cornwall on Hudson N.Y. 12520
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From Spy Rock HEAD OF SCHOOL JONATHAN W.R. LAMB
Dear Storm King Community, Spectacular! This has been my thought every morning since my wife, Toni, and I arrived at Storm King five years ago, as I have walked from Brogan House or Spy Rock to my office. In those few steps, I look across the athletic field toward the southern Catskills, glance back toward Storm King and Whitehorse Mountain, and feel the awe and sense of place that inspired Thomas Cole and the Hudson River Painters, naturalists like John Burroughs, and writers like Washington Irving and not a few Storm King students over the years. Throughout the past year I have had a chance to speak to alumni about the spirit of excitement that is permeating The Storm King School community these days. After years of incremental progress, last summer parts of our campus were abuzz with trucks and workmen, as we completed the first phase of our Master Plan. This past school year, Stone Hall has returned to its previous function as a dormitory; Ogden Hall is now a classroom building; and the new wastewater treatment facility has been on-line since early spring. These major projects were completed alongside of other jobs like installing new floors in the infirmary and faculty offices, painting, replacing walkways with pavers, and other work that has enhanced our campus and helped us in our aspiration to make the campus facilities as beautiful as the surroundings where we live. At the same time the physical plant is being enhanced, the program our students experience is also moving forward. This past year, we added a full time Director of Experiential Education. Taras Ferencevych, who had led our outdoor program previously, expanded his role to oversee additional experiential opportunities, including outdoor adventure trips, service learning projects, and many other offerings both in the immediate region and internationally. A group of students returned to Costa Rica last fall to explore energy sustainability and conservation, and another group traveled to Fiji in March to focus on service projects. Our faculty are stepping up to create exciting new elements to our
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academic program which include dynamic interdisciplinary course offerings, a focus on 21st century skills, and developing curriculum that is project based, and focused on real world problem solving opportunities. We ask our students to look out as far as the eye can see from Storm King Mountain and “dream big” as they imagine their futures after Storm King; we know that to solve these real problems they will need not only knowledge, but also the capacity of great imagination to turn those big dreams into lives of great impact. Last year, our total on-campus enrollment reached 157, well ahead of our sesquicentennial goal of ‘150 students by our 150th anniversary.’ These students helped SKS win four of the eight HVAL championship games reached by our varsity teams, completed community service projects throughout the Hudson Valley, and demonstrated their creativity with visual and performing arts from the spring musical, Bye Bye Birdie, our dance recital and talent show, to art shows at 2 Alices Coffee Lounge in Cornwall, and the Highland Falls ArtWalk. We opened the 2015/16 school year with 168 students, which is the current capacity of our campus. These students will continue to insure that Storm King is an exciting place to learn, play, and perform. Because of the spectacular beauty of the place where we live together, because of the spectacular work that we do with our students, and because of the spectacular promise we all hold for the future of this place, it is an exciting time
for our school, one of dynamic and transformative change and the beginning of what we believe will be a cycle of long term growth for the school. Whatever your reason for reading this edition of On the Mountain, we welcome and encourage your visit to campus. Whether you are an alumnus fondly recalling your time at Storm King, a prospective student or parent considering our school, a potential teacher thinking about working with us, or a friend, come and see for yourself why I think “spectacular!” each morning as I walk across the campus. Sincerely,
Headmaster Lamb with his wife Toni and Pal
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Alumni Connections
SKS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT SCOTT CANTOR ‘73
Dear Storm King Community,
What a gift to have a school located on a mountaintop. What a wonderful opportunity for healing, learning and growing as a part of a supportive community. The Alumni of The Storm King School have gathered together in an association to support and participate with our school and community. Our hope and our experience is that by participating in a loving and caring community, we best support the wellness, education and growth of everyone, especially our youngest members, today’s students. We are truly the sum of all of you, every person who has ever set foot on the Mountain. Thankfully, there is an open door leading to an ever greater alumni presence at Storm King. Recent Reunion Weekends have had record attendance of past students who have returned to campus. They came to teach, to learn
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and to share themselves, their life and work experiences with current students. Alumni have become mentors, supporting our students in their lives and dreams. As Storm King moves towards its 150th birthday in 2017-2018 we invite each important one of you to come join a school and a community on the rise, one that you will be proud to be a part of. Best wishes to everyone,
Scott Cantor ’73 SKS Alumni Association President
SAVE THESE DATES! SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2015 - Young Alumni Gathering
in New York City with current SKS Faculty and Staff. Place and time TBA.
SESQUICENTENNIAL [ses·qui·cen·ten·ni·al \-sen-’te-nē-әl\] n. a 150th anniversary or its celebration
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2015 - SKS on the Road - Canton, Ohio. Meet with Headmaster Jonathan W.R. Lamb and his wife, Toni Scherrer, Associate Director of Admissions. Place and time TBA. FRIDAY OCTOBER 30 - SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31 - Alumni Soccer Weekend. Come cheer on the Boys Varsity Soccer team, Friday at 3:45 PM . A limited number of dorm rooms at Black Rock Lodge have been reserved for Friday night. On Saturday, join the Alumni Association for lunch from 11:30 – 12:30 PM to help plan the next Reunion, followed by an alumni vs. student soccer scrimmage from 1-2 PM. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2015 - Young Alumni Gath-
ering in Boston with Taras Ferencevych, SKS Director of Experiential Education and Summer Programs and Joseph Graziosi, Director of Athletics. Place and time TBA.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2015 - Annual SKS Holiday Party in New York City from 6 – 9 PM. A brief alumni meeting will be held at 6 PM. Come celebrate the season with us at the elegant Cornell Club 6 E. 44th Street, New York, New York 10017. Dress code: business casual, no jeans. FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 2016 - SKS on the Road – Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Join Headmaster Jonathan W.R. Lamb at a reception hosted by Steven Sims ’69 from 6-8 PM. SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2016 - T he Alumni Basketball Challenge! Alumni Association lunch meeting at 12 noon in the Smidt Room in Orr Commons followed by the game at 1:30 PM. A limited number of dorm rooms at Black Rock Lodge have been reserved for Saturday night.
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THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 2016 - Career Night. Come help our SKS upperclassmen gain exposure to various occupations by volunteering at Career Night.
will be celebrating its sesquicentennial in
SPRING 2016 - ALUMNI ASSOCIATION MEETING. TBA.
and we hope you will join us for what is
FRIDAY, JUNE 10 - SUNDAY JUNE 12, 2016 - Reunion Weekend. Honor years end in “1” or “6”, but all class years are invited! More information to come – stay tuned! FOR ALL ABOVE ALUMNI EVENTS PLEASE RSVP TO NORM RASMUSSEN NRASMUSSEN@SKS.ORG OR 845-458-7522.
2017 - 2018! Preparations are underway
expected to be a wonderful time of festivities, tributes, memories and lasting impressions.
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Events & Notes:
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1 THE 2015 ALUMNI BASKETBALL Back row: Logan Sollami ’09, Tommy Heaney ’14, past coach Kevin Houston, Trevor Hughes ’13, Johnathan Flores ’12, Jonathan Lopes ’00, Scott Cantor ’73 and Ila Barton ’92. Front Row: Luke Sollami ’08, Michael Irish ’14, Shauntiece Hunt ’01, Sam Viceus ’11, Tiffany Reis Gagliano ’92, Lily Snyder ’13 and Sam Knight ’12 2 ANNUAL HOLIDAY RECEPTION December 11, 2014, The Muse Hotel, New York City Mike Brower ’63, Harrison Davis ‘56, Megan 3 4 CAREER NIGHT 2015 5 STEVE FERRELL Schreiner ’93 and Christine Watson ’94 3 MOUNTAIN DAY 2015 Great nephew of Malcolm Dyar poses outside of Dyar Hall, September 18, 2014. 6 THE 2015 ALUMNI BASKETBALL Kevin Wilkins’ slam dunk
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Come to The Storm King School Alumni Association Meetings!
one school Your school the same school be involved
Fall date: 10/31/2015 Winter date : 12/05/2015 Basketball Day: 02/21/2016 Spring date: TBD
AN ACTIVE COMMUNITY OF ALUMNI IS VITAL TO OUR SCHOOL’S SUCCESS!
Stay Tuned!
The Alumni Association President is an Ex Officio member of the SKS Board of Trustees and represents alumni views to the Board of Trusteesand communicates Board policy to alumni. Meetings are held quarterly, typically in conjunction with other alumni events or activities.
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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.
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From the Classroom EXPERIENTIAL EDUCATION
8th Graders Learn in Nature’s Classroom Looking ahead to their tenure at SKS over the next four years, members of the 8th grade class spent much of fall through spring getting to know each other and their environment.
To ensure a successful collaboration with fellow classmates, faculty and nature, they engaged in an intense course of experiential education designed by 8th Grade Outdoor Experiential Education teacher Kevin Jacobson. Mr. Jacobson, also a newcomer to the school last year, brought the course to its conclusion in late May, when he and 13 students attended the Nature’s Classroom program in Ivoryton, Connecticut. Set on more than 700 acres of land, Ivoryton is one of thirteen such Nature’s Classroom sites around New
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York and New England, where school groups typically spend up to a week learning in nature. Nature’s Classroom is described on its website as “a residential environmental education program” that blends traditional academics with the outdoors. Mr. Jacobson elaborates, “[It’s] a chance for students to fully immerse themselves in the natural world, and kind of, get down these barriers of the everyday school day…they’re together all day, and they get to explore, and a lot of what we do is entirely up to them.”
He would know, as he spent three years working at Nature’s Classroom as a facilitator and educator. Because of his time there, he was able to tailor a program to the needs of our SKS students and take full advantage of Ivoryton’s assets. Each day began with a hearty breakfast in the dining hall, followed by a few hours of what is known as “field group”. During this time, students hiked, studied the local ecology and played terrain games, such as camouflage, a hiding game that teaches how to benefit from primary cover. The group explored much of the Ivoryton forest, spying beaver lodges, building water rockets and fishing for amphibians in pools and ponds. Mr. Jacobson dubbed this “science in action”. There was a hike to Lookout Point, the highest point on the property, visits to Ivoryton’s two farms featuring goats, llamas, “Phoebe” the pig, donkeys and a peacock, a nighttime hike, and experiential classes focused on endangered animals and H.I.P.P.O. (habitat destruction, invasive species, human population growth, pollution, and over-fishing/hunting/farming/ gathering). Students also made fires and cooked blueberry fire cakes, Smore’s and white pine tea. Caroline H. ’19 was delighted by the trip. “I was very surprised that I actually survived almost a week without my phone, but it was GREAT to unplug,” said Caroline, adding,
“What impressed me was we learned so many important points in life and embraced them in only a few days.” A highlight of the daily excursions was communing in the Enchanted Forest, a man-made forest of tamarack and white pine trees created by Nature’s Classroom staff in the 1970s. While the forest itself presented lessons in ecology and sustainability, they were made much more profound by the woods’ proximity to a stone quarry. The adjacent quarry provided a stark contrast between exploiting the natural world and nurturing it. For Mr. Jacobson’s 8th graders, the Nature’s Classroom trip was the culmination of an entire school year at SKS that was spent hiking together, learning to identify trees and animals in nearby Black Rock Forest, researching and learning about local and global conservation issues and practicing team building exercises. The Outdoor Experiential class and Nature’s Classroom proved to be revelatory to Caroline. “I didn’t think I
was capable of hours and hours of hiking, but I am still alive and breathing,” she said. Caroline also overcame her fear of insects, and learned to embrace new experiences, what she called becoming “more positive to life.” This was solidified for her and many in the group, by the practice of I.A.L.A.C. (an acronym that stands for, among other things, “I am loving and caring”). It’s an exercise that encourages positive reinforcement from those around you, and expressions of reflection and gratitude for experiences, mentors and friends. Mr. Jacobson and his class, along with chaperone Grace Vasquez, conducted an I.A.L.A.C. ceremony during the trip’s final campfire built by the students. “I definitely am very thankful that Mr. Jacobson was a teacher of mine and that he brought us to Nature’s Classroom where we found ourselves in teamwork and nature,” said Caroline. The class slogan “Explore, Discover, Understand and Conserve” informed
both the outdoor and classroom lessons imparted by Mr. Jacobson to his students. Ultimately, it was a year in which to bond and bring together the newest members of the Storm King community, who will study and prosper on the Mountain, for several more years to come.
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COMMENCEMENT
2015
As ever, this year’s graduation weekend began with the Senior Class Luncheon on Friday, June 5th at the Headmaster’s house, Spy Rock. Each member of the graduating class was presented with a Storm King flag, a gift from the SKS Development Office, to take with them as they embark on their new journey. Embracing their role as alumni, the Class of ’15 gave a gift of $1,767 to The Storm King School. At dusk, the seniors gathered with friends and family to participate in the butterfly release ceremony. A formal dinner followed, and the evening concluded with Senior Service in the Walter Reade Jr. Theatre. Dean of Students and AP Psychology teacher Alan Lewis gave the keynote address. Then, early on June 6th, seniors gathered in the gym to prepare for the long anticipated event: graduation. Once outside, students eagerly waited for beloved teacher, bagpiper, and the Dean of Faculty/English Chair, Jeremy Freeman to escort them to the commencement exercises on the lawn in front of Orr Commons. As part of a recent SKS tradition, a student from each of the 7 countries represented within the graduating class welcomed the audience in their native language. Headmaster Jonathan W.R. Lamb gave his final address to the Class of 2015, which was followed by remarks by this year’s commencement speaker Ambassador Deborah L. Birx, M.D., U.S Global AIDS Coordinator and U.S Special Representative for Global Health Diplomacy.
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COMMENCEMENT AWARDS 2014-2015 HEADMASTER’S CUP The Headmaster’s Cup was a gift of Mrs. Anson Barker, whose husband was headmaster of The Storm King School for 19 years from 1932-1951. Since 1938, the Headmaster’s Cup, inscribed “For Cheerfulness of Spirit and Enthusiasm,” is awarded annually to that senior whose love for this School is profound. The Headmaster, along with advice from other administrators, chooses the recipient of this cup. RECIPIENT: Gabrielle Garcia, from New Windsor, New York 2014-2015 STORM KING CUP One of the traditions at Storm King is that students, faculty and staff vote together to choose the recipient of The Storm King Cup, the School’s highest award. Since 1915, it has been won “by students who have distinguished themselves by their personal qualities and their accomplishments. What other positive traits they have manifested, they have shared the traits of idealism, quiet courage, and a vision of the School as it could be.” RECIPIENT: Thu Thao Hoang, from Hanoi, Vietnam 2014-2015 RILEY CUP The Riley Cup is named for Philip D. Riley, Head of School from 1997 – 2004 and honors in perpetuity an outstanding member of the staff and an outstanding student who have contributed to the School’s community ethos in practical and creative ways. RECIPIENTS: Marge Kovacs, Executive Assistant to the Headmaster Nadia Delisfort, from Newburgh, New York 2014-2015 SPY ROCK CUP The Spy Rock Cup is awarded to a senior whose performance and contribution to our School have fostered its best interests and traditions. This honor is voted by the faculty and staff and reflects their accolades. RECIPIENT: Miriam Sefcikova, from Trnava, Slovakia
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Commencement 2014 The Class of 2014 was fêted on Friday, June 6th and Saturday, June 7th, as the SKS community formally bid farewell to its graduating class. Loved ones, friends, faculty and staff were in attendance to witness all 39 graduates from 10 different countries receive their diplomas. The Commencement Speaker that fine day was Acting U.S. Surgeon General, Rear Admiral Boris Lushniak. The Class of ‘14 raised $3,000, which will be invested by a newly formed Student Investment Club.
COMMENCEMENT AWARDS Riley Cup 2013-2014 Recipients: Kristen Casey, ESL Department Chair Matthew Fascaldi from New City, New York Spy Rock Cup 2013-2014 Recipient: Chengshi (Chandler) Zhang from Shan Dong, China Headmaster’s Cup 2013-2014 Recipient: Aurora Chen from Prato, Italy Storm King Cup 2013-2014 Recipient: Dominique DeFreece from Delhi, New York
SKS participates in regional Acorn Study
Environmental Science students joined scientists and dozens of other volunteers from the surrounding Hudson Highlands area last autumn, in collecting data about the 2014 acorn crop. It’s part of “A Study of the Impacts of Acorn Production on the Food Chain” by the League of Naturalists based at Bear Mountain State Park, a fairly recent endeavor intended to acquire “qualitative and quantitative data” on acorns, evaluate their role in the forest ecosystem, and create a brand new regional database for future use. In late October, armed with the
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study’s protocol (guidelines), SKS upperclassmen settled themselves around two red oak trees along the Duggan Trail and began the work of real scientists. They were tasked with measuring a sample area (one square meter) and collecting acorns into a container. They discovered that oaks drop a large number of acorns and that there are different species of the nut. Participants were required to report details of their study site, measure and identify the oak from which samples were taken, collect and count the fallen acorns, and record the data to be submitted. While small and ubiquitous, acorns are the lynchpin of the forest ecology. They are collected and studied from early-mid September through late October, when most ripe acorns fall to the ground. Black Rock Forest Consortium Executive Director, Dr. William Schuster, under whose guidance Storm King students participated in the study, called the nuts “the iconic image” or
“core” of Black Rock Forest. Neighboring Black Rock is in the midst of its own 20-year study of acorn production, and based on the fossil record in nearby ponds, Dr. Schuster said that oaks have dominated that landscape for about 10 thousand years. Dr. Schuster underscored the vital importance of acorns: they are not only the main energy (nutritional) source for so many of the forest’s inhabitants whose survival, and that of their predators, depends on the yearly crop, but they are critical for perpetuating the oak species, and can predict tick densities. Thanks to this large scholarly effort, residents of the Hudson Highlands will be able to know what they can expect from their surrounding forests. Storm King students, who dwell among the oaks in the heart of the region, can take pride that they helped begin such an important repository of information.
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Learning American History in Our Own Backyard Winter 2014 saw Karen Ruberg’s 8th grade history students tour sites at the nearby United States Military Academy at West Point (just 5 miles south of SKS), as part of their continuing lesson on the American Revolution. Thanks to their engaging host LTC David Siry, Assistant Professor of History (Military Division), the students were allowed special access to key fortifications while learning about the significance of the Hudson River in defending West Point from British forces during the Revolutionary War. Traveling via bus, LTC Siry regaled students with stories of the army post’s past. The first stop was Readoubt Four, an “overwatch” position or cover for Fort Putnam (300 feet below), and part of West Point’s defensive system of forts in the late 18th century. This was followed by a stop at Fort Putnam, a former military garrison and overwatch position for Fort Clinton. Each sited afforded the group an unadulterated view of the Hudson. Students also had a chance to peruse a 3-D map of the Hudson River. LTC Siry described the advantage the river gave the Continental Army during Revolutionary times, as it forms an “S” curve at West Point, which forced British ships to slow down, allowing the Army to attack them. Students also saw part of the “Great Chain” that was dropped into the river to block ships going north to the New England Colonies. At the end of the excursion, the group stopped off at the West Point Visitor’s Center, and had a look around the West Point Museum. Both the students and Ms. Ruberg agree, that being able to visit the places they study makes for a superior learning experience. “This type of experiential education…puts things in context for them, and it was just a great opportunity,” said Ms. Ruberg, “Our location here in the Hudson Valley, it’s just a wonderful place to be. Our classroom is right outside!”
Brand New SKS Math Team Competes in National Contests Math got a little more exciting at SKS in early 2015. A newly formed, 10-member math team, led by Math and Science Chair Dr. Paul Feffer, put its knowledge of numbers and concepts to the test in February and March, as the team competed against high schools around the country in two major contests: the Mathematical Association of America American Mathematics Competitions (MAA AMC) and Moody’s Mega Math (M3) Challenge. The MAA AMC is the start of a series of math tests that takes secondary students through rigorous exams of algebra, geometry and pre-calculus. The first round in late February, was comprised of two, 25 question, multiple-choice exams taken over 75 minutes. Top performers go on to participate in several higher rounds, including the American Invitational Mathematics Examinations (AIME) and the United States of America Mathematical Olympiad (USAMO). These contests culminate in the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) held each summer. In the meantime, on March 1st, four juniors from the team completed the demanding 14-hour Moody’s Mega Math (M3) Challenge. Sponsored by the ratings agency Moody’s, the M3 Challenge has students answer a real world problem using mathematical models and on-line research. This year’s problem was particularly relevant for high school upperclassmen: “S.T.E.M. Sells: What is the cost of higher education really worth?” Findings were to be summed up in a hypothetical letter to high school administrators, convincing them to use the team’s models as tools for making informed higher education decisions. The entire analysis, presented in the form of a 20-page paper, had to be uploaded to the Moody’s site within the given 14 hours (between 7 a.m. – 9 p.m.). The SKS team got their final report in “with one minute to spare!” exclaimed Dr. Feffer. While our students did not advance in the MAA AMC or place in this year’s M3 Challenge, Dr. Feffer emphasized that they were meant to be primers for the young SKS team, readying them for next year’s bouts.
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n early March, five students and a faculty chaperone from The Storm King School traveled half way around the world to the Republic of Fiji (or “Fiji”), for a highly unique opportunity to work in underserved communities and learn about South Pacific island culture. The high school travel and service program provider, Rustic Pathways, helped organize the trip and students held online fundraisers to fund the cost of travel. During their weeklong stay, the Storm King volunteers were based out of the Rustic Pathways EcoLodge in the village of Momi, located on the big island of Viti Levu. Fiji is an archipelago comprised of over 330 islands and over 500 islets in the South Pacific Ocean. Its two main industries are tourism and sugar production. While the unwelcome cyclone “Pam” disrupted much of the area in early March and consequently,
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altered some activities for SKS students (no snorkeling, island-hopping or home-stays in the Fijian highlands for fear of flooding, e.g.), the group adapted its service-learning agenda accordingly. Generally, most days were evenly split between community service and traditional Fijian cultural experiences. Students worked on installing flush toilets in several surrounding villages by digging ditches for pipes and pouring cement, they painted murals at a primary school, and also a small home. Several students who finished their work early spent time with kindergarteners, telling them the story of “Cinderella”. When the bad weather cancelled classes, the SKS volunteers executed a day of fun and games for elementary school children. Students also served meals to the elderly at a “golden age” home, and cooked and served dinner to women down on their luck, at a shelter in
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the town of Nadi. The recipients of the dinner were so grateful that their appreciation overflowed into song and dance for the Storm King servers. Cultural immersion took the form of wearing the traditional sulu, a unisex Fijian wrap skirt; partaking in village welcoming ceremonies (called sevu sevu) by sharing kava, a customary drink made from ground kava root and water which features anesthetic properties; and participating in meke, a Fijian dance performed nightly by local people, who have few entertainment options due to lack of electricity. On the second to last day, the group attended Methodist church services, conducted in the Fijian language. The volunteers also toured the city of Lautoka, the sugar cane capital of Fiji, and an open-air market featuring Fiji’s agricultural abundance.
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torm King School students and faculty engaged in exciting service projects this spring, thanks to several new community partnerships. Projects with the Newburgh Armory, Groundwork Newburgh and graveyard clean up in Black Rock Forest are providing the school community with lifelong lessons in volunteerism and good works. Just in time for Memorial Day, students and faculty cleaned up a centuries-old cemetery off a trail on White Horse Mountain in Black Rock Forest, where as many as three Civil War veterans are buried. Veterans of World War I are also memorialized there. Thanks to Cornwall Local editor Ken Cashman, the school was reminded of the graveyard’s exis-
tence, which is in very close proximity to campus. Members of the American Legion visit the site annually on Memorial Day, leaving flags on veterans’ headstones. In preparation for the Legion’s visit this year, classes and various athletic teams from SKS spent much of May clearing weeds and growth that had obscured the older, smaller headstones and choked the larger ones. The city of Newburgh is the site of two burgeoning collaborations with SKS: distribution of healthy food from the Hudson Valley Food Bank at the Newburgh Armory, and urban renewal with the non-profit environmental group Groundwork Newburgh. While the school already enjoys a working relationship with the Food Bank, for which it has helped
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NEW PROJECTS IN FULL BLOOM THIS SPRING package food, students and faculty recently took the next step - distributing it to Newburgh residents in need. Students volunteer every third Wednesday of the month during the academic year, using repurposed pallets they transformed into carts in order to transport the food to residents’ cars. Groundwork Newburgh, an organization that strives to reclaim and beautify rundown urban areas, has provided an opportunity for students to help revitalize two vacant lots into green space for community members to use for picnics and gatherings. Working in the downtown area offers members of the SKS community a chance to participate in important urban renewal.
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Bye Bye Birdie BY ANNE FULTON P’09, DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATE AND THEATRE TEACHER From April 24th – 26th, audiences gathered at the Walter Reade Jr. Theatre to see the latest Storm King School production, Bye Bye Birdie. This classic American musical, set in the late 1950s, features a love story between music agent Albert Peterson and his secretary Rose “Rosie” Alvarez, who is anxious to have Albert leave the business and settle down. When Albert’s superstar client Conrad Birdie gets drafted into the Army, they take one last stab at publicity. Conrad signs on to sing a new song live on The Ed Sullivan Show and kiss a chosen member of his fan club. After this, Conrad is to leave for the Army, and Albert, for a career in teaching. As in most musicals, love triumphs in the end. It was my pleasure to direct the show, with music direction by Martin Smith and choreography by Jeanette Perk. Although Bye Bye Birdie was first produced 55 years ago, it was new to most of our performers. Over forty students participated in the show, either onstage, in the orchestra pit or as part of the technical crew. Rehearsals began in January, which posed some challenges, as snow on the Mountain was a regular occurrence throughout the winter. Rehearsals took place in the evening, so everyone had to “Put On a Happy Face” and be ready to sing and dance for several hours after a full day of classes and sports. Luckily, the songs in the show are very upbeat and the dances were lively and fun to perform. The students enjoyed stepping back in time to when rock and roll was new. Many of them had performed in Grease the previous year, so they weren’t unfamiliar with the style of the music. The students worked hard to combine their acting, singing and dancing talents to entertain our audiences. We have a wonderful performing arts program at SKS and a beautiful theatre in which to perform. We’re excited for the new school year with new students and new shows. I can’t wait to get started!
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BILL WOOD ’67
Artist in Residence “I have always made things, took things apart to see how they worked, built things rather than bought them, built a boat with my dad, dragged an old truck from a field fixed it up - drove it. I think sculpture chose me, and calling the pieces I made sculpture made it better.” — Bill Wood
Throughout the better part of a week in mid-April, students flocked to SKS’s Allison Vladimir Art Center for a unique opportunity to work alongside Virginia-based sculptor and SKS alumnus Bill Wood. Mr. Wood graciously agreed to return to campus as artist in residence to help bring to life one of several proposed student designs. Ultimately, the design entitled “Robot Spider” conceived by sophomore Dalibor H., prevailed. It was inspired by the AT-AT (All Terrain Armored Transport) robot in George Lucas’ 1980 movie The Empire Strikes Back. “It also seemed to be a relatable science fiction piece that is fun,” said Mr. Wood via e-mail, “It appears to me that the things we can relate to from our youth make great art today.” He cited sculptor Jeff Koons’ balloon animals and Jeffie Brewers large, blue Peep-like
bunny, as examples. Under the direction of Mr. Wood, Dalibor went on to construct a maquette, or scale model of the sculpture. Then, his schoolmates joined in to start building the actual life-sized piece, made out of plywood. They measured, sawed and assembled the body’s armature, or framework. Dalibor was impressed with meeting a professional sculptor, but he was even more moved by the communal effort in bringing his idea to life. While he was a Storm King high school student in the 1960s, Mr. Wood found a mentor in then-artist in residence Lance Elwell, who greatly motivated him. “He encouraged me to make art, and pushed me to take it seriously,” said Mr. Wood, “I did.” So much so, that he went on to pursue art at Ottawa University in Kansas, moonlighting at the
Kansas City Art Institute, where he went on to work after graduation. In the mid-1970s, he lived in the Washington D.C. area, and taught a class in welded sculpture at the Maryland-based arts and cultural center, Glen Echo Park until 1983. From 1981 – 2001, he intermittently showed his work in public venues, but committed to being a full-time sculptor in ’01. Today, he specializes in large sculptures, many featuring reflective surfaces and geometric pieces that take about 10-12 weeks to create. Works with whimsical names like “Tilt”, “Zig Zag Boogie Woogie” and “3 Card Monte” have been installed and shown throughout the U.S. He also creates smaller works and “functional art” such as tables and benches. Mr. Wood has won several awards for his work including the 2011 Best of Show title, at the 11th Annual Florida Outdoor Sculpture Competition. The “Robot Spider” installation will be exhibited at the 10th Annual Farm Project at Saunders Farm in Garrison, N.Y. from September 5th - October 31st.
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The Storm King School Accreditation Renewed In February it was announced that The Storm King School was recommended for accreditation by the NYSAIS Commission on Accreditation and approved by the NYSAIS Board of Trustees at their meeting held on January 22, 2015. The New York State Association of Independent Schools is authorized by the Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York, “to evaluate and accredit nursery schools, kindergartens, elementary and secondary schools operating within the State of New York and, as concerns New York corporations with branches in other states and countries, to evaluate and accredit those consistent with the laws, rules and regulations of host states and countries.” Additionally, NYSAIS is a member of the National Association of Independent Schools’ (NAIS) Commission on Accreditation which includes nineteen regional and state accrediting agencies. As a member of the NAIS Commission on Accreditation, the NYSAIS accreditation process is recognized across the United States and throughout the world. In March the school also received word that it was re-accredited by the MSACS, which has been our accrediting agency since 1962. Headmaster Jonathan Lamb remarked: “The accreditation process is made up of three key steps. The first is a year-long selfstudy process, which The Storm King School completed last year. The second was a visit to the school, last October, by an accreditation team composed of six administrators and faculty members from independent schools across New York State. During their time on campus, the team interviewed faculty, staff, trustees, parents, and friends of the school; toured all buildings and every part of the campus; and observed classes. The visiting team wrote and submitted a report to NYSAIS and MSACS which was used in the third step, a review of the report by the NYSAIS and MSACS commissions and their recommendation for accreditation. The self-study and peer review process is a very important opportunity for a school to examine itself and receive independent confirmation from its peer schools that it operates in a way that is consistent with its mission and the high expectations of all independent schools.” A NYSAIS/MSACS accredita-
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tion represents the culmination of an in-depth self-study that includes an exhaustive internal and external examination of all aspects of the school community including mission and culture, governance, educational program, student and student services, finance and school operations, parents, faculty and non-teaching personnel, community relations, and communications. Through a process of continual self-improvement that includes visiting teams of professionals from outside the school community, The Storm King School has fulfilled the accreditation requirements for an independent school. According to Dr. Mark W. Lauria, NYSAIS Executive Director, “the rigorous accreditation process that each NYSAIS school undergoes represents a significant commitment of time and energy allowing the school and NYSAIS to thoroughly exam all facets of the school as part of the continuous improvement that is needed to best serve students and their families. The Storm King School is to be commended for their participation in this important process of self-improvement.”
About NYSAIS: The New York State Association of Independent Schools was founded in 1947 by eleven schools and has grown to over 195 member schools and organizations incorporated in the State of New York. The NYSAIS mission is: The New York State Association of Independent Schools promotes the independence, well-being, and public understanding of, and respect for, New York Independent Schools and serves as an accrediting body charter by the New York State Board of Regents. For more information about NYSAIS or NYSAIS accreditation, please go to: www.nysais.org.
About MSACS and the Commissions on Elementary and Secondary Schools: The Commissions on Elementary and Secondary Schools accredit early-childhood through post-secondary, non-degree granting public, private, faithbased educational institutions including special purpose schools, supplementary education centers, learning services providers, and distance education institutions. Historically, MSA-CESS has operated in the mid-Atlantic region (Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and the District of Columbia); with its cooperative partners, it has expanded its scope to include schools and institutions seeking accreditation throughout the United States. For more information on MSA-CESS, please go to: msa-cess.org.
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THE SCHOOL STORE:
Mom Gets a Makeover Some students returning from winter break this year were surprised to find that the beloved school store, known colloquially for years as the “Mom Store” had experienced some serious renovations while they were away. Formerly a narrow room next to the stairwell in Orr Commons, it was crammed with school supplies, toiletries and snacks. During a rush, the line often snaked out the door. But now, the upgraded space which co-opted the former media room adjacent to the Student Center, has roughly 160 additional square feet. It is well-lit with an open floor plan. Retail items include new SKS gear, everyday necessities and even sushi! Products are exhibited in free standing fridges and on open shelving and racks, accessible to every customer. SKS Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds Jamie Smith, who along with the Business Office’s Manager and Bookkeeper Sharon Schoonmaker managed the store for several years, was not sure if the new layout would be governable. “I wasn’t a big fan at first,” said Jamie Smith candidly, “I didn’t believe that the changes would generate more sales.” Jennifer Rowe, wife of SKS English teacher Peter Rowe, assumed the job of store manager this year and got to work by making bold new choices in school spirit wear and other retail items. “My vision was to modernize the school store, so that it has the feel of a boutique/cafe setting,” explained Mrs. Rowe. “We expanded the food selection to reflect the diversity of students and their cultures. I was excited to bring college-like apparel and accessories to promote the spirit of Storm King,” she added. For his part, Jamie Smith was pleasantly surprised, “I checked back with [Jennifer] after a few weeks of business and it was booming,” he said. “The feel-free shopping along with new products generated into higher sales,” he added, “I truly love the new look and so do the students.” Established in early 1990s as a hub for snacks and goodies, the store was run by parents of SKS students (hence the nickname “Mom”). A separate bookstore, run for a time by Business Office Coordinator Kathy Syvertsen out of what is today the Business Office, eventually moved downstairs to share space with the store. They were considered separate entities until this year’s renovation officially blended both. The School Store offers students, alumni, faculty and staff quality products including course materials, computer supplies, SKS memorabilia and much more at reasonable prices. For more information, please contact Jennifer Rowe at 207-837-0952 (jrowe@sks.org) or purchase SKS items in our new on-line store today!
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n July 2, 2015, Marge Kovacs spent a quiet last day of work as Executive Assistant to the Headmaster sharing fresh bagels and warm conversation in the Administration building, with those of us still lingering on campus. Having served the Storm King community for approximately three decades, whether in Development, the Business Office or Administration, Marge truly is SKS (see pg 56). She had more than earned the right to spend her final, official few hours informally wrapping up tasks and chatting with friends and co-workers, gently reassuring all of us that it’s not “farewell”, but “until next time”. We expect to see her and her devoted husband Joe back up on the Mountain for a long time to come. Marge at the 2015 Alumni Basketball Challenge
“I want to thank all my colleagues, and their wonderful children, for making my retirement portion of the end of the year faculty and staff party so absolutely unforgettable. Every part of it was so awesome: Jon’s presentation of the SKS Hitchcock chair, the t-shirts, and the decorated golf cart! My years at this wonderful school have been the best of my working life.” - Marge Kovacs
“Marge’s life and career at Storm King is an example of a concept I have spoken of before to our students and faculty, that of the servant-leader….Many servant leaders are not those you would immediately think of as a leader – Marge’s life has been about helping and serving others and this school. It is when she is gone we will recognize we miss her most- when we realize we have lost a bit of information or we have forgotten how to get something done and no one quite remembers where to find the answer or directions; it is then that we will realize that our path was always cleared by her leading the way. So, I would ask you to offer your thanks to Marge for her time and dedication to Storm King.” - Jonathan W.R. Lamb, Headmaster Marge and her ride at the 2015 Faculty and Staff Party Marge and Headmaster Jonathan Lamb 2015 Marge at the 2015 Faculty and Staff Party
Art students from Storm King exhibited an original sculpture in Farm Project 2014, an annual show under the auspices of Collaborative Concepts at Saunders Farm in Garrison, N.Y. The piece was one of 51 art objects and installations placed on the 140-acre farm. The September 19, 2014 edition of The New York Times identified Storm King School as being among the first-time participants in this exhibit, which is celebrating its 10th year in the fall of 2015. John Carruthers, Visual and Performing Arts Department Chair, spoke about the process: “I had been planning a large sculptural unit with my students. We had built small maquettes and had visited the Polich-Tallix foundry in Rock Tavern, N.Y. The Storm King School has a close connection to the Storm King Art Center (run by alumnus David Collens ’65), so students were well versed and excited about the possibility of building a large piece. When Dr. Nicole Shea of the Eisenhower Leadership Center contacted the Storm King School about collaborating on community projects, the perfect opportunity presented itself to have our students create a work for The Farm Project 2014. Nine students in my second level art class (drawing and painting, which includes learning 3-D and other large techniques like mural painting) created maquettes. We picked Victoria B.’s design to scale-up into a larger, 5’x4’ piece.” The sculpture is called “Spinning Profile”, and is an outline of a human face seen from 2 angles, forming a 3-D in-the-round sculpture. The sculpture spins in its base so it can appear that the head is spinning and looking everywhere. It is a metaphor for what students do during their time at The Storm King School. The students are learning in their classrooms, participating in sports and other activities, doing community service, and going on many local and international trips. They see the world from many angles. “The students were very excited…A number of students will be applying to art schools (college level), and having their work in such a wonderful and professional setting is an amazing piece of luck as they build their experiences for their future” said Mr. Carruthers.
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By the Numbers A ROUNDUP OF SKS STATISTICS AND SUPERLATIVES
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The amount of scholarship dollars awarded by universities to Storm King seniors this year The enrollment at Storm King during the 2015/16 school year; the highest in the 148 year history of the school The number of trees planted on campus and in the local community this year by Storm King students and faculty The weight held by the winning bridge in the student bridge-building contest before reaching its breaking point The number of HVAL championships won by Storm King athletes this year; the most ever in a single season The hours Storm King students spent performing community service in the city of Newburgh since January 2015
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A year to be great BY JOSEPH GRAZIOSI, SKS ATHLETICS DIRECTOR
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he Department of Athletics reached many milestones during the 2014-2015 school year with 98% of the student body participating in a competitive varsity sport for at least one season. Storm King student athletes demonstrated the highest level of integrity and sportsmanship last year and established themselves as one of the top programs in the Hudson Valley Athletic League (HVAL), winning 4 league championships and 4 runners up. Eight out of thirteen league sports saw Storm King teams competing in the conference championship matches and four of our teams received New England Prep Tournament invitations. Additionally, two new sports, fencing and girls lacrosse competed at the varsity level for the first time with excellent results. The fall season started with high expectations for the boys varsity soccer team which finished the season with a 16-3-1 overall record and a 13-0-1 record in HVAL play, including a 1-0 victory over Wooster School in the championship final. They lost in the New England Preparatory School Athletic Council (NEPSAC) quarterfinals and finished as the number 2 ranked team in Western New England. While scoring more than 60 goals for the season, defense was the order of the day for Storm King as our boys allowed just 11 goals for the season and registered 14 shutout victories, playing 755 consecutive minutes without conceding a goal during one span. In the winter, our success continued as the boys varsity basketball team finished the season with an 18-3 overall record and a 14-0 record in league play, including a thrilling 49-43 victory over Poughkeepsie Day School in the HVAL Championship Final. The crowd’s enthusiasm in the gym was deafening. Storm King
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was invited to the NEPSAC Class D Basketball Tournament for the second consecutive year and lost in the quarterfinals. Our boys ran off 14 straight wins to end the season before dropping the NEPSAC quarterfinal. Winter successes were also seen on the wrestling mat as our wrestlers steamrolled through the HVAL, finishing 6-0 and outscoring their opponents by an average score of 69-8. Even more impressive was the overall record of 19-2 with wins over marquis programs including Salisbury School, Hamden Hall Country Day, Cheshire Academy, and Marianapolis Prep. An unprecedented 10 wrestlers qualified for the NEPSAC tournament. Storm King also boasted 2 New England Champions who wrestled at the “futures” level with one of our 8th grade champions declaring, “This is the greatest day of my life.” This young team, with only 1 senior, has already won 3 out of the last 4 HVAL Championships. In the spring, the boys tennis team set out to defend their HVAL Championship and, after an 8-2 regular season, began a stunning run. In the New England Tournament Semi-Finals, Storm King overcame a stacked deck and defeated a well-rested Wooster team on their home court to push through into the finals. Our boys lost in the final and then faced Wooster, again on their court, for the HVAL finals and defeated them for the second time in a week accomplishing the goal of defending their championship. In addition to our championships, the volleyball team played in the HVAL Finals after finishing second in the regular season. The girls tennis team won the HVAL regular season title with an undefeated regular season and top seed in the tournament only to lose in the finals. The baseball team made an extraordinary playoff run and came up short in the championship game. The boys lacrosse team went to its 5th consecutive HVAL Championship match but was defeated in the finals. All of these teams played with great integrity and class leaving the entire Storm King Community brimming with pride. With the 2015-2016 school-year here we are excited about the upcoming seasons. Our program has gained strength and momentum over the past several years. Many of our teams are very young and we anticipate even more successful outcomes as we continue...stay tuned.
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Our Common E Ground: G N A H C F O E R U T L U C Y M BY STEVEN SIMS ‘69
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he world has changed (evolved) since my departure from Storm King and its culture of learning, competing and self-challenging struggles in 1969. In a male dominated environment at that time, our Alpha male was the late Mr. Frank Brogan, and his example of caring, challenging and constructive criticism set the tone for the school and its attendees. Now, culture, in one sense, is defined as distinct ways a group/tribe/country lives and represents its values, traditions and mores. My nurturing, empowering and buddy-focused culture of Storm King was replaced as I transitioned to a college culture at Columbia College in New York City, which required me to continue to be competitive, educationally curious, much more disciplined, with a desire to stand out in constructive and productive ways. I have come to realize my generation - the Baby Boomers - has impacted the country and the world through every growth phase we have moved through
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(education, work, social, financial, civil rights, family, etc). I went from a very structured environment at SKS to the chaos and trial and error process of adjusting to and absorbing the new college culture I sought to embrace and reflect. I should also note that this transition was during the Vietnam War, and my college was at the heart of challenging the country’s leadership over a war many of us also took issue with. Simultaneously we began a fight against an ineffective war on poverty, racial discrimination, housing discrimination, sexism, educational inequities and a questioning of what was America’s role in an evolving global hierarchy. The collective Baby Boomer sense of purpose and desire to promote real changes caused a culture shift, starting on college campuses and moving across society. The cultural shift was not so much about lambasting the old ways as much as celebrating a new age (of Aquarius) and desire to focus on the positive;
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equal rights, equal access and a more level playing field Urban League; Advisor to the Harlem giving everyone a chance to succeed based on merit and Consumer Education Council; Renot peerage. cruited minority students, and did I write these reflections to examine what has been and interviews for prospective Columbia what is, and leave it to you to consider what will be in the applicants in the Washington DC area future of the larger society. But on a personal level, I am a and served recently as Vice President strong believer in introspection and I hope as you read this of the National Minority Supplier you also reflect on who you are and who you would like to Development Council. I genuinely be in terms of values, integrity and principles which could/ believe the saying, “that to those who should define you. much is given, much is required” and Making money has never been the most important thing I had been given a lot. I have also in my life. Making a difference has always been more im- gained/benefited from my contributions. I have met every portant. A quick story: I was Captain of the 1969 SKS president since Jimmy Carter. I have partied with President Basketball team (yeah, our main man was Lloyd McMillan, Obama (he was a Columbia student) a couple of years ago ’72, new SKS Hall of Fame Inductee at and one of my best friends is Attorney General Reunion 2014). The previous year, the team Eric Holder, one of my posse from “the “I WRITE THESE had not won a game but we started that year Colum”. I say this not to brag because, even with three straight wins. I was not impressed REFLECTIONS TO as I enter retirement, I wonder if there is more with the level of support for our accomplish- EXAMINE WHAT I could have done and more I can even do now. ments, so I signed the name of several players My musings, in this note, are a reflection of to the list of those attending the Saturday HAS BEEN AND what I value in life, and I hope that they enmovie, shown at the same time we would be WHAT IS, AND courage you to seek to challenge yourself; to playing our next game. In the Friday Morning give as much as you receive; and believe you Meeting, the day before the game, Mr. Brogan LEAVE IT TO YOU can change the world if you are really ready raised his concern about the student who would TO CONSIDER for the demands required of such feats. I have sign the basketball players up for the movie made plenty of mistakes in a number of areas, WHAT WILL BE IN bus. I stood up and confessed that I had signed but on the whole feel I moved my culture and their names. I believed that there should have THE FUTURE OF my world forward. As I entered that phase of been more school support for our efforts and THE LARGER life which involves self-reflection and a sense I thought it a subtle way to share my feelings. that I might not have added as much to the Well, the movie bus was cancelled and everyone SOCIETY.” discussion as I could have; I write to express was strongly encouraged to attend the game my joy, confusion, fear and pride in my meager, and cheer on the Mountaineers. I will cut to the chase; we but also tremendous contribution lost by three points, but I never regretted what I did and why to my own and the larger AmerI did it. The kicker was the heartfelt note from Mr. Brogan ican culture. thanking me for demonstrating leadership for my fellow It is time to begin or readjust ballers and the school. It made my year and I still have the your lifelong process of asking note. This is what I mean about wanting to live my principles where you are going. If you can and assuming everything else would work out. recall the values, character and I had a number of value forming experiences while at knowledge you embraced at Storm King and two others involved the camaraderie of Storm King School, the next step Mr. Gregory Ziegler (English teacher, Director of Dramat- is actualizing and reflecting that ics and Varsity Soccer Coach) and the honor bestowed upon experience through what you do me by my main man, Richard Broughton, ’54 (Mathematics today and more importantly teacher, Director of Admissions and Varsity Baseball and tomorrow. Are you a product of Soccer Coach). I think about the value forming experiences SKS influence and where/how of day to day life at SKS often. do you express it today? What I have spent a lifetime working with the do you want your life to mean? underrepresented and disenfranchised; Can you live your SKS values working to empower minority businesses and and principles or even more communities. I chaired the Board of the importantly, are you aware of or Boys Choir of Harlem (Chair Emeritus); in touch with your SKS values served as Vice President of the New York and principles? Steven Sims at Columbia ‘77
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REUNION
Admittedly, we’re pretty spoiled up here on the Mountain. It’s no wonder that over the last three years we’ve had more people showing up for Reunion Weekend than ever before. There’s not a whole lot of convincing needed to get people back up to campus – the Mountain speaks for itself! However, there is more to the life of this campus than just its natural beauty. A reunion wouldn’t be a reunion without community and alumni. We kicked off the weekend with two events on Friday, June 12th – a hike up to Spy Rock and a golf outing to the Storm King Golf Course. Led by current faculty and staff, alumni took full advantage of the nice weather to get outside and have a relaxing day. One of our golfing alumni, Bill Bivin ’65 had been on a cross-country road trip with his wife and made a point of joining us for SKS Reunion Weekend - right in time for his year to be honored! He was but one example – others joined us from as close as Cornwall and as far as Switzerland. One hundred and twelve joyous alumni in all, back to regale each other with stories of friends and old times. On Friday evening the real fun started with a buffet dinner and open bar at Billy Joe’s Ribworks on the waterfront in Newburgh, N.Y. With close to 70 people in attendance, the atmosphere was festive and upbeat. Not even the intense thunderstorm that passed overhead could have dampened spirits. An alumnus who graduated in 2006 had no idea that SKS was having a Reunion Weekend, but saw our signs and even dropped by for a drink! Truly a great time was had by all. Saturday, June 13th started off with breakfast at 8:00 a.m. followed by our traditional Memorial Rock service at 10:00 am. Held in the shadow
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of a tree next to the rock, it was a beautiful remembrance of those who have passed before us, a clear indicator of just how long our school has been around and how important alumni are. The rest of Saturday’s program went off without a hitch. Events included Headmaster Jonathan Lamb’s State of the School address, the Alumni Association meeting, and a tribute to David Fulmer, all held in the newly renovated Ogden Hall. Alumni mingled and took a tour to learn about their school that is ever changing yet retains values of old. The Jazz Lunch included a live jazz trio and a photo booth, giving people an opportunity to bring home some “real time” pictures from the event. As always, we were pleased to recognize our very deserving Storm King community members. The Miss Margaret Clark Faculty Excellence Award was presented to Leslie Breton, Math 1987-1997 and David Van Dyck ’40, History and Math 1948-1959. Inductees to our new Sports Hall of Fame included Ken Stuart ’65 for Tennis and Soccer, and Chris Fagan ’00, Jemar Bryant ’00, and the 2000 Basketball team. Congratulations to all award recipients! Finally, the day concluded with a cocktail hour and formal dinner at Orr Commons. During the delicious meal prepared by head chef Moises Ortega and his talented staff, the excitement about the silent auction was palpable. Items were donated from a number of local businesses, as well as alumni- owned hotels and restaurants further away. There was an array of 2-3 night packages in places like Mexico and U.S. Virgin Islands! In the end, the mood on the Mountain was an indication of how strong and vibrant our alumni community is. If you’re not already connected to this immensely important group, reach out to us. We’d love for you to catch up with old classmates in your area and tell you about all the new things happening on campus. No matter when you came here, or for how long, one thing doesn’t change:
This is your school. our school. The same school.
REUNION HONOREES: MISS MARGARET CLARK FACULTY EXCELLENCE AWARD RECIPIENTS: Leslie Breton, Math 1987-1997 David Van Dyck ’40, History and Math 1948-1959
SPORTS HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES RECIPIENTS: Ken Stuart ’65, for Tennis and Soccer Chris Fagan ’00 Jemar Bryant ’00 The 2000 Basketball team
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REUNION 2014 213 people participated in SKS Reunion 2014 – the largest turnout that we know about for a reunion! The weekend opened on Friday, June 11th with golf and continued into the evening with a scenic cruise on the Hudson. Saturday morning, June 12th included commemorations at Memorial Rock, the State of the School address in the Walter Reade Jr. Theatre, barbecue lunch on the terrace, followed by a champagne toast to celebrate the groundbreaking for Phase One of the SKS Capital Campaign. Many came to this special reunion for a tribute and memorial for Herb and Tommye Sauer (at SKS from 1946 - 1985) and Headmaster Frank Brogan (at SKS from 1968-1974). Tom Delaney ’58 and Amy Bright ’79 presided and invited the audience to share memories. The eldest and youngest Sauer children, Connie Sauer Clark and Dorothy Sauer Murray, recalled family history and poetry. Dick Broughton ’54, Larry Smith ’52, Massoud Amin ’79 and Bill Carhart commented on the Sauers’ impact on SKS. Lynn Crevling ’72 read a letter sent by Kathleen Gibbons ’78, one of many remembrances published in a Sauer Memory Book. Scott Cantor ’73 led the tribute to Frank Brogan, with comments by Mr. Brogan’s wife, Maia, daughter Meg Brogan Adley, and a video created by his grandchildren. Others were moved to share their memories including Winnie Hennessy
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’74, David Faulkner ’74, Tom Hillman ’74, Rick Hicks ’73, Mike Hankinson ’74, and Jack Downey ’71. Chris Milne ’73 read excerpts of Frank Brogan’s writings that he had compiled into a Brogan Memory Book. The program ended with Frank Brogan’s own words from 1994 played for the audience, closing with “….you are this school. I inform you that you must, you must, continue to shape it and support it.” The memorial tributes were followed by a program and ribbon cutting in honor of the new SKS Sports Hall of Fame display area in the gym lobby. After cocktails and dinner, and as the sunset illuminated the Hudson River below, Craig Cummings, ’64, introduced Bill Carhart, recipient of the Miss Margaret Clark Faculty Excellence Award. The First Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees, Roger Auerbacher, ’66, awarded the Founder’s Cup Award to Trustee Lon Gratz, ’61, a leader in giving his time, talent and treasure to SKS for decades. The strength of community was evident all weekend. In coming together for Reunion Weekend, alumni remember, celebrate and preserve the strong community that SKS was and is.
“One of the best weekends of my life, thanks again.” —Lloyd McMillian’72
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Jihoon Park ‘08
SKS is pleased to announce the establishment of The Storm King School Alumni Association in South Korea, under the leadership of Sehyoon Oh ’93 and assisted by Jihoon Park ’08. Prompted by a recent SKS visit to Korea, Sehyoon volunteered to help SKS connect with, and elicit the support of SKS alumni in his country. Sehyoon was involved in the growth of the Clark University Alumni Association in Korea, and envisions a similar model for SKS with member dues and activities, taking about two years to become well-established. “It is my pleasure to help The Storm King School. I was born and currently live in Seoul, Korea. I lived in the U.S. for seven years while at SKS and while attending Clark University where I majored in business management, graduating in 1997. My favorite subject was accounting and I wanted to become a CPA, however all Korean men have to do military service, so I joined the Korean Air Force in 1998. After finishing military service, I wanted to take some time off, however my father had a different idea. My father asked me to take over his business as the Managing Director of Jiwon Medical, providing medical and ophthalmic supplies worldwide. It has been a great pleasure to work with dedicated people around me, and we were able to double our growth in ten years, and are still growing in a very competitive market. Our main clients are ophthalmologists in Korea. We provide and sometimes teach ophthalmologists with the latest technology to improve or cure people’s eye problems. Our latest goal is to cure presbyopia, and I do hope we can come up with safe and effective products to do this. I look forward to supporting Storm King School and hope to get back for a visit and for reunion someday.” —Sehyoon Oh ‘93
Sehyoon Oh with wife Eunjung Kim, daughter Yena, and son Gunwoo.
New Storm King School Alumni Association Formed in South Korea
Contact Sehyoon at sehyoon@jiwonmedical.co.kr or Jihoon at duckduckgoose@nate.com
Reconnecting is easy: contact Director of Leadership Support and Alumni Relations Lynn Crevling ’72 at lcrevling@sks.org or 845-458-7517.
“OH, I WISH I HAD THOSE INCRIMINATING PHOTOS —
that baby face, THAT CRAZY HAIR, MY DEAR OLD FRIENDS OF TIMES GONE BY...” MAYBE WE CAN HELP! We have selected yearbooks available! We have extra yearbooks for the following years: 1970, 1974, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 2000, 2010, 2011. For a donation of $30, we will send you one! Send a check to SKS, Development Office, 314 Mountain Road, Cornwall on Hudson, NY 12520 and note which year you would like. Or call Anne Fulton at 845-534-7892, extension 221 to donate with a credit card. sks.org 31
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ALUMNI PROFILE:
Acclaimed Photographer Stephen Paley ’60 Shares an Extraordinary Life On April 2nd and 3rd, renowned photographer Stephen Paley returned to the Mountain after six decades away. Thanks to efforts by SKS Alumni Association President Scott Cantor ’73, Mr. Paley generously shared stories and photos of his remarkable life with the school community and coached current music and photography students in their respective arts. Mr. Paley attended The Storm King School in 1955 at the age of 12. After his tenure here, he moved on to the former McBurney School in New York City. His formal education was followed by a series of happy accidents that turned into an extraordinary and prolific career as an entertainment industry photographer, music supervisor and editor, radio and T.V. producer, and stage and film actor. Upon arrival, Mr. Paley was reunited with roommate Steven Swensen ‘58, son of late actor Karl Swensen. Along with Mr. Swensen’s wife, they spent time getting reacquainted and reminiscing during a walking tour of campus, and over dinner. The first of Mr. Paley’s student meetings took place with the music production class. He regaled them with anecdotes of his tenure in the music business, developing the careers of such artists as Stevie Wonder, Sly and the Family Stone and Jeff Beck. He also engaged the class in a discussion of current modes of music acquisition, iPhone apps and the advent of Spotify and iTunes Radio.
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Mr. Paley’s stories were many, star-studded and colorful, often punctuated by his characteristic self-deprecation and scoffs at pretention. It is this kind of conviviality one imagines made him very attractive to the Hollywood stars, politicians, powerbrokers, and artists he’s spent half-a-lifetime photographing or supervising. His celebrity subjects were on display during a compelling slide-show presentation at SKS’s Allison Vladimir Art Center on the evening of April 2nd. Those who attended were also treated to Mr. Paley’s very first photograph ever. It was taken during the 1995 Storm King School production of the play Room Service featuring Gilbert “Sandy” Gardner ‘56, stepson of famous Hollywood director Otto Preminger. The photograph was made possible by Mr. Paley’s grandmother, who presented him with his first camera. In those early days, he went on to take pictures around Cornwall on Hudson, including screen shots of movies that played on Saturdays at the old Storm King Theatre (now The Trestle Sports Bar and Restaurant). The rest, to trot out a well-worn phrase, is history, or in Mr. Paley’s case, a very dazzling history. After acting a bit on Broadway, working at CBS TV and in movies, he spent 1966-1971 pursuing his first love – photography. Then his path took an unexpected turn when he was recruited by Clive Davis to work at Epic Records as Director of Talent Acquisition, and later a
pictures are accidents.”
—STEPHEN PALEY
All Images ©Stephen Paley
The Hollywood Sign
“Almost all good
A Road to Nowhere Gilbert “Sandy” Gardner ‘56 (left) in Room Service, 1955 New Orleans Boy
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“You have to capture something of the person, you know what I mean? It’s just not a snapshot. You have to capture part of their soul, if you can.” —Stephen Paley
paid consultant. That was followed in the late ‘70s, 80’s and 90’s by a range of music and production jobs at ABC TV, Warner Bros., National Public Radio and the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute. “…And then I chose to be a photographer again. And here we are,” concluded Mr. Paley in an e-mail. Along the way, he has photographed and/or befriended celebrities such as Paula Prentiss, Angela Lansbury, Anthony Perkins, Julie Andrews, Audrey Hepburn, Robert Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis to name just a handful. Musicians too, like The Bee Gees, Laura Nyro, The Byrds, Cher, Jimi Hendrix, Sam (of Sam & Dave), Aretha Franklin, and Stephen Sondheim. The list goes on. When asked how he knows when to take a picture, Mr. Paley answered, “Sometimes I go out just looking for strangeness…my motto is: no low-hanging fruit. Nothing obvious, no clichés, no sunsets, no anything anyone else would choose…you know, try to make it original; either beautiful or ugly – both are good. It should be interesting, not boring. That’s all I ask.” While much of his 60-year photo repertoire features portraits, album covers and fashion photography, he admits that these days, he is increasingly into “oddities”, like skeletons, feet, shoes, and mannequins. Mr. Paley, whose favorite pre-digital camera was the Leica M4, insisted he is not a “purist”. He embraces using all manner of digital cameras, smart phones, drones and the like, and manipulating images with Photoshop (latter day airbrushing). He is both baffled by and enamored of the new technology involving visual media, and is currently learning it to create a forthcoming book of his photographs. According to him, it will be a sort of anti-coffee table book - more like a scrapbook or family album with captions. He is, to say the least, in a reflective mood these days. Throughout his visit to SKS, he was heard expressing regret over abandoning photography early in his career to pursue music talent management and myriad other endeavors. He likened the change of course to being disloyal to a beloved spouse, or “abusing” his gift. “I mean, that was given to me,” said Mr. Paley, “I could just do it…and I shouldn’t have abandoned it.” And advice? At age 73, he has much of it, but the central motif of each of his lectures and presentations was: discover your passion and stick with it. The following day, Mr. Paley continued to encourage and inspire students in the digital photography class, where he gave them one-on-one instruction and made many valuable suggestions about their images, and creating art, in general. Senior Troy L., who plans on attending Parson’s School of Design this fall, was nearly speechless when asked how it felt to have such an acclaimed photographer view and discuss his pictures. When pressed, the student from China managed, “It’s like for me to meet Chairman Mao!” Mr. Paley, who insisted everyone call him Stephen, chuckled at this and reflexively waved away any association with greatness.
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Lasting Legacies: New Commemorative Plaques Adorn Campus The names of alumni and faculty on the Storm King School campus are tangible reminders of lives touched. The following members of our community were commemorated with plaques in 2014-2015: THE HERBERT AND TOMMYE SAUER CLASSROOM IN OGDEN HALL With the installation of a plaque on a mathematics classroom in Ogden Hall, the Sauer family, friends and alumni recognize Herb and Tommye Sauer’s 40 years of service to SKS from 1946-1985. In addition to generous family gifts, two alumni, Fred Sopher ’58 and Pemberton Lincoln ’60, initiated a call to action on behalf of the Sauers. Sopher, who began his campaign
before the Sauers passed away in 2014, wrote “Mr. Sauer started as a teacher after he got discharged from the Army in 1946 and I am told that he taught in his Army uniform until May. Herb had a career spanning 40 years at SKS, including being head of the Math Department, the Athletic Director, Director of Students, Director of Studies/ College Guidance, and coaching baseball and basketball. Tommye taught
mathematics…..Imagine the changes and eras that the Sauers witnessed at our school…” Lincoln wrote: “In his own way he (Herb) imparted knowledge and instruction which in turn made us learn accountability of our own actions and the obligation to accept these responsibilities. Yes...I learned more than once! As the old song goes ‘to know, know them, was to love, love them’ and we do.”
Thank you to: The Sauer children Fred Sopher ’58 Pemberton Lincoln ’60 John Stebbins ’78 Richard Barry John Brown Charles Dayton
Beatrice Farrell Kathryn Greenberg Richard Grossman ’79 Brian Harrington Steven Harris Kathy Hayes Susie I. Holleran
David & Ann Hoy Diethard Kolewe Nancy Koo David A. Laster ’60 William McDonald ’64 Brenda Pepe Max Post
Michael Spitz John F. Sweeney ‘60 Arnold Toback Jeanne Wagner Kenneth J. Wang ’69 Abigail G. Wine
THE GEORGE T. BRISTOL ’32 CLASSROOM IN OGDEN HALL Daughter Patricia (Trish) May and Peter J. May approached SKS wanting to celebrate the 100th birthday of Bristol’s tenure as a student from 1925 to 1932. Trish relayed that being at Storm King School was probably the most formative experience her father had had while growing up. At SKS, Bristol was the Editor of the
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Storm King Bulletin and a recipient of the Storm King Cup. “The education he got, and the initiative he took, helped him greatly in college and later life”, said Trish. After graduating from The Storm King School in 1932, George T. Bristol, Jr. went on to Amherst College and worked his way up to editor of the
Amherst student newspaper and was Managing Editor, the No. 2 position, of the yearbook. He majored in Economics and graduated with honors in 1936. After college, Bristol worked for five years as Assistant to the Editor of Dun’s Review in New York, a business newspaper. Bristol enlisted in the U.S. Army in
shortly after began a 35-year career at CBS in New York that started in radio and transitioned into television. He was CBS Entertainment Director of Sales Promotion and Advertising at retirement in 1981. Bristol and his wife raised five children in Westport, CT. George Bristol died in 1982.
Recently, Trish wrote “The plaque is beautiful and the placement is perfect! I am so pleased with how this turned out. It feels good knowing that I’ve provided a way to commemorate my father while also supporting a place that meant so much to him.”
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1941 and was discharged in 1946 as Captain in the Quartermaster Corps. During his time in the service he wrote a book about going from raw recruit to officer. It was titled Salute Me! The Dilemmas of a Second Lieutenant. Just before the war ended he married the former Marjorie Macon of Atlanta, GA. and
THE CHARLES (CHICK) W. BARNARD III CLASSROOM IN OGDEN HALL Andrew Barnard named a classroom in memory of his father Charles (Chick) W. Barnard III ’44. Andrew is the brother of Betsy Barnard Dahlberg ’83 and Dan Barnard ’76. After Barnard, a native of Newburgh, graduated from Storm King School, he served in the U.S. Army Air Corps during W.W.II. He graduated from Amherst College in 1949. He began a
successful insurance career with his first post in Calcutta, India. He later served in a variety of positions in Japan and the United States, becoming widely respected for his achievements and experience in the international insurance industry. He retired in 1985 and passed away in 2006. Chick Barnard served on the SKS Development Committee in 1976. At
the time, he said that he remembered with pleasure playing Varsity tennis, football and basketball at SKS. “My association with SKS has been an important part of my life,” he then wrote, “The basic school is the same as thirty years ago – excellence in teaching staff and an achieving student body”.
ROBERT T. COBB ’58, TRUSTEE EMERITUS, VLADIMIR ART CENTER Robert Tower Cobb passed away on May 27, 2015. Alumni and friends have come together to establish a plaque in recognition of the long association and contributions of Bob Cobb. Cobb attended SKS for four years, serving as Senior Class President and Editor in Chief of The Quarry. A
member of the Cum Laude Society, he went on to Harvard University. Bob was a Storm King School Trustee from 1976-1994. He sold his childhood home on the Mountain at a deep discount to SKS, which now is the Vladimir Art Center and also provides needed faculty housing. He salvaged
and donated the Cobb/Matthiessen telescope which was housed in the campus observatory. The plaque will be placed at the Vladimir Arts Center. To contribute, contact Lynn Crevling, ’72 Director of Leadership Support and Alumni Relations at lcrevling@sks.org.
Thank you to those who have already given: Michael Brower ‘63 Tom Delany ‘58 Peter Duggan H ‘58 Stephen Duggan
Gene Fenton Marie R. Galbraith Margaret Harbison Chester H. Neumann ‘68
E. Ward Smith Irene Von Estorff Renee S. and Brad Tobin P‘20
Irene Von Estorff Andrea and Robert Williams ‘54 Gene Fenton
THE CLASS OF 1995 A decade ago, more than $2,000 was graciously donated by the Class of 1995 to buy a new scoreboard for the school. While that purchase did not come to pass, the gift was acknowledged this year with a plaque installed on the stonework of LeDoux Terrace in view of the school’s new outdoor scoreboard.
Your time on the Mountain was like no other. Your gift has ensured that future Storm King students will get the same chance. Thank you for giving.
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Why I Give
BY MICHAEL FISCHER ’82
The reason I give is so that other Storm King School students have the same opportunity that I was given. I want others to avoid going through some of the challenges that I did before finding SKS. In my sophomore year in public Thad Horton, my Headmaster, saw school, everyone had to go see their that I was having a difficult time and guidance counselor. When I met with called me in one day and told me that mine, she told me to forget about he wanted me to go home for a week taking Regents courses because I and figure out what I want to do – wasn’t going to amount to much, and “either step up to the plate and comply that it would be better to fill with the rules, or go home my time with auto shop just and go on with your life”. to “get through”. This news I wasn’t suspended or in came from an “expert”, trouble, but was given a someone I was supposed to “time out” to think about look up to and get support what was important and from. At 15, I was devastatwhat I needed, and what I ed to hear that I wasn’t would be committed to. going to go anywhere, so I After a week at home, with didn’t care anymore and all the influences and opTeacher Jack America began to do terribly in portunities to backslide school. After failing three-quarters of and get in trouble, I decided to go my classes, in desperation I went home back to SKS. The structure and the to my parents and asked for their help demands - academically and in the to send me someplace else where I wilderness and skiing programs could have a chance to make it. Thank saved me. Thad later asked me to be God that my parents had the means a prefect and a leader on campus. I to help. later became a captain of the ski team. We began to look at schools. What On a day-to-day basis at SKS, I was attracted me to SKS were the ski team supported by teacher Jack America. and the wilderness program. I enI felt I had come from hell to a miracle! rolled initially as a day student but Here was a person who was there for then I lost my driver’s license, so I me 24/7. I believed in him because came to board at SKS. The structure he believed in me. I trusted him. Jack was a big adjustment because I did America lifted me to the next level – not have much structure at home. he helped me with all of my classes,
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and he challenged me to decide between getting in trouble and being a leader (that I couldn’t have it both ways). It was so personal. The other person who had a huge influence on me was Matt Culberson who headed the mountaineering program. I was a serious rock climber and mountaineer until my early 30’s, and I built the first indoor commercial climbing gym on N.Y.C. in 1993. So what happened post-SKS? I had a great time in college, going to Colorado Mountain College and then New England College. I ran my fraternity and I worked for my dad’s construction and real estate management company in the summers. This summer work was the real deal and I had to produce on the job. I was later hired as a Project Manager by Herbert Construction Co., the largest interior construction company in NYC at the time, and I was promoted up through the ranks. When I got an offer to train to be a VP of another construction company, my father made me an offer by matching the salary to come back to work in the family construction and real estate business. Over time, I transferred to the real estate portion of our company and now serve as the President and Managing General partner of Stevenson Commons, a 1,000 unit complex in the Bronx. I am married with three wonderful and active kids, living in Bedford Hills, N.Y. I was never perfect at SKS and I got my lumps, but do not regret one thing about it. In fact, I am deeply grateful for the chance I got at SKS. I love Storm King School. That is why I give.
A Permanent Place of Memories: WINS, LOSSES, GRIT, GUMPTION, TRIALS & TEAMWORK BY LYNN CREVLING ’72
Defining moments happen on sports fields, courts, mats and other places where athletes are pushed to persevere, rise above, and where they sometimes falter. Trials, challenges, camaraderie, lessons of life - indelibly carved in memory. SKS has celebrated its athletes with a Sport Hall of Fame Award for two decades now - since 1995. Stories have been recounted and words and memories shared at many reunion celebrations, and a nameplate has been added to a plaque in the gym. Over the years, SKS trophies and memorabilia have gathered dust in a locked closet on the gym’s lower level,
or they were tucked in drawers and boxes in homes and storage throughout the U.S. and abroad. Hidden mementoes of experiences not forgotten by players and competitors. Last year, when SKS Director of Athletics, Joseph Graziosi, brought the idea of a SKS Sports Hall of Fame to the Development staff, these old items came out of the closet to be celebrated again. Display cases were purchased and quickly became filled with the help of our Sports Hall of Fame inductees. The opening of the SKS Sports Hall of Fame brought us, not only items but also stories, which are a treasured piece of the SKS experience. In the Hall of Fame, we seek to preserve these stories as they bring the objects to life and give them context. Excerpts from alumni letters are powerful testaments to this history. Stories past and present remind us of our connection to one another and our common bond on this mountain. Already, current students have viewed the Sports Hall of Fame and said, “Wow! That happened here?” It is a source of pride. They become linked to something enduring: our history and who we are.
Note: Items for the SKS Sports Hall of Fame are welcome and SKS Alumni Athletes are invited to come meet, assist or talk with our athletes. Please contact Athletics Director Joseph Graziosi at jgraziosi@sks.org or 845-534-3421. 2016 nominations for the Sports Hall of Fame are due by December 1, 2015. To nominate, go on-line to sks.org/reunion or contact Director of Leadership Support and Alumni Relations Lynn Crevling at lcrevling@sks.org or 845-458-7517.
As an athlete at SKS, I learned the value of hard work and gained a feeling of self-worth that benefited me throughout my life. I am a member of the 1867 Society to see the school live on and benefit others like me. Richard Epstein ‘59
1867 Society Live on at Storm King
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new LEADERSHIP AT THE STORM KING SCHOOL Storm King School Names New Headmaster
This spring, the Storm King School Board of Trustees named MR. JONATHAN W. R. LAMB the new Head of School. Mr. Lamb had been serving as interim Head since June 2014. Mr. Lamb’s prolific academic and boarding school management experience spans nearly 35 years. From 2010 to 2014, he served as Assistant Head of School and Academic Dean at Storm King, leading the school in preparation for its successful accreditation examination by the New York State Association of Independent Schools (NYSAIS). Additionally, Mr. Lamb led a curriculum review, resulting in initiating the current iPad program. Prior to coming to The Storm King School, Mr. Lamb
was the Head of Upper School and Director of Studies at The Perkiomen School, from 1990 to 2010. While at Perkiomen, he helped to rebuild their academic program, and participated in three capital campaigns, not to mention numerous school management initiatives. Mr. Lamb began his career at Rumsey Hall School in 1981. He served as the English Department Chair at Rumsey Hall from 1985-90, and as the Summer School Director in his final two summers there. Both peer and professional association groups have recognized Mr. Lamb for his breadth of experience. He has served on twenty school accreditation teams and chaired ten. Susan “Toni” Scherrer, Mr. Lamb’s wife is the Associate Director of Admissions at Storm King. They have two adult daughters: Jessica works for the Food and Drug Administration, and she and her husband have two daughters, Penelope and Eleanor. Toni and Jon’s second daughter, Megan, is Research Coordinator at Apalachicola National Estuarine Reserve. Mr. Lamb is the school’s 17th Head since its founding in 1867. The Storm King School is very fortunate to be able to promote from within this gifted man of both experience and vision.
New SKS Board Chair Chosen
Lon Gratz ’61 and Headmaster Jonathan W.R. Lamb
The Storm King School is pleased to introduce LAWRENCE “LON” GRATZ ’61 as the Chair of the Board of
Trustees. Mr. Gratz, who has been a Board member since 2011, assumed the role of Chair from Hilary Ackerman in October 2014. “It has been my great honor and privilege to be able to give back to SKS through Board service, and I get back much more than I give in time, treasure and talent,” said Mr. Gratz, “ All in all, a most satisfying experience.” After graduating from The Storm King School, Mr. Gratz
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received a B.A. in Liberal Arts from Ripon College and attended the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. For two decades, he held top leadership positions in an array of companies including Reliable Management Corporation, Reliable Mutual Insurance Company, Villager, Incorporated, Scott Medical Equipment, Stewart Oxygen Services, Eljay Medical Products, Eljay Medical Services, and Lanoptics Corporation. Following retirement in 1989, Mr. Gratz continued to work as Board Chairman, President and CEO of Carillon Capital Management, Private Investments, and as a personal investment portfolio manager. While a resident of Georgia, he dedicated nearly 20 years to serving his community. Mr. Gratz generously gave his time and support to the North Fulton Community Charities, worked as a volunteer to elect the mayor of the city of Rosewell, Georgia and presided as the Chairman of the
Rosewell Cultural Arts Board. Mr. Gratz currently resides in Bonita Springs, Florida with his wife Jane Schiff. His hobbies include automobile racing, cultural arts and art collecting, fishing and traveling. “After my graduation in 1961 and all during the ensuing years, I have learned to appreciate my time at SKS as the most transformative in my life. As a result I have always supported SKS,” said Mr. Gratz. The Storm King School is proud to call alumnus Lawrence “Lon” Gratz, Chair of the Board of Trustees.
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Join the SKS Board TOM SHEPPARD assumed the position of Dean of Admission and Financial Aid at the Lawrenceville School on July 1, 2013. He began his career path in 1991 when he joined the faculty at Perkiomen School in Pennsburg, Pennsylvania where he taught history, coached football, swimming, and baseball and served as dorm parent. After five years of experience in the classroom, Tom became Director of Admission and Financial Aid at Trinity Pawling School in Pawling, N.Y. in 1996. In 1999, Tom assumed the role of Director of Admission at Stevenson School in Pebble Beach, California, a position he held until 2012 when he became Director of Enrollment Management. Sheppard holds a B.A. from Washington and Lee University and earned a Master of Education degree in educational leadership from Lehigh University. Adding to his work in the field of admission, Tom has served as chair of the Western Boarding Schools Steering Committee, the Secondary School Admission Test Board (SSATB) Admission Leadership Council, and the SSATB Computer Based Testing Committee. Tom also serves on the faculty of the SSATB Admission Training Institute and previously taught at the Admission Academy for The Association of Boarding Schools. He and his wife Jennifer have two children, Zachary and Olivia.
Reconnect with classmates and friends At The Storm King School’s Holiday Party in New York City Saturday, December 5th @ 6:00 pm The Cornell Club 6 E. 44th Street, New York Reconnect with
For more information or to RSVP classmates and friends contact@NThe orm Storm Rasmussen Kingat School’sor 845-458-7522 Holiday Party in New York nrasmussen@sks.org City Saturday, December 5th from 6:00-8:30 The Cornell Club 6 E. 44th Street, New York
SCOTT RUTTER ’73, is the Executive Vice President and General Manager of Commonwealth Worldwide Chauffeured Transportation of New York. Following graduation from Storm King School, Scott attended The University of New Mexico, and in the late 1970s began a 25 year career at Pepsi Bottling Group (PBG). During his tenure at Pepsi, Scott rose through the ranks working in sales, marketing and management. After retiring in 2004, he became the owner and operator of one of the ten largest limousine companies in the United States that specializes in high end corporate, luxury hotel and private aviation segments. Scott and his wife Deborah live in Sandy Hook, Connecticut and have two children, Casey and Taylor.
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Yet, these accomplishments also mirror the school’s distinguished past and reinforce its core values: Truth,Respect and Responsibility. Efforts to grow school enrollment inspired Phase One of a master plan to improve infrastructure and increase capacity on campus. Stone Hall is once again a dormitory for 10 students, including a faculty apartment. Ogden Hall, formerly Ogden Library is home to nine new classrooms. Enrollment for the 2015-2016 academic year is 168; the largest student population in the School’s history. Phase One also included the build-
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ing of a new, efficient wastewater treatment plant. The Ovivo Treatment Unit is located on the south side of campus, behind the gym and adjacent to Route 9W. The plant ensures current and future compliance with environmental regulations, makes the school self-sufficient and “keeps our [carbon] footprint as clean as a whistle,” says SKS Assistant Headmaster for Finance Ray Hecht. While Phase One has been completed, Phase Two is in planning stages and envisions the construction of a state-of- the-art academic building. According to Headmaster Jonathan
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“The more things change, the more they stay the same,” goes the famous adage. It is certainly true here at the Storm King School, where the renovation of Stone and Ogden Halls, the construction of a new wastewater treatment facility, the implementation of a dynamic, interdisciplinary curriculum and the introduction of the Experiential Education Program in 2014-15 heralded a new era at SKS.
Lamb, the intention is to create an “iconic” center to campus, like the “Old Main” or Main Building, which was demolished in 1968. “This will be a 21st century classroom building that we anticipate will include classrooms, most of the offices…perhaps an area for graduation and ceremonies,” says Mr. Lamb. Artistic renderings of the building exhibit a piazza and a main entrance with a foyer that features a new media and library center. Learning at SKS has also moved forward, with interdisciplinary courses introduced in the 2014-2015 academic year. Mr. Lamb describes them as “little laboratories” of 21st century learning: collaborative and project-based. The classes team two teachers of traditionally separate disciplines, who unify their lesson planning. In an attempt to distinguish the 8th grade curriculum from other schools, SKS blended several subjects e.g. science, history and English around a single theme, developed throughout the year. 9th graders are able to opt for an art and global history pairing, while 10th graders study American history along with American literature. For the 11th and 12th graders, a creative writing and design course is being offered, as well as a wilderness class focusing on environmental history and English. Most of these classes cull material and resources from the history, culture and environment of the surrounding Hudson Highlands. Another updated facet of education at Storm King School is the introduction of the Experiential Education Program. It combines community service, global education and outdoor education into a curriculum designed to help students explore the concept of citizenship. “Knowledge of the world and its various cultures, recognizing the importance of service to others and developing a deep respect for our planet are essential components of citizenship,” says Director of Experiential Education Taras Ferencevych. Finally, students take part in any number of outdoor wilderness experiences including backpacking, kayaking, dog sledding, skiing, etc. All of the off-campus activities are reinforced and integrated in various ways in and out of the classroom. While our new and improved facilities on campus and more contemporary methods of education are next steps in Storm King’s nearly 150 year history, the School continues to stay true to its tradition of mentoring young people. As ever, SKS is committed to cultivating knowledge and curiosity, developing character and forming caring, productive citizens. We look forward to fulfilling these commitments in dynamic and exciting ways!
LATEST IMPROVEMENTS... A HOUSE WITH A LARGE TRACT OF LAND ADJACENT TO CAMPUS PURCHASED FOR NEW FACULTY HOUSING ROADWAYS AROUND THE SCHOOL RE-PAVED, CAMPUS ROADS RE-SEALED NEW FLOOR AND NEW FURNITURE IN DEMPSEY DORM COMMON ROOM HIGHMOUNT BATHROOMS REMODELED SINGLE (ONE STUDENT) ROOM ADDED IN STONE HALL AIR-CONDITIONING SYSTEM INSTALLED IN ORR COMMONS SMITD CONFERENCE ROOM REFURBISHED WITH NEW FLOOR AND FURNITURE MAIN FIELD LAYERED WITH ADDITIONAL INCHES OF TOP SOIL AND RE-GRADED NEW ROOF, WINDOWS AND SIDING ON ADMINISTRATION BUILDING SCHOOL’S COMPUTER NETWORK REBUILT INCLUDING COMPREHENSIVE WIFI COVERAGE ON CAMPUS MAINTENANCE BUILDING UPGRADED WITH STONEWORK, A NEW FENCE AND FRESH LANDSCAPING PARKING AREAS BEHIND GYM AND OBSERVATORY COVERED WITH NEW BLACKTOP MOTORIZED INSULATED BLINDS INSTALLED IN DINING HALL TO CONSERVE HEAT IN FRIGID WINTER MONTHS UPGRADES MADE TO SEVERAL FACULTY APARTMENTS
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“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
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hile an unforeseen event prevented David Van Dyck ’40 from attending his 75th Class Reunion this year, it is worth noting that he had planned to attend. At 91, he is one our longest living alumni and past faculty members. Along with Leslie Breton (Math 1987-1997), Mr. Van Dyck (History and Math 1948-1959) was justly awarded the Miss Margaret Clark Faculty Excellence Award during Reunion Weekend. In further tribute to this exceptional community member who has been associated with SKS for more than half of the School’s history, we share excerpts of heartfelt nominations from two former students. “There are three particular basketball incidents that taught me lifetime lessons. Unusual in those days, I was on the varsity as a sophomore. In one game, the referee made a call that I thought was particularly egregious. I let him know, he called a technical foul on me, and Mr. V. promptly replaced me with a substitute. Back on the bench, I was still steaming and letting my teammates know what I thought of this great injustice. Coach turned to me and told me to shut up or I would be back on the JV where sophomores belonged. I learned that I should look ahead to win rather than focus on what is past. One day in practice, I thought that a younger player made a dumb mistake and let him know. I’ll never forget Mr. V.’s admonishment to me that “The last perfect person was nailed to a cross”. I think that summed up his teaching and coaching philosophy. In my days at SKS, the School did not own busses or vans but rented transportation for each athletic trip from the Cornwall Bus Company. One day, we had all boarded a bus and waiting for Mr. V. and the bus driver to board. They were having a long discussion next to the bus. It turned out that the bus had a poster attached to it advertising a brand of cigarettes. Mr. V. told the driver that Storm King had rented the bus for the day and not the cigarette company. We were not going until it was removed or covered. Finally, the driver relented. It taught me that principles need to be fought for or lost. Mr. and Mrs. Van Dyke were both natives of Schenectady and he and his brother, alumni of Union College. There were subtle hints that Union would be the college for me. I applied and was accepted and found out that they were right. Mr. V.’s mother lived a block off campus and I lived at her house my sophomore year at Union. I have kept in touch with them and believe that Mr. Van Dyke would be an ideal choice for the Margaret Clark Award on this his 75th anniversary of graduation from Storm King School.” — Tom Delaney ’58
Watch the interview with Mr. Van Dyck at:
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“Mr. Van Dyck was an outstanding classroom teacher with a thorough understanding of history and a unique ability to share his knowledge with his students. Classroom time went by so quickly as Mr. Van Dyck skillfully taught the events and key people of each period of history. Since Mr. Van Dyck was a relatively recent graduate of SKS (1940), he was able to understand both the personal and scholastic issues facing the students. In other words, he had been there…done that!!! 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. It was also a pleasant experience to be assigned to Mr. Van Dyck’s table in the dining room. He was very personable, as was his wife, Peggy. As students, we looked forward to joining the Van Dyck’s at mealtimes for a time of relaxed and interesting conversation. I also took the liberty of discussing this nomination with my brother Eric, SKS ’47, who lived in “The Cottage” for his senior year. He enthusiastically joins me in support of this nomination of Mr. David Van Dyck for the Margaret Clark Faculty Excellence Award.” — Larry Smith ’52
Left to right Larry Smith ‘52 David Van Dyck and Peggy Van Dyck
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WHERE IN THE WORLD IS SKS? Yes, we know where Storm King is, but where is our Storm King community? So many of us are based in faraway cities, travel to exotic locales, or love whatever place we call home. Here’s a chance to show our SKS pride wherever that may be with the new SKS Flag. Just pose for a picture with the flag in an interesting location and send it off to TravelingFlag@sks.org. Please be sure to include your name, location and year of graduation/affiliation with SKS. Attendees of Reunion Weekend 2015 and the Class of ’15 have already received their flags, but we have more! To order one, please contact Norm Rassmusen at nrassmusen@sks.org or 845-458-7522. Suggested donations: $25.
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Dominique DeFreece ’14 was the re-
cipient of the Rhodes College 2015 Mellon Student Innovation Fellowship. She wrote: “Hi everyone! I can’t believe it has been over a year since we graduated! I hope everyone in the class of 2014 is doing well, and I wish you all the best in your current endeavors. This past summer I have been very busy as a Mellon Fellow at Rhodes College. My main project involves organizing and preserving the million plus photographs in the Ernest C. Withers Archive. The collection includes a variety of photos; most notably are the prints and negatives we have on the “Three Kings” (Elvis, B.B. King, and Martin Luther King). If you’re ever in Memphis please stop by and check us out at 333 Beale Street.” § Since his time at Storm King, Johnathan Flores ’12 has retired from athletics and pursued a B.A in Criminal Justice and a Minor in Sociology. When he got to Pace he came with a mission, which was to achieve both academic and professional success. Johnathan expressed: “With the tools given to me by The Storm King School I can honestly say that my mission is almost complete. During my freshman year, I was able to earn a spot on the Dean’s list for both the fall and the spring semester. During my sophomore year I earned a spot on an academic national honor society by the name of Lambda Sigma, along with acceptance into the national honor society. I was fortunate enough to earn an internship, with the New York State Attorney General’s Office as a Mediator. Along with the internship I was hired by Pace University to be a residential assistant. At the start of my junior year, I was able to make it into the top 15% of my class at Pace University and invited into the Golden Key National Honor Society. By the end of my junior year, I was inducted into Alpha Phi Sigma, The Criminal Justice Honor society, and earned an internship with the Westchester Intelligence Center and the Investigations Bureau of the District Attorney’s office for the fall of 2015.” With only one semester left at Pace University, Johnathan hopes to get a job with the NYPD and earn a Master’s in Homeland Security at Pace University. § Sarah Fulton ’09 graduated from Mount Saint Mary College in 2013 with a B.A. in Public Relations and a minor in Theatre. While she attended MSMC, she also interned at The Apparel
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Group in Manhattan, learning about fashion marketing and enjoying the fast pace of the city. She performed with MSMC’s improv group, IMPROVocative and appeared in several plays at Aquinas Hall. She recently began her public relations career as the new Promotions Director at 100.7 WHUD, a Pamal Broadcasting station. She coordinates all of their events, handles their prizing and manages the day-to-day tasks that go in to making a radio station run smoothly. She can be heard on-air occasionally, doing commercials for various vendors. She credits the theatre program at SKS for giving her the confidence to pursue her PR career. She attended Reunion 2014 and was happy to see the large turnout – SKS has provided her with wonderful memories, as well as friendships that have endured through college and beyond. § Noah Clyman ’01 works as a certified Cognitive Behavioral Therapist who provides psychotherapy, teaching, and supervision in Manhattan. Noah is the first clinical social worker in the state of New York to become certified as a Trainer Consultant by the Academy of Cognitive Therapy (ACT). He is on the Academy’s Membership Committee and the Credentialing Committee, evaluating the work samples of therapists applying for certification in CBT. In November 2012, he founded NYC Cognitive Therapy, the first CBT counseling center in N.Y.C. that places particular emphasis on diversity, serving populations such as the LGBTQ community, and clients living with HIV/ AIDS. Noah’s mission is to make quality, culturally-competent CBT available to the public. NYC Cognitive Therapy offers individual, couples, and group therapy for clients, and supervision/training for clinicians who would like to learn Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. § Tom Coté ’01 (Class Agent) currently holds the position of Executive Director of the N.Y.S. Psychological Association, the paramount psychological organization of PhD psychologists and students of psychology in New York State and the second
largest psychological association in North America. Prior to this, Tom held a variety of positions including: Deputy Director at the New York State Association for Affordable Housing, Director of Government Relations for the American Council of Engineering Companies of New York, and Legislative Director in the New York State Assembly. He also held posts on political campaigns for New York State Assembly and Senate, as well as United States Congress. Tom has a dual Bachelor’s degree in Rhetoric & Communication and Sociology from The University at Albany, as well as a Master’s of Business Administration (MBA) with a concentration in Not-For-Profit Management from The College of Saint Rose.§ Cara Castronuova ’98 wrote that she still has the trophy she was awarded at graduation for Athlete of the Year. She was the first female wrestler at SKS and the captain of the softball and soccer teams. After SKS she attended Hofstra University graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications. She wrestled in college, and later became a twotime Golden Gloves winner, once ranked nationally by U.S.A. Boxing. She was also a personal trainer and was on NBC’s “The Biggest Loser” TV show. Today, she is the owner and operator of Camp Kid Warrior and Camp Teen Warrior – summer fitness and weight loss camps for young people. The camps are run by Knockout Obesity Inc., a charity that is dedicated to assisting kids in losing weight and getting healthy. Cara returned to campus in October 2014 to speak with students about health and fitness. § Vallea E. Woodbury ’95 (Class Agent) proudly reports that she’s completed her Master of Fine Arts (terminal) in Performance. She currently lives in the Atlanta area where the Braves, Falcons, and Hawks continue to disappoint and the heat never ceases to amaze her. She wrote: “Your fellow classmates are succeeding in their fields and living happily all over the country and around the world! We missed many of you at that June
portunities we can pursue for a job when we get back, we will consider all suggestions.” § Randy Cardonell ’77 wrote: “After spending an extremely cold winter on the Mountain, I pursued college in a warmer climate, Tucson, Arizona. Funny thing about that was so did a couple others that year from our graduating class, Amy Kaplan, Laura Barton (White), and Herbie White. A large group from a small school attending a college so far away. While in Tucson, I ran into Homer Anderson for a time as well. Additionally, while in Tucson, I met my lovely wife of 33 years. She finished her degree in Tucson, then we moved to Houston, Texas where my wife obtained her graduate degree in Occupational Therapy, I obtained my BS in Health Information Management, and our daughter was born. After our graduations, we moved to western Kansas where we spent almost 25 years. During this time, we added to our family with the birth of my son. Today, both children are married; my daughter has twins and my son is in his third year of medical residency and expecting a first child. Among the many roles I played in our Kansas community of 1,300 people are of coach, Boy Scout leader, 4-H leader and Emergency Medical Technician (EMT), volunteering for the local ambulance service. My current job position is as Director of Operations and Education Manager of a company called Response Systems. The experiences I gained lead to a job working for the State of Kansas as an EMS Specialist. Around 2005, a new company in our small town was created to assist hospitals in preparing for disasters. The owners of the company approached me as a consultant for some specific products they were developing. This lead into both a new job and new career. Today this company has developed into a leading training, exercise, and response company for healthcare organizations and government agencies nationwide. In these years, I have followed my passion and gained knowledge and experiences that I never planned as a way of making a living. It was a calling to give back to community, society, to make this a better place. I can’t say that I do or will ever make great monetary wealth from these endeavors, but my life is rich with the lives I have impacted.” § Following graduation from Storm King and based on the wise advice and counsel of Dean Dyar,
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awarded a 4 year NROTC scholarship to R.P.I. He received a Chemical Engineering degree in 1956 and fulfilled his active duty commitment as a naval officer aboard the USS Harwood (DDE-861), a destroyer based in Newport, R.I. His business career spanned 50 years beginning with the Dupont Co. and ending with Parker Hannifin Corp. During that time he held a number of positions including Engineer, Sales Manager, General Manager, and Division President. Larry and his wife Faye, have two children: Karen who lives in Wheaton, IL and Douglas who resides in Glastonbury, CT. § Mike Sloan ’77 who was on campus for Reunion 2014 relayed that he has had three distinct careers: after graduating from Tufts in 1981 with a degree in Civil Engineering, he worked in commercial real estate, design, construction and development; after receiving his MBA from the University of Chicago he worked in corporate strategy and development; and in 2012 he became an independent consultant specializing in new product development and commercialization for small high-technology companies. Mike said that Storm King’s balance of independence, responsibility, challenge and nurturing was important to him. He would be pleased to hear from classmates. Mike generously participated in Career Night 2015 and encouraged schoolmates to donate to SKS in memory of his best friend and roommate, the late Ed Gyuro ’77.
Larry Smith and wife Faye, 2014
2015 reunion. Those of us who were able to attend laughed, cried, ate, drank, and reconnected. We spent some time remembering the Squibbs and David Fulmer and reminisced about the old days. It was a great time.” Vallea added that she’d love to hear from all of the 90’s alumni. Just send a message via social media, text or e-mail: 530-2-VALLEA (282-5532) or Vallea@gmail. com or www.vallea.com. § Tyresse Horne ’85 lives in Austin, Texas with her husband and two children. After SKS, she attended California State University, Northridge. After college, she went to work as an accountant for a company that did lighting for rock concerts and other special events, meeting several top artists. Her work at the lighting company inspired her to go to law school because of the patchwork of state tax laws that she had to grapple with in her work. During law school, Tyresse became a member of the Supreme Court Historical Society and said that she had the pleasure of meeting every member of the Rehnquist Court. After graduating law school with honors, Tyresse went to work with one of the top law firms in the U.S. and worked on high-profile international transactions. She also volunteered in the community, and said her most profound work was volunteering with the International Criminal Tribunal of Rwanda, traveling to Tanzania and Rwanda, where she saw the reconciliation and rebuilding of communities first hand. § P.J. Cunningham ’80 (Class Agent) wrote his fellow alumni: “Given that my wife and I grew up on the East Coast, increasingly, we have missed it over the past few years, and we want to move back. Our son has three years of high school left, which will put us in a better position to do so, therefore, that is our rough time frame. Having been back East recently, for reunions and college shopping, these have heightened our desire to move back. If anyone has any op-
Class Notes may be submitted to Director of Leadership Support and Alumni Relations Lynn Crevling ‘72:
lcrevling@sks.org.
PJ Cunningham ’80 (center) with past faculty Bill Cesario and Sandor Hill ‘80
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He earned the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Meritorious Service Medal, and four Air Medals flying combat missions over North Vietnam and had the distinction of launching the first Titan II intercontinental ballistic missile from Vandenberg AFB, California in 1966. After retiring from military service, Lt. Col. Fowler founded an electronics company in Omaha, Nebraska before retiring to Virginia Beach, Virginia in 1985. A graveside service with full military honors is scheduled to be conducted at Arlington National Cemetery.
Braxton Bladen ’49 passed away on October 23, 2013. John Hart ’51 a resident of Framingham, Massachusetts since
Fred Mittendorf ’28 passed away on July 5, 2005. John Leavitt ’35 passed away in 2009. Antoine Gagne ’36 passed away on October 8, 2014. In 2010,
Antoine had credited Storm King for all of the success in his life saying, “Changed my life. Storm King was my maker.” Antoine came to SKS in 1933 as a freshman on full scholarship. He then went on to Columbia University and became an engineer. Later, while working at Cornell University he developed the first hydraulic operating table for sheep. He likened SKS to a father: “Delightful, decent, strict, very fair, no nonsense.”
William “Bill” Albee ’37 passed away on April 4, 2015 at the age of 98.
William Spencer ’37 passed away on November 25, 2013. Charles W. “Duke” Fowler ’48 passed away on Memorial Day
May 25, 2015 at the Seaside Medical Unit at Atlantic Shores in Virginia Beach. Charles had remained connected with and supportive of SKS over the years, and had many fond memories of his time on the Mountain. He was proud to be among two generations of SKS graduates, including his father, Benjamin Fowler ‘25, and his uncle Dr. Edmund Fowler ’22 an ear, nose and throat doctor. Charles attended the University of Pittsburgh and was in the ROTC program and had a long and distinguished service in the U.S. Air Force. He was an electronic warfare specialist and the technology he worked with was designed to confound the enemy so that aviators would not be detected. Fowler served in the Korean and Vietnam Wars, and accumulated over 7,000 flight hours in the B-52 and EC-121 aircraft.
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1961, died November 11, 2014. He was a graduate of the University of Cincinnati. He retired in 1997 from the New England Division U.S. Army Corps of Engineers after 40 years as a Civil Engineer. At the time of his retirement, he was the Chief of the Geotechnical Design Branch. He had received many awards for outstanding achievement and was inducted into the New England Division Distinguished Civilian Gallery. Mr. Hart served in the U.S. Army from 1955-1957 having served as a topographic surveyor stationed at the Presidio of San Francisco, CA. He was director of Framingham Youth Hockey for over 40 years and president of the program five times. For over 29 years, he was the director of the FYHP Beginner’s Learn to Skate and Hockey Program. Mr. Hart was inducted into the Massachusetts Hockey Hall of Fame in 2003. John’s wife, Norma, said that Storm King was a big part of his success. He wasn’t sure he would go to college, but his year as a PG made it possible for him to attend the University of Cincinnati, and made possible his subsequent career.
George Squibb ’57 passed away on September 29, 2014. George
worked at SKS as a teacher and was Development Director from 1995-1999. Upon hearing the news of his passing, one of his students, Shauntiece “Puddin” Hunt ’01 wrote: “Mr. Squibb was always like cashmere to me, a rare, soft, kind and gentle and loving man…he always fought and spoke up for the less fortunate…he welcomed me to a world I had no idea I belonged in, AND said this world is yours too and you have the power to do anything you want.”
Robert T. Cobb ’58 passed away on May 27, 2015. During his
four years at SKS, Bob was Senior Class President, and Editor in Chief of The Quarry. A member of the Cum Laude Society, he went on to Harvard University. Bob served on The Storm King School Board of Trustees from 1976-1994. He later inherited and sold his childhood home on the Mountain at a deep discount to SKS. It now serves as the Vladimir Art Center and faculty housing. He also salvaged and donated the Cobb/Matthiessen telescope which was housed in the campus observatory. According to fellow alumni, after Bob became a Trustee he was at every alumni event and he continued this as long as he lived in the area. He also actively encouraged other trustees to do the same. Recently, Bob sent us his 1967 book Mission Moon and Burke Boyce’s poetry for the SKS archives.
Edward Weiser ’60 passed away on January 3, 2014.
William Callahan ’62 passed away on October 22, 2014.
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Hugh Jencks ’62 passed away on December 30, 2013. Peter Boden ’63 passed away on January 5, 2014.
Larry Colan passed away from a heart attack on July 24, 2006.
William John Kirk ’67 passed away on March
6, 2014. He attended the University of Missouri, graduating with a degree in Photojournalism. He worked for the Kansas City Star, then moved on to commercial photography, and later practiced as a paralegal. Bill artfully documented his life through photos. Quiet, intelligent, gentle – he loved his family, friends, movies and fast cars.
Alexander Leslie ’69 passed away on June 28, 2005. John Ferguson ’70 Robert Plum ’70 passed away from a heart
attack on August 13, 2014. He was born in Morristown, N.J. and lived in that community since his graduation from Moravian College in 1974. Robert spent 13 years as a sales account executive with SPS Strategic Products and Services in Parsippany, N.J. and 15 years as a service advisor with Royal Cadillac in Florham Park, N.J. A lifelong car aficionado and model builder, Robert maintained a large collection of model cars, some of which have been shown in car magazines. Robert’s deepest passion, according to his brother John, was as a member of St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Morristown where he provided service and comfort to the church and its members for over 30 years, believing that service to God and others was a necessity of life.
Sam Farrar ’73 passed away on February 11, 2014 Leo Howard ’74 Edward Gyuro ’77 passed away on February 26, 2013. Ed is the brother of John Gyuro ’75. Ed loved his experience at SKS and came back for a number of reunions. Ed’s eldest daughter, Sky Lynn Gyuro entered SKS as a senior in 2015. Ed’s classmates donated to the Storm King Fund, and toward Sky’s tuition in Ed’s memory.
Richard Balinsky ’80 passed away on February 21, 2014. Joshua Rall ’92 passed away on July 4, 2005. Antonina “Tonia” Gibney Campbell ’94 of Fishkill N.Y.,
died suddenly and unexpectedly in Las Cruces, New Mexico on July 16, 2015. She was 39. After SKS, Tonia attended American University in Washington D.C., earning a Bachelor’s degree in 1999. Tonia’s career was dedicated to helping others. She worked as a foster care case manager for the Dutchess County Department of Social Services and was a substance abuse counselor at Arms Acres in Carmel.
He taught history at SKS from 1972-1974. Larry was also the School’s last ice hockey coach and served as a dorm parent in Lowmount.
Meta Ottway passed away on February 11, 2015. She worked in
the SKS Business Office followed by the Headmaster’s Office where she was secretary to the Headmaster, Dean of Academics and Dean of Students, among other things. Meta prepared report cards, transcripts, letters of recommendation, applications to colleges, was the main phone attendant and more! During the senior service program in 1996, Headmaster John Suitor invited her to the stage to congratulate her and thank her on the occasion of her retirement. While initially demurring when offered the microphone, Meta quickly grabbed the mic and spoke liberally. She was a lover of life, had very strong faith, was devoted to her family, and had a wonderful spunk to her step.
Lyle “Doc” Dunn; Assistant Business Manager, Marie Burns, Meta Otway, Lois Hennessy
Helen “Penny” Squibb of Belfast, Maine passed away on June
29, 2014. Penny worked as librarian at SKS in the 1990s and later became Associate Dean of Students. She enjoyed the relationship she had with all of her students and flower gardening with her husband George Squibb ’57.
David Fulmer passed away on October 13, 2014 at the age of 49. He taught History at SKS from 19921996, and was loved by many in the community. David’s students and colleagues gathered in celebration of his life during Reunion Weekend 2015.
COMMUNITY MEMBERS Joan LeDoux passed away on January 8, 2015 at the age of 102.
Her late husband of 59 years, Louis Pierre LeDoux was the great grandson of the founder of The Storm King School. Joan was an actress and a member of the first Austrian women’s ski team, and an avid skier into her 80s. After her husband’s death in 2001, she took over management of LeDoux & Co., a metallurgical laboratory, managing it as the president until her death.
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: lcrevling@sks.org or call 845-458-7517.
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FROM THE CHAIR OF THE BOARD
Report of Giving DEAR FRIENDS OF STORM KING SCHOOL, I am pleased to share our Report of Giving for the school years 2014-2015, and 2013-2014. I want to express my sincere thank you to everyone who made a gift.In this issue of On the Mountain, you have read about the great progress being made at the school. Headmaster Jonathan Lamb has hit the ground running, continuing initiatives that were underway and bringing new ideas and leadership to the campus. Our finances are strong and our enrollment is at an all-time high with a waiting list for the first time in history. Our campus has undergone significant improvements and looks better than ever, with more to come. As you have read, there has been record attendance, fun, and warm feelings at our last two Reunion Weekends. We look to keep making it better! Each year, our Storm King Fund gifts are growing with more donors than in the prior year. If you are a donor, we appreciate your continued support. If you are not a donor, I would hope that you will join us. Please give at a level commensurate with what the SKS experience meant to you. Your support ensures that a transformative SKS
experience continues for current and future generations. The number and percentage of our donors is an important representation of the strength of our community and its commitment. Please help us keep moving on this upward trajectory. Please invest in SKS. Thank you again for any way that you have or will contribute to Storm King School’s exciting growth. Best wishes, LON GRATZ ’61 CHAIR, BOARD OF TRUSTEES
THE STORM KING STEWARDS JULY 1, 2013-JUNE 30, 2015
Storm King Stewards are those supporters who have given faithfully to SKS for 10 or more consecutive years. We are grateful to these members who make such a difference in the life of our school. Mr. and Mrs. Roger Auerbacher ’66 Brig. Gen. Raymond E. Bell, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bicknell ’61 Mr. and Mrs. Michael A. Brower ’63 Mr. David R. Collens ’65 and Mrs. Vivien Abrams Ms. Dana C. Crevling ’77 Ms. Lynn Crevling ’72 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Delaney ’58
Mr. and Mrs. Gustav W. Eckilson ’53 Mr. Jeffrey A. Edinburg ’61 Mr. and Mrs. Michael Friedman ’98 Mr. Stanley R. Freilich and Ms. Carol Marquand P’05 Mr. and Mrs. John A. Gilchrist ’62 Mr. Lawrence J. Gratz ’61 and Mrs. Jane Schiff Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey S. Hall ’74
Mr. and Mrs. Bruce L. Hanson ’62 Mr. and Mrs. James M. Harbison, Jr. The Rev. and Mrs. Francis A. Hubbard P’03 Mr. and Mrs. Martin P. Kennedy ’50 Mr. and Mrs. Rocco Landesman Mr. and Mrs. Sayre A. Litchman ’59 Mr. and Mrs. W. Barry Lorch ’56 Mr. and Mrs. Edward J. Merrell P’77,79
Mr. Jeffrey L. Patchen ’63 Mr. and Mrs. Richard Roberts ’60 Mr. and Mrs. John Settel ’50 Mr. and Mrs. H. Gregory Shea, Jr. ’62 Dr. Richard E. Slimak ’64 Mr. Kenneth Stuart, CFP ’65 Mr. Jen S. Wang ’72 Mr. and Mrs. Robert Went
The Storm King School expresses appreciation to all of its supporters for their generous contributions. If you note any discrepancies, we apologize for the oversight and please do not hesitate to contact the Development Office at 845-458-7522
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LEADERSHIP GIFTS JULY 1, 2013 - JUNE 30, 2014 The Storm King School would like to thank the leadership donors listed below. These gifts include those to the SKS Fund for Annual Giving and the Capital Campaign. THE BROGAN SOCIETY Gifts of $25,000 and above Mr. Joseph Blount ’74 Mr. Lawrence Gratz ’61 and Mrs. Jane Schiff Ms. Linnea Conrad
LEDOUX SOCIETY Gifts of $10,000 to $24,999 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Delaney ’58 Norma Gilbert Farr Foundation Linus R. Gilbert Foundation Mr. Bruce Rowland P’18 Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Sauvage P’18 Mr. and Mrs. John Settel ’50
STORM KING CHAMPIONS Gifts of $5,000 to $9,999 Ms. Hilary Ackermann P’12 and Mr. Paul Goldberg AJM Security Mr. John Kenney (In-kind) The Sauer Children Mr. Mark McGivern ’76 Mr. Jason Milliren Mr. Manpei Nakamuta ’83, P’14 Mr. Peter Wunsch ’73 Ms. Pei Yan P’15
PINNACLE SOCIETY Gifts of $2,500 to $4,999 Dr. Massoud Amin ’79 Mr. and Mrs. Roger Auerbacher ’66 Ms. Ila Barton ’92 Mr. David Chirls Mr. Stephen Duffy ’71 Mr. Peter Duggan H’58 Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Freilich P’11 Mr. and Mrs. John Garrett ’63 Mr. B. deRacey Gilbert ’60 Mr. Myles Megdal Rider, Weiner & Frankel PC
Mr. Alan Serinsky ’70 Mr. Michael Spano ’74
MOUNTAIN TOP SOCIETY Gifts of $1,000 to $2,499 Mr. Richard Broughton ’54 Mr. Scott Cantor ’73 Mr. Chi-Nan Chen P’15 Mr. YawJang Chen and Mrs. Yuh-Chyang Kao P’14 Ms. Dana Crevling ’77 Ms. Michele DeFreece P’14 Mr. and Mrs. Paul Domingue Mr. Michael Fischer ’82 Ms. Elizabeth Gaudet ’86 Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Graziosi Mr. Brian Harrington ’60 Mr. Norman Jeavons ’48 Mr. Paul Jerry ’69 Mr. Jonathan Lamb and Mrs. Susan Toni Scherrer Mr. Douglas Land and Mrs. Lynn Peebles Mr. and Mrs. Rocco Landesman Mr. Jong Kuk Lee P’16 Mr. Pemberton H. Lincoln, Jr. ’60 * Dr. Robert Littman ’70 Mr. Charles Merrill ’84 Mr. Brecken Morgan ’99 New York Life Foundation Mr. Robert Parke ’57 Mr. and Mrs. Scott Rutter ’73 Mr. Frederick Sopher ’58 * Mr. John Stebbins ’78 * Mr. and Mrs. Tetta Sugisaka P’17 Mr. Kenneth Wang ’69 Mr. Robert Williams ’54
SPY ROCK CLUB Gifts of $500 to $999 Anonymous Mr. and Mrs. Michael A. Brower ’63 Mr. Douglas Burg ’71 Mr. Anthony Cahill ’75 Mr. and Mrs. Alan Coleman ’64
Ms. Lynn Crevling ’72 Mr. Wesley Gardiner ’45 Mr. Richard Grossman ’79 Mr. Michael Hankinson ’74 Mr. and Mrs. Bruce L. Hanson ’62 Mr. and Mrs. Ray Hecht Mr. and Mrs. Steven Jacobsberg P’16 Mr. Jean Kanyamuhanda P’14 Mr. Peter Lamb ’72 Mr. Alan Lewis Mr. and Mrs. Jose Maury P’15 Mr. Christopher Milne ’73 Mr. and Mrs. John Moyer P’89 Mr. Jerome O’Neill ’74 Mr. and Mrs. Roger Peterkin ’54 Mr. Max Post * Ms. Jeannette Redden Mr. Arthur Reis ’75 Mr. and Mrs. Richard Roberts ’60 Mr. J. Jay Schumann ’71 Mr. and Mrs. Irwin Seeman GP’16 Mr. Douglas Van Rees ’59 Wells Fargo Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Zucker P’17
The Rev. and Mrs. Francis A. Hubbard P’03 Mr. and Mrs. Mark Katz P’17 Mr. and Mrs. Howard Landman P’15 Mr. David Laster ’60 * Mr. Tom Leeds ’69 Ms. Bettina Murray Mr. Kota Nakamura ’95 Mr. William Perry ’53 Mr. and Mrs. Marek Pramuka Mr. and Mrs. Edward Romanik P’14 Mr. Ken Ryan ’72 Mr. and Mrs. Loren Schonhaut P’18 Mr. and Mrs. Jeremiah Shaw, Sr. P’89,95 Mr. and Mrs. H. Gregory Shea, Jr. ’62 Mr. Steven Sims ’69 Mr. and Mrs. Ross Sober ’92 Mr. and Mrs. John Soter P’14 Mr. Austin Stern and Ms. Karen Hayes Szvoren Mr. Kenneth Stuart, CFP ’65 TE Connectivity Mr. Jen Wang ’72 Mr. and Mrs. Robert Went
FRIENDS OF THE MOUNTAIN Gifts under $250
HEADMASTER’S CLUB Gifts of $250 to $499 Mr. Douglas Baughman ’96 Mr. James Bean ’74 Mr. Anthony Bissell ’64 Mr. Haddon C. Carryer ’61 Mr. Robert H. Cory, III ’63 and Mr. Jose Sousa Mr. Craig Cummings ’64 Mr. Jack D’Angelo H’13 Mr. John T. Downing ’71 Ms. Maria Eftimiades P’16 Mr. Adam Eisen ’80 Mr. Stephen Faber ’61 Dr. James Factor ’70 Mr. Carl Franzen ’77 Mr. and Mrs. Michael Friedman P’98 Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Fulton P’09 Mr. and Mrs. James M. Harbison, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Marc Harris ’64 Mr. Renardo Hicks Esq. ’73 Mr. Jim Houstoun ’75
Mr. Justin Abelson ’74 Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Adley Ms. Ceren Akcar ’14 Ms. Lisa Aronow ’75 Ms. Carla Ash P’88 Ms. Ekaterina Atamanchuk ’14 Mr. Luke Azevedo ’14 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Azevedo P’14 Mr. Jonathan Babcock ’75 Mr. and Mrs. Richard Barry * Brig. Gen. Raymond E. Bell, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bicknell ’61 Mr. Kenneth Bijur ’62 Mr. and Mrs. John Bliss Mr. Octavio Bolivar ’61 Ms. Emily Boronkay Mr. Corey Bova Mr. Peter Boyce ’54 Mr. Richard Brennan ’75 Ms. Leslie Breton Ms. Caithlin Bridegum ’93 Ms. Amy Ossais-Bright ’79 Mr. and Mrs. Edward Bristol *In memory of the Sauers
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Mr. Jonathan Broh ’74 Mr. John Brown * Mr. Michael Buccino ’94 Mr. and Mrs. Paul Bucha Mr. Douglas Burg ’71 Mr. Philip Cameron ’64 Mr. Tung Cao ’14 Mr. Chris Capers ’74 Mr. and Mrs. William Carhart Mr. and Mrs. Mark Carroll P’00 Mr. John Carruthers Ms. Kristen Casey Mr. and Mrs. Jose Castillo P’84 Mr. James Cates ’46 Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Cerami, Sr. P’08 Mr. Anthony Cerami, Jr. ’08 Ms. Philie Chan ’80 Ms. Aurora Chen ’14 Mr. Chinfeng Chen ’14 Mr. Xin Chen ’14 Mr. Dylan Chirls ’14 Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Clark ’35 Mr. Robert Cobb ’58 Mr. David R. Collens ’65 and Mrs. Vivien Abrams Mr. and Mrs. Darrell Cooper P’90 Mr. John Coulter ’51 Mr. Phil Cunningham ’72 Ms. Linda Curran Mr. Steve Curran ’88 Mr. Jack Cutler Mr. David Dardani Mr. Harison M. Davis, III ’56 Mr. and Mrs. Paul Davis Mr. Charles Dayton * Ms. Dominique DeFreece ’14 Mr. Bruce Dennison ’68 Ms. Danielle DiBella ’14 Mr. Dat Thanh Do ’14 Mr. Bora Doganay ’14 Mr. Bruce Dolph ’50 Ms. Michelle Dube Mr. and Mrs. Gustav W. Eckilson ’53 Mr. Jeffrey Edinburg ’61 Ms. Jeanne Edwards ’71 Mr. David Eng ’68 Mr. Neil Epstein ’70 Mr. and Mrs. Richard Epstein ’59 Mr. Zhulin Fan ’14 Mr. Wray Farmin ’72 Ms. Beatrice Farrell * Mr. Matthew Fascaldi ’14 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Fascaldi P’14 Mr. David Faulkner ’74
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Mr. and Mrs. Taras Ferencevych Mr. and Mrs. Angelo Ferraro P’94 Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Feuer P’09 Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund Ms. Lauren Fitzharris ’97 Mr. and Mrs. Joel Fivis P’06 Mr. Jonathan Fox-Goldberg ’10 Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Francois P’18 Ms. Sarah Fulton ’09 Mr. Antoine Gagne ’36 Mr. and Mrs. Robert Garcia P’15 Mr. and Mrs. John A. Gilchrist ’62 Mr. and Mrs. Michael Gillespie P’17 Mr. Robert Ginsburg Esq. ’72 Mr. Martin Gold ’57 Ms. Kathryn Greenberg Dr. and Mrs. Lynne Greene ’41 Mr. William Grisoli Ms. Evelyn Gyasi ’07 Ms. Muriel Hahn Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey S. Hall ’74 Hannaford Helps Schools Mr. John Hasbrouck ’64 Ms. Shirley Haspel P’70 Ms. Kathy Hayes Mr. Thomas Heaney ’14 Mr. and Mrs. Harold Heno P’10 Mr. Sandor Hill ’80 Ms. Susie Holleran Ms. Lindsay Holton Ms. Federica Hu ’14 Mr. Jiachuan Hua ’14 Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hudson, Sr. ’73, P’02,04 Mr. Larry Hunter ’71 Mr. Michael Irish ’14 Mr. and Mrs. Robert Irish P’14 Mr. Edward Jawer Mr. Hugh Jencks ’62 Mr. Lawrence Jencks ’62 Mr. Gianni Jiang ’14 Mr. Hamed Kandil Mr. Roger Kaufmann ’63 Dr. Jonathan Keeve ’74 Ms. Margaret Keeve P’74,’76 Mr. Atiim Keita ’14 Mr. Martin Kennedy ’50 Mr. Dae Won Kim ’14 Mr. George Klein ’73 Mr. and Mrs. Diethard Kolewe * Mr. Yuan Tie Kong P’17 Mr. and Mrs. Herbert J. Konrad, Jr. ’52 Ms. Nancy Koo * Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Kovacs
Senator William Larkin Mr. Andres LaRosa ’14 Mr. Peter Lawrence ’74 Ms. Joan Ledoux Mr. Jim Leppla Dr. Robert Lewis ’57 LexisNexis Cares Mr. QiLong Li ’14 Mr. and Mrs. Sayre A. Litchman ’59 Mr. and Mrs. W. Barry Lorch ’56 Mr. Zhou Luo ’14 Mr. Howard Marks ’76 Mr. Paul Marsh ’73 Mr. Harry Marshall Mr. and Mrs. Philip Martinetti Ms. Judy Mathews Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Matriss P’15 Ms. Elda Maxis Mr. and Mrs. Philip McDermott P’90 Mr. William McDonald ’64 * Mr. and Mrs. Sean McKean P’16 Ms. Jeanette McMahon P’17 Ms. Imani McPherson ’14 Mr. Jonathan Meisel Ms. Claire Menelas P’17 Mr. and Mrs. Edward J. Merrell P’77,79 Mr. and Mrs. Putnam Morgan ’63, P’99 Mr. and Mrs. Robert Morgenthau P’09 Mr. John Morris ’60 Mr. Philip Mount ’59 Mr. George Muser Mr. Shohei Nakamuta ’14 Ms. Chi Linh Nguyen ’14 Mr. and Mrs. Roger Newman P’92,93 Ms. Kaitlin Nolan Ms. Jennifer Obregon ’84 Mr. Christian Obremski ’94 Ms. Dana O’Neill Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Osborn, III Mr. Jeffrey Osur ’08 Mr. Kenneth Paramore ‘14 Mr. Jeffrey Patchen ’63 Ms. Amanda Penecale Ms. Brenda Pepe * Ms. Jeanette Perk Mr. Joseph Phillips ’85 Mr. Nicholas Pisarro ’63 Mr. Samuel Post ’71 Mr. Donald Potter ’53 Mr. Andrew Powell ’76 Mr. John Prentice ’64
The Prudential Foundation Mr. Oliver Quayle ’65 Ms. Hui Jung Ra ’14 Ms. Katherine Randall ’73 Mr. Bill Regan Ms. Tiffany Reis ’92 Mr. Frederick Reynolds ’71 Mr. Edward Romanik ’14 Mr. Yuchen Rong ’14 Mr. Michael Rosenblatt ’89 Ms. Gina Sahin Mr. James Sahin ’14 Ms. Rotha Schectman Mr. Stanley Schiffman ’77 Ms. Madison Sergi ’14 Mr. Arnold Sidman Mr. Scott Simontacchi Dr. Richard E. Slimak ’64 Ms. Elaine Sloan Mr. Michael Sloan ’77 Mr. Bruce Sloman ’65 Mr. Thomas Smidt Mr. E. Ward Smith Mr. and Mrs. Eric Smith ’63 Mr. and Mrs. James Sollami P’02,08,09 Ms. Kaitlin Soter ’14 Mr. and Mrs. Mark Specthrie P’18 Mr. Douglas Sperling ’73 Mr. Michael Spitz ’60 Mr. and Mrs. Wim Sprenger Mr. Gary Springer ’72 Mr. Jeffrey Steiger ’74 Mr. Jason Steiker Mr. Richard Stern ’65 Mr. and Mrs. Francis Stillwell P’83 Mr. Franklin Stowell Ms. Sylvia Street P’71 Mr. Thomas Street ’71 Mr. and Mrs. Sunil Sunder Raj ’89 Mr. John Sweeney ’60 Dr. Lucy Swift Ms. Kathy Syvertsen Mr. Zeyi Tang ’14 Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Toback P’77 Ms. Diane Travers ’72 Ms. Leigh Tripathi ’85 Mr. Jim Uhlig Ms. Benissa Uwamwiza ’14 Mr. Rients van der Woude ’75 Mrs. Ellen Van Dunk Mr. David Van Dyck ’40 Mr. Liam Van Horn ’14 Ms. Karin Volpe ’94 Mr. Gerald Washington ’73 *In memory of the Sauers
THE 1867 SOCIETY
THE 1867 SOCIETY recognizes those individuals who have made a charitable provision for The Storm King School in their estate plans. The estate receives an estate tax charitable deduction for that provision. By joining the 1867 Society, you can make a significant contribution to benefit generations to come at the school. Mr. Werner F. Auerbacher* Mr. Eliot F. Bartlett ’37* Mr. Joseph W. Blount ’74 Mr. Michael A. Brower ’63 Mr. Robert T. Cobb ’58* Mr. Joe I. Cooper ’46* Mr. John E. Creveling ’63* Mr. Peter Duggan H’58 Mr. Stephen P. Duggan, Jr. H’54* Mr. Richard A. Epstein ’59 Mr. Antoine F. Gagne ’36* Mr. Herbert G. Gelhardt, III ’48
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Welle West Point Tours Mr. Samuel Weyman ’74 Mr. John Williams ’69 Ms. Abigail Wine Mr. Jon Wolf ’72 Mr. William Wood ’67 Ms. Wen Yan ’14 Ms. Jamie Zale ’14 Mr. Chengshi Zhang ’14 Ms. Hanfang Zhang ’14 Mr. Shiyuan Zhuang ’14 Mr. Timur Zhuaspayev ’14 Mr. Ezra Zohar
LEADERSHIP GIFTS
July 1, 2014-June 30, 2015 THE BROGAN SOCIETY Gifts of $25,000 and above Mr. Joseph W. Blount ’74 Mr. and Mrs. Michael A. Brower ’63 Mr. and Mrs. John F. Settel ’50
Mr. Lawrence H. Gratz ’61 Mr. Edwin S. Jarrett ’24* Mr. Malcolm Blake Johnson ’41* Dr. Robert Littman ’70 Mr. Henry O. Lumb ’21* Mr. Andrew Masten Mr. Bruce McCullough * Mr. Chad Merrill ’84 Mr. Claiborne M. O’Connor * Mr. David W. Peck, Jr. * Mr. Wilfred L. Raynor, Jr. ’39 * Mr. Arthur Reis ’75
Mr. David Riker ’50 Mr. George F. Ross ’64 * Mr. Alan Serinsky ’70 Mr. John F. Settel ’50 Mr. H. Gregory Shea ’62 Mr. J. Halsey Smith, Jr. ’46* The Albert Sussman Charitable Remainder Annuity Trust Ms. Florence E. Wall * Mr. William R. Wheeler ’21 * Mr. Robert D. Williams ’54 Ms. Elsie Wunsch * * deceased
STORM KING CHAMPIONS Gifts of $5,000 to $9,999 Madam Pei Yan P’15 Mr. and Ms. Alan H. Serinsky ’70 Hillman Family Foundation Ms. Dan Qi P’15 The Kaplan Family Foundations Mr. and Mrs. Peter E. Wunsch ’73
PINNACLE SOCIETY Gifts of $2,500 to $4,999 Mr. Bruce L. Hanson ’62 The Allen Family Foundation Mr. Lawrence J. Gratz ’61 and Mrs. Jane Schiff Ms. Hilary Ackermann P’10 Mr. Stanley R. Freilich and Ms. Carol Marquand P’05 Mr. B. deRacey Gilbert, Jr. ’60 Mr. and Mrs. Myles Megdal (T) ’12 Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth J. Wang ’69 Mr. and Mrs. Pemberton H. Lincoln. Jr. ’60 Mr. John H. Garrett, III ’63
Mr. & Mrs. Rocco Landesman Mr. and Mrs. Marek Pramuka Mr. Jonathan Lamb and Ms. Susan Toni Scherrer Mr. Douglas E. Allen ’66 Mr. and Mrs. H. Gregory Shea, Jr. ’62 Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Graziosi Ms. Dana C. Crevling ’77 Ms. Na Yong An ’00 Mr. In Kook Cho and Mrs. Soom Ok Lee P’15 Mr. David C. Feltman ’72 Mr. Jong Kuk Lee and Mrs. Je Hee Yoo P’16 Dr. Robert L. Littman ’70 Mrs. Kathleen M. Lojkovic P’16 Mr. Jerome J. O’Neill ’74 Mr. Robert W. Parke ’58 Mr. Arnold S. Penner P’03 Mr. and Mrs. Scott Rutter ’73 Mr. J. Jay Schumann ’71 Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Sopher ’58 Sen. Robert G. Torricelli ’70 Mr. William E. Uhler ’65 Mr. Robert D. Williams, Jr. ’54
LEDOUX SOCIETY
SPY ROCK CLUB
Gifts of $10,000 to $24,999
Gifts of $500 to $999
MOUNTAIN TOP SOCIETY Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund Norma Gilbert Farr Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Roger Auerbacher ’66 Linus R. Gilbert Foundation Patricia B. May
Gifts of $1,000 to $2,499 Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Fischer ’82 Hon. Harold E. Kennedy ’73 Ms. Michele DeFreece P’14
Ms. Lynn E. Crevling ’72 Mr. Kenneth R. Stuart, CFP ’65 Mr. Alan S. Lewis Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F. Leeds ’69 Mr. and Mrs. Anthony B. Cahill, Jr. ’75
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Hecht Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Brennan ’75 Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Bunin ’76 Mr. and Mrs. Randy Cardonell ’77 Mr. Alan M. Coleman ’64 Mr. and Mrs. J. George Grill ’46 Mr. and Mrs. James W. Houstoun ’75 Mr. Ivan Keesey ’75 Mr. Charles B. Merrill Mr. Peter Michel ’76 Mr. Christopher B. Milne ’73 Mr. and Mrs. John D. Moyer P’03 Mr. Arthur H. Reis ’75 Mr. and Mrs. Richard K. Roberts ’60 Mr. Michael Sloan ’77 Ms. Christine E. Watson, CPA ’94 Mrs. Sarah Webb P’03 Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Zucker P’17
HEADMASTER’S CLUB Gifts of $250 to $499 New York Life Foundation Anthony H. Gair ’67 Mr. and Mrs. Harold Heno P’10 Mr. Todd Boyar ’95 Mr. Douglas H. Burg ’71 Mr. Scott and Mrs. Nicola Cantor ’73 Mr. John DiScala ’95 Mr. and Mrs. Robert Went Dr. James Factor DC ’70 Ms. Leslie Breton Ms. Michelle Dube Ms. Gabrielle Garcia ’15 *In memory of the Sauers
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Mrs. Anna Kleinhaus GP’14 Mr. and Mrs. William D. Perry, Jr. ’53 Ms. Arina Sigal ’15 Mr. and Mrs. David M. Slap ’75 Mr. and Mrs. Ross I. Sober ’92 Mr. and Mrs. Jamie Smith P’20 Mr. and Mrs. George Walker ’19 Dr. and Mrs. Donald P. Burt ’40 Mr. and Mrs. Haddon C. Carryer ’61 Mr. Robert H. Cory, III ’63 and Mr. Jose L. Sousa Mr. and Mrs. Peter M. Duggan H’58 Ms. Maria Eftimiades P’16 Mr. and Mrs. Stephen J. Faber ’61 Chief Donald M. Friedman USN ’68 Mr. and Mrs. Michael Friedman ’98 Mr. Wesley M. Gardiner ’45 Mrs. Helen Reinhart Hecht GP’20 The Rev. and Mrs. Francis A. Hubbard P’03 Dr. Paul S. Jerry ’69 Mr. David A. Laster ’60 Mr. Howard S. Marks ’76 Marshall & Sterling Mrs. Bettina P. Murray Ms. Olga Pagieva Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Proctor, III ’63 Mr. and Mrs. David C. Ray, Esq. ’69 Mr. Steven Sims ’69 Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Ramsay Straub ’65 Dr. Irene Von Estorff Mr. Jen S. Wang ’72
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Kovacs William W. Wood ’67 Mr. and Mrs. Peter Rowe P’15 The Prudential Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Todd Cunningham P’16 Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey S. Hall ’74 Mr. David Hoy III Mr. and Mrs. George Klein ’73 Mr. and Mrs. Christian E. Merrell ’77 Mr. Peter Missere ’00 Putnam P. Morgan ’63 Mr. Moises Ortega Mr. and Mrs. Paul Desjardins P’08 Mr. David M. Cobb ’65 Mr. Hamed Kandil Mr. and Mrs. Norman Rasmussen IBM Grants Program Mr. Joseph P. Phillips ’85 Mr. and Mrs. Taras Ferencevych Mr. and Mrs. Jim Leppla Mr. Jonathan Meisel Ms. Kaitlin Nolan Dr. Lucy H. Swift Mr. Ian D. Heller ’90 Mr. Lawrence D. Bodine ’70 Mr. James Dinnebeil ‘05 Mr. Jeremy Freeman Mr. William W. Bivin, Esq. ’65 Mr. James M. Bennett Mr. Dylan Gould Mr. William Lulofs Ms. Kristen Shuart Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Adley Mr. Barry Arena, CPA FRIENDS OF THE MOUNTAIN Ms. Carla Caccamise Ash P’89 Gifts under $250 Brig. Gen. Raymond E. Bell, Jr. Mr. Kenneth M. Bijur ’62 Mrs. Anne Fulton P’09 Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Bissell ’64 Ms. Nancy Greenhill Mr. Harold Blank ’65 Mr. Jie Song P’18 Dr. Peter B. Boyce ’54 Ms. Dominique R. DeFreece ’14 Mrs. Maia Brogan Ms. Karen Ruberg Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan A. Broh ’74 Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Abrams P’03 Ms. Hye Jun Cho ’15 Anonymous Mr. Francis Conti ‘12 Mr. and Mrs. Alan Bernstein Mr. and Mrs. Paul Davis Mrs. Philie K. Chan ’80 Mr. Thomas J. Delaney ’58 Jose A. Figueroa ’17 Ms. Nadia Delisfort ’15 Mr. David N. Kratka ’73 Mr. Paul Denecke ’45 Mr. Jinjiang Liu and Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. deRosa ’61 Ms. Fengjuan Wang P’17 Ms. Shaojie Ding ’15 Mr. Samuel H. Post ’71 Mr. and Mrs. Bruce H. Dolph ’50 Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Rivkin ’66 Mr. Michael Dougherty ’15 Mr. and Mrs. E. Ward Smith Mr. and Mrs. Stephen TE Connectivity Matching Gift Program W. Duffy, Esq. ’71
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Mr. Jeffrey A. Edinburg ’61 Mr. and Mrs. David Y. Eng ’68 Richard A. Epstein ’59 Mr. Mark Fadeev ’15 Dr. Paul Feffer Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Francois P’16 Mr. C. John Franzen ’77 Dr. and Mrs. Lynne T. Greene ’41 Mr. Benjamin A. Greenwald ’92 Ms. Margaret Griswold Mr. Steven I. Gross ’97 Mr. Richard J. Grossman ’79 Dr. Mark A. Guido and Dr. Sandy Regis Mr. and Mrs. James M. Harbison, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Richard S. Havlicek P’03 Dr. Winnie S. Hennessy ’74 Mr. Robert Hof P’03 Mr. and Mrs. Scott E. Hunt Mr. Larry W. Hunter ’71 Mr. and Mrs. Roger A. Kaufmann ’63 Mr. Reid Landman ’15 Ms. Yiwei Liu ’15 Mr. and Mrs. John T. Morris, Jr. ’60 Mr. Ian H. Morrow ’03 Mr. and Mrs. George Muser Dr. and Mrs. Roger Newman P’08 Mr. Hao Ni ’15 Mr. Jeffrey L. Patchen ’63 Mr. and Mrs. Jay Pomeroy P’18 Mr. Oliver A. Quayle ’65 Mr. Frederick (Rick) Reynolds, Jr. ’71 Mr. and Mrs. Irwin Seeman GP’16 Dr. Richard E. Slimak ’64 Mr. Bruce Sloman ’65 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Smidt Mr. John G. Stebbins ’78 Mr. Richard W. Stern and Mrs. Theresa M. Mulqueeny-Stern ’65 Mr. Theodore H. Steward ’81 Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Stowell Rients van der Woude ’75 Mr. and Mrs. David H. Van Dyck ’40 Mr. Phillip Walker ’82 Ms. Kathleen Weetman ’15 West Point Tours Mrs. Joan S. Williamson Mr. Zemeng Zhang ’15 Mr. Micky Zucker GP’16 Mr. and Mrs. Darrell Cooper P’03 Mr. Frederick B. Finkenstaedt, Jr. ’75 Mr. Henry Ingraham and Ms. Amy Ehrlich Mr. Michael H. Merry ’65
Mr. Gary J. Springer ’72 Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Delahoyde P’08 Mr. John Carruthers Ms. Ellen Van Dunk Ms. Emily Byrne ’15 Mr. John T. Downing ’71 Ms. Miriam Sefcikova ’15 Mr. and Mrs. Barry Lorch ’56 Ms. Christina Massiala-Vaka Ms. Amy Messersmith Mrs. Lisa Aronow ’75 Mrs. Amy O. Bright ’79 Mr. Philip K. Cameron, Jr. ’64 Mr. Anthony Cerami ’08 Mr. Bruce Dennison ’68 Mr. and Mrs. Gustav W. Eckilson ’53 Mr. Charles E. Edmonston ’03 Ms. Jeanne S. Edwards ’71 Mr. and Mrs. Matthew J. Gross ’97 Mr. and Mrs. C. Worthington Fowler, II ’48 Mr. and Mrs. Evan G. Galbraith Mrs. Marie R. Galbraith Mr. Kevin Jacobson Mr. Peter J. Lawrence ’74 Ms. Hua Jun Li ‘15 Mr. and Mrs. Sayre A. Litchman ‘59 Ms. Elaine Magwood P’19 Mr. Harry B. Marshall, Jr. Ms. Claire Menelas P’17 Mr. and Mrs. Edward J. Merrell ’03 Mr. Michael Moore ’72 Mr. Paul F. Needle ’66 Mr. Frederick H. Osborn Mr. Jeffrey Osur ’08 Mr. Andrew C. Powell ’76 Mr. and Mrs. Bill Regan GP’17 Mr. and Mrs. Matthew S. Richter ’75 Mr. Edward Romanik ’14 Mr. and Mrs. Michael W. Spitz ’60 Mr. and Mrs. Francis J. Stillwell ’03 Mr. and Mrs. George L. Tholken ’57 Mr. Jim Uhlig Mr. Stanley M. Schiffman ’77 Mr. Jonathan S. Babcock ’75 Mr. Tzu-Chieh Yen ’15 Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Pisarro, Jr. ’63 Mrs. Jeanne T. Stephenson P’03 Ms. Ila B. Barton ’92 Mr. Talin Rowe ’15 Mr. RuoYuan Wang ’15 Ms. Yifan Zhang ’15 Mr. James S. Beyer ’03 Mr. Michael L. Buccino ’94 *In memory of the Sauers
THE CAPITAL CAMPAIGN OF THE STORM KING SCHOOL
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cobb ’58 Mr. Harrison M. Davis ’56 Mrs. Tiffany Reis ’92 Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence C. Jencks ’62 Mr. Martin P. Kennedy ’50 Ms. Amelia Kolach Mr. William N. McDonald, IV ’64
Mr. Bob Rosansky ’64 Mr. Douglas P. Sperling ’73 Miss. Allegra Walker ’19 Ms. Stephanie Cohen P’10 Mr. Matthew J. Lawrance ’96 Ms. Judy W. Mathews Ms. Catherine W. Voit ’81
Mr. Kang’an Yao ’15 Mr. and Mrs. Wim Sprenger Ms. Amanda Penecale Freecause Inc. Mr. Christopher P. Cleaver ’95 Mr. and Mrs. Angelo C. Ferraro P’94 Ms. Elda Maxis GP’16
Mr. Jihoon Park ’08 Mr. and Ms. Joshua Lurie ’95 Mr. John P. Williams ’69 Mr. Ezra Zohar Ms. Kristen Casey Ms. Emily Boronkay Mr. Corey Bova
CAPITAL AND ENDOWMENT CAMPAIGN FROM JANUARY 1, 2010 – JUNE 30, 2015 Capital campaigns raise funds for building construction, renovating current facilities.
Total Gifts Received: $1,305,484 Total Pledges Outstanding: $31,084 Total Capital Campaign: $1,336,567.65 Ms. Hilary Ackermann P’12 and Mr. Paul Goldberg Allen Family Foundation Anonymous in memory of George Sordoni Anonymous Mr. Douglas Allen ’66 Dr. Massoud Amin ’79 Mr. and Mrs. Frank Annunziata Mr. and Mrs. Roger D. Auerbacher ’66 Mr. Andrew Barnard Mr. and Mrs. Richard Barry * Ms. Ila Barton ’92 Mr. Joseph W. Blount ’74 Mr. Richard Broughton ’54 Mr. and Mrs. Michael A. Brower ’63 Mr. and Mrs. John Brown Mr. and Mrs. Scott H. Cantor ’73 Mr. Ken Cashman Ms. Ruth Chapman Mr. Somphon Charumilinda ’71 Mr. David Chirls and Ms. Roberta Fisher Mr. and Mrs. Neal and Connie Sauer-Clark * Mr. Brendan Coyne Ms. Dana Crevling ’77 Ms. Lynn Crevling ’72 Mr. and Mrs. Jack D’Angelo H’13 Ms. Anne S. Davidson Mr. and Mrs. Harrison M. Davis, III ’56 Mr. Charles Dayton Ms. Michele DeFreece P’14 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Delaney ’58 Mr. and Mrs. Paul Domingue Mr. and Mrs. Stephen W. Duffy, Esq. ’71 Mr. Peter Duggan H’58 Ms. Joanna Evans Mr. and Mrs. Brian Farrell
Mr. and Mrs. David Flynn Mr. Stanley R. Freilich and Mrs. Carol Marquand P’05 Mr. B. deRacey Gilbert, Jr. ’60 Mr. Lawrence Gratz ’61 and Mrs. Jane Schiff Mr. Richard Grossman ’79 Mr. Michael Hankinson ’74 Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Hanson ’62 Mr. and Mrs. James M. Harbison, Jr. Mr. Brian Harrington ’60 Mr. and Mrs. Marc Harris ’64 Mr. Steven Harris Ms. Kathy Hayes Mr. and Mrs. Ray Hecht Mr. Sandor Hill ’80 Ms. Susie Holleran Mr. and Mrs. David Hoy Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hudson, Sr. ’73, P’02,04 Mr. and Mrs. Scott Hunt Mr. Prinya Jotikasthira ’66 Mr. Hamed Kandil Hon. Harold Kennedy ’73 Mr. and Mrs. Diethard Kolewe Mr. and Mrs. Francis Koo Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Kovacs Mr. Jonathan Lamb and Mrs. Susan Toni Scherrer Mr. David Laster ’60 Mr. Matthew J. Lawrence ’96 Mr. Jim Leppla Mr. Pemberton H. Lincoln, Jr. ’60* Ms. Patricia B. May Mr. and Mrs. Philip Martinetti Mr. William McDonald ’64 Mr. Mark McGivern ’76 Mr. and Mrs. Jason P. Milliren Mr. Christopher B. Milne Mr. Alec A. Milton ’89 Mr. and Mrs. Robert Morgenthau P’09
Mr. Richard Moyer Mr. and Mrs. Warren Mumford Mr. and Mrs. James and Dorothy Murray * Mr. George Muser Mr. Robert Parke ’57 Ms. Brenda Pepe Mr. and Mrs. Roger Peterkin ’54 Mr. Vudtichai Phornphiboon ’66 Mr. and Mrs. Max Post Mr. David Rider Rider, Weiner & Frankel PC Mr. David Riker ’50 Mr. and Mrs. Richard Roberts ’60 The Sauer Children * Mr. and Ms. Alan H. Serinsky ’70 Mr. and Mrs. John F. Settel ’50 Mr. David Slap ’75 Mr. E. Ward Smith Mr. and Mrs. James Sollami P’02,’08, ’09 Mr. Frederick Sopher ’58 * Mr. Michael Spano ’74 Mr. Michael Spitz ’60 Mr. John Stebbins ’78 * The Storm King School Parents’ Association Mr. John Sweeney ’60 Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Toback P’77 Mr. Kenneth Wang ’69 Mr. Robert Williams ’54 Ms. AJ Wine Ms. Toni Yagoda *In memory of the Sauers
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I am SKS
MARGE KOVACS WHERE I’M FROM Bronx, New York WHY I CAME TO WORK AT SKS
After moving to Cornwall on Hudson, I had been looking for part-time employment because my children were young. The fact that my home was a short drive to SKS also was a determining factor. I started my SKS career in the Development Office in 1984 working with then-Director of Development Judy Wright Mathews. After all these years, Judy and I correspond regularly. Following my years in Development, I moved over to the Business Office where I enjoyed interacting with our students as they withdrew money from their personal accounts, purchased items from the school bookstore, and had some nice conversations. When Meta Ottway decided to retire from her position as Assistant to Headmaster John Suitor, I was offered her position, left the Business Office, and moved over to the Administration building. WHAT WAS THE MOST SATISFYING ASPECT OF WORKING AT SKS
Watching new students who are unsure of themselves, not familiar with their surroundings, blossom as young adults when they graduate. Just like the butterflies that are released before Commencement, so too will our graduates soar! MY BIGGEST ACCOMPLISHMENT I guess that would be the number of years I have been at SKS, and having had the privilege of working with six headmasters: Jim Dowell, John Suitor, Phil Riley, “Steevie”
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Chinitz, Paul Domingue, and Jon Lamb. And over the years, I have made so many wonderful friends – young and old. And the students, oh the students, how much I have enjoyed talking with them. To name just a few: Nia, Jenna, Patrick, Katrina, Amanda, Aurora, Nick, Daniel, Jack, Xi, Michael, Luke, Logan, Fred, Hewale, Hyun Wook, Farella Brothers, Megan, Hilary, Mia, Yoko, Bliss, Nachie, Angel, Marvin, Lily. THE HARDEST THING I EVER HAD TO DO Was to attend a memorial service in the theatre for a student who had died during the school year. It was very sad, but also very touching when former teacher, Rob Thompson, sang “Bring Him Home” from Les Miserables. I will never forget the feeling every student, faculty, and staff member felt at the service. THE BEST ADVICE I’VE EVER RECEIVED “Do all the
good you can. By all the means you can. In all the ways you can. In all the places you can. At all the times you can. To all the people you can. As long as ever you can.” – John Wesley THE BEST ADVICE I CAN GIVE Many recent alumni may not quite understand this yet: come back to SKS during Reunion Weekends again and again, to relive your memories! You will not forget the fun of your days here with your friends, coaches, staff, and teachers. And if you can’t remember, there will be so many who do. One more thing, tell everyone what a special place SKS was for you, and how it could be for others.
The Archives Throughout its nearly 150 year history, the Storm King School has been graced with extraordinary leadership: educators who knew how to set the right tone for conduct, and set the bar high for excellence. This page is dedicated to them; to reprise their words of wisdom and inspiration, and share their pedagogical philosophies that have guided and endured. May we all be reminded of why our time on the Mountain was like no other.
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